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Control Operators and their Semantics (COS'13) - Call for Papers
Satellite event of RDP'13
June 24 - 25, 2013, Eindhoven, The Nederlands
http://cos2013.di.unito.it/
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Modern programming languages provide sophisticated control mechanisms,
commonly
referred to as control operators which are widely used to realize a
variety of
applications. Since we cannot escape control features, it becomes a
challenge
to provide them with sound reasoning principles. There is a very active
research
on understanding, manipulating, representing, and reasoning about
elaborated
non-local control structures, in particular in declarative programming
languages
such as functional and logic languages. Ideas and results originating
from this
research area have impact in many other areas of computer science, like
distributed
and concurrent systems, proof theory, proof mining, web programming and
linguistics.
For instance, the study of the logical foundations of control operators
renewed the
study of the connections between proofs and programs via the so-called
Curry-Howard
correspondence, providing new methods to extract the computational
content of
classical proofs.
The focus of the workshop is on the interplay between syntax and
semantics, namely
the central question of what a program means and how it does define the
intended procedure.
This is a crucial issue especially in the case of control operators,
since they are
as powerful as potentially obscure, and programs that use them are
usually more error
prone than purely declarative ones.
The issue of a better understanding of control is also relevant for
communicating across
different research areas and communities. More abstract views can be
achieved via several
means, that include operational semantics of formal calculi, abstract
machines, algebraic
specifications and rewriting, type assignment systems, denotational
semantics and
game semantics, category theory and logic, to say the least.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- continuations and delimited continuations
- categorical models of continuations
- compositionality and modularity of control operators
- denotational semantics of control, event structures and causality
- operational semantics and abstract machines
- type systems for control operators
- game semantics of programming languages and of logical proofs
- usage of control operators in proof search and proof mining
- semantics of control operators in logic programming
Invited speakers (topics):
- delimited continuations TBA
- game semantics of control TBA
Program Committee:
Zena Ariola University of Oregon
Stefano Berardi Turin University
Hugo Herbelin INRIA and Laboratoire PPS (Paris 7)
Ugo de'Liguoro (chair) Turin Univerisity
Ken-etsu Fujita Gunma University
Koji Nakazawa Kyoto University
Alexis Saurin, INRIA Laboratoire PPS (Paris 7)
Proceedings: will appear in the EPTCS series.
Submission: authors of original papers, which have not been published
elsewhere,
are invited to submit title and abstract to the site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cos2013
on EasyChair, within 24th March 2013. The proper submission is expected
within
6th April via EasyChair. It consists of a LaTex generated pdf file,
using EPTCS
macro package, available from: http://info.eptcs.org/
Notifaction of acceptance is due to 31th May 2013.
Accepted papers will be submitted via EasyChair both as pdf and source
files,
within 15th June 2013.
Important Dates:
Abstract: March, 24 2013
Submission: April, 6 2013
Notification: May, 31 2013
Final version: June, 15 2013
Workshop: June, 24-25 2013
Contact:
Ugo de'Liguoro
Dipartimento di Informatica,
Università di Torino,
Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy
email: deligu...@di.unito.it
Web sites:
COS'13: http://cos2013.di.unito.it
RTD'13: http://www.win.tue.nl/rdp2013/
