[TYPES/announce] TCS special issue on QAPL 13/14

[Herbert Wiklicky]

[apologies for multiple copies]

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Special Issue of THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
on
Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems (QAPL 2013/14)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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We invite the submission of papers on Quantitative Aspects of
Programming Languages and Systems for publication in a special issue
of the Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). In particular we
welcome papers which are revised versions of the submitted to and
presented at the QAPL 2013 Workshop in Rome and QAPL 2014 in
Grenoble. We will additionally also welcome submissions of papers not
presented at QAPL, provided they fall into the scope of the call.

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SCOPE
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Quantitative aspects of computation are important and sometimes
essential in characterising the behaviour and determining the
properties of systems. They are related to the use of physical
quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth, etc.) as well as
mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures for
reliability, risk and trust). Such quantities play a central role in
defining both the model of systems (architecture, language design,
semantics) and the methodologies and tools for the analysis and
verification of system properties. This special issue will be devoted
to research papers which discuss the explicit use of quantitative
information such as time and probabilities either directly in the
model or as a tool for the analysis of systems. In particular,
contributions should focus on

* the design of probabilistic and real-time languages and the
   definition of semantical models for such languages;

* the discussion of methodologies for the analysis of probabilistic
   and timing properties (e.g. security, safety, schedulability) and of
   other quantifiable properties such as reliability (for hardware
   components), trustworthiness (in information security) and resource
   usage (e.g. worst-case memory/stack/cache requirements);

* the probabilistic analysis of systems which do not explicitly
   incorporate quantitative aspects (e.g. performance, reliability and
   risk analysis);

* applications to safety-critical systems, communication protocols,
   control systems, asynchronous hardware, and to any other domain
   involving quantitative issues.

* the investigation of computational models and paradigms involving
   quantitative aspects, such as those arising in quantum computation,
   systems biology, bioinformatics, etc.

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TOPICS
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Topics include (but are not limited to) probabilistic, timing and
general quantitative aspects in:

Language design, language expressiveness, quantitative language
extension, semantics, logic, verification, automated reasoning,
testing, model-checking, program analysis, performance analysis,
resource analysis, safety, security and protocol analysis, risk and
hazard analysis, for biological systems, quantum languages,
information systems, multi-tasking and multi-core systems,
time-critical systems, embedded systems, coordination models,
scheduling theory, distributed systems, concurrent systems, etc.

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SUBMISSION
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Papers should be 20-25 pages long, including appendices, and should be
formatted according to Elsevier's elsart document style used for 
articles in
the Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (see the Guide for Authors at
http://ees.elsevier.com/tcs & http://support.elsevier.com)

Submissions are through Easychair  at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tcsqapl2014

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  IMPORTANT DATES
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       * Abstract submission: 31 July 2014
       * Paper submission: 31 August 2014
       * Notification: end of 2014

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  GUEST EDITORS
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       Nathalie Bertrand
       Inria, Rennes, France
nathalie.bertrand at inria.fr

       Luca Bortolussi
       University of Trieste, Italy
luca at dmi.units.it

       Herbert Wiklicky
       Imperial College London, UK
       herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk

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