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LICS 2001 Preliminary Call for Papers

		  Sixteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on 
		      LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 
	    June  16 - 19, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts

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

	             *PRELIMINARY* 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,
categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed
computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics,
logic in databases, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of
program analysis, formal methods, hybrid systems, 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,
programming language semantics, reasoning about security, rewriting,
specifications, type systems and type theory, and verification.

Paper submission will be electronic. The deadline for submissions is

			   January 8, 2001.

This deadline is firm; late submissions will not be considered.  The
URL for electronic paper submission has not yet been determined, but
will be given in the final call (and will appear on the LICS web site,
http://logik.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/lics).

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection before March 13, 
2001; accepted papers in a specified format for the proceedings will
be due by April 10, 2001. 

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, with sufficient details for specialists to judge the
plausibility of the results.  (If necessary, details can be included
in a clearly-labeled appendix or there can be a pointer to a
manuscript on a web site.)  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.

LICS 2001 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. Submissions for these presentations,
in the form of short abstracts (1 or 2 pages long), should be entered
at the LICS submission site between March 15 and March 31, 2001.  Authors 
will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 20, 2001

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: Several workshops are being planned 
in conjunction with LICS; see http://logik.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/lics 
for details as they are announced.  

Program Chair:
    Joseph Halpern
    Computer Science Dept.
    4144 Upson Hall    
    Cornell University
    Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Email: halpern@cs.cornell.edu
    Phone: +1 607 255 9562
    Fax:   +1 607 255-4428

Program Committee:
   Parosh Abdulla, Uppsala U.
   Rance Cleaveland, SUNY Stony Brook
   Hubert Comon, CNRS -- ENS Cachan
   Thomas Eiter, T.U. Vienna
   Erich Graedel, RWTH Aachen
   Nevin Heintze, Bell Labs   
   Radha Jagadeesan, Loyola U.
   Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, U. Paris-Sud
   Patrick Lincoln, SRI International
   David McAllester, AT&T Labs
   Ron van der Meyden, U. New South Wales
   Adolfo Piperno, U. Roma "La Sapienza" 
   Gordon Plotkin, U. Edinburgh
   Michel de Rougemont, U. Paris-II
   Thomas Streicher, T.U. Darmstadt
   Pawel Urzyczyn, U. Warsaw
   Pierre Wolper, U. Liege

Conference Chair:
  Harry Mairson
  Boston University
  111 Cummington Street
  Boston, MA 02215
  Email: mairson@cs.bu.edu

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 Mitchell 
   Computer Science Dept.   
   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.