CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Symbolic Computation

Special Issue on

Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability

This special issue is devoted to the scope of the workshop ADDCT'07: Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability, which took place in Bremen (Germany) on July 2007.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

  • Decidability:
  • decision procedures based on logical calculi such as:
    resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, or natural deduction
  • decidability in combinations of logical theories
  • specialized decision procedures
  • Complexity:
  • complexity analysis for fragments of first- (or higher) order logic
  • complexity analysis for combinations of logical theories
    (including parameterized complexity results)
  • Tractability (in logic, automated reasoning, algebra, ...)

  • Application domains for which complexity issues are essential
    (verification, security, databases, ontologies, ...)

    • Submission procedure

    Submission to this special issue is completely open.

    We expect original articles (typically 15-30 pages; submission of larger papers will be evaluated depending on editorial constraints) that present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published in an archival venue and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.

    Submissions must comply with JSC's author guidelines. They must be written in English and should be prepared in LaTeX using the "Elsevier Article Class (elsart.cls)" with "JSC add-on style (yjsco.sty)" and "Harvard style references (elsart-harv.bst)". The package "JSC LaTex" (that contains all the necessary style files and a template) can be obtained from here.

    The introduction of the paper MUST explicitly address the following questions in succinct and informal manner:

  • What is the problem?
  • Why is the problem important?
  • What has so far been done on the problem?
  • What is the contribution of the paper on the problem?
  • Is the contribution original? Explain why.
  • Is the contribution non-trivial? Explain why.
    • Submission to this special issue are hereby encouraged via the EasyChair submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=addctjsc2008).

    The deadline for submissions is May 15th, 2008 (extended)

    Guest editors:

  • Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano)
  • Ulrike Sattler (U. Manchester)
  • Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbrücken)
  • Ashish Tiwari (Menlo Park)

    • Contact

    For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (sofronie@mpi-inf.mpg.de)