+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | IJCAR 2001 | | | | The International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning | | | | June 18-23, 2001, Siena, Italy | | | | http://www.dii.uni-si.it/~ijcar/ | | | | CALL FOR PAPERS / TUTORIALS / WORKSHOPS | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) is the fusion of three major conferences in Automated Reasoning: CADE (The International Conference on Automated Deduction), TABLEAUX (The International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) and FTP (The International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving). These three events will join for the first time at the IJCAR conference in Siena in June 2001. IJCAR 2001 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. Topics ------ LOGICS of interest include propositional, first-order, classical, equational, higher-order, non-classical, constructive, modal, temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, and meta-logics, type theory and set theory. TECHNIQUES of interest include model-elimination, tableaux, sequent calculi, resolution, connection method, inverse method, term rewriting, induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, semantic guidance, interactive theorem proving, logical frameworks, and AI-related methods for deductive systems such as proof planning and proof presentation. APPLICATIONS of interest include hardware and software development, systems analysis and verification, functional and logic programming, proof carrying code, deductive databases, knowledge representation, computer mathematics, natural language processing, linguistics, planning and other AI areas. Submissions - Research papers and system descriptions ----------------------------------------------------- Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research papers can be up to 15 proceedings pages long, and system descriptions can be up to 5 pages long. The proceedings of IJCAR 2001 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI series. All submissions must be received by January 14, 2001. Submissions that are late or too long or require substantial revision will not be considered. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transfering copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. IN THE RESEARCH PAPER CATEGORY, SUBMISSIONS OF THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NATURE ARE EQUALLY ENCOURAGED. Submissions - Short papers -------------------------- Short papers are intended for quick dissemination of work in progress or results not substantial enough for a full research paper. Their length is limited to 10 pages. Submissions under this category will not be formally refereed, but their content and relevance will be reviewed. Those submissions accepted will be published in a technical report, which will be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present a brief outline of their work at the conference and to prepare a poster for display at the conference venue. The submission deadline is April 2, 2001. Submission details - All categories ----------------------------------- Authors are strongly encouraged to use LATEX2e and the Springer llncs class files. The primary means of submission is electronic. More submission details can be found at the IJCAR 2001 web site. Best Student Paper Award ------------------------ A prize of 500 Euros will be given to the best paper, as judged by the program committee, written solely by one or more students. A submission is eligible if all authors are full-time students at the time of submission. This should be indicated in the submission letter. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers. Organization ------------ Conference Chair: Fabio Massacci University of Siena Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione via Roma 56 53100 Siena, Italy Phone: +39 0577 234607 FAX: +39 0577 233602 Email: ijcar-cch@dii.unisi.it Workshop Chair: D. Hutter (Saarbr"ucken) ijcar-workshop@dii.unisi.it Tutorial Chair: T. Walsh (York) ijcar-tutorial@dii.unisi.it Program Co-Chairs: Rajeev Gor'e (ARP-ANU, Australia) Alexander Leitsch (TU-Wien, Austria) Tobias Nipkow (TU-M"unchen, Germany) collective Email address: ijcar-pch@dii.unisi.it Publicity Chair: P. Baumgartner (Koblenz) Treasurer: E. Giunchiglia (Genova) Invited speakers ---------------- N. Jones (DIKU, DK) L. Paulson (Cambridge, UK) H. Schwichtenberg (M"unchen, D) A. Voronkov (Manchester, UK) D. Zeilberger (Temple Univ., USA) Program committee ----------------- R. Alur (Philadelphia) F. Baader (Aachen) M. Baaz (Wien) B. Beckert (Karlsruhe) R. Caferra (Grenoble) R. Dyckhoff (St. Andrews) U. Furbach (Koblenz) D. Galmiche (Nancy) H. Ganzinger (MPI Saarbr"ucken) J. Goubault-Larrecq (INRIA Rocq.) R. H"ahnle (Chalmers) J. Harrison (Intel, Hillsboro) D. Kapur (New Mexico) H. Kautz (ATT, Florham Park) M. Kohlhase (Saarbr"ucken) Z. Manna (Stanford) P. Patel-Schneider (Bell Labs) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) A. Podelski (MPI Saarbr"ucken) W. Reif (Augsburg) G. Salzer (Wien) M. Vardi (Houston) Important dates --------------- (all dates in 2001) January 14 Submission deadline - Research papers and system descriptions March 19 Notification of acceptance - Research papers and system descriptions April 2 Submission deadline - Short papers April 12 Camera-ready copy due - Research papers and system descriptions April 30 Notification of acceptance - Short papers May 14 Camera-ready copy due - Short papers June 18 - June 23 IJCAR 2001 CALL FOR TUTORIALS ================== Scope ----- It is planned to hold a number of tutorials within the technical programme of the confer ence. We invite proposals for these tutorials (as well as suggestions for topics that might be covered). The topics of the tutorials can cover any area related to automated reasoning and any related cross-disciplinary areas that might be of interest (constraints, formal methods, ...). At present, the tutorials are scheduled to take place on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th June. How to Propose a Tutorial ------------------------- Proposals should be in English and between one and two pages in length. They should contain: * The title of the tutorial. * The names, and affiliations of the person or persons who will present the tutorial. * A brief technical description of the topics covered by the tutorial. * Contact details (email, web page, phone, fax, etc). * A list of tutorials previously given in this or related areas. Proposals should be submitted electronically (in ASCII, Ghostscript compatible Postscript or LaTeX) at the follwing address: Toby Walsh, IJCAR Tutorial Chair Artificial Intelligence Group Department of Computer Science University of York York YO10 5DD, U.K. Email: ijcar-tutorial@dii.unisi.it Tel: +44 1904 432745 Fax: +44 1904 432767 Important dates --------------- Tutorial proposal deadline: January 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance: January 29, 2001 Tutorials: June 18+19, 2001 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ================== Scope ----- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on IJCAR related topics as mentioned in the "Call for Papers". Proposals that promise to bring new topics into IJCAR, of either practical or theoretical importance, or provide a forum for more detailed discussion on central topics of continuing importance are also welcomed. Workshops that close the gap between automated reasoning and related areas, like for instance formal methods or software engineering, are especially encouraged. Recent workshops of participating conferences have included, for instance, automated model building, automation of proofs by induction, empirical studies in logic algorithms, mechanization of partial functions, proof search in type-theoretic languages, strategies in automated deduction, automated theorem proving in software engineering and in mathematics, and integration of symbolic computation and deduction. Submission Details ------------------ Anyone wishing to organize a workshop in conjunction with IJCAR should send in postscript format (e-mail preferred) a proposal no longer than two pages to the workshop chair (ijcar-workshop@dii.unisi.it) by January 1, 2001. Proposals should consist of two parts. First, a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance and the particular benefits of the workshop. A second part should include the proposed format and agenda, the procedures for selecting papers and participants, and contact information for the organizers. In particular it should also include estimated dates for paper submissions, acceptance of notification (before May 1, 2001) and camera ready copy. Proposals will be evaluated, and decisions will be communicated by January 15, 2001. Further information about the arrangements for workshops can be obtained from the IJCAR 2001 Web site. Important dates --------------- Workshop proposal deadline: January 1, 2001 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2001 Workshops: June 18+19, 2001 Workshop chair -------------- Dieter Hutter (Saarbr"ucken, D) ijcar-workshop@dii.unisi.it Sponsors -------- Università degli Studi di Siena, the University of Siena AI*IA, l'Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale CADE Inc., The Conference on Automated Deduction. EATCS, The European Association for Theoretical Computer Sciences. ECCAI, The European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence. ERCIM, The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. IJCAI Inc., The International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. MPS, Monte dei Paschi di Siena -- Peter Baumgartner phone: +49 261 287 2777 mail: peter@uni-koblenz.de fax: +49 261 287 2731 WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/