CALL FOR PAPERS Unifying Theories of Programming 2008 Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland September 8th--10th, 2008 https://www.cs.tcd.ie/utp08/ mailto:utp08@easychair.org Important Dates --------------- Full Paper Submission 14th April Author Notification 26th May Final Paper 16th June Symposium 8th-10th September Following on the success of the first International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) held at Walworth Castle in 2006, we are pleased to announce the second, to be held in Dublin in September 2008. Based on the pioneering work on unifying theories of programming of Tony Hoare, He Jifeng, and others, the aims of this Symposium series are to continue to reaffirm the significance of the ongoing UTP project, to encourage efforts to advance it by providing a focus for the sharing of results by those already actively contributing, and to raise awareness of the benefits of such unifying theoretical frameworks among the wider computer science and software engineering communities. Of particular interest is how unification may be used to meet the goals and difficulties to be encountered in the Grand Challenges of Computing, with particular reference to the UK's "GC6: Dependable Systems Evolution", its international cousin the "Verified Software Initiative", and their plan to develop a Verified Software Repository. To this end the Symposium welcomes contributions on the above themes as well as others which can be related to them. Such additional themes include, but are not limited to, relational semantics, relational algebra, healthiness conditions, normal forms, linkage of theories, algebraic descriptions, incorporation of probabilistic programming, timed calculi and object-based descriptions, as well as alternative programming paradigms such as functional, logical, data-flow, and beyond. In all cases, the UTP approach should be compared and advantages/disadvantages discussed. The proceedings of the first symposium was published by Springer as LNCS Volume 4010 and we are currently in negotiation with Springer for the second. Some of the best papers were revised and have been accepted for publication in a forthcoming special issue of Formal Aspects of Computing, and we are planning to have a special journal issue for the 2008 symposium as well. Papers may be up to 20 pages (single-column) in length and should ideally be prepared using LaTeX in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), and submitted as pdf files no later than 14th April 2008. Paper submission and reviewing will be handled by EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=UTP-08). This site will be open for submissions from April 7th. Invited Speakers ---------------- Jifeng He, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Ralph-Johan Back, Abo Akademi University, Finland. Program Committee ----------------- Bernhard Aichernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria Andrew Butterfield (Chair), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK Yifeng Chen, University of Durham, UK Steve Dunne, University of Teesside, UK Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Rick Hehner, University of Toronto, Canada Martin Henson, University of Essex, UK Arthur Hughes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, Macau David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, US Shengchao Qin, University of Durham, UK Augusto Sampaio, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Local Organisation ------------------ Andrew Butterfield, Arthur Hughes Pawel Gancarski -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Butterfield Tel: +353-1-896-2517 Fax: +353-1-677-2204 Foundations and Methods Research Group Director. Course Director, B.A. (Mod.) in CS and ICT degrees, Year 4. Department of Computer Science, Room F.13, O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield/ --------------------------------------------------------------------