[TYPES/announce] AiML 2012: final CfP, with a special session "Modalities for Types"

[Tadeusz Litak]

Dear all,

[as usual, apologies for multiple posting]

AiML 2012 (Advances in Modal Logic) final call for papers has been released, please find it below. From the point of view of TYPES community, the
following special session may be of particular interest:

SPECIAL SESSION ON MODALITES FOR TYPES. Recent years have witnessed significant growth of interest in constructive type-theoretical modalities, in
particular modalities ensuring productivity and type safety of (co-)recursive definitions in reactive programming. Some earlier examples include the
use of modalities for staged computation, metaprogramming or in computational lambda-calculus. In order to boost interaction between programming,
type-theoretical and modal communities, AiML 2012 will host a special session on these topics. Papers for this session should be submitted to the
EasyChair site along with others.

We will have Lars Birkedal as an invited speaker for the session.
Moreover, the submission deadline has been set after LiCS and IJCAR notification deadlines (March 30)...
Hope the event will help to draw the modal community and type-theoretic community a bit closer together.

Best regards,
Alexander Kurz, Tadeusz Litak (U. of Leicester, AiML PC)


AiML-2012:  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

9-TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC
COPENHAGEN, 22-25 AUGUST, 2012
           http://hylocore.ruc.dk/aiml2012.html

Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting
the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The
initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on
the conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at
http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2012 is the ninth conference in the series.

TOPICS
We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including:

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of      modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming,
model checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives      on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
     correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,      modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory
of modal logic)
- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
     modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process      logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar      formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and      temporal
logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural      logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

CONFERENCE LOCATION
Advances in Modal Logic 2012 will be held at
the IDA conference center in downtown Copenhagen:

http://ida.dk/sites/moedecenter/english/Sider/EnglishForside.aspx

This is in easy walking distance from Copenhagen Central Station and a number of
reasonably priced hotels.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2012: (1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the
conference. (2) Abstracts for short presentation only. Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at

           http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiml2012

At least one author of each accepted paper of abstract must register for, and attend, the conference to present his or her work.

(1) FULL PAPERS. Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on
original research
and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML'2012 will be published
by College Publications (http://www.collegepublications.co.uk) in a volume to be made available at the conference. The submissions should be at most
15 pages, with an optional technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of 100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset
in LaTeX, using a style file and template that will be provided on the AiML'2012 website.

(2) ABSTRACTS. These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing.
The accepted abstracts will be made available at the conference, and the authors will
have the opportunity to make short presentations (of up to 15 minutes) on
them.

SPECIAL SESSION ON HYBRID LOGIC. Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic allowing to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of
formulas. There will be a special session of AiML devoted to papers on hybrid logic. The scope of the special session is standard hybrid-logical
machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder, but also other extensions of modal logic can be considered.
SPECIAL SESSION IN HONOUR OF LARISA MAKSIMOVA. There will be a special session of AiML devoted to papers and talks in honour of Larisa Maksimova, in
recognition of her many outstanding contributions to modal logic.

SPECIAL SESSION ON MODALITES FOR TYPES. Recent years have witnessed significant growth of interest in constructive type-theoretical modalities, in
particular modalities ensuring productivity and type safety of (co-)recursive definitions in reactive programming. Some earlier examples include the
use of modalities for staged computation, metaprogramming or in computational lambda-calculus. In order to boost interaction between programming,
type-theoretical and modal communities, AiML 2012 will host a special session on these topics. Papers for this session should be submitted to the
EasyChair site along with others.

Papers for the special sessions should be submitted to the EasyChair site along with
others.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Lev Beklemishev (Moscow State University)
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
Lars Birkedal (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Patrick Blackburn  (Roskilde University)
Balder ten Cate, (UC Santa Cruz)
Larisa Maksimova (Novosibirsk State University)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE   Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Lev Beklemishev (Moscow State University, Russia)
Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA)
Nick Bezhanishvili (Imperial College London, UK)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark)
Torben Brauner (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Giovanna Corsi (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Giovanna D'Agostino (Università di Udine, Italy)
Stephane Demri (LSV, ENS Cachan, France)
Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
Rajeev Gore (Australian National University, Australia)
Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK)
Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool, UK)
Rosalie Iemhoff (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK)
Tadeusz Litak (University of Leicester, UK)
Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Martin Otto (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Alessandra Palmigiano (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK)
Lutz Schröder (DFKI GmbH and University of Bremen, Germany)
Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia)
Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK)
Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, USA)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark)
Torben Brauner (Roskilde University, Denmark)

IMPORTANT DATES   Full papers submission deadline: 30 March 2012   Full papers acceptance notification: 18 May 2012
Short presentations submission deadline: 1 June, 2012
Short presentations acceptance notification: 18 June, 2012
Final version of full papers and abstracts due: 15 June 2012
Conference: 22-25 August, 2012.
FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://hylocore.ruc.dk/aiml2012/

ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed respectively to the PC co-chairs, sent to aiml2012 at easychair.org