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   %              AUSTRIAN-JAPANESE WORKSHOP                %
   %       ON SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION IN SOFTWARE SCIENCE      %
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   %                  July 12-13, 2008                      %
   %   RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation)   %
   %            Johannes Kepler University Linz             %
   %              Castle of Hagenberg, Austria              %
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   %  http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/scss2008/  %
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   %      A Workshop in the Frame of RISC Summer 2008       %
   % http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/summer2008/ %
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SCOPE AND AIMS
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Symbolic Computation is the science of computing with symbolic
objects (terms, formulae, programs, representations of
algebraic objects etc.). Powerful symbolic algorithms have been
developed during the past decades like resolution proving,
model checking, provers for various inductive domains,
rewriting techniques, cylindric algebraic decomposition,
Groebner bases, characteristic sets, telescoping for recurrence
relations, etc.

In this workshop, we concentrate on the application of symbolic
algorithms to software science. Topics include but are not
limited to the application of symbolic techniques to:

    * algorithm (program) synthesis
    * algorithm (program) verification
    * termination analysis of algorithms (programs)
    * complexity analysis of algorithms (programs)
    * extraction of specifications from algorithms (programs)
    * generation of inductive assertion for algorithms (programs)
    * algorithm (program) transformations
    * component-based programming
    * query languages (in particular for XML documents)
    * semantic web
    * etc.

This Workshop grew out of a couple of internal workshops of the
Theorema Group at RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic
Computation, SCORE (Symbolic Computation Research Group,
University of Tsukuba, Japan) and SSFG (Software Science
Foundation Group, Kyoto University, Japan). We now open the
workshop series for the international community and we welcome
paper submissions. Also, for the first time, the SCCH (Software
Competence Center Hagenberg) will join in the organization of
the workshop.


IMPORTANT DATES
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    * April 21, 2008: Deadline for abstract registration.
	* April 28, 2008: Deadline for full paper or extended abstract submission.
    * May 26, 2008: Notification.
    * June 20, 2008: Full papers.
    * July 12-13, 2008: Workshop.

SUBMISSION
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Submissions (papers or extended abstracts) should be prepared
in LaTeX, formatted according to the Springer llncs style, and
should not exceed 15 pages. Preliminary proceedings will be
available at the workshop. At the workshop, it will be decided 
whether a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation 
with full versions of selected papers will be published after 
the workshop.

Submission page at EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2008

GENERAL CHAIRS
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    * Bruno Buchberger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
    * Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
	
INVITED SPEAKER
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    * Hoon Hong (North Carolina State University, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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    * Bruno Buchberger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
    * Dirk Draheim (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria)
    * Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
    * Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
    * Tudor Jebelean (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
    * Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
    * Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
    * Franz Lichtenberger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
    * Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
    * Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
    * Masahiko Sato (Kyoto University, Japan)
    * Wolfgang Schreiner (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
    * Gerhard Weiss (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria)



LOCAL ORGANIZATION
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Chairs:

    * Bruno Buchberger
    * Betina Curtis (administration)
    * Temur Kutsia
    
Webmaster

    * Alexander Zapletal