WRLA2006

6th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications

Vienna, Austria, April 1-2, 2006

Home page: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/clt/WRLA06/
Contact e-mail: wrla06@csl.sri.com

IMPORTANT DATES

NEWS

• Invited speaker: Arvind
• The call for system and tool demos is here
• Instructions for authors: can be found here
• The list of accepted papers can be found here
• Find out about the rewriting competition here

AIMS AND SCOPE

Rewriting logic (RL) is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication and interaction. It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in various application fields. It also has good properties as a metalogical framework for representing logics. In recent years, several languages based on RL (ASF+SDF, CafeOBJ, ELAN, Maude) have been designed and implemented. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers with a common interest in RL and its applications, and to give them the opportunity to present their recent works, discuss future research directions, and exchange ideas.

• foundations and models of RL;
• languages based on RL, including implementation issues;
• RL as a logical framework;
• RL as a semantic framework, including applications of RL to
  • object-oriented systems,
  • concurrent and/or parallel systems,
  • interactive, distributed, open ended and mobile systems,
  • specification of languages and systems;
• formalisms related to RL, including
  • real-time and probabilistic extensions of RL,
  • tile logic,
  • rewriting approaches to behavioral specifications;
• verification techniques for RL specifications, including
  • equational and coherence methods, and
  • verification of properties expressed in first-order, higher-order, modal and temporal logics;
• comparisons of RL with existing formalisms having analogous aims;
• application of RL to specification and analysis of
  • distributed systems,
  • physical systems.

PAST EVENTS

The proceedings of the WRLA workshops have been published as volumes 4, 15, 36, 71, and 117 in the Elsevier ENTCS series, available at

LOCATION

WRLA 2006 will be held in Vienna, Austria in April 1-2, 2006. It is a satellite workshop of ETAPS 2006, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. For venue, registration and suggested accommodation see the ETAPS 2006 web page

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee for inclusion in the proceedings, which will be available at the time of the workshop and are expected to be published in the Elsevier ENTCS series.

Papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate reference to and comparison with related work. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Papers (of at most 15 pages) should be submitted electronically, preferably as PDF files, to the workshop email address

The final program of the workshop will also include system demonstrations and invited presentations to be determined. Based on the quality and interest of the accepted papers, the program committee will study the possibility of preparing a special issue of a scientific journal in the field.

Carolyn Talcott and Grit Denker
Computer Science Laboratory
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA

CONTACT INFORMATION

For more information, please contact the organizers