Call for Papers/Abstracts/System descriptions ***** Deadline extentended until Friday, Mai 21 ******* UNIF 2004 18th International Workshop on Unification July 4-5, 2004, Cork, Ireland Affiliated with IJCAR'04 http://www.faculty.iu-bremen.de/mkohlhase/event/unif04/ UNIF is the main international meeting on unification. Unification is concerned with the problem of identifying given terms, either syntactically or modulo a given logical theory. Syntactic unification is the basic operation of most automated reasoning systems, and unification modulo theories can be used, for instance, to build in special equational theories into theorem provers. The aim of UNIF 2004, as that of the previous meetings, is to to bring together people interested in unification, present recent (even unfinished) work, and discuss new ideas and trends in unification and related fields. In particular, it is intended to offer a good opportunity for young researches and researchers working in related areas to get an overview of the current state of the art in unification theory and get in contact with the experts in the field. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A non-exclusive list of topics of interest is: * Unification * E-unification * Unification Algorithms * Higher-Order Unification * String Unification * Context Unification * Combination problems * Disunification * Typed Unification * Related Topics * Constraint Solving * Tree Descriptions * Matching * Narrowing * Applications * Type Checking and Type Inference * Automated Deduction * Rewriting * Functional and Logic Programming * Grammars * Computational Linguistics * Implementations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There will be two invited speakers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW: Deadline for electronic submission: Friday, May 21, 2004 Email: unif04@iu-bremen.de Notification of acceptance: Monday, May 24, 2004 Deadline for camera-ready papers: Monday, June 7, 2004 Workshop: July 4 - 5, 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit via email an abstract (1-5 pages), a paper (no longer than 15 pages), or a system description (no more than 5 pages) in Postscript or PDF format to: unif04@iu-bremen.de before May 21, 2004. Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Accepted papers, abstracts and system descriptions will be included in the proceedings which will be available at the workshop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Kohlhase (International University Bremen, Germany) Hitoschi Ohsaki (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Amagasaki, Japan) Steve Prestwich (Universtity College, Cork, Ireland) Ralf Treinen (Ecole Normale Superieure, Cachan, France) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit"at Frankfurt am Main, Germany) -- Ralf Treinen Laboratoire Spécification et Vérification CNRS & École Normale Supérieure de Cachan http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~treinen