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*[please circulate; apologies for multiple copies]* * * *WoLLIC 2011 18th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation * *May 18th to 21st, 2011 * *University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA* *Scientific Sponsorship* *Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~igpl/> )* *The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI<http://www.folli.org/> )* *Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL <http://www.aslonline.org/>)* *European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS<http://www.eatcs.org/> )* *Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC <http://www.sbc.org.br/>)* *Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL <http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/>)* *Organisation* *Department of Mathematics <http://www.math.upenn.edu/>, University of Pennsylvania <http://www.upenn.edu/>, USA Centro de Informática <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/>, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco <http://www.ufpe.br/>, Brazil * ------------------------------ Call for PapersWoLLIC <http://wollic.org/> 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. The eighteenth WoLLIC will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, from May 18th to 21st, 2011. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic <http://www.aslonline.org/> (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~igpl> (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information <http://www.folli.org/>(FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science<http://www.eatcs.org/> (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação <http://www.sbc.org.br/> (SBC), and theSociedade Brasileira de Lógica <http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/> (SBL). *Paper submission* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2010 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2011/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by January 1, and the full paper by January 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by February 21, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by March 1 (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2011, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS <http://www.springer.com/lncs> series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the *Logic Journal of the IGPL*, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2011 issue of an scientific journal (soon to be confirmed). *Invited Speakers* (tba) *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2011 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2011). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* January 1, 2011: Paper title and abstract deadline January 8, 2011: Full paper deadline (firm) February 21, 2011: Author notification March 1, 2011: Final version deadline (firm) *Programme Committee* Krzysztof Apt <http://homepages.cwi.nl/~apt/> (Amsterdam) (tbc) Sergei Artemov <http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~sartemov/> (New York) Jeremy Avigad <http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/> (Pittsburgh) Arnold Beckman <http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csarnold/> (Swansea) Lev Beklemishev <http://www.mi.ras.ru/~bekl/> (Moscow) (CHAIR) Alessandro Berarducci <http://www.dm.unipi.it/~berardu/> (Pisa) Andreas Blass <http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~ablass/> (Ann Arbor) (tbc) Sam Buss <http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~sbuss/> (San Diego) Achim Jung <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/> (Birmingham) Benedikt Löwe <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~bloewe/> (Amsterdam) Janos Makowsky <http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/> (Haifa) Michael Moortgat <http://www.let.uu.nl/~ctl/docenten/moortgat.html> (Utrecht) Andrew Odlyzko <http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/> (Minneapolis) (tbc) Vincent van Oostrom <http://www.phil.uu.nl/~oostrom/> (Utrecht) Prakash Panangaden <http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~prakash/> (Montréal) Rohit Parikh <http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/cis/parikh/> (New York) Fernando Pereira <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~pereira/> (Philadelphia) (tbc) Ruy de Queiroz <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ruy> (Recife) Alexander Shen <http://www.poncelet.ru/pers/shen.htm> (Marseilles and Moscow) Bas Spitters <http://www.cs.ru.nl/~spitters/> (Nijmegen) Helmut Veith <http://www7.in.tum.de/~veith/> (Wien) Yde Venema <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~yde/> (Amsterdam) Scott Weinstein <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~weinstei/> (Philadelphia) Frank Wolter <http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frank/> (Liverpool) *Steering Committee* Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. *Organising Committee* Vivek Nigam <http://www.math.upenn.edu/~vnigam/> (U Penn) Anjolina G. de Oliveira <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ago> (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ruy> (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Andre Scedrov <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~scedrov/> (U Penn) (co-chair) *Further information* Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. *Web page* http://wollic.org/wollic2011/