categories: CFP - RelMiCS 11 / AKA 6

categories: CFP - RelMiCS 11 / AKA 6

[Michael Winter]

               Announcement and Call for Papers for the
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                   11th International Conference on
                Relational Methods in Computer Science
                             (RelMiCS 11)
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      6th International Conference on Applications of Kleene Algebra
                                (AKA 6)
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                   November 1 to 5, 2009 Doha, Qatar
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1) Conference

Over the past fifteen years, the RelMiCS meetings have been a main forum for
researchers who use the calculus of relations and similar algebraic  
formalisms as
methodological and conceptual tools. The workshop series on Applications of
Kleene algebra started with a Dagstuhl seminar in 2001 and has been co-
organised with the RelMiCS conference since. Due to their considerable  
overlap,
the two events have a joint PC and joint proceedings.Their scope comprises
relation algebra, fixpoint calculi, semiring theory, iteration  
algebras, process
algebras and dynamic algebras. Applications include formal algebraic  
modelling,
the semantics, analysis and development of programs, formal language theory
and combinatorial optimisation.

We invite submissions on the general topics of Relation Algebra
and Kleene Algebra in computer science. Special focus will lie
on formal methods for software engineering, logics of programs and
links with neighbouring disciplines. Particular topics of the  
conference cover, but
are not limited to the theory of

- relation algebras and Kleene algebras
- related formalisms such as process algebras, fixed point calculi, idempotent
   semirings, quantales, allegories, dynamic algebras, cylindric  
algebras and their
   applications in areas such as
   - verification, analysis and development of programs and algorithms
   - relational formal methods such as B or Z, tabular methods,
   - algebraic approaches to logics of programs, modal and dynamic logics,
     interval and temporal logics
   - algebraic semantics of programming languages
   - graph theory and combinatorial optimisation
   - games, automata and language theory
   - mechanised and automated reasoning, decision procedures
   - spatio-temporal reasoning, knowledge acquisition, preference and
     scaling methods
   - information systems.

The predecessors of this conference were held in Dagstuhl (January 1994),
Parati (September 1995), Hammamet (January 1997), Warsaw (September
1998), Quebec (January 2000), Dagstuhl (February 2001), Oisterwijk (October
2001), Malente (April 2003), St. Catherines (January 2005), Manchester
(September 2006) and Frauenwoerth (April 2008).

2) Program committee

Jihad Al'Jaam            (Doha, Qatar University)
Rudolf Berghammer        (Kiel, Germany; Program Co-Chair)
Harrie de Swart          (Tilburg, Netherlands)
Jules Desharnais         (Laval, Canada)
Rehab Duwairi            (Doha, Qatar University)
Marcelo Frias            (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Hitoshi Furusawa         (Kagoshima, Japan)
Peter Hoefner            (Augsburg, Germany)
Ali Jaoua                (Doha, Qatar University; General Chair of  
RelMiCS/AKA 09)
Peter Jipsen             (Chapman, USA)
Wolfram Kahl             (McMaster, Canada)
Yasuo Kawahara           (Kyushu, Japan)
Larissa Meinicke         (Sydney, Australia)
Ali Mili                 (Tunis, TN, Newark, USA)
Bernhard Möller          (Augsburg, Germany; Program Co-Chair)
Carroll Morgan           (Sydney, Australia)
Ewa Orlowska             (Warsaw, Poland)
Susanne Saminger         (Linz, Austria)
Gunther Schmidt          (Munich, Germany)
Renate Schmidt           (Manchester, UK)
Georg Struth             (Sheffield, UK)
Michael Winter           (Brock, Canada)

3) Invited Speakers

First Invited Speaker
Prof.Dr. H.C.M. de Swart
Chair of Logic, Department of Philosophy Tilburg University,
Dante building, room 255
P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Phone: (0031) 13 466 2415
Fax: (0031) 13 4662892
E-mail: H.C.M.deSwart@uvt.nl
URL: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/dphil/staff/swart/

Second Invited Speaker
Prof. Dr. Rohit Parikh
Distinguished Professor
CS, Math, Philosophy Brooklyn
College and CUNY Grad Center
USA
Phone: 212-817-8197
URL: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/

4) Important Dates

Call for Papers:                    Jan     15   2009
Submission of papers:               April   15   2009
Notification:                       June    20   2009
Final versions due (firm deadline): July    20   2009
Registration                        Oct.     1   2009
Conference                          Nov    1-5   2009

5) Proceedings and Submission

All papers will be formally reviewed. We plan to publish the  
proceedings in the
series Lecture Notes in Computer Science ready at  the  conference. The
proceedings editors will be R. Berghammer, A. Jaoua and B. Möller.
Submissions must be in English, in postscript or pdf format, and  
provide sufficient
information to judge their merits. They must be unpublished and not  
submitted for
publication elsewhere. They may not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS style
and must be produced with LaTeX.  Additional material may be provided by a
clearly marked appendix or a reference to a manuscript on a website. This may
be considered at the discretion of the PC. Deviation from these requirements
may cause immediate rejection. One author of each accepted paper is expected
to present the paper at the conference.

Detailed instructions for electronic submission can be found at
the conference website. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style
files can be obtained via
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

As for the earlier conferences of this series, it is also intended to  
publish a
selection of the best papers in revised and extended form in a special  
issue of
the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (JLAP).

6) Student Programme

The  conference  will be accompanied by a PhD training  program.
Details will be published in due time in a special call and on the
conference website.

7) Venue

Doha is the capital city of Qatar. With a population of about 1500.000  
inhabitants
it is the largest city of Qatar and its economic and cultural center.  
The city is
located on the Persian Gulf. The university of Qatar at Doha was opened in the
year 1973. Doha is also home of many international schools.

Doha has an international airport that is served by many international
(e.g., Turkish Airway, by British Airways from London-Heathrow, Lufthansa from
Frankfurt, KLM from Amsterdam and Qatar Airways from New York-JFK and
Osaka-Kansai).

8) Organization

Ali Jaoua                             (General chair and local organizer)
Rudolf Berghammer and Bernhard Möller (Program co-chairs)

Further details can be found under
http://www.qu.edu.qa/RelMiCs11/