[Om-announce] JAR Special Issue on Automated Reasoning Systems

[Geoff Sutcliffe]

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CALL FOR PAPERS 
                        Journal of Automated Reasoning 

                               Special Issue On 
                         Automated Reasoning Systems 

The past few decades have seen major developments and practical achievements in
 automated reasoning systems. For example, SAT solving has become an inherent
part of the standard hardware production process; SMT solvers are now the 
backbone of most software verification techniques; first-order theorem provers 
have pushed the productivity of interactive theorem proving to a new level; 
computer algebra systems have solved difficult problems in mathematics and 
biology; knowledge representation systems have become indispensable for 
reasoning in the world wide web; automatic termination checkers routinely prove
the termination of complex programs. 

This special issue is dedicated to automated reasoning systems in their full 
variety along the following dimensions: 

1) considered logic: propositional (including (D)QBF), first-order modulo 
   theories, modal, temporal, decidable fragments of larger logics, FOL, and 
   HOL, ...; 

2) considered problem: satisfiability, interpolation, quantifier elimination, 
   consequence finding, model building, reachability, termination, ...; 

3) application area: formal methods, artificial intelligence, mathematics, 
   biology, product development, security, ...; 

4) user base: academic, educational, or industrial. 

In particular, we welcome papers emphasizing engineering aspects because, while
often crucial for the success of automated reasoning tools, they are typically 
not given a sufficiently detailed treatment in theory papers or system 
description papers published at conferences or workshops. 

We welcome full-length papers describing past work not previously published in 
a journal as well as papers of any length describing new developments. Revised 
and enhanced versions of papers published in conference proceedings that have 
not appeared in archival journals are also eligible for submission. All 
submissions will be reviewed according to the usual standards of scholarship 
and originality. 

We encourage submissions that include most, if not all, of the following: 
(i) theory details 
(ii) implementation details 
(iii) applications, and 
(iv) experiments. 

Papers should be in PDF format, following the JAR guidelines for authors, 
http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/journal/10817 
and be submitted using EasyChair: 

                https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jars2017 

To encourage a speedy review cycle, we will expect authors of submissions to 
serve as referees for other submissions as needed. 

Important Dates 
3 Apr 2017    Submission deadline 
1 Nov 2017    Notification of acceptance/rejection 
1 Mar 2018    Final version 

For more information, please see 

                https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/JARS17/ 

Guest Editors 
   Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria 
   Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA 
   Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany