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8th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications W R L A 2010 Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-21, 2010 http://wrla10.ifi.uio.no/ The workshop will be held in conjunction with ETAPS 2010 12th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software March 20 - 28, 2010 http://www.etaps10.cs.ucy.ac.cy *** Proceedings to be published as a Springer LNCS volume *** *** Special issue of The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming *** WRLA 2010 IMPORTANT DATES December 15, 2009 Deadline for submission January 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance Early February, 2010 Final version in electronic form March 20-21, 2010 Workshop in Paphos AIMS AND SCOPE Rewriting logic (RL) is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication and interaction. It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in various application fields. It also has good properties as a metalogical framework for representing logics. In recent years, several languages based on RL (ASF+SDF, CafeOBJ, ELAN, Maude) have been designed and implemented. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers with a common interest in RL and its applications, and to give them the opportunity to present their recent works, discuss future research directions, and exchange ideas. The topics of the workshop comprise, but are not limited to: - foundations and models of RL; - languages based on RL, including implementation issues; - RL as a logical framework; - RL as a semantic framework, including applications of RL to object-oriented systems, concurrent and/or parallel systems, interactive, distributed, open ended and mobile systems, specification of languages and systems; - use of RL to provide rigorous support for model-based software engineering; - formalisms related to RL, including real-time and probabilistic extensions of RL, tile logic, rewriting approaches to behavioral specifications; - verification techniques for RL specifications, including equational and coherence methods, and verification of properties expressed in first-order, higher-order, modal and temporal logics; - comparisons of RL with existing formalisms having analogous aims; - application of RL to specification and analysis of distributed systems, physical systems. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Artur Boronat University of Leicester Mark van den Brand Technical University of Eindhoven Roberto Bruni Universita di Pisa Manuel Clavel IMDEA Software and Universidad Complutense de Madrid Francisco Duran Universidad de Malaga Steven Eker SRI International, Menlo Park Santigo Escobar Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Kokichi Futatsugi JAIST, Tatsunokuchi Claude Kirchner INRIA Research Center Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest Alexander Knapp Universität Augsburg Dorel Lucanu Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi Salvador Lucas Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Narciso Marti-Oliet Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ugo Montanari Universita di Pisa Pierre-Etienne Moreau INRIA Lorraine & LORIA, Nancy and Ecoles des Mines, Nancy Thomas Noll RWTH Aachen Peter Olveczky (chair) University of Oslo Grigore Rosu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mark-Oliver Stehr SRI International, Menlo Park Carolyn Talcott SRI International, Menlo Park Eelco Visser Delft University of Technology SUBMISSIONS The proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate reference to and comparison with related work. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 15 pages, should be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers and should be submitted electronically using Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla10 Authors of selected papers will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in special issue of The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming. THE 3rd REWRITE ENGINE COMPETITION: There will also be a rewrite engine competition at WRLA'10. If you are a rewrite engine developer, you are welcome to participate. A paper will be published in the proceedings, with all the tool participants as authors, where the preoblems and the results of the competition will be discussed. Feel free to contact the WRLA'10 rewrite engine competition organizer, Francisco Duran for questions or further clarifications. CONTACT INFORMATION For more information, please contact the organizers pete...@ifi.uio.no or visit the workshop web page http://wrla10.ifi.uio.no/