CFP: 8th Intnl. Conf. on Relational Methods in Computer Science
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:49:30 GMT
Message-ID: <408e3ab7$1_at_news.unimelb.edu.au>
First Call for Papers for the
8th International Conference on
Relational Methods in Computer Science (RelMiCS 8)
in combination with the
COST 274 / TARSKI Workshops
and the
3rd International Workshop on
Applications of Kleene Algebra
February 22-26, 2005
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
The purpose of this meeting is to bring together researchers from various
subdisciplines of Computer Science and Mathematics who use the calculus of
relations and/or Kleene algebra as methodological and conceptual tools in
their work.
The relational calculus originated with Tarski's abstract algebraic
treatment of binary relations in 1941. Kleene Algebra is a related algebraic
system. It was first introduced by Kleene in 1956 and further developed
by Conway in 1971.
Topics of this conference include but are not limited to:
- Relation, Cylindric, Fork and Kleene Algebras
- Relational proof theory and decidability issues
- Relational representation theorems
- Applications to programming, databases and analysis of data, such as:
- Semantics of programming languages, program verification, specification
and development and program analysis
- Assertion calculi, modal and dynamic logic, interval and temporal logic
- Duration calculus and timed automata
- Process and network algebras
- Modeling real world situations
- Relational reasoning in qualitative physics and cognitive science
- Knowledge acquisition, preference modeling, and scaling methods
- Computer systems for relational knowledge representation
Previous RelMiCS meetings were held in
- Dagstuhl, Germany (1994)
- Parati, Brazil (1995)
- Hammamet, Tunesia (1997)
- Warsaw, Poland (1998)
- Quebec, Canada (2000)
- Oisterwijk, The Netherlands (2001)
- Malente, Germany (2003)
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract not exceeding 8 pages in postscript or pdf format to
info_at_relmics8.org
Ongoing research is welcome as well. Abstracts will be selected for presentation at the meeting by a joint programme committee and collected as informal 'participants proceedings'. After the meeting, authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit full papers for the final joint proceedings. The final papers will be formally refereed; it is planned to publish them as an LNCS volume. Therefore, the latest LNCS style file for LaTeX2e (llncs.cls) should be also used for the extended abstracts. Please have also a look onto the Authors Instructions subpage.
We kindly ask you to send us the LaTeX sources of your extended abstracts, because this would make the production of the 'participants' proceedings' much more easier for us. Please do not send a seperate BibTeX file, but include your bibliographic data directly in the LaTeX source.
Program Committee:
Rudolf Berghammer, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany Jules Desharnais, Universite Laval, Canada Marc Frappier, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada Marcelo Frias, University of Buenos Aires, Argentinia Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Wolfram Kahl, McMaster, Canada Yasuo Kawahara, Kyushu University, Japan Bernhard Moeller, University of Augsburg, Germany Ewa Orlowska, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland Ivo Rosenberg, Universite de Montreal, Canada Gunther Schmidt, UniBw Munich, Germany Burhan Tuerksen, University of Toronto, Canada
Organizing Committee (also part of the program committee):
Ivo Duentsch, Brock University, Canada Wendy MacCaull, St.Francis Xavier University, Canada Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada
Important dates:
Submission of extended abstract: October 01, 2004 Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2004 Camera ready extended abstracts: December 17, 2004
Further details may be found on the following Web-site:
http://www.relmics8.org
Contact: info_at_relmics8.org
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