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LICS 2005 (June 2005, Chicago IL)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Twentieth Annual IEEE Symposium on
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2005)
June 26th -- 29th, 2005, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/lics/
The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and
practical topics in computer science that relate to logic broadly
construed. We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric.
Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include:
automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics,
concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming,
constructive mathematics, database theory, domain theory, finite model
theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, hybrid
systems, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logical aspects of
computational complexity, logics in artificial intelligence, logics of
programs, logic programming, modal and temporal logics, model checking,
probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics,
reasoning about security, rewriting, specifications, type systems and type
theory, and verification. We welcome submissions in emergent areas, such
as bioinformatics and quantum computation, if they have a substantial
connection with logic.
Invited Speakers: Michael Benedikt, Bell Laboratories; Solomon Feferman,
Stanford University; Walter Fontana, Harvard University; Jane Hillston,
University of Edinburgh and Glynn Winskel, University of Cambridge.
Important Dates: Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short
abstract of about 100 words before submitting the extended abstract of the
paper. All submissions will be electronic.
TITLES & SHORT ABSTRACTS DUE: 5TH JANUARY 2005
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS DUE: 10TH JANUARY 2005
Author Notification: 18th March 2005
Camera-ready Papers Due: 8th April 2005.
All deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. Detailed
information about electronic paper submission will be posted at the LICS
website.
Submission Instructions: Every extended abstract must be submitted in the
IEEE Proceedings two-column camera-ready format. It must be in English
and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the
merits of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the
issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their
significance and relevance to the conference and to computer science, all
phrased for the non-specialist. Technical development directed to the
specialist should follow. References and comparisons with related work
should be included.
Extended abstracts may be no longer than 10 pages including references,
and must be formatted in the IEEE Proceedings two-column camera-ready
style (IEEE style files will be accessible from the LICS website). If
necessary, detailed proofs of technical results can be included in a
clearly-labelled appendix in the same two-column format following the
10-page extended abstract or there can be a pointer to a manuscript on a
web site. This material may be read at the discretion of the program
committee. Extended abstracts not conforming to the above requirements
concerning format and length may be rejected without further
consideration.
The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication
elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. The
PC chair should be informed of closely related work submitted to a
conference or journal between 10th January 2005 and 18th March 2005. All
authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign copyright release
forms. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present it
at the conference.
Short Presentations: LICS 2005 will have a session of short (5--10
minutes) presentations. This session is intended for descriptions of work
in progress, student projects, and relevant research being published
elsewhere; other brief communications may be acceptable. Submissions for
these presentations, in the form of short abstracts (1 or 2 pages long),
should be entered at the LICS 2005 submission site between 19th March and
25th March 2005. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by
1st April 2005.
Kleene Award for Best Student Paper: An award in honour of the late S.C.
Kleene will be given for the best student paper, as judged by the program
committee. Details concerning eligibility criteria and procedure for
consideration for this award will be posted at the LICS website. The
program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among
several papers.
Affiliated Workshops: As in previous years, there will be a number of
workshops affiliated with LICS 2005; information will be posted at the
LICS website.
Sponsorship: The symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on
Mathematical Foundations of Computing in cooperation with the Association
for Symbolic Logic, and the European Association for Theoretical Computer
Science.
Program Chair:
Prakash Panangaden
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Email: prakash@cs.mcgill.ca
Phone: + 1 514 398 7074
Fax: + 1 514 398 3883
Program Committee:
Jiri Adamek Technical University of Braunschweig
Luca de Alfaro U. of California, Santa Cruz
Andrei Bulatov Simon Fraser University
Hubert Comon-Lundh ENS Cachan
Philippa Gardner Imperial College
Martin Grohe Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Neil Immerman U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Marta Kwiatkowska University of Birmingham
Maurizio Lenzerini Universita di Roma
Guy McCusker University of Sussex
Larry Moss University of Indiana
Prakash Panangaden McGill University
Frank Pfenning Carnegie-Mellon University
Toniann Pitassi University of Toronto
Uday Reddy University of Birmingham
Thomas Schwentick Philipps-Universitat Marburg
Peter Selinger University of Ottawa
N. Shankar SRI International
Igor Walukiewicz Universite Bordeaux
Conference co-Chairs:
Alan Jeffrey, Radhakrishnan Jagadeesan
School of CTI
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois
USA
ajeffrey@cs.depaul.edu
rjagadeesan@cs.depaul.edu
Workshops Chair:
Philip J. Scott, U. of Ottawa
phil@site.uottawa.ca
Publicity Chair:
Alex Simpson, U. of Edinburgh
Alex.Simpson@ed.ac.uk
General Chair:
Phokion G. Kolaitis, U. of California, Santa Cruz
kolaitis@cs.ucsc.edu
Organizing Committee:
Samson Abramsky, Andrei Broder, Sam Buss, Edmund Clarke, Amy Felty, Hal
Gabow, Lauri Hella, Radha Jagadeesan, Alan Jeffrey, Ulrich Kohlenbach,
Phokion Kolaitis, Janos Makowsky, John Mitchell, Mogens Nielsen, Prakash
Panangaden, Frank Pfenning, Gordon Plotkin, Femke van Raamsdonk, Philip
Scott, Alex Simpson, Andrei Voronkov.
Advisory Board:
Robert Constable, Yuri Gurevich, Claude Kirchner, Dexter Kozen, Ursula
Martin, Albert Meyer, Leszek Pacholski, Vaughan Pratt, Andre Scedrov, Moshe
Y. Vardi, Glynn Winskel