PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory (NWPT'05) http://www.diku.dk/NWPT05/ 19-21 October, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark The NWPT series of annual workshops is a forum bringing together programming theorists from the Nordic and Baltic countries (but also elsewhere). The previous workshops were held in Uppsala (1989, 1999 and 2004), Aalborg (1990), Gothenburg (1991 and 1995), Bergen (1992 and 2000), Turku (1993, 1998, and 2003), Aarhus (1994), Oslo (1996), Tallinn (1997 and 2002), Lyngby (2001). This time the workshop will be held in Copenhagen. Scope Typical topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to): " Semantics of programs " Programming logics " Program verification " Formal specification of programs " Program synthesis " Program transformation and program refinement " Real-Time and hybrid systems " Modeling of concurrency " Programming methods " Tools for program construction and verification SUBMISSIONS Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are requested to submit an abstract of 1-3 pages (ps or pdf, printable on A4 paper) to nwpt05(at)diku.dk by 19th September 2005. Submission of work submitted for formal publication elsewhere and work in progress is permitted. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available at the workshop. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a special issue of Nordic Journal of Computing. Important Dates (tentative) 19. September: Submission of abstracts 5. October: Notification of acceptance 3. October: Registration 19-21October: WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITTEE Neil Jones, Jesper Andersen,... nwpt05(at)diku.dk More (and more current) information is available at http://www.diku.dk/NWPT05/ A short history of the workshop is available at http://www.cc.ioc.ee/nwpt02/history.html