SIGLOG Monthly 179
February 1, 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* NEWS
The Alonzo Church Award 2016 - Call for Nominations
2016 SIGLOG Election - Update
ACM SIGLOG Announcement
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
FSCD'16 - Call for papers
PHDS IN LOGIC VIII - Call for submissions
DISCOTEC 2016 - Second Call for Papers
Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal Special Issue - Call for papers
ABZ 2016 - Call for Papers, Answers to the case study, Workshops, Tutorials
NFM 2016 - Call For Papers
CCC 2015 - Second call for submission
QPL 2016 - Call for Papers
CCA 2016 - First Call for Papers
RuleML 2016 - Call for Papers
WoLLIC 2016 - Call for Papers
HaPoP 2016 - Call for Papers
LFCS 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION + WADLERFEST - Call for Participation
FMICS-AVoCS 2016 - Call for Papers
RV 2016 - Call For Papers
ILP2016 - Call For Papers
SSBSS 2016 - Call for Participation
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
PHD & POSTDOC POSITION AT JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN
THE 2016 ALONZO CHURCH AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOGIC AND COMPUTATION
Call for Nominations
* INTRODUCTION An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established
in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation
(SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
(EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic
(EACSL), and the Kurt Godel Society (KGS). The award is for an
outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group
of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows
the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been
established. The award can be given to an individual, or to a group
of individuals who have collaborated on the research. For the rules
governing this award, see
http://siglog.hosting.acm.org/the-alonzo-church-award-for-outstanding-contributions-to-logic-and-computation/
* ELIGIBILITY AND NOMINATIONS The contribution must have appeared in a
paper or papers published within the past 25 years. Thus, for the
2016 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1991. When a paper has
appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the date of the
journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In addition,
the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major
award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the Godel
Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other
contributions.) While the contribution can consist of conference or
journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference.
* NOMINATIONS for the 2016 award are now being solicited. The
nominating letter must summarize the con tribution and make the case
that it is fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can
have multiple co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations
must include: a proposed citation (up to 25 words); a succinct
(100-250 words) description of the contribution; and a detailed
statement (not exceeding four pages) to justify the
nomination. Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting
letters and other evidence of worthiness.
* Nominations are due by March 1, 2016, and should be submitted to
vardi@cs.rice.edu.
* PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD The 2016 award will be presented at LICS,
the flagship conference of SIGLOG. The award will be accompanied by
an invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award
winners. The awardee(s) will receive a certificate and a cash prize
of USD 2,000. If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be
shared.
* AWARD COMMITTEE The 2016 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of
the following four members: Catuscia Palamidessi, Gordon Plotkin,
Wolfgang Thomas, and Moshe Vardi (chair).
2016 SIGLOG ELECTION
(respectfully submitted by Dale Miller, Chair of the Nominating Committee)
* PROCEDURE
The Nominating Committee for the 2016 SIGLOG election has submitted
the following ballot to the ACM. The candidates are listed in the
order they confirmed their participation with the committee.
Information about the nomination procedure, including the option to
petition to be on the ballot, can be found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/elections/pol_proc/.
Vision statements from all the candidates will be collected and
distributed to all SIGLOG members early in 2016.
* MESSAGE
I wish to thank all those who have volunteered to be on the ballot.
The enthusiasm shown by the many who responded demonstrates that there
is very strong interest in SIGLOG and its future.
* CURRENT BALLOT
- Chair
1 Prakash Panangaden
2 Prasad Sistla
3 Simona Ronchi Della Rocca
4 Frank de Boer
- Vice Chair
1 Luke Ong
2 Frank Pfenning
3 Martin Hofmann
4 Leszek Pacholski
5 Veronique Cortier
- Treasurer
1 Natarajan Shankar
2 R. Ramanujam
3 Vivek Nigam
4 Amy Felty
- Secretary
1 Alexandra Silva
2 Elaine Pimentel
3 Zakaria Chihani
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 is the flagship
conference of SIGLOG. SIGLOG will also actively seek association agreements
with other conferences in the field. A SIGLOG newsletter (SIGLOG News)
is also 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).
DATES
* FSCD'16
Call for Papers
June 22-26, 2016, Porto, Portugal
http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt/
Abstract submission due: 8 February 2016
* PhDs in Logic VIII
Call for submissions
May 9-11, 2016, Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/fbereiche/logik/phdsinlogic2016/?site=home
Deadline for submissions: February 7, 2016
* DISCOTEC 2016
Second Call for Papers
June 6-9, 2016, Heraklion, Greece
http://2016.discotec.org/
Paper submission: February 8, 2016
* Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal Special Issue
Call for Papers
Paper submission: February 14th, 2016
* ABZ 2016
Research paper and answers to case study submission: January 15, 2016
Short paper submission: February 4, 2016
Tutorial proposal submissions: February 15, 2016
http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/
* NFM 2016
Call For Papers
June 7-9 2016, McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota
http://crisys.cs.umn.edu/nfm2016
paper submission deadline: 2/19/2016
* CCC 2015
Call for submission (Extended Deadline)
Deadline for submission: 15 March 2016
* QPL 2016
Call for papers
June 6-10, 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
http://qpl2016.cis.strath.ac.uk
Submission: March 13, 2016
* CCA 2016
First Call for Papers
June 15-17, 2016, Faro, Portugal
http://cca-net.de/cca2016/
Submission deadline: March 14, 2016 (two-page abstracts)
* RuleML 2016
Call for Papers
5-8 July, 2016, New York, USA
http://2016.ruleml.org/calls
Title and Abstract: March 11, 2016
Paper Submission: March 18, 2016
* WoLLIC 2016
Call for Papers
August 16th-19th, 2016, Puebla, Mexico
http://wollic.org.wollic2016/
Mar 21, 2016: Full paper deadline
* HaPoP 2016
June 25, 2016, CNAM, Paris, France
www.hapoc.org/hapop3
http://hapoc.org/node/167
Submission deadline: March 31, 2016
* LFCS 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION + WADLERFEST
Call for Participation
11-13 April 2016, Edinburgh
LFCS30: http://events.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs30/
WadlerFest: http://events.inf.ed.ac.uk/wf2016/
* FMICS-AVoCS 2016
Call for Papers
26-29 September 2016, Pisa, Italy
http://fmics-avocs.isti.cnr.it/
Abstract submission: April 18, 2016
Paper submission: April 25, 2016
* RV 2016 - 1st Call for Papers
September 23-30, Madrid, Spain
http://rv2016.imag.fr
Abstract deadline: May 8, 2016
Paper and tutorial deadline: May 15, 2016
* ILP2016 - Call For Papers
Call For Papers
September 4th - 6th, 2016, London, UK
http://ilp16.doc.ic.ac.uk
Long paper submission: 13 May 2016
Short Paper submission: 24 July 2016
* SSBSS 2016
Call for Participation
8-14 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa), Tuscany, Italy
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL STRUCTURES FOR COMPUTATION AND DEDUCTION (FSCD'16)
Call for Papers
June 22-26, 2016, Porto, Portugal
http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt/
* The FSCD conference series (http://fscdconference.org/) covers all
aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from
theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities,
RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda
Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens
their scope to closely related areas in logics, proof theory and new
emerging models of computation such as quantum computing and homotopy
type theory. The name of the new conference comes from an unpublished
but important book by Gerard Huet that strongly influenced many
researchers in the area.
* Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are:
1. Calculi (Lambda calculus; Logics; Rewriting systems; Proof theory;
Type theory and logical frameworks; Homotopy type theory)
2. Methods in Computation and Deduction (Type systems; Induction,
coinduction; Matching; Unification; Completion; Orderings; Strategies;
Tree automata; Model building and model checking; Proof search;
Constraint solving and decision procedures)
3. Semantics (Operational semantics and abstract machines; Game Semantics
and applications; Domain theory and categorical models; Quantitative
models; Quantum computation and emerging models in computation)
4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems (Type
Inference and type checking; Abstract Interpretation; Complexity
analysis and implicit computational complexity; Checking termination,
confluence, derivational complexity and related properties; Symbolic
computation)
5. Tools and Applications (Programming and proof environments;
Verification tools; Libraries for proof assistants and interactive
theorem provers; Case studies in proof assistants and interactive
theorem provers; Certifications; Applications of formal systems inside
and outside of CS)
* IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission due: 8 February 2016;
Paper Submission: 12 February 2016;
Rebuttal: 21-23 March 2016;
Notification: 6 April 2016
* INVITED SPEAKERS
- Amal Ahmed (USA)
- Ichiro Hasuo (Japan)
- Gerard Huet (France)
- Tobias Nipkow (Germany)
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
- Delia Kesner (Univ. Paris-Diderot)
- Brigitte Pientka (McGill University)
fscd16@easychair.org
* SPECIAL ISSUE
After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
extended versions of their work to a special issue published in the
open-access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS).
* SATELLITE EVENTS
The following meetings and workshops are colocated with FSCD 2016:
CL&C, DCM, HDRA, HOR, IFIP Working Group 1.6, ITRS, Linearity, LFMTP,
LSFA, UNIF, WPTE, WWV.
PHDS IN LOGIC VIII
Call for Submissions
May 9-11, 2016, Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/fbereiche/logik/phdsinlogic2016/?site=home
* "PhDs in Logic" is an annual graduate conference organised by local
graduate students. This conference has an interdisciplinary character,
welcoming contributions to various topics in Mathematical Logic,
Philosophical Logic, and Logic in Computer Science. It involves tutorials
by established researchers as well as short presentations by PhD students
on their research.
We are happy to announce that the next edition of "PhDs in Logic" will
take place in Darmstadt, Germany, during May 9-11 2016, hosted by the
Logic research group of the Department of Mathematics, TU Darmstadt.
* Registration and abstract submission for interested PhD students are now
open. We welcome contributions from any general field of Logic.
* Important dates:
- February 7, 2016: deadline for submissions
- April 2, 2016: author notification
- April 30, 2016: registration closes
* Confirmed tutorial speakers are:
Mirna Dzamonja (University of East Anglia, UK)
Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Ulrich Kohlenbach (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Martin Otto (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
11th INTERNATIONAL FEDERATED CONFERENCE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING TECHNIQUES (DISCOTEC 2016)
Second Call for Papers
June 6-9, 2016, Heraklion, Greece
http://2016.discotec.org/
Paper submission: February 8, 2016
* The DisCoTec series of federated conferences is one of the major
events sponsored by the International Federation for Information
processing (IFIP). The main conferences are:
- COORDINATION 2016: 18th IFIP International Conference on
Coordination Models and Languages
- DAIS 2016: 16th IFIP International Conference on
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
- FORTE: 36th IFIP International Conference on Formal
Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems
* This year IFIP offers an award for the best paper of DisCoTec.
* Topics of interest for each conference can be found on the webpage.
* Important Dates:
- Abstract submission: February 1, 2016
- Paper submission: February 8, 2016
- Notification: March 21, 2016
- Camera-ready version: April 4, 2016
- Early registration: May 9, 2016
* Invited Speakers:
- Tim Harris (Oracle Labs, UK)
- Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, France)
- Vijay Saraswat (IBM Research, USA)
* Conference Chairs:
- General: Kostas Magoutis (University of Ioannina & ICS-FORTH, Greece)
- Publicity: George Baryannis (University of Huddersfield, UK)
- Workshops: Vincenzo Gulisano (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
- COORDINATION PC: Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark),
Jose Proenca, KU Leuven (Belgium and University of Minho, Portugal)
- DAIS PC: Evangelia Kalyvianaki (City University London, UK),
Mark Jelasity (University of Szeged, Hungary)
- FORTE PC: Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain),
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy)
Performance Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
A Special Issue in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal
Call for Papers
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special
-issue-on-modeling-and-performance-evaluation-of-wire/
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submission: February 14th, 2016
- First round notification: March 30th, 2016
- First round revision: April 30th, 2016
- Second round notification: June 30th, 2016
- Final papers: July 15th, 2016
* A primary aim of wireless ad-hoc networks is to deliver data in
areas where there is no pre-defined infrastructure. In these
networks, the users, but also the network entities can be
potentially mobile. Wireless ad-hoc networks have recently witnessed
their fastest growth period ever in history. Real wireless ad-hoc
networks are now implemented, deployed and tested, and this trend is
likely to increase in the future. However, as such networks are
increasingly complex, performance modeling and evaluation play a
crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful
deployment and exploitation in practice.
* This special issue on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of
Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks era aims to open a new critical debate on
the evaluation of wireless ad-hoc networks. In particular, we seek
original theoretical and/or practical contributions, from
researchers and practitioners that identify and address issues in
evaluating wireless ad-hoc networks.
* A detailed submission guideline is available as a Guide to Authors
at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc
* Editor in Chief
Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology
* Guest Editors
- Monica Aguilar Igartua, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Carolina Tripp Barba, Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa
- Cristina Alcaraz Tello, University of Malaga
5TH INTERNATIONAL ABZ 2014 CONFERENCE (ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z)
Call for Papers, Answers to the case study, Workshops, Tutorials
May 23-27, 2016
Linz, Austria
http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/
* 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. Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the
theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z approaches in
software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools and
industrial applications.
* Types of submission:
-- 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. 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.
* Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2016
* Important Dates:
Workshop proposal submission: October 16, 2015
Research paper, Answers to case study submission: January 15, 2016
Short and industry paper submission: February 4, 2016
Tutorial proposal submissions: February 15, 2016
Tutorial proposal notifications: March 14, 2016
* Detailed information can be found on the conference website
* Contact: Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE (klaus-dieter.schewe@scch.at)
THE 8TH NASA FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM (NFM 2016)
Call For Papers
June 7-9 2016, McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota
http://crisys.cs.umn.edu/nfm2016
* THEME OF THE SYMPOSIUM
The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and
safety-critical systems at NASA and the aerospace industry requires advanced
techniques that address their specification, design, verification, validation,
and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum
to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA,
academia, and the industry, with the goal of identifying challenges and
providing solutions towards achieving assurance for such critical systems.
New developments and emerging applications like autonomous on-board software
for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced
separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide
fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system
specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges
need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software
for spacecraft ranging from small and inexpensive CubeSat systems to manned
spacecraft like Orion, as well as for ground systems.
The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches
for software assurance, their theory, current capabilities and limitations,
as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other
NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software
life-cycle.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
include but are not limited to
- Model checking
- Theorem proving
- SAT and SMT solving
- Symbolic execution
- Static analysis
- Model-based development
- Runtime verification
- Software and system testing
- Safety assurance
- Fault tolerance
- Compositional verification
- Security and intrusion detection
- Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques
- Techniques for scaling formal methods
- Applications of formal methods in the development of:
- autonomous systems
- safety-critical artificial intelligence systems
- cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems
- fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems
- Use of formal methods in:
- assurance cases
- human-machine interaction analysis
- requirements generation, specification, and validation
- automated testing and verification
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission: 2/19/2016
- Paper Notifications: 4/8/2016
- Camera-ready Papers: 4/27/2016
- Symposium: 6/7 - 6/9/2016
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Michael Lowry, NASA Ames Research Center, USA (NASA Liaison)
- Johann Schumann, SGT, Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA (General Chair)
- Oksana Tkachuk, SGT, Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA (PC Chair)
- Sanjai Rayadurgam, University of Minnesota, USA (PC Chair)
- Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA (Financial Chair)
- Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA (Local Arrangements Chair)
CONTINUITY, COMPUTABILITY, CONSTRUCTIVITY: FROM LOGIC TO ALGORITHMS 2015 (CCC 2015)
Call for submission - postproceedings
* After a further year of successful work in the EU-IRSES project
COMPUTAL and an excellent workshop in Kochel (Germany) in September
this year, we are planning to publish a collection of papers
dedicated to the meeting and the project as a part of LOGICAL METHODS
IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. 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:
Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK)
Willem Fouche (UNISA, Pretoria)
Arno Pauly (Brussels, Belgium)
Dieter Spreen (Siegen, Germany)
Martin Ziegler (KAIST, South Korea)
* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15 March 2016
If you intend to submit a paper, please send a corresponding email to
spreen@math.uni-siegen.de untill 15 February 2016
You will then receive concrete submission instructions and a
Special-Issue-Code allowing you to submit your paper for the special
issue.
THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL 2016)
Call for papers
June 6-10, 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
http://qpl2016.cis.strath.ac.uk
Submission: March 13, 2016
* The 13th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL)
will take place at the University of Strathclyde between Tuesday 7
and Friday 10 June, 2016. The workshop brings together researchers
working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum
computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural
perspectives and the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and
category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods,
and other computer science techniques applied to the study of
physical behaviour in general.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
- Elham Kashefi (University of Edinburgh)
- Tom Leinster (University of Edinburgh, to be confirmed)
- Krysta Svore (Microsoft Research)
- Stephanie Wehner (Technical University Delft)
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Ross Duncan (University of Strathclyde)
Chris Heunen (University of Edinburgh)
* SATELLITES
On Monday June 6 there will be tutorial lectures. More details will
be announced later.On Saturday June 11 there will be a satellite
workshop on "Semantic spaces at the intersection of natural language
processing, physics, and cognitive science". More details can be
found at: https://www.sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: March 13, 2016
Notification: April 24
Papers ready: May 29
Tutorials: June 6
Workshop: June 7-10
* REGISTRATION AND SUPPORT
We encourage participation of graduate students and those with
caregiving responsibilities. We hope to be able to provide limited
financial support for travel and accommodations;
COMPUTABILITY AND COMPLEXITY IN ANALYSIS (CCA 2016)
First Call for Papers
June 15-17, 2016, Faro, Portugal
http://cca-net.de/cca2016/
Submission deadline: March 14, 2016 (two-page abstracts)
* Topics: computable analysis; complexity on real numbers;
constructive analysis; domain theory and analysis; theory of
representations; computable numbers, subsets and functions;
randomness and computable measure theory; models of computability on
real numbers; realizability theory and analysis; reverse analysis;
real number algorithms; implementation of exact real number
arithmetic.
* Detailed information can be found on the webpage.
THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL WEB RULE SYMPOSIUM (RULEML 2016)
Call for Papers
5-8 July, 2016, New York, USA
http://2016.ruleml.org/calls
Title and Abstract: March 11, 2016
Paper Submission: March 18, 2016
* The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is the leading
international event in the field of rules and their applications.
RuleML 2016, the tenth event in this series, will be held at Stony
Brook University, USA. RuleML is the leading conference to build
bridges between academia and industry in the field of rules and its
applications, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. It
is devoted to rule-based programming and rule-based systems including
production rules systems, logic programming rule engines, and business
rules engines/business rules management systems; Semantic Web rule
languages and rule standards (e.g., RuleML, SWRL, RIF, PRR, SBVR, DMN,
CL, Prolog); rule-based event processing languages (EPLs) and
technologies; and research on inference rules, transformation rules,
decision rules, production rules, and ECA rules.
* RuleML 2016 will host multiple special tracks, as well as hosting the
10th International Rule Challenge, and the 6th RuleML Doctoral
Consortium. Special topic tracks: Smart Contracts, Blockchain and
Rules Track, Constraint Handling Rules Track, Event Driven
Architectures and Active Database Systems Track, Legal Rules and
Reasoning Track, Rule- and Ontology-Based Data Access and
Transformation Track, and Rule Induction and Learning Track.
* Industry Track The RuleML 2016 Industry Track targets businesses and
the private sector interested in sharing, exploring, and learning
about the use of rules and rule technologies for solving real life
business problems.
* Further details: http://2016.ruleml.org/calls
* RuleML main track and special tracks dates (not including Industry
Track):
- Register Title and Abstract in Easychair March 11, 2016
- Paper Submission: March 18, 2016
- Author Notification May 4, 2016
- Camera Ready May 18, 2016
- Conference: 5-8 July, 2016
23rd WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION (WoLLIC 2016)
Call for Papers
August 16th-19th, 2016, Puebla, Mexico
http://wollic.org.wollic2016/
* WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary
research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory,
and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited
talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers.
* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular
interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive
areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming;
novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and
belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal
methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to
natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and
resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search,
flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics;
philosophical logic.
* IMPORTANT DATES:
- Mar 14, 2016: Paper title and abstract deadline
- Mar 21, 2016: Full paper deadline,
- Apr 22, 2016: Author notification
- May 6, 2016: Final version deadline (firm).
THIRD SYMPOSIUM FOR HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRAMMING (HaPoP 2016)
Call for Papers
June 25, 2016, CNAM, Paris, France
www.hapoc.org/hapop3
http://hapoc.org/node/167
Submission deadline: March 31, 2016
An affiliated event of CiE 2016, Paris
* AIMS: The aim of the current symposium is to offer an opportunity
for historical and philosophical reflection on operating systems and
the programs they coordinate. Our approach is interdisciplinarity
and openness towards different fields relevant to HaPoC. We were and
are strongly convinced that such trans- and interdisciplinarity is
necessary if one wants to reflect on a discipline such as computer
science with its multidimensional nature. The current symposium will
be organized in a similar manner and invites researchers coming from
a diversity of backgrounds, including historians, philosophers,
logicians and computer scientists who want to engage with topics
relevant to the history and philosophy of programming and more
specifically that of operating systems.
* TOPICS of the symposium include but are not restricted to historical
and philosophical reflections on:
- Origin, evolution and future of OSs
- Design and Epistemology of User Interfaces
- Principles of Data Access, Control and Sharing, especially in
relation to OSs (e.g. the Bell-La Padula model)
- Privacy and Security in OSs
- Batch processing and time sharing systems
- Models, problems and techniques of concurrency, parallelism and
distributed systems
- Open source vs corporate software
- Programming paradigms and techniques (e.g. pair-programming)
* IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission deadline: March 31, 2016
- Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2016
* INVITED SPEAKERS:
- Daniel Glazman (Disruptive Innovations)
- Warren Toomey (Bond University, Australia)
* SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS:
Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, UMR8163), Raphael Fournier-S'niehotta (CNAM),
Baptiste Meles (CNRS, UMR7117), Giuseppe Primiero (Middlesex
University)
LFCS 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION + WADLERFEST
Call for Participation
11-13 April 2016, Edinburgh
LFCS30: http://events.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs30/
WadlerFest: http://events.inf.ed.ac.uk/wf2016/
* Founded in 1986 by Rod Burstall, Robin Milner, Gordon Plotkin and Matthew
Hennessy, the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science is a community
of theoretical computer scientists with interests in research topics such as
concurrency, semantics, categories, algebra, types, logic, algorithms,
complexity, databases, and modelling, and their applications in Computer
Science and beyond. LFCS30, a celebration of thirty years of innovation in
these areas, will take place in Edinburgh on 13th April with a programme of
talks from current and former members of the LFCS, visitors, and friends.
* LFCS30 will be preceded by WadlerFest, a celebration of Philip Wadler's 60th
birthday, on 11-12 April. Phil will be presented with a festschrift entitled
"A list of successes that can change the world".
* For more information and registration instructions, see the above webpages.
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS FOR INDUSTRIAL CRITICAL SYSTEMS
AND AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF CRITICAL SYSTEMS (FMICS-AVoCS 2016)
26-29 September 2016, Pisa, Italy
http://fmics-avocs.isti.cnr.it/
Preliminary Call for Papers
* AIMS: The aim of the FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for
researchers who are interested in the development and application of
formal methods in indu= stry. The aim of the AVoCS workshop series
is to contribute to the interaction an= d exchange of ideas among
members of the international research community on tools and
techniques for the verification of critical systems. In 2016, FMICS
and AVoCS join their forces to hold a workshop combining their
themes on Formal Methods and Automated Verification. For FMICS, this
will be the 21st, for AVoCS the 16th edition. In particular,
FMICS-AVoCS 2016 aims to bring together scientists and engin= eers
that are active in the area of formal methods, develop tools and
techniques for the automated verification of critical systems, and
are interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial
usage of these methods and tools.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract submission: April 18, 2016
- Paper submission: April 25, 2016
- Notification: June 19, 2016
- Final version: July 10, 2016
- Workshop: September 26-29, 2016
* TOPICS of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Design, specification, refinement, code generation and testing of
critical systems based on formal methods
- Methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis,
certification, debugging, learning, optimization and
transformation of critical systems, in particular distributed,
real-time systems and embedded systems
- Automated verification (model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT
constraint solving, abstract interpretation, etc.) of critical
systems
- Verification and validation methods that address shortcomings of
existing methods with respect to their industrial applicability
(e.g., scalability and usability issues)
- Tools for the development of formal design descriptions
- Case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of
formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of
new research directions
- Impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development
process and associated costs
- Application of formal methods in standardization and industrial
forums
* GENERAL CHAIR
- Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
* PC CHAIRS
- Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
- Alexander Knapp (Augsburg University, Germany)
16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RUNTIME VERIFICATION (RV 2016)
September 23-30, Madrid, Spain
http://rv2016.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. Topics of interest to the conference include:
- specification languages
- specification mining
- program instrumentation
- monitor construction techniques
- logging, recording, and replay
- runtime enforcement, fault detection, localization, containment,
recovery and repair
- program steering and adaptation
- metrics and statistical information gathering
- combination of static and dynamic analyses
- program execution visualization
- monitoring techniques for safety/mission-critical systems
- monitoring distributed systems, cloud services, and big data applications
- monitoring security and privacy policies
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Oded Maler (CNRS and University of Grenoble-Alpes, France)
Fred B. Schneider (Cornell University, USA)
* OVERVIEW: RV 2016 will be held September 23-30 in Madrid, Spain. RV
2016 will feature the first summer school on Runtime Verification
(September 23-25), two workshop days (September 26-25), and three
conference days (September 28-30).
* INFORMATION ON SUBMISSIONS: http://rv2016.imag.fr
* IMPORTANT DATES
Research and tool papers as well as tutorials will follow the
following timeline:
- Abstract deadline: May 8, 2016
- Paper and tutorial deadline: May 15, 2016
- Tutorial notification: June 1, 2016
- Paper notification: July 11, 2016
- Camera ready deadline: August 8, 2016
- Summer school: September 23-25, 2016
- Workshops and tutorials: September 26-27, 2016
- Conference: September 28-30, 2016
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Ylies Falcone, Univ. Grenoble-Alpes and Inria, France
Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software, Madrid, Spain
* TOOL COMMITTEE CHAIR
Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
THE 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING (ILP2016)
Call For Papers
September 4th - 6th, 2016, London, UK
http://ilp16.doc.ic.ac.uk
* AIMS: The ILP conference series is the premier international forum
for learning from structured relational data. Originally focusing on
the induction of logic programs, over the years it has expanded its
research horizon significantly and welcomes contributions to all
aspects of learning in logic, multi-relational data mining,
statistical relational learning, graph and tree mining, learning in
other (non-propositional) logic-based knowledge representation
frameworks, exploring intersections to statistical learning and
other probabilistic approaches.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST include:
- Theoretical aspects: logical-foundations of learning;
- computational/statistical learning theory; specialisation and
- generalisation; probabilistic logic-based learning; graph and tree
- mining. Representation and languages for learning: logic
- programming; Datalog;first-order logic; description logic and
- ontologies; higher-order logic; Answer Set Programming;
- probabilistic logic languages; constraint logic programming;
- knowledge graphs. Algorithms and systems: learning with
- (semi-)structured data; (semi-)supervised and unsupervised
- relational learning; relational reinforcement learning; predicate
- invention; propositionalisation approaches; multi-instance learning;
- learning in the presence of uncertainty; meta-level learning.
- Applications of learning in: art; bioinformatics; systems biology;
- games; medical informatics; robotics; natural language processing;
- web-mining; software engineering; modelling and adaptation of
- control systems; socio-technical systems.
In addition to the above topics, ILP 2016 is also encouraging
contributions in the areas of cognitive technologies, knowledge
acquisition from big data, the cloud and crowd sourced data, deep
relational learning, as well as contributions on the application of
any of these solutions to real world problems.
The conference will host keynote talks from both industry and academia
and will run the first International ILP Competition.
* Submission guidlines: please see the conference website
* IMPORTANT DATES:
- Abstract registration: 7 May 2016
- Long paper submission: 13 May 2016
- Long Paper notification: 26 June 2016
- Short Paper submission: 24 July 2016
- Short Paper notification: 28 July 2016
* We expect there will be a special issue of the Machine Learning
Journal following the conference, which will be open for
everyone. This special issue will welcome conference submissions
from all three categories, which should be significantly revised and
extended, to meet the MLJ criteria, and will be re-reviewed by PC
members.
* CONFERENCE AND PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
- Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London UK
- James Cussens, University of York, UK
* ILP COMPETITION CHAIR;
Mark Law, Imperial College London, UK
* PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Krysia Broda, Imperial College London, UK
* ASSOCIATED EVENT:
3rd International Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming
3RD INT. SYNTHETIC AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL (SSBSS 2016)
Call for Participation
8-14 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa), Tuscany, Italy
* The 3rd International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School is a
great opportunity to exchange ideas and information with colleagues
and peers from around the world and discover the latest trends and new
exciting results in Synthetic and Systems Biology.
* Further details: ssbss.school@gmail.com
http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/
* Previous Editions:
SSBSS 2015 http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/
SSBSS 2014 http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/
PHD & POSTDOC POSITION AT JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN
* Jacobs University Bremen is a private, English-speaking research university
in Germany. The KWARC group conducts research on the representation and
management of formal and informal knowledge in the STEM disciplines
(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).
Our interests cover the whole range from formal to informal knowledge
and include
- logics and foundations of mathematics
- formalizing/verifying knowledge
- informal and semi-formal documents (specifications, papers, webpages, etc.)
- domain-specific applications (spreadsheets, CAD, etc.)
- knowledge management (search, user interfaces, system integration, etc.)
We build systems that cover these diverse areas uniformly and integrate across
domains, languagues, and tools, always combinng logical correctness,
wide-range applicability, and large-scale inter-operability.
* DETAIS & POSSIBLE TOPICS
http://www.jacobs-university.de/jobs/phd-and-postdoc-positions-kwarc-group
* CONTACT DETAILS & APPLICATIONS
For further information and enquiries about this post please contact
Prof. Michael Kohlhase
Applications (including the usual documents) should be directed to the same
email address.
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