SIGLOG Monthly 170
May 1, 2015
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* NEWS
LICS'15 Preview
ACM SIGLOG Announcement
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
FroCoS 2015 - Call for Papers
AUTOMATHA 2015 - Call for Papers
CALCO EARLY IDEAS - Call for Papers
QUANTIFY 2015 - Call for Papers
SSFT 2015 - Call for Participation
EPS (CADE-25) - Call for Posters and Encyclopedia Entries
DIMAP LOGIC DAY - Call for Participation
ICTAC 2015 - Call for Papers
SETTA 2015 - Call for Papers
CCC 2015 - Call for Papers
HaPoC 3 - Call for Papers
SR 2015 - Call for Papers
WoLLIC - Call for Participation
GBMSC - Call for Participation
ABZ 2016 - Call for Papers, Answers to the case study, Workshops, Tutorials
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
PhD Studentship in Algorithms and Complexity at Royal Holloway, University of London
New Doctoral Program on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS), Vienna
LICS'15 PREVIEW
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icalp-lics2015/
* LICS'15 will colocate with ICALP 2015, 6-10 July, in Kyoto.
Masahito Hasegawa (RIMS, Kyoto) is the Conference Chair.
The PC is chaired by Catuscia Palamidessi.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
- Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Title: Privacy and the Price of Data
- Anca Muscholl (Universite Bordeaux, France)
Title: Automated Synthesis of Distributed Controllers
- Peter O'Hearn (Facebook and University College London, UK)
Title: From Categorical Logic to Facebook Engineering
- Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK)
Title: Recent Advances in Higher-order Model Checking
- Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge, UK)
Title: Names and Symmetry in Computer Science (tutorial)
- Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, USA)
Title: Quantitative Information Flow (tutorial)
* ACCEPTED PAPERS
http://lics.siglog.org/lics15/accepted
* WORKSHOPS
Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity (LCC 2015)
Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science 3 (NLCS 3)
Workshop on Quantum Computational Complexity (QCC)
Workshop on Realistic Models for Algorithms in Wireless Networks (WRAWN)
Workshop on Syntax and Semantics for Low-Level Languages (LOLA 2015)
Workshop on the Verification of Higher-Order Programs (HOPA)
Young Researchers Forum on Automata, Languages and Programming (YR-ICALP 2015)
* REGISTRATION (to be opened soon)
Early registration deadline: June 12, 2015
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icalp-lics2015/registration.html
* LOCAL WEBSITE
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icalp-lics2015/
ACM SIGLOG ANNOUNCEMENT
http://siglog.acm.org
* The ACM has recently chartered a Special Interest Group on Logic and
Computation (ACM SIGLOG). Its first Chair is Prakash Panangaden,
the other officers are Luke Ong (vice-Chair), Natarajan Shankar (Treasurer)
and Alexandra Silva (Secretary).
* The ACM-IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science is the flagship
conference of SIGLOG. SIGLOG will also actively seek association agreements
with other conferences in the field. A SIGLOG newsletter (SIGLOG News)
is also published quarterly in an electronic format with community news,
technical columns, members' feedback, conference reports, book reviews
and other items of interest to the community.
* One can join SIGLOG by visiting
https://campus.acm.org/public/qj/gensigqj/siglist/gensigqj_siglist.cfm
It is possible to join SIGLOG without joining ACM (the SIGLOG membership
fee is $25 and $15 for students).
DATES
* FroCoS 2015
Abstract submission: May 4, 2015
Full paper submission: May 10, 2015
http://frocos2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl/
* AUTOMATHA 2015
Conference: May 6-9, 2015
http://www.automatha.uni-leipzig.de
* CALCO EARLY IDEAS 2015
Submission: May 8, 2015
https://coalg.org/calco15/ei.html
* QUANTIFY 2015
Paper submission: May 8, 2015
Workshop: August 1, 2015
http://fmv.jku.at/quantify15/
* SSFT 2013
Summer school: May 17-22, 2015
http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15
* EPS (CADE-25)
Submission: May 31, 2015
http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia/
* DIMAP LOGIC DAY
Workshop: June 1, 2015
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/events/dimap-logic-day-2015/
* ICTAC 2015
Abstract submission: June 1, 2015
Paper submission: June 5, 2015
Submission deadline: June 5, 2015
http://www.ictac2015.co
* SETTA 2015
Abstract deadline: June 12, 2015
Paper submission: June 19, 2015
http://cs.nju.edu.cn/setta/
* CCC 2015
Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2015
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/ccc2015/
* HaPoC 3
Submission deadline: June 19, 2015
http://hapoc2015.di.unipi.it
* SR 2015
Abstract submission: July 1, 2015
Paper submission: July 3, 2015
https://sites.google.com/site/sr2015homepage/
* WoLLIC 2015
Workshop: July 20-23, 2015
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic/
* GBMSC
Conference: August 17-28, 2015
http://booleconferences.ucc.ie/gbmsc2015
* ABZ 2016
Workshop proposal submissions: October 16, 2015
Workshop proposal notifications: November 6, 2015
Research paper and answers to case study submission: January 15, 2016
Short paper submission: February 4, 2016
Tutorial proposal submissions: February 15, 2016
http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/
10TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS 2015)
Call for Papers
Wroclaw, Poland
September 21-24, 2015
http://frocos2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl/
* GENERAL INFORMATION
The 10th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems
(FroCoS 2015) will be held in Wroclow, Poland, from September 21 to
September 24, 2015. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote
progress in research areas related to the development of techniques
for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal
systems together with their analysis.
FroCos 2015 will be co-located with the 23rd International
Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related
Methods (TABLEAUX 2015) to be held also on September 21-24, 2015.
The local organization of both events is handled by Hans de Nivelle.
* SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
FroCoS 2015 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general
area of combination, modularization, and integration of systems, with
emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use.
Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- combinations of logics (such as higher-order, first-order, temporal,
modal, description or other non-classical logics);
- combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving;
- combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint
solving techniques, or logical frameworks;
- combinations and modularity in ontologies;
- integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems;
- hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation;
- hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics;
- combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems;
- logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications;
- integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction;
- combinations and modularity in term rewriting;
- applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems.
* PUBLICATION DETAILS
The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series.
* PAPER SUBMISSIONS
The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing
original work, written in English, not overlapping with published or
simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with
archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and
originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and
quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline (abstracts): 04.05.2015
Deadline (full papers): 10.05.2015
Author notification: 22.06.2015
Final version due: 20.07.2015
Workshops/Tutorials: 19-20.09.2015
Conference: 21-24.09.2015
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen [co-chair]
Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler [co-chair]
JEWELS OF AUTOMATA: FROM MATHEMATICS TO APPLICATIONS (AUTOMATHA 2015)
Call for Participation
Leipzig, May 6 - 9, 2015
http://www.automatha.uni-leipzig.de
* GENERAL
The conference AutoMathA 2015 will survey a wide picture of research in
automata theory and related mathematical fields. It will consist of 26
invited lectures which will describe significant progress over the past
years, and will be a meeting point for both young and senior researchers
to learn and to discuss about automata theory, its connections with
mathematics and its applications. For young researchers the conference
will serve as an “Advanced Spring School of Automata Theory”. All lectures
will have the same length of about 50 minutes and will deal with significant
progress over the past years. They will serve as surveys on such recent work,
not necessarily focusing only on work of the speaker. There will be only
informal proceedings (with slides or texts); so the results presented are
usually already published (or accepted) elsewhere. This event is a follow-up
of the multidisciplinary programme Automata: from Mathematics to Applications
(AutoMathA, 2005 - 2010) of the European Science Foundation and of its
final conference "Highlights of AutoMathA" in Vienna 2010.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Jean-Paul Allouche (Paris), Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw), Patricia
Bouyer-Decitre (Cachan), Thomas Brihaye (Mons), Olivier Carton (Paris),
Thomas Colcombet (Paris), Volker Diekert (Stuttgart), Michael Elberfeld
(Aachen), Uli Fahrenberg (Rennes), Nathanael Fijalkow (Paris), Paul Gastin
(Cachan), Artur Jez (Saarbruecken), Ines Klimann (Paris), Dexter Kozen
(Ithaca), Dietrich Kuske (Ilmenau), Kim Larsen (Aalborg), Ranko Lazic
(Warwick), Markus Lohrey (Siegen), Cyril Nicaud (Marne-la-Vallee), Igor
Potapov (Liverpool), Jacques Sakarovitch (Paris), Thomas Schwentick
(Dortmund), Marinella Sciortino (Palermo), Ludwig Staiger (Halle), Moshe
Vardi (Houston), James Worrell (Oxford)
* POSTER
http://www.automatha.uni-leipzig.de/AutoMathA.pdf
CALCO EARLY IDEAS (CALCO 2015)
Call for Contributions
24-26 June, 2015, Nijmegen, Netherlands
https://coalg.org/calco15/ei.html
satellite event of
the 6th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2015)
* The programme of CALCO 2015 will include special sessions reserved for the
CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, featuring presentations of work in progress
and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers
are particularly encouraged to contribute. Attendance at the workshop is
open to all conference participants. The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites
submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference.
* Important dates:
- Submission: May 8, 2015
- Author notification: May 22, 2015
- Final version: June 5, 2015
* Detailed information can be found on the webpage:
https://coalg.org/calco15/ei.html.
QUANTIFY 2015 - 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUANTIFICATION
Call for Papers
August 1 2015
Berlin, Germany
http://fmv.jku.at/quantify15/
Affiliated to and co-located with CADE 2015
* AIM
The goal of QUANTIFY 2015 is to provide an interdisciplinary forum
for researchers who investigate the impact of quantification from
a theoretical as well as from a practical point of view. The
workshop is concerned with all aspects of quantification in logics
such as QBF, QCSP, SMT, and theorem proving.
* TOPICS
Topics of Interest: complexity results, encodings with and without
quantification and comparisons thereof, applications of quantification,
implementations of reasoning tools, case studies and experimental results,
intersections between the different research communities working on
quantification, surveys of state of the art approaches to handling
quantification
* IMPORTANT DATES
May 8 2015: paper submission
May 29 2015: notification of acceptance
June 23 2015: camera-ready version of papers
August 1 2015: workshop
* INVITED SPEAKER
Olaf Beyersdorff, University of Leeds
* SUBMISSION
Please see the webpage http://fmv.jku.at/quantify15/ for further information.
FIFTH SUMMER SCHOOL ON FORMAL TECHNIQUES (SSFT'15)
May 17-22, 2015
Menlo College, Atherton, CA, USA
http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15
* GENERAL
Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability,
static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range
of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This
school, the fifth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice
of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and
development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students
and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal
techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is
helpful but not required. Participants at the school will have a seriously
fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the
lectures during laboratory sessions.
* LECTURERS
The lecturers at the school include: Arie Gurfinkel (SEI CMU),
Cathy Meadows (NRL), Bart Jacobs (KU Leuven), and Kim Guldstrand Larsen
(Aalborg University, Denmark). We expect to support travel, food, and
accomodation for students registered at US universities. Others will be
charged around US$550. All are encouraged to apply at
http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15
EPS - CADE-25 POSTER SESSION & TASK-FORCE (TOWARDS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PROOF SYSTEMS)
Call for Posters and Encyclopedia Entries
1st of August 2015
Berlin, Germany
http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia/
* DESCRIPTION
In this jubilee edition of CADE, we would like to commemorate the
multitude ofproof systems that form the theoretical foundations for
automated deduction. To achieve this goal, this alternative workshop
proposes to bring the whole community together in a task-force to
produce a concise encyclopedia of proof systems. Every entry in this
encyclopedia will follow a given template and will preferably be
exactly one page long, displaying the inference rules of the proof
system and possibly a few clarifying remarks. The one-page
encyclopedia entries will be displayed as posters during CADE (the
Conference on Automated Deduction). Submission instructions are
available in the website:
http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia/
https://github.com/ProofSystem/Encyclopedia/blob/master/main.pdf
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission: May 31
- Notification: June 15
DIMAP LOGIC DAY
Call for Participation
June 1st, 2015
University of Warwick
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/events/dimap-logic-day-2015/
* EVENT
The goal is to bring together the UK community of researchers and graduate
students interested in the study of logics, automata and games, and their
applications.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Nathalie Bertrand (Rennes)
Antonin Kucera (Brno)
Slawomir Lasota (Warsaw)
Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna)
Sylvain Schmitz (Cachan)
James Worrell (Oxford)
* VENUE
Warwick Mathematics Institute, Room B3.02 (3rd floor), University of Warwick
DIMAP Logic Day will start at about 10am and will finish at about 6pm.
* PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/events/dimap-logic-day-2015/programme/
* REGISTRATION
There is no fee but participants are request to register by May 25.
12TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING (ICTAC 2015)
Call for Papers
29-31 October 2015
Cali, Colombia
http://www.ictac2015.co
* SERIES
The ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together practitioners and
researchers to exchange ideas and experiences addressing challenges in
theoretical aspects of computing as well as in exploiting theory through
methods and tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote
cooperation between participants and institutions from developing and
industrial countries in research and education.
* THEMES AND TOPICS OF PAPERS
Topics of interest include theories of computation and programming,
foundations of software engineering and formal techniques in software design
and verification, as well as tools that support formal techniques for
software modeling, system design and verification.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Jean-Raymond Abrial
Volker Diekert
Cesar Munoz
Catuscia Palamidessi
Davide Sangiorgi
Moshe Vardi
Glynn Winskel
* ASSOCIATED EVENTS
- ICTAC Summer School on Formal Methods (October 25-27)
- DCM 2015: 11th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models (October 28)
* PAPER SUBMISSION
Important Dates
- Abstract submission: Monday, June 1, 2015.
- Paper submission: Friday, June 5, 2015.
- Author notification: Monday, July 20, 2015.
- Camera ready: Monday, August 3, 2015.
* PAPER CATEGORIES AND FORMAT
We call for submissions, related to the above areas and topics, according
to the following three categories:
- Regular papers, with original research contributions;
- Short papers, on recent work or proposals of emerging challenges;
- Tool papers, on tools that support formal techniques for software modeling,
system design and verification. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS
format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details).
Regular papers should not exceed 18 pages. Short and tool papers should
not exceed 10 pages.
Submissions to the colloquium must not have been published or be concurrently
considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the
basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation
quality, as well as their relevance to the conference.
Papers must be submitted by using www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2015.
* PROCEEDINGS
As for the past editions, the proceedings of ICTAC 2015 will be published
by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
* SPECIAL ISSUE
Extended versions of selected papers from ICTAC 2015 will be invited to
a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
(http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MSC).
* CHAIRS
- Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck (DE).
- Camilo Rueda, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali (CO).
- Frank Valencia, CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique (FR).
* CONTACT CHAIR
- Frank D. Valencia (frank.valencia@gmail.com).
SYMPOSIUM ON DEPENDABLE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: THEORIES, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS (SETTA 2015)
Call for Papers
November 4-6, 2015
Nanjing University
http://cs.nju.edu.cn/setta/
* BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of the symposium is to bring together international researchers
and practitioners in the field of software technology. Its focus is on
formal methods and advanced software technologies, especially for engineering
complex, large-scale artefacts like cyber-physical systems, networks of
things, enterprise systems, or cloud-based services. Contributions relating
to formal methods or integrating them with software engineering, as well
as papers advancing scalability or widening the scope of rigorous methods
to new design goals are especially welcome. Being hosted in China, the
symposium will also provide a platform for building up research
collaborations between the rapidly growing Chinese computer science community
and its international counterpart. The symposium will support this process
through dedicated events and therefore welcomes both young researchers
considering international collaboration in formal methods and established
researchers looking for international cooperation and willing to attract
new colleagues to the domain.
* SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit papers on original research, industrial
applications, or position papers proposing challenges in fundamental
research and technology. The latter two types of submissions are expected
to contribute to the development of formal methods either by substantiating
the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or
through delineating need for research by demonstrating weaknesses of existing
technologies, especially when addressing new application domains.
Submissions can take the form of either normal or short papers. Short papers
can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects.
Papers should be written in English. Regular Papers should not exceed 15
pages and Short Papers should not exceed 6 pages in LNCS format
(see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details).
The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series.
The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of
the Formal Aspect Computing journal.
* TOPICS
- Requirements specification and analysis
- Formalisms for modeling, design and implementation
- Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
- Scalable approaches to formal system analysis
- Formal approaches to simulation and testing
- Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice
- Contract-based engineering of components, systems, and systems of systems
- Formal and engineering aspects of software evolution and maintenance
- Parallel and multicore programming
- Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
- Mixed-critical applications and systems
- Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing
- Safety, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance
- Empirical analysis techniques and integration with formal methods
- Applications and industrial experience reports
- Tool integration
* IMPORTANT DATES
June 12,2015 Abstracts
June 19,2015 Submission of papers
August 21,2015 Notification to authors
September 4,2015 Camera-ready versions
* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Huimin Lin, Institute of Software, CAS, China
* GENERAL CHAIR
Jian Lv, Nanjing University, China
* PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China
Zhiming Liu, Birmingham City University, UK
Yi Wang, Uppsala University, Sweden
* PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Jonathan Bowen, Birmingham City University, UK
Lijun Zhang, Institute of Software,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* PUBLICATION CHAIR
Martin Fraenzle, University of Oldenburg, Germany
* LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Xin Chen, Nanjing University, China
CONTINUITY, COMPUTABILITY, CONSTRUCTIVITY - FROM LOGIC TO ALGORITHMS (CCC 2015)
Call for Papers
Schloss Aspenstein, Kochel am See (near Munich)
14-18 September 2015
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/ccc2015/
* CCC is a workshop series bringing together researchers from real analysis,
computability theory, and constructive mathematics. The overall aim is to
apply logical methods in these disciplines to provide a sound foundation
for obtaining exact and provably correct algorithms for computations with
real numbers and related analytical data, which are of increasing importance
in safety critical applications and scientific computation. The workshop
will take place in Kochel am See at the border of the alps.
* SCOPE
The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of exact
real number computation, effective topology, Scott's domain theory,
Weihrauch's type two theory of effectivity, category-theoretic approaches
to computation on infinite data, hierarchies of unsolvability and related
areas.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Martín Escardó (Birmingham, UK)
Daniel da Silva Graça (Faro, Portugal)
Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy, France)
Vassilis Gregoriades (Darmstadt, Germany)
Takayuki Kihara (JAIST, Japan)
Thomas Powell (Innsbruck, Austria)
* TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
André Nies (Auckland, New Zealand)
Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau, France)
* SUBMISSION
Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2015
Upload your submission via EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccc20151
* PRE-REGISTRATION
Pre-Registration
As the number of rooms at Schloss Aspenstein is limited, pre-registration
is recommended. Please send an email to m.seisenberger@swansea.ac.uk.
* PROGRAMME CHAIR
Dieter Spreen (Siegen)
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK)
Peter Hertling (Munich, Germany)
Monika Seisenberger (Swansea, UK)
Dieter Spreen (Siegen).
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY (HaPoC 3)
Call For Papers
8-11 October, 2015, Pisa
http://hapoc2015.di.unipi.it
* GENERAL
The DHST commission for the history and philosophy of computing
(www.hapoc.org) is happy to announce the third HAPOC conference. The
series aims at creating an interdisciplinary focus on computing,
stimulating a dialogue between the historical and philosophical
viewpoints.
* TOPICS
Topics include but are not limited to
- History and Philosophy of Computation (interpretation of the
Church-Turing thesis; models of computation; logical/mathematical
foundations of computer science; information theory...)
- History and Philosophy of Programming (classes of programming
languages; philosophical status of programming...)
- History and Philosophy of the Computer (from calculating machines to
the future of the computer; user interfaces; abstract architectures...)
- History and Epistemology of the use of Computing in the sciences
(simulation vs. modelisation; computer-assisted proofs; linguistics...)
- Computing and the Arts: historical and conceptual issues (temporality
in digital art; narration in interactive art work...)
- Social, ethical and pedagogical aspects of Computing (pedagogy of
computer science; algorithms and copyright; Internet, culture, society...)
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Nicola Angius (Universita di Sassari, IT),
Lenore Blum (Carnagie Mellon University, USA),
David Allan Grier (IEEE & George Washington University, USA),
Furio Honsell (Universita di Udine, IT),
Pierre Mounier-Kuhn (CNRS & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, F),
Franck Varenne (Université de Rouen, F).
* SUBMISSIONS
We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the
topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200
words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references
included) to www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2015
Abstracts must be written in English and anonymised.
Please check out the website of HaPoC 2015 for more information on the
conference at http://hapoc2015.sciencesconf.org
A post-proceedings volume is going to appear in the IFIP Advances in
Information and Communication Technology series, published by Springer.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: June 19, 2015
Notification of acceptance: July 19, 2015
SR 2015 - 3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON STRATEGIC REASONING
Call for Papers
September 21-22, 2015, Oxford, England
https://sites.google.com/site/sr2015homepage/
* The SR international workshop is an annual event that aims to bring
together researchers working on different aspects of strategic reasoning
and game-based approaches to logic, semantics, and formal verification
in computer science, artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems,
both from a theoretical and a practical point of view.
* Proceedings: We plan to produce a special issue of the Journal of
Information and Computation with extended versions of selected papers.
* Important dates:
- July 1 2015: Abstract submission deadline
- July 3 2015: Paper submission deadline
- July 31 2015: Acceptance notification
- Sept 21-22 2015: SR 2015 Workshop
* Invited Speakers: Johan van Benthem (Stanford/Amsterdam Universities),
Joseph Halpern (Cornell University), Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford University),
Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
* Detailed information can be found in the webpage above.
22ND WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION (WoLLIC 2015)
Call for Participation
July 20th-23rd, 2015, Bloomington, IN, USA
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic
* AIMS
WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research
involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural
language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials
as well as contributed papers.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute, USA)
Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam)
John Harrison (Intel, USA)
Peter Jipsen (Chapman U, USA)
Andre Joyal (U du Québec Montreal, Canada)
Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana U, USA)
Alexandra Silva (Radboud U Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK)
* STUDENT GRANTS
ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2015 will permit ASL student members to apply
for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2015).
* DETAIS
Detailed information can be found on the webpage
www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic
GEORGE BOOLE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES CONFERENCE (GBMSC 2015)
Call for Participation
17-25 August 2015
Cork, Ireland
http://booleconferences.ucc.ie/gbmsc2015
* CONTEXT
As part of the celebrations of Boole's bicentenary, the George Boole
Mathematical Sciences (GBMS) Conference (including Domains XII) will be
held in University College Cork (UCC) during the last two weeks of
August 2015. George Boole (1815-1864) was the first professor of
mathematics at Cork. Boole's efforts to mathematize logical thinking
caused a lasting paradigm shift in the 19th century which enlarged the
scope and potency of modern mathematics, and provided a wealth of ideas
for applications in diverse scientific areas resulting in ground-breaking
innovations during the 20th century and beyond. This event will include
100-150 lectures on selected areas:
- Theme 1: Boole and Beyond in Quantum Information Theory
- Theme 2: From Boole's Algebra of Logic to Boolean Algebra, and Beyond
- Theme 3: Complex and Boolean NetworksGeometry and Visualization
- Theme 4: Geometry and Visualization
- Theme 5: Harmonic Analysis
- Theme 6: Invariants from Moduli Spaces
- Theme 7: Mathematical Financial Modelling Post-Crisis
- Theme 8: Quantum Probabilistic Symmetries and Quantized Boolean Algebras
The following events are embedded in and associated with the conference:
- 2015 Annual Meeting of the Irish Mathematical Society (IMS)
- Domains XII
- When Boole Meets Shannon
5TH INTERNATIONAL ABZ 2014 CONFERENCE (ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z)
Call for Papers, Answers to the case study, Workshops, Tutorials
May 23-27, 2016
Linz, Austria
http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/
* The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of six related
state-based and machine-based formal methods, Abstract State Machines (ASM),
Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z. Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the
theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z approaches in
software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools and
industrial applications.
* Types of submission:
-- Research papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format,
which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere.
-- Short presentations of work in progress, and tool demonstrations. An
extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed.
-- Answers to case study papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in
LNCS format reporting on the experiments conducted with any of the state
based techniques in the scope of ABZ 2014.
-- Application in industry papers reporting on work or experiences on the
application of state based formal methods in industry. An extended abstract
of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed.
* Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2016
* Important Dates:
Workshop proposal submission: October 16, 2015
Research paper, Answers to case study submission: January 15, 2016
Short and industry paper submission: February 4, 2016
Tutorial proposal submissions: February 15, 2016
Tutorial proposal notifications: March 14, 2016
* Detailed information can be found on the conference website
* Contact: Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE (klaus-dieter.schewe@scch.at)
PHD STUDENTSHIP IN ALGORITHMS AND COMPLEXITY AT ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/tzameret/PhD_Post.html
* The Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway,
University of London is offering a three-year full-time PhD
studentship in algorithms and complexity starting in October
2015. The studentship includes a full tuition-fee waiver and a
maintenance award in line with the level recommended by
Research Councils UK (exact value to be confirmed, circa GBP
16,000 (USD 25,000 or EUR 20,000)). The student will be hosted
in the Center for Algorithms and Applications and will work
under the supervision of Dr Iddo Tzameret
(http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/tzameret/).
* THE PROJECT is broadly in the area of computational complexity
with an emphasis on satisfiability and the complexity of
proofs. The successful candidate will investigate fundamental
aspects of the Boolean satisfiability problem SAT from possibly
different aspects - combinatorial, algebraic and logical - with
a possibility to engage as well in applied or empirical study
of SAT-solving and other applications related to SAT, depending
on the preferences and qualifications of the candidate.
* For more information about the post see:
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/tzameret/PhD_Post.html
* STARTING DATE: October 1, 2015
* HOW TO APPLY:
Applications should be made as soon as possible through the
online application system at Royal Holloway, University of London:
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studyhere/researchdegrees/applying/home.aspx
and will remain open until the position is filled.
* For any informal inquiries about the position, please contact
Dr Iddo Tzameret at: Iddo.Tzameret@rhul.ac.uk
NEW DOCTORAL PROGRAM ON LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LogiCS)
http://logic-cs.at/phd
* Funded Doctoral Positions in Computer Science
* TU Wien, TU Graz, and JKU Linz are seeking exceptionally talented and
motivated students for their joint doctoral program LogiCS. The LogiCS
doctoral college focuses on interdisciplinary research topics covering
(i) computational logic, and applications of logic to
(ii) databases and artificial intelligence as well as to
(iii) computer-aided verification.
* THE PROGRAM
LogiCS is a doctoral college focusing on logic and its applications in
computer science. Successful applicants will work with and be
supervised by leading researchers in the fields of computational
logic, databases and knowledge representation, and computer-aided
verification.
* FACULTY MEMBERS
M. Baaz A. Biere R. Bloem A. Ciabattoni
U. Egly T. Eiter C. Fermueller R. Grosu
A. Leitsch M. Ortiz R. Pichler S. Szeider
H. Tompits H. Veith G. Weissenbacher
* POSITIONS AND FUNDING
We are looking for 1-2 doctoral students per faculty member, where 30%
of the positions are reserved for highly qualified female
candidates. The doctoral positions are funded for a period of 3 years
according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund
(details: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/projects/personalkostensaetze.html)
The funding can be extended for one additional year contingent on a
placement at one of our international partner institutions.
* CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS
At the moment we are particularly looking for people in the following areas:
- Answer Set Programming
- Model Checking
- Proof Theory and Automated Deduction
- QBF-solving
- Static Analysis and Abstract Interpretation
* HOW TO APPLY
Detailed information about the application process is available on the
LogiCS web-page http://logic-cs.at/phd/
The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent diploma or
master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related
field. Candidates with comparable achievements will be considered on a
case-by-case basis. Applications by the candidates need to be
submitted electronically.
Applications can be submitted at any time. Next screening: June 15, 2015.
* HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE
The Austrian cities Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps
and surrounded by beautiful nature, provide an exceptionally high
quality of life, with a vibrant cultural scene, numerous cultural
events, world-famous historical sites, a large international
community, a varied cuisine and famous coffee houses.
* For further information please contact: info@logic-cs.at
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