1st Call for Papers / Participation TWELTH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED REASONING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE (co-located with IJCAI 2005) National e-Science Centre and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 29th and 30th July 2005 http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/conferences/arw-05 Continuing the highly successful series of Workshops on Automated Reasoning, this event will provide an informal forum for the automated reasoning community. The ARW workshop series aims to bring together researchers from all areas of automated reasoning in order to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines; among researchers from academia, industry and government; and between theoreticians and practitioners. Details of the ARW organisation and of previous ARW events can be found at http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/endriss/ARW. One day of ARW 2005 will focus on applications of automated reasoning to e-Science. Topics ****** The workshop, which is co-located with IJCAI 2005, will cover the full breadth and diversity of automated reasoning and will include topics such as: * Applications of automated reasoning to e-Science - Assembly of web services - Virtual organisations - Quality of service - Provenance * Theorem proving in classical and non-classical logics * Reasoning systems and mechanisms: - Description logics - Equational reasoning, unification - Induction - Constraint Satisfaction - Specialised decision procedures * Formal methods in software analysis: - specification, verification * Non-classical inference: - Nonmonotonic reasoning, abduction - intuitionistic reasoning * Logic-based knowledge representation: - Ontology specification, - Domain specific reasoning (spatial, temporal, epistemic etc) * Reasoning for agents (or about agents) * Interactive theorem proving * Implementation issues and empirical results Invited Speakers **************** To be announced shortly. Submission of Abstracts *********************** We invite interested persons to submit a camera-ready, two-page abstract about recent work or work in progress, or a system description. Anyone wishing to attend but not interested in presenting should send a shorter position statement (1/2 - 1 page). Submissions should be sent in in either Postscript or PDF format by email to the workshop organisers at: arw2005 @ inf.ed.ac.uk Each submission should include the names and complete addresses (including email) of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. The main objective of the abstracts is to spread information about recent work in our community. Abstracts will be published in informal workshop notes and be made available by WWW. Panel Sessions ************** Proposals for panel sessions should be made as soon as possible. Please email the proposal to arw2005 @ inf.ed.ac.uk. Student Grants ************** We have a limited number of grants available to PhD students who wish to attend ARW 2005. To indicate your interest please send a short email to Ulle Endriss (ue @ doc.ic.ac.uk) anytime before the 1st of May 2005. Important Dates *************** Abstract submission: 1st May 2005 Grant application: 1st May 2005 Notification of authors: 31st May 2005 Workshop dates: 29th and 30th July 2005 Format of the Workshop ********************** The workshop is intended to be an inclusive event, with participants encouraged from the broad spectrum covered by the field of automated reasoning. We encourage the participation of experienced researchers as well as those new to the field, especially students. Note that we expect to devote one day in the workshop to applications of automated reasoning in e-Science and especially invite contributions on this topic. There will be invited talks, panel sessions, short presentations of the papers, and poster sessions. The workshop will last 2 days and will be co-located with IJCAI 2005. Details of IJCAI 2005 can be found at: http://www.ijcai-05.org Local Arragenments Organisers ***************************** Dave Berry National e-Science Centre Alan Bundy University of Edinburgh Jacques Fleuriot University of Edinburgh Organising Committee ******************** Brandon Bennett University of Leeds Alan Bundy University of Edinburgh (2005 Programme Co-Chair) Simon Colton Imperial College London David Crocker Escher Technologies Clare Dixon University of Liverpool (Organising Committee Chair) Ulle Endriss Imperial College London (Secretary/Treasurer) Jacques Fleuriot University of Edinburgh (2005 Programme Co-Chair) Alan Frisch University of York Ian Gent University of St. Andrews Ullrich Hustadt University of Liverpool Manfred Kerber University of Birmingham Tom Melham University of Oxford Renate Schmidt University of Manchester Andrei Voronkov University of Manchester Toby Walsh University of New South Wales, Sydney