07181 Abstracts Collection -- Parallel Universes and Local Patterns

From 1 May 2007 to 4 May 2007 the Dagstuhl Seminar 07181 ``Parallel Universes and Local Patterns\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available