From dirk at doc.ic.ac.uk Wed Jan 2 08:46:10 2008 From: dirk at doc.ic.ac.uk (Dirk Pattinson) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:46:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc: Coalgebraic Logics at Imperial Message-ID: <477B95A2.8070404@doc.ic.ac.uk> 36 Months Postdoctoral Position in Colagebraic Logics Department of Computing, Imperial College London A three year postdoctoral position is available from March 1, 2008 (or as soon as possible thereafter) to work on an EPSRC-funded project in the area of coalgebras and modal logic. Coalgebraic semantics allows the representation of a large class of structurally different modal logics in a uniform semantic framework where the particular type of observations that determines a specific model class is parameterized by an endofunctor. The aim of the project is to study fixpoint logics and logics axiomatized with nested modalities in this setting. More information on the project and the position advert can be found at http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dirk/CML/ or email me (dirk at doc.ic.ac.uk) regarding further queries. With best wishes for 2008, Dirk Pattinson. From gvidal at dsic.upv.es Wed Jan 2 04:07:38 2008 From: gvidal at dsic.upv.es (German Vidal) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:07:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2008 Third Call for Papers Message-ID: PLEASE POST --> SAS 2008 at the Technical University of Valencia We are happy to announce that SAS 2008, the Static Analysis Symposium, will take place at the Technical University of Valencia: Submission of abstract: January 12, 2008 Submission of full paper: January 19, 2008 Notification: March 7, 2008 Camera-ready version: April 5, 2008 Conference: July 16-18, 2008 Please see: http://www.dsic.upv.es/~sas2008/ ** The submission site is now open ** Maria Alpuente, German Vidal (PC co-chairs) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers Static Analysis Symposium - SAS 2008 16-18 July 2008, Valencia, Spain (co-located with LOPSTR 2008) url http://www.dsic.upv.es/~sas2008 email sas2008 at dsic.upv.es Static Analysis is increasingly recognized as a fundamental tool for high performance implementations and verification of programming languages and systems. The series of Static Analysis Symposia has served as the primary venue for presentation of theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area. The technical programme for SAS 2008 will consist of invited lectures and presentations of refereed papers. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of static analysis, including, but not limited to: abstract domains abstract interpretation abstract testing compiler optimizations control flow analysis data flow analysis model checking program specialization security analysis theoretical analysis frameworks type based analysis verification systems Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming. Survey papers, that present some aspect of the above topics from a new perspective, and application papers, that describe experience with industrial applications, are also welcome. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published, or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers should be at most 15 pages formatted in LNCS style (excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices not intended for publication). PC members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. The conference proceedings is planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Invited Speakers Roberto Giacobazzi (Universita' degli Studi di Verona, Italy) Ben Liblit (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) PC co-chairs Maria Alpuente (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) German Vidal (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) PC members Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Roberto Bagnara (University of Parma, Italy) Maurice Bruynooghe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Radhia Cousot (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, France) Javier Esparza (Technical University of Munchen, Germany) Sandro Etalle (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Moreno Falaschi (University of Siena, Italy) Stephen Fink (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark) Maria del Mar Gallardo (University of Malaga, Spain) Chris Hankin (Imperial College, UK) Manuel Hermenegildo (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Julia Lawall (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Alexey Loginov (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Hanne Riis Nielson (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) David Schmidt (Kansas State University, USA) Harald Sondergaard (University of Melbourne, Australia) Tachio Terauchi (Tohoku University, Japan) Ji Wang (National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China) Organizing committee chair Alicia Villanueva (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Important dates Submission of abstract: January 12, 2008 Submission of full paper: January 19, 2008 Notification: March 7, 2008 Camera-ready version: April 5, 2008 Conference: July 16-18, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From daniel.lohmann at informatik.uni-erlangen.de Wed Jan 2 12:20:23 2008 From: daniel.lohmann at informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Daniel Lohmann) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:20:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CfP: ACP4IS at AOSD 2008 Message-ID: <91BCE3D8-CCDC-412D-AD5A-5F7176039F72@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> ******************************************************************** Seventh AOSD Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS) March 31, 2008 Brussels, Belgium http://aosd.net/workshops/acp4is/2008 A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'08), March 31 - April 4, 2008, Brussels, Belgium http://aosd.net/conference ******************************************************************** DESCRIPTION ACP4IS provides a highly interactive forum for researchers and developers to discuss the application of and relationships between aspects, components, and patterns within modern "systems infrastructure" software: e.g., application servers, middleware, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, embedded systems, web services and other software that provides general services for higher-level applications. Topics of interest include: - Approaches that combine or relate component-, pattern-, and aspect-based techniques - Aspect languages for infrastructure software - Container-, ORB-, and system-based separation of concerns - Support for Web services in middleware infrastructure - Architectural techniques for particular system concerns, e.g., security, static and dynamic optimization - Aspect mining within infrastructure software - Application- or domain-specific optimization of systems - Reasoning and optimization across architecture layers - Resource consumption of AOP approaches - Timing behavior of AO-code - Aspects and patterns for real-time and embedded systems - Dimensions of infrastructure software quality including comprehensibility, configurability, reliability, evolvability, scalability - Quantitative and qualitative evaluations ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position and technical papers, 3-6 pages in length. Papers should be electronically submitted as PDF documents in ACM format through the ACP4IS 2008 online submission system. Paper submissions will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and designated reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on technical quality, originality, relevance, and presentation. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings in the ACM digital library. Excellent contributions will additionally be selected for publication in a special ACP4IS journal issue (IEE) planned for end of 2008. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline: January 18, 2008 - Notification of Acceptance: February 8, 2008 - Workshop: March 31, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Julia Lawall, DIKU - Gilles Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes - Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund - Aleksandra Tesanovic, Philips Research Laboratories - Charles Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo - Jeff Gray, University of Alabama - Bram Adams, Ghent University - Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam - Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Eddy Truyen, KU Leuven - Robert Grimm, NYU - Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University ORGANIZERS - Celina Gibbs, University of Victoria, Canada - Daniel Lohmann, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany - Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia, Canada STEERING COMMITEE - Eric Eide, University of Utah - Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund - Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria - David Lorenz, University of Virginia From leavens at eecs.ucf.edu Fri Jan 4 14:27:37 2008 From: leavens at eecs.ucf.edu (Gary T. Leavens) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:27:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: FOAL 2008, reminder and revised due dates Message-ID: Note: abstracts only are now due on 11 January, full papers now due 18 January. Call For Papers, FOAL 2008 A workshop affiliated with AOSD 2008 in Brussels, Belgium, on 1 April 2008. Themes and Goals FOAL is a forum for research in foundations of aspect-oriented programming languages. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Semantics of aspect-oriented languages * Specification and verification for such languages * Type systems * Static analysis * Theory of testing * Theory of aspect composition * Theory of aspect translation (compilation) and rewriting The workshop aims to foster work in foundations, including formal studies, promote the exchange of ideas, and encourage workers in the semantics and formal methods communities to do research in the area of aspect-oriented programming languages. All theoretical and foundational studies of this topic are welcome. The goals of FOAL are to: * Make progress on the foundations of aspect-oriented programming languages. * Exchange ideas about semantics and formal methods for aspect-oriented programming languages. * Foster interest within the programming language theory and types communities in aspect-oriented programming languages. * Foster interest within the formal methods community in aspect-oriented programming and the problems of reasoning about aspect-oriented programs. Workshop Format The planned workshop format is primarily presentation of papers and group discussion. Talks will come in three categories: long (30 minutes plus 15 minutes of discussion), regular (20 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussion) and short (7 minutes plus 3 minutes of discussion). The short talks will allow for presentations of topics for which results are not yet available, perhaps for researchers who are seeking feedback on ideas or seek collaborations. We also plan to ensure sufficient time for discussion of each presentation by limiting the overall number of talks. Submissions Invitation to the workshop will be based on papers selected by the program committee; those wishing to attend but not having a paper to submit should contact the organizers directly to see if there is sufficient space in the workshop. FOAL solicits long, regular, and short papers on all areas of formal foundations of AOP languages. Submissions will be read by the program committee and designated reviewers. Papers will be selected for long, regular, and short presentation at the workshop based on their length, scientific merit, innovation, readability, and relevance. Papers previously published or already being reviewed by another conference are not eligible. Some papers may not be selected for presentation, and some may be selected for presentation in shorter talks than their paper length would otherwise command. We will limit the length of paper presentations and the number of papers presented to make sure that there is enough time for discussion. Papers presented at the workshop will be included in the ACM Digital Library, hence authors of accepted papers will be asked to transfer copyright to the ACM. However, as FOAL is a workshop, publication of extended versions of the papers in other venues will remain possible. We will also investigate having a special issue of a journal for revisions of selected papers after the workshop. Authors should note the following details: * Submission of an abstract is due no later than 23:00 GMT, 11 January 2008. * Submission of a full paper is due no later than 23:00 GMT, 18 January 2008. (These are firm deadlines.) * Authors must indicate whether they wish to be considered for a long, regular, or short presentation. * Papers for long presentations must not exceed 10 pages in length; those for regular presentations must not exceed 7 pages in length, and those for short presentations must not exceed 3 pages in length. * We encourage use of the ACM Conference format for submissions, as this will be required for accepted papers. You must add page numbers (which are not part of the standard format) to your submissions, to make adding comments easier. * Submissions are to be made via the following URL: http://continue2.cs.brown.edu/foal08/ We will notify the corresponding author of papers that are selected for presentation at the workshop by 8 February 2008. Early registration for AOSD (you must register for AOSD to attend the workshop) will end on 25 February 2008. Final versions of papers for the proceedings will be due on 1 March 2008. For more information, visit the FOAL Workshop home page (at http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/FOAL). Important Dates Abstract Submission Deadline 23:00 GMT, 11 January 2008 Paper Submission Deadline 23:00 GMT, 18 January 2008 Notification of Acceptance 8 February 2008 Final Versions of Papers Due 1 March 2008 Workshop 1 April 2008 From sweirich at cis.upenn.edu Fri Jan 4 23:00:53 2008 From: sweirich at cis.upenn.edu (Stephanie Weirich) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:00:53 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Coq tutorial materials available Message-ID: <477F00F5.8070509@cis.upenn.edu> Reminder: the Coq Tutorial is next Tuesday in San Francisco, and the schedule is now on the webpage. If you will be attending the tutorial, please download the tutorial materials and try to compile them before coming to the tutorial. If you cannot attend, all of the materials for the tutorial are now available on the webpage and are self contained. You are welcome and encouraged to step through them on your own. Thanks and see you in San Francisco, Stephanie ===================================================================== Tutorial Announcement and Call for Participation Using Proof Assistants for Programming Language Research Or: How to Write Your Next POPL Paper in Coq San Francisco, CA, 8 Jan 2008 Co-located with POPL 2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN http://plclub.org/popl08-tutorial/ ======================================================================= The University of Pennsylvania PLClub invites you to participate in a tutorial on using the Coq proof assistant to formalize programming language metatheory. This tutorial will be tailored to people who are familiar with syntactic proofs of programming language metatheory (type soundness, etc.), but have never used a proof assistant. At the end of the day, participants will have a reading knowledge of Coq and a running start on using Coq in their own work. This tutorial will be *hands-on*, with breaks for exercises; participants are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop running Coq 8.1 (or a later release) and either Proof General or CoqIDE. Tutorial topics - Defining language semantics in Coq - Abstract syntax - Inductively-defined relations - Derivations - Proving simple results - Fundamental tactics - Automation - Forward and backward reasoning - Scaling up to POPLmark - Semantic functions and conversion - Sets and environments - Representing binding - Locally nameless representation - Freshness through cofinite quantification - Syntactic type soundness Registration will be through the POPL 2008 registration site: http://www.regmaster.com/conf/popl2008.html The tutorial is organized and presented by members of the University of Pennsylvania PLClub: Brian Aydemir, Aaron Bohannon, Benjamin Pierce, Jeffrey Vaughan, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Stephanie Weirich, and Steve Zdancewic. Questions can be sent to Stephanie Weirich (sweirich at cis.upenn.edu). From jsp at DI.UMINHO.PT Mon Jan 7 07:50:47 2008 From: jsp at DI.UMINHO.PT (Jorge Sousa Pinto) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:50:47 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: RULE 2008 Message-ID: <1740615A-C2BF-4F0B-B104-F2EFD6040F09@DI.UMINHO.PT> ===================================================================== Call for Papers RULE 2008 9th International Workshop on Rule-Based Programming http://sewiki.iai.uni-bonn.de/rule08/ Hagenberg Castle, Austria 18th July 2008 A satellite event of RTA 2008 ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for electronic submission of papers: April 14, 2008 Author notification: May 26, 2008 Deadline for final versions of accepted papers: June 9, 2008 Workshop: July 18, 2008 The fundamental concepts of rule-based programming are present in many areas of computer science, from theory to practical implementations. In programming languages, term rewriting is used in semantics as well as in implementations that use bottom-up rewriting for code generation. Rules are also used to perform computations in various systems; to describe logical inference in theorem provers; to specify and implement constraint-based algorithms and applications; and to describe and implement program transformations. Rule-based programming provides a common framework for viewing computation as a sequence of transformations on some shared structure such as a term, graph, proof, or constraint store. Rule selection and application is typically governed by a rich set of sophisticated mechanisms for recognizing and manipulating structures. After the development of the principles of rewriting logic and of the rewriting calculus in the nineties, languages and systems such as ASF+SDF, BURG, CHRs, Claire, ELAN, Maude, and Stratego contributed to demonstrate the importance of rule-based programming. The area has since been experiencing a period of growth with the emergence of new concepts, systems, and application domains, such as Domain Specific Languages, Generative and Aspect-Oriented Programming, and Software Engineering activities like maintenance, reverse engineering, and testing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the various communities working on rule-based programming to foster advances in the foundations and research on rule-based programming methods and systems; and to promote cross-fertilization between theory and practice, and the application of rule-based programming in various important domains. Rule'08 is the ninth in a series of workshops. The first Rule workshop was held in Montr?al in 2000, and subsequent editions took place in Firenze, Pittsburgh, Val?ncia, Aachen, Nara, Seattle, and Paris. Topics of Interest ------------------ We solicit original papers on all topics related to rule-based programming including: Theory and Languages for rule-based programming: * Advances in the rewriting calculus * Advances in rewriting logic * Complexity results * Static analysis * Semantics * Type Systems * Implementation techniques * Domain-specific Languages Applications: * Software analysis and transformation * Software development and testing * Reengineering * Security Paradigm combinations of Rule-based programming: * with Functional Programming * with Logic Programming * with Object-oriented programming * Language embedding and extensions Tool and System descriptions * Usability engineering for rule-based programming tools * Experience in building or using rule-based programming systems * Practical aspects of rule-based programming systems * Empirical evaluation of rule-based programming Submission and Publication Submissions to the workshop will be judged on the basis of originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation quality. Papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages in ENTCS format (see ENTCS formatting guidelines). Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission site. If you experience any problems with the submission procedure please contact one of the PC chairs: G?nter Kniesel (gk at cs.uni-bonn.de) or Jorge Sousa Pinto (jsp at di.uminho.pt). Publication of the workshop proceedings by Elsevier Science in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) is anticipated. Program Committee: Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Horatiu Cirstea, IUT Nancy Charlemagne, France Steven Eker, SRI International, USA Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK Jeffrey G. Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA G?nter Kniesel (co-chair), University of Bonn, Germany Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Salvador Lucas, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain Ugo Montanari, Universit? di Pisa, Italy Jorge Sousa Pinto (co-chair), Universidade do Minho, Portugal Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands Jan Wielemaker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Victor Winter, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA From Philippe.LAHIRE at unice.fr Wed Jan 9 09:42:21 2008 From: Philippe.LAHIRE at unice.fr (Philippe.LAHIRE@unice.fr) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:42:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 31 days to go until TOOLS Europe submission deadline Message-ID: <4784DD4D.30604@unice.fr> ============================================================================ TOOLS EUROPE 2008 46th International Conference Objects, Models, Components, Patterns co-located with *** International Conference on Model Transformation 2008 *** *** Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development 2008 *** ETH Zurich, Switzerland 30 June-4 July 2008 http://tools.ethz.ch/ ============================================================================ Call for Papers TOOLS EUROPE 2008 will focus on the combination of technologies that have emerged through objects and object technology becoming mainstream. TOOLS EUROPE 2008 combines an emphasis on quality with a strong practical focus. This is the 46th TOOLS conference. Started in 1989, TOOLS conferences, held in Europe, the USA, Australia, China and Eastern Europe, have played a major role in the development of object technology field; many of the seminal concepts were first presented at TOOLS. The TOOLS series was successfully restarted in 2007. Contributions are solicited on all aspects of object technology and neighbouring fields, in particular model-based development, component-based development, and patterns (design, analysis and other applications); more generally, any contribution addressing topics in advanced software technology fall within the scope of TOOLS. Reflecting the practical emphasis of TOOLS, contributions showcasing applications along with a sound conceptual contribution are particularly welcome. For a non-exclusive list of potential topic areas see the TOOLS Web site. In 2008, TOOLS EUROPE will be co-located with several other events, including SEAFOOD 2008 and the International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT) 2008. Details of co-located events can be found on the TOOLS web site. Submission Guidelines All contributions will be subject to a rigorous selection process by the international Program Committee, with a stress on originality, practicality and overall quality. Every paper will be reviewed by at least 4 committee members. The acceptance rate will be published in the conference proceedings; TOOLS is committed to a fair and extensive peer-review process establishing a high standard in the area of modern practices in software engineering. By submitting a paper to TOOLS, authors warrant that the work is original and that the paper or a similar contribution is neither published nor considered for publication elsewhere. The TOOLS proceedings will be a volume in the new Springer LNBIP series, and papers should be formatted accordingly. Final camera-ready submissions should be at most 20 pages in length in LNBIP format. We recommend that you use this format for preparing your initial submission. Important Dates Deadline for technical papers: February 8, 2008, midnight Zurich time Author notification: April 1, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: April 16, 2008 TOOLS EUROPE will also include workshops and tutorials. See the corresponding calls for contributions. Chairpersons Conference chair: Bertrand Meyer Program chair: Richard Paige Publicity chairs: Laurence Tratt, Philippe Lahire Workshop chairs: Stephane Ducasse, Alexandre Bergel Tutorial Chairs: Manuel Oriol, Phil Brooke Program committee Patrick Albert, Uwe Assmann, Balbir Barn, Mike Barnett, Claude Baudoin, Bernhard Beckert, Jean Bezivin, Jean-Pierre Briot, Phil Brooke, Dave Clarke, Marsha Chechik, Bernard Coulette, Jin Song Dong, Gregor Engels, Patrick Eugster, Jose Fiadeiro, Judit Nyekyne Gaizler, Benoit Garbinato, Carlo Ghezzi, Martin Glinz, Martin Gogolla, Jeff Gray, Pedro Guerreiro, Alan Hartman, Valerie Issarny, Gerti Kappel, Joseph Kiniry, Ivan Kurtev, Philippe Lahire, Ralf Laemmel, Mingshu Li, Tiziana Margaria, Erik Meijer, Peter Mueller, David Naumann, Oscar Nierstrasz, Manuel Oriol, Jonathan Ostroff, Alfonso Pierantonio, Awais Rashid, Nicolas Rouquette, Anthony Savidis, Doug Schmidt, Bran Selic, Jim Steel, Dave Thomas, Laurence Tratt, T.H. Tse, Antonio Vallecillo, Amiram Yehudai, Andreas Zeller. From pierre.courtieu at cnam.fr Tue Jan 8 11:54:29 2008 From: pierre.courtieu at cnam.fr (Pierre Courtieu) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:54:29 -0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 12-18 months post-doc position in CEDRIC, CNAM Paris Message-ID: <20071015112857.5f6e3b33@centaur.cnam.fr> The CEDRIC laboratory of the Conservatoire National des Arts et M?tiers (CNAM) in Paris is offering a post-doctoral position on "formal proofs on security policies" in the CPR team. Starting date: as soon as possible from january 2008. Duration: 12 to 18 months. Place: CNAM, Paris. Contact: Pierre Courtieu The work will consist in developing a methodology for the verification of security properties of access control policies. This will be done with the Coq proof assistant or/and the focal certified programming tool. This position is financed by the project FC? on federation of circles of trust. FC? is financed by DGE (french General Business Directorate, "Direction g?n?rale des entreprises") and is labeled by the french "p?le system at tic". The work will also be in collaboration with the SSURF ANR project (Safety and Security UndeR Focal). http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/portail/une/dgesom.html http://www.systematic-paris-region.org/index.php http://www-spi.lip6.fr/~jaume/ssurf.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Le laboratoire CEDRIC du CNAM Paris propose un stage post-doctoral sur le sujet "Preuves formelles sur les politiques de s?curit?" dans l'?quipe CPR (conception et programmation raisonn?es). D?but: ? partir de janvier 2008. Dur?e: 12 ? 18 mois. Lieu: CNAM, Paris. Contact: Pierre Courtieu Le travail consistera ? d?velopper une m?thodologie de v?rification de propri?t?s de s?curit? sur des politiques de contr?le d'acc?s. On utilisera l'outil de preuve Coq et/ou l'atelier de programmation certifi?e Focal. Ce stage est financ? par le projet FC? sur la f?d?ration de cercles de confiance. FC? est financ? par la DGE (direction g?n?rale des ?quipements) et labellis? par le p?le system at tic. Le travail se fera aussi en collaboration avec le projet ANR SSURF (Safety and Security UndeR Focal) http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/portail/une/dgesom.html http://www.systematic-paris-region.org/index.php http://www-spi.lip6.fr/~jaume/ssurf.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Sat Jan 5 12:26:05 2008 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:26:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CiE 2008 - EXTENDED DEADLINE Message-ID: Due to the high level of requests, we have extended the paper submission deadline to January 14th, 2008: ******************************************************************** Computability in Europe 2008: Logic and Theory of Algorithms University of Athens, June 15-20 2008 http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/ EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 14th, 2008 We cordially invite all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit their papers (in PDF-format, max 10 pages) for presentation at CiE 2008. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer-Verlag. There will also be journal special issues, collecting invited contributions related to the conference. Special issues will be published in the journals "Theory of Computing Systems", the "Archive for Mathematical Logic", and the "Journal of Algorithms". See http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/publications.php for more informations on publications. CiE 2008 CONFERENCE TOPICS include, but not exclusively: * Admissible sets * Analog computation * Artificial intelligence * Automata theory * Classical computability and degree structures * Complexity classes * Computability theoretic aspects of programs * Computable analysis and real computation * Computable structures and models * Computational and proof complexity * Computational learning and complexity * Concurrency and distributed computation * Constructive mathematics * Cryptographic complexity * Decidability of theories * Derandomization * DNA computing * Domain theory and computability * Dynamical systems and computational models * Effective descriptive set theory * Finite model theory * Formal aspects of program analysis * Formal methods * Foundations of computer science * Games * Generalized recursion theory * History of computation * Hybrid systems * Higher type computability * Hypercomputational models * Infinite time Turing machines * Kolmogorov complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * L-systems and membrane computation * Mathematical models of emergence * Molecular computation * Neural nets and connectionist models * Philosophy of science and computation * Physics and computability * Probabilistic systems * Process algebra * Programming language semantics * Proof mining * Proof theory and computability * Quantum computing and complexity * Randomness * Reducibilities and relative computation * Relativistic computation * Reverse mathematics * Swarm intelligence * Type systems and type theory * Uncertain reasoning * Weak systems of arithmetic and applications PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: L. Aiello (Roma) T. Altenkirch (Nottingham) K. Ambos-Spies (Heidelberg) G. Ausiello (Roma) A. Beckmann (Swansea, co-chair) L. Beklemishev (Moscow) P. Bonizzoni (Milano) S. A. Cook (Toronto ON) B. Cooper (Leeds) C. Dimitracopoulos (Athens, co-chair) R. Downey (Wellington) E. Koutsoupias (Athens) O. Kupferman (Jerusalem) S. Laplante (Orsay) H. Leitgeb (Bristol) B. Loewe (Amsterdam) E. Mayordomo Camara (Zaragoza) F. Montagna (Siena) M. Mytilinaios (Athens) (+) M. Nielsen (Aarhus) I. Oitavem (Lisboa) C. Palamidessi (Palaiseau) T. Pheidas (Heraklion) Ramanujam (Chennai) A. Schalk (Manchester) U. Schoening (Ulm) H. Schwichtenberg (Muenchen) A. Selman (Buffalo NY) A. Sorbi (Siena) I. Soskov (Sofia) C. Timpson (Leeds) S. Zachos (New York NY) ******************************************************************** From silvia at imft.ftn.ns.ac.yu Sun Jan 6 09:00:38 2008 From: silvia at imft.ftn.ns.ac.yu (Silvia Ghilezan) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:00:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ITRS'08 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <4780DF06.90600@imft.ftn.ns.ac.yu> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: call-for-papers08.txt Url: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20080106/c588058c/call-for-papers08.txt From venanzio at cs.ru.nl Wed Jan 9 06:46:33 2008 From: venanzio at cs.ru.nl (Venanzio Capretta) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:46:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MSFP call for papers Message-ID: <4784B419.3060206@cs.ru.nl> CALL FOR PAPERS Second Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 6 July 2008, Reykjavik - Iceland A satellite workshop of ICALP 2008 PRESENTATION The workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Monadic programming in Haskell is the paradigmatic example, but there are many more mathematical insights manifest in programs and in programming language design: Freyd-categories in reactive programming, symbolic differentiation yielding context structures, and comonadic presentations of dataflow, to name but three. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control. The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006. An associated special issue of the Journal of Functional Programming is in preparation. SUBMISSIONS Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science have provisionally agreed to publish the proceedings of MSFP 2008. ENTCS require submissions in LaTeX, formatted according to their guidelines (http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html). Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Programme Committee members, barring the co-chairs, may (and indeed are encouraged) to contribute. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. There is no specific page limit, but authors should strive for brevity. We are using the EasyChair software to manage submissions. To submit a paper, please log in at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2008. TIMELINE: Submission of abstracts: 4 April Submission of papers: 11 April Notification: 16 May Final versions due: 13 June Workshop: 6 July For more information about the workshop, go to: http://msfp.org.uk/ Programme Committee * Yves Bertot, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France * Venanzio Capretta (co-chair), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands * Jacques Carette, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada * Thierry Coquand, Chalmers University, G?teborg, Sweden * Andrzej Filinski, DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jean-Christophe Filli?tre, LRI, Universit? Paris Sud, France * Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford University, England * Andy Gill, Galois Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA * Peter Hancock, University of Nottingham, England * Oleg Kiselyov, FNMOC, Monterey, California, USA * Paul Blain Levy, University of Birmingham, England * Andres L?h, Utrecht University, The Netherlands * Marino Miculan, Universit? di Udine, Italy * Conor McBride (co-chair), Alta Systems, Northern Ireland * James McKinna, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands * Alex Simpson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland * Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia From gvidal at dsic.upv.es Thu Jan 10 04:26:36 2008 From: gvidal at dsic.upv.es (German Vidal) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:26:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2008 - Final CFP Message-ID: 15th International Static Analysis Symposium - SAS 2008 Valencia, Spain - July 16-18 >>Just 2 days to go to the abstract submission deadline<< Important dates: Submission of abstract: January 12, 2008 Submission of full paper: January 19, 2008 Notification: March 7, 2008 Camera-ready version: April 5, 2008 Conference: July 16-18, 2008 Please see: http://www.dsic.upv.es/~sas2008/ Maria Alpuente, German Vidal (PC co-chairs) Email: sas2008 at dsic.upv.es From nordio at dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar Fri Jan 11 11:02:27 2008 From: nordio at dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn_Nordio?=) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:02:27 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LASER Summer School on Software Engineering Message-ID: <20080111160140.M20584@dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar> LASER Summer School on Software Engineering Concurrency and Correctness September 7 - 13, 2008 Elba Island, Italy http://laser.inf.ethz.ch Registration Open Early Application deadline: February 28th Goals The LASER school is intended both for researchers (including PhD students) and for professional software engineers and managers who want to benefit from the best in software technology advances. The focus of LASER is resolutely practical, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of the school favors extensive interaction between participants and speakers. Topics and speakers The IT industry, and with it the software research community, are at a crossroads: the end of Moore's law as we know it. The only way to continue delivering needed advances in computational power is to rely on concurrent techniques, such as multicore architectures. But while extensive research has been conducted on concurrent programming for decades, it remains extremely hard to guarantee the correctness of realistic concurrent computations. The 2008 LASER summer school examines issues and solutions in depth. The speakers are among the most respected experts in the field: * Tryggve Fossum, Director of Microarchitecture Development at Intel * Maurice Herlihy, Brown University * Robin Milner, Cambridge University * Peter O'Hearn, Queen Mary University of London * Daniel A. Reed, Microsoft Research and UNC Chapel Hill with Tony Hoare for a special guest lecture. How to apply? Use the online registration form available on the LASER website http://laser.inf.ethz.ch. Registration is open, early registration deadline February 28th. The number of participants is strictly limited to ensure quality interaction with the lecturers and the rest of the audience. For more information, visit our website or contact the organizers at laser at se.inf.ethz.ch. Venue As in previous years, LASER is held in the magnificent setting of the Elba island off the coast of Tuscany, easily reachable by plane (Pisa) and train. Time is set aside to avoid the amenities of the 4-star Hotel del Golfo (private beach, tennis court etc.) as well as the natural and cultural riches of Elba, a history-laden jewel of the Mediterranean. Martin Nordio From herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk Fri Jan 11 11:24:35 2008 From: herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk (Herbert Wiklicky) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:24:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] COORDINATION'08: deadline extension Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS NEW: Deadlines extended !!! COORDINATION 2008 10th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages Member of the Confederated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec 2008) Oslo, Norway 4 - 6 June 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----> Abstract submission: 15 January 2008 (extended) ----> Paper submission: 22 January 2008 (extended) Author notification: 7 March 2008 Camera-ready copy: 26 March 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/Coordination08/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, real-time, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages, and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software development. COORDINATION aims to explore the spectrum of languages, middleware, services, and algorithms that separate behavior from interaction, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Topics of interest: - MODELS AND FOUNDATIONS: models for distributed and concurrent interaction, component composition, service orchestration, workflow management. - SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION: modeling and analysis of properties related to security, dependability, resource-awareness, real-time. - DYNAMIC SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES: software composition and scripting languages, dynamic software evolution and update, configuration and deployment languages. - PROGRAMMING ABSTRACTIONS AND LANGUAGES: techniques that support orchestration and control of distributed and concurrent interaction. - MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURES: shared spaces, publish-subscribe, event-based. - DECENTRALIZED AND DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES: P2P, mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks. - CASE STUDIES: application of coordination techniques in business process modelling, e-commerce, factory automation, collaboration, command and control. INVITED SPEAKERS: The invited lectures will be given in joint sessions among Coordination'08 and the two confederated conferences Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'08) and Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS'08): - Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA (invited by Coordination'08) - Alexander Wolf, Imperial College London, UK (invited by DAIS'08) - Andrew Myers, Cornell University, USA (invited by FMOODS'08) DisCoTec'08 ORGANISERS: General chairs: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway COORDINATION'08 ORGANIZERS: PC chairs: Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Publicity Chair: Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK Steering Committee: Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, Italy (CHAIR) Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, UK Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, Italy & University of Lugano, Switzerland Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK Program Committee : Gul Agha, Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Farhad Arbab, CWI, NL Roberto Bruni, Univ. PISA, IT William Cook, University of Texas, Austin, USA Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, IT John Field, IBM, USA Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt, USA Mike Hicks, University of Maryland, USA Kohei Honda, Queen Mary, UK Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, BE Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA (CHAIR) Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, IT & U. of Lugano, CH Peter O'Hearn, Queen Mary, UK Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Vijay Saraswat, Penn State/IBM, USA Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven/Queensland, NL/AU Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA Franco Zambonelli, Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy (CHAIR) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The Coordination 2008 conference solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically as postscript or PDF, using the SPRINGER LNCS style. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of The Science of Computer Programming journal. Only electronic submission is admitted through the conference web site. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Herbert Wiklicky Department of Computing Tel +44-20-75948206 Imperial College Fax +44-20-75818024 Huxley Building herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk 180 Queen's Gate http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~herbert London SW7 2AZ, UK -------------------------------------------------------- From U.Berger at swansea.ac.uk Fri Jan 11 12:29:50 2008 From: U.Berger at swansea.ac.uk (Ulrich Berger) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:29:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Small Types Workshop in Swansea Message-ID: <4787A78E.90107@swansea.ac.uk> Russell'08 Proof Theory meets Type Theory A "Small Workshop" of the European TYPES Project Swansea, Wales, 15-16 March 2008 http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csetzer/russell08/index.html In 1908 the British Philosopher and Mathematician Bertrand Russell, who was born and died in Wales, published the article "Mathematical Logic as based on the Theory of Types" which contained a first matured exposition of Type Theory. In the same year, Ernst Zermelo's "Untersuchungen ueber die Grundlagen der Mengenlehre I" introduced the basis of current axiomatic set theory as an alternative approach to the foundations of Mathematics. A central theme of Proof Theory is to compare these different foundations. Proof Theory uses as its main tool ordinal notation systems, the basis of which was laid by Oswald Veblen in his paper "Continuous Increasing Functions of Finite and Transfinite Ordinals", again in 1908. A century later, Proof Theory and Type Theory are flourishing more than ever before, and their manifold interconnections are driving important developments in Mathematics and Computer Science. At this workshop we meet and discuss cutting edge research at the interface of Proof Theory and Type Theory. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Proof Theory of Type Theory - Relationship between Type Theory and Set Theory - Program extraction from proofs - Normalisation and Cut-elimination - New approaches to ordinal analysis - Universes and reflection principles - Equality in Type Theory - Philosophical and historical aspects of Proof Theory and Type Theory Invited Speakers: To be confirmed. Participation and Contributed Talks: Please send an email to Anton Setzer (a.g.setzer at swansea.ac.uk) as soon as possible, but no later than the 29th of February 2008. From pschust at mathematik.uni-muenchen.de Mon Jan 14 08:53:42 2008 From: pschust at mathematik.uni-muenchen.de (Peter Schuster) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:53:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3WFTop proceedings: EXTENDED DEADLINE 29 Feb 2008 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended Deadline: Proceedings Third Workshop on Formal Topology ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue of Annals of Pure and Applied Logic ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======== EXTENDED DEADLINE ===== Friday 29 February 2008 ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions by email to: Andrej.Bauer at andrej.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Third Workshop on Formal Topology was held in Padua in May 2007: www.3wftop.math.unipd.it The proceedings of this workshop will be published as a special issue of the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, with the following guest editors: Andrej Bauer, Thierry Coquand, Giovanni Sambin, Peter Schuster. These proceedings are open for high-level research papers on topics from or closely related to formal topology: that is, from constructive and/or point-free topology including applications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From luis.caires at di.fct.unl.pt Sat Jan 12 11:44:11 2008 From: luis.caires at di.fct.unl.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Caires?=) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:44:11 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professorships Available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8FC3C2C5-BBF0-4FC9-845D-B7698444D8A5@di.fct.unl.pt> Dear colleague, Please forward to potentially interested candidates. ======================================= Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Applications are invited for Assistant Professor positions in the Section of Science and Technology of Programming (CTP) at the Departamento de Informatica (http://www.di.fct.unl.pt/) Universidade Nova de Lisboa (http://www.fct.unl.pt/) Candidates must hold a PhD in Computer Science / Informatics, in some software related area (programming languages, algorithms, software engineering, theory, computer graphics, ...). Typical assistant professor duties at Nova include teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate level, between six and nine contact hours per week, and research work. The research activities will be expected to take place at CITI, in topics related to Software Science and Technology. Please consult the CITI web site for more detailed information about the research teams and current projects, in particular about the software related research streams. http://citi.di.fct.unl.pt/ Interested candidates should send a detailed CV to secretaria at di.fct.unl.pt and also by surface mail to Director da Faculdade de Ci?ncias e Tecnologia da UNL Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA Portugal Deadline: 18 January 2008. Please contact us for extra information. From ko at daimi.au.dk Mon Jan 14 07:39:46 2008 From: ko at daimi.au.dk (Klaus Ostermann) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:39:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at University of Aarhus Message-ID: <478B5812.1030607@daimi.au.dk> A postdoctoral position within programming languages and software technology is available at the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. The position is funded by a generous grant from the European Research Council. It enables the successful applicant to concentrate on research only, without teaching obligations (but possibility), project deadlines or deliverables and the like. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus has an exceptional line-up of strong researchers in the areas relevant for this position. We look for candidates with interests in programming languages and software technology. More specifically, he or she should have publications in major conferences/journals in one or more of the following areas: - Domain-specific languages - Library and Framework Design - Modularity - Programming Language Semantics - Type Theory - Programming Language Design and Implementation The position is for three years, with possibility of extension. To apply, please send a letter of interest, research statement, and your CV by email to Klaus Ostermann (contact data given below). To be assured of full consideration, all material must arrive by February 15, 2008. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Contact: Klaus Ostermann Dep. of Computer Science University of Aarhus, Denmark http://www.daimi.au.dk/~ko/ From gvidal at dsic.upv.es Tue Jan 15 03:56:37 2008 From: gvidal at dsic.upv.es (German Vidal) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:56:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] DEADLINE EXTENSION - SAS 2008 Message-ID: 15th International Static Analysis Symposium - SAS 2008 Valencia, Spain - July 16-18 >>DEDLINE EXTENSION<< New important dates: Submission of abstract: January 19, 2008 (changed) Submission of full paper: January 26, 2008 (changed) Notification: March 7, 2008 Camera-ready version: April 5, 2008 Conference: July 16-18, 2008 Please see: http://www.dsic.upv.es/~sas2008/ Maria Alpuente, German Vidal (PC co-chairs) Email: sas2008 at dsic.upv.es From areces at loria.fr Tue Jan 15 18:09:36 2008 From: areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:09:36 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] AiML-2008: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <20080115230936.23864574F1@loria1.loria.fr> ======================================================= Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies []<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr DEADLINE: 31 March 2008 Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics + modal and temporal logic programming + model checking + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic + algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic + coalgebraic modal logic + completeness and canonicity + correspondence and duality theory + many-dimensional modal logics + modal fixed point logics + model theory of modal logic + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic + description logics + dynamic logics and other process logics + epistemic and deontic logics + modal logics for agent-based systems + modal logic and game theory + modal logic and grammar formalisms + provability and interpretability logics + spatial and temporal logics + hybrid logic + intuitionistic logic + monotonic modal logic + substructural logic Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/mgehrke/ - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ PAPER SUBMISSIONS In a change from previous AiML's, there will be two types of paper: (1) Full papers for publication and presentation at the conference. (2) Abstracts for short presentation only. Both types of paper should be submitted electronically using the submission page at http://www.easychair.org/AiML08/ The online submission system will be opened a few weeks before the submission deadline of 31 March 2008. (1) FULL PAPERS These will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the meeting. Authors are invited to submit for review a full paper, not submitted elsewhere. It should be at most 15 pages plus optionally a technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of say 100-200 words. To appear in the conference volume, papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the style files to be provided at http://aiml08.loria.fr . At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the conference to present the paper. (2) ABSTRACTS These should at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light review. They may be made available at the conference, and authors should indicate if they would like to make a short presentation of their abstract of up to 15 minutes. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Stephane Demri (CNRS, Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Carlos Areces LORIA, Nancy carlos.areces(at)loria.fr Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington rob.goldblatt(at)mcs.vuw.ac.nz LOCAL ORGANIZER Patrick Blackburn LORIA, Nancy patrick.blackburn(at)loria.fr IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2008 Acceptance notification: 31 May 2008 Final version of full papers due: 30 June 2008 Conference: 9-12 September 2008 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2008 will be held at LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) in Nancy, in the Lorraine, in the east of France. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website: http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From sfischme at seas.upenn.edu Tue Jan 15 11:20:17 2008 From: sfischme at seas.upenn.edu (Sebastian N. Fischmeister) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:20:17 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APRES'08 - Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems Message-ID: <3C78B342-0682-43B3-80A0-24FD1C456F82@seas.upenn.edu> Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems **** APRES 2008 **** http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/APRES08.html St. Louis, MO, USA -- April 21, 2008 A satellite event of RTAS 2008, integrated in the CPSWEEK http://www.rtas.org/ http://www.cpsweek.org/ With support from the ARTIST European Network of Excellence on Embedded Systems Design http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/ Adaptive systems can respond to environmental changes including hardware/software defects, resource changes, and non-continual feature usage. As such, adaptive systems can extend the area of operations and improve efficiency in the use of system resources. However, adaptability also incurs overhead in terms of system complexity and resource requirements. For example, an adaptive system requires some means for reconfiguration. These means and their mechanisms introduce additional complexity to the design and the architecture, and they also require additional resources such as computation, power, and communication bandwidth. Consequently, adaptive systems must be diligently planned, designed, analyzed, and built to find the right tradeoffs between too much and too little flexibility. The issue is how to provide the adaptability to the application, because it affects all aspects of the development process (e.g., capturing, methodologies, modeling, analysis, testing, and implementation), the chosen system technologies (e.g., computation and communication models, interfaces, component-based design, programming languages, dependability, and design patterns) and the system itself (e.g., operating system, middleware, network protocols, and application frameworks). In many systems, flexibility and the resulting tradeoffs is usually ignored until a very late stage. Many try to retrofit existing prototypes, middleware, operating systems, and protocols with concepts and means for flexibility such as run-time system reconfiguration or reflexive diagnostics and steering methods. Such retrofitting typically leads to disproportionate overhead, unusual tradeoffs, and in general it leads to less satisfactory results. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss new and on-going research that is centered on the idea of adaptability as first class citizen and consider the involved tradeoffs. The workshop will provide an open forum to discuss ideas and approaches, and intends to give the attendees a chance to discuss them in a relaxed environment. The target audience includes people from academia, tool vendors, system suppliers, and users in industry interested in the all aspects of the mentioned topics. The workshop will be based on presentations of selected works with sufficient time for feedback from the audience and discussions. We encourage all the prospective participants to submit short papers, workin-progress reports, or position papers. Topics - Capturing and modeling of flexible application and reconfiguration requirements - Tradeoff analysis and modeling - Programming-language support for adaptability - Middleware support for adaptability - Operating system support for adaptability - Computation and communication models for adaptability - Policies and algorithms for single and multi-resource reconfiguration - Verification and certification of reconfigurable systems - Case studies and success stories - Taxonomies and comparative studies - Diagnostic and steering of embedded systems - System architecture and design patterns for adaptability - Probabilistic reconfiguration techniques - Scalability, reusability, and modularity of reconfiguration mechanisms - Dependability and adaptability across the architectural levels - Quality of service management - Application frameworks for reconfigurable embedded systems Submission Guidelines Prospective participants should submit a 4 page paper in PDF format. The submissions should conform to the proceedings publication format (IEEE Conference style). They should explain the intention of the work, the prospective results, and make clear the current status of the work. The submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The papers will be published in a supplemental volume of the RTAS Proceedings that will be distributed at the workshop to all participants. They will also be published on- line, in the web page of the workshop. Important Dates Deadline: Feb. 1, 2008 Notification: March 5, 2008 Final versions: March 24, 2008 Workshop: April 21, 2008 Organizers Luis Almeida, Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal Sebastian Fischmeister, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Insup Lee, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Julian Proenza, Univ. of the Balearic Islands, Spain Program Committee Anton Cervin, Lund University, Sweden Antonio Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal Arnaldo Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Carlos Eduardo Pereira, UFRG, Brazil Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg, Austria Eric Rutten, INRIA Grenoble, France Jane Liu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jean-Dominique Decotignie, CSEM, Switzerland Jorg Kaiser, University of Magdeburg, Germany Joseph Sifakis, VERIMAG, Grenoble, France Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy Marco Caccamo, University of Illinois UC, USA Marga Marcos, University of the Basque Country, Spain Marisol Garcia-Valls, Univ. 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URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20080115/c6825087/attachment.htm From txa at Cs.Nott.AC.UK Wed Jan 16 17:49:47 2008 From: txa at Cs.Nott.AC.UK (Thorsten Altenkirch) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:49:47 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Small Workshop: DEPENDENTLY TYPED PROGRAMMING Message-ID: <7BE443C9-9559-48BB-915F-4E648DF81D2C@cs.nott.ac.uk> Hi everybody, it is now possible to register for the small workshop on Dependently Typed Programming in Nottingham - see http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/ darcs/DTP08/ The workshop is taking place 18-20 February in Nottingham at the NCSL conference centre. This is on campus but much nicer than the usual student accomodation! We have two invited speakers: Lennart Augustsson and Xavier Leroy. For more details see the webpage: http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/darcs/ DTP08/ Please register soon, there is a limit of accomodation at NCSL - we will have to confirm our reservation Monday, 21/1/07. Cheers, Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM FOR "Dependently Typed Programming 08" Name : Affiliation : I would like to give a talk / I would not like to give a talk. 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From katoen at cs.rwth-aachen.de Fri Jan 18 03:19:41 2008 From: katoen at cs.rwth-aachen.de (Joost-Pieter Katoen) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:19:41 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Satellite Events ETAPS'09 Message-ID: <4790611D.6050403@cs.rwth-aachen.de> ETAPS 2009 Call for Proposals for Satellite Events Extension York, 2009 We have had a small number of people telling us they were not aware of the closing date for proposals for satellite workshops and tutorials at ETAPS 2009 (to be held in York, England). Because of this we are prepared to accept proposals until 2008 Jan 30. Full details are on the web site: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/etaps09/ +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Joost-Pieter Katoen email: my_last_name[at]cs.rwth-aachen.de | | RWTH Aachen URL: www-i2.cs.rwth-aachen.de/~katoen | | LS2: Software Modeling and Verification tel: +49 241 8021200 | | D-52056 Aachen, Germany fax: +49-241 8022217 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ From bernhard at sussex.ac.uk Fri Jan 18 03:34:05 2008 From: bernhard at sussex.ac.uk (Bernhard Reus) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:34:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop DOMAINS IX Message-ID: <9FC32FBC-6BD5-43EC-9820-2A508A8AFC59@sussex.ac.uk> W o r k s h o p A n n o u n c e m e n t D O M A I N S IX http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/events/domains9/ University of Sussex, Brighton, 22-24 September 2008 INTRODUCTION The Workshop on Domains is aimed at computer scientists and mathematicians alike who share an interest in the mathematical foundations of computation. The workshop will focus on domains, their applications and related topics. Previous meetings were held in Darmstadt (94,99,04), Braunschweig (96), Munich (97), Siegen (98), Birmingham (02) and Novosibirsk (07). FORMAT The emphasis is on the exchange of ideas between participants similar in style to Dagstuhl seminars. In particular, talks on subjects presented at other conferences and workshops are acceptable. INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed) Jean Goubault-Larrecq LSV/ENS Cachan & CNRS Martin Hyland Cambridge University John Longley University of Edinburgh Andrew Pitts Cambridge University More invited speakers to be announced soon! SCOPE Domain theory has had applications to programming language semantics and logics (lambda-calculus, PCF, LCF), recursion theory (Kleene-Kreisel countable functionals), general topology (injective spaces, function spaces, locally compact spaces, Stone duality), topological algebra (compact Hausdorff semilattices) and analysis (measure, integration, dynamical systems). Moreover, these applications are related - for example, Stone duality gives rise to a logic of observable properties of computational processes. As such, domain theory is highly interdisciplinary. Topics of interaction with domain theory for this workshop include, but are not limited to: program semantics program logics probabilistic computation exact computation over the real numbers lambda calculus games models of sequential computation constructive mathematics recursion theory realizability real analysis and computability topology, metric spaces and domains locale theory category theory topos theory type theory SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS One-page abstracts need to be submitted to domains9 at sussex.ac.uk Shortly after an abstract is submitted (usually two or three weeks), the authors will be notified by the programme committee. The criterion for acceptance is relevance to the meeting. In particular, talks on subjects presented at other conferences and workshops are acceptable. DEADLINE Abstracts will be dealt with on a first-come/first-served basis. We expect potential speakers to express the intention to give a talk by the end of June. REGISTRATION Further details about the local arrangements will be provided soon. ACCOMMODATION The workshop will be held at the University of Sussex at Falmer, Brighton (UK). Newly built halls of residence will be available to workshop participants. Further information on travel, accommodation and places of local interest will be announced closer to the workshop. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Martin Escardo University of Birmingham Achim Jung University of Birmingham (Co-Chair) Klaus Keimel TU Darmstadt (Co-Chair) Bernhard Reus University of Sussex (Co-Chair) Thomas Streicher TU Darmstadt ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Bernhard Reus University of Sussex PUBLICATION We plan to publish proceedings of the workshop in a special volume of a journal. There will be a call for papers after the workshop. The papers will be refereed according to normal publication standards. URL http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/events/domains9/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20080118/292d2e1f/attachment.htm From luca at ru.is Fri Jan 18 08:32:05 2008 From: luca at ru.is (Luca Aceto) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:32:05 -0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP 2008: Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <07D05A69A3D0C14FAEA60C3ACE8E55640BDDF929@nike.hir.is> *** We apologize for multiple postings *** ___________________________________________________________________ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - ICALP'08 35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming July 6-13, 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland http://www.ru.is/icalp08 ___________________________________________________________________ The 35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science EATCS will take place from the 6th to the 13th of July 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The main conference will take place from the 7th till the 11th of July, and will be preceded and followed by 13 co-located events. (See http://www.ru.is/icalp08/workshops.html for the list of events affiliated with ICALP 2008.) In addition, the ETACS award 2008 and the Goedel prize 2008 will be awarded at the conference. Following the successful experience of the last three editions, ICALP 2008 will complement the established structure of the scientific program based on Track A on Algorithms, Automata, Complexity and Games, and Track B on Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming, corresponding to the two main streams of the journal Theoretical Computer Science, with a special Track C on Security and Cryptography Foundations The aim of Track C is to allow a deeper coverage of a particular topic, to be specifically selected for each year's edition of ICALP on the basis of its timeliness and relevance for the theoretical computer science community. Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are: Track A - Algorithms, Automata, Complexity and Games: * Algorithmic Aspects of Networks * Algorithmic Game Theory * Approximation Algorithms * Automata Theory * Combinatorics in Computer Science * Computational Biology * Computational Complexity * Computational Geometry * Data Structures * Design and Analysis of Algorithms * Internet Algorithmics * Machine Learning * Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing * Randomness in Computation * Quantum Computing Track B - Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming: * Algebraic and Categorical Models * Automata and Formal Languages * Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation * Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory * Principles of Programming Languages * Logics, Formal Methods and Model Checking * Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems * Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems * Program Analysis and Transformation * Specification, Refinement and Verification * Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi Track C - Security and Cryptography Foundations: * Cryptographic Notions, Mechanisms, Systems and Protocols * Cryptographic Proof Techniques, Lower bounds, Impossibilities * Foundations of Secure Systems and Architectures * Logic and Semantics of Security Protocols * Number Theory and Algebraic Algorithms (Primarily in Cryptography) * Pseudorandomness, Randomness, and Complexity Issues * Secure Data Structures, Storage, Databases and Content * Security Modeling: Combinatorics, Graphs, Games, Economics * Specifications, Verifications and Secure Programming * Theory of Privacy and Anonymity * Theory of Security in Networks and Distributed Computing * Quantum Cryptography and Information Theory SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages in LNCS style presenting original research on the theory of Computer Science. Submissions should indicate to which track (A, B, or C) the paper is submitted. No simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed. The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series by Springer-Verlag. It is recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referee but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. All submissions to ICALP, including those to track C, should include authors' names and affiliations. Submissions to ICALP 2008 are now open. To submit a paper to the conference, please visit the URL http://www.ru.is/icalp08/submissions.html. INVITED SPEAKERS (Preliminary list) * Ran Canetti (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and MIT, USA) * Bruno Courcelle (Labri, Universite Bordeaux, France) * Javier Esparza (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) * Muthu Muthukrishnan (Google, USA) * Peter Winkler (Dartmouth, USA) IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: 23:59 GMT, February 10, 2008. * Notification: April 9, 2008 * Final version due: April 30, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Track A * Michael Bender (State Univ of New York at Stony Brook, USA) * Magnus Bordewich (Durham University, UK) * Peter Bro Miltersen (Aarhus University, Denmark) * Lenore Cowen (Tufts University, USA) * Pierluigi Crescenzi (Universita' di Firenze, Italy) * Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick, UK) * Edith Elkind (University of Southampton, UK) * David Eppstein (University of California at Irvine, USA) * Leslie Ann Goldberg (University of Liverpool, UK) (chair) * Martin Grohe (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany) * Giuseppe Italiano (Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy) * Christos Kaklamanis (University of Patras, Greece) * Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University, USA) * Ian Munro (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Ryan O'Donnell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Dana Ron (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) * Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University, US) * Christian Scheideler (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) * Christian Sohler (University of Paderborn, Germany) * Luca Trevisan (University of California at Berkeley, USA) * Berthold Vocking (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) * Gerhard Woeginger (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) Track B * Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden) * Luca de Alfaro (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Christel Baier (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany) * Giuseppe Castagna (Universite Paris 7, France) * Rocco de Nicola (Universita' di Firenze, Italy) * Javier Esparza (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) * Marcelo Fiore (University of Cambridge, UK) * Erich Graedel (RWTH Aachen, Germany) * Jason Hickey (California Institute of Technology, USA) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitdt M|nchen, Germany) * Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom (Leiden University, NL) * Radha Jagadeesen (DePaul University, USA) * Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) * Luke Ong (Oxford University, UK) * Dave Schmidt (Kansas State University, USA) * Philippe Schnoebelen (ENS Cachan, France) * Igor Walukiewicz (Labri, Universite Bordeaux, France) (chair) * Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia University, USA) * Wieslaw Zielonka (Universite Paris 7, France) Track C * Christian Cachin (IBM Research Zurich, CH) * Jan Camenisch (IBM Research Zurich, CH) * Ivan Damgaard, (Aarhus University, Denmark) (chair) * Stefan Dziembowski ((Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) * Dennis Hofheinz (CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands) * Susan Hohenberger (Johns Hopkins University, USA) * Yuval Ishai (Technion Haifa, Israel) * Lars Knudsen (DTU Copenhagen, Denmark) * Arjen Lenstra (EPFL Lausanne, CH) * Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University, USA) * Rafael Pass (Cornell University, USA) * David Pointcheval (ENS Paris, France) * Dominique Unruh (Saarland University, Germany) * Serge Vaudenay (EPFL Lausanne, CH) * Bogdan Warinschi (Bristol University, UK) * Douglas Wikstroem (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) * Stefan Wolf (ETH Zurich, CH) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ********************* Luca Aceto Magnus M. Halldorsson Anna Ingolfsdottir CONTACT ADDRESSES: ****************** Email: icalp08 at ru.is For further information see: http://www.ru.is/icalp08/ From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Fri Jan 18 09:04:17 2008 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (ruy@cin.ufpe.br) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:04:17 -0200 (BRST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] WoLLIC 2008 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <1490.172.17.149.28.1200665057.squirrel@webmail.cin.ufpe.br> [** sincere apologies for duplicates **] Call for Papers 15th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2008) Edinburgh, Scotland July 1-4, 2008 (There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem" http://zalafilms.com/films/juliarobinson.html with kind permission of the film director) 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. The Fifteenth WoLLIC will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 1 to July 4, 2008. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION 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; 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. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2008/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 24, and the full paper by March 2 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 13, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 27 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2008, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (tbc). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2008 issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation (tbc). INVITED SPEAKERS Olivier Danvy (BRICS) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, UK) Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) Sam Lomonaco (U Maryland Baltimore) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U) Henry Towsner (CMU) Nikolay Vereshchagin (Moscow) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2008 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2008). See www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES February 24, 2008: Paper title and abstract deadline March 2, 2008: Full paper deadline (firm) April 13, 2008: Author notification April 27, 2008: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lev Beklemishev (Utrecht) Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion) Xavier Caicedo (U Los Andes, Colombia) Mary Dalrymple (Oxford) Martin Escardo (Birmingham) Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary, U London) (Chair) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Louis Kauffman (Maths, U Ill at Chicago) Ulrich Kohlenbach (Darmstadt) Leonid Libkin (Edinburgh U) Giuseppe Longo (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA) Andre Scedrov (Maths, U Penn) Valentin Shehtman (Inst for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow) Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt U, Scotland) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Brasilia, Brazil) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt U, Scotland, co-chair) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair) STEERING COMMITTEE J. van Benthem, J. Halpern, W. Hodges, D. Leivant, A. Macintyre, G. Mints, R. de Queiroz WEB PAGE www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2008/ --- From daniel.lohmann at informatik.uni-erlangen.de Fri Jan 18 07:01:19 2008 From: daniel.lohmann at informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Daniel Lohmann) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:01:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension: ACP4IS at AOSD 2008 Message-ID: Due to several requests, the deadline has been extended by one week. The new submission deadline is Friday, 25th of January. Take your chance to submit for this great workshop :-) ******************************************************************** Seventh AOSD Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS) March 31, 2008 Brussels, Belgium http://aosd.net/workshops/acp4is/2008 A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'08), March 31 - April 4, 2008, Brussels, Belgium http://aosd.net/conference ******************************************************************** DESCRIPTION ACP4IS provides a highly interactive forum for researchers and developers to discuss the application of and relationships between aspects, components, and patterns within modern "systems infrastructure" software: e.g., application servers, middleware, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, embedded systems, web services and other software that provides general services for higher-level applications. Topics of interest include: - Approaches that combine or relate component-, pattern-, and aspect-based techniques - Aspect languages for infrastructure software - Container-, ORB-, and system-based separation of concerns - Support for Web services in middleware infrastructure - Architectural techniques for particular system concerns, e.g., security, static and dynamic optimization - Aspect mining within infrastructure software - Application- or domain-specific optimization of systems - Reasoning and optimization across architecture layers - Resource consumption of AOP approaches - Timing behavior of AO-code - Aspects and patterns for real-time and embedded systems - Dimensions of infrastructure software quality including comprehensibility, configurability, reliability, evolvability, scalability - Quantitative and qualitative evaluations ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position and technical papers, 3-6 pages in length. Papers should be electronically submitted as PDF documents in ACM format through the ACP4IS 2008 online submission system found at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acp4is08. Paper submissions will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and designated reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on technical quality, originality,relevance, and presentation. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings in the ACM digital library. Excellent contributions will additionally be selected for publication in a special ACP4IS journal issue (IEE) planned for end of 2008. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline: January 25, 2008 (extended) - Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2008 (extended) - Workshop: March 31, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Julia Lawall, DIKU - Gilles Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes - Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund - Aleksandra Tesanovic, Philips Research Laboratories - Charles Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo - Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Bram Adams, Ghent University - Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam - Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Eddy Truyen, KU Leuven - Robert Grimm, NYU - Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University ORGANIZERS - Celina Gibbs, University of Victoria, Canada - Daniel Lohmann, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany - Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia, Canada STEERING COMMITEE - Eric Eide, University of Utah - Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund - Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria - David Lorenz, University of Virginia From E.Ritter at cs.bham.ac.uk Fri Jan 18 10:11:47 2008 From: E.Ritter at cs.bham.ac.uk (Eike Ritter) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:11:47 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Midlands Graduate School 2008 Message-ID: <4790C1B3.4050906@cs.bham.ac.uk> Call for Participation Midlands Graduate School in Computer Science 14-18 April 2008 School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science provides an intensive course of lectures on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing. It has run annually since 1999, and is hosted by the Universites of Birmingham, Leicester, and Nottingham in rotation. The lectures are aimed at PhD students, typically in their first or second year of study. However, the school is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about the mathematical foundations of computing, and all such participants are warmly welcomed. We also very much welcome students from abroad. We gratefully acknowledge financial support by ESPRC. The following courses will be offered: Basic Courses: Category Theory (Neil Ghani, University of Nottingham) Operational Semantics (Roy Crole, University of Leicester) Typed Lambda Calculus (Paul Levy, University of Birmingham) Advanced Courses: The Mathematical Structure of Information Flow, in Physics, Geometry, Logic and Computation. (Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford) Coq (Thorsten Altenkirch, University of Nottingham) Denotational Semantics (Martin Escardo, University of Birmingham) Games for Software Verification (Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham) Proof Theory (Peter Hancock, University of Nottingham) Algebraic Methods (Georg Struth, University of Sheffield) LOCATION The school will be held in the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. Birmingham is centrally located in the UK, and is easily reachable by road, rail and air (Birmingham International Airport). REGISTRATION The deadline for registration is 8 March 2008, and the registration fee is 350 UK pounds, including accomodation. We also have a number of free places for UK-based PhD students. The deadline for applying for these free places is 15 February 2008. The number of places is limited, so early registration is advised. FURTHER DETAILS Google search - MGS 2008 Web page - http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/mgs2008 -- ------------------------------------ Dr Eike Ritter Tel.: (+44) 121 41 44772 School of Computer Science Sec.: (+44) 121 41 43711 The University of Birmingham Fax.: (+44) 121 41 44281 Edgbaston Email: E.Ritter at cs.bham.ac.uk BIRMINGHAM, B15 2TT Web: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk England ------------------------------------ From Bob.Coecke at comlab.ox.ac.uk Fri Jan 18 11:42:46 2008 From: Bob.Coecke at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Bob Coecke) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:42:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for contributions: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL'08) & DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM'08) Message-ID: ANNOUNCEMENT/CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: --------------------------------------- Joint International Workshop on: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL'08) DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM'08) July 12-13, 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland. http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/bob.coecke/DCM_QPL_08.html --------------------------------------- This to ICALP 2008 affiliated joint event combines two (established) workshop series: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL'08): This event has as its goal to bring together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum computing and the use of logical tools, new structures, formal languages, semantical methods and other computer science methods for the study quantum behaviour in general. Over the past couple of years there has been a growing activity in these foundational approaches together with a renewed interest in the foundations of quantum theory, which complement the more mainstream research in quantum computation. A predecessor of this event, with the same acronym, called Quantum Programming Languages, was held in Ottawa (2003), Turku (2004), Chicago (2005) and Oxford (2006); with the change of name and a new program committee we wish to emphasise the intended much broader scope of this event, aiming to nourish interaction between modern computer science logic, quantum computation and information, and structural foundations for quantum physics. DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM'08): Besides quantum computing, several new models of computation have emerged in the last few years, and many developments of traditional computational models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of computer systems users and the new capabilities of computation engines. A new computational model, or a new feature in a traditional one, usually is reflected in new structural paradigms. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. Previous editions in 2005, 2006 and 2007 were also affiliated to ICALP. Invited speakers: Terry Rudolph (Imperial College London) TBA Programme Committee: Howard Barnum (Los Alamos) Dan Browne (University College London) Bob Coecke (Oxford) Co-Chair Vincent Danos (Paris VII) Andreas Doering (Imperial College London) Annick Lesne (IHS Paris) Ian Mackie (Sussex) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Co-Chair Jon Yard (Los Alamos) Dates: - Submission deadline: March 31 - Acceptance/rejection notification: April 21 - Pre-proceedings versions due: June 15 - Workshop: July 12-13 2007 Submission format: Prospective speakers are invited to submit a 2-5 pages abstract which provides sufficient evidence of results of genuine interest and provides sufficient detail to allows the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submissions of works in progress are encouraged but must be more substantial than a research proposal. We both encourage submissions of original research as well as research submitted elsewhere. Authors of accepted original research contributions will be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of a journal yet to be decided on. Submissions should be in Postscript or PDF format and should be sent to Bob Coecke by March 15. Receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged by return email. Accepted contributors will be able to publish extended versions of their abstracts in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. Financial support. The workshop enjoys support from: EPSRC Network Semantics of Quantum Computation (EP/E006833/1) EPSRC ARF The Structure of Quantum Information and its Applications to IT (EP/D072786/1) From R.E.Jones at kent.ac.uk Fri Jan 18 13:29:33 2008 From: R.E.Jones at kent.ac.uk (R.E.Jones) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:29:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ISMM 2008: Call for papers deadline extended Message-ID: International Symposium on Memory Management 2008 http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~rej/ismm2008 Call for Papers DEADLINE EXTENDED Abstracts: 16 January 2008 (5pm PST) Full papers: 23 January 2008 (5pm PST) PLDI authors: Authors who have already submitted a paper to PLDI'08 are encouraged to submit the abstract to ISMM as well. However, if the paper is accepted by PLDI, then the abstract should be withdrawn and no full paper submitted. From R.E.Jones at kent.ac.uk Fri Jan 18 14:09:54 2008 From: R.E.Jones at kent.ac.uk (R.E.Jones) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:09:54 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ISMM 2008: Call for papers deadline extended (CORRECTED) Message-ID: [Apologies for previous mail which still had the old dates] International Symposium on Memory Management 2008 http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~rej/ismm2008 Call for Papers DEADLINE EXTENDED Abstracts: 3 February 2008 (5pm PST) Full papers: 10 February 2008 (5pm PST) PLDI authors: Authors who have already submitted a paper to PLDI'08 are encouraged to submit the abstract to ISMM as well. However, if the paper is accepted by PLDI, then the abstract should be withdrawn and no full paper submitted. From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Mon Jan 21 10:54:25 2008 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:54:25 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP2008 Call for Papers Message-ID: <53ff55480801210754r5cf5300ct576aaf946be17b38@mail.gmail.com> Call for Papers ICFP 2008: International Conference on Functional Programming Victoria, BC, Canada, 22-24 September 2008 http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008 Submission deadline: 2 April 2008 ICFP 2008 seeks original papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to features, from abstraction to application. The scope includes all languages that encourage functional programming, including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as languages with objects and concurrency. Particular topics of interest include * Applications and Domain-Specific Languages: systems programming; scientific and numerical computing; symbolic computing; artificial intelligence; databases; graphical user interfaces; multimedia programming; scripting; system administration; distributed-systems and web programming; XML processing; security * Foundations: formal semantics; lambda calculus; type theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects * Design: algorithms and data structures; modules; type systems; concurrency and distribution; components and composition; relations to object-oriented or logic programming * Implementation: abstract machines; compile-time and run-time optimization; just-in-time compilers; memory management; parallel hardware; interfaces to foreign functions, services, components or low-level machine resources * Transformation and Analysis: abstract interpretation; partial evaluation; program transformation * Software-development Techniques: design patterns; specification; verification; validation; debugging; test generation; tracing; profiling * Functional Pearls: elegant, instructive, and fun essays on functional programming * Practice and Experience: novel results drawn from experience in education or industry. Experience Reports are also solicited, which are short papers (2-4 pages) that provide evidence that functional programming really works or describe obstacles that have kept it from working in a particular application. Functional Pearls and Experience Reports are separate categories of papers that need not report original research results and must be marked as such at the time of submission. Detailed guidelines on both categories are below. What's different this year? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * No double blind reviewing. Instructions for authors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 09:00 AM Apia time, submit an abstract of at most 300 words and a full paper of at most 12 pages (4 pages for an Experience Report), including bibliography and figures. The deadline will be strictly enforced and papers not meeting the page limits are summarily rejected. Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers are not expected to read it. A submission will be evaluated according to its relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. It should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. The technical content should be accessible to a broad audience. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to transfer the copyright to ACM. They may have the option to have their presentation videotaped and published along with the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Video recordings will only be released at the consent of the presenter, which is expressed by signing an additional copyright release/permission form. Formatting ~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. If this requirement is a hardship, make contact with the program chair at least one week before the deadline. ICFP proceedings are printed in black and white. It is permissible to include color in a submission, but you risk annoying reviewers who will have to decide if your final paper will be understandable without it. Papers must adhere to the standard ACM conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available from SIGPLAN. Submission ~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions will be accepted electronically; the submission page is not yet ready. The deadline is set at Samoan time, so if your submission is in by 09:00 AM Wednesday according to your local time, wherever you are, the submission will be on time. The world clock (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=2&year=2008&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=282) can give you the equivalent in your local time, e.g.,1:00 PM Wednesday in Seattle, 4:00 PM Wednesday in New York, and 9:00 PM Wednesday in London. Citation ~~~~~~~~ We recommend (but do not require) that you put your citations into author-date form. This procedure makes your paper easier to review. For example, if you cite a result on testing as ``(Claessen and Hughes 2000)'', many reviewers will recognize the result instantly. On the other hand, if you cite it as ``[4]'', even the best-informed reviewer has to page through your paper to find the reference. By using author-date form, you enable a knowledgeable reviewer to focus on content, not arbitrary numbering of references. LaTeX users can simply use the natbib package along with the plainnat bibliography style. Author response ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You will have a 48-hour period, starting at 09:00 on 21 May 2008 Apia time, to read and respond to reviews. Special categories of papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In addition to research papers, ICFP solicits two kinds of papers that do not require original research contributions: Functional Pearls, which are full papers, and Experience Reports, which are limited to four pages. Authors submitting such papers may wish to consider the following advice. Functional Pearls ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to functional programming. It might offer: * a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea * an instructive example of program calculation or proof * a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure * an interesting application of functional programming techniques * a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom Functional Pearls are not restricted to the above varieties, however. While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a short program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do so. Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational pearls. A pearl should be concise, instructive, and entertaining. Your pearl is likely to be rejected if your readers get bored, if the material gets too complicated, if too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing. Some advice from Richard Bird: * Throw away the rule book for writing research papers. * Get in quick; get out quick. * Be self-contained; don't go deep into related work, with lengthy references. * You are telling a story, so some element of surprise is welcome. * Above all, be engaging. * Give a talk on the pearl to non-specialists, your students, or your department. If you changed the order of presentation for the talk, consider using the new order in the next draft. * Put the pearl away for a while, then take it out and polish it again. Experience Reports ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ICFP has long solicited submissions on the practice and experience of functional programming. But reports of experience are inherently different from research papers, and when judged by the criteria of scientific merit, novelty, or research contribution, they have not competed well against traditional ICFP submissions. Yet we believe that the functional-programming community would benefit from being able to draw on and cite the experience of others. For this reason, we have introduced the ICFP Experience Report. Unlike a normal ICFP paper, the purpose of an Experience Report is not to add to the body of knowledge of the functional-programming community. Rather, the purpose of an Experience Report is to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence that functional programming really works---or to describe what obstacles prevent it from working. An Experience Report is distinguished from a normal ICFP paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to evaluate it. * Both in the proceedings and in any citations, the title of each accepted Experience Report must begin with the words ``Experience Report'' followed by a colon. * An Experience Report is at most 4 pages long. Each accepted Experience Report will be presented at the conference, but depending on the number of Experience Reports and regular papers accepted, authors of Experience reports may be asked to give shorter talks. * Because the purpose of Experience Reports is to enable our community to accumulate a body of evidence about the efficacy of functional programming, an acceptable Experience Report need not present novel results or conclusions. It is sufficient if the Report states a clear thesis and provides supporting evidence. The thesis must be relevant to ICFP, but it need not be novel. The program committee will accept or reject Experience Reports based on whether they judge the evidence to be convincing. Anecdotal evidence will be acceptable provided it is well argued and the author explains what efforts were made to gather as much evidence as possible. Typically, more convincing evidence is obtained from papers which show how functional programming was used than from papers which only say that functional programming was used. The most convincing evidence often includes comparisons of situations before and after the introduction or discontinuation of functional programming. Evidence drawn from a single person's experience may be sufficient, but more weight will be given to evidence drawn from the experience of groups of people. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to * Insights gained from real-world projects using functional programming * Comparison of functional programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum * Project-management, business, or legal issues encountered when using functional programming in a real-world project * Curricular issues encountered when using functional programming in education * Real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a functional language or for functional programming in general An Experience Report should be short and to the point: make a claim about how well functional programming worked on your project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate your claim. If functional programming worked for you in the same ways it has worked for others, you need only to summarize the results---the main part of your paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of your project and its implementation, but please characterize your project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree your experience is relevant to their own projects. Be especially careful to highlight any unusual aspects of your project. Also keep in mind that specifics about your project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that your team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made your team more productive. If your paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if your experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, you may be better off submitting it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. If you are unsure in which category to submit, the program chair will be happy to help you decide. Other information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Conference Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Hook (Portland State University) Program Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter Thiemann Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Georges-K?hler-Allee 079 79110 Freiburg, Germany Email: icfp08 at informatik.uni-freiburg.de Phone: +49 761 203 8051 Fax: +49 761 203 8052 Mail sent to the address above is filtered for spam. If you send mail and do not receive a prompt response, particularly if the deadline is looming, feel free to telephone and reverse the charges. Program Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Derek Dreyer (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) Robert Ennals (Intel Research) Kathleen Fisher (AT&T Research) Zhenjiang Hu (University of Tokyo) Frank Huch (University of Kiel) Andrew Kennedy (Microsoft Research) Kevin Millikin (Google) Henrik Nilsson (University of Nottingham) Chris Okasaki (United States Military Academy) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) Rinus Plasmeijer (University of Nijmegen) Alan Schmitt (INRIA) Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers) Mitchell Wand (Northeastern University) Stephen Weeks (Jane Street Capital) Important Dates (at 09:00 Apia time, UTC-11) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submission: 2 April 2008 Author response: 21 May 2008 Notification: 16 June 2008 Final papers due: 7 July 2008 ICFP 2008 Web Site ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008/ Special Journal Issue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There will be a special journal issue with papers from ICFP 2008. The program committee will invite the authors of select accepted papers to submit a journal version to this issue. From dallago at cs.unibo.it Tue Jan 22 05:59:49 2008 From: dallago at cs.unibo.it (Ugo Dal Lago) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:59:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2008 - first call for papers Message-ID: <4795CCA5.6000508@cs.unibo.it> --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Computer Science Logic 2008 CSL 2008 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic Bertinoro (Bologna), Italy 15 - 20 September 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: March 28, 2008 Paper submission: April 7, 2008 Author notification: May 19, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://csl2008.cs.unibo.it --------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). The conference is intended for computer scientists whose research activities involve logic, as well as for logicians working on issues significant for computer science. Topics of interest include: automated deduction and interactive theorem proving, constructive mathematics and type theory, equational logic and term rewriting, automata and games, modal and temporal logics, model checking, logical aspects of computational complexity, finite model theory, computational proof theory, logic programming and constraints, lambda calculus and combinatory logic, categorical logic and topological semantics, domain theory, database theory, specification, extraction and transformation of programs, logical foundations of programming paradigms, verification and program analysis, linear logic, higher-order logic, nonmonotonic reasoning. Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series. Each paper accepted by the Programme Committee must be presented at the conference by one of the authors, and final copy be prepared according to Springer's guidelines. Submitted papers must be in Springer's LNCS style and of no more than 15 pages, presenting work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Any closely related work submitted by the authors to a conference or journal before March 28, 2008 must be reported to the PC chairs. Papers authored or coauthored by members of the Programme Committee are not allowed. Submitted papers must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which will be read at the reviewer's discretion. The title page must contain: title and author(s), physical and e-mail addresses, identification of the corresponding author, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and a list of keywords. ACKERMANN AWARD: The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. The Ackermann Award 2008 will be presented to the recipients at CSL2008. Deadline for nominations is March 15, 2008. Details at: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~eacsl/submissionsAck.html For the three years 2007-2009, the Award is sponsored by Logitech, S.A., Romanel, Switzerland, the world's leading provider of personal peripherals. INVITED SPEAKERS: Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Pierre Louis Curien, PPS, Paris Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH, Aachen PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Michael Kaminski (co-chair), Technion, Haifa Simone Martini (co-chair), Universit? di Bologna Zena Ariola, University of Oregon, Eugene Patrick Baillot, CNRS and Universit? Paris 13 Patrick Cegielski, Universit? Paris 12 Gilles Dowek, ?cole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Amy Felty, University of Ottawa Marcelo Fiore, University of Cambridge Alan Jeffrey, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh Zoran Majkic, University of Beograd Dale Miller, INRIA-Futurs, Palaiseau Luke Ong, University of Oxford David Pym, HP Labs, Bristol and University of Bath Alexander Rabinovich, Tel Aviv University Antonino Salibra, Universit? Ca' Foscari, Venezia Thomas Schwentick, Universit?t Dortmund Valentin Shehtman, Moscow University and King's College London Alex Simpson, University of Edinburgh Gert Smolka, Universit?t des Saarlandes, Saarbr?cken Kazushige Terui, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo Thomas Wilke, Universit?t Kiel ORGANIZATION: Ugo Dal Lago, Universit? di Bologna Simone Martini, Universit? di Bologna --------------------------------------------------------------------- From jesper_types at math.su.se Thu Jan 24 02:42:03 2008 From: jesper_types at math.su.se (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jesper_Carlstr=F6m?=) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:42:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Summer School and Conference "Mathematics, Algorithms, and Proofs" Message-ID: <4798414B.5000403@math.su.se> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer School and Conference "Mathematics, Algorithms, and Proofs" The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy, 11-29 August 2008 http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?smr=0&ida=a07167 Deadline for applications: 25 March 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- From carlos.martin at urv.cat Sat Jan 26 14:50:44 2008 From: carlos.martin at urv.cat (carlos.martin@urv.cat) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:50:44 GMT Subject: [TYPES/announce] 6th International Summer School in Formal Languages andApplications Message-ID: Apologies for multiple posting! Please, forward the announcement to whoever may be interested in it. Thanks. ------------------ 6th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS (formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications) Tarragona, Spain, July 21 - August 2, 2008 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University http://www.grlmc.com ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Mathematics. Other graduate students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) as well undergraduate students can attend too provided they have a good background in discrete mathematics. All courses will be compatible in terms of the schedule. (There will be no courses in parallel.) COURSES AND PROFESSORS JULY 21-26: Martyn Amos (Manchester), Synthetic Biology: Biological Engineering [6 hours] Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest), Language Theoretic Models of Multi-Agent Systems [14 hours] Zoltan Esik (Tarragona), An Axiomatic Theory of Automata [6 hours] Rusins Freivalds (Riga), Elliptic Curves [6 hours] Max Garzon (Memphis), Biomolecular Nanotechnology [6 hours] Masami Ito (Kyoto), Regular Grammars [6 hours] Martin Kutrib (Giessen), Cellular Automata [6 hours] Claudio Moraga (Mieres), Fuzzy Formal Languages [6 hours] Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima), Two-Dimensional Languages [6 hours] Mitsunori Ogihara (Rochester), Computational Complexity and Molecular Computation Models [6 hours] Friedrich Otto (Kassel), Restarting Automata [6 hours] COURSES AND PROFESSORS JULY 28 - AUGUST 2: Francine Blanchet-Sadri (Greensboro), Partial Words [6 hours] Henning Bordihn (Potsdam), Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars [8 hours] Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan), Type Logics and Grammars [8 hours] Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata [8 hours] Joerg Flum (Freiburg, Germany), Parameterized Complexity [6 hours] Tom Head (Binghamton), Computing with Light Using Transparency and Opacity [6 hours] Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Grammatical Models and Algorithms for Biological Sequence Analysis [6 hours] Mark-Jan Nederhof (St.-Andrews), Probabilistic Parsing [6 hours] Alexander Okhotin (Turku), Language Equations [6 hours] Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt), Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars [12 hours] Sheng Yu (London, Canada), Finite Automata [16 hours] REGISTRATION: It has to be done on line at: http://www.grlmc.com FEES: They are variable for each student, depending on the number of courses each one takes. The rule is: 1 hour = - 10 euros (for payments until March 24, 2008), - 12 euros (for payments after March 24, 2008). The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: IBAN code: ES13 0073 0100 5104 0350 6598 Please mention SSFLA'08 and your full name in the subject. An invoice will be provided on site. To check the eligibility for early registration, what counts is the date of the bank order for payment (not the date when the registration form was filled in). People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be provided through the website of the School in due time. IMPORTANT DATES: Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2008 Starting of the registration: February 4, 2008 Early registration deadline: March 24, 2008 Starting of the School: July 21, 2008 End of the School: August 2, 2008 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Carlos Martin-Vide: carlos.martin at urv.cat WEBSITE: http://www.grlmc.com POSTAL ADDRESS: SSFLA'08 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-559597 From katoen at cs.rwth-aachen.de Mon Jan 28 04:56:25 2008 From: katoen at cs.rwth-aachen.de (Joost-Pieter Katoen) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:56:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2008 Call for Participation Message-ID: <479DA6C9.4060806@cs.rwth-aachen.de> [Apologies for multiple copies.] ***************************************************************** *** *** *** ETAPS 2008 *** *** March 29 - April 6, 2008 *** *** Budapest, Hungary *** *** *** *** http://www.etaps.org/ *** *** http://etaps08.mit.bme.hu/ *** *** *** *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** *** *** *** Early Registration Deadline: February 10th, 2007 *** *** Normal Registration Deadline: February 29th, 2007 *** *** *** ***************************************************************** The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops and other events. ETAPS 2008 is already the eleventh event in the series. ============================================================================ Location ============================================================================ ETAPS 2008 will be hosted in Budapest, capital of Hungary, which was founded in 1873 as the unification of the separate historic towns of Buda (the royal capital since the 15th century), Pest (the cultural centre) and ?buda (built on the ancient Roman settlement of Aquinqum). The city is bisected by the River Danube, which makes Budapest a natural geographical centre and a major international transport hub. Budapest has a rich and fascinating history, a vibrant cultural heritage, yet it managed to maintain its magic and charm. It has also been called the City of Spas with a dozen thermal bath complexes served by over a hundred natural thermal springs. ============================================================================ Conference Venue ============================================================================ All ETAPS events will be held at the joint complex of Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget & Grand Hotel, which is situated on the wonderful Margareth Island (Margitsziget) in the heart of Budapest being literally an island of calm and relaxation. ============================================================================ 5 Conferences - 22 Satellite Workshops - 8 Tutorials ============================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Main Conferences ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC 2008: International Conference on Compiler Construction http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren/CC2008/ ESOP 2008: European Symposium on Programming http://esop2008.doc.ic.ac.uk/ FASE 2008: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fase2008/ FOSSACS 2008: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures http://fossacs08.pps.jussieu.fr/ TACAS 2008: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~tacas2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) Tom Reps (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) Thierry Coquan (G?teborg University, Sweden) Connie Heitmeyer (Naval Research Lab, US) Sharad Malik (Princeton, USA) Michael Schwartzbach (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Igor Walukiewicz (LaBRI Bordeaux, France) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ETAPS 2008 Satellite Events will be held right before and after the main conferences, on March 29-30 and April 5-6, 2008. ACCAT: Applied and Computational Category Theory Bytecode: Bytecode Semantics, Verification, Analysis and Transformation CMCS: Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science COCV: Compiler Optimization Meets Compiler Verification DCC: Designing Correct Circuits FESCA: Formal Foundations of Embedded Software and Component-Based Software Architectures FIT: Foundations of Interface Technologies FORMED: Formal Methods in Computer Science Education GaLoP: Games for Logic and Programming Languages GT-VMT: Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques LDTA: Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications MBT: Model-Based Testing MOMPES: Model-based Methodologies for Pervasive and Embedded Software PDMC: Parallel and Distributed Methods of verifiCation QAPL: Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages RV: Runtime Verification SafeCert: Certification of Safety-Critical Software Controlled Systems SC: Software Composition SLA++P: Model-driven High-level Programming of Embedded Systems WGT: Workshop on Generative Technologies WRLA: Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications The following invited speakers are giving talks in the satellite workshops: Dexter Kozen, Stefan Milius, Dirk Pattinson (CMCS), Albert Benveniste, Mari?lle Stoelinga (FIT), Jean-Raymond Abriel (FORMED), Gabriel Sandu (GaLoP), Juha Pekka Tolvanen, Hans Vangheluwe (GT-VMT), Robert Fuhrer (LDTA), Linda Northrop (MOMPES), Henri Bal (PDMC), Jean Goubault-Larrecq (RV), Connie Heitmeyer (SafeCert), Gr?goire Hamon (SLA++P), Bran Selic (WGT), Ahmed Bouajjani (WRLA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Program verification using the Spec# Programming System (K. Rustan M. Leino and Rosemary Monahan) Learning meets Verification (Martin Leucker) Verification-centric Development in Java with JML and ESC/ Java2 (Joseph Kiniry) Theorem-prover based Testing with HOL-TestGen (Achim D. Brucker and Burkhart Wolff) Static Analysis of Programs: A Heap-centric View (Uday Khedker) Model-based vs. Code-based Verification for Secure Systems (Jan J?rjens) Practical Phoenix ? A Hands-On Workshop (Andy Ayers, Chuck Mitchell and Mark Lewin) Web Services (Igor Kanovsky) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration and Contact Details ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For online registration, please visit http://etaps08.mit.bme.hu/ and go to menu item "Registration". Contact details are available at the menu item "Contact us". In case of any questions not addressed on the web pages, please email etaps08-organizers at mit.bme.hu. = +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Joost-Pieter Katoen email: my_last_name[at]cs.rwth-aachen.de | | RWTH Aachen URL: www-i2.cs.rwth-aachen.de/~katoen | | LS2: Software Modeling and Verification tel: +49 241 8021200 | | D-52056 Aachen, Germany fax: +49-241 8022217 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ From mhills at cs.uiuc.edu Mon Jan 28 11:58:09 2008 From: mhills at cs.uiuc.edu (Mark Hills) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:58:09 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP - ECOOP'08 Doctoral Symposium and PhD Students Workshop Message-ID: <479E09A1.1010801@cs.uiuc.edu> Call For Submissions 18th Doctoral Symposium and PhD Students Workshop at ECOOP'08 date TBA: one day the week of Monday, July 7 - Friday, July 11, 2008, Paphos, Cyprus http://2008.ecoop.org/doctoral.html GOALS The main goals of the event are: 1. to allow PhD students to practice clearly writing and effectively presenting their research proposal 2. to get constructive feedback from other researchers 3. to build bridges for potential research collaboration 4. to contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers at the main conference. The 18th edition of the Doctoral Symposium and PhD Workshop will be held as part of ECOOP 2008 in Paphos, Cyprus. As the name suggests, this is a two-session event: a Doctoral Symposium and a PhD Students Workshop. The final date will be determined soon, and is being scheduled to minimize conflicts with co-located events. The date will be posted on the website when it is finalized. EVENT FORMAT This is a full-day event of interactive presentations. The first half is dedicated to the Doctoral Symposium, the second half to the PhD Students Workshop. The academic panel will also give short talks about a variety of research-related topics. Besides the formal presentations, there should be plenty of opportunities for informal interactions during lunch and dinner. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2008. - Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS Potential topics are those of the main ECOOP'08 conference, i.e. all topics related to object technology including but not restricted to: * Analysis, design methods and design patterns * Concurrent, real-time or parallel systems * Databases, persistence and transactions * Distributed and mobile systems * Frameworks, product lines and software architectures * Language design and implementation * Testing and metrics * Programming environments and tools * Theoretical foundations, type systems, formal methods * Versioning, compatibility, software evolution * Aspects, Components, Modularity, Reflection * Collaboration, Workflow Submissions to the Doctoral Symposium should be 3-4 page abstracts in LNCS format, and must include a letter from your advisor. Submissions to the PhD Students Workshop should be 6-8 page position papers in LNCS format, and must also include a letter from your advisor. More details about the submission requirements can be found at the event's page, http://2008.ecoop.org/doctoral.html. COMMITTEE Eric Bodden, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Ciera Jaspan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Giovanni Falcone, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Mark Hills (chair and organizer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA Haidar Jabbar, Anna University, Chennai, India Romain Robbes, Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland Ilie Savga, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Michel Soares, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands Academic panel: TBA PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES "The ECOOP Doctoral Symposium was a remarkable event. It was an honor to get feedback on my personal thesis topic from such well-established researchers in the field. Their comments not only encouraged me to continue with my thesis work but also gave me valuable feedback on how to refine my concrete topic and bring the overall topic into shape. In addition, I found the other students' talks to be some of the most interesting ones at ECOOP. Some of them were very inspiring even for my own work. Overall, my participation in the symposium will certainly have a great positive effect on my thesis. Apart from that it was a fun day which made me meet many interesting people." - Eric Bodden, participant DS ECOOP'07 MORE INFORMATION Visit the event's page at: http://2008.ecoop.org/doctoral.html From yitzhakm at CS.Princeton.EDU Mon Jan 28 12:55:34 2008 From: yitzhakm at CS.Princeton.EDU (Yitzhak Mandelbaum) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:55:34 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2009 Call for Workshop and Co-located Event Proposals Message-ID: <0FEF1A15-EDD4-48C9-B7D8-80FC27FF65AE@cs.princeton.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POPL 2009 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS POPL 2009, the 36th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages 21-23 January 2009 Savannah, Georgia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 36th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2009) will be held in Savannah, Georgia from January 21 to January 23. POPL provides a forum for the discussion of fundamental principles and important innovations in the design, definition, analysis, transformation, implementation and verification of programming languages, programming systems, and programming abstractions. Both experimental and theoretical papers on principles and innovations are welcome, ranging from formal frameworks to reports on practical experiences. Proposals are invited for events to be co-located with POPL 2009, including tutorials, workshops and conferences. Co-located events can either be sponsored directly by SIGPLAN or supported through in- cooperation status. ** Submission details ** Deadline for submission: Monday, March 10th, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Prospective meeting organizers are invited to submit a completed meeting proposal form to the POPL 2009 workshop chair (Yitzhak Mandelbaum) by March 10th, 2008. Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their proposal is accepted by April 22nd, 2008, and, if successful, are required to produce a final report after the workshop has taken place that is suitable for publication in SIGPLAN Notices. ** Selection committee ** The event proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the POPL 2009 organising committee, together with the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee. Yitzhak Mandelbaum AT&T Labs - Research Workshops chair Zhong Shao Yale University General chair Benjamin Pierce University of Pennsylvania Program chair ** Further information ** For the full Call for Workshop and Co-located Event Proposals and all of the associated forms, visit the POPL 2009 website, or access them directly at: http://www.research.att.com/~yitzhak/workshops/popl09/ call_for_events.html A copy of this announcement can be found at: http://www.research.att.com/~yitzhak/workshops/popl09/ call_for_events.txt Any queries regarding POPL 2009 co-located event proposals should be addressed to the workshops chair (Yitzhak Mandelbaum), via email to popl-workshops *at* research.att.com. From pardo at fing.edu.uy Tue Jan 29 13:39:20 2008 From: pardo at fing.edu.uy (Alberto Pardo) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:39:20 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] School LERNET 2008 *** Deadline extension for registration *** Message-ID: <479F72D8.4070406@fing.edu.uy> =================================================================== *** DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR REGISTRATION *** Call for Participation International Summer School on Language Engineering and Rigorous Software Development LERNET 2008, Piriapolis, Uruguay February 25 to March 1, 2008 http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/eventos/lernet2008 email: lernet at fing.edu.uy *** NEW DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: February 4 *** *** DEADLINE FOR GRANT APPLICATION: January 31 *** =================================================================== The aim of the school is the dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge and the promotion of international contacts among scientists. The school is oriented to students and researchers working in computer science and interested in formal techniques for the design and construction of software systems and programming languages. The school is partially supported by the EU LerNet ALFA project (http://www.di.uminho.pt/lernet/), which implements a joint PhD programme on Software Design and Programming Language Engineering, based on a co-tutoring scheme and conformed by 6 european universities and 5 from Latin America. PROGRAM LERNET 2008 will consist of six courses: - Introduction to Type Theory Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - Theory and Applications of the PF-transform Jose Nuno Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) - Embedded Domain Specific Languages: Combinator Parsers Doaitse Swierstra (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) - Dependent Types at Work Peter Dybjer and Ana Bove (Chalmers University, Sweden) - Formal Programming Language Semantics with Inductive Types Yves Bertot (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France) - Verification Methods for Software Security and Correctness Gilles Barthe (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France) In addition, there will be some PhD sessions where students from the LerNet project will expose advances of their PhD thesis. VENUE LERNET 2008 will be held at Argentino Hotel (http://www.argentinohotel.com.uy), located in Piri?polis, a seaside city, 100 kms east from Montevideo. REGISTRATION To register, fill in the registration form at http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Logic/LerNet08/registration.html The deadline for registration has been *extended*. The new deadline is February 4, 2008. FEES Details about the registration fees can be found in the school's webpage (http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/eventos/lernet2008). GRANTS We may be able to offer a reduction in the value of the registration fee to a limited number of students. Priority will be given to students from Latin America. Details of the fee reduction application can be found in the school's webpage (http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/eventos/lernet2008). The deadline for grant application is January, 31 2008. **Note that this deadline has not been extended**. SCHOOL ORGANISERS Luis Barbosa (Univerity of Minho, Portugal) Ana Bove (Chalmers University, Sweden) Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay) Jorge Sousa Pinto (Univerity of Minho, Portugal) LOCAL ORGANISATION Alberto Pardo Luis Sierra Carlos Luna Instituto de Computaci?n Facultad de Ingenier?a Universidad de la Rep?blica Montevideo, Uruguay FURTHER INFORMATION For further details on the school, visit the webpage http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/eventos/lernet2008 From carette at mcmaster.ca Tue Jan 29 19:33:05 2008 From: carette at mcmaster.ca (Jacques Carette) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:33:05 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP - Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems 2008 Message-ID: <479FC5C1.7040601@mcmaster.ca> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Second Workshop on Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics (PLMMS 2008) http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/cicm08/workshops/plmms/ As part of CICM / Calculemus 2008 Birmingham, UK, 28-29 July 2008 This workshop is focused on the intersection of programming languages (PL) and mechanized mathematics systems (MMS). The latter category subsumes present-day computer algebra systems (CAS), interactive proof assistants (PA), and automated theorem provers (ATP), all heading towards fully integrated mechanized mathematical assistants that are expected to emerge eventually (cf. the objective of Calculemus). The two subjects of PL and MMS meet in the following topics, which are of particular interest to this workshop: * Dedicated input languages for MMS: covers all aspects of languages intended for the user to deploy or extend the system, both algorithmic and declarative ones. Typical examples are tactic definition languages such as Ltac in Coq, mathematical proof languages as in Mizar or Isar, or specialized programming languages built into CA systems. Of particular interest are the semantics of those languages, especially when current ones are untyped. * Mathematical modeling languages used for programming: covers the relation of logical descriptions vs. algorithmic content. For instance the logic of ACL2 extends a version of Lisp, that of Coq is close to Haskell, and some portions of HOL are similar to ML and Haskell, while Maple tries to do both simultaneously. Such mathematical languages offer rich specification capabilities, which are rarely available in regular programming languages. How can programming benefit from mathematical concepts, without limiting mathematics to the computational worldview? * Programming languages with mathematical specifications: covers advanced "mathematical" concepts in programming languages that improve the expressive power of functional specifications, type systems, module systems etc. Programming languages with dependent types are of particular interest here, as is intentionality vs extensionality. * Language elements for program verification: covers specific means built into a language to facilitate correctness proofs using MMS. For example, logical annotations within programs may be turned into verification conditions to be solved in a proof assistant eventually. How need MMS and PL to be improved to make this work conveniently and in a mathematically appealing way? These issues have a very colorful history. Many PL innovations first appeared in either CA or proof systems first, before migrating into more mainstream programming languages. Some examples include type inference, dependent types, generics, term-rewriting, first-class types, first-class expressions, first-class modules, code extraction etc. However, such innovations were never aggressively pursued by builders of MMS, but often reconstructed by programming language researchers. This workshop is an opportunity to present the latest innovations in MMS design that may be relevant to future programming languages, or conversely novel PL principles that improve upon implementation and deployment of MMS. We also want to critically examine what has worked, and what has not. Why are all the languages of mainstream CA systems untyped? Why are the (strongly typed) proof assistants so much harder to use than a typical CAS? What forms of polymorphism exist in mathematics? What forms of dependent types may be used in mathematical modeling? How can MMS regain the upper hand on issues of "genericity" and "modularity"? What are the biggest barriers to using a more mainstream language as a host language for a CAS or PA/ATP? Submission ---------- Submission works through EasyChair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plmms2008 Two kinds of papers will be considered: * Full research papers may be up to 12 pages long. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work on the workshop in a regular talk. * Position papers may be up to 4 pages long. The workshop presentation of accepted position papers consists of two parts: a stimulating statement of certain issues or challenges by the author, followed by a discussion in the plenum. Papers should use the usual ENTCS style http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html (11 point version), and will be reviewed by the program committee. Informal workshop proceedings will be circulated as a technical report. We also plan post-workshop proceedings of improved research papers, or position papers that have been completed into full papers, as a special issue in a journal; papers from both PLMMS 2007 and 2008 will be considered here (details to follow). Programme Committee ------------------- Jacques Carette (Co-Chair) (McMaster University, Canada) John Harrison (Intel Corporation, USA) Hugo Herbelin (INRIA, Ecole polytechnique, France) James McKinna (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Ulf Norell (Chalmers University, Sweden) Bill Page Christophe Raffalli (Universite de Savoie, France) Josef Urban (Charles University, Czech Republic) Stephen Watt (ORCCA, University of Western Ontario, Canada) Makarius Wenzel (Co-Chair) (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Freek Wiedijk (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Important Dates --------------- * Submission deadline - 5 May 2008 * Notification of acceptance - 6 June 2008 * Final version - 7 July 2008 (approximately) * Workshop - 28-29 July 2008 From yminsky at janestcapital.com Wed Jan 30 16:15:56 2008 From: yminsky at janestcapital.com (Yaron Minsky) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:15:56 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OCaml Summer Project 2008 Message-ID: <1201727756.7445.280.camel@nyc-qws-018.delacy.com> I am pleased to announce the second OCaml Summer Project! The OSP is aimed at encouraging growth in the OCaml community by funding students over the summer to work on open-source projects in OCaml. We'll fund up to three months of work, and at the end of the summer, we will fly the participants out for a meeting in New York, where people will present their projects and get a chance to meet with other members of the OCaml community. The project is being funded and run by Jane Street Capital. Jane Street makes extensive use of OCaml, and we are excited about the idea of encouraging and growing the OCaml community. Our goal this year is to get both faculty and students involved. To that end, we will require joint applications from the student or students who will be working on the project, and from a faculty member who both recommends the students and will mentor them throughout the project. Each student will receive a grant of $5k/month for over the course of the project, and each faculty member will receive $2k/month. We expect students to treat this as a full-time commitment, and for professors to spend the equivalent of one day a week on the project. We will also award a prize for what we deem to be the most successful project. Special consideration will be given to projects that display real polish in the form of good documentation, robust build systems, and effective test suites. We'll announce more details about the prize farther down the line. If you'd like to learn more about the OSP and how to apply, you can look at our website here: http://ocamlsummerproject.com Please direct any questions or suggestions you have to osp at janestcapital.com. y -- Yaron Minsky From ili at info.fundp.ac.be Thu Jan 31 12:54:07 2008 From: ili at info.fundp.ac.be (Isabelle Linden) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:54:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MTCoord 2008 - CFP Message-ID: <001101c86432$54368260$cc20308a@info.fundp.ac.be> [ Our apologies for multiple copies. ] ====================================================================== 4th International Workshop on Methods and Tools for Coordinating Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile Systems (MTCoord'08) June 7, 2008, Oslo, Norway Workshop affiliated to DisCoTec 08, June 4-6 2008 ====================================================================== SCOPE Various classes of computational models, languages, and formalisms have emerged with the aim of providing high-level descriptions of concurrent, distributed, and mobile systems. Typical examples include so-called coordination languages and models (e.g. Gamma, Linda, Manifold, Reo, Klaim, Lime, ...), concurrent constraint languages (e.g. cc languages, Mozart, ...) and process algebras (e.g. CSP, CCS, pi-calculus, ...). These models are based on generative communication via a shared data space or on data communication through channels. In both cases, software components are typically conceived in isolation assuming that the required data will eventually be available. However, making a whole system out of these components and, in particular, ensuring that interactions occur properly is far from being obvious. The aim of the workshop is precisely to bring together researchers, working in different communities (coordination, constraints, process algebras), on methods and tools for the construction of concurrent, distributed and mobile systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST Special topics of interest are o Model checking techniques, in particular techniques for verifying coordinating properties (including distributed and probabilistic ones) o Compositional and refinement-based methodologies However, other topics, as related to coordination, are also of interest, including: o Design of high-level specifications, eg based on first-order, modal and temporal logics o Techniques for requirements capture and analysis o Theorem proving based methodologies o Debugging techniques o Abstract interpretation o Program analysis and transformation o Simulation and testing o Formal methods for security o Tools environments and architectures o Applications and case studies, in particular in web services and biology INVITED SPEAKER Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers describing original work are solicited as contributions to MTCoord'08. All papers must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers should be limited to 15 pages, preferrably formatted according to the Electronical Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. They should be submitted through the conference management system that will be available from the workshop web site. http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/MTCoord/ PUBLICATION The papers accepted for the symposium will be available at the workshop. Selected work will be published in a volume of the Electronical Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES o March 20, 2007: Paper Submission deadline. o May 5, 2007 : Notification of acceptance. o May 15, 2007 : Final version. o June 7, 2007 : Meeting Date. LOCATION The MTCoord'08 workshop will be held in Oslo, Norway on June 7 2008. It is a satellite workshop of Discotec'08. For venue and registration, see the DisCoTec'08 web page at http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/DisCoTec08/HomePage WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS o Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA o Isabelle Linden, University of Namur, Belgium PROGRAMME COMITTEE * Marco Bernardo,Universit? degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Urbino, Italy * Christel Baier, Technical University Dresden, Germany * Lubos Brim, Masaryk University, Czech Republic * Giorgio Delzanno, University of Genova, Italy * Wan Fokkink, CWI, The Netherlands * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Gerald Luettgen, University of York, United Kingdom * Angelika Mader, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Mirko Viroli, Alma Mater Studiorum Universit? di Bologna a Cesena, Italy * Kaisa Sere, Abo Akademi University, Finland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20080131/3c18d7ae/attachment.htm From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri Feb 1 07:52:08 2008 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:52:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers TFP 2008, The Netherlands Message-ID: <47A315F8.7000205@cs.ru.nl> 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS TRENDS IN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 2008 RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS MAY 26-28, 2008 INVITED SPEAKER: PROF. HENK BARENDREGT http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/ The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming languages, focusing on providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional Programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results through acceptance by extended abstracts and full papers. A formal post-symposium refereeing process selects the best articles presented at the symposium for publication in a high-profile volume. TFP 2008 is hosted by the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and will be held in the rural setting of Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos?, Heijen (in the vicinity of Nijmegen), The Netherlands. TFP 2008 is co-located with the 6th Int?l. Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming (AFP?08), which is held immediately before TFP?08. SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research: leading-edge, previously unpublished research. Position: on what new trends should or should not be. Project: descriptions of recently started new projects. Evaluation: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project. Overview: summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject. Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Contributions on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed: * Dependently Typed Functional Programming * Validation and Verification of Functional Programs * Debugging for Functional Languages * Functional Programming and Security * Functional Programming and Mobility * Functional Programming to Animate/Prototype/Implement Systems from Formal or Semi-Formal Specifications * Functional Languages for Telecommunications Applications * Functional Languages for Embedded Systems * Functional Programming Applied to Global Computing * Functional GRIDs * Functional Programming Ideas in Imperative or Object-Oriented Settings (and the converse) * Interoperability with Imperative Programming Languages * Novel Memory Management Techniques * Parallel/Concurrent Functional Languages * Program Transformation Techniques * Empirical Performance Studies * Abstract/Virtual Machines and Compilers for Functional Languages * New Implementation Strategies * Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2008 program chairs, Peter Achten and Pieter Koopman, at afp_tfp_2008 at cs.ru.nl. SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the review of full papers (15 pages) and extended abstracts (at least 3 pages) by the program committee. TFP encourages PhD students to submit papers. PhD students may request the program committee to provide extensive feedback on their full papers at the time of submission. Full papers describing work accepted for presentation must be completed before the symposium for publication in the draft proceedings and on-line. Further details can be found at the TFP 2008 website http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/. POST-SYMPOSIUM REFEREEING AND PUBLICATION In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we continue the TFP tradition of publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Intellect series on Trends in Functional Programming. IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2008) Paper Submission: March 3 Notification of Acceptance: March 31 Early Registration Deadline: April 14 Late Registration Deadline: May 5 Camera Ready Symposium: May 5 TFP Symposium: May 26-28 Post Symposium Paper Submission: June 20 Notification of Acceptance: September 7 Camera Ready Revised Paper: September 21 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Peter Achten (co-chair) Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, NL Andrew Butterfield Trinity College, IE Manuel Chakravarty Univ. of New South Wales, AU John Clements Cal Poly State Univ., USA Matthias Felleisen Northeastern Univ., USA Jurriaan Hage Utrecht Univ., NL Michael Hanus Christian-Albrechts Univ. zu Kiel, DE Ralf Hinze Univ. of Oxford, UK Graham Hutton Univ. of Nottingham, UK Johan Jeuring Utrecht Univ., NL Pieter Koopman (co-chair) Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, NL Shriram Krishnamurthi Brown Univ., USA Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Ludwig-Maximilians Univ.M?nchen, DE Rita Loogen Philipps-Univ. Marburg, DE Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt Univ., UK Marco T. Moraz?n (symp. chair) Seton Hall Univ., USA Sven-Bodo Scholz Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK Ulrik Schultz Univ. of Southern Denmark, DK Clara Segura Univ. Complutense de Madrid, ES Olin Shivers Northeastern Univ., USA Phil Trinder Heriot-Watt Univ., UK Varmo Vene Univ. of Tartu, EE Vikt?ria Zs?k E?tv?s Lor?nd Univ., HU ORGANIZATION Symposium Chair: Marco T. Moraz?n, Seton Hall University, USA Programme Chair: Peter Achten, Pieter Koopman, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Treasurer: Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK From streicher at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de Mon Feb 4 11:01:56 2008 From: streicher at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de (Thomas Streicher) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:01:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Colloquium Logicum 2008, September 10-12 Message-ID: <200802041601.m14G1uub021617@fb04209.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de> --------------------------------------------------------------- Colloquium Logicum 2008, September 10-12, TU Darmstadt, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------- The biennial meeting of the German Society for Mathematical Logic (DVMLG), Colloquium Logicum 2008, will be held at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, September 10-12, 2008. The scientific programme comprises * Herbrand Centenary Lecture: Georg Kreisel, F.R.S., Salzburg * invited plenary lectures by * Hans Adler (Leeds) * Sergei Goncharov (Novosibirsk) * Joel David Hamkins (New York) * Robert Lubarsky (Florida) * Nicole Schweikardt (Frankfurt) * Michiel van Lambalgen (Amsterdam) plus a PhD Colloquium with the presentation of selected recent PhD Theses in Logic as well as contributed talks. Further details about the meeting, registration, etc. will be published on the meeting's homepage in the near future: www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/fbereiche/logik/events/collogicum/. ------- From D.R.Ghica at cs.bham.ac.uk Mon Feb 4 05:31:15 2008 From: D.R.Ghica at cs.bham.ac.uk (Dan Ghica) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:31:15 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GaLoP 2008 : Submission Deadline Extended Message-ID: <067204A8-5675-42C7-B2E6-4D13D6C9B96F@cs.bham.ac.uk> Dear all, The submission deadline for the Games for Logic and Programming Languages III workshop (ETAPS 2008, March 29 - April 6, 2008, Budapest, Hungary) has been extended to February 14. The call for submissions is attached below. GAMES FOR LOGIC AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES III ETAPS 2008, March 29 - April 6, 2008, Budapest, Hungary ============================================== *The submission deadline has been extended to February 14.* The submission site is open: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=galop08 Introduction 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 as well as contributed papers and invited talks. Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in compositional game-semantic models. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: * categorical aspects; * algorithmic aspects; * programming languages and full abstraction; * semantics of logics and proof systems; * proof search; * higher-order automata; * program verification and model checking; * program analysis; * security; * theories of concurrency; * probabilistic models. Publication This is intended to be an informal workshop without widely distributed proceedings. We therefore ask for submission both of short abstracts outlining what will be presented at the workshop and of longer papers describing completed work, either published or unpublished, in the relevant areas. A special issue of the journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic associated with the workshop will be discussed at the workshop. Important dates # Submission: February 14 # Notification: March 1 # Workshop: April 5-6 Invited speakers # Gabriel Sandu, Helsinki # Paul-Andr? Melli?s, PPS Program committee # Dan Ghica (co-chair), Birmingham # Russ Harmer (co-chair), PPS # Martin Hyland, Cambridge # Pierre Hyvernat, Savoie # Jim Laird, Bath # John Longley, Edinburgh # Andrzej Murawski, Oxford # Andrea Schalk, Manchester --- Dr. Dan Ghica, Lecturer School of Computer Science University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT tel: +44 121 414 8819 mailto:D.R.Ghica at cs.bham.ac.uk http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~drg From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Mon Feb 4 12:05:48 2008 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:05:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st call for participation AFP 2008, The Netherlands Message-ID: <47A745EC.7020602@cs.ru.nl> 1ST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 6TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 2008 (AFP ?08) RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN AND UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS MAY 19-24, 2008 http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/ AFP is a series of international summer schools which aims to bring computer scientists, in particular young researchers and programmers, up to date with the latest advances in practical advanced functional programming. Functional programming emphasizes the evaluation of expressions rather than the execution of commands. We focus on functional programming techniques in ?programming in the real world? and bridge the gap between results presented at programming conferences and material from textbooks on functional programming. In this school you will receive in depth lectures about advanced functional programming techniques, taught by experts in the field. Lectures are accompanied by practical problems to be solved by the students at the school. AFP 2008 is hosted by the Radboud University Nijmegen, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and will be held in the rural setting of Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos?, Heijen (in the vicinity of Nijmegen), The Netherlands. AFP 2008 is co-located with the 9th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP?08), which is held after AFP?08. PROGRAM INFORMATION The following speakers will give the lectures (in alphabetic order): Umut Acar (Toyota Technological Institute, University of Chicago, US) Richard Bird (University of Oxford, UK) Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus, DK) Johan Jeuring (Utrecht University, NL) Mark Jones (Portland State University, US) Ulf Norell (Chalmers University, SE) Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research, UK) Rinus Plasmeijer (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) During the summer school, all participants receive printed lecture notes. Participants are expected to have a notebook, in order to be able to participate with the practical problems. After the summer school, all lecture notes will be revised, reviewed, and published in the LNCS series of Springer. All registered participants receive a copy of these lecture notes. VENUE INFORMATION AFP (and TFP) is held in The Netherlands, at Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos? which is a holiday resort in the woodlands near the city of Nijmegen. We accomodate participants in DeLuxe Cottages, each of which has three separate bed-rooms, shared bathroom, toilet, kitchen, and terrace. Cottages will be shared by three participants. If you wish to reduce costs, you can choose to share a bedroom. The summer school and symposium will take place in the business center of the venue. Breakfast, lunch and diner is included within the limits of the venue. The resort features, amongst others, a sub-tropical swimming pool (free for participants), restaurants, shops, water sports lake, midget golf court, squash court, and outdoor and indoor tennis courts. Nijmegen is considered to be the oldest city of the Netherlands, being approximately 2000 years old. Nijmegen is located at the east border of the Netherlands, near Germany. Nijmegen can be reached easily from several airports such as Schiphol airport, Eindhoven airport, and D?sseldorf airport, as well as by train and car. Conveniently close to Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos? you will find airport Weeze in Germany. The venue Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos? can be reached from Nijmegen by train to Boxmeer (25 minutes). From there you will need to order a taxi. The venue can also be reached by car: parking is free for participants of AFP and TFP. SUMMER SCHOOL FEES AFP 2008 includes accommodation, conference, breakfast ? lunch ? diner, speakers, and proceedings costs. The early registration fee is ? 995; the late registration fee is ? 1095. Please note that if you require financial support, you can apply for a grant (see below). GRANT INFORMATION We have taken great care to reduce the registration cost as much as possible. We can grant a subsidy for a limited number of PhD student participants for whom the costs are still too high. In order to apply for this subsidy, you need to send (by surface mail or e-mail) a request for subsidy which contains your personal information, affiliation, a description of your current status, project description, a motivation why you should receive the grant, and a recommendation from your PhD supervisor. This letter should arrive before april 7 2008 to: Rinus Plasmeijer Radboud University Nijmegen Toernooiveld 1 6525ED Nijmegen rinus at cs.ru.nl You will receive a notification whether your request has been granted before april 14 2008. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Early registration opens at march 1 2008. Late registration opens at april 15 2008. Registration closes at may 5 2008. We can not guarantee accommodation in case you wish to register later than may 5 2008. IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2008) Early Registration Opens: March 1 Early Registration Deadline: April 14 Late Registration Opens: April 15 Late Registration Deadline: May 5 AFP Summer School: May 19-24 ORGANIZATION Programme Chair: Rinus Plasmeijer, Pieter Koopman, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Doaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University, NL Arrangements: Peter Achten, Simone Meeuwsen, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL E-mail: afp_tfp_2008 at cs.ru.nl From asperti at cs.unibo.it Tue Feb 5 09:20:28 2008 From: asperti at cs.unibo.it (Andrea Asperti) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:20:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Position opening at the University of Bologna Message-ID: <47A870AC.5030406@cs.unibo.it> The Department of Computer Science (http://www.cs.unibo.it) at the University of Bologna invites expressions of interest from qualified computer scientists to fill an opening at the associate-professor level. The position will have a start date of November 1st, 2008. We are seeking candidates with a proven research record and a clear potential for leading and initiating new research activity preferably in (but not limited to) concurrency theory and formal methods. The candidate will be expected to also contribute to the Department's graduate and undergraduate teaching activities in computer science. Applicants must be proficient in spoken Italian. They should already be in possession of an associate-professor or equivalent position, or of an Italian "idoneit?". Exceptional candidates holding a full-professor position abroad can be considered for an equivalent position at the University of Bologna. At the conclusion of this enquiry, the University of Bologna will issue an official vacancy declaration and carry out the procedures for filling a tenured position. Expressions of interest, including a detailed CV and list of publications, should be mailed for reception no later than 15 March, 2008 and addressed to profposition at cs.unibo.it. Any enquiry can be directed to the same address. -- andrea asperti From todd at cs.ucla.edu Tue Feb 5 18:18:31 2008 From: todd at cs.ucla.edu (Todd Millstein) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:18:31 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions, PLDI 2008 Student Research Competition Message-ID: <1c4abbaf0802051518y2f542eacx46a08edb4075386c@mail.gmail.com> Types are definitely one area of interest for PLDI 2008 and its Student Research Competition. See the Call for Submissions below for more information. ------------------ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PLDI 2008 STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION June 7-13, 2008 Tucson, Arizona ACM and Microsoft Research are sponsoring a Student Research Competition (SRC) at PLDI 2008. The SRC provides an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students attending PLDI 2008 to present their research in the design and implementation of programming languages. The SRC consists of two rounds: a poster session and a presentation session. A panel of judges will select a number of finalists from the poster session, who will be invited to the presentation session. Winners are selected from the presentation session. The top three graduate and undergraduate winners will receive cash awards. Click here for more details. The winners will be invited to participate in the SRC Grand Finals, an online round of competitions among the winners of individual conference-hosted SRCs. The winners of the Grand Finals are invited to the ACM awards banquet together with their advisors, for an all-expenses-paid trip. SRC participants will be eligible for travel grants. ______________________________ Eligibility Requirements Current ACM student membership Current "student" status as of March 15, 2008, either graduate or undergraduate ________________________________ Submission Details Students who wish to participate must submit the following information: An abstract of up to 800 words explaining the content of the poster. Presenter's email address, phone number and surface mail address. Name of department and school. Name of academic advisor. The abstract must describe the student's individual research and must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student's role was and should focus on that portion of the work. ________________________________ Important Dates Deadline for submission: February 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2008 The submissions should be emailed to todd at cs ucla edu. Fifteen undergraduate and ten graduate abstracts will be selected for competition at the conference. ________________________________ Selection Committee Todd Millstein (Chair) University of California, Los Angeles Juan Chen Microsoft Research Sorin Lerner University of California, San Diego Ben Liblit University of Wisconsin?Madison Eran Yahav IBM T. J. Watson Research Center ________________________________ Further Information Any queries regarding the PLDI 2008 SRC should be sent to Todd Millstein, todd at cs ucla edu. From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Wed Feb 6 06:47:03 2008 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco T. Vasconcelos) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:47:03 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLACES'08 - Call for papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS PLACES'08 Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software June 7, 2008, Oslo, Norway http://places08.di.fc.ul.pt/ Applications on the web today are built using numerous interacting services; soon an off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many normal applications will soon need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems will be inherently concurrent and communication-centred. To exploit and harness the richness of this computing environment, designers and programmers will utilise a rich variety of programming paradigms, depending on the shape of the data and control flow. Plausible candidates for such paradigms include structured imperative concurrent programming, stream-based programming, concurrent functions with queues, and the use of types for communication and data structures (such as session types and linear types), to name but a few. Combinations of these abstractions will be used even in a single application, and the runtime environment needs to ensure seamless execution without relying on differences in available resources such as the number of cores. The development of effective programming methodologies for the coming computing paradigm demands exploration and understanding of a wide variety of ideas and methodologies. This workshop aims to offer a forum where researchers from different fields exchange new ideas on one of the central challenges in programming in near future, the development of programming methodologies and infrastructures where concurrency and distribution are a norm rather than a marginal concern. This workshop aims providing a forum for the focused exchange of new ideas to support our quest for a unifying picture of programming in this new area. > Topics of Interest Submissions are invited in the general area of foundations of programming languages for concurrency and distribution. Specific topics include: programming methodologies for sensor nets and ubiquitous computing, multicore and network-on-chip programming, integration of sequential and concurrent programming, program analysis, session types, concurrent data types, web services, and runtime architectures, including resource allocation. Papers which present novel and valuable ideas are welcome, together with those which provide experience or practical insight. > Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit an abstract (max. 5 pages) in PDF format by e-mail to yoshida at doc.ic.ac.uk. Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. > Post-Workshop Proceedings in ENTCS After the workshop authors will be invited to submit a full paper of their presentation to be published in ENTCS, http://www.entcs.org. > Important Dates Paper Submission: March 20, 2008 Paper Notification: May 1, 2008 Camera Ready: May 15, 2008 > Program Committee _ Alastair Beresford _ University of Cambridge _ Manuel Fahndrich _ Microsoft Research _ Simon Gay _ University of Glasgow _ Kohei Honda _ Queen Mary University of London _ Andrew Meyers _ Cornell University _ Greg Morrisett _ Harvard University _ Alan Mycroft _ University of Cambridge _ Vijay A. Saraswat _ IBM Research _ Vasco T. Vasconcelos (chair) _ University of Lisbon _ Nobuko Yoshida (chair) _ Imperial College London ---------- Vasco Thudichum Vasconcelos http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~vv Dep. of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon Phone/Fax: +351 217 500 608/084 vv at di.fc.ul.pt Bloco C6 - Piso 3, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa , Portugal From Radu.Iosif at imag.fr Wed Feb 6 10:33:15 2008 From: Radu.Iosif at imag.fr (Radu Iosif) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:33:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position available at VERIMAG, France Message-ID: <47A9D33B.6020500@imag.fr> The VERIMAG laboratory has a vacancy for a post-doctoral position on: Development of Automatic Techniques for Software Verification ============================================================= *** Project description Within the past decade, push-button verification techniques (e.g. model checking, SAT solving, etc.) have become commonplace in the development of hardware systems. An integration of such methods with software development is highly required by the manufacturers of critical and embedded software (avionics, telecom, public transport, etc.). However, the rather sophisticated nature of software (complex data structures, recursion, multithreading) pose interesting theoretic and practical problems to the developers of automatic analysis and verification methods. The goal of this project is to adress concrete verification problems of real-life software. Research areas include, but are not limited to: - program logics and proofs - generation of invariants - infinite-state model checking - static analysis (abstract interpretation) The appointment is for one year, starting as soon as possible, with possibility of extension. The contract will be within the AVERILES project of the ANR (French National Research Agency): http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/rntl-averiles/ *** Research group The research will take place in the Distributed and Complex Systems group (http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~async/pv.html) of the research laboratory VERIMAG. The members of this group focus on a wide range of problems such as program verification, computer security, testing and synthesis, component-based development, etc. VERIMAG is an academic research laboratory affiliated with CNRS (French National Research Center), UJF (University Joseph Fourrier) and INPG (National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble). *** Qualifications The applicants must have a PhD in Computer Science, with knowledge in at least one of the following fields: - first-order, higher-order logics, proof theory, arithmetic theories - formal languages, automata theory, rewriting Previous experience in the domain of verification is not required, but may be considered a plus. Knowledge of the French language is not required. *** Contact For further information and applications, send email to Radu.Iosif at imag.fr From garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp Thu Feb 7 09:13:51 2008 From: garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Jacques Garrigue) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:13:51 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS 2008 Call for Participation Message-ID: <20080207.231351.12151367.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Call For Participation Ninth International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming FLOPS 2008 April 14-16 Ise, JAPAN http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/FLOPS2008/ Early Registration Ends on March 14, 2008 ----------------------------------------- FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning declarative programming, including functional programming and logic programming, and aims to promote cross-fertilization between the two paradigms. Previous FLOPS meetings were held in Fuji Susono (1995), Shonan Village (1996), Kyoto (1998), Tsukuba (1999), Tokyo (2001), Aizu (2002), Nara (2004) and Fuji Susono (2006). VENUE The meeting will be held at the Ise City Plaza, located in Ise, Japan, famous for its shrine rebuilt every 20 year since 13 centuries ago. REGISTRATION The registration is now open at the symposium home page: http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/FLOPS2008/ PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Volume 4989, and distributed at the symposium. INVITED SPEAKERS Peter Dybjer (Chalmers, Sweden) Naoki Kobayashi (Tohoku, Japan) Torsten Schaub (Potsdam, Germany) PROGRAM April 14 13:30-14:30 Model-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning via Answer Set Programming Torsten Schaub 15:00-16:00 Integrating Answer Set Reasoning with Constraint Solving Techniques Veena Mellarkod, Michael Gelfond Optimizing Compilation of CHR with Rule Priorities Leslie De Koninck, Peter Stuckey, Gregory Duck 16:30-17:30 Certified exact real arithmetic using co-induction in arbitrary integer base Nicolas Julien Pure, Declarative, and Constructive Arithmetic Relations (Declarative Pearl) Oleg Kiselyov, William Byrd, Daniel Friedman, Chung-chieh Shan April 15 9:30-10:30 On the Algebraic Foundation of Proof Assistants for Intuitionistic Type Theory Peter Dybjer 11:00-12:00 On-Demand Refinement of Dependent Types Hiroshi Unno, Naoki Kobayashi Proving Properties About Lists using Containers Rawle Prince, Neil Ghani, Conor McBride 13:30-15:00 Termination of Narrowing in Left-Linear Constructor Systems Germ?n Vidal Complexity Analysis by Rewriting Martin Avanzini, Georg Moser Rewriting and call-time choice: the HO case Francisco Javier L?pez-Fraguas, Juan Rodr?guez-Hortal?, Jaime S?nchez-Hern?ndez 15:30-16:30 Semantics and Pragmatics of New Shortcut Fusion Rules Janis Voigtl?nder A Generalization of the Folding Rule for the Clark-Kunen Semantics Javier ?lvez, Paqui Lucio 17:00-18:00 Types for Hereditary Head Normalizing Terms Makoto Tatsuta A New Translation for Semi-classical Theories --- Backtracking without CPS Satoshi Kobayashi April 16 9:30-10:30 Substructural Type Systems for Program Analysis Naoki Kobayashi 11:00-12:30 Undoing Dynamic Typing (Declarative Pearl) Nick Benton Typed Dynamic Control Operators for Delimited Continuations Yukiyoshi Kameyama, Takuo Yonezawa Strictness Analysis Algorithms Based on an Inequality System for Lazy Types Hirofumi Yokouchi 14:00-15:00 Quantitative Logic Programming Revisited Mario Rodr?guez-Artalejo, Carlos A. Romero-D?az Formalizing a Constraint Deductive Database Language based on Hereditary Harrop Formulas with Negation Susana Nieva, Jaime S?nchez-Hern?ndez, Fernando S?enz-P?rez 15:30-16:30 Declarative Diagnosis of Missing Answers in Constraint Functional- Logic Programming Rafael Caballero, Mario Rodr?guez-Artalejo, Rafael del Vado V?rseda EasyCheck - Test Data for Free Jan Christiansen, Sebastian Fischer PC CO-CHAIRS Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya, Japan) Manuel Hermenegildo (Madrid, Spain and New Mexico, USA) PC MEMBERS Maria Alpuente (Valencia, Spain) Sergio Antoy (Portland, OR, USA) Matthias Blume (TTI, Chicago, USA) Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Zhenjiang Hu (Tokyo, Japan) Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC, Monterey, USA) Herbert Kuchen (Muenster, Germany) Dale Miller (INRIA, Palaiseau, France) Atsushi Ohori (Tohoku, Japan) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico, USA) Kristoffer Rose (IBM Watson, USA) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda, Japan) Peter Van Roy (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Benjamin Werner (INRIA, Palaiseau, France) LOCAL CHAIR Shoji Yuen (Nagoya, Japan) Previous FLOPS: FLOPS 2006, Fuji: http://hagi.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/FLOPS2006/ FLOPS 2004, Nara: http://logic.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/FLOPS2004/ FLOPS 2002, Aizu: http://www.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/FLOPS2002/ FLOPS 2001, Tokyo: http://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/flops2001/ SPONSORS Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (JSSST) SIG-PPL International Information Science Foundation IN COOPERATION ACM SIGPLAN Association for Logic Programming (ALP) Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS) INQUIRIES to flops2008 at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp From Eric.Allen at sun.com Thu Feb 7 11:54:06 2008 From: Eric.Allen at sun.com (Eric Allen) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:54:06 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Internships at Sun Labs Message-ID: The Programming Languages Research Group at Sun Labs has five internship slots available for Summer 2008. Each slot is available in either Burlington MA or Austin TX. These internships will focus on implementation of various aspects of static checking and type inference for the Fortress Programming Language. Resumes may be submitted through any of the following links. http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/search.cgi?req=558053 http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/search.cgi?req=558054 http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/search.cgi?req=558052 http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/search.cgi?req=558056 http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/search.cgi?req=556967 Thank you for your consideration. ------------- Eric Allen Co-Principal Investigator, Project Fortress Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From Philippe.LAHIRE at unice.fr Fri Feb 8 14:00:14 2008 From: Philippe.LAHIRE at unice.fr (Philippe.LAHIRE@unice.fr) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:00:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TOOLS Europe submission deadline extended to Feb 14 Message-ID: <47ACA6BE.8050001@unice.fr> ============================================================================ TOOLS EUROPE 2008 46th International Conference Objects, Models, Components, Patterns co-located with *** International Conference on Model Transformation 2008 *** *** Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development 2008 *** ETH Zurich, Switzerland 30 June-4 July 2008 http://tools.ethz.ch/ ============================================================================ Call for Papers TOOLS EUROPE 2008 will focus on the combination of technologies that have emerged through objects and object technology becoming mainstream. TOOLS EUROPE 2008 combines an emphasis on quality with a strong practical focus. This is the 46th TOOLS conference. Started in 1989, TOOLS conferences, held in Europe, the USA, Australia, China and Eastern Europe, have played a major role in the development of object technology field; many of the seminal concepts were first presented at TOOLS. The TOOLS series was successfully restarted in 2007. Contributions are solicited on all aspects of object technology and neighbouring fields, in particular model-based development, component-based development, and patterns (design, analysis and other applications); more generally, any contribution addressing topics in advanced software technology fall within the scope of TOOLS. Reflecting the practical emphasis of TOOLS, contributions showcasing applications along with a sound conceptual contribution are particularly welcome. For a non-exclusive list of potential topic areas see the TOOLS Web site. In 2008, TOOLS EUROPE will be co-located with several other events, including SEAFOOD 2008 and the International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT) 2008. Details of co-located events can be found on the TOOLS web site. Submission Guidelines All contributions will be subject to a rigorous selection process by the international Program Committee, with a stress on originality, practicality and overall quality. Every paper will be reviewed by at least 4 committee members. The acceptance rate will be published in the conference proceedings; TOOLS is committed to a fair and extensive peer-review process establishing a high standard in the area of modern practices in software engineering. By submitting a paper to TOOLS, authors warrant that the work is original and that the paper or a similar contribution is neither published nor considered for publication elsewhere. The TOOLS proceedings will be a volume in the new Springer LNBIP series, and papers should be formatted accordingly. Final camera-ready submissions should be at most 20 pages in length in LNBIP format. We recommend that you use this format for preparing your initial submission. Important Dates ***EXTENDED*** Deadline for technical papers: February 14, 2008, midnight Zurich time Author notification: April 1, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: April 16, 2008 TOOLS EUROPE will also include workshops and tutorials. See the corresponding calls for contributions. Chairpersons Conference chair: Bertrand Meyer Program chair: Richard Paige Publicity chairs: Laurence Tratt, Philippe Lahire Workshop chairs: Stephane Ducasse, Alexandre Bergel Tutorial Chairs: Manuel Oriol, Phil Brooke Program committee Patrick Albert, Uwe Assmann, Balbir Barn, Mike Barnett, Claude Baudoin, Bernhard Beckert, Jean Bezivin, Jean-Pierre Briot, Phil Brooke, Dave Clarke, Marsha Chechik, Bernard Coulette, Jin Song Dong, Gregor Engels, Patrick Eugster, Jose Fiadeiro, Judit Nyekyne Gaizler, Benoit Garbinato, Carlo Ghezzi, Martin Glinz, Martin Gogolla, Jeff Gray, Pedro Guerreiro, Alan Hartman, Valerie Issarny, Gerti Kappel, Joseph Kiniry, Ivan Kurtev, Philippe Lahire, Ralf Laemmel, Mingshu Li, Tiziana Margaria, Erik Meijer, Peter Mueller, David Naumann, Oscar Nierstrasz, Manuel Oriol, Jonathan Ostroff, Alfonso Pierantonio, Awais Rashid, Nicolas Rouquette, Anthony Savidis, Doug Schmidt, Bran Selic, Jim Steel, Dave Thomas, Laurence Tratt, T.H. Tse, Antonio Vallecillo, Amiram Yehudai, Andreas Zeller. From mhills at cs.uiuc.edu Fri Feb 8 14:53:07 2008 From: mhills at cs.uiuc.edu (Hills, Mark A) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:53:07 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AMAST'08 : Final CFP Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies.] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % % The 12th International Conference on % % Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology % % AMAST 2008 % % % % July 28-31, 2008 % % University of Illinois % % Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA % % % % http://amast08.cs.uiuc.edu % % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SCOPE AND AIMS ============== The major goal of the AMAST conferences is to promote research towards setting software technology on a firm, mathematical basis. Work towards this goal is a collaborative, international effort with contributions from both academia and industry. The envisioned virtues of providing software technology developed on a mathematical basis include (a) correctness, which can be proved mathematically, (b) safety, so that developed software can be used in the implementation of critical systems, (c) portability, i.e., independence from computing platforms and language generations, and (d) evolutionary change, i.e., the software is self-adaptable and evolves with the problem domain. The previous conferences were held in: Iowa City, Iowa, USA (1989, 1991 and 2000); Twente, The Netherlands (1993); Montreal, Canada (1995); Munich, Germany (1996); Sydney, Australia (1997); Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil (1998); Reunion Island, France (2002); Stirling, UK (2004, colocated with MPC' 04); Kuressaare, Estonia (2006, colocated with MPC '06). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY: - systems software technology - application software technology - concurrent and reactive systems - formal methods in industrial software development - formal techniques for software requirements, design - evolutionary software/adaptive systems PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY: - logic programming, functional programming, object paradigms - constraint programming and concurrency - program verification and transformation - programming calculi - specification languages and tools - formal specification and development case studies ALGEBRAIC AND LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS: - logic, category theory, relation algebra, computational algebra - algebraic foundations for languages and systems, coinduction - theorem proving and logical frameworks for reasoning - logics of programs - algebra and coalgebra SYSTEMS AND TOOLS (for system demonstrations or ordinary papers): - software development environments - support for correct software development - system support for reuse - tools for prototyping - component based software development tools - validation and verification - computer algebra systems - theorem proving systems INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Rajeev Alur (confirmed) Edmund M. Clarke Jayadev Misra (confirmed) Teodor Rus (confirmed) AMAST steering committee ======================== Michael Johnson Macquarie University (chair) Egidio Astesiano Universita degli Studi di Genova Robert Berwick MIT Zohar Manna Stanford University Michael Mislove Tulane University Anton Nijholt University of Twente Maurice Nivat Universite Paris 7 Charles Rattray University of Stirling Teodor Rus University of Iowa Giuseppe Scollo Universita degli Studi di Catania Michael Sintzoff Universite Catholique de Louvain Jeannette Wing Carnegie Mellon University Martin Wirsing Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Gilles Barthe France INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Michel Bidoit France INRIA Saclay - Ile-de-France Manfred Broy Germany Technische Universitat Munchen Roberto Bruni Italy University of Pisa Mads Dam Sweden Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm Razvan Diaconescu Romania Institute of Mathematics (IMAR) Jose Fiadeiro UK University of Leicester Rob Goldblatt New Zealand Victoria University Bernhard Gramlich Austria Vienna University of Technology Radu Grosu USA State University of New York at Stony Brook Anne Haxthausen Denmark Technical University of Denmark Rolf Hennicker Germany Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen Michael Johnson Australia Macquarie University Helene Kirchner France INRIA Loria, Nancy Paul Klint The Netherlands CWI and Universiteit van Amsterdam Gary T. Leavens USA University of Central Florida Narciso Marti-Oliet Spain Universidad Complutense de Madrid Jose Meseguer (co-chair) USA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michael Mislove USA Tulane University Ugo Montanari Italy University of Pisa Larry Moss USA Indiana University Till Mossakowski Germany DFKI Bremen Peter Mosses UK Swansea University Fernando Orejas Spain Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona Dusko Pavlovic USA Kestrel Institute and Oxford University Grigore Rosu (co-chair) USA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan Rutten The Netherlands CWI and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Lutz Schroeder Germany DFKI Bremen/Universitat Bremen Wolfram Schulte USA Microsoft Research Giuseppe Scollo Italy Universita di Catania Henny Sipma USA Stanford University Doug Smith USA Kestrel Institute Carolyn Talcott USA SRI International Andrzej Tarlecki Poland Warsaw University Varmo Vene Estonia University of Tartu Martin Wirsing Germany Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen Uwe Wolter Norway University of Bergen LOCAL ORGANIZATION ================== (all at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Jose Meseguer Mark Hills Grigore Rosu Ralf Sasse IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Submission of abstracts: 1 March 2008 * Submission of full papers: 8 March 2008 * Notification of authors: 20 April 2008 * Camera-ready version: 15 May 2008 SUBMISSION ========== Two kinds of submissions are solicited for this conference: technical papers and system demonstrations. Papers may report academic or industrial progress, and papers which deal with both are especially well-regarded. Submission is in two stages. Abstracts (plain text) must be submitted by 1 March 2008. Full papers (pdf) adhering to the llncs style and not longer than 15 pages (6 pages for system demonstrations) must be submitted by 8 March 2008. Submissions will be open soon. Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. All papers will be refereed by the programme committee, and will be judged based on their significance, technical merit, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings of AMAST '08 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer-Verlag. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20080208/eb8a3c67/attachment.htm From aleksn at microsoft.com Tue Feb 12 10:19:04 2008 From: aleksn at microsoft.com (Aleks Nanevski) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:19:04 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IMLA'08: Call for Papers Message-ID: Fourth Internation Workshop on Intuitionistic Modal Logic and Applications (IMLA'08) (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vdp/IMLA08.html) A LICS'08 affiliated workshop Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 23, 2008 Constructive modal logics and type theories are of increasing foundational and practical relevance in computer science. Applications are in type disciplines for programming languages, and meta-logics for reasoning about a variety of computational phenomena. Theoretical and methodological issues center around the question of how the proof-theoretic strengths of constructive logics can best be combined with the model-theoretic strengths of modal logics. Practical issues center around the question which modal connectives with associated laws or proof rules capture computational phenomena accurately and at the right level of abstraction. This workshop will bring together designers, implementers, and users to discuss all aspects of intuitionistic modal logics and type theories. Topics include, but are not limited to: * applications of intuitionistic necessity and possibility * monads and strong monads * constructive belief logics and type theories * applications of constructive modal logic and modal type theory to formal verification, foundations of security, abstract interpretation, and program analysis and optimization * modal types for integration of inductive and co-inductive types, higher-order abstract syntax, strong functional programming * models of constructive modal logics such as algebraic, categorical, Kripke, topological, and realizability interpretations * notions of proof for constructive modal logics * extraction of constraints or programs from modal proofs * proof search methods for constructive modal logics and their implementations The workshop continues a series of previous LICS-affiliated workshops, which were held as part of FLoC'99, Trento, Italy and of FLoC'02, Copenhagen, Denmark. We solicit submissions on work in progress and on more mature results. Submissions should be extended abstracts of 5-10 pages sent in PostScript or PDF format to the program co-chair at aleksn at microsoft.com. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission: April 25, 2008 Notification: May 23, 2008 Final papers due: June 7, 2008 Workshop Date: June 23, 2008 It is planned to publish workshop proceedings as Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) or in CEURS, to be decided. Authors please use the generic ENTCS macro package at http://www.math.tulane.edu/~entcs. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gavin Bierman (Microsoft, UK) Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA) Michael Mendler (Bamberg, DE) Aleks Nanevski (Microsoft, UK) Brigitte Pientka (McGill, CA) Eike Ritter (Birmingham, UK) INVITED SPEAKERS: Frank Pfenning (CMU, USA) Torben Brauner (Roskilde, DK) CONTACTS Valeria de Paiva Aleks Nanevski PARC, Palo Alto Research Center Microsoft Research paiva at parc.xeroc.com aleksn at microsoft.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20080212/10997869/attachment.htm From David.Clarke at cwi.nl Wed Feb 13 05:31:28 2008 From: David.Clarke at cwi.nl (David.Clarke@cwi.nl) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:31:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] IWACO 2008 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20080213103128.6CECA80061@arcanine.sen.cwi.nl> Call For Papers International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in object-oriented programming (IWACO) at ECOOP 2008 July 7 or 8, 2008, Paphos, Cyprus www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/wrigstad/iwaco08 The power of objects lies in the flexibility of their interconnection structure. But this flexibility comes at a cost. Because an object can be modified via any alias, object-oriented programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse. Aliasing makes objects depend on their environment in unpredictable ways, breaking the encapsulation necessary for reliable software components, making it difficult to reason about and optimise programs, obscuring the interactions between objects, and introducing security problems. Aliasing is a fundamental difficulty, but we accept its presence. Instead we seek techniques for describing, reasoning about, restricting, analysing, and preventing the connections between objects and/or the interactions between them. Promising approaches to these problems are based on ownership, confinement, uniqueness, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, effects systems, and access control mechanisms. The workshop will generally address the question how to manage interconnected object structures in the presence of aliasing. In particular, we will consider the following issues (among others): * models, type and other formal systems, programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques, patterns and notations for expressing object ownership, aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and related topics. * optimisation techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting object ownership, aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and related topics * empirical studies of programs or experience reports from programming systems designed with these issues in mind * novel applications of aliasing management techniques such as ownership types, ownership domains, confined types, region types, and uniqueness. We encourage not only submissions presenting original research results, but also papers that attempt to establish links between different approaches and/or papers that include survey material. Original research results should be clearly described, and their usefulness to practitioners outlined. Paper selection will be based on the quality of the submitted material. The best papers will appear in a special issue of the IET Software journal. Program Committee Peter Müller (Microsoft Research, Chair) Kevin Bierhoff (Carnegie Mellon University) John Boyland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Werner Dietl (ETH Zurich) Manuel Fähndrich (Microsoft Research) Jeff Foster (University of Maryland, College Park) David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology) Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge) Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter (University of Kaiserslautern) Mooly Sagiv (Tel-Aviv University) Tobias Wrigstad (Purdue University) Important Dates Submission: April 30, 2008 Notification: May 26, 2008 Final Version: June 9, 2008 Workshop: July 7 or 8, 2008 Organisers Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London) Dave Clarke (CWI) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Tobias Wrigstad (Purdue University) Participation The number of participants is limited. Apart from those with accepted papers, others may attend by sending an email to Peter Müller (mueller at microsoft.com) indicating what contribution you could make to the workshop. A small number of places will be reserved for PhD students and other researchers wishing to begin research in this area. Selection Process Both full papers (up to 10 pages) and position papers (1-2 pages) are welcome. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee. The accepted papers, after rework by the authors, will be published in the Workshop Proceedings, which will be distributed at the workshop. All accepted submissions shall remain available from the workshop web page. Papers should be sent as PDF files to Peter Müller (mueller at microsoft.com) by April 27, 2008 and be accompanied by a text-only message containing: title, abstract and keywords, the authors' full names, and address and e-mail for correspondence. Submissions should be in English. Queries Queries may be directed to Peter Müller (mueller at microsoft.com). From jaafar.gaber at utbm.fr Wed Feb 13 11:42:26 2008 From: jaafar.gaber at utbm.fr (Jaafar GABER) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:42:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IEEE Worshop AUPC08 with ICPS08, July 6-10, 2008, Sorrento, Italy Message-ID: <47B31DF2.80402@utbm.fr> --Apologies if you receive this more than once ICPS'08 : IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Workshop (AUPC'08) July 6-10, 2008, Sorrento, Italy For mre information and submission guidlines, Please visit: http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/~bakhouya/IEEEICPS08Workshop/aupc08.htm Accepted papers will be available on IEEE Xplore Best regards, -- JGaber Dr J.Gaber Universit? de Technologie de Belfort-Montb?liard Rue Thierry Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, France voice: +33 (0)3-8458-3252, +33 (0)6-8134-6243 fax: +33 (0)3-8458-3342 emails: gaber at utbm.fr, gaber at science.gmu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20080213/a0d1d8f5/attachment.htm From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Feb 14 12:53:53 2008 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (ruy@cin.ufpe.br) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:53:53 -0200 (BRST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] WoLLIC 2008 - DEADLINE APPROACHING: Feb 24th Message-ID: <37820.189.1.6.77.1203011633.squirrel@webmail.cin.ufpe.br> [please post] [** sincere apologies for duplicates **] >>>>>>>> DEADLINE APPROACHING: Feb 24th <<<<<<<<<<< Call for Papers 15th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2008) Edinburgh, Scotland July 1-4, 2008 (SPECIAL: There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem" http://zalafilms.com/films/juliarobinson.html with kind permission of the film director) 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. The Fifteenth WoLLIC will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 1 to July 4, 2008. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION 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; 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. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2008/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 24, and the full paper by March 2 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 13, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 27 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2008, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (FoLLI-LNAI subseries). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2008 issue of the Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences. INVITED SPEAKERS Olivier Danvy (BRICS) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, UK) Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) Sam Lomonaco (U Maryland Baltimore) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U) Henry Towsner (CMU) Nikolay Vereshchagin (Moscow) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2008 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2008). See www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES February 24, 2008: Paper title and abstract deadline March 2, 2008: Full paper deadline (firm) April 13, 2008: Author notification April 27, 2008: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lev Beklemishev (Utrecht) Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion) Xavier Caicedo (U Los Andes, Colombia) Mary Dalrymple (Oxford) Martin Escardo (Birmingham) Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary, U London) (Chair) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Louis Kauffman (Maths, U Ill at Chicago) Ulrich Kohlenbach (Darmstadt) Leonid Libkin (Edinburgh U) Giuseppe Longo (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA) Andre Scedrov (Maths, U Penn) Valentin Shehtman (Inst for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow) Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt U, Scotland) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Brasilia, Brazil) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt U, Scotland, co-chair) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair) STEERING COMMITTEE S. Abramsky, J. van Benthem, J. Halpern, W. Hodges, D. Leivant, A. Macintyre, G. Mints, R. de Queiroz WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2008/ --- From abel at informatik.uni-muenchen.de Fri Feb 15 09:12:17 2008 From: abel at informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Andreas Abel) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:12:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP'08 call for papers Message-ID: <47B59DC1.9080708@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP'08) http://www4.in.tum.de/~lfmtp Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 23 June 2008 Affiliated with Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2008) CALL FOR PAPERS Important dates: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 14 April 2008 Paper submission: 21 April 2008 Author notification: 19 May 2008 Final version: 2 June 2008 Workshop day: 23 June 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The LFMTP workshop continues the International workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages (LFM) and the MERLIN workshop on MEchanized Reasoning about Languages with variable BIndingIN. 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 and implementation on the one hand and their applications in for example proof-carrying code have been the focus of considerable research over the last two decades. This workshop will bring together designers, implementors, and practitioners to discuss all aspects of logical frameworks and variable binding. The broad subject areas of LFMTP'08 are: * The automation and implementation of the meta-theory of programming languages and related calculi, particularly work which involves variable binding and fresh name generation. * The theoretical and practical issues concerning the encoding of variable binding and fresh name generation, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. * Case studies of meta-programming, and the mechanization of the (meta)theory of descriptions of programming languages and other calculi. Papers focusing on logic translations and on experiences with encoding programming languages theory are particularly welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to * logical framework design * meta-theoretic analysis * applications and comparative studies * implementation techniques * efficient proof representation and validation * proof-generating decision procedures and theorem provers * proof-carrying code * substructural frameworks * semantic foundations * methods for reasoning about logics * formal digital libraries Program Committee: Andreas Abel (LMU Munich) Peter Dybjer (Chalmers University of Technology) Alberto Momigliano (University of Edinburgh) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) Randy Pollack (University of Edinburgh) Carsten Schuermann (IT University of Copenhagen) Peter Sewell (University of Cambridge) Aaron Stump (Washington University) Christian Urban (TU Munich) Three categories of papers are solicited: * Category A: Detailed and technical accounts of new research: up to fifteen pages including bibliography. * Category B: Shorter accounts of work in progress and proposed further directions, including discussion papers: up to eight pages including bibliography and appendices. * Category C: System descriptions presenting an implemented tool and its novel features: up to six pages. A demonstration is expected to accompany the presentation. Submission is electronic. Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words before submitting the paper. Papers are to be submitted in postscript or PDF format and must conform to the ENTCS style preferably using LaTeX2e. For further information and submission instructions, see the LFMTP web page: http://www4.in.tum.de/~lfmtp Proceedings are to be published as a volume in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) series and will be available to participants at the workshop. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the workshop. The organizers: Andreas Abel Christian Urban Theoretical Computer Science Institute for Computer Science Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Technical University of Munich Email: andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de Email: urbanc at in.tum.de -- Andreas Abel <>< Du bist der geliebte Mensch. Theoretical Computer Science, University of Munich http://www.tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~abel/ From andrew.gacek at gmail.com Sun Feb 17 09:52:24 2008 From: andrew.gacek at gmail.com (Andrew Gacek) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:52:24 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Abella: Interactive theorem proving with lambda-tree syntax Message-ID: I am happy to announce the public release of Abella, an interactive theorem prover that is designed to reason about structural operational semantics style specifications of dynamic and static properties of an object language. Amongst other things, Abella has been used to prove normalizability properties of the lambda calculus, cut-admissibility for a sequent calculus and type uniqueness and subject reduction properties. The most recent successes include solutions to parts 1a and 2a of the POPLmark challenge and a proof of normalizability for the simply-typed lambda-calculus using a logical relations argument in the style of Tait. Abella is a realization of a two-level logic approach to reasoning in its application domain. One level is defined by a specification logic that supports a transparent encoding of structural operational semantics rules. This logic is a subset of the language of Lambda Prolog and can therefore be animated. The second level, that is called the reasoning logic, embeds the specification logic via definitions of atomic judgments; complicated properties involving these atomic judgments can then be stated and proved in the reasoning logic. An important characteristic of Abella is that it supports the use of lambda-tree syntax in both the specification and the reasoning logics in providing treatments of binding constructs in object language syntax. Reasoning over lambda-tree syntax is supported by the nabla quantifier introduced by Miller and Tiu and the notion of generic judgments. Abella also incorporates a newly developed extension to the notion of definitions of McDowell and Miller that uses the nabla quantifier to encode stronger properties about atomic judgments that are often essential in reasoning tasks. For more information, the Abella website includes walkthroughs, examples, downloads, and related publications: http://abella.cs.umn.edu/ The distribution material also contains proofs of the various example properties mentioned in this message. I welcome your feedback and any questions you may have. Please contact me directly at andrew.gacek at gmail.com. Thank you, Andrew Gacek From sescobar at dsic.upv.es Mon Feb 18 12:30:14 2008 From: sescobar at dsic.upv.es (Santiago Escobar) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:30:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Cfp: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Security and Rewriting Techniques Security (SecReT 2008) Message-ID: ******************************************************************** SecReT 2008 3rd International Workshop on Security and Rewriting Techniques http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/secret08 Sunday, June 22, 2008, Pittsburgh, USA Affiliated workshop of the 21st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) and the 23rd IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science (LICS) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission March 31, 2008 Full Paper Submission April 6, 2008 Acceptance Notification May 12, 2008 Camera Ready May 26, 2008 Workshop June 22, 2008 SCOPE The aim of this workshop is to bring together rewriting researchers and security experts, in order to foster their interaction and develop future collaborations in this area, provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. The workshop focuses on the use of rewriting techniques in all aspects of security. Specific topics include: authentication, encryption, access control and authorization, protocol verification, specification of policies, intrusion detection, integrity of information, control of information leakage, control of distributed and mobile code, etc. Previous instances of SecRet were held in 2006 (S. Servolo, Venice, Italy), and 2007 (Paris, France). LOCATION SecReT'08 will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The workshop is associated with the 21st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF'08) and the 23rd IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'08). SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is web-based via a link available in the main web page. Submissions must be received by April 6, 2008. In addition, a title and abstract must be submitted by March 31, 2008. Submitted papers should be at most 15 pages in the ENTCS style, and should include an abstract and the author's information. See the author's instructions of ENTCS style at http://www.entcs.org. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in a preliminary volume available during the workshop. After the workshop, a final version of the proceedings will be published in the Elsevier series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). INVITED SPEAKERS Hubert Comon Cachan, France Jonathan Millen MITRE, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Daniel Dougherty Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pierpaolo Degano Pisa, Italy Daniel Dougherty Worcester, USA Santiago Escobar Valencia, Spain Maribel Fernandez King's College London, UK Thomas Genet IRISA Rennes, France Joshua Guttman MITRE, USA Catherine Meadows NRL, USA Monica Nesi L'Aquila, Italy Michael Rusinowitch Lorraine, France Ralf Treinen Paris-7, France ******************************************************************** From sescobar at dsic.upv.es Mon Feb 18 12:30:28 2008 From: sescobar at dsic.upv.es (Santiago Escobar) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:30:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Cfp: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Security and Rewriting Techniques Security (SecReT 2008) Message-ID: ******************************************************************** SecReT 2008 3rd International Workshop on Security and Rewriting Techniques http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/secret08 Sunday, June 22, 2008, Pittsburgh, USA Affiliated workshop of the 21st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) and the 23rd IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science (LICS) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission March 31, 2008 Full Paper Submission April 6, 2008 Acceptance Notification May 12, 2008 Camera Ready May 26, 2008 Workshop June 22, 2008 SCOPE The aim of this workshop is to bring together rewriting researchers and security experts, in order to foster their interaction and develop future collaborations in this area, provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. The workshop focuses on the use of rewriting techniques in all aspects of security. Specific topics include: authentication, encryption, access control and authorization, protocol verification, specification of policies, intrusion detection, integrity of information, control of information leakage, control of distributed and mobile code, etc. Previous instances of SecRet were held in 2006 (S. Servolo, Venice, Italy), and 2007 (Paris, France). LOCATION SecReT'08 will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The workshop is associated with the 21st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF'08) and the 23rd IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'08). SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is web-based via a link available in the main web page. Submissions must be received by April 6, 2008. In addition, a title and abstract must be submitted by March 31, 2008. Submitted papers should be at most 15 pages in the ENTCS style, and should include an abstract and the author's information. See the author's instructions of ENTCS style at http://www.entcs.org. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in a preliminary volume available during the workshop. After the workshop, a final version of the proceedings will be published in the Elsevier series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). INVITED SPEAKERS Hubert Comon Cachan, France Jonathan Millen MITRE, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Daniel Dougherty Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pierpaolo Degano Pisa, Italy Daniel Dougherty Worcester, USA Santiago Escobar Valencia, Spain Maribel Fernandez King's College London, UK Thomas Genet IRISA Rennes, France Joshua Guttman MITRE, USA Catherine Meadows NRL, USA Monica Nesi L'Aquila, Italy Michael Rusinowitch Lorraine, France Ralf Treinen Paris-7, France ******************************************************************** From S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk Tue Feb 19 12:40:35 2008 From: S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk (S.J.Thompson) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:40:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Funded PhD studentships at the University of Kent, UK Message-ID: Funding is available for the following PhD studentships within the TCS group at the University of Kent. Applicants should contact the project supervisor directly for further details. Project Supervisor: Dr Olaf Chitil (O.Chitil at kent.ac.uk) Project Title: Tracing Functional Programs with Hat Hat (www.haskell.org/hat) is a sophisticated tool for locating faults in Haskell programs. Hat consists of a trace generation system plus various tools for viewing a trace. The aim of the research project is to improve Hat by both extending it and easing its application in practise: (1) Apply several theoretical results of a recent EPSRC project on tracing in Hat (e.g. algorithmic debugging with functions as finite maps). (2) Integrate the trace generator of Hat into the byte code interpreter of the Glasgow Haskell system (GHC). (3) Enable traced code to call and be called from unmodified non-tracing code, such that Hat can use pre-compiled libraries of GHC. Project Title: The Essence of Transfinite Reductions Project Supervisor: Dr Stefan Kahrs (S.M.Kahrs at kent.ac.uk) Infinitary Rewriting is an area of Term Rewriting in which research has studied infinitary terms and infinitary reductions. While the notion of infinitary terms is fairly settled, the existing notions of infinitary reduction leave a lot to be desired - the definitions are suspiciously complicated, the established results less than impressive. Thus, there appears to be a lot of room for improvement. There are different angles that are worth exploring. Firstly, there are several alternative ways to define transfinite reductions. Secondly, one would hope that some of these alternative ways lead to good properties of transfinite reduction. Thirdly, it is not even a priori clear what would constitute such a good property. Project Title: Refactoring Proofs Project Supervisor: Prof Simon Thompson (S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk) Refactoring allows the programmer to modify the design or structure of a program without changing its behaviour. Recent work in the Functional Programming group at Kent has developed refactoring systems for Haskell 98 (HaRe) and Erlang (Wrangler). Programming and proof have much in common, and indeed under the "propositions as types" analogy, they are different views of the same objects. The aim of this project is to explore how refactoring can be incorporated into proof development systems, and will combine theoretical work, implementation and usability analysis to ensure that the results will be of value to users of proof assistants. The aim of this project is to investigate refactoring for proofs. From pasalic at cs.rice.edu Tue Feb 19 15:07:34 2008 From: pasalic at cs.rice.edu (Emir Pasalic) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:07:34 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GPCE'08 First Call For Papers In-Reply-To: <46E7F9AF.1060009@cs.rice.edu> References: <46CC569D.8060506@cs.rice.edu> <46E7F9AF.1060009@cs.rice.edu> Message-ID: <47BB3706.5080004@cs.rice.edu> Call for Papers Seventh International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2008) October 19-23, 2008 Nashville, Tennessee (co-located with OOPSLA 2008) http://www.gpce.org Important Dates: * Submission of abstracts: May 12, 2008 * Submission: May 19, 2008 * Notification: June 30, 2008 * Tutorial and workshop proposals: March 30, 2008 * Tutorial and workshop notification: April 5, 2008 Scope Generative and component approaches are revolutionizing software development similar to how automation and components revolutionized manufacturing. Generative Programming (developing programs that synthesize other programs), Component Engineering (raising the level of modularization and analysis in application design), and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) (elevating program specifications to compact domain-specific notations that are easier to write, maintain, and analyze) are key technologies for automating program development. The International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques for enhancing the productivity, quality, and time-to-market in software development that stems from deploying components and automating program generation. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques for developing generative and component-based software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering research community and the programming languages community. Submissions Research papers: 10 pages in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls) reporting original research results that contribute to scientific knowledge in the areas listed below (the PC chair can advise on appropriateness). Experience reports: 2 to 4 pages in length in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls). We encourage experience reports that provide concrete evidence with regards to the efficacy of generative technologies in industrial applications. Topics GPCE seeks contributions in software engineering and in programming languages related (but not limited) to: * Generative programming o Reuse, meta-programming, partial evaluation, multi-stage and multi-level languages, step-wise refinement, and generic programming o Semantics, type systems, symbolic computation, linking and explicit substitution, in-lining and macros, templates, and program transformation o Runtime code generation, compilation, active libraries, synthesis from specifications, development methods, generation of non-code artifacts, formal methods, and reflection * Generative techniques for o Product-line architectures o Distributed, real-time and embedded systems o Model-driven development and architecture o Resource bounded/safety critical systems. * Component-based software engineering o Reuse, distributed platforms and middleware, distributed systems, evolution, patterns, development methods, deployment and configuration techniques, and formal methods * Integration of generative and component-based approaches * Domain engineering and domain analysis o Domain-specific languages including visual and UML-based DSLs * Separation of concerns o Aspect-oriented and feature-oriented programming, o Intentional programming and multi-dimensional separation of concerns * Industrial applications of the above Experience reports on applications of these techniques to real-world problems are especially encouraged, as are research papers that relate ideas and concepts from several of these topics, or bridge the gap between theory and practice. The program chair is happy to advise on the appropriateness of a particular subject. Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy. Please contact the program chair if you have any questions about how this policy applies to your paper (gpce2008 at gpce.org). Organizers General Chair: Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Oregon) Program Chair: Jeremy Siek (University of Colorado at Boulder) Satellite Chair: Ralf Lammel (Univ. Koblenz-Landau) Publicity Chair: Emir Pasalic (LogicBlox, Inc.) Program Committee David Abrahams (Boost Consulting) Uwe Assmann (Technische Universitat, Dresden) Ira Baxter (Semantic Designs, USA) Martin Bravenboer (Delft Univ. of Tech., The Netherlands) Jacques Carette (McMaster University, Canada) Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) William R. Cook (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Lidia Fuentes (University of Malaga, Spain) Yossi Gil (The Technion, Israel) Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA) Mark Grechanik (Accenture Technology Labs, USA) Stanislaw Jarzabek (National University of Singapore) Jaakko Jarvi (Texas A&M Unviersity, USA) Julie Lawall (DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Christian Lengauer (University of Passau, Germany) Matthew Marcus (Adobe Systems Inc., USA) Anne-Francoise Le Meur (University of Lille 1, France) Sibylle Schupp (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Peter Sestoft (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University, USA) Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota, USA) From kwang at ropas.snu.ac.kr Tue Feb 19 19:23:51 2008 From: kwang at ropas.snu.ac.kr (Kwangkeun Yi) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:23:51 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Tenure-track Faculty Positions, Seoul National University] Message-ID: <47BB7317.7010805@ropas.snu.ac.kr> =========================================================== Openings for Tenure-track Faculty Positions in Computer Science & Engineering (especially in programming languages and theories) School of Computer Science & Engineering Seoul National University (http://www.useoul.edu) Details: http://cse.snu.ac.kr/english/FacultyPositions.htm (* Note: though the above page says the applications are closing in Feb., we are open for applications year-round. *) ============================================================ School of Computer Science & Engineering, Seoul National University has opennings for tenure-track faculty positions in all areas of computer science. We are very much interested in hiring new members in programming languages and theories. Applicants are expected to have significant research potential, and would normally be expected to progress to tenure, by meeting, in due time, the university's requirements for promotion to associate professor (4-5 years) and full professor (another 5-6 years). Applicants will be expected to lecture in English. Good competence in oral and written communication in English is essential for this position. - Annual salary from USD 60K to 100K, with generous taxation rates - On-campus university housing provided (2 or 3 bedrooms, 2-year old) - Start-up research grant is provided, sufficient to support up to two graduate students, initial-year travels, and initial office and lab equipments - Teaching loads: each faculty is expected to teach two courses per semester; normally, one for undergraduate level and the second for graduate level. ----- Background - The university: Seoul National University is Korea's leading university; in rankings, it has always out-performed other Korean universities, and is the preferred destination of top Korean high school students. It ranks with the leading universities in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in research performance. It has been encouraging research excellence, and a commitment to supporting the research efforts of faculty. - The School of Computer Science & Engineering: We currently have 30 faculty members of almost all areas in computer science and engineering. But we need to strengthen the areas of computer science foundations, which was a strong recommendation of our international advisory board members too. - Location: The university is situated in a wilderness valley on the outskirts of Seoul, surrounded by rugged mountains. Yet it is a short ten-minute bus-ride to bustling shopping areas, where you may join the highly efficient Seoul metro system, and explore the great metropolis, one of the World's largest (and highly prosperous) cities. Seoul is geographically in between Beijing and Tokyo, with two-hour flight to each city. ----- If interested, please contact with Prof. Kwangkeun Yi School of Computer Science & Engineering Seoul National University email: kwang at ropas.snu.ac.kr homepage: http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/~kwang Thank you very much. From plas2008 at ru.is Thu Feb 21 09:16:44 2008 From: plas2008 at ru.is (PLAS2008) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:16:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers: PLAS 2008 Message-ID: **** We apologize for any multiple postings **** ACM SIGPLAN Third Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2008) Tucson, Arizona, June 8, 2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Co-located with PLDI '08 Supported by IBM Research and Microsoft Research http://research.ihost.com/plas2008/ Submission Deadline: March 24, 2008 Second Call for Papers PLAS aims to provide a forum for exploring and evaluating ideas on the use of programming language and program analysis techniques to improve the security of software systems. Strongly encouraged are proposals of new, speculative ideas; evaluations of new or known techniques in practical settings; and discussions of emerging threats and important problems. The scope of PLAS includes, but is not limited to: * Language-based techniques for security * Verification of security properties in software * Automated introduction and/or verification of security enforcement mechanisms * Program analysis techniques for discovering security vulnerabilities * Compiler-based security mechanisms, such as host-based intrusion detection and in-line reference monitors * Specifying and enforcing security policies for information flow and access control * Model-driven approaches to security * Applications, examples, and implementations of these techniques Important Dates and Submission Guidelines * March 24, 2008: Submission due date * April 21, 2008: Author notification * May 12, 2008: Revised papers due * May 30, 2008: Student travel grant applications due * June 8, 2008: PLAS 2008 workshop We invite papers of two kinds: (1) Technical papers about relatively mature work, for "long" presentations during the workshop, and (2) papers for "short" presentations about more preliminary work, position statements, or work that is more exploratory in nature. Short papers marked as "Informal Presentation" will only have their abstract printed in the proceedings. All other papers will be included in the formal proceedings and must describe original work in compliance with the SIGPLAN republication policy. Page limits are 12 pages for long papers and 6 pages for short papers. Student Travel Grants Student attendees of PLAS can apply for a travel grant (in addition to any PLDI grants), thanks to the generous support of IBM Research and Microsoft Research. The application forms are on the workshop Web site. Program Organization * ?lfar Erlingsson, Reykjav?k University, Iceland, Program Co-Chair * Marco Pistoia, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Program Co-Chair Program Committee * Gilles Barthe, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France * Bruno Blanchet, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure, France * Andy Chou, Coverity, USA * Mads Dam, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * ?lfar Erlingsson, Reykjav?k University, Iceland * Heiko Mantel, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany * Isabella Mastroeni, Universit? di Verona, Italy * Greg Morrisett, Harvard University, USA * Andrew Myers, Cornell University, USA * David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA * Marco Pistoia, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA * Eijiro Sumii, Tohoku University, Japan * Dan Wallach, Rice University, USA From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Thu Feb 21 16:57:22 2008 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:57:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Book Announcement Message-ID: Book Announcement: ____________________________________________________________________________ NEW COMPUTATIONAL PARADIGMS - CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF WHAT IS COMPUTABLE Cooper, S. Barry; Loewe, Benedikt; Sorbi, Andrea (Eds.) 2008, Springer Mathematics of Computing series XIII, 560 pp. 19 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-36033-1 In recent years, classical computability has expanded beyond its original scope to address issues related to computability and complexity in algebra, analysis, and physics. The deep interconnection between "computation" and "proof" has originated much of the most significant work in constructive mathematics, theoretical computer science and mathematical logic of the last 70 years. Moreover, the increasingly compelling necessity to deal with computability in the real world (such as computing on continuous data, biological computing, and physical models) has brought focus to new paradigms of computation that are based on biological and physical models. These models address questions of efficiency in a radically new way and even threaten to move the so-called Turing barrier, i.e. the line between the decidable and the undecidable. This book examines new developments in the theory and practice of computation from a mathematical perspective, with topics ranging from classical computability to complexity, from biocomputing to quantum computing. The book opens with an introduction by Andrew Hodges, the Turing biographer, who analyzes the pioneering work that anticipated recent developments concerning computation's allegedly new paradigms. The remaining material covers traditional topics in computability theory such as relative computability, theory of numberings, and domain theory, in addition to topics on the relationships between proof theory, computability, and complexity theory. New paradigms of computation arising from biology and quantum physics are also discussed, as well as the computability of the real numbers and its related issues. ____________________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CiE.book.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 56636 bytes Desc: Url : http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20080221/a4f5b44b/CiE.book.pdf From tobias at dsv.su.se Sat Feb 23 10:19:20 2008 From: tobias at dsv.su.se (Tobias Wrigstad) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:19:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2008 Call for Student Volunteers Message-ID: <20080223151920.5C6F3479A1@triton.localdomain> ECOOP'2008 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming July 7--11, 2008, Paphos, Cyprus http://ecoop08.cs.ucy.ac.cy CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS Deadline April 1st 2008 ECOOP is pleased to offer a number of opportunities for student volunteers, who are vital to the efficient operation and continued success of the conference each year. The student volunteer program is a chance for students from around the world to participate in the conference whilst assisting us in preparing and running the event. We strongly encourage students to become involved in the ECOOP student volunteer program. Job assignments include assisting with technical sessions, workshops, tutorials and panels, checking badges at doors, operating the information desk, helping with traffic flow, and general assistance to keep ECOOP running smoothly. In return, volunteers are granted free registration to the conference and (duties, space, and specific requirements permitting) free access to ECOOP plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops, and demos. Student should be in Paphos two days before the conference, that is from July 5th, to help with preparations and with the conference take-down on July 11th. Applications should be submitted by April 1st, 2008. More information on student volunteering is available at http://2008.ecoop.org/volunteers.html Tobias Wrigstad Student Volunteer Chair (wrigstad at cs.purdue.edu) From ulrik at cs.aau.dk Fri Feb 22 07:53:30 2008 From: ulrik at cs.aau.dk (Ulrik Nyman) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:53:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Participation: FIT (Foundations of Interface Technologies) at ETAPS 2008 Message-ID: <47BEC5CA.8090605@cs.aau.dk> We hereby invite you to participate in the FIT (Foundations of Interface Technologies) workshop held on April 5th 2008 as part of ETAPS 2008 (European joint conference on Theory And Practice of Software). (Online registration: http://etaps.inf.mit.bme.hu:8080/etaps08reg/) The FIT 2008 programme includes two distinguished invited talks, and a mixture of submitted and solicited contributions: Workshop website: http://fit2008.cs.aau.dk/ Invited speakers: - Albert Benveniste (IRISA / INRIA): Multiple Viewpoint Contracts and Residuation - Mari?lle Stoelinga (University of Twente): Interfaces for Reliability Talks: - Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo): Behavioral Types as Interfaces for Concurrent Processes - Florian Kammueller (TU Berlin): Modelchecking Nonfunctional Requirements for Interface Specifications - Sven Schewe and Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarbr?cken): Component Interfaces for System Synthesis - Dilian Gurov (KTH Stockholm), Marieke Huisman (INRIA Sophia Antipolis), Christoph Sprenger (ETH Zurich) An Algorithmic Approach to Compositional Verification of Sequential Programs with Procedures: An Overview. - Jan J?rjens (Open University, UK) Using Interface Specifications for Verifying Crypto-protocol Implementations. - Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg) Playing Games with Timed Interfaces - Jasper Berendsen and Frits Vaandrager (Radboud University Nijmegen) Compositionality in Real-Time Model Checking - Arvind Easwaran, Insup Lee, Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania) Interface Algebra for Analysis of Hierarchical Real Time Systems - Hans-J?rg Peter, Bernd Finkbeiner, Sven Schewe (Saarbr?cken) Automatic assumption synthesis from timed automata for compositional model checking From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Sat Feb 23 20:08:45 2008 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin Pierce) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:08:45 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS Final Call Message-ID: <61213CF9-EC8A-4AFB-839E-4AB9B73999C4@cis.upenn.edu> Subject: MFPS Final Call Dear Colleagues, This is the Final Call for Papers for MFPS 24. Details about the meeting are given below. Submissions should be made to EasyChair at the link http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps24 The deadline for submissions of titles and brief abstracts is Friday, March 7, and the deadline for full submissions is the following Friday, March 14. Thanks, and best regards, Mike Mislove =============================================== Professor Michael Mislove Phone: +1 504 862-3441 Department of Mathematics FAX: +1 504 865-5063 Tulane University URL: http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mwm New Orleans, LA 70118 USA =============================================== CALL FOR PAPERS MFPS XXIV http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mfps/mfps24.htm Twenty-fourth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA May 22 - 25, 2008 Partially Supported by US Office of Naval Research The MFPS conferences are devoted to those areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science which are related to models of computation, in general, and to the semantics of programming languages, in particular. The series has particularly stressed providing a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas about problems of common interest. As the series also strives to maintain breadth in its scope, the conference strongly encourages participation by researchers in neighboring areas. TOPICS include, but are not limited to, the following: biocomputation; categorical models; concurrent and distributed computation; constructive mathematics; domain theory; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; logic; non-classical computation; probabilistic systems; process calculi; program analysis; programming-language theory; quantum computation; rewriting theory; security; specifications; topological models; type systems; type theory. The Twenty-fourth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXIV) will take place on the campus of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA from Thursday, May 22 through Sunday, May 25, 2008. The Organising Committee for MFPS consists of Stephen Brookes (CMU), Achim Jung (Birmingham), Catherine Meadows (NRL), Michael Mislove (Tulane), and Prakash Panangaden (McGill). The local arrangements for MFPS XXIV are being overseen by Andre Scedrov (Penn). The INVITED SPEAKERS for MFPS XXIV are Samson Abramsky, Oxford Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Dusko Pavlovic, Kestrel Institute Benjamin Pierce, Penn Phil Scott, Ottawa James Worrell, Oxford In addition, there will be four special sessions: - A session honoring Phil Scott on the occasion of his 60th birthday year, which is being organized by Rick Blute (Ottawa) and Andre Scedrov (Penn). - A session on Systems Biology will be held in conjunction with Luca Cardelli's plenaary talk. It is being organized by Jean Krivine (LIX). - A third session will be devoted to Type Theory. It is being organized by Benjamin Pierce and by Robert Harper (CMU) will be held in conjunction with Benjamin Pierce's plenary talk. - The fourth special session will be on Security, and will be organized by Catherine Meadows (NRL) in conjunction with Dusko Pavlovic's plenary talk. Further, there will be a TUTORIAL DAY on May 21. The topic will be Category Theory and Its Applications to Theoretical Computer Science. It is being organized by Phil Scott (Ottawa); the speakers will be announced at a later date. This event will be free to all those who are interested in attending. The remainder of the program will consist of papers selected by the following PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana), CHAIR Ulrich Berger (Swansea) Lars Birkedal (Copenhagen) Jens Blanck (Swansea) Steve Brookes (CMU) Bob Coecke (Oxford) Karl Crary (CMU) Martin Escardo (Birmingham) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Jean Krivine (LIX) James Laird (Sussex) Paul Levy (Birmingham) Catherine Meadows (NRL) Michael Mislove (Tulane) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Alex Simpson (Edinburgh) Christopher Stone (Harvey Mudd) Thomas Streicher (Darmstadt) James Worrell (Oxford) from submissions received in response to this Call for Papers. Submissions Now Open! Authors can submit papers in response to this Call for Papers by pointing their browser to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps24 The submission process requires registering as an author and submitting the title and a short abstract for your paper by March 7, 2008. The deadline for submissions of full papers is one week later, March 14, 2008. The other important dates are listed below. Papers should be no more than 15 pages in LaTeX, and should be in the form of either a PostScript file or a pdf file suitable for printing on a generic printer. The accepted papers will appear in ENTCS, and the required format for ENTCS can be used for submissions. The generic ENTCS macro package can be found at this web site. There is no special entcsmacro.sty file for this year's MFPS Proceedings as yet; authors who use the ENTCS macros should just use the file that comes in the generic package. IMPORTANT DATES: * Fri Mar 7: Paper registration deadline, with short abstracts. * Fri Mar 14: Paper submission deadline. * Fri Apr 7: Author notification. * Fri Apr 21: Final versions for the proceedings. ====================================================== > From lbauer at ece.cmu.edu Sun Feb 24 13:21:33 2008 From: lbauer at ece.cmu.edu (Lujo Bauer) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:21:33 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08 (Joint Workshop on Computer Security) Message-ID: <47C1B5AD.2080809@ece.cmu.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS =============== FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08 Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security, Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, and Issues in the Theory of Security http://profs.sci.univr.it/~vigano/fcs-arspa-wits08/ June 21-22, 2008 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Affiliated with LICS 2008 and CSF 21 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers due: March 30 Notification: May 16 Final papers: June 01 SCOPE ===== The aim of the joint workshop FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08 is to provide a forum for continued activity in different areas of computer security, bringing computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community and giving LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security, on the one hand, and contribute to bridging the gap between logical methods and computer security foundations, on the other. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques, Composition issues, Formal specification, Foundations of verification, Information flow analysis, Language-based security, Logic-based design, Program transformation, Security models, Static analysis, Statistical methods, Tools, Trust management for Access and resource usage control, Authentication, Availability and denial of service, Covert channels, Confidentiality, Integrity and privacy, Intrusion detection, Malicious code, Mobile code, Mutual distrust, Privacy, Security policies, Security protocols WITS is the official annual workshop organised by the IFIP WG 1.7 on "Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design", established to promote the investigation on the theoretical foundations of security, discovering and promoting new areas of application of theoretical techniques in computer security and supporting the systematic use of formal techniques in the development of security related applications. This is the eighth meeting in the series. The workshop FCS continues a tradition, initiated with the Workshops on Formal Methods and Security Protocols (FMSP) in 1998 and 1999, then with the Workshop on Formal Methods and Computer Security (FMCS) in 2000, and finally with the LICS satellite Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) in 2002 through 2005, of bringing together formal methods and the security community. ARSPA is a series of workshops on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both the security and the formal methods communities, from academia and industry, who are working on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. The first two ARSPA workshops were held as satellite events of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR'04) and of the 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'05), respectively. FCS and ARSPA have been joining forces since 2006: FCS-ARSPA'06 was affiliated with LICS'06, in the context of FLoC'06, and FCS-ARSPA'07 was affiliated with LICS'07 and ICALP'07. SUBMISSION ========== All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Submissions should be at most 15 pages (a4paper, 11pt), including references. The cover page should include title, names of authors, co-ordinates of the corresponding author, an abstract, and a list of keywords. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps); please, do not send files formatted for work processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or Wordperfect files). Submission instructions will be published shortly on the workshop's webpage. PUBLICATION =========== Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. Moreover, workshop participants will be invited to submit full versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning, which will be open also to non-participants, in all cases with fresh reviewing. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Alessandro Aldini (Universita` di Urbino, Italy) Alessandro Armando (Universita` di Genova, Italy) Michael Backes (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany) Lujo Bauer (CMU, USA; co-chair) Veronique Cortier (LORIA INRIA-Lorraine, France) Cas Cremers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy) Sandro Etalle (T. University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands; co-chair) Riccardo Focardi (Universita` di Venezia, Italy) Dieter Gollman (Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany) Jerry den Hartog (T. University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands; co-chair) Jan Juerjens (The Open University, UK) Ralf Kuesters (Universitaet Trier, Germany) Gavin Lowe (Oxford University, UK) Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Sebastian Moedersheim (IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland) Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK) Luca Vigano` (Universita` di Verona, Italy; co-chair) Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA) From todd at cs.ucla.edu Sun Feb 24 22:54:04 2008 From: todd at cs.ucla.edu (Todd Millstein) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:54:04 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions, PLDI 2008 Student Research Competition In-Reply-To: <1c4abbaf0802051518y2f542eacx46a08edb4075386c@mail.gmail.com> References: <1c4abbaf0802051518y2f542eacx46a08edb4075386c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1c4abbaf0802241954m495fdf61i84994d58a4a2eb75@mail.gmail.com> The deadline for submissions has been extended to March 15. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Types are definitely one area of interest for PLDI 2008 and its Student Research Competition. See the Call for Submissions below for more information. ------------------ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PLDI 2008 STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION June 7-13, 2008 Tucson, Arizona ACM and Microsoft Research are sponsoring a Student Research Competition (SRC) at PLDI 2008. The SRC provides an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students attending PLDI 2008 to present their research in the design and implementation of programming languages. The SRC consists of two rounds: a poster session and a presentation session. A panel of judges will select a number of finalists from the poster session, who will be invited to the presentation session. Winners are selected from the presentation session. The top three graduate and undergraduate winners will receive cash awards. Click here for more details. The winners will be invited to participate in the SRC Grand Finals, an online round of competitions among the winners of individual conference-hosted SRCs. The winners of the Grand Finals are invited to the ACM awards banquet together with their advisors, for an all-expenses-paid trip. SRC participants will be eligible for travel grants. ______________________________ Eligibility Requirements Current ACM student membership Current "student" status as of March 15, 2008, either graduate or undergraduate ________________________________ Submission Details Students who wish to participate must submit the following information: An abstract of up to 800 words explaining the content of the poster. Presenter's email address, phone number and surface mail address. Name of department and school. Name of academic advisor. The abstract must describe the student's individual research and must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student's role was and should focus on that portion of the work. ________________________________ Important Dates Deadline for submission: March 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2008 The submissions should be emailed to todd at cs ucla edu. Fifteen undergraduate and ten graduate abstracts will be selected for competition at the conference. ________________________________ Selection Committee Todd Millstein (Chair) University of California, Los Angeles Juan Chen Microsoft Research Sorin Lerner University of California, San Diego Ben Liblit University of Wisconsin?Madison Eran Yahav IBM T. J. Watson Research Center ________________________________ Further Information Any queries regarding the PLDI 2008 SRC should be sent to Todd Millstein, todd at cs ucla edu. From Michael.Hauspie at lifl.fr Mon Feb 25 04:10:59 2008 From: Michael.Hauspie at lifl.fr (Michael Hauspie) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:10:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] [SANET 2008] Call for Paper - Deadline is today Message-ID: <20080225091059.BA2F416530D@kwak.lifl.fr> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ***** Submission deadline February 25, 2008 ***** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Paper: Second ACM Workshop on Sensor Actor Networks (SANET 2008) organized and run in conjuntion with ACM MobiHoc 2008, May 26-30, 2008, Hong Kong, China. http://www.lifl.fr/POPS/SANET2008 We invite you to participate in the Second ACM Workshop on Sensor Actor Networks, to be held in Hong Kong, China on May 26-30 2008. Purpose ======= Following the success of SANET 2007, we organize and run the Second ACM Workshop on Sensor and Actor Networks (SANET 2008) in conjunction with MobiHoc 2008. The advent of nano-technology and advances in communications has made it technologically feasible and economically viable to develop low-power devices that integrate general-purpose computing with multi-purpose sensing and wireless communications capabilities. It is expected that sensor networks will have a significant impact on a wide array of applications ranging from military, to scientific, to industrial, to health-care, to domestic, to environmental, establishing ubiquitous wireless sensor networks that will pervade society redefining the way in which we live and work. Recently, in an attempt to integrate sensor networks in the fabric of human activities it has been recognized that it would be beneficial to augment sensor networks by either actuators or actors. Actuators are simple devices programmed to take immediate, one-shot, action in response to sensory input. Actors are more sophisticated entities that, in addition to actuating can provide a meaningful, long-term, interaction with the environment. This long-term interaction presupposes intelligent coordination with both the sensory data but also with anticipated changes in the environment. The resulting augmented version of sensor networks is commonly referred to as Sensor Actor Networks (SANET). SANET 2008 has for stated goal to be a high-profile workshop that brings together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and implementation of architectures and protocols for current and future applications of SANETs. Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in SANET * Modeling and simulation of SANET * Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication * Sensor-actor and actor-actor coordination * Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols * Distributed control in sensor-actor networks * Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors * Biologically inspired communication * Ecological systems * Architectures and topology control * Localization in SANET * Probabilistic integration in SANET * SANET control and management * SANET security and robustness * SANET architectural and operational models * Applications and prototypes Paper Submission ================ Submit a full paper of about 8 pages (ACM single-space, double-column format), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. Accepted papers will be published by published by ACM Press and distributed at the workshop; copies of the Proceedings will also be available for sale from ACM after the workshop. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. Important Dates =============== * Manuscript Submission: February 25, 2008 * Acceptance Notification: March 18, 2008 * Final Manuscript Due: March 26, 2008 Program Co-Chairs ================= * Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Swittzerland * Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA * David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Publicity Co-Chairs =============== * Michaël Hauspie, University of Lille 1, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy * Koichi Wada, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Program Committee ============================= * See Website From russ.harmer at pps.jussieu.fr Tue Feb 26 06:29:10 2008 From: russ.harmer at pps.jussieu.fr (Russ Harmer) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:29:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Subject: GALOP@ETAPS'08: Call for participation Message-ID: This is a Call for Participation to the 3rd International Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GALOP3) to be held at ETAPS, on 5--6 April 2008, in Budapest. Invited speakers are: # Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki): Independence between quantifiers # Merlijn Sevenster (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Independence between modal operators # Paul-Andr? Melli?s (PPS, CNRS & Paris-Diderot): Game semantics as string diagrams More details about the workshop, including a list of accepted contributions, can be found at: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~drg/galop.html To register for the workshop, please use the following link: http://etaps08.mit.bme.hu/ From U.Berger at swansea.ac.uk Wed Feb 27 08:24:16 2008 From: U.Berger at swansea.ac.uk (Ulrich Berger) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:24:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Russel'08, final call Message-ID: <47C56480.3020303@swansea.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, here is a reminder about the Russell'08 conference taking place soon in Swansea: Final call for contributed talks and participation (Deadline Friday 29 February 2008) Russell'08 Proof Theory meets Type Theory A "Small Workshop" of the European TYPES Project Swansea, Wales, 15-16 March 2008 http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csetzer/russell08/index.html In 1908 the British Philosopher and Mathematician Bertrand Russell, who was born and died in Wales, published the article "Mathematical Logic as based on the Theory of Types" which contained a first matured exposition of Type Theory. In the same year, Ernst Zermelo's "Untersuchungen ueber die Grundlagen der Mengenlehre I" introduced the basis of current axiomatic set theory as an alternative approach to the foundations of Mathematics. A central theme of Proof Theory is to compare these different foundations. Proof Theory uses as its main tool ordinal notation systems, the basis of which was laid by Oswald Veblen in his paper "Continuous Increasing Functions of Finite and Transfinite Ordinals", again in 1908. A century later, Proof Theory and Type Theory are flourishing more than ever before, and their manifold interconnections are driving important developments in Mathematics and Computer Science. At this workshop we meet and discuss cutting edge research at the interface of Proof Theory and Type Theory. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Proof Theory of Type Theory - Relationship between Type Theory and Set Theory - Program extraction from proofs - Normalisation and Cut-elimination - New approaches to ordinal analysis - Universes and reflection principles - Equality in Type Theory - Philosophical and historical aspects of Proof Theory and Type Theory Invited Speakers: Erik Palmgren Michael Rathjen More to be confirmed Participation and Contributed Talks: Please send an email to Anton Setzer (a.g.setzer at swansea.ac.uk) as soon as possible, but no later than the 29th of February 2008. We will need an abstract as well, which will be published on the web site. There will be a fee (20 ?) for coffee breaks and other expenses related to this workshop. ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ulrich Berger Department of Computer Science Swansea University Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK Office: Room 306 (Faraday Building) Phone Work +44 1792 513380 Home +44 1792 533979 Fax +44 1792 295708 Email u.berger at swansea.ac.uk Homepage http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csulrich/ ---------------------------------------------------------- From eduardo at sol.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar Wed Feb 27 09:08:08 2008 From: eduardo at sol.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar (eduardo@sol.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:08:08 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2008 - First call for papers Message-ID: <20080227120808.ykfkz472kgokoggk@webmail.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar> LSFA'08 - Third Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications August 26th, 2008 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil SCOPE Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The objective of this one-day workshop is to put together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and use of such techniques and results, from the practical side. Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: * Logical frameworks o Proof theory o Type theory o Automated deduction * Semantic frameworks o Specification languages and meta-languages o Formal semantics of languages and systems o Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks LSFA'08 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. Submissions to the workshop will in the form of full papers. The proceedings are produced only after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. INVITED SPEAKERS Cesar Munoz NIA-NASA (Hampton) 02 (TBC) 03 (TBC) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mauricio Ayala-Rincon UnB (Brasilia) Clemens Ballarin TUM (Munchen) Mario Benevides UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), co-chair Eduardo Bonelli UNQ (Quilmes) Marcelo Coniglio UNICAMP (Campinas) David Deharbe UFRN (Natal) Clare Dixon University of Liverpool (Liverpool) Gilles Dowek INRIA/Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) Marcelo Finger USP (Sao Paulo) Bernhard Gramlich TU Wien (Vienna) Edward Hermann Haeusler PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro) Fairouz Kamareddine Heriot-Watt (Edinburgh) Delia Kesner Paris 7 (Paris) Claude Kirchner INRIA (Bordeaux) Steffen Lewitzka UFBA (Salvador) Joao Marcos UFRN (Natal) Ana Teresa de Castro Martins UFC (Fortaleza) Dale Miller INRIA/Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) Pierre-Etienne Moreau INRIA (Nancy) Peter Mosses Swansea University (Swansea) Anjolina Grisi de Oliveira UFPE (Recife) Luca Paolini Universita di Torino (Torino) Elaine Pimentel UFMG (Belo Horizonte), co-chair Simona Ronchi Della Rocca Universita di Torino (Torino) Alwen Tiu Australian National University Yde Venema University of Amsterdam Hongwei Xi Boston University (Boston) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mauricio Ayala-Rincon UnB (Bras=EDlia) Edward Hermann Hauesler PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro) Andreas Bernhard Michael Brunne UFBA (Salvador) Local-chair Aline Maria Santos Andrade UFBA (Salvador) Local-chair IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 18th Author notification: June 30th Camera ready: July 20th SUBMISSION INFORMATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form full papers with at most 16 pages. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to LSFA'08 page at EasyChair until the submission deadline in May 18, by midnight, Central European Standard Time (GMT+1). The papers should be prepared in latex using Elsevier ENTCS style. The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at workshop registration and the proceedings will be published as a volume of ENTCS. After the workshop, according to the quantity and quality of selected papers, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works that will be also reviewed to high standards. A special issue of LSFA'06 appeared in the Journal of Algorithms and currently a special issue of LSFA'07 is being processed and will appear in The Logical Journal of the IGPL. At least one of the authors should register at the conference. The paper presentation should be in English. CONTACT Elaine Pimentel elaine at mat.ufmg.br Mario Benevides mario at cos.ufrj.br The web page of the event can be reached at: http://www.mat.ufmg.br/lsfa2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Este mensaje ha sido enviado utilizando IMP desde LIFIA. From U.Berger at swansea.ac.uk Wed Feb 27 09:13:52 2008 From: U.Berger at swansea.ac.uk (Ulrich Berger) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:13:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: Cl&C'08 Message-ID: <47C57020.8010904@swansea.ac.uk> *** Extended Deadline April 11 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS CL&C International Workshop on Classical Logic and Computation http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~svb/CLaC08 Sunday, July 13, 2008 Reykjavik, Iceland Affiliated workshop of ICALP, July 6-13, 2008 IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission April 11, 2008 *** New Deadline! *** Acceptance Notification May 22, 2008 Final Version June 23, 2008 Workshop July 13, 2008 INTRODUCTION CL&C'08 is the second of a new conference series on "Classical Logic and Computation". It intends to cover all work aiming to explore computational aspects of classical logic and mathematics. The fact that classical mathematical proofs of simply existential statements can be read as programs was established by Goedel and Kreisel half a century ago. But the possibility of extracting useful computational content from classical proofs was taken seriously only from the 1990s on when it was discovered that proof interpretations based on Goedel's and Kreisel's ideas can provide new nontrivial algorithms and numerical results, and the Curry-Howard correspondence can be extended to classical logic via programming concepts such as continuations and control operators. SCOPE This workshop aims to support a fruitful exchange of ideas between the various lines of research on Classical Logic and Computation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, - version of lambda calculi adapted to represent classical logic, - design of programming languages inspired by classical logic, - cut-elimination for classical systems, - proof representation and proof search for classical logic, - translations of classical to intuitionistic proofs, - constructive interpretation of non-constructive principles, - witness extraction from classical proofs, - constructive semantics for classical logic (e.g. game semantics), - case studies (for any of the previous points). SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION This is intended to be an informal workshop. Participants are encouraged to present work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, and programmatic/position papers, as well as completed projects. We therefore ask for submission both of short abstracts and of longer papers. In order to make a submission: - Format your file using the LNCS guidelines; there is a 15 page limit. - Use the submission links at http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~svb/CLaC08 Submissions will be refereed at normal standards. A participants' proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. A special issue of a journal, associated with the workshop, is being considered. It will contain full versions of selected papers. INVITED SPEAKERS Helmut Schwichtenberg LMU Munich Stephane Lengrand LIX Polytechnique PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Steffen van Bakel Imperial College London Ulrich Berger Swansea, chair Stefano Berardi Turin Paola Bruscoli Bath Thierry Coquand Chalmers Fernando Ferreira Lisbon Michel Parigot Paris VII Aldo Ursini Siena CONTACT u.berger at swansea.ac.uk Kind regards, Ulrich Berger From demis at dimi.uniud.it Wed Feb 27 10:16:17 2008 From: demis at dimi.uniud.it (demis@dimi.uniud.it) Date: 27 Feb 08 16:16:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Preliminary CFP: 4th Int'l Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV'08) Message-ID: <20080227151620.C3AFEC89688@smtp.uniud.it> *********************************************************************** Preliminary Call For Papers 4th International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV'08) Siena, Italy, July 4, 2008 http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ co-located with WFLP'08 http://wflp08.dimi.uniud.it/ *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission April 20, 2008 Full Paper Submission April 27, 2008 Acceptance Notification May 27, 2008 Camera Ready June 11, 2008 Workshop July 4, 2008 SCOPE The increased complexity of Web sites and the explosive growth of Web-based applications has turned their design and construction into a challenging problem. Nowadays, many companies have diverted their Web sites into interactive, completely-automated, Web-based applications (such as Amazon, on-line banking, or travel agencies) with a high complexity that requires appropriate specification and verification techniques and tools. Systematic, formal approaches to the analysis and verification can address the problems of this particular domain with automated and reliable tools that also incorporate semantic aspects. We solicit original papers on formal methods and techniques applied to Web sites, Web services or Web-based applications, such as: * rule-based approaches to Web site analysis, certification, specification, verification, and optimization * formal models for describing and reasoning about Web sites * model-checking, synthesis and debugging of Web sites * abstract interpretation and program transformation applied to the semantic Web * intelligent tutoring and advisory systems for Web specifications authoring * Web quality and Web metrics * Web usability and accessibility * Testing and evaluation of Web systems and applications The WWV series provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Rule-based programming, Automated Software Engineering, and Web-oriented research to facilitate the cross-fertilization and the advancement of hybrid methods that combine the three areas. The previous WWV editions were: WWV'07 (Venice, Italy), WWV'06 (Paphos, Cyprus), and WWV'05 (Valencia, Spain). LOCATION WWV'08 will be held in July in the convention centre of the University of Siena, Italy: http://www.unisi.it/santachiara/ The workshop will be co-located with WFLP'08: http://wflp08.dimi.uniud.it/ WORKSHOP VENUE Siena is one of the nicest city in Italy. The historical centre is situated on top of a hill and is made of beautiful medieval buildings and churches, all surrounded by ancient walls. The countryside of Siena is worldwide famous for its beauty. The Palio of Siena is probably the most famous historical fair in Italy. The most important event of it is a horse race of medieval origins, which is held in the afternoon of July 2nd in 'Piazza del Campo' in the centre of Siena. For more information, please visit http://www.comune.siena.it/ SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submissions must be received by April 27, 2008. In addition, an ASCII version of the title and abstract must have been submitted by April 20, 2008. Submitted papers should be at most 15 pages in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) style, and should include an abstract and the author's information. See the author's instructions of ENTCS style at http://www.entcs.org. Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission site http://www.easychair.org/WWV08/ PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in a preliminary proceedings volume, which will be available during the workshop. Publication of the workshop post-proceedings in the Elsevier series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) is envisaged. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain WORKSHOP CHAIR Michele Baggi University of Siena, Italy From demis at dimi.uniud.it Wed Feb 27 12:22:23 2008 From: demis at dimi.uniud.it (demis@dimi.uniud.it) Date: 27 Feb 08 18:22:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Preliminary CFP: 17th Int'l Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP'08) Message-ID: <20080227172228.A0DB0C896AC@smtp.uniud.it> =================================================================== Preliminary Call For Papers WFLP 2008 17th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming Siena, Italy, July 3-4, 2008 http://wflp08.dimi.uniud.it/ co-located with WWV'08 http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ =================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission April 20, 2008 Full Paper Submission April 27, 2008 Acceptance Notification May 27, 2008 Camera Ready June 11, 2008 Workshop July 3-4, 2008 SCOPE The Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming aims at bringing together researchers interested in functional programming, (constraint) logic programming, as well as the integration of the two paradigms. It promotes the cross-fertilizing exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and students from the different communities interested in the foundations, applications, and combinations of high-level, declarative programming languages and related areas. The previous WFLP editions are: WFLP 2007 (Paris, France), WFLP 2006 (Madrid, Spain), WCFLP 2005 (Tallinn, Estonia), WFLP 2004 (Aachen, Germany), WFLP 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WFLP 2002 (Grado, Italy), WFLP 2001 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2000 (Benicassim, Spain), WFLP'99 (Grenoble, France), WFLP'98 (Bad Honnef, Germany), WFLP'97 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'96 (Marburg, Germany), WFLP'95 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'94 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'93 (Rattenberg, Germany), and WFLP'92 (Karlsruhe, Germany). LOCATION WFLP'08 will be held in July in the convention centre of the University of Siena, Italy: http://www.unisi.it/santachiara/ The workshop will be co-located with WWV'08: http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ WORKSHOP VENUE Siena is one of the nicest city in Italy. The historical centre is situated on top of a hill and is made of beautiful medieval buildings and churches, all surrounded by ancient walls. The countryside of Siena is worldwide famous for its beauty. The Palio of Siena is probably the most famous historical fair in Italy. The most important event of it is a horse race of medieval origins, which is held in the afternoon of July 2nd in 'Piazza del Campo' in the centre of Siena. For more information, please visit http://www.comune.siena.it/ TOPICS WFLP'08 solicits papers in all areas of functional and (constraint) logic programming, including but not limited to: * Foundations: formal semantics, rewriting and narrowing, constraint solving, dynamics, type theory * Language Design: modules and type systems, multi-paradigm languages, concurrency and distribution, objects * Implementation: abstract machines, parallelism, compile-time and run-time optimizations, interfacing with external languages * Transformation and Analysis: abstract interpretation, specialization, partial evaluation, program transformation, meta-programming * Software Engineering: design patterns, specification, verification and validation, debugging, test generation * Integration of Paradigms: integration of declarative programming with other paradigms such as imperative, object-oriented, concurrent, and real-time programming * Applications: declarative programming in education and industry, domain-specific languages, visual/graphical user interfaces, embedded systems, WWW applications, knowledge representation and machine learning, deductive databases, advanced programming environments and tools SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS Authors are invited to submit papers of at most 15 pages (pdf or postscript formats) presenting original, not previously published works. Submission categories include regular research papers, short papers (not more than 8 pages) describing on-going work, and system descriptions. Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission site http://www.easychair.org/WFLP2008/ Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. Selected authors will be invited to submit a full version of their papers after the workshop. These submissions will pass through a second round of reviewing. Publication of the accepted contributions in the Elsevier series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) is envisaged. PROGRAMME CHAIR Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Michele Baggi University of Siena, Italy Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Elisa Tiezzi (chair) University of Siena, Italy ==================================================================== From rlaemmel at gmail.com Thu Feb 28 20:11:07 2008 From: rlaemmel at gmail.com (Ralf Laemmel) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:11:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshops/tutorials on generative prog. and component eng. Message-ID: [One-liner version: please submit workshop/tutorial proposals for GPCE 2008.] The conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE) has always been of much interest to the programming language community, with specific focus on advanced program analysis and type systems that facilitate staged computing, modularization, meta-programming, contracts, component interfaces, and other such key concepts related to generative programming and component engineering. This year, GPCE again co-locates with OOPSLA and could be of interest for the readers of the types[-annouce] mailing list. We want to take the opportunity here to encourage strong workshop and tutorial proposals to be submitted by the peers reachable through this mailing list. Please have a look at the call for proposals, at the list of topics, and at the history of the GPCE conference series. Looking forward to meet some of you this fall in Nashville. http://www.hope.cs.rice.edu/twiki/bin/view/GPCE08/ http://www.hope.cs.rice.edu/twiki/bin/view/GPCE08/CallForWorkshops http://www.hope.cs.rice.edu/twiki/bin/view/GPCE08/CallForTutorials [Deadline: 20th March] Regards, Ralf Laemmel Satellite Chair GPCE 2008 PS: The paper deadline for GPCE is in May. From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri Feb 29 08:26:27 2008 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:26:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Third Call For Papers TFP 2008, The Netherlands (deadline extended march 10 2008) Message-ID: <47C80803.6080102@cs.ru.nl> 3RD CALL FOR PAPERS TRENDS IN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 2008 RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS MAY 26-28, 2008 INVITED SPEAKER: PROF. HENK BARENDREGT http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/ [EXTENDED DEADLINE SUBMISSIONS: march 10 2008] [ SUBMISSION SITE IS OPEN ] [ REGISTRATION SITE IS OPEN ] The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming languages, focusing on providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional Programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results through acceptance by extended abstracts and full papers. A formal post-symposium refereeing process selects the best articles presented at the symposium for publication in a high-profile volume. TFP 2008 is hosted by the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and will be held in the rural setting of Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos?, Heijen (in the vicinity of Nijmegen), The Netherlands. TFP 2008 is co-located with the 6th Int?l. Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming (AFP?08), which is held immediately before TFP?08. SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research: leading-edge, previously unpublished research. Position: on what new trends should or should not be. Project: descriptions of recently started new projects. Evaluation: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project. Overview: summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject. Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Contributions on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed: * Dependently Typed Functional Programming * Validation and Verification of Functional Programs * Debugging for Functional Languages * Functional Programming and Security * Functional Programming and Mobility * Functional Programming to Animate/Prototype/Implement Systems from Formal or Semi-Formal Specifications * Functional Languages for Telecommunications Applications * Functional Languages for Embedded Systems * Functional Programming Applied to Global Computing * Functional GRIDs * Functional Programming Ideas in Imperative or Object-Oriented Settings (and the converse) * Interoperability with Imperative Programming Languages * Novel Memory Management Techniques * Parallel/Concurrent Functional Languages * Program Transformation Techniques * Empirical Performance Studies * Abstract/Virtual Machines and Compilers for Functional Languages * New Implementation Strategies * Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2008 program chairs, Peter Achten and Pieter Koopman, at afp_tfp_2008 at cs.ru.nl. SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the review of full papers (15 pages) and extended abstracts (at least 3 pages) by the program committee. TFP encourages PhD students to submit papers. PhD students may request the program committee to provide extensive feedback on their full papers at the time of submission. Full papers describing work accepted for presentation must be completed before the symposium for publication in the draft proceedings and on-line. Further details can be found at the TFP 2008 website http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/. POST-SYMPOSIUM REFEREEING AND PUBLICATION In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we continue the TFP tradition of publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Intellect series on Trends in Functional Programming. IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2008) Paper Submission: March 10 (extended) Notification of Acceptance: March 31 Early Registration Deadline: April 14 Late Registration Deadline: May 5 Camera Ready Symposium: May 5 TFP Symposium: May 26-28 Post Symposium Paper Submission: June 20 Notification of Acceptance: September 7 Camera Ready Revised Paper: September 21 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Peter Achten (co-chair) Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, NL Andrew Butterfield Trinity College, IE Manuel Chakravarty Univ. of New South Wales, AU John Clements Cal Poly State Univ., USA Matthias Felleisen Northeastern Univ., USA Jurriaan Hage Utrecht Univ., NL Michael Hanus Christian-Albrechts Univ. zu Kiel, DE Ralf Hinze Univ. of Oxford, UK Graham Hutton Univ. of Nottingham, UK Johan Jeuring Utrecht Univ., NL Pieter Koopman (co-chair) Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, NL Shriram Krishnamurthi Brown Univ., USA Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Ludwig-Maximilians Univ.M?nchen, DE Rita Loogen Philipps-Univ. Marburg, DE Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt Univ., UK Marco T. Moraz?n (symp. chair) Seton Hall Univ., USA Sven-Bodo Scholz Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK Ulrik Schultz Univ. of Southern Denmark, DK Clara Segura Univ. Complutense de Madrid, ES Olin Shivers Northeastern Univ., USA Phil Trinder Heriot-Watt Univ., UK Varmo Vene Univ. of Tartu, EE Vikt?ria Zs?k E?tv?s Lor?nd Univ., HU ORGANIZATION Symposium Chair: Marco T. Moraz?n, Seton Hall University, USA Programme Chair: Peter Achten, Pieter Koopman, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Treasurer: Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri Feb 29 09:26:15 2008 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:26:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd call for participation AFP 2008, The Netherlands Message-ID: <47C81607.1050604@cs.ru.nl> 2ND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 6TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 2008 (AFP ?08) RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN AND UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS MAY 19-24, 2008 http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/ [ EARLY REGISTRATION OPENS ] AFP is a series of international summer schools which aims to bring computer scientists, in particular young researchers and programmers, up to date with the latest advances in practical advanced functional programming. Functional programming emphasizes the evaluation of expressions rather than the execution of commands. We focus on functional programming techniques in ?programming in the real world? and bridge the gap between results presented at programming conferences and material from textbooks on functional programming. In this school you will receive in depth lectures about advanced functional programming techniques, taught by experts in the field. Lectures are accompanied by practical problems to be solved by the students at the school. AFP 2008 is hosted by the Radboud University Nijmegen, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and will be held in the rural setting of Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos?, Heijen (in the vicinity of Nijmegen), The Netherlands. AFP 2008 is co-located with the 9th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP?08), which is held after AFP?08. PROGRAM INFORMATION The following speakers will give the lectures (in alphabetic order): Umut Acar (Toyota Technological Institute, University of Chicago, US) Richard Bird (University of Oxford, UK) Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus, DK) Johan Jeuring (Utrecht University, NL) Mark Jones (Portland State University, US) Ulf Norell (Chalmers University, SE) Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research, UK) Rinus Plasmeijer (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) During the summer school, all participants receive printed lecture notes. Participants are expected to have a notebook, in order to be able to participate with the practical problems. After the summer school, all lecture notes will be revised, reviewed, and published in the LNCS series of Springer. All registered participants receive a copy of these lecture notes. VENUE INFORMATION AFP (and TFP) is held in The Netherlands, at Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos? which is a holiday resort in the woodlands near the city of Nijmegen. We accomodate participants in DeLuxe Cottages, each of which has three separate bed-rooms, shared bathroom, toilet, kitchen, and terrace. Cottages will be shared by three participants. If you wish to reduce costs, you can choose to share a bedroom. The summer school and symposium will take place in the business center of the venue. Breakfast, lunch and diner is included within the limits of the venue. The resort features, amongst others, a sub-tropical swimming pool (free for participants), restaurants, shops, water sports lake, midget golf court, squash court, and outdoor and indoor tennis courts. Nijmegen is considered to be the oldest city of the Netherlands, being approximately 2000 years old. Nijmegen is located at the east border of the Netherlands, near Germany. Nijmegen can be reached easily from several airports such as Schiphol airport, Eindhoven airport, and D?sseldorf airport, as well as by train and car. Conveniently close to Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos? you will find airport Weeze in Germany. The venue Center Parcs ?Het Heijderbos? can be reached from Nijmegen by train to Boxmeer (25 minutes). From there you will need to order a taxi. The venue can also be reached by car: parking is free for participants of AFP and TFP. SUMMER SCHOOL FEES AFP 2008 includes accommodation, conference, breakfast ? lunch ? diner, speakers, and proceedings costs. The early registration fee is ? 995; the late registration fee is ? 1095. Please note that if you require financial support, you can apply for a grant (see below). GRANT INFORMATION We have taken great care to reduce the registration cost as much as possible. We can grant a subsidy for a limited number of PhD student participants for whom the costs are still too high. In order to apply for this subsidy, you need to send (by surface mail or e-mail) a request for subsidy which contains your personal information, affiliation, a description of your current status, project description, a motivation why you should receive the grant, and a recommendation from your PhD supervisor. This letter should arrive before april 7 2008 to: Rinus Plasmeijer Radboud University Nijmegen Toernooiveld 1 6525ED Nijmegen rinus at cs.ru.nl You will receive a notification whether your request has been granted before april 14 2008. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Early registration opens at march 1 2008. Late registration opens at april 15 2008. Registration closes at may 5 2008. We can not guarantee accommodation in case you wish to register later than may 5 2008. IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2008) Early Registration Opens: March 1 Early Registration Deadline: April 14 Late Registration Opens: April 15 Late Registration Deadline: May 5 AFP Summer School: May 19-24 ORGANIZATION Programme Chair: Rinus Plasmeijer, Pieter Koopman, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Doaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University, NL Arrangements: Peter Achten, Simone Meeuwsen, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL E-mail: afp_tfp_2008 at cs.ru.nl From Marieke.Huisman at sophia.inria.fr Fri Feb 29 11:13:19 2008 From: Marieke.Huisman at sophia.inria.fr (Marieke Huisman) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:13:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] call for papers FTfJP 2008 Message-ID: <47C82F1F.7020801@sophia.inria.fr> Call for Contributions FTfJP 2008 10th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs in conjunction with ECOOP 2008 July, 2008 (Paphos, Cyprus) http://www-sop.inria.fr/everest/events/FTfJP08/ SCOPE Formal techniques can help analyze programs, precisely describe program behavior, and verify program properties. Newer languages such as Java and C# provide good platforms to bridge the gap between formal techniques and practical program development, because of their reasonably clear semantics and standardized libraries. Moreover, these languages are interesting targets for formal techniques, because the novel paradigm for program deployment introduced with Java, with its improved portability and mobility, opens up new possibilities for abuse and causes concern about security. Work on formal techniques and tools for programs and work on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. This workshop aims to bring together people working in both these fields, on topics such as: - specification techniques and interface specification languages, - specification of software components and library packages, - automated checking and verification of program properties, - verification logics, - language semantics, - type systems, - security. CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions are sought on open questions, new developments, or interesting new applications of formal techniques in the context of Java or similar languages, such as C#. Contributions should not merely present completely finished work, but also raise challenging open problems or propose speculative new approaches. We plan to have a special ``exciting ideas'' session during the workshop, where challenges, new ideas, open problems and speculative solutions will be presented, with extra room for discussion. Submissions must be in English and are limited to 10 pages using LNCS style (excluding bibliography). Notice that we explicitly also encourage the submission of short papers (of 4 - 6 pages, especially for the ``exciting ideas'' session). Papers must be submitted electronically via the workshop website: http://www-sop.inria.fr/everest/events/FTfJP08/ All contributions will be formally reviewed, for originality, relevance, focus of the workshop, and the potential to generate interesting discussions. PUBLICATION Informal proceedings will be made available to workshop participants. Papers will also be available from the workshop web page. There will be no formal publication of papers. Depending on the nature of the contributions, we may be organizing a special journal issue as a follow-up to the workshop, as has been done for some previous FTfJP workshops. IMPORTANT DATES April 23, 2008 Deadline for submission of abstract April 30, 2008 Deadline for submission of full paper May 26, 2008 Notification June 1, 2008 Deadline for early registration to ECOOP '08 June 9, 2008 Deadline for final version of paper for informal proceedings July 7 or 8, 2008 Workshop Workshop Web Site: http://www.cs.ru.nl/ftfjp PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Cyrille Artho, RCIS/AIST, Japan Anindya Banerjee, Kansas State University, USA Mike Barnett, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Amy Felty, University of Ottawa, Canada Paola Giannini, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Marieke Huisman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France (chair) Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan Bart Jacobs, University of Leuven, Belgium Gerwin Klein, National ICT Australia, Australia Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Matthew Parkinson, University of Cambridge, UK Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Tobias Wrigstad, Purdue University, USA Organizers Marieke Huisman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France (chair) Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College London, UK Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, USA Peter Mueller, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands For more information, send email to Marieke Huisman: Marieke.Huisman at sophia.inria.fr From E.Ritter at cs.bham.ac.uk Mon Mar 3 06:35:43 2008 From: E.Ritter at cs.bham.ac.uk (Eike Ritter) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:35:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Participation Midlands Graduate School in Foundations of Computing Science Message-ID: <47CBE28F.6050209@cs.bham.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MIDLANDS GRADUATE SCHOOL IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTING SCIENCE 14-18 APRIL 2008 BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM REGISTRATION FORM *** The registration deadline is 8 MARCH 2008 *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : NAME : POSITION : AFFILIATION : POSTAL ADDRESS : EMAIL ADDRESS : PHONE NUMBER : MOBILE NUMBER : PhD SUPERVISOR (if applicable) : SPECIAL DIETARY REQUIREMENTS : Yes / No (If Yes, please specify details.) The deadline for free registration and accommodation has passed. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION : (If there is any additional information that you would like to make us aware of, please include the details here.) ACCOMMODATION: We have reserved rooms in the ETAP-hotel for five nights, starting on Sunday 13 April. Price of this accommodation for five nights: 200 pounds (if not covered by free accommodation) Would you like us to reserve a room for you? Yes/No REGISTRATION FEE : 150 pounds Covers lunch on 14-18 April, the course notes, and the dinner on 17 April. PAYMENT: Please either send us a cheque drawn on a UK bank for the correct amount, or if you would like to pay by credit card, please fill out the fields below and send this form to us by post, or fax it. If you pay by credit card we cannot accept e-mails. Name (as it appears on the Card) : Type (VISA/Mastercard,Switch) : Card Number : Security Code : Amount of money to be debited : I authorise the University of Birmingham to debit the above card with the above amount. (Signature) SUBMISSION INFORMATION : The registration deadline is 8 MARCH 2008, and the completed form can be submitted by any of the following means. Email to: E.Ritter at cs.bham.ac.uk Fax to: Dr Eike Ritter (MGS 2008) +44 (0)121 414 4281 Post to: Dr Eike Ritter School of Computer Science University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT Your registration is not complete until confirmed by us and your payment (if applicable) received. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------ Dr Eike Ritter Tel.: (+44) 121 41 44772 School of Computer Science Sec.: (+44) 121 41 43711 The University of Birmingham Fax.: (+44) 121 41 44281 Edgbaston Email: E.Ritter at cs.bham.ac.uk BIRMINGHAM, B15 2TT Web: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk England ------------------------------------ From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Mon Mar 3 10:01:53 2008 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:01:53 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP08 Final CFP Message-ID: <53ff55480803030701k1db2de6frcd3a187f767a5bab@mail.gmail.com> Final Call for Papers ICFP 2008: International Conference on Functional Programming Victoria, BC, Canada, 22-24 September 2008 http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008 Submission deadline: 2 April 2008 ICFP 2008 seeks original papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to features, from abstraction to application. The scope includes all languages that encourage functional programming, including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as languages with objects and concurrency. Particular topics of interest include * Applications and Domain-Specific Languages * Foundations * Design * Implementation * Transformation and Analysis * Software-development Techniques * Functional Pearls * Practice and Experience Important Dates (at 09:00 Apia time, UTC-11) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submission: 2 April 2008 Author response: 21 May 2008 Notification: 16 June 2008 Final papers due: 7 July 2008 Call for Papers (full text) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008/cfp/cfp.html The submission URL will be available from the above page shortly. Program Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter Thiemann Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Georges-K?hler-Allee 079 79110 Freiburg, Germany Email: icfp08 at informatik.uni-freiburg.de Phone: +49 761 203 8051 Fax: +49 761 203 8052 Mail sent to the address above is filtered for spam. If you send mail and do not receive a prompt response, particularly if the deadline is looming, feel free to telephone and reverse the charges. From mhills at cs.uiuc.edu Tue Mar 4 00:10:32 2008 From: mhills at cs.uiuc.edu (Hills, Mark A) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:10:32 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CFP - ECOOP'08 Doctoral Symposium and PhD Students Workshop Message-ID: Call For Submissions 18th Doctoral Symposium and PhD Students Workshop at ECOOP'08 July 7 or July 8, 2008, Paphos, Cyprus http://2008.ecoop.org/doctoral.html GOALS The main goals of the event are: 1. to allow PhD students to practice clearly writing and effectively presenting their research proposal; 2. to get constructive feedback from other researchers; 3. to build bridges for potential research collaboration; 4. to contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers at the main conference. The 18th edition of the Doctoral Symposium and PhD Workshop will be held as part of ECOOP 2008 in Paphos, Cyprus. As the name suggests, this is a two-session event: a Doctoral Symposium and a PhD Students Workshop. The final date will be determined soon, and is being scheduled to minimize conflicts with co-located events. The date will be posted on the website when it is finalized. EVENT FORMAT This is a full-day event of interactive presentations. The first half is dedicated to the Doctoral Symposium, the second half to the PhD Students Workshop. The academic panel will also give short talks about a variety of research-related topics. Besides the formal presentations, there should be plenty of opportunities for informal interactions during lunch and dinner. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2008. - Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS Potential topics are those of the main ECOOP'08 conference, i.e. all topics related to object technology including but not restricted to: * Analysis, design methods and design patterns * Concurrent, real-time or parallel systems * Databases, persistence and transactions * Distributed and mobile systems * Frameworks, product lines and software architectures * Language design and implementation * Testing and metrics * Programming environments and tools * Theoretical foundations, type systems, formal methods * Versioning, compatibility, software evolution * Aspects, Components, Modularity, Reflection * Collaboration, Workflow Submissions to the Doctoral Symposium should be 3-4 page abstracts in LNCS format, and must include a letter from your advisor. Submissions to the PhD Students Workshop should be 6-8 page position papers in LNCS format, and must also include a letter from your advisor. More details about the submission requirements can be found at the event's page, http://2008.ecoop.org/doctoral.html. Submission is open. COMMITTEE Marwan Abi-Antoun, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Eric Bodden, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Giovanni Falcone, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Mark Hills (chair and organizer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA Haidar Jabbar, Anna University, Chennai, India Ciera Jaspan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Romain Robbes, Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland Ilie Savga, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Michel Soares, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands Academic panel: TBA PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES "The ECOOP Doctoral Symposium was a remarkable event. It was an honor to get feedback on my personal thesis topic from such well-established researchers in the field. Their comments not only encouraged me to continue with my thesis work but also gave me valuable feedback on how to refine my concrete topic and bring the overall topic into shape. In addition, I found the other students' talks to be some of the most interesting ones at ECOOP. Some of them were very inspiring even for my own work. Overall, my participation in the symposium will certainly have a great positive effect on my thesis. Apart from that it was a fun day which made me meet many interesting people." - Eric Bodden, participant DS ECOOP'07 MORE INFORMATION Visit the event's page at: http://2008.ecoop.org/doctoral.html From secretary at icseng.info Mon Mar 3 14:02:49 2008 From: secretary at icseng.info (ICSEng 2008) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:02:49 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ICSEng'08] ICSEng 2008, Submission deadline extended to March 16, 2008 Message-ID: <1173064265.20080303110249@icseng.info> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Details: Three Ph.D. scholarships are available within the research group for Programming, Logic and Semantics (PLS) group at IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and the Theory and Programming Languages (TOPPS) group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU), which are located within 50 meters of each other in ?restaden, a booming new section of Copenhagen South, located less than 10 minutes by Metro from downtown Copenhagen. Copenhagen is, according to Fodor's Travel Guides, a "youthful city, where all ages seem to truly enjoy the best Copenhagen can offer" (see http://www.fodors.com/world/europe/denmark/copenhagen -- please note that smoking now has been restricted and that Ph.D. schlolarship awards are at a level commensurate with the City's price level). The scholarships are part of the Trustworthy Pervasive Healthcare Services (www.TrustCare.eu) project, a collaborative strategic research project jointly with Resultmaker ApS (www.resultmaker.com) funded by the Program Committee for Nanoscience and technology, Biotechnology and Information Technology (NABIIT) under the Danish Strategic Research Council, IT University of Copenhagen and the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen. The general goal of TrustCare is to contribute significantly to the research in pervasive computing, and in particular research in domain-specific languages, concurrency theory, process models, logic, type systems and user-interfaces. The scholarships are associated with the cross-university Ph.D. school FIRST (Foundations for Innovative Research-based Software Technologies, www.first.dk) with members from all computer science research institutions in Copenhagen and providing an active, stimulating and international research environment with more than 30 computer science PhD students. Depending on the topic of the Ph.D. project the successful applicant will be enrolled at either the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, or at the IT University of Copenhagen. Concretely we anticipate three Ph.D. projects with focus on the following topics: 1) Foundations for domain-specific typed languages and process models for dynamically changing interacting workflows (enrolled at ITU, supervised by Thomas Hildebrandt, ITU and co-supervised by Fritz Henglein, DIKU). 2) Foundations for proof-carrying-code for concurrent and distributed interacting processes (enrolled at DIKU, supervised by Andrzej Filiniski, DIKU and co-supervised by Carsten Schurmann, ITU). 3) Techniques for automatic generation of user-interface logic and (re-)validation of types for dynamically changing interacting workflows (enrolled at DIKU, supervised by Fritz Henglein, DIKU and co-supervised by Thomas Hildebrandt, ITU). Hereto comes a Post Doc project in the Software Development Group at ITU in collaboration with Professor Jakob Bardram (possibly substituted by a Ph.D project) in extensions to the activity based computing paradigm for pervasive user-interfaces to encompass workflow management and trustworthy user-interface logic. (This position will soon be announced separately.) If you are interested in a scholarship/Post Doc position, we encourage you to read the detailed material and calls on the project website www.trustcare.eu and submit two (!) applications, one to DIKU and one to ITU, following the respective guidelines. **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Application deadline: Monday, April 7th, 2008, 12:00 noon (Central European Summer Time). Expected start of the positions are subject to negotiation, though preferably no later than August 1st, 2008. **** CONTACT INFORMATION **** For questions regarding a scholarship at ITU, contact: Thomas Hildebrandt (email: hilde at itu.dk, tel.: +45-72185279, Skype: hildebrandtdk). For questions regarding a scholarship at DIKU, contact: Fritz Henglein (email: henglein at diku.dk, tel.: +45-35321463, Skype: henglein). For questions regarding the PostDoc position in the Software Development Group at ITU, contact: Jakob Bardram (email: bardram at itu.dk, tel.: +45-72185311). From regnier at iml.univ-mrs.fr Wed Mar 5 10:03:02 2008 From: regnier at iml.univ-mrs.fr (Laurent Regnier) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:03:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position in Marseilles Message-ID: <18382.46630.154071.193415@gargle.gargle.HOWL> =============================================================================== POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE Marseilles University - CNRS - ANR CHOCO =============================================================================== The ANR project Curry-Howard for Concurrency (CHOCO) proposes a one year postdoc research position in Marseilles in the field of theoretical computer science, starting in September 2008 (or as soon as possible thereafter). The project CHOCO is focused on the applications of theoretical results from mathematical logic and/or theoretical computer science to the theory of concurrency. Candidates should have their PhD and a good background in at least one of the following themes: - mathematical logic (lambda-calculus, complexity theory, linear logic), - semantics of programming languages (theory of categories, denotationnal and game semantics), - models of concurrency (process calculi, bisimulation, event structures). The position will be taken in the logic group (LDP) of the Institut de Math?matiques de Luminy (IML); strong interaction is expected with the group MOVE of the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale (LIF) in Marseilles, and the group Plume of the Laboratoire d'Informatique du Parall?lisme in Lyon (LIP). Applications should be sent to: postdoc-choco at choco.pps.jussieu.fr before May 18th 2008 and should include (all documents in pdf): - a CV (civil informations, universitary cursus, phd); - a work programme (no more than one page); - a publication list; - contact information for 2 references. Candidates will be notified by mid June. =============================================================================== CHOCO: http://choco.pps.jussieu.fr/ IML : http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/ LDP : http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/ldp/ LIF : http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ MOVE : http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/spip.php?article89 LIP : http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/web/ Plume: http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/PLUME/index.html.en From carette at mcmaster.ca Wed Mar 5 11:34:14 2008 From: carette at mcmaster.ca (Jacques Carette) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:34:14 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: PLMMS 2008 Message-ID: <47CECB85.6020906@mcmaster.ca> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS * UPDATE: Post-workshop proceedings in Journal of Automated Reasoning * UPDATE: Invited talk by Conor McBride Second Workshop on Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics (PLMMS 2008) http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/cicm08/workshops/plmms/ As part of CICM / Calculemus 2008 Birmingham, UK, 28-29 July 2008 This workshop is focused on the intersection of programming languages (PL) and mechanized mathematics systems (MMS). The latter category subsumes present-day computer algebra systems (CAS), interactive proof assistants (PA), and automated theorem provers (ATP), all heading towards fully integrated mechanized mathematical assistants that are expected to emerge eventually (cf. the objective of Calculemus). The two subjects of PL and MMS meet in the following topics, which are of particular interest to this workshop: * Dedicated input languages for MMS: covers all aspects of languages intended for the user to deploy or extend the system, both algorithmic and declarative ones. Typical examples are tactic definition languages such as Ltac in Coq, mathematical proof languages as in Mizar or Isar, or specialized programming languages built into CA systems. Of particular interest are the semantics of those languages, especially when current ones are untyped. * Mathematical modeling languages used for programming: covers the relation of logical descriptions vs. algorithmic content. For instance the logic of ACL2 extends a version of Lisp, that of Coq is close to Haskell, and some portions of HOL are similar to ML and Haskell, while Maple tries to do both simultaneously. Such mathematical languages offer rich specification capabilities, which are rarely available in regular programming languages. How can programming benefit from mathematical concepts, without limiting mathematics to the computational worldview? * Programming languages with mathematical specifications: covers advanced "mathematical" concepts in programming languages that improve the expressive power of functional specifications, type systems, module systems etc. Programming languages with dependent types are of particular interest here, as is intentionality vs extensionality. * Language elements for program verification: covers specific means built into a language to facilitate correctness proofs using MMS. For example, logical annotations within programs may be turned into verification conditions to be solved in a proof assistant eventually. How need MMS and PL to be improved to make this work conveniently and in a mathematically appealing way? These issues have a very colorful history. Many PL innovations first appeared in either CA or proof systems first, before migrating into more mainstream programming languages. Some examples include type inference, dependent types, generics, term-rewriting, first-class types, first-class expressions, first-class modules, code extraction etc. However, such innovations were never aggressively pursued by builders of MMS, but often reconstructed by programming language researchers. This workshop is an opportunity to present the latest innovations in MMS design that may be relevant to future programming languages, or conversely novel PL principles that improve upon implementation and deployment of MMS. We also want to critically examine what has worked, and what has not. Why are all the languages of mainstream CA systems untyped? Why are the (strongly typed) proof assistants so much harder to use than a typical CAS? What forms of polymorphism exist in mathematics? What forms of dependent types may be used in mathematical modeling? How can MMS regain the upper hand on issues of "genericity" and "modularity"? What are the biggest barriers to using a more mainstream language as a host language for a CAS or PA/ATP? Invited Talk ------------ Conor McBride (Alta Systems, Northern Ireland) will give an invited talk. Submission ---------- Submission works through EasyChair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plmms2008 Two kinds of papers will be considered: * Full research papers may be up to 12 pages long. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work on the workshop in a regular talk. * Position papers may be up to 4 pages long. The workshop presentation of accepted position papers consists of two parts: a stimulating statement of certain issues or challenges by the author, followed by a discussion in the plenum. Papers should use the usual ENTCS style http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html (11 point version), and will be reviewed by the program committee. Informal workshop proceedings will be circulated as a technical report. Moreover there will be post-workshop proceedings of improved research papers, or position papers that have been completed into full papers, to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning. There will be a separate submission and review phase for this, where papers from both PLMMS 2007 and 2008 will be considered. Programme Committee ------------------- Jacques Carette (Co-Chair) (McMaster University, Canada) John Harrison (Intel Corporation, USA) Hugo Herbelin (INRIA, Ecole polytechnique, France) James McKinna (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Ulf Norell (Chalmers University, Sweden) Bill Page Christophe Raffalli (Universite de Savoie, France) Josef Urban (Charles University, Czech Republic) Stephen Watt (ORCCA, University of Western Ontario, Canada) Makarius Wenzel (Co-Chair) (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Freek Wiedijk (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Important Dates --------------- * Submission deadline - 5 May 2008 * Notification of acceptance - 6 June 2008 * Final version - 7 July 2008 (approximately) * Workshop - 28-29 July 2008 From ili at info.fundp.ac.be Mon Mar 10 05:27:20 2008 From: ili at info.fundp.ac.be (Isabelle Linden) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:27:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MTCoord 2008 - cfp Message-ID: <47D4FEF8.3020309@info.fundp.ac.be> [ Our apologies for multiple copies. ] ====================================================================== 4th International Workshop on Methods and Tools for Coordinating Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile Systems (MTCoord'08) June 7, 2008, Oslo, Norway Workshop affiliated to DisCoTec 08, June 4-6 2008 ====================================================================== SCOPE Various classes of computational models, languages, and formalisms have emerged with the aim of providing high-level descriptions of concurrent, distributed, and mobile systems. Typical examples include so-called coordination languages and models (e.g. Gamma, Linda, Manifold, Reo, Klaim, Lime, ...), concurrent constraint languages (e.g. cc languages, Mozart, ...) and process algebras (e.g. CSP, CCS, pi-calculus, ...). These models are based on generative communication via a shared data space or on data communication through channels. In both cases, software components are typically conceived in isolation assuming that the required data will eventually be available. However, making a whole system out of these components and, in particular, ensuring that interactions occur properly is far from being obvious. The aim of the workshop is precisely to bring together researchers, working in different communities (coordination, constraints, process algebras), on methods and tools for the construction of concurrent, distributed and mobile systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST Special topics of interest are o Model checking techniques, in particular techniques for verifying coordinating properties (including distributed and probabilistic ones) o Compositional and refinement-based methodologies However, other topics, as related to coordination, are also of interest, including: o Design of high-level specifications, eg based on first-order, modal and temporal logics o Techniques for requirements capture and analysis o Theorem proving based methodologies o Debugging techniques o Abstract interpretation o Program analysis and transformation o Simulation and testing o Formal methods for security o Tools environments and architectures o Applications and case studies, in particular in web services and biology INVITED SPEAKER Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers describing original work are solicited as contributions to MTCoord'08. All papers must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers should be limited to 15 pages, preferrably formatted according to the Electronical Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. They should be submitted through the conference management system that will be available from the workshop web site. http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/MTCoord/ PUBLICATION The papers accepted for the symposium will be available at the workshop (a University of Oslo, Department of informatics research report with ISBN and tech report no). Selected work will be published in a volume of the Electronical Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES o March 20, 2007: Paper Submission deadline. o May 5, 2007 : Notification of acceptance. o May 15, 2007 : Final version. o June 7, 2007 : Meeting Date. LOCATION The MTCoord'08 workshop will be held in Oslo, Norway on June 7 2008. It is a satellite workshop of Discotec'08. For venue and registration, see the DisCoTec'08 web page at http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/DisCoTec08/HomePage WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS o Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA o Isabelle Linden, University of Namur, Belgium PROGRAMME COMITTEE * Marco Bernardo,Universit? degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Urbino, Italy * Christel Baier, Technical University Dresden, Germany * Lubos Brim, Masaryk University, Czech Republic * Giorgio Delzanno, University of Genova, Italy * Wan Fokkink, CWI, The Netherlands * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Gerald Luettgen, University of York, United Kingdom * Angelika Mader, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Mirko Viroli, Alma Mater Studiorum Universit? di Bologna a Cesena, Italy * Kaisa Sere, Abo Akademi University, Finland From troina at di.unito.it Fri Mar 7 07:57:22 2008 From: troina at di.unito.it (Angelo Troina) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:57:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICE'08: Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <476A808B.1050308@di.unito.it> References: <476A808B.1050308@di.unito.it> Message-ID: <47D13BB2.2080109@di.unito.it> [Apologies for multiple copies] ***** 1st Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE'08) ***** Synchronous and Asynchronous Interactions in Concurrent Distributed Systems Satellite workshop of ICALP 2008 6th of July 2008 Reykjavik, Iceland Homepage: http://ice08.dimi.uniud.it/ (Sponsored by the ESF project AutoMathA) ******************************************************************** **************************** N E W S ******************************* ******************************************************************** -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- - Catuscia Palamidessi (?cole Polytechnique) - Joseph Sifakis (Verimag): Joint with SOS'08 -- GRANTS -- A grant for the best student/young researcher paper will be awarded to cover part of his/her travel expenses. -- SUBMISSIONS SITE NOW OPEN -- Papers should take the form of a pdf file in ENTCS format and must be submitted electronically via the ICE'08 easychair conference site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice08). ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is intended as a series of international scientific meetings oriented to researchers in various fields of theoretical computer science. The timeliness and novelty of these events relies both on the variety of the topics that will be treated on each event and on the adopted paper selection mechanism. Every experience will focus on a different specific topic which affects several areas of computer science; A thorough scientific debate among PC and authors of submitted papers will parallel the reviewing process; After the paper selection phase, papers will be published on the web and the discussion will be extended to perspective participants. -- SCOPE -- The scope of this first experience is to include theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among actors of concurrent or distributed systems. The workshop intends to attract researchers interested in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives concerning such complex interactions. Synchronisation mechanisms are one of the key aspects in concurrency and they are becoming enormously relevant in modern distributed systems. Theoretical models, design and verification of interaction protocols and programming practice must take synchronisations into account for specifying, implementing and reasoning on systems where computations are spread across possibly many actors that interact within a precise interaction framework. At a low level of abstraction, systems can be classified according to a wide spectrum, ranging between the two extremes of (completely) synchronous or asynchronous interactions. In fact, such a classification can be given according to the assumptions made on, e.g., the number of participants or the time interactions need to be effected. Significantly, the behaviour of such systems can be investigated using different assumptions that yield different expressiveness or complexity results. Several recent theoretical results shed light on the interrelations between synchronous and asynchronous interaction mechanisms (e.g., expressiveness results for distributed algorithms, relations among observational semantics of (a)synchronous models). Interaction mechanisms have also been studied in relation to other features of systems such as mobility (e.g., name passing process calculi, graph-based models). -- TOPICS -- Topics of interest include, but shall not be limited to: - models, logic and types for interactions; - synchronous/asynchronous mechanisms; - expressiveness results; - timed and hybrid interactions; - verification, analysis and tools; - programming primitives for interactions; - interactions as coordination mechanisms; - interactions inspired by emerging computational models (systems biology, quantum computing, etc.). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- - Catuscia Palamidessi (?cole Polytechnique) - Joseph Sifakis (Verimag): Joint with SOS'08 -- SELECTION PROCEDURE -- The workshop proposes an innovative paper selection process based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. We are confident that an interactive selection phase could considerably improve the quality of the papers, the reviews and the discussion during the workshop. After the submission deadline expires, each PC member will select a number of suitable papers to review before the start of the discussion phase. Each paper will have at least three anonymous reviewers. At the beginning of the discussion, each submitted paper will be published on a Wiki and associated with a discussion forum. The access to the forum will be restricted to the authors of the associated paper and to all the PC members. The latter will be able to anonymously post comments/questions which the authors will reply to. Authors will obviously have access only to forums associated with their own papers. Thus, the discussion on forums (and hence the reviewing process of papers) may be enhanced by the additional comments of interested PC members. -- THE PUBLIC WIKI -- After the notification, the accepted papers will be published on a public forum, the rationale being to initiate public discussions that will trigger and stimulate the scientific debate of the workshop. We argue that this will drive the workshop debate and let perspective participants to interact with each other well in advance with respect to the modus operandi of a traditional event. -- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Programme Committee members, barring the co-chairs, may (and indeed are encouraged) to contribute. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. There is no specific page limit, but authors should strive for brevity. Papers should take the form of a pdf file in ENTCS format and must be submitted electronically via the ICE'08 easychair conference site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice08). -- GRANTS -- A special grant for the best student/young researcher best paper will be awarded to cover part of his/her travel expenses. -- DISSEMINATION -- The post-proceedings of the workshop will be published in a volume of the Electronic Notes on Theoretical Computer Science series. If the quality and quantity of the submissions warrant it, we plan to arrange a special issue of an archival journal devoted to extended versions of selected papers from the workshop. We might also expect this to be a joint special issue within ICE'08 and SOS'08. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- - Abstract submission: 14 April 2008 - Submission deadline: 18 April 2008 - Reviews due: 11 May 2008 - Discussion: from 12 May to 21 May 2008 - Notification to authors: 25 May 2008 - Workshop: 6 July 2008 -- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -- - Simon Bliudze (VERIMAG) - Michele Boreale (Universit? di Firenze) - Marco Carbone (Queen Mary) - Vincent Danos (Paris VII & CNRS) - Azadeh Farzan (Carnegie Mellon University) - Fabio Gadducci (Universit? di Pisa) - Blaise Genest (CNRS, Rennes) - Ichiro Hasuo (University of Kyoto - Radboud University Nijmegen) - Thomas Hildebrandt (ITU-Copenhagen) - Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen) - Jean Krivine (?cole Polytechnique) - Ruggero Lanotte (Universit? dell'Insubria) - Francesco Logozzo (Microsoft Research) - Gavin Lowe (Oxford) - Hernan Melgratti (UBA, Buenos Aires) - Mohamad Reza Mousavi (Eindhoven University) - Julian Rathke (University of Southampton) - Frank Valencia (?cole Polytechnique) - Daniele Varacca (Paris VII) - Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College) -- ICEcreamers -- - Filippo Bonchi (Universit? di Pisa) - Davide Grohmann (Universit? di Udine) - Paola Spoletini (Universit? dell'Insubria) - Angelo Troina (Universit? di Torino) - Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester) From jfoster at cs.umd.edu Mon Mar 10 14:30:07 2008 From: jfoster at cs.umd.edu (Jeff Foster) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:30:07 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in static analysis at the University of Maryland Message-ID: The programming languages group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland is offering a post doctoral position in static analysis. Description ----------- The aim of the project is to develop new, programmer-centered static analysis techniques to help improve the reliability and security of software. There have been many successes in recent years in developing lightweight, scalable static analysis tools that find defects in software. However, users of such tools have little recourse when they want to move beyond bug finding towards sound verification of complex properties. The goal of this project is to address this problem by developing ways for programmers to gradually refine static analysis to add assurance to their software. The work will include both theoretical development and implementation of practical tools. Requirements ------------ Applicants to this position must have received their PhD, or completed the requirements for their PhD, when the appointment begins. A strong background in the theory and/or implementation of static analysis (of any kind---type systems, constraint-based analysis, dataflow analysis, model checking, theorem proving, abstract interpretation, or others) is highly desirable. * Application deadline: April 7, 2008 for full consideration. The position will remain open until filled. * Start date: June 1, 2008 (negotiable) * Duration: 1-2 years, depending on funding availability Interested candidates should send their CV to mebyrns at cs.umd.edu and arrange to have two letters of recommendation emailed to the same address. Additional information ---------------------- Questions about this position should be directed to jfoster at cs.umd.edu. For more information about the Maryland PL group, please visit http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/PL/ The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Jeff From eijiro.sumii at gmail.com Tue Mar 11 04:26:13 2008 From: eijiro.sumii at gmail.com (Eijiro Sumii) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:26:13 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] ML Workshop 2008 call for papers Message-ID: <20080311.172613.05609452.sumii@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp> CALL FOR PAPERS The 2008 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML Sunday, September 21, 2008 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada To be held in conjunction with ICFP 2008 http://www.kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/ml2008/ IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: Monday, June 23, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Friday, July 18, 2008 Final revision due: Monday, July 28, 2008 Workshop: Sunday, September 21, 2008 GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP: ML is a family of programming languages that includes dialects known as Standard ML, Objective Caml, and F#. The development of these languages has inspired a large amount of computer science research, both practical and theoretical. This workshop aims to build on previous occasions (recent instances are ML 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia, 2006 in Portland, Oregon, and 2007 in Freiburg, Germany), providing a forum to encourage discussion and research on ML and related technology. The 2008 Workshop on ML will be held in conjunction with the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2008) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on Sunday, September 21, 2008. This year we extend the scope of the workshop from ML itself to technologies closely related to ML (higher-order, typed, or strict languages) and invite high-quality papers in all areas of crucial importance for the future of ML. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We seek papers on topics related to ML, including (but not limited to): * applications * extensions: objects, classes, concurrency, distribution and mobility, semi-structured data handling, etc. * type systems (static and dynamic): inference, effects, overloading, error reporting, contracts, specifications and assertions, etc. * implementation: compilers, interpreters, partial evaluators, garbage collectors, etc. * environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language interoperability, functional data structures, etc. * semantics Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, ML-related projects, or informed positions regarding proposals for next-generation ML languages. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. All papers will be judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and interest to the community. All paper submissions must be at most 12 pages total length in the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference format (9pt): http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. More details about the submission procedure will be announced later on the web page: http://www.kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/ml2008/ PROGRAM CHAIR: Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sylvain Conchon (Paris-Sud University / INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France) Karl Crary (Carnegie Mellon University) Andrzej Filinski (DIKU) Robby Findler (The University of Chicago) Cormac Flanagan (University of California at Santa Cruz) Alain Frisch (LexiFi) Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Didier Remy (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) Claudio Russo (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) Hongwei Xi (Boston University) From yannis at cs.uoregon.edu Tue Mar 11 17:16:52 2008 From: yannis at cs.uoregon.edu (Yannis Smaragdakis) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:16:52 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Oregon Programming Languages Summer School Message-ID: <47D6F6C4.3030505@cs.uoregon.edu> The Oregon PL Summer School will run July 22-30, 2008 with the topic "Logic and Theorem Proving in Programming Languages". This is a very exciting topic, and we've put together a great collection of speakers. The school has a long tradition and is sponsored by the NSF, ACM SIGPLAN, and Microsoft Research. The full "Call for Participation" may be found below. Thanks, Matthew Fluet & Yannis Smaragdakis (OPLSS'08 Organizers) =========================================================================== =========================================================================== Call for Participation: Summer School on Logic and Theorem Proving in Programming Languages July 22-30, 2008 University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer08/ summerschool at cs.uoregon.edu This Summer School will cover current research focused on integrating expressive logical systems and powerful theorem-proving assistants into the design, definition, and implementation of programming languages. Speakers will present material covering foundational theory, advanced techniques, and applications. Material will be presented at a tutorial level that will help graduate students and researchers from academia or industry understand the critical issues and open problems confronting the field. The course is open to anyone interested. Prerequisites are an elementary knowledge of logic and mathematics that is usually covered in undergraduate classes on discrete mathematics. Some knowledge of programming languages at the level provided by an undergraduate survey course will also be expected. Our primary target group is PhD students. We also expect attendance by faculty members who would like to conduct research on this topic or introduce new courses at their universities. The program consists of more than twenty-five, 80 minute lectures presented by internationally recognized leaders in programming languages and formal reasoning research. Topics include: SMT Solvers - Theory, Implementation and Applications Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Mechanization of Metatheory using LF and Twelf Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University Compiler Construction in Formal Logical Frameworks Jason Hickey, California Institute of Technology Specification and Verification of Programs with Pointers Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Leveraging Domain-Specific Languages for Reasoning Sorin Lerner, University of California - San Diego Reasoning About Programs with ACL2 Pete Manolios, Northeastern University Putting the Curry-Howard Isomorphism to Work Tim Sheard, Portland State University Nominal Techniques Christian Urban, TU Munich Coq for Programming Language Metatheory Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania Venue ~~~~~ The summer school will be held at the University of Oregon, located in the southern Willamette Valley city of Eugene, close to some of the world's most spectacular beaches, mountains, lakes and forests. On Sunday, July 27, students will have the option of participating in a group activity in Oregon's countryside. Registration ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The cost for registration is $175.00 (USD) for graduate students, and $275.00 (USD) for other participants. Registration must be paid upon acceptance to the summer school, and is non-refundable. There are a limited number of grants available to fund part of the cost of student participation. If you are a graduate student and want to apply for grant money to cover your expenses, please also include a statement of your needs with your registration. Additional information about the program, registration, venue, and housing options is available on the web site. Or, you may request more information by email. To register for the Summer School, send a CV that includes a short description of your educational background and one letter of reference, unless you have already been granted a Ph.D. Please include your name, address and current academic status. Send all registration materials to summerschool at cs.uoregon.edu. All registration materials should be delivered to the program by April 11, 2008. Materials received after the closing date will be evaluated on a space available basis. Non U.S. citizens should begin immediately to obtain travel documents. Housing ~~~~~~~ The school will provide on-campus housing and meals. To share a room with another student attending the school, the cost is $495 (USD) per person. Housing rates are based on check-in Tuesday, July 22 and check-out before noon on Thursday, July 31. Some single rooms may be available for an additional fee of $150 (USD). If you'd like a single room, please indicate your choice and we will try to accommodate you on a first-come/first-served basis. Organizers ~~~~~~~~~~ Organizing committee: Matthew Fluet and Yannis Smaragdakis Sponsors: National Science Foundation, ACM SIGPLAN, Microsoft Research From areces at pluton.loria.fr Tue Mar 11 09:21:30 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:21:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP] Advances in Modal Logic 2008 Message-ID: <200803111321.m2BDLUxd003664@pluton.loria.fr> ======================================================= Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies []<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<> THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr DEADLINE: 31 March 2008 - SITE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics + modal and temporal logic programming + model checking + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic + algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic + coalgebraic modal logic + completeness and canonicity + correspondence and duality theory + many-dimensional modal logics + modal fixed point logics + model theory of modal logic + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic + description logics + dynamic logics and other process logics + epistemic and deontic logics + modal logics for agent-based systems + modal logic and game theory + modal logic and grammar formalisms + provability and interpretability logics + spatial and temporal logics + hybrid logic + intuitionistic logic + monotonic modal logic + substructural logic Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ PAPER SUBMISSIONS In a change from previous AiML's, there will be two types of paper: (1) Full papers for publication and presentation at the conference. (2) Abstracts for short presentation only. Both types of paper should be submitted electronically using the submission page at http://www.easychair.org/AiML08/ The online submission system is now open. The submission deadline is 31 March 2008. (1) FULL PAPERS These will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the meeting. Authors are invited to submit for review a full paper, not submitted elsewhere. It should be at most 15 pages plus optionally a technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of say 100-200 words. To appear in the conference volume, papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the style files to be provided at http://aiml08.loria.fr . At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the conference to present the paper. (2) ABSTRACTS These should at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light review. They may be made available at the conference, and authors should indicate if they would like to make a short presentation of their abstract of up to 15 minutes. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Stephane Demri (CNRS, Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Carlos Areces LORIA, Nancy carlos.areces(at)loria.fr Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington rob.goldblatt(at)mcs.vuw.ac.nz LOCAL ORGANIZER Patrick Blackburn LORIA, Nancy patrick.blackburn(at)loria.fr IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2008 Acceptance notification: 31 May 2008 Final version of full papers due: 30 June 2008 Conference: 9-12 September 2008 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2008 will be held at LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) in Nancy, in the Lorraine, in the east of France. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website: http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From jcg at itu.dk Tue Mar 11 06:50:58 2008 From: jcg at itu.dk (Jens Chr. Godskesen) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:50:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMWS 2008, CFP Message-ID: <47D66412.1090806@itu.dk> First Call For Papers ------------------- FMWS 2008 First Workshop on Formal Methods for Wireless Systems 23 August, 2008, Toronto, Canada Satelite workshop of CONCUR 2008 http://www.itu.dk/events/FMWS08/ Scope ----- The FMWS workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in formal methods for wireless systems. More specifically, it puts focus on theories for semantics, logics, and verification techniques for wireless systems. Wireless systems are rapidly increasing their success in real-world applications while formal methods for modelling, analysing, and verifying the systems are lacking behind. Recently however much attention has been carried out to model, analyse and verify Sensor Networks and, more generally, Ad Hoc Networks. Submissions are solicited in all areas of semantics, logics, and verification techniques for concurrent wireless systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - Algebraic models - Behavioural semantics - Probabilistic models - Broadcast communication - Mobility - Model checking - Abstract interpretation - Security - Coordination languages - Security issues - Protocols Invited speaker --------------- - Ansgar Fehnker, University of New South Wales, Australia Call for papers --------------- - Short papers (not included in the proceedings): up to 4 pages, typeset 11 points - Full papers: up to 12 pages, typeset 11 points (excluding bibliography and technical appendices) Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals is only allowed for short papers. Submissions may already use the ENTCS-style format. A preliminary version of the proceedings will be available at the workshop. After the workshop, authors of full papers will be asked to prepare a final version of their paper in the ENTCS-style format to be published in the ENTCS (Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science). It is recommended that the final version of the paper includes as much as possible proofs and technical material while keeping the length within 25 pages. A special issue in a journal is under consideration. Important dates --------------- Workshop: August 23, 2008 Abstract submission: June 2, 2008 Paper submission: June 6, 2008 Notification date: July 11, 2008 Submission of preliminary version for the Proceedings: August 8, 2008 Submission of final version for ENTCS: TBA Program Committee ----------------- - Jens Chr. Godskesen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, Chicago, USA - Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark - Massimo Merro, University of Verona, Italy - Sebastian Nanz, Technical University of Denmark - Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA Futurs and LIX, France - Davide Sangiorgi, University of Bologna, Italy - Scott A. Smolka, Stony Brook, USA - Luca Vigano, University of Verona, Italy Organizers ---------- - Jens Chr. Godskesen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Massimo Merro, University of Verona, Italy From bernhard at sussex.ac.uk Wed Mar 12 11:18:38 2008 From: bernhard at sussex.ac.uk (Bernhard Reus) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:18:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Lectureship at Sussex Message-ID: Our Department (Informatics, Sussex) is looking for a Lecturer (permanent, full time) in *Foundations of Computation* . For full details and how to apply see Below you find the main text of the ad. Cheers, Bernhard ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Salary range: ?27,466 to ?40,335 pa Expected start date: 1 September 2008 or soon after The Department (graded 5 in all RAEs to date) is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Foundations of Computation. The successful applicant will have high quality peer reviewed publications, relevant teaching experience, and be prepared to contribute to the administrative tasks of the department. The Foundations group has a strong portfolio of research in developing semantic theories and mathematical models for languages and systems. Applicants should have research interests in one or more of the following areas: programming language theory, program logics, theory of quantum computation, type theory, domain theory, concurrency, or theory of pervasive/ubiquitous computing. Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Dr Ian Mackie, tel 01273 873117, email I.Mackie at sussex.ac.uk; Prof John Carroll (Head of Department), tel 01273 678029, email J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk When completing the University application form please make sure you include your CV and list of publications. Closing date for applications: 31 March 2008 Interview date: 2 May 2008 From koehler at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 13 05:11:31 2008 From: koehler at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (koehler@informatik.uni-hamburg.de) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:11:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NEW DEADLINE: 27. March, Logics for Agents and Mobility (LAM'08) Message-ID: <20080313101131.tq5nqa06qs0w0gs4@webmail.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> ------- Deadline Extended -------- ******************************************************** Last CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logics for Agents and Mobility (LAM'08) http://www.dur.ac.uk/berndt.farwer/lam08 4-8 August 2008 ******************************************************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 27 MARCH 2008 ******************************************************** organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4 - 15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Workshop Organisers: Berndt Farwer (berndt.farwer at durham.ac.uk) Michael K?hler-Bu?meier (koehler at informatik.uni-hamburg.de) Workshop Purpose: Our aim is to bring together active researchers and PhD students in the area of logics and mobile systems, especially in the field of agents and multi-agent systems. Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. On the other hand, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) is becoming a reality. This raises a number of scientific and technological challenges for the software modelling and programming models for such large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification). The logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security- awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and then verification of properties about mobile agent systems. There are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to showcase results and current work being undertaken in these areas. Workshop Topics: - logics for specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and mobile systems in a broader sense - the aspects of location and resource in logics - security in ad-hoc networks - temporal logics and model checking - type systems and static analysis - logic programming. Submission details: Authors are invited to submit a full paper of original work in the areas mentioned above. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages, preferably using the LaTeX article class and A4 paper. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS. Please send your submission electronically to lam08 at mac.com by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. Workshop format: The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 to 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organisers will give an introduction to the topic to familiarise the audience with the topic. Invited Speakers: Didier Galmiche (Universit? Henri Poincar? - Nancy 1, France) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK) Programme Committee: Berndt Farwer (chair), Durham, UK Michael K?hler (local chair), Hamburg, Germany Thomas Agotnes, Bergen, Norway Matteo Baldoni, Torino, Italy Rafael Bordini, Durham, UK Louise Dennis, Liverpool, UK Marina De Vos, Bath, UK Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK James Harland, Melbourne, Australia Andreas Herzig, Toulouse, France Koen Hindriks, Delft, Netherlands Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal, Germany Jo?o Leite, Lisbon, Portugal Dale Miller, INRIA, France Frederic Peschanski, Paris, France Wamberto Vasconcelos, Aberdeen, UK Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 27 March 2008 Notification: 27 April 2008 Preliminary programme: 1 May 2008 ESSLLI early registration: 1 May 2008 Final papers for proceedings: 17 May 2008 Final programme: 21 June 2008 Workshop dates: 4-8 August 2008 Local Arrangements: All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Further Information: About the workshop: http://www.dur.ac.uk/berndt.farwer/lam08 About ESSLLI: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ From bernhard at sussex.ac.uk Thu Mar 13 11:40:43 2008 From: bernhard at sussex.ac.uk (Bernhard Reus) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:40:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Correction: Lectureship at Sussex Message-ID: <7223BFA2-9BB7-4D0A-94F4-382EFAD288F4@sussex.ac.uk> Unfortunately, in my previous posting a wrong link was given. The correct link, if you're interested, is Apologies. Bernhard From rensink at cs.utwente.nl Thu Mar 13 12:22:43 2008 From: rensink at cs.utwente.nl (Arend Rensink) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:22:43 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD, Postdoc and Technical Assistant openings in Formal Methods and Tools @ Uni Twente Message-ID: <47D954D3.20900@cs.utwente.nl> We are looking for suitable candidates in various projects and on different levels. For details on the projects see below. PhD researchers (4 years) --------------- (note that these are fully paid positions, not studentships) - 1 PhD on Graphs for the Abstract Interpretation of Languages (GRAIL) - 1 PhD on Multi-Core Model Checking (MCMC) - 1 PhD on Symbolic Translation of Stochastic Processes (STOP) Postdoctoral researchers ------------------------ - 1 Postdoc (1 year) in Graphs for Software Language Definition (GRASLAND) - 1 Postdoc (1.5 year) in INtegrated European Signalling System (INESS) (possibly with an extension to 3 years) - 1 Postdoc (3 years) in Quantitative System Properties in Model-Driven-Design of Embedded Systems (QUASIMODO) Technical assistants -------------------- - 1 Technical Assistant (3 years) for the Laboratory on Interoperability of Small Tools (LIST) Deadline for all applications: 18 April 2008 Project descriptions ==================== GRAIL (PhD researcher, vacancy number 08/075) ----- As more and more systems in our everyday environment contain major software parts, and we are depending on such systems more and more (we are counting on them), the importance of the dependability of the embedded software is increasing. Unfortunately, there are still very few generally applicable methods for software verification, i.e., ensuring its correct functioning under all circumstances. Reasons for this are, on the one hand, the degree of expertise necessary for existing verification methods, and on the other, their poor embedding in the average software development trajectory. An important practical objection is, moreover, that current verification methods typically assume the existence of a sufficiently detailed and precise model of system behaviour. In practice such models hardly ever exist, and the time and expertise to construct them is missing. Examples of methods that are being used widely in practice are therefore typing and testing, neither of which necessarily depends on the pre-existence of models. In this project we investigate a new way of automatically verifying software on the basis of code, without assuming a predefined model. The technique used is static analysis, a general principle that encompasses typing; the new aspect is the use of graph transformations to capture the effect of the software. Graphs offer a natural model for the behaviour of dynamic software systems, and at the same time offer the basis for a generic form of static analysis, which can be driven by the properties to be verified. For further information, please contact Arend Rensink rensink at cs.utwente.nl or consult the full project description (http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/grail) MCMC (PhD researcher, vacancy number 08/076) ---- The goal of this project is to develop model checkers that exploit the computing power of clusters of computers, GRIDs, multi-core machines, and their heterogeneous combination. We aim at the development and understanding of new distributed and parallel algorithms, and we want to build a high-quality tool. We will consider branching and temporal logics, parity games, including some quantitative extensions. For further information, please contact Jaco van de Pol vdpol at cs.utwente.nl STOP (PhD researcher, vacancy number 08/077) ---- The goal of this project is to integrate model checking techniques for languages with rich data types, and languages with probabilistic, stochastic, and timing information. The aim is to identify, study and implement model transformations at the language level, in order to minimize state spaces even before their generation, while preserving functional and quantitative properties. Topics of interest are linearization, static analysis, abstraction, and confluence reduction for languages with data and quantitative information. For further information, please contact Jaco van de Pol vdpol at cs.utwente.nl or Joost-Pieter Katoen katoen at cs.utwente.nl GRASLAND (Postdoc, vacancy number 08/078) -------- In the context of the MDA (Model Driven Architecture) methodology for designing maintainable software systems, model transformation is a central concept. Models are used to describe the system in all phases of development and on various levels of abstraction; they are specified in diverse (modelling and programming) software languages (SLs). Model transformations typically introduce concrete, implementation specific details. Such transformations are intended to be correctness preserving: they should not introduce errors or essential changes. This, however, can be guaranteed only if the meaning of the SLs involved is defined with sufficient precision. Unfortunately, this is often lacking: many SLs have a well-defined syntax but only an informal semantics. A primary reason for this is that MDA does not include a general method for easily and consistently defining the subtler aspects of SLs, such as their semantics. The purpose of this project is to define a meta-language in which all aspects of SLs, besides their concrete syntax, can be defined in a consistent manner. As a common formal foundation of this meta-language we propose graphs and graph transformations, which we believe to be powerful enough to capture all relevant SL aspects. This meta-language will enable us to provide semantic definitions of the source and target SLs involved in a given model transformation on a compatible basis; this in turn will enable us to precisely formulate and check the requirement of correctness preservation. We believe these abilities to be essential in realizing the full potential of MDA. For further information, please contact Arend Rensink rensink at cs.utwente.nl or consult the full project description (http://trese.cs.utwente.nl/grasland). INESS (Postdoc, vacancy number 08/079) ----- Today there are over 20 rail signalling and speed-control systems operating in Europe, which are incompatible with each other. This complexity leads to additional costs and increased risk of breakdowns. Promoted by the European Commission and driven by the need for interoperability and harmonisation of safety, the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) aims to remedy this lack of unification in the signalling and speed control. The INESS project aims at contributing to the above mentioned European initiatives by defining and developing specifications for a new generation of interoperable interlocking systems suitable to be integrated in the ERTMS system to ease the migration. This will enhance the standardisation process and therefore, help increasing the competitiveness of the railway transport. In Twente, you will work on formal specification and validation of requirements on railway signalling systems, and on verifying and testing their design. We promise you a very interesting case study. For further information, please contact Jaco van de Pol vdpol at cs.utwente.nl QUASIMODO (Postdoc, vacancy number 08/080) --------- Quasimodo is a European research project funded by the European Commission under the IST framework programme 7 for Information and Communication Technology, ICT. Partners are found in Denmark, Germany, France and The Netherlands. Embedded Systems is the designation for intelligent and smart computer controlled mechanical devices. Today - and even more so in the near future - computers are built into everyday appliances existing anywhere in our surroundings. Examples include laundry-machines, climate control systems, cars, and satellites. It is the combination of mechanics, computer electronic, and an enormous amount of software that makes the devices intelligent, but at the same time so extremely complex that they are difficult to develop. The main goal of Quasimodo is to develop new techniques and tools for model-driven design, analysis, testing and code-generation for advanced embedded systems while ensuring quantitative bounds on resource consumption is a central problem. Within this goal, the effort of the University of Twente will be towards various aspects, such as model checking, controller synthesis, and testing. The postdoc is expected to contribute to the research in one or more of these fields, in close cooperation with the ESI (Embedded Systems Institute) and several industrial partners in the Quasimodo project. For further information, please contact Rom Langerak langerak at cs.utwente.nl or consult the project web site, http://www.quasimodo.aau.dk. LIST (Technical Assistant, vacancy number 08/081) ---- A "small tool" is the type of software tool typically created in the course of a research project, as carried out by a single PhD student. Such tools have a small basis for maintenance and more often than not "die" with the end of the project, without having had a chance of being embedded or tested in a larger, systems engineering context. It is a common observation, recently repeated in the Dutch 3TU computer science assessment, that policy and infrastructure are missing to change this situation. In this project, we propose to set up a framework for the improved integration and maintenance of small tools in the area of formal methods, with the aim of offering such tools better usability, better accessibility and a longer lifespan. This will provide these tools with more chance of proving themselves in practice, and thus help to valorise the effort that went into their creation. The project will be carried out in cooperation with similar efforts at the Technical Universities of Eindhoven and Delft. The task of the technical assistant will initially consist of forging concrete interoperability links between specific (existing) tools. Using the expertise thus built up, the next step is to generalise from this, and to identify and bring together the necessary elements for an integration and maintenance framework. For further information, please contact Arend Rensink rensink at cs.utwente.nl Profile ======= To qualify for any of the PhD positions, you must have an MSc or comparable degree and a good background in formal methods. Expertise in the specific area of the project is considered an advantage. Good English speaking and writing skills are demanded, as well as the willingness to learn Dutch. The candidates will enrol in the PhD programme of the Dutch Research School for Programming Research and Algorithmics (IPA). To qualify for any of the postdoc positions, you must have a PhD degree in a relevant area of formal methods. Good English speaking and writing skills are demanded, as well as the willingness to learn Dutch. Offer ===== A PhD researchership in the Netherlands is a fully paid position, for a period of 4 years. The candidate will receive a gross salary starting at 2000 per month (first year) and reaching 2558 per month (final year), plus an 8% holiday allowance and other benefits. The postdoc positions are for 1 year (GRASLAND), 1.5 years (INESS) and 3 years (QUASIMODO), respectively. Your starting salary is 2802 per month, but may be higher depending on experience, plus an 8% holiday allowance and other benefits. The technical assistant position is for 3 years. Your starting salary is 2802 per month, but may be higher depending on experience, plus an 8% holiday allowance and other benefits. To qualify for the technical assistant position, you must have a BSc degree from a university or polytechnic, practical programming skills, as well as the ability to grasp and abstract problems, and to understand the principles behind formal methods tools. Good English speaking and writing skills are demanded, as well as the willingness to learn Dutch. Experience with software development and maintenance is an advantage. Application =========== You are invited to send your application together with: - A cover letter stating your *specific* interest in the position, indicating also your motivation and qualifications for joining the project. (In the absence of such a cover letter your application will be rejected without notification.) - A full curriculum vitae, including the subject and supervisor of your graduate thesis (in case of a PhD or TA position) or PhD thesis (in case of a postdoc position). - Letters of recommendation or references of at least two scientific staff members. Letters should be sent by email to the relevant contact person, mentioning the vacancy number in the header, with a cc to Ms. Joke Lammerink jlammeri at cs.utwente.nl : - GRAIL PhD researcher: rensink at cs.utwente.nl, vacancy number 08/075 - MCMC PhD researcher: vdpol at cs.utwente.nl, vacancy number 08/076 - STOP PhD researcher: vdpol at cs.utwente.nl and katoen at cs.utwente.nl, vacancy number 08/077 - GRASLAND postdoc: rensink at cs.utwente.nl, vacancy number 08/078 - INESS postdoc: vdpol at cs.utwente.nl, vacancy number 08/079 - QUASIMODO postdoc: langerak at cs.utwente.nl, vacancy number 08/080 - LIST technical assistant: rensink at cs.utwente.nl, vacancy number 08/081 All applications must be received ** at or before 18 April 2008 ** From petfr at ida.liu.se Fri Mar 14 03:11:19 2008 From: petfr at ida.liu.se (Peter Fritzson) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:11:19 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: ECOOP Workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Languages and Tools (EOOLT) Message-ID: <200803140711.m2E7BNBN015641@portofix.ida.liu.se> CFP: ECOOP Workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Languages and Tools (EOOLT) Call for Contributions EOOLT'2008 2nd Workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Languages and Tools in conjunction with ECOOP 2008 July 8, 2008 (Pathos, Cyprus) http://www.eoolt.org/2008/ (see also: http://2008.ecoop.org/) SCOPE Computer aided modeling and simulation of complex systems, using components from multiple application domains, such as electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, control, etc., have in recent years witnessed a significant growth of interest. In the last decade, novel modeling and simulation languages, (e.g. Modelica, gPROMS, Chi, Verilog-AMS, and VHDL-AMS) based on acausal modeling using differential algebraic equations (DAEs) have appeared. Using such languages, it has become possible to model complex systems covering multiple application domains at a high level of abstraction through reusable model components. In the last couple of years the name equation-based object-oriented (EOO) language has been introduced to denote modeling languages within this category. The EOOLT Workshop addresses the current state of the art of EOO modeling languages as well as open issues that currently still limit the expression power, correctness, and usefulness of such languages through a set of full-length presentations and forum discussions. The workshop is concerned with, but not limited to, the following themes: * Acausality and its role in model reusability. * Component systems for EOO languages. * Database lookup and knowledge invocation. * Discrete-event and hybrid modeling using EOO languages. * Embedded systems. * EOO language constructs in support of simulation, optimization, diagnostics, and system identification. * EOO mathematical modeling vs. UML modeling. * Equation-based languages supporting DAEs and/or PDEs. * Formal semantics of EOO related languages. * Multi-resolution / multi-scale modeling using EOO languages. * Numerical coupling of EOO simulators and other simulation tools. * Parallel execution of EOO models. * Performance issues. * Programming / modeling environments. * Real-time simulation using EOO languages. * Reflection and meta-programming. * Reuse of models in EOO languages. * Table lookup and interpolation. * Type systems and early static checking. * Verification. * Model-driven development CONTRIBUTIONS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit full-length research papers (up to 10 pages) for consideration by the program committee. Papers are welcome that offer presentations and discussions of existing tools, their capabilities and limitations; reports on practical experience; demonstrations of tools, ideas, and concepts; positions related to relevant questions; and discussion topics. PUBLICATION If a paper has been accepted, the authors should present the paper at the workshop and also have the paper published in electronic proceedings (and a local conference paper version) at Link?ping University Electronic Press. The best of these papers will be selected and the authors will be asked to resubmit an extended version for review and to be possibly published in the SIMPRA journal. Important Dates * Submission deadline: April 30 * Author notification: May 26 * ECOOP Early Registration: June 1 * Camera-ready: June 9 * Workshop in Cyprus: July 8 Organizing Committee * Peter Fritzson (Chair) * Fran?ois Cellier (Co-Chair) * David Broman (Co-Chair) * Loucas Louca (Local Organizer), University of Cyprus For questions regarding the workshop, please send an email to the organizing committe: 2008 at eoolt.org. Program Committee (incomplete) Peter Fritzson, Link?ping University, Sweden; Chair Fran?ois Cellier, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Co-Chair David Broman, Link?ping University, Sweden; Co-Chair Bernhard Bachmann, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany Bert van Beek, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Gilad Bracha, Cadence Design Systems, USA Felix Breitenecker, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Jan Broenink, University of Twente, Netherlands Peter Bunus, Link?ping University, Sweden Ernst Christen, Lynguent, Inc., Portland, OR, USA Sebasti?n Dormido, National University for Distance Education, Madrid, Spain Olaf Enge-Rosenblatt, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany Peter Feiler, SEI, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Stefan J?hnichen, Fraunhofer FIRST and TU Berlin, Germany Petter Krus, Link?ping University, Sweden Loucas Louca, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Jakob Mauss, QTronic GmbH, Berlin, Germany Pieter Mosterman, MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, USA Ramine Nikoukhah, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Martin Otter, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Chris Paredis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA C?sar de Prada, University of Valladolid, Spain Juan Jos? Ramos, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Peter Schwarz, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany Paul Strooper, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Michael Tiller, Emmeskay, Inc., Plymouth, MI, USA Martin T?rngren, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Alfonso Urqu?a, UNED, Madrid, Spain From sescobar at dsic.upv.es Sun Mar 16 19:13:45 2008 From: sescobar at dsic.upv.es (Santiago Escobar) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:13:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Cfp: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Security and Rewriting Techniques (SecReT 2008) Message-ID: ******************************************************************** SecReT 2008 3rd International Workshop on Security and Rewriting Techniques http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/secret08 Sunday, June 22, 2008, Pittsburgh, USA Affiliated workshop of the 21st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) and the 23rd IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science (LICS) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission March 31, 2008 Full Paper Submission April 6, 2008 Acceptance Notification May 12, 2008 Camera Ready May 26, 2008 Workshop June 22, 2008 SCOPE The aim of this workshop is to bring together rewriting researchers and security experts, in order to foster their interaction and develop future collaborations in this area, provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. The workshop focuses on the use of rewriting techniques in all aspects of security. Specific topics include: authentication, encryption, access control and authorization, protocol verification, specification of policies, intrusion detection, integrity of information, control of information leakage, control of distributed and mobile code, etc. Previous instances of SecRet were held in 2006 (S. Servolo, Venice, Italy), and 2007 (Paris, France). LOCATION SecReT'08 will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The workshop is associated with the 21st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF'08) and the 23rd IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'08). SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is web-based via a link available in the main web page. Submissions must be received by April 6, 2008. In addition, a title and abstract must be submitted by March 31, 2008. Submitted papers should be at most 15 pages in the ENTCS style, and should include an abstract and the author's information. See the author's instructions of ENTCS style at http://www.entcs.org. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in a preliminary volume available during the workshop. After the workshop, a final version of the proceedings will be published in the Elsevier series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). INVITED SPEAKERS Hubert Comon Cachan, France Jonathan Millen MITRE, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Daniel Dougherty Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pierpaolo Degano Pisa, Italy Daniel Dougherty Worcester, USA Santiago Escobar Valencia, Spain Maribel Fernandez King's College London, UK Thomas Genet IRISA Rennes, France Joshua Guttman MITRE, USA Catherine Meadows NRL, USA Monica Nesi L'Aquila, Italy Michael Rusinowitch Lorraine, France Ralf Treinen Paris-7, France ******************************************************************** From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Mon Mar 17 03:14:07 2008 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:14:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st. Call for Participation: DisCoTec'08 (Coordination + Dais + Fmoods). Oslo, Norway, 4.-6. June 2008 Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ****************************************************************************** DisCoTec 08 The federated conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques - Fmoods'08 - COORDINATION'08 - DAIS'08 http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/ Oslo, Norway, 4.-6. June 2008 (plus 1 day pre-conference and 1 day post-conference workshops) ****************************************************************************** DisCoTec 2008 (Distributed Computing Techniques) has opened its gate for registration. Early registration lasts until 1. May, 2008. The theme of DisCoTec is technologies supporting modeling, development and maintenance of distributed network-based systems and applications. o Accepted papers: see below or consult the web-site. o important dates: - early registration deadline: 1. May Registration fees: early late regular participant: 3200 NOK 3800 NOK student registration: 2200 NOK 2800 NOK (NOK = Norwegian crowns. 3200NOK corresponds approximately to 400 Euro or 625US$) o for - further registration details - travel information and information about Oslo, - hotel recommendations see the webpage http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/ ============================================================== o Conferences: - Coordination'08: 10th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages - DAIS'08: Eighth IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - FMOODS'08: 10th IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems o Workshops: 4 satellite workshops are scheduled - CAMPUS'08: Workshop on Context-aware Adaptation Mechanisms for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services organizers: Mauro Caporuscio, Romain Rouvoy, and Michael Wagner date: 3.June 2008 - MAI'08: Workshop on Middleware-Application Interaction organizers: Hans P. Reiser, Rudiger Kapitza date: 3.June 2008 - MTCoord'08: Workshop on Methods and Tools for Coordinating Concurrent Distributed and Mobile Systems organizers: Carolyn Talcott, Isabelle Linden date: 7.June 2008 - PLACES'08 Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software organizers: Alistair Beresford, Simon Gay, Kohei Honda, Alan Mycroft, Vasco T. Vasconcelos, Nobuko Yoshida date: 7.June 2008 **************************************************************** o Invited speakers for the joint event: - Matt Welch, Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA Fiji: A Platform for Data-Intensive Sensor Network Applications - Alexander L. Wolf, Imperial College London, UK New Uses of Simulation in Distributed System Engineering - Andrew Myers, Cornell University Guiding distributed systems synthesis with language-based security policies **************************************************************** Accepted papers: o Coordination (http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/Coordination08/Program) ==================================================================== - Timed Soft Concurrent Constraint Programs Francesco Santini, Stefano Bistarelli, Maurizio Gabbrielli and Maria Chiara Meo - How to infer finite session types in a calculus of services and sessions Leonardo Gaetano Mezzina - Advice for Coordination Chris Hankin, Fleming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson and Fan Yang - A formal account of WS-BPEL Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese and Francesco Tiezzi - Implementing Session Centered Calculi with IMC Lorenzo Bettini, Rocco De Nicola and Michele Loreti - Formalizing Higher-order Mobile Embedded Business Processes with Binding Bigraphs Mikkel Bundgaard, Arne Glenstrup, Thomas Hildebrandt, Espen H?jsgaard and Henning Niss - Actors with Multi-Headed Message Receive Patterns Martin Sulzmann, Edmund Lam and Peter Van Weert - A compositional trace semantics for Orc Dimitrios Vardoulakis and Mitchell Wand - Service Combinators for Farming Virtual Machines Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Andy Gordon and Iman Narasamdya - A coordination model for service-oriented interactions Jo?o Abreu and Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro - Encrypted Shared Data Spaces Giovanni Russello, Changyu Dong, Naranker Dulay, Michel Chaudron and Maarten Van Steen - An event-based coordination model for context-aware applications Angel Nu?ez and Jacques Noy? - Session Behaviour Types for Orchestration Charts Alessandro Fantechi and Elie Najm - CiAN: A Workflow Engine for MANETs Rohan Sen, Catalin Roman and Christopher Gill - A Process Calculus for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Anu Singh, C. R. Ramakrishnan and Scott A. Smolka - Multiparty sessions in SOC Roberto Bruni, Ivan Lanese, Hernan Melgratti and Emilio Tuosto - Implementing Joins using Extensible Pattern Matching Philipp Haller and Tom Van Cutsem - Modeling and Analysis of Reo Connectors Using Alloy Ramtin Khosravi, Marjan Sirjani, Nesa Asoudeh, Shaghayegh Sahebi and Hamed Iravanchi Zadeh - Alternating-Time Model Checking for Exogenous Coordination Sascha Klueppelholz and Christel Baier - From Flow Logic to Static Type Systems for Coordination Languages Rocco De Nicola, Daniele Gorla, Rene Rydhof Hansen, Fleming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson, Christian W. Probst and Rosario Pugliese - Formal analysis of BPMN via a translation into COWS Davide Prandi, Paola Quaglia and Nicola Zannone o DAIS: (http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/DAIS08/Program) =================================================== - Virtual Overlays: An Approach to the Management of Competing or Collaborating Overlay Structures Paul Okanda, Sebastian Steinhauer and Gordon Blair - Adaptive and Fault-tolerant Service Composition in Peer-to-Peer Systems Vivian Prinz, Florian Fuchs, Peter Ruppel, Christoph Gerdes and Alan Southall - Implementing data distribution variant with a metamodel, some models and a transformation Eveline Kabor? and Antoine Beugnard - Tree-based Analysis of Mesh Overlays for Peer-to-Peer Streaming Bartosz Biskupski, Marc Schiely, Pascal Felber and Ren? Meier - Towards Middleware for Fault-tolerance in Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Aniruddha Gokhale, Douglas Schmidt and Nanbor Wang - Decentralised QoS-Management in Service-oriented Architectures Markus Schmid and Reinhold Kr?ger - An Model Driven Approach for Developing Adaptive Software Systems Thomas Hamann, Gerald H?bsch and Thomas Springer - Describing component collaboration using goal sequences Cyril Carrez, Jacqueline Floch and Richard Sanders - Cost Efficient Deployment of Collaborating Components Mate J. Csorba, Poul E. Heegard and Peter Herrmann - iSOAMM: An independent SOA Maturity Model Christoph Rathfelder and Henning Groenda - Model-based Performance Instrumentation of Distributed Applications Jan Schaefer, Jeanne Stynes and Reinhold Kr?ger - AWSM: Adaptive Web Service Migration Holger Schmidt, R?diger Kapitza, Hans P. Reiser and Franz J. Hauck - Using Object Replication for Building a Dependable Version Control System R?diger Kapitza, Peter Baumann and Hans P. Reiser - STUNT enhanced Java RMI Oliver Haase, Wolfgang Reiser and J?rgen W?sch - Recovery Mechanisms for Semantic Web Services Kevin Wiesner, Roman Vacul?n, Martin Kollingbaum and Katia Sycara - Dynamic Adaptability for Smart Environments Daniel Retkowitz and Mark Stegelmann - Facilitating Gossip Programming with the GossipKit Framework Shen Lin, Francois Taiani and Gordon Blair - Brokering planning metadata in a P2P environment Johannes Oudenstad, Romain Rouvoy, Frank Eliassen and Eli Gj?rven - A Comprehensive Context Modeling Framework for Pervasive Computing Systems Michael Wagner, Roland Reichle, Mohammad Ullah Khan, Kurt Geihs, Jorge Lorenzo, Massimo Valla, Cristina Fra, Nearchos Paspallis and George Papadopoulos - Managing Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming Applications Raymond Cunningham, Bartosz Biskupski and Ren? Meier - Towards More Business-Oriented and Durable Planning of Composite Services Based on Quality of Services Koramit Pichanaharee and Twittie Senivongse - A Multi-Stage Approach For Reliable Dynamic Reconfigurations of Component-Based Systems Pierre-Charles David, Marc L?ger, Herv? Grall, Thomas Ledoux and Thierry Coupaye - Facilitating Complex Web Service Interactions Through a Tuplespace Binding Daniel Wutke and Daniel Martin - Rapid Prototyping of Routing Protocols with Evolving Tuples Drew Stovall and Christine Julien - MobiSoft: Networked Personal Assistants for Mobile Users in Everyday Life Christian Erfurth, Steffen Kern, Wilhelm Rossak, Peter Braun and Antje Le?mann o Fmoods (http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/FMOODS08/Program) ========================================================= - A Minimal Set of Refactoring Rules for Object-Z Tim McComb and Graeme Smith - Termination Analysis of Java Bytecode Elvira Albert, Puri Arenas, Michael Codish, Samir Genaim, German Puebla and Damiano Zanardini - Redesign of the LMST Wireless Sensor Protocol through Formal Modeling and Statistical Model Checking Michael Katelman, Jose Meseguer and Jennifer Hou - Sessions and Pipelines for Structured Service Programming Michele Boreale, Roberto Bruni, Rocco De Nicola and Michele Loreti - Mechanising a correctness proof for a lock-free concurrent stack John Derrick, Gerhard Schellhorn and Heike Wehrheim - Modular Preservation of Safety Properties by Cookie-Based DoS-Protection Wrappers Rohit Chadha, Carl Gunter, Jose Meseguer, Ravinder Shankesi and Mahesh Viswanathan - Behavioural theory at work: program transformations in a service-centred calculus Lu?s Cruz Filipe, Ivan Lanese, Francisco Martins, Antonio Ravara and Vasco T. Vasconcelos - Semantic foundations and inference of non-null annotations Laurent Hubert, Thomas Jensen and David Pichardie - Symbolic Step Encodings for Object Based Communicating State Machines Jori Dubrovin, Tommi Junttila and Keijo Heljanko - CoBoxes: Unifying Active Objects and Structured Heaps Jan Sch?fer and Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter - A Caller-Side Inline Reference Monitor for an Object-Oriented Intermediate Language Dries Vanoverberghe and Frank Piessens - Formal Modeling of a Generic Middleware to Ensure Invariant Properties Xavier Renault, J?r?me Hugues and Fabrice Kordon - VeriCool: An Automatic Verifier for a Concurrent Object-Oriented Language Jan Smans, Bart Jacobs and Frank Piessens - Modelling and Model Checking Software Product Lines Alexander Gruler, Martin Leucker and Kathrin Scheidemann From lc08 at iam.unibe.ch Tue Mar 18 06:56:59 2008 From: lc08 at iam.unibe.ch (Logic Colloquium 2008) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:56:59 +0100 (MET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] LC08: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION Message-ID: The local organizing committee of LC08 would welcome your circulating this announcement. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION *** Extended Deadline for submitting abstracts: April 18, 2008 *** LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2008 Bern, Switzerland 3-8 July 2008 http://www.lc08.iam.unibe.ch/ Tutorials: Michael Rathjen (University of Leeds) Stevo Todorcevic (University of Toronto) Anand Pillay (University of Leeds) Plenary speakers: Miklos Ajtai (IBM Almaden Research Center) Akihiro Kanamori (Bosten University) Roman Kossak (City University of New York) Hannes Leitgeb (University of Bristol) Amador Martin-Pizarro (University of Lyon) Joseph S. Miller (University of Connecticut) Jaap van Oosten (University of Utrecht) Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley) Stephen G. Simpson (Pennsylvania State University) Lajos Soukup (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Thomas Strahm (University of Bern) Matteo Viale (University of Paris 7) Special sessions: Model theory: Martin Hils, Gareth Jones, Moshe Kamensky, Krzysztof Krupinski Logic and computer science: Mariangola Dezani, Kazushige Terui, Yde Venema, Ting Zhang Set theory: Andres Caicedo, Tamas Matrai, Katherine Thomson, Todor Tsankov Computability and arithmetic: Barbara F. Csima, Antonin Kucera, Shahram Mohsenipour, Neil Thapen Program committee: Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) Jacques Duparc (Lausanne) Mirna Dzamonja (East Anglia) Ali Enayat (Washington DC) Gerhard Jaeger (Bern) Piotr Kowalski (Wroclaw) Jan Krajicek (Prague) Dave Marker (Chicago) Andre Nies (Auckland) Simon Thomas (Rutgers) William Tait (Chicago) Boban Velickovic (Paris) Albert Visser (Utrecht) Alex Wilkie (Manchester, chair) Local organizing committee: Luca Alberucci, Kai Bruennler, Bettina Choffat, Gerhard Jaeger (chair), Juerg Kraehenbuehl, Richard McKinley, Dieter Probst, Juerg Schmid, Daria Spescha, Thomas Strahm, Thomas Studer IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts: April 18, 2008 Extended early registration: May 15, 2008 Accomodation (special rates): April 30, 2008 Immediately following the Logic Colloquium 08, there will be a workshop on recent trends in proof theory, taking place in Bern on July 9-11. The website of the workshop will be available soon: http://wpt08.iam.unibe.ch From dallago at cs.unibo.it Tue Mar 18 11:18:12 2008 From: dallago at cs.unibo.it (Ugo Dal Lago) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:18:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2008 - Last CfP - Deadline is March 28th Message-ID: <47DFDD34.4090705@cs.unibo.it> --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Computer Science Logic 2008 CSL 2008 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic Bertinoro (Bologna), Italy 15 - 20 September 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: March 28, 2008 Paper submission: April 7, 2008 Author notification: May 19, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://csl2008.cs.unibo.it --------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). The conference is intended for computer scientists whose research activities involve logic, as well as for logicians working on issues significant for computer science. Topics of interest include: automated deduction and interactive theorem proving, constructive mathematics and type theory, equational logic and term rewriting, automata and games, modal and temporal logics, model checking, logical aspects of computational complexity, finite model theory, computational proof theory, logic programming and constraints, lambda calculus and combinatory logic, categorical logic and topological semantics, domain theory, database theory, specification, extraction and transformation of programs, logical foundations of programming paradigms, verification and program analysis, linear logic, higher-order logic, nonmonotonic reasoning. Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series. Each paper accepted by the Programme Committee must be presented at the conference by one of the authors, and final copy be prepared according to Springer's guidelines. Submitted papers must be in Springer's LNCS style and of no more than 15 pages, presenting work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Any closely related work submitted by the authors to a conference or journal before March 28, 2008 must be reported to the PC chairs. Papers authored or coauthored by members of the Programme Committee are not allowed. Submitted papers must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which will be read at the reviewer's discretion. The title page must contain: title and author(s), physical and e-mail addresses, identification of the corresponding author, an abstract of no more than, 200 words, and a list of keywords. ACKERMANN AWARD: The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. The Ackermann Award 2008 will be presented to the recipients at CSL2008. Deadline for nominations is March 15, 2008. Details at: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~eacsl/submissionsAck.html For the three years 2007-2009, the Award is sponsored by Logitech, S.A., Romanel, Switzerland, the world's leading provider of personal peripherals. INVITED SPEAKERS: Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Pierre Louis Curien, PPS, Paris Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH, Aachen PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Michael Kaminski (co-chair), Technion, Haifa Simone Martini (co-chair), Universit? di Bologna Zena Ariola, University of Oregon, Eugene Patrick Baillot, CNRS and Universit? Paris 13 Patrick Cegielski, Universit? Paris 12 Gilles Dowek, ?cole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Amy Felty, University of Ottawa Marcelo Fiore, University of Cambridge Alan Jeffrey, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh Zoran Majkic, University of Beograd Dale Miller, INRIA-Futurs, Palaiseau Luke Ong, University of Oxford David Pym, HP Labs, Bristol and University of Bath Alexander Rabinovich, Tel Aviv University Antonino Salibra, Universit? Ca' Foscari, Venezia Thomas Schwentick, Universit?t Dortmund Valentin Shehtman, Moscow University and King's College London Alex Simpson, University of Edinburgh Gert Smolka, Universit?t des Saarlandes, Saarbr?cken Kazushige Terui, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo Thomas Wilke, Universit?t Kiel ORGANIZATION: Ugo Dal Lago, Universit? di Bologna Simone Martini, Universit? di Bologna --------------------------------------------------------------------- From rupak at CS.UCLA.EDU Wed Mar 19 11:37:49 2008 From: rupak at CS.UCLA.EDU (Rupak Majumdar) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPIN 2008: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: The paper submission deadline is April 2, 2008. The CfP below contains information about invited talks at SPIN. --- ******************************************************* Final Call for Papers: SPIN 2008 15th Int. SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software August 10-12, 2008 University of California Los Angeles, USA http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/spin08 ******************************************************* Aim and Scope: The SPIN workshop is a forum for practitioners and researchers interested in state space-based techniques for the validation and analysis of software systems. Theoretical techniques and empirical evaluations based on explicit representations of state spaces, as implemented in the SPIN model checker or other tools, or techniques based on combination of explicit representations with other representations, are the focus of this workshop. We particularly welcome papers describing the development and application of state space exploration techniques in testing and verifying security-critical software, enterprise and web applications, embedded software, and other interesting software platforms. The workshop aims to encourage interactions and exchanges of ideas with all related areas in software engineering. Invited speakers: - Matthew Dwyer (Nebraska): Residual Checking of Safety Properties: prove what you can and monitor the leftovers - Daniel Jackson (MIT): Patterns of Software Modelling: From Classic To Funky - Shaz Qadeer (Microsoft Research): Context-bounded verification of concurrent software - Wolfram Schulte (Microsoft Research): Using dynamic symbolic execution to improve deductive verification - Yannis Smaragdakis (Oregon): Combining Static and Dynamic Reasoning for the Discovery of Program Properties Important Dates and Deadlines: Deadline for submission of full papers: April 2, 2008 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 10, 2008. Deadline for final version of accepted papers: May 28, 2008. Workshop: August 10-12, 2008. Topics of Interest: - Algorithms and storage methods for explicit state model checking - Directed model checking using heuristics - Parallel or distributed model checking using multi-core or multiple computers - Techniques for dealing with infinite state spaces - Model checking of timed and probabilistic systems - Abstraction and the use of static analysis to reduce state spaces - Combinations of enumerative and symbolic techniques - Analysis for modeling languages, including SE languages (UML,...) - New property specification languages, including new forms of temporal logic - Model checking of programming languages and code analysis - Automated testing using model checking techniques - Derivation of invariants, test cases, or other useful information from state spaces - Combination of model-checking techniques with other analysis techniques - Modularity and compositionality - Comparative studies, including to other model checking techniques - Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results - Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of model-checking based analysis - Engineering and implementation of model-checking tools and platforms - Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to SPIN workshops Solicited Contributions: With the exception of survey and history papers, the papers should contain original work which has not been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS format. We solicit two kinds of papers: 1. Technical Papers. No longer than 18 pages in LNCS format. All accepted technical papers will be included in the proceedings. 2. Tool Presentations. This kind of submissions should consist of two parts. The first part is at most 5 page description of the tool. If accepted, this part will be published in the workshop proceedings. The second part should describe an informal plan for an oral presentation of the tool. This part will not be included in the proceedings. The proceedings of SPIN usually appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. We expect to continue this tradition for the 2008 edition. Organization: General Chair: Jens Palsberg (UC Los Angeles, USA) Programme Chairs: Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL/Caltech., USA) Rupak Majumdar (UC Los Angeles, USA) Programme Committee: Christel Baier (Bonn, Germany) Dragan Bosnacki (Eindhoven, Netherlands) Lubos Brim (Brno, Czech) Stefan Edelkamp (Dortmund, Germany) Dawson Engler (Stanford, USA) Kousha Etessami (Edinburgh, UK) Susanne Graf (Verimag, France) John Hatcliff (Kansas State Univ., USA) Gerard Holzmann (NASA JPL, USA) Franjo Ivancic (NEC, USA) Sarfraz Khurshid (UT Austin, USA) Kim Larsen (Aalborg, Denmark) Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft, USA) Joel Ouaknine (Oxford, UK) Corina Pasareanu (NASA Ames, USA) Doron Peled (Warwick, UK) Paul Pettersson (Malardalen, Sweden) Koushik Sen (Berkeley, USA) Natasha Sharygina (Lugano, Switzerland) Eran Yahav (IBM, USA) From lbauer at cmu.edu Thu Mar 20 10:16:47 2008 From: lbauer at cmu.edu (Lujo Bauer) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:16:47 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <47E271CF.7080406@cmu.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS =============== FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08 Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security, Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, and Issues in the Theory of Security http://profs.sci.univr.it/~vigano/fcs-arspa-wits08/ June 21-22, 2008 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Affiliated with LICS 2008 and CSF 21 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers due: March 30 Notification: May 16 Final papers: June 01 SCOPE ===== The aim of the joint workshop FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08 is to provide a forum for continued activity in different areas of computer security, bringing computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community and giving LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security, on the one hand, and contribute to bridging the gap between logical methods and computer security foundations, on the other. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques, Composition issues, Formal specification, Foundations of verification, Information flow analysis, Language-based security, Logic-based design, Program transformation, Security models, Static analysis, Statistical methods, Tools, Trust management for Access and resource usage control, Authentication, Availability and denial of service, Covert channels, Confidentiality, Integrity and privacy, Intrusion detection, Malicious code, Mobile code, Mutual distrust, Privacy, Security policies, Security protocols WITS is the official annual workshop organised by the IFIP WG 1.7 on "Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design", established to promote the investigation on the theoretical foundations of security, discovering and promoting new areas of application of theoretical techniques in computer security and supporting the systematic use of formal techniques in the development of security related applications. This is the eighth meeting in the series. The workshop FCS continues a tradition, initiated with the Workshops on Formal Methods and Security Protocols (FMSP) in 1998 and 1999, then with the Workshop on Formal Methods and Computer Security (FMCS) in 2000, and finally with the LICS satellite Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) in 2002 through 2005, of bringing together formal methods and the security community. ARSPA is a series of workshops on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both the security and the formal methods communities, from academia and industry, who are working on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. The first two ARSPA workshops were held as satellite events of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR'04) and of the 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'05), respectively. FCS and ARSPA have been joining forces since 2006: FCS-ARSPA'06 was affiliated with LICS'06, in the context of FLoC'06, and FCS-ARSPA'07 was affiliated with LICS'07 and ICALP'07. SUBMISSION ========== All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Submissions should be at most 15 pages (a4paper, 11pt), including references. The cover page should include title, names of authors, co-ordinates of the corresponding author, an abstract, and a list of keywords. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps); please, do not send files formatted for work processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or Wordperfect files). Submission instructions will be published shortly on the workshop's webpage. PUBLICATION =========== Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. Moreover, workshop participants will be invited to submit full versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning, which will be open also to non-participants, in all cases with fresh reviewing. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Alessandro Aldini (Universita` di Urbino, Italy) Alessandro Armando (Universita` di Genova, Italy) Michael Backes (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany) Lujo Bauer (CMU, USA; co-chair) Veronique Cortier (LORIA INRIA-Lorraine, France) Cas Cremers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy) Sandro Etalle (T. University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands; co-chair) Riccardo Focardi (Universita` di Venezia, Italy) Dieter Gollman (Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany) Jerry den Hartog (T. University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands; co-chair) Jan Juerjens (The Open University, UK) Ralf Kuesters (Universitaet Trier, Germany) Gavin Lowe (Oxford University, UK) Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Sebastian Moedersheim (IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland) Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK) Luca Vigano` (Universita` di Verona, Italy; co-chair) Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA) From Bob.Coecke at comlab.ox.ac.uk Thu Mar 20 12:20:49 2008 From: Bob.Coecke at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Bob Coecke) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:20:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Submission deadline March 31 for QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC & DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 12-13, 2008 Message-ID: ANNOUNCEMENT/CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: --------------------------------------- Joint International Workshop on: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL'08) DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM'08) July 12-13, 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland. http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/bob.coecke/DCM_QPL_08.html --------------------------------------- Programme Committee: Howard Barnum (Los Alamos) Dan Browne (University College London) Bob Coecke (Oxford) Program Co-Chair Vincent Danos (Edinburgh) Andreas Doering (Imperial College London) Viv Kendon (Leeds) Annick Lesne (IHS Paris) Ian Mackie (LIX Paris) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Program Co-Chair Jon Yard (Los Alamos) Invited speakers: Terry Rudolph (Imperial College London) Andreas Winter (Bristol) --------------------------------------- This ICALP 2008 affiliated joint event combines two (established) workshop series: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL'08): This event has as its goal to bring together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum computing and the use of logical tools, new structures, formal languages, semantical methods and other computer science methods for the study quantum behaviour in general. Over the past couple of years there has been a growing activity in these foundational approaches together with a renewed interest in the foundations of quantum theory, which complement the more mainstream research in quantum computation. A predecessor of this event, with the same acronym, called Quantum Programming Languages, was held in Ottawa (2003), Turku (2004), Chicago (2005) and Oxford (2006); with the change of name and a new program committee we wish to emphasise the intended much broader scope of this event, aiming to nourish interaction between modern computer science logic, quantum computation and information, and structural foundations for quantum physics. DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM'08): Besides quantum computing, several new models of computation have emerged in the last few years, and many developments of traditional computational models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of computer systems users and the new capabilities of computation engines. A new computational model, or a new feature in a traditional one, usually is reflected in new structural paradigms. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. Previous editions in 2005, 2006 and 2007 were also affiliated to ICALP. Dates: - Submission deadline: March 31 - Acceptance/rejection notification: April 21 - Pre-proceedings versions due: June 15 - Workshop: July 12-13 2007 Submission format: Prospective speakers are invited to submit a 2-5 pages abstract which provides sufficient evidence of results of genuine interest and provides sufficient detail to allows the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submissions of works in progress are encouraged but must be more substantial than a research proposal. We both encourage submissions of original research as well as research submitted elsewhere. Authors of accepted original research contributions will be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of a journal yet to be decided on. Submissions should be in Postscript or PDF format and should be sent to Bob Coecke by March 31. Receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged by return email. Accepted contributors will be able to publish extended versions of their abstracts in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. The workshop enjoys support from: EPSRC Network Semantics of Quantum Computation (EP/E006833/1) EPSRC ARF The Structure of Quantum Information and its Applications to IT (EP/D072786/1) From areces at pluton.loria.fr Fri Mar 21 10:22:26 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:22:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2008 call for submissions Message-ID: <200803211422.m2LEMQW8011534@pluton.loria.fr> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2008 call for submissions ======================================================== Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2007. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Inter-disciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2007 and December 31st, 2007. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2007 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2008). Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in other language than English and defended in 2006 and 2007 will be accepted for consideration this year, too. Prize ~~~~~ The prize consists of: * a certificate * a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. * an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series is available on the FoLLI site) How to submit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to bethaward2008 at gmail.com. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days after submission, nominators should write to goranko at maths.wits.ac.za or policriti at dimi.uniud.it. Important dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deadline for Submissions: April 30th, 2008. Notification of Decision: July 15th, 2008. Committee : * Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7) * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alexander Koller (University of Edinburgh) * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) * Alberto Policriti (Università di Udine) * Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) * Colin Stirling (University of Edinburgh) From venanzio at cs.ru.nl Sat Mar 22 07:03:06 2008 From: venanzio at cs.ru.nl (Venanzio Capretta) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:03:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MSFP second call for papers Message-ID: <47E4E76A.9040609@cs.ru.nl> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS This is a reminder that the deadline for submission to MSFP is approaching. Second Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 6 July 2008, Reykjavik - Iceland A satellite workshop of ICALP 2008 PRESENTATION The workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Monadic programming in Haskell is the paradigmatic example, but there are many more mathematical insights manifest in programs and in programming language design: Freyd-categories in reactive programming, symbolic differentiation yielding context structures, and comonadic presentations of dataflow, to name but three. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control. The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006. An associated special issue of the Journal of Functional Programming is in preparation. INVITED SPEAKERS Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana Dan Piponi, Industrial Light and Magic SUBMISSIONS Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science have provisionally agreed to publish the proceedings of MSFP 2008. ENTCS require submissions in LaTeX, formatted according to their guidelines (http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html). Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Programme Committee members, barring the co-chairs, may (and indeed are encouraged to) contribute. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. There is no specific page limit, but authors should strive for brevity. We are using the EasyChair software to manage submissions. To submit a paper, please log in at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2008. TIMELINE: Submission of abstracts: 4 April Submission of papers: 11 April Notification: 16 May Final versions due: 13 June Workshop: 6 July For more information about the workshop, go to: http://msfp.org.uk/ Programme Committee * Yves Bertot, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France * Venanzio Capretta (co-chair), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands * Jacques Carette, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada * Thierry Coquand, Chalmers University, G?teborg, Sweden * Andrzej Filinski, DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jean-Christophe Filli?tre, LRI, Universit? Paris Sud, France * Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford University, England * Andy Gill, Galois Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA * Peter Hancock, University of Nottingham, England * Oleg Kiselyov, FNMOC, Monterey, California, USA * Paul Blain Levy, University of Birmingham, England * Andres L?h, Utrecht University, The Netherlands * Marino Miculan, Universit? di Udine, Italy * Conor McBride (co-chair), Alta Systems, Northern Ireland * James McKinna, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands * Alex Simpson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland * Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia From concur08 at cs.toronto.edu Sun Mar 23 17:26:40 2008 From: concur08 at cs.toronto.edu (CONCUR 08) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:26:40 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CONCUR 08: second call for papers Message-ID: <200803232126.m2NLQebt014430@indigo.cse.yorku.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 08) Toronto, Canada, August 19-22, 2008 >> http://www.cse.yorku.ca/concur08 << Submission deadline: April 11, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- CONCUR 08, the 19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, will take place in Toronto, Canada, on August 19-22, 2008. 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 (in a broad sense). CONCUR 08 will be collocated with the 27th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2008). The program of CONCUR and PODC includes invited talks by Tevfik Bultan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Peter Druschel, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbruecken, Germany Joseph Halpern, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Furthermore, there will be a symposium celebrating the contributions of Nancy Lynch and the following nine workshops: Workshop on Approximate Behavioural Equivalences; Workshop on Concurrency in Enterprise Applications; Workshop on Distributed computing, Concurrency theory, and Verification; 15th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency; International Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing Workshop on Formal Methods for Wireless Systems; 10th International Workshop on Verification of Infinite-State Systems; 6th International Workshop on Security Issues in Concurrency; Young Researchers Workshop The overall event will take place at the University of Toronto on August 18-23, 2008. CONCUR 08 welcomes two categories of papers: - regular papers; - tool papers. Submissions are solicited in all areas of semantics, logics, verification and analysis of concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - basic models of concurrency (such as abstract machines, domain theoretic models, game theoretic models, process algebras, and Petri nets); - logics for concurrency (such as modal logics, temporal logics and resource logics); - models of specialized systems (such as biology-inspired systems, circuits, hybrid systems, mobile systems, multi-core processors, probabilistic systems, real time systems, synchronous systems, and web services); - verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems (such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model-checking, race detection, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving and type systems); - related programming models (such as distributed or object-oriented). Submissions will be evaluated by the program committee for inclusion in the proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must be in English and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS guidelines. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Both regular and tool papers will be presented at the conference, and so at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to be present at the conference. The link for submissions is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CONCUR08 Regular papers -------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract. Regular papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate reference to and comparison with related work. Authors are encouraged to submit a paper title and a short abstract before submitting the extended abstract. The short abstract should not exceed 200 words, and it should be entered in ASCII at the link given below. The extended abstract should not exceed 15 pages. If necessary, the extended abstract may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Tool papers ----------- Tool papers should present novel tools based on aforementioned technologies (such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model-checking, race detection, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving and type systems) or fall into the above application areas (such as biology-inspired systems, circuits, hybrid systems, mobile systems, multi-core processors,probabilistic systems, real time systems, synchronous systems, and web services) and have an explicit emphasis on handling of concurrency. If previous versions of the tool have already been presented at meetings or published in some form, the enhancements and novel features of the tool should be clearly described. A tool paper should not exceed 4 pages and should have an appendix that provides a detailed description of: - how the oral presentation will be conducted (for example illustrated by a number of snapshots) and - the availability of the tool, the number and types of users, and other information which may illustrate the maturity and robustness of the tool (if applicable, a link to a web-page for the tool). The appendix will not be included in the proceedings, but during the evaluation of the tool papers it will be equally important as the pages submitted for publication in the proceedings. Important dates --------------- Abstract Submission: April 4, 2008 Paper Submission: April 11, 2008 (strict) Notification: May 27, 2008 Final version due: June 17, 2008 Program committee ----------------- Luca de Alfaro, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Pedro R. D'Argenio, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Jos Baeten, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Christel Baier, Technical University Dresden, Germany Eike Best, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany Dirk Beyer, Simon Fraser University, Canada Patricia Bouyer, LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, France Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy Franck van Breugel (co-chair), York University, Canada Ilaria Castellani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Marsha Chechik (co-chair), University of Toronto, Canada Wan Fokkink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/CWI, the Netherlands Rob van Glabbeek, National ICT Australia Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Anna Ingolfsdottir, Reykjavik University, Iceland Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, USA Barbara Koenig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Nancy Lynch, MIT, USA P. Madhusudan, UIUC, USA Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, Italy Anca Muscholl, Universite Bordeaux, France Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA Futurs and LIX, France Corina Pasareanu, Perot Systems/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Scott Smolka, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK Steering Committee ------------------ Roberto Amadio, Universite Paris Diderot, France Jos Baeten, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Eike Best, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, Italy Scott Smolka, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Sponsors -------- IBM; Microsoft; SAP; Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University. From Ian.Stark at ed.ac.uk Mon Mar 24 13:01:50 2008 From: Ian.Stark at ed.ac.uk (Ian Stark) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:01:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Proof-Carrying Code workshop PCC 2008 Message-ID: PCC 2008: Second International Workshop on Proof-Carrying Code Carnegie Mellon University, 22 June 2008 http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/pcc08 CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions: 25 April 2008 PCC 2008 is a LICS and CSF affiliated workshop on Proof-Carrying Code. Proof-carrying code is an important and distinctive approach to enhancing trust in programs. It provides a practical framework for independent assurance of program behaviour; especially where source code is not available, or the code author and user are unknown to each other. The workshop will address theoretical foundations of proof-carrying code as well as practical examples and work on alternative application domains. Here "proof" is construed broadly, to include not just mathematical derivations but any formal evidence that supports the static analysis of programs. That is, evidence about an intrinsic property of code and its behaviour that can be independently checked by any user, intermediary, or third party. These manifest guarantees mean that PCC raises trust in the code itself, distinct from and complementary to any existing trust in the creator of the code, the process used to produce it, or its distributor. Topics include: * PCC addressing properties of safety, security, and correctness such as: Memory safety, information flow, declassification, resource management, access control, protocol enforcement, functional correctness. * Examples of PCC in application domains, including but not limited to: Mobile code, mobile devices, operating systems, grid computing, peer-to-peer computing, active networks, embedded systems, cloud computing, databases, e-Science. * Probabilistically-checkable proofs, zero-knowledge proofs, proof-on-demand. * Trust and policy frameworks; supporting modular and extensible systems; compositionality in code and proofs. * Certifying compilation, proof-transforming compilation, certified verifiers. * Logics and notions of certificate specific to proof-carrying frameworks. PCC 2008 follows on from the successful 2006 workshop in Seattle http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~abc/PCC-Workshop.html INVITED SPEAKERS * Thomas Jensen, IRISA Rennes / CNRS * Zhong Shao, Yale University IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: 18 April 2008 * Paper submission: 25 April 2008 * Author notification: 23 May 2008 * Final versions: 7 June 2008 * Workshop: 22 June 2008 SUBMISSIONS Papers should be in the form of a PDF file using the ENTCS style (http://www.entcs.org) and must not exceed 15 pages. Submission is via the EasyChair system. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcc08 All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee. There will be an informal proceedings distributed at the workshop, with final proceedings to appear as a volume of ENTCS. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh (co-chair) * Gilles Barthe, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis / IMDEA Software, Madrid * Nick Benton, Microsoft Research Cambridge * Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology * Karl Crary, Carnegie Mellon University * Ewen Denney, NASA Ames * Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, LMU Munich * George Necula, UC Berkeley / Rinera Networks * Ian Stark, University of Edinburgh (co-chair) * Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania ORGANISERS David Aspinall and Ian Stark School of Informatics The University of Edinburgh Contact email: pcc08 at easychair.org AFFILIATION LICS 2008: Twenty-Third Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics08/ CSF: 21st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/CSF2008/ Mobius: Mobility, Ubiquity, Security Enabling proof-carrying code for Java on mobile devices http://mobius.inria.fr European integrated project IST-015905 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336 From f.rabe at iu-bremen.de Mon Mar 24 21:57:30 2008 From: f.rabe at iu-bremen.de (Florian Rabe) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:57:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: ESHOL workshop at IJCAR 2008 Message-ID: <9236BD17E38291276EFBA233@[192.168.178.20]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers: ESHOL'08 The workshop *Evaluation of Systems for Higher Order Logic* will be held as part of the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR'08) in Sydney, Australia. Workshop website: http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/ESHOL/ Workshop dates: 10/11 August 2008 Subsmission deadline: 19 May 2008 (abstract) / 26 May 2008 (full paper) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop brings together practitioners and researchers who are involved in the development of reasoning systems based on higher-order logic. The workshop will stimulate and foster the build-up of an infrastructure that supports research, development, and deployment of higher-order reasoning systems. A particular focus is on means to evaluate higher-order reasoning systems. Advances in these aspects of reasoning in higher-order logic will make higher-order reasoning system easier to use in applications, e.g., hardware and software verification, knowledge based reasoning, and computer aided mathematics. The workshop's notion of higher-order includes, but is not limited to, ramified type theory, simple type theory, intuitionistic and constructive type theory, and logical frameworks. The workshop's notion of reasoning systems includes automated and semi-automated provers, model generators, as well as proof and model checkers. The workshop will have three parts: *Evaluation of Higher-Order Reasoning Systems* o Frameworks and tools for evaluation o Collections of test problems o Problem representation languages o Evaluation of automated higher-order reasoning systems, in particular, higher-order theorem provers o Evaluation of interactive higher-order reasoning systems o Evaluation of systems working for different higher-order logics and varying semantics *Descriptions of Successful Higher-Order Reasoning Systems* o Logical frameworks o Higher-order automated theorem provers o Interactive proof assistants supporting the partial automation of higher-order logic o Higher-order model checkers and higher-order model generators o Systems that automate natural fragments of higher-order logic, such as monadic second-order logic Due to the evaluative character of the workshop, descriptions of both existing and novel systems are welcomed. Descriptions of existing systems should stress successful applications and evaluations. *System Demonstration and System Competition* The systems described in the second part will be demonstrated. Moreover, a first competition "happening" for automated theorem provers for simple type theory is planned. This competition will be similar to the CASC competition for first-order reasoning systems. It will exploit and test the TPTP problem representation language for simple type theory, which was recently developed by the organizers. We envision attendees that are interested in fostering the development and visibility of reasoning systems for higher-order logics, and the connection between research on the various flavors of higher-order logic. We are particularly interested in comparisons of the practical strengths of higher- order reasoning systems and in a discusssion on the development of a higher- order version of the TPTP. Due to the intricate nature of higher-order logic, we are also interested in a discussion on what practical strength means in the context of higher-order logic and how it can be measured. *Program Committee* Peter Andrews Andrea Asperti Michael Beeson Christoph Benzmuller (Co-Chair) Chad Brown Gilles Dowek Viktor Kuncak Dale Miller Michael Norrish Larry Paulson Florian Rabe (Co-Chair) Sandip Ray Carsten Schurmann (Co-Chair) Natarajan Shankar Geoff Sutcliffe (Co-Chair) Josef Urban *Submission* Submission of papers for presentation at the workshop, and proposals for system and application demonstrations at the workshop, are now invited. Submissions will be reviewed, and a balanced program of high-quality contributions will be selected. There is a 20 page limit. Long listings of problems or computer output should be relegated to a referenced WWW site. Submission is via EasyChair (thanks to Andrei Voronkov). The selected contributions will be printed as workshop proceedings, and will also be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings . *Journal Publication* The Journal of Applied Logic has agreed to a special issue around the topic of the ESHOL workshop, provided there are sufficiently many strong submissions. The special issue will target ESHOL participants, but will also also accept submissions from the broader community. *Important dates* * Abstract submission deadline - 19th May * Submission deadline - 26rd May * Papers distributed to PC - 30th May * Reviews due in from PC - 23rd June * Notification of acceptance - 27th June * Final versions due - 14th July * Workshop - 10-11th August ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From demis at dimi.uniud.it Tue Mar 25 04:23:52 2008 From: demis at dimi.uniud.it (demis@dimi.uniud.it) Date: 25 Mar 08 09:23:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CFP: 4th Int'l Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV'08) Message-ID: <20080325082355.3DB51C884F7@smtp.uniud.it> *********************************************************************** 1st Call For Papers 4th International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV'08) Siena, Italy, July 4, 2008 http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ co-located with WFLP'08 http://wflp08.dimi.uniud.it/ *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission April 20, 2008 Full Paper Submission April 27, 2008 Acceptance Notification May 27, 2008 Camera Ready June 11, 2008 Workshop July 4, 2008 SCOPE The increased complexity of Web sites and the explosive growth of Web-based applications has turned their design and construction into a challenging problem. Nowadays, many companies have diverted their Web sites into interactive, completely-automated, Web-based applications (such as Amazon, on-line banking, or travel agencies) with a high complexity that requires appropriate specification and verification techniques and tools. Systematic, formal approaches to the analysis and verification can address the problems of this particular domain with automated and reliable tools that also incorporate semantic aspects. We solicit original papers on formal methods and techniques applied to Web sites, Web services or Web-based applications, such as: * rule-based approaches to Web site analysis, certification, specification, verification, and optimization * formal models for describing and reasoning about Web sites * model-checking, synthesis and debugging of Web sites * abstract interpretation and program transformation applied to the semantic Web * intelligent tutoring and advisory systems for Web specifications authoring * Web quality and Web metrics * Web usability and accessibility * Testing and evaluation of Web systems and applications The WWV series provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Rule-based programming, Automated Software Engineering, and Web-oriented research to facilitate the cross-fertilization and the advancement of hybrid methods that combine the three areas. The previous WWV editions were: WWV'07 (Venice, Italy), WWV'06 (Paphos, Cyprus), and WWV'05 (Valencia, Spain). LOCATION WWV'08 will be held in July in the convention centre of the University of Siena, Italy: http://www.unisi.it/santachiara/ The workshop will be co-located with WFLP'08: http://wflp08.dimi.uniud.it/ WORKSHOP VENUE Siena is one of the nicest city in Italy. The historical centre is situated on top of a hill and is made of beautiful medieval buildings and churches, all surrounded by ancient walls. The countryside of Siena is worldwide famous for its beauty. The Palio of Siena is probably the most famous historical fair in Italy. The most important event of it is a horse race of medieval origins, which is held in the afternoon of July 2nd in 'Piazza del Campo' in the centre of Siena. For more information, please visit http://www.comune.siena.it/ SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submissions must be received by April 27, 2008. In addition, an ASCII version of the title and abstract must have been submitted by April 20, 2008. Submitted papers should be at most 15 pages in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) style, and should include an abstract and the author's information. See the author's instructions of ENTCS style at http://www.entcs.org. Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission site http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wwv08 PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in a preliminary proceedings volume, which will be available during the workshop. After the workshop, the final proceedings are going to be published in the Elsevier series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain WORKSHOP CHAIR Michele Baggi University of Siena, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Technical University of Valencia, Spain Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Gilles Barthe INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Wlodzimierz Drabent IDA, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden IPI PAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy Mario Florido University of Porto, Portugal Thomas A. Henzinger EPFL, Switzerland Maria Jose Hidalgo University of Sevilla, Spain Temur Kutsia RISC, Linz, Austria Massimo Marchiori University of Padova, Italy Catherine Meadows Naval Research Laboratory, USA Antonio Vallecillo University of Malaga, Spain From demis at dimi.uniud.it Tue Mar 25 05:14:45 2008 From: demis at dimi.uniud.it (demis@dimi.uniud.it) Date: 25 Mar 08 10:14:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CFP: 17th Int'l Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP'08) Message-ID: <20080325091448.2F165C884F3@smtp.uniud.it> =================================================================== 1st Call For Papers WFLP 2008 17th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming Siena, Italy, July 3-4, 2008 http://wflp08.dimi.uniud.it/ co-located with WWV'08 http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ =================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission April 20, 2008 Full Paper Submission April 27, 2008 Acceptance Notification May 27, 2008 Camera Ready June 11, 2008 Workshop July 3-4, 2008 SCOPE The Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming aims at bringing together researchers interested in functional programming, (constraint) logic programming, as well as the integration of the two paradigms. It promotes the cross-fertilizing exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and students from the different communities interested in the foundations, applications, and combinations of high-level, declarative programming languages and related areas. The previous WFLP editions are: WFLP 2007 (Paris, France), WFLP 2006 (Madrid, Spain), WCFLP 2005 (Tallinn, Estonia), WFLP 2004 (Aachen, Germany), WFLP 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WFLP 2002 (Grado, Italy), WFLP 2001 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2000 (Benicassim, Spain), WFLP'99 (Grenoble, France), WFLP'98 (Bad Honnef, Germany), WFLP'97 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'96 (Marburg, Germany), WFLP'95 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'94 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'93 (Rattenberg, Germany), and WFLP'92 (Karlsruhe, Germany). LOCATION WFLP'08 will be held in July in the convention centre of the University of Siena, Italy: http://www.unisi.it/santachiara/ The workshop will be co-located with WWV'08: http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ WORKSHOP VENUE Siena is one of the nicest city in Italy. The historical centre is situated on top of a hill and is made of beautiful medieval buildings and churches, all surrounded by ancient walls. The countryside of Siena is worldwide famous for its beauty. The Palio of Siena is probably the most famous historical fair in Italy. The most important event of it is a horse race of medieval origins, which is held in the afternoon of July 2nd in 'Piazza del Campo' in the centre of Siena. For more information, please visit http://www.comune.siena.it/ TOPICS WFLP'08 solicits papers in all areas of functional and (constraint) logic programming, including but not limited to: * Foundations: formal semantics, rewriting and narrowing, constraint solving, dynamics, type theory * Language Design: modules and type systems, multi-paradigm languages, concurrency and distribution, objects * Implementation: abstract machines, parallelism, compile-time and run-time optimizations, interfacing with external languages * Transformation and Analysis: abstract interpretation, specialization, partial evaluation, program transformation, meta-programming * Software Engineering: design patterns, specification, verification and validation, debugging, test generation * Integration of Paradigms: integration of declarative programming with other paradigms such as imperative, object-oriented, concurrent, and real-time programming * Applications: declarative programming in education and industry, domain-specific languages, visual/graphical user interfaces, embedded systems, WWW applications, knowledge representation and machine learning, deductive databases, advanced programming environments and tools SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS Authors are invited to submit papers of at most 15 pages (pdf or postscript formats) presenting original, not previously published works. Submission categories include regular research papers, short papers (not more than 8 pages) describing on-going work, and system descriptions. Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission site http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wflp2008 Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. Selected authors will be invited to submit a full version of their papers after the workshop. These submissions will pass through a second round of reviewing. Accepted contributions are going to be published in the Elsevier series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Technical University of Valencia (Spain) Marco Comini University of Udine (Italy) Rachid Echahed CNRS,laboratoire LIG, Grenoble (France) Moreno Falaschi (Chair) University of Siena (Italy) Michael Hanus Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel (Germany) Tetsuo Ida University of Tsukuba (Japan) Herbert Kuchen Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster (Germany) Francisco Lopez Fraguas Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) Wolfgang Lux Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster (Germany) Mircea Marin University of Tsukuba (Japan) Juan J. Moreno-Navarro Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) Alicia Villanueva Technical University of Valencia (Spain) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Michele Baggi University of Siena, Italy Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Tommaso Flaminio University of Siena, Italy Maddalena Poneti University of Siena, Italy Elisa Tiezzi (Chair) University of Siena, Italy ==================================================================== From nathalie.mitton at inria.fr Wed Mar 26 06:27:58 2008 From: nathalie.mitton at inria.fr (Nathalie MITTON) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:27:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First CFP AICCSA 2009 In-Reply-To: <47EA234C.2000506@inria.fr> References: <47EA234C.2000506@inria.fr> Message-ID: <47EA252E.4020503@inria.fr> Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== The seventh ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2009 May, Rabat, Morocco May http://www.congreso.us.es/aiccsa2009/cfp.html =========================================================================== The seventh ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-09) will be held in Rabat, Morocco May 2009. This is an ideal time to be in Morocco. AICCSA is the premier Computer Science and Engineering Conference in the Middle East and North Africa. Authors are invited to submit papers describing new advances in computer systems and their applications. We welcome papers that are theoretical, conceptual, descriptive in nature, or a survey of the state of the art. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithms and Bioinformatics Computer Architecture and Real time Systems Database and Data Mining DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia? Geographical Information Systems/ Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GIS/GNSS) Modeling and Simulation Networking and Telecommunications Parallel and Distributed Systems Security and Information Assurance Soft Computing (AI, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, etc.) Software engineering Important Due Dates: Paper and Poster Submissions: September 29, 2008 Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Submissions: September 29, 2008 Notification of acceptance: December 8, 2008 Camera ready copy due: January 26, 2009 Author Registration: January 26, 2009 Proceedings Papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and be available at IEEE XploreTM. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Submission Guidelines To submit a paper, visit http://edas.info/showConferenceDetails.php?c=6407& Regular Papers Papers must be submitted electronically by September 29, 2008. Each paper will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, and will be accepted based on its originality, significance and clarity. Submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs. Papers must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere. Short Papers Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Submissions Proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels should be submitted directly to the appropriate chair. Posters and Doctoral Symposium Research still in early stages and doctoral research proposals may be submitted as extended abstracts that must not exceed 750 words. Accepted abstracts will be included in a special poster session dedicated to doctoral research proposals and related research. Extended abstracts should be submitted directly to the Posters Chair. From areces at pluton.loria.fr Thu Mar 27 05:54:53 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:54:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last Call for Papers: Advances in Modal Logic Message-ID: <200803270954.m2R9sr3F016070@pluton.loria.fr> ======================================================= Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies []<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr DEADLINE: 31 March 2008 - SITE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics + modal and temporal logic programming + model checking + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic + algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic + coalgebraic modal logic + completeness and canonicity + correspondence and duality theory + many-dimensional modal logics + modal fixed point logics + model theory of modal logic + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic + description logics + dynamic logics and other process logics + epistemic and deontic logics + modal logics for agent-based systems + modal logic and game theory + modal logic and grammar formalisms + provability and interpretability logics + spatial and temporal logics + hybrid logic + intuitionistic logic + monotonic modal logic + substructural logic Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ PAPER SUBMISSIONS In a change from previous AiML's, there will be two types of paper: (1) Full papers for publication and presentation at the conference. (2) Abstracts for short presentation only. Both types of paper should be submitted electronically using the submission page at http://www.easychair.org/AiML08/ The online submission system is now open. The submission deadline is 31 March 2008. (1) FULL PAPERS These will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the meeting. Authors are invited to submit for review a full paper, not submitted elsewhere. It should be at most 15 pages plus optionally a technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of say 100-200 words. To appear in the conference volume, papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the style files to be provided at http://aiml08.loria.fr . At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the conference to present the paper. (2) ABSTRACTS These should at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light review. They may be made available at the conference, and authors should indicate if they would like to make a short presentation of their abstract of up to 15 minutes. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Stephane Demri (CNRS, Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Carlos Areces LORIA, Nancy carlos.areces(at)loria.fr Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington rob.goldblatt(at)mcs.vuw.ac.nz LOCAL ORGANIZER Patrick Blackburn LORIA, Nancy patrick.blackburn(at)loria.fr IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2008 Acceptance notification: 31 May 2008 Final version of full papers due: 30 June 2008 Conference: 9-12 September 2008 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2008 will be held at LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) in Nancy, in the Lorraine, in the east of France. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website: http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From Matthew.Hennessy at cs.tcd.ie Thu Mar 27 07:06:21 2008 From: Matthew.Hennessy at cs.tcd.ie (Matthew Hennessy) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:06:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD studentships Message-ID: Note: Type theory is becoming increasingly important in the theory of concurrency, and in particular in it's application to distributed and mobile computing. For this reason this announcement should be of interest to the Types Forum. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Foundations of Global Computing - Trinity College Dublin Two PhD studentships Applications are invited for two PhD studentships within the Software Systems Lab of the Department of Computer Science. The positions are part of a new SFI-funded research project, under the direction of Matthew Hennessy, which seeks to establish a firm mathematical and logical basis for the next generation of widely distributed computing computing environments. The proposed research programme within the project is wide ranging in scope, offering considerable flexibility to the successful candidates to pursue particular research interests. These range from the design and investigation of abstract calculi for describing the behaviour of complex systems, the use of types to enforce security policies, to the development of verification technologies for ensuring properties of mobile agents. Qualification requirements: Applicants should have a good honours primary degree in Computer Science or Mathematics, and have a proven aptitude in discrete mathematics and the manipulation of formal systems. Remuneration: 17,000 euros per annum, plus postgraduate fees, for three years, starting in October 2008. Application details: Interested applicants should, in the first instance, send their CV to the address below, together with a statement outlining their suitability for the project and the names of two referees. Applications by email are welcome. Matthew Hennessy Department of Computer Science The O'Reilly Institute Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland email: matthew.hennessy at cs.tcd.ie tel: +353 (01) 8962634 Trinity College is an equal opportunities employer. From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Thu Mar 27 09:57:46 2008 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:57:46 -0300 (BRT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA'08 - 2nd call for papers Message-ID: LSFA'08 - Third Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications August 26th, 2008 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil SCOPE Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The objective of this one-day workshop is to put together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and use of such techniques and results, from the practical side. Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: * Logical frameworks o Proof theory o Type theory o Automated deduction * Semantic frameworks o Specification languages and meta-languages o Formal semantics of languages and systems o Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks LSFA'08 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. Submissions to the workshop will in the form of full papers. The proceedings are produced only after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. INVITED SPEAKERS Cesar Munoz NIA-NASA (Hampton) Christian Urban (TU Munchen) 03 (TBC) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mauricio Ayala-Rincon UnB (Brasilia) Clemens Ballarin TU (Munchen) Mario Benevides UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), co-chair Eduardo Bonelli UNQ (Quilmes) Marcelo Coniglio UNICAMP (Campinas) David Deharbe UFRN (Natal) Clare Dixon University of Liverpool (Liverpool) Gilles Dowek INRIA/Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) Marcelo Finger USP (Sao Paulo) Bernhard Gramlich TU Wien (Vienna) Edward Hermann Haeusler PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro) Fairouz Kamareddine Heriot-Watt (Edinburgh) Delia Kesner Paris 7 (Paris) Claude Kirchner INRIA (Bordeaux) Steffen Lewitzka UFBA (Salvador) Joao Marcos UFRN (Natal) Ana Teresa de Castro Martins UFC (Fortaleza) Dale Miller INRIA/Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) Pierre-Etienne Moreau INRIA (Nancy) Peter Mosses Swansea University (Swansea) Anjolina Grisi de Oliveira UFPE (Recife) Luca Paolini Universita di Torino (Torino) Elaine Pimentel UFMG (Belo Horizonte), co-chair Simona Ronchi Della Rocca Universita di Torino (Torino) Alwen Tiu Australian National University Yde Venema University of Amsterdam Hongwei Xi Boston University (Boston) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mauricio Ayala-Rincon UnB (Brasilia) Edward Hermann Hauesler PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro) Andreas Bernhard Michael Brunne UFBA (Salvador) Local-chair Aline Maria Santos Andrade UFBA (Salvador) Local-chair IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 18th Author notification: June 30th Camera ready: July 20th SUBMISSION INFORMATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form full papers with at most 16 pages. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to LSFA'08 page at EasyChair until the submission deadline in May 18, by midnight, Central European Standard Time (GMT+1). The papers should be prepared in latex using Elsevier ENTCS style. The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at workshop registration and the proceedings will be published as a volume of ENTCS. After the workshop, according to the quantity and quality of selected papers, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works that will be also reviewed to high standards. A special issue of LSFA'06 appeared in the Journal of Algorithms and currently a special issue of LSFA'07 is being processed and will appear in The Logical Journal of the IGPL. At least one of the authors should register at the conference. The paper presentation should be in English. CONTACT Elaine Pimentel elaine at mat.ufmg.br Mario Benevides mario at cos.ufrj.br The web page of the event can be reached at: http://www.mat.ufmg.br/lsfa2008 From josh.fryman at gmail.com Wed Mar 26 17:24:43 2008 From: josh.fryman at gmail.com (Josh Fryman) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:24:43 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: ALTA 2008 at ISCA 2008 Message-ID: <351233d20803261424o49833ef5u9fd8523a18883cc6@mail.gmail.com> Workshop on Architectures and Languages for Throughput Applications ALTA 2008 Held in conjunction with the 2008 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-35) Sunday June 22nd, Beijing, China http://www.sei.buaa.edu.cn/alta08/ Submitted papers will be considered to be published on one or more special issues of journals or newsletters highlighting the "Best of ISCA 2008 Workshops." Workshop Theme Throughput-oriented applications are attracting broader interest because of the proliferation of multi- and many-core CPUs and GPUs. The reasons are many-fold. Increasing software-exposed parallelism is necessitated by power-constrained design. Moreover, the emphasis on visual quality in entertainment-oriented applications is driving demand on client platforms. Finally, the pre-existing demands for compute cycles in high-performance computing is challenged by the changing programming and optimization landscape found in highly integrated multi-core devices. This workshop seeks an interdisciplinary set of commercial and academic researchers and practitioners working at the frontiers of throughput oriented programming models, applications, and architectures. These include, but are not limited to: Topics of Interest * Multi-core and many-core CPU and GPU architecture * Proposed architectural enhancements for throughput computing * Power considerations for throughput-oriented designs * Data-parallel or collection-oriented programming models * GPU programming models * Domain specific languages * Algorithmic techniques for implementing key building blocks for throughput computing algorithms * Selected application case studies on throughput computing architectures, including (but not limited to): -- Gaming/Graphics -- Computational finance -- Seismic processing -- Image/Video/Signal processing -- Machine learning -- Web search and services The workshop will combine a set of peer-reviewed submissions and invited talks. Submission of contributions Interested authors are expected to submit a full paper (not to exceed 8 pages), following the formatting instructions at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/ Please e-mail submissions to anwar.ghuloum at intel.com. Copies of papers will be made available at the workshop. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: April 4, 2008 Author notification: May 7, 2007 Final papers due: May 28, 2008 Program Chair Anwar Ghuloum Intel Corporation (anwar.ghuloum at intel.com) Program Committee Douglas Carmean, Intel Corporation Tom Conte, North Carolina State University Mike Houston, AMD Michael McCool, RapidMind Inc. Michael Garland, Nvidia Sun Chan, Simplight Nanoelectronics Xiaohua Shi, Beihang University Organizers Anwar Ghuloum Intel Corporation (anwar.ghuloum at intel.com) Gansha Wu Intel Corporation (gansha.wu at intel.com) Michael Liao Intel Corporation (michael.liao at intel.com) Josh Fryman Intel Corporation (joshua.b.fryman at intel.com) From lbauer at cmu.edu Fri Mar 28 11:50:12 2008 From: lbauer at cmu.edu (Lujo Bauer) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:50:12 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08: deadline extension Message-ID: <47ED13B4.6070200@cmu.edu> ******************************************* By popular request, the submission deadline is extended to April 10, 2008 ******************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS =============== FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08 Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security, Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, and Issues in the Theory of Security http://profs.sci.univr.it/~vigano/fcs-arspa-wits08/ June 21-22, 2008 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Affiliated with LICS 2008 and CSF 21 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers due: April 10 (was: March 30) Notification: May 16 Final papers: June 01 SCOPE ===== The aim of the joint workshop FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08 is to provide a forum for continued activity in different areas of computer security, bringing computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community and giving LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security, on the one hand, and contribute to bridging the gap between logical methods and computer security foundations, on the other. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques, Composition issues, Formal specification, Foundations of verification, Information flow analysis, Language-based security, Logic-based design, Program transformation, Security models, Static analysis, Statistical methods, Tools, Trust management for Access and resource usage control, Authentication, Availability and denial of service, Covert channels, Confidentiality, Integrity and privacy, Intrusion detection, Malicious code, Mobile code, Mutual distrust, Privacy, Security policies, Security protocols WITS is the official annual workshop organised by the IFIP WG 1.7 on "Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design", established to promote the investigation on the theoretical foundations of security, discovering and promoting new areas of application of theoretical techniques in computer security and supporting the systematic use of formal techniques in the development of security related applications. This is the eighth meeting in the series. The workshop FCS continues a tradition, initiated with the Workshops on Formal Methods and Security Protocols (FMSP) in 1998 and 1999, then with the Workshop on Formal Methods and Computer Security (FMCS) in 2000, and finally with the LICS satellite Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) in 2002 through 2005, of bringing together formal methods and the security community. ARSPA is a series of workshops on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both the security and the formal methods communities, from academia and industry, who are working on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. The first two ARSPA workshops were held as satellite events of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR'04) and of the 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'05), respectively. FCS and ARSPA have been joining forces since 2006: FCS-ARSPA'06 was affiliated with LICS'06, in the context of FLoC'06, and FCS-ARSPA'07 was affiliated with LICS'07 and ICALP'07. SUBMISSION ========== All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Submissions should be at most 15 pages (a4paper, 11pt), including references. The cover page should include title, names of authors, co-ordinates of the corresponding author, an abstract, and a list of keywords. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps); please, do not send files formatted for work processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or Wordperfect files). Submission instructions will be published shortly on the workshop's webpage. PUBLICATION =========== Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. Moreover, workshop participants will be invited to submit full versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning, which will be open also to non-participants, in all cases with fresh reviewing. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Alessandro Aldini (Universita` di Urbino, Italy) Alessandro Armando (Universita` di Genova, Italy) Michael Backes (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany) Lujo Bauer (CMU, USA; co-chair) Veronique Cortier (LORIA INRIA-Lorraine, France) Cas Cremers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy) Sandro Etalle (T. University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands; co-chair) Riccardo Focardi (Universita` di Venezia, Italy) Dieter Gollman (Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany) Jerry den Hartog (T. University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands; co-chair) Jan Juerjens (The Open University, UK) Ralf Kuesters (Universitaet Trier, Germany) Gavin Lowe (Oxford University, UK) Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Sebastian Moedersheim (IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland) Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK) Luca Vigano` (Universita` di Verona, Italy; co-chair) Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA) From andrei at cs.chalmers.se Fri Mar 28 15:26:45 2008 From: andrei at cs.chalmers.se (Andrei Sabelfeld) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:26:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Positions in Language-based Security at Chalmers Message-ID: <47ED4675.9050905@cs.chalmers.se> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *PhD Student Positions in Programming Language-based Security* Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Application deadline: April 30, 2008 Full version of this announcement: http://www.chalmers.se/en/sections/news/vacancies/positions/phd-student-positions-in6722 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *The Department* The department provides a strong, international, and dynamic research environment with about 75 faculty and 75 PhD students. For more information, see http://www.chalmers.se/cse/EN/. Knowledge of Swedish is not a prerequisite for application. English is our working language for research. Both Swedish and English are used in undergraduate courses. Half of our researchers and PhD students are native Swedes; the rest come from more than 30 different countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *PhD Project* The PhD students will join a world-leading team of researchers on *programming language-based security*. Language-based security facilitates specifying and enforcing security policies at the level of programming languages early in the software design and construction phase. The focus of the advertised positions is on *language-based information-flow security*. Given a program that manipulates sensitive data, the aim is to make sure there is no information flow (caused by the execution of the program) that may compromise the sensitive data. Drawing on the recent progress in this area, the goal of the positions is to pursue the following directions of work: * To design *rich security policies* for confidentiality and integrity, as demanded by practical applications (such as web applications). These security policies should be formal: they should operate at the level of programming-language semantics. * To develop *practical enforcement mechanisms* for these policies in expressive programming languages (such as web languages). These enforcement mechanisms may combine static (for example, type system-based) and dynamic (for example, execution monitoring-based) techniques. * To support the above with case studies in web-application security. In pursuing these goals, there are possibilities for collaboration with our high-profile academic and industrial partners. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Details about Employment* PhD student positions are limited to five years and will then normally include 20% departmental work, mostly teaching duties. Salary for the position is as specified in Chalmers' general agreement for PhD student positions. The positions are intended to start on September 1, 2008. In exceptional cases, we can imagine moving the starting date. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Suitable Background* Applicants must have a very good degree in Computing Science or in a related subject with a strong Computing Science component. They must also have a strong, documented interest in doing research. The ideal student for the project will have strong background in both programming languages and security. You may even apply if you have not yet completed your degree, but expect to do so before the position starts. In order to improve gender balance, Chalmers welcomes in particular applications from female candidates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *How to Apply* The full application should contain 1. A letter of application, listing specific research interests 2. Copies of degrees and other certificates 3. A curriculum vitae 4. Letters of recommendation from your teachers or employers 5. Copies of relevant work, for example dissertations, theses, or articles, that you have authored or co-authored You MUST include letters of recommendation: we typically get over 100 applications, and it is simply not feasible for us to request individual letters! Your application needs to include the job reference number 2008/60. The last date for your full application to arrive is April 30, 2008. The application can be submitted electronically, or on paper, following the guidelines on this web page: http://www.chalmers.se/en/sections/news/vacancies/positions/phd-student-positions-in6722 From nipkow at in.tum.de Fri Mar 28 18:38:33 2008 From: nipkow at in.tum.de (Tobias Nipkow) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:38:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Positions in Program and Model Analysis (TUM, LMU) Message-ID: <47ED7369.1040105@in.tum.de> 12 PhD Fellowships in the Doctorate Programme: ``Program and Model Analysis'' http://puma.in.tum.de The German Research Council (DFG) funds 12 doctoral fellowships through the new Doctorate Programme (Graduiertenkolleg) ``Program and Model Analysis''. The programme starts in July 2008. Applications are invited now. Hosting institutions. The programme is hosted by the Technische Universit?t and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, two of the three universities selected in the first round of the highly competitive Excellence Initiative. Their Computer Science departments are among the most reputed in Germany. The Professors involved in the programme are: Manfred Broy, Javier Esparza, Martin Hofmann, Alexander Knapp, Alois Knoll, Tobias Nipkow, Helmut Seidl, Christian Urban, Helmut Veith and Martin Wirsing. Objective. The programme will enable PhD students to conduct leading-edge research on methods, algorithms and tools for the analysis of programs and models of information systems. The research topics seek to establish and exploit links between the four leading approaches for this task (theorem proving, model checking, abstract interpretation and type systems) and to apply them to software-intensive systems. PhD students will receive individual in-depth supervision and will participate in a structured programme of courses and seminars offered by world experts. Positions. The doctorate programme offers 12 doctoral fellowships for a period of three years. Renumeration is according to Level 13 of the TV-L German salary scale. This amounts to an initial gross salary of 2900 Euro per month, increased to 3225 Euro per month after one year. Doctoral degrees are awarded by the Technische Universit?t or the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t. The earliest possible starting date is July 2008. Eligibility. Applicants should be at most 28 years old and hold a MSc (or an equivalent degree) in computer science or related disciplines (typically mathematics, physics, or engineering). Applications from MSc candidates who expect to get their degrees within the next months are also welcome. Fluency in spoken and written English or German is required. Applications. Applications will be considered until all positions are filled. They should contain a full curriculum vitae, a statement on the candidate's scientific interests, names and contact information of 2 references, and should be sent to Prof. Dr. Helmut Seidl Technische Universit?t M?nchen Institut f?r Informatik, Boltzmannstra?e 3 85748 Garching Email: puma at in.tum.de Shortlisted applicants will usually be invited to visit M?nchen and give a talk on their Master's Thesis or on a scientific topic to be agreed upon. The decision on admission will be communicated shortly after the talk. From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Sun Mar 30 05:25:46 2008 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco T. Vasconcelos) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:25:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLACES'08 - 2nd Call For Papers Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS PLACES'08 Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software June 7, 2008, Oslo, Norway (a post-workshop of DisCoTec'08) http://places08.di.fc.ul.pt/ Applications on the web today are built using numerous interacting services; soon an off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many normal applications will soon need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems will be inherently concurrent and communication-centred. To exploit and harness the richness of this computing environment, designers and programmers will utilise a rich variety of programming paradigms, depending on the shape of the data and control flow. Plausible candidates for such paradigms include structured imperative concurrent programming, stream-based programming, concurrent functions with queues, and the use of types for communication and data structures (such as session types and linear types), to name but a few. Combinations of these abstractions will be used even in a single application, and the runtime environment needs to ensure seamless execution without relying on differences in available resources such as the number of cores. The development of effective programming methodologies for the coming computing paradigm demands exploration and understanding of a wide variety of ideas and methodologies. This workshop aims to offer a forum where researchers from different fields exchange new ideas on one of the central challenges in programming in near future, the development of programming methodologies and infrastructures where concurrency and distribution are a norm rather than a marginal concern. This workshop aims providing a forum for the focused exchange of new ideas to support our quest for a unifying picture of programming in this new area. > Topics of Interest Submissions are invited in the general area of foundations of programming languages for concurrency and distribution. Specific topics include: programming methodologies for sensor nets and ubiquitous computing, multicore and network-on-chip programming, integration of sequential and concurrent programming, program analysis, session types, concurrent data types, web services, and runtime architectures, including resource allocation. Papers which present novel and valuable ideas are welcome, together with those which provide experience or practical insight. > Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit an abstract (max. 5 pages) in PDF format by e-mail to yoshida at doc.ic.ac.uk. Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. > Invited Talk by Jan Vitek _ Purdue University > Post-Workshop Proceedings in ENTCS After the workshop authors will be invited to submit a full paper of their presentation to be published in ENTCS, http://www.entcs.org. > Important Dates Paper Submission: April 15, 2008 Paper Notification: May 1, 2008 Camera Ready: May 15, 2008 > Program Committee _ Alastair Beresford _ University of Cambridge _ Manuel Fahndrich _ Microsoft Research _ Simon Gay _ University of Glasgow _ Kohei Honda _ Queen Mary University of London _ Andrew Meyers _ Cornell University _ Greg Morrisett _ Harvard University _ Alan Mycroft _ University of Cambridge _ Vijay A. Saraswat _ IBM Research _ Vasco T. Vasconcelos (chair) _ University of Lisbon _ Nobuko Yoshida (chair) _ Imperial College London From Eric.Allen at sun.com Tue Apr 1 00:01:43 2008 From: Eric.Allen at sun.com (Eric Allen) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:01:43 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fortress Version 1.0 Released Message-ID: Today, we are releasing the first version of the Fortress specification with a compliant implementation: Fortress 1.0. Both the new specification and the implementation are available from the project website: http://projectfortress.sun.com The 1.0 implementation is available both as a stand-alone download and through a Subversion repository. Please follow the instructions on the website to get it. Our tandem release of a specification and matching interpreter is a major milestone for the project; it is a goal we have been working toward for some time. All Fortress source code appearing in this specification has been tested by executing it with the open source Fortress implementation. Moreover, all code has been rendered automatically with the tool Fortify, also included with the standard Fortress distribution. (In case you haven't used it yet, Fortify is an open source tool contributed by Guy Steele that converts Fortress source code to LaTeX.) Also note that this release includes a Fortress mode for Emacs, contributed by Yuto Hayamizu, and over 10,000 lines of Fortress library code, contributed both by Sun and by Fortress community member Michael Spiegel. Our reference implementation has evolved gradually, in parallel with the evolution of the language specification and the development of the core libraries. In order to synchronize the specification with the implementation, it was necessary both to add features to the implementation and to drop features from the specification. Most significantly, most static checks in the implementation are currently turned off, as we are in the process of completing the static type checker and the type inference engine. Static constraints are still included in the specification as documentation. Contrary to the Fortress Language Specification, Version 1.0.beta, inference of static parameter instantiations is based on the runtime types of the arguments to a functional call. Support for syntactic abstraction is not included in this release. We do not yet support nontrivial distributions, nor parallel nested transactions. Moreover, many other language features defined in the Fortress Language Specification, Version 1.0.beta have been elided. Many of these features require additional research before they can be implemented reliably; this research and development is a high priority. With this release, our goal in moving forward is to incrementally add back features taken out of the specification as they are implemented. In particular, all language features included in the Fortress Specification version 1.0 beta remain goals for eventual inclusion in the language (perhaps with additional modification and evolution of their design). By proceeding in this manner, we hope that our implementation will be useful for more tasks more quickly, as it will comply with the public specification. Moreover, the Fortress community