SIGLOG Monthly 200
July 4, 2018
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* NEWS
WINNERS OF THE 2018 ALONZO CHURCH AWARD
FLoC 2018 - Last Joint Call for Workshop Participation
ACM SIGLOG Announcement
EATCS Bulletin - Call for abstracts
WINNERS OF THE VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS 2018
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
POPL 2019 - Call for Papers
LearnAut 2018 - Call for Participation
DL 2018 - Final Call for Papers (extended deadlines)
CCC 2018 - Call for papers
CSL 2018 - Call for Participation
TPS SUMMER SCHOOL ON PROOF THEORY - Call For Participation
SAS 2018 - Call for Participation
MLCSB2018 - Call for Papers
COMPUTING AND PROGRAMMING IN CONTEXT - Call for Papers
FSEN 2019 - Call for Papers
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
PHD POSITIONS - LOGICS DOCTORAL COLLEGE IN AUSTRIA
PHD/POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FORA EUROPEAN TRAINING NETWORK
MASTER IN PURE AND APPLIED LOGIC
M.SC. PROGRAM IN NLP AND DATA SCIENCE - UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE, FRANCE
WINNERS OF THE 2018 ALONZO CHURCH AWARD
* The 2018 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic
and Computation is given jointly to Tomas Feder and Moshe Y. Vardi
for fundamental contributions to the computational complexity of
constraint-satisfaction problems. Their contributions appeared in
two papers:
1. Tomas Feder, Moshe Y. Vardi: Monotone Monadic SNP and Constraint
Satisfaction. STOC 1993, 612-622.
2. Tomas Feder, Moshe Y. Vardi: The Computational Structure of
Monotone Monadic SNP and Constraint Satisfaction: A Study through
Datalog and Group Theory. SIAM J. Comput. 28(1), 57-104 (1998).
* CONTRIBUTION SUMMARY: The Feder-Vardi project aimed at finding a
large subclass of NP that exhibits a dichotomy (all problems are
either in PTIME or NP-complete). The approach is to find this
subclass via syntactic prescriptions. The paper identified a class
of problems specified by "monotone monadic SNP without inequality",
which may exhibit this dichotomy. Feder and Vardi justified placing
all three restrictions by showing, using Ladner's theorem, that
classes obtained by using only two of the above three restrictions
do not show this dichotomy. They then explored the structure of this
class. They show that all problems in this class reduce to the
seemingly simpler class CSP -- Constraint Satisfaction Problems. They
divided CSP into subclasses and tried to unify the collection of all
known polytime algorithms for CSP problems and extract properties
that make CSP problems NP-hard. They conjectured that the class CSP
(and therefore, also MMSNP) also satisfy the dichotomy
property. This became known as the Feder-Vardi Dichotomy
Conjecture. The Dichotomy Conjecture stimulated an extensive
research program, which culminated in 2017 in two independent
proofs, by A. Bulatov and by D. Zhuk, of its correctness.
THE 2018 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC'18)
Last Joint Call for Workshop Participation
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 79 workshops
arranged in three segments:
- Pre-FLoC: Sat 7 - Sun 8 (workshops related to CSF, FSCD, ITP, LICS
and SAT),
- Mid-FLoC: Wed 11 - Sat 14 (workshops related to CAV, ICLP, IJCAR,
ITP and LICS),
- Post-FLoC: Wed 18 - Thu 19 (workshops related to FM, CAV, ICLP and
IJCAR).
* REGULAR REGISTRATION CLOSES on 25th June 2018.
ON SITE REGISTRATION will be possible during the conference.
It is imperative that you BOOK ACCOMMODATION ASAP to avoid
disappointment.
* Website: http://www.floc2018.org/
Conference and workshops programme now live:
https://easychair.org/smart-program/FLoC2018/index.html
Registration: http://www.floc2018.org/register/
Accommodation: http://www.floc2018.org/accommodation/
Registration for a workshop day means you can attend any other
workshop on the same day. Workshop registration includes lunches and
coffee breaks
*** 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
http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/hrl/cspsat2018/
* 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/
* Mentor Workshop 1, 8 July
https://lics.siglog.org/lics18/lmw.php
*** MID-FLoC WORKSHOPS (WEDNESDAY 11 - SATURDAY 14 JULY)
* Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation: Bridging Two
Communities to Solve Real Problems (SC^2 2018), 11 July
http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/workshop3.html
* 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/
* CAV Tutorials, 13 July
http://cavconference.org/2018/invited-speakers-tutorials/
* 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/
* 13th International Workshop on User Interfaces for Theorem Provers
(UITP 2018), 13 July
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/uitp/uitp2018/
* Verification Mentoring Workshop 2, 13 July
http://cavconference.org/2018/verification-mentoring-workshop/
* Summit on Machine Learning Meets Formal Methods, sponsored by the Alan
Turing Institute, 13 July
http://www.floc2018.org/summit-on-machine-learning/
* 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
http://www.fm2018.org/doctoral-symposium/
*** 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
http://synt2018.seas.ucla.edu
* 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
* 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
https://nsv-2018.github.io/nsv2018/
* 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
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.
WINNERS OF THE VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS 2018
http://www.vcla.at/2018/05/third-edition-of-the-vcla-international-student-awards-2018/
* The VCLA International Student Awards Committee is pleased to
announce the recipients of the VCLA International Student Awards
2018. The award ceremony will take place on July 14, at FLoC Olympic
Games.
- Outstanding Master Thesis Award:
Jeremy Liang An Kong (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award:
Tomas Lamser (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic)
* The award committee is dedicating the VCLA International Student
Awards to the memory of Helmut Veith, the brilliant computer
scientist who tragically passed away in March 2016, and aims to
carry on his commitment to promoting young talent and promising
researchers in these areas.
DATES
* POPL 2019
Call for Papers
January 16-18, 2019. Lisbon, Portugal
https://popl19.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2019-Research-Papers#POPL-2019-Call-for-Papers
Submission deadline: Wed 11 Jul 2018
* LearnAut 2018
Call for Participation
Oxford, UK, July 13 2018
https://learnaut2018.wordpress.com/
A workshop at the Federated LOgic Conference (FLoC)
* DL 2018
Final Call for Papers (extended deadlines)
October 26-29, 2018 - Tempe, Arizona, US
http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/
Paper registration due July 14, 2018
* CCC 2018
Call for papers
Faro (Portugal), 24-28 September 2018
http://cid.uni-trier.de/ccc-2018-continuity-computability-constructivity-
from-logic-to-algorithms-faro-portugal-september-24-28-2018/
Deadline: July 15, 2018
* CSL 2018
Call for Participation
4-7 September 2018, Birmingham, UK
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/csl18/
* TPS SUMMER SCHOOL ON PROOF THEORY
Call For Participation
The Proof Society
Ghent, September 2-5, 2018
http://www.proofsociety.org/summer-school-2018/
Deadline for registration: July 15, 2018
* SAS 2018
Call for Participation
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, August 29th-August 31st, 2018
http://staticanalysis.org/sas2018
* INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MOLECULAR LOGIC AND COMPUTATIONAL SYNTHETIC
BIOLOGY (MLCSB 2018)
Call for Papers
December, 17-18, 2018, Santiago de Chile, Chile
http://mlcsb2018.web.ua.pt
Full paper deadline: 15 September 2018;
* COMPUTING AND PROGRAMMING IN CONTEXT
Call for Papers
Special Issue in the journal Philosophy and Technology (Springer)
Deadline for paper submissions: 1 October 2018
https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/special-issue.html
* FSEN 2019
Call for Papers
Tehran, Iran, May 1-3, 2019
http://fsen.ir/2019
Paper Submission: October 28, 2018 (AoE)
46TH ACM SIGPLAN SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES (POPL 2019)
Call for Papers
January 16-18, 2019. Lisbon, Portugal
https://popl19.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2019-Research-Papers#POPL-2019-Call-for-Papers
* The annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages is a
forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and
programming systems. We seek submissions that make principled,
enduring contributions to the theory, design, understanding,
implementation or application of programming languages.
* Co-located events run from January 13th through January 19th.
* POPL is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGACT and
ACM SIGLOG.
* IMPORTANT DATES
(by the end of the day, anywhere on earth, i.e. UTC-12h)
Submission deadline: Wed 11 Jul 2018
Start of rebuttal period: Mon 17 Sep 2018
End of rebuttal period: Thu 20 Sep 2018
* New this year
Page limit is 25 pages (excluding references)
Distinguished paper awards (at most 10% of papers)
* Other details
All papers accepted to POPL 2019 will be published as part of the
ACM Gold Open Access journal, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming
Languages (PACMPL).
* Submission guidelines
Submissions are in the PACMPL format, 25pp limit.
http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/
Submissions are via HotCRP.
https://popl19.hotcrp.com/
WORKSHOP ON LEARNING AND AUTOMATA (LEARNAUT 2018)
Call for Participation
Oxford, UK, July 13 2018
https://learnaut2018.wordpress.com/
A workshop at the Federated LOgic Conference (FLoC)
* The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on logic who
could benefit from grammatical inference tools, and researchers in
grammatical inference who could find in logic and verification new
fruitful applications for their methods.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
George Argyros (Columbia University): The Learnability of Symbolic
Automata
Alexander Clark (King's College London); Weak and Strong learning of
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars: theoretical and empirical
perspectives
Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh): Algorithms for Weighted
and Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars and Convex Optimization
Doina Precup (McGill University and DeepMind): TBA
* ORGANIZERS
Remi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille Université)
Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University)
Guillaume Rabusseau (McGill University)
Matteo Sammartino (University College London)
31st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DESCRIPTION LOGICS (DL 2018)
Final Call for Papers (extended deadlines)
October 26-29, 2018 - Tempe, Arizona, US
http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/
* Invited Speakers
Lidia Tendera (University of Opole, Poland)
Denny Vrandecic (Google LLC, USA)
Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), jointly with
NMR 2018
* The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic
research community. It is the forum at which those interested in
description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss
ideas, share information and compare experiences. The 31st edition
will be held in Tempe, Arizona, US from October 26th to October
29th, 2018, collocated with the 16th International Conference on
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018).
* We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics,
including but not limited to: foundations, extensions, integration
with other formalisms, applications and use areas, systems and
tools.
* IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper registration due July 14, 2018;
Paper submission July 21, 2018;
Notification September 14, 2018;
Camera-ready copies due October 4, 2018;
Workshop dates October 26-29, 2018.
We have extended the submission deadlines beyond the KR notification
date. The schedule is now tight; hence NO FURTHER DEADLINE
EXTENSIONS will be possible.
* Submission instructions: see http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/
* Organization: Magdalena Ortiz, TU Wien, Austria (program co-chair);
Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany (program co-chair);
Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck, University of London, UK (general
chair)
* Official description logic homepage: http://dl.kr.org/
CONTINUITY, COMPUTABILITY, CONSTRUCTIVITY
- FROM LOGIC TO ALGORITHMS (CCC 2018)
Call for papers
Faro (Portugal), 24-28 September 2018
http://cid.uni-trier.de/ccc-2018-continuity-computability-constructivity-
from-logic-to-algorithms-faro-portugal-september-24-28-2018/
* SCOPE:
The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of
Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite
data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued
functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory Scott's domain
theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to
computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, And related areas.
* INVITED SPEAKERS:
Vasco Brattka (Munich, Germany)
Akitoshi Kawamura (Fukuoka, Japan)
Jaap van Oosten (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Warwick Tucker (Uppsala, Sweden)
* TUTORIAL SPEAKER:
Martin Ziegler (Daejeon, South Korea)
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for extended abstracts: 15 July 2018
* PROGRAMME CHAIRS:
Daniel Graca (Faro) (co-chair)
Dieter Spreen (Siegen) (co-chair).
COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2018)
Call for Participation
4-7 September 2018, Birmingham, UK
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/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.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Bob Coecke (University of Oxford)
Emmanuel Filiot (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Catuscia Palamidessi (Ecole Polytechnique)
Christine Tasson (Universite Paris Diderot)
Szymon Torunczyk (Uniwersytet Warszawksi)
* ACCEPTED PAPERS
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/csl18/acceptedpapers/
* Program Chairs
Dan R. Ghica, University of Birmingham
Achim Jung, University of Birmingham
1ST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON PROOF THEORY
(TPS SUMMER SCHOOL ON PROOF THEORY)
Call For Participation
The Proof Society
Ghent, September 2-5, 2018
http://www.proofsociety.org/summer-school-2018/
* The 1st International Summer School for Proof Theory in Ghent is
arranged under the auspices of The Proof Society, and is sponsored
by the Kurt Goedel Society. The Proof Society has recently been
formed to support the notion of proof in its broadest sense, through
a series of suitable activities; to be therefore inclusive in
reaching out to all scientific areas which consider proof as an
object in their studies; to enable the community to q shape its
future by identifying, formulating and communicating its most
important goals; to actively promote proof to increase its
visibility and representation.
* The aim of the summer school is to cover basic and advanced topics
in proof theory. The focus of the first edition will be on
structural proof theory, ordinal analysis, provability logic,
automated theorem proving, and philosophical aspects of proof.
Other areas like reverse mathematics, proof mining, and proof
complexity will be covered at the colocated workshop, and in follow
up summer schools.
* The intended audience is advanced master students, PhD students,
postdocs and experienced researchers in mathematics, computer
science and philosophy.
* The summer school is co-located with a workshop on proof theory in
Ghent (6-7 September). The workshop will be the inaugural meeting
of The Proof Society.
http://www.proofsociety.org/workshop-2018/
* Deadline for registration: July 15, 2018
* SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME: The summer school will provide six courses:
Cut Elimination by Matthias Baaz (TU Wien)
Ordinals and their applications by Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University)
Philosophy of Proof Theory by Carlo Nicolai (King's College London)
Provability Logic by David Fernandez Duque (Ghent University)
Proof Theory in Computer Science by Andrei Voronkov (University of
Manchester)
Programme Extraction by Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University)
In addition there will be one special evening lecture:
Selected topics from the Theory of Truth by Rafal Urbaniak (Ghent
University)
25TH STATIC ANALYSIS SYMPOSIUM (SAS 2018)
Call for Participation
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, August 29th-August 31st, 2018
http://staticanalysis.org/sas2018
* REGISTRATION
http://staticanalysis.org/sas2018/registration.html
* STUDENT GRANTS
A limited number of students grants will be available. The grant will
cover the cost for lodging during the conference and a contribution to
travel expenses. For further information, please send an informal
email to the PC Chair via sas2018-0@easychair.org.
* TOPICS
The technical program for SAS 2018 will consist of invited
lectures and presentations of refereed papers. Contributions are
welcomed on all aspects of static analysis, including, but not
limited to: Abstract domains; Abstract interpretation; Automated
deduction; Data flow analysis; Debugging; Deductive methods;
Emerging applications; Model checking; Program optimization and
transformation; Program synthesis; Program verification; Security
analysis; Tool environments and architectures; Theoretical
frameworks; Type checking.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission: April 13th, 2018 (anywhere on earth)
Artifact submission: April 20th, 2018 (anywhere on earth)
Notification: June 5th, 2018
Final version due: July 6th, 2018
Conference: August 29th-August 31st, 2018
* INVITED TALKS
Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Program Fairness through the Lens of Formal Methods
Zak Kincaid (Princeton University, USA)
Non-linear Invariant Generation via Recurrence Analysis
Ruzica Piskac (Yale University, USA)
Firewall Repair and Verification of Configuration Files
Sharon Shoham (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Verification of Distributed Systems Using First-Order Logic
* INVITED TUTORIALS
Roberto Bagnara (University of Parma/BUGSENG, Italy)
Ken McMillan (Microsoft Research, USA),
Oded Padon (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Peter O'Hearn (University College London/Facebook, UK)
* ACCEPTED PAPERS
The list of accepted papers is available at:
http://staticanalysis.org/sas2018/accepted.html
* AFFILIATED EVENTS
- 9th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology (SASB 2018)
Chairs: Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) and
Ankit Gupta (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- 9th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis (TAPAS 2018)
Chair: Fausto Spoto (University of Verona/Julia Srl, Italy)
* PROGRAM CHAIR
Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, Germany)
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MOLECULAR LOGIC AND
COMPUTATIONAL SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY (MLCSB2018)
Call for Papers
December, 17-18, 2018, Santiago de Chile, Chile
http://mlcsb2018.web.ua.pt
* Synthetic biology aims at the design of biological systems in a
systematic way, a process whose hallmark characteristics closely
resemble the composition of software: off-the-shelf parts and
devices with standard connections, the usual ingredients for
assembling components into increasingly complex systems. This
Symposium aims at harnessing logical and algebraic methods for
modelling and verifying systems on the interaction of Nature and
Computation, around two main themes:
- development of biological computation models and devices
- application of new computing paradigms to the design of biological systems.
* The workshop is promoted by the project Klee - Coalgebraic Modeling
and Analysis for Computational Synthetic Biology, a RD project
supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
(http://klee.di.uminho.pt)
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Madalena Chaves (Inria, France) and Manuel
A. Martins (U. Aveiro, Portugal)
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Marta Kwiatkowska (U. Oxford, U.K);
Hidde de Jong (Inria, Grenoble, France) and
Alexandre Madeira (U. Minho, Portugal)
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract deadline: 8 September 2018;
Full paper deadline: 15 September 2018;
Author notification: 15 October 2018;
Camera ready: 30 October 2018
* Detailed information can be found on the webpage.
COMPUTING AND PROGRAMMING IN CONTEXT - THE INTERPLAY
BETWEEN LOGIC, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Call for Papers
Special Issue in the journal Philosophy and Technology (Springer)
Deadline for paper submissions: 1 October 2018
https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/special-issue.html
* This special issue follows the recent HaPoC 2017 (Brno) and HaPoP
2018 (Oxford) events but is open to submissions not presented at the
aforementioned conferences.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submissions is 1 October 2018
* For details:
https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/special-issue.html
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUNDAMENTALS OF SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING 2019 - THEORY AND PRACTICE (FSEN '19)
Tehran, Iran
May 1-3, 2019
http://fsen.ir/2019
* ABOUT FSEN: The topics of interest cover all aspects of formal
methods, especially those related to advancing the application of
formal methods in the software industry and promoting their
integration with practical engineering techniques. For further
details see http://fsen.ir/2019
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission (optional): October 19, 2018 (AoE)
Paper Submission: October 28, 2018 (AoE)
Notification: December 18, 2018
Final pre-Conference Version: January 20, 2019 (AoE)
Conference: May 1-3, 2019
* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Rocco De Nicola, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Martin Wirsing, LMU Munich, Germany
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Hossein Hojjat - Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Mieke Massink - CNR-ISTI Pisa, Italy
PHD POSITIONS - LOGICS DOCTORAL COLLEGE IN AUSTRIA
WITH A SPECIAL CALL FOR WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE BY
LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Website: http://logic-cs.at/phd/
* We are looking for 16 doctoral students, where 30% of the
positions are reserved for highly qualified female candidates. TU
Wien, TU Graz, and JKU Linz are seeking exceptionally talented and
motivated students for the joint doctoral program on Logical Methods
in Computer Science (LogiCS). LogiCS has been established in 2014
and currently includes 41 students. The doctoral positions are
funded for a period of 4 years according to the funding scheme of
the Austrian Science Fund (details:
http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/forschungsfoerderung/personalkostensaetze/).
Additional positions will be available through other funding.
* THE PROGRAM
LogiCS focuses on logic and its applications in computer
science. Successful applicants will work on interdisciplinary research
topics covering
(i) computational logic,
(ii) databases and artificial intelligence,
(iii) computer-aided verification, and
(iv) emerging application domains, such as cyber-physical systems,
distributed systems, and security and privacy.
* FACULTY MEMBERS: Students are supervised by leading researchers in
their fields. Details are provided on:
http://logic-cs.at/phd/faculty/
* Applications will be screened on the following dates:
July 1, 2018
September 1, 2018
September 15, 2018
The positions will be filled on continuous basis till October 2018.
Detailed information: http://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/
* For further information please contact: info@logic-cs.at
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/
MASTER IN PURE AND APPLIED LOGIC
http://www.ub.edu/masterlogic/
* The biannual two-year 'Master in Pure and Applied Logic' programme
for 2018-2020, jointly organized by the University of Barcelona and
by the Polytechnical University of Catalunya, is still having a few
vacancies and open for registration.
* The Barcelona Logic Master caters in the most central aspects of
advanced logic. Professors related to the Barcelona Master in Pure
and Applied Logic come from various prominent Universities and
Research Institutes in the area of Barcelona.
* As a novelty to next-year's edition we offer two Best Student
Stipends of one-thousand euros each to be awarded by the end of the
academic year 2018-2019/beginning of the next academic year.
* Interested students can find more information at
http://www.ub.edu/masterlogic/. Questions or inquiries relating to
the master can be sent to Ramon Jansana: jansana@ub.edu.
NEW M.SC. PROGRAM IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
AND DATA SCIENCE
Universite de Lorraine, Nancy (France)
http://institut-sciences-digitales.fr/idmc-master-degree-in-natural-
language-processing/
* The Institute of Digital science, Management and Cognition is
opening a a new Masters Program in NLP - Computer Sciences, Speech,
Language and Knowledge Representation
* In each semester, the program includes a hands-on project. It ends
with a 6-month paid internship in a company or a research lab. You
can find the course description on the website.
* You can apply to directly enter at either the first year or second
year level.
* Contacts
Head of the Nancy NLP Master : Maxime Amblard
(maxime.amblard@univ-lorraine.fr)
Secretary : Karine Weisse (karine.weisse@univ-lorraine.fr)
Location of the courses : Ecole des Mines
http://www.alliance-artem.fr/
* Application
https://ecandidat.univ-lorraine.fr
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