Monthly 214
June 01, 2021
Monthly 214Past Issues - How to submit an announcement
Table of Content
- DEADLINES
- SIGLOG MATTERS
- CALLS
- JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Deadlines
| HIGHLIGHTS 2021: | Jun 04, 2021 (Submission deadline (7pm GMT)) |
| ICGI 2020/21: | Jun 06, 2021 (Paper, EXTENDED) |
| CALCO 2021: | Jun 10, 2021 (Paper, EXTENDED) |
| PODS 2022: | Jun 11, 2021 (First cycle abstract), Jun 18, 2021 (Full paper) |
| FVPS 2021: | Jun 11, 2021 (Full Paper) |
| ICGT 2021: | Jun 12, 2021 (Early registration) |
| ESSLLI 2022: | Jun 15, 2021 (Course Title), Jun 22, 2021 (Final) |
| ICALP 2023: | Jun 15, 2021 (The deadline for proposals) |
| EXPRESS/SOS 2021: | Jun 21, 2021 (Paper) |
| NMR-2021: | Jun 25, 2021 (Paper registration), Jun 30, 2021 (Paper) |
| CPSIoTSec 2021: | Jun 25, 2021 (Submission deadline), Jul 30, 2021 (Submission deadline only for papers rejected from ACM CCS 2021) |
| ACKERMANN AWARD 2021: | Jul 01, 2021 (Deadline for nomination) |
| CSL22: | Jul 05, 2021 (Abstract), Jul 12, 2021 (Paper) |
| OVERLAY 2021: | Jul 11, 2021 (Paper) |
| RW 2021: | Aug 25, 2021 (Registration closes) |
| CCC 2021: | Aug 30, 2021 (Deadline) |
The 2021 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation
ANNOUNCEMENT- The ACM Special Interest Group on Logic (SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt Goedel Society (KGS) are pleased to announce that
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Reinhard Pichler, Klaus U. Schulz, and Luc Segoufin
have been selected as the winners of the 2021 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation for fundamental work on logic-based web data extraction and querying tree-structured data, published in:- (1) Georg Gottlob and Christoph Koch. “Monadic Datalog and the Expressive Power of Lan- guages for Web Information Extraction.” Journal of the ACM (JACM) 51.1 (2004): 74-113.
- (2) Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, and Klaus U. Schulz. “Conjunctive Queries Over Trees.” Journal of the ACM (JACM) 53.2 (2006): 238-272.
- (3) Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, and Reinhard Pichler. “Efficient Algorithms for Processing XPath Queries.” ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) 30.2 (2005): 444-491.
- (4) Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Reinhard Pichler, and Luc Segoufin. “The Complexity of XPath Query Evaluation and XML Typing.” Journal of the ACM (JACM) 52.2 (2005): 284-335.
- THE CONTRIBUTION
- Paper (1) establishes a comprehensive logical theory of Web data extraction. At its core, this is the problem of selecting relevant nodes (subtrees) from HTML text. While the set of relevant nodes can be expressed in Monadic Second-Order logic (MSO) over finite trees, MSO has high computationally complexity. The authors prove that Monadic Datalog on trees has exactly the same expressive power as full MSO and that, surprisingly, evaluating Monadic Datalog is feasible in time linear in the size of query and input tree. These results greatly influenced theoretical and applied research, and gave rise to logic-based systems for data extraction that have been successfully used in industry.
- Papers (2,3,4) present deep investigations into logical queries over tree-structured data. The complexity of evaluating XPath, a key technology in Web browsers and other systems, was unclear, and available implementations required exponential time. Paper (2) gives a full characterization of, and a dichotomy theorem for, the complexity of conjunctive queries on various representations of trees. Paper (3) shows that the full XPath standard can be evaluated in PTIME and proposes a logical core which has become seminal to research efforts at the intersection of Web data processing and (modal) logics. Finally, paper (4) establishes the precise complexity of evaluating XPath fragments.
FVPS 2021: Workshop on Formal Verification of Physical Systems
CALL FOR PAPERS- THEME
One of the main issues behind many failing systems is the ad-hoc verification approach that involves a variety of formalism and techniques for the modeling and analysis of various components of the present-age (cyber)-physical systems. For example, control and communication protocols are usually modeled using automata theory, and thus analyzed using model checking techniques, while the modeling of physical aspects often requires multivariate calculus foundations, which are in turn analyzed using paper-and-pencil based analytical proofs, simulation or theorem proving. The fundamental differences between these modeling and analysis techniques limit us to analyze the whole system as one unit and thus miss many corner cases, which arise due to the operation of all the sub-components of the system together. One of the major concerns is that, despite the above-mentioned evident limitations in the analysis methods, many safety-critical systems, such as aerospace, smart-transportation, smart-grid and e-healthcare, are increasingly involving physical elements. Moreover, we are moving towards integrating more complex physical elements in our engineering systems. For example, we are moving towards Quantum Computers to meet the high-performance needs. Similarly, phonic components are increasingly being advocated and used in aerospace applications due to their lightweight and temperature independency compared to traditional electronics-based components. Finally, the impact of physical components is relevant to both safety and security of the overall system. For example, malfunction in sensor measurement may lead to safety issues whereas sophisticated physics-based side-channel (e.g., power and acoustic measurements) attacks lead to the security violation of the underlying system.
The focus of the workshop will be on formal verification techniques for the modeling, analysis and verification of safety and security critical physical systems. We encourage submissions on interdisciplinary approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other knowledge areas such as quantum computing, control theory, biology, optimization theory and artificial intelligence. - TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
General Topics- Formalization of mathematics and physics theories
- Interactive and automated theorem proving for physical systems
- Model Checking algorithms and tools for physical systems
- Formalization of security and safety of physical systems
- Runtime verification of safety and security properties
- Combination of formal, semi formal and informal approaches
- Formal verification of numerical algorithms
- Refinement based verification of physical systems
- Formalization of probability, reliability and statistical metrics
- Hybrid systems
- Benchmarks for physical systems
- Formal requirement specification and validation
- Aerospace and avionics systems
- Automotive cyber physical systems
- Robotics
- Smart Grids
- Smart transportation
- Human factor modeling and analysis
- Biological and healthcare systems
- SUBMISSION
- Regular papers describing developed work with theoretical results (up to 15 pages)
- Short papers on experience reports, tools or work in progress with preliminary results (up to 6 pages)
The submissions will be reviewed by at least three PC members. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend FVPS and present the paper. - IMPORTANT DATES
Full Paper submission: Jun 11, 2021 Notification: Jul 12, 2021 Workshop: Jul 26-31, 2021 Camera Ready: Aug 13, 2021
ICGT 2021: 14th International Conference on Graph Transformation
CALL FOR REGISTRATION- AIMS AND SCOPE
The use of graphs and graph-like structures as a formalism for specification and modelling is widespread in all areas of computer science as well as in many fields of computational research and engineering. Relevant examples include software architectures, pointer structures, state space and control/data flow graphs, UML and other domain-specific models, network layouts, topologies of cyber-physical environments, quantum computing and molecular structures. Often, these graphs undergo dynamic change, ranging from reconfiguration and evolution to various kinds of behaviour, all of which may be captured by rule-based graph manipulation. Thus, graphs and graph transformation form a fundamental universal modelling paradigm that serves as a means for formal reasoning and analysis, ranging from the verification of certain properties of interest to the discovery of fundamentally new insights.
The International Conference on Graph Transformation aims at fostering exchange and collaboration of researchers from different backgrounds working with graphs and graph transformation, either in contributing to their theoretical foundations or by applying established formalisms to classical or novel areas. The conference not only serves as a well-established scientific publication outlet, but also as a platform to boost inter- and intra-disciplinary research and to leeway for new ideas. - ORGANIZATION
The 14th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2021) will be held fully virtual as part of STAF 2021 (Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations):
ICGT takes place under the auspices of EATCS and IFIP WG 1.3. Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. - REGISTRATION (including all STAF events)
- Before June, 12th (Early): Student 25 euro, Regular 50 euro
- After June, 12th :Student 35 euro, Regular 60 euro
- INVITED SPEAKER
Joost-Pieter Katoen: Verication Conquers Reliability Engineering - ACCEPTED PAPERS
https://icgt2021.di.unipi.it/accepted-papers/
ICALP 2023: The International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
CALL FOR LOCATION- The International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) is the main conference and annual meeting of the EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science). This international conference was launched in 1972 and covers all aspects of theoretical computer science. ICALP comprises the main, two-track conference over four days, plus a pre- and/or a post-workshop day.
We invite proposals for locations to host the 50th ICALP, to be held in the first half of July 2023. Previous (and upcoming) ICALP editions include:
ICALP 2022 in Paris (France), ICALP 2021 in Glasgow (UK), virtual ICALP 2020 in Saarbrücken (Germany), virtual ICALP 2019 in Patras (Greece) ICALP 2018 in Prague (Czech Rep.)
Proposals or informal enquires should be sent to the President of the EATCS and the SC chair (see contact information below). Selected proposals are to be presented at the General Assembly of the EATCS at ICALP 2021.
The deadline for proposals: Jun 15, 2021 - PROPOSALS
Proposals should address the following points:- name(s) of the Conference Chair(s) and their host institution
- proposed location (and possibly venue)
- appropriateness of the proposed dates (including possible holidays or other events)
- travel information and estimated transportation costs
- estimated accommodation and registration costs
- conference facilities (session and plenary rooms, workshop rooms)
- CONTACT
EATCS president: Artur Czumaj (aczumaj at acm dot org) SC chair: Anca Muscholl (anca at labri dot fr)
CPSIoTSec 2021: 2nd Joint Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy
CALL FOR PAPERS- CONFERENCE OUTLINE
The Joint Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy invites academia, industry, and governmental entities to submit:- Original research papers on the security and privacy of CPS&IoT
- Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers on the security and privacy of CPS&IoT
- Demos (hands-on or videos) of testbeds/experiences of CPS&IoT security and privacy research
- Mathematical foundations for secure CPS/IoT
- Control-theoretic approaches
- High assurance security architectures
- Security and resilience metrics
- Metrics and risk assessment approaches
- Identity and access management
- Privacy and trust
- Network security
- Game theory applied to CPS/IoT security
- Human factors, humans in the loop, and usable security
- Understanding dependencies among security, reliability and safety in CPS/IoT
- Economics of security and privacy
- Intrusion and anomaly detection
- Model-based security systems engineering
- Sensor and actuator attacks
- CPS/IoT malware analysis
- CPS/IoT firmware analysis
- Hardware-assisted CPS/IoT security
- PAPER SUBMISSION:
- Long papers (12 pages) include a) Original research on a CPS/IoT security and privacy topic, b) Systematization of Knowledge of CPS/IoT security and privacy;
- Short papers (6 pages) include original work-in-progress research on a CPS/IoT security and privacy topic; and
- 1-page abstracts include demos/interesting findings/insights on CPS/IoT security and privacy, which will be accompanied by a hands-on demo during the workshop.
Submissions to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpsiotsec2021 must be in PDF using the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates (see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, with a simpler version here: https://github.com/acmccs/format).
Accepted papers will be published by the ACM Press and/or the ACM Digital Library. Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented by a registered author. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk immediate rejection.
NEW FOR 2021: The workshop will feature a second paper submission deadline for papers that have been submitted but not accepted to the main conference. The deadline will be 10 days after the paper notification is out. Authors are not required to upload CCS reviews; verification of CCS submission status will be done by informing the program chairs of the paper ID of the CCS submission. - IMPORTANT DATES (23:59 Anywhere on Earth)
Submission deadline: Jun 25, 2021 Submission deadline only for papers rejected from ACM CCS 2021: Jul 30, 2021 Notification of acceptance/rejection (tentative): Aug 13, 2021 Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers (hard deadline): Sep 06, 2021
CiE 2021: Connecting with computability
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION- CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association Computability in Europe. The Computability in Europe conference (CiE) series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and physics. For more information about the CiE conferences and the Association CiE, please have a look at: https://www.acie.eu/.
CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually by Ghent University. - REGISTRATION:
CiE 2021 will be hosted virtually. In order to enhance the social dimension of the conference we will be using gather.town with Zoom integrated. In order to register for CiE 2021, please go to:
https://www.cie2021.ugent.be/registration-form/
Registration is free but required.
RW 2021: Reasoning Web Summer School 2021
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION- The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques and related issues that are of particular interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to deepen their knowledge.
As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers carefully selected to cover a wide range of topics relevant to the school (see below).
The summer school is part of Declarative AI 2021 and is co-located with RuleML+RR 2021 and DecisionCAMP 2021. The students attending the RW school are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral Consortium of RuleML+RR. - LECTURES
- Claudia d'Amato: Mining the Semantic Web: main issues that need to be known
- Leopoldo Bertossi: Explanations in Data Management and Classification in Machine Learning via Counterfactual Interventions Specified by Answer-Set-Programs
- Pedro Cabalar: Temporal ASP: from logical foundations to practical use with telingo
- Diego Figuera: Foundations of query languages on graph databases
- Matthias Knorr: On Combining Ontologies and Rules
- Paolo Pareti: SHACL: From Data Validation to Schema Reasoning for RDF Graphs
- Steven Schockaert and Victor G. Basulto: Modelling Rules and Knowledge Graphs with Embeddings
- Renata Wassermann: Belief Revision and Ontology Repair
- PARTICIPATION
Although no specific background knowledge is required for attending the summer school, basics of knowledge representation and reasoning will be helpful for benefiting from the lectures of the school. Students are also committed to a full participation for the whole duration of the school.
The number of attendees will be limited and participation will depend on submitting an application which will undergo a reviewing process. Please check the school website regularly for information on the registration process and updates. - IMPORTANT DATES
Registration opens: Jul 10, 2021 Registration closes: Aug 25, 2021 RW Summer School: Sep 8-10 2021
OVERLAY 2021
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS- The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence techniques in safety-critical systems, employed in real world scenarios, requires the design of reliable, robust, and verifiable methodologies. Artificial Intelligence systems employed in such applications need to provide formal guarantees about their safety, increasing the need for a close interaction between the Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods scientific communities. To witness this increasing need, tools and methodologies integrating Formal Methods and Artificial Intelligence solutions are getting more and more attention.
The workshop is the main official initiative supported by the OVERLAY group (https://overlay.uniud.it/). The event aims at establishing a stable, long-term scientific forum on relevant topics connected to the relationships between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods, by providing a stimulating environment where researchers can discuss about opportunities and challenges at the border of the two areas.
Important goals of the workshop are (i) to encourage the ongoing interaction between the formal methods and artificial intelligence communities, (ii) to identify innovative tools and methodologies, and (iii) to elicit a discussion on open issues and new challenges.
This year edition will be held on September 22, 2021, and will be co-located with GandALF 2021 (https://gandalf2021.math.unipd.it/), which is scheduled to be held in Padova, Italy (unless it will be an online event, depending on the pandemic emergency situation). - INVITED SPEAKER
Roderick Bloem, professor at Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications - Graz, Austria - TOPICS
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):- automata theory
- automated reasoning
- automated planning and scheduling
- controller synthesis
- formal specification languages
- formal verification
- game theory
- hybrid and discrete systems
- logics in computer science
- reactive synthesis
- runtime verification and monitoring
- specification and verification of machine learning systems
- tools and applications
Contributed papers can present recent results at the border of the two fields, new research directions, challenges and perspectives. Presentation of results recently published in other scientific journals or conferences is also welcome.
We plan on including all papers in the Proceedings of the event, published at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR WS proceedings are archival proceedings indexed by DBLP and Scopus.
Submissions: PDF, max 4 pages+references, in CEUR's LaTeX style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip) at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=overlay21. - IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: Jul 11, 2021 Acceptance notification: Jul 23, 2021 Camera-ready submission: Aug 31, 2021 Workshop: Sep 22, 2021 - CONTACTS
For more information email overlay21@easychair.org.
CCC 2021: Continuity, Computability, Constructivity – From Logic to Algorithms
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS- CCC is a workshop series that brings together researchers applying logical methods to the development of algorithms, with a particular focus on computation with infinite data, where issues of continuity, computability and constructivity play major roles. Specific topics include exact real number computation, computable analysis, effective descriptive set theory, constructive analysis, and related areas. The overall aim is to apply logical methods in these disciplines to provide a sound foundation for obtaining exact and provably correct algorithms for computations with real numbers and other continuous data, which are of increasing importance in safety critical applications and scientific computation.
The workshop is open to all researchers in the area. - 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,
- Domain theory,
- Constructive analysis,
- Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data,
- Weihrauch degrees,
- And related areas.
- INVITED SPEAKERS
Suguman Bransal (U Penn), Franz Brauße (U Manchester), Sewon Park (KAIST), Monika Seisenberger (Swansea U), Michael Yampolsky (U Toronto)
Tutorial Speaker: André Platzer (CMU) - SUBMISSION:
Deadline: Aug 30, 2021
Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) of original work are welcome.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccc2021
MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken (PhD Position):
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT- A PhD position is open at the MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken, supervised by Christoph Weidenbach, Jasmin Blanchette and Sophie Tourret. The project is about using Isabelle/HOL to formalize logical calculi.
See https://www.cs.vu.nl/~jbe248/sb_job.html for more information.
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