[Hol-info] WoLLIC 2010 - Call for Papers

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WoLLIC 2010 
17^th  Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation /*
*July 6^th  to 9^th , 2010
*

*Universidade de Brasília,
Brasília, Brazil*

*Scientific Sponsorship* 
/Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL 
<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/%7Eigpl/>)/ 
/The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI 
<http://www.folli.org>)/ 
/Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL <http://www.aslonline.org/>)/ 
/European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS 
<http://www.eatcs.org>)/ 
/Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC <http://www.sbc.org.br/>)/ 
/Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL <http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/>)/

*Funding* 
(tbc) 

*Special: 
A screening of /I want to be a mathematician: A conversation with Paul 
Halmos/ <http://zalafilms.com/films/halmos.html>*

*Organisation* 
/Department of Mathematics <http://www.mat.unb.br/>, Universidade de 
Brasília <http://www.mat.unb.br>, Brazil 
Centro de Informática <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/>, Universidade Federal de 
Pernambuco <http://www.ufpe.br>, Brazil /

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  Call for Papers

WoLLIC <http://wollic.org> 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 
Seventeenth WoLLIC will be held in Brasília, Brazil, from July 6th to 
9th, 2010. It is sponsored by theAssociation for Symbolic Logic 
<http://www.aslonline.org> (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied 
Logics <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/%7Eigpl> (IGPL), the The Association for 
Logic, Language and Information <http://www.folli.org> (FoLLI), 
the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science 
<http://www.eatcs.org> (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação 
<http://www.sbc.org.br> (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica 
<http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/> (SBL).

*Special Event*
2010 will mark the 50-th anniversary of the first publication of Paul 
Halmos' classic book /Naïve Set Theory/ by Springer Verlag. WoLLIC will 
celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Halmos which was 
directed by George Csicsery: "I want to be a mathematician. A 
conversation with Paul Halmos" http://zalafilms.com/films/halmos.html

*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 2010 EasyChair website (soon to be announced). A title and 
single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the 
full paper by March 7 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 
12, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 3 (firm date).

*Proceedings*
The proceedings of WoLLIC 2010, including both invited and contributed 
papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in 
Springer's LNCS <http://www.springer.com/lncs> series (TBC). 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 2010 issue of a scientific 
journal (soon to be announced).

*Invited Speakers*
(tba) 

*Student Grants*
ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2010 will permit ASL student members to apply 
for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2010). 
Seehttp://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details.

*Important Dates*

# February 28, 2010: Paper title and abstract deadline
# March 7, 2010: Full paper deadline (firm)
# April 12, 2010: Author notification
# May 3, 2010: Final version deadline (firm)

*Programme Committee*

      *Verónica Becher*
      <http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/profesores/becher/> (Buenos Aires) 
      *Rafaella Bernardi* <http://www.inf.unibz.it/%7Ebernardi/> (Bolzano) 
      *Ricardo Bianconi* <http://www.ime.usp.br/%7Ebianconi/> (São Paulo) 
      *Vasco Brattka* <http://cca-net.de/vasco/> (Cape Town) 
      *Balder ten Cate* <http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Ebcate/> (ENS,
      Cachan) 
      *Bob Coecke* <http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.coecke/> (Oxford) 
      *Adriana Compagnoni* <http://www.cs.stevens.edu/%7Eabc/> (Stevens) 
      *Marcelo Coniglio*
      <http://www.cle.unicamp.br/prof/coniglio/> (Campinas) 
      *Anuj Dawar* <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Ead260/> (Cambridge), chair 
      *Valentin Goranko* <http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/%7Evfgo/> (Copenhagen) 
      *Masahito Hasegawa*
      <http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Ehassei/> (Kyoto U, Japan) 
      *Rosalie Iemhoff*
      <http://www.phil.uu.nl/%7Eiemhoff/eigen.html> (Utrecht) 
      *Makoto Kanazawa*
      <http://research.nii.ac.jp/%7Ekanazawa/> (National Institute of
      Informatics, Japan) 
      *Giuseppe Longo* <http://www.di.ens.fr/%7Elongo/> (CNRS & ENS, Paris) 
      *Mike Mislove* <http://www.entcs.org/mislove.html> (Tulane) 
      *Michael Norrish* <http://nicta.com.au/people/norrishm> (NICTA,
      Canberra) 
      *Bart Selman* <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/selman/> (Cornell) 
      *Scott Weinstein* <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Eweinstei/> (Penn) 

*Organising Committee*

      Mauricio Ayala-Rincon <http://www.mat.unb.br/%7Eayala/> (U
      Brasília, Brazil) (co-chair) 
      Flávio L. C. Moura
      <http://www.cic.unb.br:9080/sitecic/departamento/docentes/flavio> (U
      Brasília, Brazil) 
      Claudia Nalon
      <http://www.cic.unb.br:9080/sitecic/departamento/docentes/cn> (U
      Brasília, Brazil) 
      Anjolina G. de Oliveira <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/%7Eago> (U Fed
      Pernambuco, Brazil) 
      Ruy de Queiroz <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/%7Eruy> (U Fed Pernambuco,
      Brazil) (co-chair) 

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

*Web page*
http://wollic.org/wollic2010/

  Steering committee

Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel 
Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz