CALL FOR TALKS AND PARTICIPATION Workshop on Structure Preserving Relations Relations are ubiquitous in Computer Science. In particular, those which preserve structure are of central interest, appearing in the form of logical relations and bisimulation, and used to study abstraction and data and program refinement, for example. The workshop is intended to bring researchers on these topics together to present and compare their various approaches, and to allow potential users of these techniques to see which if any of these structures may be of use in their own more applied research. The workshop will be held at ETL/AIST in Amagasaki, which is a scenic coastal town near Kobe, with easy rail connections to the famous tourist sites of Kyoto and Nara. The meeting will commence at 2:00 pm on Monday, March 12, 2001, finishing sometime after lunch on Wednesday, March 14. Being supported by the COE project 'Global Informatics' funded by STA, the workshop is a successor to the Workshop on Refinement and Abstraction held at the same city in November, 1999 (see http://www.etl.go.jp/~yoshiki/WRA/ for more information about this). WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: Masami Hagiya The University of Tokyo John Power The University of Edinburgh Yoshiki Kinoshita ETL/AIST, Osaka INVITED SPEAKERS: Ryu Hasegawa The University of Tokyo Bart Jacobs Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen Edmund Robinson Queen Mary and Westfield College, London David Schmidt Kansas State University PLACE: Osaka LERC ETL Nakouji 3-11-46 Amagasaki-city, Hyogo 661-0974 Japan Phone: +81-6-6494-7825 Fax: +81-6-6491-5028 The map may be found at the following URL: http://www.etl.go.jp/~LERC/chizu.html TALKS AND THE PROCEEDINGS: We wish to keep the informal atmosphere of the previous workshop making it easier to go for fruitful discussions. All participants are welcome to give a talk on relations which preserve some mathematical structure such as algebraic structure. We do not collect papers from the speakers in advance of the workshop. Rather, we will bundle a post-proceedings of the workshop, which we plan to publish in a volume of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. To this post-proceedings, not only the speakers but all participants will be invited to submit papers about topics related to the workshop. ACCOMMODATION: Hotel New Archaic, which is in reasonable distance from the workshop place, offers a following rate to participants of this workshop: Single room : 7,507 Yen(including SVC,TAX) Twin room : 12,705 Yen(including SVC,TAX) To get this rate, you need to contact directly to the hotel (note: they of course speak reasonable English as well as Japanese) BY PHONE or E-MAIL, to reserve your name BEFORE Friday 28 February, 2001, with the explicit statement that you are to participate the Workshop sponsored by ETL. PHONE is preferable for the reliable reservation. Phone number of the Hotel New Archaic for booking: +81-6-6488-3111 E-mail address of the Hotel New Archaic for booking: TO: archaic@mxq.mesh.ne.jp CC: midoriko@etl.go.jp There are limited number of non-smoking rooms. Quick reservation would be recommended if you need one. REGISTRATION: Participants are asked to fill in the following registration form and send it to YOKOYAMA Midoriko (midoriko@etl.go.jp), no later than February 28, 2001. Registration fee is 13,000yen that includes: - admission to the workshop - lunches during the workshop - workshop dinner on March 13 - materials distributed during the workshop Payments should be made in Yen currency by bank transfer. Notice: Registration fee 13,000yen does not include the bank charge. Bank name : Sakura Bank Branch bank name : Sonoda Beneficiary's name : ETL YOSHIKI KINOSHITA ID number : 357-4561405 (Ordinary bank account) For those who have difficulty with bank transfer, we also accept payment by cash on the first day of the workshop, but participants are encouraged to use bank transfer. ======================================================================== REGISTRATION FORM Workshop on Structure Preserving Relations - Names in full : - Address : - Phone/Fax : - Oranization : - Date of transfer to our bank : - Title and abstract of your talk (Note: if you intend to give a talk, please give your title and abstract here): ========================================================================