(PN) Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design - Call for Papers

2017-04-12 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on
Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)
Vienna, Austria, October 2-6, 2017

http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD17


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission:May 01, 2017
Paper Submission:   May 08, 2017
Author Response Period: June 19-23, 2017
Author Notification:July 14, 2017
Camera-Ready Version:   Aug 09, 2017

All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 2, 2017
FMCAD Regular Program:  October 3-6, 2017

Part of the FMCAD 2017 program:
- Symposium in memoriam of Helmut Veith
- Hardware Model Checking Competition 2017
- FMCAD Student Forum (deadline: July 21, 2017)

Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for
students with accepted contributions at the student forum.

Co-located event: MEMOCODE 2017 (http://memocode.irisa.fr/2017/)


CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION

FMCAD 2017 is the seventeenth in a series of conferences on the theory and
applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD
provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for
presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical
results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD
covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification,
specification, synthesis, and testing.

FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are distributed
through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, published articles
are made available freely on the conference page; the authors retain the
copyright. There are no publication fees. At least one of the authors is
required to register for the conference and present the accepted paper. A
small number of outstanding FMCAD submissions will be considered for
inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on Formal Methods in System
Design (FMSD).


TOPICS OF INTEREST

FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances
in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer-
aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

-- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and
   reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and
   word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive methods and
   decision procedures.

-- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling,
   specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of
   languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and
   transformation, correct-by-construction methods.

-- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and
   non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software,
   including timing and power modeling, verification of computing systems
   on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and verification for
   embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and
   other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and
   verification, and transaction-level verification.

-- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to
   industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification
   enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the automation
   of formal methods.

-- Application of formal methods to verifying safety, correctness,
   connectivity, and security properties of networks and distributed
   systems.


SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair:

  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad17

Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study
papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas,
theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods,
along with experimental impact validation where applicable. Tool & Case
Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of
verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context
(which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes.

Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions
format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Regular papers can be
up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although there
is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors will be
required to select the appropriate paper category at abstract submission
time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear
in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess
the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading
the appendix.

Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has not
been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication.
Any partial overlap with 

(PN) Summer School on Verification Technology

2017-04-12 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
=== 
First Call for Participation 


   10th International Summer School on 
  Verification Technology, Systems & Applications 
   http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa17/ 

The 10th edition of the Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems and 
Applications (VTSA) will be organized by the Max-Planck-Institut für 
Informatik Saarbrücken in cooperation with the University of Liège, Inria 
Nancy - Grand Est, and the Université du Luxembourg.  The school will take 
place from July 31st to August 4th, 2017 on Saarland Informatics Campus, 
Saarbrücken, Germany. The following speakers have accepted to give courses 
at VTSA 2017: 

- Rajeev Alur: Syntax-Guided Synthesis & Quantitative Policies over Streaming 
Data 

- Christel Baier: Probabilistic Model Checking 

- Hoon Hong: Symbolic Computation (Quantifier Elimination) 

- Andrew Reynolds: SMT Solvers for Verification and Synthesis 

- Thomas Wies: Introduction to Permission-Based Program Logics 

Participation is free (except for travel and accommodation costs) and open to 
anybody holding at least a bachelor degree or equivalent in computer science; 
it includes the lectures, daily coffee and lunchbreaks, and a school dinner. 
There is a limited number of free shared rooms on campus available for 
distribution by the selection committee. Please express your interest with 
your application. Attendance is limited to 40 participants.  Please apply 
electronically by sending to fku...@mpi-inf.mpg.de: 

- a one-page CV, 

- an application letter explaining your interest in the school and your 
  experience in the area, 

- a copy of your bachelor certificate (or equivalent or a more significant 
  certificate), 

- a short statement if you want to contribute to the student sessions. 

The deadline for application is June 1st, 2017. Notification of acceptance will 
be given by June 15th, 2017. 

Full details are available at http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa17/ 

The school is synchronized with the SC2 Summer School 2017, happening at the 
same time in the same place: http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/school/index.html

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(PN) TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP Call for Papers

2016-10-29 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
(Apologies for multiple copies. Please redistribute)

*
   FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 

   TABLEAUX 2017
 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with
   Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
  University of Brasília, Brazil
   September 26-29, 2017

 Submission Deadline: 25 Apr 2017

  http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/


GENERAL INFORMATION
  TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research
  on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques,
  systems development and applications, of the mechanization of
  tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. The
  conference will be held in Brasília from 26-29 September 2017.

  TABLEAUX 2017 will be co-located with both the 11th International
  Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the
  8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP
  2017). 

TOPICS
  Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for
  automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical
  logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups
  of logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically.  Areas
  of application include verification of software and computer
  systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its
  required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis.

  Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics
  (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal,
  description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural,
  relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic 
  foundations;
* related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking,
  connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches);
* sequent calculi and natural deduction calculi for classical
  and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof
  representation;
* flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem
  proving;
* novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification
  in classical and non-classical logics;
* systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and
  applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...);
* implementation techniques (data structures, efficient
  algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...);
* extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven
  learning, generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable)
  representation of proofs;
* decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures;
* applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software 
  development, verification, deductive and temporal
  databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault
  diagnosis or teaching. 

  We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau
  procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored
  to the tableau community and should focus on the role of
  reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution.

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
  Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited
  in a separate call, which can be found at
http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw.

PUBLICATION DETAILS
  The conference proceedings will published in the Springer
  LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions.

SUBMISSIONS
  Submissions are invited in two categories:

A  Research papers, which describe original theoretical
   research, original algorithms, or applications, with length
   up to 15 pages.
B  System descriptions, with length up to 9 pages.

  Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of
  external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance
  and originality.

  For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be
  original, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions
  will be reviewed taking into account correctness, theoretical
  elegance, and possible implementability. 

  For category B submissions, a working implementation must be
  accessible via the internet, which includes sources. The aim of a
  system description is to make the system available in such a way
  that users can use it, understand it, and build on it.

  Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the
  conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the
  llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via
  the EasyChair system:
  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2017.

  For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend
  the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short
  abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper
  

(PN) TABLEAUX, FroCoS, ITP - Call for Workshops and Tutorials

2016-10-12 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
(with apologies for multiple postings)

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

Three of the main conferences on automated reasoning -- TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and 
ITP - will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between 25 and 29 September 2017. 
Following the long tradition of those events, we invite researchers and 
practitioners to submit proposals for co-located workshops and in-depth 
tutorials on topics relating to automated theorem proving and its applications. 
Workshops/tutorials can target the automated reasoning community in general, 
focus on a particular theorem proving system, or highlight more specific 
issues or recent developments.

Co-located events will take place between 23 and 24/25 September and will be 
held on the same premises as the main conference. Conference facilities are 
offered free of charge to the organisers. Workshop/tutorial-only attendees 
will enjoy a significantly reduced registration fee.

Detailed organisational matters such as paper submission and review process, 
or publication of proceedings, are up to the organisers of individual 
workshops. All accepted workshops/tutorials will be expected to have their 
program ready by 18 August 2017.

Proposals for workshops/tutorials should contain at least the following pieces 
of information:

- name and contact details of the main organiser(s)
- (if applicable:) names of additional organisers
- title and organisational style of event (tutorial, public workshop, 
  project workshop, etc.)
- preferred length of workshop (between half day and two days)
- estimated number of attendees
- short (up to one page) description of topic
- (if applicable:) pointers to previous editions of the workshop, or to 
  similar events

Proposals are invited to be submitted by email to na...@unb.br, no later than 
9 December 2016. Selected events will be notified by 23 December 2016. The 
workshop/tutorial selection committee consists of the TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and 
ITP program chairs and the conference organisers.

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(PN) DL 2017, Call for Papers

2016-10-12 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
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  CALL FOR PAPERS
   30th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2017
   July 18th to July 21st, 2017 - Montpellier, France
   http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/
---

The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research 
community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, 
both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and 
compare experiences. The workshop will be held in Montpellier, France from 
July 18th to July 21st, 2017.

Important Dates (Firm Deadlines)

Paper registration deadline:
   April 28, 2017
Paper submission deadline:
   May 8, 2017
Notification of acceptance:
   June 12,  2017
Camera-ready copies:  
   July 3, 2017
Workshop: 
   July 18-21, 2017

Since we wanted the DL submission deadlines to be after the IJCAI notification 
date, the schedule is tight and NO DEADLINE EXTENSIONS will be possible. 


Invited Speakers
=
* Markus Krötzsch, Technical University of Dresden
* Andreas Pieris, University of Edinburgh
* Uli Sattler, University of Manchester


Workshop Scope
=
We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, including but 
not limited to:
* Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning, 
  expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency management, 
  reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects
* Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, 
  epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, 
  query answering, reasoning over dynamic information
* Integration of description logics with other formalisms: object-oriented 
  representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based 
  programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems
* Applications and use areas of description logics: ontology engineering, 
  ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured 
  data, graph structured data, linked data, document management, natural 
  language, learning, planning, Semantic Web, cloud computing, conceptual 
  modelling, web services, business processes
* Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools for 
  and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database 
  schema design, query optimisation, and data integration tools), 
  implementation and optimisation techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, 
  modelling


Submissions
==
* Submissions may be of two types:
(1) Papers accepted at some conference can be submitted as accepted elsewhere 
together with a 1-page abstract that also specifies where the paper has 
been accepted. 
(2) Other submissions consist of 11 pages LNCS plus references. There is no 
page limit on the list of references. If the paper should not appear in 
the proceedings, an additional 1-page abstract has to be submitted.

* For submissions with an additional 1-page abstract, only the abstract
  is published in the proceedings. The abstracts might not be indexed in
  dblp. This option is designed for authors who wish to announce results
  that have been published elsewhere, or which the authors intend to
  submit or have already submitted to a venue with an incompatible prior/
  concurrent publication policy. 
* All submissions may optionally include a clearly marked appendix
  (e.g., with additional proofs or evaluation data). The appendix will
  be read at the discretion of the reviewers and not included in the
  proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in LNCS format. 
* Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2017
* Accepted papers and 1-page abstracts will be made available electronically 
  in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/).
* Accepted submissions, be they full papers or 1-page abstracts, will be 
  selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions 
  will be judged solely based upon their content, and the type of submission 
  will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation.

Organisation

* Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Programme co-Chair)
* Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (Programme co-Chair)
* Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair)
* Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair)

Resources
=
* Information about submission, registration, travel information, etc., will 
  be made available on the DL 2017 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/
* The official description logic homepage is at http://dl.kr.org/


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(PN) GCAI 2016 - Call for Participation

2016-09-12 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe

The 2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  Berlin Germany, 29th September - 2nd October 2016
 http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2016/

   Call for Participation

The 2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2016) will be held 
at the Freie Universitaet Berlin from 29th September to 2nd October, 2016. The 
conference addresses all aspects of artificial intelligence. There will be 29 
papers presented, tutorials on automated theorem proving in classical and non-
classical logic, and three invited speakers ...
  Simon Colton, Falmouth University, and Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
  Computational Creativity
  Daniel Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  Robotics and Machine Learning
  Toby Walsh, TU Berlin, Germany and UNSW/Data61, Australia
  Will AI end Jobs, Wars or Humanity?
The full program is available at 
http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2016/program.html

Registration: http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2016/Registration.html

GCAI is organized by LRG (http://www.lrg.global) and the Freie Universitaet 
Berlin.

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(PN) 7th ITP Conference

2016-06-27 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
The 7th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving
22 to 27 August 2016 in Nancy, France
https://itp2016.inria.fr

Early registration deadline: 30 June
Main conference: 22 August to 25 August (morning)
Affiliated events: 25 August (afternoon) to 27 August


ITP is the premier international conference for researchers from all areas of
interactive theorem proving and its applications. The program committee
accepted 27 regular papers and 5 rough diamonds this year:

   https://itp2016.inria.fr/program/

There will be invited talks by

   Viktor Kuncak (EPFL)
   Grant Olney Passmore (Aesthetic Integration and University of Cambridge)
   Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research)

The following affiliated events will take place after the main conference:

   Coq Workshop 2016
   Isabelle Workshop 2016
   Mathematical Components, an Introduction

Up-to-date information and online registration can be found at

   https://itp2016.inria.fr



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(PN) CFP extended deadline - 2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2016-06-14 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
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 The 2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  Berlin Germany, 29th September - 2nd October 2016
 http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2016/

  *** Extended Submission Deadline ***
*** (Abstract: 23rd June,  Paper: 27th June) ***

The 2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2016) will be held
at the Freie Universitaet Berlin from 29th September to 2nd October, 2016. The
conference, which addresses all aspects of artificial intelligence, is being
organized by LRG (http://www.lrg.global) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin.
The program chairs are Christoph Benzmueller, Raul Rojas, and Geoff Sutcliffe.

SUBMISSION

Submissions in all areas of Artificial Intelligence are welcome, including, 
but not limited to ...

Foundations
+ Knowledge representation
+ Cognitive modeling
+ Perception
+ Search
+ Reasoning and programming
+ Machine learning
+ Constraints and uncertainty

Architectures
+ Agents and distributed AI
+ Intelligent user interfaces
+ Natural language systems and linguistics
+ Information retrieval
+ Case-based reasoning
+ Affective computing
+ Robotics

Applications
+ Aviation and aerospace
+ Education and tutoring systems
+ Games and entertainment
+ Medicine and healthcare
+ Management and manufacturing
+ World Wide Web
+ Security

Implications
+ Philosophical foundations
+ Social impact and ethics
+ Evaluation of AI systems
+ AI education

(EXTENDED) DATES
+ Abstract registration: 23rd June, 2016
+ Submission: 27th June, 2016
+ Notification: 1st August, 2016
+ Final version: 15th August, 2016
+ Early registration deadline: 15th August, 2016
+ Conference: 29th September - 2nd October, 2016

SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION

Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcai2016
The proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publications in the EPiC Series
in Computing. The volume will be open access and authors will retain copyright.

INVITED SPEAKERS
 + Daniel Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
 + Simon Colton, Falmouth University and Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 + Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
 + Jose Julio Alferes (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
 + Serge Autexier (DFKI)
 + Roman Bartak (Charles University in Prague)
 + Peter Baumgartner (National ICT Australia)
 + Christoph Benzmüller (Freie Universität Berlin) - chair
 + Philippe Besnard (CNRS / IRIT)
 + Richard Booth (Cardiff University)
 + Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
 + Gabriella Cortellessa (CNR - National Research Council of Italy)
 + Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University)
 + James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University)
 + Wolfgang Faber (University of Huddersfield)
 + Germain Forestier (Université de Haute Alsace)
 + Thom Frühwirth (University of Ulm)
 + Daniel Garijo (UPM)
 + Marco Gavanelli (University of Ferrara)
 + Luis Godo (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA - CSIC)
 + Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria)
 + Andreas Herzig (IRIT-CNRS)
 + Tomi Janhunen (Aalto University)
 + Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz (University of Oxford)
 + Tommi Junttila (Aalto University School of Science)
 + Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (University of Patras and CTI "Diophantus")
 + Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund)
 + Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London)
 + Jérôme Lang (LAMSADE)
 + Sanjiang Li (University of Technology Sydney)
 + Jean Lieber (LORIA - INRIA Lorraine)
 + Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark)
 + Ana Gabriela Maguitman (Universidad Nacional del Sur)
 + Robert Mattmüller (University of Freiburg)
 + Julian Mcauley (UC San Diego)
 + George Metcalfe (University of Bern)
 + Angelo Montanari (University of Udine)
 + Manuel Ojeda-Aciego (University of Malaga)
 + Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna University of Technology)
 + Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos)
 + Luís Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
 + Radu-Emil Precup (Politehnica University of Timisoara)
 + Fabrizio Riguzzi (University of Ferrara)
 + Jussi Rintanen (Aalto University)
 + Raul Rojas (Freie Universität Berlin) - chair
 + Dumitru Roman (SINTEF)
 + Marco Roveri (FBK-irst)
 + Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University)
 + Gia Sirbiladze (Tbilisi State university)
 + Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
 + Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami) - chair
 + Jürgen Umbrich (Vienna University of Economy and Business)
 + Pascal Van Hentenryck (University of Michigan)
 + Martin Wehrle (University of Basel)
 + Stefan Woltran (TU Wien)
 + Inon Zuckerman (Ariel University)

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(PN) Verification Mentoring Workshop - Travel Scholarships

2016-04-19 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
Call for Applications for VMW (Verification Mentoring Workshop) 2016

Verification Mentoring Workshop 2016
Call for Applications for Student Travel Scholarships

We are organizing the second Verification Mentoring Workshop (VMW) 2016. 
It is co-located with the International Conference on Computer Aided 
Verification (CAV), to be held in Toronto, July 17-23, 2016. CAV is a 
premier conference in the area of verification, dedicated to the advancement 
of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for
hardware and software systems. The goal of VMW is to attract early-stage 
graduate students to pursue research careers in the area of computer-aided 
verification and formal methods.

Invited talks at the workshop will cover a broad overview of research topics 
in the area, the range of career options and perspectives (academia, industry, 
research labs, etc.), and insights into reviewing processes (for papers, 
grants, and job applications).

We will provide travel scholarships to student participants (graduates, and 
rising senior undergraduates), where the scholarships will cover registration 
for VMW and CAV, accommodations, plus travel expenses. Participation of women 
and under-represented minorities is especially encouraged.

The VMW workshop website http://i-cav.org/2016/vmw is now accepting 
applications.

Important Dates:
+ Deadline for submission of applications: Extended to April 20, 2016
+ Notification of travel scholarships awarded: May 1, 2016
+ VMW Workshop: July 18, 2016

VMW 2016 is partially supported by Microsoft Research and the NSF (National 
Science Foundation, USA).

More details on the VMW workshop and CAV conference can be found at 
http://i/~cav.org/2016/

Organizers of VMW 2016:
+ Aarti Gupta, Princeton, USA
+ Ruzica Piskac, Yale, USA
+ Andrey Rybalchenko (Chair), Microsoft Research, UK

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(PN) AiML-2016: 1ST CALL FOR PAPERS

2016-01-27 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
(sorry for multiple copies)

AiML-2016:  1ST CALL FOR PAPERS

11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC
BUDAPEST, 29 AUGUST -- 2 SEPTEMBER 2016

  http://phil.elte.hu/aiml2016/
 

Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting
the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The
initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based 
on the conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained 
at http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2016 is the 11th conference in the series.

TOPICS
We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including:

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming,
model checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory
of modal logic)
- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2016:

(1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the
conference.

(2) Short presentations intended for presentation at the conference
but not for the published proceedings.

Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the
EasyChair submission page at

  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiml16

At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must
register for and attend the conference.

(1) FULL PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and
publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on original 
research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML-2016 will 
be published by College Publications

http://www.collegepublications.co.uk

in a volume to be made available at the conference.

The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an optional technical
appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of 
100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX, using the style 
files and template that will be provided on the AiML-2016 website
http://phil.elte.hu/aiml2016/ in due time.

We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain 
text via EasyChair by 10 March.

(2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS.
These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary
results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing. 
The accepted submissions will be made available at the conference, and the
authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations 
(of up to 15 minutes) on them.

INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: 
Kit Fine (New York University, USA)
Sonja Smets (ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Yde Venema  (ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam)


LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Tamas Bitai (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary)
Reka Markovich (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary)
Andras Mate (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary)
Péter Mekis (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary)
Attila Molnar (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary)
Gergely Szekely  (Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of 
Sciences)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Alexandru Baltag (FNWI ILLC)
Lev Beklemishev (Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences 
in Moscow)
Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark)
Torben Brauner (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Serenella Cerrito (Laboratoire IBISC, Evry France)
Stéphane Demri (LSV, CNRS, ENS Cachan)
David Fernandez-Duque (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)
Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
David Gabelaia (gabelaia at gmail dot com) (The Free University of Tbilisi, 
Tbilisi, Georgia)
Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University)
Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University)
Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University)
Agi Kurucz (King's College London)
Roman Kuznets (TU Wien)
Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany)
Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen)

(PN) Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving

2015-11-14 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

   1st Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving,
AITP 2016
 April 3-6, 2016, Obergurgl, Austria

 http://aitp-conference.org

Deadline: December 12, 2015
 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aitp2016

Background

Large-scale semantic processing and strong computer assistance of mathematics 
and science is our inevitable future. New combinations of AI and reasoning 
methods and tools deployed over large mathematical and scientific corpora will 
be instrumental to this task. The AITP conference is the forum for discussing 
how to get there as soon as possible, and the force driving the progress 
towards that.


Topics

- AI and big-data methods in theorem proving and mathematics.
- Collaboration between automated and interactive theorem proving.
- Common-sense reasoning and reasoning in science.
- Alignment and joint processing of formal, semi-formal, and informal 
  libraries.
- Methods for large-scale computer understanding of mathematics and 
  science.
- Combinations of linguistic/learning-based and semantic/reasoning methods.
 

Sessions and Speakers

There will be three focused sessions on AI for ATP, ITP and mathematics, a 
(tutorial) session on modern AI and big-data methods, and several sessions 
with contributed talks. The focused sessions will be based on invited talks 
and discussion oriented.

- AI and large-theory ATP/ITP. 
  Confirmed speakers: Thomas C. Hales
- AI and internal guidance of ATP. 
  Confirmed speakers: Robert Veroff, Stephan Schulz
- AI and automated understanding of informal and semi-formal mathematics. 
  Confirmed speakers: Noriko Arai, Deyan Ginev, Takuya Matsuzaki, 
  Jiri Vyskocil
- Modern AI and big-data methods (tutorials/connections to ATP/ITP/math). 
  Confirmed speakers: Sean Holden, Christian Szegedy


Contributed talks

We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on
extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages formatted with easychair.cls. 
Submission is via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aitp2016) 
by 12 December 2015. The authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection 
by 23 December 2015.

Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions, due by 1 February
2016, will be published in an informal book of abstracts for
distribution at the conference.


Post-proceedings

We will publish post-proceedings in an open-access series of
conference proceedings, such as LIPIcs, JMLR, or EPiC. Submission to
that volume will be open for everyone. Tentative submission deadline:
May 2016.


Programme committee

Marcos Cramer   (Universiy of Luxembourg)
Thomas C. Hales (co-chair)  (University of Pittsburgh)
Tom Heskes  (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Sean Holden (University of Cambridge)
Cezary Kaliszyk (co-chair)  (University of Innsbruck)
Ramana Kumar(University of Cambridge)
John Lafferty   (University of Chicago)
Lawrence Paulson(University of Cambridge)
Stephan Schulz (co-chair)   (DHBW Stuttgart)
Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami)
Josef Urban (co-chair)  (Czech Technical University in Prague)


Location and Price

The conference will take place from April 3 to April 6 in the stunning 
scenery of the Tyrolean Alps in the Obergurgl Conference Center 
(http://www.uz-obergurgl.at/) of the University of Innsbruck. Obergurgl 
is a picturesque village located at an altitude of 2000m, a 1-hour drive 
from Innsbruck.  It offers a variety of winter-sport activities such as 
skiing, snowshoeing and hiking at this time of the year. The total price 
for accommodation, food and registration for the four days will be around 
500 EUR.

Organizers

Cezary Kaliszyk and Josef Urban


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(PN) LPAR-20 Short Presentation Papers

2015-09-07 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
===
   The 20th International Conference on
Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
   Suva, Fiji, 23rd-28th November 2015
 www.LPAR-20.info

CALL FOR SHORT PRESENTATION PAPERS

In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practitioners are
invited to submit short presentation papers (the papers can be full length, the
presentation slots will be short), reporting on interesting work in progress,
system and tool descriptions, experimental results, etc. They need not be 
original, and extended or revised versions of the papers may be submitted 
concurrently with or after LPAR to another conference or a journal. Authors of
accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be
present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will not
be published.

The short presentation papers will be published electronically as a volume in 
the EPiC series, see http://www.easychair.org/publications/EPiC. The LaTeX 
and Microsoft Word templates for the EPiC series can be downloaded from 
http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors. Short papers may be up to 
15 pages long, and must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the 
web page https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar20.

Paper submission deadline: 19th October 2015
Notification of acceptance: 2nd November 2015
Final version: 9th November 2015

... however, in order to facilitate authors making travel arrangements, papers
submitted before the deadline will be reviewed immediately, and a decision
made in approximately one week. Submit early, and submit often!

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(PN) FMCAD Student Forum - Call for Contributions

2015-06-15 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
   FMCAD 2015 STUDENT FORUM
  2nd call for contributions

FMCAD 2015, the fifteenth conference on the theory and applications of formal 
methods in hardware and system verification, will host the

   3rd FMCAD Student Forum
   (September 28-30, 2015)

providing a platform for graduate students at any career stage to introduce 
their research to the wider Formal Methods community.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: June 21, 2015
Acceptance notification: July 19, 2015
Forum date: September 28-30, 2015

Details are provided on

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD15/student-forum.shtml

Submissions for the event must be short reports describing research ideas or 
ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the  
scope of FMCAD.  Work, part of which has been previously published, will be 
considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly 
described in such cases.  All submissions will be reviewed by a select group 
of program committee members.

The event will consist of short presentations by the student authors of each 
accepted submission, and of a poster that will be on display throughout the 
duration of the conference.  Accepted submissions will be listed, with title
and author name, in the event description in the conference proceedings. The 
authors will also have the option to upload their poster and presentation to 
the FMCAD web site.  The best contribution (determined by the committee based
on the quality of the submission and the presentation) will be given public 
recognition and a certificate at the event.

Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for students with 
accepted contributions.

We kindly ask faculty members to help us advertise the event by displaying 
the posters available from the web-page in their departments.

If you have questions, please contact the forum chair Georg Weissenbacher 
(Vienna University of Technology, Austria).

For more details visit
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD15/index.shtml


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(PN) LPAR-20 in Fiji - Call for Papers and Workshops

2015-05-22 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe

The 20th International Conference on
Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
 LPAR-20

   University of the Pacific, Suva, Fiji
   http://www.LPAR-20.org

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of
the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning,
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 20th LPAR
will be held at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji in 2015
(see dates below).

== Topics

New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome.
Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open
questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
+ Abduction and interpolation methods
+ Automated reasoning
+ Constraint programming
+ Decision procedures
+ Description logics
+ Foundations of security
+ Hardware verification
+ Implementations of logic
+ Interactive theorem proving
+ Knowledge representation and reasoning
+ Logic and computational complexity
+ Logic and databases
+ Logic and games
+ Logic and machine learning
+ Logic and the web
+ Logic and types
+ Logic in artificial intelligence
+ Logic of distributed systems
+ Logic programming
+ Logical aspects of concurrency
+ Logical foundations of programming
+ Modal and temporal logics
+ Model checking
+ Non-monotonic reasoning
+ Ontologies and large knowledge bases
+ Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning
+ Program analysis
+ Rewriting
+ Satisfiability checking
+ Satisfiability modulo theories
+ Software verification
+ Specification using logic
+ Unification theory

== Submission Details

Submissions of two kinds are welcome:

- Regular papers  that describe solid new research results. They can be up to
  15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references, but excluding
  appendices (that reviewers are not required to read).

- Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report
  experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. They
  can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style.

Both types of papers must be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar20

== Participation

Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week
before the paper submission deadline (see below). Authors of accepted papers 
are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the 
conference. More details about the venue and organisation can be found on the
conference website.

== Important Dates

Abstract Submission: 30 June
Paper Submission: 7 July
Notification: 23 August
Workshops: 23 November
Conference: 24-28 November

== Programme Committee

Cyrille ValentinArtho   AIST, Japan
Franz BaaderTU Dresden, Germany
Christel Baier  TU Dresden, Germany
Peter Baumgartner   NICTA, Australia
Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research, USA
Lei Bu  Nanjing University, China
Franck Cassez   Macquarie University, Australia
Ansgar Fehnker  University of the South Pacific
Rajeev Gore Australian National University, Australia
Tim Griffin University of Cambridge, UK
Ralf Huuck  NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Kim Guldstrand Larsen   Aalborg University, Denmark
Dejan Jovanovic SRI International, USA
Gerwin KleinNICTA and UNSW, Australia
Dexter KozenCornell University, USA
Rustan LeinoMicrosoft Research, USA
Joe Leslie-Hurd Intel Corporation, USA
Annabelle McIverMacquarie University, USA
Kenneth McMillanMicrosoft Research, USA
Marius MineaPolitehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Matteo Mio  CNRS, ENS Lyon, France
Prakash Panangaden  McGill University, Canada
Christine Paulin-MohringUniversit=C3=A9 Paris-Sud, France
Andreas PodelskiUniversity of Freiburg, Germany
Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami, USA
Gancho Vachkov  The University of the south Pacific (USP), Fiji
Ron Van Der Meyden  UNSW, Australia
Tomas VojnarBrno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Andrei Voronkov University of Manchester, UK
Toby Walsh  NICTA and UNSW, Australia
More to be announced ...


  CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

LPAR-20 workshops will be held either as one-day or half-day events. If you
would like to propose a workshop for LPAR-20, please

(PN) 3rd FMCAD Student Forum

2015-05-06 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
   FMCAD 2015 STUDENT FORUM

FMCAD 2015, the fifteenth conference on the theory and applications of formal 
methods in hardware and system verification, will host the

   3rd FMCAD Student Forum
   (September 28-30, 2015)

providing a platform for graduate students at any career stage to introduce 
their research to the wider Formal Methods community.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: June 21, 2015
Acceptance notification: July 19, 2015
Forum date: September 28-30, 2015

Details are provided on

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD15/student-forum.shtml

Submissions for the event must be short reports describing research ideas or 
ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the  
scope of FMCAD.  Work, part of which has been previously published, will be 
considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly 
described in such cases.  All submissions will be reviewed by a select group 
of program committee members.

The event will consist of short presentations by the student authors of each 
accepted submission, and of a poster that will be on display throughout the 
duration of the conference.  Accepted submissions will be listed, with title
and author name, in the event description in the conference proceedings. The 
authors will also have the option to upload their poster and presentation to 
the FMCAD web site.  The best contribution (determined by the committee based
on the quality of the submission and the presentation) will be given public 
recognition and a certificate at the event.

Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for students with 
accepted contributions.

We kindly ask faculty members to help us advertise the event by displaying 
the posters available from the web-page in their departments.

If you have questions, please contact the forum chair Georg Weissenbacher 
(Vienna University of Technology, Austria).

For more details visit
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD15/index.shtml


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(PN) TABLEAUX - Call for Papers

2015-04-27 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 
  
 TABLEAUX 2015

 24th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with
Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods

Wroclaw, Poland, September 21-24, 2015

   http://tableaux2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl/


GENERAL INFORMATION
   TABLEAUX 2015 is the 24th in the series of international meetings
   on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods,
   and will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, during September 21-24, 2015.

   TABLEAUX 2015 will be co-located with the 10th International Symposium
   on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2015).

   The computer science institute of Wroclaw has a large experience
   in hosting international conferences. It has hosted 
   the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007), 
   the 24th International Conference on Automated Deduction 
   (CADE 2011), and the 22nd European Symposium on Algorithms (ALGO 2014).

TOPICS
   Tableaux methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools 
   for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical
   logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large 
   groups of logics, tableaux methods can be generated automatically. 
   Areas of application include verification of software and computer
   systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required 
   inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis.
   The conference series aims to bring together researchers interested in all
   aspects of tableaux - theoretical foundations, applications, 
   and implementation techniques. 

 * tableaux methods for classical and non-classical logics 
   (e.g. modal, temporal, description, intuitionistic, substructural, 
   fuzzy, paraconsistent logics) and their proof theoretic 
   foundations.
 * related methods (model elimination, model checking, connection
   methods, resolution, BDDs).
 * sequent calculi for classical and non-classical logics,
   as tools for proof search and proof representation. 
 * flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem proving.
 * novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification
   in classical and non-classical logics.
 * systems, tools, implementations and applications (provers,
   logical frameworks, model checkers, ... ).
 * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms,
   performance measurement, extendibility, ... ).
 * extensions of tableaux procedures with conflict-driven learning, 
   generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable) representation
   of proofs. 
 * decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures.
 * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software 
   development, protocol verification, or teaching. 

   TABLEAUX 2015 also welcomes papers describing applications of tableaux
   procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to 
   the tableaux community and should focus on the role of reasoning, 
   and logical aspects of the solution.

SUBMISSIONS
   Submissions are invited in two categories:

 A  Research papers, which describe original theoretical research, 
original algorithms, or applications, with length 
up to 15 pages.
 B  System descriptions, with length up to 10 pages.

   Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly will help of
   external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance
   and originality.

   For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be original,
   and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed 
   taking into account correctness, theoretical prettyness, and possible
   implementability. 

   For category B submissions, a working implementation 
   must be available on the internet, which includes sources. 
   The aim of a system description is to make the system available
   in such a way that users can use it, understand it, and build on it.

   Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference 
   proceedings (within the LNAI series of Springer).

   For accepted papers in both of the categories, at least one author 
   is required to attend the conference and present the paper. 

   Further information and instructions about submissions can be found
   on the conference website http://tableaux2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: May 8th,   2015
Paper submission deadline:May 15th,  2015
Author Notification:  July 1st,  2015
Final Version:July 17th  2015 
Conference: September 21st-24th, 2015

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-
   
   Marc Bezem, University of Bergen, Norway 
   Agata Ciabattoni, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   David Delahaye, National Conservatory of Arts 

(PN) Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis - Call for Papers

2015-03-18 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
Call for Papers

Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS)

July 19, 2015 - San Francisco, USA

Submission deadlines:

- paper submission: May 22, 2015
- paper notification: June 19, 2015

Most Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be
modeled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the
CLP and CAV communities have centered around efficiently solving
problems presented as Horn clauses.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in the two
communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP) and
Program Verification community (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI) on the
topic of Horn clause based analysis, verification and synthesis.

Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by
these two communities in different times and from different
perspectives and this workshop is organized to stimulate interaction
and a fruitful exchange and integration of experiences.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the use of Horn
clauses, constraints, and related formalisms in the following areas:

- Analysis and verification of programs in various programming
  paradigms (e.g., imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic,
  higher-order, concurrent)
- Program synthesis
- Program testing
- Program transformation
- Constraint solving
- Type systems
- Case studies and tools
- Challenging problems

We solicit regular papers describing theory and implementation of
Horn-clause based analysis and tool descriptions. We also solicit
extended abstracts describing work-in-progress and presentations
covering previously published results that are of interest to the
workshop.

Invited speakers:

- Ranjit Jhala, University of California at San Diego
- Joxan Jaffar, National University of Singapore


Program Committee:

Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid)
Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research)
Gregory J. Duck (National University of Singapore)
Fabio Fioravanti (University of Chieti-Pescara)
John Gallagher (Roskilde University and IMDEA-Software Madrid)
Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) - 
chair
Radu Grigore (University of Oxford)
Konstantin Korovin (Manchester University)
Viktor Kuncak (EPFL)
David Monniaux (CNRS/Verimag)
Jorge A. Navas (NASA) - chair
Corneliu Popeea (CQSE)
Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR, Italy)
Philipp Ruemmer (Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology)
Andrey Rybalchenko (Microsoft Research)
Valerio Senni (ALES srl)
Peter Stuckey (University of Melbourne)
Yakir Vizel (Princeton University)

The submission format is up to 12 pages plus bibliography for regular
papers and 1 to 3 pages (for work-in-progress), both in EPTCS format.

Original accepted papers will be published electronically as a volume
in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS)
series, see http://www.eptcs.org/

Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of
them will be present at the workshop.  Papers must be submitted
through the EasyChair system using the web page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2015.

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(PN) 3rd Workshop on Interpolation - Call for Papers

2015-03-05 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
iPRA 2015 - THIRD WORKSHOP ON INTERPOLATION: FROM PROOFS TO APPLICATIONS

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Date: July 18, 2015
Location: San Francisco, CA (co-located with CAV 2015)
Web:  http://forsyte.at/interpolation/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: May 7, 2015, AOE
Notification:May 14, 2015
Workshop:July 18, 2015

ORGANISATION AND COMMITTEE

Laura Kovacs and Georg Weissenbacher

SCOPE 

Craig interpolation enjoys a continuing popularity in the field of
verification. Historically, Craig's interpolation theorem has received
ample attention in proof theory and mathematical logic as well as in
complexity theory. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
theoreticians and practitioners from different fields.

We solicit submissions in form of an abstract of at most one page in 
PDF format. The authors of accepted abstracts are required to
present their work at the workshop. There will be no published
proceedings.

We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under 
development, as well as research of PhD students, such that the
workshop can become a forum for active dialog between the groups
involved in applications of interpolation. We also encourage 
contributions from outside the verification community.

Presentations of recently published papers are also allowed and
encouraged, but please indicate on your submission where the paper was
published/presented.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) applications of
interpolation in: 

- Interpolating decision procedures
- Proof theoretic approaches to interpolation
- Proof systems and calculi for interpolation
- Proof transformation techniques
- Inductive Proofs
- Logical Abduction
- Interpolation techniques based on constraint solving, linear programming...
- Alternative techniques for interpolation
- Interpolation theorems (for theories and extensions, non-classical
  logic, ...)
- Interpolation-based/Inductive invariant generation
- Program analysis and verification
- Tools for interpolation
- Applications of Craig interpolation (verification, synthesis, 
  automated reasoning, ...)
- Complexity results and limitations
...

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Abstracts (at most one page in PDF format) have to be submitted until
May 7 via the EasyChair system: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipra15

The authors will be notified on May 14, 2015.
There will be no formal workshop proceedings.

FORMAT

The workshop will feature

- an invited talk by Arie Gurfinkel (SEI/CMU),
- presentations (selected by a committee based on the submission of
  abstracts) by workshop participants, and
- discussion and panel sessions.

The program will be coordinated with the HCVS workshop,
which takes place on July 19.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the workshop will be possible via the CAV
registration site: http://i-cav.org/2015/

POSTER

A poster is available on http://forsyte.at/interpolation. We
kindly ask you to print and display a copy in your department/workplace.

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(PN) Description Logics 2015 - Call for Papers

2015-03-01 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
DL 2015: the 28th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2015
===
The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research 
community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, 
both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and 
compare experiences.

The workshop will be held in Athens from June 7th to June 10th, 2015.

Submission of papers under review for a conference with a double-blind 
submission policy
==
Extended abstracts of papers that are currently under revision for a conference 
with a double-blind submission policy (e.g., IJCAI) should be submitted 
anonymously, i.e., without names in the pdf file, to avoid violations of the 
double-blind submission policy.  The names of the authors of such papers will 
not be revealed to the DL 2015 reviewers handling them.  All other papers 
should list the author names in the pdf file, as usual for DL.


Extended deadline
==
Paper registration deadline: March 9, 2015 (extended from March 2, 2015)
Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2015 (extended from March 9, 2015)
Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2015
Camera-ready copies: May 8, 2015
Workshop: June 7-10, 2015


Workshop Scope
=
We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, including but not 
limited to:
* Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning, 
  expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency management, 
  reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects
* Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, 
  epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, 
  query answering, reasoning over dynamic information
* Integration of description logics with other formalisms: object-oriented 
  representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based 
  programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems
* Applications and use areas of description logics: ontology engineering, 
  ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured 
  data, graph structured data, linked data, document management, natural 
  language, learning, planning, Semantic Web, and cloud computing
* Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools for 
  and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database schema 
  design, query optimisation, and data integration tools), implementation and 
  optimisation techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modelling


Invited Speakers
=
* Carsten Lutz (TU Bremen)
* Axel Polleres (TU Wien)
* Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)


Submissions
==
* Submissions may be either full papers of up to 11 pages (excluding 
  references) presenting original research or extended abstracts of at most 
  3 pages (excluding references). There is no page limit on the list of 
  references.
* All submissions must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style.
* Extended abstracts of papers under review for a conference with a 
  double-blind submission policy should be submitted anonymously.
* Extended abstracts are designed only for authors who wish to announce results 
  that have been published elsewhere, or which the authors intend to submit or 
  have already submitted to a venue with an incompatible prior / concurrent 
  publication policy. Papers presenting original research should be submitted 
  as regular submissions.
* A clearly marked appendix (e.g., with additional proofs or evaluation data) 
  may optionally be appended. It will be read at the discretion of the 
  reviewers and not included in the proceedings. It does not need to be in 
  LNCS format.
* Authors submitting extended abstracts are encouraged to include such an 
  appendix, with sufficient material (e.g. copy of the already published paper 
  or technical report) to judge the scientific merit of the work described in 
  the extended abstract.
* Submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2015
* Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be made available electronically 
  in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/).
* Accepted submissions, be they full papers or extended abstracts, will be 
  selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions 
  will be judged solely based upon their content, and the type of submission 
  will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation.


Organisation
==
* Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Programme co-Chair)
* Boris Konev, University of Liverpool (Programme co-Chair)
* Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens (Workshop co-Chair)
* Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens (Workshop co-Chair)


Resources
=
* 

(PN) TESTS AND PROOFS - Deadline extended

2015-02-24 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe

*
*  9th International Conference
*  on
*  TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2015)
*
*   http://tap2015.in.tum.de/
*
*  Part of STAF 2015, L'Aquila, Italy, July 20-24, 2015
*  http://www.disim.univaq.it/staf2015/
*

*
*  Call for Papers
*
*  Abstract submission: February 23, 2015 (extended)
*  Paper submission:February 27, 2015 (extended)
*



Scope
=

The TAP conference is devoted to the synergy of proofs and tests, to
the application of techniques from both sides and their combination
for the advancement of software quality.

Testing and proving seem to be orthogonal techniques: Once a program
has been proven to be correct then additional testing seems pointless;
however, when such a proof in not feasible, then testing the program
seems to be the only option. This view has dominated the research
community for a long time, and has resulted in distinct communities
pursuing the different research areas.

The development of both approaches has led to the discovery of common
issues and to the realization of potential synergy. Perhaps the use of
model checking in testing was one of the first signs that a
counterexample to a proof may be interpreted as a test case. Recent
breakthroughs in deductive techniques such as satisfiability modulo
theories, abstract interpretation, and interactive theorem proving
have paved the way for new and practically effective methods of
powering testing techniques. Moreover, since formal, proof-based
verification is costly, testing invariants and background theories can
be helpful to detect errors early and to improve cost effectiveness.
Summing up, in the past few years an increasing number of research
efforts have encountered the need for combining proofs and tests,
dropping earlier dogmatic views of incompatibility and taking instead
the best of what each of these software engineering domains has to
offer.

The TAP conference aims to bring together researchers and
practitioners working in the converging fields of testing and proving
by offering a generous forum for the presentation of ongoing research,
for tutorials on established technologies and for informal
discussions.

Topics of Interest
==

Topics of interest cover theory definitions, tool constructions and
experimentations, and include among others:

- Bridging the gap between concrete and symbolic techniques, e.g.
using proof search in satisfiability modulo theories solvers to
enhance various testing techniques
- Transfer of concepts from testing to proving (e.g., coverage
criteria) and from proving to testing
- Program proving with the aid of testing techniques
- Verification and testing techniques combining proofs and tests
- Generation of test data, oracles, or preambles by deductive
techniques such as: theorem proving, model checking, symbolic
execution, constraint logic programming
- Model-based testing and verification
- Generation of specifications by deduction
- Automatic bug finding
- Debugging of programs combining static and dynamic analysis
- Case studies combining tests and proofs
- Domain specific applications of testing and proving to new
application domains such as validating security protocols,
vulnerability detection of programs, security
- Testing of verification environments and reasoning engines like
solvers and theorem provers
- New approaches such as crowd-sourcing and serious games to
infer intended semantics and assess correctness
- Formal frameworks
- Tool descriptions and experience reports

Important Dates:


Abstract submission:  February 23, 2015 (extended)
Paper submission: February 27, 2015 (extended)
Notification: April 13, 2015
Camera-ready version: May 3, 2015
STAF conferences: July 20-24, 2015

Program Co-Chairs:
===

Jasmin C. Blanchette (TU Muenchen, Inria)
Nikolai Kosmatov (CEA LIST)

Program Committee:
==

Bernhard K. Aichernig
Dirk Beyer
Nikolaj Bjorner
Jasmin C. Blanchette
Achim D. Brucker
Koen Claessen
Robert Clariso
Marco Comini
Catherine Dubois
Juhan Ernits
Gordon Fraser
Angelo Gargantini
Christoph Gladisch
Martin Gogolla
Arnaud Gotlieb
Reiner Haehnle
Bart Jacobs
Thierry Jeron
Jacques Julliand
Gregory Kapfhammer
Nikolai Kosmatov
Victor Kuliamin
Panagiotis Manolios
Karl Meinke
Alexandre Petrenko
Andrew Reynolds
Martina Seidl
Nikolai Tillmann
T.H. Tse
Margus Veanes
Luca Vigano
Burkhart Wolff
Fatiha Zaidi

Submission:
===

Please submit your papers via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2015


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(PN) CADE-25 Final Call for Papers

2015-02-14 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
 Berlin

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
  Amy Felty  University of Ottawa
  Aart MiddeldorpUniversity of Innsbruck

Workshop, Tutorial, and Competition Co-Chairs:
  Jasmin Blanchette  Technische Universität München
  Andrew ReynoldsEPFL Lausanne

Publicity and Web Chair:
  Julian Röder   Freie Universität Berlin

Program Committee
  Carlos Areces  Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
  Alessandro Armando University of Genova
  Christoph Benzmüller   Freie Universität Berlin
  Josh Berdine   Microsoft Research
  Jasmin Blanchette  Technische Universität München
  Marta Cialdea MayerUniversita di Roma Tre
  Stephanie Delaune  CNRS
  Gilles Dowek   Inria
  Amy Felty  University of Ottawa
  Reiner Hähnle  Technical University of Darmstadt
  Stefan Hetzl   Vienna University of Technology
  Marijn Heule   The University of Texas at Austin
  Nao Hirokawa   JAIST
  Ullrich HustadtUniversity of Liverpool
  Deepak Kapur   University of New Mexico
  Gerwin Klein   NICTA and UNSW
  Laura Kovács   Chalmers University of Technology
  Carsten Lutz   Universität Bremen
  Assia Mahboubi Inria
  Aart MiddeldorpUniversity of Innsbruck
  Albert OliverasTechnical University of Catalonia
  Nicolas PeltierCNRS
  Brigitte Pientka   McGill University
  Ruzica Piskac  Yale University
  André Platzer  Carnegie Mellon University
  Andrew ReynoldsEPFL Lausanne
  Christophe Ringeissen  LORIA-INRIA
  Renate Schmidt University of Manchester
  Stephan Schulz DHBW Stuttgart
  Georg Struth   University of Sheffield
  Geoff SutcliffeUniversity of Miami
  Alwen Tiu  Nanyang Technological University
  Freek Wiedijk  Radboud University Nijmegen

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(PN) CADE-25 Workshops- Calls for Papers

2015-02-14 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe

**
The Fourth International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP)
==
http://pxtp15.lri.fr

Background
==
The PxTP workshop brings together researchers working on various aspects
of communication, integration, and cooperation between reasoning systems
and formalisms.

The progress in computer-aided reasoning, both automated and interactive,
during the past decades, made it possible to build deduction tools that
are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems and are
able to tackle larger problems progressively faster. In recent years,
cooperation of such tools in larger verification environments has
demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual intervention.
Examples include the Sledgehammer tool providing an interface between
Isabelle and (untrusted) automated provers, and also collaboration of
the HOL Light and Isabelle systems in the formal proof of the Kepler
conjecture.

Cooperation between reasoning systems relies on availability of
theoretical formalisms and practical tools to exchange problems,
proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop strives to encourage such
cooperation by inviting contributions on suitable integration,
translation and communication methods, standards, protocols,
and programming interfaces. The workshop welcomes the interested
developers of automated and interactive theorem proving tools,
developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation
tools and interfaces, and producers of standards and protocols.
We are interested both in success stories and in descriptions
of the current bottlenecks and proposals for improvement.

Topics
==
Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of
cooperation between reasoning tools, whether automatic or
interactive. More specifically, some suggested topics are:
- applications that integrate reasoning tools (ideally
  with certification of the result);
- translations between logics, proof systems, models;
- distribution of proof obligations among heterogeneous
  reasoning tools;
- algorithms and tools for checking and importing (replaying,
  reconstructing) proofs;
- proposed formats for expressing problems and solutions for
  different classes of logic solvers (SAT, SMT, QBF, first-order
  logic, higher-order logic, typed logic, rewriting, etc.);
- meta-languages, logical frameworks, communication methods,
  standards, protocols, and APIs connected to problems, proofs,
  and models;
- comparison, refactoring, and optimization of proofs;
- practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies;
- applications relying on importing proofs from automatic theorem
  provers, such as certified static analysis, proof-carrying code,
  or certified compilation;
- data structures and algorithms for improved proof production in
  solvers (e.g., efficient proof representations).

Submissions
===
Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit either
an extended abstract (up to 8 pages) or a regular paper (up to 15
pages). Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which
will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Short
submissions that could stimulate fruitful discussion at the workshop
are particularly welcome. We expect that one author of every accepted
paper will present their work at the workshop.

Submitted papers should describe previously unpublished work, and must
be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (http://style.eptcs.org/).
Papers will be submitted via EasyChair, at the PxTP'2015 workshop page
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pxtp2015). Accepted full
papers will appear in an EPTCS volume.

Important dates
===
- Abstract submission: Thu, May 7, 2015
- Paper submission: Thu, May 14, 2015
- Notification: Tue, June 16, 2015
- Camera ready versions due: Thu, June 25, 2015
- Workshop: August 2-3, 2015

Invited speakers (joint with the AMI 2015 workshop)
===
- Georges Gonthier (Microsoft Research)
- Bart Jacobs (KU Leuven)

Program committee
=
- Jesse Alama (Vienna University of Technology)
- Peter Baumgartner (NICTA)
- Jasmin Blanchette (TU Muenchen)
- Guillaume Burel (CEDRIC, ENSIIE)
- Evelyne Contejean (LRI, CNRS, Universite Paris Sud)
- Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck), co-chair
- Ramana Kumar (University of Cambridge)
- Dale Miller (Inria / LIX, Ecole polytechnique)
- Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (Vienna University of Technology)
- Andrei Paskevich (LRI, Universite Paris Sud), co-chair
- Damien Pous (LIP, CNRS, ENS Lyon)
- Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami)
- Laurent Thery (Inria)
- Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa)
- Josef Urban (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Previous PxTP editions
==
- PxTP 2011 (http://pxtp2011.loria.fr/), affiliated with CADE-23
- PxTP 2012 (http://pxtp2012

(PN) TABLEAUX/FroCoS Call for Workshops

2015-02-11 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
*** Apologies for multiple copies ***

   FIRST CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
 TABLEAUX/FroCoS 2015 

  The International Conference on Automated Reasoning with
   Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods

  and

The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems

  Wroclaw, Poland, September 20-25, 2015


GENERAL INFORMATION
   TABLEAUX 2015 and FroCoS 2015 will take place in Wroclaw, Poland, from
   September 20 to September 25, 2015. Workshops and tutorials will be
   held on September 19/20 and/or September 25. In the present call,
   we solicit proposals for workshops that are related to the two main
   conferences. Tutorials will be solicited in a separate call.
   Possible topics of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive) are: 

   * automated reasoning with analytic tableaux and other methods
 (theory and applications)
   * model checking and BDDs
   * light-weight, flexible theorem proving methods  
   * novel calculi for verification of mathematics and programs
   * classical and non-classical logics (modal, description,
 intuitionistic, linear, temporal, many-valued...)
   * combination of logics
   * implementation techniques: Data structures, efficient algorithms,
 performance measurement 
   * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving 
   * combination of decision procedures, satisfiability  procedures,
 constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks
   * combinations and modularity in ontologies, term rewriting,
 knowledge representation, natural language semantics, and other
 areas
   * application of theorem proving and combination methods
 in teaching, verification, or security analysis 

   The purpose of a workshop is to offer an opportunity for the 
   presentation of novel ideas, ongoing research, and to discuss the 
   state of the art of a given area in a less formal but more focused way 
   than at the main conferences. Workshops are also a good opportunity 
   for young researchers to present their own work in a friendly 
   atmosphere. The format of a workshop is left to the organizers, with 
   possible lengths being half a day, a full day, or two days.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
   In order to submit a workshop proposal, please send a description 
   of one or two pages in pdf format by email to Hans de Nivelle 
   (nive...@ii.uni.wroc.pl). 
   The proposal must at least contain the following information: 

   * title of the workshop
   * organizers + contact person 
   * expected number of participants 
   * whether the workshop is by invitation only or open. 
   * planned duration (1/2 day, 1 day, 2 days)
   * are there planned proceedings? 
   * special requirements?

   The deadline for submitting workshop proposals is

  *** MARCH 2 2015 ***.

   Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the TABLEAUX and FroCoS
   chairs Carsten Lutz, Hans de Nivelle, and Silvio Ranise,
   possibly with help of additional reviewers.
   Decisions will be made within three weeks. 

   Additional questions can be directed to any of the PC chairs
   (Carsten Lutz, Hans de Nivelle and Silvio Ranise).

MORE INFORMATION

For more information on the two events, please refer to the webpages

  http://tableaux2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl/
  http://frocos2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl/



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(PN) 10th Ershov Informatics Conference, Call for Papers

2015-01-15 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
CALL FOR PAPERS
PSI: 10th Ershov Informatics Conference
25 - 27 August 2015, Innopolis, Kazan, Russia
http://easychair.org/smart-program/PSI2015/

The Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series, 10th edition) 
is the premier international forum in Russia for research and applications 
in computer, software and information sciences. The conference brings together 
academic and industrial researchers, developers and users to discuss the most 
recent topics in the field. PSI provides an ideal venue for setting up research 
collaborations between the rapidly growing Russian informatics community and 
its international counterparts, as well as between established scientists and 
younger researchers.

Local Organizers

Tanya Stanko
Innopolis University
Inna Baskakova
Innopolis University

Publicity Chairs

Timur Tsiunchuk
Innopolis University
Salvatore Distefano
Politecnico di Milano

Conference Chairs 

Bertrand Meyer
ETH, Zurich
Irina Virbitskaite
A.P. Ershov Institute, Novosibirsk

Steering Committee 

Dines Bjorner 
Technical University of Denmark 
Manfred Broy
Technische Universitaet Muenchen 
Victor Ivannikov
Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences 
Ugo Montanari 
University of Pisa

Programme Committee Chairs 

Manuel Mazzara
Innopolis University
Andrei Voronkov
The University of Manchester

Keynote speakers

Hans-Ulrich Heiss, TUB, Germany
Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK
Helmut Veith, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Conference Topics

1. Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis
* Specification, validation, and verification techniques.
* Program analysis, transformation and synthesis.
* Semantics, logic and formal models of programs.
* Partial evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler 
  construction.
* Theorem proving and model checking.
* Concurrency theory.
* Static program analysis.
* Modeling and analysis of real-time and hybrid systems.
* Computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics.

2. Programming Methodology and Software Engineering
* Object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming.
* Programming by contract.
* Program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing.
* Constraint programming.
* Multi-agent technology.
* System re-engineering and reuse.
* Integrated programming environments.
* Software architecture.
* Software development and testing.
* Model-driven system/software development.
* Agile software development.
* Software engineering methods and tools.
* Service engineering, service oriented architecture.
* Reverse engineering.
* Reflection techniques.
* Software bugs, aging and reliability models and countermeasures.
* Program understanding and visualization.

3. Information Technologies
* Data models. 
* Database and information systems.
* Data mining, analytics.
* Knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering.
* Bioinformatics engineering.
* Ontologies and semantic Web.
* Digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing.
* Peer-to-peer data management.

More generally, the conference welcomes novel scientific contributions in 
software-related areas, and application papers showing practical applications 
of research results.

Important Dates

* April 16, 2015: abstract submission
* April 23, 2015: submission deadline
* May 31, 2015: notification of acceptance
* August 25-27, 2015: the conference dates
* November 1, 2015: camera ready papers due

Programme Committee Members

Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands
David Aspinall, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
Marcello Maria Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Eike Best, Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany
Nikolaj Bjrner, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Andrea Calì, Birbeck College, UK
Mauro Caporuscio, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Néstor Cataño, Madeira Univ., Portugal
Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania
Volker Diekert, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
Salvatore Distefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Nicola Dragoni, DTU, Denmark and Örebro Univ., Sweden
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna Univ. Technology, Austria
Dieter Fensel, STI Innsbruck, Austria 
Carlo Furia, ETH, Switzerland
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Sergei Gorlatch, Univ. Muenster, Germany 
Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven Univ. Tech., The Netherlands 
Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon Univ., US 
Cliff Jones, Newcastle Univ., UK
Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany
Konstantin Korovin, Univ. Manchester, UK 
Maciej Koutny, Newcastle Univ., UK 
Laura Kovacs, Chalmers Univ. Tech., Gothenburg, Sweden 
Gregory Kucherov, CNRS/LIGM, Marne-la-Vallee, France
Johan Lilius, Abo Akademi Univ., Turku, Finland
Anthony Widjaja Lin, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Zhiming Liu, Birmingham City University 
Jan Madsen, DTU Copenhagen, Denmark
Rupak Majumdar, MPI, Kaiserslautern, Germany 
Klaus Meer, Tech. Univ. Cottbus, Germany
Hernán Melgratti, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Torben Mogensen, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark

(PN) CICM Call for Papers

2014-12-11 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe

  Call for Papers

Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
 CICM 2015

  13-17 July 2015
Washington DC, USA


Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the
generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical
information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build
computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and
mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these
systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies
offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer
Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions
to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas.

CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating
related conferences and workshops to advance work in these
subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008),
Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011),
Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), and Coimbra (Portugal 2014).

This is a (short version of the) call for papers for CICM 2015, which
will be held in Washington, D.C., 13-17 July 2015.

The full version of the CFP is available from the conference web page at
http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php

**
The principal tracks of the conference will be:
**

* Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning)
  Chair: Jacques Carette
* DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries)
  Chair: Volker Sorge
* MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management)
  Chair: Cezary Kaliszyk
* Systems and Data
  Chair: Florian Rabe

Publicity chair is Serge Autexier. The local arrangements will be
coordinated by the Local Arrangements Chairs, Bruce R. Miller
(National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Abdou
Youssef (The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.), and the
overall programme will be organized by the General Programme Chair,
Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK).

As in previous years, it is anticipated that there will be a number
co-located workshops, including one to mentor doctoral students giving
presentations. We also solicit for project descriptions and
work-in-progress papers.

**
Important Dates
**

Conference submissions:
Abstract submission deadline:  16 February 2015
Submission deadline:   23 February 2015
Reviews sent to authors:6 April2015
Rebuttals due:  9 April2015
Notification of acceptance:13 April2015
Camera ready copies due:   27 April2015
Conference: 13-17 July 2015


Work-in-progress and Doctoral Programme submissions:
Submission deadline:
(Doctoral: Abstract+CV) 4 May  2015
Notification of acceptance:25 May  2015
Camera ready copies due:1 June 2015




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(PN) CADE-25 Call for Papers, etc.

2014-10-21 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
 to a working system and will also be
judged on usefulness and design. Proofs of theoretical results that do not
fit in the page limit, executables of systems, and input data of experiments
should be made available, via a reference to a website or in an appendix of
the paper. Reviewers will be encouraged to consider this additional
material, but submissions must be self-contained within the respective page
limit; considering the additional material should not be necessary to
assess the merits of a submission. The proceedings of the conference will
be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. Formatting instructions and
the LNCS style files can be obtained at 

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

At every CADE conference the Program Committee selects one of the
accepted papers to receive the CADE Best Paper Award. The award
recognizes a paper that the Program Committee collegially evaluates as
the best in terms of originality and significance, having substantial
confidence in its correctness. Overall technical quality,
completeness, scholarly accuracy, and readability are also
considered. Characteristics associated with a best paper include, for
instance, introduction of a strong new technique or approach, solution
of a long-standing open problem, introduction and solution of an
interesting and important new problem, highly innovative application
of known ideas or existing techniques, and presentation of a new
system of outstanding power. Under exceptional circumstances, the
Program Committee may give two awards (ex aequo) or give no award.

At CADE-25 we also intend to award the best student paper (details
will follow).


IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop/Tutorials/System Competitions:

Submission deadline:  14 November 2014
Notification: 28 November 2014

Papers:

Abstract deadline:16 February 2015
Submission deadline:  23 February 2015
Rebuttal phase:   15-18 April 2015
Notification: 26 April 2015
Final version:17 May 2015

Workshops and Tutorials:  1 August to 3 August (morning) 2015
Competitions: 1 to 7 August 2015
Conference:   3 August (afternoon) to 7 August 2015


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Proposals for workshops, tutorials, and system competitions should be
uploaded via

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade25workshopstutor

Papers should be submitted via

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade25


CADE-25 ORGANIZERS

Conference Chair:
  Christoph Benzmüller   Freie Universität Berlin

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
  Amy Felty  University of Ottawa
  Aart MiddeldorpUniversity of Innsbruck

Workshop, Tutorial, and Competition Co-Chairs:
  Jasmin Blanchette  Technische Universität München
  Andrew ReynoldsEPFL Lausanne

Publicity and Web Chair:
  Julian Röder   Freie Universität Berlin

Program Committee
  Carlos Areces  Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
  Alessandro Armando University of Genova
  Christoph Benzmüller   Freie Universität Berlin
  Josh Berdine   Microsoft Research
  Jasmin Blanchette  Technische Universität München
  Marta Cialdea MayerUniversita di Roma Tre
  Stephanie Delaune  CNRS
  Gilles Dowek   Inria
  Amy Felty  University of Ottawa
  Reiner Hähnle  Technical University of Darmstadt
  Stefan Hetzl   Vienna University of Technology
  Marijn Heule   The University of Texas at Austin
  Nao Hirokawa   JAIST
  Ullrich HustadtUniversity of Liverpool
  Deepak Kapur   University of New Mexico
  Gerwin Klein   NICTA and UNSW
  Laura Kovács   Chalmers University of Technology
  Carsten Lutz   Universität Bremen
  Assia Mahboubi Inria
  Aart MiddeldorpUniversity of Innsbruck
  Albert OliverasTechnical University of Catalonia
  Nicolas PeltierCNRS
  Brigitte Pientka   McGill University
  Ruzica Piskac  Yale University
  André Platzer  Carnegie Mellon University
  Andrew ReynoldsEPFL Lausanne
  Christophe Ringeissen  LORIA-INRIA
  Renate Schmidt University of Manchester
  Stephan Schulz DHBW Stuttgart
  Georg Struth   University of Sheffield
  Geoff SutcliffeUniversity of Miami
  Alwen Tiu  Nanyang Technological University
  Freek Wiedijk  Radboud University Nijmegen

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(PN) CAV Call for Papers

2014-09-30 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
Call for Papers
27th International Conference on
Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2015)
July 18-24 2015, San Francisco, California
http://i-cav.org/2015/

Aims and Scope

CAV 2015 is the 27th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the 
theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for 
hardware and software systems.  CAV considers it vital to continue 
spurring advances in hardware and software verification while expanding 
to new domains such as biological systems and computer security. The 
conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete 
applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the 
algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The 
proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS 
series. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of 
Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

*Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations
*Hardware verification techniques
*Deductive, compositional, and abstraction techniques for verification
*Program analysis and software verification
*Verification methods for parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems
*Testing and run-time analysis based on verification technology
*Applications and case studies in verification
*Decision procedures and solvers for verification
*Mathematical and logical foundations of practical verification tools
*Verification in industrial practice
*Algorithms and tools for system synthesis
*Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification
*Verification techniques for security
*Formal models and methods for biological systems

Paper Submission

Submissions should contain original research and sufficient detail to 
assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. We welcome papers 
on theory, case studies and comparisons with existing experimental 
research, tool papers, as well as combinations of new theory with 
experimental evaluation. Similar to last year, we welcome both long tool 
papers and short papers of any kind.

Tool papers should describe system and implementation aspects of a tool 
with a large (potential) user base (experiments not required, rehash of 
theory strongly discouraged). Papers describing tools that have already 
been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant 
and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented.

Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial context are 
strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses, and strengths 
in sufficient depth. Papers reproducing and comparing existing results 
experimentally do not require new theoretical insights. Examples of 
contributions of such papers are evaluations of existing results in a 
superior experimental setting and comparisons of methods that have not 
previously been thoroughly experimentally compared.

Papers can be submitted in either a regular or a short format.

*Regular Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format, not 
counting references.

*Short Papers should not exceed 6 pages, not counting references. 
Short papers are encouraged for any subject that can be described within 
the page limit, and in particular for novel ideas without an extensive 
experimental evaluation. Accepted short papers will be accompanied by 
short presentations.

An appendix can provide additional material such as details on proofs or 
experiments. The appendix is not guaranteed to be read or taken into 
account by the reviewers and it should not contain information necessary 
for the understanding and the evaluation of the presented work. Papers 
will be accepted or rejected in the category in which they were 
submitted, there will be no demotions from a regular to a short paper.

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or 
submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not 
allowed.

The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors 
will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. The PC chairs may 
solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submission is done via EasyChair.

Deadlines

Deadlines are anywhere on earth

*Abstract submission: January 30 2015
*Paper submission (firm): February 6 2015
*Author feedback/rebuttal period: March 23-26 2015
*Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 17 2015
*Final version due: May 1 2015

Chairs

Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, UK.
Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/NASA Ames, USA.

Program Committee

Aws Albarghouthi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Jade Alglave, University College London, UK
Domagoj Babic, Google, USA
Clark Barrett, New York University, USA
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Roderick Bloem, Graz 

(PN) CADE-25 CFP/CFW/CFT/CFC

2014-08-01 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
 to a working system and will also be
judged on usefulness and design. Proofs of theoretical results that do not
fit in the page limit, executables of systems, and input data of experiments
should be made available, via a reference to a website or in an appendix of
the paper. Reviewers will be encouraged to consider this additional
material, but submissions must be self-contained within the respective page
limit; considering the additional material should not be necessary to
assess the merits of a submission. The proceedings of the conference will
be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. Formatting instructions and
the LNCS style files can be obtained at 

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

At every CADE conference the Program Committee selects one of the
accepted papers to receive the CADE Best Paper Award. The award
recognizes a paper that the Program Committee collegially evaluates as
the best in terms of originality and significance, having substantial
confidence in its correctness. Overall technical quality,
completeness, scholarly accuracy, and readability are also
considered. Characteristics associated with a best paper include, for
instance, introduction of a strong new technique or approach, solution
of a long-standing open problem, introduction and solution of an
interesting and important new problem, highly innovative application
of known ideas or existing techniques, and presentation of a new
system of outstanding power. Under exceptional circumstances, the
Program Committee may give two awards (ex aequo) or give no award.

At CADE-25 we also intend to award the best student paper (details
will follow).


IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop/Tutorials/System Competitions:

Submission deadline:  14 November 2014
Notification: 28 November 2014

Papers:

Abstract deadline:16 February 2015
Submission deadline:  23 February 2015
Rebuttal phase:   15-18 April 2015
Notification: 26 April 2015
Final version:17 May 2015

Workshops and Tutorials:  1 August to 3 August (morning) 2015
Competitions: 1 to 7 August 2015
Conference:   3 August (afternoon) to 7 August 2015


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Proposals for workshops, tutorials, and system competitions should be
uploaded via

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade25workshopstutor

Papers should be submitted via

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade25


CADE-25 ORGANIZERS

Conference Chair:
  Christoph Benzmüller   Freie Universität Berlin

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
  Amy Felty  University of Ottawa
  Aart MiddeldorpUniversity of Innsbruck

Workshop, Tutorial, and Competition Co-Chairs:
  Jasmin Blanchette  Technische Universität München
  Andrew ReynoldsEPFL Lausanne

Publicity and Web Chair:
  Julian Röder   Freie Universität Berlin

Program Committee
  Carlos Areces  Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
  Alessandro Armando University of Genova
  Christoph Benzmüller   Freie Universität Berlin
  Josh Berdine   Microsoft Research
  Jasmin Blanchette  Technische Universität München
  Marta Cialdea MayerUniversita di Roma Tre
  Stephanie Delaune  CNRS
  Gilles Dowek   Inria
  Amy Felty  University of Ottawa
  Reiner Hähnle  Technical University of Darmstadt
  Stefan Hetzl   Vienna University of Technology
  Marijn Heule   The University of Texas at Austin
  Nao Hirokawa   JAIST
  Ullrich HustadtUniversity of Liverpool
  Deepak Kapur   University of New Mexico
  Gerwin Klein   NICTA and UNSW
  Laura Kovács   Chalmers University of Technology
  Carsten Lutz   Universität Bremen
  Assia Mahboubi Inria
  Aart MiddeldorpUniversity of Innsbruck
  Albert OliverasTechnical University of Catalonia
  Nicolas PeltierCNRS
  Brigitte Pientka   McGill University
  Ruzica Piskac  Yale University
  André Platzer  Carnegie Mellon University
  Andrew ReynoldsEPFL Lausanne
  Christophe Ringeissen  LORIA-INRIA
  Renate Schmidt University of Manchester
  Stephan Schulz DHBW Stuttgart
  Georg Struth   University of Sheffield
  Geoff SutcliffeUniversity of Miami
  Alwen Tiu  Nanyang Technological University
  Freek Wiedijk  Radboud University Nijmegen

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(PN) 4th International SAT/SMT Summer School

2014-04-09 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
===
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Fourth International SAT/SMT Summer School
Semmering, Austria, July 10-12, 2014
http://satsmt2014.forsyte.at/
===

REGISTRATION:
The registration deadline for the summer school is April 19, 2014.
Full details of the registration procedure as well as travel and
accommodation grants are available at the school website
(http://satsmt2014.forsyte.at/).

ABOUT:
Satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers
have become the backbone of numerous applications in computer science,
such as automated verification, artificial intelligence, program
synthesis, security, product configuration, and many more. The summer
school covers the foundational and practical aspects of SAT and SMT
technologies and their applications.

Besides providing a well structured introduction to SAT and SMT, this
year's edition of the SAT/SMT Summer School covers timely topics and
novel applications such as

- parallel solvers,
- non-linear arithmetic in SMT,
- the IC3 model checking paradigm,
- hardware and software verification,
- proofs and Craig interpolation,
- and cryptography,

presented by distinguished speakers and experts in these fields. In
addition to the theory sessions, we will have practicals in which the
participants will work state-of-the-art tools and solvers.

The fourth edition follows the schools that took place at MIT (SAT/SMT
Solver Summer School 2011), at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (SAT/SMT
School 2012) in Trento, Italy, and Aalto University in Espoo, Finland
in 2013.  The school location and schedule has been chosen to
integrate nicely with the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL 2014,
seehttp://vsl2014.at/). As a reminder, VSL 2014 includes, among many
other events:

* the 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of
  Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2014)
* the 26th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2014)
* the 12th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT 2014)
* the 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2014)

The Summer School program will feature four lectures per day, with the
first two days dedicated to SAT and SMT, and the last to special
topics. Two of the lectures will be organized as tutorials giving
hands-on experience on SAT/SMT-based modelling.

List of invited lectures:
* Introduction to SAT, Daniel Le Berre
* Practical Session SAT, Keijo Heljanko, Tomi Janhunen, Tommi Junttila
* Interpolation in SAT  SMT, Philipp R?mmer
* Parallel SAT Solving, Christoph Wintersteiger
* Proofs in SAT and CSP, Ofer Strichman
* Introduction to SMT, Alberto Griggio
* Non-linear Arithmetic in SMT, Leonardo de Moura
* Practical Session SMT, Keijo Heljanko, Tomi Janhunen, Tommi Junttila
* SMT for Cryptography  Software Verification, Chao Wang
* Hardware Verification with IC3, Fabio Somenzi
* Software Verification with IC3, Nikolaj Bj?rner

A more detailed program is available at the school website
(http://satsmt2014.forsyte.at/).

Organizers:
Clark Barrett (New York University)
Pascal Fontaine (Inria, Loria, University of Lorraine, France)
Dejan Jovanovi? (SRI, U.S.)
Georg Weissenbacher (TU Wien, Austria)


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(PN) Vienna Summer of Logic Announcement

2014-01-31 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
**Vienna Summer of Logic Announcement**

In the summer of 2014, Vienna will host the largest event in the history of
logic. The Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL) will consist of twelve large
conferences and numerous workshops, attracting an expected number of 2500
researchers from all over the world.

The conferences and workshops will deal with the main theme, logic, from
three important aspects: logic in computer science, mathematical logic and
logic in artificial intelligence.

This unique event will be organized by the Kurt Goedel Society at Vienna
University of Technology from July 9 to 24, 2014 (see website for more
details: http://vsl2014.at)

*Keynote Speakers*
The VSL keynote speakers are Franz Baader (Technische Universitaet Dresden),
Edmund Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University), Christos Papadimitriou (University
of California, Berkeley) and Alex Wilkie (University of Manchester).
Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University) will speak in the opening session.

*Logic in Computer Science / Federated Logic Conference (FLoC)*
- 26th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV)
- 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)
- 30th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP)
- 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR)
- 5th Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP)
- Joint meeting of the 23rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic
  (CSL) and the 29th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
- 25th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA)
  joint with the 12th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and
  Applications (TLCA)
- 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
  Testing (SAT)
- FLoC Workshops
- FLoC Olympic Games (System Competitions)

*Mathematical Logic*
- Logic Colloquium 2014
- Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees 2014
- The Infinity Workshop
- Kurt Goedel Fellowship Competition

*Logic in Artificial Intelligence*
- 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and
  Reasoning (KR)
- 27th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL)
- 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR)
- International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care 2014
  (KR4HC)


*Kurt Goedel Research Prize Fellowship Competition*
At the Vienna Summer of Logic, the Kurt Goedel Society will award three
fellowship prizes endowed with 100.000 Euro each to the winners of the Kurt
Goedel Research Prize Fellowship Competition Logical Mind: Connecting
Foundations and Technology.

*FLoC Olympic Games - Citius, Maius, Potentius*
The Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2014 will host the 1st FLoC Olympic
Games.  Intended as a new FLoC tradition, the Games will bring together a
multitude of established solver competitions by different research communities.
In addition to the competitions, the Olympic Games will facilitate the exchange
of expertise between communities, and increase the visibility and impact of
state-of-the-art solver technology. The winners in the competition categories
will be awarded Kurt Goedel medals at the FLoC Olympic Games award ceremonies.



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(PN) Essays in Memory of Mark Stickel

2013-10-15 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe

  CALL FOR PAPERS

  Making Automated Reasoning Practical:
   Essays in Memory of Mark Stickel

  Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2014


AIM
  
  This is a book of collected articles presenting research in all aspects of
  automated reasoning, in particular the design of automated reasoning
  systems and their applications.

  A common theme behind Mark Stickel's work was developing techniques for
  building better automated reasoning systems. His discoveries were
  ground-breaking and include AC-unification, reasoning modulo a theory, term
  indexing, and thorough development of the SNARK and PTTP provers. In 2002 he
  received the Herbrand award for all his work, the highest award in automated
  reasoning (http://www.cadeinc.org/).

  We would like to honour Mark's achievements by editing a Festschrift
  comprised of articles in the spirit of his research approach: developing
  fundamental techniques driven by practical applications and informed by
  rigorous theory.

SCOPE

  We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of
  automated reasoning and its applications, especially but not
  exclusively to the design of automated theorem proving systems, with
  connections to any of Mark Stickel's research areas:

  * Automated theorem proving, including deductive and abductive reasoning
  * Implementation of and practice with automated reasoners
  * Algorithmics for automated reasoners: unification,
matching, rewriting, indexing
  * Integration of general-purpose reasoning with external procedures
  * Spatial and temporal reasoning
  * Inference control, theory reasoning, semantic guidance for automated 
reasoners
  * Application of automated reasoners in mathematics,
logic, program synthesis, natural language, and natural sciences
  * SAT-solving 
  * Applications related to formal methods


PUBLICATION DETAILS

  It is planned that the book will be published as an LNAI Festschrift
  with Springer.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

  While it is expected that most of the papers will be regular
  technical papers, a few papers that combine scientific content
  with recollections of Mark Stickel's work and personality,
  as can be written by those who worked with him, are also sought.

  All papers will be refereed by anonymous peer reviewers, and
  read by the editors, according to the highest standards in terms
  of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability.

  Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf
  format. They must be unpublished and not submitted for
  publication elsewhere. However, significantly extended versions
  of papers published at conferences are welcome. Submissions
  of any length will be considered, but final versions may be
  limited by the editors depending on the totality of submissions.
  Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX.
  Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained
  via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
  Electronic submission via EasyChair is open at
  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=festschriftmarkstick .


SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1st, 2014

  In order to facilitate the planning of the book, authors are
  invited to notify the editors as soon as possible of their
  intention to submit with proposed topic and length. Early
  submission would be especially helpful for completing the
  review process sooner.


EDITORS

  Peter Baumgartner  NICTA and Australian National University,
 http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~baumgart/
  Richard Waldinger  SRI International,
 http://www.ai.sri.com/~waldinge/



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(PN) LPAR-19 - Calls for Short Papers and Workshop Papers

2013-10-07 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
 
   The 19th International Conference on
 Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
 
 CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS and WORKSHOP PAPERS
 

   Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14-19 December 2013
www.LPAR-19.info

The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of 
the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning,
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 19th LPAR
will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

---
* SHORT PAPERS

In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practitioners are 
invited to submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or
providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended or revised
versions of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR 
to another conference or a journal. Short papers are limited in length to 8 
pages in the EasyChair format.

Accepted papers will be published electronically as a volume in the EPiC 
series, see http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=38379010. Authors of 
accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be 
present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will not 
be published.

The LaTeX, Microsoft Word and LibreOffice templates for the EPiC series may 
be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690.
Short papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar19

Paper submission deadline:  October 14th, 2013
Notification of acceptance: October 28th, 2013
Final version:  November 11th, 2013
---
* WORKSHOP PAPERS

LPAR-19 includes five associated workshops:

+ IWIL-10 - The 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics
  Submission deadline: October 14, 2013
+ APS-7 - The 7th International Workshop on Analytic Proof Systems
  Submission deadline: October 14, 2013
+ ALCS - The 1st International Workshop on Algebraic Logic in Computer Science
  Submission deadline: passed
+ LRCM - The 1st Workshop on Logics and Reasoning for Conceptual Models
  Submission deadline: October 14, 2013
+ ALFA-2 - The 2nd Workshop on Automata, Logic, Formal languages, and Algebra
  Submission deadline: passed

Submissions are still being accepted for three of the workshops. For further 
details, please refer to the workshop web pages that are linked from the
LPAR-19 web pages at www.LPAR-19.info .
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(PN) LPAR-19 in South Africa - Paper Deadline

2013-07-17 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
  ===
LPAR-19
CALL FOR PAPERS
  ===


  The 19th International Conference on
Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning


   Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14-19 December 2013
www.LPAR-19.info

The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of 
the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning,
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 19th LPAR
will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer
Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied.  
At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal
semantics of programming languages. At the other extreme, it drives billions of
gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in
itself a powerful programming paradigm, but it is also the quintessential
specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to
networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and
specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model
checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial
intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in
Computer Science education.

Topics
--
New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome.
Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open
questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  * Abduction and interpolation methods
  * Automated reasoning
  * Constraint programming
  * Decision procedures
  * Description logics
  * Foundations of security
  * Hardware verification
  * Implementations of logic
  * Interactive theorem proving
  * Knowledge representation and reasoning
  * Logic and computational complexity
  * Logic and databases
  * Logic and games
  * Logic and machine learning
  * Logic and the web
  * Logic and types
  * Logic in artificial intelligence
  * Logic of distributed systems
  * Logic programming
  * Logical aspects of concurrency
  * Logical foundations of programming
  * Modal and temporal logics
  * Model checking
  * Non-monotonic reasoning
  * Ontologies and large knowledge bases
  * Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning
  * Program analysis
  * Rewriting
  * Satisfiability checking
  * Satisfiability modulo theories
  * Software verification
  * Specification using logic
  * Unification theory

Programme Chairs

  * Ken McMillan
  * Aart Middeldorp
  * Andrei Voronkov

Conference Chairs

  * Bernd Fischer
  * Geoff Sutcliffe

Workshop Chair
--
  * Laura Kovacs

Submission Details
--
Submissions of two kinds are welcome:

  * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. They can be
up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references,
but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not required to read).
  * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems,
report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented
systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style.

Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChar:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar19.
Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week
before the paper submission deadline (see below).

Participation
-
Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them
will be present at the conference.

Important Dates
---
  * Abstract submission: 22nd July
  * Paper submission: 2nd August
  * Notification of acceptance: 27th September
  * Camera-ready papers: 9th October
  * Conference: 14th-19th December


  ===
LPAR-19
   WORKSHOPS  
  ===

LPAR-19 will be preceded by four workshops in specialised areas of logic:

  * The 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics - IWIL
http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2013.html

  * The 7th International Workshop on Analytic Proof Systems - APS
http

(PN) 10th IWIL Workshop, in South Africa

2013-07-10 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe

  10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics

http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2013.html


The 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics will
be held on December 14th, 2013, colocated with the 19th International
Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and
Reasoning in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques
for and implementations of automated reasoning programs, theorem
provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related
technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  + Propositional logic and decision procedures, including SMT
  + First-order and higher order logics
  + Non-classical logics, including modal, temporal, description, and
non-monotonic logics
  + Formal foundations for efficient implementation of logics
  + Data structures and algorithms for the efficient representation and
processing of logical concepts
  + Proof/model search organization and heuristics for logical reasoning
systems
  + Data analysis and machine learning approaches to search control
  + Techniques for proof/model search visualization and analysis
  + Practical constraint handling
  + Reasoning with ontologies and other large theories
  + Implementation of efficient theorem provers and model finders for
different logics
  + System descriptions of logical reasoning systems
  + Issues of reliability, witness generation, and  witness verification
  + Evaluation and benchmarking of provers and other logic-based systems
  + I/O standards and communication between reasoning systems

We are particularly interested in contributions that help the
community to understand how to build useful and powerful reasoning
systems, and how to apply them in practice.

Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a
position statement (2 pages), a short paper (up to 5 pages), or a full
papers (up to 15 pages). Submissions should be made via EasyChair at
  
  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwil2012

Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will
select a balanced program of high-quality contributions.

Submissions should be in standard-conforming PDF. Final versions will
be required to be submitted in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class
file. Proceedings will be published as EasyChair Proceedings.

If number and quality of the submissions warrant it, we plan to
produce a special issue of a recognized journal on the topic of the
workshop.

Important Dates:

  Submission of papers/abstracts:  October 14th, 2013
  Notification of acceptance:  November 11th, 2013
  Camera ready versions due:   December 2nd, 2013
  Workshop:December 14th, 2013

Program committee:

  Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair)   TU München 
  Geoff Sutcliffe (Co-Chair)  University of Miami
  Boris Konev (Co-Chair)  University of Liverpool
  Leonardo de Moura   Microsoft Research
  Peter Baumgartner   NICTA/Australian National University  
  Uwe WaldmannMPI für Informatik
  Guillaume Burel ENSIIE/Cedric 
  Andrew Reynolds University of Iowa
  Tommi Junttila  Aalto University  
  Konstantin Korovin  The University of Manchester  
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(PN) LPAR-19 CFP and Workshops

2013-04-10 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
  ===
LPAR-19
 1st CALL FOR PAPERS
  CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
  ===


  The 19th International Conference on
Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning


   Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14-19 December 2013
www.LPAR-19.info

This is the first call for papers for LPAR-19 and a call for workshop 
proposals. Information about workshop proposals is included at the end 
of this call.

The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of 
the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning,
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 19th LPAR
will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer
Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied.  
At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal
semantics of programming languages. At the other extreme, it drives billions of
gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in
itself a powerful programming paradigm, but it is also the quintessential
specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to
networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and
specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model
checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial
intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in
Computer Science education.

Topics
--
New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome.
Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open
questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  * Abduction and interpolation methods
  * Automated reasoning
  * Constraint programming
  * Decision procedures
  * Description logics
  * Foundations of security
  * Hardware verification
  * Implementations of logic
  * Interactive theorem proving
  * Knowledge representation and reasoning
  * Logic and computational complexity
  * Logic and databases
  * Logic and games
  * Logic and machine learning
  * Logic and the web
  * Logic and types
  * Logic in artificial intelligence
  * Logic of distributed systems
  * Logic programming
  * Logical aspects of concurrency
  * Logical foundations of programming
  * Modal and temporal logics
  * Model checking
  * Non-monotonic reasoning
  * Ontologies and large knowledge bases
  * Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning
  * Program analysis
  * Rewriting
  * Satisfiability checking
  * Satisfiability modulo theories
  * Software verification
  * Specification using logic
  * Unification theory

Programme Chairs

  * Ken McMillan
  * Aart Middeldorp
  * Andrei Voronkov

Conference Chairs

  * Bernd Fischer
  * Geoff Sutcliffe

Workshop Chair
--
  * Laura Kovacs

Submission Details
--
Submissions of two kinds are welcome:

  * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. They can be
up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references,
but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not required to read).
  * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems,
report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented
systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style.

Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChar:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar19.
Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week
before the paper submission deadline (see below).

Participation
-
Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them
will be present at the conference.

Important Dates
---
  * Abstract submission: 22nd July
  * Paper submission: 2nd August
  * Notification of acceptance: 27th September
  * Camera-ready papers: 9th October
  * Conference: 14th-19th December

Workshop Proposals
--
LPAR-19 workshops will be held on 14th December either as one-day or half-day 
events. If you would like to propose a workshop for LPAR-19, please contact 
the workshop chair via email (lkov...@complang.tuwien.ac.at

(PN) CADE-24 Workshops

2013-02-11 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
Call for Papers

 Workshops at CADE-24 -- Lake Placid, New York, 9-10 June, 2013

Short CFPs for the following CADE-24 workshops are attached:

ADDCT  - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability 
ARSEC  - Automated Reasoning in Security
ARiSVe - Automated Reasoning in Software Verification
ESARAI - Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with AI
KInAR  - Knowledge Intensive Automated Reasoning
PxTP   - Proof Exchange for Theorem Proving

For the Workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) respective Information
will be distributed soon.

Moreover, CADE-24 will host a StarExec meeting.

= ADDCT ==

ADDCT - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability 

Decidability, and especially complexity and tractability of logical
theories is extremely important for a large number of
applications. Although general logical formalisms (such as predicate
logic or number theory) are undecidable, decidable theories or
decidable fragments thereof (sometimes even with low complexity) often
occur in mathematics, in program verification, in the verification of
reactive, real time or hybrid systems, as well as in databases and
ontologies. It is therefore important to identify such decidable
fragments and design efficient decision procedures for them. It is
equally important to have uniform methods (such as resolution,
rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, ...) which can be tuned to
provide algorithms with optimal complexity.

The goal of ADDCT is to bring together researchers interested in
- identifying (fragments of) logical theories which are decidable,
  identifying fragments thereof which have low complexity, and
  analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with
  uniform tools;
- analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities
  of combining decision procedures;
- efficient implementations for decidable fragments;
- application domains where decidability resp. tractability are
  crucial.

Full Paper submission: March 26, 2013
Notification: April 26, 2013
Final versions: May 10, 2013
Workshop: June 10, 2013

More details: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~sofronie/addct-2013/

= ARSEC ==

ARSEC - Automated Reasoning in Security 

Automated reasoning methods have become increasingly critical in many
areas of security, from analyzing cryptographic protocols for flaws to
analyzing access-control and privacy policies. This interaction is
proving to be mutually beneficial: automated reasoning methods are
finding new applications in security; and new automated reasoning
methods, developed for security applications, are enriching the tools
available to all areas of automated reasoning.

ARSEC will bring together researchers interested in automated
reasoning and security to present recent work (including work in
progress) and to discuss new ideas and trends in the field.  

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 
- Security Protocols
- Security Policies 
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Intrusion Detection
- Automated Reasoning techniques such as Paramodulation, Rewriting,
  Unification and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT).

Paper Submission: March 25th 
Workshop: June 9th 2013

More details: http://www.cs.albany.edu/~marshall/ARSEC/

= ARiSVe =

ARiSVe - Automated Reasoning in Software Verification

The focus of the workshop is application of automated reasoning in the
context of software verification, and, more generally, automation in
software verification. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
- specifics of verification-related automated reasoning tasks;
- efficient translation of high-level verification conditions
  to logical languages of automated reasoning tools;
- handling of the prover's feedback: proofs, models, answer terms;
- logical theories of interest for program verification, decision
  procedures, integration into existing ATP and SMT systems;
- combination of automated and user-assisted verification;
  tool presentations, tool comparisons, and benchmarks;
- experience reports on verification of complex algorithms and
  real-life software with the use of automated reasoning tools.

Invited speaker:  K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research)

Abstract submission deadline: March 8, 2013
Submission deadline: March 15, 2013
Notification: April 10, 2013
Camera ready versions due: May 10, 2013
Workshop: June 10, 2013

More details:  http://arisve2013.lri.fr 

= ESARAI =

ESARAI - Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with Artificial
Intelligence

The Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with Artificial
Intelligence (ESARAI) workshop will bring together two complementary
groups of researchers: researchers in Automated Reasoning who employ
Artificial Intelligence tools and 

(PN) CADE-24 Workshop CFPs

2013-01-31 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
Call for Papers

 Workshops at CADE-24 -- Lake Placid, New York, 9-10 June, 2013

Short CFPs for the following CADE-24 workshops are attached:

ADDCT  - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability 
ARiSVe - Automated Reasoning in Software Verification
ESARAI - Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with AI
KInAR  - Knowledge Intensive Automated Reasoning
PxTP   - Proof Exchange for Theorem Proving
StarExec

For the following two CADE-24 workshops respective information will be 
distributed soon: Methods for Modalities (M4M), Automated Reasoning in 
Crypto-Protocol Analysis

= ADDCT ==

ADDCT - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability 

Decidability, and especially complexity and tractability of logical
theories is extremely important for a large number of applications. 
Although general logical formalisms (such as predicate logic or number 
theory) are undecidable, decidable theories or decidable fragments 
thereof (sometimes even with low complexity) often occur in mathematics, 
in program verification, in the verification of reactive, real time 
or hybrid systems, as well as in databases and ontologies. It is 
therefore important to identify such decidable fragments and design 
efficient decision procedures for them. It is equally important to 
have uniform methods (such as resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent 
calculi, ...) which can be tuned to provide algorithms with optimal 
complexity.

The goal of ADDCT is to bring together researchers interested in
- identifying (fragments of) logical theories which are decidable,
  identifying fragments thereof which have low complexity, and
  analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with
  uniform tools;
- analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities
  of combining decision procedures;
- efficient implementations for decidable fragments;
- application domains where decidability resp. tractability are
  crucial.

Full Paper submission: March 26, 2013
Notification: April 26, 2013
Final versions: May 10, 2013
Workshop: June 10, 2013

More details: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~sofronie/addct-2013/

= ARiSVe =

ARiSVe - Automated Reasoning in Software Verification

The focus of the workshop is application of automated reasoning in the
context of software verification, and, more generally, automation in
software verification. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
  - specifics of verification-related automated reasoning tasks;
  - efficient translation of high-level verification conditions
to logical languages of automated reasoning tools;
  - handling of the prover's feedback: proofs, models, answer terms;
  - logical theories of interest for program verification, decision
procedures, integration into existing ATP and SMT systems;
  - combination of automated and user-assisted verification;
  - tool presentations, tool comparisons, and benchmarks;
  - experience reports on verification of complex algorithms and
real-life software with the use of automated reasoning tools.

Invited speaker:  K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research)

Abstract submission deadline: March 8, 2013
Submission deadline: March 15, 2013
Notification: April 10, 2013
Camera ready versions due: May 10, 2013
Workshop: June 10, 2013

More details:  http://arisve2013.lri.fr 

= ESARAI =

ESARAI - Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with Artificial
Intelligence

The Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with Artificial
Intelligence (ESARAI) workshop will bring together two complementary
groups of researchers: researchers in Automated Reasoning who employ
Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques to support their
automated reasoning research, and researchers in Artificial
Intelligence who employ Automated Reasoning tools and techniques to
support the artificial intelligence research. The workshop will offer
mutually beneficial interactions, through the exposure of the two
sides of the research to all. Additionally, the workshop will provide
a focussed forum where the many interfaces between these two research
fields can be presented and discussed. The workshop is soliciting
research, position, applications and system description papers on
combinations of AI and AR. Additionally, the workshop includes system
and application demonstrations. Demonstrations of systems and
applications described in paper presentations, and demonstrations of
systems and applications without an accompanying paper, are both
encouraged.  

Submission deadline - 22nd April
Notification of acceptance - 13th May
Final versions due - 20th May
Workshop - 9th or 10th June

More details: http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/ESARAI/

= KInAR ==

KInAR - 

(PN) CADE-24 CFP and Workshops

2012-11-05 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
Apologies for multiple copies
--

  CADE-24: CALL FOR PAPERS

 24th International Conference on Automated Deduction
  June 9-14, 2013, Lake Placid, New York, USA
  http://www.cade-24.info/
 Submission Deadline: 14 January 2013


 CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all
 aspects of automated deduction. The conference program features
 invited talks, paper presentations, system descriptions, workshops,
 tutorials, and system competitions, including the CADE ATP System
 Competition (CASC). CADE-24 invites high-quality submissions on
 the general topic of automated reasoning, including foundations,
 applications, implementations and practical experiences.

 * Logics of interest include: propositional, first-order,
 equational, classical, higher-order, non-classical, constructive,
 modal, temporal, many-valued, description, meta-logics,
 logical frameworks, type theory, set theory, as well as any
 combination thereof.

 * Paradigms of interest include: theorem proving, model building,
 constraint solving, computer algebra, model checking, proof
 checking, and their integrations.

 * Methods of interest include: resolution, superposition or
 paramodulation, completion, saturation, term rewriting,
 decision procedures and their combinations, model elimination,
 connection method, inverse method, tableaux, induction, proof
 planning, sequent calculi, natural deduction, as well as their
 supporting algorithms and data structures, including unification,
 matching, orderings, indexing, proof presentation and explanation,
 and search plans or strategies for inference control, including
 semantic guidance and AI-related methods.

 * Applications of interest include: analysis, verification and
 synthesis of software and hardware, formal methods, computer
 mathematics, computational logic, declarative programming,
 knowledge representation, deductive databases, natural language
 processing, computational linguistics, ontology reasoning,
 robotics, planning, and other areas of artificial intelligence.

 Detailed information on satellite events will be published in
 separate calls and on the conference website.


PUBLICATION AND SUBMISSION

 The proceedings of the conference will be published in the
 Springer LNAI/LNCS series. Submissions can be made in the
 categories 'regular paper' (max 15 pages) and 'system
 description' (max 7 pages). Full system descriptions that
 provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an
 implemented system can be submitted as regular papers.
 There is an expectation that proofs of theoretical results
 that do not fit in the page limit, executables of systems,
 and input data of experiments be available, via a reference
 to a website, or in an appendix of the paper. Reviewers will
 be encouraged to consider these additional materials, however
 it will be at their discretion to do it. All papers will
 be evaluated according to the highest standards in terms of
 originality, significance, technical quality, and readability.
 Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf
 format. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for
 publication elsewhere. Authors are strongly encouraged to
 produce their papers in LaTeX. Formatting instructions and the
 LNCS style files can be obtained via
 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
 The page for electronic submission via EasyChair is
 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade24.


IMPORTANT DATES

 Title and abstract must be submitted before the paper.

   Abstract submission: 7 January 2013
   Paper submission:   14 January 2013
   Notification:   11 March   2013
   Final version:   1 April   2013

   Workshops and Tutorials: 9-10 June 2013
   Competitions:9-14 June 2013
   Conference: 11-14 June 2013


ORGANIZERS

 Conference Co-Chairs: 
   Christopher A. Lynch   Clarkson University
   Neil V. Murray University at Albany - SUNY

 Program Committee Chair:
   Maria Paola Bonacina   Universita` degli Studi di Verona

 Workshop and Competition Chair:
   Christoph Benzmueller  Freie Universitaet Berlin

 Tutorial Chair:
   Peter Baumgartner  NICTA and Australian National University

 Publicity and Web Chair: 
   Grant Olney Passmore   Cambridge University and Edinburgh University


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alessandro Armando   Universita` degli Studi di Genova  FBK Trento, 
Italy
Peter BaumgartnerNICTA  Australian National University, Australia
Christoph BenzmuellerFreie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Maria Paola Bonacina Universita` degli Studi di Verona, Italy (Chair)
Cristina Borralleras Universitat de Vic, Spain
Thierry Boy De La Tour   Universite' de Grenoble, France
Evelyne 

(PN) CSL 2011 Call for Papers and Workshops

2011-01-11 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
--

  CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

   CSL 2011
   20th Annual Conference of the
European Association for Computer Science Logic
 Bergen, Norway
  September 12-15, 2011

GENERAL INFORMATION

   Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the
   European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL).
   The conference is intended for computer scientists whose
   research activities involve logic, as well as for logicians
   working on issues significant for computer science.
   The Ackermann Award for 2011 will be presented to the
   recipients at CSL 2011.


SCOPE

   Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
   - automated deduction and interactive theorem proving
   - constructive mathematics and type theory
   - equational logic and term rewriting
   - automata and games, game semantics
   - modal and temporal logic
   - model checking
   - decision procedures
   - logical aspects of computational complexity
   - finite model theory
   - computational proof theory
   - logic programming and constraints
   - lambda calculus and combinatory logic
   - domain theory,
   - categorical logic and topological semantics
   - database theory
   - specification, extraction and transformation of programs
   - logical foundations of programming paradigms
   - logical aspects of quantum computing
   - verification and program analysis
   - linear logic
   - higher-order logic
   - nonmonotonic reasoning

PROCEEDINGS

   The proceedings will be published in the series LIPIcs,
   Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics.
   Each paper accepted by the Program Committee (PC) must be
   presented at the conference by one of the authors,
   and a final copy must be prepared according to LIPIcs guidelines
   (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/).

PAPER SUBMISSION

   Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 15 pages
   in LIPIcs style presenting work not previously published.
   Papers are to be submitted through EasyChair:
   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csl2011. Submitted papers
   must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the PC to
   assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a technical
   appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion.
   Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written intro-
   duction which is directed at all members of the program committee.
   Submission is in two phases with dates as given below.
   Papers must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with
   refereed proceedings; The PC chair should be informed of closely
   related work submitted to a conference or journal by March 19, 2011.
   Papers authored or coauthored by members of the PC are not allowed.

WORKSHOPS

   Proposals for satellite workshops on more specialized topics are
   welcome and can be sent to cs...@eacsl.org

IMPORTANT DATES

   Submission of title and abstract:   March 27, 2011
   Submission of full paper:April 3, 2011
   Notification: May 30, 2011
   Final paper due: June 17, 2011
   Conference:  September 12-15, 2011

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

   Samson Abramsky (Oxford)
   Andrea Asperti (Bologna)
   Franz Baader (Dresden)
   Matthias Baaz (Vienna)
   Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam/Stanford)
   Marc Bezem (Bergen, chair)
   Patrick Blackburn (Nancy)
   Andreas Blass (Michigan)
   Jan van den Bussche (Hasselt)
   Thierry Coquand (Gothenburg)
   Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv)
   Valentin Goranko (Copenhagen)
   Erich Graedel (Aachen)
   Wiebe van der Hoek (Liverpool)
   Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen)
   Reinhard Kahle (Lisbon)
   Stephan Kreutzer (Oxford)
   Viktor Kuncak (Lausanne)
   Daniel Leivant (Indiana)
   Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam)
   Jean-Yves Marion (Nancy)
   Eugenio Moggi (Genova)
   Albert Rubio (Barcelona)
   Anton Setzer (Swansea)
   Alex Simpson (Edinburgh)
   John Tucker (Swansea)
   Pawel Urzyczyn (Warsaw)
   Helmut Veith (Vienna)
   Andrei Voronkov (Manchester)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

   Isolde Adler
   Marc Bezem
   Magne Haveraaen
   Michal Walicki
   Uwe Wolter

CONFERENCE ADDRESS

   CSL 2011, Department of Informatics,
   University of Bergen,
   P.O.Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
   http://www.eacsl.org/csl11

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(PN) CSL 2010 - 2nd Call for Papers

2010-03-23 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe

Second Call for Papers

CSL 2010
Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic

August 23-27, 2010, Brno, Czech Republic

http://mfcsl2010.fi.muni.cz/csl

Submission (title  abstract):  March 26, 2010
Submission (full paper):April 2, 2010
Notification:   May 17, 2010
Final papers:   June 6, 2010

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European
Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). The conference is intended
for computer scientists whose research activities involve logic, as well as
for logicians working on issues significant for computer science. The 19th
EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2010) and the 35th
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
(MFCS 2010) are federated and organized in parallel at the same place. The
federated MFCS  CSL 2010 conference has common plenary sessions and social
events for all participants. The technical program and proceedings of MFCS
2010 and CSL 2010 are prepared independently. The MFCS  CSL 2010 conference is
accompanied by satellite workshops on more specialized topics.

Suggested topics of interest include (but are not limited to) automated
deduction and interactive theorem proving, constructive mathematics and type
theory, equational logic and term rewriting, automata and games, modal and
temporal logic, model checking, decision procedures, logical aspects of
computational complexity, finite model theory, computational proof theory,
logic programming and constraints, lambda calculus and combinatory logic,
categorical logic and topological semantics, domain theory, database theory,
specification, extraction and transformation of programs, logical foundations
of programming paradigms, verification and program analysis, linear logic,
higher-order logic, nonmonotonic reasoning.

Proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and
Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of the LNCS series. Each paper accepted by
the Programme Committee must be presented at the conference by one of the
authors, and a final copy must be prepared according to Springer's guidelines.
Submitted papers must be in Springer's LNCS style and of no more than 15 pages,
presenting work not previously published. They must not be submitted
concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs
should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal
by March 19, 2010. Papers authored or coauthored by members of the Programme
Committee are not allowed.

Papers will be submitted through the conference website. Submitted papers 
must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme 
Committee to assess the merits of the papers. Full proofs may appear in a 
technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors 
are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is 
directed at all members of the program committee.

The Ackermann Award for 2010 will be presented to the recipients at CSL'10.

There will be a Special Issue of the Journal LMCS (Logical Methods in Computer
Science) based on selected papers of CSL 2010.

*** Programme Committee

Armin Biere (Linz)
Lars Birkedal (ITU, Denmark)
Nikolaj Bjorner (Redmond)
Manuel Bodirsky (Paris)
Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw)
Iliano Cervesato (Doha)
Krishnendu Chatterjee (Klosterneuburg)
Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna)
Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, co-chair)
Azadeh Farzan (Toronto)
Georg Gottlob (Oxford)
Martin Hofmann (Munich)
Orna Kupferman (Jerusalem)
Christof Loeding (Aachen)
Joao Marques-Silva (Dublin)
Tobias Nipkow (Munich)
Prakash Panangaden (Montreal)
R. Ramanujam (Chennai)
Simona Ronchi della Rocca (Torino)
Alex Simpson (Edinburgh)
Pascal Tesson (Quebec)
Helmut Veith (Vienna, co-chair)
Yde Venema (Amsterdam)


*** CSL/MFCS Plenary Speakers

David Basin (Zurich)
Herbert Edelsbrunner (Klosterneuburg)
Erich Gr?adel (Aachen)
Joseph Sifakis (Gieres)


*** CSL Invited Speakers

Peter O?Hearn (London)
Jan Krajicek (Prague)
Andrei Krokhin (Durham)
Andrey Rybalchenko (Munich)
Viktor Kuncak (Lausanne)


*** Organizing Committee

Jan Bouda (Brno, chair)


*** Conference address

MFCSL 2010
Faculty of Informatics
Masaryk University,
Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno
Czech Republic

mfcsl2...@fi.muni.cz


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(PN) LPAR-17 in Indonesia - Calls for Papers and Workshop Proposals

2010-03-12 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
   ===
LPAR-17
 CALL FOR PAPERS  
   CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
   ===


  The 17th International Conference on 
Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning


 Yogyakarta, Indonesia  -  October 10th-15th, 2010
http://www.computational-logic.org/lpar-17/Home.html

The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial 
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of 
the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, 
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to 
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to 
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 17th LPAR
will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer 
Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. 
At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the 
formal semantics of programming languages. At the other extreme, it drives 
billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all 
kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm, but it is also the 
quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time 
critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link 
implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated 
theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge 
representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic 
has acquired a central role in Computer Science education.

Topics
--
New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. 
Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open 
questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   * Automated reasoning
   * Verification
   * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants
   * Model checking
   * Implementations of logic
   * Satisfiability modulo theories
   * Rewriting and unification
   * Logic programming
   * Satisfiability checking
   * Constraint programming
   * Decision procedures
   * Logic and games
   * Logic and the Web
   * Ontologies and large knowledge bases
   * Logic and databases
   * Modal and temporal logics
   * Program analysis
   * Foundations of security
   * Description logics
   * Non-monotonic reasoning
   * Uncertainty reasoning
   * Logics for vague and inconsistent data
   * Specification using logic
   * Logic in artificial intelligence
   * Logic and types
   * Logical foundations of programming
   * Logical aspects of concurrency
   * Logic and computational complexity
   * Knowledge representation and reasoning
   * Logic of distributed systems

Programme Chairs

   * Chris Fermueller
   * Andrei Voronkov

Submission Details
--
Submissions of two kinds are welcome:

   * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. They can be 
 up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references, 
 but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not required to read).
   * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, 
 report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented 
 systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style.

Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChar:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar17. Prospective authors are 
required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper 
submission deadline (see below). 

Workshop Proposals
--
LPAR-17 workshops will be held on October 10, either as one-day or half-day 
events. If you would like to propose a workshop for LPAR-17, please contact 
the workshop chair, Laura Kovacs, via email, by the proposal deadline (see
below).

Workshop proposals should contain the following data:
   * Name of the workshop.
   * Brief description of the workshop, including workshop topics.
   * Valid web address of the workshop.
   * Contact information of the workshop organizers.
   * An estimate of the audience size.
   * Proposed format of the workshop (for example, regular talks, tool demos,
 poster presentations, etc.).
   * Duration of the workshop (one-day or half-day).
   * Potential invited speakers (if any).
   * Procedures for selecting papers and participants.
   * Special technical or AV needs.

Note that workshops will have to be financially 

(PN) LPAR-16 deadline extended

2010-01-08 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
 CALL FOR PAPERS

  LPAR-16
   
 16th International Conference on Logic for
 Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning

   April 25 - May 1, 2010
   Dakar, Senegal
http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/



SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 13th JANUARY


The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial 
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of 
the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, 
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to 
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to 
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 16th 
edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal.

Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer 
Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. 
At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the 
formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions 
of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic 
is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential 
specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems 
to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and 
specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and 
model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and 
artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a 
central role in Computer Science education.

Topics
--
New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. 
Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open 
questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   * Automated reasoning
   * Verification
   * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants
   * Model checking
   * Implementations of logic
   * Satisfiability modulo theories
   * Rewriting and unification
   * Logic programming
   * Satisfiability checking
   * Constraint programming
   * Decision procedures
   * Logic and the Web
   * Ontologies and large knowledge bases
   * Logic and databases
   * Modal and temporal logics
   * Program analysis
   * Foundations of security
   * Description logics
   * Non-monotonic reasoning
   * Specification using logics
   * Logic in artificial intelligence
   * Logic and types
   * Logical foundations of programming
   * Logical aspects of concurrency
   * Logic and computational complexity
   * Knowledge representation and reasoning
   * Logic of distributed systems

Programme Chairs

   * Ed Clarke
   * Andrei Voronkov

Programme Committee
---
   * Rajeev Alur
   * Matthias Baaz
   * Peter Baumgartner
   * Armin Biere
   * Nikolaj Bjorner
   * Iliano Cervesato
   * Agata Ciabattoni
   * Hubert Comon-Lundh
   * Nachum Dershowitz
   * Juergen Giesl
   * Guillem Godoy
   * Georg Gottlob
   * Jean Goubault-Larrecq
   * Reiner Haehnle
   * Claude Kirchner
   * Michael Kohlhase
   * Konstantin Korovin
   * Laura Kovacs
   * Orna Kupferman
   * Leonid Libkin
   * Aart Middeldorp
   * Luke Ong
   * Frank Pfenning
   * Andreas Podelski
   * Andrey Rybalchenko
   * Helmut Seidl
   * Geoff Sutcliffe
   * Ashish Tiwari
   * Toby Walsh
   * Christoph Weidenbach

Submission Details
--
Submissions of two kinds are welcome:

  * Regular papers containing new results;
  * Experimental papers describing implementation or evaluation of systems.

All submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a 
journal or another conference. The page limit for all papers is 15 pages 
using the EasyChair class file that can be obtained at 
http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip.

All papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the Web page

  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dlpar16

Important Dates
---
   * Paper submission: January 13, 2010
   * Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2010
   * Proceedings version: March 15, 2010
   * Short papers submission: March 17, 2010
   * Short papers notification: March 25, 2010
   * Conference: April 25-May 1, 2010


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(PN) IJCAR in Australia, 1 month to go

2008-07-15 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
---
  IJCAR 2008 - The 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
 Sydney, Australia, 10th - 15th August, 2008
http://2008.IJCAR.org

  ONLY ONE MONTH TO GO ... DOWN UNDER

---
Call for Participation
--
IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all aspects of automated
reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. IJCAR 2008
is the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, and is a
merger of the following leading conferences and workshops:
+ CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction),
+ FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems),
+ FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving)
+ TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods)

Registration, accomodation, and travel/visa information is on the IJCAR 2008
web pages. - Book your flight to Sydney today! -
---
Scientific Program
--
+ Presentation of 4 invited talks
  - Hubert Comon-Lundh, Nachum Dershowitz, Aarti Gupta, Carsten Lutz
+ Presentation of 26 regular research papers
+ Presentation of 13 system descriptions
+ Presentation of the Herbrand Award to Prof. Edmund Clarke, CMU.
+ Four workshops, four tutorials, the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC-J4)
---
Social Events
-
+ Welcome reception at the conference hotel.
+ Excursion to the amazing Blue Mountains
+ Conference banquet
+ CASQ-J4 - the CADE Squash Competition
---
Contact: Peter Baumgartner (conference chair) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(PN) IJCAR 2008 in Australia

2008-06-17 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
---
  IJCAR 2008 - The 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
 Sydney, Australia, 10th - 15th August, 2008
http://2008.IJCAR.org
---
Call for Participation
--
IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all aspects of automated
reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. IJCAR 2008
is the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, and is a
merger of the following leading conferences and workshops:
+ CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction),
+ FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems),
+ FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving)
+ TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods)

Registration, accomodation, and travel/visa information is on the IJCAR 2008
web pages. Book your flight to Sydney today!
---
Scientific Program
--
+ Presentation of 4 invited talks
+ Presentation of 26 regular research papers
+ Presentation of 13 system descriptions
+ Presentation of the Herbrand Award to Prof. Edmund Clarke, CMU.
+ Four workshops, four tutorials, the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC-J4)
---
Invited Speakers

+ Hubert Comon-Lundh
  Challenges in the Automated Verification of Security Protocols
+ Nachum Dershowitz
  Canonicity
+ Aarti Gupta
  Software Verification: Roles and Challenges for Automatic Decision Procedures
+ Carsten Lutz
  Query Answering in Description Logics
---
Workshops, Tutorials

There will be four workshops and four tutorials before IJCAR, 10th and 11th
August. See their individual WWW pages, linked from the IJCAR WWW pages for 
more information.
+ Workshops
  - The 5th International Verification Workshop (VERIFY'08)
  - Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning/
Evaluation of Systems for Higher Order Logic (PAAR/ESHOL)
  - Complexity, Expressibility,  Decidability in Automated Reasoning (CEDAR'08)
  - Constraints in Formal Verification
+ Tutorials
  - Introduction to Nominal Isabelle - Christian Urban
  - Formal Methods in Use at Galois, Inc. - Joe Hurd
  - SMT Solvers in Program Analysis and Verification - Nikolaj Bjorner and
Leonardo de Moura
  - Coalgebraic Logics and Applications (COALA) - Dirk Pattinson
---
Social Events
-
+ Welcome reception at the conference hotel.
+ Excursion to the amazing Blue Mountains
+ Conference banquet
+ CASQ-J4 - the CADE Squash Competition
All are included in the conference package, as well as refreshment breaks and 
lunches for all main conference days.
---
Student Travel Awards
-
Two award schemes that provide sponsorhips to support student attendance at
IJCAR are available. See the IJCAR 2008 WWW pages for details. We are also 
organizing room sharing at the conference hotel.
---
Contact: Peter Baumgartner (conference chair) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---

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(PN) LPAR submission deadline extended

2008-05-30 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
, or to compare
   implemented systems. They can be at most 8 pages long in the LNCS style.

Both  types  of  papers  can be electronically   submitted by visiting
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar2008.  Prospective authors  are
required to   register  a title andan abstract a  week  before   the paper
submission deadline (see below).

As with the previous editions, the proceedings of LPAR'08 will be published in
Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes   in Computer Science   series. They  will  be
available at the conference.

In   keeping with  the  tradition  of LPAR, researchers   and  practioners are
encouraged to  report on interesting  work in progress by submitting abstracts
of up  to 5 LNCS  pages, to  be   selected for  a short-paper  session.  These
abstracts will not be printed  in the proceedings of LPAR'08  and they have  a
separate submission deadline (see below).


Participation
-

Authors  of accepted papers  are required to ensure that  at least one of them
will  be present at the  conference. Papers that do not  adhere to this policy
will be removed from the proceedings.


Important Dates (updated)
-

Abstract submission deadline: 06 June 2008 - STRICT!
Paper submission deadline:16 June 2008 - STRICT!
Notification of acceptance:   29 August 2008
Camera-ready papers:  19 September 2008
Short paper submission deadline:  26 September 2008
LPAR'08 Workshops:22 November 2008
LPAR 2008:23-27 November 2008


Program Committee
-

 * Franz Baader,   TU Dresden (Germany)
 * Matthias Baaz,  TU Vienna (Austria)
 * Peter Baumgartner,  National ICT (Australia)
 * Josh Berdine,   MSR Cambridge (UK)
 * Armin Biere,Johannes Kepler University (Austria)
 * Iliano Cervesato,   Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) - chair
 * Sagar Chaki,Carnegie Mellon SEI (US)
 * Hubert Comon-Lundh, ENS Cachan (France)
 * Javier Esparza, TU Munich (Germany)
 * Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona (Italy)
 * Jürgen Giesl,   RWTH Aachen (Germany)
 * Orna Grumberg,  Technion (Israel)
 * Thomas Henzinger,   EPFL (Switzerland)
 * Joxan Jaffar,   NUS (Singapore)
 * Claude Kirchner,INRIA  LORIA (France)
 * Stephan Kreutzer,   Oxford University (UK)
 * Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel)
 * Alexander Leitsch,  TU Vienna (Austria)
 * Nicola Leone,   University of Calabria (Italy)
 * Heiko Mantel,   TU Darmstadt (Germany)
 * Cathy Meadows,  Naval Research Laboratory (US)
 * Aart Middeldorp,University of Innsbruck (Austria)
 * John Mitchell,  Stanford University (US)
 * Andreas Podelski,   University of Freiburg (Germany)
 * Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi (India)
 * Alexander Razborov, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
 * Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI-SWS (Germany)
 * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)
 * Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam (Germany)
 * Carsten Schürmann,  IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
 * Helmut Seidl,   TU Munich (Germany)
 * Henny Sipma,Stanford University (US)
 * Geoff Sutcliffe,University of Miami (US)
 * Ashish Tiwari,  SRI (US)
 * Helmut Veith,   TU Darmstadt (Germany) - chair
 * Andrei Voronkov,University of Manchester (UK) - chair


Contact Information
---

Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web page:  http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08

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(PN) LPAR Call for Papers

2008-05-22 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
 Lecture Notes   in Computer Science   series. They  will  be
available at the conference.

In   keeping with  the  tradition  of LPAR, researchers   and  practioners are
encouraged to  report on interesting  work in progress by submitting abstracts
of up  to 5 LNCS  pages, to  be   selected for  a short-paper  session.  These
abstracts will not be printed  in the proceedings of LPAR'08  and they have  a
separate submission deadline (see below).


Participation
-

Authors  of accepted papers  are required to ensure that  at least one of them
will  be present at the  conference. Papers that do not  adhere to this policy
will be removed from the proceedings.


Important Dates
---

Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2008
Paper submission deadline:06 June 2008
Notification of acceptance:   29 August 2008
Camera-ready papers:  19 September 2008
Short paper submission deadline:  26 September 2008
LPAR'08 Workshops:22 November 2008
LPAR 2008:23-27 November 2008


Program Committee
-

 * Franz Baader,   TU Dresden (Germany)
 * Matthias Baaz,  TU Vienna (Austria)
 * Peter Baumgartner,  National ICT (Australia)
 * Josh Berdine,   MSR Cambridge (UK)
 * Armin Biere,Johannes Kepler University (Austria)
 * Iliano Cervesato,   Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) - chair
 * Sagar Chaki,Carnegie Mellon SEI (US)
 * Hubert Comon-Lundh, ENS Cachan (France)
 * Javier Esparza, TU Munich (Germany)
 * Orna Grumberg,  Technion (Israel)
 * Thomas Henzinger,   EPFL (Switzerland)
 * Joxan Jaffar,   NUS (Singapore)
 * Juergen Giesl,  RWTH Aachen (Germany)
 * Claude Kirchner,INRIA  LORIA (France)
 * Stephan Kreutzer,   Oxford University (UK)
 * Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel)
 * Alexander Leitsch,  TU Vienna (Austria)
 * Nicola Leone,   University of Calabria (Italy)
 * Cathy Meadows,  Naval Research Laboratory (US)
 * Heiko Mantel,   TU Darmstadt (Germany)
 * John Mitchell,  Stanford University (US)
 * Aart Middeldorp,University of Innsbruck (Austria)
 * Andreas Podelski,   University of Freiburg (Germany)
 * Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi (India)
 * Alexander Razborov, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
 * Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI-SWS (Germany)
 * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)
 * Carsten Schuermann, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
 * Helmut Seidl,   TU Munich (Germany)
 * Henny Sipma,Stanford University (US)
 * Geoff Sutcliffe,University of Miami (US)
 * Ashish Tiwari,  SRI (US)
 * Helmut Veith,   TU Darmstadt (Germany) - chair
 * Andrei Voronkov,University of Manchester (UK) - chair


Contact Information
---

Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web page:  http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08

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(PN) Automated Reasoning in Mathematics

2008-05-02 Thread Geoff Sutcliffe
---

 The CICM Workshop on 
Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning for Mathematics (ESARM)

  Call for Papers - Submission Deadline - Monday 5th May
  --

The CICM 2008 Workshop on Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning for 
Mathematics (ESARM) will be held as part of the Conferences on Intelligent 
Computer Mathematics, in Birmingham, United Kingdom, 26th July - 2nd August, 
2008. See the WWW page ...
http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/ESARM/
This workshop will bring together practioners and researchers who are 
concerned with the development and application of automated reasoning for 
mathematics. The workshop will discuss only really running systems and 
applications, and not theoretical ideas that have not yet been translated 
into working software. More details are on the WWW page.

Submission of papers for presentation at the workshop, and proposals for 
system and application demonstrations at the workshop, are now invited. 
Submissions will be refereed, and a balanced program of high-quality 
contributions will be selected. The selected contributions will be printed 
as workshop proceedings, and will also be published electronically. The 
submission deadline is 5th May, notification of acceptance is on 13th June, 
and final versions are due 7th July. Submission details are on the WWW page.

We hope that you will submit a paper, and be part of ESARM.

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