From venanzio at duplavis.com Wed Jan 1 09:13:38 2014 From: venanzio at duplavis.com (Venanzio Capretta) Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:13:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions in Nottingham Message-ID: <52C42292.5090201@duplavis.com> Dear all, The School of Computer Science in Nottingham is advertising 10 fully-funded PhD studentships. Applicants in the area of the Functional Programming lab (fp.cs.nott.ac.uk) are encouraged! If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor in the FP lab prior to submitting your application: Thorsten Altenkirch - constructive logic, proof assistants, type theory, category theory, lambda calculus, quantum computing. Venanzio Capretta - type theory, mathematical logic, corecursive structures, proof assistants, dependently-typed programming. Graham Hutton - program construction and verification, category theory, recursion operators, coinductive types. Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, modelling and simulation languages, domain-specific languages. Best wishes, Venanzio +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 10 Fully-Funded PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK Applications are invited for up to ten fully-funded PhD studentships in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2014. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the School?s research groups: Agents Lab; Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning; Computer Vision Lab; Functional Programming Lab; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab; Networked Systems. The studentships are for three years and include a stipend of ?13,726 per year and tuition fees, and are available to students of any nationality. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class Undergraduate or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and should discuss their interest and obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the School before applying. To apply, please submit the following items by email to nottingham.ac.uk>: (1) a brief covering letter that describes your reasons for wishing to pursue a PhD, any ideas you have regarding possible areas or topics, and the name of a potential supervisor; (2) a copy of your CV, including your actual or expected degree class(es), and results of all University examinations; (3) an example of your technical writing, such as a project report or dissertation; (4) contact details for two academic referees. Closing date for applications: 10th January 2014 +-----------------------------------------------------------+ -- Venanzio Capretta http://www.duplavis.com/venanzio/ School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Fri Jan 3 05:19:41 2014 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:19:41 GMT Subject: [TYPES/announce] CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits - Budapest, 23-27 June 2014 - 3rd CfP Message-ID: <201401031019.s03AJf9L027899@maths.leeds.ac.uk> Subject: CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits - Budapest, 23-27 June 2014 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS: CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits Budapest, Hungary June 23 - 27, 2014 http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline for LNCS: 10 January 2014 Notification of authors: 3 March 2014 Deadline for final revisions: 31 March 2014 FUNDING and AWARDS: CiE 2014 has received funding for student participation from the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science EATCS. Please contact the PC chairs if you are interested. The best student paper will receive an award sponsored by Springer. CiE 2014 is the tenth conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), and Milan (2013). The motto of CiE 2014 "Language, Life, Limits" intends to put a special focus on relations between computational linguistics, natural and biological computing, and more traditional fields of computability theory. This is to be understood in its broadest sense including computational aspects of problems in linguistics, studying models of computation and algorithms inspired by physical and biological approaches as well as exhibiting limits (and non-limits) of computability when considering different models of computation arising from such approaches. As with previous CiE conferences the allover glueing perspective is to strengthen the mutual benefits of analyzing traditional and new computational paradigms in their corresponding frameworks both with respect to practical applications and a deeper theoretical understanding. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. For topics covered by the conference, please visit http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu/?Topics We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as bioinformatics and natural computation, where they have a basic connection with computability. TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) Peter Gruenwald (CWI, Amsterdam) INVITED SPEAKERS: Lev Beklemishev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow) Alessandra Carbone (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS Paris) Maribel Fernandez (King's College London) Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (University of Calgary) Eva Tardos (Cornell University Albert Visser (Utrecht University) SPECIAL SESSIONS: History and Philosophy of Computing (organizers: Liesbeth de Mol, Giuseppe Primiero) Computational Linguistics (organizers: Maria Dolores Jimenez-Lopez, Gabor Proszeky) Computability Theory (organizers: Karen Lange, Barbara Csima) Bio-inspired Computation (organizers: Marian Gheorghe, Florin Manea) Online Algorithms (organizers: Joan Boyar, Csanad Imreh) Complexity in Automata Theory (organizers: Markus Lohrey, Giovanni Pighizzini) Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAM COMMITTEE consisting of: * Gerard Alberts (Amsterdam) * Sandra Alves (Porto) * Hajnal Andreka (Budapest) * Luis Antunes (Porto) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) * Laurent Bienvenu (Paris) * Paola Bonizzoni (Milan) * Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau) * Vasco Brattka (Munich) * Bruno Codenotti (Pisa) * Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest, co-chair) * Barry Cooper (Leeds) * Michael J. Dinneen (Auckland) * Erich Graedel (Aachen) * Marie Hicks (Chicago IL) * Natasha Jonoska (Tampa FL) * Jarkko Kari (Turku) * Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh) * Viv Kendon (Leeds) * Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo) * Andras Kornai (Budapest) * Marcus Kracht (Bielefeld) * Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam & Hamburg) * Klaus Meer (Cottbus, co-chair) * Joseph R. Mileti (Grinnell IA) * Georg Moser (Innsbruck) * Benedek Nagy (Debrecen) * Sara Negri (Helsinki) * Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund) * Neil Thapen (Prague) * Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) * Xizhong Zheng (Glenside PA) The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit their papers (in PDF format, max 10 pages using the LNCS style) for presentation at CiE 2014. The submission site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2014 is open. For submission instructions consult http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu/?Submission_Instructions The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag. Contact: Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju - csuhaj[at]inf.elte.hu Website: http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu/ __________________________________________________________________________ ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk CiE Conference Series http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu CiE Membership Application Form http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/CIE AssociationCiE on Twitter http://twitter.com/AssociationCiE __________________________________________________________________________ From ulrik at cs.aau.dk Fri Jan 3 06:39:36 2014 From: ulrik at cs.aau.dk (Ulrik Nyman) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:39:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended deadline (January 10th): Advances in Systems of Systems an ETAPS workshop Message-ID: <52C6A178.2000402@cs.aau.dk> AiSoS - Advances in Systems of Systems http://aisos.cs.aau.dk We are delighted to present the second edition of *AiSoS *an *ETAPS* workshop with a focus on the growing trend of more complex systems of systems. Examples are*smart grid, intelligent buildings, smart cities, transport systems*, etc. There is a need for new modeling formalisms, analysis methods and tools to help make trade-off decisions during design and evolution avoiding leading to sub-optimal design and rework during integration and in service. The workshop should focus on the modeling and analysis of System of Systems. The workshop Advances in Systems of Systems aims to gather people from different communities in order to encourage exchange of methods and views. The workshop welcomes submissions on *new modeling approaches, analysis technique, tools,** **case studies, surveys and tutorials.* Post proceedings will be published in EPTCS. Submission deadline:*January 10*. Best regards AiSoS organizers. - Kim G. Larsen, Axel Legay and Ulrik Nyman -- Ulrik Nyman,http://people.cs.aau.dk/~ulrik, phone +45 9940 9985 Associate Professor, Ph.D. Center for Embedded Software Systems, Department of Computer Science Aalborg University, Selma Lagerl?fs Vej 300, DK-9220 Aalborg East -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Pieter.Philippaerts at cs.kuleuven.be Fri Jan 3 07:46:44 2014 From: Pieter.Philippaerts at cs.kuleuven.be (Pieter Philippaerts) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:46:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final call: ESSoS Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: <004801cf0881$db66bb20$92343160$@cs.kuleuven.be> [Our sincere apologies if you receive this multiple times] CALL FOR PAPERS ESSoS Doctoral Symposium February 26, 2014, Munich IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: January 13, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: January 21, 2014 Camera Ready Version: February 12, 2014 The ESSoS Doctoral Symposium 2014 will be held in Munich, Germany on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 in conjunction with the ESSoS 2014 Symposium. Following the aim of the past ESSoS-DS edition, the scope of the current event will be focused on providing PhD students an opportunity to discuss their research in Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) in an international forum, and with a panel of well-known experts in the field. NEW in this year's Symposium is the fact that we aim to bring together a broad range of students: PhD students at the start of their trajectory, students who are about to finish (What are the pitfalls in the final stages?) and students in the middle (aiming for the first top-level publication). Students will have the occasion to discuss, in a welcoming and informal atmosphere, the goals already achieved or planned, the research challenges they are interested in, the projects they are working on, the facilities they are developing, the problems they want to solve and are solving in their doctoral work. During the Doctoral Symposium students will receive useful feedback from senior researchers, industrial partners and experts. It will also be a good opportunity for meeting and sharing experiences with other PhD students that are addressing similar topics, or are at a similar stage in their doctoral work. This way, the students will obtain guidance both on the academic content of their current work and on potential future research trajectories. PhD students carrying out research in Engineering Secure Software and Systems are invited to submit a position paper to the PhD Symposium. Short papers will be peer-reviewed by the Symposium's program committee members. The criteria used for accepting a paper include contribution of the work to the ESSoS field, originality of the work, and overall quality of the position paper. TOPICS PhD proposals fitting into the ESSoS conference topics are especially encouraged. This includes a diversity of topics, such as (but not limited to): - scalable techniques for threat modeling and analysis of vulnerabilities - specification and management of security requirements and policies - security architecture and design for software and systems - model checking for security - specification formalisms for security artifacts - verification techniques for security properties - systematic support for security best practices - security testing - security assurance cases - programming paradigms, models and DSLs for security - program rewriting techniques - processes for the development of secure software and systems - security oriented software reconfiguration and evolution - security measurement - automated development - trade-off between security and other non-functional requirements - support for assurance, certification and accreditation Accepted position papers will be presented during the ESSoS 2014 Doctoral Symposium and will be published on the ESSoS website. Presenters of the doctoral Symposium will get an opportunity to present their work in poster format during the main program of ESSoS 2014. The organizers of the doctoral symposium intend to publish post-proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium - details will follow. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Two types of submissions will be considered: (A) papers reflecting PhD projects in an early stage and (B) papers that represent PhD projects that are in the second half or nearly complete. A) Position papers of PhD students in an early stage of their project should fulfill the following requirements. - Length: two to six pages - Format: Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. - Content: * Authors' names (PhD student + contributing team members if applicable) * affiliation * an abstract (maximum 200 words) * the problem(s) that the proposed research is going to solve, and the motivation for solving them * the aims and objectives of the proposed research * the potential contributions to the state-of-the-art * the research methodology to be used to achieve the research goals, including a brief description of the work done to date and a tentative research plan for future work * the main contribution(s) of the research to the field of Engineering Secure Software and Systems B) Position papers of PhD students in a late to closing stage of their project - should fulfill the following requirements. - Length: two to six pages - Format: Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. - Content: * Authors' names (PhD student + contributing team members if applicable) * affiliation * an abstract (maximum 200 words) * Scope: the domain, scope and objectives of the proposed research * Track record: the results that have been achieved in previous steps and/or publications * The synergy and cohesion between the results, and the approach on how to complete the thesis * The main contribution(s) of the research to the field of Engineering Secure Software and Systems C) Some PhD students who a have delivered a top publication in the midst of their trajectory will be invited to present a testimonial; anybody can volunteer by sending a short email to the PC Chairs (referring to their actual top publication). Authors should use the Doctoral Symposium Submission site at EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essosds2014) for the submission of their manuscripts. CONTACT INFORMATION Doctoral Symposium Chairs: Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium) and Fabio Martinelli (CNR, Pisa, Italy) Authors of accepted papers may apply for a grant to cover their registration for ESSoS 2014. For more information, email to Ghita.Saevels at cs.kuleuven.be Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From awodey at cmu.edu Fri Jan 3 11:37:47 2014 From: awodey at cmu.edu (Steve Awodey) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:37:47 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: [HoTT] Univalent Foundations Library References: Message-ID: <49CF1C62-BF6B-4443-85EF-782B36F151C3@cmu.edu> Begin forwarded message: > From: Vladimir Voevodsky > Subject: [HoTT] Univalent Foundations Library > Date: January 3, 2014 10:48:41 AM EST > To: "HomotopyTypeTheory at googlegroups.com" , coq-club Club > > Hello, > > the Univalent Foundations Library together with an overview paper for it has finally been accepted to arXiv. 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URL: From christian.retore at labri.fr Fri Jan 3 13:05:10 2014 From: christian.retore at labri.fr (retore) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 19:05:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP, 2nd: EACL 2014 Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics Workshop (january 23) Message-ID: <2F13BF66-5DDA-48CB-9A55-318FBD51DA8E@labri.fr> Second CALL FOR PAPERS TTNLS: EACL 2014 Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics Workshop Co-located with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden 27th of April, 2014 http://clt.gu.se/event/2014-04-27/type-theory-workshop-eacl-2014 http://eacl2014.org/ Submission deadline: 23rd January 2014 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Type theory has been a central area of research in logic, the semantics of programming languages, and natural language semantics over the past fifty years. Recent developments in type theory have been used to reconstruct the formal foundations of computational semantics (Ranta (1994), Fox and Lappin (2005), Ginzburg (2012), Retor? (2012), Cooper (2012), Cooper et al. (2013)). These theories are generally intensional and polymorphic in character, and they allow for structured, fine-grained encoding of information across a diverse set of linguistic domains. The work in this area has opened up new approaches to modeling the relations between, inter alia, syntax, semantic interpretation, dialogue, inference, and cognition, from a largely proof theoretic perspective. The workshop provides a forum for the presentation of leading edge research in this fast developing subfield of computational linguistics. To the best of our knowledge it will be the first major conference on this topic hosted by the ACL. TOPICS We invite papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following: * subtyping * lexical semantics * record types * intensionality * probabilistic type theory * type theory and the interface among syntax, semantics, phonology * type theory and functional programming * type theory, logic, and inference Workshop Organisers * Robin Cooper (Gothenburg) * Simon Dobnik (Gothenburg) * Shalom Lappin (King's College, London) * Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg) Programme Committee: * Krasimir Angelov (Chalmers, Gothenburg) * Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde) * Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (Royal Holloway, London) * Steve Clark (Cambridge) * Philippe de Groote (Inria Nancy - Grand Est) * Jan van Eijck (Amsterdam) * Raquel Fern?ndez (Amsterdam) * Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin) * Chris Fox (Essex) * Jonathan Ginzburg (Paris 7) * Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway, London) * Bruno Mery (LaBRI, Bordeaux) * Glyn Morrill (Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) * Larry Moss (Indiana) * Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg) * Bengt Nordstr?m (Chalmers, Gothenburg) * Valeria de Paiva (Nuance, Sunnyvale California) * Carl Pollard (Ohio State University) * Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) * Steve Pulman (Oxford) * Matt Purver (Queen Mary, London) * Aarne Ranta (Chalmers, Gothenburg) * Christian Retor? (LaBRI, Bordeaux) * Scott Martin (Nuance, Sunnyvale California) * Ray Turner (Essex) SUBMISSION All papers should be submitted in English as PDF documents. Note that submissions must be anonymous. We welcome full papers of up to 8 pages and 1 additional page for references formatted in accordance with the EACL'14 style files (seehttp://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip ). Submissions can be made via the TTNLS START Conference Management's system website:https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/TT/ CONTACT For any queries please contact us at: ttnls <- at -> dobnik <-.-> net IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: 23 January 2014 Notification: 20 February 2014 Camera Ready Deadline: 3 March 2014 Workshop Day: 27 April 2014 From paolini at di.unito.it Mon Jan 6 10:39:27 2014 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca) Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:39:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CFP, Intersection Types and Related Systems 2014 In-Reply-To: <52723B7E.8050606@di.unito.it> References: <52723B7E.8050606@di.unito.it> Message-ID: <52CACE2F.1020300@di.unito.it> ******************************************************************************* INTERSECTION TYPES AND RELATED SYSTEMS (ITRS) at the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 http://vsl2014.at/itrs/ Deadline: March 31st, 2014 ******************************************************************************* ITRS 2014 (the Seventh Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems) will be affiliated with TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, to be held jointly with RTA) as part of FLoC 2014 (the Sixth Federated Logic Conference) and will take place in Vienna on July 18th 2014. FLoC 2014 will be part of the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL), the largest logic event in history, with over 2000 expected participants. FLoC 2014 will host eight conferences and many workshops. ITRS 2014 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection types and related approaches. (More details at the workshop website http://vsl2014.at/itrs/). SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION (1) Before the workshop, authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (max. 10 pages) in PDF format. (2) Accepted papers will be included on the general VSL'14 Proceedings USB-stick (3) After the workshop, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full versions (we foresee inclusion in EPTCS). TOPICS Possible topics for submitted papers include, but are not limited to: - Formal properties of systems with intersection types. - Results for related systems, such as union types, refinement types, or singleton types. - Applications to lambda calculus and similar systems. - Applications to pi-calculus and similar systems. - Applications for programming languages. - Applications for other areas, such as database query languages and program extraction from proofs. - Related approaches using behavioural/intensional types to characterize computational properties. DATES Abstract submission: 28.03.2014 Paper submission: 31.03.2014 Author notification: 28.04.2014 Final version: 29.05.2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Moritz Martens (Technical University of Dortmund) Luca Paolini (University of Torino) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University) Jakob Rehof (Technical University of Dortmund) - chair Takeshi Tsukada (Tohoku University and Oxford University) Pawel Urzyczyn (University of Warsaw, Institute of Informatics) Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt University) Zhiwu Xu (PPS, Paris 7 and SKLCS, ISCAS) INFORMATION For further information, please contact Jakob Rehof Email: jakob.rehof AT cs DOT tu-dortmund DOT de From sakai at is.nagoya-u.ac.jp Mon Jan 6 22:05:06 2014 From: sakai at is.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Masahiko Sakai) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 12:05:06 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: WPTE'14 - 1st International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Message-ID: <20140107120506.3d803ecd8e9ea984e0e8c64d@is.nagoya-u.ac.jp> CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE'14) affiliated with RTA/TLCA 2014 (a FLoC 2014 workshop, FLoC is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014) 13th July 2014, Vienna, Austria http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE14 Aims and Scope ============== The aim of WPTE is to bring together the researchers working on program transformations, evaluation, and operationally based programming language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation of research in this area. Topics of interest and in the scope of WPTE are: * Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. * Program transformations for proving termination, confluence and other properties. * Correctness of evaluation strategies. * Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations. * Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation. * Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes. * Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies. * Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages. * Program inversions and program synthesis. The programming languages of interest include pure, deterministic, impure, non-deterministic, concurrent, parallel languages, and may employ programming paradigms such as functional, logical, typed, imperative, object-oriented, and higher-order. Paper Submissions and Proceedings ================================= WPTE accepts two different kinds of contributions: * Full-papers: ------------ Full-papers must represent original work and should be submitted using the EasyChair interface. We plan to publish full-papers as formal proceedings in the 'OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)' of 'Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik'. Full-papers should not exceed 12 pages using the OASIcs LaTeX-templates. * Work in progress: ----------------- There will also be a slot for presenting work in progress. An extended abstract of at most 4 pages is required to be submitted using the EasyChair interface. These contributions will not be included in the OASIcs proceedings but they will be distributed to the workshop partipicants. One author of each accepted paper or abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: 25 April 2014 * Notification of acceptance: 23 May 2014 * Deadline for camera-ready proceedings: 28 May 2014 * Workshop: 13 July 2014, Austria, Vienna Weblinks ======== * EasyChair Submission Website https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte14 * Homepage of WPTE'14 http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE14 * OASIcs Website (including LaTeX templates): http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics * Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 http://vsl2014.at Program Committee ================= Takahito Aoto (RIEC, Tohoku University) Yuki Chiba (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Fer-Jan de Vries (University of Leicester) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?nica de Val?cia) Maribel Fern?dez (King's College London) Johan Jeuring (Open Universiteit Nederland and Universiteit Utrecht) Delia Kesner (Universit_ Paris-Diderot) Sergue_ Lenglet (Universit_ de Lorraine) Elena Machkasova (University of Minnesota, Morris) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Masahiko Sakai (Nagoya University) Manfred Schmidt-Schau? (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - chair Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) Janis Voigtl?der (University of Bonn) Harald Zankl (University of Innsbruck) Organizers ========== Manfred Schmidt-Schau? (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - chair Masahiko Sakai (Nagoya University) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Yuki Chiba (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) From danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch Tue Jan 7 05:15:14 2014 From: danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch (danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:15:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Modularity '14 - Call for Contributions Message-ID: *** MODULARITY '14 *** 13th International Conference on Modularity April 22-25, 2014 Lugano, Switzerland http://modularity.info/ In cooperation with: * ACM SIGSOFT * ACM SIGPLAN *** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS *** * Demonstrations http://modularity14.inf.usi.ch/demonstrations Feb. 7, 2014 * ACM Student Research Competition http://modularity14.inf.usi.ch/src Feb. 2, 2014 * Posters http://modularity14.inf.usi.ch/posters Mar. 2, 2014 ======================================================================== *** DEMONSTRATIONS *** Demonstrations serve the dissemination of advances embodied in research?oriented tools and systems that use or support modularity and composition. Attendees learn about emerging technologies and have opportunities to interact with their developers. Presenters gain excellent opportunities to increase the visibility and impact of their work. Modularity'14 solicits high-quality proposals for its demonstration track. Demonstrations may present commercial, academic, or corporate research systems. Demonstrations will be selected on the basis of technical merit, novelty, relevance to the modularity and composition community, and feasibility of presentation. The presentation has to focus on technical content and is to be given by technical members of the team. To each demo will be allocated 30 minutes, with 10 minutes for the presentation, 15 minutes for the demonstration, and 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Every demonstration will be scheduled twice for presentation. Authors of regular papers are also welcome to submit accompanying demonstrations. TOPICS Topics of interest include (though are not limited to): * applications of the mechanisms to support modularity and composition the in the software development life?cycle * new technologies for software modularization and composition * linguistic mechanism to support modularity and composition * modularity in domain specific languages design, implementation and application * composable and reusable library of programming entities IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: February 7, 2014 * Notification: February 16, 2014 * Camera ready: February 24, 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES For detailed submission guidelines please refer to http://modularity14.inf.usi.ch/demonstrations. ======================================================================== *** ACM STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION *** Modularity'14 is hosting an ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). The competition, sponsored by Microsoft Research, is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share their research results with other students and Modularity'14 attendees, and compete for prizes. The ACM Student Research Competition shares the Poster session's goal to facilitate students' interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Additionally, the Student Research Competition affords students with experience with both formal presentations and evaluations. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: February 2, 2014 * Notification: February 16, 2014 * Camera ready: February 24, 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES For detailed submission guidelines please refer to http://modularity14.inf.usi.ch/src. ======================================================================== *** POSTERS *** The Poster Event is always one of the most exciting and well attended social events of the conference. It is a perfect opportunity for every researcher to present their work to conference attendees while mingling in a social setting. Do not miss out on this opportunity to take your research to the next level, clarify problem statements, vet solutions, identify evaluation methods or, if you are a student, just prepare for your dissertation. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: March 2, 2014 * Notification: March 10, 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES For detailed submission guidelines please refer to http://modularity14.inf.usi.ch/posters. From kutsia at risc.jku.at Tue Jan 7 11:32:46 2014 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:32:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: JSC - SCSS special issue Message-ID: <52CC2C2E.5020701@risc.jku.at> [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] Deadline extension ---------------------------------------- Special issue of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION on SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION IN SOFTWARE SCIENCE ---------------------------------------- http://www.risc.jku.at/people/tkutsia/jsc-scss-2013.html IMPORTANT DATES --------- Paper submission: January 31, 2014 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2014 (extended) Publication: Second half of 2014 SCOPE -------- Symbolic Computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, representations of algebraic objects etc..). Powerful symbolic algorithms and methods have been developed during the past decades like computer algebra, theorem proving, automated reasoning, software verification, model checking, rewriting, formalization of mathematics, Groebner bases, characteristic sets, telescoping for recurrence relations, cylindric algebraic decomposition and other quantifier elimination techniques, etc. The purpose of this special issue is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science. The special issue is related to the topics of the International Symposiums on Symbolic Computation in Software Science - SCSS 2013 and SCSS 2012. It will be published by Elsevier within the Journal of Symbolic Computation. Participants of the SCSS 2013 and SCSS 2012 symposiums, as well as other authors are invited to submit contributions. EXAMPLES of TOPICS ------------------- This special issue focuses on advanced symbolic computation techniques for algorithm and software testing, property analysis, termination, verification, induction assertion generation, synthesis, systematic generation from components, equivalent transformation, library build-up. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - automated synthesis of algorithms by symbolic computation - automated generation of verification conditions of programs by algebraic methods - automated generation of inductive program properties - analysis of algorithm complexity and program termination by algebraic methods - algebraic reasoning for computational origami - efficient decision procedures for hybrid systems - synthesis of numerical algorithms by algebraic methods - symbolic model checking - business process representations and analysis by symbolic methods - symbolic preprocessing of numerical algorithms - symbolic techniques for debugging and testing - formalization and computerization of knowledge (maths, medicine, economy, etc.) - rewriting algorithms - component-based programming by algebraic methods - query languages (in particular for XML documents) - symbolic methods for the semantic web, cloud computing and big data SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------- This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor simultaneously submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Submissions will be peer-reviewed using the standard refereeing procedure of the Journal of Symbolic Computation. Authors of papers presented at the SCSS 2013 and SCSS 2012 symposiums are welcome and encouraged to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. Furthermore, submissions of papers that are in the scope of SCSS, but did not appear in SCSS 2013 and SCSS 2012 are welcome as well. Submitted papers must be in English and include a well written introduction addressing 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? - What aspect of symbolic computation helps solving the problem? - Is the contribution original? Explain why. - Is the contribution non-trivial? Explain why. All the main definitions, theorems and algorithms should be illustrated by simple but meaningful examples. SUBMISSION -------------------- Please prepare your submission in LaTeX using the JSC document format from: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/jsc.htm (link to the submission template: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/jsc/JSC_LaTex_2007_Mar_12.zip) Submission is via the EasyChair submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscscss13 GUEST EDITORS -------------------- Adel Bouhoula (Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunisia) Bruno Buchberger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------- Laura Kovacs Temur Kutsia From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue Jan 7 20:53:15 2014 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (David Van Horn) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 20:53:15 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP 2014: Call for papers Message-ID: ===================================================================== 19th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming ICFP 2014 Gothenburg, Sweden, 1-3 September 2014 http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2014 ===================================================================== Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions due: Saturday, 1 March 2014, 23:59 UTC-11 (anywhere in the world) Author response: Wednesday, 23 April, 2014 Friday, 25 April, 2014 Notification: Monday, 5 May, 2014 Final copy due: Wednesday, 11 June, 2014 Scope ~~~~~ ICFP 2014 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, and 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, concurrency, or parallelism. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Language Design: concurrency and distribution; modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; interoperability; type systems; relations to imperative, object-oriented, or logic programming * Implementation: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; memory management; multi-threading; exploiting parallel hardware; interfaces to foreign functions, services, components, or low-level machine resources * Software-Development Techniques: algorithms and data structures; design patterns; specification; verification; validation; proof assistants; debugging; testing; tracing; profiling * Foundations: formal semantics; lambda calculus; rewriting; type theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects; program verification; dependent types * Analysis and Transformation: control-flow; data-flow; abstract interpretation; partial evaluation; program calculation * Applications and Domain-Specific Languages: symbolic computing; formal-methods tools; artificial intelligence; systems programming; distributed-systems and web programming; hardware design; databases; XML processing; scientific and numerical computing; graphical user interfaces; multimedia programming; scripting; system administration; security * Education: teaching introductory programming; parallel programming; mathematical proof; algebra * Functional Pearls: elegant, instructive, and fun essays on functional programming * Experience Reports: short papers that provide evidence that functional programming really works or describe obstacles that have kept it from working If you are concerned about the appropriateness of some topic, do not hesitate to contact the program chair. Abbreviated instructions for authors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * By Saturday, 1 March 2014, 23:59 UTC-11 (anywhere in the world), submit a full paper of at most 12 pages (6 pages for an Experience Report), including bibliography and figures. The deadlines will be strictly enforced and papers exceeding the page limits will be summarily rejected. * Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. * Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication * Authors of resubmitted (but previously rejected) papers have the option to attach an annotated copy of the reviews of their previous submission(s), explaining how they have addressed these previous reviews in the present submission. If a reviewer identifies him/herself as a reviewer of this previous submission and wishes to see how his/her comments have been addressed, the program chair will communicate to this reviewer the annotated copy of his/her previous review. Otherwise, no reviewer will read the annotated copies of the previous reviews. Overall, a submission will be evaluated according to its relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. It should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. The technical content should be accessible to a broad audience. Functional Pearls and Experience Reports are separate categories of papers that need not report original research results and must be marked as such at the time of submission. Detailed guidelines on both categories are on the conference web site. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to transfer the copyright to the ACM. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference. Formatting: Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must adhere to the standard ACM conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm Submission: Submissions will be accepted on the web at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfp2014 . Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. Author response: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 0:00 UTC-11 on Wednesday, 23 April 2014, to read reviews and respond to them. ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge. Downloads through Author-Izer links are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking the definitive version of ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After your article has been published and assigned to your ACM Author Profile page, please visit http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service to learn how to create your links for fee downloads from the ACM DL. General Chair: Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University Program Chair: Manuel Chakravarty, University of New South Wales Program Committee: Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews Derek Dreyer, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Ralf Hinze, University of Oxford Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University Ken Larsen, University of Copenhagen Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba Anil Madhavapeddy, University of Cambridge Geoffrey Mainland, Drexel University David Mazi?res, Stanford University Jay McCarthy, Brigham Young University Matthew Might, University of Utah Ulf Norell, Chalmers University of Technology Tiark Rompf, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Chung-chieh Shan, Indiana University Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology Matt Sottile, Galois Don Syme, Microsoft Research Jesse Tov, Harvard University From sakai at is.nagoya-u.ac.jp Tue Jan 7 22:35:38 2014 From: sakai at is.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Masahiko Sakai) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 12:35:38 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: WPTE'14 - 1st International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Message-ID: <20140108123538.6b96dd63311e4068db96462c@is.nagoya-u.ac.jp> CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE'14) affiliated with RTA/TLCA 2014 (a FLoC 2014 workshop, FLoC is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014) 13th July 2014, Vienna, Austria http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE14 Aims and Scope ============== The aim of WPTE is to bring together the researchers working on program transformations, evaluation, and operationally based programming language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation of research in this area. Topics of interest and in the scope of WPTE are: * Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. * Program transformations for proving termination, confluence and other properties. * Correctness of evaluation strategies. * Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations. * Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation. * Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes. * Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies. * Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages. * Program inversions and program synthesis. The programming languages of interest include pure, deterministic, impure, non-deterministic, concurrent, parallel languages, and may employ programming paradigms such as functional, logical, typed, imperative, object-oriented, and higher-order. Paper Submissions and Proceedings ================================= WPTE accepts two different kinds of contributions: * Full-papers: ------------ Full-papers must represent original work and should be submitted using the EasyChair interface. We plan to publish full-papers as formal proceedings in the 'OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)' of 'Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik'. Full-papers should not exceed 12 pages using the OASIcs LaTeX-templates. * Work in progress: ----------------- There will also be a slot for presenting work in progress. An extended abstract of at most 4 pages is required to be submitted using the EasyChair interface. These contributions will not be included in the OASIcs proceedings but they will be distributed to the workshop partipicants. One author of each accepted paper or abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: 25 April 2014 * Notification of acceptance: 23 May 2014 * Deadline for camera-ready proceedings: 28 May 2014 * Workshop: 13 July 2014, Austria, Vienna Weblinks ======== * EasyChair Submission Website https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte14 * Homepage of WPTE'14 http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE14 * OASIcs Website (including LaTeX templates): http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics * Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 http://vsl2014.at Program Committee ================= Takahito Aoto (RIEC, Tohoku University) Yuki Chiba (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Fer-Jan de Vries (University of Leicester) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit_cnica de Val_ncia) Maribel Fern_ndez (King's College London) Johan Jeuring (Open Universiteit Nederland and Universiteit Utrecht) Delia Kesner (Universit_ Paris-Diderot) Sergue_ Lenglet (Universit_ de Lorraine) Elena Machkasova (University of Minnesota, Morris) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Masahiko Sakai (Nagoya University) Manfred Schmidt-Schau_ (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - chair Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) Janis Voigtl_nder (University of Bonn) Harald Zankl (University of Innsbruck) Organizers ========== Manfred Schmidt-Schau_ (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - chair Masahiko Sakai (Nagoya University) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Yuki Chiba (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) -- From A.Murawski at warwick.ac.uk Wed Jan 8 05:38:06 2014 From: A.Murawski at warwick.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:38:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL-LICS 2014 - Last Call for Papers Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS JOINT MEETING OF the Twenty-Third EACSL Annual Conference on COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL) AND the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS) July 14?18, 2014, Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/csl-lics/ http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/csl-lics14/ CSL is the annual meeting of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) intended for computer scientists whose research activities involve logic, as well as for logicians working on issues significant for computer science. LICS is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic. The organizers of these two series of meetings have chosen to join the 2014 editions of these meetings into a single event within the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) that will be part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014. Thus, in 2014, these meetings will have one program committee, one program, and one proceedings. No decision has been made to hold CSL and LICS jointly beyond 2014. We invite submissions on topics that fit the themes of both conferences. These topics include (but are not limited to): Automata theory; automated deduction; categorical models and logics; constraints programming; constructive mathematics; database theory; decision procedures; domain theory; finite model theory; formal languages; formal methods in software engineering; foundations of computability; functional and reactive synthesis; game semantics; graph games; higher-order logic; lambda and combinatory calculi; linear logic; logic programming; logics for AI; logics of programs; logical aspects of computational complexity; modal and temporal logics; model checking; program analysis; proof theory; semantics of programming languages; specification and verification of hardware, software, and complex systems; term rewriting; and type theory. Also welcome are papers describing models and logics for biological systems; concurrent, distributed, and mobile computation; quantum computation; security; and real-time, probabilistic, and hybrid systems. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words in advance of submitting the full paper. Every full paper must be submitted in the IEEE Proceedings 2-column 10-point format and may not be longer than 10 pages, including references. The full paper must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess its merits. Full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the program committee. The results reported in submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. The program chairs must be informed in advance of submission of any closely related work submitted or about to be submitted to a conference or journal. Authors of accepted papers are expected to sign copyright release forms. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present that paper at the conference. Paper selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of accepted papers. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are not allowed. DEADLINES The exact deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE). Title and Short Abstracts Due January 13, 2014 Full Papers Due January 20, 2014 Author Notification March 31, 2014 Final Versions Due for Proceedings May 15, 2014 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be possible. All submissions are made electronically via . AWARDS The Kleene Award for Best Student Paper will be given for the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. The EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award, named for Wilhelm F. Ackermann, will be presented during the joint meeting. The LICS Test-of-Time Award 2014 will be presented during the joint meeting. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Thomas A. Henzinger, IST Austria Dale Miller, INRIA & LIX PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Asperti, University of Bologna Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Andrej Bauer, IMFM Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University Krishnendu Chatterjee, IST Austria Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology Valeria DePaiva, Nuance Communications Laurent Doyen, ENS Cachan Jacques Duparc, University of Lausanne Maribel Fernandez, King's College London Herman Geuvers, Radboud University Nijmegen Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham Erich Gr?del, RWTH Aachen University Holger Hermanns, Saarland University Neil Immerman, University of Mass. Amherst Naoki Kobayashi, University of Tokyo Laura Kov?cs, Chalmers University Victor Kuncak, EPFL Salvatore La Torre, University of Salerno Rupak Majumdar, MPI-SWS Damiano Mazza, CNRS & Univerity Paris-Nord Joel Ouaknine, University of Oxford Leszek Pacholski, University of Wroclaw Nir Piterman, University of Leicester Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg R. Ramanujam, IMS Chennai James Riely, DePaul University Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, University of Torino Amr Sabry, Indiana University Tom Schrijvers, Ghent University P. S. Thiagarajan, National University of Singapore Alwen Tiu, Australian National University Victor Vianu, University of California, San Diego Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester Igor Walukiewicz, CNRS & University of Bordeaux WORKSHOP CHAIRS Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Cachan Georg Moser, University of Innsbruck LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Krishnendu Chatterjee, IST Austria Jan Otop, IST Austria PUBLICITY CHAIRS Kaustuv Chaudhuri, INRIA & LIX Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick FLoC ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE M. Baaz, S. Szeider, M. Vardi, H. Veith EACSL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE L. Aceto, M. Bezem, A. Dawar (president), R. Kahle, B. Loewe, M. Lohrey, J. Makowsky, D. Niwinski, L. Ong, S. Ronchi della Rocca, H. Veith, G. Winskel LICS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE M. Abadi, L. Aceto, R. Alur, P. Beame, M. P. Bonacina, P. Bouyer-Decitre, K. Chatterjee, A. Compagnoni, A. Dawar, N. Dershowitz, M. Fernandez, M. Grohe, O. Grumberg, T. Henzinger, P. Kolaitis, O. Kupferman, B. Larose, V. Lipovac, D. Miller, M. Mislove, G. Moser, A. Murawski, L. Ong (chair), A. Scedrov, D. Shmoys, M. Valeriote SPONSORSHIP The joint meeting is sponsored by the European Association for Computer Science Logic, the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computation, and by the ACM SIGACT in cooperation with the Association for Symbolic Logic and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. From Olivier.BOUISSOU at cea.fr Wed Jan 8 06:24:09 2014 From: Olivier.BOUISSOU at cea.fr (BOUISSOU Olivier 209517) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 11:24:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 7th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification Message-ID: <5E1AB57B-1E03-44AF-84CE-EB1956EFADFC@cea.fr> [Deadline for paper submission: March 20th 2014] Apologies for multiple copies. ??? CALL FOR PAPERS ************** ** NSV 2014 ** ************** 7th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification July 17-18, 2014 A Sattelite Workshop of Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 Vienna, Austria Web Page: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~bouissou/NSV14 Important Dates =============== Submissions deadline: March 20th 2014. Notification: May 4th 2014. Final version: May 25th 2014. Workshop: July 17th-18th 2014. Novelty of this edition ======================= The 2014 edition of NSV will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Serie (ENTCS). In this new NSV edition, we encourage publications about the numerical issues in new domains, in particular computational finance and biological systems: problems, consequences and state-of-the-art approaches. Description of the Workshop =========================== Numerical computations are ubiquitous in digital systems: supervision, prediction, simulation and signal processing rely heavily on numerical calculus to achieve desired goals. Verification of numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from the rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to precisely represent local behaviors of each component. In fact, in numerical algorithms, coarse abstractions are unlikely to succeed essentially because of the above mentioned issue. The implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of approximation: the use of finite representations of infinite precision numbers usually lack basic arithmetic properties such as commutativity and associativity. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical techniques that would allow reasoning about programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the current development and the future prospects for such techniques. Topics =============== The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Models and abstraction techniques - Specifications of correctness for numerical programs - Formal specification and verification of numerical programs - Quality of finite precision implementations - Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models - Numerical properties of control software - Hybrid systems verification - Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications - Validation for scientific computing programs - Optimality of program behavior - Trade-offs between quality of service and resource (for example energy) consumption in programs - Benchmarks and tools for numerical software verification - Numerical issues in computational finance Submission information ====================== We solicit regular and short papers. Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/?conf=nsv14 Regular papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers 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. Regular paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in ENTCS style, including bibliography and well-marked appendices: http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html Program committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Short papers are also welcomed, they should present tools, benchmarks, case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages. Regular papers will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science serie ENTCS), all accepted (regular and short) papers will also be included in the Vienna Summer of Logic USB-stick distributed to all participants to the VSL. Organizers ========== Olivier Bouissou, CEA, LIST Khalil Ghorbal, Carnegie Mellon University All questions about the workshop can be addressed to them via email: nsv2014 at easychair.org Program Committee ================== - Sylvie Boldo Inria - Olivier Bouissou CEA, LIST - Jyotirmoy Deshmukh Toyota Technical Center - Khalil Ghorbal Carnegie Mellon University - Eric Goubault CEA, LIST - Sylvie Putot CEA, LIST - Sriram Sankaranarayanan Boulder University From alexandra.silva at gmail.com Wed Jan 8 17:30:26 2014 From: alexandra.silva at gmail.com (Alexandra Silva) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:30:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2014: deadline extension 15 Jan 2014 Message-ID: [ - Apologies for multiple copies -] Call for Papers 12th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'14) 5 - 6 April 2014, Grenoble, France http://www.coalg.org/cmcs14 NEW DEADLINE: 15 January 2014! Objectives and scope ------------------- Established in 1998, the CMCS workshops aim to bring together researchers with a common interest in the theory of coalgebras, their logics, and their applications. As the workshop series strives to maintain breadth in its scope, areas of interest include neighbouring fields as well. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - The theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical approaches) - Coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for programming languages, dynamical systems, term rewriting, etc.) - Coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming - Model checking, theorem proving and deductive verification using coalgebraic techniques - Coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing - Proof principles and (coinductive) definitions for coalgebras (e.g. with bisimulations or invariants) - Coalgebras and algebras - Coalgebraic specification and verification - Coalgebras and (modal) logic - Coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems) - Coalgebra in quantum computing - Coalgebra and game theory - Tools exploiting colgebraic techniques Venue and event --------------- CMCS'14 will be held in Grenoble, France, co-located with ETAPS 2014 on 5 - 6 April 2014. Important dates --------------- Submission regular papers 15 January 2014 (strict) Notification regular papers 14 February 2014 Camera-ready copy 21 February 2014 Submission short contributions 23 February 2014 (strict) Notification short contributions 9 March 2014 Keynote Speaker ---------------- Davide Sangiorgi, Inria / University of Bologna, IT Invited speakers ---------------- Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, JP Marina Lenisa, University of Udine, IT Programme committee ------------------- Andreas Abel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, DE Davide Ancona, University of Genova, IT Adriana Balan, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO Marta Bilkova, Charles University, CZ Filippo Bonchi, LIP ENS-Lyon, FR Marcello Bonsangue (chair), Leiden University, NL Joerg Endrullis, Free University of Amsterdam, NL Remy Haemmerle, University Politecnica de Madrid, SP Bart Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, US Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, PL Pierre Lescanne, ENS Lyon, FR Stefan Milius, University of Erlangen-Nurenberg, DE Rob Myers, Technical University of Braunschweig, DE Dirk Pattinson, Australian National University, AU Daniela Petrisan, University of Leicester, UK Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Katsuhiko Sano, JAIST, Nomi, JP Monika Seisenberger, Swansea University, UK Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, AT Publicity chair --------------- Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL PC chair -------- Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, NL Steering committee ------------------ Jiri Adamek, Technical University of Braunschweig, DE Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, NL Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, UK H. Peter Gumm (chair), University of Marburg, DE Bart Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester, UK Marina Lenisa, University of Udine, IT Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, IT Larry Moss, Indiana University, US Dirk Pattinson, Australian National University, AU John Power, University of Bath, UK Horst Reichel, Technical University of Dresden, DE Jan Rutten, CWI and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Lutz Schroeder, University of Erlangen-Nurenberg, DE Submission guidelines --------------------- We solicit two types of contributions: regular papers and short contributions. Regular papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They should not exceed 20 pages in length in Springer LNCS style. Short contributions may describe work in progress, or summarise work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere. They should be no more than two pages. Regular papers and short contributions should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcs2014. The proceedings of CMCS 2014 will include all accepted regular papers and will be published post-conference as a Springer volume in the IFIP-LNCS series. Accepted short contributions will be bundled in a technical report. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From t.kitamura at aist.go.jp Wed Jan 8 21:57:16 2014 From: t.kitamura at aist.go.jp (Takashi KITAMURA) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:57:16 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] A postdoc/programmer position at AIST, Amagasaki Japan Message-ID: We are looking for one postdoc researcher or programmer at Research Institute for Secure Systems (RISEC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. The position will be for research related combinatorial testing, in particular, automatic generation of test sets from the formal description of test requirements. The research will be programming-intensive, so the candidates must have good programming skills. In particular, good knowledge of data structure and algorithm are required. Also, the candidates must have general interest in software engineering. On the other hand, speaking Japanese is *not* required. The first term is until the end of the fiscal year, but the project itself is until November 2016, so that the extension is possible based on the performance. The position is available immediately. Interested candidates should apply by sending email with the application materials to risec-jobs-ml at aist.go.jp. ========================================================= Post-doc or programmer (employed as technical staff) (software testing) Outline: * Test generation using model-based testing and constraint solving. * Develop algorithms on graph-based data structures. * Experience with Java, and/or C, Scala, Haskell needed. * Strong know-how in software analysis and algorithms. * Annual contract but can be extended for up to 3 years. * Start date on Feb. 1 2014 or later. * Office location is in Amagasaki (15 min away from Osaka by local trains) Content of work: * Develop the software of a next-generation test case generator. * Integrate the tool with existing components and products. * The position is open to programmer (employed as technical staff) or post-doc. * For a post-doc, publications about the tool and case studies are also a goal of the work. The Ph.D. degree must have been obtained between 0 and 7 years prior to starting the position. * Details on the web page given in Japanese can be given in English on request. * More information of programmer (employed as technical staff), please refer the information of "software engineer" in accompanying document. Research field: General field/Informatics Qualifications: * Experience with Java, and/or C, Scala, Haskell needed (ideally at least two). * Strong know-how in software analysis and algorithms. * Post-doc: Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. * Post-doc: Ph.D. degree obtained at most 7 years prior to start date. Treatment: * Initial contract: immediately - 2015-03-31 (can be extended). * Working hours: Basically 8:30 - 17:15 including a one-hour lunch break, flexible hours possible. Work days: Mon - Fri excl. public holidays and end/start of the calendar year. * Paid holidays (annual leave) based on AIST rules. * Social security/insurance benefits included * Salary based on experience. (e.g. post-doc: from 2200 JPY/hour) Application materials: 1. CV 2. Copy of Ph.D. certificate (for post-doc position) 3. Work history 4. Publication list (for post-doc) 5. Cover letter (one page) 6. Apply by sending email with the materials to risec-jobs-ml at aist.go.jp. -- Takashi KITAMURA Ph.D. t.kitamura at aist.go.jp http://staff.aist.go.jp/t.kitamura/ Research Institute for Secure Systems (RISEC) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Nakoji 3-11-46, Amagasaki, Hyogo 661-0974, Japan Tel: +81-6-6494-8054 Fax: +81-6-6494-8073 Internal Tel: *33-274-71902 From paolini at di.unito.it Thu Jan 9 05:15:01 2014 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca Paolini) Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:15:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Joint 25th RTA & 12th TLCA: Final CALL FOR PAPERS In-Reply-To: <52CACE2F.1020300@di.unito.it> References: <52723B7E.8050606@di.unito.it> <52CACE2F.1020300@di.unito.it> Message-ID: <52CE76A5.4090307@di.unito.it> Joint 25th International Conference on REWRITING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS and 12th International Conference on TYPED LAMBDA CALCULI AND APPLICATIONS July 14?17, 2014, Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/rta-tlca ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: January 28, 2014 Paper submission: February 4, 2014 Notification: April 9, 2014 Final version: April 29, 2014 Rebuttal period: March 19?21, 2014 ====================================== More info at: https://who.rocq.inria.fr/Gilles.Dowek/rta-tlca.html SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------- Submissions presenting original work are expected at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtatlca2014. They should be at most 15 pages (10 for system descriptions) and follow http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The proceedings will be published in the LNCS Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science series of Springer. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. Topics ------ This joint RTA and TLCA conference is the major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of rewriting and typed lambda-calculi. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Foundations: string rewriting; term rewriting; graph rewriting; lambdacalculi; higher-order rewriting; binding techniques; constrained rewriting and deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting; stochastic rewriting; net rewriting; Petri nets; higher-dimensional rewriting; process calculi; explicit substitution; tree automata; confluence; termination; complexity; modularity. - Algorithmic aspects and implementation: strategies; matching; unification; anti-unification; narrowing; constraint solving; theorem proving; completion techniques; implementation techniques; parallel execution; certification of rewriting properties; abstract machines; automated (non)termination and confluence provers; automated complexity analysis; SMT solving; system descriptions. - Logic: proof theory; natural deduction; sequent calculi; proof assistants; cut elimination and normalization; propositions as types; linear logic and proof nets; equational logic; rewriting logic; rewriting calculi; proof checking; reasoning about programming languages and logics; homotopy type theory; type-theoretic aspects of complexity; implicit computational complexity. - Types: dependent types; polymorphism; intersection types and related approaches; subtyping; type inference and type checking; types in databases. - Semantics: denotational semantics; operational semantics; game semantics; realisability; domain theory; categorical models; universal algebra. - Programming: foundational aspects of functional programming, object oriented programming, and other programming paradigms; flow analysis of higher-type computation; program equivalence; program transformation; program optimization; program refactoring; rewriting models of programs; rule-based (functional and logic) programming; control operators; symbolic and algebraic computation; system synthesis and verification; XML queries and transformations; types in program analysis and verification; analysis of cryptographic protocols; systems biology; linguistics. Programme Committee -------------------- Andreas Abel (Gothenburg) Beniamino Accattoli (Bologna) Zena Ariola (Oregon) Steffen van Bakel (Imperial College) Pierre Clairambault (CNRS) Ugo Dal Lago (Bologna) Gilles Dowek (Inria) Santiago Escobar (Valencia) Amy Felty (Ottawa) Maribel Fernandez (King?s college) Adria Gascon (SRI International) Jeroen Ketema (Imperial College) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson) Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto) Olivier Hermant (MINES ParisTech) Paul-Andre Mellies (CNRS) Alexandre Miquel (UdelaR) Cesar Munoz (NASA) Vivek Nigam (Para?ba) Luke Ong (Oxford) Brigitte Pientka (McGill) Femke van Raamsdonk (Amsterdam) Jakob Rehof (Dortmund) David Sabel (Frankfurt) Gernot Salzer (Wien) Sylvain Salvati (Inria) Aleksy Schubert (Warszawa) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Paula Severi (Leicester) Christian Sternagel (JAIST) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) Mateu Villaret (Girona) Fer-Jan de Vries (Leicester) Harald Zankl (Innsbruck) Programme Chair --------------- Gilles Dowek Conference Chair ---------------- Gernot Salzer =============================================================== Luca Paolini, Sophie Tison RTA & TLCA publicity chairs From Francois.Fages at inria.fr Thu Jan 9 11:59:54 2014 From: Francois.Fages at inria.fr (Francois Fages) Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:59:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Announcement: FMMB 2014 Message-ID: <52CED58A.1050806@inria.fr> FMMB 2014 - 1st INTL. CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN MACRO-BIOLOGY Call for Papers September 22-24, 2014 Noumea, New Caledonia http://fmmb2014.sciencesconf.org/ * AIMS AND SCOPE The purpose of FMMB is to bring together researchers, developers, and students in theoretical computer science, applied mathematics, mathematical and computational biology, interested in studying the application of formal methods to the construction and analysis of models describing biological processes at both micro and macro levels. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - representation and analysis of biological systems in formal systems such as: o ordinary and partial differential equation systems, o discrete event systems, infinite state systems, o hybrid discrete-continuous systems, hybrid automata, o cellular automata, multi-agent systems, o stochastic processes, stochastic games, o statistical physics models, o process algebras, process calculi, o rewriting systems, graph grammars, - coupling models and data, inference of models from data, - computability and complexity issues, - modelling and analysis tools, case studies. Application areas particularly solicited include: - environmental biology, ecology, marine science, - agriculture and forestry, - developmental biology, population biology, - epidemiology, medicine, - systems biology, synthetic biology. * KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Pieter Collins, Maastricht University, Netherlands, Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, Radu Grosu, Vienna Technical University, Austria, Steffen Klamt, Max Planck Institute Magdeburg, Germany, Pietro Lio', Cambridge University, UK, H?l?ne Morlon, Ecole Polytechnique and CNRS, France. * PC CO-CHAIRS Fran?ois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France, Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy. * LOCAL CHAIR Teodor Knapik, University of New Caledonia. * IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 25 Author notification: June 4 Camera-ready copy due: June 25 * SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Regular submissions of 12-20 pages or short submissions of 2 pages in LNCS style should be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmmb2014 . All accepted papers will be published in a book in the LNBI series of Springer-Verlag. Authors of the most significant contributions will be invited to submit extended versions for a journal special issue. From smaragd at di.uoa.gr Thu Jan 9 15:40:39 2014 From: smaragd at di.uoa.gr (Yannis Smaragdakis) Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:40:39 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position - Athens Message-ID: <52CF0947.1000203@di.uoa.gr> [This is an informal announcement, with a formal call for applications possibly to follow in the future.] I am seeking a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Athens, for a program generation/language design project, but also with significant leeway for other pursuits, as long as our interests align. The position is available immediately (initially for 1.5 years but with the possibility of longer-term funding). The gross salary is at slightly over 28Keuros/yr. 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ETAPS 2014 is the seventeenth event in the series. -- ETAPS WORKSHOPS -- 23 satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences: From Programs to Systems - The Systems Perspective in Computing 2nd Workshop on Advances in Systems of Systems (AiSoS) 1st Cassting Workshop (Cassting) 12th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS) 5th International workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity (DICE) 11th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures (FESCA) 1st Workshop on Formal Integrated Development (F-IDE) Games for Logic and Programming Languages IX (GALOP) 3rd Workshop on GRAPH Inspection and Traversal Engineering (GRAPHITE) International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec) 13th International Workshop on Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques (GT-VMT) 4th Workshop on Hybrid Autonomous Systems (HAS) 2nd Workshop on Hot issues in Security Principles and Trust (Hot-Spot) 9th Workshop on Model-Based Testing (MBT) MEALS Workshop 5th Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming (MSFP) 6th Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES) 12th Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages (QAPL) Workshop on Reconciling Performance with Predictability (RePP) 2nd International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning (SR) 1st International Workshop on Synthesis of Continuous Parameters (SynCop) 3rd Workshop on Validation Strategies for Software Evolution (VSSE) 10th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications (WRLA) Please consult ETAPS Website at http://www.etaps.org/2014/workshops to get more details about the workshops. -- HOST CITY -- Located in the southeastern part of France, Grenoble is considered as the capital of the Alps. Grenoble is surrounded by nature and high mountains: down the Alps, Grenoble is the meeting point of two important rivers, Drac and Isere. Grenoble has important historical and gastronomic heritages. Leisure activities in breathtaking nature are easily organizable and within short-distance. Grenoble is also a major scientific center in Europe dedicated to high-tech technologies, e.g., nano, micro, bio, and information technologies. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- The event is organized by Universite Joseph Fourier. Located at the heart of the Alps, in outstanding scientific and natural surroundings, the Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble is a leading University of Science, Technology and Health. -- ORGANIZERS * General chair: Saddek Bensalem * Conferences chair: Yassine Lakhnech * Workshops chair: Axel Legay * Publicity chair: Ylies Falcone * Finance chair: Nicolas Halbwachs * Web site chair: Marius Bozga -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chair at etaps2014.satellites at imag.fr. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elena.giachino at unibo.it Fri Jan 10 03:32:03 2014 From: elena.giachino at unibo.it (Elena Giachino) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:32:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Joint iFM 2014 & FACS 2014: Extended Deadline For Workshop Proposals Message-ID: ********************************************************************************* 11th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods, iFM 2014 http://ifm2014.cs.unibo.it 11th International Symposium on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS 2014 http://facs2014.cs.unibo.it/ September 9 - 12, 2014 - Bertinoro, Italy ********************************************************************************* *NEW DEADLINE: January 20, 2014* CALL FOR AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be affiliated to iFM 2014 and FACS 2014, on topics related to the conferences main subjects. iFM 2014 is concerned with how the application of formal methods may involve modeling different aspects of a system which are best expressed using different formalisms. Correspondingly, different analysis techniques may be used to examine different system views, different kinds of properties, or simply in order to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding modeling and analysis, and covering all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice. FACS 2014 is concerned with how formal methods can be used to make component-based development fit for the new architectures of today and the systems that are now pervading the socio-economic world. Formal methods have provided foundations for component-based software through research on mathematical models for components, composition and adaptation, and rigorous approaches to verification, deployment, testing, and certification. Whilst those avenues still need to be further explored, time is also ripe to bring new techniques to the fore, such as those based on stochastic models and simulation. The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application. The workshops take place on Tuesday, Sept 9th and Friday, Sept 12th, 2014. Proposals should include: * The name and the preferred date of the proposed workshop (Sept. 9th or 12th). FACS affiliated workshops are expected to be held on the 9th and iFM affiliated workshop on the 12th. * A short description of the workshop. * If applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, and attendance. * The expected number of participants. * The name and short CV of the organizer(s). * The publication plan (only invited speakers, no published proceedings, pre-/post-proceedings published with EPTCS/ENTCS/...). The iFM+FACS organization will provide registration and organizational support for the workshops (including link from the conferences web sites, setup of meeting space, on-line and on-site registration). Registration fees will be used to cover lunches, coffee breaks and organizational expenses and must be paid by all workshop participants (one free registration can be offered for an invited speaker). The scientific responsibility of organizing a workshop goes to the workshop organizers, including: * Workshop publicity (possibly including call for papers, submission and review process). * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the iFM+FACS workshop chair. ********************************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Submission of workshop proposals: by January 20, 2014 Notification: by January 27, 2014 ********************************************************************************* SUBMISSION VIA E-MAIL TO: Elena Giachino (elena.giachino at unibo.it) - Workshop chair Gianluigi Zavattaro (gianluigi.zavattaro at unibo.it) - General chair From pangjun at gmail.com Fri Jan 10 03:48:25 2014 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:48:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSS workshop 2014 (co-located with FM 2014 in Singapore) -- 2nd call for papers Message-ID: ================================================== 3rd International Workshop on Engineering Safety and Security Systems May 12, 2014, Singapore Co-located with FM 2014 in Singapore, May 12-26, 2014 More information: http://pat.sce.ntu.edu.sg/esss14/ =================================================== Important dates ----------------- * February 10th, 2014: Submission deadline * March 17th, 2014: Notification of acceptance/rejection * May 12th, 2014: Workshop Introduction of the Workshop ----------------- The International Workshop on Engineering Safety and Security Systems (ESSS) aims at contributing to the challenge of constructing reliable and secure systems. The workshop covers areas such as formal specification, (extended) type checking, model checking, program analysis/transformation, model-based testing and model-driven software construction. The workshop will bring together researchers and industry R&D expertise together to exchange their knowledge, discuss their research findings, and explore potential collaborations. Theme of the Workshop ----------------- The main theme of the workshop is methods and techniques for constructing large reliable and secure systems. The goal of the workshop is to establish a platform for the exchange of ideas, discussion, cross-fertilization, inspiration, co-operation, and dissemination. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: -- methods, techniques and tools for system safety and security -- methods, techniques and tools for analysis, certification, and debugging of complex safety and security systems -- model-based and verification-based testing -- emerging application domains such as cloud computing and cyber-physical systems -- case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods for analyzing safety and security systems Submissions guidelines ----------------- Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in made via the Easychair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esss2014. We invite two types of submissions: --Regular papers (up to 15 pages) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. --Short papers (up to 6 pages) describing work in progress or less mature results. Case studies and tool papers are welcome as well. All submissions must be prepared in LATEX using the EPTCS macro package. The final versions of accepted regular and short papers will be published as a volume of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Furthermore, authors of a selection of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their articles to a special issue of a high-quality journal, after the workshop. Publication of accepted articles requires the commitment of one of the authors to register for the workshop and present the paper. General chair ----------------- Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program chairs ----------------- Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program committee ----------------- Etienne Andre, Universite Paris 13, France Toalue Chen, Middelsex University, UK Marieke Huisma, University of Twente, The Netherlands Weiqiang Kong, Kyushu University, Japan Keqin Li, SAP Research, France Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhiming Liu, UNU/IIST Macao, China Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Geguang Pu, East China Normal University, China Mohammad Torabi Dashti, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology Yoriyuki Yamagata, AIST, Japan From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Fri Jan 10 10:50:58 2014 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:50:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First call-for-papers - Linearity 2014 Message-ID: <4FB927C8-6110-44B4-9729-DD9B9BF59CF5@dcc.fc.up.pt> [We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message] ============================================================================== Call for Papers Third International Workshop on Linearity http://vsl2014.at/linearity/ July 13, 2014 Vienna, Austria An associated event of the Joint meeting of the 23rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the 29th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic. ============================================================================== Aim and Scope ------------- Ever since the birth of Girard's linear logic, there has been a stream of research where linearity is a key issue, covering both theoretical topics and applications to several areas of Computer Science, such as work on proof technology, complexity classes and more recently quantum computation, program analysis, expressive operational semantics, linear programming languages, and techniques for program transformation, update analysis and efficient implementation. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are currently developing theory and applications of linear calculi, to foster their interaction and provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. Linearity is a key feature in both theoretical and practical approaches to computer science, and the goal of this workshop is to present work exploring linearity both in theory and practice. Topics of interest include new results that make central use of linearity, ranging from foundational work to applications in any field, are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Specifically, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * sub-linear logics * linear term calculi * linear type systems * linear proof-theory * linear programming languages * applications to concurrency * interaction-based systems * verification of linear systems * quantum models of computation * biological and chemical models of computation Important Dates --------------- * April 13, 2014: Submission deadline * May 10, 2014: Author notification * May 28, 2014: Deadline for final versions of accepted papers * July 13, 2014: Workshop Submission and Publication -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (8 pages max) describing original ideas and recent results not published nor submitted elsewhere, or a 5-page abstract presenting relevant work that has been or will be published elsewhere, or work in progress. Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. Papers should be written in English, and submitted in PostScript or PDF format, using the EPTCS style files. Submission is through the Easychair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=linearity2014 After the workshop, authors of the extended abstracts will be invited to submit a longe version of their work (typically a 15-pages paper) for publication in an electronic journal such as EPTCS. These submission will undergo a second round of referring. Furthermore, we envision publication of a special issue of a journal after the event. Programme Committee ------------------- * Sandra Alves (chair) * Iliano Cervesato (chair) * Kaustuv Chaudhuri * Maribel Fern?ndez * M?rio Florido * Simon Gay * Simone Martini * Luca Paolini * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca * Carsten Schuermann * Robert Simmons * Vasco Vasconcelos Contact ------- Sandra Alves: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Iliano Cervesato: iliano at cmu.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Despite these differences, such theories may be unified in a way which greatly facilitates their study and comparison. Moreover, such a unification offers a means of combining different languages describing various facets and artifacts of software development in a seamless, logically consistent way. Hoare and He's Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant such unification approaches. Based on their pioneering work, the aims of the UTP Symposium series are to reaffirm the significance of the ongoing UTP project and to stimulate efforts to advance. The Symposium provides a focus for the sharing of results by those already actively contributing, and raises awareness of the benefits of such unifying theoretical frameworks among the wider computer science and software engineering communities. To this end the Symposium welcomes contributions on all the themes that can be related to the Unifying Theories of Programming. SUBMISSIONS Papers may be up to 20 pages in length and should be prepared using LaTeX in Springer LNCS paper format. Submissions should be made through the UTP 2014 EasyChair site; instructions are at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014 PUBLICATION Symposium post-proceedings will appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in Computer Science, as in past editions of the Symposium. (To be confirmed.) DATES Abstract due: January 17, 2014 Full paper due: January 24, 2014 Notification: March 7, 2014 Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: April 11, 2014 Symposium: May 12-13, 2014 CHAIR David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology) ORGANISATION CHAIR Jin Song DONG (National University of Singapore) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Bernhard K. Aichernig (Graz University of Technology) Hugh Anderson (National University of Singapore) Jonathan P. Bowen (Birmingham City University) Ana Cavalcanti (University of York) Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College Dublin) Leo Freitas (Newcastle University) Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford) Lindsay Groves (Victoria University of Wellington) Walter Guttmann (University of Canterbury) Ian Hayes (University of Queensland) Jeremy Jacob (University of York) Zhiming Liu (Birmingham City University) David Naumann, chair (Stevens Institute of Technology) Marcel Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University) Georg Struth (University of Sheffield) Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Meng Sun (Peking University) Burkhart Wolff (University of Paris-Sud) Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University) JOINT EVENT FM 2014, the 19th International Symposium on Formal Methods http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/ From alexandra.silva at gmail.com Sat Jan 11 11:23:04 2014 From: alexandra.silva at gmail.com (Alexandra Silva) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:23:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS XXX: First Call for Papers Message-ID: This is the First Call for Papers for MFPS XXX. Details of the meeting are given below. MFPS XXX http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Conferences/MFPS30/ Thirtieth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics Cornell University Ithaca, NY USA 12 - 15 June 2014 The Thirtieth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics will take place on the campus of the Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA from June 12 through June 15, 2014. MFPS conferences are devoted to those areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation, in general, and to the semantics of programming languages, in particular. The series has particularly stressed providing a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas about problems of common interest. As the series also strives to maintain breadth in its scope, the conference strongly encourages participation by researchers in neighboring areas. TOPICS include, but are not limited to, the following: biocomputation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example. INVITED SPEAKERS: Nick Benton, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Andy Gordon, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Elham Kashefi, University of Edinburgh, UK Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Canada Alexandra Silva, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands SPECIAL SESSIONS: There will be two special sessions at the meeting, each associated with one of the plenary talks: * Probabilistic computing, organized by Andy Gordon * Quantum Computing, organized by Elham Kashefi Additional special sessions also may be organized. There also will be a series of TUTORIAL LECTURES during the meeting - the topic and list of speakers are still being arranged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Program Committee for MFPS XXX is being co-chaired by Bart Jacobs, Alexandra Silva and Sam Staton (Radboud University). The other members of the PC are: Steve Awodey, CMU, USA Andrej Bauer, Ljubljana, Slovenia Steve Brookes, CMU, USA Pierre Clairambault, ENS Lyon, FR Martin Escardo, Birmingham UK Fabio Gadducci, Pisa IT Ichiro Hasuo, Tokyo JP Martin Hofmann, LMU Muenchen DE Achim Jung, Birmingham UK Shin-Ya Katsumata, Kyoto JP Naoki Kobayashi, Tokyo JP Dexter Kozen, Cornell USA Conor McBride, Strathclyde UK Guy McCusker, Bath UK Annabelle McIver, Macquarie AU Catherine Meadows, NRL USA Stefan Milius, Erlangen-Nuernberg DE Michael Mislove, Tulane USA Rasmus Ejlers M?gelberg, ITU Copenhagen DK Joel Ouaknine, Oxford UK Prakash Panangaden, McGill CA Daniela Petrisan, Leicester UK Alex Simpson, Edinburgh UK Jamie Vicary, Oxford UK Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College UK IMPORTANT DATES: - 11 April 2014 Paper submission deadline - 9 May 2014 Notification to authors - 19 May 2014 Preliminary proceedings version due SUBMISSIONS should be prepared using ENTCS Macros, available from http://www.entcs.org Submissions should be in the form of a PDF file not exceeding 15 pages in length. 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URL: From grlmc at urv.cat Sun Jan 12 06:25:10 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:25:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SSTiC 2014: January 18, 2nd registration deadline Message-ID: <9AE7323E38AA454395A679B547D617A1@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- January 18, 2nd registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Stephen Brewster (U Glasgow), [introductory] Multimodal Human-computer Interaction Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili From organizers at cyphy.org Sun Jan 12 11:13:09 2014 From: organizers at cyphy.org (CyPhy Organizers) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:13:09 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP - CyPhy 2014 - Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems Message-ID: 4th ACM Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'14) April 14, 2014, Berlin Germany In Cooperation with ACM SIGBED In Collocation with CPSWeek 2014 http://www.cyphy.org/ Cyber physical systems (CPS) combine computing and networking power with physical components. They enable innovation in a wide range of domains including robotics; smart homes, vehicles, and buildings; medical implants; and future-generation sensor networks. CyPhy'14 brings together researchers and practitioners working on modeling, simulation, and evaluation of CPS, based on a broad interpretation of these areas, to collect and exchange expertise from a diverse set of disciplines. The workshop places particular focus is on techniques and components to enable and support virtual prototyping and testing. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions: 2014-01-31 Notifications: 2014-02-28 Camera-Ready: 2014-03-21 TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: autonomous systems, case studies, communications, cooperative systems, control theory, embedded software, ethics, foundations, game theory, healthcare and medical applications, human factors, human-in-the-loop issues, hybrid automata and systems, industrial applications, intelligent and smart systems, mechatronics, methodology, mobility, model validation, modeling, models of computation, power and energy management, privacy, robotics, security, simulation, co-simulation, stochastic methods, tools, transportation and aerospace systems, transportation systems, uncertainty methods, validated numerics, verification, and virtual prototyping. PROCEEDINGS will be published with the ACM, and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. SUBMISSIONS can be in any one of several categories, including 1) regular research paper, 2) work in progress, 3) tutorial paper, 4) tool demonstration, 5) position paper, and 6) extended abstract. Regular research papers will be judged for technical novelty and scientific merit. Any previous publication in any form must be explicitly identified and cited on the first page of the submission. Papers in all other categories will be judged on clarity, accessibility, and suitability for a high quality presentation and discussion at the workshop. Except for regular research papers, the paper category must be indicated at the end of the title in parenthesis at the time of the initial submission and in the final camera ready version. Initial and camera-ready submission should be in an approved ACM conference style: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates With the exception of extended abstracts, papers can be up to four pages long. Extended abstracts must be one page long. All accepted papers will receive the same amount of time for presentation and discussion at the workshop. Submissions should be made online using the EasyChair system through the following page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dcyphy2014 ORGANIZATION Program Committee: Stanley Bak, Air Force Research Lab Christian Berger, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg David Broman, UC Berkeley Manuela Bujorianu, University of Warwick Alexandre Chapoutot, ENSTA ParisTech Alexandre Donz=E9, UC Berkeley Atiyah Elsheikh, Austrian Institute of Technology Claus F=FChrer, Lund University Holger Giese, University of Potsdam Jeff Gray, University of Alabama Daisuke Ishii, National Institute of Informatics Gabor Karasai, Vanderbilt University Heinz Koeppl, ETH Zurich Ralf L=E4mmel (Program Co-Chair), University of Koblenz-Landau Zhiyun Lin, Zhejiang University Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University Bud Mishra, New York University Ahmed Oteafy, Alfaisal University Enrico Pagello, University of Padua Roland Philippsen, Halmstad University Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Maytham Safar, Kuwait University Christian Schlegel, University of Applied Sciences Ulrik Schultz, University of Southern Denmark Sibylle Schupp, Hamburg University of Technology Serge Stinckwich, University of Caen-Lower Normandy Domitilla Del Vecchio, MIT Walid Taha (Program Co-Chair), Halmstad University and Rice University Publicity Chairs: Roland Philippsen, Halmstad University Abd-Elhamid Taha, Al-Faisal University Secretary: Atiyah Elsheikh, Austrian Institute of Technology Advisory Committee: Manfred Broy, Technische Universit=E4t M=FCnchen Karl Iagnemma, MIT Karl Henrik Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania Pieter Mosterman, McGill University Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University -- Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems http://cyphy.org/ From viktor at mpi-sws.org Sun Jan 12 14:18:46 2014 From: viktor at mpi-sws.org (Viktor Vafeiadis) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:18:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2014: Final call for participation Message-ID: <15D0B6CC-94B8-4F54-9F93-ABB058CE66CE@mpi-sws.org> POPL 2014: 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages San Diego, USA January 22-24, 2014 http://popl.mpi-sws.org/2014/ *** Reminder: POPL is starting in one week! *** Colocated events: - VMCAI 2014: Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (19-21 January) - PADL 2014: Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (20-21 January) - PEPM 2014: Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (20-21 January) - POPL Tutorials (20 January) - PLMW 2014: Programming Language Mentoring Workshop (21 January) - PLPV 2014: Programming Languages meets Program Verification (21 January) - DCP 2014: Data-Centric Programming (25 January) - OBT 2014: Off The Beaten Track (25 January) - PiP 2014: Principles in Practice (25 January) - PPREW 2014: Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (25 January) News: - The POPL proceedings are available online. - The schedule for the POPL tutorials on Monday 20 January is available: http://popl.mpi-sws.org/2014/tutorials2.html From danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch Sun Jan 12 14:57:48 2014 From: danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch (danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:57:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GIBSE 2014 - Call for Papers Message-ID: The Second International Workshop on Green In Software Engineering, Green By Software Engineering (GIBSE) http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/GIBSE/ Co-located with MODULARITY '14, Lugano, Switzerland April 22-26, 2014 C A L L F O R P A P E R S Deadline Submission: January 26, 2014 Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2014 Camera-ready version: February 24, 2014 MOTIVATION The increasing amount of energy consumption in today's IT solutions significantly contributes to green house gas emissions. "Green Computing" or "Green IT" emphasizes the need for reducing the environmental impacts of IT solutions by reducing their energy consumption and, consequently, their green house gas emissions. Among others, green computing can be achieved in software and by software. While greening by software aims at saving energy (or other resources) by the help of software, greening in software aims at reducing the environmental impact caused by the software itself. The GIBSE workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers to share their experience in achieving the green-ness in and by software. WORKSHOP FORMAT The workshop participants will be selected based on their experience and ideas related to this new and emerging field. You are invited to apply for attendance by sending a full-paper (5 pages), work-in-progress paper (3 pages), tool demonstration paper (3 pages) or a position paper (3 pages) in PDF. The paper must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN formatting guidelines: http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 PC members. The authors will be notified about acceptance before the AOSD 2014 early registration deadline. A primary deliverable of the workshop is a report that clearly outlines (1) the research issues and challenges in terms of specific research problems in the area, and (2) a synopsis of existing solutions that target some well-defined aspect of greenness in or by software. Potential attendees are strongly encouraged to submit position papers that clearly identify research issues and challenges, present techniques that address well-defined problems in the area, and are supported by small demos. GOALS With this workshop, we intend to raise the interest in the topic and bring together junior and senior researchers working in this field. It is our intention to receive submissions from researchers new to the field as well as experienced researchers and practitioners. For the former, we want to offer a platform for discussing their ideas and receiving feedback on them. This will be supported by question and answer sessions as well as by group discussions. The planned workshop agenda interleaves presentations of accepted papers, lightning talks about green computing by participants without accepted papers, and discussions. To stimulate participants we intend to invite at least one expert in the field for a keynote talk. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest include, but not limited to: - Green-ness in software engineering: - Methods and techniques to elicit and model green-ness requirements - Methods and techniques to identify and analyze the trade-offs among the green-ness requirements themselves and other quality attributes - Methods and techniques to model and analyze the green-ness attributes of software architecture and their trade-offs - Dedicated programming infrastructures, component models, compilers, and linguistic constructs to achieve green-ness in the implementations - Methods and techniques to represent green-ness requirements in test scenarios - Method and techniques to test the green-ness of software - Crosscutting nature of green-ness attributes and the aspect-oriented techniques to cope with it - Green-ness by software engineering: - Design of self-energy-adaptive system architectures - Estimating and measuring the energy-consumption of system at design and runtime - Design and run-time energy models for self-energy-adaptive system - Multi-objective optimization of energy and other quality attributes ORGANIZERS Somayeh Malakuti (main contact), TU Dresden, Germany Christoph Bockisch, University of Twente, Netherlands Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany Sebastian G?tz, TU Dresden, Germany Steven te Brinke, University of Twente Birgit Penzenstadler, TU M?nchen IMPORTANT DATES Deadline Submission: January 26,2014 Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2014 Camera-ready version: February 24, 2014 Workshop date: TBD PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rami Bahsoon (University of Birmingham, UK) Vasily Moshnyaga (Fukuoka University, Japan) Romain Rouvoy (University Lille 1, France) Lionel Seinturier (INRIA, France) Daniel Versick (University of Rostock, Germany) Shrisha Rao (IIIT-B, India) Andreas Winter (Oldenburg, Germany) Roya Gholami (Aston Business School, UK) FURTHER INFORMATION Web site: http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/GIBSE/ Contact: Somayeh Malakuti (somayeh.malakuti tu-dresden.de) From danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch Sun Jan 12 15:00:04 2014 From: danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch (danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:00:04 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOAL 2014 - Call for Papers Message-ID: *** CALL FOR PAPERS - FOAL: Foundations of Aspect-Oriented Languages *** *** Papers are due January 26, 2014 *** A one day workshop affiliated with MODULARITY?14 at the University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland on April 22, 2014. === THEMES AND GOALS === FOAL is a forum for research in foundations of aspect-oriented and other advanced separation of concern mechanisms. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Semantics of advanced separation of concern mechanisms, * Specification and verification for languages with such mechanisms * Type systems, * Static analysis, * Theory of testing, * Theory of composition, * Theory of translation (compilation) and rewriting, * Comparison of different advanced modularization and separation of concern mechanisms. The workshop aims to foster work in foundations, including formal studies, promote the exchange of ideas, and encourage workers in the semantics and formal methods communities to consider advanced separation of concern mechanisms. All theoretical and foundational studies of this topic are welcome. Even though the workshop title contains the term ?aspect-oriented?, the workshop is not limited to aspect-oriented programming languages, but welcomes topics on other advanced separation of concern mechanisms such as feature-oriented or context-oriented programming. The goals of FOAL are to: * Make progress on the foundations of aspect-oriented and other advanced separation of concern mechanisms. * Exchange ideas about semantics and formal methods for aspect-oriented and other languages with advanced separation of concerns. * Foster interest within the programming language theory and types communities in languages with advanced separation of concerns. * Foster interest within the formal methods community in aspect-oriented programming and other advanced separation of concern mechanisms, and the problems of reasoning about them. === WORKSHOP FORMAT === The planned workshop format is primarily presentation of papers and group discussion. Talks will come in two categories: regular (25 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussion) and short (7 minutes plus 3 minutes of discussion). The short talks will allow for presentations of topics for which results are not yet available, perhaps for researchers who are seeking feedback on ideas or seek collaborations. We also plan to ensure sufficient time for discussion of each presentation by limiting the overall number of talks. === SUBMISSIONS === Invitation to the workshop will be based on papers selected by the program committee; those wishing to attend but not having a paper to submit should contact the organizers directly to see if there is sufficient space in the workshop. FOAL solicits regular and short papers on all areas of formal foundations of advanced separation of concern mechanisms. Submissions will be read by the program committee and designated reviewers. Papers will be selected for regular and short presentation at the workshop based on their length, scientific merit, innovation, readability, and relevance. Papers previously published or already being reviewed by another conference are not eligible. Some papers may not be selected for presentation, and some may be selected for presentation in shorter talks than their paper length would otherwise command. We will limit the length of paper presentations and the number of papers presented to make sure that there is enough time for discussion. Additional information is available online: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~leavens/FOAL/cfp-2014.shtml === IMPORTANT DATES === Paper Submission Deadline 23:00 GMT, 26 January 2014 Notification of Acceptance 16 February 2014 Final Versions of Papers Due 24 February 2014 Workshop 22 April 2014 Call last modified Tuesday, November 19, 2013. === PROGRAM COMMITTEE === Eric Bodden (Program Committee Chair) Sven Apel ? University of Passau Paulo Borba ? Federal University of Pernambuco Somayeh Malakuti ? University of Twente Cynthia Disenfeld ? Technion Robert Dyer ? Iowa State University Marieke Huisman ? University of Twente Gary T. Leavens ? University of Central Florida Hidehiko Masuhara ? Tokyo Institute of Technology Hridesh Rajan ? Iowa State University Guido Salvaneschi ? TU Darmstadt ?ric Tanter ? University of Chile Nicolas Tabareau ? INRIA From Pieter.Philippaerts at cs.kuleuven.be Sun Jan 12 15:49:03 2014 From: Pieter.Philippaerts at cs.kuleuven.be (Pieter Philippaerts) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:49:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSoS Doct. Symp. - deadline extended! Message-ID: <016801cf0fd7$ba2e3750$2e8aa5f0$@cs.kuleuven.be> [Our sincere apologies if you receive this multiple times] The deadline of the ESSoS PhD Symposium has been extended. CALL FOR PAPERS ESSoS Doctoral Symposium February 26, 2014, Munich IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: January 13, 2014 January 20, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: January 28, 2014 Camera Ready Version: February 12, 2014 The ESSoS Doctoral Symposium 2014 will be held in Munich, Germany on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 in conjunction with the ESSoS 2014 Symposium. Following the aim of the past ESSoS-DS edition, the scope of the current event will be focused on providing PhD students an opportunity to discuss their research in Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) in an international forum, and with a panel of well-known experts in the field. NEW in this year's Symposium is the fact that we aim to bring together a broad range of students: PhD students at the start of their trajectory, students who are about to finish (What are the pitfalls in the final stages?) and students in the middle (aiming for the first top-level publication). Students will have the occasion to discuss, in a welcoming and informal atmosphere, the goals already achieved or planned, the research challenges they are interested in, the projects they are working on, the facilities they are developing, the problems they want to solve and are solving in their doctoral work. During the Doctoral Symposium students will receive useful feedback from senior researchers, industrial partners and experts. It will also be a good opportunity for meeting and sharing experiences with other PhD students that are addressing similar topics, or are at a similar stage in their doctoral work. This way, the students will obtain guidance both on the academic content of their current work and on potential future research trajectories. PhD students carrying out research in Engineering Secure Software and Systems are invited to submit a position paper to the PhD Symposium. Short papers will be peer-reviewed by the Symposium's program committee members. The criteria used for accepting a paper include contribution of the work to the ESSoS field, originality of the work, and overall quality of the position paper. TOPICS PhD proposals fitting into the ESSoS conference topics are especially encouraged. This includes a diversity of topics, such as (but not limited to): - scalable techniques for threat modeling and analysis of vulnerabilities - specification and management of security requirements and policies - security architecture and design for software and systems - model checking for security - specification formalisms for security artifacts - verification techniques for security properties - systematic support for security best practices - security testing - security assurance cases - programming paradigms, models and DSLs for security - program rewriting techniques - processes for the development of secure software and systems - security oriented software reconfiguration and evolution - security measurement - automated development - trade-off between security and other non-functional requirements - support for assurance, certification and accreditation Accepted position papers will be presented during the ESSoS 2014 Doctoral Symposium and will be published on the ESSoS website. Presenters of the doctoral Symposium will get an opportunity to present their work in poster format during the main program of ESSoS 2014. The organizers of the doctoral symposium intend to publish post-proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium - details will follow. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Two types of submissions will be considered: (A) papers reflecting PhD projects in an early stage and (B) papers that represent PhD projects that are in the second half or nearly complete. A) Position papers of PhD students in an early stage of their project should fulfill the following requirements. - Length: two to six pages - Format: Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. - Content: * Authors' names (PhD student + contributing team members if applicable) * affiliation * an abstract (maximum 200 words) * the problem(s) that the proposed research is going to solve, and the motivation for solving them * the aims and objectives of the proposed research * the potential contributions to the state-of-the-art * the research methodology to be used to achieve the research goals, including a brief description of the work done to date and a tentative research plan for future work * the main contribution(s) of the research to the field of Engineering Secure Software and Systems B) Position papers of PhD students in a late to closing stage of their project - should fulfill the following requirements. - Length: two to six pages - Format: Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. - Content: * Authors' names (PhD student + contributing team members if applicable) * affiliation * an abstract (maximum 200 words) * Scope: the domain, scope and objectives of the proposed research * Track record: the results that have been achieved in previous steps and/or publications * The synergy and cohesion between the results, and the approach on how to complete the thesis * The main contribution(s) of the research to the field of Engineering Secure Software and Systems C) Some PhD students who a have delivered a top publication in the midst of their trajectory will be invited to present a testimonial; anybody can volunteer by sending a short email to the PC Chairs (referring to their actual top publication). 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URL: From sophie.tison at lifl.fr Mon Jan 13 04:10:06 2014 From: sophie.tison at lifl.fr (Sophie Tison) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:10:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?Kurt_G=F6del_Research_Prize_Fello?= =?iso-8859-1?q?wships_Program?= Message-ID: The Logical Mind: Connecting Foundations and Technology Competition (Organized by the Kurt G?del Society) The Kurt G?del Society is proud to announce the commencement of the Kurt G?del Research Prize Fellowships Program- The Logical Mind: Connecting Foundations and Technology. A. The program has a particular emphasis on supporting young scholars as previous rounds of Kurt G?del Research Prize Fellowships showed that the impact on the careers of the young researchers had the most significance. Young scholars are defined by being less or exactly 40 years old at the time of the commencement of the Vienna Summer of Logic (July 9, 2014)! The program will offer: One fellowship award in the amount of EUR 100,000, in each of the following categories: - Logical Foundations of Mathematics, - Logical Foundations of Computer Science and - Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence B. The awards will be based on a categorized world-wide open competition by way of submission of up to three-pages project description, CV and two letters of recommendation. C. The applicant will have to choose an applicable category him/herself. D. The following three Boards of Jurors will choose four finalists from their respective discipline electronically: Logical Foundations of Mathematics: Harvey Friedman (Chair), Angus Macintyre, and Dana Scott. Logical Foundations of Computer Science: Franz Baader, Johann Makowsky, and Wolfgang Thomas (Chair). Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence: Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Georg Gottlob (Chair), and Bernhard Nebel The winners will be chosen by all three juries together. The finalists will be invited to submit an extended project proposal version electronically before the Vienna Summer of Logic and only the finalists shall be entitled to reviewer?s feedback. E. Finalists will be obliged to submit a full version of their proposal (up to 20 pages) F. All deliberations will be performed electronically. The same shall apply to all decisions G. All finalists except for the winners will receive silver medals and certificates per post. H. Gold medals will be awarded to the winners at the ceremony held in the Celebration Hall of the Vienna University of Technology together with silver medals for the winners of fifteen major competitions related to the conceptual progress in computer science. I. The winners will be obliged to write an article for publication in the book containing planned contributions from the winners of all fellowships rounds organized by the Kurt G?del Society with support of the John Templeton Foundation. Timeline March 2, 2014 (midnight PST): Proposals submission deadline March 31, 2014: Jury decision on finalists due May 30, 2014: Full proposals due June 20, 2014: Jury decision on winners due July 17, 2014: Foundations and Technology Competitions Award Ceremony August 1, 2014: Commencement of the fellowship July 31, 2016: End of the fellowships program WEB: http://fellowship.logic.at Pr. Sophie Tison, RTA publicity chair LIFL - University of Lille- CNRS www.lifl.fr/~tison From kutsia at risc.jku.at Mon Jan 13 08:43:04 2014 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:43:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: UNIF 2014 Message-ID: <52D3ED68.6020506@risc.jku.at> ==================================================== Call for Papers UNIF 2014 The 28th International Workshop on Unification July 13, 2014. Vienna, Austria a FLoC workshop hosted by RTA-TLCA and IJCAR http://vsl2014.at/unif ==================================================== UNIF 2014 is the 28th event in a series of international meetings devoted to unification theory and its applications. Unification is concerned with the problem of identifying terms, finding solutions for equations, or making formulas equivalent. It is a fundamental process used in a number of fields of computer science, including automated reasoning, term rewriting, logic programming, natural language processing, program analysis, types, etc. The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) is a yearly forum for researchers in unification theory and related fields to meet old and new colleagues, to present recent (even unfinished) work, and to discuss new ideas and trends. It is also a good opportunity for young researchers and scientists working in related areas to get an overview of the current state of the art in unification theory. Topics ------ A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * syntactic and equational unification * matching * constraint solving * unification in modal, temporal, and description logics * narrowing * disunification * anti-unification * semi-unification * higher-order unification * complexity issues * implementation techniques * applications Submission ---------- Short papers or extended abstracts, up to 5 pages in EasyChair style, should be submitted electronically as PDF files through the EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unif2014 Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the preliminary proceedings, available in the electronic form at the workshop and also at the UNIF web page: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/unif/ Important Dates ---------------- * Paper Submission: April 16, 2014 * Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2014 * Final version: May 28, 2014 * Conference: July 13, 2014 Invited Speakers ---------------- TBA Programme Committee ------------------- * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Mnacho Echenim, University of Grenoble, France * Santiago Escobar, Technical University of Valencia, Spain * Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK * Temur Kutsia, RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (chair) * Christopher Lynch, Clarkson University, USA * Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Barbara Morawska, TU Dresden, Germany * Paliath Narendran, University at Albany?SUNY, USA * Jan Otop, IST Austria * Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France (chair) * Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany * Ralf Treinen, PPS, Universit? Paris Diderot, France * Mateu Villaret, Universitat de Girona, Spain From kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de Mon Jan 13 10:41:44 2014 From: kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:41:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] COORDINATION 2014 - Deadline approaching Message-ID: <52D40938.5020805@tu-berlin.de> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ======================== Call for Papers ========================= COORDINATION 2014 16th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages A DisCoTec Member Conference http://coordination.discotec.org/ June 3-6, 2014, TU Berlin, Germany ================================================================== Important dates: Abstract submission: February 1, 2014 Paper submission: February 7, 2014 Author notification: March 10, 2014 Camera-ready version: March 24, 2014 Early registration: May 5, 2014 Conference and workshops: June 3-6 2014 The time of all deadlines is 24:00 SST (UTC-11, Samoa Standard Time). The submission deadlines are strict, there will be no extension. Scope: COORDINATION 2014 is the premier forum for publishing research results and experience reports on software technologies for collaboration and coordination in concurrent, distributed, and complex systems. Its distinctive feature is its emphasis on high-level abstractions that capture interaction patterns manifest at all levels of the software architecture and extending into the realm of the end-user domain. COORDINATION 2014 seeks high-quality contributions on the usage, study, design, and implementation of languages, models, and techniques for coordination in distributed, concurrent, pervasive, and multicore software systems. Main topics of interest: * Programming abstractions and languages * Coordination models and paradigms * Applied software engineering principles * Specification and verification * Foundations and types * Distributed middleware architectures * Multicore programming * Collaborative adaptive systems * Coordination related use cases Submission and publication: Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's codes of conduct). The submissions must not exceed 16 pages in length, including figures and references, prepared using Springer's LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted as PDF or PS via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2014. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. Invited Speakers: Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Marten van Steen (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) Joachim Parrow (Uppsala University, Sweden) PC Chairs: eva Kuehn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Rosario Pugliese (University of Firenze, Italy) Programme Committee: Marco Aldinucci (University of Torino, Italy) Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands) Luis Caires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Rocco De Nicola (IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy) Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Pisa, Italy) Jos Luiz Fiadeiro (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) Valrie Issarny (INRIA, France) Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) Rania Khalaf (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Michele Loreti (University of Firenze, Italy) Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy) Kirstin Peters (TU Berlin, Germany) Paolo Petta (OFAI - Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria) Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Hanne Riis Nielson (The Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College London, UK) Martin Wirsing (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy) Steering Committee: Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands) (Chair) Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Dave Clarke (Uppsala University, Sweden) Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) Rocco De Nicola (IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Vasco T. 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FORTE 2014 is the heir to the original FORTE series, FMOODS series and joint FMOODS/FORTE conference series as part of the DisCoTec 2014 event and will take place June 3-6, 2014, in Berlin, Germany. === Scope === The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of: - component- and model-based design; - object technology, modularity, software adaptation; - service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems; - software quality, reliability, availability, and safety; - security, privacy, and trust in distributed systems; - adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization; self-healing/organizing; - verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of the above. Contributions that combine theory and practice and that exploit formal methods and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to problems arising from the development of distributed systems are encouraged. 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, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks, 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, testing and runtime verification of various types of distributed systems including communications and network protocols, service-oriented systems, adaptive distributed systems; - Foundations of security: new principles for qualitative and quantitative security analysis of distributed systems, including formal models based on probabilistic concepts; - Applications of formal methods: applying formal methods and techniques for studying quality, reliability, availability, and safety of distributed systems; - 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. === Submission and publication === Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's codes of conduct). The submissions must not exceed 15 pages in length, including figures and references, prepared using Springer's LNCS style (cf. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected immediately, without review. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the EasyChair system at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=forte14 The time of all deadlines is 24:00 SST (UTC-11, Samoa Standard Time). Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. === Invited Speakers === Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Marten van Steen (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) Joachim Parrow (Uppsala University, Sweden) === Programme Chairs === Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France) === Programme Committee === Myrto Arapinis (University of Edinbourgh, UK) Pedro R. D'Argenio (University of Cordoba, Argentina) Paul C. Attie (University of Texas at Austin, USA and American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Dirk Beyer (University of Passau, Germany) Frank de Boer (LIACS/CWI, The Netherlands) Michele Boreale (Univeristy of Florence, Italy) Johannes Borgstroem (Uppsala University, Sweden) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Yuxin Deng (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) Ylies Falcone (University of Grenoble, France) Daniele Gorla (University of Roma, Italy) Susanne Graf (CNRS/VERIMAG, France) Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL, USA) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Lucca, Italy) Axel Legay (IRISA/INRIA at Rennes, France) Jay Ligatti (University of of South Florida, USA) Antonia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Sjouke Mauw (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University, Australia) Sebastian Moedersheim (Technical University of Denmark) Peter Csaba Oelveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Sanjiva Prasad (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) Sophie Quinton (TU Braunschweig, Germany) Ana Sokolowa (University of Salzburg, Austria) Marielle Stoelinga (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) === Steering Committee: === Dirk Beyer (University of Passau, Germany) Frank de Boer (LIACS/CWI, The Netherlands) Michele Boreale (University of Florence, Italy) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Juergen Dingel (Queens's University, Canada) Holger Giese (University of Potsdam, Germany) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, France) Heike Wehreim (University of Paderborn, Germany) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This includes the design, architecture, implementation and operation of distributed computing systems, their supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methods and tools, as well as experimental studies and practical reports. Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 14th International DAIS conference will provide a forum for researchers, industry practitioners, and users, to discuss and learn about new technologies, approaches, concepts and experiences in the field of distributed computing. Submission tracks: DAIS offers three distinct submission tracks (Research papers, Practical Experience Reports, and Work-in-progress papers). Authors should indicate in their submission which track they are submitting to. All papers accepted in any of the tracks will be included in the conference proceedings. * Topics of Interest * DAIS'14 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experimental results in the area of distributed applications and interoperable systems. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems, in particular in the areas of middleware, peer-to-peer systems, cloud and grid computing, social networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile computing, service-oriented computing, and context-aware computing; - Novel architectures and mechanisms, in particular in the areas of pub/sub systems, language-based approaches, overlay network protocols, virtualisation, parallelization, bio-inspired distributed computing; - System issues and design goals, including self-management, trust and reputation, cooperation incentives and fairness, fault-tolerance and dependability, energy-efficiency, performance, robustness and scalability; - Engineering and tools, including model-driven engineering, domain-specific languages, design patterns and methods, testing and validation, distributed debugging. * Submission and Publication * DAIS'14 offers three submission tracks: - Full research papers with no more than 14 pages; - Full practical experience reports, including experimental and evaluation studies, case studies, and practice reports with no more than 14 pages; - Work-in-progress papers, describing ongoing work and interim results, with no more than 6 pages. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically as PDF using the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs) to the conference submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2014 Each paper will undergo a thorough process of peer reviews by the Program Committee. All papers accepted in any of the conference tracks will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. Submission implies that at least one author will register and attend the conference if the paper is accepted. * Invited Speakers * Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Marten van Steen (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) Joachim Parrow (Uppsala University, Sweden) * Program Committee Co-Chairs * Kostas Magoutis, ICS-FORTH, Greece Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College, UK * Publication Chair * Eva Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK * Program Committee * Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Cosmin Arad, Google, USA Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Carlos Baquero, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Jim Dowling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway David Eyers, University of Otago, Australia Paulo Ferreira, INESC ID / Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Kurt Geihs, Universitaet Kassel, Germany Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Franz Hauck, University of Ulm, Germany Peter Herrmann, NTNU Trondheim, Norway Eva Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK Boris Koldehofe, University Of Stuttgart, Germany Dejan Kostic, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain Reinhold Kroeger, Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, Germany Benny Mandler, IBM Research, Israel Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Hein Meling, University of Stavanger, Norway Pietro Michiardi, Institut Eurecom, France Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Kiran Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon, USA Dirk Muthig, Lufthansa Systems, Germany George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Nikos Parlavantzas, INSA Rennes, France Jose Pereira, INESC TEC & Univ. Minho, Portugal Jayaram Radhakrishnan, HP Labs, USA Etienne Riviere, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, Australia Lionel Seinturier, University Lille 1, France Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA Francois Taiani, Universit? de Rennes 1, France Luis Veiga, Instituto Superior T?cnico - UTL / INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Spyros Voulgaris, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Steering Committee * Jim Dowling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Pascal Felber, Universit? de Neuch?tel, Switzerland Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Seif Haridi, KTH, Sweden Ruediger Kapitza, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Romain Rouvoy, University Lille 1, France Francois Taiani, Universit? de Rennes 1, France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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IJCAR 2014 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) IJCAR 2014 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. IJCAR topics include the following ones: - Logics of interest include: propositional, first-order, classical, equational, higher-order, non-classical, constructive, modal, temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, type theory, etc. - Methods of interest include: tableaux, sequent calculi, resolution, model-elimination, inverse method, paramodulation, term rewriting, induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, semantic guidance, interactive theorem proving, logical frameworks, AI-related methods for deductive systems, proof presentation, automated theorem provers, etc. - Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, etc. The proceedings of IJCAR 2014 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Submission details: Submission is electronic, through https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcar14 Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format, which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, and 7 pages for system descriptions. Best paper award: IJCAR 2014 will offer a best paper award to recognize the most outstanding paper appearing at the conference. Invited speakers: Ken McMillan (Microsoft Research) Rajeev Gor? (Australian National University) Other speakers during the second week of the Vienna Summer for Logic, but affiliated with other events, include (in alphabetical order) Franz Baader, Edmund Clarke, Veronique Cortier, Orna Kupferman, Christos Papadimitriou, and Alex Wilkie. Program co-chairs: St?phane Demri (New York University & CNRS) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Christoph Weidenbach (MPI-INF Saarbr?cken, Germany) Conference co-chairs: Christian Fermueller (TU Vienna, Austria) Stefan Hetzl (TU Vienna, Austria) Publicity chair: Morgan Deters (New York University) Workshop chair: Matthias Horbach (MPI-INF Saarbr?cken, Germany) Important dates: [updated] Abstract submission deadline: January 22, 2014 [updated] Paper submission deadline: January 29, 2014 [updated] Notification of paper decisions: April 7, 2014 [updated] Final version of papers due: April 26, 2014 [updated] Conference dates: July 19-22, 2014 Student travel awards: Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Details will be announced in March 2014. Program Committee: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Peter Baumgartner (NICTA Canberra, Australia) Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Jasmin Blanchette (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) Bernard Boigelot (University of Liege, Belgium) Maria Paola Bonacina (Universit? degli Studi di Verona, Italy) Agata Ciabattoni (TU Vienna, Austria) Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden) Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research) St?phanie Delaune (LSV, CNRS, Cachan, France) St?phane Demri (New York University & CNRS) Stephan Falke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Christian Fermueller (TU Vienna, Austria) Pascal Fontaine (LORIA, University of Nancy, France) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Juergen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Valentin Goranko (TU Denmark, Copenhagen) Radu Iosif (VERIMAG, Grenoble, France) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Boris Konev (University of Liverpool, UK) Konstantin Korovin (The University of Manchester, UK) Daniel Kroening (Oxford University, UK) Viktor Kuncak (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany) Stephan Merz (LORIA, INRIA Lorraine, France) Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Enric Rodr?guez-Carbonell (TU Catalonia, Spain) Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester, UK) Carsten Sch?rmann (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa, USA) Uwe Waldmann (MPI-INF, Saarbr?cken, Germany) Christoph Weidenbach (MPI-INF, Saarbr?cken, Germany) Jian Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. 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Papers that apply formal methods to software engineering are especially welcome. Satellite workshops provide further opportunities for collaborating and exchanging ideas about specific topics of Formal Methods and Software Engineering, from conceptual to practical aspects. To this end, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics in the fields of the conference. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of this conference include, but are not limited to: - Formal requirement analysis, modeling, specification and design - Abstraction and refinement - Formal methods for probabilistic verification and synthesis - Programming languages, program analysis and type theory - Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, service-oriented and cloud computing - Formal aspects of security and mobility - Model checking, theorem proving and decision procedures - Formal methods for real-time, hybrid and embedded systems - Formal methods for safety-critical, fault-tolerant and secure systems - Software architecture and coordination languages - Software verification and validation - Component, object and multi-agent systems - Formal aspects of software evolution and maintenance - Formal methods for testing, re-engineering and reuse - Light-weight and scalable formal methods - Tool integration - Applications of formal methods, industrial case studies and technology transfer - Education and formal methods - Interactive systems and human error analysis - Formal methods for HCI - Formal analysis of human behaviour -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. They will be evaluated on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Papers should conform to the Springer LNCS style and should describe, in English, original work that has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. PDF versions of papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sefm2014 We solicit two categories of papers: - Research papers should describe fully developed work and should not exceed 15 pages. Authors of papers reporting experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available to reviewers. Case study papers should describe significant case studies and lessons learned. - Tool papers should describe an operational tool and its contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages. Please include the URL of the tool (if available). Two additional pages of appendices are allowed that will not be included in the proceedings. The proceedings of SEFM'14 will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in a relevant journal. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Workshop proposals should consist of the following items: - name and acronym of the workshop - motivations: short (up to 1 page) scientific justification of the proposed topic and scope, its significance and relevance to SEFM, and the particular benefits of the workshop to both Formal Methods and Software Engineering communities - name, affiliation, and short (up to 10 lines) bio of the workshop organizers - contact organizer - desired length of the workshop, (half day, full day, 2 days) - estimate of the audience size - proposed format and agenda (e.g., demo sessions, tutorials, etc.) - potential invited speakers - any specific requirement the workshop may have - procedures for selecting papers and participants - plans for dissemination, if any (e.g., workshop proceedings, or special issues of journals) - preliminary call for papers (list of topics, preliminary PC, deadlines, etc.) and link to the workshop website (if possible) - information about previous editions (if applicable) Workshop proposals should consist of one pdf file and should be submitted by email at sefm14-workshops at inria.fr by the end of January, 2014. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANISATION DETAILS In order to make SEFM workshops appealing for participants, we plan to keep the fares as low as possible. Precise figures have not been decided yet, but we estimate that the workshop fee will be about 80 euros per day, with a full fee of around 500 euros for the whole week (SEFM conference + workshops). We also understand that having a good proceedings publication will attract submissions. For that, we plan to organize a joint LNCS proceedings volume. Nevertheless, if you have your own agreements for proceedings or special issue publication, you can maintain them. All accepted workshops would be asked to produce a Webpage and a call for papers. Both workshop organizers and participants will be required to register through the SEFM 2014 registration Webpage and attend their workshop. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR Radu Mateescu - Inria Grenoble, Rh?ne-Alpes, France PROGRAM CHAIRS Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Gwen Sala?n, Grenoble INP, Inria, France WORKSHOP CHAIRS Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain Marc Frappier, Sherbrooke University, Canada Akram Idani, Grenoble INP, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria Dalal Alrajeh, Imperial College, London, UK Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands Luis Barbosa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Howard Barringer, The University of Manchester, UK Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg Jonathan P. Bowen, Birmingham City University, UK Mario Bravetti, Universit? di Bologna, Italy Tevfik Bultan, UC Santa Barbara, USA Hung Dang Van, Vietnam National University, Vietnam Francisco Duran, University of Malaga, Spain George Eleftherakis, CITY College of Thessaloniki, Greece Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Mamoun Filali, IRIT CNRS Universit? de Toulouse, France Martin Fr?nzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany Marc Frappier, Sherbrooke University, Canada Hubert Garavel, Inria, France Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK Mike Hinchey, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland Falk Howar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, Germany Peter Lindsay, The University of Queensland, Australia Ant?nia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Stephan Merz, Inria, France Mizuhito Ogawa, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Fernando Orejas, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta Dave Parker, University of Birmingham , UK Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Sanjiva Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Jakob Rehof, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Leila Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Matthew Staats, University of Luxembourg Martin Steffen, Olso University, Norway Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Serdar Tasiran, Koc University, Turkey Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Tue Jan 14 04:42:51 2014 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:42:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fourth Halmstad Summer School on Testing (HSST 2014): Call for Participation Message-ID: =========================================== The Fourth Halmstad Summer School on Testing Halmstad University, Sweden June 9 - June 12, 2014 http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2014 =========================================== Scope ======== Software testing accounts for a major part of software development cost and effort, yet the current practice of software testing is often insufficiently structured and disciplined. There have been various attempts in the past decades to bring more rigour and structure into this field, resulting in several industrial-strength processes, techniques and tools for different levels of testing. The 4th Halmstad Summer School on Testing provides an overview of the state of the art in testing, including theory, industrial cases, tools and hands-on tutorials by internationally-renowned researchers. Tutorials ======== Automated Test Generation via Satisfiability Modulo Theory Solvers (Thomas Ball, Microsoft Research) Model-Based Testing, the Difference between Theory and Practice (Machiel van der Bijl, Axini BV) Improved Testing of Multithreaded Programs with Dynamic Symbolic Execution (Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University) Property-based testing with QuickCheck (John Hughes, QuviQ and Chalmers) Testing and Verifying Software Properties with ACL2 and ProofPad (Rex Page, University of Oklahoma) Practical Model-Based Testing With Papyrus and RT-Tester (Jan Peleska, Verified International GMBH and Bremen University) Model-Based Testing - There is Nothing More Practical than a Good Theory (Jan Tretmans, Radboud University Nijmegen and TNO - ESI) Registration ========== The registration deadline is April 15, 2014. To apply to the summer school, please send an email to Veronica.Gaspes at hh.se with "Halmstad Summer School on Testing" in the title. If you have any dietary requirements, or would like to attend only certain days of the summer school, please specify in your email text. The registration fee is 2000 SEK (approx. 225 EUR, ) and covers lunches, coffee breaks, the social event, and the study material but does *not* include the social dinner. A ticket to the social dinner costs 500 SEK and can be requested upon registration (please indicate in your email). After sending the registration email, you will receive a confirmation. Please proceed to payment after you receive the confirmation email through the summer school web site. Venue ====== The summer school will be held on the campus of Halmstad University in Halmstad, Sweden. Halmstad is a popular summer destination located on the Swedish west coast. Just a few minutes by bicycle or bus takes you from campus to city centre, sandy beaches or forested Galgberget Hill. Trains take you directly to G?teborg in 75 minutes, to the Malm?-Copenhagen area in about 2 hours and to Stockholm in 4.5 hours. There are also daily flights from Halmstad Airport to Stockholm. If you are flying in internationally it is generally easiest to fly into Copenhagen (CPH) airport (also known as Kastrup). The best thing about flying into CPH is that you just buy a train ticket when you arrive at the airport and simply take a train from the airport directly to Halmstad. More travel information can be found at the school page: http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2014#Venue Organizers ======== Veronica Gaspes (Organization Chair, veronica.gaspes at hh.se) Mohammad Mousavi (Program Co-Chair, m.r.mousavi at hh.se) Eva Nestius (Local Organization) Walid Taha (Program Co-Chair, walid.taha at hh.se) The abstracts of the tutorials and the biographies of the speakers can be found at: http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2014 For more information, contact one of the organizers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Evangelia.Kalyvianaki.1 at city.ac.uk Tue Jan 14 07:48:10 2014 From: Evangelia.Kalyvianaki.1 at city.ac.uk (Kalyvianaki, Evangelia) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:48:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: DAIS 2014 -- 14th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems Message-ID: * apologies for cross-posting * -------------------------------------------------------------------- DAIS 14th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems http://dais.discotec.org/ June 3-6, 2014, Berlin, Germany * Important Dates * 1 February, 2014: Abstract submission 7 February, 2014: Paper submission 10 March, 2014: Notification to authors 24 March, 2014: Camera-ready version due -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Scope * The annual IFIP DAIS conference is one of the leading international venues to discuss all aspects of distributed applications and systems, throughout their lifecycle. This includes the design, architecture, implementation and operation of distributed computing systems, their supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methods and tools, as well as experimental studies and practical reports. Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 14th International DAIS conference will provide a forum for researchers, industry practitioners, and users, to discuss and learn about new technologies, approaches, concepts and experiences in the field of distributed computing. Submission tracks: DAIS offers three distinct submission tracks (Research papers, Practical Experience Reports, and Work-in-progress papers). Authors should indicate in their submission which track they are submitting to. All papers accepted in any of the tracks will be included in the conference proceedings. * Topics of Interest * DAIS'14 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experimental results in the area of distributed applications and interoperable systems. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems, in particular in the areas of middleware, peer-to-peer systems, cloud and grid computing, social networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile computing, service-oriented computing, and context-aware computing; - Novel architectures and mechanisms, in particular in the areas of pub/sub systems, language-based approaches, overlay network protocols, virtualisation, parallelization, bio-inspired distributed computing; - System issues and design goals, including self-management, trust and reputation, cooperation incentives and fairness, fault-tolerance and dependability, energy-efficiency, performance, robustness and scalability; - Engineering and tools, including model-driven engineering, domain-specific languages, design patterns and methods, testing and validation, distributed debugging. * Submission and Publication * DAIS'14 offers three submission tracks: - Full research papers with no more than 14 pages; - Full practical experience reports, including experimental and evaluation studies, case studies, and practice reports with no more than 14 pages; - Work-in-progress papers, describing ongoing work and interim results, with no more than 6 pages. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically as PDF using the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs) to the conference submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2014 Each paper will undergo a thorough process of peer reviews by the Program Committee. All papers accepted in any of the conference tracks will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. Submission implies that at least one author will register and attend the conference if the paper is accepted. * Program Committee Co-Chairs * Kostas Magoutis, ICS-FORTH, Greece Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College, UK * Publication Chair * Eva Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK * Program Committee * Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Cosmin Arad, Google, USA Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Carlos Baquero, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Jim Dowling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand Paulo Ferreira, INESC ID / Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Kurt Geihs, Universitaet Kassel, Germany Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Franz Hauck, University of Ulm, Germany Peter Herrmann, NTNU Trondheim, Norway Eva Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK Boris Koldehofe, University Of Stuttgart, Germany Dejan Kostic, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain Reinhold Kroeger, Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, Germany Benny Mandler, IBM Research, Israel Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Hein Meling, University of Stavanger, Norway Pietro Michiardi, Institut Eurecom, France Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Kiran Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon, USA Dirk Muthig, Lufthansa Systems, Germany George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Nikos Parlavantzas, INSA Rennes, France Jose Pereira, INESC TEC & Univ. Minho, Portugal Jayaram Radhakrishnan, HP Labs, USA Etienne Riviere, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, Australia Lionel Seinturier, University Lille 1, France Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA Francois Taiani, Universit? de Rennes 1, France Luis Veiga, Instituto Superior T?cnico - UTL / INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Spyros Voulgaris, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From J.Brotherston at cs.ucl.ac.uk Tue Jan 14 11:14:44 2014 From: J.Brotherston at cs.ucl.ac.uk (James Brotherston) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:14:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RA position in automated verification, logic and theorem proving at UCL Message-ID: <52D56274.1010104@cs.ucl.ac.uk> *Research Associate positions in Automated Verification, Logic and Theorem Proving * *Dept. of Computer Science, University College London, UK * The UCL Dept. of Computer Science invites applications for a postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the EPSRC-funded project "Boosting Automated Verification using Cyclic Proof". Automatic verification tools based on separation logic have recently enabled the verification of code bases that scale into the millions of lines. Such analyses rely heavily on the use of inductive predicates to describe data structures held in memory. However, these predicates must currently be hard-coded into the analysis, which means the analysis must fail when encountering a data structure not described by a hard-coded predicate. This project is about using *cyclic proof*, a relatively new technique in inductive theorem proving, to add general inductive reasoning capability to the various components of interprocedural program analysis and thereby, hopefully, to extend the reach of current verification methods. The project will be run under the supervision of Dr. James Brotherston and Prof. Byron Cook, in the Programming Principles, Logic and Verification (PPLV) group at UCL. Other permanent PPLV members include Prof. David Pym, Dr. Jade Alglave and Dr. Juan Navarro Perez. See pplv.cs.ucl.ac.uk for details. The Research Associate post is funded full-time for 3 years, and is available immediately. Applicants must hold, or be about to hold, a PhD in computer science or a closely related field, and should have a strong background in verification, automated reasoning, or program logics, as evidenced by their work history and/or publication record. Expertise in inductive theorem proving, separation logic and/or program analysis techniques is particularly welcome, and prior experience in OcaML programming would also be beneficial. The application closing date is *14 Feb 2014*, with interviews expected to be held in the period 25-28 February. Further information on the position, including salary information and how to apply, may be found at: http://tinyurl.com/naqk5ze * *Informal enquiries may be made toJames Brotherston by email at **J.Brotherston at ucl.ac.uk . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabriel at info.uaic.ro Tue Jan 14 11:53:35 2014 From: gabriel at info.uaic.ro (Gabriel Ciobanu) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:53:35 +0200 (EET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers ICTAC 2014, 17-20 Sept, Bucharest Message-ID: A Happy and Succesful New Year 2014! ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- ICTAC 2014 ********************************************************************** 11th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing 17-20 September 2014, Bucharest, Romania http://fmi.unibuc.ro/ictac2014 ********************************************************************** ICTAC 2014 is the 11th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing and will 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. Another aim of ICTAC is to bring together researchers working on theoretical aspects of computing in order to present their recent results and to discuss new ideas concerning computer science. THEMES AND TOPICS OF PAPERS ICTAC 2014 calls for regular research papers on theories of computation and programming, foundations of software engineering and on formal techniques in software design and verification, as well as papers about tools that support formal techniques for software modeling, system design and verification. The topical areas of the conference include, but not limited to * Automata theory and formal languages; * Principles and semantics of programming languages; * Theories of concurrency, mobility and reconfiguration; * Logics and their applications; * Software architectures, their models, refinement and verification; * Relationship between software requirements, models and code; * Program static and dynamic analysis and verification; * Software specification, refinement, verification and testing; * Model checking and theorem proving; * Models of object and component systems; * Coordination and feature interaction; * Integration of theories, formal methods and tools for engineering computing systems; * Service-oriented architectures: models and development methods; * Models of concurrency, security, and mobility; * Theory of distributed, grid and cloud computing; * Real-time, embedded, hybrid and cyber-physical systems; * Type and category theory in computer science. PAPER SUBMISSION As for the past editions, the proceedings of ICTAC 2014 will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and will be available at the colloquium. Special issue of few journals with extended version of selected papers from ICTAC 2014 is under negotiation. Submissions to the colloquium 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, as well as their relevance to the conference. Regular Papers should not exceed 18 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Papers must be submitted by using www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2014. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: 16 March 2014 Submission deadline: 23 March 2014 Paper notification: 30 May 2014 Revised/final paper: 14 June 2014 PC CHAIRS Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania Dominique Mery, LORIA, Universite de Lorraine, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT, ENSEIHT, France Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK Ana Calvacanti, University of York, UK Jeremie Chalopin, CNRS, France Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Maximiliano Cristia, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Argentina David Deharbe, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Rocco De Nicola, IMT Lucca, Italy Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK Ross Horne, Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, UK Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jetty Kleijn, Leiden University, The Netherlands Maciej Koutny, Newcastle University, UK Yassine Lakhnech, VERIMAG, France Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay, INRIA, France Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macau, China Marius Minea, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Victor Mitrana, University of Bucharest, Romania Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland Mohammed Mosbah, LABRI, University of Bordeaux, France Tobias Nipkow, Technical University Munich, Germany Manuel Nunez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Paritosh Pandya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Shengchao Qin, University of Teesside, UK Antonio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Universite de Namur, Belgium Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max Planck Institute, Germany Gheorghe Stefanescu, University of Bucharest, Romania Andrzej Tarlecki, Warsaw University, Poland Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi University, Finland Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Burkhart Wolff, Universite de Paris-Sud, France Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK Fatiha Zaidi, Universite de Paris-Sud, France Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China GENERAL CHAIRS Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania STEERING COMMITTEE Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck, Germany Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macao, China Tobias Nipkow, Technical University Munich, Germany Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA ********************************************************************** This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found on the ICTAC 2014 web page http://fmi.unibuc.ro/ictac2014/. For information regarding the conference and other queries, you can use the conference email address: ictac2014 at fmi.unibuc.ro ********************************************************************** From spreen at informatik.uni-siegen.de Wed Jan 15 00:52:41 2014 From: spreen at informatik.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:52:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for submissions: MSCS special Computable Analysis; Correction Message-ID: <2A34A772-1E50-49CB-BF05-F8673161D53A@informatik.uni-siegen.de> Continuity, Computability, Constructivity: From Logic to Algorithms 2013 Postproceedings Second Call for Submissions CORRECTION After a year of successful work in the EU-IRSES project COMPUTAL and an excellent workshop in Gregynog (Wales) in June last year, we are planning to publish a special issue of MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE dedicated to the meeting and the project. The special issue should reflect progress made in Computable Analysis and related areas, not only our work in the project. Submissions are welcome from all scientists working in fields like Computable analysis Complexity of real number computations Computing with continuous data Domain theory and analysis Randomness and computable measure theory Models of computation with real numbers Realizability theory and analysis Reverse analysis Exact real number computation Program extraction in analysis. EDITORS: Hajime Ishihara (JAIST, Japan) Margarita Korovina (Novosibirsk, Russia) Arno Pauly (Cambridge, UK) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea, UK) Dieter Spreen (Siegen, Germany, and Pretoria, South Africa) DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 31 January 2014 DEADLINE FOR FULL PAPERS 28 February 2014 SUBMISSION (Web address changed): We want to split the submission process into two parts: Please, first submit an abstract of your paper and then later the full paper. 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URL: From maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de Thu Jan 16 02:52:12 2014 From: maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de (Matteo Maffei) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:52:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2014) Message-ID: <3FAF8F20-E521-4A42-827B-D65BC2F1DC3D@cs.uni-saarland.de> CSF 2014 Call for Papers and Panels 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://csf2014.di.univr.it/ July 19 - 22, 2014 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) part of FLoC 2014 - Federated Logic Conference part of VSL 2014 - Vienna Summer of Logic - http://vsl2014.at/ ***************************************************** The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security. CSF seeks papers on foundational aspects of computer security, e.g., formal security models, relationships between security properties and defenses, principled techniques and tools for design and analysis of security mechanisms, as well as their application to practice. While CSF welcomes submissions beyond the topics listed below, the main focus of CSF is foundational security: submissions that lack foundational aspects risk rejection. Topics ------ New results in computer security are welcome. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: access control, accountability, anonymity, authentication, critical infrastructure security, cryptography, data and system integrity, database security, decidability and complexity, distributed systems, electronic voting, executable content, formal methods and verification, game theory and decision theory, hardware- based security, humans and computer security, information flow, intrusion detection, language-based security, network security, novel insights on attacks, privacy, provenance, resource usage control, security for mobile computing, security models, security protocols, software security, socio-technical security, trust management, usable security, web security. Special Sessions (NEW) ---------------------- We strongly encourage papers in three foundational areas of research not traditionally represented at CSF: AI & SECURITY. (Chairs: Ariel Procaccia & Benjamin Rubinstein.) In recent years, a number of communities overlapping with AI--- notably algorithmic economics and machine learning---have made significant forays into security & privacy. This session aims to collect theoretical viewpoints on security & privacy, particularly from researchers across diverse communities such as those identifying with AAAI/IJCAI, AAMAS, EC, WEIS, ICML, NIPS, COLT, STOC/FOCS, S&P, and CCS (including the AISEC workshop). Papers in the following areas intersecting with information security are highly encouraged to submit to this special session: Economics: Game theory, mechanism design, market design, social choice; Learning: Online learning, robust statistics, adversarial machine learning, privacy-preserving technologies such as differential privacy. PRIVACY. (Chair: Vitaly Shmatikov.) CSF 2014 will include a special session on privacy foundations and invites submissions on definitions, models, and frameworks for communication and data privacy, principled analysis of deployed or proposed privacy protection mechanisms, and foundational aspects of practical privacy technologies. Submissions investigating connections between privacy law and policy and computer science are especially encouraged. USABLE SECURITY. (Chair: Lujo Bauer.) It has become accepted that any user-facing security technology or mechanism is unlikely to be secure if it is not usable. Hence, understanding, measuring, and designing for usability are foundational aspects of building secure systems. CSF 2014 encourages submission of papers that describe new results, quantitative or qualitative, in usability as it pertains to security and privacy. Particularly encouraged are papers that focus on foundational aspects of usability, as well as those whose results generalize beyond a specific environment or system. These papers will be reviewed under the supervision of expert invited session chairs. They will be presented at the conference, and will appear in the CSF proceedings without any distinction from the other papers. Challenges and Vision Papers ---------------------------- We particularly encourage challenge/vision papers, which may describe open questions and raise fundamental concerns about practical security. Challenges and/or vision papers should typically identify a real world security problem, argue why it raises foundational issues, explain why the currently available and relevant techniques are inadequate for addressing it, and identify foundational challenges that have to be addressed to solve the problem. These papers will be presented at the conference, and will appear in the CSF proceedings without any distinction from the other papers. Proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, will be available at the symposium, and selected papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Computer Security. ***************************************************** INVITED SPEAKERS Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute Frank Piessens, K.U. Leuven ***************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract due: February 3, 2014, 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time Papers due: February 10, 2014, 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time Author response period: March 20-21, 2014, ending at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time Panel proposals due: March 15, 2014 Notification: April 11, 2014 Camera ready: May 9, 2014 Symposium: July 19 - 22, 2014 ***************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mart?n Abadi, Microsoft Research Michael Backes, Saarland University and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University Bruno Blanchet, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt Stephen Chong, Harvard University Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University (Co-Chair) Riccardo Focardi, Universit?Ca' Foscari, Venezia C?dric Fournet, Microsoft Research (Co-Chair) Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and The MITRE Corporation Michael Hicks, University of Maryland, College Park Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin Boris K?pf, IMDEA Software Institute Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College London John Mitchell, Stanford University Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania Ariel Procaccia, Carnegie Mellon University Tamara Rezk, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-M?diterran?e Benjamin Rubinstein, University of Melbourne Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology Vitaly Shmatikov, University of Texas, Austin Michael Carl Tschantz, UC Berkeley Bogdan Warinschi, University of Bristol ***************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with published proceedings. Failure to clearly identify any duplication or overlap with other published or submitted papers is ground for rejection without full review. Papers should be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). Papers submitted in a proprietary format such as Microsoft Word cannot be considered. At least one coauthor of each accepted paper is required to attend CSF to present the paper. Papers must be submitted using the two-column IEEE Proceedings style available for various document preparation systems at the IEEE Conference Publishing Services page. Papers must not be anonymized. Authors should use appropriate keywords from "AI & Security", "Usable Security", "Privacy" and "Challenge/Vision" to indicate that the paper is meant for a special session. All papers should be at most 12 pages long, not counting bibliography and well-marked appendices. Committee members are not required to read appendices, and so the paper must be intelligible without them. Papers not adhering to the page limits will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Papers should be submitted using the CSF 2014 submission site. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csf2014 ***************************************************** PANEL PROPOSALS Proposals for panels are welcome. They should be no more than three pages in length, and should include the names of possible panelists and an indication of which of those panelists have confirmed a desire to participate. They should be submitted by email to the program chairs. ***************************************************** PC Chairs Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University, USA C?dric Fournet, Microsoft Research General Chair Luca Vigano, King's College, London Publications Chair Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Publicity Chair Matteo Maffei, CISPA, Saarland University, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ulrik at cs.aau.dk Thu Jan 16 18:34:39 2014 From: ulrik at cs.aau.dk (Ulrik Nyman) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:34:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Extended deadline (January 31st): Advances in Systems of Systems an ETAPS workshop Message-ID: <52D86C8F.2010208@cs.aau.dk> AiSoS - Advances in Systems of Systems http://aisos.cs.aau.dk We are delighted to present the second edition of *AiSoS *an *ETAPS* workshop with a focus on the growing trend of more complex systems of systems. Examples are*smart grid, intelligent buildings, smart cities, transport systems*, etc. There is a need for new modeling formalisms, analysis methods and tools to help make trade-off decisions during design and evolution avoiding leading to sub-optimal design and rework during integration and in service. The workshop should focus on the modeling and analysis of System of Systems. The workshop Advances in Systems of Systems aims to gather people from different communities in order to encourage exchange of methods and views. The workshop welcomes submissions on *new modeling approaches, analysis technique, tools,** **case studies, surveys and tutorials.* Post proceedings will be published in EPTCS. Submission deadline:*January 31st*. Best regards AiSoS organizers. - Kim G. Larsen, Axel Legay and Ulrik Nyman -- Ulrik Nyman,http://people.cs.aau.dk/~ulrik, phone +45 9940 9985 Associate Professor, Ph.D. Center for Embedded Software Systems, Department of Computer Science Aalborg University, Selma Lagerl?fs Vej 300, DK-9220 Aalborg East -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rseba at disi.unitn.it Fri Jan 17 16:09:46 2014 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:09:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc positions in SAT/SMT-based Verification available in Trento Message-ID: <20140117210946.GA25882@disi.unitn.it> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[[ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ]]] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO WHOEVER YOU MAY THINK INTERESTED. -------------------------------------------------------------- One post-doc position in ICT on the research project "Advanced SMT Techniques for Word-level Formal Verification - (WOLF)" is available in Trento, Italy, under the joint supervision of - Alessandro Cimatti, FBK, Trento, and - Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento. This is a three-year research project supported by SRC/GRC (http://www.src.org/compete/s201113/), in collaboration with major HW companies. The details of the call are available at http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/WOLF-Recruit-postdoc.txt From stavros.tripakis at gmail.com Sat Jan 18 14:39:02 2014 From: stavros.tripakis at gmail.com (Stavros Tripakis) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:39:02 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Helsinki ICT network: call for 15 doctoral student positions (dl. Feb 14) Message-ID: The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT) is a collaborative doctoral education network hosted jointly by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The network involves at present 51 professors and over 200 doctoral students, and the participating units graduate altogether more than 40 new doctors each year. The activities of HICT are structured along six research area specific tracks: - Algorithms and machine learning - Creative technologies - Life science informatics - Networks, networked systems and services - Software and service engineering and systems - User centered information technology The participating units of HICT have currently 15 fully funded positions available for exceptional doctoral students. For more information and application instructions, see http://www.hict.fi/ . From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Sat Jan 18 17:32:26 2014 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:32:26 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: SLE 2014 Message-ID: <8A7E49B4-F2A3-4292-8F55-BFD837CCF79F@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) 2014 Vasteras, Sweden , September 14-15, 2014 http://www.sleconf.org/2014/ Co-located with: 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014) 13th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences (GPCE 2014) --------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES All dates are Anywhere on Earth. Deadline for abstracts: May 16, 2014 Deadline for papers: May 23, 2014 Author access to reviews: June 23-24, 2014 Author notification: July 7, 2014 Camera ready copies due: July 27, 2014 Conference: September 14-15, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term "software language" is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). --------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The overall principle of SLE is to be broad-minded and inclusive about relevance and scope. We solicit high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Tools and methods for software language design and extension (incl. meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches) - Generative approaches, transformation and transformation languages, code generation - Techniques for analysing software language descriptions - Techniques for software language reuse, evolution and managing variation (syntactic/semantic) within language families - Integration and coordination of software languages and tools - Engineering Domain-Specific Languages (for modeling, simulating, generation, description, checking) - Novel applications and/or empirical studies on any aspect of SLE (development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages) - Cross-fertilization of different technological spaces (e.g. modelware, grammarware, etc) --------------------------------------------------------- TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS - Research papers: These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 20 pages (in LNCS format). - Tool papers: Because of SLE's ample interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Tool papers should include an appendix outlining the proposed demonstration, including screenshots etc. A short video may be linked as well. Tool paper submissions must not exceed 10 pages (in LNCS Format). - Industrial position papers: These papers discuss practical applications of SLE technology with an emphasis on the advantages and disadvantages of the method, techniques, or tools used. Industry paper submissions must not exceed 10 pages (in LNCS Format). - Bridging position papers: These papers discuss bridging ideas from the different areas of SLE (e.g. modelling, PL, grammars, etc). This includes both foundational ideas and/or practical techniques. Bridging position papers must not 4 pages (in LNCS Format). All papers have to be submitted electronically in PDF format via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2014 Papers should follow the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently be submitted for publication elsewhere. The program chairs will apply the principles of the ACM Plagiarism Policy throughout the submission and review process. --------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATIONS All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Authors will be given a brief opportunity for a reply to the reviews. The replies will be considered in the PC's discussions, and considered in the selection of the best reviewer. All accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (www.springer.com/lncs). All papers must be formatted according to the Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for a special issue of the Journal on Science of Computer Programming. --------------------------------------------------------- AWARDS - Best paper. Award for best overall paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. - Best reviewer. Award for best reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs using feedback from the authors. --------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT For any questions or concerns about the call for paper, please contact the program co-chairs at: pcchairs at sleconf.org --------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL COMMITTEE CHAIR Jurgen Vinju, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, France David J. Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand PROGRAM COMMITTEE Emilie Balland, INRIA, France Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Zinovy Diskin, McMaster University / University of Waterloo, Canada Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA Anne Etien, University of Lille, France Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Andy Gill, University of Kansas, USA Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil G?rel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Markus Herrmannsdoerfer, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany Jean-Marc J?z?quel, University of Rennes, France Thomas Kuehne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ralf Laemmel, Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany Peter Mosses, Swansea University, UK Sean Mcdirmid, Microsoft, China Kim Mens, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Pierre-Alain Muller, University of Haute-Alsace, France Nathaniel Nystrom, University of Lugano, Switzerland Klaus Ostermann, University of Marburg, Germany Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland Richard Paige, University of York, UK Fiona Polack, University of York, UK Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Davide Di Ruscio, Universit? degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy Jo?o Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Bran Selic, Malina Software Corp., Canada Jim Steel, University of Queensland, Australia Tijs Van Der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Steffen Zschaler, King's College London, UK WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION CHAIR Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA PANEL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Ralf Lammel, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIRS Craig Anslow, University of Calgary, Canada (general publicity) Tijs van der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands (social media) Davy Landman, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands (web) LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University, Sweden ======================================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carsten at demtech.dk Tue Jan 21 09:24:40 2014 From: carsten at demtech.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Carsten_Sch=FCrmann?=) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:24:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Researcher at DemTech/IT University of Copenhagen Message-ID: <9FCA3222-7473-4EBC-982B-9F205F42D66D@demtech.dk> The DemTech project at the IT University of Copenhagen funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research is looking for a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of rigorous software engineering. DemTech is concerned with the technical challenges and societal implications of using information technology in elections. The successful applicant will have completed a PhD in computer science with emphasis on formal methods, software engineering or related topics such as programming languages and distributed systems. He or she will work on topics related to: Design and verification of concurrent and cryptographic systems; Programming language based security, including semantic security and functional programming; Program verification including logical methods, type theory and dependent types; Application of verification technology to standard programming and scripting languages, including java, javascript, python and php. Early expressions of interest are encouraged: Please contact Carsten Schuermann (carsten at itu.dk), Nicolas Guenot (ngue at itu.dk), Nicolas Pouillard (npou at itu.dk) or Lorena Ronquillo (lron at itu.dk). The position is initially for one year, but renewable to up to two years. For more information, please visit the DemTech webpage at http://www.demtech.dk Deadline: January 31, 2014 To apply, please visit https://delta.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=159208&departmentId=3439&MediaId=5 Best regards, - Carsten -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maietti at math.unipd.it Tue Jan 21 19:54:07 2014 From: maietti at math.unipd.it (Maria Emilia Maietti) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:54:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1 year post-doctoral fellowship in Padova In-Reply-To: <52DCA9B0.3050000@math.unipd.it> References: <52DCA9B0.3050000@math.unipd.it> Message-ID: <52DF16AF.5050800@math.unipd.it> Dear colleagues, Applications are invited for a 12-months postdoctoral position in Mathematical Logic at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Padua, Italy. The call is aimed at researchers holding a PhD degree (or a comparable research activity). The title of the project is "From Constructive Mathematics to Foundations: models of type theory in the Basic Picture'' and it will be supervised by Prof. Giovanni Sambin. All applications in the area of Mathematical Logic will be considered. However, preference will be given to those candidates with some experience in constructive methods in mathematics. The salary is about 1500 euros per month. The applications should be sent before February 10, 2014. For further information, please visit: http://www.math.unipd.it/it/news/?id=1435 (in ITALIAN! Please contact us by e-mail if you don't read Italian). We encourage all applicants to contact us in advance for more specific information on the expected research topic. Note that the applications should be sent by registered mail (with "return receipt requested") to the address of the department. It is also possible to use "certified e-mail". Best regards, Francesco Ciraulo Milly Maietti Giovanni Sambin E-mails: {ciraulo, maietti, sambin} AT math.unipd.it From lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr Wed Jan 22 04:21:17 2014 From: lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr (Lutz Strassburger) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:21:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers for SD14, July 12-13, 2014, Vienna Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS FOR ???The Third International Workshop on ?????STRUCTURES AND DEDUCTION (SD14) ???????http://vsl2014.at/sd/ ????????July 12-13, 2014 ????Affiliated with CSL-LICS 2014 ??Part of the Vienna Summer of Logic Overview ======== This is the third in a series of meetings that bring together researchers in different areas of proof theory. The main interest is in new algebraic and geometric results in proof theory that expand our abilities to manipulate proofs, that help to reduce bureaucracy in deductive systems, and that ultimately lead to new methods for proof search and new kinds of proof certificates. Topics of the workshop include - syntactic presentations of proofs, like sequent calculi and deep ?inference systems, in their focused and non-focused variants; - combinatorial presentations of proofs, such as proof nets; - algebraic presentations of proofs, for example via game semantics or ?category theory; - methods for proof manipulation and normal forms for proofs; - methods for incorporating computation and rewriting in proof search, ?such as deduction modulo or fixpoint definitions. Since the past two meetings, held in 2005 in Lisbon and in 2009 in Bordeaux, there has been a tremendous amount of progress in the the theoretical foundations of the topics mentioned above. The time is ripe for moving towards implementations of these ideas in terms of new interactive and automated reasoning tools and modifications to existing tools. Thus, we encourage contributions not only of regular papers, but also of system descriptions, work in progress, and programmatic/position papers. Invited Speakers ================ ??Gilles Dowek (Inria Paris-Rocquencourt) ??Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University) ??Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University) Deadlines and Author Instructions ================================= ??Submission deadline: ??April 13, 2014 ??Notification: ???????????May ?9, 2014 ??Final version: ??????????May 20, 2014 Authors are requested to submit a 10 page (for finished work) or 5 page (for work in progress) paper in the Easychair Proceedings format. LaTeX style files and documentation are available at: ??http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip Submissions are through the following URL: ??http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sd14 Program Committee ================= ???David Baelde (ENS Cachan) ???Paola Bruscoli (University of Bath) ???Kaustuv Chaudhuri (INRIA) - chair ???Nicolas Guenot (IT University of Copenhagen) ???Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath) - chair ???James Laird (University of Bath) ???Chuck Liang (Hofstra Unviersity) ???Michel Parigot (CNRS - Universit? Paris 7) ???Elaine Pimentel (UFMG) ???Revantha Ramanayake (Vienna University of Technology) ???Luca Roversi (University Torino) ???Lutz Strassburger (Inria) - chair ???Christine Tasson (Laboratoire PPS) ???Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University) From murano at na.infn.it Wed Jan 22 03:23:57 2014 From: murano at na.infn.it (murano at na.infn.it) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:23:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] GandALF 2014: Preliminary call for papers Message-ID: <61743.192.133.28.4.1390379037.squirrel@imap-lp.na.infn.it> [We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message] ***************************************************************** ------ GandALF 2014 ----- ***************************************************************** 5th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification September 10 - 12, 2014, Verona, Italy http://gandalf2014.di.univr.it ************************************************ | PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS | ************************************************ *AIM The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to: - Automata Theory - Automated Deduction - Computational aspects of Game Theory - Concurrency and Distributed computation - Decision Procedures - Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification - Finite Model Theory - First-order and Higher-order Logics - Formal Languages - Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems - Games and Automata for Verification - Game Semantics - Logical aspects of Computational Complexity - Logics of Programs - Modal and Temporal Logics - Model Checking - Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems - Program Analysis and Software Verification - Run-time Verification and Testing - Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems - Synthesis *IMPORTANT DATES - May 10th Abstract submission - May 25th Paper submission - June 25th Notification - July 25th Camera-ready submission *PUBLICATIONS The conference proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium papers is also under consideration. Revised versions of the selected papers from the previous editions lead to one special issue of the International Journal of Foundation of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), two special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), and one special issue of Information and Computation (GandALF 2013). *SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format, be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be handled via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2014). *PC CHAIRS - Adriano Peron, University Federico II of Napoli, Italy - Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy From david.delahaye at cnam.fr Wed Jan 22 08:08:20 2014 From: david.delahaye at cnam.fr (david.delahaye at cnam.fr) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:08:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: SETS 2014 Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- SETS 2014 ******************************************************************************** 1st International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2014) June 2, 2014, Toulouse, France Affiliated to ABZ 2014 http://sets2014.cnam.fr/ ******************************************************************************** AIM Sets and constructs built upon them like relations, functions, sequences are the main modeling ingredients of formalisms such as VDM, Z, B, or Event-B. Sets also occur in the formalization of mathematics, as evidenced by the large library of the Mizar proof system for example. In addition, still in the domain of theorem proving, there is an increasing interest to automate set theory (which is known to be a difficult problem), with some concrete realizations, such as mp (the "main prover" of Atelier B) or Muscadet (an automated theorem prover for natural deduction, which gives some good performances in set theory). Sets are also the main features of some programming languages like the former SetL language or the more recent {log} language (pronounced as setlog). The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in set theory, especially to design tools for dealing with set theory, such as interactive or automated theorem provers, proof checkers, theories for general purpose proof tools, constraint solvers, programming languages etc. These tools may be dedicated or general purpose tools. Contributions by theoreticians working on set theories or fragments of set theories in the aim of designing concrete tools, and by practitioners using set-based tools are both welcome. We are also interested by contributions providing some comparisons between set modeling techniques and other formalisms, such as type theory (and variants) for instance. Finally, regarding the domains of application, we mainly expect contributions in the framework of formal methods, but not exhaustively, and contributions reporting formalizations of mathematics using set theory for example could be of interest for this workshop as well. TOPICS Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of set theory and corresponding tools. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * Proof tools for sets * Constraint solvers for sets * Set-based programming languages * Automated deduction in set theory * Set theories for SMT solvers * Encoding of sets in provers * Use of set-based tools in formal methods * Use of set-based tools in mathematics * Comparison of set-based tools * Comparison between set and type theories * Experience reports CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Submitted papers must be 6-15 pages in length, following the Springer LNCS format. These submissions may be: * Research papers providing new concepts and results * Position papers and research perspectives * Experience reports * Tool presentations Proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be available electronically at the workshop. No copyright transfer agreement will be required from the authors. For this first edition of this workshop, we would like to put the emphasis on discussions rather than on conventional publications. PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF using the SETS 2014 EasyChair web site at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sets2014 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: March 3, 2014 Submission deadline: March 10, 2014 Paper notification: April 7, 2014 Revised/final paper: April 21, 2014 Workshop: June 2, 2014 PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS David Delahaye (Cnam, France) Catherine Dubois (Ensiie, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Maximiliano Cristia (CIFASIS, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) David Deharbe (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Michael Leuschel (University of D?sseldorf, Germany) Stephan Merz (Inria Nancy - Grand Est, Loria, France) Dominique Pastre (Universit? Paris Descartes, France) Gianfranco Rossi (Universit? di Parma, Italy) Mark Utting (University of Waikato, New Zealand) Benjamin Werner (Inria Saclay - ?le-de-France, ?cole Polytechnique, France) Freek Wiedijk (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC Institute, JKU Linz, Austria) From Sergei.Soloviev at irit.fr Wed Jan 22 16:59:13 2014 From: Sergei.Soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei Soloviev) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:59:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LACL 2014 Message-ID: <3b6-52e03f00-7-f665ae0@100752274> LACL 2014 Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics IRIT, Toulouse, France 18-20 June 2014 http://www.irit.fr/LACL2014/ FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS PRESENTATION LACL'2014 is the 8th international conference on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. This conference addresses the use of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. It will be held at IRIT, Toulouse, France, from 18 to 20 June 2014. Scope: Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural language analysis, generation or acquisition. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms o categorial grammars o minimalist grammars o dependency grammars o tree adjoining grammars o model theoretic syntax o formal language theory for natural language processing o data-driven approaches * logics for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog o discourse theories o Montague semantics o compositionality o dynamic logics o game semantics o situation semantics o generative lexicon o categorical semantics * applications of these models to natural language processing o software for natural language analysis o software for acquiring linguistic resources o software for natural language generation o software for information extraction o inference tasks o evaluation o scalability SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and may consist of up to 12 pages of content (including figures, bibliography, possible appendices). In exceptional cases by prior agreement with program committee a paper up to 16 pages may be considered. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Submission is exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2014 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published as a volume of the FoLLI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Invited speakers: Prof. Zhaohui Luo, Computer Science Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K. Prof. Michael Moortgat, Department of Language, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Prof. Reinhard Muskens, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, the Netherlands PREVIOUS EDITIONS A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The proceedings of the international conferences LACL'96 ,LACL'97, LACL'98, LACL'2001, LACL'2005 LACL'2011 appeared in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014, 2099, 3492, 6736), and the proceedings of LACL 2012 in Lacture Notes in Computer Science (volume 7351) published by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2014 Camera ready copies due: April 15, 2014 Conference dates: June 18-20, 2014 CONTACTS soloviev at irit.fr and asher at irit.fr (co-chairs of LACL 2014) From f.van.raamsdonk at vu.nl Fri Jan 24 00:24:33 2014 From: f.van.raamsdonk at vu.nl (Raamsdonk, F. van) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:24:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TERMGRAPH 2014: call for papers Message-ID: ************************************************************************* TERMGRAPH 2014: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs (affiliated with RTA-TLCA as part of FLoC) July 13, 2014, Vienna http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/events/termgraph-2014/ ************************************************************************* submission: April 16, 2014 notification: May 16, 2014 final version: May 28, 2014 workshop: July 13, 2014 ************************************************************************* Research in term and graph rewriting ranges from theoretical questions to practical issues. Computing with graphs handles the sharing of common subexpressions in a natural and seamless way, and improves the efficiency of computations in space and time. Sharing is ubiquitous in several research areas, for instance: the modelling of first- and higher-order term rewriting by (acyclic or cyclic) graph rewriting, the modelling of biological or chemical abstract machines, the implementation techniques of programming languages: many implementations of functional, logic, object-oriented, concurrent and mobile calculi are based on term graphs. Term graphs are also used in automated theorem proving and symbolic computation systems working on shared structures. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in different domains on term and graph transformation and to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in term graph rewriting. Previous editions of the workshop took place in Barcelona (2002), Rome (2004), Vienna (2006), Braga (2007), York (2009), Saarbruecken (2011), and Rome (2013). This year TERMGRAPH is affiliated with the joint RTA and TLCA conference, which is part of FLoC, which in turn participates in the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014. *** Topics of interest *** Topics of interest include all aspects of term graphs and sharing of common subexpressions in rewriting, programming, automated reasoning and symbolic computation. This includes (but is not limited to): - graph transformation - graph-based implementations of lambda-calculus - representation of concurrent systems - models of computation - graph-based languages - semantics and implementation of programming languages - compiler construction - interaction nets and proof nets - pattern recognition - bioinformatics - system descriptions *** Submission *** There are two categories of submissions: (1) Extended abstracts describing new results, work in progress, or problems. (2) Short versions of articles recently published or submitted elsewhere. Papers in this category are not considered for the post-workshop proceedings. The page limit for submissions in both categories is 5 pages in EPTCS style. Submissions should be marked with the category (either 1 or 2) and submitted electronically in PDF via the EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=TERMGRAPH2014 Papers will be judged on relevance, originality, correctness, and usefulness. The proceedings of TERMGRAPH 2014 will be included on the FLoC USB flash drive. 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URL: From paolini at di.unito.it Sat Jan 25 03:40:31 2014 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:40:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Joint 25th RTA & 12th TLCA: Last reminder In-Reply-To: <52CE76A5.4090307@di.unito.it> References: <52723B7E.8050606@di.unito.it> <52CACE2F.1020300@di.unito.it> <52CE76A5.4090307@di.unito.it> Message-ID: <52E3787F.7020401@di.unito.it> Joint 25th International Conference on REWRITING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS and 12th International Conference on TYPED LAMBDA CALCULI AND APPLICATIONS July 14?17, 2014, Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/rta-tlca ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: January 28, 2014 Paper submission: February 4, 2014 Notification: April 9, 2014 Final version: April 29, 2014 Rebuttal period: March 19?21, 2014 ====================================== More info at: https://who.rocq.inria.fr/Gilles.Dowek/rta-tlca.html SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------- Submissions presenting original work are expected at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtatlca2014. They should be at most 15 pages (10 for system descriptions) and follow http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The proceedings will be published in the LNCS Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science series of Springer. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. Topics ------ This joint RTA and TLCA conference is the major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of rewriting and typed lambda-calculi. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Foundations: string rewriting; term rewriting; graph rewriting; lambdacalculi; higher-order rewriting; binding techniques; constrained rewriting and deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting; stochastic rewriting; net rewriting; Petri nets; higher-dimensional rewriting; process calculi; explicit substitution; tree automata; confluence; termination; complexity; modularity. - Algorithmic aspects and implementation: strategies; matching; unification; anti-unification; narrowing; constraint solving; theorem proving; completion techniques; implementation techniques; parallel execution; certification of rewriting properties; abstract machines; automated (non)termination and confluence provers; automated complexity analysis; SMT solving; system descriptions. - Logic: proof theory; natural deduction; sequent calculi; proof assistants; cut elimination and normalization; propositions as types; linear logic and proof nets; equational logic; rewriting logic; rewriting calculi; proof checking; reasoning about programming languages and logics; homotopy type theory; type-theoretic aspects of complexity; implicit computational complexity. - Types: dependent types; polymorphism; intersection types and related approaches; subtyping; type inference and type checking; types in databases. - Semantics: denotational semantics; operational semantics; game semantics; realisability; domain theory; categorical models; universal algebra. - Programming: foundational aspects of functional programming, object oriented programming, and other programming paradigms; flow analysis of higher-type computation; program equivalence; program transformation; program optimization; program refactoring; rewriting models of programs; rule-based (functional and logic) programming; control operators; symbolic and algebraic computation; system synthesis and verification; XML queries and transformations; types in program analysis and verification; analysis of cryptographic protocols; systems biology; linguistics. Programme Committee -------------------- Andreas Abel (Gothenburg) Beniamino Accattoli (Bologna) Zena Ariola (Oregon) Steffen van Bakel (Imperial College) Pierre Clairambault (CNRS) Ugo Dal Lago (Bologna) Gilles Dowek (Inria) Santiago Escobar (Valencia) Amy Felty (Ottawa) Maribel Fernandez (King?s college) Adria Gascon (SRI International) Jeroen Ketema (Imperial College) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson) Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto) Olivier Hermant (MINES ParisTech) Paul-Andre Mellies (CNRS) Alexandre Miquel (UdelaR) Cesar Munoz (NASA) Vivek Nigam (Para?ba) Luke Ong (Oxford) Brigitte Pientka (McGill) Femke van Raamsdonk (Amsterdam) Jakob Rehof (Dortmund) David Sabel (Frankfurt) Gernot Salzer (Wien) Sylvain Salvati (Inria) Aleksy Schubert (Warszawa) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Paula Severi (Leicester) Christian Sternagel (JAIST) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) Mateu Villaret (Girona) Fer-Jan de Vries (Leicester) Harald Zankl (Innsbruck) Programme Chair --------------- Gilles Dowek Conference Chair ---------------- Gernot Salzer =============================================================== Luca Paolini, Sophie Tison RTA & TLCA publicity chairs From luca.aceto at gmail.com Sat Jan 25 04:25:03 2014 From: luca.aceto at gmail.com (Luca Aceto) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:25:03 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in Nominal Structural Operational Semantics (Reykjavik University) Message-ID: *Nominal Structural Operational Semantics* *School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University* *One postdoctoral position* Applications are invited for one postdoctoral position at the School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University. The position is part of a research project funded by the Icelandic Research Fund, under the direction of Luca Aceto and Anna Ingolfsdottir. The general aim of the project is to bring the framework of Nominal Structural Operational Semantics, proposed by Cimini, Mousavi, Reniers and Gabbay, to a level of maturity that is comparable to that of the standard theory of Structural Operational Semantics. More specifically, the main general goals of the research project are - to provide further evidence that Nominal SOS is expressive enough to capture the original semantics of nominal calculi, such as value-passing CCS, variants of the (higher-order) pi-calculus, the spi-calculus, the psi-calculi and the object calculi, and to prove formally the correspondence between the presentation in terms of Nominal SOS and the original ones; - to develop the meta-theory of Nominal SOS and to extend a wealth of classic SOS meta-results and techniques to the framework of Nominal SOS; and - to provide tool support for Nominal SOS. See http://www.ru.is/~luca/PROJECTS/NOSOS/nominal-sos-rannis-2014.pdf for details on the project. The successful candidates will benefit from, and contribute to, the research environment at the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS). For information about ICE-TCS and its activities, see http://www.icetcs.ru.is/. *Qualification requirements* Applicants for the postdoctoral position should have, or be about to hold, a PhD degree in Computer Science or closely related fields. Previous knowledge of at least one of concurrency theory, process calculi, (structural) operational semantics and logic in computer science is highly desirable. *Remuneration* The wage is 400,000 ISK (roughly 2,550 EURO at the present exchange rate) per month before taxes. The position is for two years, starting on August 1, 2014 (earlier starting dates are possible), and is renewable for another year, based on good performance and mutual satisfaction. *Application details* Interested applicants should send their CV, including a list of publications, in PDF to both addresses below, together with a statement outlining their suitability for the project and the names of at least two referees. 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URL: From yangliu at ntu.edu.sg Sat Jan 25 11:36:13 2014 From: yangliu at ntu.edu.sg (Liu Yang (Asst Prof)) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:36:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: ICFEM 2014, Luxembourg, 3-7 November 2014 Message-ID: <5A4257BA3B1EEA45B17620B30FD656E12CA8C7AF@EXCHMBOX31.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> [We apologize for multiple copies.] ============================================================ Call for Papers ICFEM 2014 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods Luxembourg, 3-7 November 2014 http://icfem2014.uni.lu ============================================================ The 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2014) will be held at the Melia Hotel in Luxembourg, Luxembourg from 3rd November to 7 November 2014. Since 1997, ICFEM has been serving as an international forum for researchers and practitioners who have been seriously applying formal methods to practical applications. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, are encouraged to attend, present their research, and help advance the state of the art. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and tangible benefit. ICFEM 2014 is organised and sponsored by The University of Luxembourg. The city of Luxembourg itself is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, on account of the historical importance of its fortifications. Luxembourg was the first city to be named European Capital of Culture twice. SCOPE AND TOPICS ---------------------------------------- Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal methods and their practical applications will also be considered. + Abstraction and refinement + Formal specification and modelling + Program analysis + Software verification + Software model checking + Formal approaches to software testing + Formal methods for self-adaptive systems + Formal methods for object and component systems + Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems + Formal methods for cloud computing and cyber-physical systems + Formal methods for software safety, security, reliability and dependability + Tool development, integration and experiments involving verified systems + Formal methods used in certifying products under international standards + Formal model-based development and code generation This year, ICFEM will have special tracks on application of formal methods in three areas: + Computer Security + Biology + Healthcare Submissions in these topics are especially encouraged. Papers in these areas will be subject to the same rigorous review process as other papers. Accepted special track papers will be organised into special sessions. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------- 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. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Submission should be made through the ICFEM 2014 submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2014), handled by the EasyChair conference management system. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Formal Aspect Computing journal. WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL ---------------------------------------- The last two days of the conference (6th and 7th November 2014) will be dedicated to workshops, tutorials and other satellite events. The organising committee of ICFEM 2014 therefore cordially invites proposals for one-day workshops and one-day or half-day tutorials in any area related to formal methods or software engineering, but particularly in new or emerging fields of application of formal methods. Proposals for workshops/tutorial should contain: + a title and brief description of the topic and the history of the workshop/tutorial, if applicable; + the names and contact details of the potential organisers; + a brief justification of the topic and estimated size of audience; + a description of any special technical requirements. Proposals should be sent to ICFEM2014 Workshops Chair, Jun Sun, at > no later than 22nd March 2014. SUMMER SCHOOL VTSA 2014 ---------------------------------------- The summer school on verification technology, systems & applications takes place at University of Luxembourg from October 27-31, 2014. It is a co-located event with ICFEM 2014 and is organized by the Montefiore Institute, University of Luxembourg, INRIA Nancy, and the Max Planck Insitute for Informatics Saarbr?cken. More detailed information will be provided at the summer school's website. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Abstract Submissions due: 11 April 2014 Full Paper Submissions due: 18 April 2014 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: 22 March 2014 Acceptance Notification: 20 June 2014 Camera-ready Papers Due: 13 July 2014 ORGANISING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program Committee Co-Chairs Stephan Merz, INRIA, France Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Local Organisation Chair Andrzej Mizera, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Publicity Chair Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Web Chair: Piotr Kordy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- Frank de Boer, CWI, The Netherlands Jonathan Bowen, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Kostas Chatzikokolakis, CNRS and ?cole Polytechnique, France Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Michaela Huhn, Technische Universit?t Clausthal, Germany Pierre Kelsen, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy, France Jean Krivine, CNRS and Universit? Paris Diderot, France Peter Gorm Larsen, Engineering College of Aarhus, Denmark Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shang-Wei Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dominique Mery, Universit? de Lorraine, France Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy, France Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ion Petre, ?bo Akademi University, Finland Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom Zongyan Qiu, Peking University, China Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS, Germany Hai H. Wang, Aston University, United Kingdom Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China STEERING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- Keijiro Araki, Kyushu University, Japan Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jifeng He, East China Normal University, China Shaoying Liu (Chair), Hosei University, Japan Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, United States Shengchao Qin, University of Teesside, United Kingdom ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yangliu at ntu.edu.sg Sat Jan 25 11:48:23 2014 From: yangliu at ntu.edu.sg (Liu Yang (Asst Prof)) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:48:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers: ICECCS 2014, Tianjin, China, 4-7 Aug 2014 Message-ID: <5A4257BA3B1EEA45B17620B30FD656E12CA8C8A5@EXCHMBOX31.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> [We apologize for multiple copies.] ============================================================ Call for Papers ICECCS 2014 (The 19th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems) 4-7 August 2014 School of Computer Science and Technology Tianjin University, China http://cs.tju.edu.cn/iceccs/2014 ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------- * Abstract submission: February 14, 2014 * Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2014 * Workshop proposal submission: February 28, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2014 * Camera-ready material for publication: May 4, 2014 * Checking for Production: May 14, 2014 * Conference date: August 4-7, 2014 Complex computer systems are common in many sectors, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks, and are driven by many diverse requirements on performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns, and other areas. Such requirements frequently conflict, and their satisfaction therefore requires managing the trade-off among them during system development and throughout the entire system life. The goal of this conference 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 --------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and toolsed research results, case studies and tools. 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: * Requirement specification and analysis * Verification and validation * Security and privacy of complex systems * Model-driven development * Reverse engineering and refactoring * Architecture software * Big Data Management * Ambient intelligence, pervasive computing * Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks * Design by contract * Agile methods * Safety-critical & fault-tolerant architectures * Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems * Real-time, hybrid and embedded systems * Systems of systems * Tools and tool integration * Industrial case studies SUBMISSION --------------------------- Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions 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. FULL PAPERS Full 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 experience reports should present practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. POSTER PAPERS Poster paper submissions should specify in their abstract whether they describe ongoing or PhD research. Both types of poster papers will be reviewed by program committee members, and accepted posters will be published in the conference proceedings. PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) Proceedings Format. Papers should not exceed 10 pages for full papers and 2 pages for poster papers, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately, without review. All submissions should be made through the Easychair Website: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iceccs2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES --------------------------- General Co-Chairs * JinSong Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Zhiyong Feng, Tianjin University, China. Program Committee Co-Chairs * Etienne Andre, Universite Paris 13, France * Lei Zhang, Tianjin University, China Workshop Chairs * Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, Xi'an * YuanFang Li, Monash University, Australia Publicity Chair * Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tutorial Chair * Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Local Chairs * Xiaohong Li, Tianjin University, China * Guangquan Xu, Tianjin University, China Doctoral Symposium Chair * Xin Peng, Fudan University, China Registration Chair * Jing Hu, Tianjin University, China Web Chairs * Xiaofei Xie, Tianjin University, China * Gang Shen, Tianjin University, China PROGRAMME COMMITTEE --------------------------- * Aiguier Marc, Ecole Centrale Paris, France * Ait Ameur Yamine, IRIT/ENSEEIHT, France * Almeida Luis, Fac de Eng da Universidade do Porto, Portugal * Andre Etienne, Universite Paris 13, France (co-chair) * Artho Cyrille, AIST, Japan * Baresi Luciano, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Brooke Phillip J, Teesside University, UK * Calinescu Radu, University of York, UK * Chen Yixiang,School of Software,East China Normal University,China * Cirstea Corina, University of Southampton, UK * Di Giandomenico Felicita, ISTI-CNR, Italy * Dowek Gilles, INRIA, France * Eder Kerstin, University of Bristol, Department of Computer Science, UK * Furia Carlo Alberto, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Gerard Sebastien, CEA, LIST, France * Grechanik Mark, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States * Groves Lindsay, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand * Guerra Esther, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain * He Fei, School of Software, Tsinghua University, China * Kim Moonzoo, KAIST, South Korea * Kroening Daniel, Computer Science Department, Oxford University, UK * Laleau Regine, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, France * Laplante Phillip, Penn State, United States * Lau Kung-Kiu, UK * Li Bing,State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China * Li Xiaohong, Tianjin University, China * Li Yuan-Fang, Monash University, Australia * Lindsay Peter, The University of Queensland, Australia * Liu Ling,School of Software,Tsinghua University,China * Liu Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Lo David, Singapore Management University, Singapore * Luettgen Gerald, University of Bamberg, Germany * Mao Xiaoguang, School of Computer Science,cNational University of Defense Technology, China * Margaria Tiziana, University of Potsdam, Germany * Martin Andrew, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK * Mccann Julie, Imperial College, UK * Mery Dominique, Universite de Lorraine, LORIA, France * Miao HuaiKou,Shanghai University,China * Mirandola Raffaela, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Nesi Paolo, University of Florence, Italy * Pang Jun, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Perseil Isabelle, Inserm, France * Pettit Robert, United States * Prehofer Christian, Munich, Germany * Rumpe Bernhard, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Seceleanu Cristina, Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden * Stolz Volker, University of Oslo, Norway * Sun Jing, The University of Auckland, New Zealand * Sun Jun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore * Taguchi Kenji, AIST, Japan * Tamzalit Dalila, LINA Laboratory, University of Nantes, France * Tian Cong, Xidian University, China * Vardanega Tullio, University of Padua, Italy * Van Hoorn Andre, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Wang Farn, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Wang Hai H, University of Aston, UK * Wang Qianxiang, Software Engineering Insisute, Peking University, China * Wang Xinyu, Computer College of Zhejiang University, China * Wehrheim Heike, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany * Xu Baowen, Nanjin University, China * Xu Guangquan, Tianjin University, China * Xu Jing, Nankai University, China * Yuan Ling, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China * Zalila Bechir, ReDCAD Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia * Zhan Naijun, Lab of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Zhang Lei, Tianjin University, China (co-chair) * Zhao JianJun, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China * Zhao Wenyun, Fudan University, China * Zhu Huibiao, Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, China * Zschaler Steffen, King's College London, UK ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. 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The candidate is expected to submit a research project connected to at least one of the following topics: - operational and denotational semantics of functional languages and their extensions - Linear Logic and its extensions - Process Algebras, logics of processes, co-inductive techniques - algebraic and topological methods in Rewriting Theory or Type Theory. * Local project members The local members of the project LOCALI are: Antonio Bucciarelli, Pierre-Louis Curien and Thomas Ehrhard. They will be the main interlocutors of the recruited postdoctoral researcher. * Important dates: Duration: one year Starting date: between September 1st and December 31st, 2014 Application deadline: February 28th, 2014 Notification: before March 31st, 2014 * Salary: Take-home pay is around 2000 Euro per month. * Application: Please send, before the application deadline, the following documents: - CV - publication list - description of past research activities - postdoctoral research project - supporting letters (not mandatory) by email (PDF files) to the following address: postdoc-locali at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr Description of the projet LOCALI: http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/projet-anr/?tx_lwmsuivibilan_pi2[CODE]=ANR-11-IS02-0002 From alain.girault at inria.fr Tue Jan 28 12:23:56 2014 From: alain.girault at inria.fr (Alain Girault) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:23:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RePP 2014 workshop extension deadline: Grenoble, France, Sunday April 6th, 2014 Message-ID: <52E7E7AC.4060004@inria.fr> RePP 2014 http://repp14.inria.fr Reconciling Performance with Predictability Grenoble, France, Sunday April 6th, 2014 An ETAPS 2014 satellite event Workshop description ==================== The RePP workshop targets embedded systems with both efficiency requirements and critical temporal constraints, occurring in many industrial domains: avionics, automotive, railway, energy, and robotics. Guaranteeing the temporal constraints depends on the predictability properties of the whole system (processor architecture, software, OS, scheduling strategy, communications, and middleware). However, system efficiency is measured by means of average-case behavior with performance, resource utilization, and power consumption criteria. Reasons for the gap between average-case and worst-case behavior are the variation and non-determinism of the system environment, and the interferences caused by shared resources. Unfortunately, new classes of hardware platforms such as multi-core processors and multiprocessors-on-a-chip as well as the demand for adaptive and multi-mode applications quickly increase system efficiency if worst-case behavior needs to be guaranteed. The workshop will discuss approaches that attack the improvement of both worst-case predictability and of average-case performance. Topics of interest include mixed-criticality approaches, predictable (multi-core) architectures, worst-case execution time and interference analysis, resource-aware compilers, scheduling and allocation considering worst-case and average-case performance, and certification. Workshop topics =============== Contributions should relate to the main subject of the workshop. The following issues and questions are of special interest: - Concepts and metrics for characterizing predictability. - Computer science has been successful in removing resource interactions from interfaces. Does it make sense to enrich interfaces with resource-related information. If yes, on which level of abstraction (instruction set, software components, ?). - Do resource interactions have an influence across abstraction layers? In particular, can improvements on one layer lead to degradation on another layer? - Designing new hardware with special support for predictability. - Using mainstream software development for predictability, for instance with the support of new compilers for classical programming languages. - Multicore predictable processors: How can embedded multicore processors be designed in a time predictable fashion? - Parallel predictable processors: How can embedded control algorithms that require a higher performance than sequential processors can deliver be parallelized and allow for time predictability of the parallel task? - Mixed criticality: Is the execution of mixed real-time and non-real-time applications on an embedded multicore processor feasible? - Case studies involving applications where one needs to guarantee deadlines AND average performance. Programme committee =================== David Broman: UC Berkeley, broman at eecs.berkeley.edu Jian-Jia Chen: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, jian-jia.chen at kit.edu Alain Girault: INRIA, alain.girault at inria.fr Michael Mendler: U. Bamberg, michael.mendler at uni-bamberg.de Partha Roop: U. Auckland, p.roop at auckland.ac.nz Lothar Thiele: ETHZ, lothar.thiele at ethz.ch Reinhard Wilhelm: U. des Saarlandes, wilhelm at cs.uni-saarland.de Theo Ungerer: U. Augsburg, ungerer at informatik.uni-augsburg.de Paper submission ================ We welcome original, unpublished, research papers on the above mentioned topics. The submission format should be in the LNCS format, between 10 and 15 pages long. The accepted papers will be printed to be handed out to the workshop participants but they will not be formally published. Instead, a follow-up call for papers will take place for LITES, the Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lites). Important dates =============== Submission deadline: February 14th, 2014 Paper notification: March 7th, 2014 Final version: March 21st, 2014 Workshop: April 6th, 2014 From mdeters at cs.nyu.edu Wed Jan 29 16:58:26 2014 From: mdeters at cs.nyu.edu (Morgan Deters) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:58:26 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Vienna Summer of Logic Announcement Message-ID: **Vienna Summer of Logic Announcement** In the summer of 2014, Vienna will host the largest event in the history of logic. The Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL) will consist of twelve large conferences and numerous workshops, attracting an expected number of 2500 researchers from all over the world. The conferences and workshops will deal with the main theme, logic, from three important aspects: logic in computer science, mathematical logic and logic in artificial intelligence. This unique event will be organized by the Kurt Goedel Society at Vienna University of Technology from July 9 to 24, 2014 (see website for more details: http://vsl2014.at) *Keynote Speakers* The VSL keynote speakers are Franz Baader (Technische Universitaet Dresden), Edmund Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University), Christos Papadimitriou (University of California, Berkeley) and Alex Wilkie (University of Manchester). Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University) will speak in the opening session. *Logic in Computer Science / Federated Logic Conference (FLoC)* - 26th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) - 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) - 30th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) - 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) - 5th Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) - Joint meeting of the 23rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the 29th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) - 25th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA) joint with the 12th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA) - 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) - FLoC Workshops - FLoC Olympic Games (System Competitions) *Mathematical Logic* - Logic Colloquium 2014 - Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees 2014 - The Infinity Workshop - Kurt Goedel Fellowship Competition *Logic in Artificial Intelligence* - 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) - 27th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL) - 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR) - International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care 2014 (KR4HC) *Kurt Goedel Research Prize Fellowship Competition* At the Vienna Summer of Logic, the Kurt Goedel Society will award three fellowship prizes endowed with 100.000 Euro each to the winners of the Kurt Goedel Research Prize Fellowship Competition "Logical Mind: Connecting Foundations and Technology." *FLoC Olympic Games - Citius, Maius, Potentius* The Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2014 will host the 1st FLoC Olympic Games. Intended as a new FLoC tradition, the Games will bring together a multitude of established solver competitions by different research communities. In addition to the competitions, the Olympic Games will facilitate the exchange of expertise between communities, and increase the visibility and impact of state-of-the-art solver technology. The winners in the competition categories will be awarded Kurt Goedel medals at the FLoC Olympic Games award ceremonies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The ACM Student Research Competition shares the Poster session's goal to facilitate students' interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Additionally, the Student Research Competition affords students with experience with both formal presentations and evaluations. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: February 9, 2014 [deadline extended] * Notification: February 16, 2014 * Camera ready: February 24, 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES For detailed submission guidelines please refer to http://modularity14.inf.usi.ch/src. From moggi at disi.unige.it Thu Jan 30 11:33:49 2014 From: moggi at disi.unige.it (Eugenio Moggi) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:33:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Correctness by Construction, Genoa, Italy, 24-27 March 2014 Message-ID: <87vbx18m4y.fsf@unige.it> _________________________________________________________________________ Correctness by Construction, Workshop, Genoa, Italy, 24-27 March 2014 http://corcon2014.net/ _________________________________________________________________________ Correctness by Construction (CORCON) is an FP7 EU-funded project under the Marie Curie IRSES scheme. This kick-off workshop of CORCON aims at bringing together the participants of the project and those researchers who are interested in the themes of the project. The workshop is further promoted by AILA (Associazione Italiana di Logica e sue Applicazioni) and by the research project Logical Methods of Information Management. Themes of the Project (non-exclusive) Proof Theory, Type Theory and Constructive Set Theory Constructive Topology and Analysis Homotopy Type Theory Categorical Logic Programming Languages for Correct by Construction Programming Correct by Construction Programs over Continuous Data Correct by Construction Programs with Limited Resources Keynote Speakers (preliminary list) Marco Benini (University of Insubria) Hannes Diener (University of Siegen/University of Canterbury) Neil Ghani (University of Strathclyde) Hajime Ishihara (JAIST, Japan) Gyesik Lee (HNU, Korea) Maria Emilia Maietti (University of Padua) Eugenio Moggi (University of Genoa) Mizuhito Ogawa (JAIST, Japan) Erik Palmgren (Stockholm University) John Stell (University of Leeds) Michael Rathjen (University of Leeds) Giuseppe Rosolini (University of Genoa) Giovanni Sambin (University of Padua) Helmut Schwichtenberg (University of Munich) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University) Dieter Spreen (University of Siegen) Satoshi Tojo (JAIST, Japan) Hideki Tsuiki (Kyoto University) Contributed Talks Abstracts in PDF, at most one page including references, can only be submitted via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=corcon2014 In addition to contributions from members of the project sites, there will also be room for a few contributions by people from outside the project. Important Deadlines 13 February 2014 Abstracts of Contributed Papers 20 February 2014 Notification of Acceptance 27 February 2014 Early Registration: Reduced Fee 13 March 2014 Registration Closed More details, including information about registration, travel and accommodation, are or will be available on the project web page: http://corcon2014.net/ _________________________________________________________________________ From lanese at cs.unibo.it Thu Jan 30 11:34:16 2014 From: lanese at cs.unibo.it (Ivan Lanese) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:34:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FACS 2014 : Call for Papers -- Bertinoro, 10-12 Sep. 2014 Message-ID: ************************************************************************* ????????????????FACS 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS The 11th International Symposium on Formal Aspects of Component Software ???????????Bertinoro, Italy, September 10-12, 2014 ????????????????http://facs2014.cs.unibo.it/ Colocated with?????? iFM2014: the 11th Int. Conf. on Integrated Formal Methods ************************************************************************* Important Dates =============== -? Abstract submission: June 9, 2014 -? Paper submission:???? June 16, 2014 -? Notification:?????????July 21, 2014 -? Final version due:????August 8, 2014 Scope ===== Component-based software development is a paradigm that has been proposing sound engineering principles and techniques for coping with the complexity of software-intensive systems. However, many challenging conceptual and technological issues remain that require further research. Moreover, the advent of service-oriented and cloud computing has brought to the fore new dimensions, such as quality of service and robustness to withstand inevitable faults, which require established concepts to be revisited and new ones to be developed in order to meet the opportunities offered by those architectures. As software applications become themselves components of wider socio-technical systems, further challenges arise from the need to create and manage interactions, which can evolve in time and space, and rely on the use of resources that can change in non-computable ways. FACS 2014 is concerned with how formal methods can be used to make component-based development fit for the new architectures of today and the systems that are now pervading the socio-economic world. Formal methods have provided foundations for component-based software through research on mathematical models for components, composition and adaptation, and rigorous approaches to verification, deployment, testing, and certification. Whilst those avenues still need to be further explored, time is also ripe to bring new techniques to the fore, such as those based on stochastic models and simulation. Topics of Interest ================== The symposium seeks to address the development and application of formal methods in all aspects of software components and services. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: ?- formal models for software components and their interaction ?- formal aspects of services, service oriented architectures, business processes, cloud computing, ensembles, or similar programming artifacts ?- design and verification methods for software components and services ?- composition and deployment: models, calculi, languages ?- formal methods and modeling languages for components and services ?- model based and GUI based testing of components and services ?- models for QoS and other extra-functional properties (e.g., trust, compliance, security) of components and services ?- components for real-time, safety-critical, secure, and/or embedded systems ?- stochastic techniques for modelling and verification ?- simulation techniques for complex networks of interacting components ?- industrial or experience reports, and case studies ?- update and reconfiguration of component and service architectures ?- component systems evolution and maintenance ?- autonomic components and self-managed applications ?- formal and rigorous approaches to software adaptation and self-adaptive systems ?- tools supporting the formal methods for components and services Call for Papers =============== We solicit high-quality submissions reporting on (as related to topics mentioned here): - A) original research contributions (18 pages max); - B) applications and experiences (18 pages max); - C) surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (18 pages max); - D) tool papers (6 pages max); In addition, we solicit submissions to the Doctoral Track of FACS 2014, in the form of abstracts (3 pages max) concisely capturing work in progress, related topic, context, research questions, envisaged contributions, and partial results. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers. All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FACS 2014. Revised versions of accepted papers in the categories A-D above will appear in the post-proceedings of the symposium that will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming journal. Organization ======== General Chair:? Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy Program Chairs: ??? Ivan Lanese, Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy ??? Eric Madelaine, INRIA, France Workshop Chair: ??? Elena Giachino, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy Organizing Committee: ??? Roberto Amadini ??? Saverio Giallorenzo ??? 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It provides a forum for doctoral students working in areas related to logic and constraint programming, with a particular emphasis to students interested in pursuing a career in academia. The DC gives students the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to obtain feedback from peers as well as world-renowned experts. ** Target Audience ** The DC is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Master's program and interested in doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC. Applicants are expected to conduct research in areas related to logic and constraint programming; topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Theoretical Foundations of Logic and Constraint Logic Programming - Sequential and Parallel Implementation Technology - Static and Dynamic Analysis, Abstract Interpretation, Compilation Technology, Verification - Logic-based Paradigms (e.g., Answer Set Programming, Concurrent Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming) - Innovative Applications of Logic Programming Submissions by students who have presented their work at previous ICLP DC editions are allowed, but should occur only if there are substantial changes or improvements to the student's work. The DC allows participants to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, question-answer sessions, panel discussions, and invited presentations. The Doctoral Consortium will provide the possibility to reflect - through short activities, information sessions, and discussions - on the process and lessons of research and life in academia. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation. ** Application Process ** An application for participation in the ICLP DC 2014 consists of a cover letter, a research summary, and a letter of recommendation (e.g., from your supervisor). All applications must be in English and submitted electronically via EasyChair, due to the application submission deadline. Detailed submission instructions are provided at the ICLP DC 2014 website. The DC program committee will select participants based on their anticipated contribution to the DC objectives. Students will be selected based on clarity and completeness of their submission package, relevance of their research area w.r.t. the focus of ICLP, stage of research, recommendation letter, and evidence of promise towards a successful career in research and academia, such as published papers or technical reports. The works accepted for presentation at the DC will be published in conjunction with the ICLP proceedings. Updates follow as soon as we have more information regarding this. ** Best Contribution Award ** The DC program committee will review submission packages and judge DC presentations to assign the "Best ICLP DC 2014 Contribution" award among participants. The award-winning contribution will also be presented in the ICLP main program. ** Participant Funding ** The Association for Logic Programming supports ICLP DC 2014 participants. 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URL: From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri Jan 31 03:57:51 2014 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:57:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TFP 2014 - 2nd call for papers Message-ID: <52EB658F.3030800@cs.ru.nl> --------------------------------- 2ND C A L L F O R P A P E R S --------------------------------- ======== TFP 2014 =========== 15th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming May 26-28, 2014 Utrecht University Soesterberg, The Netherlands http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/TFP2014/WebHome *** Submission for TFP 2014 is now open: please direct your browser to *** http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/TFP2014/PaperSubmission The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see below), described in draft papers submitted prior to the symposium. A formal post-symposium refereeing process then selects a subset of the articles presented at the symposium and submitted for formal publication. Selected revised papers will be published as a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume. TFP 2014 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. The other is the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE). TFPIE will take place on May 25th. Its website is located at http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~jlc/tfpie14/ The TFP symposium is the heir of the successful series of Scottish Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2003, in Munich (Germany) in 2004, in Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005, in Nottingham (UK) in 2006, in New York (USA) in 2007, in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008, in Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009, in Oklahoma (USA) in 2010, in Madrid (Spain) in 2011, St. Andrews (UK) in 2012 and Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. INVITED SPEAKERS TFP is pleased to announce talks by the following two invited speakers: John Hughes of Chalmers, Goteborg, Sweden, is well-known as author of Why Functional Programming Matters, and as one of the designers of QuickCheck (together with Koen Claessen); the paper on QuickCheck won the ICFP Most Influential Paper Award in 2010. Currently he divides his time between his professorship and Quviq, a company that performs property-based testing of software with a tool implemented in Erlang. Dr. Geoffrey Mainland received his PhD from Harvard University where he was advised by Greg Morrisett and Matt Welsh. After a two year postdoc with the Programming Principles and Tools group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, he is now an assistant professor at Drexel University. His research focuses on high-level programming language and runtime support for non-general purpose computation. SCOPE The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles: leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles: on what new trends should or should not be Project Articles: descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles: 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. Topics suitable for the symposium include: Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing Functional programming in the cloud High performance functional computing Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs Dependently typed functional programming Validation and verification of functional programs Using functional techniques to reason about imperative/object-oriented programs Debugging for functional languages Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc. Interoperability with imperative programming languages Novel memory management techniques Program analysis and transformation techniques Empirical performance studies Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages (Embedded) domain specific 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 2014 program chair, Jurriaan Hage at J.Hage at uu.nl. BEST PAPER AWARDS To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper accepted for the formal proceedings. TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year. In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both prizes. SPONSORS TFP is financially supported by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), Well-Typed and Erlang Solutions. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on a lightweight peer review process of extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (16 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate whether the main author or authors are research students. In the case of a FULL STUDENT paper, the draft paper will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place. We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of draft papers: March 17, 2014 Notification: March 24, 2014 Registration: April 7, 2014 TFP Symposium: May 26-28, 2014 Student papers feedback: June 9th, 2014 Submission for formal review: July 1st, 2014 Notification of acceptance: September 8th, 2014 Camera ready paper: October 8th, 2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen Emil Axelsson Chalmers Lucilia Camarao de Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Laura Castro University of A Coruna Frank Huch Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology Jurriaan Hage (chair) University of Utrecht Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba Andrew Kennedy Microsoft Research Tamas Kozsik Eotvos Lorand University Ben Lippmeier University of New South Wales Luc Maranget INRIA Jay McCarthy (co-chair) Brigham Young University Marco T. Morazan Seton Hall University Ricardo Pena Universidad Complutense de Madrid Alexey Rodriguez LiquidM Sven-Bodo Scholz Heriot-Watt University Manuel Serrano INRIA Sophia Antipolis Simon Thompson University of Kent Tarmo Uustalu Inst of Cybernetics David Van Horn University of Maryland Janis Voigtlaender University of Bonn From paolini at di.unito.it Fri Jan 31 04:46:55 2014 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:46:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Joint 25th RTA & 12th TLCA: Deadline extension In-Reply-To: <52E3787F.7020401@di.unito.it> References: <52723B7E.8050606@di.unito.it> <52CACE2F.1020300@di.unito.it> <52CE76A5.4090307@di.unito.it> <52E3787F.7020401@di.unito.it> Message-ID: <52EB710F.20209@di.unito.it> Joint 25th International Conference on REWRITING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS and 12th International Conference on TYPED LAMBDA CALCULI AND APPLICATIONS July 14?17, 2014, Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/rta-tlca ============================================== IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------- EXTENDED Abstract submission: February 4, 2014 EXTENDED Paper submission: February 11, 2014 ---------------------------------------------- Notification: April 9, 2014 Final version: April 29, 2014 Rebuttal period: March 19?21, 2014 ============================================= More info at: https://who.rocq.inria.fr/Gilles.Dowek/rta-tlca.html SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------- Submissions presenting original work are expected at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtatlca2014. They should be at most 15 pages (10 for system descriptions) and follow http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The proceedings will be published in the LNCS Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science series of Springer. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. Topics ------ This joint RTA and TLCA conference is the major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of rewriting and typed lambda-calculi. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Foundations: string rewriting; term rewriting; graph rewriting; lambdacalculi; higher-order rewriting; binding techniques; constrained rewriting and deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting; stochastic rewriting; net rewriting; Petri nets; higher-dimensional rewriting; process calculi; explicit substitution; tree automata; confluence; termination; complexity; modularity. - Algorithmic aspects and implementation: strategies; matching; unification; anti-unification; narrowing; constraint solving; theorem proving; completion techniques; implementation techniques; parallel execution; certification of rewriting properties; abstract machines; automated (non)termination and confluence provers; automated complexity analysis; SMT solving; system descriptions. - Logic: proof theory; natural deduction; sequent calculi; proof assistants; cut elimination and normalization; propositions as types; linear logic and proof nets; equational logic; rewriting logic; rewriting calculi; proof checking; reasoning about programming languages and logics; homotopy type theory; type-theoretic aspects of complexity; implicit computational complexity. - Types: dependent types; polymorphism; intersection types and related approaches; subtyping; type inference and type checking; types in databases. - Semantics: denotational semantics; operational semantics; game semantics; realisability; domain theory; categorical models; universal algebra. - Programming: foundational aspects of functional programming, object oriented programming, and other programming paradigms; flow analysis of higher-type computation; program equivalence; program transformation; program optimization; program refactoring; rewriting models of programs; rule-based (functional and logic) programming; control operators; symbolic and algebraic computation; system synthesis and verification; XML queries and transformations; types in program analysis and verification; analysis of cryptographic protocols; systems biology; linguistics. Programme Committee -------------------- Andreas Abel (Gothenburg) Beniamino Accattoli (Bologna) Zena Ariola (Oregon) Steffen van Bakel (Imperial College) Pierre Clairambault (CNRS) Ugo Dal Lago (Bologna) Gilles Dowek (Inria) Santiago Escobar (Valencia) Amy Felty (Ottawa) Maribel Fernandez (King?s college) Adria Gascon (SRI International) Jeroen Ketema (Imperial College) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson) Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto) Olivier Hermant (MINES ParisTech) Paul-Andre Mellies (CNRS) Alexandre Miquel (UdelaR) Cesar Munoz (NASA) Vivek Nigam (Para?ba) Luke Ong (Oxford) Brigitte Pientka (McGill) Femke van Raamsdonk (Amsterdam) Jakob Rehof (Dortmund) David Sabel (Frankfurt) Gernot Salzer (Wien) Sylvain Salvati (Inria) Aleksy Schubert (Warszawa) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Paula Severi (Leicester) Christian Sternagel (JAIST) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) Mateu Villaret (Girona) Fer-Jan de Vries (Leicester) Harald Zankl (Innsbruck) Programme Chair --------------- Gilles Dowek Conference Chair ---------------- Gernot Salzer =============================================================== Luca Paolini, Sophie Tison RTA & TLCA publicity chairs From dallago at cs.unibo.it Fri Jan 31 07:05:48 2014 From: dallago at cs.unibo.it (Ugo Dal Lago) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:05:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DCM 2014 - First Call For Papers Message-ID: <52EB919C.7090006@cs.unibo.it> ========================================================================= First Call for Papers DCM 2014 10th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models July 13, 2014 Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/pages/DCM-index.html A satellite event of CSL-LICS 2014 http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/csl-lics14/ DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS MAY 16, 2014 ========================================================================= Several new models of computation have emerged in the last few years, and many developments of traditional computational models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of computer systems users and the new capabilities of computation engines. A new computational model, or a new feature in a traditional one, usually is reflected in a new family of programming languages, and new paradigms of software development. DCM 2014 is the tenth in a series of international workshops focusing on new computational models. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. DCM 2014 will be a one-day satellite event of CSL-LICS 2014, in the context of VSL 2014. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their properties, and their applications to the development of programming languages and systems: - functional calculi: lambda-calculus, rho-calculus, term and graph rewriting; - quantum computation, including implementations and formal methods in quantum protocols; - probabilistic computation and verification in modeling 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; - infinitary models of computation; - information-theoretic ideas in computing. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Sumbission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: 16 May 2014 - Notification: 6 June 2014 - Workshop: 13 July 2014 - Submission Deadline for EPTCS Proceedings: 15 September 2014 SUBMISSIONS ----------- Submit your paper in PDF format via the conference EasyChair submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcm2014 Submissions should be an abstract of at most 5 pages, written in English. Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is not permitted. Please use the EPTCS macro package and follow the instructions of EPTCS, following the EPTCS style: http://style.eptcs.org/ A submission may contain an appendix, but reading the appendix should not be necessary to assess its merits. After the workshop authors are invited to submit a full paper of their presentation. Accepted contributions will appear in an issue of EPTCS. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- TBA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: -------------------- Ugo Dal Lago (Universit? di Bologna) - chair Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv University) Joerg Endrullis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Jerome Feret (INRIA - Ecole normale sup?rieure) Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research) Russ Harmer (CNRS & ENS Lyon) - chair Radu Mardare (Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University) Damian Markham (CNRS) Elvira Mayordomo (Universidad de Zaragoza) Beno?t Valiron (PPS - Universit? Paris Diderot) Daniele Varacca (PPS - CNRS and University Paris Diderot) ========================================================================= Further information: Ugo Dal Lago Russ Harmer ========================================================================= From hilde at itu.dk Fri Jan 31 04:27:19 2014 From: hilde at itu.dk (Thomas Hildebrandt) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:27:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WS-FM:FASOCC 2014 CFP - Sept 11-12, 2014, Haifa, Israel Message-ID: <4b5f34604cda40ed945f5cf359713b8a@DB4PR02MB096.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> ##################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS WS-FM:FASOCC 2014 11th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods: Formal Aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing September 11-12, 2014, Haifa, Israel http://wsfm2014.haifa.ac.il/ ##################################################################### Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has been established as a major paradigm for system development, revolving around functional and autonomous building blocks that are available over the Internet and independent of platforms and programming languages. To support the SOC paradigm, infrastructures provide standard mechanisms and protocols for describing, locating and invoking services. Cloud computing has seen a remarkable uptake and facilitates distributed computing based on virtualization. Here, abstractions centred on services, such as Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service, enable dynamic sharing of resources and allow for tailoring service delivery to clients' needs. As such, cloud computing provides a backbone for more effective and efficient service-oriented computing. Formal methods can play a fundamental role in research on SOC, cloud computing, and their interplay. They can help us to define unambiguous semantics for the languages and protocols that underpin existing Web service infrastructures, and provide a basis for checking the conformance and compliance of bundled services. They can also empower dynamic discovery and binding with compatibility checks against behavioural properties and quality of service requirements. Formal analysis of security properties and performance is essential in cloud computing and in application areas including e-science, e-commerce, workflow, and business process management. Formal models further enable linking service abstractions to event-driven, reactive middle-ware and execution infrastructures. Moreover, the challenges raised by this area can offer opportunities for extending the state of the art in formal techniques. The aim of the WS-FM:FASOCC workshop series is to bring together researchers working on SOC, cloud computing, and formal methods in order to catalyse fruitful collaboration. The scope of the workshop is not only limited to technological aspects. In fact, the workshop series has a strong tradition of attracting submissions on formal approaches to enterprise systems modelling in general, and business process modelling in particular. Potentially, this could have a significant impact on the ongoing standardization efforts for SOC and cloud computing technologies. ######################### Topics ######################### Main topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Mathematical foundations of service/processes-oriented and cloud computing * Security, trust, and privacy in service-oriented and cloud computing * Performance and dependability of services/clouds * Multi-tenancy, adaptability and evolvability of processes and services in the cloud * Model-driven development of services/clouds * Quality of service and service-level agreements * Web service coordination, transactions, and compositions * Web service ontologies and semantic descriptions * Semi-structured data management and XML technology * Types and logics for web services/processes/clouds * Verification, analysis, and testing of services/clouds * Web services for business process management * Process management in the cloud * Formal approaches to business process modelling * Contractual issues between service providers and consumers * Innovative application scenarios for web services/clouds * Data services and data-centric process modelling * Event-driven models for service/process-oriented and cloud computing * Event-based cloud infrastructures * Standards and technologies for service/process-oriented and cloud computing * Case studies on formal methods in service/process-oriented and cloud applications * Case studies on formal methods in business process management ######################### Important Dates ######################### * Paper submission deadline: June 9, 2014 * Author notification: July 9, 2014 * Camera-ready copy: July 30, 2014 * Workshop dates: September 11-12, 2014 ######################### Submission Instructions ######################### 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 in English and submitted at the following submission site, handled by EasyChair, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsfm2014 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 programme committee. As in previous years, we expect to publish the post-workshop proceedings shortly after the workshop as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ######################### Special Issue ######################### Depending on the quality of the submissions, WS-FM:FASOCC 2014 may, as last year, have a special journal issue of extended papers. ######################### Organisation ######################### Programme Committee Chairs * Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Matthias Weidlich, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Program Committee (to be confirmed) * Farhad Arbab, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy * Laura Bocchi, Imperial College London, United Kingdom * Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy * Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy * Fran?ois Bry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany * Marco Carbone, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Erik De Vink, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia * Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria * Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom * Roberto Guanciale, KTH, Sweden * Sylvain Hall?, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Chicoutimi, Canada * Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna, Italy * Niels Lohmann, University of Rostock, Germany * Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Chun Ouyang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Artem Polyvyanyy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Alexandra Poulovassilis, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom * Rosario Pugliese, University of Florence, Italy * Ant?nio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA * Maurice H. 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The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda), Comparative Genomics Approaches to Identifying Functionally Related Genes Uwe Ohler (Max-Delbr?ck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin), Decoding Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (tutorial) Jason Papin (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Network Analysis of Microbial Pathogens PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP) Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL) Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US) Joel Bader (Baltimore, US) Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US) Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US) Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US) Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK) Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL) Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US) Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US) Joaqu?n Dopazo (Valencia, ES) Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US) Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR) David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK) Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH) Roderic Guig? (Barcelona, ES) Dan Gusfield (Davis, US) Vasant Honavar (University College, US) Sorin Istrail (Providence, US) Tao Jiang (Riverside, US) Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO) Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK) Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP) Burkhard Morgenstern (G?ttingen, DE) Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP) C?dric Notredame (Barcelona, ES) Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT) Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU) Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA) Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US) Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US) David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA) Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR) Jo?o C. Setubal (S?o Paulo, BR) Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US) Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE) Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG) Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES) Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR) Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT) Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK) Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG) Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US) Dong Xu (Columbia, US) Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US) Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US) Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2012 impact factor: 1.616) will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: February 11, 2014 (23:59 CET) ? EXTENDED ? Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 22, 2014 Early registration: March 29, 2014 Late registration: June 17, 2014 Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014 End of the conference: July 3, 2014 Submission to the post-conference TCBB special issue: October 3, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559543 Fax: +34 977 558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili From maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de Mon Feb 3 04:45:05 2014 From: maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de (Matteo Maffei) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:45:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSF'14: Abstract submission deadline extension to February 4 Message-ID: CSF 2014 Call for Papers and Panels 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://csf2014.di.univr.it/ July 19 - 22, 2014 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) part of FLoC 2014 - Federated Logic Conference part of VSL 2014 - Vienna Summer of Logic - http://vsl2014.at/ ***************************************************** The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security. CSF seeks papers on foundational aspects of computer security, e.g., formal security models, relationships between security properties and defenses, principled techniques and tools for design and analysis of security mechanisms, as well as their application to practice. While CSF welcomes submissions beyond the topics listed below, the main focus of CSF is foundational security: submissions that lack foundational aspects risk rejection. Topics ------ New results in computer security are welcome. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: access control, accountability, anonymity, authentication, critical infrastructure security, cryptography, data and system integrity, database security, decidability and complexity, distributed systems, electronic voting, executable content, formal methods and verification, game theory and decision theory, hardware- based security, humans and computer security, information flow, intrusion detection, language-based security, network security, novel insights on attacks, privacy, provenance, resource usage control, security for mobile computing, security models, security protocols, software security, socio-technical security, trust management, usable security, web security. Special Sessions (NEW) ---------------------- We strongly encourage papers in three foundational areas of research not traditionally represented at CSF: AI & SECURITY. (Chairs: Ariel Procaccia & Benjamin Rubinstein.) In recent years, a number of communities overlapping with AI--- notably algorithmic economics and machine learning---have made significant forays into security & privacy. This session aims to collect theoretical viewpoints on security & privacy, particularly from researchers across diverse communities such as those identifying with AAAI/IJCAI, AAMAS, EC, WEIS, ICML, NIPS, COLT, STOC/FOCS, S&P, and CCS (including the AISEC workshop). Papers in the following areas intersecting with information security are highly encouraged to submit to this special session: Economics: Game theory, mechanism design, market design, social choice; Learning: Online learning, robust statistics, adversarial machine learning, privacy-preserving technologies such as differential privacy. PRIVACY. (Chair: Vitaly Shmatikov.) CSF 2014 will include a special session on privacy foundations and invites submissions on definitions, models, and frameworks for communication and data privacy, principled analysis of deployed or proposed privacy protection mechanisms, and foundational aspects of practical privacy technologies. Submissions investigating connections between privacy law and policy and computer science are especially encouraged. USABLE SECURITY. (Chair: Lujo Bauer.) It has become accepted that any user-facing security technology or mechanism is unlikely to be secure if it is not usable. Hence, understanding, measuring, and designing for usability are foundational aspects of building secure systems. CSF 2014 encourages submission of papers that describe new results, quantitative or qualitative, in usability as it pertains to security and privacy. Particularly encouraged are papers that focus on foundational aspects of usability, as well as those whose results generalize beyond a specific environment or system. These papers will be reviewed under the supervision of expert invited session chairs. They will be presented at the conference, and will appear in the CSF proceedings without any distinction from the other papers. Challenges and Vision Papers ---------------------------- We particularly encourage challenge/vision papers, which may describe open questions and raise fundamental concerns about practical security. Challenges and/or vision papers should typically identify a real world security problem, argue why it raises foundational issues, explain why the currently available and relevant techniques are inadequate for addressing it, and identify foundational challenges that have to be addressed to solve the problem. These papers will be presented at the conference, and will appear in the CSF proceedings without any distinction from the other papers. Proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, will be available at the symposium, and selected papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Computer Security. ***************************************************** INVITED SPEAKERS Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute Frank Piessens, K.U. Leuven ***************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract due: February 4, 2014, 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time Papers due: February 10, 2014, 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time Author response period: March 20-21, 2014, ending at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time Panel proposals due: March 15, 2014 Notification: April 11, 2014 Camera ready: May 9, 2014 Symposium: July 19 - 22, 2014 ***************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mart?n Abadi, Microsoft Research Michael Backes, Saarland University and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University Bruno Blanchet, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt Stephen Chong, Harvard University Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University (Co-Chair) Riccardo Focardi, Universit?Ca' Foscari, Venezia C?dric Fournet, Microsoft Research (Co-Chair) Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and The MITRE Corporation Michael Hicks, University of Maryland, College Park Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin Boris K?pf, IMDEA Software Institute Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College London John Mitchell, Stanford University Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania Ariel Procaccia, Carnegie Mellon University Tamara Rezk, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-M?diterran?e Benjamin Rubinstein, University of Melbourne Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology Vitaly Shmatikov, University of Texas, Austin Michael Carl Tschantz, UC Berkeley Bogdan Warinschi, University of Bristol ***************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with published proceedings. Failure to clearly identify any duplication or overlap with other published or submitted papers is ground for rejection without full review. Papers should be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). Papers submitted in a proprietary format such as Microsoft Word cannot be considered. At least one coauthor of each accepted paper is required to attend CSF to present the paper. Papers must be submitted using the two-column IEEE Proceedings style available for various document preparation systems at the IEEE Conference Publishing Services page. Papers must not be anonymized. Authors should use appropriate keywords from "AI & Security", "Usable Security", "Privacy" and "Challenge/Vision" to indicate that the paper is meant for a special session. All papers should be at most 12 pages long, not counting bibliography and well-marked appendices. Committee members are not required to read appendices, and so the paper must be intelligible without them. 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URL: From rlc3 at mcs.le.ac.uk Tue Feb 4 03:30:50 2014 From: rlc3 at mcs.le.ac.uk (Roy Crole) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:30:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Midlands Graduate School 2014 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F0A53A.6040404@mcs.le.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, Please find below an announcement for the 2014 Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science. Kind Regards, Roy Crole. ===================== The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science is a collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. It was established in 1999. The MGS has two main goals: to provide PhD students with a sound basis for research in the mathematical and practical foundations of computing and to give PhD students the opportunity to make contact with established researchers in the field and their peers who are at a similar stage in their research careers. This year, the MGS is at the University of Nottingham. It will start on 22 April and finish on 26 April. Core Courses Course Title Acronym Lecturer Affiliation Category Theory CAT Roy Crole Leicester Denotational Semantics DEN Achim Jung Birmingham Typed Lambda Calculus LAM Paul Blain Levy Birmingham Advanced Courses Course Title Acronym Lecturer Affiliation Concurrency, Causality, Reversibility CCR Irek Ulidowski Leicester Theory of Randomised Search Heuristic s HEU Dirk Sudholt , Per Kristian Lehre ,Pietro S. Oliveto , Christine Zarges Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield Homotopy Type Theory HOT Thorsten Altenkirch Nottingham Infinite Data Structures INF Venanzio Capretta Nottingham Logical relations and parametricity PAR Uday Reddy Birmingham Higher-Order Functional Reactive Programming REA Neelakantan Krishnaswami Birmingham *+ an invited lecture course on Dependently Typed Programming by Conor McBride.* The fee is ?440, this includes on campus accommodation with breakfast, lunches, coffees and a workshop dinner! More information is available on http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/ from where you also find a link to the registration page page. *The registration deadline is Friday, 21 March. Please register as soon as possible since there is a limited number of spaces **which are allocated on a 1st come 1st serve base.* Hope to see you in Nottingham, Thorsten P.S. 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While conferences like ITP provide a venue for traditional research papers, the Coq Workshop focuses on strengthening the Coq community and providing a forum for discussing practical issues, including the future of the Coq software and its associated ecosystem of libraries and tools. Thus, the workshop will be organized around informal presentations and discussions, supplemented with invited talks. We invite all members of the Coq community to propose informal talks, discussion sessions, or any potential uses of the day allocated to the workshop. Relevant subject matter includes but is not limited to: - Language or tactic features - Applications and experience in education and industry - Tools and platforms built on Coq - Plugins and libraries for Coq - Interfacing with Coq - Formalization tricks and Coq pearls ** Submission instructions ** Authors should submit short proposals through EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coq6 Submissions should be in portable document format (PDF). Proposals should not exceed 2 pages in length in single-column full-page style. ** Important dates ** Submission deadline: April 4, 2014 Notification: April 25, 2014 Workshop: July 18, 2014 ** Organizers & PC chairs ** - Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS) - Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS) ** Program committee ** - Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) - Andrew Kennedy (Microsoft Research Cambridge) - Christine Paulin-Mohring (Universit? Paris-Sud) - Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA Paris) - Antonis Stampoulis (MIT CSAIL) - Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania) From cohen at crans.org Tue Feb 4 18:52:10 2014 From: cohen at crans.org (Cyril Cohen) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 00:52:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MAP 2014 - First announcement - Call for contributions Message-ID: <52F17D2A.6050408@crans.org> %%% We apologize if already you received this mail %%% *MAP 2014 - First announcement - Call for contributions* Mathematics, Algorithms and Proofs 2014, Institut Henri Poincar?, Paris, France May 26 - 30, 2014 The conference brings together people from the communities of formal proofs, constructive mathematics, computer algebra and effective algebraic geometry (in a broad sense). It is a continuation of previous meeting in Dagstuhl (2003 and 2005), Luminy (2004), Castro Urdiales (2006), Leiden (2007 and 2011), Trieste (2008), Monastir (2009), Logro?o (2010) and Konstanz (2012) see: http://map.disi.unige.it/ In 2014, the conference will take place at Institut Henri Poincar?, in the center of Paris, France. It will be part of a special trimester on "Semantics of proofs and certified mathematics" at the IHP in Paris. http://www.ihp.fr/en/ceb/trimester/proofs Submission for a contributed talk consists in a short PDF abstract of maximum one page before *Sunday March 23, 2014*. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=map-ihp2014 The objective of the conference is to bridge the gap between conceptual (abstract) and computational (constructive) mathematics by providing a computational understanding of abstract mathematics. We are not only interested in correct algorithms however, but also in the mathematical clarity that these concrete presentations provide. Invited tutorial speakers: * Konstantin Mischaikow (Rutgers) * Claire T?te (U Poitiers) Invited speakers: * Fr?d?ric Chyzak (Inria Saclay) * Alain Herremann (U Rennes) * Luca Moci (Institut Math?matique de Jussieu) * Grant Passmore (U Edinburgh) To Be Confirmed * Claude Quitt? (U Poitiers) * Christophe Raffalli (U Savoie) * Ana Romero (U Rioja) * Noam Zeilberger (Inria-Microsoft Research) Program committee: * Cyril Cohen (U Gothenburg) * Thierry Coquand (U Gothenburg) * Henri Lombardi (U Besan?on) * Marie-Fran?oise Roy (U Rennes) * Bas Spitters (Independent Researcher) Registration and Future Announcements: Please register at https://lists.chalmers.se/mailman/listinfo/map2014 to ensure that you receive further information. Website for MAP 2014 edition: http://perso.crans.org/cohen/map2014/ Contact address: Please contact Cyril Cohen if you have questions. -- Cyril Cohen for MAP Program Committee From christian.retore at labri.fr Wed Feb 5 11:26:33 2014 From: christian.retore at labri.fr (retore) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 17:26:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS/CSL wshop July 17-18 Vienna) Message-ID: <593AE804-8DB0-49EB-9BD9-B17C0FEA748D@labri.fr> Vienna Summer of Logic http://vsl2014.at/ Computer Science Logic - Logic In Computer Science 2014 http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/csl-lics14/ Workshop on NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLCS '14) 17-18 July, 2014 Vienna, Austria http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics. Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2014 AIMS AND SCOPE Formal tools coming from logic, category theory, are important for natural language processing and especially for computational semantics. Moreover, work on these tools borrows heavily from all areas of theoretical computer science. In the other direction, applications having to do with natural language have inspired developments on the formal side. The workshop invites papers on both topics and their applications, as well as on the combination between logical and statistical methods. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * linguistic, computational and logical aspects of the interface between syntax and semantics * logical aspects of linguistic theories * logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog * continuations in natural language semantics * formal tools in textual inference, such as logics for natural language inference * applications of category theory in semantics * linear logic in semantics * formal approaches to unifying data-driven (quantitative, statistical) and declarative (logical) approaches to semantics * natural language processing tools using some logic IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2014 Author notification: May 1, 2014 Electronic versions of papers due: May 15, 2014 Workshop: July 17, 2014 INVITED SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE Anne Abeill? (to be confirmed) Universit? Paris Diderot Aarne Ranta Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg SUBMISSIONS Please submit extended abstracts of 4-10 pages using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlcs14 ORGANIZERS Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Larry Moss, Indiana University Christian Retor?, Universit? de Bordeaux PROGRAM COMMITTEE Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Christophe Fouquer?, Universit? Paris 13 Larry Moss, Indiana University Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK Christian Retor?, Universit? de Bordeaux Wlodek Zadrozny, UNC, Charlotte From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Wed Feb 5 16:27:14 2014 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:27:14 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2014 Call for Contributions: OOPSLA, Onward!, Dynamic Languages Symposium Message-ID: <6E5C60D1-16F4-4D0A-9EA6-D0FA3330DDCF@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> /*************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'14) Portland, Oregon, USA 20th-24th October, 2014 http://www.splashcon.org http://twitter.com/splashcon http://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon http://www.linkedin.com/groups/SPLASH-Conference-2487082 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************** COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **************************************************************/ The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH is now accepting submissions. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ** OOPSLA Research Papers** Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions Due: 25 March, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/oopsla.html ** Onward! Research Papers ** Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions Due: 25 March, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/onward.html ** Onward! Essays ** Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be an exploration of a 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. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions Due: 29 March, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/essays.html ** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) ** DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages ? from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript ? on real-world practice, and research, continues to grow. We invite high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Submissions Due: 8 June, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/dls.html http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-14/ Information: Early Registration Deadline: 19 September, 2014 Contact: info at splashcon.org Location: Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel Portland, Oregon, USA Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Andrew Black (Portland State University) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Todd Millstein (UCLA) Onward! Papers Chair: Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University) Onward! Essays Chair: Bernd Bruegge (Technische Universitat of Munchen) DLS Papers Chair: Laurence Tratt (King?s College, London) /*************************************************************/ From maffeis at doc.ic.ac.uk Thu Feb 6 07:44:52 2014 From: maffeis at doc.ic.ac.uk (Sergio Maffeis) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:44:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Researcher on formal methods/web/security at Imperial College London Message-ID: <52F383C4.10300@doc.ic.ac.uk> One Postdoctoral Researcher position (RA) is available in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. JavaScript is pervasive in most web applications. JavaScript applications can be programmed directly, or can be obtained by compiling from other languages. Either way, a rigorous model of JavaScript is invaluable to develop trustworthy analyses of web programs. The JSCert project (http://jscert.org) has developed a mechanised specification of JavaScript in the Coq proof assistant, and a corresponding reference interpreter for JavaScript in OCaml, provably correct and thoroughly tested. The post-doctoral researcher, leveraging (and contributing to) the JSCert infrastructure, will work on some combination of: - Security: information flow control, secure subsets, defence against web vulnerabilities; - Verification: static/dynamic analysis tools for guaranteeing safety or finding bugs; - Compilation: translation from other languages into JavaScript, from JavaScript to bytecode or asm.js. JScert is a collaboration between Imperial College and INRIA. The position will be based in London, but will offer significant scope of collaboration with various INRIA sites. The position is for up to 3 years, starting as soon as possible. The salary is in the range 32k - 41k GBP (depending on experience) plus a budget for travel and equipment. Imperial College is in the heart of London, close to beautiful parks, good restaurants, cultural attractions and entertainment venues. Candidates must hold a PhD, should have a strong track record in formal methods, and an interest in some of: proof assistants, development of verification tools, static analyses, web security. For inquiries please contact Dr Sergio Maffeis (maffeis at doc.ic.ac.uk). From mflatt at cs.utah.edu Thu Feb 6 08:02:33 2014 From: mflatt at cs.utah.edu (Matthew Flatt) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 06:02:33 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GPCE 2104 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20140206130239.950E765018E@mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 13th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2014) September 15-16, 2014 V?ster?s, Sweden (collocated with ASE 2014 and SLE 2014) http://www.gpce.org http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference http://twitter.com/GPCECONF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of papers: May 30, 2014 * Paper notification: July 7, 2014 SCOPE Generative and component approaches and domain-specific abstractions are revolutionizing software development just as automation and componentization revolutionized manufacturing. Raising the level of abstraction in software specification has been a fundamental goal of the computing community for several decades. Key technologies for automating program development and lifting the abstraction level closer to the problem domain are *Generative Programming* for program synthesis, *Domain-Specific Languages* (DSLs) for compact problem-oriented programming notations, and corresponding *Implementation Technologies* aiming at modularity, correctness, reuse, and evolution. As the field matures *Applications* and *Empirical Results* are of increasing importance. The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. SUBMISSIONS We seek research papers of up to 10 pages in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls, see http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm) reporting original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, or experimental research that contribute to scientific knowledge in the areas listed below (the PC chair can advise on appropriateness). 4-page short papers and tool demonstrations are also accepted (see website). TOPICS GPCE seeks contributions on all topics related to generative software and its properties. As technology is maturing, this year, we are particularly looking for empirical evaluations in this context. Key topics include (but are certainly not limited too): * Generative software Domain-specific languages Product lines Metaprogramming Program synthesis Implementation techniques and tool support * Properties of generative software Correctness of generators and generated code Reuse and evolution Modularity, separation of concerns, understandability, and maintainability Performance engineering, nonfunctional properties Application areas and engineering practice * Empirical evaluations of all topics above A more detailed list of topics can be found on the website. Examples of key challenges in the field are * Synthesizing code from declarative specifications * Supporting extensible languages and language embedding * Ensuring correctness and other nonfunctional properties of generated code; proving generators correct * Improving error reporting with domain-specific error messages * Reasoning about generators; handling variability-induced complexity in product lines * Providing efficient interpreters and execution languages * Human factors in developing and maintaining generators Note on empirical evaluations: GPCE is committed to the empirical evaluation of generative software. Publishing empirical papers at programming-language venues can be challenging. We understand the frustration of authors when, for example, reviews simply recommend repeating entire experiments with human subjects with slight deviations in execution. To alleviate such problems, we have recruited forto program committee experts who routinely work with empirical methods, and we will actively seek external reviews where appropriate. During submissions, authors can optionally indicate that a paper contains substantial empirical work, and we will endeavor have to the paper reviewed by experts familiar with the empirical research methods that are used in the paper. The program-committee discussions will reflect on both technical contributions and research methods. Policy: Incremental improvements over previously published work should have been evaluated through systematic, comparative, empirical, or experimental evaluation. Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy (http://www.sigplan.org/republicationpolicy.htm). Please contact the program chair if you have any questions about how this policy applies to your paper (chairs at gpce.org). ORGANIZATION Chairs (chairs at gpce.org) General Chair: Ulrik Pagh Schultz (University of Southern Denmark, DK) Program Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, US) Publicity Chair: Sebastian Erdweg (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) Local Organizer: Ivica Crnkovic (M?lardalen University, SE) Program Committee Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, JP) Emilie Balland (INRIA, FR) Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews, UK) Dave Clarke (Uppsala University, SE and KU Leuven, BE) Ewen Denney (SGT / NASA, US) Sebastian Erdweg (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) Martin Erwig (Oregon State University, US) Alessandro Garcia (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro, BR) Anir?ddh? Gokh?l? (Vanderbilt University, US) Jeff Gray (University of Alabama, US) Stefan Hanenberg (Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, DE) Jaakko J?rvi (Texas A&M University, US) Jean-Marc J?z?quel (IRISA-University of Rennes, FR) Emerson Murphy-Hill (North Carolina State University, US) Nathaniel Nystrom (University of Lugano, CH) Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (Hong Kong University, HK) Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University, US) M?rcio Ribeiro (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, BR) Tiark Rompf (Oracle Labs and EPFL, CH) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Norbert Siegmund (Universit?t Passau, DE) Christian Skalka (University of Vermont, US) Scott Smith (Johns Hopkins University, US) ?ric Tanter (Universidad de Chile, CL) Emina Torlak (University of California Berkeley, US) Laurence Tratt (King's College, UK) From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Thu Feb 6 08:37:04 2014 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:37:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers - TFPIE 2014 Message-ID: <52F39000.1020106@cs.ru.nl> All, Please find below the call for papers for the 3rd International Workshop on Trends In Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2014. Apologies in advance for multiple copies you may receive. Best regards, James Caldwell Call for Papers ___________________________________________________________________________________ *3rd International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2014)* May 25, 2014 Utrecht University Soesterberg, The Netherlands (http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~jlc/tfpie14/ ) The 3rd International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2014, will be co-located with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2014) at Soesterberg, at the "Kontakt der Kontinenten" hotel in the Netherlands on Sunday, May 25th. TFP will follow from May 26-28. The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2014 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website/wiki. Visitors to the TFPIE 2014 website/wiki will be able to add comments. This includes presenters who may respond to comments and questions as well as provide pointers to improvements and follow-up work. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the journalElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) . Articles not selected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012) and in Provo Utah, USA (2013). *Program Committee* James Caldwell, (Program Chair) University of Wyoming Peter Achten, Radboud University, Nijmgen Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews, St Andrews Jurriaan Hage, Universiteit Utrecht Philip Holzenspies, University of Twente Daniel R. Licata, Wesleyan University Marco T Morazan, Seton Hall University Christian Skalka, University of Vermont David Van Horn, Northeastern University *Submission Guidelines* There will be two types of presentations at TFPIE 2014. Regular papers and "best lecture" presentations. The best lecture talks are intended to allow for presentations or short lectures of purely pedagogical material. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2014 *Papers* TFPIE 2014 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * FP and beginning CS students * FP and Computational Thinking * FP and Artificial Intelligence * FP in Robotics * FP and Music * Advanced FP for undergraduates * FP in graduate education * Engaging students in research using FP * FP in Programming Languages * FP in the high school curriculum * FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics * FP and Philosophy * * *Best Lectures* In addition to papers, this year we are requesting "best lecture" presentations. What's your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. *Important Dates* * 1 February 2014: TFPIE submissions open on easychair. * 7 April 2014: TFP and TFPIE registration opens * 21 April 2014: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and abstracts * 27 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for presentation * 25 May 2014: Presentations in Soesterberg, Netherlands * 29 June 2014: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due. * 16 August 2014: Notification of acceptance for proceedings * 8 September 2014: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full paper; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline will be considered as withdrawn. 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URL: From Iain.Whiteside at newcastle.ac.uk Thu Feb 6 12:02:40 2014 From: Iain.Whiteside at newcastle.ac.uk (Iain Whiteside) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:02:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AI4FM 2014: Call for Short Contributions Message-ID: <4B8CDEC7-46E3-4059-B096-85D6DB800745@newcastle.ac.uk> ------------------------------------------------- AI4FM 2014 - the 5th International Workshop on the use of AI in Formal Methods http://www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2014/ Singapore, 13th May, 2014 In association with FM 2014 ------------------------------------------------- --- Second Call for Contributions --- Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: March 01, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 08, 2014 Final version due: April 22, 2014 Workshop: May 13th, 2014 General --------------- This workshop will bring together researchers from formal methods, automated reasoning and AI; it will address the issue of how AI can be used to support the formal software development process, including requirement analysis, modelling and proof. Previous AI4FM workshops have included a mix of industrial and academic participants and we anticipate attracting a similarly diverse audience. Rigorous software development using formal methods allows the construction of an accurate characterisation of a problem domain that is firmly based on mathematics; by applying standard mathematical analyses, these methods can be used to prove that systems satisfy formal specifications. Research has shown that with tools backed by mature theory, formal methods are becoming cost effective and their use is easier to justify, not as an academic exercise, legal requirement or niche markets -- but as part of a business case. However, while industrial use of formal methods is increasing, in order to make it more mainstream, the cost of applying formal methods, in terms of mathematical skill level and development time, must still be reduced. We believe that AI can help with these issues. Scope --------------- We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, and PhD projects, in order that the workshop can become a forum for active dialogue between the groups involved in automated reasoning, formal methods and artificial intelligence. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - The use of AI and automated reasoning to support and guide the formal modelling process. - The use of AI and automated reasoning in the requirement capture process. - The use of AI to reuse formal models, programs and proofs. - The use of machine learning to support interactive theorem proving. - The use of machine learning to enhance automated theorem proving. - The development of search heuristics. - The use of AI for term synthesis, invariant generation, lemma discovery and concept invention. - The use of AI for counter-example generation. - The use of constraint solvers in formal methods. - The role of AI planning for formal systems developments, from requirements to the end product (including software and hardware). - The interplay between reasoning and modelling and the role of AI in this framework. - Ontologies in the formal engineering process. History --------------- This will be the fifth workshop in the series. Previous workshops were held at: - Rennes, France, July 2013 @ ITP (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2013/) - Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July 2012 (www.dagstuhl.de/12271) - Edinburgh, UK, April 2011 (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2011.php) - Newcastle, UK, May 2010 (www.ai4fm.org/ko-meeting.php) Submission --------------- The main aim for the workshop is discussion, thus submissions do not need to be original. Extended versions of submissions may have been published previously, or submitted concurrently with or after AI4FM 2014 to another workshop, conference or a journal. Submission is by email to: ai4fm2014 at ai4fm.org Please submit an abstract up to 3 pages in a PDF format. The extended abstracts will be handed out to all participants, and will be made into a technical report prior to the workshop. Acceptance for presentation at the workshop will be made by the organisers based on relevance to the workshop. Organisers --------------- * Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) * Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Iain Whiteside (Newcastle University, UK) Contact Details ---------------- If you have any queries, please email the organisers at the following email address: ai4fm2014 at ai4fm.org From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Thu Feb 6 18:45:30 2014 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 01:45:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2014 call for participation Message-ID: <20140207014530.651dda2c@duality> To notice: - The programme of the main conferences of ETAPS 2014 is on the web. - Early registration is until Friday, 14 February 2014. ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2014 17th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software Grenoble, France, 5-13 April 2014 http://www.etaps.org/2014 ****************************************************************** -- 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 six main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2014 is already the seventeenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (7-11 April) -- * CC: Compiler Construction * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering * FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures * POST: Principles of Security and Trust * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems -- INVITED TALKS -- * Unifying speakers: John Launchbury (Galois, US) Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, US) * CC invited speaker: Benoit Dupont de Dinechin (Kalray, France) * ESOP invited speaker: Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, US) * FASE invited speaker: Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) * FoSSaCS invited speaker: Petr Jancar (Technical Univ of Ostrava, Czech Republic) * POST invited speaker: David Mazi?res (Stanford University, US) * TACAS invited speaker: Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel) -- TUTORIALS * Andy Gordon (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) * Bernd Finkbeiner (Univ des Saarlandes, Germany) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS See the accepted paper lists and the programme of the main conferences at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (5-6 and 12-13 April) -- 23 satellite workshops will take place before or after ETAPS 2014. CMCS, DICE, F-IDE, Graphite, GT-VMT, MBT, MEALS, RePP, Sifakis event, SR, SynCop, VSSE, WRLA will be held 5-6 April 2014. AiSOS, Cassting, FESCA, GALOP, GramSec, HAS, HotSpot, MSFP, PLACES, QAPL have been scheduled for 12-13 April 2014. -- REGISTRATION Early registration is until Friday, 14 February 2014. Normal-rate registration is until Monday, 10 March 2014. -- ACCOMMODATION We request that participants arrange their accommodation on their own. See our recommendations on the website. -- HOST CITY -- Located in the southeastern part of France, Grenoble is considered as the capital of the Alps. Grenoble is surrounded by nature and high mountains: down the Alps, Grenoble is the meeting point of two important rivers, Drac and Isere. Grenoble has important historical and gastronomic heritages. Leisure activities in breathtaking nature are easily organizable and within short-distance. Grenoble is also a major scientific center in Europe dedicated to high-tech technologies, e.g., nano, micro, bio, and information technologies. -- ORGANIZERS * General chair: Saddek Bensalem * Conferences chair: Alain Girault * Workshops chair: Axel Legay * Publicity chair: Ylies Falcone * Finance chair: Nicolas Halbwachs * Website chair: Marius Bozga Host institution: VERIMAG, U Joseph Fourier / CNRS / Grenoble INP -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2014.organization at imag.fr. From a.mozo at upm.es Fri Feb 7 11:10:07 2014 From: a.mozo at upm.es (ALBERTO MOZO VELASCO) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:10:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FP7 ONTIC project. PhD Open positions. Message-ID: Dear all, Technical University of Madrid offers a Ph.D. studentship for 3 years in the context of the FP7 ONTIC project. ----------------------------- TITLE ----------------------------- Online Network Traffic Classification ----------------------------- KEYWORDS ----------------------------- Big Data Analytics, Scalability, Network Traffic Classification, Data Stream Mining, Machine Learning ----------------------------- RESEARCH DESCRIPTION ----------------------------- The research will be conducted at the Technical University of Madrid, within the Internet Next Generation Research Group at E.T.S. Sistemas Informaticos and founded by the ONTIC European Project (FP7). Accurate identification and categorization of network traffic according to application type is an important element of many network management and engineering tasks related with QoS, capacity planning and detection of network attacks. Terabytes of data may be transferred through the core network of a typical ISP every day. Moreover, it is expected an exponential growth of more than 50 billions of connected devices to Internet. Therefore, this scenario hampers network data capture and analysis. ONTIC (Online Network TraffIc Characterization) project investigates: 1) A novel architecture of scalable mechanisms and techniques to be able to a) characterize online network traffic data streams, identifying traffic patterns evolution, and b) proactively detecting anomalies in real time when hundreds of thousands of packets per second are processed. 2) A completely new set of scalable offline data mining mechanisms and techniques to characterize network traffic, applying a Big Data analytics approach and using distributed computation paradigms in the cloud on extremely large network traffic summary datasets consisting on trillions of records. Under the context of the project, the proposed Ph.D. project aims at investigating and proposing a new set of online and offline algorithms and machine learning techniques to build autonomous network traffic characterization systems while tackling scalability and real time network traffic issues in a Big Data analytics scenario. ----------------------------- REFERENCES ----------------------------- - Pedro Casas, Johan Mazel, Philippe Owezarski, Unsupervised Network Intrusion Detection Systems: Detecting the Unknown without Knowledge, Computer Communications, Volume 35, Issue 7, 1 April 2012. - Casas, P.; Mazel, J.; Owezarski, P., "Knowledge-independent traffic monitoring: Unsupervised detection of network attacks," Network, IEEE , vol.26, no.1, pp.13,21, January-February 2012. - Johan Mazel, Pedro Casas, Yann Labit, Philippe Owezarski: Sub-Space clustering, Inter-Clustering Results Association & anomaly correlation for unsupervised network anomaly detection. CNSM 2011. - Pedro Casas, Johan Mazel, Philippe Owezarski: On the use of Sub-Space Clustering & Evidence Accumulation for traffic analysis & classification. IWCMC 2011. - Apiletti, D., Baralis, E., Cerquitelli, T., & D?Elia, V. Characterizing network traffic by means of the NetMine framework. Computer Networks, 53(6), 2009. - Nigel Williams, Sebastian Zander, and Grenville Armitage. 2006. A preliminary performance comparison of five machine learning algorithms for practical IP traffic flow classification. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 36, 5 (October 2006). - Jeffrey Erman, Anirban Mahanti, Martin Arlitt, Ira Cohen, and Carey Williamson. Semi-supervised network traffic classification. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS, 2007. - Nguyen, Thuy TT, and Grenville Armitage. "A survey of techniques for internet traffic classification using machine learning." Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE 10.4 ( 2008 ). (*) P. Owerzarski, E. Baralis and D. Apilietti are part of the ONTIC Consortium. ----------------------------- SKILLS ----------------------------- Machine learning, Distributed computing systems, Distributed algorithms, Java and/or C programming ----------------------------- LOCATION AND SALARY ----------------------------- A Ph.D. studentship for 3 years is available. The monthly gross salary is approximately 1900 Euro. The successful candidate will join the Internet Next Generation Research Group in the E.T.S.I. Sistemas Informaticos at Technical University of Madrid, Spain. Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, UPM) is the oldest and largest Spanish technical university, with more than 4.000 faculty members, around 38.000 undergraduate students and 6.000 postgraduates. UPM benefits from the heritage of its schools: the most ancient ones were founded in the 18th.century. Nowadays UPM?s Schools cover most of engineering disciplines, as well as Architecture, Computer Science and Geodesy & Cartography. Moreover, UPM as a top quality academic establishment has a strong commitment to R&D and Innovation, boasting over 225 Research Units and over 10 Research Institutes and Technological Centres, contributing significantly to the international scientific community with a high number of journal papers, conference communications, and PhD theses. The UPM researchers have large expertise in research projects participation both at national and international level. ----------------------------- APPLICATION ----------------------------- Applicants are requested to submit the documents below by e-mail to ontic-project at eui.upm.es with subject ?[PhD.ONTIC] Candidate?. The deadline to accept candidatures is March 14th, 2014. - Resume - Master thesis - Master's grades - Recommendation letters - Publications (if any) ----------------------------- CONTACT ----------------------------- Please contact Dr. Alberto Mozo for further information a.mozo at upm.es ------- Alberto Mozo ONTIC FP7 Coordinator Associate Professor Department Arquitectura y Tecnologia de Computadores Assistant Director for Postgraduate Studies and Research E.U. Informatica / E.T.S.I. Sistemas Informaticos, Campus Sur. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Camino Arboleda s/n 28031, Madrid, Spain Email: a.mozo at upm.es From barbara.kordy at uni.lu Fri Feb 7 11:36:03 2014 From: barbara.kordy at uni.lu (Barbara KORDY) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:36:03 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GraMSec'14 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: <51604CA7384E4C4A97AD9EE83BC440C11DB2A480@hoshi.uni.lux> ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The First International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security GraMSec'14 April 12, 2014, Grenoble, France http://www.gramsec.uni.lu/ (Co-located with ETAPS 2014) ******************************************************************* -- GraMSec REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN -- To register please follow the instructions given at http://www.gramsec.uni.lu/registration.php -- ABOUT GraMSec -- Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic methodology to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Such models have been subject of academic research and they have also been widely accepted by the industrial sector, as a means to support and facilitate threat analysis and risk management processes. The objective of GraMSec is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage. -- ACCEPTED PAPERS -- * Erlend Andreas Gj?re and Per H?kon Meland Threats Management Throughout the Software Service Life-cycle * Ludovic Apvrille and Yves Roudier Towards the Model-Driven Engineering of Secure yet Safe Embedded Systems * Thomas Bauereiss and Dieter Hutter Possibilistic Information Flow Control for Workflow Management Systems * St?phane Paul Towards Automating the Construction & Maintenance of Attack Trees: a Feasibility Study * Cristian Prisacariu Actor Network Procedures as Psi-calculi for Security Ceremonies * Aitor Couce Vieira, Siv Hilde Houmb, and David Rios Insua A Graphical Adversarial Risk Analysis Model for Oil and Gas Drilling Cybersecurity -- KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- Dr. Ketil St?len Graphical Models for Security: Overview, Challenges, and Recommendations -- GENERAL CHAIR -- Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, LU -- PC CO-CHAIRS -- Barbara Kordy, University of Luxembourg, LU Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology and University of Twente, NL -- CONTACT -- For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec at uni.lu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili From amal at ccs.neu.edu Sun Feb 9 20:58:50 2014 From: amal at ccs.neu.edu (Amal Ahmed) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 20:58:50 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, 2014 Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the preliminary program for the 13th annual Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) to be held June 16th to 28th, 2014 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The registration deadline will be April 14th, 2014. This year's program is titled Types, Logic, Semantics, and Verification and features the following speakers: Andrew Appel -- Software Verification Princeton University Lars Birkedal -- Category Theory Aarhus University Derek Dreyer -- Modular Reasoning about Stateful Programs Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Robert Harper -- Type Theory Foundations Carnegie Mellon University Greg Morrisett -- Certified Programming and State Harvard University Ulf Norell -- Programming in Agda Chalmers University of Technology Brigitte Pientka -- Proof Theory Foundations McGill University Stephanie Weirich -- Designing Dependently-Typed Programming Languages University of Pennsylvania Steve Zdancewic -- Software Foundations in Coq University of Pennsylvania Full information on registration and scholarships will be available shortly at: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/summerschool/summer14/ . 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URL: From pangjun at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 03:25:02 2014 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:25:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSS workshop 2014 (co-located with FM 2014 in Singapore) -- deadline extension Message-ID: New dates ----------------- * February 17th, 2014: Extended submission deadline * March 17th, 2014: Notification of acceptance/rejection * May 13th, 2014: New workshop date ================================================== 3rd International Workshop on Engineering Safety and Security Systems May 13, 2014, Singapore Co-located with FM 2014 in Singapore, May 12-16, 2014 More information: http://pat.sce.ntu.edu.sg/esss14/ =================================================== Introduction of the Workshop ----------------- The International Workshop on Engineering Safety and Security Systems (ESSS) aims at contributing to the challenge of constructing reliable and secure systems. The workshop covers areas such as formal specification, (extended) type checking, model checking, program analysis/transformation, model-based testing and model-driven software construction. The workshop will bring together researchers and industry R&D expertise together to exchange their knowledge, discuss their research findings, and explore potential collaborations. Theme of the Workshop ----------------- The main theme of the workshop is methods and techniques for constructing large reliable and secure systems. The goal of the workshop is to establish a platform for the exchange of ideas, discussion, cross-fertilization, inspiration, co-operation, and dissemination. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: -- methods, techniques and tools for system safety and security -- methods, techniques and tools for analysis, certification, and debugging of complex safety and security systems -- model-based and verification-based testing -- emerging application domains such as cloud computing and cyber-physical systems -- case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods for analyzing safety and security systems Submissions guidelines ----------------- Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in made via the Easychair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esss2014. We invite two types of submissions: --Regular papers (up to 15 pages) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. --Short papers (up to 6 pages) describing work in progress or less mature results. Case studies and tool papers are welcome as well. All submissions must be prepared in LATEX using the EPTCS macro package. The final versions of accepted regular and short papers will be published as a volume of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Furthermore, authors of a selection of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their articles to a special issue of a high-quality journal, after the workshop. Publication of accepted articles requires the commitment of one of the authors to register for the workshop and present the paper. General chair ----------------- Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program chairs ----------------- Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program committee ----------------- Etienne Andre, Universite Paris 13, France Toalue Chen, Middelsex University, UK Marieke Huisma, University of Twente, The Netherlands Weiqiang Kong, Kyushu University, Japan Keqin Li, SAP Research, France Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhiming Liu, UNU/IIST Macao, China Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Geguang Pu, East China Normal University, China Mohammad Torabi Dashti, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology Yoriyuki Yamagata, AIST, Japan From garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp Mon Feb 10 04:49:16 2014 From: garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Jacques Garrigue) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:49:16 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OCaml 2014 - Call for Presentations Message-ID: ============================================================================== OCAML 2014 The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop http://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2014/ Gothenburg, Sweden September 5, 2014 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Co-located with ICFP 2014 Sponsored by SIGPLAN Talk Proposal Submission Deadline: May 19, 2014 ============================================================================== The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop brings together industrial users of OCaml with academics and hackers who are working on extending the language, type system and tools. Previous editions have been colocated with ICFP 2012 in Copenhagen, and ICFP 2013 in Boston, following the OCaml Meetings in Paris in 2010 and 2011. OCaml 2014 will be held on September 5, 2014, in Gothenburg, colocated with ICFP 2014. Scope ===== Discussions will focus on the practical aspects of OCaml programming and the nitty gritty of the tool-chain and upcoming improvements and changes. Thus, we aim to solicit talks on all aspects related to improving the use or development of the language and of its programming environment, including, for example: - compiler developments, new backends, runtime and architectures - practical type system improvements, such as (but not limited to) GADTs, first-class modules, generic programming, or dependent types - new library or application releases, and their design rationales - tools and infrastructure services, and their enhancements - prominent industrial uses of OCaml, or deployments in unusual situations. Submission ========== It will be an informal meeting, with an online scribe report of the meeting, but no formal proceedings. Slides of presentations will be available online from the workshop homepage. The presentations will likely be recorded, and made available at a later time. To submit a talk, please register a description of the talk (about 2 pages long) at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocaml2014, providing a clear statement of what will be brought by the talk: the problems that are addressed, the technical solutions or methods that are proposed. If you wish to perform a demo or require any special setup, we will do our best to accommodate you. Schedule ======== Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, May 19, 2014 Notification to Speakers: Monday, June 30, 2014 Workshop: Friday, September 5, 2014 ML family workshop and post-proceedings ======================================= The ML family workshop, held on the previous day, deals with general issues of the ML-style programming and type systems, and is seen as more research oriented. Yet there is an overlap with the OCaml workshop, which we are keen to explore, for instance by having a common session. The authors who feel their submission fits both workshops are encouraged to mention it at submission time and/or contact the Program Chairs. As another form of cooperation, we are considering combined post-conference proceedings of selected papers from the two workshops. The Program Committees shall invite interested authors of selected presentations to expand their abstract for inclusion in the proceedings. The submissions would be reviewed according to the standards of the publication. Program Committee ================= * Esther Baruk, LexiFi, France * Jacques Garrigue, Nagoya University, Japan (chair) * Oleg Kyseliov, Monterey, CA, USA * Pierre Letouzey, Universite Paris 7, France * Luc Maranget, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France * Keisuke Nakano, University of Electro-Communications, Japan * Yoan Padioleau, Facebook, USA * Andreas Rossberg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany * Julien Signoles, CEA LIST, France * Leo White, University of Cambridge, UK If you have any questions, please e-mail: Jacques Garrigue From mfd at kth.se Mon Feb 10 08:54:31 2014 From: mfd at kth.se (Mads Dam) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:54:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in provably secure systems at KTH Message-ID: <93798E81-778A-4417-9A80-BEED9CB96232@kth.se> The Theoretical Computer Science Group at the School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH, invites applications for *one postdoctoral position in provably secure systems*. The candidate will join the PROSPER team, led by Prof. Mads Dam, working on security verification of low-level code. The goal of the PROSPER project is to develop novel security kernels and hypervisors, primarily for embedded applications (smartphones, microcontrollers), that are fully formally verified at the machine code level. This involves a wide variety of challenging tasks, including theory and methods, tool development, kernel development and verification, prototype implementation, and benchmarking. The verification work uses a mix of program verification and semi-automated theorem proving methods. The project is currently in a fertile phase and needs an ambitious and creative postdoc interested in pushing the envelope for real systems verification. Within the framework of the PROSPER project, the postdoc will have ample opportunity to contribute to student supervision at both PhD and MSc levels, to take courses in university pedagogics, to contribute to undergraduate teaching on a voluntary basis, and to assist in project development and grant applications. The research project is financed by a framework grant from the Swedish Strategic Research Foundation, but the group also conducts industry-sponsored research. The successful candidate is likely to be involved in both types of work. The postdoc position is a full-time research position for one year with a possible one-year extension, subject to funding available as expected. The successful candidate is expected to start at the latest in August-September 2014, although this may be to some extent negotiable. Application deadline is Feb 28, 2014. 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URL: From garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp Tue Feb 11 00:18:03 2014 From: garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Jacques Garrigue) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:18:03 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop Message-ID: <276D9B6E-69D8-4918-BC88-D9762375A2A3@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop Thursday September 4, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden (immediately following ICFP and preceding OCaml Users and Developers Workshop) Call For Papers http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/ML14.html ML is a very large family of programming languages that includes Standard ML, OCaml, F#, SML#, Manticore, MetaOCaml, JoCaml, Alice ML, Dependent ML, Flow Caml, and many others. All ML languages, beside the great deal of syntax, share several fundamental traits. They are all higher-order, strict, mostly pure, and typed, with algebraic and other data types. Their type systems inherit from Hindley-Milner. The development of these languages has inspired a significant amount of computer science research and influenced a number of programming languages, including Haskell, Scala and Clojure, as well as Rust, ATS and many others. ML workshops have been held in affiliation with ICFP continuously since 2005. This workshop specifically aims to recognize the entire extended ML family and to provide the forum to present and discuss common issues, both practical (compilation techniques, implementations of concurrency and parallelism, programming for the Web) and theoretical (fancy types, module systems, metaprogramming). The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of the members of the ML family. We also encourage presentations from related languages (such as Scala, Rust, Nemerle, ATS, etc.), to exchange experience of further developing ML ideas. The ML family workshop will be held in close coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Format Since 2010, the ML workshop has adopted an informal model. Presentations are selected from submitted abstracts. There are no published proceedings, so any contributions may be submitted for publication elsewhere. We hope that this format encourages the presentation of exciting (if unpolished) research and deliver a lively workshop atmosphere. Each presentation should take 20-25 minutes, except demos, which should take 10-15 minutes. The exact time will be decided based on the number of accepted submissions. The presentations will likely be recorded. Post-conference proceedings We are considering post-conference proceedings of selected papers. The Program Committee shall invite interested authors of selected presentations to expand their abstract for inclusion in the proceedings. The submissions are to be reviewed according to the standards of the publication. Coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop The OCaml workshop is seen as more practical and is dedicated in significant part to the OCaml community building and the evolution of the OCaml system. In contrast, the ML family workshop is not focused on any language in particular, is more research oriented, and deals with general issues of the ML-style programming and type systems. Yet there is an overlap, which we are keen to explore in various ways. The authors who feel their submission fits both workshops are encouraged to mention it at submission time or contact the Program Chairs. Scope We acknowledge the whole breadth of the ML family and aim to include languages that are closely related (although not by blood), such as Rust, ATS, Scala, Typed Clojure. Those languages have implemented and investigated run-time and type system choices that may be worth considering for OCaml, F# and other ML languages. We also hope that the exposure to the state of the art ML might favorably influence those related languages. Specifically, we seek research presentations on topics including but not limited to * Design: concurrency, distribution and mobility, programming for the web and embedded systems, handling semi-structured data, facilitating interactive programming, higher forms of polymorphism, generic programming, objects * Implementation: compilation techniques, interpreters, type checkers, partial evaluators, runtime systems, garbage collectors, etc. * Type systems: fancy types, inference, effects, overloading, modules, contracts, specifications and assertions, dynamic typing, error reporting, etc. * Applications: case studies, experience reports, pearls, etc. * Environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language interoperability, functional data structures, etc. * Education: ML and ML-like languages in college or high-school, in general or computer science curriculum. Four kinds of submissions will be accepted: Informed Positions, Research Presentations, Experience Reports and Demos. * Informed Positions: A justified argument for or against a language feature. The argument must be substantiated, either theoretically (e.g., by a demonstration of (un)soundness, an inference algorithm, a complexity analysis), empirically or by a substantial experience. Personal experience is accepted as justification so long as it is extensive and illustrated with concrete examples. * Research Presentations: Research presentations should describe new ideas, experimental results, or significant advances in ML-related projects. We especially encourage presentations that describe work in progress, that outline a future research agenda, or that encourage lively discussion. These presentations should be structured in a way which can be, at least in part, of interest to (advanced) users. * Experience Reports: Users are invited to submit Experience Reports about their use of ML and related languages. These presentations do not need to contain original research but they should tell an interesting story to researchers or other advanced users, such as an innovative or unexpected use of advanced features or a description of the challenges they are facing or attempting to solve. * Demos: Live demonstrations or short tutorials should show new developments, interesting prototypes, or work in progress, in the form of tools, libraries, or applications built on or related to ML. (You will need to provide all the hardware and software required for your demo; the workshop organizers are only able to provide a projector.) Important dates Monday May 19 (any time zone): Abstract submission Monday June 30: Author notification Thursday September 4, 2014: ML Family Workshop Submission Submissions should be at most two pages, in PDF format, and printable on US Letter or A4 sized paper. A submission should have a synopsis (2-3 lines) and a body between 1 and 2 pages, in one- or two-column layout. The synopsis should be suitable for inclusion in the workshop program. Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website before the submission deadline (Monday May 19, 2014). For any question concerning the scope of the workshop or the submission process, please contact the program chair. Program Committee Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University, Japan Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Jacques Garrigue Nagoya University, Japan Dave Herman Mozilla, USA Stefan Holdermans Vector Fabrics, Netherlands Oleg Kiselyov (Chair) Monterey, CA, USA Keiko Nakata Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Didier Re'my INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France Zhong Shao Yale University, USA Hongwei Xi Boston University, USA From Freek.Verbeek at ou.nl Tue Feb 11 02:45:53 2014 From: Freek.Verbeek at ou.nl (Verbeek, Freek) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:45:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACL2'14: Call for papers Message-ID: <2E7AEE96A787824AA085651B3FDE395C01275155A58C@srv-hrl-157v.pwo.ou.nl> *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ACL2 2014 International Workshop on the ACL2 Theorem Prover and its Applications in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN July 12-13, 2014 in Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/acl2/ CALL FOR PAPERS IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission 30th March2014 Paper Submission 6th April 2014 Author Notification 11th May 2014 Camera Ready 25th May 2014 WORKSHOP SCOPE ACL2 2014 is the major technical forum for users of the ACL2 theorem proving system to present research related to the ACL2 theorem prover and its applications. ACL2 2014 is the eleventh in the series of ACL2 workshops, which occur approximately every 18 months. ACL2 is an industrial-strength automated reasoning system, the latest in the Boyer-Moore family of theorem provers. The 2005 ACM Software System Award was awarded to Boyer, Kaufmann, and Moore for their work in ACL2 and the other theorem provers in the Boyer-Moore family. ACL2 2014 is a two-day workshop to be held in Vienna, Austria. The workshop will feature technical papers, invited talks, and rump sessions discussing ongoing research. We invite submissions of papers on any topic related to ACL2 and its applications, and we strongly encourage submissions related to other theorem provers or formal methods that are of interest to the ACL2 community. Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: * software or hardware verification with ACL2, * formalizations of mathematics in ACL2, * new libraries, tools, and interfaces for ACL2, * novel uses of ACL2, * experiences with ACL2 in the classroom, * reports of and proposals for improvements of ACL2, * comparisons with other theorem provers, * comparisons with other programming or specification languages, * challenge problems and their solutions, * foundational issues related to ACL2, and * implementations connecting ACL2 with other systems. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format, as directed in the ACL2 2014 website. Submissions should be prepared in the EPTCS templates, available from http://style.eptcs.org. The ACL2 Workshop accepts both long papers (up to sixteen pages) and extended abstracts (up to two pages). Both categories of papers will be fully refereed, but only long papers will be included in the final workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted papers must register for the workshop and give a presentation summarizing the paper's results. Authors of long papers will have more time to present their work at the workshop. One of the main advantages of the ACL2 Workshop is that attendees are already knowledgeable about ACL2, its syntax, its basic commands, and the art of writing models in it. So authors may assume that readers have this familiarity. The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Many papers presented at the workshop will describe interactions with the theorem prover. We strongly encourage authors of such papers to provide ACL2 script files (aka "books") along with instructions for using these books in ACL2. Such supporting materials should follow the guidelines at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/books/index.html. For accepted papers, we will ask authors to make these books available by adding them to the ACL2 books repository. The workshop will also feature ``rump sessions'', in which participants can describe ongoing research related to ACL2. Proposals for rump session presentations, including a title and short abstract, will be accepted until the workshop. ORGANIZATION Chairs Freek Verbeek, Open University of The Netherlands Julien Schmaltz, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Program Committee John Cowles (University of Wyoming) Warren Hunt (University of Texas at Austin) Matt Kaufmann (University of Texas at Austin) Panagiotis Manolios (Northeastern University) Magnus O. Myreen (University of Cambridge) Lee Pike (Galois, Inc.) David Rager (Oracle, Inc.) Sandip Ray (Intel Corporation) Jose Luis Ruiz Reina (University of Seville) David Russinoff (Intel Corp.) Eric Smith (Stanford University) Sol Swords (Centaur Technology, Inc.) Laurent Th?ry (INRIA) Makarius Wenzel (Universit? Paris-Sud) Freek Wiedijk (Radboud University Nijmegen) Deze e-mail is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Verstrekking aan en gebruik door anderen is niet toegestaan. Open Universiteit sluit iedere aansprakelijkheid uit die voortvloeit uit elektronische verzending. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail en/of eventueel toegevoegde bijlagen kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. This e-mail is intended exclusively for the addressee(s), and may not be passed on to, or made available for use by any person other than the addressee(s). Open Universiteit rules out any and every liability resulting from any electronic transmission. No rights may be derived from the contents of this message. From ylies.falcone at ujf-grenoble.fr Tue Feb 11 03:06:23 2014 From: ylies.falcone at ujf-grenoble.fr (Ylies Falcone) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:06:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems, GRENOBLE (FRANCE) JULY 7-11, 2014 Message-ID: <43E47794-16BF-4B3F-B12F-80DFDD93D7F4@ujf-grenoble.fr> [~~~~~~ Please disseminate widely within your teams & contacts ~~~~~~] Dear Colleagues, PERSYVAL-Lab and NASA-JPL are organizing the second edition of the CPS Summer School. The broad objective of the CPS Summer School is to explore the manifold relationship between networked embedded systems (? the internet of things ?) and humans as their creators, users, and subjects. The format of the Summer School is a five days meeting, organized around different aspects of rigorous engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems. This year, the objective of the school is to survey fundamental and applied aspects of modelling, monitoring and learning of systems as well as to identify novel opportunities and research directions in these areas through a series of lectures by international experts. Participants will also experience the relevant technologies during hands-on courses and be given a chance to present their own work. The school will provide a great opportunity to know other people working in the field, to meet distinguished scholars, and to establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future. The school will concentrate on the fields of system modelling, monitoring and learning. Over the last ten years we have seen a lot of growth in these areas, building on strong theoretical foundations to apply and extend techniques to new application domains. Runtime verification is a growing field with more and more efffective applications in safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. The field of specification mining (learning specifications from system behaviour) has also seen a surge in research effort, with the establishment of a number of competitions to drive forward the development of practical tools. This research community is at an ideal stage to benefit from a school such as this, to inspire, motivate and instruct new researchers into the field. Students participating at this summer school will learn the current state of the art in modeling, monitoring, and learning. Students will be able to apply new techniques coming from various communities and backgrounds to their own domain. The CPS Summer School will be held at Grenoble University. Courses will be given in English by experts from industry and academia working in various fields of CPS. Topics: ? System modeling. ? Monitoring. ? Learning. ? Medical devices. ? Sensor networks. Confirmed Speakers: ? Eric Bodden (TU Darmstadt and EC SPRIDE, Germany). ? Olivier Coutelou (Schneider Electric, France). ? Radu Grosu (Technical Univesity Wien, Austria). ? Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL, USA). ? Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark). ? Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, Germany). ? Roberto Passerone (Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Italy). ? Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA). ? Mohamad Sawan (Ecole Polytechnique de Montr?al, Canada). ? Bernhard Steffen (Technical University Dortmund, Germany). ? Andreas Zeller (Saarland University, Germany). Organization Committee: ? Saddek Bensalem - University of Grenoble, France. ? Yli?s Falcone - University of Grenoble, France. ? Klaus Havelund - NASA JPL, USA. Registration fee is ?250 for students, ?400 for non-students, which includes lunches and coffee breaks from Monday 8th through Thursday 11th, and a party. The registration fee only partially covers the costs incurred. The remaining costs are covered by PERSYVAL-Lab. The local organization committee has arranged university accommodations for students. Please refer to the Website for more details. Application Procedure and Important Dates (please refer to the Website for the full procedure): ? Deadline for Application: April 14, 2014. ? Response to Applicants: April 21, 2014. ? Online Registration and Fee payment: May 10, 2014. ? Summer school on CPS: July 7-11, 2014. Since attendance is limited, priority will be given to Ph.D. students and companies' staff. More details can be found at: https://persyval-lab.org/en/summer-school/cps14. Applications can be submitted at: https://persyval-calls.imag.fr/en/project/10. Enquiries can be sent to cps-school.organization at imag.fr. 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IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: April 14, 2014 Paper Submission: April 19, 2014 Paper Notification: June 9, 2014 INVITED SPEAKERS - Javier Esparza (TU Muenchen, DE) - Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, FR), joint with TGC - Vasco Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, PT) TOPICS Submissions are solicited in semantics, logics, verification and analysis of concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain theoretic models, game theoretic models, categorical models, process algebras, graph transformation systems, coalgebraic models and Petri nets; - Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics, and resource logics; - Models of specialized systems such as biology-inspired systems, circuits, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems, multi-core processors, probabilistic systems, real-time systems, service-oriented computing, and synchronous systems; - Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model checking, race detection, pre-order and equivalence checking, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving, and type systems; - Related programming models such as distributed, component-based, object-oriented, and web services; - Security issues in concurrent systems. =================================== PAPER SUBMISSION CONCUR 2014 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. As an exception, concurrent submissions to CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014 are allowed, and in fact encouraged for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of such double submissions should identify them to the Program Chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the "Regular paper submitted also to TGC" category in the EasyChair site). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014. CONCUR's timeline is ahead of TGC's; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered automatically withdrawn from TGC. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Contributions must be submitted as PDF files. They should not exceed 15 pages in length and comply with the Springer LNCS style. Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair online submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=concur2014) The CONCUR 2014 proceedings will be published by Springer in the ArCoSS subseries of LNCS. The proceedings will be available at the conference. =================================== CO-LOCATED EVENTS - TGC 2014 7th Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing (Sep 5-6) - IFIP-TCS 2014 8th IFIP Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (Sep 1-3) WORKSHOPS - EXPRESS/SOS 2014 Combined 21st Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 11th Workshop on Structured Operational Semantics (Sep 1) - BEAT 2014 3rd International Workshop on Behavioural Types (Sep 1) - FOCLASA 2014 13th Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptation (Sep 6) - PV 2014 Workshop on Parameterized Verification (Sep 6) ======================= PROGRAM CHAIRS - Paolo Baldan (Universita' di Padova, IT) - Daniele Gorla (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", IT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Luca Aceto (Reykjavik University, IS) - Christel Baier (TU Dresden, DE) - Luis Caires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT) - David de Frutos Escrig (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES) - Stephanie Delaune (ENS Cachan, FR) - Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and CWI, NL) - Yuxi Fu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, CN) - Fabio Gadducci (Universita' di Pisa, IT) - Ursula Goltz (TU Braunschweig, DE) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, CH) - Joshua Guttman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Keijo Heljanko (Aalto University, FI) - Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, PL) - Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE) - Antonin Kucera (University of Brno, CZ) - Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, DK) - Andrzej Murawski (University of Warwick, UK) - K. Narayan Kumar (Chennai Mathematical Institute, IN) - Madhusudan Parthasarathy (University of Illinois, USA) - Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, CY) - Shaz Qadeer (Microsoft Research, USA) - Arend Rensink (University of Twente, NL) - Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, CA) - Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, SP) - Daniele Varacca (Paris Diderot, FR) - Bjorn Victor (Uppsala University, S) - James Worrell (Oxford University, UK) WORKSHOP CHAIR - Silvia Crafa (Universita' di Padova, IT) STEERING COMMITTEE - Jos Baeten (CWI Amsterdam, NL) - Javier Esparza (TU Muenchen, DE) - Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, DE) - Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, DK) - Ugo Montanari (Universita' di Pisa, IT) - Scott Smolka (SUNY Stony Brook, US) From htv at di.fc.ul.pt Tue Feb 11 14:26:04 2014 From: htv at di.fc.ul.pt (Hugo Torres Vieira) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:26:04 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2014) - June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <0819A7C3-E5B9-471F-A645-44B29B8D5FEF@di.fc.ul.pt> ICE 2014 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://www.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2014 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2014 http://www.discotec.org === Highlights === - Innovative selection procedure - ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief announcements of already published papers - Invited talks: Kim Larsen and Pavol Cerny - Special issue in a highly-reputed journal === Important Dates === 12 March 2014...................Abstract submission 15 March 2014...................Full paper submission 16 March - 15 April 2014....Reviews and PC discussion 16 April 2014......................Notification to authors 6 June 2014.......................ICE in Berlin 15 September 2014...........Camera-ready for post-proceedings === Scope === Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of international scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer science researchers with special interest in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives for complex interactions. The general scope of the venue includes theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among components of concurrent/distributed systems, related to several areas of computer science in the broad spectrum ranging from formal specification and analysis to studies inspired by emerging computational models. We solicit contributions relevant to Interaction and Concurrency, including but not limited to: * Formal semantics * Process algebras and calculi * Models and languages * Protocols * Logics and types * Expressiveness * Model transformations * Tools, implementations, and experiments * Specification and verification * Coinductive techniques * Tools and techniques for automation * Synthesis techniques The special focus of ICE 2014 is automation in concurrency and interaction. === Selection Procedure === Since its 1st edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has been an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. During the review phase, each submission is published on a dedicated discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of the submission and by all the PC members not in conflict with the submission. The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions and clarifications to the authors, allowing them to better explain all the aspects of their submission. The evaluation of the submission will take into account not only the reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion. As witnessed by the past six editions of ICE, this procedure considerably improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the selection, the quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during the workshop. === Submission Guidelines === We invite for three types of submissions: (1) Full Papers; (2) Short Papers; (3) Brief Announcements of already Published Papers. Full and short papers will appear in the post-proceedings and must report previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The ICE 2014 post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite for brief announcements of already published results, should the authors be interested in discussing their published research with the ICE community and giving a talk. Brief announcements will not be part of the post-proceedings. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2014). Full papers should not exceed 15 pages in length, while short papers and brief announcements should not exceed 5 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). Accepted (full and short) papers and brief announcements must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. === Special Issue === We plan to invite extended versions of selected full papers to a special issue in a highly-reputed journal. Such contributions will be regularly peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but they will be handled in a shorter time than regular submissions. === Invited Talks === Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Pavol Cerny (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) === Program Committee === Luis Soares Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Laura Bocchi (Imperial College London, UK) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Nicolas D'Ippolito (Imperial College London, UK) Mike Dodds (York University, UK) Bernd Finkbeiner (Universit?t des Saarlandes, Germany) Elena Giachino (University of Bologna, Italy) Tobias Heindel (LIX ?cole Polytechnique, France) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, France) Sophia Knight (LIX ?cole Polytechnique, France) Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg, Germany) Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin, UK) Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK) Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Shiva Nejati (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Peter ?lveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) Luca Padovani (University of Torino, Italy) Antonio Ravara (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal) Owen Stephens (University of Southampton, UK) Ali Sezgin (IST Austria, Austria) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Paola Spoletini (University of Insubria, Italy) Bernardo Toninho (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal & Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) === ICEcreamers === Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy; PC chair) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria; PC chair) Hugo Torres Vieira (University of Lisbon, Portugal) === Steering Committee === Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Paola Spoletini (University of Insubria, Italy) === Contact === ice2014 at easychair.org === Previous editions === The previous six editions of ICE have been held on * July 6th, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with ICALP'08. The post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol.229-3). * August 31st, 2009 in Bologna, Italy, co-located with CONCUR'09. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.12) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of MSCS (with EXPRESS?09 and SOS?09, Vol. 22, Number 2). * June 10th, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-located with DisCoTec'10. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.38) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of SACS (with CAMPUS'10 and CS2BIO'10, Vol. XXI). * June 9th, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with DisCoTec'11. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.59) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SACS (Vol. XXII). * June 16th, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with DisCoTec'12. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.104) and a special issue of SCP is now in preparation. * June 6th, 2013 in Florence, Italy, co-located with DisCoTec?13. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.131) and a special issue of SCP is now in preparation. From rvconference at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 16:30:47 2014 From: rvconference at gmail.com (Runtime Verification) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:30:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2014: 2nd Call for Papers, Deadline in 2 months Message-ID: [Apologizes for duplicates] 14th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 22 - 25, 2014 *Toronto, Canada* http://rv2014.imag.fr/ Scope: Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software and hardware system executions. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. Topics of interest to the conference include: - specification languages - specification mining - program instrumentation - monitor construction techniques - logging, recording, and replay - fault detection, localization, containment, recovery and repair - program steering and adaptation - metrics and statistical information gathering - combination of static and dynamic analyses - program execution visualization - monitoring techniques for safety/mission-critical systems - monitoring distributed systems, cloud services, and big data applications - monitoring security and privacy policies Application areas of runtime verification include safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. Technical Research Papers Track: Technical research papers can be submitted in two categories: regular and short papers. Papers in both categories will be reviewed by the conference Program Committee. All accepted technical papers will appear in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'14 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using theEasyChair system. - *Regular papers* (up to 15 pages) should present original unpublished results. Theoretical and experimental papers as well as papers on applications of runtime verification and case studies are all welcome. A non-monetary Best Paper Award will be given. A selection of accepted regular papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal Methods in System Design. - *Short papers* (up to 5 pages) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and other domains. Accepted short papers will be presented in special short talk (10 minutes) and poster sessions. Program committee Borzoo Bonakdarpour (University of Waterloo, Canada), *co-chair* Scott Smolka (Stony Brook Universtiy, USA), *co-chair* Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Thomas Ball (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) Howard Barringer (The University of Manchester, UK) Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, Austria) David Basin (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Saddek Bensalem (Verimag, France) Eric Bodden (TU - Darmstadt, Germany) Ivona Brandic (TU Wien, Austria) Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Michael Clarkson (George Washington University, USA) Laura Dillon (Michigan State University, USA) Shlomi Dolev (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) Dawson Engler (Stanford University, USA) Ylies Falcone (Universit? Joseph Fourier, France) Vijay Garg (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Steve Goddard (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (University of Utah, USA) Wolfgang Grieskamp (Google, USA) Radu Grosu (TU- Wien, Austria) Klaus Havelund (NASA/JPL, USA) Mats Heimdahl (University of Minnesota, USA) Laurie Hendren (McGill University, Canada) Gerard Holzmann (NASA/JPL, USA) Daniel Keren (Haifa University, Israel) Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State University, USA) Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, UK) Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Axel Legay (IRISA/INRIA, France) Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, Germany) Leonardo Mariani (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy) Patrick Meredith (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Mauro Pezze (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Lee Pike (Galois Inc., USA) Zvonimir Rakamaric (University of Utah, USA) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Andrey Rybalchenko (TU-Munich, Germany) Andre Schiper (EPFL, Switzerland) Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Scott Stoller (Stony Brook University, USA) Serdar Tasiran (Koc University, Turkey) Michael Whalen (University of Minnesota, USA) Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tool Demonstrations Track: The aim of the RV 2014 tool demonstration track is to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to show and to discuss the latest advances, experiences and challenges in devising and developing reliable software tools for runtime verification. Tool demonstration papers will be reviewed by the Tools Track Program Committee. All accepted tool demonstration papers will appear in the conference proceedings LNCS volume. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'14 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair system. Tool papers should meet the following criteria: - A tool paper should present a new tool, a new tool component or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. Each submission should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form. - Each submission must not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS/Springer proceeding format, including all text, references and figures. The paper must be written in English and provided in PDF format. - Each submission must be accompanied at the time of the submission by a short screencast (between 5-10 minutes), with voice and overlay text commentary illustrating the demonstration of the tool (a link to it should be provided in the paper). - The paper must include information on tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results and it should provide a link to a website containing the theoretical background and user guide. Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make their tools and benchmarks available with their submission. - Each tool paper must include a script in an appendix (not included in the page count) describing how the demo will be conducted during the conference presentation with screenshots presenting step-by-step the tool's capabilities, highlighting the main characteristics and the usage. Evaluation Each submission will be reviewed by at least four members of the tool demonstration track program committee. The evaluation criteria will include: - the presentation quality - the availability (possibly in a open-source format) of the software. - the relevance for the Runtime Verification audience - the technical soundness of the presented tool - the originality of the underlying ideas Tool Demonstration Committee Ezio Bartocci, (TU-Vienna, Austria), *Chair* Eric Bodden (TU - Darmstadt, Germany) Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) Dawson Engler (Stanford University, USA) Ylies Falcone (Universit? Joseph Fourier, France) Klaus Havelund (NASA/JPL, USA) Michael Whalen (University of Minnesota, USA) Important Dates: Both research papers and tool demonstration tracks will follow the following timeline: - *Abstract deadline:* April 8, 2014 - *Full paper deadline:* April 15, 2014 - *Rebuttal phase:* May 18-20, 2014 - *Acceptance notification:* June 10, 2014 - *Camera ready submission:* June 25, 2014 - *Conference dates:* 22-25 September, 2014 Competition on Software for Runtime Verification (CSRV-2014) A satellite event of RV'14 is the first *International Competition on Software for Runtime Verification* (CRVS'14). The main aims of CSRV-2014 competition are to: - Stimulate the development of new efficient and practical runtime verification tools and the maintenance of the already developed ones. - Produce a benchmark suite for runtime verification tools, by sharing case studies and programs that researchers and developers can use in the future to test and to validate their prototypes. - Discuss the metrics employed for comparing the tools. - Provide a comparison of the tools running with different benchmarks and evaluating using different criteria. - Enhance the visibility of presented tools among the different communities (software engineering, formal methods and automated verification, distributed computing, security, and safety-critical systems) involved in software monitoring. CRVS'14 will follow the following time line: - *Declaration of intent:* December 15, 2013 - *Deadline for submission of benchmarks:* March 1, 2014 - *Monitoring tool submission:* June 1, 2014 - *Notification:* July 1, 2014 For more information, visit http://rv2014.imag.fr/monitoring-competition or contact the event organizers: - *Ezio Bartocci* (TU-Wien, Austria), ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at - *Borzoo Bonakdarpour* (U. Waterloo, Canada), borzoo at cs.uwaterloo.ca - *Ylies Falcone* (U. Joseph Fourier, France), ylies.falcone at ujf-grenoble.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Wed Feb 12 06:02:41 2014 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco T. Vasconcelos) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:02:41 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLACES 2014 _ Call for Participation Message-ID: Call For Participation PLACES'14 Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software April 12, 2014, Grenoble, France Workshop affiliated with ETAPS 2014 http://places14.di.fc.ul.pt/ ** Registration ** Early registration from 20 January to 14 February 2014. http://www.etaps.org/ ** Invited Talk ** Finding concurrency bugs under imprecise harnesses Akash Lal, Microsoft Research India ** Programme ** http://places14.di.fc.ul.pt/programme ** Accepted Papers ** - Session Type Isomorphisms. Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (University of Torino, Italy), Luca Padovani (University of Torino, Italy), and Jovanka Pantovic (University of Novi Sad) - Sessions as propositions. Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) and J. Garrett Morris (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Multiparty Session Actors. Rumyana Neykova (Imperial College London, UK) and Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK) - Towards Reversible Sessions. Francesco Tiezzi (IMT, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) and Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK) - Verifying Parallel Loops with Separation Logic. Stefan Blom (FMT, EWI, University of Twente, Nederlands), Saeed Darabi (FMT, EWI, University of Twente, Nederlands), and Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Nederlands) - Session Types for Broadcasting. Dimitrios Kouzapas (University of Glasgow, UK), Ramunas Gutkovas (Uppsala University, Sweden), and Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, UK) - Modularising global session types. Tzu-Chun Chen (University of Torino, Italy) - Multiparty Sessions based on Proof Nets. Dimitris Mostrous (University of Lisbon, Portugal) - Towards Composable Concurrency Abstractions. Janwillem Swalens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Stefan Marr (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Joeri De Koster (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), and Tom Van Cutsem (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) ** Theme and Goals ** Applications today are built using numerous interacting services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many applications need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems is inherently concurrent and communication-centred. To exploit and harness the richness of this computing environment, designers and programmers will utilise a rich variety of programming paradigms, depending on the shape of the data and control flow. Plausible candidates for such paradigms include structured imperative concurrent programming, stream-based programming, concurrent functions with asynchronous message passing, higher-order types for events, and the use of types for communications and data structures (such as session types and linear types), to name but a few. Combinations of these abstractions will be used even in a single application, and the runtime environment needs to ensure seamless execution without relying on differences in available resources such as the number of cores. The development of effective programming methodologies for the coming computing paradigm demands exploration and understanding of a wide variety of ideas and techniques. This workshop aims to offer a forum where researchers from different fields exchange new ideas on one of the central challenges for programming in the near future, the development of programming methodologies and infrastructures where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern. ** Topics of Interest ** *Design and implementation of programming languages with first class support for concurrency and communication * Behavioural types, including session types * Concurrent data types, objects and actors * Verification and program analysis methods for concurrent and distributed software * Runtime systems for scalable management of concurrency and resource allocation * High-level programming abstractions addressing security concerns in concurrent and distributed programming * Multi- and many-core programming models, including methods for harnessing GPUs and other accelerators * Memory models for concurrent programming on relaxed-memory architectures * Integration of sequential and concurrent programming techniques * Use of message passing in systems software * Interface languages for communication and distribution * Novel programming methodologies for sensor networks * Programming language approaches to web services * Concurrency and communication in event processing and business process management ** Program Committee ** Jade Alglave, University College London, UK Michele Bugliesi, Universit? Ca' Foscari Venezia, IT Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London, UK (co-chair) Benedict Gaster, Qualcomm, USA Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, DK Jeroen Ketema, Imperial College London, UK Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University, UK Etienne Lozes, ENS Cachan & University of Kassel, FR & DE Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon, PT Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge, UK Luca Padovani, Universit? di Torino, IT Shaz Qadeer, MSR Redmond, USA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, PT (co-chair) ** Organizing Committee ** Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge, UK Vasco Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK From kstrong at cambridge.org Wed Feb 12 11:32:08 2014 From: kstrong at cambridge.org (Katy Strong) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:32:08 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Newly Published book, Lambda Calculus with Types Message-ID: New Book Published by Henk Barendregt, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Wil Dekkers, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Richard Statman, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Lambda Calculus with Types This handbook with exercises reveals in formalisms, hitherto mainly used for hardware and software design and verification, unexpected mathematical beauty. The lambda calculus forms a prototype universal programming language, which in its untyped version is related to Lisp, and was treated in the first author's classic The Lambda Calculus (1984). The formalism has since been extended with types and used in functional programming (Haskell, Clean) and proof assistants (Coq, Isabelle, HOL), used in designing and verifying IT products and mathematical proofs. In this book, the authors focus on three classes of typing for lambda terms: simple types, recursive types and intersection types. It is in these three formalisms of terms and types that the unexpected mathematical beauty is revealed. The treatment is authoritative and comprehensive, complemented by an exhaustive bibliography, and numerous exercises are provided to deepen the readers' understanding and increase their confidence using types. ? Presents three type disciplines using a unified framework ? Reveals many mathematical gems through the simple definitions of terms and types ? Introduces the reader to applications and includes almost 300 exercises Hardback ISBN-13: 9780521766142 Perspectives in Logic Series USD 90.00, GBP 60.00 Also Available as an e-book For more information, please visit: www.cambridge.org/9780521766142 From shankar at csl.sri.com Thu Feb 13 03:06:18 2014 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:06:18 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VSTTE 2014 CFP Message-ID: <52FC7CFA.3040907@csl.sri.com> CALL FOR PAPERS VSTTE 2014 ********************************************************************** 6th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments July 17 - 18, 2014 Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/vstte/ Co-located with the Vienna Summer of Logic (http://vsl2014.at/) ********************************************************************** Submission Deadline: April 25, 2014 SCOPE: The Sixth Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich in 2005 followed by conferences in Toronto (2008), Edinburgh (2010), Philadelphia (2012), and Atherton (2013). The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art in the science and technology of software verification, through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. We welcome submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e., software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. Topics of interest include education, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification case-studies, formal calculi, software design methods, automatic code generation, refinement methodologies, compositional analysis, verification tools (e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge problems, and integrated verification environments. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee. We are accepting both long (limited to 16 pages) and short (limited to 10 pages) paper submissions, written in English. Short submissions also cover Verification Pearls describing an elegant proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions must be in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods, results, and comparison to existing work. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. Papers should be submitted through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2014. Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2014 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The use of LaTeX and the Springer LNCS class files, obtainable fromhttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, is strongly encouraged. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published as post-Proceedings, to appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: April 19, 2014 Full paper submission: April 25, 2014 Notification: June 2, 2014 ORGANIZATION: General Chair: Wilfried Steiner (TTTech Computertechnik AG, Austria) Program Chairs: Dimitra Giannakopoulou (NASA Ames) Daniel Kroening (Oxford University) Publicity Chair: Leo Freitas (Newcastle) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) Domagoj Babic (Google) Sandrine Blazy (IRISA - Universit? Rennes 1) Alessandro Cimatti (FBK-irst) Ernie Cohen (Microsoft) Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Klaus Havelund (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) Mats Heimdahl (University of Minnesota) Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University) Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Rajeev Joshi (Laboratory for Reliable Software, Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Temesghen Kahsai (NASA Ames/CMU) Moonzoo Kim (KAIST) Francesco Logozzo (Microsoft Research) Tiziana Margaria (Univ. Potsdam) Peter M?ller (ETH Z?rich) Shiva Nejati (University of Luxembourg) Shaz Qadeer (Microsoft) Zvonimir Rakamaric (University of Utah) Natarajan Shankar (SRI Computer Science Laboratory) Nishant Sinha (IBM Research Labs) Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa) Arnaud Venet (CMU / NASA Ames Research Center) Jim Woodcock (University of York) Karen Yorav (IBM Haifa Research Lab) ********************************************************************** Please contactvstte2014 at easychair.org for further information ********************************************************************** From Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk Thu Feb 13 07:09:26 2014 From: Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:09:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First International Summer School on Behavioural Types Message-ID: <52FCB5F6.8070502@glasgow.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON BEHAVIOURAL TYPES LOVRAN, CROATIA 30th JUNE - 4th JULY 2014 summerschool2014.behavioural-types.eu Organized by COST Action IC1201: Behavioural Types for Reliable Large-Scale Software Systems (BETTY) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Modern society is increasingly dependent on large-scale software systems that are distributed, collaborative and communication-centred. Correctness and reliability of such systems depend on compatibility between components and services that are newly developed or may already exist. The consequences of failure are severe, including security breaches and unavailability of essential services. Current software development technology is not well suited to producing these large-scale systems, because of the lack of high-level structuring abstractions for complex communication behaviour. COST Action IC1201 uses behavioural type theory as the basis for new foundations, programming languages, and software development methods for communication-intensive distributed systems. Behavioural type theory encompasses concepts such as interfaces, communication protocols, contracts, and choreography. As a unifying structural principle it has the potential to transform the theory and practice of distributed software development. In order to train PhD students and early-career researchers in the theory and applications of behavioural types, the 1st International Summer School on Behavioural Types will take place from 30th June to 4th July 2014, in Lovran, Croatia. Confirmed Speakers and Provisional Topics ----------------------------------------- Main Courses - Behavioural separation types Luis Caires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) - Linear logic and session types Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Foundations of session types Vasco Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) - Theory and applications of multi-party session types Nobuko Yoshida and Raymond Hu (Imperial College London, UK) Short courses / lectures - Choreographies Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Security and behavioural types Ilaria Castellani (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) - Progress properties in session types Mariangiola Dezani (University of Torino, Italy) - Subtyping in behavioural types Luca Padovani (University of Torino, Italy) Full information will be updated at http://summerschool2014.behavioural-types.eu Application procedure --------------------- Places are limited. Applications will be evaluated by the organizing committee. Up to thirty participants (PhD students and early-career researchers) from COST countries or near neighbour countries (list available at www.cost.eu) can be funded by COST Action IC1201. Other participants may attend at their own expense. Please send your CV, a statement of your current research topic and your interest in the summer school, and a supporting letter from your PhD supervisor or, in the case of early-career researchers, from a mentor, to Simon Gay (Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk). If you want to request funding from COST Action IC1201 then please state this in your application. Any enquiries can also be sent to Simon Gay. Important dates --------------- Application deadline: 4th April Notification of acceptance: 28th April Notification of funding: 28th April Summer school: 30th June - 4th July Organizing Committee -------------------- Tihana Galinac Grbac (University of Rijeka, Croatia) Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, UK) Dimitris Mostrous (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Jovanka Pantovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) Antonio Ravara (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) Neva Slani (University of Zagreb, Croatia) From vladimir at ias.edu Thu Feb 13 11:07:34 2014 From: vladimir at ias.edu (Vladimir Voevodsky) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:07:34 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Heidelberg Forum Message-ID: Hello, have a look at this please: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/call-for-application/ Last year it was interesting since it brought together mathematicians and computer scientists which does not happen often. Vladimir. From taoxie at illinois.edu Thu Feb 13 11:28:22 2014 From: taoxie at illinois.edu (Tao Xie) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:28:22 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: IEEE Software Special Issue on Software Engineering for Internet Computing: Internetware and Beyond Message-ID: Call for Papers: IEEE Software Special Issue "Software Engineering for Internet Computing: Internetware and Beyond" Submission Deadline: **1 June 2014** Publication: January/February 2015 Detailed CFP: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/swcfp1 This special issue seeks articles that explore state-of-the-art research and industry practices of software engineering for Internet computing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: *. software and programming models for dominant and emerging Internet-based systems such as cloud computing, service computing, social computing, mobile Internet, Internet-of-things, and cyber-physical systems; *. platforms and application frameworks for Internet-based software, such as Web-based integration (for example, REST and JSON), infrastructure provisioning and deployment (for example, OpenStack and Capistrano), Web-scale data analytics and content handling (for example, MongoDB and Hadoop); *. engineering and quality-assurance approaches for Internet-based software; *. software design models for Internet-based software, such as UML, BPM, and Petri Net; *. software development processes and tools for the Internet (for example, agile development for Internet-based software), or with the Internet (for example, cloud-based development environments); *. technology and human-interaction models and techniques in the development of Internet-based software; *. migration or integration of legacy software to Internet-based software; and *. case studies and experience reports on one or more of the above aspects in industry practices. 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In recent years, there has been sustained interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in computer security, including the formal specification, analysis, and design of cryptographic 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 FCS-FCC 2014 workshop is to provide a forum for continued activity in this area. Historically, FCS has contributed to bringing computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community, and given LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security. FCC, traditionally affiliated with CSF, provides a dedicated venue to present recent advances in the field of computationally-sound cryptographic protocol analysis. Both these areas---logical foundations and protocol analysis---are of interest to large subsets of the CSF community. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. SUBMISSION All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. FCS-FCC 2014 welcomes two kinds of submissions: * short abstracts (1 page, including references and appendices), and * full papers (at most 12 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices). Short abstracts will receive as rigorous review as do full papers. Short abstracts may receive shorter talk slots at the workshop than do full papers, depending on the number of accepted submissions. Papers should be submitted using the two-column IEEE Proceedings style available for various document preparation systems at the IEEE Conference Publishing Services page. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf); please, do not send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files). Papers must be submitted at the following site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcsfcc2014 INFORMAL PROCEEDINGS The workshop has no published proceedings. Presenting a paper at the workshop should not preclude submission to or publication in other venues. The papers presented at the workshop will be made publicly available, but this will not constitute an official proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pedro Adao (SQIG-IT and IST-Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Mario Alvim (UFMG, Brazil) Aslan Askarov (Harvard University, USA) Michael Clarkson (The George Washington University, USA, co-chair) Hubert Comon-Lundh (LSV, CNRS, ENS de Cachan, France) Veronique Cortier (LORIA, CNRS, France) Catalin Hritcu (INRIA, France) Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dan Kifer (Penn State, USA) Masoud Koleini (The George Washington University, USA) Boris Koepf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain, co-chair) Ralf Kuesters (University of Trier, Germany) Matteo Maffei (CISPA, Saarland University, Germany, co-chair) Carroll Morgan (University of New South Wales, Australia) Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University, Sweden) Ben Smyth (INRIA, France) Pierre-Yves Strub (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, USA) Tachio Terauchi (Nagoya University, Japan) Dominique Unruh (University of Tartu, Estonia) Jeff Vaughan (LogicBlox, USA) Santiago Zanella Beguelin (Microsoft Research, UK) From emanuela.merelli at unicam.it Fri Feb 14 08:11:15 2014 From: emanuela.merelli at unicam.it (Emanuela Merelli) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:11:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CS2Bio 2014 - Call for paper Message-ID: [We apologise for multiple copies] ======================================================================== First call for papers CS2Bio'14 5th International Workshop on Interactions between Computer Science and Biology Affiliated to DisCoTec'14 June 6th, 2014 Berlin, Germany http://combio.abo.fi/cs2bio14 ======================================================================== Biological systems are complex systems whose modeling requires a dramatic change in paradigms that has seen reductionism challenged by holism and Systems Biology a stimulating field to let evolve the science of Complex Systems as a convergent branch (a sort of hyperedge) of Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics. The aim of this workshop is to gather researchers interested in the convergence of Computer Science, Biology and the Life Sciences. In particular, in this 5th edition, we solicit the contribution of original results, from any research areas, such as Mathematics, Physics, Complex Systems, and Computational Science that address both theoretical aspects of modelling and applied work on the comprehension of biological behaviour. Furthermore, to facilitate the integration of different research areas we encourage the presentation of main objectives and preliminary results of active projects on the CS2Bio topics conducted by interdisciplinary teams. *** SCOPE *** Papers selected for presentation at CS2Bio should either present the modelling of a specific biological phenomenon using formal techniques, or a modelling, simulation, testing or verification approach in computer science that leads to a novel and promising application to a range of biological or medical systems. In the latter case, some emphasis on the scope and scalability of the approach will be required. The workshop intends to attract researchers interested in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives concerning the complex interactions encountered. In general, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Formal Biological Modelling - Formal methods for the representation of biological systems and their dynamics; - Theoretical links and comparisons between different formal models for the modelling of biological processes; - Quantitative (probabilistic, timed, stochastic, etc.) languages and calculi; - Spatial (geometrical, topological) languages and calculi; - Prediction of biological behaviour from incomplete information; - Model checking, abstract interpretation, type systems, etc. - Novel Computational Paradigms for Understanding Biological Complex Systems - Quantum information and life sciences; - Computational topology and biomathematics; - Information processing and biomedicine; - Statistical mechanics and biophysics; - Complex Networks and biomolecular dynamics - Tools and Simulations - Modelling, analysis and simulation tools for systems biology; - Emergence of properties in complex biological and medical systems; - Tools for parallel, distributed, and multi-resolution simulation methods; - Detailed biological case-studies. *** INVITED SPEAKERS *** TBA *** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *** We solicit three kinds of contributions: - Regular papers: must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings (limited to 14 pages). - Tool presentations: describing new tools or platforms for the modelling of biological systems (limited to 14 pages). - Dissemination of project results: concern recent or ongoing work on topics relevant to CS2Bio and are intended to provide discussion and stimulate feedback during the workshop. The focus of a dissemination should be put on the main objectives and preliminary results of active projects on topics relevant to the workshop. There are no restrictions about previous or future publication of the contents of a dissemination, it could also be based on a recently published paper or on a work which has not yet been submitted (limited to 4 pages). Authors should submit their contributions via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cs2bio) in the form of a pdf file compiled using the ENTCS style for the workshop proceedings (http://www.entcs.org/files/cs2bio/prentcsmacro.sty). If necessary, detailed proofs or other additional material can be added in an appendix (referees might review it at their discretion). *** DISSEMINATION *** The CS2Bio 2014 proceedings will be published in a volume of the Elsevier series "Electronic Notes on Theoretical Computer Science". After the event, papers presented at the workshop will be invited to be further extended and submitted to a special issue of the journal "Theoretical Computer Science". The special issue will have an open call and a separate review process up to the usual scientific standards of the journal. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - Submission deadline: 24 March 2014 - Notification to authors: 02 May 2014 - Workshop: 06 June 2014 - Tutorial day: 07 June 2014 *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** - Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK - Erik de Vink, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands - Fran?ois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France - Paola Giannini, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale, Italy - Radu Grosu, Stony Brook University, USA - Russ Harmer, CNRS & ENS Lyon, France - Jean Krivine, CNRS & Paris Diderot University, France - Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge, UK - Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy (co-chair) - Ion Petre, ?bo Akademi University, Finland (co-chair) - Ovidiu Radulescu, University of Montpellier 2, France - David Safranek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Angelo Troina, Universit? di Torino, Italy - Verena Wolf, Saarland University, Germany *** STEERING COMMITTEE *** - Erik de Vink - Paola Giannini - Jean Krivine - Angelo Troinatypes-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lionel.vaux at univ-amu.fr Fri Feb 14 18:12:02 2014 From: lionel.vaux at univ-amu.fr (Lionel Vaux) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:12:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Position announcement in Aix-Marseille university Message-ID: <20140214231202.GD29150@garbure.info> A permanent position of "ma?tre de conf?rences" (more or less equivalent to associate professor, or senior lecturer) in mathematics is opened at Aix-Marseille university. The hired candidate will work in the newly founded Institut de math?matiques de Marseille[1] and is expected to do research in discrete mathematics, preferably in logic and computation, information theory or number theory. The logic group here[2] was founded by Girard and has a strong background in the subjects of proof theory central to the proofs-as-programs paradigm: lambda-calculus, linear logic, denotational semantics, etc. It is also active in, e.g., rewriting and homotopy, applications to linguistics, implicit complexity, classical realisability, concurrency and process algebras. To get a good idea of the wider interests of the team and of its collaborations, you can have look at the programme of the Logic and interactions 2012 conference[3]. The profile is broad and we will welcome interesting additions to the research directions of the team. Teaching will be in the mathematics department: fluency in french is required, and experience in teaching mathematics is welcome. More information is available in the announcement[4]. Also be aware that applicants for a permanent university position in France have to hold a so-called "qualification". Candidates with a "logic and computation" profile are invited to contact Laurent Regnier . Best regards, Lionel Vaux. [1] http://www.i2m.univ-amu.fr/ The I2M is the result of the recent "merge" between IML and LATP, see http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/ & http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/ [2] http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/ldp/ [3] http://li2012.univ-mrs.fr/ [4] http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/spip.php?article433 (in french) From ichiro at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Feb 15 09:06:47 2014 From: ichiro at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 23:06:47 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QPL 2014: Call for Papers Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple copies) CALL FOR PAPERS The 11th workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) June 4-6, Kyoto, Japan http://www-mmm.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/qpl2014 The 11th workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) will take place at Kyoto University, Japan, from 4th to 6th, JUNE 2014. This workshop will bring together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing and spatio-temporal causal structures, and in particular those that use logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods and other computer science methods for the study of physical behaviour in general. Previous QPL events were held in Ottawa (2003), Turku (2004), Chicago (2005), Oxford (2006),Reykjavik (2008), Oxford (2009), Oxford (2010), Nijmegen (2011), Brussels (2012) and Barcelona (2013). INVITED SPEAKERS Giulio Chiribella (Tsinghua) Masahito "Hassei" Hasegawa (Kyoto) Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya) IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: 13th Apr, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 4th May Papers Ready: 11th May Workshop: 4th-6th June SUBMISSIONS Prospective speakers are invited to submit a contribution to the workshop. - *Short contributions* consist of a 3 page description of the work, and a link to a paper published elsewhere. - Longer *original contributions* consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract which provides sufficient evidence of results of genuine interest and provides sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submissions of works in progress are encouraged but must be more substantial than a research proposal. Extended versions of accepted original research contributions will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the workshop. Selected contributions will further be invited to a special issue in the journal New Generation Computing. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX (use of the EPTCS style is encouraged), and must be submitted in PDF format. Submission is done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpl2014 STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT We encourage participation by graduate students. Students will pay a reduced registration fee. We will also be able to provide limited financial support to students for travel and accommodations. Further information is found on the workshop website. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Dan Browne (UCL) Giulio Chiribella (Tsinghua) Bob Coecke (Oxford, co-chair) Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) Simon Gay (Glasgow) Ichiro Hasuo (Tokyo, co-chair) Chris Heunen (Oxford) Matty Hoban (ICFO) Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen) Viv Kendon (Leeds) Prakash Panangaden (McGill, co-chair) Simon Perdrix (CNRS Grenoble) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (QMUL) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Rob Spekkens (Perimeter) Bas Spitters (Nijmegen) Jamie Vicary (Oxford & CQT Singapore) Mingsheng Ying (UTS Sydney & Tsinghua) LOCAL ORGANISATION Ichiro Hasuo (Tokyo, chair) Naohiko Hoshino (Kyoto) Yoshihiko Kakutani (Tokyo) Susumu Nishimura (Kyoto) STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke (Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) From grlmc at urv.cat Sun Feb 16 11:22:31 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:22:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LATA 2014: call for participation Message-ID: <4846470E6D9B47C1A2D364E1541B50E9@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2014 Madrid, Spain March 10-14, 2014 http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/ ********************************************************************* PROGRAM Monday, March 10: 9:30 - 10:30 Registration 10:30 - 10:40 Opening 10:40 - 11:30 Helmut Seidl: Interprocedural Information Flow Analysis of XML Processors - Invited Lecture 11:30 - 11:45 Break 11:45 - 13:00 Alberto Dennunzio, Enrico Formenti, Luca Manzoni: Extremal Combinatorics of Reaction Systems Fernando Arroyo, Sandra G?mez Canaval, Victor Mitrana, ?tefan Popescu: Networks of Polarized Evolutionary Processors are Computationally Complete Liang Ding, Abdul Samad, Xingran Xue, Xiuzhen Huang, Russell L. Malmberg, Liming Cai: Stochastic k-Tree Grammar and its Application in Biomolecular Structure Modeling 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 B?atrice B?rard, Olivier Carton: Channel Synthesis Revisited Daniel Pr??a: Weight-reducing Hennie Machines and Their Descriptional Complexity Manfred Droste, Stefan D?ck: Weighted Automata and Logics for Infinite Nested Words 15:45 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 17:15 Friedrich Otto, Franti?ek Mr?z: Extended Two-Way Ordered Restarting Automata for Picture Languages Sang-Ki Ko, Yo-Sub Han, Kai Salomaa: Top-Down Tree Edit-Distance of Regular Tree Languages Bertram Felgenhauer, Ren? Thiemann: Reachability Analysis with State-Compatible Automata 17:15 - 17:45 Coffee Break 17:45 - 18:35 Leslie A. Goldberg: The Complexity of Approximate Counting - Invited Lecture Tuesday, March 11: 9:00 - 9:50 Sanjeev Khanna: Matchings, Random Walks, and Sampling - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Niko Beerenwinkel, Stefano Beretta, Paola Bonizzoni, Riccardo Dondi, Yuri Pirola: Covering Pairs in Directed Acyclic Graphs Eike Best, Raymond Devillers: Characterisation of the State Spaces of Live and Bounded Marked Graph Petri Nets Mar?a Martos-Salgado, Fernando Rosa-Velardo: Expressiveness of Dynamic Networks of Timed Petri Nets 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Bireswar Das, Patrick Scharpfenecker, Jacobo Tor?n: Succinct Encodings of Graph Isomorphism Matthias Gall?, Mat?as Tealdi: On Context-Diverse Repeats and their Incremental Computation Marcella Anselmo, Dora Giammarresi, Maria Madonia: Picture Codes with Finite Deciphering Delay 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 Paul Tarau: Computing with Catalan Families Joan Boyar, Shahin Kamali, Kim S. Larsen, Alejandro L?pez-Ortiz: On the List Update Problem with Advice Rob Gysel: Minimal Triangulation Algorithms for Perfect Phylogeny Problems 15:45 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 17:15 Gr?goire Laurence, Aur?lien Lemay, Joachim Niehren, S?awek Staworko, Marc Tommasi: Learning Sequential Tree-to-word Transducers Dariusz Kaloci?ski: On Computability and Learnability of the Pumping Lemma Function Slimane Bellaouar, Hadda Cherroun, Djelloul Ziadi: Efficient List-based Computation of the String Subsequence Kernel Wednesday, March 12: 9:00 - 9:50 Oscar H. Ibarra: On the Parikh Membership Problem for FAs, PDAs, and CMs - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Marius Konitzer, Hans Ulrich Simon: DFA with a Bounded Activity Level Shenggen Zheng, Jozef Gruska, Daowen Qiu: On the State Complexity of Semi-Quantum Finite Automata Vojt?ch Vorel: Complexity of a Problem Concerning Reset Words for Eulerian Binary Automata 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Pascal Caron, Marianne Flouret, Ludovic Mignot: (k,l)-Unambiguity and Quasi-Deterministic Structures: an Alternative for the Determinization Zuzana Bedn?rov?, Viliam Geffert: Two Double-Exponential Gaps for Automata with a Limited Pushdown Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Jari Stenman: Computing Optimal Reachability Costs in Priced Dense-Timed Pushdown Automata 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 15:45 - 17:45 Sightseeing in Madrid by Bus Thursday, March 13: 9:00 - 9:50 Javier Esparza: A Brief History of Strahler Numbers (I) - Invited Tutorial 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Zeinab Mazadi, Ziyuan Gao, Sandra Zilles: Distinguishing Pattern Languages with Membership Examples Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Andrew Lohr, Sean Simmons, Brent Woodhouse: Computing Depths of Patterns Alexandre Blondin Mass?, S?bastien Gaboury, Sylvain Hall?, Micha?l Larouche: Solving Equations on Words with Morphisms and Antimorphisms 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Anton Cern?: Solutions to the Multi-Dimensional Equal Powers Problem Constructed by Composition of Rectangular Morphisms Enrico Formenti, Markus Holzer, Martin Kutrib, Julien Provillard: ?-rational Languages: High Complexity Classes vs. Borel Hierarchy Thomas Weidner: Probabilistic ?-Regular Expressions 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 Haizhou Li, Fran?ois Pinet, Farouk Toumani: Probabilistic Simulation for Probabilistic Data-aware Business Processes Daniel Bundala, Jakub Z?vodn?: Optimal Sorting Networks Etienne Dubourg, David Janin: Algebraic Tools for the Overlapping Tile Product 15:45 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 17:15 Luca Breveglieri, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Angelo Morzenti: Shift-Reduce Parsers for Transition Networks Gadi Aleksandrowicz, Andrei Asinowski, Gill Barequet, Ronnie Barequet: Formulae for Polyominoes on Twisted Cylinders Alexandre Blondin Mass?, Amadou Makhtar Tall, Hugo Tremblay: On the Arithmetics of Discrete Figures Friday, March 14: 9:00 - 9:50 Javier Esparza: A Brief History of Strahler Numbers (II) - Invited Tutorial 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Hanna Klaudel, Maciej Koutny, Zhenhua Duan: Interval Temporal Logic Semantics of Box Algebra Pierre Ganty, Ahmed Rezine: Ordered Counter-Abstraction: Refinable Subword Relations for Parameterized Verification Matthew Gwynne, Oliver Kullmann: On SAT Representations of XOR Constraints 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Bernd Finkbeiner, Hazem Torfah: Counting Models of Linear-time Temporal Logic Claudia Carapelle, Shiguang Feng, Oliver Fern?ndez Gil, Karin Quaas: Satisfiability for MTL and TPTL over Non-Monotonic Data Words Joachim Klein, David M?ller, Christel Baier, Sascha Kl?ppelholz: Are Good-for-games Automata Good for Probabilistic Model Checking? 13:00 Closing From s.j.thompson at kent.ac.uk Sun Feb 16 14:30:55 2014 From: s.j.thompson at kent.ac.uk (Simon Thompson) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:30:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Announce: Software Engineering for Systems Developed in Functional Languages Message-ID: The 32nd CREST Open Workshop: Software Engineering for Systems Developed in Functional Languages Date: 24th - 25th March 2014 Venue: University College London, UK Through the kind support of the EPSRC in the form of a platform grant, we have funding to support the workshops, so registration is free (but there is a charge for registering and then *not* attending, since places are limited). Registration includes lunch on both days and light refreshments. Overview: Functional programming has become a mature practical tool for software development. Large complex functional programs require many of the software engineering techniques developed for other languages and paradigms, such as testing, slicing and refactoring. Some of these techniques, originally designed for imperative languages, such as amorphous slicing and refactoring may prove highly amendable to functional styles of programming. This workshop will bring together software engineers and functional programmers to concentrate on aspects of software engineering that can be extended, adapted and augmented for application to functional programs. Confirmed Speakers David Binkley, Computer Science Department, Loyola University Maryland, USA Sebastian Danicic, Department of Computing - Goldsmiths College London, UK Kevin Hammond, School of Computer Science, at the University of St. Andrews, UK Torben Hoffmann, Erlang Solutions, Denmark Yue Jia, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK Raghavan Komondoor, Indian Institute of Science, India Alan Mycroft, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Jerry Swan, Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, UK Don Syme, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Simon Thompson, School of Computing, University of Kent, UK Dimitrios Vytiniotis, MSRC PPT group, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK More details and registration at: http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow/32/ Simon Thompson | Professor of Logic and Computation School of Computing | University of Kent | Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK s.j.thompson at kent.ac.uk | M +44 7986 085754 | W www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~sjt From Michael.Lipaczewski at ovgu.de Mon Feb 17 03:35:22 2014 From: Michael.Lipaczewski at ovgu.de (Lipaczewski, Michael) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:35:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfW: Safecomp 2014 Message-ID: <85779fa1-0330-42e4-8195-d2b24c4ca0fb@ZERBERUS2.ads.uni-magdeburg.de> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for Workshops The 33rd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security The SAFECOMP 2014 conference will be held in Florence, September 10th to September 12th. In addition to the main conference's technical program, the program will also include a set of workshops. All workshops will be held on Monday and Tuesday, September 8th and 9th. The goal of workshops is to explore emerging dependability-related research topics and to provide a forum for authors to present early research results on these topics. We invite proposals from individuals and teams interested in organizing strong workshops. Each workshop may choose between a full day and half-day schedule. We will offer workshop organizers * Website for description of the workshop * Organization of rooms including presentation equipment * Organization of catering and breaks * Registration for the event Workshop organizers should * Create and distribute their CFPs (in addition one joint SAFECOMP - CallForWorkshop-paper will be sent) * Organize contributions, PC, reviewing, camera-ready versions and copyright issues Workshops will be subject to specific workshop fees or included as a single package with SAFECOMP and other events. We will handle the actual credit card payment and registration. In 2014, we would like to have a limited number of dependability-related workshops with a high quality program dominated by contributed, peer-reviewed papers which are tightly integrated into the conference. A Proposal for a workshop should contain: * Title, scope and topics of the workshop * Names, addresses, and affiliation of Workshop organizers * Tentative committee lists (organizers, steering committee if any, etc.) * Workshop format planned (full day/half day) * Past history of the workshop (if applicable) * Rationale - why is the topic current and important; why would the workshop attract a significant number of submissions of good quality. To give workshop organizers enough time for organization of calls, contributions and reviews, we will answer workshop proposals within 2 weeks of submission. Submit workshop proposals to safecomp2014 at gmail.com and in cc to the workshop chair (Frank.Ortmeier at ovgu.de) by 16th of March, 2014. If any questions arise, feel free to contact us at safecomp2014 at gmail.com, using the keyword workshop in the subject. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laura.kovacs at chalmers.se Mon Feb 17 04:09:37 2014 From: laura.kovacs at chalmers.se (Laura Kovacs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:09:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 5 PhD Positions in Formal Methods, Functional Programming, and Information and Software/Web Security at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: 5 PhD Positions in Formal Methods, Functional Programming, and Information and Software/Web Security at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Application deadline: March 31, 2014 Expected starting date of positions: September 1, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Job description* The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology invites applications for PhD positions in Formal Methods/Automated Reasoning, Functional Programming, and Information and Software/Web Security, as follows: ----------------------------- * 1 PhD position in Formal Methods: The PhD student will join the Formal Methods group and contribute to its research on improving the quality of complex software systems. The Formal Methods group of Chalmers is an internationally recognised research group with a high-profile research track record and an excellent network of collaborators. The group's research focus is in the theoretical and practical aspects of formal software verification, including automated reasoning, interactive theorem proving, runtime verification, and test generation. Together with international collaborators, the group members co-developed widely recognised verification tools like KeY ( www.key-project.org), Vampire (http://vprover.org), ALIGATOR ( mtc.epfl.ch/software-tools/Aligator), and LARVA. The research of the advertised PhD position will be in the area of Software Verification, with a strong focus on the creative use and development of automated reasoning techniques for software verification. In particular, we are interested in designing and combining new methods in automated first-order theorem proving, satisfiability modulo theory solvers, symbolic computation, and program analysis for the generation and verification of complex program properties, such as invariants, interpolants, pre- and post-conditions. Background in one or more of the following areas is expected: logic, formal methods, formal verification. This position will be supervised by Prof. Laura Kovacs in the frame of her recently granted junior researcher project by the Swedish Research Council. Laura Kovacs is the main developer of the ALIGATOR tool and the co-developer of the world-leading theorem prover Vampire for applications of program analysis and verification. ----------------------------- * 1 PhD Position in Functional Programming The PhD student will join the Chalmers Functional Programming (FP) Group, one of the leading groups in the field. The Chalmers FP Group has a strong interest in Embedded Domain Specific Languages, beginning with their work on Lava for hardware design. The focus of the advertised position is on returning to the problem of how to use Functional Programming to support hardware design and deterministic parallel programming. We are particularly interested in the implementation of cryptographic algorithms. Our favoured platform is the open source Parallella board from Adapteva (http://www.adapteva.com/parallella-board/), which combines Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), two ARM cores and 16 or 64 cores connected in a grid. This small board promises high performance, low power computing, but the question of how best to program it is an interesting one. The new PhD student will work on the use of Functional Programming to enable programming of such highly parallel heterogeneous systems. The ideal candidate for the position in Functional Programming will have a strong background in functional programming and at least one of hardware design and parallel programming. The PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Mary Sheeran, who has long pioneered the combination of hardware design and functional programming, particularly working with her former students Koen Claessen and Satnam Singh. The work will be closely connected to the SSF funded project on Productivity and Performance through Resource Aware Functional Programming ( http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~ms/SSF10Final.pdf). ----------------------------- * 1 PhD Position in Information Security The PhD student will join the Chalmers Information Security group, working in the area of information and communication security with a focus on authentication problems in constrained settings. This is particularly important for applications involving mobile phones, wireless communication and RFID systems, which suffer from restrictions in terms of power resources, network connectivity, computational capabilities, as well as potential privacy issues. The overall aim of the announced PhD position will be to develop nearly optimal algorithms for achieving security and privacy while minimising resource use. More concretely, part of the research will involve the analysis and development of authentication protocols in specific settings. This will include investigating resistance of both existing and novel protocols against different types of attacks, theoretically and experimentally. In addition to investigating established settings, such as RFID authentication, the research will also explore more general authentication problems, such as those that arise in the context of trust in social networks, smartphone applications and collaborative data processing. This will be done by grounding the work in a generalised decision-making framework. The project should result in the development of theory and authentication mechanisms for noisy, constrained settings that strike an optimal balance between reliable authentication, privacy-preservation and resource consumption. Experience in one or more of cryptography, probability and statistics, decision and game theory are beneficial. Mathematical maturity is essential. The PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa and will have the chance to collaborate with well-known researchers in the area of information security. Some previous research related to this research project can be found here: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aikmitr/ . Katerina Mitrokotsa's research is currently funded by the European Commission and the Chalmers ICT Areas of advance. --------------------------------- * 2 PhD Positions in Software/Web Security The PhD students will join a world-leading team of researchers on software security. Software is often the root cause of vulnerabilities in modern computing systems such as the web. By focusing on securing the software, we target principled security mechanisms that provide robust protection against large classes of attacks. The focus of the advertised positions is on the following directions of work: - To design rich security policies for confidentiality, integrity and availability, as demanded by practical applications (such as web and mobile applications). - To develop practical enforcement mechanisms for these policies in expressive programming languages (such as web and mobile languages). These enforcement mechanisms may combine static (for example, static program analysis-based) and dynamic (for example, run-time execution monitoring-based) techniques. - To support the above with case studies in web-application security. In pursuing these goals, there are possibilities for collaboration with our high-profile academic and industrial partners. We run a number of ambitious projects with top international partners in academia and industry, including the European project WebSand on web application security: https://www.websand.eu/ These positions will be supervised by Prof. Andrei Sabelfeld, recipient of a number of recent awards, including SSF Advancement of Research Leaders award (2008), Chalmers Research Supervisor of the Year (2010), and ERC Starter/Consolidator (2012). Promotional video about the team's research on securing web applications: http://vimeo.com/82206652 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Details about Employment* PhD student positions are limited to five years and normally include 20 per cent departmental work, mostly teaching duties. Salary for the position is as specified in Chalmers' general agreement for PhD student positions. Currently the starting salary is 26,250SEK a month before tax. The positions are intended to start in fall 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Suitable Background* Applicants should have a Master's Degree or corresponding degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or in a related discipline. As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills, both oral and written, are needed. You may apply even if you have not completed your degree, but expect to do so before the position starts. Knowledge of Swedish is not a prerequisite for applying since English is our working language for research, and we publish internationally. Both Swedish and English are used in undergraduate courses. Half of our researchers and PhD students at the department come from more than 30 different countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *How to apply* The application should be written in English and include the following items: 1. An application of a maximum of one A4 page summarising your track record and providing your research statement 2. Attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents 3. Curriculum Vitae 4. Letters of recommendation and name of reference persons 5. Evidence of written work: research papers and theses It is important to include parts of your own work such as theses and articles that you have authored or co-authored. Please notice also that it is highly recommended that you include letters of recommendation; we typically get a large number of applications, and it is not feasible for us to request individual letters. The application should be submitted electronically by March 31, 2014, at: - for the position in Formal Methods: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=1911 - for the position in Functional Programming: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=1912 - for the position in Information Security: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=1816 - for the positions in Software/Web Security: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=1913 The selection of the specific research topic will take into account both the interests of the new PhD student and the research agenda of the respective group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Contact persons for further information:* Laura Kovacs , Formal Methods: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~laurako/ Katerina Mitrokotsa , Information Security: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aikmitr/ Andrei Sabelfeld , Software/Web Security: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~andrei/ Mary Sheeran , Functional Programming: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~ms/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *The Department* The Department has about 70 faculty members and enrols about 90 PhD students from more than 30 countries. 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URL: From Thomas.Ehrhard at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr Mon Feb 17 05:28:40 2014 From: Thomas.Ehrhard at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr (Thomas Ehrhard) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:28:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Domains XI call for papers Message-ID: <5301E458.3080101@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS Domains XI International workshop on domain theory and applications September 8-10 2014, Universite Paris Diderot, Paris, France http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~varacca/domains/Domains_XI The Workshop on Domains is aimed at computer scientists and mathematicians alike who share an interest in the mathematical foundations of computation. Previous meetings were held in Swansea(2011), Brighton (2008), Novosibirsk (2007), Darmstadt (2004, 1999, 1994), Birmingham (2002), Siegen (1998), Munich (1997), and Braunschweig (1996). * Topics of interaction with domain theory for this workshop include, but are not limited to: program semantics program logics probabilistic computation exact computation over the real numbers lambda calculus games models of sequential computation constructive mathematics recursion theory realizability real analysis and computability topology, metric spaces and domains idempotent analysis and domains locale theory category theory topos theory type theory A special emphasis will be put on the following topics: quasi-polish spaces quantitative aspects in semantics * The invited speakers are: Matthew deBrecht (NICT, Japan) Alberto Carraro (Ca' Foscari, Italy) Martin Escardo (Birmingham, UK) Jean Goubault-Larrecq (LSV, ENS Cachan) John Longley (LFCS, Scotland) Christine Tasson (PPS, Paris Diderot) Glynn Winskel (Cambridge, UK) * Submission procedure: Authors are invited to submit an abstract (1 or 2 pages) on Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=domains2014 Presentations about ongoing work are welcome. We plan to publish proceedings of the workshop in a journal. There will be a call for papers after the workshop. The papers will be refereed according to normal publication standards. Submissions will be considered until June 15th. Shortly after an abstract is submitted, the authors will be notified by the programme committee. The criterion for acceptance is relevance to the meeting. In particular, talks on subjects presented at other conferences and workshops are acceptable. * The Programme Committee consists of: Andrej Bauer (Ljubjiana) Antonio Bucciarelli (co-chair, PPS) Thomas Ehrhard (co-chair, PPS) Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Klaus Keimel (Darmstadt) Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh) Sam Staton (Cambridge) Local organizers: Christine Tasson and Daniele Varacca (PPS) From kahle at fct.unl.pt Mon Feb 17 05:36:05 2014 From: kahle at fct.unl.pt (Reinhard Kahle) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:36:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ackermann Award 2014 Message-ID: <5301E615.5010903@fct.unl.pt> ACKERMANN AWARD 2014 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2nd CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2014 Ackermann Award. PhD dissertations in topics specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2012 and 31.12.2013 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 28 February 2014 (Note: this is earlier than in previous years). Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2014 on and should be sent to the chair of the Jury, Anuj Dawar, by e-mail: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk The Award The 2014 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL (this year as the CSL/LICS joint conference), 14-18 July 2014, in Vienna (Austria). The award consists of * a diploma, * an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL/LICS conference, * the publication of the laudatio in the CSL/LICS proceedings, * travel support to attend the conference. The jury is entitled to give more (or less) than one award per year. Jury The jury consists of: * Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg); * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), the president of EACSL; * Thomas A. Henzinger (IST Austria); * Daniel Leivant (Indiana University, Bloomington); * Damian Niwinski (University of Warsaw); * Luke Ong (University of Oxford), LICS representative; * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; * Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH, Aachen). How to submit The candidate or his/her supervisor has to submit 1. the thesis (ps or pdf file); 2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file); 3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters by other senior faculty or researchers in equivalent positions (in English); supporting letters can also be sent directly to Anuj Dawar (anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk); 4. a short CV of the candidate; 5. a copy of the document asserting that the thesis was accepted as a PhD thesis at a recognized University (or equivalent institution) and that the candidate has received his/her PhD within the specified period (scanned as pdf-file or faxed). The submission should be sent by e-mail as attachments to the chairman of the jury, Anuj Dawar: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk With the following subject line and text: * Subject: Ackermann Award Submission * Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments Submission can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case, please indicate it in the text. Letters of support and documents can also be faxed to: Anuj Dawar Ackermann Award +44 1223 334678 The Jury has the right to declare submissions to be out of scope or not to meet the requirements. The Award is sponsored by the Kurt G?del Society. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laura.kovacs at chalmers.se Mon Feb 17 05:58:50 2014 From: laura.kovacs at chalmers.se (Laura Kovacs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:58:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 5 PhD Positions in Formal Methods, Functional Programming, and Information and Software/Web Security at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: <945FEE280EE9864F95ECF2B2AF8C62C83C735A@grunt.ita.chalmers.se> 5 PhD Positions in Formal Methods, Functional Programming, and Information and Software/Web Security at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Application deadline: March 31, 2014 Expected starting date of positions: September 1, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Job description* The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology invites applications for PhD positions in Formal Methods/Automated Reasoning, Functional Programming, and Information and Software/Web Security, as follows: ----------------------------- * 1 PhD position in Formal Methods: The PhD student will join the Formal Methods group and contribute to its research on improving the quality of complex software systems. The Formal Methods group of Chalmers is an internationally recognised research group with a high-profile research track record and an excellent network of collaborators. The group's research focus is in the theoretical and practical aspects of formal software verification, including automated reasoning, interactive theorem proving, runtime verification, and test generation. Together with international collaborators, the group members co-developed widely recognised verification tools like KeY (www.key-project.org), Vampire (http://vprover.org), ALIGATOR (mtc.epfl.ch/software-tools/Aligator), and LARVA. The research of the advertised PhD position will be in the area of Software Verification, with a strong focus on the creative use and development of automated reasoning techniques for software verification. In particular, we are interested in designing and combining new methods in automated first-order theorem proving, satisfiability modulo theory solvers, symbolic computation, and program analysis for the generation and verification of complex program properties, such as invariants, interpolants, pre- and post-conditions. Background in one or more of the following areas is expected: logic, formal methods, formal verification. This position will be supervised by Prof. Laura Kovacs in the frame of her recently granted junior researcher project by the Swedish Research Council. Laura Kovacs is the main developer of the ALIGATOR tool and the co-developer of the world-leading theorem prover Vampire for applications of program analysis and verification. ----------------------------- * 1 PhD Position in Functional Programming The PhD student will join the Chalmers Functional Programming (FP) Group, one of the leading groups in the field. The Chalmers FP Group has a strong interest in Embedded Domain Specific Languages, beginning with their work on Lava for hardware design. The focus of the advertised position is on returning to the problem of how to use Functional Programming to support hardware design and deterministic parallel programming. We are particularly interested in the implementation of cryptographic algorithms. Our favoured platform is the open source Parallella board from Adapteva (http://www.adapteva.com/parallella-board/), which combines Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), two ARM cores and 16 or 64 cores connected in a grid. This small board promises high performance, low power computing, but the question of how best to program it is an interesting one. The new PhD student will work on the use of Functional Programming to enable programming of such highly parallel heterogeneous systems. The ideal candidate for the position in Functional Programming will have a strong background in functional programming and at least one of hardware design and parallel programming. The PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Mary Sheeran, who has long pioneered the combination of hardware design and functional programming, particularly working with her former students Koen Claessen and Satnam Singh. The work will be closely connected to the SSF funded project on Productivity and Performance through Resource Aware Functional Programming (http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~ms/SSF10Final.pdf). ----------------------------- * 1 PhD Position in Information Security The PhD student will join the Chalmers Information Security group, working in the area of information and communication security with a focus on authentication problems in constrained settings. This is particularly important for applications involving mobile phones, wireless communication and RFID systems, which suffer from restrictions in terms of power resources, network connectivity, computational capabilities, as well as potential privacy issues. The overall aim of the announced PhD position will be to develop nearly optimal algorithms for achieving security and privacy while minimising resource use. More concretely, part of the research will involve the analysis and development of authentication protocols in specific settings. This will include investigating resistance of both existing and novel protocols against different types of attacks, theoretically and experimentally. In addition to investigating established settings, such as RFID authentication, the research will also explore more general authentication problems, such as those that arise in the context of trust in social networks, smartphone applications and collaborative data processing. This will be done by grounding the work in a generalised decision-making framework. The project should result in the development of theory and authentication mechanisms for noisy, constrained settings that strike an optimal balance between reliable authentication, privacy-preservation and resource consumption. Experience in one or more of cryptography, probability and statistics, decision and game theory are beneficial. Mathematical maturity is essential. The PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa and will have the chance to collaborate with well-known researchers in the area of information security. Some previous research related to this research project can be found here: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aikmitr/ . Katerina Mitrokotsa's research is currently funded by the European Commission and the Chalmers ICT Areas of advance. --------------------------------- * 2 PhD Positions in Software/Web Security The PhD students will join a world-leading team of researchers on software security. Software is often the root cause of vulnerabilities in modern computing systems such as the web. By focusing on securing the software, we target principled security mechanisms that provide robust protection against large classes of attacks. The focus of the advertised positions is on the following directions of work: - To design rich security policies for confidentiality, integrity and availability, as demanded by practical applications (such as web and mobile applications). - To develop practical enforcement mechanisms for these policies in expressive programming languages (such as web and mobile languages). These enforcement mechanisms may combine static (for example, static program analysis-based) and dynamic (for example, run-time execution monitoring-based) techniques. - To support the above with case studies in web-application security. In pursuing these goals, there are possibilities for collaboration with our high-profile academic and industrial partners. We run a number of ambitious projects with top international partners in academia and industry, including the European project WebSand on web application security: https://www.websand.eu/ These positions will be supervised by Prof. Andrei Sabelfeld, recipient of a number of recent awards, including SSF Advancement of Research Leaders award (2008), Chalmers Research Supervisor of the Year (2010), and ERC Starter/Consolidator (2012). Promotional video about the team's research on securing web applications: http://vimeo.com/82206652 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Details about Employment* PhD student positions are limited to five years and normally include 20 per cent departmental work, mostly teaching duties. Salary for the position is as specified in Chalmers' general agreement for PhD student positions. Currently the starting salary is 26,250SEK a month before tax. The positions are intended to start in fall 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Suitable Background* Applicants should have a Master's Degree or corresponding degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or in a related discipline. As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills, both oral and written, are needed. You may apply even if you have not completed your degree, but expect to do so before the position starts. Knowledge of Swedish is not a prerequisite for applying since English is our working language for research, and we publish internationally. Both Swedish and English are used in undergraduate courses. Half of our researchers and PhD students at the department come from more than 30 different countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *How to apply* The application should be written in English and include the following items: 1. An application of a maximum of one A4 page summarising your track record and providing your research statement 2. Attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents 3. Curriculum Vitae 4. Letters of recommendation and name of reference persons 5. Evidence of written work: research papers and theses It is important to include parts of your own work such as theses and articles that you have authored or co-authored. Please notice also that it is highly recommended that you include letters of recommendation; we typically get a large number of applications, and it is not feasible for us to request individual letters. The application should be submitted electronically by March 31, 2014, at: - for the position in Formal Methods: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=1911 - for the position in Functional Programming: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=1912 - for the position in Information Security: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=1816 - for the positions in Software/Web Security: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=1913 The selection of the specific research topic will take into account both the interests of the new PhD student and the research agenda of the respective group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Contact persons for further information:* Laura Kovacs , Formal Methods: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~laurako/ Katerina Mitrokotsa , Information Security: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aikmitr/ Andrei Sabelfeld , Software/Web Security: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~andrei/ Mary Sheeran , Functional Programming: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~ms/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *The Department* The Department has about 70 faculty members and enrols about 90 PhD students from more than 30 countries. 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Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2014) Message-ID: <20140217140329.86D9B1EB483E@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> ? CICM 2014 - Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics July 7-11, 2014 at University of Coimbra, Portugal http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014 Second Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Co-located Workshops * - CCA'14: Workshop on Compact Computer Algebra (organiser: Elena Smirnova) - MathUI'14: Workshop on Mathematical User Interfaces (organisers: Andrea Kohlhase, Paul Libbrecht) - OpenMath Workshop (organisers: James Davenport, Michael Kohlhase) - Workshop on The Notion of Proof (organisers: Jesse Alama, Reinhard Kahle) - ThEdu'14: Workshop on Theorem Provers Components for Educational Software (organisers: Walther Neuper, Pedro Quaresma) ------------------------------------------------------------------- As computers and communications technology advance, greater opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories, we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these areas. The Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offer a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, colocating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (U.K. 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012) and Bath (U.K. 2013). This is a call for papers for CICM 2014, which will be held at the University of Coimbra, 7-11 July 2014, following the 10th International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry. The principal tracks of the conference will be: Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) Chair: James Davenport DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries) Chair: Petr Sojka MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Chair: Josef Urban Systems and Projects Chair: Alan Sexton The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements Chair, Pedro Quaresma (U. Coimbra, Portugal), and the overall programme will be organised by the General Program Chair, Stephen Watt (U. Western Ontario, Canada). The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). As in previous years, it is anticipated that there will be a number co-located workshops, including one to mentor doctoral students giving presentations. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference submissions: Abstract submission: 28 February 2014 Submission deadline: 7 March 2014 Reviews sent to authors: 4 April 2014 Rebuttals due: 8 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 14 April 2014 Camera ready copies due: 25 April 2014 Work in progress and Doctoral Programme submissions: Submission deadline: 28 April 2014 (Doctoral: Abstract+CV) Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2014 Camera ready copies due: 26 May 2014 Conference: 7-11 July 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tracks ---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================ Track Calculemus: Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning ================================================================ Calculemus 2014 invites the submission of original research contributions to be considered for publication and presentation at the conference. Calculemus is a series of conferences dedicated to the integration of computer algebra systems (CAS) and systems for mechanised reasoning like interactive proof assistants (PA) or automated theorem provers (ATP). Currently, symbolic computation is divided into several (more or less) independent branches: traditional ones (e.g., computer algebra and mechanised reasoning) as well as newly emerging ones (on user interfaces, knowledge management, theory exploration, etc.) The main concern of the Calculemus community is to bring these developments together in order to facilitate the theory, design, and implementation of integrated mathematical assistant systems that will be used routinely by mathematicians, computer scientists and all others who need computer-supported mathematics in their every day business. All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems are of interest for Calculemus. These include but are not limited to: * Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. * Computer algebra in theorem proving systems. * Adding reasoning capabilities to computer algebra systems. * Adding computational capabilities to theorem proving systems. * Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for computer mathematics. * Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and reasoning. * Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories. * Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. * Theory exploration techniques. * Combining methods of symbolic computation and formal deduction. * Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Homotopy type theory. * Infrastructure for mathematical services. ================================================================ Track DML: Digital Mathematical Libraries ================================================================ Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all validated mathematical literature ever published, reviewed, properly linked, and verified. It is estimated that the entire corpus of mathematical knowledge published over the centuries does not exceed 100,000,000 pages, an amount easily manageable by current information technologies. The track objective is to provide a forum for the development of math-aware technologies, standards, algorithms and formats for the fulfillment of the dream of a global digital mathematical library (DML). Computer scientists (D) and librarians of the digital age (L) are especially welcome to join mathematicians (M) and discuss many aspects of DML preparation. Track topics are all topics of mathematical knowledge management and digital libraries applicable in the context of DML building, including the processing of mathematical knowledge expressed in scientific papers in natural languages: * Math-aware text mining (math mining) and MSC classification * Math-aware representations of mathematical knowledge * Math-aware computational linguistics and corpora * Math-aware tools for [meta]data and fulltext processing * Math-aware OCR and document analysis * Math-aware information retrieval * Math-aware indexing and search * Authoring languages and tools * MathML, OpenMath, TeX and other mathematical content markup languages * Web interfaces for DML content * Mathematics on the web, math crawling and indexing * Math-aware document processing workflows * Archives of written mathematics * DML management, business models * DML rights handling, funding, sustainability * DML content acquisition, validation and curation * Reports and experience from running existing DMLs ================================================================ Track MKM: Mathematical Knowledge Management ================================================================ Mathematical Knowledge Management is an interdisciplinary field of research in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, library science, and scientific publishing. The objective of MKM is to develop new and better ways of managing sophisticated mathematical knowledge, based on innovative technology of computer science, the Internet, and intelligent knowledge processing. MKM is expected to serve mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who produce and use mathematical knowledge; educators and students who teach and learn mathematics; publishers who offer mathematical textbooks and disseminate new mathematical results; and librarians and mathematicians who catalog and organize mathematical knowledge. The track is concerned with all aspects of mathematical knowledge management. A non-exclusive list of important topics includes: * Representations of mathematical knowledge * Authoring languages and tools * Repositories of formalized mathematics * Deduction systems * Mathematical digital libraries * Diagrammatic representations * Mathematical OCR * Mathematical search and retrieval * Math assistants, tutoring and assessment systems * MathML, OpenMath, and other mathematical content standards * Web presentation of mathematics * Data mining, discovery, theory exploration * Computer algebra systems * Collaboration tools for mathematics * Challenges and solutions for mathematical workflows ================================================================ Track Systems and Projects ================================================================ The Systems and Projects track of the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics is a forum for presenting available systems and new and ongoing projects in all areas and topics related to the CICM conferences: * Deduction and Computer Algebra (Calculemus) * Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) * Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) The track aims to provide an overview of the latest developments and trends within the CICM community as well as to exchange ideas between developers and introduce systems to an audience of potential users. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic submission is done through Easychair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2014 All papers should be prepared in LaTeX and formatted according to the requirements of Springer's LNCS series (the corresponding style files can be downloaded from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). By submitting a paper the authors agree that if it is accepted at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Submissions to the research tracks (Calculemus, DML, MKM) must not exceed 15 pages in the LNCS style and will be reviewed and evaluated with respect to relevance, clarity, quality, originality, and impact. Shorter papers, e.g., for system descriptions, are welcome. Authors will have an opportunity to respond to their papers' reviews before the programme committee makes a decision. System descriptions and projects descriptions should be 2-4 pages in the LNCS style and should present * newly developed systems, * systems not previously been presented to the CICM community, or * significant updates to existing systems. Systems must either be available for download or currently executable by the general public as a web application. Project presentations should describe * projects that are new or about to start, * ongoing projects that have not yet been presented to the CICM community or * significant new developments in ongoing previously presented projects. Presentations of new projects should mention relevant previous work and include a roadmap that outlines concrete steps. All project submissions must have a live project website and should contain links to demos, videos, downloadable systems or downloadable datasets. Accepted conference submissions from all tracks will be published as a volume in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) by Springer. In addition to these formal proceedings, authors are permitted and encouraged to publish the final versions of their papers on arXiv.org. Work-in-progress submissions are intended to provide a forum for the presentation of original work that is not yet in a suitable form for submission as a full paper for a research track or system description. This includes work in progress and emerging trends. Their size is not limited, but we recommend 5-10 pages. The programme committee may offer authors of rejected formal submissions the opportunity to publish their contributions as work-in-progress papers instead. Depending on the number of work-in-progress papers accepted, they will be presented at the conference either as short talks or as posters. The work-in-progress proceedings will be published as a technical report, as well as online with CEUR-WS.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doctoral Programme ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: David Wilson (University of Bath, UK) CICM is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to meet established researchers from the areas of computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing. The Doctoral Programme provides a dedicated forum for PhD students to present and discuss their ideas, ongoing or planned research, and achieved results in an open atmosphere. It will consist of presentations by the PhD students to get constructive feedback, advice, and suggestions from the research advisory board, researchers, and other PhD students. Each PhD student will be assigned to an experienced researcher from the research advisory board who will act as a mentor and who will provide detailed feedback and advice on their intended and ongoing research. Students at any stage of their PhD can apply and should submit the following documents through EasyChair: * A two-page abstract of your thesis describing your research questions, research plans, completed and remaining research, evaluation plans and publication plans; * A two-page CV that includes background information (name, university, supervisor), education (degree sought, year/status of degree, previous degrees), employments, relevant research experience (publications, presentations, attended conferences or workshops, etc.) Submission Deadline: 28 April 2014. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Calculemus track James Davenport, University of Bath, UK (Chair) Matthew England, University Of Bath, UK, Dejan Jovanovi?, SRI, USA Laura Kov?cs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, France Adam Naumowicz, Institute of Informatics, U. Bialystok, Poland Grant Passmore, U. Cambridge and U. Edinburgh, UK Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen. Germany Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands (Other invitations pending) DML track Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ (Chair) Akiko Aizawa, NII, University of Tokyo, Japan ?ukasz Bolikowski, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland Thierry Bouche, Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, france Yannis Haralambous, Inst Mines-T?l?com - T?l?com Bretagne, France Janka Chleb?kov?, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Ji?? R?kosn?k, Institute of Mathematics AS CR, CZ David Ruddy, Cornell University, USA Volker Sorge, University of Birmingham, UK Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada Richard Zanibbi, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA MKM track Josef Urban, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Chair) Rob Arthan, Queen Mary University of London, UK David Aspinall, Univerity of Edinburgh, UK Michael Beeson, San Jose State University, USA Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh, USA Johan Jeuring, Open Universiteit Nederland and Universiteit Utrecht, NL Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, Austria Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, UK Paul Libbrecht, Weingarten University of Education, Germany Ursula Martin, Queen Mary University of London, UK Bruce Miller, NIST, USA Adam Naumowicz, University of Bialystok, Poland Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Alan Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK Enrico Tassi, INRIA, France Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada Makarius Wenzel, Universit? Paris-Sud 11, France Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Systems & Projects track Alan Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK (Chair) Christoph Lange, University of Bonn, Germany Jesse Alama, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Rob Arthan, Queen Mary University of London, UK Deyan Ginev, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany J?nathan Heras, University of Dundee, Scotland Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK Predrag Jani?i?, University of Belgrade, Serbia Christoph L?th, DFKI and University of Bremen, Germany Bruce Miller, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA Hendrik Tews, TU Dresden, Germany From erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu Mon Feb 17 11:18:38 2014 From: erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu (Martin Erwig) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:18:38 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc Position in Exploratory Programming Message-ID: <1F99C44F-2434-4E82-9BD2-4A1B51D845E3@eecs.oregonstate.edu> A position for a postdoctoral scholar is available in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. The individual working in this position will be conducting and leading research in the area of language design and domain-specific languages. Specific duties will include research to support exploratory programming through variations. The position is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number IIS-1314384. The specific goals of the research project are spelled out here: ExploratoryProgramming.org www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1314384 Some background information about the underlying theoretical framework of the choice calculus can be found here: ChoiceCalculus.org The successful candidate must demonstrate strong communication abilities and is expected to coordinate research with other members of the multi-university research team as well as help supervise junior members of the programming language group. Qualifications: * Education: Ph.D. in computer science * Experience: Background in programming language theory and/or functional programming * Skills: Leadership skills, the ability to coordinate research activities, excellent oral and written communication skills Availability: The position can be filled immediately and is renewable on an annual basis for a total of up to three years. Application: To apply, please email your CV to: erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu For more information about the postdoc scholar appointment please see: gradschool.oregonstate.edu/postdocs From russo at chalmers.se Tue Feb 18 10:48:35 2014 From: russo at chalmers.se (Alejandro Russo) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:48:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers - PLAS 2014 Message-ID: <530380D3.8080709@chalmers.se> [We apologize for multiple copies] ACM SIGPLAN Ninth Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS), 29th July 2014, Uppsala, Sweden http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=5237 Call For Papers This year, PLAS is co-located with the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) (http://ecoop14.it.uu.se/) 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: * Compiler-based security mechanisms or runtime-based security mechanisms such as inline reference monitors * Program analysis techniques for discovering security vulnerabilities * Automated introduction and/or verification of security enforcement mechanisms * Language-based verification of security properties in software, including verification of cryptographic protocols * Specifying and enforcing security policies for information flow and access control * Model-driven approaches to security * Security concerns for web programming languages * Language design for security in new domains such as cloud computing and embedded platforms * Applications, case studies, and implementations of these techniques Submission Guidelines We invite papers in two categories: Full papers should be at most 12 pages long including bibliography and appendices. Papers in this category are expected to have relatively mature content. Full paper presentations will be 25 minutes each. Short papers should be at most 6 pages long including bibliography and appendices. Preliminary and exploratory work are welcome in this category. Short papers presentations will be 10 minutes each. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase Short Paper: to the title of the submitted paper. Submissions should be PDF documents typeset in the ACM proceedings format using 10pt fonts. SIGPLAN-approved templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. We recommend using this format, which improves greatly on the ACM LaTeX format. All submissions must be in English. Page limits are strict. Both full and short papers must describe work not published in other refereed venues. (See the SIGPLAN republication policy at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication for more details.) Accepted papers will appear in the workshop ACM SIGPLAN proceedings which will be distributed to the workshop participants and be available in the ACM Digital Library. Important dates 20th April 2014 (anywhere on earth): Deadline for paper submissions 19th May 2014: Authors notification 29th July 2014: Workshop Program Committee Paolina Centonze (Iona College) Christos Dimoulas (Harvard University) Boris K?pf (IMDEA Software Institute) Stephen McCamant (University of Minnesota) David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology) Benjamin Pierce (University of Pennsylvania) Frank Piessens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Marco Pistoia (IBM Research) Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University of Technology) [co-chair] Omer Tripp (IBM Research) [co-chair] _ _ __ __ _ |_)| |_|(_ _)/ \/| |_| | |__| |__) /__\_/ | | -- Alejandro Russo Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology Phone: +46-(0)31-772-1098 Webpage: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~russo/ From david.delahaye at cnam.fr Wed Feb 19 09:23:20 2014 From: david.delahaye at cnam.fr (david.delahaye at cnam.fr) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:23:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers: SETS 2014 Message-ID: <6fb6079a1463dcce2c1c6a59af326d1f.squirrel@webmail.cnam.fr> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- SETS 2014 ******************************************************************************** 1st International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2014) June 2, 2014, Toulouse, France Affiliated to ABZ 2014 http://sets2014.cnam.fr/ ******************************************************************************** AIM Sets and constructs built upon them like relations, functions, sequences are the main modeling ingredients of formalisms such as VDM, Z, B, or Event-B. Sets also occur in the formalization of mathematics, as evidenced by the large library of the Mizar proof system for example. In addition, still in the domain of theorem proving, there is an increasing interest to automate set theory (which is known to be a difficult problem), with some concrete realizations, such as mp (the "main prover" of Atelier B) or Muscadet (an automated theorem prover for natural deduction, which gives some good performances in set theory). Sets are also the main features of some programming languages like the former SetL language or the more recent {log} language (pronounced as setlog). The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in set theory, especially to design tools for dealing with set theory, such as interactive or automated theorem provers, proof checkers, theories for general purpose proof tools, constraint solvers, programming languages etc. These tools may be dedicated or general purpose tools. Contributions by theoreticians working on set theories or fragments of set theories in the aim of designing concrete tools, and by practitioners using set-based tools are both welcome. We are also interested by contributions providing some comparisons between set modeling techniques and other formalisms, such as type theory (and variants) for instance. Finally, regarding the domains of application, we mainly expect contributions in the framework of formal methods, but not exhaustively, and contributions reporting formalizations of mathematics using set theory for example could be of interest for this workshop as well. TOPICS Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of set theory and corresponding tools. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * Proof tools for sets * Constraint solvers for sets * Set-based programming languages * Automated deduction in set theory * Set theories for SMT solvers * Encoding of sets in provers * Use of set-based tools in formal methods * Use of set-based tools in mathematics * Comparison of set-based tools * Comparison between set and type theories * Experience reports CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Submitted papers must be 6-15 pages in length, following the Springer LNCS format. These submissions may be: * Research papers providing new concepts and results * Position papers and research perspectives * Experience reports * Tool presentations Proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be available electronically at the workshop. No copyright transfer agreement will be required from the authors. For this first edition of this workshop, we would like to put the emphasis on discussions rather than on conventional publications. PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF using the SETS 2014 EasyChair web site at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sets2014 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: March 3, 2014 Submission deadline: March 10, 2014 Paper notification: April 7, 2014 Revised/final paper: April 21, 2014 Workshop: June 3, 2014 PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS David Delahaye (Cnam, France) Catherine Dubois (Ensiie, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Maximiliano Cristia (CIFASIS, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) David Deharbe (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Mamoun Filali (CNRS, IRIT, France) Michael Leuschel (University of D?sseldorf, Germany) Stephan Merz (Inria Nancy - Grand Est, Loria, France) Dominique Pastre (Universit? Paris Descartes, France) Gianfranco Rossi (Universit? di Parma, Italy) Mark Utting (University of Waikato, New Zealand) Benjamin Werner (Inria Saclay - ?le-de-France, ?cole Polytechnique, France) Freek Wiedijk (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC Institute, JKU Linz, Austria) From maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de Wed Feb 19 10:01:25 2014 From: maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de (Matteo Maffei) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:01:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TGC 2014: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <64CA3E97-65AC-4C94-A6BE-9855C95ED6EB@cs.uni-saarland.de> [Apologies for cross posting] TGC 2014 Call for Papers 9th Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/tgc2014/ 5-6 September, 2014 Rome, Italy (co-located with Concur 2014) ***************************************************************************** The Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing is an international annual venue dedicated to secure and reliable computation in the so-called global computing, i.e., those computational abstractions emerging in large-scale infrastructures such as service-oriented architectures, autonomic systems, and cloud computing. Highlights: - Parallel submission to CONCUR 2014 allowed (see submission instructions below) - Keynote speakers: V?ronique Cortier (CNRS, France) and Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, France) - Deadline for abstract submission: May 2 2014 The TGC series focuses on providing frameworks, tools, algorithms, and protocols for rigorously designing, verifying, and implementing open-ended, large-scaled applications. The related models of computation incorporate code and data mobility over distributed networks that connect heterogeneous devices and have dynamically changing topologies. We solicit papers in all areas of global computing, including (but not limited to): - languages, semantic models, and abstractions - security, trust, and reliability - privacy and information flow policies - algorithms and protocols - resource management - model checking, theorem proving, and static analysis - tool support Important dates - Deadline for abstract submission: May 2 2014 - Deadline for paper submission: May 9 2014 (STRICT!) - Notification to authors: June 27 2014 Programme committee - Stephanie Delaune (CNRS and LSV, France) - Anupam Datta (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (Universit? di Torino, Italy) - Fabio Gadducci (Universit? di Pisa, Italy) - Dan Ghica (University of Birmingham, UK) - Andrew D. Gordon (Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh, UK) - Joshua Guttman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Christos Kaklamanis (University of Patras and CTI, Greece) - Daniel Hirschkoff (ENS Lyon, France) - Boris K?pf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) - Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) - Michele Loreti (Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) - Matteo Maffei (co-chair, CISPA, Saarland University, Germany) - Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Ant?nio Ravara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) - Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - Andrey Rybalchenko (TU M?nchen, Germany) - Emilio Tuosto (co-chair) (co-chair, University of Leicester, UK) - Bj?rn Victor (Uppsala University, Sweden) - Roberto Zunino (Universit? degli Studi di Trento, Italy) Submission instructions Contributions must be in PostScript or PDF format and consist of no more than 15 pages in the Springer's LNCS style. Clearly marked appendices may include additional details and proofs omitted due to space limitations. Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not submitted for publication elsewhere, with the exception of CONCUR. Concurrent submissions to CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014 are allowed, and in fact encouraged, for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of such double submissions should flag them to the program chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the ?Regular Paper submitted to CONCUR? paper category). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR and TGC. CONCUR's timeline is ahead of TGC's; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered automatically withdrawn from TGC. We plan to publish post-proceedings shortly after the conference, to give the authors the opportunity to take into account discussions and suggestions at the conference. 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URL: From aldini at sti.uniurb.it Wed Feb 19 12:32:22 2014 From: aldini at sti.uniurb.it (Alessandro Aldini) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:32:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOSAD 2014 - school on foundations of security analysis and design Message-ID: ==================================================== 14TH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON FOUNDATIONS OF SECURITY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN FOSAD 2014 ==================================================== http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/fosad14 1-6 September 2014, Bertinoro, Italy In cooperation with NESSoS and CryptoForma *** Application Deadline: June 20, 2014 FOSAD has been one of the foremost events established with the goal of disseminating knowledge about foundations of security analysis and design to graduate students and young computer scientists from academia or industry. LECTURERS> Jens Groth - University College London Steve Kremer - INRIA Nancy Siani Pearson - HP Labs Bristol Alexander Pretschner - TU Munchen Andrei Sabelfeld - Chalmers University Vitaly Shmatikov - University of Texas Topics include zero knowledge, efficient NIZKs and their applications, formal methods for automated verification of security protocols and APIs, privacy and accountability in the cloud, distributed usage control, language based security, data privacy and communication privacy technologies. The courses alternate theory and practice sessions. Program and additional material will be soon available at the FOSAD web page. OPEN SESSION> Daily sessions will be organized for participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for presenting their current research/tool in the area. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE> Martin Abadi Javier Lopez Alessandro Aldini Fabio Martinelli (Chair) Gilles Barthe Catherine Meadows Eerke Boiten Bart Preneel Sandro Etalle SCHOOL VENUE> The school is organized at the University Residential Center of Bertinoro (CEUB), Italy: http://www.ceub.it/ The host venue provides a unique architectonical and environmental setting joining the stunning views of the hilltop of Bertinoro with the historical location of the ancient fortress and the facilities of the Center, which offers accommodation, meeting rooms, and modern conference and computing services. SCHOOL DATES> Prospective participants should apply through the FOSAD web page by: June 20, 2014. Notification of accepted applicants will be posted by: June 27, 2014. Registration to the school is due by: July 25, 2014. SCHOOL FEES> The full fee is 900 Euros and covers stay from 31 August, in double room, half board (breakfast and lunch), welcome dinner of 31 August and social dinner included. A limited amount of grants will be provided to cover part of the fee for young researchers. SCHOOL PARTNERS> FOSAD 2014 is organized in cooperation with the Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems: NESSoS, http://www.nessos-project.eu and with the EPSRC CryptoForma network on the application of formal methods to cryptography: http://www.cryptoforma.org.uk From matthieu.sozeau at inria.fr Thu Feb 20 04:38:21 2014 From: matthieu.sozeau at inria.fr (Matthieu Sozeau) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:38:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2014 in Paris, May 12 - 15: last call for contributions Message-ID: <8FBFA09F-E978-4B76-9F4A-8975478F57BF@inria.fr> TYPES Meeting 2014 Paris, 12-15 May 2014 http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/types2014/ LAST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The 20th Conference "Types for Proofs and Programs" will take place in Paris, France, from 12 to 15 May 2014. The TYPES Meeting is a forum to present new and on-going work in all aspects of type theory and its applications, especially in formalized and computer assisted reasoning and computer programming. Invited speakers: * Thierry Coquand * Xavier Leroy * Andy Pitts We invite all researchers to contribute talks on subjects related to the Types area of interest. These include, but are not limited to: * Foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; * Homotopy type theory; * Applications of type theory; * Dependently typed programming; * Industrial uses of type theory technology; * Meta-theoretic studies of type systems; * Proof assistants and proof technology; * Automation in computer-assisted reasoning; * Links between type theory and functional programming; * Formalizing mathematics using type theory. We would like to especially encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. The talks may be based on newly published papers, work submitted for publication, but also work in progress. There are no formal pre-proceedings, but we will make available the abstract book for the conference. TYPES has post-proceedings which will be announced in a separate call for papers. Participation in TYPES 2014 is no prerequisite for submission to the post-proceedings. TYPES 2014 is intended to be a conference in our traditional workshop style. We expect submission of short abstracts that fit on one or two pages, presenting in sufficient detail the content of the talk and its relevance for TYPES, as judged by the program committee. Submission for a contributed talk consists in a short LaTeX abstract in EasyChair style that fits on one or two pages to be included in the abstract book. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2014 . Please announce your intention to submit an abstract by first submitting a title one week in advance. Dates: * title: Friday February 21 (midnight GMT) * submission of short abstracts: Friday February 28 (midnight GMT) * notification of acceptance: Monday March 17 * final version of short abstracts: Friday April 11 The conference will be held at the Institut Henri Poincar? in the 5th district of Paris. It will happen on week 4 of the special trimester on Semantics of proofs and certified mathematics (see http://ihp2014.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr). Satellite event: the 13th international workshop Proof, Computation, Complexity (PCC 2014) will be held on May 15th and 16th. Program Committee: * Andreas Abel, Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University * Andrej Bauer, Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko, Ljubljana * Ma?gorzata Biernacka, University of Wroclaw * Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University * Paul Blain Levy, University of Birmingham * Herman Geuvers, Radboud University and Eindhoven University of Technology * Hugo Herbelin, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt (co-chair) * Pierre Letouzey, University Paris-Diderot (co-chair) * Ralph Matthes, IRIT, CNRS and University of Toulouse * Conor McBride, University of Strathclyde * Lu?s Pinto, University of Minho, Braga * Claudio Sacerdoti, University of Bologna * Aleksy Schubert, University of Warsaw * Matthieu Sozeau, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt (co-chair) * Thomas Streicher, TU Darmstadt From touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr Thu Feb 20 09:41:28 2014 From: touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr (Tayssir Touili) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:41:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD positions in LIAFA, Paris, France: Software verification and Model-checking for malware detection Message-ID: <53061418.8070101@liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr> Please distribute (apologies for multiple postings): =============================== Two PhD positions in LIAFA ================== Contact: Tayssir TOUILI (touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr) Two PhD positions are available in the "Verification" team in LIAFA, Paris. *Subject 1: Software verification** **------------------------------------------* The subject of the thesis is about concurrent programs verification. The PhD student is expected to investigate and develop novel techniques, algorithms and tools for the analysis of software. Indeed, nowadays, software is everywhere: in telecommunication, in navigation, in nuclear plants, etc. The tasks that software deal with are becoming more and more complex and critical, in the sense that any small error can cause huge human and/or economical damages. Therefore, it is crucial to be sure that a software does not contain any error before using it. Programmers need then to have rigorous formal mathematical techniques that allow to verify and check their programs. Unfortunately, programs present several complex features that make their analysis very complex: concurrency, synchronisation, recursion, procedure calls, pointers, manipulation of integer and real variables, etc. Thus, the objective of this thesis is to develop new techniques for software model-checking that can deal with all these complex features. *Subject 2: Model-checking for malware detection* *-----------------------------------------------------------------* The topic of the thesis is the development of new original model-checking and static analysis techniques for malware detection. Indeed, the number of malwares is growing extraordinarily fast. Therefore, it is important to have efficient malware detectors. To identify viruses, existing antivirus systems use either code emulation or signature (pattern) detection. These techniques have some limitations. Indeed, emulation based techniques can only check the program's behavior in a limited time interval, whereas signature based systems are easy to get around. To sidestep these limitations, instead of executing the program or making a syntactic check over it, virus detectors need to use analysis techniques that check the /*behavior*/ (not the syntax) of the program in a /*static*/ way, i.e. without executing it. Towards this aim, we propose in this thesis to develop new /*model-checking*/ and /*static analysis */ techniques for virus detection. *How to apply:** **==========* The positions are available immediately. Candidates must have a master in computer science. The candidate must send a CV, university grades, recommendation letters, and a motivation letter to Tayssir TOUILI (touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp Thu Feb 20 19:01:41 2014 From: garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Jacques Garrigue) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:01:41 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2014: Call for papers Message-ID: <917DCFDB-7386-475B-BCD2-A5AE979FF2CA@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> =============================================================== APLAS 2014 12th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/APLAS2014/ 17-19 November 2014, Singapore CALL FOR PAPERS =============================================================== ========== BACKGROUND ========== APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming language community. APLAS is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS) founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. Past APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Melbourne ('13), Kyoto ('12), Kenting ('11), Shanghai ('10), Seoul ('09), Bangalore ('08), Singapore ('07), Sydney ('06), Tsukuba ('05), Taipei ('04) and Beijing ('03) after three informal workshops. Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer's LNCS. ====== TOPICS ====== The symposium is devoted to foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on topics such as * semantics, logics, foundational theory; * design of languages, type systems and foundational calculi; * domain-specific languages; * compilers, interpreters, abstract machines; * program derivation, synthesis and transformation; * program analysis, verification, model-checking; * logic, constraint, probabilistic and quantum programming; * software security; * concurrency and parallelism; * tools and environments for programming and implementation. Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool presentations category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to consult with the program chair prior to submission. ========== SUBMISSION ========== We solicit submissions in two categories: *Regular research papers* describing original scientific research results, including tool development and case studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. *System and Tool presentations* describing systems or tools that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. System and Tool presentations are expected to be centered around a demonstration. The paper and the demonstration should identify the novelties of the tools and use motivating examples. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submissions will be judged based on both the papers and the described systems or tools. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2014 Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ===== DATES ===== Abstracts due: May 26, 2014 (Monday) Submission due: June 2, 2014 (Monday) Notification: August 6, 2014 (Wednesday) Final paper due: September 1, 2014 (Monday) Conference: November 17-19, 2014 (Monday-Wednesday) ========== ORGANIZERS ========== General chair: Wei-Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore) Program chair: Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University) Program committee: Xiaojuan Cai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) James Chapman (Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia) Cristian Gherghina (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Eric Goubault (CEA LIST and Ecole Polytechnique, France) Fei He (Tsinghua University, China) Gerwin Klein (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Raghavan Komondoor (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) Paddy Krishnan (Oracle, Australia) Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research, USA) Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Julian Rathke (University of Southampton, UK) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, Korea) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Martin Sulzmann (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Munehiro Takimoto (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Jan Vitek (Purdue University, USA) Hongwei Xi (Boston University, USA) ======= CONTACT ======= aplas2014 at easychair.org From ruediger.ehlers at uni-bremen.de Fri Feb 21 03:55:20 2014 From: ruediger.ehlers at uni-bremen.de (Ruediger Ehlers) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:55:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SYNT 2014 - Call for papers Message-ID: <53071478.4010802@uni-bremen.de> SYNT 2014 - Call For Papers 3rd Workshop on Synthesis Vienna, Austria, July 23-24, 2014 http://vsl2014.at/synt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The idea of synthesis, i.e., the process of automatically computing implementations from their specifications, has recently gained a lot of momentum in the contexts of software engineering and reactive system design. While it is widely believed that, due to complexity/ undecidability issues, synthesis cannot completely replace manual engineering, it can assist the process of designing the intricate pieces of code that most programmers find challenging, or help with orchestrating tasks in reactive environments. This workshop aims at bringing together and providing an open platform for researchers interested in synthesis. Research on synthesis exists well alongside conferences on formal methods and verification, such as CAV, which aim at improving the reliability of systems. Driven by the vast potential for practical applications of synthesis, we aim at fostering scientific exchange not only within the areas of software and reactive synthesis, but also between them. SYNT 2014 is a satellite event of CAV 2014 and will take place in the scope of the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL) 2014. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * algorithms and tools for software synthesis and reactive (discrete- time, timed, hybrid, ...) synthesis * specification languages and optimization in synthesis * complexity and impossibility results for synthesis * case studies of software or hardware synthesis * connections between verification and synthesis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome scientific contributions of the following forms: * regular papers (max. 15 pages in EPTCS style, excluding references) * tool papers (max. 7 pages in EPTCS style, excluding references) Submitted regular and tool papers must be original and unpublished. Papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will appear in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science series; hence, submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package. Given sufficient interest, extended versions of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the journal Acta Informatica. Paper submission deadline is April 15, 2014. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee: * Pavol Cerny (University of Colorado at Boulder) * Krishnendu Chatterjee (IST Austria) * Ruediger Ehlers (University of Bremen) * Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University) * Swen Jacobs (TU Graz) * Jean-Francois Raskin (Universite libre de Bruxelles) * Susmit Jha (Intel Strategic CAD Lab) * Barbara Jobstmann (Jasper Design Automation / EPFL) * Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) * Nir Piterman (University of Leicester) * Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado) * Armando Solar-Lezama (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Ashish Tiwari (SRI International) * Emina Torlak (UC Berkeley) Organization Committee: * Krishnendu Chatterjee (IST Austria) * R?diger Ehlers (University of Bremen) * Susmit Jha (Intel Strategic CAD Lab) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited speakers will be announced soon. The SYNT 2014 workshop is kindly supported by the Expedition in Computer Augmented Program Engineering (ExCAPE) project and the Austrian Rigorous System Engineering Network (RiSE). From serge.autexier at dfki.de Fri Feb 21 10:50:20 2014 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:50:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers: 8th Verification Workshop (VERIFY 2014), Focus Theme: Verification Beyond IT Systems Message-ID: <20140221155020.0CA9E1ECA799@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> [Apologies for cross posting] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Verification Workshop (VERIFY?14) in connection with IJCAR 2014 at FLoC 2014 July 23?24, 2014, Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/verify The formal verification of critical information systems has a long tradition as one of the main areas of application for automated theorem proving. Nevertheless, the area is of still growing importance as the number of computers affecting everyday life and the complexity of these systems are both increasing. The purpose of the VERIFY workshop series is to discuss problems arising during the formal modeling and verification of information systems and to investigate suitable solutions. Possible perspectives include those of automated theorem proving, tool support, system engineering, and applications. The VERIFY workshop series aims at bringing together people who are interested in the development of safety and security critical systems, in formal methods, in the development of automated theorem proving techniques, and in the development of tool support. Practical experiences gained in realistic verifications are of interest to the automated theorem proving community and new theorem proving techniques should be transferred into practice. The overall objective of the VERIFY workshops is to identify open problems and to discuss possible solutions under the theme What are the verification problems? What are the deduction techniques? The 2014 edition of VERIFY aims for extending the verification methods for processes implemented in hard- and software to processes that may well include computer-assistance, but have a large part or a frequent interaction with non-computer-based process steps. Hence the 2014 edition will run under the focus theme Verification Beyond IT Systems A non-exclusive list of application areas with these characteristics are * Ambient assisted living * Intelligent home systems and processes * Business systems and processes * Production logistics systems and processes * Transportation logistics * Clinical processes * Social systems and processes (e.g., voting systems) The scope of VERIFY includes topics such as * ATP techniques in verification * Case studies (specification & verification) * Combination of verification systems * Integration of ATPs and CASE-tools * Compositional & modular reasoning * Experience reports on using formal methods * Gaps between problems & techniques * Formal methods for fault tolerance * Information flow control security * Refinement & decomposition * Reliability of mobile computing * Reuse of specifications & proofs * Management of change * Safety-critical systems * Security models * Tool support for formal methods Submissions are encouraged in one of the following two categories: A. Regular paper: Submissions in this category should describe previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. Papers must be 5-14 pages long (in EasyChair style) or 6-15 pages long (in Springer LNCS style). B. Discussion papers: Submissions in this category are intended to initiate discussions and hence should address controversial issues, and may include provocative statements. Papers must be 3-14 pages long (in EasyChair style) or 3-15 pages long (in Springer LNCS style). Important dates Abstract Submission Deadline: April 17th, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: April 25th, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2014 Final version due: May 27, 2014 Workshop date: July 23?24, 2014 Submission is via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=verify2014 Program Committee Serge Autexier (DFKI) - chair Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) - chair Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology) Juan Augusto (Middlesex University) Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente) Dieter Hutter (DFKI GmbH) Reiner H?hnle (Technical University of Darmstadt) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico) Gerwin Klein (NICTA and UNSW) Joe Leslie-Hurd (Intel Corporation) Fabio Martinelli (IIT-CNR) Catherine Meadows (NRL) Stephan Merz (INRIA Lorraine) Tobias Nipkow (TU M?nchen) Lawrence Paulson (University of Cambridge) Johann Schumann (SGT, Inc/NASA Ames) Kurt Stenzel (University of Augsburg) From dubois at ensiie.fr Fri Feb 21 15:17:48 2014 From: dubois at ensiie.fr (Dubois Catherine) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:17:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last CFP - TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2014) Message-ID: <5307B46C.4000507@ensiie.fr> (Apologies for multiple receptions) **************************************************** * * 8th International Conference * on * TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2014) * * http://www.tap2014.org * Co-located with STAF, York, UK, July 24-25, 2014 * **************************************************** * * Call for Contributions * * Abstract submission: February 25, 2014 * Full submission: March 1, 2014 * **************************************************** Scope ===== The TAP conference is devoted to the synergy of proofs and tests, to the application of techniques from both sides and their combination for the advancement of software quality. Testing and proving seem to be orthogonal techniques: once a program has been proven to be correct then additional testing seems pointless; however, when such a proof in not feasible, then testing the program seems to be the only option. This view has dominated the research community for a long time, and has resulted in distinct communities pursuing the different research areas. The development of both approaches has led to the discovery of common issues and to the realization of potential synergy. Perhaps, the use of model checking in testing was one of the first signs that a counterexample to a proof may be interpreted as a test case. Recent breakthroughs in deductive techniques such as satisfiability modulo theories, abstract interpretation, and interactive theorem proving, have paved the way for new and practically effective methods of powering testing techniques. Moreover, since formal, proof-based verification is costly, testing invariants and background theories can be helpful to detect errors early and to improve cost effectiveness. Summing up, in the past few years an increasing number of research efforts have encountered the need for combining proofs and tests, dropping earlier dogmatic views of incompatibility and taking instead the best of what each of these software engineering domains has to offer. The TAP conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the converging fields of testing and proving by offering a generous forum for the presentation of ongoing research, for tutorials on established technologies and for informal discussions. Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest cover theory definitions, tool constructions and experimentations, and include (other topics related to TAP are welcome): - Bridging the gap between concrete and symbolic techniques, e.g. using proof search in satisfiability modulo theories solvers to enhance various testing techniques - Transfer of concepts from testing to proving (e.g., coverage criteria) and from proving to testing - Program proving with the aid of testing techniques - Verification and testing techniques combining proofs and tests - Generation of test data, oracles, or preambles by deductive techniques such as: theorem proving, model checking, symbolic execution, constraint logic programming - Model-based testing and verification - Generation of specifications by deduction - Automatic bug finding - Debugging of programs combining static and dynamic analysis - Case studies combining tests and proofs - Domain specific applications of testing and proving to new application domains such as validating security protocols, vulnerability detection of programs, security - Testing of verification environments and reasoning engines like solvers and theorem provers - New approaches such as crowd-sourcing and serious games to infer intended semantics and assess correctness - Formal frameworks - Tool descriptions and experience reports Important Dates: ================ Abstract submission: February 25, 2014 Paper submission: March 1, 2014 Notification: April 28, 2014 Camera ready version: May 12, 2014 TAP conference: July 24-25, 2014 Keynote: ======= Finding Malware on a Web Scale by Ben Livshits Program Chairs: =============== Martina Seidl (JKU Linz/TU Wien, Austria) Nikolai Tillmann (Microsoft Research, USA) Program Committee: ================== Arnaud Gotlieb Dirk Beyer Achim D. Brucker Robert Claris? Marco Comini Catherine Dubois Juhan Ernits Gordon Fraser Angelo Gargantini Christoph Gladisch Martin Gogolla Reiner H?hnle Bart Jacobs Thierry J?ron Jacques Julliand Gregory Kapfhammer Nikolai Kosmatov Victor Kuliamin Karl Meinke Alexandre Petrenko Holger Schlingloff Martina Seidl Nikolai Tillmann T.H. Tse Margus Veanes Luca Vigan? Burkhart Wolff Fatiha Zaidi Submission: =========== Please submit your papers via easychair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2014 TAP 2014 will accept two types of papers and also tutorials: - Research papers: full papers with at most 16 pages in LNCS format (pdf), which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Research papers should clearly describe the addressed problem, the relevant state-of-the-art, the scientifically-founded solution, and the benefits of the presented approach. - Short contributions: work in progress, (industrial) experience reports or tool demonstrations, position statements; an extended abstract with at most 6 pages in LNCS format (pdf) is expected. The same evaluation criteria apply to short papers as to full research papers. Short papers will be reviewed to the same standards of quality as full research papers. - Tutorials: TAP 2014 further invites one-hour tutorial presentations surveying the state-of-the-art of any research field related to the topics of TAP. Tutorial proposals shall have a maximum length of 3 pages in LNCS format (pdf) and provide information about the content, a short outline, and information about the speakers. Accepted full and short papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series and will be available at the conference. Accepted tutorials will be assigned a slot of 60 minutes during the conference. The contents of previous TAP proceedings is available at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/tap/tap2013.html From afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca Sat Feb 22 04:08:01 2014 From: afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:08:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2014: Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <5307C6D5.1000404@eecs.uottawa.ca> References: <5307C6D5.1000404@eecs.uottawa.ca> Message-ID: <530868F1.4010704@eecs.uottawa.ca> Call for Papers LFMTP 2014: 9th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice Vienna, Austria July 17, 2014 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/lfmtp14/ Affiliated with CSL-LICS 2014 and IJCAR 2014 and held as part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) and the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL), http://vsl2014.at IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: May 2 Notification: June 3 Final papers due: June 19 Workshop: July 17 DESCRIPTION: Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common substrate for representing, implementing, and reasoning about a wide variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer science. Their design and implementation on the one hand and their use in reasoning tasks ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal computational systems on the other hand have been the focus of considerable research over the last two decades. This workshop will bring together designers, implementers, and practitioners to discuss various aspects impinging on the structure and utility of logical frameworks, including the treatment of variable binding, inductive and co-inductive reasoning techniques and the expressivity and lucidity of the reasoning process. TOPICS: LFMTP 2014 will provide researchers a forum to present state-of-the-art techniques and discuss progress in areas such as the following: - Encoding and reasoning about the meta-theory of programming languages and related formally specified systems. - Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. - Logical treatments of inductive and co-inductive definitions and associated reasoning techniques. - New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy type theory. - Applications of logical frameworks, e.g., in proof-carrying architectures such as proof-carrying authorization. - Techniques for programming with binders in functional programming languages such as Haskell, OCaml, or Agda and logic programming languages such as lambda Prolog or Alpha-Prolog. with encoding programming languages theory will be particularly welcome. SUBMISSIONS: In addition to regular papers, we also solicit "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report original or fully polished research results, but should be interesting for the community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The length is restricted to 8 pages, except for "work in progress" papers, which are restricted to 4 pages. Submission is via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2014). Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS: Accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings, which will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, available in the ACM Digital Library. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (technical appendixes, source code, scripts, test data, etc.). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria) Adam Chlipala (MIT) Amy Felty, Co-Chair (University of Ottawa) Elsa Gunter (University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign) Luigi Liquori (Inria) Marino Miculan (University of Udine) Brigitte Pientka, Co-Chair (McGill University) Jorge Luis Sacchini (CMU Quatar) Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University) From dreyer at mpi-sws.org Sat Feb 22 10:16:05 2014 From: dreyer at mpi-sws.org (Derek Dreyer) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:16:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two post-doc positions in program analysis and transformation at the University of California, Riverside Message-ID: [Posted on behalf of Prof. Iulian Neamtiu. -- Moderator] Two post-doc positions in program analysis and transformation are available in Prof. Iulian Neamtiu's research group at the University of California, Riverside. PROJECT SCOPE Program analysis and transformation for preventing, detecting and mitigating cyber-attacks, on both traditional hosts (desktop/server) and smartphones. REQUIREMENTS A Ph.D. in Computer Science and a strong publication record in one (or more) of these areas: program analysis, program transformation, software security. For example, type systems, model checking, static analysis, dynamic analysis, binary/bytecode transformation. Research experience in smartphones or empirical software engineering is a plus. AVAILABILITY and DURATION The positions are available immediately, and will remain open until filled. The initial appointment will be for 1 year, and after that renewable based on performance and funding availability. SALARY Annual salaries range from $39,264 to $49,884, depending on experience. LOCATION In sunny Riverside, California, about 1 hour east of Los Angeles and 1.5 hours north of San Diego. APPLICATION AND FURTHER DETAILS Please see http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~neamtiu/postdoc-ad.html From dejan.jovanovic at sri.com Sat Feb 22 15:43:12 2014 From: dejan.jovanovic at sri.com (=?UTF-8?B?RGVqYW4gSm92YW5vdmnEhw==?=) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:43:12 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Fourth International SAT/SMT Summer School Message-ID: <53090BE0.6020002@sri.com> =========================================== FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fourth International SAT/SMT Summer School Semmering, Austria, July 10-12, 2014 http://satsmt2014.forsyte.at/ =========================================== APPLICATION: The application deadline for the school is April 19, 2014. Full details of the registration procedure are available at the school website (http://satsmt2014.forsyte.at/). ABOUT: The SAT/SMT Summer School aims at providing graduate students and researchers from university and industry with a comprehensive overview of research and methodology in satisfiability testing (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The lectures cover the foundational and practical aspects of SAT and SMT technologies and their applications. The fourth edition follows the schools that took place at MIT (SAT/SMT Solver Summer School 2011), at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (SAT/SMT School 2012) in Trento, Italy, and Aalto University in Espoo, Finland in 2013. The school location and schedule has been chosen to integrate nicely with the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL 2014, see http://vsl2014.at/). As a reminder, VSL 2014 includes, among many other events: * the 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2014) * the 26th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2014) * the 12th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT 2014) * the 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2014) The Summer School program will feature four lectures per day, with the first two days dedicated to SAT and SMT, and the last to special topics. Two of the lectures will be organized as tutorials giving hands-on experience on SAT/SMT-based modelling. List of invited lectures: * Introduction to SAT, Daniel Le Berre * Practical Session SAT, Keijo Heljanko, Tomi Janhunen, Tommi Junttila * Interpolation in SAT & SMT, Philipp R?mmer * Parallel SAT Solving, Christoph Wintersteiger * Proofs in SAT and CSP, Ofer Strichman * Introduction to SMT, Alberto Griggio * Quantifiers in SMT, Leonardo de Moura * Practical Session SMT, Keijo Heljanko, Tomi Janhunen, Tommi Junttila * SMT for Cryptography & Software Verification, Chao Wang * Hardware Verification with IC3, Fabio Somenzi * Software Verification with IC3, Nikolaj Bj?rner A more detailed program is available at the school website (http://satsmt2014.forsyte.at/). Organizers: Pascal Fontaine (Inria, Loria, University of Lorraine, France) Dejan Jovanovi? (SRI, U.S.) Georg Weissenbacher (TU Wien, Austria) From mvelev at gmail.com Sun Feb 23 02:59:26 2014 From: mvelev at gmail.com (Miroslav Velev) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 01:59:26 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 11th International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP'14) Message-ID: CFP: 11th International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP'14) Freiberg (Sachs.), Germany, September 17 - 19, 2014 http://www.informatik.tu-freiberg.de/prof2/ws_bp11/index.html Important Dates: Submission deadline: April 30, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 6, 2014 Final version due: July 6, 2014 The workshop on Boolean problems has an emphasis on the problems related to the solution of all kinds of high-dimension Boolean and discrete problems, and provides a forum for researchers and engineers from different disciplines to exchange ideas. The workshop is devoted to theoretical discoveries, as well as practical applications. An aim of the workshop is to initiate possible collaborative research, and to find new areas of application. It is intended to publish the papers in proceedings. The invited speakers will be: - Mitch Thornton (SMU Dallas (Texas), USA), - Jaap van den Herik (Tilburg University, Netherlands), and - Shinobu Nagayama (Hiroshima City University, Japan) Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theory - Properties and applications of Boolean Algebras - Data Structures and Algorithms - Modeling - Specification of data structures/Algorithms - Complexity - Program Systems/Software - Fundamental software for the solution of Boolean Problems - Comparison of efficiency - Practical Applications - Application of Boolean Algebra in FPGA synthesis - Quantum logic, reversible logic, and multi-valued logic - Solution of real-world problems Submissions: To submit a paper, please send an extended abstract, as a PDF file no longer than 6 pages using the workshop web page: http://www.informatik.tu-freiberg.de/prof2/ws_bp11/ or send a PDF file to: iwsbp2014 at informatik.tu-freiberg.de by April 30, 2014. General Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Steinbach, TU Bergakademie Freiberg Conference Coordinator: Dr.-Ing. G. Rudolf, TU Bergakademie Freiberg Publicity Chair: M. Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA Program Committee: - M. Adamski, University of Zielona Gora, Poland - J. Butler, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, USA - R. Berghammer, C-A-University of Kiel, Germany - L. Cheremisinova, Minsk Academy of Science, Belarus - D. Debnath, Oakland University, USA - R. Drechsler, University of Bremen, Germany - E. Dubrova, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden - G. Dueck, University of New Brunswick, Canada - V. Gaudet, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - D. Gro?e , University of Bremen, Germany - A. Karatkevich, University of Zielona Gora, Poland - P. Kerntopf, Warsaw University of Technology and University of Lodz, Poland - I. Levin, Tel Aviv University, Israel - T. Luba, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - M. Lukac, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan - M. Miller, University of Victoria, Canada - C. Moraga, TU Dortmund, Germany - M. A. Perkowski, Portland State University, USA - Y. Pottosin, Minsk Academy of Science, Belarus - T. Sasao, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan - Ch. Scholl, University of Freiburg, Germany - R. Stankovic, University of Nis, Serbia - B. Steinbach, University of Freiberg, Germany - R. Ubar, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia - M. Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA - R. Wille, University of Bremen, Germany - S. Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada - A. D. Zakrewskij, Minsk Academy of Science, Belarus Conference Language: English -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabriel at info.uaic.ro Sun Feb 23 13:17:47 2014 From: gabriel at info.uaic.ro (Gabriel Ciobanu) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:17:47 +0200 (EET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers ICTAC 2014, 17-20 Sept, Bucharest Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------- [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Abstract submission: 16 March 2014 Submission deadline: 23 March 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS -- ICTAC 2014 ********************************************************************** 11th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing 17-20 September 2014, Bucharest, Romania http://fmi.unibuc.ro/ictac2014 ********************************************************************** ICTAC 2014 is the 11th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing and will 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. Another aim of ICTAC is to bring together researchers working on theoretical aspects of computing in order to present their recent results and to discuss new ideas concerning computer science. THEMES AND TOPICS OF PAPERS ICTAC 2014 calls for regular research papers on theories of computation and programming, foundations of software engineering and on formal techniques in software design and verification, as well as papers about tools that support formal techniques for software modeling, system design and verification. The topical areas of the conference include, but not limited to * Automata theory and formal languages; * Principles and semantics of programming languages; * Theories of concurrency, mobility and reconfiguration; * Logics and their applications; * Software architectures, their models, refinement and verification; * Relationship between software requirements, models and code; * Program static and dynamic analysis and verification; * Software specification, refinement, verification and testing; * Model checking and theorem proving; * Models of object and component systems; * Coordination and feature interaction; * Integration of theories, formal methods and tools for engineering computing systems; * Service-oriented architectures: models and development methods; * Models of concurrency, security, and mobility; * Theory of distributed, grid and cloud computing; * Real-time, embedded, hybrid and cyber-physical systems; * Type and category theory in computer science. PAPER SUBMISSION As for the past editions, the proceedings of ICTAC 2014 will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and will be available at the colloquium. Special issue of few journals with extended version of selected papers from ICTAC 2014 is under negotiation. Submissions to the colloquium 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, as well as their relevance to the conference. Regular Papers should not exceed 18 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Papers must be submitted by using www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2014. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: 16 March 2014 Submission deadline: 23 March 2014 Paper notification: 30 May 2014 Revised/final paper: 14 June 2014 PC CHAIRS Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania Dominique Mery, LORIA, Universite de Lorraine, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT, ENSEIHT, France Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK Ana Calvacanti, University of York, UK Jeremie Chalopin, CNRS, France Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Maximiliano Cristia, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Argentina David Deharbe, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Rocco De Nicola, IMT Lucca, Italy Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK Ross Horne, Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, UK Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jetty Kleijn, Leiden University, The Netherlands Maciej Koutny, Newcastle University, UK Yassine Lakhnech, VERIMAG, France Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay, INRIA, France Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macau, China Marius Minea, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Victor Mitrana, University of Bucharest, Romania Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland Mohammed Mosbah, LABRI, University of Bordeaux, France Tobias Nipkow, Technical University Munich, Germany Manuel Nunez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Paritosh Pandya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Shengchao Qin, University of Teesside, UK Antonio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Universite de Namur, Belgium Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max Planck Institute, Germany Gheorghe Stefanescu, University of Bucharest, Romania Andrzej Tarlecki, Warsaw University, Poland Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi University, Finland Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Burkhart Wolff, Universite de Paris-Sud, France Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK Fatiha Zaidi, Universite de Paris-Sud, France Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China GENERAL CHAIRS Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania STEERING COMMITTEE Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck, Germany Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macao, China Tobias Nipkow, Technical University Munich, Germany Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA ********************************************************************** This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found on the ICTAC 2014 web page http://fmi.unibuc.ro/ictac2014/. For information regarding the conference and other queries, you can use the conference email address: ictac2014 at fmi.unibuc.ro ********************************************************************** From mfcs2014 at inf.u-szeged.hu Mon Feb 24 03:36:38 2014 From: mfcs2014 at inf.u-szeged.hu (mfcs2014 at inf.u-szeged.hu) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:36:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFCS 2014: Call for Papers Message-ID: <49369.91.83.12.110.1393230998.squirrel@webmail.inf.u-szeged.hu> 2nd Call for Papers 39th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science MFCS 2014 Budapest, August 25--29, 2014 www.inf.u-szeged.hu/mfcs2014 *Announcement* The series of MFCS symposia, organized since 1972, has a long and well-established tradition. The MFCS conferences encourage high-quality research in all branches of theoretical computer science. Their broad scope provides an opportunity to bring together researchers who do not usually meet at specialized conferences. Quality papers presenting original research on theoretical aspects of computer science are solicited. *Topics* Principal topics of interest include (but are not limited to): algorithms and data structures (incl. sequential, parallel, distributed, randomized, approximation, graph, network, on-line, parameterized, optimization algorithms), algorithmic game theory, algorithmic learning theory, computational complexity (structural and model-related), computational geometry, models of computation, networks (incl. wireless, sensor, ad-hoc networks), parallel and distributed computing, quantum computing, automata, grammars and formal languages, combinatorics on words, trees, and other structures, bioinformatics, computer-assisted reasoning, concurrency theory, cryptography and security, databases and knowledge-based systems, formal specifications and program development, foundations of computing, logic, algebra and categories in computer science, types in computer science, mobile computing, semantics and verification of programs, theoretical issues in artificial intelligence. *Invited Speakers* Krishnendu Chatterjee (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria), Achim Jung (U. of Birmingham, UK), D\'aniel Marx (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary), Peter Bro Miltersen (Aarhus U., Denmark), Cyril Nicaud (U. Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vall\'ee, France), Alexander Sherstov (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA), Christian Sohler (TU Dortmund, Germany). *Program Committee* Albert Atserias (UPC, Barcelona, Spain), Giorgio Ausiello (U. ``La Sapienza'', Rome, Italy), Jos Baeten (CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Therese Biedl (U. of Waterloo, Canada), Miko\laj Boja\'nczyk (Warsaw U., Poland), Gerth St\olting Brodal (Aarhus U., Denmark), Christian Choffrut (U. Paris Diderot, France), Erzs\'ebet Csuhaj-Varj\'u (E\"otv\"os Lor\'and U., Budapest, Hungary, co-chair), Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy), Martin Dietzfelbinger (TU Ilmenau, Germany, co-chair), Manfred Droste (U. of Leipzig, Germany), Robert Els\"asser (U. Salzburg, Austria), Zolt\'an \'Esik (U. of Szeged, Hungary, chair), Uli Fahrenberg (Irisa/INRIA Rennes, France), Fedor V. Fomin (U. of Bergen, Norway), Fabio Gadducci (U. of Pisa, Italy), Anna G\'al (U. of Texas, Austin, USA), Dora Giammarresi (U. ``Tor Vergata'', Rome, Italy), Roberto Grossi (U. of Pisa, Italy), Anupam Gupta (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA), Michel Habib (U. Paris Diderot, France), Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen (Aarhus U., Denmark), Edith Hemaspaandra (RIT, Rochester, USA), Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto U., Japan), Yoshihiko Kakutani (U. of Tokyo, Japan), Juhani Karhum\"aki (U. of Turku, Finland), Bakhadyr Khoussainov (U. of Auckland, New Zealand), Elias Koutsoupias (U. of Oxford, UK), Rastislav Kr\'alovi\v c (Comenius U., Bratislava, Slovakia), Jan Kratochvil (Charles U., Prague, Czech Republic), Stefan Kratsch (TU Berlin, Germany), Amit Kumar (IIT, New Delhi, India), Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg U., Denmark), Fr\'ed\'eric Magniez (U. Paris Diderot, Paris, France), Ralph Matthes (U. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France), Madhavan Mukund (CMI, Chennai, India), Jean-\'Eric Pin (LIAFA, U. Paris Diderot, and CNRS, Paris, France), Alexander Rabinovich (Tel Aviv U., Israel), Peter Rossmanith (RWTH Aachen U., Germany), Jan Rutten (CWI, Amsterdam, and Radboud U. Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw U., Poland), Luigi Santocanale (Aix-Marseille U., France), Christian Scheideler (U. of Paderborn, Germany), Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund, Germany), Alex Simpson (U. of Edinburgh, UK), Mohit Singh (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA), Klaus Sutner (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA), G\'abor Tardos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary), Gy\"orgy Tur\'an (U. of Illinois, Chicago, USA), Peter Widmayer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Philipp Woelfel (U. of Calgary, Canada). *Important dates* Paper submission deadline: *April 18, 2014.* Author notification: *June 3, 2014.* Camera-ready deadline: *June 16, 2014.* Conference: *August 25--29, 2014.* *Submission guidelines* Submissions to MFCS must not exceed 12 pages (in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes style and including bibliography). If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other conference with published proceedings or simultaneous or previous submission of the same contribution to journals is not allowed. Only electronic submissions in PDF format are accepted. Information about the submission procedure is available on the conference web page. The proceedings will be published in the *ARCoSS subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag*. It is planned to have a special issue of*Information and Computation* to which journal versions of the best papers are invited. *Contact* Zolt\'an \'Esik: ze at inf.u-szeged.hu or Erzs\'ebet Csuhaj-Varj\'u: csuhaj at inf.elte.hu or Martin Dietzfelbinger: martin.dietzfelbinger at tu-ilmenau.de The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University, Budapest, and the Department of Foundations of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, in cooperation with EATCS. From tjaeger at cse.psu.edu Mon Feb 24 05:15:03 2014 From: tjaeger at cse.psu.edu (Trent Jaeger) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:15:03 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?windows-1252?q?Post_Doctoral_Position_in_Cyber?= =?windows-1252?q?_Security_Research_=96_Program_Analysis_for_Security?= Message-ID: Post Doctoral Position in Cyber Security Research ? Program Analysis for Security Penn State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering has a 18-month Post Doctoral position, with a possible extension to 2 or 3 years, available to accelerate research aims for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project in the area of cyber security, specifically the binary software analysis. Background in programming language research or programming language techniques applied to security research is required, while familiarity with binary analysis would be highly valuable. The candidate will perform advanced research in the general area of software security and serve as a technical resource in developing foundational methods for software and binary analysis. The candidate will perform original research as part of a research team and will tailor research efforts to the needs of the supporting groups from industry and/or government. The Post Doc position will be based at Penn State and some travel to PI meetings will be required. Applications must be received by March 31, 2014. Please send application letter, CV and the names of three references to tjaeger at cse.psu.edu. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce. Regards, Trent. ---------------------------------------------- Trent Jaeger Professor, CSE Department Pennsylvania State University 346A IST Bldg, University Park, PA 16802 Email: tjaeger at cse.psu.edu Ph: (814) 865-1042, Fax: (814) 865-3176 URL: http://www.trentjaeger.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 496 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: From touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr Mon Feb 24 07:12:32 2014 From: touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr (Tayssir Touili) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:12:32 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD positions in LIAFA, Paris, France: Software verification and Model-checking for malware detection Message-ID: <530B3730.6090606@liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr> Please distribute (apologies for multiple postings): =============================== Two PhD positions in LIAFA ================== Contact: Tayssir TOUILI (touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr) Two PhD positions are available in the "Verification" team in LIAFA, Paris. *Subject 1: Software verification** **------------------------------------------* The subject of the thesis is about concurrent programs verification. The PhD student is expected to investigate and develop novel techniques, algorithms and tools for the analysis of software. Indeed, nowadays, software is everywhere: in telecommunication, in navigation, in nuclear plants, etc. The tasks that software deal with are becoming more and more complex and critical, in the sense that any small error can cause huge human and/or economical damages. Therefore, it is crucial to be sure that a software does not contain any error before using it. Programmers need then to have rigorous formal mathematical techniques that allow to verify and check their programs. Unfortunately, programs present several complex features that make their analysis very complex: concurrency, synchronisation, recursion, procedure calls, pointers, manipulation of integer and real variables, etc. Thus, the objective of this thesis is to develop new techniques for software model-checking that can deal with all these complex features. *Subject 2: Model-checking for malware detection* *-----------------------------------------------------------------* The topic of the thesis is the development of new original model-checking and static analysis techniques for malware detection. Indeed, the number of malwares is growing extraordinarily fast. Therefore, it is important to have efficient malware detectors. To identify viruses, existing antivirus systems use either code emulation or signature (pattern) detection. These techniques have some limitations. Indeed, emulation based techniques can only check the program's behavior in a limited time interval, whereas signature based systems are easy to get around. To sidestep these limitations, instead of executing the program or making a syntactic check over it, virus detectors need to use analysis techniques that check the /*behavior*/ (not the syntax) of the program in a /*static*/ way, i.e. without executing it. Towards this aim, we propose in this thesis to develop new /*model-checking*/ and /*static analysis */ techniques for virus detection. *How to apply:** **==========* The positions are available immediately. Candidates must have a master in computer science. The candidate must send a CV, university grades, recommendation letters, and a motivation letter to Tayssir TOUILI (touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. The 24th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2014) will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; previous symposia were held in Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. LOPSTR 2014 will be co-located with PPDP 2014 (International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to: * synthesis * transformation * specialization * composition * optimization * inversion * specification * analysis and verification * testing and certification * program and model manipulation * transformational techniques in SE * applications and tools Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and application papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC co-chairs in case of questions). Important Dates Abstract submission: May 30, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014 Notification: July 18, 2014 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 25, 2014 Symposium: September 10-11, 2014 Submission Guidelines Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Paper should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2014. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program co-chairs for information on how to submit hard copies. Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Program Committee Slim Abdennadher German University of Cairo, Egypt ?tienne Andr? Universit? Paris 13, France Martin Brain University of Oxford, UK Wei-Ngan Chin National University of Singapore, Singapore Marco Comini University of Udine, Italy Wlodzimierz Drabent IPIPAN, Poland and Link?ping University, Sweden Fabio Fioravanti University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen University, Germany Miguel G?mez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arnaud Gotlieb SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jacob Howe City University London, UK Zhenjiang Hu Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan Alexei Lisitsa University of Liverpool, UK Jorge Navas NASA, USA Naoki Nishida Nagoya University, Japan Corneliu Popeea Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR, Italy (Program Co-Chair) Tom Schrijvers Ghent University, Belgium Hirohisa Seki Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (Program Co-Chair) Jon Sneyers K.U. Leuven, Belgium Fausto Spoto University of Verona, Italy Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium German Vidal Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Annie-Liu Yanhong Stony Brook University, USA Program Co-Chairs: Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy (maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it) Hirohisa Seki, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (seki at nitech.ac.jp) Symposium Co-Chairs Olaf Chitil and Andy King School of Computing University of Kent CT2 7NF Kent, UK Organizing Committee Emanuele De Angelis Fabrizio Smith -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lwittie at bucknell.edu Mon Feb 24 14:04:57 2014 From: lwittie at bucknell.edu (Lea Wittie) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:04:57 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Visiting Assistant Prof position at Bucknell University Message-ID: We are looking for a one year visitor to teach programming language design and also theory of computation to undergraduates (and possibly other courses). Applications can be submitted thru https://jobs.bucknell.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp We are already in the search process. The Bucknell University Department of Computer Science invites applications for a one-year visiting position in computer science beginning mid-August 2014. Outstanding candidates in all areas will be considered. Candidates may be teaching undergraduate courses in programming languages and theory of computation. Candidates are expected to have completed or be in the final stages of completing their Ph.D. in computer science or closely related field by the beginning of the 2014 fall semester. A strong commitment to excellence in teaching is required. Lea Wittie Associate Prof Computer Science Bucknell University Pennsylvania, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk Mon Feb 24 14:09:26 2014 From: m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk (Marco Gaboardi) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:09:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] One PhD position for EU students at the University of Dundee, Scotland Message-ID: <8FE2FB12-1D8B-4876-8C7F-B459D9B34EC4@dundee.ac.uk> One PhD position for EU students available at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Contact ??????????? Marco Gaboardi - m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk Profile ??????????? The specific topic for the studentship will depend on the interests and expertise of the potential candidate, but has to be related to at least two of the following areas: programming language semantics and implementation, type systems, quantitative analysis, language-based privacy and security, differential privacy, programming languages for machine learning, probabilistic models of computation, interactive theorem proving, model checking and program analysis tools. The group ??????????? The Theory of Computation group focuses on research into different areas covering functional programming, program analysis, computational logic, machine learning, constraint programming, graph theory, algorithms and applications like privacy, security, complexity, optimisation, and artificial intelligence. Requirements ??????????? The position is only for EU students. The ideal candidate must show a solid mathematical background and interest both in theoretical and practical works. Previous experience in one or more of the areas described in the profile will be considered a plus. Conditions ??????????? The studentship covers 3 years with a standard stipend of about ?13-14k a year plus some eligible travel and consumables. How to apply ??????????? The position is available immediately. Candidates must send a CV, contact details for two academic referees, and a motivation letter to Marco Gaboardi - m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 From mvelev at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 05:21:44 2014 From: mvelev at gmail.com (Miroslav Velev) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:21:44 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 11th International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP'14) Message-ID: CFP: 11th International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP'14) Freiberg (Sachs.), Germany, September 17 - 19, 2014 http://www.informatik.tu-freiberg.de/prof2/ws_bp11/index.html Important Dates: Submission deadline: April 30, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 6, 2014 Final version due: July 6, 2014 The workshop on Boolean problems has an emphasis on the problems related to the solution of all kinds of high-dimension Boolean and discrete problems, and provides a forum for researchers and engineers from different disciplines to exchange ideas. The workshop is devoted to theoretical discoveries, as well as practical applications. An aim of the workshop is to initiate possible collaborative research, and to find new areas of application. It is intended to publish the papers in proceedings. The invited speakers will be: - Mitch Thornton (SMU Dallas (Texas), USA), - Jaap van den Herik (Tilburg University, Netherlands), and - Shinobu Nagayama (Hiroshima City University, Japan) Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theory - Properties and applications of Boolean Algebras - Data Structures and Algorithms - Modeling - Specification of data structures/Algorithms - Complexity - Program Systems/Software - Fundamental software for the solution of Boolean Problems - Comparison of efficiency - Practical Applications - Application of Boolean Algebra in FPGA synthesis - Quantum logic, reversible logic, and multi-valued logic - Solution of real-world problems Submissions: To submit a paper, please send an extended abstract, as a PDF file no longer than 6 pages using the workshop web page: http://www.informatik.tu-freiberg.de/prof2/ws_bp11/ or send a PDF file to: iwsbp2014 at informatik.tu-freiberg.de by April 30, 2014. General Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Steinbach, TU Bergakademie Freiberg Conference Coordinator: Dr.-Ing. G. Rudolf, TU Bergakademie Freiberg Publicity Chair: M. Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA Program Committee: - M. Adamski, University of Zielona Gora, Poland - J. Butler, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, USA - R. Berghammer, C-A-University of Kiel, Germany - L. Cheremisinova, Minsk Academy of Science, Belarus - D. Debnath, Oakland University, USA - R. Drechsler, University of Bremen, Germany - E. Dubrova, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden - G. Dueck, University of New Brunswick, Canada - V. Gaudet, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - D. Gro?e , University of Bremen, Germany - A. Karatkevich, University of Zielona Gora, Poland - P. Kerntopf, Warsaw University of Technology and University of Lodz, Poland - I. Levin, Tel Aviv University, Israel - T. Luba, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - M. Lukac, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan - M. Miller, University of Victoria, Canada - C. Moraga, TU Dortmund, Germany - M. A. Perkowski, Portland State University, USA - Y. Pottosin, Minsk Academy of Science, Belarus - T. Sasao, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan - Ch. Scholl, University of Freiburg, Germany - R. Stankovic, University of Nis, Serbia - B. Steinbach, University of Freiberg, Germany - R. Ubar, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia - M. Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA - R. Wille, University of Bremen, Germany - S. Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada - A. D. Zakrewskij, Minsk Academy of Science, Belarus Conference Language: English -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Tue Feb 25 06:16:39 2014 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:16:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: HOPA Workshop on Higher Order Program Analysis, FLoC 2014 Message-ID: <20140225111639.GH327@chilon.net> HOPA: Workshop on Higher-Order Program Analysis Vienna University of Technology, Austria 18th July, Part of FLoC 2014 http://hopa.cs.rhul.ac.uk The HOPA workshop aims to bring together the various growing communities involved in the analysis of higher-order programs. The focus of the workshop is both on tools and techniques for practical analysis, and on the dissemination of new theoretical results. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: 9th May, 2014. Notification: 21st May, 2014. USB-ready versions: 30th May, 2014. Main event: 18th July, 2014. Invited Speakers ---------------- Anders M?ller, Aarhus University, Denmark Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Scope ----- Submissions are encouraged in the form of tool presentations, exposition of best results, and topic tutorials or surveys. The emphasis is on building bridges between communities. Areas include but are by no means limited to the theory and practice of k-CFA, CFA2 and its variants, Higher-order and collapsible pushdown systems, Higher-order recursion schemes, Liquid types, Refinement types, Static analysis of higher-order programs, Symbolic execution of higher-order programs, and Verification of higher-order programs. Publication ----------- There will be no formal proceedings of the workshop. Work presented may be submitted elsewhere for formal publication, or, indeed, may have already been formally published. Abstracts will be made available online via this website and on the FLoC USB stick. We encourage participants with analysis tools to make these tools available on our website. This can be done either by providing us with source tarballs or zip files, or by providing us with links to the tool homepage as part of the submission. Submission ---------- Submissions may range from 1 page abstracts through to 15 page tutorials or surveys in the llncs format. Please indicate on your submission how long you would like to talk for. This may range from 10 minutes for cool new ideas, or 45-60 minutes for full tutorials or surveys. Submission will be via easychair, via the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hopa2014 Program Chairs -------------- Luke Ong, University of Oxford, UK David Van Horn, University of Maryland, USA Program Committee ----------------- Cormac Flanagan, University of California, USA Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research, USA Steven Ramsay, University of Warwick, UK Tachio Terauchi, Nagoya University, Japan Takeshi Tsukada, Oxford University, UK Dimitris Vardoulakis, Google Steering Committee ------------------ Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Ranjit Jhala, University of California, USA Naoki Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan Luke Ong, University of Oxford, UK David Van Horn, University of Maryland, USA Contact Details --------------- All enquires can be directed at matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk. From Iain.Whiteside at newcastle.ac.uk Tue Feb 25 09:02:28 2014 From: Iain.Whiteside at newcastle.ac.uk (Iain Whiteside) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:02:28 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] *Deadline extended* Final call for contributions AI4FM 2014 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------- AI4FM 2014 - the 5th International Workshop on the use of AI in Formal Methods http://www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2014/ Singapore, 13th May, 2014 In association with FM 2014 ------------------------------------------------- --- Final Call for Contributions --- Confirmed Speakers --------------- Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Chin Wei Ngan, National University of Singapore Dominique M?ry, LORIA and Universit? de Lorraine Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: *March 15, 2014* Notification of acceptance: March 22, 2014 Final version due: April 22, 2014 Workshop: May 13th, 2014 General --------------- This workshop will bring together researchers from formal methods, automated reasoning and AI; it will address the issue of how AI can be used to support the formal software development process, including requirement analysis, modelling and proof. Previous AI4FM workshops have included a mix of industrial and academic participants and we anticipate attracting a similarly diverse audience. Rigorous software development using formal methods allows the construction of an accurate characterisation of a problem domain that is firmly based on mathematics; by applying standard mathematical analyses, these methods can be used to prove that systems satisfy formal specifications. Research has shown that with tools backed by mature theory, formal methods are becoming cost effective and their use is easier to justify, not as an academic exercise, legal requirement or niche markets -- but as part of a business case. However, while industrial use of formal methods is increasing, in order to make it more mainstream, the cost of applying formal methods, in terms of mathematical skill level and development time, must still be reduced. We believe that AI can help with these issues. Scope --------------- We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, and PhD projects, in order that the workshop can become a forum for active dialogue between the groups involved in automated reasoning, formal methods and artificial intelligence. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - The use of AI and automated reasoning to support and guide the formal modelling process. - The use of AI and automated reasoning in the requirement capture process. - The use of AI to reuse formal models, programs and proofs. - The use of machine learning to support interactive theorem proving. - The use of machine learning to enhance automated theorem proving. - The development of search heuristics. - The use of AI for term synthesis, invariant generation, lemma discovery and concept invention. - The use of AI for counter-example generation. - The use of constraint solvers in formal methods. - The role of AI planning for formal systems developments, from requirements to the end product (including software and hardware). - The interplay between reasoning and modelling and the role of AI in this framework. - Ontologies in the formal engineering process. History --------------- This will be the fifth workshop in the series. Previous workshops were held at: - Rennes, France, July 2013 @ ITP (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2013/) - Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July 2012 (www.dagstuhl.de/12271) - Edinburgh, UK, April 2011 (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2011.php) - Newcastle, UK, May 2010 (www.ai4fm.org/ko-meeting.php) Submission --------------- The main aim for the workshop is discussion, thus submissions do not need to be original. Extended versions of submissions may have been published previously, or submitted concurrently with or after AI4FM 2014 to another workshop, conference or a journal. Submission is by email to: ai4fm2014 at ai4fm.org Please submit an abstract up to 3 pages in a PDF format. The extended abstracts will be handed out to all participants, and will be made into a technical report prior to the workshop. Acceptance for presentation at the workshop will be made by the organisers based on relevance to the workshop. Organisers --------------- * Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) * Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Iain Whiteside (Newcastle University, UK) Contact Details ---------------- If you have any queries, please email the organisers at the following email address: ai4fm2014 at ai4fm.org From marino.miculan at uniud.it Tue Feb 25 09:55:36 2014 From: marino.miculan at uniud.it (Marino Miculan) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:55:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: MeMo 2014: 1st International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages 2014 Message-ID: <9D6FBC91-C52E-42D4-99F2-78582593F935@uniud.it> == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo) 2014 affiliated to DisCoTec (http://www.discotec.org) June 6th, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://www.itu.dk/research/models/wiki/index.php/MeMo2014 == Aim and Topics: == The workshop targets research in and new applications of formal meta models for the definition of process languages and their semantics. Examples of such meta models are bigraphical reactive systems, psi-calculi, the tile Model, term and graph rewriting, SOS formats, presheaf models, co-algebras and specification of processes in logical frameworks such as CELF. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the development of theory and tools for meta models for process languages - to share insights, uncover similarities and differences, possibilities for cross-fertilization and stimulate further research in this exciting area. The workshop will be welcoming old and new members of the community alike. In addition to presentations of contributed papers the workshop will offer two 1-hour tutorials, a poster session and a round-table discussion at the end of the workshop. == Tutorials == * Psi-calculi (given by Joachim Parrow) * Bigraphical Reactive Systems (given by Marino Miculan) == Important Dates == * Abstract regular papers: 20 March 2014 * Submission regular papers: 24 March 2014 * Notification regular papers: 25 April 2014 * Camera-ready copy: 5 May 2014 * Submission posters: 28 April 2014 * Notification posters: 5 May 2014? == Submission Instructions == Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously nor to be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. We welcome both tool presentations and research contributions. Evaluation criteria will be technical quality, readability, novelty, and scope. All papers and posters must be in English and submitted at the EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memo2014 Papers should use the Springer LNCS style and 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 programme committee. We plan an LNCS post-proceedings volume and depending on the quality of the submissions also a special journal issue of selected, extended papers. == Organisation == Workshop Organizers: * Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy * S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Program Committee: * Patrick Bahr, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Vincenzo Ciancia, ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy * S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Fabio Gadducci, University of Pisa, Italy * Tobias Heindel, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland * Thomas Hildebrandt (chair), IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jean Krivine, Universit? Paris Diderot, France * Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy * Joachim Parrow, Uppsala University, Sweden * Carsten Schurmann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton, United Kingdom * Jan Rutten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands -- Marino Miculan - Dept Math Compu Sci, University of Udine marino.miculan at uniud.it http://www.dimi.uniud.it/miculan/ From wneuper at ist.tugraz.at Tue Feb 25 11:03:32 2014 From: wneuper at ist.tugraz.at (Walther Neuper) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:03:32 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CfP ThEdu'14: TP components for educational software Message-ID: <530CBED4.2000609@ist.tugraz.at> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThEdu'14 TP components for educational software (http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu14) at CICM 2014 Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics 7-11 July 2014 University Coimbra, Portugal http://cicm-conference.org/2014/cicm.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THedu'14 Scope -------------- THedu is a forum to gather the research communities for computer Theorem Proving (TP), Automated Theorem Proving (ATP), Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) as well as for Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) and Dynamic Geometry Systems (DGS). The goal of this union is to combine and focus systems of these areas and to enhance existing educational software as well as studying the design of the next generation of mechanised mathematics assistants. Important Dates --------------- * Extended Abstracts: 25 May 2014 * Author Notification: 08 Jun 2014 * Final Version: 22 Jun 2014 * Workshop Day: (still to be defined, 7-11 July) https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu14 ThEdu's aims ------------- address elements for next-generation assistants, which include: * Declarative Languages for Problem Solution: education in applied sciences and in engineering is mainly concerned with problems, which are understood as operations on elementary objects to be transformed to an object representing a problem solution. Preconditions and post-conditions of these operations can be used to describe the possible steps in the problem space; thus, ATP-systems can be used to check if an operation sequence given by the user does actually present a problem solution. Such "Problem Solution Languages" encompass declarative proof languages like Isabelle/Isar or Coq's Mathematical Proof Language, but also more specialised forms such as, for example, geometric problem solution languages that express a proof argument in Euclidean Geometry or languages for graph theory. * Consistent Mathematical Content Representation: libraries of existing ITP-Systems, in particular those following the LCF-prover paradigm, usually provide logically coherent and human readable knowledge. In the leading provers, mathematical knowledge is covered to an extent beyond most courses in applied sciences. However, the potential of this mechanised knowledge for education is clearly not yet recognised adequately: renewed pedagogy calls for enquiry-based learning from concrete to abstract --- and the knowledge's logical coherence supports such learning: for instance, the formula 2.Pi depends on the definition of reals and of multiplication; close to these definitions are the laws like commutativity etc. Clearly, the complexity of the knowledge's traceable interrelations poses a challenge to usability design. * User-Guidance in Step-wise Problem Solving: Such guidance is indispensable for independent learning, but costly to implement so far, because so many special cases need to be coded by hand. However, TP technology makes automated generation of user-guidance reachable: declarative languages as mentioned above, novel programming languages combining computation and deduction, methods for automated construction with ruler and compass from specifications, etc --- all these methods 'know how to solve a problem'; so, using the methods' knowledge to generate user-guidance mechanically is an appealing challenge for ATP and ITP, and probably for compiler construction. * Pedagogical strategies: Using TP technologies in learning environments call for strategies for linking and adapting the availble tools for specific educational needs and new methods for the management of mathematical knowledge capable of filling the gap between repositories and end-user system and new visual and/or natural language interfaces to allow the use of rigorous reasoning methods and tools. In principle, mathematical software can be conceived as models of mathematics: The challenge addressed by this workshop is to provide appealing models for mathematics assistants which are interactive and which explain themselves such that interested students can independently learn by inquiry and experimentation. Submission ---------- We welcome submission of extended abstracts and demonstration proposals presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All accepted extended abstracts and demonstrations will be presented at the workshop. The extended abstracts will be made available online. Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be submitted via THedu'14 easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu14). Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be no more than 4 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. They must conform to the EPTCS style guidelines (http://http://style.eptcs.org/). At least one author of each accepted extended abstract/demonstration proposal is expected to attend THedu'14 and presents his/her extended abstract/demonstration. Program Committee ----------------- Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain Roman Hasek, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Filip Maric, University of Belgrade, Serbia Walther Neuper, Graz University of Technology, Austria (co-chair) Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair) Vanda Santos, CISUC, Portugal Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria -------------------------------------------------------------------- From james.cheney at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 17:22:21 2014 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:22:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 6th Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP 2014) Message-ID: Call for Papers 6th Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP'14) In cooperation with USENIX June 12-13, 2014 German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany Provenance provides needed insight into the origins and derivation of data. Provenance provides documentation that is an essential part of data quality assessments, debugging and search. Topics in provenance range from: capture, storage, usage, security, interoperability. Of particular interest are the fundamental areas that must be solved in order to make provenance a useful and usable tool in the world today. What theoretical problems need to be solved? What practical problems can we tackle? What lessons have we learned from real implementations? Workshop Format As with the previous editions of the workshop, the Program Committee is determined to make TaPP'14 a real workshop at which new ideas are discussed and developed and where the participants can learn how other disciplines make use of provenance. While the workshop will have online proceedings (indexed through DBLP), we do not want the workshop to become another "mini-conference" with only paper presentations. Instead, we are eager to receive short papers and vision papers describing challenges for provenance research, brief descriptions of new applications, pie-in-the sky research ideas, and anything else that will create a successful workshop. While brief and readable descriptions of research are encouraged, recycled conference submissions are strongly discouraged. After the submission date for these various contributions, the Program Committee will decide on the details of the workshop format. It is expected to be a mixture of presentations, discussions, poster sessions, and a panel (in conjunction with IPAW'14 as part of Provenance Week). Anyone with an accepted submission will have ample opportunity to present their ideas at the workshop. How and What to Submit Submissions should be no more than 4 pages in ACM SIGPLAN (two-column) format. If supporting material is needed, an extra 4 pages may be submitted, but the committee will not be obliged to read them. All contributions must be submitted online at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tapp14. Venue The 6th TaPP will be co-located with IPAW during Provenance Week (June 9-13, 2014) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany. Important Dates - Submission deadline: March 14, 2014 - Notification: April 11, 2014 - Final version due: May 9, 2014 - TaPP Workshop: June 12-13, 2014 - Provenance Week: June 9-13, 2014 Organization: - Adriane Chapman, MITRE, USA (PC co-chair) - Bertram Lud?scher, UC Davis, USA (PC co-chair) - Andreas Schreiber, DLR, Germany (local chair) Program Committee: Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI Universite Paris-Sud Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania Lois Delcambre, Portland State University Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp Ashish Gehani, SRI International Boris Glavic, Illinois Institute of Technology Carole Goble, The University of Manchester Todd Green, LogicBlox and University of California, Davis Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam Melanie Herschel, Universit? Paris Sud 11 H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan Andrew Martin, University of Oxford Renee J. 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URL: From ichiro at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Feb 25 18:10:49 2014 From: ichiro at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:10:49 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc in Japan: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Let me advertise **JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship**, a postdoctoral fellowship for foreign researchers to work in Japan, funded by the Japanese government via the funding body JSPS. https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/postdoctoral.html Unlike common post-doc positions in which a principal investigator (PI) gets positions and calls for applications to fill them, an application to JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship is made jointly by a foreign researcher and a host researcher in Japan. Your first step therefore would be to contact a prospective host researcher. (So please note that I'm advertising not positions that I have, but a scheme that you can use with me or other researchers in Japan as your host. Note also that this is not an official advertisement by JSPS either :) I can only answer questions if I am to be your host.) Some further notes: - Fellowships are awarded for a period of 12 to 24 months. - The fellowship will award: * A round-trip air ticket * A monthly maintenance allowance of approx. JPY 360,000 (I'd say this is quite enough for living even in Tokyo. Believe me, Japan is not an expensive place as is commonly believed!) * A settling-in allowance of approx. JPY 200,000, overseas travel accident and sickness insurance coverage, etc. In addition you will get your own grant money of max. JPY 1,500,000 per year, for your trips, computers, books, etc. - There are two application paths: 1) through Open Recruitment in Japan (the next round to be closed in mid April); and 2) through an Overseas Nominating Authority, including the Royal Society (UK), CNRS (France), NWO (the Netherlands), etc. https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/long_list.html It seems that the latter path is often less competitive. In fact the common kind of post-doc positions (a PI gets them and he/she advertises them) are somewhat rare in Japan. Therefore many researchers, including myself, are waiting for your contact on an application to JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship! There are other funding opportunities for foreign post-docs as well; I myself would be very happy to seek opportunities for promising researchers with similar research interests. Thank you, Ichiro ----- Ichiro Hasuo Lecturer, Dept. Computer Science, The University of Tokyo http://www-mmm.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ichiro From danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch Wed Feb 26 12:52:38 2014 From: danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch (danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:52:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Modularity'14 - Student Forum Message-ID: *** MODULARITY '14 *** 13th International Conference on Modularity April 22-25, 2014 Lugano, Switzerland http://modularity.info/ In cooperation with: * ACM SIGSOFT * ACM SIGPLAN ======================================================================== *** STUDENT FORUM *** The Student Forum will take place on Tuesday in parallel with the workshops and allow students to meet other students before the main conference begins. As in previous years, the Student Forum will be an interactive format that allows students to interact brainstorm innovative ways that Modularity research interests intersect. Students will also have the opportunity to hear from and ask questions of domain experts. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: April 6, 2014 * Event: April 22, 2014 afternoon EVENTS * Speed Dating Participants pair up and introduce themselves and their research to each other during 5 minutes. Every 5 minutes, they have to find a new partner. * Collaborative Writing In small groups, students will develop an idea of how to incorporate their respective research into a coherent, joint project. They will write down a motivation and problem statement for it, as well as an approach. In the end, they present their research idea to the whole group. During the afternoon, the panelists consult the students and give additional input. PREPARATION It is mandatory to register for the participation in the Student Forum by sending the following information to students at aosd.net by April 6, 2014. * Prepare one or more questions you would like to be discussed in the panel. ? * Write a short description about yourself (max. 100 words) including what is your field of research (e.g., languages, tools, design, applications) a brief problem statement for your research and what is your experience (i.e., how long have you been a PhD student). From Kristin.Y.Rozier at nasa.gov Wed Feb 26 16:56:28 2014 From: Kristin.Y.Rozier at nasa.gov (Kristin Yvonne Rozier) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:56:28 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] NFM 2014 Call for Participation Message-ID: <530E630C.9030001@nasa.gov> Please find the NFM 2014 Call for Participation below. With no registration fee and very reasonable costs for accommodations this conference is an excellent value to attend even without presenting a paper. It is also a great place to bring students for exposure to real-world applications! ************************************************** The Sixth NASA Formal Methods Symposium http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/ 29 April - 1 May 2014 NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA ************************************************** Registration (free!) -------------------- There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees must register. Registration URL: http://www.nasaformalmethods.org/?page_id=160 We strongly encourage participants to register early and reserve accomodations. A block of hotel rooms are available at $98.00 per night for reservations made before April 7. The registration deadline is April 22. Panel: "Future Directions of Specifications for Formal Methods" --------------------------------------------------------------- Panelists: Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University, USA Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA Panel Description: Specifications are required for all applications of formal methods yet extracting specifications for real-life safety critical systems often proves to be a huge bottleneck or even an insurmountable hurdle to the application of formal methods in practice. This is the state for safety-critical systems today and as these systems grow more complex, more pervasive, and more powerful in the future, there is not a clear path even for maintaining the bleak status quo. Therefore, we propose highlighting this issue in the home of an important critical system, the Mission Control Center of NASA's most famous critical systems, and asking our panelists where we can go from here. Keynote Speakers: ----------------- * "NASA Future Challenges in Formal Methods" by Bill McAllister, Chief, Safety and Mission Assurance, International Space Station Safety Panels, Avionics and Software Branch * "Theorem Proving and the Real Numbers: Overview and Challenges" by Larry Paulson, University of Cambridge, UK * "Compositional Temporal Synthesis" by Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA Accepted Papers: ---------------- * Darren Cofer and Steven Miller "DO-333 Certification Case Studies" * Andr? De Matos Pedro, David Pereira, Lu?s Miguel Pinho and Jorge Sousa Pinto "A Compositional Monitoring Framework for Hard Real-Time Systems" * Pedro Antonino, Marcel Vinicius Medeiros Oliveira, Augusto Sampaio, Klaus Kristensen and Jeremy W. Bryans "Leadership Election: an Industrial SoS Application of Compositional Deadlock Verification" * Lars Noschinski, Christine Rizkallah and Kurt Mehlhorn "Verification of Certifying Computations through AutoCorres and Simpl" * Robert M. Hierons and Uraz Cengiz Turker "Distinguishing Sequences for Partially Specified FSMs" * Seppo Horsmanheimo, Maryam Kamali, Mikko Kolehmainen, Mats Neovius, Luigia Petre, Mauno R?nkk? and Petter Sandvik "On Proving Recoverability of Smart Electrical Grids" * Dustin Hoffman, Aditi Tagore, Diego Zaccai and Bruce Weide "Providing Early Warnings of Specification Problems" * Bj?rn Bartels "Mechanized, Compositional Verification of Low-Level Code" * Fabian Immler "Formally Verified Enclosures of Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations" * Mohamed Yousri and Sofiene Tahar "On the Quantum Formalization of Coherent Light in HOL" * Hern?n Vanzetto and Stephan Merz "Type Inference with Refinements Types for TLA+" * Matthew Danish and Hongwei Xi "Using lightweight theorem proving in an asynchronous systems context" * Aboubakr Achraf El Ghazi, Mattias Ulbrich, Christoph Gladisch, Shmuel Tyszberowicz and Mana Taghdiri "JKelloy: A Proof Assistant for Relational Specifications of Java Programs" * Andrew Sogokon, Paul Jackson, Lawrence Paulson and James Bridge "Verifying Hybrid Systems Involving Transcendental Functions" * William Denman Verifying Nonpolynomial Hybrid Systems by Qualitative Abstraction and Automated Theorem Proving" * Paolo Masci, Yi Zhang, Patrick Oladimeji, Enrico D?Urso, Paul Jones, Harold Thimbleby, Paul Curzon and Cinzia Bernardeschi "Combining PVSio with Stateflow" * Lo?c Correnson "Qed: Computing what Remains to be Proved" * Ethel Bardsley and Alastair Donaldson "Warps and Atomics: Beyond Barrier Synchronization in the Verification of GPU Kernels" * Temesghen Kahsai, Pierre-Loic Garoche, Falk Howar and Xavier Thirioux "Testing-based compiler validation for synchronous languages" * Johann Schumann and Stefan-Alexander Schneider "Automated Testcase Generation for Numerical Support Functions in Embedded Systems" * Luc Engelen and Anton Wijs "REFINER: Towards Formal Verification of Model Transformations" * Franco Mazzanti, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo and Alessio Ferrari "Design of a Deadlock-free Train Scheduler: a Model Checking Approach" * Adri? Gasc?n and Ashish Tiwari "A Synthesized Algorithm for Interactive Consistency" * Christel Baier, Marcus Daum, Clemens Dubslaff, Joachim Klein and Sascha Klueppelholz "Energy-Utility Quantiles" * Grigory Fedyukovich, Arie Gurfinkel and Natasha Sharygina "Incremental Verification of Compiler Optimizations" * Peter Gj?l Jensen, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Jiri Srba, Mathias Grund S?rensen and Jakob Haahr Taankvist "Memory Efficient Data Structures for Explicit Verification of Timed Systems" * Stephan Arlt, Cindy Rubio-Gonz?lez, Philipp Ruemmer, Martin Sch?f and Natarajan Shankar "The Gradual Verifier" * Bogdan Mihaila and Axel Simon. "Synthesizing Predicates from Abstract Domain Losses" * Nuno Carvalho, Cristiano Da Silva Sousa, Jorge Sousa Pinto and Aaron Tomb "Formal Veri?cation of kLIBC with the WP Frama-C plug-in" -- ____________________________________________________________ __ /\ \ \_____ / \ ###[==_____> / \ /_/ __ / __ \ \ \_____ | ( ) | ###[==_____> /| /\/\ |\ /_/ / | | | | \ / |=|==|=| \ Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Ph.D. / | | | | \ Research Computer Scientist / USA | ~||~ |NASA \ NASA Ames Research Center |______| ~~ |______| Phone: (650) 604-3197 (__||__) Fax: (650) 604-3594 /_\ /_\ !!! !!! http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/profile/kyrozier/ Any opinions expressed in this email are my own. --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From paolini at di.unito.it Thu Feb 27 11:29:51 2014 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca Paolini) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:29:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP, Intersection Types and Related Systems 2014 Message-ID: <530F67FF.4000406@di.unito.it> ******************************************************************************* 2nd call for papers: INTERSECTION TYPES AND RELATED SYSTEMS (ITRS) at the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 http://vsl2014.at/itrs/ Submission is open at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itrs2014 Deadline: March 31st, 2014 ******************************************************************************* ITRS 2014 (the Seventh Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems) will be affiliated with TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, to be held jointly with RTA) as part of FLoC 2014 (the Sixth Federated Logic Conference) and will take place in Vienna on July 18th 2014. FLoC 2014 will be part of the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL), the largest logic event in history, with over 2000 expected participants. FLoC 2014 will host eight conferences and many workshops. ITRS 2014 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection types and related approaches. (More details at the workshop website http://vsl2014.at/itrs/). SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itrs2014 (1) Before the workshop, authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (max. 10 pages) in PDF format. (2) Accepted papers will be included on the general VSL'14 Proceedings USB-stick (3) After the workshop, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full versions (we foresee inclusion in EPTCS). TOPICS Possible topics for submitted papers include, but are not limited to: - Formal properties of systems with intersection types. - Results for related systems, such as union types, refinement types, or singleton types. - Applications to lambda calculus and similar systems. - Applications to pi-calculus and similar systems. - Applications for programming languages. - Applications for other areas, such as database query languages and program extraction from proofs. - Related approaches using behavioural/intensional types to characterize computational properties. DATES Abstract submission: 28.03.2014 Paper submission: 31.03.2014 Author notification: 28.04.2014 Final version: 29.05.2014 INVITED SPEAKER Luke Ong (Oxford University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Moritz Martens (Technical University of Dortmund) Luca Paolini (University of Torino) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University) Jakob Rehof (Technical University of Dortmund) - chair Takeshi Tsukada (Tohoku University and Oxford University) Pawel Urzyczyn (University of Warsaw, Institute of Informatics) Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt University) Zhiwu Xu (PPS, Paris 7 and SKLCS, ISCAS) INFORMATION For further information, please contact Jakob Rehof Email: jakob.rehof AT cs DOT tu-dortmund DOT de From wdietl at yahoo.com Thu Feb 27 23:12:13 2014 From: wdietl at yahoo.com (Werner Dietl) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:12:13 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2014 Student Volunteer Program Message-ID: <53100C9D.8090505@yahoo.com> ECOOP 2014 Student Volunteer Program ==================================== Sign up to be a Student Volunteer and help us make ECOOP 2014 a unique experience for all attendants! 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 conferences whilst assisting us in preparing and running the event. Job assignments for student volunteers 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 conferences running smoothly. = Eligibility = Applicants can be undergraduate, Master's, Ph.D. full- or part-time students, of computer science or related fields. = Location = Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. = Duration = Applicants must be available for at least three (3) full days between 28th of July and the 1st of August 2014 in order to offer 16 hours of volunteering work. Note that we will prioritise students who will be available the full week. Naturally presentations etc. at workshops and technical sessions take precedence. = Compensation = * A Complimentary Conference Registration, offering access to all open sessions (i.e., parallel paper presentations, demonstrations, and workshops) and conference proceedings. * Free lunches and refreshments during breaks. * Free conference banquet ticket. * An ECOOP 2014 Student Volunteers T-shirt. Please note that ECOOP 2014 Student Volunteers are responsible for their own travel arrangements and accommodation. The conference organisers will do their best to provide affordable accommodation for student volunteers, for example in student housing. = Important Dates = Application Deadline: 15 April 2014 Initial Acceptance and Reserve List announcement: 30 April 2014 = About volunteering = The ECOOP 2014 Program for Student Volunteers gives full- or part-time university students from around the world the opportunity to attend and contribute to premier international conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. As an ECOOP 2014 Student Volunteer, you will interact closely with researchers, academics and practitioners from various disciplines and meet other students from around the world. The skills, talents and dedication of the Student Volunteers contribute to the overall quality of the Conference. The Student Volunteer role involves a range of duties, including, but not limited to: * Providing assistance to the Conference management and secretariat staff. * Helping and directing other Conference participants. * Contributing to the overall smooth running of the Conference functions and social events. This also includes assisting during presentations and poster sessions as well as manning the information and registration desks. = Qualifications = A Student Volunteer should: * Be enthusiastic and highly motivated, with strong interpersonal skills, * Be fluent in English, which is the language of the conference, * Be reliable, punctual and organized, * Be a self-starter. = How to apply = To be considered as a Student Volunteer for the ECOOP 2014 Conference, you need to send an email to ecoop14-volunteers at it.uu.se with the following information: * Your full name. * Your email address. * Your program of study, current status and year in in the cycle, and current affiliation (university and/or laboratory). * Contact information to your supervisor or director of study (name and email address). * Food requirements (if any). * Date(s) you are available to work (preferably the entire week). * A short description of yourself and your motivation for attending ECOOP 2014. = Acceptance notification = All applications received by April 15th, 2014 will be reviewed and volunteers selected will be notified by April 30th, 2014. A reserve list will also be drawn up upon applications received by the preliminary registration deadline, but not initially selected. = Enquiries = If you have any questions, please send them via email to ecoop14-volunteers at it.uu.se. We are looking forward to receiving your application and seeing you this summer at ECOOP 2014! http://ecoop14.it.uu.se/calls/student-volunteers.php From serge.autexier at dfki.de Fri Feb 28 03:48:00 2014 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:48:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2014: Extended Deadline March 14th, 2014 Message-ID: <20140228084800.D99151EF75FF@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> ? CICM 2014 - Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics July 7-11, 2014 at University of Coimbra, Portugal http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014 Call for Papers ** Extended Deadline: March 14th, 2014 ** ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Co-located Workshops * - CCA'14: Workshop on Compact Computer Algebra (organiser: Elena Smirnova) - MathUI'14: Workshop on Mathematical User Interfaces (organisers: Andrea Kohlhase, Paul Libbrecht) - OpenMath Workshop (organisers: James Davenport, Michael Kohlhase) - Workshop on The Notion of Proof (organisers: Jesse Alama, Reinhard Kahle) - ThEdu'14: Workshop on Theorem Provers Components for Educational Software (organisers: Walther Neuper, Pedro Quaresma) ------------------------------------------------------------------- As computers and communications technology advance, greater opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories, we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these areas. The Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offer a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, colocating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (U.K. 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012) and Bath (U.K. 2013). This is a call for papers for CICM 2014, which will be held at the University of Coimbra, 7-11 July 2014, following the 10th International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry. The principal tracks of the conference will be: Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) Chair: James Davenport DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries) Chair: Petr Sojka MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Chair: Josef Urban Systems and Projects Chair: Alan Sexton The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements Chair, Pedro Quaresma (U. Coimbra, Portugal), and the overall programme will be organised by the General Program Chair, Stephen Watt (U. Western Ontario, Canada). The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). As in previous years, it is anticipated that there will be a number co-located workshops, including one to mentor doctoral students giving presentations. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference submissions: Abstract submission (extended): ** 14 March 2014 ** Submission deadline (extended): ** 14 March 2014 ** Reviews sent to authors: 4 April 2014 Rebuttals due: 8 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 14 April 2014 Camera ready copies due: 25 April 2014 Work in progress and Doctoral Programme submissions: Submission deadline: 28 April 2014 (Doctoral: Abstract+CV) Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2014 Camera ready copies due: 26 May 2014 Conference: 7-11 July 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tracks ---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================ Track Calculemus: Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning ================================================================ Calculemus 2014 invites the submission of original research contributions to be considered for publication and presentation at the conference. Calculemus is a series of conferences dedicated to the integration of computer algebra systems (CAS) and systems for mechanised reasoning like interactive proof assistants (PA) or automated theorem provers (ATP). Currently, symbolic computation is divided into several (more or less) independent branches: traditional ones (e.g., computer algebra and mechanised reasoning) as well as newly emerging ones (on user interfaces, knowledge management, theory exploration, etc.) The main concern of the Calculemus community is to bring these developments together in order to facilitate the theory, design, and implementation of integrated mathematical assistant systems that will be used routinely by mathematicians, computer scientists and all others who need computer-supported mathematics in their every day business. All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems are of interest for Calculemus. These include but are not limited to: * Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. * Computer algebra in theorem proving systems. * Adding reasoning capabilities to computer algebra systems. * Adding computational capabilities to theorem proving systems. * Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for computer mathematics. * Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and reasoning. * Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories. * Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. * Theory exploration techniques. * Combining methods of symbolic computation and formal deduction. * Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Homotopy type theory. * Infrastructure for mathematical services. ================================================================ Track DML: Digital Mathematical Libraries ================================================================ Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all validated mathematical literature ever published, reviewed, properly linked, and verified. It is estimated that the entire corpus of mathematical knowledge published over the centuries does not exceed 100,000,000 pages, an amount easily manageable by current information technologies. The track objective is to provide a forum for the development of math-aware technologies, standards, algorithms and formats for the fulfillment of the dream of a global digital mathematical library (DML). Computer scientists (D) and librarians of the digital age (L) are especially welcome to join mathematicians (M) and discuss many aspects of DML preparation. Track topics are all topics of mathematical knowledge management and digital libraries applicable in the context of DML building, including the processing of mathematical knowledge expressed in scientific papers in natural languages: * Math-aware text mining (math mining) and MSC classification * Math-aware representations of mathematical knowledge * Math-aware computational linguistics and corpora * Math-aware tools for [meta]data and fulltext processing * Math-aware OCR and document analysis * Math-aware information retrieval * Math-aware indexing and search * Authoring languages and tools * MathML, OpenMath, TeX and other mathematical content markup languages * Web interfaces for DML content * Mathematics on the web, math crawling and indexing * Math-aware document processing workflows * Archives of written mathematics * DML management, business models * DML rights handling, funding, sustainability * DML content acquisition, validation and curation * Reports and experience from running existing DMLs ================================================================ Track MKM: Mathematical Knowledge Management ================================================================ Mathematical Knowledge Management is an interdisciplinary field of research in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, library science, and scientific publishing. The objective of MKM is to develop new and better ways of managing sophisticated mathematical knowledge, based on innovative technology of computer science, the Internet, and intelligent knowledge processing. MKM is expected to serve mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who produce and use mathematical knowledge; educators and students who teach and learn mathematics; publishers who offer mathematical textbooks and disseminate new mathematical results; and librarians and mathematicians who catalog and organize mathematical knowledge. The track is concerned with all aspects of mathematical knowledge management. A non-exclusive list of important topics includes: * Representations of mathematical knowledge * Authoring languages and tools * Repositories of formalized mathematics * Deduction systems * Mathematical digital libraries * Diagrammatic representations * Mathematical OCR * Mathematical search and retrieval * Math assistants, tutoring and assessment systems * MathML, OpenMath, and other mathematical content standards * Web presentation of mathematics * Data mining, discovery, theory exploration * Computer algebra systems * Collaboration tools for mathematics * Challenges and solutions for mathematical workflows ================================================================ Track Systems and Projects ================================================================ The Systems and Projects track of the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics is a forum for presenting available systems and new and ongoing projects in all areas and topics related to the CICM conferences: * Deduction and Computer Algebra (Calculemus) * Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) * Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) The track aims to provide an overview of the latest developments and trends within the CICM community as well as to exchange ideas between developers and introduce systems to an audience of potential users. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic submission is done through Easychair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2014 All papers should be prepared in LaTeX and formatted according to the requirements of Springer's LNCS series (the corresponding style files can be downloaded from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). By submitting a paper the authors agree that if it is accepted at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Submissions to the research tracks (Calculemus, DML, MKM) must not exceed 15 pages in the LNCS style and will be reviewed and evaluated with respect to relevance, clarity, quality, originality, and impact. Shorter papers, e.g., for system descriptions, are welcome. Authors will have an opportunity to respond to their papers' reviews before the programme committee makes a decision. System descriptions and projects descriptions should be 2-4 pages in the LNCS style and should present * newly developed systems, * systems not previously been presented to the CICM community, or * significant updates to existing systems. Systems must either be available for download or currently executable by the general public as a web application. Project presentations should describe * projects that are new or about to start, * ongoing projects that have not yet been presented to the CICM community or * significant new developments in ongoing previously presented projects. Presentations of new projects should mention relevant previous work and include a roadmap that outlines concrete steps. All project submissions must have a live project website and should contain links to demos, videos, downloadable systems or downloadable datasets. Accepted conference submissions from all tracks will be published as a volume in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) by Springer. In addition to these formal proceedings, authors are permitted and encouraged to publish the final versions of their papers on arXiv.org. Work-in-progress submissions are intended to provide a forum for the presentation of original work that is not yet in a suitable form for submission as a full paper for a research track or system description. This includes work in progress and emerging trends. Their size is not limited, but we recommend 5-10 pages. The programme committee may offer authors of rejected formal submissions the opportunity to publish their contributions as work-in-progress papers instead. Depending on the number of work-in-progress papers accepted, they will be presented at the conference either as short talks or as posters. The work-in-progress proceedings will be published as a technical report, as well as online with CEUR-WS.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doctoral Programme ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: David Wilson (University of Bath, UK) CICM is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to meet established researchers from the areas of computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing. The Doctoral Programme provides a dedicated forum for PhD students to present and discuss their ideas, ongoing or planned research, and achieved results in an open atmosphere. It will consist of presentations by the PhD students to get constructive feedback, advice, and suggestions from the research advisory board, researchers, and other PhD students. Each PhD student will be assigned to an experienced researcher from the research advisory board who will act as a mentor and who will provide detailed feedback and advice on their intended and ongoing research. Students at any stage of their PhD can apply and should submit the following documents through EasyChair: * A two-page abstract of your thesis describing your research questions, research plans, completed and remaining research, evaluation plans and publication plans; * A two-page CV that includes background information (name, university, supervisor), education (degree sought, year/status of degree, previous degrees), employments, relevant research experience (publications, presentations, attended conferences or workshops, etc.) Submission Deadline: 28 April 2014. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Calculemus track James Davenport, University of Bath, UK (Chair) Matthew England, University Of Bath, UK, Dejan Jovanovi?, SRI, USA Laura Kov?cs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, France Adam Naumowicz, Institute of Informatics, U. Bialystok, Poland Grant Passmore, U. Cambridge and U. Edinburgh, UK Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen. Germany Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands (Other invitations pending) DML track Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ (Chair) Akiko Aizawa, NII, University of Tokyo, Japan ?ukasz Bolikowski, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland Thierry Bouche, Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, france Yannis Haralambous, Inst Mines-T?l?com - T?l?com Bretagne, France Janka Chleb?kov?, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Ji?? R?kosn?k, Institute of Mathematics AS CR, CZ David Ruddy, Cornell University, USA Volker Sorge, University of Birmingham, UK Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada Richard Zanibbi, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA MKM track Josef Urban, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Chair) Rob Arthan, Queen Mary University of London, UK David Aspinall, Univerity of Edinburgh, UK Michael Beeson, San Jose State University, USA Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh, USA Johan Jeuring, Open Universiteit Nederland and Universiteit Utrecht, NL Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, Austria Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, UK Paul Libbrecht, Weingarten University of Education, Germany Ursula Martin, Queen Mary University of London, UK Bruce Miller, NIST, USA Adam Naumowicz, University of Bialystok, Poland Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Alan Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK Enrico Tassi, INRIA, France Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada Makarius Wenzel, Universit? Paris-Sud 11, France Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Systems & Projects track Alan Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK (Chair) Christoph Lange, University of Bonn, Germany Jesse Alama, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Rob Arthan, Queen Mary University of London, UK Deyan Ginev, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany J?nathan Heras, University of Dundee, Scotland Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK Predrag Jani?i?, University of Belgrade, Serbia Christoph L?th, DFKI and University of Bremen, Germany Bruce Miller, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA Hendrik Tews, TU Dresden, Germany From spreen at informatik.uni-siegen.de Fri Feb 28 06:34:59 2014 From: spreen at informatik.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:34:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for submissions: MSCS special Computable Analysis; Extension of deadline Message-ID: <4F556C90-6565-449A-9AA0-7F50DA1675E7@informatik.uni-siegen.de> Continuity, Computability, Constructivity: From Logic to Algorithms 2013 Postproceedings Third Call for Submissions Extension of Deadline After a year of successful work in the EU-IRSES project COMPUTAL and an excellent workshop in Gregynog (Wales) in June last year, we are planning to publish a special issue of MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE dedicated to the meeting and the project. The special issue should reflect progress made in Computable Analysis and related areas, not only our work in the project. Submissions are welcome from all scientists working in fields like Computable analysis Complexity of real number computations Computing with continuous data Domain theory and analysis Randomness and computable measure theory Models of computation with real numbers Realizability theory and analysis Reverse analysis Exact real number computation Program extraction in analysis. 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URL: From cbraga at ic.uff.br Sat Mar 1 11:50:43 2014 From: cbraga at ic.uff.br (Christiano Braga) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 13:50:43 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SBMF'14 - First call for papers Message-ID: <648F9B5B-B5DA-4CDF-A3D1-A421EA44DA33@ic.uff.br> [Apologies should you receive multiple copies of this call.] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 17th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF) September 29 to 31, 2014. Maceio', AL, Brazil A member of CBSoft joint conference http://www.ic.ufal.br/evento/cbsoft2014/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline (Brasilia time, BRT:UTC-03): July 8, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline (Brasilia time, BRT:UTC-03): July 15, 2014 Paper Acceptance Notification: August 15, 2014 Paper Camera-ready Version: August 28, 2014 INTRODUCTION SBMF 2014 is the seventeenth of a series of events devoted to the development, dissemination and use of formal methods for the construction of high-quality computational systems. The symposium will be part of CBSoft: Theory and Practice, the largest Brazilian conference on software, that includes, together with SBMF, three other symposia: * XXVIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) * XVIII Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP) * VIII Brazilian Symposium on Components, Software Architecture and Software Reuse (SBCARS) CBSoft'14 will be held in Maceio', the capital and the largest city of the coastal state Alagoas, Brazil. The new Zumbi dos Palmares International Airport connects Maceio' with many Brazilian cities and also operates some international flights. The city is home of the Universidade Federal de Alagoas, which will host CBSoft'14. The aim of SBMF is to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of high-quality work in formal methods, in a broad perspective. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * techniques and methodologies, such as method integration; software and hardware co-design; model-driven engineering; formal aspects of popular methodologies; formal design; development methodologies; software evolution; * specification and modeling languages, such as well-founded specification and design languages; formal aspects of popular languages; logics and semantics for programming and specification languages; code generation; formal methods and models for objects, aspects, component-based, real-time, hybrid, critical, and service-oriented systems; * theoretical foundations, such as domain theory; type systems and category theory; computational complexity of methods and models; computational models; term rewriting; models of concurrency, security and mobility; * verification and validation, such as abstraction, modularization and refinement techniques; program and test synthesis; correctness by construction; model checking; theorem proving; static analysis; software testing; software certification; software inspection; * education, such as teaching of, for and with formal methods; * applications, such as experience reports on the use of formal methods; industrial case studies; tool support. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers with a strong emphasis on Formal Methods, whether practical or theoretical, are invited for submission. They should present unpublished and original work that has a clear contribution to the state-of-the art on the theory or practice of formal methods. They should not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Papers will be judged by at least three reviewers on the basis of originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation quality and should contain sound theoretical or practical results. Industry papers should emphasize practical application of formal methods or report on open challenges. Contributions should be written in English and be prepared using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Papers submitted as full papers may not exceed 16 pages. Short papers may not exceed 6 pages in LNCS format. Accepted full papers will be published, after the conference, in a volume of LNCS. Abstracts of accepted full papers together with the accepted short papers will be published in CBSoft's proceedings. A special issue of a reputable journal with extended versions of selected papers from SBMF'14 is anticipated. Special issues of Science of Computer Programming with selected papers from SBMF'11, SBMF'12 and SBMF'13 are in preparation. Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered in the symposium by the time the camera-ready copy is submitted; the registered author is also expected to attend the symposium and present the paper. Papers can be submitted via the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbmf2014 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS David Deharbe, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil Narciso Marti-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Christiano Braga (UFF) Narciso Marti-Oliet (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Aline Andrade (UFBA, Brazil) Wilkerson Andrade (UFCG, Brazil) Luis Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Christiano Braga (UFF, Brazil, co-chair) Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK) Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) Marcio Cornelio (UFPE, Brazil) Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) Jim Davies (University of Oxford, UK) David Deharbe (UFRN, Brazil) Ewen Denney (RIACS/NASA, USA) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool, UK) Jorge Figueiredo (UFCG, Brazil) Marcelo Frias (Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Rohit Gheyi (UFCG, Brazil) Juliano Iyoda (UFPE, Brazil) Zhiming Liu (Birmingham City University, UK) Patricia Machado (UFCG, Brazil) Tiago Massoni (UFCG, Brazil) Ana Melo (USP, Brazil) Alvaro Moreira (UFRGS, Brazil) Anamaria Moreira (UFRN, Brazil) Carroll Morgan (University of New South Wales, Australia) Arnaldo Moura (UNICAMP, Brazil) Leonardo Moura (Microsoft Research, USA) Narciso Marti-Oliet (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, co-chair) Alexandre Mota (UFPE, Brazil) David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Daltro Nunes (UFRGS, Brazil) Jose Oliveira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Marcel Oliveira (UFRN, Brazil) Peter Olveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Alexandre Petrenko (CRIM, Canada) Leila Ribeiro (UFRGS, Brazil) Augusto Sampaio (UFPE, Brazil) Leila Silva (UFS, Brazil) Adenilso Simao (ICMC-USP, Brazil) Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) Jim Woodcock (University of York, UK) From garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp Mon Mar 3 00:20:05 2014 From: garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Jacques Garrigue) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:20:05 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NII Summer School on Coq in Japan Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the NII International Summer School on the proof assistant Coq to be held from Monday, August 25th to Friday, August 29th, 2014 at Shonan Village Center in Japan. This school is sponsored by Inria and JFLI, CNRS. Application is open to Master students, PhD students, and young researchers from academic institutions, and young people from private companies. We might also consider applications by Bachelor students in exceptional cases. Because of limited space, there will be a pre-selection of participants by the organizers. If you wish to participate, please send as soon as possible and no later than May 2th, an email explaining in a few words why you wish to participate at: coq-school at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp In case of students, please also submit a recommendation letter by one of your professors. The participation fee including full board, meeting fees and applicable taxes is 12,500 JPY (around 88 EUR or 122 US$) per day plus an excursion fee of around 5,000 JPY (around 35 EUR or 48 US$). Further information can be found at: http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/seminar/041/ Pierre Casteran, Jacques Garrigue, David Nowak From jpm at cs.uu.nl Mon Mar 3 06:40:55 2014 From: jpm at cs.uu.nl (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Pedro_Magalh=E3es?=) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:40:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First CFP: Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP) 2014 Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS WGP 2014 10th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming Gothenburg, Sweden Sunday, August 31, 2014 http://www.wgp-sigplan.org/2014 Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2014) ====================================================================== 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 communities. Generic programming has gradually spread to more and more mainstream languages, and today is widely used in industry. This workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners in generic programming from around the world, and features papers capturing the state of the art in this important area. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of * generic programming, * programming with (C++) concepts, * meta-programming, * programming with type classes, * programming with modules, * programming with dependent types, * type systems for generic programming, * polytypic programming, * adaptive object-oriented programming, * component-based programming, * strategic programming, * aspect-oriented programming, * family polymorphism, * object-oriented generic programming, * implementation of generic programming languages, * static and dynamic analyses of generic programs, * and so on. Program Committee ----------------- Jos? Pedro Magalh?es (co-chair), University of Oxford Tiark Rompf (co-chair), Oracle Labs & EPFL Peter Achten, Radboud University Nijmegen Nada Amin, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) Pierre-?variste Dagand, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University Miles Sabin, Underscore Consulting LLP, Chuusai Ltd. Alexander Slesarenko, Huawei Labs & Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM) Anthony M. Sloane, Macquarie University Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University Meng Wang, Chalmers University of Technology Proceedings and Copyright ------------------------- We plan to have formal proceedings, published by the ACM. Authors must transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work, to the extent transferable), but retain various rights (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy). Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material. Submission details ------------------ Deadline for submission: Sunday 2014-05-11 Notification of acceptance: Friday 2014-06-06 Final submission due: Wednesday 2014-06-18 Workshop: Sunday 2014-08-31 Submitted papers should fall into one of two categories: * Regular research papers (12 pages) * Short papers: case studies, tool demos, generic pearls (6 pages) Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results. Short papers need not present novel or fully polished results. Good candidates for short papers are those that report on interesting case studies of generic programming in open source or industry, present demos of generic programming tools or libraries, or discuss elegant and illustrative uses of generic programming ('pearls'). All submissions should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (two-column, 9pt). Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages. If applicable, papers should be marked with one of the labels 'case study, 'tool demo' or 'generic pearl' in the title at the time of submission. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wgp2014 Travel Support -------------- Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC program, see its web page (http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm). History of the Workshop on Generic Programming ---------------------------------------------- Earlier Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in * Boston, Massachusetts, US 2013 (affiliated with ICFP13), * Copenhagen, Denmark 2012 (affiliated with ICFP12), * Tokyo, Japan 2011 (affiliated with ICFP11), * Baltimore, Maryland, US 2010 (affiliated with ICFP10), * Edinburgh, UK 2009 (affiliated with ICFP09), * Victoria, BC, Canada 2008 (affiliated with ICFP), * Portland 2006 (affiliated with ICFP), * Ponte de Lima 2000 (affiliated with MPC), * Marstrand 1998 (affiliated with MPC). Furthermore, there were a few informal workshops * Utrecht 2005 (informal workshop), * Dagstuhl 2002 (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference), * Nottingham 2001 (informal workshop). 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). 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Yet low level languages, such as machine code, and the compilation of high level languages into a low level ones have traditionally been seen as having little or no essential connection to logic. However, a fundamental discovery of this past decade has been that low level languages are also governed by logical principles. From this key observation has emerged an active and fascinating new research area at the frontier of logic and computer science. The practically-motivated design of logics reflecting the structure of low level languages (such as heaps, registers and code pointers) and low level properties of programs (such as resource usage) goes hand in hand with some of the most advanced contemporary research in semantics and proof theory, including classical realizability and forcing, double orthogonality, parametricity, linear logic, game semantics, uniformity, categorical semantics, explicit substitutions, abstract machines, implicit complexity and sublinear programming. The LOLA workshop, affiliated with CSL-LICS, will bring together researchers interested in many aspects of the relationship between logic and low level languages and programs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Typed assembly languages, Certified assembly programming, Certified and certifying compilation, Proof-carrying code, Program optimization, Modal logic and realizability in machine code, Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code, Parametricity, modules and existential types, General references, Kripke models and recursive types, Continuations and concurrency, Implicit complexity, sublinear programming and Turing machines, Closures and explicit substitutions, Linear logic and separation logic, Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis, Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects. SUBMISSION INFORMATION LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on work in progress, overviews of larger programmes, position presentations and short tutorials as well as more traditional research talks describing new results. The programme committee will select the workshop presentations from submitted proposals, which may take the form either of a two page abstract or of a longer (published or unpublished) paper describing completed work. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Amal Ahmed (Northeastern Universtiy) Jade Alglave (University College London) Lennart Beringer (Princeton University) Ugo Dal Lago (Universit? di Bologna) Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich, co-chair) Neelakantan Krishnaswami (The University of Birmingham) Andrzej Murawski (University of Warwick, co-chair) Francois Pottier (INRIA) David van Horn (University of Maryland) Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From seidl at in.tum.de Mon Mar 3 09:46:09 2014 From: seidl at in.tum.de (Helmut Seidl) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:46:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for papers SAS 2014 Message-ID: <531495B1.20000@in.tum.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, could you please post the following CFP for SAS 2014. Thank you very much! Helmut - --------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2014 Static Analysis Symposium 2014 Call for Papers http://cs.uni-muenster.de/sev/sas14/ - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Objective - --------- 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 the presentation of theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area. The 21th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2014, will be held in Munich, Germany. Previous symposia were held in Seattle, Deauville, Venice, Perpignan, Los Angeles, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Seoul, London, Verona, San Diego, Madrid, Paris, Santa Barbara, Pisa, Aachen, Glasgow, and Namur. Topics - ------ The technical program for SAS 2014 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 Paper Submission - ---------------- Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU programming. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers 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. Paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science 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. Artifact Submission - ------------------- As last year, we are encouraging authors to submit a virtual machine image containing any artifacts and evaluations presented in the paper. The goal of the artifact submissions is to strengthen our field's scientific approach to evaluations and reproducibility of results. The virtual machines will be archived on a permanent Static Analysis Symposium website to provide a record of past experiments and tools, allowing future research to better evaluate and contrast existing work. Artifact submission is optional. Details on what to submit and how will be forthcoming. The submitted artifacts will be used by the program committee as a secondary evaluation criteria whose sole purpose is to find additional positive arguments for the paper's acceptance. Submissions without artifacts are welcome and will not be penalized. Dates - ----- * Submission deadline: abstracts must be received by March 7, 2014, and complete papers by March 14, 2014. These deadlines are strict; submissions where abstract or paper are received later will not be evaluated. * Rebuttal: May 15-18, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2014 * Final version due: June 22, 2014 * Early registration: On or before July 20, 2014 * Workshop day: September 10, 2014 * Conference: September 11-13, 2014 Program Chairs - -------------- Markus Mueller-Olm (Universitaet Muenster, Germany) Helmut Seidl (TU Muenchen, Germany) Program Committee - ----------------- Ahmed Bouajjani (LIAFA, University Paris Diderot, France) Michele Bugliesi (Universita Ca' Foscari, Italy) Johannes Kinder (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Andy King (University of Kent, UK) Laura Kovacs (Chalmers Univ. of Techn., Gothenburg, Sweden) Viktor Kuncak (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) Francesco Logozzo (Microsoft Research, USA) Parthasarathi Madhusudan (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Isabella Mastroeni (Universita degli Studi di Verona, Italy) Anders Moeller (Aarhus University, Denmark) Alan Mycroft (Cambridge University, UK) Aditya Nori (Microsoft Research India) Sylvie Putot (CEA, LIST & Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) Xavier Rival (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France) Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Vijay D'Silva (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Gregor Snelting (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany) Eran Yahav (Technion, Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee - ------------------ Patrick Cousot (Ecole Normale Superieure, France & NYU, USA) Radhia Cousot (CNRS & Ecole Normale Superieure, France) Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy) Gilberto File (University of Padova, Italy) Manuel Hermenegildo (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) David Schmidt (Kansas State University, USA) Affiliated Events - ----------------- NSAD: The 6th Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains SASB: The 5th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology TAPAS: The 5th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis Venue - ----- In 2014, the conference will take place in Novotel at Munich, Germany. Munich is the lively capital of Bavaria. Close to the alps, Munich hosts three universities and a variety of touristic attractions. These include museums such as the German museum for technology and science, several first class theaters as well as historical monuments built by the bavarian kings who took a keen interest in art, construction and collection. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTFJWsAAoJENQ/vhAhKvP/nt8IAMX1bz385JpUHMmzkxTP7e0M QL6N/WLpS5X4GLm5LpoWwOTxysQ+e08XvSTGMkJvIAC+3SIk81WZqjXQYyA1vDzZ bd9QJO0QQfvVA3cal4bDbuEPOsHMT+9xAThtu01+R9HNAecz7CcPrrtRxAUeA7kQ g7ln+S3uhCYTRh+Nse7/J3iwZ6ArKrHN45KfXR3oSObtqfYWeCg8zd//IPKiUm6C dCUHLe7QawBc2KWnAIFB+S6FxEvqdTWtbp080LUmCk2SRIF7lArx9/YKwyJy/sNg wL2sHBUPutI38UnjqA9703MXTernPBqFitouMacBlCsvK3+9NDngL5BrbbQxdSY= =GI+f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Olivier.BOUISSOU at cea.fr Mon Mar 3 10:26:24 2014 From: Olivier.BOUISSOU at cea.fr (BOUISSOU Olivier 209517) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:26:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CFP: 7th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification Message-ID: [Deadline for paper submission: March 20th 2014] Apologies for multiple copies. ??? CALL FOR PAPERS ************** ** NSV 2014 ** ************** 7th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification July 17-18, 2014 A Sattelite Workshop of Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 Vienna, Austria Web Page: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~bouissou/NSV14 Important Dates =============== Submissions deadline: March 20th 2014. Notification: May 4th 2014. Final version: May 25th 2014. Workshop: July 17th-18th 2014. Novelty of this edition ======================= The 2014 edition of NSV will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Serie (ENTCS). In this new NSV edition, we encourage publications about the numerical issues in new domains, in particular computational finance and biological systems: problems, consequences and state-of-the-art approaches. Description of the Workshop =========================== Numerical computations are ubiquitous in digital systems: supervision, prediction, simulation and signal processing rely heavily on numerical calculus to achieve desired goals. Verification of numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from the rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to precisely represent local behaviors of each component. In fact, in numerical algorithms, coarse abstractions are unlikely to succeed essentially because of the above mentioned issue. The implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of approximation: the use of finite representations of infinite precision numbers usually lack basic arithmetic properties such as commutativity and associativity. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical techniques that would allow reasoning about programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the current development and the future prospects for such techniques. Topics =============== The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Models and abstraction techniques - Specifications of correctness for numerical programs - Formal specification and verification of numerical programs - Quality of finite precision implementations - Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models - Numerical properties of control software - Hybrid systems verification - Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications - Validation for scientific computing programs - Optimality of program behavior - Trade-offs between quality of service and resource (for example energy) consumption in programs - Benchmarks and tools for numerical software verification - Numerical issues in computational finance Submission information ====================== We solicit regular and short papers. Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/?conf=nsv14 Regular papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers 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. Regular paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in ENTCS style, including bibliography and well-marked appendices: http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html Program committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Short papers are also welcomed, they should present tools, benchmarks, case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages. Regular papers will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science serie ENTCS), all accepted (regular and short) papers will also be included in the Vienna Summer of Logic USB-stick distributed to all participants to the VSL. Confirmed Invited Speakers =========================== * Jean-Michel Muller, LIP, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon * Sumit Kumar Jha, University of Central Florida, Orlando Organizers ========== Olivier Bouissou, CEA, LIST Khalil Ghorbal, Carnegie Mellon University All questions about the workshop can be addressed to them via email: nsv2014 at easychair.org Program Committee ================== - Sylvie Boldo Inria - Olivier Bouissou CEA, LIST - Jyotirmoy Deshmukh Toyota Technical Center - Khalil Ghorbal Carnegie Mellon University - Eric Goubault CEA, LIST - Sylvie Putot CEA, LIST - Sriram Sankaranarayanan Boulder University From Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Mar 3 11:23:49 2014 From: Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk (Graham Hutton) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:23:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts Message-ID: <27AEE8E0-993D-47B2-B528-F9CF7EC73CF0@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 30th April 2014 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year, but there is currently no common location in which to promote and advertise the resulting work. The Journal of Functional Programming would like to change that! As a service to the community, JFP is launching a new feature, in the form of a yearly publication of abstracts from PhD dissertations that were completed during the previous year. To start this new feature off, we would like to reach back three years for the first round of abstracts. The abstracts will be freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall, and will not require any transfer for copyright, merely a license from the author. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. A dissertation is eligible if parts of it have or could appear in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. JFP will not have these abstracts reviewed. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton by 30th April 2014. o Student: (full name) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 1000 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting in the abstract, but do get in touch if this causes significant problems) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Awarding institution: (full name and location) o Date of PhD award: (depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, date when corrections were approved, date of graduation ceremony, or otherwise) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. 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Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Mon Mar 3 17:51:02 2014 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 00:51:02 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2014 2nd call for participation Message-ID: <20140304005102.198a3c04@duality> To notice: - Normal-rate registration is until Monday, 10 March 2014. ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2014 17th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software Grenoble, France, 5-13 April 2014 http://www.etaps.org/2014 ****************************************************************** -- 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 six main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2014 is already the seventeenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (7-11 April) -- * CC: Compiler Construction * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering * FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures * POST: Principles of Security and Trust * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems -- INVITED TALKS -- * Unifying speakers: John Launchbury (Galois, US) Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, US) * CC invited speaker: Benoit Dupont de Dinechin (Kalray, France) * ESOP invited speaker: Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, US) * FASE invited speaker: Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) * FoSSaCS invited speaker: Petr Jancar (Technical Univ of Ostrava, Czech Republic) * POST invited speaker: David Mazi?res (Stanford University, US) * TACAS invited speaker: Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel) -- TUTORIALS * Andy Gordon (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) * Bernd Finkbeiner (Univ des Saarlandes, Germany) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS See the accepted paper lists and the programme of the main conferences at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (5-6 and 12-13 April) -- 23 satellite workshops will take place before or after ETAPS 2014. CMCS, DICE, F-IDE, Graphite, GT-VMT, MBT, MEALS, RePP, Sifakis event, SR, SynCop, VSSE, WRLA will be held 5-6 April 2014. AiSOS, Cassting, FESCA, GALOP, GramSec, HAS, HotSpot, MSFP, PLACES, QAPL have been scheduled for 12-13 April 2014. -- REGISTRATION Normal-rate registration is until Monday, 10 March 2014. After that date, late rates apply. -- ACCOMMODATION We request that participants arrange their accommodation on their own. See our recommendations on the website. -- HOST CITY -- Located in the southeastern part of France, Grenoble is considered as the capital of the Alps. Grenoble is surrounded by nature and high mountains: down the Alps, Grenoble is the meeting point of two important rivers, Drac and Isere. Grenoble has important historical and gastronomic heritages. Leisure activities in breathtaking nature are easily organizable and within short-distance. Grenoble is also a major scientific center in Europe dedicated to high-tech technologies, e.g., nano, micro, bio, and information technologies. -- ORGANIZERS * General chair: Saddek Bensalem * Conferences chair: Alain Girault * Workshops chair: Axel Legay * Publicity chair: Ylies Falcone * Finance chair: Nicolas Halbwachs * Website chair: Marius Bozga Host institution: VERIMAG, U Joseph Fourier / CNRS / Grenoble INP -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2014.organization at imag.fr. From yangliu at ntu.edu.sg Tue Mar 4 07:35:29 2014 From: yangliu at ntu.edu.sg (Liu Yang (Asst Prof)) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:35:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Paper: ICFEM 2014, Luxembourg, 3-7 November 2014 Message-ID: <5A4257BA3B1EEA45B17620B30FD656E12CA9D986@EXCHMBOX31.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> [We apologize for multiple copies.] ---------------------------------------- 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods ICFEM 2014, Luxembourg, 3-7 November 2014 http://icfem2014.uni.lu ---------------------------------------- The 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2014) will be held at the Melia Hotel in Luxembourg, Luxembourg from 3rd November to 7 November 2014. Since 1997, ICFEM has been serving as an international forum for researchers and practitioners who have been seriously applying formal methods to practical applications. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, are encouraged to attend, present their research, and help advance the state of the art. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and tangible benefit. ICFEM 2014 is organised and sponsored by The University of Luxembourg. The city of Luxembourg itself is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, on account of the historical importance of its fortifications. Luxembourg was the first city to be named European Capital of Culture twice. SCOPE AND TOPICS ---------------------------------------- Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal methods and their practical applications will also be considered. + Abstraction and refinement + Formal specification and modelling + Program analysis + Software verification + Software model checking + Formal approaches to software testing + Formal methods for self-adaptive systems + Formal methods for object and component systems + Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems + Formal methods for cloud computing and cyber-physical systems + Formal methods for software safety, security, reliability and dependability + Tool development, integration and experiments involving verified systems + Formal methods used in certifying products under international standards + Formal model-based development and code generation This year, ICFEM will have special tracks on application of formal methods in three areas: + Computer Security + Biology + Healthcare Submissions in these topics are especially encouraged. Papers in these areas will be subject to the same rigorous review process as other papers. Accepted special track papers will be organised into special sessions. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------------------------------- + Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research + Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------- 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. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Submission should be made through the ICFEM 2014 submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2014), handled by the EasyChair conference management system. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Formal Aspect Computing journal. WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL ---------------------------------------- The last two days of the conference (6th and 7th November 2014) will be dedicated to workshops, tutorials and other satellite events. The organising committee of ICFEM 2014 therefore cordially invites proposals for one-day workshops and one-day or half-day tutorials in any area related to formal methods or software engineering, but particularly in new or emerging fields of application of formal methods. Proposals for workshops/tutorial should contain: + a title and brief description of the topic and the history of the workshop/tutorial, if applicable; + the names and contact details of the potential organisers; + a brief justification of the topic and estimated size of audience; + a description of any special technical requirements. Proposals should be sent to ICFEM2014 Workshops Chair, Jun Sun, at no later than 22nd March 2014. SUMMER SCHOOL VTSA 2014 ---------------------------------------- The summer school on verification technology, systems & applications takes place at University of Luxembourg from October 27-31, 2014. It is a co-located event with ICFEM 2014 and is organized by the Montefiore Institute, University of Luxembourg, INRIA Nancy, and the Max Planck Insitute for Informatics Saarbr?cken. More detailed information will be provided at the summer school's website. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Abstract Submissions due: 11 April 2014 Full Paper Submissions due: 18 April 2014 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: 22 March 2014 Acceptance Notification: 20 June 2014 Camera-ready Papers Due: 13 July 2014 ORGANISING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program Committee Co-Chairs Stephan Merz, INRIA, France Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Local Organisation Chair Andrzej Mizera, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Publicity Chair Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Web Chair: Piotr Kordy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- Frank de Boer, CWI, The Netherlands Jonathan Bowen, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Kostas Chatzikokolakis, CNRS and ?cole Polytechnique, France Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Michaela Huhn, Technische Universit?t Clausthal, Germany Pierre Kelsen, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy, France Jean Krivine, CNRS and Universit? Paris Diderot, France Peter Gorm Larsen, Engineering College of Aarhus, Denmark Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shang-Wei Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dominique Mery, Universit? de Lorraine, France Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy, France Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ion Petre, ?bo Akademi University, Finland Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom Zongyan Qiu, Peking University, China Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS, Germany Hai H. 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URL: From c.fuhs at cs.ucl.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 08:12:44 2014 From: c.fuhs at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Carsten Fuhs) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:12:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 14th Intl. Workshop on Termination (WST 2014), Vienna (Austria), 17-18 July Message-ID: <5315D14C.30109@cs.ucl.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14th International Workshop on Termination (WST) Affiliated with CAV, IJCAR and RTA-TLCA at FLoC 2014 17 - 18 July 2014, Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/wst/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Termination traditionally brings together, in an informal setting, researchers interested in all aspects of termination, whether this interest be practical or theoretical, primary or derived. The workshop also provides a ground for cross-fertilisation of ideas from term rewriting and from the different programming language communities. The friendly atmosphere enables fruitful exchanges leading to joint research and subsequent publications. The 14th International Workshop on Termination in Vienna continues the successful workshops held in St. Andrews (1993), La Bresse (1995), Ede (1997), Dagstuhl (1999), Utrecht (2001), Valencia (2003), Aachen (2004), Seattle (2006), Paris (2007), Leipzig (2009), Edinburgh (2010), Obergurgl (2012), and Bertinoro (2013). More information on earlier WSTs is available on the Termination Portal: http://www.termination-portal.org/wiki/WST TOPICS The 14th International Workshop on Termination welcomes contributions on all aspects of termination and complexity analysis (and their automation) for various models of computation, ranging from rewrite systems and state transition systems to programming languages. Contributions from the imperative, constraint, functional, and logic programming communities, and papers investigating applications of complexity or termination (for example in program transformation or theorem proving) are particularly welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Termination of programs * Termination of rewriting * Termination analysis of transition systems * Complexity of programs * Complexity of rewriting * Implicit computational complexity * Implementation of termination and complexity analysis methods * Certification of termination and complexity proofs * Termination orders, well-founded orders, and reduction orders * Termination methods for theorem provers * Strong and weak normalization of lambda calculi * Termination analysis for different language paradigms * Invariants for termination proving * Challenging termination problems * Applications to program transformation and compilation * Comparison and classification of termination methods * Non-termination and loop detection * Termination in distributed and concurrent systems * Proof methods for liveness and fairness * Well-quasi-order theory * Ordinal notations and subrecursive hierarchies PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) Amir Ben-Amram (Tel-Aviv Academic College) Byron Cook (Microsoft Research and University College London) Carsten Fuhs (University College London) - chair J?rgen Giesl (RWTH Aachen) Laure Gonnord (University of Lyon) Albert Rubio (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Peter Schneider-Kamp (University of Southern Denmark) Christian Sternagel (University of Innsbruck) Thomas Str?der (RWTH Aachen) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig) Harald Zankl (University of Innsbruck) SUBMISSION Submissions are short papers / extended abstracts which should not exceed 5 pages using the LIPIcs style for LaTeX: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ There will be no formal reviewing, but we will provide informal feedback for each submission. Accepted papers will be made available electronically, both on the WST 2014 web page and on the FLoC USB proceedings. The workshop proceedings are informal as well. Thus, submission to WST 2014 is not in conflict with an earlier, concurrent, or later submission of the same material to a journal, a conference, or another workshop. In case of simultaneous submissions to several FLoC events, please state in the abstract on easychair to which other FLoC venues you are submitting as well. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wst2014 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission 23 April 2014 Notification 07 May 2014 Final versions due 21 May 2014 Workshop date 17 - 18 July 2014 From kutsia at risc.jku.at Tue Mar 4 09:28:51 2014 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:28:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: UNIF 2014 Message-ID: <5315E323.9020104@risc.jku.at> ==================================================== Call for Papers UNIF 2014 The 28th International Workshop on Unification July 13, 2014. Vienna, Austria a FLoC workshop hosted by RTA-TLCA and IJCAR http://vsl2014.at/unif ==================================================== UNIF 2014 is the 28th event in a series of international meetings devoted to unification theory and its applications. Unification is concerned with the problem of identifying terms, finding solutions for equations, or making formulas equivalent. It is a fundamental process used in a number of fields of computer science, including automated reasoning, term rewriting, logic programming, natural language processing, program analysis, types, etc. The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) is a yearly forum for researchers in unification theory and related fields to meet old and new colleagues, to present recent (even unfinished) work, and to discuss new ideas and trends. It is also a good opportunity for young researchers and scientists working in related areas to get an overview of the current state of the art in unification theory. Topics ------ A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * syntactic and equational unification * matching * constraint solving * unification in modal, temporal, and description logics * narrowing * disunification * anti-unification * semi-unification * higher-order unification * complexity issues * implementation techniques * applications Submission ---------- Short papers or extended abstracts, up to 5 pages in EasyChair style, should be submitted electronically as PDF files through the EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unif2014 Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the preliminary proceedings, available in the electronic form at the workshop and also at the UNIF web page: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/unif/ Important Dates ---------------- * Paper Submission: April 16, 2014 * Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2014 * Final version: May 28, 2014 * Conference: July 13, 2014 Invited Speakers ---------------- * Jordi Levy, IIIA, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain * Jose Meseguer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Programme Committee ------------------- * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Mnacho Echenim, University of Grenoble, France * Santiago Escobar, Technical University of Valencia, Spain * Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK * Temur Kutsia, RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (chair) * Christopher Lynch, Clarkson University, USA * Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Barbara Morawska, TU Dresden, Germany * Paliath Narendran, University at Albany?SUNY, USA * Jan Otop, IST Austria * Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France (chair) * Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany * Ralf Treinen, PPS, Universit? Paris Diderot, France * Mateu Villaret, Universitat de Girona, Spain From francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it Tue Mar 4 09:55:17 2014 From: francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it (Francesco tiezzi) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 15:55:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [2nd CFP] 5th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Peer-to-Peer and Autonomic Systems (MOSPAS 2014) Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] 5th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Peer-to-Peer and Autonomic Systems (MOSPAS 2014) http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-07-mospas CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2014) http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs14 July 21 - 25, 2014 Bologna, Italy Paper Submission Deadline: March 11, 2014 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES High Performance Computing at extreme scale sets new challenges which have to be faced to guarantee fault tolerance and reliability. The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Autonomic Computing (AC) paradigms have emerged as highly appealing, scalable solutions to tackle the above issues and the growing complexity of such software and hardware technologies. While P2P solutions put the emphasis on decentralization and sharing of resources, AC solutions are based on equipping computational entities with autonomic (self-*) features. These approaches are, of course, complementary and are often combined together in modern distributed systems that avoid central coordination and human intervention. The design, implementation, and analysis of these complex systems pose several challenges, both with functional and non-functional properties, depending on network size, churn rate and application context. This workshop has the goal of providing an international forum for researchers and practitioners willing to present, discuss and exchange innovative research results and advanced topics that combine theoretical and practical approaches to modeling and high performance simulation, but also modeling and simulation of high performance (extreme scale) systems. The workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following issues of P2P and Autonomic systems: - M&S of High Performance Systems - High Performance M&S - Formal Modeling and Analysis - Discrete Event Modeling and Simulation - Agent-based Simulation - Novel Techniques for M&S - M&S-Based Development Methods - High Performance Fault Tolerance / Resilience at Extreme Scale - Evaluation of Combined P2P and AC Systems - Overlay Schemes Performance Evaluation - Analysis of P2P/AC-based Applications and Services - Workload Characterization and Simulation - Analysis of Emergent Behaviors - Evaluation of Trust and Reputation Systems - Verification at Runtime of AC Systems - Real-Time Aspects, including Timing Violations for Multimedia and Other Real-Time Traffic - Analysis of novel network services supporting P2P such as RELOAD and ALTO - Impact of P2P Traffic on the Network Infrastructure INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research works. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be in PDF format and should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and authors email addresses. They must clearly indicate the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 350 words. The full manuscripts should not exceed 8 double-column IEEE formatted pages, including figures, tables, references. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters will also be accepted for submission. Short papers are expected to expose preliminary yet promising highly-innovative ideas. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submissions are handled using the EasyChair online system and can be uploaded using the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mospas2014 Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least three reviewers. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the HPCS 2014 conference proceedings which will be made available at the time of the workshop. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2014 Conference web site. Moreover, further guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) will be specified within the notification of acceptance. As for other HPCS papers, plans are underway to have the best accepted papers be selected for publication in some journal special issue(s). Detailed information will soon be announced, and will be made available on the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: March 11, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 08, 2014 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: May 06, 2014 Conference Dates: July 21-25, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Michele Amoretti University of Parma Via Usberti 181/a, 43124 Parma, Italy Phone: + 39 0521 906147 Fax: + 39 0521 905723 Email: michele.amoretti at unipr.it Francesco Tiezzi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca Piazza San Francesco 19, 55100 Lucca, Italy Phone: + 39 0583 4326590 Fax: + 39 0583 4326 565 Email: francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop International Program Committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2014. - Marco Aldinucci, Universit? di Torino, Italy - Carlo Bertolli, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA - Giacomo Cabri, Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy - Bruno Ciciani, Universit? di Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Gerhard Ha?linger, T-Systems ENPS Darmstadt, Germany - Tobias Ho?feld, University of W?rzburg, Germany - Alberto Lluch Lafuente, IMT Lucca, Italy - Natarajan Meghanathan, Jackson State University, USA - Javier Rubio Loyola, CINESTAV, Mexico - Marco Picone, Universit? degli Studi di Parma, Italy - Dominik Stingl, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany - Petr T?ma, Charles University, Czech Republic - Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK - Andrea Vandin, University of Southampton, UK - Francesco Zanichelli, Universit? degli Studi di Parma, Italy For further information or questions about the HPCS 2014 conference, please consult the web site at http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs14. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fioravanti at unich.it Tue Mar 4 10:13:42 2014 From: fioravanti at unich.it (Fabio Fioravanti) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:13:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HCVS 2014 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <5315EDA6.8060101@unich.it> ===================================================================== HCVS 2014 Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis July 17, 2014 ? Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/hcvs Most Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be modeled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the CLP and CAV communities have centered around efficiently solving problems presented as Horn clauses. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in the two communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP) and Program Verification community (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI) on the topic of Horn clause based analysis, verification and synthesis. Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by these two communities in different times and from different perspectives and this workshop is organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful exchange and integration of experiences. Aims and Scope ============== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the use of Horn clauses, constraints, and related formalisms in the following areas: - Analysis and verification of programs in various programming paradigms (e.g., imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, higher-order, concurrent) - Program synthesis - Program testing - Program transformation - Constraint solving - Type systems - Case studies and tools - Challenging problems We solicit regular papers describing theory and implementation of Horn-clause based analysis, tool descriptions and extended abstracts describing work-in-progress, and finally also position papers covering previously published results that are of interest to the workshop. Invited Speakers ================ - Daniel Kr?ning (University of Oxford) - Michael Leuschel (Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf) Program Committee ================= - Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) - Roberto Bagnara (University of Parma and BUGSENG) - Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) - *chair* - Swarat Chaudhuri (Rice University) - Fabio Fioravanti (University of Chieti-Pescara) - *chair* - John Gallagher (Roskilde University) - Arnaud Gotlieb (SIMULA Research Laboratory) - Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, CMU) - Konstantin Korovin (Manchester University) - Viktor Kuncak (EPFL) - Ken McMillan (Microsoft Research) - Jorge A. Navas (NASA) - Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR, Italy) - C. R. Ramakrishnan (University at Stony Brook) - Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Philipp Ruemmer (Uppsala University) - Andrey Rybalchenko (Microsoft Research) - *chair* - Valerio Senni (ALES srl) - *chair* Important Dates =============== - Submission Deadline: May 1, 2014 - Notification: May 21, 2014 - Camera-ready version: May 28, 2014 - Workshop: July 17, 2014 ? Vienna, Austria Submission Format: - up to 12 pages plus bibliography, in EPTCS format. Original Accepted papers will be published electronically as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, see http://www.eptcs.org/ Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the workshop. Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2014 From matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 12:05:26 2014 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 17:05:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Positions in Software Language Engineering and Verification at Royal Holloway University of London, UK Message-ID: <20140304170526.GB328@chilon.net> PHD POSITIONS IN SOFTWARE LANGUAGE ENGINEERING AND VERIFICATION Applications are invited for two fully-funded PhD positions in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. The positions are funded by the Department's Reid Scholarships programme, awarded on the basis of academic excellence to new students who will commence a research programme in 2014-15. We are looking for students with an interest in programming language theory, implementation, or verification. Areas include - pragmatic formal semantics, - generalised parsing, - disambiguation strategies, - term rewriting, - program analysis via automata, types, or constraint solving, - concurrent programs - temporal and modal logics Our goal is to produce closely coupled theory and tools which allow software engineers to deploy sound techniques without needing to master the underlying formalisms. To discuss these areas, please contact Dr Mathew Hague (email: matthew.hague at cs.rhul.ac.uk, web: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/hague) or Prof. Adrian Johnstone (email: A.Johnstone at rhul.ac.uk, web: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/computerscience/research/CSLE/CSLEhome.aspx). THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON The Department offers a very vibrant research culture. In the last research assessment (RAE 2008), we ranked 11th in the UK for the quality of our research output. Our research is strongly supported by external funding from various sources, including companies. The University itself was ranked 102nd in the Times HE World Rankings 2013, which equates to 12th place in the UK. We are situated in a beautiful campus in Egham, Surrey, ranked alongside Oxford and Cambridge as one of the twelve most beautiful universities in the world. We are both close to Central London and 10 minutes by taxi from Heathrow Airport. For more information about the Departmental of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, visit our web-site in http://www.rhul.ac.uk/computerscience/. INFORMATION ABOUT REID SCHOLARSHIPS A Reid Scholarship provides support of ?15,726 per year over 3 years for a full-time student or ?7,863 over 6 years for a part-time student. It also includes a fee waiver to cover fees at the HEU rate. REQUIREMENTS A good degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related disciplines. ELIGIBILITY The scholarships are available to students starting their studies in September 2014. Home, EU and International students are eligible but please note the scholarships do not cover overseas fees. Students who have already started their study programme are not eligible. APPLICATION PROCESS Applicants should prepare two documents: (a) a personal statement and (b) a 4 page research proposal in one of the areas above. These documents should be submitted together with an online application following the application procedure accessible from https://apply.embark.com/grad/royalholloway/98/. IMPORTANT DATES March 31st, 2014: initial contact with expression of interest April 2014: discussions and preparation of formal application End of April 2014: decision of the scholarship Mid May 2014: formal confirmation of the scholarship granting For candidates who wish to fund themselves, the Department accepts applications throughout the year. The normal starting date is late September each year but alternative starting dates can be arranged. Candidates with visa requirements should ensure that they apply in time for their visa to be issued in advance of their planned start date. From moggi at disi.unige.it Tue Mar 4 15:11:42 2014 From: moggi at disi.unige.it (Eugenio Moggi) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:11:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Correctness by Construction, Genoa, Italy, 24-27 March 2014 Message-ID: <1393963902.5316337e682b6@webmail.unige.it> Call for Participation---the preliminary programme is now available: http://corcon2014.net/programme/ Definite deadline for registration: 13 March 2014 _________________________________________________________________________ Correctness by Construction, Workshop, Genoa, Italy, 24-27 March 2014 http://corcon2014.net/ Correctness by Construction (CORCON) is an FP7 EU-funded project under the Marie Curie IRSES scheme. This kick-off workshop of CORCON aims at bringing together the participants of the project and those researchers who are interested in the themes of the project. The workshop is further promoted by AILA (Associazione Italiana di Logica e sue Applicazioni), by IC-EATCS (Italian Chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) and by the Italian national research project Logical Methods of Information Management. Themes of the Project Proof Theory, Type Theory and Constructive Set Theory Constructive Topology and Analysis Homotopy Type Theory Categorical Logic Programming Languages for Correct by Construction Programming Correct by Construction Programs over Continuous Data Correct by Construction Programs with Limited Resources More details, including speakers, programme, registration, travel and accommodation, are available on the project web page. From Sergei.Soloviev at irit.fr Tue Mar 4 15:31:55 2014 From: Sergei.Soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei Soloviev) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:31:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LACL 2014 second call In-Reply-To: <3b6-52e03f00-7-f665ae0@100752274> Message-ID: <1c9b-53163800-d-40023a80@188846372> LACL 2014 Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics IRIT, Toulouse, France 18-20 June 2014 http://www.irit.fr/LACL2014/ Co-located with the CSLP 2014, 8-th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2014 17-18 June 2014 http://www. SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS PRESENTATION LACL'2014 is the 8th international conference on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. This conference addresses the use of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. It will be held at IRIT, Toulouse, France, from 18 to 20 June 2014 (with support from IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier et INP de Toulouse) Scope: Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural language analysis, generation or acquisition. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms o categorial grammars o minimalist grammars o dependency grammars o tree adjoining grammars o model theoretic syntax o formal language theory for natural language processing o data-driven approaches * logics for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog o discourse theories o Montague semantics o compositionality o dynamic logics o game semantics o situation semantics o generative lexicon o categorical semantics * applications of these models to natural language processing o software for natural language analysis o software for acquiring linguistic resources o software for natural language generation o software for information extraction o inference tasks o evaluation o scalability SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS* Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and may consist of up to 12 pages of content (including figures, bibliography, possible appendices). In exceptional cases by prior agreement with program committee a paper up to 16 pages may be considered. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Submission is exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2014 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published as a volume of the FoLLI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs). /*/ Instructions for submissions to CSLP 2014 are given at the site of the workshop. Invited speakers: Prof. Zhaohui Luo, Computer Science Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K. Prof. Michael Moortgat, Department of Language, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Prof. Reinhard Muskens, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, the Netherlands PREVIOUS EDITIONS A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The proceedings of the international conferences LACL'96 ,LACL'97, LACL'98, LACL'2001, LACL'2005 LACL'2011 appeared in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014, 2099, 3492, 6736), and the proceedings of LACL 2012 in Lacture Notes in Computer Science (volume 7351) published by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2014 Camera ready copies due: April 15, 2014 Conference dates: June 18-20, 2014 INSCRIPTION FEES Exact amount can be fixed only after the organizers will have better estimation of the number of participants. We expect to keep it at the level of approximately 300 euros (for LACL only) and 100 euros (for workshop only) with usual reduced rates for students and participation in both events. CONTACTS soloviev at irit.fr and asher at irit.fr (co-chairs of LACL 2014) From Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 16:25:45 2014 From: Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk (Fernandez, Maribel) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:25:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP LSFA 2014: 8th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <531644D9.1080809@kcl.ac.uk> LSFA 2014 --- CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 8-9 September 2014, Brasilia D.F., Brazil http://lsfa2014.cic.unb.br ***** Submission deadline: 25 May 2014 ***** 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 workshop is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, and to facilitate feedback on the implementation and application of such techniques and results in practice. Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: * Logical frameworks * Proof theory * Type theory * Automated deduction * Semantic frameworks * Specification languages and meta-languages * Formal semantics of languages and systems * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks LSFA 2014 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. The proceedings are produced after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. LSFA 2014 will take place on the 8th and 9th September 2014 in Brasilia. Previous editions took place in Sao Paulo (2013), Rio de Janeiro (2012), Belo Horizonte (2011), Natal (2010), Brasilia (2009), Salvador (2008), Ouro Preto (2007) and Natal (2006). SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION: Contributions should be written in English and submitted as full papers (maximum 16 pages) or short papers (maximum 6 pages). They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The papers should be prepared in Latex using ENTCS style. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2014 The pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at event registration. After the meeting the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works for the post-proceedings to be published in ENTCS. At least one of the authors should register for the conference. Presentations are in English. IMPORTANT DATES: # Submission: Sunday 25 May # Notification: Friday 11 July # Preliminary proceedings version due: Sunday 03 August # Submission for final proceedings: Sunday 19 October # Notification: Friday 28 November # Final version: Sunday 21 December INVITED SPEAKERS: Ugo Montanari (Universita di Pisa, Italy) Andrew M Pitts (University of Cambridge, England) Rene Thiemann (University of Innsbruck, Austria) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE E. Albert (Spain), S. Alves (Portugal), S. de Amo (Brazil) C. Areces (Argentina), M. Ayala-Rincon (Brazil, co-chair) M. Benevides (Brazil), S. Berghofer (Germany), W. Carnielli (Brazil) C. Castro (Chile), A. Compagnoni (USA), M. D'Agostino (Italy) M. Fernandez (UK), M. Finger (Brazil), R. de Freitas (Brazil) S. Gay (UK), E. Hermann Haeusler (Brazil), F. Kamareddine (UK) D. Kesner (France), L. Lamb (Brazil), I. Mackie (France, co-chair) J. Marcos (Brazil), C. Munoz (USA), V. Nigam (Brazil), E. Pimentel (Brazil), R. Hax Sander Reiser (Brazil), F. van Raamsdonk (Netherlands), S. Ronchi Della Rocca (Italy) C. Talcott (USA), A. Tasistro (Uruguay), D. Ventura (Brazil) J.P. Viana (Brazil), R. Wassermann (Brazil), T. Weber (Sweden) ORGANISING COMMITTEE C. Nalon, F.L.C. de Moura, D. Nantes Sobrinho (Brazil) CONTACT: lsfa2014 at easychair.org Home page: http://lsfa2014.cic.unb.br From schwicht at rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de Wed Mar 5 03:53:05 2014 From: schwicht at rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de (schwicht at rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:53:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Summer School "Proof, Truth, Computation" (PTC 2014) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer School "Proof, Truth, Computation" (PTC 2014) 20-25 July 2014, Chiemsee, Germany Call for applications by young researchers. Deadline: 17 March 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is to invite young researchers (PhD students and post-docs) to apply for the upcoming summer school "Proof, Truth, Computation. Modern Foundations of Mathematics and Contemporary Philosophy". Application by female scientists is particularly encouraged. The event will take place from 21st to 25th July 2014 (arrival 20th July afternoon, departure 25th July after noon) in the Benedictine nunnery Frauenwoerth on the Fraueninsel in Chiemsee between Munich and Salzburg: http://www.frauenwoerth.de/english/ The Volkswagen Foundation will kindly sponsor this event: http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/foundation.html To get an idea of this summer school, especially of its interdisciplinary character, please see the material provided at end of this message. Junior participants will be particularly expected to contribute to the questions and answers sessions and to the round table discussions. Important dates: Deadline for application: 17th March 2014 Notification of acceptance: 24st March 2014 Communication of precise air fare (if applicable): 31st March 2014 Applications are to be sent, in a single PDF document, by email, to ptc14 at math.lmu.de PhD students need to send a CV of at most 2 pages, a brief letter of motivation and one letter of reference. Postdocs only need to send a CV of at most 2 pages. All applicants need to tell whether they also apply for funding and, if so, to which extent. Only a limited amount of funding is available. Applicants for funding are expected to stay for the whole week, and to tell the extent to which they can be funded by other sources. If your application for funding is successful, then you will be offered reimbursement of the travel and lodging expenses that you cannot cover from other sources. This will require that you choose the cheapest travel option, and that you book your trip by 31st March 2014 in case of flights and by the earliest possible date in case of long-distance trains. We hope to be able to contribute partially to your subsistence expenses (meals). Meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner - the latter two excluding drinks) for four and a half days will be EUR 180. PhD students and postdocs are expected to share double rooms, for EUR 125 each person for the whole week (5 nights). Organising committee: Hannes Leitgeb *** MODULARITY '14 *** 13th International Conference on Modularity April 22-25, 2014 Lugano, Switzerland http://modularity.info/ In cooperation with: * ACM SIGSOFT * ACM SIGPLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES: - Early registration is available now through March 14 at http://modularity14.inf.usi.ch/registration ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Modularity'14 is the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on software modularity, with an emphasis on modular structures that cut across traditional abstraction boundaries. This year's conference continues the tradition of its successful predecessors with research, which bring together leading researchers and practitioners working in such fields as software engineering, programming languages, systems, and others. Continuing the tradition of its successful predecessors, the program of Modularity'14 will include: - A Research Track presenting the newest research results. - A Modularity Visions Track presenting ground-breaking new ideas and perspectives on modularity in software. - Workshops for in-depth discussion of advanced topics in industry and research. - A coordinated educational program to provide foundations for research in the field. - Demonstrations of leading-edge technologies. Modularity'14 will be hosted by the Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland. For complete information, visit: http://modularity.info/ From luca.vigano at univr.it Wed Mar 5 07:15:22 2014 From: luca.vigano at univr.it (Luca Vigano`) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:15:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 9th Workshop on Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2014) Message-ID: <30BF2854-D640-4937-9C13-E27E187283C9@univr.it> [We apologize for multiple copies] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Workshop on Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2014) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2014) http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/ July 21 - July 25, 2014 The Savoia Hotel Regency Bologna, Italy SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 28, 2014 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Providing high performance computing and security is a challenging task. Internet, operating systems and distributed environments currently suffer from poor security support and cannot resist common attacks. Adding security measures typically degrade performance. This workshop addresses relationships between security and high performance computing systems in three directions. First, it considers how to add security properties (authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, access control) to high performance computing systems and how they can be formally verified both at design-time (formal verification) and at run-time (run-time verification). In this case, safety properties can also be addressed, such as availability and fault tolerance for high performance computing systems. Second, it covers how to use high performance computing systems to solve security problems. For instance, a grid computation can break an encryption code, a cluster can support high performance intrusion detection or a distributed formal verification system. More generally, this topic addresses every efficient use of a high performance computing systems to improve security. Third, it investigates the tradeoffs between maintaining high performance and achieving security in computing systems and solutions to balance the two objectives. In all these directions, various formal analyses, as well as performance analyses or monitoring techniques can be conducted to show the efficiency of a security infrastructure. The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of computer and network security, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Papers should have practical relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. The Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: * Access Control * Accounting and Audit * Anonymity * Applied Cryptography * Authentication * Cloud Security * Commercial and Industry Security * Cryptographic Protocols * Data and Application Security * Data/System Integrity * Database Security * Digital Rights Management * Formal Verification of Secure Systems * Identity Management * Inference/Controlled Disclosure * Information Warfare * Intellectual Property Protection * Intrusion and Attack Detection * Intrusion and Attack Response * Key Management * Privacy-Enhancing Technology * Secure Networking * Secure System Design * Security Monitoring & Management * Security for Mobile Code * Security for Specific Domains (e.g., E-Government, E-Business, P2P) * Security in IT Outsourcing * Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Security in Untrusted & Adversarial Environments and Systems * Security in Operating Systems * Security Location Services * Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures * Security Visualization * Smartcards * Trust Management Policies * Trust Models * Web Security * Web Services Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to Security in HPC. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 7 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/home/posters for the submission details) will also be accepted for submission. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript using the Workshop EasyChair submission link at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=shpcs2014 Only PDF files will be accepted, submitted via the link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be made available at the time of the meeting. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2013 Conference web site. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for a special issue in an ISI Journal (the last special issue has been published in the Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: -------------------------------------- March 28, 2014 Acceptance Notification: ---------------------------------- April 24, 2014 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: -------------------- May 6, 2014 Conference Dates: ------------------------------------ July 21 ? 25, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZER Luca Spalazzi Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Universit? Politecnica delle Marche Via Brecce Bianche I-60131 Ancona, ITALY, EU Phone: +39 071 2204829 Fax: +39 071 2204474 Email: spalazzi at dii.univpm.it Luca Vigan? Department of Informatics King?s College London S6.32, Strand Building, Strand Campus London WC2R 2LS, England, UK, EU Phone: +44 020 7848 2078 Email: luca.vigano at kcl.ac.uk INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2014. ? Massimo Benerecetti University of Naples "Federico II", Italy ? Mathieu Blanc Commissariat ? l'Energie Atomique, France ? Gianluca Capuzzi TeamSystem Ancona s.r.l., Italy ? Pierpaolo Degano University of Pisa, Italy ? Ioanna Dionysiou University of Nicosia, Cyprus ? Hannes Federrath University of Hamburg, Germany ? Paolo Giorgini University of Trento, Italy ? Dieter Hutter DFKI GmbH, Germany ? Martin G. Jaatun SINTEF ICT, Norway ? Jean-Francois Lalande LIFO, Universite d'Orleans, France ? Gianluigi Me University of Rome "Luiss Guido Carli", Italy ? Alessio Merlo E-Campus University, Italy ? Jose A. Onieva Gonz?lez Universidad de M?laga, Spain ? Francesco Pagliarecci Universit? Politecnica delle Marche, Italy ? Waleed Smari Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., OH, USA ? Anna Squicciarini Penn State, PA, USA ? Simone Tacconi Polizia di Stato, Italy ? Toshihiro Yamauchi Okayama University, Okayama, Japan If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the organizers. For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference?s web site at URL: http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs14 or contact one of the Conference's organizers. From mellies at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr Wed Mar 5 14:47:20 2014 From: mellies at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr (Paul-Andre Mellies) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:47:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Kick-off meeting -- IHP thematic trimester -- Tuesday April 22 Message-ID: <2D0C1D6C-CCFA-4BE8-944D-E1F5E57192FF@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> Dear all, We are glad to announce the kick-off meeting of the thematic trimester ** Semantics of proofs and certified mathematics ** which will be held at Institut Henri Poincar? (IHP), Paris, on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Four keynote speakers are invited to give a talk on this occasion: ? Georges Gonthier (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and Microsoft INRIA Joint Center, Palaiseau) Digitizing the Group Theory of the Odd Order Theorem ? Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh) Formalizing the proof of the Kepler Conjecture ? Xavier Leroy (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) Proof assistants in computer science research ? Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Univalent Foundations - new type-theoretic foundations of mathematics More information on the thematic trimester will be found on the webpage https://ihp2014.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/doku.php You will find preliminary lists of confirmed invited speakers for the 5 workshops of the IHP programme 5?9 May Workshop 1 Formalization of mathematics in proof assistants 2?6 June Workshop 2 Constructive mathematics and models of type theory 10?14 June Workshop 3 Semantics of proofs and programs 23?27 June Workshop 4 Abstraction and verification in semantics 7?11 July Workshop 5 Certification of high-level and low-level programs Registration to individual workshops is free but mandatory here: http://www.ihp.fr/en/ceb/trimester/proofs (you do not need to register to the trimester unless you intend to stay for longer than the duration of a workshop) https://webmail.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/SOGo/so/curien/Mail/0/folderDrafts/newDraft1384694494-1/edit# The organisers Pierre-Louis Curien Hugo Herbelin Paul-Andre Mellies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From balzers at inf.ethz.ch Wed Mar 5 17:54:04 2014 From: balzers at inf.ethz.ch (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:54:04 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IWACO 2014: Call for Papers Message-ID: ************************************************************************** 6TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ALIASING, CAPABILITIES AND OWNERSHIP (IWACO) Co-located with ECOOP 2014 July 28th, 2014, Uppsala, Sweden http://www.ownership-types.org/iwaco14/ ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Reasoning about shared state in imperative programs is challenging. The existence of aliases, in particular, compromises modular reasoning, making imperative programs hard to understand, maintain, and analyze. These difficulties become even aggravated in a concurrent context. On the other hand, aliasing is a very powerful feature and allows for efficient implementations of data structures, for example. To address those challenges, techniques have been introduced for describing and reasoning about stateful programs and for restricting, analyzing, and preventing aliases. Approaches are based on ownership, capabilities, separation logic, linear logic, uniqueness, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, linear references, effects systems, and access control mechanisms. The workshop will generally address the question how to reason about stateful (sequential or concurrent) programs. 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 ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics; optimization techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting ownership, aliasing, capabilities, 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 and/or shared state, or use ownership, capabilities or resourcing; applications of any of these techniques to a concurrent setting. 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. Paper selection will be based on the quality of the submitted material. Please direct any questions regarding the workshop's scope to the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 Notification: June 9, 2014 Final version: June 23, 2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo Colin Gordon, University of Washington Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Greg Morrisett, Harvard University Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University Francois Pottier, INRIA Alex Summers, ETH Z?rich Aaron Turon, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Jan Vitek, Purdue University Janina Voigt, Cambridge University ORGANIZERS: Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University Johan ?stlund, Uppsala University From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 04:16:33 2014 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:16:33 GMT Subject: [TYPES/announce] CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits - Grants, and Call for Presentations Message-ID: <201403060916.s269GXAI000704@maths.leeds.ac.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2014: Language, Life, Limits Budapest, Hungary June 23 - 27, 2014 http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ FUNDING DEADLINES - ASL STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: 23 March 2014 - WOMEN IN COMPUTING GRANTS: 1 April 2014 - EACTS STUDENT GRANTS: 1 April 2014 ------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS There is a remarkable difference in conference style between computer science and mathematics conferences. 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. Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, also 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 one page) by the DEADLINE: ------------------------------------------------------ APRIL 14, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------ Please submit your abstract electronically, via EasyChair , selecting the category "Informal Presentation". You will be notified whether your talk has been accepted for informal presentation usually within a week or two after your submission. If you intend to apply for the ASL Student Travel Award, you might need us to confirm that your are going to give a presentation at CiE 2014 (applications of students who are presenting get higher priority). Therefore, we would like to ask you to submit your informal presentations by 20 March so that we can send you the notification before the ASL deadline of 23 March 2014. GRANTS: Grants for students, members of the ASL: The Association for Symbolic Logic before the deadline of April 1, 2014. EACTS Students The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science is providing limited funds for student participation. Again, preference is given to student presenting at the conference. Please contact the PC chairs if you are interested before the deadline of April 1, 2014. __________________________________________________ ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk CiE Conference Series http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu CiE Membership Application Form http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/CIE AssociationCiE on Twitter http://twitter.com/AssociationCiE __________________________________________________________________________ From G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 06:52:06 2014 From: G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk (Guy McCusker) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:52:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: APAL special issue on Games for Logic and Programming Languages Message-ID: <8CA90125-F0F7-4133-92D7-E0620D1DAC6B@bath.ac.uk> ANNALS OF PURE AND APPLIED LOGIC (APAL) SPECIAL ISSUE ON GAMES FOR LOGIC AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES CALL FOR PAPERS TOPIC Game semantics has emerged as a new and successful paradigm in the field of semantics of logics and programming languages. Game semantics made its breakthrough in computer science in the early 90s, providing an innovative set of methods and techniques for the analysis of logical systems. Subsequently, game-semantic techniques led to the development of the first syntax-independent fully-abstract models for a variety of programming languages, ranging from the purely functional to languages effects such as control, references or concurrency. Nowadays, game semantics has expanded to a variety of fields in theory and analysis of computation, such as theories of concurrency, semantics of lambda calculi and proofs, program analysis, model checking and hardware synthesis. This special issue, based on the GALOP workshop held at Queen Mary University of London in 2013 (see http://www.gamesemantics.org/galop-viii), aims to reflect new developments in this area. Topics of interest for contributions to the journal issue include, but are not limited to game semantics and its applications to: - Game theory and interaction models in semantics - Games-based program analysis and verification - Logics for games and games for logics - Algorithmic aspects of games - Categorical aspects - Programming languages and full abstraction - Higher-order automata and Petri nets - Geometry of Interaction - Ludics - Epistemic game theory - Logics of dependence and independence - Computational linguistics SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be original work, which has not been previously published in a full form and is not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Please submit submissions following APAL's style (http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=505603) on the following easychair link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apalgalop2013 The deadline for submission is May 31st, 2014. GUEST EDITORS Martin Hyland (University of Cambridge) Guy McCusker (University of Bath) Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr Thu Mar 6 06:56:13 2014 From: touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr (Tayssir Touili) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:56:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD positions in LIAFA, Paris, France: Software verification and Model-checking for malware detection Message-ID: <5318625D.8060206@liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr> Please distribute (apologies for multiple postings): =============================== Two PhD positions in LIAFA ================== Contact: Tayssir TOUILI (touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr) Two PhD positions are available in the "Verification" team in LIAFA, Paris. *Subject 1: Software verification** **------------------------------------------* The subject of the thesis is about concurrent programs verification. The PhD student is expected to investigate and develop novel techniques, algorithms and tools for the analysis of software. Indeed, nowadays, software is everywhere: in telecommunication, in navigation, in nuclear plants, etc. The tasks that software deal with are becoming more and more complex and critical, in the sense that any small error can cause huge human and/or economical damages. Therefore, it is crucial to be sure that a software does not contain any error before using it. Programmers need then to have rigorous formal mathematical techniques that allow to verify and check their programs. Unfortunately, programs present several complex features that make their analysis very complex: concurrency, synchronisation, recursion, procedure calls, pointers, manipulation of integer and real variables, etc. Thus, the objective of this thesis is to develop new techniques for software model-checking that can deal with all these complex features. *Subject 2: Model-checking for malware detection* *-----------------------------------------------------------------* The topic of the thesis is the development of new original model-checking and static analysis techniques for malware detection. Indeed, the number of malwares is growing extraordinarily fast. Therefore, it is important to have efficient malware detectors. To identify viruses, existing antivirus systems use either code emulation or signature (pattern) detection. These techniques have some limitations. Indeed, emulation based techniques can only check the program's behavior in a limited time interval, whereas signature based systems are easy to get around. To sidestep these limitations, instead of executing the program or making a syntactic check over it, virus detectors need to use analysis techniques that check the /*behavior*/ (not the syntax) of the program in a /*static*/ way, i.e. without executing it. Towards this aim, we propose in this thesis to develop new /*model-checking*/ and /*static analysis */ techniques for virus detection. *How to apply:** **==========* The positions are available immediately. Candidates must have a master in computer science. The candidate must send a CV, university grades, recommendation letters, and a motivation letter to Tayssir TOUILI (touili at liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabriel at info.uaic.ro Fri Mar 7 05:20:19 2014 From: gabriel at info.uaic.ro (Gabriel Ciobanu) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:20:19 +0200 (EET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP SYNASC 2014, 22-25 Sept (an event related to ICTAC 2014) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------- [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] SYNASC 2014 will be held in Timisoara during 22-25 September, just after ICTAC 2014 in Bucharest, 17-20 September. First Call for Papers --------------------- SYNASC 2014 16th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 22-25, 2014, Timisoara, Romania http://synasc.ro/2014/ http://synasc14.info.uvt.ro/ Aim --- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing and to exhibit interesting applications of the areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of the topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary for accelerating the progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important Dates --------------- 15 March 2014 : Special sessions / Workshops / Tutorials proposals 15 April 2014 : Abstract submission 30 April 2014 : Paper submission 15 July 2014 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2014 : Registration 05 September 2014 : Revised papers according to the reviews 22-25 September 2014 : Symposium 30 November 2014 : Final papers for post-proceedings Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * Numerical Computing + iterative approximation of fixed points + solving systems of nonlinear equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization + parallel algorithms for numerical computing + scientific visualization and image processing * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + methods for hard computational problems + intelligent systems for scientific computing + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + scientific knowledge management + computational intelligence + machine learning + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + data mining and web mining + natural language processing + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + intelligent hybrid systems * Distributed Computing + parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving + applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments + architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing + modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators + any other topic deemed relevant to the field * Advances in the Theory of Computing + data Structures and algorithms + combinatorial Optimization + formal languages and Combinatorics on Words + graph-theoretic and Combinatorial methods in Computer Science + algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms + computational Complexity Theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing + logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory + algorithmic and computational learning theory + aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory + proof complexity + computational social choice and game theory + new computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to Computability + randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity + automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification + applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics + experimental algorithmics This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Publication ----------- Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be collected as post-proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (included in IEEE Xplore) and will be submitted for indexing in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS. Extended versions of the selected papers published in post-proceedings will be considering to be published as special issues in international journals. Invited Speakers ---------------- * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Gheorghe Paun, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania * William Langdon, University College London, UK * Stefan Takacs, TU Chemnitz, Germany * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada Honorary Chairs --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General Chair ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair ------------- * Franz Winkler, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Numerical Computing + Walter Zulehner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria + Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Logic and Programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria + Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, US and West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Daniel Pop, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Franz Winkler, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission ----------- Submissions of research papers are invited. The papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. The submission process consists of two steps. * In the first step the authors are invited to express their intention to participate at the conference by submitting a short abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) where it is clearly stated the main contribution(s) of the paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper (up to 8 pages in the two-columns IEEE conference style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2014. Proposals are also invited for: * special sessions * satellite workshops * tutorials Special sessions Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the conference. Special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas and they are fully integrated into the main conference. The research papers and the informal presentations submitted and accepted for the special sessions follow the same rules as the papers submitted to the regular sessions. It is expected that the organizers of the special sessions appoint their own chair and program committee, which will be integrated in the conference program committee and will be supervised by the conference program chair and by the general chair. Workshops Proposals for satellite workshops are also invited. The satellite workshops should have topics related to SYNASC but the scientific program of each satellite workshop is managed by the workshop organizers. Authors contributing to a workshop would be required to register for the symposium. Tutorials Proposals for tutorials are also invited. Tutorials provide fundamental exposure to topics ranging from introductory through intermediate to advanced. The number and the duration of the tutorials will be decided by the tutorial chair under the supervision of the general chair. Depending on the number and the quality of the proposals for tutorials, they may be organized as a SYNASC Autumn School. ----------- SYNASC 2014 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592195, +(40) 256 592389 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc14 at synasc.ro From j.boender at mdx.ac.uk Fri Mar 7 05:51:08 2014 From: j.boender at mdx.ac.uk (Jaap Boender) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:51:08 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentships at Middlesex University Message-ID: Middlesex University London is offering a number of fully funded PhD research studentships across the university: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/index.aspx These are three-year scholarships, covering UK/EU fees and offering a maintenance award. For 2013/14 the maintenance award is ?13,863, which includes London weighting, and is free of tax and national insurance contributions. Non-EU students will be required to cover the difference between the UK/EU and International students fee. The difference currently is ?5968. The research topics include areas that might be of interest to members of this list. A full list of projects for Computer Science can be found at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/comp-sci.aspx The Foundations of Computing group, part of the School of Science and Technology, is keen to support qualified candidates who are interested in applying. In particular, we welcome proposals on the following topics: - Verification of Secure Weighted Doxastic Reasoning with Trust http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Secure%20Weighted%20Doxastic%20Reasoning.pdf - Formal Verification of Quantum Protocols http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Formal%20Verification.pdf - Analysis techniques for safety-critical interactive systems: theory and tools. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Analysis%20techniques.pdf Proposals that maybe of interest to members of the Foundations Group, but not listed above are also welcome. Interested candidates should contact one of the group members (names and addresses are listed in the different projects) informally to discuss a possible project (candidates are asked to submit a personal research statement as part of their application). Successful candidates will be selected through a university-wide process. More information about the Foundations Group can be found at: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/foundations/ Jaap Boender -- Lecturer in Foundations of Computing Middlesex University, School of Science and Technology Hendon Town Hall, T120 - tel +44 (0) 208 41 13645 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. From lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr Fri Mar 7 05:49:58 2014 From: lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr (Lutz Strassburger) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:49:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers for SD14, July 12-13, 2014, Vienna Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR The Third International Workshop on STRUCTURES AND DEDUCTION (SD14) http://vsl2014.at/sd/ July 12-13, 2014 Affiliated with CSL-LICS 2014 Part of the Vienna Summer of Logic Overview ======== This is the third in a series of meetings that bring together researchers in different areas of proof theory. The main interest is in new algebraic and geometric results in proof theory that expand our abilities to manipulate proofs, that help to reduce bureaucracy in deductive systems, and that ultimately lead to new methods for proof search and new kinds of proof certificates. Topics of the workshop include - syntactic presentations of proofs, like sequent calculi and deep inference systems, in their focused and non-focused variants; - combinatorial presentations of proofs, such as proof nets; - algebraic presentations of proofs, for example via game semantics or category theory; - methods for proof manipulation and normal forms for proofs; - methods for incorporating computation and rewriting in proof search, such as deduction modulo or fixpoint definitions. Since the past two meetings, held in 2005 in Lisbon and in 2009 in Bordeaux, there has been a tremendous amount of progress in the the theoretical foundations of the topics mentioned above. The time is ripe for moving towards implementations of these ideas in terms of new interactive and automated reasoning tools and modifications to existing tools. Thus, we encourage contributions not only of regular papers, but also of system descriptions, work in progress, and programmatic/position papers. Invited Speakers ================ Gilles Dowek (Inria Paris-Rocquencourt) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University) Deadlines and Author Instructions ================================= Submission deadline: April 13, 2014 Notification: May 9, 2014 Final version: May 20, 2014 Authors are requested to submit a 10 page (for finished work) or 5 page (for work in progress) paper in the Easychair Proceedings format. LaTeX style files and documentation are available at: http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip Submissions are through the following URL: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sd14 Program Committee ================= David Baelde (ENS Cachan) Paola Bruscoli (University of Bath) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria) - chair Nicolas Guenot (IT University of Copenhagen) Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath) - chair James Laird (University of Bath) Chuck Liang (Hofstra Unviersity) Michel Parigot (CNRS - Universit? Paris 7) Elaine Pimentel (UFMG) Revantha Ramanayake (Vienna University of Technology) Luca Roversi (University Torino) Lutz Strassburger (Inria) - chair Christine Tasson (Laboratoire PPS) Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University) From asolar at csail.mit.edu Fri Mar 7 17:56:28 2014 From: asolar at csail.mit.edu (Armando Solar-Lezama) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:56:28 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop on PL Technology for Education Message-ID: <531A4E9C.5050407@csail.mit.edu> =============================================================== Call for Talk Proposals for Second Workshop on Programming Languages Technology for Massive Open Online Courses PLOOC 2014 Co-Located with PLDI 2014 Edinburgh UK 9-11 June http://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/plooc2014/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Massive open online courses present a broad set of challenges ranging from automated grading and feedback, automatic problem generation, plagiarism detection, as well as new issues such as how to enhance collaboration and peer tutoring across the web. The goal of this workshop is to explore how formal methods technologies related to specification, verification, and synthesis can be applied to solve some of these problems in the context of MOOCS, and how these technologies can be leveraged and enhanced in the traditional classroom. We are interested in application of these technologies to a wide variety of subject domains including programming, logic, automata theory, math, and science. We are now accepting 1-page proposals for 30-minute talks presenting relevant work in this area. The proposal should include a brief summary of the proposed talk and any relevant references (those can be in a separate page). The deadline for submissions is March 26. For more information, including submission instructions, visit the workshop page: http://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/plooc2014/ Co-orgainizers Armando Solar-Lezama and Swarat Chaudhuri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition to high-quality main track papers, FM 2014 features 7 industry track papers which highlight industry applications of formal methods. VENUE FM 2014 will be held in National University of Singapore, Singapore. Different options for accommodations are available. Please refer to our website on how to reserve rooms at special rates. See: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/conference_hotel.html REGISTRATION The deadline for early registration is March 31, 2014. After March 31, 2014, late and on-site registration fees apply. Registrations for the main conference, workshops and tutorials, include breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks. Please visit the registration webpage for further details: See: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/registration.html Visitors to Singapore from certain countries are required to apply for an entry visa, typically through an embassy in their country. Kindly contact us if any assistance from the conference organisor is needed. PROGRAM OVERVIEW * Workshops (May 12-13, 2014) - AI4FM 2014: http://www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2014/ - ESSS 2014: http://pat.sce.ntu.edu.sg/esss14/ - FMTV 2014: http://www.merge-project.eu/?page_id=192 - FSFMA 2014: http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/fsfma2014/ - QFM 2014: http://web.science.mq.edu.au/conferences/qfm14/ - UTP 2014: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014/ * Tutorials (May 12-13, 2014): http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/tutorial.html - Collaborative Modelling and Co-simulation: Tools and techniques for Designing Embedded Systems - Unifying Theories of Programming in Isabelle/HOL - Formal Model-Driven Engineering - BACH: From Bounded Reachability Analysis of Linear Hybrid Automata To Online Verification of Industrial Cyber-Physical System - The Correctness-by-Construction Approach to Programming * Doctoral Symposium (May 13, 2014) * Main Conference (May 14-16) - Keynotes: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/keynotes.html - Main Track Papers: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/accepted_main_track_papers.html - Industry Track Papers: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/accepted_industry_track_papers.html See you in Singapore! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grlmc at urv.cat Sat Mar 8 11:26:29 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 17:26:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SSTiC 2014: March 15, 4th registration deadline Message-ID: *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- March 15, 4th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili From david.delahaye at cnam.fr Sun Mar 9 23:15:07 2014 From: david.delahaye at cnam.fr (david.delahaye at cnam.fr) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:15:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline (March 17, 2014): SETS 2014 Message-ID: ** Extended Deadline: March 17, 2014 ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- SETS 2014 ******************************************************************************** 1st International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2014) June 3, 2014, Toulouse, France Affiliated to ABZ 2014 http://sets2014.cnam.fr/ ******************************************************************************** AIM Sets and constructs built upon them like relations, functions, sequences are the main modeling ingredients of formalisms such as VDM, Z, B, or Event-B. Sets also occur in the formalization of mathematics, as evidenced by the large library of the Mizar proof system for example. In addition, still in the domain of theorem proving, there is an increasing interest to automate set theory (which is known to be a difficult problem), with some concrete realizations, such as mp (the "main prover" of Atelier B) or Muscadet (an automated theorem prover for natural deduction, which gives some good performances in set theory). Sets are also the main features of some programming languages like the former SetL language or the more recent {log} language (pronounced as setlog). The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in set theory, especially to design tools for dealing with set theory, such as interactive or automated theorem provers, proof checkers, theories for general purpose proof tools, constraint solvers, programming languages etc. These tools may be dedicated or general purpose tools. Contributions by theoreticians working on set theories or fragments of set theories in the aim of designing concrete tools, and by practitioners using set-based tools are both welcome. We are also interested by contributions providing some comparisons between set modeling techniques and other formalisms, such as type theory (and variants) for instance. Finally, regarding the domains of application, we mainly expect contributions in the framework of formal methods, but not exhaustively, and contributions reporting formalizations of mathematics using set theory for example could be of interest for this workshop as well. TOPICS Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of set theory and corresponding tools. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * Proof tools for sets * Constraint solvers for sets * Set-based programming languages * Automated deduction in set theory * Set theories for SMT solvers * Encoding of sets in provers * Use of set-based tools in formal methods * Use of set-based tools in mathematics * Comparison of set-based tools * Comparison between set and type theories * Experience reports CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Submitted papers must be 6-15 pages in length, following the Springer LNCS format. These submissions may be: * Research papers providing new concepts and results * Position papers and research perspectives * Experience reports * Tool presentations Proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be available electronically at the workshop. No copyright transfer agreement will be required from the authors. For this first edition of this workshop, we would like to put the emphasis on discussions rather than on conventional publications. PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF using the SETS 2014 EasyChair web site at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sets2014 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: March 3, 2014 Submission deadline: March 17, 2014 (extended) Paper notification: April 7, 2014 Revised/final paper: April 21, 2014 Workshop: June 3, 2014 PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS David Delahaye (Cnam, France) Catherine Dubois (Ensiie, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Maximiliano Cristia (CIFASIS, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) David Deharbe (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Mamoun Filali (CNRS, IRIT, France) Michael Leuschel (University of D?sseldorf, Germany) Stephan Merz (Inria Nancy - Grand Est, Loria, France) Dominique Pastre (Universit? Paris Descartes, France) Gianfranco Rossi (Universit? di Parma, Italy) Mark Utting (University of Waikato, New Zealand) Benjamin Werner (Inria Saclay - ?le-de-France, ?cole Polytechnique, France) Freek Wiedijk (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC Institute, JKU Linz, Austria) From lina.ye at inria.fr Mon Mar 10 07:25:21 2014 From: lina.ye at inria.fr (lina.ye at inria.fr) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:25:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SEFM 2014: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <201403101125.s2ABPLLO009371@ubac.inrialpes.fr> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. #################################################################### FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2014) http://sefm2014.inria.fr/ Grenoble, France September 1-5, 2014 #################################################################### NEWS - After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in two special issues, one in the Formal Aspects of Computing journal and the other in the Software and Systems Modeling journal. - Five workshops will be co-located with SEFM 2014 in Grenoble, details are available on http://sefm2014.inria.fr/workshops/ - Registration fees Main conference and 2 days of workshops (5 days in total): 450 euros Main conference (3 days): 350 euros 2 days of workshop: 140 euros 1 day of workshop: 80 euros Main conference and 1 day of workshop: 350 + 80 = 430 euros (no discount) - Information about venue are available on http://sefm2014.inria.fr/venue/ #################################################################### IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: March 14, 2014 Paper Submission: March 21, 2014 (AoE) Notification: May 19, 2014 Camera Ready: June 13, 2014 Main conference: September 3-5, 2014 Workshops: September 1-2, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to scale up their application in the software industry and to encourage their integration with practical engineering methods. Papers that apply formal methods to software engineering are especially welcome. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of this conference include, but are not limited to: - Formal requirement analysis, modeling, specification and design - Abstraction and refinement - Formal methods for probabilistic verification and synthesis - Programming languages, program analysis and type theory - Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, service-oriented and cloud computing - Formal aspects of security and mobility - Model checking, theorem proving and decision procedures - Formal methods for real-time, hybrid and embedded systems - Formal methods for safety-critical, fault-tolerant and secure systems - Software architecture and coordination languages - Software verification and validation - Component, object and multi-agent systems - Formal aspects of software evolution and maintenance - Formal methods for testing, re-engineering and reuse - Light-weight and scalable formal methods - Tool integration - Applications of formal methods, industrial case studies and technology transfer - Education and formal methods - Interactive systems and human error analysis - Formal methods for HCI - Formal analysis of human behaviour -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. They will be evaluated on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Papers should conform to the Springer LNCS style and should describe, in English, original work that has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. PDF versions of papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2014 We solicit two categories of papers: - Research papers should describe fully developed work and should not exceed 15 pages. Authors of papers reporting experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available to reviewers. Case study papers should describe significant case studies and lessons learned. - Tool papers should describe an operational tool and its contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages. Please include the URL of the tool (if available). Two additional pages of appendices are allowed that will not be included in the proceedings. The proceedings of SEFM'14 will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in two special issues, one in the Formal Aspects of Computing journal and the other in the Software and Systems Modeling journal. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR Radu Mateescu - Inria Grenoble, Rh?ne-Alpes, France PROGRAM CHAIRS Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Gwen Sala?n, Grenoble INP, Inria, France WORKSHOP CHAIRS Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain Marc Frappier, Sherbrooke University, Canada Akram Idani, Grenoble INP, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria Dalal Alrajeh, Imperial College, London, UK Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands Luis Barbosa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Howard Barringer, The University of Manchester, UK Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg Jonathan P. Bowen, Birmingham City University, UK Mario Bravetti, Universit? di Bologna, Italy Tevfik Bultan, UC Santa Barbara, USA Hung Dang Van, Vietnam National University, Vietnam Francisco Duran, University of Malaga, Spain George Eleftherakis, CITY College of Thessaloniki, Greece Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Mamoun Filali, IRIT CNRS Universit? de Toulouse, France Martin Fr?nzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany Marc Frappier, Sherbrooke University, Canada Hubert Garavel, Inria, France Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK Mike Hinchey, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland Falk Howar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, Germany Peter Lindsay, The University of Queensland, Australia Ant?nia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Stephan Merz, Inria, France Mizuhito Ogawa, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Fernando Orejas, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta Dave Parker, University of Birmingham , UK Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Sanjiva Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Jakob Rehof, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Leila Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Matthew Staats, University of Luxembourg Martin Steffen, Olso University, Norway Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Serdar Tasiran, Koc University, Turkey Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China From lanese at cs.unibo.it Mon Mar 10 08:52:16 2014 From: lanese at cs.unibo.it (Ivan Lanese) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:52:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position on Reversible computing Message-ID: Call for PostDocs The ANR REVER project is seeking applicants for two 1-year post-doctoral research positions. The work will be done either at the Spades team at INRIA Grenoble, at the Focus team at University of Bologna (joint team with INRIA Sophia Antipolis M?diterran?e) or at the PPS laboratory at the University of Paris Denis Diderot. The REVER project aims at facilitating the programming of recoverable systems, i.e. of systems that can tolerate faults by means of system recovery techniques, using reversible computing. More precisely, the REVER project aims to study the possibility of defining semantically well-founded and composable abstractions for dependable computing on the basis of a reversible programming language substrate, where reversibility means the ability to undo any distributed program execution, possibly step by step, and to revert it to a state consistent with the past execution. See http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jkrivine/ANR/REVER/ANR_REVER/Welcome.html for more information on the REVER project. The successful applicants will be expected to contribute to this research effort, which will include both semantic foundations, programming abstractions, and practical implementations. Requirements for application: * Ph.D. in Computer Science (completed or near completion) * A research background on concurrency theory, programming language semantics, programming language implementation, or distributed algorithms. Application procedure: * To apply send a curriculum, a publication record and a statement of interest via e-mail to Prof. Jean-Bernard Stefani , Dr. Ivan Lanese , and Dr Jean Krivine . * Deadline: April 30, 2014 From lanese at cs.unibo.it Mon Mar 10 11:28:43 2014 From: lanese at cs.unibo.it (Ivan Lanese) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:28:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2014) - June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany Message-ID: ICE 2014 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://www.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2014 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2014 http://www.discotec.org === Highlights === - Innovative selection procedure - ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief announcements of already published papers - Invited talks: Kim Larsen and Pavol Cerny - Special issue in a highly-reputed journal === Important Dates === 12 March 2014...................Abstract submission 15 March 2014...................Full paper submission 16 March - 15 April 2014........Reviews and PC discussion 16 April 2014...................Notification to authors 6 June 2014.....................ICE in Berlin 15 September 2014...............Camera-ready for post-proceedings === Scope === Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of international scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer science researchers with special interest in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives for complex interactions. The general scope of the venue includes theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among components of concurrent/distributed systems, related to several areas of computer science in the broad spectrum ranging from formal specification and analysis to studies inspired by emerging computational models. We solicit contributions relevant to Interaction and Concurrency, including but not limited to: * Formal semantics * Process algebras and calculi * Models and languages * Protocols * Logics and types * Expressiveness * Model transformations * Tools, implementations, and experiments * Specification and verification * Coinductive techniques * Tools and techniques for automation * Synthesis techniques The special focus of ICE 2014 is automation in concurrency and interaction. === Selection Procedure === Since its 1st edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has been an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. During the review phase, each submission is published on a dedicated discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of the submission and by all the PC members not in conflict with the submission. The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions and clarifications to the authors, allowing them to better explain all the aspects of their submission. The evaluation of the submission will take into account not only the reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion. As witnessed by the past six editions of ICE, this procedure considerably improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the selection, the quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during the workshop. === Submission Guidelines === We invite for three types of submissions: (1) Full Papers; (2) Short Papers; (3) Brief Announcements of already Published Papers. Full and short papers will appear in the post-proceedings and must report previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The ICE 2014 post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite for brief announcements of already published results, should the authors be interested in discussing their published research with the ICE community and giving a talk. Brief announcements will not be part of the post-proceedings. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2014). Full papers should not exceed 15 pages in length, while short papers and brief announcements should not exceed 5 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). Accepted (full and short) papers and brief announcements must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. === Special Issue === We plan to invite extended versions of selected full papers to a special issue in a highly-reputed journal. Such contributions will be regularly peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but they will be handled in a shorter time than regular submissions. === Invited Talks === Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Pavol Cerny (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) === Program Committee === Luis Soares Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Laura Bocchi (Imperial College London, UK) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Nicolas D'Ippolito (Imperial College London, UK) Mike Dodds (York University, UK) Bernd Finkbeiner (Universit?t des Saarlandes, Germany) Elena Giachino (University of Bologna, Italy) Tobias Heindel (LIX ?cole Polytechnique, France) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, France) Sophia Knight (LIX ?cole Polytechnique, France) Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg, Germany) Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin, UK) Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK) Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Shiva Nejati (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Peter ?lveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) Luca Padovani (University of Torino, Italy) Antonio Ravara (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal) Owen Stephens (University of Southampton, UK) Ali Sezgin (IST Austria, Austria) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Paola Spoletini (University of Insubria, Italy) Bernardo Toninho (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal & Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) === ICEcreamers === Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy; PC chair) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria; PC chair) Hugo Torres Vieira (University of Lisbon, Portugal) === Steering Committee === Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Paola Spoletini (University of Insubria, Italy) === Contact === ice2014 at easychair.org === Previous editions === The previous six editions of ICE have been held on * July 6th, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with ICALP'08. The post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol.229-3). * August 31st, 2009 in Bologna, Italy, co-located with CONCUR'09. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.12) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of MSCS (with EXPRESS?09 and SOS?09, Vol. 22, Number 2). * June 10th, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-located with DisCoTec'10. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.38) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of SACS (with CAMPUS'10 and CS2BIO'10, Vol. XXI). * June 9th, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with DisCoTec'11. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.59) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SACS (Vol. XXII). * June 16th, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with DisCoTec'12. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.104) and a special issue of SCP is now in preparation. * June 6th, 2013 in Florence, Italy, co-located with DisCoTec?13. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.131) and a special issue of SCP is now in preparation. From David.Pearce at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Mon Mar 10 17:59:16 2014 From: David.Pearce at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (David Pearce) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:59:16 +1300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FTfJP'14: Call for Papers Message-ID: <531E35B4.4090504@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> =================================================================== 16th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP'14) Co-located with ECOOP 2014 July 28th, 2014, Uppsala, Sweden http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/FTfJP2014/ ================================================================== Formal techniques can help analyze programs, precisely describe program behavior, and verify program properties. Newer languages such as Java, C#, and Scala 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: * Language Semantics * Specification techniques and languages * Verification of program properties * Verification logics * Dynamic program analysis * Static program analysis * Type systems * Challenge problems and solutions * Security =================================================================== Submissions =================================================================== Contributions (of up to 6 pages in the ACM 2-column style) are sought on open questions, new developments, or interesting new applications of formal techniques in the context of Java or similar languages. Contributions should not merely present completely finished work, but also raise challenging open problems or propose speculative new approaches. We particularly welcome contributions that simply suggest good topics for discussion at the workshop, or raise issues that you feel deserve the attention of the research community. Contributions will be formally reviewed, for originality, relevance, and the potential to generate interesting discussions. The workshop will be organized into four or more sessions, each focused on a specific topic, and initiated by a presentation of few related position papers by the respective participants, or the introduction of the specific topic by a single speaker, and followed by discussions. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, depending on the nature of the contributions, we may be organizing a special journal issue as a follow-up to the workshop, as has been done for some of the previous FTfJP workshops. Contributions must be in English, in PDF format, and are limited to 6 pages in ACM 2-column style. Papers must be submitted electronically via Easy Chair. A plain-text ASCII abstract must be submitted one week before the paper submission deadline. Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp2014 Any PC member, other than the chair, may be an author or co-author on any paper submitted for consideration but will be excluded from any evaluation or discussion of the paper. =================================================================== Important Dates =================================================================== Abstract submission: May 5th, 2014 Paper submission: May 12th, 2014 Notification: June 9th, 2014 Camera ready: June 23nd, 2014 Workshop: July 28th, 2014 All deadlines are at 23:59 American Samoa time (that is, UTC-11). =================================================================== Program Committee =================================================================== David J. Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ (Chair) Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven, Belgium Alex Summers, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo, Canada Dave Clarke, KU Leuven, Belgium Elena Zucca, University of Genoa, Italy Max Schaefer, Semmle, UK Nick Cameron, Mozilla Research, New Zealand Tijs Van Der Storm, CWI, The Netherlands =================================================================== Steering Committee =================================================================== Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, London, Great Britain Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo, Canada Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA K. Rustan M. Leino, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Peter M?ller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, Universit?t Kaiserlautern, Germany Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands - From tobycmurray at googlemail.com Mon Mar 10 19:34:09 2014 From: tobycmurray at googlemail.com (Toby Murray) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:34:09 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: SSV 2014 Message-ID: ======================================================================== SSV 2014 Call for Papers http://www.ssv-conference.org/ 8th International Workshop on Systems Software Verification Vienna, July 23-24, 2014 co-located with CAV and ITP, as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014. ======================================================================== Important Dates =============== Paper Submission: April 1, 2014 Notification: May 1, 2014 Conference: July 23-24, 2014 Topics ====== 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 that are invalidated by complex embedded systems 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 with the goal of finding real, applicable solutions. By "real" we mean problems such as time-to-market or reliability that the industry is facing. 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. In this workshop we will discuss software analysis and development techniques and tools; this forum will 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 restricted 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 Submissions =========== Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv2014] until April 1st, 2014. Papers should be up to 10 pages in pdf format and formatted in EPTCS style [http://info.eptcs.org/]. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All 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. Submissions which are based or discuss a non-trivial piece of software are required to make all those non-standard software parts available, which a referee may need, in order to check the claims of the submission. 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. PC Chairs ========= Kim G. Larsen, AAU, Aalborg, Denmark Mads Chr. Olesen, AAU, Aalborg, Denmark Program Committee ================= Alessandro Coglio, Kestrel Institute Bj?rn Lisper, M?lardalen University Cyrille Valentin Artho, AIST Fr?d?ric Boniol, ONERA Heiko Falk, Ulm University Jan Peleska, TZI, Universitat Bremen, Germany Joe Leslie-Hurd, Intel Corporation John Regehr, University of Utah Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Raimund Kirner, University of Hertfordshire Stefan Berghofer, secunet Security Networks AG Thomas Kropf, University of T?bingen Toby Murray, NICTA Steering Committee ================== R. Huuck, NICTA and UNSW, Sydney, Australia G. Klein, NICTA and UNSW, Sydney, Australia B. Schlich, ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg, Germany From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Tue Mar 11 04:45:07 2014 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:45:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFP2014] Final Call For Papers Message-ID: <531ECD13.1020400@cs.ru.nl> --------------------------------- F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S --------------------------------- ======== TFP 2014 =========== 15th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming May 26-28, 2014 Utrecht University Soesterberg, The Netherlands http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/TFP2014/WebHome *** Submission for TFP 2014 is now open: please direct your browser to *** http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/TFP2014/PaperSubmission The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see below), described in draft papers submitted prior to the symposium. A formal post-symposium refereeing process then selects a subset of the articles presented at the symposium and submitted for formal publication. Selected revised papers will be published as a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume. TFP 2014 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. The other is the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE). TFPIE will take place on May 25th. Its website is located at http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~jlc/tfpie14/ The TFP symposium is the heir of the successful series of Scottish Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2003, in Munich (Germany) in 2004, in Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005, in Nottingham (UK) in 2006, in New York (USA) in 2007, in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008, in Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009, in Oklahoma (USA) in 2010, in Madrid (Spain) in 2011, St. Andrews (UK) in 2012 and Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. INVITED SPEAKERS TFP is pleased to announce talks by the following two invited speakers: John Hughes of Chalmers, Goteborg, Sweden, is well-known as author of Why Functional Programming Matters, and as one of the designers of QuickCheck (together with Koen Claessen); the paper on QuickCheck won the ICFP Most Influential Paper Award in 2010. Currently he divides his time between his professorship and Quviq, a company that performs property-based testing of software with a tool implemented in Erlang. Dr. Geoffrey Mainland received his PhD from Harvard University where he was advised by Greg Morrisett and Matt Welsh. After a two year postdoc with the Programming Principles and Tools group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, he is now an assistant professor at Drexel University. His research focuses on high-level programming language and runtime support for non-general purpose computation. SCOPE The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles: leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles: on what new trends should or should not be Project Articles: descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles: 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. Topics suitable for the symposium include: Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing Functional programming in the cloud High performance functional computing Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs Dependently typed functional programming Validation and verification of functional programs Using functional techniques to reason about imperative/object-oriented programs Debugging for functional languages Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc. Interoperability with imperative programming languages Novel memory management techniques Program analysis and transformation techniques Empirical performance studies Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages (Embedded) domain specific 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 2014 program chair, Jurriaan Hage at J.Hage at uu.nl. BEST PAPER AWARDS To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper accepted for the formal proceedings. TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year. In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both prizes. FINANCIAL SUPPORT TFP is financially supported by the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University, NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), Well-Typed and Erlang Solutions. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on a lightweight peer review process of extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (16 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate whether the main author or authors are research students. In the case of a FULL STUDENT paper, the draft paper will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place. For the preproceedings, papers can be in any format (inclduing LNCS, IEEE and ACM style), but papers submitted to the postrefereeing process must be in LNCS style, and are bound by the limitations on paper length. We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of draft papers: March 17, 2014 Notification: March 24, 2014 Registration: April 7, 2014 TFP Symposium: May 26-28, 2014 Student papers feedback: June 9th, 2014 Submission for formal review: July 1st, 2014 Notification of acceptance: September 8th, 2014 Camera ready paper: October 8th, 2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen Emil Axelsson Chalmers Lucilia Camarao de Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Laura Castro University of A Coruna Frank Huch Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology Jurriaan Hage (chair) University of Utrecht Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba Andrew Kennedy Microsoft Research Tamas Kozsik Eotvos Lorand University Ben Lippmeier University of New South Wales Luc Maranget INRIA Jay McCarthy (co-chair) Brigham Young University Marco T. Morazan Seton Hall University Ricardo Pena Universidad Complutense de Madrid Alexey Rodriguez LiquidM Sven-Bodo Scholz Heriot-Watt University Manuel Serrano INRIA Sophia Antipolis Simon Thompson University of Kent Tarmo Uustalu Inst of Cybernetics David Van Horn University of Maryland Janis Voigtlaender University of Bonn From wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 05:30:34 2014 From: wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk (Philip Wadler) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:30:34 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship: TypeScript, The Next Generation Message-ID: We are recruiting one PhD student to work on design and implementation of programming languages. The post is on the project *TypeScript, The Next Generation*, and is funded by a Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship. There is increasing interest in integrating dynamically and statically typed programming languages, as witnessed in industry by the development of the languages TypeScript and Dart, and in academia by the development of the theories of gradual types, hybrid types, and the blame calculus. The purpose of our project is to bring the academic and industrial developments together, applying theory to improve practice. Our project focusses on JavaScript, an ECMA standard, and its typed variant TypeScript, an open-source project sponsored by Microsoft. JavaScript plays a central role in web-based applications and the new Windows 8 framework, and TypeScript is seeing rapid takeup, with over 150 JavaScript libraries now provided with TypeScript declarations. Our project has two parts, one aimed at immediate short-term application, and one aimed at fundamental long-term research. - *TypeScript TNG* The short-term goal is to build a tool, TypeScript: The Next Generation (or TypeScript TNG for short), that generates wrapper code from TypeScript import declarations to detect and pinpoint type errors. A wrapper will accept any JavaScript value as input, and either raise an error or return a value guaranteed to satisfy the invariant associated with the corresponding type. In particular, wrappers for generic types will assure surprisingly strong guarantees, known as "theorems for free". Our hypothesis is that TypeScript TNG will aid debugging and increase reliablility of TypeScript and JavaScript code. - *A wide-spectrum type system*. The long-term goal is to extend the foundations of the blame calculus to support a wide-spectrum of type systems, ranging from dynamic types (as in JavaScript or Racket) through generic types (as in F# or Haskell) to dependent types (as in F* or Coq). Our hypothesis is that a wide-spectrum type system will increase the utility of dependent types, by allowing dynamic checks to be used as a fallback when static validation is problematic. The workplan is likely to be too ambitious for a single PhD studentship. Which aspects are carried out will depend on which seem the most promising as our work develops, and on the abilities and desires of the student. The successful candidate will join the ABCD team, carrying out a research programme investigating sesion types and web programming. The project is jointly supervised by Andrew Gordon of Microsoft Research Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. You should possess an undergraduate degree in a relevant area, or being nearing completion of same, or have comparable experience. You should have evidence of ability to undertake research and communicate well. You should have a background in programming languages, including type systems, and programming and software engineering skills. It is desirable for candidates to also have one or more of the following: a combination of theoretical and practical skills; experience of JavaScript or web programming; knowledge of dependent type theory; or training in empirical measurement of programming tasks. We especially welcome applications from women and minorities. We seek applicants at an international level of excellence. The School of Informatics at Edinburgh is among the strongest in the world, and Edinburgh is known as a cultural centre providing a high quality of life. The successful candidate will receive a studentship covering tuition and subsistence. 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Name: not available URL: From jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 06:50:00 2014 From: jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jamie Vicary) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:50:00 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] A Conference in Honour of Prakash Panangaden on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, 24--25 May 2014, University of Oxford Message-ID: We are delighted to announce the following event: A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF PRAKASH PANANGADEN ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY * 23--25 May 2014, University of Oxford, UK * http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/pf2014 * Abramsky / Brookes / Coecke / Danos / de Boer / Desharnais / Duncan / Gobault-Larrecq / Hayden / Jacobs / Jagadeesan / Jung / Kashefi / Knight / Kozen / Kupke / Kwiatkowska / Larsen / Mardare / Mislove / Ouaknine / Palamidessi / Plotkin / Precup / Rutten / Sadrzadeh / Scott / Selinger / Silva / Sorkin / van Breugel / Vicary / Winskel / Worrell / Ying Prakash has made major contributions across a remarkably wide range of topics, including probabilistic and concurrent computation, logic and duality, and quantum information and computation. His work is characterised by the qualities of elegance, clarity and concern for fundamentals, and has been instrumental in making connections between different research areas and communities. Equally important for his many friends has been the infectious enthusiasm and enjoyment he brings to his scientific work, and the generous and sustained support and encouragement he has given to many junior colleagues. The workshop will feature talks by many of Prakash's friends and collaborators. We anticipate that this will be a very enjoyable event, blending fun and science - how could a meeting for Prakash be otherwise! We warmly invite everyone to participate. Information on how to register can be found on the conference web page. This event is twinned with a Spring School in Quantum Structures in Physics and Computer Science, to be held on the dates 19--22 May 2014 at the University of Oxford: * http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ss2014 Please circulate this announcement to those who might be interested, and use the attached poster to advertise these events in your institution. Best wishes, Samson Abramsky, Bob Coecke and Mike Mislove Conference Organizers -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI programme committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waved, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. CATEGORIES ========== Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. * FOUNDATIONAL COURSES * Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. * INTRODUCTORY COURSES * Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. * ADVANCED COURSES * Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. * WORKSHOPS * Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshops organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop programme. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES =================== Course and workshop proposals should follow closely the following guidelines to ensure full consideration. Each course may have no more than two instructors, and each workshop no more than two organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2015 and include all of the following: a. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) b. General proposal information: Title, category c. Contents information: Abstract of up to 150 words Motivation and description (up to two pages) Tentative outline Expected level and prerequisites Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) d. Practical information: Relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable Potential external funding for participants Programme Committee =================== Chair: Achim Jung (Birmingham) Language and Computation: Aurelie Herbelot (Cambridge) Stefan M?ller (Berlin) Language and Logic: Edgar Onea (G?ttingen) Galit Weidman-Sassoon (Bar-Ilan) Logic and Computation: Hubie Chen (Donostia-San Sebasti?n) Stephan Kreutzer (Berlin) Queries ======= Please send any queries you may have to A.Jung at cs.bham.ac.uk From marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 10:04:47 2014 From: marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk (Marta Kwiatkowska) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:04:47 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Verification of Engineered, Molecular Devices and Programs (VEMDP 2014), affiliated with CAV 2014, Vienna, Austria In-Reply-To: <531F14A6.3040408@cs.ox.ac.uk> References: <531F14A6.3040408@cs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <531F17FF.2010308@cs.ox.ac.uk> ***************************************************************************** VEMDP 2014 - 1st call for papers The 1st International Workshop on Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs An affiliated workshop of CAV 2014 hosted in Vienna, Austria on July 17, 2014 http://qav.cs.ox.ac.uk/vemdp2014/ Submission deadline: April 25, 2014 ***************************************************************************** OVERVIEW Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs (VEMDP) 2014 is a one day workshop, affiliated with the CAV 2014 conference, dedicated to the topic of verification of engineered biological and chemical systems. While the focus of this workshop is on biological and chemical systems that do not occur naturally, we also encourage submissions concerning the verification of naturally occurring systems that have been functionally modified. These systems include, but are not limited to: - DNA computing and other forms of natural computing - Chemical reaction networks - DNA walkers and motors - Engineered transcription networks and other synthetic biology applications We encourage topics that focus on any form of verification for these types of systems. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to: - Modelling - Formal languages and methods - Automated verification - Complexity of verification - Analysis of system behaviour - Equivalence of systems - Computer aided design tools INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research & Oxford University) Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo) INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKER Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research) - "Modelling, Simulating and Analysing DNA Strand Displacement Circuits" IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 25, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 18, 2014 Camera ready deadline: May 28, 2014 Workshop: July 17, 2014 SUBMISSION DETAILS All contributed papers must be submitted by April 25, 2014 at 12:00 midnight (any timezone). Papers can be submitted as a PDF via EasyChair at the following website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vemdp2014. Papers are limited to 12 pages, preferably typeset in Springer LNCS style, using a minimum font size of 11pt. Any details that have been omitted from the main paper content, such as technical proofs, must be included as an appendix for review. Submitted papers must contribute original content and should not be under review for publication in another venue. Accepted papers will be included in the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL) USB-stick that will be distributed to all VSL participants. Selected papers will be invited to a special journal issue of Theoretical Computer Science. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Calin Belta (Boston University) Neil Dalchau (Microsoft Research) Fran?ois Fages (INRIA Rocquencourt) Jerome Feret (INRIA / Ecole normale sup?rieure) Alan Hu (University of British Columbia) Hillel Kugler (Microsoft Research) Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, Co-chair) Matthew Lakin (University of New Mexico) Paolo Milazzo (Universit? di Pisa) David Parker (University of Birmingham) Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research, Co-chair) David ?afr?nek (Masaryk University) David Soloveichik (UCSF Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology) Chris Thachuk (California Institute of Technology, Co-chair) Erik de Vink (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) Christoph M Wintersteiger (Microsoft Research) Verena Wolf (Saarland University) -- Professor Marta Kwiatkowska Fellow of Trinity College Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road Oxford, OX1 3QD Tel: +44 (0)1865 283509 Email: Marta.Kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk URL: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/marta.kwiatkowska/ Personal Assistant: Jordan Summers Email: Jordan.Summers at cs.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 610650 From S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl Tue Mar 11 18:26:02 2014 From: S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl (FOCLASA 2014) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 23:26:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOCLASA 2014 - First CfP (The 13th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems) Message-ID: <531F8D7A.3040905@cwi.nl> [Apologies for multiple postings] -- First Call for Papers -- FOCLASA 2014: The 13th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/ September 6, 2014, Rome (Italy) In conjunction with CONCUR 2014 -- http://www.concur2014.org/ ============================================================== FOCLASA 2014 is a workshop colocated with the 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2014). The goal of the FOCLASA workshop is to put together researchers and practitioners to share and identify common problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of coordination languages and self-adaptive systems. == IMPORTANT DATES == June 11th, 2014: Deadline for abstract submission June 15th, 2014: Deadline for paper submission July 13th, 2014: Notifications July 23rd, 2014: Final versions == TOPICS OF INTEREST == * Theoretical models and frameworks for component and service coordination, service composition, service adaptation and concurrent system modeling. * Applications and usability studies for the aforementioned theoretical models, interaction and coordination challenges in decentralized self-adaptive systems and various application domains. * Languages and specification protocols for component and service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. * "Software as a Service" models (e.g., cloud computing) and dynamic software architectures, such as self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. * Tools and environments for the development of concurrent and customizable self-monitoring, self-adaptive and self-organizing applications. * Algorithms, mathematical models and realization frameworks for quality-of-service observation, storage, history-based analysis in self-adaptive systems (queuing models, load balancing, fault-tolerance analysis, machine learning systems). * Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, stochastic modeling and analysis, reasoning under uncertainty, run-time synthesis. In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well: * Business process modeling * Cloud computing * Service-oriented computing * Component-based systems * Grid computing * Large-scale distributed systems * Multi-agent systems * Peer-to-peer systems Survey works analysing and comparing literature on the topics of FOCLASA are also welcome. == PAPER SUBMISSION == Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their results. Description of work-in-progress with concrete results is also encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages in the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/) and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foclasa2014 Submitting an abstract does not put any obligation on the authors to submit a full paper. Abstracts without an accompanying full paper by the paper submission deadline are automatically considered withdrawn. The authors are, however, encouraged to explicitly withdraw their abstract, if they decide not to submit a full paper. All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee who will make a selection among the submissions based on the novelty, soundness and applicability of the presented ideas and results. Concurrent submission to other venues (conferences, workshops or journal) and submission of papers under consideration elsewhere are not allowed. A printed version of the proceedings will be distributed among participants during the workshop. The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a separate volume. Participants will give a presentation of their papers in twenty minutes, followed by a ten-minute round of questions and discussion on participants' work. Following the tradition of the past editions, we plan to have a special issue of an international scientific journal devoted to FOCLASA 2014. Selected participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers after the workshop. These extended versions will be reviewed by an international program committee, which will decide on their final publication on the special issue. In the last few editions of FOCLASA, a special issue of Science of Computer Programming has been dedicated to this workshop. == PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS == * Javier C?mara Institute for Software Research Carnegie Mellon University, USA jcmoreno at cs.cmu.edu * Jos? Proen?a iMinds-Distrinet, KU Leuven, Belgium and HASLab/INESC TEC, University of Minho, Portugal jose.proenca at cs.kuleuven.be == PUBLICITY CHAIR == * Sung-Shik Jongmans, CWI, The Netherlands == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Carlos Canal, University of M?laga, Spain * Javier C?mara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Carlos Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain * Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland * Rog?rio de Lemos, University of Kent, UK * Natallia Kokash, Leiden University, The Netherlands * Christian Krause, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany * Ant?nia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Sun Meng, Peking University, China * Liliana Pasquale, University of Limerick, Ireland * Pascal Poizat, Paris Ouest University and LIP6, France * Jos? Proen?a, KU Leuven, Belgium * Gwen Sala?n, Grenoble INP - INRIA Grenoble - LIG, France * Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA * Francesco Tiezzi, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy * Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy == STEERING COMMITTEE == * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Carlos Canal, University of Mal?ga, Spain * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Ernesto Pimentel, University of Mal?ga, Spain * Gwen Sala?n, Grenoble INP - INRIA Grenoble - LIG, France -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Apologies for any cross-postings.] WoLLIC 2014 21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation September 1st to 4th, 2014 Valparaiso, Chile SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile, Chile Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Informatics, Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a, Chile CALL FOR PAPERS 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 twentieth WoLLIC will be held at the Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a, from September 1st to 4th, 2014. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. 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 the WoLLIC 2014 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2014/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 24, 2014, and the full paper by Mar 28, 2014 (firm date). Notifications are expected by May 2, 2014, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 15, 2014 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2014, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. 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 2014 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Ver?nica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki) Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University) Luca Vigano (Universit? di Verona) Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2014 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2014). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 24, 2014: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 28, 2014: Full paper deadline May 2, 2014: Author notification May 15, 2014: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt) - Chair Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) Eric Allender (Rutgers University) Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile) Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University) Stefano Berardi (Universit? di Torino) Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh) Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes de Chile) Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA) Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld) Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam) Klaus Meer (Technische Universit?t Cottbus) George Metcalfe (University of Bern) Dale Miller (INRIA/LIX) Russell Miller (City University of New York) Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) Grigory Olkhovikov (Urals State University) Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University Nijmegen) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. 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URL: From francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it Thu Mar 13 06:34:59 2014 From: francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it (Francesco tiezzi) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:34:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MOSPAS 2014 - EXTENDED Deadline (Paper submission: March 28, 2014) Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] 5th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Peer-to-Peer and Autonomic Systems (MOSPAS 2014) http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-07-mospas CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2014) http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs14 July 21 - 25, 2014 Bologna, Italy Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): March 28, 2014 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES High Performance Computing at extreme scale sets new challenges which have to be faced to guarantee fault tolerance and reliability. The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Autonomic Computing (AC) paradigms have emerged as highly appealing, scalable solutions to tackle the above issues and the growing complexity of such software and hardware technologies. While P2P solutions put the emphasis on decentralization and sharing of resources, AC solutions are based on equipping computational entities with autonomic (self-*) features. These approaches are, of course, complementary and are often combined together in modern distributed systems that avoid central coordination and human intervention. The design, implementation, and analysis of these complex systems pose several challenges, both with functional and non-functional properties, depending on network size, churn rate and application context. This workshop has the goal of providing an international forum for researchers and practitioners willing to present, discuss and exchange innovative research results and advanced topics that combine theoretical and practical approaches to modeling and high performance simulation, but also modeling and simulation of high performance (extreme scale) systems. The workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following issues of P2P and Autonomic systems: - M&S of High Performance Systems - High Performance M&S - Formal Modeling and Analysis - Discrete Event Modeling and Simulation - Agent-based Simulation - Novel Techniques for M&S - M&S-Based Development Methods - High Performance Fault Tolerance / Resilience at Extreme Scale - Evaluation of Combined P2P and AC Systems - Overlay Schemes Performance Evaluation - Analysis of P2P/AC-based Applications and Services - Workload Characterization and Simulation - Analysis of Emergent Behaviors - Evaluation of Trust and Reputation Systems - Verification at Runtime of AC Systems - Real-Time Aspects, including Timing Violations for Multimedia and Other Real-Time Traffic - Analysis of novel network services supporting P2P such as RELOAD and ALTO - Impact of P2P Traffic on the Network Infrastructure INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research works. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be in PDF format and should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and authors email addresses. They must clearly indicate the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 350 words. The full manuscripts should not exceed 8 double-column IEEE formatted pages, including figures, tables, references. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters will also be accepted for submission. Short papers are expected to expose preliminary yet promising highly-innovative ideas. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submissions are handled using the EasyChair online system and can be uploaded using the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mospas2014 Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least three reviewers. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the HPCS 2014 conference proceedings which will be made available at the time of the workshop. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2014 Conference web site. Moreover, further guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) will be specified within the notification of acceptance. As for other HPCS papers, plans are underway to have the best accepted papers be selected for publication in some journal special issue(s). Detailed information will soon be announced, and will be made available on the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: March 28, 2014 (Extended) Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2014 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: May 06, 2014 Conference Dates: July 21-25, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Michele Amoretti University of Parma Via Usberti 181/a, 43124 Parma, Italy Phone: + 39 0521 906147 Fax: + 39 0521 905723 Email: michele.amoretti at unipr.it Francesco Tiezzi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca Piazza San Francesco 19, 55100 Lucca, Italy Phone: + 39 0583 4326590 Fax: + 39 0583 4326 565 Email: francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop International Program Committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2014. - Marco Aldinucci, Universit? di Torino, Italy - Carlo Bertolli, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA - Giacomo Cabri, Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy - Bruno Ciciani, Universit? di Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Gerhard Ha?linger, T-Systems ENPS Darmstadt, Germany - Tobias Ho?feld, University of W?rzburg, Germany - Alberto Lluch Lafuente, IMT Lucca, Italy - Natarajan Meghanathan, Jackson State University, USA - Javier Rubio Loyola, CINESTAV, Mexico - Marco Picone, Universit? degli Studi di Parma, Italy - Dominik Stingl, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany - Petr T?ma, Charles University, Czech Republic - Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK - Andrea Vandin, University of Southampton, UK - Francesco Zanichelli, Universit? degli Studi di Parma, Italy For further information or questions about the HPCS 2014 conference, please consult the web site at http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs14. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lanese at cs.unibo.it Thu Mar 13 05:43:28 2014 From: lanese at cs.unibo.it (Ivan Lanese) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:43:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2014) Message-ID: 1 WEEK DEADLINE EXTENSION ICE 2014 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://www.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2014 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2014 http://www.discotec.org === Highlights === - Innovative selection procedure - ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief announcements of already published papers - Invited talks: Kim Larsen and Pavol Cerny - Special issue in a highly-reputed journal === Important Dates === 19 March 2014...................Abstract submission (new) 22 March 2014...................Full paper submission (new) 23 March - 15 April 2014........Reviews and PC discussion 16 April 2014...................Notification to authors 6 June 2014.....................ICE in Berlin 15 September 2014...............Camera-ready for post-proceedings === Scope === Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of international scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer science researchers with special interest in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives for complex interactions. The general scope of the venue includes theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among components of concurrent/distributed systems, related to several areas of computer science in the broad spectrum ranging from formal specification and analysis to studies inspired by emerging computational models. We solicit contributions relevant to Interaction and Concurrency, including but not limited to: * Formal semantics * Process algebras and calculi * Models and languages * Protocols * Logics and types * Expressiveness * Model transformations * Tools, implementations, and experiments * Specification and verification * Coinductive techniques * Tools and techniques for automation * Synthesis techniques The special focus of ICE 2014 is automation in concurrency and interaction. === Selection Procedure === Since its 1st edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has been an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. During the review phase, each submission is published on a dedicated discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of the submission and by all the PC members not in conflict with the submission. The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions and clarifications to the authors, allowing them to better explain all the aspects of their submission. The evaluation of the submission will take into account not only the reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion. As witnessed by the past six editions of ICE, this procedure considerably improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the selection, the quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during the workshop. === Submission Guidelines === We invite for three types of submissions: (1) Full Papers; (2) Short Papers; (3) Brief Announcements of already Published Papers. Full and short papers will appear in the post-proceedings and must report previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The ICE 2014 post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite for brief announcements of already published results, should the authors be interested in discussing their published research with the ICE community and giving a talk. Brief announcements will not be part of the post-proceedings. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2014). Full papers should not exceed 15 pages in length, while short papers and brief announcements should not exceed 5 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). Accepted (full and short) papers and brief announcements must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. === Special Issue === We plan to invite extended versions of selected full papers to a special issue in a highly-reputed journal. Such contributions will be regularly peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but they will be handled in a shorter time than regular submissions. === Invited Talks === Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Pavol Cerny (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) === Program Committee === Luis Soares Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Laura Bocchi (Imperial College London, UK) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Nicolas D'Ippolito (Imperial College London, UK) Mike Dodds (York University, UK) Bernd Finkbeiner (Universit?t des Saarlandes, Germany) Elena Giachino (University of Bologna, Italy) Tobias Heindel (LIX ?cole Polytechnique, France) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, France) Sophia Knight (LIX ?cole Polytechnique, France) Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg, Germany) Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin, UK) Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK) Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Shiva Nejati (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Peter ?lveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) Luca Padovani (University of Torino, Italy) Antonio Ravara (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal) Owen Stephens (University of Southampton, UK) Ali Sezgin (IST Austria, Austria) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Paola Spoletini (University of Insubria, Italy) Bernardo Toninho (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal & Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) === ICEcreamers === Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy; PC chair) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria; PC chair) Hugo Torres Vieira (University of Lisbon, Portugal) === Steering Committee === Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Paola Spoletini (University of Insubria, Italy) === Contact === ice2014 at easychair.org === Previous editions === The previous six editions of ICE have been held on * July 6th, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with ICALP'08. The post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol.229-3). * August 31st, 2009 in Bologna, Italy, co-located with CONCUR'09. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.12) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of MSCS (with EXPRESS?09 and SOS?09, Vol. 22, Number 2). * June 10th, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-located with DisCoTec'10. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.38) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of SACS (with CAMPUS'10 and CS2BIO'10, Vol. XXI). * June 9th, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with DisCoTec'11. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.59) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SACS (Vol. XXII). * June 16th, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with DisCoTec'12. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.104) and a special issue of SCP is now in preparation. * June 6th, 2013 in Florence, Italy, co-located with DisCoTec?13. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.131) and a special issue of SCP is now in preparation. From w.s.swierstra at uu.nl Thu Mar 13 05:43:27 2014 From: w.s.swierstra at uu.nl (Wouter Swierstra) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:43:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Haskell Symposium 2014: Call for papers Message-ID: =================================================================== ACM SIGPLAN HASKELL SYMPOSIUM 2014 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Gothenburg, Sweden, 4-5 September 2014, directly after ICFP http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2014 haskell2014 at easychair.org =================================================================== The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2014 will be colocated with the 2014 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) in Gothenburg, Sweden. Like last year, the symposium will last 2 days. Thanks to broader participation from a growing community, we will be able to include more regular papers as well as system demonstrations, while upholding the scientific quality of the symposium. The Haskell Symposium seeks to present original research on Haskell, to discuss practical experience and future development of the language, as well as to promote other forms of denotative programming. Topics of interest include * Language Design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, such as formal semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, effects, metatheory, 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, such as profilers, tracers, debuggers, preprocessors, and testing tools; * Applications, to scientific and symbolic computing, databases, multimedia, telecommunication, the web, and so forth; * Functional Pearls, being elegant and instructive programming examples; * Experience Reports, to document general practice and experience in education, industry, or other contexts. Such reports are shorter than regular papers; they are limited to six pages. Papers in the latter two categories need not necessarily report original research results. They may report instead, for example, reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementors, or researchers. 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! Regular papers should explain their research contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work (also for other languages where appropriate). In addition, we solicit proposals for * System Demonstrations (no longer than a regular paper talk), based on running (perhaps prototype) software rather than necessarily on novel research results. These proposals should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals should explain (and will be judged on) whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical or social. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal. Travel Support: =============== Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC programme, see its web page (http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm). Proceedings: ============ ACM Press will publish formal proceedings. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must grant ACM publication rights upon acceptance (http://authors.acm.org/main.html), but may retain copyright if they wish. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, and so forth). The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference. Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be posted on the symposium web page, but not formally published in the proceedings. Submission Details: =================== 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 text should be in a 9-point font in two columns. The length is restricted to 12 pages, except for "Experience Report" papers, which are restricted to 6 pages. Papers need not fill the page limit. Each paper submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Proposals for system demonstrations are limited to 2-page abstracts, in the same ACM format as papers. "Functional Pearls", "Experience Reports", and "Demo Proposals" should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission. The paper submission deadline and length limitations are firm. There will be no extensions, and papers violating the length limitations will be summarily rejected. Submission is via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haskell14 * Abstract submission: Fri 09 May 2014 * Paper submission : Mon 12 May 2014 * Demo submission : Fri 30 May 2014 (prior abstract submission unnecessary) * Author notification: Wed 11 June 2014 * Final papers due : Sun 22 June 2014 All deadlines, except the final papers deadline, are in Standard Samoan Time. Programme Committee: ==================== George Giorgidze - Standard Chartered Bank Mauro Jaskelioff - Universidad Nacional de Rosario Mark Jones - Portland State University Lindsey Kuper - Indiana University Jos? Pedro Magalh?es - University of Oxford Geoffrey Mainland - Drexel University Simon Marlow - Facebook Shin Cheng Mu - Academia Sinica Keiko Nakata - Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology Bruno Oliveira - University of Hong Kong Lee Pike - Galois Josef Svenningsson - Chalmers University of Technology Wouter Swierstra - University of Utrecht (chair) Simon Thompson - University of Kent From swarat at rice.edu Thu Mar 13 18:44:41 2014 From: swarat at rice.edu (Swarat Chaudhuri) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:44:41 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position in probabilistic programming at Rice University Message-ID: <532234D9.8000508@rice.edu> Postdoctoral position in Probabilistic Programming at Rice University --------------------------------------------------------------- The Computer-Aided Programming group at Rice University (http://caper.rice.edu) is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher in the area of automated analysis and synthesis of probabilistic programs. The ideal applicant would have a solid background in probability, logic, and program analysis, and have experience with the development of program analysis tools. The researcher will be supervised by Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~swarat). The duration of the position is one year, starting August 2014, and can be renewed for a second year. Compensation is highly competitive and commensurate with experience. Rice University is located in Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States. To apply, send a CV and names of 2 references to Swarat Chaudhuri (swarat at rice.edu). From hilde at itu.dk Thu Mar 13 18:51:42 2014 From: hilde at itu.dk (Thomas Hildebrandt) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:51:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP (Abstract Deadline March 20): Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo) 2014 Message-ID: == FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstract Deadline March 20 == 1st International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo) 2014 affiliated to DisCoTec (http://www.discotec.org) June 6th, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://www.itu.dk/research/models/wiki/index.php/MeMo2014 == Aim and Topics: == The workshop targets research in and new applications of formal meta models for the definition of process languages and their semantics. Examples of such meta models are bigraphical reactive systems, psi-calculi, the tile Model, term and graph rewriting, SOS formats, presheaf models, co-algebras and specification of processes in logical frameworks such as CELF. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the development of theory and tools for meta models for process languages - to share insights, uncover similarities and differences, possibilities for cross-fertilization and stimulate further research in this exciting area. The workshop will be welcoming old and new members of the community alike. In addition to presentations of contributed papers the workshop will offer two 1-hour tutorials, a poster session and a round-table discussion at the end of the workshop. == Tutorials == * Psi-calculi (given by Joachim Parrow) * Bigraphical Reactive Systems (given by Marino Miculan) == Important Dates == * Abstract regular papers: 20 March 2014 * Submission regular papers: 24 March 2014 * Notification regular papers: 25 April 2014 * Camera-ready copy: 5 May 2014 * Submission posters: 28 April 2014 * Notification posters: 5 May 2014? == Submission Instructions == Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously nor to be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. We welcome both tool presentations and research contributions. Evaluation criteria will be technical quality, readability, novelty, and scope. All papers and posters must be in English and submitted at the EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memo2014 Papers should use the Springer LNCS style and 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 programme committee. We plan an LNCS post-proceedings volume and depending on the quality of the submissions also a special journal issue of selected, extended papers. == Organisation == Workshop Organizers: * Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy * S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Program Committee: * Patrick Bahr, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Vincenzo Ciancia, ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy * S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Fabio Gadducci, University of Pisa, Italy * Tobias Heindel, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland * Thomas Hildebrandt (chair), IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jean Krivine, Universit? Paris Diderot, France * Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy * Joachim Parrow, Uppsala University, Sweden * Carsten Schurmann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton, United Kingdom * Jan Rutten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Olivier.BOUISSOU at cea.fr Fri Mar 14 08:04:52 2014 From: Olivier.BOUISSOU at cea.fr (BOUISSOU Olivier 209517) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:04:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Approaching: Numerical Software Verification 2014 Message-ID: <1D3BF4C8-522B-4103-8789-B188375EEE22@cea.fr> **** Deadline for paper submission: March 20th 2014 **** Apologies for multiple copies. ??? CALL FOR PAPERS ************** ** NSV 2014 ** ************** 7th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification July 17-18, 2014 A Sattelite Workshop of Vienna Summer of Logic 2014, Collocated with CAV 2014 Vienna, Austria Web Page: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~bouissou/NSV14 Important Dates =============== Submissions deadline: March 20th 2014. Notification: May 4th 2014. Final version: May 25th 2014. Workshop: July 17th-18th 2014. Novelty of this edition ======================= The 2014 edition of NSV will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Serie (ENTCS). In this new NSV edition, we encourage publications about the numerical issues in new domains, in particular computational finance and biological systems: problems, consequences and state-of-the-art approaches. Description of the Workshop =========================== Numerical computations are ubiquitous in digital systems: supervision, prediction, simulation and signal processing rely heavily on numerical calculus to achieve desired goals. Verification of numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from the rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to precisely represent local behaviors of each component. In fact, in numerical algorithms, coarse abstractions are unlikely to succeed essentially because of the above mentioned issue. The implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of approximation: the use of finite representations of infinite precision numbers usually lack basic arithmetic properties such as commutativity and associativity. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical techniques that would allow reasoning about programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the current development and the future prospects for such techniques. Topics =============== The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Models and abstraction techniques - Specifications of correctness for numerical programs - Formal specification and verification of numerical programs - Quality of finite precision implementations - Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models - Numerical properties of control software - Hybrid systems verification - Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications - Validation for scientific computing programs - Optimality of program behavior - Trade-offs between quality of service and resource (for example energy) consumption in programs - Benchmarks and tools for numerical software verification - Numerical issues in computational finance Submission information ====================== We solicit regular and short papers. Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/?conf=nsv14 Regular papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers 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. Regular paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in ENTCS style, including bibliography and well-marked appendices: http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html Program committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Short papers are also welcomed, they should present tools, benchmarks, case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages. 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URL: From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Fri Mar 14 09:45:49 2014 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:45:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at Imperial on Automated Reasoning for Approximate Real Number Computation Message-ID: <5323080D.9010400@imperial.ac.uk> Dear all I'd be grateful if you could forward this job advert on to anyone you think might be interested. For full details about the post, please see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AII323/research-associate-or-research-assistant-automated-reasoning-for-approximate-real-number-computation/ Cheers Ally Donaldson Research Associate or Research Assistant: Automated Reasoning for Approximate Real Number Computation *Imperial College London* -Department of Computing and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering *Salary range: ?32,750 -- ?41,540per annum (Research Associate)* *Salary range: ?28,770 to ?31,880 per annum (Research Assistant)* *Fixed term appointment for 12 months in the first instance *** Dr Alastair Donaldson and Professor George Constantinides are seeking talented Researchers for an exciting project running between the Departments of Computing and Electronic Engineering. Many software applications conceptually involve computation with real numbers, which is in practice realised through real approximations, such as fixed-point and floating representations. These approximations involve associated calculation error. While in some domains, e.g. video games, a relatively high degree of error may be acceptable, in others, e.g. scientific computing or computational geometry, the correctness of algorithms may depend critically on errors remaining within some range. This motivates techniques for verifying numerical accuracy of algorithms that use real number approximations. Another motivation is the desire to implement algorithms in hardware, optimising for energy and area. Minimising the precision of components that approximate real number calculations can lead to energy and area gains, as long as precision remains adequate for correctness. This leads to a large potential optimisation space, and verification methods for assessing the adequacy of precision bounds provide a means for navigating this space. This project will investigate the verification of correctness specifications for programs that manipulate real number approximations, through compilation from source code (e.g. OpenCL) into an intermediate format (e.g. Microsoft's Boogie language) where approximate calculations are transformed into (non-approximate) real number computation, with the introduction of real-valued error functions to model loss of precision. From this intermediate format, verification will involve discharging verification conditions to a satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solver equipped with methods for reasoning about real arithmetic. For example, the Z3 SMT solver employs cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD), a semi-algebraic method, for this purpose. This will open the door for two avenues for further investigation: firstly, the (manual or automatic) synthesis of loop invariants to allow reasoning about these sorts of programs; secondly, the possibility of domain-specific methods for reasoning in real arithmetic, taking advantage of problem structure to overcome the scalability limitations arising from the worst case complexity of general semi-algebraic methods. The position will be based at the South Kensington campus of Imperial College and could begin as soon as possible, although candidates who require some delay could be equally accommodated. Strong applicants will have a background in formal verification or computer arithmetic and strong programming skills. Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a closely related subject. Suitable applicants nearing completion of a PhD will be considered for initial appointment at Research Assistant level. Our preferred method of application is online via our website at the following link: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (select "Job Search" and enter the job reference no *EN20140069AS*). Please complete and upload an application form as directed and submit any other relevant supporting documents such as your full CV. If you are unable to apply online, please contact Mrs Wiesia Hsissen at email address: w.hsissen at imperial.ac.uk to request an application form, quoting reference number EN20140069AS in the request. *Closing date: * 9 April 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alain.girault at inria.fr Fri Mar 14 12:26:02 2014 From: alain.girault at inria.fr (Alain Girault) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:26:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doctoral Position at INRIA Grenoble Message-ID: <53232D9A.2020405@inria.fr> Proposal for a Post-doctoral Position at INRIA Grenoble ======================================================= Title ===== Advanced dataflow programming Model of computation and parallel schedule generation. Programmation flot de donn?es avanc?e Mod?le de calcul et g?n?ration d'ordonnancement paralleles Location, supervisors, duration ================================ INRIA Grenoble (France), Spades Team Pascal FRADET Alain GIRAULT pascal.fradet at inria.fr alain.girault at inria.fr The postdoc position is for 1 year, starting end of 2014 (October ideally) Salary: 2.620 euros gross monthly (about 2.135 euros net). Abstract ======== We are interested in dataflow models of computation to program applications for manycore chips. In order to ensure analysis and scheduling, the synchronous dataflow model (SDF) is widely used because it allows static analyses (liveness and buffer boundedness) and scheduling. SDF has a clean semantics and leads to efficient implementations but it cannot express many dynamic features. In particular, it cannot express dynamic I/O rate modifications, nor dynamic topology modifications. For this reason, many variants of SDF have been proposed, among which we can cite BDF, CSDF, HDF, VRDF, PSDF, and SPDF. We have recently proposed BPDF [1], a dataflow model with integer and boolean parameters able to express dynamicity while remaining verifiable and schedulable. Integer parameters define rate modifications while boolean parameters specify some dynamic topology modifications (activation and deactivation of dataflow edges). The postdoctoral project will focus on extending the expressivity of BPDF and/or study multi-criteria scheduling of the model on multi-core platforms. - possible extensions of BPDF are more expressive changes of the topology (e.g., adding/removing actors and edges). Since the model of computation should remain analysable for liveness and boundedness, such linguistic extensions usually entails extensions of the corresponding analyses. - parallel schedules of BPDF dataflow applications for manycore chips can be generated according several criteria: throughput (useful for streaming application), input-output latency (useful for real-time applications), power consumption (useful for autonomous applications), to cite a few. One of the difficulty here resides in multi-criteria scheduling with antagonistic criteria. Required Skills =============== A PhD in formal methods, embedded systems, and/or real-time programming (e.g., analysis, semantics, verification, validation, code generation, ...). A knowledge of dataflow programming and/or scheduling would be a plus. Send CV + contact information of 2 or 3 recommenders to Pascal Fradet and Alain Girault. References ========== [1] Vagelis Bebelis, Pascal Fradet, Alain Girault, Bruno Lavigueur: "BPDF: A Statically Analyzable Dataflow Model with Integer and Boolean Parameters"; In International Conference on Embedded Software, EMSOFT'13, September 2013. From marino.miculan at uniud.it Fri Mar 14 17:39:35 2014 From: marino.miculan at uniud.it (Marino Miculan) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:39:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP (Abstract Deadline March 20): MeMo 2014: Meta Models for Process Languages Message-ID: == FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE March 20 == MeMo 2014 -- 1st International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages affiliated to DisCoTec (http://www.discotec.org) June 6th, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://www.itu.dk/research/models/wiki/index.php/MeMo2014 == Aim and Topics: == for the definition of process languages and their semantics. Examples of such meta models are bigraphical reactive systems, psi-calculi, the tile Model, term and graph rewriting, SOS formats, presheaf models, co-algebras and specification of processes in logical frameworks such as CELF. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the development of theory and tools for meta models for process languages - to share insights, uncover similarities and differences, possibilities for cross-fertilization and stimulate further research in this exciting area. The workshop will be welcoming old and new members of the community alike. In addition to presentations of contributed papers the workshop will offer two 1-hour tutorials, a poster session and a round-table discussion at the end of the workshop. == Tutorials == * Psi-calculi (given by Joachim Parrow) * Bigraphical Reactive Systems (given by Marino Miculan) == Important Dates == * Abstract regular papers: 20 March 2014 * Submission regular papers: 24 March 2014 * Notification regular papers: 25 April 2014 * Camera-ready copy: 5 May 2014 * Submission posters: 28 April 2014 * Notification posters: 5 May 2014? == Submission Instructions == Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously nor to be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. We welcome both tool presentations and research contributions. Evaluation criteria will be technical quality, readability, novelty, and scope. All papers and posters must be in English and submitted at the EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memo2014 Papers should use the Springer LNCS style and 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 programme committee. We plan an LNCS post-proceedings volume and depending on the quality of the submissions also a special journal issue of selected, extended papers. == Organisation == Workshop Organizers: * Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy * S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Program Committee: * Patrick Bahr, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Vincenzo Ciancia, ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy * S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Fabio Gadducci, University of Pisa, Italy * Tobias Heindel, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland * Thomas Hildebrandt (chair), IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jean Krivine, Universit? Paris Diderot, France * Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy * Joachim Parrow, Uppsala University, Sweden * Carsten Schurmann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton, United Kingdom * Jan Rutten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands? ? -- Marino Miculan - Dept Math Compu Sci, University of Udine marino.miculan at uniud.it http://www.dimi.uniud.it/miculan/ From pcvinh at ntt.edu.vn Sat Mar 15 02:56:22 2014 From: pcvinh at ntt.edu.vn (Phan Cong Vinh) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:56:22 +0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ICTCC 2014] CFP: The International Conference on NaTure of Computation and Communication Message-ID: The International Conference on NaTure of Computation and Communication (ICTCC) Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Time: 24-25 November 2014 Website: http://ictcc.org/2014 ---- The ICTCC 2014 jointly organized by EAI and Nguyen Tat Thanh University (NTTU) is a place for highly original ideas about how the nature is going to shape computing systems of the future. Hence, it focuses on rigorous approaches and cutting-edge solutions, which encompass three classes of major methods: Those that take inspiration from nature for the development of novel problem solving techniques; Those that are based on the use of computers or networks to synthesize natural phenomena; and Those that employ natural materials (e.g., molecules,) to compute or communicate. Its purpose is to make a formal basis more accessible to researchers, scientists, professionals and students as well as developers and practitioners in ICT by providing them with state-of-the-art research results, applications, opportunities and future trends. We hope that the conference will receive many papers and the participation of a large number of students, researchers, and professionals from all over the world. Original papers are solicited for the ICTCC 2014. In particular, theoretical contributions should be formally stated and justified, and practical applications should be based on their firm formal basis. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: SCOPE OF TOPICS: Autonomic computing/communicating Amorphous computing Biologically-inspired computing/communicating Cellular automata Cellular computing Collective intelligence in computing/communicating Collision-based computing Computation/communication based on chaos and dynamical systems Context-aware computing/communicating DNA computing Evolutionary computing Hypercomputation Massive parallel computing Membrane computing Molecular computing Neural computing Optical computing Physarum computing Quantum computing Relativistic computing Spatial computing Swam intelligence in computing/communicating Wetware computing HIGHLIGHTS The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals due: 01 April 2014 Tutorial/Industry track proposal deadline: 06 June 2014 Demo/Poster proposal deadline: 06 June 2014 Submission deadline: 31 July 2014 Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2014 Camera-ready deadline: 01 October 2014 PUBLICATION Official conference proceedings of ICTCC 2014 will appear in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) series jointly published by ICST and Springer and indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and Zentralblatt Math. 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SPLASH is now accepting submissions. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ** OOPSLA Research Papers** Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions Due: 25 March, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/oopsla.html ** Onward! Research Papers ** Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions Due: 25 March, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/onward.html ** Onward! Essays ** Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be an exploration of a 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. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions Due: 29 March, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/essays.html ** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) ** DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages ? from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript ? on real-world practice, and research, continues to grow. We invite high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Submissions Due: 8 June, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/dls.html http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-14/ ** SPLASH Workshops ** Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2014 will host a variety of high-quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. Early Phase Submissions Due: 19 April, 2014 Late Phase Submissions Due: 20 June, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/workshops.html ** SPLASH Wavefront ** Wavefront is looking for presentations and technology talks of interest to the software community, particularly to software professionals working in companies large and small. Wavefront is a forum for presenting experience reports and tutorials about innovative tools, technologies, and software practices. Submissions Due: 25 April, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/wavefront.html ** SPLASH-E ** SPLASH-E brings together researchers and educators to share educational results, ideas, and challenges centered in Software and Programming Languages. Submission formats vary, including papers, tool demos, lightning talks, challenge-topics for discussion, and suggested themes for "unconference" sessions. Help us create an engaging forum for educational issues related to SPLASH! Paper/Tool Submissions Due: 21 June, 2014 Other Submissions Due: 22 August, 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/splash-e.html Information: - SPLASH Early Registration Deadline: 19 September, 2014 - contact: info at splashcon.org Location: - Portland Marriott - Downtown Waterfront Hotel - Portland, Oregon, USA Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Andrew Black (Portland State University) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Todd Millstein (UCLA) Onward! Papers Chair: Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University) Onward! 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URL: From gabriel at info.uaic.ro Mon Mar 17 02:31:36 2014 From: gabriel at info.uaic.ro (Gabriel Ciobanu) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:31:36 +0200 (EET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last Call for Papers ICTAC, 17-20 Sept.2014, Bucharest Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 30 March 2014 (extended) Submission deadline: 06 April 2014 (extended) ********************************************************************** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS -- ICTAC 2014 11th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing 17-20 September 2014, Bucharest, Romania http://fmi.unibuc.ro/ictac2014 ********************************************************************** ICTAC 2014 is the 11th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing and will 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. Another aim of ICTAC is to bring together researchers working on theoretical aspects of computing in order to present their recent results and to discuss new ideas concerning computer science. THEMES AND TOPICS OF PAPERS ICTAC 2014 calls for regular research papers on theories of computation and programming, foundations of software engineering and on formal techniques in software design and verification, as well as papers about tools that support formal techniques for software modeling, system design and verification. The topical areas of the conference include, but not limited to * Automata theory and formal languages; * Principles and semantics of programming languages; * Theories of concurrency, mobility and reconfiguration; * Logics and their applications; * Software architectures, their models, refinement and verification; * Relationship between software requirements, models and code; * Program static and dynamic analysis and verification; * Software specification, refinement, verification and testing; * Model checking and theorem proving; * Models of object and component systems; * Coordination and feature interaction; * Integration of theories, formal methods and tools for engineering computing systems; * Service-oriented architectures: models and development methods; * Models of concurrency, security, and mobility; * Theory of distributed, grid and cloud computing; * Real-time, embedded, hybrid and cyber-physical systems; * Type and category theory in computer science. PAPER SUBMISSION As for the past editions, the proceedings of ICTAC 2014 will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and will be available at the colloquium. Special issue of few journals with extended version of selected papers from ICTAC 2014 is under negotiation. Submissions to the colloquium 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, as well as their relevance to the conference. Regular Papers should not exceed 18 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Papers must be submitted by using www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2014. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: 30 March 2014 (extended) Submission deadline: 06 April 2014 (extended) Paper notification: 30 May 2014 Camera-ready paper: 14 June 2014 PC CHAIRS Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania Dominique Mery, LORIA, Universite de Lorraine, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT, ENSEIHT, France Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK Ana Calvacanti, University of York, UK Jeremie Chalopin, CNRS, France Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Maximiliano Cristia, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Argentina David Deharbe, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Rocco De Nicola, IMT Lucca, Italy Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK Ross Horne, Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, UK Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jetty Kleijn, Leiden University, The Netherlands Maciej Koutny, Newcastle University, UK Yassine Lakhnech, VERIMAG, France Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay, INRIA, France Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macau, China Marius Minea, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Victor Mitrana, University of Bucharest, Romania Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland Mohammed Mosbah, LABRI, University of Bordeaux, France Tobias Nipkow, Technical University Munich, Germany Manuel Nunez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Paritosh Pandya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Shengchao Qin, University of Teesside, UK Antonio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Universite de Namur, Belgium Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max Planck Institute, Germany Gheorghe Stefanescu, University of Bucharest, Romania Andrzej Tarlecki, Warsaw University, Poland Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi University, Finland Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Burkhart Wolff, Universite de Paris-Sud, France Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK Fatiha Zaidi, Universite de Paris-Sud, France Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China GENERAL CHAIRS Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania STEERING COMMITTEE Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck, Germany Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macao, China Tobias Nipkow, Technical University Munich, Germany Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA ********************************************************************** This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found on the ICTAC 2014 web page http://fmi.unibuc.ro/ictac2014/. For information regarding the conference and other queries, you can use the conference email address: ictac2014 at fmi.unibuc.ro ********************************************************************** From G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk Mon Mar 17 06:59:27 2014 From: G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk (Guy McCusker) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:59:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position at Bath Message-ID: A 36-month postdoctoral research position is available at the University of Bath, to work on the EPSRC-funded project "Algebra and Logic for Policy and Utility in Information Security (ALPUIS)." Please send informal enquiries to Guy McCusker -- G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk -- and make applications via https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=XVH2268 All the best, Guy McCusker. --- Research Associate - Computer Science (fixed-term) https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=XVH2268 Salary: Starting from ?30,728, rising to ?31,664 Closing Date: Tuesday 15 April 2014 Reference: XVH2268 Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at the University of Bath as part of the EPSRC-funded projectAlgebra and Logic for Policy and Utility in Information Security (ALPUIS). As an integral member of the ALPUIS team, you will contribute to an interdisciplinary project combining techniques from theoretical computer science (process algebra, logic) with ideas from economics (utility theory) to develop new methodologies for modeling, analyzing and making decisions about information security policy. The ALPUIS consortium comprises mathematicians, economists and policy experts from the University of Bath, University College London, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Exeter. The ideal candidate will bridge between the mathematical theory and realistic examples, producing models that reflect the theoretical development and can scale to describe and address questions of significance in security policy. Candidates should have, or shortly be expected to complete, a PhD in an area of relevance to the project. Expertise in the use of logical methods to describe and reason about the behaviour of processes or agents would be particularly desirable. Interviews will be held in April This is a fixed term post for 36 months From lina.ye at inria.fr Mon Mar 17 12:57:29 2014 From: lina.ye at inria.fr (lina.ye at inria.fr) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:57:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SEFM 2014: Extended Deadlines Message-ID: <201403171657.s2HGvTa2004812@ubac.inrialpes.fr> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. #################################################################### FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINES 12th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2014) http://sefm2014.inria.fr/ Grenoble, France September 1-5, 2014 #################################################################### IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: March 21, 2014 (extended) Paper Submission: March 28, 2014 (extended) Notification: May 19, 2014 Camera Ready: June 13, 2014 Workshops: September 1-2, 2014 Main conference: September 3-5, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to scale up their application in the software industry and to encourage their integration with practical engineering methods. Papers that apply formal methods to software engineering are especially welcome. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of this conference include, but are not limited to: - Formal requirement analysis, modeling, specification and design - Abstraction and refinement - Formal methods for probabilistic verification and synthesis - Programming languages, program analysis and type theory - Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, service-oriented and cloud computing - Formal aspects of security and mobility - Model checking, theorem proving and decision procedures - Formal methods for real-time, hybrid and embedded systems - Formal methods for safety-critical, fault-tolerant and secure systems - Software architecture and coordination languages - Software verification and validation - Component, object and multi-agent systems - Formal aspects of software evolution and maintenance - Formal methods for testing, re-engineering and reuse - Light-weight and scalable formal methods - Tool integration - Applications of formal methods, industrial case studies and technology transfer - Education and formal methods - Interactive systems and human error analysis - Formal methods for HCI - Formal analysis of human behaviour -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. They will be evaluated on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Papers should conform to the Springer LNCS style and should describe, in English, original work that has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. PDF versions of papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2014 We solicit two categories of papers: - Research papers should describe fully developed work and should not exceed 15 pages. Authors of papers reporting experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available to reviewers. Case study papers should describe significant case studies and lessons learned. - Tool papers should describe an operational tool and its contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages. Please include the URL of the tool (if available). Two additional pages of appendices are allowed that will not be included in the proceedings. The proceedings of SEFM'14 will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in two special issues, one in the Formal Aspects of Computing journal and the other in the Software and Systems Modeling journal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FEES The main conference lasts 3 days. It is preceded by 2 days of workshops. - Main conference and 2 days of workshops (5 days in total): 450 euros - Main conference (3 days): 350 euros - 2 days of workshop: 140 euros - 1 day of workshop: 80 euros - Main conference and 1 day of workshop: 350 + 80 = 430 euros (no discount) -------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR Radu Mateescu - Inria Grenoble, Rh?ne-Alpes, France PROGRAM CHAIRS Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Gwen Sala?n, Grenoble INP, Inria, France WORKSHOP CHAIRS Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain Marc Frappier, Sherbrooke University, Canada Akram Idani, Grenoble INP, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria Dalal Alrajeh, Imperial College, London, UK Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands Luis Barbosa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Howard Barringer, The University of Manchester, UK Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg Jonathan P. Bowen, Birmingham City University, UK Mario Bravetti, Universit? di Bologna, Italy Tevfik Bultan, UC Santa Barbara, USA Hung Dang Van, Vietnam National University, Vietnam Francisco Duran, University of Malaga, Spain George Eleftherakis, CITY College of Thessaloniki, Greece Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Mamoun Filali, IRIT CNRS Universit? de Toulouse, France Martin Fr?nzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany Marc Frappier, Sherbrooke University, Canada Hubert Garavel, Inria, France Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK Mike Hinchey, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland Falk Howar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, Germany Peter Lindsay, The University of Queensland, Australia Ant?nia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Stephan Merz, Inria, France Mizuhito Ogawa, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Fernando Orejas, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta Dave Parker, University of Birmingham , UK Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Sanjiva Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Jakob Rehof, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Leila Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Matthew Staats, University of Luxembourg Martin Steffen, Olso University, Norway Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Serdar Tasiran, Koc University, Turkey Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China From manuel.mazzara at newcastle.ac.uk Mon Mar 17 21:22:00 2014 From: manuel.mazzara at newcastle.ac.uk (Manuel Mazzara) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 01:22:00 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MOD* CFP In-Reply-To: <24CC3C1352CEA84EA16D392E6AED42C70A9A1E3F@EXMBCT01.campus.ncl.ac.uk> References: <24CC3C1352CEA84EA16D392E6AED42C70A9A1E3F@EXMBCT01.campus.ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <24CC3C1352CEA84EA16D392E6AED42C70A9A1EA8@EXMBCT01.campus.ncl.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st Workshop on Logics and MODel-checking for self-* systems (MOD*) http://modstar.cs.unibo.it/ 12 September 2014, Bertinoro, Italy Affiliated with iFM 2014: The 11th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods Logics and model-checking have been successfully used in the last decades for modeling and verification of various types of hardware and software systems. While most languages and techniques emerged in a context of monolithic systems with a limited self-adaptability, modern systems require approaches able to cope with dynamically changing requirements and emergent behaviors. The emphasis on system reconfigurability has not been followed by an adequate research effort, and the current state of the art lacks logics and model checking paradigms that can describe and analyze complex modern systems in a comprehensive way. This workshop aims at filling this gap by bringing together researchers and practitioners with the goal of pushing forward the state of the art on logics and model checking, with particular attention on the specification and verification of systems in the following (and further) categories: self-adaptive systems self-reconfiguring systems self-organizing systems cyber-physical systems hybrid systems elastic systems multi-agent systems The workshop focuses on demonstrating the applicability of Formal Methods in practical contexts. Therefore, both methodological/theoretical and industrial/applicative papers are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES (STRICT) June 9, 2014: Abstract submissions June 16, 2014: Submission of regular papers July 21, 2014: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection August 8, 2014: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers September 12, 2014: Workshop SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers. Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science series (EPTCS). Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 14 pages in the EPTCS format style (please use the LaTeX style provided at http://style.eptcs.org/). Proofs omitted due to space constraints can be put into an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Proofs added into appendix will *not* be published on proceedings. Submissions should be made using the MOD* 2014 Easychair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2014 The authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop by the early date, to be indicated by the organizers, and *must* present the paper. A special issue with a selection of the best papers on an international journal will be taken into consideration. ORGANIZERS Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, marcellomaria.bersani at polimi.it Davide Bresolin, Universit? di Bologna, davide.bresolin at unibo.it Luca Ferrucci, Politecnico di Milano, ferrucci at elet.polimi.it Manuel Mazzara, Politecnico di Milano, mazzara at elet.polimi.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bert van Beek, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands Carlo Bellettini, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Laura Bocchi, Imperial College London, UK Samir Brahim, Alfaisal saudi University, Saudi Arabia St?phane Demri, New York University and CNRS, France Leo Freitas, Newcastle University, UK Achille Frigeri, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Carlo Alberto Furia, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Silvio Ghilardi, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Luca Pardini, Universit? di Pisa, Italy Diego Perez, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Nafees Qamar, Vanderbilt University, USA David Miguel Ramalho Pereira, Polytechnical School of Porto, Portugal Pierluigi San Pietro, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain Carsten Sch?rmann, ITU Copenhagen, Denmark Roberto Segala, Universit? di Verona, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rvconference at gmail.com Tue Mar 18 02:26:25 2014 From: rvconference at gmail.com (Runtime Verification) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:26:25 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2014: 3rd Call for Papers, Deadline in 3 weeks Message-ID: [Apologizes for duplicates] 14th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 22 - 25, 2014 *Toronto, Canada* http://rv2014.imag.fr/ Scope: Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software and hardware system executions. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. Topics of interest to the conference include: - specification languages - specification mining - program instrumentation - monitor construction techniques - logging, recording, and replay - fault detection, localization, containment, recovery and repair - program steering and adaptation - metrics and statistical information gathering - combination of static and dynamic analyses - program execution visualization - monitoring techniques for safety/mission-critical systems - monitoring distributed systems, cloud services, and big data applications - monitoring security and privacy policies Application areas of runtime verification include safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. Technical Research Papers Track: Technical research papers can be submitted in two categories: regular and short papers. Papers in both categories will be reviewed by the conference Program Committee. All accepted technical papers will appear in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'14 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using theEasyChair system. - *Regular papers* (up to 15 pages) should present original unpublished results. Theoretical and experimental papers as well as papers on applications of runtime verification and case studies are all welcome. A non-monetary Best Paper Award will be given. A selection of accepted regular papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal Methods in System Design. - *Short papers* (up to 5 pages) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and other domains. Accepted short papers will be presented in special short talk (10 minutes) and poster sessions. Program committee Borzoo Bonakdarpour (University of Waterloo, Canada), *co-chair* Scott Smolka (Stony Brook Universtiy, USA), *co-chair* Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Thomas Ball (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) Howard Barringer (The University of Manchester, UK) Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, Austria) David Basin (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Saddek Bensalem (Verimag, France) Eric Bodden (TU - Darmstadt, Germany) Ivona Brandic (TU Wien, Austria) Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Michael Clarkson (George Washington University, USA) Laura Dillon (Michigan State University, USA) Shlomi Dolev (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) Dawson Engler (Stanford University, USA) Ylies Falcone (Universit? Joseph Fourier, France) Vijay Garg (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Steve Goddard (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (University of Utah, USA) Wolfgang Grieskamp (Google, USA) Radu Grosu (TU- Wien, Austria) Klaus Havelund (NASA/JPL, USA) Mats Heimdahl (University of Minnesota, USA) Laurie Hendren (McGill University, Canada) Gerard Holzmann (NASA/JPL, USA) Daniel Keren (Haifa University, Israel) Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State University, USA) Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, UK) Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Axel Legay (IRISA/INRIA, France) Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, Germany) Leonardo Mariani (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy) Patrick Meredith (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Mauro Pezze (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Lee Pike (Galois Inc., USA) Zvonimir Rakamaric (University of Utah, USA) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Andrey Rybalchenko (TU-Munich, Germany) Andre Schiper (EPFL, Switzerland) Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Scott Stoller (Stony Brook University, USA) Serdar Tasiran (Koc University, Turkey) Michael Whalen (University of Minnesota, USA) Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tool Demonstrations Track: The aim of the RV 2014 tool demonstration track is to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to show and to discuss the latest advances, experiences and challenges in devising and developing reliable software tools for runtime verification. Tool demonstration papers will be reviewed by the Tools Track Program Committee. All accepted tool demonstration papers will appear in the conference proceedings LNCS volume. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'14 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair system. Tool papers should meet the following criteria: - A tool paper should present a new tool, a new tool component or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. Each submission should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form. - Each submission must not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS/Springer proceeding format, including all text, references and figures. The paper must be written in English and provided in PDF format. - Each submission must be accompanied at the time of the submission by a short screencast (between 5-10 minutes), with voice and overlay text commentary illustrating the demonstration of the tool (a link to it should be provided in the paper). - The paper must include information on tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results and it should provide a link to a website containing the theoretical background and user guide. Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make their tools and benchmarks available with their submission. - Each tool paper must include a script in an appendix (not included in the page count) describing how the demo will be conducted during the conference presentation with screenshots presenting step-by-step the tool's capabilities, highlighting the main characteristics and the usage. Evaluation Each submission will be reviewed by at least four members of the tool demonstration track program committee. The evaluation criteria will include: - the presentation quality - the availability (possibly in a open-source format) of the software. - the relevance for the Runtime Verification audience - the technical soundness of the presented tool - the originality of the underlying ideas Tool Demonstration Committee Ezio Bartocci, (TU-Vienna, Austria), *Chair* Eric Bodden (TU - Darmstadt, Germany) Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) Dawson Engler (Stanford University, USA) Ylies Falcone (Universit? Joseph Fourier, France) Klaus Havelund (NASA/JPL, USA) Michael Whalen (University of Minnesota, USA) Important Dates: Both research papers and tool demonstration tracks will follow the following timeline: - *Abstract deadline:* April 8, 2014 - *Full paper deadline:* April 15, 2014 - *Rebuttal phase:* May 18-20, 2014 - *Acceptance notification:* June 10, 2014 - *Camera ready submission:* June 25, 2014 - *Conference dates:* 22-25 September, 2014 Competition on Software for Runtime Verification (CSRV-2014) A satellite event of RV'14 is the first *International Competition on Software for Runtime Verification* (CRVS'14). The main aims of CSRV-2014 competition are to: - Stimulate the development of new efficient and practical runtime verification tools and the maintenance of the already developed ones. - Produce a benchmark suite for runtime verification tools, by sharing case studies and programs that researchers and developers can use in the future to test and to validate their prototypes. - Discuss the metrics employed for comparing the tools. - Provide a comparison of the tools running with different benchmarks and evaluating using different criteria. - Enhance the visibility of presented tools among the different communities (software engineering, formal methods and automated verification, distributed computing, security, and safety-critical systems) involved in software monitoring. CRVS'14 will follow the following time line: - *Declaration of intent:* December 15, 2013 - *Deadline for submission of benchmarks:* March 1, 2014 - *Monitoring tool submission:* June 1, 2014 - *Notification:* July 1, 2014 For more information, visit http://rv2014.imag.fr/monitoring-competition or contact the event organizers: - *Ezio Bartocci* (TU-Wien, Austria), ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at - *Borzoo Bonakdarpour* (U. Waterloo, Canada), borzoo at cs.uwaterloo.ca - *Ylies Falcone* (U. Joseph Fourier, France), ylies.falcone at ujf-grenoble.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baldan at math.unipd.it Tue Mar 18 05:54:21 2014 From: baldan at math.unipd.it (Paolo Baldan) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:54:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CONCUR 2014: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <532817CD.1060406@math.unipd.it> CONCUR 2014: 2nd Call for Papers [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] =================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - CONCUR 2014 =================================== 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory September 1-6, 2014 - Rome, Italy http://concur2014.org The purpose of the CONCUR conferences is to bring together researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency, and promote its applications. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: April 14, 2014 Paper Submission: April 19, 2014 Paper Notification: June 9, 2014 INVITED SPEAKERS - Javier Esparza (TU Muenchen, DE) - Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, FR), joint with TGC - Vasco Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, PT) We are also pleased to announce that Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research Cambridge) will give a speech in the occasion of the 25th anniversary of CONCUR. TOPICS Submissions are solicited in semantics, logics, verification and analysis of concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain theoretic models, game theoretic models, categorical models, process algebras, graph transformation systems, coalgebraic models and Petri nets; - Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics, and resource logics; - Models of specialized systems such as biology-inspired systems, circuits, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems, multi-core processors, probabilistic systems, real-time systems, service-oriented computing, and synchronous systems; - Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model checking, race detection, pre-order and equivalence checking, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving, and type systems; - Related programming models such as distributed, component-based, object-oriented, and web services; - Security issues in concurrent systems. =================================== PAPER SUBMISSION CONCUR 2014 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. As an exception, concurrent submissions to CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014 are allowed, and in fact encouraged for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of such double submissions should identify them to the Program Chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the "Regular paper submitted also to TGC" category in the EasyChair site). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014. CONCUR's timeline is ahead of TGC's; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered automatically withdrawn from TGC. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Contributions must be submitted as PDF files. They should not exceed 15 pages in length and comply with the Springer LNCS style. Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair online submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=concur2014) The CONCUR 2014 proceedings will be published by Springer in the ArCoSS subseries of LNCS. The proceedings will be available at the conference. =================================== CO-LOCATED EVENTS - TGC 2014 7th Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing (Sep 5-6) - IFIP-TCS 2014 8th IFIP Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (Sep 1-3) WORKSHOPS - EXPRESS/SOS 2014 Combined 21st Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 11th Workshop on Structured Operational Semantics (Sep 1) - BEAT 2014 3rd International Workshop on Behavioural Types (Sep 1) - FOCLASA 2014 13th Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptation (Sep 6) - PV 2014 Workshop on Parameterized Verification (Sep 6) ======================= PROGRAM CHAIRS - Paolo Baldan (Universita' di Padova, IT) - Daniele Gorla (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", IT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Luca Aceto (Reykjavik University, IS) - Christel Baier (TU Dresden, DE) - Luis Caires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT) - David de Frutos Escrig (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES) - Stephanie Delaune (ENS Cachan, FR) - Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and CWI, NL) - Yuxi Fu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, CN) - Fabio Gadducci (Universita' di Pisa, IT) - Ursula Goltz (TU Braunschweig, DE) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, CH) - Joshua Guttman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Keijo Heljanko (Aalto University, FI) - Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, PL) - Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE) - Antonin Kucera (University of Brno, CZ) - Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, DK) - Andrzej Murawski (University of Warwick, UK) - K. Narayan Kumar (Chennai Mathematical Institute, IN) - Madhusudan Parthasarathy (University of Illinois, USA) - Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, CY) - Shaz Qadeer (Microsoft Research, USA) - Arend Rensink (University of Twente, NL) - Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, CA) - Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, SP) - Daniele Varacca (Paris Diderot, FR) - Bjorn Victor (Uppsala University, S) - James Worrell (Oxford University, UK) WORKSHOP CHAIR - Silvia Crafa (Universita' di Padova, IT) STEERING COMMITTEE - Jos Baeten (CWI Amsterdam, NL) - Javier Esparza (TU Muenchen, DE) - Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, DE) - Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, DK) - Ugo Montanari (Universita' di Pisa, IT) - Scott Smolka (SUNY Stony Brook, US) From hidaka at nii.ac.jp Tue Mar 18 07:30:14 2014 From: hidaka at nii.ac.jp (Soichiro Hidaka) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:30:14 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] BX2014: Call for participation Message-ID: <20140318203014V.hidaka@nii.ac.jp> Third International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (BX 2014) Friday March 28th, 2014 Athens, Greece co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2014 Workshop information: http://bx-community.wikidot.com/bx2014:home Online Proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1133/#bx Online registration is open until March 20th at http://www.edbticdt2014.gr/index.php/registration On-site registration is also available during the conference (at a higher rate). ----- Bidirectional transformations (bx) are a mechanism for maintaining the consistency of at least two related sources of information. Such sources can be relational data, software models, documents, graphs, trees, and so on. BX are an emerging topic in a wide range of research areas with prominent presence at top conferences in different fields. However, much of the research in bx tends to get limited exposure outside of a single field of study. The purpose of this workshop series is not only to further research into bx, but to promote cross-disciplinary research and awareness in the area. **************** Workshop program **************** 08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks: James Terwilliger 09:00-10:40 Session 1: Types, Transformations, and Benchmark ------------------------------------------------------------ 09:00-09:15 Implementing a Bidirectional Model Transformation Language as an Internal DSL in Scala Arif Wider 09:15-09:30 Towards a framework for multi-directional model transformations Nuno Macedo, Alcino Cunha, Hugo Pacheco 09:30-09:45 Formalizing Semantic Bidirectionalization with Dependent Types Helmut Grohne, Andres L?h, and Janis Voigtl?nder 09:45-10:00 Group discussion 10:00-10:15 BenchmarX Anthony Anjorin, Manuel Alcino Cunha, Holger Giese, Frank Hermann, Arend Rensink, and Andy Sch?rr 10:15-10:30 Towards a Repository of Bx Examples James Cheney, Jeremy Gibbons, James McKinna, and Perdita Stevens 10:30-10:40 Group discussion 10:40-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Session 2: Databases, Monads, and Lenses -------------------------------------------------------- 11:00-11:15 Intersection Schemas as a Dataspace Integration Technique Richard Brownlow and Alex Poulovassilis 11:15-11:30 Bidirectional Transformations in Database Evolution: A Case Study "At Scale" Mathieu Beine, Nicolas Hames, Jens Weber, and Anthony Cleve 11:30-11:40 Group discussion 11:40-11:55 Entangled State Monads Faris Abou-Saleh, James Cheney, Jeremy Gibbons, James McKinna, and Perdita Stevens 11:55-12:10 Spans of Lenses Michael Johnson and Robert Rosebrugh 12:10-12:30 Group discussion and closing From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Tue Mar 18 08:00:41 2014 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:00:41 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HSB 2014: Extended Deadline (March 28, 2014) Message-ID: <95BAC003-3382-4DC2-A119-CE7929FC1FE8@tuwien.ac.at> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. #################################################################### FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINES Third International Workshop on Hybrid Systems and Biology (HSB 2014) http://hsb2014.imag.fr Vienna, Austria July 23-24, 2014 #################################################################### IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: March 28, 2014 (extended) Notification: May 8, 2014 Post Proceedings Camera Ready: October 1, 2014 SCOPE: Systems biology aims at providing a system-level understanding of biological systems by unveiling their structure, dynamics and control methods. Living systems are intrinsically multi-scale in space, in organization levels and in time; they also exhibit a mixture of deterministic and stochastic behaviors. It is therefore very difficult to model them in a uniform way, for instance, by systems of differential equations or by discrete-event systems. Furthermore, such models are often not easily amenable to formal analysis and their simulations at the organ or even the cell level are frequently impractical. Indeed, an important open problem is finding appropriate computational models that scale-up well for both simulation and formal analysis of biological processes. Hybrid modeling techniques, combining discrete and continuous processes, are gaining more and more attention in systems biology, and they have been applied to successfully capture the behavior of several biological complex systems, ranging from genetic regulatory networks, metabolic reactions, signaling pathways as well as higher level models of tissues and organs. As the challenges of scale and intrinsic inhomogeneity are coming to the forefront of systems biology efforts, they highlight the value of a hybrid dynamical modeling paradigm that integrates mathematical models that apply at different spatio-temporal scales and subsystems. In this spirit, the scope of the HSB workshop is the general area of dynamical models in Biology with an emphasis on hybrid approaches, which are not restricted to a narrow class of mathematical models, and which take advantage of techniques developed separately in different sub-domains. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Hybrid models of metabolic, signaling, and genetic regulatory networks in living cells * Hybrid models of tissues, organs and physiological models * Biological applications of analysis techniques from hybrid systems theory (reachability computation, model checking, abstract interpretation, bifurcation theory, stability and sensitivity analysis) * Parametric and non-parametric system identification techniques (learning models from experimental data) * Efficient techniques for combined (stochastic/deterministic, spatial/non-spatial) simulations for biological models * Hybrid modeling languages for biological systems, analysis and simulation tools * Models coping with incomplete and uncertain information, stochastic hybrid systems * Hierarchical hybrid systems for multi scale analysis * Abstraction, approximation and model-reduction techniques * Hybrid systems modeling for synthetic biology and control of biological systems We solicit the submission of unpublished results that address both theoretical and applied aspects of hybrid modeling techniques in systems biology. Submissions accepted as full papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series. INVITED SPEAKERS: * David Harel, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel * Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel-Aviv University, Israel SUBMISSION: Full papers should be no more than 15 pages long, typesetted in the LNCS-style. Electronic submissions of full-length papers (in PDF format), will be done through the online submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hsb14 REGISTRATION The regular fee (by May 20, 2014) to attend this two-days workshop is EUR 200. The late fee (by June 30, 2014) is EUR 240. The onsite fee is EUR 260. It is also possible to register only to HSB workshop without registering to CAV conference. A person registered for a Vienna Summer of Logic event (conference or workshop) can attend any parallel Vienna Summer Logic event on the same day. ORGANIZATION: PC Chairs: * ?d?m Hal?sz, West Virginia University, USA * Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France Local Organization and Publicity Chair: * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee: * Marco Antoniotti, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gregory Batt, INRIA Rocquencourt, France * Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, Italy * Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Vincent Danos, CNRS/Universit? Paris-Diderot, France * Hidde de Jong, INRIA Grenoble - Rh?ne-Alpes, France * Alexandre Donz?, UC Berkley, USA * Fran?ois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France * Eric Fanchon, TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, Grenoble, France * Hans Geiselmann, University of Grenoble, France * Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * ?d?m Hal?sz, West Virginia University, USA - (co-chair) * Thomas Henzinger, IST, Austria * Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK * Agung Julius, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Heinz Koeppl, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Hillel Kugler, Microsoft Research, UK * Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK * Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge, UK * Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France - (co-chair) * Bud Mishra, NYU, USA * Chris Myers, University of Utah, USA * Casian Pantea, West Virginia University, USA * Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy * David ?afr?nek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic * Ricardo Sanfelice, University of Arizona, USA * P.S. 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Many impressive practical results have been obtained, which allow complex properties to be proven or checked in a fully or semi-automatic way, even in the context of complex software developments. In parallel, the techniques to design and implement static analysis tools have improved significantly, and much effort is being put into engineering the tools. This workshop is intended to promote discussions and exchange experience between specialists in all areas of program analysis design and implementation and static analysis tool users. Previous workshops have been held in Perpignan, France (2010), Venice, Italy (2011), Deauville, France (2012), and Seattle, WA, USA (2013). TAPAS 2014 will be co-located with SAS 2014, in Munich, Germany, September 10, 2014. Scope ----- The technical program of TAPAS 2014 will consist of invited lectures together with presentations based on submitted abstracts. Submitted presentation abstracts can cover any aspect of program analysis tools including, but not limited to the following: * design and implementation of static analysis tools (including practical techniques used for obtaining precision and performance) * components of static analysis tools (front-ends, abstract domains, etc.) * integration of static analyzers (in proof assistants, test generation tools, IDEs, etc.) * reusable software infrastructure (analysis algorithms and frameworks) * experience reports on the use of static analyzers (both research prototypes and industrial tools) Submission of Presentation Abstracts ------------------------------------ All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee. Submitted abstracts should be 1-2 pages, and use the ACM proceedings format. Invited Speakers ---------------- Alexey Loginov, GrammaTech David Pichardie, ENS Cachan Eric Bodden, Fraunhofer SIT, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Athens Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo Dates ----- * Submission deadline: June 27 * Notification of acceptance: July 11 * Final version due: July 25 * Early registration: On or before July 20, 2014 * Workshop day: September 10, 2014 Organizers ---------- Anders M?ller, Aarhus University (chair) Ondrej Lhotak, University of Waterloo Antoine Min?, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure Manu Sridharan, Samsung Research America Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford From viktor at mpi-sws.org Tue Mar 18 10:43:51 2014 From: viktor at mpi-sws.org (Viktor Vafeiadis) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:43:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The 6th Coq workshop: call for contributions Message-ID: ************************************************************* The 6th Coq Workshop Vienna, Austria - July 18, 2014 (Co-located with ITP'14 and the other FLoC'14 conferences) ************************************************************* http://vsl2014.at/pages/Coq-index.html ** Call for papers ** The Coq Workshop series brings together Coq users, developers, and contributors. While conferences like ITP provide a venue for traditional research papers, the Coq Workshop focuses on strengthening the Coq community and providing a forum for discussing practical issues, including the future of the Coq software and its associated ecosystem of libraries and tools. Thus, the workshop will be organized around informal presentations and discussions, supplemented with invited talks. We invite all members of the Coq community to propose informal talks, discussion sessions, or any potential uses of the day allocated to the workshop. Relevant subject matter includes but is not limited to: - Language or tactic features - Applications and experience in education and industry - Tools and platforms built on Coq - Plugins and libraries for Coq - Interfacing with Coq - Formalization tricks and Coq pearls ** Submission instructions ** Authors should submit short proposals through EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coq6 Submissions should be in portable document format (PDF). Proposals should not exceed 2 pages in length in single-column full-page style. ** Important dates ** Submission deadline: April 4, 2014 Notification: April 25, 2014 Workshop: July 18, 2014 ** Organizers & PC chairs ** - Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS) - Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS) ** Program committee ** - Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) - Andrew Kennedy (Microsoft Research Cambridge) - Christine Paulin-Mohring (Universit? Paris-Sud) - Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA Paris) - Antonis Stampoulis (MIT CSAIL) - Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania) From alain.girault at inria.fr Tue Mar 18 11:42:09 2014 From: alain.girault at inria.fr (Alain Girault) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:42:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RePP 2014 workshop call for participation: Grenoble, France, Sunday April 6th, 2014 Message-ID: <53286951.707@inria.fr> RePP 2014 http://repp14.inria.fr Reconciling Performance with Predictability Grenoble, France, Sunday April 6th, 2014 An ETAPS 2014 satellite event ================================= Final program ================================= 9.15 - 9.30 Opening 9.30 - 10.30 Sebastian Hahn, Jan Reineke, and Reinhard Wilhelm Saarland University, Saarbruecken: Compositionality in Execution Time Analysis David Broman University of California, Berkeley: Precision Timed Processors and WCET-Aware Code Management for Mixed-Criticality Systems 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 - 12.30 Sophie Quinton and Rolf Ernst INRIA Grenobles and Technical University Braunschweig: Typical Worst-Case Analysis: Designing Real-Time Systems for the Hard and Weakly-Hard Case Joerg Mische, Stefan Metzlaff, and Theo Ungerer University of Augsburg: Distributed Memory on Chip - Bringing Together Low Power and Real-Time Thomas Carle, Manel Djemal, Dumitru Potop Butucaru, Robert de Simone, Zhen Zhang, Francois Pecheux, and Franck Wajbuerst INRIA, IRT SystemX, and UPMC/LIP6: Reconciling performance and predictability on a many-core through off-line mapping 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Pascal Raymond, Claire Maiza, Catherine Parent-Vigouroux, Fabienne Carrier, and Mihail Asavoae Grenoble-Alpes University and Verimag: Timing Analysis Enhancement for Synchronous Program Florian Kluge, Mike Gerdes, Florian Haas, and Theo Ungerer University of Augsburg: A Generic Timing Model for Cyber-Physical Systems Insa Fuhrmann, David Broman, Steven Smyth, and Reinhard von Hanxleden Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, and University of California, Berkeley, and Linkoeping University: Towards Interactive Timing Analysis for Designing Reactive Systems Michael Mendler, Brino Bodin, Partha Roop, and Jai Jie Wang Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, University of Edinburgh, and The University of Auckland: The WCRT analysis of synchronous programs: Studying the tick alignment problem 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 - 17.30 Moderated Discussion From c.grelck at uva.nl Tue Mar 18 12:13:07 2014 From: c.grelck at uva.nl (Clemens Grelck) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:13:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: HLPP 2014 - 7th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications Message-ID: <53287093.60701@uva.nl> =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS HLPP 2014 7th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Amsterdam, Netherlands July 3-4, 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/hlpp2014amsterdam/ =========================================================================== Aims and scope: As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 7th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held July 3-4 in the historic center of Amsterdam. =========================================================================== Proceedings: Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). =========================================================================== Important dates: Submission deadline: April 4 (anywhere on earth) Author notification: May 1 Camera-ready paper due: June 16 =========================================================================== Topics: HLPP 2014 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: + High-level programming and performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and their tools + Declarative parallel programming methodologies + Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods + Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation + Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs + Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming + Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs + High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms + High-level parallel methods for large datasets + Applications of parallel systems using high-level languages and tools + Teaching experience with high-level tools and methods =========================================================================== Paper preparation and submission: Papers submitted to HLPP2014 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical programme committee (see below). Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the HLPP 2014 symposium and present the paper. =========================================================================== Programme committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jost Berthold, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Rob Bisseling, Utrecht University, Netherlands Murray Cole, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Joel Falcou, MetaScale / Universit? Paris-Sud, France Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair) Ga?tan Hains, Universit? Paris-Est, France Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Youry Khmelevsky, University of British Columbia / Okanagan College, Canada Herbert Kuchen, University of M?nster, Germany Kiminori Matsuzaki, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Frank Penczek, Intel Ulm, Germany Susanna Pelagatti, University of Pisa, Italy Tiark Rompf, Oracle Labs / Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland Francisco de Sande, University of La Laguna, Spain Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden Vijay Saraswat, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom =========================================================================== HLPP Organizer and programme chair: Clemens Grelck Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam Science Park 904 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands c.grelck at uva.nl =========================================================================== HLPP steerin