Newsletter 85 April 23, 2003 ******************************************************************* * Past issues of the newsletter are available at http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/lics/newsletters/ * Instructions for submitting an announcement to the newsletter can be found at http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/lics/newsletters/inst.html ******************************************************************* TABLE OF CONTENTS * CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS LICS 2003 - Call for Participation Typical Case Complexity and Phase Transitions - Announcement and Call for Papers Foundations of Global Computing - Call for Papers MERLIN 2003 - Call for Papers Kalmar Workshop on Logic and Computer Science - Call for Papers Algebraic and Topological Methods in Non-classical Logics - Call for Papers Workshop on Feature Interactions in Telecommunications and Software Systems - Call for Participation ACSD 2003 - Call for Participation * SUMMER SCHOOLS EEF Global Computing Summer School * BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS Computability and Models Perspectives East and West, edited by S. Barry Cooper and Sergei S. Goncharov Abstract State Machines. A Method for High-Level System Design and Analysis, by Egon Boerger and Robert Staerk Aspects of Complexity, Minicourses in Algorithmics, Complexity, and Computational Algebra, edited by Rod Downey and Denis Hirschfeldt - Price Reduction EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2003) June 22 - 25, 2003, Ottawa, Canada http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/als/lics/lics03/ Call for Participation * The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic in a broad sense. The conference is intended to emphasize the relevance of logic to computer science. * The program of LICS 2003 features 4 invited talks, 2 invited tutorials, 34 contributed papers, and 14 short presentations. As in previous years, there will be a number of workshops affiliated with the conference. The full program is available on the conference website. * Pre-LICS Summer School: The Fields Institute Summer School on Logic and Foundations of Computation will be held at the University of Ottawa, June 2-20, 2003. For information, see the summer school web site at: http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/lfc/fields2003/ * Registration: LICS 2003 registration and conference information is now available on the LICS 2003 website or directly at: http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/lfc/lics2003/ * The deadline for early registration is Tuesday, May 20, 2003. WORKSHOP ON TYPICAL CASE COMPLEXITY AND PHASE TRANSITIONS Affiliated with LICS 2003 June 21, 2003, Ottawa, Canada Announcement and Call for Papers http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~kranakis/LICS-03.html * Typical-case complexity refers to algorithmic complexity that holds with high probability for a class of random instances of a problem. Usually, the class of instances considered is parameterized by a "control parameter." It has been observed that for many computationally interesting problems, their typical-case complexity undergoes an abrupt change (phase transition) about a critical value of the control parameter. At the same critical region, other phenomena of combinatorial interest are often observed. Papers reporting on experimental and theoretical research in this area are solicited, especially if they are the outcome of cross-fertilization between computer simulation results and mathematical advances in discrete mathematics, probability theory or theoretical computer science. Of particular interest are threshold phenomena in which logic comes into play and connections to Proof Complexity, Satisfiability, and Statistical Physics. * Program committee: J. Chayes; N. Creignou; L. Kirousis; E. Kranakis; D. Krizanc. * Invited speakers (confirmed): Jennifer Chayes (Seattle); Nadia Creignou (Marseille); Paul Beame (Seattle); John Franco (Cincinnati) * Submit short abstracts of at most five pages in ps or pdf either to kirousis@ceid.upatras.gr or kranakis@scs.carleton.ca * Submission deadline: April 28, 2003 FOUNDATIONS OF GLOBAL COMPUTING (FGC), 2nd EATCS WORKSHOP co-located with ICALP 2003, 28-29 June 2003, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Call for Papers http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/vs/fgc * Foundations of Global Computing focuses on foundational aspects of global computing, and invites submissions of original scientific work thereof. * The workshop proceedings will be published in the ENTCS series and a selection of papers will appear in a special issue of a leading Computer Science journal. It will be held as a ICALP 2003 satellite event under the auspices of the EATCS. * Invited Speakers: Cedric Fournet (Microsoft Research); Robert Harper (CMU); Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich); Li Gong (SUN Microsystems) * Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of their papers, presenting original contributions to the workshop themes. Submissions should be in English and not exceed 15 standard pages. They should be sent as PS or PDF files to fgc@cogs.susx.ac.uk and be accompanied by a text-only message containing: title, abstract and keywords, the authors' full names, and address and e-mail for correspondence. Simultaneous submission to other meetings with published proceedings is not allowed. * Submission deadline: 27 Apr 2003 SECOND ACM WORKSHOP ON MECHANIZED REASONING ABOUT LANGUAGES WITH VARIABLE BINDING (MERLIN 2003) Affiliated with PLI 2003 Uppsala, Sweden, August 26, 2003 Call for papers http://merlin.dimi.uniud.it/ * Theme. The automation of the metatheory of programming languages, particularly work which involves variable binding and fresh name generation. Theoretical and practical problems of encoding variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. * Invited speaker: Simon Peyton Jones * Papers should be submitted electronically as a PostScript or PDF file to the email address merlin03@dimi.uniud.it. * Deadline for paper submission: June 16, 2003 * Program Committee: Simon Ambler (University of Leicester), Furio Honsell (University of Udine), Marino Miculan (University of Udine, Italy), Dale Miller (INRIA/Futurs, France), Ugo Montanari (University of Pisa, Italy), Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universitat Muenchen Germany), Andrew M. Pitts (University of Cambridge, UK), Carsten Schuermann (Yale University, USA). KALMAR WORKSHOP ON LOGIC AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Call for Papers Szeged, Hungary, October 1 - 2, 2003 http://www.rgai.hu/kalmar2003 * Laszlo Kalmar (1905 - 1976) was a pioneer in mathematical logic and computer science. The objective of the workshop is to commemorate his work, and to present recent research results in the broad area of logic and computer science. * Workshop Chair: F. Gecseg (Szeged) * Workshop Co-Chairs: J. Csirik (Szeged), Gy. Turan (Szeged, Chicago) * Invited speakers include: E. Graedel (Aachen), A. Hajnal (New Brunswick, Budapest), J. Lloyd (Canberra), G. Proszeky (Budapest) * Co-located Event: 13th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2003), September 29 - October 1, 2003. * Publication: the accepted papers will be available in a booklet of notes at the workshop. A special journal issue is under consideration. * Important dates: Paper submission: June 30, 2003 Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2003 Final version submission: September 15, 2003 * Submission information: Submitted papers should be extended abstracts up to 10 pages. The papers are to be submitted electronically in PDF or PostScript form. For additional details, please see the workshop home page. * Program Committee: H. Andreka (Budapest), A. Atserias (Barcelona), S. Bloom (Hoboken), J. Csirik (Szeged), J. Demetrovics (Budapest), B. Domolki (Budapest), M. Grohe (Edinburgh), J. Makowsky (Haifa), A. Salomaa (Turku), Gy. Turan (chair, Szeged, Chicago) * Organizing Committee: D. Csendes, T. Koles, B. Szorenyi ALGEBRAIC AND TOPOLOGICAL METHODS IN NON-CLASSICAL LOGICS Tbilisi, Georgia, 7 - 11 July 2003 Final Call for Papers http://piscopia.nmsu.edu/morandi/TbilisiConference * The aim of this conference is to present some recent advances in the use of algebraic, order-theoretic, and topological methods in non-classical logics. We also hope to bring together researchers in the fields of non-classical logics, lattice theory, universal algebra, category theory, and general topology in order to foster collaboration and to get new ideas for further research. * Conference Topics: lattices with operators, topological semantics of modal logic, topological and topos semantics of intuitionistic logic, ordered topological spaces. * Invited Speakers: Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam; Leo Esakia, Georgian Academy of Sciences; Mai Gehrke, New Mexico State University; John Harding, New Mexico State University; Ramon Jansana, University of Barcelona; Daniele Mundici, Milan University; Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam; Michael Zakharyaschev, King's College; Marek Zawadowski, University of Warsaw. * Call for papers: If you wish to speak at the conference, please send by email a title and abstract of your talk to Guram Bezhanishvili (gbezhani@nmsu.edu). The deadline for submissions is 1 May. We will let you know by 15 May if you will be invited to speak at the conference. The deadline to register for the conference is 1 June. * For further information, contact Guram Bezhanishvili (gbezhani@nmsu.edu) or Pat Morandi (pmorandi@nmsu.edu). SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FEATURE INTERACTIONS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS 10th June to 13th June, 2003, Ottawa, Canada. http://www.site.uottawa.ca/fiw03/ Call for Participation * The Feature Interaction Workshop is the primary international forum for discussion and reporting on research in the feature interaction problem in telecommunications and software systems. The workshop aims to bring together representatives of the telecommunications industry, the software industry, and the research community working on various aspects of feature interactions in order to discuss possible solutions and their practical applications, as well as setting directions for further research. Active debates will be encouraged. * Proposals for poster presentations and tool demonstrations, including title, authors, and short description (400 words maximum) should be sent to FIW03@site.uottawa.ca before May 17th. * Registration forms are available on the Workshop's Web site. Early birds' rates are valid until May 9th. Special rates for students are also available, but places are limited. It is possible to register to the tutorials, to the Workshop, or to both. Register now! APPLICATION OF CONCURRENCY TO SYSTEM DESIGN (ACSD 2003) 18-20 June, 2003 Guimaraes, Portugal Call for Participation * The registration form, the list of accepted papers, and other information are available from http://get.dsi.uminho.pt/acsd03/ EEF GLOBAL COMPUTING SUMMER SCHOOL Edinburgh, Scotland, 7th to 11th July 2003 http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/events/global-computing/ * Description. This school provides researchers with insights into the problems of the design and construction of global computing systems. Global computation is an active field of research which includes distributed and mobile computation and addresses the foundational problems in the area such as security, access control, resource control, discovery, architecture and decentralised organisation. The fundamental tools used to analyse and build such systems are type systems, process algebras, modelling languages and state-of-the-art programming languages and environments. * Speakers. Ian Clarke (provisional); Andrew Gordon; Martin Hofmann; Rocco de Nicola; Davide Sangiorgi; and Martin Wirsing. * Applications. A number of scholarships are available. Whether or not they are applying for funding, anyone who wishes to attend must apply via the form on the Web page by Friday 16th May 2003. BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Computability and Models Perspectives East and West edited by S. Barry Cooper and Sergei S. Goncharov Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, Hardbound, ISBN 0-306-47400-X January 2003, 388 pp. EUR 142.00 / USD 135.00 / GBP 90.50 Book Series: University Series in Mathematics * There are few notions as fundamental to contemporary science as those of computability and modelling. 'Computability and Models' attempts to make some of the exciting and important new research developments in this area accessible to a wider readership. Written by international leaders drawn from major research centres both East and West, this book is an essential addition to scientific libraries serving both specialist and the interested non-specialist reader. * Order at: http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47400-X BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Abstract State Machines. A Method for High-Level System Design and Analysis Egon Boerger and Robert Staerk Springer Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-540-00702-4 http://www.di.unipi.it/AsmBook/ * The systems engineering method proposed in this book, which is based on Abstract State Machines (ASMs), guides the development of software and embedded hardware-software systems seamlessly from requirements capture to actual implementation and documentation. Within a single conceptual framework it covers design, verification by reasoning techniques, and validation by simulation and testing. ASMs improve current industrial practice by using accurate high-level modeling and by linking the descriptions at the successive stages of system development in an organic and efficiently maintainable chain of rigorous and coherent system models at stepwise-refined abstraction levels. * The book combines the features of a textbook and a handbook. Researchers will find here the most comprehensive description of ASMs available today and professionals will use it as a "modeling handbook for the working software engineer." As a textbook it supports self-study or it can form the basis of a lecture course. The book is complemented by a CD containing the whole book text, additional course material, solutions to exercises, and additional examples. * Ordering from www.springer.de or http://www.di.unipi.it/AsmBook/ or send an email to orders@springer.de BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - PRICE REDUCTION Aspects of Complexity Minicourses in Algorithmics, Complexity, and Computational Algebra, MathematicsWorkshop, Kaikoura, New Zealand, January 7-15, 2000 Editors: Rod Downey, Denis Hirschfeldt de Gruyter Series in Logic and Its Applications, Volume 4 2001. vi, 172 pages. ISBN 3-11-016810-3 USA, Canada, Mexico: Cloth US$ 59.95 All other countries: EUR 58.00 [D] / sFr 93,- http://www.degruyter.com * The contributions in this volume are a result of the sixth summer workshop of the New Zealand Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. The title of this workshop was Computability, Complexity, and Computational Algebra. * The lecture notes presented here are based on minicourses from leading experts on various aspects of complexity. The minicourses are from areas including basic complexity, Kolmogorov complexity, enumeration complexity, complexity in algebra, real complexity and the BlumShub Smale model, parametric complexity, and aspects of the continuum. * The material and level of presentation are aimed at beginning graduate students, and the resulting text will be a valuable resource for the working mathematician and computer scientist. * Ordering Information: see URL above.
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