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======================== Call for Papers  =============================
                            WRLA 2018
The 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications
An ETAPS 2018 satellite event - Thessaloniki, Greece - April 14-15 2018
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*NEW* Best WRLA 2018 paper award will be granted by Springer.

IMPORTANT DATES
    Submission deadline: January 5th 2018
    Workshop: April 14 -15, 2018.

AIMS AND SCOPE
Rewriting is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic
framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication, and interaction.
It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in
various  application  domains. It  also has good  properties as a meta-
logical framework for representing logics. Several successful languages
based on rewriting (ASF+SDF, CafeOBJ, ELAN,Maude) have been designed and
implemented. The aim of  WRLA  is to bring together researchers with a
common interest in rewriting and its applications, and to give them the
opportunity  to  present  their  recent  work, discuss  future research
directions, and exchange ideas.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

A. Foundations
    foundations and models of rewriting and rewriting logic, including
    termination, confluence  coherence and complexity
    unification, generalization, narrowing, and partial evaluation
    constrained rewriting and symbolic algebra
    graph rewriting
    tree automata
    rewriting strategies
    rewriting-based calculi and explicit substitution

B. Rewriting as a Logical and Semantic Framework
    uses of rewriting and rewriting logic as a logical framework,
    including deduction modulo
    uses of rewriting as a semantic framework for programming language
    semantics, rewriting semantics of concurrency models, distributed
    systems, and network protocols
    rewriting semantics of real-time, hybrid, and probabilistic systems
    uses of rewriting for compilation and language transformation

C. Rewriting Languages
    rewriting-based declarative languages
    type systems for rewriting
    implementation techniques
    tools supporting rewriting langages

D. Verification Techniques
    verification of confluence, termination, coherence, sufficient
    completeness, and related properties
    temporal, modal and reachability logics for verifying dynamic
    properties of rewrite theories
    explicit-state and symbolic model checking techniques for
    verification of rewrite theories
    rewriting-based theorem proving, including (co)inductive theorem
    proving
    rewriting-based constraint solving and satisfiability
    rewriting-semantics-based verification and analysis of programs

E. Applications
    applications in logic, mathematics, physics, and biology
    rewriting models of biology, chemistry, and membrane systems
    security specification and verification
    applications to distributed, network, mobile, and cloud computing
    specification and verification of real-time, hybrid, probabilistic,
    and cyber-physical systems
    specification and verification of critical systems
    applications to model-based software engineering
    applications to engineering and planning.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Santiago Escobar, University of Valencia, Spain
Hubert Garavel, Inria, Grenoble, France
Thomas Genet, University of Rennes, France

SUBMISSION
The program of the workshop will include regular papers, tool papers,
and work-in-progress presentations. The program will also contain
nvited talks, invited papers, and tutorials to be determined by the
program committee.

Regular papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written,
include appropriate references, and comparison with related work. They
must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication
elsewhere.

Tool papers have to present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel
extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description
of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, emphasize the
design and implementation, and give a clear account of the tool’s
functionality. The described tools must be available via the web.

Work-in-progress papers present early-stage work or other types of
innovative or thought-provoking work related to the topics of the
workshop. The difference between work-in-progress and regular papers is
that work-in-progress submissions represent work that has not reached
yet a level of completion that would warrant the full refereed selection
process. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit work-in-
progress papers as this provides a unique opportunity for sharing
valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on ongoing work, and fostering
discussions and collaborations among colleagues.

All submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines for
Springer LNCS papers, and should be submitted electronically using
EasyChair. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via
the Easychair system athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla2018.

Regular and work-in-progress papers should not exceed 15 pages including
references. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages including references
and may have an appendix of up to 4 additional pages with usage details
and tool demonstration.

PUBLICATION
All submissions will be evaluated by the program committee. Regular
papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress papers that are accepted will
be presented at the workshop and included in the pre-proceedings, which
will be available during the workshop. Following the tradition of the
last editions, regular papers, tool papers, and invited presentations
will be published as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series to be distributed after the workshop.

A special issue of JLAMP:the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in
Programming will be devoted to extended versions of selected papers from
WRLA 2018.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Kyungmin Bae, POSTECH, Korea
    Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy
    Stefan Ciobaca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
    Francisco Durán, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
    Santiago Escobar, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
    Maribel Fernández, King’s College London, UK
    Thomas Genet, IRISA/Université de Rennes 1, France
    Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany
    Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA
    Helene Kirchner, INRIA, France
    Alexander Knapp, Universitat Augsburg, Germany
    Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
    Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
    Salvador Lucas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
    Narciso Martí-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
    Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, Italy
    Pierre-Etienne Moreau, Université de Lorraine, France
    Vivek Nigam, Federal University of Paraíba, Brasil
    Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan
    Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway
    Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA-Lorraine Nancy, France
    Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
    Vlad Rusu, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe, France  (chair)
    Ralf Sasse, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Traian-Florin Serbanuta, University of Bucharest, Romania
    Mark-Oliver Stehr, SRI International, USA
    Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA
    Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany


CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information, please contact the organizers
  
Vlad.Rusu AT inria.fr
or visit the workshop's web page
  https://project.inria.fr/wrla18/