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LICS 2000, Call for Papers


		  Fifteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on 
		      LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 
	    June  26 - 29, 2000, Santa Barbara, California

	     http://logik.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/lics

			   CALL FOR PAPERS

The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and
practical topics in computer science that relate to logic in a broad
sense.

Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions
include: abstract data types, automata theory, automated deduction,
bounded arithmetic, categorical models and logics, coinductive
techniques, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint
programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, domain theory,
finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal
methods, game semantics, hybrid systems, logics of knowledge, lambda
and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logical aspects of
computational complexity, logics in artificial intelligence, logics of
programs, logic programming, modal and temporal logics, model
checking, reasoning about security, rewriting, semantics,
specifications, type systems and type theory, universal algebra, and
verification.

Paper submission will be electronic. The deadline for submissions is

			   January 7, 2000.

This deadline is firm; late submissions will not be considered. 
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection before March 15,
2000; accepted papers in a specified format for the proceedings will
be due by April 19, 2000.  For further information about submission
procedure, check the LICS website in December.

The first page of the extended abstract should include the title of
the paper, names and affiliations of authors, a brief synopsis, and
the contact author's name, address, phone number, fax number, and
email address. The extended abstract may not exceed 5000 words,
excluding bibliography and figures.  It must be in English and provide
sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits
of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues,
a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their
significance and relevance to the conference, all phrased for the
non-specialist. Technical development directed to the specialist
should follow. References and comparisons with related work should be
included.  Submissions departing significantly from these guidelines
risk rejection.

The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication
elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops.
All authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign copyright
release forms.  One author of each accepted paper will be expected to
present it at the conference.

It may be possible to accept more papers for presentation at LICS 2000
than at some previous LICS conferences, if the submissions warrant it.

LICS 2000 will have a session of short (5 - 10 minutes) presentations.
This session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student
projects, and relevant research being published elsewhere; other brief
communications may be acceptable. The deadline for submitting such
short presentations is in late March. For more details, check the LICS
website in December.

The symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on
Mathematical Foundations of Computing in cooperation with the
Association for Symbolic Logic, and the European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science.

Kleene Award for Best Student Paper: An award in honor of the late
S.C. Kleene will be given to the best paper, as judged by the program
committee, written solely by one or more students. A submission is
eligible if all authors are full-time students at the time of
submission. This should be indicated in the submission letter. The
program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among
several papers.

Collocated events: The International Static Analysis Symposium
(SAS2000) will also take place in Santa Barbara, immediately following
LICS, from June 29 to July 1. For more information, see
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/santos/sas/. In addition, several workshops are
planned in conjunction with LICS; they include workshops on
Nonmonotonicity and Belief Revision, Logical Frameworks and
Meta-Languages, Chu Spaces, and Implicit Computational Complexity.

Program Chair:
    Martin Abadi
    Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies
    3180 Porter Drive
    Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
    Email: abadi@research.bell-labs.com
           lics2000@research.bell-labs.com 
    Phone: +1 650 565 7477
    Fax:   +1 650 565 7676

Program Committee:
    Pierre-Louis Curien, CNRS & U. Paris 7
    Rocco De Nicola, U. Florence
    Javier Esparza, U. Munich
    Marcelo Fiore, U. Sussex
    Harald Ganzinger, MPI Informatik
    Joe Halpern, Cornell U.
    Martin Hofmann, U. Edinburgh
    Bart Jacobs, U. Nijmegen
    Orna Kupferman, Hebrew U.
    Kim Larsen, Aalborg U.
    Leonid Libkin, Bell Labs
    James F. Lynch, Clarkson U.
    Vincent van Oostrom, U. Utrecht & CWI
    Frank Pfenning, CMU
    Benjamin C. Pierce, U. Penn
    Jon G. Riecke, Bell Labs
    Igor Walukiewicz, Warsaw U.

Publicity Chair:
   Martin Grohe
   Institut fuer Mathematische Logik
   Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
   Eckerstr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
   Email: grohe@logik.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de

General Chair:
   John C. Mitchell
   Computer Science Department
   Stanford University
   Stanford, CA 94305-9045, USA
   Email: mitchell@cs.stanford.edu

Organizing Committee: 
    M. Abadi, A. Aggarwal, M. Bezem, E. Clarke, R. Constable,
    N. Dershowitz, J. Diaz, H. Ganzinger, F. Giunchiglia, M. Grohe,
    D. Leivant, L. Libkin, G. Longo, D. A. Martin, J. Mitchell
    (chair), E. Moggi, V. Pratt, S. Ronchi della Rocca, J. Tiuryn,
    M.Y. Vardi, J. Vitter, G. Winskel.

Advisory Board:
    M. Abadi, S. Abiteboul, S. Abramsky, M. Dezani, J. Halpern,
    R. Impagliazzo, D. Kozen, L. Pacholski, A. Scedrov, D. Scott,
    J. Wing.