From m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk Mon Jan 5 01:21:27 2015 From: m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk (Marco Gaboardi (Staff)) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 06:21:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy - TPDP 2015 - Second call for paper Message-ID: <5317C48B-164D-4FD9-A29F-A95D72FBCD22@dundee.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS TPDP 2015 First workshop on the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy 18th April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://tpdp.computing.dundee.ac.uk Differential privacy is a promising approach to the privacy-preserving release of data: it offers a strong guaranteed bound on the increase in harm that a user incurs as a result of participating in a differentially private data analysis. Researchers in differential privacy come from several area of computer science as algorithms, programming languages, security, databases, machine learning, as well as from several areas of statistics and data analysis. The workshop is intended to be an occasion for researchers from these different research areas to discuss the recent developments in the theory and practice of differential privacy. **Submissions** The overall goal of TPDP is to stimulate the discussion on the relevance of differentially private data analyses in practice. For this reason, we seek contributions from different research areas of computer science and statistics. Authors are invited to submit a short abstract (4-5 pages maximum) of their work by January 23, 2015. Abstracts must be written in English and be submitted as a single PDF file at the EasyChair page for TPDP: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdp2015 Submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. Submission should describe novel works or works that have already appeared elsewhere but that can stimulate the discussion between the different communities. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop. The workshop will not have formal proceedings, but we plan to have a special issue of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality devoted to TPDP. Authors presenting valuable contributions at the workshop will be invited to submit a journal version of their work right after the workshop. **Important Dates** -January 23, 2015 - Abstract Submission -February 10, 2015 - Notification -February 14, 2015 - Deadline early registration ETAPS -April 18, 2015 - Workshop -May 15, 2015 Deadline for journal special issue **Topics** Specific topics of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to): theory of differential privacy, verification techniques for differential privacy, programming languages for differential privacy, models for differential privacy, trade-offs between privacy protection and analytic utility, differential privacy and surveys, relaxations of the differential privacy definition, differential privacy vs other privacy notions and methods, differential privacy and accuracy, practical differential privacy, implementations for differential privacy, differential privacy and security, applications of differential privacy. **Invited Speakers** Jonathan Ullman - Simons Fellow at Columbia University, Another invited speaker joint with HotSpot'15 to be confirmed. **Program Committee** Gilles Barthe - IMDEA Software Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis - CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique Kamalika Chaudhuri - UC San Diego Graham Cormode - University of Warwick George Danezis - University College London Marco Gaboardi - University of Dundee Matteo Maffei - CISPA, Saarland University Catuscia Palamidessi - INRIA and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique Benjamin C. Pierce - University of Pennsylvania Aaron Roth - University of Pennsylvania David Sands - Chalmers University of Technology Chris Skinner - London School of Economics Adam Smith - Pennsylvania State University Carmela Troncoso - Gradiant Salil Vadhan - Harvard University The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 From Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at Tue Jan 6 06:11:36 2015 From: Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at (Nickovic Dejan) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:11:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2015 : 2nd call for Papers and Tutorials Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS RV'15 15th International Conference on Runtime Verification Vienna, Austria 22-25 September 2015 http://rv2015.conf.tuwien.ac.at/ RV'15, the 15th International Conference on Runtime Verification, will take place at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, from 22 to 25 September 2015. ** 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. ** Research Papers Track ** 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'15 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair system. * Regular Papers * 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. The Program Committee of RV 2015 will give this year a best paper award. The Best Paper Award recipient is given public recognition and will receive one high-end NVIDIA GPU equipment (Titan Black for a value of $1,150) donated by NVIDIA. * Short Papers * 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 * Thomas Ball, Microsoft, USA Howard Barringer, University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (PC Chair) David Basin, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Andreas Baurer, TU Munich, Germany Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG, France Eric Bodden, TU Darmstadt, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy Laura Bozzelli, UPW, Spain Rohit Chadha, University of Missouri, USA Satish Chandra, Samsung Electronics, USA Dino Distefano, Facebook, UK Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London, UK Alexandre Donz?, UC Berkeley, USA Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University, USA Yli?s Falcone, University of Grenoble I, France Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University, Germany Milos Gligoric, University of Illunois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (General Chair) Kim Larsen, Aalborg Univeristy, Denmark Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL, USA Aditya Kanade, Indian Institute of Science, India Panagiotis Katsaros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Safraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, Germany Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany (PC Chair) Oded Maler, VERIMAG, France Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Dejan Nickovic, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Joel Ouaknine, Oxford University, UK Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel Pavithra Prabhakar, IMDEA Software Institute, USA Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore, Singapore Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley, USA Scott A. Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen, TU Dortmund, Germany Scott D. Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Emina Torlak, UC Berkeley, USA Serdar Ta??ran, Ko? University, Turkey Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ** Tool Demonstration Track ** The aim of the RV 2015 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'15 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. * Tool 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 * Dejan Nickovic, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria, Chair Alexandre Donz?, UC Berkeley, USA Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, Germany Milos Gligoric, University of Illunois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Eugen Zalinescu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta ** Tutorials ** As with previous editions, RV'15 will host a few tutorials. These are three-hour presentations on a selected topic. Additionally, tutorial presenters will be offered to publish a paper of up to 20 pages in the LNCS conference proceedings. A proposal for a tutorial must contain the subject of the tutorial, a proposed timeline, a note on previous similar tutorials (if applicable) and the differences to this incarnation, and a biography of the presenter. It must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guide-lines and not exceed 2 pages. 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URL: From pangjun at gmail.com Wed Jan 7 03:31:06 2015 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:31:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSS 2015 (co-located with FM 2015 in Oslo): First call for papers Message-ID: ================================================== 4th International Workshop on Engineering Safety and Security Systems June 22, 2015, Oslo, Norway Co-located with FM 2015 in Oslo, Norway, June 22-26, 2015 More information: http://pat.sce.ntu.edu.sg/esss15/ =================================================== Important dates ----------------- * March 16th, 2015: Submission deadline * April 27th, 2015: Notification of acceptance/rejection * June 22nd, 2015: Workshop date 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=esss2015. 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. Workshop chairs ----------------- Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program committee ----------------- Etienne Andre, Universite Paris 13, France Guandong Bai, National University of Singapore, Singapore Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Weiqiang Kong, Dalian University of Technology, China Keqin Li, SAP Research, France Cong Tian, Xidian University, China Mohammad Torabi Dashti, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology Yoriyuki Yamagata, AIST, Japan Tian Zhang, Nanjing University, China From deligu at di.unito.it Wed Jan 7 04:53:25 2015 From: deligu at di.unito.it (Ugo de' Liguoro) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:53:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: WoC'15 - Workshop on Continuations Message-ID: <54AD0215.9060506@di.unito.it> CALL FOR PAPERS WoC'15 Workshop on Continuations 12th April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://woc2015.di.unito.it/ The notion of continuation is ubiquitous in many different areas of computer science, including systems programming, programming languages, algorithmics, semantics, logic, and constructive mathematics. In fact the concept of continuation nicely realizes sophisticated control mechanisms, which are widely used in a variety of applications. Since we cannot escape control features, it becomes a challenge to provide them with sound reasoning principles. Indeed there is much research activity on understanding, representing, and reasoning about elaborated non-local control structures, in particular in declarative programming languages such as functional and logic languages. WoC 2015 is a new venue, continuing and broadening the scope of COS'13, held in Eindhoven. WoC 2015 offers a forum for the presentation and discussion of continuation-based constructs in programming languages, whether in the style of Curry (terms first, types later (maybe)) or in the style of Church (types first, typed terms later). We specifically welcome the presentation of elegant motivating examples. ** Topics of Interest ** Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * continuations and delimited continuations * continuation based programming language constructs * categorical and algebraic models of continuations * compositionality and modularity of continuations * denotational semantics of control, event structures and causality * operational semantics and abstract machines * type systems for continuation-based constructs * game semantics of programming languages and of logical proofs * usage of continuations in proof search and proof mining * semantics of control operators in logic programming * continuations in web-services ** Submission Guidelines ** Paper submission is in two steps. Authors are expected to submit an abstract of up to 10 pages in pdf format generated by means of latex and EPTCS style, for inclusion in informal pre-proceedings available at the workshop, and in the workshop program. After the workshop, a longer version of 15 pages at most will be submitted for publication in the post-proceedings, and will undergo to a new reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in EPTCS. Submissions are expected by 22th January using the EasyChair url: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=woc2015 ** Important Dates ** Submission through EasyChair: 22th January, 2015 Notification: 14th February, 2015 Pre-proceedings version due: 1th March, 2015 Workshop date: 12th April, 2015 Submission to post-reviewed proceedings in EPTCS: 23th May, 2015. Post proceedings notification: 20th July, 2015. Final version due: 30th June, 2015. ** Programme Committee ** Program Committee: Zena Ariola, University of Oregon, USA Dariusz Biernacki, University of Wroclaw, Poland Olivier Danvy, Aarhus University, Denmark (chair) Mayer Goldberg, Ben Gurion University, Israel Tadeusz Litak, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Jay McCarthy, Vassar College, USA Christian Queinnec, Universi? Pierre et Marie Curie, France Tiark Rompf, Purdue University, USA Alexis Saurin, CNRS & Universit? Paris Diderot -- Paris 7, France Hayo Thielecke University of Birmingham, UK ** Organiser ** Ugo de'Liguoro, University of Turin ugo.deliguoro at unito.it From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Wed Jan 7 07:10:26 2015 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 13:10:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] New Open PostDoc position in formal methods for timed systems with faults and delays at Vienna University of Technology Message-ID: <4E2B29A6-B2EE-4437-AC84-20ECB089B24F@tuwien.ac.at> Postdoc in formal methods applied to networked timed systems with faults and delays at the Institute of Computer Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria The Institute of Computer Engineering at Vienna (http://ti.tuwien.ac.at/) University of Technology is seeking a candidate for a two-year postdoctoral research position (with the possibility of a renewal), starting March 2015. The successful applicant will carry out his/her postdoc in the research area of formal methods applied to the verification and synthesis of timed systems with faults and delays, including distributed systems. This task is part of the recently granted Austrian FWF National Research Network ?RiSE? (2nd funding period, http://arise.or.at/nfn/), to be led by Ass.-Prof. Ezio Bartocci in collaboration with Prof. Ulrich Schmid and Prof. Radu Grosu and with the other PIs of RiSE: http://arise.or.at/principal-investigators/ The specific requirements for this postdoc position are the following: - A completed PhD in Computer Science - Experience in developing tools - Solid experience in timed automata and/or probabilistic timed automata (possibly parametric and/or parametrized) - Very good English skills (writing, speaking) - A promising publication record The Technische Universit?t Wien (TU Wien) has about 20,000 students and a heavy emphasis on research in the sciences and engineering. TU Wien comprises eight faculties - mathematics and geo-information, physics, technical chemistry, informatics, civil engineering, architecture and regional planning, mechanical engineering and business science, electrical engineering and information technology. The Faculty of Informatics of the TU Wien comprises about 3,000 students. The Institute of Computer Engineering (ICE) is one of its seven computer science institutes. The ICE?s research and teaching activities focus on the area of cyber-physical systems and dependable embedded systems. Our activities are at the heart of the primary research area Technische Informatik (Computer Engineering) of the Faculty of Informatics, and integrate computer science, discrete and continuous systems theory, and microelectronics in a holistic approach. Major research areas are hybrid systems, real-time systems, fault-tolerant distributed algorithms, and dependable digital circuit architectures. Particular research activities range from formal/mathematical modeling and analysis over SW/HW architectures to microcontroller programming and FPGA/VLSI design. Salary: The salary of the postdoctoral researcher will be of around 48000 Euro gross per year. Applications, including any attachments, should be submitted by the 25th of January to the following emails: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at, s at ecs.tuwien.ac.at, radu.grosu at tuwien.ac.at The following documents must be attached to the application: - Cover letter stating the candidate's motivation to apply, and the reason(s) why they should be selected for the position - A cv - Three publications that are deemed relevant to the postdoctoral project - Two reference letters Shortlisted applicants are expected to be interviewed during the first week of February 2015. 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Examples of these systems include separation assurance algorithms for air traffic management, concepts of operations for Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen), fault-tolerant avionics systems, etc. The areas of interest within the research team include: * Formal verification of software intensive safety-critical systems. * Development of techniques and tools for formal verification. * Integration of formal verification tools into software development practice. * Design and analysis of operational procedures, algorithms and enabling technologies for air traffic control. Requirements: * PhD degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical or Aerospace Engineering or closely related fields * Demonstrated research experience within the stated areas of interest. * Knowledge of at least one formal verification technique, e.g., theorem proving, model-checking, abstract interpretation, symbolic execution, etc. * Excellent oral and writing communication skills. Desired skills: * Familiarity with current challenges in formal specification and verification of cyber-physical systems, such as modeling of hybrid systems, numerical issues due to machine numbers, etc. * Familiarity with current challenges in application fields related to aerospace engineering, such as autonomy and authority, modeling and simulation, etc. APPLICATION INFORMATION Interested candidates should apply online via NIA's career opportunities site located at http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH12/ats/careers/apply.jsp?org=NIANET&cws=1&rid=164 Please include a letter of introduction, resume, and the names and contact information of three current references. Deadline: February 15, 20015 NIA, located near NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is a non-profit research and graduate education institute created to perform aerospace and atmospheric research, develop new technologies for the nation, and help inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. 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You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From paolini at di.unito.it Wed Jan 7 10:45:22 2015 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:45:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TLCA: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS In-Reply-To: <543F6053.6050909@di.unito.it> References: <543F6053.6050909@di.unito.it> Message-ID: <54AD5492.3040405@di.unito.it> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Thirteenth International Conference on TYPED LAMBDA CALCULI AND APPLICATIONS (TLCA 2015) 1 July - 3 July 2015, Warsaw, Poland (co-located with RTA 2015 as part of RDP 2015) http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/ The 13th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2015) is a forum for original research in the theory and applications of typed lambda calculus, broadly construed. Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: - Proof-theory: natural deduction, sequent calculi, cut elimination and normalization, propositions as types, linear logic and proof nets, type-theoretic aspects of computational complexity - Semantics: denotational semantics, game semantics, realisability, domain theory, categorical models, higher order semantics of natural language - Types: subtypes, dependent types, polymorphism, inductive, coinductive and recursive types, intersection types and related approaches, type inference and type checking, types in program analysis and verification, types in proof assistants, homotopy type theory - Programming: foundational aspects of functional programming, object-oriented programming and other programming paradigms, calculi for higher order concurrency (e.g. pi-calculus), flow analysis of higher-type computation, program equivalence, program transformation and optimization - Typed lambda calculi in education, proof systems based on lambda calculus to teach mathematics, lambda calculi as a unified notation in scientific education SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit submissions of research papers, which must: - be in English and not exceed 15 pages (including figures and bibliography). Additional material intended for the reviewers but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Reviewers will be told that they may choose to ignore the appendix. - present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere (conferences, journals, books, etc.) - use LIPIcs latex style http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/ - be submitted electronically in PDF via theEasyChair TLCA 2015 Submission Webpage : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlca2015 Submissions deviating from these instructions may be rejected without review. A condition of submission is that, if accepted, one of the authors must attend the conference to give the presentation. The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. Note that LIPIcs is open access and hence publications automatically satisfy the requirements many research councils impose on publications. Any questions regarding the submission guidelines should be directed to the Programme Committee Chair prior to submitting. INVITED SPEAKERS Herman Geuvers Martin Hofmann H?l?ne Kirchner (joint TLCA and RTA speaker) COLOCATED EVENTS TLCA 2015 is organized as part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP 2015), together with the International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2015) and several related events. Details on workshops affiliated with RDP 2015 will be available at the web site in due course. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Deadline: 30 January 2015 Submission Deadline: 6 February 2015 Notification: 2 April 2015 Camera-Ready: 17 April 2015 PROGRAMME CHAIR Thorsten Altenkirch (U Nottingham) tlca2015 at easychair.org PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon U) Stefano Berardi (U Torino) James Chapman (TU Tallinn) Gilles Dowek (INRIA) Peter Dybjer (Chalmers U) Silvia Ghilezan (U Novi Sad) Mauro Jaskelioff (U Rosario) Chantal Keller (MSR Cambridge) Paul Levy (U Birmingham) Ralph Matthes (IRIT, CNRS U Toulouse) Keiko Nakata (FireEye Dresden) Damian Niwinski (U Warsaw) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications) Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA) Wouter Swierstra (U Utrecht) CONFERENCE CHAIR Aleksy Schubert (U Warsaw) TLCA STEERING COMMITTEE Sandra Alves (U Porto) Steve Awodey, (CMU) Pierre-Louis Curien (CNRS/U Paris Diderot) Ugo Dal Lago (U Bologna) Gilles Dowek (INRIA) Masahito Hasegawa (U Kyoto) Hugo Herbelin (U Paris Diderot) Martin Hofmann (LMU Munchen) Luke Ong (U Oxford) Michele Pagani (U Paris Diderot) Jens Palsberg (UCLA) Jakob Rehof (U Dortmund) Pawel Urzyczyn (U Warsaw), chair Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh) TLCA HONORARY ADVISOR Samson Abramsky (U Oxford) Henk Barendregt (U Nijmegen) Mariangiola Dezani (U Torino) Roger Hindley (Swansea U) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (U Torino) TLCA PUBLICITY CHAIR Luca Paolini (U Torino) From slim.kallel at gmail.com Wed Jan 7 06:21:29 2015 From: slim.kallel at gmail.com (Slim Kallel) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 12:21:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP and Special Issue - 13th IEEE/ACIS SERA 2015 Message-ID: SERA 2015: 13th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications May 13 - 15, 2015, Hammamet - Tunisia http://sera2015.redcad.org/ ================ Special Issue ================ A special issue is dedicated to a set of best selected papers in Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (A NASA journal), Springer. http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/11334 ================ About SERA 2015 ================ The 13th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2015) provides an international forum where engineers, researchers, and advanced graduate students are invited to present their experiences and their recent advances and latest research results related to all aspects of software engineering research and applications. The conference is structured to cover the complete software lifecycle from design through deployment to maintenance and evolution. SERA 2015 will include a high quality scientific program, invited speakers, tutorials and workshops in conjunction with the conference. ================ Submission deadline ================ Paper Submission Period: November 25, 2014 - January 15, 2015 Notification: March 1, 2015 Final version: March 15, 2015 ================ Topics ================ The program committee invites submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics: Software Design and Modeling - Modeling with Objects, Components, Services, Aspects, Agents - Requirements Engineering - Model Driven Engineering - Unified Modeling Language Software Frameworks and Technologies - Frameworks for Objects, Components, Services, Aspects, Agents - Reflection and Metamodeling - Programming and Description Languages - Design Patterns and Framework Languages Software Deployment and Management - Deployment, Configuration Management - Runtime Software Monitoring and Management - Fault Detection and Localization, Autonomic Repair Software Maintenance and Evolution - Software Visualization and Program Understanding - Re-Use, Re-Factoring, Re-Engineering - Reverse Engineering Software Quality Guarantees - Formal and Semiformal Software Specifications - Software Verification and Model Checking - Quality of Service Modeling and Analysis - Software Testing and Benchmarking - Software Extra-functional Properties Software Engineering Processes - Process Models and Process Management - Software Quality and Software Metrics - Cost Modeling and Analysis - Product Lines and System Families - Software Engineering Education and Training Software Architecture - Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering - Component-based models, middleware,component-based deployment - Service-Oriented Architectures and Web services - Architecture description languages and metamodels Domain Specific Software Engineering - Applications, Case Studies, Technology Transfer - Embedded and Real Time Systems - Web Information Systems - Business Process Engineering - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Cloud Computing - Internet of Things and M2M applications ================ Publications ================ Proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be submitted to be indexed by EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The best 15 to 20 papers will be invited to publish in Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), Springer. ================ Program Chairs ================ Khalil Drira, LAAS, University of Toulouse, France Mohamed Jmaiel, University of Sfax, Tunisia ================ Paper Submission ================ Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the easychair system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sera2015. We solicit research and experience papers as well as research-in-progress in any of the technical areas listed under Scope and Topics. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation and appropriate comparison to related work. The decision whether to accept or reject the paper will be based on the reviews and the consensus of the program committee. 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URL: From arend.rensink at utwente.nl Wed Jan 7 08:54:36 2015 From: arend.rensink at utwente.nl (Arend Rensink) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:54:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reminder: Graphs as Models (ETAPS workshop), 11-12 April 2015; deadline 16 Jan 2015 Message-ID: <54AD3A9C.3080103@utwente.nl> ============================================================================ Call for Papers GRAPHS AS MODELS (GaM 2015) First International Workshop http://utwente.nl/gam2015/ Satellite Event of ETAPS 2015, London -- 11-12 April 2015 ============================================================================ === Description === Graphs are used as models in all areas of computer science: examples are state space graphs, control flow graphs, syntax graphs, UML-type models of all kinds, network layouts, social networks, dependency graphs, and so forth. Used to model a particular phenomenon or process, graphs are then typically analysed to find out properties of the modelled subject, or transformed to construct other types of models. The new Graphs as Models (GaM) workshop combines the strengths of two pre-existing workshop series: GT-VMT (Graph Transformation and Visual Modelling Techniques) and GRAPHITE (Graph Inspection and Traversal Engineering), but also solicits research from other related areas, such as Social Network Analysis and Bioinformatics. === Topics === This workshop seeks to attract and stimulate research on the techniques for graph analysis, inspection and transformation, on a general level rather than in any specific domain. Thus, the concept of a graph (in its many guises) is central; contributions should address scenarios for the use of graphs in a modelling context that potentially transcend specific settings and can be applied across domains. Good, well-known examples of such techniques are model checking and graph transformation; but we welcome contributions on any of the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: - The use of graphs in software development, such as synthesis, planning, bug mitigation and repair. - The use of graphs in software analysis, such as verification, testing, static analysis, and simulation. - Graph search optimisation techniques such as state space reduction techniques and search heuristics. - Graph algorithms exploiting parallel and distributed architectures, such as clusters, grids and cloud platforms. - Graph algorithms exploiting dedicated hardware, such as graphics processing units and massive storage. - Dedicated algorithms or implementation techniques for graph matching, isomorphism checking, graph distance and other graph-based problems. - Stochastic processes on graphs, including random walks. - Analysis of large graphs, such as large state spaces, social network graphs, large networks, and big (graph) data. - Visual language definition and syntax, such as meta-modelling, grammars and graphical parsing. - Static and dynamic semantics of visual languages, including OCL, graph constraints, simulation and animation. - Model-to-model and model-to-text transformations and their application in model-driven development. - Visual modelling techniques and graph transformations for systems with quality properties like performance, real-time, safety, reliability, and energy consumption. - Case studies and applications. - Tool support for any of the above. === Workshop Format === This is a two-day workshop programmed as a mixture of: - Submitted paper presentations. - Fully interactive sessions, such as: . Community challenges: What open issues do you see? What unresolved, graph-related problems are you facing? Give a 5-minute presentation and receive 10 minutes of feedback and in-depth discussion from an involved audience. . Brainstorm groups: Be part of a small group for a 45-minute brainstorm discussion on a chosen topic concerning the use of graphs as models; think out of the box and bring back your conclusions afterwards. . Informal tool demos: Convince the audience in 10 minutes that they really need the functionality your graph-based tool offers. === Submissions === The workshop seeks submissions of three kinds: 1.) Full papers: We solicit papers of up to 15 pages, in LaTeX format, containing original results. Accepted papers will be published in EPTCS (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science). 2.) Work-in-progress papers: We solicit papers of up to 15 pages, in LaTeX format, describing ongoing research. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and might be selected for publication in EPTCS. 3.) Informal tool demo proposals: Tool demos limited to 10 minutes. Proposals will not be reviewed, unless selection turns out to be needed. Submissions of type 1.) and 2.) must adhere to the EPTCS format available at http://style.eptcs.org/ All contributions, including those of type 3.), should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gam2015 === Important Dates === - Deadline for submission: 16 January 2015 - Notification: 13 February 2015 - Final manuscript: 13 March 2015 - Workshop: 11-12 April 2015 === Chairs === - Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands [arend.rensink at utwente.nl] - Eduardo Zambon, IFES/UFES, Brazil [zambon at inf.ufes.br] === Program Committee === - Vicente Acu?a (University of Chile, Chile) - Dragan Bo?na?ki (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) - Mohammad Dashti (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen, Germany) - Gregor Engels (University of Paderborn, Germany) - Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany) - Henri Hansen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) - Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, England) - Keijo Heljanko (Aalto University, Finland) - Frank Hermann (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Christian Krause (SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, Germany) - Jochen K?ster (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Yngve Lamo (Bergen University, Norway) - Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain) - Alberto Lluch-Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) - Alice Miller (University of Glasgow, Scotland) - Mark Minas (Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany) - Leila Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) - Andy Sch?rr (TU Darmstadt, Germany) - Gabriele Taentzer (Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany) - Matthias Tichy (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - D?niel Varr? (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) - Bernhard Westfechtel (University of Bayreuth, Germany) - Anton Wijs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) === Steering Committee === - Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen, Germany) - Frank Hermann (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain) - Anton Wijs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) From dreyer at mpi-sws.org Thu Jan 8 17:53:17 2015 From: dreyer at mpi-sws.org (Derek Dreyer) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 23:53:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLMW 2015: Final Programme Message-ID: FINAL PROGRAMME PLMW 2015 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop Mumbai, India Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Co-located with POPL 2015 PLMW'15 web page: http://plmw15.iisc-seal.net/ After the resounding success of the first three Programming Languages Mentoring Workshops at POPL 2012, 2013, and 2014, we proudly announce the final programme for the 4th ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), co-located with POPL 2015 and organised by Derek Dreyer, Aditya Kanade, Ruzica Piskac, Alan Schmitt, and Ross Tate. The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research, with a particular emphasis on women and under-represented minorities. The workshop will provide technical talks on cutting-edge research in programming languages, as well as mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. The final programme for the workshop is now set and is viewable at: http://plmw15.iisc-seal.net/program ---------------- 8:50 - 9:00 Opening remarks -- PLMW Organizers 9:00 - 9:30 You and your graduate research -- Nate Foster (Cornell University) 9:30 - 10:00 Building automatic program verifiers -- Peter M?ller (ETH Z?rich) 10:00 - 10:30 Proof theory and its role in programming language research -- Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University) 10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00 - 11:30 How to write a good research paper -- Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania) 11:30 - 12:00 Coinductive techniques, from automata to coalgebra -- Damien Pous (CNRS, LIP, ENS Lyon) 12:00 - 12:30 The story of Arjun Guha, or: The arc of a research project -- Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University) 12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH 14:00 - 14:30 Proof engineering: Implementation challenges in rigorously verified software -- Adam Chlipala (MIT) 14:30 - 15:00 Formal verification of compilers and static analyzers -- Sandrine Blazy (IRISA, University of Rennes 1) 15:00 - 15:30 Cultivating research taste (illustrated via a journey in program synthesis research) -- Sumit Gulwani (Microsoft Research) 15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 16:00 - 16:30 Separation logic for weak memory models -- Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) 16:30 - 17:00 Repeatability, reproducibility and rigor in CS research -- Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) 17:00 - 17:30 How to give a good research talk -- Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania) The workshop will be followed by a reception for PLMW participants. ---------------- PLMW is part of the activities surrounding POPL, the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the POPL conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. A number of sponsors (listed below) have generously donated scholarship funds for qualified students to attend PLMW. These scholarships are being used to cover reasonable expenses (airfare, hotel, and registration fees) for attendance at both the workshop and the POPL conference. Students attending this year will get one year free student membership of SIGPLAN, unless they prefer to opt out during their application. The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome. PLATINUM Sponsors: An Anonymous Donor National Science Foundation ACM SIGPLAN SILVER Sponsors: Facebook Jane Street Capital BRONZE Sponsors: Google IBM Research ---------------- PLMW'15 Organizers: Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany) Aditya Kanade (Indian Institute of Science) Ruzica Piskac (Yale University) Alan Schmitt (INRIA) Ross Tate (Cornell University) From sophie.tison at lifl.fr Thu Jan 8 08:29:11 2015 From: sophie.tison at lifl.fr (Sophie Tison) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 14:29:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RTA 2015: 2nd CFP Message-ID: ================================================================== RTA 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS 26th International Conference on REWRITING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS 29 June - 1 July, 2015, Warsaw, Poland co-located with TLCA, as part of RDP 2015 http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/ ================================================================== RTA is the major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of rewriting. Topics of interest include: * Foundations: string, term, net and graph rewriting; higher-order rewriting; binding techniques; constrained rewriting and deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting; stochastic rewriting; higher-dimensional rewriting; tree automata; confluence; termination; complexity; modularity; equational logic; universal algebra; rewriting logic; rewriting calculi. * Algorithmic aspects and implementation: strategies; matching; unification; anti-unification; narrowing; completion; parallel execution; certification of rewriting properties; abstract machines; automated (non)termination and confluence provers; automated complexity analysis; system descriptions. * Applications of rewriting: programming languages (functional, logic, object-oriented and other programming paradigms); type systems; program analysis, transformation and optimisation; rewriting models of programs; semantics; process calculi; functional calculi; explicit substitution; constraint solving; symbolic and algebraic computation; theorem proving; proof checking; system modelling; system synthesis and verification; XML queries and transformations; planning; cryptographic protocols; security policies; systems biology; linguistics; rewriting in education. Important Dates: # Submission: title and abstract: 30 January 2015 full paper: 6 February 2015 # Rebuttal period: 19-21 March 2015 # Notification: 8 April 2015 # Final version: 25 April 2015 Submission and publication: The RTA 2015 proceedings will be published by LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics). Papers should present original work, and should be submitted via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rta2015 Papers should be at most 15 pages (10 for system descriptions) in the style described in: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz This year we particularly welcome submissions on applications of rewriting. Application papers are regular papers (15 pages); their originality is judged based on the novelty of the application or the depth of the rewriting methods applied. System description papers present new software tools in which rewriting plays an important role, or significantly new versions of such tools. The paper should also include an evaluation of the tool. Invited Speakers: Helene Kirchner, INRIA Grigore Rosu, U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Carolyn Talcott, SRI International Programme Committee: M. Ayala-Rincon, U. Brasilia H. Cirstea, Loria Nancy S. Delaune, ENS Cachan A. Di Pierro, U. Verona G. Dowek, Inria M. Fernandez, KCL, chair J. Giesl, RWTH Aachen U. M. Hanus, CAU Kiel D. Kesner, U. Paris-Diderot T. Kutsia, Johannes Kepler U. Linz J. Levy, IIIA-CSIC Barcelona S. Lucas, Polytechnic U. Valencia C. Lynch, Clarkson U. I. Mackie, E. Polytechnique G. Moser, U. Innsbruck D. Plump, U. York F. van Raamsdonk, VU Amsterdam K. Rose, Two Sigma, US M. Sakai, Nagoya U. A. Scedrov, U. Pennsylvania M. Schmidt-Schauss, U. Frankfurt C. Schuermann, ITU Copenhagen P. Selinger, Dalhousie U. P. Severi, U. Leicester K. Ueda, Waseda U. 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Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013) and Budapest (2014) Evolution of the universe, and us within it, invite a parallel evolution in understanding. The CiE agenda - fundamental and engaged - targets the extracting and developing of computational models basic to current challenges. From the origins of life, to the understanding of human mentality, to the characterising of quantum randomness - computability theoretic questions arise in many guises. The CiE community, this coming year meeting for the first time in Bucharest, carries forward the search for coherence, depth and new thinking across this rich and vital field of research. In all cases we are looking for fundamental and theoretical submissions. In line with other conferences in this series, CiE 2015 has a broad scope and provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and practical issues in Computability with an emphasis on new paradigms of computation and the development of their mathematical theory. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. For topics covered by the conference, please visit http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/topics.html AWARDS: The best student paper award is presented to the author(s) of the best paper, as selected by the PC, written solely by student author(s). This award is sponsored by Springer. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: CiE 2015 has received funding from ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic) and EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) that allows students who are members of ASL or EATCS and want to attend CiE 2015 to apply for travel funds or a reduction of the early registration fee. Preference will be given to presenters of accepted papers. Applications for ASL travel grants have to be addressed directly to ASL, with a strict deadline of March 28, 2015. Applications for EATCS travel grants have to be sent to cie2015 at fmi.unibuc.ro prior to the early registration deadline. TUTORIAL SPEAKERS * John Reif (Duke Unversity) * Steve Simpson (Pennsylvania State University) PLENARY SPEAKERS * Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge) * Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest, Public Lecture) * Pawel Gawrychowski (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik) * Julia Knight (University of Notre Dame) * Anca Muscholl (Universite Bordeaux) * Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy) * Alexander Razborov (University of Chicago and Steklov Mathematical Institute) * Vlatko Vedral (University of Oxford) SPECIAL SESSIONS on * Representing streams (Organizers: Joerg Endrullis and Dimtri Hendriks) * Automata, logic and infinite games (Organizers: Dietmar Berwanger and Ioana Leustean) * Reverse mathematics (Organizers: Damir Dzhafarov and Alberto Marcone) * Classical computability theory (Organizers: Marat Arslanov and Steffen Lempp) * Bio-inspired computation (Organizers: Andrei Paun and Petr Sosik) * History and philosophy of computing (Organizers: Christine Proust and Marco Benini) The speakers of the special sessions may be find at http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/sessions.html The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consists of: * Marat Arslanov (Kazan) * Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh) * Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) * Laurent Bienvenu (Paris) * Alessandra Carbone (Paris) * Gabriel Ciobanu (Iasi) * S Barry Cooper (Leeds) * Laura Crosilla (Leeds) * Liesbeth De Mol (Ghent) * Walter Dean (Warwick) * Volker Diekert (Stuttgart) * Damir Dzhafarov (Storrs,Connecticut) * Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) * Rachel Epstein (Harvard) * Johanna Franklin (Hempstead, NY) * Neil Ghani (Glasgow) * Joel David Hamkins (New York) * Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht) * Emmanuel Jeandel (LORIA) * Natasha Jonoska (Tampa, FL) * Antonina Kolokolova (St.John's,NL) * Antonin Kucera (Prague) * Oliver Kutz (Magdeburg) * Benedikt Loewe (Hamburg & Amsterdam) * Jack Lutz (Ames, IA) * Florin Manea (Kiel) * Alberto Marcone (Udine) * Radu Mardare (Aalborg) * Joe Miller (Madison, WI) * Russell Miller (Flushing, NY) * Mia Minnes (La Jolla, CA) * Victor Mitrana (Bucharest, co-chair) * Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) * Dag Normann (Oslo) * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (London) * Anne Smith (St Andrews) * Mariya Soskova (Sofia, co-chair) * Susan Stepney (York) * Paul Spirakis (Patras & Liverpool) * Jacobo Toran (Ulm) * Marius Zimand (Towson, MD) The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit their papers (in PDF format, maximum 10 pages using the LNCS style) for presentation at CiE 2015. The submission site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2015 is open. For submission instructions consult http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/submission.html The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag. The CONFERENCE POSTER can be downloaded from http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/images/CiE_Poster.jpg _____________________________________________________________________ CiE 2015 http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015 ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk CiE Conference Series http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE CiE Membership Application Form http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/CIE Computability (Journal of CiE) http://www.computability.de/journal CiE on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/AssnCiE Association CiE on Twitter https://twitter.com/AssociationCiE From zakirulalam at gmail.com Sat Jan 10 00:33:19 2015 From: zakirulalam at gmail.com (Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 13:33:19 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFPs: IEEE SpaIoT 2015 at Helsinki, Finland, China [Deadline: 31 March, 2015] Message-ID: Call for Papers for the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Internet of Things (SpaIoT 2015) Helsinki, Finland, 20-22 August, 2015 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/SpaIoT2015/ In Conjunction with IEEE TrustCom 2015 The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2015) Helsinki, Finland, 20-22 August, 2015 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/ Organizers: Trusted Computing Institute, Central South University, China Aalto University, Finland Introduction With the extensive research and development of computer, communication and control technologies, it is possible to connect all things to the Internet such that the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) can be formed. These things may be equipped with devices such as sensors, actuators, and RFID tags, in order to allow people and things to be connected anytime and anywhere, with anything and anyone. IoT will enable collaborations and communications among people and things, and among things themselves, which expand the current Internet and will radically change our personal, corporate, and community environments. When more and more things connect to the Internet, security and privacy issues become more serious, especially in the case that these things are equipped with actuators and can support control. For better protection of secure communication and user privacy, including location, identity and behavior habits, it is necessary to develop anonymous communication theories, methods and key technologies of anonymous communication systems in all varieties of application environments. Anonymous communication is used to hide communication participants or communication relations so as to achieve effective protection for network nodes and user identities. Anonymous communication can address potential network security issues, and becomes one of the hot topics in the field of network and information security. Scope and Interests SpaIoT 2015 aims at providing a forum for discussing the latest academic and industrial research results in all aspects of security and privacy in IoT. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: (1) Security, privacy architectures for IoT (2) Security, privacy platforms for IoT (3) Security, privacy applications for IoT (4) Architecture for anonymous communication system (5) Resilience to external and internal attacks in IoT (6) Anonymity measures and evaluation (7) Anonymous communication in IoT (8) Anonymous communication & privacy protection (9) Anonymous communication & privacy protection (10) Anonymous browsing system Submission and Publication Information All presented papers in the symposium will be published in the proceedings of the symposium and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). Papers should be submitted through the paper submission system at the symposium website. Each paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages with the over length charge). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and award one "Best Paper Award" for this symposium. By submitting a paper to the symposium, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the symposium and present the paper. Important Dates (1) Submission Deadline: 31 March, 2015 (2) Authors Notification: 31 May, 2015 (3) Final Manuscript Due: 1 July, 2015 (4) Registration Due: 1 July, 2015 Steering Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain General Co-Chairs Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK Program Co-Chairs Felix Gomez Marmol, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT),Japan Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Afrand Agah, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA Mohamad Badra, Zayed University, UAE Sachin Kumar Agrawal, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland Reaz Ahmed, University of Waterloo, Canada Mehran Asadi, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, USA Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pino Caballero-Gil, University of La Laguna, Spain Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT / TELECOM Bretagne Yao Guo, Peking University, China Ying Guo, Central South University, China Hsiang-Cheh Huang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Qasim Raza Iqbal, Jaguar Land Rover Cars Ltd, UK Youssef Iraqi, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, The United Arab Emirat Xin Jin, Pennsylvania State University, USA Wissam Mallouli, Montimage, French Juan Pedro Munoz-Gea, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain Renita Murimi, Oklahoma Baptist University, USA Hebert Perez-Roses, University of Lleida, Spain Pedro Peris-Lopez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Zeeshan Pervez, University of the West of Scotland, UK Altair Olivo Santin, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil Kaoru Ota, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Gang Tan, Lehigh University, USA Qiang Tang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Lanier A. 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The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of: * service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems; * object technology, modularity, component- and model-based design; * software 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, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. === Main topics of interest === 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; * 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, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks; * 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. === Invited Speakers === * Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler Universit?t, Linz, Austria) * Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research, USA) * Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL, Switzerland) === 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 without review. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE?15 interface of the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte2015 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. The best papers will be invited after the conference to contribute to a special issue of a top-level journal (e.g. TCS or Information & Computation). === Programme Chairs === Susanne Graf (VERIMAG & CNRS, Grenoble, France) Mahesh Viswanathan (U. Illinois, USA) === Programme Committee === Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Luca Aceto (U. Reykjavik, Iceland) S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India) Paul Attie (American U. Beirut, Lebanon) Rohit Chadha (U. Missouri, USA) Rance Cleaveland (U. Maryland, USA) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Mc Master U., Ontario, Canada) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Stephanie Delaune (CNRS & ENS Cachan, France) Wan Fokkink (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) Gregor Goessler (INRIA Grenoble, France) Gerard Holzmann (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA) Alan Jeffrey (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA) Petr Kuznetsov (Telecom ParisTech, France) Ivan Lanese (U. Bologna, Italy) Kim Larsen (U. Aalborg, Denmark) Antonia Lopes (U. Lisbon, Portugal) Stephan Merz (LORIA & INRIA Nancy, France) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France) Alan Schmitt (IRISA & INRIA Rennes, France) === Steering Committee: === Erica Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Dirk Beyer (U. Passau, Germany) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Einar Broch Johnsen (U. Oslo, Norway) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Holger Giese (U. Potsdam, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, Saclay, France) Grigore Rosu (U. Illinois, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, Grenoble, France) (Chair) Heike Wehrheim (U. Paderborn, Germany) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Susanne Graf | tel : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 52 VERIMAG | fax : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 46 (or 44) 2, avenue de Vignate | http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~graf/ F - 38610 Gieres | e-mail: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kahle at fct.unl.pt Mon Jan 12 08:55:53 2015 From: kahle at fct.unl.pt (Reinhard Kahle) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:55:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PCC 2015 - Proof, Computation, and Complexity in Oslo Message-ID: <54B3D269.60302@fct.unl.pt> ANNOUNCEMENT: ============================================================================================= PCC 2015 Proof, Computation and Complexity Fourteenth International Workshop May 23-24, 2015, Oslo, Norway http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/groups/logic/events/conferences/pcc2015/ co-located with the Symposium on the occasion of the retirements of Herman Ruge Jervell and Dag Normann, May 21-22, 2015 and following the Abel Prize Award Ceremony, May 19, 2015 and the Abel Lectures and Science Lecture, May 20, 2015. http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/groups/logic/events/conferences/ruge-jervell-and-normann-symposium/index.html http://www.abelprize.no/c26889/kalender/vis.html?tid=61852 http://www.abelprize.no/c26889/kalender/vis.html?tid=61854 ============================================================================================= Aim and scope ----------------------- The aim of PCC is to stimulate research in proof theory, computation, and complexity, focusing on issues which combine logical and computational aspects. Topics may include applications of formal inference systems in computer science, as well as new developments in proof theory motivated by computer science demands. Specific areas of interest are (non-exhaustively listed) foundations for specification and programming languages, logical methods in specification and program development including program extraction from proofs, type theory, new developments in structural proof theory, and implicit computational complexity. Invited Speaker --------------- - Andreas Weiermann, Ghent University, Belgium PCC Steering Committee ---------------------- - Reinhard Kahle, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Lars Kristiansen, University of Oslo, Norway Program Committee ----------------------- - Eivind Briseid, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences - Reinhard Kahle, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (co-chair) - Lars Kristiansen, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair) - ?ystein Linnebo, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair) - Ralph Matthes, IRIT, CNRS and Univ. de Toulouse, France - Isabel Oitavem, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and CMAF, UL, Portugal Contributed talks ----------------------- We solicit contributions in the fields of PCC, non-exhaustively described above. Please register a contribution at the EasyChair site for PCC 2015: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcc2015. This consists in a title, a short text-only abstract and the PDF file of a LaTeX abstract that fits on one page in format A4. PCC is intended to be a lively forum for presenting and discussing recent work. Progress on a not yet satisfactorily solved problem may well be worth presenting - in particular if the discussions during the workshop might lead towards a solution. Important dates ----------------------- - Deadline for proposing a contributed talk: April 1, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2015 - Registration deadline: May 1, 2015 Past events ----------------------- - 2014 in Paris, co-located with TYPES 2014 - 2013 in Toulouse, co-located with TYPES 2013 - 2012 in Copenhagen, co-located with the 8th Scandinavian Logic Symposium - 2011 in Ghent - 2010 in Bern - 2009 in Nancy - 2008 in Oslo - 2007 in Swansea, co-located with the British Mathematical Colloquium 2007 - 2006 in Ilmenau - 2005 in Lisbon, as affiliated workshop to ICALP '05 - 2004 in Dresden, in conjunction with the Summer School on Proof Theory and Automated Theorem Proving - 2003 in Dresden, in conjunction with the Summer School on Proof Theory, Computation, and Complexity - 2002 in T?bingen ============================================================================================= From kahle at fct.unl.pt Mon Jan 12 08:55:58 2015 From: kahle at fct.unl.pt (Reinhard Kahle) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:55:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Symposium on the occasion of the retirements of Herman Ruge Jervell and Dag Normann, Oslo, May 21-22, 2015 Message-ID: <54B3D26E.3020305@fct.unl.pt> ANNOUNCEMENT: ============================================================================================= Symposium on the occasion of the retirements of Herman Ruge Jervell and Dag Normann May 21-22, 2015, Oslo, Norway http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/groups/logic/events/conferences/ruge-jervell-and-normann-symposium/index.html co-located with the Workshop PCC 2015 May 23-24, 2015 and following the Abel Prize Award Ceremony, May 19, 2015 and the Abel Lectures and Science Lecture, May 20, 2015. http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/groups/logic/events/conferences/pcc2015/ http://www.abelprize.no/c26889/kalender/vis.html?tid=61852 http://www.abelprize.no/c26889/kalender/vis.html?tid=61854 ============================================================================================= The list of speakers includes - Ulrich Berger, Swansea University - Jean-Yves Girard, Luminy Institute of Mathematics - John Longley, University of Edinburgh - Jan von Plato, University of Helsinki - Wolfram Pohlers, University of Munster - Michael Rathjen, University of Leeds - Stan S. Wainer, University of Leeds Program Committee ----------------- - Eivind Briseid, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences - Reinhard Kahle, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Lars Kristiansen, University of Oslo, Norway - ?ystein Linnebo, University of Oslo, Norway - Arild Waaler, University of Oslo, Norway Participants may consider to submit a contribution to the Workshop PCC 2015, Proof, Computation, Complexity following the Symposium. http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/groups/logic/events/conferences/pcc2015/ From m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk Mon Jan 12 12:33:14 2015 From: m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk (Marco Gaboardi (Staff)) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:33:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Developments in Implicit Computational complExity - DICE 2015 - Final call for paper Message-ID: <7C78A364-50A0-462F-BF68-F04AD368C04E@dundee.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS DICE 2015 Sixth workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity 12 April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://dice15.computing.dundee.ac.uk DICE is a thematic workshop in the field of Implicit Computational Complexity, where researchers in the area can meet and discuss their most recent results. It takes place annually as part of ETAPS. The area of Implicit Computational Complexity (ICC) has grown from several proposals for using logic and formal methods to provide languages for complexity-bounded computation (e.g. PTIME, LOGSPACE computation). Its aim is to study computational complexity without reference to external measuring conditions or particular machine models, but only in terms of language restrictions or logical/computational principles implying complexity properties. DICE 2015 will be colocated with FOPARA. The colocation will be an occasion for strengthen the interactions between the community working on ICC and the one working more broadly on resource analysis. **Submissions** Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 5 pages by January 30, 2015 to the DICE 2015 EasyChair page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dice2015 Abstracts must be written in English and be submitted as a single PDF file. Submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop. Abstract can contain material already published elsewhere before the workshop. Preference will be given to abstracts containing novel work (including work in progress). The workshop will not have formal proceedings and is not intended to preclude later publication at another venue. Nevertheless, we plan to have a joint journal special issue for DICE 2014 and DICE 2015 if the number and quality of submissions will be of an high standard. **Important Dates** -January 30, 2015 - Abstract Submission -February 12, 2015 - Notification -April 12, 2015 - Workshop **Topics** types for controlling complexity logical systems for implicit computational complexity linear logic semantics of complexity-bounded computation rewriting and termination orderings interpretation-based methods for implicit complexity programming languages for complexity-bounded computation theoretical foundations of program complexity analysis theoretical foundations of program complexity analysis application of implicit complexity to security **Invited Speakers** Jakob Grue Simonsen - DIKU Another invited speaker joint with FOPARA'15 to be confirmed. **Program Committee** Clement Aubert - University of Paris 12 Arnold Beckmann - Swansea University Norman Danner - Wesleyan University Ugo Dal Lago - University of Bologna Anupam Das - ENS Lyon Naohi Eguchi - Chiba University Hugo Feree - LORIA Nancy Marco Gaboardi (Chair) - University of Dundee Jan Hoffmann - Yale University Georg Moser - University of Innsbruck The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 From albl at dtu.dk Mon Jan 12 14:40:47 2015 From: albl at dtu.dk (Alberto Lluch Lafuente) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:40:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: WWV 2015, 11th Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems Message-ID: ************************************************************* * * * WWV 2015 * * Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems * * 11th International Workshop * * * * June 23rd - Oslo (Norway) * * affiliated with FM 2015 * * * * Call for Papers * * * ************************************************************* Homepage: http://wwv2015.isti.cnr.it/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission March 18, 2015 Paper submission March 25, 2015 Notification of acceptance May 8, 2015 Camera ready versions May 31, 2015 Workshop WWV 2015 June 23, 2015 SCOPE The Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV) is a yearly interdisciplinary forum for researchers originating from the following areas: declarative, rule-based programming, formal methods, software engineering and web-based systems. WWV fosters the cross-fertilisation and advancement of hybrid methods from such areas. During its ten earlier editions, the WWV workshop series has established itself as a lively, friendly event with many interactions and discussions. Companies, organisations and institutions offer most of their electronic services as sophisticated web-based applications. Prominent examples include e-business, e-learning, e-government, and e-health services. The increased complexity and the explosive growth of such applications has made their design and implementation a challenging task, not in the least because at the same time quality, accessibility, security, and privacy issues need to be considered. Systematic, formal approaches to their specification and verification are needed to address the problems those systems by means of automated and effective techniques and tools. WWV welcomes papers of either theoretical or applied interest, including case studies or experience reports, in all areas of web-based systems (web services, cloud platforms, Internet-of-Things, social networks, big data), including but not limited to: - Formal methods and rigorous software and system engineering - Declarative, rule-based approaches - Product line and feature-oriented engineering - Programming and design languages and models - Specification, certification, transformation, and synthesis - Analysis, verification, model checking, and debugging - Semi-structured data, linked data, and semantic web - Security, trust, privacy, reputation, confidentiality, and integrity - Quality, metrics, usability, and accessibility - Testing, evaluation, and optimisation - Middleware, platforms, and frameworks INVITED SPEAKERS Dino Distefano Queen Mary University, London, UK Jose Meseguer University of Illinois, USA SUBMISSION We solicit the submission of original, unpublished contributions not under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions are expected to comprise research papers (with novel, previously unpublished results), experience reports of real-world applications, tool descriptions, and short papers (e.g. describing work-in-progress or exploratory ideas). All papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style - Full papers should not exceed 16 pages (typeset 11 points). - Short papers should not exceed 8 pages. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Submissions must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, not submitted elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair online submission system. Submission of a paper involves a firm commitment that at least one of the authors will attend and participate in the workshop in case the paper is accepted. PUBLICATION All contributions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, chosen by the Program Committee. The PC will select the best papers based on their quality, relevance to the workshop, and potential to instigate discussion. All accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings, which will be published as a volume of the EPTCS series (WWV publication is indexed in DBLP and Microsoft Academic Research, among other important repositories). An open call for a special issue in a highly-reputed journal on the topic of the WWV workshop is envisaged. This has been common practice for WWV since 2009. PROGRAM CHAIRS Maurice H. ter Beek ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Technical University of Valencia, Spain Massimo Bartoletti University of Cagliari, Italy Saddek Bensalem Verimag, Grenoble, France Xinyu Feng University of Science and Technology of China Maribel Fernandez King's College, London, UK Jose Fiadeiro Royal Holloway University, London, UK Stefania Gnesi ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology, Austria Axel Legay INRIA, Rennes, France Michael Leuschel Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany Zhiming Liu Birmingham City University, UK Hernan Melgratti University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Fabrizio Montesi University of South Odense, Denmark Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Antonio Ravara New University of Lisbon, Portugal Alejandro Russo Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Gwen Salaun Inria Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France Vladimiro Sassone University of Southampton, UK Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Carolyn Talcott SRI International, USA Emilio Tuosto University of Leicester, UK Erik de Vink Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain (co-Chair) Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy (co-Chair) Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology, Austria Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Massimo Marchiori University of Padova, Italy Rosario Pugliese University of Florence, Italy Antonio Ravara New University of Lisbon, Portugal Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Francesco Tiezzi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy PAST EDITIONS Initiated in 2005, the WWV workshop series has by now established itself as a lively, friendly event with many interactions and discussions. 1. WWV'05 in Valencia, Spain; March 14-15, 2005 homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv05/ 2. WWV'06 in Paphos, Cyprus; November 19, 2006 (as track at ISoLA) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv06/ 3. WWV'07 in Venice, Italy; December 14, 2007 homepage: http://wwv07.dimi.uniud.it/ 4. WWV'08 in Siena, Italy; July 4, 2008 (co-located with WFLP) homepage: http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ 5. WWV'09 in Castle of Hagenberg, Austria; July 17, 2009 (as part of RISC summer) homepage: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/wwv09/ 6. WWV'10 in Vienna, Austria; July 30-31, 2010 (co-located with PPDP & LOPSTR) homepage: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/WWV2010/ 7. WWV'11 in Reykjavik, Iceland; June 9, 2011 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/wwv2011/ 8. WWV'12 in Stockholm, Sweden; June 16, 2012 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/wwv2012/ 9. WWV'13 in Florence, Italy; June 6, 2013 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/wwv2013/ 9. WWV'14 in Vienna, Austria; July 18, 2014 (FLoC workshop associated to IJCAR, as part of VSL 2014) homepage: http://wwv2014.isti.cnr.it/ The previous 10 editions of WWV attracted high-quality papers that were published in ENTCS (WWV'05, WWV'07 and WWV'08), by IEEE (WWV'06) and in EPTCS (WWV'11, WWV'12, WWV'13 and WWV'14). After WWV'09, a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the topics of the WWV was organized. Similarly, a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic was organized after WWV'10 and special issues of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming were organized after WWV'11, WWV'12 and WWV'13. A special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming dedicated to WWV'14 and the CAV workshop VPT'14 is forthcoming. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Susanne.Graf at imag.fr Tue Jan 13 02:01:12 2015 From: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr (Susanne Graf) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:01:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORTE 2015: last Call for Papers Message-ID: <54B4C2B8.2020307@imag.fr> ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS FORTE 2015 A DisCoTec Member Conference 35th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems discotec2015.inria.fr/ taking place on June 2-4, 2015 in Grenoble, France Abstract Submission: January 16, 2015 Paper Submission: January 23, 2015 Author Notification: March 6, 2015 ============================================================= FORTE 2015 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of: * service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems; * object technology, modularity, component- and model-based design; * software 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, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. === Main topics of interest === 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; * 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, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks; * 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. === Invited Speakers === * Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler Universit?t, Linz, Austria) * Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research, USA) * Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL, Switzerland) === 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 without review. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE?15 interface of the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte2015 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. The best papers will be invited after the conference to contribute to a special issue of a top-level journal (e.g. TCS or Information & Computation). === Programme Chairs === Susanne Graf (VERIMAG & CNRS, Grenoble, France) Mahesh Viswanathan (U. Illinois, USA) === Programme Committee === Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Luca Aceto (U. Reykjavik, Iceland) S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India) Paul Attie (American U. Beirut, Lebanon) Rohit Chadha (U. Missouri, USA) Rance Cleaveland (U. Maryland, USA) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Mc Master U., Ontario, Canada) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Stephanie Delaune (CNRS & ENS Cachan, France) Wan Fokkink (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) Gregor Goessler (INRIA Grenoble, France) Gerard Holzmann (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA) Alan Jeffrey (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA) Petr Kuznetsov (Telecom ParisTech, France) Ivan Lanese (U. Bologna, Italy) Kim Larsen (U. Aalborg, Denmark) Antonia Lopes (U. Lisbon, Portugal) Stephan Merz (LORIA & INRIA Nancy, France) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France) Alan Schmitt (IRISA & INRIA Rennes, France) === Steering Committee: === Erica Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Dirk Beyer (U. Passau, Germany) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Einar Broch Johnsen (U. Oslo, Norway) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Holger Giese (U. Potsdam, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, Saclay, France) Grigore Rosu (U. Illinois, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, Grenoble, France) (Chair) Heike Wehrheim (U. Paderborn, Germany) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Susanne Graf | tel : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 52 VERIMAG | fax : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 46 (or 44) 2, avenue de Vignate | http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~graf/ F - 38610 Gieres | e-mail: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.mazzara at innopolis.ru Tue Jan 13 07:46:02 2015 From: m.mazzara at innopolis.ru (Manuel Mazzara) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:46:02 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 10th Ershov Informatics Conference, 25 - 27 August 2015, Innopolis, Kazan, Russia References: <985688af5ea24732ac0f4c158ab0d684@EXHUBVM02.campus.ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <0a792914c2ee4e7dbf14e1b92d0b4b2f@exmb05.uc.local> CALL FOR PAPERS PSI: 10th Ershov Informatics Conference 25 - 27 August 2015, Innopolis, Kazan, Russia http://easychair.org/smart-program/PSI2015/ The Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series, 10th edition) is the premier international forum in Russia for research and applications in computer, software and information sciences. The conference brings together academic and industrial researchers, developers and users to discuss the most recent topics in the field. PSI provides an ideal venue for setting up research collaborations between the rapidly growing Russian informatics community and its international counterparts, as well as between established scientists and younger researchers. Local Organizers Tanya Stanko Innopolis University Inna Baskakova Innopolis University Publicity Chairs Timur Tsiunchuk Innopolis University Salvatore Distefano Politecnico di Milano Conference Chairs Bertrand Meyer ETH, Zurich Irina Virbitskaite A.P. Ershov Institute, Novosibirsk Steering Committee Dines Bjorner Technical University of Denmark Manfred Broy Technische Universit?t M?nchen Victor Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences Ugo Montanari University of Pisa Programme Committee Chairs Manuel Mazzara Innopolis University Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Keynote speakers Hans-Ulrich Heiss, TUB, Germany Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK Helmut Veith, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Conference Topics 1. Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis * Specification, validation, and verification techniques. * Program analysis, transformation and synthesis. * Semantics, logic and formal models of programs. * Partial evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler construction. * Theorem proving and model checking. * Concurrency theory. * Static program analysis. * Modeling and analysis of real-time and hybrid systems. * Computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics. 2. Programming Methodology and Software Engineering * Object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming. * Programming by contract. * Program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing. * Constraint programming. * Multi-agent technology. * System re-engineering and reuse. * Integrated programming environments. * Software architecture. * Software development and testing. * Model-driven system/software development. * Agile software development. * Software engineering methods and tools. * Service engineering, service oriented architecture. * Reverse engineering. * Reflection techniques. * Software bugs, aging and reliability models and countermeasures. * Program understanding and visualization. 3. Information Technologies * Data models. * Database and information systems. * Data mining, analytics. * Knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering. * Bioinformatics engineering. * Ontologies and semantic Web. * Digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing. * Peer-to-peer data management. More generally, the conference welcomes novel scientific contributions in software-related areas, and application papers showing practical applications of research results. Important Dates * April 16, 2015: abstract submission * April 23, 2015: submission deadline * May 31, 2015: notification of acceptance * August 25-27, 2015: the conference dates * November 1, 2015: camera ready papers due Programme Committee Members Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands David Aspinall, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Marcello Maria Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Eike Best, Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany Nikolaj Bjrner, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Andrea Cal?, Birbeck College, UK Mauro Caporuscio, Linnaeus University, Sweden N?stor Cata?o, Madeira Univ., Portugal Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania Volker Diekert, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany Salvatore Distefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Nicola Dragoni, DTU, Denmark and ?rebro Univ., Sweden Schahram Dustdar, Vienna Univ. Technology, Austria Dieter Fensel, STI Innsbruck, Austria Carlo Furia, ETH, Switzerland Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sergei Gorlatch, Univ. Muenster, Germany Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven Univ. Tech., The Netherlands Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon Univ., US Cliff Jones, Newcastle Univ., UK Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany Konstantin Korovin, Univ. Manchester, UK Maciej Koutny, Newcastle Univ., UK Laura Kovacs, Chalmers Univ. Tech., Gothenburg, Sweden Gregory Kucherov, CNRS/LIGM, Marne-la-Vallee, France Johan Lilius, Abo Akademi Univ., Turku, Finland Anthony Widjaja Lin, Yale-NUS College, Singapore Zhiming Liu, Birmingham City University Jan Madsen, DTU Copenhagen, Denmark Rupak Majumdar, MPI, Kaiserslautern, Germany Klaus Meer, Tech. Univ. Cottbus, Germany Hern?n Melgratti, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina Torben Mogensen, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark Peter Mosses, Swansea Univ., UK Martin Nordio, ETH, Switzerland Jos? R. Param?, Univ. A Coru?a, Spain Wojciech Penczek, Inst. Comp. Sci., Warsaw, Poland Peter Pepper, TU Berlin, Germany Alexander Petrenko, ISP RAS, Moscow, Russia Paul Pettersson, M?lardalen Univ., Sweden Nadia Polikarpova, MIT, USA Qiang Qu, Innopolis University, Russia Andrey Rybalchenko, TUM, Munchen, Germany Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany Davide Sangiorgi, Univ. of Bologna, Italy Natalia Sidorova, Technische Univ. Eindhoven, Netherlands Giancarlo Succi, University of Bolzano, Italy Klaus-Dieter Schewe, SW Competence C., Hagenberg, Austria Max Talanov, Kazan Federal Universty, Russia Mark Trakhtenbrot, Holon Inst. of Technology, Israel Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA Domagoj Vrgoc, Center for Semantic Web Research, Chile Sergey Zykov, Higher School of Economics, Russia Submissions There are three categories of submissions: * Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (15 pages / 30 minute talks). * Short papers reporting on interesting work in progress and/or preliminary results (9 pages / 15 minute talks). * System and experimental papers describing implementation or evaluation of experimental systems and containing a link to a working system (7 pages / 10 minute presentations). Submissions should: * Present original contributions that have not been previously published and are not being submitted to another publication. * Clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. * Be in good-quality English, in a form that can be immediately published without revision. * Be sent electronically, as a PDF file formatted according to Springer LNCS Instructions for Authors: http://www.springeronline.com) through the submissions link to the conference website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psi2015 no later than April 23, 2015. It is permissible to include or link to an appendix listing detailed results or supporting data that do not fit within the page limits, as long as the paper can be evaluated without reading this appendix. At least one author of each accepted paper must register, attend the conference and present the paper. Conference Proceedings Preliminary proceedings will be available at the conference. Final versions of invited and accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag after the conference in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Proceedings of previous PSIs are volumes 1181, 1755, 2244, 2890, 4378, 5947 and 7162 of LNCS. Location PSI 2015 will take place in the Korston conference hall in Kazan, one of the oldest, largest and most beautiful cities in Russia, with a rich multicultural heritage and architectural treasures recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kazan was recently noted by TripAdvisor as one of the destination on the rise. A social and cultural program will enable participants and companions to discover the beauty of Kazan. Pre- and post-conference tours are available upon request. Travelling You can fly directly to Kazan through Moscow or directly from a number of international destinations such as Helsinki. Trains are also available from Moscow. 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Hostile, networked environments, like the Internet, can allow vulnerabilities in software to be exploited from anywhere. To address this, high-quality security building blocks (e.g., cryptographic components) are necessary, but insufficient. Indeed, the construction of secure software is challenging because of the complexity of modern applications, the growing sophistication of security requirements, the multitude of available software technologies and the progress of attack vectors. Clearly, a strong need exists for engineering techniques that scale well and that demonstrably improve the software's security properties. == Goal and Setup == The goal of this symposium, which will be the seventh in the series, is to bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the states of the art and practice in secure software engineering. Being one of the few conference-level events dedicated to this topic, it explicitly aims to bridge the software engineering and security engineering communities, and promote cross-fertilization. The symposium will feature two days of technical program. In addition to academic papers, the symposium encourages submission of high-quality, informative industrial experience papers about successes and failures in security software engineering and the lessons learned. Furthermore, the symposium also accepts short idea papers that crisply describe a promising direction, approach, or insight. == Venue == ESSoS 2015 will take place in Milano, at Politecnico di Milano, the largest engineering and architecture university in Italy, with more than 39.000 students and 7 campuses. ESSoS will take place at the main campus of the university, located in Milan's "Citt? studi" (university neighborhood). Hotels conveniently located around the Politecnico di Milano have been reserved at preferential rates through our partner KC Travel. A range of accommodations will be available, together with any additional travel services you may require. Details will be posted soon to the ESSoS 2015 website. == Program == Complete overview of the program can be found at: https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2015/programme.html = Tutorials = *Browser technology - essentials for securing the Web* Dr. Philippe De Ryck iMinds-DistriNet, KU Leuven *Effective security management: a tutorial on CVSS v3 and using case control studies to measure vulnerability risk* Luca Allodi & Fabio Massacci = Keynotes = *The botnet that would not die Keynote talk* Herbert Bos (VU Amsterdam) *The European Strategic Agenda for Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity* Afonso Ferreira (European Commission) *Rocco Mammoliti (Poste Italiane)* *Felix Lindner (Recurity Labs GmbH)* = Papers = *Re?thinking Kernelized MLS Database Architectures in the Context of Cloud?Scale Data Stores* Thuy Nguyen, Mark Gondree, Jean Khosalim and Cynthia Irvine. *Formal Verification of Liferay RBAC* Stefano Calzavara, Alvise Rabitti and Michele Bugliesi. *Improving reuse of access control policies using policy templates* Maarten Decat, Jasper Moeys, Bert Lagaisse and Wouter Joosen. *Are Your Training Datasets Still Relevant?* Kevin Allix, Tegawende Bissyande, Jacques Klein and Yves Le Traon. *Formal Verification of Privacy Properties in Electric Vehicle Charging* Marouane Fazouane, Henning Kopp, Rens W. van der Heijden, Daniel Le M?tayer and Frank Kargl. *The Heavy Tails of Vulnerability Exploitation* Luca Allodi. *A Security Ontology for Security Requirements Elicitation* Amina Souag, Camille Salinesi, Raul Mazo and Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau. *Learning how to Prevent Return-Oriented Programming Efficiently* David Pfaff, Sebastian Hack and Christian Hammer. *Producing Hook Placements To Enforce Expected Access Control Policies* Divya Muthukumaran, Nirupama Talele, Trent Jaeger and. *OMEN: Faster Password Guessing using Markov Models* Markus D?rmuth, Fabian Angelstorf, Claude Castelluccia and Daniele Perito. *Monitoring Database Access Constraints with an RBAC Metamodel: a Feasibility Study* Lars Hamann, Martin Gogolla and Karsten Sohr. *Idea: Optimising Multi-Cloud Application Deployments with Security Controls as Constraints* Philippe Massonet, Jesus Luna, Alain Pannetrat and Ruben Trapero. *Idea: Towards an Inverted Cloud* Raoul Strackx, Pieter Philippaerts and Fr?d?ric Vogels. *Idea: Benchmarking indistinguishability obfuscation - A candidate implementation* Sebastian Banescu, Mart?n Ochoa, Nils Kunze and Alexander Pretschner. *Idea: Unwinding based Model-Checking and Testing for Non-Interference on EFSMs* Mart?n Ochoa, Alexander Pretschner, Jorge Cuellar and Per Hallgren. *Idea: State-Continuous Transfer of State in Protected-Module Architectures* Raoul Strackx and Niels Lambrigts. = Demos = *MAVERIC: static analysis module for Mobile App security* (this demo will be presented as part of the industry keynote) Alessandro Armando, Gianluca Bocci, Giantonio Chiarelli, Gabriele Costa, Gabriele De Maglie, Rocco Mammoliti, and Alessio Merlo. Poste Italiane, U. of Genova, and FBK. *Joern analyser: discovering vulnerabilities via code property graph* Fabian Yamaguchi. University of Goettingen. *Open-Source Vulnerability Assessment in Composite Application Scenarios* Henrik Plate, Serena Ponta, and Antonino Sabetta. SAP SE. *Using Split Kernel to Make Kernel Hardening Practical* Anil Kurmus and Robby Zippel. IBM research. *The RACOMAT tool* Johannes Viehmann, Ketil Stolen, and Juergen Grossmann. Fraunhofer and SINTEF. *TESTREX: a Testbed for Repeatable Exploits* Stanislav Dashevskyi, Daniel Ricardo dos Santos, Fabio Massacci, and Antonino Sabetta. U. of Trento, FBK, and SAP SE. *A Pattern-driven and Model-Based Test Generation Toolchain for Web Vulnerability* Alexandre Vernotte, Bruno Legeard, and Fabien Peureux. FEMTO-ST CNSR and Smartesting R&D Center. *A Transitive Access Solution for Web Services* Worachet Uttha, Clara Bertolissi, and Silvio Ranise. LIF CNRS and FBK. = Doctoral Symposium = TBA Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Wed Jan 14 12:42:23 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:42:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2015 call for contributions Message-ID: <20150114194223.3c12aee6@duality> CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 21st International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2015 Tallinn, Estonia, 18-21 May 2015 http://cs.ioc.ee/types15/ Background The TYPES meetings are 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. The meetings from 1990 to 2008 were annual workshops of a sequence of five EU funded networking projects. Since 2009, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. Previous TYPES meetings were held in Antibes (1990), Edinburgh (1991), B?stad (1992), Nijmegen (1993), B?stad (1994), Torino (1995), Aussois (1996), Kloster Irsee (1998), L?keberg (1999), Durham (2000), Berg en Dal near Nijmegen (2002), Torino (2003), Jouy en Josas near Paris (2004), Nottingham (2006), Cividale del Friuli (2007), Torino (2008), Aussois (2009), Warsaw (2010), Bergen (2011), Toulouse (2013), Paris (2014). The TYPES areas of interest include, but are not limited to: foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; 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 encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. Invited speakers Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Contributed talks We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. Submission is via EasyChair by 13 March 2015. The authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 3 April 2015. Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions, due by 24 April 2015, will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution at the workshop. Post-proceedings Similarly to TYPES 2011, 2013, 2014, we intend to publish a post-proceedings volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPiCS) series (subject to successful negotiation with Dagstuhl Publishing). Submission to that volume would be open for everyone. Tentative submission deadline: mid-September 2015. Programme committee Andrea Asperti (Universit? di Bologna) Robert Atkey (University of Edinburgh) Ulrich Berger (Swansea University) Jean-Philippe Bernardy (Chalmers University of Technology) Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) Jo?lle Despeyroux (INRIA Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e) Herman Geuvers (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA Saclay - ?le-de-France) Ralph Matthes (IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier) Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software) Christine Paulin-Mohring (LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) Ulrich Sch?pp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) Bas Spitters (Carnegie Mellon University) Pawel Urzyczyn (University of Warsaw) Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn) (chair) Organizers Logic and semantics group, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn Sponsors ERDF via EXCS, the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science From neil.ghani at strath.ac.uk Wed Jan 14 15:15:35 2015 From: neil.ghani at strath.ac.uk (Neil Ghani) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:15:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Advert References: <68E6E43E-ABD7-489E-BD7C-B420CFCC7C19@strath.ac.uk> Message-ID: <316FD73F-34B8-452E-989C-AFED871785CC@strath.ac.uk> ****************************************************************** *** PhD Position *** *** Categories, Coalgebras and Types *** *** Mathematically Structured Programming Group *** University of Strathclyde *** ****************************************************************** Applications are invited for PhD study under the supervision of Prof Neil Ghani and Dr Conor McBride on any of the following topics * Dependently Typed Programming * Homotopy Type Theory * Coalgebra * Category Theory in Computer Science The position is fully funded for EU students (apologies to non EU-citizens for this ridiculous piece of non-meritocracy) and will last for 3 years.The applicant's motivation must centre on a desire for beautiful mathematics of lasting value. The applicant should also have an innate sense of the wonder of learning allied to the capacity to work hard and achieve their goals. The Mathematically Structured Programming Group's vision is to use mathematics to understand the nature of computation, and to then turn that understanding into the next generation of programming languages. This reflects the symbiotic relationship between mathematics, programming, and the design of programming languages --- any attempt to sever this connection will diminish each component. In order to achieve these research goals we mainly use ideas from category theory, type theory and functional programming. Besides Professor Neil Ghani and Dr Conor McBride, the group consists of a number of internationally leading researchers including Dr Clemens Kupke, Dr Ross Duncan, Dr Robert Atkey and Dr Fredrick Norvall-Forsberg as well as a number of PhD students. So, if you are interested in Neil-and-Conor studies, please contact us. Applications will be considered on a first come, first served basis. From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Thu Jan 15 08:02:28 2015 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:02:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open PhD position at TU Wien Message-ID: <2C5558F9-C186-4E3B-8802-8ADEA59C79BD@tuwien.ac.at> PhD on Probabilistic Analysis of Distributed Systems at the Institute of Computer Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria The Institute of Computer Engineering at Vienna (http://ti.tuwien.ac.at/) University of Technology is seeking for a PhD candidate, starting March 2015. The successful applicant will carry out his/her PhD in the research area of statistical verification of (distributed) cyber-physical systems based on advanced sequential Monte-Carlo (particle filtering) techniques such as importance sampling and importance splitting. This task is part of the recently granted Austrian FWF National Research Network ?RiSE? (2nd funding period), to be led by Prof. Radu Grosu in collaboration with Prof. Armin Biere and Ass.-Prof. Ezio Bartocci and with the other PIs of RiSE: http://arise.or.at/principal-investigators/ The candidates shall satisfy one or more of the following requirements: - A degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related disciplines. - Excellent Knowledge in verification, particle filtering, particle swarm optimisation - Curiosity and out-of-the-box thinking - Very good English skills (writing, speaking) Knowledge of German is welcome but not required. The positions will be fully funded for 3 years with competitive salaries. In addition, PhD candidates will be provided with a laptop and funding for travel expenses, including visits to conferences, workshops and other research groups. The Technische Universit?t Wien (TU Wien) has about 20,000 students and a heavy emphasis on research in the sciences and engineering. TU Wien comprises eight faculties - mathematics and geo-information, physics, technical chemistry, informatics, civil engineering, architecture and regional planning, mechanical engineering and business science, electrical engineering and information technology. The Faculty of Informatics of the TU Wien comprises about 3,000 students. The Institute of Computer Engineering (ICE) is one of its seven computer science institutes. The ICE?s research and teaching activities focus on the area of cyber-physical systems and dependable embedded systems. Our activities are at the heart of the primary research area Technische Informatik (Computer Engineering) of the Faculty of Informatics, and integrate computer science, discrete and continuous systems theory, and microelectronics in a holistic approach. Major research areas are hybrid systems, real-time systems, fault-tolerant distributed algorithms, and dependable digital circuit architectures. Particular research activities range from formal/mathematical modeling and analysis over SW/HW architectures to microcontroller programming and FPGA/VLSI design. Salary The RiSE project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur F?rderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF). In accordance with FWF regulations and the collective bargaining agreement of the Austrian universities, the doctoral students will be employed as a researcher at a yearly salary of EUR 20,047.38 after taxes and social/health insurance deductions (effective April 2014; the average Austrian salary over all age groups is EUR 20,596.00). There are additional salary supplements and tax deductions for families with children. Applications, including any attachments, should be submitted by the 1st of February to the following emails: radu.grosu at tuwien.ac.at, ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at The following documents must be attached to the application: - Cover letter stating the candidate's motivation to apply, and the reason(s) why they should be selected for the position - A curriculum vitae - Grades transcriptions and certificates - At least one reference letter Shortlisted applicants are expected to be interviewed during the first week of February 2015. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jose.pedro.magalhaes at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Jan 15 08:55:10 2015 From: jose.pedro.magalhaes at cs.ox.ac.uk (=?UTF-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_Pedro_Magalh=C3=A3es?=) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:55:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Mathematics of Program Construction (MPC 2015): final call for papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple copies. FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2015 K?nigswinter, Germany, 29 June - 1 July 2015 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/MPC2015/ BACKGROUND The MPC conferences aim to promote the development of mathematical principles and techniques that are demonstrably practical and effective in the process of constructing computer programs, broadly interpreted. The 2015 MPC conference will be held in K?nigswinter, Germany, from 29th June to 1st July 2015. The previous conferences were held in Twente, The Netherlands (1989), Oxford, UK (1992), Kloster Irsee, Germany (1995), Marstrand, Sweden (1998), Ponte de Lima, Portugal (2000), Dagstuhl, Germany (2002), Stirling, UK (2004, colocated with AMAST), Kuressaare, Estonia (2006, colocated with AMAST), Marseille, France (2008), Qu?bec City, Canada (2010, colocated with AMAST), and Madrid, Spain (2012). TOPICS Papers are solicited on mathematical methods and tools put to use in program construction. Topics of interest range from algorithmics to support for program construction in programming languages and systems. The notion of "program" is broad, from algorithms to hardware. Some typical areas are type systems, program analysis and transformation, programming-language semantics, security, and program logics. Theoretical contributions are welcome, provided that their relevance to program construction is clear. Reports on applications are welcome, provided that their mathematical basis is evident. We also encourage the submission of "pearls": elegant, instructive, and fun essays on the mathematics of program construction. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: 26 January 2015 * Submission of full papers: 2 February 2015 * Notification to authors: 16 March 2015 * Final version: 13 April 2015 SUBMISSION Submission is in two stages. Abstracts (plain text, 10 to 20 lines) must be submitted by 26 January 2015. Full papers (pdf) adhering to the LaTeX llncs style must be submitted by 2 February 2015. There is no official page limit, but authors should strive for brevity. The web-based system EasyChair will be used for submission (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mpc2015). Papers must report previously unpublished work, and must not be submitted concurrently to a journal or to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Please feel free to write to mpc2015 at easychair.org with any questions about academic matters. The proceedings of MPC 2015 will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as have all the previous editions. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to transfer copyright to Springer for this purpose. After the conference, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit revised versions to a special issue of the Elsevier journal Science of Computer Programming. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ralf Hinze University of Oxford, UK (chair) Eerke Boiten University of Kent, UK Jules Desharnais Universit? Laval, Canada Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan Graham Hutton University of Nottingham, UK Johan Jeuring Utrecht University and Open University, The Netherlands Jay McCarthy Vassar College, US Larissa Meinicke The University of Queensland, Australia Bernhard M?ller Universit?t Augsburg, Germany Shin-Cheng Mu Academia Sinica, Taiwan Dave Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology, US Pablo Nogueira Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Ulf Norell University of Gothenburg, Sweden Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jos? Nuno Oliveira Universidade do Minho, Portugal Alberto Pardo Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Christine Paulin-Mohring INRIA-Universit? Paris-Sud, France Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium Emil Sekerinski McMaster University, Canada Tim Sheard Portland State University, US Anya Tafliovich University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada Tarmo Uustalu Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia Janis Voigtl?nder Universit?t Bonn, Germany VENUE The conference will take place in K?nigswinter, Maritim Hotel, where accommodation has been reserved. K?nigswinter is situated on the right bank of the river Rhine, opposite Germany's former capital Bonn, at the foot of the Siebengebirge. LOCAL ORGANIZERS Ralf Hinze University of Oxford, UK (co-chair) Janis Voigtl?nder Universit?t Bonn, Germany (co-chair) Jos? Pedro Magalh?es University of Oxford, UK Nicolas Wu University of Oxford, UK For queries about local matters, please write to jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de. From herman at cs.ru.nl Thu Jan 15 10:26:47 2015 From: herman at cs.ru.nl (Herman Geuvers) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:26:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] New book: Type Theory and Formal Proof Message-ID: <54B7DC37.2040406@cs.ru.nl> We are proud to present our book Type Theory and Formal Proof An Introduction that has appeared with Cambridge University Press. See http://www.win.tue.nl/~wsinrpn/book_type_theory.htm for a more detailed description of the aims and the content of the book. CUP provides the book in a hardback version and as an eBook. The site books.google.com (search: type+theory+formal+proof) gives an impression of the printed book text. Rob Nederpelt, Herman Geuvers Eindhoven University of Technology, Radboud University Nijmegen From anya at ii.uib.no Fri Jan 16 07:39:19 2015 From: anya at ii.uib.no (Anya Helene Bagge) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:39:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: SLE 2015 Message-ID: <54B90677.8070701@ii.uib.no> CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================= 8th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) 2015 Pittsburg, USA, October 2015 http://www.sleconf.org/2015/ Co-located with: ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH 2015) 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences (GPCE 2015) --------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2015 Deadline for papers: 15 June 2015 Author notification: 24 July 2015 Camera ready copies due: 7 August 2015 SLE workshops: TBD Conference: End of October 2015 All dates are Anywhere on Earth. --------------------------------------------------------- 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 SLE aims 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: - Approaches and methodologies for language design - Tools for language design and implementation (incl. meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches) - Generative approaches (incl. transformation and transformation languages, code generation) - Interpreters and interpreter composition - Techniques for analysing (and proving properties of) software language descriptions - Techniques for software language reuse, evolution and management of variations (syntactic/semantic) within language families - Integration and coordination of disparate software languages and tools - Applications of DSLs for different purposes (incl. 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, ontologies) --------------------------------------------------------- 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 12 pages (in ACM SIGPLAN conference style). - 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 6 pages (in ACM SIGPLAN conference style). - Bridging position papers: These papers discuss bridging ideas from the different areas of SLE (e.g. modelling, programming languages, grammars, etc). This includes both foundational ideas and/or practical techniques. Bridging position papers must not exceed 2 pages (in ACM SIGPLAN conference style). In 2015, industrial experience papers should be submitted to the ITSLE workshop. Papers should follow the ACM SIGPLAN conference style, 10 point font: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ Note that by default the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format produces papers in 9 point font by default. If you are formatting your paper using LaTeX, you will need to set the 10pt option in the \documentclass command. If you are formatting your paper using Word, you may wish to use the provided Word template that supports this font size. Please include page numbers in your submission; setting the preprint option in the LaTeX \documentclass command generates page numbers. Please also ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes are legible. 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 ACM Digital Library. Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for a Journal special issue. --------------------------------------------------------- AWARDS - Best paper. Award for best overall paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. - Best presentation. Award for the best paper presentation. We want to encourage well structured and lively presentations. Determined by the audience. - 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 Richard Paige, University of York, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Davide Di Ruscio, University of L'Aquila, Italy Markus Voelter, Independent researcher, consultant and coach for itemis AG, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE COMPLETED) Emilie Balland, INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway Jordi Cabot, INRIA research group at Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France Zinovy Diskin, McMaster University / University of Waterloo, Canada Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Thomas Goldschmidt, ABB Corporate Research, Germany Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA Angelo Hulshout, Independent Consultant, The Netherlands Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Juan de Lara, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain Terence Parr, University of San Francisco, US David J. Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L'Aquila, Italy Daniel Ratiu, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany Tijs van der Storm, CWI, The Netherlands Eugene Syriani, University of Montreal, Canada Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Guido Wachsmuth, Delft University, The Netherlands Manuel Wimmer, Tu Wien, Austria Daniel Varro, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Vadim Zaytsev, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands From Susanne.Graf at imag.fr Fri Jan 16 08:04:27 2015 From: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr (Susanne Graf) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:04:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORTE 2015: Call for Papers (abstract submission deadline extended) Message-ID: <54B90C5B.8010703@imag.fr> ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS FORTE 2015 A DisCoTec Member Conference 35th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems http://discotec2015.inria.fr/ http://discotec2015.inria.fr/forte-2015-call-for-papers/ taking place on June 2-4, 2015 in Grenoble, France Abstract Submission: January 23, 2015 (optional) Paper Submission: January 23, 2015 Author Notification: March 6, 2015 ============================================================= FORTE 2015 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of: * service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems; * object technology, modularity, component- and model-based design; * software 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, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. === Main topics of interest === 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; * 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, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks; * 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. === Invited Speakers (DISCOTEC) === * Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler Universit?t, Linz, Austria) * Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research, USA) * Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL, Switzerland) === 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 be prepared using Springer?s LNCS style. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE?15 interface of the EasyChair system. We solicit four kinds of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages): Describing thorough and complete research results, tools or experience reports (if relevant, additional appendixes with proofs or other material meant for easing the reviewers' live are allowed) * Short papers (up to 7 pages): Describing research results that are not fully developed, or manifestos, calls to action, personal views on FORTE related research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects for the years to come. * Tool demonstration papers (up to 7 pages): focus on the usage aspects of tools. Theoretical foundations and experimental evaluation are not required, however, a motivation as to why the tool is interesting and significant should be provided. Papers may have an appendix of up to 5 additional pages with details on the actual demonstration. * Posters (up to 3 pages): Summarizing research projects worth being advertised and discussed in at the conference. 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. The best papers will be invited after the conference to contribute to a special issue of a top-level journal (TCS or FMSD). === Programme Chairs === Susanne Graf (VERIMAG & CNRS, Grenoble, France) Mahesh Viswanathan (U. Illinois, USA) === Programme Committee === Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Luca Aceto (U. Reykjavik, Iceland) S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India) Paul Attie (American U. Beirut, Lebanon) Rohit Chadha (U. Missouri, USA) Rance Cleaveland (U. Maryland, USA) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Mc Master U., Ontario, Canada) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Stephanie Delaune (CNRS & ENS Cachan, France) Wan Fokkink (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) Gregor Goessler (INRIA Grenoble, France) Gerard Holzmann (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA) Alan Jeffrey (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA) Petr Kuznetsov (Telecom ParisTech, France) Ivan Lanese (U. Bologna, Italy) Kim Larsen (U. Aalborg, Denmark) Antonia Lopes (U. Lisbon, Portugal) Stephan Merz (LORIA & INRIA Nancy, France) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France) Alan Schmitt (IRISA & INRIA Rennes, France) === Steering Committee: === Erica Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Dirk Beyer (U. Passau, Germany) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Einar Broch Johnsen (U. Oslo, Norway) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Holger Giese (U. Potsdam, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, Saclay, France) Grigore Rosu (U. Illinois, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, Grenoble, France) (Chair) Heike Wehrheim (U. Paderborn, Germany) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Susanne Graf | tel : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 52 VERIMAG | fax : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 46 (or 44) 2, avenue de Vignate | http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~graf/ F - 38610 Gieres | e-mail: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From slim.kallel at gmail.com Fri Jan 16 10:08:37 2015 From: slim.kallel at gmail.com (Slim Kallel) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:08:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IEEE/ACIS SERA 2015: Deadline extension - January 22, 2015 Message-ID: SERA 2015: 13th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications May 13 - 15, 2015, Hammamet - Tunisia http://sera2015.redcad.org/ ================ Special Issue ================ A special issue is dedicated to a set of best selected papers in Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (A NASA journal), Springer. http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/11334 ================ About SERA 2015 ================ The 13th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2015) provides an international forum where engineers, researchers, and advanced graduate students are invited to present their experiences and their recent advances and latest research results related to all aspects of software engineering research and applications. The conference is structured to cover the complete software lifecycle from design through deployment to maintenance and evolution. SERA 2015 will include a high quality scientific program, invited speakers, tutorials and workshops in conjunction with the conference. ================ Submission deadline ================ Paper Submission Deadline: January 22, 2015 Notification: March 1, 2015 Final version: March 15, 2015 ================ Topics ================ The program committee invites submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics: Software Design and Modeling - Modeling with Objects, Components, Services, Aspects, Agents - Requirements Engineering - Model Driven Engineering - Unified Modeling Language Software Frameworks and Technologies - Frameworks for Objects, Components, Services, Aspects, Agents - Reflection and Metamodeling - Programming and Description Languages - Design Patterns and Framework Languages Software Deployment and Management - Deployment, Configuration Management - Runtime Software Monitoring and Management - Fault Detection and Localization, Autonomic Repair Software Maintenance and Evolution - Software Visualization and Program Understanding - Re-Use, Re-Factoring, Re-Engineering - Reverse Engineering Software Quality Guarantees - Formal and Semiformal Software Specifications - Software Verification and Model Checking - Quality of Service Modeling and Analysis - Software Testing and Benchmarking - Software Extra-functional Properties Software Engineering Processes - Process Models and Process Management - Software Quality and Software Metrics - Cost Modeling and Analysis - Product Lines and System Families - Software Engineering Education and Training Software Architecture - Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering - Component-based models, middleware,component-based deployment - Service-Oriented Architectures and Web services - Architecture description languages and metamodels Domain Specific Software Engineering - Applications, Case Studies, Technology Transfer - Embedded and Real Time Systems - Web Information Systems - Business Process Engineering - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Cloud Computing - Internet of Things and M2M applications ================ Publications ================ Proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be submitted to be indexed by EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The best 15 to 20 papers will be invited to publish in Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), Springer. ================ Program Chairs ================ Khalil Drira, LAAS, University of Toulouse, France Mohamed Jmaiel, University of Sfax, Tunisia ================ Paper Submission ================ Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the easychair system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sera2015. We solicit research and experience papers as well as research-in-progress in any of the technical areas listed under Scope and Topics. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation and appropriate comparison to related work. The decision whether to accept or reject the paper will be based on the reviews and the consensus of the program committee. 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URL: From bogom.s at gmail.com Thu Jan 15 12:08:27 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:08:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CPSWeek: Workshop on Numerical Software Verification 2015 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS ************** NSV 2015 ************** 8th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification April 13, 2015 Cyber-Physical Week 2015 Seattle, WA, USA Web Page: http://nsv2015.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ Important Dates =============== Submissions deadline: ** January 30, 2015 ** Notification: Feb 27, 2015 Final version: March 8, 2015 Workshop: April 13, 2015 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. Design and verification of numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to precisely represent local behaviors of each component. The implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of approximation because of the use of finite representations of infinite precision numbers that usually lack basic arithmetic properties such as commutativity and associativity. Finally, the development and analysis of cyber-physical systems (CPS) which involve the interacting continuous and discrete components pose a further challenge. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical techniques for the reasoning about programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the development of such techniques. Topics =============== The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Quantitative and qualitative analysis of hybrid systems - Models and abstraction techniques - Optimal control of dynamical systems - Parameter identification for hybrid systems - Numerical optimization methods - Hybrid systems verification - Applications of hybrid systems to systems biology - Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models - Specifications of correctness for numerical programs - Formal specification and verification of numerical programs - Quality of finite precision implementations - Numerical properties of control software - Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications - Validation for scientific computing programs Submission information ====================== We solicit regular and short papers.Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsv2015 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 welcome, they should present tools, benchmarks, case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages. Furthermore, in order to foster the exchange of ideas, we encourage authors to also submit short papers describing ideas which have already been reported in other venues. All accepted papers (except short papers based on ideas published elsewhere) will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science series (ENTCS). Chairs ========== Sergiy Bogomolov (University of Freiburg, Germany) Matthieu Martel (Universit? de Perpignan, France) Program Committee ========== Ezio Bartocci (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Sylvie Boldo (INRIA, France) Olivier Bouissou (Mathworks, France) Sean Gao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Khalil Ghorbal (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Eric Goubault (CEA, France) Jim Kapinski (Toyota, USA) Ian Mitchell (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jan Otop (IST, Austria) Pavithra Prabhakar (IMDEA, Spain) Walid Taha (Halmstadt University & Rice University, Sweden) From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Fri Jan 16 03:48:14 2015 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:48:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FM 2015: Joint Call for Papers at FM Satellite Workshops & Doctoral Symposium (20th Intl. Symposium on Formal Methods, Oslo) Message-ID: <20150116084814.DE86919FE@nittedal.ifi.uio.no> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------ --------=== FM 2015 workshops & doctoral symposium ===--------------- --------=== Joint Call for Papers ===--------------- ----------- ------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20th International Symposium on Formal Methods Oslo, Norway, Workshops: June 22-23, 2015 Doctoral Symposium: June 22, 2015 (FM main event June 24-26, 2015) http://fm2015.ifi.uio.no/workshops/ http://fm2015.ifi.uio.no/fm-2015-doctoral-symposium/ Joint Call for Papers ========================================================================== o About FM: FM 2015 is the twentieth in a series of symposia organized by Formal Methods Europe, an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. =========================================================================== o FM SATELLITE WORKSHOPS and Doctoral Symposium (at 22-23. June, preceding the main conference) - FMICS (Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems) abstract due: 19.1 paper due: 26.1 notification: 13.1 final version: 30.3 - Overture/VDM paper due: 1.4 notification: 1.5 final version: 1.6 - WWV (Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems) abstract due: 18.3 paper due: 25.3 notification: 8.5 final version: 31.5 - Refinement - ESSS (Engineering Safety and Security Systems) paper due: 16.3 notification: 27.4 - SAFOME (Safety and Formal Methods) paper due: 24.3 notification: 30.4 final version: 15.5 - USE (Usages of Symbolic Execution) paper due: 1.4 notification: 1.5 final version: 1.6 - SETS (Sets and Tools) abstract due: 31.3 paper due: 7.4 notification: 7.5 final version: 22.5 - FMSEET (Formal Methods in Software Engineering Education and Training) abstract due: 31.3 paper due: 7.4 notification: 7.5 final version: 22.5 - Formal Methods and Model-Driven Engineering in Robotics paper due: 1.4 notification: 15.5 - F-IDE (Formal Integrated Development Environment) abstract due: 24.3 paper due: 31.3 notification: 30.4 final version: 15.5 - FM Doctoral Symposium: paper due: 20.3 notification: 3.4 ===================================================================== Please consult the general FM Website and the workshop/symposium page for the general event and the satellite events in particular, for individual call for contributions, individual submsission details and more: http://fm2015.ifi.uio.no http://fm2015.ifi.uio.no/workshops/ http://fm2015.ifi.uio.no/fm-2015-doctoral-symposium/ Further enquiries specific for particular satellite events are best directed to the corresponding specific event's chairs. ===================================================================== From pierre.clairambault at ens-lyon.fr Fri Jan 16 11:09:41 2015 From: pierre.clairambault at ens-lyon.fr (Pierre Clairambault) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:09:41 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CfP: GaLoP 2015 Message-ID: <54B937C5.1060201@ens-lyon.fr> 10th Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GaLoP 2015) London, United Kingdom, 11-12 April http://www.gamesemantics.org GaLoP is an annual international workshop on game-semantic models for logics and programming languages and their applications. This is an informal workshop that welcomes work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, programmatic or position papers and tutorials. GaLoP X will be held in London, UK on 11-12 April 2015 as a satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). Areas of interest include: * Games and other interaction-based denotational models; * Games-based program analysis and verification; * Logics for games and games for logics; * Algorithmic aspects of game semantics; * Categorical aspects of game semantics; * 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; * Games and multi-valued logics. There will be no formal proceedings but the possibility of a special issue in a journal will be considered (the 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2014 workshops led to special issues in Annals of Pure and Applied Logic). // Submission Instructions // Please submit an abstract (up to one page) of your proposed talk on the easychair submission page below. Supplementary material may be submitted, and will be considered at the discretion of the PC. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=galop2015 // Important Dates // Submission: January 25, 2015 Notification: February 10, 2015 Workshop: April 11-12, 2015 // Invited talks // In celebration of its 10th occurrence, GaLoP 2015 will include a special session with talks from some of the key early contributors in game semantics. For this occasion the speakers will include: * Samson Abramsky, Oxford * Pierre-Louis Curien, Paris * Martin Hyland, Cambridge * Luke Ong, Oxford There will also be invited talks by: * Paul Blain Levy, Birmingham, * Nikos Tzevelekos, London Finally, there will also be a tutorial talk by: * Dan Ghica, Birmingham // Program Committee // * Pierre Clairambault, Lyon (Chair) * Dan Ghica, Birmingham * Tom Hirschowitz, Chamb?ry * Naohiko Hoshino, Kyoto * Luke Ong, Oxford * Gabriel Sandu, Helsinki * Ulrich Sch?pp, Munich From bfischer at cs.sun.ac.za Sat Jan 17 06:41:42 2015 From: bfischer at cs.sun.ac.za (Bernd Fischer) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:41:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_22nd_International_SPIN_Worksho?= =?utf-8?q?p_on_Model_Checking_of_Software_=28SPIN_2015=29=2C_Stell?= =?utf-8?q?enbosch=2C_South_Africa=2C_24=E2=80=9326_August_2015?= Message-ID: ====================================================================== SPIN 2015 22nd International Workshop on Model Checking Software 24--26 August 2015, Stellenbosch, South Africa http://www.spin2015.org ====================================================================== ---- Important Dates ---- Submission of abstracts: 17 April 2015 (Anywhere on Earth) Submission of full papers: 24 April 2015 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 June 2015 Final version due: 29 June 2015 Workshop: 24--26 August 2015 ---- Aims and Scope ---- The SPIN workshop is a forum for practitioners and researchers interested in symbolic and state space-based techniques for the validation and analysis of software systems. Theoretical techniques and empirical evaluations based on explicit representations of state spaces, as implemented in the SPIN model checker or other tools, or techniques based on the combination of explicit representations with other representations, are the focus of this workshop. We particularly welcome papers describing the development and application of state space exploration techniques in testing and verifying embedded software, security-critical software, enterprise and web applications, and other interesting software platforms. The workshop aims to encourage interactions and exchanges of ideas with all related areas in software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software - Algorithms and storage methods for explicit-state model checking - Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of model checking - Model checking for programming languages and code analysis - Directed model checking using heuristics - Parallel or distributed model checking - Verification of timed and probabilistic systems - Model checking techniques for biological systems - Formal verification techniques for concurrent software - Formal verification techniques for embedded software - Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques in relation to software verification - Static analysis for state space reduction - Combinations of enumerative and symbolic techniques - Analysis for modelling languages, such as UML/state charts - Property specification languages, including temporal logics - Automated testing using state space and/or path exploration - Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material from state spaces - Combination of model checking techniques with other analyses - Modular and compositional verification techniques - Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results - Engineering and implementation of software verification tools - Benchmark and comparative studies for formal verification tools - Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to the workshop ---- Paper Submission and Publication ---- The proceedings of SPIN will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. With the exception of survey and history papers, the papers should contain original work which has not been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 We solicit three kinds of papers: - Technical Research Papers: At most 18 pages in LNCS format. - Idea Papers: At most 6 pages in LNCS format that describe describe novel research directions in software model checking. New ideas submissions are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation and may not be fully validated. - Tool Presentations: This kind of submission should consist of two parts: the first part is at most a 6-page description of the tool. The second part should describe an informal plan for an oral presentation of the tool. This part will not be included in the proceedings and may also be in the form of a five minute video. Tools must be available online for reviewers to inspect. Papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin20150 All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. ---- Organisation ---- Program Chairs - Bernd Fischer (Stellenbosch Univ) - Jaco Geldenhuys (Stellenbosch Univ) Program Committee - Christel Baier (Technical Univ of Dresden) - Dragan Bosnacki (Eindhoven Univ of Tech.) - Sagar Chaki (Carnegie Mellon Softw. Eng. Inst.) - Alessandro Cimatti (FBK-irst) - Lucas Cordeiro (Federal Univ of Amazonas) - Alexandre Duret-Lutz (LRDE/EPITA) - Matt Dwyer (Univ of Nebraska) - Susanne Graf (Univ Joseph Fourier / CNRS / VERIMAG) - Alex Groce (Oregon State Univ) - Klaus Havelund (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech.) - Gerard Holzmann (NASA/JPL) - Franjo Ivancic (Google) - Sarfraz Khurshid (The Univ of Texas at Austin) - Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research) - Stefan Leue (Univ of Konstanz, Dept of Comp. and Information Sci.) - Igor Melatti (Dept of Comp. Sci., Univ Of Rome "La Sapienza") - Eric Mercer (Brigham Young Univ) - Gennaro Parlato (Univ of Southampton) - Suzette Person (NASA Langley Research Center) - Stefan Schwoon (ENS de Cachan / INRIA) - Jaco van de Pol (Univ of Twente) - Helmut Veith (Vienna Univ of Tech.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdc at uwo.ca Fri Jan 16 13:35:40 2015 From: jdc at uwo.ca (Dan Christensen) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:35:40 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] fully funded graduate positions in math at UWO Message-ID: <87bnlyefpf.fsf@jdc.math.uwo.ca> Applicants with an interest in homotopy type theory would definitely be welcome. Please distribute to undergraduate and master's students and appropriate counsellors and supervisors. Graduate Student Positions Department of Mathematics University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada The Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario solicits applications for its MSc and PhD programs. We have up to 20 fully funded positions available, and applicants from any country are welcome. Our faculty members supervise research in a variety of areas: http://www.math.uwo.ca/graduate/members-of-the-graduate-faculty/ More information, including the application procedure, is available at http://www.math.uwo.ca/graduate/ Students normally start in September, in which case applications should be complete (including letters of reference and supplementary material) by February 15. Applications received after this deadline will be reviewed as space permits. Please contact math-grad-program at uwo.ca with any questions you may have. From Johannes.Kinder at rhul.ac.uk Sat Jan 17 09:03:28 2015 From: Johannes.Kinder at rhul.ac.uk (Kinder, Johannes) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:03:28 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc Position at Royal Holloway, University of London (Deadline Feb 28, 2015) Message-ID: <4AE06AAE-39D4-4185-82BC-9F5C105E8D3A@rhul.ac.uk> The recently-established Systems Security Research Lab (http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk), led by Dr Lorenzo Cavallaro within the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway University of London, is seeking to appoint 1 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) to work on the recently-awarded 4-year EPSRC-funded project "MobSec: Malware and Security in the Mobile Age" (http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk/projects/mobsec/), part of the EPSRC BACCHUS call. The overall goal of MobSec is to improve the security of mobile devices by reducing the risk from installing and using third party applications. To this end, MobSec aims to build on top of the VM-based system call-centric dynamic analysis system CopperDroid, which has been developed in the lab, as a freely accessible service to analyze Android applications (http://copperdroid.isg.rhul.ac.uk). More information on MobSec is available at http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk/projects/mobsec/ The Principal Investigator Dr Lorenzo Cavallaro's research expertise is in systems security and malware analysis; in addition, the project benefits from the expertise of Dr Johannes Kinder (co-Investigator, program analysis and symbolic execution) and a partnership with Intel Security (formerly known as McAfee Labs). The ideal candidate will hold a PhD in Computer Science or related discipline (or should be close to defending it), with emphasis on Computer Security (desirable), must have a strong research track record and a proven ability to find innovative solutions. The ideal candidate must further be self-motivated, possess software development skills, and be experienced in the following areas: * Systems security and malware analysis & detection; * Having explored machine learning, static / dynamic program analysis, or symbolic execution in particular to tackle security aspects (desirable). For more information about the positions and how to apply, please visit http://goo.gl/SGGY28 --- the application deadline is Feb 28, 2015. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the PI, Dr Lorenzo Cavallaro. For further information on the Systems Security Research Lab and related projects, see http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk Royal Holloway University of London is one of the eleven Higher Education (HE) institutions in the UK awarded as Centre of Academic Excellence in Cyber Security Research and one of only two HE institutions awarded with a Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security. -- Dr. Johannes Kinder Lecturer in Computer Science Royal Holloway, University of London http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/kinder/ From alcino at di.uminho.pt Mon Jan 19 07:07:58 2015 From: alcino at di.uminho.pt (Alcino Cunha) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:07:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP Bx'15: 4th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (Bx 2015) L'Aquila, Italy (co-located with STAF, July 20-24, 2015) http://bx-community.wikidot.com/bx2015:home Bidirectional transformations (Bx) are a mechanism for maintaining the consistency of at least two related sources of information. Such sources can be relational databases, software models and code, or any other document following standard or ad-hoc formats. Bx are an emerging topic in a wide range of research areas, with prominent presence at top conferences in several different fields (namely databases, programming languages, software engineering, and graph transformation), but with results in one field often getting limited exposure in the others. Bx 2015 is a dedicated venue for Bx in all relevant fields, and is part of a workshop series that was created in order to promote cross-disciplinary research and awareness in the area. As such, since its beginning in 2012, the workshop rotated between venues in different fields. In 2015, Bx is co-located with STAF for the first time. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 24 April 2015 Paper submission: 8 May 2015 Author notification: 5 June 2015 Camera-ready version: 19 June 2015 Workshop date: one day between July 20-24, 2015 (exact date TBA soon) AIM AND TOPICS The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, established and new, interested in Bx from different perspectives, such as: * data and model synchronization * view updating * inter-model consistency analysis and repair * data/schema (or model/metamodel) co-evolution * coupled software/model transformations * inversion of transformations and data exchange mappings * domain-specific languages for Bx * analysis and classification of requirements for Bx * bridging the gap between formal concepts and application scenarios * analysis of efficiency of transformation algorithms and benchmarks * survey and comparison of Bx technologies * case studies and tool support PAPER CATEGORIES Submissions to Bx 2015 can be: * Regular papers (up to 15 pages) - in-depth presentations of novel concepts and results - applications of Bx to new domains - survey papers providing novel comparisons between existing technologies - case studies * Short papers (up to 8 pages) - work in progress - small focused contributions - position papers and research perspectives * Tool papers (up to 8 pages) - presentation of new tools or substantial improvements to existing ones * Benchmark papers (up to 8 pages) - new benchmark proposals, focusing on assessing aspects of Bx not covered by the examples currently available at the Bx example repository SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must follow the CEUR one column style available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles/. Tool papers must refer to a web page describing how to download and install the presented tool. Papers describing tools that have already been published elsewhere are expected to contain substantial and clearly identified extensions to the tool. Benchmark papers should follow the template of the Bx example repository (http://bx-community.wikidot.com/examples:home), and clearly justify the relevance of the new benchmark as a means to assess Bx tools and techniques (in particular, submissions of cross-disciplinary benchmarks are encouraged). Moreover, they must refer to a web page providing supporting artifacts (metamodels/schemas, model/data instances for interesting test cases, executable consistency checkers, etc). Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bx2015 Submissions not complying with the above guidelines or page limits may be excluded from the reviewing process without further notice. If a paper is accepted, one author of the paper is expected to participate in the workshop to present it. Authors of accepted tool papers are also expected to be available to demonstrate their tool at the event. PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE The workshop proceedings, including all accepted papers, will be published electronically by CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org). Authors of accepted papers (of all categories) that have high-quality and the potential to be extended into journal articles will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their paper to a special issue of the Journal of Object Technology (http://www.jot.fm); these papers will then be subject to a careful reviewing and selection process according to the scientific standards of the Journal of Object Technology. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS * Alcino Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal * Ekkart Kindler, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS * Anthony Anjorin, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Anthony Cleve, University of Namur, Belgium * Romina Eramo, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK * Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany * Soichiro Hidaka, NII, Japan * Michael Johnson, Macquarie University, Australia * Peter McBrien, Imperial College, UK * Hugo Pacheco, Cornell University, USA * Jorge P?rez, Universidad de Chile, Chile * Arend Rensink, Twente University, Netherlands * Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK * James Terwilliger, Microsoft, USA * Meng Wang, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Jens Weber, University of Victoria, Canada * Yingfei Xiong, Peking University, China From ross.horne at gmail.com Mon Jan 19 08:39:43 2015 From: ross.horne at gmail.com (Ross Horne) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:39:43 +0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EGC2015: Deadline extension and UK travel grants Message-ID: Extended Call for Papers: We still have generous travel grants for participants travelling from UK. Please consider submitting an extended abstract. ** New deadline for participants requiring travel grant or visa: Sunday 25 January 2015, midnight Hawaii time. ** New deadline for local participants: Friday 30 January 2015, midnight Hawaii time Post-proceedings will be published in Springer's CCIS series (a sub-series of LNCS). Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies 26-28 February 2015, Almaty, Kazakhstan http://emerging.kbtu.kz This is a British Council funded workshop for promoting joint research in computer science between Kazakhstan and United Kingdom. Travel grants, worth up to ?1000, are available for researchers having completed their PhD within the past 10 years and PhD students, who are based in either United Kingdom or in Kazakhstan. The workshop features post-proceeding in Springer's CCIS series, and four invited speakers from UK and Russia. Background: Modern computing no longer takes place on a personal machine. Businesses and private users alike are increasingly entrusting their data to Cloud providers that run global networks of datacenters. These datacenters provide the illusion of infinite resources available on demand at minimal cost. Furthermore, Cloud providers absorb the risk of up front investment in an IT infrastructure that is resilient to data loss, service outage, and fluctuation in demand. Without a global network of datacenters, few businesses would be able to deliver services that perform equally well in London, San Francisco and Singapore. Businesses in countries like Kazakhstan risk missing out on the competitive edge given by tapping into this global network of datacenters. The nearest datacenters to Almaty for major Cloud providers, such as Amazon, are in Beijing and Frankfurt. This results in a visible impact on the performance of service and reduced availability causing loss of customers. To avoid emerging economies like Kazakhstan lagging behind in the push toward global computing, several problems need to be addressed, not limited to the following: - How do we address and overcome legal restrictions on where data from public bodies are held? What are the obstacles to embracing Open Data? - How do we design systems that are resilient to natural disasters and extreme weather? Can we cost effectively ensure that if a datacenter is destroyed in an earthquake, then no data will be lost or become unavailable? - How can smaller local Cloud providers join a global network of Cloud providers, sometimes called the Intercloud? Can Cloud brokers make accessing computing resources easier for adopters? - How do we model services that run on a global network of datacenters. How do the foundational models and semantics of systems change to accurately reflect reality? - How do we design verification tools for checking that both the infrastructure inside datacenters and services running across datacenters are correct? Can we test systems running at small scale, to see how they would behave at a big scale? - How do we deliver services to regions with almost no high bandwidth channels. Can we optimise remote sessions such that a minimal amount of information is transmitted over the expensive wide-area network. - How do we quantify the economic risk factors that are managed by different Cloud providers? How do we model different work loads that a system may be faced with. - How can emerging economies, such as Kazakhstan, take the lead in innovation in global computing, where we see projects through from foundational results to concrete applications. We welcome technical papers addressing related topics in computer science. We welcome: bold foundational non-incremental developments; inter-disciplinary papers covering economic and environmental issues; systems papers that describe and evaluate related systems; and, papers on techniques, tools and methodologies. Submissions: Submissions should be a paper of up to 10 pages prepared according to Springer's guidelines for the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Papers should be submitted through EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egc20150 Papers will receive three reviews. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings distributed at the event. Submission for the post-proceedings will be one month after the workshop, giving participants time to revise their work based on feedback. The full papers for the post-proceeding will be reviewed again, to ensure that improvements have been made. The post-proceedings will be published in Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. We encourage papers where results are formally stated and proven and draw on fundamental results in computer science. The best formally stated papers will be invited for a special edition of Scientific Annals of Computer Science (SACS). SACS is indexed by Scopus and DBLP. Dates: New deadline for participants requiring travel grants: Sunday 25 January, midnight Hawaii time. New deadline for local participants: Friday 30 January 2015, midnight Hawaii time. Notification: 1 February 2015 Workshop dates: 26-28 February 2015 Post-proceedings (full paper): 1 April 2015 Venue: The workshop will be held in Kazakh-British Technical University, Tole Bi 59, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Local Organisers (Kazakhstan): Ross Horne, Kazakh-British Technical University Ken Charman, Kazakh-British Technical University British Coordinators (United Kingdom): Vladimiro Sassone, University of Southampton Toby Wilkinson, University of Southampton Invited Speakers: Nikolay Shilov, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics, Novosibirsk; and Nazarbayev University, Astana Yehia Elkhatib, Lancaster University, UK Gareth Tyson, Queen Mary University of London, UK Sergey Khalyapin, Manager of Systems Engineers, Citrix RU&CIS Andrey Andreev, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Kazakhstan Program Committee: Assel Akzhalova, Kazakh-British Technical University Bogdan Aman, Romanian Academy of Sciences Gabrielle Anderson, University College London Lyazzat Atytmayeva, Kazakh-British Technical University Bektur Baizhanov, Kazakh Academy of Sciences Timur Bakibayev, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Kenes Beketayev, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Gabriel Ciobanu, Newcastle University Anuar Dussembaev, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Yehia Elkhatib, Lancaster University Mahmud Hassan, International IT University Ross Horne, Kazakh-British Technical University Anatoly Kornev, Kazakh-British Technical University Ramesh Kini, Kazakh-British Technical University Kevin Lano, Kings College London Sofoklis Makridis, University of Western Macedonia Denis Nicole, University of Southampton Shekoufeh Rahimi, Kings College London Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Asieh Salehi, University of Southampton Vladimiro Sassone, University of Southampton Nikolay Shilov, Nazarbayev University Asqar Shotqara, Kazakh-British Technical University Timur Umarov, Kazakh-British Technical University Viktor Verbovskiy, Suleyman Demirel University Toby Wilkinson, University of Southampton Damir Yeliussizov, Kazakh-British Technical University For queries contact: egc15 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Runtime Verification is a verification technique for the analysis of software at execution-time based on extracting information from a running system and checking if the observed behaviors satisfy or violate the properties of interest. During the last decade, many important tools and techniques have been developed and successfully employed. However, there is a pressing need to compare such tools and techniques, since we currently lack a common benchmark suite as well as scientific evaluation methods to validate and test new prototype runtime verification tools. The main aims of CRV-2015 are to: ? Stimulate the development of new efficient and practical runtime verification tools and the maintenance and improvement 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 on different benchmarks and evaluate them using different criteria. ? Enhance the visibility of presented tools among the different communities (verification, software engineering, cloud computing and security) involved in software monitoring. Please direct any enquiries to the competition co-organizers (crv15.chairs at imag.fr ) ? Yli?s Falcone (Universit? Joseph Fourier, France). ? Dejan Nickovic (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria). ? Giles Reger (University of Manchester, UK). ? Daniel Thoma (University of Luebeck, Germany). CRV-2015 Jury The CSRV Jury will include a representative for each participating team and the competition chairs. The Jury will be consulted at each stage of the competition to ensure that the rules set by the competition chairs are fair and reasonable. Call for Participation The main goal of CRV 2015 is to compare tools for runtime verification. We invite and encourage the participation with benchmarks and tools for the competition.The competition will consist of three main tracks based on the input language used: ? Track on monitoring Java programs (online monitoring). ? Track on monitoring C programs (online monitoring). ? Track on monitoring of traces (offline monitoring). The competition will follow three phases: ? Benchmarks/Specification collection phase - the participants are invited to submit their benchmarks (C or Java programs and/or traces). The organizers will collect them in a common repository (publicly available). The participants will then train their tools using the shared benchmarks. ? Monitor collection phase - the participants are invited to submit their monitors. The participants with the tools/monitors that meet the qualification requirements will be qualified for the evaluation phase. ? Evaluation phase - the qualified tools will be evaluated on the submitted benchmarks and they will be ranked using different criteria (i.e., memory utilization, CPU utilization, ...). The final results will be presented at the RV 2015 conference. The detailed description of each phase will be available on the RV 2015 website at http://rv2015.conf.tuwien.ac.at . Expected Important Dates January 30, 2015: Declaration of intent (email: crv15.chairs at imag.fr ) March 15, 2015 Submission deadline for benchmark programs and the properties to be monitored March 30, 2015 Tool training starts by participants May 30, 2015 Monitor submission June 30, 2015 Notifications At RV 2015 Presentation of results -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Tue Jan 20 04:33:55 2015 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:33:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICE 2015: CfP Message-ID: [- Apologies for multiple copies -] ICE 2015 8th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 5, 2015, Grenoble, France discotec2015.inria.fr/ice-2015 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2015 http://discotec2015.inria.fr === Highlights === - Innovative selection procedure - ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief announcements of already published papers - Invited talks: Jade Alglave and Steve Ross-Talbot - Special issue in Elsevier's Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming === Important Dates === 9 March 2015...................Abstract submission 16 March 2015..................Full paper submission 16 March - 30 April 2015.......Reviews and PC discussion 30 April 2015..................Notification to authors 5 June 2015....................ICE in Grenoble 15 July 2015...................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 === Selection Procedure === Since its first 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 preserves anonymity of reviewers). 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 seven 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 2015 post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite 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=ice2015). 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 papers to a special issue, to be published in Elsevier's Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming. 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. A list of special issues of previous ICE editions already published or in preparation can be found below. === Invited Talks === Jade Alglave (University College London UK), http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/j.alglave/ Steve Ross-Talbot (ZDLC Business Unit, Cognizant Technology Solutions) https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/steve-ross-talbot/0/3/28a === Program Committee === Mario Alvim (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Simon Bliudze (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Matteo Cimini (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) Ornela Dardha (School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK) Carlo Alberto Furia (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France) Jean-Baptiste Jeannin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK) Jean-Marie Madiot (?cole normale sup?rieure de Lyon, France & University of Bologna, Italy) Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andrea Mocci (Universit? della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Dimitris Mostrous (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal) Luca Padovani (University of Torino, Italy) Gwen Sala?n (INRIA, Grenoble INP, France) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) Bernardo Toninho (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal & Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Valeria Vignudelli (University of Bologna, Italy and INRIA,France) Lili Xu (Ecole Polytechnique, France & Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) === ICEcreamers === Sophia Knight (CNRS, LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine, France) Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy; PC co-chair) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; PC co-chair) Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) === Steering Committee === Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) === Contact === ice2015-0 at easychair.org === Previous editions === The previous seven 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 Scientific Annals in Computer Science (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 Scientific Annals in Computer Science (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 Science in Computer Programming is in press. * 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 Science in Computer Programming is in preparation. * June 6th, 2014 in Berlin, Germany, co-located with DisCoTec?14. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.166) and a special issue of JLAMP is in preparation. From m.mazzara at innopolis.ru Tue Jan 20 09:01:07 2015 From: m.mazzara at innopolis.ru (Manuel Mazzara) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:01:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc and PhD positions at Innopolis University In-Reply-To: <6660b5969ec249b3bddf073eb2fe8b2b@exmb05.uc.local> References: <31e50380c243415d84ff209cc06f33db@exmb05.uc.local>, , <6660b5969ec249b3bddf073eb2fe8b2b@exmb05.uc.local> Message-ID: <5bd9b331cc224d358f8ddbdc922dea70@exmb03.uc.local> The Software Engineering Laboratory of Innopolis University has several open positions for PhD students and postdocs in areas of program verification, software architecture, concurrency and other advanced software engineering topics. Innopolis, based in Kazan, Russia, is a new, well-funded university founded on the international model and aiming to reach quickly the highest international ranks. The Software Engineering Laboratory is headed by Prof. Bertrand Meyer from ETH Zurich, a leading expert in software engineering and recipient of many awards, and Prof. Manuel Mazzara, formerly of the University of Newcastle and Politecnico di Milano. Scholarships and benefits are on a par with the most attractive international offerings. Numerous opportunities are available for collaboration and exchanges with ETH, Politecnico di Milano and other universities including MIPT (Phystech) in Moscow. We are accepting applications from enthusiastic students with a master's or equivalent, an excellent academic record, and a passion for leading-edge research in software engineering. Both theoretical computer science knowledge and in-depth programming experience are useful. Positions are open to applicants from any country; Knowledge of Russian is a plus but not required. The working Language of the Laboratory is English. 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Mousavi) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:42:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ph.D. Position in Model-Based Testing, Halmstad University, Sweden Message-ID: ======================================================================================== Funded Ph.D. Position in Computer Science with focus on Model-Based Testing, Halmstad University, Sweden ======================================================================================== Background =========== The position is in the context of the EFFEMBAC (Effective Model-Based Testing of Concurrent System) project, which is on combining model-based- and symbolic execution, funded by a project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR). The general objectives of our research agenda are summarized below: ? Using domain-specific abstractions as starting points for test models, ? Augmenting behavioral models with structural information from the implementation domain in order to generate effective concrete test-cases, ? Devising effective mechanized test-data-selection criteria, by integrating model- and implementation-based information as well as redefining test-adequacy in this hybrid setting, ? Enabling compositional testing for concurrent systems in order to manage complexity, ? Devising concrete design for testability guidelines for a semantic model of specification languages and translating them to examples of domain-specific languages. The project will be carried out in collaboration with internationally renowned researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Radboud University Nijmegen and Reykjavik University. Terms of Employment ================= The position will be a 5-year Ph.D position (with a 1-year probation period). The position is supposed to start on April 1, 2015, or any time later (within an interval of ca. 3 months) depending the availability of the candidate. The selected candidate will perform research and assist in teaching at the Centre for Research on Embedded Systems at Halmstad University. The teaching assistance load will be about 20% of the time (usually 1-2 courses in a year). The salary level is fixed at ca. 25 SEK/month gross. The employed candidate enjoys the usual rights of a university employee, such as pension and other social enumerations, as well as parental leave. Qualifications ================ The position is intended for someone with a masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or closely related fields. Desirable skills include expertise in formal methods, testing, software engineering, and programming languages. Working Environment ==================== The selected candidate will be performing research in a very vigorous and international research environment at the Center for Research on Embedded Systems (CERES) at Halmstad University. For more information on CERES please see: http://ceres.hh.se/ For more information on the Model-Based Testing research at CERES, please see: http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/Research_in_Model-Based_Testing_and_Verification Living Environment =================== Halmstad is a popular summer destination located on the Swedish west coast. It is situated in between two cosmopolitan areas: the Copenhagen-Malmo-Lund area and the Gothenburg area, making it a well-connected, yet a pleasantly calm place to live. It can be reached by a direct train connection from the Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, as well as many other local airports (e.g., Halmstad, Malmo, and Angelholm airports). Sweden is well known for a very high quality of life and excellent social care facilities. There are excellent (incl. international) schools and day-cares around, as well as various recreational and entertainment facilities. The working language is English and no knowledge of Swedish is required. Also for daily life, English is spoken widely and Sweden has one of the highest English proficiency levels in the world. If the student wishes to learn Swedish both the university and the local government provide extensive facilities. Application Procedure and Deadlines ===================================== The application should comprise a single PDF file and should be received no later than March 1, 2015. The application package shall consist of: 1. a cover letter stating the purpose of the application and a brief statement of why you believe that your goals and past experience are well-matched with the goals of this position, 2. a CV that includes at least - a list of previous degrees, dates, and institution, transcripts for higher-education studies until most recent available - a complete list of publications and a description of previous research and other work experience and links to online copies of the most important publications 3. contact information for three references. We ask the candidates to send the required material to rekrytering153 at hh.se with a CC to m.r.mousavi at hh.se , mentioning "Ph.D. Position EFFEMBAC" in the subject line. Application must be received before 2015-03-01 to receive full consideration. The expected starting date is 2015-04-01, but is negotiable depending on the successful candidate's conditions. For further information, please contact Prof. Mohammad Mousavi ( m.r.mousavi at hh.se), lab leader Dr. J?rgen Carlsson (jorgen.carlsson at hh.se) or head of school Dr. Magnus H?llander (Magnus.Hallander at hh.se). For employment terms, you may contact the representative of the labor union Kristina Hildebrand (Kristina.Hildebrand at hh.se) (representative of the union Saco-S) or Jenny Engstr?m (representative of the union OFR/S). All can be reached at telephone +46 35-16 71 00 (switchboard). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aoto at nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp Tue Jan 20 20:49:46 2015 From: aoto at nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp (Takahito Aoto) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:49:46 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: IWC 2015 Message-ID: <20150121.104946.1694372357953743132.aoto@nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp> ===================================================================== First Call for Papers IWC 2015 4th International Workshop on Confluence 2 August 2015, Berlin, Germany collocated with CADE-25 http://www.csl.sri.com/users/tiwari/iwc2015/ ===================================================================== Confluence provides a general notion of determinism and has been conceived as one of the central properties of rewriting systems. Confluence relates to many topics of rewriting (completion, modularity, termination, commutation, etc.) and had been investigated in many formalisms of rewriting such as first-order rewriting, lambda-calculi, higher-order rewriting, constraint rewriting, conditional rewriting, etc. Recently there is a renewed interest in confluence research, resulting in new techniques, tool support, confluence competition, and certification as well as in new applications. The scope of the workshop is all these aspects of confluence and related topics. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers interested in the topic of confluence to exchange and share new developments in the field. The workshop will enable discussion on theoretical results, new problems, applications, implementations and benchmarks, and share the current state-of-the-art on the development of confluence tools. The workshop is collocated with CADE-25. Previous editions of the workshop were held in Nagoya (2012), Eindhoven (2013) and Vienna (2014). During the workshop the 4th Confluence Competition (CoCo 2015) takes place. IMPORTANT DATES: * submission May 15, 2015 * notification June 12, 2015 * final version July 3, 2015 * workshop August 2, 2015 TOPICS: Specific topics of interest include: * confluence and related properties (unique normal forms, commutation, ground confluence) * completion * critical pair criteria * decidability issues * complexity issues * system descriptions * certification * applications of confluence INVITED SPEAKERS: * TBA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Takahito Aoto (Tohoku University), co-chair * Mauricio Ayala Rincon (Universidade de Brasilia) * Karl Gmeiner (UAS Technikum Wien) * Samuel Mimram (?cole Polytechnique) * Haruhiko Sato (Hokkaido University) * Christian Sternagel (Universtity of Innsbruck) * Ashish Tiwari (SRI International - Menlo Park, CA), co-chair SUBMISSION: We solicit short papers or extended abstracts of at most five pages. There will be no formal reviewing. In particular, we welcome short versions of recently published articles and papers submitted elsewhere. The program committee checks relevance and may provide additional feedback. The accepted papers will be made available electronically before the workshop. The page limit for papers is 5 pages in EasyChair style. Short papers or extended abstracts must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system at: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iwc2015 From pangjun at gmail.com Wed Jan 21 02:57:53 2015 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:57:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2015 -- Second Call for Papers Message-ID: TASE 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** The 9th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2015) 12-14 September 2015, Nanjing, China http://tase2015.nuaa.edu.cn For more information email: tase2015 at easychair.org ****************************************************************** -------- OVERVIEW -------- The 9th Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Conference (TASE 2015) will be held in Nanjing, China in September, 2015. Modern society is increasingly dependent on software systems that are becoming larger and more complex. This poses new challenges to the various aspects of software engineering, for instance, software dependability in trusted computing, interaction with physical components in cyber physical systems, distribution in cloud computing applications, etc. Hence, new concepts and methodologies are required to enhance the development of software engineering from theoretical aspects. TASE 2015 aims to provide a forum for people from academia and industry to communicate their latest results on theoretical advances in software engineering. TASE 2015 is the 9th in the TASE series. The past TASE symposiums were successfully held in Shanghai ('07), Nanjing ('08), Tianjin ('09), Taipei ('10), Xi'an ('11), Beijing ('12), Birmingham ('13), Changsha('14).The proceedings of the TASE 2015 symposium are planned to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. 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 Frontiers of Computer Science journal. ------ TOPICS ------ The symposium is devoted to theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Requirements Engineering * Specification and Verification * Program Analysis * Software Testing * Model-Driven Engineering * Software Architectures and Design * Aspect and Object Orientation * Embedded and Real-Time Systems * Software Processes and Workflows * Component-Based Software Engineering * Software Safety, Security and Reliability * Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance * Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Semantic Web and Web Services * Type System and Theory * Program Logics and Calculus * Probability in Software Engineering ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- Submission should be done through the TASE 2015 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2015 As in previous years, the proceedings of the conference are planned to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers must be written in English and not exceed 8 pages in Two-Column IEEE format. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission: 7 March 2015 (23h59 GMT) Paper submission: 14 March 2015 (23h59 GMT) Notification: 23 May 2015 Camera-ready: 13 June 2015 Conference: 12-14 September 2015 ------------- GENERAL CHAIR ------------- Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) ----------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Zhiqiu Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design) ----------------- STEERING COMMITTE ----------------- Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan) Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) Michael Hinchey (Lero, Ireland) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTIEE ------------------ Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Earl Barr (University College London, UK) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) Lubos Brim (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Zining Cao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Taolue Chen (Middlesex University, UK) Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University, China) Wei Dong (National University of Defense Technology, China) Joaquim Gabarro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Jaco Geldenhuys (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) Peter Habermehl (Liafa, Paris 7, France) Ian J. Hayes (University of Queensland, Australia) Dang Van Hung (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Jason Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia) Karl Leung (VTC, Hong Kong) Bixin Li (Southeast University, China) Xiaoshan Li (University of Macau, Macau) Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China) Zhoujun Li (Beihang University, China) Shaoying Liu (Hosei University, Japan) Martin Leucker (University of L??beck, Germany) Xiaoqing(Frank) Liu(Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Antoine Min?? (Ecole Normale Sup??rieure Paris, France) Fernando Orejas (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Paritosh K. Pandya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg) Xin Peng (Fudan University, China) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Zongyan Qiu (Peking University, China) Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Klaus Schneider (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Axel Simon (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Graeme Smith (University of Queensland, Australia) Colin Snook (University of Southampton, UK) Volker Stolz (Bergen University College, Norway) Kaile Su (Griffith University, Australia) Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Jean Pierre Talpin (INRIA, France) Yih-Kuen Tsay (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, USA) Tomas Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Yi Wang (Uppsala University, Sweden) Hongji Yang (Bath Spa University, UK) Hongli Yang (Beijing University of Technology, China) Hongwei Xi (Boston University, USA) Yingfei Xiong (Peking University, China) Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hao Zhong (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ---------------- ORGANIZING CHAIR ---------------- Ou Wei (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) ---------------- PUBLICITY CHAIRS ---------------- Jun Hun (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg) Yu Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) From david.delahaye at cnam.fr Wed Jan 21 09:10:26 2015 From: david.delahaye at cnam.fr (david.delahaye at cnam.fr) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:10:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers: SETS 2015 Message-ID: <18e3c7f54b93b930803dcd9cc3d97a87.squirrel@webmail.cnam.fr> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- SETS 2015 ******************************************************************************** 2nd International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2015) June 23, 2015, Oslo, Norway Affiliated to FM 2015 http://sets2015.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 verification, 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 verification in set theory * Encoding of sets in provers * Set theories for SMT solvers * 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 2015 EasyChair web site at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sets2015 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: March 31, 2015 Submission deadline: April 7, 2015 Paper notification: May 7, 2015 Revised/final paper: May 22, 2015 Workshop: June 23, 2015 PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS David Delahaye (Cnam, France) Catherine Dubois (Ensiie, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Mats Carlsson (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Maximiliano Cristia (CIFASIS, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) David Deharbe (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) Michael Leuschel (University of D?sseldorf, Germany) Stephan Merz (Inria Nancy - Grand Est, Loria, France) Gianfranco Rossi (Universit? di Parma, Italy) Arnaud Spiwack (MINES ParisTech, France) Josef Urban (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC Institute, JKU Linz, Austria) From Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk Wed Jan 21 13:30:03 2015 From: Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk (YuHui Lin) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:30:03 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AVoCS 2015: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <4EA64EAE-FFF7-4474-BEE5-CCAD5EA732AF@hw.ac.uk> --------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The 15th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems AVoCS 2015 1-4 September 2015, Edinburgh, UK https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/ avocs2015 at easychair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstract (full papers): 5th June 2015 Submission of full papers: 12th June 2015 Notification (full papers): 14th July 2015 Submission of research idea papers: 7th August 2015 Notification (research idea): 14th August 2015 Early registration: 18th August 2015 Submissions of final versions: 21st August 2015 INVITED SPEAKERS Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ & the University of Oxford) Don Sannella (Contemplate & the University of Edinburgh) SPONSORS Formal Methods Europe (FME) The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) BACKGROUND The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2015 is to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members of the international research community on tools and techniques for the verification of critical systems. SCOPE The subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical, performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop will be relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion where special discussion sessions will be organised around the research ideas presentations. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Model Checking - Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving - SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification - Abstract Interpretation - Specification and Refinement - Requirements Capture and Analysis - Verification of Software and Hardware - Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience - Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems - Dependable Systems - Verified System Development - Industrial Applications WORKSHOPS AI4FM 2015: 1 September 2015 -- www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/ VENUE The event will be held in the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in the centre of the historic old town of Edinburgh - an UNESCO world heritage site. STUDENT GRANTS Thanks to sponsorships from FME and SICSA we can offer financial support for a limited number of students registering for AVoCS in the form of a registration fee waiver (full or partial). As this is limited, we ask the students that would like to take the advantage of this support to submit a short application. The details on how to apply will be available in due course from the AVoCS webpage. SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions are handled via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2015 The papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages and should use the dedicated AVoCS 2015 EASST template available rom the the following link (for LaTeX and Word): http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst AVoCS also encourages the submissions of research ideas in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages using the EASST template. The presentation of these ideas will be organised around discussions, where the presenter should also prepare a set of question in which the audience will discuss. PROCEEDINGS At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a Heriot-Watt University Technical Report; this report will also include the research ideas. After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the workshop post- proceedings which will appear in the Electronic Communications of the EASST Open Access Journal. Research ideas will not be part of the proceedings in the Open Access Journal. SPECIAL SCP JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of a selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer Programming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ernie Cohen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ewen Denney, NASA Ames, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, UK (co-chair) Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick, Ireland Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University, UK (co-chair) Gerwin Klein, NICTA/UNSW, Australia Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Panagiotis (Pete) Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK Marco Roveri, FBK, Italy Thomas Santen, Microsoft Research, Germany Bernard Steffen, Technical University Dortmund, Germany Jan Strej?ek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Tayssir Touili, LIAFA, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, France Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France Angela Wallenburg, Altran, UK John Wickerson, Imperial College London, UK Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway ORGANISERS Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, UK Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University, UK Yuhui Lin, Heriot-Watt University, UK (Local arrangements and publicity chair) STEERING COMMITTEE Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK ----- We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. From mogel at itu.dk Thu Jan 22 02:41:32 2015 From: mogel at itu.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_Ejlers_M=F8gelberg?=) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:41:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post doc available at the IT University of Copenhagen Message-ID: <6783BBC8-5D9E-48C4-9D8F-A3A8A4614798@itu.dk> Dear all, I have recently received a grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research to hire a post doc to work on guarded recursive types in type theory. Ideally, I would like to find someone who has both knowledge of categorical models of type theory and practical experience with proof assistants. The job is initially for one year, but with the possibility of extension for another two. Those interested should contact me. 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URL: From bogom.s at gmail.com Thu Jan 22 06:44:29 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:44:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CPSWeek: Workshop on Numerical Software Verification 2015 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS ************** NSV 2015 ************** 8th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification April 13, 2015 Cyber-Physical Week 2015 Seattle, WA, USA Web Page: http://nsv2015.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ Important Dates =============== Submissions deadline: ** January 30, 2015 ** Notification: Feb 27, 2015 Final version: March 8, 2015 Workshop: April 13, 2015 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. Design and verification of numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to precisely represent local behaviors of each component. The implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of approximation because of the use of finite representations of infinite precision numbers that usually lack basic arithmetic properties such as commutativity and associativity. Finally, the development and analysis of cyber-physical systems (CPS) which involve the interacting continuous and discrete components pose a further challenge. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical techniques for the reasoning about programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the development of such techniques. Topics =============== The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Quantitative and qualitative analysis of hybrid systems - Models and abstraction techniques - Optimal control of dynamical systems - Parameter identification for hybrid systems - Numerical optimization methods - Hybrid systems verification - Applications of hybrid systems to systems biology - Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models - Specifications of correctness for numerical programs - Formal specification and verification of numerical programs - Quality of finite precision implementations - Numerical properties of control software - Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications - Validation for scientific computing programs Submission information ====================== We solicit regular and short papers.Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsv2015 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 welcome, they should present tools, benchmarks, case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages. Furthermore, in order to foster the exchange of ideas, we encourage authors to also submit short papers describing ideas which have already been reported in other venues. All accepted papers (except short papers based on ideas published elsewhere) will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science series (ENTCS). Chairs ========== Sergiy Bogomolov (IST Austria) Matthieu Martel (Universit? de Perpignan, France) Program Committee ========== Ezio Bartocci (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Sylvie Boldo (INRIA, France) Olivier Bouissou (Mathworks, France) Sean Gao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Khalil Ghorbal (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Eric Goubault (CEA, France) Jim Kapinski (Toyota, USA) Ian Mitchell (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jan Otop (IST, Austria) Pavithra Prabhakar (IMDEA, Spain) Walid Taha (Halmstadt University & Rice University, Sweden) From matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Thu Jan 22 07:02:26 2015 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:02:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD. Positions in Formal Methods at Royal Holloway University of London Message-ID: <20150122120226.GF756@chilon.net> PHD POSITIONS IN FORMAL METHODS Applications are invited for fully-funded PhD positions in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, awarded on the basis of academic excellence to new students who will commence a research programme in Oct 2015. We are looking for applicants interested in formal methods, particularly in one of the following areas: - Verification of first-order, higher-order, and/or concurrent software. - Automata theory - Pushdown systems and their extensions. - Higher-order recursion schemes and their extentions. - Automata models of concurrent computation - Static analysis, SMT solving, &c. To discuss these areas, please contact Dr Matthew Hague (matthew.hague at cs.rhul.ac.uk). Successful candidates will work with Dr Hague and will join his research team, see http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/hague. Scholarships are also available in the areas of - Algorithms and applications - Bioinformatics - Computer learning - Distributed and global computing - Software language engineering For more information on these areas, please see https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/computerscience/research/home.aspx. THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON The Department is one of the UK's leading centres for research into Computer Science. In the most recent Research Excellent Framework (REF 2014), we ranked 11th in the UK for the quality of our research output, with over 32% of our publications recognised as world leading, and a further 55% internationally excellent. The theories we develop lead to the design and building of novel practical computing systems, and their application in the real world. Research students enjoy a very lively research culture and are fully involved in the research activities of the Department (and share their successes). The Department also funds students to present their work at international conferences. INFORMATION ABOUT DEPARTMENTAL SCHOLARSHIPS A Departmental Scholarship provides support of circa 16,000 GBP per year over 3 years for a full-time student. It also includes a fee waiver to cover fees at the HEU rate. REQUIREMENTS Applicants should have a first-class honours or 2:1 degree in Computer Science or a related discipline *ADD ANY ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS*. Applicants should also meet English language requirements (IELTS 6.5 with no subscore lower than 5.5, or equivalent). ELIGIBILITY The scholarships are available to students starting their studies in October 2015. Home, EU and International students are eligible but please note that the scholarships do not cover overseas fees. Students who have already started their study programme are not eligible. APPLICATION PROCESS Applicants should prepare the following documents: (1) up to 4 pages proposed research topic/area and the name of a potential supervisor; (2) a brief covering letter that describes your reasons for wishing to pursue a PhD in the proposed area; (3) a copy of your CV, including your actual or expected degree class(es), and results of all University examinations; and (4) two academic references. These documents should be submitted together with an online application following the application procedure accessible from https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studyhere/researchdegrees/applying/home.aspx. IMPORTANT DATES March 30th 2015: scholarship application deadline Beginning of April 2015: selection interviews End of April 2015: decision of the scholarship Mid May 2015: 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 early October 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 matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Thu Jan 22 07:07:06 2015 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:07:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Microsoft funded PhD. position: verifying concurrent higher-order programs Message-ID: <20150122120706.GH756@chilon.net> MICROSOFT PHD SCHOLARSHIP IN THE VERIFICATION OF CONCURRENT HIGHER-ORDER PROGRAMS We are offering a PhD position fully funded for 3 years which aims to develop the theoretical underpinnings and successful practical applications of higher-order verification to concurrent systems, resulting in new program models and tools applicable to real-world code. The position is due to commence before October 2015 and will be held in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, supervised by Dr. Matthew Hague (http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/hague/). The position may also include an internship at a Microsoft research laboratory. Higher-order programming features are increasingly supported by modern languages, such as F Sharp, Python, Scala, Haskell, OCaml and C++. Thus, this forms an increasingly essential topic for verification for which there have been several important recent advances. Furthermore, it is clear that concurrency will become the dominant programming paradigm, due to both the ubiquity of multi- and many-core machines and the increasingly distributed nature of computation. THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON The Department is one of the UK's leading centres for research into Computer Science. In the most recent Research Excellent Framework (REF 2014), we ranked 11th in the UK for the quality of our research output, with over 32% of our publications recognised as world leading, and a further 55% internationally excellent. The theories we develop lead to the design and building of novel practical computing systems, and their application in the real world. Research students enjoy a very lively research culture and are fully involved in the research activities of the Department (and share their successes). The Department also funds students to present their work at international conferences. REQUIREMENTS A good degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related disciplines. APPLICATION PROCESS Applicants should contact matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk with an expression of interest in the position and an up to date CV. IMPORTANT DATES Applications should be received before the end of June 2015. The position will be offered when a suitable candidate is found. FINANCIAL The position will be funded for three years. Funding will cover + Tuition fees + Stipend for living expenses (~?17k) + Up to ?1000 for a laptop + Some funding for travel expenses From johannp at appstate.edu Thu Jan 22 12:37:30 2015 From: johannp at appstate.edu (Patricia Johann) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:37:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc Position Available Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I have an opening for a postdoc, as described in the ad below. In addition to accepting applications, I am very happy to respond to informal enquiries about any aspect of the position, from technical ones to ones about life in a beautiful, "alternative" mountain town in western North Carolina. Best wishes, -patricia ************** Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science Department at Appalachian State University. The position is part of the NSF-funded project 'Relational Parametricity for Program Verification'. Relational parametricity is a key technique for formally verifying properties of software systems, and logical relations, upon which parametricity is based, provide a means of proving properties of a software system directly from the system itself. The goal of the project is to improve the current state-of-the-art in the theory and application of parametricity by providing an axiomatic framework for the construction of logical relations that is principled, conceptually simple, comprehensive, uniform (rather than ad hoc), predictive, and more widely applicable than already existing techniques. The ideal applicant will have a strong background in logical relations, functional programming, type theory, and category theory, although more expertise in one area may compensate for less in another. The successful applicant will also be excited about working on fundamental research questions on the themes of parametricity and language-based program verification. They will work with Prof Patricia Johann and project partners, and will also have the opportunity to initiate subprojects appropriate to their own (related) interests. The duration of the position is one year, with the possibility of continuation by mutual agreement if additional external funding is secured. The position will start at a mutually agreeable time in the second half of the 2015 calendar year. Compensation will be highly competitive and commensurate with experience. Interested persons should first contact Patricia Johann at johannp at cs.appstate.edu, briefly outlining their academic background and research interests. A complete application will consist of a cover letter and CV, including contact information for three references. Complete applications should be sent to: Patricia Johann Department of Computer Science Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28607 USA Initial review of applications will begin on 31 March 2015 and continue until the position is filled. From clarkson at cs.cornell.edu Thu Jan 22 14:08:10 2015 From: clarkson at cs.cornell.edu (Michael Clarkson) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:08:10 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLAS 2015 Call for Papers Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ACM SIGPLAN Tenth Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2015) Prague, Czech Republic July 2015 http://www.cs.cornell.edu/conferences/plas2015/ Co-located with ECOOP 2015 (http://2015.ecoop.org/) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates 13 April 2015 (anywhere on earth): Submissions due (no extensions) 11 May 2015: Author notification 5 June 2015: Camera-ready due 6 or 7 July 2015: Workshop (The date will be assigned by the ECOOP organizers.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Two kinds of papers are invited: 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 15 minutes each. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. All submissions must be in English. Page limits are strict. Submissions must be PDF documents typeset in the ACM proceedings format using 10pt fonts. A SIGPLAN-approved template can be found at the following link: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. We recommend using this template. Both full and short papers must describe work not published in other refereed venues (see the SIGPLAN republication policy at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/republicationpolicy.htm for more details). Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the workshop participants and be available in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions will be accepted through EasyChair at the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plas2015. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee Stephen Chong, Harvard University Michael Clarkson (co-chair), Cornell University Christian Hammer, CISPA, Saarland University Matthew Hammer, University of Maryland, College Park Limin Jia (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Stephen McCamant, University of Minnesota Matteo Maffei, CISPA, Saarland University John C. Mitchell, Stanford University Toby Murray, NICTA and UNSW Benjamin C. Pierce, University of Pennsylvania Frank Piessens, KU Leuven Marco Pistoia, IBM Research Tamara Rezk, INRIA Tachio Terauchi, JAIST To reach the PC chairs, send email to plas2015 at easychair.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr Thu Jan 22 12:06:27 2015 From: fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr (fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:06:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALCO 2015 : Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <20150122170627.CC8DE1EB280@jabiru.ens-lyon.fr> ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2015 6th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science June 24 - 26, 2015 Nijmegen, Netherlands http://coalg.org/calco15/ ========================================================== Abstract submission: March 22, 2015 Paper submission: April 2, 2015 Author notification: May 6, 2015 Final version due: June 3, 2015 ========================================================== -- SCOPE -- CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009), Winchester (UK, 2011) and Warsaw (Poland, 2013). The sixth edition will be held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, colocated with MFPS XXXI. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Andy Pitts - University of Cambridge, UK (joint with MFPS) Chris Heunen - University of Oxford, UK Matteo Mio - CNRS, ENS Lyon, FR Daniela Petrisan - Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL -- TOPICS OF INTEREST -- We invite submissions of technical papers that report results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. We encourage submissions in topics included or related to those listed below. * Abstract models and logics - Automata and languages - Categorical semantics - Modal logics - Relational systems - Graph transformation - Term rewriting * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems - Calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, mobile, and context-aware computing - General systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc.) * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types - Inductive and coinductive methods - Re-engineering techniques (program transformation) - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Semantics of programming languages * System specification and verification - Algebraic and coalgebraic specification - Formal testing and quality assurance - Validation and verification - Generative programming and model-driven development - Models, correctness and (re)configuration of hardware/middleware/architectures, - Process algebra * Corecursion in Programming Languages - Corecursion in logic / constraint / functional / answer set programming - Corecursive type inference - Coinductive methods for proving program properties - Implementing corecursion - Applications * Algebra and Coalgebra in quantum computing - Categorical semantics for quantum computing - Quantum calculi and programming languages - Foundational structures for quantum computing - Applications of quantum algebra -- NEW TOPIC -- This edition of CALCO will feature a new topic, and submission of papers in this area is particularly encouraged. * String Diagrams and Network Theory - Combinatorial approaches - Theory of PROPs and operads - Rewriting problems and higher-dimensional approaches - Automated reasoning with string diagrams - Applications of string diagrams - Connections with Control Theory, Engineering and Concurrency -- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Experience papers are welcome, but they must clearly present general lessons learned that would be of interest and benefit to a broad audience of both researchers and practitioners. Starting with CALCO 2015, proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs???Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. Final papers should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by LIPIcs (http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/). It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Both an abstract and the full paper must be submitted by their respective submission deadlines. A special issue of the open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org), containing extended versions of selected papers, is also being planned. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2015 -- BEST PAPER AND BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS -- Following from the successful trial at CALCO 2013, this edition of CALCO will feature two awards: a best paper award whose recipients will be selected by the PC before the conference and a best presentation award, elected by the participants. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Abstract submission: March 22, 2015 Paper submission: April 2, 2015 Author notification: May 6, 2015 Final version due: June 3, 2015 -- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford, UK Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, SLO Filippo Bonchi, CNRS and ENS Lyon, FR Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, UK Andrea Corradini, University of Pisa, IT Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde, UK Mart??n Escard??, University of Birmingham, UK Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham, UK Helle Hansen, Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI, NL Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, JP Bart Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, PL Barbara K??nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, D Dexter Kozen, Cornell, US Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester, UK Paul-Andr?? Melli??s, CNRS and University Paris VII, FR Stefan Milus, University of Erlangen-N??rnberg, D Larry Moss (co-chair), Indiana University, US Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, US Daniela Petrisan, ENS Lyon, FR Damien Pous, ENS Lyon, FR John Power, University of Bath, UK Jan Rutten, Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI, NL Lutz Schroeder, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, D Monika Seisenberger, University of Swansea, UK Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Pawel Sobocinski (co-chair), University of Southampton, UK Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, AT Andrzej Tarlecki, University of Warsaw, PL -- ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Alexandra Silva Bart Jacobs Nicole Messink Sam Staton -- PUBLICITY -- Fabio Zanasi -- LOCATION -- Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands and celebrated its 2,000th year of existence in 2005. It is situated in the eastern province of Gelderland, quite near to the German border. The latin name for Nijmegen, `Noviomagus??, is a reminder of its Roman past. `Noviomagus?? means `new market?? and refers to the right to hold a market as granted by the Romans. In the days of Charlemagne, the city was called `Numaga??; later on, this became `Nieumeghen?? and `Nimmegen??. However, citizens born and bred in Nijmegen speak affectionately of `Nimwegen??. Nijmegen is one of the warmest cities of the Netherlands, especially during summer, when the highest temperatures in the country are usually measured in the triangle Roermond ??? Nijmegen ??? Eindhoven. The lack of north-south oriented mountain ranges in Europe make this area prone to sudden shifts in weather, giving the region a semi-continental climate. -- SATELLITE WORKSHOPS -- The workshop is intended to enable presentation of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. CALCO 2015 will run together with the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, with dedicated Early Ideas sessions at the end of each conference day. -- CALCO Early Ideas Overview -- The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. The list of topics of particular interest is shown on the main CALCO 2015 page. CALCO Early Ideas presentations will be selected according to originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of submitted 2-page short contributions. It can be work in progress, a summary of work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere, or work that in some other way might be interesting to the CALCO audience. A booklet with the accepted short contributions will be made available. We encourage PhD students and young researchers to submit Early Ideas papers to the CALCO 2015 Easychair site as for ordinary submissions, mentioning in the abstract that the paper is to be considered for an Early Ideas talk. From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Fri Jan 23 13:16:04 2015 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:16:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: TYTLES: TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics (as part of ESSLLI2015) Message-ID: <28B9DD5F-3ACA-467E-8667-20BAB40153D1@lirmm.fr> As part of ESSLLI 2015 TYTLES: TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics Barcelona, August 3-7 2015 (Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg & Christian Retor?, LIRMM & universit? de Montpellier) Presentation The pioneering work of Ranta (1994) on using Type Theory for NL semantics has initiated a strong interest in the use of Type Theories for representing formal semantics. And even though Type Theory was initially mainly concerned with compositional and formal semantics, a number of linguists, logicians and computer scientists noticed the relevance of type theory for lexical semantics as well. Around 2000 the paper ?the metaphysics of words in context? by Asher & Pustejovsky (2001) initiated Type Theoretic approaches to lexical coercions and meaning transfers by investigating extension and refinement of the type system used by Montague. Accounts for this type of phenomena need to capture ordinary selectional restriction phenomena (e.g. a ?chair? may not ?bark?, in an ordinary context), while at the some time they have to ensure some flexibility for adapting meanings to contexts in case of meaning transfers, co-predication etc. The study of this kind of phenomena is of course not new. Their study goes back at least till the 80?s (Bierwisch, Nunberg, Cruse among others). What is relatively new is the study of these phenomena from the perspective of Type Theory and this approach is by now quite successful as valuable type theoretical contributions on incorporating lexical considerations into compositional semantics show (Asher, Bassac, Chatzikyriakidis, Cooper, Luo, Melloni, Mery, Moot, Pr?vot, Pustejovsky, Ranta, Real, Retor?) Authors are invited to submit 4-page abstracts before March 31 on any subject related to the workshop, including: ? Linguistically motivated variants of type theories (subtyping) ? Lexical semantics in type theory (compositionality and the lexicon) ? Interaction between lexical semantics and type theoretical semantics ? Classical semantic questions in richly typed frameworks (plurals, quantification, generics) ? Modelling specific questions in type theory (nouns, deverbals, events, adjectives, adverbs, ontological aspects,) ? Computational aspects and implementation of type theoretical semantics (natural language inference, proof assistants,?) Important dates ? submission of 4-page abstract (PDF) before March 31 please use https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tytles-2015 ? notification of acceptance: April 30 ? revised 4 page abstracts due: May 15 ? conference date and location: Barcelona August 3-7 2015 see ESSLLI 2015 Program committee Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg, CoChair), Christian Retor? (Universit? de Montpellier, & LIRMM CoChair) Alexandra Arapinis (CNR, Trento) Nicholas Asher (CNRS, Toulouse) Christian Bassac (Universit? Lyon II) Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (CNRS et LRIMM, Montpellier) Shalom Lappin (King?s College, London) Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway, University of London) Chiara Melloni (CNR, Verona) Bruno Mery (Universit? de Bordeaux) Richard Moot (CNRS, Bordeaux) Glyn Morrill (Universitat Polyt?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) Larry Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington) Reinhard Muskens (Universiteit Tilburg) Livy Real (Universidade Federal do Paran?, Curitiba) From Susanne.Graf at imag.fr Fri Jan 23 15:30:53 2015 From: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr (Susanne Graf) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:30:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORTE 2015: Call for Papers (completely new dates) Message-ID: <54C2AF7D.9060809@imag.fr> ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS FORTE 2015 A DisCoTec Member Conference 35th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems http://discotec2015.inria.fr/ http://discotec2015.inria.fr/forte-2015-call-for-papers/ taking place on June 2-4, 2015 in Grenoble, France Abstract Submission: February 15, 2015 (compulsory) NEW! Paper Submission: February 22, 2015 NEW! Author Notification: March 23, 2015 NEW! Camera Ready copy: April 2, 2015 NEW! Original deadlines had been set too early compared to past editions and were colliding with other conferences. ============================================================= FORTE 2015 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of: * service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems; * object technology, modularity, component- and model-based design; * software 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, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. === Main topics of interest === 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; * 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, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks; * 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. === Invited Speakers (DisCoTec) === * Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler Universit?t, Linz, Austria) * Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research, USA) * Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL, Switzerland) === 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 be prepared using Springer?s LNCS style. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE?15 interface of the EasyChair system. We solicit four kinds of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages): Describing thorough and complete research results, tools or experience reports (if relevant, additional appendixes with proofs or other material meant for easing the reviewers' live are allowed) * Short papers (up to 7 pages): Describing research results that are not fully developed, or manifestos, calls to action, personal views on FORTE related research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects for the years to come. * Tool demonstration papers (up to 7 pages): focus on the usage aspects of tools. Theoretical foundations and experimental evaluation are not required, however, a motivation as to why the tool is interesting and significant should be provided. Papers may have an appendix of up to 5 additional pages with details on the actual demonstration. * Posters (up to 3 pages): Summarizing research projects worth being advertised and discussed in at the conference. 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. The best papers will be invited after the conference to contribute to a special issue of a top-level journal (TCS or FMSD). === Programme Chairs === Susanne Graf (VERIMAG & CNRS, Grenoble, France) Mahesh Viswanathan (U. Illinois, USA) === Programme Committee === Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Luca Aceto (U. Reykjavik, Iceland) S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India) Paul Attie (American U. Beirut, Lebanon) Rohit Chadha (U. Missouri, USA) Rance Cleaveland (U. Maryland, USA) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Mc Master U., Ontario, Canada) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Stephanie Delaune (CNRS & ENS Cachan, France) Wan Fokkink (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) Gregor Goessler (INRIA Grenoble, France) Gerard Holzmann (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA) Alan Jeffrey (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA) Petr Kuznetsov (Telecom ParisTech, France) Ivan Lanese (U. Bologna, Italy) Kim Larsen (U. Aalborg, Denmark) Antonia Lopes (U. Lisbon, Portugal) Stephan Merz (LORIA & INRIA Nancy, France) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France) Alan Schmitt (IRISA & INRIA Rennes, France) === Steering Committee: === Erica Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Dirk Beyer (U. Passau, Germany) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Einar Broch Johnsen (U. Oslo, Norway) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Holger Giese (U. Potsdam, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, Saclay, France) Grigore Rosu (U. Illinois, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, Grenoble, France) (Chair) Heike Wehrheim (U. Paderborn, Germany) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Susanne Graf | tel : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 52 VERIMAG | fax : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 46 (or 44) 2, avenue de Vignate | http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~graf/ F - 38610 Gieres | e-mail: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From grlmc at urv.cat Sun Jan 25 11:38:09 2015 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:38:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] InfoSec 2015: registration deadline 3 February Message-ID: <9CA98794ABC5483BBF921404AD45DB02@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON INFORMATION SECURITY InfoSec 2015 Tarragona, Spain July 6-10, 2015 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/ ********************************************************************** --- 2nd registration deadline: February 3, 2015 --- ********************************************************************** AIM: InfoSec 2015 will be a major research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of information security, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting academic research and industrial innovation. It refers to procedures to defend information from unauthorized access, use, modification, recording or destruction, with a critical role to play in order to avoid or minimize risks in the digital world. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most information security subareas will be displayed, namely: computer security, cryptography, privacy, cyber security, mobile security, network security, world wide web security, fraud prevention, data protection, etc. Main challenges of information security will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 33 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific background knowledge may be required for some of them. InfoSec 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 4 courses will run in parallel 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: InfoSec 2015 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: Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), Privacy in a Digital World: a Lost Cause? Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), (In)security of Mobile Apps in Untrusted Networks Jennifer Seberry (University of Wollongong), The Global Village: the Beginning of the Need for Computer Security [via videoconference] Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), Off-line Proximity-based Social Networking PROFESSORS AND COURSES: N. Asokan (Aalto University), [intermediate] Mobile Security: Overview of Hardware Platform Security and Considerations of Usability Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), [introductory/intermediate] Technologies to Protect Online Privacy Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), [intermediate/advanced] Security of the Mobile App Ecosystem Nicolas T. Courtois (University College London), [introductory/intermediate] Security of ECDSA in Bitcoin and Crypto Currency Claude Cr?peau (McGill University, Montr?al), [introductory/intermediate] Quantum Computation, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Joan Daemen (ST Microelectronics Belgium, Diegem), [introductory/intermediate] Sponge Functions, Keccak and SHA-3 Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla), [intermediate/advanced] Securing Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges and Opportunities Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Security and Privacy in the Cloud Herv? Debar (T?l?com SudParis), [introductory/intermediate] Detection and Reaction to Attacks: from Intrusion Detection to Cyber-Defense David Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), [introductory/intermediate] Secure Multiparty Computation: Techniques, Theory, and Tools for Building Privacy-Preserving Applications Rosario Gennaro (City University of New York), [intermediate/advanced] A Survey of Verifiable Delegation of Computation Trent Jaeger (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), [intermediate/advanced] How to Add Security Enforcement to Legacy Programs Markus Jakobsson (Qualcomm, Santa Clara), [introductory/intermediate] Frontiers in Fraud Prevention Antoine Joux (Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Discrete Logarithms in Finite Fields Marc Joye (Technicolor R&I, Los Altos), [introductory/intermediate] Secure Public-Key Cryptosystems Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin, Madison), [intermediate/advanced] Analysis Techniques in Information Security Lars R. Knudsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby), [introductory/intermediate] Block Ciphers: the Workhorses in Cryptography Songwu Lu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Cellular Network Security: Issues and Defenses Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), [introductory/intermediate] Formal Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols Nasir Memon (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] User Authentication Ethan L. Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz), [intermediate/advanced] Securing Stored Data in a Connected World Stefano Paraboschi (University of Bergamo), [introductory/intermediate] Data Protection in Network-enabled Systems Bart Preneel (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Cryptology: State of the Art and Research Challenges Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Catholic University of Louvain), [introductory/intermediate] The History of RSA: from Babylon to Smart Cards Shantanu Rane (Palo Alto Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Privacy-preserving Data Analytics: Problems, Solutions and Challenges Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham), [introductory/intermediate] Designing Security Protocols: Electronic Voting, and Electronic Mail Rei Safavi-Naini (University of Calgary), [introductory/intermediate] Information-theoretically Secure Communication Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research, Redmond), [advanced] Dealing with Loss: Protecting Data on a Lost Mobile Device Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to the Emerging Science of Security Games Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Security and Privacy in Candidate Future Internet Architectures Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), [introductory/advanced] Security in Smart Grids Wenyuan Xu (University of South Carolina, Columbia), [intermediate] Security and Privacy Analysis of Embedded Systems Yuliang Zheng (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), [introductory] Cryptography and the Future of Money ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/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 and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: InfoSec 2015 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Mon Jan 26 10:55:05 2015 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:55:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CCC 2014; postproceedings; deadline extension Message-ID: <8A00EE1E-FA16-4038-87F4-CED084726A9D@math.uni-siegen.de> Continuity, Computability, Constructivity: From Logic to Algorithms 2014 Postproceedings Call for Submissions EXTENDED DEADLINE After a further year of successful work in the EU-IRSES project COMPUTAL and an excellent workshop in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in September this year, we are planning to publish a collection of papers dedicated to the meeting and the project in the JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND ANALYSIS The issue should reflect progress made in Computable Analysis and related areas, not only work in the project. Submissions are welcome from all scientists and should be on topics in the spectrum from logic to algorithms including, but not limited to, 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: Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK) Willem Fouch? (Pretoria, South Africa) Dieter Spreen (Siegen, Germany & Pretoria, South Africa) Hideki Tsuiki (Kyoto, Japan) Martin Ziegler (Darmstadt, Germany) EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 28 February 2015 Please prepare your manuscript using the JLA class file jlogana.cls and the bibliography style file jloganal.bst which can be downloaded from http://logicandanalysis.org/latex/latexinstructions.html For submissions go to the JLA webpage http://logicandanalysis.org/index.php/jla/information/authors and follow the instructions given there. In addition, important, When submitting to JLA, write CCC2014 POSTPROCEEDINGS in the Comments-for-the-Editor box. Send a separate copy of your submission to spreen at math.uni-siegen.de And, if appropriate, identify one or more members of the Issue Editors mentioned above whose interests are closest to the subject matter of the paper in the mail. Best regards, Andrej Bauer Ulrich Berger Willem Fouch? 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It is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Southampton University, Leeds University, and Swansea University. For more information on the Swansea side see the Swansea Railway Verification Group and the Processes and Data Group. Applicants should hold a Postgraduate degree in Computer Science or a closely related subject. Background knowledge in some of the following areas will be required: railways, formal methods, modelling systems, process algebra, verification, semantics, and mathematical logic. A PhD in Computer Science or closely related subject is desirable. For informal enquires contact Markus Roggenbach at M.Roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk For more inormation see http://www.swansea.ac.uk/the-university/work-at-swansea/jobs/details.php?nPostingID=1924&nPostingTargetID=3524&option=52&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&JOBADLG=UK&Resultsperpage=20&lg=UK&mask=suext From maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de Mon Jan 26 08:48:01 2015 From: maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de (Matteo Maffei) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:48:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSF 2015 Call for Papers (updated submission instructions) Message-ID: <52770D39-F6E8-4EAD-B810-BEB56474CD95@cs.uni-saarland.de> 28th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://csf2015.di.univr.it/ July 14 - 17, 2015 Verona, Italy The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security. CSF seeks papers on foundational aspects of computer security, such as 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. This year, CSF will use a light form of double blind reviewing; see below. Topics ------ New results in computer security are welcome. We also encourage challenge/vision papers, which may describe open questions and raise fundamental concerns about security. Possible topics for all papers 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 ---------------- This year, we strongly encourage papers in three foundational areas of research we would like to promote at CSF: PRIVACY. (Chair: Catuscia Palamidessi.) CSF 2015 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. We especially encourage submissions aiming at connecting the computer science point of view on privacy with that of other disciplines (law, economics, sociology,...) VOTING. (Chair: Olivier Pereira.) CSF 2015 will include a special session on voting technologies and invites submissions on definitions, models and analysis of voting systems or their components, including (but not limited to) vote authentication mechanisms, ballot tallying techniques, election verifiability and audit techniques, election problem recovery. As several countries are currently looking for the adoption of voting systems with enhanced security features, submissions that inform on deployed voting systems or propose original approaches for the design or improvement of voting systems are both welcome. SECURE SYSTEMS. (Chair: Frank Piessens.) The need for principled secure systems is higher than ever, with Internet connectivity extending its reach from servers and desktops to mobile devices, and (sometimes tiny) embedded systems. Interesting new security designs are being studied at all system layers, from protected module architectures at the hardware level to language based software security. CSF 2015 invites submissions of papers that study foundational aspects of such designs and the relations between them, including papers on hardware and/or software security architectures, policy enforcement mechanisms, secure programming languages, secure compilation, and operating system or browser security. These papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the special session chairs. They 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 (pending approval), will be available at the symposium, and selected papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Computer Security. ***************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: February 10, 2015, 11:59pm EST Author response period: March 23-24, 2015, ending at 11:59pm EST Notification: April 6, 2015 Camera ready: May 9, 2015 Symposium: July 14--17, 2015 ***************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michele Bugliesi, Universita Ca Foscari Venezia Jason Crampton, Royal Holloway Cas Cremers, University of Oxford Ulfar Erlingsson, Google Cedric Fournet, Microsoft Research (Program Co-Chair) Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and MITRE Michael Hicks, University of Maryland (Program Co-Chair) Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier Andrew Myers, Cornell University David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA (Area Chair on Privacy) Olivier Pereira, UC Louvain (Area Chair on Voting) Frank Piessens, KU Leuven (Area Chair on Secure Systems) Tamara Rezk, INRIA James Riely, DePaul University Dave Sands, Chalmers University of Technology Nikhil Swamy, Microsoft Research Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T J Watson Center Santiago Zanella Beguelin, MSR-INRIA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research ***************************************************** 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. Papers must be submitted using the two-column IEEE Proceedings style available for various document preparation systems at the IEEE Conference Publishing Services page. All papers should use 10pt font and 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. Templates are available here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html If using the Latex template, use the documentclass options 10pt, conference, and compsocconf. Following the recent history of other top-quality conferences and symposia in security, CSF'15 will employ a light form of double-blind reviewing. To facilitate this, submitted papers must (a) omit any reference to the authors' names or the names of their institutions, and (b) reference the authors' own related work in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). Please see the conference site for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) that address many common concerns. When in doubt, contact the program chairs. Papers failing to adhere to any of the instructions above will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Papers should be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF) to the CSF 2015 submission site: https://csf15.hotcrp.com/ . Papers intended for one of the special sessions should select the "Privacy", "Voting", or "Secure Systems" option, as appropriate. At least one coauthor of each accepted paper is required to attend CSF to present the paper. ***************************************************** PC Chairs Cedric Fournet, Microsoft Research Michael Hicks, University of Maryland General Chair Luca Vigano, King's College, London Publications Chair Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Publicity Chair Matteo Maffei, CISPA, Saarland University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From appel at cs.princeton.edu Mon Jan 26 15:28:06 2015 From: appel at cs.princeton.edu (Andrew W. Appel) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:28:06 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc @Princeton in VST project Message-ID: <54C6A356.5000508@cs.princeton.edu> The Department of Computer Science at Princeton University solicits applications for a postdoctoral (or a more senior) research position in the Verified Software Toolchain project. The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. The anticipated research is on the application of Concurrent Separation Logic to deductive formal verification of shared-memory C programs. Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science or a related field. The ideal candidate will have experience using the Coq proof assistant or similar tools. To ensure full consideration, we encourage candidates to complete their applications, (including letters of recommendation) by February 28, 2015. (Late applications may still be considered). Applicants should submit a CV and research statement, and contact information for three references. Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Finalist candidates to be hired will be required to complete a successful background check. Apply to: http://jobs.cs.princeton.edu/postdoc4 From samir.ouchani at uni.lu Mon Jan 26 13:40:28 2015 From: samir.ouchani at uni.lu (Samir OUCHANI) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:40:28 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The International Workshop on Security Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems (SACPS'15) Message-ID: <6AE985D860873240AC24949EBE70B26B04DC319A@hoshi.uni.lux> The International Workshop on Security Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems (SACPS'15) http://satoss.uni.lu/sacps2015 in conjunction with ANT-2015 conference June 2 - 5, 2015 London, UK SCOPE Security of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is challenging due to the inherent complexity of CPS. Moreover, it is not sufficient to ascertain the security of the individual components in isolation: threats in CPS systems could also be due to the interaction between the physical, digital and software parts of CPS. Therefore, the system must be studied as a whole, which sets this emerging discipline apart from these individually established fields. This workshop provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Modeling CPS (formal models, UML, SysML, ADAAL, etc) ? Design secure CPS ? Risks analysis of CPS ? Formal methods for CPS (abstraction, compositional verification, model checking, theorem proving, simulation, testing, etc) ? Threat modeling for CPS ? Security policies and access control for CPS ? Safety and reliability analysis for CPS ? Security requirements specification for CPS ? Human aspects for CPS ? Case studies, tools, and experimental results for CPS SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2015 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2014 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacph2015. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop chair for assistance. All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ANT'13 and in IJFCST. Important dates Submission due: 10 Feb, 2015 Notification of acceptance: 20 March, 2015 Camera-ready due: 1 April, 2015 Workshop: 2-5 June, 2015 Program committee General chair Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. PC chairs Otmane Ait Mohamed, Concordia University, Canada. Samir Ouchani, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. PC members ? Yamine Ait-Ameur (Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure de M?canique et d'A?rotechnique, FR) ? Vincent Aravantinos (Fortiss GmbH, D) ? Yacine Atif (UAE University, UAE) ? Hamad Binsalleeh (Al-Imam University, KSA) ? Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, CA) ? Karim Djouani (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, FR) ? Jannik Dreier (ETH Zurich, CH) ? Iqbal Farkhund (Zayed University, UAE) ? Osman Hassan (National University of Science & Technology Pakistan, PK) ? Hugo Jonker (University of Luxembourg, L) ? Barbara Kordy (INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR) ? Gabriele Lenzini (University of Luxembourg, L) ? Chamseddine Talhi (Ecole de Technologie Sup?rieure, CA) Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/#registration for more information. VENUE, ACCOMMODATION & VISA REQUIREMENTS Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/#conferenceVenue for more information. If you have any further questions please contact one of the workshop organizer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbro at kth.se Mon Jan 26 16:47:01 2015 From: dbro at kth.se (David Broman) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:47:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ph.D. Student Position in Time-Aware Systems, with focus on Programming Languages, Compilers, and Algorithms Message-ID: <0FB17DE4-548B-42F2-A3CE-268FD2B23607@kth.se> Ph.D. Student Position in Time-Aware Systems, with focus on Programming Languages, Compilers, and Algorithms KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Application deadline: February 28, 2015 Description ========== Time-aware systems are systems where time or timing affects the correctness of a system. Examples of such systems are real-time and cyber-physical systems (e.g., automobiles, robots, and industrial automation systems), physical simulation systems, and distributed time-aware computer systems. The doctoral student will be part of a new KTH research group that is focused on developing new methodologies, algorithms, and techniques that enable new ways of developing time-aware systems. The main focus is on how programming languages and tools can help the development of this kind of systems, so that they can be developed in less time and with higher confidence of correctness. The research will focus on introducing time and timing into programming languages, and to develop algorithms and compiler techniques that support time as an integral part of the tool chain. Qualifications ========== The applicant should hold a Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent, and have very good mathematical and programming skills. The ideal candidate has also knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Compilers, Computer Architecture, Algorithms, Programming Language, Embedded, and Real-time Systems. Besides technical and mathematical skills, the candidate is expected to be a curious and ambitious individual who is strongly motivated to conduct research. He or she should be used to work in a structured way and have the ability to work both individually and in teams. Good communication skills in both oral and written English are required. For more information, see https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:47687/where:4/ Note for the types-announce list: This position is relevant for students that are interested in programming languages, type theory, and compilers, applied to the areas of real-time systems and cyber-physical systems. ---------------------------------------------------------- David Broman Associate Professor KTH Royal Institute of Technology ICT/SCS Electrum 229 164 40 Kista Sweden office: +46 8 790 42 74 cellular. +46 73 765 20 44 web: http://web.ict.kth.se/~dbro/ email: dbro at kth.se From koba at kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Jan 27 05:01:04 2015 From: koba at kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (koba) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:01:04 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP 2015: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <20150127.190104.581630215751304003.koba@kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> ICALP 2015 http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icalp2015/ First Call for Papers ====================== The 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) will take place in the period 6-10 July 2015 in Kyoto, Japan. The conference will co-locate with LICS 2015, the 30th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. The ICALP 2015 conference chair is Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University). ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). As usual, the main conference will be preceded and/or followed by a series of workshops. Important dates --------------- Submission deadline: Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 23:59 PST (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-8) Author notification: 15 April 2015 Final manuscript due: 30 April 2015 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. Proceedings ----------- ICALP proceedings are published in the Springer-Verlag ARCoSS (Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science) subseries of LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Invited Speakers ================= Ken Kawarabayashi, NII, Japan Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada Thomas Moscibroda, MSR Asia, China Anca Muscholl, Universite Bordeaux, France (Joint with LICS) Peter O'Hearn, Facebook, UK (Joint with LICS) Invited Tutorial Speakers (Joint with LICS) ------------------------------------------- Piotr Indyk, MIT, USA Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, UK Geoffrey Smith, Florida International University, USA Masterclass speaker ------------------- Ryuhei Uehara, JAIST, Japan Topics ====== Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are: Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games ----------------------------------------- * Algorithmic Game Theory * Approximation Algorithms * Combinatorial Optimization * Combinatorics in Computer Science * Computational Biology * Computational Complexity * Computational Geometry * Cryptography * Data Structures * Design and Analysis of Algorithms * Machine Learning * Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing * Randomness in Computation * Quantum Computing Track B: Logic, Semantics, Automata and Theory of Programming ------------------------------------------------------------- * Algebraic and Categorical Models * Automata, Games, and Formal Languages * Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation * Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory * Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages * Logic in Computer Science, Theorem Proving and Model Checking * Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems * Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems * Program Analysis and Transformation * Specification, Refinement, Verification and Synthesis * Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi Track C: Foundations of Networked Computation: Models, Algorithms and Information Management ------------------------------------------------------ * Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking * Formal Methods for Network Information Management * Foundations of Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Networks * Mobile and Wireless Networks and Communication * Network Economics and Incentive-Based Computing Related to Networks * Networks of Low Capability Devices * Network Mining and Analysis * Overlay Networks and P2P Systems * Specification, Semantics, Synchronization of Networked Systems * Theory of Security in Networks Submission Guidelines -------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages, including references, in LNCS style presenting original research on the theory of Computer Science. All submissions will be electronic via the EasyChair page for the conference, with three tracks (A, B and C): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2015 Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference. No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed. Submissions must adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are too long or formatted incorrectly may be rejected immediately. All the technical details that are necessary for a proper scientific evaluation of a submission must be included in a clearly-labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. This includes, in particular, the proofs of all the key theorems in a paper. Should I submit my paper to Track A or Track C? ------------------------------------------------ While the scope of Tracks A and B are generally well understood given their long history, the situation for Track C may be less obvious. In particular, some clarifications may be helpful regarding areas of potential overlap, especially between Tracks A and C. The aim for Track C is to be the leading venue for theory papers truly motivated by networking applications, and/or proposing theoretical results relevant to real networking, certified analytically, but not necessarily tested practically. The motivation for the track was the lack of good venues for theory papers motivated by applications in networking. On the one hand, the good networking conferences typically ask for extended experiments and/or simulations, while the TCS community is hardly able to do such experiments or simulations. On the other hand, the good conferences on algorithms tend to judge a paper based only on its technical difficulty and on its significance from an algorithmic perspective, which may not be the same as when judging the paper from the perspective of impact on networks. Several areas of algorithmic study of interest to track C have a broad overlap with track A. Graph algorithmics can belong in either, though if the work is not linked to networking, it is more appropriate in track A. Algorithmic game theory is another area of major overlap. Aspects involving complexity, the computation of equilibria and approximations, belong more in Track A, while results with applications in auctions, networks and some aspects of mechanism design belong in Track C. Finally, it should be noted that algorithms and complexity of message-passing based distributed computing belong squarely in track C, while certain other aspects of distributed computing do not fall under its scope. Best Paper Awards ----------------- As in previous editions of ICALP, there will be best paper and best student paper awards for each track of the conference. In order to be eligible for a best student paper award, a paper should be authored only by students and should be marked as such upon submission. Committees ========== Track A: Algorithms, complexity, and games ------------------------------------------ Peyman Afshani, Aarhus University, Denmark Hee-Kap Ahn, POSTECH, South Korea Hans Bodlaender Utrecht University, The Netherlands Karl Bringmann, Max-Planck Institut f??r Informatik, Germany Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Ken Clarkson, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Eric Colin de Verdiere, ??ole Normale Sup??rieure Paris, France Stefan Dziembowski, University of Warsaw, Poland David Eppstein, University of California at Irvine, USA Dimitris Fotakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Paul Goldberg, University of Oxford, UK MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland at College Park, USA Jesper Jansson, Kyoto University, Japan Andrei Krokhin, Durham University, UK Asaf Levin, Technion, Israel Inge Li Gortz, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Pinyan Lu, Microsoft Research Asia, China Frederic Magniez, Universite Paris Diderot, France Kazuhisa Makino, Kyoto University, Japan Elvira Mayordomo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Ulrich Meyer, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Wolfgang Mulzer, Free University Berlin, Germany Viswanath Nagarajan, University of Michigan, USA Vicky Papadopoulou, European University Cyprus, Cyprus Michal Pilipczuk, University of Bergen, Norway Liam Roditty, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Ignaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Rocco Servedio, Columbia University, USA Jens Schmidt, TU Ilmenau, Germany Bettina Speckmann (chair), TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Csaba D. Toth, California State University Northridge, USA Takeaki Uno, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Erik Jan van Leeuwen, Max-Planck Institut f??r Informatik, Germany Rob van Stee, University of Leicester, UK Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy Track B: Logic, semantics, automata and theory of Programming ------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Abel, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden Albert Atserias, Universitat Polit??cnica de Catalunya, Spain Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University, Denmark, Luis Caires, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK Wei Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Thomas Ehrhard, CNRS, Universit?? Paris Diderot, France Zoltan Esik, University of Szeged, Hungary Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China Wan Fokkink, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Shin-ya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan Naoki Kobayashi (chair), The University of Tokyo, Japan Eric Koskinen, New York University, USA Anton??n Kucera, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel Annabelle Mclver, Macquarie University, Australia Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay, France Markus Mueller-Olm, University of M??nster, Germany Andrzej Murawski, Univeristy of Warwick, UK Joel Ouaknine, Univeristy of Oxford, UK Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Canada Pawel Parys, University. of Warsaw, Poland Reinhard Pichler, TU Vienna, Austria Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, University of Torino, Italy Jeremy Siek, Indiana University, USA Track C: Foundations of networked computation: Models, algorithms and information management ------------------------------------------------------ Ioannis Caragiannis, Univ. Patras, Greece Katarina Cechlarova, Pavol Jozef Safarik Univ., Slovakia Shiri Chechik, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel Yuval Emek, Technion, Israel Sandor Fekete, TU Braunschweig, Germany Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and Paris Diderot, France Leszek Gasieniec, Univ. Liverpool, UK Aristides Gionis, Aalto Univ., Finland Magnus M. Halldorsson (chair), Reykjavik Univ, Iceland Monika Henzinger, Univ. Wien, Austria Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USAL Fabian Kuhn, Freiburg, Germany Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard Univ, USA Massimo Merro, Univ. Verona, Italy Gopal Pandurangan, Univ. Houston, USA Pino Persiano, Salerno, Italy R. Ravi, CMU, USA Ymir Vigfusson, Emory Univ., USA Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu Univ., Japan From eacsl at kahle.ch Tue Jan 27 12:32:40 2015 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:32:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ackermann Award 2015 Message-ID: <54C7CBB8.5090407@kahle.ch> ACKERMANN AWARD 2015 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2015 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 1.1.2013 and 31.12.2014 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 15 April 2015. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2015 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 2015 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL, 7-10 September 2015, in Berlin (Germany). The award consists of * a certificate, * 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, and * an invitation to present the work to the Kurt G?del Society in Vienna. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. Jury The jury consists of: * Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg); * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), the president of EACSL; * Dexter Kozen (Cornell University), ACM SigLog representative; * Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); * Daniel Leivant (Indiana University, Bloomington); * Luke Ong (University of Oxford); * Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS and University of Paris 7); * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; How to submit The candidate or his/her supervisor should 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 researchers (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. 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. From n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk Tue Jan 27 13:55:26 2015 From: n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk (Yoshida, Nobuko) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:55:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] One Research Associate Position at Imperial College London Message-ID: <3E2DE459E494E340A242A4851471E28162C7C396@icexch-m4.ic.ac.uk> Research Associate or 1 Research Assistant (Postdoc or Predoc) position available at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. Topics: 1) Session Types and their applications to distributed systems or programming languages and/or 2) Session Types and concurrency theories/verifications (including automata theories) Period: 1) Starting date: as soon as possible but flexible 2) End date: 29th December 2017 Application Closing Date: 9th March 2015. Detailed information about how to apply, application requirements, terms of employment etc., cf. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/computing/vacancies#NY0115 Related Links: 1) Mobility Group (http://mrg.doc.ic.ac.uk/) 2) Scribble (http://www.scribble.org/) Contact Person: Nobuko Yoshida (n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk) More detailed job description: Research Assistant salary in the range: ?29,350 to ?32,520 per annum Research Associate salary in the range: ?33,410 to ?42,380 per annum We are seeking to appoint a Research Assistant/Associate to work on the project ?Conversation-Based Governance for Distributed Systems by Multiparty Session Types?, funded by the EPSRC. The project has particular emphasis on putting theory into practice, by embedding session types in a range of programming languages and applying them to realistic case studies. This project includes collaboration with Cognizant, Red Hat, VMware and the Ocean Observatories Initiative. The successful candidate will join a team responsible for one or two of the following topics; * extending the programming languages based on session types and Scribble (http://www.scribble.org/) * investigating relationships between session types and other computational models such as automata * studying theories and practice on session types To apply at Research Assistant level, you should have a good Master?s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant area and be nearing completion of a PhD. To be appointed at Research Associate level you must have a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant area. You will have a strong record of publications, or other evidence of the ability to undertake research. You should have a strong background in programming languages, including type systems, a good general knowledge of concurrency theory and strong programming and software engineering skills. You must have excellent communication skills and be able to organise your own work with minimal supervision and prioritise work to meet deadlines. Preference will be given to applicants with a proven research record and publications in the relevant areas. All applicants must be fluent in spoken and written English. You will be part of the Theory of Computational Systems Group based at the South Kensington Campus. Informal enquiries should be addressed to: Professor Nobuko Yoshida (n.yoshida at doc.ic.ac.uk) Investigator of the project. How to apply: Our preferred method of application is online via our website at: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (please select ?job search? then enter the job title or vacancy reference number EN20150024SF into ?keywords?). Please complete and upload an application form as directed. Applications must include the following: * A college application form * Please quote job reference number NY 0115 on the application form * A full CV * A two-page research statement indicating what you see are interesting research issues relating to the above post and why your expertise is relevant. Should you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Sarah Willis by email to: research.officer at doc.ic.ac.uk [X][X] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frederic.besson at inria.fr Tue Jan 27 16:42:56 2015 From: frederic.besson at inria.fr (=?utf-8?Q?Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric_Besson?=) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:42:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-Doctoral position for the security of binary code Message-ID: <51251C9E-BB83-4657-990F-206A269C36FD@inria.fr> The Inria Celtique group in Rennes has open post-doctoral positions. The positions are funded by the national ANR projects Binsec[1] and Anastasec[2]. Both projects share the objective of improving the security of software, especially at the binary level. - The Anastasec project aims at the formal verification of security properties of large-scale software-intensive embedded systems using static analysis techniques. The project is driven by industrial case studies. One of these case study is a hosting platform which has to ensure security properties (e.g., task isolation) in the presence of arbitrary binary code (vulnerable and/or malicious). The research will consist in designing static analyses techniques to ensure at load-time that a binary code complies with the security requirements of the hosting platform. - The Binsec project aims at providing tools (grounded on formal methods) for the security analysis of binary code. The main application domains are vulnerability analysis and virus detection. The research will consist in designing novel static analysis techniques to compensate for the absence of high-level abstractions and tackle specific challenges of binary code such as auto-modifying code. Positions are for one year (with a possible 1 year extension) and the starting date is flexible ? to some extent. Applicants must have a PhD in Computer Science with a strong background in one of the following fields: formal methods, static analysis, compilers. For further information and applications, potential applicant should contact Sandrine Blazy sandrine.blazy at irisa.fr and Fr?d?ric Besson frederic.besson at inria.fr. The application deadline is the 28 February 2015. [1] http://binsec.gforge.inria.fr/ [2] http://www.di.ens.fr/~feret/anastasec/ From amoeller at cs.au.dk Wed Jan 28 04:21:19 2015 From: amoeller at cs.au.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anders_M=F8ller?=) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:21:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SOAP 2015 - 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis Message-ID: <6E41214BB1EAD8408392B7FAB84E3EF9AC20BF17@SRVUNIMBX08.uni.au.dk> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOAP 2015 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soap/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Static and dynamic analysis techniques and tools for Java and related programming languages have received widespread attention for a long time. The application domains of these analyses range from core libraries to modern technologies such as web services and Android applications. Over time, analysis frameworks, for example, Soot, WALA, Chord, and Doop, have been developed to better support techniques for optimizing programs, ensuring code quality, and assessing security and compliance. Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, the Soot community brought together its members and other researchers by organizing the International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Java Program Analysis (SOAP), since 2012 in conjunction with PLDI. The presentations and discussions have helped share new developments and shape new innovations in program analysis. SOAP 2015 will enhance that positive experience with a broadened scope to also emphasize other analysis tools than Soot and other programming languages than Java. For SOAP 2015, we invite contributions and inspirations from developers and researchers working with program analysis frameworks. We are particularly interested in exciting framework ideas, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results of work in progress. The workshop agenda will continue its tradition of lively discussion sessions on extensions of existing frameworks, synergies between frameworks, and development of new analysis algorithms and tools. FORMAT The workshop will take one day and will feature invited talks by leading members of the program analysis community, presentations of all accepted refereed papers, and time for discussion. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be four to six-page papers in ACM sig-alternate style. Possible submissions include, but are not limited to: * A report on a novel implementation of a program analysis, with a focus on practical details or optimization techniques for obtaining precision and performance. * A description of a new analysis component, for example, front-ends or abstract domains. * A report describing an innovative tool built on top of Soot or another framework. * A compelling use case for a feature not yet supported by existing analysis tools, with good examples and an informal design of the proposed feature. * An idea paper proposing the integration of existing program analyses to answer interesting novel questions about programs, for example in IDEs. * An experience report on the use of a program analysis framework. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. INVITED SPEAKERS Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University Frank Tip, Samsung Research America Ben Hardekopf, UC Santa Barbara IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: March 20, 2015 Notification of authors: April 17, 2015 Submission of camera-ready copies: April 27, 2015 Workshop date: June 14, 2015 ORGANIZERS Anders M?ller, Aarhus University Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology PROGRAM COMMITTEE Domagoj Babic, Google Eric Bodden, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT Jeff Foster, University of Maryland, College Park Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Kwangkeun Yi, Seoul National University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Wed Jan 28 16:15:54 2015 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:15:54 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WoLLIC 2015 - DEADLINE APPROACHING: Feb 8 Message-ID: [Please post. Apologies for cross-postings.] WoLLIC 2015 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 20th-23rd, 2015 Bloomington, IN, USA 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, Indiana University, USA Program in Pure and Applied Logic, Indiana University, USA Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA 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 twenty-second WoLLIC will be held at the Department of Computer Science Indiana University, from July 20th to 23rd, 2015. 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; foundations of mathematics; philosophical logic. 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 2015 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2015/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Feb 8, 2015, and the full paper by Feb 15, 2015 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Mar 22, 2015, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by Apr 5, 2015 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2015, 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 2015 issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, CUP (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute, USA) Nina Gierasimczuk (ILLC, U Amsterdam, The Netherlands) John Harrison (Intel, USA) Peter Jipsen (Chapman U, USA) Andre Joyal (U du Qu?bec ? Montreal, Canada) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana U, USA) Alexandra Silva (Radboud U Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2015 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2015). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Feb 8, 2015: Paper title and abstract deadline Feb 15, 2015: Full paper deadline Mar 22, 2015: Author notification Apr 5, 2015: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Juliana K?ster Filipe Bowles (U St Andrews, Scotland) Robin Cooper (U Gothenburg, Sweden) Mart?n Escard? (U Birmingham, UK) Nikos Galatos (U Denver, USA) Achim Jung (U Birmingham, UK) Sara Kalvala (U Warwick, UK) Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh U, Scotland) Peter Lefanu Lumsdaine (Institute for Advanced Study, USA) Ian Mackie (U Sussex, UK) Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua University, China) Vivek Nigam (Federal U of Para?ba, Brazil) Catarina Dutilh Novaes (U Groningen, The Netherlands) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comm, USA) (CHAIR) Luiz Carlos Pereira (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Elaine Pimentel (Federal U of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Alexandra Silva (Radboud Nijmegen U, The Netherlands) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) Josef Urban (Radboud Nijmegen U, The Netherlands) Laure Vieu (IRIT-Toulouse, France) Renata Wasserman (U S?o Paulo, Brazil) Anna Zamansky (U Haifa, Israel) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Daniel Leivant (Indiana U) (Local co-chair) Larry Moss (Indiana U) (Local co-chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de Thu Jan 29 02:14:43 2015 From: jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de (Janis Voigtlaender) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:14:43 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: WPTE 2015 Second International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Message-ID: <54C9DDE3.90506@informatik.uni-bonn.de> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation WPTE 2015 affiliated with RDP 2015 2 July, 2015, Warsaw, Poland http://www.trs.cm.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/event/wpte2015/ 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. The previous WPTE was held in Vienna 2014. Topics of interest in the scope of this workshop include: * 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 reasoning 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 transformations for program inversions and program synthesis. * Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and Rewriting. The programming languages of interest include pure, deterministic, impure, nondeterministic, concurrent, parallel languages, and may employ programming paradigms such as functional, logical, typed, imperative, object-oriented, and higher-order. 'Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and Rewriting' is a new topic of this workshop: equational reasoning and other rewriting techniques for program verification and analysis; lambda calculi and type systems for functional programs and higher-order rewrite systems; rewriting of type expressions in the type checker; rewriting of programs by refactoring tools, optimizers, code generators; execution of programs as a form of graph rewriting (terms with sharing); Template Haskell, generally introducing a rewriting-like macro language into the compilation process; rewriting modulo commonly occurring axioms such as associativity, commutativity, and identity element. Proceedings =========== The WPTE-proceedings will be published in the 'OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)' of 'Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik' by the workshop day. Extended abstracts on work in progress are not included in the OASIcs proceedings but they will be included in the USB memory which is distributed to the RDP participants. Paper Submissions ================= WPTE accepts two different kinds of contributions: * Full-papers: ------------ Full-papers must represent original work and should be submitted using the OASIcs LaTeX templates. Full-papers should not exceed 12 pages. Accepted papers will be included in the OASIcs proceedings. * 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 OASIcs LaTeX templates. These contributions will not be included in the OASIcs proceedings for full-papers but they will be distributed to the workshop participants. One author of each accepted paper or abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: 17 April 2015 * Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2015 * Deadline for camera-ready proceedings: 29 May 2015 * Workshop: 2 July 2015, Warsaw, Poland Weblinks ======== * EasyChair Submission Website https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2015 * Homepage of WPTE 2015 http://www.trs.cm.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/event/wpte2015/ * OASIcs Website (including LaTeX templates): http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics * RDP 2015 http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl Program Committee ================= Takahito Aoto (RIEC, Tohoku University) Yuki Chiba (JAIST) Fer-Jan de Vries (University of Leicester) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) - chair Johan Jeuring (Open Universiteit Nederland and Universiteit Utrecht) Delia Kesner (Universite Paris-Diderot) Serguei Lenglet (Universite de Lorraine) Elena Machkasova (University of Minnesota, Morris) William Mansky (University of Pennsylvania) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) - chair Kristoffer H Rose (Two Sigma Investments, LLC) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Masahiko Sakai (Nagoya University) Janis Voigtlaender (University of Bonn) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig) Harald Zankl (University of Innsbruck) Organizers ========== Yuki Chiba (JAIST) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) - chair Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - chair David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) From mwh at cs.umd.edu Thu Jan 29 15:38:17 2015 From: mwh at cs.umd.edu (Michael Hicks) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:38:17 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc positions in PL and security at the University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <54CA9A39.1090202@cs.umd.edu> Postdoc position in PL and Security at the University of Maryland, College Park The Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) and the Laboratory for Programming Languages research at the University of Maryland (PLUM) have 1-2 open post-doctoral research positions. MC2 and PLUM are part of the Computer Science Department and UMIACS at the University of Maryland, College Park. We are looking for a researcher interested in applying programming languages techniques (of all kinds, from systems to theory) to reasoning about security, privacy, and cryptography. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in programming languages and compilers. Some background or knowledge in security/cryptography is preferred. The position will involve work on program analysis (static and/or dynamic) and language design with the goal of ensuring various security properties (such as privacy). Some of this work could include exploration of exciting intersections of PL and cryptography. We have one position open at the moment, and expect a second to open up in the near future. Applicants to this position must have received their PhD, or completed the requirements for their PhD, when the appointment begins. ? 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Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: * Logical frameworks * Proof theory * Type theory * Automated deduction * Interactive theorem proving * 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 2015 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 2015 will take place on August 31 and September 1 in Natal. Previous editions took place in Bras?lia (2014), Sao Paulo (2013), Rio de Janeiro (2012), Belo Horizonte (2011), Natal (2010), Bras?lia (2009), Salvador (2008), Ouro Preto (2007), and Natal (2006). SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 16 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2015 The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at workshop registration. After the workshop 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 should be in English. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: Sunday, April 12 * Notification: Sunday, May 31 * Preliminary proceedings version due: Sunday, June 14 * Submission for final proceedings: Sunday, October 18 * Notification: Sunday, December 6 * Final version: Sunday, January 10 INVITED SPEAKERS Ofer Ariel, The Academic College of Tel-Avi Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay & LIX Val?ria de Paiva, Nuance Communications PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Takahito Aoto (Tohoku University, Japan) * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil) * Ver?nica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) * Mario Benevides (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, co-chair) * Jasmin Blanchette (Inria Nancy, France) * Walter Carnielli (State University of Campinas, Brazil) * Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Fl?vio L. C. de Moura (Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil) * Catherine Dubios (ENSIIE, France) * Marcelo Finger (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) * Mario Florido (University of Porto, Portugal) * J?rgen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) * Edward Hermann Haeusler (Pontif?cia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) * Andreas Herzig (Universit? Paul Sabatier, France) * Delia Kesner (Universit? Paris Diderot, France) * Ian Mackie (?cole Polytechnique, France) * Cesar Mu?oz (NASA Langley Research Center, USA) * Vivek Nigam (Universidade Federal da Para?ba, Brazil) * Elaine Pimentel (DMAT, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) * Ruy Queiroz (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) * Camilo Rocha (Escuela Colombiana de Ingenier?a, Colombia) * Manfred Schmidt-Schau? (Goethe University, Germany) * Alvaro Tasistro (Universidad ORT, Uruguay) * Ren? 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The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. MFPS is organised in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG and observes its anti-harassment [policy](http://www.acm.org/sigs/volunteer_resources/officers_manual/anti-harassment-policy). Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; 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 * Andy Pitts (Cambridge), joint speaker for MFPS-CALCO * Thierry Coquand (Chalmers) * Guy McCusker (Bath) * Sam Staton (Radboud) * Paul B. Levy (Birmingham) ## TUTORIAL SPEAKERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS * Matija Pretnar (Ljubljana) on algebraic effects * Andrzej Murawksy (Warwick) on game semantics * Daniela Petri?an (Nijmegen) on nominal techniques * other tutorials TBC ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: * Submission: April 3, 2015 * Notification: May 15, 2015 * Final version: May 29, 2015 * Conference: 22-25 June, 2015 ### Submitting Submissions should be prepared using the [ENTCS Macros](http://www.entcs.org/), in the form of a PDF file not exceeding 15 pages. Submissions are open on [EasyChair](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps31). ### Proceedings A preliminary version will be distributed at the meeting. Final proceedings will appear in ENTCS after the meeting. ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Achim Jung, Birmingham, UK * Alan Jeffrey, Bell Labs, USA * Alexandra Silva, Radboud U, NED * Andrej Bauer, Ljubljana, SLO (organiser) * Andy Pitts, Cambridge, UK * Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA (organiser) * Dan R. 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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=vstte2015. Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2015 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 20, 2015 Full paper submission: April 27, 2015 Notification: June 8, 2015 ORGANIZATION: General Chair: Martin Schaef (SRI International) Program Chairs: Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Sanjit A. Seshia (University of California, Berkeley) Publicity Chair: Daniel Bundala (UC Berkeley) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) Evan Chang (University of Colorado, Boulder) Ernie Cohen (University of Pennsylvania) Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (Toyota) Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore) Vijay D'Silva (Google) Vijay Ganesh (University of Waterloo) Alex Groce (Oregon State) Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) (co-chair) Bill Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology) Chris Hawblitzel (Microsoft Research) Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Susmit Jha (United Technologies) Rajeev Joshi (Laboratory for Reliable Software, Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Vladimir Klebanov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Akash Lal (Microsoft Research India) Ruzica Piskac (Yale) Zvonimir Rakamaric (University of Utah) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (University of Cincinnati) Sanjit A. Seshia (UC Berkeley) (co-chair) Natarajan Shankar (SRI) Carsten Sinz (KIT) Nishant Sinha (IBM Research Labs) Alexander Summers (ETH Zurich) Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington) Sergey Tverdyshev (Sysgo AG) Arnaud Venet (CMU / NASA Ames Research Center) Karen Yorav (IBM Haifa Research Lab) ********************************************************************** Please contact vstte2015 at easychair.org for further information ********************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Workshops Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) /************************************************************************************/ 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, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/oopsla2015 ** 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: 2 April, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-papers ** 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: 2 April, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-essays ** Workshops ** The SPLASH Workshops track 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: 25 March, 2015 Late Phase Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops ** 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: 7 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dls2015-papers ** Co-Located Events ** 8th International ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) http://conf.researchr.org/home/sle2015 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) http://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce2015 22nd International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) http://www.hillside.net/plop/2015/ Information: Contact: info at splashcon.org Early Registration Deadline: 25 September, 2015 Website: http://2015.splashcon.org Location: Sheraton Station Square Hotel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Patrick Eugster (Purdue University) Onward! Papers Chair: Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) Onward! 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URL: From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Feb 3 01:49:37 2015 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 07:49:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] MKM, Calculemus and DML (CICM 2015): 2nd CfP, Invited Speakers & Workshops Message-ID: <20150203064937.495B8254A437@gigondas.local> 2nd Call for Papers Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics CICM 2015 13-17 July 2015 Washington DC, USA Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), and Coimbra (Portugal 2014). This is a (short version of the) call for papers for CICM 2015, which will be held in Washington, D.C., 13-17 July 2015. The full version of the CFP is available from the conference web page at http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php ********************************************************************** Invited Speakers: ********************************************************************** * Leonardo de Moura, https://leodemoura.github.io/ "Formalizing mathematics using the Lean Theorem Prover" (http://leanprover.github.io/) * Tobias Nipkow, http://www21.in.tum.de/~nipkow/ "Analyzing the Archive of Formal Proofs" * Jim Pitman, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~pitman/ * Richard Zanibbi, http://www.cs.rit.edu/~rlaz/ "Math Search for the Masses: Multimodal Search Interfaces and Appearance-Based Retrieval" ********************************************************************** The principal tracks of the conference will be: ********************************************************************** * Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) Chair: Jacques Carette * DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries) Chair: Volker Sorge * MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Chair: Cezary Kaliszyk * Systems and Data Chair: Florian Rabe * Doctoral Programme Chair: Umair Siddique Publicity chair is Serge Autexier. The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements Chairs, Bruce R. Miller (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Abdou Youssef (The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.), and the overall programme will be organized by the General Programme Chair, Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK). As in previous years, we will have co-located workshops. Currently planned are: * Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians * Theorem proving components for Educational software (ThEdu'15) * MathUI Furthermore we will have a doctoral programme to mentor doctoral students giving presentations and a tutorial on the generic proof assistant Isabelle. We also solicit for project descriptions, surveys, and work-in-progress papers. ********************************************************************** Important Dates ********************************************************************** Conference submissions: Abstract submission deadline: 16 February 2015 Submission deadline: 23 February 2015 Reviews sent to authors: 6 April 2015 Rebuttals due: 9 April 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2015 Camera ready copies due: 27 April 2015 Conference: 13-17 July 2015 Work-in-progress and Doctoral Programme submissions: Submission deadline: (Doctoral: Abstract+CV) 4 May 2015 Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2015 Camera ready copies due: 1 June 2015 More detailed information, e.g. on submission via EasyChair and the Springer LNAI format, can be found on http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php From Thomas.Jensen at inria.fr Tue Feb 3 04:21:09 2015 From: Thomas.Jensen at inria.fr (Thomas Jensen) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:21:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2015: 2nd Call for papers Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2015 Static Analysis Symposium 2015 Saint-Malo, France http://sas2015.inria.fr --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 22nd International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2015, will be held in Saint-Malo, France. Previous symposia were held in Munich, 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 2015 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 * Compilation * Program transformation * Program verification * Security * Theoretical frameworks * Type checking * New applications Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, GPU and script 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. Submissions are handled online. For further details please visit the above web page. Artifact Submission ------------------- As in previous years, 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. We accept only virtual machine images that can be processed with Virtual Box. Details on what to submit and how will be sent to the corresponding authors by mail shortly after the paper submission deadline. 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 6, 2015, and complete papers by March 13, 2015. These deadlines are strict; submissions where abstract or paper are received later will not be evaluated. * Artifacts must be submitted by March 27, 2015. * Rebuttal: May 14-17, 2015. * Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2015 * Final version due: June 22, 2015 * Early registration: On or before July 21, 2015 * Workshop day: September 8, 2015 * Conference: September 9-11, 2015 Program Chairs -------------- Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes, France) Thomas Jensen (INRIA, France) Program Committee ----------------- Elvira Albert, University of Madrid, Spain Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research, United Kingdom Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France (co-chair) Liqian Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Thomas Jensen, Inria Rennes, France (co-chair) Ranjit Jhala, University of California at San Diego, USA Andy King, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom Bj?rn Lisper, M?lardalen University, Sweden Matt Might, University of Utah, USA Antoine Min?, CNRS, France Francesco Ranzato, University of Padova, Italy Sukyong Ryu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Dave Sands, Chalmers University of technology, Sweden Axel Simon, University of Munich, Germany Arnaud Venet, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Microsoft Research, United Kingdom Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Invited speakers ----------------- Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research Anders M?ller, Aarhus University Henny Sipma, Kestrel Steering Committee ------------------ Patrick Cousot (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, France & NYU, USA) Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy) Gilberto File (University of Padova, Italy) Manuel Hermenegildo (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) David Schmidt (Kansas State University, USA) Planned Affiliated Events ------------------------- NSAD: The 7th Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains SASB: The 6th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology TAPAS: The 6th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis Venue ----- In 2015, the conference will take place in Saint-Malo, France. Saint-Malo is located on the north coast of Brittany in the western part of France. Its outstanding landscapes and rich historical heritage make Saint Malo a unique destination. The conference location is close to the historic center of Saint-Malo and located on the water front with a nice view of the town's spectacular coast line. From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue Feb 3 11:39:43 2015 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:39:43 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2015 call for nominations Message-ID: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2015 call for nominations Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.info) has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2014. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Interdisciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies. Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2014 and December 31st, 2014. Theses must be written in English; however, the Committee accepts submissions of English translations of theses originally written in other languages, and for which a PhD was awarded in the preceding two years (i.e. between January 1st, 2012 and December 31st, 2013). There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or on the university where the Ph.D. was granted. Prize. The prize consists of: -a certificate -a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation -an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). For further information on this series see the FoLLI site. How to submit. Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. The thesis in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf not accepted). 2. A ten-page abstract of the dissertation in pdf format. 3. A letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded. 4. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically (preferably as a zip file) to Ian Pratt-Hartmann (ipratt at cs.man.ac.uk). 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URL: From compscience.announcement at gmail.com Tue Feb 3 15:22:33 2015 From: compscience.announcement at gmail.com (Klaus Havelund) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 21:22:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LCTES 2015: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: ############################################################ LCTES 2015 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory for Embedded Systems ############################################################ LCTES provides a link between the programming languages and embedded systems engineering communities. Researchers and developers in these areas are addressing many similar problems, but with different backgrounds and approaches. LCTES is intended to expose researchers and developers from either area to relevant work and interesting problems in the other area and provide a forum where they can interact. ## Important Dates Submission deadline: Feb. 15 Notifications by: Apr. 1 Camera-ready deadline: Apr. 11 LCTES 2015 will be held on June 18 and 19 as part of the FCRC 2015 (Federated Computing Research Conference 2015) in Portland, Oregon, USA. This will be the sixteenth conference in the LCTES series. Embedded system design faces many challenges both with respect to functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, many of which are conflicting. They are found in areas such as design and developer productivity, verification, validation, maintainability, and meeting performance goals and resource constraints. Novel design-time and run-time approaches are needed to meet the demand of emerging applications and to exploit new hardware paradigms, and in particular to scale up to multicores (including GPUs and FPGAs) and distributed systems built from multicores. LCTES 2015 solicits papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, theory, and architectures that help in overcoming these challenges. Research papers on innovative techniques are welcome, as well as experience papers on insights obtained by experimenting with real-world systems and applications. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in embedded systems: - Programming language challenges, including: - Domain-specific languages - Features to exploit multicore, reconfigurable, and other emerging architectures - Features for distributed, adaptive, and real-time control embedded systems - Language capabilities for specification, composition, and construction of embedded systems - Language features and techniques to enhance reliability, verifiability, and security - Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization, and memory management - Compiler challenges, including: - Interaction between embedded architectures, operating systems, and compiler - Interpreters, binary translation, just-in-time compilation, and split compilation - Support for enhanced programmer productivity - Support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and exception/interrupt handling - Optimization for low power/energy, code and data size, and best-effort and real-time performance - Parameterized and structural compiler design space exploration and auto-tuning - Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including: - Hardware, system software, application software, and their interfaces - Distributed real-time control, media players, and reconfigurable architectures - System integration and testing - Performance estimation, monitoring, and tuning - Run-time system support for embedded systems - Design space exploration tools - Support for system security and system-level reliability - Approaches for cross-layer system optimization - Theory and foundations of embedded systems, including: - Predictability of resource behaviour: energy, space, time - Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and distributed systems - Formal foundations of model-based design as basis for code generation, analysis, and verification - Mathematical foundations for embedded systems - Models of computations for embedded applications - Novel embedded architectures, including: - Design and implementation of novel architectures - Workload analysis and performance evaluation - Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, compiler techniques, debugging tools - Empirical studies and their reproduction, and confirmation ## Note to Authors A few of the best submissions to LCTES 2015 are planned to be invited for submission, with some revisions, to a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. ## Organization General Chair Sam H. Noh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea Program Chairs Sebastian Fischmesiter, University of Waterloo, Canada Jason Xue, City University of Hong Kong, China LCTES Steering Committee Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA Bjorn De Sutter, University of Edinbugh, Great Britain Jaejin Lee, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea Heiko Falk, Ulm University, Germany Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia Youtao Zhang, University of Pittsbugh, USA Prasad Kulkarni, University of Kansas, USA Program Committee Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal Ian Bate, University of York, Great Britain Philip Brisk, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Marco Caccamo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University, USA Petru Eles, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University, USA Guto Froehlich, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Forianopolis, Brazil Giovani Gracioli, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Joinville, Brazil Radu Grosu, Technical University Vienna, Austria Nan Guan, Northeastern University, China Apala Guha, IIT Dehli, India Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales, Australia Michael Jantz, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Zhiping Jia, ShangDong University, China Jinsoo Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea Raimund Kirner, University of Hertfordshire, Great Britain Kai Lampka, Uppsala University, Sweden Terrence Mak, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA Florence Maraninchi, VERIMAG, France Sang Lyul MIN, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea Sayan Mitra, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Tulika Mitra, Singapore National University, Singapore Thomas Nolte, M?lardalen University, Sweden Lin Phan, University of Pennsylvania, USA Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Liang Shi, Chong Qing Uniersity, China Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University, USA Wilfried Steiner, TTTech, Austria Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Gera Weiss, Ben Gurion University, Israel Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia Chengmo Yang, University of Delaware, USA Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Yuan-Hao Zhang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bogom.s at gmail.com Tue Feb 3 11:47:24 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:47:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CPSWeek NSV 2015: Deadline extended Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS ************** NSV 2015: DEADLINE EXTENSION UNTIL FEBRUARY 14 ************** 8th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification April 13, 2015 Cyber-Physical Week 2015 Seattle, WA, USA Web Page: http://nsv2015.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ Important Dates =============== Submissions deadline: ** February 14, 2015 ** Notification: Feb 27, 2015 Final version: March 8, 2015 Workshop: April 13, 2015 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. Design and verification of numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to precisely represent local behaviors of each component. The implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of approximation because of the use of finite representations of infinite precision numbers that usually lack basic arithmetic properties such as commutativity and associativity. Finally, the development and analysis of cyber-physical systems (CPS) which involve the interacting continuous and discrete components pose a further challenge. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical techniques for the reasoning about programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the development of such techniques. Topics =============== The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Quantitative and qualitative analysis of hybrid systems - Models and abstraction techniques - Optimal control of dynamical systems - Parameter identification for hybrid systems - Numerical optimization methods - Hybrid systems verification - Applications of hybrid systems to systems biology - Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models - Specifications of correctness for numerical programs - Formal specification and verification of numerical programs - Quality of finite precision implementations - Numerical properties of control software - Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications - Validation for scientific computing programs Submission information ====================== We solicit regular and short papers.Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsv2015 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 welcome, they should present tools, benchmarks, case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages. Furthermore, in order to foster the exchange of ideas, we encourage authors to also submit short papers describing ideas which have already been reported in other venues. All accepted papers (except short papers based on ideas published elsewhere) will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science series (ENTCS). Chairs ========== Sergiy Bogomolov (University of Freiburg, Germany) Matthieu Martel (Universit? de Perpignan, France) Program Committee ========== Ezio Bartocci (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Sylvie Boldo (INRIA, France) Olivier Bouissou (Mathworks, France) Sean Gao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Khalil Ghorbal (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Eric Goubault (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Jim Kapinski (Toyota, USA) Ian Mitchell (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jan Otop (IST, Austria) Pavithra Prabhakar (IMDEA, Spain) Walid Taha (Halmstadt University & Rice University, Sweden) From ndanner at wesleyan.edu Wed Feb 4 09:59:23 2015 From: ndanner at wesleyan.edu (Norman Danner) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:59:23 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two positions at Wesleyan University Message-ID: <54D233CB.6080600@wesleyan.edu> Wesleyan University has researchers in types and programming languages, and so the following positions may be of interest to readers (and graduating students of readers) of this list. We have two positions, both of which start in Fall 2015; applications must be submitted through AcademicJobsOnline.org (links below). Postdoctoral position (1 year with possible renewal to 2 years). While the successful applicant will be able to pursue his/her own research agenda, an interest in current faculty research is a plus. Areas currently represented include algorithms and complexity, programming languages, types, logic, and software engineering. The teaching load is three courses per year, consisting primarily of an introductory-level course for non-majors. The department is redesigning this course to serve as an alternative entry point for majors, and the successful candidate will be welcome to participate in this process. There will also be an opportunity to teach more advanced courses or electives in the applicant's specialty. Please see the full advertisement at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5315. Visiting assistant professor position (1 year with possible renewal to 3 years). Research interest in areas represented by current faculty (algorithms, programming languages, types, logic, and software engineering) is a plus. The course load is four courses per year, consisting primarily of an introductory-level course for non-majors. The department is redesigning this course to serve as an alternative entry point for majors, and the successful candidate will be expected to participate in this process. There will also be an opportunity to teach more advanced courses or electives in the applicant's specialty. Please see the full advertisement at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5316. -- Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University From dimitris at microsoft.com Thu Feb 5 03:50:40 2015 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 08:50:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FW: Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2015) In-Reply-To: <54D239E5.1050004@irisa.fr> References: <54D239E5.1050004@irisa.fr> Message-ID: <8A4BE71AF969544FA98E6D49C10DE5A60F890B42@AMSPRD3003MB037.064d.mgd.msft.net> See message below on behalf of Barbara Kordy (barbara.kordy at irisa.fr) -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Kordy [mailto:barbara.kordy at irisa.fr] Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 3:25 PM To: types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu Subject: CFP: Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2015) [...] GraMSec is a workshop on graphical models for security co-located with CSF. The papers on formal foundations of security models and their verification are especially welcome. I believe that the workshop will be of interest to many TYPES readers working the the field of formal methods and/or security. Thank you. Best regards, Barbara ================================= CALL FOR PAPERS GraMSec 2015 The Second International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security July 13, 2015, Verona, Italy http://gramsec.uni.lu/ Co-located with CSF 2015 ================================= Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic methodology to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as well as security professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different security facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges including security assessment, risk analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. 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. The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Attack trees, attack graphs, and their variants - Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security - UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security - Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models - Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models - Scalability of graphical security models - Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis - Risk assessment and risk management using graphical security models - Methods for quantitative analysis of graphical security models - Formal semantics of graphical security models - Formal verification of graphical security models - Game theoretical approaches to graphical security models - Visualization of system security - Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems - Graphical models for system, organizational, and business security - Graphical security models for emerging paradigms (e.g., Cloud computing, IoT, Software Defined Networks, Big Data) - Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security models SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We solicit two types of submissions: - Regular papers (up to 15 pages) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. - Tool papers (up to 5 pages) describing software supporting graphical security modeling, analysis, and evaluation. Tool papers will be presented during a special tool session. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and tool) papers will be included in the final proceedings, which we plan to publish as a Springer LNCS volume (pending confirmation). Submissions should be made using the GraMSec'15 EasyChair web site. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 19, 2015 Acceptance notification: May 26, 2015 Camera ready version: June 15, 2015 Workshop: July 13, 2015 GENERAL CHAIR Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA PC CO-CHAIRS Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, LU Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Mathieu Acher, IRISA, France - Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA - Ludovic Apvrille, Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, France - Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI GmbH, Germany - Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy - Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy - Jason Crampton, Royal Holloway University of London, UK - Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France - Mathias Ekstedt, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy - Erlend Andreas Gjare, SINTEF, Norway - Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg, Germany - Olivier Heen, Technicolor, France - Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, and Gjovik University College, Norway - Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands - Jan Jurjens, Technical University Dortmund, Germany - Jean-Louis Lanet, INRIA, France - Gurvan Le Guernic, DGA Maitrise de l'Information, France - Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand - Per Haakon Meland, SINTEF, Norway - Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong - Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Steven Noel, MITRE and George Mason University, USA - Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway - Stephane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France - Wolter Pieters, TU Delft and University of Twente, The Netherlands - Ludovic Pietre-Cambacedes, EDF, France - Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy - Cristian Prisacariu, University of Oslo, Norway - Nicolas Prigent, Supelec, France - Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Sasa Radomirovic, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Yves Roudier, EURECOM, France - Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy - Guttorm Sindre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Ketil Stolen, Sintef, Norway - Axel Tanner, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland - Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA - Luca Vigano, King's College London, UK - Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada - Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia This call for papers and additional information about the workshop can be found at http://gramsec.uni.lu/ From w.s.swierstra at uu.nl Thu Feb 5 07:30:24 2015 From: w.s.swierstra at uu.nl (Wouter Swierstra) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:30:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions in Utrecht Message-ID: ============================================================ 4 x PhD position in Software Technology ============================================================ The research group of Software Technology is part of the Software Systems division of in the department of Information and Computer Science at the Utrecht University. We focus our research on functional programming, compiler construction, program analysis, validation, and verification. Financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the EU, Technology Foundation STW and Utrecht University we currently have job openings for four PhD researchers (PhD students) in Software Technology. Each of these positions involves some degree of functional programming. We are looking for PhD students to work on some of the following topics: * Version control of structured data The theory and practice underlying structure-aware version control systems capable of handling more than just text files. * Intelligent tutoring technologies Technologies for tutoring subjects such as functional programming, statistics, algebra, etc. * Serious games Domain-specific languages and technologies for specifying strategies for serious games. * iTasks iTasks is a formalism for specifying distributed tasks. Specify and test properties of iTasks, and give run-time feedback for iTasks. Besides research, the successful candidate will be expected to help supervise MSc students and assist teaching courses. We prefer candidates to start no later than September 2015. --------------------------- What we are looking for --------------------------- The candidate should have an MSc in Computer Science, be highly motivated, speak and write English well. Furthermore the successful candidate should be proficient in reporting scientific findings. Knowledge of and experience with at least some of the following areas (depending on the topic chosen to work on for your PhD) is essential: * functional programming, such as Haskell or ML; * datatype generic programming; * intelligent tutoring systems; * serious games; * strategies, rewriting, parsing; * modern version control systems such as git, mercurial, or darcs. ------------------ What we offer ------------------ The candidate is offered a full-time position for 4 years. A part-time position of at least 0.8 fte may also be possible. Salary starts at 2083 euro and increases to 2664 euro gross per month in the fourth year of the appointment. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% per year. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. The research group will provide the candidate with necessary support on all aspects of the project. ---------------- How to apply ---------------- To apply please attach a letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae, and (email) addresses of two referees. Make sure to also include a transcript of the courses you have followed (at bachelor and master level), with the grades you obtained, and to include a sample of your scientific writing, such as your master thesis. It is possible to apply for this position if you are close to obtaining your Master's. In that case include a letter of your supervisor with an estimate of your progress, and do not forget to include at least a sample of your technical writing skills. Application deadline is March 8, 2015. You can apply online through the University's website: http://tinyurl.com/qhlco6s --------------------------- Additional information --------------------------- If you have any questions regarding these positions, please contact Johan Jeuring +31 (0)640010053 J.T.Jeuring at uu.nl Wouter Swierstra +31 (0)30 253 9207 w.s.swierstra at uu.nl From cbraga at ic.uff.br Thu Feb 5 07:23:03 2015 From: cbraga at ic.uff.br (Christiano Braga) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 10:23:03 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FACS 2015: Call for papers Message-ID: [Apologies should you receive multiple copies of this call.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers FACS 2015 12th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-16, 2015 http://facs2015.ic.uff.br --------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW AND SCOPE Component-based software development proposes sound engineering principles and techniques to cope with the complexity of software-intensive systems. However, many challenging conceptual and technological issues remain. Furthermore, the advent of service-oriented and cloud computing has brought to the fore new dimensions, such as quality of service and robustness to withstand faults, which require revisiting established concepts and developing new ones in order to take advantage of the opportunities offered by those architectures. As software applications themselves become 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 resources that can change in various ways. FACS 2015 is concerned with how formal methods can be used to make component-based development fit for the new architectures and the systems that now pervade the 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. The conference 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, and similar 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; * probabilistic techniques for modeling and verification; * case studies and experience reports; * update and reconfiguration of component and service architectures; * formal and rigorous approaches to software adaptation and self-adaptive systems; * tools supporting formal methods for components and services. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit high-quality submissions, related to the topics mentioned above, in the following categories: 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 2015, 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. Paper submission is done via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=facs2015. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers. PUBLICATION All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FACS 2015. Accepted papers in the categories A-D above will appear in the proceedings of the conference 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 a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming journal. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: June 22 Paper submission deadline: June 28 Notification: August 28 Conference: Oct 14-16 INVITED SPEAKERS Martin Wirsing Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich David Deharbe Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Renato Cerqueira IBM Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Peter Olveczky University of Oslo ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Bruno Lopes Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro Anamaria Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Diego Brand?o CEFET PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dalal Alrajeh Imperial College Farhad Arbab CWI and Leiden University Cyrille Artho AIST Kyungmin Bae Carnegie-Mellon University Luis Barbosa Universidade do Minho Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Roberto Bruni Universita di Pisa Carlos Canal University of Malaga Ana Cavalcanti University of York Jose Luiz Fiadeiro Royal Holloway University of London Bernd Fischer Stellenbosch University Marcelo Frias Buenos Aires Institute of Technology Rolf Hennicker Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen Ramtin Khosravi University of Tehran Ivan Lanese University of Bologna/INRIA Axel Legay IRISA/INRIA Zhiming Liu Birmingham City University Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark Markus Lumpe Swinburne University of Technology Eric Madelaine INRIA Robi Malik University of Waikato Hernan Melgratti University of Buenos Aires Alvaro Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Arnaldo Moura Universidade Estadual de Campinas Thomas Noll RWTH Aachen University Peter Olveczky University of Oslo Corina Pasareanu CMU/NASA Ames Frantisek Plasil Charles University Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Camilo Rocha Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria Gwen Salaun Grenoble INP - INRIA - LIG Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich Bernhard Schatz Technical University Munchen From christian.urban at kcl.ac.uk Thu Feb 5 09:33:34 2015 From: christian.urban at kcl.ac.uk (Christian Urban) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:33:34 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP for ITP 2015 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS: ITP 2015 The 6th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving 24 - 27 August 2015 in Nanjing, China ITP is the premier international conference for researchers from all areas of interactive theorem proving and its applications. It represents the natural evolution of the TPHOLs conference series to include research related to all other interactive theorem provers. ***************************************************** * http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/itp-2015/ * ***************************************************** Important Dates --------------- Title & Abstract Submission: 9 March 2015 Full Paper Submission: 13 March 2015 Author Notification: 15 May 2015 Camera-Ready Papers due: 5 June 2015 Conference: 24 - 27 August 2015 Submission Page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itp2015 Topics ------ ITP welcomes submissions describing original research on all aspects of interactive theorem proving and its applications. Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: - formal aspects of hardware and software, - formalizations of mathematics, - improvements in theorem prover technology, - user interfaces for interactive theorem provers, - formalizations of computational models, - verification of security algorithms, - use of theorem provers in education, - industrial applications of interactive theorem provers, and - concise and elegant worked examples of formalizations ("Proof Pearls"). Papers should be no more than 16 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. They must conform to the LNCS style preferably using LaTeX. The proceedings are to be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available to participants at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the conference. In addition to regular papers, described above, there will be a "rough diamond" section. Rough diamond submissions are limited to 6 pages and may consist of an extended abstract. They will be refereed and be expected to present innovative and promising ideas, possibly in an early form and without supporting evidence. Accepted diamonds will be published in the main proceedings, and will be presented as short talks. Programme Committee ------------------- Andrea Asperti University of Bologna, Italy Jesper Bengtson IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Stefan Berghofer Secunet Security Networks AG, Germany Yves Bertot INRIA, France Lars Birkedal Aarhus University, Denmark Sandrine Blazy University of Rennes, France Bob Constable Cornell University, USA Thierry Coquand University of Gothenburg, Sweden Xinyu Feng University of Science and Technology, China Ruben Gamboa University of Wyoming, USA Herman Geuvers Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Mike Gordon Cambridge University, United Kingdom Elsa Gunter University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA John Harrison Intel Corporation, USA Hugo Herbelin INRIA, France Matt Kaufmann University of Texas at Austin, USA Gerwin Klein NICTA, Australia Cesar Munoz NASA Langley Research Center, USA Tobias Nipkow TU M?nchen, Germany Michael Norrish NICTA, Australia Scott Owens University of Kent, United Kingdom Randy Pollack Harvard University, USA Carsten Sch?rmann IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Konrad Slind Rockwell Collins, USA Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Christian Urban King's College London, United Kingdom (co-chair) Dimitrios Vytiniotis Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom Xingyuan Zhang PLA University of Science and Technology, China (co-chair) Organizers ---------- Xingyuan Zhang Chunhan Wu Jinshang Wang Christian Urban From borgstrom at acm.org Fri Feb 6 06:50:29 2015 From: borgstrom at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Johannes_Borgstr=C3=B6m?=) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:50:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position on Probabilistic Programming Languages at Uppsala University Message-ID: PhD position in Computer Science on Probabilistic Programming Uppsala University is an international research university focused on the development of science and education. Our most important assets are all the individuals who with their curiosity and their dedication makes Uppsala University one of Sweden?s most exciting work places. Uppsala University has 41.000 students, 6,500 employees and a turnover of SEK 5,900 million. Job assignment: Probabilistic programming is a promising approach to machine learning, where a model for the observed data is written down as program code with probabilistic operations. The program can then be compiled into an inference or sampling routine. This approach promises rapid development of sophisticated bespoke models for data, efficient inference, and reusability through modularity. Active research problems include the appropriate probabilistic operations, their formal meaning (i.e., semantics), and how to compile probabilistic programs. The project involves the design of a new probabilistic programming language. The focus is on new operations that make use of model evidence (i.e., the probability of observed data in the model), and investigation of their semantics. Different aspects of the language should be studied: its equational theory, that describes admissible compiler optimizations; its absolute expressiveness, by how well it can describe existing models; and its relative expressiveness, with respect to competing languages. Qualifications: The candidate should have a Master of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent, with a strong background in machine learning, probability theory or programming languages. Knowledge of formal semantics, measure theory and theorem provers is desirable. The position is for a maximum of five years and includes departmental duties at a level of at most 20% (mainly teaching) as well as coursework. You will be expected to teach in English or Swedish. Good knowledge of written and spoken English is a requirement for employment. For more information: http://www.teknat.uu.se/Doktorand and http://www.it.uu.se/grad/. Rules governing Ph.D. candidates are set out in the Higher Education Ordinance, Chapter 5, ?? 1-7, and in the Uppsala University's rules and guidelines http://regler.uu.se/Rules_and_regulations_in_English/. There are university guidelines regarding salary level. The application should include a description of research interests and past experience, a CV, copies of exams, degrees and grades, relevant publications, and other relevant documents. Candidates are encouraged to provide letter(s) of recommendation and contact information to reference persons. Please note that applications can only be accepted via the web interface linked below. The department is striving to achieve a more equal gender balance and female candidates are particularly invited to apply. For more information, see http://www.it.uu.se/ (the department) or contact: Dr. Johannes Borgstr?m, johannes.borgstrom at it.uu.se (assistant professor). You are welcome to submit your application no later than 28 February 2015. UFV-PA 2015/189. Use the link below to apply. http://www2.personalavd.uu.se/jobb/appform.php?lang=en&case=UFV-PA%202015/189 We decline offers of recruitment and advertising help. We only accept the application the way described in the advertisement. Placement: Department of Information Technology Type of employment: Full time , PhD placement Number of positions: 1 Working hours: 100% Town: Uppsala County: Uppsala l?n Country: Sweden Union representative: Carin S?derh?ll, TCO/ST 018-471 1997 1 Per Sundman, Saco-r?det 018-471 1485 1 Stefan Djurstr?m, Seko 018-471 3315 1 Number of reference: UFV-PA 2015/189 Last application date: 2015-02-28 From jsiek at indiana.edu Thu Feb 5 23:13:47 2015 From: jsiek at indiana.edu (Siek, Jeremy) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 04:13:47 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP for STOP 2015 Message-ID: <7E810A69-ECC2-4944-A516-6012DE703285@indiana.edu> =============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 2015 Workshop on Scripts to Programs (STOP 2015) Prague, Czech Republic, July 6, 2015 (Affiliated with ECOOP 2015) http://2015.ecoop.org/track/STOP2015 =============================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: * Paper submission: April 2, 2015 * Author notification: May 1, 2015 * Workshop: July 6, 2015 SCOPE: The STOP workshop is interested in the evolution of scripts, in the sense of untyped pieces of code, into safer programs, with more rigid structure and constrained behaviour through the use of gradual typing, contract checking, extensible languages, refactoring tools, and the like. The goal is to further the understanding of such systems in practice, and connect practice and theory. This workshop aims to bring researchers together from academia and industry for passionate discussion about these topics, and to promote both the theory and practical evalution of these ideas, and experience reports. PROCEEDINGS: The accepted papers will be distributed at the workshop in an informal proceedings. All accepted submissions shall remain available from the workshop web page. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Abstracts, position papers, and status reports are welcome. Papers should be 1-2 pages in standard ACM SIGPLAN format. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. PROGRAM CHAIR: * Jeremy G. Siek (Indiana University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: * Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University) * Avik Chaudhuri (Facebook) * Ravi Chugh (University of Chicago) * Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) * James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) * Ilya Sergey (IMDEA Software Institute) * Eric Tanter (University of Chile) * Tobias Wrigstad (Uppsala University) __________________________________________ Jeremy G. Siek > Associate Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/jsiek/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org Thu Feb 5 20:11:50 2015 From: k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org (Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 02:11:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WAPL 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <54D414D6.1020704@fedcsis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 5th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages (WAPL'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/wapl E-mail: wapl2015 at fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to WAPL 2015 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015). FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, and Mazovia Cluster ICT. The aims of this event is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas and experience in topics concerned with programming languages and systems. Original papers and implementation reports are invited in all areas of programming languages. TOPICS ======================================= Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - Automata theory and applications - Compiling techniques - Domain-specific languages - Formal semantics and syntax - Generative and generic programming - Grammarware and grammar based systems - Knowledge engineering languages, integration of knowledge engineering and software engineering - Languages and tools for trustworthy computing - Language theory and applications - Language concepts, design and implementation - Markup languages (XML) - Metamodeling and modeling languages - Model-driven engineering languages and systems - Practical experiences with programming languages - Program analysis, optimization and verification - Program generation and transformation - Programming paradigms (aspect-oriented, functional, logic, object-oriented, etc.) - Programming tools and environments - Proof theory for programs - Specification languages - Type systems - Virtual machines and just-in-time compilation - Visual programming languages PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 STEERING COMMITTEE ======================================= - Janousek, Jan, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic - Lukovi?, Ivan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Mernik, Marjan, University of Maribor, Slovenia - Slivnik, Bo?tjan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Porub?n, Jaroslav, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Barisic, Ankica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Horvath, Zoltan, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary - Janousek, Jan, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic - Jo?o Varanda Pereira, Maria, Instituto Politecnico de Braganca, Portugal - Karda?, Geylani, Ege University International Computer Institute, Turkey - Koll?r, J?n, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia - Kosar, Toma?, University of Maribor, Slovenia - Liu, Shih-Hsi Alex, California State University, United States - Lukovi?, Ivan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Mandreoli, Federica, University of Modena, Italy - Mart?nez L?pez, Pablo E. "Fidel", Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina - Mernik, Marjan, University of Maribor, Slovenia - Milasinovic, Boris, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia - Moessenboeck, Hanspeter, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria - Papaspyrou, Nikolaos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Rangel Henriques, Pedro, Universidade do Minho, Portugal - Sierra Rodr?guez, Jos? Luis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain - Slivnik, Bo?tjan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Splawski, Zdzislaw, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland - van der Meer, Arjan, Eindhoven University of Technology - Watson, Bruce, Stellenbosch University, South Africa CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat at fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN From pangjun at gmail.com Fri Feb 6 04:00:37 2015 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 10:00:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSS 2015 (co-located with FM 2015 in Oslo): 2nd call for papers Message-ID: ================================================== 4th International Workshop on Engineering Safety and Security Systems June 22, 2015, Oslo, Norway Co-located with FM 2015 in Oslo, Norway, June 22-26, 2015 More information: http://pat.sce.ntu.edu.sg/esss15/ =================================================== Important dates ----------------- * March 16th, 2015: Submission deadline * April 27th, 2015: Notification of acceptance/rejection * June 22nd, 2015: Workshop date 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=esss2015. 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. Workshop chairs ----------------- Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program committee ----------------- Etienne Andre, Universite Paris 13, France Guandong Bai, National University of Singapore, Singapore Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Weiqiang Kong, Dalian University of Technology, China Keqin Li, SAP Research, France Cong Tian, Xidian University, China Mohammad Torabi Dashti, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology Yoriyuki Yamagata, AIST, Japan Tian Zhang, Nanjing University, China From mike.dodds at york.ac.uk Fri Feb 6 08:46:50 2015 From: mike.dodds at york.ac.uk (Mike Dodds) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:46:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Positions on Concurrency Verification and Correctness at York, UK Message-ID: PHD POSITIONS ON CONCURRENCY VERIFICATION AND CORRECTNESS The Department of Computer Science at the University of York, UK is offering funded PhD scholarships for excellent students, to start in September 2015. In particular, I am looking for students in the areas of: - Concurrent software verification - Program logic / separation logic - Concurrent programming language semantics - Multicore data-structure design and testing Interested applicants should contact me, Dr Mike Dodds ( mike.dodds at york.ac.uk) with a CV/resume. Successful candidates will join my research team - see http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~miked/ There are three main sources of funding available, with different deadlines: - 27th February 2015: doctoral training grant applications. - 30th April 2015: overseas research scholarship (ORS) applications. - June 2015: departmental ORS applications. See below for more details, including eligibility. Note that these are departmental deadlines; please contact me personally before applying. THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF YORK The department is a leading centre of research in Computer Science in the UK. We were ranked joint 7th in the UK in the 2014 REF research assessment (equal to Oxford University), and 5th for the impact of our research on wider society. We are based on the newly-built Heslington East campus, which provides excellent facilities for research students. The department hosts a broad range of research, from fundamental theory, to AI, software engineering, and games. As a research student, you are encouraged to work in collaboration with others, and to present your ideas at some of the many informal seminars held regularly in the Department. For more details, see the department's page on research degrees: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd/ DR MIKE DODDS I am an anniversary lecturer - one of twenty research-focussed faculty appointed to celebrate the University of York's 50th birthday. My position is roughly equivalent to a tenured assistant professor in the US. I am interested in applying the tools of CS theory - logic, proof, and formal semantics - to tricky engineering problems. Most of my work is about verifying the concurrent data-structures that lie at the heart of multicore systems. These are key systems components, but they're also particularly hard to get right. I've often worked on Hoare-style program logic, in particular logics for verifying concurrent systems. More recently, I've worked on rigorous correctness conditions and data-structure design. I've also worked in automated reasoning and graphical proof visualisation. I've picked out some key themes from my research here: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~miked/research.html FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES There are three main sources of funding for prospective students, each with different eligibility criteria and deadlines. If you have your own funding (e.g. from a national scholarship programme or private finance), then you can apply at any time of year. 1. Departmental EPSRC Doctoral Training Grants. (Deadline: 27th February 2015). Funding: Fees at Home/EU rate as well as an annual stipend (for 2013/4 this was ?13,726) for 3 years. Eligibility: Full funding for UK students or fees-only funding for EU students. 2. University Overseas Research Scholarship - ORS (Deadline: 30th April 2015). This is a highly competitive scholarship based on academic merit and financial need. To present the strongest case, candidates will have excellent bachelors/masters marks and ideally will have already published one or more academic paper. Funding: Full overseas tuition fee and a stipend of ?5,000 per year for each year of successful study. Eligibility: Overseas (i.e. non-EU) students. 3. Department Overseas Research Scholarship - DORS (Deadline: June 2015). This is a departmental scheme which is less competitive than ORS, but is also less valuable. Funding: the award covers the difference between home/EU student and international student PhD fees. Eligibility: Overseas (i.e. non-EU) students. For more details, see my page on PhD applications: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~miked/docstudents.html HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in applying for a PhD with me, please email me first to allow us to discuss possible topics (mike.dodds at york.ac.uk). Please include a copy of your CV/resume with your email. In order to apply, you must have, or expect to obtain, a First or a high Upper Second Class Honours undergraduate degree, or equivalent qualification, and/or a Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. To make a formal application, you should apply via the University of York's central application system. You should then name me as a potential supervisor. http://www.york.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/ -- http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~miked/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marino.miculan at uniud.it Sat Feb 7 04:28:26 2015 From: marino.miculan at uniud.it (Marino Miculan) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:28:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MeMo 2015 - 1st CfP Message-ID: <911ED320-E0A0-4518-87FF-C0D5AA95FECD@uniud.it> MeMo 2015 2nd International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages June 5, 2015 Grenoble, France Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2015 https://discotec2015.inria.fr/memo-2015/ 1st Call for Papers ** IMPORTANT DATES 26 March 2015: Submission of abstracts 1 April 2015: Submission of full papers and tool presentations 28 April 2015: Notification to authors (papers & tool presentations) 28 April 2015: Submission of posters 5 May 2015: Submission of camera-ready for pre-proceedings 5 May 2015: Notification of posters to authors 5 June 2015: MeMo in Grenoble ** SCOPE Metamodels are framework theories which provide general, structural results simplifying and driving the development of models of specific systems and languages. Metamodels can also help in the definition of new computation and programming paradigms. The goal of the MeMo workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on and with metamodels, with the aim to share insights, uncover similarities and differences, possibilities for cross-fertilization and stimulate further research. We solicit contributions in the theory and applications of meta models: theoretical results, tool implementations, real-world applications, case studies, new application areas, integration of meta-models with programming languages, etc. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Metamodels for operational semantics: bigraphical reactive systems, coalgebras, psi-calculus, SOS formats, term and graph transformation systems, tile models, ULTraS and FuTS, etc. - Metamodels for denotational semantics: algebraic/bialgebraic specifications, monads, enriched Lawvere theories, mathematical operational semantics, etc. - Metamodels for logical semantics: metalanguages for deductive systems, concurrent logical frameworks - Expressiveness issues of metamodels - Applications of meta-models to the design of computational paradigms (e.g., for agent-based and context-aware computing) - Tools, implementations, and experiments ** SUBMISSION We invite for three types of submissions: Full Papers; Tool presentations; Posters. Full papers and tool presentations will appear in the pre-proceedings and post-proceedings and must report previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. In addition, we invite poster announcements of already published results, should the authors be interested in discussing their published research with the MeMo community and giving a talk. Posters will not be part of the post-proceedings. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memo2015). Full papers should not exceed 15 pages in length, while tool presentations and posters should not exceed 8 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). Accepted papers, tool presentations and posters must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. A post-proceedings is planned as a special issue in a highly-reputed journal. ** 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, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy (chair) Joachim Parrow, Uppsala University, Sweden Iliano Cervesato, CMU Qatar Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Jan Rutten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands ** ORGANIZERS S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy =================== From P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk Sat Feb 7 10:47:45 2015 From: P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk (Paul B Levy) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 15:47:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD opportunities in the Computer Science theory group at Birmingham Message-ID: <54D633A1.7080804@cs.bham.ac.uk> Dear all, We invite applications for PhD study at the University of Birmingham. We are a group of (mostly) theoretical computer scientists who explore fundamental concepts in computation and programming language semantics. This often involves profound and surprising connections between different areas of computer science and mathematics. From category theory to ?-calculus and computational effects, from topology to constructive mathematics, from game semantics to program compilation, this is a diverse field of research that continues to provide new insight and underlying structure. See our webpage, with links to individual researchers, here: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/groupings/theory/ Information about PhD applications may be found here: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/admissions/postgraduate-research/ If you are considering applying, please contact any of us. We will be very happy to discuss the opportunities available. Best regards, the Birmingham CS theory group -- Mart?n Escard? (Topology, computation with infinite objects, constructive mathematics, intuitionistic type theory) Dan Ghica (Game semantics, heterogeneous computing, model checking) Achim Jung (Mathematical structures in the foundations of computing: logic, topology, order) Neelakantan Krishnaswami (Type theory, verification, substructural logic, interactive computation) Paul Levy (Denotational semantics, ?-calculus with effects, nondeterminism, category theory, game semantics) Uday Reddy (Semantics of state, separation logic) Eike Ritter (Security protocol verification) Hayo Thielecke (Abstract machines, concurrent and functional programming, software security) Steve Vickers (Constructive mathematics and topology, category theory and toposes) From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sat Feb 7 14:55:54 2015 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 16:55:54 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WoLLIC 2015 - EXTENDED DEADLINE : Feb 15 Message-ID: *EXTENDED DEADLINE: Feb 15* [Please circulate. Apologies for cross-postings.] WoLLIC 2015 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 20th-23rd, 2015 Bloomington, IN, USA 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, Indiana University, USA Program in Pure and Applied Logic, Indiana University, USA Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA 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 twenty-second WoLLIC will be held at the Department of Computer Science Indiana University, from July 20th to 23rd, 2015. 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; foundations of mathematics; philosophical logic. 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 2015 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2015/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Feb 8, 2015, and the full paper by Feb 15, 2015 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Mar 22, 2015, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by Apr 5, 2015 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2015, 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 2015 issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, CUP (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute, USA) Nina Gierasimczuk (ILLC, U Amsterdam, The Netherlands) John Harrison (Intel, USA) Peter Jipsen (Chapman U, USA) Andre Joyal (U du Qu?bec ? Montreal, Canada) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana U, USA) Alexandra Silva (Radboud U Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2015 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2015). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES *Feb 15, 2015*: Paper title and abstract deadline *(EXTENDED)* *Feb 22, 2015*: Full paper deadline *(EXTENDED)* Mar 22, 2015: Author notification Apr 5, 2015: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Juliana K?ster Filipe Bowles (U St Andrews, Scotland) Robin Cooper (U Gothenburg, Sweden) Mart?n Escard? (U Birmingham, UK) Nikos Galatos (U Denver, USA) Achim Jung (U Birmingham, UK) Sara Kalvala (U Warwick, UK) Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh U, Scotland) Peter Lefanu Lumsdaine (Institute for Advanced Study, USA) Ian Mackie (U Sussex, UK) Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua University, China) Vivek Nigam (Federal U of Para?ba, Brazil) Catarina Dutilh Novaes (U Groningen, The Netherlands) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comm, USA) (CHAIR) Luiz Carlos Pereira (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Elaine Pimentel (Federal U of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Alexandra Silva (Radboud Nijmegen U, The Netherlands) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) Josef Urban (Radboud Nijmegen U, The Netherlands) Laure Vieu (IRIT-Toulouse, France) Renata Wasserman (U S?o Paulo, Brazil) Anna Zamansky (U Haifa, Israel) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Daniel Leivant (Indiana U) (Local co-chair) Larry Moss (Indiana U) (Local co-chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grlmc at urv.cat Sat Feb 7 17:14:00 2015 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 23:14:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LATA 2015: call for participation Message-ID: <4687BC2DD93F4A8F9A9FAC41BEFA6D8E@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ***************************************************************************** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2015 Nice, France March 2-6, 2015 Organized by: CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271 Nice Sophia Antipolis University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/ ***************************************************************************** PROGRAM Monday, March 2 09:15 - 10:15 Registration 10:15 - 10:25 Opening 10:25 - 11:15 Azadeh Farzan, Matthias Heizmann, Jochen Hoenicke, Zachary Kincaid and Andreas Podelski: Automated Program Verification - Invited Lecture 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Ala Eddine Ben Salem: Single-pass Testing Automata for LTL Model Checking Conrad Cotton-Barratt, Andrzej S. Murawski and C.-H. Luke Ong: Weak and Nested Class Memory Automata Joey Eremondi, Oscar H. Ibarra and Ian McQuillan: Insertion Operations on Deterministic Reversal-Bounded Counter Machines 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:10 Adrien Boiret, Vincent Hugot, Joachim Niehren and Ralf Treinen: Logics for Unordered Trees with Data Constraints on Siblings Fran?ois Gonze and Rapha?l M. Jungers: On the Synchronizing Probability Function and the Triple Rendezvous Time: New Approaches to Cerny's Conjecture Vesa Halava, Reino Niskanen and Igor Potapov: On Robot Games of Degree Two Shankara Narayanan Krishna, Lakshmi Manasa and Ashutosh Trivedi: Time-Bounded Reachability Problem for Recursive Timed Automata is Undecidable 16:10 - 16:25 Break 16:25 - 18:10 Rui Li and Yiguang Hong: On Observability of Automata Networks via Computational Algebra Nicolas Peltier: Reasoning on Schemas of Formulas: An Automata-Based Approach Martin Sulzmann and Peter Thiemann: Derivatives for Regular Shuffle Expressions Eric Allender and Ian Mertz: Complexity of Regular Functions Tuesday, March 3 09:00 - 09:50 Marco Autili, Paola Inverardi, Filippo Mignosi, Romina Spalazzese and Massimo Tivoli: Automated Synthesis of Application-layer Connectors from Automata-based Specifications - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Peter Thiemann and Martin Sulzmann: From Omega-Regular Expressions to B?chi Automata via Partial Derivatives Guillaume Verdier and Jean-Baptiste Raclet: Quotient of Acceptance Specifications under Reachability Constraints Parvaneh Babari and Manfred Droste: A Nivat Theorem for Weighted Picture Automata and Weighted MSO Logics 11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break 11:50 - 13:05 Luc Boasson and Olivier Carton: Rational Selecting Relations and Selectors Peter Leupold and Norbert Hundeshagen: A Hierarchy of Transducing Observer Systems Antoine Ndione, Aur?lien Lemay and Joachim Niehren: Sublinear DTD Validity 13:05 - 14:35 Lunch 14:35 - 16:15 Carl Barton, Costas S. Iliopoulos and Solon P. Pissis: Average-case Optimal Approximate Circular String Matching Johanna Bj?rklund, Frank Drewes and Niklas Zechner: An Efficient Best-Trees Algorithm for Weighted Tree Automata over the Tropical Semiring Bastien Cazaux, Thierry Lecroq and Eric Rivals: Construction of a de Bruijn Graph for Assembly from a Truncated Suffix Tree Da-Jung Cho, Yo-Sub Han and Hwee Kim: Frequent Pattern Mining with Non-overlapping Inversions 16:15 - 16:30 Break 16:30 - 17:45 H.K. Dai and Z. Wang: A Parallel Algorithm for Finding All Minimal Maximum Subsequences via Random Walk Hern?n Ponce-De-Le?n and Andrey Mokhov: Building Bridges Between Sets of Partial Orders Vojt?ch Vorel and Adam Roman: Complexity of Road Coloring with Prescribed Reset Words Wednesday, March 4 9:00 - 9:50 Antonio Restivo: The Shuffle Product: New Research Directions - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Marcella Anselmo, Dora Giammarresi and Maria Madonia: Structure and Measure of a Decidable Class of Two-dimensional Codes Thibault Godin, Ines Klimann and Matthieu Picantin: On Torsion-Free Semigroups Generated by Invertible Reversible Mealy Automata Luis-Miguel Lopez and Philippe Narbel: Coding Non-orientable Laminations 11:20 - 11:50 Group Photo and Coffee Break 11:50 - 13:05 Pavel Panteleev: Preset Distinguishing Sequences and Diameter of Transformation Semigroups Charalampos Zinoviadis: Hierarchy and Expansiveness in 2D Subshifts of Finite Type Stefano Bilotta, Elisa Pergola, Renzo Pinzani and Simone Rinaldi: Recurrence Relations, Succession Rules and the Positivity Problem 13:05 - 14:35 Lunch 14:35 - 16:15 Philip Bille, Inge Li G?rtz and S?ren Vind: Compressed Data Structures for Range Searching Alberto Policriti, Nicola Gigante and Nicola Prezza: Average Linear Time and Compressed Space Construction of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform Jan Tr?vn??ek, Jan Janou?ek, Bo?ivoj Melichar and Loek Cleophas: Backward Linearised Tree Pattern Matching Vladimir Ulyantsev, Ilya Zakirzyanov and Anatoly Shalyto: BFS-based Symmetry Breaking Predicates for DFA Identification 17:00 - 20:00 Touristic visit Thursday, March 5 09:00 - 09:50 Giancarlo Mauri, Alberto Leporati, Luca Manzoni, Antonio E. Porreca and Claudio Zandron: Complexity Classes for Membrane Systems - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Davide Bresolin, Dario Della Monica, Angelo Montanari, Pietro Sala and Guido Sciavicco: On the Complexity of Fragments of the Modal Logic of Allen's Relations over Dense Structures Nadia Creignou, Ra?da Ktari, Arne Meier, Julian-Steffen M?ller, Fr?d?ric Olive and Heribert Vollmer: Parameterized Enumeration for Modification Problems Martin L?ck, Arne Meier and Irena Schindler: Parameterized Complexity of CTL: A Generalization of Courcelle's Theorem 11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break 11:50 - 13:05 Kazuyuki Amano and Atsushi Saito: A Nonuniform Circuit Class with Multilayer of Threshold Gates Having Super Quasi Polynomial Size Lower Bounds against NEXP Georg Bachmeier, Michael Luttenberger and Maximilian Schlund: Finite Automata for the Sub- and Superword Closure of CFLs: Descriptional and Computational Complexity Olaf Beyersdorff, Leroy Chew and Karteek Sreenivasaiah: A Game Characterisation of Tree-like Q-resolution Size 13:05 - 14:35 Lunch 14:35 - 16:15 Alberto Dennunzio, Enrico Formenti, Luca Manzoni and Antonio E. Porreca: Preimage Problems for Reaction Systems Ryo Yoshinaka: Learning Conjunctive Grammars and Contextual Binary Feature Grammars Rapha?l Bailly, Fran?ois Denis and Guillaume Rabusseau: Recognizable Series on Hypergraphs Yohan Boichut, Jacques Chabin and Pierre R?ty: Towards More Precise Rewriting Approximations 16:15 - 16:30 Break 16:30 - 17:45 Michael Codish, Lu?s Cruz-Filipe and Peter Schneider-Kamp: Sorting Networks: the End Game Konrad Kazimierz Dabrowski, Shenwei Huang and Dani?l Paulusma: Bounding Clique-width via Perfect Graphs Ryszard Janicki, Jetty Kleijn, Maciej Koutny and ?ukasz Mikulski: Order Structures for Subclasses of Generalised Traces Friday, March 6 9:00 - 9:50 Johann A. Makowsky and Nadia Labai: Hankel Matrices: From Words to Graphs - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Golnaz Badkobeh, Gabriele Fici and Zsuzsanna Lipt?k: On the Number of Closed Factors in a Word Gabriele Fici, Thierry Lecroq, Arnaud Lefebvre and ?lise Prieur-Gaston: Online Computation of Abelian Runs Guilhem Gamard and Gwena?l Richomme: Coverability in Two Dimensions 11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break 11:50 - 13:05 Jana Hadravov? and ?t?p?n Holub: Equation xiyjxk=uivjuk in Words ?ukasz Mikulski, Marcin Pi?tkowski and Wojciech Rytter: Square-free Words over Partially Commutative Alphabets Ananda Chandra Nayak and Kalpesh Kapoor: On the Language of Primitive Partial Words 13:05 - 13:15 Closing --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protecci?n de avast! Antivirus est? activa. http://www.avast.com From Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk Sun Feb 8 06:14:38 2015 From: Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 11:14:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLACES 2015 Workshop: Call For Participation Message-ID: <54D7451E.70808@glasgow.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PLACES'15 Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software 18th April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://places15.di.fc.ul.pt/ ** Information ** 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. ** Invited Speaker ** Martin Vechev, Software Reliability Lab, ETH Zurich ** Accepted Papers ** Session types as an effect system Dominic Orchard and Nobuko Yoshida Broadcast and aggregation in BBC Hans H?ttel and Nuno Pratas Precise subtyping for synchronous multiparty sessions Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Silvia Ghilezan, Svetlana Jak?i?, Jovanka Pantovi? and Nobuko Yoshida Reversible Communicating Processes Geoffrey Brown and Amr Sabry Retractable contracts Franco Barbanera, Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Ivan Lanese and Ugo De?Liguoro A Typed Model for Dynamic Authorizations Silvia Ghilezan, Svetlana Jak?i?, Jovanka Pantovi?, Jorge A. P?rez and Hugo Torres Vieira Communicating machines as a dynamic binding mechanism of services Ignacio Vissani, Carlos Gustavo Lopez Pombo and Emilio Tuosto Distributed Programming via Safe Closure Passing Philipp Haller and Heather Miller Behavioural types for non-uniform memory accesses Juliana Franco and Sophia Drossopoulou ** Programme Committee ** Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK (co-chair) Jade Alglave, University College London, UK (co-chair) Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Stefan Blom, University of Twente, Netherlands Nathan Chong, University College London, UK Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Hans H?ttel, Aalborg University, Denmark Paul Keir, Codeplay Software Ltd, UK Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark David Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Pierre-Yves Strub, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Jules Villard, Imperial College London, UK ** Organising Committee ** Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge, UK Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK From m.huisman at utwente.nl Mon Feb 9 03:29:20 2015 From: m.huisman at utwente.nl (Marieke Huisman) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:29:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Looking for PhDs and Postdocs in Software Analytics and Data Science for 3TU.BSR "Big Software on the Run" research program Message-ID: <54D86FE0.70705@utwente.nl> In the context of the 3TU.BSR "Big Software on the Run" research program we are looking for 6 PhDs and 3 Postdocs interested in Software Analytics and Data Science. Context Millions of lines of code - written in different languages by different people at different times, and operating on a variety of platforms - drive the systems performing key processes in our society. The resulting software needs to evolve and can no longer be controlled a priori as is illustrated by a range of software problems. The 3TU.BSR research program will develop novel techniques and tools to analyze software systems in vivo - making it possible to visualize behavior, create models, check conformance, predict problems, and recommend corrective actions. To deal with Big Software on the Run (BSR), we propose to shift the main focus from a priori software design to a posteriori software analytics thereby exploiting the large amounts of event data generated by today's systems. The core idea is to study software systems in vivo, i.e., at runtime and in their natural habitat. We would like to understand the actual (desired or undesired) behavior of software. Running software needs to adapt to evolving and diverging environments and requirements. This forces us to consider software artifacts as "living organisms operating in a changing ecosystem". This paradigm shift requires new forms of empirical investigation that go far beyond the common practice of collecting error messages and providing software updates. Project The project will run for a period of four years and is supported by the three Dutch technical universities (Eindhoven University of Technology, TU Delft, and University of Twente). It was initiated by 3TU.NIRICT, the Netherlands Institute for Research on ICT, which comprises all ICT research of the three universities of technology in the Netherlands. The PhD positions will run for 4 years. The three postdocs will be appointed for 2-3 years. The following chairs/groups are involved: ?The /Architecture of Information Systems/ (AIS) group at /Eindhoven University of Technology/ (Van der Aalst). ?The /Visualization/ (VIS) group at /Eindhoven University of Technology/ (Van Wijk). ?The /Software Engineering Research Group/ (SERG) at /Delft University of Technology/ (Van Deursen) ?The /Cybersecurity Group/ (CY) at /Delft University of Technology/ (Lagendijk) ?The /Formal Methods and Tools/(FMT) at /University of Twente/ (Van de Pol & Huisman) Interested PhD candidates are requested to apply on a specific PhD position (see details below): 1.Automatically Discovering Behavioral Software Models from Software Event Data (Van der Aalst & Van Deursen) at Eindhoven University of Technology 2.Model-based Visualization of Software Event Data (Van Wijk & Huisman) at Eindhoven University of Technology 3.Exceptional Patterns (Van Deursen & Van Wijk) at TU Delft 4.Monitoring Concurrent Software (Huisman & Lagendijk) at University of Twente 5.Privacy Preserving On-line Conformance Checking (Lagendijk & Van de Pol) at TU Delft 6.Parallel Checking and Prediction (Van de Pol & Van der Aalst) at University of Twente Moreover, there will be three postdoc positions: 1.A postdoc related to PhD projects 1 & 2 at Eindhoven University of Technology 2.A postdoc related to PhD projects 3 & 5 at TU Delft 3.A postdoc related to PhD projects 4 & 6 at University of Twente Requirements We are looking for candidates that meet the following requirements: ?a solid background in Computer Science, Data Science, or Software Science (demonstrated by a relevant Master); ?for the postdocpositions a relevant PhD is expected; ?candidates from non-Dutch or non-English speaking countries should be prepared to prove their English language skills; ?good communicative skills in English, both in speaking and in writing; ?candidates are expected to realize research ideas in terms of prototype software, so software development skills are needed. Note that we are looking for candidates that really want to make a difference and like to work on things that have a high practical relevance while having the ambition to compete at an international scientific level (i.e., present at top conferences and in top journals). Appointment and salary PhDs and postdocs will be employed by the respective university using the standardVSNU conditions for Dutch universities.See for more information: ?http://w3.tue.nl/en/services/dpo/conditions_of_employment/tue_conditions_of_employment ?http://www.utwente.nl/hr/en/terms-of-employment/ ?http://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/working-at-tu-delft/tu-delft-as-employer/ How to apply? Please apply for the position you are interested in. Each position has a contact person and a pointer to a website and e-mail address to actually apply. PhD 1: Automatically Discovering Behavioral Software Models from Software Event Data (Van der Aalst & Van Deursen) Process models and user interface workflows underlie the functional specification of almost every substantial software system. However, these are often left implicit or are not kept consistent with the actual software development. When the system is utilized, user interaction with the system can be recorded in event logs. After applying process mining methods to logs, we can derive process and user interface workflow models. These models provide insights regarding the real usage of the software and can enable usability improvements and software redesign. In this project, we aim to develop process discovery techniques specific for software. How can domain knowledge and software structure be exploited while mining? How to discover software patterns and anti-patterns? ?More information about this position contact Wil van der Aalst (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~wvdaalst/ ). ?For more information about the employment conditions contact Charl Kuiters HR advisor, e-mail: pzwin at tue.nl . ?You can apply by using the following link: http://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-discovering-behavioral-software-models-from-software-event-data-206118.htmlor visit http://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancies.htmland choose Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and click ?search? to find this vacancy (V32.2142). PhD 2: Model-based Visualization of Software Event Data (Van Wijk & Huisman) Visualization can be a powerful means for understanding large and complex data sets, such as the huge event streams produced by running software systems. During explorative analysis experts have to be enabled to see what patterns occur, during monitoring anomalous events and patterns have to be detected, where in both cases we can exploit the unique capabilities of the human visual system. However, simply showing events as a sequence of items will fall short because of lack of scalability. The challenge is to enable users to specify what they are interested in, and to show only a limited subset of the data, using filtering, aggregation, and abstraction. We propose to enable users to define models for this, ranging from simple range filters to process models. We will study which (combinations of) models are most appropriate here, such that occurrences of events, temporal and logical patterns,and the relations between occurrences and attributes of events can be detected, and to facilitate analysts to define and check hypotheses on patterns. ?More information about this position contact Jack van Wijk (http://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/). ?For more information about the employment conditions contact Charl Kuiters HR advisor, e-mail: pzwin at tue.nl . ?You can apply by using the following link: http://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-modelbased-visualization-of-software-event-data-206124.htmlor visit http://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancies.htmland choose Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and click ?search? to find this vacancy (V32.2143). PhD 3: Exceptional Patterns (Van Deursen & Van Wijk) A particularly challenging phenomenon in software development are 'exceptions'. Most programming is focused on 'good weather behavior', in which the system works under normal circumstances. Actual deployment however, often takes place in a changing or unexpected environment. This may lead to exceptions being raised by the application, which should be handled by the application. Unfortunately, predicting such exceptional circumstances is often impossible. Consequently, developers have difficulty adequately handling such exceptions. Some exceptions are simply swallowed by the applications, others are properly logged, and yet other may lead to unpredictable behavior. To resolve this, we propose to analyze log files for 'exceptional patterns' -- patterns that hint at the presence of exceptions. To find such patterns, we propose to use visualization techniques applied to log data and stack traces. Furthermore, we will investigate ways to predict future occurrences of exceptions, and recommendations on how to improve exception handling in the code base. ?More information about this position contact Arie van Deursen (http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~arie/). ?More information on how to apply will follow via http://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/working-at-tu-delft/jobs/academic-jobs/. PhD 4: Monitoring Concurrent Software (Huisman & Lagendijk) The goal is to develop a monitoring system for concurrent software. Making monitoring transparent is the big challenge: monitoring should not affect program behavior. A general-purpose approach will be designed, based on local annotations and global properties. Runtime monitoring is essential to check conformance of concurrent software during deployment. At the same time, runtime monitoring provides insight in low-level software events, generating a continuous data stream of events that feeds discovery. With process mining and visualization technology in Eindhoven, we will explore the scope of concurrent software monitoring. ?More information about this position: see http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/vacancies/or contact Marieke Huisman (http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/~marieke/ ). ?More information on the terms of employment: http://www.utwente.nl/hr/en/terms-of-employment/or contact Marlies Oude Bos, HR advisor, e-mail: m.oudebos at utwente.nl . ?You can apply directly using the following link: http://tinyurl.com/3TU-BSR-PhD4 /PhD 5: Privacy Preserving On-line Conformance Checking (Lagendijk & Van de Pol)/ Privacy enhancing techniques have been applied dominantly to data analysis problems (such as pattern recognition) and multimedia algorithms (such as recommendation engines). The goal of privacy preserving on-line conformance checking is to research the problem of privacy and security protection in software engineering for the first time. The central problem is that conformance checking algorithms may need to operate on event data that is sensitive in some way, for instance, contains user-related information. Such data can be anonymized or encrypted for protection, yet this might affect the accuracy of the conformance checking procedure. It will therefore be necessary to find an acceptable trade-off between the level of protection, the utility of the results obtained from the privacy-enhanced version of the conformance checking algorithm, and the additional computational overhead introduced by the anonymization or encryption process.// ?More information about this position contact Inald Lagendijk (http://mmc.tudelft.nl/users/inald-lagendijk). ?More information on how to apply will follow via http://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/working-at-tu-delft/jobs/academic-jobs/. PhD 6: Parallel Checking and Prediction (Van de Pol & Van der Aalst) Based on the models discovered by online observations (Track 1), the goal of this research project is to develop scalable technology for predicting future system behavior (Track 3). Assuming that the system?s components will behave similar to the process models learnt so far, (quantitative) model checking techniques will be applied to explore possible runs and interactions of the integrated system. In order to support online recommendations (Track 4), the model checking results should be available nearly instantaneously. This calls for parallel, scalable algorithms that will be run on local and national cloud infrastructure. ?More information about this position: see http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/vacancies/or contact Jaco van de Pol (http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/~vdpol/ ). ?More information on the terms of employment: http://www.utwente.nl/hr/en/terms-of-employment/or contact Marlies Oude Bos, HR advisor, e-mail: m.oudebos at utwente.nl . ?You can apply directly using the following link: http://tinyurl.com/3TU-BSR-PhD6. Postdoc 1: Software Analytics and Process Mining (Van der Aalst) The postdoc will be involved in the supervision of the PhDs based at Eindhoven University of Technology (PhD positions 1 & 2). Moreover, the postdoc will also run the Eindhoven side of the 3TU.BSR "Big Software on the Run" research program. This also includes making sure that software and application efforts are integrated and coordinated between the different subprojects. ?More information about this position contact Wil van der Aalst (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~wvdaalst/ ). ?For more information about the employment conditions contact Charl Kuiters HR advisor, e-mail: pzwin at tue.nl . ?You can apply by using the following link: http://jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/postdoc-software-analytics-and-process-mining-206130.htmlor visit http://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancies.html, choose Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and click ?search? to find this vacancy (V32.2144). Postdoc 2 (TUD): Information will follow later. Postdoc 3: Monitoring, Testing and Conformance Checking (Van de Pol) This postdoc will investigate the frontier between model-based testing, runtime monitoring and conformance checking. The goal is to evaluate and improve test-generation techniques based on massive data gathered from online monitoring and the software development process, in collaboration with TU Delft (van Deursen) and TU Eindhoven (van der Aalst). The postdoc will be involved in the supervision of the PhDs based at the University of Twente (PhD positions 4 & 6). Moreover, the postdoc will also run the Twente side of the 3TU.BSR "Big Software on the Run" research program. This includes ensuring that software and application efforts are integrated and coordinated between the different subprojects. ?More information about this position: see http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/vacancies/or contact Jaco van de Pol (http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/~vdpol/ ). ?More information on the terms of employment: http://www.utwente.nl/hr/en/terms-of-employment/or contact Marlies Oude Bos, HR advisor, e-mail: m.oudebos at utwente.nl . 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URL: From samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr Mon Feb 9 08:43:58 2015 From: samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr (Samuel Mimram) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 14:43:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HDRA 2015: Call for Papers Message-ID: <54D8B99E.3090103@lix.polytechnique.fr> ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (HDRA 2015) ============================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First edition of the workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications 28-29 June 2015, Warsaw, Poland http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?site=hdra Co-located with the RDP, RTA and TLCA conferences ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over recent years, rewriting methods have been generalized from strings and terms to richer algebraic structures such as operads, monoidal categories, and more generally higher-dimensional categories. These extensions of rewriting fit in the general scope of higher-dimensional rewriting theory, which has emerged as a unifying algebraic framework. This approach allows one to perform homotopical and homological analysis of rewriting systems (Squier theory). It also provides new computational methods in combinatorial algebra (Artin-Tits monoids, Coxeter and Garside structures), in homotopical and homological algebra (construction of cofibrant replacements, Koszulness property). The workshop is open to all topics concerning higher-dimensional generalizations and applications of rewriting theory, including - higher-dimensional rewriting: polygraphs / computads, higher-dimensional generalizations of string/term/graph rewriting systems, etc. - homotopical invariants of rewriting systems: homotopical and homological finiteness properties, Squier theory, algebraic Morse theory, coherence results in algebra and higher-dimensional category theory, etc. - linear rewriting: presentations and resolutions of algebras and operads, Gr?bner bases and generalizations, homotopy and homology of algebras and operads, Koszul duality theory, etc. - applications of higher-dimensional and linear rewriting and their interactions with other fields: calculi for quantum computations, algebraic lambda-calculi, proof nets, topological models for concurrency, homotopy type theory, combinatorial group theory, etc. - implementations: the workshop will also be interested in implementation issues in higher-dimensional rewriting and will allow demonstrations of prototypes of existing and new tools in higher-dimensional rewriting. Invited speakers ================ * John Baez * TBA Submission ========== Important dates --------------- * Submission: April 15, 2015 * Notification: May 6, 2015 * Final version: May 20, 2015 * Conference: 28-29 June, 2015 Submitting ---------- Submissions should consist in an extended abstract, in pdf format, approximatively 5 pages long, in standard article format. The page for uploading those is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hdra2015 Proceedings ----------- The accepted extended abstracts will be made available electronically before the workshop. Program committee ================= * Vladimir Dotsenko (Trinity College, Dublin) * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit? Paris 7) * Jean-Pierre Jouannaud (?cole Polytechnique) * Philippe Malbos (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) * Paul-Andr? Melli?s (Universit? Paris 7) * Samuel Mimram (?cole Polytechnique) * Tim Porter (University of Wales, Bangor) * Femke van Raamsdonk (VU University, Amsterdam) Organizers ========== * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit? Paris 7) * Philippe Malbos (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) * Samuel Mimram (?cole Polytechnique) From maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de Mon Feb 9 09:09:27 2015 From: maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de (Matteo Maffei) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 06:09:27 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSF 2015: paper submission deadline extended to February 11 Message-ID: 28th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://csf2015.di.univr.it/ July 14 - 17, 2015 Verona, Italy The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security. CSF seeks papers on foundational aspects of computer security, such as 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. This year, CSF will use a light form of double blind reviewing; see below. Topics ------ New results in computer security are welcome. We also encourage challenge/vision papers, which may describe open questions and raise fundamental concerns about security. Possible topics for all papers 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 ---------------- This year, we strongly encourage papers in three foundational areas of research we would like to promote at CSF: PRIVACY. (Chair: Catuscia Palamidessi.) CSF 2015 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. We especially encourage submissions aiming at connecting the computer science point of view on privacy with that of other disciplines (law, economics, sociology,...) VOTING. (Chair: Olivier Pereira.) CSF 2015 will include a special session on voting technologies and invites submissions on definitions, models and analysis of voting systems or their components, including (but not limited to) vote authentication mechanisms, ballot tallying techniques, election verifiability and audit techniques, election problem recovery. As several countries are currently looking for the adoption of voting systems with enhanced security features, submissions that inform on deployed voting systems or propose original approaches for the design or improvement of voting systems are both welcome. SECURE SYSTEMS. (Chair: Frank Piessens.) The need for principled secure systems is higher than ever, with Internet connectivity extending its reach from servers and desktops to mobile devices, and (sometimes tiny) embedded systems. Interesting new security designs are being studied at all system layers, from protected module architectures at the hardware level to language based software security. CSF 2015 invites submissions of papers that study foundational aspects of such designs and the relations between them, including papers on hardware and/or software security architectures, policy enforcement mechanisms, secure programming languages, secure compilation, and operating system or browser security. These papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the special session chairs. They 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 (pending approval), will be available at the symposium, and selected papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Computer Security. ***************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: extended to February 11, 2015, 11:59pm EST Author response period: March 23-24, 2015, ending at 11:59pm EST Notification: April 6, 2015 Camera ready: May 9, 2015 Symposium: July 14--17, 2015 ***************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michele Bugliesi, Universita Ca Foscari Venezia Jason Crampton, Royal Holloway Cas Cremers, University of Oxford Ulfar Erlingsson, Google Cedric Fournet, Microsoft Research (Program Co-Chair) Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and MITRE Michael Hicks, University of Maryland (Program Co-Chair) Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier Andrew Myers, Cornell University David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA (Area Chair on Privacy) Olivier Pereira, UC Louvain (Area Chair on Voting) Frank Piessens, KU Leuven (Area Chair on Secure Systems) Tamara Rezk, INRIA James Riely, DePaul University Dave Sands, Chalmers University of Technology Nikhil Swamy, Microsoft Research Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T J Watson Center Santiago Zanella Beguelin, MSR-INRIA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research ***************************************************** 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. Papers must be submitted using the two-column IEEE Proceedings style available for various document preparation systems at the IEEE Conference Publishing Services page. All papers should use 10pt font and 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. Templates are available here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html If using the Latex template, use the documentclass options 10pt, conference, and compsocconf. Following the recent history of other top-quality conferences and symposia in security, CSF'15 will employ a light form of double-blind reviewing. To facilitate this, submitted papers must (a) omit any reference to the authors' names or the names of their institutions, and (b) reference the authors' own related work in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). Please see the conference site for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) that address many common concerns. When in doubt, contact the program chairs. Papers failing to adhere to any of the instructions above will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Papers should be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF) to the CSF 2015 submission site: https://csf15.hotcrp.com/ . 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URL: From sescobar at dsic.upv.es Mon Feb 9 06:25:15 2015 From: sescobar at dsic.upv.es (Santiago Escobar) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:25:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: UNIF 2015 References: <7CCCB2CE-AC68-4B48-B850-BE32AEA4BE43@dsic.upv.es> Message-ID: ========================================================== Call for Papers UNIF 2015 The 29th International Workshop on Unification June 28, 2015. Warsaw, Poland http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?site=unif ********* part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP'15) ========================================================== UNIF 2015 is the 29th 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 of Interest ------------------ A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest include: - Unification algorithms, calculi and implementations - Equational unification and unification modulo theories - Unification in modal, temporal and description logics - Admissibility of inference rules - Narrowing - Matching algorithms - Constraint solving - Combination problems - Disunification - Higher-Order unification - Type checking and reconstruction - Typed unification - Complexity issues - Query answering - Implementation techniques - Applications of unification - Antiunification/Generalization Submission ---------- Following the tradition of UNIF, we call for submissions of abstracts (5 pages) in EasyChair style, to be submitted electronically as PDF files through the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unif2015 Abstracts will be evaluated by the Programme Committee (if necessary with support from external reviewers) regarding their significance for the workshop. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the informal proceedings of the workshop, available in printed form at the workshop and in electronic form from the UNIF homepage: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/unif/ Based on the number and quality of submissions we will decide whether to organize a special journal issue. Important Dates --------------- * Paper Submission: May 3, 2015 * Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2015 * Final version: June 7, 2015 * Conference: June 28, 2015 Programme Committee ------------------- * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Santiago Escobar, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (co-chair) * Adria Gascon, SRI international, USA * Silvio Ghilardi, Universita di Milano, Italy * Artur Jez, MPI, Germany * Temur Kutsia, RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Jordi Levy, IIIA-CSIC, Spain * Christopher Lynch, Clarkson University, USA * George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland * Paliath Narendran, University at Albany-SUNY, USA * Jan Otop, IST, Austria * Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France * Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany * Mateu Villaret, Universitat de Girona, Spain (co-chair) For more information, please contact any of the two chairs Santiago Escobar or Mateu Villaret. From neil.ghani at strath.ac.uk Mon Feb 9 10:07:21 2015 From: neil.ghani at strath.ac.uk (Neil Ghani) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:07:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 4Yr Postdoc with McBride/Ghani Message-ID: <2C986E09-47CA-4173-8264-5A2E7F9DA97E@strath.ac.uk> Please forward to anyone you think might be interested cheers neil Salary range: ?30434 - ?34,233 FTE: 1.0 Term: Fixed Term (4 years) Closing date: 23 February 2015 Applications are invited for a Research Associate to work under the supervision of Professor Neil Ghani and Dr Conor McBride on the EPSRC grant "Homotopy Type Theory: Programming and Verification". Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT) is a revolutionary new approach to type theory where types are interpreted as spaces, terms as points and equalities as paths. Decades of research in homotopy theory has uncovered the structure of such paths and HoTT uses this structure as the basis of a new theory of equality. Excitingly, within homotopy theory, one naturally studies higher homotopies of paths between paths and this gives the higher dimensional structure of equality we previously lacked. The objective of this grant is to translate the advances of HoTT into more concrete programming language and verification tools. You will join a team consisting of Prof Neil Ghani, Dr Conor McBride at the University of Strathclyde as well as Dr Nicola Gambino at the University of Leeds and Dr Thorsten Altenkirch at the Univeristy of Nottingham. We will be hiring an RA to work on the more theoretical parts of the project at Nottignham while your main duties will be to conduct research on the more applied - that is programming language - aspects of the project at Strathclyde. You will possess a PhD in mathematics or computer science and be familiar with type theory, category theory and programming languages. Interviews have been scheduled for 25 March 2015. For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Neil Ghani, (email: neil.ghani at strath.ac.uk or tel: 0141 548 4303) or Dr Conor McBride, (email conor.mcbride at strath.ac.uk or tel 01415483121. From Susanne.Graf at imag.fr Tue Feb 10 02:36:34 2015 From: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr (Susanne Graf) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:36:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORTE 2015: Call for Papers (reminder) Message-ID: <54D9B502.60608@imag.fr> ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS FORTE 2015 A DisCoTec Member Conference 35th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems http://discotec2015.inria.fr/ http://discotec2015.inria.fr/forte-2015-call-for-papers/ taking place on June 2-4, 2015 in Grenoble, France Abstract Submission: February 15, 2015 (compulsory) Paper Submission: February 22, 2015 Author Notification: March 23, 2015 Camera Ready copy: April 2, 2015 ============================================================= FORTE 2015 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of: * service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems; * object technology, modularity, component- and model-based design; * software 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, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. === Main topics of interest === 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; * 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, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks; * Foundations of security: new principles for qualitative and quantitative security analysis of distributed systems, including formal models basedon 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. === Invited Speakers (DisCoTec) === * Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler Universit?t, Linz, Austria) * Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research, USA) * Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL, Switzerland) === 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 be prepared using Springer?s LNCS style. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE?15 interface of the EasyChair system. We solicit four kinds of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages): Describing thorough and complete research results, tools or experience reports (if relevant, additional appendixes with proofs or other material meant for easing the reviewers' live are allowed) * Short papers (up to 7 pages): Describing research results that are not fully developed, or manifestos, calls to action, personal views on FORTE related research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects forthe years to come. * Tool demonstration papers (up to 7 pages): focus on the usage aspects of tools. Theoretical foundations and experimental evaluation are not required, however, a motivation as to why the tool is interesting and significant should be provided. Papers may have an appendix of up to 5 additional pages with details on the actual demonstration. * Posters (up to 3 pages): Summarizing research projects worth being advertised and discussed in at the conference. 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. The best papers will be invited after the conference to contribute to a special issue of a top-level journal (TCS or FMSD). === Programme Chairs === Susanne Graf (VERIMAG & CNRS, Grenoble, France) Mahesh Viswanathan (U. Illinois, USA) === Programme Committee === Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Luca Aceto (U. Reykjavik, Iceland) S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India) Paul Attie (American U. Beirut, Lebanon) Rohit Chadha (U. Missouri, USA) Rance Cleaveland (U. Maryland, USA) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Mc Master U., Ontario, Canada) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Stephanie Delaune (CNRS & ENS Cachan, France) Wan Fokkink (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) Gregor Goessler (INRIA Grenoble, France) Gerard Holzmann (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA) Alan Jeffrey (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA) Petr Kuznetsov (Telecom ParisTech, France) Ivan Lanese (U. Bologna, Italy) Kim Larsen (U. Aalborg, Denmark) Antonia Lopes (U. Lisbon, Portugal) Stephan Merz (LORIA & INRIA Nancy, France) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France) Alan Schmitt (IRISA & INRIA Rennes, France) === Steering Committee: === Erica Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Dirk Beyer (U. Passau, Germany) Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy) Einar Broch Johnsen (U. Oslo, Norway) Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Holger Giese (U. Potsdam, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, Saclay, France) Grigore Rosu (U. Illinois, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, Grenoble, France) (Chair) Heike Wehrheim (U. Paderborn, Germany) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Susanne Graf | tel : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 52 VERIMAG | fax : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 46 (or 44) 2, avenue de Vignate | http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~graf/ F - 38610 Gieres | e-mail: Susanne.Graf at imag.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From andrei.paskevich at lri.fr Tue Feb 10 04:14:59 2015 From: andrei.paskevich at lri.fr (Andrei Paskevich) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:14:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers, PxTP 2015 Message-ID: The Fourth International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) http://pxtp15.lri.fr/ August 2-3, 2015, Berlin, Germany associated with CADE 2015 Important dates * Abstract submission: Thu, May 7, 2015 * Paper submission: Thu, May 14, 2015 * Notification: Tue, June 16, 2015 * Camera ready versions due: Thu, June 25, 2015 * Workshop: August 2-3, 2015 Background The PxTP workshop brings together researchers working on various aspects of communication, integration, and cooperation between reasoning systems and formalisms. The progress in computer-aided reasoning, both automated and interactive, during the past decades, made it possible to build deduction tools that are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems and are able to tackle larger problems progressively faster. In recent years, cooperation of such tools in larger verification environments has demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual intervention. Examples include the Sledgehammer tool providing an interface between Isabelle and (untrusted) automated provers, and also collaboration of the HOL Light and Isabelle systems in the formal proof of the Kepler conjecture. Cooperation between reasoning systems relies on availability of theoretical formalisms and practical tools to exchange problems, proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop strives to encourage such cooperation by inviting contributions on suitable integration, translation and communication methods, standards, protocols, and programming interfaces. The workshop welcomes the interested developers of automated and interactive theorem proving tools, developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation tools and interfaces, and producers of standards and protocols. We are interested both in success stories and in descriptions of the current bottlenecks and proposals for improvement. Topics Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of cooperation between reasoning tools, whether automatic or interactive. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * applications that integrate reasoning tools (ideally with certification of the result); * translations between logics, proof systems, models; * distribution of proof obligations among heterogeneous reasoning tools; * algorithms and tools for checking and importing (replaying, reconstructing) proofs; * proposed formats for expressing problems and solutions for different classes of logic solvers (SAT, SMT, QBF, first-order logic, higher-order logic, typed logic, rewriting, etc.); * meta-languages, logical frameworks, communication methods, standards, protocols, and APIs connected to problems, proofs, and models; * comparison, refactoring, and optimization of proofs; * practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies; * applications relying on importing proofs from automatic theorem provers, such as certified static analysis, proof-carrying code, or certified compilation; * data structures and algorithms for improved proof production in solvers (e.g., efficient proof representations). Submissions Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit either an extended abstract (up to 8 pages) or a regular paper (up to 15 pages). Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Short submissions that could stimulate fruitful discussion at the workshop are particularly welcome. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the workshop. Submitted papers should describe previously unpublished work, and must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (http://style.eptcs.org/). Papers will be submitted via EasyChair, at the PxTP'2015 workshop page (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pxtp2015). Accepted full papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. Invited speakers (joint with the AMI'2015 workshop) * Georges Gonthier (Microsoft Research) * Bart Jacobs (KU Leuven) Program committee * Jesse Alama (Vienna University of Technology) * Peter Baumgartner (NICTA) * Jasmin Blanchette (TU M?nchen) * Guillaume Burel (C?DRIC, ENSIIE) * ?velyne Contejean (LRI, CNRS, Universit? Paris Sud) * Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck), co-chair * Ramana Kumar (University of Cambridge) * Dale Miller (Inria / LIX, ?cole polytechnique) * Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (Vienna University of Technology) * Andrei Paskevich (LRI, Universit? Paris Sud), co-chair * Damien Pous (LIP, CNRS, ENS Lyon) * Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami) * Laurent Th?ry (Inria) * Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa) * Josef Urban (Radboud University Nijmegen) From samir.ouchani at uni.lu Wed Feb 11 03:52:01 2015 From: samir.ouchani at uni.lu (Samir OUCHANI) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:52:01 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The International Workshop on Security Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems (SACPS'15) Message-ID: <6AE985D860873240AC24949EBE70B26B04DC5664@hoshi.uni.lux> Call for Papers (The submission deadline is extended through February 15) The International Workshop on Security Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems (SACPS'15) http://satoss.uni.lu/sacps2015 in conjunction with ANT-2015 conference June 2 - 5, 2015 London, UK SCOPE Security of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is challenging due to the inherent complexity of CPS. Moreover, it is not sufficient to ascertain the security of the individual components in isolation: threats in CPS systems could also be due to the interaction between the physical, digital and software parts of CPS. Therefore, the system must be studied as a whole, which sets this emerging discipline apart from these individually established fields. This workshop provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Modeling CPS (formal models, UML, SysML, ADAAL, etc) ? Design secure CPS ? Risks analysis of CPS ? Formal methods for CPS (abstraction, compositional verification, model checking, theorem proving, simulation, testing, etc) ? Threat modeling for CPS ? Security policies and access control for CPS ? Safety and reliability analysis for CPS ? Security requirements specification for CPS ? Human aspects for CPS ? Case studies, tools, and experimental results for CPS SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2015 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2014 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacph2015. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop chair for assistance. All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ANT'13 and in IJFCST. Important dates Submission due: 10 Feb, 2015 Notification of acceptance: 20 March, 2015 Camera-ready due: 1 April, 2015 Workshop: 2-5 June, 2015 Program committee General chair Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. PC chairs Otmane Ait Mohamed, Concordia University, Canada. Samir Ouchani, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. PC members ? Yamine Ait-Ameur (Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure de M?canique et d'A?rotechnique, FR) ? Vincent Aravantinos (Fortiss GmbH, D) ? Yacine Atif (UAE University, UAE) ? Hamad Binsalleeh (Al-Imam University, KSA) ? Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, CA) ? Karim Djouani (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, FR) ? Jannik Dreier (ETH Zurich, CH) ? Iqbal Farkhund (Zayed University, UAE) ? Osman Hassan (National University of Science & Technology Pakistan, PK) ? Hugo Jonker (Open Universiteit, NL) ? Barbara Kordy (INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR) ? Gabriele Lenzini (University of Luxembourg, L) ? Chamseddine Talhi (Ecole de Technologie Sup?rieure, CA) Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/#registration for more information. VENUE, ACCOMMODATION & VISA REQUIREMENTS Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/#conferenceVenue for more information. If you have any further questions please contact one of the workshop organizer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Wed Feb 11 10:10:20 2015 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:10:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fifth Halmstad Summer School on Testing (June 8-11, 2015) Message-ID: =========================================== The Fifth Halmstad Summer School on Testing Halmstad University, Sweden June 8 - June 11, 2015 http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2015 =========================================== 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 5th 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 ======== Approximate Formal Verification Using Model-Based Testing (Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland) Taking Search-Based Software Testing to the Real-World (Robert Feldt, Blekinge Inst. of Tech. and Chalmers) Differential and Multi-Version Program Verification (Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research) Learning-based Testing of Procedural and Reactive Systems (Karl Meinke, KTH) Model-based Testing of Embedded Real-time Systems under Uncertainty (Brian Nielsen, Aalborg University) Model-based Testing of Software Product Lines (Ina Schaefer, TU Braunschweig) Automated Fault Prediction: The Ins, The Outs, The Ups, The Downs (Elaine Weyuker, M?lardalen University) Registration ========== The registration deadline is April 15, 2015. 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 2300 SEK (approx. 250 EUR) and covers lunches, coffee breaks, and the study material, but it does not include the social event and the social dinner. A ticket to the social event and 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. For payment, please also provide the VAT number of your institute. 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_2015#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_2015 For more information, contact one of the organizers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch Wed Feb 11 17:43:03 2015 From: philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch (Philipp Haller) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:43:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Scala Symposium 2015 Message-ID: ======================================================================== Scala Symposium 2015 co-located with PLDI 2015 Portland, Oregon, USA June 13-14, 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS http://lamp.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2015 ======================================================================== Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. We seek papers on topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to): - Language design and implementation -- language extensions, optimization, and performance evaluation. - Library design and implementation patterns for extending Scala -- embedded domain-specific languages, combining language features, generic and meta-programming. - Formal techniques for Scala-like programs -- formalizations of the language, type system, and semantics, formalizing proposed language extensions and variants, dependent object types, type and effect systems. - Concurrent and distributed programming -- libraries, frameworks, language extensions, programming paradigms: (actors, STM, ...), performance evaluation, experimental results. - Safety and reliability -- pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. - Tools -- development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. - Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, or projects related to Scala. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. All papers will be judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and interest to the community. In general, papers should explain their original contributions, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work (also for other languages where appropriate). Papers in the last category of the list above need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, new Scala idioms, or programming pearls. In all cases, such a paper must make a contribution which is of interest to the Scala community, or from which other members of the Scala community can benefit. KEYWORDS: Library Design and Implementation, Language Design and Implementation, Applications, Formal Techniques, Parallelism and Concurrency, Distributed Programming, Tools, Experience Reports, Empirical Studies Academic Student Talks ====================== In addition to regular papers and tool demos, we also solicit short student talks by bachelor/master/PhD students. A student talk is not accompanied by a paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in plain text). Student talks are about 5-10 minutes long, presenting ongoing or completed research related to Scala. In previous years, each student with an accepted student talk received a grant (donated by our sponsors) covering registration and/or travel costs. Open Source Talks ================= We will also accept a limited number of short talks about open-source projects using Scala presented by contributors. An open-source talk is not accompanied by a paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in plain text). Open-source talks are about ~10 minutes long, presenting or announcing an open-source project that is of interest to the Scala community. Proceedings =========== It is planned to publish accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work, to the extent transferable), but retain various rights (see ACM 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 ================== * Abstract submission: March 26, 2015 * Paper/talk submission: April 2, 2015 * Author notification: April 27, 2015 * Final papers due: May 7, 2015 All deadlines are at 23:59 Baker Island, USA (UTC-12). Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference style (10pt format). Regular research papers must not exceed 10 pages, tool demonstration papers and short papers must not exceed 4 pages. "Tool Demos" and "Short Papers" should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission. Each paper submission must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Note: "Short Papers" differ from "Tool Demos" in that "Short Papers" are approached as short research papers. "Short Papers" are expected to carry some new insights or contribution, and to compare with related work, as with any normal research paper. They are simply shorter versions of full research papers. "Tool Demos" on the other hand are about showcasing a well-developed, well-documented tool, live, before the workshop. Papers corresponding to "Tool Demos" are meant to contain an overview of the tool and methodology for the tool's use. Tool demo papers are less concerned about providing new research insights, or thoroughly comparing with related work. The Scala Symposium PC will approach tool demos in the same way as the PEPM'14 Workshop PC, detailed in PEPM's Tool Paper Evaluation Criteria (see http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM14/ToolPaperAdvice). Student talks and open-source talks are not accompanied by papers. Therefore, it is sufficient to only submit a plain-text abstract. Both "Student Talks" and "Open Source Talks" should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission. Submission see: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2015 Program Committee ================= * Oscar Boykin, Twitter * Dave Clarke, Uppsala University * Doug Lea, State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego * Ondrej Lhotak, University of Waterloo * Matt Might, University of Utah * Adriaan Moors, Typesafe * Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano * Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong * Martin Odersky, EPFL * Tiark Rompf, Purdue University and Oracle Labs * Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt * Daniel Spiewak, RichRelevance * Lex Spoon, Semmle * Jan Vitek, Northeastern University * Damien Zufferey, MIT Organizers ========== * Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Co-chair) * Heather Miller, EPFL (Co-chair) * Martin Odersky, EPFL and Typesafe Links ===== * The Scala Symposium 2015 website: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2015 * The PLDI 2015 website: http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi2015 From luca.vigano at univr.it Wed Feb 11 19:32:44 2015 From: luca.vigano at univr.it (Luca Vigano`) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:32:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSF 2015: paper submission deadline extended to February 11 (addendum) Message-ID: As the webserver http://csf2015.di.univr.it, which hosts the main CSF site decided to crash right during the night of the submission, please note that the CSF 2015 submission site is up and running at https://csf15.hotcrp.com/ To accommodate for the time that authors might have lost, the deadline has been further extended to 12 Feb 2015 7am EST. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bruno.wp at gmail.com Thu Feb 12 07:05:25 2015 From: bruno.wp at gmail.com (Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:05:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CADE-25 Poster Session and Task-Force towards an Encyclopaedia of Proof Systems Message-ID: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? == EPS ==? the CADE-25 Poster Session and Task-Force? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?towards ?an? ? ? Encyclopedia of Proof Systems ? ? ? ? ? ? ? --- call for contributions --- ? ?August 1-3, 2015, Berlin, Germany? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?affiliated to: CADE - the Conference on Automated Deduction Aims and Scope ============== In this jubilee edition of CADE (the Conference on Automated Deduction), we shall commemorate the multitude of proof systems that form the theoretical foundations for automated deduction. To achieve this goal, we proposes to bring the whole community together in a task-force to produce a concise encyclopedia of proof systems. Every entry in this encyclopedia will follow a given template and will preferably be exactly one page long, displaying the inference rules of the proof system and possibly a few clarifying remarks. The one-page encyclopedia entries will be displayed as posters during CADE. Submission Instructions ======================= Please visit the task-force's website for instructions: http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia Participation in CADE is not required for submission, but is strongly encouraged. Important Dates =============== - Submission Deadline: 19th of April 2015 - Notification: 15th of May 2015 (Submit early!!) Publication Plans ================= When the encyclopedia reaches a broad? coverage of various proof systems,? its publication as a book will be sought.? However, this is not yet guaranteed and details are still undefined. Organization ============ Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (bruno at logic.at) From spider.vz at gmail.com Thu Feb 12 19:25:32 2015 From: spider.vz at gmail.com (Vadim Zaytsev) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 01:25:32 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] STAF 2015: Joint Call for Papers Message-ID: ???????????????????????????????????????????? * Joint Call for Papers for STAF 2015 * Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations * 20-24 July 2015, L'Aquila, Italy * http://www.disim.univaq.it/staf2015/ * https://twitter.com/staf2015 ???????????????????????????????????????????? STAF 2015 events include: - ICMT'15: Eighth International Conference on Model Transformation - ECMFA'15: Eleventh European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications - TAP'15: Ninth International Conference on Tests and Proofs - ICGT'15: Seventh International Conference on Graph Transformation - TTC'15: Eighth Transformation Tool Contest - BX'15: Fourth International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations - Projects Showcase - Doctoral Symposium - (more workshops TBA) ???????????????????????????????????????????? The deadlines coming up soon are (abstract/paper deadlines given, if applicable): - 13/20 February: TAP - 15/22 February: ICMT - 27 February/6 March: ECMFA - 11 March: TTC (cases) - 20/27 March: ICGT We provide some brief information on each of the conferences below, please refer to their corresponding websites for complete calls for submissions, as well as more detailed explanation of each event's topics and priorities. ???????????????????????????????????????????? * 9th International Conference on Tests and Proofs (TAP 2015) * http://tap2015.in.tum.de/ * http://tap2015.in.tum.de/call.shtml * https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2015 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. TAP 2015 will accept three kinds of submissions: regular research papers, short papers and tutorial proposals. TAP 2015 keynote talk will be given by Einar Broch Johnsen. Organisation: - Program Co-Chair: Jasmin C. Blanchette (TU Muenchen, Inria) - Program Co-Chair: Nikolai Kosmatov (CEA LIST) ???????????????????????????????????????????? * 8th International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT 2015) * http://www.model-transformation.org/ * http://www.di.univaq.it/diruscio/sites/ICMT2015/?page_id=21 * https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icmt2015 Model transformation encompasses a variety of technical spaces (modelware, grammarware, dataware, ontoware), a variety of model representations (text, tables, trees, graphs) and a variety of transformation paradigms (rule-based transformations, term rewriting, OO manipulations, weaving, refactoring). The study of model transformation includes foundations, structuring mechanisms, and properties, such as modularity, composability and parametrisation of transformations, transformation languages, techniques and tools. To achieve impact on software engineering in general, methodologies and tools are required to integrate model transformation into existing development environments and processes. Four kinds of submissions are sought: research papers, application papers, exploratory papers and tool demo papers. Organisation: - Program Co-Chair: Dimitris Kolovos (University of York, UK) - Program Co-Chair: Manuel Wimmer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) - Social Chair: James R. Williams (University of York, UK) - Web Chair: Javier Troya (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) ???????????????????????????????????????????? * 11th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2015) * https://www.uni-marburg.de/fb12/swt/ecmfa2015/ * https://www.uni-marburg.de/fb12/swt/ecmfa2015/cfp.pdf * https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecmfa2015 The ECMFA conference series is dedicated to advancing the state of knowledge and fostering the industrial application of Model-Based Engineering as an approach to the design, analysis and development of software and systems that relies on exploiting high-level models and computer-based automation to achieve significant boosts in both productivity and quality. Its focus is on engaging the key figures of research and industry in a dialogue which results in stronger and more effective practical application of MBE, hence producing more reliable software based on state-of-the-art research results. ECMFA has two distinct Paper Tracks: one for research papers (Track F) dealing with the foundations for MBE, and one for industrial applications papers (Track A) dealing with the applications of MBE, including experience reports on MBE tools. Organisation: - Foundations Program Chair: Gabriele Taentzer (Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany) - Applications Program Chair: Francis Bordeleau (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) ???????????????????????????????????????????? * 8th Transformation Tool Contest (TTC 2015) * http://www.transformation-tool-contest.eu/ * http://www.transformation-tool-contest.eu/cfc.html * https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttc2015 The aim of the Transformation Tool Contest is to evaluate and compare the expressiveness, the usability and the performance of transformation tools for structured data along a number of selected challenging case studies. Cases can still be submitted up to 11 March 2015. In 2015, our special focus is on program transformations and bidirectional transformations. Shortly after that deadline, the best cases will be selected, a Call for Solutions will be issued, and then people have the chance to submit solutions to the selected cases until 29 April 2015. Organisation: - Tassilo Horn (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) - Filip Krikava (University of Lille & INRIA Lille) - Louis Rose (University of York, UK) ???????????????????????????????????????????? * 7th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2015) * http://btn1x4.inf.uni-bayreuth.de/icgt2015/ * http://btn1x4.inf.uni-bayreuth.de/icgt2015/cfp.html * http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt2015 Many dynamic structures can be represented as graphs and their changes modeled as graph transformations. Theory and applications of graphs, graph grammars and graph transformation systems have been studied in our community for more than 40 years. This year ICGT offers two tracks: a Foundations Track and an Applications Track. The research papers (limited to 16 pages) submitted for the Foundations Track describe innovative contributions to current research on the foundations of graph transformations and are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Papers for the applications track can be submitted in different categories: technical papers (limited to 16 pages), case studies (limited to 12 pages) and tool demo papers (limited to 8 pages). Organisation: - Program Co-Chair: Francesco Parisi-Presicce (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) - Program Co-Chair: Bernhard Westfechtel (University of Bayreuth, Germany) - Publicity Chair: Thomas Buchmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) ???????????????????????????????????????????? Organisation of STAF 2015: - General Chair: Alfonso Pierantonio (Universit? degli Studi dell?Aquila, Italy) - Workshop Co-Chair: Davide Di Ruscio (Universit? degli Studi dell?Aquila, Italy) - Workshop Co-Chair: Pieter Van Gorp (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair: Henry Muccini (Universit? degli Studi dell?Aquila, Italy) - Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair: D?niel Varr? (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) - Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair: Martin Gogolla (University of Bremen, Germany) - Projects Showcase Co-Chair: Marco Autili (Universit? degli Studi dell?Aquila, Italy) - Projects Showcase Co-Chair: Bernhard Sch?tz (firtiss GmbH, Germany) - Publication Co-Chair: Louis Rose (University of York, UK) - Publication Co-Chair: Javier Troya (Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria) - Social Media and Publicity Chair: Vadim Zaytsev (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Web Chair: Francesco Basciani (Universit? degli Studi dell?Aquila, Italy) - Local: Massimo Tivoli, Romina Eramo, Ludovico Iovino, Francesco Gallo, Juri Di Rocco, Gianni Rosa ???????????????????????????????????????????? From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri Feb 13 08:50:02 2015 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:50:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFP 2015] 2nd call for papers Message-ID: <54DE010A.7040700@cs.ru.nl> ----------------------------- S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2015 =========== 16th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming June 3-5, 2015 Inria Sophia Antipolis, France http://tfp2015.inria.fr/ 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). Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback receive at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these articles for formal publication. The selected revised papers will be published as a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (www.springer.com/lncs) volume. TFP 2015 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2015 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 2nd. 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; * Munich (Germany) in 2004; * Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005; * Nottingham (UK) in 2006; * New York (USA) in 2007; * Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008; * Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009; * Oklahoma (USA) in 2010; * Madrid (Spain) in 2011; * St. Andrews (UK) in 2012; * Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013; * and in Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/). == INVITED SPEAKER == TFP is pleased to announce a talk by the following invited speaker: * Laurence Rideau is a researcher at INRIA and is interested in the semantics of programming languages , the formal methods, and the verification tools for programs and mathematical proofs. She participated in the beginnings of the Compcert project (certified compiler), and is part of the Component Mathematical team in the MSR-INRIA joint laboratory, who performed the formalization of the Feit-Thompson theorem successfully. Thirty years ago, computers barged in mathematics with the famous proof of the Four Color Theorem. Initially limited to simple calculation, their role is now expanding to the reasoning whose complexity is beyond the capabilities of most humans, as the proof of the classification of finite simple groups. We present our large collaborative adventure around the formalization of the Feit-Thompson theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feit%E2%80%93Thompson_theorem) that is a first step to the classification of finite groups and that uses a palette of methods and techniques that range from formal logic to software (and mathematics) engineering. == 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 simultaneously submitted for publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or 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 Debugging and profiling 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 2015 program chair, Manuel Serrano. == 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 == 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 (20 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which ALL authors are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place. We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. Papers must be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2015 Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: March 17, 2015 Notification: March 24, 2015 Registration: April 7, 2015 TFP Symposium: June 3-5, 2015 Student papers feedback: June 9, 2015 Submission for formal review: July 1, 2015 Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2015 Camera ready paper: October 8, 2015 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Janis Voigtl?nder University of Bonn, DE Scott Owens University of Kent, UK Neil Sculthorpe Swansea University, UK Colin Runciman University of York, UK Manuel Serrano Inria (PC chair), FR Rinus Plasmeijer University of Nijmegen, NL Tomas Petricek University of Cambridge, UK Marco T. Morazan Seton Hall University, USA Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE Michel Mauny Ensta ParisTech, FR Sam Lindley The University of Edinburgh, UK Daan Leijen Microsoft, USA Jurriaan Hage Utrecht University, NL Andy Gill University of Kansas, USA Thomas Gazagnaire University of Cambrige, UK Lars-Ake Fredlund Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, ES Jean-Christophe Filliatre Universit? Paris Sud Orsay, FR Marc Feeley Universit? de Montr?al, CA Olaf Chitil University of Kent, UK Edwin Brady University of St Andrews, UK From pangjun at gmail.com Fri Feb 13 04:12:35 2015 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:12:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2015 -- Final Call for Papers Message-ID: TASE 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** The 9th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2015) 12-14 September 2015, Nanjing, China http://tase2015.nuaa.edu.cn For more information email: tase2015 at easychair.org ****************************************************************** -------- OVERVIEW -------- The 9th Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Conference (TASE 2015) will be held in Nanjing, China in September, 2015. Modern society is increasingly dependent on software systems that are becoming larger and more complex. This poses new challenges to the various aspects of software engineering, for instance, software dependability in trusted computing, interaction with physical components in cyber physical systems, distribution in cloud computing applications, etc. Hence, new concepts and methodologies are required to enhance the development of software engineering from theoretical aspects. TASE 2015 aims to provide a forum for people from academia and industry to communicate their latest results on theoretical advances in software engineering. TASE 2015 is the 9th in the TASE series. The past TASE symposiums were successfully held in Shanghai ('07), Nanjing ('08), Tianjin ('09), Taipei ('10), Xi'an ('11), Beijing ('12), Birmingham ('13), Changsha('14).The proceedings of the TASE 2015 symposium are planned to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. 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 Frontiers of Computer Science journal. ------ TOPICS ------ The symposium is devoted to theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Requirements Engineering * Specification and Verification * Program Analysis * Software Testing * Model-Driven Engineering * Software Architectures and Design * Aspect and Object Orientation * Embedded and Real-Time Systems * Software Processes and Workflows * Component-Based Software Engineering * Software Safety, Security and Reliability * Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance * Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Semantic Web and Web Services * Type System and Theory * Program Logics and Calculus * Probability in Software Engineering ---------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Patrick Cousot (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore) ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- Submission should be done through the TASE 2015 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2015 As in previous years, the proceedings of the conference are planned to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers must be written in English and not exceed 8 pages in Two-Column IEEE format. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission: 7 March 2015 (23h59 GMT) Paper submission: 14 March 2015 (23h59 GMT) Notification: 23 May 2015 Camera-ready: 13 June 2015 Conference: 12-14 September 2015 ------------- GENERAL CHAIR ------------- Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) ----------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Zhiqiu Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design) ----------------- STEERING COMMITTE ----------------- Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan) Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) Michael Hinchey (Lero, Ireland) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTIEE ------------------ Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Earl Barr (University College London, UK) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) Lubos Brim (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Zining Cao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Taolue Chen (Middlesex University, UK) Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University, China) Wei Dong (National University of Defense Technology, China) Joaquim Gabarro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Jaco Geldenhuys (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) Peter Habermehl (Liafa, Paris 7, France) Ian J. Hayes (University of Queensland, Australia) Dang Van Hung (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Jason Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia) Karl Leung (VTC, Hong Kong) Bixin Li (Southeast University, China) Xiaoshan Li (University of Macau, Macau) Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China) Zhoujun Li (Beihang University, China) Shaoying Liu (Hosei University, Japan) Martin Leucker (University of L??beck, Germany) Xiaoqing(Frank) Liu(Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Antoine Min?? (Ecole Normale Sup??rieure Paris, France) Fernando Orejas (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Paritosh K. Pandya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg) Xin Peng (Fudan University, China) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Zongyan Qiu (Peking University, China) Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Klaus Schneider (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Axel Simon (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Graeme Smith (University of Queensland, Australia) Colin Snook (University of Southampton, UK) Volker Stolz (Bergen University College, Norway) Kaile Su (Griffith University, Australia) Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Jean Pierre Talpin (INRIA, France) Yih-Kuen Tsay (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, USA) Tomas Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Yi Wang (Uppsala University, Sweden) Hongji Yang (Bath Spa University, UK) Hongli Yang (Beijing University of Technology, China) Hongwei Xi (Boston University, USA) Yingfei Xiong (Peking University, China) Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hao Zhong (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ---------------- ORGANIZING CHAIR ---------------- Ou Wei (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) ---------------- PUBLICITY CHAIRS ---------------- Jun Hun (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg) Yu Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Fri Feb 13 11:32:45 2015 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (David Van Horn) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:32:45 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP 2015: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: ===================================================================== 20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming ICFP 2015 Vancouver, Canada, August 31 - September 2, 2015 http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2015 ===================================================================== Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions due: Friday, February 27 2015, 23:59 UTC-11 https://icfp15.hotcrp.com/ Author response: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 through Thursday, 23 April, 2015 Notification: Friday, May 1, 2015 Final copy due: Friday, June 12, 2015 Scope ~~~~~ ICFP 2015 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, parallelism, and distribution; modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; type systems; interoperability; domain-specific languages; and relations to imperative, object-oriented, or logic programming. * Implementation: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection and 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: 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 and 3D graphics 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 Friday, 27 February 2015, 23:59 UTC-11, submit a full paper of at most 12 pages (6 pages for an Experience Report) in standard ACM conference format, including bibliography, figures, and appendices. 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 will have a choice of one of three ways to manage their publication rights. These choices are described at http://authors.acm.org/main.html 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 at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ Submission: Submissions will be accepted on the web using a link that will be posted at https://icfp15.hotcrp.com/ 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 on Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 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 free downloads from the ACM DL. Publication date: The official publication date of accepted papers is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. General Chair: Kathleen Fisher Tufts University (USA) Program Chair: John Reppy University of Chicago (USA) Program Committee: Amal Ahmed Northeastern University (USA) Jean-Philippe Bernardy Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) Matthias Blume Google (USA) William Byrd University of Utah (USA) Andy Gill University of Kansas (USA) Neal Glew Google (USA) Fritz Henglein University of Copenhagen (Denmark) Gabriele Keller University of New South Wales and NICTA (Australia) Andrew Kennedy Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) Neelakantan Krishnaswami Birmingham University (UK) Daan Leijen Microsoft Research Redmond (USA) Keiko Nakata FireEye Dresden (Germany) Mike Rainey INRIA Rocquencourt (France) Andreas Rossberg Google (Germany) Manuel Serrano INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France) Simon Thompson University of Kent (UK) David Van Horn University of Maryland (USA) Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania (USA) From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Fri Feb 13 12:43:10 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:43:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2015 2nd call for contributions Message-ID: <20150213194310.07b98c16@duality> Reminder: Abstracts (2 pp easychair.cls) due by 13 March 2015 News: Tutorials by Joachim Kock and Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine. Post-proceedings volume in LIPIcs confirmed. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 21st International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2015 Tallinn, Estonia, 18-21 May 2015 http://cs.ioc.ee/types15/ Background The TYPES meetings are 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. The meetings from 1990 to 2008 were annual workshops of a sequence of five EU funded networking projects. Since 2009, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. Previous TYPES meetings were held in Antibes (1990), Edinburgh (1991), B?stad (1992), Nijmegen (1993), B?stad (1994), Torino (1995), Aussois (1996), Kloster Irsee (1998), L?keberg (1999), Durham (2000), Berg en Dal near Nijmegen (2002), Torino (2003), Jouy en Josas near Paris (2004), Nottingham (2006), Cividale del Friuli (2007), Torino (2008), Aussois (2009), Warsaw (2010), Bergen (2011), Toulouse (2013), Paris (2014). The TYPES areas of interest include, but are not limited to: foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; 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 encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. Invited speakers Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Tutorials Joachim Kock (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona) Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) Contributed talks We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. Submission is via EasyChair by 13 March 2015. The authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 3 April 2015. Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions, due by 24 April 2015, will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution at the workshop. Post-proceedings Similarly to TYPES 2011, 2013, 2014, we will publish a post-proceedings in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. Submission to that volume will be open for everyone. Tentative submission deadline: mid-September 2015. Programme committee Andrea Asperti (Universit? di Bologna) Robert Atkey (University of Edinburgh) Ulrich Berger (Swansea University) Jean-Philippe Bernardy (Chalmers University of Technology) Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) Jo?lle Despeyroux (INRIA Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e) Herman Geuvers (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA Saclay - ?le-de-France) Ralph Matthes (IRIT, CNRS and Universit? Paul Sabatier) Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software) Christine Paulin-Mohring (LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) Ulrich Sch?pp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) Bas Spitters (Carnegie Mellon University) Pawel Urzyczyn (University of Warsaw) Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn) (chair) Organizers Logic and semantics group, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn Sponsors ERDF via EXCS, the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Fri Feb 13 15:13:37 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:13:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2015 call for participation Message-ID: <20150213221337.0467f752@duality> ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2015 18th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software London, UK, 11-18 April 2015 http://www.etaps.org/ ****************************************************************** -- 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 2015 is already the eighteenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (13-17 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: Daniel Licata (Wesleyan University, USA) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, France) CC invited speaker: Keshav Pingali (University of Texas, USA) FoSSaCS invited speaker: Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) TACAS invited speaker: Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS See the accepted paper lists and the programme of the main conferences at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (11-12 and 18 April) -- 17 satellite workshops will take place before or after ETAPS 2015. GALOP, GaM, QAPL (11-12 April) FMSPLE, FOPARA, SynCop, VPT (11 April) DICE, FESCA, VerifyThis, WoC, WPLI (12 April) HotSpot, MBT, PLACES, TTATT, TPDP (18 April) -- REGISTRATION Early registration is until Saturday, 14 February 2015. Normal-rate registration is until Tuesday, 10 March 2015. -- ACCOMMODATION We request that participants arrange their accommodation on their own. See our recommendations on the website. -- HOST CITY -- London is one of the most visited and cosmopolitan cities on earth. It is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It can be reached by more people, from more destinations, in less time, than any other destination in the world. -- ORGANIZERS General chairs: Pasquale Malacaria, Nikos Tzevelekos Workshop chair: Paulo Oliva Publicity chairs: Michael Tautschnig and Greta Yorsh Further organizers: Dino Distefano, Edmund Robinson and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh --- HOST INSTITUTION Queen Mary University of London -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2015 at qmul.ac.uk From deligu at di.unito.it Fri Feb 13 10:52:45 2015 From: deligu at di.unito.it (Ugo de' Liguoro) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:52:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?iso-8859-15?q?WoC=2715=2C=A0Workshop_on_Contin?= =?iso-8859-15?q?uations_-_Call_for_participation?= Message-ID: <54DE1DCD.1010308@di.unito.it> CALL FOR PAPERS WoC'15 Workshop on Continuations 12th April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://woc2015.di.unito.it/ The notion of continuation is ubiquitous in many different areas of computer science, including systems programming, programming languages, algorithmics, semantics, logic, and constructive mathematics. In fact the concept of continuation nicely realizes sophisticated control mechanisms, which are widely used in a variety of applications. Since we cannot escape control features, it becomes a challenge to provide them with sound reasoning principles. Indeed there is much research activity on understanding, representing, and reasoning about elaborated non-local control structures, in particular in declarative programming languages such as functional and logic languages. WoC 2015 is a new venue, continuing and broadening the scope of COS'13, held in Eindhoven. WoC 2015 offers a forum for the presentation and discussion of continuation-based constructs in programming languages, whether in the style of Curry (terms first, types later (maybe)) or in the style of Church (types first, typed terms later). We specifically welcome the presentation of elegant motivating examples. ** Topics of Interest ** Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * continuations and delimited continuations * continuation based programming language constructs * categorical and algebraic models of continuations * compositionality and modularity of continuations * denotational semantics of control, event structures and causality * operational semantics and abstract machines * type systems for continuation-based constructs * game semantics of programming languages and of logical proofs * usage of continuations in proof search and proof mining * semantics of control operators in logic programming * continuations in web-services ** Important Dates ** Registration is from the ETAPS site: http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/registration * Early registration from 20 January 2015 to 14 February 2015. * Normal registration from 15 February 2015 to 10 March 2015. * Late registration from 11 March 2015 to 10 April 2015. * On-site registration from 11 April 2015 to 18 April 2015. Workshop date: 12th April, 2015 ** Programme Committee ** Program Committee: Zena Ariola, University of Oregon, USA Dariusz Biernacki, University of Wroclaw, Poland Olivier Danvy, Aarhus University, Denmark (chair) Mayer Goldberg, Ben Gurion University, Israel Tadeusz Litak, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Jay McCarthy, Vassar College, USA Christian Queinnec, Universi? Pierre et Marie Curie, France Tiark Rompf, Purdue University, USA Alexis Saurin, CNRS & Universit? Paris Diderot -- Paris 7, France Hayo Thielecke University of Birmingham, UK ** Organiser ** Ugo de'Liguoro, University of Turin ugo.deliguoro at unito.it From maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT Sat Feb 14 11:37:49 2015 From: maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:37:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2015: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: ============================================================ 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2015 Special Issue of Formal Aspects of Computing http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/ University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015 (co-located with PPDP 2015) DEADLINES Abstract submission: April 6, 2015 Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015 ============================================================ The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. 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 25th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2015) will be held at the University of Siena, Siena, Italy; previous symposia were held in Canterbury, 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 2015 will be co-located with PPDP 2015 (International 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 chair in case of questions). Important Dates Abstract submission: April 6, 2015 Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015 Notification: May 25, 2015 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): June 15, 2015 Symposium: July 13-15, 2015 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. Papers should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2015, which can be accessed through the website of LOPSTR 2015. 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. Special journal issue After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to a special issue of the 'Formal Aspects of Computing' journal. The submissions to the special issue must be substantial extensions of the proceedings versions and will undergo the usual journal reviewing process. Invited speakers Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with PPDP) Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France Program Committee Slim Abdennadher, German University of Cairo, Egypt Maria Alpuente, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Demis Ballis, University of Udine, Italy Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, UK Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Moreno Falaschi, University of Siena, Italy (Program Chair) Jerome Feret, INRIA and ENS, France Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy Jurgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arnaud Gotlieb, SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA, Spain Viktor Kuncak, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Luigi Liquori, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Mediterranee, France Alexei Lisitsa, University of Liverpool, UK Narciso Marti-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jorge Navas, NASA, USA Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan Carlos Olarte, ECT, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy Albert Rubio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium Program and Symposium Chair: Moreno Falaschi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy (moreno.falaschi at unisi.it) Organizing Committee Monica Bianchini, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Sara Brunetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Andrea Machetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Simonetta Palmas, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy Simone Rinaldi, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Elisa Tiezzi, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Sara Ugolini, Dip. Informatica, Univ. of Pisa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT Sat Feb 14 11:43:24 2015 From: maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:43:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2015: 2nd call for papers Message-ID: ====================================================================== Call for papers 17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2015 Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP) Siena, Italy, July 14-16, 2015 (co-located with LOPSTR 2015) http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/ppdp15 ====================================================================== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20 MARCH, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with LOPSTR) Martin Hofmann, LMU Munich, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PPDP 2015 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing languages, database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Functional programming * Logic programming * Answer-set programming * Functional-logic programming * Declarative visual languages * Constraint Handling Rules * Parallel implementation and concurrency * Monads, type classes and dependent type systems * Declarative domain-specific languages * Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs * Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages * Language extensions for security and tabulation * Probabilistic modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity * Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems * Practical experiences and industrial application This year the conference will be co-located with the 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2015). The conference will be held in Siena, Italy. Previous symposia were held at Canterbury (UK), Madrid (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France). You might have a look at the contents of past PPDP symposia. 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 chair in case of questions). After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 30% extra material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by Elsevier of 2016. Important Dates Abstract Submission: 14 March, 2015 Paper submission: 20 March, 2015 Notification: 14 May, 2015 Camera-ready: To be announced Symposium: 14-16 July, 2015 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP 2015. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist the program committee in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with formatting templates or style files. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Authors who wish to provide additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read such appendices. Program Committee Michael Adams, University of Utah, USA Puri Arenas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Amir Ben-Amram, Tel-Aviv Academic College, Israel Ines Castro, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA Gregory Duck, National University of Singapore, Singapore Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Thom Fr?hwirth, University of Ulm, Germany Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy Michael Hanus, CAU Kiel, Germany Andy King, University of Kent, UK F. L?pez-Fraguas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Ian Mackie, University of Sussex, UK Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium Frank D. Valencia, CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Marina Vos, University of Bath, UK Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK Program Chair Elvira Albert Complutense University of Madrid C/ Profesor Garcia Santesmases E-28040 Madrid, Spain Email: elvira at sip.ucm.es Symposium Chair Moreno Falaschi Department of information engineering and mathematics University of Siena, Italy Email: moreno.falaschi at unisi.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pasquali at dima.unige.it Sat Feb 14 14:45:13 2015 From: pasquali at dima.unige.it (Fabio Pasquali) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:45:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_Papers=3A_Hilbert=92s_?= =?windows-1252?q?Epsilon_and_Tau_in_Logic=2C_Informatics_and_Linguistics_?= =?windows-1252?q?=284_page_abstract_due_April_1st=29?= Message-ID: <896E33EF-118A-4D76-87C4-FA023B70E888@dima.unige.it> Call for Papers Hilbert?s Epsilon and Tau in Logic, Informatics and Linguistics Dates: June 10-12, 2015 Location: Montpellier, France Workshop Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/epsilon2015workshop/ Contact email: Epsilon2015 at easychair.org Submission deadline: April 1st, 2015 Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epsilon2015 Organizers / workshop co-chairs: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, LIRMM-CNRS, University of Montpellier Fabio Pasquali, University of Marseille Christian Retor?, University of Montpellier & LIRMM-CNRS Host: I2M-CNRS and University of Montpellier Workshop information: This workshop aims at promoting work on Hilbert?s epsilon calculus in a number of relevant fields ranging from Philosophy and Mathematics to Linguistics and Informatics. The Epsilon and Tau operators were introduced by David Hilbert, inspired by Russell's Iota operator for definite descriptions, as binding operators that form terms from formulae. One of their main features is that substitution with Epsilon and Tau terms expresses quantification. This leads to a calculus which is a strict and conservative extension of First Order Predicate Logic. The calculus was developed for studying first order logic in view of the program of providing a rigorous foundation of mathematics via syntactic consistency proofs. The first relevant outcomes that certainly deserve a mention are the two "Epsilon Theorems" (similar to quantifiers elimination), the first correct proof of Herbrand?s theorem or the use of the Epsilon operator in Bourbaki?s ?l?ments de Math?matique. Nowadays the interest in the Epsilon substitution method has spread in a variety of fields: Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy, History of Mathematics, Linguistic, Type Theory, Computer science, Category Theory and others. Submission The workshop welcomes submissions of up to 4 (but not less than 2) pages. Usual spacing, font and margin should be used (single-spaced, 11pt or larger, and 1 inch margin on A4 or letter size paper). Abstracts should be submitted by April 1st, 2015 as pdf files through the EasyChair conference system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epsilon2015). An indicative list of themes that are of particular interest to the conference are (non-exhaustive): - History of Logic - Philosophy - Proof theory - Model theory - Category theory - Type theory - Quantification in Natural language - Noun-Phrases Semantics - Proof Assistants (e.g. Coq, Isabelle, ... ) - Other subnectors (e.g. Russell's iota, ?-operator, ... ) Reviewing: Abstracts will be reviewed by members of the program committee, and, where appropriate, outside reviewers. The organizers will be responsible for making decisions partly in consultation with the program committee. Notifications will be made by May 1st, 2015. Post-Proceedings: Selected papers from the workshop will appear as a special volume in Journal of Logics and their Applications Important dates: April 1st, 2015: Submission deadline May 1st,2015: Notification of acceptance June 10-12, 2015: Workshop Invited speakers: Claus-Peter Wirth (University of Saarland): The descriptive operators iota, tau and epsilon - on their origin, partial and complete specification, model-theoretic semantics, practical applicability Vito Michele Abrusci (University of Roma Tre): Hilbert's tau and epsilon in proof theory. Hartley Slater (University of Western Australia): Linguistic and philosophical ramifications of the epsilon calculus Program Committee: Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University) Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (LIRMM-CNRS & University of Montpellier) Francis Corblin (University of Paris-Sorbonne & Institut Jean Nicod CNRS) Michael Gabbay (University of Cambridge) Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics of Tokyo) Ruth Kempson (King's College, London) Alda Mari (CNRS Institut Jean Nicod & ENS & EHESS) Georg Moser (University of Innsbruck) Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (Vienna University of Technology) Michel Parigot (CNRS-PPS & University of Paris Diderot 7) Fabio Pasquali (University of Aix-Marseille & I2M CNRS) Christian Retor? (University of Montpellier & LIRMM-CNRS) Mark Steedman (University of Edimburgh) Richard Zach (University of Calgary) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wneuper at ist.tugraz.at Mon Feb 16 09:49:36 2015 From: wneuper at ist.tugraz.at (Walther Neuper) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:49:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'15, Theorem proving components for Educational software, cfp In-Reply-To: <7825586.kqUreA1aGx@gentzen> References: <7825586.kqUreA1aGx@gentzen> Message-ID: <54E20380.2070706@ist.tugraz.at> Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ThEdu'15 Theorem proving components for Educational software July 13-17, 2015 http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu15 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - at CICM 2015 Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics Washington DC, USA http://cicm-conference.org/2015 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THedu'15 Scope: The distinguishing feature of mathematics is reasoning: questionable statements are proved by the laws of logic. This kind of reasoning makes mathematics a central thinking technology of modern science. Educational software tools have integrated technologies from Computer Algebra, from Dynamic Geometry, from Spreadsheets and others, but not from (computer) theorem proving (TP) with few exceptions: the latter have been developed to model mathematical reasoning in software; theorem provers (TPs) are successfully used to tackle difficult proofs in the science of mathematics, like the Four Color Problem or the Kepler Conjecture; and TPs are successfully used to verify safety critical software in industry. This workshop addresses support for reasoning in mathematics education by use of TP technology. The workshop addresses educators and designers and developers of TPs as well as of other educational mathematics software; and the discussions shall clarify the requirements of education, identify advantages and promises of TP for learning and motivate development of a novel kind of tools probably establishing a new generation of educational mathematical tools. Important Dates * Extended Abstracts: 24 May 2015 * Author Notification: 08 June 2015 * Final Version: 21 June 2015 * Workshop Day: 1 day (13-17 July) Points of interest include: Adaption of TP - concepts and technologies for education: knowledge representation, simplifiers, reasoners; undefinedness, level of abstraction, etc. Requirements on software support for reasoning - reasoning appears as the most advanced method of human thought, so at which age and what kind of support TP can provide? Automated TP in geometry - relating intuitive evidence with logical rigour: specific provers, adaption of axioms and theorems, visual proofs, etc. Levels of authoring - in order to cope with generality of TP: experts adapt to specifics of countries or levels, teachers adapt to courses and students. Adaptive modules, students' modelling and learning paths - services for user guidance provided by TP technology: which interfaces enable flexible generation of adaptive user guidance? Next-step-guidance, which suggests a next step when a student gets stuck in problem solving: which computational methods can extend TP for that purpose? TP as unifying foundation - for the integration of technologies like CAS, DGS, Spreadsheets etc: interfaces for unified support of reasoning? Continuous tool chains - for mathematics education from high-school to university, from algebra and geometry to graph theory etc. 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'15 easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu15). 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://style.eptcs.org/). At least one author of each accepted extended abstract/demonstration proposal is expected to attend THedu'15 and presents his/her extended abstract/demonstration. Program Committee Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain Roman Ha?ek, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Filip Maric, University of Belgrade, Serbia Walther Neuper, Graz University of Technology, Austria (co-chair) Pavel Pech, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair) Vanda Santos, CISUC, Portugal Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Burkhart Wolff, University Paris-Sud, France Proceedings Following ThEdu'13 and ThEdu'14 practise we expect to have a joint proceedings of the workshops co-located with the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics. From samir.ouchani at uni.lu Mon Feb 16 02:54:57 2015 From: samir.ouchani at uni.lu (Samir OUCHANI) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:54:57 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The International Workshop on Security Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems (SACPS'15) Message-ID: <6AE985D860873240AC24949EBE70B26B04DC62B4@hoshi.uni.lux> Call for Papers (The submission deadline is extended through February 23) The International Workshop on Security Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems (SACPS'15) http://satoss.uni.lu/sacps2015 in conjunction with ANT-2015 conference June 2 - 5, 2015 London, UK SCOPE Security of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is challenging due to the inherent complexity of CPS. Moreover, it is not sufficient to ascertain the security of the individual components in isolation: threats in CPS systems could also be due to the interaction between the physical, digital and software parts of CPS. Therefore, the system must be studied as a whole, which sets this emerging discipline apart from these individually established fields. This workshop provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Modeling CPS (formal models, UML, SysML, ADAAL, etc) ? Design secure CPS ? Risks analysis of CPS ? Formal methods for CPS (abstraction, compositional verification, model checking, theorem proving, simulation, testing, etc) ? Threat modeling for CPS ? Security policies and access control for CPS ? Safety and reliability analysis for CPS ? Security requirements specification for CPS ? Human aspects for CPS ? Case studies, tools, and experimental results for CPS SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2015 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2014 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacph2015. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop chair for assistance. All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ANT'13 and in IJFCST. Important dates Submission due: 23 Feb, 2015 Notification of acceptance: 20 March, 2015 Camera-ready due: 1 April, 2015 Workshop: 2-5 June, 2015 Program committee General chair Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. PC chairs Otmane Ait Mohamed, Concordia University, Canada. Samir Ouchani, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. PC members ? Yamine Ait-Ameur (Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure de M?canique et d'A?rotechnique, FR) ? Vincent Aravantinos (Fortiss GmbH, D) ? Yacine Atif (UAE University, UAE) ? Hamad Binsalleeh (Al-Imam University, KSA) ? Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, CA) ? Karim Djouani (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, FR) ? Jannik Dreier (ETH Zurich, CH) ? Iqbal Farkhund (Zayed University, UAE) ? Osman Hassan (National University of Science & Technology Pakistan, PK) ? Hugo Jonker (Open Universiteit, NL) ? Barbara Kordy (INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR) ? Gabriele Lenzini (University of Luxembourg, L) ? Chamseddine Talhi (Ecole de Technologie Sup?rieure, CA) Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/#registration for more information. VENUE, ACCOMMODATION & VISA REQUIREMENTS Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/#conferenceVenue for more information. If you have any further questions please contact one of the workshop organizer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aldini at sti.uniurb.it Wed Feb 18 06:51:19 2015 From: aldini at sti.uniurb.it (Alessandro Aldini) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:51:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] summer school FOSAD 2015 Message-ID: ==================================================== 15TH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON FOUNDATIONS OF SECURITY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN FOSAD 2015 ==================================================== http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/fosad15 31 August - 5 September 2015, Bertinoro, Italy In cooperation with NESSoS and CryptoForma *** Application Deadline: June 20, 2015 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> Michael Backes Saarland Univ. Herbert Bos Vrije Univ. Amsterdam Michael Clarkson Cornell Univ. Hubert Comon ENS Cachan Ivan Damg?rd Aarhus Univ. Andy Gordon Microsoft Research Heiko Mantel TU Darmstadt The courses alternate theory and practice sessions. Full program and links to background 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 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. DATES> Prospective participants should apply through the FOSAD web page by: June 20, 2015. Notification of accepted applicants will be posted by: June 24, 2015. Registration to the school is due by: July 24, 2015. FEES> The full fee is 900 Euros and covers stay from August 30, in double room, half board (breakfast and lunch), welcome dinner of August 30 and social dinner included. A limited amount of grants will be provided to cover part of the fee for young researchers. From tomofumi.yuki at inria.fr Wed Feb 18 07:08:59 2015 From: tomofumi.yuki at inria.fr (Tomofumi Yuki) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:08:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences, GPCE 2015, Pittsburgh, Oct. 26/27, 2015 In-Reply-To: <1913943861.451750.1424261295441.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> Message-ID: <966568466.451860.1424261339031.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------- ACM SIGPLAN GPCE 2015 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences Oct 26-27, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, USA http://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce2015 Co-located with: ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH 2015) and ACM SIGPLAN 8th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission : June 8, 2015 Full paper submission : June 15, 2015 Authors notification : July 24, 2015 Camera-ready : Aug 7, 2015 Conference : Oct 26-27, 2015 Workshops: Handled by SPLASH All dates are Anywhere on Earth ----------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST GPCE seeks contributions on all topics related to generative software and its properties. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Generative software * Domain-specific languages (language extension, language embedding, language design, language theory, language workbenches, interpreters, compilers) * Product lines (domain engineering, feature-oriented and aspect-oriented programming, pre-processors, feature interactions) * Metaprogramming (reflection, staging, partial evaluation), Type systems, Program synthesis * Implementation techniques and tool support (components, plug-ins, libraries, metaprogramming, macros, templates, generic programming, run-time code generation, model-driven development, composition tools, code-completion and code-recommendation systems) Practical Applications and Empirical evaluations * Empirical evaluations of all topics above (user studies, substantial case studies, controlled experiments, surveys, rigorous measurements) * Application areas and engineering practice (Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, Mobile Computing, Software Defined Networking, High Performance Computing, Patterns and Middleware, Development methods) Properties of generative software * Correctness of generators and generated code (analysis, testing, formal methods, domain-specific error messages, safety, security) * Reuse and evolution * Modularity, separation of concerns, understandability, and maintainability * Performance engineering, nonfunctional properties (program optimization and parallelization, GPGPUs, multicore, footprint, metrics) We particularly welcome papers that address some of the key challenges in the field, such as, * 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 GPCE encourages submissions about empirical evaluations and applications of generative software, and such papers will be given special consideration during reviewing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Research papers: 10 pages maximum (ACM SIGPLAN style) Research papers should report on original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, or experimental research that contribute to scientific knowledge in the areas listed above (the PC chair can advise on appropriateness) Tool demos and short papers: 4 pages maximum (ACM SIGPLAN style). The goal of short papers is to promote current work on research and practice. Short papers represent an early communication of research and do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community, discuss ideas and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented with a shorter time slot at the conference. Tool demonstrations should present tools that implement generative techniques, and are available for use. Any of the GPCE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations, although purely commercial tool demonstrations will not be accepted. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages in SIGPLAN proceedings style (see above) and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 4 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the words "Tool Demo" or "Tool Demonstration" in the title, possibly appended in parenthesis. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS GENERAL CHAIR Christian Kastner, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Faruk Caglar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA Tomofumi Yuki, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE COMPLETED) Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu Univ, Japan Emilie Balland, INRIA Bordeaux, France Don Batory, Univ of Texas, USA Walter Binder, Univ of Lugano, Switzerland Jan Bosch, Chalmers Univ, Sweden Akshay Dabholkar, Oracle, USA Ewen Denney, NASA Ames, USA Katrina Falkner, Univ of Adelaide, Australia Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch Univ, South Africa Matthew Flatt, Univ of Utah, USA Jeff Gray, Univ of Alabama, USA Michael Haupt, Oracle Labs, Germany James Hill, Indiana Univ Purdue Univ at Indianapolis, USA Young-Woo Kwon, Utah State Univ, USA Raffaela Mirandola, Politechnico di Milano, Italy Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State Univ, USA Laurent Reveillere, LaBRI, Univ of Bordeaux, France Marcio Ribeiro, Federal Univ of Alagoas, Brazil Tiark Rompf, Purdue Univ, USA Klaus Schmid, Stiftung Universitat Hildesheim, Germany Norbert Siegmund, Univ of Passau, Germany Yannis Smaragdakis, Univ of Athens, Greece Sumant Tambe, RTI Inc, USA Petr Tuma, Charles Univ, Czech Republic Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Univ of California, Irvine, USA Jules White, Vanderbilt Univ, USA Eric Wohlstadter, Univ of British Columbia, Canada From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Wed Feb 18 18:16:30 2015 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:16:30 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: (EC)2 - International Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly Message-ID: <54E51D4E.9090707@imperial.ac.uk> Dear all Please consider submitting a short position paper to this exciting workshop, co-located with CAV 2015, and please spread the word to others who may be interested! Submissions on type-based approaches to correct concurrency would be very welcome. Many thanks Ally Donaldson ******************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* (EC)2 2015: 8th International Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly Co-located with CAV 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA July 18-19, 2015 http://multicore.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/ec2/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Submission: Apr 17, 2015, Anywhere on Earth Notifications: May 8, 2015 Final versions due: May 15, 2015 Workshop: Jul 18-19, 2015 *** SCOPE *** The rise of multicore CPUs, manycore GPUs, and other heterogeneous accelerator devices, presents exciting new opportunities for building more efficient computing systems. But with these opportunities comes a challenge: concurrent programming is notoriously difficult, and advances in analysis, programming and verification in the context of concurrency are required to meet this challenge. There has been a surge of concurrency-related research activity from different viewpoints, such as the rethinking of programming abstractions and memory models; standardization and formalization of commonly used APIs and libraries; and investigating new forms of hardware support for parallel processing. While developing tools for verifying and debugging concurrent systems has been an important theme in the verification community for some time, we believe that formal verification research can go beyond checking existing code and systems, and play a role in identifying suitable abstractions for concurrency. The goal of the annual (EC)2 workshop is thus to bring together researchers from the verification and program analysis community with experts who are involved, on the one hand, in developing multicore architectures, programming languages, or concurrency libraries, and on the other hand, in distributed computing and concurrency theory. Ultimately, such a diverse environment should stimulate incubation of ideas leading to future concurrent system design an verification tools that are essential in the multicore era. *** WORKSHOP FORMAT *** The workshop will include invited talks, presentations of position papers, and discussion periods. The position papers will be distributed before-hand on the CAV memory stick and this webpage. *** INVITED SPEAKERS *** We're excited to have the following confirmed invited speakers: - Sebastian Burkhardt, Microsoft Research - Cormac Flanagan, University of California Santa Cruz *** SUBMISSION *** We seek position papers related to the scope outlined above (to be interpreted broadly). The aim of the workshop is to promote discussion of new ideas, and exchange of ideas between communities. Thus we seek not only polished contributions, we very much welcome reports of work-in-progress, lucid write-ups of new ideas, and potentially controversial position statements. Prepare a 2-5 page position paper in PDF format using any tool you like. The title and the name of the authors should appear at the top of the first page. Please submit your papers through EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ec22015 Those who do not have an EasyChair account will need to create one by visiting this URL: http://www.easychair.org/ Each contribution will be reviewed by 2-3 members of the Programme Committee, after which a selection of papers to be presented at the workshop will be made. There will be no formal workshop proceedings; therefore, the work will be considered "unpublished". It is thus OK (from the point of view of (EC)2) for authors to submit articles related to work that has already been published elsewhere, or is under submission to a journal or a conference that does have formal proceedings, if the authors feel that the work would lead to interesting discussion at (EC)2. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend to present the work. *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Brad Beckmann, AMD Pavol Cerny, University of Colorado Boulder Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London (chair) Michael Emmi, IMDEA Software Institute Akash Lal, Microsoft Research Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of Utah From ichiro at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Feb 18 23:57:17 2015 From: ichiro at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:57:17 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc in Japan: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship 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 :) 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. Sounds OK, doesn't it? - There are two application paths: 1) through Open Recruitment in Japan; 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) is somewhat rare in Japan. Therefore many researchers, including myself, are waiting for your contact on an application of 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 compscience.announcement at gmail.com Thu Feb 19 11:31:38 2015 From: compscience.announcement at gmail.com (Klaus Havelund) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:31:38 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NFM 2015 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: NFM 2015CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 7th NASA Formal Methods Symposium http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/nfm2015 27 ? 29 April 2015 Pasadena, California, USA THEME The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission- and safety-critical systems require advanced techniques that address their specification, verification, validation, and certification. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and practitioners from academia, industry, and government, with the goals of identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving assurance in mission- and safety-critical systems. The focus of the symposium is on formal methods, and aims to foster collaboration between NASA researchers and engineers and the wider aerospace and academic formal methods communities. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Model checking - Theorem proving - SAT and SMT solving - Symbolic execution - Static analysis - Runtime verification - Systematic testing - Program refinement - Compositional verification - Modeling and specification formalisms - Model-based development - Model-based testing - Requirement engineering - Formal approaches to fault tolerance - Security and intrusion detection - Applications of formal methods INVITED SPEAKERS Dino Distefano Software Engineer at Facebook, California, USA and Professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Viktor Kuncak Leads Lab for Automated Reasoning and Analysis at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Rob Manning Chief Engineer at NASA/JPL. LOCATION, COST, REGISTRATION AND HOTEL ROOM BOOKING The symposium will take place at the Hilton Hotel, Pasadena, California, USA, April 27-29, 2015. There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend; however, all attendees must register (but please only register if you intend to attend). Registration form and hotel booking websites are reachable from the main website. A block of rooms at a low price are reserved with booking deadline of March 26. PC CHAIRS Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA PUBLICITY SUPPORT Ylies Falcone, Universit? Joseph Fourier, France PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center, USA Christel Baier, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG/UJF, France Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Dawson Engler, Stanford University, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, Universit? Paris-Sud, France Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Alwyn Goodloe, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick/Lero, Ireland Bart Jacobs, University of Leuven, Belgium Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Gerwin Klein, NICTA, Australia Daniel Kroening, Oxford University, UK Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany Pete Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, USA Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg, Germany Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, USA Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois, USA Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK STEERING COMMITTEE Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is hosted, for the time being, by Google Groups: data-centric-programming at googlegroups.com Its creation was motivated by discussion at a recent Dagstuhl seminar [1] concerning how to improve communication and build community among researchers in different areas with common interests, such as databases, systems, high-performance computation, programming languages, or security/privacy. This mailing list is intended as a public forum for researchers and practitioners interested in programming languages and data-centric computation. It is intended to be a lightweight and low-traffic forum for discussion of research ideas and community-building activities to help strengthen ties among those in this area. --James [1] http://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/semhp/?semnr=14511 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From serge.autexier at dfki.de Thu Feb 19 09:09:14 2015 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:09:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP CICM 2015 - Deadline Extension Message-ID: <20150219140914.8A24725BA1F2@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement] Following a number of requests we have extended the submission deadlines for CICM 2015 as follows: OLD NEW Abstract submission deadline: Mon, 16 Feb Wed, 25 Feb Submission deadline: Mon, 23 Feb Mon, 2 Mar Kind regards, Manfred Kerber -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics CICM 2015 13-17 July 2015 Washington DC, USA Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), and Coimbra (Portugal 2014). This is a (short version of the) call for papers for CICM 2015, which will be held in Washington, D.C., 13-17 July 2015. The full version of the CFP is available from the conference web page at http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php ********************************************************************** The principal tracks of the conference will be: ********************************************************************** * Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) Chair: Jacques Carette * DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries) Chair: Volker Sorge * MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Chair: Cezary Kaliszyk * Systems and Data Chair: Florian Rabe Publicity chair is Serge Autexier. The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements Chairs, Bruce R. Miller (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Abdou Youssef (The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.), and the overall programme will be organized by the General Programme Chair, Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK). As in previous years, it is anticipated that there will be a number co-located workshops, including one to mentor doctoral students giving presentations. We also solicit for project descriptions and work-in-progress papers. ********************************************************************** Important Dates ********************************************************************** Conference submissions: Abstract submission deadline: 25 February 2015 Submission deadline: 2 March 2015 Reviews sent to authors: 6 April 2015 Rebuttals due: 9 April 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2015 Camera ready copies due: 27 April 2015 Conference: 13-17 July 2015 Work-in-progress and Doctoral Programme submissions: Submission deadline: (Doctoral: Abstract+CV) 4 May 2015 Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2015 Camera ready copies due: 1 June 2015 More detailed information, e.g. on submission via EasyChair, can be found on http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php From james.cheney at gmail.com Thu Feb 19 15:11:48 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:11:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] New mailing list: Data-Centric Programming In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, Moments after sending this it was pointed out to me that while I gave the email address for posting to the mailing list, I did not include any useful information about *joining* said list. The mailing list can be joined at this web page: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/data-centric-programming using Google Account credentials (which can be associated with any email address). Apologies for the omission (and to those of you not interested in either message). --James On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:08 PM, James Cheney wrote: > Hi, > > I am pleased to announce the creation of a new mailing list for discussion > and announcements related to "data-centric programming". Data-centric > programming broadly refers to programming techniques for database, > data-parallel, distributed, or streaming computation models (e.g. LINQ, > MapReduce/Hadoop, multicore or GPGPU programming). > > It may be of interest to readers of the TYPES list, since ideas from types > and programming languages have historically influenced research in this > area, and continue to do so today. > > It is hosted, for the time being, by Google Groups: > > data-centric-programming at googlegroups.com > > Its creation was motivated by discussion at a recent Dagstuhl seminar [1] > concerning how to improve communication and build community among > researchers in different areas with common interests, such as databases, > systems, high-performance computation, programming languages, or > security/privacy. > > This mailing list is intended as a public forum for researchers and > practitioners interested in programming languages and data-centric > computation. It is intended to be a lightweight and low-traffic forum for > discussion of research ideas and community-building activities to help > strengthen ties among those in this area. > > --James > > [1] http://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/semhp/?semnr=14511 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rwh at cs.cmu.edu Fri Feb 20 17:14:26 2015 From: rwh at cs.cmu.edu (Prof Robert Harper) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:14:26 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OPLSS 2015 Message-ID: <56D31467-D9AF-4F37-9717-7209874D733F@cs.cmu.edu> We are pleased to announce the preliminary program for the 14th annual Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) to be held June 15th to 27th, 2015 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. This year's program is titled Types, Logic, Semantics, and Verification and features the following speakers: Ahmal Ahmed Northeastern University Nick Benton Microsoft Cambridge Research Lab Adam Chlipala Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robert Constable Cornell University Peter Dybjer Chalmers University of Technology Robert Harper Carnegie Mellon University Ed Morehouse Carnegie Mellon University Greg Morrisett Harvard University Frank Pfenning Carnegie Mellon University The registration deadline is March 16, 2015. Full information on registration and scholarships will be available shortly at: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/ Please address all inquiries to summerschool at cs.uoregon.edu . Best regards from the OPLSS 2015 organizers, Robert Harper Greg Morrisett Zena Ariola -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes, Aslan Askarov (aslan at cs.au.dk) Lars Birkedal (birkedal at cs.au.dk) Olivier Danvy (danvy at cs.au.dk) Anders M?ller (amoeller at cs.au.dk) Students interested in pursueing a PhD should apply at the Graduate School for Science and Technology http://talent.au.dk/phd/scienceandtechnology/ (next deadline May 1, 2015). They are encouraged to get in contact with one of us before applying. Potential postdocs should get in contact with us directly. Positions are typically for 2 years. Salary and working conditions for PhD students and postdocs are very competetive. ? Lars Birkedal Head of Department of Computer Science, Professor Head of Logic and Semantics Group Department of Computer Science Aarhus University www.cs.au.dk/~birke birkedal at cs.au.dk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fisman at seas.upenn.edu Fri Feb 20 11:18:04 2015 From: fisman at seas.upenn.edu (Dana Fisman) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:18:04 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ExCAPE Postdoc Openings (for academic year 2015-2016) Message-ID: *ExCAPE Postdoc Openings (for academic year 2015-2016)* *Application deadline*: March 31 2015 Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering (ExCAPE ) is a multi-university multi-disciplinary project funded by US National Science Foundation as part of the Expeditions in Computing program. Universities involved are: * Cornell University* * Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rice University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles * * University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign* * University of Maryland, College Park University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania* The goal of ExCAPE is to transform the way programmers develop software by advancing the theory and practice of software synthesis. To achieve this goal, the ExCAPE team brings together expertise in theoretical foundations (computer-aided verification, control theory, program analysis), design methodology (human-computer interaction, model-based design, programming environments), and applications (concurrent programming, network protocols, robotics, system architecture). ExCAPE has funding available for multiple post-doctoral research positions for the academic year 2015-2016. We seek applicants with domain expertise necessary to advance the practice of synthesis in one of the challenge problems as well as applicants with expertise in theory and tools for synthesis. Each post-doctoral researcher will be advised by two PIs , and will be expected to split time between the institutions of the two mentors. For more information, please feel free to contact any of the PIs . *Instructions to Candidates:* Review of applications will begin upon receipt and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should prepare the following materials: - Two representative publications - Curriculum vita - Statement of research (1-2 pages) - 2-3 recommendation letters The application is done online via the following link . All material, except for the recommendation letters, should be uploaded using this link. Recommendation letters should be sent by email to Dr. Dana Fisman . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Previous editions of the GCM series were held in Natal, Brazil (GCM 2006 ), in Leicester, UK (GCM 2008 ), in Enschede, The Netherlands (GCM 2010 ), in Bremen, Germany (GCM 2012 ) and in York, UK (GCM 2014 ). Topics of interest ------------------------- * Foundations: models of graph transformation; logics for graphs and graph transformation; analysis and verification of graph transformation systems; foundations of programming languages; parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation; term graph rewriting; formal graph languages. * Applications: visual programming; design and implementation of graph-based languages; model-driven engineering; software architectures; software validation; graph-based security models; workflow and business processes; dynamic graph algorithms; bioinformatics and computational chemistry; case-studies. Important Dates ----------------------- # Abstract submission: 8 May 2015 # Paper submission: 15 May 2015 # Notification: 12 June 2015 # Final version: 26 June 2015 # Workshop: 20 July 2015 Submission and Publication ---------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit two types of papers, (1) regular papers of at most 15 pages and (2) position papers, system descriptions or work-in-progress papers of at most 5 pages. Papers should be in LNCS format (LLNCS style) and submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair submission page . Electronic proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop. After the workshop, selected authors will be invited to submit revised versions of their papers . Accepted selected contributions will be published in an issue of the international journal Electronic Communications of the EASST . 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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 == 3 June 2014: Deadline for abstract submission 7 June 2014: Deadline for paper submission 12 July 2014: Notifications 22 July 2014: Final versions 5 September 2015: Workshop in Madrid == 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. * Service composition and coordination for Future Internet applications, service orchestration and choreographies, related theories and methods, and possible model-driven development approaches. * 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: * Cloud computing * Service-oriented computing * Component-based systems * Grid computing * Large-scale distributed systems * Multi-agent systems * Peer-to-peer systems * Networked embedded systems * Business process modeling 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=foclasa2015 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 2015. 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 == * Jose Proenca iMinds-Distrinet, KU Leuven, Belgium and HASLab/INESC TEC, University of Minho, Portugal jose.proenca at cs.kuleuven.be * Massimo Tivoli University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy massimo.tivoli at univaq.it == PUBLICITY CHAIR == * Alexander Perucci, University of L'Aquila, Italy == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Marco Autili, Univ. of L'Aquila, Italy * Luis Barbosa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany * Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Carlos Canal, University of Mal?ga, Spain * Carlos Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Alfredo Goldmann, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil * Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Christian Krause, SAP Innovation Center, Germany * Sun Meng, Peking University, China * Liliana Pasquale, University of Limerick, Ireland * Jose Proenca, iMinds-Distrinet and HASLab/INESC TEC, KU Leuven, Belgium * Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA * Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, 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 Salaun, Grenoble INP - INRIA Grenoble - LIG, France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at Thu Feb 19 16:57:03 2015 From: Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at (Nickovic Dejan) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:57:03 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: RV'15 - The 15th International Conference on Runtime Verification Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS RV'15 15th International Conference on Runtime Verification Vienna, Austria 22-25 September 2015 http://rv2015.conf.tuwien.ac.at/ RV'15, the 15th International Conference on Runtime Verification, will take place at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, from 22 to 25 September 2015. ** 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. ** Invited Speakers ** Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria ** General Chair ** Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria ** Program Chairs ** Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany ** Tool Chair/Publicity Chair ** Dejan Nickovic, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria ** Program Committee ** Thomas Ball, Microsoft, USA Howard Barringer, University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (PC Chair) David Basin, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Andreas Baurer, TU Munich, Germany Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG, France Eric Bodden, TU Darmstadt, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy Laura Bozzelli, UPW, Spain Rohit Chadha, University of Missouri, USA Satish Chandra, Samsung Electronics, USA Dino Distefano, Facebook, UK Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London, UK Alexandre Donz?, UC Berkeley, USA Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University, USA Yli?s Falcone, University of Grenoble I, France Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University, Germany Milos Gligoric, University of Illunois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (General Chair) Kim Larsen, Aalborg Univeristy, Denmark Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL, USA Aditya Kanade, Indian Institute of Science, India Panagiotis Katsaros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Safraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, Germany Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany (PC Chair) Oded Maler, VERIMAG, France Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Dejan Nickovic, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Joel Ouaknine, Oxford University, UK Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel Pavithra Prabhakar, IMDEA Software Institute, USA Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore, Singapore Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley, USA Scott A. Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen, TU Dortmund, Germany Scott D. Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Emina Torlak, UC Berkeley, USA Serdar Ta??ran, Ko? University, Turkey Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ** Research Papers Track ** 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'15 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair system. * Regular Papers * 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. The Program Committee of RV 2015 will give this year a best paper award. The Best Paper Award recipient is given public recognition and will receive one high-end NVIDIA GPU equipment (Titan Black for a value of $1,150) donated by NVIDIA. 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 * 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. ** Tool Demonstration Track ** The aim of the RV 2015 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'15 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. * Tool 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 * Dejan Nickovic, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria, Chair Alexandre Donz?, UC Berkeley, USA Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, Germany Milos Gligoric, University of Illunois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Eugen Zalinescu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta Important Dates: Both research papers and tool demonstration tracks and the call for tutorials will follow the following timeline: Abstract deadline: April 12, 2015 Paper and submission deadline: April 19, 2015 Paper and Notification: May 31, 2015 Camera Ready submission: June 15, 2015 Conference dates: September 22-25, 2015 -- Dejan Nickovic Senior Scientist Department Digital Safety and Security Business Unit Safe and Autonomous Systems AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Donau-City-Stra?e 1 | 1220 Vienna | Austria T +43(0) 50550-4021 | M +43(0) 66488-390038 | F +43(0) 50550-4150 dejan.nickovic at ait.ac.at | http://www.ait.ac.at FN: 115980 i HG Wien | UID: ATU14703506 This email and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. 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URL: From dejan.jovanovic at sri.com Fri Feb 20 00:10:01 2015 From: dejan.jovanovic at sri.com (=?UTF-8?B?RGVqYW4gSm92YW5vdmnEhw==?=) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:10:01 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 13th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories Message-ID: <54E6C1A9.8030607@sri.com> SMT Workshop 2015 13th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories Affiliated with CAV 2015, San Francisco, USA July 18th - 19th, 2015 http://smt2015.csl.sri.com/ --- 1st CALL FOR PAPERS --- ====================================================================== Background ---------- Determining the satisfiability of first-order formulas modulo background theories, known as the Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) problem, has proved to be an enabling technology for verification, synthesis, test generation, compiler optimization, scheduling, and other areas. The success of SMT techniques depends on the development of both domain-specific decision procedures for each background theory (e.g., linear arithmetic, the theory of arrays, or the theory of bit-vectors) and combination methods that allow one to obtain more versatile SMT tools, usually leveraging Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers. These ingredients together make SMT techniques well-suited for use in larger automated reasoning and verification efforts. Aims and Scope -------------- The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of SMT tools and techniques. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: * Decision procedures and theories of interest * Combinations of decision procedures * Novel implementation techniques * Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies * Applications and case studies * Theoretical results Papers on pragmatic aspects of implementing and using SMT tools, as well as novel applications of SMT, are especially encouraged. Important dates --------------- * Submission deadline: April 30, 2015 * Notification: May 29, 2015 * Camera ready versions due: June 5th, 2015 * Workshop: July 18th and 19th, 2015 Paper submission and Proceedings -------------------------------- Three categories of submissions are invited: * Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. They may range in length from very short (a couple of pages) to the full 10 pages and they will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the SMT community. They will be included in the informal proceedings. * Original papers: contain original research (simultaneous submissions are not allowed) and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the submission. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data available. * Presentation-only papers: describe work recently published or submitted and will not be included in the proceedings. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that SMT Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Papers in all three categories will be peer-reviewed. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be in standard-conforming PDF. Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file. To submit a paper, go to the EasyChair SMT page and follow the instructions there. Program Committee ----------------- * Armin Biere (Johannes Kepler University) * Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) * Sylvain Conchon (Universit? Paris-Sud) * Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research) * Morgan Deters (New York University) * Bruno Dutertre (SRI International) * Pascal Fontaine (Universit? de Lorraine) * Vijay Ganesh (University of Waterloo), co-chair * Alberto Griggio (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) * Dejan Jovanovi? (SRI International), co-chair * Tim King (Verimag) * Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute) * Ruzica Piskac (Yale University) * Andrew Raynolds (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne) * Christoph Wintersteiger (Microsoft Research) * Yunhui Zheng (IBM Research) Morgan Deters Travel Award -------------------------- The Morgan Deters Travel Award was created to honour the memory of Morgan Deters, for his contributions to the theory and practice of SMT. The award is intended to enable selected students to attend the SMT workshop by partially covering their workshop-related expenses. While preference will be given to students who will play an active role in the workshop, students who do not expect to give presentations, including students who have just begun their research, or are considering the field, are encouraged to apply. Applications for the for the travel award, in the form of a short recommendation letter written by the student?s supervisor, should be sent to the PC chairs by June 5. Donations to the travel award fund are welcome at . Invited Speakers ---------------- * Cristian Cadar, Imperial College London * John Regehr, University of Utah * Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research From neil.ghani at strath.ac.uk Fri Feb 20 13:02:53 2015 From: neil.ghani at strath.ac.uk (Neil Ghani) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:02:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] A HoTT-Date with Thorsten Altenkirch Message-ID: Dear All Dr Thorsten Altenkirch is visiting the MSP group during the week of March 2, and we thought we would have an afternoon of talks in his honour on Wednesday 4 March. Please feel free to attend and forward this to anyone else who might be interested. If you would like to give a talk, we could create a few spots too. Please get in touch ASAP if you wish to i) attend; ii) give a talk; and/or iii) stay for dinner. This will help us to cater appropriately. All the best Neil and Fred ****************************** A HoTT-Date With Thorsten Altenkirch (An Afternoon of Talks) Date: Wednesday 4 March, 2pm Location: Room 1415, Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH. Speakers: Thorsten Altenkirch: Higher Inductive Types Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg: Presentations of mutually defined types (including HITs) James McKinna: Using relations to streamline the encode-decode method? Neil Ghani: Higher Dimensional Parametricity via Cubical Categories Bob Atkey: A Cubical Set Model for Relationally Parametric Type Theory From iliano at andrew.cmu.edu Sat Feb 21 06:01:23 2015 From: iliano at andrew.cmu.edu (Iliano Cervesato) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:01:23 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2015: call for papers Message-ID: <54E86583.8070506@cmu.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement] ======================================================================= Call for papers 11th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2015 Berlin, Germany, 1 August 2015 Affiliated with CADE-25 http://lfmtp.org/2015 ======================================================================= SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 7 MAY 2015 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 and their use in reasoning tasks ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal computational systems have been the focus of considerable research over the last two decades. This workshop will bring together designers, implementors, 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 expressiveness and lucidity of the reasoning process. LFMTP 2015 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. Invited Speakers * Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University) Additional invited speakers will be announced shortly. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Friday April 30th Submission deadline: Friday May 7th Notification to authors: Friday June 12th Final version due: Friday July 3rd Workshop date: Saturday August 1st Submission In addition to regular papers, we also solicit "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report fully polished research results, but should be interesting for the community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS style guidelines. The length is restricted to 15 pages for regular papers and 8 pages for "Work in Progress" papers. Submission is via EasyChair (link on the LFMTP 2015 web page). Proceedings Accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings of LMFTP 2015, whose mode of publication will be determined shortly. Program Committee * Andreas Abel (Chalmers and Gothenburg University) * David Baelde (LSV, ENS Cachan) * Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University, co-chair) * Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria and LIX/Ecole polytechnique, co-chair) * Assia Mahboubi (Inria) * Stefan Monnier (University of Montreal) * Gopalan Nadathur (University of Minnesota) * Giselle Reis (Inria) * Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna) * Carsten Schuermann (ITU Copenhagen and Demtech) From stevez at cis.upenn.edu Sat Feb 21 12:43:25 2015 From: stevez at cis.upenn.edu (Steve Zdancewic) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:43:25 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ExCAPE Summer School on Software Synthesis - call for participation Message-ID: <54E8C3BD.7060907@cis.upenn.edu> Call for Participation Second ExCAPE Summer School on Software Synthesis June 23-26, 2015 MIT, Cambridge, USA https://excape.cis.upenn.edu/summer-school.html ExCAPE (Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering) is pleased to announce that its Second Summer School on Software Synthesis will be held at MIT, June 23-26, 2015. Program synthesis aims to change programming from a purely manual task to one in which a programmer and an automated program synthesis tool collaborate to generate software that meets its specification. As such, it has the potential to revolutionize computing by allowing developers to create programs from incomplete sketches, declarative specifications of high-level requirements, positive and negative examples, or domain-specific optimization criteria. The goal of the school is to expose graduate students and junior researchers to new ideas in program synthesis. The school provides a unique opportunity for students to engage with cutting-edge research in courses taught by experts in the field. Topics will be drawn from theoretical foundations (reactive synthesis, inductive learning, probabilistic programming), design methodology (syntax-guided synthesis), and applications (software-defined networks, robotics). Format:18 one-hour lectures over four days, with a group excursion on the afternoon of day 3. These lectures will be organized in tutorials with hands on sessions on tools and problem solving, supplemented by invited lectures on theory and applications of synthesis. Tutorials: (2 to 4 hours each) * Reactive synthesis: Roderick Bloem (Graz) * Inductive learning and constraint solving: Sanjit Seshia (UC Berkeley) * Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS): Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT) * Probabilistic programming: Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT) * Synthesis for robotics (speaker TBA) Speakers: * Viktor Kuncak (EPFL) * Ashish Tiwari (SRI) * Martin Vechev (ETH) * David Walker (Princeton) * Keith Winstein (Stanford) Venue: The school will be held on the campus of MIT, Cambridge, USA. Organizers: Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT) St?phane Lafortune (University of Michigan) Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania) Registration: Registration information is available from the summer school?s web page at: https://excape.cis.upenn.edu/summer-school.html Registration is free and will include lunches and coffee breaks. Participants will assume their transportation and lodging expenses. Limited need-based financial assistance to cover attendance costs is available to student enrollees. Capacity is limited, so early registration is encouraged. Lodging: Dorm-style lodging will be available for the event through MIT housing. More information about this option will be posted in mid March. ExCAPE: The first ExCAPE Summer School on Software Synthesis was held at UC Berkeley in June 2013 and attracted about 90 participants from 12 countries. The ExCAPE project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 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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. The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly and interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application. The workshops will take place on Tuesday, October 13 2015. Proposals should include: * The name of the proposed workshop. * 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 FACS organization will provide registration and organizational support for the workshops (including link from the conference web site, setup of meeting space, on-line and on-site registration). Registration fees will be used to cover 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 FACS workshop chair. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of workshop proposals: by March 13, 2015 Notification: by March 20, 2015 SUBMISSION VIA E-MAIL TO: Bruno Lopes (bvieira at inf.puc-rio.br) - Workshop chair Christiano Braga (cbraga at ic.uff.br) - General chair From grlmc at urv.cat Sun Feb 22 13:07:53 2015 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:07:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] InfoSec 2015: registration deadline 3 March Message-ID: *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON INFORMATION SECURITY InfoSec 2015 Bilbao, Spain (please notice the change of location) July 6-10, 2015 Organized by Deusto University Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/ ********************************************************************** --- 3rd registration deadline: March 3, 2015 --- ********************************************************************** AIM: InfoSec 2015 will be a major research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of information security, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting academic research and industrial innovation. It refers to procedures to defend information from unauthorized access, use, modification, recording or destruction, with a critical role to play in order to avoid or minimize risks in the digital world. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most information security subareas will be displayed, namely: computer security, cryptography, privacy, cyber security, mobile security, network security, world wide web security, fraud prevention, data protection, etc. Main challenges of information security will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 32 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific background knowledge may be required for some of them. InfoSec 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 4 courses will run in parallel 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: InfoSec 2015 will take place in Bilbao, the capital of the Basque Country region, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering Deusto University Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), Privacy in a Digital World: a Lost Cause? Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), (In)security of Mobile Apps in Untrusted Networks Jennifer Seberry (University of Wollongong), The Global Village: the Beginning of the Need for Computer Security [via videoconference] Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), Off-line Proximity-based Social Networking PROFESSORS AND COURSES: N. Asokan (Aalto University), [intermediate] Mobile Security: Overview of Hardware Platform Security and Considerations of Usability Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), [introductory/intermediate] Technologies to Protect Online Privacy Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), [intermediate/advanced] Security of the Mobile App Ecosystem Nicolas T. Courtois (University College London), [introductory/intermediate] Security of ECDSA in Bitcoin and Crypto Currency Claude Cr?peau (McGill University, Montr?al), [introductory/intermediate] Quantum Computation, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Joan Daemen (ST Microelectronics Belgium, Diegem), [introductory/intermediate] Sponge Functions, Keccak and SHA-3 Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla), [intermediate/advanced] Securing Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges and Opportunities Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Security and Privacy in the Cloud Herv? Debar (T?l?com SudParis), [introductory/intermediate] Detection and Reaction to Attacks: from Intrusion Detection to Cyber-Defense David Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), [introductory/intermediate] Secure Multiparty Computation: Techniques, Theory, and Tools for Building Privacy-Preserving Applications Rosario Gennaro (City University of New York), [intermediate/advanced] A Survey of Verifiable Delegation of Computation Trent Jaeger (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), [intermediate/advanced] How to Add Security Enforcement to Legacy Programs Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin, Madison), [intermediate/advanced] Analysis Techniques in Information Security Antoine Joux (Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Discrete Logarithms in Finite Fields Marc Joye (Technicolor R&I, Los Altos), [introductory/intermediate] Secure Public-Key Cryptosystems Lars R. Knudsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby), [introductory/intermediate] Block Ciphers: the Workhorses in Cryptography Songwu Lu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Cellular Network Security: Issues and Defenses Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), [introductory/intermediate] Formal Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols Nasir Memon (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] User Authentication Ethan L. Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz), [intermediate/advanced] Securing Stored Data in a Connected World Stefano Paraboschi (University of Bergamo), [introductory/intermediate] Data Protection in Network-enabled Systems Bart Preneel (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Cryptology: State of the Art and Research Challenges Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Catholic University of Louvain), [introductory/intermediate] The History of RSA: from Babylon to Smart Cards Shantanu Rane (Palo Alto Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Privacy-preserving Data Analytics: Problems, Solutions and Challenges Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham), [introductory/intermediate] Designing Security Protocols: Electronic Voting, and Electronic Mail Rei Safavi-Naini (University of Calgary), [introductory/intermediate] Information-theoretically Secure Communication Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research, Redmond), [advanced] Protecting Data on Smartphones and Tablets Using Trusted Computing Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to the Emerging Science of Security Games Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Security and Privacy in Candidate Future Internet Architectures Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), [introductory/advanced] Security in Smart Grids Wenyuan Xu (University of South Carolina, Columbia), [intermediate] Security and Privacy Analysis of Embedded Systems Yuliang Zheng (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), [introductory] Cryptography and the Future of Money ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu Carlos Mart?n-Vide (co-chair) Borja Sanz (co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/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 and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Deusto University Rovira i Virgili University --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protecci?n de avast! Antivirus est? activa. http://www.avast.com From shankar at csl.sri.com Mon Feb 23 02:28:51 2015 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:28:51 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fifth Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 17-22, 2015, Atherton, California Message-ID: <54EAD6B3.5030109@csl.sri.com> [Note to moderator: The topics covered at the school are relevant to the types audience, and previous schools have been announced on the list.] Fifth Summer School on Formal Techniques May 17 - May 22, 2015 Menlo College, Atherton, CA http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15 Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the fifth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school will have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions. The lecturers at the school include: * Arie Gurfinkel (SEI CMU, USA): Building Program Verifiers from Compilers and Theorem Provers Abstract: Developing an automated program verifier is an extremely difficult task. By its very nature, a verifier shares many of the complexities of an optimizing compiler and of an efficient automated theorem prover. From the compiler perspective, the issues include idiomatic syntax, parsing, intermediate representation, static analysis, and equivalence preserving program transformations. From the theorem proving perspective, the issues include verification logic, verification condition generation, synthesizes of sufficient inductive invariants, deciding satisfiability, interpolation, and consequence generation. Luckily, the cores of both compilers and theorem provers are well understood, well-defined, and readily available. In these lectures, we examine how to build a state-of-the-art program verifier by re-using much of existing compilers and SMT-solvers. The lectures are based on the SeaHorn verification framework developed at CMU. * Cathy Meadows (NRL, USA): Cryptographic Protocol Analysis Modulo Equational Theories: the Maude-NRL Protocol Analyzer Abstract: In this course we give an overview of the Maude-NPA Protocol Analyzer. Maude-NPA is a tool for the symbolic analysis for cryptographic protocols. It searches for ways in which an active attacker could subvert the protocols' goals, such as authentication or secrecy. Maude-NPA is designed to take account of the algebraic properties of the crypto systems involved, in order to give a more complete representation of both the protocol and the attacker's capabilities. We give a presentation of the theory and principles under which Maude-NPA operates, and also give the students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the tool. * Bart Jacobs (KU Leuven, Belgium): VeriFast: Modular verification of sequential and concurrent C and Java programs using separation logic Abstract: VeriFast is a tool that takes as input a C or Java program module annotated with preconditions, postconditions, loop invariants, data structure descriptions and proof hints written in a variant of separation logic, and, without further user interaction and usually in a matter of seconds, returns either "0 errors found", or a failed symbolic execution path. If the tool reports "0 errors found" for all modules of a program, this means no execution of the program accesses unallocated memory, performs a data race, or violates any of the user-specified assertions. The tool operates by symbolically executing each function/method, using a separation logic formula to represent the state of memory, and using an SMT solver to decide proof obligations about data values. In these lectures, you will learn how to use VeriFast to modularly verify sequential and concurrent C and Java programs, and you will also learn how VeriFast operates internally, and why, if it reports "0 errors found", the program does indeed satisfy the specified properties. * Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark): From Timed Automata to Stochastic Hybrid Games -- Model Checking, Performance Evaluation and Synthesis Abstract: Timed automata and games, priced timed automata and energy automata have emerged as useful formalisms for modeling real-time and energy-aware systems as found in several embedded and cyber-physical systems. During the last 20 years the real-time model checker UPPAAL has been developed allowing for efficient verification of hard timing constraints of timed automata. Moreover a number of significant branches exists, e.g. UPPAAL CORA providing efficient support for optimization, and UPPAAL TIGA allowing for automatic synthesis of strategies for given safety and liveness objectives. Most recently, the branch UPPAAL SMC, a highly scalable new engine has been released supporting (distributed) statistical model checking (and synthesis) of stochastic hybrid automata (and games). The lecture will review the various branches of UPPAAL and their concerted applications to a range of real-time and cyber-physical examples including schedulability and performance evaluation of mixed criticality systems, modeling and analysis of biological systems, energy-aware wireless sensor networks, smart grids and energy aware buildings and battery scheduling. Also, we shall see how other branches of UPPAAL may benefit from the new scalable engine of UPPAAL SMC in order to improve their performance as well as scope in terms of the models that they are supporting. This includes application of UPPAAL SMC to counter example generation, refinement checking, controller synthesis, and optimization. The lab sessions will be based on exercises requiring hands-on experience with UPPAAL, UPPAAL TIGA and UPPAAL SMC (all down-loadable from www.uppaal.org). * John Harrison, Intel (Portland, USA): HOL Light --- from foundations to applications Abstract: The HOL Light theorem prover is a real-world theorem proving program with an unusually simple logical kernel. It has been used both for applictions in formal verification, especially of floating-point algorithms, and pure mathematics including the Flyspeck project's formal proof of the Kepler conjecture. We will describe how the system is built up from its low-level foundations and how it can be applied in various areas. * Natarajan Shankar (SRI CSL): Speaking Logic Abstract: Formal logic has become the lingua franca of computing. It is used for specifying digital systems, annotating programs with assertions, defining the semantics of programming languages, and proving or refuting claims about software or hardware systems. Familiarity with the language and methods of logic is a foundation for research into formal aspects of computing. This course covers the basics of logic focusing on the use of logic as a medium for formalization and proof. Information about previous Summer Schools on Formal Techniques can be found at http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT11 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT12 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT13 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT14 We expect to provide support for the travel and accommodation for a limited number of students registered at US universities, but welcome applications from non-US students as well as non-students (if space permits). Non-US students will have to cover their own travel and will be charged around US$550 for meals and lodging. Applications should be submitted at the website http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15 Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications before April 30, 2015, since there are only a limited number of spaces available. Non-US applicants requiring US visas are requested to apply early. From Pavol.Cerny at Colorado.EDU Mon Feb 23 22:17:39 2015 From: Pavol.Cerny at Colorado.EDU (Pavol Cerny) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:17:39 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP - SYNT 2015: 4th Workshop on Synthesis In-Reply-To: <54EBEB64.6060701@colorado.edu> References: <54EBEB64.6060701@colorado.edu> Message-ID: <54EBED53.9060100@colorado.edu> SYNT 2015 - Call For Papers 4th Workshop on Synthesis San Francisco, CA, USA, July 18, 2015 co-located with CAV 2015 http://formal.epfl.ch/synt/2015/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the broad area of synthesis of computing systems. The workshop aims to foster the development of frontier techniques in automating the development of computing systems and is inclusive in its interpretation of the term synthesis: * Contributions of interest may include algorithms, complexity and decidability analysis, as well as reproducible heuristics, implemented tools, and experimental evaluation. * Application domains include software, hardware, embedded, and cyberphysical systems. Computation models include functional, reactive, hybrid and timed systems. Identifying, formalizing, and evaluating synthesis in particular application domains is encouraged. * Of interest are both approaches that explore alternative development methods and approaches that improve upon the automation of design, compilation, and optimization techniques currently in widespread use. * All appropriate underlying methods are of interest, including above formal methods and techniques that build upon computer-aided verification, but also machine learning techniques. All formalizable forms of specifications of potential practical interest are considered, including contracts, temporal logic specifications, quantitative objectives, partial systems, and input/output examples. * Of great interest is understanding and making productive use of relationships between synthesis and related topics such as repair, fault localization, testing, discovery of inductive invariants, parameter optimization, constraints solving, theorem proving (including SMT, superposition-based, inductive, and higher-order theorem proving). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted 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. Submitted papers should be 4 to 16 pages long in EPTCS style excluding references; within those page limits the authors should use as many pages as is appropriate for their contribution. Extended versions of selected papers are expected to appear in a special issue of the journal Acta Informatica. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SYNT 2015 program will include: Report on Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS 2015) Competition, presented by Dana Fisman, University of Pennsylvania Report on Reactive Synthesis (SYNTCOMP 2015) Competition, presented by Swen Jacobs, Saarland University Invited talk by Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft Research ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Paper submission: April 24, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: June 2, 2015 Final version: June 19, 2015 Workshop: July 18, 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee: Pavol Cerny, University of Colorado Boulder (chair) Colin de la Higuera, Nantes University R??diger Ehlers, University of Bremen Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University Dana Fisman, University of Pennsylvania Carlo A. Furia, ETH Zurich Barbara Jobstmann, EPFL Viktor Kuncak, EPFL (chair) Daniel Neider, UIUC Madhusudan Parthasarathy, UIUC (chair) Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University Ingo Pill, TU Graz Ruzica Piskac, Yale Arjun Radhakrishna, University of Pennsylvania Leonid Ryzhyk, Carnegie Mellon University Sven Schewe, University of Liverpool Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg Johann Schumann, SGT, Inc/NASA Ames Rishabh Singh, Microsoft Research Douglas Smith, Kestrel Institute Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT Eran Yahav, Technion Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsorship: We are pleased to confirm sponsorship from the US NSF project ExCAPE. From dimitris at microsoft.com Tue Feb 24 13:16:10 2015 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:16:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FWD: ICGT 2015: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <8A4BE71AF969544FA98E6D49C10DE5A60F8C4B60@AMSPRD3003MB037.064d.mgd.msft.net> FYI, on behalf of Thomas Buchmann, ICGT publicity chair. ================================================================ 8th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2015) L?Aquila, Italy 21 ? 23 July, 2015 More information: http://btn1x4.inf.uni-bayreuth.de/icgt2015 ================================================================ Second Call for Papers ---------------------- Dynamic structures are a major cause for complexity when it comes to model and reason about systems. They occur in software architectures, configurations of artefacts such as code or models, pointer structures, databases, networks, etc. As interrelated elements which may be added, removed, or change state, they form a fundamental modelling paradigm as well as a means to formalise and analyse systems. Applications include architectural reconfigurations, model transformations, refactorings, and evolution of a wide range of artefacts, where change can happen either at design or at run time. Dynamic structures occur also as part of semantic domains or computational model for formal modelling languages. Based on the observation that all these can be represented as graphs and their changes modeled as graph transformations, theory and applications of graphs, graph grammars and graph transformation systems have been studied in our community for more than 40 years. The conference aims at fostering interaction within this community as well as attracting researchers from other areas to join us, either in contributing to the theory of graph transformation or by applying graph transformations to already known or novel areas, such as self-adaptive systems, overlay structures in cloud or P2P computing, advanced computational models for DNA computing, etc. The 8th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2015) will be held in L?Aquila, Italy, as a STAF event (http://www.disim.univaq.it/staf2015/). The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS (http://www.eatcs.org/), EASST (http://www.easst.org/), and IFIP (http://www.ifip.org/) WG 1.3. Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/lncs) series. Foundations Track The Foundations track invites contributions dealing with all aspects of the foundations of graph transformations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? General models of graph transformation ? High-level and adhesive replacement systems ? Node-, edge-, and hyperedge replacement grammars ? Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation ? Term graph rewriting ? Computational models based on graph transformations ? Hierarchical graphs and decompositions of graphs ? Graph theoretical properties of graph languages ? Geometrical and topological aspects of graph transformation ? Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages ? Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems ? Structuring and modularization concepts for transformation systems ? Graph transformation and Petri nets The Research papers (limited to 16 pages) submitted for this track describe innovative contributions to current research on the foundations of graph transformations and are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Applications Track The Applications track invites contributions dealing with applications of graph transformations in any domain. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Model-driven development and model transformations ? Graph transformation languages ? Syntax and semantics of programming languages or domain-specific languages ? Tool support for graph transformations ? Model checking, validation, verification, simulation and animation ? Efficient algorithms (pattern matching, graph traversal etc.) ? Software architecture, refactoring, and evolution ? Workflows, business processes, and service-oriented applications ? Self-adaptive systems and ubiquitous computing ? Natural computing ? Bioinformatics and system biology ? Applications in natural and engineering sciences The Applications track invites submissions in the following categories: ? Technical papers (limited to 16 pages) describe innovative contributions to application-oriented research on graph transformations and are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Papers on tools may be submitted in this category unless they are tool presentation papers (see below). ? Case studies (limited to 12 pages) describe applications of graph transformations in any application domain. Case studies should contain a critical assessment of graph transformation techniques compared to standard techniques used in the respective application domain, and summarize the lessons learned. Case studies may also include empirical data and their evaluation. ? Tool presentation papers (limited to 8 pages) demonstrate new and exciting functionality of graph transformation tools. A tool presentation paper should focus on functionality and user interface without delving into technical details, and either describe or reference a demo session to be presented at the conference. A tool presentation paper may have an appendix with a detailed demo description (up to 5 pages), which will be reviewed but not included in the proceedings. Paper Submission Papers can be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt2015. Submitted papers must use Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. The page limits depend on the paper categories described in the Foundations and Applications tracks. The page limits are strict and include references and appendices. Important Dates Abstract submission: 20 March 2015 Full paper submission: 27 March 2015 Notification of acceptance: 24 April 2015 Final version due: 8 May 2015 Conference: 21 ? 23 July 2015 Please notice also co-located events with separate calls: the STAF Doctoral Symposium and the 6th International Workshop on Graph Computation Models (see links on STAF and ICGT web pages). Program Chairs Francesco Parisi-Presicce (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Bernhard Westfechtel (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Publicity Chair Thomas Buchmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Program Committee Paolo Baldan (University of Padova, Italy) Luciano Baresi (University of Milano, Italy) G?bor Bergmann (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Paolo Bottoni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Thomas Buchmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) Juan de Lara (Autonomous University Madrid, Spain) Rachid Echahed (CNRS, Laboratoire LIG, France) Claudia Ermel (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK) Frank Hermann (Carmeq Gmbh, Germany) Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Christian Krause (SAP Innovation Centre Potsdam, Germany) Hans-J?rg Kreowski (University of Bremen, Germany) Leen Lambers (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) Tihamer Levendovszky (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN) Fernando Orejas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Detlef Plump (University of York, UK) Arend Rensink (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Leila Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Andy Sch?rr (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Gabriele Taentzer (University of Marburg, Germany) Matthias Tichy (Chalmers University | University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Pieter Van Gorp (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Albert Z?ndorf (University of Kassel, Germany) Web page http://btn1x4.inf.uni?bayreuth.de/icgt2015 Contact icgt2015 at easychair.org From marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 24 13:36:07 2015 From: marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk (Marta Kwiatkowska) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:36:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: Three research positions on Mobile Robotics programme grant (verification/synthesis and sensor networks) at Oxford In-Reply-To: <54ECC405.9080409@cs.ox.ac.uk> References: <54ECC405.9080409@cs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <54ECC497.8070606@cs.ox.ac.uk> [Please forward to anyone interested. Apologies for multiple mailing.] Three postdoctoral research positions are available to work on the ?Mobile Robotics: Enabling a Pervasive Technology of the Future? Programme Grant, a 5 year collaborative project between Profs. Paul Newman and Ingmar Posner (Oxford?s Engineering Science) and Prof. Niki Trigoni and Prof. Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford?s Computer Science). Two positions (Research Assistant and Senior Researcher) are available in the field of quantitative verification and synthesis, with application to autonomous driving, personal transport and space robotics, under the direction of Prof. Marta Kwiatkowska. One additional Research Assistant position is available in sensor networks under the direction of Prof. Niki Trigoni. The posts will be based in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. More information about research activities of the partners of the Programme Grant can be found here: http://qav.comlab.ox.ac.uk/projects/marta.kwiatkowska.php http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/marta.kwiatkowska/ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/sensors/index.html http://mrg.robots.ox.ac.uk/ Any queries about the quantitative verification posts should be addressed to Marta.Kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk, and about the sensor networks post to Niki.Trigoni at cs.ox.ac.uk. For further details and to apply please visit: Research Assistant (Grade 7) in quantitative verification and synthesis (closing date 12 noon on 18 March 2015, interviews on 25-26 March 2015) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/887-full.html https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=117256 Senior Researcher (Grade 8) in quantitative verification and synthesis (closing date 12 noon on 25 March 2015, interviews on 23 April 2015) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/890-full.html https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=117311 Research Assistant (Grade 7) in sensor networks (closing date 12 noon on 18 March 2015, interviews on 25-26 March 2015) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/886-full.html https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=117255 -- 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: Renate Henison Email: Renate.Henison at cs.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 610650 From rlc3 at leicester.ac.uk Wed Feb 25 08:04:59 2015 From: rlc3 at leicester.ac.uk (Roy L. Crole) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:04:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MIDLANDS GRADUATE SCHOOL 2015, April 7 - 11, University of Sheffield, UK In-Reply-To: <54EC7469.30603@le.ac.uk> References: <54EC7469.30603@le.ac.uk> Message-ID: <54EDC87B.5060503@le.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, The 2015 Midlands Graduate School will take place in Sheffield in April. Please let your graduate students know, and anyone else who might be interested in applying. Roy Crole. ===================================================== Call for Participation MIDLANDS GRADUATE SCHOOL IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTING SCIENCE MGS 2015 07-11 April 2015, University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs2015/mgs.html OVERVIEW The Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) was established in 1999 as a collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, and later Sheffield. It has two main goals: to equip PhD students with a sound basis for their research by deepening their knowledge on the mathematical and conceptual foundations of computing; and to provide a platform for making contacts with established researchers in the field and with their peers who are at a similar stage in their research careers. This year's MGS is hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. It will start on April 07 and finish on April 11. Information about previous events can be found at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/MGS PROGRAMME MGS 2015 consists of nine courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and exercise sessions. Three of the courses are introductory or core; they should be taken by all participants. The other courses are more advanced or specialised. Participants may select them depending on their interests. This year the invited lectures will be given by Prof Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford. In addition there will be early evening sessions in which participants can briefly present and discuss their own research. Core Courses: * Category Theory, Roy Crole, Leicester * Typed Lambda Calculus, Paul Blain Levy, Birmingham * Patterns in Functional Programming, Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford Advanced Courses: * Homotopy Type Theory, Thorsten Altenkirch, Nottingham * Infinite Data Structures, Venanzio Capretta, Nottingham * Security Protocol Verification, Eike Ritter, Birmingham * Functional Reactive Programming, Neelakantan Krishnaswami, Birmingham * Building Verification Tools with Isabelle, Georg Struth, Sheffield REGISTRATION The registration deadline for MGS 2015 is Monday March 16. The registration fee is ?460 (a reduced fee without accommodation is available on request). Instructions for registation can be found at the MGS 2015 web site. http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs2015/mgs.html The registration fee includes 5 nights of accommodation with breakfasts at Hotel Ibis in Sheffield (from Monday April 06 evening to Saturday April 11 morning) as well as lunches, coffee breaks and the conference dinner. TRAVEL MGS 2015 takes place in the Sir Frederick Mappin Building of the University of Sheffield. Information on traveling to Sheffield and finding the venue can be found at the MGS 2015 web site. Train station, hotel, lecture halls, restaurants and pubs are all within walking distance. ORGANISATION Georg Struth (G.Struth at dcs.shef.ac.uk ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Wed Feb 25 13:47:14 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:47:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2016 call for satellite events Message-ID: <20150225204714.27bee2f4@duality> 19th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2016 Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-8, 2016 http://www.etaps.org/2016/ Call for Satellite Events -- 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 is an annual event which takes place in Europe each spring since 1998. The nineteenth conference, ETAPS 2016, will take place April 2-8, 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. ETAPS main conferences will take place on April 4-7, 2016. They are: + 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. -- SATELLITE EVENTS -- The ETAPS 2016 organizing committee invites proposals for satellite events (workshops etc.) that will complement the main conferences. They should fall within the scope of ETAPS. This encompasses all aspects of the system development process, including specification, design, implementation, analysis and improvement, as well as the languages, methodologies and tools which support these activities, covering a spectrum from practically-motivated theory to soundly-based practice. Satellite events provide an opportunity to discuss and report on emerging research approaches and practical experience relevant to theory and practice of software. ETAPS 2016 satellite events will be held immediately before and after the main conferences, on April 2-3 and April 8, 2016. -- ARRANGEMENTS FOR SATELLITE EVENTS -- The organizers of an ETAPS 2016 satellite are expected to: + create and maintain a website for the event, + form a PC, produce a call for papers for the event (if appropriate), + advertise the event through specialist mailing lists etc. to complement the publicity of ETAPS, + review the submissions received and make acceptance decisions, + prepare an informal (pre)proceedings for the event (if appropriate), + prepare the event's program complying with any scheduling constraints defined by the ETAPS 2016 organizing committee, + prepare and organize the publication of a formal (post-)proceedings (if desired). The ETAPS 2016 organizing committee will: + promote the event on the website and in the publicity material of ETAPS 2016, + integrate the event's program into the overall program of the conference, + arrange registration for the event as a component of registration for ETAPS, collect a participation fee from the registrants, + produce a compilation USB memory stick of the informal (pre-) proceedings of the satellite events of ETAPS 2016 and distribute this to the registrants, + provide the event with a meeting room of an appropriate size, A/V equipment, coffee breaks and possibly lunch(es). As a rule, ETAPS will not contribute toward the travel or accommodation costs of invited speakers or organizers of satellite events. -- SUBMISSION OF SATELLITE EVENT PROPOSALS -- Researchers and practitioners wishing to organize satellite events are invited to submit proposals to the workshop co-chairs Julien Schmaltz and Erik de Vink using this web form. A proposal should not exceed two pages and should include: + the name and acronym of the satellite event, + the names and contact information of the organizers, + the duration of the event: one or two days, + the preferred period: April 2, April 3, April 8 or April 2-3, + the expected number of participants, + a brief description (120 words approximately) of the event topic for the website and publicity material of ETAPS 2016, + a brief explanation of the event topic and its relevance to ETAPS, + an explanation of the selection procedure of contributions to the event, the PC chair and members, if known already, information about past editions of the event, if applicable, + any other relevant information, like a special event format, invited speakers, demo sessions, special space requirements, etc., + a tentative schedule for paper submission, notification of acceptance and final versions for the (informal pre-)proceedings (the ETAPS 2016 organizing committee will need the final files by March 12, 2016), + the plans for formal publication (no formal publication, formal proceedings ready by the event, formal post-proceedings, publication venue - EPTCS or elsewhere). The proposals will be evaluated by the ETAPS 2016 organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of ETAPS 2016. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages of previous satellite events as examples: ETAPS 2015: http://www.etaps.org/2015/workshops ETAPS 2014: http://www.etaps.org/2014/workshops ETAPS 2013: http://www.etaps.org/2013/workshops ETAPS 2012: http://www.etaps.org/2012/workshops -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Satellite event proposals deadline: March 29, 2015. Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2015. -- VENUE -- ETAPS 2016 will take place at the Campus of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Eindhoven, located in the south of the Netherlands, has a small international airport, Eindhoven Airport, with direct connections to various destinations in Europe. The main airport of the Netherlands is the Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. Schiphol has a direct train connection to Eindhoven. -- FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES -- Please contact the workshop co-chairs, Julien Schmaltz, j.schmaltz at tue.nl, and Erik de Vink, e.p.d.vink at tue.nl. From pardo at fing.edu.uy Wed Feb 25 17:46:34 2015 From: pardo at fing.edu.uy (Alberto Pardo) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:46:34 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP - SBLP 2015: 19th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS - SBLP 2015 19th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages 21-26 September 2015 Belo Horizonte, Brazil http://cbsoft.org/sblp2015 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 20 April, 2015 Paper submission: 27 April, 2015 Author notification: 18 June, 2015 Camera ready deadline: 2 July 2015 INTRODUCTION The Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages is a well-established symposium which provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in the fundamental principles and innovations in the design and implementation of programming languages and systems. SBLP 2015 is part of 6th Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice, CBSoft 2015, that will be held in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, from September 21st to September 26th, 2015. Authors are invited to submit original research on any relevant topic which can be either in the form of regular or short papers. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Program generation and transformation, including domain-specific languages and model-driven development in the context of programming languages. * Programming paradigms and styles, including functional, object-oriented, aspect-oriented, scripting languages, real-time, service-oriented, multithreaded, parallel, and distributed programming. * Formal semantics and theoretical foundations, including denotational, operational, algebraic and categorical. * Program analysis and verification, including type systems, static analysis and abstract interpretation. * Programming language design and implementation, including new programming models, programming language environments, compilation and interpretation techniques. INVITED SPEAKERS * Doaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University * TBA SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of its originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the symposium. Contributions should be written in Portuguese or English. Papers should fall into one of two different categories: regular papers, which can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS format, or short papers, with up to 5 pages in LNCS format. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. We encourage the submission of short papers reporting partial results of on-going master dissertations or doctoral theses. Accepted papers written in English will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), by Springer. Both regular and short papers must be prepared using the LNCS format, available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2015. As in previous editions, 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 journal special issue. Since 2009, selected papers of each SBPL edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. PROGRAM CHAIRS Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Doaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la Rep?blica (co-chair) Alex Garcia, IME Alvaro Moreira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Andre Rauber Du Bois, Federal University of Pelotas Carlos Camar?o, Federal University of Minas Gerais Christiano Braga, Fluminense Federal University Doaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University (co-chair) Fabio Mascarenhas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Fernando Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais Fernando Castor, Federal University of Pernambuco Francisco Carvalho-Junior, Federal University of Ceara Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University Jo?o Saraiva, University of Minho Jo?o F. Ferreira, Teesside University Louis-Noel Pouchet, University of California, Los Angeles Lucilia Figueiredo, Federal University of Ouro Preto Luis Barbosa, University of Minho Manuel A. 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URL: From albl at dtu.dk Thu Feb 26 07:09:22 2015 From: albl at dtu.dk (Alberto Lluch Lafuente) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:09:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: WWV 2015, 11th Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems Message-ID: ************************************************************* * * * WWV 2015 * * Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems * * 11th International Workshop * * * * June 23rd - Oslo (Norway) * * affiliated with FM 2015 * * * * Call for Papers * * * ************************************************************* Homepage: http://wwv2015.isti.cnr.it/ HIGHLIGHTS * Invited talks by - Dino Distefano (Queen Mary University, London, UK) - Jos? Meseguer (University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA) * Co-located with FM 2015 * Special issue in a highly-reputed journal IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission March 18, 2015 Paper submission March 25, 2015 Notification of acceptance May 8, 2015 Camera ready versions May 31, 2015 Workshop WWV 2015 June 23, 2015 SCOPE The Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV) is a yearly interdisciplinary forum for researchers originating from the following areas: declarative, rule-based programming, formal methods, software engineering and web-based systems. WWV fosters the cross-fertilisation and advancement of hybrid methods from such areas. During its ten earlier editions, the WWV workshop series has established itself as a lively, friendly event with many interactions and discussions. Companies, organisations and institutions offer most of their electronic services as sophisticated web-based applications. Prominent examples include e-business, e-learning, e-government, and e-health services. The increased complexity and the explosive growth of such applications has made their design and implementation a challenging task, not in the least because at the same time quality, accessibility, security, and privacy issues need to be considered. Systematic, formal approaches to their specification and verification are needed to address the problems those systems by means of automated and effective techniques and tools. WWV welcomes papers of either theoretical or applied interest, including case studies or experience reports, in all areas of web-based systems (web services, cloud platforms, Internet-of-Things, social networks, big data), including but not limited to: - Formal methods and rigorous software and system engineering - Declarative, rule-based approaches - Product line and feature-oriented engineering - Programming and design languages and models - Specification, certification, transformation, and synthesis - Analysis, verification, model checking, and debugging - Semi-structured data, linked data, and semantic web - Security, trust, privacy, reputation, confidentiality, and integrity - Quality, metrics, usability, and accessibility - Testing, evaluation, and optimisation - Middleware, platforms, and frameworks INVITED SPEAKERS Dino Distefano Queen Mary University, London, UK Jose Meseguer University of Illinois, USA SUBMISSION We solicit the submission of original, unpublished contributions not under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions are expected to comprise research papers (with novel, previously unpublished results), experience reports of real-world applications, tool descriptions, and short papers (e.g. describing work-in-progress or exploratory ideas). All papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style - Full papers should not exceed 16 pages (typeset 11 points). - Short papers should not exceed 8 pages. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Submissions must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, not submitted elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair online submission system. Submission of a paper involves a firm commitment that at least one of the authors will attend and participate in the workshop in case the paper is accepted. PUBLICATION All contributions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, chosen by the Program Committee. The PC will select the best papers based on their quality, relevance to the workshop, and potential to instigate discussion. All accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings, which will be published as a volume of the EPTCS series (WWV publication is indexed in DBLP and Microsoft Academic Research, among other important repositories). An open call for a special issue in a highly-reputed journal on the topic of the WWV workshop is envisaged. This has been common practice for WWV since 2009. PROGRAM CHAIRS Maurice H. ter Beek ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Technical University of Valencia, Spain Massimo Bartoletti University of Cagliari, Italy Saddek Bensalem Verimag, Grenoble, France Xinyu Feng University of Science and Technology of China Maribel Fernandez King's College, London, UK Jose Fiadeiro Royal Holloway University, London, UK Stefania Gnesi ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology, Austria Axel Legay INRIA, Rennes, France Michael Leuschel Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany Zhiming Liu Birmingham City University, UK Hernan Melgratti University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Fabrizio Montesi University of South Odense, Denmark Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Antonio Ravara New University of Lisbon, Portugal Alejandro Russo Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Gwen Salaun Inria Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France Vladimiro Sassone University of Southampton, UK Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Carolyn Talcott SRI International, USA Emilio Tuosto University of Leicester, UK Erik de Vink Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain (co-Chair) Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy (co-Chair) Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology, Austria Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Massimo Marchiori University of Padova, Italy Rosario Pugliese University of Florence, Italy Antonio Ravara New University of Lisbon, Portugal Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Francesco Tiezzi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy PAST EDITIONS Initiated in 2005, the WWV workshop series has by now established itself as a lively, friendly event with many interactions and discussions. 1. WWV'05 in Valencia, Spain; March 14-15, 2005 homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv05/ 2. WWV'06 in Paphos, Cyprus; November 19, 2006 (as track at ISoLA) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv06/ 3. WWV'07 in Venice, Italy; December 14, 2007 homepage: http://wwv07.dimi.uniud.it/ 4. WWV'08 in Siena, Italy; July 4, 2008 (co-located with WFLP) homepage: http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ 5. WWV'09 in Castle of Hagenberg, Austria; July 17, 2009 (as part of RISC summer) homepage: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/wwv09/ 6. WWV'10 in Vienna, Austria; July 30-31, 2010 (co-located with PPDP & LOPSTR) homepage: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/WWV2010/ 7. WWV'11 in Reykjavik, Iceland; June 9, 2011 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/wwv2011/ 8. WWV'12 in Stockholm, Sweden; June 16, 2012 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/wwv2012/ 9. WWV'13 in Florence, Italy; June 6, 2013 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/wwv2013/ 9. WWV'14 in Vienna, Austria; July 18, 2014 (FLoC workshop associated to IJCAR, as part of VSL 2014) homepage: http://wwv2014.isti.cnr.it/ The previous 10 editions of WWV attracted high-quality papers that were published in ENTCS (WWV'05, WWV'07 and WWV'08), by IEEE (WWV'06) and in EPTCS (WWV'11, WWV'12, WWV'13 and WWV'14). After WWV'09, a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the topics of the WWV was organized. Similarly, a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic was organized after WWV'10 and special issues of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming were organized after WWV'11, WWV'12 and WWV'13. A special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming dedicated to WWV'14 and the CAV workshop VPT'14 is forthcoming. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Previous TYPES meetings were held in Antibes (1990), Edinburgh (1991), B?stad (1992), Nijmegen (1993), B?stad (1994), Torino (1995), Aussois (1996), Kloster Irsee (1998), L?keberg (1999), Durham (2000), Berg en Dal near Nijmegen (2002), Torino (2003), Jouy en Josas near Paris (2004), Nottingham (2006), Cividale del Friuli (2007), Torino (2008), Aussois (2009), Warsaw (2010), Bergen (2011), Toulouse (2013), Paris (2014). The TYPES areas of interest include, but are not limited to: foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; 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 encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. Invited speakers Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Tutorials Joachim Kock (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona) Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) Contributed talks We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. Submission is via EasyChair by 13 March 2015. The authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 3 April 2015. Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions, due by 24 April 2015, will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution at the workshop. Post-proceedings Similarly to TYPES 2011, 2013, 2014, we will publish a post-proceedings in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. Submission to that volume will be open for everyone. Tentative submission deadline: mid-September 2015. Programme committee Andrea Asperti (Universit? di Bologna) Robert Atkey (University of Edinburgh) Ulrich Berger (Swansea University) Jean-Philippe Bernardy (Chalmers University of Technology) Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) Jo?lle Despeyroux (INRIA Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e) Herman Geuvers (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA Saclay - ?le-de-France) Ralph Matthes (IRIT, CNRS and Universit? Paul Sabatier) Aleksandar Nanevski (IMDEA Software) Christine Paulin-Mohring (LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) Ulrich Sch?pp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) Bas Spitters (Carnegie Mellon University) Pawel Urzyczyn (University of Warsaw) Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn) (chair) Organizers Logic and semantics group, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn Sponsors ERDF via EXCS, the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science From bove at chalmers.se Fri Feb 27 13:58:30 2015 From: bove at chalmers.se (Ana Bove) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:58:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Several positions at the CSE department at Chalmers and Gothenburg Univ Message-ID: <54F0BE56.6020406@chalmers.se> Dear Colleagues, The CSE department, which is a shared department between Chalmers and Gothenburg University, is offering several positions at the moment which might be of interest for readers of this list. Please distribute these links to people you might think could be interested in applying for any of these positions. Thanks * PhD position in Dependent type theory and functional programming * 3 PhD positions in application and language-based security and 1 position in location privacy at Chalmers * Associate professor in Software technology at Chalmers * Lecturer (with focus on teaching) in Software technology at Chalmers * Senior lecutrer in Data science at Gothenburg University (equivalent to an Associate professor) -- -- Ana Bove, Docent email: bove(at)chalmers.se Phone: (46) (31) 772 10 20 http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bove Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers Univ. of Technology and Univ. of Gothenburg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dg at mpi-sws.org Fri Feb 27 03:18:09 2015 From: dg at mpi-sws.org (Deepak Garg) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:18:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS 2015) Message-ID: <54F02841.9090105@mpi-sws.org> [Apologies for the cross-posting] ========================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS 2015) 13 July 2015, Verona, Italy http://software.imdea.org/~bkoepf/FCS15/ Affiliated with IEEE CSF 2015 ========================= INVITED SPEAKER Dominique Unruh, University of Tartu IMPORTANT DATES Submission: April 10, 2015 Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2015 Workshop: July 13, 2015 BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE Computer security is an established field of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been sustained interest in the formal foundations of methods used in computer security. The aim of the FCS 2015 workshop is to provide a forum for continued activity in this area. The scope of FCS 2015 includes, but is not limited to, 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; the modelling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. We are interested both in new theoretical results in 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 submission 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 2015 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 a review as full papers. Short abstracts may receive shorter talk slots at the workshop than 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: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically in 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcs2015 INFORMAL PROCEEDINGS FCS has no published proceedings. Presenting a paper at the workshop should not preclude submission to or publication in other venues. Papers presented at the workshop will be made publicly available, but this will not constitute an official proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE June Andronick (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Michele Boreale (Universit? de Firenze, Italy) Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis (?cole Polytechnique, France) Christos Dimoulas (Harvard University, USA) Marco Gaboardi (University of Dundee, UK) Deepak Garg (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany, co-chair) William Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Aniket Kate (Saarland University, Germany) Boris K?pf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain, co-chair) Steve Kremer (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France) Stephen McCamant (University of Minnesota, USA) Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers University, USA) Willard Rafnsson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Benedikt Schmidt (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Christoph Sprenger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Deian Stefan (Stanford University, USA) Tomasz Truderung (University of Trier, Germany) Luca Vigan? (King's College London, UK) From p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com Fri Feb 27 10:33:02 2015 From: p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com (Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:33:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: UF/HoTT workshop, Warsaw, 29--30 June, with TLCA 2015 Message-ID: ============================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Univalent Foundations and Homotopy Type Theory (UF/HoTT, at TLCA 2015) ============================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Univalent Foundations and Homotopy Type Theory 29?30 June 2015, Warsaw, Poland http://hott-uf.gforge.inria.fr Co-located with RTA 2015 (RDP/TLCA) Abstract submission deadline: 15 April ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations is a young area of logic, combining ideas from several established fields: the use of dependent type theory as a foundation for mathematics, informed by ideas and tools from abstract homotopy theory. One practical goal of the programme is the computer formalisation of mathematics in such logical systems. This workshop aims to focus on that aspect: bringing together researchers on formalisation in HoTT/UF to discuss the various established and experimental proof assistants for it, the different libraries available (HoTT Coq, UniMath, HoTT-Agda?), what logical features are convenient for the formalisation of ?homotopical mathematics?, and how to make formalisation in HoTT/UF accessible and practical for mathematicians. ================ # Invited talks/tutorials: * Benedikt Ahrens * Thorsten Altenkirch * Matthieu Sozeau * Vladimir Voevodsky ================ # Submissions * Abstract submission deadline: 15 April, 2015 Submissions should consist of a title and abstract, in pdf or text format, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottuf15 Talks on practical formalisation are particularly solicited, but submissions on all UF/HoTT topics are welcome. ================= # Program committee * Benedikt Ahrens (Universit? 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URL: From heunen at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Feb 27 11:37:48 2015 From: heunen at cs.ox.ac.uk (Chris Heunen) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:37:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QPL 2015 Second call for papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) July 13-17, Oxford, United Kingdom http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/qpl2015 The 12th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) will take place at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oxford between Wednesday 15 and Friday 17 July, 2015. The workshop will be preceded by tutorials on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 July 2015. This workshop brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, spatio-temporal causal structures, and related areas such as computational linguistics. Of particular interest are topics 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 Kyoto (2014), Barcelona (2013), Brussels (2012), Nijmegen (2011), Oxford (2010), Oxford (2009), Reykjavik (2008), Oxford (2006), Chicago (2005), Turku (2004), and Ottawa (2003). INVITED SPEAKERS Dan Browne (University College London) Paul Busch (University of York) Chris Douglas (University of Oxford) Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute) TUTORIAL SPEAKERS Dan Browne (University College London) Paul Busch (University of York) Oscar Dahlsten (University of Oxford) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton) IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: June 1 Papers Ready: June 15 Tutorials: July 13-14 Workshop: July 15-17 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. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX, and must be submitted in PDF format. Use of the EPTCS style is encouraged. Submission is done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpl2015 There will be an award for the best paper whose authors are all students, at the discretion of the programme committee. REGISTRATION Please visit the website to register. We encourage participation by graduate students, and will be able to provide limited reimbursement to partially support students for travel and accommodation. Further information is found on the workshop website. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Baez (University of California Riverside) Dan Browne (University College London) Giulio Chiribella (Tsinghua University) Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) Ross Duncan (University of Strathclyde) Tobias Fritz (Perimeter Institute) Simon Gay (University of Glasgow) Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo) Chris Heunen (University of Oxford, co-chair) Matty Hoban (University of Oxford) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen) Viv Kendon (Durham University) Matt Leifer (Perimeter Institute) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Dusko Pavlovic (University of Hawaii) Simon Perdrix (CNRS Nancy) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, co-chair) Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) Bas Spitters (Aarhus University) Isar Stubbe (Universite du Littoral-Cote-d'Opale) Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford, co-chair) Mingsheng Ying (University of Technology Sydney, Tsinghua University) STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) LOCAL ORGANISATION Destiny Chen Chris Heunen Jamie Vicary From zakirulalam at gmail.com Thu Feb 26 21:57:51 2015 From: zakirulalam at gmail.com (Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:57:51 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IEEE PRDC'15 Industry Track Call Message-ID: The 21st IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2015) Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015 Call for Industry Contributions http://prdc.dependability.org/PRDC2015/cfit.html The Industry Track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry to present and debate R&D challenges, practical solutions, demonstration, case studies, and discuss reliability issues. IEEE PRDC 2015 is the twenty-first event in the series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault-tolerant computing. PRDC is recognized as the main event in the Pacific area that covers many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing theoretical basics, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated into all aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing and control systems has become increasingly critical. This Industry Track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry of countries around the Pacific Rim, but also other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing and control systems. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): 1. Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation 2. Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools 3. Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems 4. Software aging and rejuvenation 5. Safety-critical systems and software 6. Architecture and system design for dependability 7. Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols 8. Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications 9. Cloud and Internet Information security 10. Dependability issues in computer networks and communications 11. Dependability issues in distributed and parallel systems 12. Dependability issues in real-time systems, database, and transaction processing Systems 13. Dependability issues in autonomic computing 14. Dependability issues in aerospace and embedded systems 15. Dependability issues in cyber-physical systems 16. Dependability issues in socio-technical systems Submission Information: Industry track submissions should be a maximum of 6 pages using standard two-column IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Industry Track manuscripts should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors' names and affiliations, and a line specifying that the submission is an Industry Track Paper. The full mailing address, phone, fax, and email address of the corresponding author should be specified. All submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) on the submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prdc2015 Submissions will be reviewed by the Industry Track program committee and evaluated for their relevance to PRDC, the probably interest to the community, and their potential for stimulating further research. Submission of a contribution to the track indicates agreement to have one author present the work, if accepted, at the conference. 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We are looking for Post Doctoral researchers that can be integrated into the activities of HASLab ? in EU and national projects ? and also lead their own research projects within the group, preferably in the following areas: source code analysis, testing and verification, formal methods, large scale data management, theory of cryptography or computer and network security. A successful Post Doctoral candidate will be offered a package that may include up to 25K EUR/Year salary, health insurance, one Ph.D. grant and one internship grant for recruitment, as well as access to the HASLab travel and equipment funding schemes. Post-doc positions may be extended until up to 5 years. Applications can be sent by e-mail to apply at haslab.pt. Eligible candidates will be selected for an interview that marks the start of the recruitment process. Positions will remain continuously open until the end of 2015 (or until fulfilled). 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URL: From hirokawa at jaist.ac.jp Sun Mar 1 21:04:01 2015 From: hirokawa at jaist.ac.jp (Nao Hirokawa) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:04:01 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: LCC 2015 Message-ID: <20150302110401.9ecafcbcd61bda6533e1f6c2@jaist.ac.jp> ====================================================================== First Call for Papers LCC 2015 16th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity July 4-5, 2015, Kyoto, Japan collocated with ICALP/LICS 2015 http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/ ====================================================================== LCC meetings are aimed at the foundational interconnections between logic and computational complexity, as present, for example, in implicit computational complexity (descriptive and type-theoretic methods); deductive formalisms as they relate to complexity (e.g. ramification, weak comprehension, bounded arithmetic, linear logic and resource logics); complexity aspects of finite model theory and databases; complexity-mindful program derivation and verification; computational complexity at higher type; and proof complexity. The program will consist of invited lectures as well as contributed talks selected by the Program Committee. IMPORTANT DATES: * submission April 19, 2015 * notification May 14, 2015 * workshop July 4-5, 2015 INVITED SPEAKERS: tba SUBMISSION: We welcome submissions of abstracts based on work submitted or published elsewhere, provided that all pertinent information is disclosed at submission time. There will be no formal reviewing as is usually understood in peer-reviewed conferences with published proceedings. The program committee checks relevance and may provide additional feedback. Submissions must be in English and in the form of an abstract of about 3-4 pages. All submissions should be submitted through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcc2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Albert Atserias (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) co-chair * Guillaume Bonfante (LORIA, Nancy) * Yijia Chen (Fudan University, Shanghai) * Ugo Dal Lago (Universit? degli Studi di Bologna) * Nao Hirokawa (JAIST, Nomi) co-chair * Antonina Kolokolova (Memorial University of Newfoundland) * Damiano Mazza (CNRS, LIPN - University Paris 13) * Georg Moser (University of Innsbruck) * Moritz M?ller (Kurt G?del Research Center for Mathematical Logic, Wien) * Benjamin Rossman (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) * Iddo Tzameret (Royal Holloway, University of London) * Heribert Vollmer (Leibniz Universit?t Hannover) From eernst at cs.au.dk Sun Mar 1 19:52:48 2015 From: eernst at cs.au.dk (Erik Ernst) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 00:52:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MASPEGHI 2015 Workshop - call for papers Message-ID: Call for contributions and participation MASPEGHI 2015 MechAnisms for SPEcialization, Generalization and inHerItance ------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop in conjunction with ECOOP 2015 Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, 5th July, 2015 The MASPEGHI series of workshops, the latest of which took place at ECOOP 2013 (Montpellier, France), continues. Most papers presented in this workhop series in the past have been in the areas of programming languages and software engineering. However, the exchange of ideas with other fields would be very useful. We therefore welcome also submissions related to databases, knowledge discovery and representation, modelling and design methods, for example. The workshop is concerned at least with: - the design of inheritance-related reuse mechanisms, including their dynamic semantics, static analysis, permissions and visibility; - software engineering issues, including metrics, interactions with methodologies, and consequences for quality parameters such as maintainability and comprehensibility. Authors primarily interested in implementation issues should consider instead submitting to the ICOOOLPS workshop, also to be held in conjunction with ECOOP 2015. For the first time, we solicit two kinds of submissions: 1. position papers of up to 2 pages, 2. technical papers of up to 5 pages. Position papers will be only lightly reviewed, and accepted papers will be made available only on the workshop website. Technical papers will be formally refereed by a Programme Committee, and the final versions of accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (unless the authors do not want that). Important deadlines ------------------- Paper submission: Thursday, 2 April Notification of acceptance or rejection: Friday, 1 May Workshop programme published: Saturday, 16 May Early registration for the conference: to be announced Final papers: to be announced Workshop: Sunday, 5 July Organising Committee -------------------- Andrew P. Black, Portland State University, USA (primary contact) Markku Sakkinen, University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland Erik Ernst, Google, Denmark Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, France Current Programme Committee (in addition to the above) ------------------------------------------------------ Gabriela Ar?valo, DCyT - Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina Kim Bruce, Pomona College, USA Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Martin Hitz, Alpen-Adria-Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Gerti Kappel, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Stein Krogdahl, University of Oslo, Norway Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University, Germany Roberto Zicari, Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt am Main, Germany The PC may still be extended. Detailed information -------------------- See the workshop website at http://2015.ecoop.org/track/MASPEGHI-2015-papers If you are interested, join the mailing list at http://lists.jyu.fi/mailman/listinfo/maspeghi-2015 -- Erik Ernst - eernst at acm.org Google, Inc. From Thomas.Jensen at inria.fr Mon Mar 2 09:01:37 2015 From: Thomas.Jensen at inria.fr (Thomas Jensen) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:01:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2015: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <20150302140137.28FF511FC231@casals.local> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers: Static Analysis Symposium 2015 (SAS 2015) September 9-11, 2015 Saint-Malo, France http://sas2015.inria.fr Abstracts due: Monday March 9, 2015 Papers due: Friday March 13, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 22nd International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2015, will be held in Saint-Malo, France. Previous symposia were held in Munich, 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 2015 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 * Compilation * Program transformation * Program verification * Security * Theoretical frameworks * Type checking * New applications Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, GPU and script 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. Submissions are handled online. For further details please visit the above web page. Artifact Submission ------------------- As in previous years, 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. We accept only virtual machine images that can be processed with Virtual Box. Details on what to submit and how will be sent to the corresponding authors by mail shortly after the paper submission deadline. 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 9, 2015, and complete papers by March 13, 2015. These deadlines are strict; submissions where abstract or paper are received later will not be evaluated. * Artifacts must be submitted by March 27, 2015. * Rebuttal: May 18-20, 2015. * Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2015 * Final version due: June 22, 2015 * Early registration: On or before July 21, 2015 * Workshop day: September 8, 2015 * Conference: September 9-11, 2015 Program Chairs -------------- Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes, France) Thomas Jensen (INRIA, France) Program Committee ----------------- Elvira Albert, University of Madrid, Spain Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research, United Kingdom Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France (co-chair) Liqian Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Thomas Jensen, Inria Rennes, France (co-chair) Ranjit Jhala, University of California at San Diego, USA Andy King, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom Bj??rn Lisper, M??lardalen University, Sweden Matt Might, University of Utah, USA Antoine Min??, CNRS, France Francesco Ranzato, University of Padova, Italy Sukyong Ryu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Dave Sands, Chalmers University of technology, Sweden Axel Simon, University of Munich, Germany Arnaud Venet, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Microsoft Research, United Kingdom Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Invited speakers ----------------- Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research Anders M??ller, Aarhus University Henny Sipma, Kestrel Steering Committee ------------------ Patrick Cousot (Ecole Normale Sup??rieure, France & NYU, USA) Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy) Gilberto File (University of Padova, Italy) Manuel Hermenegildo (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) David Schmidt (Kansas State University, USA) Planned Affiliated Events ------------------------- NSAD: The 7th Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains SASB: The 6th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology TAPAS: The 6th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis Venue ----- In 2015, the conference will take place in Saint-Malo, France. Saint-Malo is located on the north coast of Brittany in the western part of France. Its outstanding landscapes and rich historical heritage make Saint Malo a unique destination. The conference location is close to the historic center of Saint-Malo and located on the water front with a nice view of the town's spectacular coast line. From yallop at gmail.com Mon Mar 2 10:03:54 2015 From: yallop at gmail.com (Jeremy Yallop) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:03:54 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: ML 2015 Message-ID: Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop Thursday September 3, 2015, Vancouver, Canada (immediately following ICFP) Call for papers: http://www.mlworkshop.org/ml2015/ 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 share several fundamental traits, besides a good deal of syntax. They are higher-order, strict, mostly pure, and typed, with algebraic and other data types. Their type systems are derived from Hindley-Milner. The development of these languages has inspired a significant body of computer science research and influenced the design of many other programming languages, including Haskell, Scala and Clojure, Rust, ATS and many others. ML workshops have been held in affiliation with ICFP continuously since 2005. This workshop specifically aims to recognise the entire extended ML family and to provide a forum for presenting and discussing 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. 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, and 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 favourably influence those related languages. Specifically, we seek research presentations on topics including (but not limited to) * Language design: abstraction, higher forms of polymorphism, concurrency, distribution and mobility, staging, extensions for semi-structured data, generic programming, object systems, etc. * Implementation: compilers, interpreters, type checkers, partial evaluators, runtime systems, garbage collectors, foreign function interfaces, etc. * Type systems: inference, effects, 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. * Semantics: operational and denotational semantics, program equivalence, parametricity, mechanization, etc. Four kinds of submissions will be accepted: Research Presentations, Experience Reports, Demos and Informed Positions. * 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 and related languages. (You will need to provide all the hardware and software required for your demo; the workshop organisers are only able to provide a projector.) * 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 substantial experience. Personal experience is accepted as justification so long as it is extensive and illustrated with concrete examples. Format ------ The ML 2015 workshop will continue the informal approach used since 2010. Presentations are selected from submitted abstracts. There are no published proceedings, so contributions may be submitted for publication elsewhere. We hope that this format will encourage 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-proceedings ---------------- ML 2015 is an informal workshop without proceedings. We are planning to publish a post-proceedings and to invite interested authors of selected presentations to expand their abstracts for inclusion. Coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop ------------------------------ --------------------------- The OCaml workshop is seen as more practical and is dedicated in significant part to OCaml community building and the development 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 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 Programme Chairs. Submission details ------------------ 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 programme. Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website before the submission deadline (Monday 18th May, 2015). If you have a question concerning the scope of the workshop or the submission process, please contact the programme chair. Important dates --------------- Monday 18th May (any time zone) Abstract submission deadline Monday 29th June Author notification Thursday 3rd September 2015 ML Family Workshop Programme committee ------------------- Damien Doligez (Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France) Suresh Jagannathan (Purdue University, USA) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University, USA) Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) Moe Masuko (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Adriaan Moors (Typesafe, USA) Scott Owens (University of Kent, UK) Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research, USA) Martin Sulzmann (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Jeremy Yallop (University of Cambridge, UK) (PC chair) From patrick.baillot at ens-lyon.fr Mon Mar 2 10:26:14 2015 From: patrick.baillot at ens-lyon.fr (Baillot Patrick) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:26:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at ENS Lyon Message-ID: <77a82cb5439d141227752c86d22b9e2b@ens-lyon.fr> A one year postdoc position is available at ENS Lyon, France, supported by the ANR ELICA project: "Expanding Logical Ideas for Complexity Analysis" which brings together researchers working in four different sites: LIPN at Univ. Paris 13-Villetaneuse, LIP at ENS Lyon, LORIA in Nancy and the Focus team in Bologna: http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~mazza/Elica/ - The scientific goal of the project is to develop logical methods for static complexity analysis, improve their expressiveness and extend their application to non-deterministic and concurrent programming paradigms. - Requirements are a PhD degree in Computer Science or Mathematics and a strong background in at least one of the following topics: * implicit computational complexity and type-based methods for complexity analysis * linear logic and linear type systems * concurrent process calculi The salary will be around 2030 euro/month. - Applications consist in a resume and list of publications, a research statement and the names and contacts of at least 2 references. It should be sent by email with subject line 'elica postdoc application' to patrick.baillot at ens-lyon.Fr - Important dates: =============== - Intention of application (short email) as soon as possible - Deadline for application March 22, 2015 - Suggested starting date Sept. 2015 From xinyu.feng at gmail.com Mon Mar 2 10:51:23 2015 From: xinyu.feng at gmail.com (Xinyu Feng) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 23:51:23 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: APLAS 2015 Message-ID: ********************************************************************* APLAS 2015, Call for Papers 13th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems Pohang, Korea, November 30 - December 2, 2015 < http://pl.postech.ac.kr/aplas2015/> ********************************************************************* *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission deadline: June 5, 2015 Author notification: August 17, 2015 Conference: November 30 - December 2, 2015 *INVITED SPEAKERS* Peter O'Hearn, Facebook Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST Eran Yahav, Technion Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford *ABOUT* 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 Singapore ('14), 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 program chair prior to submission. *SUBMISSION* We solicit submissions in two categories: a) 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. b) 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. 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. *ORGANIZERS* General Chair: Sungwoo Park (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea) Program Chair: Xinyu Feng (Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China) Program Committee: James Brotherston (Univ. College London, UK) James Cheney (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Huimin Cui (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China) Mike Dodds (Univ. of York, UK) Xinyu Feng (Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China) Nate Foster (Cornell Univ., USA) Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Aquinas Hobor (School of Computing, National Univ. of Singapore / Yale-NUS College) Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National Univ., Korea) Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul Univ., USA) Annie Liu (Stony Brook Univ., USA) Andreas Lochbihler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers Univ., USA) David A. 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URL: From storm at cwi.nl Mon Mar 2 06:29:35 2015 From: storm at cwi.nl (Tijs van der Storm) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:29:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3rd Workshop on Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI'15) Message-ID: <6BC47190-1422-49FF-B780-893A19103CE3@cwi.nl> ********************************************************************* FIRST CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS DSLDI 2015 Third Workshop on Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation July 7, 2015 Prague, Czech Republic Co-located with ECOOP http://2015.ecoop.org/track/dsldi-2015-papers ********************************************************************* Deadline for talk proposals: 2nd of April, 2015 If designed and implemented well, domain-specific languages (DSLs) combine the best features of general-purpose programming languages (e.g., performance) with high productivity (e.g., ease of programming). *** Workshop Goal *** The goal of the DSLDI workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in sharing ideas on how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic application contexts. We are both interested in discovering how already known domains such as graph processing or machine learning can be best supported by DSLs, but also in exploring new domains that could be targeted by DSLs. More generally, we are interested in building a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs. *** Workshop Format *** DSLDI is a single-day workshop and will consist of a series of short talks whose main goal is to trigger exchange of opinion and discussions. The talks should be on the topics within DSLDI's area of interest, which include but are not limited to the following ones: * DSL implementation techniques, including compiler-level and runtime-level solutions * utilization of domain knowledge for driving optimizations of DSL implementations * utilizing DSLs for managing parallelism and hardware heterogeneity * DSL performance and scalability studies * DSL tools, such as DSL editors and editor plugins, debuggers, refactoring tools, etc. * applications of DSLs to existing as well as emerging domains, for example graph processing, image processing, machine learning, analytics, robotics, etc. * practitioners reports, for example descriptions of DSL deployment i a real-life production setting *** Call for Submissions *** We solicit talk proposals in the form of short abstracts (max. 2 pages). A good talk proposal describes an interesting position, demonstration, or early achievement. The submissions will be reviewed on relevance and clarity, and used to plan the mostly interactive sessions of the workshop day. Publication of accepted abstracts and slides on the website is voluntary. * Deadline for talk proposals: April 2nd, 2015 * Notification: May 1st, 2015 * Workshop: July 7th, 2015 * Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsldi2015 *** Workshop Organization *** Organizers * Tijs van der Storm (storm at cwi.nl), CWI, The Netherlands * Sebastian Erdweg (erdweg at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de), TU Darmstadt, Germany Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/wsdsldi Program committee * Emilie Balland * Martin Bravenboer (LogicBlox) * Hassan Chafi (Oracle Labs) * William Cook (UT Austin) * Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University) * Heather Miller (EPFL) * Bruno Oliveira (University of Hong Kong) * Cyrus Omar (CMU) * Richard Paige (University of York) * Tony Sloane (Macquarie University) * Emma S?derberg (Google) * Emma Tosch (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) * Jurgen Vinju (CWI) -- Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Master of Software Engineering Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Dr. Tijs van der Storm @ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Office: L225 | Phone: +31 (0)20 5924164 | Address: Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079 | Postal code: 1090 GB | Amsterdam, The Netherlands From cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov Mon Mar 2 14:18:23 2015 From: cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov (MUNOZ, CESAR (LARC-D320)) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 19:18:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] CFP: 11th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models Message-ID: ====================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS -- DCM 2015 11th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models October 28, 2015, Cali, Colombia http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/2015/ A satellite event of ICTAC 2015 - http://www.ictac2015.co DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: AUGUST 3, 2015 ====================================================== 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 2015 is the eleventh 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 2015 will be a one-day satellite event of ICTAC 2015, the Twelfth International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing. == 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; - models of concurrency, including the treatment of mobility, trust, and security; - infinitary models of computation; - information-theoretic ideas in computing. == IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: August 3 - Notification: 13 September - Pre-proceedings version due: 5 October - Workshop: 28 October - Submission Deadline for EPTCS Proceedings: 7 December == INVITED SPEAKERS Mauricio Ayala Rinc?n, Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil). Gilles Dowek, INRIA (France). == SUBMISSIONS Submit your paper in PDF format via the conference EasyChair submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcm2015 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. == PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Mario Benevides (Brazil) Lu?s Caires (Portugal) Ugo Dal Lago (Italy) Nachum Dershowitz (Israel) J?r?me Feret (France) Marcelo Frias (Argentina) Russ Harmer (France) Ivan Lanese (Italy) Radu Mardare (Denmark) Elvira Mayordomo (Spain) C?sar A. Mu?oz (USA) - chair Jorge A. P?rez (The Netherlands) - chair Andr?s Sicard-Ram?rez (Colombia) Alexandra Silva (The Netherlands) Daniele Varacca (France) == CONTACT INFORMATION Cesar A. Munoz (cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov) Jorge A. Perez (j.a.perez at rug.nl) --- 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 larry.mars at gmail.com Tue Mar 3 02:16:29 2015 From: larry.mars at gmail.com (LIN MA) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 23:16:29 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: PACT2015 - Abstract Deadline March 19th Message-ID: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ========================================== PACT 2015 : The 24th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques https://sites.google.com/a/lbl.gov/pact2015/ October 18-21, 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA Abstract Deadline March 19th Paper Deadline March 26th Rebuttal Period June 7th -11th Author Notification Aug 1st Camera Ready Version Aug 18th PACT 2015 will bring together researchers from architecture, compilers, applications and languages to present and discuss innovative research of common interest. PACT solicits novel papers, workshops, tutorials and entries to an ACM student research competition on a broad range of topics that include, but are not limited to: * Parallel architectures and computational models * Compilers and tools for parallel computer systems * Middleware and run time system support for parallel computing * Hardware-software co-design for parallel computing * Hardware-software support for new compute and memory subsystems * Hardware-software support for power management and resilience * Support for correctness in concurrent hardware and software * I/O issues in parallel computing and their relation to applications * Parallel programming languages, algorithms and applications * Application-specific parallel systems * Applications and experimental systems studies * Topics in non-traditional computing systems All submissions must be made electronically through the conference web site. Abstracts must include contact information, the full list of authors and their affiliations, and a description (100-400 words) of the anticipated content of the paper. Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted for US lettersize paper. They must not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number). Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm (use the 9 pt template). For additional information regarding paper submissions, authors should contact the Program Chair. ACM Student Research Competition ----------------------------- PACT 2015 also calls for participation in the ACM Student ResearchCompetition (SRC). All eligible participants are entitled to an up to $500 travel grant. Winners will receive monetary prizes and others. The submission deadline is August 10, 2015. Please see the PACT web site for details. Papers accepted to PACT 2015 can not be simultaneously submitted as ACM SRC entries. Location Information ------------------ PACT '15 will take place at The Sir Francis Drake: A San Francisco Hotel on Union Square. Group rates and registration information to be posted at a later date. Organization and Contact Information ------------------------------ General Chair: Costin Iancu (cciancu at lbl.gov) and Katherine Yelick (kayelick at lbl.gov), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Program Chair: Marc Snir (snir at anl.gov), University of Illinois, USA Workshop Chair: Jason Mars (profmars at umich.edu), University of Michigan, USA Program Committee: Gheorghe Almasi IBM Research, USA Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory, USA Franck Cappello Argonne national Laboratory, USA Calin Cascaval Qualcomm, USA Albert Cohen INRIA, France Bronis R. de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Anshu Dubey Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Matan Erez The University of Texas at Austin, USA Yoav Etsion Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck, Austria Edgar Gabriel University of Houston, USA Maria Garzaran University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA William Gropp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jeff Hollingsworth University of Maryland College Park, USA Laxmikant Kale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Mahmut Kandemir Penn State University, USA Omer Khan University of Connecticut, USA John Kim KAIST, South Korea Keiji Kimura Waseda University, Japan Michael Kozuch Intel, USA Sriram Krishnamoorthy Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA Andrew Lumsdaine U. of Indiana, USA Lin Ma Huawei America Research Center Rami Melhem University of Pittsburgh, USA John Mellor-Crummey Rice University, USA Samuel Midkiff Purdue University, USA Jaime Moreno IBM Research, USA Nacho Navarro Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Michael O?Boyle University of Edinburgh, UK Boyana Norris University of Oregon, USA Keshav Pingali University of Texas, Austin, USA Gilles Pokam Intel Labs, USA Alex Ramirez NVIDIA, USA Lawrence Rauchwerger Texas A&M University, USA Larry Rudolph MIT, USA Saday Sadayappan Ohio State University, USA John Shalf Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Xipeng Shen North Carolina State University, USA Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jesper Larsson Traff Vienna University of Technology, Austria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emanuela.merelli at unicam.it Tue Mar 3 02:51:42 2015 From: emanuela.merelli at unicam.it (Emanuela Merelli) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 08:51:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd EATCS Young Research School on Complexity, Concurrency and Topology of Data Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple copies) ************************************************ 2nd EATCS YOUNG RESEARCH SCHOOL & TOPDRIM SCHOOL Understanding COMPLEXITY and CONCURRENCY through TOPOLOGY of DATA CAMERINO, ITALY July 13 ? 22, 2015 http://camerino2015.topdrim.eu ? ? ************************************************* The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) established a series of Young Researcher Schools on TCS topics. This year we propose a trans-disciplinary school, joined with the TOPDRIM EU project school (www.topdrim.eu), dedicated to understanding COMPLEXITY and CONCURRENCY through TOPOLOGY of DATA. The motivation comes from the need of modern society to tame the huge amount of available data, Big Data, by constructing suitable methods that allow to extract, as much as possible, features from data and to give them semantics, to become information. Currently, topology and formal methods are the two main theoretical research areas involved in pursuing such a goal. The school offers two main streams of topics: (i) methods from topology and their application in data analysis, and (ii) methods from semantics and models of computation, and their applications in computer science. The aim is training a future generation of trans-disciplinary researchers. The topics of the lectures are of interest for PhD students and young researchers with a background in one of the two main areas. Researchers in complexity science can be also interested. *Program* The programme consists of five Basic Tutorials (T1-T5, 4 hours each) devoted to fundamental topics, six Lectures on topology-based methods for complex systems (L1-L6, 3 hours each) and six Advanced Lectures on related topics (A1-A6). Note that some advanced lectures require, as prerequisites, concepts introduced during the basic and TOPDRIM lectures: A1(L1,T1), A2(T1,T2,T3,T4), A3(T2,T3), A4(T2,T3), A5(T2,L4,T1,T3)), A6(L1,T1,L2). *Basic Tutorials* T1 Algebraic & Computational Topology Fr?d?ric Chazal T2 Models of Computation & Coinduction for Automata Luca Tesei, Alexandra Silva T3 Concurrency & Behavioural Equivalences Rocco De Nicola, Rob Van Glabbeek T4 Categorical Underpinnings of Computation Samson Abramsky T5 Complexity Science Yamir Moreno *TOPDRIM Methods and Applications* L1 Topological Data Analysis Francesco Vaccarino L2 Information Geometry & Topology of Complex Networks Stefano Mancini, Marco Pettini L3 Topological Information Processing during Critical Transitions Peter Sloot, Rick Quax L4 Topology-driven Modelling of Complex Systems Emanuela Merelli L5 Beyond Simplicial Complexes: Hypernetworks Jeffrey Johnson L6 Application of Combinatorial Topology for Shaping RNA Christian Reidys *Advanced Lectures* A1 Advanced Applied Topology Fr?d?ric Chazal, INRIA, F A2 Contextuality and Cohomology Samson Abramsky, Oxford University, UK A3 Behavioural Types Mariangiola Dezani (EATCS fellow 2015), University of Camerino, IT A4 Higher-order Coinductive Semantics David Sangiorgi, University of Bologna, IT A5 Higher Dimensional Automata and Chu Spaces Rob Van Glabbeek, NICTA, AU A6 Quantum Algorithms for Topological and Geometrical Analysis of Big Data Seth Lloyd, MIT Boston *Registration Procedures* The number of places is limited to sixty. The registration fee is 300 euros and includes the school material. The accommodation fee is 500 euros and covers the period July 13-22 (10 nights), double room (to share with another participant) half board (breakfast and lunch). The reduced accommodation fee for the participants who do not need a room is 100 euros and covers the period July 13-22 (10 lunches). A certain number of grants for the Summer School are available for PhD students. ? ? *Important dates* Early Registration: April 10 April, 2015 Notification Acceptance: 20 April 2015 Registration: 15 May 2015 *Programme Committee* Samson Abramsky, Oxford University, UK Luca Aceto, Reykjavik University, IS Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, IT Jeffrey Johnson, Open University, UK Stefano Mancini, University of Camerino, IT Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, IT (Co-Chair) Marco Pettini, Universit? d?Aix Marseille, F Mario Rasetti, ISI foundation, Turin, IT Christian Reidys, Virgina Tech, USA Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, NL Francesco Vaccarino, ISI Foundation - Politecnico di Torino, IT (Co-Chair) *Sponsor* The school has the sponsorship of: - TOPDRIM, a European FET Project on ?Topology driven methods for Complex Systems? http://ww.toprim.eu - Complex Systems Society http://cssociety.org - European Association for Theoretical Computer Science http://www.eatcs.org Email: topdrim.school at unicam.it Web: http://camerino2015.topdrim.eu Phone: +39 3383990412 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Tue Mar 3 10:54:30 2015 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:54:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2015) Message-ID: <54F5D936.9050504@irisa.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS GraMSec 2015 The Second International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security July 13, 2015, Verona, Italy http://gramsec.uni.lu/ Co-located with CSF 2015 ================================= Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic methodology to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as well as security professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different security facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges including security assessment, risk analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. 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. The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Attack trees, attack graphs, and their variants - Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security - UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security - Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models - Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models - Scalability of graphical security models - Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis - Risk assessment and risk management using graphical security models - Methods for quantitative analysis of graphical security models - Formal semantics of graphical security models - Formal verification of graphical security models - Game theoretical approaches to graphical security models - Visualization of system security - Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems - Graphical models for system, organizational, and business security - Graphical security models for emerging paradigms (e.g., Cloud computing, IoT, Software Defined Networks, Big Data) - Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security models SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We solicit two types of submissions: - Regular papers (up to 15 pages) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. - Tool papers (up to 5 pages) describing software supporting graphical security modeling, analysis, and evaluation. Tool papers will be presented during a special tool session. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and tool) papers will be included in the final proceedings, which we plan to publish as a Springer LNCS volume (pending confirmation). Submissions should be made using the GraMSec'15 EasyChair web site. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 19, 2015 Acceptance notification: May 26, 2015 Camera ready version: June 15, 2015 Workshop: July 13, 2015 GENERAL CHAIR Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA PC CO-CHAIRS Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, LU Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Mathieu Acher, IRISA, France - Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA - Ludovic Apvrille, Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, France - Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI GmbH, Germany - Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy - Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy - Ahto Buldas, Cybernetica, Estonia - Jason Crampton, Royal Holloway University of London, UK - Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France - Mathias Ekstedt, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy - Erlend Andreas Gjare, SINTEF, Norway - Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg, Germany - Olivier Heen, Technicolor, France - Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, and Gjovik University College, Norway - Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands - Jan Jurjens, Technical University Dortmund, Germany - Jean-Louis Lanet, INRIA, France - Gurvan Le Guernic, DGA Maitrise de l'Information, France - Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand - Per Haakon Meland, SINTEF, Norway - Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong - Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Steven Noel, MITRE and George Mason University, USA - Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway - Stephane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France - Wolter Pieters, TU Delft and University of Twente, The Netherlands - Ludovic Pietre-Cambacedes, EDF, France - Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy - Cristian Prisacariu, University of Oslo, Norway - Nicolas Prigent, Supelec, France - Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - David Pym, University College London, UK - Sasa Radomirovic, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Yves Roudier, EURECOM, France - Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy - Guttorm Sindre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Ketil Stolen, Sintef, Norway - Axel Tanner, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland - Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA - Luca Vigano, King's College London, UK - Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada - Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia This call for papers and additional information about the workshop can be found at http://gramsec.uni.lu/ From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Wed Mar 4 04:21:43 2015 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:21:43 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] F-IDE 2015: Call for papers (FM2015 Workshop) Message-ID: <20150304102143.Horde.wx2neizrLr9avk7Dt9GciQ5@webmail.ensiie.fr> ****************************************************************** F-IDE 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** The 2nd Formal Integrated Development Environment Workshop (F-IDE 2015) 22 June 2015, Oslo, Norway http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~masci/fide2015 ****************************************************************** -------- OVERVIEW -------- The 2nd Formal Integrated Development Environment Workshop (F-IDE 2015) will be held in Oslo, Norway, in June, 2015. High levels of safety, security and also privacy standards require the use of formal methods to specify and develop compliant software (sub)systems. Any standard comes with an assessment process, which requires a complete documentation of the application in order to ease the justification of design choices and the review of code and proofs. Ideally, an F-IDE dedicated to such developments should comply with several requirements. The first one is to associate a logical theory with a programming language, in a way that facilitates the tightly coupled handling of specification properties and program constructs. The second one is to offer a language/environment simple enough to be usable by most developers, even if they are not fully acquainted with higher-order logics or set theory, in particular by making development of proofs as easy as possible. The third one is to offer automated management of application documentation. It may also be expected that developments done with such an F-IDE are reusable and modular. Moreover, tools for testing and static analysis may be embedded in this F-IDE, to help address most steps of the assessment process. ------ TOPICS ------ The workshop is opened to contributions on all aspects of a system development process, including specification, design, implementation, analysis and documentation. It should allow the presentation of tools, methods, techniques and experiments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: ? F-IDE building: design and integration of languages, compilation ? How to make high-level logical and programming concepts palatable to industrial developers ? Integration of Object-Oriented and modularity features ? Integration of static analyzers ? Integration of automatic proof tools, theorem provers and testing tools ? Documentation tools ? Impact of tools on certification ? Experience reports of developing F-IDE ? Experience reports of using F-IDE ? Experience reports of formal methods-based assessments of industrial applications ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- Papers must be written in English, not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format, not counting references, and follow the FM 2015 Format and Submission Guidelines. They can be: - Research papers providing new concepts and results - Position papers and research perspectives - Experience reports - Tool presentations Papers can be submitted through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fide2015 ----------- PROCEEDINGS ----------- - Preliminary proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be available electronically at the workshop. - Post proceedings are under consideration as Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (ETPCS) proceedings. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission: March 24, 2015 (23h59 GMT) Paper submission: March 31, 2015 (23h59 GMT) Notification: April 30, 2015 Camera-ready: May 15, 2015 Workshop: June 22, 2015 ----------------- PC CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Catherine Dubois ENSIIE, Cedric, catherine (dot) dubois (at) ensiie (dot) fr Paolo Masci Queen Mary University of London, paolo (dot) masci (at) eecs (dot) qmul (dot) ac (dot) uk Dominique Mery Universit? de Lorraine, dominique (dot) mery (at) loria (dot) fr ----------------- PC MEMBERS ----------------- Bernhard Beckert Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Jose Campos Universidade do Minho Paul Curzon Queen Mary University of London Carlo Alberto Furia ETH Zurich Therese Hardin UPMC Rustan Leino Microsoft Research Michael Leuschel University of Dusseldorf Claude Marche INRIA Stefan Mitsch Carnegie Mellon University Patrick Oladimeji Swansea University Suzette Person NASA Langley Research Center Francois Pessaux ENSTA ParisTech Marie-Laure Potet Laboratoire Verimag Steve Reeves Waikato University John Rushby SRI International Rene Thiemann University of Innsbruck Boris Yakobowski CEA LIST From benl at ouroborus.net Wed Mar 4 07:36:46 2015 From: benl at ouroborus.net (Ben Lippmeier) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 23:36:46 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Haskell 2015: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <9DAA9A48-6DE2-45FC-A49C-C81202265D7F@ouroborus.net> ===================================================================== ACM SIGPLAN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Haskell Symposium 2015 Vancouver, Canada, 3-4 September 2015, directly after ICFP http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2015 ===================================================================== ** The Haskell Symposium has an early track this year ** ** See the Submission Timetable for details. ** The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2015 will be co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2015) in Vancouver, Canada. The Haskell Symposium aims to present original research on Haskell, discuss practical experience and future development of the language, and 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; * Libraries, that demonstrate new ideas or techniques for functional programming in Haskell; * 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. Papers in the latter three categories need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report 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 standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting. More advice is available via the Haskell wiki: (http://wiki.haskell.org/HaskellSymposium/ExperienceReports) 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, and to other languages where appropriate. In addition, we solicit proposals for: * System Demonstrations, based on running software rather than novel research results. These proposals should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals 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, social or artistic. 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 program, see its web page (http://pac.sigplan.org). 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). Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material. Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be posted on the symposium website, but not formally published in the proceedings. All accepted papers and proposals will be posted on the conference website one week before the meeting. Publication date: The official publication date of accepted papers is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. 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 -- for example, a Functional Pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. Each paper submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Demo proposals 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. A link to the paper submission system will appear on the Haskell Symposium web site closer to the submission deadline. Submission Timetable: ===================== Early Track Regular Track System Demos ---------------- ------------------- --------------- 13th March Paper Submission 1st May Notification 19th May Abstract Submission 22nd May Paper Submission 5th June Resubmission Demo Submission 26th June Notification Notification Notification 19th July Final papers due Final papers due Deadlines stated are valid anywhere on earth. In this iteration of the Haskell Symposium we are trialling a two-track submission process, so that some papers can gain early feedback. Papers can be submitted to the early track on 13th March. On 1st May, strong papers are accepted outright, and the others will be given their reviews and invited to resubmit. On 5th June early track papers may be resubmitted, and are sent back to the same reviewers. The Haskell Symposium regular track operates as in previous years. Papers accepted via the early and regular tracks are considered of equal value and will not be distinguished in the proceedings. Although all papers may be submitted to the early track, authors of functional pearls and experience reports are particularly encouraged to use this mechanism. The success of these papers depends heavily on the way they are presented, and submitting early will give the program committee a chance to provide feedback and help draw out the key ideas. 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URL: From hugotvieira at imtlucca.it Wed Mar 4 08:45:52 2015 From: hugotvieira at imtlucca.it (Hugo Torres Vieira) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 14:45:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: 8th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2015), June 5, 2015, Grenoble, France Message-ID: ICE 2015 8th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 5, 2015, Grenoble, France discotec2015.inria.fr/ice-2015 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2015 http://discotec2015.inria.fr === Highlights === - Innovative selection procedure - ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief announcements of already published papers - Invited talks: Jade Alglave and Steve Ross-Talbot - Special issue in a highly-reputed journal === Important Dates === 18 March 2015.....................Abstract submission 20 March 2015...................Full paper submission 20 March - 30 April 2015....Reviews and PC discussion 30 April 2015......................Notification to authors 5 June 2015.......................ICE in Grenoble 15 July 2015......................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 === Selection Procedure === Since its first 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 preserves anonymity of reviewers). 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 seven 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 2015 post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite 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=ice2015). 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. A list of special issues of previous ICE editions already published or in preparation can be found below. === Invited Talks === Jade Alglave (University College London UK), http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/j.alglave/ Steve Ross-Talbot (ZDLC Business Unit, Cognizant Technology Solutions) https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/steve-ross-talbot/0/3/28a === Program Committee === Mario Alvim (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Simon Bliudze (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Matteo Cimini (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) Ornela Dardha (School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK) Carlo Alberto Furia (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France) Jean-Baptiste Jeannin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK) Jean-Marie Madiot (?cole normale sup?rieure de Lyon, France & University of Bologna, Italy) Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andrea Mocci (Universit? della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Dimitris Mostrous (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal) Luca Padovani (University of Torino, Italy) Gwen Sala?n (INRIA, Grenoble INP, France) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) Bernardo Toninho (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal & Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Valeria Vignudelli (University of Bologna, Italy and INRIA,France) Lili Xu (Ecole Polytechnique, France & Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) === ICEcreamers === Sophia Knight (CNRS, LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine, France) Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy; PC co-chair) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; PC co-chair) Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) === Steering Committee === Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) === Contact === ice2015-0 at easychair.org === Previous editions === The previous seven 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 Scientific Annals in Computer Science (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 Scientific Annals in Computer Science (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 Science in Computer Programming is in press. * 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 Science in Computer Programming is in preparation. * June 6th, 2014 in Berlin, Germany, co-located with DisCoTec?14. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.166) and a special issue of JLAMP is in preparation. From arend.rensink at utwente.nl Wed Mar 4 09:48:31 2015 From: arend.rensink at utwente.nl (Arend Rensink) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:48:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EAPLS PhD Award 2014 - Call for Nominations Message-ID: <54F71B3F.80201@utwente.nl> EAPLS PhD Award 2014: Call for Nominations ========================================== URL: http://eapls.org/pages/phd_award/ The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems has established a Best Dissertation Award in the international research area of programming languages and systems. The award will go to the PhD student who in the previous period has made the most original and influential contribution to the area. The purpose of the award is to draw attention to excellent work, to help the career of the student in question, and to promote the research field as a whole. Eligibility ----------- Eligible for the award are those who successfully defended their PhD * at an academic institution in Europe * in the field of Programming Languages and Systems * in the period from 1 November 2013 ? 31 December 2014 Nominations ----------- Candidates for the award must be nominated by their supervisor. Nominating a candidate consists of submitting the thesis to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eaplsphd2014. The nomination must be accompanied by (a zip file containing) * a letter from the supervisor describing why the thesis should be considered for the award; * a report from an independent researcher who has acted as examiner of the thesis at its defense. The theses will be evaluated with respect to originality, influence, relevance to the field and (to a lesser degree) quality of writing. Procedure --------- The nominations will be evaluated and compared by an international committee of experts from across Europe. The procedure to be followed is analogous to the review phase of a conference. The justification by the supervisor and the external report will play an important role in the evaluation. Members of the expert committee are barred from nominating their own PhD students for the award. The award consists of a certificate announcing the winner to have received the EAPLS PhD award 2014. The supervisor will receive a copy of this certificate. If possible, the certificate will be handed out ceremonially at a suitable occasion, as for instance the ETAPS conference. Apart from the winner, no further ranking of nominees will be published. The decision of the expert committee is final and binding, and will not be subject to discussion. Important dates --------------- 31 March 2015: Deadline for nominations 31 July 2015: Announcement of the award winner Expert committee ---------------- The Expert committee includes: * Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, U.K. * Mark van den Brand, Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands * Paolo Ciancarini, Universita di Bologna, Italy * Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Kei Davis, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A. * Mariangiola Dezani, Universita di Torino, Italy * Josuka D?az-Labrador, Universidad de Duesto, Spain * Marko van Eekelen, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands * Giorgio Ghelli, University of Pisa, Italy * Sabine Glesner, Technische Universit?t Berlin * Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria, South Africa * Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews, U.K. * Martin Hofmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany * Paul Klint, CWI and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Jens Knoop, Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria * Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Rita Loogen, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany * Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany * Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh, U.K. * Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge, U.K. * Ricardo Pe?a, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, Technische Universit?t Kaiserslautern, Germany * Arend Rensink, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands * Bernhard Steffen, Technische Universit?t Dortmund, Germany * Baltasar Trancon Widemann, Technische Universit?t Ilmenau, Germany * Peter Van Roy, Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgium From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Thu Mar 5 03:14:29 2015 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:14:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFPIE 2015] 2nd call for papers Message-ID: <54F81065.2020202@cs.ru.nl> Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2015) 2nd Call for papers https://wiki.science.ru.nl/tfpie/TFPIE2015 The 4th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2015, will be held on June 2, 2015 in Sophia-Antipolis in France. It is co-located with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2015) which takes place from June 3 - 5. *** Goal *** 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 2015 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 2015 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 journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), and Soesterberg, The Netherlands (2014). *** Program Committee *** Peter Achten, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews, UK Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University and Open University, The Netherlands (Chair) Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, US Rita Loogen, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany Marco Morazan, Seton Hall University, US Norman Ramsey, Tufts University, US *** Submission Guidelines *** TFPIE 2015 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 - Tools supporting learning FP - 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, we request ?best lecture? presentations. What is 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. *** Submission *** Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2015 It is expected at at least one author for each submitted paper will attend the workshop. *** Important Dates *** April 7, 2015: Early Registration for TFP closes April 27, 2015: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and abstracts May 3 2015: Notification of acceptance for presentation ?? (Probably May 22 2015): Registration for TFPIE closes - as does late registration for TFP June 2, 2015: Presentations in Sophia-Antipolis, France July 7, 2015: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due. September 1, 2015: Notification of acceptance for proceedings September 22, 2015: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline will be considered as withdrawn. From erdweg at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Thu Mar 5 05:17:37 2015 From: erdweg at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Sebastian Erdweg) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:17:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Workshop on Generic Programming 2015 - Deadline May 15 Message-ID: <1D6EAA93-46BA-43AD-9E09-1E31035EBC5D@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS WGP 2015 11th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming Vancouver, Canada Sunday, August 30, 2015 http://www.wgp-sigplan.org/2015 Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2015) ====================================================================== 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 ----------------- * Patrick Bahr (co-chair), University of Copenhagen * Sebastian Erdweg (co-chair), Technical University of Darmstadt * Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews * Edsko de Vries, Well-Typed LLP * Mauro Jaskelioff, National University of Rosario * Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University * Pieter Koopman, Radboud University Nijmegen * Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, University of Hong Kong * Nicolas Pouillard, IT University of Copenhagen * Sukyoung Ryu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology * Sibylle Schupp, Hamburg University of Technology * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University Proceedings and Copyright ------------------------- We plan to have formal proceedings, published by the ACM. 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. Submission details ------------------ * Submission deadline: Fri, 15th May 2015 * Author notification: Fri, 26th June 2015 * Final version due: Sun, 19th July 2015 * Workshop: Sun, 30th August 2015 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 HotCRP at https://icfp-wgp15.hotcrp.com/ 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 * Gothenburg, Sweden 2014 (affiliated with ICFP), * Boston, Massachusetts, US 2013 (affiliated with ICFP), * Copenhagen, Denmark 2012 (affiliated with ICFP), * Tokyo, Japan 2011 (affiliated with ICFP), * Baltimore, Maryland, US 2010 (affiliated with ICFP), * Edinburgh, UK 2009 (affiliated with ICFP), * 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). WGP Steering Committee ---------------------- * Andres L?h * Ronald Garcia * Jacques Carette * Jeremiah Willcock * Jos? Pedro Magalh?es * Tiark Rompf * Tarmo Uustalo * Stephanie Weirich * Fritz Henglein From amoeller at cs.au.dk Thu Mar 5 06:36:11 2015 From: amoeller at cs.au.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anders_M=F8ller?=) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:36:11 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SOAP 2015 - 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis Message-ID: <6E41214BB1EAD8408392B7FAB84E3EF9B20E3E3D@SRVUNIMBX07.uni.au.dk> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ?????????????????????????????????? SOAP 2015 ? 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis ??????????????????????? http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soap/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Static and dynamic analysis techniques and tools for Java and related programming languages have received widespread attention for a long time. The application domains of these analyses range from core libraries to modern technologies such as web services and Android applications. Over time, analysis frameworks, for example, Soot, WALA, Chord, and Doop, have been developed to better support techniques for optimizing programs, ensuring code quality, and assessing security and compliance. Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, the Soot community brought together its members and other researchers by organizing the International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Java Program Analysis (SOAP), since 2012 in conjunction with PLDI. The presentations and discussions have helped share new developments and shape new innovations in program analysis. SOAP 2015 will enhance that positive experience with a broadened scope to also emphasize other analysis tools than Soot and other programming languages than Java. For SOAP 2015, we invite contributions and inspirations from developers and researchers working with program analysis frameworks. We are particularly interested in exciting framework ideas, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results of work in progress. The workshop agenda will continue its tradition of lively discussion sessions on extensions of existing frameworks, synergies between frameworks, and development of new analysis algorithms and tools. FORMAT The workshop will take one day and will feature invited talks by leading members of the program analysis community, presentations of all accepted refereed papers, and time for discussion. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be four to six-page papers in ACM sig-alternate style. Possible submissions include, but are not limited to: * A report on a novel implementation of a program analysis, with a focus on practical details or optimization techniques for obtaining precision and performance. * A description of a new analysis component, for example, front-ends or abstract domains. * A report describing an innovative tool built on top of Soot or another framework. * A compelling use case for a feature not yet supported by existing analysis tools, with good examples and an informal design of the proposed feature. * An idea paper proposing the integration of existing program analyses to answer interesting novel questions about programs, for example in IDEs. * An experience report on the use of a program analysis framework. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. INVITED SPEAKERS Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University Frank Tip, Samsung Research America Ben Hardekopf, UC Santa Barbara IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: March 20, 2015 Notification of authors: April 17, 2015 Submission of camera-ready copies: April 27, 2015 Workshop date: June 14, 2015 ORGANIZERS Anders M?ller, Aarhus University Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology PROGRAM COMMITTEE Domagoj Babic, Google Eric Bodden, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT Jeff Foster, University of Maryland, College Park Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Kwangkeun Yi, Seoul National University From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Thu Mar 5 20:07:03 2015 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 19:07:03 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2015: 2nd Call for Contributions: OOPSLA, Onward!, Workshops, Dynamic Languages Symposium Message-ID: <794667AB-1765-4DE8-AD8C-ABE5AE85F2CE@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> /************************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'15) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 25th-30th October, 2015 http://www.splashcon.org Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OOPSLA Onward! Workshops Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) /************************************************************************************/ 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, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/oopsla2015 ** 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: 2 April, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-papers ** 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: 2 April, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-essays ** Workshops ** The SPLASH Workshops track 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: 25 March, 2015 Late Phase Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops ** 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: 7 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dls2015-papers ** Co-Located Events ** 8th International ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/sle2015 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce2015 22nd International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) Submissions Due: 4 May, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/plop2015 15th Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL) Information: SPLASH Early Registration Deadline: 25 September, 2015 Contact: info at splashcon.org Website: http://2015.splashcon.org Location: Sheraton Station Square Hotel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Patrick Eugster (Purdue University) Onward! Papers Chair: Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) Onward! Essays Chair: Guy Steele (Oracle Labs) DLS Papers Chair: Manuel Serrano (INRIA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Robby Findler (Northwestern University) and Michael Hind (IBM Research) Demos Co-Chairs: Igor Peshansky (Google) and Pietro Ferrara (IBM Research) Inspirations Co-Chairs: Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University), Zach Tatlock (University of Washington), and Crista Lopes (UC Irvine) Local Arrangements Chair: Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University) Posters Chair: Nick Sumner (Simon Fraser University) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Craig Anslow (University of Calgary) and Tijs van der Storm (CWI) SPLASH-E Chair: Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Sponsorship Chair: Tony Hosking (Purdue University) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: Sam Guyer (Tufts University) and Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Jonathan Bell (Columbia University) and Daco Harkes (TU Delft) Wavefront Co-Chairs: Dennis Mancl (Alcatel-Lucent) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) Workshops Co-Chairs: Du Li (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jan Rellermeyer (IBM Research) SLE General Chair: Richard Paige, University of York GPCE General Chair: Christian K?stner, Carnegie Mellon University PLoP General Chair: Filipe Correia, University of Porto /************************************************************************************/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kafouroutsos at hotmail.com Thu Mar 5 13:37:19 2015 From: kafouroutsos at hotmail.com (stergios chatzikyriakidis) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:37:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?TYTLES=3A_TYpe_Theory_and_LExical_Sema?= =?utf-8?q?ntics_=284_page_abstract_due_March_31=29=E2=80=8F?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From: kafouroutsos at hotmail.com To: ln at cines.fr; folli at folli.info; mol at cs.earlham.edu; formalgrammar at cs.haifa.ac.il; types-list at lists.seas.upenn.edu; members at sigsem.org Subject: TYTLES: TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics (4 page abstract due March 31)? Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:24:14 +0000 Apologies for cross-postings As part of ESSLLI 2015TYTLES: TYpe Theory and LExical SemanticsBarcelona, August 3-7 2015(Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg & Christian Retor?, LIRMM & universit? de Montpellier) Presentation The pioneering work of Ranta (1994) on using Type Theory for NL semantics has initiated a strong interest in the use of Type Theories for representing formal semantics. And even though Type Theory was initially mainly concerned with compositional and formal semantics, a number of linguists, logicians and computer scientists noticed the relevance of type theory for lexical semantics as well. Around 2000 the paper ?the metaphysics of words in context? by Asher & Pustejovsky (2001) initiated Type Theoretic approaches to lexical coercions and meaning transfers by investigating extension and refinement of the type system used by Montague. Accounts for this type of phenomena need to capture ordinary selectional restriction phenomena (e.g. a ?chair? may not ?bark?, in an ordinary context), while at the some time they have to ensure some flexibility for adapting meanings to contexts in case of meaning transfers, co-predication etc. The study of this kind of phenomena is of course not new. Their study goes back at least till the 80?s (Bierwisch, Nunberg, Cruse among others). What is relatively new is the study of these phenomena from the perspective of Type Theory and this approach is by now quite successful as valuable type theoretical contributions on incorporating lexical considerations into compositional semantics show (Asher, Bassac, Chatzikyriakidis, Cooper, Luo, Melloni, Mery, Moot, Pr?vot, Pustejovsky, Ranta, Real, Retor?) Authors are invited to submit 4-page abstracts before March 31 on any subject related to the workshop, including:? Linguistically motivated variants of type theories (subtyping)? Lexical semantics in type theory (compositionality and the lexicon)? Interaction between lexical semantics and type theoretical semantics? Classical semantic questions in richly typed frameworks (plurals, quantification, generics)? Modelling specific questions in type theory (nouns, deverbals, events, adjectives, adverbs, ontological aspects,) ? Computational aspects and implementation of type theoretical semantics (natural language inference, proof assistants,?)Important dates? submission of 4-page abstract (PDF) before March 31please use https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tytles-2015? notification of acceptance: April 30? revised 4 page abstracts due: May 15? conference date and location: Barcelona August 3-7 2015 see ESSLLI 2015Program committeeRobin Cooper (University of Gothenburg, CoChair), Christian Retor? (Universit? de Montpellier, & LIRMM CoChair) Alexandra Arapinis (CNR, Trento)Nicholas Asher (CNRS, Toulouse)Christian Bassac (Universit? Lyon II)Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (CNRS et LRIMM, Montpellier) Shalom Lappin (King?s College, London)Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway, University of London)Chiara Melloni (CNR, Verona)Bruno Mery (Universit? de Bordeaux)Richard Moot (CNRS, Bordeaux)Glyn Morrill (Universitat Polyt?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) Larry Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington)Reinhard Muskens (Universiteit Tilburg)Livy Real (Universidade Federal do Paran?, Curitiba) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch Fri Mar 6 11:46:46 2015 From: philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch (Philipp Haller) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 17:46:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: Scala Symposium 2015 Message-ID: ======================================================================== Scala Symposium 2015 co-located with PLDI 2015 Portland, Oregon, USA June 13-14, 2015 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS http://lamp.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2015 ======================================================================== Scala is a general-purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. This symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. Important Dates =============== * Abstract submission: March 26, 2015 * Paper/talk submission: April 2, 2015 * Author notification: April 27, 2015 * Final papers due: May 7, 2015 All deadlines are at 23:59 Baker Island, USA (UTC-12). Scope ===== We seek papers on topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to): - Language design and implementation -- language extensions, optimization, and performance evaluation. - Library design and implementation patterns for extending Scala -- embedded domain-specific languages, combining language features, generic and meta-programming. - Formal techniques for Scala-like programs -- formalizations of the language, type system, and semantics, formalizing proposed language extensions and variants, dependent object types, type and effect systems. - Concurrent and distributed programming -- libraries, frameworks, language extensions, programming paradigms: (actors, STM, ...), performance evaluation, experimental results. - Safety and reliability -- pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. - Tools -- development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. - Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, or projects related to Scala. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. All papers will be judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and interest to the community. In general, papers should explain their original contributions, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work (also for other languages where appropriate). Papers in the last category of the list above need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, new Scala idioms, or programming pearls. In all cases, such a paper must make a contribution which is of interest to the Scala community, or from which other members of the Scala community can benefit. KEYWORDS: Library Design and Implementation, Language Design and Implementation, Applications, Formal Techniques, Parallelism and Concurrency, Distributed Programming, Tools, Experience Reports, Empirical Studies Academic Student Talks ====================== In addition to regular papers and tool demos, we also solicit short student talks by bachelor/master/PhD students. A student talk is not accompanied by a paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in plain text). Student talks are about 5-10 minutes long, presenting ongoing or completed research related to Scala. In previous years, each student with an accepted student talk received a grant (donated by our sponsors) covering registration and/or travel costs. Open Source Talks ================= We will also accept a limited number of short talks about open-source projects using Scala presented by contributors. An open-source talk is not accompanied by a paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in plain text). Open-source talks are about 10 minutes long, presenting or announcing an open-source project that is of interest to the Scala community. Proceedings =========== It is planned to publish accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work, to the extent transferable), but retain various rights (see ACM 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 ================== Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference style (10pt format). Regular research papers must not exceed 10 pages, tool demonstration papers and short papers must not exceed 4 pages. "Tool Demos" and "Short Papers" should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission. Each paper submission must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Note: "Short Papers" differ from "Tool Demos" in that "Short Papers" are approached as short research papers. "Short Papers" are expected to carry some new insights or contribution, and to compare with related work, as with any normal research paper. They are simply shorter versions of full research papers. "Tool Demos" on the other hand are about showcasing a well-developed, well-documented tool, live, before the symposium. Papers corresponding to "Tool Demos" are meant to contain an overview of the tool and methodology for the tool's use. Tool demo papers are less concerned about providing new research insights, or thoroughly comparing with related work. The Scala Symposium PC will approach tool demos in the same way as the PEPM'14 Workshop PC, detailed in PEPM's Tool Paper Evaluation Criteria (see http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM14/ToolPaperAdvice). Student talks and open-source talks are not accompanied by papers. Therefore, it is sufficient to only submit a plain-text abstract. Both "Student Talks" and "Open Source Talks" should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission. Submission see: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2015 Program Committee ================= * Oscar Boykin, Twitter * Dave Clarke, Uppsala University * Doug Lea, State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego * Ondrej Lhotak, University of Waterloo * Matt Might, University of Utah * Adriaan Moors, Typesafe * Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano * Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong * Martin Odersky, EPFL * Tiark Rompf, Purdue University * Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt * Daniel Spiewak, RichRelevance * Lex Spoon, Semmle * Jan Vitek, Northeastern University * Damien Zufferey, MIT Organizers ========== * Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Co-chair) * Heather Miller, EPFL (Co-chair) * Martin Odersky, EPFL and Typesafe Links ===== * The Scala Symposium 2015 website: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2015 * The PLDI 2015 website: http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi2015 From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Sat Mar 7 18:03:31 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 01:03:31 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2015 final call for participation Message-ID: <20150308010331.4590e7de@duality> [Tutorials information added. Note that normal-rate registration ends 10 March.] ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2015 18th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software London, UK, 11-18 April 2015 http://www.etaps.org/ ****************************************************************** -- 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 2015 is already the eighteenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (13-17 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: Daniel Licata (Wesleyan University, USA) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, France) CC invited speaker: Keshav Pingali (University of Texas, USA) FoSSaCS invited speaker: Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) TACAS invited speaker: Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- TUTORIALS Daniel J. Bernstein (U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA / Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands): The death of optimizing compilers Florian Kirchner (CEA, France): Keep calm and verify your software: an overview of the Frama-C platform -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS See the accepted paper lists and the programme of the main conferences at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (11-12 and 18 April) -- 17 satellite workshops will take place before or after ETAPS 2015. GALOP, GaM, QAPL (11-12 April) FMSPLE, FOPARA, SynCop, VPT (11 April) DICE, FESCA, VerifyThis, WoC, WPLI (12 April) HotSpot, MBT, PLACES, TTATT, TPDP (18 April) -- REGISTRATION Early registration is until Saturday, 14 February 2015. Normal-rate registration is until Tuesday, 10 March 2015. -- ACCOMMODATION We request that participants arrange their accommodation on their own. See our recommendations on the website. -- HOST CITY -- London is one of the most visited and cosmopolitan cities on earth. It is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It can be reached by more people, from more destinations, in less time, than any other destination in the world. -- ORGANIZERS General chairs: Pasquale Malacaria, Nikos Tzevelekos Workshop chair: Paulo Oliva Publicity chairs: Michael Tautschnig and Greta Yorsh Further organizers: Dino Distefano, Edmund Robinson and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh --- HOST INSTITUTION Queen Mary University of London -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2015 at qmul.ac.uk From Adrian.Rutle at hib.no Sun Mar 8 16:15:12 2015 From: Adrian.Rutle at hib.no (Adrian Rutle) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 20:15:12 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Research Fellowship position in ICT Engineering / Model-driven Software Engineering Message-ID: http://hib.easycruit.com/vacancy/1346899/41311?iso=no BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (H?GSKOLEN I BERGEN ? HiB) is one of the largest university colleges in Norway, with about 7000 students and 700 academic and administrative staff. HiB offers high quality study programmes directed towards specific professions within health and social sciences, engineering, teacher and preschool teacher education. R&D activities of particular strength are organized in programmes in order to promote research-based education. A new campus is under construction where all faculties will be localized in 2014. PhD Research Fellowship position in ICT Engineering / Model-driven Software Engineering Bergen University College, Faculty of Engineering and Business Administration has 1-2 open positions for PhD research fellows within model-driven software engineering and software verification. The PhD research fellows will be affiliated with the faculty?s ICT-oriented strategic research programme on ICT engineering (http://prosjekt.hib.no/ict ) which currently includes 20 professors and associate professors, eight PhD students, and a number of master?s students. The ICT engineering research environment at Bergen University College has a strong focus on use-inspired and applied research, and cooperation with national and international research groups, and with industry partners. The ICT engineering programme is organized into four main research themes: software engineering, engineering computing, communication systems, and the applications of ICT in engineering. The PhD research fellows will be part of the research group on model-based software engineering (http://prosjekt.hib.no/ict/research/model-based-software-engineering/). The group is conducting research ranging from theoretical foundations to software tools and technology transfer activities aimed at the practical application of model-driven engineering for software development. The PhD projects will be on the development of an approach combining model-driven software engineering with software verification for the engineering of reliable distributed systems. The PhD project will involve topics such as domain-specific modelling languages, meta-modelling, model-transformations, domain-specific verification techniques and property languages, development of software tools, and practical case studies. The ICT engineering research programme is a joint research undertaking of the Department of Computing, Mathematics and Physics, and the Department of Electrical Engineering with research links to other departments and faculties at Bergen University College. The two departments are responsible for a bachelor programmes in software engineering, information technology, communications technology, electrical engineering, and automation as well as a master?s programmes in software engineering and in communication systems. The Faculty of Engineering and Business Administration has approximately 2000 students and 180 staff members. Six departments and one research centre on innovation are located at the faculty. Qualifications The successful applicant must have earned a master's degree or equivalent in computing/informatics/software engineering or in a closely related field, or have submitted the master's thesis before the application deadline. In the latter case, it is required that the master's degree be awarded within 4 weeks after the application deadline. A solid background in software engineering, formal foundations for software modelling, concurrent and distributed systems combined with practical software development skills and experience will be considered an advantage when candidates are ranked. In addition to the required educational background, the following criteria will be evaluated: competence and grades on completed course work, quality of the master's thesis, publications (if any), research and teaching experience, practical software engineering skills and experience. A possible outline of a research plan for a potential PhD project will also be taken into account. The candidate must be diligent and display the ability to work independently, supplemented with regular guidance, and is expected to carry out high-quality research and to publish the results in international workshops, conferences, and journals. The PhD research fellow must enroll in an approved 4 years PhD programme. 25% of the period will be designated to duties such as teaching, development and administrative tasks. The employment period may be reduced if the successful applicant has held previous employment as a research fellow. Bergen University College does not formally award the PhD degree itself, and will develop a detailed plan for the PhD studies together with a degree awarding institution (nationally or internationally). The degree awarding institution will be chosen by Bergen University College. The successful candidate must meet the formal admission requirements for the PhD programme at the awarding institution. The PhD candidate will be assigned academic supervisor(s) at Bergen University College in addition to a supervisor at the degree awarding institution. An application for enrolment should first be submitted after an appointment is made (the supervisor(s) will help with this procedure). The candidate must be enrolled as a PhD student within 3 months from the start of the employment. Evaluation of applicants Applicants for the position will be evaluated by a committee consisting of three members. In addition to the electronic application, copies of a written application, CV, diplomas, transcripts, publications and a publication list must be submitted in three complete sets within a week after the deadline. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the submitted sets are complete. The documents will be returned when the case is closed. Send all documents to: H?gskolen i Bergen, SA / HR Department, PO Box 7030, NO-5020 Bergen, NO- 5020 Bergen, Norway. Certified English or Scandinavian translations of supporting documentation, such as diplomas and transcripts, are required. The transcripts must specify the topics the course work and grades on the bachelor and master?s level. Salary scale Initial salaries will be offered at grade 50 (code 1017) in the Civil Service pay grade table scale; currently NOK 429 700 gross p.a.; following ordinary meriting regulations. There is a compulsory 2 % deduction to the pension fund. The successful applicant must comply with the guidelines that apply to the position at any time. General information State employment shall reflect the multiplicity of the population at large to the highest possible degree. Bergen University College has therefore adopted a personnel policy objective to ensure that we achieve a balanced age and sex composition and the recruitment of persons of various ethnic backgrounds. 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Keynote Speakers ---------------- Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany John Hughes, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy From m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk Sun Mar 8 19:32:15 2015 From: m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk (Marco Gaboardi (Staff)) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 23:32:15 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Developments in Implicit Computational complExity - DICE 2015 - Call for participation Message-ID: <7CC3E383-EA11-479C-875E-080CE1C39117@dundee.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DICE 2015 colocated with FOPARA 2015 Sixth workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity 11-12 April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://dice15.computing.dundee.ac.uk DICE is a thematic workshop in the field of Implicit Computational Complexity, where researchers in the area can meet and discuss their most recent results. DICE 2015 will be colocated with FOPARA. The colocation will be an occasion for strengthen the interactions between the community working on Implicit Computational Complexity and the one working more broadly on resource analysis. **Registration** Via the ETAPS Registration website http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/registration Normal-rate registration is until Tuesday, 10 March 2015. **Invited Speakers DICE & FOPARA** Deepak Garg - MPI-SWS Kevin Hammond - University of St Andrews Simona Ronchi Della Rocca - University of Torino Jakob Grue Simonsen - DIKU **Talks DICE & FOPARA** May-Happen-in-Parallel Analysis with Condition Synchronization, Elvira Albert, Antonio E. Flores Montoya and Samir Genaim. A Dependent Type System for Energy Consumption Analysis, Bernard van Gastel, Rody Kersten and Marko van Eekelen. Implicit computational complexity in Object Oriented Programs, Emmanuel Hainry and Romain P?choux. Higher-Order Complexity Analysis: Harnessing First-Order Tools Martin Avanzini, Ugo Dal Lago and Georg Moser Higher order interpretations for Basic Feasible Functions, Emmanuel Hainry and Romain P?choux. Complexity bounds from abstract categorical models, Dominic Orchard. Extensional filters reveal algorithms, Guillaume Bonfante, Jean-Yves Moyen and Pierre Boudes. An algorithmic complete programming language for a large class of algorithms computable in polynomial time, Pierre Valarcher and Yoann Marquer. An in-between ?implicit? and ?explicit? complexity: Automata, Cl?ment Aubert. Towards a Complexity-through-Realizability Theory Thomas Seiller. The probabilistic class PP, Reinhard Kahle and Isabel Oitavem. Implicit Computational Complexity of Subrecursive Cryptographic Reductions, Patrick Baillot, Gilles Barthe and Ugo Dal Lago. On Robinson style simplifications to the traditional bounded recursion on notation scheme, Jostein Aanderaa. The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 From m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk Sun Mar 8 20:34:23 2015 From: m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk (Marco Gaboardi (Staff)) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 00:34:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy - TPDP 2015 - Call for participation Message-ID: <8B6E53C0-8501-4B6E-9E98-296D3A5C6A62@dundee.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TPDP 2015 First workshop on the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy 18th April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://tpdp.computing.dundee.ac.uk Differential privacy is a promising approach to the privacy-preserving release of data: it offers a strong guaranteed bound on the increase in harm that a user incurs as a result of participating in a differentially private data analysis. Researchers in differential privacy come from several area of computer science as algorithms, programming languages, security, databases, machine learning, as well as from several areas of statistics and data analysis. The workshop is intended to be an occasion for researchers from these different research areas to discuss the recent developments in the theory and practice of differential privacy. **Registration** Via the ETAPS Registration website http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/registration Normal-rate registration is until Tuesday, 10 March 2015. **Invited Speakers** Jonathan Ullman - Simons Fellow at Columbia University Emiliano De Cristofaro - University College London **Talks** Differential Indistinguishability: Cryptography with Imperfect Randomness, Michael Backes, Aniket Kate, Sebastian Meiser and Tim Ruffing. Between Pure and Approximate Differential Privacy, Thomas Steinke and Jonathan Ullman. Efficient Use of Differentially Private Binary Trees, James Honaker. AnoA: A Differential Anonymity Framework, Michael Backes, Aniket Kate, Praveen Manoharan, Sebastian Meiser and Esfandiar Mohammadi. Dual Query: Practical Private Query Release for High Dimensional Data Zhiwei Steven Wu, Aaron Roth, Justin Hsu, Marco Gaboardi and Emilio Jes?s Gallego Arias. wPINQ: Differentially-Private Analysis of Weighted Datasets, Davide Proserpio. Featherweight PINQ, Hamid Ebadi and David Sands. Personalised Differential Privacy, Hamid Ebadi and David Sands. Heterogeneous differential privacy, Mohammad Alaggan, Sebastien Gambs and Anne-Marie Kermarrec. Gradually Releasing Private Data under Differential Privacy, Fragkiskos Koufogiannis, Shuo Han and George Pappas. The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 From pangjun at gmail.com Mon Mar 9 04:18:26 2015 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 09:18:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2015 -- Deadlines extended Message-ID: TASE 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** The 9th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2015) 12-14 September 2015, Nanjing, China http://tase2015.nuaa.edu.cn For more information email: tase2015 at easychair.org ****************************************************************** * (Extended) Abstract submission: 21 March 2015 (23h59 GMT) * (Extended) Paper submission: 28 March 2015 (23h59 GMT) -------- OVERVIEW -------- The 9th Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Conference (TASE 2015) will be held in Nanjing, China in September, 2015. Modern society is increasingly dependent on software systems that are becoming larger and more complex. This poses new challenges to the various aspects of software engineering, for instance, software dependability in trusted computing, interaction with physical components in cyber physical systems, distribution in cloud computing applications, etc. Hence, new concepts and methodologies are required to enhance the development of software engineering from theoretical aspects. TASE 2015 aims to provide a forum for people from academia and industry to communicate their latest results on theoretical advances in software engineering. TASE 2015 is the 9th in the TASE series. The past TASE symposiums were successfully held in Shanghai ('07), Nanjing ('08), Tianjin ('09), Taipei ('10), Xi'an ('11), Beijing ('12), Birmingham ('13), Changsha('14).The proceedings of the TASE 2015 symposium are planned to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. 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 Frontiers of Computer Science journal. ------ TOPICS ------ The symposium is devoted to theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Requirements Engineering * Specification and Verification * Program Analysis * Software Testing * Model-Driven Engineering * Software Architectures and Design * Aspect and Object Orientation * Embedded and Real-Time Systems * Software Processes and Workflows * Component-Based Software Engineering * Software Safety, Security and Reliability * Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance * Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Semantic Web and Web Services * Type System and Theory * Program Logics and Calculus * Probability in Software Engineering ---------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Patrick Cousot (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore) ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- Submission should be done through the TASE 2015 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2015 As in previous years, the proceedings of the conference are planned to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers must be written in English and not exceed 8 pages in Two-Column IEEE format. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- (Extended) Abstract submission: 21 March 2015 (23h59 GMT) (Extended) Paper submission: 28 March 2015 (23h59 GMT) Notification: 23 May 2015 Camera-ready: 13 June 2015 Conference: 12-14 September 2015 ------------- GENERAL CHAIR ------------- Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) ----------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Zhiqiu Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design) ----------------- STEERING COMMITTE ----------------- Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan) Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) Michael Hinchey (Lero, Ireland) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTIEE ------------------ Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Earl Barr (University College London, UK) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) Lubos Brim (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Zining Cao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Taolue Chen (Middlesex University, UK) Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University, China) Wei Dong (National University of Defense Technology, China) Joaquim Gabarro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Jaco Geldenhuys (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) Peter Habermehl (Liafa, Paris 7, France) Ian J. Hayes (University of Queensland, Australia) Dang Van Hung (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Jason Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia) Karl Leung (VTC, Hong Kong) Bixin Li (Southeast University, China) Xiaoshan Li (University of Macau, Macau) Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China) Zhoujun Li (Beihang University, China) Shaoying Liu (Hosei University, Japan) Martin Leucker (University of L??beck, Germany) Xiaoqing(Frank) Liu(Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Antoine Min?? (Ecole Normale Sup??rieure Paris, France) Fernando Orejas (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Paritosh K. Pandya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg) Xin Peng (Fudan University, China) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Zongyan Qiu (Peking University, China) Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Klaus Schneider (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Axel Simon (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Graeme Smith (University of Queensland, Australia) Colin Snook (University of Southampton, UK) Volker Stolz (Bergen University College, Norway) Kaile Su (Griffith University, Australia) Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Jean Pierre Talpin (INRIA, France) Yih-Kuen Tsay (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, USA) Tomas Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Yi Wang (Uppsala University, Sweden) Hongji Yang (Bath Spa University, UK) Hongli Yang (Beijing University of Technology, China) Hongwei Xi (Boston University, USA) Yingfei Xiong (Peking University, China) Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hao Zhong (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ---------------- ORGANIZING CHAIR ---------------- Ou Wei (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) ---------------- PUBLICITY CHAIRS ---------------- Jun Hun (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg) Yu Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) From luca.vigano at univr.it Mon Mar 9 06:36:32 2015 From: luca.vigano at univr.it (Luca Vigano`) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:36:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HotSpot 2015: call for participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION HotSpot 2015 3rd Workshop on Hot Issues in Security Principles and Trust Affiliated with ETAPS 2015 ( http://www.etaps.org/2015 ) London, UK 18 April 2015 http://www.lucavigano.com/HotSpot2015/ This workshop is intended to be a less formal counterpart to the Principles of Security and Trust (POST) conference at ETAPS, and with an emphasis on "hot topics", both of security and of its theoretical foundations and analysis. Like POST, the themes are: theory of computer security; formal specification, analysis and design of security systems; automated reasoning for security analysis. The workshop is organised by the IFIP WG 1.7: Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design (http://www.dsi.unive.it./IFIPWG1_7/) REGISTRATION http://www.etaps.org/2015 (normal-rate until Tuesday, 10 March 2015) INVITED SPEAKERS - Cas Cremers (University of Oxford) Symbolic security protocol analysis using the Tamarin Prover - Emiliano De Cristofaro (University College London, joint speaker with TPDP) The Genomics Revolution: Innovation Dream or Privacy Nightmare? 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It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009), Winchester (UK, 2011) and Warsaw (Poland, 2013). The sixth edition will be held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, colocated with MFPS XXXI. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Andy Pitts - University of Cambridge, UK (joint with MFPS) Chris Heunen - University of Oxford, UK Matteo Mio - CNRS, ENS Lyon, FR Daniela Petrisan - Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL -- TOPICS OF INTEREST -- We invite submissions of technical papers that report results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. We encourage submissions in topics included or related to those listed below. * Abstract models and logics - Automata and languages - Categorical semantics - Modal logics - Relational systems - Graph transformation - Term rewriting * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems - Calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, mobile, and context-aware computing - General systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc.) * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types - Inductive and coinductive methods - Re-engineering techniques (program transformation) - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Semantics of programming languages * System specification and verification - Algebraic and coalgebraic specification - Formal testing and quality assurance - Validation and verification - Generative programming and model-driven development - Models, correctness and (re)configuration of hardware/middleware/architectures, - Process algebra * Corecursion in Programming Languages - Corecursion in logic / constraint / functional / answer set programming - Corecursive type inference - Coinductive methods for proving program properties - Implementing corecursion - Applications * Algebra and Coalgebra in quantum computing - Categorical semantics for quantum computing - Quantum calculi and programming languages - Foundational structures for quantum computing - Applications of quantum algebra -- NEW TOPIC -- This edition of CALCO will feature a new topic, and submission of papers in this area is particularly encouraged. * String Diagrams and Network Theory - Combinatorial approaches - Theory of PROPs and operads - Rewriting problems and higher-dimensional approaches - Automated reasoning with string diagrams - Applications of string diagrams - Connections with Control Theory, Engineering and Concurrency -- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Experience papers are welcome, but they must clearly present general lessons learned that would be of interest and benefit to a broad audience of both researchers and practitioners. Starting with CALCO 2015, proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs???Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. Final papers should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by LIPIcs (http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/). It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Both an abstract and the full paper must be submitted by their respective submission deadlines. A special issue of the open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org), containing extended versions of selected papers, is also being planned. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2015 -- BEST PAPER AND BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS -- Following from the successful trial at CALCO 2013, this edition of CALCO will feature two awards: a best paper award whose recipients will be selected by the PC before the conference and a best presentation award, elected by the participants. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Abstract submission: March 22, 2015 Paper submission: April 2, 2015 Author notification: May 6, 2015 Final version due: June 3, 2015 -- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford, UK Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, SLO Filippo Bonchi, CNRS and ENS Lyon, FR Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, UK Andrea Corradini, University of Pisa, IT Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde, UK Mart??n Escard??, University of Birmingham, UK Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham, UK Helle Hansen, Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI, NL Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, JP Bart Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, PL Barbara K??nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, D Dexter Kozen, Cornell, US Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester, UK Paul-Andr?? Melli??s, CNRS and University Paris VII, FR Stefan Milus, University of Erlangen-N??rnberg, D Larry Moss (co-chair), Indiana University, US Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, US Daniela Petrisan, ENS Lyon, FR Damien Pous, ENS Lyon, FR John Power, University of Bath, UK Jan Rutten, Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI, NL Lutz Schroeder, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, D Monika Seisenberger, University of Swansea, UK Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Pawel Sobocinski (co-chair), University of Southampton, UK Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, AT Andrzej Tarlecki, University of Warsaw, PL -- ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Alexandra Silva Bart Jacobs Nicole Messink Sam Staton -- PUBLICITY -- Fabio Zanasi -- LOCATION -- Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands and celebrated its 2,000th year of existence in 2005. It is situated in the eastern province of Gelderland, quite near to the German border. The latin name for Nijmegen, `Noviomagus??, is a reminder of its Roman past. `Noviomagus?? means `new market?? and refers to the right to hold a market as granted by the Romans. In the days of Charlemagne, the city was called `Numaga??; later on, this became `Nieumeghen?? and `Nimmegen??. However, citizens born and bred in Nijmegen speak affectionately of `Nimwegen??. Nijmegen is one of the warmest cities of the Netherlands, especially during summer, when the highest temperatures in the country are usually measured in the triangle Roermond ??? Nijmegen ??? Eindhoven. The lack of north-south oriented mountain ranges in Europe make this area prone to sudden shifts in weather, giving the region a semi-continental climate. -- SATELLITE WORKSHOPS -- The workshop is intended to enable presentation of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. CALCO 2015 will run together with the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, with dedicated Early Ideas sessions at the end of each conference day. -- CALCO Early Ideas Overview -- The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. The list of topics of particular interest is shown on the main CALCO 2015 page. CALCO Early Ideas presentations will be selected according to originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of submitted 2-page short contributions. It can be work in progress, a summary of work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere, or work that in some other way might be interesting to the CALCO audience. A booklet with the accepted short contributions will be made available. We encourage PhD students and young researchers to submit Early Ideas papers to the CALCO 2015 Easychair site as for ordinary submissions, mentioning in the abstract that the paper is to be considered for an Early Ideas talk. =========== SIGLOG Anti-harassment Policy The open exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought and expression are central to the values and goals of SIGLOG. They require an environment that recognizes the inherent worth of every person and group. They flourish in communities that foster mutual understanding and embrace diversity. For these reasons, SIGLOG is committed to providing a harassment-free conference experience, and implements the ACM policy against harassment (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/volunteer_resources/officers_manual/anti-harassment-policy). Conference participants violating these standards may be sanctioned or expelled from the meeting, at the discretion of the conference organizers. Conference organizers are requested to report serious incidents to the SIGLOG Chair. ========= From rishabh at csail.mit.edu Mon Mar 9 22:00:06 2015 From: rishabh at csail.mit.edu (Rishabh Singh) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 19:00:06 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SyGuS-COMP 2015: Call for Participation Message-ID: Call for Participation SyGuS-COMP 2015: 2nd Syntax Guided Synthesis Competition Satellite event of CAV and SYNT 2015 http://www.sygus.org Important Dates: Benchmark Submission Deadline: 15 May 2015 Solver Submission Deadline: 15 June 2015 Competition Date: 28 June 2015 Results published: 10 July 2015 Solver Presentations: 18 July 2015 (with SYNT ) Call for Participation: This is a call for participation for the Second Syntax-Guided Synthesis Competition to be organized as a satellite event of SYNT /CAV 2015. The classical formulation of the program-synthesis problem is to find a program that meets a correctness specification given as a logical formula. Recent work on program synthesis and program optimization illustrates many potential benefits of allowing the user to supplement the logical specification with a syntactic template that constrains the space of allowed implementation. The motivation is twofold. First, narrowing the space of implementations makes the synthesis problem more tractable. Second, providing a specific syntax can potentially lead to better optimizations. The input to the syntax-guided synthesis problem (SyGuS) consists of a background theory, a semantic correctness specification for the desired program given by a logical formula, and a syntactic set of candidate implementations given by a grammar. The computational problem then is to find an implementation from the set of candidate expressions that satisfies the specification in the given theory. The SyGuS-Comp competition will allow solvers to compete on a collection of benchmarks and advance the state-of-the-art for program-synthesis tools. The competition is organized as part of NSF Expeditions in Computing project ExCAPE by Rajeev Alur (Penn), Dana Fisman (Penn), Rishabh Singh (Microsoft Research) and Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT). For questions regarding the competition please contact the organizers at sygus-organizers at seas.upenn.edu. Tracks In addition to a general track (similar to last year's competition ), we will also be having two special tracks: 1) Invariant Synthesis track, and 2) Conditional Linear Integer Arithmetic track. The Invariant Synthesis track would consist of invariant synthesis benchmarks over linear integer arithmetic where the correctness specification would be structured in the form of pre-condition, post-condition, and a transition relation. The Conditional Linear Integer Arithmetic track would consist of synthesis benchmarks where the grammar of candidate implementations will be fixed generating expressions in the theory of linear integer arithmetic with Boolean conditionals. Benchmarks for the competition We will evaluate the solvers on a subset of public benchmarks and some secret benchmarks. The benchmarks domain areas include bit-vector manipulation, including bit-vector algorithms, concurrency, robotics, and invariant generation. We are still finalizing the set of benchmarks, and would appreciate your contribution specially for the newer tracks of invariant synthesis and conditional linear integer arithmetic. Evaluation Evaluation of the solvers will be done on the StarExec system (200 dual quad-core machines with 256GB memory each). The solvers would be run with a TIMEOUT value. The SyGuS-correctness checker, as well as two initial solvers (enumerative and stochastic) are available on the SyGuS community at StarExec. Candidate participants are invited to register to StarExec where they can easily and discreetly compare their solvers to the initial ones against the public benchmarks. Scoring Scheme The solvers scores will be based primarily on the number of benchmark solved and the solving time, and secondarily on the succinctness of the synthesized solution. Tool Submission and Description We expect the tool developers to test their solvers on the public benchmarks, and submit the solver binaries by the Solver submission deadline. Each solver submission should be accompanied by a 1-2 page (IEEE format) description of the key ideas of the solvers. Licensing of Tools and Benchmarks: All benchmarks will be made public after the competition. We encourage the tool developers to make their solvers open-source, but participants are welcomed to submit binaries of proprietary tools as well. Best regards, SyGuS-COMP15 Organizers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dario.dellamonica at uniud.it Tue Mar 10 06:46:25 2015 From: dario.dellamonica at uniud.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:46:25 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GandALF 2015: call for papers Message-ID: <54FECB81.5060002@uniud.it> [apologies for multiple copies] ***************************************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - GandALF 2015 ***************************************************************************************************** The Sixth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics and Formal Verification will take place in Genoa, Italy, from September 21 to 23. Web page:http://gandalf2015.dibris.unige.it 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 symposium covers an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and encourages 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. Topics of Interest The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: 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 Proceedings The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to an special issue of Acta Informatica. Selected papers from previous editions appeared in special issues of the International Journal of Foundation of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), and Information and Computation (GandALF 2013 and 2014). Invited Speakers To be announced Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format (please use the LaTeX style provided athttp://style.eptcs.org), 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 Conference system at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2015 Important dates Abstract submission: May 22 Paper submission: May 29 Notification: July 3 Camera-ready: July 31 Program Committee Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Univ. of Uppsala Sweden Ahmed Bouajjani, LIAFA France Thomas Brihaye, Mons University, Belgium Pavol Cerny, University of Colorado Boulder USA Krishnendu Chatterjee, Inst. of Science and Tech Austria Giorgio Delzanno, University of Genoa Italy Laurent Doyen, LSV France Javier Esparza TU, Munich, Germany (co-chair) Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarbr?cken Germany Pierre Ganty, IMDEA, Spain Antonin Kucera, Masaryk University (Brno), Czech Republic K. Narayan Kumar, Chennai Mathematical Institute India Orna Kupferman, Hebrew Unversity Israel Christof L?ding, Aachen Germany Richard Mayr, University of Edinburgh, UK Igor Melatti, Sapienza University of Rome Italy Henryk Michalewski, Warsaw, Poland Luke Ong, University of Oxford, UK Mimmo Parente, University of Salerno Italy Gennaro Parlato, University of Southampton, UK Doron Peled, Bar Ilan Univ Israel Ruzica Piskac, Yale University USA Enrico Tronci, Univ. La Sapenza, Rome, Italy (co-chair) Hiroshi Umeo. University of Osaka Electro-Communication Helmut Veith, Technische Universit?t Wien Austria Marc Zeitoun, LaBRI France Steering Committee Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland Javier Esparza, Univ. of Munich, Germany Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini, Univ. of Pisa, Italy Angelo Montanari, Univ. of Udine, Italy Margherita Napoli, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Mimmo Parente, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Wolfgang Thomas, Aachen Univ., Germany Wieslaw Zielonka, Univ. of Paris 7, France The submission Web site for GandALF 2015 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2015 -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Reykjavik University - School of Computer Science Menntavegur 1 - IS-101 Reykjavik - Iceland cell: (+354) 778 7113 - (+39) 328 2477327 email: dariodm [at] ru.is skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://kennarar.ru.is/dariodm/ From rishabh at csail.mit.edu Tue Mar 10 11:40:54 2015 From: rishabh at csail.mit.edu (Rishabh Singh) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:40:54 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLOOC 2015: Call for Talk Proposals Message-ID: PLOOC 2015 - Call for Talk Proposals 3rd Workshop on Programming Languages Technology for Massive Open Online Courses PLOOC 2015 Portland, OR, USA, June 14, 2015 Co-Located with PLDI 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/track/pldi2015/PLOOC-2015-papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. After two successful previous editions of the workshop, the workshop will continue its agenda on exploring new formal methods technologies related to specification, verification, and synthesis that 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, mathematics, and science. We are now accepting 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). 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URL: From gsilvia at uns.ac.rs Wed Mar 11 04:46:26 2015 From: gsilvia at uns.ac.rs (Silvia Ghilezan) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:46:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LAP 2015 - Logic and Applications: CFP Message-ID: <44577460-7F08-419C-8F05-69D37D0D5AF2@uns.ac.rs> =========================================================== [ Please broadcast/post/forward. Apologies for duplicates] LAP 2015 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS - LAP 2015 September 21-25, 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2015 The conference brings together researchers from various fields of logic with applications in computer science. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Formal systems of classical and non-classical logic; - Category theory; - Proof theory; - Lambda calculus; - Type theory - Process algebras and calculi; - Behavioural types; - Systems of reasoning in the presence of incomplete, imprecise and/or contradictory information; - Computational complexity; - Interactive theorem provers. Student sessions will be organized. The first conference Proof Systems was held in Dubrovnik on June 28, 2012, co-located with the conference LICS 2012. LAP 2013 was held in Dubrovnik, September 16-20, 2013 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2013) LAP 2014 was held in Dubrovnik, September 22-26, 2014 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2014) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: June 1, 2015 Author Notification: June 25, 2015 Final version: July 5, 2015 SUBMISSION Authors should submit an abstract in LaTeX format, not exceeding three pages, to vlp at mi.sanu.ac.rs (with the subject "LAP 2015"). LOCATION: IUC - Inter University Center Dubrovnik http://www.iuc.hr/ COURSE DIRECTORS - Zvonimir ?iki?, University of Zagreb - Andre Scedrov, University of Pennsylvania - Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad - Zoran Ognjanovi?, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade ================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robby at eecs.northwestern.edu Wed Mar 11 08:43:10 2015 From: robby at eecs.northwestern.edu (Robby Findler) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:43:10 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLT Redex Summer School: second call for participation Message-ID: Dear type enthusiasts: Redex gives you a way to quickly prototype type systems and play around with examples. Consider coming to our summer school and checking out. Robby ------------------------------------- PLT REDEX: THE SUMMER SCHOOL CALL for PARTICIPATION Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt LOCATION: University of Utah, Salt Lake City DATES: July 27 - July 31, 2015 http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/plt-redex/ PLT Redex is a lightweight, embedded DSL for modeling programming languages, their reduction semantics, and their type systems. It comes with an IDE and a toolbox for exploring, testing, debugging, and type-setting language models. The PLT research group has successfully used Redex to model and analyze a wide spectrum of published models. The summer school will introduce students to the underlying theory of reduction semantics, programming in the Redex language, and using its tool suite effectively. The course is intended for PhD students and researchers in programming languages. Enrollment is limited to 25 attendees. While the workshop itself is free, attendees must pay for travel, room, and board. We expect room and board to be around $500, assuming an arrival in the evening of Sunday July 26 and leaving Friday July 31 or August 1. Partial financial support for PhD students is available. To register, send email to Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu). If you are a PhD student and requesting financial support, CC your advisor and ask for a one-line confirmation email. Literature Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt. Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex. MIT Press, 2012. Casey Klein, John Clements, Christos Dimoulas, Carl Eastlund, Matthias Felleisen, Matthew Flatt, Jay McCarthy, Jon Rafkind, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Robert Bruce Findler. Run Your Research: On the Effectiveness of Lightweight Mechanization. POPL 2012. From Rosemary.Monahan at nuim.ie Wed Mar 11 09:26:15 2015 From: Rosemary.Monahan at nuim.ie (Rosemary.Monahan at nuim.ie) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:26:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 17th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP at ECOOP 2015) Message-ID: ****************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 17th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs Co-located with 2015 7 July 2015, Prague, Czech Republic http://2015.ecoop.org/track/FTfJP-2015-papers ****************************************************************************** Formal techniques can help analyse programs, precisely describe program behaviour, and verify program properties. 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 For details of previous workshops, visit http://www.cs.ru.nl/ftfjp/ -------------------------- Call for contributions -------------------------- 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 present suitable topics for discussion at the workshop, or raise issues that you feel deserve the attention of the research community. Examples include future work identified from existing research, potential PhD proposals, and experience reports from case studies/competitions. Contributions will be formally reviewed for originality, relevance, and the potential to generate interesting discussions. The workshop will be organized into sessions, each focused on a specific topic. These sessions will be initiated by a presentation of related position papers by the respective participants, or the introduction of the specific topic by a single speaker, and followed by discussion. These discussions aim to share common experiences, provide constructive feedback, and build potential research collaborations. Accepted papers will have the option of being published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, depending on the nature of the contributions, we may organize a special journal issue as a follow-up to the workshop, as has been done for some of the previous workshops. Contributions must be in English, in format, and are limited to 6 pages in ACM 2-column style. Papers must be submitted electronically via Easy Chair. All deadlines are at 23:59 American Samoa time (that is, -11). 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. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp2015 ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Paper submission: 2 April, 2015 Notification: 1 May, 2015 Camera-ready: 22 May, 2015 Workshop: 7 July, 2015 ------------------------ Program Committee ------------------------ - Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland (chair) - Truong Anh Hoang, Vietnam National University, Vietnam - David Clarke, Uppsala University, Sweden and KU Leuven, Belg - Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, Paris, France - Reiner H?hnle, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany - Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan - Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA - Nadia Polikarpova, MIT CSAIL, USA - Alexander J. Summers, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Elena Zucca, University of Genova, Italy --------------------------- Steering Committee -------------------------- - Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo, Canada - Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, London, Great Britain - Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA - K. Rustan M. Leino, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA - Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Further Information: http://2015.ecoop.org/track/FTfJP-2015-papers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arend.rensink at utwente.nl Wed Mar 11 17:04:51 2015 From: arend.rensink at utwente.nl (Arend Rensink) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:04:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Graphs as Models, 11-12 April 2015: Call for Tool Demos Message-ID: <5500ADF3.6030705@utwente.nl> ============================================================================ Call for Tool Demos GRAPHS AS MODELS (GaM 2015) First International Workshop http://utwente.nl/gam2015/ Satellite Event of ETAPS 2015, London -- 11-12 April 2015 ============================================================================ === Description === Graphs are used as models in all areas of computer science. A key aspect in the adoption of graphs as models is the existence of proper tooling to support their manipulation in practice. The new Graphs as Models (GaM) workshop combines the strengths of two pre-existing workshop series: GT-VMT (Graph Transformation and Visual Modelling Techniques) and GRAPHITE (Graph Inspection and Traversal Engineering), but also solicits research from other areas. === Submissions === The workshop now seeks submissions of tool demos proposals. These proposals will not be filtered by reviews, unless selection turns out to be needed. We will try to accommodate as many demos as possible in the Tool Demos session planned for Saturday (11/April). If you have a tool that is based on or makes use of graphs, we want to hear from you! This is great opportunity to advertise your tool to a large, engaged audience of graph practitioners. The proposals should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gam2015 When submitting, please select the category 'Tool demo'. You will be asked to supply the tool title and a brief summary of what you plan to show in your demo. === Important Dates === - Deadline for tool demos submission: 31 March 2015 - Workshop: 11-12 April 2015 === Workshop Format === GaM is a one and a half-day workshop programmed as a mixture of: - Submitted paper presentations. - Fully interactive sessions, such as: . Community challenges: In-depth discussions about unresolved, graph-related problems. . Discussion groups: Brainstorm discussions on a chosen topic concerning the use of graphs as models. . Tool Demos: Presentation of tool demos to convince the audience that they really need the functionality a graph-based tool offers. For the tentative workshop schedule, see - Day 1 - Saturday, 11 April: http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/workshops/programme#GaM1 - Day 2 - Sunday, 12 April: http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/workshops/programme#GaM2 === Chairs === - Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands [arend.rensink at utwente.nl] - Eduardo Zambon, IFES/UFES, Brazil [zambon at inf.ufes.br] === Program Committee === - Vicente Acu?a (University of Chile, Chile) - Dragan Bo?na?ki (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) - Mohammad Dashti (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen, Germany) - Gregor Engels (University of Paderborn, Germany) - Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany) - Henri Hansen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) - Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, England) - Keijo Heljanko (Aalto University, Finland) - Frank Hermann (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Christian Krause (SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, Germany) - Jochen K?ster (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Yngve Lamo (Bergen University, Norway) - Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain) - Alberto Lluch-Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) - Alice Miller (University of Glasgow, Scotland) - Mark Minas (Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany) - Leila Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) - Andy Sch?rr (TU Darmstadt, Germany) - Gabriele Taentzer (Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany) - Matthias Tichy (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - D?niel Varr? (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) - Bernhard Westfechtel (University of Bayreuth, Germany) - Anton Wijs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) === Steering Committee === - Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen, Germany) - Frank Hermann (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain) - Anton Wijs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) From marino.miculan at uniud.it Fri Mar 13 10:03:15 2015 From: marino.miculan at uniud.it (Marino Miculan) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:03:15 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MeMo 2015 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <3671A190-A0EA-45DE-A93A-8858E6F5F883@uniud.it> MeMo 2015 2nd International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages June 5, 2015 Grenoble, France Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2015 https://discotec2015.inria.fr/memo-2015/ 2nd Call for Papers ** IMPORTANT DATES 26 March 2015: Submission of abstracts 1 April 2015: Submission of full papers and tool presentations 28 April 2015: Notification to authors (papers & tool presentations) 28 April 2015: Submission of posters 5 May 2015: Submission of camera-ready for pre-proceedings 5 May 2015: Notification of posters to authors 5 June 2015: MeMo in Grenoble ** SCOPE Metamodels are framework theories which provide general, structural results simplifying and driving the development of models of specific systems and languages. Metamodels can also help in the definition of new computation and programming paradigms. The goal of the MeMo workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on and with metamodels, with the aim to share insights, uncover similarities and differences, possibilities for cross-fertilization and stimulate further research. We solicit contributions in the theory and applications of meta models: theoretical results, tool implementations, real-world applications, case studies, new application areas, integration of meta-models with programming languages, etc. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Metamodels for operational semantics: bigraphical reactive systems, coalgebras, psi-calculus, SOS formats, term and graph transformation systems, tile models, ULTraS and FuTS, etc. - Metamodels for denotational semantics: algebraic/bialgebraic specifications, monads, enriched Lawvere theories, mathematical operational semantics, etc. - Metamodels for logical semantics: metalanguages for deductive systems, concurrent logical frameworks - Expressiveness issues of metamodels - Applications of meta-models to the design of computational paradigms (e.g., for agent-based and context-aware computing) - Tools, implementations, and experiments ** SUBMISSION We invite three types of submissions: Full Papers; Tool presentations; Posters. Full papers and tool presentations will appear in the pre-proceedings and post-proceedings and must report previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. In addition, we invite poster announcements of already published results, should the authors be interested in discussing their published research with the MeMo community and giving a talk. Posters will not be part of the post-proceedings. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memo2015). Full papers should not exceed 15 pages in length, while tool presentations and posters should not exceed 8 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). Accepted papers, tool presentations and posters must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. A post-proceedings is planned as a special issue in a highly-reputed journal. ** 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, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy (chair) Joachim Parrow, Uppsala University, Sweden Iliano Cervesato, CMU Qatar Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Jan Rutten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands ** ORGANIZERS S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy =================== From pierre.clairambault at ens-lyon.fr Fri Mar 13 11:08:50 2015 From: pierre.clairambault at ens-lyon.fr (Pierre Clairambault) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:08:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GaLoP 2015: Call for Participation Message-ID: <5502FD82.9080502@ens-lyon.fr> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 10th Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GaLoP 2015) London, United Kingdom, 11-12 April http://www.gamesemantics.org GaLoP is an annual international workshop on game-semantic models for logics and programming languages and their applications. This is an informal workshop that welcomes work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, programmatic or position papers and tutorials. GaLoP X will be held in London, UK on 11-12 April 2015 as a satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). // Registration // Via the ETAPS Registration website http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2015/registration // Special session & Invited talks // In celebration of its 10th occurrence, GaLoP 2015 will include a special session with talks from some of the key early contributors in game semantics. For this occasion the speakers will be: * Samson Abramsky, Oxford * Pierre-Louis Curien, Paris * Luke Ong, Oxford There will also be invited talks by: * Paul Blain Levy, Birmingham * Nikos Tzevelekos, London // Tutorial talk // * Andrzej Murawski, Warwick // Contributed talks // Parallelism and Synchronization in an In?nitary Context. Ugo Dal Lago, Claudia Faggian, Beno?t Valiron and Akira Yoshimizu. Multitoken Geometry of Interaction and Multimove Games. Yann Hamdaoui. A game semantics for fork(II). Simon Castellan. A Characterization of Ludics in Game Semantics. Christophe Fouquere and Myriam Quatrini. Internal Completeness in Nonlinear Ludics. Alice Pavaux. Least and Greatest Fixed Points in Ludics. David Baelde, Amina Doumane and Alexis Saurin. Game Semantics for Bounded Polymorphism. James Laird. Reasoning on Equivalence of Stateful Programs: A Marriage of Game Semantics and Operational Techniques. Guilhem Jaber. Coloured tensorial logic and higher-order model-checking. Charles Grellois and Paul-Andr? Melli?s. Some Monoidal Fibrations of Tree Automata. Colin Riba. Distributive laws and finitary Game Semantics of Linear Logic. Cl?ment Jacq and Paul-Andr? Melli?s. Caring but not knowing. On preplay communication in infinite games. Dietmar Berwanger and Marie Van Den Bogaard. Positional interpretation of Peano arithmetic with winning strategies. Valentin Blot. Realizability games for arithmetical formulae. ?tienne Miquey. Game Semantics: A Paraconsistent Approach. Can Baskent. From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Sun Mar 15 17:15:21 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:15:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2015 submission deadline extended Message-ID: <20150315231521.3616ff35@duality> [Submission deadline extended by a week to 20 March 2015. Consider contributing!] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 21st International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2015 Tallinn, Estonia, 18-21 May 2015 http://cs.ioc.ee/types15/ Background The TYPES meetings are 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. The meetings from 1990 to 2008 were annual workshops of a sequence of five EU funded networking projects. Since 2009, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. Previous TYPES meetings were held in Antibes (1990), Edinburgh (1991), B?stad (1992), Nijmegen (1993), B?stad (1994), Torino (1995), Aussois (1996), Kloster Irsee (1998), L?keberg (1999), Durham (2000), Berg en Dal near Nijmegen (2002), Torino (2003), Jouy en Josas near Paris (2004), Nottingham (2006), Cividale del Friuli (2007), Torino (2008), Aussois (2009), Warsaw (2010), Bergen (2011), Toulouse (2013), Paris (2014). The TYPES areas of interest include, but are not limited to: foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; 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 encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. Invited speakers Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Tutorials Joachim Kock (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona) Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) Contributed talks We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. Submission is via EasyChair by 20 March 2015. The authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 10 April 2015. Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions, due by 1 May 2015, will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution at the workshop. Post-proceedings Similarly to TYPES 2011, 2013, 2014, we will publish a post-proceedings in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. Submission to that volume will be open for everyone. Tentative submission deadline: mid-September 2015. Programme committee Andrea Asperti (Universit? di Bologna) Robert Atkey (University of Edinburgh) Ulrich Berger (Swansea University) Jean-Philippe Bernardy (Chalmers University of Technology) Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) Jo?lle Despeyroux (INRIA Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e) Herman Geuvers (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA Saclay - ?le-de-France) Ralph Matthes (IRIT, CNRS and Universit? Paul Sabatier) Aleksandar Nanevski (IMDEA Software) Christine Paulin-Mohring (LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) Ulrich Sch?pp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) Bas Spitters (Carnegie Mellon University) Pawel Urzyczyn (University of Warsaw) Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn) (chair) Organizers Logic and semantics group, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn Sponsors ERDF via EXCS, the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science From pangjun at gmail.com Sun Mar 15 08:49:50 2015 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:49:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSS 2015 (co-located with FM 2015 in Oslo): submission deadline extended Message-ID: ================================================== 4th International Workshop on Engineering Safety and Security Systems June 22, 2015, Oslo, Norway Co-located with FM 2015 in Oslo, Norway, June 22-26, 2015 More information: http://pat.sce.ntu.edu.sg/esss15/ =================================================== Important dates ----------------- * March 23rd, 2015: Extended submission deadline * April 27th, 2015: Notification of acceptance/rejection * June 22nd, 2015: Workshop date 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=esss2015. 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. Workshop chairs ----------------- Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program committee ----------------- Etienne Andre, Universite Paris 13, France Guandong Bai, National University of Singapore, Singapore Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Weiqiang Kong, Dalian University of Technology, China Keqin Li, SAP Research, France Cong Tian, Xidian University, China Mohammad Torabi Dashti, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology Yoriyuki Yamagata, AIST, Japan Tian Zhang, Nanjing University, China From james.cheney at gmail.com Mon Mar 16 11:30:29 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:30:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: DBPL 2015 Message-ID: The 15th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dbpl-2015-papers Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA October 26 or 27, 2015 hosted as part of SPLASH 2015 Call for Papers For over 25 years, DBPL has established itself as the principal venue for publishing and discussing new ideas at the intersection of databases and programming languages. Many key contributions in query languages for object-oriented data, persistent databases, nested relational data, and semistructured data, as well as fundamental ideas in types for query languages, were first announced at DBPL. Today, this creative research area is broadening into a subfield of data-centric computation, currently scattered among a range of venues. DBPL is an established destination for such new ideas and solicits submissions from researchers in databases, programming languages or any other community interested in the design, implementation or foundations of data-centric computation. Scope ----- DBPL solicits practical and theoretical papers in all topics at the intersection of databases and programming languages. Papers emphasizing new topics or emerging areas are especially welcome. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include: - Compiling Query Languages to Modern Hardware - Data-Centric Programming Abstractions, Comprehensions, Monads - Data Integration, Exchange, and Interoperability - Data Synchronization and Bidirectional Transformations - Declarative Data Centers - Emerging and Nontraditional Data Models - Language-Based Security in Data Management - Language-Integrated Query Mechanisms - Managing Uncertain and Imprecise Information - Metaprogramming and Heterogeneous Staged Computation - Programming Language Support for Databases - Query Compilation and In-memory Databases - Query Language Design - Query Transformation and Optimization - Schema Mapping and Metadata Management - Semantics and Verification of Database Systems - Stream Data Processing and Query Languages - Type Systems for Data-Centric Programming - Validation, Type-checking Author Guidelines ----------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be no more than 10 pages long in the [ACM SIGPLAN] format. Each submission should begin with a succinct statement of the problem and a summary of the main results. Authors may provide more details to substantiate the main claims of the paper by including a clearly marked appendix at the end of the submission, which is not included in the page limit and is read at the discretion of the committee. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium to present their work. Short papers of at most 4 pages ([ACM SIGPLAN] format) describing work in progress, demos, research challenges or visions are also welcome. Accepted short papers may be included or excluded from the formal proceedings, whichever the author(s) prefer. Full and short papers are both due on the deadline, June 15, 2015. Abstracts of full papers should be submitted by June 10 to aid reviewer selection. The [submission site] will be open for submissions around one month before the submission deadline. [ACM SIGPLAN] http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ [submission site] https://dbpl2015.hotcrp.com/ Important Dates --------------- - Abstract Submission (full papers only): June 10, 2015 - Paper Submission: June 15, 2015 (midnight GMT) - Notification: July 15, 2015 - Final versions due: August 14, 2015 - Symposium: October 26 or 27, 2015 Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will appear as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings series for DBPL 2015. Program Committee ----------------- *Program Co-Chairs* James Cheney University of Edinburgh, Scotland Thomas Neumann TU Munich, Germany *Program Committee* V?ronique Benzaken Universit? Paris-Sud, France Torsten Grust Universit?t T?bingen, Germany Jan Hidders TU Delft, Netherlands Georg Lausen Universit?t Freiburg, Germany Sam Lindley University of Edinburgh, Scotland Klaus Ostermann Universit?t T?bingen, Germany Christopher R? Stanford University, USA Stefanie Scherzinger OTH Regensburg, Germany Ryan Wisnesky Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA History ------- The 15th Symposium on Data Base Programming Languages (DBPL 2015) continues the tradition of excellence initiated by its predecessors in Roscoff, Finistere (1987), Salishan, Oregon (1989), Nafplion, Argolida (1991), Manhattan, New York (1993), Gubbio, Umbria (1995), Estes Park, Colorado (1997), Kinloch Rannoch, Scotland (1999), Marino, Rome (2001), Potsdam, Germany (2003), Trondheim, Norway (2005), Vienna, Austria (2007), Lyon, France (2009), Seattle, Washington (2011), and Riva del Garda, Italy (2013). 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URL: From dimitris at microsoft.com Mon Mar 16 11:50:14 2015 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:50:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICGT 2015: Final Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <5506C8C7.6030606@uni-bayreuth.de> References: <5506C8C7.6030606@uni-bayreuth.de> Message-ID: <8A4BE71AF969544FA98E6D49C10DE5A60F92A38E@AMSPRD3003MB037.064d.mgd.msft.net> [Message below on behalf of Thomas Buchmann, ICGT publicity chair] ================================================================ 8th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2015) L?Aquila, Italy 21 ? 23 July, 2015 More information: http://btn1x4.inf.uni-bayreuth.de/icgt2015 ================================================================ Final Call for Papers ---------------------- Dynamic structures are a major cause for complexity when it comes to model and reason about systems. They occur in software architectures, configurations of artefacts such as code or models, pointer structures, databases, networks, etc. As interrelated elements which may be added, removed, or change state, they form a fundamental modelling paradigm as well as a means to formalise and analyse systems. Applications include architectural reconfigurations, model transformations, refactorings, and evolution of a wide range of artefacts, where change can happen either at design or at run time. Dynamic structures occur also as part of semantic domains or computational model for formal modelling languages. Based on the observation that all these can be represented as graphs and their changes modeled as graph transformations, theory and applications of graphs, graph grammars and graph transformation systems have been studied in our community for more than 40 years. The conference aims at fostering interaction within this community as well as attracting researchers from other areas to join us, either in contributing to the theory of graph transformation or by applying graph transformations to already known or novel areas, such as self-adaptive systems, overlay structures in cloud or P2P computing, advanced computational models for DNA computing, etc. The 8th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2015) will be held in L?Aquila, Italy, as a STAF event (http://www.disim.univaq.it/staf2015/). The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS (http://www.eatcs.org/), EASST (http://www.easst.org/), and IFIP (http://www.ifip.org/) WG 1.3. Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/lncs) series. Foundations Track The Foundations track invites contributions dealing with all aspects of the foundations of graph transformations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? General models of graph transformation ? High-level and adhesive replacement systems ? Node-, edge-, and hyperedge replacement grammars ? Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation ? Term graph rewriting ? Computational models based on graph transformations ? Hierarchical graphs and decompositions of graphs ? Graph theoretical properties of graph languages ? Geometrical and topological aspects of graph transformation ? Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages ? Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems ? Structuring and modularization concepts for transformation systems ? Graph transformation and Petri nets The Research papers (limited to 16 pages) submitted for this track describe innovative contributions to current research on the foundations of graph transformations and are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Applications Track The Applications track invites contributions dealing with applications of graph transformations in any domain. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Model-driven development and model transformations ? Graph transformation languages ? Syntax and semantics of programming languages or domain-specific languages ? Tool support for graph transformations ? Model checking, validation, verification, simulation and animation ? Efficient algorithms (pattern matching, graph traversal etc.) ? Software architecture, refactoring, and evolution ? Workflows, business processes, and service-oriented applications ? Self-adaptive systems and ubiquitous computing ? Natural computing ? Bioinformatics and system biology ? Applications in natural and engineering sciences The Applications track invites submissions in the following categories: ? Technical papers (limited to 16 pages) describe innovative contributions to application-oriented research on graph transformations and are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Papers on tools may be submitted in this category unless they are tool presentation papers (see below). ? Case studies (limited to 12 pages) describe applications of graph transformations in any application domain. Case studies should contain a critical assessment of graph transformation techniques compared to standard techniques used in the respective application domain, and summarize the lessons learned. Case studies may also include empirical data and their evaluation. ? Tool presentation papers (limited to 8 pages) demonstrate new and exciting functionality of graph transformation tools. A tool presentation paper should focus on functionality and user interface without delving into technical details, and either describe or reference a demo session to be presented at the conference. A tool presentation paper may have an appendix with a detailed demo description (up to 5 pages), which will be reviewed but not included in the proceedings. Paper Submission Papers can be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt2015. Submitted papers must use Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. The page limits depend on the paper categories described in the Foundations and Applications tracks. The page limits are strict and include references and appendices. Important Dates Abstract submission: 20 March 2015 Full paper submission: 27 March 2015 Notification of acceptance: 24 April 2015 Final version due: 8 May 2015 Conference: 21 ? 23 July 2015 Please notice also co-located events with separate calls: the STAF Doctoral Symposium and the 6th International Workshop on Graph Computation Models (see links on STAF and ICGT web pages). Program Chairs Francesco Parisi-Presicce (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Bernhard Westfechtel (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Publicity Chair Thomas Buchmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Program Committee Paolo Baldan (University of Padova, Italy) Luciano Baresi (University of Milano, Italy) G?bor Bergmann (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Paolo Bottoni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Thomas Buchmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) Juan de Lara (Autonomous University Madrid, Spain) Rachid Echahed (CNRS, Laboratoire LIG, France) Claudia Ermel (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK) Frank Hermann (Carmeq Gmbh, Germany) Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Christian Krause (SAP Innovation Centre Potsdam, Germany) Hans-J?rg Kreowski (University of Bremen, Germany) Leen Lambers (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) Tihamer Levendovszky (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN) Fernando Orejas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Detlef Plump (University of York, UK) Arend Rensink (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Leila Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Andy Sch?rr (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Gabriele Taentzer (University of Marburg, Germany) Matthias Tichy (Chalmers University | University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Pieter Van Gorp (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Albert Z?ndorf (University of Kassel, Germany) Web page http://btn1x4.inf.uni?bayreuth.de/icgt2015 Contact icgt2015 at easychair.org From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Mon Mar 16 12:31:23 2015 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:31:23 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2015 -- 2nd cfp Message-ID: LSFA 2015 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications August 31 ? September 1, 2015, Natal, Brazil https://www.mat.ufrn.br/~LSFA2015 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 * Interactive theorem proving * 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 2015 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 2015 will take place on August 31 and September 1 in Natal. Previous editions took place in Bras?lia (2014), Sao Paulo (2013), Rio de Janeiro (2012), Belo Horizonte (2011), Natal (2010), Bras?lia (2009), Salvador (2008), Ouro Preto (2007), and Natal (2006). SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 16 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2015 The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at workshop registration. After the workshop 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 should be in English. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: Sunday, April 12 * Notification: Sunday, May 31 * Preliminary proceedings version due: Sunday, June 14 * Submission for final proceedings: Sunday, October 18 * Notification: Sunday, December 6 * Final version: Sunday, January 10 INVITED SPEAKERS * Ofer Arieli, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv * Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University * Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay & LIX * Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Takahito Aoto (Tohoku University, Japan) * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil) * Ver?nica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) * Mario Benevides (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, co-chair) * Jasmin Blanchette (Inria Nancy, France) * Walter Carnielli (State University of Campinas, Brazil) * Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Fl?vio L. C. de Moura (Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil) * Catherine Dubios (ENSIIE, France) * Marcelo Finger (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) * Mario Florido (University of Porto, Portugal) * J?rgen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) * Edward Hermann Haeusler (Pontif?cia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) * Andreas Herzig (Universit? Paul Sabatier, France) * Delia Kesner (Universit? Paris Diderot, France) * Ian Mackie (?cole Polytechnique, France) * Cesar Mu?oz (NASA Langley Research Center, USA) * Vivek Nigam (Universidade Federal da Para?ba, Brazil) * Elaine Pimentel (DMAT, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) * Ruy Queiroz (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) * Camilo Rocha (Escuela Colombiana de Ingenier?a, Colombia) * Manfred Schmidt-Schau? (Goethe University, Germany) * Alvaro Tasistro (Universidad ORT, Uruguay) * Ren? Thiemann (University of Innsbruck, Austria, co-chair) * Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA Nancy, France) * Femke van Raamsdoonk (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) * Ivan Varzinczak (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) * Freek Wiedijk (Radboud University, Netherlands) ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Jo?o Marcos (DIMAp, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) * Elaine Pimentel (DMAT, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) CONTACT * lsfa2015 at easychair.org * http://www.mat.ufrn.br/~LSFA2015 -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMat/UFMG Address: Departamento de Matematica Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Av Antonio Carlos, 6627 - C.P. 702 Pampulha - CEP 30.161-970 Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil Phone: 55 31 3409-5970/3409-5994 Fax: 55 31 3409-5692 http://www.mat.ufmg.br/~elaine ------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 6, 2015 !!!!!! ====================================================================== PPDP 2015 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing languages, database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Functional programming * Logic programming * Answer-set programming * Functional-logic programming * Declarative visual languages * Constraint Handling Rules * Parallel implementation and concurrency * Monads, type classes and dependent type systems * Declarative domain-specific languages * Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs * Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages * Language extensions for security and tabulation * Probabilistic modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity * Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems * Practical experiences and industrial application This year the conference will be co-located with the 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2015). The conference will be held in Siena, Italy. Previous symposia were held at Canterbury (UK), Madrid (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France). You might have a look at the contents of past PPDP symposia. 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 chair in case of questions). After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 30% extra material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by Elsevier of 2016. Important Dates Abstract Submission: 30 March, 2015 Paper submission: 6 April, 2015 Notification: 14 May, 2015 Camera-ready: To be announced Symposium: 14-16 July, 2015 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP 2015. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist the program committee in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with formatting templates or style files. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Authors who wish to provide additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read such appendices. Invited speakers: Patrick Cousot (NYU, Jointly with LOPSTR) Martin Hofmann (LMU, Munich) Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, Jointly with LOPSTR) Program Committee Michael Adams, University of Utah, USA Puri Arenas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Amir Ben-Amram, Tel-Aviv Academic College, Israel Ines Castro, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA Gregory Duck, National University of Singapore, Singapore Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Thom Fr?hwirth, University of Ulm, Germany Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy Michael Hanus, CAU Kiel, Germany Andy King, University of Kent, UK F. L?pez-Fraguas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Ian Mackie, University of Sussex, UK Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium Frank D. Valencia, CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Marina Vos, University of Bath, UK Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK Program Chair Elvira Albert Complutense University of Madrid C/ Profesor Garcia Santesmases E-28040 Madrid, Spain Email: elvira at sip.ucm.es Symposium Chair Moreno Falaschi Department of information engineering and mathematics University of Siena, Italy Email: moreno.falaschi at unisi.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Wed Mar 18 06:09:55 2015 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:09:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFP'15] final call for papers - deadline extended march 15 - Message-ID: <55094EF3.6090600@cs.ru.nl> ----------------------------- L A S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2015 =========== 16th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming June 3-5, 2015 Inria Sophia Antipolis, France http://tfp2015.inria.fr/ 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). Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback receive at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these articles for formal publication. The selected revised papers will be published as a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (www.springer.com/lncs) volume. TFP 2015 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2015 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 2nd. 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; * Munich (Germany) in 2004; * Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005; * Nottingham (UK) in 2006; * New York (USA) in 2007; * Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008; * Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009; * Oklahoma (USA) in 2010; * Madrid (Spain) in 2011; * St. Andrews (UK) in 2012; * Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013; * and in Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/). == INVITED SPEAKERS == TFP is pleased to announce talks by the following two invited speakers: * Laurence Rideau is a researcher at INRIA and is interested in the semantics of programming languages , the formal methods, and the verification tools for programs and mathematical proofs. She participated in the beginnings of the Compcert project (certified compiler), and is part of the Component Mathematical team in the MSR-INRIA joint laboratory, who performed the formalization of the Feit-Thompson theorem successfully. Thirty years ago, computers barged in mathematics with the famous proof of the Four Color Theorem. Initially limited to simple calculation, their role is now expanding to the reasoning whose complexity is beyond the capabilities of most humans, as the proof of the classification of finite simple groups. We present our large collaborative adventure around the formalization of the Feit-Thompson theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feit%E2%80%93Thompson_theorem) that is a first step to the classification of finite groups and that uses a palette of methods and techniques that range from formal logic to software (and mathematics) engineering. * Anil Madhavapeddy == 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 simultaneously submitted for publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or 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 Debugging and profiling 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 2015 program chair, Manuel Serrano. == 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 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 (20 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which ALL authors are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place. We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. Papers must be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2015 Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: March 31, 2015 Notification: April 7, 2015 Registration: May 4, 2015 TFP Symposium: June 3-5, 2015 Student papers feedback: June 9, 2015 Submission for formal review: July 1, 2015 Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2015 Camera ready paper: October 8, 2015 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Janis Voigtl?nder University of Bonn, DE Scott Owens University of Kent, UK Neil Sculthorpe Swansea University, UK Colin Runciman University of York, UK Manuel Serrano Inria (PC chair), FR Rinus Plasmeijer University of Nijmegen, NL Tomas Petricek University of Cambridge, UK Marco T. Morazan Seton Hall University, USA Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE Michel Mauny Ensta ParisTech, FR Sam Lindley The University of Edinburgh, UK Daan Leijen Microsoft, USA Jurriaan Hage Utrecht University, NL Andy Gill University of Kansas, USA Thomas Gazagnaire University of Cambrige, UK Lars-Ake Fredlund Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, ES Jean-Christophe Filliatre Universit? Paris Sud Orsay, FR Marc Feeley Universit? de Montr?al, CA Olaf Chitil University of Kent, UK Edwin Brady University of St Andrews, UK From shao at cs.yale.edu Wed Mar 18 17:54:10 2015 From: shao at cs.yale.edu (Zhong Shao) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:54:10 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-Doctoral and Researcher Positions at Yale University Message-ID: The Department of Computer Science at Yale University is seeking applicants for multiple Post-Doctoral and Researcher positions in the area of programming languages and formal methods. Successful applicants are expected to participate in a rigorous research program on topics such as certified operating systems, program verification and synthesis, quantitative resource analysis, language-based security, quantitative security analysis, proof assistants and automation, concurrency and coordination, and certified compilers. Projects in this research program are led by Zhong Shao, Eric Koskinen, and Jan Hoffmann. In addition, the new PostDocs and Researchers will collaborate with other Yale faculty members as well as 12 PhD students and PostDocs who are currently members of the research group. Most projects center around several multi-year research efforts: - CertiKOS: Application of cutting-edge programming language theory to support compositional layered development of certified system software (e.g., OS kernels, hypervisors, real-time embedded systems, distributed systems). - DeepSpec: Development of modern specification languages (and compilers) for rigorous system design and certified program synthesis. - CURB and SOUCIS: Detection of space/time related security vulnerabilities in Java Bytecode using (semi-)automatic static resource analyses. - Push/Pull: Theoretical foundations for concurrent programming with transactions. Successful applicants should have a combination of creativity, self-motivation, and strong interests on applying programming language theory or formal methods to solve practical problems. While we encourage all interested candidates to apply, knowledge in one or more of the following areas would be beneficial: - Formal reasoning about concurrency and distributed computation - Proof assistants and functional programming - Certified compiler and program analysis - Design and development of low-level system software - Static resource analysis - Quantitative security analysis - Implicit computational complexity - Mathematical/logical foundations of automatic verification - Deduction, composition, and abstraction for verification - Model-based development of real-time embedded systems - Security protocol and information flow control Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related field. The term of a PostDoc position is one year with an option to renew for up to four years. Starting date is negotiable (a preference will be given to those who can start by Summer 2015). Interested applicants should email a CV, research statement, and the names of three references with their email addresses and phone numbers to . More information regarding the research program can be found at the PIs' research web sites at http://www.cs.yale.edu/~shao http://ibm.biz/koskinen http://www.cs.yale.edu/~hoffmann Inquiries can be directed to any PI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zhong Shao, Professor Department of Computer Science Office: (203) 432-6828 Yale University FAX: (203) 432-0593 51 Prospect Street Email: shao-zhong at cs.yale.edu New Haven, CT 06520-8285, USA WWW: http://www.cs.yale.edu/~shao ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Wed Mar 18 10:48:26 2015 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:48:26 GMT Subject: [TYPES/announce] Computability in Europe 2015: Call for Informal Presentations Message-ID: <201503181448.t2IEmQtS029863@maths.leeds.ac.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2015: Evolving Computability Bucharest, Romania June 29 - July 3 http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- FUNDING DEADLINE APPROACHING - ASL STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: March 28, 2015 SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS: APRIL 24, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: APRIL 24, 2015 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 2015 (applications of students who are presenting get higher priority). Therefore, we would like to ask you to submit your informal presentations by March 25 so that we can send you the notification before the ASL deadline of March 28. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: CiE 2015 has received funding from the ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic) and EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) that allows students who are members of ASL or EATCS and want to attend CiE 2015 to apply for travel funds or a reduction of the early registration fee. Preference will be given to presenters of accepted papers. Applications for ASL travel grants have to be addressed directly to ASL, with a strict deadline of March 28, 2015. Applications for EATCS travel grants have to be sent to cie2015 at fmi.unibuc.ro prior to the early registration deadline. ___________________________________________________________________ CiE 2015 http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015 ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk CiE Conference Series http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE CiE Membership Application Form http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/CIE Computability (Journal of CiE) http://www.computability.de/journal CiE on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/AssnCiE Association CiE on Twitter https://twitter.com/AssociationCiE ___________________________________________________________________ From eacsl at kahle.ch Wed Mar 18 12:30:18 2015 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:30:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ackermann Award 2015 Message-ID: <5509A81A.6050403@kahle.ch> ACKERMANN AWARD 2015 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2015 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 1.1.2013 and 31.12.2014 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 15 April 2015. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2015 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 2015 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL, 7-10 September 2015, in Berlin (Germany). The award consists of * a certificate, * 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, and * an invitation to present the work to the Kurt G?del Society in Vienna. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. Jury The jury consists of: * Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg); * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), the president of EACSL; * Dexter Kozen (Cornell University), ACM SigLog representative; * Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); * Daniel Leivant (Indiana University, Bloomington); * Luke Ong (University of Oxford); * Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS and University of Paris 7); * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; How to submit The candidate or his/her supervisor should 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 researchers (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. 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. From amoeller at cs.au.dk Thu Mar 19 16:50:06 2015 From: amoeller at cs.au.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anders_M=F8ller?=) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:50:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SOAP 2015 - extended deadline: March 31 Message-ID: <6E41214BB1EAD8408392B7FAB84E3EF9B210049C@SRVUNIMBX07.uni.au.dk> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOAP 2015 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soap/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Static and dynamic analysis techniques and tools for Java and related programming languages have received widespread attention for a long time. The application domains of these analyses range from core libraries to modern technologies such as web services and Android applications. Over time, analysis frameworks, for example, Soot, WALA, Chord, and Doop, have been developed to better support techniques for optimizing programs, ensuring code quality, and assessing security and compliance. Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, the Soot community brought together its members and other researchers by organizing the International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Java Program Analysis (SOAP), since 2012 in conjunction with PLDI. The presentations and discussions have helped share new developments and shape new innovations in program analysis. SOAP 2015 will enhance that positive experience with a broadened scope to also emphasize other analysis tools than Soot and other programming languages than Java. For SOAP 2015, we invite contributions and inspirations from developers and researchers working with program analysis frameworks. We are particularly interested in exciting framework ideas, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results of work in progress. The workshop agenda will continue its tradition of lively discussion sessions on extensions of existing frameworks, synergies between frameworks, and development of new analysis algorithms and tools. FORMAT The workshop will take one day and will feature invited talks by leading members of the program analysis community, presentations of all accepted refereed papers, and time for discussion. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be four to six-page papers in ACM sig-alternate style. Possible submissions include, but are not limited to: * A report on a novel implementation of a program analysis, with a focus on practical details or optimization techniques for obtaining precision and performance. * A description of a new analysis component, for example, front-ends or abstract domains. * A report describing an innovative tool built on top of Soot or another framework. * A compelling use case for a feature not yet supported by existing analysis tools, with good examples and an informal design of the proposed feature. * An idea paper proposing the integration of existing program analyses to answer interesting novel questions about programs, for example in IDEs. * An experience report on the use of a program analysis framework. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. INVITED SPEAKERS Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University Frank Tip, Samsung Research America Ben Hardekopf, UC Santa Barbara IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: March 31, 2015 (extended) Notification of authors: April 17, 2015 Submission of camera-ready copies: April 27, 2015 Workshop date: June 14, 2015 ORGANIZERS Anders M?ller, Aarhus University Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology PROGRAM COMMITTEE Domagoj Babic, Google Eric Bodden, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT Jeff Foster, University of Maryland, College Park Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Kwangkeun Yi, Seoul National University From larry.mars at gmail.com Fri Mar 20 00:43:38 2015 From: larry.mars at gmail.com (LIN MA) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:43:38 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PACT 2015 Last Call for Papers Message-ID: ****** Please note the deadline is March 26th. Good luck with your submission ******* ======= PACT 2015 : The 24th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques https://sites.google.com/a/lbl.gov/pact2015/ October 18-21, 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA Abstract Deadline March 19th Paper Deadline March 26th Rebuttal Period June 7th -11th Author Notification Aug 1st Camera Ready Version Aug 18th PACT 2015 will bring together researchers from architecture, compilers, applications and languages to present and discuss innovative research of common interest. PACT solicits novel papers, workshops, tutorials and entries to an ACM student research competition on a broad range of topics that include, but are not limited to: * Parallel architectures and computational models * Compilers and tools for parallel computer systems * Middleware and run time system support for parallel computing * Hardware-software co-design for parallel computing * Hardware-software support for new compute and memory subsystems * Hardware-software support for power management and resilience * Support for correctness in concurrent hardware and software * I/O issues in parallel computing and their relation to applications * Parallel programming languages, algorithms and applications * Application-specific parallel systems * Applications and experimental systems studies * Topics in non-traditional computing systems All submissions must be made electronically through the conference web site. Abstracts must include contact information, the full list of authors and their affiliations, and a description (100-400 words) of the anticipated content of the paper. Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted for US lettersize paper. They must not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number). Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm (use the 9 pt template). For additional information regarding paper submissions, authors should contact the Program Chair. ACM Student Research Competition ----------------------------- PACT 2015 also calls for participation in the ACM Student ResearchCompetition (SRC). All eligible participants are entitled to an up to $500 travel grant. Winners will receive monetary prizes and others. The submission deadline is August 10, 2015. Please see the PACT web site for details. Papers accepted to PACT 2015 can not be simultaneously submitted as ACM SRC entries. Location Information ------------------ PACT '15 will take place at The Sir Francis Drake: A San Francisco Hotel on Union Square. Group rates and registration information to be posted at a later date. Organization and Contact Information ------------------------------ General Chair: Costin Iancu (cciancu at lbl.gov) and Katherine Yelick (kayelick at lbl.gov), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Program Chair: Marc Snir (snir at anl.gov), University of Illinois, USA Workshop Chair: Jason Mars (profmars at umich.edu), University of Michigan, USA Program Committee: Gheorghe Almasi IBM Research, USA Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory, USA Franck Cappello Argonne national Laboratory, USA Calin Cascaval Qualcomm, USA Albert Cohen INRIA, France Bronis R. de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Anshu Dubey Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Matan Erez The University of Texas at Austin, USA Yoav Etsion Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck, Austria Edgar Gabriel University of Houston, USA Maria Garzaran University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA William Gropp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jeff Hollingsworth University of Maryland College Park, USA Laxmikant Kale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Mahmut Kandemir Penn State University, USA Omer Khan University of Connecticut, USA John Kim KAIST, South Korea Keiji Kimura Waseda University, Japan Michael Kozuch Intel, USA Sriram Krishnamoorthy Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA Andrew Lumsdaine U. of Indiana, USA Lin Ma Huawei America Research Center Rami Melhem University of Pittsburgh, USA John Mellor-Crummey Rice University, USA Samuel Midkiff Purdue University, USA Jaime Moreno IBM Research, USA Nacho Navarro Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Michael O?Boyle University of Edinburgh, UK Boyana Norris University of Oregon, USA Keshav Pingali University of Texas, Austin, USA Gilles Pokam Intel Labs, USA Alex Ramirez NVIDIA, USA Lawrence Rauchwerger Texas A&M University, USA Larry Rudolph MIT, USA Saday Sadayappan Ohio State University, USA John Shalf Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Xipeng Shen North Carolina State University, USA Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jesper Larsson Traff Vienna University of Technology, Austria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Thu Mar 19 06:07:59 2015 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:07:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICE 2015: deadline extension Message-ID: [- Apologies for multiple copies -] ICE 2015 8th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 5, 2015, Grenoble, France discotec2015.inria.fr/ice-2015 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2015 http://discotec2015.inria.fr === Highlights === - Innovative selection procedure - ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief announcements of already published papers - Invited talks: Jade Alglave and Steve Ross-Talbot - Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) === Important Dates === 25 March 2015...................Abstract submission (extended) 27 March 2015...................Full paper submission (extended) 27 March - 30 April 2015........Reviews and PC discussion 30 April 2015...................Notification to authors 5 June 2015.....................ICE in Grenoble 15 July 2015....................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 === Selection Procedure === Since its first 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 preserves anonymity of reviewers). 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 seven 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 2015 post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite 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=ice2015). 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 the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier). 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. A list of special issues of previous ICE editions already published or in preparation can be found below. === Invited Talks === Jade Alglave (University College London UK), http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/j.alglave/ Steve Ross-Talbot (ZDLC Business Unit, Cognizant Technology Solutions) https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/steve-ross-talbot/0/3/28a === Program Committee === Mario Alvim (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Simon Bliudze (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Matteo Cimini (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) Ornela Dardha (School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK) Carlo Alberto Furia (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France) Jean-Baptiste Jeannin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK) Jean-Marie Madiot (?cole normale sup?rieure de Lyon, France & University of Bologna, Italy) Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andrea Mocci (Universit? della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Dimitris Mostrous (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal) Luca Padovani (University of Torino, Italy) Gwen Sala?n (INRIA, Grenoble INP, France) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) Bernardo Toninho (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal & Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Valeria Vignudelli (University of Bologna, Italy and INRIA,France) Lili Xu (Ecole Polytechnique, France & Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) === ICEcreamers === Sophia Knight (CNRS, LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine, France) Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy; PC co-chair) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; PC co-chair) Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) === Steering Committee === Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) === Contact === ice2015-0 at easychair.org === Previous editions === The previous seven 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 Scientific Annals in Computer Science (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 Scientific Annals in Computer Science (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 Science in Computer Programming is in press. * 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 Science in Computer Programming is in preparation. * June 6th, 2014 in Berlin, Germany, co-located with DisCoTec?14. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.166) and a special issue of JLAMP is in preparation. === Sponsors === Sponsored by Microsoft Research - Inria Joint Centre From cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org Thu Mar 19 09:14:55 2015 From: cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org (Cristina Pereira) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:14:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2015 Best Practices in Education Award - Call for Submissions Message-ID: <550ACBCF.8000601@informatics-europe.org> Informatics Europe proudly announces its 2015 Best Practices in Education Award devoted to initiatives promoting informatics education in primary and secondary schools. The Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education Award recognizes outstanding European educational initiatives that improve the quality of informatics teaching and the attractiveness of the discipline, and can be applied and extended beyond their institutions of origin. As in 2014, the Award will reward a successful teaching effort in Europe that: * *has made a measurable difference in informatics education in schools* * *is widely applicable and useful for the teaching community* * *has made a measurable impact in its original institution and beyond it* The 2015 Award is devoted to curriculum initiatives for promoting informatics in schools as a mandatory subject for all students. The Award will honor original contributions who emphasize successful initiatives for teaching of informatics fundamentals in schools. Experiences and reports showing how to use software or hardware tools in order to improve learning in other disciplines than informatics will not be considered. Examples of impact include course results, student projects, textbooks, influence on the curriculum of other schools. The 2015 Award is devoted to curriculum initiatives promoting informatics education in primary and secondary schools and funded through a generous grant from Microsoft. *The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.00* The Award can be given to an individual or to a group. To be eligible, participants must be located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe (www.coe.int ), or Israel. Members of the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not eligible. The Award Committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals (individuals or teams). *Proposals should be submitted only at:* __ _https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2015_ *The proposal should include:* * Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants; * Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an individual or a group; * Description of the achievements (max 5 pages); * Evidence of availability of the curricula materials to the teaching community (max 2 pages); * Evidence of impact (max 5 pages); * A reference list (which may include URLs of supporting material); * One or two letters of support. The letters of support may come for example from school management or colleagues in the same or another institution. * Deadlines:* * Abstract: May 1, 2015 * Full proposal: June 1, 2015 * Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2015 The Award will be presented at the 11th European Computer Science Summit , in Vienna, 12-14 October 2015, where the winner or winners (one representative in the case of an institution) will be invited to give a talk on their achievements. * Award Committee:* * Steve Furber, The University of Manchester (Chair) * Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow * Michael Caspersen, University of Aarhus * Christine Choppy, University of Paris 13 * Michael Fourman, University of Edinburgh * Maciej Sys?o, University of Wroc?aw & UMK, Toru? * Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano *Further inquiries:* curriculum-award at informatics-europe.org - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From albl at dtu.dk Fri Mar 20 05:45:27 2015 From: albl at dtu.dk (Alberto Lluch Lafuente) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:45:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] - deadlines extended - WWV 2015, with FM 2015 in Oslo, Keynotes by Meseguer (UIUC) and Distefano (QMUL, Facebook) Message-ID: Dear TYPES colleagues, Here is a nice opportunity to present your research: * deadlines extended until March 30 (abstract), April 10 (paper) * great co-location with FM 2015 in Oslo, June 22-26 * two excellent invited speakers: Jos? Meseguer (UIUC) and Dino Distefano (Queen Mary London, Facebook) * ETPCS proceedings and post-workshop special issue in a journal You can find more information at http://wwv2015.isti.cnr.it/ Best regards, Alberto ************************************************************* * * * WWV 2015 * * Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems * * 11th International Workshop * * * * affiliated with Formal Methods 2015 * * June 23rd - Oslo (Norway) * * * * Final Call for Papers * * - deadline extended - * * * ************************************************************* Homepage: http://wwv2015.isti.cnr.it/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission EXTENDED March 30, 2015 Paper submission EXTENDED April 10, 2015 Notification of acceptance May 10, 2015 Camera ready versions May 31, 2015 Workshop WWV 2015 June 23, 2015 SCOPE The Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV) is a yearly interdisciplinary forum for researchers originating from the following areas: declarative, rule-based programming, formal methods, software engineering and web-based systems. WWV fosters the cross-fertilisation and advancement of hybrid methods from such areas. During its ten earlier editions, the WWV workshop series has established itself as a lively, friendly event with many interactions and discussions. Companies, organisations and institutions offer most of their electronic services as sophisticated web-based applications. Prominent examples include e-business, e-learning, e-government, and e-health services. The increased complexity and the explosive growth of such applications has made their design and implementation a challenging task, not in the least because at the same time quality, accessibility, security, and privacy issues need to be considered. Systematic, formal approaches to their specification and verification are needed to address the problems those systems by means of automated and effective techniques and tools. WWV welcomes papers of either theoretical or applied interest, including case studies or experience reports, in all areas of web-based systems (web services, cloud platforms, Internet-of-Things, social networks, big data), including but not limited to: - Formal methods and rigorous software and system engineering - Declarative, rule-based approaches - Product line and feature-oriented engineering - Programming and design languages and models - Specification, certification, transformation, and synthesis - Analysis, verification, model checking, and debugging - Semi-structured data, linked data, and semantic web - Security, trust, privacy, reputation, confidentiality, and integrity - Quality, metrics, usability, and accessibility - Testing, evaluation, and optimisation - Middleware, platforms, and frameworks INVITED SPEAKERS Dino Distefano Queen Mary University, London, UK & Facebook Jose Meseguer University of Illinois, USA SUBMISSION We solicit the submission of original, unpublished contributions not under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions are expected to comprise research papers (with novel, previously unpublished results), experience reports of real-world applications, tool descriptions, and short papers (e.g. describing work-in-progress or exploratory ideas). All papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style - Full papers should not exceed 16 pages (typeset 11 points). - Short papers should not exceed 8 pages. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Submissions must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, not submitted elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair online submission system. Submission of a paper involves a firm commitment that at least one of the authors will attend and participate in the workshop in case the paper is accepted. PUBLICATION All contributions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, chosen by the Program Committee. The PC will select the best papers based on their quality, relevance to the workshop, and potential to instigate discussion. All accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings, which will be published as a volume of the EPTCS series (WWV publication is indexed in DBLP and Microsoft Academic Research, among other important repositories). An open call for a special issue in a highly-reputed journal on the topic of the WWV workshop is envisaged. This has been common practice for WWV since 2009. PROGRAM CHAIRS Maurice H. ter Beek ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Technical University of Valencia, Spain Massimo Bartoletti University of Cagliari, Italy Saddek Bensalem Verimag, Grenoble, France Xinyu Feng University of Science and Technology of China Maribel Fernandez King's College, London, UK Jose Fiadeiro Royal Holloway University, London, UK Stefania Gnesi ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology, Austria Axel Legay INRIA, Rennes, France Michael Leuschel Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany Zhiming Liu Birmingham City University, UK Hernan Melgratti University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Fabrizio Montesi University of South Odense, Denmark Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Antonio Ravara New University of Lisbon, Portugal Alejandro Russo Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Gwen Salaun Inria Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France Vladimiro Sassone University of Southampton, UK Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Carolyn Talcott SRI International, USA Emilio Tuosto University of Leicester, UK Erik de Vink Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain (co-Chair) Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy (co-Chair) Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology, Austria Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Massimo Marchiori University of Padova, Italy Rosario Pugliese University of Florence, Italy Antonio Ravara New University of Lisbon, Portugal Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Francesco Tiezzi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy PAST EDITIONS Initiated in 2005, the WWV workshop series has by now established itself as a lively, friendly event with many interactions and discussions. 1. WWV'05 in Valencia, Spain; March 14-15, 2005 homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv05/ 2. WWV'06 in Paphos, Cyprus; November 19, 2006 (as track at ISoLA) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv06/ 3. WWV'07 in Venice, Italy; December 14, 2007 homepage: http://wwv07.dimi.uniud.it/ 4. WWV'08 in Siena, Italy; July 4, 2008 (co-located with WFLP) homepage: http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ 5. WWV'09 in Castle of Hagenberg, Austria; July 17, 2009 (as part of RISC summer) homepage: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/wwv09/ 6. WWV'10 in Vienna, Austria; July 30-31, 2010 (co-located with PPDP & LOPSTR) homepage: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/WWV2010/ 7. WWV'11 in Reykjavik, Iceland; June 9, 2011 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/wwv2011/ 8. WWV'12 in Stockholm, Sweden; June 16, 2012 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/wwv2012/ 9. WWV'13 in Florence, Italy; June 6, 2013 (as part of DisCoTec) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/wwv2013/ 9. WWV'14 in Vienna, Austria; July 18, 2014 (FLoC workshop associated to IJCAR, as part of VSL 2014) homepage: http://wwv2014.isti.cnr.it/ The previous 10 editions of WWV attracted high-quality papers that were published in ENTCS (WWV'05, WWV'07 and WWV'08), by IEEE (WWV'06) and in EPTCS (WWV'11, WWV'12, WWV'13 and WWV'14). After WWV'09, a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the topics of the WWV was organized. Similarly, a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic was organized after WWV'10 and special issues of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming were organized after WWV'11, WWV'12 and WWV'13. A special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming dedicated to WWV'14 and the CAV workshop VPT'14 is forthcoming. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy.gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 20 11:08:24 2015 From: jeremy.gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:08:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Doctoral Teaching Assistantships in CS at Oxford Message-ID: <9D1D0BD8-0BD2-4018-A630-58B37E4276BE@cs.ox.ac.uk> DOCTORAL TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD The University of Oxford's Computer Science department is offering two DPhil (PhD) scholarships. The scholarships are for up to five years; they include teaching responsibilities on the department's Software Engineering Programme (SEP), which has been running for over twenty years, offering part-time professional Master's degrees in Software Engineering and in Software & Systems Security. Each scholarship provides a stipend (?14057 pa from October 2015, with small annual increases subsequently) plus full fees. The Department of Computer Science was established in 1957, making it one of the longest established in the country. It is one of the UK's leading computer science departments, ranked first in a number of international rankings. The latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) resulted in the 74 members of the Department having 87% of their research activity ranked 4* ("world-leading") or 3* (internationally excellent"). Successful applicants will perform their research within the department, with the aim of obtaining a DPhil in Computer Science. Applications are particularly sought from students with research interests in core areas taught in SEP: * software engineering * programming languages * systems security * embedded and mobile systems * formal modelling techniques * semantic technologies * automated verification More information about the department's research in these areas may be found at http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/research/. The scholarships have a teaching component, in line with the five-year duration. This will involve acting as a Teaching Assistant (TA) and second marker for six one-week SEP modules per year. First-hand professional experience of software engineering or systems security is therefore desirable, albeit not essential. Class sizes are small, with at most students 20 per module. More information about the modules may be found at http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/softeng/courses/subjects.html. Applications should include a full CV, a description of past teaching experience in relation to core SEP modules, the names of two referees, and a one- to two-page presentation of the candidate's research interests and proposed DPhil topic. They should be sent by email, to tadphil at softeng.ox.ac.uk, to arrive no later than noon on Friday 17th April. Applicants should also arrange for their referees to send references to the same address by the same date. 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URL: From grlmc at urv.cat Sun Mar 22 12:53:12 2015 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:53:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] InfoSec 2015: registration deadline 3 April Message-ID: <47C09E6BE95147D09DA58B8BE69AD851@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON INFORMATION SECURITY InfoSec 2015 Bilbao, Spain July 6-10, 2015 Organized by Deusto University Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/ ********************************************************************** --- 4th registration deadline: April 3, 2015 --- ********************************************************************** AIM: InfoSec 2015 will be a major research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of information security, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting academic research and industrial innovation. It refers to procedures to defend information from unauthorized access, use, modification, recording or destruction, with a critical role to play in order to avoid or minimize risks in the digital world. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most information security subareas will be displayed, namely: computer security, cryptography, privacy, cyber security, mobile security, network security, world wide web security, fraud prevention, data protection, etc. Main challenges of information security will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 31 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific background knowledge may be required for some of them. InfoSec 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 4 courses will run in parallel 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: InfoSec 2015 will take place in Bilbao, the capital of the Basque Country region, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering Deusto University Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), Privacy in a Digital World: a Lost Cause? Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), (In)security of Mobile Apps in Untrusted Networks Jennifer Seberry (University of Wollongong), The Global Village: the Beginning of the Need for Computer Security [via videoconference] Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), Off-line Proximity-based Social Networking PROFESSORS AND COURSES: N. Asokan (Aalto University), [intermediate] Mobile Security: Overview of Hardware Platform Security and Considerations of Usability Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), [introductory/intermediate] Technologies to Protect Online Privacy Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), [intermediate/advanced] Security of the Mobile App Ecosystem Nicolas T. Courtois (University College London), [introductory/intermediate] Security of ECDSA in Bitcoin and Crypto Currency Claude Cr?peau (McGill University, Montr?al), [introductory/intermediate] Quantum Computation, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Joan Daemen (ST Microelectronics Belgium, Diegem), [introductory/intermediate] Sponge Functions, Keccak and SHA-3 Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla), [intermediate/advanced] Securing Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges and Opportunities Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Security and Privacy in the Cloud Herv? Debar (T?l?com SudParis), [introductory/intermediate] Detection and Reaction to Attacks: from Intrusion Detection to Cyber-Defense Rosario Gennaro (City University of New York), [intermediate/advanced] A Survey of Verifiable Delegation of Computation Trent Jaeger (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), [intermediate/advanced] How to Add