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WoLLIC 2013 20th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation August 20th to 23rd, 2013 Technische Universität Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany

Scientific Sponsorship Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL)

Organisation

Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Financial Support Deutsche Vereinigung für Mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der Exakten Wissenschaften (DVMLG)

Call for Papers

WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twentieth WoLLIC will be held at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, from August 20th to 23rd, 2013. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), theEuropean Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL).

Paper submission Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2012 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2013/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by March 25th, and the full paper by March 29th (firm date). Notifications are expected by May 3rd, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 15th (firm date).

Proceedings The proceedings of WoLLIC 2013, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2013 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed).

Invited Speakers

Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University) Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw University) Wim Martens (Universität Bayreuth) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX) Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund)

Student Grants ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2013 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2013). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details.

Important Dates

March 25th, 2013: Paper title and abstract deadline March 29th, 2013: Full paper deadline May 3rd, 2013: Author notification May 15th, 2013: Final version deadline (firm)

Programme Committee

Albert Atserias (UPC Barcelona) Alexandru Baltag (Univ Amsterdam) Stephanie Delaune (ENS, CNRS) Amy Felty (Univ Ottawa) Santiago Figueira (Univ Buenos Aires) Amelie Gheerbrant (Univ Edinburgh) Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul Univ) Delia Kesner (Univ Paris-Diderot) Benoit Larose (Concordia Univ) Leonid Libkin (Univ Edinburgh - CHAIR) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua Univ) Jerzy Marcinkowski (Wroclaw Univ) Peter O'Hearn (UCL) Joël Ouaknine (Oxford Univ) Gerald Penn (Univ Toronto) Gabriele Puppis (CNRS/LaBRI - Univ Bordeaux) R. Ramanujam (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie Univ) Szymon Torunczyk (Warsaw Univ) Anna Zamansky (TU Wien)

Steering Committee

Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz.

Organising Committee

Ulrich Kohlenbach (Tech U Darmstadt) (Local chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Martin Otto (Tech U Darmstadt) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Thomas Streicher (Tech U Darmstadt) Martin Ziegler (Tech U Darmstadt)

Further information Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.

Web page http://wollic.org/wollic2013/