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MPC 2010: Mathematics of Program Construction

21-23 June 2010
Quebec City QC, Canada

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

10th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction MPC 
2010

Québec City, Canada, 21-23 June 2010

http://mpc-amast2010.fsg.ulaval.ca/

Colocated with AMAST 2010 (23-26 June 2010)

BACKGROUND
The biennial MPC conferences aim to promote the development of mathematical
 
principles and techniques that are demonstrably practical and effective in 
the 
process of constructing computer programs. Topics of interest range from 
algorithmics to support for program construction in programming languages a
nd 
systems.

The previous conferences were held in Twente, The Netherlands (1989), Oxfor
d, 
UK (1992), Kloster Irsee, Germany (1995), Marstrand, Sweden (1998), Ponte d
e 
Lima, Portugal (2000), Dagstuhl, Germany (2002), Stirling, UK (2004, coloca
ted 
with AMAST 04), Kuressaare, Estonia (2006, colocated with AMAST 06) a
nd 
Marseille, France (2008). The 2010 conference will be held in Lac-Beauport,
 a 
suburb of Québec City, Canada, and will be colocated with AMAST 10 
(23-26 
June 2010).

INVITED SPEAKERS
Roland Backhouse, University of Nottingham, UK.
Others to be announced later.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of abstracts: 7 December 2009
* Submission of full papers: 14 December 2009
* Notification of authors: 20 February 2010
* Camera-ready version: 20 March 2010

TOPICS
Papers are solicited on mathematical methods and tools put to use in progra
m 
construction. Topics of interest range from algorithmics to support for pro
gram 
construction in programming languages and systems. Some typical areas are t
ype 
systems, program analysis and transformation, programming-language semantic
s, 
security and program logics. Theoretical contributions are welcome provided
 
their relevance for program construction is clear. Reports on applications 
are 
welcome provided their mathematical basis is evident.

SUBMISSION

Submission is in two stages. Abstracts (plain text, 10 to 20 lines) must be
 
submitted by 7 December 2009. Full papers (pdf) adhering to the LaTeX llncs
 
style must be submitted by 14 December 2009. There is no official page limi
t, 
but authors should strive for brevity.
The web-based system EasyChair will be used for submission 
(https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mpc2010).

Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted 
concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. In particular
, 
they must not be submitted to AMAST 2010. Accepted papers must be presented
 at 
the conference by one of the authors.

The proceedings of MPC10 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Compu
ter 
Science series of Springer-Verlag.

After the conference, the authors of the best papers will be invited to sub
mit 
revised versions to a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming
 
journal of Elsevier.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Jules Desharnais Université Laval, Québec, Canada (chair)

Philippe Audebaud Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, France
Ralph-Johan Back Abo Akademi University, Finland
Eerke Boiten University of Kent, UK
Sharon Curtis Oxford Brookes University, UK
Jeremy Gibbons University of Oxford, UK
Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ian Hayes University of Queensland, Australia
Eric Hehner University of Toronto, Canada
Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Johan Jeuring Utrecht University, Netherlands
Christian Lengauer Universität Passau, Germany
Bernhard Möller Universität Augsburg, Germany
Shin-Cheng Mu Academia Sinica, Taiwan
David Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
José Nuno Oliveira Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Alberto Pardo Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Christine Paulin-Mohring INRIA-Université Paris-Sud, France
Steve Reeves University of Waikato, New Zealand
Tim Sheard Portland State University, USA
Georg Struth Sheffield University, UK
Tarmo Uustalu Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia

VENUE
The conference will be held in the Manoir St-Castin 
(http://www.hotelsvillegia.com/villegia_stcastin/pages-eg/).
This resort is located on the shore of Beauport lake, 15 minutes from downt
own 
Québec City (http://www.quebecregion.com/e/) and 15 minutes from the
 
Jean-Lesage International Airport.

LOCAL ORGANIZERS
The local organizers are Claude Bolduc, Jules Desharnais and Béchir Kt
ari.

Enquiries regarding the programme (submission, etc.) should be addressed to
 
Jules.Desharnais@ift.ulaval.ca.