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CALL FOR PAPERS
QBF 2019
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International Workshop on
Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond
Lisbon, Portugal, July 7, 2019
http://fmv.jku.at/qbf19/
Affiliated to and co-located with:
Int. Conf. on Theory and Applications
of Satisfiability Testing (SAT'19)
Lisbon, Portugal, July 7-12, 2019
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Quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) are an extension of propositional
logic which allows for explicit quantification over propositional
variables. The decision problem of QBF is PSPACE-complete, compared to
the NP-completeness of the decision problem of propositional logic (SAT).
Many problems from application domains such as model checking, formal
verification or synthesis are PSPACE-complete, and hence could be
encoded in QBF in a natural way. Considerable progress has been made
in QBF solving throughout the past years. However, in contrast to SAT,
QBF is not yet widely applied to practical problems in academic or
industrial settings. For example, the extraction and validation of
models of (un)satisfiability of QBFs and has turned out to be
challenging, given that state-of-the-art solvers implement different
solving paradigms.
The goal of the International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas
(QBF Workshop) is to bring together researchers working on theoretical
and practical aspects of QBF solving. In addition to that, it
addresses (potential) users of QBF in order to reflect on the
state-of-the-art and to consolidate on immediate and long-term
research challenges.
The workshop also welcomes work on reasoning with quantifiers in
related problems, such as dependency QBF (DQBF), quantified constraint
satisfaction problems (QCSP), and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT)
with quantifiers.
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INVITED SPEAKER
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Alexander Feldman, PARC
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IMPORTANT DATES
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May 15: Submission
June 1: Notification
June 15: Camera-ready versions
Please see the workshop webpage for any updates:
http://fmv.jku.at/qbf19/
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
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The workshop is concerned with all aspects of current research on all
formalisms enriched by quantifiers, and in particular QBF. The topics
of interest include (but are not limited to):
Applications, encodings and benchmarks with quantifiers
QBF Proof theory and complexity results
Experimental evaluations of solvers or related tools
Case studies illustrating the power of quantifiers
Certificates and proofs for QBF, QCSP, SMT with quantifiers, etc.
Formats of proofs and certificates
Implementations of proof checkers and verifiers
Decision procedures
Calculi and their relationships
Data structures, implementation details and heuristics
Pre- and inprocessing techniques
Structural reasoning
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SUBMISSION
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Submissions of extended abstracts are invited and will be managed via
Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qbf19
In particular, we invite the submission of extended abstracts on work
that has been published already, novel unpublished work, or work in
progress.
The following forms of submissions are solicited:
- Proposals for short tutorial presentations on topics related to the
workshop. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the PC. The number
of accepted tutorials depends on the overall number of accepted
papers and talks, with the aim to set up a balanced workshop
program.
- Talk abstracts reporting on already published work. Such an abstract
should include an outline of the planned talk, and pointers to
relevant bibliography.
- Talk proposals presenting work that is unpublished or in progress.
- Submissions which describe novel applications of QBF or related
formalisms in various domains are particularly welcome.
Additionally, this call comprises known applications which have been
shown to be hard for QBF solvers in the past as well as new
applications for which present QBF solvers might lack certain
features still to be identified.
Each submission should have an overall length of 1-4 pages in LNCS
format. Authors may decide to include an appendix with additional
material. Appendices will be considered at the reviewers' discretion.
The accepted extended abstracts will be published on the workshop
webpage. The workshop does not have formal proceedings.
Authors of accepted contributions are expected to give a talk at the
workshop.
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CONTACT
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qbf19(a)easychair.org
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PROGRAM CHAIRS AND ORGANIZATION
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Hubie Chen, Birbeck, University of London
Florian Lonsing, Stanford University
Martina Seidl, University of Linz, Austria
Friedrich Slivovsky, TU Wien, Austria
FroCoS 2019
The 12th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems
London, UK, September 4-6, 2019
Website: https://www.frocos2019.org
Contact: chair(a)frocos2019.org
Due to requests from potential authors and from current authors wishing to polish their papers, we have extended the submission deadlines. The new deadlines are:
1 May 2019 (abstract), 8 May 2019 (paper)
Authors who have a good paper and are in doubt whether to send it to FroCoS may note some highlights of this year's edition: two affiliated workshops, two affiliated tutorials, a financially supported best paper award, five outstanding invited speakers (to be announced soon) and some support for young researchers traveling to the conference (including widely available cheap accommodation). We hope to see many of you this September in London -- in the beautiful campus of the Middlesex University, located 40 minutes from the city center and 20 minutes from Camden Town's iconic music venues!
GENERAL INFORMATION
The 12th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2019) will take place in London. It will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the Middlesex University London, from 4 to 6 September 2019.
FroCoS is the main international event for research on the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of formal systems, their modularization and analysis. The first FroCoS symposium was held in Munich, Germany, in 1996. Initially held every two years, since 2004 it has been organized annually with alternate years forming part of IJCAR. If we also count the IJCAR editions, this year FroCoS celebrates its 20th edition.
FroCoS 2019 will be co-located with the 28th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2019). The two conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions.
SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis.
FroCoS traditionally focuses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2019 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization, and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based methods and their practical use.
Topics of interest for FroCoS 2019 include (but are not restricted to):
* combinations of logics (such as higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics)
* combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving
* combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks
* combination of logics with probability and/or fuzzy measures
* combinations and modularity in ontologies
* integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems
* hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation
* hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics
* combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems
* logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications
* integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction
* combinations and modularity in term rewriting
* methods and techniques for the verification and analysis of information systems
* methods and techniques for combining logical reasoning with machine learning
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages in total, including references and figures.
Any additional material (going beyond the page limit) can be included in a clearly marked appendix. This appendix will be read at the discretion of the committee, and must be removed for the camera-ready version.
Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2019
Log in to EasyChair for FroCoS 2019<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2019>
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For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract three days before the paper submission deadline.
Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: 1 May 2019
Paper submission: 8 May 2019
Notification of paper decisions: 6 Jun 2019
Camera-ready papers due: 1 Jul 2019
FroCoS conference: 4-6 Sep 2019
PUBLICATION DETAILS
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS).
BEST PAPER AWARD
The program committee will select the FroCoS 2019 Best Paper, which will be awarded 500 Euros. The award will be presented at the conference.
SUPPORT FOR STUDENT AND YOUNG RESEARCHER PARTICIPATION
We have some limited funding for supporting students and young researchers traveling to the conference -- courtesy of direct sponsorship from Amazon and Springer and indirect sponsorship from the Association for Symbolic Logic. In addition, some funding will be available through the EUTypes COST action website. In all cases, authors of accepted papers will be given precedence. Please see the conference website for more details.
In addition, the Middlesex University is offering accommodation at a £30 daily rate in some excellently maintained shared flats located close to the conference venue (https://www.mdx.ac.uk/student-life/accommodation/platt-hall).
AFFILIATED EVENTS (COMMON WITH TABLEAUX)
WORKSHOPS:
* The 25th Workshop on Automated Reasoning (ARW 2019, http://arw.csc.liv.ac.uk)
Organizers: Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University) and Alexander Bolotov (University of Westminster)
* Journeys in Computational Logic: Tributes to Roy Dyckhoff
Organizers: Stephane Graham-Lengrand (SRI International), Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Heriot-Watt University) and
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London)
TUTORIALS:
* Formalising concurrent computation: CLF, Celf, and applications (joint FroCoS/TABLEAUX tutorial).
Presenters: Sonia Marin (IT-University of Copenhagen), Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar) and Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University)
* How to Build an Automated Theorem Prover - An Introductory Tutorial (invited TABLEAUX tutorial). Presenter: Jens Otten (University of Oslo)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
Christoph Benzmüller, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Torben Braüner, Roskilde University, Denmark
Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK
Marcelo Finger, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France
Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine, France
Silvio Ghilardi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Andreas Herzig, CNRS, IRIT, France
Moa Johansson, Chalmers University, Sweden
Jean Christoph Jung, University of Bremen, Germany
Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK
Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, France
Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University
Cláudia Nalon, University of Brasília, Brazil
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst, Italy
Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA, France
Philipp Rümmer, Uppsala University, Sweden
Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Christian Sternagel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Andrzej Szalas, Linköping University, Sweden
Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, US
Ashish Tiwari, SRI International, US
Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
PC CHAIRS
Andreas Herzig, CNRS, IRIT, France
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Kelly Androutsopoulos, Middlesex University London, UK
Jaap Boender, Middlesex University London, UK
Michele Bottone, Middlesex University London, UK
Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK
Rajagopal Nagarajan, Middlesex University London, UK
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University London, UK
LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University London, UK
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2nd Call for Contributions
LCC 2019
20th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity
July 8, 2019, Patras, Greece
Collocated with ICALP 2019
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/
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LCC meetings are aimed at the foundational interconnections between
logic and computational complexity, as present, for example, in
implicit computational complexity (descriptive and type-theoretic
methods); deductive formalisms as they relate to complexity
(e.g. ramification, weak comprehension, bounded arithmetic, linear
logic and resource logics); complexity aspects of finite model theory
and databases; complexity-mindful program derivation and verification;
computational complexity at higher type; and proof complexity. The
program will consist of invited lectures as well as contributed talks
selected by the Program Committee.
IMPORTANT DATES:
* submission May 1, 2019
* notification May 20, 2019
* workshop July 8, 2019
INVITED SPEAKERS:
* Daniel Leivant <https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~leivant/> (Indiana University, US)
* Thomas Seiller <https://www.seiller.org/> (CNRS Paris, France)
* Thomas Zeume (TU Dortmund, Germany)
SUBMISSION:
Submissions must be in English and in the form of an abstract of about
3-4 pages. All submissions should be submitted through Easychair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcc19<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcc1>
We also welcome submissions of abstracts based on work submitted or
published elsewhere, provided that all pertinent information is
disclosed at submission time. There will be no formal reviewing as is
usually understood in peer-reviewed conferences with published
proceedings. The program committee checks relevance and may provide
additional feedback.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Lauri Hella, Co-chair, Tampere University, Finland
Monika Seisenberger, Co-chair, Swansea University, UK
Sam Buss, University of California, San Diego, US
Anupam Das, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Anuj Dawar, University of Cambridge, UK
Akitoshi Kawamura, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Arne Meier, University of Hannover, Germany
Lidia Tendera, University of Opole, Poland
REGISTRATION:
via ICALP 2019 registration
The Kurt Goedel Society would like to cordially invite you to celebration of
the 70th anniversary of Goedel's seminal publication and the 100th
anniversary of the decisive experimental verification of general relativity,
taking place at the University of Vienna, July 25-27, 2019:
KURT GOEDEL`s LEGACY: DOES FUTURE LIE IN THE PAST?
This event will bring together the most prominent researchers from the
fields of Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. The
conference will be complemented by a special exhibition about life and work
of Kurt Goedel with emphasis on the Goedel's solution. Program will consist
of the invited talks, contributed talks and posters. Confirmed invited
speakers include: Markus Aspelmeyer, John D.Barrow, Charles L. Bennett,
David Bennett, George F.R. Ellis, Juliet Floyd, Georg Gottlob, Jan von
Plato, Wolfgang Schleich, Marika Taylor, Toby Walsh, Nobel laureate Rainer
Weiss and Palle Yourgrau. Dana Scott is the Honorary Chair of the
Conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 23, 2019: Submission deadline for contributed posters and talks
May 10, 2019: Early registration deadline
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-Peter C. Aichelburg, University of Vienna
-Matthias Baaz, Vienna University of Technology (Chair)
-Piotr T. Chruściel, University of Vienna
-Daniel Grumiller, Vienna University of Technology
-Gary Mar, Stony Brook University
-Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz, Vienna University of Technology and IJCAI
-Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna
-Friedrich K. Stadler, University of Vienna
ORGANIZERS AND SPONSORS
Organized by the Kurt Goedel Society, with a kind support of the Institute
of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry at TU Wien, ÖAW, TURIS, the Vienna
Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA at TU WIEN), Universität Wien, Vienna
Circle, and the Vienna Circle Society.
WEBSITE
https://kgs.logic.at/goedels-legacy/
FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/events/301928290466410/
TWITTER
#Time4Goedel
There is an opening for a fully funded research assistant position (PhD
student) at the Formal Methods in Systems Engineering group at TU Wien,
Vienna, Austria. The successful candidate will be supervised by Prof.
Florian Zuleger, and co-supervised by Benjamin Aminof, PhD.
The proposed research will apply formal methods (logics and automatic
methods enabling temporal and strategic reasoning) for the verification and
synthesis of multi-agent systems and their interaction with realistic
environments. The work has strong connections to artificial intelligence,
distributed computing, and mobile agents/robots.
The position is available immediately, a starting date until Fall 2019 is
intended. The position is for 3 years.
APPLICATION
The application should include the candidate's CV, an abstract of their
diploma/masters thesis, a short motivation letter, and two letters of
recommendation (all five items in a single pdf file; letters of
recommendation can also be sent directly). The application should also
mention possible starting dates and should be sent to zuleger(a)forsyte.at.
Informal inquiries with Prof Zuleger are welcome. A first screening of
applications will start on May 6, 2019.
It is our pleasure to announce the call for the SIGLOG/VCLA Travel Awards
for attendees of Women in Logic Workshop 2019 (WiL) associated with the 34th
Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) 2019.
ELIGIBILITY
Thanks to the generous support of the SIGLOG and Vienna Center for Logic and
Algorithms (VCLA), applications for awards are invited to facilitate
students and postdocs, who are the authors of accepted talks and papers to
register and travel to the WiL 2019 (June 23, 2019).
SIGLOG/VCLA AWARDS
· The awardees of the SIGLOG/VCLA Travel Award will be reimbursed
for a portion of their travel expenses, and registration costs.
· There will be at most one award per paper.
APPLICATION PROCESS
To submit a nomination for the SIGLOG/VCLA Travel Awards please include:
1. Basic information about the applicant
2. Information about her/his accepted WiL 2019 contribution
3. A statement about how attendance at WiL 2019 will impact the applicant
4. Resume/CV of the applicant
5. A nomination consists of a recommendation letter of up to 300 words by
the applicant´s supervisor
Please submit using the subject WiL 2019 Travel Awards to the WiL
Program Co-chairs, Valeria de Paiva at <mailto:valeria.depaiva@gmail.com>
valeria.depaiva(a)gmail.com and Amy Felty <mailto:atafelty@uottawa.ca>
atafelty(a)uottawa.ca
SIGLOG/VCLA TRAVEL AWARDS IMPORTANT DATES
· Nominations must arrive no later than May 15, 2019
· The winners will be notified by May 25, 2019
WIL 2019 CALL FOR TALKS AND PAPERS
Contributions should be written in English and can be submitted in the form
of full papers (with a maximum of 10 pages), short papers (with a maximum of
5 pages), or talk abstracts (1 page).
· Talk/Paper submission deadline: April 21, 2019
· Author Notification: May 7, 2019
More: https://sites.google.com/site/womeninlogic2019/call-for-papers
FroCoS 2019
The 12th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems
London, UK, September 4-6, 2019
Website: https://www.frocos2019.org
Contact: chair(a)frocos2019.org
Submission deadlines: 21 Apr 2019 (abstract), 24 Apr 2019 (paper)
GENERAL INFORMATION
The 12th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2019) will take place in London. It will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the Middlesex University London, from 4 to 6 September 2019.
FroCoS is the main international event for research on the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of formal systems, their modularization and analysis. The first FroCoS symposium was held in Munich, Germany, in 1996. Initially held every two years, since 2004 it has been organized annually with alternate years forming part of IJCAR. If we also count the IJCAR editions, this year FroCoS celebrates its 20th edition.
FroCoS 2019 will be co-located with the 28th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2019). The two conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions.
SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis.
FroCoS traditionally focuses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2019 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization, and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based methods and their practical use.
Topics of interest for FroCoS 2019 include (but are not restricted to):
* combinations of logics (such as higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics)
* combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving
* combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks
* combination of logics with probability and/or fuzzy measures
* combinations and modularity in ontologies
* integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems
* hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation
* hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics
* combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems
* logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications
* integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction
* combinations and modularity in term rewriting
* methods and techniques for the verification and analysis of information systems
* methods and techniques for combining logical reasoning with machine learning
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages in total, including references and figures.
Any additional material (going beyond the page limit) can be included in a clearly marked appendix. This appendix will be read at the discretion of the committee, and must be removed for the camera-ready version.
Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2019
For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract three days before the paper submission deadline.
Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: 21 Apr 2019
Paper submission: 24 Apr 2019
Notification of paper decisions: 6 Jun 2019
Camera-ready papers due: 1 Jul 2019
FroCoS conference: 4-6 Sep 2019
PUBLICATION DETAILS
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS).
BEST PAPER AWARD
The program committee will select the FroCoS 2019 Best Paper, which will be awarded 500 Euros. The award will be presented at the conference.
TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS
Some funding will be available to support students traveling to FroCoS 2019. More details will be given on the conference website in due time.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
Christoph Benzmüller, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Torben Braüner, Roskilde University, Denmark
Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK
Marcelo Finger, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France
Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine, France
Silvio Ghilardi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Andreas Herzig, CNRS, IRIT, France
Moa Johansson, Chalmers University, Sweden
Jean Christoph Jung, University of Bremen, Germany
Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK
Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, France
Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University
Cláudia Nalon, University of Brasília, Brazil
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst, Italy
Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA, France
Philipp Rümmer, Uppsala University, Sweden
Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Christian Sternagel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Andrzej Szalas, Linköping University, Sweden
Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, US
Ashish Tiwari, SRI International, US
Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
PC CHAIRS
Andreas Herzig, CNRS, IRIT, France
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Kelly Androutsopoulos, Middlesex University London, UK
Jaap Boender, Middlesex University London, UK
Michele Bottone, Middlesex University London, UK
Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK
Rajagopal Nagarajan, Middlesex University London, UK
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University London, UK
LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University London, UK
TABLEAUX 2019
The 28th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
London, UK, September 3-5, 2019
Authors, please note a change compared to the first call: The references are not counted in the page limits.
Website: https://www.tableaux2019.org
Contact: chair(a)tableaux2019.org
Submission deadlines: 21 Apr 2019 (abstract), 24 Apr 2019 (paper)
GENERAL INFORMATION
The 28th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2019) will take place in London. It will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the Middlesex University London, on 3-5 September 2019.
TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects -- theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications -- of the mechanization of tableaux-based reasoning and related methods is presented. The first TABLEAUX conference was held in Lautenbach near Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1992. Since then it has been organized on an annual basis; in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 as a constituent of IJCAR.
TABLEAUX 2019 will be co-located with the 12th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2019). The conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions.
SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For many logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, fuzzy, relevance and non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations;
* sequent calculi and natural deduction calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation;
* related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches);
* flexible, easily extendable, light-weight methods for theorem proving; novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics;
* systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, proof assistants, logical frameworks, model checkers, etc.);
* implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, etc.);
* extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning;
* techniques for proof generation and compact (or humanly readable) proof representation;
* theoretical and practical aspects of decision procedures;
* applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching.
We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real-world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning and on logical aspects of the solution.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions are invited in three categories:
(A) research papers reporting original theoretical research or applications, with length up to 15 pages excluding references;
(B) system descriptions, with length up to 9 pages excluding references;
(C) position papers and brief reports on work in progress, with length up to 9 pages excluding references.
Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. Any additional material (going beyond the page limit) can be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the committee and must be removed for the camera-ready version.
For category A submissions, the reported results must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet. Authors are encouraged to publish the implementation under an open source license. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that people can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in categories A and B will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers in category C will be published as a Technical Report of the Middlesex University London.
Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2019
For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: 21 Apr 2019
Paper submission: 24 Apr 2019
Notification of paper decisions: 6 Jun 2019
Camera-ready papers due: 1 Jul 2019
TABLEAUX conference: 3-5 Sep 2019
PUBLICATION DETAILS
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS).
BEST PAPER AWARDS
The program committee will select (1) the TABLEAUX 2019 Best Paper and (2) the TABLEAUX 2019 Best Paper by a Junior Researcher, of which the latter will be supported by 500 Euros. Researchers will be considered "junior" if either they are students or their PhD degree date is less than two years from the first day of the meeting. The two awards will be presented at the conference.
TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS
Some funding will be available to support students traveling to TABLEAUX 2019. More details will be given on the conference website in due time.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Peter Baumgartner, Data61/CSIRO, Australia
Maria Paola Bonacina, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
James Brotherston, University College London, UK
Serenella Cerrito, IBISC, Univ. Evry, Paris Saclay University, France
Agata Ciabattoni, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Anupam Das, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK
Camillo Fiorentini, University of Milano, Italy
Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France
Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine, France
Martin Giese, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
Laura Giordano, DISIT, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Rajeev Goré, The Australian National University, Australia
Stéphane Graham-Lengrand, SRI International, USA
Reiner Hähnle, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Ori Lahav, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tomer Libal, American University of Paris, France
George Metcalfe, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France
Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA
Neil Murray, SUNY at Albany, USA
Cláudia Nalon, University of Brasília, Brazil
Sara Negri, University of Helsinki, Finland
Hans de Nivelle, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Nicola Olivetti, LSIS, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Jens Otten, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
Valeria De Paiva, Nuance Communications, USA
Nicolas Peltier, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Francesca Poggiolesi, CNRS, IHST Paris, France
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
Gian Luca Pozzato, University of Turin, Italy
Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK
Giselle Reis, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Alwen Tiu, Australian National University, Australia
Sophie Tourret, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
Dmitriy Traytel, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Josef Urban, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Republic
Luca Viganò, King's College, London, UK
Uwe Waldmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
PC CHAIRS
Serenella Cerrito, IBISC, Univ. Evry, Paris Saclay University, France
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Kelly Androutsopoulos, Middlesex University London, UK
Jaap Boender, Middlesex University London, UK
Michele Bottone, Middlesex University London, UK
Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK
Rajagopal Nagarajan, Middlesex University London, UK
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University London, UK
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK
Dear all,
*Save the date!*
The Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata conference will be held
in *Warsaw,
Poland, on 17-20 September 2019*:
http://highlights-conference.org/
The important dates are:
10 June: Submission deadline
20 June: Notification
31 July: Early registration deadline
17 September: Tutorial
18-20 September: Conference
The week before (10-15 September) we will have the 3rd FoPSS School on
Nominal Techniques:
https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~fopss19/