[TYPES] SOS 2005: Call for Papers

[sos2005 at mcs.le.ac.uk]

First Call for Papers:

         Structural Operational Semantics 2005

         A Satellite Workshop of ICALP 2005

         July 10, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal

         http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/SOS2005

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. Moreover, it is becoming a viable
alternative to denotational semantics in the static analysis of
programs, and in proving compiler correctness.

Recently, 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 workshop is to establish synergies
between the concurrency and programming language communities working
on the theory and practice of SOS. Moreover, it aims at widening the
knowledge of SOS among postgraduate students and young researchers
from the U.K. and abroad.

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

  * programming languages
  * process algebras
  * higher-order formalisms
  * rule formats for operational specifications
  * meaning of operational specifications
  * comparisons between denotational, axiomatic and SOS
  * compositionality of modal logics with respect to operational
    specifications
  * congruence with respect to behavioural equivalences
  * conservative extensions
  * derivation of proof rules from operational specifications
  * software tools that automate, or are based on, SOS.

Papers reporting on applications of SOS to software engineering and
other areas of computer science are welcome.

History:  The first  SOS Workshop took place on 30th of August 2004
in London as one of the satellite workshops of  CONCUR 2004. Over 30
participants attended the workshop.


PAPER SUBMISSION:

We solicit unpublished papers reporting on original research on the
general theme of SOS. Prospective authors are invited to submit
their work in two stages:

Firstly, the title and abstract of the paper, together with the
details of the author(s), should be emailed to sos2005 AT
mcs.le.ac.uk by:

         Friday, 13 May 2005.

Secondly, a pdf file with their full paper, whose length normally
should not exceed 15 pages, should be sent by email to sos2005 AT
mcs.le.ac.uk by:

         Monday, 23 May 2005.

The email message with the full paper should also include, in plain
text, contact information for the author(s), the title and abstract
of the submission.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by Monday, 13 June 2005.
Submissions from the PC members are allowed.

Proceedings:  Preliminary proceedings containing the abstracts of
the talks will be published as a Technical Report of the Department
of Computer Science of Leicester University, and will be available
at the meeting. The final proceedings of the workshop will appear
as a volume in the ENTCS series.

If the quality and quantity of the papers accepted for the workshop 
warrant it, submissions will be invited for a special issue of 
an archival journal devoted to full versions of selected papers.


IMPORTANT DATES:

  * Submission of abstract: Friday, 13 May 2005

  * Submission of full paper: Monday, 23 May 2005

  * Notification: Monday, 13 June 2005

  * Final version: Friday, 24 June 2005

  * Workshop: Sunday, 10 July 2005.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

	Luca Aceto (BRICS, Aalborg, DK)
	Wan Fokkink (Amsterdam, NL)
	Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, AU)
	Matthew Hennessy (Sussex, UK)
	Ralf Laemmel (CWI, NL)
	Peter Mosses (Swansea, UK, co-chair)
	David Sands (Chalmers, SE)
	Alex Simpson (Edinburgh, UK)
	Simone Tini (Insubria, I)
	Irek Ulidowski (Leicester, UK, co-chair)
	Erik de Vink (Eindhoven, NL)


INVITED SPEAKERS:

         Jan Friso Groote
         Jose Meseguer


CONTACT:

         sos2005 AT mcs.le.ac.uk


WORKSHOP ORGANISERS:

         Peter D. Mosses
         Department of Computer Science
         University of Wales Swansea
         Singleton Park
         Swansea, SA2 8PP
         United Kingdom

         Irek Ulidowski
         Department of Computer Science
         University of Leicester
         University Road
         Leicester, LE1 7RH
         United Kingdom