[Apologies for multiple copies.] 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS RULE'05 6th International Workshop on Rule-Based Programming April 23, 2005 http://rule2005.loria.fr Affiliated to RDP'05, the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming. April 19-23, 2005 Nara, Japan Scope: ------ Rule-based programming is currently experiencing a renewed period of growth with the emergence of new concepts and systems that allow a better understanding and better usability. On the theoretical side, after the in-depth study of rewriting concepts during the eighties, the nineties saw the emergence of the general concepts of rewriting logic and of the rewriting calculus. On the practical side, new languages and systems such as ASF+SDF, BURG, CHRS, Claire, ELAN, Maude, and Stratego have shown that rules are a useful programming tool. The practical application of rule-based programming prompts research into the algorithmic complexity and optimization of rule-based programs as well as into the expressivity, semantics and implementation of rule-based languages. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the various communities working on rule-based programming to foster fertilisation between theory and practice, as well as to favour the growth of this programming paradigm. The previous editions of the RULE workshop were held in Aachen (2004) and Valencia (2003) during the RDP conference "Rewriting, Deduction and Programming", and Pittsburg (2002), Firenze (2001), and Montreal (2000) during the PLI conference "Principles, Logics, and Implementations of high-level programming languages". See http://rewriting.loria.fr (Item "Venues") for more details about these workshops. We solicit original papers on all topics of rule-based programming, including but not restricted to * Languages for rule-based programming - Expressivity - Semantics - Implementation techniques * Applications of rule-based programming - Analysis of rule-based programs - Programming methods * Environments for rule-based programming - (Partial) Evaluation - Abstract machines for rewriting * Combination of rule-based programming with other paradigms * System descriptions Submission procedure and publication: ------------------------------------- Papers (of at most 15 pages) should be submitted electronically as PostScript or PDF files to one of the program committee chairs: Horatiu Cirstea (Horatiu.Cirstea@loria.fr) or Narciso Marti-Oliet (narciso@sip.ucm.es). The message should also contain a text-only abstract and author information. Papers should be received by January 31, 2005. ******************************************** Accepted papers will be published in the preliminary proceedings volume, which will be available during the workshop. Publication of the final proceedings in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) is anticipated. Workshop organizers: -------------------- Horatiu Cirstea, LORIA & Universite Nancy II, France Narciso Marti-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Program Committee: ------------------ Mark van den Brand (CWI, The Netherlands) Horatiu Cirstea (Co-Chair, LORIA, France) Steven Eker (SRI International, USA) Maribel Fernandez (King's College, UK) Kokichi Futatsugi (JAIST, Japan) Jean-Louis Giavitto (Universite d'Evry Val d'Essone, France) Christian Holzbaur (University of Vienna, Austria) Salvador Lucas (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Narciso Marti-Oliet (Co-Chair, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Ugo Montanari (Universita di Pisa, Italy) Eelco Visser (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Gerd Wagner (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Important dates: ---------------- Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 8, 2005 Camera-ready papers: March 21, 2005 Workshop: April 23, 2005