Newsletter 139
October 3, 2012
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* DEADLINES
Deadlines in the coming weeks
* LICS-RELATED CALLS
LICS 2013 - Call for Workshop Proposals
LICS 2013 - Call for Papers
* CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
FOSSACS 2013 - Call for Papers
SAT 2013 - Call for Workshops, Competitions and Tutorials
CADE-24 - Call for Workshops, Tutorials and System Competitions
CADE-24 - Call for Papers
LATA 2013 - Call for Papers
PETRI NETS 2013 - Call for Papers
TLCA 2013 - Call for Papers
RTA 2013 - Call for Papers
CALCO 2013 - Call for Papers
* CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION
FMCAD 2012 - Call for Participation
* BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Programming with Higher-Order Logic
Scientific Freedom and Human Rights
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Postdoc in Automated Reasoning in Verona
PhD Positions at the University of Luxembourg
DEADLINES
* FOSSACS 2013
Abstract submission: October 7, 2012
Paper submission: October 14, 2012
http://www.etaps.org/2013/fossacs13
* SAT 2013
Proposal submission: November 2, 2012 (negotiable)
http://sat2013.cs.helsinki.fi/
* CADE-24
Proposal submission: November 9, 2012
Abstract submission: 7 January 2013
Paper submission: 14 January 2013
http://www.cade-24.info/
* LATA 2013
Paper submission: November 9, 2012
http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2013/
* LICS 2013
Workshop Proposals: November 26, 2012
Title & Short Abstracts: January 7, 2013
Extended Abstracts: January 14, 2013
http://informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics13/
* PETRI NETS 2013
Submission of Papers: January 10, 2013
Submission of Tutorial Proposals: January 10, 2013
http://www.mc3.disco.unimib.it/petrinets2013/
* TLCA 2013
Paper Registration (titles & short abstracts): January 25, 2013
Full Paper Submission: 1 February 2013
http://www.win.tue.nl/rdp2013/
* RTA 2013
Abstract submission: February 1, 2013
Paper submission: February 5, 2013
http://www.win.tue.nl/rdp2013/
* CALCO 2013
Abstract Submission: February 22, 2013
Paper Submission: March 1, 2013
http://coalg.org/calco13/
28TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2013)
Call for Workshop Proposals
June 24, 28-29, 2013
New Orleans, USA
http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics13/
* LOCATION AND COLOCATION
The twenty-eighth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science
(LICS 2013) will be held in New Orleans, USA, 25-28 June 2013.
It will be colocated with MFPS (Mathematical Foundations of
Programming Semantics) and CSF (IEEE Computer Security
Foundations). Possible dates for workshops are Monday 24 June,
Friday 28 June afternoon, and Saturday 29 June.
* SCOPE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for
workshops on topics relating logic - broadly construed - to
computer science or related fields. Typically, LICS workshops
feature a number of invited speakers and a number of contributed
presentations. LICS workshops do not usually produce formal
proceedings. However, in the past there have been special issues
of journals based in part on certain LICS workshops.
* PROPOSALS
Proposals should include:
- A short scientific summary and justification of the proposed
topic. This should include a discussion of the particular
benefits of the topic to the LICS community.
- A discussion of the proposed format and agenda.
- The proposed duration, which is typically one day (two-day
workshops can be accommodated too).
- Your preferred dates. This is important!
- Let us know if you would like your workshop to be a joint
workshop with CSF. In that case you should submit to both.
- Procedures for selecting participants and papers.
- Expected number of participants. This is important!
- Potential invited speakers.
- Plans for dissemination (for example, special issues of
journals).
* SUBMISSION
Proposals should be submitted via Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=licsworkshops2013
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: November 26, 2012
Notification: December 20, 2012
Program of the workshops ready: April 30, 2013
Workshops: June 24, 2013 or June 28-29, 2013
LICS conference: June 25-28, 2013
* WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS, ENS Cachan
* SELECTION COMMITTEE
The workshops selection committee consists of the LICS General
Chair, LICS Workshops Chair, LICS 2013 PC Chair and LICS 2013
Conference Chair.
28TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2013)
Call for Papers
June 25-28, 2013
New Orleans, USA
http://informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics13/
* LOCATION AND COLOCATION
LICS 2013 will be hosted by Tulane University, in New Orleans,
LA USA, from June 25th to 28th, 2013. LICS 2013 will be
co-located with MFPS13 (23-25 June) and CSF13 (26-28 June).
* SCOPE
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, theory of automatic structures,
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, rewriting, type systems and
type theory, and verification.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Titles & Short Abstracts Due : January 7, 2013
Extended Abstracts Due : January 14, 2013
Author Notification (approximate) : March 22, 2013
* KLEENE AWARD
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.
* PROGRAM CHAIR
Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Parosh A. Abdulla, Uppsala University
Amal Ahmed, Northeastern Universtiy
Sergei Artemov, City University of New York
Andrei Bulatov, Simon Fraser University
Yijia Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Veronique Cortier, CNRS, Loria
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Univ. di Torino
Thomas Ehrhard, CNRS, Universite Paris Diderot
Javier Esparza, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Kousha Etessami, University of Edinburgh
Maribel Fernandez, King's College London
Santiago Figueira, University of Buenos Aires
Simon Gay, University of Glasgow
Martin Grohe, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Martin Hofmann, LMU Munich
Petr Jancar, Technical University Ostrava
Barbara Jobstmann, CNRS, Verimag and Jasper DA
Patricia Johann, University of Strathclyde
Bakhadyr Khoussainov, The University of Auckland
Antonina Kolokolova, University of Newfoundland
Victor Marek, University of Kentucky
Angelo Morzenti, Politecnico di Milano
Lawrence Moss, Indiana University
Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Math. Institute
Anca Muscholl, Universite Bordeaux
Mogens Nielsen, Aarhus University
Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique
Luc Segoufin, INRIA, ENS Cachan
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International
Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen
Balder ten Cate, UC Santa Cruz
Kazushige Terui, Kyoto University
Ron van der Meyden, Univ. of New South Wales
Jeannette M. Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London
* CONFERENCE CHAIR
Mike Mislove, Tulane University
* WORKSHOP CHAIR
Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS, ENS Cachan
* PUBLICITY CHAIR
Andrzej Murawski, University of Leicester
* GENERAL CHAIR
Luke Ong, University of Oxford
16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE SCIENCE AND COMPUTATION STRUCTURES (FOSSACS 2013)
Call for Papers
Affiliated with ETAPS'13
March 16-24, 2013,
Rome, Italy
http://www.etaps.org/2013/fossacs13
* SCOPE
FoSSaCS is an annual conference seeking original papers on
foundational research with a clear significance for software science.
The conference invites submissions on theories and methods to support
the analysis, integration, synthesis, transformaton, and verification
of programs and software systems.
* IMPORTANT DATES
7 October 2012: Abstract submission
14 October 2012: Paper submission
6-7 December 2012: Author response period
14 December 2012: Author notification
8 January 2013: Final versions of accepted papers
* SUBMISSION
15 pages in LNCS format via EasyChair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fossacs2013
For details, consult http://www.etaps.org/2013/important-dates13
* TOPICS
- Categorical models and logics
- Language theory, automata, and games
- Modal, spatial, and temporal logics
- Type theory and proof theory
- Concurrency theory
- Rewriting theory
- Semantics of programming languages
- Program analysis, correctness, transformation, and verification
- Logics of programming
- Software specification and refinement
- Models of concurrent, reactive, stochastic, distributed, hybrid, and mobile systems
- Process calculi
- Emerging models of computation
- Logical aspects of computational complexity
- Fundamentals of software security
- Logical foundations of databases
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Andreas Abel (LMU Munich, Germany)
Umut Acar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany)
Jiri Adamek (Techn. Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany)
Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Eugene Asarin (Universite Paris Diderot, France)
Nick Benton (MSR Cambridge, UK)
Krishnendu Chatterjee (IST Austria)
Swarat Chaudhuri (Rice University, USA)
Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA)
Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy)
Giorgio Delzanno (University of Genova, Italy)
Dan Ghica (University of Birmingham, UK)
Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan, France)
Bart Jacobs (Radboud Univ. of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul University, Chicago, USA)
Patricia Johann (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
Naoki Kobayashi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Stephane Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, France)
Frank Pfenning, Chair (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Ashish Tiwari (SRI International, Menlo Park, USA)
Pawel Urzyczyn (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University, Korea)
16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF SATISFIABILITY TESTING (SAT 2013)
Call for Workshops, Competitions and Tutorials
Helsinki, Finland,
July 8-12, 2013
http://sat2013.cs.helsinki.fi/
* PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE
November 2, 2012 (negotiable)
* SUBMISSION
Proposals should be submitted by email to sat2013@easychair.org, either in
ASCII text or as an attachment in PDF form, and should include
in sufficient detail the information outlined at
http://sat2013.cs.helsinki.fi/calls.html
Proposals with incomplete information may be submitted, in case the deadline
is a bit early. Please indicate in your proposal a plan and/or schedule
for getting the remaining information.
* CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Workshop proposals for SAT 2013 are solicited. Both well-established
workshops, possible previously affiliated with other venues, and newer
ones are encouraged. Similarly, proposals for workshops with a tight
focus on a core area within SAT, ranging from theory to applications,
as well as those with a broader focus on SAT and related formalisms and
paradigms, are very welcome.
* CALL FOR SOLVER COMPETITIONS
Solver competitions for SAT solvers and their extensions
are a traditional part of the SAT conferences.
For SAT 2013, proposals for solver competitions are solicited openly.
The goal is to foster the development of both core SAT solvers as well as
their extensions (including, but not restricted to structural SAT solving,
MaxSAT, MUS computation, QBF, SMT, etc) and SAT-based systems for important
application domains.
* CALL FOR TUTORIALS
As a new development for 2013, tutorial proposals for SAT 2013 are solicited.
Tutorials are expected to be 1-2 hours long, although other durations will
be considered. The tutorial may have a theoretical or applied focus,
on a topic of interest for SAT 2013, broadly construed.
All accepted tutorials will be scheduled to take place during the main
conference.
* Should you have any questions regarding these calls, please contact us
via email using sat2013@easychair.org .
* SAT 2013 Program Committee Chairs
Matti Jarvisalo University of Helsinki
Allen Van Gelder University of California at Santa Cruz
24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED DEDUCTION (CADE-24)
Call for Workshops, Tutorials and System Competitions
Lake Placid, USA
9-14 June 2013
http://www.cade-24.info
* SCOPE
CADE is the major international forum at which research on all aspects
of automated deduction is presented.
* CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Workshop proposals for CADE-24 are solicited. Both well-established
workshops and newer ones are encouraged. Similarly, proposals for
workshops with a tight focus on a core automated reasoning
specialization, as well as those with a broader, more applied focus,
are very welcome.
Please provide the following information in your application document:
+ Workshop title
+ Names and affiliations of organizers
+ Proposed workshop duration (from half a day to two days)
+ Brief description of the goals and the scope of the workshop. Why is
the workshop relevant for CADE?
+ Is the workshop new or has it met previously? In the latter case
information on previous meetings should be given.
+ What are the plans for publication?
* CALL FOR TUTORIALS
Tutorial proposals for CADE-24 are solicited. Tutorials are expected to be
half-day events, with a theoretical or applied focus, on a Topic Of Interest
for CADE-24. Proposals should provide the following information:
+ Tutorial title.
+ Names and affiliations of organizers.
+ Brief description of the tutorial's goals and topics to be covered.
+ Whether or not a version of the tutorial has been given previously.
CADE will take care of printing and distributing notes for tutorials that
would like this service.
* CALL FOR SYSTEM COMPETITIONS
The CADE ATP Systems Competition CASC, which evaluates automated
theorem proving systems for classical logics, has become an integral
part of the CADE conferences.
Further system competition proposals are solicited. The goal is to
foster the development of automated reasoning systems in all areas
relevant for automated deduction in a broader sense.
+ Competition title.
+ Names and affiliations of organizers.
+ Duration and schedule of the competition.
+ Room/space requirements.
+ Description of the competition task and the evaluation procedure.
+ Is the competition new or has it been organized before?
In the latter case information on previous competitions should be given.
+ What computing resources are required and how will they be provided?
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for proposal submissions: 9 November 2012
Acceptance/rejection notification: 30 November 2012
Workshops and Tutorials: 9-10 June 2013
Competitions: 9-14 June 2013
Conference: 11-14 June 2013
* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Proposals should be uploaded via
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade24workshopscompe
* CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Christopher A. Lynch Clarkson University
Neil V. Murray SUNY Albany
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona
* TUTORIAL CHAIR
Peter Baumgartner NICTA and Australian National University
* WORKSHOP AND COMPETITION CHAIR
Christoph Benzmueller Freie Universitaet Berlin
* PUBLICITY AND WEB CHAIR
Grant Olney Passmore Cambridge University and University of Edinburgh
24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED DEDUCTION (CADE-24)
Call for Papers
June 9-14, 2013
Lake Placid, New York, USA
http://www.cade-24.info/
* SCOPE
CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all
aspects of automated deduction. The conference program features
invited talks, paper presentations, system descriptions, workshops,
tutorials, and system competitions, including the CADE ATP System
Competition (CASC). CADE-24 invites high-quality submissions on
the general topic of automated reasoning, including foundations,
applications, implementations and practical experiences.
- Logics of interest include: propositional, first-order,
equational, classical, higher-order, non-classical, constructive,
modal, temporal, many-valued, description, meta-logics,
logical frameworks, type theory, set theory, as well as any
combination thereof.
- Paradigms of interest include: theorem proving, model building,
constraint solving, computer algebra, model checking, proof
checking, and their integrations.
- Methods of interest include: resolution, superposition or
paramodulation, completion, saturation, term rewriting,
decision procedures and their combinations, model elimination,
connection method, inverse method, tableaux, induction, proof
planning, sequent calculi, natural deduction, as well as their
supporting algorithms and data structures, including unification,
matching, orderings, indexing, proof presentation and explanation,
and search plans or strategies for inference control, including
semantic guidance and AI-related methods.
- Applications of interest include: analysis, verification and
synthesis of software and hardware, formal methods, computer
mathematics, computational logic, declarative programming,
knowledge representation, deductive databases, natural language
processing, computational linguistics, ontology reasoning,
robotics, planning, and other areas of artificial intelligence.
* PUBLICATION AND SUBMISSION
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the
Springer LNAI/LNCS series. Submissions can be made in the
categories 'regular paper' (max 15 pages) and 'system
description' (max 7 pages). Full system descriptions that
provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an
implemented system can be submitted as regular papers.
The page for electronic submission via EasyChair is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade24.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Title and abstract must be submitted before the paper.
Abstract submission: 7 January 2013
Paper submission: 14 January 2013
Notification: 11 March 2013
Final version: 1 April 2013
Workshops and Tutorials: 9-10 June 2013
Competitions: 9-14 June 2013
Conference: 11-14 June 2013
* CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Christopher A. Lynch Clarkson University
Neil V. Murray University at Albany - SUNY
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona
* WORKSHOP AND COMPETITION CHAIR
Christoph Benzmueller Freie Universitaet Berlin
* TUTORIAL CHAIR
Peter Baumgartner NICTA and Australian National University
* PUBLICITY AND WEB CHAIR
Grant Olney Passmore Cambridge University and Edinburgh University
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alessandro Armando Universita degli Studi di Genova & FBK Trento, Italy
Peter Baumgartner NICTA & Australian National University, Australia
Christoph Benzmueller Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona, Italy (Chair)
Cristina Borralleras Universitat de Vic, Spain
Thierry Boy De La Tour Universite de Grenoble, France
Evelyne Contejean CNRS & Universite de Paris-Sud, France
Leonardo De Moura Microsoft Research, USA
Stephanie Delaune Ecole Nationale Superieure de Cachan, France
Clare Dixon University of Liverpool, UK
Pascal Fontaine Universite de Lorraine & LORIA, France
Ulrich Furbach Universitaet Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Ruben Gamboa University of Wyoming, USA
Juergen Giesl RWTH Aachen, Germany
Paul B. Jackson University of Edinburgh, UK
Predrag Janicic Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia
Helene Kirchner INRIA Rocquencourt, France
Konstantin Korovin University of Manchester, UK
K. Rustan M. Leino Microsoft Research, USA
Christopher A. Lynch Clarkson University, USA
Cesar A. Munoz NASA Langley, USA
Neil V. Murray University at Albany - SUNY , USA
Lawrence C. Paulson University of Cambridge, UK
Frank Pfenning Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Brigitte Pientka McGill University, Canada
David A. Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Christophe Ringeissen LORIA & INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
Ulrike Sattler University of Manchester, UK
Renate A. Schmidt University of Manchester, UK
Manfred Schmidt-Schauss Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Germany
Stephan Schulz Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans Universitaet Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Ashish Tiwari SRI International, USA
Uwe Waldmann MPI fuer Informatik, Germany
Christoph Weidenbach MPI fuer Informatik, Germany
Jian Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China
7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA, THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2013)
Call for Papers
Bilbao, Spain, April 2-5, 2013
http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2013/
* AIMS
LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and
its applications. Following the tradition of the International
Schools in Formal Languages and Applications developed at Rovira
i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2013 will
reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of
their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both
classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics,
systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence).
* VENUE
LATA 2013 will take place in Bilbao, at the Basque Country in
Northern Spain. The venue will be the Basque Center for Applied
Mathematics (BCAM).
* SCOPE
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are
not limited to:
- algebraic language theory
- algorithms for semi-structured data mining
- algorithms on automata and words
- automata and logic
- automata for system analysis and programme verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- automatic structures
- cellular automata
- combinatorics on words
- computability
- computational complexity
- computational linguistics
- data and image compression
- decidability questions on words and languages
- descriptional complexity
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- document engineering
- foundations of finite state technology
- foundations of XML
- fuzzy and rough languages
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional,
unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
- graphs and graph transformation
- language varieties and semigroups
- language-based cryptography
- language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence
and artificial life
- parallel and regulated rewriting
- parsing
- pattern recognition
- patterns and codes
- power series
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- semantics
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology
and bioinformatics
- string processing algorithms
- symbolic dynamics
- symbolic neural networks
- term rewriting
- transducers
- trees, tree languages and tree automata
- weighted automata
* STRUCTURE
LATA 2013 will consist of
- 3 invited talks
- 2 invited tutorials
- peer-reviewed contributions
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Uppsala)
Franz Baader (Dresden)
Jos Baeten (CWI, Amsterdam)
Christel Baier (Dresden)
Gerth Stolting Brodal (Aarhus)
John Case (Delaware)
Marek Chrobak (Riverside)
Mariangiola Dezani (Torino)
Rod Downey (Wellington)
Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas)
Ivo Duentsch (Brock)
E. Allen Emerson (Austin)
Javier Esparza (Technical University Munich)
Michael R. Fellows (Darwin)
Alain Finkel (ENS Cachan)
Dov M. Gabbay (King's, London)
Juergen Giesl (Aachen)
Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney)
Georg Gottlob (Oxford)
Annegret Habel (Oldenburg)
Reiko Heckel (Leicester)
Sanjay Jain (Singapore)
Charanjit S. Jutla (IBM Thomas J. Watson)
Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern)
Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen)
S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins)
Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton)
Hans-Joerg Kreowski (Bremen)
Tak-Wah Lam (Hong Kong)
Gad M. Landau (Haifa)
Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg)
Richard Lipton (Georgia Tech)
Jack Lutz (Iowa State)
Ian Mackie (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck, Kaiserslautern)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Paliath Narendran (Albany)
Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich)
David A. Plaisted (Chapel Hill)
Jean-Francois Raskin (Brussels)
Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin)
Michael Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy)
Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna)
Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund)
Colin Stirling (Edinburgh)
Alfonso Valencia (CNIO, Madrid)
Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech)
Heribert Vollmer (Hannover)
Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo Tech)
Pierre Wolper (Liege)
Louxin Zhang (Singapore)
* PUBLICATION
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
will be available by the time of the conference.
* DEADLINES
Paper submission: November 9, 2012 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 16, 2012
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 25,
2012
34TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION AND THEORY OF PETRI NETS AND CONCURRENCY (PETRI NETS 2013)
Call for Papers
Milano, Italy
June 24-28, 2013
http://www.mc3.disco.unimib.it/petrinets2013/
* SCOPE
The 34th annual international Petri Net conference will be organised
by the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication
(DISCo), University of Milano - Bicocca. The conference takes place
under the auspices of the EATCS, and GI SIG "Petri Nets and Related
System Models". The language of the conference is English, and its
proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science. All accepted papers will be considered for the
"Outstanding Paper" award(s). Papers presenting original research on
application or theory of Petri nets, as well as contributions
addressing topics relevant to the general field of distributed and
concurrent systems are sought.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Papers: January 10, 2013
Submission of Tutorial Proposals: January 10, 2013
Notification: March 1, 2013
Final Version Due: April 1, 2013
Participation in Tool Exhibition: June 1, 2013
Workshops & Tutorials: June 24-25, 2013
Conference: June 26-28, 2013
The deadline for submission of papers is STRICT.
However, if you submit the title page by January 10
it is sufficient to submit the full paper by January 15.
* TOPICS
+ Topics specific to Petri Nets
- System design using nets
- Analysis and synthesis, structure and behaviour of nets
- Relationships between Petri Nets and other approaches
- Net-based semantical, logical and algebraic calculi
- Symbolic net representation (graphical or textual)
- Computer tools for nets
- Experience with using nets, case studies
- Higher-level net models
- Timed and stochastic nets
- Standardisation of nets
- Experience reports describing applications of nets to different
kinds of systems and application fields, e.g.:
- flexible manufacturing systems
- office automation
- real-time systems
- workflows
- embedded systems
- supervisory control
- defence systems
- protocols and networks
- biological systems
- Internet
- health and medical systems
- e-commerce and trading
- environmental systems
- programming languages
- hardware
- performance evaluation
- telecommunications
- operations research
- railway networks
+ General topics related to concurrency
- Model checking and verification of distributed systems
- Verification of infinite-state or parametric systems
- Causality/partial order theory of concurrency
- Educational issues related to concurrency
- New issues and developments in the theory of concurrency
- Modelling of hardware and biological systems
* PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Two kinds of papers can be submitted:
- regular papers (max 20 pages) describing original results
pertaining to the development of the theory of Petri Nets and
distributed and concurrent systems in general, new results
extending the applicability of Petri Nets, or case studies, application
and experience reports pertinent to the practical use of Petri Nets and
concurrency. For papers describing the experiences from applications
of Petri Nets, authors are encouraged to consult the document:
ApplicationFormat.pdf (available at
www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/sc-info/docs/ApplicationFormat.pdf)
- tool papers (max 10 pages) describing a computer tool based on
Petri Nets (not an application of the tool or the theory behind the tool).
For more information, please see the document: ToolFormat.pdf (available at
www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/sc-info/docs/ToolFormat.pdf).
The tool should be available for use by other groups (but not
necessarily for free). The submission should indicate how the
reviewers can get access to the tool (this must be for free).
The tool will be demonstrated in the Tool Exhibition, in addition to
being presented in a conference talk.
Submitted papers must:
- be contributions that have neither already been published nor are
simultaneously being considered for publication in a peer-reviewed
forum;
- clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the
results achieved, and the relation to other work;
- be in English and in the Springer LNCS-format:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html;
- adhere to the page limit for the relevant category (see above);
- be sent electronically (as a PDF file) no later than the above
mentioned deadlines using the website
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petrinets2013.
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Jos Manuel Colom, Spain
Joerg Desel, Germany
* WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS
Serge Haddad, France
Alex Yakovlev, UK
* ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Lucia Pomello, Italy
* PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Luca Bernardinello, Italy
Lucia Pomello, Italy
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
H. Alla, France
M. Beccuti, Italy
J. Billington, Australia
J. Carmona, Spain
G. Ciardo, USA
J.M. Colom, Spain (co-chair)
P. Darondeau, France
J. Desel, Germany (co-chair)
R. Devillers, Belgium
Z. Duan, China
J. Esparza, Germany
M.P. Fanti, Italy
L. Gomes, Portugal
S. Haddad, France
H. Hansen, Singapore
K. Hiraishi, Japan
V. Khomenko, UK
E. Kindler, Denmark
H. Klaudel, France
J. Kleijn, The Netherlands
R. Lazic, UK
C. Lin, China
N. Lohmann, Germany
I. Lomazova, Russia
A. Miner, USA
L. Pomello, Italy
W. Reisig, Germany
C. Seatzu, Italy
C. Stahl, The Netherlands
S. Taoka, Japan
A. Valmari, Finland
M. Westergaard, The Netherlands
11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TYPED LAMBDA CALCULI AND APPLICATIONS (TLCA 2013)
Call for Papers
Eindhoven, 23-28 June 2013
co-located with RTA 2013 as part of RDP 2013
http://www.win.tue.nl/rdp2013/
* SCOPE
The 11th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi
and Applications (TLCA 2013) is a forum for original
research in the theory and applications of typed lambda
calculus, broadly construed.
Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are:
- Proof-theory: natural deduction, sequent calculi, cut elimination
and normalization, propositions as types, linear logic and proof
nets, type-theoretic aspects of computational complexity
- Semantics: denotational semantics, game semantics, realisability,
domain theory, categorical models
- Types: subtypes, dependent types, polymorphism, intersection types
and related approaches, type inference and type checking, types in
program analysis and verification, types in proof assistants
- Programming: foundational aspects of functional programming,
object-oriented programming and other programming paradigms,
flow analysis of higher-type computation, program equivalence,
program transformation and optimization
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Registration (titles & short abstracts): 25 January 2013
- Full Paper Submission: 1 February 2013
- Author Notification: 22 March 2013
- Camera-Ready Paper for the Proceedings: 12 April 2013
* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We solicit submissions of research papers, which must:
- be in English and not exceed 15 pages (including figures and
bibliography). Additional material intended for the reviewers
but not for publication in the final version - for example
details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix
that is not included in the page limit. Reviewers will be told
that they may choose to ignore the appendix.
- present original research which is unpublished and not submitted
elsewhere (conferences, journals, books, etc.)
- use the Springer-Verlag LNCS style.
- be submitted electronically in PDF via the EasyChair TLCA 2013
Submission Webpage (will open nearer the deadline)
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlca2013.
Submissions deviating from these instructions may be rejected
without review. A condition of submission is that, if accepted,
one of the authors must attend the conference to give the
presentation. The proceedings will be published as a volume
in the ARCoSS subline series of Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in
Computer Science. Final papers will be in the format specified by
Springer-Verlag. Any questions regarding the submission guidelines
should be directed to the Programme Committee Chair
(Masahito Hasegawa ) prior to
submitting.
* COLOCATED EVENTS
TLCA 2013 is organized as part of the Federated Conference on
Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP 2013), together with
the International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and
Applications (RTA 2013) and several related events. Details on
workshops affiliated with RDP 2013 will be available at the web
site in due course.
* CONFERENCE CHAIR
Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Andreas Abel (LMU Munchen, Germany)
Patrick Baillot (CNRS and ENS Lyon, France)
Nick Benton (Microsoft Cambridge, UK)
Lars Birkedal (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto University, Japan) (PC chair)
Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Paul-Andre Mellies (CNRS and Universite Paris Diderot, France)
Thomas Streicher (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Lorenzo Tortora de Falco (Universita Roma Tre, Italy)
Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, US)
* TLCA PUBLICITY CHAIR
Luca Paolini (Universita di Torino, Italy)
24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REWRITING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS (RTA 2013)
Call for Papers
June 24 - 26, 2013
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
collocated with TLCA 2013 as part of RDP 2013
http://www.win.tue.nl/rdp2013/
* GENERAL
The 24th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications
(RTA 2013) is organized as part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting,
Deduction, and Programming (RDP 2013), together with the 11th International
Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2013), and several
workshops. RDP 2013 will be held at the Eindhoven University of Technology
in the Netherlands.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
RTA is the major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of
rewriting. Typical areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Applications: case studies; analysis of cryptographic protocols; rule-based
(functional and logic) programming; symbolic and algebraic computation;
SMT solving; theorem proving; system synthesis and verification; proof
checking; reasoning about programming languages and logics; program
transformation; XML queries and transformations; systems biology;
homotopy theory; implicit computational complexity;
- Foundations: equational logic; universal algebra; rewriting logic;
rewriting models of programs; matching and unification; narrowing;
completion techniques; strategies; rewriting calculi; constraint solving;
tree automata; termination; complexity; modularity;
- Frameworks: string, term, and graph rewriting; lambda-calculus and
higher-order rewriting; constrained rewriting/deduction; categorical and
infinitary rewriting; stochastic rewriting; net rewriting; binding
techniques; Petri nets; higher-dimensional rewriting;
- Implementation: implementation techniques; parallel execution; rewrite and
completion tools; certification of rewriting properties; abstract
machines; explicit substitutions; automated (non)termination and
confluence provers; automated complexity analysis.
* PUBLICATION
The proceedings of RTA 2013 will be published by LIPIcs (Leibniz
International Proceedings in Informatics). LIPIcs is open access, meaning
that publications will be available online and free of charge, and authors
keep the copyright for their papers. LIPIcs publications are indexed in DBLP.
For more information about LIPIcs please consult:
<http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics>
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions must be
- original and not submitted for publication elsewhere,
- written in English,
- a research paper, or a problem set, or a system description,
- in pdf prepared with pdflatex using the LIPIcs stylefile:
<http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz>,
- at most 10 pages for system description,
at most 15 pages for the other two types of submissions
- submitted electronically through the EasyChair system at:
.
The page limit and the deadline for submission are strict.
Additional material for instance proof details, may be given in an appendix
which is not subject to the page limit. However, submissions must be
self-contained within the respective page limit; reading the appendix should
not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission.
* IMPORTANT DATES
abstract submission February 1 2013
paper submission February 5 2013
rebuttal period March 18-21 2013
notification April 4 2013
final version April 26 2013
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Femke van Raamsdonk (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***
Eduardo Bonelli, National University of Quilmes
Byron Cook, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Stephanie Delaune, ENS Cachan
Gilles Dowek, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt
Maribel Fernandez, King's College London
Nao Hirokawa, JAIST Ishikawa
Delia Kesner, University Paris-Diderot
Helene Kirchner, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt
Barbara Koenig, University Duisburg Essen
Temur Kutsia, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck
Vincent van Oostrom, Utrecht University
Femke van Raamsdonk, VU University Amsterdam
Kristoffer Rose, IBM Research New York
Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Goethe University Frankfurt
Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University
Paula Severi, University of Leicester
Aaron Stump, The University of Iowa
Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics Tallinn
Roel de Vrijer, VU University Amsterdam
Johannes Waldmann, HTWK Leipzig
Hans Zantema, Eindhoven University of Technology
* CONFERENCE CHAIR
Hans Zantema (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGEBRA AND COALGEBRA IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CALCO 2013)
Call for Papers
Warsaw, Poland
September 3 - 6, 2013
http://coalg.org/calco13/
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: February 22, 2013
Paper submission: March 1, 2013
Author notification: May 6, 2013
Final version due: June 3, 2013
* SCOPE
CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with
interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging
uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science.
It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the
forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on
Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on
Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place
in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009)
and Winchester (UK, 2011). The fifth edition will be held in Warsaw,
the capital of Poland.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
We invite submissions of technical papers that report results of
theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the
way these results can support methods and techniques for software
development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting
technologies into industrial practice. We encourage submissions in
topics included or related to those listed below.
+ Abstract models and logics
- Automata and languages
- Categorical semantics
- Modal logics
- Relational systems
- Graph transformation
- Term rewriting
- Adhesive categories
+ Specialised models and calculi
- Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems
- Calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, mobile, and
context-aware computing
- General systems theory and computational models (chemical,
biological, etc.)
+ Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics
- Abstract data types
- Inductive and coinductive methods
- Re-engineering techniques (program transformation)
- Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques
- Semantics of programming languages
+ System specification and verification
- Algebraic and coalgebraic specification
- Formal testing and quality assurance
- Validation and verification
- Generative programming and model-driven development
- Models, correctness and (re)configuration of
hardware/middleware/architectures,
- Process algebra
* NEW TOPICS
This edition of CALCO will feature two new topics, and submission of
papers on these topics is especially encouraged.
+ Corecursion in Programming Languages
- Corecursion in logic / constraint / functional / answer set
programming
- Corecursive type inference
- Coinductive methods for proving program properties
- Implementing corecursion
- Applications
+ Algebra and Coalgebra in quantum computing
- Categorical semantics for quantum computing
- Quantum calculi and programming languages
- Foundational structures for quantum computing
- Applications of quantum algebra
* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English
presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and
not submitted for publication elsewhere. Experience papers are
welcome, but they must clearly present general lessons learned that
would be of interest and benefit to a broad audience of both
researchers and practitioners. As with previous editions, the
proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. Final
papers should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by
Springer (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). It is
recommended that submissions adhere to that format and
length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected
immediately. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included
in a clearly marked appendix. Both an abstract and the full paper must
be submitted by their respective submission deadlines.
* BEST PAPER AND BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS
For the first time, this edition of CALCO will feature two kinds of
awards: a best paper award whose recipients will be selected by the PC
before the conference and a best presentation award, elected by the
participants.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: February 22, 2013
Paper submission: March 1, 2013
Author notification: May 6, 2013
Final version due: June 3, 2013
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Luca Aceto - Reykjavik University, Iceland
Jiri Adamek - TU Braunschweig, D
Lars Birkedal - IT University of Copenhagen, DK
Filippo Bonchi - CNRS, ENS-Lyon, F
Corina Cirstea - University of Southhampton, UK
Bob Coecke - University of Oxford, UK
Andrea Corradini - University of Pisa, I
Mai Gehrke - Universit Paris Diderot - Paris 7, F
H. Peter Gumm - Philipps University Marburg, D
Gopal Gupta - University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ichiro Hasuo - Tokyo University, Japan
Reiko Heckel - University of Leicester, UK (cochair)
Bart Jacobs - Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
Ekaterina Komendantskaya - University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Barbara Knig - University of Duisburg-Essen, D
Jos Meseguer - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Marino Miculan - University of Udine, I
Stefan Milius - TU Braunschweig, D (cochair)
Larry Moss - Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Till Mossakowski - DFKI Lab Bremen and University of Bremen, D
Prakash Panangaden - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Dirk Pattinson - Imperial College London, UK
Dusko Pavlovic - Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Daniela Petrisan - University of Leicester, UK
John Power - University of Bath, UK
Jan Rutten - CWI Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
Lutz Schrder - Friedrich-Alexander Universitt Erlangen-Nrnberg, D
Monika Seisenberger - Swansea University, UK
Sam Staton - University of Cambridge, UK
Alexandra Silva - Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI Amsterdam, NL
Pawel Sobocinski - University of Southampton, UK
Yde Venema - University of Amsterdam, NL
Uwe Wolter - University of Bergen, NO
* ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Andrzej Tarlecki (University of Warsaw, Poland)
* LOCATION
Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a lively city with many historic
monuments and sights, but also with a thriving business district. It
is easily accessible via two airports: the main Chopin Airport, used by
most international carriers, and the recently open Warsaw Modlin
Airport (30 minutes away by rail), used by budget airlines.
* SATELLITE WORKSHOPS
CALCO 2013 will be preceded by the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, chaired
by Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University). The workshop is dedicated
to presentation of work in progress and original research
proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly
encouraged to contribute.
A workshop dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic
principles, CALCO Tools, will be held alongside the main conference,
chaired by Lutz Schrder (Friedrich Alexander Universitaet
Erlangen-Nuernberg). Papers of this workshop will be included in the
CALCO proceedings.
FORMAL METHODS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (FMCAD'12)
Call for Participation
Cambridge, UK, October 22-25, 2012
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD12/
* PROGRAMME
FMCAD'12 takes place from October 22 through 25 at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Beside presentations of 25 accepted papers, we have
- A keynote by Turing Award Winner Tony Hoare (Microsoft)
on "Algebra of Concurrent Design"
- An industrial panel organized by Maher Mneimneh (Atrenta),
on "Model Checking in the Cloud"
- The fifth Hardware Model Checking Competition (HWMCC'12),
organized by Armin Biere (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
- and last but not least four tutorials, organized by Rolf Drechsler (University
of Bremen), presented by:
Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft), on "From Theory to Lab Experiments by Formal
Verification"
Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam), on "Answer Set Programming"
Eric Feron (Georgia Tech), on "Formal Methods in Avionics"
Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) on "Application of SMT Solvers to
Hybrid System Verification"
* PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Gianpiero Cabodi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) and Satnam Singh (Google, USA)
PROGRAMMING WITH HIGHER-ORDER LOGIC
by Dale Miller (INRIA & LIX/Ecole Polytechnique) and
Gopalan Nadathur (University of Minnesota)
Cambridge University Press,
ISBN: 9780521879408, 320 pages
http://www.cambridge.org/fr/knowledge/isbn/item6687740
* The book argues for using higher-order intuitionistic logic as the
foundations of logic programming. In elaborating this argument, the book
presents a sequent calculus based characterization of logic programming; a
proof search approach to computation; higher-order logic programming;
polymorphic typing; modular programming and abstract data types; and
simply-typed lambda-terms and their unification.
* The book also emphasizes the practical application of higher-order
logic programming by showing that it can be used to provide elegant
formalizations and implementations of computations that manipulate
bindings in syntax. In addition to a general exposition of this
approach, individual chapters present extended examples relating to
implementing proof systems, computing with functional programs, and
encoding the pi-calculus.
* The lambda Prolog language is used to illustrate the underlying
computation-related ideas and their applications. The website for the
book provides all the lambda Prolog code used in the book. The reader
can experiment with this code using the Teyjus compiler available from
http://teyjus.cs.umn.edu/.
* Additional information appears at https://sites.google.com/site/proghol/.
SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM & HUMAN RIGHTS
Scientists of Conscience During the Cold War
by Jack Minker
IEEE Computer Society Press
http://bit.ly/KekMn5
* There is a great deal of difference between feeling empathy for
those whose human rights are being violated around the world and
actually doing something about it. This memoir, written by the
Vice-Chair Computer Science (CS) of the Committee of Concerned
Scientists (CCS) 1962-present and vice-chair of the Committee
on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights (CSFHR) of the ACM,
1980-1989, is a first-hand account of computer scientists working
with numerous other constituencies to safeguard or advance the
human rights of scientists throughout the world. Drawing from the
authorÕs considerable archives from the period, Scientific
Freedom and Human Rights is a treasure trove of historical
information about a critical Ņ and relatively unsungŅhuman rights
campaign, its successes and heartbreaking challenges, and possible
lessons to be applied to future human rights campaigns.
* Jack Minker is Professor Emeritus, Computer Science (CS), at the
University of Maryland. He is a leading authority in artificial
intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming, and
nonmonotonic reasoning as well as an internationally recognized
leader in the field of human rights of scientists.
POSTDOC IN AUTOMATED REASONING AT UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA
The Department of Computer Science of the Universita degli Studi di
Verona, in beautiful Verona, Italy, has one opening for a University
funded, full-time on research, post-doc position in Automated Reasoning
(automated deduction, theorem proving, model building, SMT-solving)
applied to program analysis. The position is for one year (12 months)
and is renewable. Recent Ph.D. graduates or Ph.D. students very close to
graduation in Computer Science or related field with a thesis in
automated reasoning or neighbor topics are kindly invited to apply. More
experienced applicants with a few years of postdoc experience are also
very welcome. Applications (with Curriculum Vitae, research statement,
and at least three names and addresses of references) or inquiries can
be sent by e-mail (mariapaola.bonacina (at) univr.it) to Prof. Maria Paola
Bonacina, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Verona.
Applications will be considered as soon as received.
PHD POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG
The University of Luxembourg has two open Ph.D. positions at its
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)
(http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt). We are seeking Ph.D. candidates to
participate in the activities of the SaToSS
(http://satoss.uni.lu/) and of the ApSIA (http://apsia.gforge.uni.lu/)
research groups.
* Project description:
The main objective of the Ph.D. project is to develop a formal
framework supporting modeling and analysis of socio-technical
components of information systems. We aim to develop strategies and
tools to detect and prevent attacks involving human, physical and
digital elements. One of the goals is to extend current methodology
for security protocol analysis, by taking human behavior and
properties of physical objects into account. This goal includes a
necessity of defining appropriate adversary models and identifying the
security properties relevant in a socio-technical context.
* Research environment:
Both Ph.D. students will collaborate with the research groups SaToSS
(Security and Trust of Software Systems) led by Prof. Dr. S. Mauw and
APSIA (Applied Security and Information Assurance) led by Prof. Dr.
P.Y.A. Ryan. This position is part of a national research project
"Socio-Technical Analysis of Security and Trust" funded by the
National Research Fund in Luxembourg. The University of Luxembourg
offers a three years appointment (extension up to 4 years in total is
possible) in an international and multicultural environment. The
University is an equal opportunity employer.
* Applicant's profile:
- MSc in Computer Science or Mathematics
- A proven interest in security
- Strong background in formal methods or logics
- Good written and oral English skills
* START DATE
As soon as possible
* APPLICATIONS
Applications, written in English, should be submitted electronically
via the University of Luxembourg's recruitment portal
http://emea3.mrted.ly/2oja
* Applications should include:
- Curriculum Vitae (including your contact address, work experience
and list of publications)
- Cover letter explaining your motivation
- Transcript of all courses and grades for your Bachelor and Master
program
- A short description of your Master's work (max 1 page)
- Contact information for at least one referee
* DEADLINE
October 15th, 2012
* CONTACT
For further inquiries please contact:
Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw (sjouke.mauw@uni.lu),
Prof. Dr. Peter Ryan (peter.ryan@uni.lu),
Dr. Barbara Kordy (barbara.kordy@uni.lu), or
Dr. Gabriele Lenzini (gabriele.lenzini@uni.lu)
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