Newsletter 154
January 3, 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* LICS-RELATED NEWS
CSL-LICS'14
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
DICE 2014 - Call for Contributions
CMCS 2014 - Call for Papers
CiE 2014 - Call for Papers
ICTAC 2015 - Call for Organisers
PSI 2014 - Call for Papers
ABZ 2014 - Call for Papers
IJCAR 2014 - Call for Papers
CAV 2014 - Call for Papers
FM 2014 - Call for Industry Track Papers
SAT 2014 - Call for Papers
SOFSEM 2014 - Call for Participation
UTP 2014 - Call for Papers
FormaliSE 2014 - Call for Papers
RTA-TLCA 2014 - Call for Papers
MSCS COMPUTABLE ANALYSIS - Call for Submissions
FORTE 2014 - Call for Papers
ETAPS 2015 - Call for Satellite Events
LOGICA 2014 - Call for Papers
TAP 2014 - Call for Papers
ACKERMANN AWARD - Call for Nominations
CICM 2014 - Call for Papers
NASSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION - Call for Papers
ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF MARK STICKEL - Call for Papers
ICE 2014 - Call for Papers
AiML 2014 - Call for Papers
SEMF 2014 - Call for Papers
LASER 2014 - Call for Summer School Applications
ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION - Call for Papers
RV 2014 - Call for Papers
ATVA 2014 - Call for Workshop Proposals
FORMATS 2014 - Call for Papers
FMMB 2014 - Call for Papers
TCS 2014 - Call for Papers
TGC 2014 - Call for Papers
AVOCS 2014 - Call for Papers
AAA88 - Call for Participation
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fondation Sciences Mathematiques de Paris positions
European Master's Program in Computational Logic
Postdoc in Formal Methods at DTU
CSL-LICS'14
* Next year LICS and CSL will hold a joint conference for the first time,
as part of FLoC 2014. Tom Henzinger and Dale Miller are co-chairs of a
joint PC of 38 members. The proceedings will be published by IEEE.
The Call for Papers is available on the LICS website.
http://lics.siglog.org/csl-lics14/
* Title and Short Abstracts Due January 13, 2014
Full Papers Due January 20, 2014
DEADLINES
* DICE 2014
Abstract submission: January 5, 2014
Notification: January 20, 2014
http://dice14.tcs.ifi.lmu.de
* CMCS 2014
Abstract regular papers: 6 January 2014
Submission regular papers: 10 January 2014 (strict)
http://www.coalg.org/cmcs14
* CiE 2014
Submission deadline: January 10, 2014
http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu
* CSL-LICS 2014
Title and Short Abstracts Due: January 13, 2014
Full Papers Due: January 20, 2014
http://lics.siglog.org/csl-lics14/
* ICTAC 2015
Submission of proposals: January 13, 2014
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ICTAC
* PSI'14
Abstract submission: January 13, 2014
Submission deadline: January 20, 2014
http://psi.nsc.ru/psi14
* ABZ 2014
Research/Industry papers and answers to case study: January 14, 2014
Tutorial proposal submissions: January 30, 2014
Short paper submission: February 3, 2014
http://www.irit.fr/ABZ2014/
* IJCAR 2014
Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2014
Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2014
http://cs.nyu.edu/ijcar2014/
* CAV 2014
CAV Award nomination deadline: January 15, 2014
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2014
Paper deadline: February 7, 2014
http://www.cavconference.org
* FM 2014
Industry Track submission deadline: January 16, 2014
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/
* SAT 2014
Abstract submission deadline: January 17, 2014
Paper submission deadline: January 24, 2014
http://baldur.iti.kit.edu/sat2014
* UTP 2014
Abstract due: January 17, 2014
Full paper due: January 24, 2014
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014/index.html
* FormaliSE 2014
Submission deadline: January 24, 2014
http://www.formalise.org/
* RTA-TLCA 2014
Abstract submission: January 28, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/rta-tlca
* MSCS SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMPUTABLE ANALYSIS
Abstracts submission deadline: January 31, 2014
Deadline for full paper: February 28, 2014
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/ccc2013/
* FORTE 2014
Abstract Submission: February 1, 2014
Paper Submission: February 7, 2014
http://www.discotec.org/calls/forte-2014-call-for-papers
* ETAPS 2015
Satellite event proposal deadline: February 7, 2014
http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/call-for-workshops
* LOGICA 2014
Submission deadline: February 15, 2014
http://www.flu.cas.cz/en/logica2014
* TAP 2014
Abstract submission: February 25, 2014
Paper submission: March 1, 2014
http://www.tap2014.org
* ACKERMANN AWARD 2014
Nomination deadline: February 28, 2014
http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
* CICM 2014
Abstract submission: February 28, 2014
Submission deadline: March 7, 2014
Work-in-progress submission and doctoral programme: April 28, 2014
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014
* NASSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION
Submissions due: February 28, 2014
http://www.nasslli2014.com/
* ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF MARK STICKEL
Submission deadline: March 1, 2014
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=festschriftmarkstick
* ICE 2014
Abstract submission: March 12, 2014
Full paper submission: March 15, 2014
http://www.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2014
* AiML 2014
Abstract of full paper submission due: March 14, 2014
Full paper submission due: March 21, 2014
http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/
* SEFM 2014
Abstract Submission: March 14, 2014
Paper Submission: March 21, 2014 (AoE)
http://sefm2014.inria.fr/
* LASER 2014
Application deadline: March 31, 2014
http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2014
* ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION
Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2014
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/
* RV 2014
Abstract deadline: April 8, 2014
Full paper deadline: April 15, 2014
http://rv2014.imag.fr/
* ATVA 2014
Deadline for workshop proposal submissions: April 14, 2014
http://atva-conferences.org
* FORMATS 2014
Abstract submission: April 14, 2014
Paper submission: April 21, 2014
http://www.florence2014.org/
* FMMB 2014
Submission deadline: April 25, 2014
http://fmmb2014.sciencesconf.org/
* TCS 2014
Deadline for submission: April 27, 2014
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/tcs2014/
* TGC 2014
Deadline for abstract submission: May 2, 2014
Deadline for paper submission: May 9, 2014
http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/tgc2014/
* AVOCS 2014
Submission (abstract for full paper): June 16, 2014
Submission (full papers): June 23, 2014
Submission (research ideas): August 7, 2014
http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014
5TH WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENTS IN IMPLICIT COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY (DICE 2014)
Call for Contributions
April 5-6, 2014
Grenoble, France (a satellite event of ETAPS 2014)
http://dice14.tcs.ifi.lmu.de
* SCOPE AND TOPIC
The area of Implicit Computational Complexity (ICC) has grown from
several proposals for using logic and formal methods to provide
languages for complexity-bounded computation (e.g. PTIME, LOGSPACE
computation). Its aim is to study computational complexity without
reference to external measuring conditions or particular machine
models, but only in terms of language restrictions or
logical/computational principles implying complexity properties.
This workshop focuses on ICC methods related to programs (rather than
descriptive methods). In this approach one relates complexity classes
to restrictions on programming paradigms (functional programs, lambda
calculi, rewriting systems), such as ramified recurrence, weak
polymorphic types, linear logic and linear types, and interpretative
measures. The two main objectives of this area are:
- to find natural implicit characterizations of various
complexity classes of functions, thereby illuminating their
nature and importance;
- to design methods suitable for static verification of
program complexity.
Therefore ICC connects both to the study of complexity classes and to
static program analysis. The workshop is open to contributions
on various aspects of ICC including (but not exclusively):
- types for controlling complexity
- logical systems for implicit computational complexity
- linear logic
- semantics of complexity-bounded computation
- rewriting and termination orderings
- interpretation-based methods for implicit complexity
- programming languages for complexity-bounded computation
- theoretical foundations of program complexity analysis
- application of implicit complexity to security
* INVITED SPEAKERS
- Akitoshi Kawamura, University of Tokyo
- Georg Moser, University of Innsbruck
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract submission: January 5, 2014
- Notification: January 20, 2014
- Final version: February 10, 2014
* SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 5 pages.
Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop. Submissions will
be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. Preference
will be given to abstracts describing work (including work in
progress) that has not been published elsewhere before the workshop.
Further details can be found at the workshop homepage.
12TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COALGEBRAIC METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CMCS'14)
Call for Papers
5 - 6 April 2014, Grenoble, France
http://www.coalg.org/cmcs14
* OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE
Established in 1998, the CMCS workshops aim to bring together researchers
with a common interest in the theory of coalgebras, their logics, and their
applications. As the workshop series strives to maintain breadth in its scope,
areas of interest include neighbouring fields as well. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical
approaches)
- Coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for
programming languages, dynamical systems, term rewriting, etc.)
- Coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint)
programming
- Model checking, theorem proving and deductive verification
using coalgebraic techniques
- Coalgebraic data types, type systems and
behavioural typing
- Proof principles and (coinductive) definitions for
coalgebras (e.g. with bisimulations or invariants)
- Coalgebras and algebras
- Coalgebraic specification and verification
- Coalgebras and (modal) logic
- Coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event
and hybrid systems)
- Coalgebra in quantum computing
- Coalgebra and game theory
- Tools exploiting colgebraic techniques
* VENUE AND EVENT
CMCS'14 will be held in Grenoble, France, co-located with ETAPS 2014 on
5 - 6 April 2014.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract regular papers 6 January 2014
Submission regular papers 10 January 2014 (strict)
Notification regular papers 14 February 2014
Camera-ready copy 21 February 2014
Submission short contributions 23 February 2014 (strict)
Notification short contributions 9 March 2014
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, JP
Marina Lenisa, University of Udine, IT
* PUBLICITY CHAIR
Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
* PC CHAIR
Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, NL
* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We solicit two types of contributions: regular papers and short contributions.
Regular papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for
publication elsewhere. They should not exceed 20 pages in length in Springer
LNCS style. Short contributions may describe work in progress, or summarise
work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere. They should be no more
than two pages. Regular papers and short contributions should be submitted
electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcs2014.
The proceedings of CMCS 2014 will include all accepted regular papers and
will be published post-conference as a Springer volume in the IFIP-LNCS
series. Accepted short contributions will be bundled in a technical report.
COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2014: LANGUAGE, LIFE, LIMITS (CiE 2014)
Call for Papers
Budapest, Hungary
June 23-27, 2014
http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline for LNCS: 10 January 2014
Notification of authors: 3 March 2014
Deadline for final revisions: 31 March 2014
* HISTORY
CiE 2014 is the tenth conference organized by CiE (Computability in
Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer
scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new
developments in computability and their underlying significance for the
real world. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005),
Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponte
Dalgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), and Milan (2013).
The motto of CiE 2014 "Language, Life, Limits" intends to put a special
focus on relations between computational linguistics, natural and
biological computing, and more traditional fields of computability theory.
This is to be understood in its broadest sense including computational
aspects of problems in linguistics, studying models of computation and
algorithms inspired by physical and biological approaches as well as
exhibiting limits (and non-limits) of computability when considering
different models of computation arising from such approaches.
As with previous CiE conferences the allover glueing perspective is to
strengthen the mutual benefits of analyzing traditional and new
computational paradigms in their corresponding frameworks both with
respect to practical applications and a deeper theoretical understanding.
* TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen)
Peter Gruenwald (CWI, Amsterdam)
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Lev Beklemishev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)
Alessandra Carbone (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS Paris)
Maribel Fernandez (King's College London)
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (University of Calgary)
Eva Tardos (Cornell University)
Albert Visser (Utrecht University)
* SPECIAL SESSIONS:
History and Philosophy of Computing (organizers: Liesbeth de Mol,
Giuseppe Primiero)
Computational Linguistics (organizers: Maria Dolores
Jimenez-Lopez, Gabor Proszeky)
Computability Theory (organizers: Karen Lange, Barbara
Csima)
Bio-inspired Computation (organizers: Marian Gheorghe,
Florin Manea)
Online Algorithms (organizers: Joan Boyar, Csan??d Imreh)
Complexity in Automata Theory (organizers: Markus Lohrey,
Giovanni Pighizzini)
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING (ICTAC)
Call for Organisers
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ICTAC
* BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
The International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing
(ICTAC) was founded in 2004 by the International Institute for
Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST).
The aim of the colloquium is to bring together practitioners and
researchers from academia, industry and government to present
research results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for
their problems in theoretical aspects of computing. Beyond these
scholarly goals, another main purpose of the conference is to
promote cooperation in research and education between participants
and their institutions, from developing and industrial countries.
* LOCATION
The event takes place every year in a developing country. Each
conference attracts between 50 and 100 participants from all over
the world. We now invite proposals from any group or institution
wishing to host this event. The priority is for the event to be
located in a developing country. It usually combines a regular
three-day scientific conference with related activities such as
tutorials over another two-days and a summer school over the
previous week. Innovation in the format and content is encouraged.
Proposals will be evaluated by the ICTAC steering committee.
* FORMAT
Proposals should be no more than four pages in length and should contain:
- Brief description of why the event is of interest to the proposer.
- Vision for the event, including its aims, the expected format and scale.
- An estimation of expected attendance, based, for example, on presence
of a local community in the area and costs of travel to various parts
of the world and local expenses.
- A description of the relevant qualifications and experience of the
proposers, especially regarding conference organisation logistics.
- A description of the facilities that will be available for the event
and to support the organizers.
- The contact information of the proposed organising committee. Please,
note that the choice of a PC chair will be subject to later discussion
with the Steering Committee and should not be part of this proposal.
Please send your proposal (in PDF format) and any enquiries to
ictac@cs.york.ac.uk.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of proposals: 13 January, 2014
Notification of results: 28 February, 2014
* STEERING COMMITTEE
Ana Cavalcanti, UK
John Fitzgerald, UK
Martin Leucker, Germany
Zhiming Liu, Macao
Tobias Nipkow, Germany
Augusto Sampaio, Brazil
Natarajan Shankar, USA
* PREVIOUS LOCATIONS
ICTAC 2013 was held in Shanghai, China, 04-06 September, 2013.
ICTAC 2012 was held in Bangalore, India, 24-27 September 2012.
ICTAC 2011 was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 31 August - 2 September, 2011.
ICTAC 2010 was held in Natal, Brazil, 1-3 September, 2010.
ICTAC 2009 was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16-20 August, 2009.
ICTAC 2008 was held in Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey - 1-3 November, 2008.
ICTAC 2007 was held in Macao, Macao - 26-28 November 2007.
ICTAC 2006 was held in Tunis, Tunisia - 20-24 November 2006.
ICTAC 2005 was held in Hanoi, Vietnam - 17-21 October 2005.
9TH ERSHOV INFORMATICS CONFERENCE (PSI'14)
Call for Papers
24 June - 27 June, 2014
Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia
http://psi.nsc.ru/psi14
* AIMS AND SCOPE
The Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series, 9th
edition) is the premier international forum in Russia for research
and its applications in computer, software and information sciences.
The conference brings together academic and industrial researchers,
developers and users to present and discuss the most recent innovations,
trends, experiences and concerns in the conference area.
* ORGANIZERS
- A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of RAS
- Saint Petersburg State University
* CONFERENCE CHAIRS]
- Alexander Marchuk
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Andrey Terekhov
Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
* STEERING COMMITTEE
- Dines Bjorner
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
- Manfred Broy
Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Victor Ivannikov
Institute for System Programming RAS, Moscow, Russia
- Ugo Montanari
University of Pisa, Italy
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Irina Virbitskaite
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia
Andrei Voronkov
The University of Manchester, UK
* CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Edmund M. Clarke (USA)
- Tony Hoare (UK)
- Bertrand Meyer (Switzerland)
- Vladimiro Sassone (UK)
- Vadim E. Kotov (USA)
* CONFERENCE TOPICS
1. Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis
2. Programming Methodology and Software Engineering
3. Information Technologies
In addition to papers in the above list of topics, papers both bridging
the gap between different directions and promoting mutual understanding
of researchers are welcome. Papers defining the general prospects in
computer, software and information sciences are also encouraged.
* SUBMISSIONS
There are three categories of submissions:
- regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results
(12 pages / 30 minute talks);
- short papers reporting on interesting work in progress and/or
preliminary results (7 pages / 15 minute talks);
- system and experimental papers describing implementation or evaluation
of experimental systems and containing a link to a working system
(4 pages / 10 minute presentation).
Submitted regular papers that are judged to have limited merit may be
accepted as short papers, with up to seven pages in the proceedings.
At the time of submission, authors should indicate if they wish to have
their submission considered as a short paper in the case it is not
accepted as a regular one.
* CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
A preliminary book of tutorial, invited and accepted contributions will be
handed out at the conference. The final versions of the invited, regular
and short papers presented at the conference will be published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series after the
conference. One can find the proceedings of the previous seven conferences
in LNCS, Vol. 1181, 1755, 2244, 2890, 4378, 5947, and 7162.
* LOCATION
The conference will be held in Peterhof (also known as Petrodvorets), a suburb
of St. Petersburg located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. The
town is one of St. Petersburg's most famous and popular visitor attractions
thanks to its palaces, fountains and parks. Founded as a summer residence of
Peter the Great, the area is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and
is often referred to as "the Russian Versaille".
For more information see http://www.saint-petersburg.com/peterhof.
* SATELLITE WORKSHOPS
N.B. Three satellite workshops will be held in conjunction with PSI'14:
- Program Understanding,
- Educational Informatics,
- Science Intensive Applied Software.
* IMPORTANT DATES
January 13, 2014: abstract submission
January 20, 2014: submission deadline
April 1, 2014: notification of acceptance
June 24 - 27, 2014: the conference dates
September 1, 2014: camera ready papers due
4TH INTERNATIONAL ABZ 2014 CONFERENCE (ASM, ALLOY, B, TLA, VDM, Z)
Call for Papers
http://www.irit.fr/ABZ2014/
June 2-6, 2014
Toulouse, France
* GOALS
The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of six
related state-based and machine-based formal methods, Abstract State
Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, that share a common conceptual
foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the
design and analysis of hardware and software systems.
The main goal of the conference is to contribute to the integration
of accurate state- and machine-based system development methods, clarifying
their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine
different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling,
experimental validation, mathematical verification of reliable high-quality
hardware/software systems.
* CASE STUDIES
The 4th edition of ABZ sees the introduction of a new session dedicated
to a shared real-life case study among all the methods addressed in ABZ
2014. The objective of this session is to enrich the set of case studies
developed with ABZ methods with a practical and real-life case study.
The aeronautical context of Toulouse led the organizers to define a
real-life case study issued from this domain.
Proposals are invited for workshops and tutorials to take place the day
before the main conference.
* CONTRIBUTIONS
Three kinds of contributions are invited:
- Research papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS
format, which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere.
- Short presentations of work in progress, and tool demonstrations.
This is an excellent opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and
validate their work in progress. An extended abstract of not more than 4
pages is expected and will be reviewed.
- Answers to case study papers: full papers of not more than 14
pages in LNCS format reporting on the experiments conducted with any of
the state based techniques in the scope of ABZ 2014.
- Application in industry papers reporting on work or experiences
on the application of state based formal methods in industry. An
extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be
reviewed. It is also an interesting option for industrial practitioners
who sometimes face too many constraints to prepare a full paper.
Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF at the ABZ 2014
conference Easy-Chair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2014) web site.
The papers must be prepared using the SPRINGER LNCS style
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). The
answers to case study should be submitted electronically in PDF at the
Case study Easy-Chair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2014) web site.
All research and short accepted papers will be published in a
volume of Springer's LNCS series. The answers to case study papers and
the application in industry papers will be published in a volume of
Springer's CCIS series. The two volumes will be distributed at the
conference.
* SELECTED WORKSHOPS
Five (5) workshops are associated to the main event ABZ.
Information are available on the workshops website link
www.irit.fr/ABZ2014/workshop.html
* ABZ 2014 INVITED SPEAKERS
Leslie LAMPORT, Microsoft Research, USA.
Other invited speakers will be announced.
* IMPROTANT DATES
Research/Industry papers and answers to case study January 14, 2012
Tutorial proposal submissions: January 30, 2014
Short paper submission: February 3, 2014
Tutorial proposal notifications: Febuary 28, 2014
Papers notification: March 1, 2014
Final Version due: March 20, 2014
Main ABZ 2012 conference: June 2-6, 2014
* CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Yamine AIT AMEUR , INPT-ENSEEIHT and IRIT, Toulouse,France (yamine@n7.fr)
Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE, University of Linz and SCCH, Linz, Austria
(Klaus-Dieter.Schewe@scch.at)
7TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED REASONING (IJCAR 2014)
Call for Papers
Vienna, Austria, July 19-22, 2014
http://cs.nyu.edu/ijcar2014/
as part of FLoC 2014 - Federated Logic Conference
http://www.floc-conference.org/
as part of VSL 2014 - Vienna Summer of Logic
http://vsl2014.at/
* IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics
in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical program will consist
of presentations of high-quality original research papers,
system descriptions, and invited talks.
* IJCAR 2014 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning:
CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction),
FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and
TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods)
IJCAR 2014 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated
reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications.
Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction
systems are solicited.
* TOPICS
IJCAR topics include the following ones:
- Logics of interest include: propositional, first-order, classical,
equational, higher-order, non-classical, constructive, modal,
temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, type theory, etc.
- Methods of interest include: tableaux, sequent calculi, resolution,
model-elimination, inverse method, paramodulation, term rewriting,
induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures,
model generation, model checking, semantic guidance, interactive
theorem proving, logical frameworks, AI-related methods for
deductive systems, proof presentation, automated theorem provers,
etc.
- Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods,
program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative
programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, etc.
The proceedings of IJCAR 2014 will be published by Springer-Verlag in
the LNAI/LNCS series.
* PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Stephane Demri (New York University & CNRS)
Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA)
Christoph Weidenbach (MPI-INF Saarbr??cken, Germany)
* CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Christian Fermueller (TU Vienna, Austria)
Stefan Hetzl (TU Vienna, Austria)
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2014
Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2014
Notification of paper decisions: March 31, 2014
Final version of papers due: April 19, 2014
Conference dates: July 19-22, 2014
* STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS
Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the
conference. Details will be published in March 2014.
26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AIDED VERIFICATION (CAV 2014)
Call for Papers
July 18-22, 2014, Vienna, Austria
http://www.cavconference.org
* CAV 2014 is the 26th in a series dedicated to the advancement of
the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods
for hardware and software systems.
* Changes: short and long papers, but short papers are not restricted
to be tool papers anymore. We encourage submission of high quality
tool papers and empirical evaluations as long papers. References
do not count toward the page limit.
* Topics: Algorithms and tools for verifying models and
implementations; Hardware verification techniques; Deductive,
compositional, and abstraction techniques for verification; Program
analysis and software verification; Verification methods for
parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems; Testing and
runtime analysis based on verification technology; Applications and
case studies in verification; Decision procedures and solvers for
verification; Mathematical and logical foundations of practical
verification tools; Verification in industrial practice; Algorithms
and tools for system synthesis; Hybrid systems and embedded systems
verification; Verification techniques for security; Formal models
and methods for biological systems.
* Tutorials: Fabio Somenzi, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
will give a tutorial on Hardware Model Checking. David Monniaux,
CNRS, Verimag, Grenoble, France will give a tutorial on
Abstract Interpretation.
* Important Dates: Nominations for CAV award 15 January 2014;
Abstract 31 January 2014; Paper 7 February 2014; Rebuttal 20-23
March 2014; Notification 18 April 2014; Final version 9 May 2014.
All deadlines are "anywhere on earth".
19TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FORMAL METHODS (FM 2014)
Call for Industry Track Papers
Singapore, May 14-16, 2014
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/
* SCOPE
FM2014 is the nineteenth in a series of symposia organized by
Formal Methods Europe, an independent association whose aim is
to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for
software development. The symposia have been notably successful
in bringing together innovators and practitioners in precise
mathematical methods for software and systems development,
industrial users, as well as researchers. The industry track of
FM 2014 welcomes papers describing industrial applications of
formal methods, experience with introducing formal methods in
industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge
problems. Authors are encouraged to explain how the use of
formal methods has overcome problems, lead to improvements in
design or provided new insights.
* PAPER SUBMISSION
Industry track papers should not exceed 15 pages (including
appendices and references). Accepted papers will be published in
the Symposium Proceedings, to appear in Springer's Lecture Notes
in Computer Science. Submitted papers should describe, in
English, have not been published or submitted elsewhere
concurrently for publication, and should be in Springer's
format. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three
members of the industry track program committee. Papers should
be submitted through the FM 2014 EasyChair web site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2014
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Industry Track Submission: January 16, 2014
- Industry Track Notification: February 16, 2014
- Camera-ready: February 25, 2014
- Main Conference Date: May 14-16, 2014
* FM 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
- General Chair
Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
- Program Committee Co-Chairs
Cliff B Jones, Newcastle University, United Kindom.
Pekka Pihlajasaari, Data Abstraction (Pty) Ltd, South Africa.
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
- Doc Symposium Chair
Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, Australia.
- Workshop Chair
Shengchao Qin, University of Teesside, United Kindom.
- Publicity Chair
Jonathan Bowen, Birmingham City University, United Kindom.
Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan.
17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF SATISFIABILITY TESTING (SAT 2014)
Call for Papers
Vienna, Austria, July 14-17, 2014
http://baldur.iti.kit.edu/sat2014
* AIMS
The International Conference on Theory and Applications of
Satisfiability Testing (SAT) is the primary annual meeting for
researchers studying the theory and applications of the propositional
satisfiability problem.
It includes, besides plain propositional satisfiability, Boolean
optimization (such as MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints),
Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories
(SMT), and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear
connections to Boolean-level reasoning.
* VENUE
SAT 2014 takes place in Vienna, Austria, and will be part of the
Vienna Summer of Logic. With over two thousand expected participants,
the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 will be the largest event in the
history of logic, and will consist of twelve large conferences and
numerous workshops, attracting researchers from all over the world.
* IMPORTANT DATES
January 17, 2014: Abstract submission deadline
January 24, 2014: Paper submission deadline
March 17, 2014 (approx.): Response from authors begins, lasts 72 hours
March 27, 2014: Acceptance notifications
April 17, 2014: Final camera-ready versions
July 14-17, 2014: Main conference and workshops
* SCOPE
Topics include (but are not restricted to):
- Theoretical advances (including exact algorithms, proof complexity,
and other complexity issues);
- Practical search algorithms;
- Knowledge compilation;
- Implementation-level details of SAT solving tools and SAT-based
systems;
- Problem encodings and reformulations;
- Applications (including both novel applications domains and
improvements to existing approaches);
- Case studies and reports on insightful findings based on rigorous
experimentation.
* OUT OF SCOPE
Papers claiming to resolve a major long-standing open theoretical
question in mathematics or computer science (such as those for which a
Millennium Prize is offered, see http://www.claymath.org/millennium)
are outside the scope of the conference because there is insufficient
time in the schedule to referee such papers; instead, such papers
should be submitted to an appropriate technical journal.
* SUBMISSIONS
Submissions to SAT 2014 are solicited in three paper categories,
describing original contributions:
- REGULAR PAPERS (9 to 15 pages, excluding references)
Regular papers should contain original research, with sufficient
detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution.
For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly
encouraged to make their data and implementations available with
their submission. Submissions reporting on case studies are also
encouraged, and should describe details, weaknesses, and strengths
in sufficient depth.
- SHORT PAPERS (up to 8 pages, excluding references)
The same evaluation criteria apply to short papers as to regular
papers. They will be reviewed to the same standards of quality as
regular papers, but will naturally contain less quantity of new
material. Short papers will have the same status as regular papers
and be eligible for the same awards (to be announced later).
- TOOL PAPERS (up to 6 pages, excluding references)
A tool paper should describe the implemented tool and its novel
features. Here "tools" are interpreted in a broad sense, including
descriptions of implemented solvers, preprocessors, etc., as well
as systems that exploit SAT solvers or their extensions to solve
interesting problem domains. A demonstration is expected to
accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have
already been presented previously are expected to contain
significant and clear enhancements to the tool.
* WORKSHOPS AND COMPETITONS
Affiliated with SAT 2014 are several workshops and competitions. For a list
and detailed information about these events see the SAT 2014 web page.
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Uwe Egly Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Carsten Sinz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Ines Lynce Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
40TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CURRENT TRENDS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (SOFSEM 2014)
Call for Participation
January 25-30, 2014
Hotel Atrium, Novy Smokovec
High Tatras, Slovakia
* INFORMATION
For more details, e.g.,
- conference fees and details of payment
- instructions for contributing authors
- list of topics and profile of the tracks
- list of invited lectures
- list of accepted papers
- conference program
- conference location
- how to get there
visit our website: www.sofsem.sk (now open for registration)
* HISTORY
SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an annual international conference devoted
to the theory and practice of Computer Science. Its aim is to get together
professionals from academia and industry working in various areas of
Computer Science. Proceedings containing the invited and contributed papers
will be published by the Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series, volume number 8327. Papers accepted to Student
Research Forum will appear in a special additional local proceedings.
The program consists of
- 6 invited talks given by prominent researchers,
- 40 contributed talks being selected by the Program
Committee from 104 submitted papers these days,
- 6 student papers selected by the Program Committee for
the Student Research Forum,
- and a satellite workshop for a presentation of Works in Progress
sofsem14.ics.upjs.sk/Sofsem/WIP
* PROGRAM
Accepted papers: http://sofsem14.ics.upjs.sk/Sofsem/AcceptedPapers
Program: http://sofsem14.ics.upjs.sk/Sofsem/Program
SOFSEM provides an ideal framework for discussions
and meetings, establishing personal contacts. In order
to help people socialize and exchange new ideas,
SOFSEM is organized as a single-building-conference.
That is, accommodation for all participants,
full-board meals, together with all lecture rooms
will be in Atrium Hotel, Novy Smokovec, High Tatras,
Slovakia.
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Branislav Rovan, Bratislava, Slovakia
* TRACKS
Tracks for the Year 2014:
- Foundations of Computer Science
chair: Viliam Geffert, Kosice, Slovakia
- Software & Web Engineering
chair: A Min Tjoa, Wien, Austria
- Data, Information, and Knowledge Engineering
chair: Julius Stuller, Praha, Czech Republic
- Cryptography, Security, and Verification
chair: Bart Preneel, Leuven, Belgium
- Student Research Forum
chair: Roman Spanek, Praha, Czech Republic
5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING (UTP 2014)
Call for Papers
co-located with FM2014
May 12-13, 2014
Singapore
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014/index.html
* SCOPE
Interest in the fundamental problem of the combination of formal notations
and theories of programming has grown consistently in recent years. The
theories define, in various different ways, many common notions, such as
abstraction, refinement, choice, termination, feasibility, locality,
concurrency and communication. Despite these differences, such theories
may be unified in a way which greatly facilitates their study and comparison.
Moreover, such a unification offers a means of combining different languages
describing various facets and artifacts of software development in a seamless,
logically consistent way.
* UTP
Hoare and He's Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) is widely acknowledged
as one of the most significant such unification approaches. Based on their
pioneering work, the aims of the UTP Symposium series are to reaffirm the
significance of the ongoing UTP project and to stimulate efforts to advance.
The Symposium provides a focus for the sharing of results by those already
actively contributing, and raises awareness of the benefits of such unifying
theoretical frameworks among the wider computer science and software
engineering communities. To this end the Symposium welcomes contributions
on all the themes that can be related to the Unifying Theories of Programming.
* SUBMISSIONS
Papers may be up to 20 pages in length and should be prepared using LaTeX
in Springer LNCS paper format. Submissions should be made through the UTP
2014 EasyChair site, see http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014
* PUBLICATION
Symposium post-proceedings will appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in
Computer Science, as in past editions of the Symposium. (To be confirmed.)
* DATES
Abstract due: January 17, 2014
Full paper due: January 24, 2014
Notification: March 7, 2014
Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: April 11, 2014
Symposium: May 12-13, 2014
* CHAIR
David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology)
* ORGANISATION CHAIR
Jin Song DONG (National University of Singapore)
* JOINT EVENT
FM 2014, the 19th International Symposium on Formal Methods
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/
2ND FME WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (FormaliSE 2014)
Call for Papers
held in conjunction with ICSE 2014 (May 31th-June 7th)
Hyderabad, India
http://www.formalise.org/
* AIMS
The main goal of the workshop is to foster integration between the formal
methods and the software engineering communities with the purpose to examine
the link between the two more carefully than is currently the case.
* AREAS
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- integration of FMs in the software development life cycle
- ability of formal methods to handle real-world problems
- prescriptive/objective guidance in the use of FMs
- Formal methods in a certification context
- "lightweight" or usable FMs
- application experiences
- scalability of FM applications
- experimental validation
The program will start with an invited speaker, followed by presentations
of submitted papers. The workshop will end with a round table discussion
(PC members and workshop audience), focusing on the subjects that came up
during the workshop.
* SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are limited to 7 pages in IEEE Conference Proceedings Format.
They will be published as part of the (electronic) proceedings of ICSE 2013.
All papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished original work and
should not be under review or submitted elsewhere while being under
consideration. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format
through online upload to the workshop submission website at the
following URL:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formalise2014.
* IMPORTANT DATES
24 January 2014: submission deadline for workshop papers
24 February 2014: notification of acceptance/rejection to authors
14 March 2014: camera-ready copy deadline for workshop papers
* CHAIRS
OC/PC CHAIRS are Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) and Nico Plat (West
Consulting BV, The Netherlands). Local organizer is Ravindra Metta
(Tata Consultancy Services, India). The OC/PC Chairs can be reached
via e-mail: oc@formalise.org. If you intend to submit a paper you are
invited to inform us in advance.
JOINT 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REWRITING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS AND 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TYPED LAMBDA CALCULI AND APPLICATIONS
Call for Papers
July 14-17, 2014, Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/rta-tlca
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: January 28, 2014
Notification: April 9, 2014
Paper submission: February 4, 2014
Final version: April 29, 2014
Rebuttal period: March 19-21, 2014
* TOPICS
This joint RTA and TLCA conference is the major forum for the
presentation of research on all aspects of rewriting and typed
lambda-calculi. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Foundations: string rewriting; term rewriting; graph rewriting;
lambdacalculi; higher-order rewriting; binding techniques; constrained
rewriting and deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting;
stochastic rewriting; net rewriting; Petri nets; higher-dimensional
rewriting; process calculi; explicit substitution; tree automata;
confluence; termination; complexity; modularity.
- Algorithmic aspects and implementation: strategies; matching;
unification; anti-unification; narrowing; constraint solving; theorem
proving; completion techniques; implementation techniques; parallel
execution; certification of rewriting properties; abstract machines;
automated (non)termination and confluence provers; automated complexity
analysis; SMT solving; system descriptions.
- Logic: proof theory; natural deduction; sequent calculi; proof
assistants; cut elimination and normalization; propositions as types;
linear logic and proof nets; equational logic; rewriting logic;
rewriting calculi; proof checking; reasoning about programming languages
and logics; homotopy type theory;
type-theoretic aspects of complexity; implicit computational complexity.
- Types: dependent types; polymorphism; intersection types and related
approaches; subtyping; type inference and type checking; types in databases.
- Semantics: denotational semantics; operational semantics; game
semantics; realisability; domain theory; categorical models; universal
algebra.
- Programming: foundational aspects of functional programming, object
oriented programming, and other programming paradigms; flow analysis
of higher-type computation; program equivalence; program transformation;
program optimization; program refactoring; rewriting models of programs;
rule-based (functional and logic) programming; control operators;
symbolic and algebraic computation; system synthesis and verification;
XML queries and transformations; types in program analysis and
verification; analysis of cryptographic protocols; systems biology;
linguistics.
* PROGRAMME CHAIR
Gilles Dowek
* CONFERENCE CHAIR
Gernot Salzer
MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMPUTABLE ANALYSIS
Call for Submissions
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/ccc2013/
* GUEST EDITORS
Hajime Ishihara (JAIST, Japan)
Margarita Korovina (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Arno Pauly (Cambridge, UK)
Monika Seisenberger (Swansea, UK)
Dieter Spreen (Siegen, Germany, and Pretoria, South Africa)
* DATES
Abstracts submission deadline: January 31, 2014
Deadline for full paper: February 28, 2014
* GENERAL
After a year of successful work in the EU-IRSES project COMPUTAL
http://computal.uni-trier.de
and an excellent workshop "Continuity, Computability, Constructivity:
From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2013)" in Gregynog (Wales) in June this year,
we are planning to publish a special issue of MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE. The special issue should reflect progress made in
Computable Analysis and related areas and is open for everyone.
* TOPICS
Computable analysis
Complexity of real number computations
Computing with continuous data
Domain theory and analysis
Randomness and computable measure theory
Models of computation with real numbers
Realizability theory and analysis
Reverse analysis
Exact real number computation
Program extraction in analysis
* SUBMISSIONS
We want to split the submission process into two parts: Please, first submit
an abstract of your paper and then later the full paper. Submit both the
abstract as well as the full manuscript to
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ccc2013mscspostproce
Papers will be processed according to high MSCS standards as soon as they
are submitted. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted
for publication elsewhere. Please prepare your manuscript using the MSCS
style file which can be downloaded from ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk
* ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please email inquiries to spreen@informatik.uni-siegen.de.
34TH IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS, COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS (FORTE 2014)
Call for Papers
A DisCoTec Member Conference
http://www.discotec.org/calls/forte-2014-call-for-papers
June 3-6, 2014
Berlin, Germany
* DATES
Abstract Submission: February 1, 2014
Paper Submission: February 7, 2014
Author Notification: March 10, 2014
* SCOPE
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Languages and semantic foundations:
new modeling and language concepts for distribution and concurrency,
semantics for different types of languages, including programming
languages, modeling languages, and domain-specific languages;
real-time and probability aspects; type systems and behavioral
typing;
- Formal methods and techniques:
design, specification, analysis, verification, validation, testing
and runtime verification of various types of distributed systems
including communications and network protocols, service-oriented
systems, adaptive distributed systems;
- Foundations of security:
new principles for qualitative and quantitative security analysis of
distributed systems, including formal models based on probabilistic
concepts;
- Applications of formal methods:
applying formal methods and techniques for studying quality,
reliability, availability, and safety of distributed systems;
- Practical experience with formal methods:
industrial applications, case studies and software tools for
applying formal methods and description techniques to the
development and analysis of real distributed systems.
* SUBMISSION
Contributions must be written in English and report on original,
unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's
codes of conduct). The submissions must not exceed 15 pages in length,
including figures and references, prepared using Springer's LNCS style
(cf. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the
EasyChair system at the following address:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=forte14
The time of all deadlines is 24:00 SST (UTC-11, Samoa Standard Time).
Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous
reviewers.
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
Series.
* INVITED SPEAKER
Joachim Parrow (Uppsala University, Sweden)
* PROGRAMME CHAIRS
Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France)
18TH EUROPEAN JOINT CONFERENCES ON THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOFTWARE (ETAPS 2015)
Call for Satellite Events
London, UK
April 11-19, 2015
http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/call-for-workshops
* ABOUT ETAPS
The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software
(ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial
researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS is
an annual event which takes place in Europe each spring since 1998.
The eighteenth conference, ETAPS 2015, will take place between April
11th and 19th, 2015 at Queen Mary University of London, in London,
United Kingdom.
* MAIN CONFERENCES
ETAPS main conferences will take place on April 13th-17th, 2015. They are:
- CC: International Conference on Compiler Construction
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- POST: Principles of Security and Trust
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and
Analysis of Systems
* SATELLITE EVENTS
The ETAPS 2015 organizing committee invites proposals for satellite
events (workshops etc.) that will complement the main
conferences. They should fall within the scope of ETAPS. This
encompasses all aspects of the system development process, including
specification, design, implementation, analysis and improvement, as
well as the languages, methodologies and tools which support these
activities, covering a spectrum from practically-motivated theory to
soundly-based practice. Satellite events provide an opportunity to
discuss and report on emerging research approaches and practical
experience relevant to theory and practice of software.
ETAPS 2015 satellite events will be held immediately before and after
the main conferences, on April 11th-12th and April 18th-19th, 2015.
* SUBMISSION OF SATELLITE EVENT PROPOSALS
Researchers and practitioners wishing to organize satellite events are
invited to submit proposals in plain text or pdf by e-mail to Paulo
Oliva p.oliva@qmul.ac.uk). The required format of the proposal is
described at http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/call-for-workshops
The proposals will be evaluated by the ETAPS 2015 organizing committee
on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of
ETAPS 2015. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages
of previous satellite events as examples:
ETAPS 2014: http://www.etaps.org/2014/workshops
ETAPS 2013: http://www.etaps.org/2013/workshops
ETAPS 2012: http://www.etaps.org/2012/workshops
ETAPS 2011: http://www.etaps.org/2011/workshops
* IMPORTANT DATES
Satellite event proposals deadline: February 7th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: February 28th, 2014
* FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES
Please contact Paulo Oliva (p.oliva@qmul.ac.uk).
28TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM DEVOTED TO LOGIC (LOGICA 2014)
Call for Papers
June 16-20, 2014
Hejnice, Czech Republic
http://www.flu.cas.cz/en/logica2014
* SCOPE
Logica 2014 is the 28th in the series of annual international symposia
devoted to logic. Contributions devoted to any of the wide range of
logical problems are welcome except those focused on specialized technical
applications. Particularly welcome are contributions that cover issues
interesting both for 'philosophically' and for 'mathematically' oriented
logicians.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for submissions: 15 February
- Notification of acceptance: by the end of March
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Dorothy Edgington, Dag Prawitz, Graham Priest and Goran Sundholm.
* DETAILS
Detailed information can be found on the webpage.
8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2014)
http://www.tap2014.org
Co-located with STAF, York, UK, July 24-25, 2014
* SCOPE
The TAP conference is devoted to the synergy of proofs and tests,
to the application of techniques from both sides and their combination
for the advancement of software quality.
* TOPICS
Topics of interest cover theory definitions, tool constructions and
experimentations, and include (other topics related to TAP are welcome):
- Bridging the gap between concrete and symbolic techniques, e.g. using
proof search in satisfiability modulo theories solvers to enhance
various testing techniques
- Transfer of concepts from testing to proving (e.g., coverage criteria)
and from proving to testing
- Program proving with the aid of testing techniques
- Verification and testing techniques combining proofs and tests
- Generation of test data, oracles, or preambles by deductive techniques
such as: theorem proving, model checking, symbolic execution,
constraint logic programming
- Model-based testing and verification
- Generation of specifications by deduction
- Automatic bug finding
- Debugging of programs combining static and dynamic analysis
- Case studies combining tests and proofs
- Domain specific applications of testing and proving to new application
domains such as validating security protocols, vulnerability detection
of programs, security
- Testing of verification environments and reasoning engines like solvers
and theorem provers
- New approaches such as crowd-sourcing and serious games to
infer intended semantics and assess correctness
- Formal frameworks
- Tool descriptions and experience reports
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: February 25, 2014
Paper submission: March 1, 2014
Notification: April 28, 2014
Camera ready version: May 12, 2014
TAP conference: July 24-25, 2014
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Martina Seidl (JKU Linz/TU Wien, Austria)
Nikolai Tillmann (Microsoft Research, USA)
* SUBMISSION
Please submit your papers via easychair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2014
(submission page to be opened in due time)
TAP 2014 will accept two types of papers and also tutorials:
- Research papers: full papers with at most 16 pages in LNCS format
(pdf), which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted
elsewhere. Research papers should clearly describe the addressed
problem, the relevant state-of-the-art, the scientifically-founded
solution, and the benefits of the presented approach.
- Short contributions: work in progress, (industrial) experience
reports or tool demonstrations, position statements; an extended
abstract with at most 6 pages in LNCS format (pdf) is expected.
The same evaluation criteria apply to short papers as to full
research papers. Short papers will be reviewed to the same
standards of quality as full research papers.
- Tutorials: TAP 2014 further invites one-hour tutorial presentation
surveying the state-of-the-art of any research field related
to the topics of TAP. Tutorial proposals shall have a maximum
length of 3 pages in LNCS format (pdf) and provide information
about the content, a short outline, and information about the
speakers.
Accepted full and short papers will be published in the Springer LNCS
series and will be available at the conference. Accepted tutorials
will be assigned a slot of 60 minutes during the conference.
The contents of previous TAP proceedings is available at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/tap/tap2013.html
ACKERMANN AWARD 2014 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Call for Nominations
http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
* ELIGIBILITY
Eligible for the 2014 Ackermann Award are PhD dissertations in topics
specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally
accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution
between 1.1.2012 and 31.12.2013.
* SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submission details are available at
http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
- The deadline for submission is February 28, 2014
- Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Jury by e-mail:
anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk
* DETAILS
The award consists of
- a diploma,
- an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference,
- the publication of the laudation in the CSL proceedings,
- travel support to attend the conference.
The 2014 Ackermann Award will be presented to the recipients at the
joint CSL/LICS conference in Vienna (Austria) to be held 14-18 July 2014.
* JURY
The jury consists of 8 members:
- T. Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg)
- A. Dawar (Cambridge, U.K., president of EACSL)
- T.A. Henzinger (Klosterneuburg, Austria)
- D. Leivant (Bloomington, USA)
- D. Niwinski (Warsaw, Poland)
- L. Ong (Oxford, U.K., LICS representative)
- S. Ronchi Della Rocca (vice-president of EACSL)
- W. Thomas (Aachen, Germany)
The jury is entitled to give more (or less) than one award per year.
CONFERENCES ON INTELLIGENT COMPUTER MATHEMATICS (CICM 2014)
Call for Papers
July 7-11, 2014 at University of Coimbra, Portugal
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014
* SCOPE
As computers and communications technology advance, greater
opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While
computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and
novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories,
we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these
areas. The Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM)
offer a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy.
* TRACKS
- Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning)
Chair: James Davenport
- DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries)
Chair: Petr Sojka
- MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management)
Chair: Josef Urban
- Systems and Projects
Chair: Alan Sexton
* ORGANISATION
The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements
Chair, Paedro Quaresma (U. Coimbra, Portugal), and the overall
programme will be organised by the General Program Chair, Stephen Watt
(U. Western Ontario, Canada).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: 28 February 2014
Submission deadline: 7 March 2014
Reviews sent to authors: 4 April 2014
Rebuttals due: 8 April 2014
Notification of acceptance: 14 April 2014
Camera ready copies due: 25 April 2014
* WORK IN PROGRESS AND DOCTORAL PROGRAMME SUBMISSIONS
Submission deadline: 28 April 2014
(Doctoral: Abstract+CV)
Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2014
Camera ready copies due: 26 May 2014
NASSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION
Call for Papers
June 23-27, 2014
University of Maryland, College Park
* The North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information
(NASSLLI) welcomes paper submissions for presentation at its Student
Session. Submissions may be in any of the fields related to the school
(logic and language, logic and computation, or language and computation)
and should represent original, unpublished work by individuals who will not
yet have received their Ph.D. by the time of the conference.
The Student Session will co-occur with NASSLLI and provides students an
excellent opportunity to present their work to experts in their field as
well as to a broader, well-informed interdisciplinary audience. All
submissions will be reviewed by at least three specialists who will provide
commentary on the paper regardless of its acceptance status.
Submissions should be prepared for blind review (i.e., should not contain
any information identifying the author) and should be uploaded as a .pdf
file to the Student Session's EasyChair site. Submissions should not
exceed 10 pages and should be formatted standardly (11 or 12 point font,
1 inch margins).
No more than one-single authored and one co-authored paper should be
submitted by an individual. (All co-authors should also be students.)
Authors whose submissions have been accepted and who intend to present will
be required to register for NASSLLI.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: February 28, 2014 (by midnight)
Notifications: April 14, 2014
* WEBSITES:
Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=stusnasslli14
NASSLLI 2014: http://www.nasslli2014.com/
MAKING AUTOMATED REASONING PRACTICAL: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF MARK STICKEL
Call for Papers
* DEADLINE
Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2014
* AIM
This is a book of collected articles presenting research in all aspects of
automated reasoning, in particular the design of automated reasoning
systems and their applications.
A common theme behind Mark Stickel's work was developing techniques for
building better automated reasoning systems. His discoveries were
ground-breaking and include AC-unification, reasoning modulo a theory, term
indexing, and thorough development of the SNARK and PTTP provers. In 2002 he
received the Herbrand award for all his work, the highest award in automated
reasoning (http://www.cadeinc.org/).
We would like to honour Mark's achievements by editing a Festschrift
comprised of articles in the spirit of his research approach: developing
fundamental techniques driven by practical applications and informed by
rigorous theory.
* SCOPE
We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of
automated reasoning and its applications, especially but not
exclusively to the design of automated theorem proving systems, with
connections to any of Mark Stickel's research areas:
- Automated theorem proving, including deductive and abductive reasoning
- Implementation of and practice with automated reasoners
- Algorithmics for automated reasoners: unification,
matching, rewriting, indexing
- Integration of general-purpose reasoning with external procedures
- Spatial and temporal reasoning
- Inference control, theory reasoning, semantic guidance for automated reasoners
- Application of automated reasoners in mathematics,
logic, program synthesis, natural language, and natural sciences
- SAT-solving
- Applications related to formal methods
* PUBLICATION DETAILS
It is planned that the book will be published as an LNAI Festschrift
with Springer.
* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
While it is expected that most of the papers will be regular
technical papers, a few papers that combine scientific content
with recollections of Mark Stickel's work and personality,
as can be written by those who worked with him, are also sought.
All papers will be refereed by anonymous peer reviewers, and
read by the editors, according to the highest standards in terms
of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability.
Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf
format. They must be unpublished and not submitted for
publication elsewhere. However, significantly extended versions
of papers published at conferences are welcome. Submissions
of any length will be considered, but final versions may be
limited by the editors depending on the totality of submissions.
Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX.
Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained
via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Electronic submission via EasyChair is open at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=festschriftmarkstick .
In order to facilitate the planning of the book, authors are
invited to notify the editors as soon as possible of their
intention to submit with proposed topic and length. Early
submission would be especially helpful for completing the
review process sooner.
* EDITORS
Peter Baumgartner NICTA and Australian National University,
http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~baumgart/
Richard Waldinger SRI International,
http://www.ai.sri.com/~waldinge/
7TH INTERACTION AND CONCURRENCY EXPERIENCE (ICE 2014)
June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany
http://www.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2014
Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2014
http://www.discotec.org
* HIGHLIGHTS
- Innovative selection procedure
- ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief
announcements of already published papers
- Invited talks: Kim Larsen and Pavol Cerny
- Special issue in a highly-reputed journal
* IMPORTANT DATES
12 March 2014...................Abstract submission
15 March 2014...................Full paper submission
16 March - 15 April 2014....Reviews and PC discussion
16 April 2014......................Notification to authors
6 June 2014.......................ICE in Berlin
15 September 2014...........Camera-ready for post-proceedings
* SCOPE
Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of international
scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer science researchers
with special interest in models, verification, tools, and programming
primitives for complex interactions. The special focus of ICE 2014 is
automation in concurrency and interaction.
* SELECTION PROCEDURE
Since its 1st edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has been
an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion
amongst authors and PC members.
During the review phase, each submission is published on a dedicated
discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of
the submission and by all the PC members not in conflict with the
submission. The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions and
clarifications to the authors, allowing them to better explain all the
aspects of their submission. The evaluation of the submission will take
into account not only the reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion.
As witnessed by the past six editions of ICE, this procedure considerably
improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the selection, the
quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during the workshop.
* SUBMISSIONS
We invite for three types of submissions:
(1) Full Papers;
(2) Short Papers;
(3) Brief Announcements of already Published Papers.
Full and short papers will appear in the post-proceedings and must report
previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other
conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The ICE 2014
post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical
Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite for brief
announcements of already published results, should the authors be
interested in discussing their published research with the ICE community
and giving a talk. Brief announcements will not be part of the
post-proceedings.
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2014). Full papers should
not exceed 15 pages in length, while short papers and brief announcements
should not exceed 5 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/).
* SPECIAL ISSIE
We plan to invite extended versions of selected full papers to a special
issue in a highly-reputed journal. Such contributions will be regularly
peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but they will be
handled in a shorter time than regular submissions.
* INVITED TALKS
Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Pavol Cerny (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
* ICEcreamers
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy; PC chair)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria; PC chair)
Hugo Torres Vieira (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC (AiML 2014)
Call for Papers
August 5-8, 2014
Groningen, The Netherlands
http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/
* SCOPE
AiML is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in
modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists
of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences.
Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net.
AiML-2014 is the tenth conference in the series.
* TOPICS
We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including:
history of modal logic; philosophy of modal logic; applications of modal
logic; computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming,
model checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics);
theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory
of modal logic); specific instances and variations of modal logic (description
logics, modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other
process logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and temporal
logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural logics, computationally
light fragments of all such logics). Papers on related subjects will also be
considered.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract of full paper submission due: 14 March 2014
Full paper submission due: 21 March 2014
Full paper notification: 2 May 2014
Short presentation submission due: 12 May 2014
Short presentation notification: 2 June 2014
12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND FORMAL METHODS (SEFM 2014)
Grenoble, France
September 1-5, 2014
http://sefm2014.inria.fr/
* AIMS
The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and
researchers from academia, industry and government to advance the
state of the art in formal methods, to scale up their application in
the software industry and to encourage their integration with
practical engineering methods. Papers that apply formal methods to
software engineering are especially welcome.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission: March 14, 2014
Paper Submission: March 21, 2014 (AoE)
Notification: May 19, 2014
Camera Ready: June 13, 2014
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Formal requirement analysis, modeling, specification and design
- Abstraction and refinement
- Formal methods for probabilistic verification and synthesis
- Programming languages, program analysis and type theory
- Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, service-oriented and cloud computing
- Formal aspects of security and mobility
- Model checking, theorem proving and decision procedures
- Formal methods for real-time, hybrid and embedded systems
- Formal methods for safety-critical, fault-tolerant and secure systems
- Software architecture and coordination languages
- Software verification and validation
- Component, object and multi-agent systems
- Formal aspects of software evolution and maintenance
- Formal methods for testing, re-engineering and reuse
- Light-weight and scalable formal methods
- Tool integration
- Applications of formal methods, industrial case studies and technology transfer
- Education and formal methods
* SUBMISSION
We solicit two categories of papers:
- Research papers should describe fully developed work and should not
exceed 15 pages (including appendices). Authors of papers reporting
experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental
results available to reviewers. Case study papers should describe
significant case studies and lessons learned.
- Tool papers should describe an operational tool and its
contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages. Please include
the URL of the tool (if available).
* CHAIR
Radu Mateescu - Inria Grenoble, Rhoene-Alpes, France
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA
Gwen Sala?n, Grenoble INP, Inria, France
LASER SUMMER SCHOOL ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (LASER 2014)
Call for Participation
Leading-Edge Software Engineering
September 7-13, 2014 - Elba Island, Italy
http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2014/
* GOALS
The LASER summer school, organized by the ETH Chair of Software
Engineering, brings together the concepts and practice of software
engineering in the idyllic setting of the Elba Island off the coast of
Tuscany, easily reachable by air, car, bus or train.
The LASER school is intended for professionals from the industry
(engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including
PhD students. Participants learn about the most important software
technology advances from the pioneers in the field. The school's focus
is applied, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations.
The format of the school favors extensive interaction between
participants and speakers.
* TOPIC AND SPEAKERS
The LASER school is 10 years old! To celebrate this anniversary,
we have gone not for a narrow topic but for a selection of brilliant
speakers who will describe leading-edge research in a variety of areas
of software engineering, both conceptual and applied:
- Harald C. Gall (University of Zurich)
- Daniel Jackson (MIT)
- Michael Jackson (The Open University)
- Erik Meijer (Applied Duality)
- Bertrand Meyer (ETH Zurich)
- Gail C. Murphy (University of British Columbia)
- Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University)
* HOW TO APPLY
Use the online registration form available on the LASER website
http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2014. Registration is open until March 31,
2014. The number of participants is strictly limited to ensure quality
interaction with the lecturers and the rest of the audience. For more
information, visit our website or contact the organizers:
se-laser@lists.inf.ethz.ch
ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION
Call for Papers
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/
Tuebingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014
* ABOUT
The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language,
and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Tübingen, Germany, on August
11-22, 2014. We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from
students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language &
Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by
several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally
or as posters and will appear in the student session proceedings. This is
an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers
and to present your work to a diverse audience.
* SEPARATE POSTER SESSION
Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral
presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be
directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done
separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they
offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress.
More detailed guidelines and policies regarding submission can be found on
the Student Session website: http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/
Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters
relating to the Student Session to: dehaan@kr.tuwien.ac.at.
For general inquiries about ESSLLI 2014, please consult the main ESSLLI
2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2014
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 1, 2014
Conference dates: August 11-22, 2014
* CHAIRS
Ronald de Haan (Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria)
LoCo co-chairs:
Zoe Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Aybuke Ozgun (Universite de Lorraine, France)
LoLa co-chairs:
Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Thomas Brochhagen (Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)
LaCo co-chairs:
Miriam Kaeshammer (Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)
Ramon Ziai (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)
14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RUNTIME VERIFICATION (RV 2014)
Call for Papers
September 22-25, 2014
Toronto, Canada
http://rv2014.imag.fr/
* SCOPE
Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software
and hardware system executions. Runtime verification techniques are crucial
for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they are significantly
more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical
than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior
to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after
deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing
fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair.
* TECHNICAL RESEARCH PAPERS TRACK
Technical research papers can be submitted in two categories: regular and
short papers.
- Regular papers (up to 15 pages) should present original unpublished results.
Theoretical and experimental papers as well as papers on applications of
runtime verification and case studies are all welcome. A non-monetary Best
Paper Award will be given. A selection of accepted regular papers will be
invited to appear in a special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal
Methods in System Design.
- Short papers (up to 5 pages) may present novel but not necessarily
thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification
techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish
relationships between runtime verification and other domains. Accepted
short papers will be presented in special short talk (10 minutes) and
poster sessions.
* TOOL DEMONSTRATION TRACK
The aim of the RV 2014 tool demonstration track is to provide an opportunity
for researchers and practitioners to show and to discuss the latest advances,
experiences and challenges in devising and developing reliable software
tools for runtime verification. Tool papers should meet the following criteria:
A tool paper should present a new tool, a new tool component or novel
extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. Each submission
should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form.
Each submission must not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS/Springer proceeding
format, including all text, references and figures. The paper must be written
in English and provided in PDF format.
Each submission must be accompanied at the time of the submission by a short
screencast (between 5-10 minutes), with voice and overlay text commentary
illustrating the demonstration of the tool (a link to it should be provided
in the paper).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract deadline: April 8, 2014
Full paper deadline: April 15, 2014
Rebuttal phase: May 18-20, 2014
Acceptance notification: June 10, 2014
Camera ready submission: June 25, 2014
Conference dates: 22-25 September, 2014
12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGY FOR VERIFICATION AND ANALYSIS (ATVA 2014)
Call for Workshop Proposals
November 3-7, 2014, Sydney, Australia
http://atva-conferences.org
* GOALS
The 12th International Symposium on Automated Technology for
Verification and Analysis (ATVA) invites proposals for pre-
and postconference workshops to be held on November 3 (pre)
or November 7 (post). The ATVA conference series covers the
spectrum from theoretical results to practical applications
of automated analysis, verification and synthesis.
Proposals that promise to bring new topics to ATVA, of either
practical or theoretical importance, or to provide a forum for more
detailed discussion on central topics of continuing importance
are highly welcome. Proposals that explore the application of
automated tools to real-world problems are especially encouraged.
Workshop proposals are limited to 2 pages, and should provide at
least the following information:
- Title
- Description of the workshop topic and goals
(Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic?)
- Intended audience
(From which areas do you expect potential participants to
come? How many participants do you expect?)
- Relevance and relation of the workshop to the main conference
- Organisation of the workshop
(Describe the intended format (e.g. paper selection process),
its expected duration (full day or half day) and its preferred
date (November 3rd or November 7th)
- Organisers' details
(Provide affiliations, backgrounds and contact details of
organisers and potential committee members)
Proposals should be sent as PDF to the workshop chair Peter Hoefner
(peter.hoefner@nicta.com.au).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for proposal submissions: April 14, 2014
Acceptance/rejection notification: May 19, 2014
Workshop Date: November 3rd and 7th
12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON FORMAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF TIMED SYSTEMS (FORMATS 2014)
Preliminary Call for Papers
September 8-10, 2014
http://www.florence2014.org/
* TOPICS
The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and
practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers
from different disciplines that share interests in modelling and
analysis of timed systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited
to):
- Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems
and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata,
timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus
algebra, probabilistic models).
- Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and
software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal
constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis,
optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.).
- Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in
application domains in which timing plays an important role
(real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling
in manufacturing and telecommunication).
* SUBMISSION
FORMATS 2014 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results
and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned
above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished
contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers
should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS
style guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages in length.
Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair online
submission system:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=formats2014
The proceedings of FORMATS 2014 will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract submission: April 14, 2014
- Paper submission: April 21, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2014
- Final version due: June 23, 2014
- Conference: September 8-10, 2014
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Marius Bozga (VERIMAG / CNRS, Grenoble, France)
Axel Legay (IRISA / INRIA Rennes, France)
* VENUE
FORMATS 2014 will take place in Florence, Italy as part of FLORENCE
2014, a one-week scientific event on formal and quantitative methods
for the development of dependable and performing systems:
http://www.florence2014.org/
It will be held in Florence during the week 8-12 September 2014, and
it will co-locate five major conferences in the areas of formal and
quantitative analysis of systems, performance engineering, computer
safety, and industrial critical applications.
All the conferences will take place at the Aeronautical Sciences
School of the Italian Air Force, inside the monumental and historical
park of Cascine in the city of Florence.
* COLOCATED EVENTS
- QEST: International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems
- SAFECOMP: International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and
Security
- EPEW: European Workshop on Performance Engineering
- FMICS: International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial
Critical Systems
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN MACRO-BIOLOGY (FMMB 2014)
Call for Papers
September 22-24, 2014
Noumea, New Caledonia
http://fmmb2014.sciencesconf.org/
* AIMS AND SCOPE
The purpose of FMMB is to bring together researchers, developers,
and students in theoretical computer science, applied mathematics,
mathematical and computational biology, interested in studying the
application of formal methods to the construction and analysis of
models describing biological processes at both micro and macro levels.
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- representation and analysis of biological systems in formal systems
such as:
o ordinary and partial differential equation systems,
o discrete event systems, infinite state systems,
o hybrid discrete-continuous systems, hybrid automata,
o cellular automata, multi-agent systems,
o stochastic processes, stochastic games,
o statistical physics models,
o process algebras, process calculi,
o rewriting systems, graph grammars,
- coupling models and data, inference of models from data,
- computability and complexity issues,
- modelling and analysis tools, case studies.
Application areas particularly solicited include:
- environmental biology, ecology, marine science,
- agriculture and forestry,
- developmental biology, population biology,
- epidemiology, medicine,
- systems biology, synthetic biology.
* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Pieter Collins, Maastricht University, Netherlands,
Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia,
Radu Grosu, Vienna Technical University, Austria,
Steffen Klamt, Max Planck Institute Magdeburg, Germany,
Pietro Lio', Cambridge University, UK,
Helene Morlon, Ecole Polytechnique and CNRS, France.
* PC CO-CHAIRS
Francois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France,
Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy.
* LOCAL CHAIR
Teodor Knapik, University of New Caledonia.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 25
Author notification: June 4
Camera-ready copy due: June 25
* SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Regular submissions of 12-20 pages or short submissions of 2 pages
in LNCS style should be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmmb2014 .
All accepted papers will be published in a book in the LNBI series of
Springer-Verlag. Authors of the most significant contributions will
be invited to submit extended versions for a journal special issue.
8TH IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE (TCS 2014)
Call for Papers
September 1-3, 2014 Rome, Italy
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/tcs2014/
* AIM AND SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
Under the patronage of the International Federation of Information
Processing (IFIP), since year 2000 the IFIP Technical Committee 1
(Foundations of Computer Science) has organized a series of biannual
international conferences in Theoretical Computer Science. After Sendai
(2000), Montreal (2002), Toulouse (2004), Santiago (2006), Milano (2008),
Brisbane (2010), and Amsterdam (2012), the 8th edition will be held in Rome
in September 2014, in cooperation with the IFIP Working Group 2.2 (Formal
Description of Programming Concepts) and in conjunction with the 25th
Conference on Concurrency Theory. We call for papers in all areas of
Theoretical Computer Science: they will be evaluated by two committees:
- Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation
- Track B: Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification
* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 15 pages
(LNCS style with at least 11-point font size) to arrive before April 27,
2014. If more space is needed, a clearly marked appendix, to be read at the
discretion of the program committee, may be included if desired. Submission
will be handled by EasyChair. Further information and submission details
can be found on the Conference web page. Simultaneous submissions to other
conferences with published proceedings are not allowed.
* PROCEEDINGS
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers from TCS 2014 will
be invited to a special issue of the Journal Theoretical Computer Science.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission: April 27, 2014.
Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2014.
Final manuscript due: July 6, 2014.
Conference: September 1-3, 2014.
* CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
- Daniele Gorla, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
- Rossella Petreschi, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
- Track A: Josep Diaz (Chair), UPC Barcelona
- Track B: Davide Sangiorgi (Chair), Univ. di Bologna
9TH SYMPOSIUM ON TRUSTWORTHY GLOBAL COMPUTING (TGC 2014)
Call for Papers
http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/tgc2014/
5-6 September, 2014
Rome, Italy (co-located with Concur 2014)
* SCOPE
The Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing is an international annual
venue dedicated to secure and reliable computation in the so-called global
computing, i.e., those computational abstractions emerging in large-scale
infrastructures such as service-oriented architectures, autonomic systems,
and cloud computing.
* HIGHLIGHTS
- Parallel submission to CONCUR 2014 allowed (see submission instructions)
- Keynote speakers: Veronique Cortier (CNRS, France) and Catuscia Palamidessi
(INRIA Saclay and LIX, France)
- Deadline for abstract submission: May 2 2014
* TOPICS
The TGC series focuses on providing frameworks, tools, algorithms, and
protocols for rigorously designing, verifying, and implementing open-ended,
large-scaled applications. The related models of computation incorporate
code and data mobility over distributed networks that connect heterogeneous
devices and have dynamically changing topologies.
We solicit papers in all areas of global computing, including (but not
limited to):
- languages, semantic models, and abstractions
- security, trust, and reliability
- privacy and information flow policies
- algorithms and protocols
- resource management
- model checking, theorem proving, and static analysis
- tool support
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for abstract submission: May 2 2014
- Deadline for paper submission: May 9 2014 (STRICT!)
- Notification to authors: June 27 2014
* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Contributions must be in PostScript or PDF format and consist of no more
than 15 pages in the Springer's LNCS style. Clearly marked appendixes may
include additional details and proofs omitted due to space limitations.
Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not
submitted for publication elsewhere, with the exception of CONCUR. Concurrent
submissions to CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014 are allowed, and in fact encouraged,
for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of
such double submissions should flag them to the program chairs at the time
of submission (by choosing the Regular Paper submitted to CONCUR paper
category). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR and TGC. CONCUR timeline
is ahead of TGC; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered
automatically withdrawn from TGC.
* POST-PROCEEDINGS
We plan to publish post-proceedings shortly after the conference, to give
the authors the opportunity to take into account discussions and suggestions
at the conference.
The post-proceedings will appear as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series.
* PC CHAIRS
- Matteo Maffei (CISPA, Saarland University, Germany)
- Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK)
14TH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF CRITICAL SYSTEMS (AVOCS 2014)
Call for Papers
http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014
24-26th September, 2014
University of Twente, Netherlands
* AIMS
The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2014 is
to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members
of the international research community on tools and techniques for
the verification of critical systems. The subject is to be interpreted
broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated
verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT
constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining
to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent
dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical,
performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different
techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical
programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow
for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop will be
relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion.
There are several studentships available in order to support PhD
students who wish to participate in the workshop.
* TOPICS
Topics include (but are not limited to)
- Model Checking
- Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving
- SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification
- Abstract Interpretation
- Specification and Refinement
- Requirements Capture and Analysis
- Verification of Software and Hardware
- Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience
- Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems
- Dependable Systems
- Verified System Development
- Industrial Applications
* INVITED SPEAKERS
The workshop will have three invited speakers:
- Laura Kovacs (Chalmers, Sweden) will speak about automated assertion
generation.
- Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College, UK) will speak about verification
of OpenCL kernels.
- A third speaker will be announced soon.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission (abstract for full paper): 16th June 2014
Submission (full papers): 23rd June 2014
Notification (full papers): 30th July 2014
Submission (research ideas): 7th August 2014
Notification (research ideas): 14th August 2014
Submission of final versions: 1st September 2014
Workshop: 24-26th September 2014
* FULL PAPERS
Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have
been published or be concurrently considered for publication
elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the
basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and
presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Final versions of
the papers must be written in English and not exceed 15
pages. Formatting details are provided on the website.
* RESEARCH IDEAS
AVoCS'14 encourages the submissions of research ideas
in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing
work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme
Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted
abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research
ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages.
* PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE
At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a
University of Twente Technical Report; this report will also include
the research ideas.
After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have
about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the
workshop post-proceedings which will appear in the Electronic
Communications of the EASST Open Access Journal. Research ideas will
not be part of the proceedings in the Open Access Journal.
We will invite authors of a selection of the best papers presented at
the workshop to submit extended versions of their work for publication
in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer
Programming.
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair)
Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair)
* ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Marieke Huisman
Wojciech Mostowski (publicity chair)
Jaco van de Pol
88TH WORKSHOP ON GENERAL ALGEBRA (AAA88)
June 19-22, 2014
Warsaw, Poland
http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/aaa88
* LOCATION
The conference location is the new home of mathematics at the Warsaw
University of Technology. The meeting falls within the Stefan Banach
conference series. The scientific program will start on Friday, June 20,
2014, at 9.00, and end on Sunday, June 22, 2014, at 13.00.
The conference will be organized by the Algebra Group at the Warsaw
University of Technology. Support is provided by Warsaw University of
Technology and the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center.
* TOPICS
The main topics of the conference are related to the traditional areas
of the AAA conferences, with special emphasis on the following:
1. Non-classical algebraic structures;
2. Universal algebra and lattice theory;
3. Applications of algebra in logic, combinatorics and computer science;
4. Classical algebraic structures, especially in connection with
universal-algebraic methods.
* PROGRAMME
The list of invited speakers includes:
- Ales Drapal, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Mai Gehrke, Universite Paris Diderot, Paris, France
- Katarzyna Korwin-Slomczynska, Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland
- Jonathan D.H. Smith, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
- Agnes Szendrei, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and Szegedi
Tudomanyegyetem, Hungary
- Mikhail Volkov, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
The program will comprise several longer keynote plenary lectures, a number
of shorter plenary lectures, and a larger number of 20-minute contributed talks.
* FURTHER INFORMATION
The conference website has been set up at http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/aaa88
Further information concerning the online registration and submission of
abstracts, conference fee, accommodation, possible financial support, and
conference proceedings will be provided on the conference website later.
The site will be updated regularly.
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
G. Binczak, T. Brengos, N. Dojer, A. Mucka, A. Pilitowska, A. Romanowska,
M. Stronkowski, A. Zamojska-Dzienio, M. Ziembowski
* SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
E. Aichinger, A. Pilitowska, A. Romanowska, J.D.H. Smith
FONDATION SCIENCES MATHEMATIQUES DE PARIS POSITIONS
* Some calls for applications for the programs of the Fondation Sciences
Mathematiques de Paris for academic year 2014-2015 are still open.
- PGSM International: until January 27th 2014 at 11:59 p.m.
Program description:
http://www.sciencesmaths-paris.fr/en/pgsm-international-264.htm
Online application form:
http://www.sciencesmaths-paris.fr/en/call-for-pgsm-international-387.htm
EUROPEAN MASTER'S PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC
http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html
* This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano
in Italy, the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, the Universidade
Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universität Wien in Austria.
Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four
European universities. In addition, you can do your project work at the
National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer
Science and obtain a joint degree. Information on the universities and
the program including the application procedure is provided here:
http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html
Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for
non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year.
We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship
program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to
48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU students of
our European Master's Program in Computational Logic.
More information on the scholarship program is available from
http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html
The application deadline is January 31st.
POSTDOC IN FORMAL METHODS AT DTU
http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/afa8af12-c781-44f2-af74-d394660981fc
* The IDEA4CPS center at DTU Applied Mathematics and Computer Science has
a new opening for a postdoc. With this call we are particularly interested
in candidates that can interact with our research within one of the
following areas:
(a) The integration of Satisfaction Modulo Theories with frameworks for
quantitative analysis.
(b) The development of quantitative models and analysis for security,
including methods based on entropy.
(c) Model checking for multi-criteria analysis and optimization of safety
and security properties, including Pareto efficiency and equilibria.
Applications must be submitted by February 10th, 2014 according to the
procedure described at
http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/afa8af12-c781-44f2-af74-d394660981fc
that also point to the center (http://www.idea4cps.dk) and the research
group http://www.compute.dtu.dk/english/research/LBT.
Contact: Hanne Riis Nielson & Flemming Nielson
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