2-7 August 2009
Montreal QC, Canada
=09=09 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS =09=09=09 CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction =09 McGill University, Montreal, Canada =09=09=09August 2-7, 2009 =09=09Submission Deadline: 23 Feb 2009 =09 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ GENERAL INFORMATION CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. The conference programme will include invited talks, paper presentations, system descriptions, workshops, tutorials, and system competitions. SCOPE We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations and practical experiences. Logics of interest include, but are not limited to o propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, description, modal, temporal, many-valued, intuitionistic, other non-classical, meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory and set theory. Methods of interest include, but are not limited to o saturation, resolution, instance-based, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction, term rewriting, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, constraint solving, induction, unification, proof planning, proof checking, proof presentation and explanation. Applications of interest include, but are not limited to o program analysis and verification, hardware verification, mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, functional and logic programming, robotics, planning, and other areas of AI. WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, SYSTEM COMPETITION: A two-day workshop and tutorial programme will be co-organized with the conference. In addition, the annual CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) will be held during the conference. Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions can be made in the categories 'regular papers' and 'system descriptions'. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 15 pages for regular papers and 5 pages for system descriptions. Full system descriptions that provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an implemented system can be submitted as regular papers. For the benefit of reviewers, additional material may be provided by a clearly marked appendix or a reference to a manuscript on a website. It is at the discretion of the reviewers whether such supplements will be considered. All regular papers will be evaluated according to the highest standards in terms of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability. Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf format. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX. Detailed instructions for electronic submission via EasyChair will be published at the conference website. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. IMPORTANT DATES: A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper. 16 Feb 2009 abstract submission deadline 23 Feb 2009 paper submission deadline 10 Apr 2009 notification of paper decisions 14 May 2009 camera-ready papers due 2-3 Aug 2009 Workshops & Tutorials 4-7 Aug 2009 Conference, including CASC PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando Universit di Genova Franz Baader Technische Universitt Dresden Peter Baumgartner NICTA, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universit degli Studi di Verona Bernhard Beckert Universitt Koblenz-Landau Nikolaj Bjrner Microsoft Research Alessandro Cimatti Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento Silvio Ghilardi Universit degli Studi di Milano Jrgen Giesl RWTH Aachen Rajeev Gor The Australian National University Reiner Hhnle Chalmers University of Technology John Harrison Intel Corporation Miki Hermann cole Polytechnique Ullrich Hustadt University of Liverpool Katsumi Inoue National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tommi Junttila Helsinki University of Technology Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Alexander Leitsch Technische Universitt Wien Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Claude March INRIA Saclay, Parc Orsay Universit William McCune University of New Mexico Aart Middeldorp Universitt Innsbruck Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Albert Oliveras Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Brigitte Pientka McGill University David Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michal Rusinowitch LORIA-INRIA-Lorraine Renate Schmidt (Chair) The University of Manchester Carsten Schrmann IT-Universitetet i Kbenhavn Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach Max-Planck-Institut fr Informatik ORGANIZERS Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka McGill University Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Publicity Chair: Carsten Schrmann IT-Universitetet i Kbenhavn PC Chair: Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester