Please distribute this announcement to your colleagues. --------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS AMAST 2004: 10th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology And Software Technology http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/amast2004/ Paper Submissions: 19th January 2004 --------------------------------------------- AMAST 2004 July 12th - 16th, 2004 Stirling, Scotland, UK. SPEAKERS -------- * Roland Backhouse (Nottingham) * Don Batory (Texas) * Michel Bidoit (CNRS) * Muffy Calder (Glasgow) * Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen) * JJ Meyer (Utrecht) The major goal of the AMAST Conferences is to promote research that may lead to the setting of software technology on a firm, mathematical basis. This goal is achieved by a large international cooperation with contributions from both academia and industry. The virtues of a software technology developed on a mathematical basis have been envisioned as being capable of providing software that is (a) correct, and the correctness can be proved mathematically, (b) safe, so that it can be used in the implementation of critical systems, (c) portable, i.e., independent of computing platforms and language generations, and (d) evolutionary, i.e., it is self-adaptable and evolves with the problem domain. TOPICS ------ As in previous years, we will invite papers reporting original research on setting software technology on a firm mathematical basis. We expect two kinds of submissions for this conference: technical papers and system demonstrations. Of particular interest is research on using algebraic, logic, and other formalisms suitable as foundations for software technology, as well as software technologies developed by means of logic and algebraic methodologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY: * systems software technology * application software technology * concurrent and reactive systems * formal methods in industrial software development * formal techniques for software requirements, design * evolutionary software/adaptive systems PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY: * logic programming, functional programming, object paradigms * constraint programming and concurrency * program verification and transformation * programming calculi * specification languages and tools * formal specification and development case studies ALGEBRAIC AND LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS: * logic, category theory, relation algebra, computational algebra * algebraic foundations for languages and systems, coinduction * theorem proving and logical frameworks for reasoning * logics of programs SYSTEMS AND TOOLS (for system demonstrations or ordinary papers): * software development environments * support for correct software development * system support for reuse * tools for prototyping * component based software development tools * validation and verification * computer algebra systems * theorem proving systems PUBLICATION ----------- As in the past, the proceedings of AMAST 2004 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. We invite prospective authors to submit electronically previously unpublished papers of high quality. Submissions should not have been published and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be no longer than 15 pages (6 pages for system demonstrations) and should be prepared using LaTeX and the LNCS style that can be downloaded from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Please send a fully self-contained PostScript file to amast@cs.stir.ac.uk. If for any reason it is impossible to submit a paper electronically, authors should send six copies of their submission to the program chair at the address below. All papers will be refereed by the programme committee, and will be judged based on their significance, technical merit, and relevance to the conference. Papers should be received by January 19, 2004. Address for non-electronic submissions: Charles Rattray AMAST'2004 Program Chair Department of Computing Science and Mathematics University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK PRIZES ------ There will be a prize for the best paper overall, and for the best student paper. These prizes are sponsored by BCS-FACS (the British Computing Society special interest group Formal Aspects of Computing Science). Each prize winner will receive a year's membership of BCS-FACS and a year's subscription to the Formal Aspects of Computing journal. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Paper submissions: January 19, 2004. * Notification of paper acceptance: March 1, 2004 * Camera ready papers due: April 5, 2004 * AMAST'2004 Conference: July 12-16, 2004 LOCATION -------- The conference will be held at the University of Stirling http://www.stir.ac.uk/ CONTACT ------- For further information, send email to amast@cs.stir.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Carron Shankland Email: ces@cs.stir.ac.uk Computing Science & Mathematics Tel: 01786-467444 University of Stirling http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ces Stirling FK9 4LA --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. 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