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- From: scollo@cs.utwente.nl (Pippo Scollo)
- Subject: AMAST'93 Call for Papers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.173043@cs.utwente.nl>
- Keywords: algebraic specification, software development
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- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:30:43 GMT
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- CALL FOR PAPERS
-
- Third International Conference on Algebraic
- Methodology and Software Technology, AMAST
-
- University of Twente, The Netherlands
- June 22-25, 1993
-
- Goals and Organization
-
- The goal of the third AMAST conference to be held on June 22-25, 1993,
- at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands,
- is to consolidate the trend towards using algebraic methodology
- as a foundation for software technology,
- and to show that universal algebra provides a practical mathematical
- alternative to the common, ad-hoc approaches to software engineering and
- development.
- Academia and industry are both beneficiaries of such a formal foundation.
-
- Organizing Committee:
- General chairman: Maurice Nivat University of Paris VII, Paris, F
- Programme chairman: Giuseppe Scollo University of Twente, Enschede, NL
- Publicity chairman: Charles Rattray University of Stirling, GB
- Teodor Rus University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- V.S.Alagar Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Local chairman: Ed Brinksma University of Twente, Enschede, NL
- Finance chairman: Frans van der Avert University of Twente, Enschede, NL
- Members: Mohammed Bettaz University of Constantine, Algeria
- Christine Choppy University of Paris-Sud, LRI, Orsay, F
- Pierre Deransart INRIA, Rocquencourt, F
- Arthur Fleck University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Luigi Logrippo University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Michael O'Donnell University of Chicago, IL, USA
- Juan Quemada University of Madrid, E
- Ralph Wachter Office Naval Research, Arlington, VA,
- USA
-
- Local Committee: Herman Balsters, Han Baumer, Pim van den Broek, Rolf de By,
- Maarten Fokkinga, Pim Kars, Mark van de Voort, Job Zwiers
- Secretariat: Yvonne Rokker
-
- Programme Committee:
- Martin Abadi, Egidio Astesiano, Choukri-Bey Ben-Yelles, Michel Bidoit, Wim Blok,
- Chris Brink, Pierre-Luis Curien, Kokichi Futatsugi, Steven Givant,
- William S. Hatcher, Douglas J. Howe, Bjarni Jonsson, Hans-Jorg Kreowski,
- Giancarlo Mauri, Ali Mili, Michael Mislove, Ugo Montanari, Peter D. Mosses,
- Istvan Nemeti, Don Pigozzi, Don Sannella, R.K. Shyamasundar, John Staples,
- Andrzej Tarlecki, Frits Vaandrager, Paulo A.S. Veloso, Eric Wagner, Bob Walters,
- Martin Wirsing.
-
- Invited Speakers
-
- To achieve the goal of the conference we aim to provide a forum in which
- leading researchers in mathematics, computer science, and software development,
- will come together to identify algebraic methodologies that are applicable as
- viable alternatives to the present software development approaches and to
- discuss the appropriateness of such alternatives with a view to implementation.
- Invited speakers, with a tentative indication of respective topics, include:
-
- Hubert Comon LRI, Orsay : Constraint Solving in Term
- Algebras
- Rob van Glabbeek Stanford University : Process Algebra
- Nicolas Halbwachs INPG, Grenoble : Reactive Program Synthesis
- Mike Johnson Macquarie Univ., Sydney : Category Theory for Software
- Engineering
- Giorgio Levi University of Pisa : Logic Programming
- Roger D. Maddux Iowa State University : Relation Algebra
-
- Submissions
-
- Talks reporting research in algebra and logic, suitable as a foundation for
- software technology, as well as software technologies
- developed by means of algebraic methodologies, are welcome.
- Demonstrations of systems showing the improved effectiveness of software
- developed on a mathematical basis (with or without a talk)
- will also be considered.
- To be more precise the organizers wish contributions on, but not limited to,
- algebraic methods for language design and compiler construction
- (e.g. for Algol-like programming languages),
- algebraic methodology for software engineering,
- algebraic specifications and algorithms to automatically build
- programs from such specifications,
- extraction of programs from constructive proofs,
- categorical, algebraic and logic programming,
- deductive databases, query language design,
- algebraic specification of concurrent systems,
- distributed operating systems, reactive systems,
- practical techniques and examples for verification of program
- and/or specification properties.
- We invite you to submit a two-page abstract (including a few
- citations of relevant work) of your talk to
-
- AMAST Conference,University of Twente,Fac. Informatica,Att. Mrs. Y. Rokker,
- P.O. Box 217,NL-7500AE Enschede,The Netherlands (phone: + 31 53 893701)
-
- Four-page abbreviated papers of the talks presented at the conference, together
- with the invited talks, will be collected in the participants' edition of the
- proceedings, which will be available to the attendees upon their arrival in
- Twente.
- The authors are expected to bring full versions of their papers at the
- conference, for further review and inclusion in the AMAST'93 Proceedings,
- to be published by Springer-Verlag, London.
- A special issue of Theoretical Computer Science will be dedicated to
- this conference; participants will be invited to submit their full paper
- for possible publication in this journal.
-
- Important Due Dates
- - Two page abstract submission by December 15, 1992.
- - Notification of acceptance by March 31, 1993.
- - Camera-ready four-page paper to appear in participants' proceedings
- by May 1, 1993.
- - Full paper for AMAST'93 Proceedings, at the conference.
-
- Further information can be obtained from:
-
- In Canada: In Europe:
- V.S. Alagar Charles Rattray
- Concordia University University of Stirling
- Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computing Science and
- 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Mathematics
- Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA
- Canada Great Britain
- phone: + 1 514 8483022 phone: + 44 786 73171
- fax: + 1 514 8482830 fax: + 44 786 64551
- e-mail: alagar@concour.cs.concordia.ca e-mail: cr@cs.stir.ac.uk
-
-
- In U.S.A.:
- Teodor Rus
- University of Iowa
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Iowa City
- IA 52242
- USA
- phone: + 1 319 3350742
- fax: + 1 319 3350627
- e-mail: rus@cs.uiowa.edu
-