Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods @ FLoC 2010, Edinburgh - Call for participation

[Martin Lange]

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CLODEM 2010
FLoC'10 Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods

Edinburgh, July 15th, 2010
affiliated with LICS and IJCAR

TOPIC AND OBJECTIVE:
Methods for deciding satisfiability of formulae are of vital
importance for both the theoretical relevance and practical
impact of a logic. Different logics require different decision
procedures. Nevertheless, certain methodologies like
terminating semantic tableaux, automata, games, SAT/SMT
methods, resolution, reductions, etc. have proved to be
successful in providing decidability results for several, even
quite different logics.
    Perception of some methodology being better than others has
grown within certain communities, for example regarding
automata-based techniques in automatic verification or
tableau-based techniques in knowledge representation. Such
perception, however, is often not based on systematic
comparative analysis. Sometimes, different methodologies
also turn out to do or even be the same in certain cases.
Yet, few formal technical results to that effect are known,
and the scientific discussions on the pros and cons, and
similarities and differences between different methodologies
have been rather sporadic so far.
    The purpose of this workshop is to provide an expert forum
for such discussion, to provoke and foster discussion between
communities, and to stimulate further research on that topic.
It is a generalization and follow-up of the AutoTab workshop
which was held with TABLEAUX'09 last year.


WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

* Stephane Demri,               CNRS Cachan,        F
* Valentin Goranko (co-chair),  TU of Denmark,      DK
* Rajeev Gore,                  ANU Canberra,       AUS
* Felix Klaedtke,               ETH Zurich,         CH
* Daniel Kröning,               Oxford University,  UK
* Martin Lange (co-chair),      Univ. of Kassel,    D
* Christof Löding,              RWTH Aachen,        D
* Carsten Lutz,                 Univ. of Bremen,    D
* Renate Schmidt,               Univ. of Liverpool, UK
* Colin Stirling,               Univ. of Edinburgh, UK


INVITED TALKS:

* Moshe Vardi, Rice University, TX, US:
Symbolic Techniques in Propositional Satisfiability Solving

* Jerome Leroux, LaBRI, Bordeaux, FR:
Presburger Automata

* Yevgeny Kazakov, Oxford, UK:
Consequence-Based Reasoning for Description Logic Ontologies


CONTRIBUTED TALKS AND WORKSHOP PROGRAMME:
See http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/CLODEM2010/CLODEM2010%20Programme.html


REGISTRATION:
Through the FLoC'2010 registration site
  on  http://www.floc-conference.org/registration.html

EARLY WORKSHOP FEE, valid until 17 May:
regular fee 70 GBP, student fee 42 GBP.
For further details see http://www.floc-conference.org/registration.html


FURTHER INFORMATION:
- Workshop dinner: We intend to organize a dinner for the participants of
the workshop on July 15. At this stage the budget of the workshop is
unknown, so we cannot make any commitment for covering, partly or in full,
the cost of the dinner.

- Workshop website:
     http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/CLODEM2010/CLODEM2010.html
- FLoC workshop website:
     http://www.floc-conference.org/CLoDeM-home.html

- FLoC'10 website:
    http://www.floc-conference.org/
- LICS'10 website:
    http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics10/index.html
- IJCAR'10 website:
    http://www.floc-conference.org/IJCAR-home.html

ENQUIRIES to the organizers:
- Valentin Goranko, http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo
- Martin Lange,     http://www.tcs.ifi.lmu.de/~mlange