Mathematics of Program Construction (MPC 2015): first call for papers

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

12th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2015
Königswinter, Germany, 29 June - 1 July 2015
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/MPC2015/


BACKGROUND

The MPC conferences aim to promote the development of mathematical principles
and techniques that are demonstrably practical and effective in the process
of constructing computer programs, broadly interpreted.

The 2015 MPC conference will be held in Königswinter, Germany, from 29th June
to 1st July 2015. The previous conferences were held in Twente, The
Netherlands (1989), Oxford, UK (1992), Kloster Irsee, Germany (1995),
Marstrand, Sweden (1998), Ponte de Lima, Portugal (2000), Dagstuhl, Germany
(2002), Stirling, UK (2004, colocated with AMAST), Kuressaare, Estonia (2006,
colocated with AMAST), Marseille, France (2008), Québec City, Canada (2010,
colocated with AMAST), and Madrid, Spain (2012).


TOPICS

Papers are solicited on mathematical methods and tools put to use in program
construction. Topics of interest range from algorithmics to support for
program construction in programming languages and systems. The notion of
"program" is broad, from algorithms to hardware. Some typical areas are type
systems, program analysis and transformation, programming-language semantics,
security, and program logics. Theoretical contributions are welcome, provided
that their relevance to program construction is clear. Reports on
applications are welcome, provided that their mathematical basis is evident.

We also encourage the submission of "pearls": elegant, instructive, and fun
essays on the mathematics of program construction.


IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of abstracts: 26 January 2015
* Submission of full papers: 2 February 2015
* Notification to authors: 16 March 2015
* Final version: 13 April 2015


SUBMISSION

Submission is in two stages. Abstracts (plain text, 10 to 20 lines) must be
submitted by 26 January 2015. Full papers (pdf) adhering to the LaTeX llncs
style must be submitted by 2 February 2015. There is no official page limit,
but authors should strive for brevity. The web-based system EasyChair will be
used for submission (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mpc2015).

Papers must report previously unpublished work, and must not be submitted
concurrently to a journal or to another conference with refereed proceedings.
Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.
Please feel free to write to mpc2015@easychair.org with any questions about
academic matters.

The proceedings of MPC 2015 will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series, as have all the previous editions. Authors
of accepted papers will be expected to transfer copyright to Springer for
this purpose. After the conference, authors of the best papers will be
invited to submit revised versions to a special issue of the Elsevier journal
Science of Computer Programming.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Ralf Hinze University of Oxford, UK (chair)

Eerke Boiten University of Kent, UK
Jules Desharnais Université Laval, Canada
Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Graham Hutton University of Nottingham, UK
Johan Jeuring Utrecht University and Open University, The
Netherlands
Jay McCarthy Vassar College, US
Bernhard Möller Universität Augsburg, Germany
Shin-Cheng Mu Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Dave Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology, US
Pablo Nogueira Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Ulf Norell University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
José Nuno Oliveira Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Alberto Pardo Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Christine Paulin-Mohring INRIA-Université Paris-Sud, France
Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium
Emil Sekerinski McMaster University, Canada
Tim Sheard Portland State University, US
Anya Tafliovich University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
Tarmo Uustalu Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia
Janis Voigtländer Universität Bonn, Germany


VENUE

The conference will take place in Königswinter, Maritim Hotel, where
accommodation has been reserved. Königswinter is situated on the right bank
of the river Rhine, opposite Germany's former capital Bonn, at the foot of
the Siebengebirge.


LOCAL ORGANIZERS

Ralf Hinze University of Oxford, UK (co-chair)
Janis Voigtländer Universität Bonn, Germany (co-chair)
José Pedro Magalhães University of Oxford, UK
Nicolas Wu University of Oxford, UK

For queries about local matters, please write to jv@informatik.uni-bonn.de.