International Conference
                            TABLEAUX 2009

                       Automated Reasoning with
                Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods

                             Oslo, Norway
                            6-10 July 2009

                   http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/


              *** EARLY REGISTRATION UNTIL 7 JUNE! ***


GENERAL INFORMATION

  This conference is the 18th in a series of international meetings on
  Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods.

  Tableaux 2009 will be held in Oslo, Norway, collocated with FTP
  2009, the workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving, see
  http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp09/

  See the website for registration instructions.  Early registration
  is open until Sunday, 7 June.


TOPICS

  Tableau methods are a convenient formalism for automating deduction
  in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas
  of application include verification of software and computer
  systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its
  required inference engines, and system diagnosis. The conference
  brings together researchers interested in all aspects - theoretical
  foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and
  applications - of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux and
  related methods.


CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

  See

    http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/pmwiki.php/AcceptedPapers

  for the list of accepted papers and

    http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/pmwiki.php/Programme

  for the conference schedule.


STUDENT SPONSORING

  Apart from significantly reduced conference fees, students have
  access to budget accommodation at a rate of about 170 EUR for the
  whole week and the week before the conference.  If necessary, we
  will be able to provide further financing help.


INVITED SPEAKERS

    * Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Nancy, France
    * Peter Jeavons, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
    * Pierre Wolper, Université de Liege, France

WORKSHOPS

  In addition to the Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving (FTP),
  there will be several workshops on Monday, 6 July:

    * Tableaux versus automata as logical decision methods
    * Proofs and Refutations in Non-Classical Logics
    * Gentzen Systems and Beyond

  See

    http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/pmwiki.php/Workshops

  for details about these workshops

TUTORIALS

  Two tutorials will be held on Wednesday, 8 July.

    * The Theory of Canonical Systems
      (Arnon Avron and Anna Zamansky, Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

    * LoTREC: Theory and Practice.
      Proving by Tableau becomes easier...
      (Bilal Said and Olivier Gasquet, Université Paul Sabatier,
      Toulouse, France.)

  See

    http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/pmwiki.php/Tutorials

  for details about these tutorials


CONFERENCE AND PC CO-CHAIRS:

    * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
    * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway