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AiML-2014: CALL FOR PAPERS
10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC,
GRONINGEN, 5-8 AUGUST, 2014
http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/
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-2014 is the tenth 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.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany)
Stephane Demri (New York University, US & CNRS, France)
Joseph Halpern (Cornell University, US)
Sara Negri (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK)
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2014:
(1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference.
(2) Short presentations intended for presentation at the conference
but not for the published proceedings.
Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the
EasyChair submission page at
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aiml2014
At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must
register for and attend the conference.
(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-2014 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 the style files and template that are provided on the AiML-2014 website
http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/
We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text via EasyChair by 14 March.
(2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS.
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 submissions will be
made available at the conference, and the authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations
(of up to 15 minutes) on them.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts of full papers submission deadline: 14 March 2014
Full papers submission deadline: 21 March 2014
Full papers acceptance notification: 2 May 2014
Short presentations submission deadline: 12 May 2014
Short presentations acceptance notification: 2 June 2014
Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014
Conference: 5-8 August, 2014.
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dave Gilbert
Barteld Kooi
Bouke Kuijer
Paolo Maffezioli
Allard Tamminga
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Nick Bezhanishvili (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, France)
David Fernández-Duque (ITAM, Mexico)
Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
Mai Gehrke (LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot, France)
Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
Guido Governatori (NICTA Queensland, Australia)
Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College London, UK)
Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen)
Marcus Kracht (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK)
Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen, Germany)
Jakub Michaliszyn (Imperial College London, UK)
Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA)
Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Revantha Ramanayake (Technical University of Vienna)
Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia)
Vladimir Rybakov (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK)
Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Ilya Shapirovsky (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia)
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)
Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London, UK)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia)
Agi Kurucz (King's College London, UK)
FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014
ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed to the PC co-chairs,
sent to aiml2014(a)easychair.org
みなさま,
Imperial College London のRobert A. Kowalski 教授の講演を開催いたします。
どうぞふるってご参加ください。
問い合わせ先:
東条 敏
北陸先端科学技術大学院大学 情報科学研究科
e-mail: tojo(a)jaist.ac.jp
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* JAIST Logic Seminar Series *
Date: Thursday 21 November, 2013, 15:10--16:40
Place: JAIST, Collaboration room 7 (I-56)
(Access: http://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/location/access.html)
Speaker: Robert A. Kowalski (Imperial College London)
Title: Towards a Logic-based Framework for Computing
(Joint work with Fariba Sadri)
Abstract:
In this talk, I present a logic-based, framework for Computing,
inspired by artificial intelligence, but scaled down for practical
database and programming applications. Computation in the framework is
viewed as the task of generating a sequence of state transitions, with
the purpose of making an agent’s goals all true. States are
represented by sets of atomic sentences (or facts), representing the
values of program variables, tuples in a coordination language, facts
in relational databases, or Herbrand models.
In the model-theoretic semantics of the framework, the
entire sequence of states and events is contained in a single
model-theoretic structure, by associating time stamps with facts and
events. But in the operational semantics, facts are updated
destructively, without time stamps. We show that the model generated
by destructive updates is identical to the model generated by
reasoning with facts containing time stamps. We also extend the model
with intentional predicates and composite event predicates defined by
logic programs containing conditions in first-order logic, which query
the current state.
Speaker's bio:
Professor Robert A. Kowalski (Emeritus Professor and Distinguished
Research Fellow) at Imperial College London.
Robert Kowalski studied at the University of Chicago, the University
of Bridgeport, Stanford University, the University of Warsaw, and the
University of Edinburgh, where he completed his PhD in 1970.
Kowalski has been an advisor to the UNDP Knowledge Based Systems
Project in India and to DFKI, the German Institute for Artificial
Intelligence. He co-ordinated the European Community Basic Research
Project, Compulog, and was the founder of the European Compulog
Network of Excellence. Since 2009, he has been an advisor to the
Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, of the World
Health Organization in Geneva.
Kowalski is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence, the European Co-ordinating Committee for
Artificial Intelligence, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
He received the IJCAI (International Joint Conference of Artificial
Intelligence) award for Research Excellence in 2011.
--
Professor Hajime Ishihara
School of Information Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
Tel: +81-761-51-1206
Fax: +81-761-51-1149
ishihara(a)jaist.ac.jp
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~ishihara
Dear all,
This coming Friday we have Ugo Dal Lago (Bologna) and
Paul-Andre Mellies (Paris VII) visiting us in U Tokyo and making
talks. Feel free to join us. See you there!
Best regards,
Ichiro Hasuo
http://www-mmm.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/?plain=false&lang=en&pos=seminar
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Fri 8 November 2013, 10:00-12:00
Paul-Andre Mellies <http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~mellies/> (U. Paris VII),
What a geometry of reasoning would look like?
理学部7号館地下 007教室 Room 007 (underground floor), School of Science Bldg. No. 7
アクセス: https://www-mmm.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/indexj.html
Access: http://www-mmm.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
If one proceeds by analogy with mathematical physics, it is natural to
inquire
the geometric (rather than simply symbolic) nature of logical reasoning.
In this introductory talk, I will describe how this question may be
investigated
starting from a series of recent advances at the converging point of proof
theory
and of programming language semantics. In particular, I will explain how
a careful study of linear continuations, the most elementary mechanism
common to proofs and to programs, enables one to evacuate the historical
divide
between classical and constructive logic, and reveals the existence
of a logical pulsation which regulates reasoning and whose geometry
is related to well-known structures in mathematical physics.
Ugo Dal Lago <http://www.cs.unibo.it/~dallago/> (U. Bologna),
Applicative Bisimulation for Probabilistic Lambda-Calculus
理学部7号館地下 007教室 Room 007 (underground floor), School of Science Bldg. No. 7
アクセス: https://www-mmm.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/indexj.html
Access: http://www-mmm.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
<http://www-mmm.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/>
We study bisimulation and context equivalence in a probabilistic
lambda-calculus. Firstly, we show a technique for proving congruence of
probabilistic applicative bisimilarity. While the technique follows Howe's
method, some of the technicalities are quite different, relying on
non-trivial "disentangling" properties for sets of real numbers. We then
analyze the impact the employed notion of reduction has on
full-abstraction, giving somewhat surprising results in the call-by-value
case. We finally give another unexpected result about the discriminating
power of probabilistic contexts on pure lambda-terms.
皆様
Imperial College London のRobert A. Kowalski 教授の講演を開催いたします。
どうぞふるってご参加ください。
問い合わせ先:
東条 敏
北陸先端科学技術大学院大学 情報科学研究科
e-mail: tojo(a)jaist.ac.jp
-----------------------------------------------
* JAIST Logic Seminar Series *
Date: Thursday 21 November, 2013, 15:10--16:40
Place: JAIST, Collaboration room 7 (I-56)
(Access: http://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/location/access.html)
Speaker: Robert A. Kowalski (Imperial College London)
Title: Towards a Logic-based Framework for Computing
(Joint work with Fariba Sadri)
Abstract:
In this talk, I present a logic-based, framework for Computing,
inspired by artificial intelligence, but scaled down for practical
database and programming applications. Computation in the framework is
viewed as the task of generating a sequence of state transitions, with
the purpose of making an agent’s goals all true. States are
represented by sets of atomic sentences (or facts), representing the
values of program variables, tuples in a coordination language, facts
in relational databases, or Herbrand models.
In the model-theoretic semantics of the framework, the
entire sequence of states and events is contained in a single
model-theoretic structure, by associating time stamps with facts and
events. But in the operational semantics, facts are updated
destructively, without time stamps. We show that the model generated
by destructive updates is identical to the model generated by
reasoning with facts containing time stamps. We also extend the model
with intentional predicates and composite event predicates defined by
logic programs containing conditions in first-order logic, which query
the current state.
Speaker's bio:
Professor Robert A. Kowalski (Emeritus Professor and Distinguished
Research Fellow) at Imperial College London.
Robert Kowalski studied at the University of Chicago, the University
of Bridgeport, Stanford University, the University of Warsaw, and the
University of Edinburgh, where he completed his PhD in 1970.
Kowalski has been an advisor to the UNDP Knowledge Based Systems
Project in India and to DFKI, the German Institute for Artificial
Intelligence. He co-ordinated the European Community Basic Research
Project, Compulog, and was the founder of the European Compulog
Network of Excellence. Since 2009, he has been an advisor to the
Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, of the World
Health Organization in Geneva.
Kowalski is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence, the European Co-ordinating Committee for
Artificial Intelligence, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
He received the IJCAI (International Joint Conference of Artificial
Intelligence) award for Research Excellence in 2011.
--
Professor Hajime Ishihara
School of Information Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
Tel: +81-761-51-1206
Fax: +81-761-51-1149
ishihara(a)jaist.ac.jp
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~ishihara