Monday, April 11, 2011

TIME'11: CFP

TIME 2011 Call for Papers

Eighteenth International Symposium on
Temporal Representation and Reasoning

Luebeck, Germany, September 12-14, 2011

http://www.isp.uni-luebeck.de/time11/


The TIME symposium series is a well-established annual event that
brings together researchers from all areas of computer science that
involve temporal representation and reasoning. This includes, but is
not limited to, artificial intelligence, temporal databases, and the
verification of software and hardware systems. In addition to fostering
interdisciplinarity, the TIME symposia emphasize bridging the gap
between theoretical and applied research. This year, TIME will
feature a special track on interval temporal logics.

The conference will span three days, and will be organized
as a combination of technical paper presentations, keynote lectures,
and tutorials.

* IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: April 17
Paper Notification: May 15
Camera Ready Copy Due: May 29
TIME 2011 Symposium: September 12-14

* INVITED SPEAKERS

- Nir Piterman
- Gerhard Schellhorn
- Jef Wijsen

* TOPICS

The main topics of the conference are:

(1) Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI
(2) Temporal Database Management
(3) Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science
(4) Special Track on Interval Temporal logics

Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI includes, but is not limited to:

- temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems
- spatial and temporal reasoning
- reasoning about actions and change
- planning and planning languages
- ontologies of time and space-time
- belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge
- temporal learning and discovery
- time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling)
- time in human-machine interaction
- temporal information extraction
- time in natural language processing
- spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems
- spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web

Temporal Database Management includes, but is not limited to:

- temporal data models and query languages
- temporal query processing and indexing
- temporal data mining
- time series data management
- stream data management
- spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects
- data currency and expiration
- indeterminate and imprecise temporal data
- temporal constraints
- temporal aspects of workflow and ECA systems
- real-time databases
- time-dependent security policies
- privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data
- temporal aspects of multimedia databases
- temporal aspects of e-services and web applications
- temporal aspects of distributed systems
- novel applications of temporal database management
- experiences with real applications

Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science includes, but is not limited to:

- specification and verification of systems
- verification of web applications
- synthesis and execution
- model checking algorithms
- verification of infinite-state systems
- reasoning about transition systems
- temporal architectures
- temporal logics for distributed systems
- temporal logics of knowledge
- hybrid systems and real-time logics
- tools and practical systems
- temporal issues in security

Special track on Interval Temporal logic
This year, TIME has an additional special track on Interval Temporal
Logics. This track is organized by Dimitar Guelev and Ben Moszkowski.
Submissions on ITL will be primarily managed by them, though the final
decision on acceptance will be taken by the whole PC. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

- expressiveness, decidability, proof systems, model- and validity-checking
for ITLs
- modelling of system requirements in terms of time intervals
- intervals versus time points in temporal modelling
- Duration Calculus and other extensions and variants of ITLs
- ITLs, DC, timed automata, timed regular languages and other models of real time
- interval algebras and spatio-temporal reasoning
- case studies, applications and tool support for interval-based reasoning

* PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions of high quality papers describing research results
are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original,
previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must
not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.

Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for
quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will
be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which
will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance of a
paper is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the
symposium.

Submissions should be in PDF format (with the necessary fonts
embedded). They must be formatted according to the IEEE guide-
lines described at

ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/
proceedings/8.5x11 - Formatting files/

and must not exceed 8 pages; over-length submissions may be
rejected without review.

Papers are submitted electronically via Easychair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=time11


* CONFERENCE OFFICERS

General Chair:
Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy

Program Committee Chairs:
Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck, Germany
Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Organization Chair:
Martin Leucker, Universitaet Luebeck, Germany


* PROGRAM COMMITTEE includes

Alessandro Artale, University of Bolzano, Italy
Philippe Balbiani, IRIT Toulouse, France
Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy
Benedikt Bollig, CNRS, France
Lubos Brim, University of Brno, Czech Republic
Antonio Cau, De Montfort University, UK
Dang Van Hung, Vietnam National University, Vietnam
Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK
Rajeev Gore, ANU, Australia
Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Peter Habermehl, University Paris Diderot, France
Ian Hodkinson, Imperial College London, UK
Roman Kontchakov, Birkeck College London, UK
Salvatore La Torre, University of Salerno, Italy
Ranko Lazic, University of Warwick, UK
Kamal Lodaya, IMSc, India
Nicolas Markey, CNRS, France
Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy
Ben Moszkowski, De Montfort University, UK
Dirk Nowotka, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Paritosh Pandya, Tata IFR, India
Jean-Francois Raskin, Free University Brussels, Belgium
Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, Australia
Martin Sachenbacher, Technical University Munich, Germany
Cesar Sanchez, University of Madrid, Spain
Christian Schallhart, University of Oxford, UK
Stefan Woelfl, University of Freiburg, Germany
Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
Esteban Zimanyi, ULB, Belgium

* FURTHER INFORMATION

Questions related to submission, reviewing, and program:
time11@isp.uni-luebeck.de

Questions related to local organization:
time11-org@isp.uni-luebeck.de