Call for Papers 8th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS'11) Saarbruecken, Germany, October 5 - 7, 2011 http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conferences/frocos2011/ ==================================================================== Deadline extension! New dates: Abstract submission: May 2, 2011 Paper submission: May 9, 2011 Notification: June 16, 2011 Final versions: July 18, 2011 ===================================================================== MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and must be integrated into general purpose systems. This has lead in many research areas to the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FroCoS'11 seeks to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use. RELEVANT TOPICS Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of constraint solving techniques; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEAKERS [To be announced] PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written and to be presented in English, not substantially overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by three or more members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the symposium to present the work. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos11. The page limit is 16 pages. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Further information about paper submissions is available at the FroCoS'11 web page. PROCEEDINGS It is planned that the proceedings of FroCoS'11 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 2, 2011 Paper submission deadline: May 9, 2011 Notification of acceptance decisions: June 16, 2011 Camera-ready version of papers due: July 18, 2011 CONFERENCE CHAIR Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI Informatik, Saarbruecken PC CHAIR Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa PROGRAM COMMITTEE Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany Clark Barrett, New York University, USA Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Canberra, Australia Torben Brauener, Roskilde University, Denmark Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm, Germany Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA Carsten Lutz, University Bremen, Germany Till Mossakowski, DFKI GmbH Bremen, Germany Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Renate A. Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany Volker Sorge, University of Birmingham, UK Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa, USA (PC chair) Wolfgang Windsteiger, RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK