First Call for Papers

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* SCSS 2013 *
* 5th International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science *
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* Castle of Hagenberg, Austria, July 5-6, 2013 *
* Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) *
* Johannes Kepler University Linz *
* http://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/scss2013/ *
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Scope
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The purpose of SCSS 2013 is to promote research on theoretical and practical
aspects of symbolic computation in software science. The symposium provides
a forum for active dialog between researchers from several fields of computer
algebra, algebraic geometry, algorithmic combinatorics, computational logic,
and software analysis and verification.

SCSS 2013 solicits both regular and tool papers on all aspects of symbolic
computation and their applications in software science. The topics of the
symposium include, but are not limited to the following:

- automated reasoning
- algorithm (program) synthesis and/or verification
- formal methods for the analysis of network security
- termination analysis and complexity analysis of algorithms (programs)
- extraction of specifications from algorithms (programs)
- theorem proving methods and techniques
- proof carrying code
- generation of inductive assertion for algorithm (programs)
- algorithm (program) transformations
- formalization and computerization of knowledge (maths, medicine, economy, etc.)
- component-based programming
- computational origami
- query languages (in particular for XML documents)
- semantic web and cloud computing

Invited Speakers
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Bruno Buchberger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Joel Ouaknine (Oxford University, UK)

Program Chair
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Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria and Chalmers University of
Technology, Sweden)

Program Committee
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Serge Autexier (DFKI, Germany)
Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research Redmond, US)
Adel Bouhoula (Ecole Superieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia)
Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar Campus, Quatar)
Horatiu Cirstea (LORIA, France)
Jürgen Giesl (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Tudor Jebelean (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Stephan Merz (INRIA Lorraine, France)
Ali Mili (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)
Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
André Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Stefan Ratschan (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Enric Rodríguez Carbonell (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Sorin Stratulat (University of Lorraine, Metz, France)
Thomas Sturm (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
(More to be confirmed)

Symposium Chair
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Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Important Dates
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April 30, 2013: Abstract submission deadline
May 3, 2013: Paper submission deadline
June 3, 2013: Notification of acceptance
June 17, 2013: Camera-ready copy deadline
July 5-6, 2013: SCSS 2013, Castle of Hagenberg, Austria

Submission
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Submission is via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2013.

Submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and tool
papers.

- Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages in the EasyChair Class format,
with up to 3 additional pages for technical appendices.
- Tool papers must not exceed 6 pages in the EasyChair Class format.

Publication
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The proceedings of SCSS 2013 will be published as a RISC technical report.
After the symposium, authors of accepted papers at SCSS 2013 will be invited to
submit an extended version of their paper to the special issue of the
Journal of Symbolic Computation on SCSS. Submitted papers to the JSC special
issue will undergo an additional reviewing.