Friends, Natasha Alechina and I are organizing another Intuitionistic Modal Logic and Applications Workshop. Here's the Call for Papers. Best, Valeria ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fifth International Workshop on Intuitionistic Modal Logic and Applications (IMLA'11) (http://www.agents.cs.nott.ac.uk/events/imla11) A 14th Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science affiliated workshop Nancy, France, July, 2011 Constructive modal logics and type theories are of increasing foundational and practical relevance in computer science. Applications are in type disciplines for programming languages, and meta-logics for reasoning about a variety of computational phenomena. Theoretical and methodological issues center around the question of how the proof-theoretic strengths of constructive logics can best be combined with the model-theoretic strengths of modal logics. Practical issues center around the question which modal connectives with associated laws or proof rules capture computational phenomena accurately and at the right level of abstraction. This workshop will bring together designers, implementers, and users to discuss all aspects of intuitionistic modal logics and type theories. Topics include, but are not limited to: * applications of intuitionistic necessity and possibility * monads and strong monads * constructive belief logics and type theories * applications of constructive modal logic and modal type theory to formal verification, foundations of security, abstract interpretation, and program analysis and optimization * modal types for integration of inductive and co-inductive types, higher-order abstract syntax, strong functional programming * models of constructive modal logics such as algebraic, categorical, Kripke, topological, and realizability interpretations * notions of proof for constructive modal logics * extraction of constraints or programs from modal proofs * proof search methods for constructive modal logics and their implementations The workshop continues a series of previous LICS-affiliated workshops, which were held as part of FLoC'99, Trento, Italy and of FLoC'02, Copenhagen, Denmark,part of LiCS2005, Chicago, USA and LiCS2008, Pittsburgh, USA. We solicit submissions on work in progress and on more mature results. Submissions should be extended abstracts of 5-10 pages sent in PDF format to either or both of the co-chairs nza@cs.nott.ac.uk, valeria.depaiva@gmail.com. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission: December 15, 2010 Notification: January 15, 2011 Final papers due: March 31, 2011 Workshop Date: TBA It is planned to publish workshop proceedings as Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) or in CEURS, to be decided. Authors please use the generic ENTCS macro package at http://www.math.tulane.edu/~entcs. INVITED SPEAKERS include: Michael Mendler (Bamberg, DE) Brian Logan (Nottingham, UK) Lutz Strassburger (LIX, FR) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nick Benton (Microsoft, UK) Natasha Alechina (Nottingham, UK) Didier Galmiche (Nancy, FR) Hermann Hausler (PUC-RJ, BR) Valeria de Paiva (Birmingham, UK) CONTACTS Natasha Alechina (nza@cs.nott.ac.uk) Valeria de Paiva (valeria.depaiva@gmail.com) -- Valeria de Paiva http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vdp/ http://valeriadepaiva.org/www/ [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]