[FOM] LICS Newsletter 125

Stephan Kreutzer stephan.kreutzer at comlab.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jan 7 15:15:46 EST 2010


Newsletter 125
January 1, 2010

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* NEWS
   LICS deadline
* DEADLINES
   Upcoming deadlines
* CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
   LICS 2010 - Final Call for Papers
   IJCAR 2010 - Call for Papers
   ITP 2010 - Call for Papers
   CIE 2010 - Call for Papers
   GALOP 2010 - Call for Papers
   ICLP 2010 - Call for Papers
   MEMOCODE 2010 - Call for Papers
   CSL 2010 - Call for Papers
   ASPOCP 2010 - Call for Papers
   CLODEM 2010 - Call for Papers
   HYLO 2010 - Call for Papers
* BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
   Verification of Sequential and Concurrent 
Programs by Apt, de Boer and Olderog
* AWARDS
   ACKERMANN AWARD 2010 - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
   2 Ph.D. Studentships at Oxford and Paris
   CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN SOFTWARE AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING





NEWS
* A happy new year to all of you who have celebrated the change of
   year just now.
* Remember that the LICS abstract deadline is approaching fast.
   I am sure you are all busy preparing your LICS submissions, so do
   not forget to register your abstract before or on the 10th of January.






DEADLINES
* LICS
   10.1.2010
   http://www.floc-conference.org/index.html
* CAV 2010
   11.1.2010
   http://www.floc-conference.org/index.html
* CSF
   9.2.2010
   http://www.floc-conference.org/index.html
* IJCAR
   15.1.2010
   http://www.floc-conference.org/index.html
* ITP
   15.1.2010
   http://www.floc-conference.org/index.html
* RTA
   15.1.2010
   http://www.floc-conference.org/index.html
* CiE
   20.1.2010
   http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/
* GALOP 2010
   25.1.2010
   http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/olivier.laurent/galop10/
* ICLP
   26.1.2010
   http://www.floc-conference.org/index.html
* CSL 2010
   26.3.2010
   http://www.mat.uc.pt/~csl/
* ASPOCP 2010
   26.3.2010
   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/proj/aspocp10/
* CLODEM 2010
   http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/CLODEM2010/CLODEM2010.html
   27.3.2010
* HYLO 2010
   http://hylocore.ruc.dk/HyLo2010.html
   30.3.2010




TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2010)
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                July 11-14, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
              http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics10/
* Important Dates:
   Titles & Short Abstracts Due: January 10, 2010
   Extended Abstracts  Due:      January 17, 2010
   Author Notification:          March 21, 2010
   Camera-ready Papers Due:      April 29, 2010
* The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and
   practical topics in computer science that relate to logic broadly
   construed.  We invite submissions on topics that fit under that
   rubric.  Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for
   submissions include: automata theory in connection with logic,
   automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and
   distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive
   mathematics, database theory, decidable theories, domain theory,
   finite model theory, first-order logic, formal aspects of program
   analysis, formal methods, game semantics, higher-order logic, hybrid
   systems, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logical aspects
   of computational complexity, logical frameworks, logics in artificial
   intelligence, logics of programs, logic programming, modal and
   temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process
   calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, reasoning about
   security, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification.
   We welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as bioinformatics and
   quantum computation, if they have a substantial connection with logic.
* LICS 2010 will be organized as part of the "Fifth Federated Logic
   Conference" (FLoC) 2010 to be held in Edinburgh from July 9 to 21.
   For information regarding FLoC 2010 and the participating meetings,
   please visit http://www.floc-conference.org.
* Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of
   about 100 words  before submitting the extended abstract of the
   paper. All submissions will be electronic.
* All deadlines are at midnight (GMT); late submissions will not be possible.
   Submission will be open at
      http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2010
* Short Presentations:
   LICS 2010 will have a session of short (10 minute) presentations.
   This session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student
   projects, and relevant research being published elsewhere; other brief
   communications may be acceptable.  Submissions for these
   presentations, in the form of short abstracts (1 or 2 pages long),
   should be entered at the LICS 2010 submission site in a time frame to
   be advertised on the LICS 2010 website.
* Kleene Award for Best Student Paper:
   An award in honour of the late S. C. Kleene will be given for the best
   student paper, as judged by the program committee.  Details concerning
   eligibility criteria and procedure for consideration for this award
   will be posted at the LICS website.  The committee may decline to make
   the award or split it among several papers.
* Program Committee:
   Program Chair:
    Jean-Pierre Jouannaud
    INRIA and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    jeanpierre.jouannaud at gmail.com
   Program Committee:
    Parosh Abdullah, Uppsala University
    Albert Atserias, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya
    Franz Baader, Technische Universitaet Dresden
    Krishnendu Chatterjee, IST, Vienna
    Yijia Chen, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
    Veronique Cortier, CNRS and Universite de Nancy
    Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh
    Martin Escardo, University of Birmingham
    Javier Esparza, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
    Amy Felty, University of Ottawa
    Herman Geuvers, Radboud University Nijmegen
    Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham
    Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University
    Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, INRIA and Tsinghua Univ.
    Naoki Kobayashi, Tohoku University, Sendai
    Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
    Stephane Lengrand, CNRS and Polytechnique
    Jose Meseguer, UI at Urbana-Champaign
    John Mitchell, Stanford University
    Eugenio Moggi, Universita di Genova
    Anca Muscholl, Universite de Bordeaux
    Mogens Nielsen, University of Aarhus
    Makoto Tatsuta, NII, Tokyo
    Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen
    Pawel Urzyczyn, Warsaw University
    Victor Vianu, UC at San Diego








THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED REASONING (IJCAR 2010)
                           Call for Papers
                   Edinburgh, UK, July 16-19, 2010
     as part of FLoC 2010 - Federated Logic Conference
                  http://www.floc-conference.org/
* Important dates:
   Abstract submission deadline:                     January 15, 2010
   Paper submission deadline:                        January 22, 2010
   Notification of paper decisions:                    March 15, 2010
   Final version of papers due:                        April 19, 2010
   Conference dates:                                 July 16-19, 2010
* IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics
   in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical program will consist
   of presentations of high-quality original research papers,
   system descriptions, and invited talks.
* IJCAR 2010 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning:
   CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction),
   FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems),
   FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving), and
   TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods)
* IJCAR 2010 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated
   reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications.
   Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction
   systems are solicited.
* The proceedings of IJCAR 2010 will be published by Springer-Verlag in
   the LNAI/LNCS series.
   Submission details: Submission is electronic, through
    https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ijcar2010
* Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs"
   format, which can be obtained from
        http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
   The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, and 7 pages for system
   descriptions.
* Program co-chairs:
   Juergen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
   Reiner Haehnle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
* Conference chair:
   Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, UK)
* Student Travel Awards:
   Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the
   conference. Details will be published in March 2010.
* Program Committee:
  Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France)
  Alessandro Armando (University of Genova, Italy)
  Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
  Peter Baumgartner (NICTA Canberra, Australia)
  Bernhard Beckert (University of Koblenz, Germany)
  Christoph Benzmueller (International University Bruchsal, Germany)
  Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA)
  Maria Paola Bonacina (Universita` degli Studi di Verona, Italy)
  Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
  Christian Fermueller (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
  Ulrich Furbach (University of Koblenz, Germany)
  Didier Galmiche (LORIA Nancy, France)
  Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy)
  Martin Giese (University of Oslo, Norway)
  Juergen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
  Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia)
  Bernhard Gramlich (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
  Reiner Haehnle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
  Ullrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool, UK)
  Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA)
  Viktor Kuncak (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research, USA)
  Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany)
  George Metcalfe (University of Bern, Switzerland)
  Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  Neil Murray (University at Albany - SUNY, USA)
  Tobias Nipkow (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
  Nicola Olivetti (LSIS, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
  Nicolas Peltier (LIG Grenoble, France)
  Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada)
  Andre Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  Christophe Ringeissen (LORIA Nancy, France)
  Albert Rubio (UPC Barcelona, Spain)
  Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester, UK)
  Carsten Schuermann (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy)
  Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI-INF Saarbruecken, Germany)
  Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA)
  Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
  Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA)
  Ashish Tiwari (SRI International, USA)
  Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester, UK)
  Christoph Weidenbach (MPI-INF Saarbruecken, Germany)











CONFERENCE ON INTERACTIVE THEOREM PROVING (ITP 2010)
                   Call for Papers
          11-14 July 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland
       http://www.floc-conference.org/ITP-cfp.html
* Important dates (midnight GMT):
   Abstract submission deadline:         15 January 2010
   Paper submission deadline:            22 January 2010
   Notification of paper decisions:        15 March 2010
   Camera-ready papers due from authors:    9 April 2010
   Conference dates:                     11-14 July 2010
* ITP brings together researchers working in all areas of interactive
   theorem proving.  It combines the communities of two venerable
   meetings: the TPHOLs conference and the ACL2 workshop.  The inaugural
   meeting of ITP will be held on 11-14 July 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland,
   as part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC, 9-21 July 2010),
   co-located with the other FLoC conferences (CAV, ICLP, IJCAR, LICS,
   RTA, SAT) and workshops.
* The program committee welcomes submissions on all aspects of
   interactive theorem proving and its applications.  Examples of typical
   topics include formal aspects of hardware or software (specification,
   verification, semantics, synthesis, refinement, compilation, etc.);
   formalization of significant bodies of mathematics; advances in
   theorem prover technology (automation, decision procedures, induction,
   combinations of systems and tools, etc.); other topics including those
   relating to user interfaces, education, comparisons of systems, and
   mechanizable logics; and concise and elegant worked examples ("Proof
   Pearls").
* Submission details:
   All papers must be submitted electronically, via EasyChair:
   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itp10
* In addition to regular submissions, described above, there will be a
   "rough diamonds" section.  Rough diamond submissions are limited to
   four pages and may consist of an extended abstract.  They will be
   refereed: they will be expected to present innovative and promising
   ideas, possibly in an early form and without supporting evidence.
   Accepted diamonds will be published in the main proceedings.  They
   will be presented at the conference venue in a poster session.
* Conference co-chairs:
   Matt Kaufmann, University of Texas at Austin, USA
   Larry Paulson, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
* Program Committee:
  Thorsten Altenkirch, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
  David Aspinall, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom
  Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Gilles Barthe, IMDEA, Spain
  Jens Brandt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
  Thierry Coquand, Chalmers University, Sweden
  Ruben Gamboa, University of Wyoming, USA
  Georges Gonthier, Microsoft Research, United Kingdom
  David Greve, Rockwell Collins Inc., USA
  Elsa Gunter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA
  Joe Hurd, Galois Inc., USA
  Matt Kaufmann, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Gerwin Klein, NICTA, Australia
  Xavier Leroy, INRIA, France
  Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, France
  Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA
  John Matthews, Galois Inc., USA
  J Moore, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Cesar Munoz, NASA, USA
  Tobias Nipkow, TU Muenchen, Germany
  Michael Norrish, NICTA, Australia
  David Pichardie, INRIA Rennes, France
  Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada
  Lee Pike, Galois Inc., USA
  Sandip Ray, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Jose Luis Ruiz-Reina, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
  Larry Paulson, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  David Russinoff, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., USA
  Peter Sewell, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  Konrad Slind, Rockwell Collins Inc., USA
  Sofiene Tahar, Concordia University, Canada
  Christian Urban, TU Muenchen, Germany










COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010: PROGRAMS, PROOFS, PROCESSES
                 Second call for papers
              Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal
                  June 30 to July 4, 2010
                 http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/
* Important dates:
   Submission Deadline: 20 January 2010
   Notification to Authors: 18 March 2010
   Deadline for Final Version: 8 April 2010
* Computability in Europe provides the largest international conference
   dealing with the full spectrum of computability-related research.
   CiE 2010 in the Azores is the sixth conference of the Series, held in a
   geographically unique and dramatic location, Europe's most Westerly
   outpost. The theme of CiE 2010 - "Programs, Proofs, Processes" - points
   to the usual CiE synergy of Computer Science, Mathematics and Logic,
   with important computability-theoretic connections to science and the
   real universe.
* TUTORIALS:
   Jeffrey Bub (Information, Computation and Physics),
   Bruno Codenotti (Computational Game Theory).
* INVITED SPEAKERS:
   Eric Allender, Jose L. Balcazar, Shafi Goldwasser,
   Denis Hirschfeldt, Seth Lloyd, Sara Negri, Toniann Pitassi, and Ronald
   de Wolf.
* SPECIAL SESSIONS on:
   Biological Computing, organizers: Paola Bonizzoni, Krishna Narayanan
     Invited speakers: Giancarlo Mauri, Natasha Jonoska, Stephane Vialette,
     Yasubumi Sakakibara
   Computational Complexity, organizers: Luis Antunes, Alan Selman
     Invited speakers: Eric Allender, Christian Glasser, John Hitchcock,
     Rahul Santhanam
   Computability of the Physical, organizers: Barry Cooper, Cris Calude
     Invited speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Yuri Manin, Cris Moore, David Wolpert
   Proof Theory and Computation, organizers: Martin Hyland, Fernando Ferreira
     Invited speakers: Thorsten Altenkirch, Samuel Mimram, Paulo Oliva, Lutz
     Strassburger
   Reasoning and Computation from Leibniz to Boole, organizers: Benedikt
     Loewe, Guglielmo Tamburrini
     Confirmed speakers: Volker Peckhaus, Olga Pombo, Sara Uckelman
   Web Algorithms and Computation, organizers: Martin Olsen, Thomas Erlebach
     Confirmed speaker: Debora Donato
* SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MARIAN POUR-EL: Ning Zhong.
* CiE serves as an interdisciplinary forum for research in all aspects of
   computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the
   interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in computer
   science and with other disciplines such as biology, mathematics,
   philosophy, or physics.
* Formal systems, attendant proofs, and the possibility of their computer
   generation and manipulation (for instance, into programs) have been
   changing a whole spectrum of disciplines. The conference will address
   not only the more established lines of research of Computational
   Complexity and the interplay between Proofs and Computation, but also
   novel views that rely on physical and biological processes and models to
   find new ways of tackling computations and improving their efficiency.
* We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts
   of the research community. Since women are underrepresented in
   mathematics and computer science, we emphatically encourage submissions
   by female authors. The Elsevier Foundation is supporting the CiE
   conference series in the programme "Increasing representation of female
   researchers in the computability community". This programme will allow
   us to fund child-care support, a mentoring system for young female
   researchers, and also a small number of grants for junior female
   researchers (see below).
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
   Klaus Ambos-Spies (Heidelberg), Luis Antunes (Porto), Arnold Beckmann
   (Swansea), Paola Bonizzoni (Milano), Alessandra Carbone (Paris), Steve
   Cook (Toronto ON), Barry Cooper (Leeds), Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju
   (Budapest), Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon, co-chair), Nicola Galesi (Rome),
   Luis Mendes Gomes (Ponta Delgada), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht), Achim Jung
   (Birmingham), Michael Kaminski (Haifa), Jarkko Kari (Turku), Viv Kendon
   (Leeds), James Ladyman (Bristol), Kamal Lodaya (Chennai), Giuseppe Longo
   (Paris), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam), Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza,
   co-chair), Wolfgang Merkle (Heidelberg), Russell Miller (New York NY),
   Dag Normann (Oslo), Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon), Joao Rasga (Lisbon), Nicole
   Schweikardt (Frankfurt), Alan Selman (Buffalo NY), Peter van Emde Boas
   (Amsterdam), Albert Visser (Utrecht)







GALOP 2010 - 5th WORKSHOP ON GAMES FOR LOGIC AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
  Call for Papers
  March 20-21, 2010, Paphos, Cyprus
  Satellite event of ETAPS 2010
  http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/olivier.laurent/galop10/
* GaLoP is an annual international workshop on game-semantic models
  for logics and programming languages and their applications. This is
  an informal workshop that welcomes work in progress, overviews of
  more extensive work, programmatic or position papers and tutorials
  as well as contributed papers.
  Accordingly, we ask for submission of both short abstracts outlining
  what will be presented at the workshop and longer papers describing
  completed work, either published or unpublished.
* Important dates:
    - January 25, 2010: Submission deadline
    - February 3, 2010: Notification date
* Submission link
     http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=galop5
* There will be no formal proceedings. In previous years, a special
  issue of the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic has been produced, and
  this possibility will be pursued again this year.
* Detailed information can be found on the webpage.








26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING (ICLP 2010)
                       CALL FOR PAPERS
             Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., July 16-19, 2010
                ICLP 2009 will be held as part of the
             Fifth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2010)
                Submission deadline: January 26, 2010
            http://www.floc-conference.org/ICLP-home.html
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Paper registration deadline:      January 26, 2010
   Submission deadline:              February 2, 2010
   Notification to authors:          March 20, 2010
   Camera-ready copy due:            April 21, 2010
   Conference:                       July 16-19, 2010
* CONFERENCE SCOPE
   Since the first  conference held in Marseilles in  1982, ICLP has been
   the premier international conference  for presenting research in logic
   programming.  Contributions (papers  and  posters) are  sought in  all
   areas of logic programming including but not restricted to:
   Theory:  Semantic  Foundations,  Formalisms, Non-monotonic  Reasoning,
      Knowledge Representation.
   Implementation:  Compilation,  Memory  Management,  Virtual  Machines,
      Parallelism.
   Environments:    Program    Analysis,   Transformation,    Validation,
      Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing.
   Language Issues: Concurrency,  Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher
      Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques.
   Related  Paradigms:  Abductive   Logic  Programming,  Inductive  Logic
      Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming.
   Applications:  Databases, Data  Integration  and Federation,  Software
      Engineering,  Natural Language Processing,  Web and  Semantic Web,
      Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics.
* SUBMISSION DETAILS
   The four  broad categories for  submissions are: (1)  technical papers
   for describing  technically sound,  innovative ideas that  can advance
   the state  of the  art of logic  programming; (2)  application papers,
   where the emphasis will be  on their impact on the application domain;
   (3) system and tool papers, where the emphasis will be on the novelty,
   practicality, usability  and general  availability of the  systems and
   tools described;  and (4) short  papers/posters, for ongoing  work not
   yet ready for full publication and research project overviews.
* All   papers  must   describe  original,   previously  unpublished
   research,  and must  not simultaneously  be submitted  for publication
   elsewhere.   They  must  be  written in  English.   Technical  papers,
   application  papers, and  system and  tool papers  must not  exceed 15
   pages. The  limit for short papers  / posters is  5 pages. Submissions
   must          be         made          in          TPLP         format
   (ftp://ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/tlp-cls/)   via
   the      Easychair      submission      system,      available      at
   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2010.
* ICLP'2010 ORGANIZATION
   General Chair:
   Veronica Dahl                        (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
   Program Co-chairs:
   Manuel Hermenegildo                       (IMDEA Soft. and UPM, Spain)
   Torsten Schaub                        (University of Potsdam, Germany)
   Workshops Chair:
   Veronica Dahl                        (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
   Doctoral Consortium:
   Marcello Balduccini                         (Kodak Research Labs, USA)
   Prolog Programming Contest:
   Tom Schrijvers                                  (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
   Maria Alpuente                       (Technical U. of Valencia, Spain)
   Pedro Cabalar                              (Corunya University, Spain)
   Manuel Carro                           (Technical U. of Madrid, Spain)
   Marina De Vos                                 (University of Bath, UK)
   James Delgrande                      (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
   Marc Denecker                                     (KU Leuven, Belgium)
   Agostino Dovier                           (University of Udine, Italy)
   Esra Erdem                      (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)
   Wolfgang Faber                         (University of Calabria, Italy)
   Thom Fruehwirth                           (University of Ulm, Germany)
   Maurizio Gabbrielli                     (University of Bologna, Italy)
   John Gallagher                          (Roskilde University, Denmark)
   Samir Genaim                           (Complutense University, Spain)
   Haifeng Guo                     (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
   Joxan Jaffar                     (National U. of Singapore, Singapore)
   Tomi Janhunen                     (Helsinki U. of Technology, Finland)
   Michael Leuschel                          (U. of Duesseldorf, Germany)
   Stephen Muggleton                        (Imperial College London, UK)
   Alan Mycroft                                     (U. of Cambridge, UK)
   Gopalan Nadathur                        (University of Minnesota, USA)
   Lee Naish                            (Melbourne University, Australia)
   Enrico Pontelli                     (New Mexico State University, USA)
   Vitor Santos Costa                     (University of Porto, Portugal)
   Tom Schrijvers                                  (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
   Tran Cao Son                        (New Mexico State University, USA)
   Peter J. Stuckey                     (Melbourne University, Australia)
   Terrance Swift                                     (CENTRIA, Portugal)
   Peter Szeredi                   (Budapest U. of Tech. and E., Hungary)
   Frank Valencia                           (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
   Wim Vanhoof                             (University of Namur, Belgium)
   Kewen Wang                            (Griffith University, Australia)
   Stefan Woltran                      (Vienna U. of Technology, Austria)
   Neng-Fa Zhou                        (City University of New York, USA)
* WORKSHOPS
   The ICLP  2009 program  will include several  workshops, held  also as
   part of FLoC. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of
   preliminary work, undeveloped novel ideas,  and new open problems to a
   wide  and   interested  audience  with   opportunities  for  intensive
   discussions and project collaboration.

   DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

   The  6th  Doctoral  Consortium  (DC)  on  Logic  Programming  provides
   research students  with the opportunity  to present and  discuss their
   research  directions,  and to  obtain  feedback  from  both peers  and
   world-renown experts in the  field. Accepted participants will receive
   partial  financial   support  to  attend   the  event  and   the  main
   conference. The best paper and  presentation from the DC will be given
   the  opportunity to  present in  a special  session of  the  main ICLP
   conference.








EIGHTH ACM-IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS AND MODELS
                                           FOR CODESIGN (MEMOCODE 2010)
                          Call for Papers
              July 26-28, 2010 in Grenoble, France.
               http://www.memocode-conference.com
* IMPORTANT DATES:
   Abstract submission deadline:      February 26, 2010
   Paper submission deadline:         March 5, 2010
   Notification of acceptance:        April 30, 2010
   Poster submission deadline:        May 14, 2010
   Notification for Posters:          May 28, 2010
   Final Version for Papers:          May 28, 2010
* The eighth MEMOCODE conference will attract researchers and
   practitioners who create methods, tools, and architectures for the
   design of hardware/software systems. These systems face increasing
   design complexity including tighter constraints on timing, power, costs,
   and reliability. MEMOCODE seeks submissions that present novel formal
   methods and design techniques addressing these issues to create, refine,
   and verify hardware/software systems. We also invite
   application-oriented papers, and especially encourage submissions that
   highlight the design perspective of formal methods and models, including
   success stories and demonstrations of hardware/software codesign.
   Furthermore, we invite poster presentations describing ongoing work with
   promising preliminary results.
* Topics of interest for regular submissions include but are not limited to
   - system- and transaction-level modeling and verification, abstraction
   and refinement between different modeling levels, formal, semi-formal,
   and specification-driven verification,
   - design and verification methods for composition of concurrent systems:
   multi-core platform architectures, systems-on-chip, networks-on-chip,
   - non-traditional and domain-specific design languages for hardware and
   software, novel models of computation, and new design paradigms that
   unify hardware and software design,
   - system-level estimation of performance and power in heterogeneous
   hardware/software architectures,
   - applications and demonstrators of formal design methodologies and case
   studies of innovative system-level design flows, and
   - modeling and reuse of intellectual property at system-level.
* TUTORIALS:
   MEMOCODE will feature tutorials related to hardware/software codesign.
   Please send your tutorial proposals to alain.girault at inria.fr.
* General Chair:  Klaus Schneider (Kaiserslauten)
   Finance Chair:  James Hoe (CMU)
   Program Chairs: Barbara Jobstmann (CNRS) and Luca Carloni (Columbia)
   Design Contest: Joel Emer (Intel) and  Forrest Brewer (UCSB)
   Local Chairs:   Saddek Bensalem (UJF/CEA) and Christian Fabre (CEA)
   Tutorial Chair: Alain Girault (INRIA)
* Program Committee
   David Atienza (EPFL)
   Twan Basten (Eindhoven)
   Tevfik Bultan (UCSB)
   Robert de Simone (INRIA)
   Rainer Doemer (UCI)
   Rolf Drechsler (Bremen)
   Stephen Edwards (Columbia)
   Franco Fummi (Verona)
   Thierry Gautier (INRIA)
   Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (Utah)
   Josef Haid (Infineon)
   Franjo Ivancic (NEC)
   Christoph Kirsch (Salzburg)
   Daniel Kroening (Oxford)
   Yassine Lakhnech (UJF)
   Luciano Lavagno (Torino)
   Elizabeth Leonard (NRL)
   Rishiyur Nikhil (Bluespec, Inc.)
   John O'Leary (Intel)
   Roberto Passerone (Trento)
   Diego Puschini (CEA)
   Jan Reineke (UC Berkeley)
   Patrick Schaumont (VirginiaTech)
   Klaus Schneider (Kaiserslautern)
   Sanjit Seshia (UC Berkeley)
   Natasha Sharygina (Lugano)
   Satnam Singh (Microsoft)
   Michael Theobald (DE Shaw)
   Lothar Thiele (ETHZ)
   Fei Xie (Portland State)












THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE
                                                       LOGIC (CSL 2010)
                     First Call for Papers
            August 23-27, 2010, Brno, Czech Republic
                 http://www.mat.uc.pt/~csl/
* Important dates
   Submission (title & abstract):  March 26, 2010
   Notification:                   May 17, 2010
   Submission (full paper):        April 2, 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.
* The Ackermann Award for 2010 will be presented to the recipients at CSL'10.
* 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)











3RD WORKSHOP ON ANSWER SET PROGRAMMING AND OTHER COMPUTING PARADIGMS
                                                        (ASPOCP 2010)
                         CALL FOR PAPERS
                 http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/proj/aspocp10/
    Collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2010
                           Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K)
                              July 16-19, 2010
* IMPORTANT DATES (tentative)
   Submission deadline:        March 26, 2010
   Notification:               April 16, 2010
   Camera-ready articles due:  April 30, 2010
   Workshop:                   July 20, 2010
* AIMS AND SCOPE
  Since its introduction in the 1990s, answer set programming (ASP) has
  been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and
  combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to
  SAT, which has led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT
  solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most
  studied relationship, the relationship of ASP to other computing
  paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean
  formulas (QBF), or first-order logic (FOL) is also the subject of
  active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being
  developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such
  as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, and FOL theorem
  provers. Furthermore, the practical application of ASP also fosters
  work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language
  and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area
  currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the
  realm of the Semantic Web) and constraint satisfaction.  This
  workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries
  of current ASP techniques, in combination with or inspired by other
  computing paradigms.
* TOPICS
  Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
  - Relating ASP to classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL).
  - Relating ASP to constraint programming.
  - Relating ASP to other logic programming paradigms.
  - Relating ASP to other nonmonotonic languages.
  - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of
    other paradigms.
  - ASP and probabilistic reasoning.
  - ASP and machine learning.
  - Language extensions to ASP.
  - ASP and argumentation.
  - ASP and multi-agent systems.
  - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP.
  - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms.
  - Embedding ASP for challenging applications.
  - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches.
  - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding.
* WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
  Marcello Balduccini   (Kodak Research Labs, USA)
  Stefan Woltran        (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  Gerhard Brewka        (University of Leipzig, Germany)
  Pedro Cabalar         (Corunna University, Spain)
  Wolfgang Faber        (University of Calabria, Italy)
  Michael Fink          (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
  Martin Gebser         (University of Potsdam, Germany)
  Joohyung Lee          (Arizona State University, USA)
  Vladimir Lifschitz    (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  Fangzhen Lin          (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
  Marco Maratea         (University of Genoa, Italy)
  Emilia Oikarinen      (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
  Axel Polleres         (DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland)
  Ashish Sabharwal      (Cornell University, USA)
  Guillermo R. Simari   (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
  Paolo Torroni         (University of Bologna, Italy)
  Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA)
  Dirk Vermeir          (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  Jia-Huai You          (University of Alberta, Canada)









CLODEM 2010 - WORKSHOP ON COMPARING LOGICAL DECISION METHODS
                    Call for Submissions
                July 15, 2010, Edinburgh, UK
          affiliated with LICS and IJCAR at FLoC'10
         http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/CLODEM2010/CLODEM2010.html
* The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for comparisons
  of different methods - e.g. tableaux, automata, games, resolution,
  reductions, SAT/SMT based methods, etc. - used in order to obtain
  decision procedures for various logics. Submitted work may compare
  such methods w.r.t. theoretical (e.g. ability to obtain optimal
  complexity results) or practical aspects (e.g. ease or efficiency
  of implementations).
* Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts of at most 5
  A4 pages in PDF format, preferably using Springer LNCS style or a
  comparable format. Submissions may be based on new and original, or
  on already published or submitted work, but they should address the
  topic of the workshop.
* Important dates: Paper submission: 27 March 2010; Notification: 27
  April 2010







INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HYBRID LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS (HyLo 2010)
  (affiliated with LICS 2010)
  First Call for Papers
  July 10, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland
  http://hylocore.ruc.dk/HyLo2010.html
* Theme.
  Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic which allows us to
  refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas.
  It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds,
  with the usefulness of the additional expressive power, and moreover,
  hybridization often improves the behavior of the underlying modal formalism.
  The workshop HyLo 2010 is relevant to a wide range of people, including
  those interested in description logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic,
  memory logics, memoryful logics, reactive logic, labelled deduction, and
  feature logic.
* Submission. See the workshop web page.
  The proceedings have been accepted for publication in ENTCS.
* Submission deadline: March 30, 2010
* Invited speakers
  Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA)
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* Program committee.
  Carlos Areces (INRIA Lorraine, France)
  Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France)
  Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark), Co-chair
  Torben Braüner (Roskilde University, Denmark), Co-chair
  Stephane Demri (ENS de Cachan, France)
  Mai Gehrke (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
  Valeria de Paiva (Cuil Inc., USA)
  Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester)











VERIFICATION OF SEQUENTIAL AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMS
   Krzysztof R. Apt, Frank S. de Boer and Ernst-Ruediger Olderog
   with a Foreword by Amir Pnueli
   3rd extended edition, xix + 502 pages
   ISBN: 978-1-84882-744-8
* Table of Contents
   Part I: In the Beginning
     Introduction
     Preliminaries
   Part II: Deterministic Programs
     While Programs
     Recursive Programs
     Recursive Programs with Parameters
     Object-Oriented Programs
   Part III: Parallel Programs
     Disjoint Parallel Programs
     Parallel Programs with Shared Variables
     Parallel Programs with Synchronization
   Part IV: Nondeterministic and Distributed Programs
     Nondeterministic Programs
     Distributed Programs
     Fairness
* For more information, please see
   http://www.springer.com/computer/foundations/book/978-1-84882-744-8?detailsPage=otherBooksCIPageCounter=CI_MORE_BOOKS_BY_AUTHOR2






ACKERMANN AWARD 2010 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING
DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
             CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
* Eligible for the 2010 Ackermann Award are PhD dissertations in topics
  specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally
  accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution
  between 1.1.2008 and 31.12. 2009.
* Submission details are available at
      http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
* The deadline for submission is
		March 15, 2010
* Nominations can be submitted from  January 1, 2010 on and should be sent
   to the chairman of the Jury by e-mail:
  		janos at cs.technion.ac.il
* The award consists of
   - a diploma,
   - an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference,
   - the publication of the abstract of the thesis and the laudation
     in the CSL proceedings,
   - travel support to attend the conference.
* The 2010 Ackermann Award will be presented to the recipients at the
   annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'10) in Brno (Czech Republic)
   to be held 23-27 August 2010,
   	http://mfcsl2010.fi.muni.cz/
* The jury consists of 10 members:
      - The member of the board of EACSL as chairman of the Jury, J.
Makowsky (Haifa)
      - The president of EACSL, D. Niwinski (Warsaw)
      - The vice-president of EACSL, A. Dawar (Cambridge)
      - One member of the LICS organizing committee, G. Plotkin (Edinburgh)
      - R. Alur (Philadelphia)
      - A. Atserias (Barcelona)
      - T. Coquand (Goeteborg)
      - P.-L. Curien (Paris)
      - A. Durand (Paris)
      - J. van Benthem (Amsterdam and Stanford)
* The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year.
* The previous Ackermann Award recipients were:
   2005: Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Konstantin Korovin, Nathan Segerlind;
   2006: Stefan Milius and Balder ten Cate;
   2007: Dietmar Berwanger, Stephane Lengrand and Ting Zhang.
   2008: Krishnendu Chatterjee
   2009: Jakob Nordstrom
* For the three years 2010-2012,
   the Award is sponsored by the Kurt Goedel Society







PHD POSITIONS AT OXFORD AND PARIS
* The University of Oxford and the University of Paris 7 announce two
   studentships on Logical Aspects of Complexity, under the auspices of
   the EU Marie Curie Network Mathematical Logic and Applications (MALOA):
       http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/MALOA/index.html
* One studentship will be at Oxford and the other at Paris, funded for
   3 years starting in fall of 2010, at EU levels.  Participating
   researchers include Stephan Kreutzer and Michael Benedikt at Oxford
   and Arnaud Durand at Paris. Any student with an interest in logic and
   computational complexity theory should consider these positions.
* The network supports students whose primary institution is distinct
   from their nation of residence: thus a student hosted at Oxford must
   not be a UK national and the student hosted in Paris should not be a
   French national.  However as part of the studentship, the student will
   have extended visits at another network institution: the student in
   Paris would likely spend some time at Oxford and vice versa.
* The eligibility rules are spelled out at:
       http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/MALOA/Eligibility.html
* Please contact Stephan Kreutzer (stephan.kreuzer at comlab.ox.ac.uk),
   Michael Benedikt (michael.bendikt at comlab.ox.ac.uk) or Arnaud Durand
   (durand at logique.jussieu.fr) for more information, including details
   of the application process.
* Applications received by March 1 2010 will receive first priority.







CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN SOFTWARE AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
   The Computer Science Department at Université du Québec à Montréal
   (UQAM) is looking for a candidate for a Canada Research Chair (level
   2) in software and knowledge engineering.
* The candidate must have obtained its PhD in computer science or
   software engineering within the last 10 yars and must be recognized by
   his peers as likely to become a leader in his field. The selected
   candidate must demonstrate excellent research abilities in software
   and knowledge engineering (e.g., requirements specification, software
   design, construction or maintenance, software management). He/she must
   demonstrate scientific and organizational leadership, and must develop
   an innovative and original research program. He/she must also have
   interest and abilities in training highly qualified personnel. Because
   UQAM is a French-speaking university, the candidate must have an
   excellent knowledge of French.
* For more details contact the Department Chair (tremblay.guy at uqam.ca) or see
   www.info2.uqam.ca/~tremblay/Chaire
* The deadline for submission is February 26, 2010.




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