CFP: RelMiCS8 - Relational Methods in Computer Science

                        8th International Conference on
             Relational Methods in Computer Science (RelMiCS 8)

           		    in combination with the

			  COST 274 / TARSKI Workshops

				    and the			

			3rd International Workshop on
                       	Applications of Kleene Algebra

                              February 22-26, 2005
                        St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

The purpose of this meeting is to bring together researchers from various subdisciplines of Computer Science and Mathematics who use the calculus of relations and/or Kleene algebra as methodological and conceptual tools in their work.

The relational calculus originated with Tarski's abstract algebraic treatment of binary relations in 1941. Kleene Algebra is a related algebraic system. It was first introduced by Kleene in 1956 and further developed by Conway in 1971.

Topics of this conference include but are not limited to:

- Relation, Cylindric, Fork and Kleene Algebras
- Relational proof theory and decidability issues
- Relational representation theorems
- Applications to programming, databases and analysis of data, such as:


   * Semantics of programming languages, program verification, specification

     and development and program analysis

• Assertion calculi, modal and dynamic logic, interval and temporal logic
• Duration calculus and timed automata
• Process and network algebras
• Modeling real world situations
• Relational reasoning in qualitative physics and cognitive science
• Knowledge acquisition, preference modeling, and scaling methods - Computer systems for relational knowledge representation

Previous RelMiCS meetings were held in

1. Dagstuhl, Germany (1994)
2. Parati, Brazil (1995)
3. Hammamet, Tunesia (1997)
4. Warsaw, Poland (1998)
5. Quebec, Canada (2000)
6. Oisterwijk, The Netherlands (2001)
7. Malente, Germany (2003)

A call for papers will follow.

Contact: info_at_relmics8.org

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