Newsletter 101
November 4, 2005

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
   CSL 2006 - Call for Workshop Proposals
   NL-KR Special Track at FLAIRS 2006 - Call for Papers
   ALGSTOCH 2006 - Call for Papers
   CiE 2006 - Call for Papers
   TERMGRAPH 2006 - Call for Papers
   PSI 2006 - Call for Papers
   CAV 2006 - Call for Papers
   ESSLLI 2006 STUDENT SESSION - Call for Papers
* AWARDS
   Ackermann Award 2006 - Call for nominations
* JOURNALS
   Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS)
   Electronic Notes In Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
* VACANCIES
   Maitre de Conferences Position, University of Savoie, Chambery, France


COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2006)
   25-29 September, 2006
   Szeged, Hungary
   Call For Workshop Proposals
* Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference series of the
   European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL).
* Workshops affiliated to CSL'06 will be held before and after the
   main conference, on September 23 and 24, and on September 30 and
   October 1, 2006.
* Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for
   workshops on topics relating logic to computer science.
* Proposals should include:
   - A short scientific summary and justification of the proposed topic.
   - Proposed format and agenda.
   - Proposed duration.
   - Procedures for selecting participants and papers.
   - Expected number of participants.
   - Potential invited speakers.
   - Plans for dissemination (e.g. proceedings, journal special issue).
* Proposals will be evaluated by the CSL'06 Workshop Committee on the
   basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of
   CSL'06.
* Workshop Committee: Matthias Baaz (Vienna), Damian Niwinski (Warsaw)
   and Sandor Vagvolgyi (Szeged, chair).
* Proposals and/or enquiries should be submitted by electronic mail in
   ASCII, PDF or postscript format to:
     Sandor Vagvolgyi (CSL'06 Workshop Chair)
     Email: vagvolgy at inf.u-szeged.hu
* Important dates:
    - Submission of workshop proposals:        November 15, 2005
    - Acceptance decisions:                    December  1, 2005
* For more information refer to: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~csl06/



NATURAL LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (NL-KR) SPECIAL TRACK AT
FLAIRS 2006
  Holiday Inn Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne Beach, FLORIDA, USA
  11-12-13 May 2006
  Second call for papers
* Special track web page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR
  Main conference web page: http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06
* NL-KR track topics: For this track, we will invite submissions
  including, but not limited to:
  - A novel NL-like KR or building on an existing one
  - Reasoning systems that benefit from properties of NL to reason with NL
  - Semantic representation used as a KR:
    compromise between expressivity and efficiency?
  - More Expressive KR for NL understanding (Any compromise?)
  - Any work exploring how existing representations fall short of
    addressing some problems involved in modelling, manipulating or
    reasoning (whether reasoning as used to get an interpretation for
    a certain utterance, exchange of utterances or what utterances
    follow from other utterances) with NL documents
  - Representations that show how classical logics are not as efficient,
    transparent, expressive or where a one-step application of an
    inference rule require more (complex) steps in a classical
    environment and vice-versa; i.e. how classical logics are more
    powerful, etc
  - Building a reasoning test collection for natural language
    understanding systems: any kind of reasoning (deductive, abductive,
    etc); for a deductive test suite see for e.g. deliverable 16 of
    the FraCas project (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~fracas/). Also,
    look at textual entailment challenges 1 and 2
    <http://www.pascal-network.org/Challenges/RTE>
  - Comparative results (on a common test suite or a common task) of
    different representations or systems that reason with NL (again any
    kind of reasoning). The comparison could be either for
    efficiency, transparency or expressivity
  - Knowledge acquisition systems or techniques that benefit from
    properties of NL to acquire knowledge already 'coded' in NL
  - Automated Reasoning, Theorem Proving and KR communities views on all this
* NL_KR Track Program Committee:
   James ALLEN, University of Rochester, USA;  Patrick BLACKBURN, Institut
   National de Recherche en Informatique, France; Johan BOS, University
   of Edinburgh, UK; Richard CROUCH, Palo Alto Research Centre, USA
   Maarten DE RIJKE, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Anette FRANK,
   DFKI, Germany; Fernando GOMEZ, University of Central Florida, USA
   Sanda HARABAGIU, University of Texas at Dallas, USA;  John HARRISON,
   Intel, USA; Jerry HOBBS, Information Sciences Institute, USA
   Chung Hee HWANG, Raytheon Co., USA;  Michael KOHLHASE, International
   University Bremen, Germany; Shalom LAPPIN, King's College, UK
   Carsten LUTZ, Dresden University of Technology, Germany; Dan MOLDOVAN,
   University of Texas at Dallas, USA; Jeff PELLETIER, Simon Fraser
   University, Canada; Stephen PULMAN, University of Oxford, UK
   Lenhart SCHUBERT, University of Rochester, USA; John SOWA, VivoMind
   Intelligence, Inc., USA; Jana SUKKARIEH, University of Oxford, UK (Chair)
   Geoff SUTCLIFFE, Miami University, USA; Timothy WILLIAMSON, University
   of Oxford, UK
* Details about submission can be found on:
   http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR/submission_details.html
   Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special
   journal issue of "The journal of Logic and Computation" in the
   2nd half of 2006.
* Important dates:
  - Submission of papers: 21 November, 2005
  - Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2006
  - Final version of the paper is due: 13 February, 2006
  - Main Conference: 11-13 May 2006
  - Track: max 1 day during the main conference
* Those interested  in running a demo please contact
   Jana Sukkarieh  or
   Simon Dobnik .



ALGEBRAIC ASPECTS OF STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS (ALGSTOCH)
  Co-located at ETAPS 2006, Vienna, March 25, 2006
  Call For Papers
* Motivation: As stochastic systems become more important in such
  diverse areas as model checking, concurrency theory, testing,
  control theory etc., it becomes increasingly important and
  interesting to study the (co-) algebraic properties of these
  systems, properties that center on notions like bisimulations,
  congruences, simplicity; the recent incorporation of continuous time
  systems is particularly exciting.  The purpose of this workshop is
  to study stochastic and related systems from an algebraic point of
  view, and to relate them to applications. Papers are requested in
  the following areas: discrete and continuous time stochastic systems
  structural, e.g. categorial aspects of stochastic systems
  applications to logic, and model checking applications to the design
  of programming systems, relations to the theory of coalgebras. The
  list is not exhaustive.
* Proceedings: The proceedings will be published in the ENTCS series;
  extended versions of selected papers may be published in a special
  issue of Fundamenta Informaticae following the regular referee
  procedure. The PC encourages the submission of work in progress.
* Important dates:
  Submission: November 30, 2005, Notification: January 10, 2006
  Final version: February 10, 2006, Workshop: March 25, 2006
* PC: Ch. Baier, U Bonn; E.-E. Doberkat (Chair), U Dortmund;
  K. Keimel, TH Darmstadt; P. Panangaden, McGill; F. van Breugel, York
  U.; I. Viglizzo, Indiana U
* Contact:
  Ernst-Erich Doberkat, University of Dortmund, doberkat@acm.org.
  The workshop page, where instructions to submit a paper can be found,
  is http://ls10-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/AlgStoch



COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2006 (CiE 2006): NEW COMPUTATIONAL PARADIGMS
  Swansea, UK, June 30 - July 5, 2006
  http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/cie06/
  Call for Papers
* CiE 2006 is the second of a new conference series on Computability
  Theory and related topics which started in Amsterdam in 2005.
  CiE 2006 will focus on (but not be limited to) logical approaches to
  computational barriers: practical and feasible barriers, e.g., centred
  around the P vs. NP problem; computable barriers connected to models
  of computers and programming languages; hypercomputable barriers
  related to physical systems. CiE 2006 will have 3-hour tutorials by
  Sam Buss and Julia Kempe (titles tbd) as well as invited talks by
  Jan Bergstra, Luca Cardelli, Jan Krajicek, Elvira Mayordomo Camara,
  Istvan Nemeti, Helmut Schwichtenberg, and Andreas Weiermann. Further
  invited speakers are to be announced. There will also be two-hour
  special sessions on Proofs and Computation, Computable Analysis,
  Challenges in Complexity, Foundations of Programming, Mathematical
  Models of Computers and Hypercomputers, and a special session
  "Goedel Centenary: His Legacy for Computability".
* The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European
  and non-European) in the area of Computability Theory to submit their
  papers (in PDF-format, at most 10 pages) for presentation at CiE 2006.
  We particularly invite papers building bridges between different parts
  of the research community. The proceedings are intended to be
  published in the Springer LNCS series.
* Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2005.
* Programme committee: Samson Abramsky (Oxford), Klaus Ambos-Spies
  (Heidelberg), Arnold Beckmann (Swansea, co-chair), Ulrich Berger
  (Swansea), Olivier Bournez (Nancy), Barry Cooper (Leeds),
  Laura Crosilla (Firenze), Costas Dimitracopoulos (Athens),
  Abbas Edalat (London), Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon), Ricard Gavalda
  (Barcelona), Giuseppe Longo (Paris), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam),
  Yuri Matiyasevich (St.Petersburg), Dag Normann (Oslo), Giovanni Sambin
  (Padova), Uwe Schoening (Ulm), Andrea Sorbi (Siena), Ivan Soskov
  (Sofia), Leen Torenvliet (Amsterdam), John Tucker (Swansea, co-chair),
  Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam), Klaus Weihrauch (Hagen).
* Sponsors: BLC, KGS, WDA (further sponsors to be confirmed).
* For further information visit http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE/ and
  http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/cie06/, or email the organisers:
  cie06@swansea.ac.uk.



THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TERM GRAPH REWRITING (TERMGRAPH 2006)
  1 April 2006, Vienna, Austria
  Co-located with ETAPS'06
  Call for Papers
  http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/events/TERMGRAPH2006/
* Term graph rewriting is concerned with the representation of
  functional expressions as graphs and the evaluation of these
  expressions by rule-based graph transformation. Topics of interest
  range from theoretical questions to practical implementation
  issues. It includes such different lines as the modelling of (finite
  or infinitary) first-order term rewriting by (acyclic or cyclic)
  graph rewriting, interaction nets and sharing graphs for
  Levy-optimal reduction in the lambda calculus, rewrite calculi on
  cyclic higher-order term graphs for the semantics and analysis of
  functional programs, graph reduction implementations of functional
  programming languages, and automated reasoning and symbolic
  computation systems working on shared structures.
* Deadline for submission: 7 January, 2006
* For more information see Web page
  http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/events/TERMGRAPH2006/



SIXTH INTERNATIONAL ANDREI ERSHOV MEMORIAL CONFERENCE
PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS (PSI 2006)
  27-30 June 2006, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia
  http://www.iis.nsk.su/PSI06
  Preliminary Call for Papers
* Aims and scope:
  The conference is held to honor the 75th anniversary of academician
  Andrei Ershov (1931-1988) and his outstanding contributions towards
  advancing informatics. The aim of the conference is to provide a
  forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced research
  directions in computer science. For a developing science, it is
  important to work out consolidating ideas, concepts and models.
  Movement in this direction is another aim of the conference. Improvement
  of the contacts and exchange of ideas between researchers from the East
  and West are further goals.
* Conference topics include:
  - 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; modeling and analysis of
     real-time and hybrid systems; computer models and algorithms for
     bioinformatics.
  - 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 architectures; software
     development and testing; model-driven system/software development;
     agile software development; tools for software engineering;
     program understanding and visualization.
  - Information Technologies:
     data models; database and information systems; knowledge-based
     systems and knowledge engineering; ontologies and semantic Web;
     digital libraries,collections and archives, Web publishing;
     peer-to-peer data management.
* Program Committee: Scott W. Ambler, Ambysoft Inc., Toronto;
   Egidio Astesiano, Univ. Genova; Janis Barzdins, Univ. Latvia, Riga;
   Frederic Benhamou, Univ. Nantes; Stefan Brass, Univ. Halle;
   Ed Brinksma, Univ. Twente; Kim Bruce, Pomona College, California;
   Mikhail Bulyonkov, IIS SB RAS, Novosibirsk; Albertas Caplinskas, IMI,
   Vilnius; Sung-Deok Cha, KAIST, Taejon; Gabriel Ciobanu, Inst. Comp.
   Sc. RA, Iasi; Paul C. Clements, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.; Miklos Csuroes,
   Univ. Montreal; Serge Demeyer, Univ. of Antwerp; Alexander Dikovsky,
   Univ. Nantes; Javier Esparza, Univ. Stuttgart; Jean Claude Fernandez,
   Univ. J. Fourier, Grenoble; Chris George, UNU/ IIST, Macau; Ivan Golosov,
   Intel, Novosibirsk; Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology;
   Alan Hartman, IBM Haifa Research Lab.; Victor Ivannikov, IPS RAS,
   Moscow; Victor Kasyanov, IIS SB RAS, Novosibirsk; Joost-Pieter Katoen,
   RWTH Aachen Univ.; Alexander Kleschev, IACP RAS, Vladivostok;
   Nikolay Kolchanov, ICiG, Novosibirsk; Gregory Kucherov, INRIA/LORIA,
   Nancy; Johan Lilius, Abo Akademi Iniv. Turku; Dominique Mery, Univ.
   Henri Poincare, Nancy; Torben Mogensen, Univ. Copenhagen; Bernhard
   Moeller, Univ. Augsburg; Hanspeter Moessenboeck, JK Univ. Linz;
   Peter Mosses, Univ. Wales, Swansea; Ron Morrison, St Andrews Univ.;
   Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich; Fedor Murzin, IIS SB RAS, Novosibirsk;
   Valery Nepomniaschy, IIS SB RAS; Nikolaj Nikitchenko, Nat. Univ. Kiev;
   Jose R. Parama, Univ. A Coruna; Francesco Parisi-Presicce, GM Univ.,
   Virginia; Wojciech Penczek, Inst. Comp. Sci., Warsaw; Jaan Penjam,
   Tallinn Tech. Univ.; Peter Pepper, Tech. Univ. Berlin; Alexander
   Petrenko, IPS RAS, Moscow; Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles U., Prague;
   Wolfgang Reisig, Tech. Univ. Berlin; Viktor Sabelfeld, Univ. Karlsruhe;
   Timos Sellis, Nation. Tech. Univ. Athens; Alexander Semenov, Intel,
   Novosibirsk; Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey Univ; David Schmidt, Kansas
   State Univ.; Sibylle Schupp, Chalmers Univ. Tech.; Nikolay Shilov,
   IIS SB RAS, Novosibirsk; Alexander Tomilin, IPS RAS, Moscow; Enn Tyugu,
   Inst. Cybernetics, Tallinn; Alexander L. Wolf, Univ. Colorado at Boulder;
   Tatyana Yakhno, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Izmir; Wang Yi, Uppsala Univ.
* Conference Proceedings: A book of extended abstracts of invited and
  accepted talks will be available at the conference. The full versions
  of the papers presented at the conference will be published by
  Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series after the  conference.
* Submission instructions can be found on the conference web site
  http://www.iis.nsk.su/PSI06/index_e.shtml
* Important dates:
    January 23, 2006: submission deadline of extended abstracts
    April 7, 2006: notification of acceptance
    June27-30, 2006: the conference dates
    September 1, 2006: final papers due



COMPUTER AIDED VERIFICATION (CAV 2006)
  18th International Conference
  Call for Papers
  Seattle, Washington, August 16-21, 2006
  http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/cav.htm
* Aims and Scope: CAV'06 is the 18th in a series dedicated to the
  advancement of the theory and practice of computer-assisted formal
  analysis methods for hardware and software systems.  This year, CAV
  is part of the 4th International Federated Logic Conference (FLoC
  2006), which includes CAV and five other conferences/symposia.
* Topics of interest include: algorithms and tools for verifying
  models and implementations; hardware verification techniques;
  program analysis and software verification; modeling and
  specification formalisms; deductive, compositional, and abstraction
  techniques for verification; testing and runtime analysis based on
  verification technology; applications and case studies; verification
  in industrial practice.
* Special Symposium: The first day of CAV is traditionally a tutorial
  day.  This year, the tutorial will be replaced with a special
  symposium entitled "25 Years of Model Checking".
* Affiliated workshops:
  - BMC'06: 4th International Workshop on Bounded Model Checking
  - TV'06: Multithreading in Hardware and Software: Formal
    Approaches to Design and Verification
  - SMT-COMP'06: 2nd Satisfiability Modulo Theories tools competition
  - ACL2'06: 6th International Workshop on the ACL2 Theorem Prover
    and its Applications
  - GDV'06: 3rd International Workshop on Games in Design and
    Verification
  - V&D'06: 1st International Workshop on Verification on Debugging
  - Verified Software: Tools, Techniques, and Experiments
* Submission: There are two categories of submissions: regular papers
  (not to exceed 13 pages) and tool presentations (not to exceed 4
  pages).  Information concerning the procedure for submissions will
  be available on the conference home page:
* Submission Deadline:  January 27, 2006 (firm)
* Program Committee: Thomas Ball (Microsoft) (Co-chair), Clark Barrett
  (NYU), Karthik Bhargavan (Microsoft), Per Bjesse (Synopsys), Ahmed
  Bouajjani (Univ. Paris 7), Randy Bryant (CMU), Rance Cleaveland
  (Univ. Maryland), Werner Damm (Univ. Oldenberg), Ganesh
  Gopalakrishnan (Univ. Utah), Steve German (IBM Research), Patrice
  Godefroid (Bell Labs), Mike Gordon (Univ. Cambridge), Orna Grumberg
  (Technion), Holger Hermanns (Saarland Univ.), Ranjit Jhala (UC San
  Diego), Robert Jones (Intel) (Co-chair), Roope Kaivola (Intel), Ken
  McMillan (Cadence), Tom Melham (Oxford Univ.), Corina Pasareanu
  (NASA Ames), Amir Pnueli (NYU), Thomas Reps (Univ. Wisconsin),
  Sanjit Seshia (UC Berkeley), Prasad Sistla (Univ. Illinois -
  Chicago), Fabio Somenzi (Univ. Colorado).



ESSLLI 2006 STUDENT SESSION
  July 31 - August 11, Malaga, Spain
  1st Call for Papers
* We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 18th European
  Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), which will
  be held July 31 - August 11, in Malaga, Spain. We invite papers for oral
  and poster presentation from the areas of Logic, Language and Computation.
* The aim of the Student Session is to provide students with the
  opportunity to present their work in progress and get feedback from
  senior researchers and fellow-students.
* The ESSLLI Student Session invites students at any level, undergraduates
  as well as graduates, to submit a full paper, no longer than 7 pages
  (including references). Papers should be submitted with clear indication
  of the selected modality of presentation, i.e. oral or poster. Accepted
  papers will be published in the Student Session Proceedings.
* Papers should describe original, unpublished work, complete or in
  progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and promise. Previously
  published papers should not be submitted.
* The preferred format of submission is PDF. All submissions must be
  accompanied by a plain text identification page, and sent to
  katrenko@science.uva.nl.
* For more information about the Student Session, and for the technical
  details concerning submission, please visit our website at
  http://www.science.uva.nl/~katrenko/stus06.
  You may also contact one of the chairs:
  Janneke Huitink, j.huitink@phil.ru.nl
  Sophia Katrenko, katrenko@science.uva.nl
* Important dates:
    Deadline for Submission: February 1st, 2006
    Notification of authors: April 1st, 2006
    Proceedings Deadline: May 1st, 2006
    ESSLLI: July 31 - August 11, 2006



ACKERMANN AWARD 2006 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
  Call for nominations
* The Ackermann Award will be presented to the recipients at the
  annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'06).
* The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year.
* The first Ackermann Award was presented at CSL'05. The 2005 recipients
   were
     - Mikolaj Bojanczyk
     - Konstantin Korovin
     - Nathan Segerlind
* Eligible for the 2006 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 1.1.2004 and 31.12. 2005.
* The deadline for submission is 31.1.2006.
* Submission details are available at
     www.dimi.uniud.it/~eacsl/award.html
     www.cs.technion.ac.il/eacsl
* 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 jury consists of seven members:
     - The president of EACSL, J. Makowsky (Haifa);
     - The vice-president of EACSL, D. Niwinski (Warsaw);
     - One member of the LICS organizing committee, S. Abramnsky (Oxford);
     - B. Courcelle (Bordeaux);
     - E. Graedel (Aachen);
     - M. Hyland (Cambridge);
     - A. Razborov (Moscow and Princeton).



JOURNAL: LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LMCS)
* Dear Colleague:
  We are writing to inform you about the progress of the open-access,
  online journal "Logical Methods in Computer Science," which has
  recently benefited from a freshly designed web site, see:
  http://www.lmcs-online.org
* In the first year of its existence, the journal received 75
  submissions: 21 were accepted and 22 declined (the rest are still in
  the editorial process). The first issue is complete, and we
  anticipate that will be three in all by the end of the calendar year.
  Our eventual aim is to publish four issues per year. We also publish
  Special Issues: to date, three are in progress, devoted to
  selected papers from LICS 2004, CAV 2005 and LICS 2005.
* The average turn-around from submission to publication has been
  7 months. This comprises a thorough refereeing and revision process:
  every submission is refereed in the  normal way by two or more
  referees, who apply high standards of quality.
* We would encourage you to submit your best papers to Logical Methods
  in Computer Science, and to encourage your colleagues to do so too.
  There is a flier and a leaflet containing basic information about the
  new journal on the homepage; we would appreciate your posting
  and distributing them, or otherwise publicising the journal. We would
  also appreciate any suggestions you may have on how we may improve the
  journal.
* Yours Sincerely,
    Dana S. Scott (editor-in-chief)
    Gordon D. Plotkin and Moshe Y. Vardi (managing editors)
    Jiri Adamek (executive editor)



JOURNAL: ELECTRONIC NOTES IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE (ENTCS)
* Dear Colleagues,
  One of the minor inconveniences that Hurricane Katrina caused has
  been the temporary failure of the Tulane email servers, both
  university-wide and within the math department. The latter hosted the
  ENTCS Macro Home Page, so progress on publishing ENTCS volumes has
  been hindered since the hurricane.
* I am happy to announce that the ENTCS Macro Home now has its own,
  separate web host, which can be found at
  http://www.entcs.org
  Please point your browser at this page, where you will find
  detailed instructions on how to prepare proposals for publishing
  material in ENTCS, as well as instructions about how to prepare
  files both for preliminary, hard copy versions of proceedings for
  limited distribution at meetings, as well as how to prepare the
  final versions of papers for publication online at ScienceDirect.
* While ENTCS production has been hampered over the past month or so,
  it has now been restarted, and publication of ENTCS issues and
  volumes is now proceeding as usual, with minimal delays.
* As usual, if you have any problems or questions about the ENTCS
  macros, or about ENTCS in general, please let me know.
* Best regards,
    Mike Mislove, Managing Editor ENTCS, michael.mislove@gmail.com



VACANCY: MAITRE DE CONFERENCES POSITION,
UNIVERSITY OF SAVOIE, CHAMBERY, FRANCE
* A "Maitre de Conférences" position will be available for the Logic group
  of the maths department of the University of Savoie in Chambery.
  This position is destinated to reinforce our group.
* The themes of research we are looking for are thus
  - either the ones that have always be present in Chambery such as
    *proof theory* and *lambda caculus*
  - or the new ones corresponding to discrete mathematics such as the
    combinatorics of, for example, words or the discrete plane, the discrete
    geometry and the general theory of coding.
* The teaching assigments will be those of a maitre de conférences with
  lessons in "mathematical tools for computer science". For example, the
  person we are looking for will be in charge of courses as "data bases"
  or "Maths for computer science". The courses should be  given in French.
* Two conditions are necessary to get this position
  - Be accepted on the so called "liste de qualification aux fonctions de
    Maitre de Conférences"
  - Speak French reasonnably fluently.
* This position is not yet official but, since it should appear officially
  only around February, we would like to have contact with possible
  candidates much before.
* If you are interested by this position, please contact
  - either laurent.vuillon@univ-savoie.fr
  - or rene.david@univ-savoie.fr
* For more informations on our laboratory visit 
  www.lama.univ-savoie.fr
  For more informations on our university visit http://www.univ-savoie.fr
  Rene David and Laurent Vuillon



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