Topics of interest


Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to:


* Logical frameworks

o Proof theory

o Type theory

o Automated deduction

* Semantic frameworks

o Specification languages and meta-languages

o Formal semantics of languages and systems

o Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks

* Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks

* Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks


LSFA 2011 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. Submissions to the workshop will in the form of full papers. The proceedings are produced only after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers.


Dates and Submission


Paper submission deadline: May 23

Author notification: June 30

Camera ready: July 31st

Date of the conference: August 27


Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form full papers with at most 16 pages. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to LSFA 2011 page at EasyChair until the submission deadline in May 23, by midnight, Central European Standard Time (GMT+1).


The papers should be prepared in latex using EPTCS style. The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at workshop registration and the proceedings will be published as a volume of EPTCS.


After the workshop, according to the quantity and quality of selected papers, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works that will be also reviewed to high standards. A special issue of the first edition of the workshop appeared in the Journal of Algorithms, a special issue of the second edition of the workshop appeared in the J.IGPL and a special edition of TCS is being prepared with selected contributions from the third and the forth editions of LSFA.


At least one of the authors should register at the conference. The paper presentation should be in English.


LSFA 2011 (last edited 05/03/2011 by Elaine Pimentel)