[TYPES/announce] SOS `10 call for papers

[Pawel Sobocinski]

This workshop should be of interest to those members of the types
mailing list who are interested in operational semantics.

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SOS `10 - Structural Operational Semantics 2010
    An Affiliated Workshop of CONCUR 2010
       August 30, 2010, Paris, France
   http://www.ru.is/faculty/luca/SOS2010/
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Aim: Structural operational semantics (SOS) provides a framework for
giving operational semantics to programming and specification
languages. A growing number of programming languages from commercial
and academic spheres have been given usable semantic descriptions by
means of structural operational semantics. Because of its intuitive
appeal and flexibility, structural operational semantics has found
considerable application in the study of the semantics of concurrent
processes. It is also a viable alternative to denotational semantics
in the static analysis of programs, and in proving compiler
correctness. Moreover, it has found application in emerging areas of
computing such as probabilistic systems and systems biology.
Structural operational semantics has been successfully applied as a
formal tool to establish results that hold for classes of process
description languages. This has allowed for the generalization of
well-known results in the field of process algebra, and for the
development of a meta-theory for process calculi based on the
realization that many of the results in this field only depend upon
general semantic properties of language constructs.

This workshop aims at being a forum for researchers, students and
practitioners interested in new developments, and directions for
future investigation, in the field of structural operational
semantics. One of the specific goals of the series of SOS workshops is
to establish synergies between the concurrency and programming
language communities working on the theory and practice of SOS.

Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

	- programming languages, process algebras and higher-order formalisms
	- foundations of SOS
	- conservative extensions and translations of SOS specifications
	- congruence results and their meta-theory
	- modal logics, program logics and SOS
	- ordered, modular, and other variants of SOS
	- SOS of probabilistic, timed, stochastic and hybrid systems
	- SOS and rewriting systems, reactive systems and other forms of
operational specification
	- comparisons between denotational, axiomatic and structural
operational semantics
	- software tools that automate, or are based on, SOS.

Reports on applications of SOS to other fields, including:
	- modelling and analysis of biological systems,
	- security of computer systems,
	- programming, modelling and analysis of embedded systems,
	- specification of middle-ware and coordination languages,
	- programming language semantics and implementation,
	- static analysis,
	- software and hardware verification,
are also most welcome.

Paper submission
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We solicit unpublished papers reporting on original research on the
general theme of SOS. Prospective authors should submit a paper via
Easychair by Wednesday, 2nd June 2010. (If you do not have an
Easychair account, you can create it by following the link). Papers
should take the form of a pdf file in EPTCS format, whose length
should not exceed 15 pages (not including an optional "Appendix for
referees" containing proofs that will not be included in the final
paper). We will also consider 5-page papers describing tools to be
demonstrated at the workshop.

Proceedings
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Preliminary proceedings will be available at the meeting. The final
proceedings of the workshop will appear as a volume in the EPTCS
series. If the quality and quantity of the submissions warrant it, the
co-chairs plan to arrange a special issue of an archival journal
devoted to full versions of selected papers from the workshop.

Invited speakers
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MohammadReza Mousavi (Eindhoven, NL)
Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and École Polytechnique, FR)

Program Committee
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Luca Aceto (Reykjavik, IS, co-chair)
Robert Amadio (Paris Diderot, FR)
Wan Fokkink (Amsterdam, NL)
Matthew Hennessy (Dublin, IE)
Bartek Klin (Warsaw, PL and Cambridge, UK)
Cosimo Laneve (Bologna, IT)
Andrew Pitts (Cambridge, UK)
Michel Reniers (Eindhoven, NL)
Grigore Rosu (Urbana-Champaign IL, USA)
Pawel Sobocinski (Southampton, UK, co-chair)
Sam Staton (Cambridge, UK)

Important Dates
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Submission of abstract: Friday 28th May 2010
Submission: Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Notification: Monday, 5th July 2010
Final version: Friday 16th July 2010
Workshop: Monday 30th August 2010