LICSNEWS 8 ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL & LOGIC PROGRAMMING (EJFLP) Fully refereed and available via email free of charge. First issue expected in late 1993. Editorial Board: R. Loogen, H. Kuchen, M. Hanus, M. MT Chakravarty, M. Koehler, Y. Guo, M. Rodriguez-Artalejo, A. Krall, A. Mueck, T. Ida, HCR. Lock, A. Hallmann, P. Padawitz, C. Brzoska, F. Pfennig Papers sollicited in: functional and logic languages; integration of programming paradigms; parallelism in functional & logic programming; program interpretation, compilation & transformation; static analysis; semantic foundations; proof calculis for for functional, logic, & constraint programming; applications; declarative programming concepts & methodolgy Papers of any length should be submitted in postscript or dvi format to submissions@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de. Email an empty message with "Help" in subject field for submission info. Deadline for submissions to issue #1 is August 31. Subsciptions: send an empty message to subscriptions@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de 21ST ACM SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (POPL) Portland, Oregon, January 16--19, 1994 Submit 14 copies of a technical summary, not to exceed 5000 words (excluding bibliography and figures) by July 26 to the Program Cair, Hans-J. Boehm, Xerox Palo Alto Research Ctr, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. boehm@parc.xerox.com Specific suggestions for writing summaries are available for anonymous ftp as file "suggestions" in the directories parcftp.xerox.com:pub/popl94 and ftp.inria.fr:INRIA/publication/ChLoE/SIGPLAN/popl94 General Chairs: B. Lang, D. Yellin. Arrangement Chair: T. Sheard Program Committee: B. Ballance, G. Berry, H.-J. Boehm, L. Cardelli, M. Chen, R. Farrow, J. Launchbury, P. Lee, D. Miller, W. Pugh, V. Sarkar, C. Talcott, K. Zadeck 18th SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (MFCS'93) Gdansk, Poland, August 30 - September 3, 1993 The program consists of 56 papers selected by the program committee, and invited talks by K. Apt, A. Arnold, R. Burstall, V. Diekert, M. Hennessy, F. Honsell, R. Milner, A. Pitts, V. Pratt, G. Rozenberg, A. Salomaa, and P. Wadler. Proceedings, published as Springer-Verlag LNCS, will be available at the conference. Programme Committee: J. Adamek, M. Bednarczyk, J. Bergstra, A. Borzyszkowski, B. Courcelle, H.-D. Ehrich, I. Havel, G. Huet, N. Jones, E. Moggi, V. Nepomniaschy, E.-R. Olderog, F. Orejas, A. Poigne, I. Sain, D. Schmidt, S. Sokolowski (Chair), M. Wirsing Info: MFCS'93, Inst. of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jaskowa Dolina 31, 80-252 Gdansk, Poland. Phone: (+48)(58)419015 Fax: (+48)(58) 416912. Email: ssokolow@plearn.bitnet INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, June 13-18, 1994. General and Program Chairs: Maurizio Martelli & Pascal Van Hentenryck. Submission deadline: November 15, 1993. Notification: February 21. Topics include all theoretical & practical aspects of logic programming. Info: martelli@disi.unige.it or pvh@cs.brown.edu. STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY & RECURSION-THEORETIC METHODS IN LOGIC PROGRAMMING Workshop in conjunction with the International Symp. on Logic Programming (Vancouver, October 23-26, 1993) Expected format: Half-day, appr 30 participants, 10-12 short presentations. Organizers: Victor Marek (marek@ms.uky.edu), Howard Blair (blair@top.cis.syr.edu), Anil Nerode (nerode@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu), and Jeffrey Remmel (jremmel@kleene.ucsd.edu). Submit an extended abstract by July 23 to Mathematical Sciences Institute (Complexity in Logic Programming Workshop) Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. FAX: 607-255-9003 OR latex or ps source to marek@ms.uky.edu ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS (3rd International Symposium) Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 2-5, 1994, General Chair: Martin Golumbic; Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman Program co-chairs: Erol Gelenbe & Zvi Kedem; Publicity Chair: Ugur Halici Program committee: S. Arikawa, A. Bundy, T.Y. Chen, R.A.T. Guerreiro, P. Hammer, J. Hooker, L. Joskowicz, D. Kapur, H. Kirchner, V. Kistlerov, J-C. Latombe, J.L. Lassez, R.C.T. Lee, R. Lusk, F. Mizoguchi, A. Nerode, M. Nivat, R. Overbeek, Z. Ras, M. Richter, D. Rosenkrantz, R.K. Shyamasundar, P. Spirakis, M. Stickel, S. Suddarth, L. Valiant, M. Vardi, and P. Wolper. Submit five copies of extended abstracts by July 30th, 1993 to: From the Americas: Zvi Kedem, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012 (kedem@cs.nyu.edu); From elsewhere: Erol Gelenbe, EHEI/Mathematiques, 45 rue des Saints-Peres, 75006 Paris, France (erol@masi.ibp.fr) Info: Frederick Hoffman, Department of Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University, PO Box 3091, Boca Raton, FL 33431. (hoffman@acc.fau.edu) THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (STAC'94), 11th Annual Symposium February 24-26, 1994, Caen (France). Submit 6 copies of a 5-12 page draft (in English) by August 15 to the Program Chair, Patrice Enjalbert, LAIAC (STAC'94), Universite de Caen, F-14032 Caen Cedex, France Proceedings will be published as Springer LNCS. Program Committee: J. Balcazar, M. Crochemore, V. Diekert, P. Enjalbert, R. Klein, P. McKenzie, E.W. Mayr, L. Pacholski, R. Pinzani, D. Richard, B. Rozoy, M. Rusinowitch, L Staiger, J. Tucker, K. Wagner. Info: anonymous ftp from ftp.univ-caen.fr:pub/info-stacs.tex from the chair: stacs@univ-caen.fr; Ph: 33-31-45.56.16; Fax: 33-31-45.58.14