[FOM] WoLLIC 2008 - Call for Participation

[by way of Martin Davis <martin@eipye.com>]

                             Call for Participation

           15th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
                                 (WoLLIC 2008)
                         http://wollic.org/wollic2008/
                            Heriot-Watt University
                              Edinburgh, Scotland
                                July 1-4, 2008

          >>>>>>  SPECIAL: There will be a screening of George Csicsery's
                  "JULIA ROBINSON AND HILBERT'S TENTH PROBLEM"
                  http://zalafilms.com/films/juliarobinson.html
                  with kind permission of the film director

      WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research
      involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural
      language and reasoning.  Each meeting includes invited talks and
      tutorials as well as contributed papers.

      The Fifteenth WoLLIC will be held in the campus of Heriot-Watt Univ,
      Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 1 to July 4, 2008. It is sponsored by
      the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure
      and Applied Logics (IGPL), the European Association for Logic,
      Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for
      Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de
      Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL).

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
      Research contributions will be presented on all pertinent subjects,
      with particular emphasis in cross-disciplinary topics: foundations of
      computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms;
      broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and
      hardware development; logical approach to natural language and
reasoning;
      logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of
      information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection.

INVITED SPEAKERS
      Olivier Danvy (BRICS)
      Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, UK)
      Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan)
      Sam Lomonaco (U Maryland Baltimore)
      Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U)
      Henry Towsner (CMU)
      Nikolay Vereshchagin (Moscow)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
      Lev Beklemishev (Utrecht)
      Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion)
      Xavier Caicedo (U Los Andes, Colombia)
      Mary Dalrymple (Oxford)
      Martin Escardo (Birmingham)
      Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary, U London) (Chair)
      Achim Jung (Birmingham)
      Louis Kauffman (Maths, U Ill at Chicago)
      Ulrich Kohlenbach (Darmstadt)
      Leonid Libkin (Edinburgh U)
      Giuseppe Longo (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris)
      Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
      Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA)
      Andre Scedrov (Maths, U Penn)
      Valentin Shehtman (Inst for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow)
      Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt U, Scotland)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
      Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Brasilia, Brazil)
      Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt U, Scotland, co-chair)
      Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil)
      Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair)

STEERING COMMITTEE
      S. Abramsky, J. van Benthem, J. Halpern, W. Hodges, D. Leivant,
      A. Macintyre, G. Mints, R. de Queiroz

WEB PAGE
      wollic.org/wollic2008/

INVITED TALKS
      Inter-Deriving Semantic Artifacts for Object-Oriented Programming
      Olivier Danvy and Jaco Johannsen

      On the Descriptive Complexity of Linear Algebra
      Anuj Dawar

      Talks on Quantum Computing
      Sam Lomonaco

      On game semantics of the affine and intuitionistic logics
      Ilya Mezhirov and Nikolay Vereshchagin

CONTRIBUTED TALKS
      Conjunctive Grammars and Alternating Pushdown Automata
      Tamar Aizikowitz and Michael Kaminski

      Expressive Power and Decidability for Memory Logics
      Carlos Areces, Diego Figueira, Santiago Figueira and Sergio Mera

      Reasoning with Uncertainty by Nmatrix-Metric Semantics
      Ofer Arieli and Anna Zamansky

      A Propositional Dynamic Logic for CCS Programs
      Mario Benevides and Luis Menasche Schechter

      Towards Ontology Evolution in Physics
      Alan Bundy and Michael Chan

      Interval Additive Generators of Interval T-Norms
      Gracaliz Dimuro, Benjamin Bedregal, Renata Reiser and Regivan Nunes

      PDL as a Logic of Belief Revision
      Jan van Eijck and Yanjing Wang

      Time Complexity and Convergence Analysis of Domain Theoretic Picard
Method
      Amin Farjudian and Michal Konecny

      Matching and Alpha-Equivalence for Nominal Terms with Variables and
      Permutations
      Christophe Calves and Maribel Fernandez

      On the formal semantics of IF-like logics
      Santiago Figueira, Daniel Gorin and Rafael Grimson

      On a graph calculus for algebras of relations
      Renata de Freitas, Paulo A.S. Veloso, Sheila R.M. Veloso and Petrucio
      Viana

      One-and-a-halfth order terms: Curry-Howard and incomplete derivations
      Murdoch Gabbay and Dominic Mulligan

      Labelled calculi for Lukasiewicz logics
      Didier Galmiche and Yakoub Salhi

      On Characteristic Constants of Theories Defined by Kolmogorov Complexity
      Shingo Ibuka, Makoto Kikuchi and Hirotaka Kikyo

      An infinitely-often one-way function based on an average-case assumption
      Edward Hirsch and Dmitry Itsykson

      Adversary lower bounds for nonadaptive quantum algorithms
      Pascal Koiran, Juergen Landes Natacha Portier and Penghui Yao

      On Second-Order Monadic Groupoidal Quantifiers
      Juha Kontinen and Heribert Vollmer

      Using alpha-CTL to specify complex planning goals
      Silvio Lago Pereira and Leliane Nunes de Barros

      Hyperintensional Questions
      Carl Pollard

      Inference Processes for Quantified Predicate Knowledge
      Jeff Paris and Soroush Rafiee Rad

      Skolem theory and Generalized Quantifiers
      Livio Robaldo
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