From berghofe at in.tum.de Mon Feb 2 18:22:40 2009 From: berghofe at in.tum.de (Stefan Berghofer) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:22:40 +0100 Subject: [POPLmark] TPHOLs'09 Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <49878040.5070709@in.tum.de> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: TPHOLs 2009 The 22th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics 17 - 20 August 2009 in Munich, Germany ****************************** * http://tphols.in.tum.de/ * ****************************** TPHOLs is a series of international conferences that started in 1988. It brings together researchers working in all areas of interactive theorem proving. The conference will be held on 17 - 20 August 2009 in Munich. As in previous years, the formal proceedings of TPHOLs will appear as a volume of LNCS. Important Dates --------------- Submission: 8 March 2009 Author notification: 4 May 2009 Camera-ready papers due: 5 June 2009 Website for submissions http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tphols2009 Submission for the emerging trends section: 11 May 2009 Conference: 17 - 20 August 2009 Topics ------ The program committee welcomes submissions on all aspects of theorem proving in higher order logics, on related topics in theorem proving and verification, and on relevant applications. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Specification and verification of hardware: microprocessors, memory systems, buses, pipelines, etc; formal semantics of hardware design languages; synthesis; formal design flows. Specification and verification of software: program verification, refinement, and synthesis for functional, declarative and imperative languages; formal semantics of programming languages; compiler and operating system verification; proof carrying code. Industrial application of theorem provers. Formalization of mathematical theories. Advances in theorem prover technology: proof automation and decision procedures, induction, combination of deductive and algorithmic approaches, incorporation of theorem provers into larger systems, combination of theorem provers with other provers and tools. Other topics, including: user interfaces for theorem provers; development and extension of higher order logics. Proof Pearls: concise and elegant presentations of interesting examples. Relevant research involving interactive first-order systems, such as ACL2 and Mizar, is also welcome. All authors are reminded that their work should be presented in a way that users of other systems can understand. Papers should be no more than 16 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must describe original unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere. They must conform to the LNCS style preferably using LaTeX2e. The proceedings are to be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available to participants at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the conference. As has been custom in previous years there will be an emerging trends section. Submissions under this section will not be formally refereed, but their content and relevance will be reviewed. Those submissions accepted will be published in a technical report of the TU M?nchen, which will also be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers in this section are expected to present a brief outline of their work at the conference and to prepare a poster for display at the conference venue. Invited Speakers ---------------- David Basin ETH Zurich John Harrison Intel Wolfram Schulte Microsoft Research Programme Committee ------------------- Thorsten Altenkirch Nottingham University David Aspinall Edinburgh University Jeremy Avigad Carnegie Mellon University Gilles Barthe IMDEA Christoph Benzm?ller Saarland University Peter Dybjer Chalmers University Jean-Christophe Filli?tre CNRS Georges Gonthier Microsoft Research Mike Gordon Cambridge University Jim Grundy Intel Reiner H?hnle Chalmers University Joe Hurd Galois Gerwin Klein NICTA Xavier Leroy INRIA Pete Manolios Northeastern University C?sar Mu?oz National Institute of Aerospace Tobias Nipkow (co-chair) TU M?nchen Michael Norrish NICTA Sam Owre SRI International Larry Paulson Cambridge University Frank Pfenning Carnegie Mellon University Randy Pollack Edinburgh University Sofi?ne Tahar Concordia University Laurent Th?ry INRIA Christian Urban (co-chair) TU M?nchen Freek Wiedijk Radboud University Nijmegen Affiliated Events ----------------- - Workshop on Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems (PLMMS) - Coq Users Meeting - Isabelle Developers Workshop Organizers ---------- Stefan Berghofer Tobias Nipkow Christian Urban Makarius Wenzel From afelty at site.uottawa.ca Wed Feb 18 14:59:10 2009 From: afelty at site.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:59:10 -0500 Subject: [POPLmark] LFMTP 2009: Call for Papers Message-ID: <499C688E.7080105@site.uottawa.ca> Call for Papers LFMTP 2009: 4th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2, 2009 http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfmtp Affiliated with CADE-22, Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009 Joint event with the 2009 International Workshop on Proof-Search in Type Theories (PSTT), August 3, 2009 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 1 Paper Submission: May 8 Notification: June 15 Final papers due: July 3 Workshop: August 2 JOINT LFMTP/PSTT INVITED SPEAKER: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique & INRIA) JOINT LFMTP/PSTT TUTORIAL SPEAKER: TBA DESCRIPTION: The LFMTP workshop continues a series of workshops on Logical Frameworks and Metalanguages (LFM) and Mechanized Reasoning about Languages with Variable Binding (MERLIN). This is the fourth joint workshop in the series. Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common substrate for representing, implementing, and reasoning about a wide variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer science. LFMTP 2009 will provide researchers with a forum to review state-of-the-art techniques and to present progress in: - the automation and implementation of the meta-theory of programming languages and related calculi, particularly work which involves variable binding and fresh name generation; - the design of proof assistants, automated theorem provers, and formal digital libraries building upon logical framework technology; - theoretical and practical issues concerning the encoding of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures; - case studies of meta-programming, and the mechanization of the (meta) theory of descriptions of programming languages and other calculi. Papers focusing on logic translations and on experiences with encoding programming languages theory will be particularly welcome. TOPICS: Papers are solicited on topics including, but not limited to: - logical framework design - meta-theoretic analysis - applications and comparative studies - implementation techniques - efficient proof representation and validation - proof-generating decision procedures and theorem provers - proof-carrying code - substructural frameworks - semantic foundations - methods for reasoning about logics - formal digital libraries SUBMISSIONS: Three categories of papers are solicited: - Category A: Detailed and technical accounts of new research: up to eight pages including bibliography. - Category B: Shorter accounts of work in progress and proposed further directions, including discussion papers: up to six pages including bibliography and appendices. - Category C: System descriptions presenting an implemented tool and its novel features: up to four pages. A demonstration is expected to accompany the presentation. Submissions will be accepted electronically. Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract one week before submitting the paper. For further information and submission instructions, see the LFMTP web page: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfmtp. Accepted papers will be published electronically as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the workshop. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Frederic Blanqui (INRIA) James Cheney, Co-Chair (University of Edinburgh) Adam Chlipala (Harvard University) Amy Felty, Co-Chair (University of Ottawa) Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich) Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde) Marino Miculan (University of Udine) Alberto Momigliano (University of Edinburgh) Gopalan Nadathur (University of Minnesota) Michael Norrish (NICTA)