From: cr@cs.stir.ac.uk ("Staff C Rattray")
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: AMAST'93 Call for Papers (ASCII version)
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:44:24 GMT
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        "Staff C Rattray" <cr@cs.stir.ac.uk>


                          CALL FOR PAPERS

             Third International Conference on Algebraic
             Methodology and Software Technology, AMAST

               University of Twente, The Netherlands
                         June 22-25, 1993

Goals and Organization

The goal of the third AMAST conference to be held on June 22-25, 1993,
at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands,
is to consolidate the trend towards using algebraic methodology
as a foundation for software technology,
and to show that universal algebra provides a practical mathematical
alternative to the common, ad-hoc approaches to software engineering and
development.
Academia and industry are both beneficiaries of such a formal foundation.

Organising Committee:
General chairman:     Maurice Nivat       University of Paris VII, Paris, F
Programme chairman:   Giuseppe Scollo     University of Twente, Enschede, NL
Publicity chairman:   Charles Rattray     University of Stirling, GB
                      Teodor Rus          University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
                      V.S.Alagar          Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Local chairman:       Ed Brinksma         University of Twente, Enschede, NL
Finance chairman:     Frans van der Avert University of Twente, Enschede, NL
Members:              Mohammed Bettaz     University of Constantine, Algeria
                      Christine Choppy    University of Paris-Sud, LRI, Orsay, F
                      Pierre Deransart    INRIA, Rocquencourt, F
                      Arthur Fleck        University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
                      Luigi Logrippo      University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
                      Michael O'Donnell   University of Chicago, IL, USA
                      Juan Quemada        University of Madrid, E
                      Ralph Wachter       Office Naval Research, Arlington, VA,
                                          USA

Local Committee:    Herman Balsters, Han Baumer, Pim van den Broek, Rolf de By,
                    Maarten Fokkinga, Pim Kars, Mark van de Voort, Job Zwiers
Secretariat:        Kirstin Reinink, Yvonne Rokker

Programme Committee:
Martin Abadi, Egidio Astesiano, Choukri-Bey Ben-Yelles, Michel Bidoit, Wim Blok,
Chris Brink, Pierre-Luis Curien, Kokichi Futatsugi, Steven Givant,
William S. Hatcher, Douglas J. Howe, Bjarni Jonsson, Hans-Jorg Kreowski,
Giancarlo Mauri, Ali Mili,  Michael Mislove, Ugo Montanari, Peter D. Mosses,
Istvan Nemeti, Don Pigozzi, Don Sannella, R.K. Shyamasundar, John Staples,
Andrzej Tarlecki, Frits Vaandrager, Paulo A.S. Veloso, Eric Wagner, Bob Walters,
Martin Wirsing.

Invited Speakers

To achieve the goal of the conference we aim to provide a forum in which
leading researchers in mathematics, computer science, and software development,
will come together to identify algebraic methodologies that are applicable as
viable alternatives to the present software development approaches and to
discuss the appropriateness of such alternatives with a view to implementation.
Invited speakers, with a tentative indication of respective topics, include:

Hubert Comon      LRI, Orsay                : Constraint Solving in Term
                                              Algebras
Rob van Glabbeek  University of Stanford    : Process Algebra
Nicolas Halbwachs INPG, Grenoble            : Reactive Program Synthesis
Mike Johnson      Macquarie Univ., Sydney   : Category Theory for Software
                                              Engineering
Giorgio Levi      University of Pisa        : Logic Programming
Roger D. Maddux   Iowa State University     : Relation Algebra

Submissions

Talks reporting research in algebra and logic, suitable as a foundation for
software technology, as well as software technologies
developed by means of algebraic methodologies, are welcome.
Demonstrations of systems showing the improved effectiveness of software
developed on a mathematical basis (with or without a talk)
will also be considered.
To be more precise the organizers wish contributions on, but not limited to,
algebraic methods for language design and  compiler construction
(e.g. for Algol-like programming languages),
algebraic methodology for software engineering,
algebraic specifications and algorithms to automatically build
programs from such specifications,
extraction of programs from constructive proofs,
categorical, algebraic and logic programming,
deductive databases, query language design,
algebraic specification of concurrent systems,
distributed operating systems, reactive systems,
practical techniques and examples for verification of program
and/or specification properties.
We invite you to submit a two-page abstract (including a few
citations of relevant work) of your talk to

   AMAST Conference,University of Twente,Fac. Informatica,Att. Mrs. Y. Rokker,
   P.O. Box 217,NL-7500AE Enschede,The Netherlands (phone: + 31 53 893701)

Four-page abbreviated papers of the talks presented at the conference, together
with the invited talks, will be collected in the participants' edition of the
proceedings, which will be available to the attendees upon their arrival in
Twente.
The authors are expected to bring full versions of their papers at the
conference, for further review and inclusion in the AMAST'93 Proceedings,
to be published by Springer-Verlag, London.
A special issue of Theoretical Computer Science will be dedicated to
this conference; participants will be invited to submit their full paper
for possible publication in this journal.

Important Due Dates
- Two page abstract submission by December 15, 1992.
- Notification of acceptance by March 31, 1993.
- Camera-ready four-page paper to appear in participants' proceedings
  by May 1, 1993.
- Full paper for AMAST'93 Proceedings, at the conference.

Further information can be obtained from:

In Canada:                                  In Europe:
V.S. Alagar                                 Charles Rattray
Concordia University                        University of Stirling
Dept. of Computer Science                   Dept. of Computing Science and
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West                 Mathematics
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8                    Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA
Canada                                      Great Britain
phone: + 1 514 8483022                      phone: + 44 786 73171
fax: + 1 514 8482830                        fax: + 44 786 64551
e-mail: alagar@concour.cs.concordia.ca      e-mail: cr@cs.stir.ac.uk


                 In U.S.A:
                 Teodor Rus
                 University of Iowa
                 Dept. of Computer Science
                 Iowa City
                 IA 52242
                 USA
                 phone: + 1 319 3350742
                 fax: + 1 319 3350627
                 e-mail: rus@cs.uiowa.edu