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Frontiers of Combining Systems

FroCoS'98

October 2-4, 1998

ILLC, University of Amsterdam

Scientific Program


Friday, October 2

09:30-09:45, Introduction
Maarten de Rijke and Dov Gabbay

09:45-10:45, Session 1: Theorem Proving and Rewriting 1
Chair: Aart Middeldorp

09:45 Pushing the Frontiers of Combining Rewrite Systems Farther Outwards
Jürgen Giesl and Enno Ohlebusch
10:15 Computer Arithmetic: Logic, Calculus and Rewriting
Marco Benini, Dirk Nowotka, and Carl Pulley

Break

11:00-12:00, Session 2: Logics 1
Chair: Dov Gabbay

11:00 Temporalizing Description Logics
Frank Wolter and Michael Zakharyaschev
11:30 A Hybrid Language for the Analysis of Aspectual and Temporal Phenomena in Natural Language
Ralf Naumann

Lunch

13:30-14:30, Session 3: Systems
Chair: David Basin

13:30 Iterative Dialogue and Automated Proofs
Konrad Slind and Richard Boulton
14:00 The Constraint Solver Collaboration Language of Bali
Eric Monfroy

Break

14:45-15:45, Session 4: Constraints 1
Chair: Krzysztof Apt

14:45 Optimisation Techniques for Combining Constraint Solvers
Stephan Kepser and Jörn Richts
15:15 A Generic Approach to Combining Stochastic Algorithms with Systematic Constraint Solvers
Steven Prestwich

Break

16:00-17:00, Invited Talk
Chair: Christophe Ringeissen

Krzysztof Apt (CWI, Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam):
Programming in Alma-0, or Imperative and Declarative Programming Reconciled



Saturday, October 3
09:30-10:30, Invited Talk
Chair: Amilcar Sernadas

Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw University; Polish Academy of Sciences):
Towards Heterogeneous Specifications

Break

10:45-12:15, Session 5: Logics 2
Chair: Andrzej Tarlecki

10:45 A Recipe for the Complexity Analysis of Non-Classical Logics
David Basin and Luca Vigano
11:15 Weakly Associative Arrow Logic and Infinite Counting Modalities
Agnes Kurucz
11:45 Categorial Fibring of Logics with Terms and Binding Operators
Amilcar Sernadas, Cristina Sernadas, Carlos Caleiro, and Till Mossakowski

Lunch

13:30-14:30, Session 6: Theorem Proving and Rewriting 2
Chair: Klaus Schulz

13:30 Combining WS1S and HOL
David Basin and Stefan Friedrich
14:00 Church-Rosser Property for Conditional Rewriting Systems with Built-in Predicates as Premises
Mauricio Ayala Rincon

Break

14:45-15:45, Session 7: Constraints 2
Chair: Douglas J. Howe

14:45 Negation in Combining Constraint Systems
Stephan Kepser
15:15 Integration of Linear Arithmetic and Goal-Oriented Resolution for Software Reasoning
Allen Goldberg and Tie-Chung Wang

Break

16:00-17:00, Invited Talk
Chair: Jacques Calmet

Claude Kirchner (LORIA - INRIA):
Combining First and Higher-order computations using $\rho$-calculus: Towards a Semantics of ELAN

Break

18:00, Conference Dinner


Sunday, October 4
09:30-10:30, Invited Talk
Chair: Claude Kirchner

Douglas J. Howe (Bell Labs):
Toward Sharing Libraries of Mathematics between Theorem Provers

Break

10:45-11:45, Session 8: Logics 3
Chair: Maarten de Rijke

10:45 Distributed First-Order Logic
Chiara Ghidini and Luciano Serafini
11:15 Combining Semantical and Syntactical Theory Reasoning
Uwe Petermann

Break

12:00-12:30, Business Meeting

Lunch