[Haskell] WRS05: Last Call For Papers

[Roberto Di Cosmo]

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                        5th Int'l Workshop on

        Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming

                              WRS'05

                    Nara, Japan,  April 22nd, 2005

                       Last Call For Submissions

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Reduction strategies  in rewriting and  programming have  attracted an
increasing attention within the   last years.  New types of  reduction
strategies have  been invented and  investigated,  and new  results on
rewriting   /   computation  under   particular strategies   have been
obtained. Research in this   field ranges from  primarily  theoretical
questions about reduction strategies to very practical application and
implementation   issues.   The  need  for  a   deeper understanding of
reduction strategies in rewriting  and programming, both in theory and
practice,  is obvious, since they bridge  the gap between unrestricted
general  rewriting  (computation)  and (more deterministic)  rewriting
with     particular    strategies (programming).   Moreover, reduction
strategies provide a  natural  way to  go from  operational principles
(e.g.,  graph and   term rewriting,   narrowing, lambda-calculus)  and
semantics (e.g.,   normalization,  computation of   values, infinitary
normalization, head-normalization)  to  implementations of programming
languages.

Therefore  any progress in  this area is likely to  be of interest not
only to the rewriting community,  but also to neighbouring fields like
functional programming, functional-logic programming, and  termination
proofs of algorithms.

The  workshop wants   to provide  a  forum  for the  presentation  and
discussion of new ideas and results, recent developments, new research
directions, as well as of surveys on  existing knowledge in this area.
Furthermore we aim   at  fostering interaction  and  exchange  between
researchers and students actively working on such topics.

Information  on  the  previous,   and  forthcoming,  WRS  editions  is
available from the WRS permanent homepage.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

    * theoretical   foundations    for  the definition  and   semantic
      description of reduction strategies

    * strategies in   different   frameworks (term   rewriting,  graph
      rewriting, infinitary  rewriting, lambda calculi,  higher  order
      rewriting  and explicit  substitutions, conditional   rewriting,
      rewriting with  built-ins,  narrowing, constraint solving, etc.) 
      and     their   application    in  (equational,      functional,
      functional-logic) programming (languages)

    * properties   of  reduction  strategies   /   computations  under
      strategies  (e.g., completeness,  computability,   decidability,
      complexity,   optimality,  (hyper-)normalization,    cofinality,
      fairness,  perpetuality, context-freeness, neededness, laziness,
      eagerness, strictness)

    * interrelations, combinations and applications of reduction under
      different   strategies  (e.g.,   equivalence    conditions   for
      fundamental  properties   like  termination   and    confluence,
      applications   in   modularity   analysis,  connections  between
      strategies of different frameworks, etc.)

    * program    analysis and    other  semantics-based   optimization
      techniques dealing with reduction strategies

    * rewrite  systems  /  tools   / implementations  with  flexible /
      programmable strategies as essential concept / ingredient

    * specification of reduction strategies in (real) languages

    * data structures and implementation techniques for reduction 
      strategies


SUBMISSIONS

We solicit papers on all aspects  of reduction strategies in rewriting
and programming.  Submissions should describe unpublished work, except
for survey papers which  are   explicitly welcome, too.    Submissions
should  not   exceed  10   pages   (however,  survey   papers  may  be
longer).  Please, send a  message  containing the title, authors,  and
abstract  of your  submission before   January  21,  2005  to the   PC
co-chairs at

                       wrs05 at pps.jussieu.fr

The full  version of your submission  should be sent in  postscript or
PDF   format before January  31, 2005.  Submissions should include the
title, authors' names,  affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. Selection
of papers  by the PC will  be based on originality,  significance, and
correctness. Final versions will be due by March 18, 2005.



PUBLICATION

Accepted  papers   will be  included     in the preliminary   workshop
proceedings  that will be available  at  the workshop. Selected papers
will be published in the   Electronic  Notes in Theoretical   Computer
Science (ENTCS) series of Elsevier.


IMPORTANT DATES


  January  21, 2005    Deadline for electronic submission of abstracts
  January  31, 2005    Deadline for electronic submission of papers
  February 25, 2005    Notification of acceptance of papers
  March    18, 2005    Deadline for final versions of accepted papers
  April    22, 2005    Workshop


INVITED SPEAKERS

    * Kokichi Futatsugi  (JAIST, Japan)
    * Hongwei Xi        (Boston University, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    * Sergio Antoy (Portland)
    * Eduardo Bonelli (Stevens)
    * Roberto Di Cosmo (Paris VII, Co-Chair)
    * Bernhard Gramlich (Wien)
    * Stefano Guerrini (Roma)
    * Salvador Lucas (Valencia)
    * Aart Middeldorp (Innsbruck)
    * Yoshihito Toyama (Tohoku, Co-Chair)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

      Roberto Di Cosmo
      Laboratoire PPS -  Universite Paris 7, France
      Email: roberto at dicosmo.org

      Yoshihito Toyama
      Tohoku University, Japan
      Email: toyama at nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp


FURTHER INFORMATION

    * Call for papers in Text, PostScript and PDF format
    * WRS permanent website: http://www.dsic.upv.es/~wrs
    * WRS 2005 e-mail address: wrs05 at pps.jussieu.fr
    * RDP 2005 website: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/rdp05/