--------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT 10th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology And Software Technology AMAST 2004 http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/amast2004/ --------------------------------------------- July 12th - 16th, 2004 Stirling, Scotland, UK. The major goal of the AMAST Conferences is to promote research that may lead to the setting of software technology on a firm, mathematical basis. This goal is achieved by a large international cooperation with contributions from both academia and industry. The virtues of a software technology developed on a mathematical basis have been envisioned as being capable of providing software that is (a) correct, and the correctness can be proved mathematically, (b) safe, so that it can be used in the implementation of critical systems, (c) portable, i.e., independent of computing platforms and language generations, and (d) evolutionary, i.e., it is self-adaptable and evolves with the problem domain. All previous editions of the AMAST Conference, which were held at Iowa City (1989,1991), Twente (1993), Montreal (1995), Munich (1996), Sydney (1997), Manaus (1999), Iowa City (2000), and Reunion Island (2002), made contributions to the AMAST goals by reporting and disseminating academic and industrial achievements within the AMAST area of interest. During these meetings, AMAST attracted an international following among researchers and practitioners interested in software technology, programming methodology and their algebraic and logical foundations. In addition, starting with the 1993 edition, the first day of each conference was dedicated to Mathematics Education for Software Engineers. TOPICS ------ As in previous years, we will invite papers reporting original research on setting software technology on a firm mathematical basis. We expect two kinds of submissions for this conference: technical papers and system demonstrations. Of particular interest is research on using algebraic, logic, and other formalisms suitable as foundations for software technology, as well as software technologies developed by means of logic and algebraic methodologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY: * systems software technology * application software technology * concurrent and reactive systems * formal methods in industrial software development * formal techniques for software requirements, design * evolutionary software/adaptive systems PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY: * logic programming, functional programming, object paradigms * constraint programming and concurrency * program verification and transformation * programming calculi * specification languages and tools * formal specification and development case studies ALGEBRAIC AND LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS: * logic, category theory, relation algebra, computational algebra * algebraic foundations for languages and systems, coinduction * theorem proving and logical frameworks for reasoning * logics of programs SYSTEMS AND TOOLS (for system demonstrations or ordinary papers): * software development environments * support for correct software development * system support for reuse * tools for prototyping * component based software development tools * validation and verification * computer algebra systems * theorem proving systems IMPORTANT DATES --------------- AMAST'2004 Conference: July 12-16, 2004 Final details have to be confirmed for paper submissions, but will most likely be end December 2003/early January 2004. PUBLICATION ----------- Previous AMAST conferences have been published in the LNCS series by Springer. LOCATION -------- The conference will be held at the University of Stirling http://www.stir.ac.uk/ CONTACT ------- For further information, send email to amast@cs.stir.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Carron Shankland Email: ces@cs.stir.ac.uk Computing Science & Mathematics Tel: 01786-467444 University of Stirling http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ces Stirling FK9 4LA --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the University of Stirling shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.