Call for workshops

Conference Dates: July 9-13, 2007
Affiliated Workshop Dates: July 8, 9, 14 and 15, 2007

The 34th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2007) will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, July 9-13, 2007 in conjunction with LICS. The organizers have made arrangements for pre- and post-ICALP workshops to be run in conjunction with the main conference. The workshops might also be joint with LICS.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics related the conference tracks, namely: Algorithms, Automata, Complexity and Games (track A); Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming (track B); and Security and Cryptography Foundations (special track C).

The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants a forum for presenting novel ideas and for discussing in a small and interactive atmosphere.

The main responsibility of organising a workshop goes to the chairperson of the workshop. The format of each workshop is determined by its organisers.

The workshop proposals will be selected by the ICALP organization, under advice of the ICALP PC chairs and EATCS.

Proposals should include:

• Name and duration (from half a day to two days) of the proposed workshop.
• A short scientific summary of the topic, including a discussion on the relation with the ICALP topics.
• A description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organisers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance.
• Procedures for selecting participants and papers, and expected number of participants.
• Plans for dissemination (for example, published proceedings or special issues of journals).
• Information whether the workshop should be considered as a possible joint ICALP/LICS workshop.

Important dates:

November 30, 2006: Deadline for submitting workshop proposals
December 17, 2006: Notification of acceptance

Workshop proposals must be submitted in plain text, PDF or Postscript format by e-mail to icalp07@ii.uni.wroc.pl

For further information consult the ICALP 2007 web site, or contact Marcin Bienkowski.