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informatics.muni.cz>1st CALL FOR PAPERS := +------------------------------------------------------------+ | SOFSEM'97 | | | | XXIV-th Seminar on Current Trends | | in Theory and Practice of Informatics | +------------------------------------------------------------+ November 22 - November 29, 1997 Devet-skal hotel, Milovy Czech Republic Organized by Czech Society for Computer Science Slovak Society for Computer Science Czech ACM Chapter Czech Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics In Cooperation with: CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK Department of Computer Science, Comenius University, Bratislava Department of Software Engineering, Charles University, Prague Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Prague Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Brno Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno - ----- Subject - ----- SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an eight-day international seminar devoted to the theory and the practice of software systems. Its program consists of a series of invited talks given by prominent academic professionals and researchers. Contributed talks and posters of participants are also included in the program of SOFSEM. The working language is English. ------------------------------- Invited talks and contributed talks are published by Springer-Verlag in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series and distributed at the seminar. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sofsem'97 is the 24th in the series of Sofsem seminars held annually.| | It is intended to foster cooperation among people working in various | | areas of computer science. Its scientific program offers a unique | | opportunity to gain a relatively quick and representative | | overview about the selected parts of computer science, | | presented by top researchers. | | Its social program provides an optimal framework for discussions, | | meetings, contact establishing, and socializing. Especially suited | | for young computer scientists. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= Topics Committees Program of Invited Talks Submissions Contributed Talks Posters Deadlines Contact Addresses, Sofsem www-page Fees Cancellation Financial support Exhibitions Sponsors Local Arrangements, Venue, History Registration REGISTRATION FORM AND PAYMENT NOTICE - ---- Topics - ---- A. Fundamentals, B. Distributed and parallel systems, C. Software engineering and methodology, D. Databases and Information Systems. - -------- Committees - -------- Preliminary Program Committee ----------------------------- Chair Frantisek Plasil, Charles University, Prague, CZ, Vice-Chair Keith G. Jeffery, CLRC RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK Patrizia Asirelli, I.E.-E.N.R., Pisa, IT Robert. G. Babb. II University of Denver, US Michel Banatre, Irisa/Inria, Rennes, FR Viliam Geffert UPJS Kosice, SK Jane Grimson, Trinity College, Dublin, IR Eduard Groeller Vienna University of Technology, AT Bernard Guy, INT, Evry, FR Petr Jancar, Ostrava Univ, CZ Martin Kersten, CWI, Amsterdam, NL Petr Kroha TU Chemnitz, DE Antonin Kucera, Charles Univ, Prague, CZ Hanspeter Moessenboeck, Univ Linz, AT Borivoj Melichar, Czech Tech Univ, Prague, CZ Lenka Motyckova, Masaryk University Brno, CZ Mogens Nielsen, Aaurhus Univ, DK Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State Univ, Detroit, US Peter Ruzicka, Comenius Univ, Bratislava, SK Anton Scheber, SOFTEC Bratislava, SK Arne Solvberg, The Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology, NO Jiri Sima, Czech Academy of Sci, Prague, CZ Santosh Shrivastava, Univ of Newcastle, UK Hava Siegelmann, Technion Haifa, IL Gerard Tel, Utrecht Univ, NL Volker Tschammer, GMD Fokus, Berlin, DE Krzysztof Zielinski, Univ of M&M, Krakow, PL Secretary Jiri Sochor, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ Advisory Board - ------------ D. Bjorner, (UN University, IIST, Macau), P. van Emde Boas, (CWI Amsterdam, NL), M. Broy, (TU Munich, DE), M. Chytil, (ANIMA Praha, Prague, CZ), G. Gottlob, (TU Vienna, A), K. G. Jeffery, (CLRC RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK), M. Zemankova, (NSF, Washington DC, USA) Endowment Board - ------------- J. Wiedermann, Chair (Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic) B. Rovan, Vice-Chair (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia) K. G. Jeffery (CLRC RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK) J. Pavelka (DCIT, Prague, Czech Republic) F. Plasil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) I. Privara (Institute of Informatics and Statistics, Bratislava, Slovakia) J. Staudek (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) - ------------------------------- Program of Invited Talks includes - ------------------------------- A. Fundamentals Reiner Feldmann, University of Paderborn, DE Computer Chess: The Importance of a Deep Look into the Future Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, NL Algorithms for Trangulated Terrains Klaus-Joern Lange, University of Tuebingen, DE On the Distributed Realisation of Parallel Algorithms Johann Makowsky, Technion, Haifa, IL The Fundamental Problem of Data Modeling Jaroslav Nesetril, Daniel Turzik, VSCHT, Prague, CZ Travelling Salesman and MAX-CUT - key problems of Combinatorial Optimization Pekka Orponen, University of Jyvaskyla, FI A Survey of Continuous-Time Computation Theory Klaus Weihrauch, Fernuniversitaet, Hagen, DE A Foundation for Computable Analysis Jiri Wiedermann, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ Towards Machines That Can Think Henryk Wozniakowski, University of Warsaw/Columbia University, PL/USA Complexity of Multivariate Problems Shmuel Zaks, Technion, Haifa, IL Path layout in ATM Networks B. Distributed and Parallel Systems Barret Bryant, Prakash Kumar Muthukrishnan, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Automatic Generation of Parallelizing Compilers for Object-Oriented Programming Languages from Denotational Semantics Specifications David Duce, CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK Theory and practice in interactionally rich distributed systems Valerie Issarny, INRIA/IRISA Rennes, F Configuration-Based programming Systems C. Software Engineering and Methodology Dines Bjorner, International Institute for Software Technology, United Nations, University, Macau Signatures of Large-scale Infrastructure Systems Annie Kuntzmann-Combelles, Objectif Technologie, F Software Process Improvement Helmut Krcmar, University Hohenheim, Stuttgart, DE Telecooperation and Workflow Architecture Wolfgang Pree, JKU Linz, A Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development D. Databases and Information Systems Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich, CH Object-oriented database systems and beyond Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AUS Distributed Databases - From Theory to Practice Howard Williams, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK From OO through deduction to active DB - ROCK, ROLL and RAP Jiri Zara, Czech Technical University, Prague, CR An Introduction to Virtual Reality Modeling Language Jiri Zlatuska, Masaryk University, Brno, CR The information Society For Abstracts of invited talks and CVs of invited speakers see Sofsem www-page. - --------- Submissions - --------- The categories for submissions include Contributed Talks and Posters. Each submission should have a title giving the following information: - name, address, e-mail address, and phone/fax number of each author; - specification of one of the authors as the contact person. To submit, please send via e-amil a postscript file or via s-mail five printed copies of your contribution. With each submission, please e-mail also an abstract in plain ASCII. Any other form of electronic submission should be consulted in advance with the PC sectretary. Contributed Talks ----------------- 8-page drafts in English are expected. A full camera-ready copy of contributed talks on current topics in Computer Science should be no longer than 8-pages. Presentation time for contributed talks is 25 minutes. Contributed talks will be included in the Proceedings of SOFSEM '97, published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag. The Organizing Committee will supply the authors of accepted contributed talks with detailed technical instructions and the LaTeX style file for the preparation of the camera-ready copy. Posters ------- We actively encourage posters describing work in progress. Final versions of two A4 page poster are expected. Deadlines --------- Submission of the contributed talk/poster May 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance/rejection July 10, 1997 Camera-ready copy of the contributed talk Aug. 31, 1997 - --------------- Contact Addresses - --------------- Sofsem www-page --------------- http://www.ics.muni.cz/sofsem/sofsem.html Communications and enquires should be adressed to: ------------------------------------------------- sofsemMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
rrz.uni-hamburg.de>LAUD-Symposium University of Duisburg, April 1-5, 1998 Call for papers for a neo-Whorfian symposium HUMBOLDT AND WHORF REVISTED: UNIVERSAL AND CULTURE-SPECIFIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS IN GRAMMAR AND LEXIS The purpose of the symposium is to arrive at a new interpretation of Humboldt's and Whorf's ideas on linguistic relativity in the light of recent insights into linguistic conceptualization. Although papers on the writings by Humboldt and Whorf are also highly welcome, the focus will be on new research findings confirming or falsifying the main claims of both these precursors of research into cognition and language. Not only in theoretical linguistics, but also in the description of the lexicon and grammar of single languages, new findings abound that throw a special light on the links between language, culture and thought. This equally holds for most interdisciplinary fields such as anthropological linguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, creole linguistics, sociolinguistics, and theolinguistics. We invite researchers from all those fields to contribute to this symposium. For the moment we only need the title of your prospective contribution; we will let you know later in the year when your abstract is due. An application for funding by the symposium with the German Research Foundation (DFG) will be submitted by the beginning of May 1997. A list of contributors stating the exact costs of flight tickets or other travelling expenses is to be handed in to DFG. We invite you to participate and ask you to send us your name, address, affiliation, title of your contribution and amount of your travelling expenses by April 30, 1997. Please send an e-mail message to puetzMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
linguist.umass.edu>CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT New Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Minimalism and Pragmatics University of Massachusetts, Amherst June 2,3 and 4 1997 This conference creates a stage for a discussion on new perspectives on Minimalism and its relation to other areas in linguistics. The emphasis of the conference will be on the contribution of acquisition research to theoretical linguistics. The conference has the intention to explore the following three (sub-)fields and their interfaces: -syntax, for instance issues dealing with Merger Theory, the exploration of formal features and functional categories, as well as issues involving complementation. -pragmatics, for instance on Theory of Mind (mental representations of the world), binding interfaces. -semantics, for instance phenemena involving aspect and events. The relations between the pragmatic, the syntactic and the semantic components, as well as their internal development is the focus of this conference. For instance, the opacity of complements plays a major role in the study of long distance Wh-movement (see work by Roeper and De Villiers). Other topics that involve these subfields could be negative polarity (e.g. John denied that anything happened), sequence of tense constructions (e.g. John said he was happy = John said he is happy) and various issues in the acquisition of binding. The conference pays special attention to Afro American English and SLI. Papers will be selected on quality of the content and according to the coherence of the conference. invited speakers: David Lebeaux (N.E.C.), Michelle de Graff (M.I.T.), Frans Zwarts (University of Groningen) participants: Angelika Kratzer (UMass), Thomas Roeper (UMass), Jill de Villiers (Smith College) Proceedings will be published in a volume of the University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (G.L.S.A., Amherst). Deadline for the submission of abstracts: April 11, 1997. Notification of acceptance by April 25, 1997. Talks are 20 minutes, 10 minutes discussion. Send 4 hard copies of a one page abstract to the following address (no e-mail submissions): New Perspective on Language Acquisition Linguistics Department University of Massachusetts South College Amherst, MA 01003 Bart Hollebrandse hollebMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue