Welcome to LAM’12

The Fifth International Workshop on Logics, Agents, and Mobility.

LAM’12 is organised by Berndt “Bertie” Müller and Michael Köhler-Bußmeier.

Please contact Bertie at bmuller@glam.ac.uk for more information.

Amended Deadlines to match other workshops co-hosted at PN 2012

15 April 2012: Submission Deadline
13 May 2012: Notification of acceptance/rejection
1 June 2012: Final version of papers due

Eligible AISB members can apply for student travel grants at http://aisb.org.uk/public-engagement/studenttravelawards.

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What is LAM?

The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together active researchers in the areas of logics and other formal frameworks that can be used to describe and analyse dynamic or mobile systems. The main focus is on the field of logics and calculi for mobile agents, and multi-agent systems.

Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy, logic, and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. The workshop intends to encourage discussion and work across the boundaries of the traditional disciplines.

Logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and verification of mobile agent systems. In the past two or three years, some logics have been proposed that would be able to handle certain aspects of these requirements, but there are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to showcase results and current work being undertaken in the areas outlined above with a focus on logics and other formalisms for the  specification and verification of dynamic, mobile systems.

Workshop Topics:

The main topics of interest include

• specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and mobile systems
• modal and temporal logics
• model-checking
• treatment of location and resources in logics
• security
• type systems and static analysis
• logic programming
• concurrency theory with a focus on mobility or dynamics in agent systems.

LAM’12 Programme

LAM’12
Logics, Agents, and Mobility

Chairs: Berndt Müller (Farwer) and Michael Köhler-Bußmeier

Monday, 25 June

08:45-Opening
09:00-Invited Talk (Room B-201 Informatics Campus)
Wolfgang Marwan Petri Nets – an Integrative Framework for Advanced Biomodel Engineering
10:00-Break
10:15-Joint Session with PNSE (Room F-132 Informatics Campus)
Kees Van Hee, Natalia Sidorova and Jan Martijn Van Der Werf When Can We Trust a Third Party? – A Soundness Perspective
Agata Janowska, Wojciech Penczek, Agata Półrola and Andrzej Zbrzezny Using Integer Time Steps for Checking Branching Time Properties of Time Petri Nets
11:15-Break
11:45-Session 2 (Room C-104 Informatics Campus)
José Martín Castro-Manzano Modelling Intentional Reasoning with Defeasible and Temporal Logic
12:30-Lunch
13:45-Session 3 (Room C-104 Informatics Campus)
Artur Męski, Wojciech Penczek, Maciej Szreter BDD-based Bounded Model Checking for LTLK over Two Variants of Interpreted Systems
14:30-Break
14:45-Joint Talk with PNSE (Room F-132 Informatics Campus)
Michael Westergaard, Dirk Fahland and Christian Stahl Grade/CPN: Semi-automatic Support for Teaching Petri Nets by Checking Many Petri Nets Against One Specification
15:20-Session 4 (RoomC-104 Informatics Campus)
Frank Heitmann, Michael Köhler-Bußmeier A Mobility Logic for Object Net Systems
16:05-Break
16:45-Invited Talk (Room B-201 Informatics Campus)
Julia Padberg Reconfigurable Petri Nets: Modeling and Analysis