======================== Call for Papers ================================= WRLA 2016 11th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications An ETAPS 2016 satellite event Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-3, 2016 ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract deadline: January 6th 2016 * Submission deadline: January 10th 2016 * Author notification: February 14th 2016 * Workshop: Saturday April 2nd and Sunday April 3rd, 2016 AIMS AND SCOPE Rewriting is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication, and interaction. It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in various application domains. It also has good properties as a metalogical framework for representing logics. Several successful languages based on rewriting (ASF+SDF, CafeOBJ, ELAN, Maude) have been designed and implemented. The aim of WRLA is to bring together researchers with a common interest in rewriting and its applications, and to give them the opportunity to present their recent work, discuss future research directions, and exchange ideas. The 2016 edition of WRLA will mark its 20th anniversary since its first edition in Asilomar, California, in 1996. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: A. Foundations * foundations and models of rewriting and rewriting logic, including termination, confluence, coherence and complexity * unification, generalisation, narrowing, and partial evaluation * constrained rewriting and symbolic algebra * graph rewriting * tree automata * rewriting strategies * rewriting-based calculi and explicit substitutions B. Rewriting as a Logical and Semantic Framework * uses of rewriting and rewriting logic as a logical framework, including deduction modulo * uses of rewriting as a semantic framework for programming language semantics * rewriting semantics of concurrency models, distributed systems, and network protocols * rewriting semantics of real-time, hybrid, and probabilistic systems * uses of rewriting for compilation and language transformation C. Rewriting Languages * rewriting-based declarative languages * type systems for rewriting * implementation techniques * tools supporting rewriting languages D. Verification Techniques * verification of confluence, termination, coherence, sufficient completeness, and related properties * temporal, modal and reachability logics for verifying dynamic properties of rewrite theories * explicit-state and symbolic model-checking techniques for verification of rewrite theories * rewriting-based theorem proving, including (co)inductive theorem proving * rewriting-based constraint solving and satisfiability * rewriting-semantics-based verification and analysis of programs E. Applications * applications to logic, mathematics and physics * rewriting models of biology, chemistry, and membrane systems * security specification and verification * applications to distributed, network, mobile, and cloud computing * specification and verification of real-time, probabilistic, and cyber-physical systems * specifications and verification of critical systems * applications to model-based software engineering * applications to engineering and planning INVITED SPEAKERS Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) Helene Kirchner (INRIA, France) SUBMISSION We solicit submissions of regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress papers. Regular papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, include appropriate references, and comparison with related work. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Tool papers have to present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, emphasise the design and implementation, and give a clear account of the tool's functionality. The described tools must be publicly available via the web. Work-in-progress papers present early-stage work or other types of innovative or thought-provoking work related to the topics of the workshop. The difference between work-in-progress and regular papers is that work-in-progress submissions represent work that has not reached yet a level of completion that would warrant the full-refereed selection process. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit work-in-progress papers as this provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on ongoing work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. All submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers, and should be submitted electronically using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla2016 Regular and work-in-progress papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Tool papers can have a maximum of 6 pages including references and may have an appendix of up to 4 additional pages with usage details and tool demonstration. PUBLICATION All submissions will be evaluated by the program committee. Regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress papers that are accepted will be presented at the workshop and included in the pre-proceedings, which will be available during the workshop. Following the tradition of the last editions, the regular papers, tool papers, and invited presentations will be published as a volume in Springer???s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series to be distributed after the workshop. A special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP) will be devoted to extended versions of selected papers from WRLA 2016. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kyungmin Bae, SRI International, USA Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy Stefan Ciobaca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Manuel Clavel, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Francisco Dur??n, Universidad de M??laga, Spain Joerg Endrullis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Santiago Escobar, Universidad Polit??cnica de Valencia, Spain Maribel Fern??ndez, King's College London, UK Kokichi Futatsugi, JAIST, Japan Thomas Genet, IRISA/Universit?? de Rennes 1, France J??rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA Helene Kirchner, INRIA, France Alexander Knapp, Universitat Augsburg, Germany Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania (chair) Salvador Lucas, Universidad Polit??cnica de Valencia, Spain Narciso Mart??-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jos?? Meseguer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, Italy Pierre-Etienne Moreau, Universit?? de Lorraine, France Vivek Nigam, Federal University of Para??ba, Brasil Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan Peter ??lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Miguel Palomino, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA-Lorraine Nancy, France Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Vlad Rusu, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe, France Ralf Sasse, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Traian-Florin Serbanuta, University of Bucharest, Romania Mark-Oliver Stehr, SRI International, USA Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit??t M??nchen, Germany CONTACT INFORMATION For more information, please contact the organizers dlucanu@info.uaic.ro or visit the workshop web page http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/events/WRLA2016/ . [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]