Preliminary Call for Papers/Extended Abstracts FICS 2012 Workshop March 24, 2012, Tallinn, Estonia Satellite workshop to ETAPS 2012 http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/fics2012/ Important dates: Abstract submission: 4 Dec 2011 Paper submission: 11 Dec 2011 Notification: 21 Jan 2012 Final version: 5 Feb 2012 Background: Fixed points play a fundamental role in several areas of computer science and logic by justifying induction and recursive definitions. The construction and properties of fixed points have been investigated in many different frameworks such as: design and implementation of programming languages, program logics, databases. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present their results to those members of the computer science and logic communities who study or apply the theory of fixed points. Previous workshops were held in Brno (1998, MFCS/CSL workshop), Paris (2000, LC workshop), Florence (2001, PLI workshop), Copenhagen (2002, LICS (FLoC) workshop), Warsaw (2003, ETAPS workshop), Coimbra (2009, CSL workshop) and Brno (2010, MFCS/CSL workshop). Topics include, but are not restricted to: * categorical, metric and ordered fixed point models * fixed points in algebra and coalgebra * fixed points in languages and automata * fixed points in programming language semantics * the mu-calculus and fixed points in modal logic * fixed points in process algebras and process calculi * fixed points in the lambda-calculus, functional programming and type theory * fixed points in relation to dataflow and circuits * fixed points in logic programming and theorem proving * finite model theory, descriptive complexity theory, fixed points in databases Invited speakers: TBA Submission: Selection of contributed talks is based on extended abstracts/short papers. Submission is via EasyChair in two stages: titles and abstracts by 4 December, and extended abstracts/short papers in LaTeX by 11 December. The authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 21 January 2012. We plan to distribute the short papers presented at the meeting via the open source repository EPTCS. Submissions must be limited to 8 pages using eptcs.cls or 6 pages using easychair.cls <http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip>. Final submissions for the proceedings will require using eptcs.cls. Journal publication: If the number and quality of submissions and accepted talks warrant this, a special issue of an internationally recognized journal devoted to the event will be published. FICS Program Committee: PC co-Chairs: * Dale Miller, INRIA-Saclay, France * Zoltan Esik, University of Szeged, Hungary PC members: * Achim Jung, University of Birmingham, UK * Arnaud Carayol, Institut Gaspard-Monge, France * David Baelde, University of Paris 11, France * Fabio Gadducci, University of Pisa, Italy * Igor Walukiewicz, LaBRI Bordeaux, France * Irene Guessarian, University of Paris 7, France * Jan Rutten, CWI, Amsterdam, Radboud University Nijmegen, Holland * Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh, UK * Luigi Santocanale, Université Aix-Marseille I, France * Ralph Matthes, IRIT Toulouse, France * Stephan Kreutzer, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany * Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia * Wan Fokkink, Vrije Universiteit, Holland [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]