PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

The 9th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2018
      Oxford, UK, July 14-17, 2018. http://www.ijcar2018.org/

        Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018,
      Oxford, UK, July 6-19, 2018.  http://www.floc2018.org/
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IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical program will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions, and invited talks.

IJCAR 2018 takes place as part of FLoC 2018 and is the merger of leading events in automated reasoning:

  • CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction),
  • FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and
  • TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods)

Topics:


IJCAR 2018 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited.

IJCAR topics include the following ones:

  • Logics of interest include: propositional, first-order, classical, equational, higher-order, non-classical, constructive, modal, temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, type theory, etc.

  • Methods of interest include: tableaux, sequent calculi, resolution, model-elimination, inverse method, paramodulation, term rewriting, induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, semantic guidance, interactive theorem proving, logical frameworks, AI-related methods for deductive systems, proof presentation, automated theorem provers, combination of decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving, etc.

  • Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, etc.

We welcome papers combining automated-reasoning formalisms & techniques and with those from other areas of CS and mathematics –including, e.g., computer algebra, machine learning, formal languages, formal verification, termination. In particular, high-quality conference papers on the topics of the IJCAR 2018 affiliated workshops are welcome.

The proceedings of IJCAR 2018 will be published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series (www.springer.com/lncs).

Submission details:


Submission is electronic, through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcar2018.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer “llncs” format, which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

We solicit two categories of submissions:

REGULAR PAPERS.

Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages including bibliography, should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and software available with their submission for reproducibility. The PC will take availability of software and data into account when evaluating submissions. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses and strength in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed.

SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS.

Submissions, not exceeding eight (8) pages including bibliography, should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. One author is expected to be able to perform a demonstration on demand to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented in other conferences before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented.

Best paper award:


IJCAR 2018 will recognize the most outstanding submission with a best paper award at the conference.

Invited speakers:


Invited Speakers will be announced later on.

Important dates (provisional):


Abstract submission:          January 22nd 2018
Paper submission:             January 29th 2018
Notification:                 March 29th, 2018
Final version of papers due:  April 23rd, 2018
IJCAR Conference:             July 14-17th, 2018
FLoC  Conference:             July 6-19th, 2018

IMPORTANT NOTICE: due to very strict FLoC constraints, deadlines are SHARP!

Student travel awards:


Woody Bledsoe Travel Awards will be available to support selected students in attending the conference.

Organization:

Conference Chair:

- Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Program Chairs:

- Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
- Stephan Schulz, DHBW Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
- Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy

Local Arrangements Chairs:

- Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Workshop Chair:

- Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

Publicity Chair:

- Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami

Program Committee:

	Carlos Areces                   FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
  	Alessandro Artale               Free University of Bolzano-Bozen
  	Arnon Avron                     Tel-Aviv University
  	Franz Baader                    TU Dresden
  	Clark Barrett                   Stanford University
  	Peter Baumgartner               Data 61 and CSIRO
  	Christoph Benzmüller            Freie Universität Berlin
	Armin Biere                     Johannes Kepler University Linz
  	Nikolaj Bjorner                 Microsoft Research
  	Jasmin Christian Blanchette     Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  	Maria Paola Bonacina            Universita` degli Studi di Verona
  	Torben Braüner                  Roskilde University
  	Agata Ciabattoni                TU Wien
  	Leonardo de Moura               Microsoft Research
  	Hans De Nivelle                 University of Wroclaw
  	Stéphane Demri                  CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay
  	Clare Dixon                     University of Liverpool
  	François Fages                  Inria Université Paris-Saclay
  	Pascal Fontaine                 Université de Lorraine - LORIA
  	Didier Galmiche (Chair)         Université de Lorraine - LORIA
  	Vijay Ganesh                    Waterloo
  	Silvio Ghilardi                 Università degli Studi di Milano
  	Jürgen Giesl                    RWTH Aachen
  	Laura Giordano                  DISIT Università del Piemonte Orientale
  	Valentin Goranko                Stockholm University
  	Rajeev Gore                     The Australian National University
  	Alberto Griggio                 FBK-IRST
  	John Harrison                   Intel Corporation
  	Ian Horrocks                    University of Oxford
  	Moa Johansson                   Chalmers Tekniska Högskola
  	Cezary Kaliszyk                 University of Innsbruck
  	Deepak Kapur                    University of New Mexico
  	Konstantin Korovin              The University of Manchester
  	Laura Kovacs                    Vienna University of Technology
  	George Metcalfe                 University of Bern
  	Dale Miller                     INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique
  	Cláudia Nalon                   University of Brasília
  	Albert Oliveras                 Technical University of Catalonia
  	Nicola Olivetti                 LSIS Aix-Marseille University
  	Jens Otten                      University of Oslo
  	Lawrence Paulson                University of Cambridge
  	Nicolas Peltier                 CNRS - LIG
  	Frank Pfenning                  Carnegie Mellon University
  	Silvio Ranise                   FBK-Irst
  	Christophe Ringeissen           LORIA-INRIA
  	Philipp Ruemmer                 Uppsala University
  	Katsuhiko Sano                  Hokkaido University
  	Uli Sattler                     The University of Manchester
  	Renate A. Schmidt               The University of Manchester
  	Stephan Schulz (Chair)          DHBW Stuttgart
  	Roberto Sebastiani (Chair)      University of Trento
  	Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans    University Koblenz-Landau
  	Thomas Sturm                    CNRS
  	Geoff Sutcliffe                 University of Miami
  	Cesare Tinelli                  The University of Iowa
  	Alwen Tiu                       Nanyang Technological University
  	Ashish Tiwari                   SRI International
  	Josef Urban                     Czech Technical University in Prague
  	Luca Viganò                     King's College London
  	Andrei Voronkov                 The University of Manchester
  	Uwe Waldmann                    Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  	Christoph Weidenbach            Max Planck Institute for Informatics