Structural Operational Semantics 2007 An Affiliated Workshop of LICS 2007 and ICALP 2007 July 9, 2007, Wroclaw, Poland http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rvg/SOS2007 Aim: Structural operational semantics (SOS) provides a framework for giving operational semantics to programming and specification languages. A growing number of programming languages from commercial and academic spheres have been given usable semantic descriptions by means of structural operational semantics. Because of its intuitive appeal and flexibility, structural operational semantics has found considerable application in the study of the semantics of concurrent processes. Moreover, it is becoming a viable alternative to denotational semantics in the static analysis of programs, and in proving compiler correctness. Recently, structural operational semantics has been successfully applied as a formal tool to establish results that hold for classes of process description languages. This has allowed for the generalisation of well-known results in the field of process algebra, and for the development of a meta-theory for process calculi based on the realization that many of the results in this field only depend upon general semantic properties of language constructs. This workshop aims at being a forum for researchers, students and practitioners interested in new developments, and directions for future investigation, in the field of structural operational semantics. One of the specific goals of the workshop is to establish synergies between the concurrency and programming language communities working on the theory and practice of SOS. Moreover, it aims at widening the knowledge of SOS among postgraduate students and young researchers worldwide. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * programming languages * process algebras * higher-order formalisms * rule formats for operational specifications * meaning of operational specifications * comparisons between denotational, axiomatic and SOS * compositionality of modal logics with respect to operational specifications * congruence with respect to behavioural equivalences * conservative extensions * derivation of proof rules from operational specifications * software tools that automate, or are based on, SOS. Papers reporting on applications of SOS to software engineering and other areas of computer science are welcome. History: The first SOS Workshop took place on the 30th of August 2004 in London as one of the satellite workshops of CONCUR 2004. Subsequently, SOS 2005 occurred on the 10th of July 2005 in Lisbon as a satellite workshop of ICALP 2005, and SOS 2006 on the 26th of August 2006 in Bonn as a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2006. A special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming on Structural Operational Semantics appeared in 2004; a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science dedicated to SOS 2005 is in press, and a special issue of Information & Computation on Structural Operational Semantics inspired by SOS 2006 is in preparation. INVITED SPEAKER: Pawel Sobocinski (Cambridge, UK) PAPER SUBMISSION: We solicit unpublished papers reporting on original research on the general theme of SOS. Prospective authors should register their intention to submit a paper by uploading a title and abstract via the workshop web page by: *** Friday 6 April 2007. *** Papers should take the form of a pdf file in ENTCS format [http://www.entcs.org/], whose length should not exceed 15 pages (not including an optional "Appendix for referees" containing proofs that will not be included in the final paper). We will also consider 5-page papers describing tools to be demonstrated at the workshop. Proceedings: Preliminary proceedings will be available at the meeting. The final proceedings of the workshop will appear as a volume in the ENTCS series. We may decide to arrange a special issue of an archival journal devoted to full versions of selected papers from the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission of abstract: Friday 6 April 2007 * Submission: Sunday 15 April 2007 * Notification: Wednesday 9 May 2007 * Final version: Friday 25 May 2007 * Workshop: Monday 9 July 2007 * Final ENTCS version: Friday 10 August 2007. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Luca Aceto (Aalborg, DK; Reykjavik, IS) Rocco De Nicola (Florence, IT) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, AU, co-chair) Reiko Heckel (Leicester, UK) Matthew Hennessy (Sussex, UK, co-chair) Bartek Klin (Warsaw, PL) Ugo Montanari (Pisa, IT) MohammadReza Mousavi (Eindhoven, NL; Reykjavik, IS) Prakash Panangaden (Montreal, CA) Grigore Rosu (Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA) Simone Tini (Insubria, I) Shoji Yuen (Nagoya, JP) CONTACT: sos2007@cs.stanford.edu WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: Rob van Glabbeek National ICT Australia Locked Bag 6016 University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 1466 Australia Matthew Hennessy Department of Informatics University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QN United Kingdom