Seventh workshop on Geometric and Topological Methods in Concurrency GETCO 2005 Affiliated with CONCUR 2005 Venue: San Francisco, California Conference dates: CONCUR: 23-26 August 2005 GETCO: 21 August 2005 Call for Papers Scope The main mathematical disciplines that have been used in computer science are discrete mathematics (especially graph theory and ordered structures), logics (mostly proof theory for all kinds of logics, classical, intuitionistic, modal etc.) and category theory (cartesian closed categories, topoi etc.). General Topology has also been used for instance in denotational semantics, with relations to ordered structures in particular. Recently, ideas and notions from mainstream "geometric" topology and algebraic topology have entered the scene in Concurrency Theory and Distributed Systems Theory (some of them based on older ideas). They have been applied in particular to problems dealing with coordination of multi-processor and distributed systems (see the historical note ). Among those are techniques borrowed from algebraic and geometric topology: Simplicial techniques have led to new theoretical bounds for coordination problems. Higher dimensional automata have been modeled as cubical complexes with a partial order reflecting the time flows, and their homotopy properties allow to reason about a system's global behaviour. The GETCO workshops aim at bringing together researchers from both the mathematical (geometry, topology, algebraic topology etc.) and computer scientific side (concurrency theorists, semanticians, algorithmicians, researchers in distributed systems etc.) with an active interest in these or related developments. Topics include (but are not limited to): * Algorithmics for Concurrent or Distributed Systems * Fault-tolerant Protocols for Distributed Systems * Semantics * Concurrency Theory * Model-checking * Abstract Interpretation * Geometric/Topological models * Applications of algebraic topology * Category theory Paper submission Submissions to the workshop may be of two forms: * Short abstracts: up to 4 pages, in format A4, typeset 11 points * Full papers: up to 12 pages, in format A4, typeset 11 points (excluding bibliography and technical appendices) Both forms of submission should include a separate page with the following information: title, author(s), corresponding author, contact information and a 12-15 lines summary. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals is only allowed for short abstracts. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. The paper or abstract should be sent by e-mail in the form of a postscript or PDF file to both the addresses uli@math.aau.dk and Haucourt@cea.fr. The accompanying page should be sent in a separate email message. If surface mail has to be used, then 3 copies of the paper/abstract should be sent to: Emmanuel Haucourt, DTSI/SLA, bat. 528, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2005. Important Dates * Deadline for submission: 1 June 2005 * Notification of acceptance: 7 July 2005 * Final version (for the preproceedings): 27 July 2005 * CONCUR: 23-26 August 2005 * GETCO: 27 August 2005 Publication We expect that as in the years before, the preliminary proceedings of the workshop will published in the BRICS Notes series, and the proceedings with Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. Programme Committee * Patrick Cousot, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France * Lisbeth Fajstrup, Aalborg University, Denmark * Eric Goubault, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France * Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA * Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark * Martin Raussen, Aalborg University, Denmark Contact Additional information can be obtained from the GETCO website at http://www.math.aau.dk/~uli/getco05 or by taking contact to Ulrich Fahrenberg Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G 9220 Aalborg East Phone: +45 96 35 88 00 Fax: +45 98 15 81 29 Email: uli@math.aau.dk 23-Mar-2005 21:52:32 -0400,4687;000000000000-00000000