[Om-announce] LICS 2012 - Final Call for Papers

[Kreutzer, Stephan]

                                   CALL FOR PAPERS

           Twenty-Seventh Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on 

                  LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2012)


                   June 25--28, 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia
                http://informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics12


LICS 2012 will be hosted by the University of Dubrovnik, in Dubrovnik, Croatia,
from June 25th to 28th, 2012.

The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and
practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed.
We invite submissions on topics that fit under that
rubric.  Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:
automata theory, automated deduction, categorical
models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint
programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision
procedures, description logics, domain theory,
finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal
methods, foundations of computability, higher-order logic, lambda and
combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence,
logic programming,  logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects
of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation,
logical frameworks,  logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model
checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language
semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security,
rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification.  


Important Dates:
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January   6, 2012: Titles & Short Abstracts Due
January 13, 2012: Extended Abstracts  Due
March    25, 2012: Author Notification (approximate)
April       29, 2012: Final Versions Due for Proceedings: 

Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of
about 100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the
paper. 

At committee discretion, authors will be asked to respond to inquiries
in February or  March. 
Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered.
All submissions will be electronic via 
   http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2012.


Submission Instructions: 
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Every extended abstract must be submitted in the IEEE Proceedings
2-column 10pt format and may not be longer than 10 pages,
including references.  LaTeX style files
are available on the conference website.

The extended abstract must be in English and provide
sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits
of the paper.  It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues,
a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their
significance and relevance to the conference and to
computer science, all phrased for the non-specialist. 
Technical development directed to the specialist should
follow. References and comparisons with related work must be 
included.
(If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results may be included in
a clearly-labeled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of
program committee members.) 
Extended abstracts not conforming to the above requirements
will be rejected without further consideration.
There is no a priori limit on acceptances; all quality papers will be
published, regardless of popularity of topic. 

Results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication
elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops.
The program chair must be informed, in advance of submission, of any
closely related work submitted or about to be submitted to a
conference or journal. 

Authors of accepted papers are expected to sign copyright
release forms.  One author of each accepted paper is expected to
present it at the conference.


Short Presentations:
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A session of short presentations, intended for descriptions of
student research, works in progress, and other brief communications,
is planned.   These abstracts will not be published. Dates and
guidelines are posted on the LICS website.


Special Events:  
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- Invited plenary lecture by Robert J. Aumann, winner of the 2005
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Two plenary sessions in honor of Alan Turing on the occasion of his centenary, featuring talks by
Robert L. Constable, E. Allen Emerson, Joan Feigenbaum, and Leonid Levin.
- Pre-conference tutorials on Sunday, June 24,  by 
* Jan Willem Klop (rewriting systems) and 
* André Platzer (logic of dynamical systems). 
- Associated workshops on Sunday, June 24, and on Friday, June 29.


Kleene Award for Best Student Paper:
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An award in honor of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the
best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee.  

Special Issues:
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Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited
for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of
Logical Methods in Computer Science.


Program Chair:
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Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv University

Program Committee: 
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Christel Baier, Dresden Univ. of Technology
Lev Beklemishev, Steklov Inst of Mathematics
Andreas Blass, Univ. of Michigan
Manuel Bodirsky, École Polytechnique
Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Warsaw Univ.
Ahmed Bouajjani, Univ. Paris Diderot
Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS
Andrei Bulatov, Simon Fraser Univ.
Hubert Comon-Lundh, ENS Cachan
Anuj Dawar, Univ. of Cambridge
Gilles Dowek, INRIA
Martín Escardó, Univ. of Birmingham
Maribel Fernández, King's College London
Rob van Glabbeek, NICTA
Rosalie Iemhoff, Utrecht Univ.
Neil Immerman, UMass, Amherst
Max Kanovich, Queen Mary, Univ. of London
Naoki Kobayashi, Tohoku Univ.
Orna Kupferman, Hebrew Univ.
Marta Kwiatkowska, Univ. of Oxford
Olivier Laurent, CNRS -- ENS Lyon
Richard Mayr, Univ. of Edinburgh
Andrzej Murawski, Univ. of Leicester
David Plaisted, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Davide Sangiorgi, Univ. of Bologna


Conference Chairs:
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Vlatko Lipovac, Univ. of Dubrovnik
Andre Scedrov, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Workshop Chairs:
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Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Inst. of Technology
Maribel Fernáandez, King's College London

Publicity Chairs:
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Stephan Kreutzer, Berlin Univ. of Technology
Andrzej Murawski, Univ. of Leicester

Treasurer:
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Martín Escardó, Univ. of Birmingham

General Chair:
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Rajeev Alur, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Organizing Committee:
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M. Abadi, R. Alur (chair), F. Baader, P. Beame, S. Buss, E. Clarke,
A. Compagnoni, N. Dershowitz, M. Escard'o, M. Fern'andez, L. Fortnow,
J. Giesl, M. Grohe, J.-P. Jouannaud, P. Kolaitis, S. Kreutzer, B. Larose, V. Lipovac,
J. Makowsky, B. Monien, A. Murawski, A. Scedrov,
P. Scott, M. Valeriote


Advisory Board: 
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M. Abadi, S. Abramsky, Y. Gurevich, T. Henzinger, C. Kirchner, P. Kolaitis, D. Kozen, U. Martin,
J. Mitchell, L. Ong, L. Pacholski, P. Panangaden, G. Plotkin, A. Scedrov, M. Vardi,
G. Winskel



Sponsorship: 
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The symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on
Mathematical Foundations of Computing and by ACM SIGACT, 
in cooperation with the Association for Symbolic Logic and the
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

Please see the LICS website url{http://informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics12 for further information.