CONCUR 2005

16th International Conference on Concurrency Theory

San Francisco, CA, USA, August 23-26, 2005

Call for Papers

CONCUR 2005, the 16th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, will take place in San Francisco, California, on August 23-26, 2005. The purpose of the CONCUR conferences is to bring together researchers working on the theory of concurrency and its applications.

Submissions are solicited in all areas of semantics, logics, and verification techniques for concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to):

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract; submissions will be evaluated by the program committee for inclusion in the proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate reference to and comparison with related work. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.

Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract before submitting the extended abstract. The short abstract should not exceed 200 words, and it should be entered in ASCII at the conference web site. The extended abstract should not exceed 15 pages, and it should be formatted according to Springer-Verlag LNCS guidelines. If necessary, the extended abstract may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Submission is on-line, at the URL http://www.softconf.com/start/CONCUR2005/submit.html.

Invited Speakers

Rajeev Alur  University of Pennsylvania (joint CONCUR/SPIN speaker)
Dawson Engler Stanford University (joint CONCUR/SPIN speaker)
Christos Papadimitriou UC Berkeley
Luca Cardelli Microsoft Research, Cambridge

Important Dates

Short Abstract Submission:  March 28, 2005
Extended Abstract Submission:  April 3, 2005 Extended!
Notification:  May 18, 2005
Final version due:  June 8, 2005

Affiliated Workshops

Eleven workshops will be affiliated with CONCUR 2005: BioCONCUR, DisCoVeri, EXPRESS, FIT, FOCLASA, GETCO, GT-VC, INFINITY, MoChArt, SecCo, and SPIN. For more information, see the workshop information and the event schedule.

Organizers

General chair:
    Luca de Alfaro (), UC Santa Cruz.

Program committee chairs:
    Martin Abadi (abadi@soe.ucsc.edu), UC Santa Cruz,
    Luca de Alfaro (), UC Santa Cruz.
Please use the email address concur05chairs@soe.ucsc.edu to communicate with the PC Chairs, so that both Chairs see the messages.

Local Organization:
    Luca de Alfaro (), UC Santa Cruz

Program Committee

Martín Abadi (co-chair)  UC Santa Cruz
Christel Baier Universität Bonn
Jos Baeten Eindhoven University of Technology
Albert Benveniste IRISA/INRIA
Luis Caires Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Giuseppe Castagna CNRS/École Normale Supérieure
Marsha Chechik University of Toronto
Vincent Danos CNRS/Université Paris VII
Luca de Alfaro (co-chair) University of California, Santa Cruz
Javier Esparza University of Stuttgart
Cédric Fournet Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Dimitra Giannakopoulou NASA Ames Research Center
Anna Ingólfsdóttir Aalborg University
Radha Jagadeesan DePaul University
Bengt Jonsson Uppsala University
Antonin Kucera Masaryk University
Orna Kupferman Hebrew University
Cosimo Laneve Università di Bologna
Kim Larsen Aalborg University
John Mitchell Stanford University
Ugo Montanari Università di Pisa
Catuscia Palamidessi INRIA Futurs & LIX
Prakash Panangaden McGill University
Shaz Qadeer Microsoft Research, Redmond
Vijay Saraswat IBM TJ Watson Research Lab
Vladimiro Sassone University of Sussex
Philippe Schnoebelen CNRS/École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Frits Vaandrager Radboud University Nijmegen
Mahesh Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Igor Walukiewicz Université Bordeaux
Glynn Winskel University of Cambridge

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