FroCoS 2017 - First Call for Papers

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017)

Brasilia, Brazil | September 25-29th, 2017 | http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br

Submission Deadlines:

24th April 2017 (abstracts)
28th April 2017 (full papers)

GENERAL INFORMATION

The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between September 25 to September 29, 2017. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote progress in research areas related to the development of techniques for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal systems together with their analysis.

FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive TheoremProving (ITP 2017). The local organization of all events will be organised by

Claudia Nalon (USB, Brazil)
Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brazil)
Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil)
Joao Marcos (UFRN, Brazil)

SCOPE OF CONFERENCE

In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led---in many research areas---to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis.

The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization, and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use.

Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

combinations of logics (such as higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics);
combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving;
combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks;
combinations and modularity in ontologies;
integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems;
hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation;
hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics;
combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems;
logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications;
integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction;
combinations and modularity in term rewriting;
applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems.

INVITED SPEAKERS

[TO BE ANNOUNCED]

PUBLICATION DETAILS

The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages.

Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2017

For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the symposium and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract five days before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website that can be found at the beginning of this call for papers.

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited in a separate call, which can be found at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw.

IMPORTANT DATES

24th April 2017: Abstract submission deadline
28th April 2017: Full paper submission deadline
9th June 2017: Author notification
23rd June 2017: Camera-ready version due
September 25-29, 2017: FroCoS Conference

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen
Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia
Franz Baader, TU Dresden
Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia
Christoph Benzmuller, Freie Universitat Berlin
Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark
Marcelo Coniglio, State University of Campinas
Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool [co-chair]
Francois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt
Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo [co-chair]
Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine
Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine
Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo
Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano
Jurgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen
Laura Giordano, Universita del Piemonte Orientale
Agi Kurucz, Kings College, London
Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia
Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst
Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA
Uli Sattler, University of Manchester
Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento
Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau
Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw
Rene Thiemann, University of Innsbruck
Ashish Tiwari, SRI International
Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics