[TYPES/announce] LSFA 2011 - First call for papers

[Elaine Pimentel]

LSFA 2011 - Sixth Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with
Applications
August 27th, 2011,
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Scope

Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent
logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for
formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting
tool development and reasoning.

The objective of this one-day workshop is to put together theoreticians
and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the
theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and the use of such
techniques and results, from the practical side.

Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to:

 * Logical frameworks
     o Proof theory
     o Type theory
     o Automated deduction
 * Semantic frameworks
     o Specification languages and meta-languages
     o Formal semantics of languages and systems
     o Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks
 * Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks
 * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks

LSFA 2011 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in
progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their
preliminary research. Submissions to the workshop will in the form of
full papers. The proceedings are produced only after the meeting, so
that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers.

Invited Speakers

01  Camilo Rueda (PUJ - Colombia)
02  (TBC)

Program Committee

Simona Ronchi della Rocca (co-chair, UNITO, Italy)
Elaine Gouvêa Pimentel (co-chair, UFMG, Brazil)
Luis Farinas del Cerro (IRIT, France)
Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Jonathan Seldin (Univ-Lethbridge , Canada)
Maurício Ayala-Rincón (UnB, Brazil)
Mario Benevides (Coppe-UFRJ, Brazil)
Eduardo Bonelli (UNQ, Argentina)
Marcelo Corrêa (IM-UFF, Brazil)
Clare Dixon (Liverpool, UK)
Gilles Dowek (Polytechnique-Paris, France)
William Farmer (Mcmaster, Canada)
Maribel Fernández (King's College, UK)
Marcelo Finger (IME-USP, Brazil)
Alwyn Goodloe (NASA LaRC)
Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt Univ, UK)
Delia Kesner (Paris-Jussieu, France)
Luis da Cunha Lamb (UFRGS, Brazil)
Joao Marcos (UFRN, Brazil)
Flavio L. C. de Moura (UnB, Brazil)
Ana Teresa Martins (UFC, Brazil)
Martin Musicante (UFRN, Brazil)
Cláudia Nalon (UnB, Brazil)
Vivek Nigam (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Luca Paolini (UNITO, Italy)


Organizing Committee

Mauricio Ayala-Rincón
Edward Hermann Hauesler PUC-Rio
Elaine Pimentel (Local-chair)
Simona Ronchi della Rocca

Dates and Submission

Paper submission deadline:   May 23
Author notification:         June 30
Camera ready:                July 31st

Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form
full papers with at most 16 pages. They must be unpublished and not
submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The submission
should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to LSFA 2011 page at
EasyChair until the submission deadline in May 23, by midnight, Central
European Standard Time (GMT+1).

The papers should be prepared in latex using EPTCS style. The
workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts,
will be handed-out at workshop registration and the proceedings will be
published as a volume of EPTCS.

After the workshop, according to the quantity and quality of selected
papers, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their
works that will be also reviewed to high standards. A special issue of
the first edition of the workshop appeared in the Journal of Algorithms,
a special issue of the second edition of the workshop appeared
in the J.IGPL and a special edition of TCS is being prepared with selected
contributions from the third and the forth editions of LSFA.

At least one of the authors should register at the conference. The
paper presentation should be in English.

Venue

Belo Horizonte is the capital of the state of Minas Gerais and the
third-largest metropolitan area in Brazil. A city surrounded by mountains,
quite big, but still with this countryside town air.

Contact Information

For more information please contact the chairs

The web page of the event can be reached at:

http://www.mat.ufmg.br/lsfa2011/

Elaine.
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Elaine Pimentel  - DMat/UFMG

Address: Departamento de Matematica
         Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
         Av Antonio Carlos, 6627 - C.P. 702
         Pampulha - CEP 30.161-970
         Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil
Phone:   55 31 3409-5970
Fax:     55 31 3409-5692
http://www.mat.ufmg.br/~elaine
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