[Om-announce] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (RAMiCS 2015)

[Michael Winter]

                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                 15th International Conference on
   Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science (RAMiCS 2015)

           28 September to 1 October 2015, Braga, Portugal
                 URL:  http://ramics2015.di.uminho.pt


The RAMiCS Conference is the main forum for Relational and Algebraic Methods
in Computer Science. Special focus lies on formal methods for software
engineering, logics of programs and links with neighbouring disciplines.

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Registration, venue, travel information and accommodation
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    Please visit http://ramics2015.di.uminho.pt

Registration deadline
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    4 September 2015

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Invited Talks
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Towards a Probabilistic Interpretation of Game Logic
    Ernst-Erich Doberkat

Connections Between Relation Algebras and Cylindric Algebras
    Ian Hodkinson

A quest for Kleene algebra in 2 dimensions
    Gheorghe Stefanescu

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List of Accepted Papers
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L-Fuzzy Databases in Arrow Categories
    Evans Adjei, Wazed Chowdhury, Michael Winter

Mechanised Relation-Algebraic Order Theory in Ordered Categories without Meets
    Musa Al-Hassy, Wolfram Kahl

Closure, Properties and Closure Properties of Multirelations
    Rudolf Berghammer, Walter Guttmann

Tool-Based Verification of a Relational Vertex Coloring Program
    Rudolf Berghammer, Peter Höfner, Insa Stucke

Investigating and Computing Bipartitions with Algebraic Means
    Rudolf Berghammer, Insa Stucke, Michael Winter

Completeness via canonicity for distributive substructural logics: a coalgebraic perspective
    Fredrik Dahlqvist, David Pym

Relational Mathematics for Relative Correctness
    Jules Desharnais, Nafi Diallo, Wided Ghardallou, Ali Jaoua, Marcelo Frias, Ali Mili

Roughness by Residuals: Algebraic desription of rough sets and an algorithm for finding core relations
    Martin Eric Müller

Relational Formalisations of Compositions and Liftings of Multirelations
    Hitoshi Furusawa, Yasuo Kawahara, Georg Struth, Norihiro Tsumagari

Towards Interactive Verification of PLC Programs using MKA and KIV
    Roland Glück, Florian Benedikt Krebs

Text categorization using hyper rectangular keyword extraction: Application to news articles classification
    Abdelaali Hassaine, Souad Mecheter, Ali Jaoua

Type Checking by Domain Analysis in Ampersand
    Stef Joosten, Sebastiaan Joosten

Relations among Matrices over a Semiring
    Dylan Killingbeck, Milene Santos Teixeira, Michael Winter

Completeness and Incompleteness in Nominal Kleene Algebra
    Dexter Kozen, Konstantinos Mamouras, Alexandra Silva

Solving a tropical optimization problem via matrix sparsification
    Nikolai Krivulin

Antichain Algebra
    Bernhard Möller

Metaphorisms in Programming
    Jose Oliveira

Decomposition of Database Preferences on the Power Set of the Domain
    Patrick Roocks

Encoding and Decoding in Refinement Algebra
    Kim Solin

Generalized N-ary relations
    Bartosz Zielinski

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List of Student Track Papers
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Loop Analysis and Repair
    Nafi Diallo

A Generic Matrix Manipulator
    Dylan Killingbeck

RLE-based Algorithm for Testing Biorders
    Oliver Lanzerath

Relational Equality in the Intensional Theory of Types
    Victor Miraldo

Decision Methods for Concurrent Kleene Algebra with Tests: Based on Derivative
    Yoshiki Nakamura

On a monadic encoding of continuous behaviour
    Renato Neves

Relational Approximation of Maximum Independent Sets
    Insa Stucke

Monoid Modules and Structured Documents Algebra
    Andreas Zelend

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Programme Committee
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    Rudolf Berghammer     (Kiel, Germany)
    Jules Desharnais      (Laval U., Canada)
    Marcelo Frias         (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
    Steven Givant         (Mills College, USA)
    Hitoshi Furusawa      (Kagoshima, Japan)
    Timothy G. Griffin    (Cambridge, UK)
    Walter Guttmann       (Canterbury, New Zealand)
    Robin Hirsch          (London, UK)
    Peter Höfner          (NICTA, Australia)
    Ali Jaoua             (Doha, Qatar)
    Peter Jipsen          (Chapman U., USA)
    Wolfram Kahl          (McMaster U., Canada)
    Rodger Maddux         (Iowa State U., USA)
    Ali Mili              (NJIT, U. Heights, USA)
    Bernhard Möller       (U. Augsburg, Germany)
    Martin E. Müller      (U. Augsburg, Germany)
    José N. Oliveira      (U. Minho, Portugal; General chair)
    Ewa Orlowska          (Warsaw, Poland)
    Agnieszka Rusinowska  (Univ. Paris 1, France)
    Gunther Schmidt       (Munich, Germany)
    Renate Schmidt        (Manchester, UK)
    Isar Stubbe           (U. Littoral-Côte-d'Opale, France)
    Michael Winter        (Brock U., Canada; PC chair)


Steering Committee
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    Rudolf Berghammer  (Kiel, Germany)
    Jules Desharnais   (Laval U., Canada)
    Ali Jaoua          (Doha, Qatar)
    Peter Jipsen       (Chapman U., USA)
    Bernhard Möller    (U. Augsburg, Germany)
    José N. Oliveira   (U. Minho, Portugal)
    Ewa Orlowska       (Warsaw, Poland)
    Gunther Schmidt    (Munich, Germany)
    Michael Winter     (Brock U., Canada)


Organising Committee
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    José N. Oliveira    (U. Minho, Portugal; General chair)
    Michael Winter      (Brock U., Canada; PC chair)
    Luís S. Barbosa     (U. Minho, Portugal)
    Manuel A. Cunha     (U. Minho, Portugal)
    António N. Ribeiro  (U. Minho, Portugal)