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CfP Special Issue of the journal "Theoretical Informatics and Applications" on Real Numbers (deadline June 1, 2005)

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                              REAL NUMBERS

                    Special issue of the journal

             Theoretical Informatics and Applications
        http://www.edpsciences.org/journal/index.cfm?edpsname=ita

Guest editors: Vasco Brattka, Christiane Frougny, Norbert Mueller


IMPORTANT DATES (tentative planning):
  - Deadline for submissions of manuscripts:        June 1st 2005
    (full papers only; extended abstracts will be rejected)
  - Notification of acceptance/rejection:           October 1st 2005
  - Deadline for reception of final papers:         December 15th 2005

Efficient manipulation of real numbers in computers is still a challenge.
Many interesting theoretical and algorithmic problems are linked with that
topic and belong to quite distant fields such as computer science, number
theory, numerical analysis, computer algebra and logics.  Several special
issues on real numbers and computers have been previously published in the
journal Theoretical Computer Science, as follow-up to the RNC meetings on
these topics.

The last meeting was RNC6 which took place in Dagstuhl, Germany, in
November 2004, see
         http://cca-net.de/rnc6/

However, this call for papers is open to authors who did not attend RNC6.


TOPICS Scientists working on questions related to real computer arithmetic
are encouraged to present the theoretical or algorithmic aspects of their
results, even if they did not attend the RNC6 conference. Survey and
tutorial articles may be suitable if clearly identified as such. Topics
include (but are not restricted to) the following list:

   * Foundation and properties of number systems
   * Computability and complexity
   * Formal aspects and automatic proof checking
   * Links with number theory and automata theory
   * Basic arithmetic operations
   * Implementation of the standard and special functions
   * Engineering of floating and fixed point algorithms
   * Symbolic manipulation of numbers
   * Accuracy and reliability for applications and industry
   * Robust geometric algorithms and exact geometric computation
   * Hardware design support and implementations


HOW TO SUBMIT
The  submission  should  contain  a  scholarly  exposition  of  ideas,
techniques, and  results, including motivation and  a clear comparison
with related work.
Submissions  must   not  substantially   duplicate  work
published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Prepare a PostScript or PDF version of your full 10-20 pages paper
preferably using the latex style LaTeX2e class for RAIRO -Theoretical
Informatics and Applications ftp://ftp.edpsciences.org/pub/ita/.

The file should be sent by e-mail to Christiane.Frougny@liafa.jussieu.fr
before June 1st 2005. Make sure that your PostScript or PDF file can be
printed on a standard laser printer. Language: English.