FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                           AiML
                  Advances in Modal Logic 
          September 30 - October 2, 2002, Toulouse


DEADLINE: May 15, 2002

Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting
an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic
and its many applications.  The initiative consists of a
conference series together with volumes based on the
conferences.

AiML' 2002 is the fourth conference organized as part of
this initiative.  It will be held September 30 - October 2,
2002 in Toulouse, France.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include: 
 o complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics, 
 o deontic logic, 
 o description logics, 
 o dynamic logic, 
 o epistemic logic, 
 o modal logics of space, 
 o modal logic and game theory, 
 o modal logic and grammar formalisms, 
 o modal realism and anti-realism, 
 o modal and temporal logic programming and theorem proving, 
 o model theory and proof theory of modal and temporal logic, 
 o representation of time in natural language semantics, 
 o non-monotonic modal logics,
 o provability logic,  
 o common-sense temporal reasoning.
Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

SPECIAL SESSION
During the workshop there will be a special session on modal
logics of space.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Invited speakers include:
 o M. Fitting (USA)
 o R. Goldblatt (New Zealand)
 o I. Hodkinson (UK)
 o C. Lutz (Germany)
 o H. Ono (Japan)
 o P. Schnoebelen (France)

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit a detailed abstract of a full
paper of at most 10 pages (a4paper, 11pt) by e-mail to one
of the programme chairs, using `AiML Submission' as the
subject line.  The cover page should include title, names of
authors, the coordinates of the corresponding author, and
some keywords describing the topic of the paper.  To be
considered, submissions must be received no later than May
15, 2002.

Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is
required to register for and attend the conference to present
the paper.

PUBLICATION DETAILS
Preliminary versions of the full papers should be made
available at the workshop; the proceedings volumes will be
submitted to CSLI Publications.  Notification date for the
conference is July 15, 2002; for the volumes it is December
1, 2002.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  P. Balbiani (France)
  G. Corsi (Italy)
  L. Farinas del Cerro (France)
  M. de Rijke (Netherlands)
  L. Moss (USA)
  M. Reynolds (Australia)
  R. Schmidt (UK)
  N.-Y. Suzuki (Japan)
  H. Wansing (Germany)
  F. Wolter (Germany)
  M. Zakharyaschev (UK)
  
PROGRAM CHAIRS
  Nobu-Yuki Suzuki
  Department of Mathematics
  Faculty of Sciences
  Shizuoka University
  Ohya 836, Shizuoka 422 8529 Japan
  email: smnsuzu@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp

  Frank Wolter
  Institut fuer Informatik
  Leipzig University
  Augustusplatz 10 - 11
  04109 Leipzig
  email: wolter@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
  http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~wolter

LOCAL ORGANIZERS
  Philippe Balbiani, Toulouse   Luis Farinas del Cerro, Toulouse

IMPORTANT DATES
  Submission deadline: May 15, 2002
  Notification: July 15, 2002
  Conference: September 30 - October 2, 2002
  Preliminary version for workshop volume due:  at the workshop
  Notification of acceptance for publication:   December 1, 2002

FURTHER INFORMATION
Information about AiML-2002 can be obtained at
http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/LILaC/Pers/Balbiani/aiml02.htm

E-mail enquiries about AiML-2002 should be directed to
<Philippe Balbiani> or <wolter@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>.  

Information about AiML can be obtained at
http://www.aiml.net/.