From naumann at cs.stevens.edu Sat Jan 3 12:54:38 2009 From: naumann at cs.stevens.edu (David Naumann) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:54:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoc position in security modeling and analysis Message-ID: Modeling and analysis of security protocols =========================================== One post-doc position is available in the Department of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology. The project is led by Professors Susanne Wetzel and David Naumann. It involves development of analytic models and simulations of wireless network protocol stacks, including both abstract protocol specifications and actual implementations. We will create techniques and tools that integrate automated formal methods of exhaustive analysis with guided runtime testing. The post-doc's primary responsibilities will include: Development of detailed design models; specification of secrecy, authenticity, and other properties of the models; static analysis of models and implementations using model-checking, type-checking, and other techniques; collaboration with other team members on testing and simulation. The work will be conducted at Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson river from New York City. Expected skills: (a) PhD in computer science (or equivalent) with a publication record in security, in particular analysis of security properties of implementations; (b) familiarity with model-checking, runtime assertion checking, and type-based static analysis for access control and information flow policies; and (c) good written and oral English skills. The post-doc can start until January 2009, and will last 12 months. Salary will be competitive based on qualifications and experience. A second year is possible based on accomplishments and availability of funds. The application should contain the following (a) a curriculum vitae including a list of publications and software products as well as statement of research goals; (b) names and email addresses of two references. Applications and questions should be sent by email to the address you infer from this: naumann cs DOT stevens DOT edu Applications received by December 8, 2008 will receive full consideration and applications may be considered until the position is filled. Positions are contingent upon completion of the PhD. Stevens Institute of Technology is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, veterans, and disabled persons are encouraged to apply. From paolini at di.unito.it Tue Jan 6 14:11:46 2009 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca Paolini) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:11:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TLCA'09 -- DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <1231269106.8514.9.camel@nbpaolini2> Submission deadlines are extended!!! ------------------------------------------------ ** Title and abstract due 19 January 2009 ** ** Deadline for submission 26 January 2009 ** ------------------------------------------------ Ninth International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA '09) ========================================================== Brasilia, July 01-03, 2009 ========================================================== Part of Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP'09) http://rdp09.cic.unb.br/tlca.html ------------------------------------------------ ** Title and abstract due 19 January 2009 ** ** Deadline for submission 26 January 2009 ** ------------------------------------------------ The TLCA series of conferences serves as a forum for presenting original research results that are broadly relevant to the theory and applications of typed calculi. The following list of topics is non-exhaustive: * Proof-theory: Natural deduction and sequent calculi, cut elimination and normalisation, linear logic and proof nets, type-theoretic aspects of computational complexity * Semantics: Denotational semantics, game semantics, realisability, categorical models * Implementation: Abstract machines, parallel execution, optimal reduction, type systems for program optimisation * Types: Subtypes, dependent types, type inference, polymorphism, types in theorem proving * Programming: Foundational aspects of functional and object-oriented programming, proof search and logic programming, connections between and combinations of functional and logic programming, type checking The programme of TLCA'09 will consist of three invited talks (one common with the Conference Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and about 25 papers selected from original contributions. Accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Invited Speakers ------------------------------------ There will be three invited talks: * Marcelo Fiore (Univ. of Cambridge) * Bob Harper (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) * Jean-Louis Krivine (Univ. Paris 7) Submissions: ------------ The submitted papers should describe original work and should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the contribution. In particular references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Abstracts and papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlca09 more details on the EasyChair procedure can be found on the web page of the conference. Important Dates: ---------------- Title and abstract due Monday January 19 Deadline for submission Monday January 26 Referee reports due, PC discussion starts Sat February 28 Notification acceptance/rejection Fri March 20 Final Versions sent in by authors Fri April 10 TLCA'09 Program Committee: -------------------------- Zena Ariola, University of Oregon Patrick Baillot, CNRS and ENS Lyon Thierry Coquand, Goteborg University, Pierre-Louis Curien , CNRS and University Paris 7 (PC Chair) Ren?? David , Universit?? de Savoie Dan Ghica , University of Birmingham Ryu Hasegawa , Tokyo University Barry Jay , University of Technology, Sydney Soren Lassen , Google, Sydney Luca Paolini , University of Torino Frank Pfenning , Carnegie Mellon University Thomas Streicher , Technical University of Darmstad TLCA Steering Committe: ----------------------- Samson Abramsky, Oxford, chair Henk Barendregt, Nijmegen Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Turin Roger Hindley, Swansea Martin Hofmann, Munich Pawel Urzyczyn, Warsaw Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, Turin TLCA Publicity Chair: --------------------- Luca Paolini From isabelle.perseil at telecom-paristech.fr Mon Jan 5 18:25:24 2009 From: isabelle.perseil at telecom-paristech.fr (Isabelle Perseil) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:25:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICECCS09 : CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <2d9c768edf3a57d6278592f33ecf0f86.squirrel@webmail1.telecom-paristech.fr> ========================================================================== Call for Papers for the Fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS09) www.iceccs.org ========================================================================== The goal of ICECCS is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. The scope of interest includes long-term research issues, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, existing complex systems, and commercially available tools. Scope and Topics ---------------- Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: -Avionics and Automobile Software -Content Production and Distribution Systems, Mobile and Multi-channel Systems -Context Awareness Computing -Engineering of Complex Interactive Computer Systems -Formal Methods and Approaches to Manage and Control Complex Systems -Human Factors and Collaborative Aspects -Integration of Heterogeneous Technologies -Interoperability and Standardization -Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing -Real-time and Embedded Systems -Sensor Network Systems and Applications -Software and System Development and Control Processes for Complex Systems -Software Architecture and System Engineering -Software Complexity Visualization -Systems and Software Safety and Security -Tools, Environments, and Languages for Complex Systems -Verification Techniques for Complex Software Systems -Virtual Environments for Managing Complexity -Web Services Modeling and Compositions Different kinds of contributions are sought, including research papers, Lessons learned, status reports, and discussion of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. Papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and industrial experience reports should describe practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. Paper Submission ---------------- Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format: (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.doc). Papers should not exceed 10 pages including figures, references, and appendices and be in PDF format. Submissions of papers will be carried out electronically via the Web: http://sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de/iceccs09/servlet/Conference Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. Final versions of accepted papers will be limited to 10 pages in the aforementioned IEEE proceedings format. Important Dates ------------- Submission deadline - 2 February, 2009 Start of reviews - 4 February, 2009 Review Deadline - 24 February, 2009 Notification of acceptance - 2 March, 2009 Final version - 13 March, 2009 Workshops ------------- The Fourth IEEE International workshop UML and AADL - UML&AADL'2009 will be held in conjunction with ICECCS?09. Please visit the workshop?s web page for important dates: http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/UML-AADL-2009.html ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------- General Chair Tiziana Margaria, Potsdam University, Germany Program Chairs Karin Breitman, Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Simone DJ Barbosa, Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Program Committee ------------- Alessandro Fantechi, Univ. Firenze, Italy Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock, Germany Armin Eberlein, University of Calgary, Canada Cristina Seceleanu, M?lardalen University, Sweden Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Declan O"Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada Flavio Recht Wagner, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Hardi Hungar, OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS and TU Berlin, Germany Isabelle Perseil, TELECOM ParisTech, France Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jo?o Falc?o e Cunha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Jose Carlos Maldonado, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil Jos? Creissac Campos, University of Minho, Portugal Kaisa Sere, Abo Akademi, Turku, Finnland Klaus David, Univ. Kassel, Germany Kung-Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Lisandro Granville, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS Manfrey Broy, Technical University of Munich, Germany Marcelo Blois, PUCRS, Brazil Mauro Pezze, University of Lugano, Switzerland Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Michael Harrison, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Nelson Maculan, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nick Graham, School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany Phillip Laplante, Penn State University, USA Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, Nothern Ireland Shawn Bohner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT), USA Thomas Hildebrandt, ITU Copenhagen, Denmark Thomas Jensen, IRISA/CNRS, France Vera Werneck, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Yamine Ait Ameur, ENSMA, France Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, China From kohei at dcs.qmul.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 08:34:10 2009 From: kohei at dcs.qmul.ac.uk (kohei@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:34:10 -0000 (UTC) Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3 RA positions and 2 PhD positions for Web Services, London, Uk Message-ID: <3f196289dae4afbd0331ded30aea5b4f.squirrel@webmail.dcs.qmul.ac.uk> QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SCHOOL OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING Three Postdoctoral Research Associates Two PhD Students Applications are invited for three Research Associates and two PhD students to work on the EPSRC-funded projects "Engineering Foundations of Web Services" and "Multiparty Session Types". The former is a collaborative project with the University of Glasgow (Dr Simon Gay). Web services represent one of the major transformations of software development and programming disciplines in recent years, and this leads to a number of theoretical and practical challenges which must be addressed in order to establish sound programming methodologies for the delivery of versatile, safe and secure distributed software. These two projects aim to develop theories, languages and their implementations for distributed, communication-based software such as web services, based on the accumulated research on process calculi and type theories. THREE POSTDOCTAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES The researcher at Imperial (Ref: NY 12 08: duration up to 28 months) will work with Dr Nobuko Yoshida and the researchers at QMUL (Post 2/Ref08518/KR: duration 2/3 years) will work with Dr Kohei Honda. All postdoctoral applicants should have experience of research in programming language semantics and/or concurrency theories, with strong software development skills. For the RA at IC, the salary will be in the range of ?26,580 - ?31,180 per annum (inclusive of London Allowance) depending on knowledge and experience. For the RA posts at QM, the salary will be in the range of ?31,736 - ?33,492 per annum (inclusive of London Allowance) on Grade 4 of the Queen Mary Pay and Grading Structure. TWO PhD STUDENTS Applicants for PhDs should have background knowledge and interests in programming languages. Funding covers tuition fees plus a tax-free stipend to cover the living expenses. Note that full support for PhD students at Imperial is available only to UK/EU applicants. The reference number of Imperial is: NY 12 08. The reference number of QM is: 08518/compsci. APPLICATIONS Job Descriptions and background material can be found at: http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/jobs.php?id=1062 (QM RA) http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/staff/recruit (QM PhD) http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment/research/en20080288 (IC RA) http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment/phdstudentships/en20080291 (PhD IC) Informal enquiries can be made to: Dr Kohei Honda (kohei at dcs.qmul.ac.uk) Dr Nobuko Yoshida (yoshida at doc.ic.ac.uk) For all the QMUL posts, completed application forms and CVs quoting the reference should be returned, ideally by email, to Sue White at: applications.research at eecs.qmul.ac.uk. If this is not possible, a paper copy should be sent to Sue White, Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS to arrive by the closing date. For all the IC posts, completed application forms and other documents should be returned, ideally by email, to research.officer at doc.ic.ac.uk. If this is not possible, a paper copy should be sent to Joanne Day, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington campus, London SW7 2AZ to arrive by the closing date. The closing date for applications for RAs at QM and all PhDs are 30 January 2009. The closing date for applications for RA at IC is 16 January 2009. Interviews are expected to be held in January. The preferred starting date for all posts is from February to March 2009. Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Wed Jan 7 11:40:01 2009 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:40:01 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP: Child care at conference Message-ID: <53ff55480901070840u677e3978tfe23ed82bfa99258@mail.gmail.com> Potential ICFP attendees: The ACM-SIGPLAN Executive Committee, which oversees and sponsors ICFP, is considering expanding its travel grants for event participants in need of child care assistance. (Such expansion would also apply to other major SIGPLAN-sponsored conferences, such as PLDI, POPL, OOPSLA.) The purpose of this message is to solicit feedback from potential attendees regarding the desirability for child care assistance and what forms of assistance be most appropriate. If child care assistance at ICFP (or other SIGPLAN events) is of interest to you, please contact me (at icfp.publicity at gmail.com -or- fluet at tti-c.org) with your comments. Some questions of particular interest: * What age groups of children are most appropriate to cover? * What types of costs might SIGPLAN cover to facilitate your participation in events? Sincerely, -Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair) From hepi at imm.dtu.dk Wed Jan 7 11:38:04 2009 From: hepi at imm.dtu.dk (Henrik Pilegaard) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:38:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MLQA - Call for Participation Message-ID: <4964DA6C.2090001@imm.dtu.dk> This is a call for participation in the Kick-Off meeting of Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis (MLQA). It takes place on Saturday 28?th of March 2009 in York and is part of ETAPS 2009. The focus of the working group is on process models analysed using logics for quantitative properties: (1) process models formally described by transition systems, automata or process calculi, (2) logics for expressing stochastic and continuous (control theory) properties as well as discrete ones, (3) algorithms, theory and tools, and (4) applications within embedded systems, service oriented systems, and biological systems. For more details see: http://www.mt-lab.dk/MLQA See you in York, Flemming Nielson and Henrik Pilegaard From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Thu Jan 8 05:03:30 2009 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:03:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 14th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science, Last Call for Partic Message-ID: <20090108101046.E5482BF0D6@sool.cc.ioc.ee> [Lecturers: Courtois, Dybjer, Gennaro, Goldberg, M?ller-Olm. Place/time: Palmse, Estonia, 1-6 March 2009 Deadline for application and submission of student talk abstracts: ** 16 Jan 2009 **.] Call for Participation 14th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science, EWSCS '09 Palmse, Estonia, 1-6 March 2009 http://cs.ioc.ee/ewscs/2009/ Background and objectives EWSCS is a series of regional-scope international winter schools held annually in Estonia. EWSCS are organized by Institute of Cybernetics (IoC), a research institute of Tallinn University of Technology. EWSCS '09 is the fourteenth event of the series. The main objective of EWSCS is to expose Estonian, Baltic, and Nordic graduate students in computer science (but also interested students from elsewhere) to frontline research topics usually not covered within the regular curricula. The subject of the schools is general computer science, with a bias towards theory, this comprising both algorithms, complexity and models of computation, and semantics, logic and programming theory. The working language of the schools is English. Programme The schools' scientific programme consists of short courses by renowned specialists and a student session. The course list for EWSCS '09 is the following: * Nicolas T. Courtois (University College London, UK): Algebraic Attacks on Stream Ciphers * Peter Dybjer (Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University, Sweden): Normalization by Evaluation * Rosario Gennaro (IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, New York, USA): Provable Security and Efficiency in Cryptographic Constructions * Paul W. Goldberg (University of Liverpool, UK): Computational Complexity in Game Theory * Markus M?ller-Olm (Westf?lische Wilhelms-Universit?t M?nster, Germany): Program Analysis of Sequential and Parallel Programs The purpose of the student session is to give students an opportunity to present their work (typically, thesis work) and get feedback. Registrants are invited to propose short talks (20 min) on topics of theoretical computer science, broadly understood. The selection will be based on abstracts of 150-400 words (see the instruction on the school website). The social programme consists of an excursion and a conference dinner. Venue Palmse is a small settlement 80 kms to the east from Tallinn in the county of L??ne-Viru. It is renowned for a large manor that used to belong to the von Pahlen family, today hosting the visitors' center of the Lahemaa National Park, a museum, and a hotel. Tallinn, Estonia's capital, is famous for its picturesque medieval Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. There are direct flights to Tallinn from Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Kiev, London Gatwick and Stansted, Milan Malpensa, Minsk, Moscow, Munich, Oslo, Prague, Riga, Stockholm Arlanda, Vienna and Vilnius, ferries from Stockholm and Helsinki. From Vilnius, Riga, St Petersburg the Eurolines coach services are the practical travel option. Application and cost To apply for a place, please fill in the online form on the school website. Please apply early; the number of participants we can admit is limited. The deadline for application and submission of student talk abstracts is 16 January 2009. All applicants will be notified of admission to the school and acceptance of their talks by 30 January 2009. The participation fee of 5000 EEK includes course materials, full board accommodation at Palmse, transportation from Tallinn to Palmse and back, excursion and conference dinner. Programme committee / organizing committee Tarmo Uustalu (IoC) (chair), Monika Perkmann (IoC) (secretary), Helger Lipmaa (Cybernetica AS), Peeter Laud (Cybernetica AS), Varmo Vene (U. of Tartu), Sven Laur (U. of Tartu), Ando Saabas (IoC) Sponsors Tiger University Plus programme of the Estonian Information Technology Foundation Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science (EXCS) Further information Details on the submission of abstracts, application procedure and cost are available from the school webpage, http://cs.ioc.ee/ewscs/2009/. Questions should be sent to ewscs09(at)cs.ioc.ee. From nassue09 at gmail.com Wed Jan 7 15:04:52 2009 From: nassue09 at gmail.com (NASSUE 2009) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 05:04:52 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: NASSUE-2009 in conjunction with ISA 2009 Message-ID: <5ea3e15d0901071204i1683eab6j6a5122c75ac1f357@mail.gmail.com> --- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message --- Call for Papers =================== 2009 International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) http://www.sersc.org/NASSUE2009/ June 25-27, 2009 Seoul, Korea in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009) Overview ------------- International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) is focused on network assurance and security measure, which has become an important research issue in ubiquitous environments. The objective of this workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in NAS issues in UE. It will highlight the various aspects of NAS - especially on the crucial linkage between availability, compliance, and security. NASSUE-2009 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policy makers to share and exchange ideas and to learn about latest developments, problems and solutions related to NAS issues in UE. Topics (include but are not limited to the following): -------------------------------------------------------------- * Availability, dependability, survivability, & resilience issues in UE * Authentication and identity management in UE * Authorization and access-control in UE * Risk assessment, and management in UE * Redundancy, reliability models, and failure prevention of UCS * Trust modeling and management in UE * Fault-tolerant architectural and operational models in UE * Network security issues and protocols in UCS * Cryptographic protocols and key management in UCS * Agent-based technologies for NAS. * Cross-layer design for security mechanisms * Real-time technology for NAS systems. * QoS provisioning in UCS * Network control technologies for NA. * Novel threat, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures * DoS attacks and mitigation * Reverse engineering of malicious code * Intrusion detection, IDS / IPS in UE * Anonymity, user privacy, and location privacy in UE * Content protection and DRM for UCS * System/network management techniques and strategies in UE. * Network forensics and fraud detection * Surveillance and Privacy-enhancing technologies in UE * Adaptive and Autonomic security for UCS * Role of biometrics in UE * NAS issues in e-commerce, e-government, e-health * NAS implementation in P2P systems, vehicular system, web application, disaster relief etc * Specification, design, development, and deployment of NAS mechanisms * Models, architectures and protocols for NAS * Standards, guidelines and certification for NAS in UE * Metrics for measuring security, assurance and dependability * Designing business models with NAS requirements * Formal methods and software engineering for NAS * Legal, ethical and policy issues related to NAS in UE * Proactive approaches to NAS * New ideas and paradigms for NAS in UE Important dates ------------------- - Full Paper Due: January 31, 2009 - Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2009 - Final Camera-Ready Due: April 03, 2009 Paper Submission and Publication ------------------------------------ Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two PC members. Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper) or 6 pages (regular paper) by using Online Systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Outstanding papers accepted and presented in ISA- 2009 including NASSUE-2009 (ISA-09 workshop), after further revisions, will be published in Special Issues of International Journals (indexed by SCI/E): * Computer Communications, Elsevier * Journal of Supercomputing, Springer * Journal of Internet Technology, MoE, Taiwan * Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Elsevier * Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Steering Chair ----------------- Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam Univ, Korea Workshop Program Chairs -------------------------- - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal International Advisory Board ----------------------------- - Dimitrios Makrakis, Univ of Ottawa, Canada - Elisa Bertino, Purdue Univ, USA - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan Technical Program Committee ------------------------------- - Abdelhamid Mellouk, Univ of Paris XII, France - Antonio Nogueira, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Bai Xiaoying, Tsinghua Univ, China - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - Bo Zhu, Concordia Univ, Canada - ByungRae Cha, Honam Univ, Korea - Chae Hoon Lim, Sejong Univ, Korea - Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State Univ, USA - Hiroshi Yoshiura, Univ of Electro-Communications, Japan - Eul Gyu Im, Hanyang Univ, Korea - Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State Univ, USA - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Jiankun Hu, RMIT Univ, Australia - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal - Jorge Sa Silva, Univ of Coimbra, Portugal - Jouni Ikonen, Lappeenranta Univ of Technology, Finland - K. P. Chow, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Katsikas Sokratis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece - Khaled Salah, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia - Mario Lemos Proenca, State Univ of Londrina, Brazil - Masato Terada, Hitachi, Japan - Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing Univ, Taiwan - Ning Zhang, Univ of Manchester, UK - Niwat Thepvilojapanong, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Paulo Salvador, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Pavel Gladyshev, Univ College Dublin, Ireland - Seungjoo Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ, Korea - Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China - Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Tapio Frantti, VTT, Finland - Willy Susilo, Univ of Wollongong, Australia - Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA - Yoshihiro Kawahara, Univ of Tokyo, Japan Contact --------- For further information regarding NASSUE-2009 and paper submission, please contact at nassue09 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090107/cf660d8d/attachment-0001.htm From alain.girault at inria.fr Fri Jan 9 10:21:46 2009 From: alain.girault at inria.fr (Alain Girault) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:21:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'09) Message-ID: <49676B8A.9010006@inria.fr> LCTES 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (In conjunction with PLDI 2009) Dublin, Ireland, June 19~20 2009 http://www.cse.psu.edu/lctes09/ Call for Papers: ================ As embedded systems increase in number, complexity, and diversity, new research challenges are encountered in areas such as verification, validation, meeting performance goals and resource constraints, creating and exploiting new hardware architectures, and scaling up to multicores and distributed systems built from multicores. LCTES 2009 solicits papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, and architectures that help meet these challenges. Research papers (which propose innovative techniques) and experience papers (which report experimentation with and lessons learned from real-world systems and applications) are both welcome. In addition to its regular sessions, LCTES 2009 will feature special events such as an industrial panel, keynotes, tutorials and demonstrations to bring out the latest and more interesting aspects of embedded systems. Examples include tools for multi-cores, emerging platforms such as smart phones, multi-player game machines and autonomous vehicles and embedded supercomputing. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following aspects of embedded and cyber physical systems design: Programming language issues in embedded systems, including (*) Language features to exploit multi-core, single-chip SIMD, reconfigurable architecture and other emerging architectures (*) Language features for distributed real-time control, media players, and other complex embedded systems (*) Language features to enhance reliability and security (*) Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization mechanisms, concurrency, memory management techniques Compiler issues in embedded systems, including (*) Interaction between embedded computer architectures, operating systems and compilers (*) Interpreters, binary translation and just-in-time compilation (*) Support for debugging, profiling, exception and interrupt handling, for reliability and security (*) Optimization for low power, low energy, low code and data size, and high (real-time) performance Tools for analysis, specification, design and implementation of embedded systems, including (*) Hardware, system software, and application, and their interface (*) Distributed real-time control, media players, reconfigurable architectures and other complex systems (*) Validation and verification, system integration and testing (*) Timing analysis, timing predictability, WCET analysis and real-time scheduling analysis (*) Performance monitoring and tuning (*) Runtime system support for embedded systems Novel embedded architectures (*) Design and implementation of novel embedded architectures (*) Workload analysis and performance evaluation (*) Architecture support for new language features, new compiler techniques and debugging tools Submission deadline: February 9, 2009 ===================================== (Please see the web site for details about paper submission.) Program Committee: ================== (*) Dhruva Chakrabarti (*) Swarat Chaudhuri (*) Bruce Childers (*) Andreas Krall (*) Prasad Kulkarni (*) Tei-Wei Kuo (*) Insup Lee (*) Liqian Luo (*) Jan Madsen (*) Sally McKee (*) Florence Maraninchi (*) Peter Marwedel (*) Frank Mueller (*) Tamiya Onodera (*) Alex Orailoglu (*) Emre Ozer (*) Preeti R. Panda (*) Tajana Simunic (*) Reinhard Wilhelm (*) Wayne Wolf (*) Wang Yi Steering Committee: =================== (*) Koen De Bosschere (*) Ron Cytron (*) Srinivas Devadas (*) Krisztian Flautner (*) Rajiv Gupta (*) Mary Jane Irwin (*) Annie Liu (*) Thomas Marlowe (*) Peter Marwedel (*) Frank Mueller (*) Yunheung Paek (*) Santosh Pande (*) John Regeher (*) Per Stenstrom (*) David Whalley (*) Reinhard Wilhelm General Chair: ============== Christoph Kirsch University of Salzburg Program Chair: ============== Mahmut Kandemir Penn State University Poster Chair: ============= Aviral Shrivastava Arizona State University Publicity Chair: ================ Alain Girault INRIA Grenoble Rh?ne-Alpes -- ------------- Alain GIRAULT http://pop-art.inrialpes.fr/~girault INRIA senior researcher tel: +(33|0) 476 61 53 51 Head of the POP ART project-team fax: +(33|0) 476 61 52 52 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sauvons la Recherche ! http://www.sauvonslarecherche.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: lctes09-cfp.txt Url: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090109/a759aa60/lctes09-cfp-0001.txt From Davide.Sangiorgi at cs.unibo.it Fri Jan 9 05:43:27 2009 From: Davide.Sangiorgi at cs.unibo.it (Davide Sangiorgi) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:43:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 10 PhD, PostDoc, and Engineering Positions in EU Formal Methods Message-ID: <49672A4F.8090102@cs.unibo.it> 10 PhD, PostDoc, and Engineering Positions offered! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | HATS: Highly Adaptable and Trustworthy Software using Formal Models | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- HATS is a new Integrated Project funded by the European Union, within the programme "Future and Emerging Technologies" (FET) of the 7th Framework Programme (subject to contract) starting March 2009. The project partners from Chalmers Technical University, Gothenborg, Sweden University of Oslo, Norway Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Technical University of Madrid, Spain IMDEA Software, Spain Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, University of Bologna, Italy, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands Norwegian Computer Center, Oslo, Norway Fredhopper B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental SE, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium are jointly advertising several 3-5 year PhD, PostDoc, and Engineering positions. The goal of HATS is a tool-supported framework and formal methodology for the development of long-lived and trustworthy software systems. Specifically, HATS will turn software product family (SWPF) development into a rigorous approach. The technical core of the project is an Abstract Behavioral Specification language which will allow precise description of SWPF features and components and their instances. For further information see: http://www.hats-project.eu Topic areas: Applicants should have a background and/or interest in one of the topics software modeling, modeling and programming languages, formal methods, verification, language-based security, type systems, or concurrency theory. The following positions are offered: * 2 PhD positions with emphasis on formal modeling and verification at Chalmers University of Technology. One of the positions is in the EU project CHARTER which is closely related to HATS. Application deadline is 9th February 2009. Contact: Prof. Reiner Haehnle. Further details and information on how to apply at http://www.chalmers.se/cse/EN/news/vacancies/positions/two-ph-d-student * A Research Software Engineer at Fredhopper (Amsterdam). The position will comprise of industrial research on modeling and verification of key components of Fredhopper's flagship product within HATS. Fredhopper is the Nr. 1 provider of Search & Merchandising solutions for online business in Europe and industrial leader in the HATS project. Apply by 31 January 2009 for the most optimal procedure. Contact for project information: Dr. Nikolay Diakov. More information and how to apply at: http://www.fredhopper.com/public/company-opps.php?cat=0&subcat=0#research-software-engineer * 2 PostDoc positions at the University of Bologna. The emphasis is on formal modeling and verification of the kind of concurrent systems studied in Hats using various techniques, including behavioural techniques and type systems. Application deadline is 31 January (later applications may also be taken into account). Contact: Prof. Davide Sangiorgi, see: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~sangio/Hats/vacancies.txt * 3 PhD positions with emphasis on static analysis and security at the Technical University of Madrid/IMDEA Software. One of the positions is in the DOVES Spanish project, which is closely related to HATS. The application deadline is 25 January. Later applications may also be taken into account if the positions are not covered. Contact: Prof. German Puebla. Further details and information on how to apply at http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Job_Openings/hats-doves-phd-grants.html * 1 PhD and 1 PostDoc position in the area of software modeling and verification at the University of Kaiserslautern. The emphasis in the area of software modeling is on semantically founded integration of behavioral software models, feature-based descriptions of variability and programs. The emphasis in verification is on modular techniques for object-oriented models and model refinement. Application deadline is January 31. Later applications may also be taken into account. Contact: Prof. A. Poetzsch-Heffter. Further details and information on how to apply at http://softech.informatik.uni-kl.de/Homepage/OffeneStellen * Further positions will be announced at this space! Applicants should have (or expect to have at the start of employment): * For a PhD position: a good Masters level or excellent Bachelor level degree (or equivalent) in computer science, mathematics, or a closely related discipline with knowledge in the areas above. Please see also individual requirements at each site which can differ. * For a Postdoc position: a PhD in computer science or mathematics, preferably with research experience in one of the listed topic areas. * For a software engineer position: a Masters or PhD level level degree (or equivalent) in computer science, mathematics, or a closely related discipline with good knowledge in the areas of program verification, automata theory or discrete math. Knowledge of Java and some programming experience count as a plus. Regardless of the specific application instructions, each application should contain: 1) a full CV including letters of recommendation 2) a research statement, indicating the research directions you are interesting in and what relevant experience you have 3) transcripts of degree results where available. To apply, please follow the links given above. Expressions of interest received by 15 January 2009 are guaranteed full consideration. Specific application deadlines may vary. Early contact would be appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Davide Sangiorgi Dip.Scienze dell'Informazione Universita' di Bologna Phone: +39 051 2094980 Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7 Fax: +39 051 2094510 I-40127 Bologna http://www.cs.unibo.it/~sangio/ From kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Fri Jan 9 07:12:22 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:12:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: WWV 2009 Message-ID: <49673F26.5050500@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] *********************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * WWV 2009 * * Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems * * 5th International Workshop * * * * Castle of Hagenberg, Austria. July 17, 2009 * * http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/wwv09/ * * * * Part of the RISC Summer 2009 * * http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/summer2009/ * *********************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission February 2, 2009 Full Paper Submission February 9, 2009 Acceptance Notification April 20, 2009 Camera Ready June 1, 2009 Workshop July 17, 2009 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 * algebraic methods for verification and certification of Web systems * 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'08 (Siena, Italy), WWV'07 (Venice, Italy), WWV'06 (Paphos, Cyprus), and WWV'05 (Valencia, Spain). LOCATION WWV'09 will be held at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), which is an institute of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. It is located in the Castle of Hagenberg, a romantic, medieval castle amidst the lovely, hilly landscape of the M?hlviertel region, 20 km north east of Linz, the provincial capital of Upper Austria, located halfway between Salzburg and Vienna. For more information about RISC, please visit: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/ The workshop is a part of the RISC Summer 2009 conference series: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/summer2009/ SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submissions must be received by February 9, 2009. In addition, an ASCII version of the title and abstract must be submitted by February 2, 2009. Submitted papers should be prepared in LaTeX, formatted according to the Springer llncs style, and should not exceed 15 pages. Submission is web-based via this link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wwv09 PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in a preliminary proceedings volume, which will be available during the workshop. After the workshop, a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the topic of the WWV workshop is planned. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Wolfgang Schreiner Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria INVITED SPEAKERS Fran?ois Bry Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Axel Polleres National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Technical University of Valencia, Spain Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Wlodzimierz Drabent Link?ping University, Sweden, and Institute Of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy M?rio Florido University of Porto, Portugal Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Massimo Marchiori University of Padova, Italy Mircea Marin University of Tsukuba, Japan Catherine Meadows Naval Research Laboratory, USA Rosario Pugliese University of Florence, Italy I.V. Ramakrishnan Stony Brook University, USA Antonio Vallecillo University of Malaga, Spain From kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Fri Jan 9 09:34:40 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:34:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: JSC Special Issue on Symbolic Computation in Software Science Message-ID: <20090109143440.GA6513@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> [Apologies for multiple copies] ========================================================== JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION Special Issue on Symbolic Computation in Software Science http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/tkutsia/jsc-scss.html ========================================================== SCOPE ----- This special issue is related to the topics of the workshop SCSS'08 (http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/scss2008/): Symbolic Computation in Software Science, which took place in Hagenberg, Austria, on July 12-13, 2008. Both participants of the workshop and other authors are invited to submit contributions. Symbolic Computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, representations of algebraic objects etc.). Powerful symbolic algorithms have been developed during the past decades like resolution, model checking, proving methods for various inductive domains, rewriting techniques, cylindric algebraic decomposition, Groebner bases, characteristic sets, telescoping for recurrence relations, etc. In this special issue, we concentrate on the application of symbolic algorithms to software science. Topics include but are not limited to the application of symbolic techniques to: * algorithm (program) synthesis * algorithm (program) verification * termination analysis of algorithms (programs) * complexity analysis of algorithms (programs) * extraction of specifications from algorithms (programs) * generation of inductive assertions for algorithms (programs) * algorithm (program) transformations * component-based programming * querying (e.g. XML) * semantic web * ... SUBMISSION ---------- We expect original articles (typically 15-30 pages; submission of larger papers will be evaluated depending on editorial constraints) that present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions must comply with JSC's author guidelines. They must be written in English and should be prepared in LaTeX using the "Elsevier Article Class (elsart.cls)" with "JSC add-on style (yjsco.sty)" and "Harvard style references (elsart-harv.bst)". The package "JSC LaTex" (that contains all the necessary style files and a template) can be obtained from http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/jsc/JSC_LaTex_2007_Mar_12.zip. The introduction of the paper MUST explicitly address the following questions in succinct and informal manner: * What is the problem? * Why is the problem important? * What has been done so far on the problem? * What is the main contribution of the paper on the problem? * Is the contribution original? Explain why. * Is the contribution non-trivial? Explain why. All the main definitions, theorems and algorithms must be illustrated by simple but meaningful examples. Without these, the paper will not be considered. We also encourage tutorials/surveys. They will be reviewed for - Quality of Presentation - Fair/complete crediting of the people who worked on the subject. It must contain: - List of the main problems/questions - Motivation/importance - Description of main ideas/algorithms/improvements so far - List of important open problems - Complete bib The target audience should be "non-expert" on the subject. (starting PhD students or experts on other subjects). The problems, ideas, algorithms, etc should be illustrated by well-chosen examples. If you plan to submit a tutorial or a survey, make sure that the title contains a phrase, such as "tutorial on ......." or "survey of .....", etc. Submissions to this special issue are hereby encouraged via the EasyChair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscscss2009. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission of papers: March 23, 2009. * Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 27, 2009. * Final version: September 14, 2009. GUEST EDITOR ------------ * Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) From herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk Mon Jan 12 08:20:02 2009 From: herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk (Herbert Wiklicky) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:20:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: Coordination'09 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Coordination 2009 Languages, Models, and Architectures for Concurrent and Distributed Software 11th International Conference Member of the Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques Lisbon, Portugal 9 - 12 June 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/coordination ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 28 January 2009 Paper submission: 1 February 2009 Author rebuttal period: 2-4 March 2009 Author notification: 16 March 2009 Camera-ready copy: 1 April 2009 Conference: 9-11 June 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope Modern software lives in a concurrent world. The ubiquity of the Internet allows distributed software components to be composed into complex networked systems. At the other end of the spectrum, multicore processors are now the norm. Hence applications are bound to be inherently concurrent and communication centered. Coordination 2009 seeks high-quality papers on programming languages, models, and architectures that address the challenge of building robust distributed and concurrent applications. The conference focuses on the design and implementation of models that allow compositional construction of large-scale concurrent and distributed systems, including both practical and foundational models, runtime systems, and related verification and analysis techniques. Past incarnations of Coordination have emphasized foundations. However, given the increasing importance of concurrency in almost every software domain, the organizers of Coordination 2009 are keen to provide a strong forum for high-quality papers that address practical aspects of concurrent programming models; e.g.: application of concurrency to novel domains, comparisons of alternative programming models on important problems, or domain-specific languages. Topics of Interest DISTRIBUTED AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING MODELS: multicore programming, stream programming, data parallel programming, event-driven programming, web programming FOUNDATIONS OF DISTRIBUTED AND CONCURRENT INTERACTION: models for processes, service composition and orchestration, workflow management, data query, tuple spaces SPECIFICATION, VERIFICATION, AND TYPES: modeling and analysis of types and properties related to security, dependability, resource consumption, and component conformance for concurrent and distributed systems HIGH-LEVEL OPTIMIZATIONS: program transformations for performance enhancement, runtime load balancing techniques, static and dynamic resource management QUALITY OF SERVICE: fault-tolerant programming models and runtime support, models with responsiveness guarantees DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT: component and module systems for distributed software, dynamic software evolution and update technologies, configuration and deployment architectures SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMMING MODELS: P2P frameworks, mobile ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, publish-subscribe systems, event processing CASE STUDIES: application of novel distributed and concurrent techniques in business process modeling, e-commerce, factory automation, collaboration, command and control ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speaker Manuel Serrano, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR "Semantics and Implementation of the HOP Programming Language" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines The Coordination 2009 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. 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 Coordination '09 papers will be invited to a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming. Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF form at https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=coordination09, using the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0). Papers are strictly limited to 20 pages in length, _including_ figures and appendices, using the standard LNCS 10pt body font. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines are subject to being rejected without review. Authors intending to submit a paper must enter an abstract into the paper submission system by 28 January 2009. The (strict) paper submission deadline is 1 February 2009. Authors will be given the opportunity to respond succinctly to factual errors in conference reviews during a rebuttal period from 2-4 March. The committee will take rebuttals into consideration during its decision process, but will not necessarily revise its final reviews in response. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coordination '09 Organization PC and Conference Chairs: John Field, IBM Research, USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, PT Publicity Chair: Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK Program Committee: G?rard Boudol, INRIA, FR Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE William R. Cook, University of Texas, USA John Field, IBM Research, USA David Gay, Intel Research, USA Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, CH Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University, DK Kohei Honda, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, USA Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA Doug Lea, State University of New York, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, DE Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, CH Uwe Nestmann, Technical University of Berlin, DE Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, IT Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, PT Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT Steering Committee: Farhad Arbab, CWI, NL Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, UK Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, BE Doug Lea, State University of New York, USA Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, CH Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, IT (Chair) 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 Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, IT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques Organization Antonio Ravara, Technical University of Lisbon, PT (General Chair) Carla Ferreira, New University of Lisbon, PT Ana Almeida Matos, Technical University of Lisbon, PT Workshops Chair Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon, PT Publicity Chair Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, NO From areces at pluton.loria.fr Mon Jan 12 11:15:23 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:15:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: HyLo 2009 Message-ID: <200901121615.n0CGFN6V007189@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2009 (HyLo 2009) "Conmemorating the Ten Years of HyLo" http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 15 - 17 July, 2009 Nancy, France *************************************************************** WORKSHOP PURPOSE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of HyLo 2009 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. HyLo 2009 will be an special event, conmemorating the ten years since the organization of the first HyLo workshop in 1999. HyLo 2009 will be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). SUBMISSION DETAILS: We invite the contribution of papers reporting new work from researchers interested in hybrid logic. Details about the submission procedure will be announced in the second call for papers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be included in a special volume to conmemorate the 10th aniversary of the first Hybrid Logic Workshop. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. INVITED SPEAKERS: To be announced ORGANIZERS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Torben Brauner (Roskilde University) Stephane Demri (LSV Cachan) Santiago Figueira (University of Buenos Aires) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 1st March 2009 Notification of acceptance: Monday, 30th of April 2009 Deadline for final versions: Friday, 1st of May 2009 Workshop dates: 15 to 17 July, 2009 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 From stone at cs.hmc.edu Mon Jan 12 14:23:54 2009 From: stone at cs.hmc.edu (Christopher A. Stone) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:23:54 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOOL '09: 2nd Call for Participation In-Reply-To: <40263FC9-A8D2-42F9-82B9-5C0FC04FB4D2@cs.hmc.edu> References: <40263FC9-A8D2-42F9-82B9-5C0FC04FB4D2@cs.hmc.edu> Message-ID: <34312B6E-FB22-4D95-BD60-DF581255E7A5@cs.hmc.edu> 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2009 International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL '09) Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Saturday, 24 January 2009 Savannah, Georgia, USA Following POPL '09 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/FOOL09/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS: Peter Thiemann Generalized Interfaces for Java Jeff Foster Adding Static Typing to Ruby TECHNICAL PROGRAM: CZ: Multiple Inheritance Without Diamonds Donna Malayeri Dynamic Interfaces Simon Gay, Antonio Ravara and Vasco Vasconcelos Flattening versus direct semantics for Featherweight Jigsaw Giovanni Lagorio, Marco Servetto and Elena Zucca Growing a Syntax Eric Allen, Ryan Culpepper, Janus Dam Nielsen, Jon Rafkind and Sukyoung Ryu Modular Verification with Shared Abstractions Uri Juhasz, Noam Rinetzky, Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, Mooly Sagiv and Eran Yahav Recency Types for Dynamically-Typed, Object-Based Languages Phillip Heidegger and Peter Thiemann -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The search for sound principles for object-oriented languages has led to a better understanding of the key concepts of object-oriented languages and to important developments in type theory, semantics, program verification, and program development. The FOOL workshops bring together researchers to share new ideas and results in these areas. The next workshop, FOOL '09 will be held in Savannah, Georgia, USA on Saturday, 24 January 2009, the day after POPL. The program includes two invited speakers, six contributed talks, and lunch. To register for the workshop, use the standard POPL registration form, available through: http://www.regmaster.com/conf/popl2009.html To keep down the cost of registration, we will not be providing printed proceedings. All papers will be available online before the workshop, so you may print any papers you wish to have on hand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chair Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) e-mail: jonathan.aldrich at cs.cmu.edu Program Committee * Viviana Bono (Universit? di Torino) * Gilad Bracha (Cadence Design Systems) * Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London) * Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto University) * Ond?ej Lhot?k (University of Waterloo) * Ole Lehrmann Madsen (Aarhus University) * Sean McDirmid (Microsoft Advanced Technology Center) * Peter M?ller (Microsoft Research) * Jeremy Siek (University of Colorado at Boulder) * Mandana Vaziri (IBM Research) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee * Viviana Bono (Universita` di Torino) * Kathleen Fisher (AT&T Labs) * Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto University) * Benjamin Pierce (University of Pennsylvania) * John Reppy (University of Chicago) * Christopher Stone (Harvey Mudd College) [Chair] * Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher A. 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URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090113/45de1c74/attachment.htm From gmb at microsoft.com Tue Jan 13 05:13:38 2009 From: gmb at microsoft.com (Gavin Bierman) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:13:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLAN-X '09: 2nd call for participation Message-ID: ********************************************************************* 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PLAN-X 2009 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Language Techniques for XML 24 January 2009 Savannah, Georgia, USA To be held in conjunction with POPL 2009 http://db.ucsd.edu/PLANX2009 ********************************************************************* INVITED SPEAKER James Cheney Provenance, XML, and the Scientific Web TECHNICAL PROGRAM Ontology Querying and Reasoning with XQuery Jesus Almendros-Himenez Morph: A (Shape) Polymorphic XML Query Language Curtis Dyreson, Souraw Bhoumick, Aswani Rao Jannu, Kirkanath Mallampalli, Shuohao Zhang Assertion Support for Manipulating Constrained Data-Centric XML Patrick Michel and Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter Ordered Types for Stream Processing of Tree-Structured Data Ryosuke Sato, Kohei Suenaga, and Naoki Kobayashi The Complexity of Translation Membership for Macro Tree Transducers Kazuhiro Inaba and Sebastian Maneth Counting Trees Along Multidirectional Regular Paths Everardo Barcenas, Pierre Geneves, and Nabil Layaida Recognizing Matching Patterns for XML Data Using a Grammar-Based Data Compression Algorithm Hiroyasu Nishiyama, Tomoya Ohta, Seiro Tamura, Hideo Munechika Rewriting XQuery to Avoid Redundant Expressions Based on Static Emulation of XML Store Hiroyuki Kato, Soichiro Hidaka, Zhenjiang Hu, Yasunori Ishihara, and Keisuke Nakano ********************************************************************* The PLAN-X 2009 workshop is the forum to present and discuss bleeding-edge research at the intersection of programming language and data base technology with an emphasis on tree-shaped data structures and their XML representation. The next workshop will be held in Savannah, Georgia, USA on Saturday, 24 January 2009, the day after POPL. The program includes an invited talk, eight contributed talks, and lunch. Details of the program are available at: http://db.ucsd.edu/PLANX2009/program.html To register for the workshop, use the standard POPL registration form, available at: http://www.regmaster.com/conf/popl2009.html From Dave.Clarke at cs.kuleuven.be Tue Jan 13 07:06:35 2009 From: Dave.Clarke at cs.kuleuven.be (Dave Clarke) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:06:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2009 Last Call for Workshops and Tutorials Message-ID: <200901131206.n0DC6ZS9006915@leo.cs.kuleuven.be.> ECOOP'2009 23rd European Conference on Object Oriented Programming July 6th - 10th 2009, Genova, Italy http://2009.ecoop.org LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS [Changed submission details] WORKSHOPS http://2009.ecoop.org/workshops.html Workshops provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss focused issues in an atmosphere that fosters interaction, exchange, and problem solving. Workshops also provide the opportunity for representatives of a technical community to coordinate efforts and establish collective plans of action. All topics related to object- oriented technology are potential candidates for workshops. See link above for details. Submissions to damiani[AT]di[DOT]unito[DOT]it and mario[DOT]sudholt[AT]emn[DOT]fr. SUMMER SCHOOL TUTORIALS: http://2009.ecoop.org/summer-school.html The ECOOP 2009 Summer School will consist of prestigious tutorials on exciting current topics in software, systems, and languages research. The scope of the ECOOP Summer School is the same as the conference itself: all areas relevant to object technology, including work that takes inspiration from or builds connections to areas not commonly considered object-oriented. Tutorials should introduce researchers to current research in an area, and/or to show important new tools that can be used in research. See link above for details. Submissions to tutorials[AT]dico[DOT]unimi[DOT]it IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposals January, 15, 2009 Notification of Tutorial acceptance February 16, 2009 Workshops proposals January 15, 2009 Notification of workshop acceptance February 9, 2009 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Ferruccio Damiani (University of Torino, Italy) Mario Südholt (Ècole des Mines de Nantes, France) SUMMER SCHOOL COMMITTEE Antonio Cisternino (University of Pisa, Italy) Paola Giannini (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) From sweirich at cis.upenn.edu Tue Jan 13 13:37:02 2009 From: sweirich at cis.upenn.edu (Stephanie Weirich) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:37:02 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CRA-W/CDC PLOSA Workshop - Application deadline January 23rd Message-ID: <2E8C26F4-5880-4CAE-A977-6F1C3469AD18@cis.upenn.edu> PLOSA 2009: CRA-W/CDC Programming Languages, Operating Systems, & Architecture Workshop March 7-8, 2009 Washington DC, co-located with ASPLOS http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/plosa-craw-2009/ Application deadline January 23rd! As a joint effort of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), we are organizing a workshop in Programming Languages, Operating Systems, & Architecture to be held together with ASPLOS. The workshop is particularly targeted at women and under- represented minority graduate students and early-career faculty with research interests in programming languages, operating systems, & architecture. Through technical panel sessions with academic and industry leaders, as well as other informal activities, the workshop will provide mentoring to support participants in achieving their career goals. A webpage with a tentative schedule and the application form is now available on the web page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/plosa-craw-2009/. We will provide reasonable travel support for participants. There is no charge for the workshop. Feel free to email the workshop organizers with questions or to donate support: Hillery Hunter (hhunter at us.ibm.com), Dilma M Da silva (dilmasilva at us.ibm.com), or Kathryn McKinley (mckinley at cs.utexas.edu). Carla Romero on behalf of workshop organizers Director of Programs Computing Research Association 1100 17th St. NW, Suite 507 Washington, DC 20036 202.266.2941 - voice 202.667.1066 - fax cromero at cra.org www.cra.org From su at cs.ucdavis.edu Wed Jan 14 02:01:57 2009 From: su at cs.ucdavis.edu (Zhendong Su) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:01:57 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2009 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <496D8DE5.2050200@cs.ucdavis.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 16th International Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2009) 9-11 August 2009, Los Angeles, CA (co-located with LICS 2009) URL: http://sas09.cs.ucdavis.edu/ Venue: UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles Static Analysis is increasingly recognized as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance. The series of Static Analysis Symposia has served as the primary venue for presentation of theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area. The Sixteenth International Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2009) will be held in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Previous symposia were held in Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Seoul, London, Verona, San Diego, Madrid, Paris, Santa Barbara, Venezia, Pisa, Paris, Aachen, Glasgow, and Namur. SAS 2009 will be co-located with LICS 2009, 24th IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. SAS and LICS will have a shared session with an invited speaker. Last time SAS and LICS were co-located was in 2000 in Santa Barbara. The technical programme for SAS 2009 will consist of invited lectures and presentations of refereed papers. Contributions are welcomed on all aspects of static analysis, including, but not limited to: abstract domains abstract interpretation abstract testing bug detection data flow analysis model checking new applications program transformation program verification security analysis theoretical frameworks type checking 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 with a new coherence, and application papers, that describe experience with industrial applications, are also welcomed. 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. Paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. The proceedings is planned to be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Important Dates Submission (abstract) 10 February 2009 Submission (full paper) 17 February 2009 Notification 17 April 2009 Camera-ready TBA Early Registration TBA Conference 9-11 August 2009 Invited Speakers: Rastislav Bodik, University of California, Berkeley Edmund M. Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University (LICS/SAS joint) Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research Program Co-Chairs: Jens Palsberg (University of California, Los Angeles) Zhendong Su (University of California, Davis) Program Committee: Alex Aiken (Stanford University, USA) Maria Alpuente (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Radia Cousot (CNRS, France) Sumit Gulwani (Microsoft Research, USA) Chris Hankin (Imperial College, UK) Joxan Jaffar (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Suresh Jagannathan (Purdue University, USA) Naoki Kobayashi (Tohoku University, Japan) Viktor Kuncak (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Anders M?ller (BRICS, University of Aarhus, Denmark) Aditya Nori (Microsoft Research, India) Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, Germany) Jakob Rehof (University of Dortmund, Germany) Thomas Reps (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Harald S?ndergaard (University of Melbourne, Australia) Eran Yahav (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University, Korea) Steering Committee: Patrick Cousot (?cole Normale Sup?rieure, France) Radia Cousot (CNRS, France) Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy) Gilberto Fil? (University of Padova, Italy) David Schmidt (Kansas State University, USA) Venue SAS 2009 will be hosted by UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles. We have reserved inexpensive sleeping rooms on the UCLA campus, near the building in which the conference will take place. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is 15 miles from the conference site. Los Angeles has attractions such as Sunset Boulevard, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Pier, The Hollywood Walk of Fame, Disneyland, Universal Studios Hollywood, and Dodger Stadium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mfd at kth.se Wed Jan 14 04:40:28 2009 From: mfd at kth.se (Mads Dam) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:40:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position, information flow security, KTH Message-ID: <496DB30C.5080300@kth.se> PhD position in information flow security KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden http://www.kth.se/aktuellt/2.1445/1.30321?l=en_UK Contact: Mads Dam, mfd at kth.se From robert at grid.chu.edu.tw Wed Jan 14 09:10:11 2009 From: robert at grid.chu.edu.tw (Robert C. Hsu) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:10:11 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Papers (MUE-09, ISA-09, HPCC-09, SSDU-09, CPI-09, CIT-09, ScalCom-09, CSE-09, CloudCom-09, ISPAN-09) Message-ID: <200901141410.n0EEABph028832@grid.chu.edu.tw> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090114/177eccdc/attachment.htm From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Wed Jan 14 10:15:55 2009 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:15:55 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WoLLIC 2009 - Second Call for Papers (DEADLINE: Feb 28) In-Reply-To: <48FE214B.9050600@cin.ufpe.br> References: <48FE214B.9050600@cin.ufpe.br> Message-ID: <496E01AB.1080901@cin.ufpe.br> [** sincere apologies for duplicates **] Call for Papers /*16th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation*/ (/*WoLLIC 2009*/) Tokyo, Japan June 21-24, 2009 (SPECIAL: There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.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 Sixteenth WoLLIC will be held at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, from June 21 to 24, 2009. It is jointly sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the 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). *SPECIAL EVENT* 2009 will mark the 60-th anniversary of the publication of Paul Erdos' elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Erdos which was directed by George Csicsery "N is a number - A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html *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 http://wollic.org/wollic2009/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 19, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 3 (firm date). *PROCEEDINGS* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2009, 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 (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 2009 issue of a scientific journal. *INVITED SPEAKERS* Arnold Beckmann (Swansea U, UK) Carlos Caleiro (UT Lisbon, Portugal) Thomas Eiter (Tech U Wien, Austria) Sylvain Salvati (INRIA, France) Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Inst Tech, Japan) Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam, NL) Frank Wolter (U Liverpool, UK) *STUDENT GRANTS* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2009 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2009). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *IMPORTANT DATES* February 28, 2009: Paper title and abstract deadline March 8, 2009: Full paper deadline (firm) April 19, 2009: Author notification May 3, 2009: Final version deadline (firm) *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Toshiyasu Arai (Kobe U, Japan) Matthias Baaz (Tech U Wien) Alexandru Baltag (Oxford U) Josep Maria Font (U Barcelona) Silvio Ghilardi (U Milano) Katsumi Inoue (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld) Hiroakira Ono (JAIST, Japan) (Chair) Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya U) John Slaney (Australian Nat U) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U) Hans Tompits (Tech U Wien) *ORGANISING COMMITTEE* Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan, co-chair) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair) Ken Satoh (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) *STEERING COMMITTEE* Samson Abramsky , Johan van Benthem , Joe Halpern , Wilfrid Hodges , Daniel Leivant , Angus Macintyre , Grigori Mints , Ruy de Queiroz *WEB PAGE* wollic.org/wollic2009/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The main conferences of ETAPS are: - FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures - FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - ESOP: European Symposium on Programming - CC: International Conference on Compiler Construction - TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems These conferences take place March 22-26, 2010. -- SATELLITE EVENTS -- The ETAPS 2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for Satellite Events (workshops, tutorials, etc.) that will complement the main ETAPS conferences. They should fall within the scope of ETAPS. This encompasses all aspects of the system development process, including specification, design, implementation, analysis and improvement, as well as the languages, methodologies and tools which support these activities, covering a spectrum from practically-motivated theory to soundly-based practice. Satellite Events provide an opportunity to discuss and report on emerging research approaches and practical experience relevant to theory and practice of software. ETAPS 2010 Satellite Events will be held immediately before and after the main conferences, on March 20-21 and March 27-28, 2010. -- SUBMISSION OF SATELLITE EVENT PROPOSALS -- Researchers and practitioners wishing to organize Satellite Events are invited to submit proposals in ASCII, PDF or Postscript format by e-mail to etaps10_satellite_events at cs.ucy.ac.cy. A proposal should not exceed two pages and should include: - Satellite Event name / acronym - the names and contact information of the organizers - the preferred period: March 20-21 or March 27-28 - the duration of the workshop: one-day or two-day event - 120-word description of the workshop topic for later use in publicity material - a brief explanation of the workshop topic and its relevance to ETAPS - a schedule for paper submission, notification of acceptance and final versions (the latter no later than January 20, 2010, more information on that is to be announced) - expected number of participants - any other relevant information, like event format, invited speakers, publication policy, demo sessions, special space requirements, etc. The proposals will be evaluated by the ETAPS 2010 organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants to ETAPS 2010. The titles and brief information about accepted Satellite Events will be included in the ETAPS 2010 web site, call for papers and call for participation. Satellite Events organizers will be responsible for - producing the event's call for papers and call for participations - publicising the event through specialist mailing lists etc. to complement publicity for ETAPS as a whole - hosting and maintaining a web site for the event - reviewing and making acceptance decisions on submitted papers - producing the event proceedings, if any; facilities for printing will be made available by the ETAPS organizers - scheduling workshop activities in consultation with the local organizers Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages of previous satellite events as examples: ETAPS 2009: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/etaps09/ ETAPS 2008: http://etaps08.mit.bme.hu/ ETAPS 2007: http://www.di.uminho.pt/etaps07/ ETAPS 2006: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/etaps06/ ETAPS 2005: http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/ ETAPS 2004: http://www.lsi.upc.es/etaps04/ ETAPS 2003: http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/etaps03/ -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Satellite Event Proposals Deadline: 10 February 2009 Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2009 -- FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES -- Please contact the Local Organizers, George A. Papadopoulos, george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Anna Phillipou, annap at cs.ucy.ac.cy -- THE HOST CITY -- ETAPS 2010 will be held in Cyprus. Cyprus is the third biggest island in the Mediterranean and one of the newest members of the European Union. It is an island state and its main source of income is tourism and services. Paphos has an air of holiday charm combined with history, and olden-day elegance is lent to the town by its classical style buildings in the upper part of town which leads to the shopping area. The lower part of the town - known as Kato Paphos - has a life of its own, down near the sea, home of the harbour, the fish tavernas, souvenir shops and several beautiful hotels with important archaeological sites all around them. More information: http://www.visitcyprus.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. 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From marina.lenisa at dimi.uniud.it Wed Jan 14 16:11:50 2009 From: marina.lenisa at dimi.uniud.it (Marina Lenisa) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:11:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] cfp: calco'09 (3rd Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science), Udine, Italy Message-ID: <46A81948-C37A-481A-85B0-0B0085A5FCC9@dimi.uniud.it> *------------------------------------------------------------------* * Call for Papers * * * * CALCO 2009 * * * * 3rd Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science * * CALCO Tools Day * * CALCO-jnr * * * September 6-10 2009, Udine, Italy * * * *------------------------------------------------------------------* * Abstract submission: February 2, 2009 * * Technical paper submission: February 7, 2009 * * Tools Day submission: February 24, 2009 * * Author notification: April 22, 2009 * *------------------------------------------------------------------* * http://www.dimi.uniud.it/calco09/ * *------------------------------------------------------------------* CALCO brings together researchers and practitioners to exchange new results about both traditional and emerging uses of algebras and coalgebras in computer science. This is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). The first and second CALCO conferences took place 2005 in Swansea, Wales (http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/calco/index.php), and 2007 in Bergen, Norway (http://www.ii.uib.no/calco07/). The second event will take place September 2009 in Udine, Italy. CALCO 2009 will be preceded by two events on September 6, 2009. * CALCO-jnr - a CALCO Young Researchers Workshop dedicated to presentations by PhD students and by those who completed their doctoral studies within the past few years. * CALCO Tools Day - providing the opportunity to give system demonstrations. See below for more information. There are separate submission procedures for the CALCO main conference, CALCO-jnr and CALCO Tools Day, respectively. Invited Speakers ------------------ Mai Gehrke (Nijmegen, NL) Conor McBride (Strathclyde, UK) Prakash Panangaden (McGill, Canada) Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh, UK) Topics of Interest ------------------ We invite submissions of technical papers that report results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of resulting technologies into industrial practice. We encourage submissions in topics included or related to those in the lists below. * Abstract models and logics - Automata and languages, - Categorical semantics, - Modal logics, - Relational systems, - Graph transformation, - Term rewriting, - Adhesive categories * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems, - Calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, mobile, and context-aware computing, - General systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc) * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types, - Inductive and coinductive methods, - Re-engineering techniques (program transformation), - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques, - Semantics of programming languages * System specification and verification - Algebraic and coalgebraic specification, - Formal testing and quality assurance, - Validation and verification, - Generative programming and model-driven development, - Models, correctness and (re)configuration of hardware/middleware/architectures, - Process algebra Submission Guidelines --------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Experience papers are welcome, but they must clearly present general lessons learned that would be of interest and benefit to a broad audience of both researchers and practitioners. As in 2005 and 2007, it is planned to publish the proceedings in the Springer LNCS series. Final papers will be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by Springer. It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Both an abstract and the full paper must be submitted by their respective submission deadlines. A special issue of the new high-quality open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org), consisting of extended versions of selected papers will be produced after the conference if there are enough good papers that can be extended and revised to the standards of this journal. Important Dates (all in 2009) ----------------------------- February 2 Abstract submission due February 7 Technical paper submission due February 24 Submissions to CALCO Tools Day, see below April 22 Author notification May 22 Camera ready due ----------------------------- September 6 CALCO-jnr and CALCO Tools Day September 6-10 CALCO technical programme Programme Committee ------------------- Luca Aceto, Reykjavik University, IS Stephen Bloom, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, NL Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, UK Andrea Corradini, University of Pisa, I Jos? Fiaderio, University of Leicester, UK Rolf Hennicker, University of Munich, D Furio Honsell, University of Udine, I Bart Jacobs, University of Nijmegen, NL Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, PL Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester, UK (co-chair) Stefan Milius, University of Braunschweig, D Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, I Larry Moss, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Till Mossakowski, DFKI Lab Bremen and University of Bremen, D Dirk Pattinson, Imperial College London, UK Dusko Pavlovic, Kestrel Institute, USA Jean-Eric Pin, CNRS-LIAFA Paris, F John Power, University of Bath, UK Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA Jan Rutten, CWI and Free University, Amsterdam, NL Davide Sangiorgi, University of Bologna, I Lutz Schr?der, DFKI Lab Bremen and University of Bremen, D Eugene Stark, State University of New York, USA Andrzej Tarlecki, Warsaw University, PL (co-chair) Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam, NL James Worrell, University of Oxford, UK Steering Committee ------------------ Jiri Adamek, Michel Bidoit, Corina Cirstea, Jose Fiadeiro (co-chair, http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/jfiadeiro/), H.Peter Gumm, Magne Haveraaen, Bart Jacobs, Hans-Joerg Kreowski, Alexander Kurz, Marina Lenisa, Ugo Montanari, Larry Moss, Till Mossakowski, Peter Mosses, Fernando Orejas, Francesco Parisi-Presicce, John Power, Horst Reichel, Markus Roggenbach, Jan Rutten (co-chair, http://homepages.cwi.nl/ ~janr/), Andrzej Tarlecki Organising Committee -------------------- Fabio Alessi, Alberto Ciaffaglione, Pietro Di Gianantonio, Davide Grohmann, Furio Honsell, Marina Lenisa (chair, http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~lenisa), Marino Miculan, Ivan Scagnetto, University of Udine, Italy Location ------------------------- The conference will be held in the city of Udine, the capital of the historical region of Friuli, Italy. Located between the Adriatic sea and the Alps, close to Venice, Austria and Slovenia, Udine is a city of Roman origins, funded by Emperor Otto in 983. Rich of historical sites, Udine is also famous for its outstanding wine and culinary traditions. CALCO Tools Day --------------- A special day at CALCO'09 is dedicated to tools based on algebraic and coalgebraic principles. These include systems/prototypes/tools developed specifically for design, checking, execution, and verification of (co)algebraic specifications, but also tools targeting different application domains but making core or interesting use of (co)algebraic techniques. Tool submissions should be no longer than 5 pages in the LNCS format; the accepted tool papers will be included in the final LNCS proceedings of the conference. The tools should be available on the web for download and evaluation. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers; one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and run the tool. At least one of the authors of each tool paper must attend the conference to demo the tool. Submissions by e-mail to grosu at cs.uiuc.edu. Important Dates (all in 2009) February 24 Tools software and paper submissions due March 28 Author notification May 16 Camera ready due September 6 CALCO Tools Day Program Committee Luigi Liquori, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Luigi.Liquori/ Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA http://fsl.cs.uiuc.edu/index.php/Grigore_Rosu http://www.dimi.uniud.it/calco09/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090116/b191de19/attachment.htm From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Sat Jan 17 07:01:30 2009 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:01:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CiE 2009: COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2009 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: *************************************************************************** In response to requests, we have extended the deadline for submissions to 1st February, 2009. *************************************************************************** Final Call for Papers CiE 2009: COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2009 - Mathematical Theory and Computational Practice Heidelberg, Germany 19 - 24 July 2009 ************************************************************ EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 1st FEBRUARY 2009 ************************************************************ http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/logic/cie2009/ *************************************************************************** CiE 2009 is the fifth in a series of conferences organised by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world. Previous meetings took place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007) and Athens (2008). TUTORIALS: Pavel Pudlak, Luca Trevisan. INVITED SPEAKERS: Manindra Agrawal, Jeremy Avigad, Phokion Kolaitis, Peter Koepke, Andrea Sorbi, Rafael D. Sorkin, Vijay Vazirani. SPECIAL SESSIONS on Algorithmic Randomness (E. Mayordomo, W. Merkle), Computational Model Theory (J. Knight, A. Morozov), Computation in Biological Systems - Theory and Practice (A. Carbone, E. Csuhaj-Varju), Optimization and Approximation (M. Halldorsson, G. Reinelt), Philosophical and Mathematical Aspects of Hypercomputation (J. Ladyman, P. Welch), Relative Computability (R. Downey, A. Soskova) SPECIAL SESSION INVITED SPEAKERS CONFIRMED SO FAR: Laurent Bienvenu, Tim Button, Samuel Coskey, Friedrich Eisenbrand, Ekaterina Fokina, Hristo Ganchev, Sergey Goncharov, Mark Hogarth, Bjorn Kjos-Hanssen, Jack Lutz, Russell Miller, Antonio Montalban, Keng Meng Ng, Ion Petre, Alberto Policriti, Francisco J. Romero-Campero, Richard Shore, Nikolai Vereshchagin, David Westhead. CiE 2009 has a broad scope and bridges the gap from the theoretical methods of mathematical and meta-mathematical flavour to the applied and industrial questions of computational practice. The conference aims to bring together researchers who want to explore the historical and philosophical aspects of the field. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. Since women are underrepresented in mathematics and computer science, we emphatically encourage submissions by female authors. The Elsevier Foundation is supporting the CiE conference series in the programme "Increasing representation of female researchers in the computability community". This programme will allow us to fund child-care support, a mentoring system for young female researchers, and also a small number of grants for female researchers, covering their registration fees. The dates around the submission process are as follows: Extended Submission Deadline: 1 February 2009 Notification of Authors: 16 March 2009 Deadline for Final Version: 17 April 2009 CiE 2009 conference topics include, but not exclusively: * Admissible sets * Analog computation * Artificial intelligence * Automata theory * Classical computability and degree structures * Computability theoretic aspects of programs * Computable analysis and real computation * Computable structures and models * Computational and proof complexity * Computational complexity * Computational learning and complexity * Concurrency and distributed computation * Constructive mathematics * Cryptographic complexity * Decidability of theories * Derandomization * 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 * Natural computing * 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 arithmetics and applications Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consisting of: Klaus Ambos-Spies (Heidelberg, co-chair), Giorgio Ausiello (Rome), Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana), Arnold Beckmann (Swansea), Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau), Vasco Brattka (Cape Town), Barry Cooper (Leeds), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge), Jacques Duparc (Lausanne), Pascal Hitzler (Karlsruhe), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht), Margarita Korovina (Siegen/Novosibirsk), Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol), Daniel Leivant (Bloomington), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam), Giancarlo Mauri (Milan), Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza), Wolfgang Merkle (Heidelberg, co-chair), Andrei Morozov (Novosibirsk), Dag Normann (Oslo), Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon), Luke Ong (Oxford), Martin Otto (Darmstadt), Prakash Panangaden (Montreal), Ivan Soskov (Sofia), Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen (Uppsala), Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam), Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht), Philip Welch (Bristol), Richard Zach (Calgary) The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers in the area of the conference to submit their papers (in PDF-format, at most 10 pages) for presentation at CiE 2009. The best of the accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer, which will be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published, and they must neither be accepted nor under review at a journal or at another conference with refereed proceedings. All papers need to be prepared in LNCS-style LaTeX. Papers should not exceed 10 pages; full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. The title page must contain: title and authors; physical and e-mail addresses; identification of corresponding author, if not the first author; an abstract of no more than 200 words; a list of keywords. Submissions authored or co-authored by members of the Programme Committee are not allowed. From jas at di.uminho.pt Fri Jan 16 06:58:25 2009 From: jas at di.uminho.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Saraiva) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:58:25 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GTTSE 2009 --- First call for participation (06-11 July 2009) Message-ID: <1232107105.3509.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> GTTSE 2009, 06-11 July, 2009, Braga, Portugal 3rd International Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering http://gttse.wikidot.com/ SCOPE AND FORMAT The biannual, week-long GTTSE summer school brings together PhD students, lecturers, as well as researchers and practitioners who are interested in the generation and the transformation of programs, data, software models, data models, metamodels, documentation, and entire software systems. The GTTSE school draws from several areas of the broad software engineering and programming language communities, in particular: software reverse and re-engineering, model-driven software development, program calculation, generic language technology, generative programming, aspect-oriented programming, and compiler construction. The GTTSE school presents the state of the art in automated software engineering and software language engineering: foundations, methods, tools, and case studies. The school's scientific program consists of three modules: 8 full tutorials (see below for a list of speakers and topics), 8 short tutorials (see the website for this part; under construction), and a half day-long participants' workshop. Each of the (8) full tutorials takes 3 hours of plenary time of GTTSE's week-long schedule. These tutorials are given by "veterans" of the field. Each of the (8) short(er) tutorials takes 20 mins of plenary time and approximately 90 mins of "parallel" time (with typically 2 sessions in parallel). These tutorials are (also) by invitation only. Most if not all tutorials will be complemented by articles in the proceedings of the school. The participants' workshop features presentations that were selected among the proposals submitted by the participants (who are typically PhD students). The idea is here to provide committed junior researchers with a slot to present their relevant research and to receive highly qualified feedback from the senior researchers at the school. This time, GTTSE features an award, sponsored by SIG (The Software Improvement Group), to be given to the best presenter at the participants' workshop. After the school, all participants of the school can submit an article for peer review to the post-proceedings. In the past, about 25% of these submissions were selected by the scientific committee to be included in the post-proceedings. All material presented at the school will be collected in informal proceedings to be handed out solely to the participants. Formal and public post-proceedings will be compiled after the summer school where all contributions are subjected to reviewing. Subject to Springer's approval, the post-proceedings of the school will be published in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer-Verlag. The post-proceedings of the previous two instances of the summer school (2005 and 2007) were published as LNCS volumes 4143 and 5235. FULL TUTORIALS * Software Product Line Refactoring Paulo Borba, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil * The TXL Source Transformation Cookbook James R. Cordy, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada * Chasing Diagrams in the Mapping Forests of Model Transformations Zinovy Diskin, University of Waterloo and Univ. of Toronto, Canada * Generating Language Tools with JastAdd G?rel Hedin, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. * Model Driven Language Engineering with Kermeta Jean-Marc J?z?quel, IRISA, Rennes, France * Rascal: Meta-programming Made Easy Paul Klint, CWI and Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands * Sourcerer: Slicing and Dicing Large Amounts of Open Source Code Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA * Theory & Practice of Modeling Language Design for Model-Based Engineering Bran Selic, Malina Software Corp., Canada ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE * Jo?o M. Fernandes (Program Co-Chair), Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Ralf L?mmel (Program Co-Chair), Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Jo?o Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For additional information on the program, venue, and other details of the summer school, please consult the web page: http://gttse.wikidot.com/ Note that registration for the summer school will open in February 2009. Before that time, those who wish to be notified personally when registration opens are welcome to send an expression of interest to gttse2009 AT list.uni-koblenz.de From florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk Tue Jan 20 10:07:06 2009 From: florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk (CRACIUN F.) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:07:06 -0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2009 - Second CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <1C7F51B7A4A4F54389A69794AD79A24DCB838E@EXDUR3.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk> TASE 2009 - Second CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************** * 3rd IEEE International Symposium on * Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering * (TASE 2009) * 29-31 July 2009, Tianjin, China * http://www.dur.ac.uk/ieee.tase2009 * * For more information email: IEEE.TASE2009 at durham.ac.uk ********************************************************** Large scale software systems and the Internet are of growing concern to academia and industry. This poses new challenges to the various aspects of software engineering, for instance, the reliability of software development, web-oriented software architecture and aspect and object-orientation techniques. As a result, new concepts and methodologies are required to enhance the development of software engineering from theoretical aspects. TASE 2009 is a forum for researchers from academia, industry and government to present ideas, results, and ongoing research on theoretical advances in software engineering. TASE 2009 is the third in a series of conference, sponsored by IEEE CS and IFIP. The first TASE conference was held in Shanghai, China, in June 2007. The second TASE conference was held in Nanjing, China, in June 2008. Topics of Interest: Authors are invited to submit high quality technical papers describing original and unpublished work in all theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Requirements Engineering * Specification and Verification * Program Analysis * Software Testing * Model-Driven Engineering * Software Architectures and Design * Aspect and Object Orientation * Embedded and Real-Time Systems * Software Processes and Workflows * Component-Based Software Engineering * Software Safety, Security and Reliability * Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance * Service-Oriented Computing * Semantic Web and Web Services * Type System and Theory * Program Logics and Calculus * Dependable Concurrency * Software Model Checking Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Wei-Ngan Chin (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Shengchao Qin (Durham University, UK) Program Committee ----------------- Bernhard Aichernig (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Stefan Andrei (Lamar University, USA) Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan) Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands) Jonathan Bowen (King's College London, UK) Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK) Juan Chen (Microsoft Research, USA) Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Academica Sinica, Taiwan) Jim Davies (University of Oxford, UK) Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University, China) Xinyu Feng (Toyota Technological Inst. at Chicago, USA) Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, France) Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China) Kung-Kiu Lau (University of Manchester, UK) Shaoying Liu (Hosei University, Japan) Dorel Lucanu (University of Iasi, Romania) Tom Maibaum (McMaster University, Canada) Darko Marinov (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Hong Mei (Peking University, China) Huaikou Miao (Shanghai University, China) Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Viet Ha Nguyen (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Sungwoo Park (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Korea) Corneliu Popeea (MPI-SWS, Germany) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China) Zongyan Qiu (Peking University, China) Volker Stolz (UNU/IIST, Macau) Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Jun Sun (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Kenji Taguchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Yih-Kuen Tsay (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Elizabeth Vidal (San Agustin National University, Peru) Ji Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China) Linzhang Wang (Nanjing University, China) Xianbing Wang (Wuhan University, China) Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jim Woodcock (University of York, UK) Hongyu Zhang (Tsinghua University, China) Jian Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) Important Dates: February 20, 2009: Title and abstract submission deadline February 27, 2009: Paper submission deadline April 20, 2009: Acceptance/rejection notification May 11, 2009: Camera-ready version due July 29 - 31, 2009: TASE 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Co-located workshops also provide an opportunity for presenting specialized topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. The topics of the workshops co-located with ICLP 2009 can cover any areas related to logic programming, (e.g., theory, implementation, environments, language issues, alternative paradigms, applications), including cross-disciplinary areas. However, any workshop proposal will be considered. The format of the workshop will be decided by the workshop organizers, but ample time must be allowed for general discussion. Workshops can vary in length, but the optimal duration will be half a day or a full day. Workshop Proposal: ================== Those interested in organizing a workshop at ICLP 2009 are invited to submit a workshop proposal. Proposals should be in English and about two pages in length. They should contain: * The title of the workshop. * A brief technical description of the topics covered by the workshop. * A discussion of the timeliness and relevance of the workshop. * A list of some related workshops held in the last years. * The (preliminary) required number of half-days allotted to the workshop and an estimate of the number of expected attendees. * The names, affiliation, and contact details (email, web page, phone, fax) of the workshop organizer(s) together with a designated contact person. * The previous experience of the workshop organizing committee in workshop/conference organization. Proposals are expected in ASCII or PDF format. All proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair (Manuel Carro) by email by February 9th, 2009. Reviewing Process: ================== Each submitted proposal is reviewed by the Workshops Chair and the Conference Program Chairs. Proposals that appear well-organized and that fit the goals and scope of ICLP will be selected. The decision will be notified by email to the responsible organizer by February 23rd, 2009. The definitive length of the workshop will be planned according to the number of submissions received by the different workshops. For every accepted workshop, the ICLP local organizers will prepare a meeting place and arrange the distribution of the workshop proceedings, whose preparation is however in charge to the workshop organizers. The workshop registration fees will be handled together with the conference fees. Workshop Organizers' Tasks: =========================== * Producing a "Call for Papers" for the workshop and posting it on the net and/or other means. Please provide a web page URL which can be linked into the ICLP 2009 home page by March 9th, 2009. * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference program. * Reviewing/accepting submitted papers. * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local organizers and the workshop chair. * Sending workshop program and workshop proceedings in pdf format to the workshop chair for distribution at the conference. * The use of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) for the workshop proceedings is strongly suggested. See http://www.logicprogramming.org/ for guidelines. We encourage reading these instructions in advance so that you can ask paper authors to prepare accordingly the final versions of their papers. Location: ========= All workshops will take place in Pasadena at the site of the main conference. See the ICLP 2009 web site for location details. Important Dates: ================ February 9, 2009: Proposal submission deadline. February 23, 2009: Notification. March 9, 2009: Deadline to receive the CFP and URL for the web page of the workshop June 1, 2009: Deadline for preliminary proceedings. July 14-17, 2009: ICLP 2009 workshops. Workshop Chair: =============== Manuel Carro [mcarro AT fi dot upm dot es] (www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~mcarro) From fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es Tue Jan 20 06:32:56 2009 From: fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es (FMICS 2009 workshop chair) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:32:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMICS 2009: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <4975B668.4090306@dsic.upv.es> FMICS 2009 - 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS Please visit: http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/fmics2009 ************************************************************ * 14th International Workshop on * * Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems * * FMICS 2009 * * * * November 2-3, 2009 * * Eindhoven, The Netherlands * ************************************************************ * ** NEWS ** * * * * >> LNCS proceedings * * Springer has confirmed that the proceedings * * will be published in their Lecture Notes in * * Computer Science series. * ************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline for abstracts: 1st April Deadline for papers: 7 April Accept/Reject notification: 15 June Camera-ready version: 15 July Workshop: 2-3 November SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP --------------------- The aim of the ERCIM FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. In particular, these workshops bring together scientists and engineers that are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. These workshops also strive to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications. Topics include, but are not restricted to: - Design, specification, code generation and testing based on formal methods. - Methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, learning, optimization and transformation of complex, distributed, real-time systems and embedded systems. - Verification and validation methods that address shortcomings of existing methods with respect to their industrial applicability (e.g., scalability and usability issues). - Tools for the development of formal design descriptions. - Case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of new research directions. - Impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development process and associated costs. - Application of formal methods in standardization and industrial forums. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- To be announced CO-CHAIRS --------- Maria Alpuente Tech. University Valencia, Spain Byron Cook Microsoft Research, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------- Hassan Ait-Kaci Ilog, Canada Maria Alpuente Tech. University Valencia, Spain Thomas Arts IT-Univ. i Goteborg, Sweden Demis Ballis Universita Udine, Italy Josh Berdine Microsoft Research, UK Lubos Brim Masarykova Univ., Czech Republic Darren Cofer Rockwell Collins, USA Byron Cook Microsoft Research, UK Patrick Cousot Ecole Normale Superieure, France Santiago Escobar Tech. University Valencia, Spain Azadeh Farzan University of Toronto, Canada Hubert Garavel INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Stefania Gnesi ISTI-CNR, Italy Alexey Gotsman University of Cambridge, UK Holger Hermanns Universitat Saarlandes, Germany Christophe Joubert Tech. University Valencia, Spain Daniel Kroening ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michael Leuschel Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany Pedro Merino Universidad de Malaga, Spain Juan Jose Moreno-Navarro Univ. Politecnica Madrid, Spain Corina Pasareanu NASA Ames Research Center, USA Jaco van de Pol Univ. Twente, The Netherlands Murali Rangarajan Honeywell, USA Jakob Rehof Tech. Univ. Dortmund, Germany Andrey Rybalchenko Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany Marcel Verhoef Chess, The Netherlands Martin Wirsing Universitat Munchen, Germany Hongseok Yang University of London, UK Greta Yorsh IBM Watson Research Center, USA ERCIM FMICS WG COORDINATOR -------------------------- Alessandro Fantechi Univ. Firenze, ISTI-CNR, Italy WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------- Christophe Joubert Tech. University Valencia, Spain PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system. Papers should be up to 16 pages in LNCS format, with the names and affiliations of the authors and a clear and informative abstract. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All submissions must report on original research. Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Case study papers should identify lessons learned, validate theoretical results (such as scalability of methods), or provide specific motivation for further research and development. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). CO-LOCATION ----------- FMICS 2009 is part of the first Formal Methods Week (FMweek), which will bring together a choice of events in the area, including TESTCOM/FATES (Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems and Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software), FACS (Formal Aspects of Component Software), PDMC (Parallel and Distributed Methods of verifiCation), FM2009 (Symposium of Formal Methods Europe), CPA (Communicating Process Architectures), FAST (Formal Aspects of Security and Trust), FMCO (Formal Methods for Components and Objects), and the REFINE Workshop. For the latest information on FMweek, see http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek. ************************************************************ * * * +============================================+ * * | | * * | ** FMweek ** | * * | | * * +============================================+ * * | CPA | FACS | FAST | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | FM2009 | FMCO | FMICS | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | PDMC | REFINE | TESTCOM/FATES | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek | * * +============================================+ * * * ************************************************************ From ifl2009 at shu.edu Mon Jan 19 07:57:48 2009 From: ifl2009 at shu.edu (IFL 2009) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:57:48 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IFL 2009: Call for Papers Message-ID: APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES Call for Papers IFL 2009 Seton Hall University SOUTH ORANGE, NJ, USA http://tltc.shu.edu/blogs/projects/IFL2009/ The 21st IFL symposium, IFL 2009, will be held for the first time in the USA. The hosting institution is Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ, USA and the symposium dates are September 23-25, 2009. It is our goal to make IFL a regular event held in the USA. The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2009 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2009 will use a post-symposium review process to produce a formal proceedings which we expect to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All participants in IFL 2009 are invited to submit either a draft paper or and extended abstract describing work to be presented at the symposium. These submissions will be screened by the program committee chair to make sure they are within the scope of IFL and will appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. Submissions appearing in the draft proceedings are not peer-reviewed publications. After the symposium, authors will be given the opportunity to incorporate the feedback from discussions at the symposium and will be invited to submit a revised full arcticle for the formal review process. These revised submissions will be reviewed by the program committee using prevailing academic standards to select the best articles that will appear in the formal proceedings. TOPICS IFL welcomes submissions describing practical and theoretical as well as submissions describing applications and tools. If you are not sure if your work is appropriate for IFL 2009, please contact the PC chair at ifl2009 at shu.edu. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: language concepts type checking contracts compilation techniques staged compilation runtime function specialization runtime code generation partial evaluation (abstract) interpretation generic programming techniques automatic program generation array processing concurrent/parallel programming concurrent/parallel program execution functional programming and embedded systems functional programming and web applications functional programming and security novel memory management techniques runtime profiling and performance measurements debugging and tracing virtual/abstract machine architectures validation and verification of functional programs tools and programming techniques PAPER SUBMISSIONS Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers or extended abstracts to be published in the draft proceedings and to present them at the symposium. All contributions must be written in English, conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS series format and not exceed 16 pages. The draft proceedings will appear as a technical report of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Seton Hall University. IMPORTANT DATES Registration deadline August 15, 2009 Presentation submission deadline August 15, 2009 IFL 2009 Symposium September 23-25, 2009 Submission for review process deadline November 1, 2009 Notification Accept/Reject December 22, 2009 Camera ready version February 1, 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Achten University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Jost Berthold Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany Andrew Butterfield University of Dublin, Ireland Robby Findler Northwestern University, USA Kathleen Fisher AT&T Research, USA Cormac Flanagan University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Matthew Flatt University of Utah, USA Matthew Fluet Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Daniel Friedman Indiana University, USA Andy Gill University of Kansas, USA Clemens Grelck University of Amsterdam/Hertfordshire, The Netherlands/UK Jurriaan Hage Utrecht University, The Netherlands Ralf Hinze Oxford University, UK Paul Hudak Yale University, USA John Hughes Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Patricia Johann University of Strathclyde, UK Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba, Japan Marco T. Moraz?n (Chair) Seton Hall University, USA Rex Page University of Oklahoma, USA Fernando Rubio Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Sven-Bodo Scholz University of Hertfordshire, UK Manuel Serrano INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Chung-chieh Shan Rutgers University, USA David Walker Princeton University, USA Vikt?ria Zs?k E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary PETER LANDIN PRIZE The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 euros. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It aims to bring together researchers with interests in theoretical computer science, algorithmic mathematics, and applications to the physical sciences. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, cryptography, computational geometry, computational game theory, algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, algorithmic algebra, number theory and coding theory, learning theory, computational biology, theoretical problems in networks and security, quantum computing, randomness, on-line algorithms, parallel algorithms, natural computation, models of computation, automata and neural networks, continuous and real computation, computable mathematics, relative computability and degree structures, Turing definability, generalized and higher type computation, proofs and computation, physical computability, decidability and undecidability. Important Dates: Submission deadline: Feb. 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2009 Final version due: March 20, 2009 Plenary Speakers: Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, USA Moshe Vardi, Rice University, USA Matthew Hennessy, Trinity College, Ireland Special Session: Special Invited Session on Models of Computation (Organizing Chair: S. Barry Cooper, Univ. of Leeds, UK) Special Invited Session on Algorithms and Complexity (Organizing Chair: Iyad A. Kanj, DePaul Univ., USA) Please visit the conference website http://netlab.csu.edu.cn/TAMC09/ or contact Jianer Chen chen at cs.tamu.edu for detailed information. From nassue09 at gmail.com Mon Jan 19 20:41:39 2009 From: nassue09 at gmail.com (NASSUE 2009) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:41:39 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CfP] NASSUE-2009, Seoul, Korea; Deadline: Jan 31, 2009 Message-ID: <5ea3e15d0901191741n1803084by3bf3f089a3d6c294@mail.gmail.com> Call for Papers =================== 2009 International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) http://www.sersc.org/NASSUE2009/ June 25-27, 2009 Seoul, Korea in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009) Overview ------------- International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) is focused on network assurance and security measure, which has become an important research issue in ubiquitous environments. The objective of this workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in NAS issues in UE. It will highlight the various aspects of NAS - especially on the crucial linkage between availability, compliance, and security. NASSUE-2009 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policy makers to share and exchange ideas and to learn about latest developments, problems and solutions related to NAS issues in UE. Topics (include but are not limited to the following): -------------------------------------------------------------- * Availability, dependability, survivability, & resilience issues in UE * Authentication and identity management in UE * Authorization and access-control in UE * Risk assessment, and management in UE * Redundancy, reliability models, and failure prevention of UCS * Trust modeling and management in UE * Fault-tolerant architectural and operational models in UE * Network security issues and protocols in UCS * Cryptographic protocols and key management in UCS * Agent-based technologies for NAS. * Cross-layer design for security mechanisms * Real-time technology for NAS systems. * QoS provisioning in UCS * Network control technologies for NA. * Novel threat, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures * DoS attacks and mitigation * Reverse engineering of malicious code * Intrusion detection, IDS / IPS in UE * Anonymity, user privacy, and location privacy in UE * Content protection and DRM for UCS * System/network management techniques and strategies in UE. * Network forensics and fraud detection * Surveillance and Privacy-enhancing technologies in UE * Adaptive and Autonomic security for UCS * Role of biometrics in UE * NAS issues in e-commerce, e-government, e-health * NAS implementation in P2P systems, vehicular system, web application, disaster relief etc * Specification, design, development, and deployment of NAS mechanisms * Models, architectures and protocols for NAS * Standards, guidelines and certification for NAS in UE * Metrics for measuring security, assurance and dependability * Designing business models with NAS requirements * Formal methods and software engineering for NAS * Legal, ethical and policy issues related to NAS in UE * Proactive approaches to NAS * New ideas and paradigms for NAS in UE Important dates ------------------- - Full Paper Due: January 31, 2009 - Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2009 - Final Camera-Ready Due: April 03, 2009 Paper Submission and Publication ------------------------------------ Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two PC members. Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper) or 6 pages (regular paper) by using Online Systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Outstanding papers accepted and presented in ISA-2009 including NASSUE-2009 (ISA-09 workshop), after further revisions, will be published in Special Issues of International Journals (indexed by SCI/E): * Computer Communications, Elsevier * Journal of Supercomputing, Springer * Journal of Internet Technology, MoE, Taiwan * Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Elsevier * Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Steering Chair ----------------- Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam Univ, Korea Workshop Program Chairs -------------------------- - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal International Advisory Board ----------------------------- - Dimitrios Makrakis, Univ of Ottawa, Canada - Elisa Bertino, Purdue Univ, USA - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan Technical Program Committee ------------------------------- - Abdelhamid Mellouk, Univ of Paris XII, France - Antonio Nogueira, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Bai Xiaoying, Tsinghua Univ, China - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - Bo Zhu, Concordia Univ, Canada - ByungRae Cha, Honam Univ, Korea - Chae Hoon Lim, Sejong Univ, Korea - Eul Gyu Im, Hanyang Univ, Korea - Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State Univ, USA - Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State Univ, USA - Hiroshi Yoshiura, Univ of Electro-Communications, Japan - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Jiankun Hu, RMIT Univ, Australia - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal - Jorge Sa Silva, Univ of Coimbra, Portugal - Jouni Ikonen, Lappeenranta Univ of Technology, Finland - K. 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Chow, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Katsikas Sokratis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece - Khaled Salah, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia - Mario Lemos Proenca, State Univ of Londrina, Brazil - Masato Terada, Hitachi, Japan - Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing Univ, Taiwan - Ning Zhang, Univ of Manchester, UK - Niwat Thepvilojapanong, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Paulo Salvador, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Pavel Gladyshev, Univ College Dublin, Ireland - Seungjoo Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ, Korea - Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China - Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Tapio Frantti, VTT, Finland - Willy Susilo, Univ of Wollongong, Australia - Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA - Yoshihiro Kawahara, Univ of Tokyo, Japan Contact --------- For further information regarding NASSUE-2009 and paper submission, please contact at nassue09 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090119/3bffec54/attachment.htm From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Tue Jan 20 13:38:45 2009 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:38:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: Distributed Computing Techniques 2009, Lisbon (DAIS + FMOODS/FORTE + COORDINATION) Message-ID: Joint Call for Papers: Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/ Lisbon, Portugal 8 - 12 June 2009 ------------------------------------------ Coordination'09 DAIS'09 FMOODS/FORTE'09 ------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Coordination 2009 Languages, Models, and Architectures for Concurrent and Distributed Software 11th International Conference Member of the Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques Lisbon, Portugal 8 - 12 June 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/coordination ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 28 January 2009 Paper submission: 1 February 2009 Author notification: 16 March 2009 Camera-ready copy: 1 April 2009 Conference: 9 - 11 June 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope Modern software lives in a concurrent world. The ubiquity of the Internet allows distributed software components to be composed into complex networked systems. At the other end of the spectrum, with multicore processors now the norm, concurrency is frequently necessary to maximize application performance. Coordination 2009 seeks high-quality papers on programming languages, models, and architectures that address the challenge of building robust distributed and concurrent applications. The conference focuses on the design and implementation of models that allow compositional construction of large-scale concurrent and distributed systems, including both practical and foundational models, runtime systems, and related verification and analysis techniques. Topics of Interest DISTRIBUTED AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING MODELS: multicore programming, stream programming, data parallel programming, event-driven programming, web programming FOUNDATIONS OF DISTRIBUTED AND CONCURRENT INTERACTION: models for processes, service composition and orchestration, workflow management, data query, tuple spaces SPECIFICATION, VERIFICATION, AND TYPES: modeling and analysis of types and properties related to security, dependability, resource consumption, and component conformance for concurrent and distributed systems HIGH-LEVEL OPTIMIZATIONS: program transformations for performance enhancement, runtime load balancing techniques, static and dynamic resource management QUALITY OF SERVICE: fault-tolerant programming models and runtime support, models with responsiveness guarantees DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT: component and module systems for distributed software, dynamic software evolution and update technologies, configuration and deployment architectures SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMMING MODELS: P2P frameworks, mobile ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, publish-subscribe systems, event processing CASE STUDIES: application of novel distributed and concurrent techniques in business process modeling, e-commerce, factory automation, collaboration, command and control ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines The Coordination 2009 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 journal Science of Computer Programming ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coordination '09 Organization PC Chairs: John Field, IBM Research, USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Program Committee: TBA Steering Committee: Farhad Arbab, CWI, NL Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, IT (CHAIR) Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, UK Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, BE Doug Lea, State University of New York, USA Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, CH 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 Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, IT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DisCoTec '09 Organization Antonio Ravara, Technical University of Lisbon, PT (General Chair) Carla Ferreira, New University of Lisbon, PT Ana Almeida Matos, Technical University of Lisbon, PT Workshops Chair Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon, PT Publicity Chair Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, NO --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS DAIS 2009 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems Lisbon, Portugal 10 - 12 June 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/DAIS09 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) is part of the federated conferences DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques), together with the 11th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the 11th IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS). OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE: Established in 1997, the DAIS series of conferences aims to provide an integrated forum for research on all aspects of distributed applications and interoperable systems. DAIS 2009 conference themes include but are not limited to: Innovative distributed applications in the areas of Cloud and enterprise computing Very large scale and peer-to-peer computing Mobile, context-aware, and pervasive computing Sensor networks and ad-hoc networks Models and concepts supporting distributed applications in the areas of Sustainability Resiliency Evolution Middleware supporting distributed applications in the areas of Autonomic and resilient systems Mobile systems Context- and QoS-aware systems Evolution of service-oriented applications Enterprise-wide and global integration Semantic interoperability Application management Software engineering of distributed applications Domain-specific modelling languages Model-driven software development, testing,validation, and adaptation Model evolution Software architecture and patterns INVITED SPEAKER: TBA ORGANISERS: General chair: Antonio Ravara, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal PC chairs: Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Twittie Senivongse, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Publicity Chair: Hartmut Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany Steering Committee: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Hartmut König, BTU Cottbus, Germany Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland René Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Elie Najm, ENST, France Kerry Raymond, University of Queensland, Australia Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK Program Committee: (TBA) IMPORTANT DATES: 12 January 2009: Abstract submission 19 January 2009: Paper submission (full and work-in-progress papers) 13 March 2009: Author notification 1 April 2009: Camera-ready version 10-12 June 2009: DAIS 2009 conference SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The DAIS 2009 conference solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the themes 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. Full technical papers should not exceed 14 pages in length while work-in-progress papers should not exceed 6 pages in length. Submission implies the acceptance that at least one author will attend the conference if the paper is accepted. 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. More specific guidelines on the preparation of papers can be found on the conference website. CALL FOR PAPERS FMOODS/FORTE IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems as joint international conference of FMOODS/FORTE (11th Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems and 29th Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems) Lisbon, Portugal, June 9-11, 2009 The IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems is formed jointly from the two conference series FMOODS and FORTE. It is part of the federated conference event DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques) which also includes the 11th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS). The event will be hosted by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates * Abstract submission: 28 January 2009 * Paper submission: 1 February 2009 * Author notification: 16 March 2009 * Camera-ready copy: 1 April 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Objectives and Scope The joined conference FMOODS/FORTE is a forum for fundamental research on theory and applications of distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, in particular in the areas of: * Component- and model-based design * Service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid and mobile computing * Software quality, reliability and security The conference encourages contributions that combine theory and practice, address problems from the development of distributed systems, and present novel solutions with formal methods and theoretical foundations. FMOODS/FORTE covers distributed computing models and formal specification, testing and verification methods. The application domains include all kinds of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real time systems, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Languages and Semantic Foundations: new modeling and language concepts for distribution and concurrency, semantics for different types of languages, including programming languages, modeling languages, and domain specific languages; real-time and probability aspects; type systems and behavioral typing * Formal Methods and Techniques: design, specification, analysis, verification, validation and testing of various types of distributed systems including communications and network protocols, service-oriented systems, and adaptive distributed systems * Applications of Formal Methods: applying the existing methods and techniques to distributed systems, particularly web services, multimedia systems, and telecommunications * Practical Experience with Formal Methods: industrial applications, case studies and software tools for applying formal methods and description techniques to the development and analysis of real distributed systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings and Submission guidelines The FMOODS/FORTE 2009 conference calls for high quality papers presenting research results and/or application reports related to the topics in conference scope as described above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF, using the SPRINGER LNCS style. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. In addition, the journal Higher Order and Symbolic Computation will publish a special issue consisting of extended versions of the top ranking papers from FMOODS/FORTE 2009 From Corina.S.Pasareanu at nasa.gov Tue Jan 20 17:59:02 2009 From: Corina.S.Pasareanu at nasa.gov (Corina Pasareanu) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:59:02 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPIN 2009 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <49765736.1090405@nasa.gov> 2nd Call for Papers 16th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software June 26--28, 2009, Grenoble, France Co-located with CAV 2009 URL: http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/event/spin09/ 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. The focus of the workshop is on theoretical advances and empirical evaluations based on explicit representations of state spaces, as implemented in the SPIN model checker or other tools, or techniques based on combinations of explicit and other symbolic representations. We welcome papers describing the development and application of state-space and path-exploration techniques for the testing and the verification of 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. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): * Algorithms and storage methods for explicit-state model checking * Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of model-checking based analysis * Directed model checking using heuristics * Parallel or distributed model checking * Model checking of timed and probabilistic systems * Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques in relation to software verification * Static analysis for state space reduction * Combinations of enumerative and symbolic techniques * Analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts * Property specification languages, including new forms of temporal logic * Model checking for various programming languages and code analysis * Automated testing using state space and/or path exploration techniques * Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material from state spaces * Combination of model-checking techniques with other analysis techniques * Modularity and compositionality * Comparative studies, including comparisons with other model-checking techniques * Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results * Engineering and implementation of model-checking tools and platforms * Benchmarks for software verification Solicited Contributions We solicit two kinds of papers: * TECHNICAL PAPERS. These papers should contain original work which has not been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS format and should be no longer than 18 pages. * TOOL PAPERS. These papers should describe novel tools or tool extensions. If previous versions of the described tool have been published before, the novel features of the tool should be explained clearly. These papers should also specify availability of the tool, number of users, and applications/case studies. Tool paper submissions should consist of two parts. The first part is at most 5 pages in LNCS format. The name "Tool Presentation" should appear in the title. If accepted, this 5 page paper will be published in the workshop proceedings. The second part should describe an informal plan for the oral presentation of the tool. This part will not be included in the proceedings. If accepted, both regular and tool papers will be presented at the conference and will be included in the workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to be present at the conference. Submissions are held confidential until publication. Submission and Publication As in previous years, the proceedings of this edition of the workshop will appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Important Dates Paper submission: March 9, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2009 Final papers due: April 17, 2009 Workshop: June 26-28 Friday -- Sunday, 2009 Invited Speakers: Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK Joseph Sifakis (Turing Award 2007), VERIMAG, France Willem Visser, SEVEN Networks, USA ORGANIZATION Program Chair: Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon U/NASA Ames, USA Program Committee: Christel Baier, U Bonn, Germany Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven U, Netherlands Patricia Bouyer, ?NS de Cachan, France Lubos Brim, Masaryk U, Czech Republic Marsha Chechik, U Toronto, Canada Matthew Dwyer, U Nebraska, USA Stefan Edelkamp, TU Dortmund, Germany Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France Jaco Geldenhuys, U Stellenbosch, South Africa Klaus Havelund, JPL, USA Gerard Holzmann, JPL, USA Radu Iosif, VERIMAG, France Michael Jones, Brigham Young U, USA Sarfraz Khurshid, UT Austin, USA Orna Kupferman, Hebrew U, Israel Stefan Leue, U Konstanz, Germany Rupak Majumdar, UC Los Angeles, USA Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research, USA Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley, USA Scott Stoller, Stony Brook U, USA Farn Wang, National Taiwan U, Taiwan Pierre Wolper, U Liege, Belgium Steering Committee: Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven U, Netherlands Stefan Edelkamp, TU Dortmund, Germany Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France Klaus Havelund, JPL, USA Stefan Leue (chair), U Konstanz, Germany Rupak Majumdar, UC Los Angeles, USA Pierre Wolper, U Liege, Belgium Advisory Committee: Gerard Holzmann (chair), JPL, USA Amir Pnueli, New York U, USA Moshe Vardi, Rice U, USA -- Corina Pasareanu, PhD CMU/NASA Ames http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/profile/pcorina/ From jeremy.gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk Thu Jan 22 17:14:47 2009 From: jeremy.gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:14:47 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WGP'09: Workshop on Generic Programming Call for Papers Message-ID: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming 2009 Edinburgh, UK, August 30, 2009 http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/cse/WGP09 Goals of the workshop Generic programming is about making programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic program are often quite rich in structure; for example they may be other programs, types or type constructors, class hierarchies, or even programming paradigms. Generic programming techniques have always been of interest, both to practitioners and to theoreticians, and for at least 20 years generic programming techniques have been a specific focus of research in the functional and object-oriented programming language communities. Generic programming has gradually spread to more and more mainstream languages and is today widely used also in industry. This workshop will bring together leading researchers and practitioners in generic programming from around the world, and feature papers capturing the state of the art in this important area. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of * adaptive object-oriented programming, * aspect-oriented programming, * concepts (as in the STL / C++ sense) * component-based programming, * generic programming, * meta-programming, * polytypic programming, * programming with modules, * and so on. Organisers: Chair Patrik Jansson, CSE.Chalmers.se co-Chair Sibylle Schupp, STS.TUHH.de Programme Committee: Edwin Brady, U. of St Andrews, Peter Gottschling, TU Dresden Patrik Jansson, Chalmers Chair Barry Jay, U. of T., Sydney Jaakko J?rvi, Texas A&M Oleg Kiselyov, FNMOC Andres L?h, Utrecht U. Fritz Ruehr, Willamette U. Sibylle Schupp, TU Hamburg Harburg, Co-Chair Marcin Zalewski, Chalmers, We plan to have formal proceedings, published by the ACM. Submission details Deadline for submission: Sunday 090510 Notification of acceptance: Monday 090601 Final submission due: Tuesday 090616 Workshop: Sunday 090830 Authors should submit papers, in postscript or PDF format, formatted for A4 paper, to the WGP09 EasyChair instance by 10th of May 2009. The length should be restricted to 12 pages in standard (two-column, 9pt) ACM format. Accepted papers are published by the ACM and will additionally appear in the ACM digital library. History of the Workshop on Generic Programming This year: * Edinburgh, UK 2009 (affiliated with ICFP09) Earlier Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in * Victoria, BC, Canada 2008 (affiliated with ICFP), * Portland 2006 (affiliated with ICFP), * Utrecht 2005 (informal workshop), * Dagstuhl 2002 (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference), * Nottingham 2001 (informal workshop), * Ponte de Lima 2000 (affiliated with MPC), * Marstrand 1998 (affiliated with MPC). There were also (closely related) DGP workshops in Oxford (June 3-4 2004), and a Spring School on DGP in Nottingham (April 24-27 2006, which had a half-day workshop attached). Additional information: The WGP steering committee consists of J Gibbons, R Hinze and J Jeuring. Jeremy.Gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk, Deputy Director Oxford University Computing Laboratory, TEL: +44 1865 283508 Wolfson Building, Parks Road, FAX: +44 1865 283531 Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. URL: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Jeremy.Gibbons From eijiro.sumii at gmail.com Thu Jan 22 18:40:33 2009 From: eijiro.sumii at gmail.com (Eijiro Sumii) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:40:33 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] two bisimulation papers Message-ID: Dear Types readers, I am pleased to announce the availability of the following two manuscripts: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Complete Characterization of Observational Equivalence in Polymorphic lambda-Calculus with General References Eijiro Sumii http://www.kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~sumii/pub/poly-ref.pdf We give a (sound and complete) characterization of observational equivalence in full polymorphic $\lambda$-calculus with existential types and first-class, higher-order references. Our method is syntactic and elementary in the sense that it only employs simple structures such as relations on terms. It is nevertheless powerful enough to prove many interesting equivalences that can and cannot be proved by previous approaches, including the latest work by Ahmed, Dreyer and Rossberg (to appear in POPL 2009). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Higher-Order, Call-By-Value Applied Pi-Calculus Nobuyuki Sato Eijiro Sumii http://www.kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~sumii/pub/hoapp.pdf We define a higher-order process calculus with algebraic operations such as encryption and decryption, and develop a bisimulation proof method for behavioral equivalence in this calculus. Such development has been notoriously difficult because of the subtle interactions among generative names, processes as data, and the algebraic operations. We handle them by carefully defining the calculus and adopting Sumii et al.'s environmental bisimulation, and thereby give (to our knowledge) the first ``useful'' proof method in this setting. We demonstrate the utility of our method through examples involving both higher-order processes and asymmetric cryptography. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments are welcome. Cheers, Eijiro From robert at grid.chu.edu.tw Fri Jan 23 04:39:19 2009 From: robert at grid.chu.edu.tw (Robert C. Hsu) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:39:19 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Papers (902) : (HPCC-09, ISA-09, CPI-09, CIT-09, ScalCom-09, CSE-09, CloudCom-09, ISPAN-09) Message-ID: <200901230939.n0N9dJEZ013526@grid.chu.edu.tw> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090123/726aba55/attachment.htm From nassue09 at gmail.com Thu Jan 22 17:24:53 2009 From: nassue09 at gmail.com (NASSUE2009) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:24:53 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP]International Workshop on Network Assurance & Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments NASSUE-2009, Seoul, Korea; Deadline: Jan 31, 2009 Message-ID: <5ea3e15d0901221424s1fd9637agd7c529d676ea8062@mail.gmail.com> --- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. --- Call for Papers =================== 2009 International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) http://www.sersc.org/NASSUE2009/ June 25-27, 2009 Seoul, Korea in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009) Overview ------------- International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) is focused on network assurance and security measure, which has become an important research issue in ubiquitous environments. The objective of this workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in NAS issues in UE. It will highlight the various aspects of NAS - especially on the crucial linkage between availability, compliance, and security. NASSUE-2009 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policy makers to share and exchange ideas and to learn about latest developments, problems and solutions related to NAS issues in UE. Topics (include but are not limited to the following): -------------------------------------------------------------- * Availability, dependability, survivability, & resilience issues in UE * Authentication and identity management in UE * Authorization and access-control in UE * Risk assessment, and management in UE * Redundancy, reliability models, and failure prevention of UCS * Trust modeling and management in UE * Fault-tolerant architectural and operational models in UE * Network security issues and protocols in UCS * Cryptographic protocols and key management in UCS * Agent-based technologies for NAS. * Cross-layer design for security mechanisms * Real-time technology for NAS systems. * QoS provisioning in UCS * Network control technologies for NA. * Novel threat, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures * DoS attacks and mitigation * Reverse engineering of malicious code * Intrusion detection, IDS / IPS in UE * Anonymity, user privacy, and location privacy in UE * Content protection and DRM for UCS * System/network management techniques and strategies in UE. * Network forensics and fraud detection * Surveillance and Privacy-enhancing technologies in UE * Adaptive and Autonomic security for UCS * Role of biometrics in UE * NAS issues in e-commerce, e-government, e-health * NAS implementation in P2P systems, vehicular system, web application, disaster relief etc * Specification, design, development, and deployment of NAS mechanisms * Models, architectures and protocols for NAS * Standards, guidelines and certification for NAS in UE * Metrics for measuring security, assurance and dependability * Designing business models with NAS requirements * Formal methods and software engineering for NAS * Legal, ethical and policy issues related to NAS in UE * Proactive approaches to NAS * New ideas and paradigms for NAS in UE Important dates ------------------- - Full Paper Due: January 31, 2009 - Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2009 - Final Camera-Ready Due: April 03, 2009 Paper Submission and Publication ------------------------------------ Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two PC members. Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper) or 6 pages (regular paper) by using Online Systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Outstanding papers accepted and presented in ISA-2009 including NASSUE-2009 (ISA-09 workshop), after further revisions, will be published in Special Issues of International Journals (indexed by SCI/E): * Computer Communications, Elsevier * Journal of Supercomputing, Springer * Journal of Internet Technology, MoE, Taiwan * Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Elsevier * Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Steering Chair ----------------- Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam Univ, Korea Workshop Program Chairs -------------------------- - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal International Advisory Board ----------------------------- - Dimitrios Makrakis, Univ of Ottawa, Canada - Elisa Bertino, Purdue Univ, USA - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan Technical Program Committee ------------------------------- - Abdelhamid Mellouk, Univ of Paris XII, France - Antonio Nogueira, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Bai Xiaoying, Tsinghua Univ, China - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - Bo Zhu, Concordia Univ, Canada - ByungRae Cha, Honam Univ, Korea - Chae Hoon Lim, Sejong Univ, Korea - Eul Gyu Im, Hanyang Univ, Korea - Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State Univ, USA - Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State Univ, USA - Hiroshi Yoshiura, Univ of Electro-Communications, Japan - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Jiankun Hu, RMIT Univ, Australia - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal - Jorge Sa Silva, Univ of Coimbra, Portugal - Jouni Ikonen, Lappeenranta Univ of Technology, Finland - K. 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Chow, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Katsikas Sokratis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece - Khaled Salah, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia - Mario Lemos Proenca, State Univ of Londrina, Brazil - Masato Terada, Hitachi, Japan - Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing Univ, Taiwan - Ning Zhang, Univ of Manchester, UK - Niwat Thepvilojapanong, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Paulo Salvador, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Pavel Gladyshev, Univ College Dublin, Ireland - Seungjoo Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ, Korea - Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China - Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Tapio Frantti, VTT, Finland - Willy Susilo, Univ of Wollongong, Australia - Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA - Yoshihiro Kawahara, Univ of Tokyo, Japan Contact --------- For further information regarding NASSUE-2009 and paper submission, please contact at nassue09 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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LCTES 2009 solicits papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, and architectures that help meet these challenges. Research papers (which propose innovative techniques) and experience papers (which report experimentation with and lessons learned from real-world systems and applications) are both welcome. In addition to its regular sessions, LCTES 2009 will feature special events such as an industrial panel, keynotes, tutorials and demonstrations to bring out the latest and more interesting aspects of embedded systems. Examples include tools for multi-cores, emerging platforms such as smart phones, multi-player game machines and autonomous vehicles and embedded supercomputing. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following aspects of embedded and cyber physical systems design: Programming language issues in embedded systems, including (*) Language features to exploit multi-core, single-chip SIMD, reconfigurable architecture and other emerging architectures (*) Language features for distributed real-time control, media players, and other complex embedded systems (*) Language features to enhance reliability and security (*) Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization mechanisms, concurrency, memory management techniques Compiler issues in embedded systems, including (*) Interaction between embedded computer architectures, operating systems and compilers (*) Interpreters, binary translation and just-in-time compilation (*) Support for debugging, profiling, exception and interrupt handling, for reliability and security (*) Optimization for low power, low energy, low code and data size, and high (real-time) performance Tools for analysis, specification, design and implementation of embedded systems, including (*) Hardware, system software, and application, and their interface (*) Distributed real-time control, media players, reconfigurable architectures and other complex systems (*) Validation and verification, system integration and testing (*) Timing analysis, timing predictability, WCET analysis and real-time scheduling analysis (*) Performance monitoring and tuning (*) Runtime system support for embedded systems Novel embedded architectures (*) Design and implementation of novel embedded architectures (*) Workload analysis and performance evaluation (*) Architecture support for new language features, new compiler techniques and debugging tools Submission deadline: February 9, 2009 ===================================== (Please see the web site for details about paper submission.) Program Committee: ================== (*) Dhruva Chakrabarti (*) Swarat Chaudhuri (*) Bruce Childers (*) Andreas Krall (*) Prasad Kulkarni (*) Tei-Wei Kuo (*) Insup Lee (*) Liqian Luo (*) Jan Madsen (*) Sally McKee (*) Florence Maraninchi (*) Peter Marwedel (*) Frank Mueller (*) Tamiya Onodera (*) Alex Orailoglu (*) Emre Ozer (*) Preeti R. Panda (*) Tajana Simunic (*) Reinhard Wilhelm (*) Wayne Wolf (*) Wang Yi Steering Committee: =================== (*) Koen De Bosschere (*) Ron Cytron (*) Srinivas Devadas (*) Krisztian Flautner (*) Rajiv Gupta (*) Mary Jane Irwin (*) Annie Liu (*) Thomas Marlowe (*) Peter Marwedel (*) Frank Mueller (*) Yunheung Paek (*) Santosh Pande (*) John Regeher (*) Per Stenstrom (*) David Whalley (*) Reinhard Wilhelm General Chair: ============== Christoph Kirsch University of Salzburg Program Chair: ============== Mahmut Kandemir Penn State University Poster Chair: ============= Aviral Shrivastava Arizona State University Publicity Chair: ================ Alain Girault INRIA Grenoble Rh?ne-Alpes -- ------------- Alain GIRAULT http://pop-art.inrialpes.fr/~girault INRIA senior researcher tel: +(33|0) 476 61 53 51 Head of the POP ART project-team fax: +(33|0) 476 61 52 52 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sauvons la Recherche ! http://www.sauvonslarecherche.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gerwin.klein at nicta.com.au Sun Jan 25 20:18:30 2009 From: gerwin.klein at nicta.com.au (Gerwin Klein) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:18:30 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline: 4th International Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV 09) Message-ID: <497D0F66.7060805@nicta.com.au> 4th International Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV 09) Real Software, Real Problems, Real Solutions June 22-24 2009, Aachen, Germany http://www.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/ssv09/ Industrial-strength software analysis and verification has advanced in recent years through the introduction of model checking, automated and interactive theorem proving, and static analysis techniques as well as correctness by design, correctness by contract, and model-driven development. However, many techniques are working under restrictive assumptions which are invalidated by complex (embedded) system software such as operating system kernels, low-level device drivers or microcontroller code. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry, who are facing real software and real problems to find real, applicable solutions. By "real" we mean problems such as time-to-market or reliability that the industry is facing and is trying to fix in software that is deployed in the market place. A real solution is one that is applicable to the problem in industry and not one that only applies to an abstract, academic toy version of it. This forum will discuss software analysis/development techniques and tools; it will also serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in dealing with existing and upcoming systems level code. Topics include (but are not limited to): * model checking * automated and interactive theorem proving * static analysis * automated testing * model-driven development * embedded systems development * programming languages * verifying compilers * software certification * software tools * experience reports Interested speakers should submit their paper (max 15 pages, ENTCS style) to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv09 by Feb 15 2009, 23:59h Samoan time. All papers will be subject to peer review under normal conference standards. Experience reports and papers on work in progress are welcome as long as there is a clear contribution. Accepted submissions are planned to be published in ENTCS. Submissions must be in pdf format and follow the ENTCS style instructions at http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html. Important dates Feb 15 2009 Extended submission deadline Apr 06 2009 Notification of accepted papers May 06 2009 Final version May 06 2009 Registration deadline (early) Jun 06 2009 Registration deadline (normal) Jun 22-24 2009 Workshop The workshop is organized as a three-day workshop (Jun 22-24 2009). Location The workshop will be held in Aachen, Germany on the campus of the RWTH Aachen University. Program Chair Ralf Huuck (NICTA, Australia) Gerwin Klein (NICTA, Australia) Bastian Schlich (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Program Committee June Andronick (NICTA, Australia) Kai Baukus (BMW Car IT, Germany) Cristina Cifuentes (Sun Microsystems Labs, Australia) Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) John Matthews (Galois Inc., USA) Michael McDougall (Grammatech, USA) Thomas Noll (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Wolfgang Paul (University of Saarbruecken, Germany) Jan Peleska (University of Bremen, Germany) John Regehr (University of Utah, USA) Wolfgang Reif (University of Augsburg, Germany) Wolfram Schulte (Microsoft Research, USA) Zhong Shao (Yale University, USA) Hendrik Tews (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Chao Wang (NEC Laboratories America, USA) Carsten Weise (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) We thank the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) for their sponsorship http://www.microsoft.com/EMIC From carsten at itu.dk Mon Jan 26 06:46:53 2009 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:46:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CADE-22 last call for papers Message-ID: <497DA2AD.3090809@itu.dk> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 Submission Deadline: 23 Feb 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ GENERAL INFORMATION CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. The conference programme will include invited talks, paper presentations, system descriptions, workshops, tutorials, and system competitions. SCOPE We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations and practical experiences. Logics of interest include, but are not limited to o propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, description, modal, temporal, many-valued, intuitionistic, other non-classical, meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory and set theory. Methods of interest include, but are not limited to o saturation, resolution, instance-based, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction, term rewriting, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, constraint solving, induction, unification, proof planning, proof checking, proof presentation and explanation. Applications of interest include, but are not limited to o program analysis and verification, hardware verification, mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, functional and logic programming, robotics, planning, and other areas of AI. INVITED SPEAKERS: Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Martin Rinard Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark Stickel SRI International WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, SYSTEM COMPETITIONS: There will be a two-day programme of eight workshops and four tutorials before the conference. In addition, two system competitions will be held during the conference. Workshops: o Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT) o Beyond SAT: What About First-Order Logic? o Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP) o Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA) o Proof Search in Type Theories (PSTT) o Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) o The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) o TPTP World Workshop (TPTPWoWo) Tutorials: o Hierarchical and Modular Reasoning in Complex Theories o Probabilistic Analysis Using a Theorem Prover o Precise, Automated and Scalable Verification of Systems Software Using SMT solvers o Logics with Undefinedness System competitions: o The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) o Satisfiability Modulo Theories Competition (SMT-COMP) Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. STUDENT AWARDS Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Details will be published on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions can be made in the categories 'regular papers' and 'system descriptions'. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 15 pages for regular papers and 5 pages for system descriptions. Full system descriptions that provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an implemented system can be submitted as regular papers. For the benefit of reviewers, additional material may be provided by a clearly marked appendix or a reference to a manuscript on a website. It is at the discretion of the reviewers whether such supplements will be considered. All regular papers will be evaluated according to the highest standards in terms of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability. Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf format. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. To submit your paper please use the EasyChair submission system at this address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade22. IMPORTANT DATES: A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper. 16 Feb 2009 Abstract submission deadline 23 Feb 2009 Paper submission deadline 10 Apr 2009 Notification of paper decisions 14 May 2009 Camera-ready papers due 2-3 Aug 2009 Workshops & Tutorials 4-7 Aug 2009 Conference, including CASC and SMT-COMP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alessandro Armando Universit? di Genova Franz Baader Technische Universit?t Dresden Peter Baumgartner NICTA, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universit? degli Studi di Verona Bernhard Beckert Universit?t Koblenz-Landau Nikolaj Bj?rner Microsoft Research Alessandro Cimatti Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento Silvio Ghilardi Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen Rajeev Gor? The Australian National University Reiner H?hnle Chalmers University of Technology John Harrison Intel Corporation Miki Hermann ?cole Polytechnique Ullrich Hustadt University of Liverpool Katsumi Inoue National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tommi Junttila Helsinki University of Technology Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Alexander Leitsch Technische Universit?t Wien Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Claude March? INRIA Saclay, Parc Orsay Universit? William McCune University of New Mexico Aart Middeldorp Universit?t Innsbruck Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Albert Oliveras Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Brigitte Pientka McGill University David Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Micha?l Rusinowitch LORIA-INRIA-Lorraine Renate Schmidt (Chair) The University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik ORGANIZERS: Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka McGill University Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Publicity Chair: Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn PC Chair: Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester From nassue09 at gmail.com Sat Jan 24 21:42:25 2009 From: nassue09 at gmail.com (NASSUE2009) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:42:25 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP]Int'l Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009); Due: Jan 31, 2009 Message-ID: <5ea3e15d0901241842n264f735fpd8f4a140b9a4521c@mail.gmail.com> --- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. --- ******SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JAN 31, 2009********* Call for Papers =================== 2009 International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) http://www.sersc.org/NASSUE2009/ June 25-27, 2009 Seoul, Korea in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009) Overview ------------- International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) is focused on network assurance and security measure, which has become an important research issue in ubiquitous environments. The objective of this workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in NAS issues in UE. It will highlight the various aspects of NAS - especially on the crucial linkage between availability, compliance, and security. NASSUE-2009 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policy makers to share and exchange ideas and to learn about latest developments, problems and solutions related to NAS issues in UE. Topics (include but are not limited to the following): -------------------------------------------------------------- * Availability, dependability, survivability, & resilience issues in UE * Authentication and identity management in UE * Authorization and access-control in UE * Risk assessment, and management in UE * Redundancy, reliability models, and failure prevention of UCS * Trust modeling and management in UE * Fault-tolerant architectural and operational models in UE * Network security issues and protocols in UCS * Cryptographic protocols and key management in UCS * Agent-based technologies for NAS. * Cross-layer design for security mechanisms * Real-time technology for NAS systems. * QoS provisioning in UCS * Network control technologies for NA. * Novel threat, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures * DoS attacks and mitigation * Reverse engineering of malicious code * Intrusion detection, IDS / IPS in UE * Anonymity, user privacy, and location privacy in UE * Content protection and DRM for UCS * System/network management techniques and strategies in UE. * Network forensics and fraud detection * Surveillance and Privacy-enhancing technologies in UE * Adaptive and Autonomic security for UCS * Role of biometrics in UE * NAS issues in e-commerce, e-government, e-health * NAS implementation in P2P systems, vehicular system, web application, disaster relief etc * Specification, design, development, and deployment of NAS mechanisms * Models, architectures and protocols for NAS * Standards, guidelines and certification for NAS in UE * Metrics for measuring security, assurance and dependability * Designing business models with NAS requirements * Formal methods and software engineering for NAS * Legal, ethical and policy issues related to NAS in UE * Proactive approaches to NAS * New ideas and paradigms for NAS in UE Important dates ------------------- - Full Paper Due: January 31, 2009 - Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2009 - Final Camera-Ready Due: April 03, 2009 Paper Submission and Publication ------------------------------------ Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two PC members. Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper) or 6 pages (regular paper) by using Online Systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Outstanding papers accepted and presented in ISA-2009 including NASSUE-2009 (ISA-09 workshop), after further revisions, will be published in Special Issues of International Journals (indexed by SCI/E): * Computer Communications, Elsevier * Journal of Supercomputing, Springer * Journal of Internet Technology, MoE, Taiwan * Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Elsevier * Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Steering Chair ----------------- Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam Univ, Korea Workshop Program Chairs -------------------------- - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal International Advisory Board ----------------------------- - Dimitrios Makrakis, Univ of Ottawa, Canada - Elisa Bertino, Purdue Univ, USA - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan Technical Program Committee ------------------------------- - Abdelhamid Mellouk, Univ of Paris XII, France - Antonio Nogueira, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Bai Xiaoying, Tsinghua Univ, China - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - Bo Zhu, Concordia Univ, Canada - ByungRae Cha, Honam Univ, Korea - Chae Hoon Lim, Sejong Univ, Korea - Eul Gyu Im, Hanyang Univ, Korea - Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State Univ, USA - Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State Univ, USA - Hiroshi Yoshiura, Univ of Electro-Communications, Japan - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Jiankun Hu, RMIT Univ, Australia - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal - Jorge Sa Silva, Univ of Coimbra, Portugal - Jouni Ikonen, Lappeenranta Univ of Technology, Finland - K. 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Chow, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Katsikas Sokratis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece - Khaled Salah, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia - Mario Lemos Proenca, State Univ of Londrina, Brazil - Masato Terada, Hitachi, Japan - Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing Univ, Taiwan - Ning Zhang, Univ of Manchester, UK - Niwat Thepvilojapanong, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Paulo Salvador, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Pavel Gladyshev, Univ College Dublin, Ireland - Seungjoo Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ, Korea - Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China - Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Tapio Frantti, VTT, Finland - Willy Susilo, Univ of Wollongong, Australia - Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA - Yoshihiro Kawahara, Univ of Tokyo, Japan Contact --------- For further information regarding NASSUE-2009 and paper submission, please contact at nassue09 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The early registration deadline is *February 16, 2009*, and the normal registration deadline is February 26, 2009. -- ABOUT ETAPS -- 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 confe- rences, accompanied by satellite workshops and other events. ETAPS 2009 is the twelfth event in the series. -- THE HOST CITY: YORK, UK -- The City of York combines evidence of a history going back to Roman times, tourist attractions, and a bustling modern city centre. York Minster, on a site that has been the city's focus in Roman, Norman and modern times, is among the finest Gothic cathedrals and dominates the city. The Viking past is represented by preserved archaeological remains and reconstructed settlements in the world-famous Jorvik Centre. Since the nineteenth century, York has been a railway city and houses the National Railway Museum, with its stunning collection of locomotives, carriages and railway memorabilia (** sign up for the ETAPS banquet which will be held in this stunning museum! **). York is the ancient administrative capital of northern England and is at the heart of the county of Yorkshire, dominating the Vale of York. ETAPS will take place on the University of York's campus which mixes iconic 1960s concrete buildings with stylish modern architecture. At the centre is the largest artificial lake in England, which is influential in giving York the highest ratio of ducks to students in the country. For more information, please visit York's tourism website: http://www.visityork.org For travel information, please consult the ETAPS'09 website: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/etaps09/ -- MAIN CONFERENCES -- - CC: International Conference on Compiler Construction ( http://www.brics.dk/~mis/CC2009/ ) - ESOP: European Symposium on Programming ( http://esop09.pps.jussieu.fr ) - FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering ( http://www.pst.ifi.lmu.de/fase2009/ ) - FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures ( http://fossacs09.soe.ucsc.edu/ ) - TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems ( http://www.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/tacas2009/ ) -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Rajeev Alur (UPenn, USA) Jean-Marc Eber (Paris, France) Stephen Gilmore (Edinburgh, UK) Steven Miller (Rockwell Collins, USA) John Reynolds (CMU, USA) Vivek Sarkar (Rice, USA) Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen, Germany) -- SATELLITE EVENTS -- The ETAPS 2009 satellite events comprise workshops and tutorials which will be held on the Sunday (March 22) before and the Saturday/Sunday (March 28/29) after the main conferences. WORKSHOPS - ACCAT: Applied and Computational Category Theory - ARSPA-WITS: Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis & Issues in the Theory of Security - Bytecode: Bytecode Semantics, Verification, Analysis and Transformation - COCV: Compiler Optimization Meets Compiler Verification - COMPASS: Correctness, Modeling, and Performance of Aerospace Systems - FESCA: Formal Engineering Approaches to Components and Architectures - FORMED: Formal Methods in Computer Science Education - GaLoP: Games for Logics and Programming Languages - GT-VMT: Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques - HFL: Hardware Design using Functional Languages - LDTA: Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications - MBT: Model-Based Testing - MLQA: Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis - OpenCert: Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification - PLACES: Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software - QAPL: Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages - RC: Reversible Computation - SafeCert: Certification of Safety-Critical Software Controlled Systems - TAASN: Theory and Applications of Abstraction, Substitution and Naming - TERMGRAPH: Computing with Terms and Graphs - WING: Invariant Generation TUTORIALS - Complete and Exhaustive Testing Techniques (Mike Stannett & Tony Simons) - Formal Foundations for Verifying Security-Critical Software (Jan Juerjens) - Retrenchment: Straddling Formal Refinement and the Real World (Richard Banach) - Verification-centric Development in Java with JML and ESC/Java2 (Joe Kiniry, Dan Zimmerman & Erik Poll) Additional information about the satellite events is available on the ETAPS web pages: http://www.etaps.org http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/etaps09/ -- FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES -- ETAPS 2009 is organised by the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, UK. For further information, do not hesitate to contact the Local Organisers at the following address: etaps-organisers -AT- cs.york.ac.uk From aaron.stump at gmail.com Mon Jan 26 14:13:29 2009 From: aaron.stump at gmail.com (Aaron Stump) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:13:29 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLPV Discuss Message-ID: <687571cb0901261113j710f12fcq735ea19702c1a4d4@mail.gmail.com> PLPV Discuss http://groups.google.com/group/plpv-discuss The Programming Languages meets Program Verification (PLPV) workshop has had as its goal, for its three meetings to date, to bring together researchers from different communities interested in language-based approaches to program verification. The newly created "PLPV Discuss" list, hosted on Google Groups, will provide a forum for discussing both technical topics related to the workshop (see www.plpv.org for a sample of these), and organizational matters and initiatives related to the workshop. The discussion list will begin as a public, unmoderated list. The organizers reserve the right to change to a moderated forum if need arises. We welcome researchers interested in PLPV and related topics to join. An initial post requesting feedback on a proposed journal special issues on benchmark problems is there for discussion now. Aaron Stump, Hongwei Xi From Andrzej.Murawski at comlab.ox.ac.uk Mon Jan 26 18:20:07 2009 From: Andrzej.Murawski at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:20:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] GALOP IV: Submission Deadline Extended Message-ID: *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 2nd 2009 *** *** Note that only a short abstract is required *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GaLoP IV: 4th Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (satellite event of ETAPS 2009) *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** York, United Kingdom 28-29 March 2009 http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/galop09/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Accordingly, we ask for submission of both short abstracts outlining what will be presented at the workshop and longer papers describing completed work, either published or unpublished. The fourth GaLoP will be held in York (UK) between March 28 and 29 and will be part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2009). Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects. Typical (but not exclusive) areas are: - games and categorical semantics, - algorithmic aspects of games, - programming languages and full abstraction, - semantics of logics and proof systems, - proof search, - program verification and model checking, - program analysis, - theories of concurrency. There will be no formal proceedings. In previous years, a special issue of the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic has been produced, and this possibility will be pursued again this year. * Submission Link http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=galop09 * Important Dates Submission deadline: February 2nd (extended!) Notification date: February 9th (deferred!) Workshop: March 28-29 (unchanged!) * Invited Speakers Anuj Dawar (Cambridge) Jim Laird (Bath) * Program Committee Ugo Dal Lago, Bologna Paul Levy, Birmingham Guy McCusker, Bath (co-chair) Dale Miller, Palaiseau Andrzej Murawski, Oxford (co-chair) Olivier Serre, Paris Nicolas Tabareau, Paris From birkedal at itu.dk Thu Jan 29 03:31:53 2009 From: birkedal at itu.dk (Lars Birkedal) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:31:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] assoc. prof. opening at IT University of Copenhagen Message-ID: <82wscea4xy.fsf@itu.dk> The IT University of Copenhagen invites applications for an associate professorship in software development. The official announcement can be found at http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Intranet/Personale/Stillingsopslag/VIP/Stillingsopslag%202009/Lektor%20SDG%20-%202009-223-0007.pdf Application deadline is 12:00 on February 12, 2009. Best wishes, Lars Birkedal. The research interests of the applicant should preferably be within software development, programming languages, or systems. This includes requirements specification, decision support systems, programming language technology including program analysis, database technology, model-driven development, end-user development, software development processes, software architecture, models and technology for concurrent and mobile systems, modular software verification, models and technology for ubiquitous computing, and IT for healthcare. From ricardo.h.medel at gmail.com Wed Jan 28 12:31:09 2009 From: ricardo.h.medel at gmail.com (Ricardo Medel) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:31:09 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: HPC Symposium 2009 (Mar del Plata, Argentina) Message-ID: ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** Call for Papers +==========================================================+ High-Performance Computing Symposium 2009 (HPC2009) Mar del Plata, Argentina August 26-27, 2009 held as part of the 38th JAIIO ? Argentine Multiconference on Informatics Mar del Plata, Argentina August 24-28, 2009 +==========================================================+ Overview ======= Building on the great success of the first HPC symposium in 2008, this year's conference aims to bring together researchers, developers, and users of HPC to discuss new ideas, experiences, and problems. HPC2009 will be part of the 38th Argentine Conference on Computer Science (38 JAIIO), the international conference of the Argentine Society for Computer Science (SADIO), to be held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on August 2009. The use and development of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Latin America is steadily growing. New challenges come from the new capabilities provided by clusters, grids, and distributed systems for HPC, promoting research and innovation in this area. The main goal of HPC2009 is to provide a regional forum fostering the growth of the HPC community in Latin America through the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC. As in its first edition, the symposium will feature invited talks from academy and industry, tutorials, short- and full-paper sessions presenting both mature work and new ideas in research and industrial applications. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: * Distributed and Grid Computing * Parallel Algorithms and Architectures * High Performance Applications * High Performance Software Tools * Virtualization in High Performance Computing * Visualization and Data Management * Cloud Computing * Tools and Environments for High Performance System Engineering * Component Technologies for High Performance Computing * Parallelism and Data Sharing on Multi-core Architectures * Graphics Processing Units in High Performance Computing * Country-wide Grid Initiatives Instructions for Authors ================== Submissions of short- and full-papers must be written in English, and prepared according to Springer's LNCS style (guidelines are available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be handled electronically. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the symposium. At least one author of each accepted paper must be duly registered for the symposium in order for the paper to be scheduled in the papers session and to appear in the Symposium and 38 JAIIO proceedings. Regular full-length papers =================== Full papers must not exceed 16 pages, including name, affiliation and address of the author(s), figures, tables, and references, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. All full paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least two experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of accepted papers. Full papers accepted for the program will appear in the proceedings. Short papers/Extended abstracts ========================= Authors are invited to submit short papers (also called Extended Abstracts) for results that are too late to be submitted as regular full-length papers. Short papers must not exceed 4 pages. Short papers accepted for the program will appear in the proceedings (in short form - not expanded to full papers - and with Extended Abstract in the title) and be presented orally during the symposium (in suitably shorter speaking slots) as a regular part of the program. Symposium Information ================== Up-to-date information about the program and the symposium organization can be found at http://hpc2009.hpclatam.org Important Dates ============ Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2009 Venue Information ============== Mar del Plata is a wonderful place: Information in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_del_Plata Mar del Plata website (in Spanish): http://www.turismomardelplata.gov.ar/ Program Committee =============== Chairs: Ricardo Medel, Intel de Argentina Esteban Mocskos, Universidad de Buenos Aires Committee Members: Roberto Bevilacqua, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de San Martin Gerson Geraldo Cavalheiro, Universidade Federal de Pelotas Miguel Angel Cavaliere, Tenaris Siderca and Universidad de Buenos Aires Alvaro Coutinho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Adri?n Cristal, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Diego Crupnicoff, Mellanox Technologies Carlos Garcia Garino, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Gonzalo Hernandez Oliva, Universidad de Chile Mariano Camilo Gonzalez Lebrero, Universidad de Buenos Aires Dan Hirsch, Intel de Argentina Marcos Martins, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. Patricia Paredes, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba Marcela Printista, Universidad Nacional de San Luis Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University Mario Storti, Universidad Nacional del Litoral Patricia Tissera, IAFE - Universidad de Buenos Aires Mariano Vazquez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Contact Information =============== hpc2009 (at) hpclatam.org From sweirich at cis.upenn.edu Thu Jan 29 10:08:33 2009 From: sweirich at cis.upenn.edu (Stephanie Weirich) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:08:33 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP Haskell Symposium 2009 Message-ID: <285062F9-732B-4370-BE1C-D5DCDB9C9CF0@cis.upenn.edu> Haskell 09 ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2009 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 3, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/ The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2009 will be co-located with the 2009 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). The purpose of the Haskell Symposium is to discuss experiences with Haskell and future developments for the language. The scope of the symposium includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Language Design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, in the form of a formal treatment of the semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Tools, in the form of profilers, tracers, debuggers, pre-processors, and so forth; * Applications, Practice, and Experience, with Haskell for scientific and symbolic computing, database, multimedia and Web applications, and so forth as well as general experience with Haskell in education and industry; * Functional Pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of using Haskell. Papers in the latter two categories need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, re-usable programming idioms, or elegant new ways of approaching a problem. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a program! Before 2008, the Haskell Symposium was known as the Haskell Workshop. The name change reflects both the steady increase of influence of the Haskell Workshop on the wider community as well as the increasing number of high quality submissions. The acceptance process is highly competitive. After eleven Haskell Workshops between 1995 and 2007, the first Haskell Symposium was held in Victoria in 2008. Submission Details * Submission Deadline: Friday, May 8th 2009 (3:00 pm, Eastern US Time) * Author Notification: Monday, June 1st 2009 * Final Papers Due : Monday, June 15th 2009 Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm). The length is restricted to 12 pages, and the font size 9pt. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. If there is sufficient demand, we will try to organize a time slot for system or tool demonstrations. If you are interested in demonstrating a Haskell related tool or application, please send a brief demo proposal to Stephanie Weirich, sweirich at cis.upenn.edu. Links * http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium, the permanent homepage of the Haskell Symposium. * http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/, the 2009 Haskell Symposium web page. * http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2009, the ICFP 2009 web page. Program Committee * Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford University * Bastiaan Heeren, Open Universiteit Nederland * John Hughes, Chalmers/Quviq * Mark Jones, Portland State University * Simon Marlow, Microsoft Research * Ulf Norell, Chalmers * Chris Okasaki, United States Military Academy * Ross Paterson, City University London * Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev, Vector Fabrics * Don Stewart, Galois * Janis Voigtlaender, TU Dresden * Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania (Chair) From clements at brinckerhoff.org Thu Jan 29 11:54:48 2009 From: clements at brinckerhoff.org (John Clements) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:54:48 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Scheme Workshop 2009 Message-ID: *********************************************** SCHEME AND FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP 2009 Cambridge, Massachusetts August 22, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.schemeworkshop.org/2009/ *********************************************** The Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop showcases research and experience related to Scheme, and more broadly to all aspects of functional programming. Areas of interest include: * Language Design, Type Systems, Theory * Program Development Environments, Education * Agile Methodologies, Lightweight Software Engineering * Applications, Implementation, and Experience * SRFIs! In addition to technical papers on matters of programming-language research, we encourage submissions that present experience or innovation with a particular project. The key criterion for any paper--technical or not--is that it makes a contribution from which other practitioners can benefit. ** Dates: ** Dates are firm, and will not be extended. Please plan accordingly. Submission Deadline: June 5, 2009 (FIRM) Author Notification: June 26, 2009 Final Papers Due: July 24, 2009 Workshop: August 22, 2009 ** Program Committee: ** John Clements, Cal Poly State University (organizer & chair) Dominique Boucher, Nu Echo Abdulaziz Ghuloum, Indiana University David Herman, Northeastern University Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University Matthew Might, University of Utah David Van Horn, Northeastern University ** Publication Policy: ** Submitted papers must have content that has not previously been published in other conferences or refereed venues, and simultaneous submission to other conferences or refereed venues is unacceptable. Publication of a paper at this workshop is not intended to replace conference or journal publication, and does not preclude re-publication of a more complete or finished version of the paper at some later conference or in a journal. ** Submission Instructions: ** Your submissions should be no longer than 12 pages, including bibliography and appendices. Papers may be shorter than this limit, and the Program Committee encourages authors to submit shorter papers where appropriate. The conference web page (URL above) contains detailed formatting instructions and LaTeX support files. Submit your papers using the Continue 2.0 submission server, at the URL: http://continue2.cs.brown.edu/scheme2009/ We look forward to reading your papers! From lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr Thu Jan 29 12:16:00 2009 From: lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr (Lutz Strassburger) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:16:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CfP: "Structures and Deduction", Bordeaux, July 20-24, 2009 Message-ID: ******************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop "Structures and Deduction" (SD09) July 20 - 24, 2009 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2009 July 20 - 31, 2009 in Bordeaux ******************************************************************* ORGANIZERS: Michel Parigot (CNRS, Univ. Paris 7, France) Lutz Strassburger (INRIA Saclay-IdF, France) DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP: The topic of this workshop is the application of algebraic, geometric, and combinatorial methods in proof theory. In recent years many researchers have proposed approaches to understand and reduce "syntactic bureaucracy" in the presentation of proofs. Examples are proof nets, atomic flows, new deductive systems based on deep inference, and new algebraic semantics for proofs. These efforts have also led to new methods of proof normalisation and new results in proof complexity. The workshop is relevant to a wide range of people. The list of topics includes among others: algebraic semantics of proofs, game semantics, proof nets, deep inference, tableaux systems, category theory, deduction modulo, cut elimination, complexity theory, etc. The goal of the workshop is twofold: first, to bring together researchers from various fields who share the interest of understanding and dealing with structural properties of proofs and second, to provide an opportunity for PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues who work in the broad subject areas that are represented at ESSLLI. The workshop is intended to be a sequel of the ICALP-workshop SD05 in Lisbon 2005 . SUBMISSION DETAILS: Contributions can be regular papers, but also work in progress, programmatic/position papers or tutorials. Submissions should be formatted with the LNCS LaTeX style, take between two and fifteen pages and allow the committee to assess their merits with reasonable effort. The length limit can be relaxed for the versions that will be presented at the workshop, depending on the total bulk of the accepted contributions. Please use the SD'09 submission page handled by the EasyChair conference system, to submit papers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. One author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. 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 or 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic. INVITED SPEAKER: Fran?ois Lamarche (LORIA, Nancy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) Stefano Berardi (Torino) Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna) Alessio Guglielmi (Bath/Nancy) Martin Hyland (Cambridge) Grigori Mints (Stanford) Michel Parigot (Paris) Lutz Strassburger (Palaiseau) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2009 Deadline for final versions: May 11, 2009 Workshop dates: July 20 - 24, 2009 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. Moreover, a number of additional fee waiver grants will be made available by the ESSLLI local organizing committee on a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. FURTHER INFORMATION: About the workshop: About ESSLLI: From sweirich at cis.upenn.edu Fri Jan 30 09:33:32 2009 From: sweirich at cis.upenn.edu (Stephanie Weirich) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:33:32 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Journal of Automated Reasoning: Special Issue on the POPLmark Challenge Message-ID: <9D398A3D-2174-4297-B543-04DC03093D6E@cis.upenn.edu> Journal of Automated Reasoning Special issue on the POPLmark Challenge Call for Papers How close are we to a world in which mechanically verified software is commonplace? A world in which theorem proving technology is used routinely by both software developers and programming language researchers alike? One crucial step towards achieving these goals is mechanized reasoning about language metatheory. Researchers in programming languages have long felt the need for tools to help formalize and check their work. With advances in language technology demanding deep understanding of ever larger and more complex languages, this need has become urgent. In 2005, a group of programming language researchers at Penn and Cambridge issued "The POPLmark challenge": a set of challenge problems aimed at the programming language and theorem proving community to gauge progress in mechanizing programming language metatheory. The solutions to this challenge have been gathered at http://plclub.org/mmm/ The goal of the special issue is a retrospective on the POPLmark challenge, summarizing and analyzing what has been learned. Submissions are encouraged, but not limited to, the following topics: * Complete, polished descriptions of specific POPLmark solutions, including well-commented proof scripts * Analysis and comparison of solutions to the POPLmark challenge * Descriptions and code for proof assistant extensions/libraries developed explicitly for the purpose of programming language metatheory * New formalization techniques, especially with respect to binding issues * Proposals for new challenge problems that benchmark programming language work Manuscripts should be unpublished works and not submitted elsewhere. Revised and enhanced versions of papers published in conference proceedings that have not appeared in archival journals are eligible for submission. All submissions will be reviewed according to the usual standards of scholarship and originality. Submissions are due June 15, 2009. We will keep a tight review schedule to enable publication of the special issue by mid 2010. Papers that do not progress through the reviewing cycle in a timely manner may be published in a later issue. Papers should be in pdf format following the JAR guidelines for authors. We encourage authors to keep their submissions below 30 pages. Authors should submit their papers electronically to sweirich at cis.upenn.edu. For more information, see http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~sweirich/jar-poplmark/ Guest Editors Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Sun Feb 1 19:20:04 2009 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:20:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: 10./ 13. February (abstract / paper deadline). Distributed Computing Techniques 2009, Lisbon (DAIS + FMOODS/FORTE + COORDINATION) Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!! Deadline Extended !!!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 10 February 2009, 23:59 Samoa time (= UTC-11) Paper submission: 13 February 2009, 23:59 Samoa time -------------------------------------------------------------------- Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/ Lisbon, Portugal 8 - 12 June 2009 ------------------------------------------ -------- --------------- ------- FMOODS/FORTE'09 --------------- -------- --------------- ------- DAIS'09 --------------- ------- --------------- -------- Coordination'09 --------------- -------- --------------- ------------------------------------------- The call for papers for each of the three federated conference follow below. Invited Speakers: o Manuel Serrano, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France o Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research, USA o Jayadev Misra, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA --------------------- Joint dates (extended): ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Abstract submission: 10 February 2009, 23:59 Samoa time (= UTC-11) * Paper submission: 13 February 2009, 23:59 Samoa time * Author notification: 20 March 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS FMOODS/FORTE IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems as joint international conference of FMOODS/FORTE (11th Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems and 29th Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems) Lisbon, Portugal, June 9-11, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems is formed jointly from the two conference series FMOODS and FORTE. It is part of the federated conference event DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques) which also includes the 11th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS). The event will be hosted by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Objectives and Scope The joined conference FMOODS/FORTE is a forum for fundamental research on theory and applications of distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, in particular in the areas of: * Component- and model-based design * Service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid and mobile computing * Software quality, reliability and security The conference encourages contributions that combine theory and practice, address problems from the development of distributed systems, and present novel solutions with formal methods and theoretical foundations. FMOODS/FORTE covers distributed computing models and formal specification, testing and verification methods. The application domains include all kinds of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real time systems, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Languages and Semantic Foundations: new modeling and language concepts for distribution and concurrency, semantics for different types of languages, including programming languages, modeling languages, and domain specific languages; real-time and probability aspects; type systems and behavioral typing * Formal Methods and Techniques: design, specification, analysis, verification, validation and testing of various types of distributed systems including communications and network protocols, service-oriented systems, and adaptive distributed systems * Applications of Formal Methods: applying the existing methods and techniques to distributed systems, particularly web services, multimedia systems, and telecommunications * Practical Experience with Formal Methods: industrial applications, case studies and software tools for applying formal methods and description techniques to the development and analysis of real distributed systems Program Commitee: * Gregor v. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil * Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy * Ana Cavalli, INT Evry, France * John Derrick, University of Sheffield, U.K. * Reinhard Gotzhein, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Susanne Graf, Universite Joseph Fourier / CNRS / VERIMAG * Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan * Dieter Hogrefe, University of Gottingen, Germany * Gerard Holzmann, NASA/JPL, USA * Claude Jard, ENS Cachan - Bretagne, France * Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway * Ferhat Khendek, Concordia University, Canada * Myungchul Kim, Information and Communications University, South Korea * Hartmut Koenig, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany * David Lee, The Ohio State University, USA (CO-CHAIR) * Luigi Logrippo, University of Quebec - Outaouais, Canada * Antonia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal (CO-CHAIR) * Peter Mueller, ETH, Switzerland * Elie Najm, ENST, France * Uwe Nestmann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Manuel Nunez, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain * Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM Montreal, Canada * Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (CO-CHAIR) * Jean-François Pradat-Peyre, Cedric-CNAM, France * Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany * Arend Rensink, University of Twente, Netherlands * Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, Norway * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA * Ken Turner, University of Stirling, UK * Keiichi Yasumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan * Nina Yevtushenko, Tomsk State University, Russia * Xia Yin, Tsinghua University, China * Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy * Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany * Martin Wirsing, LMU Munich, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings and Submission guidelines The FMOODS/FORTE 2009 conference calls for high quality papers presenting research results and/or application reports related to the topics in conference scope as described above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF, using the SPRINGER LNCS style. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. In addition, the journal Higher Order and Symbolic Computation will publish a special issue consisting of extended versions of the top ranking papers from FMOODS/FORTE 2009 ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Coordination 2009 Languages, Models, and Architectures for Concurrent and Distributed Software 11th International Conference Member of the Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques Lisbon, Portugal 8 - 12 June 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/coordination Scope Modern software lives in a concurrent world. The ubiquity of the Internet allows distributed software components to be composed into complex networked systems. At the other end of the spectrum, with multicore processors now the norm, concurrency is frequently necessary to maximize application performance. Coordination 2009 seeks high-quality papers on programming languages, models, and architectures that address the challenge of building robust distributed and concurrent applications. The conference focuses on the design and implementation of models that allow compositional construction of large-scale concurrent and distributed systems, including both practical and foundational models, runtime systems, and related verification and analysis techniques. Topics of Interest DISTRIBUTED AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING MODELS: multicore programming, stream programming, data parallel programming, event-driven programming, web programming FOUNDATIONS OF DISTRIBUTED AND CONCURRENT INTERACTION: models for processes, service composition and orchestration, workflow management, data query, tuple spaces SPECIFICATION, VERIFICATION, AND TYPES: modeling and analysis of types and properties related to security, dependability, resource consumption, and component conformance for concurrent and distributed systems HIGH-LEVEL OPTIMIZATIONS: program transformations for performance enhancement, runtime load balancing techniques, static and dynamic resource management QUALITY OF SERVICE: fault-tolerant programming models and runtime support, models with responsiveness guarantees DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT: component and module systems for distributed software, dynamic software evolution and update technologies, configuration and deployment architectures SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMMING MODELS: P2P frameworks, mobile ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, publish-subscribe systems, event processing CASE STUDIES: application of novel distributed and concurrent techniques in business process modeling, e-commerce, factory automation, collaboration, command and control ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines The Coordination 2009 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 journal Science of Computer Programming ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coordination '09 Organization PC Chairs: John Field, IBM Research, USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Program Committee: * Gérard Boudol, INRIA, France * Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * William R. Cook, University of Texas, USA * John Field, IBM Research, USA (Co-chair) * David Gay, Intel Research, USA * Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland * Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University, Denmark * Kohei Honda, Queen Mary, University of London, UK * Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, USA * Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA * Doug Lea, State University of New York, USA * Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, Switzerland * Uwe Nestmann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, Italy * Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA * Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal (Co-chair) * Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA * Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Steering Committee: Farhad Arbab, CWI, NL Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, IT (CHAIR) Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, UK Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, BE Doug Lea, State University of New York, USA Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, CH 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 Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, IT ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS DAIS 2009 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems Lisbon, Portugal 10 - 12 June 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/DAIS09 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) is part of the federated conferences DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques), together with the 11th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the 11th IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS). OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE: Established in 1997, the DAIS series of conferences aims to provide an integrated forum for research on all aspects of distributed applications and interoperable systems. DAIS 2009 conference themes include but are not limited to: Innovative distributed applications in the areas of Cloud and enterprise computing Very large scale and peer-to-peer computing Mobile, context-aware, and pervasive computing Sensor networks and ad-hoc networks Models and concepts supporting distributed applications in the areas of Sustainability Resiliency Evolution Middleware supporting distributed applications in the areas of Autonomic and resilient systems Mobile systems Context- and QoS-aware systems Evolution of service-oriented applications Enterprise-wide and global integration Semantic interoperability Application management Software engineering of distributed applications Domain-specific modelling languages Model-driven software development, testing,validation, and adaptation Model evolution Software architecture and patterns ORGANISERS: General chair: Antonio Ravara, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal PC chairs: Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Twittie Senivongse, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Publicity Chair: Hartmut Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany Steering Committee: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Hartmut Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Elie Najm, ENST, France Kerry Raymond, University of Queensland, Australia Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK Program Committee: * N. Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece * M. Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan * J. E. Armendáriz-Íñigo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain * D. Bakken, Washington State University, USA * Y. Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * A. Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK * A. Beugnard, TELECOM Bretagne, France * G. Blair, Lancaster University, UK * A. Casimiro Costa, University of Lisbon, Portugal * I. Demeure, ENST, France * S. Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * D. Donsez, Université Joseph Fourier, France * N. Dulay, Imperial College London, UK * F. Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway * P. Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland * K. Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany * N. Georgantas, INRIA, France * K. Göschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * R. Grønmo, SINTEF ICT, Norway * D. Hagimont, INP Toulouse, France * S. Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway * P. Herrmann, NTNU Trondheim, Norway * J. Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia * R. Kapitza, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany * H. König, BTU Cottbus, Germany * R. Kroeger, University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany * L. Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland * W. Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany * M. Lawley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * P. Linington, University of Kent, UK * C. Linnhof-Popien, University of Munich, Germany * K. Lund, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway * R. Macêdo, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil * R. Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * A. Montresor, University of Trento, Italy * E. Najm, ENST, France * N. Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, USA * R. Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal * P. Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK * A. Puder, State University San Francisco, USA * K. Raymond, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * D. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA * T. Senivongse, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand * K. Sere, Åbo Akademi University, Finland * E. Tanter, University of Chile, Chile * S. Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK * J. Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong * H. Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The DAIS 2009 conference solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the themes 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. Full technical papers should not exceed 14 pages in length while work-in-progress papers should not exceed 6 pages in length. Submission implies the acceptance that at least one author will attend the conference if the paper is accepted. 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. More specific guidelines on the preparation of papers can be found on the conference website. ========================================================================================================= ========================================================================================================= ========================================================================================================= Joint DisCoTec '09 Organization ========================================================================================================= Antonio Ravara, Technical University of Lisbon, PT (General Chair) Carla Ferreira, New University of Lisbon, PT Ana Almeida Matos, Technical University of Lisbon, PT Workshops Chair Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon, PT Publicity Chair Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, NO From herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk Mon Feb 2 02:22:30 2009 From: herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk (Herbert Wiklicky) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 07:22:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXTENDED Deadline for Coordination'09 Message-ID: **Extended submission deadline: 13 February 2009** CALL FOR PAPERS Coordination 2009 Languages, Models, and Architectures for Concurrent and Distributed Software 11th International Conference Member of the Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques Lisbon, Portugal 9 - 12 June 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/coordination ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 10 February 2009 (new) Paper submission: 13 February 2009 (new) Author rebuttal period: 10-11 March 2009 Author notification: 20 March 2009 Camera-ready copy: 1 April 2009 Conference: 9-11 June 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope Modern software lives in a concurrent world. The ubiquity of the Internet allows distributed software components to be composed into complex networked systems. At the other end of the spectrum, multicore processors are now the norm. Hence applications are bound to be inherently concurrent and communication centered. Coordination 2009 seeks high-quality papers on programming languages, models, and architectures that address the challenge of building robust distributed and concurrent applications. The conference focuses on the design and implementation of models that allow compositional construction of large-scale concurrent and distributed systems, including both practical and foundational models, runtime systems, and related verification and analysis techniques. Past incarnations of Coordination have emphasized foundations. However, given the increasing importance of concurrency in almost every software domain, the organizers of Coordination 2009 are keen to provide a strong forum for high-quality papers that address practical aspects of concurrent programming models; e.g.: application of concurrency to novel domains, comparisons of alternative programming models on important problems, or domain-specific languages. Topics of Interest DISTRIBUTED AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING MODELS: multicore programming, stream programming, data parallel programming, event-driven programming, web programming FOUNDATIONS OF DISTRIBUTED AND CONCURRENT INTERACTION: models for processes, service composition and orchestration, workflow management, data query, tuple spaces SPECIFICATION, VERIFICATION, AND TYPES: modeling and analysis of types and properties related to security, dependability, resource consumption, and component conformance for concurrent and distributed systems HIGH-LEVEL OPTIMIZATIONS: program transformations for performance enhancement, runtime load balancing techniques, static and dynamic resource management QUALITY OF SERVICE: fault-tolerant programming models and runtime support, models with responsiveness guarantees DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT: component and module systems for distributed software, dynamic software evolution and update technologies, configuration and deployment architectures SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMMING MODELS: P2P frameworks, mobile ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, publish-subscribe systems, event processing CASE STUDIES: application of novel distributed and concurrent techniques in business process modeling, e-commerce, factory automation, collaboration, command and control ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speaker Manuel Serrano, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR "Semantics and Implementation of the HOP Programming Language" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines The Coordination 2009 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. 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 Coordination '09 papers will be invited to a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming. Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF form at https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=coordination09, using the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0). Papers are strictly limited to 20 pages in length, _including_ figures and appendices, using the standard LNCS 10pt body font. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines are subject to being rejected without review. Authors intending to submit a paper must enter an abstract into the paper submission system by 10 February 2009. The (strict) paper submission deadline is 13 February 2009. Authors will be given the opportunity to respond succinctly to factual errors in conference reviews during a rebuttal period from 2-4 March. The committee will take rebuttals into consideration during its decision process, but will not necessarily revise its final reviews in response. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coordination '09 Organization PC and Conference Chairs: John Field, IBM Research, USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, PT Publicity Chair: Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK Program Committee: G?rard Boudol, INRIA, FR Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE William R. Cook, University of Texas, USA John Field, IBM Research, USA David Gay, Intel Research, USA Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, CH Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University, DK Kohei Honda, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, USA Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA Doug Lea, State University of New York, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, DE Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, CH Uwe Nestmann, Technical University of Berlin, DE Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, IT Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, PT Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT Steering Committee: Farhad Arbab, CWI, NL Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, UK Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, BE Doug Lea, State University of New York, USA Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, CH Rocco De Nicola, University of Florence, IT (Chair) 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 Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, IT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques Organization Antonio Ravara, Technical University of Lisbon, PT (General Chair) Carla Ferreira, New University of Lisbon, PT Ana Almeida Matos, Technical University of Lisbon, PT Workshops Chair Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon, PT Publicity Chair Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, NO ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Mon Feb 2 10:30:19 2009 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:30:19 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP09 Final CFP Message-ID: <53ff55480902020730s4ad6c0f9w135d4814aa9337a0@mail.gmail.com> Final Call for Papers ICFP 2009: International Conference on Functional Programming Edinburgh, Scotland, 31 August - 2 September 2009 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html ** Submission deadline: 2 March 2009 ** Submission URL: https://www.softconf.com/a/icfp09/ ICFP 2009 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 or concurrency. Particular topics of interest include * Language Design * Implementation * Software-Development Techniques * Foundations * Applications and Domain-Specific Languages * Functional Pearls The conference also solicits Experience Reports, which are short papers that provide evidence that functional programming really works or describe obstacles that have kept it from working in a particular application. Important Dates (at 20:00 UTC) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submission: 2 March 2009 https://www.softconf.com/a/icfp09/ Author response: 21-23 April 2009 Notification: 5 May 2009 Final papers due: 8 June 2009 Call for Papers (full text) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~apt/icfp09_cfp.html Call for Experience Reports (full text) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~apt/icfp09_cfer.html Program Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrew Tolmach Department of Computer Science Portland State University P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207 USA Email: apt at cs.pdx.edu Phone: +1 503 725 5492 Fax: +1 503 725 3211 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. From berghofe at in.tum.de Mon Feb 2 18:22:02 2009 From: berghofe at in.tum.de (Stefan Berghofer) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:22:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TPHOLs'09 Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <4987801A.505@in.tum.de> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: TPHOLs 2009 The 22th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics 17 - 20 August 2009 in Munich, Germany ****************************** * http://tphols.in.tum.de/ * ****************************** TPHOLs is a series of international conferences that started in 1988. It brings together researchers working in all areas of interactive theorem proving. The conference will be held on 17 - 20 August 2009 in Munich. As in previous years, the formal proceedings of TPHOLs will appear as a volume of LNCS. Important Dates --------------- Submission: 8 March 2009 Author notification: 4 May 2009 Camera-ready papers due: 5 June 2009 Website for submissions http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tphols2009 Submission for the emerging trends section: 11 May 2009 Conference: 17 - 20 August 2009 Topics ------ The program committee welcomes submissions on all aspects of theorem proving in higher order logics, on related topics in theorem proving and verification, and on relevant applications. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Specification and verification of hardware: microprocessors, memory systems, buses, pipelines, etc; formal semantics of hardware design languages; synthesis; formal design flows. Specification and verification of software: program verification, refinement, and synthesis for functional, declarative and imperative languages; formal semantics of programming languages; compiler and operating system verification; proof carrying code. Industrial application of theorem provers. Formalization of mathematical theories. Advances in theorem prover technology: proof automation and decision procedures, induction, combination of deductive and algorithmic approaches, incorporation of theorem provers into larger systems, combination of theorem provers with other provers and tools. Other topics, including: user interfaces for theorem provers; development and extension of higher order logics. Proof Pearls: concise and elegant presentations of interesting examples. Relevant research involving interactive first-order systems, such as ACL2 and Mizar, is also welcome. All authors are reminded that their work should be presented in a way that users of other systems can understand. Papers should be no more than 16 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must describe original unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere. They must conform to the LNCS style preferably using LaTeX2e. The proceedings are to be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available to participants at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the conference. As has been custom in previous years there will be an emerging trends section. Submissions under this section will not be formally refereed, but their content and relevance will be reviewed. Those submissions accepted will be published in a technical report of the TU M?nchen, which will also be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers in this section are expected to present a brief outline of their work at the conference and to prepare a poster for display at the conference venue. Invited Speakers ---------------- David Basin ETH Zurich John Harrison Intel Wolfram Schulte Microsoft Research Programme Committee ------------------- Thorsten Altenkirch Nottingham University David Aspinall Edinburgh University Jeremy Avigad Carnegie Mellon University Gilles Barthe IMDEA Christoph Benzm?ller Saarland University Peter Dybjer Chalmers University Jean-Christophe Filli?tre CNRS Georges Gonthier Microsoft Research Mike Gordon Cambridge University Jim Grundy Intel Reiner H?hnle Chalmers University Joe Hurd Galois Gerwin Klein NICTA Xavier Leroy INRIA Pete Manolios Northeastern University C?sar Mu?oz National Institute of Aerospace Tobias Nipkow (co-chair) TU M?nchen Michael Norrish NICTA Sam Owre SRI International Larry Paulson Cambridge University Frank Pfenning Carnegie Mellon University Randy Pollack Edinburgh University Sofi?ne Tahar Concordia University Laurent Th?ry INRIA Christian Urban (co-chair) TU M?nchen Freek Wiedijk Radboud University Nijmegen Affiliated Events ----------------- - Workshop on Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems (PLMMS) - Coq Users Meeting - Isabelle Developers Workshop Organizers ---------- Stefan Berghofer Tobias Nipkow Christian Urban Makarius Wenzel From patrick.baillot at ens-lyon.fr Tue Feb 3 06:31:48 2009 From: patrick.baillot at ens-lyon.fr (Patrick Baillot) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:31:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] post-doc position at ENS Lyon Message-ID: <20090203123148.wwjnt956fqckkwk8@tadorne.ens-lyon.fr> ===================================================== POST-DOC POSITION at ENS Lyon on implicit computational complexity and concurrency ====================================================== A 12-month post-doc position is available at ENS Lyon (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon) within the project: Implicit Computational Complexity, Concurrency and Extraction (COMPLICE) http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/complice/spip.php?rubrique4 This four-year project is funded by the French national research agency (ANR) and the partner sites are ENS Lyon, Universit? Paris 13 and LORIA-Nancy. The suggested starting date for the post-doc position is september 2009 (but later dates can be considered). The project's goal is to investigate the foundations and applications of Implicit computational complexity (ICC), along the lines of semantics and logic, functional programming, program extraction from proofs, quantitative properties and ICC for concurrent systems. * Research area. Applications related to the scope of quantitative properties and ICC for process calculi will be prefered, but those relevant to another direction of the project by candidates with background in one/some of the following fields are also welcome: - ICC / type systems for complexity - concurrency (esp. termination and quantitative properties) - proof-assistants and program extraction from proofs - linear logic, lambda-calculus, game semantics The applicant should hold a PhD or be about to defend his/her PhD by December 2009. * Location. The post-doc researcher will work within the Plume team of the LIP, the computer science laboratory of ENS Lyon, which is a leading research and education institution in sciences. http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/ Strong interaction with the other sites of the COMPLICE project is also expected. * Salary. The net salary will be around 2030 euro/month. This is then subject to income tax. * Application procedure. We strongly recommend that potential candidates express their interest by sending an email to patrick.baillot at ens-lyon.fr before February 22nd 2009. Then send your application before May 15th 2009 including a resume, a short research project (1 page) and two names of possible references. This should be preferably done by email with subject line 'Postdoc position' to patrick.baillot at ens-lyon.fr, or at the postal address below. * Important dates: - intention of application (short email) February 22nd 2009 - deadline for application: May 15th 2009 - notification: June 15th 2009 - suggested starting date: September 1st 2009 Further information will possibly be made available from the web page of the project indicated above. * Postal address: Patrick Baillot LIP (UMR 5668) ENS Lyon 46 All?e d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France. -- Patrick Baillot LIP (UMR 5668 CNRS) ENS de Lyon http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/patrick.baillot/ Tel: (+33) 4 72 72 81 49 Fax: (+33) 4 72 72 80 80 From swarat at cse.psu.edu Tue Feb 3 16:17:35 2009 From: swarat at cse.psu.edu (Swarat Chaudhuri) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:17:35 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2010 - CALL FOR CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POPL 2010 - CALL FOR CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS POPL 2010, the 37th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages 20-22 January 2010 Madrid, Spain ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 37th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2010) will be held in Madrid, Spain from January 20 to January 22. 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 2010, including 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 16th, 2009 Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Prospective meeting organizers are invited to submit a completed meeting proposal form to the POPL 2010 workshop chair (Yitzhak Mandelbaum) by March 16th, 2009. Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their proposal is accepted by April 28th, 2009, 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 2010 organising committee, together with the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee. Yitzhak Mandelbaum AT&T Labs - Research Workshops chair Manuel Hermenegildo T.U. of Madrid (UPM) General chair Jens Palsberg UCLA Program chair ** Further information ** For the full Call for Workshop and Co-located Event Proposals and all of the associated forms, visit the POPL 2010 website, or access them directly at: http://www.research.att.com/~yitzhak/workshops/popl10/call_for_events.html A copy of this announcement can be found at: http://www.research.att.com/~yitzhak/workshops/popl10/call_for_events.txt Any queries regarding POPL 2010 co-located event proposals should be addressed to the workshops chair (Yitzhak Mandelbaum), via email to popl-workshops *at* research.att.com. From rensink at cs.utwente.nl Wed Feb 4 08:56:38 2009 From: rensink at cs.utwente.nl (Arend Rensink) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:56:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FM 2009: Call for Tutorial Proposals Message-ID: <49899E96.3030001@cs.utwente.nl> Call for Tutorial Proposals Formal Methods 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands symposium 4-6 November, tutorials 2 & 3 November FM2009 is the sixteenth international symposium of the Formal Methods Europe association. Ten years after the world congress in Toulouse in 1999, FM2009 will be organized as a world congress again, a global platform for researchers and practitioners from a diversity of countries, backgrounds and schools to exchange ideas and share experiences. Several conferences are colocating with FM2009 within FMweek. As is tradition, the symposium will go together with an Industry Day, a Doctoral Symposium, a Tool Exhibition, an event on Teaching Formal Methods, as well as a wide range of workshops (see www.win.tue.nl/fm2009 for the latest information). In order to complete the programme, the organizing committee of FM2009 cordially invites proposals for one day tutorials in the wide area of formal methods. Tutorials should aim to provide conference participants with the opportunity to learn new techniques and gain insights in the use of formal methods. In particular, we welcome proposals addressing: - novel applications of existing tools and techniques - advanced topics in formal methods research - uses of formal methods in emerging fields Tutorials will take place on 2 and 3 November, preceding the symposium. FM2009 tutorial proposals should include: - tutorial title and brief description of its scope and goal - names and affiliations of the tutors - format of the tutorial Proposals in pdf can be sent to the tutorial chair Jan Friso Groote at J.F.Groote at tue.nl. Deadline for submission is 6 March 2009. Proposals will be evaluated by the FM2009 organizing committee. Notification will be sent by 18 March 2009. Tutorials that have lecture notes, can be assisted in printing and distribution by the FM2009 organizing committee. Tutors of accepted proposals will receive a discount on their registration fee for FM2009. Tutorial participants are invited to register for FM2009 or one the colocated events within FMweek, but are not required to do so. See the websites www.win.tue.nl/fm2009 and www.win.tue.nl/fmweek for more information on the symposium, colocated events and venue. Further inquiries can be made to the tutorial chair. Submission of proposals: 6 March 2009 Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2009 Tutorial dates: 2 and 3 November 2009 From kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Tue Feb 3 05:41:16 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:41:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: WWV 2009 Message-ID: <49881F4C.4020303@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] *********************************************************** * DEADLINE EXTENSION * * * * WWV 2009 * * Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems * * 5th International Workshop * * * * Castle of Hagenberg, Austria. July 17, 2009 * * * *********************************************************** NEW DATES --------- Abstract Submission February 9, 2009 (extended) Full Paper Submission February 16, 2009 (extended) Acceptance Notification April 20, 2009 Camera Ready June 1, 2009 Workshop July 17, 2009 WEB PAGE -------- http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/wwv09/ From cfp at clip.dia.fi.upm.es Wed Feb 4 10:34:54 2009 From: cfp at clip.dia.fi.upm.es (CFP) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:34:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc Positions at the CLIP group, Spain Message-ID: ********************************************************************** Application deadline 13th of February (for the 5 years position) and 18th of February (for the 3 years position) ********************************************************************** The CLIP (Computational Logic, Implementation and Parallelism) group is searching for candidates for postdoctoral research positions in the research areas in which the group is involved. A PhD in Computer Science or related areas is required. These are research positions (no teaching is compulsory, although it is allowed) and renewable for up to 3 or 5 years. The initial salary (for the 5 year positions) is 44370 Euros/year plus an initial budget of 15000 Euros for travel and other expenses during the first year. Knowledge of Spanish is not a prerequisite for application and candidates can be of any nationality. The working language at the CLIP group for research is English. The number of positions available depends on the quality of the applicants. The positions are co-funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and the Technical University of Madrid within the Ramon y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva programs. Selection Process: Interested applicants should send their c.v. and a description of their research interests to the CLIP group at hats-grants at clip.dia.fi.upm.es. The CLIP group will perform a pre-selection of the best applicants based on their scientific merits and the relevance of their research interests and experience to the research activities of the group. The CLIP group will then assist the pre-selected candidates in accomplishing all required steps to present the required documentation for the final evaluation step. The applications, will then be sent to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology which performs the final selection. The details of this step are described here. http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Job_Openings/RyC2009.html More details on the CLIP group, publications, projects, and research areas of interest can be found at our WWW site (see e.g. the group description and the listing of research topics and publications): http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/ For more information on any of the above, please contact hats-grants at clip.dia.fi.upm.es -- From johanj at cs.uu.nl Thu Feb 5 04:23:00 2009 From: johanj at cs.uu.nl (Johan Jeuring) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:23:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: TFP 2009 Message-ID: First call for papers 10th SYMPOSIUM ON TRENDS IN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING TFP 2009 SELYE JANOS UNIVERSITY, KOMARNO, SLOVAKIA June 2-4, 2009 http://www.inf.elte.hu/tfp_cefp_2009 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. Acceptance for the conference is based on full papers or extended abstracts, and a formal post-symposium refereeing process selects the best articles presented at the symposium for publication in a high-profile volume. TFP 2009 is hosted by the Selye Janos University, Komarno, Slovakia, and it is co-located with the 3rd Central-European Functional Programming School (CEFP 2009), which is held immediately before TFP 2009 (May 25-30). IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2009) * Paper Submission: March 15 * Notification of Acceptance: April 3 * Camera Ready Symposium Proceedings Paper: April 24 * TFP Symposium: June 2-4, 2009 * Post Symposium Paper Submission: June 30 * Notification of Acceptance: September 7 * Camera Ready Revised Paper: September 21 SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM 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 2009 program chairs, Zoltan Horvath and Viktoria Zsok at tfp2009 at inf.elte.hu SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the screening process of full papers (15 pages) and extended abstracts (at least 3 pages). 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. Further details can be found at the TFP 2009 website. 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Peter Achten (symp-chair), Radboud University Nijmegen, NL * John Clements, California Polytechnic State University, USA * Cormac Flanagan, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA * Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, NL * Kevin Hammond, University of St. Andrews, UK * Michael Hanus, Christian-Albrechts University zu Kiel, DE * Ralf Hinze, University of Oxford, UK * Zoltan Horvath (PC co-chair), Eotvos Lorand University, HU * Graham Hutton, University of Nottingham, UK * Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University, NL * Pieter Koopman (symp-chair), Radboud University Nijmegen, NL * Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munchen, DE * Rita Loogen, Philipps-University Marburg, DE * Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA * Rex L Page, University of Oklahoma, USA * Sven-Bodo Scholz, University of Hertfordshire, UK * Clara Segura, University Complutense de Madrid, ES * Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, SE * Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Marko van Eekelen, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL * Varmo Vene, University of Tartu, EE * Viktoria Zsok (PC co-chair), Eotvos Lorand University, HU LOCATION Conference Centre of Selye University, Komarno, Slovakia (http://www.selyeuni.sk/). It is a new and excellent conference centre with modern equipment, lecture rooms and computer labs. Komarno is on the north bank of river Danube, the northern part of the city Komarom / Komarno. It is a charming old city with about 30 000 inhabitants, 90 km away from Budapest (the capital of Hungary), with good highway and railway connections and 90 km away from Bratislava (the capital of Slovakia), about 100 km from Vienna International Airport. From binod.vaidya at gmail.com Sat Feb 7 00:34:40 2009 From: binod.vaidya at gmail.com (Binod Vaidya) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 14:34:40 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: NASSUE-2009 in conjunction with ISA'09; Deadline: Feb 19, 2009 (Final Extension) Message-ID: <413631910902062134w1d3feaa0jb110e9c4ebf69bcb@mail.gmail.com> -------- Apologies for multiple posts ------- ************ SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO ************ FEBRUARY 19, 2009 **************** (FINAL EXTENSION) *********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ================== 2009 International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) http://www.sersc.org/NASSUE2009/ June 25-27, 2009 Seoul, Korea in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009) Overview ------------- International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) is focused on network assurance and security measure, which has become an important research issue in ubiquitous environments. The objective of this workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in NAS issues in UE. It will highlight the various aspects of NAS - especially on the crucial linkage between availability, compliance, and security. NASSUE-2009 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policy makers to share and exchange ideas and to learn about latest developments, problems and solutions related to NAS issues in UE. Topics (include but are not limited to the following): -------------------------------------------------------------- * Availability, dependability, survivability, & resilience issues in UE * Authentication and identity management in UE * Authorization and access-control in UE * Risk assessment, and management in UE * Redundancy, reliability models, and failure prevention of UCS * Trust modeling and management in UE * Fault-tolerant architectural and operational models in UE * Network security issues and protocols in UCS * Cryptographic protocols and key management in UCS * Agent-based technologies for NAS. * Cross-layer design for security mechanisms * Real-time technology for NAS systems. * QoS provisioning in UCS * Network control technologies for NA. * Novel threat, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures * DoS attacks and mitigation * Reverse engineering of malicious code * Intrusion detection, IDS / IPS in UE * Anonymity, user privacy, and location privacy in UE * Content protection and DRM for UCS * System/network management techniques and strategies in UE. * Network forensics and fraud detection * Surveillance and Privacy-enhancing technologies in UE * Adaptive and Autonomic security for UCS * Role of biometrics in UE * NAS issues in e-commerce, e-government, e-health * NAS implementation in P2P systems, vehicular system, web application, disaster relief etc * Specification, design, development, and deployment of NAS mechanisms * Models, architectures and protocols for NAS * Standards, guidelines and certification for NAS in UE * Metrics for measuring security, assurance and dependability * Designing business models with NAS requirements * Formal methods and software engineering for NAS * Legal, ethical and policy issues related to NAS in UE * Proactive approaches to NAS * New ideas and paradigms for NAS in UE Important dates ------------------- - Full Paper Due: February 19, 2009 (Final Extension) - Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2009 - Final Camera-Ready Due: April 03, 2009 Paper Submission and Publication ------------------------------------ Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two PC members. Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper) or 6 pages (regular paper) by using Online Systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Outstanding papers accepted and presented in ISA-2009 including NASSUE-2009 (ISA-09 workshop), after further revisions, will be published in Special Issues of International Journals (indexed by SCI/E): * Computer Communications, Elsevier * Journal of Supercomputing, Springer * Journal of Internet Technology, MoE, Taiwan * Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Elsevier * Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Steering Chair ----------------- Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam Univ, Korea Workshop Program Chairs -------------------------- - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal International Advisory Board ----------------------------- - Dimitrios Makrakis, Univ of Ottawa, Canada - Elisa Bertino, Purdue Univ, USA - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan Technical Program Committee ------------------------------- - Abdelhamid Mellouk, Univ of Paris XII, France - Antonio Nogueira, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Bai Xiaoying, Tsinghua Univ, China - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - Bo Zhu, Concordia Univ, Canada - ByungRae Cha, Honam Univ, Korea - Chae Hoon Lim, Sejong Univ, Korea - Eul Gyu Im, Hanyang Univ, Korea - Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State Univ, USA - Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State Univ, USA - Hiroshi Yoshiura, Univ of Electro-Communications, Japan - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Jiankun Hu, RMIT Univ, Australia - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal - Jorge Sa Silva, Univ of Coimbra, Portugal - Jouni Ikonen, Lappeenranta Univ of Technology, Finland - K. P. Chow, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Katsikas Sokratis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece - Khaled Salah, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia - Mario Lemos Proenca, State Univ of Londrina, Brazil - Masato Terada, Hitachi, Japan - Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing Univ, Taiwan - Ning Zhang, Univ of Manchester, UK - Niwat Thepvilojapanong, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Paulo Salvador, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Pavel Gladyshev, Univ College Dublin, Ireland - Seungjoo Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ, Korea - Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China - Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Tapio Frantti, VTT, Finland - Willy Susilo, Univ of Wollongong, Australia - Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA - Yoshihiro Kawahara, Univ of Tokyo, Japan Contact --------- For further information regarding NASSUE-2009 and paper submission, please contact at nassue09 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090207/8757f2d8/attachment-0001.htm From kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Sat Feb 7 14:01:24 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:01:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: JACIL Special Issue on Unification Message-ID: <498DDA84.8080201@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ************************************************************** EXTENDED DEADLINES | EXTENDED DEADLINES | EXTENDED DEADLINES | ************************************************************** ========================================================== JOURNAL OF ALGORITHMS IN COGNITION, INFORMATICS AND LOGIC Special Issue on Unification http://www.score.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~mmarin/unif.html ========================================================== SCOPE ----- Unification is a fundamental process that occurs in several fields of computer science, including theorem proving, logic programming, natural language processing, computational complexity, and computability theory. It is also at the core of several type inference algorithms, and recent works in XML-oriented programming introduced new aspects of the unification process in the theory of regular expression and regular tree languages. Unification theory emerged from the abstraction of the specific applications of this process, and is concerned with general notions like instantiation, most general unifier, etc., their main properties, and with the identification and analysis of unification algorithms that can be used in several contexts. This special issue of the Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Information and Logic is devoted to the dissemination of the latest developments and results in unification. We are looking for contributions describing original and new ideas and results in unification and closely related fields. Topics of interest include: * Unification E-unification Unification Algorithms Higher-Order Unification String Unification Context Unification Combination problems Disunification Typed Unification * Related Topics Constraint Solving Matching Narrowing * Applications Type Checking and Type Inference Automated Deduction Rewriting Functional and Logic Programming Grammars Computational Linguistics Both participants of the UNIF 2008 workshop and other authors are invited to submit contributions. Submissions should be mature journal articles. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- We expect full high-quality papers (typically, 20-30 pages) to describe original and previously unpublished contributions. Papers should be written in English, and not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere (previous publication of partial results at workshops and conferences is acceptable). The normal reviewing process for journals will be used and papers should conform to usual journal standards. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX template files available at http://www.elsevier.com/framework_products/promis_misc/latexguidelinesonline.pdf for manuscript preparation, and to use the EasyChair submission system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jacilunif2009 IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Paper submission: February 16, 2009 * Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 3, 2009 * Final version: September 28, 2009 GUEST EDITOR ------------ Mircea Marin (SCORE, University of Tsukuba, Japan) ABOUT THE JOURNAL ----------------- The Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic is a prestigious international journal published by Elsevier which aims at promoting the algorithmic research from all relevant sciences and fields of human endeavor. The subtitle "Cognition, Informatics, and Logic" emphasizes the intended breadth and interdisciplinary nature of the journal. ------------------------------------- From alain.girault at inria.fr Sun Feb 8 06:11:01 2009 From: alain.girault at inria.fr (Alain Girault) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:11:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'09) Message-ID: <498EBDC5.9060406@inria.fr> LCTES 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (In conjunction with PLDI 2009) Dublin, Ireland, June 19~20 2009 http://www.cse.psu.edu/lctes09/ Submission deadline extension: February 16, 2009 ================================================ (Please see the web site for details about paper submission.) Final Call for Papers: ====================== As embedded systems increase in number, complexity, and diversity, new research challenges are encountered in areas such as verification, validation, meeting performance goals and resource constraints, creating and exploiting new hardware architectures, and scaling up to multicores and distributed systems built from multicores. LCTES 2009 solicits papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, and architectures that help meet these challenges. Research papers (which propose innovative techniques) and experience papers (which report experimentation with and lessons learned from real-world systems and applications) are both welcome. In addition to its regular sessions, LCTES 2009 will feature special events such as an industrial panel, keynotes, tutorials and demonstrations to bring out the latest and more interesting aspects of embedded systems. Examples include tools for multi-cores, emerging platforms such as smart phones, multi-player game machines and autonomous vehicles and embedded supercomputing. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following aspects of embedded and cyber physical systems design: Programming language issues in embedded systems, including (*) Language features to exploit multi-core, single-chip SIMD, reconfigurable architecture and other emerging architectures (*) Language features for distributed real-time control, media players, and other complex embedded systems (*) Language features to enhance reliability and security (*) Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization mechanisms, concurrency, memory management techniques Compiler issues in embedded systems, including (*) Interaction between embedded computer architectures, operating systems and compilers (*) Interpreters, binary translation and just-in-time compilation (*) Support for debugging, profiling, exception and interrupt handling, for reliability and security (*) Optimization for low power, low energy, low code and data size, and high (real-time) performance Tools for analysis, specification, design and implementation of embedded systems, including (*) Hardware, system software, and application, and their interface (*) Distributed real-time control, media players, reconfigurable architectures and other complex systems (*) Validation and verification, system integration and testing (*) Timing analysis, timing predictability, WCET analysis and real-time scheduling analysis (*) Performance monitoring and tuning (*) Runtime system support for embedded systems Novel embedded architectures (*) Design and implementation of novel embedded architectures (*) Workload analysis and performance evaluation (*) Architecture support for new language features, new compiler techniques and debugging tools Program Committee: ================== (*) Dhruva Chakrabarti (*) Swarat Chaudhuri (*) Bruce Childers (*) Andreas Krall (*) Prasad Kulkarni (*) Tei-Wei Kuo (*) Insup Lee (*) Liqian Luo (*) Jan Madsen (*) Sally McKee (*) Florence Maraninchi (*) Peter Marwedel (*) Frank Mueller (*) Tamiya Onodera (*) Alex Orailoglu (*) Emre Ozer (*) Preeti R. Panda (*) Tajana Simunic (*) Reinhard Wilhelm (*) Wayne Wolf (*) Wang Yi Steering Committee: =================== (*) Koen De Bosschere (*) Ron Cytron (*) Srinivas Devadas (*) Krisztian Flautner (*) Rajiv Gupta (*) Mary Jane Irwin (*) Annie Liu (*) Thomas Marlowe (*) Peter Marwedel (*) Frank Mueller (*) Yunheung Paek (*) Santosh Pande (*) John Regeher (*) Per Stenstrom (*) David Whalley (*) Reinhard Wilhelm General Chair: ============== Christoph Kirsch University of Salzburg Program Chair: ============== Mahmut Kandemir Penn State University Poster Chair: ============= Aviral Shrivastava Arizona State University Publicity Chair: ================ Alain Girault INRIA Grenoble Rh?ne-Alpes -- ------------- Alain GIRAULT http://pop-art.inrialpes.fr/~girault INRIA senior researcher tel: +(33|0) 476 61 53 51 Head of the POP ART project-team fax: +(33|0) 476 61 52 52 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sauvons la Recherche ! http://www.sauvonslarecherche.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From simon at dcs.gla.ac.uk Mon Feb 9 05:36:43 2009 From: simon at dcs.gla.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:36:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLACES'09 Accepted Papers Message-ID: <4990073B.4010104@dcs.gla.ac.uk> [ PLACES is an ETAPS workshop. Several of the papers have a type-theoretic dimension. SG ] Accepted papers at PLACES'09 (Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software) The workshop will take place with ETAPS 2009 on 22nd March http://places09.di.fc.ul.pt ---PAPERS--- Session-Based Programming for Parallel Algorithms Andi Bejleri, Raymond Hu and Nobuko Yoshida Execution Models for Choreographies and Cryptoprotocols Marco Carbone and Joshua Guttman A Concurrent Language with a Uniform Treatment of Regions and Locks Prodromos Gerakios, Nikolaos Papaspyrou and Konstantinos Sagonas Communication at the theatre: Role playing for Session Types Elena Giachino, Matthew Sackman, Sophia Drossopoulou and Susan Eisenbach Session-Based Type Discipline for Pi Calculus with Matching Marco Giunti, Kohei Honda, Vasco T. Vasconcelos and Nobuko Yoshida Programming Idioms for Transactional Events Matthew Kehrt, Laura Effinger-Dean, Michael Schmitz and Dan Grossman Towards a Unified Framework for Declarative Sessions Hugo Andres Lopez, Jorge A. Perez and Carlos Olarte Virtual Machine Support for Many-Core Architectures: Decoupling Abstract From Concrete Concurrency Models Stefan Marr, Michael Haupt, Stijn Timbermont, Bram Adams, Theo D'Hondt, Pascal Costanza and Wolfgang De Meuter Towards the Safe Programming of Wireless Sensor Networks Francisco Martins, Luis Lopes and Joao Barros Type Inference for Deadlock Detection in a Multithreaded Polymorphic Typed Assembly Language Vasco T. Vasconcelos, Francisco Martins and Tiago Cogumbreiro From cfp at clip.dia.fi.upm.es Sun Feb 8 11:05:29 2009 From: cfp at clip.dia.fi.upm.es (cfp@clip.dia.fi.upm.es) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:05:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICLP 2009: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <18831.713.609057.368295@fi.upm.es> [We apologize in advance for repeated reception of this message] [Please fell free to forward it to anyone who can be interested] *** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** ICLP 2009 25th International Conference on Logic Programming Pasadena, California, USA July 14-17, 2009 URL: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/ ICLP 2009, the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming, will be held in Pasadena (USA), from July 14 to 17, 2009. Workshops co-located with international conferences are one of the best venue for the presentation and discussion of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Co-located workshops also provide an opportunity for presenting specialized topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. The topics of the workshops co-located with ICLP 2009 can cover any areas related to logic programming, (e.g., theory, implementation, environments, language issues, alternative paradigms, applications), including cross-disciplinary areas. However, any workshop proposal will be considered. The format of the workshop will be decided by the workshop organizers, but ample time must be allowed for general discussion. Workshops can vary in length, but the optimal duration will be half a day or a full day. Workshop Proposal: ================== Those interested in organizing a workshop at ICLP 2009 are invited to submit a workshop proposal. Proposals should be in English and about two pages in length. They should contain: * The title of the workshop. * A brief technical description of the topics covered by the workshop. * A discussion of the timeliness and relevance of the workshop. * A list of some related workshops held in the last years. * The (preliminary) required number of half-days allotted to the workshop and an estimate of the number of expected attendees. * The names, affiliation, and contact details (email, web page, phone, fax) of the workshop organizer(s) together with a designated contact person. * The previous experience of the workshop organizing committee in workshop/conference organization. Proposals are expected in ASCII or PDF format. All proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair (Manuel Carro) by email by February 9th, 2009. Reviewing Process: ================== Each submitted proposal is reviewed by the Workshops Chair and the Conference Program Chairs. Proposals that appear well-organized and that fit the goals and scope of ICLP will be selected. The decision will be notified by email to the responsible organizer by February 23rd, 2009. The definitive length of the workshop will be planned according to the number of submissions received by the different workshops. For every accepted workshop, the ICLP local organizers will prepare a meeting place and arrange the distribution of the workshop proceedings, whose preparation is however in charge to the workshop organizers. The workshop registration fees will be handled together with the conference fees. Workshop Organizers' Tasks: =========================== * Producing a "Call for Papers" for the workshop and posting it on the net and/or other means. Please provide a web page URL which can be linked into the ICLP 2009 home page by March 9th, 2009. * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference program. * Reviewing/accepting submitted papers. * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local organizers and the workshop chair. * Sending workshop program and workshop proceedings in pdf format to the workshop chair for distribution at the conference. * The use of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) for the workshop proceedings is strongly suggested. See http://www.logicprogramming.org/ for guidelines. We encourage reading these instructions in advance so that you can ask paper authors to prepare accordingly the final versions of their papers. Location: ========= All workshops will take place in Pasadena at the site of the main conference. See the ICLP 2009 web site for location details. Important Dates: ================ February 9, 2009: Proposal submission deadline. February 23, 2009: Notification. March 9, 2009: Deadline to receive the CFP and URL for workshop web page. June 1, 2009: Deadline for preliminary proceedings. July 14-17, 2009: ICLP 2009 workshops. Workshop Chair: =============== Manuel Carro [mcarro AT fi dot upm dot es] (www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~mcarro) From sescobar at dsic.upv.es Sun Feb 8 17:18:21 2009 From: sescobar at dsic.upv.es (Santiago Escobar) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:18:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Cfp: WFLP09-18th Int'l Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming References: <4A90003C-0349-4A8B-8209-E9C2E902DDC8@dsic.upv.es> Message-ID: ******************************************************************* Preliminary Call For Papers WFLP 2009 18th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming Brasilia, Brazil, June, 28, 2009 http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wflp09/ ********* part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming RDP'09 http://rdp09.cic.unb.br/index.html ******************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission April 20, 2009 Full Paper Submission April 26, 2009 Acceptance Notification May 25, 2009 Preliminary Proceedings June 8, 2009 Workshop June 28, 2009 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 2008 (Siena, Italy), 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'09 will be held in June 28, 2009 at Brasilia, Brazil, as part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP'09). WFLP'09 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: security, 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. Submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style (excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication). Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission site http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wflp2009 Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. Selected authors will be invited to submit a full version of their papers after the workshop. Contributions accepted for the post-workshop proceedings are planned to be published in a journal. INVITED SPEAKERS Claude Kirchner INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France Roberto Ierusalimschy Departamento de Informatica, PUC-Rio, Brazil PROGRAMME CHAIR Santiago Escobar Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Sergio Antoy Portland State University, USA Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Rafael Caballero Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain David Deharbe Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Rachid Echahed CNRS,laboratoire LIG, France Moreno Falaschi Universita di Siena, Italy Michael Hanus Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany Frank Huch Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany Tetsuo Ida University of Tsukuba, Japan Wolfgang Lux Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany Mircea Marin University of Tsukuba, Japan Camilo Rueda Universidad Javeriana-Cali, Colombia Jaime Sanchez-Hernandez Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Anderson Santana de Oliveira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil From lagorio at disi.unige.it Tue Feb 10 04:09:54 2009 From: lagorio at disi.unige.it (Giovanni Lagorio) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:09:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2009 call for Posters and Demos Message-ID: <49914462.6040206@disi.unige.it> [Apologies for multiple copies] *********************************************************************** CALL FOR Posters/Demos 23rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming July 6th - 10th 2009, Genova, Italy http://2009.ecoop.org ****************************** ***************************************** POSTERS AND DEMOS: http://2009.ecoop.org/poster-demo.html ECOOP 2009 will hold combined poster and demonstration sessions. The Poster/Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress, in an informal and interactive setting. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Technical posters, reports on descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome, especially if they draw important conclusions from practical experience. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative implementations and technologies. Successful posters are carefully designed to convey technical details. They should also attract the attention of attendees as they stroll past the displays. The goal is to develop a poster that encourages and facilitates small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. Posters will be peer-reviewed by the Poster Committee. Authors must submit a two-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The abstract must clearly demonstrate relevance to ECOOP. Submissions will be evaluated for acceptability by the reviewers. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the main conference topics, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. If a poster will be accompanied by a live software demonstration, authors are requested to submit an additional one-page explanation of the demo, which will not be included in the poster/demo notes. Submit the demo explanation as a one-page appendix of your paper. Posters and demos are NOT intended as advertisements for software packages. Authors submitting a full paper to ECOOP may also submit the same work for consideration in the Demo/Poster track, either before or after result notification for the full paper. For example, a demo can be provided for an accepted paper, or a poster can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the research track. At least one of the Poster/Demo authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend the Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The abstracts for all accepted posters and demos will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference web site. They will not be included in the formal proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES The initial deadline for posters/demos is May 1st. Requests received by that date will be responded to May 15th. Thereafter, submissions will still be accepted until such time as all slots are filled. SUBMISSION: Send your proposals to demos at dico.unimi.it From stephanie.balzer at inf.ethz.ch Tue Feb 10 07:04:51 2009 From: stephanie.balzer at inf.ethz.ch (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:04:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages (RAOOL'09) Message-ID: <49916D63.2090802@inf.ethz.ch> First Call for Papers 2nd workshop on Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages RAOOL'09 co-located with ECOOP'09 http://www.lst.inf.ethz.ch/raool09/ PURPOSE Relationships and roles are important concepts used in many areas of computer science (e.g., conceptual modelling, database systems, ontology) but are not "first-class" constructs in modern programming languages. In current object-oriented languages, programmers are forced to implement relationships or roles "by hand" (using pointers and collections), leading to a disconnect between models and implementations. This disconnect causes numerous problems across the software engineering life cycle: most importantly, implementations become cumbersome because relationships are represented by several code fragments, scattered throughout the application code, resulting in code fragility. Since current mainstream languages lack appropriate support for heap querying, programmers are further burdened with crafting code to query relationships and check their consistency. As software systems grow and become increasingly complex this disconnect causes problems not only for implementers but also for code maintainers. In response, a growing number of researchers in the software community are investigating adding first-class support for relationships and heap queries to current programming languages. Interest in first-class support for such constructs is not limited to programming language research. Program analysis, for instance, could benefit from the decreased use of pointers and transparent persistence could benefit from explicit queries. In this workshop, we plan to gather researchers in the programming language community who are working on relationship-based systems to share their research and to discuss the future of relationship-based constructs in programming languages. We are interested in input from members of the programming language community but also in input from members of related areas (e.g. databases, model-driven development) and domains (e.g., program analysis, orthogonal persistence, type systems) who are using relationships. Some particular areas of interest are: - relationship-based programming languages - using libraries/frameworks to support relationships - first-class queries - database integration - serialization or persistence using relationships - system and framework design using relationships - understanding or visualizing programs - ownership and related techniques - dynamic analysis of relationship usage SUBMISSIONS Prospective participants are invited to submit a paper that should fall into one of two categories: - long paper (max. 8 pages) that describes new work on the above or related topics - short paper (max. 4 pages) that can describe work-in-progress, report on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose speculative new approaches The selected papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: April 8, 2009 Notification: May 8, 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Uwe Assmann (TU Dresden, Germany) Guido Boella (University of Torino) Achim D. Brucker (SAP Research, Germany) Stephane Ducasse (INRIA Lille, France) Susan Eisenbach (Imperial College London, UK) Manuel Fahndrich (Microsoft Research, USA) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) David J. Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversit??t in Hagen, Germany) Mandana Vaziri (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Stephanie Balzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Gavin Bierman (Microsoft Research, UK) Stephen Nelson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Frank Tip (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) From jiazhang at cs.niu.edu Mon Feb 9 14:08:54 2009 From: jiazhang at cs.niu.edu (Jia Zhang) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:08:54 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Gentle Reminder: IEEE ICWS 2009 Submission Deadline Approaching - 2/15/2009 Message-ID: <257501c98ae9$e35ee570$aa1cb050$@niu.edu> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! =============== Submission Deadline Approaching =============== ICWS 2009 Submission Site is Open: (Submission Deadline Approaching: 2/15/2009) http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/submission.html ::::::::::::::::::::::::: CALL FOR PAPERS ::::::::::::::::::::::::: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009) http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009 July 6-10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA Theme: Innovations for Web-based Services Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc) & Services Society (http://www.servicessociety.org) (Approval Pending) *************************************** NEWS ********************** Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC, http://computer.org/tsc). Special theme issues from ICWS 2009 will be published in TSC. Call for Papers: International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR, http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr/) has been indexed by SCI-E. Special theme issues from ICWS 2009 will be published in JWSR. Call For papers: International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM, http://ijbpim.servicescomputing.org/) ******************************************************************** ICWS 2009 organizing committee invites you to participate in the seventh edition of ICWS, to be held in Los Angeles, CA, USA. ICWS has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art on Web services. ICWS aims to identify emerging research topics and define the future of Web services. Over the past seven years, ICWS has grown steadily, attracting over 250 participants on a regular basis. Previous editions of ICWS have been held (most recent first) in Beijing, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Orlando, San Diego, and Las Vegas. ICWS 2009 will co-locate with the Fourth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009) to explore the science and technology of all aspects of "Services", which has been formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. In addition, ICWS 2009 will be supported by a set of keynotes, panels, and tutorials. The technical program of ICWS 2009 will include a refereed research track, an application and industry track, a work-in-progress track, and a poster track. The research track will highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond the limits of existing Web services platforms and products, including experimental efforts, innovative systems and investigations that identify weaknesses in the existing Web services models. The ICWS 2009 research track seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of Web services. Research papers must properly cite related work and clearly indicate their contributions to the field of Web services. All topics relevant to Web services are of interest, but the conference program committee particularly encourages submissions related to the following aspects of Web services: Foundations of Web Services * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Evolutions * Models, methodologies, and tools (including analysis, design, modeling, and composition) * Publishing, discovery, and selection (including in mobile settings) * Validation and testing (including risk assessment and tracking) * Management and governance (including monitoring, QoS, privacy, trust) * Formal methods (including modeling and specification, data and process semantics, type systems, security, QoS, and other properties) * Standards and implementation and deployment technologies Web-based Services * Web 2.0 and Web X.0 concepts in Web services settings * Software as a Service (SaaS) * Service As Software * Cloud Computing * Technologies for building and operating massive data centers (including middleware) Web Services Applications beyond Web * Applications (including mobile, scientific, Grid and utility, autonomic, and embedded computing) * Business process management (including business protocols, business intelligence, service level agreements, and business licensing models) All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected papers published in the ICWS 2009 will be invited through a fast review channel for potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) and the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). Both the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex. JWSR is also indexed in SCI-E. Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers and papers beyond 8 pages will not be reviewed. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be found at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at ICWS 2009. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student. If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider submitting it to ICWS 2009 Applications and Industry Track. Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or solution descriptions may be recommended to the Applications and Industry Track for further consideration if the session slots are available. Submitted papers with novel ideas but not accepted by the Research Track and Applications and Industry Track may also be recommended for potential consideration by the chairs of the Work-in-Progress Track and Poster Track of ICWS 2009, and other tracks and workshops of SERVICES 2009. ICWS Program Committee requires that authors adopt the keywords and index terms in Services Computing "M" from the IEEE CS taxonomy (computer.org/tsc). Important Dates: ============== Abstract Submission Deadline: February 15, 2009 Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 15, 2009 Decision Notification (Electronic): March 31, 2009 Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 17, 2009 Organizing Committee ================= General Chair Paul Hofmann, Ph.D., Vice President Research, SAP Labs, USA Program Committee Chairs Ernesto Damiani, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Computer Technology, University of Milan, Italy. Head of the University of Milan's Ph.D. School in Computer Science Rong Chang, Ph.D., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Program Committee Vice Chair Jia Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science, Northern Illinois University, USA Applications and Industry Chair Wu Chou, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow, Director, Avaya Labs Fellow, Avaya Labs Research, USA Work-in-Progress Chair Onyeka Ezenwoye, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University, USA Poster Chairs Incheon Paik, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of Aizu, Japan Ali Bahrami, Ph.D., Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company, USA Hong Cai, Ph.D., Chief Architecture, IBM China Software Development Lab Publication Chair Patrick C.K. Hung, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada Local Arrangement Chair Qun Zhou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Global SOA Industry Summit Chair Tony Shan, IBM Global Technology Services, USA Dejan S. Milojicic, Ph.D., HP Labs, USA Publicity Chairs Charles Shoniregun, Ph.D., Programme Leader for MSc TM, School of Computing & Technology, University of East London, UK Mikio Aoyama, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Nanzan University, Japan Hong Mei, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Institute of Software, Dean, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China Panel Chairs Calton Pu, Ph.D., Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software, Georgia Tech, USA Geng Lin, Ph.D., CTO of Cisco IBM Alliance, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, Ph.D., Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Casey Fung, Ph.D., Boeing Phantom Works, USA Tutorial Chairs Ling Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Brian Blake, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Computing Science, Georgetown University, USA Workshop Chairs Umesh Bellur, Ph.D., Professor, IIT Bombay, India Jian Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computing, Macquaire University, Australia Pradip K Srimani, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, USA Ph.D. Symposium Chair Steve Yau, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Computing Science, Arizona State University, USA Services Cup Contest Chairs Min Luo, Ph.D., IBM Global Services, USA. Yuhong Yan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Canada Sujoy Basu, Ph.D., HP Labs - Palo Alto, USA Sushil Prasad, Ph.D., Professor, Georgia State University, USA Body of Knowledge Chairs Michael Goul, Ph.D., Professor, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA Yanchun Zhang, Ph.D., Director, Centre for Applied Informatics Research School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Victoria University, Australia Services Education Methodology Summit Chairs Hemant Jain, Ph.D., Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Management Information Systems, Tata Consulting Services Professor, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D., Professor, Mathematics and Computer Information Science, Mercy College, USA Job Fair Chair Anup Kumar, Ph.D., Professor, University of Louisville, USA Innovation Show Case Chairs Atilla Elci, Ph.D., Eatern Mediterranean University, Turkey Wing-Kwong Chan, Ph.D., City of University of Hong Kong, China Registration Chair Thomas Kwok, Sc.D., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Technical Steering Committee Carl K. Chang, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor, Iowa State University, USA Ephraim Feig, Ph.D., President, Innovations-to-Market, USA Hemant Jain, Ph.D., Professor, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee , USA Frank Leymann, Ph.D., Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany Calton Pu, Ph.D., Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software, Georgia Tech, USA Jeffrey Tsai, Ph.D., Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Zhiwei Xu, Ph.D., Institute of Computing Technology, China Liang-Jie Zhang, Ph.D. (Chair), Research Staff Member and Founding Chair of Services Computing Professional Interest Community, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Program Committee Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands Sriram Anand, Accenture, India Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy Alistair Barros, SAP Research, USA Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO ICT Center, Canberra, ACT, Australia Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA Jorge Cardoso, SAP Research, Germany and University of Madeira, Portugal Fabio Casati, Trento University, Italy Malu G. Castellanos, HP Labs, USA Coimbatore Chandersekaran, Air Force, IDA, USA Wing-Kwong Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jeane Chen, Kintera, USA Shiping Chen, CSIRO ICT Centre Australia Ying Chen, IBM China Research Lab, China Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong, China Wu Chou, Avaya Labs Research, Avaya, USA William Cheng-Chung Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Cecil Chua, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy Nirmit Desai, IBM India Research Lab Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine Onyeka Ezenwoye, South Dakota State University Ben Falchuk, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA Ephraim Feig, Innovations-to-Market, USA Elena Ferrari, Politiche e dell'Informazione, University of Insubria at Como, Italy Sebastian Fischmeister, University of Waterloo, Canada Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dimitrios Georgakopolous, CSIRO ICT Center, Canberra, ACT, Australia Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, University of Southern California, USA Vijay K. Gurbani, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Mohand-Sa?d Hacid, Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon, France Satoshi Hada, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan James Harland, RMIT University, Australia Ken Hopkinson, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, China Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Varghese S. Jacob, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA Hai Jin, HUST, China Sandeep M Karamongikar, InfoSys, India Rania Khalaf, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Akhil Kumar, Penn State, USA Herman Lam, University of Florida, USA Konstantin L?ufer, Loyola University Chicago, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University, USA Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany Carolyn McGregor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Dennis McLeod, Univeristy of Southern California, USA Hong Mei, Peking University, China Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, USA Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Laboratories, USA Simanta Mitra, Iowa State University, USA Louise Moser, U.C. Santa Barbara, USA Gilles Muller, Ecoles des Mines de Nantes, France Krzys Ostrowski, Cornell University, USA Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Infosys India Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany Norbert Ritter, University of Hamburg, Germany Marcus Rothenberger, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA Ming-Chien Shan, SAP Research, USA Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA Gautam Shroff, Tata Consultancy Services, India Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA George Spanoudakis, City University, UK Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia, USA Stefan Tai, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Azzel Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Bhavania Thuraisingham, UT Dallas, USA Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Vladimir Tosic, NICTA, Australia; University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Western Ontario, Canada Kunal Verma, Accenture Technology Labs, USA Harry Jiannan Wang, University of Delaware, USA Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Jian Yang, Macquaire University, Australia Hongji Yang, Montfort University, UK Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. 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URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090209/03f67d61/attachment-0001.htm From lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr Tue Feb 10 12:01:46 2009 From: lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr (Lutz Strassburger) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:01:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last CfP (and Deadline Extension): Workshop SD09, Bordeaux, July 20-24, 2009 Message-ID: ******************************************************************* LAST CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop "Structures and Deduction" (SD09) July 20 - 24, 2009 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2009 July 20 - 31, 2009 in Bordeaux ******************************************************************* DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP: The topic of this workshop is the application of algebraic, geometric, and combinatorial methods in proof theory. In traditional proof theory, research is focussed on syntax, but in recent years many researchers have proposed approaches to avoid "syntactic bureaucracy" in the presentation of proofs. Examples are proof nets, atomic flows, new deductive systems based on deep inference, and new algebraic semantics for proofs. These efforts have also led to new methods of proof normalisation and new results in proof complexity. Thus the workshop is relevant to a wide range of people. The list of topics includes among others: algebraic semantics of proofs, game semantics, proof nets, deep inference, tableaux systems, category theory, deduction modulo, cut elimination, complexity theory, etc. The goal of the workshop is twofold: first, to bring together researchers from various fields who share the interest in reducing the dependency of logic from low-level syntax, and second, to provide an opportunity for PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues who work in the broad subject areas that are represented at ESSLLI. The workshop is intended to be a sequel of the ICALP-workshop SD05 in Lisbon 2005 . SUBMISSION DETAILS: Contributions can be regular papers, but also work in progress, programmatic/position papers or tutorials. Submissions should be formatted with the LNCS LaTeX style, and should take between two and fifteen pages, to allow the committee to assess their merits with reasonable effort. This limit can be relaxed for the versions that will be presented at the workshop, depending on the total bulk of the accepted contributions. Please use the SD'09 submission page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sd09, handled by the EasyChair conference system, to submit papers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2009 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2009 Deadline for final versions: May 11, 2009 Workshop dates: July 20 - 24, 2009 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 or 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic. INVITED SPEAKER: Francois Lamarche (LORIA, Nancy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) Stefano Berardi (Torino) Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna) Alessio Guglielmi (Bath/Nancy) Martin Hyland (Cambridge) Grigori Mints (Stanford) Michel Parigot (Paris) Lutz Strassburger (Palaiseau) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) ORGANIZERS: Michel Parigot (CNRS, Univ. Paris 7, France) Lutz Strassburger (INRIA Saclay-IdF, France) 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. Moreover, a number of additional fee waiver grants will be made available by the ESSLLI local organizing committee on a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. FURTHER INFORMATION: About the workshop: About ESSLLI: From ab at cis.ksu.edu Tue Feb 10 12:25:11 2009 From: ab at cis.ksu.edu (Anindya Banerjee) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:25:11 -0600 (CST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers -- 11th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs, Genova, Italy Message-ID: ****************************************************************************** Call for Contributions FTfJP 2009 11th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs in conjunction with ECOOP 2009 July 6 or 7, 2009 (Genova, Italy) http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~ab/FTfJP09/ftfjp09.html ***************************************************************************** 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). We also encourage the submission of short papers of 4 - 6 pages, especially for the ``exciting ideas'' session. Submission instructions will be supplied in due course. All contributions will be reviewed for originality, relevance, focus of the workshop, and the potential to generate interesting discussions. A PC member, other than the chair, may be an author or co-author on any paper under consideration but will be excluded from any evaluation or discussion of the paper, and will get access to reviews of the paper(s) only in the same manner and time as other authors. PUBLICATION The proceedings of FTfJP 2009 will be published (for free) in the ACM Digital library. Informal proceedings will be made available to workshop participants. Depending on the quality of submissions received we intend to invite selected papers for a special journal issue as a follow-up to the workshop, as has been done for some previous FTfJP workshops. IMPORTANT DATES Submission (abstract) March 25 2009 Submission (full paper) April 1 2009 Notification May 8 2009 Final version TBA ECOOP early registration May 20 2009 Workshop July 6 or 7 2009 Web Site: http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~ab/FTfJP09/ftfjp09.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Anindya Banerjee, IMDEA Software, Spain (chair) Mike Barnett, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA John Boyland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Patrice Chalin, Concordia University, Canada Dino Distefano, Queen Mary University of London UK Adrian Fiech, Memorial University, Canada Diego Garbervetsky, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Rene' Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Alexander J. Summers, Imperial College, UK Greta Yorsh, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA ORGANIZERS Anindya Banerjee, IMDEA Software, Spain (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 Anindya Banerjee: ab AT cis dot KSU DOT edu OR anindya DOT banerjee AT imdea DOT org From pangjun at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 05:08:40 2009 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:08:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ATVA 2009: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <3906bb8a0902110208w4ed1a893vccf829d88c5f2055@mail.gmail.com> Our apology for possible multiple copies. ====================================== ATVA 2009 Call for Papers 7th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis 14-16 October 2009, Macao SAR, China [http://www.iist.unu.edu/atva09] The purpose of ATVA is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis in East Asia by providing a forum for interaction between the regional and the international research communities and industry in the field. The previous six events were held in Taiwan (2003-5), Beijing (2006), Tokyo (2007) and Seoul (2008). The proceedings of ATVA 2009 will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNCS series. SCOPE: The scope of interest is intentionally kept broad; it includes: -- Theory useful for providing designers with automated support for obtaining correct software or hardware systems, including both functional and non functional aspects, such as: theory of (timed and hybrid) automata, process calculi, Petri-nets, concurrency theory, compositionality, model-checking, automated theorem proving, synthesis, performance analysis, correctness-by-construction, infinite state systems, abstract interpretation, decidability results, parametric analysis or synthesis. -- Applications of theory in engineering methods and other particular domains and handling of practical problems occurring in tools, such as analysis and verification tools, synthesis tools, model transformation tools. Techniques of reducing complexity of verification by abstraction, improved representations. Methods and tools in handling user level notations, such as UML. Practice in industrial applications to hardware, software or real-time and embedded systems. Case studies, illustrating the usefulness of tools or a particular approach are also welcome. Theory papers should be motivated by practical problems and applications should be rooted in sound theory. We are interested both in algorithms and in methods and tools for integrating formal approaches into industrial practice. Submissions: Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. ATVA 2009 calls for two types of contributions: RESEARCH PAPERS and TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS. Both types of contributions will appear in the proceedings and have oral presentations at the conference. Papers should be written in English in LNCS format. Research papers: Research papers should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the mer its and relevance of the contribution. Submissions reporting on industrial case studies are welcome, and should describe both strengths and weaknesses in sufficient depth. Research papers should be no more than 15 pages. Tool demonstration papers: Tool demonstration papers present tools based on aforementioned theories or fall into the above application areas. Tool demonstration papers allow researchers to stress the technical and practical side, illustrating how one can apply the theoretic contributions in practice. Tool demonstration papers should be no more than 6 pages. Submission Procedure: Further information and instruction about submission can be found at the conference website http://www.iist.unu.edu/atva09. Important Dates: paper submission: 1 May 2009, notification of acceptance: 15 June 2009, final copy for proceedings: 29 June 2009, ATVA 2009: 14-16 October 2009. General Chair Chris George, UNU-IIST, Macao Program Chairs Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macao Anders P. Ravn, Aalborg University, DK Organisation Chair Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, Macao Publicity Chair Jun Pang, U. Luxembourg Workshop Chair Xu Wang, UNU-IIST, Macao Sponsored by: UNU-IIST, University of Macau Macao Polytechnic Institute Associated Events -- Workshops, 11-12 October 2009 -- Tutorials, 13 October 2009 Keynote Speakers Mark Greenstreet (U. British Columbia) Orna Grumberg (Technion) Bill Roscoe (Oxford University) PC Members Rajeev Alur (U. Pennsylvania, US) Christel Baier (TU Dresdenn, ED) Jonathan Billington (U. South Australia) Laurent Fribourg ((CNRS, FR) Masahiro Fujita (U. Tokyo, JP) Susanne Graf (VERIMAG, FR) Mark Greenstreet (U. British Columbia) Wolfgang Grieskamp (Microsoft Research, US) Teruo Higashino (U. Osaka, JP) Moonzoo Kim (KAIST, KR) Orna Kupferman (U. Hebrew, IL) Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford U., UK) Insup Lee (U. Pennsylvania, US) Xuandong Li (U. Nanjing, CN) Shaoying Liu (U. Hosei, JP) Hanne Nielson (DTU, DK) Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs, US) Ernst-Ruediger Olderog (U. Oldenburg, DE) Jun Pang (U. Luxembourg ) Doron A. Peled (U. Warwick, UK) Abhik Roychoudhury (National U. Singapore) Natarajan Shankar (SRI, US) Irek Ulidowski (U. Leicester, UK) Mahesh Viswanathan (UIUC, US) Farn Wang (National Taiwan University) Ji Wang (NLPDS, CN Xu Wang (UNU-IIST, Macao) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University) Wang Yi (Uppsala University, SE) Tomohiro Yoneda (NII, JP) Wenhui Zhang (CAS, CN) Steering Committee E. Allen Emerson (U. Texas-Austin) Teruo Higashino (Osaka University) Oscar H. Ibarra (U. California-S.Barbara) Insup Lee (U. Pennsylvania) Doron A. Peled (U. Warwick, Univ. Bar Ilan) Farn Wang (National Taiwan University) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University) From nielson at imm.dtu.dk Wed Feb 11 11:44:20 2009 From: nielson at imm.dtu.dk (Prof Flemming Nielson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:44:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MLQA in York in March Message-ID: <9D4994F3-B671-4A04-A3DC-8401301EEAD0@imm.dtu.dk> This is a call for participation in the Kick-Off meeting of Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis (MLQA) on Saturday 28?th of March 2009 as part of ETAPS in York. The proposed working group focuses on process models analysed using logics for quantitative properties: (1) process models described by transition systems, automata or process calculi, (2) logics for stochastic or continuous (control theory) properties as well as discrete ones, (3) algorithms, theory and tools, and (4) applications within embedded systems, service oriented systems, and biological systems. For more details please see http://www.mt-lab.dk/MLQA For registration please complete the ETAPS registration form; to give a short presentation send a mail as indicated in the link. See you in York, Flemming Nielson and Henrik Pilegaard From nassue09 at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 01:37:11 2009 From: nassue09 at gmail.com (NASSUE2009) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:37:11 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Extended Deadline for Int'l Workshop on Network Assurance & Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments NASSUE-2009, Seoul, Korea Message-ID: <5ea3e15d0902102237x29e60b5es69ac61393ffaf1a3@mail.gmail.com> -------- Apologies for multiple posts ------- ************ SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO ************ FEBRUARY 19, 2009 **************** (FINAL EXTENSION) *********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ================== 2009 International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) http://www.sersc.org/NASSUE2009/ June 25-27, 2009 Seoul, Korea in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009) Overview ------------- International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE-2009) is focused on network assurance and security measure, which has become an important research issue in ubiquitous environments. The objective of this workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in NAS issues in UE. It will highlight the various aspects of NAS - especially on the crucial linkage between availability, compliance, and security. NASSUE-2009 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policy makers to share and exchange ideas and to learn about latest developments, problems and solutions related to NAS issues in UE. Topics (include but are not limited to the following): -------------------------------------------------------------- * Availability, dependability, survivability, & resilience issues in UE * Authentication and identity management in UE * Authorization and access-control in UE * Risk assessment, and management in UE * Redundancy, reliability models, and failure prevention of UCS * Trust modeling and management in UE * Fault-tolerant architectural and operational models in UE * Network security issues and protocols in UCS * Cryptographic protocols and key management in UCS * Agent-based technologies for NAS. * Cross-layer design for security mechanisms * Real-time technology for NAS systems. * QoS provisioning in UCS * Network control technologies for NA. * Novel threat, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures * DoS attacks and mitigation * Reverse engineering of malicious code * Intrusion detection, IDS / IPS in UE * Anonymity, user privacy, and location privacy in UE * Content protection and DRM for UCS * System/network management techniques and strategies in UE. * Network forensics and fraud detection * Surveillance and Privacy-enhancing technologies in UE * Adaptive and Autonomic security for UCS * Role of biometrics in UE * NAS issues in e-commerce, e-government, e-health * NAS implementation in P2P systems, vehicular system, web application, disaster relief etc * Specification, design, development, and deployment of NAS mechanisms * Models, architectures and protocols for NAS * Standards, guidelines and certification for NAS in UE * Metrics for measuring security, assurance and dependability * Designing business models with NAS requirements * Formal methods and software engineering for NAS * Legal, ethical and policy issues related to NAS in UE * Proactive approaches to NAS * New ideas and paradigms for NAS in UE Important dates ------------------- - Full Paper Due: February 19, 2009 (Final Extension) - Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2009 - Final Camera-Ready Due: April 03, 2009 Paper Submission and Publication ------------------------------------ Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two PC members. Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper) or 6 pages (regular paper) by using Online Systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Outstanding papers accepted and presented in ISA-2009 including NASSUE-2009 (ISA-09 workshop), after further revisions, will be published in Special Issues of International Journals (indexed by SCI/E): * Computer Communications, Elsevier * Journal of Supercomputing, Springer * Journal of Internet Technology, MoE, Taiwan * Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Elsevier * Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Steering Chair ----------------- Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam Univ, Korea Workshop Program Chairs -------------------------- - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal International Advisory Board ----------------------------- - Dimitrios Makrakis, Univ of Ottawa, Canada - Elisa Bertino, Purdue Univ, USA - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan Technical Program Committee ------------------------------- - Abdelhamid Mellouk, Univ of Paris XII, France - Antonio Nogueira, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Bai Xiaoying, Tsinghua Univ, China - Binod Vaidya, GIST, Korea - Bo Zhu, Concordia Univ, Canada - ByungRae Cha, Honam Univ, Korea - Chae Hoon Lim, Sejong Univ, Korea - Eul Gyu Im, Hanyang Univ, Korea - Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State Univ, USA - Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State Univ, USA - Hiroshi Yoshiura, Univ of Electro-Communications, Japan - James B D Joshi, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA - Jiankun Hu, RMIT Univ, Australia - Joel Rodrigues, IT / Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal - Jorge Sa Silva, Univ of Coimbra, Portugal - Jouni Ikonen, Lappeenranta Univ of Technology, Finland - K. P. Chow, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Katsikas Sokratis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece - Khaled Salah, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia - Mario Lemos Proenca, State Univ of Londrina, Brazil - Masato Terada, Hitachi, Japan - Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing Univ, Taiwan - Ning Zhang, Univ of Manchester, UK - Niwat Thepvilojapanong, Tokyo Denki Univ, Japan - Pascal Lorenz, Univ of Haute Alsace, France - Paulo Salvador, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal - Pavel Gladyshev, Univ College Dublin, Ireland - Seungjoo Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ, Korea - Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China - Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Tapio Frantti, VTT, Finland - Willy Susilo, Univ of Wollongong, Australia - Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA - Yoshihiro Kawahara, Univ of Tokyo, Japan Contact --------- For further information regarding NASSUE-2009 and paper submission, please contact at nassue09 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The subject area should be interpreted broadly, including the relationship of software to human endeavours, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. An essay can be an exploration of its topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps that by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. I'm the program chair, and I'd love to get submissions from the types community. Reflections on programming languages, types, testing, verification, software engineering, compilers, society, ... you name it. Anything to do with software. NB: Onward! is co-located with OOPSLA, but they are otherwise unrelated. OO is fine, but not required. Don't forget: 20th April. Simon PS: To get your imagination going, here are a couple of (strongly-contrasting) past essays: * Dan Grossman "The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy" http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/djg/papers/analogy_oopsla07.pdf * Dick Gabriel "Designed as designer" http://dreamsongs.org/DesignedAsDesigner.html From carsten at itu.dk Thu Feb 12 09:19:18 2009 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:19:18 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open PhD positions Message-ID: <49942FE6.3000909@itu.dk> Dear colleagues, the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) invites applications for several PhD scholarships starting in September 2009 in the following areas: Algorithms for searching and storing of large amounts of data, automated reasoning, business processes, category theory, complexity theory, concurrency theory, distributed and mobile computing, domain theory, efficient solutions to problems arising in logical formulations within planning, empirical studies of software development in organizations, scheduling, verification, test, and configuration; efficient computation, electronic health records, electronic voting, logical frameworks, software architectures, object-oriented methodology and notations, programming languages, programming language technology for functional and object-oriented languages, proof assistants, semantics, ubiquitous computing, user interface software technology, workflow languages. Applicants accepted will be employed and enrolled at the IT University for a period of 3 or 4 years. Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. For example, the basic salary of a 3 year PhD student amounts to DKK 24,117.18 (Euro 3236.20) per month. For more information consult the webpage: http://www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp I would be grateful if you could circulate this information among potential applicants. Best regards, -- Carsten Schuermann From florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk Thu Feb 12 08:49:08 2009 From: florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk (CRACIUN F.) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:49:08 -0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <1C7F51B7A4A4F54389A69794AD79A24D0199C640@EXDUR3.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk> TASE 2009 - Final CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************** * 3rd IEEE International Symposium on * Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering * (TASE 2009) * 29-31 July 2009, Tianjin, China * http://www.dur.ac.uk/ieee.tase2009 * * For more information email: IEEE.TASE2009 at durham.ac.uk ********************************************************** Large scale software systems and the Internet are of growing concern to academia and industry. This poses new challenges to the various aspects of software engineering, for instance, the reliability of software development, web-oriented software architecture and aspect and object-orientation techniques. As a result, new concepts and methodologies are required to enhance the development of software engineering from theoretical aspects. TASE 2009 is a forum for researchers from academia, industry and government to present ideas, results, and ongoing research on theoretical advances in software engineering. TASE 2009 is the third in a series of conference, sponsored by IEEE CS and IFIP. The first TASE conference was held in Shanghai, China, in June 2007. The second TASE conference was held in Nanjing, China, in June 2008. Topics of Interest: Authors are invited to submit high quality technical papers describing original and unpublished work in all theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Requirements Engineering * Specification and Verification * Program Analysis * Software Testing * Model-Driven Engineering * Software Architectures and Design * Aspect and Object Orientation * Embedded and Real-Time Systems * Software Processes and Workflows * Component-Based Software Engineering * Software Safety, Security and Reliability * Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance * Service-Oriented Computing * Semantic Web and Web Services * Type System and Theory * Program Logics and Calculus * Dependable Concurrency * Software Model Checking Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Wei-Ngan Chin (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Shengchao Qin (Durham University, UK) Program Committee ----------------- Bernhard Aichernig (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Stefan Andrei (Lamar University, USA) Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan) Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands) Jonathan Bowen (King's College London, UK) Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK) Juan Chen (Microsoft Research, USA) Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Academica Sinica, Taiwan) Jim Davies (University of Oxford, UK) Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University, China) Xinyu Feng (Toyota Technological Inst. at Chicago, USA) Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, France) Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China) Kung-Kiu Lau (University of Manchester, UK) Shaoying Liu (Hosei University, Japan) Dorel Lucanu (University of Iasi, Romania) Tom Maibaum (McMaster University, Canada) Darko Marinov (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Hong Mei (Peking University, China) Huaikou Miao (Shanghai University, China) Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Viet Ha Nguyen (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Sungwoo Park (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Korea) Corneliu Popeea (MPI-SWS, Germany) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China) Zongyan Qiu (Peking University, China) Volker Stolz (UNU/IIST, Macau) Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Jun Sun (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Kenji Taguchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Yih-Kuen Tsay (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Elizabeth Vidal (San Agustin National University, Peru) Ji Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China) Linzhang Wang (Nanjing University, China) Xianbing Wang (Wuhan University, China) Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jim Woodcock (University of York, UK) Hongyu Zhang (Tsinghua University, China) Jian Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) Important Dates: February 20, 2009: Title and abstract submission deadline February 27, 2009: Paper submission deadline April 20, 2009: Acceptance/rejection notification May 11, 2009: Camera-ready version due July 29 - 31, 2009: TASE 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090212/d1a2364b/attachment.html From Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Fri Feb 13 17:04:10 2009 From: Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk (Maribel Fernandez) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:04:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP WRS 2009 - Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming, Brasilia, 28 June Message-ID: <4995EE5A.3060602@kcl.ac.uk> ====================================================================== Call for Papers WRS 2009 9th International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/maribel/wrs09.html 28 June 2009, Brasilia, Brazil An RDP 2009 workshop - Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming This workshop promotes research and collaboration in the area of reduction strategies. It encourages the presentation of new directions, developments, and results as well as surveys and tutorials on existing knowledge in this area. Reduction strategies define which (sub)expression(s) should be selected for evaluation and which rule(s) should be applied. These choices affect fundamental properties of computations such as laziness, strictness, completeness, and efficiency amongst others. For this reason programming languages such as Elan, Maude, OBJ, and Stratego allow the explicit definition of the evaluation strategy, whereas languages such as Clean, Curry, and Haskell allow its modification. In addition to strategies in rewriting and programming, WRS 2009 also covers the use of strategies and tactics in other areas such as theorem and termination proving. WRS 2009 will take place in Brasilia, as part of RDP, the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming. Previous editions of the workshop were held in Utrecht (2001), Copenhagen (2002), Valencia (2003), Aachen (2004), Nara (2005), Seattle (2006), Paris (2007), Hagenberg (2008). Submissions and Publication: Before the workshop, authors are invited to submit a five page abstract in pdf format, using the Easychair website https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wrs09 Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the preliminary proceedings, available at the workshop. After the workshop, authors will be invited to submit a paper based on their presentation, which will be refereed for inclusion in the final workshop proceedings. We plan to publish the final proceedings in EPTCS. We also invite authors to submit a 5 page abstract describing relevant work that has been or will be published elsewhere, or work in progress. These submissions will be only considered for presentation at the workshop and inclusion in the preliminary proceedings but not in the final proceedings. We envisage publication of a special issue of a journal dedicated to WRS after the event. Important Dates: # Submission: title and short abstract: 9 April 2009 full abstract: 19 April 2009 # Notification: 17 May 2009 # Preliminary proceedings version due: 7 June 2009 # Workshop: 28 June 2009 # Submission for final proceedings: 5 September 2009 # Notification: 30 October 2009 Programme Committee: Sergio Antoy Mauricio Ayala Rincon Horatiu Cirstea Adriana Compagnoni Santiago Escobar Maribel Fernandez (chair) Juergen Giesl Bernhard Gramlich Salvador Lucas Ian Mackie Jorge S. Pinto For more information, please contact Maribel Fernandez King's College London, UK Email: Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk ================================================================================== -- Dr. Maribel Fernandez Reader King's College London Department of Computer Science www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/maribel +44 20 78482499 From rlc3 at mcs.le.ac.uk Mon Feb 16 10:41:08 2009 From: rlc3 at mcs.le.ac.uk (Roy L. Crole) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:41:08 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Participation - Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science 2009 In-Reply-To: <49414C89.4020600@mcs.le.ac.uk> References: <49414C89.4020600@mcs.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: <49998914.8090701@mcs.le.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, We still have a small number of places remaining at MGS2009, available at the full rate of ?380. If you would like to attend, please complete the registration form provided on the web page. **************************************************************** Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science **************************************************************** 30th March - 3rd April 2009 University of Leicester, UK http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/mgs2009 The 10th Midlands Graduate School (MGS) is taking place! WHAT IS MGS 2009? The MGS is an intensive course of lectures on the Foundations of Computing. It is very well established, with this being our 10th anniversary, and has always proved a very popular and successful event. This year we have Professor Peter Dybjer, Chalmers, Sweden, as guest lecturer. The lectures are aimed at graduate students, typically in their first or second year of study for a PhD. However, the school is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about mathematical computing foundations. We very much welcome international applications as well as from those from the UK. COURSES - Foundations Thorsten Altenkirch Category Theory Paul Levy The Lambda Calculus Henrik Nilsson Functional Programming - Advanced Peter Dybjer Normalization by Evaluation Martin Escardo Semantics Nicola Gambino Dependent Types Alexander Kurz Coalgebra Uday Reddy Separation Logic Georg Struth Automated Theorem Proving WHERE IS MGS 2009? MGS 2009 will take place at John Foster Hall, University of Leicester, UK, with accommodation and lectures all on one site. Breakfasts, lunches and four course dinners will be provided. For further details and registration visit http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/mgs2009 Roy Crole and Daniela Petrisan. From isabelle.perseil at telecom-paristech.fr Fri Feb 13 01:38:31 2009 From: isabelle.perseil at telecom-paristech.fr (Isabelle Perseil) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:38:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] UML&AADL'2009 : LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: UML&AADL?2009 http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/UML-AADL-2009.html Workshop held in conjunction with ICECCS 2009 The fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems http://www.iceccs.org/ June 02, 2009 Potsdam, Germany ************************************************************************ Submission deadline: February 20, 2009 -------------------------------------- Topics ====== New real-time systems have increasingly complex architectures because of the intricacy of the multiple interdependent features they have to manage. They must meet new requirements of reusability, interoperability, flexibility and portability. These new dimensions favor the use of an architecture description language that offers a global vision of the system, and which is particularly suitable for handling real-time characteristics. Due to the even more increased complexity of distributed, real-time and embedded systems (DRE), the need for a model-driven approach is more obvious in this domain than in monolithic RT systems. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity to gather researchers and industrial practitioners to survey existing efforts related to behavior modeling and model-based analysis of DRE systems. This workshop seeks contributions from researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of the representation, analysis, and implementation of DRE system behavior and/or architecture models. To this end, we solicit papers (no more than 6 pages long) related to, but not limited to, the following principal topics: - Multi-domain specific modeling languages - Model transformation and generative approaches - Model-based Methodologies - Integration of different formalisms (e.g., Simulink/StateFlow, StateMate and Scade-drive) - Model Checking of architecture specifications - ADLs behavioral models simulation, Scheduling analysis and Worst-case execution time prediction Workshop Format =============== This full-day workshop will consist of an introduction of the topic by the workshop organizers, presentations of accepted papers, and in depth discussion of previously identified subjects emerging from the submissions. A summary of the discussions will be made available. Submission and Publication ========================== To contribute, please send a position paper or a technical paper to agusti[dot]canals[at]c-s[dot]fr with ?ICECCS09 UML&AADL Workshop? in the title. Papers should not exceed 6 pages. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format. Preferably, submissions should be in PDF format. All selected papers will be published in the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission deadline: February 20, 2009 All Notification of acceptance: March 05, 2009 Workshop date: June 02, 2009 Organizational sponsors ======================= ARTIST NoE OMG Organizers and Programme Steering Committee =========================================== Jean-Michel Bruel (IRIT, France) Agusti Canals (CS, France) Robert de Simone (INRIA, France) S?bastien G?rard (CEA-LIST, France) Isabelle Perseil (TELECOM ParisTech, France) IEEE CS TCCX Coordinator ======================== Mike Hinchey (NASA GSFC and Loyola College in Maryland, USA) Programme Committee =================== Yamine Ait Ameur (LISI / ENSMA, France) Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan) Grady Booch (IBM Fellow, USA) Agusti Canals (CS, France) Juan Antonio de la Puente (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain) Dionisio De Niz Villasenor (SEI, Carnegie Mellon, USA) Vincent Englebert (University of Namur, Belgium) Madeleine Faug?re (THALES, France) Mamoun Filali (IRIT, France) Robert France (Colorado State University, USA) S?bastien G?rard (CEA-LIST, France) Patrick Heymans (University of Namur, Belgium) Irfan Hamid (Microsoft Corp, Canada) J.J.M. Hooman (Embedded Systems Institute, The Netherlands) Bruce Lewis (US Army AMCOM) Johan Lilius (?bo Akademi University, Finland) Ricardo J. Machado (University of Minho, Portugal) Dominique Mery (LORIA, France) Thierry Millan (IRIT, France) Richard Paige (University of York, United Kingdom) Marc Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Jos? Ra?l Romero Salguero (Universidad de C?rdoba, Spain) Bernhard Rumpe (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany) Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbild University, USA) Fran?oise Simonot Lion (LORIA, France) Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Roy Sterritt (University of Ulster, United Kingdom) J?rn Guy S?? ( University of Queensland, Australia) Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Bedir Tekinerdogan (Bilkent University, Turkey) Martin T?rngren (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Laurence Tratt (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom) Tullio Vardanega (University of Padua, Italy) Fran?ois Vernadat (CNRS-LAAS, France) Thomas Vergnaud (THALES, France) Eugenio Villar (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain) Sergio Yovine (CNRS-Verimag, France) Roberto V. Zicari (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) From kwang at ropas.snu.ac.kr Tue Feb 17 06:18:48 2009 From: kwang at ropas.snu.ac.kr (Kwangkeun Yi) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:18:48 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Research Professor positions Message-ID: <499A9D18.4060006@ropas.snu.ac.kr> Dear colleagues, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University invites applications for 2 post-doctoral research professor positions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESEARCH PROFESSOR POSITIONS Center For Research On Software Analysis For Error-Free Computing http://rosaec.snu.ac.kr SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Center for Research on Software Analysis for Error-free Computing at Seoul National University (http://www.useoul.edu) invites applications for * 2 post-doctoral research professor positions * the positions can be transfered in 3 years (depending on research achievements) to regular tenure-track faculty positions. We are looking for candidates with research focus on - static analysis - software verification & testing - programming language theory & systems - corpus-based computation Successful applicants are expected to lead a top-quality research and work with a group of highly-motivated, internationally competitive graduate and undergraduate students. Interested candidates should email any inquiry or the application materials to Prof. Kwangkeun Yi Email: kwang at ropas.snu.ac.kr Home: http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/~kwang Application materials: a resume, a personal research plan, and the names of three or more references. Review of completed applications will begin immediately. The position remains open until filled. - Annual salary ranges from USD 40K to 70K (with generous taxation rates) depending on the candidates research records and potentials. - On-campus university housing (1- or 2-bedroom apartment) provided. --------------------- Background - The center: Center for Research on Software Analysis for Error-free Computing (ROSAEC Center) has been established in September 2008 by by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation. The center consists of around 10 professors in static analysis, programming language, software engineering, HCI, data base, and machine learning. The goal of the center is to research on domain-specific static analysis and verification technologies. - The university: Seoul National University is Korea's leading university. 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. - Location: The university is situated in Seoul, surrounded by rugged mountains, yet with 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. Seoul is centrally located in the north east Asia: two-hour flight from Seoul reaches to Beijing(to the west) and Tokyo(to the east). --------------------- From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue Feb 17 06:34:43 2009 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:34:43 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WoLLIC 2009 - DEADLINE APPROACHING: Feb 28 In-Reply-To: <496E01AB.1080901@cin.ufpe.br> References: <48FE214B.9050600@cin.ufpe.br> <496E01AB.1080901@cin.ufpe.br> Message-ID: <499AA0D3.5080100@cin.ufpe.br> [** sincere apologies for duplicates **] Call for Papers /*16th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation*/ (/*WoLLIC 2009*/) Tokyo, Japan June 21-24, 2009 (SPECIAL: There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.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 Sixteenth WoLLIC will be held at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, from June 21 to 24, 2009. It is jointly sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the 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). *SPECIAL EVENT* 2009 will mark the 60-th anniversary of the publication of Paul Erdos' elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Erdos which was directed by George Csicsery "N is a number - A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html *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 http://wollic.org/wollic2009/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 5, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 12 (firm date). *PROCEEDINGS* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2009, 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 2009 issue of Fundamenta Informaticae. *INVITED SPEAKERS* Arnold Beckmann (Swansea U, UK) Carlos Caleiro (UT Lisbon, Portugal) Thomas Eiter (Tech U Wien, Austria) Sylvain Salvati (INRIA, France) Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Inst Tech, Japan) Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam, NL) Frank Wolter (U Liverpool, UK) *STUDENT GRANTS* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2009 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2009). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *IMPORTANT DATES* February 28, 2009: Paper title and abstract deadline March 8, 2009: Full paper deadline (firm) April 5, 2009: Author notification April 12, 2009: Final version deadline (firm) *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Toshiyasu Arai (Kobe U, Japan) Matthias Baaz (Tech U Wien) Alexandru Baltag (Oxford U) Josep Maria Font (U Barcelona) Silvio Ghilardi (U Milano) Katsumi Inoue (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld) Hiroakira Ono (JAIST, Japan) (Chair) Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya U) John Slaney (Australian Nat U) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U) Hans Tompits (Tech U Wien) *ORGANISING COMMITTEE* Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan, co-chair) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair) Ken Satoh (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) *STEERING COMMITTEE* Samson Abramsky , Johan van Benthem , Joe Halpern , Wilfrid Hodges , Daniel Leivant , Angus Macintyre , Grigori Mints , Ruy de Queiroz *WEB PAGE* wollic.org/wollic2009/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090217/d221c382/attachment-0001.htm From kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Tue Feb 17 12:14:51 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:14:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 8th Tbilisi Symposium Message-ID: <499AF08B.4080601@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> Please distribute widely. Apologies for cross-posting. *********************************************************************** 1-st Call for Papers THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION 21 -- 25 September 2009 Bakuriani, Georgia Submission deadline: 1 May 2009 Website: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi2009/ *********************************************************************** The Eighth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held on 21 -- 25 September 2009 in Bakuriani, Georgia. The Program Committee invites submissions for contributions to be presented at the Symposium. There is room for 32 contributed papers on all aspects of language, logic and computation. Work of an inter- disciplinary nature is particularly welcome. The submission deadline is the 1-st of May 2009; notification is due June 15. Accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings. Tutorials, invited speakers, and submission details can be found at the Symposium website at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi2009/ Paul Dekker, on behalf of the Program and the Organization Committee, 8-th International Tbilisi Symposium ----------------------------------------- Paul Dekker -- ILLC/Department of Philosophy -- University of Amsterdam -- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 -- NL-1012 CP Amsterdam -- The Netherlands -- tel: +31 20 5254541 / fax: +31 20 5254503 -- email: p.j.e.dekker at uva.nl http://staff.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/ From katoen at cs.rwth-aachen.de Tue Feb 17 13:32:16 2009 From: katoen at cs.rwth-aachen.de (Joost-Pieter Katoen) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:32:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2009 Final Call for Participation Message-ID: <499B02B0.1030109@cs.rwth-aachen.de> [We apologize for multiple copies] ================================================================ FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ETAPS 2009 *** 5 Conferences, 21 Workshops, 4 Tutorials *** European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software March 22 - March 29, 2009 York, United Kingdom http://www.etaps.org http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/etaps09/ ================================================================ -- REGISTRATION -- For online registration, visit: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/etaps09/ and click on menu item "Registration". The early registration deadline has passed, but normal registration is still open until *February 26, 2009*. (Any registration received after this date will incur a lateness surcharge.) -- ABOUT ETAPS -- 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 confe- rences, accompanied by satellite workshops and other events. ETAPS 2009 is the twelfth event in the series. -- THE HOST CITY: YORK, UK -- The City of York combines evidence of a history going back to Roman times, tourist attractions, and a bustling modern city centre. York Minster, on a site that has been the city's focus in Roman, Norman and modern times, is among the finest Gothic cathedrals and dominates the city. The Viking past is represented by preserved archaeological remains and reconstructed settlements in the world-famous Jorvik Centre. Since the nineteenth century, York has been a railway city and houses the National Railway Museum, with its stunning collection of locomotives, carriages and railway memorabilia (** sign up for the ETAPS banquet which will be held in this stunning museum! **). York is the ancient administrative capital of northern England and is at the heart of the county of Yorkshire, dominating the Vale of York. ETAPS will take place on the University of York's campus which mixes iconic 1960s concrete buildings with stylish modern architecture. At the centre is the largest artificial lake in England, which is influential in giving York the highest ratio of ducks to students in the country. For more information, please visit York's tourism website: http://www.visityork.org For travel information, please consult the ETAPS'09 website: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/etaps09/ -- MAIN CONFERENCES -- - CC: International Conference on Compiler Construction ( http://www.brics.dk/~mis/CC2009/ ) - ESOP: European Symposium on Programming ( http://esop09.pps.jussieu.fr ) - FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering ( http://www.pst.ifi.lmu.de/fase2009/ ) - FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures ( http://fossacs09.soe.ucsc.edu/ ) - TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems ( http://www.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/tacas2009/ ) -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Rajeev Alur (UPenn, USA) Jean-Marc Eber (Paris, France) Stephen Gilmore (Edinburgh, UK) Steven Miller (Rockwell Collins, USA) John Reynolds (CMU, USA) Vivek Sarkar (Rice, USA) Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen, Germany) -- SATELLITE EVENTS -- The ETAPS 2009 satellite events comprise workshops and tutorials which will be held on the Sunday (March 22) before and the Saturday/Sunday (March 28/29) after the main conferences. WORKSHOPS - ACCAT: Applied and Computational Category Theory - ARSPA-WITS: Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis & Issues in the Theory of Security - Bytecode: Bytecode Semantics, Verification, Analysis and Transformation - COCV: Compiler Optimization Meets Compiler Verification - COMPASS: Correctness, Modeling, and Performance of Aerospace Systems - FESCA: Formal Engineering Approaches to Components and Architectures - FORMED: Formal Methods in Computer Science Education - GaLoP: Games for Logics and Programming Languages - GT-VMT: Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques - HFL: Hardware Design using Functional Languages - LDTA: Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications - MBT: Model-Based Testing - MLQA: Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis - OpenCert: Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification - PLACES: Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software - QAPL: Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages - RC: Reversible Computation - SafeCert: Certification of Safety-Critical Software Controlled Systems - TAASN: Theory and Applications of Abstraction, Substitution and Naming - TERMGRAPH: Computing with Terms and Graphs - WING: Invariant Generation TUTORIALS - Complete and Exhaustive Testing Techniques (Mike Stannett & Tony Simons) - Formal Foundations for Verifying Security-Critical Software (Jan Juerjens) - Retrenchment: Straddling Formal Refinement and the Real World (Richard Banach) - Verification-centric Development in Java with JML and ESC/Java2 (Joe Kiniry, Dan Zimmerman & Erik Poll) Additional information about the satellite events is available on the ETAPS web pages: http://www.etaps.org http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/etaps09/ -- FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES -- ETAPS 2009 is organised by the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, UK. For further information, do not hesitate to contact the Local Organisers at the following address: etaps-organisers -AT- cs.york.ac.uk From richard.moot at labri.fr Wed Feb 18 12:26:26 2009 From: richard.moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:26:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSLLI 2009 Call for Participation Message-ID: <426F559F-2FAC-41E5-B78E-75975D3092F1@labri.fr> ====================================================================== = = = CALL FOR PARTICIPATION = = = = 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION = = ESSLLI 2009 = = = = Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 = = = ====================================================================== http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in Bordeaux, recently selected as a Unesco World Heritage site. * Course Program * ESSLLI offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 7 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php * Registration * Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. Early registration deadline: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php Richard Moot ESSLLI Organizing Committee From afelty at site.uottawa.ca Wed Feb 18 15:00:36 2009 From: afelty at site.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:00:36 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2009: Call for Papers Message-ID: <499C68E4.1050400@site.uottawa.ca> Call for Papers LFMTP 2009: 4th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2, 2009 http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfmtp Affiliated with CADE-22, Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009 Joint event with the 2009 International Workshop on Proof-Search in Type Theories (PSTT), August 3, 2009 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 1 Paper Submission: May 8 Notification: June 15 Final papers due: July 3 Workshop: August 2 JOINT LFMTP/PSTT INVITED SPEAKER: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique & INRIA) JOINT LFMTP/PSTT TUTORIAL SPEAKER: TBA DESCRIPTION: The LFMTP workshop continues a series of workshops on Logical Frameworks and Metalanguages (LFM) and Mechanized Reasoning about Languages with Variable Binding (MERLIN). This is the fourth joint workshop in the series. 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. LFMTP 2009 will provide researchers with a forum to review state-of-the-art techniques and to present progress in: - 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 design of proof assistants, automated theorem provers, and formal digital libraries building upon logical framework technology; - theoretical and practical issues concerning the encoding of variable binding, 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 will be particularly welcome. TOPICS: Papers are solicited on topics including, but 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 SUBMISSIONS: Three categories of papers are solicited: - Category A: Detailed and technical accounts of new research: up to eight pages including bibliography. - Category B: Shorter accounts of work in progress and proposed further directions, including discussion papers: up to six pages including bibliography and appendices. - Category C: System descriptions presenting an implemented tool and its novel features: up to four pages. A demonstration is expected to accompany the presentation. Submissions will be accepted electronically. Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract one week before submitting the paper. For further information and submission instructions, see the LFMTP web page: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfmtp. Accepted papers will be published electronically as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the workshop. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Frederic Blanqui (INRIA) James Cheney, Co-Chair (University of Edinburgh) Adam Chlipala (Harvard University) Amy Felty, Co-Chair (University of Ottawa) Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich) Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde) Marino Miculan (University of Udine) Alberto Momigliano (University of Edinburgh) Gopalan Nadathur (University of Minnesota) Michael Norrish (NICTA) From paul.hudak at yale.edu Wed Feb 18 21:42:09 2009 From: paul.hudak at yale.edu (Paul Hudak) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:42:09 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Research Position at Yale University Message-ID: <499CC701.20705@yale.edu> Postdoctoral Research Position at Yale University The Nettle Project in the Computer Science Department at Yale University seeks applicants for a one-year (minimum) postdoctoral research position. The successful candidate will apply modern, high-level programming language ideas (such as embodied in Haskell) to help design and implement a language for the control of BGP-based network routers, with the goal of realizing high-level networking protocols for traffic engineering, security, and related networking concerns. The ideal candidate will have strength both in programming language concepts and implementation techniques, as well as networking fundamentals. A PhD in computer science or related field is required. Yale is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Interested candidates should send their CV or resume to Professor Paul Hudak at paul.hudak at yale.edu. From rensink at cs.utwente.nl Thu Feb 19 07:39:23 2009 From: rensink at cs.utwente.nl (Arend Rensink) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:39:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FM2009: Third Call for Papers Message-ID: <499D52FB.4060503@cs.utwente.nl> ********************************************************* * * * FM2009: 16th FM Symposium and 2nd World Congress * * >>> Theory meets practice <<< * * * * October 30 - November 7, 2009 * * Eindhoven, the Netherlands * * http://www.win.tue.nl/fm2009 * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * ********************************************************* * * * ** NEWS ** * * * * >> 2nd Special Issue: FORMAL METHODS IN SYSTEM DESIGN * * Authors of selected papers will be invited to * * submit a journal version for a special anniversary * * issue of Springer's FMSD. * * * * >> Workshops: 7 satellite workshops confirmed. * * - FMIS: Formal Methods for Interactive Systems * * - VDM and Overture * * - CompMod: Computational Models for Cell Processes * * - FAVO: Formal Aspects of Virtual Organizations * * - FMA: Formal Methods for Aeronautics * * - FOPARA: Foundational and Practical Aspects of * * Resource Analysis * * - Formal Aspects of Probabilistic Systems * * * ********************************************************* * * * FACJ Special Issue - Authors of selected papers * * will be invited to submit a journal version for a * * special anniversary issue of Springer's Formal * * Aspects of Computing. * * * * Prize for best paper - awarded by Springer. * * * * Worldwide PC- Including members from 46 countries. * * * * LNCS proceedings - Springer has confirmed that the * * proceedings will be published in their Lecture * * Notes in Computer Science series. * * * * Special tracks - on tools and industrial * * applications. * * * ********************************************************* * * * INVITED SPEAKERS * * Wan Fokkink, The Netherlands * * Carroll Morgan, Australia * * Colin O'Halloran, UK * * Sriram Rajamani, India * * Jeannette Wing, USA * * * ********************************************************* * ** IMPORTANT DATES ** * * * * May 4 - Submission deadline (firm) * * July 6 - Notification of acceptance * * August 10 - Camera-ready version due * * * ********************************************************* FM2009 is part of: ********************************************************* * * * +============================================+ * * | | * * | ** FMweek ** | * * | | * * +============================================+ * * | CPA | FACS | FAST | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | FM2009 | FMCO | FMICS | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | PDMC | REFINE | TESTCOM/FATES | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek | * * +============================================+ * * * ********************************************************* From Matthew.Parkinson at cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 23 08:58:20 2009 From: Matthew.Parkinson at cl.cam.ac.uk (Matthew Parkinson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:58:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IWACO 2009 Call for papers Message-ID: Call For Papers International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in object-oriented programming (IWACO) at ECOOP 2009 July 6 or 7, 2009, Genova, Italy www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/wrigstad/iwaco09 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, separation logic, 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 * programming logics that deal with aliasing, or use ownership, confinement or resourcing; * applications of aliasing management techniques such as ownership types, ownership domains, confined types, region types, and uniqueness to concurrency and reasoning. 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. Program Committee Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge, Chair) Cristiano Calcagno (Imperial College) Nicholas Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington) Christian Haack (Aicas Realtime, Karlsruhe) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research) Yu David Liu (SUNY Binghamton) Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Aleks Nanevski (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Noam Rinetzky (Queen Mary University) Tian Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Important Dates Submission: April 8, 2008 Notification: May 8, 2008 Final Version: June 19, 2008 Workshop: July 6 or 7, 2008 Organisers Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London) Dave Clarke (KU Leuven) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Tobias Wrigstad (Purdue University) Peter MŸller (ETH Zurich) Participation The number of participants is limited. Apart from those with accepted papers, others may attend by sending an email to Matthew Parkinson (mjp41 at cl.cam.ac.uk) 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 submitted to easychair by April 8, 2009. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwaco2009 Submissions should be in English. Queries Queries may be directed to Matthew Parkinson (mjp41 at cl.cam.ac.uk). From isabelle.perseil at telecom-paristech.fr Sat Feb 21 06:47:02 2009 From: isabelle.perseil at telecom-paristech.fr (Isabelle Perseil) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:47:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] UML&AADL'2009 : EXTENDED DEADLINE Message-ID: <4519d06c975d6fad051d18df9026f4c3.squirrel@webmail1.telecom-paristech.fr> ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: UML&AADL?2009 http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/UML-AADL-2009.html Workshop held in conjunction with ICECCS 2009 The fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems http://www.iceccs.org/ June 02, 2009 Potsdam, Germany ************************************************************************ Submission deadline: March 1st, 2009 -------------------------------------- Topics ====== New real-time systems have increasingly complex architectures because of the intricacy of the multiple interdependent features they have to manage. They must meet new requirements of reusability, interoperability, flexibility and portability. These new dimensions favor the use of an architecture description language that offers a global vision of the system, and which is particularly suitable for handling real-time characteristics. Due to the even more increased complexity of distributed, real-time and embedded systems (DRE), the need for a model-driven approach is more obvious in this domain than in monolithic RT systems. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity to gather researchers and industrial practitioners to survey existing efforts related to behavior modeling and model-based analysis of DRE systems. This workshop seeks contributions from researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of the representation, analysis, and implementation of DRE system behavior and/or architecture models. To this end, we solicit papers (no more than 6 pages long) related to, but not limited to, the following principal topics: - Multi-domain specific modeling languages - Model transformation and generative approaches - Model-based Methodologies - Integration of different formalisms (e.g., Simulink/StateFlow, StateMate and Scade-drive) - Model Checking of architecture specifications - ADLs behavioral models simulation, Scheduling analysis and Worst-case execution time prediction Workshop Format =============== This full-day workshop will consist of an introduction of the topic by the workshop organizers, presentations of accepted papers, and in depth discussion of previously identified subjects emerging from the submissions. A summary of the discussions will be made available. Submission and Publication ========================== To contribute, please send a position paper or a technical paper to agusti[dot]canals[at]c-s[dot]fr with ?ICECCS09 UML&AADL Workshop? in the title. Papers should not exceed 6 pages. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format. Preferably, submissions should be in PDF format. All selected papers will be published in the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission deadline: March 01, 2009 All Notification of acceptance: March 05, 2009 Workshop date: June 02, 2009 Organizational sponsors ======================= ARTIST NoE OMG Organizers and Programme Steering Committee =========================================== Jean-Michel Bruel (IRIT, France) Agusti Canals (CS, France) Robert de Simone (INRIA, France) S?bastien G?rard (CEA-LIST, France) Isabelle Perseil (TELECOM ParisTech, France) IEEE CS TCCX Coordinator ======================== Mike Hinchey (NASA GSFC and Loyola College in Maryland, USA) Programme Committee =================== Yamine Ait Ameur (LISI / ENSMA, France) Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan) Grady Booch (IBM Fellow, USA) Agusti Canals (CS, France) Juan Antonio de la Puente (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain) Dionisio De Niz Villasenor (SEI, Carnegie Mellon, USA) Vincent Englebert (University of Namur, Belgium) Madeleine Faug?re (THALES, France) Mamoun Filali (IRIT, France) Robert France (Colorado State University, USA) S?bastien G?rard (CEA-LIST, France) Patrick Heymans (University of Namur, Belgium) Irfan Hamid (Microsoft Corp, Canada) J.J.M. Hooman (Embedded Systems Institute, The Netherlands) Bruce Lewis (US Army AMCOM) Johan Lilius (?bo Akademi University, Finland) Ricardo J. Machado (University of Minho, Portugal) Dominique Mery (LORIA, France) Thierry Millan (IRIT, France) Richard Paige (University of York, United Kingdom) Marc Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Jos? Ra?l Romero Salguero (Universidad de C?rdoba, Spain) Bernhard Rumpe (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany) Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbild University, USA) Fran?oise Simonot Lion (LORIA, France) Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Roy Sterritt (University of Ulster, United Kingdom) J?rn Guy S?? ( University of Queensland, Australia) Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Bedir Tekinerdogan (Bilkent University, Turkey) Martin T?rngren (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Laurence Tratt (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom) Tullio Vardanega (University of Padua, Italy) Fran?ois Vernadat (CNRS-LAAS, France) Thomas Vergnaud (THALES, France) Eugenio Villar (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain) Sergio Yovine (CNRS-Verimag, France) Roberto V. Zicari (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) From Pierre-Louis.Curien at pps.jussieu.fr Tue Feb 24 09:01:23 2009 From: Pierre-Louis.Curien at pps.jussieu.fr (Pierre-Louis Curien) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:01:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] INRIA postdoc programme Message-ID: I would like to draw your attention on the ******** postdoc programme of INRIA (France, in one of its locations) ********* On the site http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html you will find information on how to apply and on the various subjects proposed by the INRIA teams, some of which fall under the scope of types, logic, semantics, and programming languages. For each subject, a contact email is given. The deadline for application is uniform: March 22, 2009 It is strongly recommended that potential applicants contact ** as early as possible ** the contact person indicated on the subject that they will find of interest for them. Pierre-Louis Curien From bctcs at dcs.warwick.ac.uk Wed Feb 25 05:00:38 2009 From: bctcs at dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Sara Kalvala) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:00:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science Message-ID: <49A516C6.2030003@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> 25th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS) 6th to 9th April 2009 University of Warwick, Coventry UK http://go.warwick.ac.uk/bctcs SCOPE The purpose of the BCTCS is to provide a forum in which researchers in theoretical computer science can meet, present research findings, and discuss developments in the field. It also aims to provide an environment in which PhD students can gain experience in presenting their work, and benefit from contact with established researchers. The conference will consist of invited keynote presentations by distinguished researchers and a number of contributed talks. LOCATION AND SCHEDULE BCTCS 2009 will be held at the campus of the University of Warwick, in the outskirts of Coventry, UK. The campus is located in the "Heart of England" and is easy to reach from most places in the UK. It is also close to Birmingham International Airport, which has flights to other cities in the UK, Europe, and further abroad. The event will start on Monday afternoon, with registration from 3pm and the invited talk by Noga Alon at 5pm. The meeting will end with lunch on Thursday. INVITED SPEAKERS BCTCS 2009 will be enriched by talks given by several invited distinguished speakers, including: * Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University * Paul Goldberg, University of Liverpool * Andy Gordon, Microsoft Research * Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh * Alistair Sinclair, University of California at Berkeley * Bill Wadge, University of Victoria REGISTRATION Registration is now open. The early registration fee will apply until 28 February. Accomodation on campus is limited and we suggest registration as early as possible. CONTRIBUTED TALKS Participants at the colloquium are encouraged to present a contributed talk. Please prepare an abstract using the LaTeX template and submit at the abstract submission page. The abstracts of accepted contributed talks will be published in the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 28 February 2009. FELLOWSHIPS The BCTCS steering committee has obtained ongoing funding to support the participation of upto 45 graduate students at BCTCS. The fellowships cover registration including accomodation and meals, but not travel. Students enrolled at UK higher education institutions may apply for fellowships by filling the online application form. Fellowships will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis to those PhD students who submit an abstract and commit to presenting a contributed talk (see above). Some fellowships may be available to students not presenting contributed talks; decisions on these cases will be taken in March 2009. ORGANISATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION The conference is being organised by Artur Czumaj, Sara Kalvala, and Steve Matthews from the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick. More information about the meeting including updates are available from the conference webpages at: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/bctcs From areces at pluton.loria.fr Wed Feb 25 15:30:46 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:30:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions Message-ID: <200902252030.n1PKUkSg020195@pluton.loria.fr> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 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 2008. 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, 2008 and December 31st, 2008. 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 2008 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2009). Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in other language than English and defended in 2007 and 2008 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, with a cc to bethaward2008 at gmail.com. Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 16, 2009. Notification of Decision: July 1, 2009. Committee : * Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7) * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) * Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alexander Koller (Saarland University) * 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 areces at pluton.loria.fr Wed Feb 25 16:38:50 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:38:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last Call for Papers HyLo09 Message-ID: <200902252138.n1PLcos8021614@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2009 (HyLo 2009) "Conmemorating the Ten Years of HyLo" http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 15 - 17 July, 2009 Nancy, France *************************************************************** WORKSHOP PURPOSE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of HyLo 2009 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. HyLo 2009 will be an special event, conmemorating the ten years since the organization of the first HyLo workshop in 1999. HyLo 2009 will be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). SUBMISSION DETAILS: We invite the contribution of papers reporting new work from researchers interested in hybrid logic. Details about the submission procedure will be announced in the second call for papers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be included in a special volume to conmemorate the 10th aniversary of the first Hybrid Logic Workshop. Please use the HyLo09 submission page at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hylo09, handled by the EasyChair conference system, to submit papers. Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the conference's style (available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09). Notice that one author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. INVITED SPEAKERS: * Melvin Fitting (CUNY) * Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College) * Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) * Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) ORGANIZERS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Torben Brauner (Roskilde University) Stephane Demri (LSV Cachan) Santiago Figueira (University of Buenos Aires) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 1st March 2009 Notification of acceptance: Monday, 30th of March 2009 Deadline for final versions: Friday, 1st of May 2009 Workshop dates: 15 to 17 July, 2009 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 From tobias at dsv.su.se Fri Feb 27 00:20:10 2009 From: tobias at dsv.su.se (Tobias Wrigstad) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:20:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] STOP 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20090227052010.4DECADAB61@triton.localdomain> Call for Papers Script to Program Evolution (STOP) at ECOOP 2009 July 6th, 2009, Genova, Italy Recent years have seen increased use of scripting languages in large applications. Scripting languages optimize development time, especially early in the software life cycle, over safety and robustness. As the understanding of the system reaches a critical point and requirements stabilize, scripting languages become less appealing. Compromises made to optimize development time make it harder to reason about program correctness, harder to do semantic-preserving refactorings, and harder to optimize execution speed. Lack of type information makes code harder to navigate and to use correctly. In the worst cases, this situation leads to a costly and potentially error-prone rewrite of a program in a compiled language, losing the flexibility of scripting languages for future extension. Recently, pluggable type systems and annotation systems have been proposed. Such systems add compile-time checkable annotations without changing a program's run-time semantics which facilitates early error checking and program analysis. It is believed that untyped scripts can be retrofitted to work with such systems. Furthermore, integration of typed and untyped code, for example, through use of gradual typing, allows scripts to evolve into safer programs more suitable for program analysis and compile-time optimisations. With very few exceptions, practical reports are yet to be found. The STOP workshop focuses on the evolution of scripts, largely untyped code, into safer programs, with more rigid structure and more constrained behaviour through the use of gradual/hybrid/ pluggable typing, optional contract checking, extensible languages, refactoring tools, and the like. The goal is to further the understanding and use of such systems in practise, and connect practise and theory. To this end, 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, experience reports and tool demonstrations. 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, including surveys. Demos will judged on the perceived relevance for the intended audience. The accepted papers will be made available through ACM's digital library. Important Dates =============== Submission: April 8, 2009 Notification: May 8, 2009 Final Version: June 8, 2009 Workshop: July 6, 2009 Programme Committee =================== Cormac Flanagan, University of California Santa Cruz Jan Vitek, Purdue University Jeff Foster, University of Maryland Jeremy Siek, University of Colorado Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University Nate Nystrom, IBM T.J. Watson Research Peter Thiemann, Universität Freiburg Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh Tobias Wrigstad, Purdue University (Chair) Todd Millstein, UCLA Organizers ========== Nate Nystrom, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Jan Vitek, Purdue University Tobias Wrigstad, Purdue University Selection Process ================= Both full papers (up to 12 pages LNCS) and position papers (1-2 pages LNCS) 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 submitted through EasyChair by April 8, 2009. (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=stop09) Questions may be directed to Tobias Wrigstad (wrigstad AT cs DOT purdue DOT edu). From areces at loria.fr Sat Feb 28 16:06:24 2009 From: areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:06:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HyLo09: Deadline Extended till 15th March, 2009 Message-ID: <49A9A750.6060407@loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL 15th MARCH, 2009 *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2009 (HyLo 2009) "Conmemorating the Ten Years of HyLo" http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 15 - 17 July, 2009 Nancy, France *************************************************************** WORKSHOP PURPOSE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of HyLo 2009 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. HyLo 2009 will be an special event, conmemorating the ten years since the organization of the first HyLo workshop in 1999. HyLo 2009 will be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). SUBMISSION DETAILS: We invite the contribution of papers reporting new work from researchers interested in hybrid logic. Details about the submission procedure will be announced in the second call for papers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be included in a special volume to conmemorate the 10th aniversary of the first Hybrid Logic Workshop. Please use the HyLo09 submission page at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hylo09, handled by the EasyChair conference system, to submit papers. Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the conference's style (available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09). Notice that one author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. INVITED SPEAKERS: * Melvin Fitting (CUNY) * Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College) * Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) * Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) ORGANIZERS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Torben Brauner (Roskilde University) Stephane Demri (LSV Cachan) Santiago Figueira (University of Buenos Aires) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15th March 2009 Notification of acceptance: Friday, 10th of April 2009 Deadline for final versions: Friday, 1st of May 2009 Workshop dates: 15 to 17 July, 2009 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 From ayala at unb.br Mon Mar 2 06:10:24 2009 From: ayala at unb.br (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mauricio_Ayala-Rinc=F3n?=) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:10:24 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CFPs LSFA 2009 Message-ID: Fourth Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 28th June, 2009 - Bras?lia, Brazil Call for Papers 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: a.. Logical frameworks a.. Proof theory b.. Type theory c.. Automated deduction b.. Semantic frameworks a.. Specification languages and meta-languages b.. Formal semantics of languages and systems c.. Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks a.. Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks c.. Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks LSFA'09 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 There will be three invited talks. The following talks have already been confirmed. Delia Kesner (PPS, CNRS and Universite Paris-Diderot) Title: Theory and Practice of First-Class Patterns Jonathan Seldin (University of Lethbridge, Canada) Title: Luis Fari?as de Cerro (Universit? Paul Sabatier -- Toulose III, France) Title: Program Committee Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (University of Bras?lia, Brazil), co-chair Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK), co-chair Serge Autexier (DFKI, Bremen, Germany) Benjamin Rene Callejas Bedregal (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Mario Benevides (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Guilherme Bittencourt (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Christiano Braga (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Andreas Brunner (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) Marcelo Coniglio (State University of Campinas, Brazil) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool, UK) Gilles Dowek (?cole Polytechnique, France) William Farmer (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Marcelo Finger (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC Rio, Brazil) Tudor Jebelean (RISC Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Manfred Kerber (The University of Birmingham, UK) Luis C. Lamb (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Daniel Leivant (Indiana University, USA) Jo?o Marcos (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Ana Teresa de Castro Martins (Federal University of Cear?, Brazil) Dale Miller (INRIA, France) Fl?vio Leonardo Cavalcanti de Moura (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Luca Paolini (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay) Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Simona Ronchi della Rocca (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Amr Sabry (Indiana University, USA) Christian Urban (TUM, Germany) Freek Wiedijk (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands) Organizing Committee Cl?udia Nalon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil), Local Chair Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC Rio, Brazil) Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Guilherme Albuquerque Pinto (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Dates and Submission Paper submission: 3rd April, 2009 Author notification: 15th May, 2009 Camera ready: 31st May, 2009 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'09 page at EasyChair until the submission deadline by midnight, Central European Standard Time (GMT+1). The papers should be prepared in latex using Elsevier ENTCS style. Please see the Instructions for Preparing Files for Preliminary Versions Instructions for styles and examples. The file entcs.cls is also available here. The prentcsmacro.sty file will be available soon. The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed papers, 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 Information For more information please contact the organizers. The web page of the event can be reached at: http://lsfa09.cic.unb.br From G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk Mon Mar 2 09:33:12 2009 From: G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk (Guy McCusker) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:33:12 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentships at University of Bath, UK Message-ID: <5709DCEE-EA5E-4CB2-8D53-989F87C337C8@bath.ac.uk> The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath is currently recruiting PhD research students in the area of Mathematical Foundations. A number of fully-funded studentships are available to cover fees and an annual stipend, subject to eligibility. The Mathematical Foundations group at Bath conducts research in: * logic and semantics of programming languages (Laird, McCusker, Power, Pym) * category theory and proof theory (Guglielmi, Power, Pym) * computer algebra, computational geometry, cryptography, networks and security (Bradford, Davenport, Richardson, Vorobjov) * logic programming, answer-set programming, artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems (De Vos, Nickles, Padget) For more details on our PhD programme, please visit http://www.bath.ac.uk/comp-sci/postgraduate/phd/index.html A complete list of staff members in Mathematical Foundations and their research interests can be found at http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/department/mathematical-foundations/staff-research-interests.html Informal enquiries may be made to any member of staff in the department. An application form may be downloaded from http://www.bath.ac.uk/prospectus/postgrad/apply/ To be considered for a funded place, applications should normally be received by April 2nd 2009. Further information about the department is available at http://www.bath.ac.uk/comp-sci From txa at Cs.Nott.AC.UK Mon Mar 2 10:35:18 2009 From: txa at Cs.Nott.AC.UK (Thorsten Altenkirch) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:35:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions at Nottingham & Swansea Message-ID: Hi, we have two fully funded PhD positions in our project on induction- recursion: one at Swansea (with Anton Setzer) and one at Nottingham (with me). This would be perfect for people who are interested in the foundations of Type Theory. See http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/phd.html Please forward this information to talented students who are looking for funding. Cheers, Thorsten This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From chong at seas.harvard.edu Mon Mar 2 14:21:05 2009 From: chong at seas.harvard.edu (Stephen Chong) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:21:05 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: PLAS 2009 Message-ID: <49AC31A1.6000507@seas.harvard.edu> **** We apologize for any multiple postings **** ACM SIGPLAN Fourth Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2009) Dublin, Ireland, June 15, 2009 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Co-located with PLDI '09 Supported by IBM Research and Microsoft Research http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~naumann/plas2009.html Submission Deadline: April 3, 2009 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 security techniques in domains including web applications, embedded software, etc. Important Dates and Submission Guidelines * Submission due date: Friday, April 3, 2009 * Author notification: Friday, May 1, 2009 * Revised papers due: Monday, May 18, 2009 * Student travel grant applications due: Friday, May 29, 2009 * PLAS 2009 workshop: Monday, June 15, 2009 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 have only their abstract published 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 will be on the workshop web site. Program Committee * Aslan Askarov, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Brian Chess, Fortify Software, USA * Stephen Chong, Harvard University, USA (co-chair) * ?lfar Erlingsson, Reykjav?k University, Iceland * Kevin W. Hamlen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Benjamin Livshits, Microsoft Research, USA * Pasquale Malacaria, Queen Mary University of London, UK * David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA (co-chair) * Marco Pistoia, IBM Research, USA * Fran?ois Pottier, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France * Tamara Rezk, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-M?diterran?e, France * Tachio Terauchi, Tohoku University, Japan * David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley, USA From lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr Mon Mar 2 17:58:25 2009 From: lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr (Lutz Strassburger) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:58:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension for SD'09 in Bordeaux Message-ID: Due to popular demand there will a deadline extension for the workshop "Structures and Deduction 2009" in Bordeaux, July 20-24, 2009. New deadline for submission: Sunday, March 8, 2009 Further details can be found on the webpage Kind regards, Lutz Strassburger From jcg at itu.dk Tue Mar 3 04:17:39 2009 From: jcg at itu.dk (Jens Chr. Godskesen) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:17:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMWS 2009: Formal Methods for Wireless Systems (CFP) Message-ID: <49ACF5B3.8070404@itu.dk> First Call For Papers ------------------- FMWS 2009 Second International Workshop on Formal Methods for Wireless Systems 31 August, 2009, Bologna, Italy Satellite workshop of CONCUR 2009 http://www.itu.dk/events/FMWS09 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 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 EPTCS-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 EPTCS-style format to be published in the EPTCS (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science). A special issue in a journal is under consideration. Important dates --------------- Workshop: August 31, 2009 Abstract submission: June 5, 2009 Paper submission: June 12, 2009 Notification date: July 3, 2009 Submission of preliminary version for the Proceedings: August 7, 2009 Submission of final version for EPTCS: TBA Program Committee ----------------- - Willem Jan Fokkink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Jens Chr. Godskesen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Holger Hermanns, Saarland University, Germany - 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 - Sofiene Tahar, Concordia University, Montr?al, Canada - Luca Vigano, University of Verona, Italy Organizers ---------- - Jens Chr. Godskesen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Sebastian Nanz, Technical University of Denmark From wx at iist.unu.edu Wed Mar 4 04:34:39 2009 From: wx at iist.unu.edu (Wang Xu) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:34:39 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Workshop Proposals: ATVA 2009 Message-ID: <01b101c99cac$78f6d4c0$ae0112ac@nb5279> The deadline is in **10 days** (i.e. 15th March) ... ********************************************************************* * 7th International Symposium * on * Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis * * **CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS** * * 11-13 October 2009, Macao SAR, China * * http://www.iist.unu.edu/atva09/callforworkshop.html * ********************************************************************* You are cordially invited to submit proposals for organising associated workshops with the ATVA 2009 conference (http://www.iist.unu.edu/atva09). The available dates for workshops are from **11th to 13th** October 2009, i.e. before the conference. The workshop topics should be generally in line with the interests of ATVA community, i.e. theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis , verification and synthesis. Research topics in emerging application fields like pervasive computing, security, biological systems and multicore programming are especially welcome. The ATVA organisers offer: - Workshop rooms and equipment for presentation - Local organisation including registration service, hotel reservation management and arrangement of coffee breaks and lunches - Discount on main conference registrations - Links from the conference webpages to workshop webpages and help in publicising the workshops We expect workshop proposals to include: - Workshop title and a short scientific summary of its topic - Proposed date (and duration) and the expected number of participants - Organizing committee and potential invited speakers - Procedures for participant and paper selection and plan for proceedings publication. Workshop proposals should be submitted no later than **March 15, 2009**. Decision and notification will be given within a fortnight. 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URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090304/6348245c/attachment.htm From ab at cis.ksu.edu Wed Mar 4 11:57:10 2009 From: ab at cis.ksu.edu (Anindya Banerjee) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:57:10 -0600 (CST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for papers -- 11th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs, Genova, Italy Message-ID: Call for Contributions FTfJP 2009 11th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs in conjunction with ECOOP 2009 July 6 2009 (Genova, Italy) http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~ab/FTfJP09/ftfjp09.html SUBMISSION SITE http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp11 IMPORTANT DATES Submission (abstract) March 25 Submission (full paper) April 1 Notification May 8 Final version TBA ECOOP early registration May 20 Workshop July 6 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). We also encourage the submission of short papers of 4 - 6 pages, especially for the ``exciting ideas'' session. Submission instructions will be supplied in due course. Submissions must be in PDF and must be made via EasyChair at the URL above. All contributions will be reviewed for originality, relevance, focus of the workshop, and the potential to generate interesting discussions. A PC member, other than the chair, may be an author or co-author on any paper under consideration but will be excluded from any evaluation or discussion of the paper, and will get access to reviews of the paper(s) only in the same manner and time as other authors. PUBLICATION The proceedings of FTfJP 2009 will be published (for free) in the ACM Digital library. Informal proceedings will be made available to workshop participants. Depending on the quality of submissions received we intend to invite selected papers for a special journal issue as a follow-up to the workshop, as has been done for some previous FTfJP workshops. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Anindya Banerjee, IMDEA Software, Spain (chair) Mike Barnett, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA John Boyland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Patrice Chalin, Concordia University, Canada Dino Distefano, Queen Mary University of London UK Adrian Fiech, Memorial University, Canada Diego Garbervetsky, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Rene' Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Alexander J. Summers, Imperial College, UK Greta Yorsh, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA ORGANIZERS Anindya Banerjee, IMDEA Software, Spain (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 Anindya Banerjee: ab AT cis dot KSU DOT edu OR anindya DOT banerjee AT imdea DOT org From thomas.ehrhard at pps.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 4 17:32:49 2009 From: thomas.ehrhard at pps.jussieu.fr (Thomas Ehrhard) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:32:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MODEL THEORY AND LAMBDA-CALCULUS - a meeting in honor of Chantal Berline Message-ID: <49AF0191.5070107@pps.jussieu.fr> MODEL THEORY AND LAMBDA-CALCULUS A meeting in honor of Chantal Berline June 3 and 4, 2009 Paris Organized on the occasion of Chantal Berline's retirement, this meeting will take place in Paris (University Paris Diderot - Paris 7) and will be devoted to her two main research topics: Model Theory and Lambda-Calculus. There will be 6 invited talks and one talk by Chantal Berline herself. We also plan to have one or two talks given by local colleagues of Chantal. Invited speakers Lambda-calculus: - Stefano Berardi - Klaus Grue - Antonio Salibra Model Theory: - Gregory Cherlin - Bruno Poizat - Carol Wood Registration: If you wish to take part in this meeting, please send an e-mail to berline-meeting at pps.jussieu.fr before March 30th. There will be no registration fees. Web page: A web page with practical information and the programme of the meeting will be available soon at http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~ehrhard/berline-meeting/ This meeting is being organized by the laboratory Preuves, Programmes et Systemes (PPS) and by the Equipe de Logique. It is funded by the University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 and by the CNRS. Organizing Committee: Antonio Bucciarelli (PPS) Ren? Cori (Equipe de Logique) Thomas Ehrhard (PPS) From rene.david at univ-savoie.fr Thu Mar 5 02:17:23 2009 From: rene.david at univ-savoie.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?ren=E9_david?=) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:17:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Pr or Mcf position in France Message-ID: <49AF7C83.7070002@univ-savoie.fr> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090305/1dca5958/attachment.htm From leucker at in.tum.de Thu Mar 5 06:58:59 2009 From: leucker at in.tum.de (Martin Leucker) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:58:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: ICTAC'09 Message-ID: <20090305115859.GA23693@lapbroy101> Our apology for possible multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICTAC'09 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Equatorial Hotel Bangi, Malaysia University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) August 16th - 20th 2009 http://www.ictac.net/ictac09/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing is taking place from the 16th till the 20th of August 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ICTAC'09 is organized by Abdullah Mohd Zin, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Jeff Sanders, United Nation University, Institute of Software Technology, Macao. The PC is chaired by Martin Leucker (TU Munich) and Carroll Morgan (UNSW). Visit http://www.ictac.net/ictac09 for a preliminary web page. About ICTAC 2009 ---------------- ICTAC 2009 is the 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, the latest in a series founded by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). The main purpose of ICTAC is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research and to exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and in the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. The previous four ICTAC events were held in Guiyang, China (2004), Hanoi, Vietnam (2005), Tunis, Tunisia (2006), Macau (2007) and Istanbul (2008). Workshops --------- The main conference is surrounded by workshops and a summer school. See the web page for more details. Invited Speakers ---------------- Zuohua Ding Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Leslie Lamport Microsoft Annabelle McIver Macquarie University Sriram Rajamani Microsoft Scope ----- Topics include, but are not limited to: * software specification, refinement, verification and testing * model checking and theorem proving * software architectures * coordination and feature interaction * integration of theories, formal and engineering methods and tools * models of concurrency, security, and mobility * parallel, distributed, and internet-based (grid) computing * real-time, embedded and hybrid systems * automata theory and formal languages * principles and semantics of languages * logics and their applications * type and category theory in computer science * case studies, theories, tools and experiments of verified systems * service-oriented architectures: models and development methods * domain modelling and domain-specific technology: examples, frameworks and experience Paper Submissions ----------------- ICTAC 2009 calls for two types of contributions: RESEARCH PAPERS and TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS. Both types of contributions will appear in the LNCS proceedings and have oral presentations at the conference. Papers should be written in English in LNCS format. RESEARCH PAPERS: Research papers should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Submissions reporting on industrial case studies are welcome, and should describe both strengths and weaknesses in sufficient depth. Research papers should be no more than 15 pages. TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS: Tool demonstration papers present tools based on aforementioned theories or fall into the above application areas. Tool demonstration papers allow researchers to stress the technical and practical side, illustrating how one can apply the theoretic contributions in practice. Tool demonstration papers should be no more than 6 pages. As usual, submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Submission constitutes a commitment to attend and present a paper, if accepted. Proceedings of ICTAC 2009 will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: 6 April 2009 Submission of Papers: 10 April 2009 Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2009 Final copy for proceedings: 1 June 2009 ICTAC 2009: 16 - 20 August 2009 Committees ---------- General Chair ------------- Abdullah Mohd Zin Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Jeff Sanders United Nation University, Institute of Software Technology, Macao Program Chairs -------------- Martin Leucker Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Carroll Morgan University of New South Wales Local Organizing Committee -------------------------- Zarina Shukur, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Chairperson) Nazlia Omar Syahanim Mohd Salleh Program Committee ----------------- Parosh Abdulla Uppsala University, Schweden Keijiro Araki Kyushu University, Japan Farhad Arbab Leids University, The Netherlands Christel Baier Technical University of Dresden, Germany Mario Bravetti Universita di Bologna, Italian Ana Cavalcanti University of York, England Van Hung Dang United Nations University, Macao David Deharbe Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Wei Dong National University of Defense Technology, China Deepak D'Souza Indian Institute of Science, India John Fitzgerald Newcastle Uiversity, England Wan Fokkink Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Marcelo Frias University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Kokichi Futatsugi JAIST, Japan Paul Gastin LSV/ENS Cachan, France Susanne Graf VERIMAG, France Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Anne Haxthausen Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Moonzoo Kim KAIST, South Korea Kim G. Larsen Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania, USA Martin Leucker TU Munich, Germany Kamal Lodaya Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India Larissa Meinicke Abo Akademi, Finland Ugo Montanari University of Pisa, Italian Carroll Morgan University of New South Wales, Australia Ahmed Patel Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Pekka Pihlajasaari Data Abstraction (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore, Singapore Hassen Saidi SRI International, USA Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Cesar Sanchez IMDEA, Spain Marjan Sirjani University of Tehran, Iran Sofiene Tahar Concordia University, Canada Serdar Tasiran Koc University, Turkey Helmut Veith Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Mahesh Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana, USA Tomas Vojnar Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Ji Wang Zhejiang University, China Jim Woodcock University of York, England Husnu Yenigun Sabanci University, Turkey Naijun Zhan Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Huibiao Zhu East China Normal University, China Steering Committee ------------------ John Fitzgerald University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Martin Leucker Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Zhiming Liu (Chair) UNU-IIST, Macao Tobias Nipkow Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Natarajan Shankar SRI, USA Jim Woodcock University of York, UK From michele at dsi.unive.it Fri Mar 6 06:02:06 2009 From: michele at dsi.unive.it (Bugliesi Michele) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:02:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FCS'09 -- call for papers Message-ID: <49B102AE.6010507@dsi.unive.it> --------- apologies for cross postings & multiple copies ----------- CALL FOR PAPERS ================ FCS'09 Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security http://www.loria.fr/~cortier/FCS09/ August 9-10, 2009, Los Angeles, California, USA Affiliated with LICS'09. IMPORTANT DATES ================ Papers due: April 7, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2009 Final papers: June 30, 2009 SCOPE ====== Computer security is an established field of computer science of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in computer security, including the formal specification, analysis and design of security protocols and their applications, the formal definition of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks, and the modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. The aim of the workshop FCS'09 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 (possibly based on already published material) 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 control 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 All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. SUBMISSION =========== 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). The only mechanism for paper submissions is via the dedicated easychair submission web page. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcs09 PUBLICATION ============ Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. AUDIENCE ========= Participation to the workshop will be open to anybody willing to register. PROGRAM COMMITTEE =================== Alessandro Armando (Universit? di Genova, Italy) Michael Backes (Saarland University and MPI-SWS, Germany) Michele Bugliesi (Universit? Ca' Foscari, Italy) Stephen Chong (Harvard University, USA) V?ronique Cortier (LORIA INRIA-Lorraine, France; co-chair) Cas Cremers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) St?phanie Delaune (CNRS - ENS de Cachan, France) Deepak Garg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dieter Gollman (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Jerry den Hartog (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Jan J?rjens (The Open University and Microsoft Research (Cambridge), UK) Ralf K?sters (Universit?t Trier, Germany) Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK) Vitaly Shmatikov (University of Texas at Austin, USA; co-chair) Luca Vigan? (Universit? di Verona, Italy) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ======================= The workshop is supported by the ANR project AVOTE. From stephanie.balzer at inf.ethz.ch Fri Mar 6 09:43:57 2009 From: stephanie.balzer at inf.ethz.ch (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:43:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: RAOOL at ECOOP'09 Message-ID: <49B136AD.5080908@inf.ethz.ch> Call for Papers 2nd Workshop on Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages RAOOL'09 co-located with ECOOP'09 http://www.lst.inf.ethz.ch/raool09/ PURPOSE Relationships and roles are important concepts used in many areas of computer science (e.g., conceptual modeling, database systems,ontology) but are not "first-class" constructs in modern programming languages. In current object-oriented languages, programmers are forced to implement relationships or roles "by hand" (using pointers and collections) leading to a disconnect between models and implementations. This disconnect causes numerous problems across the software engineering life cycle: most importantly, implementations become cumbersome because relationships are represented by several code fragments, scattered throughout the application code, resulting in code fragility. Since current mainstream languages lack appropriate support for heap querying, programmers are further burdened with crafting code to query relationships and check their consistency. As software systems grow and become increasingly complex this disconnect causes problems not only for implementers but also for code maintainers. In response, a growing number of researchers in the software community are investigating adding first-class support for relationships and heap queries to current programming languages. Interest in first-class support for such constructs is not limited to programming language research. Program analysis, for instance, could benefit from the decreased use of pointers and transparent persistence could benefit from explicit queries. In this workshop, we plan to gather researchers in the programming language community who are working on relationship-based systems to share their research and to discuss the future of relationship-based constructs in programming languages. We are interested in input from members of the programming language community but also in input from members of related areas (e.g. databases, model-driven development) and domains (e.g., program analysis, orthogonal persistence, type systems) who are using relationships. Some particular areas of interest are: - relationship-based programming languages - using libraries/frameworks to support relationships - first-class queries - database integration - serialization or persistence using relationships - system and framework design using relationships - understanding or visualizing programs - ownership and related techniques - dynamic analysis of relationship usage SUBMISSIONS Prospective participants are invited to submit a paper that should fall into one of two categories: - long paper (max. 8 pages) that describes new work on the above or related topics - short paper (max. 4 pages) that can describe work-in-progress, report on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose speculative new approaches The selected papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: April 8, 2009 Notification: May 8, 2009 Workshop date: July 7, 2009 (or July 6, 2009) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Uwe Assmann (TU Dresden, Germany) Guido Boella (University of Torino) Achim D. Brucker (SAP Research, Germany) Stephane Ducasse (INRIA Lille, France) Susan Eisenbach (Imperial College London, UK) Manuel Fahndrich (Microsoft Research, USA) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) David J. Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversit?t in Hagen, Germany) Mandana Vaziri (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Stephanie Balzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Gavin Bierman (Microsoft Research, UK) Stephen Nelson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Frank Tip (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) From hilde at itu.dk Fri Mar 6 09:58:53 2009 From: hilde at itu.dk (Thomas Hildebrandt) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:58:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Scholarships in Types for Context-sensitive Services Message-ID: <49B13A2D.5090901@itu.dk> *** PhD Scholarships in Types for Context-sensitive Services *** *** Application deadline: 16 April 2009 at 12:00 noon (CET+1, Copenhagen time) *** Dear colleagues, One or more PhD scholarships within the Programming, Logic, and Semantics (PLS) research group at IT University of Copenhagen are available on the topic of "Types for Context-sensitive Services". The scholarships are affiliated to the FIRST PhD school (www.first.dk) and the Jingling Genies project (http://sites.google.com/site/jinglinggenie/). The aim of the projects are to develop a theory of types for context-sensitive services and thereby expand the limits of research in session types for communication-based computing and formal models for specifying context and contracts for web-services, as well as technologies and standards for describing web-service interfaces, contracts, and their context. The successful applicant(s) will be supervised by Associate Professor Thomas Hildebrandt (hilde at itu.dk) and/or Associate Professor Arne J. Glenstrup (panic at itu.dk) in collaboration with Post Doc S?ren Debois (debois at itu.dk) and Post Doc Marco Carbone (carbonem at itu.dk). Applicants should apply to the general call for IT University of Copenhagen found at: http://www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp Please do not hesitate to send an email for further information about the project. Best regards Thomas Hildebrandt and Arne J. Glenstrup IT University of Copenhagen www.itu.dk ---------------------------- General Information PhD scholarships at IT University of Copenhagen normally run for a period of 3 or 4 years, depending on the educational level of the student. The following qualifications are accepted: 1) A Master?s degree (5 years of University Studies) qualifies for a 3-year PhD program. 2) A Bachelor degree (3 years of University Studies) + one year (60ECTS) qualifies for the 4-year PhD program. The 60 ECTS should be transferable to one of the Master programs at the IT University. As the joint research project has a strong aspect of global collaboration, a one year extension of the normal period due to international travels should be expected. Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. For example, the basic salary of a 3 year PhD student amounts to DKK 24,117.18 (Euro 3236.20) per month. Applicants should apply to the general call at IT University of Copenhagen: http://www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp The application deadline is 16 April 2009 at 12:00 noon. From bruno.monsuez at ensta.fr Fri Mar 6 11:49:10 2009 From: bruno.monsuez at ensta.fr (Bruno Monsuez) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:49:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP --- VeCoS 09 --- 3rd International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems Message-ID: <027b01c99e7b$792a4870$6b7ed950$@monsuez@ensta.fr> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. CALL FOR PAPERS ***3rd International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (VeCoS'09) *** July, 2-3, 2009, Rabat, Morocco http://www.vecos-world.org/ *** Important dates: Paper submission: March 30, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 15, 2009 Final version due: May 31, 2009 *** Aims and scope The International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (VECoS) was created by an Euro-Maghrebian network of researchers in computer science. The first edition took place in Algiers 5-6 May 2007 (VECoS'07), the second edition in Leeds 2-3 July 2008 (VECoS'08). The aim of VECoS workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, in the areas of Verification, Control, Performance, Quality of service, Dependability evaluation and Assessment, to discuss the state of the art for solving the challenges facing us today in various modern computer and communication systems in which functional and extra functional properties are strongly interrelated. Thus, the main motivation for VECoS is to encourage the cross-fertilization between formal verification and evaluation approaches, methods and techniques especially those based on the specification formalisms for concurrent, distributed and soft/hard systems. Beyond its technical and scientific goals, another main purpose of VECoS is to promote collaboration between participants in research and education in the area of computer science and engineering. We welcome contributions describing original research, practical experience reports and tool descriptions/demonstrations in the areas of Verification, Control, and Performance, Quality of service, Dependability Evaluation. *** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Model-checking - Equivalence checking - Abstraction techniques - Compositional verification - Parameterized verification - Control synthesis techniques - Probabilistic verification - Performance and robustness evaluation - Simulation techniques of discrete-event and hybrid systems - Dependability assessment techniques - QoS evaluation, planning and deployment *** Invited speakers Mario Bravetti, Universita di Bologna, Italy Guy Juanole, LAAS, France Assaf J. Kfoury, Boston University, USA Joel Ouaknine, Oxford University, UK *** Submission and Publication Contributions must have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences/journals in parallel with this workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically via the VECoS 2009 web site by uploading a self-contained PDF file, and should not exceed 12 pages using the Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) format. All selected papers will be included in the workshop proceedings available at the conference and published in the eWiC series of the British Computer Society. *** For more information see: http://www.vecos-world.org/ http://vecos.ensta.fr/2009/index.html PC co chairs: Said El Hajji, University of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco Bruno Monsuez , ENSTA, Paris, France From Jeremy.Gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 6 12:49:25 2009 From: Jeremy.Gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy.Gibbons@comlab.ox.ac.uk) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:49:25 GMT Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fully-funded doctoral studentships in dependently type programming at Oxford and Strathclyde Message-ID: <200903061749.n26HnPqG013882@merc4.comlab.ox.ac.uk> FULLY-FUNDED DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIPS IN DEPENDENTLY-TYPED PROGRAMMING AT OXFORD AND STRATHCLYDE A new EPSRC-funded project on Reusability and Dependent Types has just started, as a collaboration between the Functional Programming Laboratory at the University of Nottingham (Thorsten Altenkirch), the Algebra of Programming group at the University of Oxford (Jeremy Gibbons), and the Mathematically Structured Programming group at the University of Strathclyde (Neil Ghani and Conor McBride). We are all familiar with Milner's slogan that "well-typed programs cannot go wrong". Types express properties of programs; more expressive type systems - such as dependent typing - can state properties more precisely, providing stronger guarantees of behaviour and additional guidance in development. However, this expressivity comes at a price: more specific typing can reduce opportunities for code reuse. The goal of this project is to investigate techniques for promoting reuse without sacrificing precision; in particular, how can we layer dependently typed programs, imposing stronger invariants onto more general library code? Two fully-funded doctoral studentships are available to work in this area: one at Oxford (with JG) and one at Strathclyde (with CTM). Each covers stipend, fees (at the home/EU rate), equipment, and travel, and is for three and a half years from October 2009. The closing date for applications is 15th April 2009. For further details, see: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/news/72-full.html http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~conor/phds/ or contact one of the principal investigators on the project: Thorsten Altenkirch (txa at cs.nott.ac.uk) Neil Ghani (ng at cis.strathclyde.ac.uk) Jeremy Gibbons (jg at comlab.ox.ac.uk) Conor McBride (conor at strictlypositive.org) From fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es Mon Mar 9 09:46:09 2009 From: fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es (FMICS 2009 workshop chair) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:46:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [FMICS 2009] Third Call for Papers Message-ID: <49B51DA1.8000500@dsic.upv.es> FMICS 2009 - 3RD CALL FOR PAPERS Please visit: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/fmics2009 ************************************************************ * 14th International Workshop on * * Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems * * FMICS 2009 * * * * November 2-3, 2009 * * Eindhoven, The Netherlands * ************************************************************ * ** NEWS ** * * * * >> Price for best paper -- awarded by EASST * * * ************************************************************ * * * LNCS proceedings * * Springer has confirmed that the proceedings * * will be published in their Lecture Notes in * * Computer Science series. * * * ************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline for abstracts: 1st April Deadline for papers: 7 April Accept/Reject notification: 15 June Camera-ready version: 15 July Workshop: 2-3 November SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP --------------------- The aim of the ERCIM FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. In particular, these workshops bring together scientists and engineers that are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. These workshops also strive to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications. Topics include, but are not restricted to: - Design, specification, code generation and testing based on formal methods. - Methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, learning, optimization and transformation of complex, distributed, real-time systems and embedded systems. - Verification and validation methods that address shortcomings of existing methods with respect to their industrial applicability (e.g., scalability and usability issues). - Tools for the development of formal design descriptions. - Case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of new research directions. - Impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development process and associated costs. - Application of formal methods in standardization and industrial forums. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- To be announced CO-CHAIRS --------- Maria Alpuente Tech. University Valencia, Spain Byron Cook Microsoft Research, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------- Hassan Ait-Kaci Ilog, Canada Maria Alpuente Tech. University Valencia, Spain Thomas Arts IT-Univ. i Goteborg, Sweden Demis Ballis Universita Udine, Italy Josh Berdine Microsoft Research, UK Lubos Brim Masarykova Univ., Czech Republic Darren Cofer Rockwell Collins, USA Byron Cook Microsoft Research, UK Patrick Cousot Ecole Normale Superieure, France Santiago Escobar Tech. University Valencia, Spain Azadeh Farzan University of Toronto, Canada Hubert Garavel INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Stefania Gnesi ISTI-CNR, Italy Alexey Gotsman University of Cambridge, UK Holger Hermanns Universitat Saarlandes, Germany Christophe Joubert Tech. University Valencia, Spain Daniel Kroening ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michael Leuschel Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany Pedro Merino Universidad de Malaga, Spain Juan Jose Moreno-Navarro Univ. Politecnica Madrid, Spain Corina Pasareanu NASA Ames Research Center, USA Jaco van de Pol Univ. Twente, The Netherlands Murali Rangarajan Honeywell, USA Jakob Rehof Tech. Univ. Dortmund, Germany Andrey Rybalchenko Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany Marcel Verhoef Chess, The Netherlands Martin Wirsing Universitat Munchen, Germany Hongseok Yang University of London, UK Greta Yorsh IBM Watson Research Center, USA ERCIM FMICS WG COORDINATOR -------------------------- Alessandro Fantechi Univ. Firenze, ISTI-CNR, Italy WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------- Christophe Joubert Tech. University Valencia, Spain PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system. Papers should be up to 16 pages in LNCS format, with the names and affiliations of the authors and a clear and informative abstract. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All submissions must report on original research. Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Case study papers should identify lessons learned, validate theoretical results (such as scalability of methods), or provide specific motivation for further research and development. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). CO-LOCATION ----------- FMICS 2009 is part of the first Formal Methods Week (FMweek), which will bring together a choice of events in the area, including TESTCOM/FATES (Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems and Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software), FACS (Formal Aspects of Component Software), PDMC (Parallel and Distributed Methods of verifiCation), FM2009 (Symposium of Formal Methods Europe), CPA (Communicating Process Architectures), FAST (Formal Aspects of Security and Trust), FMCO (Formal Methods for Components and Objects), and the REFINE Workshop. For the latest information on FMweek, see http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek. ************************************************************ * * * +============================================+ * * | | * * | ** FMweek ** | * * | | * * +============================================+ * * | CPA | FACS | FAST | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | FM2009 | FMCO | FMICS | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | PDMC | REFINE | TESTCOM/FATES | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek | * * +============================================+ * * * ************************************************************ From dale at lix.polytechnique.fr Mon Mar 9 10:46:59 2009 From: dale at lix.polytechnique.fr (Dale Miller) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:46:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] possible INRIA post doc in mechanizing meta-theory Message-ID: <74ed3c9f0903090746n701b412em3c31c238441b2453@mail.gmail.com> As part of INRIA's 2009 campaign for recruiting postdocs, the Parsifal team is looking to hire someone on the following topic: Mechanizing the meta-theory of programming and logics Research Context: Inference rules are commonly used in the specification of the dynamic and static semantics of programming languages: in particular, both structural operational semantics and typing are commonly defined via inference rules over relational judgments. Traditional approaches to reasoning about such specifications first encode them into a functional or denotational setting and then reason with the encodings via theorem provers designed for (constructive) mathematics. The Parsifal team has been developing an alternative approach to reasoning about such specifications that does not encode them: instead, reasoning is done directly on the relational specifications. Many of the intensions aspects of computation, such as bound variables and resources, can then be handled directly using basic notions from proof theory. Activities for the Post Doc: The postdoc will work with prototype interactive and automatic provers currently underdevelopment within the team and their colleagues (see links below). These provers range from model checkers to general purpose theorem provers for logics that involve induction, coinduction, and elements of higher-order quantification. The postdoc will be expected to develop sizable examples within the general area of mechanized meta-theory, to help in justifying or redesigning the meta-logics, and to construct a comprehensive methodology for dealing with mechanized meta-theory. Required knowledge and background: Computational logic; basic background in sequent calculus and lambda-calculus; and programming skills in high-level languages such as ML, OCaml, Prolog, and lambda Prolog. For more specifics on the prototype systems mentioned above, see: http://slimmer.gforge.inria.fr/bedwyr/ http://slimmer.gforge.inria.fr/tac/ http://abella.cs.umn.edu/ Further particulars: Duration: 12 month Starting date: Between 1 Oct 2009 and 1 Dec 2009 Working place: Ecole Polytechnique, LIX, Equipe Parsifal The position is an INRIA-postdoc position and candidate must fulfill the formal requirements found at http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html. In particular, the candidate must have held a doctorate or Ph.D. for less than one year before the recruitment date. If the Ph.D. is not defended at the application date, you should clearly point out the defense date and the composition of thesis jury. Applications should be made via this web site and by sending all application material also to Dale Miller (dale at lix.polytechnique.fr) before 22 May 2009. (Late applications may also be considered if the position is not filled.) See also: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/parsifal/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090309/a959ebbd/attachment-0001.htm From herman at cs.ru.nl Tue Mar 10 09:39:27 2009 From: herman at cs.ru.nl (Herman Geuvers) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:39:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1 Postdoc and 1 PhD vacancy in the MathWiki project Message-ID: <49B66D8F.3030705@cs.ru.nl> 1 POSTDOC and 1 PHD POSITION in the MathWiki project at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) http://www.fnds.cs.ru.nl/fndswiki/Vacancies The Institute for Computing and Information Science of the Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) is looking for 2 researchers to work on the NWO project "MathWiki a Web-based Collaborative Authoring Environment for Formal Proofs". The vacancies are: - a POSTDOC for the period of 3 years vacancy number: 62-16-09 - a PHD POSITION for the period of 4 years vacancy number: 62-17-09 AIMS OF THE PROJECT =================== The aim of the MathWiki project is to open up to a wider community the rich collections of knowledge stored in the repositories of proof assistants. To this end we will build a web-based collaborative authoring environment for formal mathematics, the MathWiki system. This system will provide interactive web access through a standardized interface to a number of proof assistants. The MathWiki system will also be a platform for the development of formal proofs within those proof assistants and it will provide high level access (through Wikipedia-like web pages) to their repositories of formalised mathematics. These repositories will reside on the server. In the project we will study and further develop Wiki technology and semantic web technology, all in the context of proof assistant repositories of formalized mathematics. The project thus brings together the open nature of Wiki authoring with expertise in Proof Assistants and Semantic Web technologies to build a new Wiki for mathematics, supporting content creation, search and retrieval. From the perspective of the ordinary user of mathematics, MathWiki will be important because it will provide high-level mathematical content on the web in a much more coherent and precise way than is available at present. From the proof assistant user perspective, MathWiki will be important because it will provide an advanced environment for the collaborative authoring of verified mathematics, mediated simply by a web interface. The MathWiki system will be based on our existing experience with proof assistant technology on the web, the "ProofWeb" systems, see http:://prover.cs.ru.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- Requirements for the PhD student position: - A master's (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field, with a strong interest in proof assistants and/or semantic web technology (preferably both) - Commitment and a cooperative attitude. - Very good written and oral English skills. Requirements for the Postdoc position: - A PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with expertise in proof assistants and/or semantic web technology (preferably both). - A strong publication record. - Commitment and a cooperative attitude. - Very good written and oral English skills. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conditions of employment: The PhD students will be employed for a period of 4 years (40 hrs/week). The Postdocs will be employed for a period of 3 years (40 hrs/week). Supervision for the projects will be done by Prof. Dr. Herman Geuvers and Dr. F. Wiedijk Postdoc and PhD student will be appointed by the Radboud University Nijmegen. Both positions shall start before October 1 2009, but preferably earlier. The salary for the PhD position starts at 2042 Euro per month, increasing to 2612 Euro per month in the fourth year. The maximum salary for the Postdoc is 3755 Euro per month (salary scale 10). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Information: For more information, see http://www.fnds.cs.ru.nl/fndswiki/Vacancies. For inquiries about the project and its positions, please contact the project leader Prof. Dr. Herman Geuvers (H.Geuvers at cs.ru.nl, +31 243652603). Interested candidates can ask the project leader for the complete project application text. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Application: Deadline for application is May 1, 2009. Send an application letter with CV and 3 references, mentioning the vacancy number by e-mail to RU Nijmegen, FNWI, P&O mrs. D. Reinders Postbus 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen Netherlands e-mail: pz at science.ru.nl telephone: +31 243652764 From conor at strictlypositive.org Tue Mar 10 11:55:43 2009 From: conor at strictlypositive.org (Conor McBride) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:55:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Microsoft PhD Scholarship at Strathclyde Message-ID: <4E69A671-3BD3-4126-86C3-2C75DA4ECC93@strictlypositive.org> Apologies for crossposting. Please forward this message to individuals or lists who may be interested. In addition to the recently advertised PhD position at Strathclyde on "Reusability and Dependent Types", I am delighted to advertise the following PhD opportunity. {--------------------------------------------------------- -- Haskell Types with Numeric Constraints ---------------- ---------------------------------------------------------} We are grateful to Microsoft Research for their sponsorship of this project, which includes an internship, and with it the chance to make a real difference to world of principled but practical programming. The project investigates the practical and theoretical impact of extending Haskell's type system with numeric expressions (representing sizes, or ranges, or costs, for example) and constraints capturing richer safety properties than are currently managed by static typing. It has three strands: (1) to investigate type inference with numeric constraints, (2) to investigate new programming structures, patterns, and techniques which exploit numeric indexing, and (3) to study the performance benefits derivable from richer guarantees. A bright student could bring significant benefits to developers using Haskell, a language with increasing industrial traction ? not least at Microsoft. Work on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, at Strathclyde! {---------------------------------------------------------} The position is fully funded, covering stipend, fees (at the home/EU rate), equipment, and travel, starting in October 2009. The closing date for applications is 15th April 2009. For further details, see: http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~conor/phds/ or email me (conor at cis.strath.ac.uk). I look forward to hearing from you. Yours &c Conor McBride From simon at dcs.gla.ac.uk Wed Mar 11 06:08:13 2009 From: simon at dcs.gla.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:08:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Lectureship in formal modelling and analysis at University of Glasgow Message-ID: <49B78D8D.3030506@dcs.gla.ac.uk> As part of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) initiative, there are three vacancies for lecturers in the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland. One of these vacancies is associated with the SICSA theme "formal modelling, theory and analysis", which includes theory and practice of formal modelling, automated analysis and reasoning, complex and concurrent systems, model checking and type theory. The official advertisement for this position is at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/SN700/Lecturer/ More information about SICSA and the associated departments can be found at http://www.sicsa.ac.uk The closing date is 17 April. From martini at cs.unibo.it Wed Mar 11 06:15:16 2009 From: martini at cs.unibo.it (Simone Martini) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:15:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL'09: 2nd Call for Papers and Call for Workshop Proposals References: <49B78D62.2090503@mat.uc.pt> Message-ID: <202D5B15-2794-41B6-B4CF-F64931EF0F56@cs.unibo.it> ******************************************************************** * CSL'09 * * Annual Conference of the European Association for * * Computer Science Logic * * September 7 - 11, 2009, Coimbra, Portugal * * http://www.mat.uc.pt/CSL09 * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ******************************************************************** * CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS * * see at the bottom of the message * ******************************************************************** 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. Suggested 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 logic, 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, and nonmonotonic reasoning. Programme Committee: Invited Speakers: Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw) Matthias Baaz (Vienna) Thierry Coquand (G?teborg) Patricia Bouyer (Cachan) Martin Grohe (Berlin) Andrej Bulatov (Burnaby) Yiannis Moschovakis Stephen Cook (Toronto) (Athens, Los Angeles) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge) Paulo Oliva (London) Hugo Gimbert (Bordeaux) Erich Gr?del (Aachen, co-chair) Steffen H?lldobler (Dresden) Gerhard J?ger (Berne) Reinhard Kahle (Lisbon, co-chair) Antonin Kucera (Brno) Benedikt L?we (Amsterdam) Organizing Committee: Simone Martini (Bologna) Dale Miller (Paris) Ana Almeida (Coimbra, co-chair) Luke Ong (Oxford) Sabine Broda (Porto) Martin Otto (Darmstadt) Jos? Carlos Esp?rito Santo (Braga) Jean-Francois Raskin (Brussels) M?rio Florido (Porto) Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund) Gon?alo Gutierres (Coimbra) Luc Segoufin (Cachan) Reinhard Kahle (Lisbon, co-chair) Am?lcar Sernadas (Lisbon) Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon) Anton Setzer (Swansea) Pedro Quaresma (Coimbra, co-chair) Helmut Veith (Darmstadt) Jo?o Rasga (Lisbon) Thomas Wilke (Kiel) Carlota Sim?es (Coimbra) 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 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. The PC chair should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal by 1 March 2009. 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. The submission deadline is in two stages. Titles and abstracts must be submitted by 30 March, 2009 and full papers by 6 April, 2009. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 25 May, 2009, and final versions are due 22 June, 2009. The Ackermann Award for 2009 will be presented to the recipients at CSL'09. ******************************************************************** Important Dates: Submission (title & abstract): 30 March, 2009 Submission (full paper) 6 April, 2009 Notification: 25 May, 2009 Final papers: 22 June, 2009 ******************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshops affiliated to CSL '09 will be held before and after the main conference, on September 5 and 6, and on September 12 and 13, 2009. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics relating logic to computer science. Proposals should include: * A short scientific summary and justification of the proposed topic. * Proposed format and agenda. * Proposed duration. * Expected number of participants. Proposals and/or enquiries should be submitted by March 31, 2009 by electronic mail in ASCII or PDF format to: Jos? Carlos Esp?rito Santo ******************************************************************** Conference address: CSL'09 c/o Prof. Pedro Quaresma Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade de Coimbra Apartado 3008 P-3001-454 Coimbra Portugal http://www.mat.uc.pt/CSL09 csl at mat.uc.pt ******************************************************************** From florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk Tue Mar 10 16:25:40 2009 From: florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk (CRACIUN F.) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:25:40 -0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2009 - CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS Message-ID: <1C7F51B7A4A4F54389A69794AD79A24D0199C698@EXDUR3.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk> TASE 2009 - CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS ****************************************** * 3rd IEEE International Symposium on * Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering * (TASE 2009) * 29-31 July 2009, Tianjin, China * http://www.dur.ac.uk/ieee.tase2009 * * For more information email: IEEE.TASE2009 at durham.ac.uk ********************************************************** TASE 2009 will include a poster session during the conference. The session aims to give students and researchers an opportunity to present their research to the community, and to get responses from other researchers. SCOPE: Poster presentations are sought in all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including (but not limited to): * Requirements Engineering * Specification and Verification * Program Analysis * Software Testing * Model-Driven Engineering * Software Architectures and Design * Aspect and Object Orientation * Embedded and Real-Time Systems * Software Processes and Workflows * Component-Based Software Engineering * Software Safety, Security and Reliability * Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance * Service-Oriented Computing * Semantic Web and Web Services * Type System and Theory * Program Logics and Calculus * Dependable Concurrency * Software Model Checking SUBMISSION PROCESS: A Poster proposal consists of: - a 50 word or less short abstract that summarizes the content of the poster - a set of keywords describing the technical area of the work - a two-page extended abstract, suitable for inclusion in the TASE 2009 conference proceedings. All abstracts must adhere to the two-column IEEE format. All Poster proposals are to be submitted by email to IEEE.TASE2009 at durham.ac.uk. The file containing the two-page extended abstract must be in .pdf or .ps format. Upon acceptance, at least one of the authors must register with the TASE2009 conference in order to have their extended abstract included in the conference proceedings. Once registered, a bulletin board space of A1 paper size (594 mm wide and 841 mm high) will be provided for each presentation. In addition to the camera-ready version of the extended abstract, the authors are also requested to submit their poster of A1 paper size (594 mm wide and 841 mm high) for backup. An A1 poster sample template is available at http://www.dur.ac.uk/ieee.tase2009/poster.a1.ppt for authors to download. The authors can prepare 8 individual slides, save them in .jpg format and then place them on the above A1 sample. The Poster presenter will need to print out their Poster in advance and bring it to the conference for the Poster session. POSTER CONTENT: A small selection committee led by the Poster Chair will evaluate the poster proposals based on their contributions and on how effectively they communicate those contributions. All posters should include the following information: - The purpose and goals of the work. - Any background and motivation information needed to understand the work. - A summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a viewer to understand the work and/or results; especially key details, results and contributions, or the anticipated contributions if the work is at an early stage. - The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. - Where to find additional information. This should include (but is not restricted to): a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work, how to contact the authors (including email addresses), citations for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information. POSTER COMPETITION: A poster competition will be organised during the poster session. A panel of experts will be formed as referees for the competition. Awards will be given to the winners of the competition. IMPORTANT DATES: Poster proposals submission: April 22, 2009 Acceptance/rejection notification: May 6, 2009 Camera-ready version and Poster due: May 13, 2009 TASE 2009 Conference: July 29-31, 2009 CONTACT: For questions or requests, please contact the TASE 2009 poster chair, Florin Craciun (IEEE.TASE2009 at durham.ac.uk). Please mention "poster session" in the subject of your email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090310/eefd693e/attachment-0001.htm From pg at doc.ic.ac.uk Thu Mar 12 07:34:43 2009 From: pg at doc.ic.ac.uk (Philippa Gardner) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:34:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DBPL 2009: The Symposium for Database Programming Languages Message-ID: <49B8F353.30401@doc.ic.ac.uk> [Apologies if you receive many copies of this email] Floris Geerts (Edinburgh, database person working with Peter Buneman) and I are organising DBPL 2009 this year. This symposium provides an interface between database and programming language research. I've been to a couple of meetings and think they're really good. In particular, over the years I have found it invaluable to talk with people from database theory. Following tradition, the meeting is co-located with VLDB in Lyon. As well as the LNCS proceedings, we will be inviting the best papers to be published in the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. I very much encourage people to submit to this lovely meeting, and hope that we will end up with a good showing of programming language papers. Best wishes, Philippa CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages DBPL 2009 Co-located with VLDB 2009 Lyon, France. August 23-24, 2009. http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/dbpl09/ ----------------------- The 12th Biennial Symposium on Data Base Programming Languages (DBPL 2009), to be held on August 23-24, 2009, in Lyon, France, continues the tradition of excellence initiated by its predecessors in Roscoff, Finistere (1987), Salishan, Oregon (1989), Nafplion, Argolida (1991), Manhattan, New York (1993), Gubbio, Umbria (1995), Estes Park, Colorado (1997), Kinloch Rannoch, Scotland (1999), Marino, Rome (2001), Potsdam, Germany (2003), Trondheim, Norway (2005) and Vienna, Austria (2007). Over the years DBPL has established itself as the main venue for publishing and discussing new ideas at the intersection of database and programming languages research. Many key contributions in query languages for object-oriented data, persistent databases, nested relational data, semistructured data, as well as fundamental ideas in types for query languages have been first announced and discussed at DBPL. Today's emergence of new data management applications like Web services, XML processing, sensor networks and peer to peer data management has lead to a new flurry of creativity in the area lying at the intersection of data management and programming languages, and DBPL is an established destination for such new ideas. Important dates: ----------------------- Submission of paper: May 3, 2009 (midnight GMT) Notification: June 7, 2009. Camera ready: June 14, 2009. DBPL 2009: August 23/24, 2009. Topics of Interest: ----------------------- DBPL 2009 solicits theoretical and practical papers in all areas of Data Base Programming Languages. Papers emphasizing new topics or foundations of emerging areas are especially welcome. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include: -Data exchange -Data integration and interoperability -Databases and information retrieval -Databases and the Semantic Web -Database languages in Bioinformatics -Databases in computational linguistics -Declarative data centers -Managing uncertain and imprecise information -Programming language support for databases -Databases in e-commerce -Multimedia databases -Peer-to-peer data management -Stream data processing -Schema mapping and metadata management -Security in data management -Semi-structured data -Spatial and temporal data -Transaction management -Validation, type-checking -Web services -XML processing Submission guidelines: -------------------------------- Papers should be submitted in PDF via the EasyChair submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbpl2009 Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (lncs) series (www.springer.com/lncs). Submissions should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by Springer. Papers longer than 15 pages risk rejection without consideration of their merits. It is recommended that each submission begins with a succinct statement of the problem and a summary of the main results. If the authors believe more details are necessary to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the committee. E-mail addresses of the authors should be included on the title page. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium to present their work. Invitation for the best papers: --------------------------------------- The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Program co-chairs: -------------------------- Philippa Gardner (Imperial College, UK) Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK) Program committee: --------------------------- Pablo Barcelo (Universidad de Chile, Chile) Gavin Bierman (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo, USA) Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge, UK) J. Nathan Foster (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Philippa Gardner (Imperial College, UK) Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK) Cosimo Laneve (Universita di Bologne, Italy) Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Alan Schmitt (Inria, Grenoble, France) Peter Thiemann (University of Freiburg, Germany) Christopher Re (University of Washington, USA) Jerome Simeon (IBM Almaden, USA) Stijn Vansummeren (University of Hasselt, Belgium) Jef Wijsen (Universit?? de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium) Limsoon Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore) From voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Mar 12 17:16:51 2009 From: voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:16:51 +0100 (MET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: Workshop on Termination (WST 2009) Message-ID: Discussion of type-based approaches for dealing with termination would be very much welcome! ..................................................................... Tenth International Workshop on Termination (WST 2009) Leipzig, Germany, June 3-5, 2009 http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/wst09/ Termination is a fundamental topic in computer science. Classical undecidability results show that termination is difficult. On the other hand, programs are usually required to terminate. So methods are needed that prove termination and non-termination automatically for a wide range of programs. Termination proofs are essential not only for program verification, but also as components of program transformation systems. The topic is challenging both in theory (mathematical logic, proof theory) and practice (software development, formal methods), and many interesting ramifications are yet to be explored. The 10th International Workshop on Termination will delve into all aspects of termination of processes. It will continue the sequence of successful workshops held in St. Andrews (1993), La Bresse (1995), Ede (1997), Dagstuhl (1999), Utrecht (2001), Valencia (2003), Aachen (2004), Seattle (2006), and Paris (2007). It will attain the same friendly atmosphere as those past workshops. The intent is to bring together, in an informal setting, researchers interested in all aspects of termination, whether this interest be practical or theoretical, primary or derived. The workshop shall help exchange ideas from term rewriting and from the various programming language communities. Contributions from the imperative, constraint, functional, and logic programming communities, and papers investigating new applications of termination are particularly welcome. Program Committee: Frederic Blanqui, INRIA, FR and Tsinghua University, CN Byron Cook, Microsoft Corporation, US Alfons Geser, HTWK Leipzig, DE (chair) Michael Hanus, Universit?t Kiel, DE Janis Voigtl?nder, Technische Universit?t Dresden, DE Local organization: Johannes Waldmann, HTWK Leipzig, DE Important Dates: Paper submission 19 April 2009 Notification 26 April 2009 Final Paper Version 3 May 2009 Conference Venue: The workshop will be held in the city of Leipzig, at the conference center Mediencampus Villa Ida. Hosting institution: Hochschule fur Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig, in cooperation with Leipzig School of Media and Medienstiftung der Sparkasse Leipzig. From Dave.Clarke at cs.kuleuven.be Fri Mar 13 13:02:19 2009 From: Dave.Clarke at cs.kuleuven.be (Dave Clarke) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:02:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2009 Call for Student Volunteers Message-ID: <200903131702.n2DH2JF5002940@leo.cs.kuleuven.be.> ECOOP'2009 23rd European Conference on Object Oriented Programming July 6th - 10th 2009, Genova, Italy http://2009.ecoop.org CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS 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. Description and Benefits 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 the ECOOP running smoothly. In return for a few hours of their time, student volunteers are granted: * Free registration to the conference * Free access to ECOOP plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops, and demos (duties, space, and specific requirements permitting) Student volunteers should be in Genova two days before the conference, that is from Saturday, July 4th, and help with preparations and with the conference take-down on July 10th. The selection of student volunteers and plan assignment is NOT done on a first come, first served basis. The most important thing is to have an international group of student volunteers. We try to make a balanced decision. Also, we favor students with strong communication skills: being fluent in English is a must. Important Dates and Information Application deadline: April 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2009 Applicants must be Master students or full-time Ph.D. students. They should send an e-mail to Marco Servetto (servetto at disi.unige.it) with the subject "ECOOP SV", containing the following information: * First name * Last name * Number of years in a Master or Ph.D. program * Group / Department / University * Complete contact information (surface mail) * If you have a driver's license (not necessary) * Languages spoken (at least) fairly well (fairly well means you could survive well in a country speaking this language only; students with TOEFL/TOEIC/DELF-DALF/TCF/TEF/TFI certificates should include their scores). * A short paragraph motivating your application (including possible past experience as a student volunteer) and clarifying your need for financial support. * Supervisor's(s') name(s) and e-mail address(es). Supervisors may be contacted to confirm applicants' suitability. Accommodation and Travel Expenses We will be doing our best to help students find good and cheap accommodation. Sadly, covering the costs of accommodation and travel expenses is not in our budget. In case some funds should be available, precedence will be given to well-motivated requests. Questions and Comments If you have any further questions about volunteering, please feel free to contact Marco Servetto (servetto at disi.unige.it). From yannis at cs.umass.edu Sat Mar 14 00:45:43 2009 From: yannis at cs.umass.edu (Yannis Smaragdakis) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:45:43 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (ad) Message-ID: <49BB3677.5080002@cs.umass.edu> The Oregon PL Summer School will run July 23-31, 2009 with the topic "Theory and Practice of Language Implementation". We are excited to have a great collection of speakers! The school has a long and successful tradition and is sponsored by the NSF, ACM SIGPLAN, and industry (pending approval). The full "Call for Participation" can be found below. Thanks, Matthew Fluet & Yannis Smaragdakis (OPLSS'09 Organizers) ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Call for Participation: Summer School on the Theory and Practice of Language Implementation July 23-31, 2009 University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer09/ summerschool at cs.uoregon.edu This Summer School will cover current research focused on the theory and practice of programming language implementation. 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: Garbage Collection and the Metronome GC David Bacon, IBM Research Algorithmic Program Synthesis Ras Bodik, University of California - Berkeley Abstract Interpretation Patrick Cousot, Ecole Normale Superieure / New York University Continuations to Go Olivier Danvy, Aarhus University Program Analysis for Computing Symbolic Complexity Bounds Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft Research Managed Runtime Environments: Implementations and Opportunities Chandra Krintz, University of California - Santa Barbara Pointer Analysis Ondrej Lhotak, University of Waterloo Control-flow Analysis of Higher-Order Languages Matt Might, University of Utah Multi-Threaded Programming and Transactional Memory Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 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 26, 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 17, 2009. 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 $510 (USD) per person. Housing rates are based on check-in on Wednesday, July 22 and check-out before noon on Saturday, August 1. 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 From f.rabe at jacobs-university.de Sat Mar 14 17:58:03 2009 From: f.rabe at jacobs-university.de (Florian Rabe) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:58:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second call for papers: Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants Message-ID: <77E7C8FE8A869DB5EFB74710@[192.168.1.51]> First International Workshop on Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA'09) http://www.itu.dk/~carsten/mlpa-09.html Affiliated with CADE-22 Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Abstract Submission 27 April 2009 Submission deadline: 4 May 2009 Author Notification: 8 June 2009 Final Version: 6 July 2009 Workshop day 3 August 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MLPA'09 is the first international workshop on modules and libraries for proof assistants. Over the last twenty years, users of proof assistants and automated theorem provers have created large libraries of formal proofs and mathematical knowledge. Module systems help with the tedious tasks of organizing, sharing, and maintaining libraries. In the view of the ever increasing complexity of this network of information, module systems offer many of the answers to the practical problems that proof assistant system developers face today and can therefore be seen as an emerging research for the automated deduction community. The proposed workshop aims to attract and bring together researchers and practitioners with background and experience in module systems from different logic based systems, such as theorem provers, proof assistants, and programming languages. Because it is affiliated with CADE, the workshop will provide the fertile venue for the exchange of ideas and experiences and has the potential to impact the way we organize proofs and programs in the future. The broad aim of the proposed workshop is to run a short, but highly focused meeting, which will provide researchers with a forum to review state-of-the-art results and techniques, from theory to practice of module systems and to present recent and new progress in: * The design of module systems for programming languages and proof systems. * The implementation of formal digital libraries. * System descriptions of existing module systems, for example ML modules, type classes, Coq's, or Agda's module system. * Case studies regarding information retrieval, sharing, and management of change. * Experience reports of industrial practitioners, using HOL, Isabell/HOL, PVS, or other proof assistants. Program Committee: * Stefan Berghofer, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany * Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS, Saarbruecken, Germany * Hugo Herbelin, INRIA, France * Conor McBride, University of Nottingham, Great Britain * Till Mossakowski, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence * Ulf Norell, Chalmers University, Sweden * Randy Pollack, University of Edinburgh, Great Britain * Florian Rabe, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany * Carsten Schuermann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Paper Submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlpa09 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 in postscript or PDF format. Submitted papers must conform to the ENTCS style preferrably using LaTeX2e. For further information and submission instructions, see the MLPA web page: http://www.itu.dk/~carsten/mlpa-09.html 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. Organizers: Florian Rabe Carsten Schuermann f.rabe at jacobs-university.de carsten at itu.dk Jacobs University IT University of Copenhagen Bremen, Germany Copenhagen, Denmark From disteph at gmail.com Sun Mar 15 05:34:14 2009 From: disteph at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22St=E9phane_Lengrand_=28Work=29=22?=) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:34:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Proof-Search in Type Theories 09 Message-ID: <49BCCB96.50908@LIX.Polytechnique.fr> Call for Papers PSTT 2009: International Workshop on Proof Search in Type Theories McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 3, 2009 http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lengrand/Events/PSTT09/ Affiliated with CADE-22, Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009 Joint event with the 2009 International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP), August 2, 2009 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 1 Paper Submission: May 8 Notification: June 15 Final papers due: July 3 Workshop: August 3 JOINT LFMTP/PSTT INVITED SPEAKER: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique & INRIA) JOINT LFMTP/PSTT TUTORIAL SPEAKER: TBA DESCRIPTION: The PSTT workshop resumes a series of workshops on Proof Search in Type Theoretic Languages, in light of the progress that has been made over the last decade in e.g. the development of proof assistants or our understanding of proof theory. The declarative approach to programming has evolved two paradigms that are based on different aspects of the theories of proofs and types: Proof normalisation provides a foundation for functional programming and type systems --on which numerous proof assistants are based, while proof search provides a foundation for logic programming and other areas of automated deduction. On the one hand, proof search mechanisms and their automation are decisive features of proof assitants that have much to gain from a proper understanding and formalisation. On the other hand, the framework of logic programming has also extended to more expressive logics and more complex data structures, e.g. with bindings. Better specifying the proof search mechanisms in type theories is thus a key concern that brings both approaches forward, and closer together. This concern involves a wide range of issues and techniques (some of which directly arising from implementation) that both approaches share --or could share, and that form the scope of this workshop. TOPICS: Papers are solicited on topics including, but not limited to: - proof search strategies and tactics, complexity & completeness, - tactics specification language, - properties of inference systems, invertibility, polarity of connectives, - focusing, normal forms for proofs, - proof-term representation, - meta-variables, representation of partial proofs, - searching for proofs by induction, search for invariants, - unification, - variable binding, scoping management and freshness - logic programming and other paradigms based on proof search, termination & computational expressivity, - deduction-modulo, deduction vs. computation during search, - using failure in proof search, - model checking as deduction, - user interaction and interfaces, - systems implementing any of the above. SUBMISSIONS: Authors can submit either detailed and technical accounts of new research or work in progress. System descriptions are also welcome, with a demonstration on the day of the workshop. Surveys and comparative papers are also strongly encouraged. Papers are to be submitted electronically and are subject to a 12-page limit in LNCS format, including bibliography. They can be shorter. Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract one week before submitting the paper. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present that paper at the workshop. Informal proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. The possibility of having a special issue dedicated to the themes of this workshop is under consideration. For further information and submission instructions, see the PSTT web page: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lengrand/Events/PSTT09/. PSTT PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique) Didier Galmiche (Universite H. Poincare - Nancy 1) Stephane Lengrand, Chair (CNRS) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) Randy Pollack (University of Edinburgh) From gorla at di.uniroma1.it Wed Mar 18 03:02:22 2009 From: gorla at di.uniroma1.it (gorla@di.uniroma1.it) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:02:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXPRESS'09: preliminary call for papers In-Reply-To: <4807370E.70501@di.uniroma1.it> References: <4807370E.70501@di.uniroma1.it> Message-ID: <1380.87.3.225.38.1237359742.squirrel@wmail.di.uniroma1.it> Apologies for multiple copies.... --------------------------------------- | | | 16th International Workshop on | | Expressiveness in Concurrency | | | | NEW SCOPE * NEW SCOPE * NEW SCOPE | | | | (EXPRESS'09) | --------------------------------------- | | | September 5th, 2009, Bologna (Italy) | | Affiliated to CONCUR 2009 | | | --------------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPICS: The EXPRESS workshops aim at bringing together researchers interested in the relations between various formal systems, particularly in the field of Concurrency. Their focus has traditionally been on the comparison between programming concepts (such as concurrent, functional, imperative, logic and object-oriented programming) and between mathematical models of computation (such as process algebras, Petri nets, event structures, modal logics, and rewrite systems) on the basis of their relative expressive power. The EXPRESS workshop series has run successfully since 1994 and over the years this focus has become broadly construed. This year we wish to make this development "official" and further widen the scope of EXPRESS. We are aiming to bring together researchers who are interested in the expressiveness and comparison of formal models that broadly relate to concurrency. In particular, we wish to include emergent computational paradigms such as quantum computing, biocomputing, logic and interaction, game-theoretic models, and service-oriented computing. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Short papers (up to 5 pages, not included in the final proceedings) and full papers (up to 15 pages) are accepted only in EPTCS-style. Paper submission is performed through the EXPRESS'09 EASYCHAIR server (to be opened on May, 20th). The very best papers will be invited to a special issue of the journal Mathematical Structures in Computer Science. INVITED SPEAKERS: Samson Abramsky, Oxford (UK) Davide Sangiorgi, Bologna (I) IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: June 1st, 2009 Paper submission: June 7th, 2009 Notification date: July 20th, 2009 Submission of preliminary version: July 26th, 2009 Submission of final version for EPTCS: September 27th, 2009 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Sibylle Froeschle (Dep. fuer Informatik - Univ. Oldenburg, D) Daniele Gorla (Dip. Informatica - "Sapienza" Univ. di Roma, IT) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Christel Baier, Dresden (D) Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam (NL) and Stanford (USA) Marco Carbone, Copenhagen (DK) Luca Cardelli, Cambridge (UK) Sibylle Froeschle (co-chair), Oldenburg (D) Yuxi Fu, Shanghai (CN) Simon Gay, Glasgow (UK) Daniele Gorla (co-chair), Rome (IT) Francois Laroussinie, Paris (F) Slawomir Lasota, Warsaw (PL) Paola Quaglia, Trento (IT) Roberto Segala, Verona (IT) Colin Stirling, Edinburgh (UK) Daniele Varacca, Paris (F) Walter Vogler, Augsburg (D) From areces at pluton.loria.fr Wed Mar 18 06:39:46 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:39:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize: Extended Deadline Message-ID: <200903181039.n2IAdkZO011063@pluton.loria.fr> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 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 2008. 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, 2008 and December 31st, 2008. 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 2008 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2009). Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in other language than English and defended in 2007 and 2008 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, with a cc to bethaward2008 at gmail.com. Important dates: Extended (strict) deadline for submissions: April 7, 2009. Notification of decision: July 1, 2009. Committee : * Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7) * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) * Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alexander Koller (Saarland University) * 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 kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Wed Mar 18 06:58:37 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:58:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last CfP: JSC Special Issue on Symbolic Computation in Software Science Message-ID: <49C0D3DD.8070001@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> [Apologies for multiple copies] ========================================================== JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION Special Issue on Symbolic Computation in Software Science ========================================================== IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission of papers: March 23, 2009. * Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 27, 2009. * Final version: September 14, 2009. WEB PAGE -------- http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/tkutsia/jsc-scss.html From Stephan.Merz at loria.fr Wed Mar 18 10:39:42 2009 From: Stephan.Merz at loria.fr (Stephan Merz) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:39:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] INRIA post-doc position on proof reconstruction from SMT solvers Message-ID: <49C107AE.3020605@loria.fr> As part of INRIA's 2009 campaign for recruiting post-doctoral researchers, the Mosel team in Nancy is looking to hire somebody on the topic: Efficient proof synthesis, compression and reconstruction of proofs from SMT solvers The objective of our work is the construction of a verification environment that integrates specialized automated reasoners within an interactive reasoning framework. We intend to demonstrate that one can in this way significantly raise the degree of automation for the verification of complex systems and thus contribute to make deductive verification techniques economically viable. In order to ensure the overall correctness of a proof, we are interested in a skeptical approach to combining reasoners. We rely on automated reasoning tools that produce justifications which can be certified by the interactive proof assistant. In this way, both the result of the external reasoner and the translations between the different syntactic representations are verified. Contrary to proof search, proof checking is of low polynomial complexity. We have gained some initial experience with this approach when we combined Isabelle/HOL with SAT solvers and with the SMT solver haRVey (the ancestor of our solver, veriT) for fragments of first-order logic, including equality reasoning. However, many research questions remain open in order to make that idea scale to industrially relevant verification problems. The goal of the post-doctoral research proposed here is to address some of the scientific and technological issues in order to make the approach more robust, efficient, and scalable. Proof generation and certification need to be extended beyond the fragments of first-order logic that we can currently handle. In particular, proofs of Skolemization, quantified theories, and arithmetic (over the integers, reals, and potentially bit vectors) must be included; extensions to fragments of higher-order logic are also of interest. We are aiming at the definition of a generic and extensible proof format that is independent of a specific automatic prover and interactive proof assistant. The issue of scalability is of concern because proof obligations that arise from verification problems are often large formulas, usually in restricted first-order theories; correspondingly, they generate long proofs. Modern automatic provers are optimized for handling such formulas, but interactive proof assistants focus primarily on expressive, higher-order logical languages, for which elementary problems such as unification or matching are computationally expensive. A promising approach may be to explore reflection techniques in order to produce a verified and efficient proof certifier. On a more theoretical level it will be interesting to investigate the trade-off between generating a fully detailed proof, which is easy to check but large, and a more compact proof certificate that guides certification but requires the certifier to regenerate parts of the proof. For example, decision procedures for certain fragments of arithmetic are so efficient that it will certainly be preferable to let the certifier recreate a proof of sub-formulas falling into such fragments. Little is known about the proof sizes for first-order theories in general, and reconstruction of such proofs from compact certificates. The research on proof representation and certification should be validated by an implementation for combining veriT, and possibly Spass, with Isabelle and Coq. In this way, the added value of using an integrated verification tool can be measured, and practical experiences with the proposed proof format can be performed. Our main interest is in the verification of distributed algorithms, including TLA+ specifications of concurrent algorithms. The research directions mentioned above are indicative of our interests in this field; the precise subjects of research will be determined jointly with the candidate. Part of this work will be carried out in contact with the Isabelle group in Munich, with our partners of the ANR project DECERT, the TLA+ prover project at the INRIA-MSR joint lab, and with other international research teams. The candidate must have experience in interactive and/or automatic theorem proving. He or she should be interested in combining foundational research on calculi and logics with hands-on implementation. The main languages of implementation are C and ML. Further details: Duration: 12 months Starting date: Between 1 Oct 2009 and 31 Dec 2009 Working place: INRIA Nancy & LORIA, equipe Mosel The position is an INRIA-postdoc position and candidate must fulfill the formal requirements found at http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html. In particular, the candidate should have defended a doctorate or Ph.D. in May 2008 or later. If the Ph.D. is not defended at the application date, you should clearly point out the defense date and the composition of thesis jury. Applications should be made via the above web site before June 30, 2009. Late applications may also be considered if the position is not filled.) Please contact Stephan Merz (Stephan.Merz at loria.fr) and/or Pascal Fontaine (Pascal.Fontaine at loria.fr) for details about the position. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Stephan_Merz.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 322 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090318/08ff56c5/Stephan_Merz-0001.bin From ardubois at gmail.com Sat Mar 21 04:12:11 2009 From: ardubois at gmail.com (Andre Rauber Du Bois) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:12:11 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Papers: SBLP 2009 In-Reply-To: <92aea2e20903210056x2778d571kce52cc166effb07d@mail.gmail.com> References: <92aea2e20903210056x2778d571kce52cc166effb07d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3ab4946a0903210112h2e4601f3l58be7a976c41026c@mail.gmail.com> 13th BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES http://sblp2009.ucpel.tche.br Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil August 19-21, 2009 Abstract Submission: April, 6 Paper Submission: April, 13 SBLP is a *Qualis A* Brazilian Conference CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS The 13th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, SBLP 2009, will be held in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on August 19-21, 2008. SBLP provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in the fundamental principles and innovations in the design and implementation of programming languages and systems. This year the symposium will be co-located with the Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, which will happen in the same week and in the same venue. SBLP 2009 invites authors to contribute with Technical Papers and Tutorial Proposals related (but not limited) to: * Programming language design and implementation * Formal semantics of programming languages * Theoretical foundations of programming languages * Design and implementation of programming language environments * Object-oriented programming languages * Functional programming * Aspect-oriented programming languages * Scripting languages * Domain-specific languages * Programming languages for mobile, web and network computing * New programming models * Program transformations * Program analysis and verification * Compilation and interpretation techniques Contributions can be written in Portuguese or English. Papers should have at most 14 pages. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers written in English should be invited for a journal publication. Papers should be presented in the language of submission. Tutorial submissions must be in the form of an extended abstract with at most 10 pages. The final version of accepted tutorials should contain at most 30 pages. This final version will be distributed to attendees. An abstract of the tutorial (1-2 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings. Detailed submission guidelines will be available at http://sblp2009.ucpel.tche.br IMPORTANT DATES Paper abstract submission (15 lines): April 6, 2009 Full paper submission: April 13, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2009 Final papers due: June 30, 2009 BEST PAPER AWARD Awards will be given for the best papers at the symposium. GENERAL CHAIR Andre Rauber Du Bois, UCPel PROGRAMME CHAIRS Andre Santos, UFPE, Brazil Joao Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alberto Pardo, Univ. de La Republica Alex Garcia, IME Alfio Martini, PUC-RS Alvaro Freitas Moreira, UFRGS Andre Rauber Du Bois, UCPel Carlos Camarao, UFMG Christiano Braga, Univ. Comp. de Madrid Cristiano Damiani, UFPEL Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio Eric Tanter, Univ. of Chile Fernando Castor Filho, UFPE Francisco Heron de Carvalho Junior, UFC Isabel Cafezeiro, UFF Johan Jeuring, Utrecht Univ. Jose Guimaraes, UFSCAR Jose E. Labra Gayo, Univ. of Oviedo Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Univ. of Leicester Lucilia Figueiredo, UFOP Luis Soares Barbosa, Univ. do Minho Luis Carlos Meneses, UPE Marcelo A. Maia, UFU Marco Tulio Valente, PUC Minas Mariza A. S. Bigonha, UFMG Martin A. Musicante, UFRN Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio Paulo Borba, UFPE Peter Mosses, Swansea University Rafael Dueire Lins, UFPE Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio Ricardo Massa Lima, UFPE Roberto S. Bigonha, UFMG Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo, UNICAMP Sandro Rigo, UNICAMP Sergio de Mello Schneider, UFU Sergio Soares, UFRPE Sergiu Dascalu, Univ. of Nevada Simon Thompson, Univ. of Kent Varmo Vene, Univ. de Tartu Vladimir Di Iorio, UFV Vitor Santos Costa, UFRJ ORGANIZATION Brazilian Computer Society and Universidade Catolica de Pelotas From coppo at di.unito.it Tue Mar 24 05:13:24 2009 From: coppo at di.unito.it (Mario Coppo) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:13:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICTCS '09 announcements Message-ID: <49C8A434.3060507@di.unito.it> The 11th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS'09) Cremona, Italy, September 28-30, 2009 Preliminary Call for Papers The 11th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS'09) will be held in Cremona, Italy, in September 28-30,2009. ICTCS 09 aims at being a forum of exchange of ideas and at also providing an environment for junior researchers to gain experience in presenting their work, to broaden their outlook on the subject, and to benefit from contact with established researchers. Therefore, papers presenting original contributions as well as works in progress in any area of theoretical computer science are being sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: Algebraic and categorical models; Algorithmic aspects of networks; Algorithmic game theory; Algorithms and data structures; Computability; Computational complexity; Computational biology; Computational geometry; Cryptography and security; Databases, semi-structured data and finite model theory; Emerging and non-standard models of computation; Experimental analysis of algorithms; Formal languages and automata theory; Internet algorithmics; Logics, formal methods and model checking; Models of concurrent, distributed and mobile systems; Models of reactive, hybrid and stochastic systems; Parallel, distributed and external memory computing; Principles of programming languages; Program analysis and transformation; Quantum computing; Specification, refinement and verification Type systems and theory, typed calculi. Provisional list of invited speakers: Aldo de Luca (Universit? di Napoli) Roberto Gorrieri (Universit? di Bologna) Fabrizio Luccio (Universit? di Pisa) Important Dates: Submission Deadline: May 20 Notification of Acceptance: June 20 Conference: September 28-30 Conference Web Page http://www.cremona.polimi.it/ictcs09 Submission: Extended abstracts should not exceed 4 single-spaced pages (including all tables, figures and references) on A4 paper. If appropriate, proofs should be attached in an appendix. Extended abstracts have to be uploaded at the Conference web page avalaible in few days. The conference will only distribute to participants a booklet with the extended abstracts of invited and contributed papers. We are considering the possibility of producing a special issue of an international journal after the conference. Conference is hosted by Cremona campus of Politecnico di Milano. Cremona is a town in the North of Italy, on the left shore of the river Po, in the middle of Pianura Padana. It is well-known for its Middle Age buildings and for its musical history connected to musical instrument manifactures (Stradivari violins). The Scientific and Organizing Committee Alessandra Cherubini (Politecnico di Milano) Mario Coppo (Universit? di Torino) Giuseppe Persiano (Universit? di Salerno) -- Mario Coppo Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Torino C. Svizzera 185 - 10149 TORINO - ITALY tel: +11 670 6738 fax +11 75 16 03 e-mail : coppo at di.unito.it From vs at ecs.soton.ac.uk Tue Mar 24 07:00:01 2009 From: vs at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Vladimiro Sassone) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:00:01 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] About The Computer Journal References: Message-ID: Dear all, I would like to report to the list that, following a revamping of its Editorial Board, "The Computer Journal" welcomes the submission of full papers and the proposal of special issues on types programming languages and cognate areas. Regards to all, \vs ================================================== Information concerning The Computer Journal in 2008 The 52 year "old" The Computer Journal (TCJ) is published by ITEXT, a joint company run by Oxford University Press and the British Computer Society, and its contents are managed by an editor-in-chief and an editorial board which were renewed at the end of 2007 and in early 2008. During 2008 it published as many issues as in 2007, i.e. six, but an expansion of TCJ to 8 issues a year is planned for 2009 in view of the results of 2008, with two sub-series: Computer Science, and Computer Systems and Networks. The submission of papers to the journal has increased by roughly 50% in 2008 over 2007, reaching approximately 300 papers, and the acceptance rate is approximately 25%. The turn-around time is quite reasonable because (a) the authors receive a response after a first round of evaluation and refereeing (which largely determines the outcome of a paper) within 85 days on average, and (b) once a paper is definitely accepted, it is posted on the web for downloading. Note that in 2008 roughly 7% of all papers were submitted by authors based in the UK, with the rest coming from all the continents, so that TCJ is truly an international journal with appeal across the world. Worldwide subscriptions to the journal in 2008 have slightly increased, resulting in a 10% increase in income to ITEXT. We estimate that, including the bundled subscriptions to academic and other libraries, the journal has roughly 6000 subscribers. Most importantly, the number of full paper downloads in 2008 has increased in excess of 20%, over 2007, totalling slightly under 50,000 downloads, which is a very impressive number for the 60 papers that we publish per year, or an annual rate of roughly 800 downloads per paper on average. This should reassure colleagues who may think that archival journals are just "write-only" media! forwarded for Erol Gelenbe, Editor in Chief The Computer Journal From kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Tue Mar 24 02:01:42 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:01:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] JSC Special Issue on Symbolic Computation in Software Science Message-ID: <49C87746.1000704@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> [Apologies for multiple copies] ========================================================== JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION Special Issue on Symbolic Computation in Software Science ========================================================== DEADLINE EXTENSION ------------------ Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline is extended to 30 March 2009. WEB PAGE -------- http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/tkutsia/jsc-scss.html From lbauer at cmu.edu Tue Mar 24 09:27:01 2009 From: lbauer at cmu.edu (Lujo Bauer) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:27:01 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning on Computer Security: Foundations and Automated Reasoning Message-ID: (Apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times) Special Issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning on Computer Security: Foundations and Automated Reasoning http://www.avantssar.eu/jar-cs09 *********************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** *********************** BACKGROUND AND SCOPE ==================== In connection with the Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security, Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis and Issues in the Theory of Security FCS-ARSPA-WITS'08, a satellite event of LICS'08 and CSF 21, we are guest-editing a Special Issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning devoted to original papers on foundations, formal methods and automated reasoning in computer security. Contributions are welcomed on the following topics and related ones: 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 control 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 SUBMISSION ========== Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for journal publication elsewhere, and will be subject to the standard journal refereeing process. Authors should submit their papers electronically, only in portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps), by April 30 via the electronic submission web-site powered by easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jarcs09 Please, do not send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or Wordperfect files). The cover page of the submission should include the following information: - paper title - author names - coordinates of the corresponding author - abstract of the paper Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer's LaTeX macro package available at the website of the Journal of Automated Reasoning (http://www.springer.com/computer/foundations/journal/10817). We kindly ask the authors to send us an abstract of their submission by April 23. DEADLINES ========= Submission of abstract: April 23, 2009 Submission of paper: April 30, 2009 EDITORS ======= Lujo Bauer (CMU, USA) Sandro Etalle (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Jerry den Hartog (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Luca Vigano` (Universita` di Verona, Italy) From sameson at hotmail.com Tue Mar 24 09:50:54 2009 From: sameson at hotmail.com (Rafael Caballero) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:50:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WLPE 2009: The 19th Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments Message-ID: ******************************************************************* Call For Papers WLPE 2009 The 19th Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments Pasadena, USA July 14-17 (one day) 2009 http://gpd.sip.ucm.es/WLPE09/ Satellite event of the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2009) http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/ Our apologies if you receive this multiple times. ******************************************************************* Important Dates: Paper Submission: April 30, 2009 Notification of Authors: May 26, 2009 Camera-ready: June 8, 2009 Workshop: One day in July 14-17 (TBA) Objectives: The aim of this workshop is to provide an informal meeting for researchers working on logic-based methods and tools which support program development and analysis. As in recent years we interpret the workshop topics to include not only environmental tools for logic programming but increasingly also logic-based environmental tools for programming in general, so that this workshop can be possibly interesting for a wider scientific community. In addition to papers describing more conceptual and theoretical work, papers describing the implementation of, and experience with, such tools will be welcome. Topics: Areas particularly relevant to the workshop include (but are not limited to): * Static and dynamic analysis * Debugging and testing, * Program verification and validation, * Code generation from specifications, * Termination analysis, * Constraints, * Rewriting, * Profiling and performance analysis, * Type and mode analysis, * Module systems, * Optimization tools, * Program understanding, * Refactoring, * Logical meta-languages. Authors who are interested in taking part in the workshop, but are unsure if their work falls within its scope, are invited to contact the organizers and will be given suitable advice. Program Committee: Puri Arenas University Complutense of Madrid Rafael Caballero University Complutense of Madrid Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev John Gallagher University of Roskilde Arnaud Gotlieb INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre Petra Hofstedt University of Technology Berlin Michael Leuschel University of D?sseldorf German Puebla Technical University of Madrid Mario Rodr?guez-Artalejo University Complutense of Madrid Tom Schrijvers K.U. Leuven Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology Alexandre Tessier LIFO, Universit d'Orl?ans German Vidal Technical University of Valencia Damiano Zanardini Technical University of Madrid Workshop organizers: Rafael Caballero Rold?n (contact person) Fac. de Inform?tica Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040-Madrid, Spain http://gpd.sip.ucm.es/rafa/ John Gallagher Computer Science Dept., CBIT, University of Roskilde P.O. Box 260, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark http://www.ruc.dk/~jpg/ Publication: Informal proceedings will be published as a technical report and distributed at the workshop, as well as electronically at the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Previous editions of WLPE: This workshop continues the series of successful international workshops on logic programming environments held in Ohio, USA (1989), Eilat, Israel (1990), Paris, France (1991), Washington D.C., USA (1992), Vancouver, Canada (1993), Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy (1994), Portland, USA (1995), Leuven, Belgium (1997), Las Cruces, USA (1999), Paphos, Cyprus (2001), Copenhagen, Denmark (2002), Mumbai, India (2003), Saint Malo, France (2004), Sitges (Barcelona), Spain (2005), Seattle, USA (2006), Porto, Portugal (2007) and Udine, Italy (2008). More information about the series of WLPE workshops can be found at http://www.cs.usask.ca/projects/envlop/WLPE/. _________________________________________________________________ ?Quieres ver los mejores videos de MSN? Enciende Messenger TV http://messengertv.msn.com/mkt/es-es/default.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090324/661e0dfd/attachment-0001.htm From kremer at lsv.ens-cachan.fr Wed Mar 25 08:59:46 2009 From: kremer at lsv.ens-cachan.fr (Steve Kremer) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:59:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SecCo'09: call for papers Message-ID: <49CA2AC2.1000406@lsv.ens-cachan.fr> _________________________________________________________ | | | 7th International Workshop on | | Security Issues in Concurrency | | | | (SecCo'09) | | http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/Events/SecCo09/ | |_________________________________________________________| | | | September 5, 2009, Bologna (Italy) | | Affiliated to CONCUR 2009 | |_________________________________________________________| SCOPE AND TOPICS: Emerging trends in concurrency theory require the definition of models and languages adequate for the design and management of new classes of applications, mainly to program either WANs (like Internet) or smaller networks of mobile and portable devices (which support applications based on a dynamically reconfigurable communication structure). Due to the openness of these systems, new critical aspects come into play, such as the need to deal with malicious components or with a hostile environment. Current research on network security issues (e.g. secrecy, authentication, etc.) usually focuses on opening cryptographic point-to-point tunnels. Therefore, the proposed solutions in this area are not always exploitable to support the end-to-end secure interaction between entities whose availability or location is not known beforehand. The aim of the workshop is to cover the gap between the security and the concurrency communities. More precisely, the workshop promotes the exchange of ideas, trying to focus on common interests and stimulating discussions on central research questions. In particular, we look for papers dealing with security issues -- such as authentication, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, access control, denial of service, service availability, safety aspects, fault tolerance, trust, language-based security, probabilistic and information theoretic models -- in emerging fields like web services, mobile ad-hoc networks, agent-based infrastructures, peer-to-peer systems, context-aware computing, global/ubiquitous/pervasive computing. SecCo'08 follows the success of SecCo'03 (affiliated to ICALP'03), SecCo'04 (affiliated to CONCUR'04), SecCo'05 (affiliated to CONCUR'05), SecCo'07 (affiliated to CONCUR'07) and SecCo'08 (affiliated to CONCUR'08). INVITED SPEAKER - Riccardo Focardi (Universita Ca' Foscari, Italy) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * Michele Boreale, co-chair (Universit? di Firenze, Italy) * Gerard Boudol (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France) * Mads Dam (KTH, Sweden) * Anupam Datta (Carnegie Mellon, USA) * Stephanie Delaune (LSV, ENS Cachan, France) * Joshua D. Guttman (MITRE Corporation, USA) * Steve Kremer, co-chair, (LSV, ENS Cachan, CNRS, INRIA, France) * Gavin Lowe (University of Oxford, UK) * Pasquale Malacaria (Queen Mary, London, UK) * Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX , France) * Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, USA) IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for paper submission: June 1 2009 * Notification: June 26 2009 * Workshop: September 5 2009 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The workshop proceedings will be published in the new EPTCS series (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, see http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rvg/EPTCS/); we thus encourage submissions already in that format. Submissions may be of two kinds: * Short papers (not included in the proceedings): up to 5 pages; * Full papers: up to 15 pages (including bibliography). Papers must be sumbitted electronically at the following URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secco09 Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals is only allowed for short papers. These are an opportunity to present innovative ideas (without working out a full paper) and to get feedback from a technically competent audience. As done for the previous SecCo workshops, if the quality of the accepted submissions warrants it, there will be a special issue of the Journal of Computer Security devoted to selected papers from the workshop. From bruno.monsuez at ensta.fr Tue Mar 24 14:30:44 2009 From: bruno.monsuez at ensta.fr (Bruno Monsuez) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:30:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP VeCoS'09: deadline extended to April, 10 Message-ID: <009a01c9acae$a4dbe050$ee93a0f0$@monsuez@ensta.fr> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. CALL FOR PAPERS ***3rd International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (VeCoS'09) *** July, 2-3, 2009, Rabat, Morocco http://www.vecos-world.org/ *** Important dates: Paper submission: deadline extended to April, 10 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 15, 2009 Final version due: May 31, 2009 *** Aims and scope The International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (VECoS) was created by an Euro-Maghrebian network of researchers in computer science. The first edition took place in Algiers 5-6 May 2007 (VECoS'07), the second edition in Leeds 2-3 July 2008 (VECoS'08). The aim of VECoS workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, in the areas of Verification, Control, Performance, Quality of service, Dependability evaluation and Assessment, to discuss the state of the art for solving the challenges facing us today in various modern computer and communication systems in which functional and extra functional properties are strongly interrelated. Thus, the main motivation for VECoS is to encourage the cross-fertilization between formal verification and evaluation approaches, methods and techniques especially those based on the specification formalisms for concurrent, distributed and soft/hard systems. Beyond its technical and scientific goals, another main purpose of VECoS is to promote collaboration between participants in research and education in the area of computer science and engineering. We welcome contributions describing original research, practical experience reports and tool descriptions/demonstrations in the areas of Verification, Control, and Performance, Quality of service, Dependability Evaluation. *** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Model-checking - Equivalence checking - Abstraction techniques - Compositional verification - Parameterized verification - Control synthesis techniques - Probabilistic verification - Performance and robustness evaluation - Simulation techniques of discrete-event and hybrid systems - Dependability assessment techniques - QoS evaluation, planning and deployment *** Invited speakers Mario Bravetti, Universita di Bologna, Italy Guy Juanole, LAAS, France Assaf J. Kfoury, Boston University, USA Joel Ouaknine, Oxford University, UK *** Submission and Publication Contributions must have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences/journals in parallel with this workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically via the VECoS 2009 web site by uploading a self-contained PDF file, and should not exceed 12 pages using the Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) format. All selected papers will be included in the workshop proceedings available at the conference and published in the eWiC series of the British Computer Society. *** For more information see: http://www.vecos-world.org/ http://vecos.ensta.fr/2009/index.html PC co chairs: Said El Hajji, University of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco Bruno Monsuez , ENSTA, Paris, France From Corina.S.Pasareanu at nasa.gov Wed Mar 25 15:58:44 2009 From: Corina.S.Pasareanu at nasa.gov (Corina Pasareanu) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:58:44 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPIN 2009: Last Call For Papers Message-ID: <49CA8CF4.5080700@nasa.gov> 16th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2009) June 26--28, 2009, Grenoble, France Co-located with CAV 2009 URL: http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/event/spin09/ The submission site is open until Sunday, March 29, 2009. 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. The focus of the workshop is on theoretical advances and empirical evaluations based on explicit representations of state spaces, as implemented in the SPIN model checker or other tools, or techniques based on combinations of explicit and other symbolic representations. We welcome papers describing the development and application of state-space and path-exploration techniques for the testing and the verification of 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: Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK Joseph Sifakis (Turing Award 2007), VERIMAG, France Willem Visser, SEVEN Networks, USA Program Chair: Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA Ames Program Committee: Christel Baier, U Bonn, Germany Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven U, Netherlands Patricia Bouyer, ?NS de Cachan, France Lubos Brim, Masaryk U, Czech Republic Marsha Chechik, U Toronto, Canada Matthew Dwyer, U Nebraska, USA Stefan Edelkamp, TU Dortmund, Germany Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France Jaco Geldenhuys, U Stellenbosch, South Africa Klaus Havelund, JPL, USA Gerard Holzmann, JPL, USA Radu Iosif, VERIMAG, France Michael Jones, Brigham Young U, USA Sarfraz Khurshid, UT Austin, USA Orna Kupferman, Hebrew U, Israel Stefan Leue, U Konstanz, Germany Rupak Majumdar, UC Los Angeles, USA Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research, USA Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley, USA Scott Stoller, Stony Brook U, USA Farn Wang, National Taiwan U, Taiwan Pierre Wolper, U Liege, Belgium You can find more information on the SPIN 2009 web-page. Please submit your good papers to SPIN 2009! ******************************************************************************* -- Corina Pasareanu, PhD CMU/NASA Ames http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/profile/pcorina/ From areces at pluton.loria.fr Thu Mar 26 10:13:21 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:13:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: LJ of the IGPL Special Issue on Hybrid Logics Message-ID: <200903261413.n2QEDLFg005602@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Logic Journal of the IGPL Special issue on Hybrid Logic DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 *************************************************************** Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of this special issue is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc.) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). The special issue will welcome papers in a wide range of topics, including description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. We welcome both theoretical work and work describing systems and applications on hybrid logics, broadly conceived. All submissions will be peer reviewed with respect to the usual journal criteria. Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished, research papers written in English. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Papers should not exceed 25 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the style available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/SI/2009 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 GUEST EDITORS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) From areces at pluton.loria.fr Thu Mar 26 10:13:22 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:13:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: LJ of the IGPL Special Issue on Hybrid Logics Message-ID: <200903261413.n2QEDMYV005609@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Logic Journal of the IGPL Special issue on Hybrid Logic DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 *************************************************************** Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of this special issue is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc.) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). The special issue will welcome papers in a wide range of topics, including description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. We welcome both theoretical work and work describing systems and applications on hybrid logics, broadly conceived. All submissions will be peer reviewed with respect to the usual journal criteria. Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished, research papers written in English. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Papers should not exceed 25 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the style available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/SI/2009 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 GUEST EDITORS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) From urban at mathematik.uni-muenchen.de Thu Mar 26 10:23:15 2009 From: urban at mathematik.uni-muenchen.de (urban@mathematik.uni-muenchen.de) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:23:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WMM'09 call for papers Message-ID: <20090326152315.oc5ahjm6tc0osgsc@webmail.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de> Call for Papers 4rd Informal ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Mechanizing Metatheory Edinburgh, Scotland Co-located with ICFP'09. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/wmm/ Important Dates * Submission deadline: 19 June 2009 * Author Notification: 24 July 2009 * Workshop: 4 September 2009 Workshop Description Researchers in programming languages have long felt the need for tools to help formalize and check their work. With advances in language technology demanding deep understanding of ever larger and more complex languages, this need has become urgent. There are a number of automated proof assistants being developed within the theorem proving community that seem ready or nearly ready to be applied in this domain-yet, despite numerous individual efforts in this direction, the use of proof assistants in programming language research is still not commonplace: the available tools are confusingly diverse, difficult to learn, inadequately documented, and lacking in specific library facilities required for work in programming languages. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers who have experience using automated proof assistants for programming language metatheory, and those who are interested in using tool support for formalizing their work. One starting point for discussion will be the obstacles that hinder mechanization (whether they be pragmatic or technical), and what users and developers can do to overcome them. Format The workshop will consist of presentations by the participants, selected from submitted abstracts. It will focus on providing a fruitful environment for interaction and presentation of ongoing work. Participants are invited to submit working notes, source files, and abstracts for distribution to the attendees, but as the workshop has no formal proceedings, contributions may still be submitted for publication elsewhere. (See the SIGPLAN republication policy for more details.) Scope The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: * Tool demonstrations: proof assistants, logical frameworks, visualizers, etc. * Libraries for programming language metatheory. * Formalization techniques, especially with respect to binding issues. * Analysis and comparison of solutions to the POPLmark challenge. * Examples of formalized programming language metatheory. * Proposals for new challenge problems that benchmark programming language work. Submission Guidelines Email submissions to urbanc AT in.tum.de. Submissions should be no longer than two pages in PDF and printable on A4 sized paper. Persons for whom this poses a hardship should contact the program chair. Conference Organization Program Committee * Nick Benton, Microsoft Research Cambridge * Olivier Danvy, University of Aarhus * Daniel Licata, Carnegie Mellon University * Francois Pottier, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt * Christian Urban, TU Munich (chair) Workshop Organizers * Karl Crary, Carnegie Mellon University * Michael Norrish, National ICT Australia * Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania Previous Workshops * Victoria, 2008 * Freiburg, 2007 * Portland, 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From herman at cs.ru.nl Thu Mar 26 11:51:30 2009 From: herman at cs.ru.nl (Herman Geuvers) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:51:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant professor (UD) in the Algebra & Logica group (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) Message-ID: <49CBA482.2060201@cs.ru.nl> Assistant professor (UD) in the Algebra & Logica group The Algebra&Logic group of IMAPP at Radboud University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor with preference for applicants working in the area between algebra, logic, and computer science. We seek candidates with international experience that have a demonstrable commitment to excellence in both research and teaching. The candidate should be motivated to contribute independently and through collaboration to the research and growth of the group. This includes contributing to the supervision of Master and PhD students and securing of funding for PhD positions through grant applications. The candidate must be a good communicator with experience in as well as enthusiasm for teaching that can contribute across the undergraduate mathematics curriculum as well as at the graduate level in algebra and especially in logic and in the joint research master with computer science. The candidate is expected to contribute the usual share in the management of the group and institute. The accepted candidate is required to master the Dutch language sufficiently to be able to teach in Dutch within two years after the appointment. Radboud University Nijmegen is situated in the oldest city in the Netherlands. It has nine faculties and enrols over 17,500 students in 107 study programmes. The Faculty of Science at Radboud University consists of seven research institutes, including the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics (IMAPP), and the Institute for Computing and Information Science (ICIS). Research in non-classical logic and its interaction with applications in computer science is strongly represented locally and nationally. The group has close ties with the ICIS research groups in Foundations and in Security of Systems. At the national level the group collaborates with algebraists and logicians, notably in Leiden, Utrecht, at ILLC in Amsterdam, and at CWI. The salary of an assistant professor varies from a minimum of 3.195,-- Euros bruto per month to a maximum of 4.970,-- bruto per month, depending on relevant work experience. (scale 11/12). Female applicants are particularly encouraged to apply. In order to apply please send an application, with reference to vacancy number 18. DE including a full CV, information on research plans and teaching experience, and names and addresses of three references either by e-mail to pz at science.ru.nl or by post to: FNWI Personeel en Organisatie attn. mevr. Marielle Nelemans Postbus 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen The Netherlands Review of applications will begin May 1, 2009. For further information, see http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/Algebra&LogicUD.htm or contact Mai Gehrke at mgehrke at math.ru.nl **************** Profile: Profile of Algebra&Logic Assistant Professor at IMAPP at the Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen The Faculty of Science at Radboud University consists of seven research institutes, including the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics (IMAPP), and the Institute for Computing and Information Science (ICIS). The Mathematics division of IMAPP consists of three groups: Algebra&Logic, Mathematical Physics, and Stochastics. The research of the Algebra&Logic group is focused in the two named areas with a particular focus on interactions of algebra and logic with computer science. Research in non-classical logic and its interaction with applications in computer and information science is strongly represented locally and nationally. The group has close ties with the ICIS research groups in Foundations and in Security of Systems. At the national level the group collaborates with algebraists and logicians, notably in Leiden, Utrecht, at ILLC in Amsterdam, and at CWI. In teaching, the algebra and logic group is part of the Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy Teaching Institute (WiNSt) and as such it provides high quality teaching of core and service courses in all branches of undergraduate mathematics as well as advanced courses and a Master track in Algebra and Logic. In addition, a new Radboud University Research Master program in the Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science is being set up jointly with computer science. The faculty as a whole and the mathematics department in particular are enthusiastically involved in outreach and actively recruit students through programs with schools. The Algebra&Logic group seeks a tenure track assistant professor with preference for applicants working in the algebra-logic-computer science triangle. We seek candidates with international experience that have a demonstrable commitment to excellence in both research and teaching. The candidate should be motivated to contribute independently and through collaboration to the research and growth of the group. This includes contributing to the supervision of Master and PhD students and securing of funding for PhD positions through grant applications. The candidate must be a good communicator with experience in as well as enthusiasm for teaching that can contribute across the undergraduate mathematics curriculum as well as at the graduate level in algebra and logic, and particularly in the joint research master with computer science. The candidate is expected to contribute the usual share in the management of the group and institute. The accepted candidate is required to master the Dutch language sufficiently to be able to teach in Dutch within two years after the appointment. Female applicants are particularly encouraged to apply. From Matthew.Hennessy at cs.tcd.ie Thu Mar 26 11:56:17 2009 From: Matthew.Hennessy at cs.tcd.ie (Matthew Hennessy) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:56:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentships - Dublin Message-ID: <17020198-D6C9-4E72-81EB-9B7BF5117EE6@cs.tcd.ie> Apologies for multiple postings -------------------------------- 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 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 environments. The 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 at least 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 2009. 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 From fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es Fri Mar 27 10:44:47 2009 From: fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es (FMICS 2009 workshop chair) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:44:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [FMICS 2009] Fourth Call for Papers Message-ID: <49CCE65F.2080607@dsic.upv.es> FMICS 2009 - 4TH CALL FOR PAPERS Please visit: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/fmics2009 ************************************************************ * 14th International Workshop on * * Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems * * FMICS 2009 * * * * November 2-3, 2009 * * Eindhoven, The Netherlands * ************************************************************ * ** NEWS ** * * * * >> Invited speakers confirmed * * Dino Distefano Queen Mary, Univ. London, UK * * Diego Latella ISTI-CNR, Italy * * Thierry Lecomte ClearSy, France * * Ken McMillan Cadence, USA * * * ************************************************************ * * * LNCS proceedings * * Springer has confirmed that the proceedings * * will be published in their Lecture Notes in * * Computer Science series. * * * * Price for best paper -- awarded by EASST * * * ************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline for abstracts: 1st April Deadline for papers: 7 April Accept/Reject notification: 15 June Camera-ready version: 15 July Workshop: 2-3 November SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP --------------------- The aim of the ERCIM FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. In particular, these workshops bring together scientists and engineers that are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. These workshops also strive to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications. Topics include, but are not restricted to: - Design, specification, code generation and testing based on formal methods. - Methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, learning, optimization and transformation of complex, distributed, real-time systems and embedded systems. - Verification and validation methods that address shortcomings of existing methods with respect to their industrial applicability (e.g., scalability and usability issues). - Tools for the development of formal design descriptions. - Case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of new research directions. - Impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development process and associated costs. - Application of formal methods in standardization and industrial forums. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Dino Distefano Queen Mary, Univ. London, UK Diego Latella ISTI-CNR, Italy Thierry Lecomte ClearSy, France Ken McMillan Cadence, USA CO-CHAIRS --------- Maria Alpuente Tech. University Valencia, Spain Byron Cook Microsoft Research, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------- Hassan Ait-Kaci Ilog, Canada Maria Alpuente Tech. University Valencia, Spain Thomas Arts IT-Univ. i Goteborg, Sweden Demis Ballis Universita Udine, Italy Josh Berdine Microsoft Research, UK Lubos Brim Masarykova Univ., Czech Republic Darren Cofer Rockwell Collins, USA Byron Cook Microsoft Research, UK Patrick Cousot Ecole Normale Superieure, France Santiago Escobar Tech. University Valencia, Spain Azadeh Farzan University of Toronto, Canada Hubert Garavel INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Stefania Gnesi ISTI-CNR, Italy Alexey Gotsman University of Cambridge, UK Holger Hermanns Universitat Saarlandes, Germany Christophe Joubert Tech. University Valencia, Spain Daniel Kroening ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michael Leuschel Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany Pedro Merino Universidad de Malaga, Spain Juan Jose Moreno-Navarro Univ. Politecnica Madrid, Spain Corina Pasareanu NASA Ames Research Center, USA Jaco van de Pol Univ. Twente, The Netherlands Murali Rangarajan Honeywell, USA Jakob Rehof Tech. Univ. Dortmund, Germany Andrey Rybalchenko Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany Marcel Verhoef Chess, The Netherlands Martin Wirsing Universitat Munchen, Germany Hongseok Yang University of London, UK Greta Yorsh IBM Watson Research Center, USA ERCIM FMICS WG COORDINATOR -------------------------- Alessandro Fantechi Univ. Firenze, ISTI-CNR, Italy WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------- Christophe Joubert Tech. University Valencia, Spain PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system. Papers should be up to 16 pages in LNCS format, with the names and affiliations of the authors and a clear and informative abstract. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All submissions must report on original research. Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Case study papers should identify lessons learned, validate theoretical results (such as scalability of methods), or provide specific motivation for further research and development. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). CO-LOCATION ----------- FMICS 2009 is part of the first Formal Methods Week (FMweek), which will bring together a choice of events in the area, including TESTCOM/FATES (Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems and Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software), FACS (Formal Aspects of Component Software), PDMC (Parallel and Distributed Methods of verifiCation), FM2009 (Symposium of Formal Methods Europe), CPA (Communicating Process Architectures), FAST (Formal Aspects of Security and Trust), FMCO (Formal Methods for Components and Objects), and the REFINE Workshop. For the latest information on FMweek, see http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek. ************************************************************ * * * +============================================+ * * | | * * | ** FMweek ** | * * | | * * +============================================+ * * | CPA | FACS | FAST | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | FM2009 | FMCO | FMICS | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | PDMC | REFINE | TESTCOM/FATES | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek | * * +============================================+ * * * ************************************************************ From wasowski at itu.dk Fri Mar 27 16:49:46 2009 From: wasowski at itu.dk (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Andrzej_W=B1sowski?=) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:49:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD students and interns; game theoretic models for open systems Message-ID: I am searching for PhD students and interns who would like to work with me at IT University of Copenhagen, within the framework of the MT-LAB project (www.mtlab.dk). Thank you for spreading the news. Andrzej 1. PhD student. Application deadline April 16. Starting: summer 2009. Topic: quantitative game theoretic models and specifications for components (quantitative interface theories, modal transition system like models, reliability models, compositional reasoning, analysis and synthesis algorithms, behavioral type systems). An ideal applicant has background in concurrency theory and/or markovian models and/or model checking/verification. This can be either a computer scientist, or a mathematician, who has interest in computation, algorithms, etc. The enrollment is at the IT University, affiliated with the MT-LAB project, in collaboration with Kim Larsen's group in Aalborg and Flemming Nielson's group in Lyngby. The formalities of applying are explained here: http://www1.itu.dk/sw65236.asp A bit about studying at ITU: http://www1.itu.dk/sw65235.asp If anybody considers applying, I recommend contacting me first. You need to have at least 4 years of studies completed by summer, in order to apply now (so we are interested both in people with a bachelor, or with a Master, or soon before graduation). 2. I also search for an intern to spend about 2 month this summer in Copenhagen working on a selected topic from the above described area, also within MT-LAB. An intern receives small financial support for the stay here. The precise topic is up for negotiation: either on the theory side, or on the implementation/design side. Interested students should contact me directly. Note: only interns who already hold a BSc or a similar degree can be considered. -- Andrzej W?sowski, PhD, http://www.itu.dk/~wasowski/ Associate professor, head of MSc Programme on Software Development IT University, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark office 3C08, phone +45 7218 5086, fax +45 7218 5001 From rd at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 10:41:41 2009 From: rd at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk (Roy Dyckhoff) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:41:41 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] For the Types mailing list, please Message-ID: PRNCL 2009 - Workshop on Proofs and Refutations in Non-Classical Logics (affiliated with Tableaux 2009) Call for Papers July 6, 2009, Oslo, Norway http://www.loria.fr/~galmiche/PRNCL09.html * There are various ways to design a refutation-based deduction system. Deduction systems where refutations completely replace proofs as first-class citizens, with a set of rules inductively defining refutation trees; systems combining proof-rules and refutation mechanisms (or criteria) which can occur at various levels of the proof-search process; systems where provability and refutability play dual roles, i.e., proofs and refutations are both first-class citizens; systems where refutations are understood as mechanisms that build counter-models: for example, semantic information is collected and may converge to a counter-model as the search process evolves. Such approaches are applicable to a wide range of logics like sub-structural logics, intermediate logics and their extensions, modal or temporal logics, even to type theory. The deduction systems can be based on various structures/methods: sequents, tableaux, natural deduction, connections, proof-nets, games, etc. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum of discussion between researchers interested in non-classical logics in the perspective of proof and refutation systems. * Detailed information about topics and submission can be found on the web page. * Program Committee : R. Dyckhoff (Univ. St Andrews, Scotland); C. Fermueller (T.U. Wien, Austria); D. Galmiche (LORIA - UHP, France); D. Larchey-Wendling (LORIA - CNRS, France); F. Pfenning (CMU Pittsburgh, USA); A. Waaler (Univ. Oslo, Norway) * Important dates: extended abstract submission: May 15, 2009; Notification: June 2, 2009. From shilov at iis.nsk.su Mon Mar 30 04:27:19 2009 From: shilov at iis.nsk.su (shilov@iis.nsk.su) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:27:19 +0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Int. Workshop on Program Understanding (19-22 June, Russia) Message-ID: First Call For Papers International Workshop on Program Understanding 19-22 June, Altai Mountains (not far from Novosibirsk), Russia, http://psi.nsc.ru/psi09/p_understanding/index_r.shtml A satellite event of the Andrei Ershov Seventh International Conference Perspectives of System Informatics (PSI-09, 15 - 19 June, 2009, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia, http://psi.nsc.ru/psi09/index.shtml ) Aims and Scope The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for active researchers in the field of system programming to exchange new ideas and establish cooperation. Two previous workshops PU03 and PU06 were very successful regarding the level of both scientific and social programme. Workshop Topics - Informal and formal program models (including schematology); - program specification, transformation and verification; - semantics, analysis, and manipulation of programs; - programming paradigms; - program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing; - system re-engineering and reuse; - integrated programming environments; - software architectures; - software maintenance and testing; - program understanding and visualization; - knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering; data models; - advanced data management in distributed environments; - educational programming languages; - teaching programming. Invited Speaker(s) and Special Sessions Program Committee is going to invite a number of Plenary Speakers and organise topic-oriented Special Sessions. Confirmed Invited Speaker(s): - Kwangkeun Yi (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/~kwang/). Title TBA. Co-chairs - Mikhail Bulyonkov, A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia (mike at iis.nsk.su) - Robert Gl?ck, DIKU, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (glueck at acm.org). Programme Committee 1.Kazuhiko Kakehi, Tokyo University, Japan 2.Andrei Klimov, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russia 3.Vsevolod Kotlyarov, Motorola, St. Petersburg, Russia 4.David Levin, Ledas Ltd., Novosibirsk, Russia 5.Viktor Malyshkin, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia 6.Mikhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 7.Merik Meriste, University of Tartu, Estonia 8.Eric Monfroy, University of Nantes, France 9.Nikolaj Nikitchenko, Kiev National University, Ukraine 10.Peter Sestoft, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark 11.Nickolay Shilov, A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Russia 12.Andrey Terekhov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia 13.Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA Venue The workshop location is an isolated picturesque tourist camp "Adaru" situated in the Altai Mountains, on the left bank of the Katun river, 8km from the Aja lake. It is about 450 km far from Novosibirsk. The camp site includes 3 two-storied wooden cottages and 10 comfortable wooden cabins that can accommodate about 80 guests. Each cabin has two suits that can be used either as 2-person family suites or as two separate single rooms. Please visit http://www.adaru.ru/alb/thumbnails.php?album=11 for more details. Submission All submissions must be in English, clearly written and in sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. Electronic submissions are encouraged. They should be received in Novosibirsk by April 10, 2009. A PostScript file of a paper (up to 15 pages) should be e-mailed to the following address: pu06 at iis.nsk.su. Please use LaTeX2e or LaTeX. When preparing your submission please follow instructions for authors of papers to be published at Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, which are available at www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The paper should indicate complete authors' addresses (including e-mail addresses and fax numbers if any), affiliation and a clear statement of the kind of the submission (regular or short talk). Papers arriving late or exceeding size limits may be rejected immediately without refereeing. The receipt of all submitted papers will be acknowledged by e-mail within 2 days. Proceedings Publication Accepted papers will be published as a special issue of Bulletin of the Novosibirsk Computing Center (with ISSN) and will be distributed at the workshop. A post-workshop publication of the proceedings (as a volume of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science or CEUR Workshop Proceedings) is subject to quality of accepted papers and will be decided at the workshop. Important Dates - April 10, 2009: submission deadline of papers - May 15, 2009: notification of acceptance (by e-mail) - May 22, 2009: final papers due (camera-ready, LaTeX) - June 15 ? 19, 2009: International Andrei Ershov Conference PSI-09 - June 19, 2009: arrival date - June 20-22, 2009: the workshop dates - June 23, 2009: departure date -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090330/470b5fdb/attachment.htm From M.Seisenberger at swansea.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 06:49:33 2009 From: M.Seisenberger at swansea.ac.uk (Monika Seisenberger) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:49:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Cfc: CALCO-jnr 2009: CALCO Young Researchers Workshop, Udine, Italy Message-ID: <49D0A3BD.7050606@Swansea.ac.uk> [Apologies for multiple copies] !!! PLEASE FORWARD TO PHD STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS !!! *------------------------------------------------------------------* * Call for contributions * * * * CALCO-jnr 2009 * * * * CALCO-jnr: CALCO Young Researchers Workshop * * September 6, 2009, Udine, Italy * * * * part of * * 3rd Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science * * September 6-12, 2009, Udine, Italy * * * *------------------------------------------------------------------* * Abstract submission: May 8, 2009 * * Author notification: May 22, 2009 * * Final abstract due: June 15, 2009 * * Full paper submission: October 15, 2009 * *------------------------------------------------------------------* * http://calco09.dimi.uniud.it/ * *------------------------------------------------------------------* CALCO 2009 will be preceded by the CALCO Young Researchers Workshop, CALCO-jnr, dedicated to presentations by PhD students and young researchers at the beginning of their careers. CALCO brings together researchers and practitioners to exchange new results related to foundational aspects and both traditional and emerging uses of algebras and coalgebras in computer science. The study of algebra and coalgebra relates to the data, process and structural aspects of software systems. This is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). The first and second, very successful CALCO conferences took place 2005 in Swansea, Wales, and 2007 in Bergen, Norway. The third event will take place 2009 in Udine, Italy. The CALCO Young Researchers Workshop, CALCO-jnr, is a CALCO satellite workshop dedicated to presentations by PhD students and by those who have completed their doctoral studies within the past few years. Attendance at the workshop is open to all - it is anticipated that many CALCO conference participants will want to attend the CALCO-jnr workshop (and vice versa). CALCO-jnr presentations will be selected according to originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of submitted 2-page abstracts, by the CALCO-jnr PC. A booklet with the abstracts of the accepted presentations will be available at the workshop. After the workshop, the author(s) of each presentation will be invited to submit a full 10-15 page paper on the same topic. They will also be asked to write (anonymous) reviews of papers submitted by other authors on related topics. Additional reviewing and the final selection of papers will be carried out by the CALCO-jnr PC. The volume of selected papers from the workshop will be published as a technical report at Udine. Authors will retain copyright, and are also encouraged to disseminate the results reported at CALCO-jnr by subsequent publication elsewhere. Topics of Interest ------------------ The CALCO Young Researchers Workshop will invite submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transition of resulting technologies into industrial practice. In particular, the workshop will encourage submissions included or related to the topics listed below. * Abstract models and logics - Automata and languages, - Categorical semantics, - Modal logics, - Relational systems, - Graph transformation, - Term rewriting, - Adhesive categories * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems, - Calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, mobile, and context-aware computing, - General systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc) * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types, - Inductive and coinductive methods, - Re-engineering techniques (program transformation), - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques, - Semantics of programming languages * System specification and verification - Algebraic and coalgebraic specification, - Formal testing and quality assurance, - Validation and verification, - Generative programming and model-driven development, - Models, correctness and (re)configuration of hardware/middleware/architectures, - Process algebra Submission ---------- Submission (pdf-file) is via e-mail to m.seisenberger at swansea.ac.uk. The use of LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) is strongly encouraged. Important Dates --------------- 8 May 2009 Deadline for 2-page abstract submission 22 May 2009 Notification of abstract selection decision 15 Jun 2009 Final version of abstract due 6 Sep 2009 CALCO Young Researchers Workshop 7-10 Sep 2009 CALCO technical programme 15 Oct 2009 Deadline for 10-15 page paper submission 15 Dec 2009 Notification of paper selection decision 20 Jan 2010 Final version of paper due Programme Committee ------------------- * Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen, Norway http://www.ii.uib.no/~magne/ * Marina Lenisa, University of Udine, Italy http://sole.dimi.uniud.it/~marina.lenisa/ * John Power, University of Bath, UK http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/department/contact-department/academic-staff/dr-john-power.html * Monika Seisenberger, Swansea University, UK http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csmona/ -- CALCO-jnr 2009: http://calco09.dimi.uniud.it/calcojnr.html CALCO 2009: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/calco09/ From soloviev at irit.fr Sun Mar 29 15:57:57 2009 From: soloviev at irit.fr (soloviev@irit.fr) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:57:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] a workshop on commutativity of diagrams, Toulouse Message-ID: CAM-CAD Workshop on Computer Algebra Methods and Commutativity of Algebraic Diagrams IRIT, Toulouse (France) October 2009 *** FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** *** AND *** *** PAPERS *** Categorical diagrams have multiple applications in mathematics (algebra, topology) and computer science (models and metamodels, rewriting systems, higher order languages). Diagrams (understood less strictly) can be found in physics, chemistry and other scientific domains. One meets many similar problems in computer-assisted treatment of diagrams in all these domains concerning algorithms, graphic interfaces, interaction with systems of computer algebra and other software. In spite of importance of diagrammatic methods, they are relatively little developped and underrepresented in the world of computer-assisted reasoning. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on these subjects, to assess the current state of the art and identify open problems and future research directions. The main topics may be listed (non-exhaustively) as follows: algorithms that may be used in computer-assisted treatment of diagrams, treatment of diagrams in existing computer algebra systems, formal developments related to diagrams and category theory in proof-assistants, user interfaces and graphics for categorical diagrams. There will be space for talks presenting original work, work in progress, applications, survey of previous works. We plan to provide sufficient time for discussions. Details on paper submission will be given in a further announcement. Papers presented at the workshop will be published on the web site of the workshop and may be selected for submission, in complete and revised form, to a special issue of an international journal, in case their number and quality justify it. Important dates: Submission deadline: send short abstract (title) by 30 June 2009 by e-mail to soloviev at irit.fr send either a full paper or an extended abstract by 30 September 2009 Workshop: Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October 2009 Organising/program committee: P. Damphousse (Universite de Tours) Y. Lafont (IML, Universite Aix-Marseille 2) R. Matthes (IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) S. Soloviev (IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Local organisation: S. Soloviev R. Matthes A. El Khoury Contact: Sergei Soloviev IRIT University Toulouse-3 118, route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse France E-mail: soloviev at irit.fr Tel: (+33) 5 61 55 62 55 Fax: (+33) 5 61 55 62 58 -- From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Mon Mar 30 03:53:14 2009 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco T. Vasconcelos) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:53:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post doc position in Lisbon Message-ID: A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In current object-oriented languages, programmers are forced to implement relationships or roles "by hand" (using pointers and collections), leading to a disconnect between models and implementations. This disconnect causes numerous problems across the software engineering life cycle: most importantly, implementations become cumbersome because relationships are represented by several code fragments, scattered throughout the application code, resulting in code fragility. Since current mainstream languages lack appropriate support for heap querying, programmers are further burdened with crafting code to query relationships and check their consistency. As software systems grow and become increasingly complex this disconnect causes problems not only for implementers but also for code maintainers. In response, a growing number of researchers in the software community are investigating adding first-class support for relationships and heap queries to current programming languages. Interest in first-class support for such constructs is not limited to programming language research. Program analysis, for instance, could benefit from the decreased use of pointers and transparent persistence could benefit from explicit queries. In this workshop, we plan to gather researchers in the programming language community who are working on relationship-based systems to share their research and to discuss the future of relationship-based constructs in programming languages. We are interested in input from members of the programming language community but also in input from members of related areas (e.g. databases, model-driven development) and domains (e.g., program analysis, orthogonal persistence, type systems) who are using relationships. Some particular areas of interest are: - relationship-based programming languages - using libraries/frameworks to support relationships - first-class queries - database integration - serialization or persistence using relationships - system and framework design using relationships - understanding or visualizing programs - ownership and related techniques - dynamic analysis of relationship usage SUBMISSIONS Prospective participants are invited to submit a paper that should fall into one of two categories: - long paper (max. 8 pages) that describes new work on the above or related topics - short paper (max. 4 pages) that can describe work-in-progress, report on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose speculative new approaches The selected papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: April 8, 2009 Notification: May 8, 2009 Workshop date: July 7, 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Uwe Assmann (TU Dresden, Germany) Guido Boella (University of Torino) Achim D. Brucker (SAP Research, Germany) Stephane Ducasse (INRIA Lille, France) Susan Eisenbach (Imperial College London, UK) Manuel Fahndrich (Microsoft Research, USA) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) David J. Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversit?t in Hagen, Germany) Mandana Vaziri (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Stephanie Balzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Gavin Bierman (Microsoft Research, UK) Stephen Nelson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Frank Tip (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) From jelena at imft.ftn.ns.ac.yu Fri Mar 27 16:17:52 2009 From: jelena at imft.ftn.ns.ac.yu (Jelena Ivetic) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:17:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FIT 2009 summer school Message-ID: <49CD3470.8070807@imft.ftn.ns.ac.yu> =============================================================== Call for Participation: FIT 2009 summer school Novi Sad, Serbia 14-27 June, 2009. http://cms.uns.ac.rs/fit2009 =============================================================== We are pleased to announce The Summer School on Foundations of Information Technologies, FIT 2009, which will be held in Novi Sad, in Serbia, between June 14 and June 27, 2009. It will offer a number of PhD courses for all the students, from Serbia and abroad, interested in this field. In addition to the lectures on selected topics related to the theory and applications of Information technologies, students will have an opportunity to work in small teams on specific scientific assignments. The organizers of FIT 2009 are Faculty of Technical Sciences , University of Novi Sad and Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , Belgrade. The FIT Summer School is supported by the TEMPUS Programme through the Project "Doctoral School towards European Knowledge Society - DEUKS ". The lecturers are professors from the partner institutions in the DEUKS Project: Universita degli Studi di Udine (Italy), Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) and INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France). The FIT summer school will offer 6 courses, divided into 3 modules: Module 1: 1. Gian Luca Foresti:* *Artificial Vision. 2. Roberto Ranon: Interactive 3D Graphics. Module 2: 1. Furio Honsell, Pietro* *Di Gianantonio*:/ /*Semantics of Programming Languages. 2. Salvador Lucas: Introduction to Term Rewriting: Techniques and Applications. Module 3: 1. Marina Lenisa,Ivan Scagnetto:/ /Concurrent and global computing. 2. Luigi Liquori:/ /Overlay and P2P networks. Guest lecturers will be Prof. Pierre Lescanne, Ecole normale superieure de Lyon, France; Prof. Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Universita di Torino, Italy and Prof. Pawel Urzyczyn, University of Warsaw, Poland. Each of the 6 listed summer school courses will consist of ? 6 hours of lecture, ? 6 hours of individual research and ? final presentations of the results of the Students' Presentation Session. Application In order to apply, students should send an e-mail to fit2009 at imft.ftn.ns.ac.yu providing their name, address, institution and level of studies. A recommendation letter written and signed by student?s scientific supervisor is required. It can be sent by e-mail. There is no fee for the lectures. Costs of accommodation and meals are to be covered by participants. A limited number of rooms in a student dormitory will be available - price up to 10 euro per night. Meals in a student restaurant can be organized upon request. Please contact the organizers. Scientific Committee: Marina Lenisa, Universit? degli Studi di Udine, Italy (/co-chair/); Luigi Liquori, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France ; Salvador Lucas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain; Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (/co-chair/); Jovanka Pantovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; Mila Stojakovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; Natasa Sladoje, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; Zoran Ognjanovic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade, Serbia; Zoran Markovic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade, Serbia; Miodrag Mihaljevic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade, Serbia. Organizing Committee: Ilija Kovacevic, University of Novi Sad; Tatjana Davidovic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade; Jelena Ivetic, University of Novi Sad; Svetlana Jaksic, University of Novi Sad; Tibor Lukic, University of Novi Sad; Vladimir Curic, University of Novi Sad; Bojan Marinkovic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade; Petar Maksimovic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade; Stefana Janicijevic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade. Please visit the FIT website or contact Jelena Ivetic: fit2009 at imft.ftn.ns.ac.yu for all additional information. From rossberg at ps.uni-sb.de Mon Mar 30 11:15:24 2009 From: rossberg at ps.uni-sb.de (rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:15:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: ML 2009 Message-ID: <63311.93.128.21.166.1238426124.squirrel@ps.uni-sb.de> CALL FOR PAPERS The 2009 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML To be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 on Sunday, August 30, 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/ml2009/ 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 provide a forum to encourage discussion and research on ML and related technology (higher-order, typed, or strict languages). The 2009 Work shop on ML will be held in conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2009) in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Previous instances were ML 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia, ML 2006 in Portland, Oregon, USA, ML 2007 in Freiburg, Germany, and ML 2008 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada). IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Monday, May 11, 2009 (earlier than in past years!) Notification: Friday, May 29, 2009 Final revision: Monday, June 15, 2009 Workshop: Sunday, August 30, 2009 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We seek papers on topics related to ML, including, but not limited to: * applications: case studies, experience reports, pearls, etc. * extensions: higher forms of polymorphism, generic programming, objects, concurrency, distribution and mobility, semi-structured data handling, etc. * type systems: inference, effects, overloading, modules, contracts, specifications and assertions, dynamic typing, error reporting, etc. * implementation: compilers, interpreters, type checkers, partial evaluators, runtime systems, garbage collectors, etc. * environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language interoperability, functional data structures, etc. * semantics: operational, denotational, program equivalence, parametricity, mechanization, etc. Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, ML-related projects, or informed positions regarding proposals for next-generation ML-style 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 in English and at most 12 pages total length in the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference format (9pt). 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 Workshop web page. PROGRAM CHAIR Andreas Rossberg (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Umut Acar (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Damien Doligez (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) Neal Glew (Intel) Andrew Gordon (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Patricia Johann (University of Strathclyde) Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC) Neelakantan Krishnaswami (Carnegie Mellon University) David MacQueen (University of Chicago) Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University) STEERING COMMITTEE See the ML Workshop series home page at: http://www.tti-c.org/blume/ml-workshop/ From Dave.Clarke at cs.kuleuven.be Mon Mar 30 12:43:22 2009 From: Dave.Clarke at cs.kuleuven.be (Dave Clarke) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:43:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2009 Call for Participation Message-ID: <200903301643.n2UGhMNN004609@leo.cs.kuleuven.be.> ECOOP'2009 23rd European Conference on Object Oriented Programming July 6th - 10th 2009, Genova, Italy http://2009.ecoop.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ECOOP is the premier forum in Europe for bringing together practitioners, researchers, and students to share their ideas and experiences in a broad range of disciplines woven with the common thread of object technology. It is a well-integrated collage of events, including outstanding invited speakers, carefully refereed technical papers, exciting tutorials, topic-focused workshops, and a summer school. ECOOP 2008 has opened its doors for registration. Early registration lasts until May 20, 2009. http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/registration.html The program is taking shape and promises another exciting scientific event: Technical Program (list of accepted papers follows): http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/accepted-papers.html Workshops: http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/workshops.html Tutorials: http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/workshops.html --- Dave Clarke, ECOOP 2009 Publicity Chair From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Mon Mar 30 13:31:57 2009 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:31:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSLLI 2009 - Second Call for Participation Message-ID: <9885927A-AF71-45E5-B088-572025AAECED@labri.fr> 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in Bordeaux, recently selected as a Unesco World Heritage site. = Course Program = ESSLLI gathers about 500 people and offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 6 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php = Registration = Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. *Early registration deadline*: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php = Grants and Volunteers = There is a limited number of fee waivers available for students who want to spend some time assisting the organizing committee during ESSLLI. *Application deadline*: 19 April 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/grants.php We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux this summer! On behalf of the ESSLLI organizing committee Richard Moot From peterd at chalmers.se Mon Mar 30 13:48:59 2009 From: peterd at chalmers.se (Peter Dybjer) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:48:59 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Conference in Uppsala, May 5-8: Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics (2nd announcement) Message-ID: <561ED36E-5914-479C-95C9-52E1C44C771B@chalmers.se> This conference may perhaps be of interest to the readers of this list Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics : Epistemological and Ontological Aspects, at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, May 5-8, 2009 - a conference dedicated to Per Martin-L?f on the occasion of his retirement. Speakers Peter Aczel: TBA Mark van Atten: Different times: Kant and Brouwer on real numbers Steve Awodey: Type theory and homotopy theory Thierry Coquand: Forcing and type theory Peter Dybjer: Program testing and constructive validity Juliet Floyd: Wittgenstein, G?del and Turing Jean-Yves Girard: Towards non-commutative foundations Sten Lindstr?m: The Curry-Fitch's knowability paradox revisited Per Martin-L?f: Logic: epistemological or ontological? Colin McLarty: Identity and existence in categorical foundations Peter Pagin: Assertion, truth and judgment Erik Palmgren: Formal topology and foundational problems Christine Paulin-Mohring: Reasoning on randomized programs in Coq Jan von Plato: Aristotles deductive logic: a proof-theoretical study Dag Prawitz: TBA Aarne Ranta: Levels of abstraction in language and logic Michael Rathjen: The boundaries of intuitionistic type theory Giovanni Sambin: A minimalist foundation of mathematics Anton Setzer: Coalgebras as types determined by their elimination rules Stewart Shapiro: An "i" for an i: singular terms, uniqueness and reference Wilfried Sieg: Reductive structuralism Jan Smith: Can Hume's analysis of causality tell us something about the rules of logic? S?ren Stenlund: On the notion finite numbers G?ran Sundholm: Three key-features of Martin-L?f's philosophy of logic William Tait: The myth of intuition Jouko V??n?nen: Second order logic, set theory and foundations of mathematics Scope and aim The aim of the conference is to bring together philosophers, mathematicians, and logicians to penetrate current and historically important problems in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics. Swedish logicians and philosophers have made important contributions to the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, at least since the end of the 1960s. In philosophy, one has been concerned with the opposition between constructivism and classical mathematics and the different ontological and epistemological views that are reflected in this opposition. A central philosophical question concerns the nature of the abstract entities of mathematics: do they exist independently of our epistemic acts (realism, or Platonism) or are they somehow constituted by these acts (idealism)? Significant contributions have been made to the foundations of mathematics, for example in proof theory, proof-theoretic semantics and constructive type theory. These contributions have had a strong impact on areas of computer science, e.g. through Martin-L?f's type theory. Two important alternative foundational programmes that are actively pursued today are predicativistic constructivism and category-theoretic foundations. Predicativistic constructivism can be based on Martin-L?f constructive type theory, Aczel's constructive set theory, or similar systems. The practice of the Bishop school of constructive mathematics fits well into this framework. Associated philosophical foundations are meaning theories in the tradition of Wittgenstein, Dummett, Prawitz and Martin-L?f. What is the relation between proof-theoretical semantics in the tradition of Gentzen, Prawitz, and Martin-L?f and Wittgensteinian or other accounts of meaning-as-use? What can proof-theoretical analysis tell us about the scope and limits of constructive and (generalized) predicative mathematics? To what extent is it possible to reduce classical mathematical frameworks to constructive ones? Such reductions often reveal computational content of classical existence proofs. Is computational content enough to solve the epistemological questions? A central concern for the conference will be to compare the different foundational frameworks - classical set theory, constructive type theory, and category theory - both from a philosophical and a logical point of view. The general theme of the conference, however, will be broader and encompass different areas of philosophy and foundations of mathematics, in particular the interplay between ontological and epistemological considerations. Venue The workshop will take place at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Linneanum, Thunbergsv?gen 2, Uppsala, Sweden. Organization and programme committee Peter Dybjer, Sten Lindstr?m, Erik Palmgren (Chair), Dag Prawitz, S?ren Stenlund, Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen. Programme The scientific programme starts at 10.00 on Tuesday, May 5 and ends at 16.00 on Friday, May 8. A conference dinner is planned for Friday evening. More details about the programme will appear in a few weeks. Attendance Attendance is open, and there is no registration fee. However, anyone planning to attend should preregister by emailing PFM at math.uu.se no later than April 15, 2009. (For reasons of space the number of participants will be limited to 90.) Sponsors Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsr?det) - Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University - Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Uppsala University - Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University - The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala - Swedish National Committee for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Webpage http://www.math.uu.se/PFM/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090330/c402c5b6/attachment-0001.htm From Bob.Coecke at comlab.ox.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 17:26:04 2009 From: Bob.Coecke at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Bob Coecke) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:26:04 +0100 (BST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Quantum Physics and Logic - Oxford April 8-9 Message-ID: The program of: The 6th QPL workshop Quantum Physics and Logic April 8-9, 2009, Oxford University, UK http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Bob.Coecke/QPL_09.html Is now available from: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.coecke/QPL_09_program.html There is no formal registration. There is a non-compulsory small registration fee to cover the coffee breaks, and for a copy of the proceedings. So just show up if you're interested. The location is Lecture Theatre B of Oxford University Computing Laboratory, at the corner of Keble rd and Parks rd. From Manuela.Bujorianu at manchester.ac.uk Tue Mar 31 17:09:24 2009 From: Manuela.Bujorianu at manchester.ac.uk (Manuela Bujorianu) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:09:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First CFP: FMA - Formal Methods for Aerospace Message-ID: <20090331220924.1118387to4e84c5c@webmail.manchester.ac.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Formal Methods for Aerospace (FMA) A satellite workshop of the 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods-FM Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 3rd November 2009 http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Manuela.Bujorianu/FMA.htm PDF version: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael/fma09cfp.pdf BACKGROUND: Aerospace systems are not only safety critical, but also mission critical, and often have very high performance requirements. For example, while there is no safety issue regarding a planetary rover, the system performance must justify the great cost of deploying it. Consequently, if we are to tackle to development and analysis of aeronautical systems is a formal way, we must enrich traditional formal methods with new (or, at least, rarely investigated) research issues. This naturally leads to a interdisciplinary approach, which might: underline the importance of some research problems from aeronautics to the formal method community; and promote new formal techniques combining principles from artificial intelligence and control engineering. The source of new problems comes from the great diversity of aeronautical systems, including satellites, UAVs, terrestrial or other kinds of flying robots. These systems can be involved in complex activities such as space exploration, telecommunications support, fire detection, geo-mapping, weather prognoses, geo-rectification, search & rescue, traffic surveillance, target tracking, etc. From these applications, concepts such as autonomy, collective behaviour, information fusion, cognitive skills, coordination, flocking, are required and new solutions, such as digital pheromones, swarms, system of systems of robots, sensing, physical actuation, are developed. Considering this rich landscape of research problems and potential solutions, interdisciplinarity seems to be the most natural route. Formal methods could benefit from integration with well-developed methods from other disciplines. Many such opportunities are easily at hand, for example the coordination of UAVs or satellites, which have been successfully tackled using various techniques from control engineering and numerical tools from dynamic programming. In addition, there exist an abundance of examples of the use of artificial intelligence techniques in aeronautics (target tracking, rover planning, multi-agent technologies and so on). The implementation of these methods could benefit from formal development. Conversely, from the cross-fertilization of multidisciplinary approaches we can expect more robust, safe and mechanizable development and verification methods for aerospace systems. AIM AND SCOPE: The main workshop objective is to promote a holistic view and interdisciplinary methods for design, verification and co-ordination of aeronautical systems, by combining formal methods with techniques from control engineering and artificial intelligence. The very demanding safety, robustness and performance requirements of these systems require unprecedented integration of heterogeneous techniques and models. The aim of FMA is to bring together active researchers from all the above areas to discuss and present their work. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to (all with a focus on potential application in aerospace design or engineering): new modeling paradigms formal verification of safety and performance properties combining formal and analytical techniques in modeling and verification heterogeneous and hybrid system models probabilistic and stochastic modeling and verification methods agent technologies multi-agent coordination runtime monitoring trajectory specification languages runtime monitoring PAPER SUBMISSION: We invite submissions of high quality, original papers in the above areas. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages including figures, references, etc. At least one author of the accepted papers should register at the workshop. Submissions must be made via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fma09. The pre-proceedings will be available as an online technical report and disseminated at the workshop. We are in negotiation for a journal special issue for selected (extended and revised) papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: 21st August 2009 Notification of acceptance: 28th September 2009 Camera Ready Copy due: 11th October 2009 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Manuela Bujorianu (Manchester, UK) Michael Fisher (Liverpool, UK) Corina Pasareanu (CMU (SV), USA) Programme Committee: Howard Barringer (Manchester, UK) Marius Bozga (Verimag, FR) Ricky Butler (NASA, USA) Ernst-Erich Doberkat (Dortmund, DE) Alessandro Giua (Cagliari, IT) Jianghai Hu (Purdue, USA) Rom Langerak (Twente, NL) John Lygeros (Zurich, CH) Savi Maharaj (Stirling, UK) Tiziana Margaria (Potsdam, DE) Cesar Munoz (NASA, USA) Flemming Nielson (DTU, DK) Dusko Pavlovic (Oxford, UK) Cristina Seceleanu (Malardalen, SE) Roberto Segala (Verona, IT) Ferucio Tiplea (Iasi, RO) Antonios Tsourdos (Cranfield, UK) Mike Whalen (Minnesota, USA) Virginie Wiels (ONERA, FR) From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Wed Apr 1 11:32:11 2009 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:32:11 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DEFUN09: Call for Talks & Tutorials (co-located w/ ICFP09) Message-ID: <53ff55480904010832n4004d2b6o19e24b5f09b547a4@mail.gmail.com> Call for Talks and Tutorials ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Developer Tracks on Functional Programming http://www.defun2009.info/ Edinburgh, Scotland, September 3 and 5, 2009 The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html Important dates Proposal Deadline: June 5, 2009, 0:00 UTC Notification: June 19, 2009 DEFUN 2009 invites functional programmers and researchers who know how to solve problems with functional programming to give talks and lead tutorials at the The ICFP Developer Tracks. We want to know about your favorite programming techniques, powerful libraries, and engineering approaches you've used that the world should know about and apply to other projects. We want to know how to be productive using functional programming, write better code, and avoid common pitfalls. We invite proposals for presentations in the following categories. Lightning talks 5- to 10-minute talks that introduce exciting and promising research or techniques that may be in progress or not yet ready for widespread use, but that offer a glimpse into the near future of real world functional programming. Examples: * Clustered high performance computing in a functional language * Making advanced type systems more accessible to working programmers * How and why we're infiltrating category theory info industry How-to talks 45-minute "how-to" talks that provide specific information on how to solve specific problems using functional programming. These talks focus on concrete examples, but provide useful information for developers working on different projects or in different contexts. Examples: * "How I use Haskell for oilfield simulations." * "How I replaced /sbin/init by a Scheme program." * "How I hooked up my home appliances to an Erlang control system." * "How I got an SML program to drive my BMW." General language tutorials Half-day general language tutorials for specific functional languages, given by recognized experts for the respective languages. Technology tutorials Half-day tutorials on techniques, technologies, or solving specific problems in functional programming. Examples: * How to make the best use of specific FP programming techniques * How to inject FP into a development team used to more conventional technologies * How to connect FP to existing libraries / frameworks / platforms * How to deliver high-performance systems with FP * How to deliver high-reliability systems with FP Remember that your audience will include computing professionals who are not academics and who may not already be experts on functional programming. Presenters of tutorials will receive free registration to CUFP 2009. Submission guidelines Submit a proposal of 150 words or less for either a 45-minute talk with a short Q&A session at the end, or a 300-word-or-less proposal for a 3-hour tutorial, where you present your material, but also give participants a chance to practice it on their own laptops. Some advice: * Give it a simple and straightforward title or name; avoid fancy titles or puns that would make it harder for attendees to figure out what you'll be talking about. * Clearly identify the level of the talk: What knowledge should people have when they come to the presentation or tutorial? * Explain why people will want to attend: o Is the language or library useful for a wide range of attendees? o Is the pitfall you're identifying common enough that a wide range of attendees is likely to encounter it? * Explain what benefits attendees are expected to take home to their own projects. * For a tutorial, explain how you want to structure the time, and what you expect to have attendees to do on their laptops. List what software you'll expect attendees to have installed prior to coming. Submit your proposal in plain text electronically to defun-2009-submissions at serpentine.com by the beginning of Friday, June 5 2009, Universal Coordinated Time. Organizers * Yaron Minsky (Jane Street Capital) * Ulf Wiger (Erlang Training and Consulting) * Mike Sperber - co-chair (DeinProgramm) * Bryan O'Sullivan - co-chair (Linden Lab) From fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es Wed Apr 1 11:07:24 2009 From: fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es (FMICS 2009 workshop chair) Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:07:24 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [FMICS 2009] Deadline Extension to 10 April Message-ID: <49D3832C.1040100@dsic.upv.es> FMICS 2009 - DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 10 APRIL Please visit: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/fmics2009 ************************************************************ * 14th International Workshop on * * Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems * * FMICS 2009 * * * * November 2-3, 2009 * * Eindhoven, The Netherlands * ************************************************************ * ** NEWS ** * * * * >> New deadline for abstracts: 10 April * * >> New deadline for papers (firm): 17 April * * * ************************************************************ From ardubois at gmail.com Wed Apr 1 15:30:54 2009 From: ardubois at gmail.com (Andre Rauber Du Bois) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:30:54 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SBLP 2009 (NEW DEADLINE) Message-ID: <3ab4946a0904011230sa36299k7890aed3587daa15@mail.gmail.com> Hi, we are sorry for multiple posting. 13th BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES Abstract Submission: April, 13 (New submission deadline) Paper Submission: April, 20 (New submission deadline) ** We are currently in contact with Elsevier to have a special issue with selected papers in the Science of Computer Programming Journal ** Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil August 19-21, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS The 13th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, SBLP 2009, will be held in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on August 19-21, 2008. SBLP provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in the fundamental principles and innovations in the design and implementation of programming languages and systems. This year the symposium will be co-located with the Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF), which will happen in the same week and in the same venue. SBLP 2009 invites authors to contribute with Technical Papers and Tutorial Proposals related (but not limited) to: * Programming language design and implementation * Formal semantics of programming languages * Theoretical foundations of programming languages * Design and implementation of programming language environments * Object-oriented programming languages * Functional programming * Aspect-oriented programming languages * Scripting languages * Domain-specific languages * Programming languages for mobile, web and network computing * New programming models * Program transformations * Program analysis and verification * Compilation and interpretation techniques Contributions can be written in Portuguese or English. Papers should have at most 14 pages. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers written in English should be invited for a journal publication. ** We are currently in contact with Elsevier to have a special issue with selected papers. ** Papers should be presented in the language of submission. Tutorial submissions must be in the form of an extended abstract with at most 10 pages. The final version of accepted tutorials should contain at most 30 pages. This final version will be distributed to attendees. An abstract of the tutorial (1-2 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings. All papers must follow the Brazilian Computer Society paper guidelines available at: http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&content=downloads&id=286 Detailed submission guidelines will be available at http://sblp2009.ucpel.tche.br IMPORTANT DATES Paper abstract submission (15 lines): (NEW) April 13, 2009 Full paper submission: (NEW) April 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2009 Final papers due: June 30, 2009 BEST PAPER AWARD Awards will be given for the best papers at the symposium. GENERAL CHAIR Andre Rauber Du Bois, UCPel PROGRAMME CHAIRS Andre Santos, UFPE, Brazil, Joao Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alberto Pardo, Univ. de La Republica Alex Garcia, IME Alfio Martini, PUC-RS Alvaro Freitas Moreira, UFRGS Andre Rauber Du Bois, UCPel Carlos Camarao, UFMG Christiano Braga, Univ. Comp. de Madrid Cristiano Damiani, UFPEL Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio Eric Tanter, Univ. of Chile Fernando Castor Filho, UFPE Francisco Heron de Carvalho Junior, UFC Isabel Cafezeiro, UFF Johan Jeuring, Utrecht Univ. Jose Guimaraes, UFSCAR Jose E. Labra Gayo, Univ. of Oviedo Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Univ. of Leicester Lucilia Figueiredo, UFOP Luis Soares Barbosa, Univ. do Minho Luis Carlos Meneses, UPE Marcelo A. Maia, UFU Marco Tulio Valente, PUC Minas Mariza A. S. Bigonha, UFMG Martin A. Musicante, UFRN Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio Paulo Borba, UFPE Peter Mosses, Swansea University Rafael Dueire Lins, UFPE Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio Ricardo Massa Lima, UFPE Roberto S. Bigonha, UFMG Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo, UNICAMP Sandro Rigo, UNICAMP Sergio de Mello Schneider, UFU Sergio Soares, UFRPE Sergiu Dascalu, Univ. of Nevada Simon Thompson, Univ. of Kent Varmo Vene, Univ. de Tartu Vladimir Di Iorio, UFV Vitor Santos Costa, UFRJ ORGANIZATION Brazilian Computer Society and Universidade Catolica de Pelotas From david.pichardie at irisa.fr Wed Apr 1 15:48:10 2009 From: david.pichardie at irisa.fr (David Pichardie) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:48:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First CFP: PCC 2009 Message-ID: <56A0F185-C1CE-4460-86D4-957AD54500CE@irisa.fr> (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS PCC 2009 3rd International Workshop on Proof Carrying Code and Software Certification August 15, 2009 Affiliated with LICS'09 Los Angeles, California, USA http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/event/pcc09/ ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Papers due: May 29, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 22, 2009 Final version due: July 10, 2009 SCOPE ----- Software certification demonstrates the reliability, safety, or security of software systems in such a way that it can be checked by an independent authority with minimal trust in the techniques and tools used in the certification process itself. It can build on existing validation and verification (V&V) techniques but introduces the notion of explicit software certificates, which contain all the information necessary for an independent assessment of the demonstrated properties. One such example is proof-carrying code (PCC) which 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 logic-based software certification as well as practical examples and work on alternative application domains. Here "certificate" is construed broadly, to include not just mathematical derivations and proofs but also safety and assurance cases, or any formal evidence that supports the semantic 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 guarantees mean that software certificates raise 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. In addition to the contributed talks, the workshop will feature two invited talks. SUBMISSION ---------- Two types of submissions are solicited: - Standard papers (at most 10 pages) describing novel research results. - Short papers (at most 5 pages) describing a novel idea that is work-in-progress. Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, in PDF format via the EasyChair submission web page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcc09 All submissions will be fully reviewed. PUBLICATION ----------- Proceedings will be made available in electronic format as a technical report. A follow-up special issue of a journal on the topics of proof-carrying code and software certification is under consideration. 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Mathematics conferences allow for informal presentations that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The format of computer science conferences with pre-conference proceedings is not able to accommodate this form of scientific communication. Again continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, this year's CiE conference endeavours to get the best of both worlds. In addition to the formal presentations based on our LNCS proceedings volume, we invite researchers to present informal presentations. For this, please send us a brief description of your talk (between one paragraph and half a page) by the DEADLINE: 1 JUNE 2009. Please submit your abstract by sending an informal email to our contact address: logic at math.uni-heidelberg.de You will be notified whether your talk has been accepted for informal presentation usually within a week after your submission. Let us remind you that we are planning several post-conference publications, which will contain full articles of selected CiE 2009 presentations, including informal presentations. *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of applications for ASL Student Grants: APRIL 19 Early registration deadline: MAY 15 Submission of informal presentations: JUNE 1 Late registration deadline: JULY 12 *********************************************************************** DETAILS OF PROGRAMME: TUTORIALS: Pavel Pudlak (Prague), Luca Trevisan (Berkeley). INVITED SPEAKERS: Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur), Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh), Phokion Kolaitis (San Jose), Peter Koepke (Bonn), Andrea Sorbi (Siena), Rafael D. Sorkin (Syracuse), Vijay Vazirani (Atlanta). SPECIAL SESSIONS: Algorithmic Randomness (Chairs: E. Mayordomo, W. Merkle). Confirmed invited speakers: Laurent Bienvenu, Bjoern Kjos-Hanssen, Jack Lutz, Nikolai Vereshchagin. Computational Model Theory (Chairs: J. Knight, A. Morozov). Confirmed invited speakers: Ekaterina Fokina, Sergey Goncharov, Russell Miller, Antonio Montalban. Computation in Biological Systems - Theory and Practice (Chairs: A. Carbone, E. Csuhaj-Varju). Confirmed invited speakers: Ion Petre, Alberto Policriti, Francisco J. Romero-Campero, David Westhead. Optimization and Approximation (Chairs: M. Halldorsson, G. Reinelt). Cornfirmed invited speakers: Jean Cardinal, Friedrich Eisenbrand, Harald Raecke, Marc Uetz. Philosophical and Mathematical Aspects of Hypercomputation (Chairs: J. Ladyman, P. Welch). Confirmed invited speakers: Tim Button, Samuel Coskey, Mark Hogarth. Relative Computability (Chairs: R. Downey, A. Soskova). Confirmed invited speakers: Hristo Ganchev, Keng Meng Ng, Richard Shore, George Barmpalias. For details of accepted contributed papers for CiE 2009 see: http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/logic/cie2009/pr_contributed.php *********************************************************************** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Klaus Ambos-Spies (Heidelberg, co-chair), Giorgio Ausiello (Rome), Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana), Arnold Beckmann (Swansea), Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau), Vasco Brattka (Cape Town), Barry Cooper (Leeds), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge), Jacques Duparc (Lausanne), Pascal Hitzler (Karlsruhe), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht), Margarita Korovina (Siegen/Novosibirsk), Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol), Daniel Leivant (Bloomington), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam), Giancarlo Mauri (Milan), Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza), Wolfgang Merkle (Heidelberg, co-chair), Andrei Morozov (Novosibirsk), Dag Normann (Oslo), Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon), Luke Ong (Oxford), Martin Otto (Darmstadt), Prakash Panangaden (Montreal), Ivan Soskov (Sofia), Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen (Uppsala), Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam), Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht), Philip Welch (Bristol), Richard Zach (Calgary) *********************************************************************** Contact: logic at math.uni-heidelberg.de *********************************************************************** From Matthew.Parkinson at cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 1 16:06:58 2009 From: Matthew.Parkinson at cl.cam.ac.uk (Matthew Parkinson) Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:06:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IWACO 2009 Final call for papers Message-ID: Call For Papers International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in object-oriented programming (IWACO) at ECOOP 2009 July 6 or 7, 2009, Genova, Italy www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/wrigstad/iwaco09 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, separation logic, 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 * programming logics that deal with aliasing, or use ownership, confinement or resourcing; * applications of aliasing management techniques such as ownership types, ownership domains, confined types, region types, and uniqueness to concurrency and reasoning. 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. Program Committee Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge, Chair) Cristiano Calcagno (Imperial College) Nicholas Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington) Christian Haack (Aicas Realtime, Karlsruhe) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research) Yu David Liu (SUNY Binghamton) Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Aleks Nanevski (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Noam Rinetzky (Queen Mary University) Tian Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Important Dates Submission: April 8, 2009 Notification: May 8, 2009 Final Version: June 19, 2009 Workshop: July 6 or 7, 2009 Organisers Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London) Dave Clarke (KU Leuven) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Tobias Wrigstad (Purdue University) Peter MŸller (ETH Zurich) Participation The number of participants is limited. Apart from those with accepted papers, others may attend by sending an email to Matthew Parkinson (mjp41 at cl.cam.ac.uk) 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 submitted to easychair by April 8, 2009. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwaco2009 Submissions should be in English. Queries Queries may be directed to Matthew Parkinson (mjp41 at cl.cam.ac.uk). From rseba at disi.unitn.it Thu Apr 2 03:41:36 2009 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:41:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FroCoS'09 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20090402074136.GA22424@disi.unitn.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers 7th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS?09) Trento, Italy, September 16-18th, 2009 http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/ MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FROCOS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FROCOS?09 wants to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems (with emphasis on logic-based ones), and of their practical use. RELEVANT TOPICS Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of CS techniques; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into CLP formalisms and deduction processes; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEAKERS * Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy * Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria * Boris Motik, Oxford University, UK * Ashish Tiwari, SRI International, USA PAPER SUBMISSION 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. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Papers must be edited in LATEX using the llncs style and be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos09. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Further information about paper submission is available at FROCOS?09 web page. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of FroCoS?09 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 26th, 2009 Full paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy: June 22th, 2009 Conference: September 16-18th 2009 CHAIRS - Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy - Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany - Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Camberra, Australia - Torben Brauner, Roskilde University, DK - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA - Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria - Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA - Viktor Kuncak, E.P.F. Lausanne, Switzerland - Albert Oliveras, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Silvio Ranise, University of Verona, Italy - Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France - Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Luciano Serafini, FBK-Irst, Italy - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbruken, Germany - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Zakharyaschev, London Knowledge Lab, UK From voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Apr 2 10:18:09 2009 From: voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Janis Voigtlaender) Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:18:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Fourth Working Conference on Programming Languages (ATPS'09) Message-ID: <49D4C921.9070609@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Fourth Working Conference on Programming Languages (ATPS'09) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/atps09/ Part of the 39th annual conference of the German Gesellschaft f?r Informatik Luebeck (Germany), 28.9.-2.10. 2009 The conference aims at bringing together researchers and developers interested in the area of programming languages. The conference addresses all paradigms of programming languages: imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, concurrent, parallel, or graphical programming languages, as well as languages to support the implementation of distributed systems and concepts for the integration of different paradigms. The first three Working Conferences on Programming Languages took place as part of the annual computer science conferences in Germany (Aachen 1997, Paderborn 1999, Ulm 2004). Typical but not exclusive topics are: * Design of programming languages as well as domain-specific languages * Implementation and optimization techniques * Analysis and transformation of programs * Type systems * Semantics and specification techniques * Modelling languages, object orientation * Internet programming * Verification of programs and implementations * Tools and programming environments * Frameworks, architectures, generative approaches * Experiences with specific applications * Relations between languages, architectures, processors Techniques, methods, concepts, and tools to improve the safety and reliability of programs are also of interest. The conference also welcomes contributions from enterprises. Submissions: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submitted papers must be written in English or German and should contain unpublished works. Contributions will be judged by relevance, originality, correctness, and readability. The significance should be clearly stated and compared to existing works. Contributions should not exceed 15 pages (LNI style, see http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/autorenrichtlinien/). They must be submitted in PostScript or PDF format until April 26, 2009. Detailed information about the electronic submission is available at the web page of the conference: http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/atps09/ It is also intended to organize a session with short presentations about unfinished projects and experience reports. Such short contributions should be clearly marked and submitted like other contributions as an extended abstract of no more than five pages. The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the general conference that consists of printed proceedings that will appear in the GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) with one-page abstracts and a CD containing the full papers. Import Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submission of contributions: April 26, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 25, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 1, 2009 Organization: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walter Dosch (University of Luebeck, dosch at isp.uni-luebeck.de) Michael Hanus (University of Kiel, mh at informatik.uni-kiel.de) Program Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walter Dosch (Univ. Luebeck, Co-Chair) Wolfgang Goerigk (b+m Informatik AG) Juerg Gutknecht (ETH Zuerich) Michael Hanus (Univ. Kiel, Co-Chair) Martin Hofmann (Univ. Muenchen) Petra Hofstedt (TU Berlin) Frank Huch (Univ. Kiel) Jens Knoop (TU Wien) Herbert Kuchen (Univ. Muenster) Rita Loogen (Univ. Marburg) Markus Mueller-Olm (Univ. Muenster) Helmuth Partsch (Univ. Ulm) Peter Pepper (TU Berlin) Martin Pluemicke (BA Stuttgart) Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter (Univ. Kaiserslautern) Peter Thiemann (Univ. Freiburg) Janis Voigtlaender (TU Dresden) Wolf Zimmermann (Univ. Halle) Information about the main conference: http://www.informatik2009.de From jno at di.uminho.pt Fri Apr 3 10:20:41 2009 From: jno at di.uminho.pt (J.N. Oliveira) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:20:41 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TFM09: Call for Papers (Formal Methods Week, Eindhoven, November 6th 2009) In-Reply-To: References: <6C84A9A8-448D-4BB0-8ECC-733F94618113@di.uminho.pt> <149AF668-5B86-483E-AE4A-31FCB41FAEA3@di.uminho.pt> <751CA11B-C480-4AFD-95EE-341977956B22@di.uminho.pt> <783CB463-70DA-42BB-AA3E-6FEF6D060992@di.uminho.pt> <439928F0-2402-47CA-B9D5-5DBC115FD385@di.uminho.pt> <835D2796-8A7B-4175-AD45-699D28FFC48D@di.uminho.pt> <03D358AB-5CB3-4A1F-B544-D36339BCCAE3@di.uminho.pt> Message-ID: <7AE5C171-EEE6-4ADB-B4F2-24A9F3F95D41@di.uminho.pt> TFM2009 2nd Int. FME Conference on Teaching Formal Methods "Widening Access to Formal Methods" Friday, November 6th 2009 co-located with FM2009 : 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 2 - November 6, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS (URL: http://www.di.uminho.pt/tfm09) 1. About the conference ----------------------- Ten years after the First World Formal Methods Congress (FM'99) in Toulouse, formal methods communities from all over the world will once again have an opportunity to come together. As part of the First Formal Methods Week event surrounding the FM2009 conference in Eindhoven, Formal Methods Europe will be organizing TFM2009, the Second International Conference on Teaching Formal Methods. The conference will serve as a forum to explore the successes and failures of Formal Methods (FM) education, and to promote cooperative projects to further education and training in FMs. We would like to provide a forum for lecturers, teachers, and industrial partners to discuss their experience, present their pedagogical methodologies, and explore best practices. TFM2009 follows in a series of recent events on teaching formal methods, including: two BCS-FACS TFM workshops (Oxford in 2003, and London in 2006), the TFM 2004 conference in Ghent (with proceedings published as Springer LNCS Volume 3294), the FM-Ed 2006 workshop (Hamilton, co-located with FM'06), FORMED (Budapest, at ETAPS 2008), FMET 2008 (Kitakyushu 2008, co-located with ICFEM), etc. 2. Topics of interest --------------------- Formal methods (FM) have an important role to play in the development of complex computing systems - a role acknowledged in industrial standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO/IEC 15408, and in the increasing use of precise modeling notations, semantic markup languages, and model-driven techniques. There is a growing need for software engineers who can work effectively with simple, mathematical abstractions, and with practical notions of inference and proof. However, there is little clear guidance ? for educators, for managers, or for the engineers themselves ? as to what might comprise a basic education in FM. Neither the present IEEE/ACM Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) nor the forthcoming Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum (GSWERC) provide the kind of specific information that teachers and practitioners need to establish an adequate, balanced programme of learning in FM. Original contributions are solicited that provide insight, opinions, and suggestions for courses of action regarding the teaching FMs, including but not limited to the following aspects: * experiences of teaching FMs, both successful and unsuccessful; * educational resources including the use of books, case studies and the internet; * the education of weak and mathphobic students; * the integration, or otherwise, of FMs into the curriculum, including contributions to the definition of a Formal Methods Body of Knowledge (FMBOK); * the advantages of FM-trained graduates in the workplace; * changing attitudes towards FMs in students, academic staff and practitioners; * the necessary mathematical background. Submissions may be up to 20 pages long, using the Springer LNCS format. Negotiations are under way with Springer Verlag for the publication of the proceedings of the conference in the LNCS series. 3. Important dates ------------------ Please put the following dates in your diary: Submission deadline May 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance July 6, 2009 Final version August 3, 2009 4. Invited speakers ------------------- To be announced 5. Programme Committee ---------------------- Izzat Alsmadi (North Dakota State University, USA) Dines Bjorner (IIMM Institute, Denmark) Eerke Boiten (University of Kent, UK) Raymond Boute (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College, Dublin) Jim Davies (University of Oxford, UK) David Duce (Oxford Brookes University, UK) John Fitzgerald (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford, UK) Randolph Johnson (National Security Agency, USA) Michael Mac an Airchinnigh (Trinity College, Dublin) Dino Mandrioli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Jose Oliveira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Kees Pronk (Technische Universiteit Delft, NL) Bernhard Schaetz (Tecnical University of Munique, Germany) Wolfgang Schreiner (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Simao Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) Kenji Taguchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Jeannette Wing (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Apologies for cross-posting.] *********************************************************************** Call for Papers THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION 21 -- 25 September 2009 Bakuriani, Georgia Submission deadline: 1 May 2009 Website: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi2009/ *********************************************************************** The Eighth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held on 21 -- 25 September 2009 in Bakuriani, Georgia. The Program Committee invites submissions for contributions to be presented at the Symposium. There is room for 32 contributed papers on all aspects of language, logic and computation. Work of an inter- disciplinary nature is particularly welcome. The submission deadline is the 1-st of May 2009; notification is due June 15. Accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings of the Six and Seventh International Tbilisi Symposium have been published in the LNAI series with Springer. Tutorials, invited speakers, and submission details can be found at the Symposium website at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi2009/ Paul Dekker, on behalf of the Program and the Organization Committee, 8-th International Tbilisi Symposium ----------------------------------------- Paul Dekker -- ILLC/Department of Philosophy -- University of Amsterdam -- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 -- NL-1012 CP Amsterdam -- The Netherlands -- tel: +31 20 5254541 / fax: +31 20 5254503 -- email: p.j.e.dekker at uva.nl http://staff.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/ From kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Fri Apr 3 11:57:42 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:57:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: SCSS 2009 Message-ID: <49D631F6.10403@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> [Apologies for multiple copies.] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % % TUNISIA - JAPAN WORKSHOP % % ON SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION IN SOFTWARE SCIENCE % % SCSS 2009 % % September 22-24, 2009 % % Gammarth, Tunisia % % % % http://www2.score.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/scssWorkshop/index.html % % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission: May 29, 2009 Acceptance notification: June 22, 2009 Final versions of full papers: August 30, 2009 Workshop: September 22-24, 2009 SCOPE ----- Symbolic computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, algebraic objects, geometrical objects, etc). Powerful symbolic algorithms have been developed during the past decades like theorem proving techniques, software verification, model checking, rewriting techniques, network security, Groebner bases, characteristic sets, etc. In this workshop, we solicit papers on algorithms and techniques of symbolic computations and their applications in software science. The topics of the workshop include: * theorem proving methods and techniques * algorithm (program) synthesis * algorithm (program) verification * formal methods for the analysis of network security * termination analysis of algorithms (programs) * complexity analysis of algorithms (programs) * extraction of specifications from algorithms (programs) * generation of inductive assertion for algorithm (programs) * algorithm (program) transformations * component-based programming * computational origami * query languages (in particular for XML documents) * semantic web * etc. SCSS 2009 workshop is the second in the SCSS workshop series. SCSS 2008 took place at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Hagenberg, Austria. The Workshop grew out of internal workshops that bring together researchers from SCORE (Symbolic Computation Research Group, University of Tsukuba, Japan), the Theorema Group at RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz - Hagenberg, Austria), SSFG (Software Science Foundation Group, Kyoto University, Japan) and Sup'Com (University of November 7th at Carthage, Tunisia). SCSS is open for the international community and welcomes paper submissions. VENUE ======= The workshop will be held at Ramada Hotel in Gammarth, Tunisia. Gammarth is 20km north east of Tunis and 10km north of the archeological site of Carthage. The legendary Phoenician princess Dido founded Carthage and the city possessed economic, cultural, and military power in the Mediterranean during Punic and Roman eras. INVITED SPEAKERS ================ * Henk Barendregt (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) * Dongming Wang (University Pierre et Marie Curie - CNRS, France) * Stephen Watt (University of West Ontario, Canada) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================= * Adel Bouhoula (University of November 7th at Carthage, Tunisia) * Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= * Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) * Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) * Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba, Japan) * Mohamed Mosbah (University of Bordeaux, France) * Michael Rusinowitch (INRIA Lorraine, France) * Masahiko Sato (Kyoto University, Japan) * Yahya Slimani (University El Manar Tunis, Tunisia) LOCAL ORGANIZERS ================ * Nizar Ben Neji (University of November 7th at Carthage, Tunisia) * Fadoua Ghourabi (University of Tsukuba, Japan) * Sourour Meharouech (University of November 7th at Carthage, Tunisia) SUBMISSION =========== Abstracts and papers or extended abstracts should be submitted using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2009 Papers or extended abstracts should be prepared in LaTeX, formatted according to the EasyChair style (style files are available from http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip), and should not exceed 16 pages. PUBLICATION =========== Accepted papers will be available during the workshop as the proceedings of SCSS 2009. We plan to have a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on SCSS 2009. The final decision for organizing the special issue will be made after the workshop. The full version of selected papers will be considered for the publication of the special issue subjected to the normal peer review process of the Journal of Symbolic Computation. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Temur Kutsia, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation Johannes Kepler University, A-4040 Linz, Austria Tel: +43 732 2468 9982 Fax: +43 732 2468 9930 Email: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at WWW: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/tkutsia/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rensink at cs.utwente.nl Mon Apr 6 05:17:53 2009 From: rensink at cs.utwente.nl (Arend Rensink) Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:17:53 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers FM 2009; deadline: 4 May 2009 Message-ID: <49D9C8C1.1060507@cs.utwente.nl> ********************************************************* * * * FM2009: 16th FM Symposium and 2nd World Congress * * Theory meets practice * * * * *** FINAL Call For Papers *** * * Deadline for submissions: 4 May * * ** ONE MONTH TO GO ** * * * * October 30 - November 7, 2009 * * Eindhoven, the Netherlands * * http://www.win.tue.nl/fm2009 * * * ********************************************************* * * * ** NEWS ** * * * * >> FMWEEK INVITED SPEAKER: * * ____________Prof. E. Allen Emerson_____________ * * (Univ. of Texas, Austin) * * co-recipient of the * * _____________2007 ACM Turing Award_____________ * * * * >> Submission server now open: * * http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2009 * * * * >> Spotlight event: * * Authors of papers presented in the tools track * * will be invited to participate in the Tool * * Exhibition. A special spotlight session * * of the Exhibition will feature all these tools. * * * ********************************************************* FM2009 is the sixteenth in a series of symposia of the Formal Methods Europe association, and the second one that is organized as a world congress. Ten years after FM'99, the 1st World Congress, the formal methods communities from all over the world will once again have an opportunity to meet. FM 2009 will be both an opportunity to celebrate, and an opportunity to join in when enthusiastic researchers and practitioners from a diversity of backgrounds and schools come together to discuss their ideas and experiences. The Programme Committee of FM2009 comprises 82 members representing 46 countries. For the technical symposium, papers on every aspect of the *development and application of formal methods for the improvement of the current practice on system developments* are invited for submission. Of particular interest are papers on *tools* and *industrial applications* : there will be a special track devoted to these topics. Many have already joined the celebrations. Springer has offered a prize for the best paper; this award will include free electronic access to the Formal Aspects of Computing journal for one year, and a choice of Springer books up to a value of EUR 250.00. The authors of a selection of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to anniversary special issues of Formal Aspects of Computing or Formal Methods in Systems Design. Complete and up to date information can be found at http://www.win.tue.nl/fm2009/. There will be tutorials, workshops, a Doctoral Symposium, and a Tools Exhibition. FM2009 is also part of the 1st FMweek (Formal Methods week, http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek/), which will bring together a variety of events in the area. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ==================== The proceedings of FM2009 will be published as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Submitted papers should not have been submitted elsewhere for publication, should be in Springer's LNCS format, as described on http://www.springer.com/lncs, and should not exceed 16 pages including appendices. Submission deadline 4 May, 2009 Notification of acceptance 6 July, 2009 Final version 10 August, 2009 Papers will be processed through the EasyChair conference management system. To submit your paper, please visit: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2009 Authors who would like their papers to be included in the special track on tools and industrial applications should indicate either "tool" or "industrial application" as the first keyword. These papers will be judged on the same basis as all the others, but if accepted, they will be presented jointly in special sessions. INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Wan Fokkink, The Netherlands Carroll Morgan, Australia Colin O'Halloran, UK Sriram Rajamani, India Jeannette Wing, USA GENERAL CHAIR ============= Jos Baeten, The Netherlands PROGRAMME COMMITTEE =================== Ralph-Johan Back, Finland Jos Baeten, The Netherlands Sergey Baranov, Russia Gilles Barthe, Spain Rahma Ben-Ayed, Tunisia Mohamed Bettaz, Algeria Dines Bjorner, Denmark Michael Butler, UK Rodrigo Cardoso, Colombia Ana Cavalcanti, UK (Chair) Flavio Corradini, Italy Jorge Cuellar, Germany Dang Van Hung, Vietnam Dennis Dams, USA (Chair) Jim Davies, UK Susanna Donatelli, Italy Jin Song Dong, Singapore Cindy Eisner, Israel Lars-Henrik Eriksson, Sweden Juhan-P. Ernits, Estonia Jasmin Fisher, UK John Fitzgerald, UK Limor Fix, Israel Marc Frappier, Canada Marcelo Frias, Argentina Masahiro Fujita, Japan Marie-Claude Gaudel, France Stefania Gnesi, Italy Lindsay Groves, New Zealand Anthony Hall, UK Anne Haxthausen, Denmark Ian Hayes, Australia Matthew Hennessy, Republic of Ireland Ralf Huuck, Australia Predrag Janicic, Serbia Cliff Jones, UK Rajeev Joshi, USA Shmuel Katz, Israel Moonzoo Kim, Republic of Korea Nils Klarlund, USA Jens Knoop, Austria Bob Kurshan, USA Peter Gorm Larsen, Denmark Yves Ledru, France Insup Lee, USA Huimin Lin, China Zhiming Liu, Macao Nancy Lynch, USA Tom Maibaum, Canada Dino Mandrioli, Italy Sjouke Mauw, Luxembourg Annabelle McIver, Australia Dominique Mery, France Marius Minea, Romenia Peter Mueller, Switzerland Tobias Nipkow, Germany Manuel Nunez, Spain Jose Nuno Oliveira, Portugal Gordon Pace, Malta Paritosh Pandya, India Alberto Pardo, Uruguay Frantisek Plasil, Czech Republic Jaco van de Pol, The Netherlands Ingrid Rewitzky, South Africa Leila Ribeiro, Brazil Augusto Sampaio, Brazil Steve Schneider, UK Christel Seguin, France Emil Sekerinski, Canada Kaisa Sere, Finland Natalia Sidorova, The Netherlands Marjan Sirjani, Iran Ketil Stolen, Norway Andrzej Tarlecki, Poland Axel van Lamsweerde, Belgium Daniel Varro, Hungary Marcel Verhoef, The Netherlands Jurgen Vinju, The Netherlands Willem Visser, USA Farn Wang, Taiwan Jim Woodcock, UK Husnu Yenigun, Turkey FM 2009 is part of: ********************************************************* * * * +============================================+ * * | | * * | ** FMweek ** | * * | | * * +============================================+ * * | FMICS | FM2009 | REFINE | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | PDMC | TESTCOM/FATES | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | FACS | CPA | FAST | FMCO | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek | * * +============================================+ * * * ********************************************************* From ayala at unb.br Mon Apr 6 08:32:58 2009 From: ayala at unb.br (=?utf-8?Q?Mauricio_Ayala-Rinc=C3=B3n?=) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:32:58 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2009 (RDP 2009 associated workshop) - Extended deadline 19th April , 2009 Message-ID: <25453EF81FD74580B4940F4245249218@AYALANOTEBOOK> Fourth Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 28th June, 2009 - Bras?lia, Brazil EXTENDED DEADLINE: >>> 19th April, 2009 <<< Call for Papers 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 o Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks LSFA'09 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 There will be three invited talks: Delia Kesner (PPS, CNRS and Universite Paris-Diderot) Title: Untyped Pattern Calculi Jonathan Seldin (University of Lethbridge, Canada) Title: A Reduction in Combinatory Logic Equivalent to ??-Reduction Luis Fari?as de Cerro (Universit? Paul Sabatier -- Toulose III, France) Title:Dedutcion and Abduction of Information about an Entity Program Committee Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (University of Bras?lia, Brazil), co-chair Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK), co-chair Serge Autexier (DFKI, Bremen, Germany) Benjamin Rene Callejas Bedregal (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Mario Benevides (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Guilherme Bittencourt (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Christiano Braga (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) Andreas Brunner (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) Marcelo Coniglio (State University of Campinas, Brazil) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool, UK) Gilles Dowek (?cole Polytechnique, France) William Farmer (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Marcelo Finger (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC Rio, Brazil) Tudor Jebelean (RISC Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Manfred Kerber (The University of Birmingham, UK) Luis C. Lamb (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Daniel Leivant (Indiana University, USA) Jo?o Marcos (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Ana Teresa de Castro Martins (Federal University of Cear?, Brazil) Dale Miller (INRIA, France) Fl?vio Leonardo Cavalcanti de Moura (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Luca Paolini (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay) Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Simona Ronchi della Rocca (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Amr Sabry (Indiana University, USA) Christian Urban (TUM, Germany) Freek Wiedijk (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands) Organizing Committee Cl?udia Nalon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil), Local Chair Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC Rio, Brazil) Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Guilherme Albuquerque Pinto (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Dates and Submission Paper submission: 3rd April, 2009 >>> EXTENDED DEADLINE: 19th April, 2009 <<< Author notification: 15th May, 2009 Camera ready: 31st May, 2009 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'09 page at EasyChair until the submission deadline by midnight, Central European Standard Time (GMT+1). The papers should be prepared in latex using Elsevier ENTCS style. Please see the Instructions for Preparing Files for Preliminary Versions Instructions for styles and examples. The file entcs.cls is also available here. The prentcsmacro.sty file will be available soon. The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed papers, 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 Information For more information please contact the organizers. The web page of the event can be reached at: http://lsfa09.cic.unb.br From shankar at csl.sri.com Mon Apr 6 22:08:43 2009 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:08:43 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Automated Formal Methods '09: Second Call For Papers Message-ID: <6176.1239070123@positron.csl.sri.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Automated Formal Methods (AFM09) June 27, 2009, Grenoble, France http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM09/ In association with Computer-Aided Verification 2009 http://www-cav2009.imag.fr/ AFM is a one-day workshop centered around the use and integration of formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education. This workshop was first initiated as a users' group meeting for the SRI formal verification tools such as PVS, SAL, and Yices, but the topics are not restricted to these tools. The first workshop was held at FLoC'06, the second workshop with ASE'07, and the third workshop took place in conjunction with CAV'08. We welcome position papers on the topics listed above, particularly those that report on experiments and case studies. Papers must be fewer than 8 pages long in the ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and should be submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=afm09 The post-conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Hassen Saidi, Natarajan Shankar PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Myla Archer, Saddek Bensalem, Supratik Chakraborthy, Rance de Long, Leonardo de Moura, Jean-Christophe Filliatre, Bernd Finkbeiner, Michael Gordon, John Harrison, Peter Manolios, David Monniaux, David Naumann, Corina Pasareanu, Lee Pike, Kazuhiro Ogata, Sanjit Seshia, Ofer Strichman. KEY DATES: Position papers due: April 30, 2009 Reviews/decisions: May 20, 2009 Camera ready versions due: June 10, 2009 AFM '09 Workshop: June 27, 2009 From rlc3 at mcs.le.ac.uk Tue Apr 7 04:22:11 2009 From: rlc3 at mcs.le.ac.uk (Roy L. Crole) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:22:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Leicester Message-ID: <49DB0D33.2060005@mcs.le.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, Please pass on details of the lectureship below. Applications specializing in algorithms, semantics or modelling are welcomed. Roy Crole. Lecturer in Computer Science Department of Computer Science University of Leicester Salary Grade 8: ?35,469 to ?43,622 p.a. Available from: 1 September 2009 Ref: A4140 The successful candidate will have a strong or promising research record in computer science, with a background in formal foundations (either algorithms and complexity, or semantics of programming or modelling languages), and will be able to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision in software engineering. If you wish to apply, download an application form and further information from www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs or contact Personnel Services on recruitment3 at le.ac.uk. Closing Date: Friday 1 May 2009 Times Higher Education University of the Year 2008/09 From leucker at in.tum.de Mon Apr 6 15:05:04 2009 From: leucker at in.tum.de (Martin Leucker) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:05:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CfP: ICTAC'09 - Last Chance Message-ID: <20090406190504.GA28260@lapbroy101> Our apology for possible multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LINE + EXTENDED DEADLINE + EXTENDED DEADLINE + EXTENDED DEADLINE + EXT 12 April 2009 + 12 April 2009 + 12 April 2009 + 12 April 2009 + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICTAC'09 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Equatorial Hotel Bangi, Malaysia University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) August 16th - 20th 2009 http://www.ictac.net/ictac09/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing is taking place from the 16th till the 20th of August 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ICTAC'09 is organized by Abdullah Mohd Zin, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Jeff Sanders, United Nation University, Institute of Software Technology, Macao. The PC is chaired by Martin Leucker (TU Munich) and Carroll Morgan (UNSW). Visit http://www.ictac.net/ictac09 for a preliminary web page. About ICTAC 2009 ---------------- ICTAC 2009 is the 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, the latest in a series founded by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). The main purpose of ICTAC is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research and to exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and in the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. The previous four ICTAC events were held in Guiyang, China (2004), Hanoi, Vietnam (2005), Tunis, Tunisia (2006), Macau (2007) and Istanbul (2008). Workshops --------- The main conference is surrounded by workshops and a summer school. See the web page for more details. Invited Speakers ---------------- Zuohua Ding Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Leslie Lamport Microsoft Annabelle McIver Macquarie University Sriram Rajamani Microsoft Scope ----- Topics include, but are not limited to: * software specification, refinement, verification and testing * model checking and theorem proving * software architectures * coordination and feature interaction * integration of theories, formal and engineering methods and tools * models of concurrency, security, and mobility * parallel, distributed, and internet-based (grid) computing * real-time, embedded and hybrid systems * automata theory and formal languages * principles and semantics of languages * logics and their applications * type and category theory in computer science * case studies, theories, tools and experiments of verified systems * service-oriented architectures: models and development methods * domain modelling and domain-specific technology: examples, frameworks and experience Paper Submissions ----------------- ICTAC 2009 calls for two types of contributions: RESEARCH PAPERS and TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS. Both types of contributions will appear in the LNCS proceedings and have oral presentations at the conference. Papers should be written in English in LNCS format. RESEARCH PAPERS: Research papers should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Submissions reporting on industrial case studies are welcome, and should describe both strengths and weaknesses in sufficient depth. Research papers should be no more than 15 pages. TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS: Tool demonstration papers present tools based on aforementioned theories or fall into the above application areas. Tool demonstration papers allow researchers to stress the technical and practical side, illustrating how one can apply the theoretic contributions in practice. Tool demonstration papers should be no more than 6 pages. As usual, submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Submission constitutes a commitment to attend and present a paper, if accepted. Proceedings of ICTAC 2009 will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. Important Dates --------------- Submission of Papers: 12 April 2009 (extended by 2 days) Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2009 Final copy for proceedings: 1 June 2009 ICTAC 2009: 16 - 20 August 2009 Committees ---------- General Chair ------------- Abdullah Mohd Zin Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Jeff Sanders United Nation University, Institute of Software Technology, Macao Program Chairs -------------- Martin Leucker Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Carroll Morgan University of New South Wales Local Organizing Committee -------------------------- Zarina Shukur, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Chairperson) Nazlia Omar Syahanim Mohd Salleh Program Committee ----------------- Parosh Abdulla Uppsala University, Schweden Keijiro Araki Kyushu University, Japan Farhad Arbab Leids University, The Netherlands Christel Baier Technical University of Dresden, Germany Mario Bravetti Universita di Bologna, Italian Ana Cavalcanti University of York, England Van Hung Dang United Nations University, Macao David Deharbe Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Wei Dong National University of Defense Technology, China Deepak D'Souza Indian Institute of Science, India John Fitzgerald Newcastle Uiversity, England Wan Fokkink Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Marcelo Frias University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Kokichi Futatsugi JAIST, Japan Paul Gastin LSV/ENS Cachan, France Susanne Graf VERIMAG, France Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Anne Haxthausen Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Moonzoo Kim KAIST, South Korea Kim G. Larsen Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania, USA Martin Leucker TU Munich, Germany Kamal Lodaya Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India Larissa Meinicke Abo Akademi, Finland Ugo Montanari University of Pisa, Italian Carroll Morgan University of New South Wales, Australia Ahmed Patel Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Pekka Pihlajasaari Data Abstraction (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore, Singapore Hassen Saidi SRI International, USA Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Cesar Sanchez IMDEA, Spain Marjan Sirjani University of Tehran, Iran Sofiene Tahar Concordia University, Canada Serdar Tasiran Koc University, Turkey Helmut Veith Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Mahesh Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana, USA Tomas Vojnar Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Ji Wang Zhejiang University, China Jim Woodcock University of York, England Husnu Yenigun Sabanci University, Turkey Naijun Zhan Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Huibiao Zhu East China Normal University, China Steering Committee ------------------ John Fitzgerald University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Martin Leucker Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Zhiming Liu (Chair) UNU-IIST, Macao Tobias Nipkow Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Natarajan Shankar SRI, USA Jim Woodcock University of York, UK From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue Apr 7 10:49:32 2009 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:49:32 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: JFP Special Issue on Generic Programming Message-ID: <53ff55480904070749h447b3976lf425a159e2b8b808@mail.gmail.com> OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS JFP Special Issue on Generic Programming Deadline: 1 October 2009 http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/JFP/cfp.html Scope ----- Generic programming is about making programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast to normal programs, the parameters of a generic program are often quite rich in structure; for example they may be other programs, types or type constructors, classes, concepts, or even programming paradigms. This special issue aims at documenting state-of-the-art research, new developments and directions for future investigation in the broad field of Generic Programming. It is an outgrowth of the series of Workshops on Generic Programming, which started in 1998 and which continues this year with an ICFP affiliated workshop in Edinburgh. Participants of the workshops are invited to submit a suitably revised and expanded version of their paper to the special issue. The call for papers is, however, open. Other contributions are equally welcome and are, indeed, encouraged. All submitted papers will be subjected to the same quality criteria, meeting the standards of the Journal of Functional Programming. The special issue seeks original contributions on all aspects of generic programming including but not limited to o adaptive object-oriented programming, o aspect-oriented programming, o case studies, o concepts (as in the STL/C++ sense), o component-based programming, o datatype-generic programming, o generic programming with dependent types, o meta-programming, o polytypic programming, and o programming with modules. Submission details ------------------ Manuscripts should be unpublished works and not submitted elsewhere. Revised versions of papers published in conference or workshop proceedings that have not appeared in archival journals are eligible for submission. Deadline for submission: 1 October 2009 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 15 January 2010 Revised version due: 15 March 2010 For submission details, please consult http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/JFP/cfp.html or see the Journal's web page http://journals.cambridge.org/jfp Guest Editor ------------ Ralf Hinze University of Oxford Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. Telephone: +44 (1865) 610700 Fax: +44 (1865) 283531 Email: ralf.hinze at comlab.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tobias at dsv.su.se Tue Apr 7 15:06:41 2009 From: tobias at dsv.su.se (Tobias Wrigstad) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:06:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] STOP 2009 [Deadline Extension] Message-ID: <20090407190641.2CFAD479A0@triton.localdomain> [N.B. Deadline extended to April 13th] Call for Papers Script to Program Evolution (STOP) at ECOOP 2009 July 6th, 2009, Genova, Italy Recent years have seen increased use of scripting languages in large applications. Scripting languages optimize development time, especially early in the software life cycle, over safety and robustness. As the understanding of the system reaches a critical point and requirements stabilize, scripting languages become less appealing. Compromises made to optimize development time make it harder to reason about program correctness, harder to do semantic-preserving refactorings, and harder to optimize execution speed. Lack of type information makes code harder to navigate and to use correctly. In the worst cases, this situation leads to a costly and potentially error-prone rewrite of a program in a compiled language, losing the flexibility of scripting languages for future extension. Recently, pluggable type systems and annotation systems have been proposed. Such systems add compile-time checkable annotations without changing a program's run-time semantics which facilitates early error checking and program analysis. It is believed that untyped scripts can be retrofitted to work with such systems. Furthermore, integration of typed and untyped code, for example, through use of gradual typing, allows scripts to evolve into safer programs more suitable for program analysis and compile-time optimisations. With very few exceptions, practical reports are yet to be found. The STOP workshop focuses on the evolution of scripts, largely untyped code, into safer programs, with more rigid structure and more constrained behaviour through the use of gradual/hybrid/ pluggable typing, optional contract checking, extensible languages, refactoring tools, and the like. The goal is to further the understanding and use of such systems in practise, and connect practise and theory. To this end, 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, experience reports and tool demonstrations. 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, including surveys. Demos will judged on the perceived relevance for the intended audience. The accepted papers will be made available through ACM's digital library. Important Dates =============== Submission: April 13, 2009 (23.59 Apia, Samoa) Notification: May 8, 2009 Final Version: June 8, 2009 Workshop: July 6, 2009 Programme Committee =================== Cormac Flanagan, University of California Santa Cruz Jan Vitek, Purdue University Jeff Foster, University of Maryland Jeremy Siek, University of Colorado Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University Nate Nystrom, IBM T.J. Watson Research Peter Thiemann, Universitat Freiburg Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh Tobias Wrigstad, Purdue University (Chair) Todd Millstein, UCLA Organizers ========== Nate Nystrom, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Jan Vitek, Purdue University Tobias Wrigstad, Purdue University Selection Process ================= Both full papers (up to 12 pages LNCS) and position papers (1-2 pages LNCS) 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 submitted through EasyChair by April 13, 2009. (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=stop09) Questions may be directed to Tobias Wrigstad (wrigstad AT cs DOT purdue DOT edu). From Matthew.Parkinson at cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 8 16:58:38 2009 From: Matthew.Parkinson at cl.cam.ac.uk (Matthew Parkinson) Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:58:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IWACO 2009 Deadline extended Message-ID: [N.B. Deadline extended to April 13th] Call For Papers International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in object-oriented programming (IWACO) at ECOOP 2009 July 7, 2009, Genova, Italy www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/wrigstad/iwaco09 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, separation logic, 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 * programming logics that deal with aliasing, or use ownership, confinement or resourcing; * applications of aliasing management techniques such as ownership types, ownership domains, confined types, region types, and uniqueness to concurrency and reasoning. 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. Program Committee Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge, Chair) Cristiano Calcagno (Imperial College) Nicholas Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington) Christian Haack (Aicas Realtime, Karlsruhe) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research) Yu David Liu (SUNY Binghamton) Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Aleks Nanevski (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Noam Rinetzky (Queen Mary University) Tian Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Important Dates Submission: April 13, 2009 [Extended] Notification: May 8, 2009 Final Version: June 19, 2009 Workshop: July 6 or 7, 2009 Organisers Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London) Dave Clarke (KU Leuven) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Tobias Wrigstad (Purdue University) Peter Muller (ETH Zurich) Participation The number of participants is limited. Apart from those with accepted papers, others may attend by sending an email to Matthew Parkinson (mjp41 at cl.cam.ac.uk) 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 submitted to easychair by April 13, 2009. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwaco2009 Submissions should be in English. Queries Queries may be directed to Matthew Parkinson (mjp41 at cl.cam.ac.uk). From Stephen.Nelson at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Wed Apr 8 19:41:28 2009 From: Stephen.Nelson at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Stephen Nelson) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:41:28 +1200 (NZST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP'09 Doctoral Symposium: Deadline extended Message-ID: <200904082341.n38NfSxk001756@circa.ecs.vuw.ac.nz> From jiezhou at sei.ecnu.edu.cn Wed Apr 8 21:14:03 2009 From: jiezhou at sei.ecnu.edu.cn (Jie Zhou) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:14:03 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] announcement: ISDT2009 Message-ID: Dear Weirich, I would like to post this announcement to your list. Thanks for all your help. Below is the call for papers: Call For Papers THE 5th INTERNATIIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DOMAIN THEORY (ISDT 2009) (First Announcement) September 12-14, 2009 East China Normal University, Shanghai, China http://sites.ecnu.edu.cn/conferences/~isdt2009 ************************************************************************************************** The 5th International Symposium on Domain Theory (ISDT2009) will be held in September 12-14, 2009, Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People?s Republic of China. International Symposium on Domain Theory (ISDT) is a series of conference held in the mainland of China. It aims at providing a forum for researchers in domain theory and its applications. Each meeting includes invited talks and contributed papers. The previous four ISDT events were held in Shanghai (1999), Chengdu (2001), Xi'an (2004) and Changsha (2006). THEME: Domain Theory and its Applications TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Topological and logical aspects of domains *Categories of domains and power domains *Partial orders and metric spaces *Applications in logic programming *Type and concurrency theory *Formal semantics *Logic and Formal Verification *Probabilistic Systems *Process Algebra *Quantum Computing INVITED SPEAKERS (at present): Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford, UK) Pierre-Louis Curien (PPS, France) Hui Kou (SCU, China) Glynn Winskel (University of Cambridge, UK) Guo-Qiang Zhang (CWRU, USA) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research not concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 14pages and should be formatted according to the ENTCS article style. Submissions must be made through Easychair at: https://www.easychair.org/?conf=isdt2009 before the submission deadlines for abstract and full paper respectively. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. They will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings of the conference will appear as a volume in ENTCS. Pre-proceedings will be distributed at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submissions: May 22, 2009 (Friday) Paper Submissions: June 5, 2009 (Friday) Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2009 (Friday) Camera ready deadline: August 7, 2009 (Friday) Conference: September 12, 2009 (Friday) CONFERENCE CHAIR: Jifeng He (ECNU, China) Yingming Liu (SCU, China) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Yixiang Chen (Co-Chair, ECNU, China) Ernst-Erich Doberkat (Co-Chair, UDO, Germany) Manfred Droste (University of Leipzig, Germany) Yuxi Fu (SITU, China) Ying Jiang (SI, Academy of Science, China) Achim Jung (Co-Chair, University of Birmingham, UK) Klaus Keimel (DTU, Germany) Pascal Hitzle (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Michael Huth (Imperial College London, UK) Drew Moshier (Chapman University, CA) Dag Normann (University of Oslo, Norway) Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) Alex Simpson (University of Edinburgh, UK) Dieter Spreen (University of Siegen, Germany) Guo-Hua Wu (NTU, Singapore) Guo-Qiang Zhang (CWRU, US) Min Zhang (ECNU, China) Bin Zhao (SNNU, China) Dongsheng Zhao (NIE, Singapore) LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Weifan Zhang (Co-Chair, ECNU, China) Jie Zhou (Co-Chair, ECNU, China) Yanwen Chen (ECNU, China) Lu Han (ECNU, China) Maoyong Han (ECNU, China) Yanfang Ma (ECNU, China) HongWei Tao (ECNU, China) Hui Wang (ECNU, China) XinXing Wu (ECNU, China) ********************************************THE END******************************************* Thanks again! Best Regard, Jie Zhou jiezhou at sei.ecnu.edu.cn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090408/95abeae2/attachment-0001.htm From Virgile.Mogbil at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Thu Apr 9 09:47:32 2009 From: Virgile.Mogbil at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Virgile.Mogbil@lipn.univ-paris13.fr) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:47:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Scholarship in Implicit Computational Complexity Message-ID: <20090409154732.10j0msh2ma4g48g8@intranet.lipn.univ-paris13.fr> *** PhD Scholarship in Implicit Computational Complexity *** *** Application deadline: May 31th 2009 at 12:00 noon (CET Paris time) *** *** http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/complice/spip.php?rubrique14 *** Dear colleagues, One PhD scholarship is available on the topic of "Implicit Computational Complexity". The starting date is september or october 2009. The scholarships is funded by the French national research agency (ANR) within the COMPLICE project (Implicit Computational Complexity, Concurrency and Extraction) (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/complice/). The project aims at developing implicit computational complexity and in particular its applications to functional programming, program extraction from proofs and concurrent systems. It is organized in 3 main parts: Part I. Semantic and logic foundations. Part II. Applications to the functional setting: typing, program extraction. Part III. New directions: concurrent systems, parallel complexity classes.. The successful applicant will work within the Logic, Computation and Reasoning (LCR) research team at the LIPN, the computer science laboratory of Paris 13 University (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/). The PhD will be supervised depending of the applicant qualifications and interests in the LIPN parts of the project. Please do not hesitate to send an email for further information about the project. Best regards V. Mogbil University Paris 13 ---------------------------- General Informations PhD scholarships at University Paris 13 normally run for a period of 3 years. Applicants must have a Master's degree (5 years of University Studies). National travels should be expected as the joint research project has a strong aspect of collaboration between the partner sites: ENS Lyon, Universit? Paris 13 and LORIA-Nancy. The net salary of the 3 year PhD will be around Euro 1,850 per month. This is then subject to income tax. Applicants are invited to express their interest by sending a short email to virgile.mogbil at lipn.fr before May 1st 2009. Applications should be sent before June 1st 2009 including a curriculum vitae, a short research work description if any (half page) and a motivation letter (half page). This should be preferably done by email in pdf format with subject line '[PhD Application]' to virgile.mogbil at lipn.fr (else sent it at the postal address below). Important dates (at 12:00 noon): April 30th 2009: intention of application (short email) May 31th 2009: deadline for application July 1st 2009: notification (Sept. 1st 2009: suggested starting date) Postal address: Virgile Mogbil LIPN, UMR CNRS 7030 Institut Galil?e - Universit? Paris-Nord 99, avenue Jean-Baptiste Cl?ment 93430 Villetaneuse, France From stephanie.balzer at inf.ethz.ch Thu Apr 9 09:49:11 2009 From: stephanie.balzer at inf.ethz.ch (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:49:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RAOOL at ECOOP'09: Deadline extended Message-ID: <49DDFCD7.4010000@inf.ethz.ch> [N.B. Deadline extended to April 13] Call for Papers 2nd workshop on Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages RAOOL'09 co-located with ECOOP'09 http://www.lst.inf.ethz.ch/raool09/ PURPOSE Relationships and roles are important concepts used in many areas of computer science (e.g., conceptual modelling, database systems, ontology) but are not "first-class" constructs in modern programming languages. In current object-oriented languages, programmers are forced to implement relationships or roles "by hand" (using pointers and collections), leading to a disconnect between models and implementations. This disconnect causes numerous problems across the software engineering life cycle: most importantly, implementations become cumbersome because relationships are represented by several code fragments, scattered throughout the application code, resulting in code fragility. Since current mainstream languages lack appropriate support for heap querying, programmers are further burdened with crafting code to query relationships and check their consistency. As software systems grow and become increasingly complex this disconnect causes problems not only for implementers but also for code maintainers. In response, a growing number of researchers in the software community are investigating adding first-class support for relationships and heap queries to current programming languages. Interest in first-class support for such constructs is not limited to programming language research. Program analysis, for instance, could benefit from the decreased use of pointers and transparent persistence could benefit from explicit queries. In this workshop, we plan to gather researchers in the programming language community who are working on relationship-based systems to share their research and to discuss the future of relationship-based constructs in programming languages. We are interested in input from members of the programming language community but also in input from members of related areas (e.g. databases, model-driven development) and domains (e.g., program analysis, orthogonal persistence, type systems) who are using relationships. Some particular areas of interest are: - relationship-based programming languages - using libraries/frameworks to support relationships - first-class queries - database integration - serialization or persistence using relationships - system and framework design using relationships - understanding or visualizing programs - ownership and related techniques - dynamic analysis of relationship usage SUBMISSIONS Prospective participants are invited to submit a paper that should fall into one of two categories: - long paper (max. 8 pages) that describes new work on the above or related topics - short paper (max. 4 pages) that can describe work-in-progress, report on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose speculative new approaches The selected papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: April 13, 2009 Notification: May 8, 2009 Workshop date: July 7, 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Uwe Assmann (TU Dresden, Germany) Guido Boella (University of Torino) Achim D. Brucker (SAP Research, Germany) Stephane Ducasse (INRIA Lille, France) Susan Eisenbach (Imperial College London, UK) Manuel Fahndrich (Microsoft Research, USA) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) David J. Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversit?t in Hagen, Germany) Mandana Vaziri (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Stephanie Balzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Gavin Bierman (Microsoft Research, UK) Stephen Nelson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Frank Tip (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) From lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr Thu Apr 9 11:28:26 2009 From: lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr (lutz@lix.polytechnique.fr) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:28:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] post-doc position in proof theory at INRIA Saclay (Paris) Message-ID: Call for a post-doc position at INRIA Saclay--Ile-de-France =========================================================== Duration: 12 month Starting date: Between 1 Oct 2009 and 1 Dec 2009 Working place: Ecole Polytechnique, LIX, Equipe Parsifal Topic: ------ Canonical proof systems Research Context: ----------------- Traditional proof systems, like sequent calculus, tableaux, or resolution do not provide canonical proofs. The reason is that their syntax allows for many irrelevant rule permutation. Proof nets have been conceived to abstract away from these rule permutation, and thus form a "bureaucracy-free" approach to encoding proofs. But the lack of explicit structure in proof nets makes algorithmic aspects of proofs difficult to describe when the logic reaches a certain expressive power. In other words, they are not suited for proof search. It is an important research problem to design new proof systems that on the one hand provide canonical (i.e., bureaucracy-free) proof objects, and on the other hand provide a rich enough structure for performing proof search. Activities for the Post Doc: ---------------------------- The main task of the successful candidate will be to support the recent research effort within the Parsifal team, in particular the work on focused proofs and proof nets. Concurrently, members of Parsifal have been pushing the notion of "focused proof" to its limit and obtained a "maximally multi-focused" proof system, which yields canonical proof objects for multiplicative additive linear logic without units. It is now important to exhibit the precise relation to proof nets and to see how this can be extended to other logics, in particular, classical logic. Skill required: --------------- The candidate should have a good background in proof theory and related fields. Application: ------------ Applicants should send their application to Lutz Strassburger before 30 April 2009. Further particulars: -------------------- The position is part of the "INRIA Action de Recherche Collaborative" REDO: The position is an INRIA-postdoc position. That means that the candidate must fulfill the formal requirements for INRIA postdocs which can be found at the web-page In particular, the candidate must have held a doctorate or Ph.D. for less than one year before the recruitment date. If the Ph.D. is not defended at the application date, you should cleary point out the defence date and the composition of jury. The salary is 2357.30 euros gross per month. The application process for this position is independent from the INRIA-postdoc campaign. Further details: From sweirich at cis.upenn.edu Fri Apr 10 11:54:16 2009 From: sweirich at cis.upenn.edu (Stephanie Weirich) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:54:16 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP Haskell Symposium 2009 Message-ID: <666EE63E-C709-47AB-B442-1517AA1AC064@cis.upenn.edu> Reminder: there are only 4 weeks until the submission deadline for the 2009 Haskell Symposium. Please do submit. Hope to see you in Edinburgh! Stephanie --------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell 09 ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2009 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 3, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/ The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2009 will be co-located with the 2009 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). The purpose of the Haskell Symposium is to discuss experiences with Haskell and future developments for the language. The scope of the symposium includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Language Design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, in the form of a formal treatment of the semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Tools, in the form of profilers, tracers, debuggers, pre-processors, and so forth; * Applications, Practice, and Experience, with Haskell for scientific and symbolic computing, database, multimedia and Web applications, and so forth as well as general experience with Haskell in education and industry; * Functional Pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of using Haskell. Papers in the latter two categories need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, re-usable programming idioms, or elegant new ways of approaching a problem. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a program! Before 2008, the Haskell Symposium was known as the Haskell Workshop. The name change reflects both the steady increase of influence of the Haskell Workshop on the wider community as well as the increasing number of high quality submissions. The acceptance process is highly competitive. After eleven Haskell Workshops between 1995 and 2007, the first Haskell Symposium was held in Victoria in 2008. Submission Details * Submission Deadline: Friday, May 8th 2009 (3:00 pm, Eastern US Time) * Author Notification: Monday, June 1st 2009 * Final Papers Due : Monday, June 15th 2009 Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm). The length is restricted to 12 pages, and the font size 9pt. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. If there is sufficient demand, we will try to organize a time slot for system or tool demonstrations. If you are interested in demonstrating a Haskell related tool or application, please send a brief demo proposal to Stephanie Weirich, sweirich at cis.upenn.edu. Links * http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium, the permanent homepage of the Haskell Symposium. * http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/, the 2009 Haskell Symposium web page. * http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2009, the ICFP 2009 web page. Program Committee * Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford University * Bastiaan Heeren, Open Universiteit Nederland * John Hughes, Chalmers/Quviq * Mark Jones, Portland State University * Simon Marlow, Microsoft Research * Ulf Norell, Chalmers * Chris Okasaki, United States Military Academy * Ross Paterson, City University London * Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev, Vector Fabrics * Don Stewart, Galois * Janis Voigtlaender, TU Dresden * Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania (Chair) From alain.girault at inria.fr Fri Apr 10 15:20:08 2009 From: alain.girault at inria.fr (Alain Girault) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:20:08 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'09) Message-ID: <49DF9BE8.3050304@inria.fr> LCTES 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (In conjunction with PLDI 2009) Dublin, Ireland, June 19~20 2009 http://www.cse.psu.edu/lctes09/ Call for participation: ======================= As embedded systems increase in number, complexity, and diversity, new research challenges are encountered in areas such as verification, validation, meeting performance goals and resource constraints, creating and exploiting new hardware architectures, and scaling up to multicores and distributed systems built from multicores. The LCTES 2009 technical programme features papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, and architectures that help meet these challenges. Registration: ============= - Early registration deadline: May 20, 2009. - Registration is through the PLDI web server: https://regmaster3.com/conf/PLDI09/register.php Invited speakers: ================= - Edward Lee, UC Berkeley - Famantanantsoa Randimbivololona, Airbus List of accepted papers: ======================== Modulo Scheduling without Overlapped Lifetimes o Eric Stotzer and Ernst Leiss Synchronous Objects with Scheduling Policies, Introducing safe shared memory in Lustre o Paul Caspi, Jean-louis Cola?o, L?onard G?rard, Marc Pouzet and Pascal Raymond Recurrence Cycle Aware Modulo Scheduling for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures o Taewook Oh, Bernhard Egger, Hyunchul Park and Scott Mahlke PTIDES on Flexible Task Graph: Real-Time Embedded System Building from Theory to Practice o Jia Zou, Joshua Auerbach, David F. Bacon and Edward A. Lee Lunch A Compiler Optimization to Reduce Soft Errors in Register Files o Jongeun Lee and Aviral Shrivastava Raced Profiles: Efficient Selection of Competing Compiler Optimizations o Hugh Leather, Michael O'Boyle and Bruce Warton Eliminating the Call Stack to Save RAM o Xuejun Yang, Nathan Cooprider and John Regehr Live-range Unsplitting for Faster Optimal Coalescing o Sandrine Blazy and Beno?t Robillard Push-Assisted Migration of Real-Time Tasks in Multi-Core Processors o Abhik Sarkar, Frank Mueller, Harini Ramaprasad and Sibin Mohan Software Transactional Memory for Multicore Embedded Systems o Jennifer Mankin and David Kaeli Synergistic Execution of Stream Programs on Multicores with Accelerators o Abhishek Udupa, R. Govindarajan and Matthew J. Thazhuthaveetil Towards device emulation code generation o Thomas Heinz and Reinhard Wilhelm Guaranteeing Instruction Fetch Behavior with a Lookahead Instruction Fetch Engine (LIFE) o Stephen Hines, Yuval Peress, Peter Gavin, David Whalley and Gary Tyson Debugging FPGA-based Packet Processing Systems through Transaction-level Communication-centric Monitoring o Paul McKechnie, Michaela Blott and Wim Vanderbauwhede Tracing Interrupts in Embedded Software o Giovani Gracioli and Sebastian Fischmeister Addressing the Challenges of DBT for the ARM Architecture o Ryan W. Moore, Jose A. Baiocchi, Bruce R. Childers, Jack W. Davidson and Jason D. Hiser Integrating Hardware and Software Information Flow Analyses o Colin Fidge and Diane Corney Specification and Verification of Time Requirements with CCSL and Esterel o Charles Andr? and Fr?d?ric Mallet -- ------------- Alain GIRAULT http://pop-art.inrialpes.fr/~girault INRIA senior researcher tel: +(33|0) 476 61 53 51 Head of the POP ART project-team fax: +(33|0) 476 61 52 52 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sauvons la Recherche ! http://www.sauvonslarecherche.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From carlos.martin at urv.cat Sat Apr 11 15:04:42 2009 From: carlos.martin at urv.cat (carlos.martin@urv.cat) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:04:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] new book series Message-ID: A new book series is going to be announced in a few weeks by a major publisher under the (tentative) title of Mathematics, Computing, Language, and the Life: Frontiers in Mathematical Linguistics and Language Theory SERIES DESCRIPTION: Language theory, as originated from Chomsky's seminal work in the fifties last century and in parallel to Turing-inspired automata theory, was first applied to natural language syntax within the context of the first unsuccessful attempts to achieve reliable machine translation prototypes. After this, the theory proved to be very valuable in the study of programming languages and the theory of computing. In the last 15-20 years, language and automata theory has experienced quick theoretical developments as a consequence of the emergence of new interdisciplinary domains and also as the result of demands for application to a number of disciplines, most notably: natural language processing, computational biology, natural computing, programming, and artificial intelligence. The series will collect recent research on either foundational or applied issues, and is addressed to graduate students as well as to post-docs and academics. TOPIC CATEGORIES: A. Theory: language and automata theory, combinatorics on words, descriptional and computational complexity, semigroups, graphs and graph transformation, trees, computability B. Natural language processing: mathematics of natural language processing, finite-state technology, languages and logics, parsing, transducers, text algorithms, web text retrieval C. Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and programming: patterns, pattern matching and pattern recognition, models of concurrent systems, Petri nets, models of pictures, fuzzy languages, grammatical inference and algorithmic learning, language-based cryptography, data and image compression, automata for system analysis and program verification D. Bio-inspired computing and natural computing: cellular automata, symbolic neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, DNA computing, molecular computing, biomolecular nanotechnology, circuit theory, quantum computing, chemical and optical computing, models of artificial life E. Bioinformatics: mathematical biology, string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics, mathematical evolutionary genomics, language processing of biological sequences, digital libraries The connections of this broad interdisciplinary field with other areas include: computational linguistics, knowledge engineering, theoretical computer science, software science, molecular biology, etc. The first volumes will be miscellaneous and will globally define the scope of the future series. INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE: Contributions are requested for the first five volumes. In principle, there will be no limit in length. All contributions will be submitted to strict peer-review. Collections of papers are also welcome. Potential contributors should express their interest in being considered for the volumes by April 25, 2009 to carlos.martinvide at gmail.com They should specify: - the tentative title of the contribution, - the authors and affiliations, - a 5-10 line abstract, - the most appropriate topic category (A to E above). A selection will be done immediately after, with invited authors submitting their contribution for peer-review by July 25, 2009. The volumes are expected to appear in the first months of 2010. From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Tue Apr 14 04:56:23 2009 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco T. Vasconcelos) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in Lisbon Message-ID: Software Engineering for Service- Oriented Overlay Computers The Department of Informatics at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon is seeking candidates for one post-doc position. The position is funded by Sensoria, Software Engineering for Service-Oriented Overlay Computers (http://www.sensoria-ist.eu/), an IST project funded by the European Union as an Integrated Project under the 6th framework program, and part of the Global Computing Initiative. We seek candidates with a strong background in some of the following areas: service-oriented computing, software architectures, foundations and analysis of concurrent and distributed systems. The position is available from May 2009 to February 2010. Monthly salary is euro 2.775. Applicants should hold a PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and justi?ed expertise on the project themes. Applicants should send a detailed CV, together with a contact telephone number, address, and e-mail to the address below. Further informations can be obtained by contacting the researchers on the right. LASIGE A/C PEDRO GON?ALVES DEPARTMENTO DE INFORM?TICA FACULDADE DE CI?NCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA BLOCO C6, PISO 3, SALA 30 CAMPO GRANDE, 1749?016 LISBOA PORTUGAL Research Institutes ?{Lasige} Group of Software Systems ?{CITI} Programming Languages and Systems Group ?{IT} Security and Quantum Information Group Key Researchers ?Lu?s Caires ?Carla Ferreira ?Lu?s Cruz-Filipe ?Ant?nia Lopes ?Francisco Martins ?Ant?nio Ravara ?Jo?o Seco ?Vasco T. Vasconcelos Flyer at http://gloss.di.fc.ul.pt/positions/call-sensoria-2009.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090414/f3dc6861/attachment.htm From lsm at cs.indiana.edu Tue Apr 14 18:53:37 2009 From: lsm at cs.indiana.edu (larry moss) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:53:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop on Quantum Logic Insipred by Quantum Computation Message-ID: There will be an informal workshop on Quantum Logic Insipred by Quantum Computation at Indiana University, May 11-12. Our aim is to organize a small workshop that would bring together people who are developing new areas of logic coming from quantum computation, and also people who are interested in related projects coming from areas of philosophical logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science. Information on speakers may be found at www.indiana.edu/~iulg/qliqc. There is no formal registration and all are welcome, but we would appreciate knowing ahead if you plan to come. From hu at nii.ac.jp Wed Apr 15 03:40:14 2009 From: hu at nii.ac.jp (Zhenjiang Hu) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:40:14 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Papers: APLAS (Korea, Dec 14-16, 2009) Message-ID: <27967C4C-4AD9-42AE-A17B-4FA985E61A75@nii.ac.jp> =============================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2009) Seoul, December 14-16, 2009 http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/aplas09/ =============================================================== APLAS aims at stimulating programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of recent results and the exchange of ideas and experience in topics concerned with programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages community. The APLAS series is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS), which has recently been founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. The past formal APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Bangalore (2008, India), Singapore (2007), Sydney (2006, Australia), Tsukuba (2005, Japan), Taipei (2004, Taiwan) and Beijing (2003, China) after three informal workshops held in Shanghai (2002, China), Daejeon (2001, Korea) and Singapore (2000). Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer-Verlag's LNCS 2895, 3302, 3780, 4279, and 5356. TOPICS: The symposium is devoted to both foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on, but not limited, to the following topics: * semantics, logics, foundational theory * type systems, language design * program analysis, optimization, transformation * software security, safety, verification * compiler systems, interpreters, abstract machines * domain-specific languages and systems * programming tools and environments INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Deadline: June 8 (Monday), 2009 Paper Submission Deadline: 24:00 AM (in Samoan Time), June 15 (Monday), 2009 Author Notification: August 17, 2009 Camera Ready: September 14, 2009 Conference: December 14-16, 2009 SUBMISSIONS INFORMATION: Papers should be submitted electronically online via the conference submission web page at URL . Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF, viewable by Ghostview or Adobe Reader. Submissions should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The proceedings of the symposium is planned to be published as a volume in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors of selected papers will be invited after the symposium to submit a full version for publication in a special issue of New Generation Computing. GENERAL CHAIR Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University, Korea) PROGRAM CHAIR Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Inforamtics, Japan) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Manuel M. T. Chakravarty (University of New South Wales, Australia) Wei-Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Nate Foster (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Ralf Hinze (Oxford University, United Kingdom) Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), Chair Ik-Soon Kim (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea) Julia Lawall (DIKU, Denmark) Sebastian Maneth (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) G. Ramalingam (Microsoft Research, India) Peter Thiemann (University of Freiburg, Germany) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University, Japan) Janis Voigtl?nder (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University, USA) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda University, Japan) Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) POSTER CHAIR Kiminori Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan) From jiezhou at sei.ecnu.edu.cn Tue Apr 14 21:52:59 2009 From: jiezhou at sei.ecnu.edu.cn (Jie Zhou) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:52:59 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] announcement: ISDT2009 Message-ID: Dear Sir or Madam, The URL of ISDT2009 is modified to: http://sites.sei.ecnu.edu.cn/isdt2009/Conferences/~isdt2009/ It is accessible now. Best wishes, Jie Zhou jiezhou at sei.ecnu.edu.cn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From f.rabe at jacobs-university.de Wed Apr 15 16:48:14 2009 From: f.rabe at jacobs-university.de (Florian Rabe) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:48:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last call for papers: Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (CADE workshop) Message-ID: <779475D3651414938569AAD5@[192.168.1.51]> First International Workshop on Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA'09) http://www.itu.dk/~carsten/mlpa-09.html Affiliated with CADE-22 Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Abstract Submission 27 April 2009 Submission deadline: 4 May 2009 Author Notification: 8 June 2009 Final Version: 6 July 2009 Workshop day 3 August 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MLPA'09 is the first international workshop on modules and libraries for proof assistants. Over the last twenty years, users of proof assistants and automated theorem provers have created large libraries of formal proofs and mathematical knowledge. Module systems help with the tedious tasks of organizing, sharing, and maintaining libraries. In the view of the ever increasing complexity of this network of information, module systems offer many of the answers to the practical problems that proof assistant system developers face today and can therefore be seen as an emerging research for the automated deduction community. The proposed workshop aims to attract and bring together researchers and practitioners with background and experience in module systems from different logic based systems, such as theorem provers, proof assistants, and programming languages. Because it is affiliated with CADE, the workshop will provide the fertile venue for the exchange of ideas and experiences and has the potential to impact the way we organize proofs and programs in the future. The broad aim of the proposed workshop is to run a short, but highly focused meeting, which will provide researchers with a forum to review state-of-the-art results and techniques, from theory to practice of module systems and to present recent and new progress in: * The design of module systems for programming languages and proof systems. * The implementation of formal digital libraries. * System descriptions of existing module systems, for example ML modules, type classes, Coq's, or Agda's module system. * Case studies regarding information retrieval, sharing, and management of change. * Experience reports of industrial practitioners, using HOL, Isabell/HOL, PVS, or other proof assistants. Program Committee: * Stefan Berghofer, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany * Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS, Saarbruecken, Germany * Hugo Herbelin, INRIA, France * Conor McBride, University of Nottingham, Great Britain * Till Mossakowski, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence * Ulf Norell, Chalmers University, Sweden * Randy Pollack, University of Edinburgh, Great Britain * Florian Rabe, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany * Carsten Schuermann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Paper Submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlpa09 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 in postscript or PDF format. Submitted papers must conform to the ENTCS style preferrably using LaTeX2e. For further information and submission instructions, see the MLPA web page: http://www.itu.dk/~carsten/mlpa-09.html 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. Organizers: Florian Rabe Carsten Schuermann f.rabe at jacobs-university.de carsten at itu.dk Jacobs University IT University of Copenhagen Bremen, Germany Copenhagen, Denmark From raffalli at univ-savoie.fr Thu Apr 16 17:02:19 2009 From: raffalli at univ-savoie.fr (Christophe Raffalli) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:02:19 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES annual workshop Message-ID: <49E79CDB.4010509@univ-savoie.fr> Dear list members, The Types 2009 meeting will be held in Aussois, at the ?centre Paul Langevin? managed by the CNRS. This centre will supply everything: conference room, accommodation, meals, etc. It should provide very good conditions for profitable work. The annual TYPES workshop was originally announced on the mailing list of the former TYPES PROJECT. We recently discovered this other mailing list related to type theory, and some of you may be interested to come to this workshop. You will find here all the information about the workshop : http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/~raffalli/types09/index.php?page=accueil Best Regards, The TYPES 2009 program commitee. From rossberg at mpi-sws.org Fri Apr 17 10:58:05 2009 From: rossberg at mpi-sws.org (Andreas Rossberg) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:58:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: ML Workshop 2009 Message-ID: <2A333E1E-D41A-4D51-A592-5D3D43AD3D71@mpi-sws.org> 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS The 2009 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML To be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 on Sunday, August 30, 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/ml2009/ ------------------------------------------------------ Only 3 about weeks left until the submission deadline! ------------------------------------------------------ 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 provide a forum to encourage discussion and research on ML and related technology (higher-order, typed, or strict languages). The 2009 Work shop on ML will be held in conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2009) in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Previous instances were ML 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia, ML 2006 in Portland, Oregon, USA, ML 2007 in Freiburg, Germany, and ML 2008 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada). IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Monday, May 11, 2009 (earlier than in past years!) Notification: Friday, May 29, 2009 Final revision: Monday, June 15, 2009 Workshop: Sunday, August 30, 2009 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We seek papers on topics related to ML, including, but not limited to: * applications: case studies, experience reports, pearls, etc. * extensions: higher forms of polymorphism, generic programming, objects, concurrency, distribution and mobility, semi-structured data handling, etc. * type systems: inference, effects, overloading, modules, contracts, specifications and assertions, dynamic typing, error reporting, etc. * implementation: compilers, interpreters, type checkers, partial evaluators, runtime systems, garbage collectors, etc. * environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language interoperability, functional data structures, etc. * semantics: operational, denotational, program equivalence, parametricity, mechanization, etc. Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, ML-related projects, or informed positions regarding proposals for next-generation ML-style 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 in English and at most 12 pages total length in the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference format (9pt). 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 Workshop web page. PROGRAM CHAIR Andreas Rossberg (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Umut Acar (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Damien Doligez (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) Neal Glew (Intel) Andrew Gordon (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Patricia Johann (University of Strathclyde) Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC) Neelakantan Krishnaswami (Carnegie Mellon University) David MacQueen (University of Chicago) Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University) STEERING COMMITTEE See the ML Workshop series home page at: http://www.tti-c.org/blume/ml-workshop/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090417/e6f6d93a/attachment-0001.htm From appel at CS.Princeton.EDU Sun Apr 19 12:12:47 2009 From: appel at CS.Princeton.EDU (Andrew W. Appel) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:12:47 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc @ Princeton, machine-verified semantics Message-ID: <49EB4D7F.9030008@cs.princeton.edu> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090419/e0597352/attachment.htm From raffalli at univ-savoie.fr Sun Apr 19 17:14:45 2009 From: raffalli at univ-savoie.fr (Christophe Raffalli) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:14:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2009 Message-ID: <49EB9445.50704@univ-savoie.fr> Dear list members, Tomorow Monday is the last day to register on the TYPES 2009 website if you want to pay reduced fee. Later registration is still possible and talk submission to. We will probably (as every year) publish post proceedings with good referee. The TYPES workshop cover theory ptractice and application of type theory. More detail and registration on the website http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/types09. Yours sincerely, The organizing commitee. From eeide at cs.utah.edu Sun Apr 19 22:47:16 2009 From: eeide at cs.utah.edu (Eric Eide) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:47:16 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: PLOS '09: 5th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems Message-ID: <18923.57908.830702.353973@bas.flux.utah.edu> If you apply type-based or other advanced language ideas in the implementation of operating systems, we hope you will consider submitting a paper to PLOS '09. See the CFP below, or visit the Web site at http://plosworkshop.org/2009/ Best wishes --- Eric, Andreas, Gilles, and Olaf The PLOS 2009 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS 2009) October 11, 2009 Big Sky Resort / Big Sky, MT, USA http://plosworkshop.og/2009/ Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS In conjunction with SOSP 2009 http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/ Paper submission deadline: June 19, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 3, 2009 Final papers due: September 4, 2009 Workshop: October 11, 2009 Historically, operating system development and programming language development went hand-in-hand. Cross-fertilization was the norm. Challenges in one area were often approached using ideas or techniques developed in the other, and advances in one enabled new capabilities in both. Today, although the systems community at large retains an iron grip on C, modern programming language ideas continue to spark innovations in OS design and construction. Conversely, the systems field continues to provide a wealth of challenging problems and practical results that should lead to advances in programming languages, software designs, and idioms. This workshop will bring together researchers and developers from the programming language and operating system domains to discuss recent work at the intersection of these fields. It will be a platform for discussing new visions, challenges, experiences, problems, and solutions arising from the application of advanced programming and software engineering concepts to operating systems construction, and vice versa. Suggested paper topics include, but are not restricted to: * critical evaluations of new programming language ideas in support of OS construction * domain-specific languages for operating systems * type-safe languages for operating systems * object-oriented and component-based operating systems * language-based approaches to crosscutting system concerns, such as security and run-time performance * language support for system verification * language support for OS testing and debugging * static/dynamic configuration of operating systems * static/dynamic specialization within operating systems * the use of OS abstractions and techniques in language runtimes AGENDA The workshop will be a highly interactive event with an agenda designed to promote focused and lively discussions. Each potential participant should submit a paper as described below. The set of accepted papers will be made available to registered attendees in advance of the workshop. Participants should come to the workshop prepared with questions and comments. The workshop organizers will use the accepted papers and input from participants to compile a list of topics for working groups, to be held during the workshop. The set of topics may be extended or changed during the workshop, based on the presentation and discussion of the workshop papers. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES PLOS welcomes research, experience, and position papers; papers describing industrial experience are particularly encouraged. All papers must be written in English and should be formatted according to the ACM proceedings format. Submissions must not be more than five (5) pages in length---this limit will be strictly enforced. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the workshop Web site. They will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and designated external reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on technical quality, originality, relevance, and presentation. Accepted papers will be published electronically in the ACM Digital Library and in a special issue of Operating Systems Review (OSR). The authors of accepted papers will be required to sign ACM copyright release forms. The publication of a paper in the PLOS workshop proceedings is not intended to replace future conference publication. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eric Eide, University of Utah Manuel A. Faehndrich, Microsoft Research Andreas Gal, Mozilla Corporation Robert Grimm, New York University Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales Maurice Herlihy, Brown University Urs Hoelzle, Google Bernd Mathiske, Adobe Gilles Muller (chair), Ecole des Mines de Nantes Laurent Reveillere, ENSEIRB/LABRI ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Eric Eide, University of Utah Andreas Gal, Mozilla Corporation Gilles Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes Olaf Spinczyk, Technische Universitaet Dortmund From jeedward at yahoo.com Mon Apr 20 09:57:40 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended draft paper submission: TMFCS-09 call for papers Message-ID: <861613.71731.qm@web45903.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Extended draft paper submission: TMFCS-09 call for papers?and Special session on Types Theory ? ***The draft paper submission for the special session on Types Theory is extended until May11, 2009.*** ? This Extended Call for Papers for the 2009 International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) is for those who didn't get a chance to submit the papers for the earlier call for papers. The papers received and accepted in response to this extended call for papers will be included in the final version of the respective conference proceedings. These proceedings will be either ready by the time of the conference (i.e., they will be available during the conference) or soon after the conference (before the end of August 2009), based how fast the proceedings can be prepared. Note: If you have already submitted a paper (whether accepted or rejected or currently under review) for MULTICONF-09, please DO NOT submit that paper again to this extended call for papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Draft paper submission date: May 11, 2009 Acceptance/rejection decision: May 21, 2009 Camera ready paper and copyright and pre-registration due: May 28, 2009 Conference dates: July 13-16, 2009 ? ? TMFCS-09 will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090420/5853703c/attachment-0001.htm From afelty at site.uottawa.ca Mon Apr 20 14:29:35 2009 From: afelty at site.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:29:35 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2009: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <49ECBF0F.2020505@site.uottawa.ca> Second Call for Papers LFMTP 2009: 4th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2, 2009 http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfmtp Affiliated with CADE-22, Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009 Joint event with the 2009 International Workshop on Proof-Search in Type Theories (PSTT), August 3, 2009 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 1 Paper Submission: May 8 Notification: June 15 Final papers due: July 3 Workshop: August 2 JOINT LFMTP/PSTT INVITED SPEAKER: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique & INRIA) JOINT LFMTP/PSTT TUTORIAL SPEAKER: TBA DESCRIPTION: The LFMTP workshop continues a series of workshops on Logical Frameworks and Metalanguages (LFM) and Mechanized Reasoning about Languages with Variable Binding (MERLIN). This is the fourth joint workshop in the series. 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. LFMTP 2009 will provide researchers with a forum to review state-of-the-art techniques and to present progress in: - 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 design of proof assistants, automated theorem provers, and formal digital libraries building upon logical framework technology; - theoretical and practical issues concerning the encoding of variable binding, 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 will be particularly welcome. TOPICS: Papers are solicited on topics including, but 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 SUBMISSIONS: Three categories of papers are solicited: - Category A: Detailed and technical accounts of new research: up to eight pages including bibliography. - Category B: Shorter accounts of work in progress and proposed further directions, including discussion papers: up to six pages including bibliography and appendices. - Category C: System descriptions presenting an implemented tool and its novel features: up to four pages. A demonstration is expected to accompany the presentation. Submissions will be accepted electronically. Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract one week before submitting the paper. For further information and submission instructions, see the LFMTP web page: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfmtp. Accepted papers will be published electronically as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the workshop. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Frederic Blanqui (INRIA) James Cheney, Co-Chair (University of Edinburgh) Adam Chlipala (Harvard University) Amy Felty, Co-Chair (University of Ottawa) Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich) Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde) Marino Miculan (University of Udine) Alberto Momigliano (University of Edinburgh) Gopalan Nadathur (University of Minnesota) Michael Norrish (NICTA) From Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Mon Apr 20 13:21:09 2009 From: Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk (Maribel Fernandez) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:21:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] New submission date for WRS 2009 - Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming, Brasilia, 28 June In-Reply-To: <4995EE5A.3060602@kcl.ac.uk> References: <4995EE5A.3060602@kcl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <49ECAF05.8080608@kcl.ac.uk> Dear All, The submission deadline for WRS 2009 (the 9th International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming) has been extended until the 30th of April. WRS welcomes submissions describing work involving strategies in any area of Computer Science (for example, in programming, theorem proving, formal methods in software engineering, security, etc). WRS is an RDP workshop (part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming) and takes place in Brasilia, 28 June 2009. The first call for papers, distributed through this mailing list, is below. Thanks Best regards Maribel > ====================================================================== > Call for Papers > > WRS 2009 > 9th International Workshop on > Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming > http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/maribel/wrs09.html > 28 June 2009, Brasilia, Brazil > > An RDP 2009 workshop - Federated Conference on > Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming > > > This workshop promotes research and collaboration in the area of > reduction strategies. It encourages the presentation of new > directions, developments, and results as well as surveys and tutorials > on existing knowledge in this area. Reduction strategies define which > (sub)expression(s) should be selected for evaluation and which rule(s) > should be applied. These choices affect fundamental properties of > computations such as laziness, strictness, completeness, and > efficiency amongst others. For this reason programming languages such > as Elan, Maude, OBJ, and Stratego allow the explicit definition of the > evaluation strategy, whereas languages such as Clean, Curry, and > Haskell allow its modification. In addition to strategies in rewriting > and programming, WRS 2009 also covers the use of strategies and > tactics in other areas such as theorem and termination proving, security and software engineering. > WRS 2009 will take place in Brasilia, as part of RDP, the > Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming. > Previous editions of the workshop were held in Utrecht (2001), > Copenhagen (2002), Valencia (2003), Aachen (2004), Nara (2005), > Seattle (2006), Paris (2007), Hagenberg (2008). > > Submissions and Publication: > Before the workshop, authors are invited to submit a five page > abstract in pdf format, using the Easychair website > https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wrs09 > Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the preliminary proceedings, available at the workshop. > After the workshop, authors will be invited to submit a paper based on > their presentation, which will be refereed for inclusion in the final > workshop proceedings. We plan to publish the final proceedings in EPTCS. > > We also invite authors to submit a 5 page abstract describing relevant > work that has been or will be published elsewhere, or work in > progress. These submissions will be only considered for presentation > at the workshop and inclusion in the preliminary proceedings but not > in the final proceedings. > > We envisage publication of a special issue of a journal dedicated to WRS after the event. > > Important Dates: > # Submission: title and short abstract: 9 April 2009 > full abstract: 19 April 2009 > Extended until 30 April 2009. > # Notification: 17 May 2009 > # Preliminary proceedings version due: 7 June 2009 > # Workshop: 28 June 2009 > # Submission for final proceedings: 5 September 2009 > # Notification: 30 October 2009 > > Programme Committee: > Sergio Antoy > Mauricio Ayala Rincon > Horatiu Cirstea > Adriana Compagnoni > Santiago Escobar > Maribel Fernandez (chair) > Juergen Giesl > Bernhard Gramlich > Salvador Lucas > Ian Mackie > Jorge S. Pinto > > For more information, please contact > Maribel Fernandez > King's College London, UK > Email: Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk > > ================================================================================== > > From shankar at csl.sri.com Mon Apr 20 15:25:35 2009 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:25:35 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AFM '09 Call for Papers Message-ID: <31080.1240255535@positron.csl.sri.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Automated Formal Methods (AFM09) June 27, 2009, Grenoble, France http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM09/ In association with Computer-Aided Verification 2009 http://www-cav2009.imag.fr/ AFM is a one-day workshop centered around the use and integration of formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education. This workshop was first initiated as a users' group meeting for the SRI formal verification tools such as PVS, SAL, and Yices, but the topics are not restricted to these tools. The first workshop was held at FLoC'06, the second workshop with ASE'07, and the third workshop took place in conjunction with CAV'08. We welcome position papers on the topics listed above, particularly those that report on experiments and case studies. Papers must be fewer than 8 pages long in the ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and should be submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=afm09 The post-conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Hassen Saidi, Natarajan Shankar PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Myla Archer, Saddek Bensalem, Aaron Bradley, Supratik Chakraborthy, Rance de Long, Leonardo de Moura, Jean-Christophe Filliatre, Bernd Finkbeiner, Michael Gordon, John Harrison, Peter Manolios, David Monniaux, David Naumann, Corina Pasareanu, Lee Pike, Kazuhiro Ogata, Sanjit Seshia, Ofer Strichman. KEY DATES: Position papers due: April 30, 2009 Reviews/decisions: May 20, 2009 Camera ready versions due: June 10, 2009 AFM '09 Workshop: June 27, 2009 From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Tue Apr 21 08:15:08 2009 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:15:08 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSLLI 2009 - Early registration deadline approaching Message-ID: <0022AE6A-824A-4BAF-8193-4B5AEA4E952F@labri.fr> 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computer science. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in the city center of Bordeaux, France, wine capital of the world and a Unesco World Heritage site. = Course Program = ESSLLI gathers around 500 people from all over the world and offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 6 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. The full program can be found on our website. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php = Registration = Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. Note that in order to benefit from the reduced early registration rate, *your payment has to reach us before the 1st of May 2009*. The late registration registration rate is 350 euros for students and 500 euros for others. Early registration deadline: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php = Accommodation = During registration, ESSLLI participants can reserve student accommodation: simple but inexpensive rooms (12 euros a night) within easy reach by tramway of the ESSLLI lecture rooms. In addition, our website gives an extensive list of hotels in different price ranges. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/accomodation.php We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux this summer! On behalf of the ESSLLI organizing committee Richard Moot From sweirich at cis.upenn.edu Tue Apr 21 16:38:43 2009 From: sweirich at cis.upenn.edu (Stephanie Weirich) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:38:43 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] New moderator: Derek Dreyer Message-ID: <23C368ED-28BD-4478-AA2C-7C632997375B@cis.upenn.edu> It is my pleasure to announce that Derek Dreyer has taken over the job as moderator of the TYPES forum. After six years of running types-list and types-announce, it is time to pass the baton. Please join me in thanking Derek for taking on this valuable service for the community. With this handover, the list addresses will not change. As always, send discussion to types-list at lists.seas.upenn.edu and announcements to types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu Derek is eagerly awaiting your submissions. Cheers, Stephanie Weirich Former TYPES forum moderator From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Tue Apr 21 23:31:15 2009 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin Pierce) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:31:15 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] New moderator: Derek Dreyer In-Reply-To: <23C368ED-28BD-4478-AA2C-7C632997375B@cis.upenn.edu> References: <23C368ED-28BD-4478-AA2C-7C632997375B@cis.upenn.edu> Message-ID: <95F95CFA-7680-4117-8220-2980C3F65495@cis.upenn.edu> Excellent -- thanks very much, Derek, for stepping up! We also owe a huge round of thanks to Stephanie for her excellent management of the list for six years!!! - Benjamin (former former TYPES forum moderator :-) On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Stephanie Weirich wrote: > [ The Types Forum (announcements only), > http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] > > It is my pleasure to announce that Derek Dreyer has taken over > the job as moderator of the TYPES forum. After six years of > running types-list and types-announce, it is time to pass the > baton. Please join me in thanking Derek for taking on this > valuable service for the community. > > With this handover, the list addresses will not change. > As always, send discussion to > types-list at lists.seas.upenn.edu > and announcements to > types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu > Derek is eagerly awaiting your submissions. > > Cheers, > > Stephanie Weirich > > Former TYPES forum moderator From johnh at ichips.intel.com Tue Apr 21 23:48:36 2009 From: johnh at ichips.intel.com (John R Harrison) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:48:36 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] My automated theorem proving textbook is now available Message-ID: <200904220348.n3M3maE1002431@plxc1122.pdx.intel.com> For some time I've been working on a textbook giving a survey of some of the main results in automated theorem proving together with an introduction to basic mathematical logic. All the automated theorem proving techniques described are accompanied by actual OCaml code that the reader can use, modify and otherwise experiment with. I'm pleased to announce that the book has now been published. Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning John Harrison Cambridge University Press 2009 ISBN: 9780521899574 Publisher's Web page: http://www.cambridge.org/9780521899574 Code and resources: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/atp/ Copies are already becoming available: you can order it directly from the publisher or from various other sources. Currently the price and availability looks a bit better in Europe (it was on offer for 56 pounds last week on amazon.co.uk). Here's a table of contents: 1 Introduction 1.1 What is logical reasoning? 1.2 Calculemus! 1.3 Symbolism 1.4 Boole's algebra of logic 1.5 Syntax and semantics 1.6 Symbolic computation and OCaml 1.7 Parsing 1.8 Prettyprinting 2 Propositional Logic 2.1 The syntax of propositional logic 2.2 The semantics of propositional logic 2.3 Validity, satisfiability and tautology 2.4 The De Morgan laws, adequacy and duality 2.5 Simplification and negation normal form 2.6 Disjunctive and conjunctive normal forms 2.7 Applications of propositional logic 2.8 Definitional CNF 2.9 The Davis-Putnam procedure 2.10 Staalmarck's method 2.11 Binary Decision Diagrams 2.12 Compactness 3 First-order logic 3.1 First-order logic and its implementation 3.2 Parsing and printing 3.3 The semantics of first-order logic 3.4 Syntax operations 3.5 Prenex normal form 3.6 Skolemization 3.7 Canonical models 3.8 Mechanizing Herbrand's theorem 3.9 Unification 3.10 Tableaux 3.11 Resolution 3.12 Subsumption and replacement 3.13 Refinements of resolution 3.14 Horn clauses and Prolog 3.15 Model elimination 3.16 More first-order metatheorems 4 Equality 4.1 Equality axioms 4.2 Categoricity and elementary equivalence 4.3 Equational logic and completeness theorems 4.4 Congruence closure 4.5 Rewriting 4.6 Termination orderings 4.7 Knuth-Bendix completion 4.8 Equality elimination 4.9 Paramodulation 5 Decidable problems 5.1 The decision problem 5.2 The AE fragment 5.3 Miniscoping and the monadic fragment 5.4 Syllogisms 5.5 The finite model property 5.6 Quantifier elimination 5.7 Presburger arithmetic 5.8 The complex numbers 5.9 The real numbers 5.10 Rings, ideals and word problems 5.11 Groebner bases 5.12 Geometric theorem proving 5.13 Combining decision procedures 6 Interactive theorem proving 6.1 Human-oriented methods 6.2 Interactive provers and proof checkers 6.3 Proof systems for first-order logic 6.4 LCF implementation of first-order logic 6.5 Propositional derived rules 6.6 Proving tautologies by inference 6.7 First-order derived rules 6.8 First-order proof by inference 6.9 Interactive proof styles 7 Limitations 7.1 Hilbert's programme 7.2 Tarski's theorem on the undefinability of truth 7.3 Incompleteness of axiom systems 7.4 Goedel's incompleteness theorem 7.5 Definability and decidability 7.6 Church's theorem 7.7 Further limitative results 7.8 Retrospective: the nature of logic John Harrison. From florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk Wed Apr 22 13:15:35 2009 From: florin.craciun at durham.ac.uk (CRACIUN F.) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:15:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ph.D and Postdoc Positions available in Durham, UK Message-ID: <8405C0D818720A45A8C69862358075EE03E3E4@DURMAIL3.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk> ************************************************************ * A 3.5year Ph.D Position and a Postdoc Position * available in the area of Program Analysis and Verification * funded by the EPSRC project entitled "Inference Mechanisms * for a Separation and Numerical Domain" * in Department Of Computer Science, Durham University, UK ************************************************************ Applications are invited for a Ph.D. student and a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on an EPSRC funded project entitled "Inference Mechanisms for a Separation and Numerical Domain" in the group led by Dr. Shengchao Qin in the Department of Computer Science. The aim of the project is to develop advanced static analysis techniques based on separation logic for automated verification of memory safety as well as functional correctness of substantial heap-manipulating imperative programs. The key objective is to develop advanced inference/abstraction mechanisms in the combined separation and numerical domain with user-defined inductive predicates, so that loop invariants and method pre/post-conditions can be automatically synthesised, where possible. About the Ph.D Position: ========================= Prospective Ph.D candidates must have (or expect to have) a good honours (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science or other relevant subjects. The studentship requires good background knowledge in most of the following areas: logic and discrete mathematics related to computer science, computer-aided verification, compilers, and program analysis. Strong programming skills will also be essential for the studentship. This fully funded studentship provides a tax-free living allowance at the standard EPSRC rate (GBP 13,290 p.a. for 09/10) and student tuition fees at the UK/EU student rate (non-EU students will require supplementary funding). The successful candidate is expected to start on 1st September 2009. Closing date (the Ph.D Position): 15 May 2009 Applications (such as CV, references, a transcript and a statement of research interests) should be sent to Dr Shengchao Qin, Computer Science Department, Durham University, Science Labs, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom. Applicants are also required to register their interest of pursuing a Ph.D in Durham at https://bannerss.dur.ac.uk/blive_ssb/bwskalog.P_DispLoginNon About the Postdoc Position: =========================== The successful applicant should have received (or expect to receive) a Ph.D in Computer Science or a closely related subject. Suitable candidates should be able to demonstrate research skills or potential at an international level in the field of program analysis and computer-aided verification. Key responsibilities: the Postdoctoral Research Associate(PDRA) is expected to conduct research in program analysis and verification using separation logic. Working closely with the team leader, the PDRA is expected to develop advanced inference/abstraction mechanisms in an abstract domain combined with separation and numerical information and in the presence of user-specified inductive predicates and lemmas. More specifically, the PDRA is expected to make significant contributions in (1) automatic inference/analysis of loop invariants and method pre/post-specifications in the combined domain, (2) the construction of an analysis/verification tool and the integration of the developed tool with the verification tool HIP/SLEEK developed in National University of Singapore, and (3) the application of the tool to verify memory safety of substantial system software such as the Linux distribution. The RA is expected to write and publish research papers in good quality conferences and journals every year. Closing date (the Postdoc postioin): 31 May 2009 Details about this position including the application procedure can be found at https://jobs.dur.ac.uk/jobdtls.asp?Session_in=&Uid=&vref=3164 More project information can be obtained by contacting Dr Shengchao Qin at shengchao.qin at durham.ac.uk, or by visiting http://www.dur.ac.uk/shengchao.qin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Final Call for Papers 7th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS?09) Trento, Italy, September 16-18th, 2009 http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/ MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FROCOS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FROCOS?09 wants to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems (with emphasis on logic-based ones), and of their practical use. RELEVANT TOPICS Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of CS techniques; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into CLP formalisms and deduction processes; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEAKERS * Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy * Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria * Boris Motik, Oxford University, UK * Ashish Tiwari, SRI International, USA PAPER SUBMISSION 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. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Papers must be edited in LATEX using the llncs style and be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos09. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Further information about paper submission is available at FROCOS?09 web page. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of FroCoS?09 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 26th, 2009 Full paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy: June 22th, 2009 Conference: September 16-18th 2009 CHAIRS - Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy - Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany - Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Camberra, Australia - Torben Brauner, Roskilde University, DK - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA - Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria - Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA - Viktor Kuncak, E.P.F. Lausanne, Switzerland - Albert Oliveras, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Silvio Ranise, University of Verona, Italy - Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France - Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Luciano Serafini, FBK-Irst, Italy - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbruken, Germany - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Zakharyaschev, London Knowledge Lab, UK From todd at cs.ucla.edu Fri Apr 24 13:16:01 2009 From: todd at cs.ucla.edu (Todd Millstein) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:16:01 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoc position at UCLA In-Reply-To: <1c4abbaf0904240804u52ab1aa9k56080921b78dd87b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1c4abbaf0904240804u52ab1aa9k56080921b78dd87b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1c4abbaf0904241016w5ae3ba0fg58796fd2bf0c2dcf@mail.gmail.com> Rupak Majumdar and I are looking for a postdoc to work with us on a project involving analysis and testing of safety critical systems. The position is for two years starting this summer or fall. The candidate should have completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science and should have expertise and experience with one or more of the following: software verification and formal methods; program analysis; software testing; static type systems. Experience building large software analysis tools is a definite plus. Candidates should send email to me (todd at cs.ucla.edu). Please include a CV and a brief research statement. Thanks. Todd Millstein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090424/c6131113/attachment-0001.htm From leivant at cs.indiana.edu Sun Apr 26 11:06:57 2009 From: leivant at cs.indiana.edu (Daniel Leivant) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:06:57 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LCC09 CfP Message-ID: <49F47891.9030204@cs.indiana.edu> LCC'09 CALL FOR PAPERS The Tenth International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity (LCC'09, www.cs.indiana.edu/lcc) will be held in Los Angeles on August 10, 2009, as an affiliated meeting of LiCS'09 (www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics09), and in conjunction with SAS'09 (sas09.cs.ucdavis.edu). LCC meetings are aimed at the foundational interconnections between logic and computational complexity, as present, for example, in implicit computational complexity (descriptive and type-theoretic methods); deductive formalisms as they relate to complexity (e.g. ramification, weak comprehension, bounded arithmetic, linear logic and resource logics); complexity aspects of finite model theory and databases; complexity-mindful program derivation and verification; computational complexity at higher type; and proof complexity. The LCC'09 program will consist of invited lectures as well as contributed papers selected by the program committee. This year there will be no published proceedings, and work submitted or published elsewhere is welcome, provided all pertinent information is disclosed at submission time. Papers should be written in English, be accessible to non-specialists, start with a clear statement of the issues and results, and not exceed 15 pages. Proposed papers should be uploaded to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcc090, by Monday, May 18, 2009, with expected notification date of Monday, June 1. For additional information see www.cs.indiana.edu/lcc, or email inquiries to lcc at cs.indiana.edu. Further information about previous LCC meetings can be found at http://www.cis.syr.edu/~royer/lcc. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Patrick Baillot (CNRS-ENS Lyons, Co-chair) * Markus Lohrey (Leipzig, Co-Chair) * Albert Atserias (UP de Catalunya) * Pablo Barcelo (U de Chile) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) * Lauri Hella (Tampere) * Andrei Krokhin (Durham) * Chris Pollett (San Jose SU) STEERING COMMITTEE: Michael Benedikt (Oxford, Co-chair), Daniel Leivant (Indiana U, Co-chair), Robert Constable (Cornell), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge), Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon), Martin Hofmann (U Munich), Neil Immerman (U Mass. Amherst), Neil Jones (Copenhagen), Bruce Kapron (U Victoria), Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA Nancy), Luke Ong (Oxford), Martin Otto (Darmstadt), James Royer (Syracuse), Helmut Schwichtenberg (U Munich), and Pawel Urzyczyn (Warsaw) From laneve at cs.unibo.it Mon Apr 27 08:52:33 2009 From: laneve at cs.unibo.it (Cosimo Laneve) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:52:33 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] call for papers: 6th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods Message-ID: WS-FM 2009 -- 6th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods http://www.cs.unibo.it/ws-fm09 4-5 September 2009, Bologna, Italy Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR'09) Web Service technology aims at empowering providers of services, in the broad sense, with the ability to package and deliver their services by means of software applications available on the Web. Existing infrastructures for Web Services already enable providers to describe services in terms of structure, access policy and behavior, to locate services, to interact with them, and to bundle simpler services into more complex ones. However, innovations are necessary to seamlessly extend this technology in order to deal with challenges such as managing interactions with stateful and long-running Web Services, managing large numbers of Web Services, managing the quality of Web Service delivery, etc. Formal methods play a fundamental role in shaping innovations in Web Service technology. For instance, formal methods help to define and to understand the semantics of languages and protocols that underpin existing infrastructures for Web Services, and to formulate features that are found to be lacking. They also provide a basis for reasoning about Web Service behavior, for example to discover services that can fulfill a given goal. Finally, formal analysis of security properties and performance are essential in application areas including e-science, e-commerce, workflow, business process management, etc. Naturally, the scope for using formal methods in the area of Web Services is much wider. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on Web Services and Formal Methods in order to facilitate fruitful collaboration. The scope of the workshop is not purely limited to discussions and collaborations about technology aspects. It also covers approaches to analyzing and designing systems based on Web Service technology, such as service-oriented architecture and business process modeling. In fact, the WS-FM workshop has a tradition of attracting submissions dealing with formal approaches to enterprise systems modeling in general, and business process modeling in particular. Starting from 2007, the workshop has incorporated the activities of the online community formerly known as the "Petri and Pi" Group, a forum bridging the communities of workflow oriented researchers and process calculi oriented researchers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formal approaches to service-oriented analysis and design * Formal approaches to enterprise modeling and business process modeling * Model-driven development, testing, and analysis of web services * Web services for business process management * Security, performance and quality of web services * Web service coordination and transactions * Web service ontologies and semantic description * Goal-driven discovery and composition of web services * Complex event processing in service-oriented architectures * Semi-structured data management and XML technology * Types and logics for web services * Model-driven development, testing, and analysis of web services * Innovative application scenarios for web services * Data services * Data centric process modeling SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously nor be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. All papers must be submitted at the following submission site, handled by EasyChair, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsfm09 using the Springer LNCS style. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. We expect to publish the post-workshop proceedings a few months after the workshop as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 31, 2009 Paper submission deadline: June 7, 2009 Author notification: July 13, 2009 Workshop dates: September 4-5, 2009 The preparation of papers for formal publication will take place in the months following the workshop. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Cosimo Laneve University of Bologna, IT Jianwen Su University of California at Santa Barbara, USA OTHER PC MEMBERS: Wil van der Aalst Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Albert Benveniste IRISA/INRIA, FR Karthik Bhargavan Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Roberto Bruni University of Pisa, IT Diego Calvanese Free University of Bolzano, IT Alin Deutsch University of California San Diego, USA Marlon Dumas University of Tartu, EE Jose Luiz Fiadeiro University of Leicester, UK Xiang Fu Georgia Southwestern State University, USA Philippa Gardner Imperial College, UK Kohei Honda Queen Mary, University of London, UK Nickolas Kavantzas Oracle Co., USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos University of Lisbon, PT Karsten Wolf University of Rostock, DE Qiu Zongyan Peking University, CN From Hugo.Herbelin at inria.fr Mon Apr 27 14:33:44 2009 From: Hugo.Herbelin at inria.fr (Hugo Herbelin) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:33:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The 1st Coq workshop Message-ID: <20090427204228.C29160@pauillac.inria.fr> The 1st Coq Workshop ==================== (http://coq.inria.fr/coq-workshop) The Coq workshop will bring together Coq users, developers and contributors. The workshop will be organized from submitted papers, invited talks and a plenary discussion on the evolution and design of Coq. Topics for submitting a paper include: Language or tactics features Theory and implementation of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions Applications and experience in education and industry Tools, platforms built on Coq Plugins, libraries for Coq Interfacing with Coq Formalization tricks and Coq pearls Venue: TPHOLs 2009, Munich, Germany Important Dates: * Papers Due: May 11, 2009 (* New deadline *) * Acceptance Notification: June 23, 2009 * Workshop: August 21, 2009 Program committee: * Yves Bertot * Fr?d?ric Blanqui * Jacek Chrz?szcz * Eduardo Gim?nez * Georges Gonthier * Hugo Herbelin (chair) * Greg Morrisett * David Nowak * Benjamin Pierce Authors should send their papers to Hugo.Herbelin at inria.fr. Submitted papers should be in (postscript or) portable document format. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in length in single-column full-page 11pt A4 or letter style. If there is sufficient demand, we will try to organize a time slot for demonstrations. Similarly, we may also organize a session on the lessons learned from teaching Coq. If you are interested, please send a brief proposal. From danvy at brics.dk Tue Apr 28 15:13:34 2009 From: danvy at brics.dk (Olivier Danvy) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:13:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] NBE'09 call for papers Message-ID: <20090428191334.958251B5730@thyra01.cs.au.dk> [Apologies for duplicates.] NBE'09 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Submission: Friday 29 May 2009 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nbe09 Notification: Tuesday 30 June 2009 The Third Workshop on Normalization by Evaluation http://www.brics.dk/~danvy/NBE09/ will be held in Los Angeles on 15 August 2009 as an affiliated meeting of LICS'09 http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics09/ and in conjunction with SAS'09 http://sas09.cs.ucdavis.edu/ The goals of NBE'09 are: * to establish a continuity with NBE research so far, * to offer a forum for the new actors, and * to identify and build a community. The NBE'09 program will consist of an invited lecture and of contributed papers selected by the program committee. These papers will not be formally published, but a record of the meeting will be available in the BRICS series as informal proceedings. Papers should be written in English, be accessible to non-specialists, start with a clear statement of the issues and results, and not exceed 10 pages in the LICS format (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/amp12/lics09/papers.html#StyleFiles). Program committee: Thorsten Altenkirch, University of Nottingham, UK Olivier Danvy, Aarhus University, Denmark (chair) Peter Dybjer, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Andrzej Filinski, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Martin Hofmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Yoshiki Kinoshita, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Kristoffer Rose, IBM TJ Watson, USA Tarmo Uustalu, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Additional information: http://www.brics.dk/~danvy/NBE09/ Email inquiries: danvy at brics.dk From herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk Wed Apr 29 07:43:53 2009 From: herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk (Herbert Wiklicky) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:43:53 +0100 (BST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: Coordination'09 - Lisbon, 9-11 June 2009 Message-ID: Call for Participation 11th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages Coordination 2009 Languages, Models, and Architectures for Concurrent and Distributed Software http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/index.php?title=Coordination Part of DisCoTec'09 4th International federated conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques 9-12 June, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal, http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt The 11th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) is part of the IFIP federated event on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec), together with the 9th IFIP international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) and the IFIP international conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems (FMOODS/FORTE). The DisCoTec conferences jointly cover the complete spectrum of distributed computing subjects ranging from theoretical foundations to formal specification techniques to practical considerations. The event will be hosted by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Scope Modern software lives in a concurrent world. The ubiquity of the Internet allows distributed software components to be composed into complex networked systems. At the other end of the spectrum, multicore processors are now the norm. Hence applications are bound to be inherently concurrent and communication centered. Coordination 2009 seeks high-quality papers on programming languages, models, and architectures that address the challenge of building robust distributed and concurrent applications. The conference focuses on the design and implementation of models that allow compositional construction of large-scale concurrent and distributed systems, including both practical and foundational models, runtime systems, and related verification and analysis techniques. Early Registration Deadline: 17 May 2009 Further Information: http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/index.php?title=Coordination Invited Speaker: Manuel Serrano, INRIA, France http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/index.php?title=Coordination/Invited_Speaker Accepted Papers: http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/index.php?title=Coordination/Papers Registration: https://pco.abreu.pt/CLIENTES/abreu/formularios/form_4463204089.php From shkarav at cs.ru.nl Wed Apr 29 09:36:28 2009 From: shkarav at cs.ru.nl (Olha Shkaravska) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:36:28 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOPARA'09 -- First Call for Papers Message-ID: <1241012188.32061.38.camel@aha-laptop> (Our apologies for possible multiple copies) First Call for Papers International workshop on FOUNDATIONAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RESOURCE ANALYSIS FOPARA 2009 Eindhoven, The Netherlands November,3 2009 A satellite event of 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods http://www.aha.cs.ru.nl/fopara/ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE The workshop serves as a forum for presenting original research results that are relevant to the analysis of resource (time, space) consumption by computer programs. The workshop aims to bring together the researchers that work on foundational issues with the researchers that focus more on practical results. Therefore, both theoretical and practical contributions are encouraged. The following list of topics is non-exhaustive: * resource analysis for embedded systems, * logical and machine-independent characterisations of complexity classes, * logics closely related to complexity classes, * type systems for controlling complexity, * semantic methods to analyse resources, incl. quasi- and sup- interpretations, * practical applications of resource analysis. Up to now a few similar events have taken place. In 2006, 2008 application-oriented resource analysis workshops ( EmBounded Open Workshop in Budapest, 2006, and Resource Analysis Workshop in Hertfordshir, 2008) were held as affiliated events of International Symposium on the Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL). Participated: University of St. Andrew (UK), Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh (UK), Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (Germany), University Complutense of Madrid (Spain), Politechnical University of Madrid (Spain). Another large group of research schools is presented in series of workshops on Implicit Computational Complexity, see, for instance, WICC'08 in Paris . The series gather researchers working in theoretical foundations of resource analysis, mainly from in France (Universities of Paris Diderot and Paris Nord, LORIA Nancy), Italy (Universities of Bologna and Turin), Norway, Germany and Portugal. FOPARA aims to bringing these various directions in resource analysis together and possibly to extend the community by other groups. IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2009) * Abstract deadline: July 10, * Paper submission deadline: July 15, * Notification of acceptance: September 11, * Workshop version of the papers: October 11, * Final formal paper submission: November 22. INVITED SPEAKER Sumit Gulwani (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/), Microsoft Research SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the pre-workshop refereeing of full papers (16 pages). In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we plan to publish the revised versions of presented at the workshop papers in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The request for a volume is pending. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Marko van Eekelen (Radboud University and Open University, NL), PC chair * Olha Shkaravska (Radboud University, NL), PC co-chair * Patrick Baillot (ENS-Lyon, France) * Armelle Bonenfant (IRIT, France) * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy) * Kevin Hammond (Univ. of St. Andrews, UK) * Martin Hofmann (LMU, Munich, Germany) * Thomas Jensen (IRISA, Rennes, France) * Tamas Kozsik (Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest, Hungary) * Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (LMU, Munich, Germany) * Kenneth MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Jean-Yves Marion (Loria, Nancy, France) * Greg Michaelson (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) * Ricardo Pe?a (University Complutense Madrid, Spain) * German Puebla (Politechnical University of Madrid, Spain) * Luca Roversi (University of Turin, Italy) * Phil Trinder (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) LOCATION The workshop is a satellite event of the 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM2009. The venue for FM2009 is the Auditorium of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Everything related to the symposium will take place here, including workshops, lunches, and other activities. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven was founded in the 1950s on a patch of uncultivated land near the centre of town. Due to this fortunate circumstance, the university campus is now right in the middle of the fifth largest city in the Netherlands. This means that the railway station, the conference hotels, and other facilities are all within walking distance of the campus, and that during your stay you will have easy access to everything Eindhoven has to offer. From voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Apr 29 15:04:59 2009 From: voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:04:59 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages Message-ID: <4a7a911ff7d9c23f2586aab402121d5f.squirrel@mail.tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages 25th-28th August, 2009 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL Overview This four-day residential International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages has a major theme of Concurrency, Distribution, and Multicore. Intended primarily for postgraduate research students, the School offers lectures and practical sessions on an engaging blend of cutting edge theoretical and practical techniques from international experts. The Summer School is supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/), a Scottish Funding Council Research Pool. Participants from SICSA member institutions may attend at no cost. Confirmed Topics/Speakers - Static and dynamic languages, Prof Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh - Compiler technology for data-parallel languages, Dr Sven-Bodo Scholz, University of Hertfordshire - New applications of parametricity, Dr Janis Voigtlaender, Technical University of Dresden - Automatic vectorising compilation, Dr Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow - Foundational aspects of size analysis, Prof Marko van Eekelen/Dr Olha Shakaravska, Radboud University Nijmegen - Context oriented programming, Dr Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Multi-core programming, Dr Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University - Multi-core compilation, Dr Alastair Donaldson, Codeplay Software Ltd - Principles and Applications of Refinement Types, Dr Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research, Cambridge - Resource aware programming in Hume, Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University/ Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews - Haskell concurrency & parallelism, Dr Satnam Singh, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Location The Summer School is based at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton campus, set in pleasant parkland to the west of Edinburgh, with easy access to the airport, city and central Scotland: http://www.hw.ac.uk/welcome/directions.htm. The Summer School immediately precedes the 2009 International Conference on Functional Programming (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html) and takes place during the Edinburgh International Festival (http://www.eif.co.uk/), and the associated Edinburgh Festival Fringe (http://www.edfringe.com/) and Edinburgh International Book Festival (http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/). 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Name: SICSA ISS AiPL Programme.pdf Type: application/download Size: 5515 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090429/633ad77e/SICSAISSAiPLProgramme-0001.bin From rvg at cs.stanford.edu Thu Apr 30 08:53:48 2009 From: rvg at cs.stanford.edu (Rob van Glabbeek) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] EPTCS, a new open access proceedings series Message-ID: <200904301253.n3UCrm619580@kilby.Stanford.EDU> With this email, we are launching Electronic Proceedings in Theoretic Computer Science (EPTCS) a new international refereed open access venue for the rapid electronic publication of the proceedings of workshops and conferences, and of festschrifts, etc, in the general area of theoretical computer science, broadly construed. We do not charge authors or event organisers for electronic publication in EPTCS in any way. If hard-copies of proceedings are desired, event organisers have the choice of organising the printing themselves or taking advantage of a standard contract we will make with a printing house. Copyright on all papers is retained by the author, and full-text electronic access to all papers is freely available, without any need for registration or subscription. Permanent archival of EPTCS publications is ensured by organising EPTCS as an overlay of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR): see arXiv.org. The content of EPTCS will be indexed by DBLP. Only original papers will be considered for publication in EPTCS: manuscripts are accepted for review by an EPTCS conference or workshop with the understanding that the same work has not been published, nor is presently submitted, elsewhere. However, full versions of extended abstracts published in EPTCS, or substantial revisions, may later be published elsewhere. The submission and refereeing process is handled entirely by the organisation of the conference, workshop or festschrift to which the paper is submitted. Our editorial board carefully selects which workshops and conferences can be trusted to select scientific papers of quality only, and only those events will be granted a contract to fill a volume of EPTCS. Our editorial board consists of: Luca Aceto Rob van Glabbeek Gordon Plotkin Rajeev Alur Lane A. Hemaspaandra Vladimiro Sassone Krzysztof R. Apt Matthew Hennessy Robert H. Sloan Lars Arge Bartek Klin Wolfgang Thomas Ran Canetti Evangelos Kranakis Irek Ulidowski Luca Cardelli Shay Kutten Dorothea Wagner Rocco De Nicola Nancy Lynch Martin Wirsing Jose' Luiz Fiadeiro Aart Middeldorp Moti Yung Wan Fokkink Benjamin Pierce Further information can be found on our website: http://eptcs.org/. In the hope this initiative will benefit the theoretical computer science community, Rob van Glabbeek (Editor in Chief) From sweirich at cis.upenn.edu Thu Apr 30 10:43:21 2009 From: sweirich at cis.upenn.edu (Stephanie Weirich) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:43:21 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Haskell Symposium Submission site now open Message-ID: <0351EB56-2A01-4408-AF67-68F4DB51CC55@cis.upenn.edu> Submission to the Haskell Symposium is now open at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haskell09 Please do submit! The deadline is a week from tomorrow. (There will be NO EXTENSIONS of this deadline, so do get your paper in on time.) Cheers, Stephanie --------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell 09 ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2009 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 3, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/ The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2009 will be co-located with the 2009 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). The purpose of the Haskell Symposium is to discuss experiences with Haskell and future developments for the language. The scope of the symposium includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Language Design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, in the form of a formal treatment of the semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Tools, in the form of profilers, tracers, debuggers, pre-processors, and so forth; * Applications, Practice, and Experience, with Haskell for scientific and symbolic computing, database, multimedia and Web applications, and so forth as well as general experience with Haskell in education and industry; * Functional Pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of using Haskell. Papers in the latter two categories need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, re-usable programming idioms, or elegant new ways of approaching a problem. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a program! Before 2008, the Haskell Symposium was known as the Haskell Workshop. The name change reflects both the steady increase of influence of the Haskell Workshop on the wider community as well as the increasing number of high quality submissions. The acceptance process is highly competitive. After eleven Haskell Workshops between 1995 and 2007, the first Haskell Symposium was held in Victoria in 2008. Submission Details * Submission Deadline: Friday, May 8th 2009 (3:00 pm, Eastern US Time) * Author Notification: Monday, June 1st 2009 * Final Papers Due : Monday, June 15th 2009 Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm). The length is restricted to 12 pages, and the font size 9pt. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. If there is sufficient demand, we will try to organize a time slot for system or tool demonstrations. If you are interested in demonstrating a Haskell related tool or application, please send a brief demo proposal to Stephanie Weirich, sweirich at cis.upenn.edu. Links * http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium, the permanent homepage of the Haskell Symposium. * http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2009/, the 2009 Haskell Symposium web page. * http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2009, the ICFP 2009 web page. Program Committee * Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford University * Bastiaan Heeren, Open Universiteit Nederland * John Hughes, Chalmers/Quviq * Mark Jones, Portland State University * Simon Marlow, Microsoft Research * Ulf Norell, Chalmers * Chris Okasaki, United States Military Academy * Ross Paterson, City University London * Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev, Vector Fabrics * Don Stewart, Galois * Janis Voigtlaender, TU Dresden * Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania (Chair) From P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk Thu Apr 30 11:41:06 2009 From: P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk (Paul Levy) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:41:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EPTCS, a new open access proceedings series In-Reply-To: <200904301253.n3UCrm619580@kilby.Stanford.EDU> References: <200904301253.n3UCrm619580@kilby.Stanford.EDU> Message-ID: <2824A1CD-149E-4B12-8047-2D6AB677544F@cs.bham.ac.uk> Bravo on this initiative, Rob! Incidentally, since your per-page cost will be zero, conferences now have one more reason to choose a page limit that *excludes* the bibliography. It is surely detrimental for authors to have to cut down their bibliography to meet a page limit. Paul On 30 Apr 2009, at 13:53, Rob van Glabbeek wrote: > [ The Types Forum (announcements only), > http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] > > With this email, we are launching > > Electronic Proceedings in Theoretic Computer Science (EPTCS) > > a new international refereed open access venue for the rapid > electronic publication of the proceedings of workshops and > conferences, and of festschrifts, etc, in the general area of > theoretical computer science, broadly construed. > > We do not charge authors or event organisers for electronic > publication in EPTCS in any way. If hard-copies of proceedings are > desired, event organisers have the choice of organising the printing > themselves or taking advantage of a standard contract we will make > with a printing house. Copyright on all papers is retained by the > author, and full-text electronic access to all papers is freely > available, without any need for registration or subscription. > > Permanent archival of EPTCS publications is ensured by organising > EPTCS as an overlay of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR): see > arXiv.org. The content of EPTCS will be indexed by DBLP. > > Only original papers will be considered for publication in EPTCS: > manuscripts are accepted for review by an EPTCS conference or workshop > with the understanding that the same work has not been published, nor > is presently submitted, elsewhere. However, full versions of extended > abstracts published in EPTCS, or substantial revisions, may later be > published elsewhere. > > The submission and refereeing process is handled entirely by the > organisation of the conference, workshop or festschrift to which the > paper is submitted. Our editorial board carefully selects which > workshops and conferences can be trusted to select scientific papers > of quality only, and only those events will be granted a contract to > fill a volume of EPTCS. > > Our editorial board consists of: > > Luca Aceto Rob van Glabbeek Gordon Plotkin > Rajeev Alur Lane A. Hemaspaandra Vladimiro Sassone > Krzysztof R. Apt Matthew Hennessy Robert H. Sloan > Lars Arge Bartek Klin Wolfgang Thomas > Ran Canetti Evangelos Kranakis Irek Ulidowski > Luca Cardelli Shay Kutten Dorothea Wagner > Rocco De Nicola Nancy Lynch Martin Wirsing > Jose' Luiz Fiadeiro Aart Middeldorp Moti Yung > Wan Fokkink Benjamin Pierce > > Further information can be found on our website: > > http://eptcs.org/. > > In the hope this initiative will benefit the theoretical computer > science community, > > Rob van Glabbeek > (Editor in Chief) Paul Blain Levy Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Birmingham +44 (0)121 414 4792 http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Thu Apr 30 18:07:24 2009 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 00:07:24 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: Distributed Computing Techniques: DisCoTec 2009 (DAIS + FMOODS/FORTE + COORDINATION), Lisbon, 9-12 June 2009, student grants available Message-ID: Call for Participation: ============================================================ Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/ Lisbon, Portugal 9 - 12 June 2009 The event is organised by the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes. o Main federated events: ------------------------------------------. Coordination'09: 11th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages DAIS'09: 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems FMOODS/FORTE'09: 11th Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems & 29th Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems -------------------------------------------------------------------- o Registration: - Early registration deadline: May 17, 2009. - Register via http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/ o Grants: - Grants are offered for student participants of DisCoTec & the affiliated tutorial (see below) - See the web-page for conditions and for the application forms - Deadline May 11, 2009 o Invited speakers: - Jayadev Misra, University of Texas at Austin, USA, - Manuel Serrano, INRIA, France - Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA =================================================================== Besides the main federated 3 international conferences, DisCoTec'09 offers a varied and rich co-located program of workshops and scientific meetings on related topics plus a tutorial. See the website for different reduced registration prices when registering for combinations of events: o Workshops (12 June): - CAMPUS 2009: 2nd Workshop on Context-aware Adaptation Mechanisms for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services - MAI 2009: 3rd Workshop on Middleware-Application Interaction o Tutorial: Global Computing Tutorial Series (9-11 June, promoted by the Sensoria and Mobius European projects) - Gilles Barthe, "Verification Methods for Software Security and Correctness" (Mobius) - Sophia Drossopoulou, "Types for Alias Control and Verification" (Mobius) - Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, "A Formal Approach to Service-Oriented Modelling" (Sensoria) - Flemming Nielson, "Static Security Analysis of Service-Oriented Systems" (Sensoria) o Co-located events - 10th International Conference on Feature Interactions in Telecommunications and Software Systems (ICFI'09) (11-12 June) - Sensoria meeting: (7-9 June, Software Engineering for Service-Oriented Computers http://www.sensoria-ist.eu/) - COST Action IC0701 meeting (11-13 June, Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software, http://www.cost-ic0701.org/) ===================================================================== List of accepted papers of the main events: ===================================================================== o COORDINATION 09 ----------------- - Farhad Arbab, Tom Chothia, Rob van der Mei, Meng Sun, Young-JoXo Moon and Chretien Verhoef: From Coordination to Stochastic Models of QoS - Christel Baier, Tobias Blechmann, Joachim Klein and Sascha Klüppelholz: A Uniform Framework for Modeling and Verifying Components and Connectors - Marcello Bonsangue, Dave Clarke and Alexandra Silva: Automata for Context-dependent Connectors - Tayeb Bouhadiba and Florence Maraninchi: Contract-Based Coordination of Hardware Components for the Development of Embedded Software - Liliana D'Errico and Michele Loreti: Assume-Guarantee Verification of Concurrent Systems - Susan Eisenbach and Alexis Petrounias: Fairness for Chorded Languages - Bjørn Haagensen and Hans Hüttel: Parametrised Constants and Replication for Spatial Mobility - Abdessamad Imine: Coordination Model for Real-time Collaborative Editors - Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman and Chenyang Lu: Enhanced Coordination in Sensor Networks through Flexible Service Provisioning - Jens Chr. Godskesen and Sebastian Nanz: Mobility Models and Behavioural Equivalence for Wireless Networks - Armand Navabi and Suresh Jagannathan: Exceptionally Safe Futures - Carl Ritson, Adam Sampson and Frederick Barnes: Multicore Scheduling for Lightweight Communicating Processes - Jesper Honig Spring, Jean Privat, Rachid Guerraoui, Jan Vitek and Antonio Cunei: High-Performance Transactional Event Processing - Mirko Viroli and Matteo Casadei: Biochemical Tuple Spaces for Self-Organising Coordination --------- o DAIS 09 --------- - Diana Comes, Steffen Bleul, Kurt Geihs and Thomas Weise: A Flexible Approach for Business Processes Monitoring - Mate J. Csorba, Hein Meling, Poul E. Heegaard and Peter Herrmann: Foraging for better deployment of replicated service components - Paulo Jesus, Carlos Baquero and Paulo Sérgio Almeida: Fault-Tolerant Aggregation by Flow Updating - Shen Lin, Francois Taiani and Gordon Blair: Exploiting Synergies Between Coexisting Overlays - Raimundo Macêdo and Allan Freitas: A Generic Group Communication Approach for Hybrid Distributed Systems - Alix Mougenot, Xavier Blanc and Marie-Pierre Gervais: D-Praxis: A peer-to-peer collaborative model edition framework - Romain Pellerin, Nicolas Bouillot, Tatiana Pietkiewicz, Mike Wozniewski, Zack Settel, Eric Gressier-Soudan and Jeremy R. Cooperstock: Toward Highly Collaborative Game Support in an Ubiquitous Computing Architecture - Vasanth Rajamani, Christine Julien and Jamie Payton: Inquiry and Introspection for Non-Deterministic Queries in Mobile Networks - Daniel Retkowitz and Sven Kulle: Dependency Management in Smart Homes - Josef Spillner, Matthias Winkler, Sandro Reichert, Jorge Cardoso and Alexander Schill: Distributed Contracting and Monitoring in the Internet of Services - Amirhosein Taherkordi, Quan Le-Trung, Romain Rouvoy and Frank Eliassen: WiSeKit: A Distributed Middleware to Support Application-level Adaptation in Sensor Network - Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe, Gordon Blair and Sebastian Kaune: A Reflective Middleware to Support Peer-to-Peer Overlay Adaptation ------------------ o FMOODS/FORTE 09 ------------------ - Parosh Abdulla, Giorgio Delzanno and Ahmed Rezine: Approximated Context-sensitive Analysis for Parameterized Verification - Luciano Baresi, Domenico Bianculli, Sam Guinea and Paola Spoletini: Keep It Small, Keep It Real: Efficient Run-Time Verification of Web Service Compositions - Hanifa Boucheneb and Abdessamad Imine: On Model-Checking Optimistic Replication Algorithms - Rohit Chadha, Stephanie Delaune and Steve Kremer: Epistemic Logic for the Applied Pi Calculus - Gabriel Ciobanu and Calin Juravle: Software Framework for Mobility and Timed Interaction - Naghmeh Ghafari, Arie Gurfinkel and Richard Trefler: Verification of Parameterized Systems with Combinations of Abstract Domains - Maxim Gromov, Khaled El-Fakih, Natalia Shabaldina and Nina Yevtushenko: Distinguing non-deterministic Timed Finite State Machines - Hans Grönniger, Jan Oliver Ringert and Bernhard Rumpe: System Model-based Definition of Modeling Language Semantics - Iksoon Hwang, Mounir Lallali, Ana Cavalli and Dominique Verchere: Modeling, validation, and test generation of PCEP using formal method - Morten Kühnrich and Uwe Nestmann: On Process-Algebraic Proof Methods for Fault Tolerant Distributed Systems - Michael Lienhardt, Claudio Antares Mezzina, Alan Schmitt and Jean-Bernard Stefani: Typing Component-Based Communication - Lin Liu and Jonathan Billington: Recursive Parametric Automata and epsilon-Removal Short papers - João Abreu, Franco Mazzanti, José Luiz Fiadeiro and Stefania Gnesi: A Model-Checking Approach for Service Component Architectures - Gregor Bochmann: Using First-Order Logic to Reason about Submodule Construction - Tsong Yueh Chen, Fei-Ching Kuo, Huai Liu and Shengqiong Wang: Conformance Testing of Network Simulators based on Metamorphic Testing Technique - Gregorio Díaz and Ismael Rodriguez: Checking the conformance of orchestrations with respect to choreographies in web services: A formal approach - Andreas Griesmayer, Bernhard K. Aichernig, Einar Broch Johnsen and Rudolf Schlatte: Dynamic Symbolic Execution of Distributed Concurrent Objects - Arend Rensink and Eduardo Zambon: A Type Graph Model for Java Programs From Michael.Norrish at nicta.com.au Fri May 1 01:46:02 2009 From: Michael.Norrish at nicta.com.au (Michael Norrish) Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:46:02 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for FLoC 2010 Workshops Message-ID: <49FA8C9A.2000006@nicta.com.au> In 2010, the ACL2 Workshop and TPHOLs conference will be combining to form the ITP ("Interactive Theorem Proving") conference. ITP 2010 will also be part of the FLoC combination of conferences and workshops, to be held in Edinburgh in July 2010. FLoC has now issued a call for workshops to be part of the combination (see attached), and importantly: Each workshop proposal must indicate one sponsoring conference among the participating conferences. I am the workshop chair for ITP, and I would like to encourage workshop applications that mention ITP as their "sponsor". Submissions will be handled via Easychair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floc10cfw but I am happy to discuss possible workshop applications in advance if there is anything that is unclear. Michael. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: FLoC10.CFW.txt Url: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090501/3247d222/FLoC10.CFW.txt -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: FLoC10.CFW.html Url: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090501/3247d222/FLoC10.CFW-0001.txt From kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Fri May 1 12:07:07 2009 From: kutsia at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 18:07:07 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Deadline extension, 8th Tbilisi Symposium Message-ID: <49FB1E2B.1060902@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> Please distribute widely. Apologies for cross-posting. ********************************************************************** 3-rd Call for Papers deadline extension THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION 21 -- 25 September 2009 Bakuriani, Georgia Extended submission deadline: *8 May 2009* Website: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi2009/ *********************************************************************** The Eighth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held on 21 -- 25 September 2009 in Bakuriani, Georgia. The Program Committee invites submissions for contributions to on all aspects of language, logic and computation. Work of an inter- disciplinary nature is particularly welcome. The submission deadline is the 8-th of May 2009; notification is due June 15. Accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings, presumably in the LNAI series with Springer. Program and submission details can be found at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi2009/ Paul Dekker, on behalf of the Program and the Organization Committee, 8-th International Tbilisi Symposium ----------------------------------------- Paul Dekker -- ILLC/Department of Philosophy -- University of Amsterdam -- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 -- NL-1012 CP Amsterdam -- The Netherlands -- tel: +31 20 5254541 / fax: +31 20 5254503 -- email: p.j.e.dekker at uva.nl http://staff.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/ From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Fri May 1 21:04:37 2009 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S Barry Cooper) Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 02:04:37 +0100 (BST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] DCM 2009, Rhodes, Greece - EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7 MAY, 2009 Message-ID: ======================================================================== Final Call for Papers DCM 2009 5th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models - Computational Models From Nature http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~danos/dcm09 Rhodes, Greece Saturday, 11 July 2009 ** EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7 MAY, 2009 ** A satellite event of ICALP 2009 - http://icalp09.cti.gr/ ======================================================================== DCM 2009 is the fifth in a series of international workshops focusing on new computational models. It aims to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features of a traditional one. And to foster 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. DCM 2009 will be a one-day satellite event of ICALP 2009, with a special focus on the theme 'Computational Models From Nature'. Plenary speakers: Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) "Computing with Anyons" Amin Coja-Oghlan (Edinburgh) "Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems" Damien Woods (Seville) "Two Notions of Uniformity in Natural Computing" Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their properties, and their applications to the development of programming languages and systems: - quantum computation, including implementations and formal methods in quantum protocols; - probabilistic computation and verification in modelling situations; - chemical, biological and bio-inspired computation, including spatial models, self-assembly, growth models; - general concurrent models including the treatment of mobility, trust, and security; - information-theoretic ideas in computing. PLEASE SUBMIT an extended abstract (of around 10 pages or less) in PDF format to the conference EasyChair submission page: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=dcm2009 by the EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7 MAY, 2009. Accepted contributions will appear in a special issue of the EPTCS (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science). After the workshop, full versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the IJSI (International Journal of Software and Informatics). IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: 7 May, 2009 Notification: 25 May Workshop: 11 July, 2009 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: S. Barry Cooper (Leeds, Co-chair) Vincent Danos (Edinburgh, Co-chair) Paola Bonizzoni (Milan) Alessandra Carbone (Paris) Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research) Robert Coecke (Oxford) Mariangiola Dezani (Turin) Ellie D'Hondt (Brussels) Lionel Dupuy (SCRI, Dundee) Jerome Feret (INRIA, ENS Paris) Maribel Fernandez (King's College, London) Mark Hogarth (Cambridge) Jean-Pierre Jouannaud (Tsinghua, CNRS) Zoran Konkoli (Chalmers) Angsheng Li (CAS, Beijing) Ian Mackie (Ecole Polytechnique) Gheorghe Paun (Bucharest) Simon Perdrix (Paris) Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Jiri Wiedermann (Prague) Damien Woods (Seville) ========================================================================= Further information: Barry Cooper, pmt6sbc at leeds.ac.uk Vincent Danos, vincent.danos at gmail.com ========================================================================= From hilde at itu.dk Sat May 2 02:57:47 2009 From: hilde at itu.dk (Thomas Hildebrandt) Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 08:57:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Vacant PhD Scholarships at FIRST, Copenhagen Message-ID: <49FBEEEB.3040609@itu.dk> ***************************************************************************** ** Vacant PhD Scholarships at the cross-university Research School on ** ** Foundations for Innovative Research based Software Technologies (FIRST) ** ***************************************************************************** The FIRST Research School (www.first.dk) coordinates and organizes events and PhD courses for all PhD students in foundational aspects of computer science in Copenhagen, Denmark, creating a stimulating and exciting environment for PhD studies. The Research School currently has about 40 PhD students and 40 supervisors affiliated to faculty groups at IT University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, and Roskilde University. All research labs are easily reachable from each other by public transport within 40 minutes. The scientific focus of FIRST is on the fundamental understanding of computer science: Semantics, logic, algorithmics, and complexity theory and applications within verification, configuration, optimization, scheduling, systems biology concurrency, mobility, programming languages, program analysis, compilers, and software tools. FIRST currently invites for applications for PhD scholarships at * The MT-LAB VKR CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE at Technical University of Denmark (http://www.mt-lab.dk) Deadline for application: Monday, June 15th, 2009 * The Algorithms and Programming Languages (APL) group at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (http://www.diku.dk) Deadline for application: Monday, June 15th, 2009 * The Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems (PLIS) research group at Roskilde University (http://plis.ruc.dk) Deadline for application: Monday, June 15th, 2009 * IT University of Copenhagen (www.itu.dk/research) Deadline for application: October, 2009 Expected start of Ph.D. position (for application deadlines June 15th) is subject to negotiation, though preferably no later than August 1st, 2009. Expected start of Ph.D position at IT University of Copenhagen is primo 2010. A separate application must be sent to each of the institutions to which one wishes to apply. See below for more detailed descriptions of the topics at each partner institution and guidelines for how to apply. ************************************* ** MT-LAB VKR CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE ** ************************************* The pervasive and original element of MT-LAB is the development of Computer Scientific models that integrate qualitative and quantitative mathematical theories in order to analyse the important properties of the hybrid IT systems of the future. MT-LAB builds on formal techniques for modelling systems and their properties. We study process calculi and their transition systems for modelling systems and we focus on logical formula for expressing the properties of interest. The research of MT-LAB is organised into the three themes, which are chosen in order to obtain maximal synergy between the complementary skills of the partners: 1. Static analysis and model checking are complementary approaches to the validation of discrete and, to a certain extent, stochastic and continuous systems. In MT-LAB we believe that the two approaches fundamentally solve the same problem ? but using a different repertoire of techniques that must be combined in order to produce much more powerful analysis techniques. 2. Embedded systems and service-oriented systems are two dominant platforms for the development of IT systems ? they are expected to merge and create the IT systems of the future. In MT-LAB we believe that there is no fundamental difference between the techniques and properties required for their analysis and verification. 3. Components and global characteristic features are complementary approaches to the construction and understanding of complex IT systems. In MT-LAB we believe that neither of the approaches will suffice for the effective analysis of complex IT Systems ? but that the analysis of systems can be fruitfully decomposed into a compositional component and a less demanding characteristic feature thereby reducing the perceived cost of analysis. Within these themes a number of more specific research tasks have been identified for the first couple of years: * Technology transfer * Beyond finiteness * Stochastic analysis * Hybrid systems * Resource usage * Service level guarantees * Interfaces If you are interested in learning about MT-LAB please look at http://www.MT-LAB.dk If you are interested in one of the positions please 1. Study the regulations for the DTU PhD programme as described at http://www.dtu.dk/English/education/Phd_Education.aspx 2. Please fill out a draft version of the application form that you find in the rightmost column of that page (including transcripts of grades, the form for converting the grades to the Danish system, and any scientific papers and letters of recommendation that you may have). 3. Submit the material to professor Flemming Nielson at the address for a discussion of how to finalise the description of the research programme so as to fit your interests as well as those of MT-LAB. ********************************************************************* ** Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU) ** ********************************************************************* DIKU, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for a Ph.D. scholarship for projects on the borderline between the fields of combinatorial optimization and computational biology. Our research group has a long-standing research interests in solving NP-hard optimization problems (such as packing, VLSI-design, vehicle routing, network design). In recent years we have been applying combinatorial optimization methods to solve complex protein-related problems (such as for example protein structure prediction, docking, collision detection). We also have been interested in the applicability of advanced geometrical data structures (such as Voronoi diagrams, kd-trees, alpha shapes) to solve this kind of problems. Applicants are required to have a master degree or its equivalent in computer science or operations research. No a priori knowledge of molecular biology is required. However, the applicants should be willing to strengthen our collaboration with both on-campus and external bioinformatic reaserch groups. Inquiries should be directed to: Pawel Winter Vice head of the Algorithms and Programming Languages group at DIKU Dept. of Computer Science Univ. of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 1 2100 Copenhagen O Denmark. Email: pawel at diku.dk Tel. +45 35321427 In order to qualify for the admission to the Ph.D. study and for the scholarship, the applicants must fulfill all the requirements of the University of Copenhagen, see http://www.science.ku.dk/phd/. Application forms are available at http://www.science.ku.dk/phd/applying/forms/. Evaluation guidelines for scholarship applications can be found at http://www.science.ku.dk/phd/applying/fundings/evaluation_guidelines/ Scanned copies of the filled application form and all enclosures (in a single pdf-file) should be emailed to Pawel Winter, Associate Professor, pawel at diku.dk, not later than by June 15, 2009 ******************************************************************************************* ** PLIS (Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems) research group, Roskilde University ** ******************************************************************************************* The PLIS research group at Roskilde University investigates foundations, tools and languages for the development of adaptable, reliable, human-oriented computer systems. The group's research covers theoretical foundations, languages, tools and semantic models together with application areas. The main research topics are: * Knowledge-based systems and intelligent interaction with systems. * Logic and knowledge representation. * Programming languages and tools. Long-term objectives of the PLIS Group * To develop techniques and theories allowing intuitive interaction with information and knowledge-based systems, including natural language understanding and generation, and interpretation of interaction with respect to a context that is constantly changing. * To construct logics and structures capable of creating and reasoning about models of the environment and human activities, including common-sense concepts and representation of dynamically changing situations. * To develop semantics, languages, methods and tools for software production, analysis and transformation, allowing automatic generation, checking and evolution of software systems. For more information about the PLIS group and its current projects please visit http://plis.ruc.dk. Roskilde University (http://www.ruc.dk/ruc_en/) is situated just east of the town of Roskilde, 25 minutes by train from Copenhagen Central Station, on a campus with all facilities within a few minutes? walking distance. PhD students in Computer Science are normally affiliated with the PhD program DMIT, which is part of the PhD School for Communication, Business and Information Technologies at Roskilde University. PhD students in the PLIS group are affiliated as well with the cross-university FIRST Research School. The full announcement of the PhD position at Roskilde University will appear at http://www.ruc.dk/ledigestillinger/vip/. Further information can be obtained from John Gallagher Roskilde University Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies Building 43.2 P.O. Box 260 DK-4000 Roskilde Denmark Email: jpg at ruc.dk, Tel. +45 4674 2196 ********************************* ** IT University of Copenhagen ** ********************************* The faculty groups at IT University of Copenhagen participating in FIRST are the * Efficient Computation group (head: Rasmus Pagh, pagh at itu.dk) * Programming, Logic and Semantics (PLS) group (head: Lars Birkedal, birkedal at itu.dk) * Software Development Group (head: Peter Sestoft, sestoft at itu.dk) The groups currently consist of 16 senior researchers, 7 post docs and 25 PhD students. Research topics include: algorithms for searching and storing of large amounts of data, automated reasoning, business processes, category theory, complexity theory, concurrency theory, distributed and mobile computing, domain theory, efficient solutions to problems arising in logical formulations within planning, empirical studies ofsoftware development in organizations, exact algorithms for NP-hard problems, scheduling, verification, test, and configuration; efficient computation, Electronic Health Records, electronic voting, logical frameworks, software architectures, object-oriented methodology and notations, programming languages, programming language technology for functional and object-oriented languages, proof assistants, semantics, ubiquitous computing, user interface software technology, workflow languages. Detailed descriptions of the faculty groups can be found at http://www.itu.dk/research/ In general a PhD topic would be adjusted to the qualifications and interests of a particular student. The full announcement of the PhD position at IT University of Copenhagen will appear at http://www.itu.dk Further information can be obtained from Thomas Hildebrandt Director of FIRST, Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7 DK-2300 K?benhavn S Denmark Office: 3C 11 Phone: (+45) 72 18 52 79 Fax: (+45) 72 18 50 01 Email: hilde at itu.dk URL: http://www.itu.dk/people/hilde/ From Cedric.Lhoussaine at lifl.fr Mon May 4 16:13:32 2009 From: Cedric.Lhoussaine at lifl.fr (Cedric Lhoussaine) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 22:13:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc or PhD position available Message-ID: <1241468012.4716.33.camel@silencieuse> A POSTDOC position for 2 years, or a PhD position for 3 years, in computational biology at the Universit? de Lille 1, is available starting in September 2009. This project will held at the LIFL computer lab (http://www.lifl.fr) and the Interdisciplinary Research Institute (http://iri.ibl.fr) in Lille and within the bioComputing group (http://www.lifl.fr/BioComputing). Candidates should have a background in bioinformatics. Additional knowledge in computer science and/or biology such as modeling and simulation, gene regulation, semantics of programming languages (CAML, ...), compilation, lambda-calculus, pi-calculus, typing, logic, model checking will be appreciated. The proposed research project is summarized below. -- Cedric Lhoussaine LIFL, UMR 8022 CNRS, USTL Batiment M3, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex FRANCE Phone (IRI): +33 (0)3 62 53 17 09 Phone (Lifl): +33 (0)3 28 77 85 70 Fax: +33 (0)3 62 53 17 90 Email: Cedric.Lhoussaine at lifl.fr Web: www.lifl.fr/~lhoussai TITLE A Uniform Approach for Stochastic Modeling with Spatial Aspects in Systems Biology SUMMARY Experimental techniques in biological research are increasingly sophisticated, and allow to accumulate increasingly sharp knowledge. However, the understanding and the representation of cells and living matter remain fragmented, and do not report all interactions and interdependencies between biological mechanisms. Systems Biology tries to overcome this problem. Its long-term objective is to provide the theoretical and practical tools for describing, studying and predicting the behavior of biological systems. To this end, it is necessary to integrate into formal models the increasing and various experimental data available until now. This formalization subsequently allows the simulation and the qualitative analysis of models, and thus the observation and the in-silico study of the properties of biological systems. The predicted behaviors may themselves be validated experimentally, if necessary. Much effort within Systems Biology concentrates on gene regulatory networks. Essential genomic functions are strongly influenced by low number of biological actors, causing stochastic phenomena. The knowledge in this domain remains widely insufficient despite of novel experimental techniques, that allow to collect data from single cells. For example, recent work suggested that the non-uniform spatial distributions of elements in eukaryotic nucleus plays an important role in gene regulation. Today, it is impossible to unravel the genomic functions of space solely by experimental methods. It is thus necessary to develop modeling tools and simulation to study such systems in silico. An established computational approach for the modeling of gene networks consists in considering the cell as an executable entity, that is a system of concurrent agents with programmable interactions. Thus, a model is a concurrent program and simulating the model means to execute the program. This approach was initiated by A. Regev and E. Shapiro within the ?-calculus. It was followed by many others, using process algebras extended with stochastic control. Such approaches benefit from solid theoretical foundations and formal, unambiguous, semantics that permit the study and the proof of properties of systems. However, the pi-calculus approach remains difficult to use for biologists who are not familiar with object-centered programming, that is in which the interaction capabilities are described for every agent independently of other. That is why we are currently focusing on a more intuitive alternative which preserves the expressiveness of concurrent and stochastic control. This alternative, commonly called ruled-base programming, is based on the rewriting of multi-sets of parametrized terms. It remains intuitively close to chemical reactions which are familiar biologists. In this project, we propose to investigate the design and implementation a novel stochastic modeling language. Its goal is to allow to address any type of gene network with a concurrent control, that depends on the position of biological actors. The way positions are described should remain independent of any type of spatial data. We hope to end with a unified framework, accessible to biologists, which extends on existing rule-based approaches while proposing compartments (with variable volume). The existing checking and prediction methods will be extended to this new language. We shall apply our language to specific case studies of cellular biology with spatial aspects in eukaryotic gene regulation: position of chromosomes in the nucleus, appearance and preservation of compartments, cross-talk between chromosomes, etc. From afelty at site.uottawa.ca Mon May 4 12:46:46 2009 From: afelty at site.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 12:46:46 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2009: Deadline extension Message-ID: <49FF1BF6.4010400@site.uottawa.ca> ***** NOTE: Extended Deadline ***** Final Call for Papers LFMTP 2009: 4th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2, 2009 http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfmtp Affiliated with CADE-22, Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009 Joint event with the 2009 International Workshop on Proof-Search in Type Theories (PSTT), August 3, 2009 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 7 (* new date *) Paper Submission: May 12 (* new date *) Notification: June 15 Final papers due: July 3 Workshop: August 2 JOINT LFMTP/PSTT INVITED SPEAKER: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique & INRIA) JOINT LFMTP/PSTT TUTORIAL SPEAKER: TBA DESCRIPTION: The LFMTP workshop continues a series of workshops on Logical Frameworks and Metalanguages (LFM) and Mechanized Reasoning about Languages with Variable Binding (MERLIN). This is the fourth joint workshop in the series. 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. LFMTP 2009 will provide researchers with a forum to review state-of-the-art techniques and to present progress in: - 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 design of proof assistants, automated theorem provers, and formal digital libraries building upon logical framework technology; - theoretical and practical issues concerning the encoding of variable binding, 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 will be particularly welcome. TOPICS: Papers are solicited on topics including, but 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 SUBMISSIONS: Three categories of papers are solicited: - Category A: Detailed and technical accounts of new research: up to eight pages including bibliography. - Category B: Shorter accounts of work in progress and proposed further directions, including discussion papers: up to six pages including bibliography and appendices. - Category C: System descriptions presenting an implemented tool and its novel features: up to four pages. A demonstration is expected to accompany the presentation. Submissions will be accepted electronically. Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract one week before submitting the paper. For further information and submission instructions, see the LFMTP web page: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfmtp. Accepted papers will be published electronically as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the workshop. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Frederic Blanqui (INRIA) James Cheney, Co-Chair (University of Edinburgh) Adam Chlipala (Harvard University) Amy Felty, Co-Chair (University of Ottawa) Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich) Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde) Marino Miculan (University of Udine) Alberto Momigliano (University of Edinburgh) Gopalan Nadathur (University of Minnesota) Michael Norrish (NICTA) From hz at inf.elte.hu Tue May 5 11:49:54 2009 From: hz at inf.elte.hu (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Horv=E1th_Zolt=E1n?=) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 17:49:54 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last CFP: Trends in Functional Programming In-Reply-To: <88C55C9C92561741A80422B15F25C4BFE337621BBC@exch02.inf.elte.hu> References: <88C55C9C92561741A80422B15F25C4BFE337621BBC@exch02.inf.elte.hu> Message-ID: <88C55C9C92561741A80422B15F25C4BFE337621BD0@exch02.inf.elte.hu> Last call for papers 10th SYMPOSIUM ON TRENDS IN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING TFP 2009 SELYE JANOS UNIVERSITY, KOMARNO, SLOVAKIA June 2-4, 2009 http://www.inf.elte.hu/tfp_cefp_2009 *** Submission deadline extended until 10th of May! *** 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. Acceptance for the conference is based on full papers or extended abstracts, and a formal post-symposium refereeing process selects the best articles presented at the symposium for publication in a high-profile volume. TFP 2009 is hosted by the Selye Janos University, Komarno, Slovakia, and it is co-located with the 3rd Central-European Functional Programming School (CEFP 2009), which is held immediately before TFP 2009 (May 25-30). IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2009) * Paper Submission: May 10 (extended) * Notification of Acceptance: May 12 * Camera Ready Symposium Proceedings Paper: May 14 * TFP Symposium: June 2-4, 2009 * Post Symposium Paper Submission: June 30 * Notification of Acceptance: September 7 * Camera Ready Revised Paper: September 21 SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM 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 2009 program chairs, Zoltan Horvath and Viktoria Zsok at tfp2009 at inf.elte.hu SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the screening process of full papers (15 pages) and extended abstracts (at least 3 pages). 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. Further details can be found at the TFP 2009 website. 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Peter Achten (symp-chair), Radboud University Nijmegen, NL * John Clements, California Polytechnic State University, USA * Cormac Flanagan, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA * Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, NL * Kevin Hammond, University of St. Andrews, UK * Michael Hanus, Christian-Albrechts University zu Kiel, DE * Ralf Hinze, University of Oxford, UK * Zoltan Horvath (PC co-chair), Eotvos Lorand University, HU * Graham Hutton, University of Nottingham, UK * Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University, NL * Pieter Koopman (symp-chair), Radboud University Nijmegen, NL * Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munchen, DE * Rita Loogen, Philipps-University Marburg, DE * Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA * Rex L Page, University of Oklahoma, USA * Sven-Bodo Scholz, University of Hertfordshire, UK * Clara Segura, University Complutense de Madrid, ES * Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, SE * Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Marko van Eekelen, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL * Varmo Vene, University of Tartu, EE * Viktoria Zsok (PC co-chair), Eotvos Lorand University, HU LOCATION The Conference Centre of Selye University, Komarno, Slovakia (http://www.selyeuni.sk/) is a new and excellent conference centre with modern equipment, lecture rooms and computer labs. Komarno is on the north bank of river Danube, the northern part of the city Komarom / Komarno. 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URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090505/2a9b2ca4/attachment-0001.htm From hepi at imm.dtu.dk Wed May 6 03:33:05 2009 From: hepi at imm.dtu.dk (Henrik Pilegaard) Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:33:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Stipends in MT-LAB Message-ID: <4A013D31.8020801@imm.dtu.dk> Dear all, We believe the below announcement of PhD-scholarships within the MT-LAB project to be of interest to the types-announce readership, as one of the MT-LAB work-packages is on type and effect systems. ************************************************************************ PhD Stipends in MT-LAB VKR CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE ** ************************************************************************ The pervasive and original element of MT-LAB is the development of Computer Scientific models that integrate qualitative and quantitative mathematical theories in order to analyse the important properties of the hybrid IT systems of the future. MT-LAB builds on formal techniques for modelling systems and their properties. We study process calculi and their transition systems for modelling systems and we focus on logical formula for expressing the properties of interest. The research of MT-LAB is organised into the three themes, which are chosen in order to obtain maximal synergy between the complementary skills of the partners: 1. Static analysis and model checking are complementary approaches to the validation of discrete and, to a certain extent, stochastic and continuous systems. In MT-LAB we believe that the two approaches fundamentally solve the same problem ? but using a different repertoire of techniques that must be combined in order to produce much more powerful analysis techniques. 2. Embedded systems and service-oriented systems are two dominant platforms for the development of IT systems ? they are expected to merge and create the IT systems of the future. In MT-LAB we believe that there is no fundamental difference between the techniques and properties required for their analysis and verification. 3. Components and global characteristic features are complementary approaches to the construction and understanding of complex IT systems. In MT-LAB we believe that neither of the approaches will suffice for the effective analysis of complex IT Systems ? but that the analysis of systems can be fruitfully decomposed into a compositional component and a less demanding characteristic feature thereby reducing the perceived cost of analysis. Within these themes a number of more specific research tasks have been identified for the first couple of years: * Technology transfer * Beyond finiteness * Stochastic analysis * Hybrid systems * Resource usage * Service level guarantees * Interfaces If you are interested in learning about MT-LAB please look at http://www.MT-LAB.dk If you are interested in one of the positions please 1. Study the regulations for the DTU PhD programme as described at http://www.dtu.dk/English/education/Phd_Education.aspx 2. Please fill out a draft version of the application form that you find in the rightmost column of that page (including transcripts of grades, the form for converting the grades to the Danish system, and any scientific papers and letters of recommendation that you may have). 3. Submit the material to professor Flemming Nielson at the address > for a discussion of how to finalise the description of the research programme so as to fit your interests as well as those of MT-LAB. The scholarships will be filled continuously during 2009 and early 2010. From paolini at di.unito.it Wed May 6 07:05:01 2009 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca Paolini) Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 13:05:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TLCA'09 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <1241607901.7599.90.camel@gmoon> ***************************************************************** *** *** *** TLCA 2009 *** *** July 1 - July 3, 2009 *** *** Bras?lia, Brazil *** *** *** *** http://rdp09.cic.unb.br/index.html *** *** *** *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** *** *** *** Early-registration: before 10th May, 2009 *** *** Registration : before 10th June, 2009 *** *** *** ***************************************************************** The Ninth International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2009) is organized as part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP 2009), together with the RTA 2009 and several related events. * General details - http://rdp09.cic.unb.br/tlca.html . * Programme - http://rdp09.cic.unb.br/programme-tlca.htm . INVITED SPEAKERS: ================= * Marcelo Fiore (Univ. of Cambridge) * Bob Harper (Carnegie Mellon Univ.- Joint Speaker RTA+TLCA)) * Jean-Louis Krivine (Univ. Paris 7) REGISTRATION and ACCOMMODATION: ============================== Early-registration: before 10th May, 2009 Registration : before 10th June, 2009 Registration issue http://rdp09.cic.unb.br/registration.html Accomodation issue http://rdp09.cic.unb.br/accommodation.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Luca Paolini (TLCA Publicity Chair) http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/tlca/ From pschust at mathematik.uni-muenchen.de Thu May 7 09:30:57 2009 From: pschust at mathematik.uni-muenchen.de (Peter Schuster) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:30:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] MALOA network in Mathematical Logic: 18 PhD student positions (Leeds, Manchester, Oxford, Lyon, Paris, Muenster, Muenchen, Prague) Message-ID: 18 PhD Positions in Mathematical Logic (MALOA Network) The Marie Curie (FP7) Initial Training Network in Mathematical Logic (MALOA) is a network with 8 Full Partners (Leeds (coordinator), Manchester, Oxford, Lyon (Lyon 1 and Lyon ENS), Paris (UPD), Muenster, Munich, Prague) and 3 Associated Partners (UEA, BT, Onera). Contract negotiations are still not concluded, so funding is nor absolutely confirmed, but it is expected to start on 1 October 2009, and run for 4 years. It will fund 18 PhD students and 20 short-term visitors (at least 3 months). All the full partners expect to make appointments for October 2009. For more information, seee http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/MALOA/ or contact Dugald Macpherson (the coordinator, h.d.macpherson at leeds.ac.uk) or the Scientist-in-Charge at the relevant partner. --- From fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es Fri May 8 02:52:13 2009 From: fmics2009 at dsic.upv.es (FMICS 2009 workshop chair) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:52:13 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [FMICS 2009] Call for Posters Message-ID: <4A03D69D.9090805@dsic.upv.es> FMICS 2009 - CALL FOR POSTERS Please visit: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/fmics2009 ************************************************************ * 14th International Workshop on * * Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems * * FMICS 2009 * * * * November 2-3, 2009 * * Eindhoven, The Netherlands * ************************************************************ ** Attention Practitioners of Formal Methods: ** ** FMICS 2009 wants to Gain advantage of your Experience! ** FMICS 2009 is actively soliciting practitioners to present posters that describe how formal methods work---or fail to work---in real-world, industrial critical systems. * Poster contributions are sought in all areas of formal methods for industrial critical systems with a particular focus on practical experiences: - Tools for the development of formal design descriptions, code generation and testing with a focus on their industrial applicability (e.g., scalability and usability issues). - Formal techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, learning, optimization and transformation of complex, distributed, real-time systems and embedded systems. - Case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of new research directions. - Impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development process and associated costs. - Application of formal methods in standardization and industrial forums. - Applied research project overviews. - Speculative, late-breaking results. * Why should I present a Poster at FMICS 2009? The most obvious reason is to get your own work highly visible in a competitive forum. But it's also a chance to share your wisdom about formal methods with an appreciative audience. Evidence about the utility of formal methods is much more valuable when it has been carefully written up, formally reviewed and published in a citable proceedings. Poster descriptions will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume for FMICS 2009. * Poster descriptions need to present a clear thesis and provide supporting evidence that might include: - insights gained from real-world projects using formal methods - comparison of formal methods with informal or semi-formal methods in the context of an industrial project - legal issues encountered when using formal methods in a real-world project - obstacles to commercialize SW Tools based on Formal Methods - real-world constraints that created special challenges for formal methods in general. * Attached to the poster, authors are invited to submit an extended abstract through the workshop paper submission web pages. Each accepted poster will have up to 2 pages in the LNCS proceedings, and a 10 minute slot for presentation in a plenary poster session. Authors of accepted posters will be expected to present them in person at Eindhoven. Posters will also be displayed during the workshop, and particularly before the poster session. * Submission deadline: June 5, 2009 Notification: June 20, 2009 Camera-ready version July 15, 2009 Workshop November 2-3, 2009 CO-LOCATION ----------- FMICS 2009 is part of the first Formal Methods Week (FMweek), which will bring together a choice of events in the area, including TESTCOM/FATES (Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems and Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software), FACS (Formal Aspects of Component Software), PDMC (Parallel and Distributed Methods of verifiCation), FM2009 (Symposium of Formal Methods Europe), CPA (Communicating Process Architectures), FAST (Formal Aspects of Security and Trust), FMCO (Formal Methods for Components and Objects), and the REFINE Workshop. For the latest information on FMweek, see http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek. ************************************************************ * * * +============================================+ * * | | * * | ** FMweek ** | * * | | * * +============================================+ * * | CPA | FACS | FAST | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | FM2009 | FMCO | FMICS | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | PDMC | REFINE | TESTCOM/FATES | * * +--------------------------------------------+ * * | http://www.win.tue.nl/fmweek | * * +============================================+ * * * ************************************************************ From Lengrand at LIX.Polytechnique.fr Fri May 8 07:17:49 2009 From: Lengrand at LIX.Polytechnique.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22St=E9phane_Lengrand_=28Work=29=22?=) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 13:17:49 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Proof Search in Type Theories: Deadline Extension 15th May Message-ID: <4A0414DD.5020407@LIX.Polytechnique.fr> Call for Papers: Deadline Extension PSTT 2009: International Workshop on Proof Search in Type Theories McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 3, 2009 http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lengrand/Events/PSTT09/ Affiliated with CADE-22, Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009 Joint event with the 2009 International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP), August 2, 2009 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: *May 15 (extended deadline)* Paper Submission: *May 15 (extended deadline)* Notification: June 15 Final papers due: July 3 Workshop: August 3 JOINT LFMTP/PSTT INVITED SPEAKER: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique & INRIA) JOINT LFMTP/PSTT TUTORIAL SPEAKER: TBA DESCRIPTION: The PSTT workshop resumes a series of workshops on Proof Search in Type Theoretic Languages, in light of the progress that has been made over the last decade in e.g. the development of proof assistants or our understanding of proof theory. The declarative approach to programming has evolved two paradigms that are based on different aspects of the theories of proofs and types: Proof normalisation provides a foundation for functional programming and type systems --on which numerous proof assistants are based, while proof search provides a foundation for logic programming and other areas of automated deduction. On the one hand, proof search mechanisms and their automation are decisive features of proof assitants that have much to gain from a proper understanding and formalisation. On the other hand, the framework of logic programming has also extended to more expressive logics and more complex data structures, e.g. with bindings. Better specifying the proof search mechanisms in type theories is thus a key concern that brings both approaches forward, and closer together. This concern involves a wide range of issues and techniques (some of which directly arising from implementation) that both approaches share --or could share, and that form the scope of this workshop. TOPICS: Papers are solicited on topics including, but not limited to: - proof search strategies and tactics, complexity & completeness, - tactics specification language, - properties of inference systems, invertibility, polarity of connectives, - focusing, normal forms for proofs, - proof-term representation, - meta-variables, representation of partial proofs, - searching for proofs by induction, search for invariants, - unification, - variable binding, scoping management and freshness - logic programming and other paradigms based on proof search, termination & computational expressivity, - deduction-modulo, deduction vs. computation during search, - using failure in proof search, - model checking as deduction, - user interaction and interfaces, - systems implementing any of the above. SUBMISSIONS: Authors can submit either detailed and technical accounts of new research or work in progress. System descriptions are also welcome, with a demonstration on the day of the workshop. Surveys and comparative papers are also strongly encouraged. Papers are to be submitted electronically and are subject to a 12-page limit in LNCS format, including bibliography. They can be shorter. Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract one week before submitting the paper. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present that paper at the workshop. Informal proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. The possibility of having a special issue dedicated to the themes of this workshop is under consideration. For further information and submission instructions, see the PSTT web page: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lengrand/Events/PSTT09/ . PSTT PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique) Didier Galmiche (Universite H. Poincare - Nancy 1) Stephane Lengrand, Chair (CNRS) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) Randy Pollack (University of Edinburgh) From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Sun May 10 23:27:13 2009 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:27:13 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Student grants available: Global Computing Tutorial Series Message-ID: with DisCoTec 09, Lisbon, 9-11 June. A Global Computing Tutorial Series promoted by the Sensoria and Mobius European projects will be held together with DisCoTec'09 (9-11 June) in Lisbon. Research themes addressed by the Sensoria (http://www.sensoria-ist.eu/) and Mobius (http://mobius.inria.fr/) projects are centered on Service-oriented computing, Mobility, Ubiquity and Security. The Global Computing Tutorial Series is targeted to PhD students and young researchers working on subjects related to these research themes. All DisCoTec'09 participants can attend the tutorial series and grants to attend DisCoTec'09 and the tutorials are offered to students. For more information see: http://discotec09.di.fc.ul.pt/index.php?title=Tutorials/Tutorials Lectures: --------- - Gilles Barthe, "Verification Methods for Software Security and Correctness" (Mobius) - Sophia Drossopoulou, "Types for Alias Control and Verification" (Mobius) - Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, "A Formal Approach to Service-Oriented Modelling" (Sensoria) - Flemming Nielson, "Static Security Analysis of Service-Oriented Systems" (Sensoria) Grants: ------- A limited number of grants is offered to applying participants. Grant money partially covers DisCoTec'09 registration fees as well as part of local and travel expenses (depending on the funds available and the number of applications). Applications must include a short cv, and recommendation letters from sen ior researchers. Applications by email to: discotec09 at di.fc.ul.pt. Important Dates: ---------------- Grant application deadline: 17 May 2009 Notification of grant decisions: 20 May 2009 Early registration deadline: 27 May 2009 ** ONLY FOR STUDENTS APPLYING TO GRANTS ** Tutorials: 9-11 June 2009 From marieke.huisman at ewi.utwente.nl Mon May 11 06:01:08 2009 From: marieke.huisman at ewi.utwente.nl (Marieke Huisman) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:01:08 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAVCBS 2009 Final Call For Papers -- 8th Workshop on Specification and Verification of Component-based Systems (co-located with ESEC/FSE 2009) Message-ID: <4A07F764.8020102@ewi.utwente.nl> [Please excuse for multiple posts] Call for Papers SAVCBS'09 Workshop at ESEC/FSE 2009, August 25, 2009 http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/ The sixth workshop on specification and verification of component-based systems is affiliated with ESEC/FSE 2009 and will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 25, 2009. Eight page papers are due May 15, 2009. Details on paper submission follow the general description of the workshop below. Theme and Topics of Interest SAVCBS is focused on using formal (i.e., mathematical) techniques to establish a foundation for the specification and verification of component-based systems. Specification techniques are urgently needed to support effective reasoning about systems composed from components. Component-based approaches also underscore the need for scaling advanced verification techniques such as extended static analysis and model checking to the size of real systems. The workshop will consider formalization of both functional and non-functional behavior (such as performance or reliability). Suggested research topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Techniques for component-based verification or reasoning * Component-based specification languages * Static analysis of components and component compositions * Verification-oriented design methodologies for components * Dynamic checking techniques, including run-time assertion or property checking * Specification and verification of non-functional component behavior (performance, memory, concurrency, etc.) * Unifying formal descriptions of concurrency properties with model-based behavioral descriptions of components * Balancing tradeoffs (automatic/manual verification, soundness/completeness, static/dynamic verification, testing/formal verification, scalability/coverage, etc.) * Theories of component composition * Industrial experience, such as adoption issues, with formal techniques for component-based systems * Case studies of applying formal techniques to component based systems * Educational experience or tactics for formal approaches to component-based systems Submissions should outline the current state of research or practice, describe the most pressing shortcomings, and formulate goals for future development. Challenge Problem One session during the workshop will be devoted to presenting solutions (full or partial) to a challenge problem. This problem will present features that pose difficulties for current specification technologies. The session will be open both to presenters as well as participants of the workshop. Details on the challenge problem will be posted at http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/2009/challenge.shtml. Solutions should illustrate innovative features of specification or verification as they pertain to this particular problem. Submissions Submissions must not exceed 8 pages. We encourage, but do not require, use of the ACM Conference format. We also suggest that you add page numbers to your submission, to make adding comments easier. Papers will be accepted in PDF or Postscript formats. Papers may be submitted on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=savcbs09 . We are considering to invite best papers for submission to a journal special issue. Important dates: Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2009 Notification date: June 10, 2009 Final versions: June 20, 2009 See http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/ for more details. Workshop Program Committee: Marieke Huisman - University of Twente, Netherlands (chair) Jonathan Aldrich - Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marsha Chechik - University of Toronto, Canada Jens Chr. Godskesen - IT University, Denmark Alex Groce - Nasa JPL, USA Dilian Gurov- KTH, Sweden Barbara Jobstmann - EPFL, Switzerland Florian Kamm?ller - Technical University of Berlin, Germany Joe Kiniry - University College Dublin, Ireland Darko Marinov - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Peter M?ller - ETH Zurich, Switzerland John Penix - Google, USA Koushik Sen - University of California, Berkeley, USA Natasha Sharygina - University of Lugano, Switzerland/Carnegie Mellon University, USA Murali Sitaraman - Clemson University , USA From cfp at clip.dia.fi.upm.es Mon May 11 07:07:48 2009 From: cfp at clip.dia.fi.upm.es (CFP) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:07:48 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOPARA'09 -- First Call for Papers Message-ID: (Our apologies for possible multiple copies) First Call for Papers International workshop on FOUNDATIONAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RESOURCE ANALYSIS FOPARA 2009 Eindhoven, The Netherlands November,3 2009 A satellite event of 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods http://www.aha.cs.ru.nl/fopara/ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE The workshop serves as a forum for presenting original research results that are relevant to the analysis of resource (time, space) consumption by computer programs. The workshop aims to bring together the researchers that work on foundational issues with the researchers that focus more on practical results. Therefore, both theoretical and practical contributions are encouraged. The following list of topics is non-exhaustive: * resource analysis for embedded systems, * logical and machine-independent characterisations of complexity classes, * logics closely related to complexity classes, * type systems for controlling complexity, * semantic methods to analyse resources, incl. quasi- and sup- interpretations, * practical applications of resource analysis. Up to now a few similar events have taken place. In 2006, 2008 application-oriented resource analysis workshops ( EmBounded Open Workshop in Budapest, 2006, and Resource Analysis Workshop in Hertfordshir, 2008) were held as affiliated events of International Symposium on the Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL). Participated: University of St. Andrew (UK), Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh (UK), Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (Germany), University Complutense of Madrid (Spain), Politechnical University of Madrid (Spain). Another large group of research schools is presented in series of workshops on Implicit Computational Complexity, see, for instance, WICC'08 in Paris . The series gather researchers working in theoretical foundations of resource analysis, mainly from in France (Universities of Paris Diderot and Paris Nord, LORIA Nancy), Italy (Universities of Bologna and Turin), Norway, Germany and Portugal. FOPARA aims to bringing these various directions in resource analysis together and possibly to extend the community by other groups. IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2009) * Abstract deadline: July 10, * Paper submission deadline: July 15, * Notification of acceptance: September 11, * Workshop version of the papers: October 11, * Final formal paper submission: November 22. INVITED SPEAKER Sumit Gulwani (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/), Microsoft Research SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the pre-workshop refereeing of full papers (16 pages). In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we plan to publish the revised versions of presented at the workshop papers in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The request for a volume is pending. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Marko van Eekelen (Radboud University and Open University, NL), PC chair * Olha Shkaravska (Radboud University, NL), PC co-chair * Patrick Baillot (ENS-Lyon, France) * Armelle Bonenfant (IRIT, France) * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy) * Kevin Hammond (Univ. of St. Andrews, UK) * Martin Hofmann (LMU, Munich, Germany) * Thomas Jensen (IRISA, Rennes, France) * Tamas Kozsik (Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest, Hungary) * Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (LMU, Munich, Germany) * Kenneth MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Jean-Yves Marion (Loria, Nancy, France) * Greg Michaelson (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) * Ricardo Pe?a (University Complutense Madrid, Spain) * German Puebla (Politechnical University of Madrid, Spain) * Luca Roversi (University of Turin, Italy) * Phil Trinder (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) LOCATION The workshop is a satellite event of the 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM2009. The venue for FM2009 is the Auditorium of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Everything related to the symposium will take place here, including workshops, lunches, and other activities. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven was founded in the 1950s on a patch of uncultivated land near the centre of town. Due to this fortunate circumstance, the university campus is now right in the middle of the fifth largest city in the Netherlands. This means that the railway station, the conference hotels, and other facilities are all within walking distance of the campus, and that during your stay you will have easy access to everything Eindhoven has to offer. From gerardo at ifi.uio.no Mon May 11 15:05:09 2009 From: gerardo at ifi.uio.no (gerardo) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:05:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for contributions: FLACOS'09 Message-ID: <4A0876E5.8010800@ifi.uio.no> CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS *Third Workshop on Formal Languages and Analysis of Contract-Oriented Software (FLACOS'09)* 24-25 September 2009, Toledo - Spain http://www.ifi.uio.no/flacos09 The ability to negotiate contracts for a wide range of aspects and to provide services conforming to them is a most pressing need in service-oriented architectures. High-level models of contracts are making their way into service-oriented architectures, but application developers are still left to their own devices when it comes to writing code that will comply with a contract concluded just before service provisioning. At the programming language level, contracts appear as separate concerns that cut across application logic, while analysis requires that contracts are abstracted from applications to become amenable to formal reasoning using formal language techniques. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language-based solutions to the above issues through formalization of contracts, design of appropriate abstraction mechanisms, and formal analysis of contract languages and software. The workshop will consist mainly of a number of presentations by invited speakers. A small number of additional sessions will be reserved for other researchers in the field who are encouraged to submit a short abstract of their work as an expression of interest in participating in the workshop by 8 June 2009. The number of participants in the workshop is strictly limited. The previous editions of the workshop were held in Oslo in 2007 (FLACOS'07 ) and Malta in 2008 (FLACOS'08 ). The FLACOS workshops are partially supported by Nordunet3 , under the project COSoDIS . *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper Submission Deadline: 8 June 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 15 June 2009 Registration Closes: 15 August 2009 WORKSHOP: 24-25 September 2009 *SCOPE* Topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to): * Formal languages for contracts * Contract-oriented software development * Formal analysis of contracts, including static analysis, run-time verification, and model checking techniques * Contract synthesis * Contract transformation and contract refinement * Contract negotiation, discovery and monitoring *INVITED PARTICIPANTS* * Gilles Barthe , IMDEA Software, Spain * Antonio Ma?a , University of M?laga, Spain * Ugo Montanari , Universita' di Pisa, Italy (to be confirmed) * Wolfgang Reisig , Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlina, Germany * Kaisa Sere , ?bo Akademi University, Finland * Martin Wirsing , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany * More to be announced... *SUBMISSIONS* Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are invited to submit an extended abstract of their work (3-8 pages, in PDF format, one column, without page numbers, and printable on A4 paper) to flacos-09 at dsi.uclm.es by 8 June 2009. Submission of work submitted for formal publication elsewhere and work in progress is permitted. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available at the workshop. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (Elsevier), following the standard reviewing process of the journal. *REGISTRATION INFORMATION* * More information to follow. *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE* * Bj?rn Bjurling, SICS, Sweden * Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway * Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta (co-chair) * Anders P. Ravn, Aalborg University, Denmark * Gerardo Schneider, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair) * Valent?n Valero Ruiz, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR* * M. Emilia Cambronero Piqueras, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain *CONTACT INFORMATION* * flacos-09 at dsi.uclm.es -- --- Gerardo Schneider - Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo P.O Box 1080 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 22 85 29 71, fax: +47 22 85 24 01 http://folk.uio.no/gerardo/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090511/f56528a7/attachment-0001.htm From Dave.Clarke at cs.kuleuven.be Mon May 11 15:32:06 2009 From: Dave.Clarke at cs.kuleuven.be (Dave Clarke) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:32:06 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2009 Call for Participation Message-ID: <200905111932.n4BJW6oP010488@leo.cs.kuleuven.be.> ECOOP'2009 23rd European Conference on Object Oriented Programming July 6th - 10th 2009, Genova, Italy http://2009.ecoop.org 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION [Now includes complete program, including invited speakers, and Dahl-Nygaard prize winner] ECOOP is the premier forum in Europe for bringing together practitioners, researchers, and students to share their ideas and experiences in a broad range of disciplines woven with the common thread of object technology. It is a well-integrated collage of events, including outstanding invited speakers, carefully refereed technical papers, exciting tutorials, topic-focused workshops, and a summer school. ECOOP 2009 has opened its doors for registration. Early registration lasts until May 20, 2009. http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/registration.html The program is taking shape and promises another exciting scientific event: Program: http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/program.html Invited speakers: Cliff Click and Simon Peyton Jones http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/invited-speakers.html Dahl-Nygaard prize winner: Dave Ungar Technical Program: http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/accepted-papers.html Workshops: http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/workshops.html Tutorials: http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/summer-school.html --- Dave Clarke, ECOOP 2009 Publicity Chair From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue May 12 11:22:14 2009 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:22:14 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages (precedes ICFP'09) Message-ID: <53ff55480905120822q13762f9dua26ee63a227ddd9e@mail.gmail.com> International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages 25th-28th August, 2009 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL Overview ~~~~~~~~ This four-day residential International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages has a major theme of Concurrency, Distribution, and Multicore. Intended primarily for postgraduate research students, the School offers lectures and practical sessions on an engaging blend of cutting edge theoretical and practical techniques from international experts. The Summer School is supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/), a Scottish Funding Council Research Pool. Participants from SICSA member institutions may attend at no cost. Confirmed Topics/Speakers * Static and dynamic languages, Prof Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh * Compiler technology for data-parallel languages, Dr Sven-Bodo Scholz, University of Hertfordshire * New applications of parametricity, Dr Janis Voigtlander, Technical University of Dresden * Automatic vectorising compilation, Dr Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow * Foundational aspects of size analysis, Prof Marko van Eekelen / Dr Olha Shakaravska, Radboud University Nijmegen * Context oriented programming, Dr Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussels * Multi-core programming, Dr Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University * Multi-core compilation, Dr Alastair Donaldson, Codeplay Software Ltd * Principles and Applications of Refinement Types, Dr Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research, Cambridge * Resource aware programming in Hume, Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University / Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews * Haskell concurrency & parallelism, Dr Satnam Singh, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Location ~~~~~~~~ The Summer School is at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton campus, set in pleasant parkland to the west of Edinburgh, with easy access to the airport, city and central Scotland (http://www.hw.ac.uk/welcome/directions.htm). The Summer School immediately precedes the 2009 International Conference on Functional Programming (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html) and takes place during the Edinburgh International Festival (http://www.eif.co.uk/) , and the associated Edinburgh Festival Fringe (http://www.edfringe.com/) and Edinburgh International Book Festival (http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/) Steering Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University (Convenor), Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews Dr Patricia Johann, University of Strathclyde Prof Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh Fee ~~~ Full rate: ?400; (free for SICSA students) Includes: four nights single room, en-suite accommodation with breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus coffee breaks and session materials. Day rate: ?200; (free for SICSA students) Includes: lunch, coffee breaks, session materials Registration of Interest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are interested in attending the International Summer School, please complete the form available from (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL/ISS-AiPL%20register.doc) or below, and return it to: ********** International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages 25th-28th August, 2009 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland Registration of Interest Name: Address: Email: Phone: SICSA Uni: Yes / No Rate: Full / Day Accessibility requirements: Dietary requirements: Return to: ISS-AiPL-register at macs.hw.ac.uk ********** From rossberg at mpi-sws.org Tue May 12 13:08:38 2009 From: rossberg at mpi-sws.org (Andreas Rossberg) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 19:08:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ML 2009: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <4A09AD16.40704@mpi-sws.org> 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS The 2009 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML To be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 on Sunday, August 30, 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/ml2009/ ------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENDED until May 17! ------------------------------- 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 provide a forum to encourage discussion and research on ML and related technology (higher-order, typed, or strict languages). The 2009 Work shop on ML will be held in conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2009) in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Previous instances were ML 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia, ML 2006 in Portland, Oregon, USA, ML 2007 in Freiburg, Germany, and ML 2008 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada). IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Sunday, May 17, 2009 (EXTENDED!) Notification: Friday, May 29, 2009 Final revision: Monday, June 15, 2009 Workshop: Sunday, August 30, 2009 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We seek papers on topics related to ML, including, but not limited to: * applications: case studies, experience reports, pearls, etc. * extensions: higher forms of polymorphism, generic programming, objects, concurrency, distribution and mobility, semi-structured data handling, etc. * type systems: inference, effects, overloading, modules, contracts, specifications and assertions, dynamic typing, error reporting, etc. * implementation: compilers, interpreters, type checkers, partial evaluators, runtime systems, garbage collectors, etc. * environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language interoperability, functional data structures, etc. * semantics: operational, denotational, program equivalence, parametricity, mechanization, etc. Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, ML-related projects, or informed positions regarding proposals for next-generation ML-style 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 in English and at most 12 pages total length in the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference format (9pt). 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 Workshop web page. PROGRAM CHAIR Andreas Rossberg (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Umut Acar (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Damien Doligez (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) Neal Glew (Intel) Andrew Gordon (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Patricia Johann (University of Strathclyde) Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC) Neelakantan Krishnaswami (Carnegie Mellon University) David MacQueen (University of Chicago) Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University) STEERING COMMITTEE See the ML Workshop series home page at: http://www.tti-c.org/blume/ml-workshop/ From voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed May 13 03:29:29 2009 From: voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Janis Voigtlaender) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:29:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call For Papers: APLAS 2009 (Korea, Dec 14-16, 2009) Message-ID: <4A0A76D9.3030901@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> =============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2009) Seoul, December 14-16, 2009 http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/aplas09/ =============================================================== APLAS aims at stimulating programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of recent results and the exchange of ideas and experience in topics concerned with programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages community. The APLAS series is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS), which has recently been founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. The past formal APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Bangalore (2008, India), Singapore (2007), Sydney (2006, Australia), Tsukuba (2005, Japan), Taipei (2004, Taiwan) and Beijing (2003, China) after three informal workshops held in Shanghai (2002, China), Daejeon (2001, Korea) and Singapore (2000). Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer-Verlag's LNCS 2895, 3302, 3780, 4279, and 5356. TOPICS: The symposium is devoted to both foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on, but not limited, to the following topics: * semantics, logics, foundational theory * type systems, language design * program analysis, optimization, transformation * software security, safety, verification * compiler systems, interpreters, abstract machines * domain-specific languages and systems * programming tools and environments INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Deadline: June 8 (Monday), 2009 Paper Submission Deadline: 24:00 AM (in Samoan Time), June 15 (Monday), 2009 Author Notification: August 17, 2009 Camera Ready: September 14, 2009 Conference: December 14-16, 2009 SUBMISSIONS INFORMATION: Papers should be submitted electronically online via the conference submission web page at URL . Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF, viewable by Ghostview or Adobe Reader. Submissions should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The proceedings of the symposium is planned to be published as a volume in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors of selected papers will be invited after the symposium to submit a full version for publication in a special issue of New Generation Computing. GENERAL CHAIR Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University, Korea) PROGRAM CHAIR Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Inforamtics, Japan) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Manuel M. T. Chakravarty (University of New South Wales, Australia) Wei-Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Nate Foster (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Ralf Hinze (Oxford University, United Kingdom) Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), Chair Ik-Soon Kim (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea) Julia Lawall (DIKU, Denmark) Sebastian Maneth (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) G. Ramalingam (Microsoft Research, India) Peter Thiemann (University of Freiburg, Germany) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University, Japan) Janis Voigtl?nder (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University, USA) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda University, Japan) Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) POSTER SESSION CHAIR Kiminori Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan) From Jean-Yves.Marion at loria.fr Wed May 13 09:19:00 2009 From: Jean-Yves.Marion at loria.fr (Jean-Yves Marion) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:19:00 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] STACS 2010 Message-ID: <43EEBCB7-CE6A-4B82-B908-9ECC76C7C134@loria.fr> ************************************************************************ 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science STACS 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS MARCH 4-6, 2010, NANCY, FRANCE http://stacs.loria.fr/ ************************************************************************ SCOPE ******** Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on theoretical aspects of computer science. Typical areas include (but are not limited to): * Algorithms and data structures, including: parallel and distributed algorithms, computational geometry, cryptography, algorithmic learning theory; * Automata and formal languages; * Computational and structural complexity; * Logic in computer science, including: semantics, specification, and verification of programs, rewriting and deduction; * Current challenges, for example: biological computing, quantum computing, mobile and net computing. INVITED SPEAKERS *********************** Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Warsaw University Rolf Niedermeier, University of Jena Jacques Stern, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure PROGRAM COMMITTEE *************************** Markus Bl?ser, Saarland University Harry Buhrman, CWI, University of Amsterdam Thomas Colcombet, CNRS, Paris 7 University Anuj Dawar, University of Cambridge Arnaud Durand, Paris 7 University S?ndor Fekete, Braunschweig University of Technology Ralf Klasing, CNRS, Bordeaux University Christian Knauer, Freie Universit?t of Berlin Piotr Krysta, University of Liverpool Sylvain Lombardy, Marne la Vall?e University Parthasarathy Madhusudan, University of Illinois Jean-Yves Marion, Nancy University (co-chair) Pierre McKenzie, Universit? de Montr?al Rasmus Pagh, IT University of Copenhagen Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University Christophe Paul, CNRS, Montpellier University Georg Schnitger, Frankfurt University Thomas Schwentick, TU Dortmund University (co-chair) Helmut Seidl, TU Munich Jir? Sgall, Charles University Sebastiano Vigna, Universit? degli Studi di Milano Paul Vitanyi, CWI, Amsterdam SUBMISSIONS ******************* Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12 pages (STACS style or similar - e.g. LaTeX article style, 11pt a4paper). The title page must contain a classification of the topic covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper should contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, accessible to non-specialist readers. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Submissions deviating from these guidelines risk rejection. Electronic submissions should be formatted in PostScript or PDF.Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. PROCEEDINGS ******************** Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the Symposium, which are published electronically in the LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics) series, available through Dagstuhl's website. The LIPIcs series provides an ISBN for the proceedings volume and manages the indexing issues. Accepted papers will also be archived in the open access electronic repositories HAL and arXiv. These gateways, as well as the LIPIcs series, guarantee perennial, free and easy electronic access, while the authors will retain the rights over their work. With their submission, authors consent to sign a license authorizing the program committee chairs to organize the electronic publication of their paper if it is accepted. Further details are available on www.stacs-conf.org and on the conference website. Participants of the conference will receive a printed version of the proceedings. It is also planned to publish in a journal a selection of papers. IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Deadline for submission: September 22, 2009 Notification to authors: November 26, 2009 Final version: December 18, 2009 Symposium: March 4-6, 2010 From berghofe at in.tum.de Wed May 13 09:33:57 2009 From: berghofe at in.tum.de (Stefan Berghofer) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:33:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TPHOLs 2009 in Munich: Call for Participation and Accepted Papers Message-ID: <4A0ACC45.9030505@in.tum.de> NOTE: THE EARLY (DISCOUNT) REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS 5 JULY 2009 TPHOLs 2009 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 22nd International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics Munich, Germany Monday 17th - Thursday 20th August 2009 ******************************************** * http://tphols.in.tum.de * ******************************************** TPHOLs is the premier international conference for researchers from all areas of interactive theorem proving and its applications. REGISTRATION and ACCOMMODATION http://tphols.in.tum.de/index.html#registration The reduced registration fee is available up to and including 5 July 2009. INVITED SPEAKERS David Basin ETH Z?rich, Switzerland John Harrison Intel, USA Wolfram Schulte Microsoft Research, USA INVITED TUTORIALS Agda Ulf Norell HOL Light John Harrison Mizar Adam Naumowicz Twelf Carsten Sch?rmann RELATED EVENTS This year, the workshop on Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems (PLMMS 2009), and the Coq workshop, both on Friday 21 August, are co-located with the conference. In addition, the Isabelle Developers Workshop will take place on 13 - 15 August just before the conference. Further information about the workshops can be found at http://plmms09.cse.tamu.edu/ http://coq.inria.fr/coq-workshop/ http://tphols.in.tum.de/idw.html SPONSORS TPHOLs 2009 is sponsored by o Microsoft Research Redmond o Galois o Verisoft XT o Validas AG o DFG doctorate programme Puma o Siemens OUTLINE PROGRAMME Conference: Monday 17th: Technical sessions Tuesday 18th: Technical sessions. Wednesday 19th: Technical sessions, excursion and conference dinner. Thursday 20th: Technical sessions. Workshops Thursday 13th - Saturday 15th: Isabelle Developers Workshop Friday 21st: PLMMS 2009 and Coq workshops. CONTACT tphols at in tum de ACCEPTED PAPERS Andreas Lochbihler. Formalising FinFuns - Generating Code for Functions as Data from Isabelle/HOL Alwen Tiu and Jeremy E. Dawson. Formalising Observer Theory for Environment-Sensitive Bisimulation Stefan Berghofer and Markus Reiter. Formalizing the Logic-Automaton Connection Stefan Berghofer, Lukas Bulwahn and Florian Haftmann. Turning inductive into equational specifications Chad Brown and Gert Smolka. Extended First-Order Logic Magnus O. Myreen and Mike Gordon. Verified LISP implementations on ARM, x86 and PowerPC Brian Huffman. A Purely Definitional Universal Domain Peter Homeier. The HOL-Omega Logic Simon Winwood, Gerwin Klein, Thomas Sewell, June Andronick, David Cock and Michael Norrish. Mind the Gap: A Verification Framework for Low-Level C Alexander Schimpf, Stephan Merz and Jan-Georg Smaus. Construction of B?chi Automata for LTL Model Checking Verified in Isabelle/HOL Ren? Thiemann and Christian Sternagel. Certification of Termination Proofs using CeTA Stephane Le Roux. Acyclic preferences and existence of sequential Nash equilibria: a formal and constructive equivalence Andrea Asperti, Wilmer Ricciotti, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen and Enrico Tassi. Hints in unification Javier de Dios and Ricardo Pena. Formal Certification of a Resource-Aware Language Implementation Dabrowski Fr?d?ric and David Pichardie. A Certified Data Race Analysis for a Java-like Language Wouter Swierstra. Proof pearl: The Hoare State Monad Fran?ois Garillot, Georges Gonthier, Assia Mahboubi, Laurence Rideau. Packaging Mathematical Structures Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy and Carsten Varming. Some Domain Theory and Denotational Semantics in Coq Thomas Tuerk. A Formalisation of Smallfoot in HOL Rafal Kolanski and Gerwin Klein. Types, Maps and Separation Logic Jesper Bengtson and Joachim Parrow. Psi-calculi in Isabelle Ioana Pasca and Nicolas Julien. Formal verification of exact computations using Newton's method Scott Owens, Susmit Sarkar and Peter Sewell. A better x86 memory model: x86-TSO Andrew McCreight. Practical Tactics for Separation Logic Osman Hasan, Sanaz Khan Afshar and Sofiene Tahar. Formal Analysis of Optical Waveguides in HOL From blume at tti-c.org Wed May 13 16:46:03 2009 From: blume at tti-c.org (Matthias Blume) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:46:03 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS 2010: Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Tenth International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2010) April 19-21, 2010 Sendai, Japan http://www.kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/flops2010 Submission deadline: October 16, 2009 FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning declarative programming, including functional programming and logic programming, and aims to promote cross-fertilization and integration 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), Fuji Susono (2006), and Ise (2008). TOPICS FLOPS solicits original papers in all areas of functional and logic programming, including (but not limited to): Declarative Pearls: new and excellent declarative programs with illustrative applications. Language issues: language design and constructs, programming methodology, integration of paradigms, interfacing with other languages, type systems, constraints, concurrency and distributed computing. Foundations: logic and semantics, rewrite systems and narrowing, type theory, proof systems. Implementation issues: compilation techniques, memory management, program analysis and transformation, partial evaluation, parallelism. Applications: case studies, real-world applications, graphical user interfaces, Internet applications, XML, databases, formal methods and model checking. The proceedings are expected to be published as an LNCS volume. The proceedings of the previous meeting (FLOPS 2008) were published as LNCS 4989. INVITED SPEAKERS TBD PC CO-CHAIRS Matthias Blume (TTI, Chicago, USA) German Vidal (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) CONFERENCE CHAIR Naoki Kobayashi (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) PC MEMBERS Nick Benton (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) Manuel Chakravarty (University of New South Wales, Australia) Michael Codish (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Bart Demoen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Agostino Dovier (University of Udine, Italy) John P. Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark) Maria Garcia de la Banda (Monash University, Australia) Michael Hanus (University of Kiel, Germany) Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Patricia Johann (Rutgers University, USA) Shin-ya Katsumata (Kyoto University, Japan) Michael Leuschel (University of Dusseldorf, Germany) Francisco Lopez-Fraguas (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Paqui Lucio (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Francois Pottier (INRIA, France) Tom Schrijvers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Chung-chieh "Ken" Shan (Rutgers University, USA) Zhong Shao (Yale University, USA) Jan-Georg Smaus (University of Freiburg, Germany) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK) LOCAL CHAIR Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) SUBMISSION Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. Submissions should fall into one of the following categories: Regular research papers: they should describe new results and will be judged on originality, correctness, and significance. System descriptions: they should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. All submissions must be written in English and can be up to 15 proceedings pages long. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file, available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Regular research papers should be supported by proofs and/or experimental results. In case of lack of space, this supporting information should be made accessible otherwise (e.g., a link to a web page, or an appendix). Papers should be submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flops2010 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadlines: - Abstract: October 16, 2009 - Paper: October 23, 2009 Author notification: December 21, 2009 Camera-ready copy: January 24, 2010 Conference: April 19-21, 2010 PLACE Sendai, Japan Some previous FLOPS: FLOPS 2008, Ise: http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/FLOPS2008/ FLOPS 2006, Fuji Susono: http://hagi.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/FLOPS2006/ FLOPS 2004, Nara FLOPS 2002, Aizu: http://www.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/FLOPS2002/ FLOPS 2001, Tokyo: http://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/flops2001/ SPONSOR TBA IN COOPERATION with TBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090513/0431270d/attachment-0001.htm From vxc at Cs.Nott.AC.UK Thu May 14 09:54:48 2009 From: vxc at Cs.Nott.AC.UK (vxc@Cs.Nott.AC.UK) Date: 14 May 2009 14:54:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in Nottingham Message-ID: <200905141454.aa08685@pat.Cs.Nott.AC.UK> PhD position in Type Theory at Nottingham ----------------------------------------- A new PhD position is available in the Functional Programming Laboratory at the University of Nottingham. The topic of research for the project is "Programming and Reasoning with Infinite Structures": it consists in the theoretical study and development of software tools for coinductive types and structured corecursion. The candidate must be a UK resident with an excellent degree in Computer Science or Mathematics at MSc (preferred) or BSc level (first class or equivalent). The applicant should have a good background in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science or functional programming. (S)he should be interested doing research in type theory, constructive mathematics, category theory and foundations of formal reasoning. We offer: PhD place with living expenses (standard UK level) for 3 years. The grants also provide laptops and travel expenses for conference and workshop visits. Nottingham University provides a vibrant research environment in the Functional Programming Laboratory. Deadline for applications: 20 June 2009. Send a cover letter and your CV to Venanzio Capretta (vxc at cs.nott.ac.uk). Please contact me for any additional information that you need. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From stoller at cs.sunysb.edu Thu May 14 16:26:30 2009 From: stoller at cs.sunysb.edu (Scott Stoller) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:26:30 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 22nd IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF): Call For Participation Message-ID: <18956.32374.654954.270287@gargle.gargle.HOWL> [CSF is a significant forum for research on language-based, including type-based, security.] Call For Participation 22nd IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) Port Jefferson, NY, USA July 8-10, 2009 http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/csf09/ NOTE: Early registration ends on June 3. The IEEE Computer Security Foundations (CSF) series brings together researchers in computer science to examine foundational issues in computer security. Over the past two decades, many seminal papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. CiteSeer lists CSF as 38th out of more than 1200 computer science venues (top 3.11%) in impact based on citation frequency. CiteSeerX lists CSF 2007 as 7th out of 581 computer science venues (top 1.2%) in impact based on citation frequency. CSF is Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. The full program is available on the web. Highlights include: * invited talk by Brendan Eich, Chief Technology Officer, Mozilla Corp. Improving JavaScript's Default Security Model with Information Flow * panel on Rigorous Security Analysis of Software * three co-located workshops: 3rd International Workshop on Analysis of Security APIs (ASA 2009) 5th Workshop on Formal and Computational Cryptography (FCC 2009) 4th Workshop on Security and Rewriting Techniques (SecReT 2009) Hope to see you in Port Jefferson! Scott D. Stoller, General Chair From Filippo.Bonchi at cwi.nl Fri May 15 07:18:46 2009 From: Filippo.Bonchi at cwi.nl (Filippo Bonchi) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 13:18:46 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICE09: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <4A0D4F96.2090001@cwi.nl> 2st Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE'09) Structured Interactions Satellite workshop of CONCUR 2009 31th of August 2009 Bologna, Italy Homepage: http://ice09.dimi.uniud.it/ -- Invited Speakers -- - Farhad Arbab (CWI) - Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University) 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 of ICE'09 -- The general scope is to include theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among actors of concurrent/distributed systems. The workshop intends to attract researchers interested in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives concerning such structured interactions. The theme of ICE09 will be structured interactions by which we mean the class of synchronisations that go beyond the "simple" point-to-point synchronisations. A few examples of such structured interactions are: multicast or broadcast synchronisations, even-notification based interactions, time dependent interactions, distributed transactions, stateless/statefull interactions. Not only structured interactions have been studied "in isolation", but researchers have also considered mutual relations and theoretical frameworks featuring uniform representations and/or co-existence of different structured interactions. As a matter of fact, different structured interactions are typically required when specifying views of a distributed system or when considering it at different levels of abstraction. For instance, multicast or broadcast interactions (desirable at a high level of abstraction) have to be mapped on more basic kind of interactions like point-to-point asynchronous synchronisations. The interest in such interactions is growing due to the recent trend in providing abstractions that allow one to master the complexity of distributed systems. Remarkable research lines in this area are the use of types or behavioural equivalences to guarantee properties of concurrent/distributed systems (eg., progress properties) or the use of model-driven approaches in order to achieve correctness "by construction" (eg., graceful termination), or else the relations among interactions, mobility and spatial aspects (eg., bigraphs). -- Topics -- Topics of interest include, but shall not be limited to: - models, logic and types for structured interactions; - expressiveness results; - timed and hybrid interactions; - verification, analysis and tools; - programming primitives for structured interactions; - structured interactions as coordination mechanisms; - structured interactions inspired by emerging computational models (systems biology, quantum computing, etc.). -- Selection Procedure -- The workshop proposes an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. As shown by the past edition of ICE, this considerably improves the quality of the papers, the reviews and the discussion during the workshop. We continue by detailing the selection procedure. After the submission deadline expires, each PC member selects a number of suitable papers to review before the start of the discussion phase. At the beginning of the discussion, each submitted paper is published on a Wiki and associated with a discussion forum whose access will be restricted to the authors and to all the PC members. The latter will be able to 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 discussions and let perspective participants to interact with each other well in advance with respect to the modus operandi of more traditional events. -- Submission Guidelines -- Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted to another conference/workshops 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. Details of the submission mechanism will follow in due course. -- Dissemination -- The ICE09 post-proceeding will be published in a novel series: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. -- Important Dates -- - Abstract submission: 29 May 2009 - Submission deadline: 5 June 2009 - Reviews due: 26 June 2009 - Discussion: from 29 June to 11 July 2009 - Notification to authors: 13 July 2009 - Workshop: 31 August 2009 -- Program Committee -- * Simon Bliudze (CEA LIST, France) * Eduardo Bonelli (LIFIA, University of LaPlata, Argentina) * Andrea Bracciali (University of Pisa, Italy) * Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) * Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Bob Coecke (Oxford University, UK) * Vincent Danos (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Erik de Vink (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) * Georgios Fainekos (NEC Laboratories, USA) * Goran Frehse (Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 - Verimag,France) * Carlo A. Furia (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland) * Fabio Gadducci (University of Pisa, Italy) * Ichiro Hasuo (Kyoto University, Japan) * Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Daniel Hirschkoff (ENS, Lyon, France) * Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy) * Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) * Dimitris Mostrous (Imperial College, London, UK) * Madhavan Mukund (Chennai mathematical Institute, India) * Dejan Nickovic (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) * Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) * Hugo Torres Vieira (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) * Angelo Troina (University of Torino, Italy) * Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College, London, UK) * Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College, London, UK) -- ICEcreamers -- - Filippo Bonchi (CWI) - Davide Grohmann (Universita' di Udine) - Paola Spoletini (Politecnico di Milano) - Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester) From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Fri May 15 11:22:19 2009 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:22:19 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP09 Accepted Papers Message-ID: <53ff55480905150822k5a15d522vd9ab7a98bf9f947a@mail.gmail.com> Accepted Papers ICFP 2009: International Conference on Functional Programming Edinburgh, Scotland, 31 August - 2 September 2009 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html The ICFP 2009 Program Chair and Committee are pleased to announce that the following papers have been accepted for the conference. Additional information regarding the final program, invited speakers, and registration will be forthcoming. However, the Local Arrangements Co-Chairs would like to remind participants of the following: * ICFP'09 coincides with the final week of the Edinburgh International Festival, one of the premier arts and cultural festivals in the world. The opportunity to attend the Festival is a plus! Due to the popularity of Edinburgh during the festival period, we recommend booking accommodation early. More details regarding accommodation may be obtained from the ICFP 2009 Local Arrangements webpage: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ICFP_2009_Local_Arrangements Accepted papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A CONCURRENT ML LIBRARY IN CONCURRENT HASKELL Avik Chaudhuri A THEORY OF TYPED COERCIONS AND ITS APPLICATIONS Nikhil Swamy, Michael Hicks and Gavin Bierman A UNIVERSE OF BINDING AND COMPUTATION Daniel Licata and Robert Harper ATTRIBUTE GRAMMARS FLY FIRST-CLASS: HOW TO DO ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IN HASKELL Marcos Viera, S. Doaitse Swierstra and Wouter S. Swierstra AUTOMATICALLY RESTFUL WEB APPLICATIONS OR, MARKING MODULAR SERIALIZABLE CONTINUATIONS Jay McCarthy BEAUTIFUL DIFFERENTIATION Conal Elliott BIORTHOGONALITY, STEP-INDEXING AND COMPILER CORRECTNESS Nick Benton and Chung-Kil Hur CAUSAL COMMUTATIVE ARROWS AND THEIR OPTIMIZATION Hai Liu, Eric Cheng and Paul Hudak COMPLETE AND DECIDABLE TYPE INFERENCE FOR GADTS Tom Schrijvers, Simon Peyton Jones, Martin Sulzmann and Dimitrios Vytiniotis CONTROL-FLOW ANALYSIS OF FUNCTION CALLS AND RETURNS BY ABSTRACT INTERPRETATION Jan Midtgaard and Thomas P. Jensen EDUCATIONAL PEARL: FUN FOR FRESHMEN KIDS Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi EFFECTIVE INTERACTIVE PROOFS FOR HIGHER-ORDER IMPERATIVE PROGRAMS Adam Chlipala, Gregory Malecha, Greg Morrisett, Avraham Shinnar and Ryan Wisnesky EXPERIENCE REPORT: EMBEDDED, PARALLEL COMPUTER-VISION WITH A FUNCTIONAL DSL Ryan Newton and Teresa Ko EXPERIENCE REPORT: HASKELL IN THE REALWORLD Curt Sampson EXPERIENCE REPORT: OCAML FOR AN INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH STATIC ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK Pascal Cuoq and Julien Signoles EXPERIENCE REPORT: OCSIGEN, A WEB PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK Vincent Balat, J?r?me Vouillon and Boris Yakobowski EXPERIENCE REPORT: SEL4 -- FORMALLY VERIFYING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE MICROKERNEL Gerwin Klein, Philip Derrin and Kevin Elphinstone FINDING RACE CONDITIONS IN ERLANG WITH QUICKCHECK AND PULSE Koen Claessen, Michal Palka, Nicholas Smallbone, John Hughes, Hans Svensson, Thomas Arts and Ulf Wiger FREE THEOREMS INVOLVING TYPE CONSTRUCTOR CLASSES Janis Voigtlaender GENERIC PROGRAMMING WITH FIXED POINTS FOR MUTUALLY RECURSIVE DATATYPES Alexey Rodriguez, Stefan Holdermans, Andres L?h and Johan Jeuring IDENTIFYING QUERY INCOMPATIBILITIES WITH EVOLVING XML SCHEMAS Pierre Geneves, Nabil Layaida and Vincent Quint IMPLEMENTING FIRST-CLASS POLYMORPHIC DELIMITED CONTINUATIONS BY A TYPE-DIRECTED SELECTIVE CPS-TRANSFORM Tiark Rompf, Ingo Maier and Martin Odersky LA TOUR D'HANO? Ralf Hinze NON-PARAMETRIC PARAMETRICITY Georg Neis, Derek Dreyer and Andreas Rossberg OXENSTORED: AN EFFICIENT HIERARCHICAL AND TRANSACTIONAL DATABASE USING FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WITH REFERENCE CELL COMPARISONS Thomas Gazagnaire and Vincent Hanquez PARALLEL CONCURRENT ML John Reppy, Claudio Russo and Yingqi Xiao PARTIAL MEMOIZATION OF CONCURRENCY AND COMMUNICATION Suresh Jagannathan, KC Sivaramakrishnan and Lukasz Ziarek PURELY FUNCTIONAL LAZY NON-DETERMINISTIC PROGRAMMING Sebastian Fischer, Oleg Kiselyov and Chung-chieh Shan RUNTIME SUPPORT FOR MULTICORE HASKELL Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones and Satnam Singh SAFE FUNCTIONAL REACTIVE PROGRAMMING THROUGH DEPENDENT TYPES Neil Sculthorpe and Henrik Nilsson SCRIBBLE: CLOSING THE BOOK ON AD HOC DOCUMENTATION TOOLS Matthew Flatt, Eli Barzilay and Robert Bruce Findler USING OBJECTIVE CAML TO DEVELOP SAFETY-CRITICAL EMBEDDED TOOL IN A CERTIFICATION FRAMEWORK Bruno Pagano, Olivier Andrieu, Thomas Moniot, Benjamin Canou, Emmanuel Chailloux, Philippe Wang, Pascal Manoury and Jean-Louis Colaco From iwoce2009 at easychair.org Sat May 16 05:25:05 2009 From: iwoce2009 at easychair.org (IWOCE 2009) Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:25:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: IWOCE 2009 (Open Component Ecosystems), 24/08/09 Amsterdam Message-ID: <20090516092506.0023F8417A@usha.takhisis.invalid> [ Apologies for multiple copies ] *** Deadline: 03/06/2009 *** (see below for more info) IWOCE 2009 ========== International Workshop on Open Component Ecosystems =================================================== The 7th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 24 August 2009 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.iwoce.org iwoce2009 at easychair.org Call for papers --------------- Over the last years, the composition of software parts is increasingly considered a crucial operation to build and maintain large software systems. The continuous and independent evolution of readily available components suggested that open platforms can better accommodate and manage them as normally happens in systems like open source software distributions, Eclipse, and J2EE, just to mention a few. The critical mass represented by such software components requires organizations, such as companies, research groups, and open source communities, to collaborate on custom software development, implementation and shared services. Such infrastructures can be regarded as ecosystems, i.e., collections of software projects that possibly belong to organizations, developed in parallel by the organizations, and able to integrate each other at assembly time, during the configuration, and/or dynamically after the deployment. The capability of modeling, analyzing, and predicting the component behavior during these stages is intrinsically difficult and requires techniques, algorithms, and methods which are both expressive and computationally convenient in order to be engineered and conveyed in practical projects. Moreover, when analyzing software ecosystems, exploration and visualization cannot be neglected because of the large amounts of information that are available about the ecosystem. Scope ----- The goal of the workshop is to gather together both researchers and practitioners active in open source software engineering, software composition, algorithms, constraint programming, and model-driven engineering to discuss, debate, exchange ideas, and outline common solutions to the problem of static and dynamic component aggregations in software ecosystems. IWOCE 2009 will be held in Amsterdam as a satellite event of the 7th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2009). IWOCE 2009 will host invited talks, technical sessions, and panels. As a workshop, IWOCE 2009 will foster the interactions between the participants, stimulating lively debates and discussions around the topics of interest of the workshop. Topics ------ Contributions are solicited from both academia and industry about the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: - Open source software engineering - Design of software ecosystems - Infrastructures and services for software ecosystems - Formal analysis of component systems - Component composition, configuration, and adaptation techniques - Verification, validation, and testing techniques - Predictability of component upgrade, installation, and removal - Constraint programming and constraint solvers applied to component systems - Model-driven techniques and metamodels for describing component systems - Components systems and generative approaches - Exploration and visualization techniques for complex software systems - Global measurement, prediction, and monitoring of distributed and service components - Industrial experience using open source and component-based software development - Components in open source software distributions (eg. GNU/Linux packages, Eclipse plugins, ...) Submission guidelines --------------------- All submissions will be formally evaluated by at least three (3) reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF and strictly adhere to the ACM SIG proceedings format. Papers must not exceed ten (10) pages in such format, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Paper submissions will be made electronically via the workshop submission web page, using the EasyChair service. All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication, elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper should register for the conference and participate in the workshop. Important dates --------------- Paper submission 3 June 2009 Notification of acceptance 20 June 2009 Camera-ready version due 26 June 2009 Workshop date 24 August 2009 Organizing committee -------------------- Contact iwoce2009 at easychair.org Program co-chairs - Roberto Di Cosmo Universit? Paris Diderot (France) - Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila (Italy) Program committee - Alfonso Pierantonio University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Angelo Gargantini University of Bergamo (Italy) - Arald Gall Universit?t Zurich (Switzerland) - Daniel Le Berre Universit? d?Artois (France) - Ivica Crnkovic Malardalen University (Sweden) - Jeff Gray University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) - Laurie Tratt Bournemouth University (UK) - Massimo Tivoli University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Patrick Albert ILOG/IBM (France) - Ralf Treinen Universit? Paris Diderot (France) Publicity chair - Stefano Zacchiroli Universit? Paris Diderot (France) ==================================================================== Further information about the IWOCE 2009 workshop can be found at: http://www.iwoce.org Write to iwoce2009 at easychair.org for further questions. ==================================================================== From Pierre.Corbineau at imag.fr Sun May 17 05:17:27 2009 From: Pierre.Corbineau at imag.fr (Pierre Corbineau) Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 11:17:27 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc job offer : cryptographic security Message-ID: <4A0FD627.9050101@imag.fr> Proving computational security of cryptographic systems ***** Post-doc vacancy ***** Host laboratory: LIP (ENS Lyon) / VERIMAG (UJF - Grenoble 1), FRANCE We are looking for a researcher (post-doc) to work on the ANR SCALP project. Keywords: formal verification, computational security, cryptography, proof assistant Subject : Our day-to-day lives increasingly depend upon information and our ability to manipulate it securely. That is, in a way that prevents malicious elements to subvert the available information for their own benefits. This requires solutions based on cryptographic systems (primitives and protocols). However, no matter how carefully crafted cryptographic systems are, experience has shown that effective attacks can remain hidden for years. This may be caused by poor design or often unclear and poorly defined security properties and assumptions. The ANR SCALP project aims at providing certified automated verification methods for the computational security of cryptosystems. The certification part is to be carried out with the help of the Coq Proof assistant. Requirements for the Postdoc position: - A PhD in Computer Science or a related field with expertise in cryptography and/or proof assistants (preferably both). - A strong publication record. - Commitment and a cooperative attitude. Applications : - detailed CV, list of publications - motivation letter (1 page), - contact information for 2 references. Duration : 12 months (possible extension for another 12 months). Start date : September 2009 Deadline for application : 15 June 2009 SCALP project Homepage: http://scalp.gforge.inria.fr/ More information/application submission : Yassine.Lakhnech at imag.fr , Philippe.Audebaud at ens-lyon.fr, Pierre.Corbineau at imag.fr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Pierre_Corbineau.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 517 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090517/8568ef2d/Pierre_Corbineau.bin From marieke.huisman at ewi.utwente.nl Mon May 18 03:19:48 2009 From: marieke.huisman at ewi.utwente.nl (Marieke Huisman) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:19:48 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: SAVCBS 2009 Message-ID: <4A110C14.9020303@ewi.utwente.nl> [Please excuse for multiple copies] SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: MAY 25, 2009 Call for Papers SAVCBS'09 Workshop at ESEC/FSE 2009, August 25, 2009 http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/ The eighth workshop on specification and verification of component-based systems is affiliated with ESEC/FSE 2009 and will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 25, 2009. Eight page papers are due May 15, 2009. Details on paper submission follow the general description of the workshop below. Theme and Topics of Interest SAVCBS is focused on using formal (i.e., mathematical) techniques to establish a foundation for the specification and verification of component-based systems. Specification techniques are urgently needed to support effective reasoning about systems composed from components. Component-based approaches also underscore the need for scaling advanced verification techniques such as extended static analysis and model checking to the size of real systems. The workshop will consider formalization of both functional and non-functional behavior (such as performance or reliability). Suggested research topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Techniques for component-based verification or reasoning * Component-based specification languages * Static analysis of components and component compositions * Verification-oriented design methodologies for components * Dynamic checking techniques, including run-time assertion or property checking * Specification and verification of non-functional component behavior (performance, memory, concurrency, etc.) * Unifying formal descriptions of concurrency properties with model-based behavioral descriptions of components * Balancing tradeoffs (automatic/manual verification, soundness/completeness, static/dynamic verification, testing/formal verification, scalability/coverage, etc.) * Theories of component composition * Industrial experience, such as adoption issues, with formal techniques for component-based systems * Case studies of applying formal techniques to component based systems * Educational experience or tactics for formal approaches to component-based systems Submissions should outline the current state of research or practice, describe the most pressing shortcomings, and formulate goals for future development. Challenge Problem One session during the workshop will be devoted to presenting solutions (full or partial) to a challenge problem. This problem will present features that pose difficulties for current specification technologies. The session will be open both to presenters as well as participants of the workshop. Details on the challenge problem will be posted at http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/2009/challenge.shtml. Solutions should illustrate innovative features of specification or verification as they pertain to this particular problem. Submissions Submissions must not exceed 8 pages. We encourage, but do not require, use of the ACM Conference format. We also suggest that you add page numbers to your submission, to make adding comments easier. Papers will be accepted in PDF or Postscript formats. Papers may be submitted on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=savcbs09 . We are considering to invite best papers for submission to a journal special issue. Important dates: Paper submission deadline: May 25, 2009 Notification date: June 10, 2009 Final versions: June 20, 2009 See http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/ for more details. Workshop Program Committee: Marieke Huisman - University of Twente, Netherlands (chair) Jonathan Aldrich - Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marsha Chechik - University of Toronto, Canada Jens Chr. Godskesen - IT University, Denmark Alex Groce - Nasa JPL, USA Dilian Gurov- KTH, Sweden Barbara Jobstmann - EPFL, Switzerland Florian Kamm?ller - Technical University of Berlin, Germany Joe Kiniry - University College Dublin, Ireland Darko Marinov - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Peter M?ller - ETH Zurich, Switzerland John Penix - Google, USA Koushik Sen - University of California, Berkeley, USA Natasha Sharygina - University of Lugano, Switzerland/Carnegie Mellon University, USA Murali Sitaraman - Clemson University , USA From fmws09 at inf.ethz.ch Mon May 18 04:51:50 2009 From: fmws09 at inf.ethz.ch (Sebastian Nanz) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:51:50 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMWS 2009: Formal Methods for Wireless Systems (2nd CFP) Message-ID: <4A1121A6.60206@inf.ethz.ch> Second Call For Papers ---------------------- FMWS 2009 Second International Workshop on Formal Methods for Wireless Systems 31 August, 2009, Bologna, Italy Satellite workshop of CONCUR 2009 http://www.itu.dk/events/FMWS09 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 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) In order to submit, login at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmws2009 Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals is only allowed for short papers. 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 EPTCS-style format to be published in the EPTCS (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science). A special issue in a journal is under consideration. Important dates --------------- Workshop: August 31, 2009 Abstract submission: June 5, 2009 Paper submission: June 12, 2009 Notification date: July 3, 2009 Submission of preliminary version for the Proceedings: July 17, 2009 Submission of final version for EPTCS: TBA Invited Speaker --------------- - Stephen Gilmore, University of Edinburgh, UK Program Committee ----------------- - Willem Jan Fokkink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Jens Chr. Godskesen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Holger Hermanns, Saarland University, Germany - Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, Chicago, USA - Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark - Massimo Merro, University of Verona, Italy - Sebastian Nanz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA Futurs and LIX, France - Davide Sangiorgi, University of Bologna, Italy - Scott A. Smolka, Stony Brook, USA - Sofiene Tahar, Concordia University, Montr?al, Canada - Luca Vigano, University of Verona, Italy Organizers ---------- - Jens Chr. Godskesen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Sebastian Nanz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland From laneve at cs.unibo.it Mon May 18 10:20:41 2009 From: laneve at cs.unibo.it (Cosimo Laneve) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:20:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last call for papers: 6th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods Message-ID: <58229.134.157.168.126.1242656441.squirrel@ssl.cs.unibo.it> WS-FM 2009 -- 6th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods http://www.cs.unibo.it/ws-fm09 4-5 September 2009, Bologna, Italy Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR'09) Web Service technology aims at empowering providers of services, in the broad sense, with the ability to package and deliver their services by means of software applications available on the Web. Existing infrastructures for Web Services already enable providers to describe services in terms of structure, access policy and behavior, to locate services, to interact with them, and to bundle simpler services into more complex ones. However, innovations are necessary to seamlessly extend this technology in order to deal with challenges such as managing interactions with stateful and long-running Web Services, managing large numbers of Web Services, managing the quality of Web Service delivery, etc. Formal methods play a fundamental role in shaping innovations in Web Service technology. For instance, formal methods help to define and to understand the semantics of languages and protocols that underpin existing infrastructures for Web Services, and to formulate features that are found to be lacking. They also provide a basis for reasoning about Web Service behavior, for example to discover services that can fulfill a given goal. Finally, formal analysis of security properties and performance are essential in application areas including e-science, e-commerce, workflow, business process management, etc. Naturally, the scope for using formal methods in the area of Web Services is much wider. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on Web Services and Formal Methods in order to facilitate fruitful collaboration. The scope of the workshop is not purely limited to discussions and collaborations about technology aspects. It also covers approaches to analyzing and designing systems based on Web Service technology, such as service-oriented architecture and business process modeling. In fact, the WS-FM workshop has a tradition of attracting submissions dealing with formal approaches to enterprise systems modeling in general, and business process modeling in particular. Starting from 2007, the workshop has incorporated the activities of the online community formerly known as the "Petri and Pi" Group, a forum bridging the communities of workflow oriented researchers and process calculi oriented researchers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formal approaches to service-oriented analysis and design * Formal approaches to enterprise modeling and business process modeling * Model-driven development, testing, and analysis of web services * Web services for business process management * Security, performance and quality of web services * Web service coordination and transactions * Web service ontologies and semantic description * Goal-driven discovery and composition of web services * Complex event processing in service-oriented architectures * Semi-structured data management and XML technology * Types and logics for web services * Model-driven development, testing, and analysis of web services * Innovative application scenarios for web services * Data services * Data centric process modeling SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously nor be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. All papers must be submitted at the following submission site, handled by EasyChair, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsfm09 using the Springer LNCS style. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. We expect to publish the post-workshop proceedings a few months after the workshop as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 31, 2009 Paper submission deadline: June 7, 2009 Author notification: July 13, 2009 Workshop dates: September 4-5, 2009 The preparation of papers for formal publication will take place in the months following the workshop. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Cosimo Laneve University of Bologna, IT Jianwen Su University of California at Santa Barbara, USA OTHER PC MEMBERS: Wil van der Aalst Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Albert Benveniste IRISA/INRIA, FR Karthik Bhargavan Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Roberto Bruni University of Pisa, IT Diego Calvanese Free University of Bolzano, IT Alin Deutsch University of California San Diego, USA Marlon Dumas University of Tartu, EE Jose Luiz Fiadeiro University of Leicester, UK Xiang Fu Georgia Southwestern State University, USA Philippa Gardner Imperial College, UK Kohei Honda Queen Mary, University of London, UK Nickolas Kavantzas Oracle Co., USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos University of Lisbon, PT Karsten Wolf University of Rostock, DE Qiu Zongyan Peking University, CN From ab at cis.ksu.edu Mon May 18 11:30:19 2009 From: ab at cis.ksu.edu (Anindya Banerjee) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:30:19 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: 11th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP'09), Genova, Italy Message-ID: Call for Participation FTfJP 2009 11th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs in conjunction with ECOOP 2009 July 6 2009 (Genova, Italy) http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~ab/FTfJP09/ftfjp09.html IMPORTANT DATES ECOOP early registration deadline May 20 Workshop July 6 Registration for the workshop is via the ECOOP 2009 registration page http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/registration.html ACCEPTED PAPERS Juan Chen A Typed Intermediate Language for Supporting Interfaces Marieke Huisman On the Interplay between the Semantics of Java's Finally Clauses and the JML Run-Time Checker Lorenzo Bettini, Sara Capecchi and Ferruccio Damiani A Mechanism for Flexible Dynamic Trait Replacement Bruno De Fraine Range Parameterized Types: Use-site Variance without the Existential Questions Radu Grigore, Julien Charles, Fintan Fairmichael and Joseph Kiniry Strongest Postcondition of Unstructured Programs Nicholas Cameron and Sophia Drossopoulou On Subtyping, Wildcards, and Existential Types Steffen van Bakel and Reuben Rowe Semantic Predicate Types for Class-based Object Oriented Programming Frederic Besson CPA beats oo-CFA Robby and Patrice Chalin Preliminary Design of a Unified JML Representation and Software Infrastructure Alexander Summers Modelling Java Requires State (short paper) From clements at brinckerhoff.org Mon May 18 13:05:28 2009 From: clements at brinckerhoff.org (John Clements) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:05:28 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Scheme *and Functional Programming* Workshop 2009: 2nd cfp Message-ID: <482F5EB3-7D3D-4D8E-AC49-B763E5C79BE7@brinckerhoff.org> Got something to say about type systems in a dynamically typed setting? Let us know about it; the deadline is about 3 weeks from today, and will not be extended. Get cracking! John Clements *********************************************** SCHEME AND FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP 2009 Cambridge, Massachusetts August 22, 2009 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.schemeworkshop.org/2009/ *********************************************** The Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop showcases research and experience related to Scheme, and more broadly to all aspects of functional programming. Areas of interest include: * Language Design, Type Systems, Theory * Program Development Environments, Education * Agile Methodologies, Lightweight Software Engineering * Applications, Implementation, and Experience * SRFIs! In addition to technical papers on matters of programming-language research, we encourage submissions that present experience or innovation with a particular project. The key criterion for any paper--technical or not--is that it makes a contribution from which other practitioners can benefit. ** Dates: ** Dates are firm, and will not be extended. Please plan accordingly. Submission Deadline: June 5, 2009 (FIRM) Author Notification: June 26, 2009 Final Papers Due: July 24, 2009 Workshop: August 22, 2009 ** Program Committee: ** John Clements, Cal Poly State University (organizer & chair) Dominique Boucher, Nu Echo Abdulaziz Ghuloum, Indiana University David Herman, Northeastern University Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University Matthew Might, University of Utah David Van Horn, Northeastern University ** Publication Policy: ** Submitted papers must have content that has not previously been published in other conferences or refereed venues, and simultaneous submission to other conferences or refereed venues is unacceptable. Publication of a paper at this workshop is not intended to replace conference or journal publication, and does not preclude re-publication of a more complete or finished version of the paper at some later conference or in a journal. ** Submission Instructions: ** Your submissions should be no longer than 12 pages, including bibliography and appendices. Papers may be shorter than this limit, and the Program Committee encourages authors to submit shorter papers where appropriate. The conference web page (URL above) contains detailed formatting instructions and LaTeX support files. Submit your papers using the Continue 2.0 submission server, at the URL: http://continue2.cs.brown.edu/scheme2009/ We look forward to reading your papers! From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Mon May 18 12:33:12 2009 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:33:12 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FICS'09 Call for papers - Fixed Points in Computer Science (CSL'09 workshop) Message-ID: <20090518163850.7686ABF0B0@sool.cc.ioc.ee> Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts) 6th Workshop on Fixed Points in Computer Science, FICS 2009 Coimbra, Portugal, 12-13 September 2009, a satellite workshop of CSL 2009, colocated with PPDP 2009, LOPSTR 2009 http://cs.ioc.ee/fics09/ Background Fixed points play a fundamental role in several areas of computer science and logic by justifying induction and recursive definitions. The construction and properties of fixed points have been investigated in many different frameworks such as: design and implementation of programming languages, program logics, databases. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present their results to those members of the computer science and logic communities who study or apply the theory of fixed points. Previous workshops where held in Brno (1998, MFCS/CSL workshop), Paris (2000, LC workshop), Florence (2001, PLI workshop), Copenhagen (2002, LICS (FLoC) workshop), Warsaw (2003, ETAPS workshop). Topics include, but are not restricted to: * categorical, metric and ordered fixed point models * fixed points in algebra and coalgebra * fixed points in languages and automata * fixed points in programming language semantics * the mu-calculus and fixed points in modal logic * fixed points in process algebras and process calculi * fixed points in the lambda-calculus, functional programming and type theory * fixed points in relation to dataflow and circuits * fixed points in logic programming and theorem proving * finite model theory, descriptive complexity theory, fixed points in databases Invited speakers tba Contributed talks Selection of contributed talks is based on extended abstracts/short papers of 3..6 pp formatted with easychair.cls. Submission is via EasyChair by 30 June 2009. The authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 21 July 2009. Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions, due by 11 August 2009, will be published for distribution at the workshop as a technical report. If the number and quality of submissions and accepted talks warrant this, EDP Sciences will publish a special issue of Theoretical Informatics and Applications. The special issues of the previous editions of FICS appeared in the same journal. Programme committee Yves Bertot (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge) Peter Dybjer (Chalmers University of Technology) Zolt?n ?sik (University of Szeged) Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto University) Anna Ing?lfsd?ttir (Reykjavik University) Ralph Matthes (IRIT, Toulouse) (co-chair) Jan Rutten (CWI and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Luigi Santocanale (LIF, Marseille) Alex Simpson (University of Edinburgh) Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn) (co-chair) Igor Walukiewicz (LaBRI, Bordeaux) Sponsors EXCS, Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science From quaglia at disi.unitn.it Mon May 18 13:47:01 2009 From: quaglia at disi.unitn.it (Paola Quaglia) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:47:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] open positions at CoSBi, Trento Message-ID: <200905181746.n4IHknuC029081@disi.unitn.it> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/types-announce/attachments/20090518/6c2d5f2a/attachment.htm From stephanie.balzer at inf.ethz.ch Mon May 18 18:49:12 2009 From: stephanie.balzer at inf.ethz.ch (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 00:49:12 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: RAOOL at ECOOP'09 Message-ID: <4A11E5E8.80300@inf.ethz.ch> [N.B. Poster submission open] Call for Participation 2nd workshop on Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages RAOOL'09 co-located with ECOOP'09 http://www.lst.inf.ethz.ch/raool09/ PURPOSE Relationships and roles are important concepts used in many areas of computer science (e.g., conceptual modeling, database systems,ontology) but are not "first-class" constructs in modern programming languages. In current object-oriented languages, programmers are forced to implement relationships or roles "by hand" (using pointers and collections) leading to a disconnect between models and implementations. This disconnect causes numerous problems across the software engineering life cycle: most importantly, implementations become cumbersome because relationships are represented by several code fragments, scattered throughout the application code, resulting in code fragility. Since current mainstream languages lack appropriate support for heap querying, programmers are further burdened with crafting code to query relationships and check their consistency. As software systems grow and become increasingly complex this disconnect causes problems not only for implementers but also for code maintainers. In response, a growing number of researchers in the software community are investigating adding first-class support for relationships and heap queries to current programming languages. Interest in first-class support for such constructs is not limited to programming language research. Program analysis, for instance, could benefit from the decreased use of pointers and transparent persistence could benefit from explicit queries. In this workshop, we plan to gather researchers in the programming language community who are working on relationship-based systems to share their research and to discuss the future of relationship-based constructs in programming languages. We are interested in input from members of the programming language community but also in input from members of related areas (e.g. databases, model-driven development) and domains (e.g., program analysis, orthogonal persistence, type systems) who are using relationships. Some particular areas of interest are: - relationship-based programming languages - using libraries/frameworks to support relationships - first-class queries - database integration - serialization or persistence using relationships - system and framework design using relationships - understanding or visualizing programs - ownership and related techniques - dynamic analysis of relationship usage ACCEPTED PAPERS Roles in Building Web Applications Using Java (long paper) Guido Boella, Roberto Grenna, and Andrea Cerisara Implementing Relationships among Classes of Analysis Pattern Languages Using Aspects (long paper) Rosana T. Vaccare Braga and Rodrigo Henrique Roldao Marchesini Nested and Specialized Associations (long paper) Tormod Vaksvik H?valdsrud and Birger M?ller-Pedersen Implementing UML Associations in Java - A Slim Code Pattern for a Complex Modeling Concept (long paper) Dominik Gessenharter Retrieving Relationships from Declarative Files (short paper) Ciera Jaspan and Jonathan Aldrich Implementing Relationships using Affinity (short paper) Stephen Nelson, David Pearce, and James Noble POSTER SUBMISSION Prospective participants are invited to submit a poster describing raw ideas and/or work-in-progress. Posters should be submitted to the workshop chair (balzers at inf.ethz.ch) by June 15, 2009. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Uwe Assmann (TU Dresden, Germany) Guido Boella (University of Torino) Achim D. Brucker (SAP Research, Germany) Stephane Ducasse (INRIA Lille, France) Susan Eisenbach (Imperial College London, UK) Manuel Fahndrich (Microsoft Research, USA) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) David J. Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversit?t in Hagen, Germany) Mandana Vaziri (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Stephanie Balzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Gavin Bierman (Microsoft Research, UK) Stephen Nelson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Frank Tip (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) From jan.cederquist at ist.utl.pt Mon May 18 18:03:34 2009 From: jan.cederquist at ist.utl.pt (Jan Cederquist) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 22:03:34 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/an