SIGLOG Monthly 198 January 15, 2018 ******************************************************************* * Past issues of the newsletter are available at http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/newsletters/ * Instructions for submitting an announcement to the newsletter can be found at http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/newsletters/inst.html ******************************************************************* TABLE OF CONTENTS * NEWS LICS 2018 - Call for Papers FLoC 2018 - Joint Call for Papers FLoC 2018 - Workshop Announcement THE 2018 ALONZO CHURCH AWARD - Call for Nominations ACKERMANN AWARD 2018 - Call for Nominations ACM SIGLOG Announcement EATCS Bulletin - Call for abstracts * DEADLINES Forthcoming Deadlines * CALLS NETYS 2018 - Call For Papers FSCD 2018 - First Call for Papers GaLoP 2018 - Call for submissions ACM CPSS'18 - Call for Papers CCC2017 - Second Call for submissions (postproceedings) CiE 2018 - Final Call for Papers DARe special issue - CAll for papers ICCI*CC'18 - Call for Papers WoLLIC 2018 - Call for Papers WiL 2018 - Call for Papers LOD 2018 - Call for Papers ICDT 2019 - Call for papers (First submission cycle) DCM 2018 - First Call for Papers CSL 2018 - First Call for Papers LFMTP 2018 - First Call for Papers CONCUR 2018 - Call for Papers LC 2018 - Call for Contributions MINDS AND MACHINES SPECIAL ISSUE - Call for Papers * JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS POSTDOC POSITION IN LOGIC, GOTHENBURG (SWEDEN) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AT AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY, GEORGIA TWO OPEN RESEARCH POSITIONS AT TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY PHD/POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FORA EUROPEAN TRAINING NETWORK POSTDOC/PHD OPPORTUNITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE POST-DOC POSITION AT TU DORTMUND THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2018) Call for Papers Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6 - 19th, 2018. http://lics.siglog.org/lics18/ * 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. * INVITED SPEAKERS Thierry Coquand Javier Esparza Shafi Goldwasser Ursula Martin Val Tannen * IMPORTANT DATES Titles and Short Abstracts Due: 24 January 2018 Full Papers Due: 31 January 2018 Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: 14 - 18 March 2018 Author Notification: 31 March 2018 Early Registration Deadline: 6 June 2018 Final Versions Due for Proceedings: TBA Conference: 9 - 12 July 2018 * An award in honor of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. The 2018 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 program committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. * LICS Sponsorship The symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGLOG and the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing. THE 2018 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC 2018) Joint Call for Papers 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, England UK http://www.floc2018.org/ * In 1996, as part of its Special Year on Logic and Algorithms, DIMACS hosted the first Federated Logic Conference (FLoC). It was modelled after the successful Federated Computer Research Conference (FCRC), and synergetically brought together conferences that apply logic to computer science. * The seventh Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'18) will be held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018, at the Mathematical Institute and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. FLoC 2018 brings together nine major international conferences related to mathematical logic and computer science: - International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) http://cavconference.org/2018/ - IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/cas.cremers/csf2018/ - International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM) http://www.fm2018.org - International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD) http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ - International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/iclp2018/ - International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) http://ijcar2018.org - International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) https://itp2018.inria.fr - Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) http://lics.siglog.org/lics18/ - International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) http://sat2018.azurewebsites.net/ * Please refer to the individual websites for conference-specific Calls for Papers, deadlines and information on how to submit. * In addition to conferences, FLoC 2018 will also feature 79 workshops (7-8 July, 13 July, and 18-19 July) and the School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems (FoPSS, 30 June - 6 July). * The list of workshops can be found at http://www.floc2018.org/workshops. A separate call for workshop papers will follow in February 2018. * IMPORTANT DATES Conference papers due: see individual conference webpages Conference papers notification: 31st March 2018 Workshop papers due: 15th April 2018 Workshop papers notification: 15th May 2018 Camera-ready versions: 31st May 2018 * FLoC'18 Steering Committee General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Conference Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska CAV Representative: Orna Grumberg CSF Representative: Stephen Chong FM Representative: Ana Cavalcanti FSCD Representative: Luke Ong ICLP Representative: Torsten Schaub IJCAR Representative: Franz Baader ITP Representative: Larry Paulson LICS Representative: Martin Grohe SAT Representative: Armin Biere SIGLOG Representative: Prakash Panangaden * Programme Committee Chairs General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska CAV: Hana Chockler, Georg Weissenbacher CSF: Stephen Chong, Stephanie Delaune FM: Jan Peleska, Bill Roscoe FSCD: Helene Kirchner ICLP: Alessandro dal Palu, Paul Tarau IJCAR: Didier Galmiche, Stephan Schulz, Roberto Sebastiani ITP: Jeremy Avigad, Assia Mahboubi LICS: Martin Hofmann SAT: Olaf Beyersdorff, Christoph Wintersteiger THE 2018 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC'18) Workshop Announcement 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, UK http://www.floc2018.org/workshops * The seventh Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'18) will be held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018, at the Mathematical Institute and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. * In addition to nine major international conferences related to mathematical logic and computer science (CAV, CSF, FM, FSCD, ICLP, IJCAR, ITP, LICS and SAT), FLoC 2018 will feature as many as 79 workshops and the School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems (FoPSS, 30 June - 6 July). * The selection process for workshops is now over and the complete list can be found below. *** Pre-FLoC workshops (Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 July) * 32nd International Workshop on Unification (UNIF 2018), 7 July http://unif2018.cic.unb.br/ * 7th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2018), 7 July http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/events/iwc-2018/ * 7th International Workshop on Classical Logic and Computation (CL&C 2018), 7 July http://www.di.unito.it/~stefano/CL&C/CL&C18.htm * Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Algebra (HDRA 2018), 7 July http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr/ * International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP 2018), 7 July http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2018/ * 7th International Workshop on the Cross-Fertilization Between CSP and SAT (CSPSAT 2018), 7 July (website coming soon) * Pragmatics of SAT (PoS 2018), 7 July http://www.pragmaticsofsat.org/2018/ * Twenty Years of Deep Inference (TYDI 2018), 7 July https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lutz/orgs/TYDI2018.html * 10th International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs (TERMGRAPH 2018), 7 July https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/maribel.fernandez/TERMGRAPH.html * Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages (LOLA 2018), 7 July https://cs.appstate.edu/~johannp/lola18/ * 9th Workshop on Higher Order Rewriting (HOR 2018), 7 July https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/HOR18/ * 2018 Joint Workshop on Linearity & TLLA (5th International Workshop on Linearity and 2nd Workshop on Trends in Linear Logic and Applications), 7-8 July http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLALinearity18/ * Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF 2018), 7-8 July https://hott-uf.github.io/2018/ * Game Semantics 25, 7-8 July http://www.gamesemantics.org/game-semantics-25 * Workshop on Proof Complexity (PC 2018), 7-8 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/PC2018/ * Programming And Reasoning on Infinite Structures (PARIS 2018), 7-8 July https://www.irif.fr/~saurin/RAPIDO/PARIS-2018/ * 6th Workshop on Strategic Reasoning (SR 2018), 7-8 July http://projects.lsv.fr/sr18/ * Workshop in honour of Dana Scott's 85th birthday and 50 years of domain theory, 7-8 July https://andrejbauer.github.io/domains-floc-2018/ * 5th Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science (NLCS 2018), 7-8 July http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html * 7th Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming (MSFP 2018), 8 July https://msfp2018.bentnib.org/ * 5th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE 2018), 8 July http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/niehren/WPTE-2018/main.html * The Coq Workshop 2018, 8 July https://coqworkshop2018.inria.fr/ * International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond (QBF 2018), 8 July http://fmv.jku.at/qbf18/ * 5th International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2018), 8 July http://gramsec.uni.lu/ * Women in Logic 2018, 8 July https://sites.google.com/site/womeninlogic2018/welcome * 9th Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS 2018), 8 July https://www.irif.fr/~michele/itrs2018 * Coalgebra Now, 8 July http://homepage.tudelft.nl/c9d1n/floc2018coalgebra/index.html * 12th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models (DCM 2018), 8 July https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/dcm18 * IFIP Working Group 1.6: Rewriting, 8 July http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/ifip-wg1.6/ * Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS 2018), 8 July http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/liminjia/events/fcs2018/ * LICS Mentor Workshop, 8 July (website coming soon) *** Mid-FLoC workshops (Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 July) * IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS 2018), 11-13 July http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/ADHS18/ * 16th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT 2018), 12-13 July http://smt-workshop.cs.uiowa.edu/2018/ * 7th Workshop on Logic and Systems Biology (LSB), 13 July http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/russell.harmer/lsb7.html * Isabelle Workshop, 13 July http://sketis.net/isabelle/isabelle-workshop-2018 * 25th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 13 July https://sites.google.com/a/aixia.it/rcra/rcra-2018 * 5th Workshop on Formal Reasoning in Distributed Algorithms (FRIDA 2018), 13 July http://forsyte.at/events/frida2018/ * 5th Vampire Workshop (Vampire 2018), 13 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/Vampire18/ * 19th Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity (LCC), 13 July http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/index.html * 5th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS 2018), 13 July https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs18/ * Workshop on Learning and Automata (LearnAut 2018), 13 July https://learnaut2018.wordpress.com/ * 1st International Workshop on Multi-objective Reasoning in Verification and Synthesis (MoRe 2018), 13 July http://math.umons.ac.be/more2018/ * Workshop on Modular Knowledge (Tetrapod), 13 July http://new.kwarc.info/events/Tetrapod-2018/ * First Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL 2018), 13 July http://adsl.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ * DMW18: Deduction Mentoring Workshop, 13 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/DMW18/ * Runtime Verification for Rigorous Systems Engineering (RV4RISE), 13 July http://rv4rise.conf.tuwien.ac.at/ * Logic and Learning, 13 July http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/LoL/ * 13th International Workshop on User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (UITP 2018), 13 July http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/uitp/uitp2018/ * CAV Mentor Workshop, 13 July (website coming soon) * Summit on Machine Learning Meets Formal Methods, sponsored by the Alan Turing Institute (https://www.turing.ac.uk), 13 July (website coming soon) * 4th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment (F-IDE 2018), 14 July https://sites.google.com/view/fideworkshop2018 * 16th International Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems (QAPL 2018), 14 July http://www1.isti.cnr.it/~Massink/EVENTS/QAPL2018/ * 16th Overture Workshop: New Capabilities and Applications for Model-based Systems Engineering, 14 July http://overturetool.org/workshops/16th-Overture-Workshop.html * FM Doctoral Symposium, 14 July (website coming soon) *** Post-FLoC workshops (Wednesday 18 - Thursday 19 July) * 18th Refinement Workshop, 18 July http://www.refinenet.org.uk/ * 1st International Workshop on Parallel Logical Reasoning (PLR), 18 July https://antonwijs.wixsite.com/plr2018 * 7th Workshop on Synthesis (SYNT 2018), 18 July (website coming soon) * Theorem Prover Components for Educational Software (ThEdu 2018), 18 July http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu18 * TLA+ Community Event 2018, 18 July http://tla2018.loria.fr/ * Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2018), 18 July https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2018/ * International Conference on Logical Programming - Doctoral Consortium (ICLP - DC 2018), 18 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/ICLP-DC2018/ * 16th International Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and Logic Programming Systems (CICLOPS 2018), 18 July https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~tom.schrijvers/CICLOPS2018/ * 3rd International Workshop on Automated Reasoning in Quantified Non-Classical Logics (ARQNL 2018), 18 July http://iltp.de/ARQNL-2018/ * Workshop on Logic and Practice of Programming (LPoP 2018), 18 July http://lpop.cs.stonybrook.edu/ * 13th International Workshop on Constraint Based Methods in Bioinformatics (WCB 2018), 18 July http://clp.dimi.uniud.it/wcb/wcb18/ * International Workshop on the Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems (VaVAS), 18-19 July http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael/VaVAS-July2018/ * 16th International Workshop on Termination (WST 2018), 18-19 July http://wst2018.webs.upv.es/ * MLP18: Machine Learning for Programming, 18-19 July https://prodo.ai/mlp18 * Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation: Bridging Two Communities to Solve Real Problems (SC^2 2018), 18-19 July http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/workshop3.html * The LaSh 2018 Workshop on Logic and Search, 18-19 July http://www.logicandsearch.org/LaSh2018/ * 10th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE 2018), 18-19 July http://vstte18.it.uu.se/ * 11th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification (NSV-XI), 18-19 July (website coming soon) * 18th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVOCS 2018), 18-19 July http://avocs18.irisa.fr/ * Logics for Reasoning about Preferences, Uncertainty, and Vagueness (PRUV 2018), 19 July http://pruv18.inf.unibz.it/ * Third Workshop on Fun With Formal Methods (FWFM 2018), 19 July http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/FWFM2018 * International Workshop on External and Internal Calculi for Non-Classical Logics, 19 July http://weic2018.loria.fr/ * Robots, Morality, and Trust through the Verification Lens, 19 July http://qav.cs.ox.ac.uk/robots_morality_trust/ * 6th Workshop on the Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning (PAAR 2018), 19 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/PAAR-2018/ * Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs (VEMDP 2018), 19 July http://dna.caltech.edu/vemdp2018/ * WORKSHOPS COMMITTEE General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska Workshops Chair: Gethin Norman Workshops Deputy Chair: Christoph Haase CAV: Hana Chockler CSF: Cas Cremers FM: Helen Treharne FSCD: Paula Severi ICLP: Stefan Woltran IJCAR: Alberto Griggio ITP: Assia Mahboubi LICS: Patricia Bouyer SAT: Martina Seidl THE 2018 ALONZO CHURCH AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOGIC AND COMPUTATION Call for Nominations Deadline: March 1, 2018 * INTRODUCTION: An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt Gödel Society (KGS). The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be given to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on the research. For the rules governing this award, see: http://siglog.org/awards/alonzo-church-award/. * The 2017 Alonzo Church Award was given jointly to Samson Abramsky, Radha Jagadeesan, Pasquale Malacaria, Martin Hyland, Luke Ong, and Hanno Nickau for providing a fully-abstract semantics for higher-order computation through the introduction of game models, see: http://siglog.org/winners-of-the-2017-alonzo-church-award/. * ELIGIBILITY AND NOMINATIONS: The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2018 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1993. When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the date of the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the Gödel Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other contributions.) While the contribution can consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference. * Nominations for the 2018 award are now being solicited. The nominating letter must summarise the c ontribution and make the case that it is fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a proposed citation (up to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution; and a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) to justify the nomination. Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence of worthiness. * DEADLINE: Nominations should be submitted to catuscia@lix.polytechnique.fr by March 1, 2018. * PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD The 2018 award will be presented at ICALP 2018, the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming. The award will be accompanied by an invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award winners. The awardee(s) will receive a certificate and a cash prize of USD 2,000. If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared. * AWARD COMMITTEE The 2018 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following five members: Thomas Eiter, Javier Esparza, Catuscia Palamidessi (chair), Gordon Plotkin, and Natarajan Shankar. ACKERMANN AWARD 2018 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Call for Nominations Deadline: 4 April 2018 Web: http://eacsl.kahle.ch/?page_id=65 * INTRODUCTION Nominations are now invited for the 2018 Ackermann Award. * ELIGIBILITY: PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2016 and 31.12.2017 are eligible for nomination for the award. * PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD: The 2018 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL, 4-7 September 2018, in Birmingham (UK). The award consists of a certificate, an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, the publication of the laudatio in the CSL proceedings, and travel support to attend the conference. * JURY: The jury consists of: -- Christel Baier (TU Dresden); -- Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw); -- Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge); -- Dexter Kozen (Cornell University); -- Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique), ACM SigLog representative; -- Luke Ong (University of Oxford); -- Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; -- Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. * WHAT TO SUBMIT The candidate or his/her supervisor should submit 1. the thesis (ps or pdf file); 2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file); 3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters by other senior researchers (in English); supporting letters can also be sent directly to Thomas Schwentick (thomas.schwentick@tu-dortmund.de); 4. a short CV of the candidate; 5. a copy of the document asserting that the thesis was accepted as a PhD thesis at a recognized University (or equivalent institution) and that the candidate has received his/her PhD within the specified period. * HOW TO SUBMIT The submission should be sent by e-mail as attachments to the chairman of the jury, Thomas Schwentick: thomas.schwentick@tu-dortmund.de, with -- Subject: Ackermann Award 2018 Submission -- Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments * The deadline for submission is 4 April 2018. 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). EATCS Bulletin - Call for abstracts * EATCS Bulletin, http://eatcs.org/index.php/eatcs-bulletin, has a section for "Technical contributions." To stimulate this section further, we have recently started publication abstracts of works that have been accepted by journals and/or conferences or have appeared in major archives. The topics of interest include all areas of theoretical computer science (for instance, see topics of the three Tracks of ICALP, http://www.easyconferences.eu/icalp2016/cfp.html). * Abstracts should be rather detailed, 2-3 pages long in the format given at http://eatcs.org/index.php/eatcs-bulletin. Submissions should include the information on the full paper (the name of conferences, archives, etc) and sufficiently detailed explanation of its merits, e.g., importance, motivations, clear comparison with existing results and novelty and/or new ideas of proof techniques. * The Bulletin is published in Feb, Jun and Oct. The deadline for the abstract submission is 15th of the previous month, for instance, Jan 15, 2018 for the Feb issue of 2018. All materials including tex and pdf files should be sent electrically to bulletin@eatcs.org and iwama@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Acceptance/rejection, decided based on its merit mentioned above, will be notified as soon as possible. The Bulletin will not require copy-right transfer for accepted abstracts. DATES * NETYS 2018 Call For Papers May 2018, Essaouira, Morocco, http://www.netys.net Deadline: January 21, 2018 * FSCD 2018 First Call for Papers Oxford, UK, July 9 - 12th, 2018. http://fscd-conference.org/editions/fscd-2018 Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Submission Deadline: January 22nd, 2018 * GaLoP 2018 Call for Abstracts satellite workshop of ETAPS 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-15 April, 2018 http://www.gamesemantics.org Submission deadline: 22 January 2018 * ACM CPSS'18 Incheon, Korea, June 4, 2018 (in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'18) http://jianying.5gbfree.com/cpss/CPSS2018/ Extended submission deadline: Jan 27, 2018 (23:59 GMT) * CONTINUITY, COMPUTABILITY, CONSTRUCTIVITY: FROM LOGIC TO ALGORITHMS 2017 Call for Submissions (Postproceedings) Deadline for submission 1 February 2018 * CiE 2018 Final Call for Papers Kiel, Germany July 30 - August 3, 2018 http://cie2018.uni-kiel.de Deadline for article submission: February 1, 2018 * DARe special issue Call for Papers Submission deadline: 15 February 2018 * ICCI*CC'18 UC Berkeley, CA, USA July 15-18, 2018 http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-18 Submission deadline: February 16, 2018 * WoLLIC 2018 Call for Papers July 24th-27th, 2018, Bogota, Colombia http://wollic.org/wollic2018/ Paper deadline: Mar 11, 2018 * WiL 2018 - WOMEN IN LOGIC WORKSHOP Call for Papers July 8, 2018, Oxford UK https://sites.google.com/site/womeninlogic2018/welcome/ Paper submission deadline: 31 March 2018 * LOD 2018 Call for Papers Volterra (Pisa) Tuscany, September 13-16, 2018 SIAF Learning Village https://lod2018.icas.xyz/ Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2018 * ICDT 2019 Call for papers (First submission cycle) Around March 25th, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal https://databasetheory.org/node/87 Full paper submission deadline: April 3, 2018 * DCM 2018 A satellite event of FLoC 2018 Oxford, UK, July 8, 2018 http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/ Submission deadline: 8 April 2018 * CSL 2018 First Call for Papers 4-7 September 2018, Birmingham, UK https://easychair.org/cfp/CSL18 Paper submission : April 14th, 2018 * LFMTP 2018 Call for Papers July 07, 2018, Oxford, UK http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2018/ http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ Paper deadline: April 16th * CONCUR 2018 The 29th International Conference on Concurrency Theory Beijing, China, September 4-7, 2018 http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/concur2018/ Paper submission: April 23, 2018 (firm) * LC 2018 Call for Contributions Udine, Italy, July 23-28, 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it Deadline for abstract submission: April 27, 2018 * MINDS AND MACHINES SPECIAL ISSUE Call for Papers http://philo.hlrs.de/?p=277 Deadline for paper submissions: 2018-05-01 THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKED SYSTEMS (NETYS 2018) Call For Papers May 2018, Essaouira, Morocco, http://www.netys.net * Confirmed Keynote Speakers Nicolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research Redmond (USA) Maurice Herlihy, Brown University (USA) Ranjit Jhala, UC San Diego (USA) Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Mediego, Inria (France), EPFL (Switzerland) Rupak Majumdar, MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern (Germany) Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University (USA) Renata Teixeira, INRIA Paris (France) * Aim and Scope NETYS aims to bring together researchers and engineers from both the theory and practice of distributed and networked systems. The scope of the conference covers all aspects related to the design and the development of these systems, including, but not restricted to, multi-core architectures, concurrent and distributed algorithms, parallel/concurrent/distributed programming, distributed databases, big data applications and systems, cloud systems, networks, security, formal verification, etc. * Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. * IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) Registration of the abstract: January 14, 2018 Submission of the paper: January 21, 2018 Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2018 Camera-ready copy due: March 30, 2018 Conference: May 9 - 11, 2018 * Program Co-chairs Andreas Podelski, Univ. Freiburg, Germany Francois Taiani, Univ. Rennes 1 / ESIR / IRISA - Inria THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL STRUCTURES FOR COMPUTATION AND DEDUCTION (FSCD 2018) Oxford, UK, July 9 - 12th, 2018. http://fscd-conference.org/editions/fscd-2018 Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6 - 19th, 2018. http://www.floc2018.org * TOPICS: FSCD covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, proof theory and new emerging models of computation such as quantum computing or homotopy type theory. * Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1. Calculi: Lambda calculus - Concurrent calculi - Logics - Rewriting systems - Proof theory - Type theory and logical frameworks 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: Type systems - Induction and coinduction - Matching, unification, completion, and orderings - Strategies - Tree automata - Model checking - Proof search and theorem proving - Constraint solving and decision procedures 3. Semantics: Operational semantics - Abstract machines - Game Semantics - Domain theory and categorical models - Quantitative models 4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems: Type Inference and type checking - Abstract Interpretation - Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity - Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties - Symbolic computation 5. Tools and Applications: Programming and proof environments - Verification tools - Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers - Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers - Certification - Applications to security, planning, data bases * IMPORTANT DATES: All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered. Abstract Deadline: January 15th, 2018 Submission Deadline: January 22nd, 2018 Rebuttal: March 22 - 25th, 2018 Notification: April 2nd, 2018 Camera-Ready: May 2nd, 2018 FSCD Conference: July 9 - 12th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6 - 19th, 2018 * PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Helene Kirchner, Inria * CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paula Severi, Leicester U. 13TH WORKSHOP ON GAMES FOR LOGIC AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (GaLoP 2018) Call for Abstracts Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-15 April, 2018 http://www.gamesemantics.org * GaLoP is an annual international workshop on game-semantic models for logics and programming languages and their applications. This is an informal workshop that welcomes work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, programmatic or position papers and tutorials. * GaLoP XII will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 14-15 April 2018 as a satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). * IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 22 January 2018 Notification: 12 February 2018 Workshop: 14-15 April 2018 * Invited talks Guy McCusker (Bath) Matteo Mio (Lyon) Ulrich Schopp (Munchen) * Programme Chairs Ugo Dal Lago (Bologna, co-chair) Gabriel Sandu (Helsinki, co-chair) 4th ACM CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM SECURITY WORKSHOP (ACM CPSS'18) Incheon, Korea, June 4, 2018 (in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'18) http://jianying.5gbfree.com/cpss/CPSS2018/ Extended submission deadline: Jan 27, 2018 (23:59 GMT) * CONFERENCE OUTLINE Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected 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. 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, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome. * IMPORTANT DATES Extended submission deadline: Jan 27, 2018 (23:59 GMT) Notification: Mar 10, 2018 Camera-ready due: Mar 31, 2018 * Program Chairs: Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany & NTU, Singapore) Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) * Further information CPSS Home: http://jianying.5gbfree.com/cpss/ Email: cpss2018@easychair.org CONTINUITY, COMPUTABILITY, CONSTRUCTIVITY: FROM LOGIC TO ALGORITHMS 2017 Second Call for Submissions (Postproceedings) Deadline for submission: 1 February 2018 * After the successful start of the new EU-MSCA-RISE project "Computing with Infinite Data" (CID) and the excellent Workshop CCC 2017 in Nancy (France) in June this year, we are planning to publish a collection of papers dedicated to the meeting and to the project as a Special Issue in the open-access journal LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. * The issue should reflect progress made in Computable Analysis and related areas, and is not restricted to work in the CID project or presented at the Workshop. * Submissions are welcome from all scientists on topics in the entire spectrum from logic to algorithms including, but not limited to: Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory, Constructive topological foundations, Scott's domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, Randomness and computable measure theory, Other related areas. * EDITORS: Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK) Pieter Collins (Maastricht, NL) Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy, FR) Victor Selivanov (Novosibirsk, RUS) Dieter Spreen (Siegen, DE) Martin Ziegler (KAIST, KR) * DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 1 February 2018 * If you intend to submit a paper for the special issue, please inform us by sending email to: spreen@math.uni-siegen.de by 1 January 2018 COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE: SAILING ROUTES IN THE WORLD OF COMPUTATION (CiE 2018) Final Call for Papers Kiel, Germany July 30 - August 3, 2018 http://cie2018.uni-kiel.de * CiE 2018 is the fourteenth 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2018 Submission guidelines are available on the conference web-site. * The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag. * IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for abstract submission: January 17, 2018 Deadline for article submission: February 1, 2018 Notification of acceptance: April 6, 2018 Early registration before: May 30, 2018 * TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Pinar Heggernes (Bergen, Norway), Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland, NZ) * INVITED SPEAKERS: Kousha Etessami (Edinburgh, UK) Johanna Franklin (Hempstead, US) Mai Gehrke (Nice, France) Alberto Marcone (Udine, Italy) Alexandra Silva (London, UK) Jeffrey O. Shallit (Waterloo, Canada) * SPECIAL SESSIONS: Approximation and Optimisation, Bioinformatics and Bio-inspired Computing, Computing with Imperfect Information, Continuous Computation, History and Philosophy of Computing, SAT-Solving. * WORKSHOP: Women in Computability. * Check the web-site for further details on the conference, such as organisation and grants. SPECIAL ISSUE OF IJAR ON "DEFEASIBLE AND AMPLIATIVE REASONING" Call for Papers * Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of decision making as done by humans. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. * Everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: - Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. - Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. * This special issue aims at bringing together work on defeasible and ampliative reasoning from the perspective of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines in a multi-disciplinary way, thereby consolidating the mission of the DARe workshop series. * The submission url is: http://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/IJA * When submitting your manuscript, please select ``VSI:DARe special issue'' as the article type. * If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact us at dare.to.contact.us@gmail.com * IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 15 February 2018 Notification: 1 November 2018 Publication date: 1 January 2019 * Guest editors Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg Szymon Klarman, Semantic Integration Ltd., UK Gilles Richard, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France THE 17TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE INFORMATICS AND COGNITIVE COMPUTING (ICCI*CC'18) UC Berkeley, CA, USA July 15-18, 2018 http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-18 * The IEEE ICCI*CC series is a flagship conference of its field sponsored by IEEE Computer, Computational Intelligence and SMC Societies. The theme of ICCI*CC'18 is on Cognitive Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Systems and Cognitive Robotics. * You are welcome to submit a paper to IEEE ICCI*CC'18 or to organize a special session related to the theme of the conference. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'18 will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI Indexed). A good rate of selected papers from the proceedings will be recommended to leading international journals and/or IEEE transactions with ISI/EI indexes. * IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 16, 2018. 25th WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION (WoLLIC 2018) Call for Papers July 24th-27th, 2018, Bogota, Colombia http://wollic.org/wollic2018/ * 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. * IMPORTANT DATES: Mar 11, 2018: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 18, 2018: Full paper deadline Apr 15, 2018: Author notification Apr 22, 2018: Final version deadline (firm). * Further details: http://wollic.org/wollic2018/ WOMEN IN LOGIC WORKSHOP (WiL 2018) Call for Papers July 8, 2018, Oxford UK https://sites.google.com/site/womeninlogic2018/welcome/ * Affiliated with LICS (http://lics.siglog.org/lics18/) Held as part of FLoC (http://www.floc2018.org/) * We are holding the 2nd Women in Logic (WiL) workshop as a LICS 2018 associated workshop. The workshop will provide an opportunity for women in the field to increase awareness of one another and one another's work, to combat the feeling of isolation. It will also provide an environment where women can present to an audience comprised of mostly women, replicating the experience that most men have at most LICS meetings, and lowering the stress of the occasion; we hope that this will be particularly attractive to early-career women. * Topics of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to the usual Logic in Computer Science (LICS) topics. These are listed as 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, 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: Paper submission deadline: 31 March 2018 Author notification: 8 May 2018 Contribution for Informal Proceedings: 31 May 2018 * Invited Speakers: Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh, UK) and TBA * Detailed information can be found on the webpage. 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING, OPTIMIZATION & DATA SCIENCE (LOD 2018) Volterra (Pisa) Tuscany, September 13-16, 2018 SIAF Learning Village https://lod2018.icas.xyz/ * The 4th Annual Conference on machine Learning, Optimization and Data science (LOD) is a single-track machine learning, computational optimization, data science conference that includes invited talks, tutorial talks, special sessions, industrial tracks, demonstrations and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. * We invite submissions of papers, abstracts and posters on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization and Big Data including real-world applications for the conference proceedings: * LOD 2018 Post-Proceedings. All accepted long papers will be published in a volume of the series 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' from Springer after the conference. * LOD 2018 Best Paper Springer sponsors the LOD 2018 Best Paper Award with a cash prize of EUR 1,000 (TBC). * IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2018 Decision Notification to Authors: June 1st, 2018 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2018 Deadline for early Registration as Presenting Author: July 1st, 2018 Late registration: July 2 - September 16, 2018 On-Site registration: September 13-16, 2018 LOD 2018 conference: September 13-16, 2018 * Further information https://lod2018.icas.xyz/call-for-papers/ * LOD 2018 Chairs. Giuseppe Nicosia Panos Pardalos 22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2019) Call for papers (First submission cycle) Around March 25th, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal https://databasetheory.org/node/87 * ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of data management theory (https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages). Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT (Extending DB Technology). * Continuing with the idea of broadening its scope, ICDT 2019 will have a Reach Out track that calls for - novel formal frameworks and/or - articles that connect principles of data management to other communities. Papers submitted to this track should suggest novel and important directions for database theory and provide a theoretical basis for understanding emerging areas in data management. * Every topic related to the principles of data management is relevant to ICDT. Examples of relevant topics are data mining and database aspects of machine learning; data models, design, query languages, and algorithms for data management; distributed and parallel databases; connections between databases and knowledge representation; graph databases, (semantic) Web data, and Web services; data streams and sketching; data-centric (business) process management and workflows; data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views, and data warehouses; domain-specific databases (multimedia, scientific, spatial, temporal, text); data privacy and security, concurrency, and recovery. * IMPORTANT DATES (First submission cycle): Abstract submission deadline: March 27, 2018 Full paper submission deadline: April 3, 2018 Notification: May 30, 2018 * For submissions please use https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2019 12TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM 2018) A satellite event of FLoC 2018 Oxford, UK, July 8, 2018 http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/ * Several new models of computation have emerged in the last years, and many developments of traditional computation models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of users of computer systems and the new capabilities of computation engines. The proceedings are produced after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate the workshop feedback in the published papers. * Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their applications to the development of programming languages and systems. Authors are invited to submit a short paper (max 8 pages). Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. * IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 8 April 2018 Notification: 15 May 2018 Pre-proceedings version: 27 May 2018 Workshop: 8 July 2018 Full version of paper: 1 October 2018 Notification: 1 December 2018 Final versions due: 15 December 2018 * INVITED SPEAKERS Ugo Dal Lago Delia Kesner * PROGRAMME CHAIR Sandra Alves, University of Porto * Further information: http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/ COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2018) First Call for Papers 4-7 September 2018, Birmingham, UK https://easychair.org/cfp/CSL18 * Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. * IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission : April 7th, 2018 (AoE) Paper submission : April 14th, 2018 (AoE) Notifications : June 14th, 2018 * Program Chairs Dan R. Ghica, University of Birmingham Achim Jung, University of Birmingham * For more information please visit https://easychair.org/cfp/CSL18 LOGICAL FRAMEWORKS AND META-LANGUAGES: THEORY AND PRACTICE (LFMTP 2018) Call for Papers July 07, 2018, Oxford, UK http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2018/ http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ * Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common substrate for representing, implementing and reasoning about a wide variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer science. Their design, implementation and their use in reasoning tasks, ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal systems, have been the focus of considerable research over the last two decades. This workshop will bring together designers, implementors and practitioners to discuss various aspects impinging on the structure and utility of logical frameworks, including the treatment of variable binding, inductive and co-inductive reasoning techniques and the expressiveness and lucidity of the reasoning process. * IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract deadline: April 09th Paper deadline: April 16th * More details on the website THE 29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENCY THEORY (CONCUR 2018) The 29th International Conference on Concurrency Theory Beijing, China, September 4-7, 2018 http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/concur2018/ * The purpose of the CONCUR conferences is to bring together researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency, and promote its applications. * Invited speakers Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University (China) Rob van Glabbeek, Stanford University (USA), CSIRO, and University of New South Wales (Australia) Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) * Co-located events at CONFESTA 16th International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2018) 15th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2018) 4th International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering (SETTA 2018) CONFESTA will also host a number of workshops and tutorials (TBA). * IMPORTANT DATES All dates are AoE. Abstract submission: April 17, 2018 (firm) Paper submission: April 23, 2018 (firm) Notification: June 7, 2018 Camera ready copy: July 2, 2018 Conference: September 4-7, 2018 * Program Co-chairs Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK) Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, CAS, China) LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2018 (LC 2018) Call for Contributions Udine, Italy, July 23-28, 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it * The Logic Colloquium 2018 is the annual European summer meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) (http://www.aslonline.org/index.htm). * IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for abstract submission: April 27, 2018 Deadline for travel grant applications: May 4, 2018 Deadline for early registration: May 23, 2018 Main event: July 23 (9am)- July 28 (1pm) * TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: K. Tent (WWU Munster) U. Sattler (University of Manchester) * INVITED SPEAKERS: M. Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) A. Atserias (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) V. Brattka (Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen) A. Ciabattoni (TU Wien) P. D'Aquino (Universita degli Studi della Campania) P. Oliva (Queen Mary University of London) L. Patey (Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon) A. Tserunyan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) S. Unger(Tel Aviv University) M. Viale (Universita degli studi di Torino) D. Westerstahl (Stockholm University) * GOEDEL SPEAKER: R. Downey (Victoria University of Wellington) * SPECIAL SESSIONS: 6 special sessions with topics: -- Descriptive set theory and dynamical systems: Chairs: B. Miller (Universitat Wien), A. Tornquist (Kobenhavn Universitet) -- Model theory: Chairs: F. Wagner (Universite Lyon I), E. Casanovas (Universitat de Barcelona) -- Proof theory and constructivism: Chairs: S. Ghilardi (Universita degli Studi di Milano), G. Sambin (Universita degli Studi di Padova) -- Temporal and multivalued logics: Chairs: M. Lange (Universitat Kassel), B. Gerla (Universita dell'Insubria) -- Computability theory: Chairs: A. Sorbi (Universita di Siena 1240), P. Shafer (University of Leeds) -- Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: Chairs: J. Kennedy (University of Helsinki), G. Sagi (University of Haifa) * PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR D. Macpherson (University of Leeds) * Event sponsored by ASL, NSF, SILFS and AILA. MINDS AND MACHINES SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF METHODS IN COMPUTER SIMULATION Call for Papers http://philo.hlrs.de/?p=277 * Guest Editors Prof. Michael Resch, University of Stuttgart Dr. Andreas Kaminski, University of Stuttgart * We invite the submission of papers focusing on but are not restricted to: -Epistemic opacity as a methodological challenge, -The specific Role of (applied) Mathematics in Computer Simulation, -The epistemological consequences of parametrization and discretization, -Verification, Validation & Evaluation of Computer Simulations, Trust in & Reliability of Computer Simulations Results, -Visualization and Understanding of Computer Simulations, -Machine Learning and Computer Simulation. * IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for paper submissions: 2018-05-01 Deadline for paper reviewing: 2018-06-30 Deadline for submission of revised papers: 2018-09-01 Deadline for reviewing revised papers: 2018-11-01 Papers will be published in December 2018 * For any further information please contact: Dr. Andreas Kaminski:kaminski@hlrs.de POSTDOC POSITION IN LOGIC, GOTHENBURG (SWEDEN) * University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Duration: 2 years, starting Autumn 2018 * Deadline for applications is 31st May 2018 * The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at University of Gothenburg is inviting applications for a Postdoc position in Logic. Topics of interest include proof-theoretic studies of reflection and induction, axiomatic theories of truth, type-theoretic foundations, and fixed-point calculi such as the modal mu-calculus. * For full details see http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=1637 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AT AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY, GEORGIA * The School of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Augusta University invites applications for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Computer Science. * Anticipated start is August 2018. * Computer Science is a unit within the newly created School of Computer and Cyber Sciences. The school supports bachelor's degrees in computer science and information technology and a master's degree in information security management. The University as a whole has begun shifting from a teaching university to a research university, and as such supports and promotes research in Computer Science as well as in connected fields. While research areas investigated in the school are computational logic, cyber security, and software engineering, candidates from other research areas of computer science are welcome to apply. * Position Requirements: Applicants must hold (or receive before start of employment) a PhD in computer science or a closely related field. About 40% of workload will be dedicated to research and faculty development. Demonstrated capability or potential in developing discipline relevant peer reviewed intellectual contributions is required. Candidates with teaching experience or capability for teaching excellence in introductory courses and familiarity with the C# programming language are a plus. * Complementary information can be found at http://myersmcrae.com/skins/userfiles/files/AU-CompSc2017.pdf and http://www.augusta.edu/ccs/ TWO OPEN RESEARCH POSITIONS AT TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY * Laboratory of Electronics and Communications Engineering (ELT) at Tampere University of Technology is looking for motivated and proactive MSc/PhD graduates to join the research team related to 5G and beyond mobile network developments and future wireless localization solutions. * The call for two-year positions (with a good possibility of extension upon good results) is open to applicants who fulfil the following criteria: - Candidates have a MSc degree in computer science, radio communications, signal processing or electrical engineering. - Candidates have knowledge of radio communications and software programming skills (e.g., Matlab, C/C++, Python, embedded systems, etc.), - Candidates have a willingness to learn new things and to work in a multi-cultural environment in Tampere, Finland. * TUT unit is offering high-quality supervision with freedom and encouragement to develop your ideas in a supportive, inspiring environment. * More information and details on how to apply are found on EURAXESS job portal (https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/249961) PHD/POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FORA EUROPEAN TRAINING NETWORK (4 universities and 3 companies from Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Germany) * FORA: Fog Computing for Robotics and Industrial Automation (fora-etn.eu) is a European Training Network (ETN), which will fund and train 15 PhD candidates in the area of Fog Computing, during the period 2017-2021, see http://www.fora-etn.eu/about-fora/ Fog Computing, also sometimes called Edge Computing, brings the Cloud ``closer to the ground'', to the edge of the network. * FORA's research program focuses on: a reference system architecture for Fog Computing; resource management mechanisms and middleware for deploying mixed-criticality applications in the Fog; safety and security assurance; service-oriented application modeling and real-time machine learning, see http://www.fora-etn.eu/research-objectives/ * The consortium is formed of 4 universities and 3 companies from Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Germany, and has associated partners also in Silicon Valley, USA. The partners in the project are: Technical University of Denmark (DTU),Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Malardalen University (MDH), Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUKL), TTTech, SYSGO and ABB. The associated partners: Danfoss Power Electronics (DANFOSS), Danish Technological Institute (DTI), UNIBAP, Volvo Construction Equipment and CISCO. * FORA was specifically designed to enhance the career prospects of the PhD candidates, giving them a great career in industry or academia. Alumni of MSCA ETNs are very positive about their experience: they benefit from the training, research, collaboration, research visits and networking in such a large ETN. FORA's PhD candidates will receive integrated training across key areas (computer science, electrical engineering, control engineering, industrial automation, applied mathematics and data science) necessary to fully realize the potential of Fog Computing for Industry 4.0, see the benefits: http://www.fora-etn.eu/etn-benefits/ * FORA is looking for applicants with a wide variety of backgrounds: on computer science (algorithms), software engineering (Cloud Computing, service-oriented computing, middleware, distributed systems), computer engineering (hardware design and computer architecture) and industrial automation and control (distributed automation, robotics, control algorithms), as well as data science (machine learning). * Please read more about each position and apply at: http://www.fora-etn.eu/vacancies/ POSTDOC/PHD OPPORTUNITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE * Project Title: Conquering MPSoC Complexity with Principles of a Self-Aware Information Processing Factory * Host: Univ. of California, Irvine, Center for Embedded & Cyber-physical Systems, Irvine, CA, USA. * Supervisor/Contact Person: Prof. Fadi Kurdahi (Kurdahi@uci.edu) Co-supervisor: Prof. Nikil Dutt (dutt@uci.edu). * Requirements: Postdoc: PhD degree in CS, Computer Engineering or EE from a top University. PhD: Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent from a top University * Objectives: Develop and evaluate hardware-assisted runtime verification models, architectures and tools. Develop evaluate machine learning-based specification mining methods and tools. * Expected Skills: Familiarity with hardware-assisted runtime verification formalism, tools and methods. Familiarity with machine-learning algorithms. Familiarity with specification mining methods and applications. Experience with FPGA tools. Experience with multiprocessor simulators such as GEM5. * Planned visits and collaboration: TU Munich (Professor Andreas Herkersdorf) TU Branschweig (Professor Rolf Ernst) * Timeline: Ideally, candidates would be able to start in Winter or Spring 2018 for a period of 1 year with possibility of extension up to 3 years total. * To Inquire: Please send a CV to Fadi Kurdahi (kurdahi@uci.edu). POST-DOC POSITION AT TU DORTMUND * At TU Dortmund University, we are looking for talented and motivated post-doctoral researchers (or PhD students) interested in joining the project Dynamic Expressiveness of Logics, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). * The opening is in the working group of Thomas Schwentick. * The position is limited to two years, until 30.09.2019, and does not involve teaching obligations. * The official, complete job opening is available at https://service.tu-dortmund.de/documents/18/2120797/Research+Assistant+(Ref .-Nr.+w45-17)/ade04a70-99ab-46fb-8dbf-fc129ac24d06?version=3D1.0 * Interested? Please do not hesitate to contact us: TU Dortmund, Dept. of Computer Science Chair I - Logic in Computer Science Thomas Schwentick Otto-Hahn-Str. 12 44227 Dortmund Germany
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