18-21 May 2011
Philadelphia PA, U.S.A.
WoLLIC 2011 18th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation May 18th to 21st, 2011 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA 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) European Association for Computer Science Logic (<http://www.eacsl.org/>EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computao (<http://www.sbc.org.br/>SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lgica (<http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/>SBL) Organisation <http://www.math.upenn.edu/>Department of Mathematics, <http://www.upenn.edu/>University of Pennsylvania, USA <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/>Centro de Informtica, <http://www.ufpe.br/>Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil ---------- There will be a Special Session honoring Max Kanovich on the occasion of his 65-th birthday Speakers include John Mitchell, Mitsuhiro Okada, Paul Rowe, and others (tba) 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 eighteenth WoLLIC will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, from May 18th to 21st, 2011. It is sponsored by the <http://www.aslonline.org/>Association 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.eacsl.org/>European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the <http://www.sbc.org.br/>Sociedade Brasileira de Computao (SBC), and the <http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/>Sociedade Brasileira de Lgica (SBL). 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 2011 EasyChair website. (Please go to <http://wollic.org/wollic2011/instructions.html>http://wollic.org/wollic2011/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by January 1, and the full paper by January 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by February 21, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by March 1 (firm date). Proceedings The proceedings of WoLLIC 2011, 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. 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 2011 issue of the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (to be confirmed). Invited Speakers <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~alur/>Rajeev Alur (Philadelphia) <http://www.phil.uu.nl/~iemhoff/eigen.html>Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht) <http://theory.stanford.edu/people/jcm/>John Mitchell (Stanford) <http://www.math.ias.edu/~vladimir/Site3/home.html>Vladimir Voevodsky (Princeton) <http://www.phil.uu.nl/~yoad/>Yoad Winter (Utrecht) <http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/>Michael Zakharyaschev (London) Student Grants ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2011 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: February 18, 2011). See<http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html>http<http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html>://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. Important Dates January 1, 2011: Paper title and abstract deadline January 8, 2011: Full paper deadline (firm) February 21, 2011: Author notification March 1, 2011: Final version deadline (firm) Programme Committee <http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~sartemov/>Sergei Artemov (New York) <http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/>Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh) <http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csarnold/>Arnold Beckman (Swansea) <http://www.mi.ras.ru/~bekl/>Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) (CHAIR) <http://www.dm.unipi.it/~berardu/>Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) <http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~ablass/>Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor) (tbc) <http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~sbuss/>Sam Buss (San Diego) <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/>Achim Jung (Birmingham) <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~bloewe/>Benedikt Lwe (Amsterdam) <http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/>Janos Makowsky (Haifa) <http://www.let.uu.nl/~ctl/docenten/moortgat.html>Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) <http://www.phil.uu.nl/~oostrom/>Vincent van Oostrom (Utrecht) <http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~prakash/>Prakash Panangaden (Montral) <http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/cis/parikh/>Rohit Parikh (New York) <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ruy>Ruy de Queiroz (Recife) <http://www.poncelet.ru/pers/shen.htm>Alexander Shen (Marseilles and Moscow) <http://www.cs.ru.nl/~spitters/>Bas Spitters (Nijmegen) <http://www7.in.tum.de/~veith/>Helmut Veith (Wien) <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~yde/>Yde Venema (Amsterdam) <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~weinstei/>Scott Weinstein (Philadelphia) <http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frank/>Frank Wolter (Liverpool) Steering Committee Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. Organising Committee <http://www.math.upenn.edu/~vnigam/>Vivek Nigam (U Penn) <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ago>Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ruy>Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~scedrov/>Andre Scedrov (U Penn) (co-chair) Further information Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. Web page <http://wollic.org/wollic2011/>http://wollic.org/wollic2011/