CFP: ICLP ws SAVE 2001

[Giorgio Delzanno]

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                        ICLP 2001 workshop SAVE 2001

        Specification, Analysis and Validation for Emerging Technologies

                           in Computational Logic

              http://www.disi.unige.it/person/DelzannoG/save.html
          
	  Dec 1, 2001 , Coral Beach Hotel and Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
                    
                     Submission Deadline: August 25, 2001

The huge increase in interconnectivity we have witnessed in the last decade has boosted the development of
systems which are often large-scale, distributed, time-critical,  and possibly acting in an unreliable or malicious
environment. Furthermore, software and hardware components are often mobile, and have to interact with a
potentially arbitrary number of other entities. 

These systems require solid formal techniques for their verification and analysis. In this respect, computational
logic plays an increasingly important role, both providing formal methods for proving system's correctness and
tools - e.g. using techniques like constraint programming and theorem proving - for verifying their properties. 

In addition, computational logic is gaining importance as tool for the specification of (part) of these systems. For
instance, one can think at the specification, in a form of temporal logic, of a communication protocol. Such
specification offers the advantage that one can reason about it using formal methods, and at the same time it is
often easily executable by rewriting it into a logic-based programming language. 

Extending and shifting slightly from the scope of the predecessors (on verification and logic languages) held in
the context of past editions of ICLP, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the
use of computational logicas a tool for the specification, analysis and validation of systems, with particular
emphasis on (but not restricted to) emerging technologies like World Wide Web and E-Commerce,  (protocols
for) Smart Cards and Mobile Telephony,  Wireless Technology, Hybrid Systems, Real-Time and Distributed
systems etc. 

Topics

The topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

    Specification languages and rapid prototyping: 
        Logic programming and its extensions 
        First-order, constructive, modal and temporal logic 
        Constraints 
        Type theory 
    Analysis: 
        Abstract interpretation 
        Static analysis 
    Validation: 
        Simulation and testing 
        Deductive methods 
        Model checking 
        Theorem proving 

The preferred issues include, but are not limited to: 

    Mobility: specification and verification of mobile code. 
    Security: access rights, information flow, and security protocols. 
    Interaction, coordination, negotiation, communication and exchange on the Web. 
    Open and infinite-state systems. 
    Real-time systems. 

Important Dates: 

    Deadline for submissions: August 25, 2001. 
    Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2001. 
    Final papers due: October 5, 2001. 

Authors should submit papers of at most 15 pages, in postscript format,
formatted for A4 paper, to Giorgio Delzanno (giorgio@disi.unige.it) by 
the 25th of August 2001. The proceedings will be published in electronic
format.  A printed version will be distributed to all
participants of the workshop. 
On the basis of the number and quality of the submissions, we could also consider the 
possibility of inviting submissions for a special issue of an international journal
dedicated to the workshop. 

Workshop Organizers/PC Chairs: 

    Giorgio Delzanno 
    Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione 
    Universita'  di Genova 
    giorgio@disi.unige.it 
     
    Sandro Etalle 
    Department of Computer Science 
    University of Twente and CWI 
    etalle@cs.utwente.nl 
   
    Maurizio Gabbrielli 
    Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica 
    Universita' di Udine 
    gabbri@dimi.uniud.it 
   
Program Committee: 

    Radhia Cousot, CNRS & École Polytechnique, France 
    Giorgio Delzanno, University of Genova, Italy 
    Sandro Etalle, University of Twente and CWI, The Netherlands 
    Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Udine, Italy 
    Thierry Massart, University of Brussels, Belgium 
    Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
    Andreas Podelski, Max Planck Institute, Germany 
    Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research, USA 
    Jean-Francois Raskin, University of Brussels, Belgium