Essays in Memory of Mark Stickel

CALL FOR PAPERS

Making Automated Reasoning Practical:
Essays in Memory of Mark Stickel

Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2014


AIM

This is a book of collected articles presenting research in all aspects of
automated reasoning, in particular the design of automated reasoning
systems and their applications.

A common theme behind Mark Stickel's work was developing techniques for
building better automated reasoning systems. His discoveries were
ground-breaking and include AC-unification, reasoning modulo a theory, term
indexing, and thorough development of the SNARK and PTTP provers. In 2002 he
received the Herbrand award for all his work, the highest award in automated
reasoning (http://www.cadeinc.org/).

We would like to honour Mark's achievements by editing a Festschrift
comprised of articles in the spirit of his research approach: developing
fundamental techniques driven by practical applications and informed by
rigorous theory.

SCOPE

We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of
automated reasoning and its applications, especially but not
exclusively to the design of automated theorem proving systems, with
connections to any of Mark Stickel's research areas:

* Automated theorem proving, including deductive and abductive reasoning
* Implementation of and practice with automated reasoners
* Algorithmics for automated reasoners: unification,
matching, rewriting, indexing
* Integration of general-purpose reasoning with external procedures
* Spatial and temporal reasoning
* Inference control, theory reasoning, semantic guidance for automated reasoners
* Application of automated reasoners in mathematics,
logic, program synthesis, natural language, and natural sciences
* SAT-solving
* Applications related to formal methods


PUBLICATION DETAILS

It is planned that the book will be published as an LNAI Festschrift
with Springer.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

While it is expected that most of the papers will be regular
technical papers, a few papers that combine scientific content
with recollections of Mark Stickel's work and personality,
as can be written by those who worked with him, are also sought.

All papers will be refereed by anonymous peer reviewers, and
read by the editors, according to the highest standards in terms
of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability.

Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf
format. They must be unpublished and not submitted for
publication elsewhere. However, significantly extended versions
of papers published at conferences are welcome. Submissions
of any length will be considered, but final versions may be
limited by the editors depending on the totality of submissions.
Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX.
Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained
via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Electronic submission via EasyChair is open at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=festschriftmarkstick .


SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1st, 2014

In order to facilitate the planning of the book, authors are
invited to notify the editors as soon as possible of their
intention to submit with proposed topic and length. Early
submission would be especially helpful for completing the
review process sooner.


EDITORS

Peter Baumgartner NICTA and Australian National University,
http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~baumgart/
Richard Waldinger SRI International,
http://www.ai.sri.com/~waldinge/