Subject: categories: Last call for participation: MPC'98

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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:49:00 +0200

Last call for participation:

                            MPC '98

               Fourth International Conference on

               MATHEMATICS OF PROGRAM CONSTRUCTION
               -----------------------------------

             http://www.md.chalmers.se/Conf/MPC98/

                      June 15 - 17, 1998

                       Marstrand, Sweden

                    Post-conference workshops:

        * Workshop on Generic Programming, WGP'98
          http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/conf/wgp/

        * International Workshop on Constructive Methods for
          Parallel Programming, CMPP'98
          http://brahms.fmi.uni-passau.de/cl/cmpp98/index.html

        * Formal Techniques for Hardware and Hardware-like
          Systems, FTH'98
          http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~ms/FTH98/

The general theme of this series of conferences is the use of crisp,
clear mathematics in the discovery and design of algorithms and in the
development of corresponding software or hardware. The conference
theme reflects the growing interest in formal, mathematically based
methods for the construction of software and hardware. The goal of the
MPC conferences is to report on and significantly advance the state of
the art in this area. Previous conferences were held in 1989 at
Twente, The Netherlands, organised by the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, in
1992 at Oxford, United Kingdom, and in 1995 at Kloster Irsee, Germany,
organised by Augsburg University.

Registration information can be found on the homepage of the conference:

             http://www.md.chalmers.se/Conf/MPC98/

Invited speakers:
  
  Burghard von Karger (Kiel University)
  John Hughes (Chalmers Technical University)
  David Harel (Weizmann Institute)

                      CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Monday June 15 1998 

     8.50 - 9.00 
          Welcome 
           
     9.00 - 10.00 
          Invited talk: A proof rule for control loops
          Burghard von Karger (Kiel University)

     10.00 - 10.30 
          Break

     Session 1. Chair: Roland Backhouse (Eindhoven University of Technology) 

     10.30 - 11.15 
          Polytypic Downwards Accumulations 
          Jeremy Gibbons (Oxford Brookes University)
     11.15 - 12.00 
          Nested Datatypes 
          Richard Bird (Oxford University) and Lambert Meertens (CWI Amsterdam and Utrecht University)

     12.00 - 1400 
          Lunch

     Session 2. Chair: Richard Bird (Oxford University) 

     14.00 - 14.45 
          Layered Graph Traversals and Hamiltonian Path Problems - An Algebraic Approach 
          Thomas Brunn, Bernhard Möller, and Martin Russling (Augsburg University) 
     14.45 - 15.30 
          Computing Spanning Trees 
          Rudolf Berghammer, Burghard von Karger and Andreas Wolf (Kiel University)
     15.30 - 16.00 
          Break

     Session 3. Chair: Bernhard Möller (Augsburg University) 

     16.00 - 16.45 
          Computation Calculus - Bridging a Formalization Gap 
          Rutger M. Dijkstra (Groningen University)
     16.45 - 17.30 
          A Unifying Framework for Correct Program Construction 
          Henning Dierks and Michael Schenke (University of Oldenburg) 

Tuesday June 16 1998 

     9.00 - 10.00 
          Invited talk: Generalising Monads
          John Hughes (Chalmers Technical University)

     10.00 - 10.30 
          Break

     Session 4. Chair: Eerke Boiten (University of Kent at Canterbury) 

     10.30 - 11.15 
          Calculating a Round-Robin Scheduler 
          Matteo Vaccari (University of Milano) and Roland Backhouse (Eindhoven University of Technology)
     11.15 - 12.00 
          Formal derivaton of a loadable asynchronous counter 
          Mark B. Josephs (South Bank University London) 

     12.00 - 1400 
          Lunch

     Session 5. Chair: Jose Oliveira (University of Minho at Braga) 

     14.00 - 14.45 
          An application of program derivation techniques to 18th century mathematics 
          A. Bijlsma (Eindhoven University of Technology)
     14.45 - 15.30 
          An Approach to Object-Orientation in Action Systems 
          Kaisa Sere, (Åbo Akademi University) Joost Kok and Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University) 
           
     15.30 - 16.00 
          Break

     Session 6. Chair: Robin Cockett (University of Calgary) 

     16.00 - 16.45 
          Beyond Fun: order and membership in polytypic imperative programming 
          David A. Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology) 
     16.45 - 17.30 
          Realizability for Monotone Coinductive Definitions and Its application to Program Synthesis 
          Makoto Tatsuta (Kyoto University) 

Wednesday June 17 1998 

     9.00 - 10.00 
          Invited talk: On the Aesthetics of Diagrams
          David Harel (Weizmann Institute)

     10.00 - 10.30 
          Break

     Session 7. Chair: Sigurd Meldal (CalPoly) 

     10.30 - 11.15 
          Convergence of Program Transformers in the Metric Space of Trees 
          Morten Heine Sorensen (University of Copenhagen, DIKU)
     11.15 - 12.00 
          A set-theoretic model for real-time specification and reasoning 
          C.J. Fidge, I.J. Hayes, A.P. Martin and A.K. Wabenhorst (University of Queensland) 
           
     12.00 - 1400 
          Lunch

     Session 8. Chair: Christian Lengauer (University of Passau) 

     14.00 - 14.45 
          An elementary derivation of the Alternating Bit Protocol 
          W.H.J. Feyen, A.J.M. van Gasteren (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Birgit Schieder
          (München Technical University)
     14.45 - 15.30 
          Slack elasticity in concurrent computing 
          Rajit Manohar and Alain J. Martin (Caltech) 

     15.30 - 16.00 
          Break

     Session 9. Chair: Mary Sheeran (Chalmers Technical University) 

     16.00 - 16.45 
          A Semantic Approach to Secure Information Flow 
          K. Rustan M. Leino (DEC SRC) and Rajeev Joshi (University of Texas, Austin) 
     16.45 
          End of Mathematics of Program Construction 1998

                             VENUE

Marstrand is a small island on the beautiful westcoast of Sweden, 40
km from Göteborg. The charming old houses, the fortress, the walking
paths, and the absence of cars make this island a very pleasant
resort. There are direct flights to Göteborg Landvetter from most
European main cities, and busses from Göteborg to Marstrand.

                      PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

   Ralph-Johan  Back               Finland     
        Roland  Backhouse          The Netherlands 
       Richard  Bird               UK 
         Eerke  Boiten             UK 
          Dave  Carrington         Australia    
         Robin  Cockett            Canada       
         David  Gries              USA         
       Lindsay  Groves             New Zealand
           Wim  Hesselink          The Netherlands
     Zhenjiang  Hu                 Japan
         Barry  Jay                Australia
         Johan  Jeuring            Sweden (Chair)
          Dick  Kieburtz           USA    
     Christian  Lengauer           Germany 
       Lambert  Meertens           The Netherlands 
        Sigurd  Meldal             Norway        
      Bernhard  Möller             Germany
         Chris  Okasaki            USA
          Jose  Oliveira           Portugal
          Ross  Paterson           UK          
          Mary  Sheeran            Sweden      
          Doug  Smith              USA         

                LOCAL ORGANISATION

MPC '98 is organised by the Computing Science department of Chalmers
University of Technology and University of Göteborg. The organisation
committee consists of the following people:

                 Patrik Jansson
                  Johan Jeuring
                  Marie Larsson
                   Mary Sheeran