The Group is chaired by Joe Traub. Two meetings took place in 1999. Fourty participants have been invited. WG1.2 on Descriptional Complexity has been chaired by Detlef Wotschke since October 1996. Since the last report of approx.
Descriptional complexity has many facets and appears in different forms in various areas.
In order to help coordinate and bring together these various subareas, Dr. Chandra Kintala, Director at Bell Labs Innovations in Murray Hill, has agreed to serve as Vice-Chairman of WG 1.2 and to specifically coordinate the activities in Descriptional Complexity and Software Reliability. Prof. Helmut Juergensen, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany, and Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada, has also agreed to serve as Vice-Chairman of WG 1.2 and to specifically coordinate the activities in Kolmogorov Complexity. Both WGs are planning to cooperate on issues of common interest. WG1.3 on Algebraic Specification of Languages is chaired by Peter Mosses. All the coordinators of CoFI WG task groups are WG1.3 members.