Newsletter 165
December 1, 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* LICS-RELATED NEWS
LICS'15 Preview
ACM SIGLOG Announcement
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
CiE 2015 - Call for Papers
LICS 2015 - Call for Papers
CAV 2015 - Call for Papers and CAV Award
TTL 2015 - Call for Papers
CCC 2014 POSTPROCEEDINGS - Call for Submissions
GOEDEL PRIZE 2015 - Call for Nominations
TACL 2015 - Call for School/Conference Participation and Papers
MFPS XXXI - Call for Papers
LPNMR 2015 - Preliminary Call for Papers
ATVA 2015 - Call for Papers
SETTA 2015 - Call for Papers
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Two PhD positions in Information Security at ETH Zurich
New Doctoral Program on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS)
Postdoc Positions on Coinductive Techniques and Probabilistic Models at Bologna and Lyon
Tenure-Track Positions at Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
* BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Logic, Computation, Hierarchies (Festschrift in honour of Victor L. Selivanov)
LICS'15 PREVIEW
http://lics.siglog.org/lics15/
* LICS'15 will colocate with ICALP 2015, 6-10 July, in Kyoto. Masahito Hasegawa
(RIMS, Kyoto) is the Conference Chair. The PC is chaired by Catuscia
Palamidessi. There will be 4 invited talks, 2 of which joint with ICALP
Track B. The 2 invited tutorial talks of 1.5 hours each will be embedded
in the main programme. The first call for papers is available at
http://lics.siglog.org/lics15/.
ACM SIGLOG ANNOUNCEMENT
http://siglog.acm.org
* The ACM has recently chartered a Special Interest Group on Logic and
Computation (ACM SIGLOG). Its first Chair is Prakash Panangaden,
the other officers are Luke Ong (vice-Chair), Natarajan Shankar (Treasurer)
and Alexandra Silva (Secretary).
* The ACM-IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science will be the flagship
conference of SIGLOG. SIGLOG will also actively seek association agreements
with other conferences in the field. A SIGLOG newsletter will be published
quarterly in an electronic format with community news, technical columns,
members' feedback, conference reports, book reviews and other items of
interest to the community.
* One can join SIGLOG by visiting
https://campus.acm.org/public/qj/gensigqj/siglist/gensigqj_siglist.cfm
It is possible to join SIGLOG without joining ACM (the SIGLOG membership
fee is $25 and $15 for students).
DEADLINES
* CiE 2015
Submission Deadline for LNCS: January 11, 2015
http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/
* LICS 2015
Title and Short Abstracts Due: January 12, 2015
Extended Abstracts Due: January 19, 2015
http://lics.siglog.org/lics15/
* CAV 2015
Abstract submission: January 30, 2015
Paper submission (firm): February 6 2015
http://i-cav.org/2015/
* TTL 2015
Paper submission: January 30, 2015
http://ttl2015.irisa.fr/
* CCC 2014 POSTPROCEEDINGS
Submission deadline: January 31, 2015
* GOEDEL PRIZE 2015
Deadline for nominations: January 31, 2015
http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/
* TACL 2015
Submission deadline (tentative): February 1, 2015
http://logica.dmi.unisa.it/tacl/
* MFPS XXXI
Submission deadline: April 3, 2015
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/mfps31/
* LPNMR 2015
Paper registration: April 13, 2015
Paper submission: April 20, 2015
http://lpnmr2015.mat.unical.it/
* ATVA 2015
Abstract submission: April 22, 2015
Paper submission: April 25, 2015
Workshop proposal submission: May 5, 2015
http://atva2015.ios.ac.cn/
* SETTA 2015
Abstract deadline: June 12,2015
Paper submission: June 19,2015
http://cs.nju.edu.cn/setta/
COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2015: Evolving Computability
Call for Papers
June 29 - July 3, Bucharest, Romania
http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/
* CiE 2015 is the 11-th 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.
Evolution of the universe, and us within it, invite a parallel evolution
in understanding. The CiE agenda - fundamental and engaged - targets the
extracting and developing of computational models basic to current challenges.
From the origins of life, to the understanding of human mentality, to the
characterizing of quantum randomness - computability theoretic questions
arise in many guises. The CiE community, this coming year meeting for the
first time in Bucharest, carries forward the search for coherence, depth
and new thinking across this rich and vital field of research.
* We are looking for fundamental and theoretical submissions. In line with
other conferences in this series, CiE 2015 has a broad scope and provides
a forum for the discussion of theoretical and practical issues in
Computability with an emphasis on new paradigms of computation and the
development of their mathematical theory. We particularly invite papers
that build bridges between different parts of the research community.
* Submission Deadline for LNCS: 11 January 2015
Notification of authors: 9 March 2015
Deadline for final revisions: 6 April 2015
For submission instructions consult http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/submission.html
30TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2015)
Call for Papers
July 6-10, 2015
Kyoto, Japan
http://lics.siglog.org/lics15/
(colocated with ICALP 2015)
* AIMS
The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and
practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed.
We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric. Suggested,
but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, automated
deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed
computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database
theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model
theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of
computability, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear
logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects
of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical
aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs,
modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process
calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems,
reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory,
and verification.
* INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about
100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper.
The exact deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE).
- Title and Short Abstracts Due: January 12, 2015
- Extended Abstracts Due: January 19, 2015
- Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: March 12-16, 2015
- Author Notification: March 30, 2015
- Final Versions Due for Proceedings: April 27, 2015
Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All submissions
will be electronic via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2015.
Every extended abstract must be submitted in the IEEE Proceedings 2-column
10pt format and may not be longer than 12 pages, including references.
LaTeX style files are available from the website.
* CONFERENCE CHAIR
Masahito Hasegawa, RIMS, Kyoto U.
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA & E. Polytechnique
* WORKSHOP CHAIR
Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Cachan
* GENERAL CHAIR
Luke Ong, U. Oxford
* SHORT PRESENTATIONS
A session of short presentations, intended for descriptions of student
research, works in progress, and other brief communications, is planned.
These abstracts will not be published. Dates and guidelines will be posted
on the conference website.
* KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER
An award in honor of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best
student paper(s), as judged by the program committee.
* SPECIAL ISSUES
Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program
committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM.
Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical
Methods in Computer Science.
* SPONSORSHIP
The symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGLOG and the IEEE Technical Committee
on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, in cooperation with the Association
for Symbolic Logic and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-AIDED VERIFICATION (CAV 2015)
Call for Papers and CAV Award
July 18-24 2015, San Francisco, California
http://i-cav.org/2015/
* AIMS AND SCOPE
CAV 2015 is the 27th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the
theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for
hardware and software systems. CAV considers it vital to continue
spurring advances in hardware and software verification while expanding
to new domains such as biological systems and computer security. The
conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete
applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the
algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS
series. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of
Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.
* TOPICS
- Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- 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 run-time 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
* DEADLINES
Abstract submission: January 30 2015
Paper submission (firm): February 6 2015
Author feedback/rebuttal period: March 23-26 2015
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 17 2015
Final version due: May 1 2015
* CALL FOR CAV AWARD NOMINATIONS
The CAV award is given annually at the CAV conference for fundamental
contributions to the field of Computer-Aided Verification. The award comes
with a cash prize of US$10,000 shared equally among recipients. Nominations
should be submitted by e-mail to a member of the CAV Award committee.
* PC CHAIRS
Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, UK.
Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/NASA Ames, USA.
* WORKSHOP CHAIR
Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany
* LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Temesghen Kahsai, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/NASA Ames, USA.
* CAV AWARD COMMITTEE
Moshe Vardi (Chair) Rice University
Ahmed Bouajjani Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
Tom Ball , Microsoft Research
Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University
TTL 2015 - 4th INT'L CONF ON TOOLS FOR TEACHING LOGIC
2nd Call for Papers
June 9-12, 2015, Rennes, France
http://ttl2015.irisa.fr/
* TOPICS
Topics that fit the interests of Tools for Teaching Logic include
(but are not limited to): teaching logic in sciences and humanities;
teaching logic at different levels of instruction (secondary
education, university level, and postgraduate); didactic software;
facing some difficulties concerning what to teach; international
postgraduate programs; resources and challenges for e-Learning Logic;
teaching Argumentation Theory, Critical Thinking and Informal Logic;
teaching specific topics, such as Modal Logic, Algebraic Logic,
Knowledge Representation, Model Theory, Philosophy of Logic, and
others; dissemination of logic courseware and logic textbooks;
teaching Logic Thinking.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: 30 Jan 2015;
Notification: 1 Mar 2015;
Final camera-ready due: 29 Mar 2015
CONTINUITY, COMPUTABILITY, CONSTRUCTIVITY: FROM LOGIC TO ALGORITHMS 2014 POSTPROCEEDINGS
Call for Submissions
* After a further year of successful work in the EU-IRSES project COMPUTAL and
an excellent workshop in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in September this year, we are
planning to publish a collection of papers dedicated to the meeting and the
project in the JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND ANALYSIS. The issue should reflect
progress made in Computable Analysis and related areas, not only work in
the project. Submissions are welcome from all scientists and should be on
topics in the spectrum from logic to algorithms including, but not limited to,
- 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.
* EDITORS
Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK)
Willem FouchE (Pretoria, South Africa)
Dieter Spreen (Siegen, Germany & Pretoria, South Africa)
Hideki Tsuiki (Kyoto, Japan)
Martin Ziegler (Darmstadt, Germany)
* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
31 January 2015
Please prepare your manuscript using the JLA class file jlogana.cls and
the bibliography style file jloganal.bst which can be downloaded from
http://logicandanalysis.org/latex/latexinstructions.html
For submissions go to the JLA webpage
http://logicandanalysis.org/index.php/jla/information/authors
and follow the instructions given there. In addition, important,
When submitting to JLA, write CCC2014 POSTPROCEEDINGS in the
Comments-for-the-Editor box. Send a separate copy of your submission to
spreen@math.uni-siegen.de. And, if appropriate, identify one or more members
of the Issue Editors mentioned above whose interests are closest to the
subject matter of the paper in the mail.
23RD GOEDEL PRIZE
Call for Nominations
http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/
* The Goedel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer
science is sponsored jointly by the European Association for Theoretical
Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery,
Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT).
The award is presented annually, with the presentation taking place
alternately at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and
Programming (ICALP) and the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC).
The 23rd Goedel Prize will be awarded at the 47th ACM Symposium on Theory
of Computing, June, 2015 in Portland, Oregon.
The Prize is named in honor of Kurt Gšdel in recognition of his major
contributions to mathematical logic and of his interest, discovered in a
letter he wrote to John von Neumann shortly before von NeumannÕs death,
in what has become the famous ÒP versus NPÓ question. The Prize includes
an award of USD 5000.
* AWARD COMMITEE
The winner of the Prize is selected by a committee of six members. The EATCS
President and the SIGACT Chair each appoint three members to the committee,
to serve staggered three-year terms. The committee is chaired alternately by
representatives of EATCS and SIGACT. The 2015 Award Committee consists of
Krzysztof Apt (CWI Amsterdam), Kurt Mehlhorn (Max Planck Institute),
Joseph Mitchell (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Andrew Pitts
(University of Cambridge), Madhu Sudan (Microsoft) and ƒva Tardos
(Cornell University).
* ELIGIBILITY
The rules for the 2015 Prize are given below and they supersede any
different interpretation of the generic rule to be found on websites of
both SIGACT and EATCS. Any research paper or series of papers by a single
author or by a team of authors is deemed eligible if
(i) the paper was published in a recognized refereed journal no later than
December 31, 2014;
(ii) the main results were not published (in either preliminary or final
form) in a journal or conference proceedings before January 1st, 2002.
The research work nominated for the award should be in the area of
theoretical computer science. The term Òtheoretical computer scienceÓ
is meant to encompass, but is not restricted to, research areas covered by
ICALP and STOC. Nominations are encouraged from the broadest spectrum of
the theoretical computer science community so as to ensure that potential
award winning papers are not overlooked. The Award Committee shall have
the ultimate authority to decide whether a particular paper is eligible for
the Prize.
* NOMINATIONS
Nominations for the award should be submitted by email to the Award Committee
Chair Eva Tardos: eva.tardos@cornell.edu. Please make sure that the Subject
line of all nominations and related messages begin with Goedel Prize 2015.
To be considered, nominations for the 2015 Prize must be received by
January 31, 2015.
* MORE DETAILS
http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/
TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA, AND CATEGORIES IN LOGIC (TACL 2015)
Conference and School
Call for Participation
School: 15 - 19 June 2015, University of Salerno (Italy)
Conference: 21 - 26 June 2015, Ischia Island (Italy)
http://logica.dmi.unisa.it/tacl/
* The programme of the conference TACL 2015 will focus on three
interconnecting mathematical themes central to the semantic study of
logics and their applications: algebraic, categorical, and topological
methods. This is the seventh conference in the series Topology,
Algebra, and Categories in Logic (TACL). Earlier instalments of this
conference have been organised in Tbilisi (2003), Barcelona (2005),
Oxford (2007), Amsterdam (2009), Marseilles (2011), and Nashville
(2013). Starting from 2013, the conference is preceded by a one-week
school. This year the school will be held at the campus of the
University of Salerno and will include four tutorials, each consisting
of 1.5 hour lectures for five days.
* Please express you interest on the website
* TENTATIVE DATES
Call for papers 15 November 2014
Deadline for submissions 1 February 2015
Notification of acceptance 15 March 2015
* Detailed information can be found on the webpage.
MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PROGRAMMING SEMANTICS XXXI (MFPS 2015)
Call for Papers
22-25 June 2015, Nijmegen, Netherlands
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/mfps31/
* MFPS SERIES
MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic,
and computer science that are related to models of computation in general,
and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum
where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet
and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring
areas is strongly encouraged. This edition of MFPS will be co-located
with CALCO.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: April 3, 2015
Notification: May 15, 2015
Final version: May 29, 2015
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Andrew Pitts, Thierry Coquand, Paul B. Levy, Guy McCusker, Sam Staton
* INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
Matija Pretnar, Andrzej Murawski, Martin Escardo
* SPECIAL SESSIONS
algebraic effects, game semantics, homotopy type theory, quantitative
semantics
* MORE INFO
For more information please consult the web page.
13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING AND NON-MONOTONIC REASONING (LPNMR 2015)
Preliminary Call for Papers
Lexington, KY, USA
September 27-30, 2015
http://lpnmr2015.mat.unical.it/
(Collocated with the 4th Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory 2015)
* AIMS AND SCOPE
LPNMR 2015 is the thirteenth in the series of international meetings on
logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for
exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning,
and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate
interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the
design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and
database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and
nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and
experimental studies that have led or will lead to the construction of
systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well
as their use in practical applications. This edition of LPNMR will feature
several workshops, a special session dedicated to the 6th ASP Systems
Competition, and will be collocated with the 4th Algorithmic Decision
Theory Conference, ADT 2015. Joint LPNMR-ADT Doctoral Consortium will be
a part of the program.
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming
and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and
short papers.
* TOPICS
Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems
2. Implementation of LPNMR systems
3. Applications of LPNMR
* SUBMISSION
LPNMR 2015 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers
(6 pages) in the following categories:
- Technical papers
- System descriptions
- Application descriptions
The indicated number of pages includes title page, references and
figures. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series. At least one
author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference
to present the work.
The Program Committee chairs are planning to arrange for the best papers to
be published in a special issue of a premiere journal in the field.
LPNMR 2015 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is
under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in
a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit
their papers elsewhere during LPNMR's review period. However, these
restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience
and without archival proceedings.
* ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS
LPNMR 2015 will include specialized workshops to be held on September 27
prior to the main conference. Currently planned workshops include:
- Grounding, Transforming, and Modularizing Theories with Variables
Organizers: Marc Denecker, Tomi Janhunen
- Action Languages, Process Modeling, and Policy Reasoning
Organizer: Joohyung Lee
- Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning
Organizers: Marcello Balduccini, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Peter Schueller
- Learning and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Organizers: Alessandra Russo and Alessandra Mileo
* IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE)
- Paper registration: April 13, 2015
- Paper submission: April 20, 2015
- Notification: June 1, 2015
- Final versions due: June 15, 2015
* VENUE
Lexington is a medium size, pleasant and quiet university town. It
is located in the heart of the so-called Bluegrass Region in
Central Kentucky. The city is surrounded by beautiful horse farms
on green pastures dotted with ponds and traditional architecture
stables, and small race tracks, and bordered by white or black
fences. The Horse Museum is as beautifully located as it is
interesting. Overall, the city has a nice feel that mixes well old
and new. The conference will be held in the Hilton Lexington
Downtown hotel.
* GENERAL CHAIR
Victor Marek, University of Kentucky, KY, USA
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy
Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, KY, USA
* WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebrska at Omaha, NE, USA
* PUBLICITY CHAIR
Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy
* CONTACT
lpnmr2015@mat.unical.it
13TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGY FOR VERIFICATION AND ANALYSIS (ATVA 2015)
October 12-15, 2015
Shanghai, China
http://atva2015.ios.ac.cn/
* BACKGROUND
The purpose of ATVA is to promote research on theoretical and practical
aspects of automated analysis, verification and syn-thesis by providing
a forum for interaction between the regional and the international research
communities and industry in the field.
* SCOPE
ATVA 2015 solicits high-quality submissions in areas related to the theory
and practice of automated analysis and verification of hardware and software
systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Formalisms for modeling hardware, software and embedded systems
- Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and
parameterized systems
- Program analysis and software verification
- Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip and
embedded systems
- Analysis of real-time, hybrid, priced/weighted and probabilistic systems
- Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction refinement
techniques for analysis and verification
- Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability
- Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology
- Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems
- Verification in industrial practice
- Applications and case studies
Theory papers should preferably be motivated by practical problems, and
applications should be based on sound theory and should solve problems of
practical interest.
* IMPORTANT DATES
April 22, 2015 Abstract submission deadline (AOE)
April 25, 2015 Paper submission deadline (AOE)
May 5, 2015 Submission of workshop proposals
Jun 8, 2015 Paper acceptance/rejection notification
Jun 10, 2015 Announcement of the accepted papers
July 5, 2015 Camera-ready copy deadline
* GENERAL CHAIR
Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China)
* PROGRAMME CHAIRS
Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany)
Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China)
Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
* PUBLICITY CHAIRS
David N. Jansen (Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands)
Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China)
* WORKSHOP CHAIR
Jun Sun (National University of Singapore, SG)
* KEYNOTES
Dino Distefano (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Jay Strother Moore (University of Texas-Austin, USA)
SYMPOSIUM ON DEPENDABLE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: THEORIES, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS (SETTA 2015)
Call for Papers
November 4-6, 2015
Nanjing University
http://cs.nju.edu.cn/setta/
* BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of the symposium is to bring together international researchers
and practitioners in the field of software technology. Its focus is on
formal methods and advanced software technologies, especially for engineering
complex, large-scale artefacts like cyber-physical systems, networks of
things, enterprise systems, or cloud-based services. Contributions relating
to formal methods or integrating them with software engineering, as well
as papers advancing scalability or widening the scope of rigorous methods
to new design goals are especially welcome. Being hosted in China, the
symposium will also provide a platform for building up research
collaborations between the rapidly growing Chinese computer science community
and its international counterpart. The symposium will support this process
through dedicated events and therefore welcomes both young researchers
considering international collaboration in formal methods and established
researchers looking for international cooperation and willing to attract
new colleagues to the domain.
* SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit papers on original research, industrial
applications, or position papers proposing challenges in fundamental
research and technology. The latter two types of submissions are expected
to contribute to the development of formal methods either by substantiating
the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or
through delineating need for research by demonstrating weaknesses of existing
technologies, especially when addressing new application domains.
Submissions can take the form of either normal or short papers. Short papers
can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects.
Papers should be written in English. Regular Papers should not exceed 15
pages and Short Papers should not exceed 6 pages in LNCS format
(see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details).
The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series.
The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of
the Formal Aspect Computing journal.
* TOPICS
- Requirements specification and analysis
- Formalisms for modeling, design and implementation
- Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
- Scalable approaches to formal system analysis
- Formal approaches to simulation and testing
- Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice
- Contract-based engineering of components, systems, and systems of systems
- Formal and engineering aspects of software evolution and maintenance
- Parallel and multicore programming
- Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
- Mixed-critical applications and systems
- Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing
- Safety, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance
- Empirical analysis techniques and integration with formal methods
- Applications and industrial experience reports
- Tool integration
* IMPORTANT DATES
June 12,2015 Abstracts
June 19,2015 Submission of papers
August 21,2015 Notification to authors
September 4,2015 Camera-ready versions
* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Huimin Lin, Institute of Software, CAS, China
* GENERAL CHAIR
Jian Lv, Nanjing University, China
* PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China
Zhiming Liu, Birmingham City University, UK
Yi Wang, Uppsala University, Sweden
* PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Jonathan Bowen, Birmingham City University, UK
Lijun Zhang, Institute of Software,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* PUBLICATION CHAIR
Martin FrŠnzle, University of Oldenburg, Germany
* LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Xin Chen, Nanjing University, China
TWO PHD POSITIONS IN INFORMATION SECURITY AT ETH ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
http://www.infsec.ethz.ch/news/positions
* The Information Security group headed by Prof. David Basin at ETH
Zurich has two open PhD positions in two projects:
(1) Formalizing computational soundness for protocol implementations
(2) Testing access control systems
* We are looking for enthusiastic outstanding researchers with a strong
background and interest in one or more of the following areas:
- formal methods or mathematical logic,
- information security or cryptography,
- (project 1) interactive theorem proving
(project 2) software testing.
Candidates with a strong theoretical background in related areas are
also encouraged to apply. ETH Zurich regulations require PhD
candidates to hold a Masters or equivalent degree (e.g. Diplom). The
preferred starting date for both positions is as soon as possible, at
the latest by the end of 2014.
* Contact: Andreas Lochbihler and Mohammad Torabi Dashti
infsec.positions@inf.ethz.ch
NEW DOCTORAL PROGRAM ON LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LogiCS)
http://logic-cs.at/phd
* Funded Doctoral Positions in Computer Science
* TU Wien, TU Graz, and JKU Linz are seeking exceptionally talented and
motivated students for their joint doctoral program LogiCS. The LogiCS
doctoral college focuses on interdisciplinary research topics covering
(i) computational logic, and applications of logic to
(ii) databases and artificial intelligence as well as to
(iii) computer-aided verification.
* THE PROGRAM
LogiCS is a doctoral college focusing on logic and its applications in
computer science. Successful applicants will work with and be
supervised by leading researchers in the fields of computational
logic, databases and knowledge representation, and computer-aided
verification.
* FACULTY MEMBERS
M. Baaz A. Biere R. Bloem A. Ciabattoni
U. Egly T. Eiter C. Fermueller R. Grosu
A. Leitsch M. Ortiz R. Pichler S. Szeider
H. Tompits H. Veith G. Weissenbacher
* POSITIONS AND FUNDING
We are looking for 1-2 doctoral students per faculty member, where 30%
of the positions are reserved for highly qualified female
candidates. The doctoral positions are funded for a period of 3 years
according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund
(details: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/projects/personalkostensaetze.html)
The funding can be extended for one additional year contingent on a
placement at one of our international partner institutions.
* HOW TO APPLY
Detailed information about the application process is available on the
LogiCS web-page http://logic-cs.at/phd/
The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent diploma or
master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related
field. Candidates with comparable achievements will be considered on a
case-by-case basis. Applications by the candidates need to be
submitted electronically.
* Applications can be submitted at any time. Next screenings: December 1, 2014;
March 1, 2015.
* HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE
The Austrian cities Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps
and surrounded by beautiful nature, provide an exceptionally high
quality of life, with a vibrant cultural scene, numerous cultural
events, world-famous historical sites, a large international
community, a varied cuisine and famous coffee houses.
* For further information please contact: info@logic-cs.at
POSTDOC POSITIONS ON COINDUCTIVE TECHNIQUES AND PROBABILISTIC MODELS AT BOLOGNA AND LYON
* GENERAL
We are seeking applicants for two 1-year post-doctoral research
positions on the topic of coinductive techniques for probabilistic
models, especially models based on the lambda-calculus or process
calculi. The coinductive techniques are meant to be essentially
techniques based on the concept of bisimulation.
* LOCATION
The positions are offered at the University of Bologna (Italy), and at
the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France), respectively. This work
is in collaboration with the Inria Comete Team (France), and Shanghai
Jiao Tong University (China), in the context of the project PACE:
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/daniel.hirschkoff/pace/
* CONDITIONS
The monthly net salary is around 2100 Euros in both cases.
The starting date for each postdoc can be negotiated, but should be
between February and November 2015.
* REQUIREMENTS
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (completed or near completion)
- For the position in Bologna, most important is some research
background on probabilistic models.
Other useful background (for both positions) may be
lambda-calculus, process calculi, type systems, coinductive
methods, coalgebra, Kleene algebra.
* APPLICATION
Please send a curriculum, a publication record and a statement of
interest via e-mail to Ugo Dal Lago (ugo.dallago@unibo.it), Daniel
Hirschkoff (daniel.hirschkoff@ens-lyon.fr) and
Davide Sangiorgi (Davide.Sangiorgi@gmail.com); the statement should
also specify the preferred location, if any.
* DEADLINE
December 30, 2014.
TENURE-TRACK POSITIONS AT UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A MONTREAL, CANADA
http://www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichageProfs/21006378.pdf
http://www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichageProfs/21006546.pdf
* The departement d'informatique at UQAM invites application for:
- One faculty position in security (content and infrastructure security,
tools and languages for secure software, malicious code detection,
certified compilation, trustworthy computing, e-commerce protocol security,
formal methods and verification for security, secure embedded systems,
etc.);
- One faculty position in cognitive informatics, in the area of semantic
Web and knowledge management (ontology engineering, ontology reasoning
algorithms, Web of data, semantic web services, etc.);
Teaching at UQAM is done in French and the candidate must have an excellent
mastery of this language. The deadline for (electronic) submission is
January 16, 2015.
LOGIC, COMPUTATION, HIERARCHIES (FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOUR OF VICTOR L. SELIVANOV)
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/429641?rskey=gsPvAq&result=9
* V. Brattka, H. Diener, D. Spreen (eds.), Logic, Computation, Hierarchies
(Festschrift in honour of Victor L. Selivanov), DeGruyter, Berlin, Boston,
2014, x + 414. See the URL for further details.
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