SIGLOG Monthly 187
November 1, 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* NEWS
LICS 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM SIGLOG Announcement
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Temporal Logics in Computer Science
OBITUARY BJARNI JONSSON (1920-2016)
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
CSL 2017 - Call for Workshop Proposals
SSS 2016 - Call for Participation
SETTA 2016 - Call for Participation
TAMC 2017 - Call for Papers
ACM CPSS'17 - Call for Papers
NFM 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers
ITEQS 2017 - Call for Papers
PODS 2017 - Call for Papers (2nd submission cycle)
CIE 2017 - Call for papers
CAV 2017 - Call for Papers
FSCD 2017 - Call for Workshop Proposals
WOLLIC 2017 - Call for Papers
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
3-YEAR POSTDOC POSITION AT HASSELT UNIVERSITY
THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2017)
Call for papers
20-23 June 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland
http://lics.siglog.org/lics17/
* SCOPE
The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical
and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic,
broadly construed. We invite submissions on topics that fit under
that rubric.
Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata
theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics,
concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming,
constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures,
description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal
aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of
computability, games and logic, higher-order logic, lambda and
combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence,
logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical
aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum
computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and
temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process
calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time
systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type
systems and type theory, and verification.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of
about 100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of
the paper. The exact deadline time on these dates is given by
anywhere on earth (AoE).
- Titles and Short Abstracts Due: 3 January 2017
- Full Papers Due: 9 January 2017
- Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: 28 Feb - 4 March 2017
- Author Notification: 21 March 2017
- Final Versions Due for Proceedings: 18 April 2017
Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All
submissions will be electronic via
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dlics2017.
* SHORT PRESENTATIONS
A session of short presentations, intended for descriptions of
student research, works in progress, and other brief communications,
is planned. These abstracts will not be published. Dates and
guidelines will be posted on the conference website.
* KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER
An award in honour of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for
the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. The
2017 edition of the award is sponsored by the European Association
for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
* SPECIAL ISSUES
Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the
qprogram committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of
the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special
issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science.
ACM SIGLOG ANNOUNCEMENT
http://siglog.acm.org
* The ACM has recently chartered a Special Interest Group on Logic and
Computation (ACM SIGLOG).
* We are pleased to announce the 2016 ACM SIGLOG election results for
the term of 1 July 2016 - 30 June 2019. The SIGLOG Chair is Prakash
Panangaden and the other officers are Luke Ong (vice-Chair), Amy
Felty (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).
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
Temporal Logics in Computer Science
by S. Demri and V. Goranko and M. Lange
Cambridge University Press 2016, 752 Pages
ISBN: 9781107028364
* This comprehensive text provides a modern and technically precise
exposition of the fundamental theory and applications of temporal
logics in computer science.
* Part I presents the basics of discrete transition systems, including
constructions and behavioural equivalences. Part II examines the
most important temporal logics for transition systems. Part III studies
their expressiveness and complexity. Part IV describes the main
computational methods and decision procedures for model checking
and model building based on tableaux, automata and games.
* Further information can be found at
www.cambridge.org/core_title/gb/434611
OBITUARY BJARNI JONSSON (1920-2016)
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/10/12/noted-algebraist-bjarni-jonsson-dies/
* With great sadness that we announce the death of our colleague,
Bjarni Jonsson, who passed away on September 30, 2016. Bjarni
Jonsson was emeritus Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at
Vanderbilt University and the honorary editor in chief of Algebra
Universalis. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical
Society. He did his PhD in 1946 at UC Berkeley under supervision of
Alfred Tarski, and was recognized as an authority on universal
algebra, lattice theory and algebraic logic.
DATES
* CSL 2017
Call for Workshop Proposals
Stockholm, August 20-24, 2017
Deadline: November 15, 2016.
https://www.csl17.conf.kth.es
* SSS 2016
Call for Participation
November 7-10, 2016, Lyon, France
http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/SSS16
Registration information is available at
http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/SSS16/index.php/registration-2/
* SETTA 2016
Call for Participation
Beijing, China, Nov. 9-11, 2016
http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta/
* TAMC 2017
Call for Papers
http://www.tamc2017.unibe.ch
Bern, 20-22 April 2017
Submission Deadline Extended to November 23
* ACM CPSS'17
Call for Papers
Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017
http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/cpss17/
Submission due: Dec 1, 2016
* NFM 2017
2nd Call for Papers
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/
May 16 - 18, 2017
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA
Paper Submission: December 5, 2016
* ITEQS 2017
Call for Papers
Tokyo - Japan
http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/ITEQS/2017/
Co-located with ICST 2017
Submission deadline: December 1, 2016
* PODS 2017
Call for Papers (2nd submission cycle)
May 14-19, 2017, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
http://www.sigmod2017.org
December 11, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Abstract submission
December 18, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Paper submission
* CIE 2017
Call for papers
Turku, Finland, June 12-16, 2017
http://math.utu.fi/cie2017
Deadline for article submission: January 5, 2017
* CAV 2017
Call for Papers
Heidelberg, Germany, July 22-28, 2017
http://cavconference.org/2017/
* FSCD 2017
Call for Workshop Proposals
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017
Submission of workshop proposals: January 30, 2017
* WOLLIC 2017
Call for Papers
July 18th-21st, 2017, London, UK
http://wollic.org.wollic2017/
Mar 21, 2017: Full paper deadline
26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL 2017
Call for Workshop Proposals
Stockholm, August 20-24, 2017
Deadline: November 15, 2016.
https://www.csl17.conf.kth.es
* The 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic
CSL'2017 will be organized jointly by Stockholm University
and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and will be hosted by
Stockholm University. It will be immediately preceded by, and
colocated with, the Annual European Summer Meeting of the
Association for Symbolic Logic (Logic Colloquium) 2017.
* This is a call for proposals for satellite workshops affiliated with
CSL'2017, on topics related to the main topics of the conference,
including: automata and games, game semantics, automated deduction
and interactive theorem proving, bounded arithmetic and
propositional proof complexity,categorical logic and topological
semantics, computational proof theory, constructive mathematics and
type theory, decision procedures, domain theory, equational logic
and term rewriting, finite model theory, higher-order logic, lambda
calculus and combinatory logic, linear logic and other substructural
logics, logic programming and constraints, logical aspects of
computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computing,
logic in database theory, logical foundations of programming,
paradigms, logical foundations of cryptography, and information
hiding, logics for multi-agent systems, modal and temporal logic,
model checking and logic-based verification, nonmonotonic reasoning,
SAT solving, automated induction, satisfiability modulo theories,
specification, extraction and transformation of programs,
verification and logical methods for program analysis.
* The workshops will take place on August 25-26 at Stockholm
University. They will be relatively independent in terms of
organisation and format from the main conference, with separate
program committees, submission and selection policy, calls for
submissions, possible proceedings etc. These matters will be up to
the organisers of the individual workshops. The organisers of
CSL'2017 will take care of the registration and local
arrangements, and of the overall coordination of the workshops. The
workshop fees will be minimal, only covering the most essential
expenses. CSL'2017 participants will be offered
significantly reduced registration fees for the satellite workshops.
* All accepted workshops/tutorials will be expected to have their
program ready by mid July 2017.
* The proposals should be submitted by email to
csl2017 at philosophy.su.se *not later than* November 15, 2016.
* Notification on acceptance will be sent by November 25, 2016. The
selection will be made by the programme, organising and workshop
chairs of CSL'2017. With any enquiries, please send an email to the
above email address.
* CSL'2017 chairs: Mads Dam and Valentin Goranko (PC and OC), Erik
Palmgren (OC), Dilian Gurov (workshops).
18TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON STABILIZATION, SAFETY, AND SECURITY OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SSS 2016)
Call for Participation
November 7-10, 2016, Lyon, France
http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/SSS16
Registration information is available at
http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/SSS16/index.php/registration-2/
* The Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed
Systems is an international forum for researchers and practitioners
working on the design and development of distributed systems that
guarantee specific desired properties despite adversity, or that are
able to restore the desired properties following adversarial
perturbations in the computing medium building on the principles of
self-stabilization.
* TOPICS AND TRACKS
* Track 1: Self-* and Autonomic Computing
Self-stabilizing systems
Self-organizing, self-managing, and self-configuring systems
Self-optimizing and self-healing systems
Self-protecting and self-repairing systems
Autonomic cloud computing
Autonomous vehicles
* Track 2: Foundations
Theory of self-stabilization
Distributed algorithms
Fault-Tolerant distributed systems
Formal methods, validation, verification, and synthesis
Safety and security
* Track 3: Networks, Multi-Agent Systems, and Mobility
Self-Stabilizing networks
Peer-to-peer networks
Sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks
Large and extreme scale systems
Distributed robot systems
Cooperating multi-agent distributed systems
Dynamic systems and networks
Overlay networks
Social networks
High-Speed networks
2ND SYMPOSIUM ON DEPENDABLE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING THEORIES, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS (SETTA 2016)
Call for Participation
Beijing, China, Nov. 9-11, 2016
http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta/
* IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration deadline: October 10, 2016
Conference: Nov. 9-11, 2016
* The aim of the symposium is to bring together international
researchers and practitioners in the field of software
technology. Its focus is on formal methods and advanced software
technologies, especially for engineering complex, large-scale
artifacts like cyber-physical systems, networks of things,
enterprise systems, or cloud-based services. Contributions relating
to formal methods or integrating them with software engineering, as
well as papers advancing scalability or widening the scope of
rigorous methods to new design goals are especially welcome.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
- Prof. Edward A. Lee (University of California at Berkeley, USA):
Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems
- Prof. Sriram Sankaranarayanan(University of Colorado Boulder, USA):
From finitely many simulations to flowpipes
- Prof. Mingsheng Ying (University of Technology Sydney, Australia
and Tsinghua University, China):
Toward Automatic Verification of Quantum Programs
* CO-LOCATED EVENTS
SETTA 2016 will be accompanied by two co-located events:
* 2nd Young Researchers Workshop on Formal Methods (YR-SETTA 2016)
http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta/yr-setta/
* FMAC 2016 (in Chinese)
http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta/fmac2016/
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF MODELS OF COMPUTATION 2017 (TAMC 2017)
http://www.tamc2017.unibe.ch
Bern, 20-22 April 2017
* TAMC 2017 aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with
interest in computational theory and its applications. The main
themes of the conference are computability, computer science logic,
complexity, algorithms, models of computation and systems theory.
There are two special sessions planned: Logic in computer science
and New models of computation.
* Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: algebraic
computation, algorithmic coding and number theory, approximation
algorithms, automata theory, computational biology and biological
computing, computational complexity, computational game theory,
computational geometry, computer science logic, cryptography, domain
models, learning theory, modal and temporal logics, model theory for
computing, natural computation, networks in nature and society,
online algorithms, optimization, privacy and security, process
models, proof complexity, property testing, quantum computing,
randomness and pseudo-randomness, space-time tradeoffs, streaming
algorithms, systems theory, VLSI models of computation.
* INVITED SPEAKERS:
Marta Kwiatkowska (Univesity of Oxford, Oxford),
Pinyan Lu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai),
Maria Emilia Maietti (Universite di Padova, Padova),
Johann A. Makowsky (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa),
Carlos Martin-Vide (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona),
Stefan Wolf (Universite della Svizzera italiana, Lugano),
Jeffery Zucker (McMaster University, Hamilton)
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline extends to: November 23, 2016.
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2016.
Final Camera Ready Version: January 15, 2017.
* PROGRAMME CHAIRS
G. Jager (University of Bern),
Co-chair: T V Gopal (Anna University, India),
* Please find the paper submission guidelines at:
http://www.tamc2017.unibe.ch/submission.html
3RD ACM CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM SECURITY WORKSHOP (ACM CPSS'17)
Call for Papers
Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017
http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/cpss17/
* Conference Outline:
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interco= nnected
systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical
environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications
being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The
security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will
provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and
industry to discuss how to address the increasing security
challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel
submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions
to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded
systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are
all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and
transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Authentication and access control for CPS
- Autonomous vehicle security
- Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS
- Data security and privacy for CPS
- Embedded systems security
- EV charging system security
- Industrial control system security
- Intrusion detection for CPS
- IoT security
- Key management in CPS
- Legacy CPS system protection
- Lightweight crypto and security
- Risk assessment for CPS
- SCADA security
- Security architectures for CPS
- Smart grid security
- Threat modeling for CPS
- Urban transportation system security
- Vulnerability analysis for CPS
- Wireless sensor network security
* IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission due: Dec 1, 2016
- Notification: Jan 15, 2017
- Camera-ready due: Feb 1, 2017
* Program Chairs
Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore)
Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE)
* Contact:
Email: cpss2017@easychair.org
CPSS Home: http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/staff/jianying/cpss/
THE 9TH NASA FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM (NFM 2017)
Call for Papers
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/
May 16 - 18, 2017
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA
* THEME OF THE SYMPOSIUM
The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and
safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry
require advanced techniques that address these systems'
specification, desi= gn, verification, validation, and certification
requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to
foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from
NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify
challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such
critical systems.
New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software
for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM),
advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need
for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide
new challenges for system specification, development, and
verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed
during development and deployment of on-board software for
spacecraft ranging from small and inexpensive CubeSat systems to
manned spacecraft like Orion, as well as for ground systems.
* The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other
approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current
capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application
to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical
systems during all stages of the software life-cycle.
* TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:
- Model checking
- Theorem proving
- SAT and SMT solving
- Symbolic execution
- Static analysis
- Model-based development
- Runtime verification
- Software and system testing
- Safety assurance
- Fault tolerance
- Compositional verification
- Security and intrusion detection
- Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques
- Techniques for scaling formal methods
- Formal methods for multi-core, GPU-based implementations
- Applications of formal methods in the development of:
- autonomous systems
- safety-critical artificial intelligence systems
- cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems
- fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems
- Use of formal methods in:
- assurance cases
- human-machine interaction analysis
- requirements generation, specification, and validation
- automated testing and verification
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission: November 28, 2016
Paper Submission: December 5, 2016
Paper notification: February 3, 2017
Camera Ready Deadline: March 1, 2017
Symposium: May 16-18, 2017
1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TESTING EXTRA-FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES AND
QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF SOFTWARE SYSTEMS (ITEQS 2017)
Call for Papers
Tokyo - Japan
http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/ITEQS/2017/
Co-located with ICST 2017
Submission deadline: December 1, 2016
* TOPICS
- Model-based testing of EFPs; e.g., choice of modeling languages to
capture EFPs and their role on testability, model-based test case
generation, etc.
- Mutation-based testing for EFPs; e.g., application of mutation
techniques for testing of EFPs particularly introduction of
EFP-specific mutation operators
- Search-based testing techniques for EFPs
- Testability, observability, controllability and the role of the
platform; e.g., how the choice of operating system can impact
testability of EFPs, for instance, a real-time operating system,
introducing testability mechanisms into a platform, designing -
middlewares for testing of EFPs
- Empirical studies and experience reports; e.g., on the importance
of testing EFPs, evaluation of testing methods, case-study and
reports on project failures due to EFPs, comparison of methods and
techniques
- Quality assurance, standards, and their impact on testing EFPs
- Requirements and testing EFPs; e.g., identification and generation
of test oracles for EFPs from requirements, requirements for
testability, traceability
- Coverage criteria in testing EFPs
- Processes and their role in testing EFPs; e.g., agile and TDD
- Fault localization for EFPs and debugging
- Formal methods, model-checking, and reasoning about EFPs
- Parallelism, Concurrency, and Testing of multicore applications
- Performance, Robustness, and Security Testing
- Testing real-time, embedded, and cyber-physical systems, and their
challenges
- Testing quality characteristics of distributed, mobile, and cloud
applications
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: December 1, 2016
Notifications: January 2, 2017
Workshop date: March 12, 2017 (preliminary)
* ORGANIZERS
Mehrdad Saadatmand, SICS Swedish ICT, Vasteras, Sweden
(mehrdad@sics.se)
Birgitta Lindstrom, University of Skovde, Sweden
(birgitta.lindstrom@his.se)
Markus Bohlin, SICS Swedish ICT, Vasteras, Sweden
(markus.bohlin@sics.se)
36TH ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
(PODS 2017)
Call for Papers (2nd submission cycle)
May 14-19, 2017, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
http://www.sigmod2017.org
* The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD
conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the
communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of data
management, traditional or non-traditional (see
http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages/the-pods-pages).
* For the 36th edition, PODS continues to aim to broaden its scope, and
calls for research papers providing original, substantial
contributions along one or more of the following aspects:
- deep theoretical exploration of topical areas central to data
management;
- new formal frameworks that aim at providing the basis for deeper
theoretical investigation of important emerging issues in data
management; and
- validation of theoretical approaches from the lens of practical
applicability in data management.
* TOPICS that fit the interests of the symposium include the following:
- design, semantics, query languages
- data models, data structures, algorithms for data management
- concurrency and recovery, distributed and parallel databases, cloud
computing
- model theory, logics, algebras, computational complexity
- graph databases and (semantic) Web data
- data mining, information extraction, search
- data streams
- data-centric (business) process management, workflows, web services
- incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty in data management
- data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views
and data warehouses, metadata management
- domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial,
temporal, text)
- deductive databases
- data privacy and security
* PROGRAM CHAIR
Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp, BE)
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Dates for second submission cycle:
December 11, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Abstract submission
December 18, 2016, 11:59pm PST: Paper submission
February 26, 2017, 11:59pm PST: Accept/Reject notification
March 19, 2017, 11:59pm PST: Camera-ready deadline
* AWARDS
- Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as
judged by the program committee.
- Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best
submission, as judged by the program committee, written by a student
or exclusively by students.
CIE 2017: UNVEILING DYNAMICS AND COMPLEXITY - 13TH COMPUTABILITY IN
EUROPE CONFERENCE. (CIE 2017)
Call for papers
Turku, Finland, June 12-16, 2017
http://math.utu.fi/cie2017
Deadline for article submission: January 5, 2017
* CiE 2017 is the thirteenth conference organized by CiE
(Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians,
logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others
interested in new developments in computability and their underlying
significance for the real world.
* THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European
and non-European) to submit their papers in all areas related to
computability for presentation at the conference and inclusion in
the proceedings at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2017. Submission
guidelines are available on the conference web-site.
* The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag.
* IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for article submission: January 5, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2017
Final versions due: March 13, 2017
Early registration before: May 8, 2017
* TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Denis R. Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago),
Daniel M. Gusfield (University of California, Davis)
* INVITED SPEAKERS: Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin),
Karen Lange (Wellesley College), Ludovic Patey (Université Paris
Diderot), Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin),
Alexander Shen (Université de Montpellier), Moshe Vardi (Rice
University)
* SPECIAL SESSIONS: Algorithmics for biology, Combinatorics and
algorithmics on words, Computability in analysis, algebra, and
geometry, Cryptography and information theory, Formal languages and
automata theory, History and philosophy of computing.
* Further details regarding the conference, including grants and
organisation, are available on the web-site.
29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-AIDED VERIFICATION (CAV 2017)
Call for Papers
Heidelberg, Germany, July 22-28, 2017
http://cavconference.org/2017/
* IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are AOE (Anywhere on Earth).
Papers:
Paper submission: January 24, 2017 (Tuesday)
Author response period: March 20-22, 2017 (Monday - Wednesday)
Author notification: April 12, 2017 (Wednesday)
Final version: May 5, 2017 (Friday)
Conference:
Workshops: July 22-23, 2017
Main conference: July 24-28, 2017
* CAV 2017 is the 29th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the
theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis and synthesis
methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it vital
to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification
while expanding to domains such as cyber-physical, social, and
biological systems. The conference covers the spectrum from
theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on
practical verification tools and the algorithms and techniques that
are needed for their implementation. The proceedings of the
conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series. A
selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of Formal
Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.
* Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations
Algorithms and tools for system synthesis
Mathematical and logical foundations of verification and synthesis
Specifications and correctness criteria for programs and systems
Deductive verification using proof assistants
Hardware verification techniques
Program analysis and software verification
Software synthesis
Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification
Compositional and abstraction-based techniques for verification
Probabilistic and statistical approaches to verification
Verification methods for parallel and concurrent systems
Testing and run-time analysis based on verification technology
Decision procedures and solvers for verification and synthesis
Applications and case studies in verification and synthesis
Verification in industrial practice
New application areas for algorithmic verification and synthesis
Formal models and methods for security
Formal models and methods for biological systems
* Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process CAV 2017 will employ a
lightweight double-blind reviewing process. This means that
committee members will not have access to authors' names or
affiliations as they review a paper; however, authors' names will be
revealed once reviews have been submitted.
* CHAIRS
Viktor Kuncak, EPFL, Switzerland
Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
* CAV Award Committee
Tom Ball (Chair), Microsoft research
Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International
Pierre Wolper, Liege University
FORMAL STRUCTURES FOR COMPUTATION AND DEDUCTION (FSCD 2017)
Call for Workshop Proposals
September 2017, Oxford, UK
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017
* FSCD 2017, co-located with ICFP 2017, will be the second edition of
the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation
and Deduction. The FSCD conference was created by the communities
behind two major conferences, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and
Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications). The
first event took place in Porto, Portugal in June 2016 and was
extremely successful, attracting 186 participants and 11 workshops.
* We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials or other satellite
events, on any topic to related formal structures in computation and
deduction, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. A
full list of suggested topics is given here:
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/cfp.html
Satellite events will take place on 7-9 September, after the main
conference on 3-6 September. It is expected that satellite events
would run for 1 or 2 days, and be open to participants of parallel
events.
* PROPOSALS
Proposals should be submitted by email directly to the workshop chair
jamie.vicary@cs.ox.ac.uk, with the following information:
- title of the satellite event, description of the topic and its
relevance to FSCD;
- names and affiliations of the organizers;
- pointers to information about past editions of the event, if
applicable;
- proposed event duration and format (for example, paper
presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc);
- plans for invited speakers or special sessions;
- estimate of the number of participants;
- procedures for selecting papers and participants and plans for the
publication of proceedings, if any;
- tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of
acceptance;
- a brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website
and publicity material;
- any other special requirements.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of workshop proposals: January 30, 2017
Notification of success of proposals: February 13, 2017
Main conference: September 3-6, 2017
Workshop dates: September 7-9, 2017
24th WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION (WoLLIC 2017)
Call for Papers
July 18th-21st, 2017, London, UK
http://wollic.org.wollic2017/
* WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary
research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory,
and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited
talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers.
* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular
interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive
areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming;
novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and
belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal
methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to
natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and
resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search,
flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics;
philosophy of mathematics; philosophy of language; philosophical
logic. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of
a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including
motivation, background, and comparison with related works. Articles
should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer. They must
not exceed 12 pages, with up to 5 additional pages for references
and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be
published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including
journals and other scientific meetings.
* IMPORTANT DATES:
Mar 14, 2017: Paper title and abstract deadline
Mar 21, 2017: Full paper deadline,
Apr 22, 2017: Author notification
May 6, 2017: Final version deadline (firm).
3-YEAR POSTDOC POSITION AT HASSELT UNIVERSITY
* We have a vacancy for a 3-year postdoc position at Hasselt
University. The salary is very good and it comes with social
security, health insurance, what have you. The topic is very
flexible as long as it has to do with finite model theory,
expressive power of database query languages, in particular
query languages for novel data models such as JSON or graph
data, tractable fragments of higher-order logic is also a theme
that fits.
* The position needs to be filled by 1 January 2017 at the latest.
* The research group on Databases and Theoretical Computer
Science at Hasselt University is a leading group in the
theoretical foundations of data management. Professors are
Marc Gyssens, Bart Kuijpers, Frank Neven, and Jan Van den
Bussche
* Please email Jan Van den Bussche
(jan.vandenbussche@uhasselt.be) if you are interested.
* http://alpha.uhasselt.be/jan.vandenbussche
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