SIGLOG Monthly 182
May 1, 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* NEWS
HELMUT VEITH (1971-2016) - Obituary
THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2016)
LICS 2016 - Call for Student Volunteers (deadline extension)
2016 SIGLOG Election - Update
ACM SIGLOG Announcement
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
ARQNL 2016 - Call for Papers
FMICS-AVoCS 2016 - Final Call for Papers
HSST 2016 - Call for Participation and Abstracts
SYNT 2016 - Final Call for Papers
WISTP 2016 - Call For Papers
FMCAD 2016 - Second Call For Papers
CRITIS 2016 - Call For Papers
ISSRE 2016 - Call for Papers
RV 2016 - Third Call For Papers
ILP2016 - Call For Papers
SETTA 2016 - Call For Papers
GandALF 2016 - Call For Papers
RuleML 2016 Challenge - Call for Papers
IJCAR 2016 WORKSHOP - Call for Position Statements
HIGHLIGHTS 2016 - Call for Presentations
SECURECOMM 2016 - Call For Papers
TIME 2016 - First Call for Papers
PODS 2017 - Call for Papers (1st submission cycle)
PODS 2016 - Call for Participation
SSBSS 2016 - Call for Participation
SSS 2016 - Call for Papers
ICDT 2017 - Call for Papers
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
POSTDOC OR PHD POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK
HELMUT VEITH (1971-2016)
http://forsyte.at/2016/03/helmut-veith-1971-2016/
* The Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien and the whole computer science
community mourn the loss of Helmut Veith, who passed away on March
12, 2016 at the age of 45: "Helmut Veith was researcher and teacher
with heart and soul. With his death, the Faculty of Informatics and
the TU Wien has lost one of its most outstanding and innovative
leaders. The Austrian science community, and indeed the
international computer science community, has lost a highly
respected and influential member. He was also a well-rounded
academic with interests, e.g., in literature and performing
arts. Helmut Veith was a cooperative and open colleague and a very
good friend to us all. His death leaves a void that will never be
filled; we will miss him. It is incomprehensible that he would be
taken from us in the prime of his life. He already created so many
things, but there were also so many hopes. His work and legacy will
be our mission."
(http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/10002/)
THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2016)
5-8 July 2016, New York City, USA
http://lics.siglog.org/lics16/
* EVENT
LICS 2016 will be hosted in New York City during July 5-8, 2016.
This event also marks the thirtieth anniversary of LICS.
* AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS
Logic Mentoring Workshop
LSB: 6th Workshop on Logic and Systems Biology
NLCS: 4th Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science.
SR: 4th International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning.
LOLA: Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages.
* ACCEPTED PAPERS
http://lics.siglog.org/lics16/accepted.html
THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2016)
Call for Student Volunteers
July 5-8, 2016, New York City, USA
* APPLICATION FORM: http://goo.gl/forms/7f4Pg6blBU
* APPLICATION DEADLINE (EXTENDED): 15 May 2016 at 23:59 EST
* DETAILS: http://lics.siglog.org/lics16/volunteers.html
* LICS 2016 will be held in New York City from July 5-8 2016, with
affiliated workshops July 9-10. The LICS 2016 Program for Student
Volunteers gives full- or part-time university students from around
the world the opportunity to attend and contribute to a premier
forum for all areas of logic in computer science. As a LICS 2016
Student Volunteer, you will interact closely with researchers,
academics and practitioners from various disciplines and meet other
students from around the world.
* LICS is pleased to offer a number of opportunities for student
volunteers, who are vital to the efficient operation and continued
success of the conference each year. The student volunteer program
is a chance for students from around the world to participate in the
conferences whilst assisting us in preparing and running the event.
* Job assignments for student volunteers include assisting with
technical sessions, workshops, tutorials and panels, checking badges
at doors, operating the information desk, helping with traffic flow,
and general assistance to keep the conferences running smoothly.
* In return, volunteers are granted free registration to the conferences
free access to affiliated workshops, and free access to the Logic
Mentoring Workshop (LMW).
* All students are required to submit the online application by the
deadline listed above. Late applications will be accepted only if
there is space available.
* For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions
please contact the Conference Chair (Eric Koskinen) at
lics2016@erickoskinen.com. For further details, please see this web
page: http://lics.siglog.org/lics16/volunteers.html
2016 SIGLOG ELECTION -UPDATE
* SIGLOG will hold elections in 2016. The slate of candidates can be
found on the ACM election page http://www.acm.org/elections/sigs/elections
and is as follows:
* CHAIR
Frank de Boer
Prakash Panangaden
Simona Ronchi Della Rocca
Aravinda Prasad Sistla
* VICE-CHAIR
Veronique Cortier
Martin Hofmann
Luke Ong
Leszek Pacholski
Frank Pfenning
* SECRETARY
Zakaria Chihani
Elaine Pimentel
Alexandra Silva
* TREASURER
Amy Felty
Vivek Nigam
R. Ramanujam
Natarajan Shankar
* IMPORTANT DATES:
- 22 April 2016 - Election site goes live. SIG members are sent an email
notification with voting instructions.
- 31 May 2016 - All ballots due/online election voting site closed.
- 1 July 2016 - Elections completed, all candidates notified of results
by or before this date. Winners take office.
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
* ARQNL 2016
Call for papers
1 July 2016, Coimbra, Portugal
http://iltp.de/ARQNL-2016/
Abstract submission: 2 May 2016
Paper submission: 9 May 2016
* FMICS-AVoCS 2016
Final Call for Papers and deadline extension
26-29 September 2016
CNR, Pisa, Italy
http://fmics-avocs.isti.cnr.it/
Abstract submission (extended): May 2, 2016
Paper submission: May 9, 2016
* HSST 2016
Call for participation and abstracts
June 13 - 16, 2016, Halmstad University, Sweden
http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2016
* SYNT 2016 - Final Call for Papers and deadline extension
Toronto, Canada, July 17, 2016
http://formal.epfl.ch/synt/2016/
Paper submission: May 6, 2016
* WISTP 2016
Call for Papers
Heraklion, Crete, Greece -- 26-27 September 2016
http://www.wistp.org/
Paper Submission due: 3 May 2016
* FMCAD 2016
Second Call for Papers
Mountain View, CA, USA, October 3-6, 2016
http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD16
Abstract Submission: May 02, 2016
Paper Submission: May 09, 2016
* CRITIS 2016
Call for Papers
Paris, France, October 10-12, 2016
http://www.critis2016.org
Submission of full papers: May 10, 2016
* ISSRE 2016
Call for Papers
October 23rd - 27th, 2016 - Ottawa, Canada
http://issre.net/
Paper Abstract Submission: May 6th, 2016
Papers Submission: May 13th, 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
* SETTA 2016
Call for Papers
Nov. 9-11, 2016, Beijing, China
http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta/
Abstract Submission: May 12, 2016
Full Paper Submission: May 19, 2016
* GandALF 2016
Call for Papers
September 14-16, Catania, Italy
http://gandalf2016.dmi.unict.it
Abstract submission: May 20
Paper submission: May 27
* RuleML 2016 Challenge
Call for Papers
6-9 July, 2016, Stony Brook University, USA
http://2016.ruleml.org/challenge
Paper Submission: June 1st, 2016
* IJCAR 2016 Workshop Path not taken
Call for Position Statements
2nd July 2016 in Coimbra, Portugal
Submission deadline: 1st June 2016
* HIGHLIGHTS 2016
Call for Presentations
September 6-9, 2016, Brussels, Belgium
http://highlights-conference.org
Submission deadline: June 3, 2016
* SECURECOMM 2016
Call For Papers
October 10-12, 2016, Guangzhou, People's Rupublic of China
http://securecomm.org
Paper Submission due: June 15, 2016
* TIME 2016
First Call for Papers
October 17-19, 2016, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
http://time2016.compute.dtu.dk/
Paper submission: June 20th, 2016
* PODS 2017
Call for Papers (1st submission cycle)
May 14-19, 2017, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
http://www.sigmod2017.org
Abstract submission: June 12, 2016
Paper submission: June 19, 2016
* PODS 2016
Call for Participation
June 27-29, 2016, San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.sigmod2016.org
* SSBSS 2016
Call for Participation
8-14 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa), Tuscany, Italy
* SSS 2016
Call for Papers
Lyon, France, November 7-10, 2016
http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/ SSS16/
Abstract Submission: July 17
Paper Submission: July 24
* ICDT 2017
Call for papers
27-31 March, 2017, Venice, Italy
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.benedikt/icdt17.html
Paper deadine (2nd submission cycle): September 18, 2016
AUTOMATED REASONING IN QUANTIFIED NON-CLASSICAL LOGICS
2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP (ARQNL 2016)
Call for papers
1 July 2016, Coimbra, Portugal
http://iltp.de/ARQNL-2016/
associated with IJCAR 2016
* Important dates
Abstract submission: 2 May 2016
Paper submission: 9 May 2016
* Non-classical logics -- such as modal logics, conditional logics,
intuitionistic logic, description logics, temporal logics, linear
logic, dynamic logic, fuzzy logic, paraconsistent logic, relevance
logic -- have many applications in AI, Computer Science, Philosophy,
Linguistics and Mathematics. Hence, the automation of proof search
in these logics is a crucial task. The ARQNL workshop aims at
fostering the development of proof calculi, automated theorem
proving systems and model finders for all sorts of quantified
non-classical logics. The workshop will provide a forum for
researchers to present and discuss recent developments in this area.
The contributions may range from theory to system descriptions and
implementations. Contributions may also outline relevant
applications and describe example problems and benchmarks. We
welcome contributions from computer scientists, linguists,
philosophers, and mathematicians.
* Paper formats:
Research papers (up to 15 pages), or short papers, talk abstracts,
and system demonstrations (up to 6 pages) are solicited.
* Publication:
Proceedings will be published in the EasyChair Proceedings in
Computing (EPiC) series.
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS FOR INDUSTRIAL CRITICAL SYSTEMS
AND AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF CRITICAL SYSTEMS (FMICS-AVoCS 2016)
Final Call for Papers
26-29 September 2016, CNR, Pisa, Italy
http://fmics-avocs.isti.cnr.it/
* 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 industry. The aim of the AVoCS workshop
series 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. 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.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract submission for full papers (extended): May 2, 2016
- Submission of full papers (extended): May 9, 2016
- Notification for full papers: June 19, 2016
- Camera ready versions of full papers: July 10, 2016
- Submission of research ideas: August 10, 2016
- Notification for research ideas: August 17, 2016
- FMICS-AVoCS workshop: September 26-29, 2016
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Thomas Arts (QuviQ AB, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Jan Peleska (University of Bremen, Germany)
* 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)
* MORE INFORMATION
http://fmics-avocs.isti.cnr.it/
THE 6TH HALMSTAD SUMMER SCHOOL ON TESTING (HSST 2016)
Call for participation and abstracts
June 13 - 16, 2016, Halmstad University, Sweden
http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2016
* SCOPE. Software testing accounts for a major part of software
development cost and effort, yet the current practice of software
testing is often insufficiently structured and disciplined. There
have been various attempts in the past decades to bring more rigour
and structure into this field, resulting in several
industrial-strength processes, techniques and tools for different
levels of testing. The 6th Halmstad Summer School on Testing
provides an overview of the state of the art in testing, including
theory, industrial cases, tools and hands-on tutorials by
internationally-renowned researchers.
* TUTORIALS.
- Automatic Software Verification with the Infer Static Analyzer
(Dino Distefano, Queen Mary, University of London and Facebook,
UK)
- Testing and Verification Methods for Many-Core Concurrency
(Alastair F. Donaldson, Imperial College, UK)
- Is Mutation Analysis Ready for Prime Time? (Jeff Offutt, George
Mason University, USA)
- Fault Model-Based Testing from State-Oriented Models (Alexandre
Petrenko, Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), Canada)
- The Role of Testing and Tools for Innovation (Per Runeson, Lund
University, Sweden)
- Fault Tree Analysis (Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The
Netherlands)
* Ph.D. Symposium
We have 6 time slots for Ph.D. presentations, where each student
gets to present her/his research project (and possibly results) and
receive feedback from our experts. We solicit abstracts of 2 pages
in the EasyChair Style in order to make a selection
(see:http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors ). The
abstract should contain a clear overview of the problem description,
approach, (existing results, if any,) and future milestone.
Abstract submissions can be made already via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hsst2016 .
* IMPORTANT DATES
- The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2016.
- The registration deadline is April 15, 2016.
* Further details:
http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2016
5TH WORKSHOP ON SYNTHESIS (SYNT 2016)
Final Call For Papers
Toronto, Canada, July 17, 2016
http://formal.epfl.ch/synt/2016/
* SYNT 2016 is a satellite event of CAV 2016. The workshop aims to
bring together researchers interested in the broad area of synthesis
of computing systems. The workshop aims to foster the development of
frontier techniques in automating the development of computing
systems and is inclusive in its interpretation of the term
synthesis.
* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- algorithms and tools for software synthesis and reactive
(discrete-time, timed, hybrid, ...) synthesis,
- specification languages and optimization in synthesis,
- complexity and decidability results for synthesis,
- case studies of software or hardware synthesis,
- connections between verification and synthesis,
- connections between synthesis and inductive programming.
* We welcome scientific contributions of the following forms:
- regular papers (max. 15 pages in EPTCS style, excluding references)
- tool papers (max. 7 pages in EPTCS style, excluding references)
- presentation-only papers (extended abstract of max. 2 pages in EPTCS style)
* Submission details: http://formal.epfl.ch/synt/2016/
* Important dates:
- Paper submission: May 6, 2016
- Author notification: May 30, 2016
- Workshop: July 17, 2016
* Program Chairs:
- Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS)
- Ruzica Piskac (Yale University)
10TH WISTP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SECURITY THEORY, AND PRACTICE (WISTP 2016)
Call for papers
Heraklion, Crete, Greece -- 26-27 September 2016
http://www.wistp.org/
* The 10th WISTP International Conference on Information Security
Theory and Practice (WISTP 2016) see ks original submissions from
academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical
and practical aspects of security and privacy, as well as
experimental studies of fielded systems, the application of security
technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned. We
encourage submissions from other communities such as law, business,
and policy that present these communities' perspectives on
technological issues.
* Important dates:
- Paper Submission due: 3 May 2016
- Notification to authors: 4 July 2016
- Camera ready due: 14 July 2016
* Detailed information can be found on the webpage.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (FMCAD 2016)
First Call for Papers
Mountain View, CA, USA, October 3-6, 2016
http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD16
* TOPICS OF INTEREST FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting
original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods
technology and its application to computer-aided design. Topics of
interest include (but are not limited to):
-- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction
and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the
bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of
deductive methods and decision procedures.
-- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling,
specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of
languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation
and transformation, correct-by-construction methods.
-- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and
non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software,
including timing and power modeling, verification of computing
systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and
verification for embedded and cyberphysical systems, hardware-
software co-design and verification, transaction-level verification.
-- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to
industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification
enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the
automation of formal methods.
-- Application of formal methods in areas beyond computer systems,
including formal methods describing processes studied in other areas
of science, engineering, and humanities.
-- (New) Application of formal methods to verifying safety,
connectivity and security properties of networks and distributed
systems.
* IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)
- Abstract Submission: May 02, 2016
- Paper Submission: May 09, 2016
- Author Response Period: June 17-21, 2016
- Author Notification: July 09, 2016
- Camera-Ready Version: Aug 09, 2016
- FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 3, 2016
- FMCAD Regular Program: October 4-6, 2016
* SUBMISSIONS: see http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD16
* PROGRAM CHAIRS:
- Ruzica Piskac, Yale University
- Muralidhar Talupur, FormalSim Inc
- Helmut Veith, Technische Universitaet Wien
THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES
SECURITY (CRITIS 2016)
Call for Papers
Paris, France, October 10-12, 2016
http://www.critis2016.org
* CRITIS 2016 covers five thematic foci. Paper submissions should
focus on one of the following topics:
- Technologies: Innovative responses for the protection of
cyber-physical systems
- Procedures and organisational aspects in C(I)IP: Policies, best
practices and lessons learned
- Advances in Human Factors, decision support, and cross-sector
CI(I)P approaches - focus on end-users
- Special private stakeholder session opic
- Young CRITIS and CIPRNet Young CRITIS Award (CYCA)
Full details available at http://www.critis2016.org
* Important Dates:
- Submission of full papers: May 10, 2016
- Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2016
- Camera-ready papers: September 1, 2016
- CRITIS 2016 event: October 10-12, 2016
* General Chairs
- Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, General Director of UIC, represented by UIC Security Division
* Program Chairs
- Roberto Setola, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
- Hypatia Nassopoulos, Ecole des Ingenieurs de la Ville de Paris, France
THE 27TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
(ISSRE 2016)
Call for Papers
October 23rd - 27th, 2016 - Ottawa, Canada
http://issre.net/
* SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT DATES
- Research Paper Abstract Submission: May 6th, 2016
- Research Papers Submission: May 13th, 2016
- Workshop Proposal Submission: April 22nd, 2016
- Tutorial Proposal Submission: July 1st, 2016
- Industry Paper Submission: July 29th, 2016
- Doctoral Symposium Paper Submission: August 5th, 2016
- Fast Abstract Paper Submission: August 5th, 2016
* For further information on the call for submissions, please see
http://issre.net/call-for-papers
* ISSRE is the premium conference that focuses on the theory and
practice of software systems reliability engineering. Over the past
20+ years we have grown to be recognized as the voice of software
reliability. From its humble beginnings in 1990, it has become a
conference that has a unique element to it: a rare combination of
strong research and industry participation.
* Topics of interests include
- Reliability, availability and safety of software systems
- Validation and Verification Faults, errors, failures, defects,
- bugs Software quality and productivity Software security
- Dependability, survivability, fault tolerance and resilience of
- software systems Systems (hardware + software) reliability
- engineering Metrics and measurements, estimation, prediction of
- quality/reliability Services reliability engineering Open source
- software reliability engineering Web 2.0 reliability, availability
- and security issues Supporting tools and automation Industry best
- practices Software as a Service Virtualization and software
- reliability Reliability of mobile devices and applications Green
- and Sustainable Software engineering Reliability of Big Data and
- Internet of Things Empirical studies of any of the above topics
- Software Standards
* ALL IMPORTANT DATES
* Call for Research Papers
Abstract submission: May 6, 2016
Full paper submission: May 13, 2016
Rebuttal period: July 10-12, 2016
Notification: July 20, 2016
Camera ready paper: August 21, 2016
* Call for Workshops Proposals
Proposal submission: April 22, 2016
Notification: May 8, 2016
Paper Submission: July 29, 2016
Paper Notification: Aug 19, 2016
Camera ready paper: Aug 28, 2016
* Call for Tutorials proposals
Proposal Submission: July 1, 2016
Notification: July 15, 2016
* Call for Industry Papers
Short paper submission: July 29, 2016
Abstract/Presentation Submission: August 15, 2016
Notification short paper: August 19, 2016
Notification abstract/presentation: August 28, 2016
Camera ready (short paper only): Aug 28, 2016
* Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers
Paper submission: August 5, 2016
Notification: August 19, 2016
Camera ready paper: August 28, 2016
* Call for Fast Abstract Papers
Paper Submission: August 5, 2016
Notification: August 19, 2016
Camera ready paper: August 28, 2016
* Program Committee Chairs
Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi University, Finland
* Workshop Chair
Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University, USA
* Industry Track Chairs
Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson, Sweden
Brian Robinson, ABB, USA
* Tutorial Chair
Sunita Chulani, Cisco Systems, USA
* Fast Abstract Chair
Jeremy Bradbury, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
* Doctoral Symposium Chair
Tanja Vos, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* Steering Committee: http://issre.net/steering-committee
* Program Committee: http://issre.net/program-committee
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
SYMPOSIUM ON DEPENDABLE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: THEORIES, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS (SETTA 2016)
Call for Papers
Nov. 9-11, 2016, Beijing, China
http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta/
* IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)
- Abstract Submission: May 12, 2016
- Full Paper Submission: May 19, 2016
- Notification to Authors: Jul. 15, 2016
- Camera-ready Paper: Aug. 6, 2016
* 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
artifacts 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.
* Submission details: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta/
THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GAMES, AUTOMATA, LOGICS AND FORMAL
VERIFICATION (GandALF 2016)
2nd Call for papers
September 14-16, Catania, Italy.
http://gandalf2016.dmi.unict.it
* TOPICS OF INTEREST: The topics covered by the conference include, but
are not limited to, the following:
Automata Theory
Automated Deduction
Computational aspects of Game Theory
Concurrency and Distributed computation
Decision Procedures
Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification
Finite Model Theory
First-order and Higher-order Logics
Formal Languages
Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems
Games and Automata for Verification
Game Semantics
Logical aspects of Computational Complexity
Logics of Programs
Modal and Temporal Logics
Model Checking
Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems
Program Analysis and Software Verification
Run-time Verification and Testing
Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems
Synthesis
* INVITED SPEAKERS
- Luca Bertolussi (University of Trieste, Italy)
- Joanna Golinska-Pilarek (Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Arnaud Sangnier (Laboratoire LIAFA, Universit=C3=A9 Paris Diderot, France)
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract submission: May 20
- Paper submission: May 27
- Notification: July 1
- Camera-ready: July 29
* CHAIRS
Domenico Cantone, Univ. of Catania, Italy (co-chair)
Giorgio Delzanno, Univ. of Genoa, Italy (co-chair)
10TH INTERNATIONAL RULE CHALLENGE 2016 (RULEML 2016 CHALLENGE)
Call for Papers
6-9 July, 2016, Stony Brook University, USA
http://2016.ruleml.org/challenge
* co-located with (in New York state): The Joint Multi-Conference on
Human-Level Artificial Intelligence 2016 (July 16-19, 2016)
http://ijcai-16.org/
* About Rule Challenge 2016 The RuleML 2016 Challenge is one of the
highlights at the RuleML 2016 Conference, and seeks to provide a
competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at
both the research and industrial side.
* Topics. Key themes of the RuleML 2016 Challenge include, but are not
limited to the following:
- Demos related to the RuleML 2016 Track Topics
- Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning
- Business Rules Modeling
- Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines
- Distributed rule bases and rule services
- Rules and model driven engineering
- Reports on industrial experience about rule systems
- Real cases and practical experiences
- (new) Mobile deployment of rule-based reasoning, including
(but not limited to):
-- Use cases of mobile rule-based reasoning
-- Fine-tuning reasoning techniques to cope with mobile
hardware limitations
-- Realizing efficient crowd-sourced, voting-based, ... processing,
by taking advantage of distributed mobile peer-to-peer opportunities
-- Benchmarking mobile rule system performances, and comparing it
to desktop/server performance
* Important Dates
- Paper Submission: June 1st, 2016
- Notification: June 13th, 2016
- Camera Ready: June 19th, 2016
- Conference Date: July 6-9, 2016
IJCAR 2016 WORKSHOP ON PATHS NOT TAKEN: THINKING ABOUT THE PROCESS OF PROOF
(IJCAR 2016 WORKSHOP)
https://pathsnottakenblog.wordpress.com
2nd July 2016 in Coimbra, Portugal.
In association with IJCAR 2016.
* Keynote speaker: J Strother Moore, University of Texas at Austin.
* Important dates
Submission deadline: 1st June 2016
Notification of final programme: 15th June 2016
Workshop: 2nd July 2016
* Call for Position Statements: Position statements of up to 500 words
should be submitted by email to pathsnottakenworkshop@gmail.com by
1st June 2016. They should be in PDF format, and include your name,
email address and affiliation, and a short paragraph describing your
background or experience in machine proof. Please indicate whether
you would be willing to have your statement posted on this blog.
* Position statements might address topics such as:
- what do you find hardest or most challenging about machine proof?
- what do you do when you get stuck in a machine proof?
- what is the best advice you have ever been given about machine proof?
- what was your biggest failure in a machine proof?
- how do you plan and organise a machine proof?
- what is the best way to teach others to do machine proofs?
* The scope of the workshop covers research in automated reasoning,
formal methods and proof processes. For futher details please visit
the workshop website: https://pathsnottakenblog.wordpress.com
FOURTH CONFRENCE ON HIGHLIGHTS OF LOGIC, GAMES AND AUTOMATA (HIGHLIGHTS 2016)
Call for Presentations
September 6-9, 2016, Brussels, Belgium
http://highlights-conference.org
* HIGHLIGHTS 2016 is the fourth conference on Highlights of Logic,
Games and Automata which aims at integrating the community working
in these fields. Papers from these areas are dispersed across many
conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to
Highlights conference should offer a wide picture of the latest
research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the
community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular
proceedings volume. We encourage you to attend and present your best
work, be it already published or not, at the Highlights conference.
* Representative areas include, but are not restricted to: logic and
finite model theory, automata theory, games for logic and
verification.
* You submit a proposal for a presentation, not a paper. Hence,
submissions should have a single author, who is the speaker. Since
we expect you to present your favorite result of the year, there
should be at most one submission per speaker. The abstract, of 1-2
pages, may include a list of coauthors. There are no formal
proceedings and we encourage submission of work presented
elsewhere. Submissions are possible through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dhighlights2016.
* The program will further offer three keynotes by Meena Mahajan
(Chennai), Andreas Maletti (Stuttgart), and Marc Zeitoun (Bordeaux),
two invited sessions, organised by S=C5=82awomir Lasota (Warsaw) and
Anca Muscholl (Bordeaux), and two tutorials by Benedikt Bollig
(Cachan) and Anton=C3=ADn Ku=C4=8Dera (Prague).
* Important dates:
Submission deadline: June 3, 2016
Registration possible until August 7, 2016
12TH EAI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (SECURECOMM 2016)
Call for Papers
October 10-12, 2016, Guangzhou, People's Rupublic of China
http://securecomm.org
* SecureComm seeks high-quality research contributions in the form of
well-developed papers. Topics of interest encompass research
advances in ALL areas of secure communications and
networking. Topics in other areas (e.g., formal methods, database
security, secure software, theoretical cryptography) will be
considered only if a clear connection to private or secure
communication/networking is demonstrated.
* Important dates:
- Paper Submission due: June 15, 2016
- Notification to authors: August 1, 2016
- Camera ready due: August 22, 2016
* Detailed information can be found on the webpage.
23RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TEMPORAL REPRESENTATION AND REASONING (TIME 2016)
First Call for Papers
October 17-19, 2016, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
http://time2016.compute.dtu.dk/
* TIME 2016 aims to bring together researchers interested in reasoning
about temporal aspects of information in any area of Computer
Science. The symposium, currently in its 23rd edition, has a wide
remit and intends to cater to both theoretical aspects and
well-founded applications. One of the key aspects of the symposium
is its interdisciplinarity, with attendees from distinct areas such
as artificial intelligence, database management, logic and
verification, and beyond. The symposium will encompass three tracks
on temporal representation and reasoning in Artificial Intelligence,
Databases and Logic and Verification.
* Further details about the topics of interest can be found on the webpage.
* Invited speakers:
- Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy
- Paolo Terenziani, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
* Important dates:
- Paper submission: June 20th, 2016
- Notification: July 25th, 2016
- Final version due: August 10th, 2016
- Symposium: October 17-19, 2016
36TH ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
(PODS 2017)
Call for Papers (1st submission cycle)
May 14-19, 2017, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
http://www.sigmod2017.org
* PODS has two rounds of submissions (see dates below). Note that the
1st round is moved earlier compared with the previous editions of
PODS. This is to better synchronize with the two deadlines of the
ICDT conference (see
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.benedikt/icdt17.html)
* TOPICS that fit the interests of the symposium include the following:
- design, semantics, query languages
- data models, data structures, algorithms for data management
- concurrency and recovery, distributed and parallel databases, cloud
computing
- model theory, logics, algebras, computational complexity
- graph databases and (semantic) Web data
- data mining, information extraction, search
- data streams
- data-centric (business) process management, workflows, web services
- incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty in data management
- data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views
and data warehouses, metadata management
- domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial,
temporal, text)
- deductive databases
- data privacy and security
* PROGRAM CHAIR
Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp, BE)
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Dates for first submission cycle:
June 12, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Abstract submission
June 19, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Paper submission
August 28, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Accept/Reject/Revise notification
September 25, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Revision deadline
October 30, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Accept/Reject notification (Revisions)
- Dates for second submission cycle:
December 11, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Abstract submission
December 18, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Paper submission
February 26, 2017, 11:59pm PST: Accept/Reject notification
March 19, 2017, 11:59pm PST: Camera-ready deadline
* AWARDS
- Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as
judged by the program committee.
- Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best
submission, as judged by the program committee, written by a student
or exclusively by students.
35TH ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI SYMPOSIUM PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
(PODS 2016)
Call for Participation
June 27-29, 2016, San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.sigmod2016.org
* The PODS program this year will feature an invited keynote, two
invited tutorials, and the inaugural Gems of PODS talks. The Gems of
PODS event features topics and results in PODS that have been highly
influential in the PODS community and beyond.
* Invited keynote and tutorials
* Gems of PODS talks
* Monday (June 27):
-Keynote:
A Theory of Regular Queries by Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
- Gems of PODS talks:
Optimal Score Aggregation Algorithms by Ronald Fagin (IBM Research
Almaden)
- Hypertree Decompositions: Questions and Answers by Georg Gottlob
(University of Oxford)
* Tuesday (June 28):
- Invited tutorial:
Data Management for Social Networking by Sara Cohen (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem)
* Wednesday (June 29):
- Invited tutorial:
Logical Aspects of Massively Parallel and Distributed Systems by
Frank Neven (Hasselt University)
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/
18TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON STABILIZATION, SAFETY, AND SECURITY OF
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SSS 2016)
Call for Papers
Lyon, France, November 7-10, 2016
http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/ SSS16/
* The Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed
Systems is an international forum for researchers and practitioners
working on the design and development of distributed systems that
guarantee specific desired properties despite adversity, or that are
able to restore the desired properties following adversarial
perturbations in the computing medium building on the principles of
self-stabilization. The symposium encourages the submission of
original contributions spanning fundamental research and practical
applications within its scope, covered by the three symposium
tracks.
* TOPICS AND TRACKS
* Track 1: Self-* and Autonomic Computing
- Self-stabilizing systems
- Self-organizing, self-managing, and self-configuring systems
- Self-optimizing and self-healing systems
- Self-protecting and self-repairing systems
- Autonomic cloud computing
- Autonomous vehicles
* Track 2: Foundations
- Theory of self-stabilization
- Distributed algorithms
- Fault-Tolerant distributed systems
- Formal methods, validation, verification, and synthesis
- Safety and security
* Track 3: Networks, Multi-Agent Systems, and Mobility
- Self-Stabilizing networks
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks
- Large and extreme scale systems
- Distributed robot systems
- Cooperating multi-agent distributed systems
- Dynamic systems and networks
- Overlay networks
- Social networks
- High-Speed networks
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract Submission: July 17
- Paper Submission: July 24
- Notification: September 12
- Camera Ready Submission: September 23
- Authors Registration: September 23
- Early Registration: October 7
- Conference: November 7-10
* Keynote Speakers
Hagit Attiya (Technion, Israel)
Joseph Halpern (Cornell University, USA)
TBA
* General Chair:
Franck Petit (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, LIP6, France)
* Program Committee Chair:
Borzoo Bonakdarpour (McMaster University, Canada)
* Program Chairs
- Track 1: Self-* and Autonomic Computing
Stephane Devismes, co-chair (University of Grenoble, France)
Manish Parashar, co-chair (Rutgers University, USA)
- Track 2: Foundations
Vijay Garg, co-chair (University of Texas - Austin, USA)
Sergio Rajsbaum, co-chair (UNAM, Mexico)
- Track 3: Networks, Multi-Agent Systems, and Mobility
Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, co-chair (ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland)
Roger Wattenhofer, co-chair (ETH-Zurich, Switzerland)
* The program committee will select two papers for the best paper and
best student paper awards.
THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2017)
Call for papers
27-31 March, 2017, Venice, Italy
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.benedikt/icdt17.html
* The series of ICDT conferences (http://icdt.tu-dortmund.de/)
provides an international forum for the communication of research
advances on the theoretical foundations of database systems.
* ICDT has made significant changes to its submission dates, in
co-ordination with its sibling conference PODS. There are now two
submission cycles, with the first providing the possibility of
revision.
* First submission cycle:
Abstract deadline: March 18, 2016
Full paper submission deadline: March 25, 2016
Accept/Reject/Revise Notification: May 29, 2016
* Second submission cycle:
Abstract deadline: September 11, 2016
Full paper submission deadline: September 18, 2016
Notification: November 27, 2016
* Examples of relevant topics are: concurrency and recovery,
distributed and parallel databases, cloud computing, connections
between databases and knowledge representation, graph databases and
(semantic) Web data, data mining, information extraction, search,
data streams, data-centric (business) process management, workflows,
web services, incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty in
databases, data and knowledge integration and exchange, data
provenance, views and data warehouses, metadata management,
domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial,
temporal, text), deductive databases, data privacy and security,
database aspects of machine learning, model theory, logics,
algebras, computational complexity, design, semantics, query
languages, data models, data structures, algorithms for data
management.
POSTDOC OR PHD POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK
* Within the research unit Computation with Bounded Resources at the
University of Innsbruck, Austria there is an opening for a 2 year
position as postdoctoral researcher or a 3 year position as PhD
student. The position is funded by the ANR-FWF project "The fine
structure of proof systems and their computational interpretations"
(FISP for short). Applications (including CV, publication list, and
two references) may be sent by email, to
georg.moser@uibk.ac.at
no later than May 31, 2016. Informal inquiries are also welcome at the
same email address.
* Project FISP:
http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/research/projects/the-fine-structure-of-formal-proof-systems-and-the/
* Computation with Bounded Resources Research Unit
http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/
* Computational Logic Group
http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/
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