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<b>Call for Participation</b><br>
<br>
<i><b>16th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and
Computation</b></i> (<i><b>WoLLIC 2009</b></i>)<br>
Tokyo, Japan<br>
June 21-24, 2009<br>
(<font color="#3333ff">SPECIAL: There will be a screening of
George Csicsery's "<a href="http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html">N
is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos</a>", with kind
permission of the film director</font>)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wollic.org">WoLLIC</a> is an annual international forum
on inter-disciplinary
research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and
natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks
and tutorials as well as contributed papers.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/wollic2009/">WoLLIC 2009</a> will be
held from June 21 through 24, 2009, in the <a
href="http://www.nii.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&page_id=469&lang=english">National
Center of Sciences</a>, the building that houses the <a
href="http://www.nii.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&page_id=59&lang=english">National
Institute of Informatics</a> in central Tokyo. It is jointly sponsored
by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure
and Applied Logics (IGPL), the Association for Logic, Language and
Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer
Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the
Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL).<br>
<br>
The proceedings of WoLLIC 2009 will appear as Volume 5514 of the <a
href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-144181-0">FoLLI/LNAI</a>
subline of the Springer <a href="http://www.springer.com/lncs">Lecture
Notes in Computer Science</a>.<br>
<br>
<font color="#ff0000"><b>Special Event</b><br>
2009 will mark the 60-th anniversary of the publication of Paul
Erdos' elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem. WoLLIC will
celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Erdos which was
directed by George Csicsery "<a
href="http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html">N is a number - A
Portrait of Paul Erdos</a>".</font><a
href="http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html"><br>
</a><br>
<b>Tutorial Lectures<br>
</b>Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University): <i>Definable Search Problems
in Bounded Arithmetic</i><b><br>
</b>Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology): <i>Reasoning Using
Knots</i><b><br>
</b>Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool): <i>From Mathematical Logic
to Life Science Ontologies</i><b><br>
<br>
Invited Talks<br>
</b>Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University): <i>New Characterisations of
Definable Search Problems</i><b><br>
</b>Carlos Caleiro (Technical University of Lisbon): <i>Algebraic
Valuations as Behavioral Logical Matrices</i><b><br>
</b>Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology): <i>Knot-Based
Query Answering in Description Logic</i><b><br>
</b>Sylvain Salvati (INRIA Bordeaux - Sud Ouest/LaBRI): <i>Recognizability
in the Simply Typed Lambda-Calculus</i><b><br>
</b>Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology): <i>Logic-Based
Probabilistic Modeling</i><b><br>
</b>Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool): <i>From Mathematical Logic
to Life Science Ontologies</i><b><br>
<br>
Contributed Papers<br>
</b>Sebastian Link: Spoilt for Choice: <i>Full First-Order
Hierarchical Decompositions</i><b><br>
</b>Hubie Chen and Omer Gimenez: <i>On-the-fly Macros</i><b><br>
</b>Juha Kontinen and Ville Nurmi: <i>Team Logic and Second-Order Logic</i><b><br>
</b>Juliana Kaizer Vizzotto, André Rauber Du Bois and Amr Sabry: <i>The
Arrow Calculus as a Quantum Programming Language</i><b><br>
</b>Sara Miner More and Pavel Naumov: <i>An Independence Relation for
Sets of Secrets</i><b><br>
</b>Hugo Herbelin and Gyesik Lee: <i>Forcing-based cut-elimination for
Gentzen-style intuitionistic sequent calculus</i><b><br>
</b>Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets: <i>Learning by Questions and
Answers: From Belief-Revision Cycles to Doxastic Fixed Points</i><b><br>
</b>Matthias Baaz, Agata Ciabattoni and Norbert Preining: <i>SAT in
Monadic Gödel Logics: a borderline between decidability and
undecidability</i><b><br>
</b>Philippe de Groote, Sylvain Pogodalla and Carl Pollard: <i>On the
Syntax-Semantics Interface: from Convergent Grammar to Abstract
Categorial Grammar</i><b><br>
</b>Alain Lecomte and Myriam Quatrini: <i>Ludics and its Applications
to Natural Language Semantics</i><b><br>
</b>Bernhard Heinemann: <i>Observational Effort and Formally Open
Mappings</i><b><br>
</b>Bauer Kerstin, Raffaella Gentilini and Klaus Schneider: <i>Property
Driven Three Valued Model Checking on Hybrid Automata</i><b><br>
</b>Gleifer Alves, Anjolina Grisi de Oliveira and Ruy de Queiroz: <i>Transformations
via geometric perspective techniques augmented with cycles normalization</i><b><br>
</b>Linda Postniece: <i>Deep inference in bi-intuitionistic logic</i><b><br>
</b>Katsuhiko Sano: <i>Sound and Complete Tree-Sequent Calculus for
Inquisitive Logic</i><b><br>
</b>Yoshihiro Maruyama: <i>A Duality for algebras of Lattice-Valued
Modal Logic</i><b><br>
</b>Joao Marcos and Carlos Caleiro: <i>Classic-like analytic tableaux
for finite-valued logics</i><b><br>
</b>Benjamin Rossman: <i>Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games on Random Structures</i><b><br>
</b>Majid Alizadeh: <i>Completions of basic algebras</i><b><br>
</b>Francesco Belardinelli and Alessio Lomuscio: <i>First-Order
Linear-time Epistemic Logic with Group Knowledge: An Axiomatisation of
the Monodic Fragment</i><br>
Cristian Prisacariu and Gerardo Schneider: <i>CL: An Action-based
Logic for Reasoning about Contracts</i><b><i><br>
</i></b>Ren-June Wang: <i>Knowledge, Time, and Logical Omniscience</i><b><br>
</b>Henning Christiansen and Veronica Dahl: <i>Abductive Logic Grammars</i><b><br>
</b>Gianluca Amato and Francesca Scozzari: <i>Observational
Completeness on Abstract Interpretation</i><b><br>
</b>Juan Carlos Nieves, Mauricio Osorio and Claudia Zepeda: <i>Stratified
Argumentation Semantics: An Extension-based Argumentation Semantics
based on Stratified Minimal Models<br>
<br>
</i><b>Book Exhibition</b><i><br>
</i>The following publishers are expected to be exhibiting various
books from their catalogue, prospectuses, journal samples, etc., and
there will be a chance to order items at promotional prices: <i>The
MIT Press, Springer-Verlag, A K Peters, Kluwer Acad. Pub.,Cambridge
Univ. Press, CSLI Publications (Stanford Univ), Oxford Univ. Press,
World Scientific.<br>
</i>It is likely that a few other international publishers will also
take part in the book exhibit.<i><br>
</i><br>
<b>Program Committee</b><br>
<a href="http://kurt.scitec.kobe-u.ac.jp/%7Earai/">Toshiyasu Arai</a>
(Kobe U, Japan), <a href="http://www.logic.at/staff/baaz/">Matthias
Baaz</a> (Tech
U Wien), <a href="http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Alexandru.Baltag/">Alexandru
Baltag</a> (Oxford U), <a href="http://www.mat.ub.edu/%7Ejmfont/">Josep
Maria Font</a> (U
Barcelona), <a href="http://homes.dsi.unimi.it/%7Eghilardi/">Silvio
Ghilardi</a>
(U Milano), <a href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/%7Eki/">Katsumi Inoue</a>
(Nat
Inst of Informatics, Japan), <a
href="http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mkracht/index-en.html">Marcus
Kracht</a> (U Bielefeld), <a
href="http://www.jaist.ac.jp/profiles/info_e.php?profile_id=35&syozoku=24">Hiroakira
Ono</a> (JAIST, Japan) (Chair), <a
href="http://www.math.is.tohoku.ac.jp/int/lab/ms3-e.html">Masanao
Ozawa</a> (Nagoya U), <a href="http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/%7Ejks/">John
Slaney</a>
(Australian Nat U), <a href="http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/">Mark
Steedman</a>
(Edinburgh U), <a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/tompits/">Hans
Tompits</a>
(Tech U Wien).<br>
<br>
<b>Organising Committee</b><br>
<a href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/%7Ekanazawa/">Makoto Kanazawa</a>
(Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan, co-chair), <a
href="http://www.cin.ufpe.br/%7Eago">Anjolina de Oliveira</a>
(U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil), <a href="http://www.cin.ufpe.br/%7Eruy">Ruy
de Queiroz</a> (U Fed
Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair), <a
href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/%7Eksatoh/">Ken Satoh</a> (Nat
Inst of Informatics, Japan)<br>
<br>
<b>Steering Committee</b><br>
<a href="http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/samson.abramsky/">Samson
Abramsky</a>, <a href="http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Ejohan/">Johan
van Benthem</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/halpern/">Joe
Halpern</a>, <a href="http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/%7Ewilfrid/">Wilfrid
Hodges</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/%7Eleivant/">Daniel
Leivant</a>,
<a
href="http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/personnel/researchstaff/macintyre.shtml">Angus
Macintyre</a>, <a href="http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/gm.html">Grigori
Mints</a>, <a href="http://www.cin.ufpe.br/%7Eruy">Ruy de Queiroz</a><br>
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