CFP: 6th workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6)

[Thomas Bolander <tb@imm.dtu.dk>]

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                      FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
        6th Workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6)
                    http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6
                      Copenhagen, Denmark
                      November 12-14, 2009
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Scope
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The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together
researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods
and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is
conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic,
guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc.

To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature
a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research
presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions
of system demonstrations.

We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers,
especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are
related to modal logics.

More information about the previous editions can be found at

                       http://m4m.loria.fr/

M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing
PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop.
The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school
(http://first.dk).

Paper Submissions
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Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories.

- Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original research.

- System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or
significant upgrades of existing ones.

- Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or
submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the
proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to
participants.

Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m6

Final versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume
of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS).
A preliminary version of the proceedings will also be available at the
workshop.

Invited speakers
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To be announced.  

Important dates
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    Deadline for submissions: August 24, 2009
    Notification: October 5, 2009
    Camera ready versions: October 26, 2009
    Workshop dates: November 12-14, 2009

Program Committee
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    Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine
    Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen
    Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine
    Thomas Bolander (co-chair), Technical University of Denmark
    Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh
    Torben Braüner (co-chair), Roskilde University
    Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam
    Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan
    Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago
    Melvin Fitting, City University of New York
    John Gallagher, Roskilde University
    Mai Gehrke, Radboud University Nijmegen
    Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano
    Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand
    Rajeev Goré, ANU, NICTA
    Michael R. Hansen, Technical University of Denmark
    Andreas Herzig, IRIT
    Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool
    Martin Lange, LMU München
    Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology
    Angelo Montanari, University of Udine
    Valeria de Paiva, Cuill Inc.
    Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester
    Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester
    Carsten Schürmann, IT University of Copenhagen
    Gert Smolka, Saarland University
    Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen
    Jørgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark
    Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool
    Thomas Ågotnes, Bergen University College
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