Corpora: Second Call for Papers: Workshop on Hybrid Logics

[Carlos Areces]

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                 Twelfth European Summer School
               in Logic, Language and Information
	                  ESSLLI-2000
	               August 6-18, 2000
		   Birmingham, Great Britain

                   WORKSHOP ON HYBRID LOGICS
              >>>     August 14-18, 2000     <<<
                 (Bringing Them All Together)

                     SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS


NEW IN THIS CALL:

- Dates of the workshop: August 14-18, 2000.
- Following the workshop, participants will be invited to submit
  their contributions for publication in a special issue of the
  Journal of Logic and Computation.


THEME:

Modal logic suffers from a certain asymmetry: even though the basic
semantic notion in modal languages is truth at a state, classical
modal logics lack the expressive power to talk about the states
themselves. Whether we think of states as intervals, geometric points,
nodes in a feature structure, or individuals in a description, this is
a genuine weakness.

Hybrid Logics are modal languages which use "terms as formulas".
Although they date back to the late 1960s, the last three years have
seen a resurgence of interest, with new results in expressivity,
interpolation, complexity, and proof techniques. It has also become
clear that hybrid logics offer a theoretical framework for uniting the
work of a surprisingly diverse range of research traditions.

This workshop is likely to be relevant to a wide range of people,
including those interested in description logic, feature logic, modal
logics for information systems, temporal logic, and labelled deduction
for modal logic. Moreover, if you have an interest in the work of the
late Arthur Prior, note that this workshop is devoted to exploring
ideas he first introduced 30 years ago --- it will be an ideal
opportunity to see how his ideas have been developed in the
intervening period.

In this workshop we hope to bring together researchers and students
from all the different fields just mentioned (and hopefully some
others) in an attempt to explore just what they all have (and do not
have) in common.  If you're unsure whether your work is of relevant to
the workshop, please check out the newly opened Hybrid Logic Site:

     http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos/hybrid

And do not hesitate to contact the workshop organisers for more
information. We'd be delighted to tell you more. Contact details are
give below.


SUBMISSIONS:

We invite the contribution of research papers to the workshop. Please
send electronically an extended abstract of up to 10 A4 size pages, in
PostScript format to: carlos at wins.uva.nl BEFORE 1st of JUNE, 2000.

Please note that all workshop contributors are required by the ESSLLI
organizers to register for the Summer School.


PROCEEDINGS:

Papers accepted for the workshop will be made available from the
Hybrid Logic Site.  Following the workshop, participants will be
invited to submit their contributions for publication in a special
issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.


IMPORTANT DATES:
	
   * Submissions: June 1, 2000
   * Notification: June 30, 2000
   * Provisional workshop programme: July 15, 2000
   * Website-ready copy of all workshop contributions: July 31, 2000
   * Workshop: August 14th to 18th, 2000


CONTACT DETAILS:

Please visit http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos/hybrid for further
information.

Send all correspondence regarding the workshop to the organizers:

     Carlos Areces
     e-mail: carlos at wins.uva.nl
     http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos

     Patrick Blackburn
     e-mail: patrick at coli.uni-sb.de
     http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~patrick

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Carlos Eduardo Areces
ILLC, University of Amsterdam

Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
phone : +31 20 525-6925
e-mail: carlos at wins.uva.nl
www   : http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos
NEW!!!: http://www.illc.uva.hl/~carlos/hybrid | Hybrid Logic's Home Page