==========================================================================                           WST 2018 - Call for Papers                    16th International Workshop on Termination                     July 18-19, 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom                           http://wst2018.webs.upv.es/ ========================================================================== NEW: Deadline extended to April 30, 2018 NEW: Akihisa Yamada, WST 2018 invited speaker The Workshop on Termination (WST) traditionally brings together, in an informal setting, researchers interested in all aspects of termination, whether this interest be practical or theoretical, primary or derived. The workshop also provides a ground for cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities interested in termination (e.g., working on computational mechanisms, programming languages, software engineering, constraint solving, etc.). The friendly atmosphere enables fruitful exchanges leading to joint research and subsequent publications. The workshop is held as part of the 2018 Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2018)           http://www.floc2018.org/ IMPORTANT DATES:  * submission deadline:  April 30, 2018 (extended)  * notification:         May 28, 2018  * final version due:    June 11, 2018  * workshop:             July 18-19, 2018 TOPICS: The 16th International Workshop on Termination welcomes contributions on all aspects of termination. In particular, papers investigating applications of termination (for example in complexity analysis, program analysis and transformation, theorem proving, program correctness, modeling computational systems, etc.) are very welcome. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):  * abstraction methods in termination analysis  * certification of termination and complexity proofs  * challenging termination problems  * comparison and classification of termination methods  * complexity analysis in any domain  * implementation of termination methods  * non-termination analysis and loop detection  * normalization and infinitary normalization  * operational termination of logic-based systems  * ordinal notation and subrecursive hierarchies  * SAT, SMT, and constraint solving for (non-)termination analysis  * scalability and modularity of termination methods  * termination analysis in any domain (lambda calculus, declarative    programming, rewriting, transition systems, etc.)  * well-founded relations and well-quasi-orders COMPETITION: Since 2003, the catalytic effect of WST to stimulate new research on termination has been enhanced by the celebration of the Termination Competition and its continuously developing problem databases containing thousands of programs as challenges for termination analysis in different categories, see    http://termination-portal.org/wiki/Termination_Competition In 2018, the Termination Competition will run in parallel with FLoC 2018. More details will be provided in a dedicated announcement on the competition. PROGRAM COMMITTEE:     Cristina Borralleras - U. de Vic     Ugo Dal Lago - U. degli Studi di Bologna     Carsten Fuhs - Birkbeck, U. of London     Samir Genaim - U. Complutense de Madrid     Juergen Giesl - RWTH Aachen     Raul Gutiérrez - U. Politecnica de València     Keiichirou Kusakari - Gifu University     Salvador Lucas (chair) - U. Politecnica de Valencia     Fred Mesnard - U. de La Reunion     Aart Middeldorp - U. of Innsbruck     Albert Rubio - U. Politecnica de Catalunya     Rene Thiemann - U. of Innsbruck     Caterina Urban - ETH Zürich INVITED SPEAKERS:     Akihisa Yamada - NII Japan SUBMISSION: Submissions are short papers/extended abstracts which should not exceed 5 pages. There will be no formal reviewing. In particular, we welcome short versions of recently published articles and papers submitted elsewhere. The program committee checks relevance and provides additional feedback for each submission. The accepted papers will be made available electronically before the workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission page:     https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wst2018 Please, use LaTeX and the LIPIcs style file     http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz to prepare your submission.