12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications (WRLA 2018): last CfP

by Vlad Rusu, Dec. 4, 2017

WRLA 2018, the 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications: an ETAPS 2018 satellite event - Thessaloniki, Greece - April 14-15 2018


*NEW* IMPORTANT DATES
      Abstract submission deadline: January 8, 2018
      Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2018
      Workshop: April 14 -15, 2018.

AWARD
Best WRLA 2018 paper award will be granted by Springer. 

AIMS AND SCOPE

Rewriting is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic

framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication, and interaction.

It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in

various  application  domains. It  also has good  properties as a meta-

logical framework for representing logics. Several successful languages

based on rewriting (ASF+SDF, CafeOBJ, ELAN,Maude) have been designed and

implemented. The aim of  WRLA  is to bring together researchers with a

common interest in rewriting and its applications, and to give them the

opportunity  to  present  their  recent  work, discuss  future research

directions, and exchange ideas.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

A. Foundations

    foundations and models of rewriting and rewriting logic, including

    termination, confluence  coherence and complexity

    unification, generalization, narrowing, and partial evaluation

    constrained rewriting and symbolic algebra

    graph rewriting

    tree automata

    rewriting strategies

    rewriting-based calculi and explicit substitution

B. Rewriting as a Logical and Semantic Framework

    uses of rewriting and rewriting logic as a logical framework,

    including deduction modulo

    uses of rewriting as a semantic framework for programming language

    semantics, rewriting semantics of concurrency models, distributed

    systems, and network protocols

    rewriting semantics of real-time, hybrid, and probabilistic systems

    uses of rewriting for compilation and language transformation

C. Rewriting Languages

    rewriting-based declarative languages

    type systems for rewriting

    implementation techniques

    tools supporting rewriting langages

D. Verification Techniques

    verification of confluence, termination, coherence, sufficient

    completeness, and related properties

    temporal, modal and reachability logics for verifying dynamic

    properties of rewrite theories

    explicit-state and symbolic model checking techniques for

    verification of rewrite theories

    rewriting-based theorem proving, including (co)inductive theorem

    proving

    rewriting-based constraint solving and satisfiability

    rewriting-semantics-based verification and analysis of programs

E. Applications

    applications in logic, mathematics, physics, and biology

    rewriting models of biology, chemistry, and membrane systems

    security specification and verification

    applications to distributed, network, mobile, and cloud computing

    specification and verification of real-time, hybrid, probabilistic,

    and cyber-physical systems

    specification and verification of critical systems

    applications to model-based software engineering

    applications to engineering and planning.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Santiago Escobar, University of Valencia, Spain

Hubert Garavel, Inria, Grenoble, France

Thomas Genet, University of Rennes, France

SUBMISSION

The program of the workshop will include regular papers, tool papers,

and work-in-progress presentations. The program will also contain

nvited talks, invited papers, and tutorials to be determined by the

program committee.

Regular papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written,

include appropriate references, and comparison with related work. They

must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication

elsewhere.

Tool papers have to present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel

extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description

of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, emphasize the

design and implementation, and give a clear account of the tool’s

functionality. The described tools must be available via the web.

Work-in-progress papers present early-stage work or other types of

innovative or thought-provoking work related to the topics of the

workshop. The difference between work-in-progress and regular papers is

that work-in-progress submissions represent work that has not reached

yet a level of completion that would warrant the full refereed selection

process. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit work-in-

progress papers as this provides a unique opportunity for sharing

valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on ongoing work, and fostering

discussions and collaborations among colleagues.

All submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines for

Springer LNCS papers, and should be submitted electronically using

EasyChair. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via

the Easychair system athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla2018.

Regular and work-in-progress papers should not exceed 15 pages including

references. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages including references

and may have an appendix of up to 4 additional pages with usage details

and tool demonstration.

PUBLICATION

All submissions will be evaluated by the program committee. Regular

papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress papers that are accepted will

be presented at the workshop and included in the pre-proceedings, which

will be available during the workshop. Following the tradition of the

last editions, regular papers, tool papers, and invited presentations

will be published as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer

Science (LNCS) series to be distributed after the workshop.

A special issue of JLAMP:the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in

Programming will be devoted to extended versions of selected papers from

WRLA 2018.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Kyungmin Bae, POSTECH, Korea

    Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy

    Stefan Ciobaca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania

    Francisco Durán, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

    Santiago Escobar, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

    Maribel Fernández, King’s College London, UK

    Thomas Genet, IRISA/Université de Rennes 1, France

    Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany

    Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA

    Helene Kirchner, INRIA, France

    Alexander Knapp, Universitat Augsburg, Germany

    Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

    Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania

    Salvador Lucas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

    Narciso Martí-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

    Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, Italy

    Pierre-Etienne Moreau, Université de Lorraine, France

    Vivek Nigam, Federal University of Paraíba, Brasil

    Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan

    Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway

    Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA-Lorraine Nancy, France

    Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

    Vlad Rusu, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe, France  (chair)

    Ralf Sasse, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Traian-Florin Serbanuta, University of Bucharest, Romania

    Mark-Oliver Stehr, SRI International, USA

    Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA

    Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

CONTACT INFORMATION

For more information, please contact the organizers

  [email protected]

or visit the workshop's web page

  https://project.inria.fr/wrla18/