CiE Newsletter No.27, February 1, 2010: There is quite a long list this week. They appear roughly order of receipt. ___________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS: 1. MACHINES, COMPUTATIONS AND UNIVERSALITY (MCU'10), Call for Papers 2. Call for Papers - RP2010, 4th Workshop on REACHABILITY PROBLEMS, Brno, Czech Republic 3. Call for papers, 6th IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (TCS2010) 4. Developments in Computational Models: DCM 2010 in Edinburgh - First Call for Papers 5. Fall School of Logic & Complexity, September 20-24, 2010, Charles University in Prague 6. PAR 2010: First CFP 7. Call for Papers/Participation - HyperNet 10: The UC2010 Hypercomputation Workshop 8. UC10 - Submission deadline extended to Feb 8th 9. Infinite and Infinitesimal in Mathematics, Computing, and Natural Sciences, Cetraro, Italy 10. ICALP 2010 - Submission site is open 11. CFP: Eleventh International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC11), Jena, Germany, 24-27 August 2010 12. Nominations for 2010 Shoenfield Prizes 13. Workshop on High Productivity Computations (HPC 2010) - Call for Papers 14. Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity (LCC '10) =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 1. (from Jerome Durand-Lose) MACHINES, COMPUTATIONS AND UNIVERSALITY (MCU'10), Call for Papers: ================ CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference MACHINES, COMPUTATIONS AND UNIVERSALITY - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M M CCC U U I 22222 00000 1 00000 MM MM C C U U I 2 2 0 0 11 0 0 M M M M C U U 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 M M M C U U 22 0 0 1 0 0 M M C U U 2 0 0 1 0 0 M M C C U U 22 0 0 1 0 0 M M CCC UUU 2222222 00000 1111 00000 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PITTSBURGH, PA, USA Carnegie Mellon University Department of Computer Science --------- SEPTEMBER 21-25 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing institutions : Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer Science Universite d'Orleans, LIFO Universite Pau Verlaine - Metz, LITA - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TOPICS : Digital Computations: Turing machines, register machines, cellular automata, other automata, tiling of the plane, polyominoes, snakes, neural networks, molecular computations, word processing (goups and monoids), other machines Analog and Hybrid Computations: BSS machines, infinte cellular automata, real machines, quantum computing In both cases: frontiers between a decidable halting problem and an undecidable one in the various computational settings minimal universal codes: size of such a code, namely, for Turing machines, register machines, cellular automatas, tilings, neural nets, Post systems, ... computation complexity of machines with a decidable halting problem as well as universal machines self-reproduction and other tasks universality and decidability in the real field PROGRAM COMMITTEE : Erzsebet CSUHAJ-VARJU, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Jerome DURAND-LOSE, University of Orleans, France, co-chair Vladik KREINOVICH, the University of Texas at El Paso Maurice MARGENSTERN, LITA, University of Metz, France, co-chair Cris MOORE, Santa Fe, USA Gheorghe PAUN, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania Igor POTAPOV, University of Liverpool, UK Yurii ROGOZHIN, Institute of Mathematics, Chisinau, Moldov Klaus SUTNER, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, co-chair Jiri WIEDERMANN, Academy of Science, Czech Republic Damien WOODS, University College, Cork, Ireland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE : Klaus SUTNER, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, co-chair Jerome DURAND-LOSE, Universite d'Orleans, Orleans, France, co-chair Maurice MARGENSTERN, Universite Paul Verlaine - Metz, Metz, France, co-chair INVITED SPEAKERS : Andrew ADAMATZKY, University of Bristol, UK Olivier BOURNEZ, LORIA, INRIA-Lorraine, France Mark BURGIN, University of Califonia at Los Angeles, USA Jarkko KARI, University of Turku, Finland Pascal KOIRAN, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Kenichi MORITA, University of Hiroshima, Japan Kumbakonam Govindarajan SUBRAMANIAN, Christian College of Chennai, India Wilfried SIEG, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Stephen WOLFRAM, Wolfram Research MCU'95, MCU'98 and MCU'2001 gave rise to TCS special issues on "Machines, Computations and Universality": 168-2 (1996), 231-2 (2000) and 296-2 (2002). MCU'2004 and MCU'2007 gave rise to Fundamenta Informaticae special issues: 74(4) (2005), 91(1) and 91(2) (2008). The interest of computer scientists for the topics of the conference increased in the last years. New domains appeared, continuing them in a natural way. This explains why a regular scientifing meeting on this topics must hold, each three years. And so, three years after MCU'2007 the turn of MCU'2010 comes. SUBMISSIONS Send you submission by e-mail to one of the co-chairs of MCU (see addresses at the end of the announcement) as a .ps or a .pdf file. NO OTHER FORMAT will be accepted. Please, use the LaTeX style of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science in order to produce your submission. You can find the style file at: http://style.eptcs.org/ Your submission should not exceed 25 pages in the above indicated format. Please, keep in mind the following dates which are STRICT dead lines: Dead line for submission : March, 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance or rejection : June, 1, 2010 Dead line for receiving corrected version of accepted papers : July, 1, 2010 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of MCU'2010 will published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, which already published the proceedings of CSP 2008, DCFS 2009, DCM 2009 (under ICALP 2009) and MeCBIC2009 and they will publish those of DCFS 2010 for instance. The proceedings will be available at the conference as a CD. IJFCS SPECIAL ISSUE A special issue of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science devoted to "Universal Machines and Computations'VI" will be published on the topics of the conference. A call for paper will be launchedjust after MCU'2010 on the topics of the conference. The submitted papers will be refereed and accepted papers after this process will be published in the special issue. It will be possible to submit an extended version of a paper published in the EPTCS proceedings of MCU'2010, provided that the extension is actually needed or, preferably, that it contains new substantial results. The selection process for the special issue will be strict on these criteria. REGISTRATION FEES : In order to attend the conference, send your registration form by surface mail at the below indicated address, by FAX, by e-mail or using the web site of the conference when the date of registration will be announced. Registration fees amount to 400 USD if paid before July 1st 2010 and to 450 USD after that date. Further details for the payment of the registration fees will be available later on the web site of the conference. LANGUAGE OF THE CONFERENCE English. RECEPTION Reception of participants will hold on Monday, September, 20 and on Tuesday, September, 21, at times which will be later indicated. MAIL: e-mails : margens@univ-metz.fr jerome.durand-lose@univ-orleans.fr sutner@cs.cmu.edu by surface mail : Maurice MARGENSTERN Universite Paul Verlaine - Metz, LITA, EA 3097, UFR MIM, Campus du Saulcy, F - 57045 METZ CEDEX FRANCE Jerome Durand-Lose Universite d'Orleans, LIFO, Batiment IIIA, Rue Leonard de Vinci B.P. 6759 F - 45067 ORLEANS Cedex 2 FAX: +33387315309 WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mcu2010 =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 2. (from Igor Potapov) Call for Papers - RP2010, 4th Workshop on REACHABILITY PROBLEMS, Brno, Czech Republic: ================= Call for Papers ================= 4th WORKSHOP ON REACHABILITY PROBLEMS, RP'2010 (August 27-29, 2010, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) co-located with MFCS & CSL 2010 http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~rp2010/ --------------------------------------------------- ==== Deadline for submissions: April 21, 2010 ==== ==== Proceedings will be published in the ==== ==== Springer LNCS series ==== --------------------------------------------------- The Workshop on Reachability Problems will be hosted by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and will be co-located with Joint MFCS and CSL 2010. RP'10 is the fourth in the series of workshops following three successful meetings at Ecole Polytechnique, France in 2009 at University of Liverpool, UK in 2008 and at Turku University, Finland in 2007. Scope: The Reachability Workshop is specifically aimed at gathering together scholars from diverse disciplines and backgrounds interested in reachability problems that appear in - Algebraic structures - Computational models - Hybrid systems - Logic and Verification Invited Speakers: ================= - Markus Holzer (Giessen University, Gernamy) - Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Alexander Rabinovich (Tel Aviv University, Israel) - Philippe Schnoebelen (ENS Cachan, France) Important dates: ================= Submission: April 21, 2010 Notification: June 3, 2010 Final version: June 10, 2010 Conference dates: Aug. 27-29, 2010 Topics of interest: ====================== Papers presenting original contributions related to reachability problems in different computational models and systems are being sought. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Reachability for infinite state systems, rewriting systems; Reachability analysis in counter/ timed/ cellular/ communicating automata; Petri-Nets; computational aspects of semigroups, groups and rings; Reachability in dynamical and hybrid systems; frontiers between decidable and undecidable reachability problems; complexity and decidability aspects; predictability in iterative maps and new computational paradigms The reachability problems are in the core of many questions of computer science and mathematics. This topic covers many aspects about the analysis of computational traces/paths in classical and unconventional computational models, logic, algebraic structures as well as in mathematical systems and control theory. The classical reachability can be formulated as follows: Given a computational system or model with a set of allowed transformations (functions). Decide whether a certain state of a system is reachable from a given initial state by a set of allowed transformations. The same questions can be asked not only about reachability of exact states of the system but also about a set of states expressed in term of some property as a parameterized reachability problem. Another set of predictability questions can be seen in terms of reachability of eligible traces of computations, their equivalence; unavoidability of some dynamics and a possibility to avoid undesirable dynamic using a limited control. Proceedings =========== The Conference Proceedings will be published as the volume of the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series www.springer.com/lncs and distributed at the Conference. We plan also to publish selected papers in a special issue of a high quality journal following the regular referee procedure. Submissions: ============ Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12 pages (in LaTeX, formatted according to LNCS guidelines) via the conference web page. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Submissions deviating from these guidelines risk rejection. Electronic submissions should be formatted in postscript or pdf. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. Program Committee: ================== - Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Uppsala - Eugene Asarin, Paris - Christel Baier, Bonn - Bernard Boigelot, Liege - Olivier Bournez, Nancy - Cristian S. Calude, Auckland - Stephane Demri, Cachan - Javier Esparza, Munich - Laurent Fribourg, Cachan - Vesa Halava, Turku - Oscar Ibarra, Santa Barbara - Franjo Ivancic, Princeton - Juhani Karhumaki, Turku - Joost-Pieter Katoen, Aachen - Antonin Kucera, Brno - Michal Kunc, Brno - Alexander Kurz, Leicester - Slawomir Lasota, Warsaw - Alexei Lisitsa, Liverpool - Luke Ong, Oxford - Igor Potapov, Liverpool - Wolfgang Thomas, Aachen - Hsu-Chun Yen, Taipei Organizing Committee: ===================== - Antonin Kucera (Masaryk University) - Igor Potapov (University of Liverpool) =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 3. (from Cristian Calude) Call for papers, 6th IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (TCS2010): Call for Papers 6th IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science www.wcc2010.com/TCS2010 TCS 2010 will be composed of two distinct but interrelated tracks: Track A on Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation, and Track B on Logic, Semantics and verification Important dates: Title and abstract due February 12, 2010 Paper due: February 19, 2010 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2010 Copyright release due: May 7, 2010 Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2010 Conference Co-Chairs James Harland (AU) Barry Jay (AU) Programme Co-Chairs Track A: Cristian S. Calude (NZ) Track B: Vladimiro Sassone (GB) Programme Committee Track A: Algorithms, Complexity & Models of Computation Valerie Berthe (Montpellier, F) Cristian S. Calude (Auckland, NZ;chair) Cezar Campeanu (Charlottetown, CAN) S. Barry Cooper (Leeds, UK) Michael J. Dinneen (Auckland, NZ) Rod Downey (Victoria, NZ) Cunsheng Ding (Hong Kong, HG) Graham Farr (Melbourne, AU) Joachim Gudmundsson (Alexandria, AU) Lane A. Hemaspaandra (Rochester, USA) Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, USA) Masami Ito (Kyoto, JP) Alexander Shen (Marseille, F) Ludwig Staiger (Halle, D) Frank Stephan (Singapore, SG) Ileana Streinu (Northampton, USA) Kohtaro Tadaki (Tokyo, JP) Vincent Vajnovszki (Dijon, F) Taso Viglas (Sydney, AU) Klaus Wagner (Wuerzburg, D) Damien Woods (Seville, S) Sheng Yu (London, Ont., CAN) Track B: Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification Stephen L Bloom (Stevens Inst, USA) Roberto Bruni (Pisa, I) Kostas Chatzikokolakis (CWI, NL) Corina Cirstea (Southampton, UK) Veronique Cortier (CNRS Loria, F) Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, I) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA & UNSW, AU & Stanford, USA) Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto, JP) Alan Jeffrey (Bell Labs, USA) He Jifeng (Shanghai, CN) Bartek Klin (Cambridge, UK & Warsaw, PL) Barbara Koenig (Duisburg, D) Dexter Kozen (Cornell, USA) Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford, UK) Huimin Lin (Bejing, CN) Dale Miller (Ecole Polytechnique, F) Carroll Morgan (UNSW, AU) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan, IL) Sabina Rossi (Venice, I) Vladimiro Sassone (Southampton, UK; chair) Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund, D) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Yde Venema (Amsterdam, NL) Only electronic submissions will be accepted, via Track A & Track B: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tcs2010. =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 4. (from Barry Cooper) Developments in Computational Models: DCM 2010 in Edinburgh - First Call for Papers: ========================================================================= First Call for Papers DCM 2010 6th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models ** Causality, Computation, and Physics ** http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc/DCM10/ Edinburgh, Scotland 9-10 July 2010 Deadline for abstracts: 01 April, 2010 A satellite event of FLoC - http://www.floc-conference.org/ ========================================================================= DCM 2010 is the sixth in a series of international workshops focusing on new computational models. It aims to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features of a traditional one. And to foster interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. DCM 2010 will be a two-day satellite event of FLoC 2010, with a special focus on the theme 'Causality, Computation, and Physics'. Day 2 of the Workshop will have an emphasis on quantum computation and physics, held as Quantum Information Science Scotland (QUISCO), and is co-sponsored by Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) and Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA). Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their properties, and their applications to the development of programming languages and systems: - quantum computation, including implementations and formal methods in quantum protocols; - probabilistic computation and verification in modelling situations; - chemical, biological and bio-inspired computation, including spatial models, self-assembly, growth models; - general concurrent models including the treatment of mobility, trust, and security; - information-theoretic ideas in computing. PLEASE SUBMIT an extended abstract (of around 12 pages or less) in PDF format to the conference EasyChair submission page: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=dcm2010 by the deadline: 01 April, 2010. Accepted contributions will appear in a pre-proceedings special issue of the EPTCS (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science). After the workshop, full versions of selected papers will be invited for a special issue of the internationally leading journal Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS). IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline for abstracts: 01 April, 2010 Notification: 26 April Workshop: 9-10 July, 2010 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: Cristian Calude (Auckland, New Zealand) Russ Harmer (Paris/Harvard) Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh) Vlatko Vedral (Oxford) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: S Barry Cooper (Leeds, Co-chair) Prakash Panangaden (McGill, Co-chair) Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh, Chair QUISCO 2010) Paola Bonizzoni (Milan) Olivier Bournez (Paris) Vincent Danos (Edinburgh, CNRS) Mariangiola Dezani (Torino) Andreas Doering (Oxford) Maribel FernC!ndez (London) Joseph Fitzsimons (Oxford) Ivette Fuentes-Schuller (Nottingham) Simon Gay (Glasgow) Jean Krivine (Paris) Ian Mackie (Ecole Polytechnique) Damian Markham (Paris) Daniel Oi (Strathclyde) Simon Perdrix (Edinburgh and Paris) Susan Stepney (York) John Tucker (Swansea) ========================================================================= Further information: Barry Cooper, pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk, Prakash Panangaden prakash@cs.mcgill.ca =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 5. (from Jan Krajicek) Fall School of Logic & Complexity, September 20-24, 2010, Charles University in Prague: All available information is at: http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~krajicek/fall10.html The broad theme of the Fall schools is the interaction of Mathematical Logic and Complexity Theory, with a special emphasis on Proof Complexity. A typical format of the school is this: We have one or more series of lectures during Monday to Thursday, each usually two hours per day. This programme is traditionally complemented by lectures of the participants on their own work (relevant to the topics of the year) during Friday. The 2010 school will focus on one theme only: Extended Frege systems and beyond. The Extended Frege system is a pivotal example of strong proof systems. While a lot of current activity in proof complexity is concentrated on very weak proof systems (e.g. variants of resolution or various algebraic proof systems), strong proof systems are neglected by many researchers. This is presumably because EF is informally linked with the class of all Boolean circuits and people are discouraged by the apparent lack of any progress on lower bounds for general circuits, and conclude that lower bounds for strong proof systems are impossible. There is, however, a non-trivial theory related to strong proof systems. The aim of this Fall school will be to present some of this material and to discuss possibilities for further developments. =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 6. (from Ekaterina Komendantskaya) PAR 2010: First CFP: ======================================================================== 1st Call for Papers PAR 2010 Workshop on Partiality And Recursion in Interactive Theorem Provers Edinburgh, UK, 15 July 2010 (satellite workshop of ITP'10) a mid-FLoC 2010 workshop ======================================================================== PAR'10 workshop is a venue for researchers working on new approaches to cope with partial functions and terminating general (co)recursion in theorem provers. Theorem provers with inductive types provide a restricted programming language together with a formal meta-theory for reasoning about the language. When propositions are represented as types and proofs as programs, non-terminating proofs are disallowed for consistency and decidability of type checking. As a result, there is no trivial way to represent partial functions, and termination is syntactically ensured by imposing that the recursive calls must be made on structurally smaller arguments. Similar issues exist for productivity of functions on infinite objects where syntactic methods are used to ensure an infinite flow of data. The workshop aims to address these issues and various approaches for dealing with them. We invite submissions on all aspects of partiality and termination of general (co)recursive functions in a logical framework. The topics of this workshop include but are not limited to: * partial functions and functions over partial objects in theorem provers; * specialised type systems for general (co)recursion; * syntactical tests to guarantee termination of general recursive functions; * syntactical tests to guarantee productivity of functions on infinite objects; * methods to ensure termination of special classes of recursion definitions, eg nested recursion, simultaneous inductive-recursive data types and functions; * semantic approaches to termination and productivity, eg based on domain theory and topology; * categorical approaches to termination and productivity; * algebra of programming with partial functions and general (co)recursion. Description of software tools and case studies for dealing with the issues in the scope of the workshop are welcome. Submissions ----------- The articles will be evaluated by the PC for publication in the proceedings of the workshop. The final proceedings will be published after the workshop as a special issue of EPTCS and a preliminary version will be available during the workshop. The articles must contain original contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate reference to and comparison with related work. Submissions should preferably not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography). Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package . The web-based system EasyChair will be used for submission (). Important dates --------------- * 29 March 2010: Submission deadline * 29 April 2010: Notification of acceptance * 24 May 2010: Final version of accepted papers * 15 July 2010: the workshop Invited Speakers ---------------- * Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde) * TBA Programme Committee ------------------- Andreas Abel (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, D) Yves Bertot (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR) Ana Bove (Chalmers University of Technology, SE) Ekaterina Komendantskaya (University of St Andrews, UK) Ralph Matthes (IRIT Toulouse, FR) Milad Niqui (CWI, NL) Anton Setzer (Swansea University, UK) Organisers ---------- Ana Bove Ekaterina Komendantskaya Milad Niqui =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 7. (from Mike Stannett) Call for Papers/Participation - HyperNet 10: The UC2010 Hypercomputation Workshop: ------------------------------------------ Call for Papers / Participation HyperNet 10: The UC2010 Hypercomputation Workshop http://hypercomputation.net/hypernet10/ This workshop is being organized as part of Unconventional Computation 2010, Tokyo (21-25 June 2010) UC10: http://arn.local.frs.riken.jp/UC10/ Original papers are solicited in all areas relating to hypercomputation research. Typical topics include, but are not restricted to: philosophical implications, justifications and analyses of hypercomputation; hypercomputational models of Newtonian, quantum and relativistic physics; mathematical models and representations of hypercomputational systems; engineering challenges; proposals for going beyond the Turing paradigm; digital physics and refutations of hypercomputation. Submissions: Authors are invited to submit papers (no more than 12 pages) via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hypernet10 Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Joint submissions to other conferences are not permitted. Each accepted paper must be presented at the Workshop. Submissions due: March 15th, 2010 Notification: April 12th, 2010 Final versions due: May 20th, 2010 UC 2010 begins: June 21st, 2010 Papers for presentation will be selected by the Programme Committee, comprising: Selim AKL, Hajnal ANDREKA, Cristian CALUDE, Barry COOPER, Jack COPELAND, Francisco Antonio DORIA, Marian GHEORGHE, Mark HOGARTH, Viv KENDON, Kenichi MORITA, Istvan NEMETI, Mike STANNETT, Susan STEPNEY, Karl SVOZIL, Christof TEUSCHER, John TUCKER, Benjamin WELLS. Registration: should be carried out via the main UC10 web site (registration for UC10 includes registration for the Workshop). Workshop enquiries may be addressed to the coordinator (Mike Stannett) at hypernet10@easychair.org. Background: HyperNet 10 is organized jointly by the University of Tokyo in Japan, and members of the VT (Verification and Testing) Research Group at the University of Sheffield, under the auspices of UC 2010 and the EPSRC, and on behalf of the Hypercomputation Research Network. Comprising researchers from around the world, the Network investigates all aspects of hypercomputation, ranging from philosophy and logic to physical feasibility and computability. Previous Network events include the 2006 workshop on Future Trends in Hypercomputation (Sheffield, UK), the 2009 conference on the Science and Philosophy of Unconventional Computing (SPUC 09, Cambridge, UK), and the UC09 Hypercomputation Workshop (Ponta Delgada, The Azores, Portugal). =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 8. (from Mike Stannett) UC10 - Submission deadline extended to Feb 8th: Call for Papers or Posters Ninth International Conference on UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION 2010 UC10 University of Tokyo, Japan June 21st-25th, 2010 http://arn.local.frs.riken.jp/UC10/ UC10 is organized by the University of Tokyo, Japan, and CDMTCS, University of Auckland, New Zealand, under the auspices of EATCS. Original papers/posters are solicited in all areas of unconventional computation. Papers/posters dealing with theory as well as with experiments and applications are welcome. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural, and membrane computing as well as evolutionary paradigms; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; proposals for computations going beyond the Turing model. Submissions: Authors are invited to submit papers (at most 12 pages) or posters electronically, via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uc2010 Each author of a paper should prepare a PDF file following LNCS format of Springer. Each author of a poster should submit a PDF file of either a graphical poster or abstract text, which contains sufficient information for reviewers to evaluate the research outcomes. Joint submissions to other conferences are not permitted. Each accepted paper/poster must be presented at the conference. The author of the poster is responsible for printing. The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS series and will be available at the conference. Invited Speakers: (to be confirmed) Satellite Workshops: Hypercomputation Computing with Spatio-Temporal Dynamics DNA Nanotechnology Conference Location: The conference and satellite workshops will take place in the University of Tokyo (Sanjo Conference Hall), Hongo Campus, Japan. Conference History: The first venue of the Unconventional Computation Conference (formerly called Unconventional Models of Computation) was Auckland, New Zealand, in 1998; subsequent sites of the conference were Brussels, Belgium, in 2000; Kobe, Japan, in 2002; Seville, Spain, in 2005; York, UK, in 2006; Kingston, Canada, in 2007; Vienna, Austria, in 2008; and Ponta Delgada, Portugal, in 2009. UC Steering Committee: T. Baeck (Leiden, The Netherlands), C.S. Calude (Auckland, NZ, co-chair), L.K. Grover (Murray Hill, NJ, USA), J. Kari (Turku, Finland), L. Kari (London, Ont., Canada), J. van Leeuwen (Utrecht, The Netherlands), S. Lloyd (Cambridge, MA, USA), Gh. Paun (Seville, Spain, and Bucharest, Romania), T. Toffoli (Boston, MA, USA), C. Torras (Barcelona, Spain), G. Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boulder, Colorado, USA, co-chair), A. Salomaa (Turku, Finland). Organizing Committee: Masashi Aono, Wako, Japan Masami Hagiya, Tokyo, Japan (chair) Satoshi Murata, Tokyo, Japan Ferdinand Peper, Kobe, Japan Fumiaki Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan Programme Committee: Andrew Adamatzky, Bristol, UK Selim Akl, Kingston, Canada Masashi Aono, Wako, Japan Olivier Bournez, Paris, France Cristian S. Calude, Auckland, NZ Luca Cardelli, Cambridge, UK David Corne, Edinburgh, UK Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv, Israel Michael Dinneen, Auckland, NZ Marco Dorigo, Brussels, Belgium Masami Hagiya, Tokyo, Japan Emma Hart, Edinburgh, UK Gregg Jaeger, Boston, USA Natasha Jonoska, Tampa, USA Jarkko Kari, Turku, Finland Viv Kendon, Leeds, UK Vincenzo Manca, Verona, Italy Jonathan Mills, Bloomington, USA Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima (co-chair) Ferdinand Peper, Kobe, Japan Kai Salomaa, Kingston, Canada Hava Siegelmann, Amherst, USA Mike Stannett, Sheffield, UK Darko Stefanovic, Albuquerque, USA Susan Stepney, York, UK Jon Timmis, York, UK (co-chair) Christof Teuscher, Portland, USA Hiroshi Umeo, Osaka, Japan Damien Woods, Seville, Spain Xin Yao, Birmingham, UK Proceedings Committee: Cristian S. Calude, Auckland, NZ Masami Hagiya, Tokyo, Japan Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima, Japan Grzegorz Rozenberg, Leiden, Netherland Jon Timmis, York, UK ---------------------------------------- Important Dates: Submission Deadline: February 8th, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: March 8th, 2010 Revision Deadline: March 29th, 2010 Conference Dates: June 21st-25th, 2010 =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 9. (from Andrea Sorbi) Infinite and Infinitesimal in Mathematics, Computing, and Natural Sciences, Cetraro, Italy: ________________________________________________________________ Infinite and Infinitesimal in Mathematics, Computing, and Natural Sciences 17-21 May 2010, Grand Hotel San Michele, Cetraro, Italy http://www.theinfinitycomputer.com/infinity2010 ________________________________________________________________ THE FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of the Workshop is to create a multidisciplinary round table for an open discussion on modelling nature by using traditional and emerging computational paradigms. Mathematics and natural sciences offer discrete and continuous models to describe space, processes, and events occurring in nature. Very often both approaches use notions of infinite and infinitesimal in order to create coherent models. It is assumed that it is possible to work with infinitesimal quantities and/or to execute an infinite number of steps in algorithms. However, our abilities in computing are limited and only a finite number of computational steps can be executed by humans and machines. The Workshop will discuss all aspects of the usage of infinity and infinitesimals in mathematics, computing, philosophy, and natural sciences. Fundamental ideas from theoretical computer science, logic, set theory, and philosophy will meet requirements and new fresh applications from physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and economy. Researchers from both theoretical and applied sciences are very welcome to submit their papers and to use this excellent possibility to exchange ideas with leading scientists from different research fields. Papers discussing new computational paradigms and their impact on natural sciences are particularly solicited. A special attention will be dedicated to the new methodology allowing one to execute numerical computations with finite, infinite, and infinitesimal numbers on a new type of a computational device - the Infinity Computer (EU patent 1728149). The new approach is based on the principle 'The part is less than the whole' introduced by Ancient Greeks that is applied to all numbers (finite, infinite, and infinitesimal) and to all sets and processes (finite and infinite). The new methodology evolves Cantor's ideas in a more applied way and introduces new infinite numbers that possess both cardinal and ordinal properties as usual finite numbers. It gives the possibility to execute numerical computations of a new type and simplifies fields of mathematics where the usage of the infinity and/or infinitesimals is necessary. There will be tutorials, discussion sections, and regular presentations. Topics of the workshop include the following research streams and their interrelations with infinite and infinitesimal quantities * Analytical computations * Astronomy and infinity * Complexity and computability * Divergent processes and fractals * Foundations of mathematics * Infinity in economy * Infinity in natural sciences * Language theory * Logic and infinity * Modelling: continuous vs. discrete * Numerical analysis * Philosophy of mathematics * Physics of particles and infinitesimals * Quantum computing More information at: http://www.theinfinitycomputer.com/infinity2010 =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 10. (from Ioannis Chatzigiannakis) ICALP 2010 - Submission site is open: ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS ICALP 2010 37th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming July 5-12, 2010 Bordeaux, France http://icalp10.inria.fr/ Supported by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) ______________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: * Submission Deadline: Feb 10, 2010 * Author Notification: Apr 6, 2010 * Final Manuscript Due: Apr 27, 2010 ______________________________________________________________________ The 37th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), will take place from the 5th to the 12th of July 2010 in Bordeaux, France. The main conference will be preceded and followed by a series of Workshops. Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are: ______________________________________________________________________ Track A - Algorithms, Complexity and Games Topics: Algorithmic Game Theory * Approximation Algorithms * Combinatorics in Computer Science * Computational Biology * Computational Complexity * Computational Geometry * Cryptography * Data Structures * Design and Analysis of Algorithms * Internet Algorithmics * Machine Learning * Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing * Randomness in Computation * Quantum Computing Track B - Logic, Semantics, Automata and Theory of Programming Topics: Algebraic and Categorical Models * Automata Theory, Formal Languages * Non-standard Approaches to Computability * Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory * Principles of Programming Languages * Logics, Formal Methods and Model Checking * Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems * Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems * Program Analysis and Transformation * Specification, Refinement and Verification * Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi Track C - Foundations of Networked Computation: Models, Algorithms and Information Management Topics: Algorithmic Aspects of Networks * Auctions * Computing with Incentives * E-commerce, Privacy, Spam * Formal Methods for Network Information Management * Foundations of Trust and Reputation in Networks * Internet Algorithmics * Mobile and Wireless Networks * Models of Complex Networks * Models and Algorithms for Global Computing * Models of Mobile Computation * Networks Economics * Networks of Low Capability Devices * Overlay Networks and P2P Systems * Social Networks * Specification, Semantics, Synchronization of Networked Systems * Theory of Security in networks and Distributed Computing * Web Searching, Ranking * Web Mining and Analysis ______________________________________________________________________ Invited Speakers: * Pierre Fraigniaud (CNRS and Univ. Paris Diderot) * Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan and LSV) * Burkhard Monien (Univ. Paderborn) * Joel Ouaknine, (Oxford Univ. Computing Lab.) * Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich) * Emo Welzl (ETH Zurich) ______________________________________________________________________ Submission Guidelines: Submissions should be made through the on-line submission site: https://wiki.bordeaux.inria.fr/icalp10/index.php?n=Main.Submission Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages in LNCS style presenting original research on the theory of Computer Science. Submissions should indicate to which track (A, B, or C) the paper is submitted. No simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed. The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series by Springer-Verlag. It is recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referee but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. ______________________________________________________________________ Conference Chairs: * Cyril Gavoille, Univ. of Bordeaux (LaBRI) & INRIA, Bordeaux. * Claude Kirchner, INRIA, Bordeaux. Program Committees: Track A. - Algorithms, Complexity and Games * Dimitris Achlioptas, Univ. Santa Cruz * Kwstis Daskalakis, MIT * Anuj Dawar, Cambridge Univ. * Xiaotie Deng, City Univ. Hong Kong * Philippe Flajolet, INRIA * Micelle Flammini, Univ. L\'Acquilla * Oscar Ibarra, UCSB (Santa Barbara) * Giuseppe Italiano, Univ. Roma 2 * Kazuo Iwama, Univ. Kyoto * Klaus Jansen, Univ. Kiel * Elias Koutsoupias, Univ. Athens * Ludek Kucera, Charles Univ. * Daniel Marx, Budapest Univ. * Burkhard Monien, U Paderborn * Amin Coja Oghlan, Univ. Edinburgh * Tonyann Pitassi, Univ. Toronto * John Reif, Duke Univ. * Jose Rolim, Univ. Geneva * Paul Spirakis, Univ. Patras and RACTI (PC Chair) * Leslie Valiant, Harvard Univ. * Emo Welzl, ETH * Gerhard Woeginger, Univ. Eindhoven Track B - Logic, Semantics, Automata and Theory of Programming * Samson Abramsky, Oxford Univ. (PC Chair) * Luca Aceto, Univ. Rejkjavik * Lars Birkedal, Univ. Copenhagen * Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Univ. Warsaw * Patricia Bouyer, CNRS, LSV Cachan * Josée Desharnais, Univ. Laval * Gilles Dowek, Ecole Polytechnique & INRIA * Manfred Droste, Univ. Leipzig * Peter Dybjer, Univ. Chalmers * Jose Felix Costa, Univ. Lisbon * Phokion Kolaitis, IBM Almaden * Ugo Dal Lago, Univ. Bologna * Daniel Leivant, Univ. Indiana * Andrzej Murawski, Oxford Univ. * Filip Murlak, Univ. Edinburgh * Flemming Nielsen, Univ. Copenhagen * Dominique Perrin, Univ. Paris Est * Alex Rabinovich, Univ. Tel Aviv * Lutz Schroder, DFKI Bremen * Ian Stark, Univ. Edinburgh Track C- Foundations of Networked Computation: Models, Algorithms and Information Management * Debora Donato, Yahoo! Research Barcelona * Faith Ellen, Univ. Toronto * Phil Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh * Rob van Glabbeek, Stanford Univ. and National ICT Australia * Monika Henzinger, EPFL Lausanne * Christos Kaklamanis, Univ. of Patras * Fabian Kuhn, MIT * Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology * Christian Lengauer, Univ. Passau * Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza Univ. of Rome * Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Univ. Paderborn (PC chair) * Dusko Pavlovic, Oxford Univ. and Kestrel Institute * Andrzej Pelc, Univ. du Québec en Outaouais * Giuseppe Persiano, Univ. Salerno * Frank Pfenning, CMU * Geppino Pucci, Univ. Padova * Christian Scheideler, Univ. Paderborn * Nir Shavit, Tel Aviv Univ. * Berthold Vöcking, RWTH Aachen * Gerhard Weikum, MPI-Saarbrücken Workshops Chair: * Ralf Klasing, CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux (LaBRI) & INRIA Publicity Chairs: * Nicolas Bonichon, Univ. Bordeaux (LaBRI) & INRIA * Lionel Eyraud-Dubois, INRIA & Univ. Bordeaux (LaBRI) * Frédéric Mazoit, Univ. Bordeaux (LaBRI) Conference Secretariat: * Laetitia Grimaldi, INRIA, Bordeaux ICALP 2010 is organised by the INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest research center in collaboration with the LaBRI, computer science laboratory of CNRS and the University of Bordeaux. =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 11. (from Thomas Hinze) CFP: Eleventh International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC11), Jena, Germany, 24-27 August 2010: *********************** CMC11 Call for Papers ************************* Eleventh International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC11) Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany, 24-27 August 2010 http://cmc11.uni-jena.de *********************************************************************** Membrane computing is an area of computer science aiming to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure and the functioning of living cells, as well as from the way the cells are organized in tissues or higher order structures. It deals with membrane systems, also called P systems, which are distributed and parallel algebraic models processing multisets of objects in a localised manner (evolution rules and evolving objects are encapsulated into compartments delimited by membranes), with an essential role played by the communication among compartments and with the environment. From a systems biological point of view, membrane systems provide a discrete modelling approach to describe biological reaction systems composed of interconnected membranes. Each membrane delimits a spatial region in which chemical reactions can occur. Within a membrane, a multiset of objects represents molecular particles while dedicated term-rewriting mechanisms simultaneously execute reaction rules associated to each membrane. Supplementary rules can control the exchange of objects among membranes or even modify the membrane structure. Hence, capturing descriptional aspects of structural dynamics is seen as an advantageous feature of membrane systems. Further information about membrane computing can be found at the P systems web page. Having now for the first time the status of a conference, CMC11 aims for continuing the fruitful tradition of 10 previous editions of the International Workshop on Membrane Computing (WMC). It is intended to bring together researchers working in membrane computing and related areas in a friendly atmosphere enhancing communication and cooperation. We are pleased to host CMC11 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in collaboration with the Jena Centre for Bioinformatics under the auspices of the European Molecular Computing Consortium and the Molecular Computing Task Force of the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: 10 May 2010 * Paper notification: 4 June 2010 * Early bird registration: 11 June 2010 * Camera-ready version: 5 July 2010 * Registration deadline: 5 July 2010 * Conference: 24-27 August 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Artiom Alhazov (Hiroshima, Japan) * Gabriel Ciobanu (Iasi, Romania) * Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest, Hungary) * Gabi Escuela (Jena, Germany) * Rudolf Freund (Vienna, Austria) * Pierluigi Frisco (Edinburgh, UK) * Marian Gheorghe (Sheffield, UK) â~@~S Chair * Thomas Hinze (Jena, Germany) â~@~S Co-chair * Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, USA) * Vincenzo Manca (Verona, Italy) * Maurice Margenstern (Metz, France) * Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, Italy) * Van Nguyen (Adelaide, Australia) * Marion Oswald (Budapest, Hungary) * Linqiang Pan (Wuhan, China) * Gheorghe Paun (Bucharest, Romania and Sevilla, Spain) * Mario J. Perez-Jimenez (Sevilla, Spain) * Dario Pescini (Milan, Italy) * Francisco J. Romero-Campero (Nottingham, UK) * Monika Sturm (Dresden, Germany) * Sergey Verlan (Paris, France) SUBMISSION Original research contributions (including significant work-in-progress) on membrane computing, its applications and related subjects are sought. Contributions reporting in-vivo or in-silico experimental results are particularly encouraged. Authors are invited to submit their contribution as PDF, written in English and preferrably prepared in LaTeX using Springer LNCS style (llncs). There are three categories for submission: (1) Full paper of a reasonable length (2) Software manual. To assign a contribution to this category, the title should include the phrase «Software Manual». A software manual should introduce a self-made software tool relevant to applications for membrane computing or related areas (e.g. a membrane system simulator, a membrane system designer, a visualization tool, a format converter, a statistical tool, a new version of an existing membrane computing tool with extended or revised features, ...). A typical software manual consists of at least three parts: the user manual, a (short) technical description, and some dedicated case studies like simulation results or findings. Moreover, a software manual should contain a download or access link via internet to enable the reviewers to test the corresponding software. (3) Extended abstract for poster presentation, maximum four pages. Typical extended abstracts present significant work-in-progress, late-breaking results, or initial self-dependent contributions of students new in the field. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three referees. The pre-proceedings volume will be available during the conference. The final proceedings, a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, for selected and additionally refereed papers, will be published after CMC11. SATELLITE WORKSHOPS * Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA) * Applications of Membrane computing, Concurrency and Agent-based modeling in POPulation biology (AMCA-POP) * Fourth Workshop on Membrane Computing and Biologically Inspired Process Calculi (MeCBiC) OTHER RELEVANT DETAILS Conform the tradition, the conference is planned as a friendly working meeting, with a good balance of science, tourism, socializing, and scientific collaboration. The provisional basic registration fee will be of about 200 euros per person, to be paid along with registration via bank transfer. The basic fee covers conference participation as well as the tourist program. Further optional service will be offered upon supplementary fees. The accommodation, to be paid by each participant, will be available at various prices. To know more about Jena, consult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena We are looking forward to welcoming you to CMC11 in Jena. Best regards Thomas Hinze (CMC11 PC co-chair and OC chair) =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 12. (from Julia Knight) Nominations for 2010 Shoenfield Prizes: The ASL invites nominations for the Shoenfield Prizes for outstanding expository writing in the field of logic. There are two Shoenfield prizes, one for books and one for expository articles, each to be awarded simultaneously every three years; the first Shoenfield Prizes were awarded in 2007. The deadline for nominations for the 2010 Prizes is March 1, 2010. There are two Shoenfield prizes, one for books and one for expository articles. Any book first published in the past 9 years may be considered for the book award. Any article published in the past 6 years, may be considered for the article award. The Shoenfield prizes were established by the ASL to honor the late Joseph R. Shoenfield for his many outstanding contributions to logic and to the ASL. Generations of logicians have especially valued Shoenfield's expository gifts, and his writings provide models of lucidity and elegance. The fund on which the Prize is based is administered by the ASL and the award is made by the Association upon the recommendation of the ASL Committee on Prizes and Awards. For general information about the Prize, visit http://www.aslonline.org/info-prizes.html -- Association for Symbolic Logic Box 742 Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA Fax: 845-437-7830 asl@vassar.edu WWW: aslonline.org =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 13. (from Edward A. Hirsch) Workshop on High Productivity Computations (HPC 2010) - Call for Papers: *********************************************************************** Call for Papers Workshop on High Productivity Computations (HPC 2010) Organized in conjunction with CSR 2010 June 21-22, 2010, Kazan, Russia http://csr2010.antat.ru/HPC.html *********************************************************************** The workshop is intended to organize discussions about high productivity computing means and models, including but not limited to high performance and quantum information processing. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: February 25, 2010 Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2010 Workshop dates: June 21-22, 2010 INVITED SPEAKERS: Kamil Valiev - Yuri Bogdanov Bob Coecke Farid Ablayev - Alexander Vasiliev Sergei Moiseev PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Farid Ablayev (Kazan State University, Russia) Bob Coecke (University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Rusins Freivalds (University of Latvia) Aida Gainutdinova (Kazan State University, Russia) Alexander Holevo (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia) Richard Jozsa (University of Bristol, UK) Airat Khasianov (Kazan State University, Russia) Vladimir Korepin (Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, USA) Alexander Razborov (University of Chicago and Steklov Mathematical Institute) Alexander Vasiliev (Kazan State University, Russia) Mingsheng Ying (Tsinghua University and University of Technology Sydney) ORGANIZERS: Institute of Informatics of Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Republic, and Kazan State University SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit an up to 6 pages abstract which provides an essence of results allowing the program committee to evaluate the work. Submissions of works in progress are encouraged but must be more substantial than a research proposal. Submissions of original or already presented research are welcome. Submissions should be in Postscript or PDF format and should be sent to HPC.CSR2010@gmail.com by February 25, with a subject "Submission". We're applying to publish the extended versions of abstracts in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS: Web: http://csr2010.antat.ru/HPC.html Email: HPC.CSR2010@gmail.com =========================================================================== =========================================================================== 14. (from Simona Ronchi Della Rocca) Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity (LCC '10): ==================================================== Preliminary call for papers 11th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity LCC'10 http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/stephan.kreutzer/lcc10/index.html Edinburgh, July 10, 2010 affiliated to LICS 2010 ==================================================== The Eleventh International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity (LCC'10) will be held in Edinburgh on 10th July 2010, as an affiliated meeting of Logic in Computer Science (LiCS) 2010 as part of the 2010 Federated Logic Conference (FLoC). LCC meetings are aimed at the foundational interconnections between logic and computational complexity, as present, for example, in implicit computational complexity (descriptive and type-theoretic methods); deductive formalisms as they relate to complexity (e.g. ramification, weak comprehension, bounded arithmetic, linear logic and resource logics); complexity aspects of finite model theory and databases; complexity-mindful program derivation and verification; computational complexity at higher type; and proof complexity. The LCC'10 program consists of invited lectures as well as contributed papers selected by the program committee. Details on invited speakers will be made available later. Types of submission This year we invite two forms of submissions: full papers and abstracts for short presentation. Submissions published elsewhere or which are simultaneouosly being submitted to another conference or workshop are welcome, but this information must be revealed to the PC chairs. Complete submissions: Complete papers have a page limit of 15 pages, and their acceptance implies a presentation of half an hour. Abstract submissions: Abstracts have a page limit of 4 pages, they are supposed to be used for communicating problems or not yet developed ideas, and their acceptance imply a short presentation of ten minutes. Proceedings: Post-preceedings could be considered, depending on the number and the quality of the submissions. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 1 May 2010, 1am CET (GMT +1). The submission server will remain open till 7am CET. Author notification: 1 June 2010 Program Committee * Andrei Bulatov (Vancouver) * Phokion Kolaitis (Santa Cruz) * Jan Krajicek (Prague) * Stephan Kreutzer (Oxford, co-chair) * Olivier Laurent (Lyon) * Jean Yves Moyen (Paris 13) * Damian Niwinski (Warsaw) * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Torino, co-chair) * Steering Committee * Michael Benedikt (Oxford) (Co-chair) * Robert Constable (Cornell) * Anuj Dawar (Cambridge) * Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon) * Martin Hofmann (U Munich) * Neil Immerman (U Mass. Amherst) * Neil Jones (Copenhagen) * Bruce Kapron (U Victoria) * Daniel Leivant (Indiana U) (Co-chair) * Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA Nancy) * Luke Ong (Oxford) * Martin Otto (Darmstadt) * James Royer (Syracuse) * Helmut Schwichtenberg (U Munich) * Pawel Urzyczyn (Warsaw) * =========================================================================== =========================================================================== Items for the next CiE Newsletter should be sent to s.b.cooper@leeds.ac.uk to arrive by February 14, 2010 ___________________________________________________________________________ ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk CiE Conference Series http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE CiE 2010 http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/ CiE Membership Application Form http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/acie ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ ___________________________________________________________________________