[mizar] SCSS 2012: final call for papers

[Manuel Maarek <manuel.maarek@macs.hw.ac.uk>]

SCSS 2012 International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software
Science, December 15-17 2012, Gammarth, Tunisia
http://www.cedar-forest.org/forest/events/scss2012/call.html

Call for Papers

Symbolic computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects
(terms, formulae, programs, algebraic objects, geometrical objects,
etc). Powerful symbolic algorithms have been developed during the past
decades and have played an influential role in theorem proving,
automated reasoning, software verification, model checking, rewriting,
formalisation of mathematics, network security, Groebner bases,
characteristic sets, etc.
The international Symposium on "Symbolic Computation in Software
Science" is the fourth in the SCSS workshop series. SCSS 2008 and
2010took place at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation
(RISC), Hagenberg, Austria, and, SCSS 2009 took place in Gammarth,
Tunisia. These symposium grew out of internal workshops that bring
together researchers from

SCORE (Symbolic Computation Research Group) at the University of Tsukuba, Japan,
Theorema Group at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation,
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria,
SSFG (Software Science Foundation Group) at Kyoto University, Japan, and
Sup'Com (Higher School of Communication of Tunis) at the University of
Carthage, Tunisia.
These workshops have been successful and in this new edition, we would
like to extend the range of symbolic computation methods in their
applications. In this symposium, we solicit papers on all aspects of
symbolic computations and their applications. The topics of the
symposium include, but are not limited to the following:

* automated reasoning
* algorithm (program) synthesis and/or verification
* formal methods for the analysis of network security
* termination and/or complexity analysis of algorithms/programs
* extraction of specifications from algorithms
* theorem proving methods and techniques
* proof-carrying code
* generation of inductive assertion for algorithm (programs)
* algorithm (program) transformations
* formalisation and computerisation of knowledge (maths, medicine,
economy, etc.)
* component-based programming
* computational origami
* query languages (in particular for XML documents)
* semantic web and cloud computing

SOFTWARE DEMO SCSS 2012 will provide an opportunity for developers of
software related to symbolic computation, to promote their software
systems. SCSS 2012 will have a special session for software systems
descriptions where authors can present their projects and demonstrate
their software. Submission in this category of software demo should
have a link to project pages and ideally a downloadable software.

Paper submission Submissions for full papers must not exceed 10 pages
(in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references
and technical appendices. Shorter papers, associated with system
descriptions are welcome. The paper's main results must not be
published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including
journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each
accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors.

Papers will be reviewed and evaluated with respect to relevance,
clarity, quality, originality, and impact. Proposed contributions
should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible
to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and
comparison with related works. All papers should be prepared in LaTeX
and formatted according to the requirements of Springer's LNCS series
(the corresponding style files can be downloaded from
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must be
submitted electronically at the relevant area for SCSS12 on easyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2012.

A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by August
23, and the full paper by August 30 (firm date). Notifications are
expected by October 30, and final papers for the proceedings will be
due by November 30 (firm date).

Proceedings
The proceedings of SCSS 2012, will be published in advance of the
meeting as a volume in either Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer
Science (ENTCS) or the British Computer Society's Electronic Workshops
in Computing eWIC. After the Symposium, authors will be invited to
submit a full version of their article for a special issue of the
Journal of Symbolic Computation on SCSS 2012. These articles will be
subjected to the normal peer review process of the Journal of Symbolic
Computation.

Invited Speakers:
* Gérard Huet (France)
  Title: Eilenberg machines revisited as a general paradigm for
relational programming.
* Kazuhiro Yokoyama (Japan)
  Title: Quantifier Elimination for Solving Real Engineering Problems.

Important Dates:
* August 23, 2012: Paper title and abstract deadline
* August 30, 2012: Full paper deadline (firm)
* October 30, 2012: Author notification
* November 30, 2012: Final version deadline (firm)
* December 15-17, 2012: Symposium

Honorary Chairs
Prof. Nobuhiro Yamada (President of the University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Prof. Lassaad El Asmi (President of the University of Carthage, Tunisia)

General Chairs
Prof. Adel Bouhoula (University of Carthage, Tunisia)
Prof. Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Programme Chair
Prof. Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)

Local Organisation Chair
Dr. Mohamed Becha Kaaniche (University of Carthage, Tunisia)


Programme Committee Members
Anas Abou El Kalam (Morocco)
Serge Autexier (Germany)
Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (Brazil)
Henda Ben Ghezala (Tunisia)
Iliano Cervesato (Qatar)
Veronique Cortier (France)
Mariangiola Dezani (Italy)
Sihem Guemara El Fatmi (Tunisia)
Sylvia Ghilezan (Serbia)
Ahmed Hadj Kacem (Tunisia)
Therese Hardin (France)
Mohamed Jmail (Tunisia)
Tudor Jebelean (Austria)
Fairouz Kamareddine (UK) (chair)
Helene Kirchner (France)
Temur Kutsia (Austria)
Pierre Lescanne (France)
Manuel Maarek (France)
Mohammed Mezghiche (Algeria)
Greg Michaelson (UK)
Aart Middeldorp (Austria)
Ali Mili (USA)
Yasuhiko Minamide (Japan)
Mohammed Mosbah (France)
Flavio de Moura (Brazil)
Valeria de Paiva (USA)
David Plaisted (USA)
Riadh Robbana (Tunisia)
Michael Rusinowitch (France)
Amr Sabry (USA)
Mahmoud Al-Saheb (Palestine)
Masahiko Sato (Japan)
Yahya Slimani (Tunisia)
Sofiene Tahar (Canada)
Martin Wirsing (Germany)

Local Organising Committee
Ryma Abassi (Tunisia)
Mohamed Becha Kaaniche (Tunisia) (chair)
Nizar Ben Neji (Tunisia)
Nihel Ben Youssef (Tunisia)
Hanen Boussi (Tunisia)
Wahida Boutabba (Tunisia)
Fadoua Ghourabi (Japan)
Faten Labbene Ayachi (Tunisia)
Lilia Maalej Frikha (Tunisia)
Oussama Mahjoub (Tunisia)