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WoLLIC'2002 - Call for Participation




                         Call for Participation

        9th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
       	                      (WoLLIC'2002)
                        July 30 to August 2, 2002

           Scientific Co-Sponsorship: IGPL, FoLLI, ASL, SBC, SBL

                        Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

		(NEW: PROCEEDINGS AS A VOLUME OF
	"Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science" (Elsevier))


THE EVENT
  The "9th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation"
  (WoLLIC'2002), the nineth version of a series of workshops which started
  in 1994 with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary research in pure and
  applied logic, will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 30 to
  August 2, 2002.

SCOPE
  Contributions will be presented in the form of short papers in
  all areas related to logic, language, information and computation, including:
  pure logical systems, proof theory, model theory, algebraic logic, type
  theory, category theory, constructive mathematics, lambda and combinatorial
  calculi, program logic and program semantics, logics and models of
  concurrency, logic and complexity theory, proof complexity,
  foundations of cryptography (zero-knowledge proofs), descriptive complexity,
  nonclassical logics, nonmonotonic logic, logic and language,
  discourse representation, logic and artificial intelligence,
  automated deduction, foundations of logic programming,
  logic and computation, and logic engineering.

SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP
  The 9th WoLLIC'2002 has the scientific sponsorship of the Association
  for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics
  (IGPL), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI),
  the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade
  Brasileira de Lógica (SBL).

GUEST SPEAKERS
  Ricardo Bianconi (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
  Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong, China)
  Erich Graedel (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
  Gopalan Nadathur (University of Minnesota, USA)
  Rohit Parikh (City University of New York, USA)
  Igor Walukiewicz (Bordeaux University, France)

THE VENUE
  The meeting will take place in the campus of the Pontifícia Universidade
  Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). You can visit the University's
  web site (in Portuguese) http://www.puc-rio.br, which features a map of
  the campus http://www.puc-rio.br/mapa/. For information on Rio de Janeiro,
  you may visit the web site for RIOTUR (the city's Official Tourism
  Authority): http://www.riodejaneiro-turismo.com.br

TUTORIAL LECTURES
  Some model theory of ordered structures
  by Ricardo Bianconi

  Computing with Real Numbers
  by Felipe Cucker

  Model Checking Games
  by Erich Graedel

  The Metalanguage Lambda Prolog and its Implementation
  by Gopalan Nadathur

  States of Knowledge (tutorial)
  by Rohit Parikh

  Automata theory and logic (tutorial)
  by Igor Walukiewicz

INVITED TALKS
  Definability in o-minimal expansions of the real numbers
  by Ricardo Bianconi

  On sparseness and Turing reducibility over the reals
  by Felipe Cucker

  Model Checking Games for Fixed Point Logics
  by Erich Graedel

  Explicit Substitutions and Lambda Term Representations in
  Metalanguage Implementations
  by Gopalan Nadathur

  States of Knowledge
  by Rohit Parikh

  Deciding low levels of tree-automata hierarchy
  by Igor Walukiewicz

BOOK EXHIBITION
  The following publishers are expected to be exhibiting various books from
  their catalogue, prospectuses, journal samples, etc., and there will be a
  chance to purchase items at promotional prices:

  The MIT Press
  Springer-Verlag
  CSLI Publications
  A K Peters
  Kluwer Acad. Pub.
  Cambridge Univ. Press
  Oxford Univ. Press
  World Scientific

  It is likely that a few other international publishers will also take part
  in the book exhibit.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
  Mauricio Ayala-Rincón (Univ de Brasília, Brazil)
  Mario Benevides (Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  Anuj Dawar (Cambridge Univ, England)
  Philippe de Groote (LORIA, France)
  Roger Maddux (Iowa State Univ, USA)
  Toni Pitassi (Toronto Univ, Canada)
  Bruno Poizat (Univ Claude Bernard - Lyon I, France)
  Alberto Policriti (Univ di Udine, Italy)
  Glynn Winskel (Cambridge Univ, England)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
  Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio)
  Claus Akira Matsushigue (IME-USP)
  Anjolina G. de Oliveira (UFPE)
  Luiz Carlos Pereira (PUC-Rio) (Co-Chair)
  Ruy de Queiroz (UFPE) (Co-Chair)
  Jorge Petrúcio Viana (UFF/UFRJ)

FURTHER INFORMATION
  Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee:
  Ruy de Queiroz, Centro de Informática, Univ. Federal de Pernambuco,
  Av. Prof. Luis Freire s/n, Cidade Universitaria, 50740-540 Recife, PE,
  Brazil. E-mail: ruy@cin.ufpe.br, tel. +55 81 3271-8430 fax +55 81 3271-8438.
  Luiz Carlos Pereira, Departamento de Filosofia, Pontifícia Universidade
  Católica do Rio de Janeiro, R. Marques de Sao Vicente 225,
  Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. E-mail: luiz@inf.puc-rio.br.

WEB PAGE
  http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2002/

PROGRAMME

TUESDAY, July 30th, 2002 (Tutorial Day)

Tutorials:
08:15-10:15 (with a 10min break) Chair: Igor Walukiewicz
  Some model theory of ordered structures
  by Ricardo Bianconi (Departamento de Matemática, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
10:15-10:30 Coffee/tea break

10:30-12:30 (with a 10min break) Chair: Gopalan Nadathur
  Computing with Real Numbers
  by Felipe Cucker (Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, China)

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 (with a 10min break) Chair: Rohit Parikh
  Model Checking Games
  by Erich Grädel (Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik, RWTH Aachen, Germany)

16:00-16:15 Coffee/tea break

16:15-18:15 (with a 10min break) Chair: Felipe Cucker
  Automata theory and logic: Tutorial
  by Igor Walukiewicz (LaBRI, Bordeaux University, France)

WEDNESDAY, July 31st, 2002

Morning: Logic and Language
08:00-08:30 OPENING
08:30-10:30 (with a 10min break) (Tutorial) Chair: Erich Grädel

  States of Knowledge (Tutorial)
  by Rohit Parikh (Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA)

10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break

  10:45-11:55 2 contributed papers (35min each) Chair: (tba)

    10:45-11:20 A Logic for Ambiguous Description
                by Arthur Buchsbaum (Departamento de Informática e Estatística, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
    11:20-11:55 Dynamic Semantics of Plurals DPL_Q^*
	        by Norihiro Ogata (Faculty of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan)

11:55-13:10 (Invited talk) Chair: Rohit Parikh
  On sparseness and Turing reducibility over the reals
  by Felipe Cucker (Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, China)

13:10-14:30 Lunch break

Afternoon: Proof Theory

14:30-16:30 (with a 10min break) (Tutorial) Chair: Felipe Cucker

  The Metalanguage Lambda Prolog and its Implementation
  by Gopalan Nadathur (Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, USA)

16:30-16:45 Coffee/tea break

16:45-18:30 3 contributed papers (35min each) Chair: (tba)

  16:45-17:20 Comparing Calculi of Explicit Substitutions with Eta-reduction
              by Mauricio Ayala-Rincón (Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil),
	      Flávio L. C. de Moura (Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)
	      and
	      Fairouz Kamareddine (School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)

  17:20-17:55 Studying provability in implicational intuitionistic logic: the formula tree approach
              by Sabine Broda (Departamento de Ciência dos Computadores, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
	      and
	      Luís Damas (Departamento de Ciência dos Computadores, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

  17:55-18:30 On automating the extraction of programs from proofs using product types
              by Fairouz Kamareddine (School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland),
	      François Monin (IRISA, France)
	      and
	      Mauricio Ayala-Rincón (Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)

THURSDAY, August 1st, 2002

Morning: Logic and Knowledge Representation
										08:30-09:45 (Invited talk) Chair: Ricardo Bianconi
										  States of Knowledge
  by Rohit Parikh (Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA)

09:45-10:00 Coffee/tea break

10:00-11:10 2 contributed papers (35min each) Chair: (tba)

  10:00-10:35 The Logic of Risky Knowledge
	      by Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. (Departaments of Philosophy and Computer Science, University of Rochester, and Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, USA)
	      and
	      Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, USA)

  10:35-11:10 A logical approach to A-Prolog
	      by Mauricio Osorio (Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de Información y Automatización, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México),
	      Juan Antonio Navarro (Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de Información y Automatización, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México)
	      and
	      José Arrazola (Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de Información y Automatización, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México)

11:10-11:25 Coffee/tea break

11:25-12:40 (Invited talk) Chair: Erich Grädel

  Explicit Substitutions and Lambda Term Representations in Metalanguage Implementations
  by Gopalan Nadathur (Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, USA)

12:40-14:30 Lunch break

Afternoon: Logic and Computation Theory

14:30-15:45 (Invited talk) Chair: Ricardo Bianconi

  Deciding low levels of tree-automata hierarchy
  by Igor Walukiewicz (LaBRI, Bordeaux University, France)

15:45-16:00 Coffee/tea break

16:00-17:10 2 contributed papers (35min each) Chair: (tba)

  16:00-16:35 Rank-Based Symbolic Bisimulation (and Model Checking)
              by Agostino Dovier (Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine, Italy),
	      Raffaella Gentilini (Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine, Italy),
	      Carla Piazza (Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Cá Foscari di Venezia, Italy),
	      and
	      Alberto Policriti (Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine, Italy)
  16:35-17:10 Continuous Domains and Their Information System Representation as Logical Systems
              by Benjamín René Callejas Bedregal (Departamento de Informática e Matemática Aplicada, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
              and
              Ivanosca Andrade da Silva (Departamento de Informática e Matemática Aplicada, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)

17:10-17:25 Coffee/tea break

17:25-18:35 2 contributed papers (35 min each) Chair: (tba)

  17:25-18:00 A Branching Time Logical System for Open Distributed Systems Development
              by Carlos H. C. Duarte (BNDES, and Universidade Estácio de Sá, Brazil)
	      and
	      Tom Maibaum (Departament of Computer Science, King's College London, England)

  18:00-18:35 Requirements, specifications, and minimal refinement
              by Nikos Gorogiannis (School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, England)
	      and
	      Mark Ryan (School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, England)

FRIDAY, August 2nd, 2002

Morning: Logic, Model Theory, and Definability

08:00-09:15 (Invited talk) Chair: Igor Walukiewicz

  Model Checking Games for Fixed Point Logics
  by Erich Grädel (Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik, RWTH Aachen, Germany)

09:15-09:30 Coffee/tea break

09:30-11:15 3 contributed papers (35min each) Chair: (tba)

  09:30-10:05 Computable Queries for Object Oriented Databases - The FINSET Case
              by Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Department of Information Systems, Massey University, New Zealand)
              and
	      Jose-Maria Turull-Torres (Department of Information Systems, Massey University, New Zealand)

  10:05-10:40 A Completeness Result for Relation Algebra with Binders
              by Renata P. de Freitas (COPPE-UFRJ, Brazil)
	      and
	      Jorge Petrúcio Viana (COPPE-UFRJ and IM-UFF, Brazil)

  10:40-11:15 Non Truth-Functional Many-Valuedness
              by Jean-Yves Béziau (Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

11:15-11:30 Coffee/tea break

11:30-12:45 (Invited talk) Chair: Gopalan Nadathur

  Definability in o-minimal expansions of the real numbers
  by Ricardo Bianconi (Departamento de Matemática, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

12:45 CLOSING

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