[FM-India] UTP-2014 Unifying Theories of Programming - call for papers

[Madhavan Mukund]

 From: David Naumann <naumann at cs.stevens.edu>
 To: fmindia at cmi.ac.in
 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:54:27 -0500 (EST)
 Subject: UTP-2014 Unifying Theories of Programming - call for papers
 
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     5th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming
                       co-located with FM2014
                          May 12 - 13, 2014
                              Singapore
          http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014/index.html
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 CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 Interest in the fundamental problem of the combination of formal notations 
 and theories of programming has grown consistently in recent years.  The 
 theories define, in various different ways, many common notions, such as 
 abstraction, refinement, choice, termination, feasibility, locality, 
 concurrency and communication.  Despite these differences, such theories 
 may be unified in a way which greatly facilitates their study and 
 comparison.  Moreover, such a unification offers a means of combining 
 different languages describing various facets and artifacts of software 
 development in a seamless, logically consistent way.
 
 Hoare and He's Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) is widely 
 acknowledged as one of the most significant such unification approaches. 
 Based on their pioneering work, the aims of the UTP Symposium series are to 
 reaffirm the significance of the ongoing UTP project and to stimulate 
 efforts to advance. The Symposium provides a focus for the sharing of 
 results by those already actively contributing, and raises awareness of the 
 benefits of such unifying theoretical frameworks among the wider computer 
 science and software engineering communities.
 
 To this end the Symposium welcomes contributions on all the themes that can 
 be related to the Unifying Theories of Programming.
 
 SUBMISSIONS
 
 Papers may be up to 20 pages in length and should be prepared using LaTeX 
 in Springer LNCS paper format.  Submissions should be made through the UTP 
 2014 EasyChair site; instructions are at 
 http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014
 
 PUBLICATION
 
 Symposium post-proceedings will appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in 
 Computer Science, as in past editions of the Symposium. (To be confirmed.)
 
 DATES
 
 Abstract due:                     January 17, 2014
 Full paper due:                   January 24, 2014
 Notification:                     March 7, 2014
 Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: April 11, 2014
 Symposium:                        May 12-13, 2014
 
 CHAIR
 
 David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology)
 
 ORGANISATION CHAIR
 
 Jin Song DONG (National University of Singapore)
 
 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
 
 Bernhard K. Aichernig (Graz University of Technology)
 Hugh Anderson (National University of Singapore)
 Jonathan P. Bowen (Birmingham City University)
 Ana Cavalcanti (University of York)
 Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College Dublin)
 Leo Freitas (Newcastle University)
 Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford)
 Lindsay Groves (Victoria University of Wellington)
 Walter Guttmann (University of Canterbury)
 Ian Hayes (University of Queensland)
 Jeremy Jacob (University of York)
 Zhiming Liu (Birmingham City University)
 David Naumann, chair (Stevens Institute of Technology)
 Marcel Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)
 Geguang Pu (East China Normal University)
 Shengchao Qin (Teesside University)
 Georg Struth (University of Sheffield)
 Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
 Meng Sun (Peking University)
 Burkhart Wolff (University of Paris-Sud)
 Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
 Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University)
 
 JOINT EVENT
 
 FM 2014, the 19th International Symposium on Formal Methods
 http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/