MPC 2000 5th International Conference on MATHEMATICS OF PROGRAM CONSTRUCTION ----------------------------------- http://www.di.uminho.pt/mpc2000 3--7 July, 2000 Ponte de Lima, Portugal CALL FOR PAPERS This conference aims to promote the development of mathematical principles and techniques that are demonstrably useful and usable in the process of constructing computer programs (whether implemented in hardware or software). The focus of the conference is on techniques that combine precision with concision, enabling programs to be constructed by formal calculation. Within this theme, the scope of the conference is very diverse. We welcome contributions to programming methodology (for example, formal methods for program specification and transformation), to programming paradigms (for example, generic programming techniques and type systems) and to language design (for example, programming calculi and programming language semantics). Theoretical contributions are welcome provided their relevance to program construction is evident; discussion of applications is welcome provided the mathematical basis is evident. A number of workshops will be organised in conjunction with the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of papers: 3rd January, 2000 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 29th February, 2000 Final papers due: 17th April, 2000 Full papers should be submitted in Postscript format by e-mail to reach Roland Backhouse or Jose Oliveira by 3rd January, 2000. INVITED SPEAKERS Cliff Jones (Harlequin Ltd., UK) Jan Rutten (CWI, The Netherlands) Mark Jones (Oregon, USA) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Roland Backhouse (UK, cochair) Richard Bird (UK) Eerke Boiten (UK) Dave Carrington (Australia) Jules Desharnais (Canada) Jose Fiadeiro (Portugal) Jeremy Gibbons (UK) Lindsay Groves (New Zealand) Zhenjiang Hu (Japan) John Hughes (Sweden) Johan Jeuring (The Netherlands) Burghard von Karger (Germany) Dick Kieburtz (USA) Carlos Kloos (Spain) K. Rustan M. Leino (USA) Christian Lengauer (Germany) Lambert Meertens (The Netherlands) Sigurd Meldal (Norway) Eugenio Moggi (Italy) Bernhard Moeller (Germany) Oege de Moor (UK) Dave Naumann (USA) Jose Oliveira (cochair, Portugal) Kaisa Sere (Finland) Mark Utting (New Zealand) Phil Wadler (USA) FURTHER INFORMATION Please refer to the web page for further details. http://www.di.uminho.pt/mpc2000 Alternatively, email: mpc2000@di.uminho.pt or contact a member of the programme committee.