Newsletter 13, January 28, 1994


10TH WORKSHOP ON MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PROGRAMMING SEMANTICS (MFPS X)
  Manhattan, KS, USA.  March 20-23, 1994.
* Topics.  Areas of mathematics, logic and computer science 
  related to the semantics of programming languages.  Submissions by
  researchers in neighboring areas welcomed.
* Invited Speakers.  S. Abramsky, W. Rounds, G. Berry, D. Scott,
  A. Jung, C. Stirling.
* Special Sessions.  ML.  Tools for Semantic Analysis.
* Organizing Committee.  S. Brookes, M. Main, A. Melton, M Mislove,
  D. Schmidt.
* Preregister by February 15 by sending email to  mfps94@cis.ksu.edu.
* Submissions.  Submit short abstract for talk or tool demo to the above
  email address.  All participants will be invited to submit papers to
  be considered for publication in an anticipated TCS special issue.
* Further Information.  mfps94@cis.ksu.edu.

2ND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE
  University of Chambery (High Alps, France).  July 4--15, 1994.
* Topics. The topic of this year's school is AUTOMATED DEDUCTION.  The
  lectures will deal with proof search in predicate logic (which
  includes resolution method, connection method, inverse method, and
  higher order logic) and various approaches to automatization of
  induction (which include the use of rewriting techniques, proof plans
  and formalization in type theory). Several systems will also be
  presented.
* Lecturers.  D. Basin (Saarbrucken), H. Comon (Paris), T. Coquand
  (Goteborg), G. Dowek (Paris), A. Leitsch (Vienna), G. Mints
  (Stanford), J S. Moore (Austin), L. Wallen (Oxford)
* Application for participation and grants. Deadline: April 15th 1994.
* Information and application forms.  M. Parigot, School LCS,
  Laboratoire de Logique, UFR de Mathematiques, Universite Paris 7, 2
  place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France.  E-mail:
  school@logique.jussieu.fr.  Fax: 33 1 44 27 61 48.

4TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON LOGICS IN AI (JELIA'94)
  York, September 5-8, 1994.
* Topics.  Foundations of logic programming, knowledge-based systems,
  automated theorem proving, knowledge representation, modal, epistemic
  and temporal logics, constructive and many-valued logics, nonmonotonic
  reasoning and belief revision, abductive and inductive reasoning,
  partial and dynamic logics, hybrid reasoning systems, applications of
  logic-based systems.
* Invited Speakers.  Georg Gottlob, Ewa Orlowska, Teodor Przymusinski.
* Program Committee.  Karlo Cellucci, Luis Farinas del Cerro, Phan Minh
  Dung, Jan van Eijck, Patrice Enjalbert, Ulrich Furbach, Dov Gabbay,
  Antony Galton, Michael Gelfond, Vladimir Lifschitz, Craig MacNish,
  Victor Marek, Bernhard Nebel, Wolfgang Nejdl, David Pearce (co-chair),
  Luis Moniz Pereira (co-chair).
* Submissions.  Fives copies of a 16-page paper (see full announcement
  for length details) by February 14 to Prof. Luis Moniz Pereira,
  Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2825 Monte da
  Caparica, Portugal.  Email: lmp@fct.unl.pt.  Fax: [+351] 1 295 5641.
* Information.  Dr Craig MacNish, Department of Computer Science,
  University of York, York YO1 5DD, UK.  Email: craig@minster.york.ac.uk.
  Fax: [+44] 904 432767.

WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED REASONING  
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE
  University of Leeds, England.  April 11-12, 1994.
* Topics.  Logic and functional programming; equational reasoning;
  deductive databases; unification and constraint solving; formal
  methods for specifying, deriving, transforming and verifying software
  systems, hardware systems, and system requirements; deductive and
  non-deductive reasoning, including abduction, induction, nonmonotonic
  reasoning, and analogical reasoning; commonsense reasoning; and the
  wide range of topics that fall under the heading of knowledge
  representation and reasoning.
* Attendance.  By invitation, based on submitted paper.  Some student 
  funding available.
* Submissions.  2 page position paper by February 16, 1994.  3
  unstapled copies or emailed postscript.  Invitations to the workshop
  will be issued by March 3, 1994.  There will be an informal proceedings.
* Program Chair.  Alan Frisch, Department of Computer Science,
  University of York, York YO1 5DD, United Kingdom.  Phone: +44 (904)
  432745.  Fax: +44 (904) 432767.  Email: frisch@minster.york.ac.uk.

WORKSHOP ON THEORY REASONING IN AUTOMATED DEDUCTION
  Nancy, France, June 27, 1994.  (In conjunction with CADE-12).
* Topics.  Include: applications of theory reasoning, implementation
  issues, computational aspects, interface issues, constraints, system
  descriptions, hybrid systems, theory reasoning calculi.
* Attendance.  By invitation only; authors of accepted papers will be
  invited.  
* Submission.  5 page abstract to address below by April 8, 1994.
* Program Committee.  P. Baumgartner, H-J. Burckert H. Common A. Frisch
  U. Furbach N. Murray U. Petermann M. Stickel.
* Information.  Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Dept. of Computer
  Science, Rheinau 1, 56075 Koblenz, Germany.  Phone: +49 261 9119 433.
  Fax: +49 261 9119 499.  uli@informatik.uni-koblenz.de.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHILEAN COMPUTER SCIENCE SOCIETY
  Concepcion,  Chile.  October  31 - November 4, 1994.
* Submission.  Five copies of a 10-page English abstract by May 16, 1994.
* Information. Carlos Isaac, conference@ing.puc.cl.

THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE (TACS'94)
  Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.  April 19-22, 1994.
* Inquiries on program and registration. tacs94@ito.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp. Fax:
  +81 22 267 4404. Postal address: Prof. Takayasu Ito, TACS'94 Co-Chair
  Dept. Computer and Mathematical Sciences Graduate School of Information
  Sciences Tohoku Univ. [Aobayama Campus] Sendai 980, Japan.
* Topics.  Logic, proof, specification and semantics of programs and
  languages; theories and models of concurrency; constructive logic,
  category theory, type theory; software specification, manipulation and
  verification.
* Invited speakers, special lecturers.  S. Abramsky, M. Felleisen, 
  P. Kanellakis, Z. Manna,  A. Meyer, J. Mitchell,  M. Takahashi, M. Vardi, 
  A. Yonezawa.