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**                      FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS                       **
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**    4th International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving     **
**                    FTP'2003, June 12-14, 2003                    **
**                         Valencia, Spain                          **
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Important Dates:
      Paper submissions             April 5, 2003
      Notification of acceptance    April 29, 2003
      Camera ready papers           May 10, 2003
      FTP'2003 workshop             June 12-14, 2003

Scope:
   The series of FTP workshops is intended to focus effort on
   First-Order Theorem Proving as a core theme of Automated Deduction,
   and to provide a forum for presentation of recent work and
   discussion of research in progress.
   The workshop welcomes original contributions on:
   * theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, and modal
     logics, including:
     - resolution,
     - equational reasoning,
     - term rewriting,
     - model construction,
     - constraint reasoning,
     - unification,
     - description logics,
     - propositional logic,
     - specialized decision procedures,
   * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures,
   * applications of first-order theorem provers, for example to:
     - verification,
     - artificial intelligence,
     - mathematics,
     - education.

   The previous international workshops on First-Order Theorem Proving
   were held at Schloss Hagenberg, Austria (1997), Vienna, Austria
   (1998), St Andrews, Scotland (2000).  In 2001, FTP was part of the
   IJCAR Conference, held in Siena, Italy.

Paper Submissions:
   Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
   * Extended abstracts of 8-10 pages, describing original results not
     published elsewhere.
   * System descriptions of 3-5 pages, describing new systems or
     significant upgrades of existing ones, especially including
     experiments; systems will have to be freely available online.
   * Position papers of 2 pages, describing the authors' research
     interests in the field, work in progress, or future directions of
     research.
   Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and the standard article
   class/style file (10pt or 11pt).  The first page should contain the
   title, the authors' names, e-mail and postal addresses.
   Papers should be sent as a Postscript or PDF file to:
			ftp2003 @ uni-koblenz.de
   Papers should be received by April 5, 2003.

   All papers will be refereed by the program committee, and will be
   evaluated on their significance, technical merit, and relevance to
   the workshop.

Publication:
   Accepted submissions (except position papers) will be published in
   the ENTCS series (Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer
   Science), and will be available electronically before the workshop.
   As for the previous editions of FTP, a special issue of a journal
   is planned after the workshop.  The submission will be open to
   papers on First-Order Theorem Proving.

Program Committee:
   M. P. Bonacina (Verona), R. Caferra (Grenoble), I. Dahn (Koblenz,
   co-Chair), B. Gramlich (Vienna), P. Narendran (Albany), D. Plaisted
   (Chapel Hill), C. Ringeissen (Nancy), A. Rubio (Barcelona),
   J. Slaney (Canberra), T. Uribe (Menlo Park), L. Vigano (Zuerich),
   L. Vigneron (Nancy, co-Chair), C. Weidenbach (Saarbruecken),
   H. Zhang (Iowa City).

Local Organization Chair:
   S. Lucas (Valencia)

Steering Committee:
   A. Armando (Genova), P. Baumgartner (Koblenz), M. P. Bonacina
   (Verona, Chair), R. Caferra (Grenoble), D. Cantone (Catania),
   D. Crocker (Escher Tech.), I. Dahn (Koblenz), B. Gramlich (Vienna),
   R. Haehnle (Goeteborg), A. Leitsch (Vienna), P. Narendran (Albany),
   C. Weidenbach (Saarbruecken).

Conference Venue:
   The workshop will be part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting,
   Deduction and Programming (RDP'03, http://www.dsic.upv.es/~rdp03/),
   together with RTA (the 14th International Conference on Rewriting
   Techniques and Applications), TLCA (the 6th International
   Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), and several
   workshops.
   Invited lectures will be given by:
     - Enrico Giunchiglia (DIST, Genova, Italy)
     - Thomas Hillenbrand (MPI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
     - Dieter Hutter (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)

Further information:
   For regularly updated details of the workshop organization,
   visit the FTP'2003 web page:
                 http://rewriting.loria.fr/FTP-2003/
   For contacting the PC chairs: ftp2003 @ uni-koblenz.de