WoLLIC
2008
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PROGRAM OF WoLLIC 2008
15th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
July 1st to 4th, 2008

Edinburgh, Scotland


Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Room EM 3.06

     11:00         REGISTRATION OPENS (room EM 3.07)

     13:45         Opening meeting

Chair: Wilfrid Hodges
14:00 - 16:00 Tutorial
Parsing and generation as Datalog query evaluation
Makoto Kanazawa (Japan)
16:00 - 16:15 BREAK (room EM 3.07)
16:15 - 18:15 Tutorial
A Rosetta Stone for quantum computing
Quantum algorithms: past, present, and future
Sam Lomonaco (USA)
18:15 - 18:30 BREAK
18:30 - 19:30 Special Session
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem


Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Room EM 3.06

Morning Session Chair: Ruy de Queiroz
9:00-11:00 Tutorial
Descriptive complexity and polynomial time
Anuj Dawar (UK)
11:00 - 11:15 BREAK (room EM 3.07)
11:15 - 13:15 Tutorial
On inter-deriving semantic artifacts
Olivier Danvy (Denmark)
13:15 - 14:15 BREAK


Contributed Papers
14:15 - 14:45 Inference processes for quantified predicate knowledge
J. B. Paris and S. R. Rad
14:45 - 15:15 Reasoning with uncertainty by Nmatrix-Metric semantics
Ofer Arieli and Anna Zamansky
15:15 - 15:45 Labelled calculi for Lukasiewicz logics
D. Galmiche and Y. Salhi
15:45 - 16:15 Interval additive generators of interval T-norms
G. P. Dimuro, B.C. Bedregal, R. H. S. Reiser and R. H. N. Santiago
16:15 - 16:30 BREAK (room EM 3.07)
16:30 - 17:00 Nominal matching and alpha-equivalence
Christophe Calvès and Maribel Fernandez
17:00 - 17:30 One-and-a-halfth order terms: Curry-Howard and incomplete derivations
Murdoch J. Gabbay and Dominic P. Mulligan
17:30 - 18:30 On a graph calculus for algebras of relations
S. R. M. Veloso, P. A. S. Veloso, R. de Freitas and P. Viana
18:00 - 18:30 Adversary lower bounds for nonadaptive quantum algorithms
Pascal Koiran, Juergen Landes, Natacha Portier and Penghui Yao
19:30 Conference Dinner


Thursday, 3 July2008

Room EM 3.06

Morning Session Chair: Mauricio Ayala-Rincon
9:00-10:00 INVITED LECTURE
On the descriptive complexity of linear algebra
Anuj Dawar (UK)
10:00 - 10:15 BREAK (room EM 3.07)
10:15 - 11:15 INVITED LECTURE
Quantum knots and mosaics
Sam Lomonaco (USA)
11:15 - 12:15 INVITED LECTURE
Prefix-correct Earley parsing of mildly context-sensitive languages
Makoto Kanazawa (Japan)
12:15 - 13:30 BREAK


Contributed Papers
13:30 - 14:00 Conjunctive grammars and alternating pushdown automata
Tamar Aizikowitz and Michael Kaminski
14:00 - 14:30 Hyperintensional questions
Carl Pollard
14:30 - 15:00 Skolem theory and generalized quantifiers
Livio Robaldo
15:00 - 15:30 On second-order monadic groupoidal quantifiers
Juha Kontinen and Heribert Vollmer
15:30 - 16:00 On the formal semantics of IF-like logics
Santiago Figueira, Daniel Gorin and Rafael Grimson
16:00 - 16:15 BREAK (room EM 3.07)
16:15 - 16:45 Propositional dynamic logic as a logic of belief revision
Jan van Eijck and Yanjing Wang
16:45 - 17:15 A propositional dynamic logic for CCS programs
Mario R. F. Benevides and Luis Menasché Schechter
17:15 - 17:45 Expressive power and decidability for memory logics
Carlos Areces, Diego Figueira, Santiago Figueira and Sergio Mera
17:45 - 18:15 Using alpha-CTL to specify complex planning goals
Silvio do Lago Pereira and Leliane Nunes de Barros
18:15 - 18:30 BREAK
18:30 - 19:30 Special Sessions (concurrent)
Presentational tips and tricks in computer science: talks, articles and peer reviews Olivier Danvy (room EM 3.06)
The functional interpretation of direct computations Ruy de Queiroz (room EM 3.07)


Friday, 4 July2008

Room EM 3.06

Morning Session Chair: Wilfrid Hodges
9:00-10:00 INVITED LECTURE
Inter-deriving semantic artifacts for object-oriented programming
Olivier Danvy (joint work with Jacob Johannsen)
10:00 - 10:15 BREAK (room EM 3.07)


Contributed Papers
10:15 - 10:45 Time complexity and convergence analysis of domain theoretic Picard method
Amin Farjudian and Michal Konecny
10:45 - 11:15 On characteristic constants of theories defined by Kolmogorov complexity
Shingo Ibuka, Makoto Kikuchi and Hirotaka Kikyo
11:15 - 11:45 An infinitely-often one-way function based on an average-case assumption
Edward A. Hirsch and Dmitry M. Itsykson
11:45 - 12:15 Towards ontology evolution in physics
Alan Bundy and Michael Chan
12:15 - 13:30 BREAK
13:30-14:30 INVITED LECTURE
On game semantics of the affine and intuitionistic logics
Ilya Mezhirov and Nikolay Vereshchagin
14:30-15:30 INVITED LECTURE
Applications of proof theory to ergodic Ramsey theory
Henry Towsner
15:30 - 15:45 BREAK (room EM 3.07)
15:45-16:45 INVITED LECTURE
The grammar of scope
Mark Steedman
16:45 End of Workshop


Last Updated: 2008-06-29