CALL FOR PAPERS: Games for Logic and Programming Languages An Etaps 2005 Workshop Edinburgh, 2-3 April 2005 [http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Ecoml0074/galop.html] In the past decade game semantics has emerged as a new and successful paradigm in the field of semantics of logics and programming languages. Game semantics made its breakthrough in computer science in the early 90s, providing an innovative set of methods and techniques for the analysis of logical systems. Subsequently, game-semantic techniques led to the development of the first syntax-independent fully-abstract models for a variety of programming languages, ranging from the purely functional to languages with non-functional features such as control, references or concurrency. There are also emerging connections between game semantics and other semantic theories, notably theories of concurrency such as the pi-calculus, and traditional tree-based semantics of lambda calculi. In addition to semantic analysis, an algorithmic approach to game semantics has recently been developed, with a view to applications in computer assisted verification and program analysis. The aim of the workshop is to provide opportunity for interaction with other Etaps'05 events and to become a major meeting point in the research area of Game Semantics and its applications. Invited speakers * Luke Ong, Oxford University * Luca de Alfaro, University of California, Santa Cruz Publication This is intended to be an informal workshop. Participants are encouraged to present work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, and programmatic/position papers, as well as completed projects. We therefore ask for submission both of short abstracts outlining what will be presented at the workshop and of longer papers describing completed work, either published or unpublished, in the following areas: * Game theory and interaction models in semantics * Games-based design and verification * Logics for games and games for logics * Algorithmic aspects of games In order to make a submission: * Format your file using the LNCS guidelines. We suggest a 15 page limit. * Email a PostScript or PDF version to dan.ghica@comlab.ox.ac.uk. A participants' proceedings will be distributed at the workshop and made available as a Oxford University technical report. A special journal issue associated with the workshop is being considered; this will be discussed at the workshop. Important dates * Submission due: January 15th * Notification of acceptance: February 15th * Final version due: March 1st * Workshop dates: April 2-3, 2005. Program committee: Samson Abramsky, Oxford University Pierre-Louis Curien, Universite Paris 7 Russ Harmer, Universite Paris 7 Kohei Honda, Queen Mary University of London Furio Honsell, University of Udine Martin Hyland, Cambridge University Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University Jim Laird, University of Sussex Thomas Streicher, Universitaet Darmstadt Chairs: Dan Ghica, Oxford University Guy McCusker, University of Sussex 13-Dec-2004 13:27:38 -0400,3468;000000000000-00000000