Travel costs decrease when several conferences are coupled in the same or close locations. People are encouraged to use the rewriting mailing list and the Web page to make further suggestions. Leo Bachmair gives his point of view on his experience at FLOC'96. Advantages are more attractive and cheaper events. Low registration fees for students are possible.
Inconveniences are less flexibility for accomodation and for the program.
He recommends to have CADE and RTA not in parallel. The solution to have LICS and RTA in parallel is acceptable. The dates of FLOC'99 are not yet fixed and should be negociated. June would be much better for RTA since otherwise RTA'2000 will have similar problems as RTA'97 here in Barcelona. The proposed PC Chairs for RTA'99 are P.Narendran and M.Rusinowitch to represent both the US and the European RTA communities.