CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ICTAC 2004 FIRST INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM on THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING Guiyang, China 20 -- 24 September 2004 http://www.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC2004 The First International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC04) will be held in Guiyang, the Guizhou Province China, during 20-24 September 2004. The technical programme of the colloqium includes workshop during which four outstanding invited talks, 36 presentations of high quality papers selected from 111 submissions from over 30 countries and regions. For the detailed programme, please visit http://www.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC2004/programme.html There will be six very good affiliated tutorials on 20 and 21 September 2004. YOU ONLY NEED TO PAY 100 YUAN (12 USD) to attend the tutorials. Information about the tutorial speakers and the abstracts of the tutorials are available at http://www.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC2004/tutorials.html For information about registration, hotel, visa application and social events, please visit the conference website. SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the colloquium is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects of computing. We believe that this will help the developing countries to strengthen their research, teaching and development in computer science and engineering, to improve the links between developing countries and developed countries, and to establish collaboration in research and education. SCOPE AND TOPICS ICTAC 2004 calls for tutorials in the areas of theoretical aspects of computing including automata, languages, software engineering and formal methods and solicits research papers for the workshop related to, but not limited to, the following principal topics: * automata theory and formal languages * principle and semantics of programming languages * logics and their applications * software architectures and their description languages * formal techniques in MDA * software specification, refinement and verification * model checking and theorem proving *formal techniques in software testing * models of object and component system * coordination and feature interaction * integration of formal and engineering methods * service-oriented development * document-driven development * models of concurrency, security and mobility * theory of parallel, distributed and internet-based (Grid) computing *Boolean satisfiability (SAT) * real-time and embedded systems * type and category theory in computer science The proceedings will be available as a UNU-IIST technical report at the colloqium. It is planned to publish the accepted papers after the conference in revised full version in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). INVITED SPEAKERS Jose Luiz Fiadeiro (University of Leicester, UK) Jifeng He (UNU-IIST, Macao) K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research, WA, USA) Huimin Lin (Institute of Software, CAS, Beijing, China) Program Committee Chairs Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan) Zhiming Liu (UNU-IIST, Macao SAR China) Publicity Chairs Bernhard Aichernig (UNU-IIST, Macao) Dan Li (Academy of Sciences, Guizhou, China) Finance Chair Danning Li (Academy of Sciences, Guizhou, China) Organization Chair Danning Li (Academy of Sciences, Guizhou, China) Advisory Committee Dines Bjorner (Denmark), Manfred Broy (Germany), Jose Luiz Fiadeiro (University of Leicester, UK), Jifeng He (UNU-IIST), Mathai Joseph (India), Shaoying Liu (Japan), Zhiming Liu (UNU-IIST), Jim Woodcock (UK) Program Committee Luis S. Barbosa (University of Minho, Portugal) Gabriel Baum (National University of La Plata, Argentina) Hubert Baumeister (LMU, Munich, Germany) Jonathan Bowen (London South Bank University, UK) Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Ana Cavalcanti (University of Kent, UK) Wei Ngan Chin (NUS, Singapore) Jim Davies (Oxford University, UK) Henning Dierks (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Jin Song Dong (National University, Singapore) Wan Fokkink (CWI, the Netherlands) Michael R. Hansen (DTU, Lyngby, Denmark) James Harland (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) Jozef Hooman (Embedded Systems Institute, Eindhoven, the Netherlands) Guoxing Huang (ECNU, Shanghai, China) Purush Iyer (North Carolina State University, USA) Ryszard Janicki (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada,) Michael Johnson( Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Fabrice Kordon (University of Paris VI, France) Maciej Koutny (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) Kung-Kiu Lau (Manchester University, UK) Antonia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Jian Lu (Nanjing University, China) Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini (University of Pisa, Italy) Huaikou Miao (Shanghai University, China) Paniti Netinant (Bangkok University, Thailand) Paritosh Pandya (TIFR, Mumbai, India) Zongyan Qiu (Peking University, Beijing, China) Anders P. Ravn (Aalborg University, Denmark) Gianna Reggio (University of Genova, Italy) Riadh Robbana (LIP2/EPT, Tunisia) Augusto Sampaio (Federal Univ of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil) Bernhard Schatz (TU Munchen, Germany) Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) Miroslav Velev (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Ji Wang (National Lab for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China) Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Swiden) Jian Zhang (Institute of Software, CAS, China) Mingyi Zhang (Academic of Sciences, Guizhou, China) Hongjun Zheng (Semantics Designs Inc, USA) -- Bernhard Aichernig, Research Fellow of UNU-IIST www.iist.unu.edu/~bka ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Go to China for SEFM 2004 www.iist.unu.edu/SEFM2004 and ICTAC 2004. www.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC2004 Plan to attend ASE 2004! www.ase-conference.org See you at FM 2005 www.csr.ncl.ac.uk/fm05