Eigth International Symposium Frontiers of Combining Systems, Saarbrücken, Germany

The Eigth International Symposium Frontiers of Combining Systems will take place from 5 to 7 October 2011 in Saarbrücken, Germany.

In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and automated reasoning, there is an need forspecialised formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialised systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems.

The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularisation of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. As with previous editions, the event will focus on this type of research questions and activities and will promote progress in the field. Specific topics will include:
- combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics;
- combinations and modularity in ontologies;
- combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of constraint solving techniques;
- combinations and modularity in term rewriting;
- integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems;
- combination of deduction systems and computer algebra;
- integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction;
- hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation;
- hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics;
- combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems;
- logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications.For further information, please visit:http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conferences/frocos2011/