Newsletter 155
February 4, 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* LICS-RELATED NEWS
CSL-LICS'14
VIENNA SUMMER OF LOGIC ANNOUNCEMENT
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* AWARDS
Microsoft Research Verified Software Milestone Award - Announcement
Ackermann Award - Call for Nominations
Herbrand Award - Call for Nominations
* CALLS
RTA-TLCA 2014 - Call for Papers
QAPL 2014 - Call for Presentations
ETAPS 2015 - Call for Satellite Events
STACS 2014 - Call for Participation
ICALP 2014 - Call for Papers
LOGICA 2014 - Call for Papers
UTP 2014 - Call for Papers
TAP 2014 - Call for Papers
CICM 2014 - Call for Papers
NASSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION - Call for Papers
TASE 2014 - Call for Papers
ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF MARK STICKEL - Call for Papers
KURT GOEDEL PRIZE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP - Call for Proposals
SETS 2014 - Call for Papers
StudEDCC 2014 - Call for Papers
ICE 2014 - Call for Papers
AiML 2014 - Call for Papers
SEMF 2014 - Call for Papers
SFM-14: ESM - Call for Participation
ITRS 2014 - Call for Papers
ASP Competition - Call for Participant Systems
LASER 2014 - Call for Summer School Applications
ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION - Call for Papers
DL 2014 - Call for Papers
RV 2014 - Call for Papers
ATVA 2014 - Call for Workshop Proposals
FORMATS 2014 - Call for Papers
HALMSTAD SUMMER SCHOOL ON TESTING 2014 - Call for Participation
TERMGRAPH 2014 - Call for Papers
FMMB 2014 - Call for Papers
TCS 2014 - Call for Papers
LCC 2014/IMMERMAN FEST - Call for Papers
TGC 2014 - Call for Papers
UITP 2014 - Call for Papers
GandALF 2014 - Call for Papers
DCM 2014 - Call for Papers
AVOCS 2014 - Call for Papers
AAA88 - Call for Participation
ICTAI 2014 - Call for Papers
* BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
New Book on Industrial Deployment of System Engineering Methods
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
PhD Positions at ETH Zurich
Postdoc in Formal Methods at DTU
Postdoc in Proof Theory at Vienna University of Technology
Postdoc Position in Verification, Trento, Italy
Postdoc Research/Programmer Post in Combinatorial Testing at AIST, Japan
Tenure-Track Positions at Universite du Quebec a Montreal
CSL-LICS'14
http://lics.siglog.org/csl-lics14/
* Next year LICS and CSL will hold a joint conference for the first time,
as part of FLoC 2014 and the Vienna Summer of Logic. Tom Henzinger and
Dale Miller are co-chairs of a joint PC of 38 members. The proceedings
will be published by IEEE. The submission deadline has passed.
VIENNA SUMMER OF LOGIC ANNOUNCEMENT
http://vsl2014.at
* In the summer of 2014, Vienna will host the largest event in the history
of logic. The Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL) will consist of twelve large
conferences and numerous workshops, attracting an expected number of 2500
researchers from all over the world. The conferences and workshops will deal
with the main theme, logic, from three important aspects: logic in computer
science, mathematical logic and logic in artificial intelligence.
This unique event will be organized by the Kurt Goedel Society at Vienna
University of Technology from July 9 to 24, 2014.
* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Franz Baader (Technische Universitaet Dresden), Edmund Clarke (Carnegie
Mellon University), Christos Papadimitriou (University of California,
Berkeley) and Alex Wilkie (University of Manchester).
Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University) will speak in the opening session.
* LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC)
- 26th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV)
- 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)
- 30th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP)
- 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR)
- 5th Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP)
- Joint meeting of the 23rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic
(CSL) and the 29th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
- 25th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA)
joint with the 12th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and
Applications (TLCA)
- 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
Testing (SAT)
- FLoC Workshops
- FLoC Olympic Games (System Competitions)
* MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
- Logic Colloquium 2014
- Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees 2014
- The Infinity Workshop
- Kurt Goedel Fellowship Competition
* LOGIC IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)
- 27th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL)
- 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR)
- International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care 2014 (KR4HC)
* KURT GOEDEL RESEARCH PRIZE FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
At the Vienna Summer of Logic, the Kurt Goedel Society will award three
fellowship prizes endowed with 100.000 Euro each to the winners of the Kurt
Goedel Research Prize Fellowship Competition "Logical Mind: Connecting
Foundations and Technology."
* FLOC OLYMPIC GAMES - CITIUS, MAIUS, POTENTIUS
The Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2014 will host the 1st FLoC Olympic
Games. Intended as a new FLoC tradition, the Games will bring together
a multitude of established solver competitions by different research
communities. In addition to the competitions, the Olympic Games will
facilitate the exchange of expertise between communities, and increase
the visibility and impact of state-of-the-art solver technology. The winners
in the competition categories will be awarded Kurt Goedel medals at the FLoC
Olympic Games award ceremonies.
DEADLINES
* RTA-TLCA 2014
Abstract submission: February 4, 2014
Paper submission: February 11, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/rta-tlca
* QAPL 2014
Presentation Report Submission: February 5, 2014
http://qapl14.inria.fr
* ETAPS 2015
Satellite event proposal deadline: February 7, 2014
http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/call-for-workshops
* STACS 2014
Student funding application deadline: February 12, 2014
Early registration deadline: February 16, 2014
http://stacs2014.sciencesconf.org
* ICALP 2014
Submission deadline: February 14, 2014
http://icalp2014.itu.dk
* LOGICA 2014
Submission deadline: February 15, 2014
http://www.flu.cas.cz/en/logica2014
* UTP 2014
Full paper due: February 21, 2014
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014/index.html
* TAP 2014
Abstract submission: February 25, 2014
Paper submission: March 1, 2014
http://www.tap2014.org
* ACKERMANN AWARD 2014
Nomination deadline: February 28, 2014
http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
* CICM 2014
Abstract submission: February 28, 2014
Submission deadline: March 7, 2014
Work-in-progress submission and doctoral programme: April 28, 2014
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014
* NASSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION
Submissions due: February 28, 2014
http://www.nasslli2014.com/
* TASE 2014
Abstract submission: February 28, 2014
Paper submission: March 7, 2014
http://www.nudt.edu.cn/tase2014
* ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF MARK STICKEL
Submission deadline: March 1, 2014
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=festschriftmarkstick
* KURT GOEDEL PRIZE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Proposals submission deadline: March 2, 2014 (midnight PST)
http://fellowship.logic.at
* SETS 2014
Abstract submission: March 3, 2014
Submission deadline: March 10, 2014
http://sets2014.cnam.fr/
* StudEDCC 2014
Submission deadline: March 10, 2014
http://edcc.dependability.org/
* ICE 2014
Abstract submission: March 12, 2014
Full paper submission: March 15, 2014
http://www.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2014
* AiML 2014
Abstract of full paper submission due: March 14, 2014
Full paper submission due: March 21, 2014
http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/
* SEFM 2014
Abstract Submission: March 14, 2014
Paper Submission: March 21, 2014 (AoE)
http://sefm2014.inria.fr/
* SFM-14: ESM
Application deadline: March 21, 2014
Registration deadline: April 20, 2014
http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/sfm14esm/
* ITRS
Abstract submission: March 28, 2014
Paper submission: March 31, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/itrs/
* ASP COMPETITION 2014
Start of the competition: March 31, 2014
Participant registration opens March 1, 2014
http://aspcomp2014.mat.unical.it/
* LASER 2014
Application deadline: March 31, 2014
http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2014
* ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION
Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2014
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/
* DL 2014
Paper registration deadline: April 7, 2014
Paper submission deadline: April 11, 2014
http://dl.kr.org/dl2014
* RV 2014
Abstract deadline: April 8, 2014
Full paper deadline: April 15, 2014
http://rv2014.imag.fr/
* ATVA 2014
Deadline for workshop proposal submissions: April 14, 2014
http://atva-conferences.org
* FORMATS 2014
Abstract submission: April 14, 2014
Paper submission: April 21, 2014
http://www.florence2014.org/
* HALMSTAD SUMMER SCHOOL ON TESTING 2014
Registration deadline: April 15, 2014
http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2014
* HERBRAND AWARD
Nomination deadline: April 15, 2014
* TERMGRAPH 2014
Submission deadline: April 16, 2014
http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/events/termgraph-2014/
* FMMB 2014
Submission deadline: April 25, 2014
http://fmmb2014.sciencesconf.org/
* TCS 2014
Deadline for submission: April 27, 2014
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/tcs2014/
* LCC 2014/IMMERMAN FEST
Abstract submission (3-4 pages): May 2, 2014
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/
* TGC 2014
Deadline for abstract submission: May 2, 2014
Deadline for paper submission: May 9, 2014
http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/tgc2014/
* UITP 2014
Paper submission: May 4, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/pages/UITP-index.html
* GandALF 2014
Abstract submission: May 10, 2014
Paper submission: May 25, 2014
http://gandalf2014.di.univr.it
* DCM 2014
Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: May 16, 2014
Submission Deadline for EPTCS Proceedings: September 15, 2014
* AVOCS 2014
Submission (abstract for full paper): June 16, 2014
Submission (full papers): June 23, 2014
Submission (research ideas): August 7, 2014
http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014
* ICTAI 2014
Paper submission: June 30, 2014
http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy
2013 MICROSOFT RESEARCH VERIFIED SOFTWARE MILESTONE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
https://sites.google.com/site/verifiedsoftwareinitiative/
* The Microsoft Research Verified Software Milestone Award was made to Roope
Kaivola (Intel Corporation, Oregon, USA) with regards to the Intel Core i7
verification project. While formal methods were applied within a number of
areas of the Core i7 project, the award is being given in recognition for
Kaivola's role as intellectual leader of the core execution cluster as well
as his leadership of the verification team. The core execution cluster is
responsible for the functional behaviour of all microinstructions. The
approach taken involved symbolic simulation based formal verification
techniques, encompassing full data path, control and state validation for
the execution cluster. The formal verification removed the need for
conventional coverage driven testing. The project established a "gold
standard" for verifying arithmetic functionality across Intel, and
propagated it to many other CPU and GPU projects. The scale of the i7
project is unprecedented within the industry, and serves to show the value
added that formal methods can bring to the industrial scale verification
and validation challenges. The Core i7 project represents some twenty
person years of effort so Roope's award also reflects the efforts of his
team, both technical and managerial. The full award citation is provided
along with further details of the award process at the Verified Software
Initiative website.
ACKERMANN AWARD 2014 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Call for Nominations
http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
* ELIGIBILITY
Eligible for the 2014 Ackermann Award are PhD dissertations in topics
specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally
accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution
between 1.1.2012 and 31.12.2013.
* SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submission details are available at
http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
- The deadline for submission is February 28, 2014
- Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Jury by e-mail:
anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk
* DETAILS
The award consists of
- a diploma,
- an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference,
- the publication of the laudation in the CSL proceedings,
- travel support to attend the conference.
The 2014 Ackermann Award will be presented to the recipients at the
joint CSL/LICS conference in Vienna (Austria) to be held 14-18 July 2014.
* JURY
The jury consists of 8 members:
- T. Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg)
- A. Dawar (Cambridge, U.K., president of EACSL)
- T.A. Henzinger (Klosterneuburg, Austria)
- D. Leivant (Bloomington, USA)
- D. Niwinski (Warsaw, Poland)
- L. Ong (Oxford, U.K., LICS representative)
- S. Ronchi Della Rocca (vice-president of EACSL)
- W. Thomas (Aachen, Germany)
The jury is entitled to give more (or less) than one award per year.
HERBRAND AWARD
Call for Nominations
* The Herbrand Award is given by CADE Inc. to honour a person or group for
exceptional contributions to the field of Automated Deduction. At most one
Herbrand Award will be given at each CADE or IJCAR meeting. The Herbrand
Award has been given in the past to
Larry Wos (1992)
Woody Bledsoe (1994)
Alan Robinson (1996)
Wu Wen-Tsun (1997)
Gerard Huet (1998)
Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore (1999)
William W. McCune (2000)
Donald W. Loveland (2001)
Mark E. Stickel (2002)
Peter B. Andrews (2003)
Harald Ganzinger (2004)
Martin Davis (2005)
Wolfgang Bibel (2006)
Alan Bundy (2007)
Edmund Clarke (2008)
Deepak Kapur (2009)
David Plaisted (2010)
Nachum Dershowitz (2011)
Melvin Fitting (2012)
Greg Nelson (2013)
* NOMINATION PROCESS
A nomination is required for consideration for the Herbrand award. The
deadline for nominations for the Herbrand Award that will be given at
IJCAR 2014 is 15th April 2014. Nominations pending from previous years
must be resubmitted in order to be considered.
Nominations should consist of a letter (preferably email) of up to 2000
words from the principal nominator, describing the nominee's contribution,
along with letters of up to 2000 words of endorsement from two other
seconders. Nominations should be sent to Maria Paola Bonacina,
President of CADE Inc. (mariapaola.bonacina (at) univr.it)
with copy to Martin Giese, Secretary of CADE Inc. and AAR
(martingi (at) ifi.uio.no).
JOINT 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REWRITING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS AND 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TYPED LAMBDA CALCULI AND APPLICATIONS
Call for Papers
July 14-17, 2014, Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/rta-tlca
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: February 4, 2014
Notification: April 9, 2014
Paper submission: February 11, 2014
Final version: April 29, 2014
Rebuttal period: March 19-21, 2014
* TOPICS
This joint RTA and TLCA conference is the major forum for the
presentation of research on all aspects of rewriting and typed
lambda-calculi. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Foundations: string rewriting; term rewriting; graph rewriting;
lambdacalculi; higher-order rewriting; binding techniques; constrained
rewriting and deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting;
stochastic rewriting; net rewriting; Petri nets; higher-dimensional
rewriting; process calculi; explicit substitution; tree automata;
confluence; termination; complexity; modularity.
- Algorithmic aspects and implementation: strategies; matching;
unification; anti-unification; narrowing; constraint solving; theorem
proving; completion techniques; implementation techniques; parallel
execution; certification of rewriting properties; abstract machines;
automated (non)termination and confluence provers; automated complexity
analysis; SMT solving; system descriptions.
- Logic: proof theory; natural deduction; sequent calculi; proof
assistants; cut elimination and normalization; propositions as types;
linear logic and proof nets; equational logic; rewriting logic;
rewriting calculi; proof checking; reasoning about programming languages
and logics; homotopy type theory;
type-theoretic aspects of complexity; implicit computational complexity.
- Types: dependent types; polymorphism; intersection types and related
approaches; subtyping; type inference and type checking; types in databases.
- Semantics: denotational semantics; operational semantics; game
semantics; realisability; domain theory; categorical models; universal
algebra.
- Programming: foundational aspects of functional programming, object
oriented programming, and other programming paradigms; flow analysis
of higher-type computation; program equivalence; program transformation;
program optimization; program refactoring; rewriting models of programs;
rule-based (functional and logic) programming; control operators;
symbolic and algebraic computation; system synthesis and verification;
XML queries and transformations; types in program analysis and
verification; analysis of cryptographic protocols; systems biology;
linguistics.
* PROGRAMME CHAIR
Gilles Dowek
* CONFERENCE CHAIR
Gernot Salzer
12TH WORKSHOP ON QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS (QAPL 2014)
Call for Presentations
Affiliated with ETAPS 2014
April 12 - 13, 2014, Grenoble, France
http://qapl14.inria.fr
* SCOPE
Quantitative aspects of computation are important and sometimes essential in
characterising the behaviour and determining the properties of systems. They
are related to the use of physical quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth,
etc.) as well as mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures for
reliability, security and trust). Such quantities play a central role in
defining both the model of systems (architecture, language design, semantics)
and the methodologies and tools for the analysis and verification of system
properties. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the explicit use of
quantitative information such as time and probabilities either directly in the
model or as a tool for the analysis of systems.
* TOPICS
Topics include (but are not limited to) probabilistic, timing and general
quantitative aspects in: Language design, Information systems, Asynchronous HW
analysis, Language extension, Multi-tasking systems, Automated reasoning,
Language expressiveness, Logic, Verification, Quantum languages, Semantics,
Testing, Time-critical systems, Performance analysis, Safety, Embedded systems,
Program analysis, Risk and hazard analysis, Coordination models, Protocol
analysis, Scheduling theory, Distributed systems, Model-checking, Security,
Biological systems, Cyber-physical systems, Concurrent systems, and Resource
analysis.
* INVITED SPEAKERS:
- Stephen Gilmore, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Oded Maler, Verimag, France
- Nicolas Markey, LSV, CNRS and ENS Cachan, France
- Enrico Vicario, University of Torino, Italy
* SUBMISSIONS:
In order to encourage participation and discussion, this workshop
solicits submissions of presentation reports.
Presentation reports concern recent or ongoing work on relevant topics and
ideas, for timely discussion and feedback at the workshop. There is no
restriction as for previous/future publication of the contents of a
presentation. Typically, a presentation is based on a paper which recently
appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another
recognized conference, or which has not yet been submitted. The (extended)
abstract of presentation submissions should not exceed 4 pages.
* EASYCHAIR
Submissions must be in PDF format and use the EPTCS latex style, see
http://style.eptcs.org/. Submissions can be made on the following website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qapl14
Presentation reports will receive a light weight review to establish their
relevance for the workshop. The authors of accepted presentation submissions
are expected to present and discuss their work at the workshop.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: February 5, 2014
Notification: February 7, 2014
Workshop: April 12-13, 2014
* PC Chairs
- Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA Rennes, France
- Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy
18TH EUROPEAN JOINT CONFERENCES ON THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOFTWARE (ETAPS 2015)
Call for Satellite Events
London, UK
April 11-19, 2015
http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/call-for-workshops
* ABOUT ETAPS
The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software
(ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial
researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS is
an annual event which takes place in Europe each spring since 1998.
The eighteenth conference, ETAPS 2015, will take place between April
11th and 19th, 2015 at Queen Mary University of London, in London,
United Kingdom.
* MAIN CONFERENCES
ETAPS main conferences will take place on April 13th-17th, 2015. They are:
- CC: International Conference on Compiler Construction
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- POST: Principles of Security and Trust
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and
Analysis of Systems
* SATELLITE EVENTS
The ETAPS 2015 organizing committee invites proposals for satellite
events (workshops etc.) that will complement the main
conferences. They should fall within the scope of ETAPS. This
encompasses all aspects of the system development process, including
specification, design, implementation, analysis and improvement, as
well as the languages, methodologies and tools which support these
activities, covering a spectrum from practically-motivated theory to
soundly-based practice. Satellite events provide an opportunity to
discuss and report on emerging research approaches and practical
experience relevant to theory and practice of software.
ETAPS 2015 satellite events will be held immediately before and after
the main conferences, on April 11th-12th and April 18th-19th, 2015.
* SUBMISSION OF SATELLITE EVENT PROPOSALS
Researchers and practitioners wishing to organize satellite events are
invited to submit proposals in plain text or pdf by e-mail to Paulo
Oliva p.oliva@qmul.ac.uk). The required format of the proposal is
described at http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/call-for-workshops
The proposals will be evaluated by the ETAPS 2015 organizing committee
on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of
ETAPS 2015. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages
of previous satellite events as examples:
ETAPS 2014: http://www.etaps.org/2014/workshops
ETAPS 2013: http://www.etaps.org/2013/workshops
ETAPS 2012: http://www.etaps.org/2012/workshops
ETAPS 2011: http://www.etaps.org/2011/workshops
* IMPORTANT DATES
Satellite event proposals deadline: February 7th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: February 28th, 2014
* FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES
Please contact Paulo Oliva (p.oliva@qmul.ac.uk).
31ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (STACS 2014)
Call for Participation
March 5-8, 2014, Lyon, France
http://stacs2014.sciencesconf.org/
* SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The program is composed of 54 contributed and three invited talks as well
as a tutorial and miniworkshop.
* INVITED TALKS AND TUTORIAL
- Javier Esparza, TUM-Technische Universität München
Keeping a Crowd Safe: On the Complexity of Parameterized Verification
- Peter Bro Miltersen, Aarhus University
Semi-algebraic geometry in computational game theory - a consumer's perspective
-Luc Segoufin, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan
A glimpse on constant delay enumeration
- Neeraj Kayal, Microsoft Research India (tutorial)
Arithmetic Circuit Complexity
* REGISTRATION
Registration will be through the conference website and will open on
Friday, January the 24th.
http://stacs2014.sciencesconf.org/
* INFORMATION
For detailed information on STACS 2014, visit the conference website,
http://stacs2014.sciencesconf.org/
There is a limited amount of modest funding to help students: to
apply, write to stacs2014@sciencesconf.org with a letter of your
advisor before Wednesday, February 12th.
41ST INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON AUTOMATA, LANGUAGES AND PROGRAMMING (ICALP 2014)
Call for Papers
July 8-11, 2014
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
http://icalp2014.itu.dk
* SCOPE
ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association
for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The main conference is preceded
by a series of workshops on Monday, 7 July 2014.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Friday, 14 February 2014,
Submission server: www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2014
Author notification: Friday, 11 April 2014
Final manuscript due: Monday, 28 April 2014
Early registration: To be announced
Conference: 8 July 2014 to 11 July 2014
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
Victor Kuncak, EPFL Lausanne
Claire Mathieu, ENS Paris
* PROCEEDINGS
ICALP proceedings are published in the Springer-Verlag ARCoSS (Advanced
Research in Computing and Software Science) subseries of LNCS (Lecture
Notes in Computer Science).
* TOPICS
Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Track B: Logic, Semantics, Automata and Theory of Programming
Track C: Foundations of Networked Computation: Models, Algorithms and Information Management
* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages
in LNCS style presenting original research on the theory of Computer
Science. Submissions should indicate to which track (A, B, or C) the paper
is submitted. No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other
publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed.
* BEST PAPER AWARDS
As in previous editions of ICALP, there will be best paper and best student
paper awards for each track of the conference. In order to be eligible for
a best student paper award, a paper should be authored only by students and
should be marked as such upon submission.
* COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Track A: Elias Koutsoupias, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Track B: Javier Esparza, Technische Universität München
Track C: Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and University Paris Diderot
* WORKSHOPS
ICALP 2014 hosts a number of workshops on Monday 7 July 2014 at ITU.
Contact the ICALP organisers (icalp2014@itu.dk) if you are interested in
arranging a workshop. Registration, lunches, and rooms are provided by the
ICALP conference organisation.
* TOLA (Trends in Online Algorithms) 2014
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in
all aspects of online algorithms, including classical competitive analysis,
alternative performance measures, and advice complexity.
28TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM DEVOTED TO LOGIC (LOGICA 2014)
Call for Papers
June 16-20, 2014
Hejnice, Czech Republic
http://www.flu.cas.cz/en/logica2014
* SCOPE
Logica 2014 is the 28th in the series of annual international symposia
devoted to logic. Contributions devoted to any of the wide range of
logical problems are welcome except those focused on specialized technical
applications. Particularly welcome are contributions that cover issues
interesting both for 'philosophically' and for 'mathematically' oriented
logicians.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for submissions: 15 February
- Notification of acceptance: by the end of March
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Dorothy Edgington, Dag Prawitz, Graham Priest and Goran Sundholm.
* DETAILS
Detailed information can be found on the webpage.
5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING (UTP 2014)
Call for Papers
co-located with FM2014
May 12-13, 2014
Singapore
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014/index.html
* SCOPE
Interest in the fundamental problem of the combination of formal notations
and theories of programming has grown consistently in recent years. The
theories define, in various different ways, many common notions, such as
abstraction, refinement, choice, termination, feasibility, locality,
concurrency and communication. Despite these differences, such theories
may be unified in a way which greatly facilitates their study and comparison.
Moreover, such a unification offers a means of combining different languages
describing various facets and artifacts of software development in a seamless,
logically consistent way.
* UTP
Hoare and He's Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) is widely acknowledged
as one of the most significant such unification approaches. Based on their
pioneering work, the aims of the UTP Symposium series are to reaffirm the
significance of the ongoing UTP project and to stimulate efforts to advance.
The Symposium provides a focus for the sharing of results by those already
actively contributing, and raises awareness of the benefits of such unifying
theoretical frameworks among the wider computer science and software
engineering communities. To this end the Symposium welcomes contributions
on all the themes that can be related to the Unifying Theories of Programming.
* SUBMISSIONS
Papers may be up to 20 pages in length and should be prepared using LaTeX
in Springer LNCS paper format. Submissions should be made through the UTP
2014 EasyChair site, see http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014
* PUBLICATION
Symposium post-proceedings will appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in
Computer Science, as in past editions of the Symposium. (To be confirmed.)
* DATES
Full paper due: February 21, 2014
Notification: April 4, 2014
Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: April 25, 2014
Symposium: May 12-13, 2014
* CHAIR
David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology)
* ORGANISATION CHAIR
Jin Song DONG (National University of Singapore)
* JOINT EVENT
FM 2014, the 19th International Symposium on Formal Methods
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/
8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2014)
http://www.tap2014.org
Co-located with STAF, York, UK, July 24-25, 2014
* SCOPE
The TAP conference is devoted to the synergy of proofs and tests,
to the application of techniques from both sides and their combination
for the advancement of software quality.
* TOPICS
Topics of interest cover theory definitions, tool constructions and
experimentations, and include (other topics related to TAP are welcome):
- Bridging the gap between concrete and symbolic techniques, e.g. using
proof search in satisfiability modulo theories solvers to enhance
various testing techniques
- Transfer of concepts from testing to proving (e.g., coverage criteria)
and from proving to testing
- Program proving with the aid of testing techniques
- Verification and testing techniques combining proofs and tests
- Generation of test data, oracles, or preambles by deductive techniques
such as: theorem proving, model checking, symbolic execution,
constraint logic programming
- Model-based testing and verification
- Generation of specifications by deduction
- Automatic bug finding
- Debugging of programs combining static and dynamic analysis
- Case studies combining tests and proofs
- Domain specific applications of testing and proving to new application
domains such as validating security protocols, vulnerability detection
of programs, security
- Testing of verification environments and reasoning engines like solvers
and theorem provers
- New approaches such as crowd-sourcing and serious games to
infer intended semantics and assess correctness
- Formal frameworks
- Tool descriptions and experience reports
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: February 25, 2014
Paper submission: March 1, 2014
Notification: April 28, 2014
Camera ready version: May 12, 2014
TAP conference: July 24-25, 2014
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Martina Seidl (JKU Linz/TU Wien, Austria)
Nikolai Tillmann (Microsoft Research, USA)
* SUBMISSION
Please submit your papers via easychair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2014
(submission page to be opened in due time)
TAP 2014 will accept two types of papers and also tutorials:
- Research papers: full papers with at most 16 pages in LNCS format
(pdf), which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted
elsewhere. Research papers should clearly describe the addressed
problem, the relevant state-of-the-art, the scientifically-founded
solution, and the benefits of the presented approach.
- Short contributions: work in progress, (industrial) experience
reports or tool demonstrations, position statements; an extended
abstract with at most 6 pages in LNCS format (pdf) is expected.
The same evaluation criteria apply to short papers as to full
research papers. Short papers will be reviewed to the same
standards of quality as full research papers.
- Tutorials: TAP 2014 further invites one-hour tutorial presentation
surveying the state-of-the-art of any research field related
to the topics of TAP. Tutorial proposals shall have a maximum
length of 3 pages in LNCS format (pdf) and provide information
about the content, a short outline, and information about the
speakers.
Accepted full and short papers will be published in the Springer LNCS
series and will be available at the conference. Accepted tutorials
will be assigned a slot of 60 minutes during the conference.
The contents of previous TAP proceedings is available at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/tap/tap2013.html
CONFERENCES ON INTELLIGENT COMPUTER MATHEMATICS (CICM 2014)
Call for Papers
July 7-11, 2014 at University of Coimbra, Portugal
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014
* SCOPE
As computers and communications technology advance, greater
opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While
computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and
novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories,
we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these
areas. The Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM)
offer a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy.
* TRACKS
- Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning)
Chair: James Davenport
- DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries)
Chair: Petr Sojka
- MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management)
Chair: Josef Urban
- Systems and Projects
Chair: Alan Sexton
* ORGANISATION
The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements
Chair, Paedro Quaresma (U. Coimbra, Portugal), and the overall
programme will be organised by the General Program Chair, Stephen Watt
(U. Western Ontario, Canada).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: 28 February 2014
Submission deadline: 7 March 2014
Reviews sent to authors: 4 April 2014
Rebuttals due: 8 April 2014
Notification of acceptance: 14 April 2014
Camera ready copies due: 25 April 2014
* WORK IN PROGRESS AND DOCTORAL PROGRAMME SUBMISSIONS
Submission deadline: 28 April 2014
(Doctoral: Abstract+CV)
Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2014
Camera ready copies due: 26 May 2014
NASSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION
Call for Papers
June 23-27, 2014
University of Maryland, College Park
* The North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information
(NASSLLI) welcomes paper submissions for presentation at its Student
Session. Submissions may be in any of the fields related to the school
(logic and language, logic and computation, or language and computation)
and should represent original, unpublished work by individuals who will not
yet have received their Ph.D. by the time of the conference.
The Student Session will co-occur with NASSLLI and provides students an
excellent opportunity to present their work to experts in their field as
well as to a broader, well-informed interdisciplinary audience. All
submissions will be reviewed by at least three specialists who will provide
commentary on the paper regardless of its acceptance status.
Submissions should be prepared for blind review (i.e., should not contain
any information identifying the author) and should be uploaded as a .pdf
file to the Student Session's EasyChair site. Submissions should not
exceed 10 pages and should be formatted standardly (11 or 12 point font,
1 inch margins).
No more than one-single authored and one co-authored paper should be
submitted by an individual. (All co-authors should also be students.)
Authors whose submissions have been accepted and who intend to present will
be required to register for NASSLLI.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: February 28, 2014 (by midnight)
Notifications: April 14, 2014
* WEBSITES:
Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=stusnasslli14
NASSLLI 2014: http://www.nasslli2014.com/
8TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (TASE 2014)
Call for Papers
1-3 September 2014, Changsha, China
http://www.nudt.edu.cn/tase2014
* OVERVIEW
The 8th Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Symposium (TASE 2014),
will be held in Changsha, China in September, 2014. Modern society is
increasingly dependent on software systems that are becoming larger and
more complex. This poses new challenges to the various aspects of software
engineering, for instance, software dependability in trusted computing,
interaction with physical components in cyber physical systems, distribution
in cloud computing applications, etc. Hence, new concepts and methodologies
are required to enhance the development of software engineering from
theoretical aspects. TASE 2014 aims to provide a forum for people from
academia and industry to communicate their latest results on theoretical
advances in software engineering.
* TOPICS
The symposium is devoted to theoretical aspects of software engineering.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Requirements Engineering
- Specification and Verification
- Program Analysis
- Software Testing
- Model-Driven Engineering
- Software Architectures and Design
- Aspect and Object Orientation
- Embedded and Real-Time Systems
- Software Processes and Workflows
- Component-Based Software Engineering
- Software Safety, Security and Reliability
- Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance
- Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
- Semantic Web and Web Services
- Type System and Theory
- Program Logics and Calculus
- Probability in Software Engineering
* SUBMISSION
Submission should be done through the TASE 2014 submission page, handled
by the EasyChair conference system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2014
As in previous years, the proceedings of the conference are planned to
be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers must be written
in English and not exceed 8 pages in Two-Column IEEE format.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: 28 February 2014 (23h59 GMT)
Paper submission: 07 March 2014 (23h59 GMT)
Notification: 28 April 2014
Camera-ready: 19 May 2014
Conference: 1-3 September 2014
* GENERAL CHAIR
Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China)
* PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Ji Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Martin Leucker (University of Lubeck, Germany)
* ORGANIZING CHAIR
Wei Dong (National University of Defense Technology, China)
* PUBLICITY CHAIR
Yanjun Wen (National University of Defense Technology, China)
MAKING AUTOMATED REASONING PRACTICAL: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF MARK STICKEL
Call for Papers
* DEADLINE
Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2014
* AIM
This is a book of collected articles presenting research in all aspects of
automated reasoning, in particular the design of automated reasoning
systems and their applications.
A common theme behind Mark Stickel's work was developing techniques for
building better automated reasoning systems. His discoveries were
ground-breaking and include AC-unification, reasoning modulo a theory, term
indexing, and thorough development of the SNARK and PTTP provers. In 2002 he
received the Herbrand award for all his work, the highest award in automated
reasoning (http://www.cadeinc.org/).
We would like to honour Mark's achievements by editing a Festschrift
comprised of articles in the spirit of his research approach: developing
fundamental techniques driven by practical applications and informed by
rigorous theory.
* SCOPE
We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of
automated reasoning and its applications, especially but not
exclusively to the design of automated theorem proving systems, with
connections to any of Mark Stickel's research areas:
- Automated theorem proving, including deductive and abductive reasoning
- Implementation of and practice with automated reasoners
- Algorithmics for automated reasoners: unification,
matching, rewriting, indexing
- Integration of general-purpose reasoning with external procedures
- Spatial and temporal reasoning
- Inference control, theory reasoning, semantic guidance for automated reasoners
- Application of automated reasoners in mathematics,
logic, program synthesis, natural language, and natural sciences
- SAT-solving
- Applications related to formal methods
* PUBLICATION DETAILS
It is planned that the book will be published as an LNAI Festschrift
with Springer.
* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
While it is expected that most of the papers will be regular
technical papers, a few papers that combine scientific content
with recollections of Mark Stickel's work and personality,
as can be written by those who worked with him, are also sought.
All papers will be refereed by anonymous peer reviewers, and
read by the editors, according to the highest standards in terms
of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability.
Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf
format. They must be unpublished and not submitted for
publication elsewhere. However, significantly extended versions
of papers published at conferences are welcome. Submissions
of any length will be considered, but final versions may be
limited by the editors depending on the totality of submissions.
Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX.
Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained
via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Electronic submission via EasyChair is open at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=festschriftmarkstick .
In order to facilitate the planning of the book, authors are
invited to notify the editors as soon as possible of their
intention to submit with proposed topic and length. Early
submission would be especially helpful for completing the
review process sooner.
* EDITORS
Peter Baumgartner NICTA and Australian National University,
http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~baumgart/
Richard Waldinger SRI International,
http://www.ai.sri.com/~waldinge/
KURT GOEDEL RESEARCH PRIZE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
The Logical Mind: Connecting Foundations and Technology Competition
(Organized by the Kurt Goedel Society)
http://fellowship.logic.at
* AIMS
The Kurt Gödel Society is proud to announce the commencement of the Kurt
Gödel Research Prize Fellowships Program-The Logical Mind: Connecting
Foundations and Technology.
The program has a particular emphasis on supporting young scholars as
previous rounds of Kurt Gödel Research Prize Fellowships showed that the
impact on the careers of the young researchers had the most significance.
Young scholars are defined by being less or exactly 40 years old at the
time of the commencement of the Vienna Summer of Logic (July 9, 2014)!
The program will offer:
One fellowship award in the amount of EUR 100,000, in each of the following
categories:
- Logical Foundations of Mathematics,
- Logical Foundations of Computer Science and
- Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
The awards will be based on a categorized world-wide open competition
by way of submission of up to three-pages project description, CV and two
letters of recommendation.
* JURORS
The following three Boards of Jurors will choose four finalists from their
respective discipline electronically:
- Logical Foundations of Mathematics: Harvey Friedman (Chair), Angus
Macintyre, and Dana Scott.
- Logical Foundations of Computer Science: Franz Baader, Johann Makowsky,
and Wolfgang Thomas (Chair).
- Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence: Luigia Carlucci Aiello,
Georg Gottlob (Chair), and Bernhard Nebel
The winners will be chosen by all three juries together.
Finalists will be obliged to submit a full version of their proposal
(up to 20 pages).
* TIMELINE
March 2, 2014 (midnight PST): Proposals submission deadline
March 31, 2014: Jury decision on finalists due
May 30, 2014: Full proposals due
June 20, 2014: Jury decision on winners due
July 17, 2014: Foundations and Technology Competitions Award Ceremony
August 1, 2014: Commencement of the fellowship
July 31, 2016: End of the fellowships program
1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ABOUT SETS AND TOOLS (SETS 2014)
Call for Papers
June 2, 2014, Toulouse, France
Affiliated to ABZ 2014
http://sets2014.cnam.fr/
* AIMS
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in set theory,
especially to design tools for dealing with set theory, such as interactive or
automated theorem provers, proof checkers, theories for general purpose proof
tools, constraint solvers, programming languages etc. These tools may be
dedicated or general purpose tools. Contributions by theoreticians working on
set theories or fragments of set theories in the aim of designing concrete
tools, and by practitioners using set-based tools are both welcome. We are
also interested by contributions providing some comparisons between set
modeling techniques and other formalisms, such as type theory (and variants)
for instance. Finally, regarding the domains of application, we mainly expect
contributions in the framework of formal methods, but not exhaustively, and
contributions reporting formalizations of mathematics using set theory for
example could be of interest for this workshop as well.
* TOPICS
Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of set theory and
corresponding tools. More specifically, some suggested topics are:
- Proof tools for sets
- Constraint solvers for sets
- Set-based programming languages
- Automated deduction in set theory
- Set theories for SMT solvers
- Encoding of sets in provers
- Use of set-based tools in formal methods
- Use of set-based tools in mathematics
- Comparison of set-based tools
- Comparison between set and type theories
- Experience reports
* CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Submitted papers must be 6-15 pages in length, following the Springer LNCS
format. These submissions may be:
- Research papers providing new concepts and results
- Position papers and research perspectives
- Experience reports
- Tool presentations
Proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be
available electronically at the workshop. No copyright transfer agreement will
be required from the authors. For this first edition of this workshop, we
would like to put the emphasis on discussions rather than on conventional
publications.
* PAPER SUBMISSION
Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF using the SETS 2014
EasyChair web site at the following address:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sets2014
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: March 3, 2014
Submission deadline: March 10, 2014
Paper notification: April 7, 2014
Revised/final paper: April 21, 2014
Workshop: June 2, 2014
* PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
David Delahaye (Cnam, France)
Catherine Dubois (Ensiie, France)
STUDENT FORUM AT TENTH EUROPEAN DEPENDABLE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (EDCC 2014)
Call for Papers
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
May 13-16, 2014
http://edcc.dependability.org/
* THE FORUM
The Student Forum featured by EDCC-2014 aims at providing a discussion
forum for doctoral students. The students are encouraged to present
their work in progress, discuss novel ideas and unconventional approaches
(http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/edcc2014/student.html).
The submitted papers should be up to three pages, including tables and figures.
All submitted papers will be evaluated by the Student Forum Program Committee.
The contribution should describe original research (not submitted or published
elsewhere), singly authored by a student, and must be formatted in accordance
to the CPS 8.5"x11" two-column camera-ready format (see
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting for templates and
formatting details).The contributions must be submitted through the EasyChair
submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edccsf2014)
in the PDF format.
* PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings of the Student Forum will be available on ACM CoRR.
By submitting to the Student Forum, you are committing yourself or one of
your colleagues to present it at the conference.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Hardware and software architecture of dependable systems;
- Safety critical systems;
- Embedded and real-time systems; .
- Cloud computing reliability and security;
- Dependable mobile and multimedia systems;
- Fault tolerant networks and protocols;
- VLSI dependability;
- Impact of manufacturing technology on dependability;
- Dependability modelling and tools;
- Testing and validation methods;
- Characterization techniques;
- Dependability benchmarking;
- Privacy and Security of systems and networks;
- Intrusion tolerant systems;
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Fault tolerance in databases and transactional systems;
- Human factors;
- Dependability and security in business and e-commerce applications
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: March 10, 2014
Notification: March 31, 2014
Camera ready: April 23, 2014
* STUDENT FORUM CHAIR
Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi University, Finland
(Elena.Troubitsyna@abo.fi)
7TH INTERACTION AND CONCURRENCY EXPERIENCE (ICE 2014)
June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany
http://www.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2014
Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2014
http://www.discotec.org
* HIGHLIGHTS
- Innovative selection procedure
- ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief
announcements of already published papers
- Invited talks: Kim Larsen and Pavol Cerny
- Special issue in a highly-reputed journal
* IMPORTANT DATES
12 March 2014...................Abstract submission
15 March 2014...................Full paper submission
16 March - 15 April 2014....Reviews and PC discussion
16 April 2014......................Notification to authors
6 June 2014.......................ICE in Berlin
15 September 2014...........Camera-ready for post-proceedings
* SCOPE
Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of international
scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer science researchers
with special interest in models, verification, tools, and programming
primitives for complex interactions. The special focus of ICE 2014 is
automation in concurrency and interaction.
* SELECTION PROCEDURE
Since its 1st edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has been
an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion
amongst authors and PC members.
During the review phase, each submission is published on a dedicated
discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of
the submission and by all the PC members not in conflict with the
submission. The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions and
clarifications to the authors, allowing them to better explain all the
aspects of their submission. The evaluation of the submission will take
into account not only the reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion.
As witnessed by the past six editions of ICE, this procedure considerably
improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the selection, the
quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during the workshop.
* SUBMISSIONS
We invite for three types of submissions:
(1) Full Papers;
(2) Short Papers;
(3) Brief Announcements of already Published Papers.
Full and short papers will appear in the post-proceedings and must report
previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other
conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The ICE 2014
post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical
Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite for brief
announcements of already published results, should the authors be
interested in discussing their published research with the ICE community
and giving a talk. Brief announcements will not be part of the
post-proceedings.
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2014). Full papers should
not exceed 15 pages in length, while short papers and brief announcements
should not exceed 5 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/).
* SPECIAL ISSIE
We plan to invite extended versions of selected full papers to a special
issue in a highly-reputed journal. Such contributions will be regularly
peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but they will be
handled in a shorter time than regular submissions.
* INVITED TALKS
Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Pavol Cerny (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
* ICEcreamers
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy; PC chair)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria; PC chair)
Hugo Torres Vieira (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC (AiML 2014)
Call for Papers
August 5-8, 2014
Groningen, The Netherlands
http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/
* SCOPE
AiML is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in
modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists
of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences.
Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net.
AiML-2014 is the tenth conference in the series.
* TOPICS
We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including:
history of modal logic; philosophy of modal logic; applications of modal
logic; computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming,
model checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics);
theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory
of modal logic); specific instances and variations of modal logic (description
logics, modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other
process logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and temporal
logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural logics, computationally
light fragments of all such logics). Papers on related subjects will also be
considered.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract of full paper submission due: 14 March 2014
Full paper submission due: 21 March 2014
Full paper notification: 2 May 2014
Short presentation submission due: 12 May 2014
Short presentation notification: 2 June 2014
12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND FORMAL METHODS (SEFM 2014)
Grenoble, France
September 1-5, 2014
http://sefm2014.inria.fr/
* AIMS
The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and
researchers from academia, industry and government to advance the
state of the art in formal methods, to scale up their application in
the software industry and to encourage their integration with
practical engineering methods. Papers that apply formal methods to
software engineering are especially welcome.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission: March 14, 2014
Paper Submission: March 21, 2014 (AoE)
Notification: May 19, 2014
Camera Ready: June 13, 2014
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Formal requirement analysis, modeling, specification and design
- Abstraction and refinement
- Formal methods for probabilistic verification and synthesis
- Programming languages, program analysis and type theory
- Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, service-oriented and cloud computing
- Formal aspects of security and mobility
- Model checking, theorem proving and decision procedures
- Formal methods for real-time, hybrid and embedded systems
- Formal methods for safety-critical, fault-tolerant and secure systems
- Software architecture and coordination languages
- Software verification and validation
- Component, object and multi-agent systems
- Formal aspects of software evolution and maintenance
- Formal methods for testing, re-engineering and reuse
- Light-weight and scalable formal methods
- Tool integration
- Applications of formal methods, industrial case studies and technology transfer
- Education and formal methods
* SUBMISSION
We solicit two categories of papers:
- Research papers should describe fully developed work and should not
exceed 15 pages (including appendices). Authors of papers reporting
experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental
results available to reviewers. Case study papers should describe
significant case studies and lessons learned.
- Tool papers should describe an operational tool and its
contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages. Please include
the URL of the tool (if available).
* CHAIR
Radu Mateescu - Inria Grenoble, Rhoene-Alpes, France
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA
Gwen Salaun, Grenoble INP, Inria, France
14TH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON FORMAL METHODS FOR THE DESIGN OF COMPUTER, COMMUNICATION AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS: EXECUTABLE SOFTWARE MODELS (SFM-14: ESM)
Call for Participation
Bertinoro (Italy), 16-20 June 2014
http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/sfm14esm/
* GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SFM
Formal methods are emerging in computer science as a prominent
approach to the rigorous design of computer, communication and
software systems. The aim of the SFM series is to offer a good spectrum of
current research in foundations as well as applications of
formal methods, which can be of interest for graduate students
and young researchers who intend to approach the field.
This year SFM is devoted to executable software models and covers
topics such as variability models, automated analysis techniques,
deductive verification, and run-time assessment and testing.
* COURSES AND LECTURERS
- "Design and Analysis of Executable Software Models: an Introduction and Overview"
Reiner Haehnle (TU Darmstadt, DE)
- "Variability Models"
Dave Clarke (KU Leuven, BE)
- "Deadlock Analysis"
Cosimo Laneve (U Bologna, IT)
- "Probabilistic Modeling and Model Checking"
Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, DE)
- "Model Checking of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Algorithms"
Helmuth Veith (TU Vienna, AT)
- "Reasoning about Recursive Predicates in Specifications"
Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London, UK)
- "Verification of Concurrent Systems"
Marieke Huisman (U Twente, NL)
- "Run-Time Analysis"
Frank de Boer (CWI Amsterdam, NL)
- "Test-Case Generation"
Elvira Albert (U Complutense Madrid, ES)
- "Model-Based Testing"
Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig, DE)
All participants will receive a copy of a tutorial book published by
Springer as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
* ORGANIZATION
Scientific directors:
- Marco Bernardo (U Urbino, IT)
- Ferruccio Damiani (U Torino, IT)
- Reiner Haehnle (TU Darmstadt, DE)
- Einar Broch Johnsen (U Oslo, NO)
- Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig, DE)
* SECRETARY
- Monica Michelacci (CRU Bertinoro, IT)
* APPLICATION
Prospective participants should send by 21 March 2014 the application form,
available on the school website, to the two e-mail addresses below:
Marco Bernardo (marco.bernardo AT uniurb.it) and Monica Michelacci
(mmichelacci AT ceub.it). A very limited number of grants is available to
cover part of the registration fee (no grant can be requested to cover
the accommodation fee or the travel expenses). Notification of
accepted/rejected applications and grant requests will be communicated by
April 10. Registration to the school is due by April 20.
7TH WORKSHOP ON INTERSECTION TYPE AND RELATE SYSTEMS (ITRS 2014)
Call for Papers
at the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014
http://vsl2014.at/itrs/
Deadline: March 31st, 2014
* GENERAL
ITRS 2014 (the Seventh Workshop on Intersection Types and Related
Systems) will be affiliated with TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and
Applications, to be held jointly with RTA) as part of FLoC 2014 (the
Sixth Federated Logic Conference) and will take place in Vienna on July
18th 2014. FLoC 2014 will be part of the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL),
the largest logic event in history, with over 2000 expected participants.
FLoC 2014 will host eight conferences and many workshops.
ITRS 2014 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both
the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection
types and related approaches.
* SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
(1) Before the workshop, authors are invited to submit an extended
abstract (max. 10 pages) in PDF format.
(2) Accepted papers will be included on the general VSL'14 Proceedings
USB-stick
(3) After the workshop, authors of accepted papers will be invited to
submit full versions (we foresee inclusion in EPTCS).
* TOPICS
Possible topics for submitted papers include, but are not limited to:
- Formal properties of systems with intersection types.
- Results for related systems, such as union types, refinement types, or
singleton types.
- Applications to lambda calculus and similar systems.
- Applications to pi-calculus and similar systems.
- Applications for programming languages.
- Applications for other areas, such as database query languages and
program extraction from proofs.
- Related approaches using behavioural/intensional types to characterize
computational properties.
* DATES
Abstract submission: 28.03.2014
Paper submission: 31.03.2014
Author notification: 28.04.2014
Final version: 29.05.2014
* PROGRAM CHAIR
Jakob Rehof (Technical University of Dortmund) - chair
5TH ANSWER SET PROGRAMMING COMPETITION 2014
Call for Participant Systems
Aalto University, University of Calabria, University of Genova
Spring/Summer 2014
Special edition of the ASP competition series -system track- part of
the Olympic Games of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014
http://aspcomp2014.mat.unical.it/
aspcomp2014@mat.unical.it
* AIMS
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established paradigm of
declarative programming with close relationship to other declarative
modeling paradigms and languages, such as SAT Modulo Theories,
Constraint Handling Rules, FO(.), PDDL, CASC, and many others.
The ASP Competition is usually a biannual event for evaluating
declarative knowledge representation systems on hard and demanding AI
problems. Past ASP Competition editions were held at the University of
Potsdam (Germany) in 2007, the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2009,
the University of Calabria (Italy) in 2011 and the Vienna University of
Technology (Austria) in 2013.
* CHANGES
In order to join the Vienna Summer of Logic, which is expected to be
the largest event in the history of logic, we this year depart from the
"usual" timeline, and the 5th ASP Competition will be run in the first
half of 2014 jointly at Aalto University (Finland), the University of
Calabria (Italy) and the University of Genova (Italy). Another reason
for having an event only one year after the 4th ASP Competition is that
in 2013 the new ASP-Core-2 language was introduced, but at that time it
was not fully supported by most participant solvers, and/or the
submitters did not have sufficient time to support new language
features in a completely satisfactory way. Thus, an early event can
be an opportunity to push the usage of the new standard, and draw a
more complete picture about the approaches that can efficiently solve
problems with various features.
Participants of the Answer Set Programming Competition will compete on
a selected collection of benchmark problems, taken from a variety of
benchmark problem domains as well as real-world applications.
We welcome the submission of parallel and portfolio systems exploiting
multiple cores or multiple algorithms for solving the given instances.
These solvers will have dedicated tracks, assuming a sufficient number
of submissions in each track. Of course, we also welcome the
submission of any kind of solvers, e.g., SAT solvers, SMT solvers, CP
systems, FOL theorem provers, Description Logics reasoners, Planning
reasoners, or any other that can be adapted/applied to the evaluation
of logic programs encoded in ASP-Core-2.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- March 1st, 2014 : Participant registration opens
- March 31st, 2014: The competition starts
- July 22nd, 2014 : Awards are presented at FLoC
LASER SUMMER SCHOOL ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (LASER 2014)
Call for Participation
Leading-Edge Software Engineering
September 7-13, 2014 - Elba Island, Italy
http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2014/
* GOALS
The LASER summer school, organized by the ETH Chair of Software
Engineering, brings together the concepts and practice of software
engineering in the idyllic setting of the Elba Island off the coast of
Tuscany, easily reachable by air, car, bus or train.
The LASER school is intended for professionals from the industry
(engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including
PhD students. Participants learn about the most important software
technology advances from the pioneers in the field. The school's focus
is applied, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations.
The format of the school favors extensive interaction between
participants and speakers.
* TOPIC AND SPEAKERS
The LASER school is 10 years old! To celebrate this anniversary,
we have gone not for a narrow topic but for a selection of brilliant
speakers who will describe leading-edge research in a variety of areas
of software engineering, both conceptual and applied:
- Harald C. Gall (University of Zurich)
- Daniel Jackson (MIT)
- Michael Jackson (The Open University)
- Erik Meijer (Applied Duality)
- Bertrand Meyer (ETH Zurich)
- Gail C. Murphy (University of British Columbia)
- Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University)
* HOW TO APPLY
Use the online registration form available on the LASER website
http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2014. Registration is open until March 31,
2014. The number of participants is strictly limited to ensure quality
interaction with the lecturers and the rest of the audience. For more
information, visit our website or contact the organizers:
se-laser@lists.inf.ethz.ch
ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION
Call for Papers
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/
Tuebingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014
* ABOUT
The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language,
and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Tübingen, Germany, on August
11-22, 2014. We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from
students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language &
Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by
several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally
or as posters and will appear in the student session proceedings. This is
an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers
and to present your work to a diverse audience.
* SEPARATE POSTER SESSION
Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral
presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be
directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done
separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they
offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress.
More detailed guidelines and policies regarding submission can be found on
the Student Session website: http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/
Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters
relating to the Student Session to: dehaan@kr.tuwien.ac.at.
For general inquiries about ESSLLI 2014, please consult the main ESSLLI
2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2014
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 1, 2014
Conference dates: August 11-22, 2014
* CHAIRS
Ronald de Haan (Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria)
LoCo co-chairs:
Zoe Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Aybuke Ozgun (Universite de Lorraine, France)
LoLa co-chairs:
Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Thomas Brochhagen (Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)
LaCo co-chairs:
Miriam Kaeshammer (Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)
Ramon Ziai (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)
27TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DESCRIPTION LOGICS (DL 2014)
Call for Papers
July 17-20, 2014, Vienna, Austria
http://dl.kr.org/dl2014
* The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research
community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics,
both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and
compare experiences. This year the DL workshop is part of the Vienna Summer
of Logic (http://vsl2014.at/), a vast event comprising several major logic
conferences and workshops. In particular, DL 2014 is co-located with the
International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning (KR) and will share a joint session with the International Workshop
on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR).
* WORKSHOP SCOPE
We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, including but
not limited to:
- Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning,
expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency-tolerance,
reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects
- Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning,
defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural
knowledge, and query languages
- Integration of description logics with other formalisms: object-oriented
representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based
programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems
- Applications and use areas of description logics: ontology engineering,
ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured
data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, Semantic
Web, cloud computing
- Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools
for and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database
schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools),
implementation and optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modelling
* INVITED SPEAKERS
- Michael Benedikt, University of Oxford, UK
- Patrick Blackburn, University of Roskilde, Denmark
- Alon Y. Halevy, Google, USA
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper registration deadline: April 7, 2014
- Paper submission deadline: April 11, 2014
- Acceptance notification: May 26, 2014
- Camera-ready copies: June 15, 2014
* SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submissions may be either papers of up to 11 pages (excluding references)
or extended abstracts of at most 3 pages (excluding references) and must be
formatted in Springer LNCS style. A clearly marked appendix (e.g., with
additional proofs or evaluation data) may optionally be appended. Accepted
contributions will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings series. Further information and detailed submission
instructions can be found on the workshop website.
* GENERAL CHAIRS
- Magdalena Ortiz, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Mantas Simkus, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* PC CHAIRS
- Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & University of Paris-Sud, France
- Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RUNTIME VERIFICATION (RV 2014)
Call for Papers
September 22-25, 2014
Toronto, Canada
http://rv2014.imag.fr/
* SCOPE
Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software
and hardware system executions. Runtime verification techniques are crucial
for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they are significantly
more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical
than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior
to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after
deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing
fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair.
* TECHNICAL RESEARCH PAPERS TRACK
Technical research papers can be submitted in two categories: regular and
short papers.
- Regular papers (up to 15 pages) should present original unpublished results.
Theoretical and experimental papers as well as papers on applications of
runtime verification and case studies are all welcome. A non-monetary Best
Paper Award will be given. A selection of accepted regular papers will be
invited to appear in a special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal
Methods in System Design.
- Short papers (up to 5 pages) may present novel but not necessarily
thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification
techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish
relationships between runtime verification and other domains. Accepted
short papers will be presented in special short talk (10 minutes) and
poster sessions.
* TOOL DEMONSTRATION TRACK
The aim of the RV 2014 tool demonstration track is to provide an opportunity
for researchers and practitioners to show and to discuss the latest advances,
experiences and challenges in devising and developing reliable software
tools for runtime verification. Tool papers should meet the following criteria:
A tool paper should present a new tool, a new tool component or novel
extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. Each submission
should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form.
Each submission must not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS/Springer proceeding
format, including all text, references and figures. The paper must be written
in English and provided in PDF format.
Each submission must be accompanied at the time of the submission by a short
screencast (between 5-10 minutes), with voice and overlay text commentary
illustrating the demonstration of the tool (a link to it should be provided
in the paper).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract deadline: April 8, 2014
Full paper deadline: April 15, 2014
Rebuttal phase: May 18-20, 2014
Acceptance notification: June 10, 2014
Camera ready submission: June 25, 2014
Conference dates: 22-25 September, 2014
12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGY FOR VERIFICATION AND ANALYSIS (ATVA 2014)
Call for Workshop Proposals
November 3-7, 2014, Sydney, Australia
http://atva-conferences.org
* GOALS
The 12th International Symposium on Automated Technology for
Verification and Analysis (ATVA) invites proposals for pre-
and postconference workshops to be held on November 3 (pre)
or November 7 (post). The ATVA conference series covers the
spectrum from theoretical results to practical applications
of automated analysis, verification and synthesis.
Proposals that promise to bring new topics to ATVA, of either
practical or theoretical importance, or to provide a forum for more
detailed discussion on central topics of continuing importance
are highly welcome. Proposals that explore the application of
automated tools to real-world problems are especially encouraged.
Workshop proposals are limited to 2 pages, and should provide at
least the following information:
- Title
- Description of the workshop topic and goals
(Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic?)
- Intended audience
(From which areas do you expect potential participants to
come? How many participants do you expect?)
- Relevance and relation of the workshop to the main conference
- Organisation of the workshop
(Describe the intended format (e.g. paper selection process),
its expected duration (full day or half day) and its preferred
date (November 3rd or November 7th)
- Organisers' details
(Provide affiliations, backgrounds and contact details of
organisers and potential committee members)
Proposals should be sent as PDF to the workshop chair Peter Hoefner
(peter.hoefner@nicta.com.au).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for proposal submissions: April 14, 2014
Acceptance/rejection notification: May 19, 2014
Workshop Date: November 3rd and 7th
12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON FORMAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF TIMED SYSTEMS (FORMATS 2014)
Preliminary Call for Papers
September 8-10, 2014
http://www.florence2014.org/
* TOPICS
The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and
practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers
from different disciplines that share interests in modelling and
analysis of timed systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited
to):
- Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems
and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata,
timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus
algebra, probabilistic models).
- Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and
software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal
constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis,
optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.).
- Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in
application domains in which timing plays an important role
(real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling
in manufacturing and telecommunication).
* SUBMISSION
FORMATS 2014 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results
and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned
above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished
contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers
should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS
style guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages in length.
Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair online
submission system:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=formats2014
The proceedings of FORMATS 2014 will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract submission: April 14, 2014
- Paper submission: April 21, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2014
- Final version due: June 23, 2014
- Conference: September 8-10, 2014
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Marius Bozga (VERIMAG / CNRS, Grenoble, France)
Axel Legay (IRISA / INRIA Rennes, France)
* VENUE
FORMATS 2014 will take place in Florence, Italy as part of FLORENCE
2014, a one-week scientific event on formal and quantitative methods
for the development of dependable and performing systems:
http://www.florence2014.org/
It will be held in Florence during the week 8-12 September 2014, and
it will co-locate five major conferences in the areas of formal and
quantitative analysis of systems, performance engineering, computer
safety, and industrial critical applications.
All the conferences will take place at the Aeronautical Sciences
School of the Italian Air Force, inside the monumental and historical
park of Cascine in the city of Florence.
* COLOCATED EVENTS
- QEST: International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems
- SAFECOMP: International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and
Security
- EPEW: European Workshop on Performance Engineering
- FMICS: International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial
Critical Systems
4TH HALMSTAD SUMMER SCHOOL ON TESTING (HSST 2014)
Call for Participation
Halmstad University, Sweden
June 9 - June 12, 2014
http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2014
* TOPIC
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 4th 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
- Automated Test Generation via Satisfiability Modulo Theory Solvers (Thomas
Ball, Microsoft Research)
- Model-Based Testing, the Difference between Theory and Practice (Machiel
van der Bijl, Axini BV)
- Improved Testing of Multithreaded Programs with Dynamic Symbolic Execution
(Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University)
- Property-based testing with QuickCheck (John Hughes, QuviQ and Chalmers)
- Testing and Verifying Software Properties with ACL2 and ProofPad (Rex Page,
University of Oklahoma)
- Practical Model-Based Testing With Papyrus and RT-Tester (Jan Peleska,
Verified International GMBH and Bremen University)
- Model-Based Testing - There is Nothing More Practical than a Good Theory
(Jan Tretmans, Radboud University Nijmegen and TNO - ESI)
* REGISTRATION
The registration deadline is April 15, 2014.
To apply to the summer school, please send an email to
Veronica.Gaspes@hh.se with "Halmstad Summer School on Testing" in the title.
* ORGANIZERS
Veronica Gaspes (Organization Chair, veronica.gaspes@hh.se)
Mohammad Mousavi (Program Co-Chair, m.r.mousavi@hh.se)
Eva Nestius (Local Organization)
Walid Taha (Program Co-Chair, walid.taha@hh.se)
8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTING WITH TERMS AND GRAPHS (TERMGRAPH 2014)
First Call for Papers
July 13, 2014, Vienna
(affiliated with RTA-TLCA as part of FLoC)
http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/events/termgraph-2014/
* DATES
submission: April 16, 2014
notification: May 16, 2014
final version: May 28, 2014
workshop: July 13, 2014
* SCOPE
Research in term and graph rewriting ranges from theoretical questions
to practical issues. Computing with graphs handles the sharing of common
subexpressions in a natural and seamless way, and improves the efficiency
of computations in space and time. Sharing is ubiquitous in several
research areas, for instance: the modelling of first- and higher-order
term rewriting by (acyclic or cyclic) graph rewriting, the modelling of
biological or chemical abstract machines, the implementation techniques
of programming languages: many implementations of functional, logic,
object-oriented, concurrent and mobile calculi are based on term graphs.
Term graphs are also used in automated theorem proving and symbolic
computation systems working on shared structures. The aim of this workshop
is to bring together researchers working in different domains on term and
graph transformation and to foster their interaction, to provide a forum
for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers
to learn about current activities in term graph rewriting.
* TOPICS
Topics of interest include all aspects of term graphs and sharing of
common subexpressions in rewriting, programming, automated reasoning
and symbolic computation. This includes (but is not limited to):
- graph transformation
- graph-based implementations of lambda-calculus
- representation of concurrent systems
- models of computation
- graph-based languages
- semantics and implementation of programming languages
- compiler construction
- interaction nets and proof nets
- pattern recognition
- bioinformatics
- system descriptions
* SUBMISSION
There are two categories of submissions:
(1) Extended abstracts describing new results, work in progress, or problems.
(2) Short versions of articles recently published or submitted elsewhere.
Papers in the second category are not considered for the post-workshop
proceedings. The page limit for submissions in both categories is 5 pages
in EPTCS style. Submissions should be marked with the category (either 1 or 2)
and submitted electronically in PDF via the EasyChair submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=TERMGRAPH2014
Papers will be judged on relevance, originality, correctness, and usefulness.
The proceedings of TERMGRAPH 2014 will be included on the FLoC USB flash
drive. Post-workshop proceedings of full versions of selected (category 1)
contributions will be published as a volume of EPTCS.
* PC CHAIRS
Aart Middeldorp University of Innsbruck (co-chair)
Femke van Raamsdonk VU University Amsterdam (co-chair)
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN MACRO-BIOLOGY (FMMB 2014)
Call for Papers
September 22-24, 2014
Noumea, New Caledonia
http://fmmb2014.sciencesconf.org/
* AIMS AND SCOPE
The purpose of FMMB is to bring together researchers, developers,
and students in theoretical computer science, applied mathematics,
mathematical and computational biology, interested in studying the
application of formal methods to the construction and analysis of
models describing biological processes at both micro and macro levels.
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- representation and analysis of biological systems in formal systems
such as:
o ordinary and partial differential equation systems,
o discrete event systems, infinite state systems,
o hybrid discrete-continuous systems, hybrid automata,
o cellular automata, multi-agent systems,
o stochastic processes, stochastic games,
o statistical physics models,
o process algebras, process calculi,
o rewriting systems, graph grammars,
- coupling models and data, inference of models from data,
- computability and complexity issues,
- modelling and analysis tools, case studies.
Application areas particularly solicited include:
- environmental biology, ecology, marine science,
- agriculture and forestry,
- developmental biology, population biology,
- epidemiology, medicine,
- systems biology, synthetic biology.
* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Pieter Collins, Maastricht University, Netherlands,
Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia,
Radu Grosu, Vienna Technical University, Austria,
Steffen Klamt, Max Planck Institute Magdeburg, Germany,
Pietro Lio', Cambridge University, UK,
Helene Morlon, Ecole Polytechnique and CNRS, France.
* PC CO-CHAIRS
Francois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France,
Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy.
* LOCAL CHAIR
Teodor Knapik, University of New Caledonia.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 25
Author notification: June 4
Camera-ready copy due: June 25
* SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Regular submissions of 12-20 pages or short submissions of 2 pages
in LNCS style should be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmmb2014 .
All accepted papers will be published in a book in the LNBI series of
Springer-Verlag. Authors of the most significant contributions will
be invited to submit extended versions for a journal special issue.
8TH IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE (TCS 2014)
Call for Papers
September 1-3, 2014 Rome, Italy
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/tcs2014/
* AIM AND SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
Under the patronage of the International Federation of Information
Processing (IFIP), since year 2000 the IFIP Technical Committee 1
(Foundations of Computer Science) has organized a series of biannual
international conferences in Theoretical Computer Science. After Sendai
(2000), Montreal (2002), Toulouse (2004), Santiago (2006), Milano (2008),
Brisbane (2010), and Amsterdam (2012), the 8th edition will be held in Rome
in September 2014, in cooperation with the IFIP Working Group 2.2 (Formal
Description of Programming Concepts) and in conjunction with the 25th
Conference on Concurrency Theory. We call for papers in all areas of
Theoretical Computer Science: they will be evaluated by two committees:
- Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation
- Track B: Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification
* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 15 pages
(LNCS style with at least 11-point font size) to arrive before April 27,
2014. If more space is needed, a clearly marked appendix, to be read at the
discretion of the program committee, may be included if desired. Submission
will be handled by EasyChair. Further information and submission details
can be found on the Conference web page. Simultaneous submissions to other
conferences with published proceedings are not allowed.
* PROCEEDINGS
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers from TCS 2014 will
be invited to a special issue of the Journal Theoretical Computer Science.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission: April 27, 2014.
Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2014.
Final manuscript due: July 6, 2014.
Conference: September 1-3, 2014.
* CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
- Daniele Gorla, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
- Rossella Petreschi, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
- Track A: Josep Diaz (Chair), UPC Barcelona
- Track B: Davide Sangiorgi (Chair), Univ. di Bologna
15 INT. WORKSHOP ON LOGIC AND COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND WORKSHOP IN HONOR OF NEIL IMMERMAN'S 60TH BIRTHDAY (LCC 2014/IMMERMAN FEST)
Call for Papers
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/
July 12-13, Vienna, Austria
(Affiliated with Vienna Summer of Logic and FloC 2014.)
* DATES
Abstract submission (3-4 pages) deadline: May 2nd,
2014 Authors' notification: May 19th, 2014
* THE LCC 2014/IMMERMANFEST WORKSHOP
The program will consist of a first day (July 12th) of both invited talks
and contributed talks selected by the program committee (based on
submitted abstracts), and a second day (July 13th) devoted entirely to
invited talks in celebration of Neil Immerman's 60th birthday.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Day 1: Sam Buss, Georg Moser;
Day 2: Eric Allender, Anuj Dawar, Phokion Kolaitis, Benjamin Rossman, Mooly Sagiv, Nicole Schweikardt.
* AIM
LCC meetings are aimed at foundational interconnections between
logic and computational complexity, including topics such as:
finite model theory, proof complexity, bounded arithmetic, implicit
computational complexity, complexity of higher types, and logic and
complexity aspects of verification and database theory. Neil Immerman
has made many inspiring contributions to the connections betweens logic
and complexity. This year, day two of LCC 2014 will honor Neil's 60th
birthday with a series of invited lectures.
* PROCEEDINGS
There will be no published proceedings for LCC 2014; we welcome
submissions of abstracts (3-4 pages) that can be based on work submitted or
published elsewhere. All submissions via Easychair at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcc2014
For additional information see http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/
or email lcc2014@easychair.org
9TH SYMPOSIUM ON TRUSTWORTHY GLOBAL COMPUTING (TGC 2014)
Call for Papers
http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/tgc2014/
5-6 September, 2014
Rome, Italy (co-located with Concur 2014)
* SCOPE
The Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing is an international annual
venue dedicated to secure and reliable computation in the so-called global
computing, i.e., those computational abstractions emerging in large-scale
infrastructures such as service-oriented architectures, autonomic systems,
and cloud computing.
* HIGHLIGHTS
- Parallel submission to CONCUR 2014 allowed (see submission instructions)
- Keynote speakers: Veronique Cortier (CNRS, France) and Catuscia Palamidessi
(INRIA Saclay and LIX, France)
- Deadline for abstract submission: May 2 2014
* TOPICS
The TGC series focuses on providing frameworks, tools, algorithms, and
protocols for rigorously designing, verifying, and implementing open-ended,
large-scaled applications. The related models of computation incorporate
code and data mobility over distributed networks that connect heterogeneous
devices and have dynamically changing topologies.
We solicit papers in all areas of global computing, including (but not
limited to):
- languages, semantic models, and abstractions
- security, trust, and reliability
- privacy and information flow policies
- algorithms and protocols
- resource management
- model checking, theorem proving, and static analysis
- tool support
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for abstract submission: May 2 2014
- Deadline for paper submission: May 9 2014 (STRICT!)
- Notification to authors: June 27 2014
* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Contributions must be in PostScript or PDF format and consist of no more
than 15 pages in the Springer's LNCS style. Clearly marked appendixes may
include additional details and proofs omitted due to space limitations.
Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not
submitted for publication elsewhere, with the exception of CONCUR. Concurrent
submissions to CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014 are allowed, and in fact encouraged,
for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of
such double submissions should flag them to the program chairs at the time
of submission (by choosing the Regular Paper submitted to CONCUR paper
category). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR and TGC. CONCUR timeline
is ahead of TGC; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered
automatically withdrawn from TGC.
* POST-PROCEEDINGS
We plan to publish post-proceedings shortly after the conference, to give
the authors the opportunity to take into account discussions and suggestions
at the conference.
The post-proceedings will appear as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series.
* PC CHAIRS
- Matteo Maffei (CISPA, Saarland University, Germany)
- Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK)
11th WORKSHOP ON USER INTERFACES FOR THEOREM PROVERS (UITP 2014)
Call for Papers
July 17, 2014
Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/pages/UITP-index.html
* SCOPE
The User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (UITP) workshop series
provides a forum for researchers interested in improving human
interaction with interactive and automated deduction systems in a
broad sense.
* PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers should describe previously unpublished work
(completed or in progress), and be at least 4 pages and at most
12 pages. We encourage concise and relevant papers. Submissions should be
in PDF format, and typeset with the EPTCS LaTeX document class (which
can be downloaded from http://style.eptcs.org/). Submission should be
done via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uitp14).
Papers will be published after the workshop in the
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
(EPTCS - http://www.eptcs.org/).
* TOPICS:
- Experiments and evaluation of prover interfaces
- Application-specific interaction mechanisms
- Interfaces for expert systems
- Web interfaces for deduction tools
- New designs for prover interfaces
- Performance/responsiveness of user interface for theorem provers
- Proof scripting languages
- Proof formats for authoring, exchanging and presenting proofs
- Domain-specific languages (DSLs) for interfacing with reasoning tools
- Infrastructure for sharing and using benchmarks for theorem proving
- Summarization of proofs
- Visualization of proofs
- Visualization of large structured deduction problems
- User-friendly repositories of formal mathematical knowledge
- Mobile interfaces (iPhone or Android clients for deduction tools)
- System descriptions
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submission: May 4
- Author notification: May 25
- Final papers: May 31
- Workshop: July 17
5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GAMES, AUTOMATA, LOGICS AND FORMAL VERIFICATION (GandALF 2014)
Preliminary Call for Papers
September 10 - 12, 2014,
Verona, Italy
http://gandalf2014.di.univr.it
* AIM
The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia
and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata,
Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of
themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate
cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially
welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on
all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are
at an early stage of development are also welcome.
* TOPICS
The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to:
- 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
* IMPORTANT DATES
May 10th Abstract submission
May 25th Paper submission
June 25th Notification
July 25th Camera-ready submission
* PUBLICATIONS
The conference proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in
Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international
journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium
papers is also under consideration.
* SUBMISSIONS
Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format,
be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting
experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available
with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be
handled via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2014).
* PC CHAIRS
- Adriano Peron, University Federico II of Napoli, Italy
- Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy
10TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM 2014)
First Call for Papers
July 13, 2014
Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/pages/DCM-index.html
* SCOPE
Several new models of computation have emerged in the last few years, and
many developments of traditional computational models have been proposed
with the aim of taking into account the new demands of computer systems
users and the new capabilities of computation engines. A new computational
model, or a new feature in a traditional one, usually is reflected in a new
family of programming languages, and new paradigms of software development.
DCM 2014 is the tenth in a series of international workshops focusing on new
computational models. The aim of this workshop is to bring together
researchers who are currently developing new computational models or
new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their
interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in
progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in
this area. DCM 2014 will be a one-day satellite event of CSL-LICS 2014,
in the context of VSL 2014.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their
properties, and their applications to the development of programming
languages and systems:
- functional calculi: lambda-calculus, rho-calculus, term and graph rewriting;
- quantum computation, including implementations and formal methods in quantum protocols;
- probabilistic computation and verification in modeling situations;
- chemical, biological and bio-inspired computation, including spatial models, self-assembly, growth models;
- general concurrent models including the treatment of mobility, trust, and security;
- infinitary models of computation;
- information-theoretic ideas in computing.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: 16 May 2014
- Notification: 6 June 2014
- Workshop: 13 July 2014
- Submission Deadline for EPTCS Proceedings: 15 September 2014
* SUBMISSIONS
Submit your paper in PDF format via the conference EasyChair submission page:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcm2014
Submissions should be an abstract of at most 5 pages, written in English.
Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is not
permitted. Please use the EPTCS macro package and follow the instructions of
EPTCS, following the EPTCS style:
http://style.eptcs.org/
A submission may contain an appendix, but reading the appendix should not
be necessary to assess its merits. After the workshop authors are invited
to submit a full paper of their presentation. Accepted contributions will
appear in an issue of EPTCS.
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Ugo Dal Lago (Universita di Bologna)
Russ Harmer (CNRS & ENS Lyon)
14TH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF CRITICAL SYSTEMS (AVOCS 2014)
Call for Papers
http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014
24-26th September, 2014
University of Twente, Netherlands
* AIMS
The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2014 is
to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members
of the international research community on tools and techniques for
the verification of critical systems. The subject is to be interpreted
broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated
verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT
constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining
to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent
dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical,
performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different
techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical
programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow
for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop will be
relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion.
There are several studentships available in order to support PhD
students who wish to participate in the workshop.
* TOPICS
Topics include (but are not limited to)
- Model Checking
- Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving
- SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification
- Abstract Interpretation
- Specification and Refinement
- Requirements Capture and Analysis
- Verification of Software and Hardware
- Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience
- Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems
- Dependable Systems
- Verified System Development
- Industrial Applications
* INVITED SPEAKERS
The workshop will have three invited speakers:
- Laura Kovacs (Chalmers, Sweden) will speak about automated assertion
generation.
- Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College, UK) will speak about verification
of OpenCL kernels.
- A third speaker will be announced soon.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission (abstract for full paper): 16th June 2014
Submission (full papers): 23rd June 2014
Notification (full papers): 30th July 2014
Submission (research ideas): 7th August 2014
Notification (research ideas): 14th August 2014
Submission of final versions: 1st September 2014
Workshop: 24-26th September 2014
* FULL PAPERS
Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have
been published or be concurrently considered for publication
elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the
basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and
presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Final versions of
the papers must be written in English and not exceed 15
pages. Formatting details are provided on the website.
* RESEARCH IDEAS
AVoCS'14 encourages the submissions of research ideas
in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing
work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme
Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted
abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research
ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages.
* PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE
At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a
University of Twente Technical Report; this report will also include
the research ideas.
After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have
about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the
workshop post-proceedings which will appear in the Electronic
Communications of the EASST Open Access Journal. Research ideas will
not be part of the proceedings in the Open Access Journal.
We will invite authors of a selection of the best papers presented at
the workshop to submit extended versions of their work for publication
in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer
Programming.
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair)
Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair)
* ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Marieke Huisman
Wojciech Mostowski (publicity chair)
Jaco van de Pol
88TH WORKSHOP ON GENERAL ALGEBRA (AAA88)
June 19-22, 2014
Warsaw, Poland
http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/aaa88
* LOCATION
The conference location is the new home of mathematics at the Warsaw
University of Technology. The meeting falls within the Stefan Banach
conference series. The scientific program will start on Friday, June 20,
2014, at 9.00, and end on Sunday, June 22, 2014, at 13.00.
The conference will be organized by the Algebra Group at the Warsaw
University of Technology. Support is provided by Warsaw University of
Technology and the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center.
* TOPICS
The main topics of the conference are related to the traditional areas
of the AAA conferences, with special emphasis on the following:
1. Non-classical algebraic structures;
2. Universal algebra and lattice theory;
3. Applications of algebra in logic, combinatorics and computer science;
4. Classical algebraic structures, especially in connection with
universal-algebraic methods.
* PROGRAMME
The list of invited speakers includes:
- Ales Drapal, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Mai Gehrke, Universite Paris Diderot, Paris, France
- Katarzyna Korwin-Slomczynska, Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland
- Jonathan D.H. Smith, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
- Agnes Szendrei, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and Szegedi
Tudomanyegyetem, Hungary
- Mikhail Volkov, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
The program will comprise several longer keynote plenary lectures, a number
of shorter plenary lectures, and a larger number of 20-minute contributed talks.
* FURTHER INFORMATION
The conference website has been set up at http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/aaa88
Further information concerning the online registration and submission of
abstracts, conference fee, accommodation, possible financial support, and
conference proceedings will be provided on the conference website later.
The site will be updated regularly.
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
G. Binczak, T. Brengos, N. Dojer, A. Mucka, A. Pilitowska, A. Romanowska,
M. Stronkowski, A. Zamojska-Dzienio, M. Ziembowski
* SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
E. Aichinger, A. Pilitowska, A. Romanowska, J.D.H. Smith
26TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI 2014)
(pending IEEE approval)
Call for Papers
November 10-12, 2014, Limassol, Cyprus
http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy
* AIMS AND SCOPE
The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where
the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence
are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies.
The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and
promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent
systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI
encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing and
evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms
of the AI-based components of computer tools such as algorithms,
architectures and languages.
* TOPICS
AI Foundations
AI in Domain Specific Applications
AI in Computer Systems
AI in Data Analytics and Big Data
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Cognitive Modelling
AI and Decision Systems
Uncertainty in AI
* SUBMISSION
The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted
or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically
through the EasyChair system in pdf format and should conform to IEEE
specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8
pages).
* PRESENTATION
Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and
accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee
publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in
proceedings of ICTAI 2014 that will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society.
* IJAIT SPECIAL ISSUE
Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be invited
for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial
Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: June 30, 2014
Paper notification: July 30, 2014
Camera-ready paper: August 30, 2014
* CONTACT
George A. Papadopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
george-at-cs-dot-ucy-dot-ac-dot-cy
NEW BOOK ON INDUSTRIAL DEPLOYMENT OF SYSTEM ENGINEERING METHODS
Industrial Deployment of System Engineering Methods
Alexander Romanovsky and Martyn Thomas (Eds.)
http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-3-642-33169-5
* A formal method is not the main engine of a development process,
its contribution is to improve system dependability by motivating
formalisation where useful. This book summarizes the results of the
DEPLOY research project on engineering methods for dependable systems
through the industrial deployment of formal methods in software development.
The applications considered were in automotive, aerospace, railway, and
enterprise information systems, and microprocessor design. The project
introduced a formal method, Event-B, into several industrial organisations
and built on the lessons learned to provide an ecosystem of better tools,
documentation and support to help others to select and introduce rigorous
systems engineering methods. The contributing authors report on these
projects and the lessons learned. For the academic and research partners
and the tool vendors, the project identified improvements required in the
methods and supporting tools, while the industrial partners learned about
the value of formal methods in general. A particular feature of the book
is the frank assessment of the managerial and organisational challenges,
the weaknesses in some current methods and supporting tools, and the ways
in which they can be successfully overcome. The book will be of value to
academic researchers, systems and software engineers developing critical
systems, industrial managers, policymakers, and regulators.
PHD POSITIONS AT ETH ZURICH
http://cme.ethz.ch
* As part of our "Concurrency Made Easy" ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
project (2012-2017), we are offering PhD positions at the Chair of
Software Engineering of ETH Zurich. The goal of the project is to build
a sophisticated programming and verification architecture to make
concurrent and distributed programming simple and reliable, based on the
ideas of Eiffel and particularly the SCOOP concurrency model.
Concurrency in its various forms (particularly multithreading) as well
as distributed computing are required for most of today’s serious
programs, but programming concurrent applications remains a challenge.
The CME project is determined to break this complexity barrier.
Inevitably, achieving simplicity for users (in this case, application
programmers) requires, under the hood, a sophisticated infrastructure,
both conceptual (theoretical models) and practical (the implementation).
We are building that infrastructure. ETH offers an outstanding research
and education environment and competitive salaries for "assistants"
(PhD students), who are generally expected in addition to their research
to participate in teaching, in particular introductory programming, and
other activities of the Chair. The candidates we seek have: a master's
degree in computer science or related field from a recognized institution
(as required by ETH); a strong software engineering background, both
practical and theoretical, and more generally a strong computer science
and mathematical culture; a good knowledge of verification techniques
(e.g. Hoare-style, model-checking, abstract interpretation); some background
in concurrency or distribution; and a passion for high-quality software
development. Prior publications, and experience with Eiffel, are pluses.
In line with ETH policy, particular attention will be given to female
candidates. Before applying, you should become familiar with our work;
see in particular the research pages at http://se.ethz.ch including
the full description of the CME project at http://cme.ethz.ch.
Candidates should send (in PDF or text) to
se-open-positions@lists.inf.ethz.ch a CV and a short cover letter
describing their view of the CME project and ideas about their possible
contribution.
POSTDOC IN FORMAL METHODS AT DTU
http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/afa8af12-c781-44f2-af74-d394660981fc
* The IDEA4CPS center at DTU Applied Mathematics and Computer Science has
a new opening for a postdoc. With this call we are particularly interested
in candidates that can interact with our research within one of the
following areas:
(a) The integration of Satisfaction Modulo Theories with frameworks for
quantitative analysis.
(b) The development of quantitative models and analysis for security,
including methods based on entropy.
(c) Model checking for multi-criteria analysis and optimization of safety
and security properties, including Pareto efficiency and equilibria.
Applications must be submitted by February 10th, 2014 according to the
procedure described at
http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/afa8af12-c781-44f2-af74-d394660981fc
that also point to the center (http://www.idea4cps.dk) and the research
group http://www.compute.dtu.dk/english/research/LBT.
Contact: Hanne Riis Nielson & Flemming Nielson
POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN PROOF THEORY, VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
* A position as post-doctoral researcher is available in the group for
Computational Logic (http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/fg2/) at the Faculty of
Mathematics of the Vienna University of Technology. This position is part
of a research project on the proof theory of induction. The aim of this
project is to further deepen our understanding of the structure of proofs
by induction and to develop new algorithms for the automation of inductive
theorem proving. Techniques of relevance include cut-elimination, witness
extraction, Herbrand's theorem.
* The sucessful candidate is expected to have (or be close to completing)
a PhD in mathematics or computer science and a strong background in proof
theory. Experience in one or more of the following areas is an advantage:
formal languages, complexity, automated theorem proving, unification theory.
The ability to work in a team is an important prerequisite.
* The employment is full-time (40h / week). The salary is EUR 37.400,-
after taxes per year. The position is initially for 1 year - an extension
is possible in case of mutual interest. The starting date is negotiable but
should be in 2014. The application deadline is March 7, 2014.
* The application should contain:
- cover letter
(Why are you interested in this position? Why are you qualified?)
- curriculum vitae
- list of publications
- scan of graduation diploma and/or other relevant certificates
- preferred starting date
- optionally, up to three recommendation letters or references
* Send inquiries and your application to:
Stefan Hetzl
http://www.logic.at/people/hetzl/
POSTDOC POSITION IN VERIFICATION IN TRENTO, ITALY
http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/WOLF-Recruit-postdoc.txt
* One post-doc position in ICT on the research project
"Advanced SMT Techniques for Word-level Formal Verification - (WOLF)"
is available in Trento, Italy, under the joint supervision of
- Alessandro Cimatti, FBK, Trento, and
- Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento.
This is a three-year research project supported by SRC/GRC
(http://www.src.org/compete/s201113/), in collaboration with major HW
companies.
POSTDOC RESEARCHER/PROGRAMMER POST IN COMBINATORIAL TESTING AIST, JAPAN
https://www.risec.aist.go.jp/offering/index-en.html
* We are looking for one postdoc researcher or programmer at
Research Institute for Secure Systems (RISEC), National Institute
of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan.
The position will be for research related combinatorial testing, in
particular, automatic generation of test sets from the formal description
of test requirements. The research will be programming-intensive, so
the candidates must have good programming skills. In particular,
good knowledge of data structure and algorithm are required.
Also, the candidates must have general interest in software engineering.
On the other hand, speaking Japanese is *not* required.
The first term is until the end of the fiscal year, but the project itself is
until November 2016, so that the extension is possible based on the
performance. The position is available immediately. Interested
candidates should apply by sending email with the application
materials to risec-jobs-ml@aist.go.jp.
* OUTLINE
- Test generation using model-based testing and constraint solving.
- Develop algorithms on graph-based data structures.
- Experience with Java, and/or C, Scala, Haskell needed.
- Strong know-how in software analysis and algorithms.
- Annual contract but can be extended for up to 3 years.
- Start date on Feb. 1 2014 or later.
- Office location is in Amagasaki (15 min away from Osaka by local trains)
* CONTENT OF WORK
- Develop the software of a next-generation test case generator.
- Integrate the tool with existing components and products.
- The position is open to programmer (employed as technical staff) or post-doc.
- For a post-doc, publications about the tool and case studies are
also a goal of the work. The Ph.D. degree must have been obtained
between 0 and 7 years prior to starting the position.
- Details on the web page given in Japanese can be given in English on request.
- More information of programmer (employed as technical staff), please
refer the information of "software engineer" in accompanying document.
* QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with Java, and/or C, Scala, Haskell needed (ideally at least two).
- Strong know-how in software analysis and algorithms.
- Post-doc: Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Post-doc: Ph.D. degree obtained at most 7 years prior to start date.
* TREATMENT
- Initial contract: immediately - 2015-03-31 (can be extended).
- Working hours: Basically 8:30 - 17:15 including a one-hour lunch
break, flexible hours possible. Work days: Mon - Fri excl. public
holidays and end/start of the calendar year.
- Paid holidays (annual leave) based on AIST rules.
- Social security/insurance benefits included
- Salary based on experience. (e.g. post-doc: from 2200 JPY/hour)
* APPLICATION
1. CV
2. Copy of Ph.D. certificate (for post-doc position)
3. Work history
4. Publication list (for post-doc)
5. Cover letter (one page)
6. Apply by sending email with the materials to risec-jobs-ml@aist.go.jp.
TENURE-TRACK POSITIONS AT UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A MONTREAL, CANADA
http://www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichageProfs/21006546.htm
http://www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichageProfs/21006547.htm
* The departement d'informatique at UQAM invites application for:
- One faculty position in cognitive informatics, in the area of semantic
Web and knowledge management (ontology engineering, ontology reasoning
algorithms, Web of data, semantic web services, etc.);
- One faculty position in theoretical computer science and algorithms
(language theory and applications, graphs, computational geometry,
data structures, etc.).
Teaching at UQAM is done in French and the candidate must have an excellent
mastery of this language. The deadline for (electronic) submission is
March 10, 2014, 5:00 PM.
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