WoLLIC 
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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
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 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
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| 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
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | 
  BREAK (room EM 3.07) | 
 
| 16:30 - 17:00 | 
Nominal matching and
                alpha-equivalence
 
Christophe Calvès and Maribel Fernandez
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| 17:00 - 17:30 | 
One-and-a-halfth order
                terms:  Curry-Howard and incomplete derivations
 
Murdoch J. Gabbay and Dominic P. Mulligan
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| 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
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| 18:00 - 18:30 | 
Adversary lower bounds for nonadaptive quantum algorithms
 
 
Pascal Koiran, Juergen Landes, Natacha Portier and Penghui Yao
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 14:00 - 14:30 | 
Hyperintensional questions
 
 Carl Pollard
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | 
Skolem theory and generalized quantifiers
 
Livio Robaldo
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | 
On second-order monadic groupoidal
                quantifiers
 
Juha Kontinen and Heribert Vollmer
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | 
On the formal semantics of IF-like logics
 
Santiago Figueira, Daniel Gorin and Rafael Grimson
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| 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
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| 16:45 - 17:15 | 
A propositional dynamic logic for CCS programs
 
 Mario R. F. Benevides and Luis Menasché Schechter
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| 17:15 - 17:45 | 
Expressive power and decidability for memory logics
 
Carlos Areces, Diego Figueira, Santiago Figueira and Sergio Mera
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| 17:45 - 18:15 | 
Using 
                alpha-CTL to specify complex planning goals
 
Silvio do Lago Pereira and Leliane Nunes de Barros
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| 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) 
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 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
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| 11:45 - 12:15 | 
Towards ontology evolution in physics
 
Alan Bundy and Michael Chan
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| 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 | 
 
 
 
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