==================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 ==================================================================== Scope ----- The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop. The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m6 Final versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will also be available at the workshop. Invited speakers ----------------- To be announced. Important dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: August 24, 2009 Notification: October 5, 2009 Camera ready versions: October 26, 2009 Workshop dates: November 12-14, 2009 Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine Thomas Bolander (co-chair), Technical University of Denmark Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh Torben Braüner (co-chair), Roskilde University Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago Melvin Fitting, City University of New York John Gallagher, Roskilde University Mai Gehrke, Radboud University Nijmegen Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand Rajeev Goré, ANU, NICTA Michael R. Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Andreas Herzig, IRIT Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Martin Lange, LMU München Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Valeria de Paiva, Cuill Inc. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester Carsten Schürmann, IT University of Copenhagen Gert Smolka, Saarland University Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen Jørgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool Thomas Ågotnes, Bergen University College ==================================================================