CALL FOR PAPERS Thirtieth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS) July 6–10, 2015, Kyoto, Japan http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics15/ VENUE LICS 2015 will be hosted in Kyoto, Japan during the week 6-10 July 2015 and will be colocated with ICALP 2015. SCOPE The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed. We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. IMPORTANT DATES Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper. The exact deadline time on these dates is given by AoE (anywhere on earth). Titles & Short Abstracts Due: January 12, 2015 Extended Abstracts Due: January 19, 2015 Author feedback/rebuttal period: March 12-16, 2015 Author Notification: March 30, 2015 Final Versions Due for Proceedings: April 27, 2015 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All submissions will be electronic via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2015. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Every extended abstract must be submitted in the IEEE Proceedings 2-column 10pt format and may not be longer than 12 pages, including references. LaTeX style files are available on the conference website. The extended abstract must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference and to computer science, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical development directed to the specialist should follow. References and comparisons with related work must be included. (If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results may be included in a clearly-labeled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members.) Extended abstracts not conforming to the above requirements will be rejected without further consideration. Paper selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of accepted papers. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are not allowed. Results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. The program chair must be informed, in advance of submission, of any closely related work submitted or about to be submitted to a conference or journal. Authors of accepted papers are expected to sign copyright release forms. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. SHORT PRESENTATIONS A session of short presentations, intended for descriptions of student research, works in progress, and other brief communications, is planned. These abstracts will not be published. Dates and guidelines will be posted on the conference website. KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER An award in honor of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. SPONSORSHIP The symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGLOG and the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, in cooperation with the Association for Symbolic Logic and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA & E. Polytechnique PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pablo Barceló, U. Chile Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Andrej Bauer, IMFM Lev Beklemishev, Russian Ac. of Sci. Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Cachan Adam Chlipala, MIT Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien Véronique Cortier, CNRS Loria Pedro D'Argenio, UN Cordoba Anuj Dawar, U. Cambridge Mariangiola Dezani, U. Torino Yuxi Fu, SJTU Rob van Glabbeek, NICTA Ichiro Hasuo, U. Tokyo Martin Hofmann, LMU Delia Kesner, U. Paris Diderot Barbara König, U. Duisburg-Essen Laura Kovács, Chalmers UT Dexter Kozen, Cornell U. Manfred Kufleitner, U. Stuttgart Anthony W. Lin, Yale-NUS College Simone Martini, U. Bologna Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Math. Inst. Filip Murlak, U. Warsaw Gopalan Nadathur, U. Minnesota Frank Pfenning, CMU Ian Pratt-Hartmann, U. Manchester Albert Rubio, U. Barcelona Peter Selinger, Dalhousie U. Alessandra Silva, Radboud U. Tachio Terauchi, JAIST Ashish Tiwari, SRI Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica CONFERENCE CHAIR Masahito Hasegawa, RIMS, Kyoto U. WORKSHOP CHAIR Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Cachan PUBLICITY CHAIR Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick LICS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE M. Abadi, L. Aceto, R. Alur, M. P. Bonacina, P. Bouyer-Decitre, K. Chatterjee, A. Compagnoni, A. Dawar, N. Dershowitz, M. Fernandez, M. Grohe, O. Grumberg, T. Henzinger, P. Kolaitis, O. Kupferman, B. Larose, D. Miller, M. Mislove, A. Murawski, C. Palamidessi, L. Ong (chair), P. Panangaden, K. Rose, A. Scedrov, D. Shmoys, M. Valeriote [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]