[DL] FroCoS 2025 - Call for Papers

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FroCoS 2025 - Call for Papers

The 15th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems

Reykjavik, Iceland, September 27 - October 3, 2025

Website: https://icetcs.github.io/frocos-itp-tableaux25/frocos/

Contact: frocos2025 at easychair.org

Submission deadlines: 5 May 2025 (abstract), 12 May 2025 (paper)


GENERAL INFORMATION

The 15th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2025)
will take place in Reykjavik.

FroCoS is the main international event for research on the development of
techniques and methods for the combination and integration of formal systems,
their modularization and analysis. The first FroCoS symposium was held in
Munich, Germany, in 1996. Initially held every two years, since 2004 it has been
organized annually with alternate years forming part of IJCAR.

FroCoS 2025 will be hosted by the theoretical computer science lab of Reykjavik
University, collocating with the 16th International Conference on Interactive
Theorem Proving (ITP 2025) and with the 34th International Conference on
Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2025).
The three conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials,
invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions.


SCOPE OF CONFERENCE

In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program
development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation,
and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized
formalisms and inference systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice,
these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into
general purpose systems. This has led to the development of techniques and
methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well
as for their modularization and analysis.

FroCoS traditionally focuses on these types of research questions and
activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2025 seeks to offer a common forum for
research in the general area of combination, modularization, and integration of
systems, with emphasis on logic-based methods and their practical use.

Topics of interest for FroCoS 2025 include (but are not restricted to):

* combinations of logics (such as higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal,
  description or other non-classical logics)
* combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving
* combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint
  solving techniques, or logical frameworks
* combination of logics with probability and/or fuzzy measures
* combinations and modularity in ontologies
* integration of theories into systems
* hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation
* hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics
* combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems
* logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications
* integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction
* combinations and modularity in term rewriting
* methods and techniques for the verification and analysis of information
  systems
* methods and techniques for combining logical reasoning with machine learning
* methods and techniques for combining proof search and proof validation


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work,
written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted
work to a journal or conference, workshop, symposium, etc. with archival
proceedings. Selection criteria include originality of ideas, rigour of
evaluation, significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit
in Springer LNCS style is 15 pages in total excluding references.

Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted
electronically as PDF files through Easychair at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2025

For all accepted papers, one author must attend the conference in person and
present the paper. One author (which may be a different one, e.g. if the
presenter is a student) must pay the full registration fee.

In exceptional circumstances (which must be agreed about with the organizers by
the registration deadline), online presentation is an option. Still one author
must pay the full registration fee.

Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines


PUBLICATION DETAILS

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series in Gold Open Access under the
CC-BY-4.0 license.


ORGANIZATION

co-chairs

* René Thiemann, Universität Innsbruck
* Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Inst. for Informatics

programme committee

* Franz Baader, TU Dresden
* Haniel Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
* Jasmin Blanchette, LMU München
* Cyril Cohen, Inria, ENS de Lyon
* Clare Dixon, University of Manchester
* Mathias Fleury, Universität Freiburg
* Silvio Ghilardi, Università degli Studi di Milano
* Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen
* Albert Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
* Andreas Herzig, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
* Boris Konev, University of Liverpool
* Georg Moser, Universität Innsbruck
* Lawrence Paulson, University of Cambridge
* Elaine Pimentel, University College London
* Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield
* Andrew Reynolds, University of Iowa
* Christophe Ringeissen, Inria Nancy
* Philipp Rümmer, University of Regensburg
* Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester
* Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester
* Roberto Sebastiani, Università di Trento
* Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Universität Koblenz
* Martin Suda, České vysoké učení technické v Praze
* Akihisa Yamada, AIST, Tokyo

local organization chair

* Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University