QUANTIFY Call for Papers

QUANTIFY 2014 – First International Workshop on Quantification
July 18, 2014 · Vienna, Austria

http://vsl2014.at/quantify

Important Dates

extended deadline (firm): April 25 2014	Paper Submission
(postponed) May 15 2014	Notification of Acceptance
July 18 2014	Workshop

Aims and Scope

Quantifiers play an important role in language extensions of many logics. The use of quantifiers often allows for a more succinct encoding as it would be possible without quantifiers. However, the introduction of quantifiers affects the complexity of the extended formalism in general. Consequently, theoretical results established for the quantifier-free formalism may not directly be transferred to the quantified case. Further, techniques successfully implemented in reasoning tools for quantifier-free formulas cannot directly be lifted to a quantified version.

The goal of the 1st International Workshop on Quantification (QUANTIFY 2014) is to bring together researchers who investigate the impact of quantification from a theoretical as well as from a practical point of view. Quantification is a topic in different research areas such as in SAT in terms of QBF, in CSP in terms of QCSP, in SMT, etc. This workshop has the aim to provide an interdisciplinary forum where researchers of various fields may exchange their experiences.

Topics of Interest

The workshop is concerned with all theoretical and practical aspects of quantification in logics such as QBF, QCSP, SMT, and theorem proving. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Complexity results - Encodings with and without quantification and comparisons thereof
Applications of quantification - Implementations of reasoning tools
Case studies and experimental results
Intersections between the different research communities working on quantification
Surveys of state-of-the-art approaches to handling quantification

Paper Submissions

Submissions will be managed via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quantify2014

Submitted papers should be formatted in either LNCS format or a standard LaTeX article format (paper size A4, font size 11pt).

We solicit two types of submissions:

1. Talk abstracts (maximum two pages, excluding references) describing already published results.

2. Full papers (maximum 14 pages, excluding references) on novel, unpublished work.

The talk abstracts of category 1 should include a relevant bibliography of related work and an outline of the planned talk. For this category, we explicitly advocate talks which survey results already published, maybe in multiple articles or presentations capturing the commonalities and differences of various quantification approaches (perhaps even interdisciplinary).

Each submission will be assessed by the program committee and the workshop organizers with respect to novelty, originality, and scope. Submissions related to completed work as well as work in progress are welcome.

Authors are encouraged to provide additional material such as source code of tools, experimental data, benchmarks and related publications in an appendix or a related webpage. The additional material will be considered at the discretion of the reviewers.

Previously published work or extensions thereof may be submitted to the workshop but that case has to be explicitly stated in the submitted paper. This regulation also applies to work which is currently under review elsewhere.

Since the workshop does not have official proceedings, work related to accepted submissions can be resubmitted to other venues without restrictions. Authors of accepted abstracts and papers are expected to give a talk at the workshop.

Accepted papers and abstracts are collected in an informal report which will be publicly available at the workshop's website.

Program Committee