ESSLLI-98 Workshop on LOGICAL ABSTRACT MACHINES August 17 - 21, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANISERS: Valeria de Paiva and Eike Ritter (University of Birmingham) Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html BACKGROUND: This workshop brings together recent work on the design of abstract machines for functional programming languages based on logical foundations. Abstract machines describe implementations of functional languages on a level of abstraction which is high enough to make it possible to reason about the implementation but low enough as to allow an easy coding of the abstract machine. The workshop is aimed at students and researchers with a basic understanding of functional programming and intuitionistic logic who want to work on the exciting field of programming with a solid logical basis. We focus the workshop along two main themes: explicit substitutions and abstract machines based on Linear Logic. Most of the more recent work on abstract machines is directed towards implementing and proving correct functional languages based on Linear Logic ideas. Linear Logic, being a resource logic, was deemed ideal to model resource control in functional languages. FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP: The workshop consists of five sessions of 90 minutes and time will be allocated according to the quality of the submissions. We seek original papers on the full spectrum of abstract machines from theory to application. Among the topics of interest are: Theory Design and Implementation ------ ------------------------- formal semantics description of working systems explicit substitution calculi combinators type theory graph reduction techniques linear decorations run-time/memory management game theory for linear logic applications SUBMISSIONS: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are encouraged to submit an extended abstract (up to 12 pages) and preferably in postscript A4 format by **February 15, 1998** via e-mail to E.Ritter@cs.bham.ac.uk or alternatively by post to Dr E. Ritter University of Birmingham School of Computer Science Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England, UK Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 15. Final version of the accepted papers must be received in camera-ready form by June 1st, for inclusion in the informal proceedings. We are looking into formal publication of the proceedings. INVITED SPEAKERS (to be confirmed): Andrea Asperti, University of Bologna Pierre-Louis Curien, ENS, Paris Vincent Danos, Paris 7 Ian Mackie, Ecole Polytechnique Kristoffer Rose, ENS Lyon REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they will be elligible for a reduced registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES: Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy Aug 17, 98: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98 home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli