[PVS] CFP Logical Aspects of Fault Tolerance Workshop (LAFT)

[Leo G Marcus <Leo.G.Marcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Event Title: Workshop on Logical Aspects
of Fault Tolerance (LAFT) 
(affiliated with LICS 2009)

Date: 08/15/2009

Location: University of California,
Los Angeles

URL: www.aero.org/support/laft

Description: 

We are soliciting papers on logical
aspects of fault tolerance. The concept of
“fault” underlies essentially all
computational systems that have any goal.
Loosely speaking, a fault is an unintended
event that can have an unintended
effect on the attainment of that goal.
“Fault tolerance” is the term given to a 
system’s ability to cope in some way
with a fault, either inherently or through 
design. Fault tolerance has been studied
for its application to circuits, and then 
branching out to distributed systems
and more recently to quantum computers, where 
the concern with fault tolerance is
almost the paramount issue. The relevance to 
biological computation is also obvious.

Papers must be concerned with mathematical
 logical approaches to fault tolerance, 
not simply fault tolerance. Please consult
the web site for a list of topics.

Selected papers will appear in Logic
Journal of the IGPL (Oxford U. Press).

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Papers due: April 17, 2009
Notification: May 22, 2009 
Final papers: July 10, 2009 
Workshop: August 15, 2009
 
Please send all workshop correspondence,
including submissions, to marcus@xxxxxxxx