UNIF 2020: The 34th International Workshop on Unification is part of "Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020", a joint event on LOgic and VErification at Université Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events.
UNIF 2020 will be the 34th in a series of annual international workshops on unification. Previous editions have taken place mostly in Europe (Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, UK), but also in the USA and Japan. For more details on previous UNIF workshops, please see the UNIF homepage
Unification is concerned with the problem of making two terms equal, finding solutions for equations, or making formulas equivalent. It is a fundamental process used in a number of fields of computer science, including automated reasoning, term rewriting, logic programming, natural language processing, program analysis, types, etc. Traditionally, the scope of the UNIF workshops has covered the topic of unification in a broad sense, encompassing also research in constraint solving, admissibility of inference rules, and applications such as type checking, query answering and cryptographic protocol analysis.
The objective of this workshop is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, and to facilitate feedback on the implementation and application of such techniques and results in practice.
Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to:
UNIF 2020 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. More information about UNIF can be found here.
UNIF 2020 will be a satellite workshop of The International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2020) in Paris, France.
Following the tradition of UNIF, we call for submissions of abstracts (5 pages) in EasyChair style, to be submitted electronically as PDF through the EasyChair submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unif2020
Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the informal proceedings of the workshop, available in electronic form as a technical report in the RISC-Linz Report Series from the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University. At least one of the authors should register for the workshop.
Based on the number and quality of submissions we will decide whether to organize a special journal issue.
Manfred Schmidt-Schauß - Goethe-University Frankfurt AM Main
Topic: Nominal Algorithms: Applications and Extensions
Stéphanie Delaune - Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA
Topic: Rewriting in Protocol Verification
Proceedings of The 34th International Workshop on Unification
| Philippe Balbiani, Cigdem Gencer, Maryam Rostamigiv and Tinko Tinchev | About the unification type of modal logic K+[][]false |
| David Cerna, Alexander Leitsch and Anela Lolic | On the Unification of Term Schemata |
| Paliath Narendran, Saumya Arora and Yu Zhang | An Improved Algorithm for Testing Whether a Special String Rewriting System is Confluent |
| Thomas Prokosch and François Bry | Unification on the Run |
| Paliath Narendran, Ashley Suchy and Yu Zhang | Some Results on Prefix Grammars |
| Alexander Baumgartner and Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho | A,C and AC Nominal Anti-Unification |
| Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho, Deivid Vale, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón and Maribel Fernandez | An Investigation into Nominal Equational Problems |
| Andrew M. Marshall, Catherine Meadows, Paliath Narendran, Veena Ravishankar and Brandon Rozek | Algorithmic Problems in Synthesized Cryptosystems |
| Serdar Erbatur, Andrew M. Marshall and Christophe Ringeissen | Terminating Non-Disjoint Combined Unification |
| Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and Fernando Orejas | Unification of Drags |
| Temur Kutsia and Cleo Pau | Proximity-Based Unification with Arity Mismatch |
8:55–9:00: Welcome to UNIF
Session 1: (Security and Rewriting) Chair: Temur Kutsia
11:00 - 11:30 Virtual coffee break
Session 2: (Logic and Discrete Structures) Chair: Christophe Ringeissen
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 3: (Nominal Techniques) Chair: Andrew Marshall
15:35 - 16:00 Virtual coffee break
Session 4: (Improvements and Generalizations) Chair: Mauricio Ayala-Rincón
Please see the following link for the prerecorded talks: Talks
Note that you will need to register for the workshop to view the talks. If you registered and didn't receive a password for the talks, please contact the PC-Chairs.
Participation will be free, but a preregistration will be required to join the video meeting.
Please see the main registration page here: Registration Form