[TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: Workhop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications 2010 (* Springer LNCS proceedings + journal special issue *)

[Peter Csaba Ölveczky]

                     8th International Workshop on
                  Rewriting Logic and its Applications

                             W R L A  2010

                   Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-21, 2010

                       http://wrla10.ifi.uio.no/


The workshop will be held in conjunction with
          ETAPS 2010
          12th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of  
Software
          March 20 - 28, 2010
          http://www.etaps10.cs.ucy.ac.cy

*** Proceedings to be published as a Springer LNCS volume ***

*** Special issue of The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming ***

WRLA 2010 IMPORTANT DATES

December 15, 2009    Deadline for submission
January 15, 2010     Notification of acceptance
Early February, 2010     Final version in electronic form
March 20-21, 2010    Workshop in Paphos


AIMS AND SCOPE

Rewriting logic (RL) is a natural model of computation and an
expressive semantic framework for concurrency, parallelism,
communication and interaction.  It can be used for specifying a wide
range of systems and languages in various application fields.  It also
has good properties as a metalogical framework for representing
logics.  In recent years, several languages based on RL (ASF+SDF,
CafeOBJ, ELAN, Maude) have been designed and implemented.  The aim of
the workshop is to bring together researchers with a common interest
in RL and its applications, and to give them the opportunity to
present their recent works, discuss future research directions, and
exchange ideas.

The topics of the workshop comprise, but are not limited to:
- foundations and models of RL;
- languages based on RL, including implementation issues;
- RL as a logical framework;
- RL as a semantic framework, including applications of RL to
  object-oriented systems, concurrent and/or parallel systems,
  interactive, distributed, open ended and mobile systems,
  specification of languages and systems;
- use of RL to provide rigorous support for model-based software
  engineering;
- formalisms related to RL, including real-time and probabilistic
  extensions of RL, tile logic, rewriting approaches to behavioral
  specifications;
- verification techniques for RL specifications, including equational
  and coherence methods, and verification of properties expressed in
  first-order, higher-order, modal and temporal logics;
- comparisons of RL with existing formalisms having analogous aims;
- application of RL to specification and analysis of distributed
  systems, physical systems.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

Artur Boronat  	  University of Leicester
Mark van den Brand 	Technical University of Eindhoven
Roberto Bruni 	  Universita di Pisa
Manuel Clavel 	  IMDEA Software and Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Francisco Duran 	Universidad de Malaga
Steven Eker 	  SRI International, Menlo Park
Santigo Escobar 	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Kokichi Futatsugi 	JAIST, Tatsunokuchi
Claude Kirchner 	INRIA Research Center Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest
Alexander Knapp 	Universität Augsburg
Dorel Lucanu 	  Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi
Salvador Lucas 	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Narciso Marti-Oliet 	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Ugo Montanari 	Universita di Pisa
Pierre-Etienne Moreau 	INRIA Lorraine & LORIA, Nancy and Ecoles des  
Mines, Nancy
Thomas Noll 	  RWTH Aachen
Peter Olveczky (chair) 	University of Oslo
Grigore Rosu 	  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark-Oliver Stehr 	SRI International, Menlo Park
Carolyn Talcott 	SRI International, Menlo Park
Eelco Visser 	  Delft University of Technology


SUBMISSIONS

The proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written,
and include appropriate reference to and comparison with related work.
They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for
publication elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 15 pages,
should be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers
and should be submitted electronically using Easychair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla10

Authors of selected papers will be invited to publish extended versions
of their papers in special issue of The Journal of Logic and Algebraic
Programming.


THE 3rd REWRITE ENGINE COMPETITION:

There will also be a rewrite engine competition at WRLA'10.
If you are a rewrite engine developer, you are welcome to participate.
A paper will be published in the proceedings, with all the tool
participants as authors, where the preoblems and the results of
the competition will be discussed. Feel free to contact the WRLA'10
rewrite engine competition organizer, Francisco Duran
  for questions or further clarifications.

CONTACT INFORMATION

For more information, please contact the organizers
              peterol at ifi.uio.no
or visit the workshop web page
              http://wrla10.ifi.uio.no/