============================================================ C A L L F O R P A P E R S 4th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS2001) Genova, Italy 6-7 April 2001 A satellite workshop of ETAPS 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------ Aims and Scope During the last few years, it is becoming increasingly clear that a great variety of state-based dynamical systems, like transition systems, automata, process calculi and class-based systems can be captured uniformly as coalgebras. Coalgebra is developing into a field of its own interest presenting a deep mathematical foundation, a growing field of applications and interactions with various other fields such as reactive and interactive system theory, object oriented and concurrent programming, formal system specification, modal logic, dynamical systems, control systems, category theory, algebra, analysis, etc. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers with a common interest in the theory of coalgebras and its applications. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * the theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical approaches); * coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for programming languages, dynamical systems, etc.); * coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent) programming; * coalgebras and data types; * (coinductive) definition and proof principles for coalgebras (with bisimulations or invariants); * coalgebras and algebras; * coalgebraic specification and verification; * coalgebras and (modal) logic; * coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems). The workshop will provide an opportunity to present recent and ongoing work, to meet colleagues, and to discuss new ideas and future trends. Previous workshops of the same series have been organized in Lisbon, Amsterdam and Berlin. The proceedings appeared as ENTCS Vols. 11,19 and 33. ------------------------------------------------------------ Location CMCS2001 will be held in Genova on 6-7 April 2001, just after ETAPS2001 (European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software). ------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Alexandru Baltag (Amsterdam), Andrea Corradini (Pisa), Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen), Marina Lenisa (Udine), Ugo Montanari (chair, Pisa), Larry Moss (Bloomington, IN), Ataru T. Nakagawa (Tokyo), Dusko Pavlovic (Palo Alto), John Power (Edinburgh), Horst Reichel (Dresden), Jan Rutten (Amsterdam). ------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions Submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee for inclusion in the proceedings, which will be published in the ENTCS series. Papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate reference to and comparison with related work. Papers (of at most 15 pages) should be submitted electronically as uuencoded PostScript files at the address cmcs2001@di.unipi.it. A separate message should also be sent, with a text-only one-page abstract and with mailing addresses (both postal and electronic), telephone number and fax number of the corresponding author. ------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates Deadline for submission: 2 January 2001. Notification of acceptance: 20 February 2001. Final version due: 10 March 2001. Workshop dates: 6-7 April 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------ Organizers Andrea Corradini (Pisa), Marina Lenisa (Udine), Ugo Montanari (Pisa). ------------------------------------------------------------ For more information: http://www.di.unipi.it/~ugo/CMCS2001.html mailto:cmcs2001@di.unipi.it ============================================================