6-9 July 2010
Brasilia, Brazil
WoLLIC 2010 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 6th to 9th, 2010 Universidade de Braslia, Braslia, Brazil Scientific Sponsorship Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~igpl/>IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (<http://www.folli.org/>FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (<http://www.aslonline.org/>ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (<http://www.eatcs.org/>EATCS) Sociedade Brasileira de Computao (<http://www.sbc.org.br/>SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lgica (<http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/>SBL) Funding (tbc) Special: A screening of <http://zalafilms.com/films/halmos.html>I want to be a mathematician: A conversation with Paul Halmos Organisation <http://www.mat.unb.br/>Department of Mathematics, <http://www.mat.unb.br/>Universidade de Braslia, Brazil <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/>Centro de Informtica, <http://www.ufpe.br/>Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Call for Papers <http://wollic.org/>WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Seventeenth WoLLIC will be held in Braslia, Brazil, from July 6th to 9th , 2010. It is sponsored by the<http://www.aslonline.org/>Association<http://www.aslonline.org/> for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~igpl>Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the <http://www.folli.org/>The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the <http://www.eatcs.org/>European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the <http://www.sbc.org.br/>Sociedade Brasileira de Computao (SBC), and the <http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/>Sociedade Brasileira de Lgica (SBL). Special Event 2010 will mark the 50-th anniversary of the first publication of Paul Halmos' classic book Nave Set Theory by Springer Verlag. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Halmos which was directed by George Csicsery: "I want to be a mathematician. A conversation with Paul Halmos"<http://zalafilms.com/films/halmos.html>http://zalafilms.com/films/h almos.html Paper submission Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2010 EasyChair website. (Please go to <http://wollic.org/wollic2010/instructions.html>http://wollic.org/wollic201 0/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 7 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 12, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 3 (firm date). Proceedings The proceedings of WoLLIC 2010, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's <http://www.springer.com/lncs>LNCS series (TBC). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2010 issue of a scientific journal (soon to be announced). Invited Speakers <http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger>Marcelo Finger <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/>Michiel van Lambalgen <http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/>Johann (Janos) Makowsky <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~terwijn/>Sebastiaan Terwijn Student Grants ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2010 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2010). See<http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html>http<http://www.aslon line.org/studenttravelawards.html>://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards. html for details. Important Dates February 28, 2010: Paper title and abstract deadlineMarch 7, 2010: Full paper deadline (firm) April 12, 2010: Author notificationMay 3, 2010: Final version deadline (firm) Programme Committee <http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/profesores/becher/>Vernica Becher (Buenos Aires) <http://www.inf.unibz.it/~bernardi/>Raffaella Bernardi (Bolzano) <http://www.ime.usp.br/~bianconi/>Ricardo Bianconi (S o Paulo) <http://cca-net.de/vasco/>Vasco Brattka (Cape Town) <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~bcate/>Balder ten Cate (ENS, Cachan) <http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.coecke/>Bob Coecke (Oxford) <http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~abc/>Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens) <http://www.cle.unicamp.br/prof/coniglio/>Marcelo Coniglio (Campinas) <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ad260/>Anuj Dawar (Cambridge), chair <http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/>Valentin Goranko (Copenhagen) <http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hassei/>Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto U, Japan) <http://www.phil.uu.nl/~iemhoff/eigen.html>Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht) <http://research.nii.ac.jp/~kanazawa/>Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) <http://www.di.ens.fr/~longo/>Giuseppe Longo (CNRS & ENS, Paris) <http://www.entcs.org/mislove.html>Mike Mislove (Tulane) <http://nicta.com.au/people/norrishm>Michael Norrish (NICTA, Canberra) <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/selman/>Bart Selman (Cornell) <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~weinstei/>Scott Weinstein (Penn) Organising Committee <http://www.mat.unb.br/~ayala/>Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Braslia, Brazil) (co-chair) <http://www.cic.unb.br:9080/sitecic/departamento/docentes/flavio>Flvio L . C. Moura (U Braslia, Brazil) <http://www.cic.unb.br:9080/sitecic/departamento/docentes/cn>Claudia Nalon (U Braslia, Brazil) <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ago>Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ruy>Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) (co-chair) Further information Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. Web page <http://wollic.org/wollic2010/>http://wollic.org/wollic2010/ Steering committee Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz