Due to the numerous requests, the deadline for paper submission to PSI'03 is
extended.

                     DEADLINE EXTENSION
                         up to Feb. 16, 2003

            Andrei Ershov Fifth International Conference
           PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS

            9 - 12 July 2003, Novosibirsk (Siberia), Russia

PROCEEDINGS: full papers will appear in Springer LNCS series,
extended abstracts will be published in a local book.

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE (extended abstracts, 10 pages for a regular
paper, 5 pages for a short paper): February 16, 2003.

MAIN TOPICS:

 Semantics-Based Program Processing;
 Programming Methodology and Automated Software Engineering;
 Information Technologies.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Kim Bruce (Williams College, USA)
David Harel (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
Max Kanovich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and
    Jacqueline Vauzeilles (University Paris13, France)
Bertrand Meyer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Eiffel Software, USA)
Joachim Schmidt (Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 50 specialists from 23 countries.

TRAVELLING: direct Siberia Airlines flights from Frankfurt,
Hanover, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul or Beijing, more flights via Moscow.

WEATHER: warm and sunny with the temperatures in the range of 25-30 C.

More details below.


AIMS AND SCOPE

The conference is held to honor the 70th anniversary of A.P. Ershov's
closest colleague, the late professor Igor Pottosin, (1933-2001) and
his outstanding contributions towards advancing informatics.
The first four Andrei Ershov conferences were held in May
1991, June 1996, July 1999, and July 2001, respectively, and proved
to be significant international events.

Andrei Ershov was one of the early Russian pioneers in the field of
theoretical and systems programming, a founder of the Siberian School
of Computer Science. His closest colleague, Igor Pottosin, worked for the
Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences since 1958, step by step
filling positions from junior researcher to director of A.P.Ershov
Institute of Informatics Systems. In recent years he headed the
Laboratory of Systems Programming in this Institute and the Department of
Programming at Novosibirsk State University.

I. V. Pottosin took a leading position among Russian specialists in
computer science. It is hardly possible to overestimate his contribution
to the formation and development of this research direction in this country.
He obtained fundamental results in the theory of program optimization,
formulated main principles and typical schemes of optimizing
compilers, and suggested efficient algorithms of optimizing program
transformations. One of the world's first optimizing compilers ALPHA,
the ALPHA-6 programming system, and the multi-language compiling system
BETA were designed and developed on the basis of these results and
with direct participation of Igor Pottosin. In recent years he mainly
concentrated on the problems of designing programming environments for
efficient and reliable program construction and headed
the SOKRAT project aimed at producing software for embedded computers.
Research in program analysis and programming methodology was essentially
inspired by this practical work, which greatly influenced its results.
Prof. Pottosin was actively involved in the training of computer
professionals. There is a professor, eleven Ph.D. holders, and
hundreds of graduates among his disciples.

The aim of the Conference is to provide a forum for the presentation
and in-depth discussion of advanced research directions in Computer
Science. For a developing science, it is important to work out
consolidating ideas, concepts and models. Movement in this direction
is one of the goals the Conference is to meet. Improvement of the
contacts and exchange of ideas between researchers from the East and
West are further goals.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Conference topics include:

               Semantics-Based Program Processing
- program specification, transformation, and verification,
- semantics, logic and formal models of programs,
- partial evaluation, mixed computation, and abstract interpretation,
- program analysis and synthesis,
- model checking.

              Programming Methodology and Automated Software Engineering
- object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic
programming,
- program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing,
- constraint programming,
- multi-agent technology,
- system re-engineering and reuse,
- integrated programming environments,
- software architectures,
- software development and testing,
- tools for software engineering,
- Web services in software engineering,
- program understanding and visualization.

                 Information Technologies
- database and information systems,
- knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering,
- electronic commerce,
- digital libraries and Web publishing,
- natural language processing.


In addition to papers in the above list of topics, papers both
bridging the gap between different directions and promoting mutual
understanding of researchers in different directions are welcome.
Papers defining the prospects of Computer Science in the whole and
joint West-East papers are also encouraged.

LOCATION

The conference will be held in Akademgorodok (Academy town), 30 km
South from Novosibirsk, the largest city of Siberia. Akademgorodok is
located in a picturesque place near the Ob lake. It is surrounded
with birch and pine forests and pleasant not only for work but for
recreation as well. Silence, beautiful landscape, and pure air are
the factors promoting scientific activity and creativity.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Alexander Marchuk
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems
6, Acad. Lavrentjev pr.
630090 Novosibirsk, RUSSIA
tel.: +7-3832-343652
fax: +7-3832-323494
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS:

Manfred Broy
Fakultaet fuer Informatik
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Boltzmannstr. 3
D-85748 Garching
GERMANY
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +49-89-28917304
Fax: +49-89-28917307

Alexandre Zamulin
A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems
6, Acad. Lavrentjev pr.
630090 Novosibirsk, RUSSIA
Phone: +7-3832-396258
Fax: +7-3832-323494
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Egidio Astesiano (University of Genova, Italy)
Janis Barzdins (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)
Frederic Benhamou (University of Nantes, France)
Nieves Brisaboa (University of Coruna, Spain)
Mikhail Bulyonkov (A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk,
Russia)
Albertas Caplinskas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics,
Vilnius, Lithuania)
Gabriel Ciobanu (Romanian Academy Institute of Computer Science,
Iasi, Romania)
Alexander Dikovsky (University of Nantes, France)
Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico, Mexico)
Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Victor Ivannikov (Institute of System Programming, Moscow, Russia)
Victor Kasyanov (A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems,
Novosibirsk, Russia)
Alexander Kleschev (Vladivostok, Russia)
Gregory Kucherov (INRIA/LORIA, Nancy, France)
Reino Kurki-Suonio (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Giorgio Levi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Dominique Mery (Universite' Henri Poincare', Nancy, France)
Jose Meseguer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Bernhard Moeller (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Hanspeter Moessenboeck (University of Linz, Austria)
Peter Mosses (BRICS&University of Aarhus, Denmark)
J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Ron Morrison (University of St Andrews, UK)
Valery Nepomniaschy (A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems,
Novosibirsk, Russia)
Peter Pepper (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
Francesco Parisi-Presicce (University Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Rochester, USA)
Jaan Penjam (Tallinn Technical University, Estonia)
Alexander Petrenko (Institute of System Programming, Moscow, Russia)
Jaroslav Pokorny (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Wolfgang Reisig (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
Fuji Ren (University of Tokushima, Japan)
Viktor Sabelfeld (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Don Sannella (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Vladimir Sazonov (University of Liverpool, UK)
Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Alexander Semenov (A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems,
Novosibirsk, Russia)
Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand)
David Schmidt (Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA)
Sibylle Schupp (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA)
Lothar Thiele (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
Alexander Tomilin (Institute of System Programming, Moscow, Russia)
Enn Tyugu (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia)
Frits Vaandrager (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester, UK)
Jim Woodcock (University of Kent, UK)
Tatyana Yakhno (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey)
Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden)

CONFERENCE SECRETARY

Natalia Cheremnykh
A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems
6, Acad. Lavrentjev pr.
630090 Novosibirsk, RUSSIA
tel.: +7-3832-342352
fax: +7-3832-323494
e-mail: {cher, [log in to unmask]

To maintain an intensive conference atmosphere and enable in-depth
discussions, the number of participants is limited to 100. Three
kinds of presentations - invited talks, regular contributed talks,
and short contributed talks - are proposed.

INVITED TALKS

1. Kim Bruce (Williams College, USA). "Bending without breaking: Making
software more flexible".
2. David Harel (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). "On the
Visualization and Aesthetics of Large Graphs".
3. Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK). "The Verifying
Compiler: a Grand Challenge for Computing Research".
4. Max Kanovich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Jacqueline Vauzeilles
(University Paris-13, France). "Applications of Linear Logic Formalisms
to AI Planning Problems".
5. Bertrand Meyer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Eiffel Software, USA). "How
I teach programming".
6. Joachim Schmidt (Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany).
"Content Management: Application Feedback into Models and Technology".

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

A book of extended abstracts of invited and accepted talks will be
available at the Conference. The full versions of the papers
presented at the Conference (roughly 14 pages long for a regular talk
and 7 pages long for a short talk) will be
published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series (one can find the Proceedings of the previous three
conferences in LNCS, vol. 1181, 1755, 2244; a report of the previous
conference can be found in EATCS Bulletin, No 75, (October 2001),
pp. 241-243) and also at the conference site: www.iis.nsk.su/PSI01.

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions must be in English, clearly written and in
sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the
merits of the work. Electronic submissions are encouraged.
They should be received in Novosibirsk by February 2, 2003.
A PostScript file of an extended abstract (up to 10 pages for a
regular talk and up to 5 pages for a short talk) should be
e-mailed to the following address: [log in to unmask] Authors who feel that
more details are necessary may include a clearly marked appendix which
will be read at the discretion of the Programme Committee and
not published in the preliminary proceedings.
Please use LaTeX2e or LaTeX. When preparing your submission please
follow instructions for authors of papers to be published at
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, which are available
at www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The abstract should indicate complete authors' addresses (including
e-mail addresses and fax numbers if any), affiliation and a clear
statement of the kind of the submission (regular or short talk).
Papers arriving late or exceeding size limits may be rejected
immediately without refereeing. The receipt of all submitted papers
will be acknowledged by e-mail within 2 days.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 7, 2003.
Material submitted to the Conference should be unpublished and not
submitted for publication elsewhere, including journals or other
conferences.

TRAVELLING

A direct Siberia Airlines flight will bring you from Frankfurt,
Hanover, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul, or Beijing to Novosibirsk and back.
One can buy an interline Lufthansa-Siberia Airlines ticket. Participants
travelling via Moscow will be helped to take a domestic flight by
Aeroflot. All participants will be met at the Novosibirsk airport and
brought to Akademgorodok by a special transport.

WEATHER

The weather in Novosibirsk at the beginning of July is normally quite
warm and sunny with the temperatures in the range of 25-30 C. Night
swimming in the Ob lake is guaranteed.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 16, 2003: submission deadline of extended abstracts

April 7, 2003: notification of acceptance (by e-mail)

July 8, 2003: arrival date

July 9-12, 2003: the conference dates

July 13, 2003: departure date

September 1, 2003: final papers due (camera-ready, LaTeX, llncs style)

For more information see http://www.iis.nsk.su/PSI03

N.B. The conference will be followed by a workshop on Program
Understanding held in a picturesque place of Altay mountains.
The workshop page is http://www.iis.nsk.su/psi03/workshop/index_e.shtml.