[clean-list] UTP08: call for work in progress papers

[Andrew Butterfield]

                CALL FOR WORK-IN-PROGRESS PAPERS

               Unifying Theories of Programming 2008
                 Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
                     September 8th--10th, 2008
                   https://www.cs.tcd.ie/utp08/
                    mailto:utp08 at easychair.org

Important Dates
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WIP Paper Submission   14th July
Author Notification    21st July
Proceedings Version    4th August
Symposium              8th-10th September


In addition to the regular papers, and in order to encourage
timely discussion of ongoing ideas and results, we would like
to invite the submission of "work-in-progress" papers/extended
abstracts for presentation at the symposium. The presenters of
these papers will be entitled to submit a revised version
for full review for inclusion in the formal (post-)proceedings
to be published in Springer LNCS, and extended versions
will be eligible for selection for a journal special issue.

WIP papers are extended abstracts of 1-3 pages, and in
the first instance will only be screened for relevance to the
Symposium objectives. Presenters will however be able to submit
a longer version for inclusion in the symposium attendees'
pre-proceedings.

WIP Papers should be submitted as PDF by email direct
to utp08 at easychair.org


The aims and scope of the symposium are as follows:


Following on the success of the first International Symposium on
Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) held at Walworth Castle in 2006,
we are pleased to announce the second, to be held in Dublin in
September 2008. Based on the pioneering work on unifying theories of
programming of Tony Hoare, He Jifeng, and others, the aims of this
Symposium series are to continue to reaffirm the significance of the
ongoing UTP project, to encourage efforts to advance it by providing a
focus for the sharing of results by those already actively
contributing, and to raise awareness of the benefits of such unifying
theoretical frameworks among the wider computer science and software
engineering communities.

Of particular interest is how unification may be used to meet the goals
and difficulties to be encountered in the Grand Challenges of
Computing, with particular reference to the UK's "GC6: Dependable
Systems Evolution", its international cousin the "Verified Software
Initiative", and their plan to develop a Verified Software Repository.

To this end the Symposium welcomes contributions on the above themes as
well as others which can be related to them. Such additional themes
include, but are not limited to, relational semantics, relational
algebra, healthiness conditions, normal forms, linkage of theories,
algebraic descriptions, incorporation of probabilistic programming,
timed calculi and object-based descriptions, as well as alternative
programming paradigms such as functional, logical, data-flow, and
beyond. In all cases, the UTP approach should be compared and
advantages/disadvantages discussed.


Invited Speakers
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  Jifeng He, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
  Ralph-Johan Back, Abo Akademi University, Finland.

Program Committee
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  Bernhard Aichernig,  Graz University of Technology, Austria
  Andrew Butterfield (Chair), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK
  Yifeng Chen, University of Durham, UK
  Steve Dunne, University of Teesside, UK
  Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
  Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK
  Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia
  Rick Hehner, University of Toronto, Canada
  Martin Henson,  University of Essex, UK
  Arthur Hughes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, Macau
  David Naumann,  Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, US
  Shengchao Qin,  University of Durham, UK
  Augusto Sampaio, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
  Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK
  Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Local Organisation
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  Andrew Butterfield,
  Arthur Hughes
  Pawel Gancarski

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