6-9 July 2010
Brasilia, Brazil
WoLLIC 2010
17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
July 6th to 9th, 2010
Universidade de Brasilia,
Brasilia, Brazil
Scientific Sponsorship Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The
Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for
Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
(EATCS) Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Logica
(SBL)
Funding (tbc)
Special:
A screening of I want to be a mathematician: A conversation with
Paul Halmos
Organisation Department of Mathematics, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Centro
de Informatica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
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Call for Papers
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 Brasilia, Brazil, from July 6th to 9th, 2010.
It is sponsored by theAssociation for Symbolic Logic (ASL),
the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The
Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade
Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de
Logica (SBL).
Special Event
2010 will mark the 50-th anniversary of the first publication of Paul
Halmos' classic book Naive 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
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 (soon to be announced). 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 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
(tba)
Student Grants
ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2010 will permit ASL student members to
apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2010).
Seehttp://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details.
Important Dates
February 28, 2010: Paper title and abstract deadline March 7, 2010:
Full paper deadline (firm) April 12, 2010: Author notification May 3,
2010: Final version deadline (firm)
Programme Committee
Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires) Rafaella Bernardi (Bolzano) Ricardo Bianconi
(Sao Paulo) Vasco Brattka (Cape Town) Balder ten Cate (ENS, Cachan) Bob Coecke
(Oxford) Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens) Marcelo Coniglio (Campinas) Anuj Dawar
(Cambridge), chair Valentin Goranko (Copenhagen) Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto U,
Japan) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht) Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of
Informatics, Japan) Giuseppe Longo (CNRS & ENS, Paris) Mike Mislove (Tulane)
Michael Norrish (NICTA, Canberra) Bart Selman (Cornell) Scott Weinstein (Penn)
Organising Committee
Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Brasilia, Brazil) (co-chair) Flavio L. C. Moura (U
Brasilia, Brazil) Claudia Nalon (U Brasilia, Brazil) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U
Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) 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/
Steering committee
Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges,
Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de
Queiroz