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                              ICTAC 2006

    3rd International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing

             Gammarth/Tunis, Tunisia, 20-24 November 2006

                  http://www.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC2006

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                            IMPORTANT DATES

            Tutorial Proposal Submission deadline: 1 June, 2006

                  Acceptance notification: 14 July, 2006

                   Final version due: 1 September, 2006

                     Tutorials: 20-21 November, 2006

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES

       ICTAC is an International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of
       Computing created by the International Institute for Software
       Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). The aim of
       the colloquium is to bring together practitioners and researchers
       from academia, industry and government to present research
       results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for their
       problems in theoretical aspects of computing. Beyond these
       scholarly goals, another main purpose of the conference is to
       promote cooperation in research and education between participants
       and their institutions, from developing and industrial countries,
       as in the mandate of the United Nations University. The previous
       two ICTAC events were held in 2004, in Guiyang, China, and in
       2005, in Hanoi, Vietnam.

       The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:
         * automata theory and formal languages
         * principles and semantics of programming languages
         * logics and their applications
         * software architectures and their description languages
         * software specification, refinement, and verification
         * model checking and theorem proving
         * formal techniques in software testing
         * models of object and component systems
         * coordination and feature interaction
         * integration of formal and engineering methods
         * service-oriented development
         * document-driven development
         * models of concurrency, security, and mobility
         * theory of parallel, distributed, and internet-based (grid)
           computing
         * real-time and embedded systems
         * type and category theory in computer science

       ICTAC 2006 will have a technical program for five days
       including two days for tutorials and three days for a conference.
       There will also be a training school in the preceding week.

INVITED SPEAKERS

         * Zohar Manna, USA
         * Tobias Nipkow, Germany
         * Mike Reed, Macao
         * Jim Woodcock, UK

SPONSORS AND ORGANISATION

       ICTAC 2006 will be organised jointly between the University Tunis
       El Manar, UNU-IIST and the University of York. They are also
       sponsors of ICTAC 2006.

TUTORIAL SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

       You are welcome to submit a proposal for tutorials on the subjects
       related to the topics listed above.
       All tutorial proposal submissions should have a detailed
       description of tutorial contents, time duration, intended
       audience, biography of presenter and an extended abstract written
       in English.
       The extended abstract should not not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format
       (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details).
       The extended abstract of the accepted tutorials will be included
       in the proceedings of the ICTAC 2006 conference.
       All queries and tutorial proposals should be sent to the program
       committee co-chairs, e-mail: [log in to unmask]

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

       Dines Bjorner, Denmark
       Manfred Broy, Germany
       Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, UK
       Jifeng He, China
       Shaoying Liu, Japan
       Zhiming Liu, Macao
       Zohar Manna, USA
       Tobias Nipkow, Germany
       Mike Reed, Macao
       Jim Woodcock, UK

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

       Kamel Barkaoui, France
       Rahma Ben Ayed, Tunisia (finance co-chair)
       Mohamed Bettaz, Jordan (conference co-chair)
       Karim Djouani, France (publicity co-chair)
       Chris George, Macao (publicity co-chair)
       Dang Van Hung, Macao (finance co-chair)
       Ali Mili, USA (conference co-chair)
       Zaidi Sahnoun, Algeria

TUTORIAL SELECTION COMMITTEE

       Kamel Barkaoui, France (co-chair)
       Faiza Belala, Algeria
       Rahma Ben Ayed, Tunisia
       Ana Cavalcanti, UK (co-chair)
       Antonio Cerone, Macao (co-chair)
       Dalila Chiadmi, Morocco
       Karim Djouani , France
       Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, France
       Serge Haddad, France
       Ryszard Janicki, Canada
       Ali Jaoua, Quatar
       Tiziana Margaria, Germany
       Mourad Maouche, Jordan
       Fatma Mili, USA
       Salma Mouline, Morocco
       Ahmed Nacer, Algeria
       Hung Q. Ngo, USA
       Wolgang Reisig, Germany
       Gianna Reggio, Italy
       Yahya Slimani, Tunisia
       Maurice Tchuente, Cameroun
       Helen Treharne, UK
       Mingsheng Ying, Canada