Call for Papers: TPHOLs'98
The 11th International Conference on
Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics

The 1998 International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics will be the eleventh in a series that dates back to 1988. The Conference will be held on the four days Monday 28 September - Thursday 1 October 1998 at The Australian National University (ANU), in Canberra. Just as with previous TPHOLs conferences, the 1998 formal proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. More information is available from the conference web site

http://cs.anu.edu.au/TPHOLs98/

Topic

The program committee welcomes submissions on all aspects of theorem proving relating to higher order logics and their applications. This includes, but is not limited to

• hardware verification and synthesis
• verification of security and communications protocols
• software refinement, transformation and verification
• industrial applications of theorem provers
• advances in theorem prover technology
• comparisons of various approaches to theorem proving
• proof automation and decision procedures
• incorporation of theorem provers into larger systems
• exploitation of external tools within theorem provers
• linking theorem provers
• user interfaces for theorem provers
• development and extension of higher order logics

The scope of the conference encompasses all mechanised reasoning tools for higher order logics.

Related Events

The International Refinement Workshop and Formal Methods Pacific 1998 (IRW/FMP'98) is to be co-located with TPHOLs'98. This event, which will run for the four days Tuesday 29 September - Friday 2 October 1998, is a general formal methods conference that will be of interest to many TPHOLs'98 attendees. Material that is particularly relevant to attendees of both conferences will be presented at occasional joint sessions. More information on IRW/FMP'98 is available via the TPHOLs'98 web site.

Submission and Publication

Formal Research Papers:

Submissions in this category will be fully refereed, and those accepted will be published in a volume of the Springer-Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference.

Work in Progress Papers:

Submissions in this category will not be formally refereed, but their content and relevance will be reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in a joint technical report of the Department of Computer Science and the Computer Sciences Laboratory of the ANU, which will be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present a brief outline of their work at the conference, and to prepare a poster for display at the conference venue.

Submissions under both categories must be kept to 18 pages or less, and should be prepared according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Papers may be submitted electronically in either PostScript or Portable Document Format (PDF). Complete instructions on how to submit are available from the conference web site. Please read these before submitting your paper.

Important Dates

Program Committee

The program committee for the conference is

Invited Speakers

The initial list of invited speakers for the conference is

• Tobias Nipkow (TU München)
• Joakim von Wright (Åbo Akademi)

Conference Organisation

The TPHOLs'98 conference organisers are Jim Grundy and Malcolm Newey of the ANU. They may be contacted at

TPHOLs98@cs.anu.edu.au

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