[Om-announce] TABLEAUX 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers

[Geoff Sutcliffe]

           SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

               TABLEAUX 2017
     26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with
           Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
          University of Brasilia, Brazil
               September 25-28, 2017

         Submission Deadline: 25 Apr 2017

          http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/


GENERAL INFORMATION
  TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research
  on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques,
  systems development and applications, of the mechanization of
  tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As
  the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this
  year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years
  of TABLEAUX.

  The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017.
  It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium
  on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th
  International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP
  2017).

TOPICS
  Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for
  automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical
  logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups
  of logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically. Areas
  of application include verification of software and computer
  systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its
  required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis.

  Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics
      (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal,
      description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural,
      relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic
      foundations;
    * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking,
      connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches);
    * sequent calculi and natural deduction calculi for classical
      and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof
      representation;
    * flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem
      proving;
    * novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification
      in classical and non-classical logics;
    * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and
      applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...);
    * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient
      algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...);
    * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven
      learning, generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable)
      representation of proofs;
    * decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures;
    * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software
      development, verification, deductive and temporal
      databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault
      diagnosis or teaching.

  We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau
  procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored
  to the tableau community and should focus on the role of
  reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution.

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS
  To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a
  special session of invited talks by:

  Reiner Haehnle   Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
  Wolfgang Bibel  Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

INVITED SPEAKERS:

  Carlos Areces      FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
  Katalin Bimbo      University of Alberta, Canada  (joint with FroCoS and
ITP)
  Jasmin Blanchette  Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (joint with FroCoS and
ITP)
  Cesary Kaliszyk    Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (joint with FroCoS and
ITP)

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
  There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four
  tutorials from 23-25 September.

  Workshops:
    12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017)
    Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura
    23 and 24 September 2017

    Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP)
    Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo
    23 and 24 September 2017

    EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems
    Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo
    24 and 25 September 2017

    DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications
    Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira
    24 September 2017

  Tutorials:

    General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics
    Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake
    23 September 2017

    From proof systems to complexity bounds
    Anupam Das
    24 September 2017

    Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP =3D PSPACE
    Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler
    25 September 2017

    PVS for Computer Scientists
    Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato
    25 September 2017

  Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference
  website.

PUBLICATION DETAILS
  The conference proceedings will published in the Springer
  LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions.

SUBMISSIONS
  Submissions are invited in two categories:

    A  Research papers, which describe original theoretical
       research, original algorithms, or applications, with length
       up to 15 pages.
    B  System descriptions, with length up to 9 pages.

  Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of
  external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance
  and originality.

  For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be
  original, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions
  will be reviewed taking into account correctness, theoretical
  elegance, and possible implementability.

  For category B submissions, a working implementation must be
  accessible via the internet, which includes sources. The aim of a
  system description is to make the system available in such a way
  that users can use it, understand it, and build on it.

  Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the
  conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the
  llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via
  the EasyChair system:
  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dtableaux2017.

  For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend
  the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short
  abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper
  submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions
  will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that
  neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication
  is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files
  can be obtained via

http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui=
delines

BEST PAPER AWARD
  The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best
  submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among
  the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis
  on the originality and significance of the contribution, but
  readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness
  and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX
  Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent
  initiative of TABLEAUX.

IMPORTANT DATES
    18 Apr 2017     Abstract submission
    25 Apr 2017     Paper submission
     8 Jun 2017     Notification of paper decisions
     3 Jul 2017     Camera-ready papers due
 23-25 Sep 2017     Workshops & Tutorials
 25-28 Sep 2017     TABLEAUX Conference

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  Peter Baumgartner     National ICT Australia, Canberra
  Maria Paola Bonacina  Universita degli Studi di Verona
  Laura Bozzelli        Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
  Torben Brauener       Roskilde University
  Serenella Cerrito     Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne
  Agata Ciabattoni      Technische Universitaet Wien
  Clare Dixon           University of Liverpool
  Pascal Fontaine       LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine
  Didier Galmiche       LORIA, Universite de Lorraine
  Martin Giese          Universitetet i Oslo
  Laura Giordano        DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale
  Rajeev Gore           The Australian National University
  Volker Haarslev       Concordia University
  George Metcalfe       Universitaet Bern
  Angelo Montanari      Universita degli Studi di Udine
  Barbara Morawska      Technische Universitaet Dresden
  Boris Motik           University of Oxford
  Leonardo de Moura     Microsoft Research
  Neil Murray           SUNY at Albany
  Claudia Nalon         Universidade de Brasilia
  Linh Anh Nguyen       Uniwersytet Warszawski
  Hans de Nivelle       Uniwersytet Wroclawski
  Nicola Olivetti       LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite
  Jens Otten            Universitetet i Oslo
  Valeria de Paiva      Nuance Communications
  Nicolas Peltier       Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
                              Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
  Elaine Pimentel     Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
  Giselle Reis          Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar
  Philipp Ruemmer   Uppsala Universitet
  Katsuhiko Sano     Hokkaido University
  Renate Schmidt    The University of Manchester
  Cesare Tinelli       The University of Iowa
  Alwen Tiu            Nanyang Technological University
  David Toman         University of Waterloo
  Josef Urban           Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze

LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
  Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
  Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
  Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
  Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

CONFERENCE CHAIR
  Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil

PC CHAIRS
  Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil
  Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK