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    The <with|mode|math|<hlink|LPAR 2005|http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/LPAR-12/>>
    Workshop on

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    This workshop brings together practioners and researchers who are
    involved in the everyday aspects of logical systems based on higher-order
    logic. \ We hope to create a friendly and highly interactive setting for
    discussions around the following four topics. Implementation and
    development of proof assistants based on any notion of impredicativity,
    automated theorem proving tools for higher-order logic reasoning systems,
    logical framework technology for the representation of proofs in
    higher-order logic, formal digital libraries for storing, maintaining and
    querying databases of proofs. \ We solicit paper submissions within or
    related to the following two areas.

    <paragraph|Systems>

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        <item>Tactic-based proof assistants. Heuristics.

        <item>Automated theorem proving. \ Proof search. Resolution.
        Equational theories.

        <item>Implementation. Higher-order unification. Term-indexing.

        <item>Logical frameworks. Meta-languages for logical formulas and
        proofs.

        <item>Formal digital libraries of mathematical proof. \ Database
        technology. Query languages.

        <item>Integration of Reasoning Systems.\ 
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    <paragraph|Applications>

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      <\itemize>
        <item>Comparative analysis of higher-order reasoning techniques.

        <item>Experience reports. \ Integration and cooperations with their
        logics, constraint solvers, model generators, and model checkers.

        <item>Special purpose reasoning techniques for practical
        applications.

        <item>User interfaces.

        <item>Practical results of proof representation and compression.

        <item>Logic morphisms.

        <item>Digital libraries. Benchmark problems. Challenge problems.\ 
      </itemize>
    </with>

    We envision attendees that are interested in fostering the development
    and visibility of reasoning systems for higher-order logics. We are
    particularly interested in a discusssion on the development of a
    higher-order version of the TPTP and in comparisons of the practical
    strengths of automated higher-order reasoning systems.

    Additionally, the workshop will include <strong|system and application
    demonstrations>. Demonstrations of systems and applications described in
    paper presentations, and demonstrations of systems and applications
    without an accompanying paper, are both encouraged.

    ESHOL is the successor of the <hlink|ESCAR|http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/ESCAR/>
    and <hlink|ESFOR|http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/ESFOR/>
    workshops held at CADE 2005 and IJCAR 2004.

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    <section*|Organization>

    <paragraph|Structure of the Workshop>

    The workshop will be a 1 day workshop organized as follows:

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        <item>Presentation sessions, system demonstrations

        <item>Invited talk

        <item>Panel Discussion (or similarly organized event): How can we
        built-up a higher-order TPTP to foster the improvement of automated
        higher-order reasoning systems and their comparison with first-order
        theorem provers?\ 
      </itemize>
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    <paragraph|Programme Committee>

    <tabular|<tformat|<table|<row|<cell|<hlink|Peter
    Andrews|http://gtps.math.cmu.edu/andrews.html>>|<cell|Carnegie Mellon
    University, USA>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Michael
    Beeson|http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/beeson/>>|<cell|San Jose State
    University, USA>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Chad
    Brown|http://gtps.math.cmu.edu/cebrown/index.html>>|<cell|Saarland
    University, Germany>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Gilles
    Dowek|http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~dowek/>>|<cell|École
    Polytechnique, France>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Christoph
    Kreitz|http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/ti/kreitz/>>|<cell|Potsdam
    University, Germany>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Larry
    Paulson|http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/lcp/>>|<cell|Cambridge University,
    UK>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Frank Pfenning|http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/>>|<cell|Carnegie
    Mellon University, USA>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Geoff
    Sutcliffe|http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/>>|<cell|University of Miami,
    USA >>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Volker Sorge|http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vxs/index.html>>|<cell|University
    of Birmingham, UK >>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Freek
    Wiedijk|http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/>>|<cell|Nijmegen University,
    Netherlands>>>>>

    <paragraph|Organizers and PC Chairs>

    <tabular|<tformat|<table|<row|<cell|<hlink|Christoph
    Benzmüller|http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~chris>>|<cell|Saarland University,
    Germany>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|John Harrison|http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jrh/>>|<cell|Intel
    Corporation, USA>>|<row|<cell|<hlink|Carsten
    Schürmann|http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/carsten/> >|<cell|Yale
    University, USA >>>>>

    If you have any questions about the workshop, please <hlink|email the
    organizers|mailto:eshol05@ags.uni-sb.de>.

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    <section*|Submission>

    Submission of papers for presentation at the workshop, and proposals for
    system and application demonstrations at the workshop, are now invited.
    Submissions will be reviewed (using <hlink|this review
    form|review-form>), and a balanced program of high-quality contributions
    will be selected. Submissions can be in PDF or Postscript, and must
    conform to the format produced by LaTeX with <hlink|this
    template|http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/ESCAR/Workshop.tex>.
    There is a 20 page limit. Long listings of problems or computer output
    should be relegated to a referenced WWW site.\ 

    Proposals for system and application demonstrations must include:

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        <item>System name, developers names and contact details.

        <item>A system description, or associated paper submission.

        <item>Screen shots or information for online access.

        <item>Details of hardware and software that will have to be provided
        by the organizers if the demonstration is approved.
      </itemize>
    </with>

    Those who submit proposals are encouraged to provide evidence that the
    system or application is empirically successful.

    Submission is via EasyChair (thanks to Andrei Voronkov). Here is the
    <hlink|link to the ESHOL'05 submission
    website|http://www.easychair.org/ESHOL-05/submit/>.

    <paragraph|Important Dates>

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        <item>Submission deadline - September 28th

        <item>Notification of acceptance - November 1st

        <item>Camera ready versions due - November 10th

        <item>Workshop - December 2nd
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    <section*|Journal Publication>

    The <hlink|Journal of Applied Logic|http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/672712/description#description>
    has agreed to a special issue on empirically successful higher-order
    automated reasoning. Authors of ESHOL papers will be able to submit
    extended versions of their workshop papers for this special issue. All
    papers submitted for the special issue will be reviewed according to the
    journal's standards.\ 

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    This page is also available as <hlink|pdf|website.pdf>.
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