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 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: Accommodation for participants is available at the Colegio Mayor Deusto (student hostel). Since there may exist problems to find accommodation in Bilbao at a reasonable price during the week of the event, the organizers' advice is to book as soon as possible, and anyway by 27 May. To do it, write to Carlson Wagonlit Travel at estudiantesud at carlsonwagonlit.es 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 alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it Mon Mar 23 09:14:54 2015 From: alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it (alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:14:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOCLASA 2015 - 2nd Call For Papers Message-ID: <1875035761.52.1427116543069.JavaMail.alexander@mbpdialexander.homenet.telecomitalia.it> [Apologies for multiple postings] -- First Call for Papers -- FOCLASA 2015: 14th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/ 5 September 2015, Madrid (Spain) In conjunction with CONCUR 2015 ============================================================== FOCLASA 2015 is a workshop colocated with the 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015 - http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/concur2015). 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 == 17 June 2015: Deadline for abstract submission 19 June 2015: Deadline for paper submission 20 July 2015: Notifications 3 August 2015: 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 submissions to WS-FM/BEAT (a CONCUR co-located event - International Symposium on Web Services, Formal Methods and Behavioural Types - http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/WSFM- BEAT2015/index.php) and FOCLASA are allowed for those papers that may potentially enhance both venues. Authors of such double submissions should identify them to the Program Chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the "Regular paper submitted also to WS- FM/BEAT? category in the FOCLASA EasyChair site). Reviews may be shared between WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA. Submissions accepted by WS-FM/BEAT will be considered automatically withdrawn from FOCLASA. 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 From dominic.p.mulligan at googlemail.com Mon Mar 23 12:00:40 2015 From: dominic.p.mulligan at googlemail.com (Dominic Mulligan) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:00:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: South of England Regional Programming Languages Seminar Message-ID: We apologise for any spam. Please distribute widely on internal mailing lists and to other potentially interested parties. Thank you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) Thursday, 30th April 2015 Wolfson College, University of Cambridge =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= S-REPLS is a new and informal meeting for those with a professional interest in programming language theory in the South of England region, whether they be working in industry or academia. The inaugural S-REPLS meeting will be held on Thursday 30th April at Wolfson College, Cambridge. The event is hosted by members of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. There will be no charge for the event, though we will appreciate prior notice of attendance for catering purposes. Our invited speaker for the first event is ** Conor McBride (Mathematically Structured Programming Group, Strathclyde) ** Following the invited talk, we will have an afternoon of short talks proferred by the local PLT community interspersed with coffee and food breaks. Talks by PhD students and those working in industry are especially welcome, and we welcome talks by individuals working in any corner of PLT, whether they are symbol pushing homotopy type-theorists or bit-twiddling compiler hackers. We therefore solicit four talks (around 30 minutes, including questions) for our first meeting. Relevant topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to: * Novel and experimental programming languages, * Mathematical models of programming languages, * New developments in type systems and type theory, * Advances in compiler and parsing technology * Novel optimisations and static analyses, * Programming language design and empirical studies, * Issues surrounding concurrency and parallelism, * Theorem proving applied to PLT, and program verification, * Novel applications of PLT to other subject areas, * etc. To offer a talk, please e-mail dominic.p.mulligan at gmail.com with your name, institution/employer, title and a short abstract. To attend, please fill in the following Doodle poll http://doodle.com/n93sqw86sa7azc3m with your name. For the latest news, more information on the meeting, as well as a full programme of talks in due course, please browse the S-REPLS homepage at: http://bit.ly/1FDUgBj We encourage everybody interested in this or future meetings to sign up to our mailing list. To subscribe, visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/srepls S-REPLS is organised by Ohad Kammar, Anil Madhavapeddy, Dominic Mulligan and Jeremy Yallop with funding kindly provided by Ocaml Labs. From schoepp at tcs.ifi.lmu.de Mon Mar 23 13:42:42 2015 From: schoepp at tcs.ifi.lmu.de (=?UTF-8?B?VWxyaWNoIFNjaMO2cHA=?=) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:42:42 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOLA 2015: Call for Talk Proposals Message-ID: <55105092.2070808@tcs.ifi.lmu.de> CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS ______________________________________________________________________ LOLA 2015: Syntax and Semantics of Low Level Languages Sunday, 5 July 2015, Kyoto, Japan A satellite workshop of ICALP/LICS http://lola15.tcs.ifi.lmu.de ______________________________________________________________________ /Important Dates/ Abstract submission: Monday, 20 April 2015 Author notification: Friday, 1 May 2015 LOLA 2015 workshop: Sunday, 5 July 2015 /Invited Speakers/ Katsuhiro Ueno, Tohoku University, Japan Other invited speakers to be announced. /Workshop Description/ It has been understood since the late 1960s that tools and structures arising in mathematical logic and proof theory can usefully be applied to the design of high level programming languages, and to the development of reasoning principles for such languages. Yet low level languages, such as machine code, and the compilation of high level languages into a low level ones have traditionally been seen as having little or no essential connection to logic. However, a fundamental discovery of this past decade has been that low level languages are also governed by logical principles. From this key observation has emerged an active and fascinating new research area at the frontier of logic and computer science. The practically-motivated design of logics reflecting the structure of low level languages (such as heaps, registers and code pointers) and low level properties of programs (such as resource usage) goes hand in hand with some of the most advanced contemporary research in semantics and proof theory, including classical realizability and forcing, double orthogonality, parametricity, linear logic, game semantics, uniformity, categorical semantics, explicit substitutions, abstract machines, implicit complexity and resource bounded programming. The LOLA workshop, affiliated with LICS 2015, will bring together researchers interested in many aspects of the relationship between logic and low level languages and programs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Typed assembly languages - Certified assembly programming - Certified and certifying compilation - Relaxed memory models - Proof-carrying code - Program optimization - Modal logic and realizability in machine code - Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code - Parametricity, modules and existential types - General references, Kripke models and recursive types - Continuations and concurrency - Implicit complexity, sublinear programming and Turing machines - Closures and explicit substitutions - Linear logic and separation logic - Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis - Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects /Submission Information/ LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on work in progress, overviews of larger programmes, position presentations and short tutorials as well as more traditional research talks describing new results. The program committee will select the workshop presentations from submitted talk proposals, which may take the form either of a *two page abstract* or of a longer (published or unpublished) paper describing completed work. Abstracts can be submitted using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2015 /Program Committee/ Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo) Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National University) Shin-ya Katsumata (RIMS, Kyoto University, co-chair) Damiano Mazza (CNRS, LIPN--University Paris 13) Magnus Myreen (University of Cambridge) Ulrich Schoepp (LMU Munich, co-chair) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Nicolas Tabareau (CNRS, INRIA) Noam Zeilberger (Microsoft Research--INRIA) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 473 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Tue Mar 24 19:01:11 2015 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:01:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYTLES: TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics (4 page abstract due March 31) Message-ID: 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 (IBM research, S?o Paolo) -- Christian RETORE Universit? de Montpellier & LIRMM http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore From shilov at iis.nsk.su Wed Mar 25 02:03:54 2015 From: shilov at iis.nsk.su (=?koi8-r?B?7snLz8zByiD7yczP1w==?=) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:03:54 +0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PSI-2015: Call for Workshops Message-ID: <003601d066c1$7967c730$6c375590$@nsk.su> The 10th Ershov Informatics Conference PSI 2015 (http://easychair.org/smart-program/PSI2015/index.html) 25 - 27 August 2015, Innopolis (http://university.innopolis.ru/en/), Kazan, Russia CALL FOR WORKSHOPS 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. Conference Topics include * 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. * 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. * 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. PSI 2015 solicits workshop proposals on topics related to the topics listed above. Workshops shall be held either as one-day or half-day events before or after the conference. If you would like to propose a workshop for PSI 2015, please contact the workshop chair via email by the proposal deadline to Nikolay Shilov and Salvatore Distefano . To help planning, workshop proposals should contain the following data: - Name of the workshop. - Brief description of the workshop, including workshop topics. - Web address of the workshop. - Contact information of the workshop organizers. - An estimate of the audience size. - Proposed format of the workshop (for example, regular talks, tool demos, poster presentations, etc.). - Duration of the workshop (one-day or half-day). - Potential invited speakers (if any). - Procedures for selecting papers and participants. - Special technical or AV needs. - Proceedings information (publication of workshop proceedings are up to the workshop organizers) - Language (Ru vs Eng) Important dates --------------- Workshop proposals submission deadline: April 1, 2015 Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2015 Workshops: August 25-27, 2015 From aravara at fct.unl.pt Wed Mar 25 02:20:19 2015 From: aravara at fct.unl.pt (Antonio Ravara) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:20:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WS-FM/BEAT 2015 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: <551253A3.8020601@fct.unl.pt> WS-FM (http://wsfm2014.haifa.ac.il/) and BEAT (http://beat2014.behavioural-types.eu/) combine forces this year. Highlights: - Event of the MADRID MEET 2015 (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/madrid2015/), a scientific week on formal and quantitative analysis of systems, performance engineering, computer safety, and industrial critical applications. - Submission deadline just after CONCUR's notification (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/concur2015/). - Double submissions with the workshop FOCLASA (http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/) encouraged. From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Wed Mar 25 18:50:07 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:50:07 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2016 last call for workshops Message-ID: <20150326005007.1feac7ea@duality> [We are soliciting workshop proposals for ETAPS 2016 in Eindhoven. The proposal submission deadline of 29 March is approaching.] 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: http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/ETAPS/ The following information is requested: + 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 stijn.vansummeren at ulb.ac.be Wed Mar 25 11:26:12 2015 From: stijn.vansummeren at ulb.ac.be (Stijn Vansummeren) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:26:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position announcement Message-ID: <5512D394.2070003@ulb.ac.be> ?Given the recent interest of applying PL & types principles for constructing and implementing data processing languages, I believe that the position below may also be of interest to PL & types researchers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- POSTDOC ANNOUNCEMENT The Laboratory for Web and Information Technology at the Free University of Brussels (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), Belgium, is recruiting a post-doctoral researcher. We are looking for highly qualified candidates interested in designing and developing novel information infrastructures to manage big data, within the context of a project geared towards security analytics funded by the Brussels Institute for Research and Innovation (Innoviris) In particular, the position concerns the design and development of next-generation complex event and stream processing systems. Its research includes, but is not limited to: the design of new, highly expressive languages for querying complex events, approximation, adaptive processing and optimization of complex event patterns, as well as scheduling and executing complex events languages in multi-core and distributed environments. Skills in any of the following are particularly valuable: theory, logic, algorithms, distributed computing, as well as systems building experience. Depending on the applicant's research interests, the position can focus more on the practical or more on the theoretical aspects of complex event processing. Whilst the position is primarily open to database researchers with a promising publication record, all applicants who have, or expect to have, a PhD in computer science or closely related field will be considered. Candidates must be autonomous, have strong analytical skills, a good command of the English language, and a genuine interest in designing, building and publishing innovative approaches and systems for data management. Candidates will be encouraged to supervise PhD students, as well as apply for future research grants. The positions are immediately available, for a period of three years. For enquiries, please send email to Stijn Vansummeren (svsummer at ulb.ac.be). To apply, please send a detailed research CV, motivation letter, and future research statement to Stijn Vansummeren.(svsummer at ulb.ac.be) Deadline for application is 26 April 2015. We offer you: - A stimulating research environment in an expanding group. The Laboratory of Web and Information Technologies (WIT) is a young but fast-growing research group which does cutting-edge research in data management systems and business intelligence, both in classical settings (e.g., relational databases, data warehouses), as well as the context of Big Data and data on the Web. The WIT lab is hosted in the Engineering school of the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), one of the leading French-speaking universities in the world. The group presides the EU Erasmus Mundus Master and Doctoral Consoritum on Information Technologies for Business Intelligence, and has, as such, an expanding number of master students, PhD students, and postoctoral researchers. - An exciting project that is practically relevant. The project itself is driven by case studies provided by a number of industrial partners, hence offering opportunities for innovative contacts with industry. - The possibility to supervise PhD students; to gain teaching experience (if desired, this is not mandatory) - An interesting city to work in. The ULB is located in Brussels, Belgium --- the Capital of Europe. Bustling with activity and undeniably multilingual, Brussels offers both the advantages of a culturally rich capital and the comforts of a friendly, accessible, city. Accommodation is reasonably priced compared to Paris or London, and the city boasts an extensive public transport network. It is home to the offices of the European Union and NATO and innumerable multinational companies, and is also at the heart of Belgium?s economic, political and cultural life. Located 1 hour 25 minutes from Paris, 1 hour 30 minutes from Amsterdam and 1 hour 51 from London, Brussels offers all the advantages of a cosmopolitan city on a human scale. In this green city, a true crossroads and place of exchange, where the cuisine and music of the whole world meet and mix, culture enthusiasts will have almost too much choice in terms of music and cinema festivals, Brussels overflows with museums, concert halls and theatres. From m.mazzara at innopolis.ru Wed Mar 25 11:21:21 2015 From: m.mazzara at innopolis.ru (Manuel Mazzara) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:21:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VERY* - Call for papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <043c72e7870f4806bf27c40cf6d4d05a@exmb03.uc.local> VERY* - Call for papers The 2nd Workshop on Formal Verification for self-* systems (VERY*) http://verystar.cs.unibo.it/ Affiliated with SEFM 2015: The 13th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods Formal methods have been successfully used in the last decades for modeling and verification of various types of hardware and software systems. While most languages and techniques emerged in a context of monolithic systems with a limited self-adaptability, modern systems require approaches able to cope with dynamically changing requirements and emergent behaviors. The emphasis on system reconfigurability has not been followed by an adequate research effort, and the current state of the art lacks paradigms that can describe and analyze complex modern systems in a comprehensive way. This workshop aims at filling this gap by bringing together researchers and practitioners with the goal of pushing forward the state of the art on logics and model checking, with particular attention on the specification and verification of systems in the following (and further) categories: * self-adaptive systems * self-reconfiguring systems * self-organizing systems * cyber-physical systems * hybrid systems * elastic systems * multi-agent systems The workshop focuses on demonstrating the applicability of Formal Methods in practical contexts. Therefore, both methodological/theoretical and industrial/applicative papers are welcome. In particular, the workshop aims at valuing and emphasizing the effective application of novel/emerging formalisms. Contributions on all aspects of formal and semi-formal verification, including (but not limited to) model checking, modal logics, abstract interpretation, testing and modeling languages are encouraged. Important Dates (strict) * May 4, 2015: Abstract submissions * May 18, 2015: Submission of regular papers * June 19, 2015: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection * June 26, 2015: Pre-proceedings Camera-ready copies of accepted papers * September 7-8, 2015: Workshop * September 25, 2015: Post-workshop camera-ready paper submission Submissions Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers. Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in a joint post-workshop proceedings for all SEFM 2015 workshops as a joint Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume, like the SEFM-2013 and SEFM-2014 post-workshop proceedings. Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 15 pages in the LNCS format style. Proofs omitted due to space constraints can be put into an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Proofs added into appendix will *not* be published on proceedings. Submissions should be made using the VERY* 2015 web site: http://verystar.cs.unibo.it/ The authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop by the early date, to be indicated by the organizers, and *must* present the paper. A special issue with a selection of the best papers on an international journal will be taken into consideration. Organizers * Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, marcellomaria.bersani at polimi.it * Davide Bresolin, Universit? di Bologna, davide.bresolin at unibo.it * Luca Ferrucci, ISTI-CNR, ferrucci at isti.cnr.it * Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, m.mazzara at innopolis.ru * Salvatore Distefano, Politecnico di Milano [publicity chair], salvatore.distefano at polimi.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From david.delahaye at cnam.fr Wed Mar 25 18:23:20 2015 From: david.delahaye at cnam.fr (david.delahaye at cnam.fr) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:23:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers: SETS 2015 Message-ID: <840d7ed638c000cbc058b46b33d5a6f9.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 published as online proceedings in the CEUR workshop proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org). 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 bundala at berkeley.edu Thu Mar 26 03:41:42 2015 From: bundala at berkeley.edu (Daniel Bundala) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:41:42 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VSTTE 15, Second Call for Papers Message-ID: ********************************************************************** 7th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments July 18 - 19, 2015 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/vstte15 Co-located with 25th Conference on Computer Aided Verification (http://i-cav.org/2015) ********************************************************************** Full Paper Submission Deadline: April 27, 2015 SCOPE: The Seventh Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich in 2005 followed by conferences in Toronto (2008), Edinburgh (2010), Philadelphia (2012), Atherton (2013), and Vienna (2014). 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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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 marino.miculan at uniud.it Thu Mar 26 10:10:52 2015 From: marino.miculan at uniud.it (Marino Miculan) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:10:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MeMo 2015 - Last Call for Papers - new deadlines Message-ID: <22BFB777-E2C6-4A2E-BD33-A8AD29539D8F@uniud.it> MeMo 2015 2nd International Workshop on MetaModels for Process Languages June 5, 2015 Grenoble, France Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2015 https://discotec2015.inria.fr/memo-2015/ Last Call for Papers ** IMPORTANT DATES 29 March 2015 AoE: Submission of abstracts (NEW!) 4 April 2015 AoE: Submission of full papers and tool presentations (NEW!) 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 bogom.s at gmail.com Thu Mar 26 17:48:51 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 22:48:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NSV 2015 - Call for participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ************** 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/ 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 Registration =========================== http://www.cpsweek.org/2015/reg.html (Regular registration rates until April 7, 2015) Program =========================== Invited talk: 8:30-9:20 Radu Grosu (Technical University of Vienna, Austria), Abstractions for Hybrid Systems Session 1: 9:20-10:00 - Accurate Computing with Floating-Point Arithmetic (Session chair: Nasrine Damouche) * Sylvie Boldo. Stupid is as Stupid Does: Taking the Square Root of the Square of a Floating-Point Number * Stef Graillat, Fabienne J?z?quel and Romain Picot. Numerical validation of compensated summation algorithms with stochastic arithmetic Coffee-break: 10:00-10:30 Session 2: 10:30-12:00 - Hybrid Systems Analysis (Session chair: Ian Michell) * Shota Matsumoto, Fumihiko Kono, Teruya Kobayashi and Kazunori Ueda. HyLaGI: Symbolic Implementation of a Hybrid Constraint Language HydLa * Miriam Garc?a Soto and Pavithra Prabhakar. AVERIST Algorithmic Verifier of Stability * Indranil Saha. Program Analysis and Synthesis for Control Software Lunch-break: 12:00-13:00 Invited talk: 13:00-13:50 Andreas Griewank (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany), Numerical Methods for Nonsmooth Problems based on Algorithmic Piecewise Differentiation Session 3: 13:50-14:30 - Design and Modelling of Hybrid Systems (Session chair: Pavithra Prabhakar) * Nikos Arechiga, James Kapinski, Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Andre Platzer and Bruce Krogh. Numerically-aided Deductive Safety Proof for a Powertrain Control System * Ashish Tiwari. Attacking a Feedback Controller Coffee-break: 14:30-15:00 Invited talk: 15:00-15:40 TBA, Numerical challenges for Maple (Remote talk) Session 4: 15:40-16:40 - Numerical Verification (Session chair: Sylvie Boldo) * Daisuke Ishii, Naoki Yonezaki and Goldsztejn Alexandre. Monitoring Bounded LTL Properties Using Interval Analysis * Charles Jacobsen, Alexey Solovyev and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. A Parameterized Floating Point Formalization in HOL Light * Wei-Fan Chiang, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan and Zvonimir Rakamaric. Unsafe Floating-point to Unsigned Integer Casting Check for GPU Programs Conclusion and Best Talk Awards 16:40-17 RTSS Panel and Reception 17-18:30 From Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk Fri Mar 27 07:38:18 2015 From: Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk (YuHui Lin) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:38:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AVoCS 2015: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <6818E10B-02E2-4129-A3B5-5AE9AC2970B5@hw.ac.uk> --------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND 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 for 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 sweirich at cis.upenn.edu Fri Mar 27 17:00:23 2015 From: sweirich at cis.upenn.edu (Stephanie Weirich) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:00:23 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Mentoring workshop @ ICFP Message-ID: <7F125FCC-216B-45B1-BC90-7A13B53BE2AF@cis.upenn.edu> CALL for Applications for Student Travel Support SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop @ ICFP Vancouver, BC (co-located with ICFP 2015) Sunday, August 30th, 2015 http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/icfp-plmw15/ We are pleased to invite students interested in functional programming research to the programming languages mentoring workshop at ICFP. The goal of this workshop is to introduce senior undergraduate and early graduate students to research topics in functional programming as well as provide career mentoring advice to help them get through graduate school, land a great job, and succeed. We have recruited leaders from the functional programming community to provide overviews of current research topics, and give students valuable advice about how to thrive in graduate school, search for a job, and cultivate habits and skills that will help them in research careers. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding ICFP, the International Conference on Functional Programming, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the ICFP conference more accessible to newcomers and we hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. Through the generous donation of our sponsors, we are able to provide travel scholarships to fund student participation. These travel scholarships will cover reasonable travel expenses (airfare, hotel and registration fees) for attendance at both the workshop and the ICFP conference. Anyone may apply for a travel scholarship, but first priority will be given to women and underrepresented minority applicants from the United States and Canada. The workshop is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding for their travel and registration fees are welcome. In particular, many student attendance programs provide full or partial travel funding for students to attend ICFP 2015, including the ACM Student Research Competition. More information about student attendance programs at ICFP is available: http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/student-attendance.html APPLICATION for TRAVEL SUPPORT: The travel funding application is available here: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rxg/icfp-plmw/ The deadline for full consideration of funding is April 24th, 2015. Selected participants will be notified starting June 5th. ORGANIZERS: Ron Garcia, University of British Columbia Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania with Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University (and General Chair, ICFP 2015) From dimitris at microsoft.com Fri Mar 27 19:00:19 2015 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:00:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FW: Utrecht Workshop on Proof Theory In-Reply-To: <672EA9D6-9ED2-4EFB-AB10-BE824828F890@solisom.uu.nl> References: <672EA9D6-9ED2-4EFB-AB10-BE824828F890@solisom.uu.nl> Message-ID: Forwarding to TYPES/announcements -- I accidentally let the message through to TYPES instead. My apologies for the double posting. Dimitrios Vytiniotis TYPES list moderator >>> -----Original Message----- From: Types-list [mailto:types-list-bounces at lists.seas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Iemhoff, R. (Rosalie) Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 12:25 PM To: types-list at lists.seas.upenn.edu Subject: [TYPES] Utrecht Workshop on Proof Theory [ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] >From April 16-18, 2015 the Utrecht Workshop on Proof Theory will take place at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different areas in proof theory to share results, ideas and methods. Everybody is welcome to attend the workshop. Please register by sending an email to fan.yang.c at gmail.com. Giving a talk is by invitation only. For details, see http://www.phil.uu.nl/~iemhoff/Conferenties/UWPT/ From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Sat Mar 28 20:00:46 2015 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:00:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Last_Call_for_Papers_=3A_Hilbert?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Epsilon_and_Tau_in_Logic=2C_Informatics_and_Linguist?= =?utf-8?q?ics_=284_page__abstract_due_April_1st=29?= Message-ID: <13D80983-BE32-47BB-AF83-99ADF078F84E@lirmm.fr> 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 and I2M-CNRS Christian Retor?, University of Montpellier & LIRMM-CNRS Host: 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-Phrase 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) -- Christian RETORE Universit? de Montpellier & LIRMM http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore From philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch Sat Mar 28 13:20:26 2015 From: philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch (Philipp Haller) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:20:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Scala Symposium 2015 [EXTENDED DEADLINE] Message-ID: *** NOTE DEADLINES EXTENDED *** Abstract submission: April 4, 2015 Paper/talk submission: April 11, 2015 ======================================================================== 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 symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. Important Dates =============== * Abstract submission: April 4, 2015 * Paper/talk submission: April 11, 2015 * Author notification: May 4, 2015 * Final papers due: May 14, 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 jsiek at indiana.edu Mon Mar 30 09:59:57 2015 From: jsiek at indiana.edu (Siek, Jeremy) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:59:57 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP for STOP 2015 Message-ID: <787B8130-C5EB-417D-A3A7-A6A66BF5FF71@indiana.edu> (Note the change in submission date, as requested by ECOOP & OOPSLA organizers.) =============================================================== FINAL 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 9, 2015 * Author notification: May 8, 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. Submit your papers on EasyChair at the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stop2015 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... 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Information on ISR as bylaws and previous schools is available at http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/ifip-wg1.6/summerschool.html Since ISR 2016 is planned to take place at University of New South Wales, in order to achieve geographic diversity, proposals to host ISR 2017 outside Australia and Oceania will be prioritized. A proposal for hosting and organizing ISR 2017 should address the following points: * What is the venue of the school? * What are the facilities? * What eventual co-location with conferences is intended? (not required) * Who is the intended organizing chair? * Who else is involved in the organization? * What are possible dates for the school? * What is the estimated registration fee? * What is the estimated cost of hotels, food, local transportation? 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Information on ISR as bylaws and previous schools is available at http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/ifip-wg1.6/summerschool.html Since ISR 2016 is planned to take place at University of New South Wales, in order to achieve geographic diversity, proposals to host ISR 2017 outside Australia and Oceania will be prioritized. A proposal for hosting and organizing ISR 2017 should address the following points: * What is the venue of the school? * What are the facilities? * What eventual co-location with conferences is intended? (not required) * Who is the intended organizing chair? * Who else is involved in the organization? * What are possible dates for the school? * What is the estimated registration fee? * What is the estimated cost of hotels, food, local transportation? If you consider presenting a proposal for organizing ISR 2017 or have any questions, please contact the chair of the ISR steering committee Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (ayala at unb.br) The deadline for submitting the finished proposal is May 28th, 2015. The ISR steering committee From rishabh at csail.mit.edu Mon Mar 30 13:09:39 2015 From: rishabh at csail.mit.edu (Rishabh Singh) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:09:39 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extended for PLOOC 2015 (Co-located with PLDI 2015) Message-ID: (Submission deadline extended to April 10, 2015) We are looking forward for your 1-page talk abstracts! =============================================================== 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 (1-page) and any relevant references (those can be in a separate page). 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URL: From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Tue Mar 31 04:12:54 2015 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:12:54 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Graphical Models for Security - GraMSec 2015 (LNCS proceedings) Message-ID: <551A5706.5070206@irisa.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************ GraMSec 2015 The Second International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Co-located with CSF 2015 Verona, Italy - July 13, 2015 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ ************************************************************ ***** Springer's LNCS proceedings confirmed ***** 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 workshop's post-proceedings, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. 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 amoeller at cs.au.dk Tue Mar 31 06:12:49 2015 From: amoeller at cs.au.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anders_M=F8ller?=) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:12:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc and PhD positions - Center for Advanced Software Analysis, Aarhus University Message-ID: <6E41214BB1EAD8408392B7FAB84E3EF9B211306B@SRVUNIMBX07.uni.au.dk> Several postdoc positions and PhD stipends are available at the Center for Advanced Software Analysis (CASA) at Aarhus University, Denmark, funded by the European Research Council. The CASA center covers research in program analysis, type systems, testing, language design, and programming tools, with a particular focus on static analysis and automated testing for web and mobile apps. The postdoc positions are at the level of Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and are initially for one year, but they can be extended to three years by mutual consent. We welcome researchers with clearly demonstrated experience and skills in one or more of the research areas mentioned above. The PhD positions include full tuition waiver and a very competitive scholarship. Applications are welcomed from students with either a BSc or an MSc degree. Students with a strong background in Programming Languages will be preferred. For more information, see http://casa.au.dk/ or contact Associate Professor Anders M?ller . Interested candidates should send an email containing a brief letter of interest and a CV. Applications will be considered until the positions are filled. From olhotak at uwaterloo.ca Tue Mar 31 11:21:35 2015 From: olhotak at uwaterloo.ca (=?utf-8?B?T25kxZllaiBMaG90w6Fr?=) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:21:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2015 Call for Workshop Papers - deadline April 9 Message-ID: <20150331152135.GN5552@uwaterloo.ca> ECOOP Workshops 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline extended to April 9 ****************************************************************** The 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015) Workshop Tracks 6-7 July 2015, Prague, Czech Republic ****************************************************************** ------- OVERVIEW -------- The 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015) will co-host the following Workshop Tracks: COP: 7th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming http://2015.ecoop.org/track/COP-2015-papers DSLDI: DSL Design and Implementation http://2015.ecoop.org/track/dsldi-2015-papers FTfJP: 17th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs http://2015.ecoop.org/track/FTfJP-2015-papers ICOOOLPS: Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems http://2015.ecoop.org/track/ICOOOLPS-2015-papers JSTools: Fourth Annual Workshop on Tools for JavaScript Analysis http://2015.ecoop.org/track/JSTools-2015-papers MASPEGHI: MechAnisms for SPEcialization, Generalization and inHerItance http://2015.ecoop.org/track/MASPEGHI-2015-papers ML4PL: Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Programming Language-Related Applications http://2015.ecoop.org/track/ML4PL2015 NetPL: Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Networking http://2015.ecoop.org/track/netpl-2015-workshop Pharo: Pharo coding sprint http://2015.ecoop.org/track/Pharo-2015 PLAS: Programming Languages and Analysis for Security http://2015.ecoop.org/track/PLAS-2015-papers PLE: 2nd Workshop on Programming Language Evolution http://2015.ecoop.org/track/PLE-2015-papers RIOT: R Implementation, Optimization and Tooling http://2015.ecoop.org/track/RIOT-2015-papers STOP: Scripts to Programs http://2015.ecoop.org/track/STOP2015 Truffle: 1st Truffle/Graal Languages Workshop http://2015.ecoop.org/track/Truffle-2015-papers ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- Submission should be done through the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org. Submission details for ecah workshop are outlined on the workshop webpages as listed above. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission: 9 April 2015 (except NetPL, Pharo, PLAS, Truffle) Notification: 1 May 2015 Camera-ready: 22 May 2015 Workshops: 6-7 July 2015 From larry.mars at gmail.com Wed Apr 1 03:27:19 2015 From: larry.mars at gmail.com (LIN MA) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 00:27:19 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PACT 2015 Call for Workshops and Tutorials Message-ID: The 24th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques October 18-21, 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA PACT 2015 is seeking proposals for workshops and tutorials to accompany the conference. Workshops and tutorials will be held on Sunday, October 18, 2015 in San Francisco, and may be a half-day or full-day in length. 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You may register directly for PLDI and associated events here: https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1692718 Co-located SIGPLAN conferences at FCRC include: + ISMM: International Symposium on Memory Management + LCTES: Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems + PADL: Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages Co-located workshops include: + ARRAY: Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming + CHIUW: Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop + PLOOC: Programming Languages Technology for Massive Open Online Courses + Scala: Scala Symposium + SOAP: International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Java Program Analysis + WAX: Workshop on Approximate Computing + WOW: Workshop on WALA + X10: X10 Workshop Additionally, there will be eight co-located tutorials: + A Semantics-Directed Approach to Program Termination + Using the Intel C++ Compiler for General Purpose Computation Offload to Intel Processor Graphics + RASCAL: Program Analysis and Transformation with Rascal + System-level Program Analysis and Architectural Evaluation with Simics + PINPLAY:Using PinPlay for Reproducible Analysis and Replay Debugging + AutoTune:Autotuning programs with OpenTuner + Doop Framework 101 + Machine Learning for Code Analytics See the web site for a schedule and further details and links. 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The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall, and do not require any transfer for copyright, merely a license from the author. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. A dissertation is eligible if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. JFP will not have these abstracts reviewed. 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From storm at cwi.nl Wed Apr 1 05:38:09 2015 From: storm at cwi.nl (Tijs van der Storm) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:38:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DSLDI: 3rd Workshop on Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (EXTENDED DEADLINE) Message-ID: <40F87C9F-CAA0-4657-82F9-B20F9056E4AC@cwi.nl> ********************************************************************* SECOND 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 ********************************************************************* EXTENDED Deadline for talk proposals: 9th 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. * _EXTENDED_ Deadline for talk proposals: April 9th, 2015 * Notification: May 8th, 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 m.r.mousavi at hh.se Thu Apr 2 05:40:04 2015 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 11:40:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HSST 2015: Last Call for Participation 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 (Rober 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. 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URL: From eacsl at kahle.ch Thu Apr 2 13:43:32 2015 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:43:32 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Eacsl-announce] Ackermann Award 2015 Message-ID: <551D7FC4.6090403@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. _______________________________________________ Eacsl-announce mailing list Eacsl-announce at kahle.ch http://lists.kahle.ch/mailman/listinfo/eacsl-announce From mwh at cs.umd.edu Fri Apr 3 10:12:07 2015 From: mwh at cs.umd.edu (Michael Hicks) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:12:07 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc position in PL and Security at UMD Message-ID: Postdoc position at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. We are looking for a *post-doctoral researcher* interested in applying programming languages techniques to automatically *reason about resource usage *and *side-channel information leaks* in software. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in programming languages and compilers. The position will involve work on *program analysis* (static and/or dynamic, particularly *symbolic execution*) and language design with the goal of ensuring various properties related to resource usage and security. Applicants to this position must have received their PhD, or completed the requirements for their PhD, when the appointment begins. ? Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. ? Start date: May 2015 or later ? Duration: 1-4 years, renewed annually depending on funding availability and performance. Interested candidates should first send their CV to mwh at cs.umd.edu and dvanhorn at s.umd.edu and, if requested, arrange to have two letters of recommendation emailed to the same addresses. Questions about the position may be sent to the same addresses. The position is within the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) and the Laboratory for Programming Languages research at the University of Maryland (PLUM). MC2 and PLUM are part of the Computer Science Department and UMIACS at the University of Maryland, College Park. For more information about MC2 and PLUM, please visit http://www.cyber.umd.edu/ and http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/PL/. 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URL: From weaversa at gmail.com Fri Apr 3 10:37:53 2015 From: weaversa at gmail.com (Sean Weaver) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:37:53 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: SAT 2015 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Eighteenth International Conference on THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF SATISFIABILITY TESTING --- SAT 2015 --- Austin, Texas, September 24-27, 2015 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/ Abstract submission deadline: April 22, 2015 Paper submission deadline: April 29, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) is the premier annual meeting for researchers focusing on the theory and applications of the propositional satisfiability problem, broadly construed. In addition to plain propositional satisfiability, it also includes Boolean optimization (such as MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints), Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. Many hard combinatorial problems can be tackled using SAT-based techniques including problems that arise in Formal Verification, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Computational Biology, Cryptography, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Mathematics, et cetera. Indeed, the theoretical and practical advances in SAT research over the past twenty years have contributed to making SAT technology an indispensable tool in a variety of domains. SAT 2015 aims to further advance the field by soliciting original theoretical and practical contributions in these areas with a clear connection to Satisfiability. Specifically, SAT 2015 invites scientific contributions addressing different aspects of SAT interpreted in a broad sense, including (but not restricted to) theoretical advances (such as exact algorithms, proof complexity, and other complexity issues), practical search algorithms, knowledge compilation, implementation-level details of SAT solvers and SAT-based systems, problem encodings and reformulations, applications (including both novel application domains and improvements to existing approaches), as well as case studies and reports on findings based on rigorous experimentation. SAT 2015 takes place in Austin, Texas, and is co-locating with the FMCAD and MEMOCODE conferences, the PoS, QBF, DIFTS and ACL2 workshops, and the SAT Race. Austin, the capital of Texas, is a college town and a center of alternative culture away from the major cities on the American coasts, although the city is rapidly gentrifying with its rising popularity. Austin's attitude is commonly emblazoned about town on T-Shirts and bumper stickers that read: "Keep Austin Weird." Austin is considered a major high tech center due in part to UT Austin and the many Fortune 500 companies in the area such as AMD, Apple, eBay, Google, IBM, and Intel, among others. Austin is also marketed as the "Live Music Capital of the World" due to the large number of live music venues. IMPORTANT DATES =============== April 22, 2015: Abstract submission deadline April 29, 2015: Paper submission deadline June 10-12, 2015: Author response period June 28, 2015: Author notification July 26, 2015: Camera-ready versions of papers due September 23, 2015: Pre-conference workshops September 24-27, 2015: Main conference Follow http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/ for updates. SCOPE ===== SAT 2015 welcomes scientific contributions addressing different aspects of the satisfiability problem, interpreted in a broad sense. Domains include MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulae (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), as well as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). Topics include, but are not restricted to: Theoretical advances (including exact algorithms, proof complexity, and other complexity issues); Practical search algorithms; Knowledge compilation; Implementation-level details of SAT solving tools and SAT-based systems; Problem encodings and reformulations; Applications (including both novel applications domains and improvements to existing approaches); Case studies and reports on insightful findings based on rigorous experimentation. Out of Scope ============ Papers claiming to resolve a major long-standing open theoretical question in Mathematics or Computer Science (such as those for which a Millennium Prize is offered, see http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems), are outside the scope of the conference because there is insufficient time in the schedule to referee such papers; instead, such papers should be submitted to an appropriate technical journal. Paper Categories ================ Submissions to SAT 2015 are solicited in three paper categories, describing original contributions: REGULAR PAPERS (9 to 15 pages, excluding references) Regular papers should contain original research, with sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and implementations available with their submission. Submissions reporting on case studies are also encouraged, and should describe details, weaknesses, and strengths in sufficient depth. SHORT PAPERS (up to 8 pages, excluding references) The same evaluation criteria apply to short papers as to regular papers. They will be reviewed to the same standards of quality as regular papers, but will naturally contain less quantity of new material. Short papers will have the same status as regular papers and be eligible for the same awards (to be announced later). TOOL PAPERS (up to 6 pages, excluding references) A tool paper should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. Here "tools" are interpreted in a broad sense, including descriptions of implemented solvers, preprocessors, etc., as well as systems that exploit SAT solvers or their extensions to solve interesting problem domains. A demonstration is expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented previously are expected to contain significant and clear enhancements to the tool. Submissions should not be under review elsewhere nor be submitted elsewhere while under review for SAT 2015, and should not consist of previously published material. Submissions not consistent with the above guidelines may be returned without review. Besides the paper itself, authors may submit a supplement consisting of one file in the format of a gzipped tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz) or a gzipped file (.gz) or a zip archive (.zip). Authors are encouraged to submit a supplement when it will help reviewers evaluate the paper. Supplements will be treated with the same degree of confidentiality as the paper itself. For example, the supplement might contain detailed proofs, examples, software, detailed experimental data, or other material related to the submission. Individual reviewers may or may not consult the supplementary material; the paper itself should be self-contained. Regular papers and short papers may be considered for a best paper award. If the main author is a student, both in terms of work and writing, the paper may be considered for a best student-paper award. Use the supplement to your submission to state (in a brief cover letter) if the paper qualifies as a student paper. Links to information on the Springer LNCS style are available through the SAT 2015 website at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/. All papers submissions are done exclusively via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sat2015. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. PROCEEDINGS =========== All accepted papers are expected to be published in the proceedings of the conference, which will be published within the Springer LNCS series. PROGRAM CHAIRS ============== Marijn Heule The University of Texas at Austin Sean Weaver Trusted Systems Research Group, U.S. Department of Defense WORKSHOP CHAIR ============== Albert Oliveras Technical University of Catalonia PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Fahiem Bacchus University of Toronto Olaf Beyersdorff University of Leeds Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University Leonardo De Moura Microsoft Research Uwe Egly Vienna University of Technology John Franco University of Cincinnati Enrico Giunchiglia University of Genova Youssef Hamadi Microsoft Research Holger Hoos University of British Colombia Alexander Ivrii IBM Matti J?rvisalo University of Helsinki Jie-Hong Roland Jiang National Taiwan University Oliver Kullmann Swansea University Daniel Le Berre Universit? d'Artois Ines Lynce University of Lisbon Sharad Malik Princeton University Panagiotis Manolios Northeastern University Norbert Manthey Technische Universit?t Dresden Joao Marques-Silva University College Dublin Alexander Nadel Intel Nina Narodytska Carnegie Mellon University Jakob Nordstr?m KTH Royal Institude of Technology Albert Oliveras Technical University of Catalonia Karem Sakallah University of Michigan Roberto Sebastiani University of Trento Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Bart Selman Cornell University Laurent Simon Bordeaux Institute of Technology Carsten Sinz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Stefan Szeider Vienna University of Technology Xishun Zhao Sun Yat-Sen University CONTACT ======= sat2015 at easychair.org From Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at Thu Apr 2 18:25:39 2015 From: Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at (Nickovic Dejan) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 22:25:39 +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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Ershov Institute, Novosibirsk Programme Committee Chairs Manuel Mazzara Innopolis University Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester 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 Publicity Chairs Timur Tsiunchuk Innopolis University Salvatore Distefano Politecnico di Milano Workshop Chairs Shilov Nikolay Nazarbayev U. and Ershov Inst. of Informatics Systems Salvatore Distefano Politecnico di Milano Keynote speakers Hans-Ulrich Heiss, TUB, Germany Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK David Parnas, Middle Road Software 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. Local Organizers Tanya Stanko Innopolis University Inna Baskakova Innopolis University 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 Naille Boukharaev, Kazan Federal University, Russia 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 Conference Secretary Inna Baskakova Innopolis University 42 Profsoyuznaya str., 420100, Kazan, Russia Tel: +7 (843) 203-92-53 (Kazan) i.baskakova at innopolis.ru 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 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. 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As no prerequisite is needed, the school targets any computer scientist that is curious about what a proof assistant is and how it can be integrated in its daily research work. * Program The school will take place between May 24 and May 29 and it will be divided into eight sessions. A session will consist in a (rather short) lecture (given in english) followed by practical exercises on computer. The five first sessions will be dedicated to a presentation of the main concepts and techniques used to mechanize proofs on a computer. The two next sessions will focus on the mechanization of two classical domains of theoretical computer science: the theory of rational languages and the computational combinatorics. Finally, during the last session, participants will work on the mechanization of their specific research domain with the help of the pedagogical team of the school. * Registration To get more information and to register, please go to http://www.epit2015.website Registration deadline : April 30, 2015 You can register directly by following https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR01/AzurInscription/?&iColId=19&NaiveForm_id=AzChoixColloque&btnAzurP=Preinscription&lang=en * Pedagogical committee - Pierre Letouzey (University Paris-Diderot) ; - Arthur Chargu?raud (INRIA) ; - Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA) ; - Damien Pous (CNRS) ; - Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) ; - Benjamin Gr?goire (INRIA). The school is organized by: - Pierre Letouzey (University Paris-Diderot) ; - Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA) ; - Yann R?gis-Gianas (University Paris-Diderot) ; - Pierre-Marie P?drot (University Paris-Diderot). 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URL: From alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it Fri Apr 3 05:12:29 2015 From: alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it (alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 11:12:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SCFI 2015 - 2nd Call for Papers (at IEEE SERVICES 2015) - Springer JISA Thematic Series Invited Papers Message-ID: <524757985.53.1428052363893.JavaMail.alexander@MacBook-Pro-di-Alexander.local> ======= SCFI 2015 - 2nd Call for Papers (at IEEE SERVICES 2015) - Springer JISA Thematic Series Invited Papers ======= IEEE Service 2015 Visionary Track on Service Composition for the Future Internet (SCFI 2015) Theme SCFI 2015 (http://scfi2015.disim.univaq.it/) visionary track theme aims at providing innovative contributions to the research and development of novel Service Composition approaches to assist the design, development, validation and execution of service-oriented applications for the Future Internet. SCFI 2014 constitutes a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest ongoing research as well as radical new research directions that represent challenging innovations, which can advance the status quo of Service Composition when projected to the Future Internet. Details on key aims of the visionary track can be found at: http://scfi2015.disim.univaq.it. Keynote by Paola Inverardi (Title and abstract to be announced) - http://scfi2015.disim.univaq.it/?page_id=130 A thematic series on Service Composition for the Future Internet in the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA - http://www.jisajournal.com/about/update/SCFI) is devoted to SCFI 2015. Selected participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers after the visionary track. These extended versions will be reviewed by an international program committee, which will decide on their final publication on the thematic series. == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission Due Date (for all Paper types): April 19, 2015 Decision Notification on papers (Electronic): May 04, 2015 Camera-Ready Copy: May 10, 2015 == PAPER SUBMISSION == All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the IEEE 11th World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2015), which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.? Selected papers will be invited for extension and inclusion in a special issue of a related journal. We invite high-quality English-language submissions of regular papers, roadmaps, visionary papers, experience reports, industrial/academic reflections, and tool demos. Submissions should follow the IEEE Computer Society proceedings style as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines and accepted manuscripts must be under 4 or 8 pages. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend SCFI track?and present the paper. == Workshop Chairs == - Marco Autili, University of L?Aquila, Italy marco.autili at univaq.it - Alfredo Goldman, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil gold at ime.usp.br - Massimo Tivoli, University of L?Aquila, Italy, massimo.tivoli at univaq.it == Program Committee == - Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Alexander Jungmann, University of Paderborn, Germany - Amel Bennaceur, The Open University, UK - Andre Ludwig, University Leipzig, Germany - Animesh Pathak, INRIA Paris, France - Antonio Bucchiarone, FBK, Italy - Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain - Dimitris Dranidis, University of Munich, Germany - Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Federico?Ciccozzi, M?lardalen University, Sweden - Gwen Salaun, INRIA Rhone Alpes, France - Lionel Seinturier, University Lille 1, France - Maria-Eugenia Iacob, University of Twente, Netherlands - Pengwei Wang, University of Pisa, Italy - Salvatore Di Stefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany - Valerio Schiavoni, UNINE, Switzerland - Vincenzo Ciancia, CNR, Italy - Zachary Oster, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, US == Publicity Chair == - Alexander Perucci, University of L?Aquila, Italy == Web Chair == - Amleto Di Salle, University of L?Aquila, Italy == List of topics (although not limited to) == Service Composition Methods and Practices for FI applications - Engineering Principles - Development Processes - Requirement Elicitation and Analysis - Design and Programming - Verification and Validation - Model-Driven Development Methods and Tools Run-Time Support for Composing Services in the FI - Middleware (description, publication, discovery, access, etc.) - Convergence and Integration of Centralized and/or Decentralized Approaches - Support for Scalability, Mobility, Heterogeneity Quality of FI Service Compositions - Performance, Reliability and Availability Modeling and Evaluation - Security (vulnerabilities, malwares, countermeasures, etc.) - Trust and Privacy - Sustainability FI Crosscutting Concerns - Pervasiveness - Context- and Resource-awareness - Semantic-awareness - Seamlessness - Adaptation - Decentralized vs. Centralized Service Composition Approaches Tools, Case studies, Use cases - Smart grid, Smart house, Smart cities, Sustainable and Green systems - FI Killer applications From anya at ii.uib.no Tue Apr 7 03:26:31 2015 From: anya at ii.uib.no (Anya Helene Bagge) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:26:31 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: SLE 2015 Message-ID: <552386A7.3010607@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. --------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKER St?phane Ducasse, INRIA Lille --------------------------------------------------------- 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 Marco Brambilla, Politechnic Milan, Italy 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 Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, UK 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 bfischer at cs.sun.ac.za Tue Apr 7 07:02:33 2015 From: bfischer at cs.sun.ac.za (Bernd Fischer) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:02:33 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: SPIN 2015 - 22nd International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software 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 New: Invited talks by Tevfik Bultan and Shaz Qadeer ---- 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 dejan.jovanovic at sri.com Mon Apr 6 13:27:49 2015 From: dejan.jovanovic at sri.com (=?UTF-8?B?RGVqYW4gSm92YW5vdmnEhw==?=) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 10:27:49 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SMT 2015 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <5522C215.80701@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/ --- 2nd 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) * 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 dg at mpi-sws.org Tue Apr 7 11:31:11 2015 From: dg at mpi-sws.org (Deepak Garg) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:31:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) Message-ID: <5523F83F.2040502@mpi-sws.org> [Apologies for the cross-posting] ** Submission deadline extended to April 17, 2015 ** ========================= 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 17, 2015 (extended) 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 james.cheney at gmail.com Tue Apr 7 12:56:55 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 17:56:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second call for papers: TaPP 2015 Message-ID: [Submissions relating topics such as types, programming languages, or language-based security are welcome.] TaPP'15 - Second Call for Papers 7th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance July 8-9, 2015; Edinburgh, UK Preliminary website: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/tapp2015/ Note: this year TAPP is co-located with The British Database Conference (BICOD, July 6-8) http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/BICOD2015/ == News == We are pleased to announce that TaPP will feature two invited speakers: Professor Renee Miller, University of Toronto/IBM (joint invited speaker with BICOD 2015) Professor Trevor Martin, University of Bristol We gratefully acknowledge support from the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) for this event. Thanks to their generous support, we will be able to offer free registration to up to 6 PhD students at Scottish institutions for TaPP/BICOD. == Focus == Provenance provides needed insight into the origins and derivation of data, as well as formal documentation that can be instrumental in data quality assessment, program debugging, and search. Research topics of relevance to TAPP span the entire metadata lifecycle: from modelling to capture, storage, usage, querying and mining, to security and interoperable exchange across systems. TAPP also invites application-oriented contributions, on provenance-aware systems and other practical usage of provenance. == Workshop Format== In keeping with its successful tradition, TaPP?15 is a workshop, as opposed to a mini-conference. We aim to provide a platform for presenting and discussing a range of fresh ideas, and actively encourage inter-disciplinary work beyond the confines of the data management community. === Research papers === Contributions are typically 4 and never more than 6 pages long. They should describe challenges for provenance research, brief descriptions of new applications, pie-in-the sky research ideas, and anything else that will help engage the researchers? minds. While brief and readable descriptions of research are encouraged, recycled conference submissions are strongly discouraged. Contributions are collected into online proceedings, hosted by Usenix and indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, etc. Details of the workshop format are decided based on the volume and type of submissions that we receive. We expect a mixture of presentations and discussions. Anyone with an accepted submission should expect ample opportunity to present their ideas at the workshop. === Posters === *NEW* In addition to papers, we anticipate inviting posters for a dedicated poster session, possibly jointly with BICOD. == Important Dates == Abstracts Due: April 20th, 2015 Submission Deadline: April 27th, 2015 Poster Abstracts Due: May 25th, 2014 (To be aligned with BICOD) Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2015 Camera ready submission due: June 15th, 2015 Workshop: July 8-9th, 2015 == How and What to Submit == Submissions should be no more than 4 pages in ACM SIGPLAN (two-column) format. If supporting material is needed, an extra 4 pages may be submitted, but the committee will not be obliged to read them. All contributions should be submitted online at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tapp15. As in previous years, accepted TaPP papers will be open access via a USENIX web site. == Conference Chairs == Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, PC co-chair Jun Zhao, Lancaster University, PC co-chair James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh - local chair == Program Committee == Vanessa Braganholo, UFF, Brasil Adriane Chapman, The MITRE Corporation, USA Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI, Universite Paris-Sud, France Vasa Curcin, King's College, London, UK Tom De Nies, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium Lois Delcambre, Portland State University, USA Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp, Belgium Ashish Gehani, SRI International, USA Boris Glavic, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Paul Groth, Elsevier, NL Melanie Herschel, University of Stuttgart, Germany Bertram Ludaescher, University of Illinois (UIUC), USA Sudeepa Roy, University of Washington, USA Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Tue Apr 7 18:53:15 2015 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 00:53:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Deadline_extension=3A_Hilbert=E2=80=99?= =?utf-8?q?s_Epsilon_and_Tau_in_Logic=2C_Informatics_and_Linguistics_=284_?= =?utf-8?q?page__abstract_due_April_17=29?= Message-ID: sigsCall for Papers (4 page abstract due April 17) Hilbert?s Epsilon and Tau in Logic, Informatics and Linguistics June 10-12, 2015 ? Montpellier, France https://sites.google.com/site/epsilon2015workshop/ Organised by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Fabio Pasquali and Christian Retor? 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 17, 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-Phrase 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 17, 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 (co-chair 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) Ulrich Kohlenbach (Darmstadt University of Technology) Alda Mari (CNRS Institut Jean Nicod & ENS & EHESS) Richard Moot (CNRS LABRI & Universit? de Bordeaux) Georg Moser (University of Innsbruck) Michel Parigot (CNRS-PPS & University of Paris Diderot 7) Fabio Pasquali (co-chair University of Aix-Marseille & I2M CNRS) Christian Retor? (co-chair University of Montpellier & LIRMM-CNRS) Mark Steedman (University of Edimburgh) Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (Vienna University of Technology) Richard Zach (University of Calgary) From maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT Wed Apr 8 06:45:50 2015 From: maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:45:50 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2015 -- Deadline extended: May 2 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) EXTENDED DEADLINES Abstract submission: April 26, 2015 Paper/Extended abstract submission: May 2, 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 26, 2015 Paper/Extended abstract submission: May 2, 2015 Notification: June 2, 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 (Jointly with PPDP) 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 sophie.tison at univ-lille1.fr Wed Apr 8 03:57:21 2015 From: sophie.tison at univ-lille1.fr (Sophie Tison) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:57:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RDP 2015- Call for Participation - Message-ID: **************************************************************************** *** Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming *** RDP 2015 *** June 26 - July 3, 2015 *** Warsaw, Poland *** http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl *** *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** ***************************************************************************** ************* EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSES ON MAY 22 ************* --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- REGISTRATION -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- For online registration visit: http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?site=registration Early registration closes on May 22. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ABOUT RDP -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- RDP'15 is the eighth edition of the biannual Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming, consisting of two main conferences and related events. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RDP MAIN CONFERENCES -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- RTA 2015 The 26th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications June 29 - July 1, 2015 TLCA 2015 The 13th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications July 1 - July 3, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RDP 2015 INVITED SPEAKERS -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Grigore Ro?u (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) H?l?ne Kirchner (INRIA, France) Herman Geuvers (RU, Nijmegen and TU/e, The Netherlands) Martin Hofmann (LMU, Germany) --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- WORKSHOPS -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- HDRA: Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications, June 28 IFIP WG 1.6: IFIP Working Group 1.6 on Term Rewriting, June 28 HoTT/UF: Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory / Univalent Foundations, June 29-30 UNIF: International Workshop on Unification, June 28 WPTE: Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation, July 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TUTORIALS -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD Open: Implicit Computational Complexity, Ugo Dal Lago, June 26-27 HFL: Homotopy for Laymen, Krzysztof Ziemia?ski, June 28 CAT: Coq for Algebraic Topologists, Jacek Chrz?szcz, June 28 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- REGISTRATION (again) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- For online registration visit: http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?site=registration Early registration closes on May 22. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- CONTACT -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/ E-mail: rdp15 at mimuw.edu.pl --------------------------------------------------------------------- From alcino at di.uminho.pt Wed Apr 8 12:08:10 2015 From: alcino at di.uminho.pt (Alcino Cunha) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 17:08:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last CFP Bx'15: 4th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations Message-ID: <87325E89-DEF3-4B46-9AAA-74E2AD5FF9AB@di.uminho.pt> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (Bx 2015) L'Aquila, Italy (co-located with STAF, July 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: 24 July 2015 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 swarat at rice.edu Wed Apr 8 19:59:58 2015 From: swarat at rice.edu (Swarat Chaudhuri) Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:59:58 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral positions in the Pliny software synthesis project at Rice University Message-ID: <5525C0FE.3080504@rice.edu> Postdoctoral positions in the Pliny software synthesis project at Rice University ----------------------------------------------------------- Rice University's Department of Computer Science is looking to hire postdoctoral researchers in the area of automated software synthesis and repair. The work is on Pliny, a large multi-institution project on approaches to synthesis and repair that take advantage of information extant in a large database of pre-existing code. The project is expected to push the horizons of automated reasoning about software in radically new ways. It is also a highly visible project -- see, for example: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/darpa-pliny http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/09/darpa-pliny-coding/ Ideal applicants for the positions will have a solid background in formal methods, software engineering, and/or programming languages, and experience with building usable programming tools. They would also be excited about working on high-risk, high-reward ventures and in mission-driven environments. The postdocs will work with a team of investigators from Rice University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Wisconsin, and Grammatech, Inc. They will be supervised by Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~swarat), and work closely with Professors Vivek Sarkar, Christopher Jermaine, Moshe Vardi, and Keith Cooper. The duration of the positions is a minimum of two years, starting in the summer of 2015, with possible renewals. Compensation will be highly competitive and commensurate with experience. Rice University is located in Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States. To apply, send a CV and names of 3 references to Swarat Chaudhuri (swarat at rice.edu). From p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com Wed Apr 8 23:30:23 2015 From: p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com (Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 12:30:23 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HoTT/UF workshop at TLCA Warsaw: abstract deadline Apr 15 Message-ID: Reminder ? deadline for contributed talk abstracts is next Wednesday! Invited talk abstracts now available on the workshop website. ============================================= 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 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 - Models of type theory in univalent mathematics * Thorsten Altenkirch - Univalence for Dummies? * Assia Mahboubi - TBA * Matthieu Sozeau - Coq support for HoTT * Vladimir Voevodsky - From syntax to semantics of dependent types - formalized ================ # 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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The SOS workshop series aims at being a forum for researchers, students and practitioners interested in new developments, and directions for future investigation, in the field of structural operational semantics. Since 2012, the EXPRESS and SOS communities have joined forces and organised a combined EXPRESS/SOS workshop on the formal semantics of systems and programming concepts, and on the expressiveness of mathematical models of computation. Topics of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited to): - expressiveness and comparison of models of computation (process algebras, event structures, Petri nets, rewrite systems) - expressiveness and comparison of programming models (distributed, component-based, object-oriented, service-oriented); - logics for concurrency (modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics and resource logics); - analysis techniques for concurrent systems; - theory of structural operational semantics (meta-theory, category-theoretic approaches, congruence results); - comparison of structural operational semantics to other formal semantics approaches - applications and case studies of structural operational semantics; - software tools that automate, or are based on, structural operational semantics. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We solicit two types of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages). * Short papers (up to 5 pages, not included in the workshop proceedings) Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is only allowed for short papers; full papers must be unpublished. All submissions should adhere to the EPTCS format (http://www.eptcs.org), and submission is performed through the EXPRESS/SOS 2015 EasyChair server (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2015). The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. INVITED SPEAKER: Davide Sangiorgi IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: June 17, 2015 Paper submission: June 21, 2015 Notification date: July 19, 2015 Camera ready version: July 31, 2015 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Silvia Crafa (University of Padova, Italy) Daniel Gebler (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Johannes Borgstroem (Uppsala University, Sweden) Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana) Silvia Crafa (University of Padova, Italy) Pedro R. D'Argenio (University of Cordoba, Argentina) Daniel Gebler (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Thomas Given-Wilson (Inria, France) Thomas T. Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Daniel Hirschkoff (ENS Lyon, France) Stefan Milius (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany) Mohammad R. Mousavi (Halmstad University, Sweden) Kirstin Peters (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) Damien Pous (ENS Lyon, France) Irek Ulidowski (University of Leister, United Kingdom) From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Wed Apr 8 09:13:05 2015 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 15:13:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 5th International Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'15) Message-ID: =========================================== The Fifth International Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'15) Amsterdam, The Netherlands October 8, 2015 http://www.cyphy.org/ (Held in conjunction with ESWEEK 2015) =========================================== Scope ======= Cyber physical systems (CPSs) combine computing and networking power with physical components. They enable innovation in a wide range of domains including robotics; smart homes, vehicles, and buildings; medical implants; and future-generation sensor networks. CyPhy'15 brings together researchers and practitioners working on modeling, simulation, and evaluation of CPS, based on a broad interpretation of these areas, to collect and exchange expertise from a diverse set of disciplines. The workshop places particular focus on techniques and components to enable and support virtual prototyping and testing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects of cyber-physical systems: - Foundations: models of computation, modeling and simulation languages for hybrid and cyber-?physical systems, including hybrid automata and hybrid process theory, as well as other integrations of control-?theoretic and discrete-?event models; - Methods: Specifications and evaluation of processes for rigorous modeling, testing, simulation, and verification of new cyber-?physical systems; - Case studies: Development of industrial or research ?oriented cyber?-physical systems in domains such as robotics, smart systems (homes, vehicles, buildings), medical and healthcare devices, future generation networks; and - Tools: Evaluation of novel research tools, comparisons of state of the art tools in industrial practice. Important Dates =============== Submissions: June 10, 2015 Notifications: July 10, 2015 Camera-Ready: August 3, 2015 Workshop: October 8, 2015 Submission Types ================ Submissions types: 1) research papers (max. 15 pages, LNCS format); 2) positions papers (max. 4 pages, not published); and 3) tool demonstrations (max. 10 pages, LNCS format). Research papers will be judged for technical novelty and scientific merit. Any previous publication in any form must be explicitly identified and cited on the first page of the submission. Papers in all other categories will be judged on novelty, clarity, accessibility, and suitability for a high quality presentation and discussion at the workshop. Proceedings =========== Submissions of type 1 and 3 will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer. If the quality of the submissions warrants, a special issue of an archival journal will be negotiated for the best submissions (subject to confirmation, and an additional round of review). Submission Instructions ====================== Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, not exceed the respective page limits (including figures and references), and be submitted in PDF format through the following submission website. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cyphy15 Except for regular research papers, the paper category must be indicated at the end of the title in parenthesis at the time of the initial submission and in the final camera ready version. Simultaneous submission to other venues with a formal publication (workshops, conferences, symposia, and journals) is not allowed. Duplicated submissions or other types of plagiarism will result in rejection and a report will be sent to the corresponding institution's dean or manager. Papers not adhering to the format or page limit may be rejected without a review. Invited Speaker ============= Maurice Heemels, Eindhoven University of Technology Committees ============ General Chair Walid Taha, Halmstad & Rice Universities Program Chairs Christian Berger, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University Program Committee Jakob Axelsson, SICS and M?lardalen University Christian Berger, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg Manuela Bujorianu, University of Warwick Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University Daisuke Ishii, Tokyo Institute of Technology Zhiyun Lin, Zhejiang University Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University Wojciech Mostowski, Halmstad University Michel Reniers, Eindhoven University of Technology Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University Maytham Safar, Kuwait University Bernhard Sch?tz, TU M?nchen Martin Steffen, Oslo University Frits Vaandrager, Radboud University Nijmegen Publicity Chair Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University Advisory Committee Manfred Broy, Technische Universit?t M?nchen Karl Iagnemma, MIT Karl Henrik Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania Pieter Mosterman, McGill University Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University Walid Taha, Halmstad & Rice Universities -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iliano at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Apr 9 10:57:30 2015 From: iliano at andrew.cmu.edu (Iliano Cervesato) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:57:30 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2015: second call for papers Message-ID: <5526935A.5040800@cmu.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement] ======================================================================= Second 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) * Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Para?ba) * Marc Lasson (Inria) 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, which will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science series (EPTCS). 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 heunen at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Apr 9 11:03:30 2015 From: heunen at cs.ox.ac.uk (Chris Heunen) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:03:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QPL 2015: Last call for papers Message-ID: LAST 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 available 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 elaine at mat.ufmg.br Thu Apr 9 11:45:52 2015 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 12:45:52 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2015 -- 3rd cfp (with a deadline extension) Message-ID: [ Apologies for multiple copies. Please, notice the extended submission deadline. ] LSFA 2015 - FINAL 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 (abstracts): Sunday, April 19 (extended) * Submission (full and short papers): Sunday, April 26 (extended) * Notification: Sunday, June 7 * Preliminary proceedings version due: Sunday, June 21 * 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) * Sheila Veloso (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... URL: From zijiang.yang at wmich.edu Thu Apr 9 10:05:38 2015 From: zijiang.yang at wmich.edu (Zijiang James Yang) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:05:38 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TrustSoft 2015: Call for papers Message-ID: <906940D9-A307-4CDC-B75B-8DA54AC7AC4A@wmich.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Trustworthy Software Systems August 20, 2015, Helsinki, Finland https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/trustsoft2015/ held in conjunction with IEEE TrustCom-15 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/ Software has transformed the daily lives of people for the better. The increasing pervasion and importance of software in information society, however, has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities. Although the research in software trustworthiness has made tremendous progress in recent years, national infrastructure, corporations and individuals still suffer from software failures. This workshop aims at providing a forum for continuously discussing the latest academic and industrial research results related to trustworthy software systems. Scope and Interests Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Requirements acquisition of software trustworthiness ? Software specification and verification ? Correctness by design, construction and compilation ? Software analysis and testing ? Integrating methods and their theories ? Measurement and evaluation of trustworthy software ? Dependable and secure computing environment construction ? Cryptographic and privacy aspects of trustworthy software ? Software runtime monitor, control and evolution ? Case studies and tools ? Mobile application trust ? Malware detection ? User perception of software trustworthiness ? Trust in human-software interaction and user interface trust ? Software quality and reputation evaluation ? Software as a Service and its applications ? Software trust management ? Application or industrial experience of trustworthy software Submission Instructions Papers submitted to the workshop should be written in English conforming to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). The paper should be submitted through the workshop submission system at the workshop website. The length of the papers should not exceed 6 pages + 2 pages for over length charges. Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS CPS and submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to special issues of reputable SCI/EI-indexed journals. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop and present the paper. Important Dates Submission deadline: May 1st, 2015 Authors notification: May 31, 2015 Camera-ready due: July 1, 2015 Registration: July 1, 2015 Program Co-Chairs Zijiang Yang, Western Michigan University, USA Ting Liu, Xi?an Jiaotong University, China PC Members Mohamed Elwakil, Cario University, Eygpt Ivancic Franjo, Google / Columbia Univ, USA Malay Ganai, Atrenta, USA Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria / Stony Brook Univ. USA Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland Jian Liu, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jin Liu, Wuhan University, China Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Shubo Liu, Wuhan University, China / Western Michigan University, USA Mahmoud Said, Jordan Univ. of Science and Technology, Jordan Chao Shen, Xi?an Jiaotong University, China Stavros Tripakis, Aalto University, Finland / UC Berkeley, USA Chao Wang, Virginia Tech, USA Liqiang Wang, Univ. of Wyoming, USA Ping Yang, Binghamton University, USA From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Fri Apr 10 05:42:50 2015 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:42:50 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Continuity, Computability, Constructivity 2015; call for submission Message-ID: <123AA090-6AC4-435E-8CA2-C2E0DCC5A0C7@math.uni-siegen.de> Continuity, Computability, Constructivity ? From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2015) Schloss Aspenstein, Kochel am See (near Munich) 14-18 September 2015 Call for papers http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/ccc2015/ CCC is a workshop series bringing together researchers from real analysis, computability theory, and constructive mathematics. The overall aim is to apply logical methods in these disciplines to provide a sound foundation for obtaining exact and provably correct algorithms for computations with real numbers and related analytical data, which are of increasing importance in safety critical applications and scientific computation. Previous workshops have been held in Cologne 2009, Trier 2012, Gregynog 2013, and Ljubljana 2014. One outcome of the 2009 workshop series is the creation of the EU funded research network COMPUTAL (Computable analysis ? theoretical and applied aspects) which supports research visits from Europe to Russia, South-Africa, and Japan and vice versa. This workshop also hosts the fourth COMPUTAL workshop, but is open to all researchers in the area. The workshop will take place in Kochel am See at the border of the alps. Scope: The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of exact real number computation effective topology Scott's domain theory Weihrauch's type two theory of effectivity category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data hierarchies of unsolvability and related areas. Invited Speakers: Mart?n Escard? (Birmingham, UK) Daniel da Silva Gra?a (Faro, Portugal) Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy, France) Vassilis Gregoriades (Darmstadt, Germany) Takayuki Kihara (JAIST, Japan) Thomas Powell (Innsbruck, Austria) Tutorial Speakers: Andr? Nies (Auckland, New Zealand) Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau, France) Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2015 Upload your submission via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccc20151 Location: The workshop takes place in the Georg-von-Vollmar Akademie, Schloss Aspenstein, a small conference center in Kochel am See at the border of the alps. Pre-Registration As the number of rooms at Schloss Aspenstein is limited, pre-registration is recommended. Please send an email to m.seisenberger at swansea.ac.uk . Programme Committee: Andrej Bauer(Ljubljana) Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK) Vasco Brattka (Munich, Germany) Petrus Potgieter (Pretoria, South Africa) Victor Selivanov (Novosibirsk, Russia) Dieter Spreen (Siegen) (chair). Organizing Committee: Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK) Peter Hertling (Munich, Germany) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea, UK) Dieter Spreen (Siegen). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrei.paskevich at lri.fr Fri Apr 10 06:33:32 2015 From: andrei.paskevich at lri.fr (Andrei Paskevich) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:33:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last 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 dominic.p.mulligan at googlemail.com Fri Apr 10 10:32:36 2015 From: dominic.p.mulligan at googlemail.com (Dominic Mulligan) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:32:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Participation: South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar Message-ID: We apologise for any spam. Please distribute widely on internal mailing lists and to other potentially interested parties. Thank you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) Thursday, 30th April 2015 Wolfson College, University of Cambridge =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= S-REPLS is a new and informal meeting for those with a professional interest in programming language theory in the South of England region, whether they be working in industry or academia. The inaugural S-REPLS meeting will be held on Thursday 30th April at Wolfson College, Cambridge. The event is hosted by members of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. There will be no charge for the event, though we will appreciate prior notice of attendance for catering purposes. Our invited speaker is Conor McBride and our full programme of talks, invited and volunteered, is: * Conor McBride, Strathclyde The dependent lollipop * Jose Calderon, York Improving implicit parallelism * Alastair Donaldson, Imperial Many-core compiler fuzzing * Laurence Tratt, King's Fine-grained language composition * Tony Hoare, Microsoft Graphical models of concurrent program execution Further information on the event, including full abstracts for the talks and information on how to reach Wolfson College, is available from the S-REPLS website: http://bit.ly/1FDUgBj If you would like to attend, please fill in the following Doodle poll http://doodle.com/n93sqw86sa7azc3m with your name before **Wednesday 15th April** so that we can finalise numbers for catering. We encourage everybody interested in this or future meetings to sign up to our mailing list where all future notices about S-REPLS will be sent. To subscribe, visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/srepls S-REPLS is organised by Ohad Kammar, Anil Madhavapeddy, Dominic Mulligan and Jeremy Yallop with funding kindly provided by OCaml Labs. From jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de Fri Apr 10 10:37:25 2015 From: jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de (Janis Voigtlaender) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:37:25 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: WPTE 2015 Second International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Message-ID: <5527E025.4060508@informatik.uni-bonn.de> FINAL 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. Invited Speaker =============== Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) 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 detlef.plump at york.ac.uk Fri Apr 10 13:32:26 2015 From: detlef.plump at york.ac.uk (Detlef Plump) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:32:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GCM 2015: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: ============================================== GCM 2015 - Second Call for Papers 6th International Workshop on GRAPH COMPUTATION MODELS 20 July, 2015, L'Aquila, Italy co-located with ICGT 2015, part of STAF 2015 http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~det/GCM2015/cfp.html ============================================== The aim of GCM 2015 is to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of computation models based on graphs and graph transformation techniques. The workshop promotes the cross-fertilizing exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and students from the different communities interested in the foundations, applications, and implementations of graph computation models and related areas. 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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URL: From aoto at nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp Sun Apr 12 21:34:30 2015 From: aoto at nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp (Takahito Aoto) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:34:30 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: IWC & CoCo 2015 Message-ID: <20150413.103430.525842512574422004.aoto@nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp> This is a joint call for papers and provers for IWC 2015 and CoCo 2015. ===================================================================== Second 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: * Koji Nakazawa (Kyoto University) 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/conferences/?conf=iwc2015 ====================================================================== Second Call for Provers CoCo 2015 4th Confluence Competition 2 August, 2015, Berlin, Germany http://coco.nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/2015/ ====================================================================== Confluence provides a general notion of determinism and has been conceived as one of the central properties of rewriting. Confluence had been investigated in many formalisms of rewriting such as first-order rewriting, lambda-calculi, higher-order rewriting, constrained rewriting, conditional rewriting, etc. Recently, several new implementations of confluence tools are reported and interest for proving/disproving confluence "automatically" has been grown. The confluence competition aims to foster the development of techniques for proving/disproving confluence automatically by a dedicated competition among such tools. The 4th Confluence Competition (CoCo 2015) will run ***live*** during the 4th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2015), collocated with CADE-25 in Berlin, Germany. The following categories will be run: * TRS: confluence of first-order term rewrite systems * CTRS: confluence of conditional term rewrite systems * CPF: certification * HRS: confluence of higher-order term rewrite systems (new!) Besides these categories, new demonstration categories will be considered if there are tools and problems dedicated to those categories. These categories are for demonstrating new attempts and/or merits of particular tools. Submissions of new confluence problems are also welcome. For more information including examples of new categories to be considered, platforms, competition rules and problems, see the webpage of CoCo 2015 indicated above. IMPORTANT DATES: * request for demonstration categories May 31, 2015 * tool registration July 19, 2015 * tool submission July 26, 2015 * problem submission July 28, 2015 * competition August 2, 2015 REQUEST FOR NEW CATEGORIES: Request for new categories is via the contact email address. Please send the following information at your earliest convenience: * category type (demonstration category only) * description of problems and semantics (rewrite steps, confluence, etc.) together with adequate references * a proposal of the input format (if necessary) Requests for new categories may be rejected for technical reasons. SUBMISSION OF NEW PROBLEMS: Submissions of new confluence problems are welcome. Please use the web interface of Cops (Confluence Problems) database linked from the webpage of CoCo 2015. The HRS extension of Cops is also available. REGISTRATION/SUBMISSION: Tool registration is via the contact email address. Every tool registration should also contain a one page system description. Tool submission will be via StarExec. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: * Takahito Aoto Tohoku University (chair) * Nao Hirokawa JAIST * Julian Nagele University of Innsbruck * Naoki Nishida Nagoya University * Harald Zankl University of Innsbruck ADVISORY BOARD: * Beniamino Accattoli INRIA, Paris * Yuki Chiba JAIST CONTACT: coco-sc [AT] jaist.ac.jp From david.delahaye at cnam.fr Sun Apr 12 12:36:47 2015 From: david.delahaye at cnam.fr (david.delahaye at cnam.fr) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:36:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline (April 27, 2015): SETS 2015 Message-ID: <814fc914556ad123cc5e9870929ff5a6.squirrel@webmail.cnam.fr> ** Extended Deadline: April 27, 2015 ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 published as online proceedings in the CEUR workshop proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org). 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: April 20, 2015 (extended) Submission deadline: April 27, 2015 (extended) 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 gjbarthe at gmail.com Mon Apr 13 10:56:07 2015 From: gjbarthe at gmail.com (Gilles Barthe) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:56:07 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IACR School on Computer-aided Cryptography, June 1-4, 2015, U. Maryland Message-ID: Title: IACR School on Computer-aided Cryptography Dates: 01-04 June 2015 Place: University of Maryland, College Park, USA URL: https://www.easycrypt.info/SchoolUMD2015 Registration deadline: there is no deadline, but space is limited The goal of the school is to provide participants with an overview of computer-aided cryptography with a special focus on computer-aided cryptographic proofs using the EasyCrypt (https://www.easycrypt.info) tool. Lectures discussing the theoretical aspects of computer-aided cryptography will be complemented by hands-on lab sessions, covering all aspects of the tool, from the basic aspects of formalizing cryptographic schemes and properties to advanced code-based proof techniques. Invited lectures will cover more specialized computer-aided cryptography techniques and tools. # Registration The school is free of charge for participants, but the number of places is limited. To register, send an email to team at easycrypt.info. We provide a limited number of travel stipends to America-based students. Please indicate in your registration if you want to apply for a stipend. # Speakers The school will be delivered by the EasyCrypt team (IMDEA Software Institute and Inria), and by guest lecturers. Confirmed speakers include: Fran?ois Dupressoir Benjamin Gr?goire Benedikt Schmidt Alley Stoughton Pierre-Yves Strub # Target Audience The main objective of the school will be to give participants with some background in cryptography the necessary knowledge in formal methods to formalize cryptographic definitions and perform computer-aided cryptographic proofs in EasyCrypt. Furthermore, the school can also serve as an introduction to provable security for participants with a background in formal methods. # Sponsors The school is sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), IMDEA Software Institute, Inria, and University of Maryland. More details can be found at: https://www.easycrypt.info/SchoolUMD2015 From schoepp at tcs.ifi.lmu.de Mon Apr 13 12:26:05 2015 From: schoepp at tcs.ifi.lmu.de (=?UTF-8?B?VWxyaWNoIFNjaMO2cHA=?=) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:26:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOLA 2015: Second Call for Talk Proposals Message-ID: <552BEE1D.9030803@tcs.ifi.lmu.de> SECOND CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS ______________________________________________________________________ LOLA 2015: Syntax and Semantics of Low Level Languages Sunday, 5 July 2015, Kyoto, Japan A satellite workshop of ICALP/LICS http://lola15.tcs.ifi.lmu.de ______________________________________________________________________ /Important Dates/ Abstract submission: Monday, 20 April 2015 Author notification: Friday, 1 May 2015 LOLA 2015 workshop: Sunday, 5 July 2015 /Invited Speakers/ Katsuhiro Ueno, Tohoku University, Japan Other invited speakers to be announced. /Workshop Description/ It has been understood since the late 1960s that tools and structures arising in mathematical logic and proof theory can usefully be applied to the design of high level programming languages, and to the development of reasoning principles for such languages. Yet low level languages, such as machine code, and the compilation of high level languages into a low level ones have traditionally been seen as having little or no essential connection to logic. However, a fundamental discovery of this past decade has been that low level languages are also governed by logical principles. From this key observation has emerged an active and fascinating new research area at the frontier of logic and computer science. The practically-motivated design of logics reflecting the structure of low level languages (such as heaps, registers and code pointers) and low level properties of programs (such as resource usage) goes hand in hand with some of the most advanced contemporary research in semantics and proof theory, including classical realizability and forcing, double orthogonality, parametricity, linear logic, game semantics, uniformity, categorical semantics, explicit substitutions, abstract machines, implicit complexity and resource bounded programming. The LOLA workshop, affiliated with LICS 2015, will bring together researchers interested in many aspects of the relationship between logic and low level languages and programs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Typed assembly languages - Certified assembly programming - Certified and certifying compilation - Relaxed memory models - Proof-carrying code - Program optimization - Modal logic and realizability in machine code - Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code - Parametricity, modules and existential types - General references, Kripke models and recursive types - Continuations and concurrency - Implicit complexity, sublinear programming and Turing machines - Closures and explicit substitutions - Linear logic and separation logic - Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis - Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects /Submission Information/ LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on work in progress, overviews of larger programmes, position presentations and short tutorials as well as more traditional research talks describing new results. 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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 19, 2015 Paper and submission deadline: April 26, 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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News: invited talk by David MacQueen] Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop Thursday September 3, 2015, Vancouver, Canada (immediately following ICFP and preceding OCaml Users and Developers Workshop) 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 Invited speaker --------------- We are happy to announce the invited speaker for ML 2015: David MacQueen (Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago) 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 hirokawa at jaist.ac.jp Mon Apr 13 23:50:43 2015 From: hirokawa at jaist.ac.jp (Nao Hirokawa) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:50:43 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: LCC 2015 Message-ID: <20150414125043.70fc92ee79e50164ebd13864@jaist.ac.jp> ====================================================================== Second 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: * Olaf Beyersdorff (University of Leeds) * Miko?aj Boja?czyk (Warsaw University) * Akitoshi Kawamura (University of Tokyo) * Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA, Nancy) * ... 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 matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Tue Apr 14 10:04:12 2015 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:04:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Announcement of HOPA: Workshop on Higher-Order Program Analysis, 4th July, Kyoto, Japan (LICS/ICALP) Message-ID: <20150414140412.GA24648@chilon.net> Please find below the call for submissions for HOPA, a workshop on higher-order program analysis. Best regards, Matthew Hague HOPA Workshop on Higher-Order Program Analysis Kyoto, Japan 4th July, Part of LICS/ICALP 2015 http://hopa.cs.rhul.ac.uk The HOPA workshop aims to bring together the various growing communities involved in the analysis of higher-order programs. The focus of the workshop is both on tools and techniques for practical analysis, and on the dissemination of new theoretical results. Important Dates Submission deadline: 31st May, 2015. Notification: 7th June, 2015. Main event: 4th July, 2015. Invited Speakers Hiroshi Unno, University of Tsukuba, Japan Andrjez Murawski, University of Warwick, UK Scope Submissions are encouraged in the form of tool presentations, exposition of best results, and topic tutorials or surveys. The emphasis is on building bridges between communities. Areas include but are by no means limited to the theory and practice of k-CFA, CFA2 and its variants, Higher-order and collapsible pushdown systems, Higher-order recursion schemes, Liquid types, Refinement types, Static analysis of higher-order programs, Symbolic execution of higher-order programs, and Verification of higher-order programs. Publication There will be no formal proceedings of the workshop. Work presented may be submitted elsewhere for formal publication, or, indeed, may have already been formally published. Abstracts will be made available online via this website and on the FLoC USB stick. We encourage participants with analysis tools to make these tools available on our website. This can be done either by providing us with source tarballs or zip files, or by providing us with links to the tool homepage as part of the submission. Submissions may range from 1 page abstracts through to 15 page tutorials or surveys in the llncs format. Please indicate on your submission how long you would like to talk for. This may range from 10 minutes for cool new ideas, or 45-60 minutes for full tutorials or surveys. Submission will be via easychair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hopa2015 Program Chairs Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Program Committee Lars Bergstrom, Mozilla, USA Michael Greenberg, Princeton University, USA Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan Sylvain Salvati, INRIA, Bordeaux, France Ryosuke Sato, Tokyo University, Japan Olivier Serre, LIAFA, France Tachio Terauchi, JAIST, Japan Mitchell Wand, Northeastern University, USA Steering Committee Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Ranjit Jhala, University of California, USA Naoki Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan Luke Ong, University of Oxford, UK David Van Horn, University of Maryland, USA Enquiries can be made to matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk From dreyer at mpi-sws.org Tue Apr 14 15:02:23 2015 From: dreyer at mpi-sws.org (Derek Dreyer) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:02:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLMW 2015 talks are now viewable online Message-ID: I'm pleased to announce that videos of the talks from this year's ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW 2015) are now viewable online at the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_vfyEYrgJND3jVhZeVUdzA (The URL also includes some other talks from the special session at POPL'15 in remembrance of Radhia Cousot and Susan Horwitz.) More information about the PLMW 2015 workshop programme is available here: http://plmw15.iisc-seal.net/ Enjoy! Derek From fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr Wed Apr 15 08:29:38 2015 From: fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr (fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:29:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALCO Early Ideas 2015 : Call for Contributions Message-ID: <20150415122938.1670D1EB216@jabiru.ens-lyon.fr> ********************************************************** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CALCO Early Ideas 2015 *********************************************************** A satellite event of CALCO 2015 6th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science In cooperation with ACM SIGLOG June 24 - 26, 2015 Nijmegen, Netherlands http://coalg.org/calco15/ei.html ========================================================== Submission: May 8, 2015 Author notification: May 22, 2015 Final version: June 5, 2015 ========================================================== The programme of CALCO 2015 will include special sessions reserved for the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, featuring presentations of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. Attendance at the workshop is open to all conference participants. The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work, 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. 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 available at the workshop. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Submissions will be handled via the CALCO 2015 Early Ideas EasyChair site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2015ei and will be evaluated by the CALCO PC chairs. Submissions should be no more than 2 pages long in the format specified by LIPIcs. The volume of selected papers will be made available in the arXiv and on the CALCO pages. Authors will retain copyright, and are also encouraged to disseminate the results by subsequent publication elsewhere. From olhotak at uwaterloo.ca Wed Apr 15 10:34:31 2015 From: olhotak at uwaterloo.ca (=?utf-8?B?T25kxZllaiBMaG90w6Fr?=) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:34:31 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2015 Call for Participation Message-ID: <20150415143431.GB11103@uwaterloo.ca> ****************************************************************** ECOOP 2015 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 5-10 July 2015, Prague, Czech Republic ****************************************************************** The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the premier international conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. The 29th edition of the ECOOP conferences series will take place from 5-10 July, 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic. ------------ REGISTRATION ------------ The early registration deadline for reduced fees is June 6, 2015. Registration information is available here: http://2015.ecoop.org/attending/registration ------- PROGRAM ------- The full program is available here: http://2015.ecoop.org/dayprogram/program-ecoop15/ The program of the main research papers track is available here: http://2015.ecoop.org/track/research-track#program From David.Pearce at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Wed Apr 15 15:41:02 2015 From: David.Pearce at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (David J. Pearce) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:41:02 +1200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers: ECOOP'15 Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: ECOOP 2015 Doctoral Symposium ============================= 5th July 2015, Prague, Czech Republic *Final Call for Papers* http://2015.ecoop.org/track/ecoop15-ds Important Dates --------------- Submission: 19th April Notification: 1st May Symposium: 5th July Program ------- The 2015 Doctoral Symposium provides a forum for both early- and late-stage PhD students to present their research and get detailed feedback and advice on both their work and their future. This year the symposium includes an invited talk by Mario Wolczko from Oracle Labs on the realities of industrial research in comparison to common student expectations. The academic panel, who will be delivering talks and providing accepted students with in-depth feedback on their research, features: Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University Yu David Liu, Binghamton University Submission ---------- Interested CS students who expect to have at least a year left until their defence are invited to submit. Junior students should submit a position paper of 6-10 pages, and senior students should submit a thesis abstract up to 4 pages. Submissions can be uploaded at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecoopds15 See http://2015.ecoop.org/track/ecoop15-ds for more details on the submission process and the student presentations at the symposium. Committee --------- Timothy Jones, Victoria University of Wellington (Chair) Dmitri Makarov, University of Lugano Amanj Sherwany, Universit? della Svizzera italiana Shiyi Wei, Virginia Tech From james.cheney at gmail.com Thu Apr 16 10:21:08 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:21:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in language-based security and provenance Message-ID: A postdoctoral research position has become available in LFCS, University of Edinburgh, suitable for candidates holding a PhD in foundations of programming languages, databases, or language-based security, ideally with experience applying principles in practical systems. The position is available July 1, 2015 (the start date is very flexible) and is for 12 months initially, with possible extension contingent on availability of funding. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jcheney/lbps.html == Project description == The position is part of a multi-year project on Language-Based Foundations for Provenance Security. Provenance, or metadata describing the process by which a computation produced some data or by which a data resource has been constructed over time, is important in a variety of contexts, including science, intelligence gathering, and audit of business data, but so far there is relatively poor understanding of the theoretical foundations of provenance. The overarching goal of this project is to develop foundational understanding of provenance based on ideas from programming languages and language-based security, and in particular, how the transparency and accountability goals of provenance tracking might strengthen or undermine traditional security policies and mechanisms. Furthermore, provenance has recently been identified as a potential contributor to detecting so-called advanced persistent threats, or attackers who gradually infiltrate a system in order to achieve long-term objectives, and there is an opportunity in this project to contribute to this fast-moving area. Previous research experience concerning provenance or related topics is desirable but not necessary. The successful applicant will play an important role in one or more of the following project tasks: * Enrich and extend formal models of provenance from simple programming languages or database query languages to handle features such as concurrency, references, side-effects, notions of location, time, or boundaries of control. * Analyze existing proposals for provenance security mechanisms, and identify shortcomings or generalizations leading to a richer understanding of policies and correct mechanisms for provenance * Develop efficient techniques for integrating provenance-tracking techniques into programming languages or other frameworks. * Formalize and verify provenance techniques in mechanized proof systems or dependently-typed languages such as Coq, Agda or Isabelle/HOL. For more information about the project background, please consult our recent publications page here: http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/research/groups-and-projects/database/provenance/#provenance-and-security == Application instructions == A complete application consists of a CV and a 1-2 page research statement summarizing your background, previous research experience, and how they relate to this position. Applications must be submitted by 5pm GMT on May 22, 2015, through the University of Edinburgh recruitment site: http://vacancies.ed.ac.uk Reference number: 033051 or directly by following this link: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=033051 Interviews will likely be held during the first half of December. == About the University of Edinburgh and LFCS == The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics brings together world-class research groups in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The School led the UK 2008 and 2014 RAE rankings in volume of internationally recognised or internationally excellent research. The School of Informatics also holds an Athena SWAN Silver Award, which recognises a significant record of activity and achievement by the School in promoting equality. The Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science was established by Burstall, Milner and Plotkin in 1986, and is recognized worldwide for groundbreaking research on topics in programming languages, semantics, type theory, proof theory, algorithms and complexity, databases, security, and systems biology. Programming Languages and Foundations is one of the largest research activities in LFCS, including 15 academic staff, 8 postdoctoral researchers, and 10 current PhD students, working on functional programming, types, verification, semantics, software engineering, language-based security and new programming models. We participate in a thriving PL research community across Scotland, with Scottish Programming Languages Seminars hosted every 3-4 months by PL groups at Glasgow, Strathclyde, Heriot-Watt, St. Andrews, Dundee and Edinburgh. For more information about Edinburgh and research activity in PL and security, see these pages: * Explore Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/city) * Programming Languages and Foundations at LFCS (http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/research/groups-and-projects/pl) * Cyber-Security and Privacy at Edinburgh (http://secpriv.inf.ed.ac.uk/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Thu Apr 16 06:49:56 2015 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:49:56 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GraMSec 2015: deadline extended to April 30 (LNCS proceedings) Message-ID: <552F93D4.5040108@irisa.fr> Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline for GraMSec 2015 has been extended until April 30. ************************************************************ GraMSec 2015 The Second International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Co-located with CSF 2015 Verona, Italy - July 13, 2015 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ ************************************************************ ***** New submission deadline: APRIL 30 ***** ***** Springer's LNCS proceedings confirmed ***** 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 workshop's post-proceedings, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec'15 EasyChair web site. IMPORTANT DATES Due to numerous requests, the deadlines have been extended as follows Submission deadline: April 30, 2015 Acceptance notification: June 9, 2015 Camera ready version: June 25, 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 sescobar at dsic.upv.es Fri Apr 17 11:51:34 2015 From: sescobar at dsic.upv.es (Santiago Escobar) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:51:34 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last Call for Papers: UNIF 2015 References: <7D582CF6-4EBD-4DAE-9BA8-47F57267DE5B@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 ruy at cin.ufpe.br Fri Apr 17 12:39:43 2015 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:39:43 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2015 call for nominations (DEADLINE APPROACHING) Message-ID: DEADLINE APPROACHING: April 27th, 2015. 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). Hard copy submissions are not allowed. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should write to Ian Pratt-Hartmann. The prize will be awarded at the ESSLLI summer school in Barcelona. 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URL: From jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de Fri Apr 17 07:50:21 2015 From: jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de (Janis Voigtlaender) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:50:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extended: WPTE 2015 Second International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Message-ID: <5530F37D.8090405@informatik.uni-bonn.de> FINAL 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/ !! Submission deadline is extended until April 24th !! 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. Invited Speaker =============== Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) 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: 24 April 2015 (Extended!) * 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) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Masahiko Sakai (Nagoya University) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) 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 malbos at math.univ-lyon1.fr Thu Apr 16 11:33:14 2015 From: malbos at math.univ-lyon1.fr (Philippe Malbos) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:33:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Conference on Homotopy in Concurrency and Rewriting Message-ID: <552FD63A.6080600@math.univ-lyon1.fr> Conference on ===================================== Homotopy in Concurrency and Rewriting ===================================== June 9-11, 2015 Palaiseau A conference will take place in ?cole Polytechnique (in Palaiseau, near Paris, France) about tools and methods which originate from geometry in concurrency and rewriting. Details can be found on the dedicated webpage: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Samuel.Mimram/hcr.html Presentation ============ The conference on directed algebraic topology, concurrency and rewriting aims at bringing together researchers interested in applying methods originating in topology and in higher-dimensional rewriting. It is motivated by the discovery, over the recent years, of many connections between the study of concurrent processes from a topological point of view and rewriting methods and structures. It will be interested in applications of those fields to problems commonly encountered in computer science, in the study of concurrent and distributed processes, in semantics of programming languages, but also to more theoretical questions arising from the study of structures found in algebraic topology such as operads and higher-dimensional categories. Program ======= The program is still preliminary, and should be updated regularly on the webpage. Tuesday June 9 -------------- * Sanjeevi Krishnan * Steve Oudot * Carlos Simpson * Teimuraz Pirashvili Wednesday June 10 ----------------- * Vladimir Dotsenko * Timothy Porter * Emily Burgunder * Richard Steiner * Marcelo Fiore Thursday June 11 ---------------- * J?r?my Dubut * Dimitri Ara * Viktoriya Ozornova * Albert Burroni Friday June 12 -------------- On Friday will take place the meeting of the ANR project CATHRE on thematics closely related to those of the conference. All participants are welcome to attend to the presentations. Registration =========== The registration is free, but all participants are required to register for practical purposes using the form on the webpage: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Samuel.Mimram/hcr.html#registration Organizers ========== In case of any practical matter, feel free to contact any of the organizers: * Samuel Mimram (?cole Polytechnique) * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit? Paris 7) * Philippe Malbos (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Fri Apr 17 17:08:26 2015 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:08:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP (with deadline extension): (EC)2 - International Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly In-Reply-To: <54E51D4E.9090707@imperial.ac.uk> References: <54E51D4E.9090707@imperial.ac.uk> Message-ID: <5531764A.1070004@imperial.ac.uk> Dear all Extended deadline: 24 April 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. 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 24, 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 m.mazzara at innopolis.ru Fri Apr 17 04:28:02 2015 From: m.mazzara at innopolis.ru (Manuel Mazzara) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:28:02 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PSI 2015 - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 23.4.2015 Message-ID: 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. Conference Chairs Bertrand Meyer ETH, Zurich Irina Virbitskaite A.P. Ershov Institute, Novosibirsk Programme Committee Chairs Manuel Mazzara Innopolis University Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester 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 Publicity Chairs Timur Tsiunchuk Innopolis University Salvatore Distefano Politecnico di Milano Workshop Chairs Shilov Nikolay Nazarbayev U. and Ershov Inst. of Informatics Systems Salvatore Distefano Politecnico di Milano Keynote speakers Hans-Ulrich Heiss, TUB, Germany Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK David Parnas, Middle Road Software 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. Local Organizers Tanya Stanko Innopolis University Inna Baskakova Innopolis University 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 Bjorner, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Naille Boukharaev, Kazan Federal University, Russia 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 Conference Secretary Inna Baskakova Innopolis University 42 Profsoyuznaya str., 420100, Kazan, Russia Tel: +7 (843) 203-92-53 (Kazan) i.baskakova at innopolis.ru Important Dates * April 23, 2015: abstract submission * April 30, 2015: submission deadline * June 3, 2015: notification of acceptance * August 25-27, 2015: the conference dates * November 1, 2015: camera ready papers due 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. 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Project: Real World Data with Dependent Types: Integrity and Interoperation Strathclyde supervisor: Dr Conor McBride Microsoft supervisor: Dr Don Syme Starting: October 2015 Tuition fees: fully funded or substantially subsidised, depending on residency status Stipend: ?14,057K Contact: Conor, by 8 May 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Summary Data integrity, manipulation and analysis are key concerns in modern software, for developers and users alike. We are often obliged to work with a corpus of files ? spreadsheets, databases, scripts ? which represent and act on aspects of data in some domain. This project seeks to improve the integrity and efficiency with which we can operate in such a setting by * delivering a language for data models which expresses their conceptual structure, capturing what kinds of things exist in a given context, what data we expect to have about them, and when those data are consistent; * delivering a language for data views relative to a model, characterizing the expected content of a particular spreadsheet or database, whether considered a data source or an output; * exploiting the descriptions of models and views to support a richer tool chain for data editing, auditing, integration and analysis, whether by internal spreadsheet calculation or database query, or by interfacing with programming languages; * exploring the art of the possible in automating the discovery of views and models from extant data. Dependent type systems provide a uniform formalism for the contextualisation of data and the characterization of its consistency. They use types both as a data representation language and as a logic, and they do so in a manner amenable to mechanical checking. However, the prescriptive dependent type systems of Coq, Agda or Idris are not yet attuned to the open enumerations and extensible record types that we need to build up models of a data domain in a compositional, descriptive way. This project thus offers a broad spectrum of activity, encompassing theoretical innovation, language design, and tool development in support of existing applications and programming languages, notably Excel and F#. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Small Print * More detail about the problem and the approach envisaged can be found in this blogpost https://pigworker.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/model-the-world-view-your-data-control-their-chaos/ and in these slides https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/dependent-up.pdf * Our hope is that the student will seek to undertake a paid internship at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, at some point during the PhD. * We are based here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Torre+Livingstone,+University+of+Strathclyde,+16+Richmond+St,+Glasgow+G1+1XQ/@55.8611055,-4.2435337,17z/ That's in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland, an amazing place. * We actively seek to promote diversity in our workplace. From michele.loreti at unifi.it Fri Apr 17 03:12:13 2015 From: michele.loreti at unifi.it (Michele Loreti) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:12:13 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CfP: TGC'15 - The 10th Int'l Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing Message-ID: <67101975-BE95-4E1D-9B48-E443EB213031@unifi.it> [Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR PAPERS TGC'15 10th International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing Madrid, Spain 31 August-1 September 2015 http://tgc2015.disia.unifi.it/ The Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing (TGC) is an international venue dedicated to secure and reliable computation in the so-called global computers, i.e., those computational abstractions emerging in large-scale infrastructures such as service-oriented architectures, autonomic systems, and cloud computing. # Highlights: - Co-located with CONCUR 2015 (Madrid, Spain) from August, 31st to September, 1st - Parallel submission to CONCUR 2015 allowed - Keynote speakers: * Gianluigi Zavattaro from the University of Bologna, Italy (joint with CONCUR), * Andrey Rybalchenko from Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK. - Deadline for abstract submission: May, 18th # Topic The TGC series focuses on providing frameworks, tools, algorithms, and protocols for rigorously designing, verifying, and implementing open-ended, large-scaled applications. The related models of computation incorporate code and data mobility over distributed networks that connect heterogeneous devices and have dynamically changing topologies. We solicit papers in all areas of global computing, including (but not limited to): - languages, semantic models, and abstractions - security, trust, and reliability - privacy and information flow policies - algorithms and protocols - resource management - model checking, theorem proving, and static analysis - tool support # Important dates - Deadline for abstract submission: May, 18th (AoE) - Deadline for paper submission: May, 25th (AoE) - Notification to authors: July, 2nd # Programme committee - Michele Loreti, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (co-chair) - Pierre Ganty, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (co-chair) - Alessandro Armando, DIBRIS, Universita' di Genova, Italy - Michael Rusinowitch, LORIA, INRIA Nancy, France - Fabio Gadducci, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? di Pisa, Italy - Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK - Emilio Tuosto, Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK - Pedro R. D'Argenio, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba - CONICET, Argentina - Rolf Hennicker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany - Matteo Maffei, CISPA, Saarland University, Germany - Ilaria Castellani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France - Myrto Arapinis, University of Birmingham, UK - Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece - Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark - Davide Sangiorgi, Universita' di Bologna, Italy - Giorgio Delzanno, DIBRIS, Universita' di Genova, Italy - P. Madhusudan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Luis Caires, Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est - Gennaro Parlato, University of Southampton - Marco Carbone, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark # Submission instructions TGC follows the instructions of CONCUR: submissions will be in electronic form via EasyChair. The usage of pdflatex and the LIPIcs style file are mandatory: no changes to font size, page geometry, etc. are permitted. Authors are invited to submit a draft of at most 13 pages including references. Submissions not in the correct format or submitted after the deadline will not be considered. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee and the reviewers. As usual, for an accepted paper one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference. Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not submitted for publication elsewhere, with the exception of CONCUR. Concurrent submissions to CONCUR 2015 and TGC 2015 are allowed, and in fact encouraged, for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of such double submissions should flag them to the program chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the ?Regular Paper submitted to CONCUR? paper category). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR and TGC. CONCUR's timeline is ahead of TGC's; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered automatically withdrawn from TGC. Contributions will be published in post-proceedings shortly after the conference. The aim is to give authors the opportunity to take into account discussions and suggestions at the conference. As in all previous editions of TGC, the post-proceedings will appear as a volume in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. # PC chairs - Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain) - Michele Loreti (Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) From bec at cs.colorado.edu Sat Apr 18 12:59:52 2015 From: bec at cs.colorado.edu (Bor-Yuh Evan Chang) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:59:52 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at Colorado in program analysis and program synthesis Message-ID: The Programming Languages and Verification Group at the University of Colorado Boulder (CUPLV) is looking for exceptional candidates for a postdoctoral research associate in the area of program analysis and program synthesis. The position is on the Fixr project, a large project examining approaches to automatically mine, understand, and transfer bug fixes in large application frameworks, such as Android. The ideal candidate has a strong background in the area of programming languages, software engineering and/or formal methods, as well as an enthusiasm for mentoring junior researchers. The postdoctoral researcher would collaborate with Profs. Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, and Pavol Cerny and have the opportunity to lead this ambitious project that combines program analysis, probabilistic reasoning, and program synthesis. The position is for two years, with a possible extension for additional years. A transition plan to a research assistant professor position is possible for highly-qualified candidates. While not required, teaching opportunities will also be available. Compensation is highly competitive and commensurate with experience. To apply, please send an email to Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (bec at cs.colorado.edu) with a CV and contact information for two to three references. Please apply by May 8 for full consideration, though applications will be considered until the position is filled. Our group has active projects in areas such as the following: - program analysis - model checking - verification and synthesis of hybrid and embedded systems - program synthesis For more information about our projects, please see: http://pl.cs.colorado.edu/ Boulder, located at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills, is consistently awarded top-rankings for health, education, and quality of life. It is also home to a concentration of high-tech industry and its vibrant startup community. Located 30 miles from downtown Denver, there are convenient public transportation options between Boulder and the Denver metro area. The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. 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TOPICS Authors can submit presentations describing novel work in progress on any of the topics within the scope of the conference. They do not need to contain final results, but research that may lead to future interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Submission deadline: June 26, 2015 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 7 days after submission SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2015 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Each presentation will be allocated 15 minutes in the programme. PUBLICATION The presented work will not appear in the LNCS/LNBI proceedings volume of AlCoB 2015. However, it will be eligible for submission to the post-conference Journal of Computational Biology special issue. REGISTRATION Authors of work in progress have to register to the conference. They will pay a reduced fare. This comprises access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks and lunches. --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protecci?n de avast! Antivirus est? activa. http://www.avast.com From acr31 at cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 20 12:57:30 2015 From: acr31 at cam.ac.uk (Andrew Rice) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:57:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc positions at University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory In-Reply-To: <5535227A.4010105@cam.ac.uk> References: <5535227A.4010105@cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: <55352FFA.3080908@cam.ac.uk> http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/6785/ Applications are invited for up to two Research Associates with a background in programming language theory, design and implementation. The successful candidate will work on the EPSRC-funded CamFort project. The position is jointly within the Digital Technology Group (DTG) and the Cambridge Programming Research Group (CPRG) in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The essence of the project is to extend and apply ideas in program analysis and transformation to programming in computational science. This includes, but is not limited to, (semi)automatic refactoring tools to evolve existing code, test generation tools, the specification and verification of numerical models, and development of new programming approaches to aid future computational science programming. The project webpages contain more information: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/naps/ We seek candidates with a strong background in Computer Science with a particular focus on programming language theory, design and implementation. Candidates must have excellent communication skills and be interested in implementing theoretical ideas. Prior experience with programming in Haskell and/or Fortran would be beneficial. The successful candidate will be based in the Computer Laboratory but will spend time working with researchers in the physical sciences. The general duties of the role include: implementing research ideas to establish their effectiveness on real-world software, identifying and pursing new research within the project, writing up research work for presentation and publication and engagement with other researchers through the organisation of meetings and workshops. Candidates must be able to provide evidence of self-motivated work, an ability to work autonomously, and an ability to acquire new skills quickly when required. Suitable candidates will have a PhD degree in computer science and an excellent programming ability. Any questions regarding the post should be sent via email to Dr Andrew Rice: Andrew.Rice at cl.cam.ac.uk and Professor Alan Mycroft: Alan.Mycroft at cl.cam.ac.uk From Alex.Simpson at fmf.uni-lj.si Mon Apr 20 07:19:39 2015 From: Alex.Simpson at fmf.uni-lj.si (Alex Simpson) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:19:39 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position available Message-ID: <19135ac51623ed08317197d6774e3d57@fmf.uni-lj.si> I am pleased to announce the following PhD position in a types-related area. --- A position is available for a PhD student at the University of Ljubljana in the general research area of modelling and reasoning about computational effects. The precise topic is flexible, and will be decided in combination with the student. The PhD will be supervised by Alex Simpson who is Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics: http://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/si/imenik/32646/ The position will be funded by the EffMath project (see http://math.andrej.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/description.pdf). Full tuition & stipend will be provided. Applicants should have a master's (or equivalent) degree in either mathematics or computer science, and possess some background knowledge relevant to the project area. No knowledge of the Slovene language is required. The student will officially enrol in October 2015 at the University of Ljubljana, which is the largest university in Slovenia. There is an active research group in foundations of computer science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, which includes Andrej Bauer, Matija Pretnar, Alex Simpson and a number of PhD students. As a city, Ljubljana is a beautiful and lively cultural centre, and Slovenia is a welcoming and picturesque country. Interested candidates should contact me by email (Alex.Simpson at fmf.uni-lj.si) as soon as possible. Please include a short CV and a statement of interest. Thanks, Alex From einarj at ifi.uio.no Mon Apr 20 11:08:46 2015 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:08:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in Formal Methods for Cloud Computing in Oslo Message-ID: <3259A1CE-0461-442E-8B16-4F709DF1E23F@ifi.uio.no> Postdoc position in Formal Methods for Cloud Computing in Oslo A postdoc position combining formal methods, static analysis, and semantics with cloud computing and reflection, is available at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. The Postdoc will join an international research team on formal methods for virtualized systems and cloud computing. The position is part of the project CUMULUS: Semantics-based Analyses for Cloud-Aware Computing, funded by the Research Council of Norway. Cloud computing is rapidly becoming the infrastructure of choice for compute- and data-intensive systems, offering pay-as-you-go elastic resource capacity as well as agility to quickly and flexibly deploy new applications. Virtualization technology makes elastic amounts of resources available to a software service; for example, the processing capacity allocated to a service may be dynamically adapted to the needs of the service. Cloud-aware computing refers to a new way of developing applications for cloud deployment, designed for high availability and fine-grained scalability on metered resources. Current trends in cloud computing, such as self-managed software using container technology and Docker, are primary targets for the outcomes of the CUMULUS project. Our main goal is to reason about a cloud-aware application?s resource usage and quality of service by means of static techniques, at design time. Cloud-awareness enables an application to negotiate its own quality of service and opens for dynamic and fine-grained resource management. The project will develop a formal foundation for cloud-aware computing and use this foundation to develop static analysis techniques based on executable models of virtualized systems. The techniques will be used to verify quantitative assertions about the high-level quality of service and low-level resource requirements of cloud-aware applications, for example, the trade-offs between an application?s response time and resource usage when the application scales. In addition to contributing to the research agenda of CUMULUS, the Postdoc will be responsible for organizing the evaluation of the project outcomes. The Postdoc will, if interested, have the opportunity to participate in teaching at the Department of Informatics and in supervision of the PhD fellows also employed by the CUMULUS project. The ideal candidate should have an interest in (some of) the following topics: formal methods, semantics, deductive verification, proof systems, type systems, cost analysis, performance analysis, and tool development. Deadline: June 1, 2015 More information: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1374573/64290 From Yves.Bertot at inria.fr Tue Apr 21 02:58:05 2015 From: Yves.Bertot at inria.fr (bertot) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:58:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last announcement: The Coq workshop, deadline April 30th, 2015 Message-ID: <5535F4FD.6030406@inria.fr> The Coq workshop 2015 /The 7^th Coq Workshop/ Sophia Antipolis, France June 26, 2015 The Coq system is an interactive theorem prover based on Type Theory. The Coq Workshop series brings together Coq users, developers, and contributors. While conferences usually provide a venue for traditional research papers, the Coq Workshop focuses on strengthening the Coq community and providing a forum for discussing practical issues, including the future of the Coq software and its associated ecosystem of libraries and tools. Thus, the workshop will be organized around informal presentations and discussions, supplemented with invited talks. Submission Instructions We invite all members of the Coq community to propose informal talks, discussion sessions, or any potential uses of the day allocated to the workshop. Relevant subject matter includes but is not limited to: * Language or tactic features * Theory and implementation of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions * Applications and experience in education and industry * Tools and platforms built on Coq * Plugins and libraries for Coq * Interfacing with Coq * Formalization tricks and Coq pearls Authors should submit short proposals through EasyChair . Submissions should be an extended abstract of 1-2 pages in portable document format (PDF). Follow this link. Important dates * *April 30, 2015* Deadline for abstract submission * *May 15, 2015* Notification to authors * *June 26, 2015* Workshop date Program Committee * Reynald Affeldt * Yves Bertot (chair) * Sylvie Boldo * Pierre Letouzey * Greg Malecha * Gert Smolka * Bas Spitters * Stephanie Weirich This Coq workshop will be associated with the Coq Coding Sprint , so it will be a particularly good occasion to meet developers of the system. Organization *Contact:* yves.bertot at inria.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Mon Apr 20 17:45:27 2015 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:45:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two permanent lecturer posts at Imperial College London Message-ID: <55357377.30905@imperial.ac.uk> We are hiring for two permanent lecturer positions (equivalent: US Assistant Professor) at Imperial College London. There are no fixed topics for the posts, and we would very much welcome applications from candidates in Programming Languages and Verification. Please see this link for more info: https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=9650819&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=45925&p_spid=1719221&oapc=7&oas=5EK0fRVWGvKQLcOG-WcnpQ Best wishes Ally Donaldson From Iain.Whiteside at newcastle.ac.uk Tue Apr 21 06:05:56 2015 From: Iain.Whiteside at newcastle.ac.uk (Iain Whiteside) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:05:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AI4FM 2015: Call for Short Contributions Message-ID: <3D9F714C-A582-4A0C-9631-769512B86CED@newcastle.ac.uk> ------------------------------------------------- AI4FM 2015 - the 6th International Workshop on the use of AI in Formal Methods http://www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/ Edinburgh, 1st September, 2015 In association with AVoCS 2015 https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15 ------------------------------------------------- --- First Call for Contributions --- Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: 1st August, 2015 Notification of acceptance: 10th August, 2015 Final version due: 21st August, 2015 Workshop: 1st September, 2015 General --------------- This workshop will bring together researchers from formal methods, automated reasoning and AI; it will address the issue of how AI can be used to support the formal software development process, including requirement analysis, modelling and proof. Previous AI4FM workshops have included a mix of industrial and academic participants and we anticipate attracting a similarly diverse audience. Rigorous software development using formal methods allows the construction of an accurate characterisation of a problem domain that is firmly based on mathematics; by applying standard mathematical analyses, these methods can be used to prove that systems satisfy formal specifications. Research has shown that with tools backed by mature theory, formal methods are becoming cost effective and their use is easier to justify, not as an academic exercise, legal requirement or niche markets -- but as part of a business case. However, while industrial use of formal methods is increasing, in order to make it more mainstream, the cost of applying formal methods, in terms of mathematical skill level and development time, must still be reduced. We believe that AI can help with these issues. Scope --------------- We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, and PhD projects, in order that the workshop can become a forum for active dialogue between the groups involved in automated reasoning, formal methods and artificial intelligence. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - The use of AI and automated reasoning to support and guide the formal modelling process. - The use of AI and automated reasoning in the requirement capture process. - The use of AI to reuse formal models, programs and proofs. - The use of machine learning to support interactive theorem proving. - The use of machine learning to enhance automated theorem proving. - The development of search heuristics. - The use of AI for term synthesis, invariant generation, lemma discovery and concept invention. - The use of AI for counter-example generation. - The use of constraint solvers in formal methods. - The role of AI planning for formal systems developments, from requirements to the end product (including software and hardware). - The interplay between reasoning and modelling and the role of AI in this framework. - Ontologies in the formal engineering process. - Novel ideas on how to use AI (e.g. machine learning, pattern recognition) in proof automation. - Use of cloud elasticity for: scalability on large scale developments, proof/lemma exploration. - Techniques for bridging the development to maintenance gap. We want to continue the area of research beyond our sponsored project (at Newcastle and Edinburgh universities), which has come to an end. This means we would particularly encourage the submission of position papers on new ideas or research directions for the use of AI techniques in the proof discovery process as well as in modelling best practices. 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. History --------------- This will be the fifth workshop in the series. Previous workshops were held at: - Singapore, May 2014 @ FM (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2014/) - Rennes, France, July 2013 @ ITP (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2013/) - Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July 2012 (www.dagstuhl.de/12271) - Edinburgh, UK, April 2011 (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2011.php) - Newcastle, UK, May 2010 (www.ai4fm.org/ko-meeting.php) Submission --------------- The main aim for the workshop is discussion, thus submissions do not need to be original. Extended versions of submissions may have been published previously, or submitted concurrently with or after AI4FM 2015 to another workshop, conference or a journal. Submission is by email to: ai4fm2015 at ai4fm.org Please submit an abstract up to 3 pages in a PDF format. The extended abstracts will be handed out to all participants, and will be made into a technical report prior to the workshop. Acceptance for presentation at the workshop will be made by the organisers based on relevance to the workshop. Organisers --------------- * Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) * Iain Whiteside (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Gudmund Grov (Heriot Watt University, UK) Contact Details ---------------- If you have any queries, please email the organisers at the following email address: ai4fm2015 at ai4fm.org From bundala at berkeley.edu Mon Apr 20 22:58:08 2015 From: bundala at berkeley.edu (Daniel Bundala) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:58:08 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VSTTE 2015 Final Call For Papers Message-ID: ********************************************************************** 7th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments July 18 - 19, 2015 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/vstte15 Co-located with 25th Conference on Computer Aided Verification (http://i-cav.org/2015) ********************************************************************** Full Paper Submission Deadline: April 27, 2015 SCOPE: The Seventh Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich in 2005 followed by conferences in Toronto (2008), Edinburgh (2010), Philadelphia (2012), Atherton (2013), and Vienna (2014). 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. 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We will invite professors, professionals, practioners, entrepreneurs and govenment leaders to discuss this hot topic. -- Hosted by: Trusted Computing Institute, Central South University, China http://trust.csu.edu.cn/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, TC on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT) In Cooperation with: IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Venue & Dates: Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015 Conference Website: http://prdc.dependability.org/PRDC2015/ Co-Located Conference: The 15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2015) http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/ICA3PP2015/ Introduction 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 fundamental theoretical approaches, 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 systems has become increasingly critical. This symposium provides a forum for countries around the Pacific Rim and other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing 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 and Publication Information Manuscripts should be submitted in the following categories: Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 10 pages using IEEE format guidelines or 20 pages double-spaced ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Practical Experience Reports (max 6 pages using IEEE format guidelines or 12 pages double-spaced) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. The title page should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors' names and affiliations, and a line specifying whether the submission is a Regular Paper or a Practical Experience Report. 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). Papers will be reviewed internationally and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. One outstanding paper will be selected to receive the Best Paper Award. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in several SCI & EI indexed special issues (Pending). Important Dates (1) Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015 (2) Author Notification: July 15, 2015 (3) Camera-ready Papers Due: September 15, 2015 (4) Conference Dates: November 18-20, 2015 General Co-Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs Dong Xiang, Tsinghua University, China Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan Fast Abstract Chair Masayuki Arai, Nihon University, Japan Industrial Track Chair Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research, Switzerland Poster Chair Xiangjian (Sean) He, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee Please check the conference website for detail. Steering Committee Yennun Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Chair) Leon Alkalai, California Institute of Technology, USA Takashi Nanya, Canon, Japan Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi Research Lab., Japan Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia, Canada Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales, Australia Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Zhi Jin, Peking University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Central South University, China Hiroshi Yamada, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Publication Co-Chairs: Jin Zheng, Central South University, China Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Finance Co-Chairs: Pin Liu, Central South University, China Wang Yang, Central South University, China Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Fang Qi, Central South University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Secretariats: Zhe Tang, Central South University, China Yinglong Dai, Central South University, China Webmaster: Yuxin Ye, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning IEEE PRDC 2015 to: Prof. Guojun Wang (csgjwang AT gmail DOT com) and the conference organizers (PRDC2015 AT gmail DOT com). Homepage: http://trust.csu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ Copyright @ Trusted Computing Institute, CSU -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. At the rear of this Call for Papers, we are also soliciting Call for Fast Abstracts, Call for Industry Track Submissions, and Call for Posters for PRDC 2015: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Fast Abstracts Fast Abstracts are lightly-reviewed 2-page manuscripts in IEEE format describing unpublished, in-progress, novel work, opinions or ideas. Fast Abstract Deadline: July 22, 2015 Notification of Acceptance for Fast Abstracts: August 15, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Industry Track Submissions The Industry Track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and debate R&D challenges, practical solutions, case studies, and share field reliability data. Industry Track submissions should be a maximum of 6 pages using IEEE format guidelines. Submission Deadline: July 22, 2015 Notification of Acceptance for Industry Track: August 15, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters The Poster Session provides a forum to present and discuss works-in-progress with topics related to dependable systems. A poster paper should use the same format as a regular paper but with a maximum of 2 pages. 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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 yrg at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr Wed Apr 22 01:17:46 2015 From: yrg at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr (=?UTF-8?B?WWFubiBSw6lnaXMtR2lhbmFz?=) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:17:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Second call for participation] Spring School about Proofs of Programs using Coq Message-ID: *** Call for participation, please distribute. *** EPIT'2015 (http://www.epit2015.website) Spring School in Theoretical Computer Science Mechanizing Proofs of Programs in Coq May 25 to May 29, 2015, Frejus, France * Presentation The french spring school in theoretical computer science (EPIT) is a recurrent school which was created 40 years ago by Maurice Nivat. This year, the school is about the mechanization of proofs of programs using the proof assistant Coq. As no prerequisite is needed, the school targets any computer scientist that is curious about what a proof assistant is and how it can be integrated in its daily research work. * Program The school will take place between May 24 and May 29 and it will be divided into eight sessions. A session will consist in a (rather short) lecture (given in english) followed by practical exercises on computer. The five first sessions will be dedicated to a presentation of the main concepts and techniques used to mechanize proofs on a computer. The two next sessions will focus on the mechanization of two classical domains of theoretical computer science: the theory of rational languages and the computational combinatorics. Finally, during the last session, participants will work on the mechanization of their specific research domain with the help of the pedagogical team of the school. * Registration To get more information and to register, please go to http://www.epit2015.website Registration deadline : April 30, 2015 You can register directly by following https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR01/AzurInscription/?&iColId=19&NaiveForm_id=AzChoixColloque&btnAzurP=Preinscription&lang=en * Pedagogical committee - Pierre Letouzey (University Paris-Diderot) ; - Arthur Chargu?raud (INRIA) ; - Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA) ; - Damien Pous (CNRS) ; - Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) ; - Benjamin Gr?goire (INRIA). The school is organized by: - Pierre Letouzey (University Paris-Diderot) ; - Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA) ; - Yann R?gis-Gianas (University Paris-Diderot) ; - Pierre-Marie P?drot (University Paris-Diderot). 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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 Work-in-Progress papers for CICM 2015, which will be held in Washington, D.C., 13-17 July 2015. We solicit for papers which describe work in progress, recent developments, and other work of interest to our communities which does not yet have the maturity for archival proceedings. 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). ********************************************************************** Important Dates ********************************************************************** Work-in-progress and Doctoral Programme submissions: Submission deadline: Full Work-in-Progress submission* 4 May 2015 Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2015 Camera ready copies due: 1 June 2015 Conference: 13-17 July 2015 * or for the Doctoral Programme: Abstract+CV More detailed information, e.g. on submission via EasyChair, can be found on http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php From bogom.s at gmail.com Tue Apr 21 19:55:45 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 01:55:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CAV 2015: 3rd CfP Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis (SNR) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS ************** SNR 2015 ************** 1st International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis, July 19th, 2015, affiliated with CAV 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA Web Page: http://snrworkshop.github.io Important Dates =============== Submissions deadline: April 24, 2015 Notification: May 31, 2015 Final version: June 15, 2015 Workshop dates: July 19, 2015 Description of the Workshop =========================== Hybrid systems model complex dynamical systems that combine discrete and continuous components. Reachability questions, regarding whether a system can run into certain subset of its state space, stand at the core of verification and synthesis problems for hybrid systems. Successful reachability analysis methods for hybrid systems requires the unification of techniques from at least two traditions: - Symbolic methods that operate on exact and discrete representations of systems, in the form of various model checking and theorem proving algorithms. - Numerical methods that operate on various forms of numerical approximations and continuous transformations of the systems, as developed in the area of continuous dynamical systems and control theory. As concrete examples, one can observe how the two types of techniques interact in the existing approaches towards reachability analysis. Reachable set computation methods explicitly construct flow-pipes that overapproximate the reachable states over time, while efficient computation of such overapproximations requires symbolic representations such as support functions. Constraint solving methods symbolically encode reachability properties as logic formulas, while solving such formulas requires numerically-driven decision procedures. A goal of the workshop is to seek further synergies among these approaches. Topics =============== The SNR workshop solicits papers broadly in the area of verification and synthesis of continuous and hybrid systems. One of the aims is to catalyze work on the interface of symbolic and numerical methods for the reachability analysis. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Flow-pipe construction - Representation of symbolic regions within reachability algorithm - Abstraction techniques for hybrid systems and numerical programs - Symbolic trajectory generation - Decision procedures over real numbers - Reliable integration - Logics to reason about hybrid systems - Reachability analysis for planning and synthesis - Domain specific approaches in biology, robotics, etc Submission information ====================== The workshop will be a platform for focused discussion of the recent progress on the topic of reachability analysis of hybrid systems. We solicit short versions of papers (SV papers) that have been published in a leading venue in the past three years. We also welcome reports on tools, work in progress, or new ideas. An SV paper is an extended abstract of the original paper that conveys the main technical ideas. We recommend that the SV papers consist sections that explain the following aspects: intuition, technical details, and main observation from experiments (without listing statistics). SV papers can assume that the readers are experts on the topic, and do not need to contain introduction, basic definitions, etc. All paper submissions should not exceed 6 pages in CEUR one-column style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles/onecolpceurws.sty). Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snr2015 All the accepted papers will be published electronically as CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). Chairs ========== Sergiy Bogomolov (IST Austria, Austria) Ashish Tiwari (SRI, USA) Program Committee ========== Matthias Althoff (TUM, Germany) Parasara Sridhar Duggirala (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Martin Fr?nzle (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Goran Frehse (Verimag, France) Sean Gao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Daniele Magazzeni (King's College, UK) Sayan Mitra (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Erion Plaku (CUA, USA) Stefan Ratschan (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Stavros Tripakis (Aalto University, Finnland) Paolo Zuliani (University of Newcastle, UK) From Pavol.Cerny at Colorado.EDU Wed Apr 22 00:22:33 2015 From: Pavol.Cerny at Colorado.EDU (Pavol Cerny) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:22:33 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SYNT 2015: deadline extended to May 1 Message-ID: <55372209.9080802@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 submission deadline has been extended to May 1, 2015. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 appeared in previous years 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 talks: Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft Research Aditya Nori, Microsoft Research ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Paper submission: May 1, 2015 (extended) 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 dave.clarke at it.uu.se Wed Apr 22 09:00:52 2015 From: dave.clarke at it.uu.se (Dave Clarke) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:00:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Position on Scalable Data for Pervasive Parallelism at Uppsala University, Sweden Message-ID: <1575CB40-700C-4521-A270-4D8B58D11A17@it.uu.se> [Relevance for types list: Techniques used without our group are typically based on types.] The Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden is opening 1 PhD student position within the SCADA project. The aim of SCADA is to develop programming language technology for the Encore programming language to facilitate the scaling of software applications across multicore, manycore and distributed hardware configurations. Encore is an active object-based programming language equipped with means for expressing low-level parallelism. SCADA will extend this language to express data locality and distribution in flexible ways. The resulting language will make it easier to use of large volumes of data efficiently and scalably. The work will involve the implementation of compiler and run-time support, theoretical investigations of programming language semantics, the development of case studies and benchmarking. For the SCADA project, a good deal of flexibility is possible, which would allow you to follow your interests to some degree. Desired Technical Skills and Interests: * programming language design * parallel computing * formal semantics of programming languages * type systems * compilers * program optimisation * computer architecture * experience programming in both high- and low-level languages (such as Haskell and C) * mathematical aptitude General Qualifications * you are excited about our project * you are persistent, trying again and again when things don't work out as planned * you are fearless and will happily hack a virtual machine or compiler or implement a complex algorithm * you have a small child's attitude and want to learn about everything you encounter * you have an engineer's attitude and will not merely accept the first solution that comes to mind, but will consider key alternatives * you have a researcher's attitude, want to truly understand things, and are never satisfied with the first explanation * you look at the simple and obvious before exploring the complicated * you can focus and ignore the many other cool things you could be doing * you derive pleasure from coming up with clear and logical explanations * you read lots of books and scientific papers * you write gladly and hope to improve your writing * you like to present and discuss your work * you work hard * you accept constructive criticism as a means for improving yourself * you will be happy to stay in Sweden for quite some time * you are willing to travel abroad for conferences and other meetings. * you have (or nearly have) a Masters degree in computer science/engineering, informatics, or related fields * you are willing assist in teaching and to expand your knowledge with additional courses * you are committed to invest 5 years of your life as a PhD student, training to be a researcher Important Dates =============== Application deadline: 15 May 2015. PhD expected start date: September/October 2015 Where to Apply ============== To apply see: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=63821 For further information contact Dr Dave Clarke (dave.clarke at it.uu.se). From hirokawa at jaist.ac.jp Tue Apr 21 01:00:27 2015 From: hirokawa at jaist.ac.jp (Nao Hirokawa) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:00:27 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3rd CFP: LCC 2015 - extended deadline Message-ID: <20150421140027.b2cc7ea70edb102113390869@jaist.ac.jp> ====================================================================== Third Call for Papers (extended deadline) 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 29, 2015 (extended) * notification May 14, 2015 * workshop July 4-5, 2015 INVITED SPEAKERS: * Olaf Beyersdorff (University of Leeds) * Miko?aj Boja?czyk (Warsaw University) * Akitoshi Kawamura (University of Tokyo) * Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA, Nancy) * ... 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 alessandro.aldini at uniurb.it Tue Apr 21 04:24:35 2015 From: alessandro.aldini at uniurb.it (Aldini, Alessandro) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:24:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?4th_Intl=2E_Workshop_on_=E2=80=98Quant?= =?utf-8?q?itative_Aspects_of_Security_Assurance=E2=80=99_-_QASA_20?= =?utf-8?q?15_-_Preliminary_CfP?= Message-ID: 4th Intl. Workshop on ?Quantitative Aspects of Security Assurance? (QASA 2015) co-located with ESORICS 2015 (21-25 Sept. 2015, Vienna) www.iit.cnr.it/qasa2015 **** Preliminary Call for papers **** Overview: There is increasing need to provide quantification of security assurance over the multi-level development life-cycle of systems & services, e.g., from requirements elicitation to run-time operation and maintenance. Addressing such quantitative aspects, the QASA workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the quantification research dimensions spanning dependability, security, privacy and risk, and with particular emphasis on techniques for service oriented architectures, IoT and cyber-physical systems. The list of topics includes, but it is not limited to: -Assurance cases modeling and analysis -Game theoretical models for cyber insurance -Incremental/modular security assurance analysis -Metrics for trust, security and privacy -Model-based techniques for assurance -Process compliance assurance techniques -Probabilistic/stochastic model checking -Quantitative information flow analysis -Quantitative issues in access and usage control -Security testing techniques -Simulation techniques for security, privacy, risk -Static/dynamic code analysis techniques -Tool support for quantitative security assurance Submission dates: Submission: June 21 2015 Notification: July 28 2015 Camera ready pre-procs: August 20 2015 Final post-procs: October 2015 Workshop organizers: Alessandro Aldini, Univ. of Urbino Fabio Martinelli, CNR Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt PC members (TBC): Andrea Bondavalli, Univ. of Florence Tom Clothia, Univ. of Birmingham Jorge Cuellar, Siemens Fr?d?ric Cuppens, Telecom-Bretagne Joaquin Garcia Alfaro, Telecom-SudParis Javier Lopez, Univ. of Malaga Jesus Luna, CSA Cathy Meadows, NRL Charles Morisset, Univ. of Newcastle Pierangela Samarati, Univ. of Milan Reijo Savola, VTT Ketil Stoelen, SINTEF Lorenzo Strigini, City London University Herbert Wiklicky, ICL Program & Proceedings The program will consist of invited speakers as well as of presentations of submitted papers. 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URL: From David.Pearce at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Wed Apr 22 19:38:48 2015 From: David.Pearce at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (David Pearce) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:38:48 +1200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extended: ECOOP'15 Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: <55383108.4000904@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> * Extended Deadline: April 28, 2015 * ECOOP 2015 Doctoral Symposium ============================= 5th July 2015, Prague, Czech Republic *Final Call for Papers* http://2015.ecoop.org/track/ecoop15-ds Important Dates --------------- Submission: 28th April Notification: 1st May Symposium: 5th July Program ------- The 2015 Doctoral Symposium provides a forum for both early- and late-stage PhD students to present their research and get detailed feedback and advice on both their work and their future. This year the symposium includes an invited talk by Mario Wolczko from Oracle Labs on the realities of industrial research in comparison to common student expectations. The academic panel, who will be delivering talks and providing accepted students with in-depth feedback on their research, features: Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University Yu David Liu, Binghamton University Submission ---------- Interested CS students who expect to have at least a year left until their defence are invited to submit. Junior students should submit a position paper of 6-10 pages, and senior students should submit a thesis abstract up to 4 pages. Submissions can be uploaded at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecoopds15 See http://2015.ecoop.org/track/ecoop15-ds for more details on the submission process and the student presentations at the symposium. Committee --------- Timothy Jones, Victoria University of Wellington (Chair) Oliver Bracevac, TU Damstadt Dmitri Makarov, University of Lugano Amanj Sherwany, Universit? della Svizzera italiana Shiyi Wei, Virginia Tech From bundala at berkeley.edu Thu Apr 23 05:13:03 2015 From: bundala at berkeley.edu (Daniel Bundala) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:13:03 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline (May 1), VSTTE'15 Message-ID: [apologies for cross posting] ********************************************************************** 7th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments July 18 - 19, 2015 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/vstte15 Co-located with 25th Conference on Computer Aided Verification (http://i-cav.org/2015) ********************************************************************** Abstract submission: Extended to April 27, 2015 Full Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to May 1, 2015 SCOPE: The Seventh Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich in 2005 followed by conferences in Toronto (2008), Edinburgh (2010), Philadelphia (2012), Atherton (2013), and Vienna (2014). 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: Extended to April 27, 2015 Full paper submission: Extended to May 1, 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 (University of California, 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... URL: From bfischer at cs.sun.ac.za Thu Apr 23 03:30:09 2015 From: bfischer at cs.sun.ac.za (Bernd Fischer) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:30:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP and extended deadline: SPIN 2015 Message-ID: ====================================================================== SPIN 2015 22nd International Workshop on Model Checking Software 24--26 August 2015, Stellenbosch, South Africa http://www.spin2015.org ====================================================================== DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 4 MAY 2015 ---- Important Dates ---- Submission of abstract/full papers extended: 4 May 2015 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 June 2015 Final version due: 29 June 2015 Workshop: 24--26 August 2015 New: Invited talks by Tevfik Bultan and Shaz Qadeer ---- 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. 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URL: From yudi.zheng at usi.ch Wed Apr 22 18:45:50 2015 From: yudi.zheng at usi.ch (Yudi Zheng) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:45:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPPJ 2015: Call for papers Message-ID: <7BFCECA6-5E5B-43A0-9B7D-6EA20B064BA5@usi.ch> 2015 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform September 9-11, 2015 Crowne Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne, Florida http://pppj2015.cs.fit.edu/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: June 7, 2015, 11:59 PM EST Author notification: July 13, 2015 Conference: September 9-11, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION SITE: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pppj2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The Java platform is multi-faceted, covering a rich diversity of systems, languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques. PPPJ?15 ? the 12th conference in the PPPJ series ? provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of programming on the Java platform including virtual machines, languages, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Virtual machines for Java and Java-like language support: - JVM and similar VMs - VM design and optimization - VMs for mobile and embedded devices - Real-time VMs - Isolation and resource control Languages on the Java platform: - JVM languages (Clojure, Groovy, Java, JRuby, Kotlin, Scala, ?) - Domain-specific languages - Language design and calculi - Compilers - Language interoperability - Parallelism and concurrency - Modular and aspect-oriented programming - Model-driven development - Frameworks and applications - Teaching - Techniques and tools for the Java platform: Static and dynamic program analysis - Testing - Verification - Security and information flow - Workload characterization Please contact the PC Chair, Andreas Krall(email: andi at complang.tuwien.ac.at) to clarify - whether a particular topic falls within the scope of PPPJ?15. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES PPPJ?15 submissions must conform to both the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy. PPPJ accepts three types of papers: * Full research papers that describe novel technical contributions involving the Java platform. * Short research papers that describe promising new ideas that have less maturity than full papers. * Industry and tool papers that present technical challenges and solutions for the Java platform in the context of deployed applications and systems. Research papers will be judged on their relevance, novelty, technical rigor, and comparison with the state-of-the-art. For short research papers, more emphasis will be placed on novelty and the potential of the new idea than on technical rigor and experimental results. Industry and tool papers will be judged on their relevance, usefulness, and results. Suitability for demonstration and availability will also be considered for tool papers. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be available from the ACM Digital Library. Full research papers will be allowed up to 12 pages in the proceedings, and short research, industry, and tool papers will be allowed up to 6 pages. All papers must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN style ?sigplanconf.cls? with a font size of 9 point (option ?9pt?). More information on submission guidelines is available from the PPPJ?15 web site. Questions about paper topics and submission format can be directed to the PC chair, Andreas Krall(email: andi at complang.tuwien.ac.at). The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Proceedings Series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The authors of the best papers presented at PPPJ?15 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a journal special issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS Organizing Committee: General Chair: Ryan Stansifer, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Program Chair: Andreas Krall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Publicity Chair: Yudi Zheng, University of Lugano, Switzerland Program Committee: Steven Atkin, IBM, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine, USA David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Apala Guha, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India Samuel Z. Guyer, Tufts University, USA Prasad Kulkarni, University of Kansas, USA Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Rei Odaira, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan Jens Palsberg, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Ian Rogers, Google Inc, USA Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow, Scotland Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA Christian Wimmer, Oracle Labs, USA Chenyi Zhang, Oracle Labs, Australia Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Steering Committee: Bruce R. Childers, University of Pittsburg, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Conrad Cunningham, University of Mississippi, USA Martin Pl?micke, Duale Hochschule Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark From weaversa at gmail.com Thu Apr 23 09:57:20 2015 From: weaversa at gmail.com (Sean Weaver) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:57:20 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAT 2015: Deadlines Extended Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS, DEADLINES EXTENDED Eighteenth International Conference on THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF SATISFIABILITY TESTING --- SAT 2015 --- Austin, Texas, September 24-27, 2015 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/ Abstract submission deadline extended to: April 29, 2015 Paper submission deadline extended to: May 6, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) is the premier annual meeting for researchers focusing on the theory and applications of the propositional satisfiability problem, broadly construed. In addition to plain propositional satisfiability, it also includes Boolean optimization (such as MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints), Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. Many hard combinatorial problems can be tackled using SAT-based techniques including problems that arise in Formal Verification, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Computational Biology, Cryptography, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Mathematics, et cetera. Indeed, the theoretical and practical advances in SAT research over the past twenty years have contributed to making SAT technology an indispensable tool in a variety of domains. SAT 2015 aims to further advance the field by soliciting original theoretical and practical contributions in these areas with a clear connection to Satisfiability. Specifically, SAT 2015 invites scientific contributions addressing different aspects of SAT interpreted in a broad sense, including (but not restricted to) theoretical advances (such as exact algorithms, proof complexity, and other complexity issues), practical search algorithms, knowledge compilation, implementation-level details of SAT solvers and SAT-based systems, problem encodings and reformulations, applications (including both novel application domains and improvements to existing approaches), as well as case studies and reports on findings based on rigorous experimentation. SAT 2015 takes place in Austin, Texas, and is co-locating with the FMCAD and MEMOCODE conferences, the PoS, QBF, DIFTS and ACL2 workshops, and the SAT Race. Austin, the capital of Texas, is a college town and a center of alternative culture away from the major cities on the American coasts, although the city is rapidly gentrifying with its rising popularity. Austin's attitude is commonly emblazoned about town on T-Shirts and bumper stickers that read: "Keep Austin Weird." Austin is considered a major high tech center due in part to UT Austin and the many Fortune 500 companies in the area such as AMD, Apple, eBay, Google, IBM, and Intel, among others. Austin is also marketed as the "Live Music Capital of the World" due to the large number of live music venues. IMPORTANT DATES =============== April 29, 2015: Abstract submission deadline May 6, 2015: Paper submission deadline June 10-12, 2015: Author response period June 28, 2015: Author notification July 26, 2015: Camera-ready versions of papers due September 23, 2015: Pre-conference workshops September 24-27, 2015: Main conference Follow http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/ for updates. SCOPE ===== SAT 2015 welcomes scientific contributions addressing different aspects of the satisfiability problem, interpreted in a broad sense. Domains include MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulae (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), as well as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). Topics include, but are not restricted to: Theoretical advances (including exact algorithms, proof complexity, and other complexity issues); Practical search algorithms; Knowledge compilation; Implementation-level details of SAT solving tools and SAT-based systems; Problem encodings and reformulations; Applications (including both novel applications domains and improvements to existing approaches); Case studies and reports on insightful findings based on rigorous experimentation. Out of Scope ============ Papers claiming to resolve a major long-standing open theoretical question in Mathematics or Computer Science (such as those for which a Millennium Prize is offered, see http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems), are outside the scope of the conference because there is insufficient time in the schedule to referee such papers; instead, such papers should be submitted to an appropriate technical journal. Paper Categories ================ Submissions to SAT 2015 are solicited in three paper categories, describing original contributions: REGULAR PAPERS (9 to 15 pages, excluding references) Regular papers should contain original research, with sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and implementations available with their submission. Submissions reporting on case studies are also encouraged, and should describe details, weaknesses, and strengths in sufficient depth. SHORT PAPERS (up to 8 pages, excluding references) The same evaluation criteria apply to short papers as to regular papers. They will be reviewed to the same standards of quality as regular papers, but will naturally contain less quantity of new material. Short papers will have the same status as regular papers and be eligible for the same awards (to be announced later). TOOL PAPERS (up to 6 pages, excluding references) A tool paper should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. Here "tools" are interpreted in a broad sense, including descriptions of implemented solvers, preprocessors, etc., as well as systems that exploit SAT solvers or their extensions to solve interesting problem domains. A demonstration is expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented previously are expected to contain significant and clear enhancements to the tool. Submissions should not be under review elsewhere nor be submitted elsewhere while under review for SAT 2015, and should not consist of previously published material. Submissions not consistent with the above guidelines may be returned without review. Besides the paper itself, authors may submit a supplement consisting of one file in the format of a gzipped tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz) or a gzipped file (.gz) or a zip archive (.zip). Authors are encouraged to submit a supplement when it will help reviewers evaluate the paper. Supplements will be treated with the same degree of confidentiality as the paper itself. For example, the supplement might contain detailed proofs, examples, software, detailed experimental data, or other material related to the submission. Individual reviewers may or may not consult the supplementary material; the paper itself should be self-contained. Regular papers and short papers may be considered for a best paper award. If the main author is a student, both in terms of work and writing, the paper may be considered for a best student-paper award. Use the supplement to your submission to state (in a brief cover letter) if the paper qualifies as a student paper. Links to information on the Springer LNCS style are available through the SAT 2015 website at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/. All papers submissions are done exclusively via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sat2015. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. PROCEEDINGS =========== All accepted papers are expected to be published in the proceedings of the conference, which will be published within the Springer LNCS series. PROGRAM CHAIRS ============== Marijn Heule The University of Texas at Austin Sean Weaver Trusted Systems Research Group, U.S. Department of Defense WORKSHOP CHAIR ============== Albert Oliveras Technical University of Catalonia PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Fahiem Bacchus University of Toronto Olaf Beyersdorff University of Leeds Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University Leonardo De Moura Microsoft Research Uwe Egly Vienna University of Technology John Franco University of Cincinnati Enrico Giunchiglia University of Genova Youssef Hamadi Microsoft Research Holger Hoos University of British Colombia Alexander Ivrii IBM Matti J?rvisalo University of Helsinki Jie-Hong Roland Jiang National Taiwan University Oliver Kullmann Swansea University Daniel Le Berre Universit? d'Artois Ines Lynce University of Lisbon Sharad Malik Princeton University Panagiotis Manolios Northeastern University Norbert Manthey Technische Universit?t Dresden Joao Marques-Silva University College Dublin Alexander Nadel Intel Nina Narodytska Carnegie Mellon University Jakob Nordstr?m KTH Royal Institude of Technology Albert Oliveras Technical University of Catalonia Karem Sakallah University of Michigan Roberto Sebastiani University of Trento Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Bart Selman Cornell University Laurent Simon Bordeaux Institute of Technology Carsten Sinz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Stefan Szeider Vienna University of Technology Xishun Zhao Sun Yat-Sen University CONTACT ======= sat2015 at easychair.org From schoepp at tcs.ifi.lmu.de Thu Apr 23 17:40:29 2015 From: schoepp at tcs.ifi.lmu.de (=?UTF-8?B?VWxyaWNoIFNjaMO2cHA=?=) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:40:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOLA 2015: Deadline extended to May 11 Message-ID: <553966CD.8000501@tcs.ifi.lmu.de> SECOND CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS ______________________________________________________________________ LOLA 2015: Syntax and Semantics of Low Level Languages Sunday, 5 July 2015, Kyoto, Japan A satellite workshop of ICALP/LICS http://lola15.tcs.ifi.lmu.de ______________________________________________________________________ /Important Dates/ Abstract submission: Monday, 11 May 2015 (extended) Author notification: Friday, 22 May 2015 (extended) LOLA 2015 workshop: Sunday, 5 July 2015 /Invited Speakers/ Nikos Tzevelekos, Queen Mary University of London, UK Katsuhiro Ueno, Tohoku University, Japan /Workshop Description/ It has been understood since the late 1960s that tools and structures arising in mathematical logic and proof theory can usefully be applied to the design of high level programming languages, and to the development of reasoning principles for such languages. Yet low level languages, such as machine code, and the compilation of high level languages into a low level ones have traditionally been seen as having little or no essential connection to logic. However, a fundamental discovery of this past decade has been that low level languages are also governed by logical principles. From this key observation has emerged an active and fascinating new research area at the frontier of logic and computer science. The practically-motivated design of logics reflecting the structure of low level languages (such as heaps, registers and code pointers) and low level properties of programs (such as resource usage) goes hand in hand with some of the most advanced contemporary research in semantics and proof theory, including classical realizability and forcing, double orthogonality, parametricity, linear logic, game semantics, uniformity, categorical semantics, explicit substitutions, abstract machines, implicit complexity and resource bounded programming. The LOLA workshop, affiliated with LICS 2015, will bring together researchers interested in many aspects of the relationship between logic and low level languages and programs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Typed assembly languages - Certified assembly programming - Certified and certifying compilation - Relaxed memory models - Proof-carrying code - Program optimization - Modal logic and realizability in machine code - Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code - Parametricity, modules and existential types - General references, Kripke models and recursive types - Continuations and concurrency - Implicit complexity, sublinear programming and Turing machines - Closures and explicit substitutions - Linear logic and separation logic - Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis - Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects /Submission Information/ LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on work in progress, overviews of larger programmes, position presentations and short tutorials as well as more traditional research talks describing new results. 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The emphasis on system reconfigurability has not been followed by an adequate research effort, and the current state of the art lacks paradigms that can describe and analyze complex modern systems in a comprehensive way. This workshop aims at filling this gap by bringing together researchers and practitioners with the goal of pushing forward the state of the art on logics and model checking, with particular attention on the specification and verification of systems in the following (and further) categories: * self-adaptive systems * self-reconfiguring systems * self-organizing systems * cyber-physical systems * hybrid systems * elastic systems * multi-agent systems The workshop focuses on demonstrating the applicability of Formal Methods in practical contexts. Therefore, both methodological/theoretical and industrial/applicative papers are welcome. In particular, the workshop aims at valuing and emphasizing the effective application of novel/emerging formalisms. Contributions on all aspects of formal and semi-formal verification, including (but not limited to) model checking, modal logics, abstract interpretation, testing and modeling languages are encouraged. Important Dates (strict) * May 4, 2015: Abstract submissions * May 18, 2015: Submission of regular papers * June 19, 2015: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection * June 26, 2015: Pre-proceedings Camera-ready copies of accepted papers * September 7-8, 2015: Workshop * September 25, 2015: Post-workshop camera-ready paper submission Submissions Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers. Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in a joint post-workshop proceedings for all SEFM 2015 workshops as a joint Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume, like the SEFM-2013 and SEFM-2014 post-workshop proceedings. Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 15 pages in the LNCS format style. Proofs omitted due to space constraints can be put into an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Proofs added into appendix will *not* be published on proceedings. Submissions should be made using the VERY* 2015 web site: http://verystar.cs.unibo.it/ The authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop by the early date, to be indicated by the organizers, and *must* present the paper. A special issue with a selection of the best papers on an international journal will be taken into consideration. Organizers * Marcello M. 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URL: From marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Apr 24 15:10:38 2015 From: marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk (Marta Kwiatkowska) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 20:10:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The 2nd International Workshop on Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs In-Reply-To: <553A94F7.70001@cs.ox.ac.uk> References: <553A94F7.70001@cs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <553A952E.4020003@cs.ox.ac.uk> ******************************************************************************** VEMDP 2015 - 1st call for presentations The 2nd International Workshop on Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs An affiliated workshop of CAV 2015 hosted in San Francisco, USA on July 19, 2015 http://dna.caltech.edu/vemdp2015/ Submission deadline: May 17, 2015 ******************************************************************************** OVERVIEW Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs (VEMDP) 2015 is a half day workshop, affiliated with the CAV 2015 conference, dedicated to the topic of verification of engineered biological and chemical systems. While the focus of this workshop is on biological and chemical systems that do not occur naturally, we also encourage submissions concerning the verification of naturally occurring systems that have been functionally modified. These systems include, but are not limited to: - DNA computing and other forms of natural computing - Chemical reaction networks - DNA walkers and motors - Engineered transcription networks and other synthetic biology applications We encourage topics that focus on any form of verification for these types of systems. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to: - Modelling - Formal languages and methods - Automated verification - Complexity of verification - Analysis of system behaviour - Equivalence of systems - Computer aided design tools This year's program will be a mix of invited and contributed presentations. INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Matthew Lakin, University of New Mexico Chris J. Myers, The University of Utah IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 17, 2015 Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2015 Workshop: Afternoon of July 19, 2015 SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions based on previously published work are permitted. To be considered for oral presentation, submissions should consist of a single .pdf file containing a two page abstract that describes the primary results and importance of the work. In addition, submissions may optionally contain an attachment with a supporting manuscript. Submissions should be made via the workshop's easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vemdp2015 Please direct any questions to one of the organizers. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Neil Dalchau Microsoft Research Fran?ois Fages INRIA Rocquencourt Jerome Feret INRIA / Ecole normale sup?rieure Marta Kwiatkowska University of Oxford Alan Hu University of British Columbia Matthew Lakin University of New Mexico Andrew Phillips Microsoft Research David ?afr?nek Masaryk University Chris Thachuk California Institute of Technology Erik Winfree California Institute of Technology -- 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 philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch Mon Apr 27 03:35:33 2015 From: philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch (Philipp Haller) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:35:33 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty openings in software technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Message-ID: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, has several faculty openings in software technology. Position 1: Associate professor in Computer Science with specialization in Software Construction. Position 2: Assistant professor in Computer Science with specialization in Software Technology. Position 1 and - optionally - position 2 as well are affiliated with the department of Theoretical Computer Science (the TCS group), within the School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC). Position 2 is particularly well supported and may be held at several schools within KTH. The TCS group has a strong academic record and good external funding from EU and national sources. There is active research in both foundational topics (complexity theory, logic, formal methods) and more applied ones (computer security, cryptography, programming languages, databases, natural languages, computer science education). For more information about KTH, the CSC school, and the TCS group visit www.kth.se, www.csc.kth.se, www.csc.kth.se/tcs. Application instructions: For full information about the position, requirements, and the application procedure visit Position 1: https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:59153/where:4/ Position 2: http://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:58448/where:4/ Application deadline: Position 1: 25 May 2015 Position 2: 29 May 2015 Contact: Philipp Haller (phaller at kth.se) or Mads Dam (mfd at kth.se) From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Fri Apr 24 06:15:36 2015 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S Barry Cooper) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:15:36 +0100 (BST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CiE 2015, Bucharest, Romania - EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2015: Evolving Computability Bucharest, Romania June 29 - July 3 http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS: MAY 3, 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. The length of these presentations has previously been 25 minutes and we intend to follow this tradition. For this, please send us a brief description of your talk (between one paragraph and one page) by: MAY 3, 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. From kameyama at acm.org Mon Apr 27 07:05:53 2015 From: kameyama at acm.org (Yukiyoshi Kameyama) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:05:53 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS 2016 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20150427.200553.178053747.kam@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp> Call For Papers FLOPS 2016: 13th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming March 3-6, 2016, Kochi, Japan http://www.info.kochi-tech.ac.jp/FLOPS2016/ Writing down detailed computational steps is not the only way of programming. The alternative, being used increasingly in practice, is to start by writing down the desired properties of the result. The computational steps are then (semi-)automatically derived from these higher-level specifications. Examples of this declarative style include functional and logic programming, program transformation and re-writing, and extracting programs from proofs of their correctness. FLOPS aims to bring together practitioners, researchers and implementors of the declarative programming, to discuss mutually interesting results and common problems: theoretical advances, their implementations in language systems and tools, and applications of these systems in practice. The scope includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, applications, implementations, and teaching of declarative programming. FLOPS specifically aims to promote cross-fertilization between theory and practice and among different styles of declarative programming. Scope FLOPS solicits original papers in all areas of the declarative programming: * functional, logic, functional-logic programming, re-writing systems, formal methods and model checking, program transformations and program refinements, developing programs with the help of theorem provers or SAT/SMT solvers; * foundations, language design, implementation issues (compilation techniques, memory management, run-time systems), applications and case studies. FLOPS promotes cross-fertilization among different styles of declarative programming. Therefore, submissions must be written to be understandable by the wide audience of declarative programmers and researchers. Submission of system descriptions and declarative pearls are especially encouraged. Submissions should fall into one of the following categories: * Regular research papers: they should describe new results and will be judged on originality, correctness, and significance. * System descriptions: they should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. * Declarative pearls: new and excellent declarative programs or theories with illustrative applications. System descriptions and declarative pearls must be explicitly marked as such in the title. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. See also ACM SIGPLAN Republication Policy. The proceedings will be published by Springer International Publishing in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as a printed volume as well as online in the digital library SpringerLink. Post-proceedings: The authors of 4-7 best papers will be invited to submit the extended version of their FLOPS paper to a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming (SCP). Important dates Monday, September 14, 2015 (any time zone): Submission deadline Monday, November 16, 2015: Author notification March 3-6, 2016: FLOPS Symposium March 7-9, 2016: PPL Workshop Submission Submissions must be written in English and can be up to 15 pages long including references, though pearls are typically shorter. The formatting has to conform to Springer's guidelines. Regular research papers should be supported by proofs and/or experimental results. In case of lack of space, this supporting information should be made accessible otherwise (e.g., a link to a Web page, or an appendix). Papers should be submitted electronically at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flops2016 Program Committee Andreas Abel Gothenburg University, Sweden Lindsay Errington USA Makoto Hamana Gunma University, Japan Michael Hanus CAU Kiel, Germany Jacob Howe City University London, UK Makoto Kanazawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan Andy King University of Kent, UK (PC Co-Chair) Oleg Kiselyov Tohoku University, Japan (PC Co-Chair) Hsiang-Shang Ko National Institute of Informatics, Japan Julia Lawall Inria-Whisper, France Andres L??h Well-Typed LLP, UK Anil Madhavapeddy Cambridge University, UK Jeff Polakow PivotCloud, USA Marc Pouzet ??ole normale sup??rieure, France V??tor Santos Costa Universidade do Porto, Portugal Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium Zoltan Somogyi Australia Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sam Tobin-Hochstadt Indiana University, USA Hongwei Xi Boston University, USA Neng-Fa Zhou CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, USA Organizers Andy King University of Kent, UK (PC Co-Chair) Oleg Kiselyov Tohoku University, Japan (PC Co-Chair) Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba, Japan (General Chair) Kiminori Matsuzaki Kochi University of Technology, Japan (Local Chair) flops2016 at logic.cs.tsukuba.ac dot jp From debois at itu.dk Mon Apr 27 06:57:21 2015 From: debois at itu.dk (=?utf-8?B?U8O4cmVuIERlYm9pcw==?=) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:57:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MEMO 2015 - Call for Poster's and Short Presentations Message-ID: MeMo 2015 2nd International Workshop on MetaModels for Process Languages June 5, 2015 Grenoble, France Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2015 https://discotec2015.inria.fr/memo-2015/ Call for Posters/Short presentations ** IMPORTANT DATES 1 May 2015: Submission of posters & short presentations 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 both posters and short presentations. 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). Posters and short presentations should not exceed 8 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). Short presentations and posters must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. ** 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 erdweg at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Mon Apr 27 05:22:26 2015 From: erdweg at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Sebastian Erdweg) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:22:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: Workshop on Generic Programming 2015 - Deadline May 15 Message-ID: <9B1F633E-8E49-4668-8214-892233AD4A07@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 grlmc at urv.cat Sun Apr 26 03:57:58 2015 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:57:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] InfoSec 2015: registration deadline 3 May 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 July 6-10, 2015 Organized by Deusto University Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/ ********************************************************************** --- 5th registration deadline: May 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, 30 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. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. 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 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 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 OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to adrian.dediu at urv.cat by June 29 at the latest. 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: Accommodation for participants is available at the Colegio Mayor Deusto (student hostel). Since there may exist problems to find accommodation in Bilbao at a reasonable price during the week of the event, the organizers' advice is to book as soon as possible, and anyway by May 27. To do it, write to Carlson Wagonlit Travel at estudiantesud at carlsonwagonlit.es 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 bruno.wp at gmail.com Tue Apr 28 04:28:18 2015 From: bruno.wp at gmail.com (Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:28:18 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 25th CADE - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems (EPS) - Call for Contributions Message-ID: <10169ACA-A9B6-49DC-8B54-5022EDBB4172@gmail.com> == EPS == the CADE-25 Poster Session and Task-Force for an Encyclopedia of Proof Systems --- call for contributions --- August 1-7, 2015, Berlin, Germany affiliated to: CADE - the Conference on Automated Deduction http://conference.mi.fu-berlin.de/cade-25/home 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 propose 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: 31st of May 2015 - Notification: 15th of June 2015 Publication Plans ================= When the encyclopedia reaches a broad coverage of proof systems, its publication as a book will be sought. 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We are looking for people with a range of interests and expertise, ranging from proof theory, linear logic, and the lambda-calculus to automated deduction, model checking, and logic and functional programming. To apply for a postdoctoral position, submit the following: - A cover letter with (links to) your CV and publication list. Additional material, such as letters of recommendation, will be requested as necessary. - Candidates who do not have a PhD at the time of their application should provide their planned defense date and the composition of the thesis committee. All inquiries and application material should be sent to Dale Miller (dale.miller at inria.fr). We hope to have positions start in October 2015 but there is some flexibility with the exact start dates. We plan to make decisions on these position as early as May 26, 2015 and will continue until the positions are filled. 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Reachability questions, regarding whether a system can run into certain subset of its state space, stand at the core of verification and synthesis problems for hybrid systems. Successful reachability analysis methods for hybrid systems requires the unification of techniques from at least two traditions: - Symbolic methods that operate on exact and discrete representations of systems, in the form of various model checking and theorem proving algorithms. - Numerical methods that operate on various forms of numerical approximations and continuous transformations of the systems, as developed in the area of continuous dynamical systems and control theory. As concrete examples, one can observe how the two types of techniques interact in the existing approaches towards reachability analysis. Reachable set computation methods explicitly construct flow-pipes that overapproximate the reachable states over time, while efficient computation of such overapproximations requires symbolic representations such as support functions. Constraint solving methods symbolically encode reachability properties as logic formulas, while solving such formulas requires numerically-driven decision procedures. A goal of the workshop is to seek further synergies among these approaches. Topics =============== The SNR workshop solicits papers broadly in the area of verification and synthesis of continuous and hybrid systems. One of the aims is to catalyze work on the interface of symbolic and numerical methods for the reachability analysis. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Flow-pipe construction - Representation of symbolic regions within reachability algorithm - Abstraction techniques for hybrid systems and numerical programs - Symbolic trajectory generation - Decision procedures over real numbers - Reliable integration - Logics to reason about hybrid systems - Reachability analysis for planning and synthesis - Domain specific approaches in biology, robotics, etc Submission information ====================== The workshop will be a platform for focused discussion of the recent progress on the topic of reachability analysis of hybrid systems. We solicit short versions of papers (SV papers) that have been published in a leading venue in the past three years. We also welcome reports on tools, work in progress, or new ideas. An SV paper is an extended abstract of the original paper that conveys the main technical ideas. We recommend that the SV papers consist sections that explain the following aspects: intuition, technical details, and main observation from experiments (without listing statistics). SV papers can assume that the readers are experts on the topic, and do not need to contain introduction, basic definitions, etc. All paper submissions should not exceed 6 pages in CEUR one-column style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles/onecolpceurws.sty). Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snr2015 All the accepted papers will be published electronically as CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). Chairs ========== Sergiy Bogomolov (IST Austria, Austria) Ashish Tiwari (SRI, USA) Program Committee ========== Matthias Althoff (TUM, Germany) Parasara Sridhar Duggirala (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Martin Fr?nzle (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Goran Frehse (Verimag, France) Sean Gao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Daniele Magazzeni (King's College, UK) Sayan Mitra (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Erion Plaku (CUA, USA) Stefan Ratschan (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Stavros Tripakis (Aalto University, Finnland) Paolo Zuliani (University of Newcastle, UK) From dejan.jovanovic at sri.com Tue Apr 28 13:35:31 2015 From: dejan.jovanovic at sri.com (=?UTF-8?B?RGVqYW4gSm92YW5vdmnEhw==?=) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:35:31 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last Call For Papers: SMT 2015 (Deadline Extended) Message-ID: <553FC4E3.5060101@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/ --- Last 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: May 7, 2015 (Extended) * 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 Jean-Yves.Marion at loria.fr Wed Apr 29 04:36:36 2015 From: Jean-Yves.Marion at loria.fr (Jean-Yves Marion) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:36:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers : LOCAS 2015 First International Workshop on Low-level Code Analysis for Security Message-ID: <516FAFB4-5E66-4C8C-9EAB-00D612D94BE0@loria.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS LOCAS 2015 First International Workshop on Low-level Code Analysis for Security August 1, 2015, Berlin, Germany Affiliated to CADE http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~mizuhito/LOCAS15/ The goal of the workshop is to explore all aspects from theory to practice of low-level code analysis, including communication between industry and academia. The main outcome of this meeting will be to trigger new interactions and enrich the various approaches. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Security threats in practice. e.g., vulnerabilities, overflow attacks on x86 / Android - Malware and botnets - Static analysis of low level code - Obfuscated programs, e.g., self-modifying code, packers, and obfuscation techniques - Low level code semantics - Model generation. e.g., control flow graph reconstruction, disassembly - CEGAR (Counter example guided abstraction refinement) and loop invariant generation - Testing and virtual binary emulation, dynamic analysis - Backend reasoning tools. e.g., SMT (SAT modulo theory), Model checkers. **Submissions** Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 5 pages in EasyChair style by the submission deadline to the LOCAS 2015 EasyChair page. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=locas2015 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. Abstracts can contain material already published elsewhere before the workshop. Preference will be given to abstracts containing novel works (including work in progress). The workshop will not have formal proceedings and is not intended to preclude later publication at another venue. Manuscript will be available electronically at the workshop for the ease of participants. **Important Dates** June 1st, 2015 - Abstract Submission June 15th, 2015 - Notification July 1st, 2015 - Final Manuscript August 1st, 2015 - Workshop **Program Committee** Sebastien Bardin (CEA) Guillaume Bonfante (LORIA, Univ. Lorraine) Juan Caballero (IMDEA Software Institute) Saumya Debray (Univ. Arizona) Thomas Dullien (Google) Roberto Giacobazzi (Univ. Verona) Johannes Kinder (Royal Holloway, Univ. London) Tim Kornau (Google) Arun Lakhotia (Univ. Louisiana at Lafayette) Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA, Univ. Lorraine; Workshop co-chair) Jeffrey Todd McDonald (Univ. South Alabama) Mizuhito Ogawa (JAIST; Workshop co-chair) From larry.mars at gmail.com Tue Apr 28 03:08:03 2015 From: larry.mars at gmail.com (LIN MA) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:08:03 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call-for-paper: The 1st International Workshop on Programming Model and Supportive Environment for Heterogeneous Systems (PMHS) Message-ID: *The 1st International Workshop on Programming Model and Supportive Environment for Heterogeneous Systems (PMHS) in conjunction with The 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2015)* http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc2015/html/CFP.html *August 24 - 26, 2015, New York, USA* Rapid advancements in heterogeneous architectures have placed incremental challenges on programming productivity, portability, and performance on such systems. From high-end servers to mobile devices, from specialized accelerators to embedded SoCs, from single node multicore/manycore to distributed clusters in cloud, be it NVIDIA, ARM, Intel, AMD or Cray, there are a many complex low-level details needed to be managed and abstracted from the programmers. The PMHS workshop aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners both from computer architecture scientists and the software engineering community to present the latest ideas and findings in all aspects of heterogeneous system programming models, language design or extension, compilers design or optimization, runtime systems, and programming tools. The objective is to brainstorm ways to make programming heterogeneous systems less challenging and more interesting, and promote the synergies between hardware design and software design. Topics of interest to the PHMS workshop include but are not limited to: - Programming environments for accelerators, embedded/SoC systems, and multicore/manycore processors, such as GPUs, FPGAs, Cells, MICs, etc. - Programming environments for large-scale parallel systems, clusters of multicore/manycore, distributed big-data systems, and SDN. - Compiler optimizations and tuning heterogeneous systems (Parallelization and loop transformations/fusion, Locality/affinity optimizations, SIMDization/Vectorization, Reducing synchronization & scheduling overheads, Tiling and offloading) - Innovative runtime systems for multicore processors, heterogeneous systems, and accelerators. - Scalable tools for performance analysis, modeling, monitoring, and debugging. - Programming language/models: thread and task based models, data parallel models, stream programming models, shared/distributed memory models, PGAS, etc. - Hardware-software co-design?OS and architectural support for parallel programming. - Improvements for existing parallel languages and run-time environments such as MPI, OpenMP, Cilk, OpenACC, OpenCL, CUDA, ArrayFire, FastFlow, OpenSHMEM, UPC, Co-Array Fortran (CAF), Titanium, GASPI, X10, and Chapel, etc. Manuscript Submission & Proceedings Papers reporting original and unpublished research results are solicited.* All submissions will be handled electronically through EasyChair* ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmhs2015). 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URL: From Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk Wed Apr 29 05:28:48 2015 From: Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:28:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentship in Programming Languages at the University of Glasgow Message-ID: <5540A450.1030307@glasgow.ac.uk> University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering School of Computing Science Title: Theory, Design and Implementation of Programming Languages Supervisor: Dr Simon Gay A PhD studentship is available in the theory, design and implementation of programming languages. This studentship is associated with the project "From Data Types to Session Types: a Basis for Concurrency and Distribution" (short title: ABCD), which is a Programme Grant funded by EPSRC for 5 years from 20th May 2013. The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow has an international research reputation, and Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, offers an outstanding range of cultural resources and a high quality of life. *Project Description* Just as data types describe the structure of data, session types describe the structure of communication in concurrent and distributed systems. Our 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. The project is joint between the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh, and Imperial College London, and includes collaboration with Amazon, Cognizant, Red Hat, VMware, and the Ocean Observatories Initiative. The project includes a variety of work ranging from programming language semantics and type theory, through programming language design and implementation, to application and evaluation of new programming languages and language features. The exact work carried out during the PhD will depend on the interests and skills of the student. Further information about the ABCD project can be found on the EPSRC web site at http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K034413/1 and on the project web site at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/abcd/ *Dates* The studentship is available with a starting date of 1st October 2015. The application deadline is 31st May. *Eligibility and application procedure* Candidates for this studentships must be either a UK citizen, or an EU citizen who has been resident in the UK for at least 3 years. Candidates must also have, or expect to obtain, at least an upper second class degree in computer science or a closely related subject. Candidates with a lower second class degree and an MSc will also be considered. Applications should be submitted through the University of Glasgow online application system: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/opportunities/howtoapplyforaresearchdegree/ Please also contact Dr Simon Gay to discuss your application. *Further Information* For informal enquiries or further information about the project, please contact Dr Simon Gay . Closing date: 31st May 2015 From maciej.pirog at cs.ox.ac.uk Wed Apr 29 06:07:00 2015 From: maciej.pirog at cs.ox.ac.uk (Maciej Pirog) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:07:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MPC 2015 - Call For Participation Message-ID: <9d264bac17e236b7eddf299c41ccda8f@webmail.cs.ox.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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/ Early registration deadline: *** 29 May 2015 *** Hotel rooms reserved until: *** 29 May 2015 *** 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. 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. REGISTRATION To register for the conference send an email to mpc2015 at online.de stating your name and affiliation. We will then provide further details, including hotel booking. You can also use the email address for any queries you might have. The early registration fee for the conference is 375 Euros if you pay via bank transfer and 385 Euros if you pay using PayPal. The early registration deadline is 29 May 2015; after this point, the registration fee rises to 425 Euros (bank transfer) and 435 Euros (PayPal). We have a block booking of rooms at the conference hotel at a special reduced rate, but only until 29th May 2015; after this point, the rooms will be released and the special rate unavailable. INVITED SPEAKERS * Carroll Morgan, University of New South Wales (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~carrollm/) "A nondeterministic lattice of information" * Torsten Grust, Universit?t T?bingen (http://db.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/team/TorstenGrust.html) "A Compilation of Compliments for a Compelling Companion: the Comprehension" ACCEPTED PAPERS * "Exploring an Interface Model for CKA" Bernhard M?ller and Tony Hoare * "On Rely-Guarantee Reasoning" Stephan Van Staden * "A Relation-Algebraic Approach to Multirelations and Predicate Transformers" Rudolf Berghammer and Walter Guttmann * "Preference Decomposition and the Expressiveness of Preference Query Languages" Patrick Roocks * "Hierarchy in Generic Programming Libraries" Jos? Pedro Magalh?es and Andres L?h * "Polynomial Functors Constrained by Regular Expressions" Dan Piponi and Brent Yorgey * "A Program Construction and Verification Tool for Separation Logic" Brijesh Dongol, Victor B. F. Gomes, and Georg Struth * "Calculating Certified Compilers for Non-Deterministic Languages" Patrick Bahr * "Notions of Bidirectional Computation and Entangled State Monads" Faris Abou-Saleh, James Cheney, Jeremy Gibbons, James McKinna, and Perdita Stevens * "A clear picture of lens laws" Sebastian Fischer, Zhenjiang Hu, and Hugo Pacheco * "Regular Varieties of Automata and Coequations" Julian Salamanca, Jan Rutten, Marcello Bonsangue, Enric Cosme-Ll?pez, and Adolfo Ballester-Bolinches * "Column-wise Extendible Vector Expressions and the Relational Computation of Sets of Sets" Rudolf Berghammer * "Turing-Completeness Totally Free" Conor McBride * "Auto in Agda: Programming proof search using reflection" Pepijn Kokke and Wouter Swierstra * "Fusion for Free: Efficient Algebraic Effect Handlers" Nicolas Wu and Tom Schrijvers 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 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 LOCAL ORGANIZERS Ralf Hinze University of Oxford, UK (co-chair) Janis Voigtl?nder Universit?t Bonn, Germany (co-chair) Jos? Pedro Magalh?es Standard Chartered Bank, UK Maciej Pir?g University of Oxford, UK Nicolas Wu University of Bristol, UK For queries about local matters, please write to jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de. From a.popescu at mdx.ac.uk Wed Apr 29 06:09:01 2015 From: a.popescu at mdx.ac.uk (Andrei Popescu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:09:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tableaux 2015 -- second call for papers Message-ID: <5F22105EAD3CAD4689EC4570AA1802B0BC9665D039@WGFP-EXMAV1.uni.mdx.ac.uk> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS TABLEAUX 2015 24th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Wroclaw, Poland, September 21-24, 2015 http://tableaux2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl/ GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX 2015 is the 24th in the series of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, and will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, during September 21-24, 2015. TABLEAUX 2015 will be co-located with the 10th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2015). The computer science institute of Wroclaw has a large experience in hosting international conferences. It has hosted the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007), the 24th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE 2011), and the 22nd European Symposium on Algorithms (ALGO 2014). TOPICS Tableaux methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups of logics, tableaux methods can be generated automatically. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. The conference series aims to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of tableaux - theoretical foundations, applications, and implementation techniques. * tableaux methods for classical and non-classical logics (e.g. modal, temporal, description, intuitionistic, substructural, fuzzy, paraconsistent logics) and their proof theoretic foundations. * related methods (model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs). * sequent calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation. * flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem proving. * novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics. * systems, tools, implementations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ... ). * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extendibility, ... ). * extensions of tableaux procedures with conflict-driven learning, generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable) representation of proofs. * decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures. * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, protocol verification, or teaching. TABLEAUX 2015 also welcomes papers describing applications of tableaux procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableaux community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are invited in two categories: A Research papers, which describe original theoretical research, original algorithms, or applications, with length up to 15 pages. B System descriptions, with length up to 10 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly will help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be original, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed taking into account correctness, theoretical prettyness, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be available on the internet, which includes sources. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that users can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings (within the LNAI series of Springer). For accepted papers in both of the categories, at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Further information and instructions about submissions can be found on the conference website http://tableaux2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Abstract submission deadline: May 8th, 2015 Paper submission deadline: May 15th, 2015 Author Notification: July 1st, 2015 Final Version: July 17th 2015 Conference: September 21st-24th, 2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------- Marc Bezem, University of Bergen, Norway Agata Ciabattoni, Vienna University of Technology, Austria David Delahaye, National Conservatory of Arts and Professions, Paris, France Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany Didier Galmiche, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Rajeev Gore, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Stephane Graham-Lengrand, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France Reiner Haehnle, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Konstantin Korovin, University of Manchester, UK George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France, France Barbara Morawska, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Boris Motik, University of Oxford, UK Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brasil Sara Negri, University of Helsinki, Finland Linh Anh Nguyen, University of Warsaw, Poland Hans de Nivelle (chair), University of Wroclaw, Poland Jens Otten, University of Potsdam, Germany Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK Luca Vigano, King's College, London, UK Bruno Woltzenlogel-Paleo, Vienna University of Technology, Austria WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ------------------------------------ Workshops have been solicited in separate call, which can be found on http://tableaux2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl or http://frocos2015.ii.uni.wroc.pl Tutorials for FroCoS/TABLEAUX will be solicited in a separate call, which will be published later. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. 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URL: From einarj at ifi.uio.no Wed Apr 29 07:38:27 2015 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:38:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 PhD positions in Formal Methods for Cloud Computing in Oslo Message-ID: 2 PhD positions combining formal methods, static analysis, and semantics with cloud computing and reflection, are available at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. The two PhD fellows will join an international research team on formal methods for virtualized systems and cloud computing. The positions are part of the project CUMULUS: Semantics-based Analyses for Cloud-Aware Computing funded by the Research Council of Norway. Cloud computing is rapidly becoming the infrastructure of choice for compute- and data-intensive systems, offering pay-as-you-go elastic resource capacity as well as agility to quickly and flexibly deploy new applications. Virtualization technology makes elastic amounts of resources available to a software service; for example, the processing capacity allocated to a service may be dynamically adapted to the needs of the service. Cloud-aware computing refers to a new way of developing applications for cloud deployment, designed for high availability and fine-grained scalability on metered resources. Current trends in cloud computing, such as self-managed software using container technology and Docker, are primary targets for the outcomes of the CUMULUS project. Our main goal is to reason about a cloud-aware application's resource usage and quality of service by means of static techniques, at design time. Cloud-awareness enables an application to negotiate its own quality of service and opens for dynamic and fine-grained resource management. The project will develop a formal foundation for cloud-aware computing and use this foundation to develop static analysis techniques based on executable models of virtualized systems. The techniques will be used to verify quantitative assertions about the high-level quality of service and low-level resource requirements of cloud-aware applications, for example, the trade-offs between an application's response time and resource usage when the application scales. The choice of techniques will be decided together with the PhD fellows. The ideal candidate should have an interest in (some of) the following topics: formal methods, semantics, deductive verification, proof systems, type systems, cost analysis, performance analysis, and tool development. Deadline: June 1, 2015 More information: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1374721/64290 From Ralph.Matthes at irit.fr Thu Apr 30 10:02:35 2015 From: Ralph.Matthes at irit.fr (Ralph Matthes) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:02:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FICS'15 Call for papers - Fixed Points in Computer Science (CSL'15 workshop 11+12 sept. 2015) Message-ID: <554235FB.7000202@irit.fr> Call for Papers *** FICS 2015 *** http://www.irit.fr/FICS2015/ International Workshop on Fixed Points in Computer Science Berlin, 11-12 September 2015 satellite of the International Conference CSL 2015 (Computer Science Logic) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: Monday, June 16 Paper submission: Monday, June 23 Notification: Monday, July 27 Final version: Monday, August 24 BACKGROUND Fixed points play a fundamental role in several areas of computer science. They are used to justify (co)recursive definitions and associated reasoning techniques. The construction and properties of fixed points have been investigated in many different settings such as: design and implementation of programming languages, logics, verification, databases. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present their results to those members of the computer science and logic communities who study or apply the theory of fixed points. Topics include, but are not restricted to: * fixed points in algebra and coalgebra * fixed points in formal languages and automata * fixed points in game theory * fixed points in programming language semantics * fixed points in the mu-calculus and modal logics * fixed points in process algebras and process calculi * fixed points in functional programming and type theory * fixed points in relation to dataflow and circuits * fixed points in logic programming and theorem proving * fixed points in finite model theory, descriptive complexity theory, and databases * fixed points in category theory for logic in computer science PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ulrich Berger (Swansea Univ.) Dietmar Berwanger (CNRS & ENS Cachan) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS & ENS Lyon) Venanzio Capretta (Univ. Nottingham) Krishnendu Chatterjee (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (INRIA Saclay & ?cole Polytechnique) Thomas Colcombet (CNRS & Univ. Paris Diderot) Makoto Hamana (Gunma Univ.) Radu Mardare (Aalborg Univ.) Ralph Matthes (co-chair, CNRS & Univ. Toulouse) Henryk Michalewski (Univ. Warsaw) Matteo Mio (co-chair, CNRS & ENS Lyon) Andrzej Murawski (Univ. Warwick) Alexandra Silva (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen) Sam Staton (Univ. Oxford) TWO INVITED SPEAKERS * To be announced SUBMISSION The selection of contributed talks will be based on extended abstracts/short papers describing original results in sufficient detail to constitute a publication. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fics2015 Accepted papers will be published through the open-access venue EPTCS. Submissions should be composed using LaTeX and, preferably, using the EPTCS style: http://style.eptcs.org/ Typical submissions would be 8 pages long but submissions in the range [6,15] pages will be considered acceptable. JOURNAL PUBLICATION If the number and quality of submissions justifies it, a subsequent special issue of a journal will be prepared with extended versions of selected papers. A special issue of FICS 2013 is in preparation and will appear in Fundamenta Informaticae. From bogom.s at gmail.com Thu Apr 30 13:19:14 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:19:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HSB 2015: CfP for the 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology Message-ID: HSB 2015: The 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology http://hsb2015.fi.muni.cz 4-5 September 2015, Madrid (Spain) In conjunction with Madrid Meet 2015 Proceedings in Springer's LNCS ===================================================================== The 4th International Workshop on 'Hybrid Systems Biology' will be held on September 4th and 5th in Madrid (ES), and co-located with the Madrid Meet 2015 (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/madrid2015/), which hosts also CONCUR 2015, QEST 2015, FORMATS 2015, among other events. Previous editions have been held in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), Taormina (IT), and Vienna (AT, at VSL 2014). == IMPORTANT DATES == Abstract Submission: June 8, 2015 Paper Submission: June 15, 2015 Notification: July 15, 2015 Final Submission: To be announced == TOPICS OF INTEREST == The scope of the HSB workshop covers the general area of dynamical models in Biology with an emphasis on hybrid approaches ? by no means restricted to a narrow class of mathematical models ? and taking advantage of techniques developed separately in different areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Models of metabolic, signalling, and genetic regulatory networks in living cells * Models of tissues, organs; physiological models * Biological applications of quantitative and formal analysis techniques, such as reachability computation, model checking, abstract interpretation, bifurcation theory, stability and sensitivity analysis * Parametric and non-parametric system identification techniques (learning models from experimental data) * Efficient techniques for combined and heterogeneous (stochastic/deterministic, spatial/non-spatial) simulations for biological models * Modelling languages for biological systems, with related analysis and simulation tools * Models coping with incomplete and uncertain information * Stochastic hybrid models in biology * Hierarchical systems for multi-scale, multi-domain analysis * Abstraction, approximation, discretisation, and model reduction techniques * Game-theoretical frameworks in biology (e.g., populations dynamics) * Control architectures of biological systems * Modelling and synthesis for synthetic biology == CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS == We solicit high-quality submissions, to be refereed by the Program Committee below, and to be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) with Springer Verlag. Selected articles might be invited for a special issue in a high-quality journal (under negotiation). Submitted papers will describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. We accept the following two types of submission: * full papers (max 15 pages LNCS Springer Verlag style) * short papers, including work in progress and tool papers (max 6 pages LNCS Springer Verlag style) == PUBLICATION FORMS and PAPER SUBMISSION == Papers should be written in English, and should not exceed 6 (short papers) or 15 pages (full papers), inclusive of references, and have to be formatted in LNCS style. Additional material may be included in a clearly marked appendix but will not necessarily undergo review and will not be included in the published version. Papers need to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair online submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hsb2015). == PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS == * Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * David Safranek, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic == PROGRAM CIMMITTEE == * Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK - (co-chair) * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gregory Batt, INRIA Rocquencourt, France * Sergiy Bogomolov, IST Austria * Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, Italy * Kevin Burrage, University of Oxford, UK * Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Pieter Collins, Maastricht University, The Netherlands * Milan Ceska, Masaryk University, Czech Republic * Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Hidde de Jong, INRIA Grenoble - Rh?ne-Alpes, France * Alexandre Donze', UC Berkley, USA * Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France * Eric Fanchon, TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, Grenoble, France * Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, University of Pavia, Italy * Elisa Franco, University of California at Riverside / Caltech, USA * Sicun Gao, MIT CSAIL, USA * Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Adam Halasz, West Virginia University, USA * Joao Hespanha, University of California, USA * Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK * Agung Julius, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Heinz Koeppl, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Hillel Kugler, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK * Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK * Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Andrzej Mizera, University of Luxembourg * Stefan Mueller, RICAM ?AW, Austria * Chris Myers, University of Utah, USA * Nicola Paoletti, University of Oxford, UK * Ion Petre, ?bo Akademi University, Finland * Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria * Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy * Nir Piterman, University of Leicester, UK * Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy * Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh, UK * Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware, USA * Katerina Stankova, Maastricht University, The Netherlands * David Safranek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - (co-chair) * P.S. Thiagarajan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Jana Tumova, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * S.A. Wahl, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Verena Wolf, Saarland University, Germany * Boyan Yordanov, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK == STEERING COMMITTEE == * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, Italy * Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Adam Halasz, West Virginia University, USA * Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy From detlef.plump at york.ac.uk Fri May 1 06:20:54 2015 From: detlef.plump at york.ac.uk (Detlef Plump) Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 11:20:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GCM 2015: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: ============================================== GCM 2015 - Final Call for Papers 6th International Workshop on GRAPH COMPUTATION MODELS 20 July, 2015, L'Aquila, Italy co-located with ICGT 2015, part of STAF 2015 http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~det/GCM2015/cfp.html ============================================== The aim of GCM 2015 is to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of computation models based on graphs and graph transformation techniques. The workshop promotes the cross-fertilizing exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and students from the different communities interested in the foundations, applications, and implementations of graph computation models and related areas. 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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URL: From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri May 1 08:45:52 2015 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 14:45:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFP'15] call for participation Message-ID: <55437580.8000004@cs.ru.nl> ----------------------------- L A S T C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ----------------------------- ======== 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. == PROGRAM == Please find the program at: http://tfp2015.inria.fr/program/ The program features two invited talks by Laurence Rideau and Anil Madhavapeddy and one comprehensive Dart tutorial by Florian Loitsch. == IMPORTANT DATES == Registration: May 4, 2015 TFP Symposium: June 3-5, 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 tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Fri May 1 16:59:23 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 23:59:23 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2015 call for participation Message-ID: <20150501235923.1e4d2395@duality> * Invited talks: Andrej Bauer, Gilles Barthe, Peter Selinger * Tutorials: Joachim Kock, Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine * Registration closes 8 May 2015. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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. Invited Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software) Computer-aided cryptography Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) The troublesome reflection rule Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Types for quantum computing Tutorials Joachim Kock (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona) Polynomial functors: a general framework for induction and substitution Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) Higher inductive types: what we understand, what we don't Contributed talks See the programme at http://cs.ioc.ee/types15/programme.html Host city and venue Tallinn, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, is famous for its medieval Old Town. The conference will take place at the historic House of the Blackheads in the middle of the Old Town. The welcome reception of the conference will be at the spectacular Seaplane Harbour, which received a special commendation from the 2014 European Museum of the Year competition. Registration Please register online by 8 May 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 msteffen at ifi.uio.no Sun May 3 15:35:55 2015 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 21:35:55 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FM 2015: Call for Participation (20th Intl. Symposium on Formal Methods, Oslo) Message-ID: <20150503193555.C130284C@vor.ifi.uio.no> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dario.dellamonica at uniud.it Sat May 2 12:12:50 2015 From: dario.dellamonica at uniud.it (dario della monica) Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 16:12:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Paper GandALF 2015 Message-ID: <5544F782.5050203@uniud.it> ***** Apologies for multiple postings *************************************** ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - GandALF 2015 ***************************************************************************** The Sixth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics and Formal Verification will take place in Genoa, Italy, from September 21to 23. Web page: http://gandalf2015.dibris.unige.it The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The symposium coversan 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 ortool 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 **************** Viktor Vafeiadis - MPI-SWS Sven Schewe - University of Liverpool Nathalie Bertrand - Inria Rennes Submissions *********** Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format (please use the LaTeX style provided at http://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 Univ., Belgium Pavol Cerny, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA Krishnendu Chatterjee, Inst. of Science and Tech. Austria Giorgio Delzanno, Univ. of Genoa, Italy Laurent Doyen, LSV, ENS-Cachan, France Javier Esparza, TU Munich, Germany (co-chair) Bernd Finkbeiner, Univ. of Saarbr?cken, Germany Pierre Ganty, IMDEA, Spain Antonin Kucera, Masaryk Univ. (Brno), Czech Republic K. Narayan Kumar, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Orna Kupferman, Hebrew Univ., Israel Christof L?ding, Aachen Univ., Germany Richard Mayr, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Igor Melatti, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy Henryk Michalewski, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland Luke Ong, Univ. of Oxford, UK Mimmo Parente, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Gennaro Parlato, Univ. of Southampton, UK Doron Peled, Bar Ilan Univ., Israel Ruzica Piskac, Yale Univ., USA Enrico Tronci, Univ. La Sapenza, Rome, Italy (co-chair) Hiroshi Umeo, Univ. of Osaka Electro-Communication, Japan Helmut Veith, Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria Marc Zeitoun, LaBRI, France Steering Committee ****************** Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland Javier Esparza, TU 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 Local Organizers **************** Giorgio Delzanno Univ. of Genova Elena Zucca, Univ. of Genova Alessandro Solimando, Univ. of Genova Daniela Briola, Univ. of Genova -- 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Sun May 3 06:36:24 2015 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 06:36:24 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TTCS 2015 - Call for Papers Message-ID: ========================================= Topics in Theoretical Computer Science (TTCS 2015) http://www.ttcs.ir/ Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran August 26-28, 2015 *Submission Deadline:* May 15, 2015 ======================================== Scope ------------------------------ TTCS is a new bi-annual conference series, intending to serve as a forum for novel and high-quality research in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science. The conference is held in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. There will be a number of satellite events at TTCS, These will feature presentation of early research results, and position papers. There will also be a forum for Ph.D. students to receive comments about their ongoing research projects. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - algebra and co-algebra in computer science, - algorithms and data structures, - algorithmic coding theory, - algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, - approximation algorithms, - computational complexity, - computational geometry, - computational learning theory, - concurrency theory, - coordination languages, - economics and algorithmic game theory, - fixed parameter algorithms, - formal verification and model-based testing, - logic in computer science, - machine learning - methods, models of computation and reasoning for embedded, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems, - optimization, - parallel and distributed algorithms, - quantum computing, - randomness in computing, - stochastic and probabilistic specification and reasoning - theoretical aspects of other CS-related research areas, e.g., computational science, databases, information retrieval, and networking, - theoretical cryptography, - theory of programming languages, and - type theory and its application in program verification. Keynote Speakers ------------------------------ Anuj Dawar, Cambridge University, UK Michael Fellows, Charles Darwin University, Australia Mehrnoosh Sadrezadeh, Queen Mary University of London, UK Submission ------------------------------ For the main conference, we solicit research papers in all areas of theoretical computer science. All papers will undergo a rigorous review process and will be judged based on their originality, soundness, significance of the results, and relevance to the theme of the conference. Papers should be written in English. Research papers should not exceed 15 pages in the LNCS style format. Multiple and/or concurrent submission to other scientific venues is not allowed and will result in rejection as well as notification to the other venue. Any case of plagiarism (including self-plagiarism from earlier publications) will result in rejection as well as notification to the the authors' institutions. Papers should be submitted through our EasyChair submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttcs2015 . The web site is open for submissions. Important Dates ------------------------------ - *Paper Submission:* May 15, 2015 (Anywhwere on Earth) - *Author notification:* June 26, 2015 - *Camera ready paper due:* July 10, 2015 - *Conference:* August 26-28, 2015 Program Committee ------------------------------ *Track A: Algorithms and Complexity* - Mohammad Ali Abam, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Saeed Akbari, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Saeed Alaei, Cornell University, USA - Mohammad Hossein Bateni, Google Research, USA - Salman Beigi, IPM, Iran - Amir Daneshgar, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Fedor Fomin, University of Bergen, Norway - Ali Ghodsi, University of Waterloo, Canada - Mohammad Ghodsi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland, USA (Chair) - Amin Karbasi, Yale University, USA - Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research, USA - Amit Kumar, IIT Delhi, India - Mohammad Mahdian, Google Research, USA - Hamid Mahini, University of Maryland, USA - Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Mohammad Mahmoody, University of Virginia, USA - Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, USA - Morteza Monemizadeh, Frankfurt University, Germany - Shayan Oveisgharan, UC Berkeley and University of Washington, USA - Debmalya Panigrahi, Duke University, USA - Jorg Sack, Carleton University, Canada - Mohit Singh, Microsoft Research, USA - Dimitrios M. Thilikos, CNRS, France and University of Athens, Greece - Suresh Venkatasubramanian, University of Utah, USA - Jan Vondrak, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA *Track B: Logic, Semantics, and Programming Theory* - Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands - S. Arun-Kumar, IIT Delhi, India - Ilaria Castellani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France - Dave Clarke, Uppsala University, Sweden and KU Leuven, Belgium - Pieter Cuijpers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Fatemeh Ghassemi, Tehran University, Iran - Matthew Hennessy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, Japan - Mahdi Jaghoori, AMC University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Jeroen Keiren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Bas Luttik, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Jose Meseguer, University of Illinois at Urbana, USA - Lary Moss, Indiana University, USA - Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden (Chair) - Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland - Walter Vogler, Augsburg University, Germany - Tim Willemse, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maciej.pirog at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue May 5 16:27:07 2015 From: maciej.pirog at cs.ox.ac.uk (Maciej Pirog) Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 21:27:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Summer School on Generic and Effectful Programming Message-ID: Call for Participation SUMMER SCHOOL ON GENERIC AND EFFECTFUL PROGRAMMING St Anne's College, Oxford, 6th to 10th July 2015 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/projects/utgp/school/ TOPIC Generic programming is a technique that exploits the inherent structure that exists in data, to automatically produce efficient and flexible algorithms that can be adapted to suit different needs. The goal of this school is to explore datatype-generic programming and related topics from a variety of different angles, emphasizing in particular the interplay of generics and effects. This summer school is the closing activity of the EPSRC-funded project "Unifying Theories of Generic Programming" at Oxford University. LECTURERS Six lecturers from the Programming Languages community, each an acknowledged expert in their specialism, will cover various aspects of generic and effectful programming. Each will give about four hours' lectures, distributed throughout the week. Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) "Embedded Domain-Specific Languages in Idris" Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen) "Worst-case Efficient Generic Functional Programming on Bulk Data" Andres L?h (Well-Typed) "Applying Type-level and Generic Programming in Haskell" Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde) "Datatypes of Datatypes" Don Syme (Microsoft Research) "Compile-time Meta-programming for the Information-rich World" Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology) "Containers for Effects and Contexts" PREREQUISITES The school is aimed at doctoral students in programming languages and related areas; however, researchers and practitioners will be very welcome, as will strong masters students with the support of a supervisor. It will be assumed that participants have a good understanding of typed functional programming, as in Haskell, O'Caml, or F#. DATES Registration deadline: 21st June 2015 School: 6th July (9am) to 10th July 2015 (lunchtime) COSTS Costs will be kept low, thanks to support from EPSRC. There will be a nominal registration fee of ?135, and B&B accommodation in college will be ?75 (ensuite) or ?48 (shared bathroom) per night. We can accept at most 50 participants; places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information, including instructions on how to register, is available at the website: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/projects/utgp/school/ From wneuper at ist.tugraz.at Wed May 6 04:52:42 2015 From: wneuper at ist.tugraz.at (Walther Neuper) Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 10:52:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'15, Theorem proving components for Educational software, cfp In-Reply-To: <7825586.kqUreA1aGx@gentzen> References: <7825586.kqUreA1aGx@gentzen> Message-ID: <5549D65A.1060104@ist.tugraz.at> Last 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: Adaptation 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 pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Wed May 6 06:58:45 2015 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S Barry Cooper) Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 11:58:45 +0100 (BST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Computability workshops at CiE 2015 in Bucharest Message-ID: WORKSHOP ON COMPUTABILITY THEORY (WCT 2015) and 3rd WORKSHOP ON MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS (MMM 2015) BUCHAREST, JUNE 27-28, 2015 This multi-disciplinary?Workshop brings together the workshop on "Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics" (as part of the Templeton Foundation supported Turing Centenary Research Project) and the?2015 "Workshop on?Computability?Theory" (WCT 2015), held in Bucharest?on June 27-28, 2015.? The?workshop?will be co-located with the conference Computability in Europe 2015: Evolving Computability (CiE 2015) in Bucharest, June29-July 3, 2015: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/ More information about the?joint workshop and programme?can be found at the WCT 2015/MMM 2015 webpages: http://wct.math.uconn.edu/wctbucharest/ http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?711 Invited speakers include:? Marat Arslanov, Kazan State University Eric Astor, University of Chicago Nikolay Bazhenov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics Mark Braverman, Princeton University Stephanie Dick, Harvard University David Gamez, University of Sussex Paul Grant, University of Cambridge Noam Greenberg, Victoria University of Wellington Margarita Korovina, Novosibirsk State University Rutger Kuyper, Radboud University Nijmegen Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Alberto Marcone, Universit? di Udine Andrew Marks, Caltech Simon Martiel, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis Joe Miller, University of Wisconsin Andre Nies, University of Auckland Andrey Sariev, Sofia University Rebecca Schulman, Johns Hopkins University Registration is free, and can be added free to registration for CiE 2015 with which the Workshop is co-located, at: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/ http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/registration.html For more information, you can contact any of the organizers - for WCT 2015: ?? Damir Dzhfarov, Connecticut ?? Ekaterina Fokina, Vienna ?? Alexandra Soskova, Sofia Stefan Vatev, Sofia and for MMM 2015: S. Barry Cooper, Leeds From liyuanfang at gmail.com Thu May 7 08:00:18 2015 From: liyuanfang at gmail.com (liyuanfang at gmail.com) Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 05:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Associate Professor (Software Engineering) position at Monash University Message-ID: <554b53d2.8715460a.4399.5da8@mx.google.com> The Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University is seeking an experienced academic in the field of Software Engineering, with a demonstrated track record of excellence in teaching and research, to lead its Software Engineering programs. A member of the prestigious Australian Group of Eight Universities, Monash University is the only Australian university with a dedicated Faculty of IT, where both our research and education programs cover the full span of IT, from Computer Science and Software Engineering, through Networks and Security, to Business Information Systems and the Digital Humanities. This Associate Professor (Level D) position will be located at our Clayton campus (located in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs), where we offer a 4-year Bachelor of Software Engineering degree, accredited by both Engineers Australia and the Australian Computer Society. Monash is seeking to boost its existing expertise in Software Engineering, and the successful applicant will be asked to lead a new hiring round for further Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions. For full details and to apply, see here: http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=534496&sKeywords=Associate+Professor+%28Software+Engineering%29&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=&lCategoryID=&lBrandID=&sJobNo=Associate+Professor+%28Software+Engineering%29&stp=AW&sLanguage=en. Closing date: Sunday 14 June 2015, 11:55pm Aus. Eastern Standard Time Enquiries: Prof. Graham Farr, Head of Campus, Clayton, Faculty of IT +61 3 9905 5201. email: graham.farr at monash.edu From gadducci at di.unipi.it Wed May 6 12:57:42 2015 From: gadducci at di.unipi.it (Fabio Gadducci) Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 18:57:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Second call for papers] The Third International Conference for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2015) Message-ID: <7255B6E7-408C-4366-B1CC-FADC2A3C478D@di.unipi.it> ************************************************************************************* We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We really appreciate your help if you forward this CFPs to your email lists. ************************************************************************************* ******************* SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 19, 2015 **************** * Submission Website * https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2015 ************************************************************************************* Call For Papers HaPoC 3: Third International Conference for the History and Philosophy of Computing October 8--11, 2015 Pisa, Italy URL: http://hapoc2015.sciencesconf.org/ The DHST commission for the history and philosophy of computing (www.hapoc.org ) is happy to announce the third HAPOC conference. The seriesaims at creating an interdisciplinary focus on computing, stimulating a dialogue between the historical and philosophical viewpoints. To this end, the conference hopes to bring together researchers interested in the historical developments of computing, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape. In the past editions, the conference has successfully presented a variety of voices, contributing to the creation of a fruitful dialogue between researchers with different backgrounds and sensibilities. For HaPoC 2015 we welcome contributions from historians and philosophers of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. Topics include but are not limited to History and Philosophy of Computation (interpretation of the Church-Turing thesis; models of computation; logical/mathematical foundations of computer science; information theory...) History and Philosophy of Programming (classes of programming languages; philosophical status of programming...) History and Philosophy of the Computer (from calculating machines to the future of the computer; user interfaces; abstract architectures...) History and Epistemology of the use of Computing in the sciences (simulation vs. modelisation; computer-assisted proofs; linguistics...) Computing and the Arts: historical and conceptual issues (temporality in digital art; narration in interactive art work...) Social, ethical and pedagogical aspects of Computing (pedagogy of computer science; algorithms and copyright; internet, culture, society...) We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200 words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references included) to the EasyChair conference page. Abstracts must be written in English and anonymised. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be either .pdf or .doc. In order to access the submission page, an EasyChair account will be required. Please notice that what is called ?abstract? in the EasyChair ?Title, Abstract and Other Information? section corresponds to the short abstract of this call, and what is called ?paper? in the EasyChair ?Upload Paper? section corresponds to the extended abstract of this call. A post-proceedings volume is going to appear in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series, published by Springer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.a.perez at rug.nl Fri May 8 08:27:10 2015 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 14:27:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DCM 2015 (Cali, Colombia): Call for Papers 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 ============================================================== == IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts (5 pages): August 3 - Notification: 13 September - Pre-proceedings version due: 5 October - Workshop: 28 October - Submission Deadline for EPTCS Proceedings: 7 December == AIM 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 (http://www.ictac2015.co) == 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. == 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. Please follow the EPTCS style: http://style.eptcs.org/ Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is not permitted. 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 (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science). == 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 - C?sar A. Mu?oz - Jorge A. P?rez -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands Email: j.a.perez at rug.nl URL: http://www.jorgeaperez.net From publicityifl at gmail.com Sun May 10 16:02:51 2015 From: publicityifl at gmail.com (publicityifl at gmail.com) Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 13:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers for IFL 2015 Message-ID: <554fb96b.2853b40a.5b6d.115a@mx.google.com> Hello, Please, find below the first call for papers for IFL 2015. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL --- IFL 2015 - Call for papers 27th SYMPOSIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES - IFL 2015 University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN September 14-16, 2015 http://ifl2015.wikidot.com/ Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2015 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Peer-review Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2015 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. All participants of IFL2015 are invited to submit either a draft paper or an extended abstract describing work to be presented at the symposium. At no time may work submitted to IFL be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication The submissions will be screened by the program committee chair to make sure they are within the scope of IFL, and will appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. Submissions appearing in the draft proceedings are not peer-reviewed publications. Hence, publications that appear only in the draft proceedings do not count as publication for the ACM SIGPLAN republication policy. After the symposium, authors will be given the opportunity to incorporate the feedback from discussions at the symposium and will be invited to submit a revised full article for the formal review process. From the revised submissions, the program committee will select papers for the formal proceedings considering their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Important dates August 10: Submission deadline draft papers August 12: Notification of acceptance for presentation August 14: Early registration deadline August 21: Late registration deadline September 7: Submission deadline for pre-symposium proceedings September 14-16: IFL Symposium December 1: Submission deadline for post-symposium proceedings January 15, 2016: Notification of acceptance for post-symposium proceedings March 1, 2016: Camera-ready version for post-symposium proceedings Submission details Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers or extended abstracts to be published in the draft proceedings and to present them at the symposium. All contributions must be written in English. Papers must adhere to the standard ACM two columns conference format. For the pre-symposium proceedings we adopt a 'weak' page limit of 12 pages. For the post-symposium proceedings the page limit of 12 pages is firm. A suitable document template for LaTeX can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm Authors submit through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2015 Topics IFL welcomes submissions describing practical and theoretical work as well as submissions describing applications and tools in the context of functional programming. If you are not sure whether your work is appropriate for IFL 2015, please contact the PC chair at rlaemmel at acm.org. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - language concepts - type systems, type checking, type inferencing - compilation techniques - staged compilation - run-time function specialization - run-time code generation - partial evaluation - (abstract) interpretation - metaprogramming - generic programming - automatic program generation - array processing - concurrent/parallel programming - concurrent/parallel program execution - embedded systems - web applications - (embedded) domain specific languages - security - novel memory management techniques - run-time profiling performance measurements - debugging and tracing - virtual/abstract machine architectures - validation, verification of functional programs - tools and programming techniques - (industrial) applications Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. Programme committee Chair: Ralf L??mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany - Malgorzata Biernacka, University of Wroclaw, Poland - Laura M. Castro, University of A Coru??a, Spain - Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA - Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham, UK - Andrew Gill, University of Kansas, USA - Stephan Herhut, Google, USA - Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan - Mauro Jaskelioff, CIFASIS/Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina - Fr??d??ric Jouault, ESEO, France - Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University, Japan - Lindsey Kuper, Indiana University, USA - Rita Loogen, Philipps-Universit??t Marburg, Germany - Akimasa Morihata, University of Tokyo, Japan - Atsushi Ohori, Tohoku University, Japan - Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Norman Ramsey, Tufts University, USA - Matthew Roberts, Macquarie University, Australia - Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany - Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK - Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania , USA Venue The 27th IFL will be held in association with the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz. Koblenz is well connected by train to several international airports. For instance, Koblenz can be reached from Frankfurt by high-speed train ICE within an hour. The modern Koblenz campus is close to the city center and can be reached by foot, bus, or cab. See the website for more information on the venue. From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Fri May 8 16:10:14 2015 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 22:10:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?program_and_registration=3A__Hilbert?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Epsilon_and_Tau_In_Logic=2C_Informatics_and_Linguist?= =?utf-8?q?ics_=28Montpellier_June_10-12=29?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to participate in the following conference (Montpellier, June 10 11 12) on quantification using Hilbert?s epsilon and tau operators and its applications in logic, informatics and linguistics. Looking forward to meeting you in Montpellier, ? Stergios CHATZIKYRIAKIDIS Fabio PASQUALI Christian RETORE Epsilon 2015 HILBERT?S EPSILON AND TAU IN LOGIC, INFORMATICS AND LINGUISTICS Universit? de Montpellier 10 11 12 juin 2015 Organised by LIIRMM CNRS with the support of ANR Polymnie and Unviersit? de Montpellier https://sites.google.com/site/epsilon2015workshop/ This workshop aims at promoting work on Hilbert's Epsilon 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 Epsilon operator in Bourbaki?s ?l?ments de Math?matique. In the nineties, renewing Russell's ideas on definite descriptions, there has been some work on the interpretation of determiners and noun phrases with Hilbert?s epsilon. Nowadays the interest in the Epsilon substitution method has spread in a variety of fields : Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy, History of Mathematics, Linguistics, Type Theory, Computer science, Category Theory and others. PROGRAM WEDNESDAY 13.30 - 14.30 INVITED LECTURE 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 15.00 - 15.30 Bhupinder Singh Anand (independent scholar, Mumbai) Why Hilbert?s and Brouwer?s interpretations of quantification are complementary and not contradictory 15.30 - 16.00 David DeVidi (University of Waterloo) and Corey Mulvihill (University of Waterloo) Buying Logic with Ontological Coin 16.00 - 16.30 Hartley Slater (University of Western Australia) G?del?s Theorems and the Epsilon Calculus 16.30 - 17.00 Norbert Gratzl (LMU/MCMP) and Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna) Hilbert?s ?-termes, Russell?s Indefinites and Indexed ?-terms THURSDAY 09.30 - 10.30 INVITED LECTURE Vito Michele Abrusci (University of Roma Tre) Hilbert's tau and epsilon in proof theory 11.00 - 11.30 Alexander Leitsch (Vienna University of Technology), Giselle Reis (Inria Saclay) and Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (Vienna University of Technology) Epsilon Terms in Intuitionistic Sequent Calculus 11.30 - 12.00 ThomasPowell (University of Innsbruck) Variations on learning: Relating the epsilon calculus to proof interpretations 12.00 - 12.30 Matthias Baaz (Vienna University of Technology) and Daniel Weller (Vienna University of Technology) Cut-free epsilon-calculus allows a non-elementary speed-up 12.30 - 13.00 Fabio Pasquali (University of Aix-Marseille & I2M CNRS) A categorical approach to the typed Epsilon Calculus 14.30 - 15.00 Wilfried Meyer-Viol (King's College London) Non-Monotonic Logic in the Epsilon Calculus 15.00 - 15.30 Federico Aschieri (Vienna University of Technology) Type Theory, Realizability and Epsilon Substitution Method 15.30 - 16.00 Nissim Francez (Technion) and Bartosz Wieckowski (University of Frankfurt) A proof-theory for first-order logic with definiteness 16.30 - 17.00 Sergei Soloviev (University of Toulose III, IRIT) Studies of Hilbert?s epsilon operator in the USSR 17.00 - 17.30 Hans Lei? (University of Munich) Equality of Contexts in the Indexed Epsilon-Calculus FRIDAY 09.30 - 10.30 INVITED LECTURE Hartley Slater (University of Western Australia) Linguistic and philosophical ramifications of the epsilon calculus 11.00 - 11.30 Ruth Kempson (King's College London), Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (University of Montpellier, LIRMM) and Ronnie Cann (University of Edimburgh) The interactive Building of Names 11.30 - 12.00 Sumiyo Nishiguchi (Tokyo University of Science) Noun Phrases in Japanese and Epsilon-Iota Calculi 12.00 - 12.30 Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University) Epsilon Calculus as Presupposition Theory 12.30 - 13.00 Bruno Mery (University of Bordeaux, LaBRI), Richard Moot (University of Bordeaux, LaBRI) and Christian Retor? (University of Montpellier, LIRMM) Typed Hilbert?s Operators for the Lexical Semantics of Singular and Plural Determiner Phrases REGISTRATION Registration (120 euros) includes coffee breaks, Thursday and Friday lunches, conference dinner. One can register on line from: https://sites.google.com/site/epsilon2015workshop/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Daisuke BEKKI, Stergios CHATZIKYRIAKIDIS, Francis CORBLIN, Michael GABBAY, Makoto KANAZAWA, Ulrich KOHLENBACH, Alda MARI, Richard MOOT, Georg MOSER, Michel PARIGOT , Fabio PASQUALI , Christian RETOR?, Mark STEEDMAN, Bruno WOLTZENLOGEL PALEO, Richard ZACH -- Christian RETORE Universit? de Montpellier & LIRMM http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore From fisman at seas.upenn.edu Sun May 10 23:27:18 2015 From: fisman at seas.upenn.edu (Dana Fisman) Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 23:27:18 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SyGuS-COMP 2015: Call for Benchmarks and Solvers Message-ID: SyGuS-COMP 2015: 2nd Syntax Guided Synthesis Competition Satellite event of CAV and SYNT 2015 http://www.sygus.org Important Dates: Benchmark Submission Deadline: 31 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 ) Submission Links: Benchmark submission Solver submission 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. [See here the enhanced SyGuS-IF syntax.] 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 especially for the newer tracks of invariant synthesis and conditional linear integer arithmetic. [benchmark submission link ] 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. [solver submission link ] 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 alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it Mon May 11 05:21:44 2015 From: alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it (alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it) Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:21:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SCART 2015 at SEFM 2015 - Submission Deadline Reminder - Springer JISA Thematic Series Invited Papers Message-ID: <1607487441.54.1431336103055.JavaMail.Alexander@XPS> [Apologies for multiple postings] -- Call for Papers -- SCART 2015: 1st International Workshop on the ART of Software Composition, co-located with SEFM 2015 ? York, UK. SCART 2015 (http://scart2015.disim.univaq.it/) provides the opportunity for discussing how the FI affects the traditional SE methods and tools, and how facing its complexity in terms of scalability, heterogeneity, and dinamicity promotes the integration of FM within SE practices. We seek answers on how the rigorousness of FM assists software engineers while designing, developing, validating and operating software systems for the FI, which are build via correct-by-construction service composition. The workshop constitutes a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research and development. SCART 2015 welcomes research papers, experience papers and tool presentations; nevertheless, papers describing novel research contributions and innovative applications are of particular interest. Details on workshop goals and themes can be found at: http://scart2015.disim.univaq.it. Keynote by Paola Inverardi (Title and abstract to be announced) - http://scart2015.disim.univaq.it/?page_id=139 A thematic series on Service Composition for the Future Internet in the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA - http://www.jisajournal.com/about/update/SCFI) is devoted to SCART 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 thematic series. == IMPORTANT DATES == Paper submissions: May 22, 2015 Notification of authors: June 19, 2015 Camera-ready copies: July 3, 2015 == PAPER SUBMISSION == Workshop papers must follow the SEFM 2015 Format and Submission Guidelines: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/sefm2015/ Each submitted paper will undergo a formal peer review process by at least 3 PC members. Contributions can be: Regular papers (maximum 12 pages): In this category fall those contributions which propose novel research contributions, address challenging problems with innovative ideas, or offer practical contributions in the application of FM and SE approaches for building FI applications via software composition. Regular papers should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential benefits of the contribution. Short papers (maximum 8 pages): This category includes tool demonstrations, position papers, industrial experiences and case-studies, well-pondered and sufficiently documented visionary papers. Authors of papers reporting industrial experiences are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available for use by reviewers. Similarly, case-study papers should describe significant case-studies and the complete development should be made available for use by reviewers. Tool demonstration papers should explain enhancements made in comparison to previously published work. Authors of tool demonstration papers should make their tool available for use by reviewers. == Workshop Chairs == - Marco Autili, University of L'Aquila, Italy marco.autili at univaq.it - Alfredo Goldman, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil gold at ime.usp.br - Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy, massimo.tivoli at univaq.it == Program Committee == - Domenico Bianculli, Univ. du Luxembourg - Gwen Sala?n, INRIA, Grenoble-Rhone-Alpes, France - Guglielmo De Angelis, CNR-IASI/ISTI, Italy - Ivica Crnkovic, M?lardalen University, Sweden - Joni da Silva Fraga, UFSC, Brazil (pending) - Kelly Rosa Braghetto, Univ. of S?o Paulo, Brazil - Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Mauro Caporuscio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Miriam Capretz, Faculty of Western Eng., Canada - Nelson Souto Rosa, UFPE, Brazil - Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, Paris, France - Paola Inverardi, Univ. of L'Aquila, Italy - Pascal Poizat, Univ. Paris Ouest, France - Radu Calinescu, Univ. of York, UK - Schahram Dustdar, Univ. of Technology Wien, Austria == Publicity Chair == - Alexander Perucci, University of L'Aquila, Italy == Web Chair == - Amleto Di Salle, University of L'Aquila, Italy == List of topics (although not limited to) == - Specification, architecture, and design of software composition models - Software quality assurance for software composition - Verification and testing of software integration code - Adaptive software composition - Formal methods for automated software composition - Service-oriented and Component-based software composition - Non-functional properties of software composition - Automated software composition and coordination - Correct-by-construction software composition - Automated synthesis of software integration code - Model-driven software composition - Compositional theories for software composition - Patterns and frameworks for software composition engineering - Tools and methods for software composition engineering - Industrial experience in software composition - Empirical studies in software composition From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Mon May 11 14:00:41 2015 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 19:00:41 +0100 (BST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CiE 2015 in Bucharest - Call for Participation Message-ID: <201505111800.t4BI0fAq001833@maths.leeds.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CiE 2015: Call for Participation and Registration -------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2015: Evolving Computability Bucharest, Romania June 29 - July 3 http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/ IMPORTANT DATES: EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 20, 2015 Details on the registration: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/registration.html Details on accommodation possibilities: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/accommodation.html (please note the individual deadlines for each variant) CiE 2015 is the 11-th conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), 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, meeting this year 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 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 invite everyone who is interested in the topics and program of CiE 2015 to register for the conference. Details on the program of the conference are given below. The details regarding the registration procedure are given at: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/registration.html PROGRAM: The papers accepted for CiE 2015 can be seen here: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/accepted.html The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag, and there will be a best student paper award presented to the best paper written solely by students, sponsored by Springer. 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 (University of Warsaw) * 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 are listed at http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/sessions.html INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS: While computer science conferences usually host formal presentations based on papers published in a proceedings volume, 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. So, continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, CiE 2015 hosts a series of informal presentations, in addition to the presentations based on the papers in the LNCS proceedings volume. These will be soon published on the CiE 2015 website. ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS, JUNE 26-28: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/workshops.html The Turing Centenary Research Project: Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics (MMM 2015), 3rd Workshop - joint with Workshop on Computability Theory (WCT 2015), June 27-28, 2015 (free registration) Days of Computer Science (DACS 2015), 2nd Workshop, June 26-27, 2015 STILL AVAILABLE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: CiE 2015 has received funding from EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) that allows students who are members of EATCS and want to attend CiE 2015 to apply for travel funds or a reduction of the early registration fee. Applications for EATCS travel grants have to be sent to prior to the early registration deadline. 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 A.Popescu at mdx.ac.uk Tue May 12 13:21:33 2015 From: A.Popescu at mdx.ac.uk (Andrei Popescu) Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 18:21:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] fully funded three-year PhD positions at Middlesex University London Message-ID: <5F22105EAD3CAD4689EC4570AA1802B0BDA3D38673@WGFP-EXMAV1.uni.mdx.ac.uk> Middlesex University London is offering a number of fully funded doctoral research studentships. These are three-year scholarships, covering a maintenance award and fee payments, currently ?14,057 and ?4,052 (UK/EU rate) respectively, including London weighting and free of tax and national insurance contributions. For more information on this program, please visit: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research-degrees/research-studentships The Foundations of Computing group, part of the School of Science and Technology, is keen to support qualified candidates (preferably with a master's degree in a relevant area) who are interested in applying for this program and who wish to pursue a PhD in areas such as - software analysis - theory of programming languages - formal proofs - program verification and model checking - algorithms and complexity - computational geometry - quantum computing For more information on our group, please visit: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/foundations/ Interested candidates should initially contact one of the group members http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/foundations/sample-page/ as soon as possible to informally discuss a possible project (candidates are asked to submit a personal research statement as part of their application). 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URL: From tom.hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr Tue May 12 05:31:51 2015 From: tom.hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr (Tom Hirschowitz) Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 11:31:51 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Workshop_in_Chamb=C3=A9ry?= Message-ID: <87pp665ego.fsf@hirscho.lama.univ-savoie.fr> Hi all, We're organising a small workshop in Chamb?ry (France) from June 8 to June 12, featuring two 5-hour courses by Neil Ghani and Damien Pous, plus an introductory lecture by Guy McCusker: - Neil will explain his work with R. Atkey and P. Johann on relational parametricity in Martin-L?f type theory; - Guy will survey denotational semantics, from the roots -- domains -- to more recent, quantitative advances; - Damien will present his work on bisimulation up-to in concurrency theory with applications in algorithmics. Participants are invited to contribute talks. You may register (and propose a talk) on the workshop site https://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~hirschowitz/Geocalisation2015 which is only mandatory if you plan to attend coffee breaks. (The site's in French, sorry. Should be quite readable though, please don't hesitate to ask if needed...) There you'll also find a few suggestions for accomodation. Alternatively, there should be a few university rooms available (cheap, on site, but far from luxurious): please contact me if interested. Hope to see you there! Tom, for the organisers Clovis Eberhart Pierre Hyvernat Rodolphe Lepigre Christophe Raffalli From barrett at cs.nyu.edu Tue May 12 19:18:49 2015 From: barrett at cs.nyu.edu (Clark Barrett) Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:18:49 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: SAT/SMT Summer School Message-ID: =============================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fifth International SAT/SMT Summer School Stanford, CA, July 15-17, 2015 http://smt2015.csl.sri.com/school =============================================================== APPLICATION: The application deadline for the summer school is May 19, 2015. Full details of the application procedure are available on the summer school website (http://smt2015.csl.sri.com/school). ABOUT: Satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers have become the engines powering numerous applications in computer science and beyond, including automated verification, artificial intelligence, program synthesis, security, product configuration, and many more. The summer school covers the foundational and practical aspects of SAT and SMT technologies and their applications. Besides providing a well-structured introduction to SAT and SMT, this year?s edition of the SAT/SMT Summer School covers timely topics and novel applications such as - MaxSAT - solvers for floating point arithmetic, - optimization modulo theories, - symbolic execution - proofs and interpolation, - synthesis The fifth edition follows the schools that took place at MIT (2011), at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, Italy (2012), at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland (2013), and in Semmering, Austria (2014). The school location and schedule has been chosen to conveniently allow participants to also attend the 2015 SMT Workshop and CAV conference: - SMT Workshop: http://smt2015.csl.sri.com/ - CAV Conference: http://i-cav.org/2015/ The Summer School program will feature four lectures per day including an introductory lecture on day one by Donald Knuth. Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:00 - 10:30 Donald Knuth 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Nina Narodystka 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 Alberto Griggio 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Dejan Jovanovi? Thursday, July 16, 2015 9:00 - 10:30 Mate Soos 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Christoph Wintersteiger 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 Roberto Sebastiani 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Joe Hendrix Friday, July 17, 2015 9:00 - 10:30 Pascal Fontaine 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Stefano Ermon 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 Sanjit Seshia 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Vijay D'Silva Organizers: Clark Barrett (New York University) David Dill (Stanford University) Bruno Dutertre (SRI International) From aoto at nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp Wed May 13 09:50:40 2015 From: aoto at nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp (Takahito Aoto) Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 22:50:40 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] IWC 2015: deadline extended Message-ID: <20150513.225040.1770427004485182881.aoto@nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp> *** Extended Deadline: May 25, 2015 *** ===================================================================== Final Call for Papers (extended deadline) 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 25, 2015 (extended) * 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: * Koji Nakazawa (Kyoto University) 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/conferences/?conf=iwc2015 From mainland at cs.drexel.edu Wed May 13 20:38:09 2015 From: mainland at cs.drexel.edu (Geoffrey Mainland) Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 20:38:09 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Extended Deadline: Functional High-Performance Computing (held with ICFP) In-Reply-To: <5553EDDE.5030909@cs.drexel.edu> References: <5553EDDE.5030909@cs.drexel.edu> Message-ID: <5553EE71.5050303@cs.drexel.edu> ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS FHPC 2015 The 4th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Canada September 3, 2015 https://sites.google.com/site/fhpcworkshops/ Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2015) EXTENDED Submission Deadline: Friday, 22 May, 2015 (anywhere on earth) ====================================================================== The FHPC workshop aims at bringing together researchers exploring uses of functional (or more generally, declarative or high-level) programming technology in application domains where high performance is essential. The aim of the meeting is to enable sharing of results, experiences, and novel ideas about how high-level, declarative specifications of computationally challenging problems can serve as maintainable and portable code that approaches (or even exceeds) the performance of machine-oriented imperative implementations. All aspects of performance critical programming and parallel programming are in-scope for the workshop, irrespective of hardware target. This includes both traditional large-scale scientific computing (HPC), as well as work targeting single node systems with SMPs, GPUs, FPGAs, or embedded processors. It is becoming apparent that radically new and well founded methodologies for programming such systems are required to address their inherent complexity and to reconcile execution performance with programming productivity. Proceedings: ============ Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. * Submissions due: Friday, 22 May, 2015 (anywhere on earth) * Author notification: Friday, 26 June, 2015 * Final copy due: Sunday, 19 July, 2015 Submitted papers must be in portable document format (PDF), formatted according to the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (2 column, 9pt format). See http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm for more information and style files. Typical papers are expected to be 8 pages (but up to four additional pages are permitted). Contributions to FHPC 2015 should be submitted via Easychair, at the following URL: * https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fhpc15 The submission site is now open. The FHPC workshops adhere to the ACM SIGPLAN policies regarding programme committee contributions and republication. Any paper submitted must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. PC member submissions are welcome, but will be reviewed to a higher standard. http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Review http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication Travel Support: =============== Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC programme, see its web page (http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm). Programme Committee: ==================== Tiark Rompf (co-chair), Purdue University, USA Geoffrey Mainland (co-chair), Drexel University, USA Kevin Brown Stanford University, USA James Cheney University of Edinburgh, UK Albert Cohen INRIA, France David Duke University of Leeds, UK Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba, Japan Gabriele Keller University of New South Wales, Australia Paul H J Kelly Imperial College London, UK Trevor L. Mcdonell Indiana University, USA Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University, UK Cosmin E. Oancea University of Copenhagen, Denmark Markus Pueschel ETH Zurich, Switzerland Sukyoung Ryu KAIST, Korea Alexander Slesarenko Huawei, Russia Josef Svenningsson Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden From erdweg at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Thu May 14 02:36:23 2015 From: erdweg at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Sebastian Erdweg) Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 08:36:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: Workshop on Generic Programming 2015 - New deadline May 22 Message-ID: <1CBF49FF-44D3-4CBE-B5CC-1019AAAF66E6@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> Submission deadline extended to May 22 ====================================================================== 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, 22nd 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 _______________________________________________ ecoop-info mailing list ecoop-info at ecoop.org http://web.satd.uma.es/mailman/listinfo/ecoop-info From james.cheney at gmail.com Thu May 14 12:38:01 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 17:38:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers: DBPL 2015 Message-ID: The 15th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages http://2015.splashcon.org/home/dbpl2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA October 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. Keynote Speaker --------------- DBPL 2015 will feature an invited talk by Dr. Marko A. Rodriguez (http://markorodriguez.com) of DataStax, on the topic Gremlin: A Stream-Based Functional Language for OLTP and OLAP Graph Computing 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] is now open for submissions. [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 27, 2015 Proceedings ----------- It is expected that accepted DBPL 2015 papers will appear as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings series. 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). DBPL was affiliated with VLDB from 1999-2013 and in 2015 is affiliated with SPLASH for the first time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From high-end servers to mobile devices, from specialized accelerators to embedded SoCs, from single node multicore/manycore to distributed clusters in cloud, be it NVIDIA, ARM, Intel, AMD or Cray, there are a many complex low-level details needed to be managed and abstracted from the programmers. The PMHS workshop aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners both from computer architecture scientists and the software engineering community to present the latest ideas and findings in all aspects of heterogeneous system programming models, language design or extension, compilers design or optimization, runtime systems, and programming tools. The objective is to brainstorm ways to make programming heterogeneous systems less challenging and more interesting, and promote the synergies between hardware design and software design. Topics of interest to the PHMS workshop include but are not limited to: - Programming environments for accelerators, embedded/SoC systems, and multicore/manycore processors, such as GPUs, FPGAs, Cells, MICs, etc. - Programming environments for large-scale parallel systems, clusters of multicore/manycore, distributed big-data systems, and SDN. - Compiler optimizations and tuning heterogeneous systems (Parallelization and loop transformations/fusion, Locality/affinity optimizations, SIMDization/Vectorization, Reducing synchronization & scheduling overheads, Tiling and offloading) - Innovative runtime systems for multicore processors, heterogeneous systems, and accelerators. - Scalable tools for performance analysis, modeling, monitoring, and debugging. - Programming language/models: thread and task based models, data parallel models, stream programming models, shared/distributed memory models, PGAS, etc. - Hardware-software co-design?OS and architectural support for parallel programming. - Improvements for existing parallel languages and run-time environments such as MPI, OpenMP, Cilk, OpenACC, OpenCL, CUDA, ArrayFire, FastFlow, OpenSHMEM, UPC, Co-Array Fortran (CAF), Titanium, GASPI, X10, and Chapel, etc. Manuscript Submission & Proceedings Papers reporting original and unpublished research results are solicited. *All submissions will be handled electronically through EasyChair* ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmhs2015). Submissions will be judged by at least 3 reviews on originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop scope. The length of the camera-ready manuscripts will be limited to 4 pages (6 pages with the over length charge) in standard IEEE CS proceedings paper format (two-column). All accepted papers will be included in the HPCC-2015 Workshop Proceeding published by IEEE Computer Society (indexed by EI). Authors of selected papers in PMHS 2015 will be invited to extend their papers for submission to special issues in prestigious SCI & EI indexed Journals. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will not be published. *Important Dates:* *June 1, 2015: Due date for full workshop papers submission* *June 15, 2015: Notification of paper acceptance to authors* *July 15, 2015: Camera-ready of accepted papers* *August 24-26: Workshop in conjunction with HPCC 2015* Workshop Organization Co-chairs: - Lin Ma Huawei America Research Center, USA lin.ma at huawei.com - Rajdeep Bhowmik Cisco, USA rbhowmik at cs.binghamton.edu Program Committee (to be extended): - Zheng Chen Facebook, USA - Peng Li Amazon, USA - Robert Utterback Washington University in Saint Louis, USA - Chengjie Wu Yahoo, USA - Xingjing Lu ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Wenlei Bao Ohio State University, USA - Fenglong Song Huawei, China - Lingjun Fan ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Jing Li Washington University in Saint Louis, USA - Jiefan Qiu Zhejiang University, China - Shigang Li ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naumann at cs.stevens.edu Sun May 17 21:38:41 2015 From: naumann at cs.stevens.edu (David Naumann) Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 21:38:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoc in formal methods and security Message-ID: A postdoc position in formal methods and security is available in the Department of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. The position is in the Flowspecs project on specification and enforcement of flexible information flow policies. We are developing theory and prototype tools for high assurance, targetting Android apps including apps with web components implemented in JavaScript. The project team includes collaborators from University of Central Florida, Grammatech, and IMDEA Software. The ideal candidate has excellent programming skills and has expertise in formal verification of software, security and privacy, web and mobile technologies, compilers, and automated reasoning. The general duties include implementing research ideas to evaluate their effectiveness, identifying and pursing new research within the project, writing up research for presentation/publication, and engagement with other researchers. The position offers a competitive salary and support for travel. Stevens is a research university founded in 1870, and is located in Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson river from New York City. There are excellent opportunities for collaborations with nearby universities such as NYU, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers/DIMACS as well as major industrial research laboratories such as Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, IBM Research, Google NYC, and NEC. All inquiries and application material should be sent to Dave Naumann (naumann at cs.stevens.edu) Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Start date: June 2015 or later. Duration: one year, with possibility of renewal depending on funding availability. From maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de Sat May 16 07:56:53 2015 From: maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de (Matteo Maffei) Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 13:56:53 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 28th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF'15) Message-ID: <4087483F-490C-4FCF-8F45-29B4D397B5FF@cs.uni-saarland.de> 28th IEEE COMPUTER SECURITY FOUNDATIONS SYMPOSIUM (CSF?15) --- July 13-17, 2015, Verona, Italy --- Website: http://csf2015.di.univr.it/ The early registration deadline is June 14, 2015 Online registration: http://csf2015.di.univr.it/registration.php The deadline for student travel scholarships is May 31, 2015 Application: http://csf2015.di.univr.it/scolarships.php ? The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security. It was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, in response to a 1986 essay by Don Good entitled ?The Foundations of Computer Security?We Need Some.? The meeting became a ?symposium? in 2007, along with a policy for open, increased attendance. Over the past two decades, many seminal papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. --- Invited speakers: - Nigel Smart: Computing on Encrypted Data - Vanessa Teague: Verifiable Internet Voting, or Not? --- The full program is available at http://csf2015.di.univr.it/program --- CSF Program Chairs: - Cedric Fournet, Microsoft Research, Cambridge - Michael Hicks, University of Maryland Organizing Committee: - General chair: Luca Vigan?, 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 m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk Fri May 15 14:44:53 2015 From: m.gaboardi at dundee.ac.uk (Marco Gaboardi (Staff)) Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 18:44:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] cfp - I&C special issue on Implicit Computational Complexity Message-ID: <440101F8-4414-4732-8FBE-2D49A8129FB4@dundee.ac.uk> ====================================================================== Call for Papers INFORMATION & COMPUTATION Special Issue on Implicit Computational Complexity (open post-conference publication of the workshops DICE 2014 and DICE 2015) Deadline: July 1st 2015 Guest Editors: Marco Gaboardi Ulrich Sch?pp ====================================================================== The area of Implicit Computational Complexity has grown from several proposals for using logic and formal methods to provide languages for complexity-bounded computation (such as polynomial time, polynomial space or logarithmic space 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. We welcome contributions on various aspects of Implicit Computational Complexity, including (but not exclusively) the following topics: - types for controlling complexity - logical systems for implicit computational complexity - linear logic - semantics of complexity-bounded computation - complexity analysis - rewriting and termination orderings - interpretation-based methods for implicit complexity - programming languages for complexity bounded computation - application of implicit complexity to other programming paradigms (e.g. imperative or object-oriented languages) - application of implicit complexity to security This special issue of Information & Computation follows the informal workshops on Developments in Implicit Computational Complexity (DICE), DICE 2014 in Grenoble (http://dice14.tcs.ifi.lmu.de) and DICE 2015 in London (http://dice15.computing.dundee.ac.uk). Submission to this special issue is open to everyone, including those who did not participate in DICE 2014 or DICE 2015. DICE workshops have been held annually as satellite events of ETAPS: DICE 2010 in Paphos, DICE 2011 in Saarbr?cken, DICE 2012 in Tallinn, DICE 2013 in Rome, DICE 2014 in Grenoble and DICE 2015 in London. Previous post-conference publications have appeared in - Information & Computation for DICE 2011, - Theoretical Computer Science for DICE 2012 (in press), and - Information & Computation for DICE 2013 (to appear). More information on the DICE workshop series is available at: http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/patrick.baillot/DICE Information & Computation solicits high quality papers reporting research results related to the topics mentioned above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. - Contributions should be submitted electronically to both addresses and . - Papers must be in PDF format and be formatted using Elsevier's elsarticle.cls LaTeX macro package. Formatting instructions can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/author-schemas/latex-instructions - Submissions must be sent to us no later than JULY 1st 2015. Papers will be processed as soon as they are submitted. We are aiming for a turnaround of no more than six months. We encourage authors to look at the author guide at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-and-computation/0890-5401/guide-for-authors The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Mon May 18 11:45:25 2015 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:45:25 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FM 2015, Oslo: 2nd call for participation: Early registration ends 20 May! Message-ID: ----------------------------------------------------------------- !!! IMPORTANT: early registration ends soon !!! Early registration deadline: May 20, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------.............. --------=== FM 2015 ===----- Second Call for Participation 20th International Symposium on Formal Methods Oslo, Norway, June 22-26, 2015 http://fm2015.ifi.uio.no/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM2015, will be held June 22-26 (which includes the year's longest(!) and hopefully sunniest days in Oslo). o ABOUT FM (International Symposium on Formal Methods) 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. The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together innovators and practitioners in precise mathematical methods for software and systems development, industrial users, as well as researchers. o CONFERENCE AND SATELLITE EVENTS: Satellite events: 22-23 June, 2015 (Mon - Tue) FM2015 Main conference: 24-26 June, 2015 (Wed - Fri) o FM 2015 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, ES Werner Damm, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, DE Valerie Issarny, INRIA, FR Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research, US o FME FELLOWSHIP AWARD o WORKSHOPS - FMICS (22-23th June) Keynote: Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, DK Keynote: Marielle Petit-Doche, Systerel, FR - Overture/VDM (23 June) Keynote: Taro Kurita, Sony Corporation, JP - WWV: Automated Specification and Verification of Web systems (23 June) Keynote: Dino Distefano, Queen Mary University & Facebook, UK Keynote: Jos? Meseguer, University of Illinois, US - Refinement (22 June) - ESSS: Engineering Safety and Security Systems (22 June) Keynote: Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, NL Keynote: Audun J?sang, University of Oslo, NO - USE: Usages of Symbolic Execution (23 June) - SETS: Sets and Tools (23 June) - FMSEET: Formal Methods in Software Education and Training (23 June) - F-IDE: Formal Integrated Development Environments (22 June) o DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM (22 June) Keynote: Stijn de Gouw, SDL, NL o TUTORIALS - Modelling and Analysis of Communicating Systems Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL), Mohammad Mousavi (Halmstad University, SE), Tim Willemse (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) - The Correctness-by-Construction Approach to Programming Bruce Watson (FASTAR research group, ZA) Derrick Kourie (FASTAR research group, ZA) Loek Cleophas (FASTAR research group, ZA, and Ume? University, SE) - Abstract Behavioral Specification Reiner H?hnle (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, DE), Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, NO) - Theory and Practice of Runtime Verification Martin Leucker (Universit?t zu L?beck, DE) Daniel Thoma (Universit?t zu L?beck, DE) o FM2015 ACCEPTED PAPERS MAIN CONFERENCE - Cornelius Diekmann, Lars Hupel and Georg Carle. Semantics-Preserving Simplification of Real-World Firewall Rule Sets -Nadia Polikarpova, Julian Tschannen and Carlo A. Furia. A Fully Verified Container Library - Alexey Solovyev, Charlie Jacobsen, Zvonimir Rakamaric and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. Rigorous Estimation of Floating-Point Round-off Errors with Symbolic - Taylor Expansions Shin Nakajima. Using Real-Time Maude to Model Check Energy Consumption Behavior - Li Li, Jun Sun, Yang Liu and Jin Song Dong. Verifying Parameterized Timed Security Protocols - Jiang Liu, Naijun Zhan, Hengjun Zhao and Liang Zou. Abstraction of Elementary Hybrid Systems by Variable Transformation - Tommaso Dreossi, Thao Dang and Carla Piazza. Parameter Synthesis through Temporal Logic Specifications - Peter Schmitt and Mattias Ulbrich. Typed First-Order Logic - Jesus Mauricio Chimento, Wolfgang Ahrendt, Gerardo Schneider and Gordon Pace. A Specification Language for Static and Runtime Verification of Data and Control Properties - Karam Abdelkader, Orna Grumberg, Corina Pasareanu and Sharon Shoham. Automated Circular Assume-Guarantee Reasoning - Xue-Yang Zhu, Rongjie Yan, Yu-Lei Gu, Jian Zhang, Wenhui Zhang and Guangquan Zhang. Static Optimal Scheduling for Synchronous Data Flow Graphs with Model Checking - Tim Nelson, Andrew D. Ferguson and Shriram Krishnamurthi. Static Differential Program Analysis for Software-Defined Networks - Matthew Fernandez, June Andronick, Gerwin Klein and Ihor Kuz. Automated Verification of RPC Stub Code - Yuan Feng, Ernst Moritz Hahn, Andrea Turrini and Lijun Zhang. QPMC: A Model Checker for Quantum Programs and Protocols - Julien Bringer, Herv? Chabanne, Daniel Le M?tayer and Roch Lescuyer. Privacy by design in practice: reasoning about privacy properties of biometric system architectures - Musab A. Alturki and Omar Alzuhaibi. Towards Formal Verification of Orchestration Computations Using the K Framework - Christian Eisentraut, Jens Chr. Godskesen, Holger Hermanns, Lei Song and Lijun Zhang. Probabilistic Bisimulation for Realistic Schedulers - Temesghen Kahsai, Falk Howar, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Guillaume Brat and Misty Davies. Verifying the Safety of a Flight-Critical System - Gianluca Amato, Simone Di Nardo Di Maio, Maria Chiara Meo and Francesca Scozzari. Narrowing operators on template abstract domains - Xiaoning Du, Yang Liu and Alwen Tiu. Trace-Length Independent Runtime Monitoring of Quantitative Policies in LTL - David Schneider, Michael Leuschel and Tobias Witt. Model-Based Problem Solving for University Timetable Validation and Improvement - S?ren Debois, Thomas Hildebrandt and Tijs Slaats. Safety, Liveness and Run-time Refinement for Modular Process-Aware Information Systems with Dynamic Sub Processes - Saurabh Joshi and Daniel Kroening. Property-Driven Fence Insertion using Reorder Bounded Model Checking - Tim Quatmann, Nils Jansen, Christian Dehnert, Ralf Wimmer, Erika Abraham, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Bernd Becker. Counterexamples for Expected Rewards - Daniel Kroening, Matt Lewis and Georg Weissenbacher. Proving Safety with Trace Automata and Bounded Model Checking - John Derrick and Graeme Smith. A framework for correctness criteria on weak memory models - John Derrick, Brijesh Dongol, Gerhard Schellhorn, Oleg Travkin and Heike Wehrheim. Verifying Opacity of a Transactional Mutex Lock - Aliakbar Safilian, Tom Maibaum and Zinovy Diskin. The Semantics of Cardinality-based Feature Models via Formal Languages - Sylvain Conchon, Alain Mebsout and Fatiha Zaidi. Certificates for Parameterized Model Checking - Hamid Bagheri, Eunsuk Kang, Sam Malek and Daniel Jackson. Detection of Design Flaws in the Android Permission Protocol through Bounded Verification - Andrew Sogokon and Paul Jackson. Direct formal verification of liveness properties in continuous and hybrid dynamical systems - Asankhaya Sharma, Shengyi Wang, Andreea Costea, Aquinas Hobor and Wei-Ngan Chin. Certified Reasoning with Infinity o FM2015 ACCEPTED PAPERS INDUSTRY TRACK - Rodrigo Reis, Henrique Masini and Bruno Miranda. Using Simulink Design Verifier for automatic generation of requirements-based testing - Ralf Huuck and Tao Liu. Case Study: Static Security Analysis of the Android Goldfish Kernel - Stefan Hauck-Stattelmann, Sebastian Biallas, Bastian Schlich, Stefan Kowalewski and Raoul Jetley. Analyzing the Restart Behavior of Industrial Control Applications - Bharti Chimdyalwar, Priyanka Darke, Anooj Chavda, Sagar Vaghani and Avriti Chauhan. Eliminating static analysis false positives using loop abstraction and bounded model checking - Mathijs Schuts and Jozef Hooman. Formalizing the Concept Phase of Product Development at Philips Healthcare - Neil Evans. Software Development and Authentication for Arms Control Information Barriers - William Durand and S?bastien Salva. Autofunk: an inference-based formal model generation framework for production systems. - Taro Kurita, Fuyuki Ishikawa and Keijiro Araki. Practices for Formal Models as Documents: Evolution of VDM Application to "Mobile FeliCa" IC Chip Firmware - Thierry Lecomte. Formal Virtual Modelling and Data Verification for Supervision Systems From fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr Tue May 19 09:24:32 2015 From: fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr (fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 15:24:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS XXXI/CALCO 2015 : Call for Participation Message-ID: <20150519132432.5F5561EB212@jabiru.ens-lyon.fr> >From June 22, in a galaxy far, far away... https://coalg.org/calco15/images/poster.jpg ========================================================= JOINT CALL FOR PARTICIPATION MFPS XXXI 31st Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics June 22 - 25, 2015 http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/mfps31/ CALCO 2015 6th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science June 24 - 26, 2015 http://coalg.org/calco15/ In cooperation with ACM SIGLOG Nijmegen, Netherlands ========================================================== Early registration deadline: June 14, 2015 ========================================================== -- SCOPE -- MFPS conferences are devoted to those areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation, in general, and to the semantics of programming languages, in particular. The series has particularly stressed providing a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas about problems of common interest. As the series also strives to maintain breadth in its scope, the conference strongly encourages participation by researchers in neighbouring areas. 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). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Invited speaker of MFPS and CALCO * Andy Pitts - University of Cambridge, UK MFPS invited speakers * Thierry Coquand - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Paul B. Levy - University of Birmingham, UK * Guy McCusker - University of Bath, UK * Sam Staton - Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL CALCO invited speakers * Chris Heunen - University of Oxford, UK * Matteo Mio - CNRS, ENS Lyon, FR * Daniela Petrisan - Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL -- PROGRAMME AND SATELLITE EVENTS -- The detailed programme will appear soon on the conference web sites: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/mfps31/ (MFPS) https://coalg.org/calco15/ (CALCO) *MFPS special sessions* MFPS will host four special sessions: * Game semantics, organised by Andrzej Murawski, Warwick * Concurrent separation logic, organised by Philippa Gardner, Imperial College * Nominal techniques, organised by Daniela Petrisan, Radboud * Algebraic effects, organised by Matija Pretnar, Ljubljana The special session will include an invited tutorial talk, delivered by the session organiser. *CALCO Early Ideas workshop* CALCO 2015 will run together with the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, with dedicated Early Ideas sessions at the end of each conference day. Additional information is available at https://coalg.org/calco15/ei.html . -- REGISTRATION -- To register for MFPS/CALCO, please fill out the registration form available at https://limesurvey.science.ru.nl/index.php/118286/lang-en . The following registration Fees are applied. Normal Late Both MFPS and Calco Non-Students ???230 ???250 Students ???160 ???180 MFPS only or Calco only Non-Students ???160 ???180 Students ???100 ???120 SIGLOG members attending MFPS and/or Calco receive a discount on the registration fee: ???20 for student members, and ???30 for professional members. The yearly rate for SIGLOG membership is $15 for students, and $25 for professionals. The deadline for normal registration is Sunday, June 14. After this date, the late registration fee will be applied. The registration fee can be paid by bank transfer or by credit card (Visa or Mastercard). Payment by bank transfer is strongly encouraged. Within the SEPA area, bank transfers are free of change. We will be sponsoring 5 free student registrations. Anyone interested please contact alexandra at cs.ru.nl. We are also proud to be a family-friendly conference: any participant who requires support for childcare to be able to attend the conference should contact us. Additional information on registration and hotel information can be found at http://mfpscalco2015.cs.ru.nl/ . -- 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. Conference venue for MFPS/CALCO is the majestic *Art Cinema Lux* (http://lux-nijmegen.nl/), located in the city center of Nijmegen. -- 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 hugotvieira at imtlucca.it Tue May 19 09:37:39 2015 From: hugotvieira at imtlucca.it (Hugo Torres Vieira) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 15:37:39 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD in Computer Science at IMT Lucca (Italy) - Deadline June 29, 2015 - Message-ID: <86D60A4A-8D8E-465B-971A-1BD619D66F4E@imtlucca.it> ========================================================= PhD positions in Computer Science at IMT Lucca (Italy) - Deadline June 29, 2015 - ========================================================= The Institute for Advanced Studies IMT Lucca - Italy (http://www.imtlucca.it/ ) invites applications for fully-funded PhD scholarships in Computer Science tenable from 1st November 2015. IMT Lucca is a truly international research university within the Italian public higher education system that focuses on cutting-edge research in key areas such as Computer Sciences, Systems Engineering, Complex Networks, Economics and Cultural Heritage. The three-year doctoral program, which is taught entirely in English, is articulated in four discipline-specific curricula that share an interdisciplinary scientific background. Computer Science doctoral studies at IMT are coordinated by Rocco De Nicola and promote research on the theory and applications of informatics such as concurrency, performance, programming languages, security, dependability, software engineering, and computational biology. The overarching goal is to develop languages, models, algorithms, verification techniques, engineering methodologies, and software tools for reasoning about distributed systems. The doctoral students will be working within the SysMA research unit of IMT Lucca (http://sysma.lab.imtlucca.it/ ); some of the research lines are pursued in collaboration with two institutes of the Italian Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, namely ISTI (http://www.isti.cnr.it ) and IIT (http://www.iit.cnr.it ). PhD students receive a stipend of about ?13,600 EUR gross (around ?12,400 EUR after taxes) per year, as established by Italian law. In addition, they are offered free meals and on-campus housing in the historical center of the beautiful Tuscan city of Lucca. Students also get the opportunity to spend research periods abroad, with the possibility of receiving additional financing through the Erasmus+ program. The deadline for application is June 29th, 2015 at 18:00 Italian time. The call is open to all candidates who are expected to obtain the required degree by October 31st, 2015; however, they must still apply by the above deadline. Further details, along with the online application form, can be found at: http://phd.imtlucca.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucker at spamfence.net Mon May 18 01:42:03 2015 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 07:42:03 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OCL 2015: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <20150518054203.GA9720@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling Tools and Textual Model Transformations Co-located with ACM/IEEE 18th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2015) September 28th, 2015, Ottawa, Canada http://ocl2015.lri.fr Modeling started out with UML and its precursors as a graphical notation. Such visual representations enable direct intuitive capturing of reality, but some of their features are difficult to formalize and lack the level of precision required to create complete and unambiguous specifications. Limitations of the graphical notations encouraged the development of text-based modeling languages that either integrate with or replace graphical notations for modeling. Typical examples of such languages are OCL, textual MOF, Epsilon, and Alloy. Textual modeling languages have their roots in formal language paradigms like logic, programming and databases. The goal of this workshop is to create a forum where researchers and practitioners interested in building models using OCL or other kinds of textual languages can directly interact, report advances, share results, identify tools for language development, and discuss appropriate standards. In particular, the workshop will encourage discussions for achieving synergy from different modeling language concepts and modeling language use. The close interaction will enable researchers and practitioners to identify common interests and options for potential cooperation. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) =================================================== - Mappings between textual modeling languages and other languages/formalisms - Algorithms, evaluation strategies and optimizations in the context of textual modeling languages for -- validation, verification, and testing, -- model transformation and code generation, -- meta-modeling and DSLs, and -- query and constraint specifications - Alternative graphical/textual notations for textual modeling languages - Evolution, transformation and simplification of textual modeling expressions - Libraries, templates and patterns for textual modeling languages - Tools that support textual modeling languages (e.g., verification of OCL formulae, runtime monitoring of invariants) - Complexity results for textual modeling languages - Quality models and benchmarks for comparing and evaluating textual modeling tools and algorithms - Successful applications of textual modeling languages - Case studies on industrial applications of textual modeling languages - Experience reports -- usage of textual modeling languages and tools in complex domains, -- usability of textual modeling languages and tools for end-users - Empirical studies about the benefits and drawbacks of textual modeling languages - Innovative textual modeling tools - Comparison, evaluation and integration of modeling languages - Correlation between modeling languages and modeling tasks This year, we particularly encourage submissions describing tools that support - in a very broad sense - textual modeling languages (if you have implemented OCL.js to run OCL in a web browser, this is the right workshop to present your work) as well as textual model transformations. Venue ===== The workshop will be organized as a part of MODELS 2015 Conference in Ottawa, Canada. It continues the series of OCL workshops held at UML/MODELS conferences: York (2000), Toronto (2001), San Francisco (2003), Lisbon (2004), Montego Bay (2005), Genova (2006), Nashville (2007), Toulouse (2008), Denver (2009), Oslo (2010), Zurich (2011, at the TOOLs conference), 2012 in Innsbruck, 2013 in Miami, and 2014 in Valencia, Spain. Similar to its predecessors, the workshop addresses both people from academia and industry. The aim is to provide a forum for addressing integration of OCL and other textual modeling languages, as well as tools for textual modeling, and for disseminating good practice and discussing the new requirements for textual modeling. Workshop Format =============== The workshop will include short (about 15 min) presentations, parallel sessions of working groups, and sum-up discussions. Submissions =========== Three types of papers will be considered: * short papers (between 6 and 8 pages) describing ideas, * tool papers (between 6 and 8 pages), and * full papers (between 12 and 16 pages) in LNCS format. Submissions should be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocl20150). The program committee will review the submissions (minimum 2 reviews per paper, usually 3 reviews) and select papers according to their relevance and interest for discussions that will take place at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published online in a pre-conference edition of CEUR (http://www.ceur-ws.org). Important Dates =============== Submission of papers: July 17, 2015 Notification: August 21, 2015 Workshop date: September 28, 2015 Organizers ========== Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Programme Committee =================== Mira Balaban, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Tricia Balfe, Nomos Software, Ireland Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Germany Fabian Buettner, Inria - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Jordi Cabot, Inria - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Dan Chiorean, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Robert Clariso, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Manuel Clavel, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Carolina Dania, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Birgit Demuth, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel Istvan Rath, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen, Germany Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Claas Wilke, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Edward Willink, Willink Transformations Ltd., UK Burkhart Wolff, Univ. Paris-Sud - LRI, France Steffen Zschaler, King's College, UK -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 6227 7-52595, http://www.brucker.ch/ From barrett at cs.nyu.edu Wed May 20 15:03:21 2015 From: barrett at cs.nyu.edu (Clark Barrett) Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 12:03:21 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extended: 2015 SAT/SMT Summer School Message-ID: Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. We kindly ask you to forward this email to interested students and postdoctoral researchers. ======================================================== SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fifth International SAT/SMT Summer School Stanford, CA, July 15-17, 2015 http://smt2015.csl.sri.com/school ======================================================== APPLICATION: The application deadline for the summer school has been extended to May 26, 2015. Full details of the application procedure are available on the summer school website (http://smt2015.csl.sri.com/school). ABOUT: Satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers have become the engines powering numerous applications in computer science and beyond, including automated verification, artificial intelligence, program synthesis, security, product configuration, and many more. The summer school covers the foundational and practical aspects of SAT and SMT technologies and their applications. Besides providing a well-structured introduction to SAT and SMT, this year?s edition of the SAT/SMT Summer School covers timely topics and novel applications such as - MaxSAT - solvers for floating point arithmetic, - optimization modulo theories, - symbolic execution - proofs and interpolation, - synthesis The fifth edition follows the schools that took place at MIT (2011), at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, Italy (2012), at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland (2013), and in Semmering, Austria (2014). The school location and schedule has been chosen to conveniently allow participants to also attend the 2015 SMT Workshop and CAV conference: - SMT Workshop: http://smt2015.csl.sri.com/ - CAV Conference: http://i-cav.org/2015/ The Summer School program will feature four lectures per day including an introductory lecture on day one by Donald Knuth. Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:00 - 10:30 Donald Knuth 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Nina Narodystka 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 Alberto Griggio 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Dejan Jovanovi? Thursday, July 16, 2015 9:00 - 10:30 Mate Soos 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Christoph Wintersteiger 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 Roberto Sebastiani 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Joe Hendrix Friday, July 17, 2015 9:00 - 10:30 Pascal Fontaine 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Stefano Ermon 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 Sanjit Seshia 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Vijay D'Silva Organizers: Clark Barrett (New York University) David Dill (Stanford University) Bruno Dutertre (SRI International) From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Wed May 20 19:26:35 2015 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 00:26:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2015 - Call for Contributions: Other Tracks Message-ID: <7EA80A2C-D334-441E-A5D5-02AEBE0F2D9B@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 Demos Doctoral Symposium OOPSLA Artifacts Posters SPLASH-E Student Research Competition Student Volunteers Tutorials Wavefront Workshops Co-Located Conferences: SLE, GPCE, DBPL /************************************************************************************/ 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. ** Demos ** The SPLASH Demonstrations track is an excellent vehicle for sharing your latest work with an experienced and technically savvy audience. Live demonstrations show the impact of software innovation. Demonstrations are not product sales pitches, but rather an opportunity to highlight, explain, and present interesting technical aspects of running applications in a dynamic and highly interactive setting. Presenters are encouraged to actively solicit feedback from the audience, which should lead to very interesting and entertaining demonstration sessions. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-demos ** Doctoral Symposium ** The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The Symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-ds ** OOPSLA Artifacts ** The Artifact Evaluation process is a service provided by the community to help authors of accepted papers provide more substantial supplements to their papers so future researchers can more effectively build on and compare with previous work. The Artifact Evaluation Committee has been formed to assess how well paper authors prepare artifacts in support of such future researchers. Roughly, authors of papers who wish to participate are invited to submit an artifact that supports the conclusions of the paper. Submissions Due: 9 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-artifacts ** Posters ** The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Posters can be independent presentations or associated with one of the other parts of SPLASH. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-posters ** SPLASH-E ** The SPLASH-E track brings together researchers and educators to share educational results, ideas, and challenges centered in Software and Programming Languages. Submission formats vary, including papers, tool demos, lightning talks, challenge-topics for discussion, and suggested themes for "unconference" sessions. Help us create an engaging forum for educational issues related to SPLASH! Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-splash-e ** Student Research Competition ** The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session?s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-src ** Student Volunteers ** The SPLASH Student Volunteer program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Submissions Due: 7 August, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-sv ** Tutorials ** The SPLASH 2015 Tutorials programme will consist of prestigious tutorials on current topics in software, systems, and languages research. The scope of Tutorials is the same as the conference itself: all aspects of software construction and delivery at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. Tutorials in particular focus on the nexus between research and practice, including work that takes inspiration from or builds connections to areas not commonly considered at SPLASH. Tutorials should introduce researchers to current research in an area, or show important new tools that can be used in research. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-tutorials ** Wavefront ** The SPLASH Wavefront track is looking for presentations and technology talks of interest to the software community, particularly to software professionals working in companies large and small. Wavefront is a forum for presenting experience reports and tutorials about innovative tools, technologies, and software practices. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-wavefront ** 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. Late Phase Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops ** Co-Located Events ** SLE - 8th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/sle2015 GPCE - 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce2015 DBPL - 15th Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/dbpl2015 PLoP - 22nd International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) Submissions Due: 12 May, 2015 http://www.hillside.net/plop/2015/ 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) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Robby Findler (Northwestern University) and Michael Hind (IBM Research) Demos Co-Chair: Igor Peshansky (Google) and Pietro Ferrara (IBM Research) Doctoral Symosium Chair: Yu David Liu, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton Local Arrangements Chair: Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University) PLMW Workshop Co-Chairs: Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University) and Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington) Posters Co-Chairs: 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) 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) Sponsorship Chair: Tony Hosking (Purdue University) Tutorials Co-Chair: Romain Robbes (University of Chile) and Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) Video Chair: Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) Videos Previews Czar: Thomas LaToza (University of California, Irvine) Wavefront Co-Chairs: Dennis Mancl (Alcatel-Lucent) and Joe Kiniry (Galois) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) Workshop Co-Chairs: Du Li (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jan Rellermeyer (IBM Research) /************************************************************************************/ From jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de Thu May 21 02:33:37 2015 From: jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de (Janis Voigtlaender) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 08:33:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WPTE 2015: call for participation Message-ID: <555D7C41.9030808@informatik.uni-bonn.de> =========================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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/ !! The early registration deadline ends on May 22 !! 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. Registration ============ http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?site=registration Note that early registration ends on May 22. Talks ===== * Brigitte Pientka Invited talk, TBA * Giulio Guerrieri Head reduction and normalization in a call-by-value lambda-calculus * Guillaume Madelaine, Cedric Lhoussaine, and Joachim Niehren Structural simplification of chemical reaction networks preserving deterministic semantics * Naosuke Matsuda A simple extension of the Curry-Howard correspondence with intuitionistic lambda rho calculus * Adrian Palacios and German Vidal Towards Modelling Actor-Based Concurrency in Term Rewriting * David Sabel and Manfred Schmidt-Schauss Observing Success in the Pi-Calculus * Koichi Sato, Kentaro Kikuchi, Takahito Aoto and Yoshihito Toyama Context-Moving Transformation for Term Rewriting Systems * Sjaak Smetsers, Ken Madlener, and Marko Van Eekelen Formalizing Bialgebraic Semantics in PVS 6.0 =========================================================================== From Marc.Bezem at uib.no Thu May 21 05:07:44 2015 From: Marc.Bezem at uib.no (Marc.Bezem at uib.no) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 11:07:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Vacancies in "Computational Aspects of Univalence" at UiB (Norway) Message-ID: <20150521110744.52036imnlz0sm25c.nmimb@impmail.uib.no> At the University of Bergen, Norway, there are two vacancies in the project "Computational Aspects of Univalence" led by Marc Bezem and Bj?rn Ian Dundas. The project is a collaboration between the Department of Informatics and the Department of Mathematics, and is funded by the Research Council of Norway. Starting date is (ca) 1 October, deadline for application 10 June. A detailed project description can be found here: http://www.ii.uib.no/~bezem/CAU.pdf One vacancy is a 4-year PhD position (with 25% teaching duties): http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/113905/research-fellow-phd-candidate-at-the-department-of-informatics-or-at-the-department-of-mathematics The other vacancy is a 2-year Postdoc position: http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/113730/postdoctoral-fellow-position-at-the-department-of-informatics-or-at-the-department-of-mathematics Interested candidates are encouraged to take contact with one of the project leaders, preferably by e-mail ( bezem at ii.uib.no or dundas at math.uib.no ). From michele.loreti at unifi.it Thu May 21 05:26:14 2015 From: michele.loreti at unifi.it (Michele Loreti) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 11:26:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TGC 2015: Deadline extension Message-ID: <596CF158-2FB7-4782-B38E-F344DE0FA98E@unifi.it> [Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR PAPERS TGC'15 10th International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing Madrid, Spain 31 August-1 September 2015 http://tgc2015.disia.unifi.it/ The Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing (TGC) is an international venue dedicated to secure and reliable computation in the so-called global computers, i.e., those computational abstractions emerging in large-scale infrastructures such as service-oriented architectures, autonomic systems, and cloud computing. # Highlights: - Co-located with CONCUR 2015 (Madrid, Spain) from August, 31st to September, 1st - Parallel submission to CONCUR 2015 allowed - Keynote speakers: * Gianluigi Zavattaro from the University of Bologna, Italy (joint with CONCUR), * Andrey Rybalchenko from Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK. - Deadline for abstract submission: *June, 1st* - Deadline for paper submission: *June, 8th* # Topic The TGC series focuses on providing frameworks, tools, algorithms, and protocols for rigorously designing, verifying, and implementing open-ended, large-scaled applications. The related models of computation incorporate code and data mobility over distributed networks that connect heterogeneous devices and have dynamically changing topologies. We solicit papers in all areas of global computing, including (but not limited to): - languages, semantic models, and abstractions - security, trust, and reliability - privacy and information flow policies - algorithms and protocols - resource management - model checking, theorem proving, and static analysis - tool support # Important dates - Deadline for abstract submission: June, 1st (AoE) - Deadline for paper submission: June, 8th (AoE) - Notification to authors: July, 16th # Programme committee - Michele Loreti, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (co-chair) - Pierre Ganty, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (co-chair) - Alessandro Armando, DIBRIS, Universita' di Genova, Italy - Michael Rusinowitch, LORIA, INRIA Nancy, France - Fabio Gadducci, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? di Pisa, Italy - Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK - Emilio Tuosto, Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK - Pedro R. D'Argenio, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba - CONICET, Argentina - Rolf Hennicker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany - Matteo Maffei, CISPA, Saarland University, Germany - Ilaria Castellani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France - Myrto Arapinis, University of Birmingham, UK - Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece - Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark - Davide Sangiorgi, Universita' di Bologna, Italy - Giorgio Delzanno, DIBRIS, Universita' di Genova, Italy - P. Madhusudan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Luis Caires, Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est - Gennaro Parlato, University of Southampton - Marco Carbone, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark # Submission instructions TGC follows the instructions of CONCUR: submissions will be in electronic form via EasyChair. The usage of pdflatex and the LIPIcs style file are mandatory: no changes to font size, page geometry, etc. are permitted. Authors are invited to submit a draft of at most 13 pages including references. Submissions not in the correct format or submitted after the deadline will not be considered. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee and the reviewers. As usual, for an accepted paper one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference. Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not submitted for publication elsewhere, with the exception of CONCUR. Concurrent submissions to CONCUR 2015 and TGC 2015 are allowed, and in fact encouraged, for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of such double submissions should flag them to the program chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the ?Regular Paper submitted to CONCUR? paper category). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR and TGC. CONCUR's timeline is ahead of TGC's; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered automatically withdrawn from TGC. Contributions will be published in post-proceedings shortly after the conference. The aim is to give authors the opportunity to take into account discussions and suggestions at the conference. As in all previous editions of TGC, the post-proceedings will appear as a volume in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. # PC chairs - Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain) - Michele Loreti (Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) From cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org Thu May 21 10:08:21 2015 From: cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org (Cristina Pereira) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 16:08:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECSS 2015 - 1st Call for Participation/Contributions Message-ID: <555DE6D5.2050809@informatics-europe.org> ********************************************************************* *11th European Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2015 -* *"Informatics in the future ? in the year 2025"* *13?14 October 2015, Vienna, Austria* *Pre-Summit Workshops on 12 October 2015 * *Deadline for Submissions: August 15, 2015* *Notifications of Acceptance: September 7, 2015* *Deadline for Early Registration: September 15, 2015* ********************************************************************* The 11th European Computer Science Summit, ECSS 2015, is the meeting place for anyone interested in issues of research, education, and policy in Information and Computer Sciences. It is a unique opportunity to meet some of the leading decision makers in Informatics research and education, and discuss the critical issues of the discipline. ECSS 2015 will be held in Vienna, Austria, October 12-14, 2015, hosted by the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). The Summit is co-chaired by Carlo Ghezzi , President of Informatics Europe, and Gerald Steinhardt , Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien. The program chairs are Hannes Werthner , Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien and Frank van Harmelen , Department of Computer Science & The Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam. The Summit is devoted to important and timely strategic issues and trends regarding all aspects of Informatics: education, research, funding, entrepreneurship, management, career development, and policies. ECSS 2015 brings together key constituencies: ?Heads (deans, chairs) of Informatics/Computer Science/IT departments (schools, faculties, institutes) in universities ?Research directors and managers of research centers, institutes and laboratories, both in public institutions and in industry ?Faculty and researchers from both academia and industry ?Members of funding agencies and government at the European, national, regional, and local level. ?Experts, advisors and thinkers in numerous key topics like ethics, the relation between Informatics and other sciences, the future of the discipline and its influence in the academic world and society. The central topic of the 2015 Summit is */"Informatics in the future ? in the year 2025?./* Informatics as the science behind IT has two faces: Informatics "in itself", e.g. algorithm, design, information presentation, programming languages, distribution aspects, complexity issues; and Informatics "for others" and "behind others", being a tool or methodological approach in other sciences and application fields. It is pervasive and changes the world, with its artefacts and also its way of thinking. Informatics is interdisciplinary quasi by nature, with engineering, formal methods (logics, maths) and natural science based approaches. These and other related topics will be discussed and reflected on the Summit with a future 10 year perspective. ** *Invited Speakers* ECSS 2015 will feature keynote talks by some of the most prominent academics and researchers from Europe and elsewhere, who will present their latest advances and debate the future of the field. An advanced list of speakers includes: * Dirk Brockmann - Humboldt Universit?t, Germany * Stefano Ceri - Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Jeroen van den Hoven - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Dunja Mladenic - Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Bertrand Meyer - ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Maarja Kruusmaa - Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * Matti Tedre - Stockholm University, Sweden * Moshe Vardi - Rice University, USA A few more speakers will be soon announced. ** *Call for Position Papers - ?The Future of Informatics and Informatics of the Future?* Informatics is transforming into a societal technology ? raising questions not only in research, but also technology and policy.ECCS 2015 is an event to discuss and determine the future of Informatics and the Informatics of the future. To determine the spectrum of the opinions we call for submission of position papers for the ECCS 2015. We invite position statements including, but not restricted to, the following topics: * Informatics and Society: What is the role of Informatics in society? Should we influence policy? How should we influence policy? What is the ethics of Informatics? Should we do everything with data because we can?What should be ethical principles of researchers? * The role of Informatics in the sciences: Is Informatics still just a support science? Are we getting too fragmented? * Research (group) and / or faculty of the future: How will computer scientists have to evolve? Factors to consider are local vs. global, mobility and connection, interdisciplinarity, problem vs. idea driven, relation to industry (especially the big ones), funding agencies and funding models (financial autonomy of universities and / or defined programs of agencies) The position papers submitted will be screened, and if accepted, be published on the Informatics Europe website as well as submitted as CEUR-WS Proceedings. From the accepted position papers 10 submissions will be invited for a poster presentation during the ECCS 2015 conference in Vienna. *//* */Format and Submission Procedure/* We invite 2-4 page submissions in the CS Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes Format from Springer (see https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). We request authors to provide the submission under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and provide a statement to reflect this into a footnote on the first page of the paper. Please submit your position paper only via Easychair using the following URL: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eccs2015 * */Important Dates/* Submission Deadline:*15 August, 2015* Paper and Poster acceptance: *7 September, 2015* Please direct queries to /*Stefan Decker*/ (stefan.decker at gmail.com ). *Venue/Travel* ECSS 2015 is hosted by the Faculty of Informatics , Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and will be held in Vienna, Austria, at TU Wien Main Building, Karlsplatz 13, 1040, Vienna. The University Main Building is located close to the historic center of Vienna and a few meters away from the Vienna Opera House, the Karl Church and the subway station Karlsplatz. See more details here. Vienna can be reached by place, train, bus from all main European cities. The Vienna International Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) (German: Flughafen Wien-Schwechat), is located 18 kilometers (11 miles) southeast of Vienna. It is often referred to as Schwechat, the name of the nearby town. See here more details on how to reach the venue. Please note that the local organizers of ECSS 2015 have negotiated with *Austrian Airlines a "Special Conference Fare" to save 15 % on your flights to Vienna during the ECSS 2015*. See here further information on how to benefit from this special offer . // // */Come join this exciting and important event in the field of Informatics and participate by submitting your contribution!/* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Thu May 21 08:34:30 2015 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 21:34:30 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Continuity, Computability, Constructivity 2015; second call for submission Message-ID: Continuity, Computability, Constructivity ? From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2015) Schloss Aspenstein, Kochel am See (near Munich) 14-18 September 2015 Second call for papers http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/ccc2015/ CCC is a workshop series bringing together researchers from real analysis, computability theory, and constructive mathematics. The overall aim is to apply logical methods in these disciplines to provide a sound foundation for obtaining exact and provably correct algorithms for computations with real numbers and related analytical data, which are of increasing importance in safety critical applications and scientific computation. Previous workshops have been held in Cologne 2009, Trier 2012, Gregynog 2013, and Ljubljana 2014. One outcome of the 2009 workshop series is the creation of the EU funded research network COMPUTAL (Computable analysis ? theoretical and applied aspects) which supports research visits from Europe to Russia, South-Africa, and Japan and vice versa. This workshop also hosts the fourth COMPUTAL workshop, but is open to all researchers in the area. The workshop will take place in Kochel am See at the border of the alps. Scope: The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of exact real number computation effective topology Scott's domain theory Weihrauch's type two theory of effectivity category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data hierarchies of unsolvability and related areas. Invited Speakers: Mart?n Escard? (Birmingham, UK) Daniel da Silva Gra?a (Faro, Portugal) Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy, France) Vassilis Gregoriades (Darmstadt, Germany) Takayuki Kihara (JAIST, Japan) Thomas Powell (Innsbruck, Austria) Tutorial Speakers: Andr? Nies (Auckland, New Zealand) Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau, France) Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2015 Upload your submission via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccc20151 Location: The workshop takes place in the Georg-von-Vollmar Akademie, Schloss Aspenstein, a small conference center in Kochel am See at the border of the alps. Pre-Registration As the number of rooms at Schloss Aspenstein is limited, pre-registration is recommended. Please send an email to m.seisenberger at swansea.ac.uk . Programme Committee: Andrej Bauer(Ljubljana) Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK) Vasco Brattka (Munich, Germany) Petrus Potgieter (Pretoria, South Africa) Victor Selivanov (Novosibirsk, Russia) Dieter Spreen (Siegen) (chair). Organizing Committee: Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK) Peter Hertling (Munich, Germany) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea, UK) Dieter Spreen (Siegen) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexis.saurin at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr Fri May 22 02:54:53 2015 From: alexis.saurin at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr (Alexis Saurin PPS) Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 08:54:53 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc in Paris/Lyon/Cachan: Reasoning & Programming with Infinite Data. Message-ID: Post-doc positions on Reasoning And Programming with Infinite Data-Objects (RAPIDO). http://rapido.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr (deadline for application: june 8th) We are opening post-doc positions (for 1 or 2 years), starting in the fall 2015. The post-doc will join the RAPIDO project, which is aimed at studyin logical methods and tools for enhancing reasoning and programming on infinite data. RAPIDO is an ANR-funded project involving researchers from three french labs: PPS (Paris), LIP (Lyon) and LSV (Cachan). The project is coordinated by Alexis Saurin (PPS lab, saurin at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr). We are looking for young researchers who can contribute to the research topics of RAPIDO: candidates should hold a PhD in computer science or a closely related field (or be close to complete their PhD) with skills in formal methods and logic and a strong expertise in at least one topic of the following list. ********* automata theory, coinduction, cyclic and infinitary proofs, denotational semantics, functional programming, games and game semantics, infinitary rewriting, lazy evaluation, linear logic, MSO logic, proof assistants proof theory, realizability, streams, temporal logics. ********* Since the project involves members of several french labs, the post-doc is expected to collaborate with participants of at least two labs, thus fostering collaborations between sites (the specific form it may take will be discussed and defined directly with candidates). Applications should be sent to the project coordinator by June 8th in an email entitled "RAPIDO post-doc application", providing a detailed CV with publication list, a research statement of at most two pages plus bibliography, and at least two recommendation letters. Potential candidates are strongly encouraged to contact the project coordinator (together with other project members) for informal enquiries as soon as possible. More details on the project, its participants as well as the present post-doc positions can be found at: http://rapido.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr. Best, Alexis Saurin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From A.Murawski at warwick.ac.uk Fri May 22 04:16:16 2015 From: A.Murawski at warwick.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:16:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP/LICS 2015: Call for Participation Message-ID: ***** Call for Participation ***** ***** ICALP/LICS 2015 in KYOTO (July 4-10, 2015) ***** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 12 (local time) http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icalp-lics2015 Joint Conference of The 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2015) and The Thirtieth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS) will be held in July 6-10, 2015, in Kyoto. Eleven invited talks and about 240 papers on all areas of theoretical computer science and logic in computer science will be presented at Grand Prince Hotel Kyoto. Also, seven workshops will take place at Kyoto University on July 4 and 5. INVITED SPEAKERS Piotr Indyk (MIT, USA) Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi (NII, Japan) Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Valerie King (University of Victoria, Canada) Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research and Tsinghua University, China) Anca Muscholl (Universit? Bordeaux, France) Peter O'Hearn (Facebook and University College London, UK) Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge, UK) Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, USA) Ryuhei Uehara (JAIST, Japan) WORKSHOPS Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity (LCC 2015) Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science 3 (NLCS 3) Workshop on Quantum Computational Complexity (QCC) Workshop on Realistic Models for Algorithms in Wireless Networks (WRAWN) Workshop on Syntax and Semantics for Low-Level Languages (LOLA 2015) Workshop on the Verification of Higher-Order Programs (HOPA) Young Researchers Forum on Automata, Languages and Programming (YR-ICALP 2015) REGISTRATION The registration page and the hotel reservation page are already open. The early registration deadline is June 12 (local time). For more details please visit our conference webpage: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icalp-lics2015 Looking forward to seeing you in Kyoto! Local Organizers: Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto University) Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto University) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University) Kazuhisa Makino (Kyoto University) CONTACT icalp-lics2015 at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp From grlmc at urv.cat Sun May 24 03:55:13 2015 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 09:55:13 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] InfoSec 2015: registration deadline 3 June 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 July 6-10, 2015 Organized by Deusto University Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/ ********************************************************************** --- 6th registration deadline: June 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, 28 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. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. 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, 3-4 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 Security Enforcement to Legacy Programs Antoine Joux (Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Discrete Logarithms in Finite Fields 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 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 OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to adrian.dediu at urv.cat by June 29 at the latest. 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: Accommodation for participants is available at the Colegio Mayor Deusto (student hostel). Since there may exist problems to find accommodation in Bilbao at a reasonable price during the week of the event, the organizers' advice is to book as soon as possible, and anyway by May 27. To do it, write to Carlson Wagonlit Travel at estudiantesud at carlsonwagonlit.es 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 dbro at kth.se Mon May 25 12:24:30 2015 From: dbro at kth.se (David Broman) Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 18:24:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open position: Associate Professor in Software Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: <09420908-AE1A-404E-BAA5-33D9A497E922@kth.se> KTH Royal Institute of Technology at the School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Sweden, has a new open position as ** Associate Professor in Software Systems ** The subject encompasses design, analysis, tools and methods for computer and software systems. The announced position is broad and includes (but is not limited to) research areas such as compilers, programming languages, program analysis, real-time systems, operating systems, distributed systems, and software engineering. Application deadline: June 29, 2015. For more information, see: http://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:58499/where:4/ About KTH: KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is the largest and oldest technical university in Sweden. No less than one-third of Sweden?s technical research and engineering education capacity at university level is provided by KTH. Education and research spans from natural sciences to all branches of engineering and includes Architecture, Industrial Management and Urban Planning. There are a total of 12,400 full year students at first and second levels, almost 1,900 active (at least 50 per cent) research students and 5,100 employees. From tomofumi.yuki at inria.fr Tue May 26 04:28:37 2015 From: tomofumi.yuki at inria.fr (Tomofumi Yuki) Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 10:28:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: GPCE' 15 (COMLAN Special Issue), Deadline June 8 In-Reply-To: <1248901014.8431509.1432628815638.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> Message-ID: <1944296965.8432925.1432628917637.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> Call for Papers: Computer Languages, Systems and Structures COMLAN Special Issue on the 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE'15) Papers will be selected among top ranked papers from GPCE'15: ACM SIGPLAN GPCE 2015 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences Oct 26-27, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, USA http://www.gpce.org GPCE keynote speaker: Prof. Priya Narasimhan (CMU, USA) GPCE is 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 GPCE abstract submission : June 8, 2015 GPCE full paper submission: June 15, 2015 GPCE authors notification : July 24, 2015 GPCE camera-ready : Aug 7, 2015 GPCE conference : Oct 26-27, 2015 Special issue submission : January 1, 2016 Special issue notification: May 1, 2016 Special issue publication : July 1, 2016 Note that GPCE workshops are 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- GPCE 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMLAN SPECIAL ISSUE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The special issue will publish GPCE'15 papers by invitation from the guest editors, is closed to papers outside the conference, and will only include top-ranked papers from GPCE'15 (based on the GPCE'15 review, see scope and topics of interest, above). The special issue will be published by Elsevier in Computer Languages, Systems and Structures (COMLAN): http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-languages-systems-and-structures/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS Ulrik Pagh Schultz, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE 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 tom.hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr Tue May 26 11:08:21 2015 From: tom.hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr (Tom Hirschowitz) Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 17:08:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Workshop_in_Chamb=C3=A9ry?= In-Reply-To: <87pp665ego.fsf@hirscho.lama.univ-savoie.fr> References: <87pp665ego.fsf@hirscho.lama.univ-savoie.fr> Message-ID: <87iobfs7fe.fsf@hirscho.lama.univ-savoie.fr> Hi all, An update regarding our small workshop in Chamb?ry (France) from June 8 to June 12: Thomas Ehrhard will replace Guy McCusker. So the workshop should feature two 5-hour courses by Neil Ghani and Damien Pous, plus an introductory lecture by Thomas: - Neil will explain his work with R. Atkey and P. Johann on relational parametricity in Martin-L?f type theory; - Thomas will survey denotational semantics, from the roots -- domains -- to more recent, quantitative advances; - Damien will present his work on bisimulation up-to in concurrency theory with applications in algorithmics. Participants are invited to contribute talks. You may register (and propose a talk) on the workshop site https://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~hirschowitz/Geocalisation2015 which is only mandatory if you plan to attend coffee breaks. (The site's in French, sorry. Should be quite readable though, please don't hesitate to ask if needed...) There you'll also find a few suggestions for accomodation. Alternatively, there should be a few university rooms available (cheap, on site, but far from luxurious): please contact me urgently if interested. Hope to see you there! Tom, for the organisers Clovis Eberhart Pierre Hyvernat Rodolphe Lepigre Christophe Raffalli From yudi.zheng at usi.ch Tue May 26 16:37:50 2015 From: yudi.zheng at usi.ch (Yudi Zheng) Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:37:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers: PPPJ 2015 Message-ID: 2015 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform September 9-11, 2015 Crowne Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne, Florida http://pppj2015.cs.fit.edu/ In-Cooperation with: ACM SIGAPP & SIGPLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: June 7, 2015, 11:59 PM EST Author notification: July 13, 2015 Conference: September 9-11, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION SITE: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pppj2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The Java platform is multi-faceted, covering a rich diversity of systems, languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques. PPPJ?15 ? the 12th conference in the PPPJ series ? provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of programming on the Java platform including virtual machines, languages, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Virtual machines for Java and Java-like language support: - JVM and similar VMs - VM design and optimization - VMs for mobile and embedded devices - Real-time VMs - Isolation and resource control Languages on the Java platform: - JVM languages (Clojure, Groovy, Java, JRuby, Kotlin, Scala, ?) - Domain-specific languages - Language design and calculi - Compilers - Language interoperability - Parallelism and concurrency - Modular and aspect-oriented programming - Model-driven development - Frameworks and applications - Teaching - Techniques and tools for the Java platform: Static and dynamic program analysis - Testing - Verification - Security and information flow - Workload characterization Please contact the PC Chair, Andreas Krall(email: andi at complang.tuwien.ac.at) to clarify - whether a particular topic falls within the scope of PPPJ?15. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES PPPJ?15 submissions must conform to both the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy. PPPJ accepts three types of papers: * Full research papers that describe novel technical contributions involving the Java platform. * Short research papers that describe promising new ideas that have less maturity than full papers. * Industry and tool papers that present technical challenges and solutions for the Java platform in the context of deployed applications and systems. Research papers will be judged on their relevance, novelty, technical rigor, and comparison with the state-of-the-art. For short research papers, more emphasis will be placed on novelty and the potential of the new idea than on technical rigor and experimental results. Industry and tool papers will be judged on their relevance, usefulness, and results. Suitability for demonstration and availability will also be considered for tool papers. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be available from the ACM Digital Library. Full research papers will be allowed up to 12 pages in the proceedings, and short research, industry, and tool papers will be allowed up to 6 pages. All papers must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN style ?sigplanconf.cls? with a font size of 9 point (option ?9pt?). More information on submission guidelines is available from the PPPJ?15 web site. Questions about paper topics and submission format can be directed to the PC chair, Andreas Krall(email: andi at complang.tuwien.ac.at). The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Proceedings Series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The authors of the best papers presented at PPPJ?15 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a journal special issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS Organizing Committee: General Chair: Ryan Stansifer, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Program Chair: Andreas Krall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Publicity Chair: Yudi Zheng, University of Lugano, Switzerland Program Committee: Steven Atkin, IBM, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine, USA David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Apala Guha, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India Samuel Z. Guyer, Tufts University, USA Prasad Kulkarni, University of Kansas, USA Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Rei Odaira, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan Jens Palsberg, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Ian Rogers, Google Inc, USA Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow, Scotland Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA Christian Wimmer, Oracle Labs, USA Chenyi Zhang, Oracle Labs, Australia Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Steering Committee: Bruce R. Childers, University of Pittsburg, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Conrad Cunningham, University of Mississippi, USA Martin Pl?micke, Duale Hochschule Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark From maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT Wed May 27 03:42:46 2015 From: maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 09:42:46 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- ICTAC 2015 Message-ID: ********************************************************************** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- ICTAC 2015 12th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing 29-31 October 2015, Cali, Colombia http://www.ictac2015.co DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JUNE 5, 2015. == HIGHLIGHTS: * Seven invited talks: Jean-Raymond Abrial, Volker Diekert, C?sar Mu?oz, Catuscia Palamidessi, Davide Sangiorgi, Moshe Vardi, and Glynn Winskel. * Submissions are welcome in three categories: full papers (18 pages), short and tool papers (10 pages). * Conference proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer). * Special issue in Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (Cambridge Journals). ********************************************************************** ICTAC 2015 will take place at the campus of Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia during October 29-31, 2015. The ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers to exchange ideas and experiences addressing challenges in theoretical aspects of computing as well as in exploiting theory through methods and tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote cooperation between participants and institutions from developing and industrial countries in research and education. THEMES AND TOPICS OF PAPERS Topics of interest include theories of computation and programming, foundations of software engineering and formal techniques in software design and verification, as well as tools that support formal techniques for software modeling, system design and verification. The topical areas of the conference include, but are not limited to * Automata theory and formal languages; * Principles and semantics of programming languages; * Theories of concurrency, mobility and reconfiguration; * Logics and their applications; * Software architectures, their models, refinement and verification; * Relationship between software requirements, models and code; * Program static and dynamic analysis and verification; * Software specification, refinement, verification and testing; * Model checking and theorem proving; * Models of object and component systems; * Coordination and feature interaction; * Integration of theories, formal methods and tools for engineering computing systems; * Service-oriented architectures: models and development methods; * Models of concurrency, security, and mobility; * Theory of distributed, grid and cloud computing; * Real-time, embedded, hybrid and cyber-physical systems; * Type and category theory in computer science. INVITED SPEAKERS * Jean-Raymond Abrial (Consultant, France) * Volker Diekert (University of Stuttgart, Germany) * C?sar Mu?oz (NASA, USA) * Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and ?cole Polytechnique, France) * Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) * Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA) * Glynn Winskel (University of Cambridge, UK) ASSOCIATED EVENTS * ICTAC Summer School on Formal Methods (October 25-27) * DCM 2015: 11th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models (October 28) http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/2015/ PAPER SUBMISSION == Important Dates * Abstract submission: Monday, June 1, 2015. * Paper submission: Friday, June 5, 2015. * Author notification: Monday, July 20, 2015. * Camera ready: Monday, August 3, 2015. == Paper Categories and Format We call for submissions, related to the above areas and topics, according to the following three categories: * Regular papers, with original research contributions; * Short papers, with original work in progress or with proposals of new ideas and emerging challenges; * Tool papers, on original descriptions of tools that support formal techniques for software modeling, system design, and verification. Submissions must be written in English and should adhere to the LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Regular papers should not exceed 18 pages. Short and tool papers should not exceed 10 pages. Submissions to the colloquium must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, as well as their relevance to the conference. Submissions not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without further consideration. ==Submission Link Papers must be submitted by using www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2015. ==Proceedings As for the past editions, the proceedings of ICTAC 2015 will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ==Special Issue Extended versions of selected papers from ICTAC 2015 will be invited to a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MSC). GENERAL CHAIRS * Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck (DE). * Camilo Rueda, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali (CO). * Frank Valencia, CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique (FR). CONTACT CHAIR * Frank Valencia (frank.valencia at gmail.com). PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Nazareno Aguirre (AR) * Gerard Assayag (FR) * Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (BR) * Pablo Barcel? 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URL: From Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk Wed May 27 06:41:51 2015 From: Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk (YuHui Lin) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:41:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AVoCS 2015: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <1929CD09-0B6B-47C8-89AC-C9351A7ACEBA@hw.ac.uk> ====================================================================== FINAL 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 -----------------------|*** HIGHLIGHTS ***|---------------------------- + Paper deadline: 12th June (with abstract due 5th June) + Invited talks by Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ/Oxford) Don Sannella (Contemplate/Edinburgh) + AI4FM workshop including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) + Student support from FME/SICSA sponsorships + Proceedings to be published by EASST + Special issues of Science of Computer Programming ======================================================================= 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/ including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) 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 xinyu.feng at gmail.com Wed May 27 12:32:17 2015 From: xinyu.feng at gmail.com (Xinyu Feng) Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 00:32:17 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2015: Final Call for Papers 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 Final version: September 7, 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. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page using EasyChair. Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. *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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All students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract of up to 800 words outlining their research. * Poster session. Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in the poster session which will take place at ICFP. Students who make it to this round will be eligible for some travel support to attend the conference. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the judges, who will select three finalists in each category (graduate/undergraduate) to advance to the next round. * ICFP presentation. The last round will consist of an oral presentation at ICFP to compete for the final award. Prizes ------ * The top three graduate and the top three undergraduate winners will receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. * All six winners will receive award medals and a two-year complimentary ACM student membership, including a subscription to ACM's Digital Library. * The names of the winners will be posted on the ACM SRC web site. * The first-place winners will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competition among the winners of conference-hosted SRCs. * Grand Finalists and their advisors will be invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet for an all-expenses-paid trip, where they will be recognized for their accomplishments along with other prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award (also known as the Nobel Prize of Computing). * The top three graduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. Likewise, the top three undergraduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. All six Grand Finalists will receive Grand Finalist certificates. * The ACM, Microsoft Research, and our industrial partners provide financial support for students attending the SRC. You can find more information about this on the ACM website. Eligibility ----------- The SRC is open to both undergraduate (not in a PhD programme) and graduate students (in a PhD programme). Upon submission, entrants must be enrolled as a student at their universities, and are ACM student members. Furthermore, there are some constraints on what kind of work may be submitted. Previously published work: Submissions should consist of original work (not yet accepted for publication). If the work is a continuation of previously published work, the submission should focus on the contribution over what has already been published. We encourage students to see this as an opportunity to get early feedback and exposure for the work they plan to submit to the next ICFP or POPL. Collaborative work: Students are encouraged to submit work they have been conducting in collaboration with others, including advisors, internship mentors, or other students. However, submissions are individual, so they must focus on the contributions of the student. Submission Details ------------------ Each submission should include the student author's name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and postal address; research advisor's name; ACM student member number; category (undergraduate or graduate); research title; and an extended abstract addressing the following: * Problem and Motivation: Clearly state the problem being addressed and explain the reasons for seeking a solution to this problem. * Background and Related Work: Describe the specialized (but pertinent) background necessary to appreciate the work. 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URL: From larry.mars at gmail.com Thu May 28 01:17:49 2015 From: larry.mars at gmail.com (LIN MA) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 22:17:49 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extended: Workshop on Programming Model and Supportive Environment for Heterogeneous Systems (PMHS) Message-ID: *International Workshop on Programming Model and Supportive Environment for Heterogeneous Systems (PMHS) * *in conjunction with The 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2015)* http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc2015/html/CFP.html *August 24 - 26, 2015, New York, USA* *Deadline extended to June 10, 2015* Rapid advancements in heterogeneous architectures have placed incremental challenges on programming productivity, portability, and performance on such systems. From high-end servers to mobile devices, from specialized accelerators to embedded SoCs, from single node multicore/manycore to distributed clusters in cloud, be it NVIDIA, ARM, Intel, AMD or Cray, there are a many complex low-level details needed to be managed and abstracted from the programmers. The PMHS workshop aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners both from computer architecture scientists and the software engineering community to present the latest ideas and findings in all aspects of heterogeneous system programming models, language design or extension, compilers design or optimization, runtime systems, and programming tools. The objective is to brainstorm ways to make programming heterogeneous systems less challenging and more interesting, and promote the synergies between hardware design and software design. Topics of interest to the PHMS workshop include but are not limited to: - Programming environments for accelerators, embedded/SoC systems, and multicore/manycore processors, such as GPUs, FPGAs, Cells, MICs, etc. - Programming environments for large-scale parallel systems, clusters of multicore/manycore, distributed big-data systems, and SDN. - Compiler optimizations and tuning heterogeneous systems (Parallelization and loop transformations/fusion, Locality/affinity optimizations, SIMDization/Vectorization, Reducing synchronization & scheduling overheads, Tiling and offloading) - Innovative runtime systems for multicore processors, heterogeneous systems, and accelerators. - Scalable tools for performance analysis, modeling, monitoring, and debugging. - Programming language/models: thread and task based models, data parallel models, stream programming models, shared/distributed memory models, PGAS, etc. - Hardware-software co-design?OS and architectural support for parallel programming. - Improvements for existing parallel languages and run-time environments such as MPI, OpenMP, Cilk, OpenACC, OpenCL, CUDA, ArrayFire, FastFlow, OpenSHMEM, UPC, Co-Array Fortran (CAF), Titanium, GASPI, X10, and Chapel, etc. Manuscript Submission & Proceedings Papers reporting original and unpublished research results are solicited. *All submissions will be handled electronically through EasyChair* ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmhs2015). Submissions will be judged by at least 3 reviews on originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop scope. The length of the camera-ready manuscripts will be limited to 4 pages (6 pages with the over length charge) in standard IEEE CS proceedings paper format (two-column). All accepted papers will be included in the HPCC-2015 Workshop Proceeding published by IEEE Computer Society (indexed by EI). Authors of selected papers in PMHS 2015 will be invited to extend their papers for submission to special issues in prestigious SCI & EI indexed Journals. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will not be published. *Important Dates:* *June 10, 2015: Due date for full workshop papers submission(Extended)* *June 30, 2015: Notification of paper acceptance to authors* *July 20, 2015: Camera-ready of accepted papers* *August 24-26: Workshop in conjunction with HPCC 2015* Workshop Organization Co-chairs: - Lin Ma Huawei America Research Center, USA lin.ma at huawei.com - Rajdeep Bhowmik Cisco, USA rbhowmik at cs.binghamton.edu Program Committee (to be extended): - Zheng Chen Facebook, USA - Peng Li Amazon, USA - Robert Utterback Washington University in Saint Louis, USA - Chengjie Wu Yahoo, USA - Xingjing Lu ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Wenlei Bao Ohio State University, USA - Fenglong Song Huawei, China - Lingjun Fan ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Jing Li Washington University in Saint Louis, USA - Jiefan Qiu Zhejiang University, China - Shigang Li ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Wed May 27 06:42:56 2015 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 12:42:56 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?program_and_registration=3A__Hilbert?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Epsilon_and_Tau_In_Logic=2C_Informatics_and_Linguist?= =?utf-8?q?ics_=28Montpellier_June_10-12=29?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to participate in the following conference (Montpellier, June 10 11 12) on quantification using Hilbert?s epsilon and tau operators and its applications in logic, informatics and linguistics. Looking forward to meeting you in Montpellier, ? Stergios CHATZIKYRIAKIDIS Fabio PASQUALI Christian RETORE Epsilon 2015 HILBERT?S EPSILON AND TAU IN LOGIC, INFORMATICS AND LINGUISTICS Universit? de Montpellier 10 11 12 juin 2015 Organised by LIRMM CNRS with the support of ANR Polymnie and Unviersit? de Montpellier https://sites.google.com/site/epsilon2015workshop/ This workshop aims at promoting work on Hilbert's Epsilon 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 Epsilon operator in Bourbaki?s ?l?ments de Math?matique. In the nineties, renewing Russell's ideas on definite descriptions, there has been some work on the interpretation of determiners and noun phrases with Hilbert?s epsilon. Nowadays the interest in the Epsilon substitution method has spread in a variety of fields : Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy, History of Mathematics, Linguistics, Type Theory, Computer science, Category Theory and others. PROGRAM WEDNESDAY 13.30 - 14.30 INVITED LECTURE 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 15.00 - 15.30 Bhupinder Singh Anand (independent scholar, Mumbai) Why Hilbert?s and Brouwer?s interpretations of quantification are complementary and not contradictory 15.30 - 16.00 David DeVidi (University of Waterloo) and Corey Mulvihill (University of Waterloo) Buying Logic with Ontological Coin 16.00 - 16.30 Hartley Slater (University of Western Australia) G?del?s Theorems and the Epsilon Calculus 16.30 - 17.00 Norbert Gratzl (LMU/MCMP) and Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna) Hilbert?s ?-termes, Russell?s Indefinites and Indexed ?-terms THURSDAY 09.30 - 10.30 INVITED LECTURE Vito Michele Abrusci (University of Roma Tre) Hilbert's tau and epsilon in proof theory 11.00 - 11.30 Alexander Leitsch (Vienna University of Technology), Giselle Reis (Inria Saclay) and Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (Vienna University of Technology) Epsilon Terms in Intuitionistic Sequent Calculus 11.30 - 12.00 ThomasPowell (University of Innsbruck) Variations on learning: Relating the epsilon calculus to proof interpretations 12.00 - 12.30 Matthias Baaz (Vienna University of Technology) and Daniel Weller (Vienna University of Technology) Cut-free epsilon-calculus allows a non-elementary speed-up 12.30 - 13.00 Fabio Pasquali (University of Aix-Marseille & I2M CNRS) A categorical approach to the typed Epsilon Calculus 14.30 - 15.00 Wilfried Meyer-Viol (King's College London) Non-Monotonic Logic in the Epsilon Calculus 15.00 - 15.30 Federico Aschieri (Vienna University of Technology) Type Theory, Realizability and Epsilon Substitution Method 15.30 - 16.00 Nissim Francez (Technion) and Bartosz Wieckowski (University of Frankfurt) A proof-theory for first-order logic with definiteness 16.30 - 17.00 Sergei Soloviev (University of Toulose III, IRIT) Studies of Hilbert?s epsilon operator in the USSR 17.00 - 17.30 Hans Lei? (University of Munich) Equality of Contexts in the Indexed Epsilon-Calculus FRIDAY 09.30 - 10.30 INVITED LECTURE Hartley Slater (University of Western Australia) Linguistic and philosophical ramifications of the epsilon calculus 11.00 - 11.30 Ruth Kempson (King's College London), Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (University of Montpellier, LIRMM) and Ronnie Cann (University of Edimburgh) The interactive Building of Names 11.30 - 12.00 Sumiyo Nishiguchi (Tokyo University of Science) Noun Phrases in Japanese and Epsilon-Iota Calculi 12.00 - 12.30 Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University) Epsilon Calculus as Presupposition Theory 12.30 - 13.00 Bruno Mery (University of Bordeaux, LaBRI), Richard Moot (University of Bordeaux, LaBRI) and Christian Retor? (University of Montpellier, LIRMM) Typed Hilbert?s Operators for the Lexical Semantics of Singular and Plural Determiner Phrases REGISTRATION Registration (120 euros) includes coffee breaks, Thursday and Friday lunches, conference dinner. One can register on line from: https://sites.google.com/site/epsilon2015workshop/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Daisuke BEKKI, Stergios CHATZIKYRIAKIDIS, Francis CORBLIN, Michael GABBAY, Makoto KANAZAWA, Ulrich KOHLENBACH, Alda MARI, Richard MOOT, Georg MOSER, Michel PARIGOT , Fabio PASQUALI , Christian RETOR?, Mark STEEDMAN, Bruno WOLTZENLOGEL PALEO, Richard ZACH -- Christian RETORE Universit? de Montpellier & LIRMM http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Thu May 28 01:40:59 2015 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 07:40:59 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: 5th International Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'15) Message-ID: =========================================== The Fifth International Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'15) Amsterdam, The Netherlands October 8, 2015 http://www.cyphy.org/ (Held in conjunction with ESWEEK 2015) =========================================== Scope ======= Cyber physical systems (CPSs) combine computing and networking power with physical components. They enable innovation in a wide range of domains including robotics; smart homes, vehicles, and buildings; medical implants; and future-generation sensor networks. CyPhy'15 brings together researchers and practitioners working on modeling, simulation, and evaluation of CPS, based on a broad interpretation of these areas, to collect and exchange expertise from a diverse set of disciplines. The workshop places particular focus on techniques and components to enable and support virtual prototyping and testing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects of cyber-physical systems: - Foundations: models of computation, modeling and simulation languages for hybrid and cyber-?physical systems, including hybrid automata and hybrid process theory, as well as other integrations of control-?theoretic and discrete-?event models; - Methods: Specifications and evaluation of processes for rigorous modeling, testing, simulation, and verification of new cyber-?physical systems; - Case studies: Development of industrial or research ?oriented cyber?-physical systems in domains such as robotics, smart systems (homes, vehicles, buildings), medical and healthcare devices, future generation networks; and - Tools: Evaluation of novel research tools, comparisons of state of the art tools in industrial practice. Important Dates =============== Submissions: June 10, 2015 Notifications: July 10, 2015 Camera-Ready: August 3, 2015 Workshop: October 8, 2015 Submission Types ================ Submissions types: 1) research papers (max. 15 pages, LNCS format); 2) positions papers (max. 4 pages, not published); and 3) tool demonstrations (max. 10 pages, LNCS format). Research papers will be judged for technical novelty and scientific merit. Any previous publication in any form must be explicitly identified and cited on the first page of the submission. Papers in all other categories will be judged on novelty, clarity, accessibility, and suitability for a high quality presentation and discussion at the workshop. Proceedings =========== Submissions of type 1 and 3 will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer. If the quality of the submissions warrants, a special issue of an archival journal will be negotiated for the best submissions (subject to confirmation, and an additional round of review). Submission Instructions ====================== Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, not exceed the respective page limits (including figures and references), and be submitted in PDF format through the following submission website. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cyphy15 Except for regular research papers, the paper category must be indicated at the end of the title in parenthesis at the time of the initial submission and in the final camera ready version. Simultaneous submission to other venues with a formal publication (workshops, conferences, symposia, and journals) is not allowed. Duplicated submissions or other types of plagiarism will result in rejection and a report will be sent to the corresponding institution's dean or manager. Papers not adhering to the format or page limit may be rejected without a review. Invited Speaker ============= Maurice Heemels, Eindhoven University of Technology Committees ============ General Chair Walid Taha, Halmstad & Rice Universities Program Chairs Christian Berger, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University Program Committee Jakob Axelsson, SICS and M?lardalen University Christian Berger, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg Manuela Bujorianu, University of Warwick Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University Daisuke Ishii, Tokyo Institute of Technology Zhiyun Lin, Zhejiang University Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University Wojciech Mostowski, Halmstad University Michel Reniers, Eindhoven University of Technology Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University Maytham Safar, Kuwait University Bernhard Sch?tz, TU M?nchen Martin Steffen, Oslo University Frits Vaandrager, Radboud University Nijmegen Publicity Chair Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University Advisory Committee Manfred Broy, Technische Universit?t M?nchen Karl Iagnemma, MIT Karl Henrik Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania Pieter Mosterman, McGill University Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University Walid Taha, Halmstad & Rice Universities -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it Wed May 27 05:45:29 2015 From: alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it (alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:45:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOCLASA 2015 @ CONCUR 2015 - 2nd Call For Papers Message-ID: <1902592852.53.1432719898996.JavaMail.Alexander@XPS> [Apologies for multiple postings] -- 2nd Call for Papers -- FOCLASA 2015: 14th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/ 5 September 2015, Madrid (Spain) In conjunction with CONCUR 2015 ============================================================== FOCLASA 2015 is a workshop colocated with the 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015 - http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/concur2015). 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 == 17 June 2015: Deadline for abstract submission 19 June 2015: Deadline for paper submission 20 July 2015: Notifications 3 August 2015: 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 submissions to WS-FM/BEAT (a CONCUR co-located event - International Symposium on Web Services, Formal Methods and Behavioural Types - http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/WSFM- BEAT2015/index.php) and FOCLASA are allowed for those papers that may potentially enhance both venues. Authors of such double submissions should identify them to the Program Chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the "Regular paper submitted also to WS- FM/BEAT? category in the FOCLASA EasyChair site). Reviews may be shared between WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA. Submissions accepted by WS-FM/BEAT will be considered automatically withdrawn from FOCLASA. 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. == INVITED TALK == * Mario Bravetti (http://www.cs.unibo.it/~bravetti/) Title: Towards Dynamic Updates in Service Composition Abstract: We survey our work on choreographies and behavioural contracts in multiparty interactions. In particular theories of behavioural contracts are presented which enable reasoning about correct service composition (contract compliance) and service substitutability (contract refinement preorder) under different assumptions concerning service communication: synchronous communication with patient non-preemptable or impatient invocations, or asynchronous communication. Correspondingly, relations concerning behavioural contracts and choreographic descriptions are considered, where a contract for each communicating party is, e.g., derived by projection. Contract refinement relations are induced as the maximal preoders which preserve contract compliance and global traces. The obtained preorders are then characterized in terms of a new form of testing, called compliance testing (where not only tests must succeed but also the system under test), and compared with classical preorders. Moreover, recent work about adaptable choreographies and behavioural contracts is presented, where the theory above is extended to update mechanisms allowing choreographies/contracts to be modified at run-time by internal (self-adaptation) or external intervention. == 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 From alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it Wed May 27 06:05:18 2015 From: alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it (alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 12:05:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ERRATA CORRIGE] SCART 2015 at SEFM 2015 - Submission Deadline Extended - Springer JISA Thematic Series Invited Papers Message-ID: <1259454061.53.1432721086909.JavaMail.Alexander@XPS> [Apologies for multiple postings] -- Call for Papers -- SCART 2015: 1st International Workshop on the ART of Software Composition, co-located with SEFM 2015 ? York, UK. SCART 2015 (http://scart2015.disim.univaq.it/) provides the opportunity for discussing how the FI affects the traditional SE methods and tools, and how facing its complexity in terms of scalability, heterogeneity, and dinamicity promotes the integration of FM within SE practices. We seek answers on how the rigorousness of FM assists software engineers while designing, developing, validating and operating software systems for the FI, which are build via correct-by-construction service composition. The workshop constitutes a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research and development. SCART 2015 welcomes research papers, experience papers and tool presentations; nevertheless, papers describing novel research contributions and innovative applications are of particular interest. Details on workshop goals and themes can be found at: http://scart2015.disim.univaq.it. Keynote by Paola Inverardi (Title and abstract to be announced) - http://scart2015.disim.univaq.it/?page_id=139 A thematic series on Service Composition for the Future Internet in the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA - http://www.jisajournal.com/about/update/SCFI) is devoted to SCART 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 thematic series. == IMPORTANT DATES == Paper submissions: June 7, 2015 Notification of authors: June 24, 2015 Camera-ready copies: July 5, 2015 == PAPER SUBMISSION == Workshop papers must follow the SEFM 2015 Format and Submission Guidelines: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/sefm2015/ Each submitted paper will undergo a formal peer review process by at least 3 PC members. Contributions can be: Regular papers (maximum 12 pages): In this category fall those contributions which propose novel research contributions, address challenging problems with innovative ideas, or offer practical contributions in the application of FM and SE approaches for building FI applications via software composition. Regular papers should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential benefits of the contribution. Short papers (maximum 8 pages): This category includes tool demonstrations, position papers, industrial experiences and case-studies, well-pondered and sufficiently documented visionary papers. Authors of papers reporting industrial experiences are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available for use by reviewers. Similarly, case-study papers should describe significant case-studies and the complete development should be made available for use by reviewers. Tool demonstration papers should explain enhancements made in comparison to previously published work. Authors of tool demonstration papers should make their tool available for use by reviewers. == Workshop Chairs == - Marco Autili, University of L'Aquila, Italy marco.autili at univaq.it - Alfredo Goldman, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil gold at ime.usp.br - Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy, massimo.tivoli at univaq.it == Program Committee == - Domenico Bianculli, Univ. du Luxembourg - Gwen Sala?n, INRIA, Grenoble-Rhone-Alpes, France - Guglielmo De Angelis, CNR-IASI/ISTI, Italy - Ivica Crnkovic, M?lardalen University, Sweden - Joni da Silva Fraga, UFSC, Brazil (pending) - Kelly Rosa Braghetto, Univ. of S?o Paulo, Brazil - Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Mauro Caporuscio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Miriam Capretz, Faculty of Western Eng., Canada - Nelson Souto Rosa, UFPE, Brazil - Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, Paris, France - Paola Inverardi, Univ. of L'Aquila, Italy - Pascal Poizat, Univ. Paris Ouest, France - Radu Calinescu, Univ. of York, UK - Schahram Dustdar, Univ. of Technology Wien, Austria == Publicity Chair == - Alexander Perucci, University of L'Aquila, Italy == Web Chair == - Marco Autili, University of L?Aquila, Italy == List of topics (although not limited to) == - Specification, architecture, and design of software composition models - Software quality assurance for software composition - Verification and testing of software integration code - Adaptive software composition - Formal methods for automated software composition - Service-oriented and Component-based software composition - Non-functional properties of software composition - Automated software composition and coordination - Correct-by-construction software composition - Automated synthesis of software integration code - Model-driven software composition - Compositional theories for software composition - Patterns and frameworks for software composition engineering - Tools and methods for software composition engineering - Industrial experience in software composition - Empirical studies in software composition From anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 29 06:13:31 2015 From: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk (Anuj Dawar) Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 11:13:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] British Logic Colloquium 2015 Message-ID: <55683BCB.6050409@cl.cam.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Registration is now open: http://www.newton.ac.uk/event/blc-2015 BRITISH LOGIC COLLOQUIUM Cambridge, England 2-4 September 2015 http://www.newton.ac.uk/event/blc-2015 The 2015 meeting of the British Logic Colloquium will be held in Cambridge on 2nd-4th September. It will be preceded by BLC PhD day (1st-2nd September). This is a general Logic meeting covering a variety of topics within mathematical, philosophical and computer science logic. The meeting will include ten invited talks (speakers listed below) and a number of contributed talks. Anyone wishing to contibute a talk should send an abstract (of about 250 words) to blc-2015 at cl.cam.ac.uk by 15 July, 2015. Invited speakers: Andreas Blass (Michigan) Victoria Gitman (New York) Ian Pratt-Hartman (Manchester) Alexander Kechris (Pasadena) Jonathan Kirby (East Anglia) Agi Kurucz (London) Itay Neeman (Los Angeles) Arno Pauly (Cambridge) Andrew Pitts (Cambridge) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (London) Bursaries There is a limited number of bursaries available for students who wish to attend. A bursary will provide a subsidy for travel and accommodation costs. Applications for bursaries should be accompanied by a short paragraph stating your affiliation, the name of your supervisor and a brief description of your research; priority will be given to those contributing a talk in either the PhD day or the main BLC meeting. Deadline: 15 July. PhD Day The BLC PhD day provides an opportunity for postgraduates to meet and discuss their research or area of interest with fellow young logicians. If you wish to attend the PhD day, please email blc-2015-phd at maths.cam.ac.uk, including your Name, Affiliation and whether or not you would like to present a talk or a poster. Programme Committee: Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, chair) Thomas Forster (Cambridge) Martin Hyland (Cambridge) Benedikt L?we (Amsterdam/Hamburg) Dugald Macpherson (Leeds) Philip Welch (Bristol) The meeting is supported by the London Mathematical Society, the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Robinson College, Cambridge. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVaDvKAAoJEM9dI1G+OXVRCe0H/Rj7F4g76BUZKmlpJDOdIpo7 mtp84ZY1iuAQ/kzlVnDo4SEIOcv9R2sCirjpef6xSNZy7COlvQkcheTGtt7+JQfT APq25JziUfWtElXIjg+0t4UwvyitFLcVfWq4ByVV0PqXStr4kwHM13lx8ItavWU3 gqQ2f/lgFhSSoE0pGD7rSsP48w5VpL0DuDxXhfEUOTCyEWUePJhxMhK6SXBE/KUZ kMcgEgF0Etlu/7HU6Hx0c4bVNfDGM/5myA0d2r4xcxVaA6pjBv86WhVTCMODT3BA o6vUWS7tJb7WMTKkIHGnYOu7AqUsrYW6IMBGVL/q5gB+AlXe4RFVkWUKCtzUedE= =54JG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From agarcia at babel.ls.fi.upm.es Fri May 29 09:41:56 2015 From: agarcia at babel.ls.fi.upm.es (=?UTF-8?B?w4FsdmFybyBHYXJjw61hIFDDqXJleg==?=) Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:41:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for contributions: 27th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory, Reykjavik, Iceland Message-ID: NWPT 2015 27th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory October 21-23, 2015 Reykjavik, Iceland http://icetcs.ru.is/nwpt2015/ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The NWPT series of annual workshops is a forum bringing together programming theorists from the Nordic and Baltic countries (but also elsewhere). The 27th edition of the Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory will be hosted by the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS) and the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. The workshop will take place on the premises of Reykjavik University. *** SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are requested to submit abstracts of 2-3 pages (pdf, printable on A4 paper, using easychair.cls, available at http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip) through EasyChair at the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nwpt2015. Work in progress as well as abstracts of manuscripts submitted for formal publication elsewhere are permitted. *** PUBLICATION: The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available electronically before the workshop. We have arranged a special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP) devoted to the best contributions to the workshop. The contributions will be selected by the PC. They will be invited after the workshop and will undergo a rigorous, journal-strength review process according to the standards of JLAMP. *** IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission of abstracts: 31 August 2015 at 23:00 GMT - Notification: 13 September 2015 - Registration deadline: 2 October 2015 - Workshop: 21-23 October 2015 *** SCOPE: Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) - semantics of programming languages - programming language design and programming methodology - programming logics - formal specification of programs - program verification - program construction - tools for program verification and construction - program transformation and refinement - real-time and hybrid systems - models of concurrency and distributed computing - language-based security. *** INVITED SPEAKERS: - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) - Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, UK) - Jiri Srba (Aalborg University, Denmark) *** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: - Luca Aceto, Reykjav?k Univ., Iceland (co-chair) - Lars Birkedal, Aarhus Univ., Denmark - Johannes Borgstr?m, Uppsala Univ., Sweden - Einar Broch Johnsen, Univ. of Oslo, Norway - Michael R. Hansen, DTU, Denmark - Keijo Heljanko, Aalto Univ., Finland - Fritz Henglein, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark - Anna Ingolfsdottir, Reykjav?k Univ., Iceland (co-chair) - Yngve Lamo, Bergen Univ. Col., Norway - Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark - Alberto Lluch Lafuente, DTU, Denmark - Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad Univ., Sweden - Bengt Nordstr?m, Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden - Olaf Owe, Univ. of Oslo, Norway - Paul Pettersson, M?lardalen Univ., Sweden - Gerardo Schneider, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Walid Taha, Halmstad Univ., Sweden - Tarmo Uustalu, Inst. of Cybernetics, Estonia - J?ri Vain, Tallinn Univ. of Tech., Estonia - Marina Wald?n, ?bo Akademi Univ., Finland - Uwe Wolter, Univ. of Bergen, Norway - Wang Yi, Uppsala Univ., Sweden *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - Luca Aceto - Anna Ingolfsdottir - Dario Della Monica - Ignacio Fabregas - Alvaro Garcia Perez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eacsl at kahle.ch Sat May 30 15:17:07 2015 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 20:17:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Eacsl-announce] ESSLLI 2016 - Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <556A0CB3.80809@kahle.ch> NOTE: Please Note the EACSL Sponsorship offered in the Call below. It is especially meant to encourage proposals in the area of Logic in Computer Science! Call for Course and Workshop Proposals 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2016 15-26 August, 2016 Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy in collaboration with University of Trento, Italy http://esslli2016.unibz.it/ IMPORTANT DATES (with extended deadline) 8 June 2015: Proposal submission deadline 23 September 2015: Notification 20 July 2016: Course material due TOPICS AND FORMAT Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2016 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computing Sciences. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI programme committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. The organizers want to point at the possibility of an EACSL sponsorship, mentioned at the end of this call CATEGORIES Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. * FOUNDATIONAL COURSES * Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. * INTRODUCTORY COURSES * Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. * ADVANCED COURSES * Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. * WORKSHOPS * Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshops organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop programme. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES Course and workshop proposals should follow closely the following guidelines to ensure full consideration. Each course proposal can be submitted by no more than two instructors, and each workshop by no more than two organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2016 and include all of the following: a. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) b. General proposal information: Title, category c. Contents information: Abstract of up to 150 words Motivation and description (up to two pages) Tentative outline Expected level and prerequisites Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) d. Practical information: Relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable Potential external funding for participants EACSL SPONSORSHIP The EACSL offers to act as a sponsor for one course or workshop in the areas of Logic and Computation covered by the Computer Science Logic (CSL) conferences. This course or workshop will be designated an EACSL course/workshop. If you wish to be considered for this, please indicate so on your proposal. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chair: Claire Gardent (LORIA, CNRS & Universit? de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Local co-chair: Raffaella Bernardi (DISI, Trento) Language and Computation: Katrin Erk (University of Texas, Austin) Alexander Koller (University of Potsdam) Language and Logic: Chris Barker (Linguistics, NYU) Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin) Logic and Computation: Dietmar Berwanger (LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan) Luciano Serafini (DKM Trento) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Diego Calvanese (Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano) FURTHER INFORMATION: Please send any queries you may have to claire.gardent at loria.fr _______________________________________________ Eacsl-announce mailing list Eacsl-announce at kahle.ch http://lists.kahle.ch/mailman/listinfo/eacsl-announce From aart.middeldorp at uibk.ac.at Mon Jun 1 01:45:02 2015 From: aart.middeldorp at uibk.ac.at (Aart Middeldorp) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 07:45:02 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoc position (6 years) in Innsbruck Message-ID: <556BF15E.7060504@uibk.ac.at> 6 year postdoc position in computational logic ============================================== The University of Innsbruck invites applications for a 6 year postdoctoral position in the Computational Logic research group. Candidates must hold a PhD degree in computer science. A strong background in computational logic (in particular term rewriting) is desired. The ideal candidate enjoys working with students at all levels. Candidates are expected to conduct research leading to a habilitation and contribute to teaching and administration. Knowledge of German is not essential. The position is a full-time "B1/3 position" with teaching obligations of 4 hours per semester. The annual gross salary is approximately EUR 50,000. The official job advert (reference MIP-8628) appeared at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=8268 Applications (including CV, publication list, and two letters of recommendation) must be submitted electronically at https://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.bewerben?page=w&a_id=8268 no later than 30 June 2015. The starting date for the position is 1 October 2015. Informal inquiries may be addressed to aart.middeldorp at uibk.ac.at The city of Innsbruck, which hosted the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and 1976, is superbly located in the beautiful surroundings of the Tyrolean Alps. The combination of the Alpine environment and urban life in this historic town provides a high quality of living. Further information is available from the following links: Computational Logic: http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/ Institute of Computer Science: http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/ University of Innsbruck: http://www.uibk.ac.at/ City of Innsbruck: http://www.innsbruck.at/ From fisman at seas.upenn.edu Mon Jun 1 14:40:55 2015 From: fisman at seas.upenn.edu (Dana Fisman) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 14:40:55 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SyGuS-COMP 2015: 2nd Call for Solvers Submission (deadline June 15, 2015) Message-ID: SyGuS-COMP 2015: 2nd Syntax Guided Synthesis Competition Satellite event of CAV and SYNT 2015 http://www.sygus.org Important Dates: Benchmark Submission Deadline: 31 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 ) Submission Links: Benchmark submission Solver submission 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. [See here the enhanced SyGuS-IF syntax.] 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 especially for the newer tracks of invariant synthesis and conditional linear integer arithmetic. [benchmark submission link ] 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. [solver submission link ] Licensing of Tools and Benchmarks: All benchmarks will be made public after the competition. 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URL: From bogom.s at gmail.com Sun May 31 12:57:58 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 18:57:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HSB 2015: 2nd CfP for the 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology Message-ID: -- Second Call for Papers -- HSB 2015: The 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology http://hsb2015.fi.muni.cz 4-5 September 2015, Madrid (Spain) In conjunction with Madrid Meet 2015 Proceedings in Springer's LNCS ===================================================================== The 4th International Workshop on 'Hybrid Systems Biology' will be held on September 4th and 5th in Madrid (ES), and co-located with the Madrid Meet 2015 (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/madrid2015/), which hosts also CONCUR 2015, QEST 2015, FORMATS 2015, among other events. Previous editions have been held in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), Taormina (IT), and Vienna (AT, at VSL 2014). == IMPORTANT DATES == Abstract Submission: June 8, 2015 Paper Submission: June 15, 2015 Notification: July 15, 2015 Final Submission: September 5, 2015 == TOPICS OF INTEREST == The scope of the HSB workshop covers the general area of dynamical models in Biology with an emphasis on hybrid approaches ? by no means restricted to a narrow class of mathematical models ? and taking advantage of techniques developed separately in different areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Models of metabolic, signalling, and genetic regulatory networks in living cells * Models of tissues, organs; physiological models * Biological applications of quantitative and formal analysis techniques, such as reachability computation, model checking, abstract interpretation, bifurcation theory, stability and sensitivity analysis * Parametric and non-parametric system identification techniques (learning models from experimental data) * Efficient techniques for combined and heterogeneous (stochastic/deterministic, spatial/non-spatial) simulations for biological models * Modelling languages for biological systems, with related analysis and simulation tools * Models coping with incomplete and uncertain information * Stochastic hybrid models in biology * Hierarchical systems for multi-scale, multi-domain analysis * Abstraction, approximation, discretisation, and model reduction techniques * Game-theoretical frameworks in biology (e.g., populations dynamics) * Control architectures of biological systems * Modelling and synthesis for synthetic biology == CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS == We solicit high-quality submissions, to be refereed by the Program Committee below, and to be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) with Springer Verlag. Selected articles might be invited for a special issue in a high-quality journal (under negotiation). Submitted papers will describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. We accept the following two types of submission: * full papers (max 15 pages LNCS Springer Verlag style) * short papers, including work in progress and tool papers (max 6 pages LNCS Springer Verlag style) == PUBLICATION FORMS and PAPER SUBMISSION == Papers should be written in English, and should not exceed 6 (short papers) or 15 pages (full papers), inclusive of references, and have to be formatted in LNCS style. Additional material may be included in a clearly marked appendix but will not necessarily undergo review and will not be included in the published version. Papers need to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair online submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hsb2015). == INVITED SPEAKERS == * Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research * Mustafa Hani Khamash, ETH Zurich == PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS == * Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * David Safranek, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == * Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK - (co-chair) * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gregory Batt, INRIA Rocquencourt, France * Sergiy Bogomolov, IST Austria * Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, Italy * Kevin Burrage, University of Oxford, UK * Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Pieter Collins, Maastricht University, The Netherlands * Milan Ceska, Masaryk University, Czech Republic * Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Hidde de Jong, INRIA Grenoble - Rh?ne-Alpes, France * Alexandre Donze', UC Berkley, USA * Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France * Eric Fanchon, TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, Grenoble, France * Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, University of Pavia, Italy * Elisa Franco, University of California at Riverside / Caltech, USA * Sicun Gao, MIT CSAIL, USA * Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Adam Halasz, West Virginia University, USA * Joao Hespanha, University of California, USA * Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK * Agung Julius, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Heinz Koeppl, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Hillel Kugler, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK * Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK * Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Andrzej Mizera, University of Luxembourg * Stefan Mueller, RICAM ?AW, Austria * Chris Myers, University of Utah, USA * Nicola Paoletti, University of Oxford, UK * Ion Petre, ?bo Akademi University, Finland * Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria * Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy * Nir Piterman, University of Leicester, UK * Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy * Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh, UK * Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware, USA * Katerina Stankova, Maastricht University, The Netherlands * David Safranek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - (co-chair) * P.S. Thiagarajan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Jana Tumova, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * S.A. Wahl, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Verena Wolf, Saarland University, Germany * Boyan Yordanov, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK == STEERING COMMITTEE == * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, Italy * Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Adam Halasz, West Virginia University, USA * Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy From heunen at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 2 10:25:37 2015 From: heunen at cs.ox.ac.uk (Chris Heunen) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 15:25:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QPL 2015: Call for participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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). 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 Please see the website for the full programme. 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) 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 paolini at di.unito.it Wed Jun 3 06:16:43 2015 From: paolini at di.unito.it (Luca Paolini) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:16:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] New conference replacing RTA-TLCA In-Reply-To: <543F6053.6050909@di.unito.it> References: <543F6053.6050909@di.unito.it> Message-ID: <556ED40B.6080907@di.unito.it> Dear Everyone, As requested by the participants of the RTA-TLCA conference in Vienna 2014, the united Steering Committees of Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA) and Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA) have prepared the attached proposal to replace our existing two conferences by a new one of a broader scope. As we embark on this exciting journey, we invite all members of the computer science community to provide comments, remarks, and suggestions for the new conference. All input will be passed on to the steering committee of the new conference after its constitutional general meeting on July 1st, 2015. Sincerely, Kristoffer Rose and Pawe? Urzyczyn for the unanimous steering committees of RTA and TLCA. ===================================================================== It is our thesis that formal elegance is a prerequisite to efficient implementation. -- G?rard Huet[4] We, the communities behind the RTA[1] and TLCA[2] conferences, believe that our field has evolved and developed richer connections with many both practical and theoretical aspects of computer science and logic research since the inception of RTA in 1983 and TLCA in 1993. In particular, the scope of the two original conferences widened to include a significant overlap, and in fact the conferences have already collaborated by having most of our meetings since 2003 as the joint RDP[3] conference. We have therefore decided to propose a new conference, Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD) which not only combines our scope but further extends it to cover all the inter-related formal areas that researchers in formal structures for computation and deduction engage in. The name of the new conference comes from an unpublished but important book by G?rard Huet[4] that was a strong influence on many researchers in our area. We are grateful to G?rard for allowing us to reuse the name. The extended scope of the conference will include all research related to formal structures for computation and deduction, in particular all areas/categories included in the attached non-exhaustive list of topics. We look very much forward to serve the scientific community with this new conference, which inherits as well as updates and modernizes the scope of the conferences it replaces. References. [1]http://rewriting.loria.fr/rta/ [2]http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/tlca/ [3]http://users.dsic.upv.es/~rdp03/ [4]http://pauillac.inria.fr/~huet/PUBLIC/Formal_Structures.ps.gz FSCD initial non-exhaustive list of topics (intended to extend the current RTA and TLCA scope, and expected to evolve over time): 1. Calculi a. Lambda-calculus b. Rewriting formats (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, ...) c. Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculi, proof nets, ...) d. Strategies in computation and deduction 2. Type Theory and Logical Frameworks a. Type systems (recursive, intersection types, polymorphism, ...) b. Dependent types and homotopy type theory c. Linear logic and other constructive logics d. Implicit complexity 3. Fundamentals of Functional and Declarative Programming a. Unification and narrowing b. Tree automata c. Continuations and control operators d. Coinduction and infinitary systems 4. Semantics a. Abstract machines b. Categorical semantics c. Denotational and game semantics d. Quantitative models (timing, probabilities) 5. Algorithmic Analysis of Formal Systems a. Type inference and type checking b. Complexity analysis c. Checking termination, confluence, and related properties d. Formalisation and certification 6. Tools and Applications a. Proof assistants and interactive theorem proving b. Automated deduction (completion, constraints, equational logic...) c. Symbolic computation d. Implementation techniques for formal systems e. Case studies and applications based on formal systems From birkedal at cs.au.dk Wed Jun 3 03:17:07 2015 From: birkedal at cs.au.dk (Lars Birkedal) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 07:17:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HOPE 2015 workshop @ ICFP - call for talk abstracts Message-ID: Reminder: Deadline for HOPE 2015 abstracts is on June 12, 2015 Details below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HOPE 2015 The 4th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects August 30, 2015 Vancouver, Canada (the day before ICFP 2015) http://users-cs.au.dk/birke/hope-2015/ HOPE 2015 aims at bringing together researchers interested in the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. It will be *informal*, consisting of invited talks, contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. --------------------- Goals of the Workshop --------------------- A recurring theme in many papers at ICFP, and in the research of many ICFP attendees, is the interaction of higher-order programming with various kinds of effects: storage effects, I/O, control effects, concurrency, etc. While effects are of critical importance in many applications, they also make it hard to build, maintain, and reason about one's code. Higher-order languages (both functional and object-oriented) provide a variety of abstraction mechanisms to help "tame" or "encapsulate" effects (e.g. monads, ADTs, ownership types, typestate, first-class events, transactions, Hoare Type Theory, session types, substructural and region-based type systems), and a number of different semantic models and verification technologies have been developed in order to codify and exploit the benefits of this encapsulation (e.g. bisimulations, step-indexed Kripke logical relations, higher-order separation logic, game semantics, various modal logics). But there remain many open problems, and the field is highly active. The goal of the HOPE workshop is to bring researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and perspectives together to exchange new and exciting ideas concerning the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. We want HOPE to be as informal and interactive as possible. The program will thus involve a combination of invited talks, contributed talks about work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. There will be no published proceedings, but participants will be invited to submit working documents, talk slides, etc. to be posted on this website. ----------------------- Call for Talk Proposals ----------------------- We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals of at most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format. However, we will accept longer proposals or submissions to other conferences, under the understanding that PC members are only expected to read the first two pages of such longer submissions. When submitting talk proposals, authors should specify how long a talk the speaker wishes to give. By default, contributed talks will be 30 minutes long, but proposals for shorter or longer talks will also be considered. Speakers may also submit supplementary material (e.g. a full paper, talk slides) if they desire, which PC members are free (but not expected) to read. We are interested in talks on all topics related to the interaction of higher-order programming and computational effects. Talks about work in progress are particularly encouraged. If you have any questions about the relevance of a particular topic, please contact the PC chairs, Lars Birkedal (birkedal at cs.au.dk) and Neel Krishnaswami (N.Krishnaswami at cs.bham.ac.uk). Deadline for talk proposals: June 12, 2015 (Friday) Notification of acceptance: July 3, 2015 (Friday) Workshop: August 30, 2015 (Sunday) The submission website is now open: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hope2015 --------------- Invited Speaker --------------- Aaron Turon, Mozilla --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- Program Co-Chairs: Lars Birkedal (Aarhus University) Neel Krishnaswami (University of Birmingham) Program Committee: Viviana Bono (Universit? di Torino) Pierre Clairambault (ENS Lyon) Mike Dodds (University of York) Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo) Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh) Rasmus M?gelberg (IT University of Copenhagen) Tahina Ramananandro (Reservoir Labs Inc.) Kasper Svendsen (Aarhus University) Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College) Noam Zeilberger (MSR-Inria) From gianluigi.zavattaro at unibo.it Wed Jun 3 05:23:19 2015 From: gianluigi.zavattaro at unibo.it (Gianluigi Zavattaro) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 11:23:19 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research grant at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna: application deadline July 20th Message-ID: Dear All, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna has a vacancy for a post-doctoral position on: Formal Description, Analysis and Deployment of Cloud Computing Services - Contact for inquiries or application: either Prof. Cosimo Laneve (cosimo.laneve at unibo.it) or Prof. Gianluigi Zavattaro (gianluigi.zavattaro at unibo.it) - Duration: 1 year - Starting date: Autumn 2015 (preferably September/October) - Keywords: formal methods, concurrent programming, type systems, process algebra - Location: Department of Computer Science and Engineering of University of Bologna The gross salary of the research fellowship contract is ? 26.174,00 per annum. The salary is exempt of withholding tax and includes all statutory social security charges the Research Fellow is subject to (the research fellow has to pay ~10% of taxes only). The job may start in Autumn this year 2015 (preferably September/October) and is renewable for one year. It is funded by the EU FP7 project Envisage (http://www.envisage-project.eu). The applicant must have a PhD in computer science with a strong background on formal methods in the specific domains of process algebra and type systems. Please forward this email to possible applicants. Best regards, Gianluigi Zavattaro Cosimo Laneve === FORMAL DESCRIPTION, ANALYSIS AND DEPLOYMENT OF CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES The research project, that the post-doctoral fellow will work on, intends to study and propose solutions to the following issues for cloud computing services: (1) the formal specification of the quality level of services for the cloud, in order to describe the evolution of the virtual resources that they need (as processors, memory , etc.); (2) the analysis of these specifications to determine, for example, upper bounds to the number of resources during the evolution of the system; (3) Models and techniques for the automatic deployment of cloud applications and their reconfiguration in case of the need for dynamic resource (re)allocation; (4) the correspondence between the formal specification and the languages ??for programming the cloud. From crafa at math.unipd.it Wed Jun 3 09:14:38 2015 From: crafa at math.unipd.it (Silvia Crafa) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:14:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXPRESS/SOS 2015: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <556EFDBE.8040003@math.unipd.it> Combined 22th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 12th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2015) EXPRESS/SOS 2015 ------------------------------------------------------ August 31, 2015, Madrid (Spain) Affiliated with CONCUR 2015 http://www.math.unipd.it/~crafa/EXPRESSSOS2015/ Submission of abstracts: Wednesday June 17, 2015 Submission of papers: Sunday June 21, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS: The EXPRESS workshop series aims at bringing together researchers interested in the expressiveness of various formal systems and semantic notions, particularly in the field of concurrency. The SOS workshop series aims at being a forum for researchers, students and practitioners interested in new developments, and directions for future investigation, in the field of structural operational semantics. Since 2012, the EXPRESS and SOS communities have joined forces and organised a combined EXPRESS/SOS workshop on the formal semantics of systems and programming concepts, and on the expressiveness of mathematical models of computation. Topics of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited to): - expressiveness and comparison of models of computation (process algebras, event structures, Petri nets, rewrite systems) - expressiveness and comparison of programming models (distributed, component-based, object-oriented, service-oriented); - logics for concurrency (modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics and resource logics); - analysis techniques for concurrent systems; - theory of structural operational semantics (meta-theory, category-theoretic approaches, congruence results); - comparison of structural operational semantics to other formal semantics approaches - applications and case studies of structural operational semantics; - software tools that automate, or are based on, structural operational semantics. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We solicit two types of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages). * Short papers (up to 5 pages, not included in the workshop proceedings) Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is only allowed for short papers; full papers must be unpublished. All submissions should adhere to the EPTCS format (http://www.eptcs.org), and submission is performed through the EXPRESS/SOS 2015 EasyChair server (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2015). The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. INVITED SPEAKER: Davide Sangiorgi IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: June 17, 2015 Paper submission: June 21, 2015 Notification date: July 19, 2015 Camera ready version: July 31, 2015 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Silvia Crafa (University of Padova, Italy) Daniel Gebler (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Johannes Borgstroem (Uppsala University, Sweden) Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana) Silvia Crafa (University of Padova, Italy) Pedro R. D'Argenio (University of Cordoba, Argentina) Daniel Gebler (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Thomas Given-Wilson (Inria, France) Thomas T. Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Daniel Hirschkoff (ENS Lyon, France) Stefan Milius (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany) Mohammad R. Mousavi (Halmstad University, Sweden) Kirstin Peters (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) Damien Pous (ENS Lyon, France) Irek Ulidowski (University of Leister, United Kingdom) From matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Wed Jun 3 08:34:11 2015 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 13:34:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Higher Order Program Analysis (HOPA), Kyoto, July 4th, EXTENDED DEADLINE Message-ID: <20150603123411.GD997@chilon.net> The submission deadline for the 3rd workshop on Higher Order Program Analysis, to be held in Kyoto, July 4th, has been extended to June 17th. HOPA Workshop on Higher-Order Program Analysis Kyoto, Japan 4th July, Part of LICS/ICALP 2015 http://hopa.cs.rhul.ac.uk The HOPA workshop aims to bring together the various growing communities involved in the analysis of higher-order programs. The focus of the workshop is both on tools and techniques for practical analysis, and on the dissemination of new theoretical results. Important Dates Submission deadline: 31st May, 2015. Notification: 7th June, 2015. Main event: 4th July, 2015. Invited Speakers Hiroshi Unno, University of Tsukuba, Japan Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick, UK Scope Submissions are encouraged in the form of tool presentations, exposition of best results, and topic tutorials or surveys. The emphasis is on building bridges between communities. Areas include but are by no means limited to the theory and practice of k-CFA, CFA2 and its variants, Higher-order and collapsible pushdown systems, Higher-order recursion schemes, Liquid types, Refinement types, Static analysis of higher-order programs, Symbolic execution of higher-order programs, and Verification of higher-order programs. Publication There will be no formal proceedings of the workshop. Work presented may be submitted elsewhere for formal publication, or, indeed, may have already been formally published. Abstracts will be made available online via this website and on the FLoC USB stick. We encourage participants with analysis tools to make these tools available on our website. This can be done either by providing us with source tarballs or zip files, or by providing us with links to the tool homepage as part of the submission. Submissions may range from 1 page abstracts through to 15 page tutorials or surveys in the llncs format. Please indicate on your submission how long you would like to talk for. This may range from 10 minutes for cool new ideas, or 45-60 minutes for full tutorials or surveys. Submission will be via easychair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hopa2015 Program Chairs Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Program Committee Lars Bergstrom, Mozilla, USA Michael Greenberg, Princeton University, USA Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan Sylvain Salvati, INRIA, Bordeaux, France Ryosuke Sato, Tokyo University, Japan Olivier Serre, LIAFA, France Tachio Terauchi, JAIST, Japan Mitchell Wand, Northeastern University, USA Steering Committee Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Ranjit Jhala, University of California, USA Naoki Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan Luke Ong, University of Oxford, UK David Van Horn, University of Maryland, USA Enquiries can be made to matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Regards, Matthew Hague From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Thu Jun 4 06:08:31 2015 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:08:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: (EC)2 workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly (with CAV) Message-ID: <5570239F.4040509@imperial.ac.uk> ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Early registration by 10 June ***************************************************************** (EC)2 2015: 8th International Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly Co-located with CAV 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA July 18, 2015 http://multicore.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/ec2/ We're really excited to have a great set of keynote speakers and contributed papers, which should make for a really exciting workshop! Register now through the CAV registration system: http://i-cav.org/2015/travel/ *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** * Sebastian Burckhardt, Microsoft Research - "Robust Abstractions for Replicated Shared State" * Cormac Flanagan, University of California Santa Cruz - "Cooperative Concurrency for a Multicore World" * Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, Tools for Software Engineers team - title TBC * Kostya Serebryany, Google - "ThreadSanitizer and Friends: How We Fight Threading (and Other) Bugs" *** ACCEPTED PAPERS *** * Kshitij Bansal, Eric Koskinen and Omer Tripp: "Synthesis of Commutativity Conditions" * Simone Atzeni, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Zvonimir Rakamaric, Dong Ahn, Ignacio Laguna, Martin Schulz, Gregory Lee, Joachim Protze and Matthias Mueller: "ARCHER: Effectively Spotting Data Races in Large OpenMP Applications" * Igor Konnov, Helmut Veith and Josef Widder: "Challenges in Model Checking of Fault-tolerant Designs in TLA+" *** 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. *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Brad Beckmann, AMD Pavol Cerny, University of Colorado Boulder Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London (co-chair) Michael Emmi, IMDEA Software Institute Akash Lal, Microsoft Research Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of Utah (co-chair) From xinyu.feng at gmail.com Thu Jun 4 23:33:03 2015 From: xinyu.feng at gmail.com (Xinyu Feng) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 11:33:03 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2015: deadline extension Message-ID: ** DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR SUBMISSIONS TO APLAS 2015: ** - Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2015. ********************************************************************* 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 15, 2015 Author notification: August 17, 2015 Final version: September 7, 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. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page using EasyChair. Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. *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. Naumann (Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA) Michael Norrish (NICTA, Australia) Hakjoo Oh (Korea Univ., Korea) Murali Krishna Ramanathan (Indian Institute of Science, India) Xavier Rival (CNRS / ENS / INRIA, France) Kohei Suenaga (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Gang Tan (Lehigh Univ., USA) Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Martin Vechev (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK) Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, CAS, China) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aravara at fct.unl.pt Wed Jun 3 06:13:40 2015 From: aravara at fct.unl.pt (Antonio Ravara) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:13:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WS-FM/BEAT 2015 2nd CfP: deadline in two weeks! Message-ID: <556ED354.9040500@fct.unl.pt> Dear Colleagues, For those working on (behavioural) types and/or (web) services: submission deadline is June, 19. Highlights: - WS-FM (http://wsfm2014.haifa.ac.il/) and BEAT (http://beat2014.behavioural-types.eu/) combine forces this year - Event of the MADRID MEET 2015 (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/madrid2015/), a scientific week on formal and quantitative analysis of systems, performance engineering, computer safety, and industrial critical applications. - Submission deadline just after CONCUR's notification (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/concur2015/). - Double submissions with the workshop FOCLASA (http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/) encouraged. Please contribute! Ant?nio and Jan Martijn -------------- next part -------------- ************************************************************* * * * WSFM-BEAT 2015 * * International Symposium on * * Web Services, Formal Methods and Behavioural Types* * (WS-FM/BEAT 2015) * * * * September 4th and 5th, Madrid (Spain) * * an event @ the MADRID MEET 2015 * * * * Call for Papers * * * * * ************************************************************* Homepage: http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/WSFM-BEAT2015/index.php IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: June 17 (Wednesday) Paper submission: June 19 (Friday) Notification: July 20 (Monday) Camera Ready version: August 3 (Monday) SCOPE The Symposium on International Symposium on Web Services, Formal Methods and Behavioural Types (WS-FM/BEAT 2015) results from joining the Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods (WS-FM) and the Workshop on Behavioural Types. The former was mainly devoted to formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing. The latter addressed type languages and systems to specify, characterise, and reason about dynamic aspects of program execution. In both cases, the main working setting of the research area covered is that of component-based distributed and concurrent software systems, services and clouds, simply referable as large software systems. Behavioural systems may also refer to enterprise and business process modelling and management systems. These kind of systems share characteristics: they are distributed, collaborative, and communication-centred. Moreover, the compatibility of their components is crucial to ensure overall correctness and reliability. The aim of this event is to bring together researchers and practitioners in all aspects of large scale behavioural software systems and its applications, in order to share results, consolidate the community, and discover opportunities for new collaborations and future directions. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundational aspects of large behavioural software systems * Specification, verification, analysis, and testing of large behavioural software systems * Language-based approaches to large behavioural software systems * Security, trust, QoS, dependability, and privacy in large behavioural software systems * Ontologies, standards and technologies for large behavioural software systems * Case-studies on formal methods in large behavioural software systems * Innovative application scenarios of large behavioural software systems SUBMISSION We solicit the submission of original and unpublished contributions not under review for publication elsewhere. Concurrent submissions to WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA (a CONCUR workshop - http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/) are however, not only allowed, but in fact encouraged, for those papers that may potentially enhance both venues. Authors of such double submissions should identify them to the Program Chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the "Regular paper submitted also to FOCLASA? category in the EasyChair site). Reviews may be shared between WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA. Submissions accepted by WS-FM/BEAT will be considered automatically withdrawn from FOCLASA. Submissions may take two forms: full papers and short papers. - Full (regular) papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the LNCS-style format and they should not exceed 20 pages (typeset 11 points). All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. - Short papers are concerned with work-in-progress or tool papers and they should not exceed 6 pages. Short papers might not be included in the proceedings (a selection is invited for the proceedings). All contributions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, chosen by the Program Committee. Contributions should be submitted through the EasyChair online submission system in PDF format. 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 accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings, which will be published after the symposium as a volume of the LNCS series. Selected short papers will be invited to the proceedings. An open call for a special issue of a high-quality journal on the topics of the symposium is envisaged. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Antonio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Jan Martijn van der Werf, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE Robin Bergenthum (FernUni Hagen, Germany) Laura Bocchi (Imperial College London, UK) Sara Capecchi (Universit? degli Studi di Torino, Italy) Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia) Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta) Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Jeroen Keiren (Open University, The Netherlands) Natalia Kokash (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Hern?n Melgratti (Departamento Computaci?n, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Dimitris Mostrous (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Jovanka Pantovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) Artem Polyvyanyy (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Antonio Ravara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal), co-chair Natalia Sidorova (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Jan Martijn van der Werf (Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands), co-chair STEERING COMMITTEE Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy INVITED SPEAKERS TBA PAST EDITIONS Past editions of WS-FM * WS-FM 2014 in Eindhoven, co-chaired by Thomas Hildebrandt and Matthias Weidlich * WS-FM 2013 in Beijing, co-chaired by Chun Ouyang and Emilio Tuosto * WS-FM 2012 in Talin, co-chaired by Maurice ter Beek and Niels Lohmann * WS-FM 2011 in Clermont-Ferrand, co-chaired by Marco Carbone and Jean-Marc Petit * WS-FM 2010 in Hoboken, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Tevfik Bultan * WS-FM 2009 in Bologna, co-chaired by Cosimo Laneve and Jianwen Su * WS-FM 2008 in Milan, co-chaired by Roberto Bruni and Karsten Wolf * WS-FM 2007 in Brisbane, co-chaired by Marlon Dumas and Reiko Heckel * WS-FM 2006 in Wien, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro * WS-FM 2005 in Versailles, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro * WS-FM 2004 in Pisa, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro Past editions of BEAT * BEAT 2014 in Roma, co-chaired by Marco Carbone and Adrian Francalanza * BEAT2: 2nd International Workshop on Behavioural Types, co-located with SEFM, September 2013 * BEAT: 1st International Workshop on Behavioural Types, co-located with POPL, January 2013 * Behavioural Types Workshop, Lisbon, April 2011 From j.a.perez at rug.nl Thu Jun 4 04:40:43 2015 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:40:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICTAC 2015: Deadline Extension. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The submission deadline for ICTAC 2015 (The 12th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing) has been extended. The new dates are: - Abstract submission deadline: June 16, 2015. - Paper submission deadline: June 19, 2015. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS -- ICTAC 2015 12th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing 29-31 October 2015, Cali, Colombia http://www.ictac2015.co == HIGHLIGHTS: * Seven invited talks: Jean-Raymond Abrial, Volker Diekert, C?sar Mu?oz, Catuscia Palamidessi, Davide Sangiorgi, Moshe Vardi, and Glynn Winskel. * Submissions are welcome in three categories: full papers (18 pages), short and tool papers (10 pages). * Conference proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer). * Special issue in Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (Cambridge Journals). ********************************************************************** ICTAC 2015 will take place at the campus of Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia during October 29-31, 2015. The ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers to exchange ideas and experiences addressing challenges in theoretical aspects of computing as well as in exploiting theory through methods and tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote cooperation between participants and institutions from developing and industrial countries in research and education. THEMES AND TOPICS OF PAPERS Topics of interest include theories of computation and programming, foundations of software engineering and formal techniques in software design and verification, as well as tools that support formal techniques for software modelling, system design and verification. The topical areas of the conference include, but are not limited to * Automata theory and formal languages; * Principles and semantics of programming languages; * Theories of concurrency, mobility and reconfiguration; * Logics and their applications; * Software architectures, their models, refinement and verification; * Relationship between software requirements, models and code; * Program static and dynamic analysis and verification; * Software specification, refinement, verification and testing; * Model checking and theorem proving; * Models of object and component systems; * Coordination and feature interaction; * Integration of theories, formal methods and tools for engineering computing systems; * Service-oriented architectures: models and development methods; * Models of concurrency, security, and mobility; * Theory of distributed, grid and cloud computing; * Real-time, embedded, hybrid and cyber-physical systems; * Type and category theory in computer science. INVITED SPEAKERS * Jean-Raymond Abrial (Consultant, France) * Volker Diekert (University of Stuttgart, Germany) * C?sar Mu?oz (NASA, USA) * Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and ?cole Polytechnique, France) * Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) * Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA) * Glynn Winskel (University of Cambridge, UK) ASSOCIATED EVENTS * ICTAC Summer School on Formal Methods (October 25-27) * DCM 2015: 11th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models (October 28) http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/2015/ ** PAPER SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED: **** == Important Dates * Abstract submission: Tuesday, June 16, 2015. * Paper submission: Friday, June 19, 2015. * Author notification: Sunday, July 26, 2015. * Camera ready: Friday, August 7, 2015. == Paper Categories and Format We call for submissions, related to the above areas and topics, according to the following three categories: * Regular papers, with original research contributions; * Short papers, with original work in progress or with proposals of new ideas and emerging challenges; * Tool papers, on original descriptions of tools that support formal techniques for software modeling, system design, and verification. Submissions must be written in English and should adhere to the LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Regular papers should not exceed 18 pages. Short and tool papers should not exceed 10 pages. Submissions to the colloquium must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, as well as their relevance to the conference. Submissions not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without further consideration. ==Submission Link Papers must be submitted by using www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2015. ==Proceedings As for the past editions, the proceedings of ICTAC 2015 will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ==Special Issue Extended versions of selected papers from ICTAC 2015 will be invited to a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MSC). GENERAL CHAIRS * Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck (DE). * Camilo Rueda, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali (CO). * Frank Valencia, CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique (FR). CONTACT CHAIR * Frank Valencia (frank.valencia at gmail.com). PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Nazareno Aguirre (AR) * Gerard Assayag (FR) * Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (BR) * Pablo Barcel? (CL) * Gustavo Betarte (UY) * Filippo Bonchi (FR) * Marco Carbone (DK) * Ilaria Castellani (FR) * N?stor Cata?o (CO) * Gabriel Ciobanu (RO) * Silvia Crafa (IT) * Pedro R. D'Argenio (AR) * Nicolas D'Ippolito (AR) * Stefan Dantchev (UK) * Rocco De Nicola (IT) * Yuxin Deng (CN) * Gilles Dowek (FR) * Moreno Falaschi (IT) * Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro (UK) * Wan Fokkink (NL) * Fabio Gadducci (IT) * Julian Gutierrez (UK) * Stefan Haar (FR) * Thomas Hildebrandt (DK) * Einar Broch Johnsen (NO) * Bartek Klin (PL) * Marta Kwiatkowska (UK) * Kim G. Larsen (DK) * Martin Leucker (DE) (co-chair) * Etienne Lozes (FR) * Larissa Meinicke (AU) * Hernan Melgratti (AR) * Dominique Mery (FR) * Matteo Mio (FR) * Andrzej Murawski (UK) * Vivek Nigam (BR) * Mauricio Osorio (MX) * Prakash Panangaden (CA) * Jorge A. P?rez (NL) * Elaine Pimentel (BR) * Ant?nio Ravara (PT) * Camilo Rocha (CO) * Camilo Rueda (CO) (co-chair) * Augusto Sampaio (BR) * Vijay Saraswat (US) * Vladimiro Sassone (UK) * Gerardo Schneider (SE) * Alexandra Silva (NL) * Jiri Srba (DK) * Jean-Bernard Stefani (FR) * Perdita Stevens (UK) * Kohei Suenaga (JP) * Alwen Tiu (SG) * Kazunori Ueda (JP) * Frank Valencia (FR) (co-chair) * Vasco T. Vasconcelos (PT) * Kapil Vaswani (IN) * Bj?rn Victor (SE) * Igor Walukiewicz (FR) * Farn Wang (TW) * Alan Wassyng (CA) * Gianluigi Zavattaro (IT) -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jorgeaperez.net From yudi.zheng at usi.ch Fri Jun 5 08:55:24 2015 From: yudi.zheng at usi.ch (Yudi Zheng) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:55:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPPJ 2015: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <42B9E22C-FBB8-4626-8F11-BEB1B2E1F99C@usi.ch> ** DEADLINE EXTENSION ** - Preliminary submission (for reviewer assignment): June 7, 2015 11:59 PM EST - Final submission (this version will be reviewed): June 14, 2015 11:59 PM EST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform September 9-11, 2015 Crowne Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne, Florida http://pppj2015.cs.fit.edu/ In-Cooperation with: ACM SIGAPP & SIGPLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *IMPORTANT DATES *Preliminary submission (for reviewer assignment): June 7, 2015 11:59 PM EST *Final submission (this version will be reviewed): June 14, 2015 11:59 PM EST Author notification: July 13, 2015 Conference: September 9-11, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION SITE: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pppj2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The Java platform is multi-faceted, covering a rich diversity of systems, languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques. PPPJ?15 ? the 12th conference in the PPPJ series ? provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of programming on the Java platform including virtual machines, languages, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Virtual machines for Java and Java-like language support: - JVM and similar VMs - VM design and optimization - VMs for mobile and embedded devices - Real-time VMs - Isolation and resource control Languages on the Java platform: - JVM languages (Clojure, Groovy, Java, JRuby, Kotlin, Scala, ?) - Domain-specific languages - Language design and calculi - Compilers - Language interoperability - Parallelism and concurrency - Modular and aspect-oriented programming - Model-driven development - Frameworks and applications - Teaching - Techniques and tools for the Java platform: Static and dynamic program analysis - Testing - Verification - Security and information flow - Workload characterization -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES PPPJ?15 submissions must conform to both the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy. PPPJ accepts three types of papers: * Full research papers that describe novel technical contributions involving the Java platform. * Short research papers that describe promising new ideas that have less maturity than full papers. * Industry and tool papers that present technical challenges and solutions for the Java platform in the context of deployed applications and systems. Research papers will be judged on their relevance, novelty, technical rigor, and comparison with the state-of-the-art. For short research papers, more emphasis will be placed on novelty and the potential of the new idea than on technical rigor and experimental results. Industry and tool papers will be judged on their relevance, usefulness, and results. Suitability for demonstration and availability will also be considered for tool papers. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be available from the ACM Digital Library. Full research papers will be allowed up to 12 pages in the proceedings, and short research, industry, and tool papers will be allowed up to 6 pages. All papers must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN style ?sigplanconf.cls? with a font size of 9 point (option ?9pt?). More information on submission guidelines is available from the PPPJ?15 web site. Questions about paper topics and submission format can be directed to the PC chair. The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Proceedings Series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The authors of the best papers presented at PPPJ?15 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a journal special issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS Organizing Committee: General Chair: Ryan Stansifer, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Program Chair: Andreas Krall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Publicity Chair: Yudi Zheng, University of Lugano, Switzerland Program Committee: Steven Atkin, IBM, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine, USA David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Apala Guha, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India Samuel Z. Guyer, Tufts University, USA Prasad Kulkarni, University of Kansas, USA Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Rei Odaira, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan Jens Palsberg, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Ian Rogers, Google Inc, USA Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow, Scotland Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA Christian Wimmer, Oracle Labs, USA Chenyi Zhang, Oracle Labs, Australia Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Steering Committee: Bruce R. Childers, University of Pittsburg, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Conrad Cunningham, University of Mississippi, USA Martin Pl?micke, Duale Hochschule Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark From bogom.s at gmail.com Thu Jun 4 20:18:59 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 02:18:59 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CAV: SNR 2015 - Call for Participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ************** SNR 2015 ************** 1st International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis, July 19th, 2015, affiliated with CAV 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA Web Page: http://snrworkshop.github.io Topics =============== The SNR workshop solicits papers broadly in the area of verification and synthesis of continuous and hybrid systems. One of the aims is to catalyze work on the interface of symbolic and numerical methods for the reachability analysis. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Flow-pipe construction - Representation of symbolic regions within reachability algorithm - Abstraction techniques for hybrid systems and numerical programs - Symbolic trajectory generation - Decision procedures over real numbers - Reliable integration - Logics to reason about hybrid systems - Reachability analysis for planning and synthesis - Domain specific approaches in biology, robotics, etc Registration =========================== http://i-cav.org/2015/travel/ (Early registration deadline is June 10, 2015) Invited talk =========================== Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado Boulder, USA). Symbolic-Numeric Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems Accepted papers =========================== Yang Gao and Martin Fr?nzle. Verification of Stochastic Systems by Stochastic Satisfiability Modulo Theories with Continuous Domain Fedor Shmarov and Paolo Zuliani. ProbReach: A Tool for Guaranteed Reachability Analysis of Stochastic Hybrid Systems Ian M. Mitchell. Recent Progress on Efficient Parametric Approximations of Viability and Discriminating Kernels Stanley Bak, Sergiy Bogomolov and Taylor T Johnson. HYST: A Source-to-Source Transformation Framework for Hybrid Automata Kengo Kido, Swarat Chaudhuri and Ichiro Hasuo. Abstract Interpretation with Infinitesimals: Towards Scalability in Nonstandard Static Analysis Pavithra Prabhakar and Miriam Garc?a Soto. An Algorithmic Approach to Stability Verification of Hybrid Systems: A Summary Chairs ========== Sergiy Bogomolov (IST Austria, Austria) Ashish Tiwari (SRI, USA) Program Committee ========== Matthias Althoff (TUM, Germany) Parasara Sridhar Duggirala (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Martin Fr?nzle (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Goran Frehse (Verimag, France) Sean Gao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Daniele Magazzeni (King's College, UK) Sayan Mitra (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Erion Plaku (CUA, USA) Stefan Ratschan (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Stavros Tripakis (Aalto University, Finnland) Paolo Zuliani (University of Newcastle, UK) From peterol at ifi.uio.no Fri Jun 5 05:01:37 2015 From: peterol at ifi.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Peter_Csaba_=C3=96lveczky?=) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 11:01:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: 12th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS'15 in Rio) Message-ID: <75CEC161-B3B3-44A7-B573-3F3F734DD29A@ifi.uio.no> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Abstract submission deadline: June 22 *** Paper submission deadline: June 28 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, Brazil Renato Cerqueira IBM Research, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Peter Olveczky University of Oslo 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 Camilo Rocha Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria Gwen Salaun Grenoble INP - INRIA - LIG Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich Bernhard Schatz Technical University Munchen From Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk Mon Jun 8 04:43:11 2015 From: Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk (YuHui Lin) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 09:43:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AVoCS 2015: Extended Paper Deadline Message-ID: ====================================================================== ---------------|*** AVoCS 2015: Deadline Extension ***|--------------- ====================================================================== *NEW* Submission of abstract (full papers): 15th June 2015 *NEW* Submission of full papers: 19th June 2015 ====================================================================== The 15th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems 1-4 September 2015, Edinburgh, UK https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/ avocs2015 at easychair.org -----------------------|*** HIGHLIGHTS ***|---------------------------- + Invited talks by Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ/Oxford) Don Sannella (Contemplate/Edinburgh) + AI4FM workshop including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) + Student support from FME/SICSA sponsorships + Proceedings to be published by EASST + Special issues of Science of Computer Programming ======================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstract (full papers): 15th June 2015 Submission of full papers: 19th 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/ including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) 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 adamc at csail.mit.edu Mon Jun 8 12:00:52 2015 From: adamc at csail.mit.edu (Adam Chlipala) Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:00:52 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Certified Programs and Proofs 2016 conference Message-ID: <5575BC34.2020105@csail.mit.edu> Hey everyone, As co-chair of the 2016 Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs, I'm writing to encourage submissions from everyone working on machine-checked proofs about type systems and any other aspects of programming languages. In fact, though we're colocated with POPL, we'll be glad to receive papers about mechanized proofs of all kinds, including in pure math. Our call for papers is below, and please feel free to send me any questions that it may not answer. Thanks! =============== The 5th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2016) in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA January 18-19, 2016 http://people.csail.mit.edu/adamc/cpp16/ Co-located with POPL 2016 (http://conf.researchr.org/home/POPL-2016) Call for Papers =============== CPP is an international forum on theoretical and practical topics in all areas, including computer science, mathematics, and education, that consider certification as an essential paradigm for their work. Certification here means formal, mechanized verification of some sort, preferably with production of independently checkable certificates. CPP 2016 is the fifth in the CPP conference series and will be co-located with POPL 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Florida from 18-19 January 2016. Important dates --------------- Abstract submission: 7 October 2015, anywhere on Earth (11:59 pm, UTC-12) Full paper submission: 12 October 2015, anywhere on Earth (11:59 pm, UTC-12) Notification: 18 November 2015 Final versions due: 4 December 2015 Conference dates: 18-19 January 2016 Scope ----- Suggested, but not exclusive, specific topics of interest for submissions include: - certified or certifying programming, compilation, linking, OS kernels, runtime systems, and security monitors; - program logics, type systems, and semantics for certified code; - certified decision procedures, mathematical libraries, and mathematical theorems; - proof assistants and proof theory; - new languages and tools for certified programming; - program analysis, program verification, and proof-carrying code; - certified secure protocols and transactions; - certificates for decision procedures, including linear algebra, polynomial systems, SAT, SMT, and unification in algebras of interest; - certificates for semi-decision procedures, including equality, first-order logic, and higher-order unification; - certificates for program termination; - logics for certifying concurrent and distributed programs; - higher-order logics, logical systems, separation logics, and logics for security; - teaching mathematics and computer science with proof assistants. Submission instructions ----------------------- Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. The proceedings of the conference will be published by the ACM. Templates for ACM SIGPLAN format can be found on the ACM SIGPLAN website: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the EasyChair submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpp2016 Abstracts must be submitted by the deadline given above. The deadline for full papers falls one week later, and authors have the option to withdraw their papers during the window between the two. Each submission must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical and formal developments directed to the specialist should follow. If the submission reports on a computer-checked formalization, code, or the results of a computation, a link to the relevant data should be provided. References and comparisons with related work should be included. Papers not conforming to the above requirements concerning format and length may be rejected without further consideration. The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other published conferences or workshops. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance of submission. Original formal proofs of known results in mathematics or computer science are among the targets. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. Program Committee ----------------- Jeremy Avigad (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University, US Sandrine Blazy, Universit? de Rennes 1, France Adam Chlipala (co-chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Thierry Coquand, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden John Harrison, Intel, US Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research, Redmond, US C?t?lin Hri?cu, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France Brian Huffman, Galois, Inc., US Laura Kov?cs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Peter Lammich, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Dan Licata, Wesleyan University, US Hongjin Liang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, US Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay and LIX, France Dominic Mulligan, Cambridge University, UK Lawrence Paulson, Cambridge University, UK Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Zachary Tatlock, University of Washington, US Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, US From Ralph.Matthes at irit.fr Mon Jun 8 09:52:04 2015 From: Ralph.Matthes at irit.fr (Ralph Matthes) Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:52:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FICS'15: 2nd call for papers - Fixed Points in Computer Science (CSL'15 workshop 11+12 sept. 2015) Message-ID: <55759E04.3040200@irit.fr> Second Call for Papers *** FICS 2015 *** http://www.irit.fr/FICS2015/ International Workshop on Fixed Points in Computer Science Berlin, 11-12 September 2015 satellite of the International Conference CSL 2015 (Computer Science Logic) (news w.r.t. first CFP: invited speakers are now known, they are Bartek Klin and James Worrell) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: Monday, June 16 Paper submission: Monday, June 23 Notification: Monday, July 27 Final version: Monday, August 24 BACKGROUND Fixed points play a fundamental role in several areas of computer science. They are used to justify (co)recursive definitions and associated reasoning techniques. The construction and properties of fixed points have been investigated in many different settings such as: design and implementation of programming languages, logics, verification, databases. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present their results to those members of the computer science and logic communities who study or apply the theory of fixed points. Topics include, but are not restricted to: * fixed points in algebra and coalgebra * fixed points in formal languages and automata * fixed points in game theory * fixed points in programming language semantics * fixed points in the mu-calculus and modal logics * fixed points in process algebras and process calculi * fixed points in functional programming and type theory * fixed points in relation to dataflow and circuits * fixed points in logic programming and theorem proving * fixed points in finite model theory, descriptive complexity theory, and databases * fixed points in category theory for logic in computer science PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ulrich Berger (Swansea Univ.) Dietmar Berwanger (CNRS & ENS Cachan) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS & ENS Lyon) Venanzio Capretta (Univ. Nottingham) Krishnendu Chatterjee (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (INRIA Saclay & ?cole Polytechnique) Thomas Colcombet (CNRS & Univ. Paris Diderot) Makoto Hamana (Gunma Univ.) Radu Mardare (Aalborg Univ.) Ralph Matthes (co-chair, CNRS & Univ. Toulouse) Henryk Michalewski (Univ. Warsaw) Matteo Mio (co-chair, CNRS & ENS Lyon) Andrzej Murawski (Univ. Warwick) Alexandra Silva (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen) Sam Staton (Univ. Oxford) INVITED SPEAKERS * Bartek Klin, Warsaw University * James Worrell, University of Oxford SUBMISSION The selection of contributed talks will be based on extended abstracts/short papers describing original results in sufficient detail to constitute a publication. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fics2015 Accepted papers will be published through the open-access venue EPTCS. Submissions should be composed using LaTeX and, preferably, using the EPTCS style: http://style.eptcs.org/ Typical submissions would be 8 pages long but submissions in the range [6,15] pages will be considered acceptable. If you have good reasons to go below the lower bound, then please contact the PC chairs before submission. JOURNAL PUBLICATION If the number and quality of submissions justifies it, a subsequent special issue of a journal will be prepared with extended versions of selected papers. A special issue of FICS 2013 is in preparation and will appear in Fundamenta Informaticae. From Thomas.Jensen at inria.fr Tue Jun 9 05:31:40 2015 From: Thomas.Jensen at inria.fr (Thomas Jensen) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 11:31:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2015 Call for Participation Message-ID: <20150609093140.3303C1513A9E@casals.local> --------------------------------- SAS 2015 Call for Participation: --------------------------------- Static Analysis Symposium 2015 Saint-Malo, France http://sas2015.inria.fr Conference: September 9-11, 2015 Workshops: September 8, 2015 Early registration ends July 8. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. The technical program for SAS 2015 will consist of invited lectures and presentations of refereed papers. See the SAS web site http://sas2015.inria.fr for the list of accepted papers. Invited speakers ----------------- Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research Anders M??ller, Aarhus University Henny Sipma, Kestrel Workshops ------------------------- + Workshop on Security for Low-Level Code + 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 ----- 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. Registration ------------ See http://sas2015.inria.fr for on-line registration and information about accommodation. Saint-Malo is busy in early September and you are advised to book your accommodation early. From mcimini at indiana.edu Wed Jun 10 01:28:11 2015 From: mcimini at indiana.edu (Cimini, Matteo) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:28:11 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Abstracts: YR-CONCUR 2015 - Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory Message-ID: <5D0EEAEE1586DF4EA042E232F4CDD7F92B7BF2@IU-MSSG-MBX102.ads.iu.edu> ========================================================================= CALL for ABSTRACTS for YR-CONCUR 2015 6th International Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory (satellite workshop of CONCUR 2015) September 5, 2015 Madrid, Spain http://cimini.info/yr-concur2015/ ========================================================================= Aims and objectives: This workshop aims at providing a platform for PhD students and young researchers who recently completed their doctoral studies, to exchange new results related to concurrency theory and receive feedback on their research. Focus is on informal discussions. Excellent master students working on concurrency theory are also encouraged to contribute. Format: YR-CONCUR 2015 is a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2015 and will be held on September 5th, 2015. It is anticipated that many CONCUR participants will attend the YR-workshop (and vice versa). Presentations are selected on the basis of an abstract of up to 4 pages (including references) describing the research. No particular format is required. Submissions are judged on the expected interest in and quality of the talk. The accepted abstracts will be made available at the workshop, but no formal proceedings are planned. It is thus also allowed (and encouraged) to send results that have been published at other conferences (although preferably not at CONCUR 2015 or any of its other satellite workshops). 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URL: From Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net Thu Jun 11 07:57:18 2015 From: Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net (Robert Lubarsky) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 07:57:18 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFCS 2016 Second Call For Papers Message-ID: <005801d0a43d$c4c0bbb0$4e423310$@comcast.net> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (LFCS'16), Deerfield Beach, Florida, January 4 - 7, 2016 LFCS Steering Committee: Anil Nerode, (Ithaca, NY, General Chair); Stephen Cook (Toronto); Dirk van Dalen (Utrecht); Yuri Matiyasevich (St. Petersburg); Alan Robinson (Syracuse, NY); Gerald Sacks (Cambridge, MA); Dana Scott, (Pittsburgh, PA - Berkeley, CA). LFCS topics of interest include, but are not limited to: constructive mathematics and type theory; homotopy type theory; logic, automata, and automatic structures; computability and randomness; logical foundations of programming; logical aspects of computational complexity; parameterized complexity; logic programming and constraints; automated deduction and interactive theorem proving; logical methods in protocol and program verification; logical methods in program specification and extraction; domain theory logics; logical foundations of database theory; equational logic and term rewriting; lambda and combinatory calculi; categorical logic and topological semantics; linear logic; epistemic and temporal logics; intelligent and multiple-agent system logics; logics of proof and justification; non-monotonic reasoning; logic in game theory and social software; logic of hybrid systems; distributed system logics; mathematical fuzzy logic; system design logics; other logics in computer science. LFCS'16 Program Committee: Sergei Artemov (New York, NY) - PC Chair; Eugene Asarin (Paris); Steve Awodey (Pittsburgh, PA); Matthias Baaz (Vienna); Alexandru Baltag (Amsterdam); Lev Beklemishev (Moscow); Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor, MI); Samuel Buss (San Diego, CA); Thierry Coquand (G?teborg); Robert Constable (Ithaca, NY); Ruy de Queiroz (Recife); Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv); Melvin Fitting (New York); Sergey Goncharov (Novosibirsk); Denis Hirschfeldt (Chicago, IL); Martin Hyland (Cambridge); Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht); Hajime Ishihara (JAIST - Kanazawa); Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland); Roman Kuznets (Vienna); Daniel Leivant (Bloomington, IN); Robert Lubarsky (Boca Raton, FL); Victor Marek (Lexington, KY); Lawrence Moss (Bloomington, IN); Anil Nerode (Ithaca, NY) - General LFCS Chair; Hiroakira Ono (JAIST - Kanazawa); Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Chennai); Michael Rathjen (Leeds); Jeffrey Remmel (San Diego); Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich); Philip Scott (Ottawa); Alex Simpson (Ljubljana); Sonja Smets (Amsterdam); Sebastiaan Terwijn (Nijmegen); Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto). Submission details. Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series. There will be a post-conference volume of selected works published, presumably, in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. Submissions should be made electronically via http://www.easychair.org/LFCS16/ (which will be set up shortly). Submitted papers must be in PDF/12pt format and of no more than 15 pages, present work not previously published, and must not have been submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. LFCS issues the Best Student Paper Award, named after John Barkley Rosser Sr. (1907-1989), a prominent American logician with fundamental contributions in both Mathematics and Computer Science. Important Dates. Submissions deadline: midnight September 6, 2015, any time zone. Notification: October 10, 2015. Symposium dates: January 3 morning - January 7 early afternoon, 2016. Local Arrangements. The venue of LFCS 2016 will be the spectacular Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort, 2096 NE 2nd Street, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441. Website: http://www.wyndhamdeerfieldresort.com. LFCS'16 Local Organizing Committee: Robert Lubarsky (Chair), Emily Cimillo, and Fred Richman - Florida Atlantic University. About LFCS. The LFCS series provides an outlet for the fast-growing body of work in the logical foundations of computer science, e.g., areas of fundamental theoretical logic related to computer science. The LFCS series began with Logic at Botik, Pereslavl-Zalessky, 1989 and was co-organized by Albert R. Meyer (MIT) and Michael Taitslin (Tver), after which organization passed to Anil Nerode in 1992. LFCS has enjoyed support and endorsements from a number of bodies, including the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the City University of New York Research Foundation. 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CyPhy'15 brings together researchers and practitioners working on modeling, simulation, and evaluation of CPS, based on a broad interpretation of these areas, to collect and exchange expertise from a diverse set of disciplines. The workshop places particular focus on techniques and components to enable and support virtual prototyping and testing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects of cyber-physical systems: - Foundations: models of computation, modeling and simulation languages for hybrid and cyber-?physical systems, including hybrid automata and hybrid process theory, as well as other integrations of control-?theoretic and discrete-?event models; - Methods: Specifications and evaluation of processes for rigorous modeling, testing, simulation, and verification of new cyber-?physical systems; - Case studies: Development of industrial or research ?oriented cyber?-physical systems in domains such as robotics, smart systems (homes, vehicles, buildings), medical and healthcare devices, future generation networks; and - Tools: Evaluation of novel research tools, comparisons of state of the art tools in industrial practice. Important Dates =============== Submissions: June 17, 2015 (Anywhere on Earth) Notifications: July 10, 2015 Camera-Ready: August 3, 2015 Workshop: October 8, 2015 Submission Types ================ Submissions types: 1) research papers (max. 15 pages, LNCS format); 2) positions papers (max. 4 pages, not published); and 3) tool demonstrations (max. 10 pages, LNCS format). Research papers will be judged for technical novelty and scientific merit. Any previous publication in any form must be explicitly identified and cited on the first page of the submission. Papers in all other categories will be judged on novelty, clarity, accessibility, and suitability for a high quality presentation and discussion at the workshop. Proceedings =========== Submissions of type 1 and 3 will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer. If the quality of the submissions warrants, a special issue of an archival journal will be negotiated for the best submissions (subject to confirmation, and an additional round of review). Submission Instructions ====================== Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, not exceed the respective page limits (including figures and references), and be submitted in PDF format through the following submission website. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cyphy15 Except for regular research papers, the paper category must be indicated at the end of the title in parenthesis at the time of the initial submission and in the final camera ready version. Simultaneous submission to other venues with a formal publication (workshops, conferences, symposia, and journals) is not allowed. Duplicated submissions or other types of plagiarism will result in rejection and a report will be sent to the corresponding institution's dean or manager. 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Taha, Alfaisal University Advisory Committee Manfred Broy, Technische Universit?t M?nchen Karl Iagnemma, MIT Karl Henrik Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania Pieter Mosterman, McGill University Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University Walid Taha, Halmstad & Rice Universities -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can submit a brief abstract on a poster by 22 June 2015 via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2015 You will be informed about acceptance shortly after your submission. Registration to the conference will open shortly. For details on the conference, registration, accommodation, etc. see http://www.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/ "Towards a Global Digital Mathematics Library" * 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 are 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 is organized by the General Programme Chair, Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK). 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URL: From Rene.Thiemann at uibk.ac.at Mon Jun 15 08:50:33 2015 From: Rene.Thiemann at uibk.ac.at (Thiemann, Rene) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:50:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD student or postdoc position announcement Message-ID: 2-year postdoc or 3-year PhD-student position at the University of Innsbruck ============================================================================ The Computational Logic research group at the University of Innsbruck has one open position funded by the FWF (Austrian science fund) via the START project ?Certifying Termination and Complexity Proofs of Programs?. The project aims at increasing the reliability in current complexity and termination provers by independently checking the generated proofs. To this end, several analysis techniques will be formalized in the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL, with a focus on term rewriting and Haskell. For this project, we are looking for an enthusiastic young researcher with a background in computational logic. Knowledge of automated termination analysis, complexity analysis, or theorem proving would be an asset. Candidates with a strong theoretical background in related areas are also encouraged to apply. The PhD-student candidate must have a Master's or equivalent degree. Knowledge of German is not essential. The salary is determined by the FWF-funding scheme (3.546,00 EUR monthly gross salary for postdocs, and 2.024,90 EUR for PhD-students, cf. http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/personnel-costs/) Applications (including a CV, a publication list (only for postdocs), and a letter of recommendation) may be emailed to the project leader Ren? Thiemann (rene.thiemann at uibk.ac.at) no later than July 6, 2015. We plan to make decisions on these position until July 10. The preferred starting date is summer or autumn 2015. Informal inquiries are also welcome via email. The city of Innsbruck is superbly located in the beautiful surroundings of the Tyrolean Alps. The combination of the Alpine environment and urban life in this historic town provides a high quality of living. Further information is available from the following links: START Project: http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/research/projects/certifying-termination-and-complexity-proofs-of-pr/ Institute of Computer Science: http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/ University of Innsbruck: http://www.uibk.ac.at/ City of Innsbruck: http://www.innsbruck.at/ From maciej.pirog at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Jun 15 04:11:40 2015 From: maciej.pirog at cs.ox.ac.uk (Maciej Pirog) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:11:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Summer School on Generic and Effectful Programming (2nd call for participation) Message-ID: Call for Participation SUMMER SCHOOL ON GENERIC AND EFFECTFUL PROGRAMMING St Anne's College, Oxford, 6th to 10th July 2015 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/projects/utgp/school/ TOPIC Generic programming is a technique that exploits the inherent structure that exists in data, to automatically produce efficient and flexible algorithms that can be adapted to suit different needs. The goal of this school is to explore datatype-generic programming and related topics from a variety of different angles, emphasizing in particular the interplay of generics and effects. This summer school is the closing activity of the EPSRC-funded project "Unifying Theories of Generic Programming" at Oxford University. LECTURERS Six lecturers from the Programming Languages community, each an acknowledged expert in their specialism, will cover various aspects of generic and effectful programming. Each will give about four hours' lectures, distributed throughout the week. Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) "Embedded Domain-Specific Languages in Idris" Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen) "Worst-case Efficient Generic Functional Programming on Bulk Data" Andres L?h (Well-Typed) "Applying Type-level and Generic Programming in Haskell" Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde) "Datatypes of Datatypes" Don Syme (Microsoft Research) "Compile-time Meta-programming for the Information-rich World" Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology) "Containers for Effects and Contexts" PREREQUISITES The school is aimed at doctoral students in programming languages and related areas; however, researchers and practitioners will be very welcome, as will strong masters students with the support of a supervisor. It will be assumed that participants have a good understanding of typed functional programming, as in Haskell, O'Caml, or F#. DATES Registration deadline: 21st June 2015 School: 6th July (9am) to 10th July 2015 (lunchtime) COSTS Costs will be kept low, thanks to support from EPSRC. There will be a nominal registration fee of ?135, and B&B accommodation in college will be ?75 (ensuite) or ?48 (shared bathroom) per night. We can accept at most 50 participants; places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information, including instructions on how to register, is available at the website: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/projects/utgp/school/ From alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it Tue Jun 16 04:05:08 2015 From: alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it (alexander.perucci at graduate.univaq.it) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:05:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOCLASA 2015 - 3rd Call for Papers - Submission deadline extended Message-ID: <2066257595.51.1434441861016.JavaMail.Alexander@XPS> [Apologies for multiple postings] -- 3rd Call for Papers -- FOCLASA 2015: 14th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/ 5 September 2015, Madrid (Spain) In conjunction with CONCUR 2015 ============================================================== FOCLASA 2015 is a workshop colocated with the 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015 - http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/concur2015). 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 == 24 June 2015: Deadline for abstract submission (extended) 26 June 2015: Deadline for paper submission (extended) 20 July 2015: Notifications 3 August 2015: 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 submissions to WS-FM/BEAT (a CONCUR co-located event - International Symposium on Web Services, Formal Methods and Behavioural Types - http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/WSFM- BEAT2015/index.php) and FOCLASA are allowed for those papers that may potentially enhance both venues. Authors of such double submissions should identify them to the Program Chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the "Regular paper submitted also to WS- FM/BEAT? category in the FOCLASA EasyChair site). Reviews may be shared between WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA. Submissions accepted by WS-FM/BEAT will be considered automatically withdrawn from FOCLASA. 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. == INVITED TALK == * Mario Bravetti (http://www.cs.unibo.it/~bravetti/) Title: Towards Dynamic Updates in Service Composition Abstract: We survey our work on choreographies and behavioural contracts in multiparty interactions. In particular theories of behavioural contracts are presented which enable reasoning about correct service composition (contract compliance) and service substitutability (contract refinement preorder) under different assumptions concerning service communication: synchronous communication with patient non-preemptable or impatient invocations, or asynchronous communication. Correspondingly, relations concerning behavioural contracts and choreographic descriptions are considered, where a contract for each communicating party is, e.g., derived by projection. Contract refinement relations are induced as the maximal preoders which preserve contract compliance and global traces. The obtained preorders are then characterized in terms of a new form of testing, called compliance testing (where not only tests must succeed but also the system under test), and compared with classical preorders. Moreover, recent work about adaptable choreographies and behavioural contracts is presented, where the theory above is extended to update mechanisms allowing choreographies/contracts to be modified at run-time by internal (self-adaptation) or external intervention. == 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 From rlc3 at leicester.ac.uk Tue Jun 16 11:53:17 2015 From: rlc3 at leicester.ac.uk (Roy L. Crole) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:53:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Graduate Teaching Assistant (PhD) Positions, University of Leicester, UK Message-ID: <5580466D.4010204@le.ac.uk> [ Dear Colleagues: Please bring this to the attention of potential PhD students. -- Thanks. Roy Crole. ] *Graduate Teaching Assistant. * Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK /As Graduate Teaching Assistant you will be *expected to undertake teaching or system development related duties* within the Department, not normally exceeding seven contact hours per week during term, while *undertaking research leading to a PhD.*/ Package worth up to ?14,057 and an additional UK/EU fee waiver. Open ended subject to fixed term funding from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2019. For further information and to apply, please visit the website for PhD Studentships and Postgraduate Funding Opportunities in Science and Engineering: http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/science-engineering Click on http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/jobs/opportunities/jobsearch for a Job Summary for this position, and use Ref /SEN00619/ Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Professor Thomas Erlebach on te17 at le.ac.uk or 0116 252 3411. The closing date for this post is midnight on 30 June 2015. Application assessments will take place on a date to be confirmed. -- Dr R. L. Crole Department of Computer Science University Road University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom T: +44 (0)116 252 3404 E: rlc3 at le.ac.uk W: www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/rlc3 Times Higher Awards Winner 2007-2015 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rrnewton at gmail.com Tue Jun 16 12:37:39 2015 From: rrnewton at gmail.com (Ryan Newton) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:37:39 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in parallel/distributed functional programming Message-ID: Indiana University invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the programming languages research cluster (http://lambda.soic.indiana.edu/) with a possible dual affiliation with the Center for Research on Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST, http://crest.iu.edu/). The position is in Prof. Newton's research group and will emphasize parallel functional programming. Our group works on all aspects of parallel programming libraries and languages. One theme is extending and improving guaranteed-deterministic programming environments. Typical research projects include either (1) improvements to the GHC Haskell compiler, runtime, and library ecosystem or (2) work on domain-specific languages and compilers, frequently embedded in Haskell, and targeting backends like CUDA, LLVM, or OpenCL. Experience with any of the following would be a positive: Haskell development, GHC internals, compiler construction, FRP or stream processing, parallel programming and performance tuning, and purely functional parallelism.. General duties in this postdoctoral position include: software implementation and empirical evaluation; working with colleagues on large research infrastructure efforts; writing up and presenting research; mentoring junior group members; and pursuing new research directions within the context of overall group aims. The IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. It includes the Dept. of Computer Science and Informatics and the Dept. of Information and Library Science, which comprise over 85 tenure-line faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1100 undergraduate majors. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. IU is renowned for its top-ranked Jacobs School of Music, high performance computing and networking facilities, and performing and fine arts. Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. Indiana University is responsive to the needs of dual career couples. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. 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The former was mainly devoted to formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing. The latter addressed type languages and systems to specify, characterise, and reason about dynamic aspects of program execution. In both cases, the main working setting of the research area covered is that of component-based distributed and concurrent software systems, services and clouds, simply referable as large software systems. Behavioural systems may also refer to enterprise and business process modelling and management systems. These kind of systems share characteristics: they are distributed, collaborative, and communication-centred. Moreover, the compatibility of their components is crucial to ensure overall correctness and reliability. The aim of this event is to bring together researchers and practitioners in all aspects of large scale behavioural software systems and its applications, in order to share results, consolidate the community, and discover opportunities for new collaborations and future directions. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundational aspects of large behavioural software systems * Specification, verification, analysis, and testing of large behavioural software systems * Language-based approaches to large behavioural software systems * Security, trust, QoS, dependability, and privacy in large behavioural software systems * Ontologies, standards and technologies for large behavioural software systems * Case-studies on formal methods in large behavioural software systems * Innovative application scenarios of large behavioural software systems SUBMISSION We solicit the submission of original and unpublished contributions not under review for publication elsewhere. Concurrent submissions to WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA (a CONCUR workshop - http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/) are however, not only allowed, but in fact encouraged, for those papers that may potentially enhance both venues. Authors of such double submissions should identify them to the Program Chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the "Regular paper submitted also to FOCLASA? category in the EasyChair site). Reviews may be shared between WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA. Submissions accepted by WS-FM/BEAT will be considered automatically withdrawn from FOCLASA. Submissions may take two forms: full papers and short papers. - Full (regular) papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the LNCS-style format and they should not exceed 20 pages (typeset 11 points). All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. - Short papers are concerned with work-in-progress or tool papers and they should not exceed 6 pages. Short papers might not be included in the proceedings (a selection is invited for the proceedings). All contributions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, chosen by the Program Committee. Contributions should be submitted through the EasyChair online submission system in PDF format. 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 accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings, which will be published after the symposium as a volume of the LNCS series. Selected short papers will be invited to the proceedings. An open call for a special issue of a high-quality journal on the topics of the symposium is envisaged. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Antonio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Jan Martijn van der Werf, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE Robin Bergenthum (FernUni Hagen, Germany) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Sara Capecchi (Universit? degli Studi di Torino, Italy) Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia) Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta) Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Jeroen Keiren (Open University, The Netherlands) Natalia Kokash (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Hern?n Melgratti (Departamento Computaci?n, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Dimitris Mostrous (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Jovanka Pantovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) Artem Polyvyanyy (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Antonio Ravara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal), co-chair Natalia Sidorova (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Jan Martijn van der Werf (Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands), co-chair STEERING COMMITTEE Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy INVITED SPEAKERS Cosimo Laneve, University of Bologna, Italy One more TBA PAST EDITIONS Past editions of WS-FM * WS-FM 2014 in Eindhoven, co-chaired by Thomas Hildebrandt and Matthias Weidlich * WS-FM 2013 in Beijing, co-chaired by Chun Ouyang and Emilio Tuosto * WS-FM 2012 in Talin, co-chaired by Maurice ter Beek and Niels Lohmann * WS-FM 2011 in Clermont-Ferrand, co-chaired by Marco Carbone and Jean-Marc Petit * WS-FM 2010 in Hoboken, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Tevfik Bultan * WS-FM 2009 in Bologna, co-chaired by Cosimo Laneve and Jianwen Su * WS-FM 2008 in Milan, co-chaired by Roberto Bruni and Karsten Wolf * WS-FM 2007 in Brisbane, co-chaired by Marlon Dumas and Reiko Heckel * WS-FM 2006 in Wien, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro * WS-FM 2005 in Versailles, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro * WS-FM 2004 in Pisa, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro Past editions of BEAT * BEAT 2014 in Roma, co-chaired by Marco Carbone and Adrian Francalanza * BEAT2: 2nd International Workshop on Behavioural Types, co-located with SEFM, September 2013 * BEAT: 1st International Workshop on Behavioural Types, co-located with POPL, January 2013 * Behavioural Types Workshop, Lisbon, April 2011 From gadducci at di.unipi.it Wed Jun 17 06:09:15 2015 From: gadducci at di.unipi.it (Fabio Gadducci) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:09:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HaPoc 2015 Final Call For Papers --- Deadline Extension and Abstracts of Invited Talks Message-ID: <0F73C007-23ED-4755-BB17-E43D1E0D3AE6@di.unipi.it> [Apologies for multiple postings] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call For Papers --- Deadline Extension and Abstracts of Invited Talks HaPoC 3: Third International Conference for the History and Philosophy of Computing 8 -- 11 October, 2015, Pisa hapoc2015.di.unipi.it --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DHST commission for the history and philosophy of computing (www.hapoc.org ) is happy to announce the third HAPOC conference. The series aims at creating an interdisciplinary focus on computing, stimulating a dialogue between the historical and philosophical viewpoints. To this end, the conference hopes to bring together researchers interested in the historical developments of computing, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape. In the past editions, the conference has successfully presented a variety of voices, contributing to the creation of a fruitful dialogue between researchers with different backgrounds and sensibilities. For HaPoC 2015 we welcome contributions from historians and philosophers of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. Topics include but are not limited to ? History and Philosophy of Computation (interpretation of the Church-Turing thesis; models of computation; logical/mathematical foundations of computer science; information theory...) ? History and Philosophy of Programming (classes of programming languages; philosophical status of programming...) ? History and Philosophy of the Computer (from calculating machines to the future of the computer; user interfaces; abstract architectures...) ? History and Epistemology of the use of Computing in the sciences (simulation vs. modelisation; computer-assisted proofs; linguistics...) ? Computing and the Arts: historical and conceptual issues (temporality in digital art; narration in interactive art work...) ? Social, ethical and pedagogical aspects of Computing (pedagogy of computer science; algorithms and copyright; internet, culture, society...) Our invited speakers are Nicola Angius (Universit? di Sassari, IT), Lenore Blum (Carnagie Mellon University, USA), David Allan Grier (IEEE & George Washington University, USA), Furio Honsell (Universit? di Udine, IT), Pierre Mounier-Kuhn (CNRS & Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, F), and Franck Varenne (Universit? de Rouen, F). ***The abstracts of the invited talks are now available at hapoc2015.di.unipi.it/invited*** We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200 words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references included) to www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2015 Abstracts must be written in English and anonymised. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be either .pdf or .doc. In order to access the submission page, an EasyChair account will be required. Please notice that what is called ?abstract? in the EasyChair ?Title, Abstract and Other Information? section corresponds to the short abstract of this call, and what is called ?paper? in the EasyChair ?Upload Paper? section corresponds to the extended abstract of this call. Please check out the website of HaPoC 2015 for more information on the conference ***Announcements of grants for participation will be made soon on hapoc.org *** A post-proceedings volume is going to appear in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series, published by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: June 28, 2015 ***(EXTENDED, FIRM)*** Notification of acceptance: July 19, 2015 The 2015 conference is located in Pisa, the cradle of Italian computer science: here the first Italian computers were designed in the mid-Fifties and the first Master course in informatics was established in 1969. 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URL: From boris.koepf at imdea.org Thu Jun 18 07:55:12 2015 From: boris.koepf at imdea.org (=?utf-8?Q?Boris_K=C3=B6pf?=) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:55:12 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FCS 2015: Call for Participation Message-ID: <1B01D223-3FD7-446B-8029-BD4090E27117@imdea.org> ========================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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 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. PROGRAM Invited Talk: * Formal Verification of Quantum Cryptography Dominique Unruh Accepted Papers: * LJGS: Gradual Security Types for Object-Oriented Languages Luminous Fennell and Peter Thiemann * Multi-Module Fully Abstract Compilation Marco Patrignani, Dominique Devriese and Frank Piessens * Secure Compilation Using Micro-Policies Yannis Juglaret and C?t?lin Hri?cu * Knowledge and Effect: A Logic for Reasoning about Confidentiality and Integrity Guarantees Scott Moore, Aslan Askarov and Stephen Chong * A Proof Technique for Noninterference In Open Systems (Extended Abstract) Enrico Sapin * A Theorem Proving Approach to Secure Information Flow in Concurrent Programs (Extended Abstract) Daniel Bruns * On High-Assurance Information Flow Secure Programming Languages (Extended Abstract) Toby Murray * The Meaning of Attack-Resistant Systems Vijay Ganesh, Sebastian Banescu and Mart?n Ochoa REGISTRATION Registration is via the CSF registration web site: http://csf2015.di.univr.it/registration.php 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 rim.abid at inria.fr Fri Jun 19 06:55:45 2015 From: rim.abid at inria.fr (rim.abid at inria.fr) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:55:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Software Verification and Testing Track, ACM SAC 2016 (Pisa, Italy) - First CFP Message-ID: <201506191055.t5JAtj5f008867@adret.inrialpes.fr> ================================================== 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Software Verification and Testing Track April 3 - 8, 2016, Pisa, Italy More information: http://antares.sip.ucm.es/svt16/ and http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/ =================================================== Important dates --------------- * September 11, 2015: Paper submission * November 13, 2015: Paper notification * December 11, 2015: Camera-Ready Copies ACM Symposium on Applied Computing ---------------------------------- The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has gathered scientists from different areas of computing over the thirty years. The forum represents an opportunity to interact with different communities sharing an interest in applied computing. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be hosted by the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University, Italy Software Verification and Testing Track --------------------------------------- We invite authors to submit new results in formal verification and testing, as well as development of technologies to improve the usability of formal methods in software engineering. Also welcome are detailed descriptions of applications of mechanical verification to large scale software. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - model checking - theorem proving - correct by construction development - model-based testing - verification-based testing - symbolic execution - static and run-time analysis - abstract interpretation - analysis methods for dependable systems - software certification and proof carrying code - fault diagnosis and debugging - verification of large scale software systems - real world applications and case studies applying software verification Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in electronic format, via the START site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/Paper-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. Submitted paper will undergo a blind review process. Authors of accepted papers should submit an editorial revision of their papers that fits within six two-column pages (an extra two pages, to a total of eight pages, may be available at a charge). Please comply to this page limitation already at submission time. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2016 proceedings. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of papers, posters, or SRC abstracts in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the work. This is a requirement for the presented work to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Student Research Competition ---------------------------- As before, SAC 2016 organises a Student Research Competition (SRC) Program to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Guidelines and information about the SRC program can be found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. Submission to the SRC program should be in electronic form via the following website http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/SRC-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Program Committee ----------------- Rui Abreu, University of Porto, Portugal Cristiano Braga, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Ana Cavalli, National Institute of Telecommunications, France Byoungju Choi, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea Maximiliano Cristi?, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Khaled El-Fakih, American University of Sharjah, UAE Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Maria del mar Gallardo, University of Malaga, Spain Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tingting Han, University of London, UK Klaus Havelund, Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Ralf Huuck, UNSW, Australia Nikolai Kosmatov, CEA, France Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany Luis Llana, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jasen Markovski, R&D group, GN Resound Benelux, The Netherlands Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Brian Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Peter Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Adenilso Simao, ICMC/USP, Brazil Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Tanja Vos, Valencia University, Spain Carsten Weise, Imbus AG, Germany Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Nina Yevtushenko, Tomsk State University, Russia Cemal Yilmaz, Sabanci University, Turkey Fatiha Zaidi, Univ. Paris-Sud, France Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Committee Chairs ----------------- Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Gwen Sala?n, University of Grenoble Alpes, France From gjbarthe at gmail.com Fri Jun 19 17:57:55 2015 From: gjbarthe at gmail.com (Gilles Barthe) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 23:57:55 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ph.D. and postdoc positions at IMDEA Software Institute Message-ID: IMDEA Software Institute (Madrid, Spain) has several openings at the Ph.D. and post-doctoral levels. We seek applicants with a strong background in at least one of the following fields: * privacy, security, cryptography * program analysis and program verification * automated and interactive proofs The successful candidates are expected to join the computer-aided cryptography team. The main emphasis of our research is on verification of cryptographic algorithms and their implementations, we welcome applications from strong candidates interested in carrying their research in any of the broader areas listed above. Post-doctoral positions are for 1 year (renewable twice), whereas Ph.D. positions are for 4 years. Positions are renewable yearly subject to satisfactory progress. Starting date is negotiable. For further information and informal enquiries, please contact us at recruit at easycrypt.info. Applications should be submitted through the Institute web page: https://www.imdea.org/internationalcall/Default.aspx?IdInstitute=17 When completing your application, please indicate "Verification, Security and Cryptography" in the research lines. Applications must be received by July 15, 2015 to receive full consideration. However, applications will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled. Salaries Salaries at the institute are internationally competitive. Employees have access to an excellent public healthcare system. Work Environment The institute is located in the vibrant area of Madrid, Spain, and offers an ideal working environment where researchers can focus on developing new ideas and projects. The working language is English. For more information please visit the web pages of the IMDEA Software Institute at www.software.imdea.org The IMDEA Software Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from a diverse and international community. The institute complies with the European Charter for Researchers. From hugotvieira at imtlucca.it Fri Jun 19 09:58:34 2015 From: hugotvieira at imtlucca.it (Hugo Torres Vieira) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:58:34 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CFP: Service-Oriented Architectures and Programming track of the 31st ACM/SIGAPP SAC Message-ID: SOAP track at SAC 1st Call for Papers Service-Oriented Architectures and Programming track of the 31st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing 4-8 April 2016, Pisa, Italy http://sac-soap.sdu.dk/soap2016 IMPORTANT DATES September 11, 2015: Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts November 13, 2015: Notification of paper and SRC acceptance/rejection December 11, 2015: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC December 18, 2015: Author registration due date ACM SAC 2016 For the past thirty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held in Pisa (Italy). SOAP TRACK: CALL FOR PAPERS Service-Oriented Programming (SOP) is quickly changing our vision of software development, bringing a paradigmatic shift in the methodologies followed by programmers when designing and implementing distributed systems. SOP originally triggered a radical transformation of the Web, from being a means of presenting information to a wide spectrum of people to becoming a computational fabric. In such fabric, loosely-coupled services publish their interfaces and, through them, discover and interact with each other abstracting from their internal implementations. While this transformation still continues today, it has also already generated other shifts in how programmers deal with resource handling (Cloud Computing) and the scalability of software architectures from the very small to the very large (Microservices). Research on SOP is giving strong impetus to the development of new technologies and tools for creating and deploying distributed software. In the context of this modern paradigm we have to cope with an old challenge, like in the early days of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) when consistency in the programming model definition was not achieved until the introduction of key features like encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, together with proper design methodologies. The complex scenario of SOP needs to be clarified on many aspects, both from the engineering and from the foundational points of view. From the engineering point of view, there are open issues at many levels. Among others, at the system design level, both traditional approaches based on UML and approaches taking inspiration from business process modelling, e.g. BPMN, are used. At the composition level, orchestration and choreography are continuously improved both formally and practically, with an evident need for their integration in the development process. At the description and discovery level there are two separate communities pushing respectively the semantic approach (ontologies, OWL, ...) and the syntactic one like WSDL. In particular, the role of discovery engines and protocols is not clear. In this respect we still lack adopted standards: UDDI looked to be a good candidate, but it is no longer pushed by the main corporations, and its wide adoption seems difficult. Furthermore, a recent implementation platform, the so-called REST services, is emerging and competing with classic Web Services. Finally, features like Quality of Service, security and dependability need to be taken seriously into account, and this investigation should lead to standard proposals. From the foundational point of view, researchers have discussed widely in the last years, and many attempts to use formal methods for specification and verification in this setting have been made. Session correlation, service types, contract theories and communication patterns are only a few examples of the aspects that have been investigated. Moreover, several formal models based upon automata, Petri nets and algebraic approaches have been developed. However, most of these approaches concentrate only on a few features of Service-Oriented Systems in isolation, and a comprehensive approach is still far from being achieved. Our track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners having the common objective of transforming SOP into a mature discipline with both solid scientific foundations and mature software engineering development methodologies supported by dedicated tools. In particular, we will encourage works and discussions about what SOP still needs in order to achieve its original goal. TOPICS OF INTEREST - Formal methods for Service-Oriented Computing - Notations, models, and standards for Service-Oriented Computing - Tools and Middlewares for Service-Oriented Development - Service-Oriented Programming Languages - Service-Oriented Programming in dynamic Open Service Ecosystems - Service Choreographies and Protocol-Driven Service Development - Service Interfaces and Communication Technologies (e.g., REST) - Microservices and Scalable Service-Oriented Computing - Engineering methodologies and Patterns for Service-Oriented Software - Static Analysis and Testing of Service-Oriented applications - Adaptability, Dependability, and Fault handling in Service Systems - Security in Service-Oriented Architectures - Quality of Service and Performance Analysis - Industrial deployment of tools and methodologies, case studies - Service application case studies - Trust and Services - Sustainability and Services, Green Computing - Cloud Computing and Services - Services and Big Data SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will double-blindly review submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. SOAP track chairs will not submit to the track. Submissions from SOAP PC members and from PC members and track chairs of other SAC tracks are welcome. Submission guidelines can be found on the SAC 2016 website: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/ The submission web-link (START system) for regular papers is http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/Paper-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Prospective papers should be submitted to the track using the provided automated submission system. Please pay attention to ensure anonymity of your submitted manuscript as detailed in the submission page so to allow for double-blind review. Papers not satisfying this constraint will be automatically rejected. The maximum length for papers is 8 pages. Accepted papers whose camera-ready version will exceed 6 pages will have to pay an extra charge. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the papers, posters, or SRC abstracts in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the presented work to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. SPECIAL ISSUE We plan a special issue of a top-level journal for which we will invite the best papers. STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION PROGRAM As before, SAC 2016 organizes a Student Research Competition (SRC) Program to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. For guidelines and information about the SRC program: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/src16.htm . Submission of research abstracts (maximum of 2 pages) to the SRC program should be in electronic form via the following website: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/SRC-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. The Student Research Competition committee will evaluate and select First-, Second-, and Third- place winners. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet. Authors of selected abstracts are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award program for support. PC MEMBERS - Farhad Arbab (Leiden University and CWI, Amsterdam, NL) - Lu?s Barbosa (University of Minho, Braga, PT) - Massimo Bartoletti (Universit? di Cagliari, IT) - Marcello M. Bersani (Polytecnico di Milano, IT) - Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) - Roberto Bruni (Universit? di Pisa, IT) - Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Romain Demangeon (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, FR) - Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, AT) - Alessandra Gorla (IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, SP) - Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin, IR) - Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) - Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, RU) - Nicola Mezzetti (Engineering Group, IT) - Corrado Moiso (Telecom Italia, IT) - Alberto N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SP) - Jorge A. Perez (University of Groningen, NL) - Gustavo Petri (Purdue University, USA) - Ant?nio Ravara (New University of Lisbon, PT) - Steve Ross-Talbot (Cognizant Technology Solutions, UK) - Gwen Sala?n (INRIA Grenoble - Rh?ne-Alpes, FR) - Francesco Tiezzi (Universit? di Camerino, IT) - Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) - Massimo Vecchio (Universit? degli Studi eCampus, IT) - Yongluan Zhou (University of Southern Denmark, DK) TRACK CHAIRS - Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, IT) - Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) - Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT) STEERING COMMITTEE - Claudio Guidi (italianaSoftware, IT) - Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT and INRIA, FR) - Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, RU) - Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, DK) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucker at spamfence.net Fri Jun 19 16:57:46 2015 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 22:57:46 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OCL 2015: Second Call for Papers - Only Four Weeks Left Message-ID: <20150619205746.GA14499@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling Tools and Textual Model Transformations Co-located with ACM/IEEE 18th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2015) September 28th, 2015, Ottawa, Canada http://ocl2015.lri.fr Modeling started out with UML and its precursors as a graphical notation. Such visual representations enable direct intuitive capturing of reality, but some of their features are difficult to formalize and lack the level of precision required to create complete and unambiguous specifications. Limitations of the graphical notations encouraged the development of text-based modeling languages that either integrate with or replace graphical notations for modeling. Typical examples of such languages are OCL, textual MOF, Epsilon, and Alloy. Textual modeling languages have their roots in formal language paradigms like logic, programming and databases. The goal of this workshop is to create a forum where researchers and practitioners interested in building models using OCL or other kinds of textual languages can directly interact, report advances, share results, identify tools for language development, and discuss appropriate standards. In particular, the workshop will encourage discussions for achieving synergy from different modeling language concepts and modeling language use. The close interaction will enable researchers and practitioners to identify common interests and options for potential cooperation. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) =================================================== - Mappings between textual modeling languages and other languages/formalisms - Algorithms, evaluation strategies and optimizations in the context of textual modeling languages for -- validation, verification, and testing, -- model transformation and code generation, -- meta-modeling and DSLs, and -- query and constraint specifications - Alternative graphical/textual notations for textual modeling languages - Evolution, transformation and simplification of textual modeling expressions - Libraries, templates and patterns for textual modeling languages - Tools that support textual modeling languages (e.g., verification of OCL formulae, runtime monitoring of invariants) - Complexity results for textual modeling languages - Quality models and benchmarks for comparing and evaluating textual modeling tools and algorithms - Successful applications of textual modeling languages - Case studies on industrial applications of textual modeling languages - Experience reports -- usage of textual modeling languages and tools in complex domains, -- usability of textual modeling languages and tools for end-users - Empirical studies about the benefits and drawbacks of textual modeling languages - Innovative textual modeling tools - Comparison, evaluation and integration of modeling languages - Correlation between modeling languages and modeling tasks This year, we particularly encourage submissions describing tools that support - in a very broad sense - textual modeling languages (if you have implemented OCL.js to run OCL in a web browser, this is the right workshop to present your work) as well as textual model transformations. Venue ===== The workshop will be organized as a part of MODELS 2015 Conference in Ottawa, Canada. It continues the series of OCL workshops held at UML/MODELS conferences: York (2000), Toronto (2001), San Francisco (2003), Lisbon (2004), Montego Bay (2005), Genova (2006), Nashville (2007), Toulouse (2008), Denver (2009), Oslo (2010), Zurich (2011, at the TOOLs conference), 2012 in Innsbruck, 2013 in Miami, and 2014 in Valencia, Spain. Similar to its predecessors, the workshop addresses both people from academia and industry. The aim is to provide a forum for addressing integration of OCL and other textual modeling languages, as well as tools for textual modeling, and for disseminating good practice and discussing the new requirements for textual modeling. Workshop Format =============== The workshop will include short (about 15 min) presentations, parallel sessions of working groups, and sum-up discussions. Submissions =========== Three types of papers will be considered: * short papers (between 6 and 8 pages) describing ideas, * tool papers (between 6 and 8 pages), and * full papers (between 12 and 16 pages) in LNCS format. Submissions should be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocl20150). The program committee will review the submissions (minimum 2 reviews per paper, usually 3 reviews) and select papers according to their relevance and interest for discussions that will take place at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published online in a pre-conference edition of CEUR (http://www.ceur-ws.org). Important Dates =============== Submission of papers: July 17, 2015 Notification: August 21, 2015 Workshop date: September 28, 2015 Organizers ========== Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Programme Committee =================== Mira Balaban, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Tricia Balfe, Nomos Software, Ireland Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Germany Fabian Buettner, Inria - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Jordi Cabot, Inria - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Dan Chiorean, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Robert Clariso, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Manuel Clavel, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Carolina Dania, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Birgit Demuth, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel Istvan Rath, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen, Germany Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Claas Wilke, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Edward Willink, Willink Transformations Ltd., UK Burkhart Wolff, Univ. Paris-Sud - LRI, France Steffen Zschaler, King's College, UK -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 6227 7-52595, http://www.brucker.ch/ From spider.vz at gmail.com Fri Jun 19 18:52:26 2015 From: spider.vz at gmail.com (Vadim Zaytsev) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 00:52:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GTTSE 2015 -- Call for Participation Message-ID: GTTSE 2015 -- Call for Participation The 5th Summer School on Grand Timely Topics in Software Engineering (GTTSE) Sunday 23 Aug - Saturday 29 Aug, 2015, Braga, Portugal http://gttse.wikidot.com/ Registration is open for participants! http://gttse.wikidot.com/2015:registration There is a students' workshop to which one may submit. http://gttse.wikidot.com/2015:students-workshop List of speakers ================ * Matthew Dwyer (University of Nebraska, USA): Probabilistic program analysis * Cesar Gonzalez-Perez (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain): How ontologies can help in software engineering * Stefan Hanenberg (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): Empirical Evaluation of Programming and Programming Language Constructs * Fr?d?ric Jouault (ESEO Institute of Science and Technology, France): Model Synchronization * Julia Rubin (MIT, USA): To merge or not to merge: managing software product families * Leif Singer (University of Victoria, Canada): People Analytics in Software Development * Ulrik Pagh Schultz (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark): DSLs in Robotics: A Case Study in Programming Self-reconfigurable Robots * Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens, Greece): Structured Program Generation Techniques * Friedrich Steimann (FernUniversit?t in Hagen, Germany): Refactoring and beyond * Nikolai Tillmann (Microsoft Research, USA): Software Engineering Processes in the Cloud * Guido Wachsmuth (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands): Name Binding: Paradigms, Representation and Specification Scope ===== Historically, in the first four editions of GTTSE, the school series focused on generative and transformational techniques in software engineering, as evident from the original acronym (GTTSE - Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering). With the rise of the Software Language Engineering conference, the school series also covered that field. As of the 5th edition, a broader scope is applied to include additional areas of software engineering, e.g., software analysis, empirical research, modularity, and product lines. Thus, the new expansion of the GTTSE acronym: Grand Timely Topics in Software Engineering. The notion of timely topics is inspired by the ICSE conference which, in its 2015 edition, features technical briefings as "a venue for communicating the current state of a timely topic related to software engineering". Format ====== The school's scientific program of GTTSE 2015 consists of 10 briefings for different timely topics in software engineering. Each briefing is based on a relatively short paper which combines aspects of surveying and tutorial. The surveying aspect is realized specifically by the design constraint for the briefings to dedicate 50% to the analysis of related work. The remaining 50% are typically dedicated to the more specific research of the presenters. Each briefing gets allotted 2-3 sessions with up to 3 hours in total. The speakers for the briefings are established authorities in their respective fields. GTTSE 2015 also features a students' workshop. These presentations may be refined into submissions of short papers (6-8 pages LNCS style) to be peer-reviewed and considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings past the school. All material presented at the school will be collected in informal proceedings to be handed out solely to the participants. Formal and public post-proceedings will be compiled after the summer school where all contributions are subjected to reviewing. The post-proceedings of the school will be published in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer International Publishing. The post-proceedings of the previous four instances of the summer school were published as LNCS 4143 (GTTSE 2005), LNCS 5235 (GTTSE 2007), LNCS 6491 (GTTSE 2009) and LNCS 7680 (GTTSE 2011). Important dates =============== * 3 July: Early Registration Deadline * 7 August: Late Registration Deadline * 23-29 August: Summer School * 15 October: Submission deadline for post-proceedings * 15 December: Notifications of authors * 1 February: Camera-ready submissions Organization committee ====================== * J?come Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) - Organization Chair * Jo?o Paulo Fernandes (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) - Program Chair * Ralf L?mmel (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany) - Briefings Chair * Jo?o Saraiva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) - General Chair * Joost Visser (Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands) - Industry Chair * Vadim Zaytsev (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Publicity Chair Scientific committee ==================== * Bram Adams (?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al) * Benoit Baudry (INRIA) * Xavier Blanc (Bordeaux 1 University) * Darius Blasband (RainCode) * Paulo Borba (Federal University of Pernambuco) * Mark van den Brand (Eindhoven University of Technology) * Martin Bravenboer (LogicBlox Inc.) * Jordi Cabot (INRIA-?cole des Mines de Nantes) * Jo?o Cardoso (FEUP/Universidade do Porto) * Michel Chaudron (Chalmers & Gothenborg University) * Anthony Cleve (University of Namur) * Beno?t Combemale (Universit? de Rennes 1) * Alcino Cunha (Universidade de Minho) * J?come Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) * Juan De Lara (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) * Andrea De Lucia (University of Salerno) * Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) * Davide Di Ruscio (Universit? degli Studi dell'Aquila) * Zinovy Diskin (McMaster University / University of Waterloo) * Rudolf Ferenc (University of Szeged) * Jo?o M. Fernandes (Universidade do Minho) * Jo?o Paulo Fernandes (Universidade da Beira Interior) * Jo?o Saraiva (Universidade do Minho) * Mike Godfrey (University of Waterloo) * Martin Gogolla (University of Bremen) * Jeff Gray (University of Alabama) * Mark Grechanik (University of Illinois at Chicago) * Yann-Ga?l Gu?h?neuc (?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al) * Gorel Hedin (Lund University) * Florian Heidenreich (DevBoost GmbH) * Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho) * Felienne Hermans (Delft University of Technology) * Dirk Heuzeroth (Hochschule Heilbronn) * Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institut) * Zhenjiang Hu (NII) * Marianne Huchard (Universit? Montpellier 2 et CNRS) * Jean-Marc J?z?quel (University of Rennes 1) * Foutse Khomh (?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al) * Holger Kienle (Freier Informatiker) * Dimitris Kolovos (University of York) * Nicholas A. Kraft (ABB Corporate Research) * Jens Krinke (University College London) * Christian K?stner (Carnegie Mellon University) * Paul Klint (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) * Ralf L?mmel (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) * Michele Lanza (University of Lugano) * Timothy Lethbridge (University of Ottawa) * David Lo (Singapore Management University) * Tiziana Margaria (Lero) * Erik Meijer (Delft University of Technology) * Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) * Ana Moreira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) * Jos? Nuno Oliveira (Universidade do Minho) * Rocco Oliveto (University of Molise) * Richard Paige (University of York) * Alfonso Pierantonio (Universit? degli Studi dell'Aquila) * Juergen Rilling (Concordia University) * Sibylle Schupp (Hamburg University of Technology) * Bran Selic (Malina Software Corp.) * Alexander Serebrenik (Eindhoven University of Technology) * Tony Sloane (Macquarie University) * Sim?o Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior) * Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) * James Terwilliger (Microsoft Corporation) * Laurence Tratt (King's College London) * Antonio Vallecillo (Universidad de M?laga) * Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota) * Jurgen Vinju (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) * Joost Visser (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Markus V?lter (independent) * Tanja E. J. Vos (Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia) * Andreas Winter (Carl von Ossietzky University) * Victor Winter (University of Nebraska at Omaha) * Andy Zaidman (Delft University of Technology) * Vadim Zaytsev (Universiteit van Amsterdam) From ruzica.piskac at yale.edu Sat Jun 20 11:41:39 2015 From: ruzica.piskac at yale.edu (Ruzica Piskac) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:41:39 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFPs: POPL 2016 in St. Petersburg, FL, USA, January 20-22, 2016 [Deadline: 10 July 2015, AOE] Message-ID: <558589B3.6090707@yale.edu> Call for Papers for the 43rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2016) St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, January 20-22, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/POPL-2016/ Scope ====== The annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and programming systems. Both theoretical and experimental papers are welcome, on topics ranging from formal frameworks to experience reports. Papers discussing new ideas and new areas are encouraged, as are papers (often called "pearls") that elucidate existing concepts in ways that yield new insights. We are looking for any submission with the potential to make enduring contributions to the theory, design, implementation or application of programming languages. Evaluation ========= The program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its accessibility to both experts and the general POPL audience. All papers will be judged on significance, originality, relevance, correctness, and clarity. Explaining a known idea in a new way may make as strong a contribution as inventing a new idea. Hence, we encourage the submission of pearls: elegant essays that explain an old idea, but do so in a new way that clarifies the idea and yields new insights. There is no formal separation of categories; pearls will be held to the same standards as any other paper. Each paper should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Authors should strive to make their papers understandable to a broad audience. More details can be found on the conference web page. Important Dates ============ Paper registration 3 July 2015, AOE Paper submission 10 July 2015, AOE Submission URL https://popl16.hotcrp.com/ Author response period 17 September, 12:00 noon CET - 19 September, 12:00 noon CET Author notification 5 October 2015 Camera-ready deadline 5 November 2015 Main conference 20-22 January 2016 Co-located events 17-19, 23 January 2016 Submission guidelines ============== Prior to the registration deadline, the authors will register their paper by uploading information on the submission title, abstract (of at most 300 words), authors, topics, and conflicts to the conference web site. Papers that are not registered on time will be rejected. Prior to the final paper submission deadline, the authors will upload their full paper in double blind format and formatted according to the ACM proceedings format. Each paper should have no more than 12 pages of text, excluding bibliography, in at least 9 pt format. Papers may be resubmitted multiple times up until the deadline. The last version submitted before the deadline will be the version that is reviewed. Papers that exceed the length requirement or are submitted late will be rejected. All deadlines are firm. We encourage authors to provide any supplementary material that is required to support the claims made in the paper, such as detailed proofs, proof scripts, or experimental data. These materials should be uploaded at submission time, as a single pdf or a tarball, not via a URL. It will be made available to reviewers only after they have submitted their first-draft reviews and hence need not be anonymized. Reviewers are under no obligation to look at the supplementary material but may refer to it if they have questions about the material in the body of the paper. Templates for ACM format are available for Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author (use the 9 pt preprint template). Submissions should be in PDF and printable on US Letter and A4 sized paper. Submitted papers must adhere to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy and the ACM Policy on Plagiarism. Concurrent submissions to other conferences, workshops, journals, or similar forums of publication are not allowed. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: 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. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) POPL 2016 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: - author names and institutions must be omitted, and - references to authors' own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. 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). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. ARTIFACT EVALUATION: =============== Authors of accepted papers will be invited to formally submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. Artifact Evaluation is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Additional information is to be found on the POPL AEC web page. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. Organizing Committee POPL 2016 ===================== General Chair: Rastislav Bod?k, UC Berkeley Program Chair: Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Local Chair: Jay Ligatti, University of South Florida Publicity Chair: Ruzica Piskac, Yale University Student Research Competition Chair: Zachary Tatlock, University of Washington Program Committee =============== Bob Atkey, University of Edinburgh, UK Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London, UK Philippa Gardner, Imperial College London, UK Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA, Spain Arie Gurfinkel, SEI-CMU, USA Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University, Korea Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin, USA Aditya Kanade, IISc Bangalore, India Laura Kov?cs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Boris K?pf, IMDEA, Spain Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA Viktor Kuncak. EPFL, Switzerland Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK Matteo Maffei, Saarland University, Germany Rupak Majumdar, MPI-SWS, Germany David Monniaux, VERIMAG, France Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research, USA Prakash Panangaden, McGill School of Computer Science, Canada Corina Pasareanu, NASA / CMU-SV, USA Frank Pfenning, CMU, USA Frank Piessens, KU Leuven, Belgium Tiark Rompf. Purdue University, USA Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Manu Sridharan, Samsung Research America, USA Ashish Tiwari, SRI, USA Emina Torlak, University of Washington, USA Artifact Evaluation Committee Chairs ======================== Stephen Chong, Harvard University Arjun Guha, University of Massachusetts Amherst -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Sun Jun 21 12:02:59 2015 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 17:02:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2015 - 2nd Combined Call for Contributions Message-ID: <3E0FAACC-1981-4644-91C4-463FBE10CD7A@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 Demos Doctoral Symposium Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) OOPSLA Artifacts Posters SPLASH-E Student Research Competition Student Volunteers Tutorials Wavefront Workshops Co-Located Conferences: SLE, GPCE, DBPL, PLoP /************************************************************************************/ 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. Most of the following tracks have submissions due: 30 JUNE ** Demos ** The SPLASH Demonstrations track is an excellent vehicle for sharing your latest work with an experienced and technically savvy audience. Live demonstrations show the impact of software innovation. Demonstrations are not product sales pitches, but rather an opportunity to highlight, explain, and present interesting technical aspects of running applications in a dynamic and highly interactive setting. Presenters are encouraged to actively solicit feedback from the audience, which should lead to very interesting and entertaining demonstration sessions. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-demos ** Doctoral Symposium ** The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The Symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-ds ** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) ** The 11th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2015 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. Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dls2015-papers ** OOPSLA Artifacts ** The Artifact Evaluation process is a service provided by the community to help authors of accepted papers provide more substantial supplements to their papers so future researchers can more effectively build on and compare with previous work. The Artifact Evaluation Committee has been formed to assess how well paper authors prepare artifacts in support of such future researchers. Roughly, authors of papers who wish to participate are invited to submit an artifact that supports the conclusions of the paper. Submissions Due: 9 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-artifacts ** Posters ** The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Posters can be independent presentations or associated with one of the other parts of SPLASH. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-posters ** SPLASH-E ** The SPLASH-E track brings together researchers and educators to share educational results, ideas, and challenges centered in Software and Programming Languages. Submission formats vary, including papers, tool demos, lightning talks, challenge-topics for discussion, and suggested themes for "unconference" sessions. Help us create an engaging forum for educational issues related to SPLASH! Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-splash-e ** Student Research Competition ** The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session?s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-src ** Student Volunteers ** The SPLASH Student Volunteer program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Submissions Due: 7 August, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-sv ** Tutorials ** The SPLASH 2015 Tutorials programme will consist of prestigious tutorials on current topics in software, systems, and languages research. The scope of Tutorials is the same as the conference itself: all aspects of software construction and delivery at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. Tutorials in particular focus on the nexus between research and practice, including work that takes inspiration from or builds connections to areas not commonly considered at SPLASH. Tutorials should introduce researchers to current research in an area, or show important new tools that can be used in research. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-tutorials ** Wavefront ** The SPLASH Wavefront track is looking for presentations and technology talks of interest to the software community, particularly to software professionals working in companies large and small. Wavefront is a forum for presenting experience reports and tutorials about innovative tools, technologies, and software practices. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-wavefront ** 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. Late Phase Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops ** Co-Located Events ** SLE - 8th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/sle2015 GPCE - 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) Submissions Due: 21 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce2015 DBPL - 15th Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/dbpl2015 PLoP - 22nd International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) Submissions Due: 12 May, 2015 http://www.hillside.net/plop/2015/ 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) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Robby Findler (Northwestern University) and Michael Hind (IBM Research) Demos Co-Chair: Igor Peshansky (Google) and Pietro Ferrara (IBM Research) Doctoral Symposium Chair: Yu David Liu, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton Local Arrangements Chair: Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University) PLMW Workshop Co-Chairs: Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University) and Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington) Posters Co-Chairs: 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) 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) Sponsorship Chair: Tony Hosking (Purdue University) Tutorials Co-Chair: Romain Robbes (University of Chile) and Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) Video Chair: Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) Videos Previews Czar: Thomas LaToza (University of California, Irvine) Wavefront Co-Chairs: Dennis Mancl (Alcatel-Lucent) and Joe Kiniry (Galois) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) Workshop Co-Chairs: Du Li (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jan Rellermeyer (IBM Research) /************************************************************************************/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peterol at ifi.uio.no Sat Jun 20 07:42:26 2015 From: peterol at ifi.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Peter_Csaba_=C3=96lveczky?=) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 13:42:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: FACS'15 Message-ID: <97B6CE59-E508-4421-8ED1-2C4727056B15@ifi.uio.no> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** (Extended) Abstract submission deadline: July 3 *** (Extended) Paper submission deadline: July 8 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: July 3 (AoE) (extended and final) Paper submission deadline: July 8 (AoE) (extended and final) Notification: August 28 Conference: Oct 14-16 INVITED SPEAKERS Martin Wirsing Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich David Deharbe Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Renato Cerqueira IBM Research, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Peter Olveczky University of Oslo 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 Camilo Rocha Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria Gwen Salaun Grenoble INP - INRIA - LIG Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich Bernhard Schatz Technical University Munchen From phaller at kth.se Mon Jun 22 12:07:20 2015 From: phaller at kth.se (Philipp Haller) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:07:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: AGERE! @ SPLASH 2015 - ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control Message-ID: <1434989458665.68177@kth.se> CFP: AGERE! @ SPLASH 2015 - http://soft.vub.ac.be/AGERE15 5th International ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control Held at SPLASH Conference http://2015.splashcon.org/ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - October 25/26, 2015 ===== Introduction ===== The fundamental turn of software to concurrency and distribution is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction. It calls for programming paradigms that, compared to current mainstream paradigms, would allow us to more naturally think about, design, develop, execute, debug, and profile systems exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, autonomy, decentralization of control, and physical distribution. AGERE! is an ACM SIGPLAN workshop dedicated to focusing on and developing research on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents and any related programming paradigm promoting a decentralized mindset in solving problems and in developing systems to implement such solutions. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. More info about the specific topics can be found on the AGERE! 2015 website. ===== Contributions ===== The workshop welcomes three main kinds of contributions: (1) mature contributions, to be published in the ACM Digital Library as an official ACM SIGPLAN publication; (2) position papers and work-in-progress contributions, to be discussed during the event and included in the informal proceedings; (3) demos that will be presented and discussed during the event. Info about the format and the page limits can be found on the AGERE! 2015 website (http://soft.vub.ac.be/AGERE15). ===== Special Issue ===== A special issue on a reference journal [*] will be organized with the extended and revised versions of the best papers accepted and presented at the workshop. This special issue follows a previous one published in Science of Computer Programming (best papers from AGERE! 2011 and 2012) and a twin special issue published in Computer Languages, Systems and Structures and in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (best papers from AGERE! 2013 and 2014). [*] Contacts are ongoing: targets include "Computer Languages, Systems and Structures" (Elsevier), "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience" (Wiley), "Software: Practice and Experience" (Wiley), "Journal of Software and Systems" (Elsevier), and "Science of Computer Programming" (Elsevier). ===== Important dates ===== - Full-paper abstract deadline: August 1, 2015 - Full-paper deadline: August 7, 2015 - Full-paper notification: September 7, 2015 - Position/work-in-progress papers: September 7, 2015 - Demos/posters: September 7, 2015 Papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agere2015 in PDF format. Submissions should use the ACM SIGPLAN format, following the guidelines at http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm. ===== Organization and Committees Organizers and PC chairs: Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Steering Committee Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Rafael Bordini, FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel ===== AGERE! @ SPLASH 2015 From robertog at kth.se Wed Jun 24 05:58:29 2015 From: robertog at kth.se (Roberto Guanciale) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:58:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in trustworthy embedded platforms, KTH - School of Computer Science and Communication, Stockholm, Sweden Message-ID: <1435139910028.70223@kth.se> The theory group at KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication, invites applications for a PhD position in trustworthy embedded platforms. The recruitment is part of the creation of the new cross-departmental Center for Resilient Critical Infrastructures, CERCES, which is concerned with the security and resilience of industrial control and information systems. The center will focus on control systems, communication networks, wireless communication, and embedded software verification. In this call, we are looking for highly-qualified students that can contribute to the work on embedded software verification. The student will join the Prosper team, a team of researchers led by Professor Mads Dam, with collaborators at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. For examples on ongoing projects, go to prosper.sics.se and haspoc.sics.se. The present project focuses on the development of embedded software platforms, kernels, hypervisors, drivers, and applications with very high demands on security, safety, and trustworthiness, with particular focus on the critical infrastructure domain. We meet these demands through formal modelling and verification, by building models of processors, systems, and devices, by building theories and tools for low level verification, and by implementing and verifying critical software components. Application deadline: 10 July 2015 For details on the position, required qualifications, and application procedure, see https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:67924/where:4/ Contact persons for further information: Mads Dam , http://www.csc.kth.se/~mfd/ Roberto Guanciale , http://www.csc.kth.se/~robertog/ From stephan.merz at loria.fr Wed Jun 24 02:56:56 2015 From: stephan.merz at loria.fr (Stephan Merz) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:56:56 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VTSA summer school: call for applications Message-ID: <7FE4E76C-2203-4DA6-B15D-84C07357D3D9@loria.fr> The following summer school may be of interest to members of the Types community. Note that participation is free of charge. Best regards, Stephan ====================================================== Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems, and Applications August 24-28, 2015, University Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany ====================================================== The summer school Verification Technology, Systems, and Applications (VTSA 2015) will be organized from August 24-28, 2015 at the University Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany. This is the eighth edition of a yearly school organized by Inria Nancy, Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik Saarbr?cken, Universit? de Li?ge, Universit? du Luxembourg and this year also Universit?t Koblenz-Landau. The following lecturers have agreed to give courses at VTSA 2015: - Bernhard Beckert: Deductive Verification of Object-Oriented Software - Stephanie Delaune: Verification of Security Protocols: from Confidentiality to Privacy- Alberto Griggio: Exploiting SMT for Verification of Infinite-State Systems - Tobias Schubert: SAT-based Approaches for Test and Verification of Integrated Circuits - Mihaela Sighireanu: Modelling, Specification and Formal Analysis of Complex Software Systems Participation to the school is free to anybody holding at least a bachelor degree or equivalent; it includes the lectures, daily coffee and lunchbreaks, and a school dinner. Attendance is limited to 40 participants. Please apply electronically by sending an email to Eugen Denerz (edenerz_AT_mpi-inf.mpg.de) including - a one-page CV, - an application letter explaining the participant's interest in the school and any experience in the area, and - a copy of the participant's bachelor certificate (or equivalent or a more significant certificate) The deadline for application is July 17, 2015. Notification of acceptance will be given by July 24, 2015. Full details are available at http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa15/. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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About iFM --------- iFM 2016 is concerned with how the application of formal methods may involve modelling different aspects of a system which are best expressed using different formalisms. Correspondingly, different analysis techniques may be used to examine different system views, different kinds of properties, or simply in order to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modelling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding modelling and analysis, and covering all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice. One day workshops will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective workshop organizers are requested to follow the guidelines below and are encouraged to contact the workshop chairs if any questions arise. The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application. The workshops take place on June 4-5, 2016. Important Dates --------------- Submission of workshop proposals: by July 20, 2015 Notification: by August 3, 2015 Workshops: June 4-5, 2016 Submission via e-mail --------------------- Marcel Kyas - Workshop chair Proposal and Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------- Workshop proposals must be written in English, not exceed 5 pages with a reasonable font and margins, and be submitted in PDF format via email to Marcel Kyas (marcel at ru.is). Proposals should include: * The name and the preferred date 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 publicity strategy that will be used by the workshop organizers to promote the workshop. * The participant solicitation and selection process. * The target audience and expected number of participants. * Approximate budget proposal (see section Budget below for details). * The equipment and any other resource necessary for the organization of the workshop. * 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/...). Organizers Responsibilities --------------------------- The scientific responsibility of organizing a workshop goes to the workshop organizers. In particular, they are responsible for the following items: * A workshop description (200 words) for inclusion n the iFM site. * Hosting and maintaining web pages to be linked from the iFM site. Workshop organizers can integrate their pages into the main iFM pages. * Workshop proceedings, if any. If there is sufficient interest, the organizer of iFM 2016 may contact the editor-in-chief of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://info.eptcs.org/) for having a common volume dedicated to the workshops of iFM 2016. * Workshop publicity (possibly including call for papers, submission and review process). * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the iFM workshop chair. Budget ------ The iFM organization will provide registration and organizational support for the workshops (including link from the conferences web sites, set-up of meeting space, on-line and on-site registration). Registration fees must be paid for all participants, including organizers and invited guests. To cover lunches, coffee breaks and basic organizational expenses, all workshops will be required to charge a minimum participation fee (the precise amount is still to be determined). Each workshop may increase this fee to cover additional expenses such as publication charges, student scholarships, costs for invited speakers, etc. All fees will be collected by the iFM organizers as part of the registration, then additional funds will be redistributed to the individual workshop organizers. Evaluation Process ------------------ The proposals will be evaluated by the iFM organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of iFM 2016. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages of previous satellite events as examples: * iFM 2014: http://ifm2014.cs.unibo.it/workshops.html * iFM 2013: http://www.it.abo.fi/iFM2013/workshops_and_tutorials.php * iFM 2012: http://ifm-abz.isti.cnr.it/styled-4/speakers.html * iFM 2010: http://ifm2010.loria.fr/satellite.html * iFM 2009: http://www.formal-methods.de/ifm09/workshops.html Venue ----- iFM 2016 will take place at the Campus of Reykjav?k University, Iceland. The campus at Reykjav?k University is set in one of the most beautiful areas next to Iceland's only geothermal beach. The building has well equipped classrooms. Further Information and Enquiries --------------------------------- Please contact the workshop chair Marcel Kyas From georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at Wed Jun 24 10:10:06 2015 From: georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at (Georg Weissenbacher) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:10:06 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMCAD student forum: deadline extension (July 9) Message-ID: The deadline for the FMCAD student forum has been extended. The new deadline is July 09, 2015!! FMCAD 2015 STUDENT FORUM FMCAD 2015, the fifteenth conference on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification, will host the 3rd FMCAD Student Forum (September 28-30, 2015) providing a platform for graduate students at any career stage to introduce their research to the wider Formal Methods community. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: July 09, 2015 Acceptance notification: July 19, 2015 Forum date: September 28-30, 2015 Details are provided on http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD15/student-forum.shtml Submissions for the event must be short reports describing research ideas or ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the scope of FMCAD. Work, part of which has been previously published, will be considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly described in such cases. All submissions will be reviewed by a select group of program committee members. The event will consist of short presentations by the student authors of each accepted submission, and of a poster that will be on display throughout the duration of the conference. Accepted submissions will be listed, with title and author name, in the event description in the conference proceedings. The authors will also have the option to upload their poster and presentation to the FMCAD web site. The best contribution (determined by the committee based on the quality of the submission and the presentation) will be given public recognition and a certificate at the event. Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for US students with accepted contributions. We kindly ask faculty members to help us advertise the event by displaying the posters available from the web-page in their departments. If you have questions, please contact the forum chair Georg Weissenbacher (Vienna University of Technology, Austria). From aravara at fct.unl.pt Thu Jun 25 03:14:25 2015 From: aravara at fct.unl.pt (Antonio Ravara) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:14:25 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WS-FM/BEAT 2015 last CfP Message-ID: <558BAA51.5050509@fct.unl.pt> Dear Colleagues, Due to a technical problem, we needed to postpone the deadlines by one week. Please contribute! Ant?nio and Jan Martijn ************************************************************* * * * WSFM-BEAT 2015 * * International Symposium on * * Web Services, Formal Methods and Behavioural Types * * (WS-FM/BEAT 2015) * * * * September 4th and 5th, Madrid (Spain) * * an event @ the MADRID MEET 2015 * * * * Last Call for Papers * * * * * ************************************************************* Homepage: http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/WSFM-BEAT2015/index.php Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsfmbeat2015 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: July 1 (Wednesday) Paper submission: July 3 (Friday) Notification: July 31 (Friday) Camera Ready version: August 14 (Friday) SCOPE The Symposium on International Symposium on Web Services, Formal Methods and Behavioural Types (WS-FM/BEAT 2015) results from joining the Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods (WS-FM) and the Workshop on Behavioural Types. The former was mainly devoted to formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing. The latter addressed type languages and systems to specify, characterise, and reason about dynamic aspects of program execution. In both cases, the main working setting of the research area covered is that of component-based distributed and concurrent software systems, services and clouds, simply referable as large software systems. Behavioural systems may also refer to enterprise and business process modelling and management systems. These kind of systems share characteristics: they are distributed, collaborative, and communication-centred. Moreover, the compatibility of their components is crucial to ensure overall correctness and reliability. The aim of this event is to bring together researchers and practitioners in all aspects of large scale behavioural software systems and its applications, in order to share results, consolidate the community, and discover opportunities for new collaborations and future directions. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundational aspects of large behavioural software systems * Specification, verification, analysis, and testing of large behavioural software systems * Language-based approaches to large behavioural software systems * Security, trust, QoS, dependability, and privacy in large behavioural software systems * Ontologies, standards and technologies for large behavioural software systems * Case-studies on formal methods in large behavioural software systems * Innovative application scenarios of large behavioural software systems SUBMISSION We solicit the submission of original and unpublished contributions not under review for publication elsewhere. Concurrent submissions to WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA (a CONCUR workshop - http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/) are however, not only allowed, but in fact encouraged, for those papers that may potentially enhance both venues. Authors of such double submissions should identify them to the Program Chairs at the time of submission (by sending and email to the PC_Chairs of WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA). Reviews may be shared between WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA. Submissions accepted by WS-FM/BEAT will be considered automatically withdrawn from FOCLASA. Submissions may take two forms: full papers and short papers. - Full (regular) papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the LNCS-style format and they should not exceed 20 pages (typeset 11 points). All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. - Short papers are concerned with work-in-progress or tool papers and they should not exceed 6 pages. Short papers might not be included in the proceedings (a selection is invited for the proceedings). All contributions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, chosen by the Program Committee. Contributions should be submitted through the EasyChair online submission system in PDF format. 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 accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings, which will be published after the symposium as a volume of the LNCS series. Selected short papers will be invited to the proceedings. An open call for a special issue of a high-quality journal on the topics of the symposium is envisaged. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Antonio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Jan Martijn van der Werf, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE Robin Bergenthum (FernUni Hagen, Germany) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Sara Capecchi (Universit? degli Studi di Torino, Italy) Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia) Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta) Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Jeroen Keiren (Open University, The Netherlands) Natalia Kokash (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Hern?n Melgratti (Departamento Computaci?n, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Dimitris Mostrous (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Jovanka Pantovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) Artem Polyvyanyy (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Antonio Ravara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal), co-chair Natalia Sidorova (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Jan Martijn van der Werf (Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands), co-chair STEERING COMMITTEE Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy INVITED SPEAKERS Cosimo Laneve, University of Bologna, Italy One more TBA PAST EDITIONS Past editions of WS-FM * WS-FM 2014 in Eindhoven, co-chaired by Thomas Hildebrandt and Matthias Weidlich * WS-FM 2013 in Beijing, co-chaired by Chun Ouyang and Emilio Tuosto * WS-FM 2012 in Talin, co-chaired by Maurice ter Beek and Niels Lohmann * WS-FM 2011 in Clermont-Ferrand, co-chaired by Marco Carbone and Jean-Marc Petit * WS-FM 2010 in Hoboken, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Tevfik Bultan * WS-FM 2009 in Bologna, co-chaired by Cosimo Laneve and Jianwen Su * WS-FM 2008 in Milan, co-chaired by Roberto Bruni and Karsten Wolf * WS-FM 2007 in Brisbane, co-chaired by Marlon Dumas and Reiko Heckel * WS-FM 2006 in Wien, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro * WS-FM 2005 in Versailles, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro * WS-FM 2004 in Pisa, co-chaired by Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro Past editions of BEAT * BEAT 2014 in Roma, co-chaired by Marco Carbone and Adrian Francalanza * BEAT2: 2nd International Workshop on Behavioural Types, co-located with SEFM, September 2013 * BEAT: 1st International Workshop on Behavioural Types, co-located with POPL, January 2013 * Behavioural Types Workshop, Lisbon, April 2011 From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Thu Jun 25 10:26:04 2015 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:26:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GraMSec'15 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: <558C0F7C.8000400@irisa.fr> ************************************************************ GraMSec 2015 The Second International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Verona, Italy - July 13, 2015 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ Co-located with 28th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) ************************************************************ GraMSec REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN To register please follow the instructions given at http://www.gramsec.uni.lu/registration.php ABOUT GraMSec Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic methodology to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Such models have been subject of academic research and they have also been widely accepted by the industrial sector, as a means to support and facilitate threat analysis and risk management processes. The objective of GraMSec is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage. PROGRAM 8:30 ? 9:15 REGISTRATION 9:20 ? 9:30 OPENING 9:35 ? 10:30 STAST INVITED LECTURE * Simone Fischer-H?bner (Karlstad University, Sweden) Eliciting Requirements for Privacy-enhancing Transparency Tool 10:30 ? 11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00 ? 12:30 REPRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS SESSION * Volker Ahlers, Felix Heine, Bastian Hellmann, Carsten Kleiner, Leonard Renners, Thomas Rossow, and Ralf Steuerwald Integrated Visualization of Network Security Metadata from Heterogeneous Data Sources * Laurent Cuennet, Marc Pouly and Sasa Radomirovic Guided Specification and Analysis of a Loyalty Card System * Ludovic Apvrille and Yves Roudier SysML-Sec Attack Graphs: Compact Representations for Complex Attacks 12:30 ? 14:00 LUNCH BREAK 14:00 ? 15:00 GraMSec INVITED LECTURE * Marc Bouissou (?cole Centrale Paris, EDF R&D, France) Dynamic Graphical Models for Security and Safety Joint Modeling 15:00 ? 15:30 TOOL SESSION * Sophie Pinchinat, Mathieu Acher and Didier Vojtisek ATSyRa: An Integrated Environment for Synthesizing Attack Trees 15:30 ? 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 16:00 ? 17:00 GENERATION SESSION * Marieta Georgieva Ivanova, Christian W. Probst, Rene Rydhof Hansen and Florian Kammueller Transforming Graphical System Models to Graphical Attack Models * Olga Gadyatskaya How to Generate Security Cameras: Towards Defence Generation for Socio-Technical Systems 17:00 ? 17:10 CLOSING In the evening, we plan to have an informal dinner with the participants of the workshop GENERAL CHAIR Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA PC CO-CHAIRS Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, LU Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec at uni.lu From mcimini at indiana.edu Thu Jun 25 17:14:53 2015 From: mcimini at indiana.edu (Cimini, Matteo) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:14:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Abstracts: YR-CONCUR 2015 - Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory Message-ID: <5D0EEAEE1586DF4EA042E232F4CDD7F92BE5CB@IU-MSSG-MBX102.ads.iu.edu> (* Second Call for Abstract *) ========================================================================= CALL for ABSTRACTS for YR-CONCUR 2015 6th International Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory (satellite workshop of CONCUR 2015) September 5, 2015 Madrid, Spain http://cimini.info/yr-concur2015/ ========================================================================= Aims and objectives: This workshop aims at providing a platform for PhD students and young researchers who recently completed their doctoral studies, to exchange new results related to concurrency theory and receive feedback on their research. Focus is on informal discussions. Excellent master students working on concurrency theory are also encouraged to contribute. Format: YR-CONCUR 2015 is a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2015 and will be held on September 5th, 2015. It is anticipated that many CONCUR participants will attend the YR-workshop (and vice versa). Presentations are selected on the basis of an abstract of up to 4 pages (including references) describing the research. No particular format is required. Submissions are judged on the expected interest in and quality of the talk. The accepted abstracts will be made available at the workshop, but no formal proceedings are planned. It is thus also allowed (and encouraged) to send results that have been published at other conferences (although preferably not at CONCUR 2015 or any of its other satellite workshops). Important Dates: - Deadline for 4-page abstracts: July 3, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2015 - Final version: August 6, 2014 - Workshop: September 5, 2014 Submission: 4-page abstracts (including references) should be submitted via the YR-CONCUR 2015 submission page on the EasyChair system. (see the workshop website) Organizer and PC Chair: - Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) Program Committee (further to be confirmed) Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) Cinzia Di Giusto (UNS-CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France) Sophia Knight (Universit? de Lorraine, France) Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Luca Tesei (University of Camerino, Italy) Mohammad Reza Mousavi (Halmstad University, Sweden) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in the poster session which will take place at ICFP. Students who make it to this round will be eligible for some travel support to attend the conference. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the judges, who will select three finalists in each category (graduate/undergraduate) to advance to the next round. * ICFP presentation. The last round will consist of an oral presentation at ICFP to compete for the final award. Prizes ------ * The top three graduate and the top three undergraduate winners will receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. * All six winners will receive award medals and a two-year complimentary ACM student membership, including a subscription to ACM's Digital Library. * The names of the winners will be posted on the ACM SRC web site. * The first-place winners will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competition among the winners of conference-hosted SRCs. * Grand Finalists and their advisors will be invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet for an all-expenses-paid trip, where they will be recognized for their accomplishments along with other prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award (also known as the Nobel Prize of Computing). * The top three graduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. Likewise, the top three undergraduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. All six Grand Finalists will receive Grand Finalist certificates. * The ACM, Microsoft Research, and our industrial partners provide financial support for students attending the SRC. You can find more information about this on the ACM website. Eligibility ----------- The SRC is open to both undergraduate (not in a PhD programme) and graduate students (in a PhD programme). Upon submission, entrants must be enrolled as a student at their universities, and are ACM student members. Furthermore, there are some constraints on what kind of work may be submitted. Previously published work: Submissions should consist of original work (not yet accepted for publication). If the work is a continuation of previously published work, the submission should focus on the contribution over what has already been published. We encourage students to see this as an opportunity to get early feedback and exposure for the work they plan to submit to the next ICFP or POPL. Collaborative work: Students are encouraged to submit work they have been conducting in collaboration with others, including advisors, internship mentors, or other students. However, submissions are individual, so they must focus on the contributions of the student. Submission Details ------------------ Each submission should include the student author's name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and postal address; research advisor's name; ACM student member number; category (undergraduate or graduate); research title; and an extended abstract addressing the following: * Problem and Motivation: Clearly state the problem being addressed and explain the reasons for seeking a solution to this problem. * Background and Related Work: Describe the specialized (but pertinent) background necessary to appreciate the work. Include references to the literature where appropriate, and briefly explain where your work departs from that done by others. * Approach and Uniqueness: Describe your approach in attacking the problem and clearly state how your approach is novel. * Results and Contributions: Clearly show how the results of your work contribute to computer science and explain the significance of those results. The abstract must describe the student's individual research and must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student's role was and should focus on that portion of the work. The extended abstract must not exceed 800 words and must not be longer than 2 pages. The reference list does not count towards these limits. To submit an abstract, please register through the submission page and follow the instructions. 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URL: From maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT Sun Jun 28 08:49:40 2015 From: maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:49:40 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2015: Early registration deadline approaching Message-ID: Early registration for LOPSTR 2015 until June 30th, 2015. ============================================================ 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2015 http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/ University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015 (co-located with PPDP 2015) ============================================================ Early registration by June 30, 2015 http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/ppdp-lopstr-15/registration.html Invited speakers: Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with PPDP) ?Verification by Abstract Interpretation, Soundness and Abstract Induction? Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain ?Towards Verified Cryptographic Implementations? Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France (Jointly with PPDP) ?Proof checking and logic programming? Full symposium program: http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/LOPSTR2015SymposiumProgram.html 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 Guillermo Roman-Diez, Technical Univ. of Madrid, Spain 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 From maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT Sun Jun 28 08:54:45 2015 From: maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:54:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2015: Early registration deadline approaching Message-ID: Early registration for PPDP 2015 until June 30th, 2015. =======================CALL FOR PARTICIPATION======================= 17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2015 Siena, Italy, July 14-16, 2015 (co-located with LOPSTR 2015) http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/ppdp15 ============================================================ Early registration by June 30, 2015 http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/ppdp-lopstr-15/registration.html Invited speakers: Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with LOPSTR) ?Verification by Abstract Interpretation, Soundness and Abstract Induction? Martin Hofmann, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany ?Automatic Amortized Analysis? Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France (Jointly with LOPSTR) ?Proof checking and logic programming? Louis Mandel (College de France, Paris) and Marc Pouzet (ENS, Paris) ?ReactiveML, Ten Years Later? Full symposium program: http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/ppdp15/program-ppdp15.html 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 Organizing Committee Monica Bianchini, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Sara Brunetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Guillermo Roman-Diez, Technical Univ. of Madrid, Spain 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 From grlmc at urv.cat Sun Jun 28 12:40:41 2015 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:40:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] InfoSec 2015: final announcement Message-ID: <92030CDF5EAE4EE3B8CCF47008B16480@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/ ********************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: July 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 3 keynote lectures, 23 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. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. 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, 2-4 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? 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 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 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 Security Enforcement to Legacy Programs Antoine Joux (Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Discrete Logarithms in Finite Fields 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 Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research, Redmond), [advanced] Protecting Data on Smartphones and Tablets Using Trusted Computing 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 OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to adrian.dediu at urv.cat by June 29 at the latest. 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: Accommodation for participants is available at the Colegio Mayor Deusto (student hostel). Since there may exist problems to find accommodation in Bilbao at a reasonable price during the week of the event, the organizers' advice is to book as soon as possible, and anyway by May 27. To do it, write to Carlson Wagonlit Travel at estudiantesud at carlsonwagonlit.es 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. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From cbraga at ic.uff.br Tue Jun 30 08:55:38 2015 From: cbraga at ic.uff.br (Christiano Braga) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:55:38 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP - Deadline extension - SBMF 2015 - 18th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods Message-ID: <6D56ACCB-326E-40B7-9472-D19E9F43DB8D@ic.uff.br> [Apologies should you receive multiple copies of this call.] ** DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR SUBMISSIONS TO SBMF 2015 ** - Abstract submission deadline: July 6, 2015. - Paper submission deadline: July 10, 2015. CALL FOR PAPERS 18th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF) http://cbsoft.org/sbmf2015/brazilian-symposium-on-formal-methods-sbmf Promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) September 21st to September 26th, 2015 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil IMPORTANT DATES ** PAPER SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED ** Abstract Submission Deadline: June 6, 2015 (extended) Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2015 (extended) Paper Acceptance Notification: August 18, 2015 Paper Camera-ready Version: September 2, 2015 INTRODUCTION SBMF 2015 is the eighteenth of a series of events devoted to the development, dissemination and use of formal methods for the construction of high-quality computational systems. It is now a well-established event, with an international reputation. The symposium will be part of a larger event, the 6th Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft 2015 - http://cbsoft.org/ ), including as well as SBMF three other symposia: * XXIX Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) * XIX Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP) * IX Brazilian Symposium on Components, Software Architecture and Software Reuse (SBCARS) CBSoft and SBMF 2015 will take place in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state Minas Gerais, that is located in the southeast region and is the sixth most populous city in Brazil. From the beauty of its green areas to the careful city-planning; from the wide array of cultural activities to the nature wonders of the Serra do Curral surrounding it, Belo Horizonte has several reasons for being constantly appointed as one of the Latin American metropolises that provides the best qualify of life. The aim of SBMF is to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of high-quality work in formal methods. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * techniques and methodologies, such as method integration; software and hardware co-design; model-driven engineering; formal aspects of popular methodologies; formal design; development methodologies with formal foundations; software evolution based on formal methods; * specification and modeling languages, such as well-founded specification and design languages; formal aspects of popular languages; logics and semantics for programming and specification languages; code generation; formal methods and models for objects, aspects, component-based, real-time, hybrid, critical, and service-oriented systems; * theoretical foundations, such as domain theory; type systems and category theory; computational complexity of methods and models; computational models; term rewriting; models of concurrency, security and mobility; * verification and validation, such as abstraction, modularization and refinement techniques; program and test synthesis; correctness by construction; model checking; theorem proving; static analysis; formal techniques for software testing; software certification; formal techniques for software inspection; * education, such as teaching of, for and with formal methods; * applications, such as experience reports on the use of formal methods; industrial case studies; tool support. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers with a strong emphasis on Formal Methods, whether practical or theoretical, are invited for submission. They should present unpublished and original work that has a clear contribution to the state of the art on the theory and practice of formal methods. They should not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Papers will be judged by at least three reviewers on the basis of originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation quality and should contain sound theoretical or practical results. Industry papers should emphasize practical application of formal methods or report on open challenges. Contributions should be written in English and be prepared using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Papers may not exceed 16 pages. Accepted papers will be published, after the conference, in a volume of LNCS. Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered in the symposium by the time the camera-ready copy is submitted; the registered author is also expected to attend the symposium and present the paper. Papers can be submitted via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbmf2015 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 special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Adenilso Sim?o, ICMC/USP, S?o Carlos, SP, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS M?rcio Corn?lio (UFPE, Brazil) Bill Roscoe (University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Aline Andrade (UFBA, Brazil) Wilkerson Andrade (UFCG, Brazil) Luis Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Christiano Braga (UFF, Brazil) Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK) Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) Simone Cavalheiro (UFPel, Brazil) M?rcio Corn?lio (UFPE, Brazil), co-chair Andrea Corradini (Universita? di Pisa, Italy) Jim Davies (University of Oxford, UK) David Deharbe (UFRN, Brazil) Ewen Denney (RIACS/NASA, USA) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool, UK) Adalberto Farias (UFCG, Brazil) Rohit Gheyi (UFCG, Brazil) Rolf Hennicker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Juliano Iyoda (UFPE, Brazil) Peter Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) Bruno Lopes (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Anamaria Moreira (UFRJ, Brazil) Patricia Machado (UFCG, Brazil) Narciso Mart?-Oliet (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Tiago Massoni (UFCG, Brasil) Ana Melo (USP, Brazil) Alvaro Moreira (UFRGS, Brazil) Alexandre Mota (UFPE, Brazil) Leonardo Moura (Microsoft Research, USA) Arnaldo Moura (Unicamp, Brazil) Peter M?ller (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Marcel Oliveira (UFRN, Brazil) Jose Oliveira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Leila Ribeiro (UFRGS, Brazil) Bill Roscoe (University of Oxford, UK), co-chair Augusto Sampaio (UFPE, Brazil) Leila Silva (UFS, Brazil) Adenilso Sim?o (USP, Brazil) Sofiene Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) Leopoldo Teixeira (UFPE, Brazil) Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) Jim Woodcock (University of York, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Rohit Gheyi (UFCG, Brazil) David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Juliano Iyoda (UFPE, Brazil) Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, USA) Christiano Braga (UFF, Brazil) Narciso Mart?-Oliet (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) M?rcio Corn?lio (UFPE, Brazil) Bill Roscoe (University of Oxford, UK) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it Tue Jun 30 12:57:15 2015 From: francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it (Francesco Tiezzi) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:57:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SAC:CM 2016 - Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Message-ID: ************************************************************************************** Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Special Track of the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'16) http://sac2016.apice.unibo.it April 4 - 8, 2016 Pisa, Italy ************************************************************************************** Building on the success of the sixteenth previous editions (1998-2015), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2016. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of possibly heterogeneous components (processes, objects, agents, services) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a distributed software system with desired characteristics and functionalities. This is done in terms of coordination abstractions, languages, algorithms, mechanisms, and middleware specifically focused on the management of component interaction. The coordination paradigm crosscuts a number of contemporary software engineering approaches and fields, which we aim to cross-fertilize and bring contribution to, including in particular: multi-agent systems, self-adaptative and self-organising systems, business process management, service-oriented architectures, component-based systems, and all related middleware platforms. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include: - Novel models, languages, formalisms, programming and implementation techniques - Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures - Applications - Middleware platforms - Formal aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification) - Software architectures and software engineering techniques - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Internet, Web, Internet of Things, and pervasive computing systems coordination - Languages for service description and composition - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making - All aspects related to Cooperative Information Systems (e.g. workflow management, CSCW) - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages - Self-organising, self-adaptive and nature-inspired coordination approaches - Relationship with other computational models such as object-oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or their extensions with coordination capabilities - Coordination models and specification in Service-Oriented Architectures, Web Service technologies (orchestration, choreography, etc.), Pervasive Computing, Cloud Computing and Autonomic Computing - Business Process modelling and verification - Policy-based approaches to coordination and self-adaptation We also welcome papers on practical systems or novel applications that are aimed at reaching coordination between components and services, especially if those systems and novel applications challenge existing ideas and models. In previous editions, CM Special Track organisers have been inviting authors of selected papers for Special Issues in high impact journals, such as, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) and Science of Computer Programming (SCP). ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Sep 11, 2015: Submission of papers and SRC research abstracts Nov 13, 2015: Author notification Dec 11, 2015: Camera-Ready Copy Dec 18, 2015: Author registration ------------------------ Program Co-Chairs ------------------------ Mirko Viroli Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy http://mirkoviroli.apice.unibo.it email: mirko.viroli at unibo.it Francesco Tiezzi University of Camerino, Italy http://tiezzi.unicam.it/ email: francesco.tiezzi@ unicam.it ---------------------------------------- Program Committee Members ---------------------------------------- Farhad Arbab, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, Netherlands Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA Olivier Boissier, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Rocco De Nicola, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneve, Switzerland Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Raymond Hu, Imperial College London, UK Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA eva Kuehn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Hung La, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Michele Loreti, University of Firenze, Italy Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Antonio Porto, University of Porto, Portugal Rosario Pugliese, University of Firenze, Italy Antonio Ravara, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Yasuyuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan George Wells, Rhodes University, South Africa Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy --------------------- Proceedings --------------------- Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2016 proceedings and in the Digital Library. ------------------------------------- Paper submission and format ------------------------------------- All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that currently are not under review in any conference or journal. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Submitted papers must be in the ACM two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). The length of the papers is 6 pages (included in the registration) plus up to 2 extra pages (at extra charge), i.e. total 8 pages maximum. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Submission is entirely automated via the STAR Submission System, which is available from the main SAC Web Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. ------------------------- Poster Sessions ------------------------- Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Poster should be not longer than 3 pages (included in the registration) plus 1 extra page (at extra charge), i.e. total 4 pages maximum. The poster session procedures and details will be posted on SAC 2016 website as soon as they become available. ------------------------------------------------ Student research abstracts competition ------------------------------------------------ Graduate students are invited to submit Student Research Competition (SRC) abstracts (maximum of 2 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at SAC 2016 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts (up to 20 students) will have the opportunity to give poster and oral presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. 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URL: From yudi.zheng at usi.ch Tue Jun 30 09:14:35 2015 From: yudi.zheng at usi.ch (Yudi Zheng) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:14:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: WODA 2015 Message-ID: <7CB84A43-F0DE-4D09-B96E-80AA563D7D71@usi.ch> The 13th International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA'15) Co-located with SPLASH/OOPSLA 2015 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Pittsburgh, PA, October 26, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/WODA-2015-papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: Aug. 07, 2015 Author notification: Sep. 07, 2015 Conference: Oct. 26, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION SITE: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=woda15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST WODA is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the intersection of compilers, programming languages, architecture, systems, high-performance computing, software engineering, performance engineering, machine learning, and data mining for addressing software and system performance. The workshop focuses on developing and studying analytic technologies (e.g., program analysis, statistical analysis, machine learning, data mining, visualization) applied on various software or system artifacts (e.g., production systems, tests, program traces, system logs) to address issues in software and system reliability, dependability, performance, and scalability. WODA welcomes submissions that propose dynamic analysis techniques for solving all kinds of problems in software and systems; typical areas of interest that WODA covers are: - Development of dynamic analysis tools and frameworks - Efficient instrumentation techniques - Novel applications of dynamic analysis - Program security and penetration testing - Fault detection, debugging, and tolerance - Performance analysis and optimization techniques - Remote analysis and measurement of software systems - Runtime monitoring - Software and systems testing - Statistical reasoning techniques - Visualization and classification of program behavior - Relating user feedback to execution dynamics - Dynamic analysis for efficient memory management - Dynamic analysis on embedded and mobile systems Submissions addressing an emerging problem are especially welcome. The workshop will be structured to encourage discussion and develop research collaborations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must be in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings format, 10-point type, and may not exceed 6 pages. Submissions must be in PDF, printable on US Letter. Submissions to WODA should be in one of the following two categories: - A four to six page position/idea paper describing an issue in the field, and arguing for a specific stance or approach to that issue - A two-page extended abstract describing an ongoing project All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. During the workshop, extended abstracts will receive a shorter presentation and discussion period. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS Organizing Committee: Workshop co-chairs: Harry Xu, University of California, Irvine, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Program Committee: Shigeru Chiba, The University of Tokyo, Japan Brian Demsky, University of California, Irvine, USA Julian Dolby, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Irene Finocchi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rajiv Gupta, University of California Riverside, USA Matthias Hauswirth, University of Lugano, Switzerland Yu David Liu, SUNY Binghamton, USA Yi Lu, Oracle Labs, Australia Hans peter Mo?ssenbo?ck, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University, USA Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China _______________________________________________ ecoop-info mailing list ecoop-info at ecoop.org http://web.satd.uma.es/mailman/listinfo/ecoop-info From murano at na.infn.it Tue Jun 30 05:01:30 2015 From: murano at na.infn.it (murano at na.infn.it) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:01:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SR 2015 - Final call for papers - Oxford, Sept 21-22, UK Message-ID: <62389.192.133.28.4.1435654890.squirrel@imap-lp.na.infn.it> Summary of relevant information: - Deadline (abstracts) : July 1st, 2015. - Special issue : Journal of Information and Computation. - Format : EPTCS (10 pages + references). - Place : Oxford, UK. - Date : September 21-22, 2015. - Main topics : Games, Logic, Verification, Multi-Agent Systems. - Invited Speakers : Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam/Stanford University. Joseph Halpern, Cornell University. Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University. Moshe Vardi, Rice University. Detailed information below: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SR 2015 - Call For Papers 3rd International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning Oxford, 21-22 September, 2015 https://sites.google.com/site/sr2015homepage/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategic reasoning is one of the most active research areas in the multi-agent system domain. The literature in this field is extensive and provides a plethora of logics for modelling strategic ability. Theoretical results are now being used in many exciting domains, including software tools for information system security, robot teams with sophisticated adaptive strategies, and automatic players capable of beating expert human adversary, just to cite a few. All these examples share the challenge of developing novel theories and tools for agent strategies that take into account the likely behaviour of adversaries. The SR international workshop aims to bring together researchers working on different aspects of strategic reasoning in computer science, artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems research, both from a theoretical and a practical viewpoint. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST. The topics covered by SR include, but are not limited to, the following: * Logics for reasoning about strategic abilities; * Logics for multi-agent mechanism design, verification, and synthesis; * Logical foundations of decision theory for multi-agent systems; * Strategic reasoning in formal verification; * Automata theory for strategy synthesis; * Strategic reasoning under perfect and imperfect information; * Applications and tools for cooperative and adversarial reasoning; * Robust planning and optimisation in multi-agent systems; * Risk and uncertainty in multi-agent systems; * Quantitative aspects of strategic reasoning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS. Speakers so far confirmed include: * Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam/Stanford University * Joseph Halpern, Cornell University * Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford * Moshe Vardi, Rice University ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES. * June 1st, 2015: Submission opening * July 1st, 2015 (strict): Abstract submission deadline * July 3rd, 2015 (strict): Paper submission deadline * July 31st, 2015: Acceptance notification * August 14th, 2015: Camera-ready version deadline * September 21st-22nd, 2015: SR 2015 workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION. Extended abstracts should be submitted not exceeding 10 pages (plus references) in the EPTCS format. If necessary, the work may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be consulted at the discretion of the PC. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair, using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sr2015 Two types of submission are invited: * contributions reporting on novel research; * expository contributions reporting on published work. Each submission should be clearly identified as belonging to one category or the other. In both categories, strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience and all contributions should be written so that they are accessible to such an audience. Extended abstracts will be held to the usual high standards of research publications. In particular, they should contain enough information to enable the PC to identify the main contribution of the work, explain the significance of the work, its novelty, and its practical or theoretical implications, and include comparisons with and references to relevant literature. Expository abstracts, which will be evaluated using similar high standards, may survey an area or report on more specific previously published work. Submissions should make clear the relevance to the strategic reasoning audience. Submissions from PC members are also allowed. Note that, since the workshop will have informal proceedings, extended versions of the accepted papers can also be submitted elsewhere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS. The workshop proceedings will be available as a single PDF file from the workshop website. Extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a special issue of the Journal of Information and Computation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMITTEES. Workshop Chairs * Julian Gutierrez, University of Oxford, UK * Fabio Mogavero, University of Naples Federico II, Italy * Aniello Murano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy * Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, UK [MAIN CONTACT] Program Committee * Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway * Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK * Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh, UK * Krishnendu Chatterjee, IST, Austria * Vojtech Forejt, University of Oxford, UK * Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University, Sweden * Erich Graedel, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Julian Gutierrez, University of Oxford, UK * Paul Harrenstein, University of Oxford, UK * Andreas Herzig, CNRS, IRIT, France * Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel * Salvatore La Torre, University of Salerno, Italy * Jerome Lang, LAMSADE, France * Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK * Enrico Marchioni, University of Oxford, UK * Nicolas Markey, LSV, CNRS, and ENS Cachan, France * John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands * Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick, UK * Luke Ong, University of Oxford, UK * Sophie Pinchinat, IRISA Rennes, France * Nikos Tzevelekos, Queen Mary University of London, UK * Wiebe Van Der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK * Igor Walukiewicz, CNRS, LaBRI, France Local Arrangements Committee * Vojtech Forejt, University of Oxford, UK * Julian Gutierrez, University of Oxford, UK * Paul Harrenstein, University of Oxford, UK * Enrico Marchioni, University of Oxford, UK * Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford, UK * Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From akenn at microsoft.com Wed Jul 1 10:11:46 2015 From: akenn at microsoft.com (Andrew Kennedy) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 14:11:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: ICFP 2015 Student Research Competition Message-ID: <1d9c74c8ac2441388a0c8ba7642cf293@AM3PR30MB033.064d.mgd.msft.net> ====================================================================== DEADLINE EXTENSION New deadline: 6th July 2015 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SRC at ICFP 2015 Vancouver, Canada 31 August - 2 September 2015 http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2015/src.html Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2015) ====================================================================== *** The deadline has been extended by a week! We particularly encourage submissions from undergraduates: none had been received in this category by the original deadline. Note that there is some funding available (up to $500), see the ACM website at http://src.acm.org/students.html *** Student Research Competition ---------------------------- This year ICFP will host a Student Research Competition where undergraduate and postgraduate students can present posters. The SRC at ICFP 2015 consists of three rounds: * Extended abstract round. All students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract of up to 800 words outlining their research. * Poster session. Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in the poster session which will take place at ICFP. Students who make it to this round will be eligible for some travel support to attend the conference. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the judges, who will select three finalists in each category (graduate/undergraduate) to advance to the next round. * ICFP presentation. The last round will consist of an oral presentation at ICFP to compete for the final award. Prizes ------ * The top three graduate and the top three undergraduate winners will receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. * All six winners will receive award medals and a two-year complimentary ACM student membership, including a subscription to ACM's Digital Library. * The names of the winners will be posted on the ACM SRC web site. * The first-place winners will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competition among the winners of conference-hosted SRCs. * Grand Finalists and their advisors will be invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet for an all-expenses-paid trip, where they will be recognized for their accomplishments along with other prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award (also known as the Nobel Prize of Computing). * The top three graduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. Likewise, the top three undergraduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. All six Grand Finalists will receive Grand Finalist certificates. * The ACM, Microsoft Research, and our industrial partners provide financial support for students attending the SRC. You can find more information about this on the ACM website at http://src.acm.org/students.html Eligibility ----------- The SRC is open to both undergraduate (not in a PhD programme) and graduate students (in a PhD programme). Upon submission, entrants must be enrolled as a student at their universities, and are ACM student members. Furthermore, there are some constraints on what kind of work may be submitted. Previously published work: Submissions should consist of original work (not yet accepted for publication). If the work is a continuation of previously published work, the submission should focus on the contribution over what has already been published. We encourage students to see this as an opportunity to get early feedback and exposure for the work they plan to submit to the next ICFP or POPL. Collaborative work: Students are encouraged to submit work they have been conducting in collaboration with others, including advisors, internship mentors, or other students. However, submissions are individual, so they must focus on the contributions of the student. Submission Details ------------------ Each submission should include the student author's name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and postal address; research advisor's name; ACM student member number; category (undergraduate or graduate); research title; and an extended abstract addressing the following: * Problem and Motivation: Clearly state the problem being addressed and explain the reasons for seeking a solution to this problem. * Background and Related Work: Describe the specialized (but pertinent) background necessary to appreciate the work. Include references to the literature where appropriate, and briefly explain where your work departs from that done by others. * Approach and Uniqueness: Describe your approach in attacking the problem and clearly state how your approach is novel. * Results and Contributions: Clearly show how the results of your work contribute to computer science and explain the significance of those results. The abstract must describe the student's individual research and must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student's role was and should focus on that portion of the work. The extended abstract must not exceed 800 words and must not be longer than 2 pages. The reference list does not count towards these limits. To submit an abstract, please register through the submission page and follow the instructions. 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Most notably, Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers have become orders of magnitude faster and capable of handling problems that are orders of magnitude bigger, thus enabling the formal verification of more complex computer systems. As a result, the formal verification of hardware and software has become a promising area for research and industrial applications. Constraints have applications to all formal verification methods. Particularly, the efficient use of constraints can make or break a formal verification run, and can result in orders of magnitude speedup and orders of magnitude increase in scalability for solving of larger problems. The main goal of the Constraints in Formal Verification workshop is to bring together researchers from the CSP/SAT/SMT and the formal verification communities, to describe new applications of constraint technology to formal verification, to disseminate new challenging problem instances, and to propose new dedicated algorithms for hard formal verification problems. This workshop will be of interest to researchers from both academia and industry, working on constraints or on formal verification and interested in the application of constraints to formal verification. Scope: ------ The scope of the workshop includes topics related to the application of constraint technology to formal verification, namely: * application of constraint solvers to hardware verification; * application of constraint solvers to software verification; * dedicated solvers for formal verification problems; * challenging formal verification problems. Location: --------- The workshop will take place in the Doubletree Hotel in Austin Texas, on November 5, 2015. It will be structured to allow ample time for discussion and demonstration of new tools and new problem instances. Submissions: ------------ Submissions should be in the IEEE style and in one of the following types: * a regular paper of up to 6 pages; * a short paper of up to 4 pages, describing an industrial experience. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair. Important Dates: ---------------- The important dates for the workshop are as follows: Abstract submission deadline: July 18 Paper submission deadline: July 25 Notification of acceptance: September 1 Camera-ready version deadline: October 1 Workshop date: November 5 Invited Speakers: ----------------- Santosh Nagarakatte, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A. Talk title: Lightweight Formal Methods for LLVM Verification Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon/NASA Ames Research Center, U.S.A. Talk title: On the Probabilistic Analysis of Software General Chair: -------------- Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, U.S.A. Email: mvelev at gmail.com Program Chair: -------------- Alex Groce, Oregon State University, U.S.A. Email: agroce at gmail.com Publicity Chair: ---------------- Kristin Yvonne Rozier, University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. Email: rozierky at uc.edu -- ____________________________________________________________ __ /\ \ \_____ / \ ###[==_____> / \ /_/ __ / __ \ \ \_____ | ( ) | ###[==_____> /| /\/\ |\ /_/ / | | | | \ / |=|==|=| \ Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Ph.D. / | | | | \ Assistant Professor / USA | ~||~ |NASA \ University of Cincinnati |______| ~~ |______| Departments of Aerospace Engineering (__||__) and Computer Science /_\ /_\ Phone: (513) 556-3544 !!! !!! http://temporallogic.org/kyr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 80 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people contributing constantly with frameworks and libraries. == Pharo Sprint == Start ECOOP in the right spirit by joining the Pharo Sprint on July 5 at Prague. Learn about key technologies, talk to core developers and other users, pair program and contribute to Pharo. Have fun and enjoy yourself. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From barbara.jobstmann at epfl.ch Fri Jul 3 07:35:56 2015 From: barbara.jobstmann at epfl.ch (Barbara Jobstmann) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 13:35:56 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VMCAI 2016: Call for Papers, Deadlines: Sep 4 (abstract), Sep 11 (paper) Message-ID: 17th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2016) January 17-19, 2016, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States (co-located with POPL 2016). http://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2016 VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods that combine these and related areas. Scope ===== The program of VMCAI 2016 will consist of refereed research papers as well as invited lectures and tutorials. Research contributions can report new results as well as experimental evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Program Verification * Model Checking * Abstract Interpretation * Abstract Domains * Program Synthesis * Static Analysis * Type Systems * Deductive Methods * Program Certification * Error Diagnosis * Program Transformation * Hybrid and Cyber-physical Systems Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming. Important Dates =============== Abstract submission Fri 4 Sep 2015 Paper submission Fri 11 Sep 2015 Author notification Sat 10 Oct 2015 VMCAI 2016 conference Sun 17 - Tue 19 Jan 2016 Submissions =========== Submissions are restricted to 17 pages in Springer's LNCS format, not counting references. Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website. Submissions must be uploaded via the paper submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmcai2016 Accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Student Travel Funding ====================== We are in the process of acquiring funds to sponsor travel and other costs of attending VMCAI in St. Petersburg, Florida. Only students who are registered (or will register) for VMCAI are eligible to apply. If you are interested, please send the following information to vmcai2016 at easychair.org : * Are you presenting a paper at VMCAI? If not, then a short paragraph on why you want to attend VMCAI. * An estimate of the cost (travel and accommodation). * Will you be able to attend the conference if we cannot fund you? * Are you studying at a US university? * A copy of your CV. Program chairs ============== Barbara Jobstmann (EPFL and CNRS-Verimag) K. Rustan M. 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URL: From peterol at ifi.uio.no Sun Jul 5 16:17:35 2015 From: peterol at ifi.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Peter_Csaba_=C3=96lveczky?=) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 22:17:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CfP/Deadline extension: International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software Message-ID: <0AE7FB14-2D44-42A0-8B02-847A1CBDDC58@ifi.uio.no> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** (Extended) Paper submission deadline: July 12 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 Paper submission deadline: July 12 (AoE) (extended) Notification: August 28 Conference: Oct 14-16 INVITED SPEAKERS Martin Wirsing Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich David Deharbe Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Renato Cerqueira IBM Research, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Peter Olveczky University of Oslo 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 Camilo Rocha Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria Gwen Salaun Grenoble INP - INRIA - LIG Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich Bernhard Schatz Technical University Munchen From serge.autexier at dfki.de Mon Jul 6 03:00:52 2015 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 09:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2015: Final Call for Participation, Deadline July 6th, 2015 Message-ID: <20150706070052.28E0229FCA26@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Final Call for Participation Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics CICM 2015 13-17 July 2015 Washington DC, USA Registration Deadline July 6th, 2015 The programme for this year's CICM in Washington can be found as http://www.cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php?event=&menu=detailed-programme The accepted papers as http://www.cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php?event=&menu=talks In addition we solicit for posters which will not be peer reviewed, but we will just do a screen review for relevance to the conference. A poster presentation will consist of a 5 minute teaser talk and the presentation of the poster on Tuesday morning (together with the other presentations in the Systems/Data/Projects track). You can submit a brief abstract on a poster by 22 June 2015 via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2015 You will be informed about acceptance shortly after your submission. Registration to the conference will open shortly. For details on the conference, registration, accommodation, etc. see http://www.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/ "Towards a Global Digital Mathematics Library" * 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 are 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 is organized by the General Programme Chair, Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK). As in previous years, we have co-located workshops: * Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians * Theorem proving components for Educational software (ThEdu'15) * MathUI Furthermore we have a doctoral programme to mentor doctoral students giving presentations and a tutorial on the generic proof assistant Isabelle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From salvaneschi at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Mon Jul 6 03:53:25 2015 From: salvaneschi at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Guido Salvaneschi) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 09:53:25 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: REBLS @ SPLASH 2015 - Workshop on Reactive and Event-Based Languages & Systems Message-ID: 2nd International Workshop on Reactive and Event-Based Languages & Systems Held at SPLASH Conference http://2015.splashcon.org/ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - October 25/26, 2015 ===== Introduction ===== Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design - so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) - have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work. ===== Contributions ===== Even though reactive programming and event-based programming are receiving ever more attention, the field is far from mature. This workshop will join forces and try to gather researchers working on the foundational models, languages and implementation technologies. We welcome all submissions on reactive programming, aspect- and event-oriented systems, including but not limited to: language design, implementation, runtime systems, program analysis, software metrics, patterns and benchmarks. - Study of the paradigm: interaction of reactive and event-based programming with existing language features such as object-oriented programming, mutable state, concurrency. - Advanced event systems, event quantification, event composition, aspect-oriented programming for reactive applications. - Functional-reactive programming, self-adjusting computation and incremental computing. - Applications, case studies that show the efficacy of reactive programming. - Empirical studies that motivate further research in the field. - Patterns and best-practices. - Related fields, such as complex event processing, reactive data structures, view maintenance, constraint-based languages, and their integration with reactive programming. - IDEs, Tools. - Implementation technology, language runtimes, virtual machine support, compilers. - Modularity and abstraction mechanisms in large systems. - Formal models for reactive and event-based programming. The format of the workshop is that of a mini-conference. Because of the declarative nature of reactive programs, it is often hard to understand their semantics just by looking at the code. We therefore also encourage authors to use their slots for presenting their work based on live demos. Info about the format and the page limits can be found on the REBLS'15 website (http://www.rebls-ws.com). ===== Important dates ===== - Full-paper deadline: August 7, 2015 - Full-paper notification: September 7, 2015 - Workshop: October 25/26, 2015 Info about the submission site can be found on the REBLS'15 page (http://www.rebls-ws.com). ==== Organization and Committees Organizers: Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Patrick Eugster, Purdue University and TU Darmstadt Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo Program Committee: Umut Acar, Carnegie Mellon University Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo Dominique Devriese, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Jonathan Edwards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University ===== REBLS @ SPLASH 2015 From maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT Mon Jul 6 04:24:39 2015 From: maurizio.proietti at IASI.CNR.IT (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 10:24:39 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR & PPDP 2015: Last Call for Participation Message-ID: ======== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION LOPSTR & PPDP 2015 ========= 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2015) 17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2015) University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015 Registration site: http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/ppdp-lopstr-15/registration.html ============================================================ 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2015 http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/ University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015 (co-located with PPDP 2015) ============================================================ Invited speakers: Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with PPDP) ?Verification by Abstract Interpretation, Soundness and Abstract Induction? Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain ?Towards Verified Cryptographic Implementations? Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France (Jointly with PPDP) ?Proof checking and logic programming? Full symposium program: http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/LOPSTR2015SymposiumProgram.html 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 Guillermo Roman-Diez, Technical Univ. of Madrid, Spain 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 ============================================================ 17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2015 Siena, Italy, July 14-16, 2015 (co-located with LOPSTR 2015) http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/ppdp15 ============================================================ Early registration by June 30, 2015 http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/ppdp-lopstr-15/registration.html Invited speakers: Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with LOPSTR) ?Verification by Abstract Interpretation, Soundness and Abstract Induction? Martin Hofmann, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany ?Automatic Amortized Analysis? Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France (Jointly with LOPSTR) ?Proof checking and logic programming? Louis Mandel (College de France, Paris) and Marc Pouzet (ENS, Paris) ?ReactiveML, Ten Years Later? Full symposium program: http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/ppdp15/program-ppdp15.html 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 Organizing Committee Monica Bianchini, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Sara Brunetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy Guillermo Roman-Diez, Technical Univ. of Madrid, Spain 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 From mcimini at indiana.edu Mon Jul 6 22:54:04 2015 From: mcimini at indiana.edu (Cimini, Matteo) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 02:54:04 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Abstracts: YR-CONCUR 2015 - Extended Deadline Message-ID: <5D0EEAEE1586DF4EA042E232F4CDD7F92BEB90@IU-MSSG-MBX102.ads.iu.edu> ========================================================================= EXTENDED DEADLINE: Submissions 15th July. CALL for ABSTRACTS for YR-CONCUR 2015 6th International Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory (satellite workshop of CONCUR 2015) September 5, 2015 Madrid, Spain http://cimini.info/yr-concur2015/ ========================================================================= Aims and objectives: This workshop aims at providing a platform for PhD students and young researchers who recently completed their doctoral studies, to exchange new results related to concurrency theory and receive feedback on their research. Focus is on informal discussions. Excellent master students working on concurrency theory are also encouraged to contribute. Format: YR-CONCUR 2015 is a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2015 and will be held on September 5th, 2015. It is anticipated that many CONCUR participants will attend the YR-workshop (and vice versa). Presentations are selected on the basis of an abstract of up to 4 pages (including references) describing the research. No particular format is required. Submissions are judged on the expected interest in and quality of the talk. The accepted abstracts will be made available at the workshop, but no formal proceedings are planned. It is thus also allowed (and encouraged) to send results that have been published at other conferences (although preferably not at CONCUR 2015 or any of its other satellite workshops). 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Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From matthieu.sozeau at inria.fr Tue Jul 7 06:00:42 2015 From: matthieu.sozeau at inria.fr (Matthieu Sozeau) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:00:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Coq ITP Tutorial Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Coq ITP Tutorial August 27th-29th Nanjing, China ================ You are invited to attend the Coq ITP Tutorial in Nanjing, China, from the 27th of August to the 29th. Audience ======== The tutorial is dedicated to beginners and should introduce to the basics of the Coq proof assistant. The tutorial consists of a mixture of lectures and practical classes where the participants are given practical theorem problems to be solved in Coq. Participants should bring their own laptops with Coq already installed on it. Speakers ======== Reynald Affeldt (AIST) Sandrine Blazy (IRISA - University of Rennes 1) Cyril Cohen (Inria - Marelle team) Hugo Herbelin (Inria - ?r2 team) Gregory Malecha (Harvard University SEAS) Enrico Tassi (Inria - Marelle team) Program ======= The program will address the basics of the Coq system, including: - Propositions and proofs - Programming in Coq - Interactive proofs - Proving properties of programs - Datatypes / Inductive Datatypes / Recursion / Inductive Properties Registration ============ Registration is part of the ITP'15 conference registration process. Organizers ========== Matthieu Sozeau (Inria - ?r2 team) Pierre-Yves Strub (IMDEA Software Institute) (all information is also available at http://www.strub.nu/coq-itp-15) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucker at spamfence.net Mon Jul 6 14:36:04 2015 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:36:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OCL 2015: Final Call for Papers - Only 10 Days Left Message-ID: <20150706183604.GA13436@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) If you are working on the foundations, methods, or tools for OCL or textual modelling, you should now prepare your submission for the OCL workshop! CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling Tools and Textual Model Transformations Co-located with ACM/IEEE 18th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2015) September 28th, 2015, Ottawa, Canada http://ocl2015.lri.fr Modeling started out with UML and its precursors as a graphical notation. Such visual representations enable direct intuitive capturing of reality, but some of their features are difficult to formalize and lack the level of precision required to create complete and unambiguous specifications. Limitations of the graphical notations encouraged the development of text-based modeling languages that either integrate with or replace graphical notations for modeling. Typical examples of such languages are OCL, textual MOF, Epsilon, and Alloy. Textual modeling languages have their roots in formal language paradigms like logic, programming and databases. The goal of this workshop is to create a forum where researchers and practitioners interested in building models using OCL or other kinds of textual languages can directly interact, report advances, share results, identify tools for language development, and discuss appropriate standards. In particular, the workshop will encourage discussions for achieving synergy from different modeling language concepts and modeling language use. The close interaction will enable researchers and practitioners to identify common interests and options for potential cooperation. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) =================================================== - Mappings between textual modeling languages and other languages/formalisms - Algorithms, evaluation strategies and optimizations in the context of textual modeling languages for -- validation, verification, and testing, -- model transformation and code generation, -- meta-modeling and DSLs, and -- query and constraint specifications - Alternative graphical/textual notations for textual modeling languages - Evolution, transformation and simplification of textual modeling expressions - Libraries, templates and patterns for textual modeling languages - Tools that support textual modeling languages (e.g., verification of OCL formulae, runtime monitoring of invariants) - Complexity results for textual modeling languages - Quality models and benchmarks for comparing and evaluating textual modeling tools and algorithms - Successful applications of textual modeling languages - Case studies on industrial applications of textual modeling languages - Experience reports -- usage of textual modeling languages and tools in complex domains, -- usability of textual modeling languages and tools for end-users - Empirical studies about the benefits and drawbacks of textual modeling languages - Innovative textual modeling tools - Comparison, evaluation and integration of modeling languages - Correlation between modeling languages and modeling tasks This year, we particularly encourage submissions describing tools that support - in a very broad sense - textual modeling languages (if you have implemented OCL.js to run OCL in a web browser, this is the right workshop to present your work) as well as textual model transformations. Venue ===== The workshop will be organized as a part of MODELS 2015 Conference in Ottawa, Canada. It continues the series of OCL workshops held at UML/MODELS conferences: York (2000), Toronto (2001), San Francisco (2003), Lisbon (2004), Montego Bay (2005), Genova (2006), Nashville (2007), Toulouse (2008), Denver (2009), Oslo (2010), Zurich (2011, at the TOOLs conference), 2012 in Innsbruck, 2013 in Miami, and 2014 in Valencia, Spain. Similar to its predecessors, the workshop addresses both people from academia and industry. The aim is to provide a forum for addressing integration of OCL and other textual modeling languages, as well as tools for textual modeling, and for disseminating good practice and discussing the new requirements for textual modeling. Workshop Format =============== The workshop will include short (about 15 min) presentations, parallel sessions of working groups, and sum-up discussions. Submissions =========== Three types of papers will be considered: * short papers (between 6 and 8 pages) describing ideas, * tool papers (between 6 and 8 pages), and * full papers (between 12 and 16 pages) in LNCS format. Submissions should be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocl20150). The program committee will review the submissions (minimum 2 reviews per paper, usually 3 reviews) and select papers according to their relevance and interest for discussions that will take place at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published online in a pre-conference edition of CEUR (http://www.ceur-ws.org). Important Dates =============== Submission of papers: July 17, 2015 Notification: August 21, 2015 Workshop date: September 28, 2015 Organizers ========== Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Programme Committee =================== Mira Balaban, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Tricia Balfe, Nomos Software, Ireland Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Germany Fabian Buettner, Inria - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Jordi Cabot, Inria - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Dan Chiorean, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Robert Clariso, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Manuel Clavel, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Carolina Dania, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Birgit Demuth, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel Istvan Rath, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen, Germany Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Claas Wilke, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Edward Willink, Willink Transformations Ltd., UK Burkhart Wolff, Univ. Paris-Sud - LRI, France Steffen Zschaler, King's College, UK -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 6227 7-52595, http://www.brucker.ch/ From frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr Wed Jul 8 12:06:00 2015 From: frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr (=?UTF-8?B?RnLDqWTDqXJpYyBMb3VsZXJndWU=?=) Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:06:00 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: FORMAL APPROACHES TO PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (4PAD) Message-ID: <559D4A68.1060106@univ-orleans.fr> CALL FOR PAPER FORMAL APPROACHES TO PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (4PAD) 4PAD 2016 (http://www.pdp2016.org/SS2.html) is a Special Session of PDP 2016 Conference (http://www.pdp2016.org/) to be held in Heraklion Crete, Greece, 17th-19th February 2016. The aim of 4PAD is to foster interaction between the formal methods communities and systems researchers working on topics in modern parallel, distributed, and network-based processing systems (e.g., autonomous computing systems, cloud computing systems, service-oriented systems and parallel computing architectures). Topics We solicit papers in all areas of the above mentioned systems, including (but not limited to): Rigorous software engineering approaches and their tool support Model-based approaches, including model-driven development Service- and component-based approaches Semantics, types and logics Formal specification and verification Performance analysis based on formal approaches Formal aspects of programming paradigms and languages Formal approaches to parallel architectures and weak memory models Formal approaches to deployment, run-time analysis, adaptation/evolution, reconfiguration, and monitoring Case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches Formal stochastic models and analysis Formal methods for large-scale distributed systems Statistical analysis techniques based on formal approaches Energy-efficient networking and data storage Programming languages, paradigms and tools for energy-efficient software design Important Dates: Paper submission: 9 August 2015 Acceptance notification: 19 October 2015 Camera ready due: 10 November 2015 Conference: 17-19 February. 2016 Session Chairs: Fr?d?ric Loulergue (Universit? d'Orl?ans, France) Enrico Tronci (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) From bogom.s at gmail.com Wed Jul 8 13:51:53 2015 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 19:51:53 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HSB 2015: Call for Participation and Posters/Demos for the 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology Message-ID: -- Call for Participation and Posters/Demos -- HSB 2015: The 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology http://hsb2015.fi.muni.cz 4-5 September 2015, Madrid (Spain) In conjunction with Madrid Meet 2015 Proceedings in Springer's LNCS ===================================================================== The 4th International Workshop on 'Hybrid Systems Biology' will be held on September 4th and 5th in Madrid (ES), and co-located with the Madrid Meet 2015 (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/madrid2015/), which hosts also CONCUR 2015, QEST 2015, FORMATS 2015, among other events. Previous editions have been held in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), Taormina (IT), and Vienna (AT, at VSL 2014). == IMPORTANT DATES == Posters/Demos Submission: August 15, 2015 Paper Submission: June 15, 2015 (closed) Paper Notification: July 15, 2015 Paper Final Submission: September 5, 2015 == TOPICS OF INTEREST == The scope of the HSB workshop covers the general area of dynamical models in Biology with an emphasis on hybrid approaches ??? by no means restricted to a narrow class of mathematical models ??? and taking advantage of techniques developed separately in different areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Models of metabolic, signalling, and genetic regulatory networks in living cells * Models of tissues, organs; physiological models * Biological applications of quantitative and formal analysis techniques, such as reachability computation, model checking, abstract interpretation, bifurcation theory, stability and sensitivity analysis * Parametric and non-parametric system identification techniques (learning models from experimental data) * Efficient techniques for combined and heterogeneous (stochastic/deterministic, spatial/non-spatial) simulations for biological models * Modelling languages for biological systems, with related analysis and simulation tools * Models coping with incomplete and uncertain information * Stochastic hybrid models in biology * Hierarchical systems for multi-scale, multi-domain analysis * Abstraction, approximation, discretisation, and model reduction techniques * Game-theoretical frameworks in biology (e.g., populations dynamics) * Control architectures of biological systems * Modelling and synthesis for synthetic biology == CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS == Full paper submission has been closed. Now we solicit poster/demo presentations. Please submit a poster or tool demo abstract not exceeding 1 page A4 into the EasyChair online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hsb2015 until August 15th. Abstracts serve the sole purpose of selecting contributions for the poster/demo session and will not be published in the conference proceedings. == REGISTRATION == Registration is now opened and can be done via the Madrid Meet webpage at http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/madrid2015/registration.htm. Early registration deadline: July 24, 2015 == PLENARY SPEAKERS == * Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research * Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich == PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS == * Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * David Safranek, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == * Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK - (co-chair) * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gregory Batt, INRIA Rocquencourt, France * Sergiy Bogomolov, IST Austria * Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, Italy * Kevin Burrage, University of Oxford, UK * Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Pieter Collins, Maastricht University, The Netherlands * Milan Ceska, Masaryk University, Czech Republic * Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Hidde de Jong, INRIA Grenoble - Rh??ne-Alpes, France * Alexandre Donze', UC Berkley, USA * Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France * Eric Fanchon, TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, Grenoble, France * Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, University of Pavia, Italy * Elisa Franco, University of California at Riverside / Caltech, USA * Sicun Gao, MIT CSAIL, USA * Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Adam Halasz, West Virginia University, USA * Joao Hespanha, University of California, USA * Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK * Agung Julius, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Heinz Koeppl, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Hillel Kugler, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK * Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK * Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Andrzej Mizera, University of Luxembourg * Stefan Mueller, RICAM ??AW, Austria * Chris Myers, University of Utah, USA * Nicola Paoletti, University of Oxford, UK * Ion Petre, ??bo Akademi University, Finland * Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria * Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy * Nir Piterman, University of Leicester, UK * Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy * Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh, UK * Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware, USA * Katerina Stankova, Maastricht University, The Netherlands * David Safranek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - (co-chair) * P.S. Thiagarajan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Jana Tumova, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * S.A. Wahl, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Verena Wolf, Saarland University, Germany * Boyan Yordanov, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK == STEERING COMMITTEE == * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, Italy * Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Adam Halasz, West Virginia University, USA * Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France * Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy From ruzica.piskac at yale.edu Wed Jul 8 19:09:39 2015 From: ruzica.piskac at yale.edu (Piskac, Ruzica) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 23:09:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2016 Call for tutorials. Deadline: September 15, 2015 Message-ID: <5A4619A9F60D7C4CA72E9AAA93F1729763598E93@x10-mbx14.yu.yale.edu> Call for Tutorials (POPL 2016) Since 2012, POPL has been/is home to TutorialFest, which features a buffet of half-day talks oriented towards students in particular and other POPL attendees in general. Tutorials for POPL 2016 are solicited on any topic relevant to the POPL audience. In particular, tutorials that strive to do one of the following have been especially successful in the past: * Describe an important piece of research infrastructure. * Educate the community on an emerging topic. For examples of past tutorials, see the websites of TutorialFest 2013 and 2014. In 2016, tutorials will be held on Monday January 18, 2016 (two days before the main conference and the day before PLMW). For each accepted tutorial, one presenter will receive complimentary registration to POPL. We are investigating low-cost options for video-recording tutorials if consented by tutorial presenters. Submission Procedures Submissions should be in pdf or plain-text, sent via email to Ras Bodik (bodik at cs.washington.edu), with subject line "POPL tutorial proposal") with the following information: * Tutorial title * Presenter(s), affiliation(s), and contact information * 1-3 page description (for evaluation). This should include the objectives, topics to be covered, presentation approach, target audience, prerequisite knowledge, and if the tutorial was previously held, the location (i.e. which conference), date, and number of attendees, and slides if available. * 1-2 paragraph abstract suitable for tutorial publicity. * 1 paragraph biography suitable for tutorial publicity. The conference chairs may also solicit tutorials directly, as has been common in the past. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 15, 2015, anywhere on earth. Tutorial Notification: On or before October 15, 2015. 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High-quality security building blocks (e.g., cryptographic com- ponents) are necessary but insufficient to address these concerns. In- deed, 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 technolo- gies and the progress of attack vectors. Clearly, a strong need exists for engineering techniques that scale well and that demonstrably im- prove the software's security properties. == Goal and setup == The goal of this symposium, which will be the eighth 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 com- munities, and promote cross-fertilization. The symposium will feature two days of technical program including two keynote presentations. 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. == Topics == The Symposium seeks submissions on subjects related to its goals. This includes a diversity of topics including (but not limited to): - Cloud security, virtualization for security - Mobile devices security - Automated techniques for vulnerability discovery and analysis - Model checking for security - Binary code analysis, reverse-engineering - Programming paradigms, models, and domain-specific languages for security - Operating system security - Verification techniques for security properties - Malware: detection, analysis, mitigation - Security in critical infrastructures - Security by design - Static and dynamic code analysis for security - Web applications security - Program rewriting techniques for security - Security measurements - Empirical secure software engineering - Security-oriented software reconfiguration and evolution - Computer forensics - Processes for the development of secure software and systems - Security testing - Embedded software security == Important Dates == Abstract submission: September 25, 2015 Paper submission: October 2, 2015 Author notification: December 7, 2015 Camera-ready: January 8, 2016 == Submission and format == The proceedings of the symposium are published by Springer-Verlag in t he Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (http://www.springer.com/l ncs). Submissions should follow the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS. Submitted papers must present original, unpublished work of high quality. Two types of papers will be accepted: - FULL PAPERS (max 14 pages without bibliography/appendices): Such papers may describe original technical research with a solid foundation, such as formal analysis or experimental results, with ac- ceptance determined mostly based on novelty and validation. Or they may describe case studies applying existing techniques or analysis me- thods in industrial settings, with acceptance determined mostly by the general applicability of techniques and the completeness of the tech- nical presentation details. - IDEA PAPERS (max 8 pages with bibliography): Such papers may crisply describe a novel idea that is both feasible an d interesting, where the idea may range from a variant of an existing technique all the way to a vision for the future of security techno- logy. Idea papers allow authors to introduce ideas to the field and get feedback, while allowing for later publication of complete, fully- developed results. Submissions will be judged primarily on novelty, excitement, and exposition, but feasibility is required, and accep- tance will be unlikely without some basic, principled validation (e.g. extrapolation from limited experiments or simple formal analysis). In the proceedings, idea papers will clearly identified by means of the "Idea" tag in the title. == Steering committee == - Jorge Cuellar (Siemens AG) - Wouter Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - chair - Fabio Massacci (Universit? di Trento) - Gary McGraw (Cigital) - Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University) == Organizing committee == - General chair: Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway University of London) - Program co-chairs: Juan Caballero (IMDEA Software Institute), Eric Bodden (Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt) - Publication chair: Elias Athanasopoulos (FORTH) - Publicity chair: Raoul Strackx (KU Leuven) - Web chair: Ghita Saevels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Daniel Wallach (Rice University) == Program committee == - Javier Alonso, Universidad de Leon & Duke University, ES - Alexander Pretschner, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, DE - Michele Bugliesi, Universit? Ca' Foscari Venezia, IT - Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo, CA - Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine, US - Flavio Garcia, University of Birmingham, UK - Christian Hammer, CISPA, Saarland University, DE - Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, NL - Martin Johns, SAP Research, DE - Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, DE - Johannes Kinder; Royal Holloway, University of London, UK - Andy King, University of Kent, UK - Jacques Klein, University of Luxembourg, LU - Andrea Lanzi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, IT - Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, US - Zhenkai Liang, National University of Singapore, SG - Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research, US - Heiko Mantel, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, DE - Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University, US - Martin Ochoa, TU Munich, GE - Mathias Payer, Purdue University, US - Frank Piessens, KU Leuven, BE - Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK - Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK - Gianluca Stringhini, University College London, UK - Pierre-Yves Strub, IMDEA Software Institute, ES - Helmut Veith, Vienna University of Technology, AU - Santiago Zanella, Microsoft Research ? INRIA, UK Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From idramnesc at info.uvt.ro Thu Jul 9 03:44:27 2015 From: idramnesc at info.uvt.ro (Isabela =?utf-8?Q?Dr=C4=83mnesc?=) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:44:27 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers PAS-2015 (Program Verification, Automated Debugging and Symbolic Computation) In-Reply-To: <559E0D4B.7000404@risc.jku.at> References: <559E0D4B.7000404@risc.jku.at> Message-ID: <585305131.54588.1436427867362.JavaMail.zimbra@info.uvt.ro> PAS 2015 - Fourth International Seminar on Program Verification, Automated Debugging and Symbolic Computation Beijing, China, October 21-23, 2015 Important Dates - Submission of abstracts August 15, 2015 - Submission of papers/extended abstracts: August 20, 2015 - Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 20, 2015 - Final version due: October 10, 2015 - Seminar taking place: October 21-23, 2015 Overview PAS 2015 will provide a forum for researchers and software developers actively involved or interested in developing, using, and applying methods and software tools of symbolic computation for program verification and automated debugging to exchange ideas and views, to review the state of the art and discuss prospects, to present research results and experiments, and to build up contacts for future cooperation. The scientific program of the seminar will feature invited talks and contributed presentations. Specific topics for PAS 2015 include (but are not limited to): - Theories and methodologies for program verification and testing - Model checking, fault locating and program repairing - Symbolic computation and automated reasoning for program verification - Termination, correctness and complexity analysis of programs - Automated program synthesis and transformation - Logic and semantics for automated and algorithmic debugging - Program debugging paradigms and techniques - Symbolic constraint solving for verification and debugging - Tools, prototypes, empirical and case studies The previous seminars PAS 2012 and PAS 2013 were held in Beijing, China, and PAS 2014 was part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) and the Vienna Summer of Logic. Submission Potential participants of PAS 2015 are invited to submit first half-page abstracts and then full papers or extended abstracts (3-5 pages) describing their work to be presented at the seminar. The submitted full papers and extended abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee for soundness and relevance to the seminar. Submission of original research papers is encouraged, while published material and work in progress will also be considered for presentation at the seminar. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pas20150 Accepted full papers and extended abstracts will be distributed at the seminar. Authors of the full papers and extended abstracts accepted for presentation at the seminar will be invited to submit their full and/or revised papers for publication in the post-proceedings volume as a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation (JSC) after the meeting. The submitted papers will be formally reviewed by external referees according to the standard refereeing procedure of JSC. Honorary Chair Wei Li (Beihang University, China) Steering Committee Hoon Hong (North Carolina State University, USA) Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Jens Knoop (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Alexander Letichevsky (Cybernetics National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) Wei Li (Beihang University, China) Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and CNRS, France) Program Chairs Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and CNRS, France) Program Committee (to be announced) Local Arrangements Xiaoyu Chen (Beihang University, China) Aishan Liu ( Beihang University, China) Dan Song (Beihang University, China) From nipkow at in.tum.de Mon Jul 13 02:25:01 2015 From: nipkow at in.tum.de (Tobias Nipkow) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:25:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Isabelle Tutorial at ITP in Nanjing Message-ID: <55A359BD.8040004@in.tum.de> Call for Participation -- Isabelle Tutorial at ITP -- August 21-23, Nanjing, China This intensive 3-day tutorial is aimed both at theorem proving novices and at people already familiar with another proof assistant who want to learn about Isabelle. The tutorial consists of a mixture of interactive lectures and hands-on lab sessions where the participants solve theorem proving problems with Isabelle. The following material is covered: - A Functional Programming introduction to theorem proving: Data types, recursive functions and proof by induction - Beyond equality: logic and set theory - Isabelle's automatic proof toolbox - Isar: a language for writing structured and readable proofs The tutorial http://www.in.tum.de/~nipkow/isa-tut-itp15.html directly precedes ITP 2015 http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/itp-2015/. Registration is part of the ITP conference registration process. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The pc accepted 30 papers this year http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/itp-2015/accepted.html There will be invited talks by Lars Birkedal Michael Norrish There will be a three-day Isabelle tutorial before the conference and a three-day Coq tutorial after the conference. http://www21.in.tum.de/~nipkow/isa-tut-itp15.html http://www.strub.nu/coq-itp-15 ALL RECENT INFO and ON-LINE REGISTRATION can be found at: http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/itp-2015/ If you need any help with travelling and staying inside China, we try our best to help. Xingyuan Zhang and Christian Urban (ITP 2015 co-chairs) From Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at Mon Jul 13 04:51:51 2015 From: Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at (Nickovic Dejan) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:51:51 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2015: Call for Participation Message-ID: ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RV 2015: 15th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 22 - September 25, 2015, Vienna, Austria http://rv2015.conf.tuwien.ac.at/ ****************************************************************** ***************** OVERVIEW ***************** Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software and hardware system executions. Runtime verification techniques are important for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they are complementary to 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 TALKS ***************** - Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA 20 Years of Dynamic Software Model Checking - Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Simulation-Based Falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems - Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Heisenbugs - When Programs Fail ***************** TUTORIALS ***************** - M. Isberner, B. Steffen, F. Howar LearnLib - An Open Source Java Library for Active Automata Learning - P. Daian, Y. Falcone, P. Meredith, T. F. Serbanuta, S. Shiriashi, A. Iwai, G. Rosu RV-Android: Efficient Parametric Android Runtime Verification - D. Nickovic Monitoring and Measuring Hybrid Behaviors - L. Bortolussi, D. Milos, G. Sanguinetti Machine Learning Methods in Statistical Model Checking and System Design ***************** VENUE ***************** Vienna University of Technology Prechtlsaal, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria http://rv2015.conf.tuwien.ac.at/?page_id=36 ***************** REGISTRATION ***************** - Tutorials + RERS Challenge fees 187 Euro, after Aug. 20 231 Euro - Full Regular Registration fees 649 Euro, after Aug. 20 759 Euro - Only Conference Registration fees 594 Euro, after Aug, 20 704 Euro - Student Full Regular Registration fees 440 Euro, after Aug. 20 550 Euro - Student Only Conference Registration fees 396 Euro, after Aug, 20 506 Euro Registration link: http://rv2015.conf.tuwien.ac.at/?page_id=522 ***************** ACCEPTED PAPERS ***************** Regular Papers ================= - Adrian Francalanza, Luca Aceto and Anna Ingolfsdottir, On Verifying The Hennessy-Milner Logic with Recursion at Runtime - Johann Schumann, Patrick Moosbrugger and Kristin Rozier, R2U2: Monitoring and Diagnosis of Security Threats for Unmanned Aerial Systems - Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Alexandre Donz?, Shromona Ghosh, Xiaoqing Jin, Garvit Juniwal and Sanjit A. Seshia, Robust Online Monitoring of Signal Temporal Logic - Samaneh Navabpour, Borzoo Bonakdarpour and Sebastian Fischmeister, Time-triggered Runtime Verification of Component-Based Multi-core Systems - Ali Kassem, Ylies Falcone and Pascal Lafourcade, Monitoring Electronic Exams - Ian Cassar and Adrian Francalanza, Runtime Adaptation for Actor Systems - Alwyn Goodloe, Jonathan Laurent and Lee Pike, Assuring the Guardians - Giles Reger and David Rydeheard, From First-Order Temporal Logic to Parametric Trace Slicing - Jan-Christoph Kuester and Andreas Bauer, Monitoring real Android malware - Alan Perotti, Artur D'Avila Garcez and Guido Boella, Runtime Verification Through Forward Chaining - Andr? De Matos Pedro, David Pereira, Luis Miguel Pinho and Jorge Sousa Pinto, Monitoring for a decidable fragment of MTLD - Aaron Kane, Omar Chowdhury, Anupam Datta and Phil Koopman, A Case Study on Runtime Monitoring of an Autonomous Research Vehicle (ARV) System - Dung Phan, Junxing Yang, Denise Ratasich, Radu Grosu, Scott A. Smolka and Scott Stoller, Collision Avoidance for Mobile Robots with Limited Sensing in Unknown Environments - Shaohui Wang, Yoann Geoffroy, Gregor Goessler, Oleg Sokolsky and Insup Lee, A Hybrid Approach to Causality Analysis - Luca Bortolussi, Michele Loreti, Laura Nenzi, Vincenzo Ciancia and Mieke Massink, Qualitative and Quantitative Monitoring of Spatio-Temporal Properties Short Papers ================= - Giles Reger, Suggesting Edits to Explain Failing Traces - David Kyle, Jeffery Hansen and Sagar Chaki, Statistical Model Checking of Distributed Adaptive Real-Time Software - Luan Nguyen, Christian Schilling, Sergiy Bogomolov and Taylor T Johnson, Runtime Verification of Model-based Development Environments - Athanasios Naskos, Panagiotis Katsaros and Anastasios Gounaris, Probabilistic Model Checking at Runtime for the Provisioning of Cloud Resources Tool Papers ================= - Jesus Mauricio Chimento, Wolfgang Ahrendt, Gordon Pace and Gerardo Schneider, StaRVOOrS - A Tool for Combined Static and Runtime Verification of Java - Srinivas Pinisetty, Ylies Falcone, Thierry J?ron and Herv? Marchand, TIPEX: a tool chain for Timed Property Enforcement during eXecution ***************** CHAIRS AND ORGANIZERS ***************** General Chair: Radu Grosu (Vienna University of Technology, Austria). PC co-Chairs: Ezio Bartocci (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Tools Track Chair: Dejan Nickovic (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria) Runtime Monitoring Competition Co-Chairs: Yli?s Falcone (Universit? 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You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Wed Jul 15 19:23:40 2015 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:23:40 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] workshop TYTLES TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics (August 3-7 ESSLLI , Barcelone) Message-ID: <13475864-5478-490D-924E-9BCF3CEB0D85@lirmm.fr> call for participation / program with abstracts TYTLES TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics (Cooper, Retor?) for registration and practical information see: http://www.esslli2015.org 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. Using Type Theory to deal with lexical phenomena is an active research theme, with an increasing presence in various formal/computational semantic journals and conferences and valuable type theoretical contributions on incorporating lexical considerations into compositional semantics. The topics to be addressed include: ? Linguistically motivated extensions of current type theories ? Lexical semantics in type theory ? Interaction between lexical semantics and type theoretical semantics ? Classical semantic questions in richly typed frameworks: ? Modelling specific questions in type theory: ? Lexical semantics, type theoretical semantics and computational implementation PROGRAM Monday14:00-15:30 14:00 Christian Retor? (and Robin Cooper), Introduction cf. workshop presentation 14:30 Justyna Grudzinska and Marek Zawadowski. A Puzzle about Long-distance Indefinites and Dependent Type Semantics Dependently Typed Semantics with Generalized Quantifiers (DTSGQ) combines two semantic approaches to account for natural language quantification: Generalized Quantifier Theory familiar from Montague-style semantics (Mostowski, A. 1957, Lindstr?m, P. 1966, Barwise, J., Cooper, R. 1981) and type-theoretic approach (Martin-L?f, P. 1972, Ranta, A. 1994, Makkai, M. 1995, Luo, Z. 2012). Like in the classical Montague-style analysis, DTSGQ makes essential use of generalized quantifiers (GQs). But in the spirit of the type-theoretic framework we adopt a many-typed analysis (in place of a standard single-sorted analysis). Like in the standard type-theoretic approaches, we have type dependency in our system. But our semantics is model-theoretic (with truth and reference being basic concepts), and not proof-theoretic (where proof is a central semantic concept). Combining GQs with dependent types allows us to handle in a uniform manner a number of semantic puzzles concerning natural language quantifiers. In our previous work we have defined a new interpretational algorithm to account for a wide range of anaphoric (dynamic) effects associated with natural language quantification (Grudzinska, J., Zawadowski, M. 2014). In this paper we will tackle the phenomenon of exceptional scopes of one class of quantifiers (indefinites) and the so-called puzzle about long-distance indefinites that seems to be unsettled in the literature (see Chierchia, G. 2001, Schwarz, B. 2001, Szabolcsi, A. 2010). Our solution to the puzzle about long-distance indefinites makes crucial use of dependent types, i.e. we propose to credit the problematic long-distance readings to the presence of possibly hidden) dependencies. 15:00 Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Mathieu Lafourcade, Lionel Ramadier and Manel Zarrouk. Type Theories and Lexical Networks: Using Serious Games as the Basis for Multi-Sorted Typed Systems In this paper, we show how a rich lexico-semantic network which has been built using serious games, JeuxDeMots, can help us in grounding our semantic ontologies as well as different sorts of information in doing formal semantics using modern type theories (type theories within the tradition of Martin L?of). We discuss the domain of base types, adjectival and verbal types, hyperonymy/hyponymy relations as well as more advanced issues like homophony and polysemy. Tuesday 14:00 - 15:30 14:00 Staffan Larsson. Perceptual Meaning in TTR Judgement-based Semantics and Conceptual Spaces We are developing a type-theoretical judgement-based semantics where notions such as perception, classification, judgement, learning and dialogue coordination play a central role. By bringing perception and semantic coordination into formal semantics, this theory can be seen as an attempt at unifying cognitive and formal approaches to meaning. The purpouse of this paper is to briefly compare judgement-based semantics to the theory of conceptual spaces. We conclude that there are important similarities but also some differences. One aim of judgement-based semantics is to formalise semantic classification and learning in detail, to enable integration of these aspects of meaning with those traditionally studied in formal semantics, and to enable computational modeling and implementation of these aspects of meaning. By using statistical classifiers, we connect to machine learning theory, giving access to a host of classification methods and associated learning algorithms. 14:30 Simon Dobnik. Interfacing Language, Spatial Perception and Cognition in Type Theory with Records In the proposed presentation we overview and connect two lines of our work related to Type Theory with Records (TTR): modelling of spatial language and cognition and modelling of attention-driven judgement. We argue that computational modelling of perception, action, language, and cognition introduces several requirements on a formal semantic theory and its practical implementations: (i) interfacing discrete conceptual knowledge and continuous real-valued sensory readings; (ii) information fusion of knowledge from several modalities; (iii) dynamic adaptation of semantic representations/knowledge as agents experience new situations through linguistic interaction and perception. Using examples of semantic representations of spatial descriptions we show how Type Theory with Records satisfies these requirements. The advantage of truth being based on agent-relative judgements in TTR is crucial in this but practically it comes with a computational cost. However, this challenge is not unique to TTR. An agent would have to check whether a situation s is of every type in its inventory. In the second part of the talk we argue that the number of type judgements an agent has to make can be minimised by incorporating a cognitive notion of judgement that is driven by perceptual attention. 15:00 Peter Sutton and Hana Filip. Probabilistic Mereological TTR and the Mass/Count Distinction The goals of this paper are threefold. (1) We argue that four semantic classes can be used to predict cross and intralinguistic variation in whether nouns are encoded as count or mass. These semantic classes are defined in terms of two kinds of sources: vagueness (Chierchia 2010) and (non-)overlap of individuated entities (Landman 2011). (2) We enrich prob-TTR (Cooper et al. 2014, a probabilistic variant of TTR, Cooper 2012) with mereological relations to give probM-TTR. We adopt prob-TTR since its probabilistic basis is perfectly suited to the representation of vagueness. We enrich it with mereology so as to be able to express when two (mereological) entities overlap. (3) We derive our four classes by defining vagueness and non-overlap in probabilistic terms, and showing how vagueness and (non-)overlap interact. The presence of neither vagueness nor overlap is characteristic of prototypical count nouns (cat, book). The presence of vagueness and overlap is characteristic of ?substance? mass nouns (mud, blood). Both these noun classes display little or no cross and intralinguistic variation in MASS/COUNT encoding. ?Aggregate? nouns (furniture, kitchenware) are not vague, but do overlap (a pestle and mortar can count as both one and two items of kitchenware). ?Granular? nouns (lentils, rice) are vague (it is vague how much rice counts as enough rice for dinner). Both of these noun classes display cross- and intralinguistic variation in MASS/COUNT encoding. Countability requires determining a clear counting base of discrete entities. Vagueness or overlap can interfere with counting, vagueness and overlap always do. Wednesday14:00 - 15:30 14:00 Ellen Breitholtz. Are Widows Always Wicked? Learning concepts through enthymematic reasoning In this paper we suggest that enthymematic reasoning may play a role in the acquisition of new concepts by a language learner. On our account, a learner, for example a young child, forms hypotheses about acceptable ways of reasoning ? so called topoi ? based on observations and interaction with dialogue partners. These topoi are then used to underpin the child?s reasoning in other situations. To illustrate this point we analyse an example of natural dialogue using an information state update approach cast in Type Theory with Records. This approach allows us to represent misunderstanding and misinterpretation of meaning, since it is based on the conceptualisation of entities in individuals rather than on a God's eye view of meaning. Also, the record types of TTR offer a convenient way to represent subtype relations, which seems to be an important aspect of our evaluation of in which situations specific topoi are applicable Our account fits well with an approach to word meaning where speakers are constantly adjusting meanings on the basis of experience, and where meaning may be negotiated in interaction. Also, our account of word acquisition relates to Pustejovsky?s (1998) suggestion that enthymemes, or enthymematic reasoning, may be a means for lexical interpretation. 14:30 Seohyun Im and Chungmin Lee. A Developed Analysis of Type Coercion Using Asher's TCL and Conventionality This paper aims to propose a developed analysis of type coercion phenomena such as "begin the book" based on Type Theory and Conventional Non-linguistic Context, making a distinction between linguistic and non-linguistic context. We argue that linguistic and non-linguistic context as well as the lexical meaning of the words are deeply involved in the interpretation of a type-coerced construction. In the lexical semantic level, the type-coerced construction is ambiguous. Although its linguistic context can decrease the number of possible interpretations of the construction in the process of composition, it is still ambiguous until its non-linguistic context disambiguates the meaning of the construction. More importantly, we propose that the lexical meaning (type) of a word is a conventionalized meaning under the assumption of a conventional non-linguistic context linked to the word. The context holds in the compositional process. Therefore, a type-coerced construction has a preferred interpretation derived from its conventional non-linguistic context, if no specific non-linguistic context (the situation of utterance) is provided and its linguistic context is neutral. For instance, the preferred interpretation of "begin the book" is to begin reading the book, because the conventional non-linguistic context of "book" is the situation of reading the book. However, the preference is just a probability and the construction is still ambiguous. To sum up, the ambiguity of a type-coerced construction is resolved through the three levels: from lexical semantics (conventional non-linguistic context), to compositional semantics (linguistic context) and to pragmatics (non-linguistic context). 15:00 Daisuke Bekki and Miho Satoh. Calculating Projections via Type Checking Dependent type semantics (DTS) is a proof-theoretic, compositional framework of discourse semantics based on dependent type theory, extended with underspecified terms. In DTS, anaphora and presupposition triggers are represented by using underspecified terms, which are to be replaced by proof terms inhabiting the same type. This process corresponds to anaphora resolution and presupposition binding, and it has been predicted in previous literature that the type of each underspecified term can be calculated via type inference/checking of dependent type theory, which amounts to the calculation of presupposition projection. However, the formulation of type inference/checking for DTS has been left as an open issue, which is not an obvious task, since type inference/checking in dependent type theory is known to be undecidable. In this paper, we formalized a set of rules for a type inference/checking algorithm for a decidable fragment of dependent type theory, which is an extension of the type inference/checking algorithm for Agda by Loh et al. We claim that this fragment is sufficient for representing (proof-theoretic) meaning of a broad range of natural language sentences. Moreover, we have implemented the proposed algorithm in Haskell programming language and demonstrate that it correctly calculates the projective contents of sentences involving presupposition filtering and global/local accommodations. Thursday 14:00 - 15:30 14:00 Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Rainer Osswald, Sylvain Pogodalla and Christian Wurm. Quantification in Frame Semantics with Hybrid Logic We present an approach that aims at integrating logical operators into semantic frames by employing hybrid logic. Frames have been developed as a format for the representation of conceptual and lexical knowledge. They are commonly presented as graphs, where nodes correspond to entities (individuals, events, etc.) and edges represent (functional or non-functional) relations between these entities. Semantic structures of this type allow one to capture lexical meaning in a fine-grained way but lack a natural way to integrate logical operators such as quantifiers. Our approach starts from the observation that modal logic is a powerful tool for describing relational structures and is hence suitable for characterizing frames. We use a hybrid logic extension of modal logic. In particular, we make use of the following elements that can occur in logical formulas: nominals, which allow the reference to specific nodes of the frame, and state variables with their associated quantifiers, which can express general properties of the models. Lexical items are then provided with logical expressions which specify the semantic properties that should hold for the corresponding frames. This grounds our approach to quantification in frame semantics. Finally, we devise a compositional syntax-semantics interface in a type-theoretic setting and give an illustration of how classical examples of quantifier scope can interact with path equalities introduced by the lexical frames. 14:30 Livy Real and Alexandre Rademaker. An Overview on Portuguese Nominalisation We discuss nominalizations in Portuguese formed by the suffix -ura, as pintura (painting), magistratura (magistracy) and gordura (fat). We have done a corpus-based description of the behavior of these nominal forms and proposed a type ontology to categorize them. We have parted from all the nouns formed by -ura which are present in OpenWordNet-PT and checked them in three famous Portuguese dictionaries (Porto Dictionary, Caldas Aulete Dictionary and Houaiss Dictionary). Then we analyzed their use in context in Corpus Brasileiro, a corpus which has more than 1 billion words extracted from various textual genders. In order to offer a rich description, we also tested all words formed by -ura in co-predication contexts with at least three native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese with no knowledge of linguistic study theories to check if their types could be co-predicated. Although our main goal was to produce a corpus-based description on those nouns, we have found few possible generalizations considering the type-structure of -ura forms. More than that, our tests on co-predication show that may be the frequency of use of a given word has a special role on the acceptability of co-predication between different senses of a nominalization. 15:00 Pepijn Kokke. Formalising type-logical grammars in Agda This is a talk about the proof assistant Agda. More specifically, about using Agda to prove things and all the advantages of doing so. Those advantages, as we shall explain, are that you: a) have a machine-checked implementation of your theory; b) can compute with your proofs; and c) can typeset Agda proofs so that the proofs you write are the proofs you publish. The first half of this talk is going to be spent introducing the Agda language, programming in Agda and writing papers in literate Agda. The second half is going to be spend giving an example of this process, by formalising the Lambek-Grishin calculus (LG) in Agda, discussing a proof for cut-elimination in LG, and outlining a CPS translation from LG into Agda. We will finish up by providing several example analyses of sentences. Friday14:00 - 15:30 14:00 Bruno Mery. The Relative Complexity of Constraints in Co-Predicative Utterances In examining ?The Relative Complexity of Constraints in Co-Predicative Utterances?, we want to explore one among many phenomena of lexical semantics that are at once hard to characterise and prone to many exceptions and idiosyncrasies, and nevertheless can be formally treated in compositional semantics, thus illustrating the expressive power of adaptative logical frameworks for semantics and the specific challenges in gathering adequate data to evaluate their validity. We detail the particular variations of semantic felicity in co-predicative utterances the constraints on the combination of facets of polysemous words, and the possible adaptations that can be proposed to existing formal frameworks that support lexical semantics. As the linguistic data is incomplete and disputed, we also include a proposal for a linguistic survey aimed at clearing up many outstanding issues.This communication is intended as a discussion material, detailing a specific issue in order to foster collaborations around the subject. Having been prepared by the author in his spare time, it is, by necessity, incomplete. The work presented here is closely related to /\TYn, a formal framework for lexical semantics developed since 2006 with Christian Bassac, Richard Moot, Christian Retor? and many other researchers at LaBRI and LIRMM. We will also present a recently developed extension of that framework in Linear Intuitionistic Logic that can be used to integrate many of the discussed phenomena. 14:30 Ribeka Tanaka, Koji Mineshima and Daisuke Bekki. Factivity and Presupposition in Dependent Type Semantics Dependent Type Semantics (DTS) is a framework of natural language semantics based on dependent type theory. In contrast to traditional model-theoretic semantics, DTS is a proof-theoretic semantics where entailment relations are characterized as provability relations between semantic representations. Two distinctive features of DTS, as compared to other type-theoretical frameworks, are that (i) it is augmented with underspecified terms so as to provide a unified analysis of entailment, anaphora and presupposition from an inferential/computational perspective; and (ii) it gives a fully compositional account of inferences involving anaphora. In this paper, we present an analysis of entailment and presupposition associated with factive verbs within the framework of DTS. Factive attitude verbs such as "know" are distinguished from non-factive attitude verbs such as "believe" in that they introduce presuppositional inferences. We propose different forms of semantic representations for factive verbs and non-factive verbs: we analyze factive verbs as predicates taking a proof term as argument, and non-factive verbs as predicates taking a proposition in the sense of dependent type theory. Our theory also accounts for inferential properties of factive and non-factive verbs taking NP-complements: for example, "S believes the hypothesis that P" implies "S believes that P", whereas "S knows the hypothesis that P" does not imply "S knows that P". 15:00 Robin Cooper (and Christian Retor?). Final summary and discussion: emerging themes in type theory and lexical semantics (from the above articles) Program committee Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg, CoChair), Christian Retore? (Universite? de Montpellier, & LIRMM CoChair) Alexandra Arapinis (CNR, Trento) Nicholas Asher (CNRS, Toulouse) Christian Bassac (Universite? 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 (Universite? de Bordeaux) Richard Moot (CNRS, Bordeaux) Glyn Morrill (Universitat Polyte?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) Larry Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington) Reinhard Muskens (Universiteit Tilburg) Livy Real (IBM Research, Sa? Paolo) -- Christian RETORE Universit? de Montpellier & LIRMM http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore From samth at cs.indiana.edu Thu Jul 16 17:35:14 2015 From: samth at cs.indiana.edu (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:35:14 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in contract verification and gradual types at Indiana University Message-ID: Indiana University invites applications for a postdoctoral position in programming languages, focusing on contracts, verification, and gradual types. The position is in the PLT group led by Prof. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt. Our group works on a wide variety of topics in programming languages, including contract systems, verification and symbolic execution, and gradual types. Current projects include the SCV verification system for higher-order contracts, the Typed Racket gradual type system, and the Pycket Just-In-Time compiler. General duties in this postdoctoral position include: designing and implementing software systems; developing formal models; supervision of graduate and undergraduate researchers; writing papers and presenting on research; and pursuing new research directions within the context of overall group aims. The ideal candidate for this position has experience with both practical and theoretical approaches to programming language research, and expertise in gradual types, contract systems, program verification, or static analysis. For more information about the programming language group at Indiana University, one of the largest in the United States, please see: http://lambda.soic.indiana.edu The IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. It includes the Dept. of Computer Science and Informatics and the Dept. of Information and Library Science, which comprise over 85 tenure-line faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1100 undergraduate majors. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. IU is renowned for its top-ranked Jacobs School of Music, high performance computing and networking facilities, and performing and fine arts. Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. Indiana University is responsive to the needs of dual career couples. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Salary will be competitive for computer science postdocs in the United States. *Start date:* September 2015 or later. *Duration:* variable, but at least one year. Both inquiries and applications welcome. An application should consist of a CV, including publications, and a short written description explaining interest in and fit for the position, together with contact info for references who may be contacted as needed. All inquiries and application material should be sent to Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at cs.indiana.edu). From Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk Fri Jul 17 06:43:07 2015 From: Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk (Lin, Yuhui) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:43:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AVoCS 2015: Joint Call for Research Idea Papers & Participation Message-ID: <086C662B-11A8-43B7-95C6-A0843B52A3B8@hw.ac.uk> ======================================================================= |** AVoCS 2015: Joint Call for Research Idea Papers & Participation **| ======================================================================= The 15th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems 1-4 September 2015, Edinburgh, UK https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/ avocs2015 at easychair.org -----------------------|*** HIGHLIGHTS ***|---------------------------- + *NEW* Registration is now open! + *NEW* Special research ideas session: short papers due 10th August + *NEW* Several student grants available: application due 10th August + Invited talks by Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ/Oxford) Don Sannella (Contemplate/Edinburgh) + AI4FM workshop including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) + Proceedings to be published by EASST + Special issues of Science of Computer Programming ======================================================================= REGISTRATION Registration for AVoCS is available from https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/registration Early registration ends 18 August. SPONSORS Altran D-RisQ Software Systems 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 We encourage 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. The subject of the ideas 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. 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 IMPORTANT DATES Submission of research idea papers: 10th August 2015 Submission of student grant application: 10th 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) WORKSHOPS AI4FM 2015: 1 September 2015 -- www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/ including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) 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. SUBMISSION DETAILS Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages using the dedicated AVoCS 2015 EASST template available from the the following link (for LaTeX and Word): http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/public/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. Submissions are handled via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2015 The research ideas will be included in the pre-proceedings, which will be available in the form of a Heriot-Watt University Technical Report and will be available at the workhsop. STUDENT GRANTS Thanks to sponsorships from Altran, 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 is available from AVoCS webpage. 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 Yuhui Lin, Heriot-Watt University, UK 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 Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 17 09:40:26 2015 From: Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Sewell) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:40:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] REMS postdoc researcher / research-engineer positions Message-ID: Dear all, we've just advertised for two postdoc researcher / research-engineer positions, to work with the REMS semantic models of key infrastructure interfaces (multiprocessor semantics, C, ELF, filesystems, TCP, TLS ...), emulators and verification tools built above those, and the semantic tools we use to express them (Lem, Ott, Coq, HOL4, Isabelle/HOL). If you know of any good potential candidates, please draw this to their attention: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/7576/ thanks, Peter From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Fri Jul 17 19:50:52 2015 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 00:50:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2015 - Workshops Combined Call for Papers Message-ID: <102B927F-E11B-499E-9E72-AED0E5C68419@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 /************************************************************************************/ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION Submissions Deadline: August 7, 2015 /************************************************************************************/ SPLASH'15 workshops address a rich variety of well-known and newly emerging research areas and provide a creative and collaborative environment to discuss and solve challenge problems with attendees from industry and research organizations from all over the world. Submission deadlines vary from workshop to workshop. Some workshops will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The current SPLASH'15 workshops program is listed below and the abstracts at the end. ************************************************************** CURRENT WORKSHOP PROGRAM AGERE! - Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control http://2015.splashcon.org/track/agere2015 Abstracts: August 1, 2015, Submissions: August 7, 2015, Position/work-in-progress Papers and Demos: September 7, 2015 DSM - Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dsm2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 ETX - Eclipse Technology eXchange Workshop http://2015.splashcon.org/track/etx2015 Paper Registration: July 31, 2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 FPW - Future Programming Workshop http://2015.splashcon.org/track/fpw2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 MobileDeLi - Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle http://2015.splashcon.org/track/mobiledeli2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 PLATEAU ? Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools http://2015.splashcon.org/track/plateau2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 PROMOTO ? Workshop on Programming for Mobile and Touch http://2015.splashcon.org/track/promoto2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 Parsing at SLE - Workshop on Parsing Programming Languages http://2015.splashcon.org/track/ParsingAtSLE2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 REBLS - Workshop on Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems http://2015.splashcon.org/track/rebls2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 SEPS - Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems http://2015.splashcon.org/track/seps2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 SMART - Smart Software Strategies http://conf.researchr.org/track/SmartSoftwareStrategies2015/SmartSoftwareStrategies2015 Submissions: October 2, 2015 WODA - Workshop on Dynamic Analysis http://2015.splashcon.org/track/woda2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 For additional information, clarification, early feedback, or answers to questions, please contact the Workshop Organizers of your favorite workshops, or the Workshops Chairs, Jan S. Rellermeyer and Du Li, at workshopsplash2015 at easychair.org ************************************************************** ANNEX: WORKSHOP ABSTRACTS AND DATES ************************************************************** AGERE! 5th International Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control http://2015.splashcon.org/track/agere2015 -Deadlines: Abstracts: August 1, 2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 Position/work-in-progress Papers and Demos: September 7, 2015 - Organizers: Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Abstract: The AGERE! workshop is aimed at focusing on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents and ? more generally ? high-level programming paradigms promoting a mindset of decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. ************************************************************** DSM - Domain-Specific Modeling workshop http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dsm2015 - Deadlines: Submissions: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA Jonathan Sprinkle, University of Arizona, USA Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Matti Rossi, Aalto University School of Economics, Finland - Abstract: Domain-specific languages provide a viable and time-tested solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction, and thus productivity, beyond coding, making systems development faster and easier. When accompanied with suitable automated modeling tools and generators it delivers to the promises of continuous delivery and devops. In Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the application domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive themselves as working directly with domain concepts. Together with frameworks and platforms, DSM can automate a large portion of software production. This automation is possible because of domain-specificity: both the modeling language and code generators fit to the requirements of a narrowly defined domain, often inside one organization only. ************************************************************** ETX - Eclipse Technology eXchange Workshop http://2015.splashcon.org/track/etx2015 - Deadlines: Abstracts: July 31, 2015 Submissions: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Tim Verbelen, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium Michael Burke, Rice University, USA - Abstract: The Eclipse platform (http://www.eclipse.org) was originally designed for building integrated development environments for object-oriented applications. Over the years it has developed into a vibrant ecosystem of platforms, toolkits, libraries, modeling frameworks, and tools that support various languages and programming styles. The goal of the ETX workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas about potential new uses of Eclipse and how Eclipse technology can be leveraged, improved, and/or extended for research and education. After succesful editions of the ETX workshop in 2003-2007, we revived the ETX workshop in 2014 and are now up for another edition. ETX 2015 invites original and unpublished contributions about potential new uses of Eclipse and how Eclipse technology can be leveraged, improved, and/or extended for research and education. ************************************************************** FPW - Future Programming Workshop http://2015.splashcon.org/track/fpw2015 - Deadlines: Submissions: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Jonathan Edwards, MIT CSAIL, USA Richard Gabriel, IBM Research, USA Alex Payne, Emerging Languages Camp, USA - Abstract: The Future Programming Workshop (FPW) invites ambitious visions, new approaches, and early-stage work of all kinds seeking to improve software development. Participants will present their work at SPLASH in Pittsburgh and optionally at Strange Loop in St. Louis, culminating in a writers? workshop at SPLASH. FPW fosters a supportive and inspirational community of researchers and practitioners working at the frontiers of software. We are looking for transformative ideas outside the academic and industrial mainstream - ideas with potentially large impacts on how we will build software in the future. We embrace early-stage work, when it is most in need of constructive criticism, and offer a safe and effective environment in which to receive such criticism. ************************************************************** MobileDeLi - Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle http://2015.splashcon.org/track/mobiledeli2015 - Deadlines: Submissions: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Aharon Abadi, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Lori Flynn, CERT, USA Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA - Abstract: Mobile application usage and development is experiencing exponential growth. According to Gartner, by 2016 more than 200 billion total apps will have been downloaded. The mobile domain presents new challenges to software engineering. Mobile platforms are rapidly changing, including diverse capabilities as GPS, sensors, and input modes. Applications must be omni-channel and work on all platforms. Activated on mobile platforms, modern applications must be elastic and scale on demand according to the hardware abilities. Applications often need to support and use third-party services. Therefore, during development, security and authorization processes for the dataflow must be applied. Bring your own device (BYOD) policies bring new security data leaks challenges. Developing such applications requires suitable practices and tools e.g., architecture techniques that relate to the complexity at hand; improved refactoring tools for hybrid applications using dynamic languages and polyglot development and applications; and testing techniques for applications that run on different devices. This workshop aims at establishing a community of researchers and practitioners to share their work and lead further research in the mobile development area. ************************************************************** PLATEAU ? 6th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools http://2015.splashcon.org/track/plateau2015 - Deadlines: Submissions: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Thomas LaToza, UC Irvine, USA Joshua Sunshine, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Craig Anslow, Middlesex University, UK - Abstract: Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. PLATEAU gathers the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. ************************************************************** Parsing - Parsing at SLE 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/ParsingAtSLE2015 - Deadlines: Submissions: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Ali Afroozeh, Loek Cleophas, Umea University, Sweden - Abstract: Parsing at SLE is a workshop on parsing programming languages, now in its third edition. The intended participants are the authors of parser generation tools and parsers for programming languages and other software languages. For the purpose of this workshop ``parsing?? is a computation that takes a sequence of characters as input and produces a syntax tree or graph as output. This possibly includes tokenization using regular expressions, deriving trees using context- free grammars, and mapping to abstract syntax trees. The goal is to bring together today?s experts in the field of parsing, in order to explore open questions and possibly forge new collaborations. The topics may include algorithms, implementation and generation techniques, syntax and semantics of meta formalisms (BNF), etc. ************************************************************** PROMOTO ? 3rd Workshop on Programming for Mobile and Touch http://2015.splashcon.org/track/promoto2015 - Deadlines: Submissions: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Steven D. Fraser, Innoxec, USA Alberto Sillitti, Center for Applied Software Engineering Bolzano, Italy - Abstract: Today, easy-to-use mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are becoming more prevalent than traditional PCs and laptops. New programming languages are emerging to enable programmers to develop software easily?leveraging the exciting advances in existing hardware, and providing abstractions that fit the capabilities of target platforms with multiple sensors, touch and cloud capabilities. PROMOTO brings together researchers who have been exploring new programming paradigms, embracing the new realities of always connected, touch-enabled mobile devices. PROMOTO 2015 would like to invite contributions covering technical aspects of cross-platform computing, cloud computing, social applications and security. Submissions for this event are invited in the general area of mobile and touch-oriented programming languages and programming environments, and teaching of programming for mobile devices. ************************************************************** REBLS - Workshop on Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems http://2015.splashcon.org/track/rebls2015 - Deadlines: Submissions: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium Patrick Eugster, Purdue University, USA Lukasz Ziarek, State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo, USA Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design ? so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) ? have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. ************************************************************** SEPS - 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems http://2015.splashcon.org/track/seps2015 - Deadlines: Papers: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Ali Jannesari, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria Xinghui Zhao, Washington State University, USA Ehsan Atoofian, Lakehead University, Canada Yukionri Sato, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Abstract: The increased complexity of parallel applications on modern parallel platforms (e.g. multicore/manycore, distributed or hybrid) requires more insight into development processes, and necessitates the use of advanced methods and techniques supporting developers in creating parallel applications or parallelizing and reengineering sequential legacy applications. We aim to advance the state of the art in different phases of parallel software development, covering software engineering aspects such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging. ************************************************************** SMART - Workshop on Smart Software Strategies http://conf.researchr.org/track/SmartSoftwareStrategies2015/SmartSoftwareStrategies2015 - Deadlines: Papers: October 2, 2015 - Organizers: Steven D. Fraser, Independent Consultant, USA Dennis Mancl, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Bill Opdyke, JP Morgan Chase & Co, USA - Abstract: We should learn from the past ? to use what we learn for the next problem. What can we learn from the experiences of Y2K? There are some lessons about software design and software maintenance that we might apply to the next wave of software and technology: Y2K bugs: In the late 1990s, software developers and managers were furiously working to analyze and fix potential ?Y2K bugs.? We all knew that there were software applications that might fail on January 1, 2000, but no one was sure how we would manage to fix all of these defects in time. Today?s ?smart? technologies: Fifteen years later, we are at the threshold of a new era of software ? smart phones, wearable technology, digital currency, smart automobiles, smart power grids, smart appliances. How should we prepare for this wave? Should we be thinking ahead, should we be anticipating some of the potential risks and latent defects in our smart applications and smart support software for a software-driven future world? What advances in software analysis, design, coding, and testing will we need to do reduce our exposure to defects, unintended side effects, and malicious mischief? We might look to the past ? to the biggest concentrated effort to clean up and modernize software on a worldwide scale. Are there some lessons we can learn from ?Y2K remediation activities? of the 1990s? ************************************************************** WODA - 13th International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis http://2015.splashcon.org/track/woda2015 - Deadlines: Papers: August 7, 2015 - Organizers: Harry Xu, University of California, Irvine, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Yudi Zheng, University of Lugano, Switzerland - Abstract: Dynamic analysis is widely used in software development to understand various run-time properties of a program. Dynamic analysis includes both offline techniques, which operate on some captured representation of the program's behavior (e.g., a trace), and run-time techniques, which analyze the behavior on the fly, while the system is executing. Although inherently incomplete, dynamic analyses can be more precise than their static counterparts and show promise in aiding the understanding, development, and maintenance of robust and reliable large scale systems. Moreover, the data they provide enable statistical inferences to be made about program behavior. Dynamic analysis is playing a central role in the understanding of applications and systems as we grapple with emerging challenges such as systemic runtime bloat, high energy consumption, and the explosion of Big Data. The overall goal of WODA is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in all areas of dynamic analysis to discuss new issues, share results and ongoing work, and foster collaborations. This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the intersection of compilers, programming languages, architecture, software engineering, systems, high-performance computing, performance engineering, machine learning, and data mining for addressing software and system performance. The workshop focuses on developing and studying analytic technologies (e.g., program analysis, statistical analysis, machine learning, data mining, visualization) applied on various software or system artifacts (e.g., production systems, tests, program traces, system logs) to address issues in software and system reliability, dependability, performance, and scalability. /************************************************************************************/ From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Sat Jul 18 12:58:24 2015 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (David Van Horn) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 12:58:24 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP 2015 Call for Participation Message-ID: [ Early registration ends 3 August. ] ===================================================================== Call for Participation ICFP 2015 20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming and affiliated events August 30 - September 5, 2015 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/ ===================================================================== ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. A full week dedicated to functional programming: 1 conference, 1 symposium, 11 workshops, tutorials, programming contest results, student research competition, and mentoring workshop * Program: http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/program.html * Accepted Papers: http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/accepted.html * Affiliated Events: http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/affiliated.html * Local arrangements (including travel and accommodation): http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/local.html * Registration is available via: https://regmaster4.com/2015conf/ICFP15/register.php Early registration is due 3 August, 2015. * Programming contest, 7-10 August, 2015: http://icfpcontest.org/ * Follow @icfp_conference on twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/icfp_conference There are several events affiliated with ICFP: Sunday, August 30 Haskell Implementors Workshop Workshop on Higher-order Programming with Effects Workshop on Generic Programming Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop Ally Skills Tutorial Monday, August 31 ? Wednesday, September 2 ICFP Thursday, September 3 Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing Haskell Symposium ? Day 1 ML Family Workshop Commercial Users of Functional Programming ? Day 1 Friday, September 4 Erlang Workshop Haskell Symposium ? Day 2 OCaml Workshop Commercial Users of Functional Programming ? Day 2 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop Saturday, September 5 Functional Art, Music, Modeling and Design Commercial Users of Functional Programming ? Day 3 Conference Organizers General Chair: Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University Program Chair: John Reppy, University of Chicago Local Arrangements Chair: Ronald Garcia, University of British Columbia Industrial Relations Chair: Anil Madhavapeddy, University of Cambridge Workshop Co-Chairs: Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven Nicolas Wu, University of Bristol Programming Contest Chair: Joe Kiniry, Galois Student Research Competition Chair: Andrew Kennedy, Microsoft Research Mentoring Workshop Co-Chairs: Ronald Garcia, University of British Columbia Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania Publicity Chair: David Van Horn, University of Maryland Video Chair: Iavor Diatchki, Galois Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Felipe Ba?ados Schwerter, University of British Columbia Gabriel Scherer, INRIA Mobile App Chair: Reid Holmes, University of Waterloo Industrial partners: Platinum partners Jane Street Capital Gold partners Anonymous donor Ahrefs Google Mozilla Research Oracle Labs Silver partners Bloomberg Tsuru Capital Galois The University of Chicago Bronze partners Erlang Solutions FireEye IntelliFactory PivotCloud Systor Vest ===================================================================== From brucker at spamfence.net Fri Jul 17 13:23:23 2015 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:23:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OCL 2015: ** Deadline Extension ** Submit Your Paper Until July 26, 2015 Message-ID: <20150717172323.GA5056@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) If you are working on the foundations, methods, or tools for OCL or textual modelling, you should now finalise your submission for the OCL workshop! *** The submission deadline has been extended to July 26th, 2015! *** CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling Tools and Textual Model Transformations Co-located with ACM/IEEE 18th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2015) September 28th, 2015, Ottawa, Canada http://ocl2015.lri.fr Modeling started out with UML and its precursors as a graphical notation. Such visual representations enable direct intuitive capturing of reality, but some of their features are difficult to formalize and lack the level of precision required to create complete and unambiguous specifications. Limitations of the graphical notations encouraged the development of text-based modeling languages that either integrate with or replace graphical notations for modeling. Typical examples of such languages are OCL, textual MOF, Epsilon, and Alloy. Textual modeling languages have their roots in formal language paradigms like logic, programming and databases. The goal of this workshop is to create a forum where researchers and practitioners interested in building models using OCL or other kinds of textual languages can directly interact, report advances, share results, identify tools for language development, and discuss appropriate standards. In particular, the workshop will encourage discussions for achieving synergy from different modeling language concepts and modeling language use. The close interaction will enable researchers and practitioners to identify common interests and options for potential cooperation. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) =================================================== - Mappings between textual modeling languages and other languages/formalisms - Algorithms, evaluation strategies and optimizations in the context of textual modeling languages for -- validation, verification, and testing, -- model transformation and code generation, -- meta-modeling and DSLs, and -- query and constraint specifications - Alternative graphical/textual notations for textual modeling languages - Evolution, transformation and simplification of textual modeling expressions - Libraries, templates and patterns for textual modeling languages - Tools that support textual modeling languages (e.g., verification of OCL formulae, runtime monitoring of invariants) - Complexity results for textual modeling languages - Quality models and benchmarks for comparing and evaluating textual modeling tools and algorithms - Successful applications of textual modeling languages - Case studies on industrial applications of textual modeling languages - Experience reports -- usage of textual modeling languages and tools in complex domains, -- usability of textual modeling languages and tools for end-users - Empirical studies about the benefits and drawbacks of textual modeling languages - Innovative textual modeling tools - Comparison, evaluation and integration of modeling languages - Correlation between modeling languages and modeling tasks This year, we particularly encourage submissions describing tools that support - in a very broad sense - textual modeling languages (if you have implemented OCL.js to run OCL in a web browser, this is the right workshop to present your work) as well as textual model transformations. Venue ===== The workshop will be organized as a part of MODELS 2015 Conference in Ottawa, Canada. It continues the series of OCL workshops held at UML/MODELS conferences: York (2000), Toronto (2001), San Francisco (2003), Lisbon (2004), Montego Bay (2005), Genova (2006), Nashville (2007), Toulouse (2008), Denver (2009), Oslo (2010), Zurich (2011, at the TOOLs conference), 2012 in Innsbruck, 2013 in Miami, and 2014 in Valencia, Spain. Similar to its predecessors, the workshop addresses both people from academia and industry. The aim is to provide a forum for addressing integration of OCL and other textual modeling languages, as well as tools for textual modeling, and for disseminating good practice and discussing the new requirements for textual modeling. Workshop Format =============== The workshop will include short (about 15 min) presentations, parallel sessions of working groups, and sum-up discussions. Submissions =========== Three types of papers will be considered: * short papers (between 6 and 8 pages) describing ideas, * tool papers (between 6 and 8 pages), and * full papers (between 12 and 16 pages) in LNCS format. Submissions should be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocl20150). The program committee will review the submissions (minimum 2 reviews per paper, usually 3 reviews) and select papers according to their relevance and interest for discussions that will take place at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published online in a pre-conference edition of CEUR (http://www.ceur-ws.org). Important Dates =============== Submission of papers: July 26, 2015 (extended) Notification: August 21, 2015 Workshop date: September 28, 2015 Organizers ========== Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Programme Committee =================== Mira Balaban, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Tricia Balfe, Nomos Software, Ireland Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Germany Fabian Buettner, Inria - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Jordi Cabot, Inria - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Dan Chiorean, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Robert Clariso, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Manuel Clavel, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Carolina Dania, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Birgit Demuth, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel Istvan Rath, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen, Germany Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Claas Wilke, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Edward Willink, Willink Transformations Ltd., UK Burkhart Wolff, Univ. Paris-Sud - LRI, France Steffen Zschaler, King's College, UK -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker, SAP SE, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 6227 7-52595, http://www.brucker.ch/ From dirk.pattinson at anu.edu.au Mon Jul 20 03:31:46 2015 From: dirk.pattinson at anu.edu.au (Dirk Pattinson) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:31:46 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Position in Verified Voting at ANU Message-ID: <55ACA3E2.40601@anu.edu.au> Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position in the Logic and Computation Group at the Australian National University. Project: Trustworthy Electronic Voting Supervisors: Dirk Pattinson and Rajeev Gore Starting: December 2015 Contact: Dirk Pattinson (dirk.pattinson at anu.edu.au) Deadline: August 15, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Summary Verifiable vote counting is one of the cornerstones of a trustworthy electronic voting system. Correctness and trust can be achieved by understanding voting protocols, specified textually in legislation, as formal rules. Vote counting can then be cast as successive rule application, where the sequence of rule application serves as an independently verifiable certificate attesting to the correctness of the count. The project offers a wide range of activities, ranging from foundations, rule design, efficiency considerations to concrete case studies. The project seeks to further investigate this idea and apply it to real-world voting systems and mainly deals with the following aspects: - generation of provably correct vote counting functions from rules - efficiency of rule-based vote counting and certificate checking - formal proofs of meta-properties of voting protocols - case studies with real-world voting protocol - minimising the gap between formal rules and legal specification -------------------------------------------------------------------- Small Print - the studentship is open to individuals of any nationality. - the Logic and Computation Group (http://logic.cecs.anu.edu.au/) is part of the Research School of Computer Science (http://cs.anu.edu.au/) at the Australian National University (http://www.anu.edu.au/). - We are based in Canberra, Australia, the top-ranking region of the 2014 OECD quality of life survey (http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-named-the-best-place-in-the-worldagain-20141006-10r5sp.html) - We actively seek to promote diversity in our workplace. -------------------------------------------------------------------- From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Mon Jul 20 09:44:11 2015 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:44:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TRENDS 2015: Call for Participation Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IFIP WG 1.8 Workshop on Trends in Concurrency Theory (TRENDS 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday September 5, 2015 (9:00-12:30), Madrid, Spain Affiliated with CONCUR 2015 http://www.concurrency-theory.org/events/workshops/trends -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRENDS 2015 is an event organised by IFIP WG 1.8 on Concurrency Theory. It aims at bringing together researchers interested in concurrency theory and its applications, to exchange ideas and discuss about open problems and recent trends. PROGRAMME: The event will take place on September 5, 2015 and will consist of three invited talks by the following speakers: - Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS, France, - Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, Poland - Irek Ulidowski, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, The workshop will be followed by the annual business meeting of WG 1.8. For a detailed programme with titles and abstracts of talks we refer to: http://www.concurrency-theory.org/events/workshops/trends PARTICIPATION: Please register for TRENDS 2015 via the registration page of CONCUR 2015: http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/concur2015/ ORGANISERS: Ilaria Castellani (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR) Mohammad Mousavi (Halmstad University, SE) IFIP WG 1.8: The aims of IFIP WG 1.8 on Concurrency Theory are: - To develop theoretical foundations of concurrency, exploring frontiers of existing theoretical models like process algebra and process calculi, so as to obtain a deeper theoretical understanding of concurrent and parallel systems. - To promote and coordinate the exchange of information on concurrency theory, by discussing ideas and open problems, and identifying future directions of research in the area. The activities of WG 1.8 encompass all aspects of concurrency theory and its applications. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From idramnesc at info.uvt.ro Sat Jul 18 08:18:53 2015 From: idramnesc at info.uvt.ro (Isabela =?utf-8?Q?Dr=C4=83mnesc?=) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:18:53 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP Workshops in conjunction with SYNAS 2015 (with deadline 25 July) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <401612917.155878.1437221933689.JavaMail.zimbra@info.uvt.ro> Call for Papers --------------- Workshops in conjunction with SYNASC 2015 17th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 21-24, 2015, Timisoara, Romania http://synasc.ro/2015 Important Dates --------------- 25 July 2015 : Paper submission (FIRM extended deadline) 01 August 2015 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2015 : Registration 01 September 2015 : Revised papers according to the reviews 21-24 September 2015 : Symposium 30 November 2015 : Final papers for post-proceedings * Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems (ACSys) http://synasc.ro/2015/workshops/acsys-2015 * Workshop on Geoinformatics http://synasc.ro/2015/workshops/geoinformatics * Workshop on Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points (IAFP) http://synasc.ro/2015/workshops/iafp-2015 * Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications (NCA) http://synasc.ro/2015/workshops/nca-2015 ----------- SYNASC 2015 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592195, +(40) 256 592389 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 From rozierky at uc.edu Sat Jul 18 16:15:26 2015 From: rozierky at uc.edu (Rozier, Kristin Yvonne (rozierky)) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 20:15:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFV 2015: ** Deadline Extension ** Submit Your Abstract Until July 25; Paper Until August 1 Message-ID: <44B0F7174C17084CA81EB576905B48567651C6@UCMAILA3.ad.uc.edu> ************************************************************************ The Ninth International Workshop on Constraints in Formal Verification CFV'15 http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~alex/cfv15.html 5 November 2015 / Austin, Texas, USA ************************************************************************ Overview: --------- Formal verification is of crucial significance in the development of hardware and software systems. In the last decade, tremendous progress was made in both the speed and capacity of constraint technology. Most notably, Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers have become orders of magnitude faster and capable of handling problems that are orders of magnitude bigger, thus enabling the formal verification of more complex computer systems. As a result, the formal verification of hardware and software has become a promising area for research and industrial applications. Constraints have applications to all formal verification methods. Particularly, the efficient use of constraints can make or break a formal verification run, and can result in orders of magnitude speedup and orders of magnitude increase in scalability for solving of larger problems. The main goal of the Constraints in Formal Verification workshop is to bring together researchers from the CSP/SAT/SMT and the formal verification communities, to describe new applications of constraint technology to formal verification, to disseminate new challenging problem instances, and to propose new dedicated algorithms for hard formal verification problems. This workshop will be of interest to researchers from both academia and industry, working on constraints or on formal verification and interested in the application of constraints to formal verification. Scope: ------ The scope of the workshop includes topics related to the application of constraint technology to formal verification, namely: * application of constraint solvers to hardware verification; * application of constraint solvers to software verification; * dedicated solvers for formal verification problems; * challenging formal verification problems. Location: --------- The workshop will take place in the Doubletree Hotel in Austin Texas, on November 5, 2015. It will be structured to allow ample time for discussion and demonstration of new tools and new problem instances. Submissions: ------------ Submissions should be in the IEEE style and in one of the following types: * a regular paper of up to 6 pages; * a short paper of up to 4 pages, describing an industrial experience. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair. Important Dates: ---------------- The important dates for the workshop are as follows: ** Abstract submission deadline: July 25 ** ** Paper submission deadline: August 1 ** Notification of acceptance: September 1 Camera-ready version deadline: October 1 Workshop date: November 5 Invited Speakers: ----------------- Santosh Nagarakatte, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A. Talk title: Lightweight Formal Methods for LLVM Verification Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon/NASA Ames Research Center, U.S.A. Talk title: On the Probabilistic Analysis of Software General Chair: -------------- Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, U.S.A. Email: mvelev at gmail.com Program Chair: -------------- Alex Groce, Oregon State University, U.S.A. Email: agroce at gmail.com Publicity Chair: ---------------- Kristin Yvonne Rozier, University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. Email: rozierky at uc.edu -- ____________________________________________________________ __ /\ \ \_____ / \ ###[==_____> / \ /_/ __ / __ \ \ \_____ | ( ) | ###[==_____> /| /\/\ |\ /_/ / | | | | \ / |=|==|=| \ Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Ph.D. / | | | | \ Assistant Professor / USA | ~||~ |NASA \ University of Cincinnati |______| ~~ |______| Departments of Aerospace Engineering (__||__) and Computer Science /_\ /_\ Phone: (513) 556-3544 !!! !!! http://temporallogic.org/kyr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From herman at cs.ru.nl Tue Jul 21 08:29:28 2015 From: herman at cs.ru.nl (Herman Geuvers) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:29:28 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor of Computing Science Radboud University Nijmegen NL In-Reply-To: <55ACA3E2.40601@anu.edu.au> References: <55ACA3E2.40601@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <55AE3B28.5090104@cs.ru.nl> Assistant Professor of Computing Science (0,8 - 1,0 fte) Faculty of Science Maximum salary: ? 4,551 gross/month Vacancy number: 62.37.15 Application deadline: 14 September 2015 Responsibilities As an assistant professor in Computing Science you will undertake duties in the areas of research education, valorization, organization and student recruitment. You will conduct scientific research that ties in with the institute?s research plan in order to make a contribution to the development and application of scientific knowledge and understanding within the research area. You will initiate and maintain external contacts on the research topic and will also be responsible for the supervision of doctoral students. In addition, you will regularly publish scientific articles on the results of your investigations and the developments in the research field in international journals and proceedings. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to the acquisition and management of external research funding and projects. You will develop, teach and evaluate courses in the curricula of Computing Science, Information Science and Artificial Intelligence, based on the faculty?s education programme. More particularly, you will teach courses in the core Computing Science curriculum, such as those on languages and automata, algorithmic and complexity theory, and operating systems. You will supervise research projects, such as Bachelor?s and Master?s theses of students of Information Science, Computing Science and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, you will support the conversion of scientific knowledge into economic and social value by contributing to industrial or social utilization of research, participating in societal discussions and disseminating knowledge through various media. You will participate in working groups, committees or project teams at the institute and in student recruitment activities. Finally, you will contribute to the visibility of ICIS both in the Netherlands and abroad. Work environment The Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (ICIS) at Radboud University is part of the Faculty of Sciences and consists of three sections: Intelligent Systems (IS), Digital Security (DS), and Model-based System Development (MBSD). Its research foci are digital security, data science and software science. The institute?s staff teach courses in the Bachelor?s curricula of Computing Science and Artificial Intelligence and the Master?s curricula of Computing Science, Information Science and Artificial Intelligence. What we expect from you * you are a top researcher in computer science holding a PhD degree in a relevant field; international research experience in a field of research that ties in with one of the research topics studied at ICIS; * scientific creativity and productivity, as evidenced by various scientific publications, and recognition as an expert in your field; * proven experience with acquiring external funding, and the ability to acquire funds from various sources (e.g. NWO, EU, STW, or commercial projects); * extensive teaching experience in various formats (plenary lectures, exercise classes, working groups, research projects, thesis supervision); * teaching skills and enthusiasm to contribute to the education in computing science, information science and artificial intelligence; * a basic university teaching qualification (BKO or equivalent) or the willingness to obtain such a qualification; * the ability and willingness to work in a team. What we have to offer * employment: 0,8 - 1,0 fte; * a maximum gross monthly salary of ? 4,551 based on a 38-hour working week (salary scale 11); * in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus; duration of the contract: 6 years; * you will initially be appointed for a period of 6 years; at some point during that period, an evaluation will be made as to whether you will be granted tenure; * you will be classified as an Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO); * for more senior candidates, there is the option of transforming the position into an Associate Professor (UHD) position Are you interested in our excellent employment conditions? See http://www.ru.nl/english/working/why-work-radboud/terms-employment/ The Faculty of Science is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and as such encourages applications from women and minorities. Would you like to know more? Further information on The Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (ICIS), see http://www.ru.nl/icis/ For more information about this vacancy, please contact: prof. dr. J.H. Geuvers Telephone: +31 24 3652603 E-mail: herman at cs.ru.nl Are you interested? You should upload your application (attn. of ms. W. van der Pluijm) using the button 'Apply' on the application webpage, see http://www.ru.nl/english/working/job-opportunities/overview/ Your application should include (and be limited to) the following attachments: * Motivation letter * CV * Teaching and research statement * Two references For more information on your application: +31 24 3652131. From james.cheney at gmail.com Wed Jul 22 08:06:22 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:06:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DBPL 2015: Call for Participation Message-ID: The 15th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dbpl2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA October 27, 2015 hosted as part of SPLASH 2015 Call for Participation DBPL has a long tradition of bringing databases and programming languages together. This year we continue this tradition by co-locating DBPL with SPLASH 2015, and presenting an interesting mix of papers with programming language and database aspects. In addition to these papers we have an excellent invited talk by Marko Rodriguez of DataStax about Gremlin: A Stream-Based Functional Language for OLTP and OLAP Graph Computing. We hope to see you in Pittsburgh! DBPL is held in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN, and gratefully acknowledges support from LogicBlox, Inc. Keynote Speaker --------------- DBPL 2015 will feature an invited talk by Dr. Marko A. Rodriguez (http://markorodriguez.com) of DataStax, on the topic Gremlin: A Stream-Based Functional Language for OLTP and OLAP Graph Computing Accepted Papers ----------------- Function Inlining in XQuery 3.0 Optimization L. W?rteler, M. Grossniklaus, C. Gr?n, M. Scholl Relational Foundations for Functorial Data Migration R. Wisnesky, D. Spivak A Datalog-based Protocol for Lazy Data Migration in Agile NoSQL Application Development S. Scherzinger, U. St?rl, M. Klettke Requesting heterogeneous data sources with array comprehensions in Hop.js Y. Couillec, M. Serrano Relative Expressive Power of Downward Fragments of Navigational Query Languages on Trees and Chains J. Hellings, M. Gyssens, Y. Wu, D. Van Gucht, J. Bussche, S. Vansummeren, G. Fletcher Using Dependent Types and Tactics to Enable Semantic Optimization of Language-Integrated Queries R. Wisnesky, G. Malecha Abstract Rewriting Approach to Solve Datalog Programs F. Morales, F. Ishikawa, S. Honiden Typing Regular Path Query Languages for Data Graphs D. Colazzo, C. Sartiani A common data manipulation language for nested data in heterogeneous environments J. Seco, H. Louren?o, P. Ferreira Relational Algebra by way of Adjunctions J. Gibbons, F. Henglein, R. Hinze, N. Wu DBPL Co-Chairs -------------- James Cheney, University of Edinburgh Thomas Neumann, Technische Universit?t M?nchen 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? 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We will be using a mixture of process algebraic and logical frameworks to express protocols and their properties. For the postdoc position: ========================= Candidates must possess a PhD degree in Computer Science or related areas. Candidates with strong backgrounds in process calculus, such as the pi-calculus and its variants, and/or formal logic and theorem proving are preferred. For further details, including the salary range, please refer to the job ads at: https://www.jobsbank.gov.sg/ICMSPortal/portlets/JobBankHandler/SearchDetail.do?id=JOB-2015-0238754 The position will be initially offered for one year, but can be extended up to three years, subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding. To apply for the position, please send a cover letter and your latest CV (please indicate names of three referees in your CV) by email to Alwen Tiu ( atiu at ntu.edu.sg, alwen.tiu at gmail.com). Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but to ensure the full consideration of your application, please send your application by 21 August 2015. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified of the results of their applications. The selected candidate is expected to commence in October 2015. For the PhD positions: ====================== please send an email to Alwen Tiu (atiu at ntu.edu.sg) to express your interests. Please refer to the following website for application procedures and requirements. For the intake of January 2016, applications must be received by 31 August 2015. http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/graduate/Pages/home.aspx If you have any further questions, please contact atiu at ntu.edu.sg. Regards, Alwen Tiu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ralph.Matthes at irit.fr Thu Jul 23 12:09:00 2015 From: Ralph.Matthes at irit.fr (Ralph Matthes) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:09:00 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?First_announcement_-_Thematic_trimeste?= =?utf-8?q?r_CIPPMI_=E2=80=9CCurrent_Issues_in_the_Philosophy_of_Practice_?= =?utf-8?q?of_Mathematics_=26_Informatics=E2=80=9D=2C_Toulouse=2C_4th_Apri?= =?utf-8?q?l_-_1st_July_2016?= Message-ID: <55B1119C.6080303@irit.fr> Remark on relevance for this mailing list: at least six of the confirmed invited speakers (long or short stays) are well-known for their contributions to our field. Dear colleagues, The thematic trimester *CIPPMI* *"Current Issues in the Philosophy of Practice of Mathematics & Informatics"* will be held from *4th April to 1st July 2016* at the *Centre International de Math?matiques et d'Informatique *de *Toulouse***(*CIMI*). This thematic trimester is organised by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science from the *Institut de Math?matiques de Toulouse* (*IMT*) & the *Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse* (*IRIT*). It will feature course sessions, workshops, and a thematic school on themes at the interface of Philosophy, Mathematics and Computer Science. You will find all relevant information on the *website* of the thematic trimester that will be regularly updated: http://www.cimi.univ-toulouse.fr/cippmi/en A *mailing list *allows you to receive the different announcements from CIPPMI: https://sympa.math.ups-tlse.fr/wws/info/cippmi You can *register* at http://www.cimi.univ-toulouse.fr/cippmi/fr/inscriptionregistration A *funding for accommodation* is available in priority for *junior researchers *and for some senior researchers without funding from their laboratory. 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URL: From ccshan at indiana.edu Thu Jul 23 14:43:59 2015 From: ccshan at indiana.edu (Shan, Chung-chieh) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:43:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop on probabilistic programming semantics Message-ID: <298362fe46814880838e5f8a02c1577d@in-cci-exch08.ads.iu.edu> Workshop on probabilistic programming semantics (PPS 2016) Colocated with POPL 2016 (St Petersburg, Florida, United States) http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pps-2016 Call for extended abstracts Probabilistic programming is the idea of expressing probabilistic models and inference methods as programs and transformations, to ease use and reuse. The recent rise of practical implementations as well as research activity in probabilistic programming has renewed the need for semantics to help us share insights and innovations. This workshop aims to bring programming-language and machine-learning researchers together to advance the semantic foundations of probabilistic programming. Topics include but are not limited to: * the denotational semantics of probabilistic functions, open universe, loops, and conditioning; * the operational semantics of sampling, exact inference, and MCMC transitions; * axiomatic and equational reasoning; * types and polymorphism; * and last but not least, how semantics informs any aspect of probabilistic programming, be it design, theory, implementation, or applications. We expect this workshop to be informal, and our goal is to foster collaboration and establish common ground. Thus, the proceedings will not be a formal or archival publication, and we expect to spend only a portion of the workshop day on traditional research talks. Nevertheless, as a concrete basis for fruitful discussions, we call for extended abstracts describing specific and ideally ongoing work on probabilistic programming semantics. Extended abstracts are up to 2 pages in PDF format. Please submit them by October 16 using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pps2016 Friday, October 16, 2015: Submissions due Friday, November 6, 2015: Author notification Friday, December 11, 2015: Final papers due Saturday, January 23, 2016: Workshop, colocated with POPL Program committee: * Chung-chieh Shan, Indiana University (chair) * Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University (chair) * Cameron Freer, MIT * Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University * Suresh Jagannathan, DARPA * Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley * Chad Scherrer, Galois, Inc. * Mitchell Wand, Northeastern University * Frank Wood, University of Oxford From yallop at gmail.com Sat Jul 25 20:30:30 2015 From: yallop at gmail.com (Jeremy Yallop) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 01:30:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: ML 2015 Message-ID: Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop Thursday 3 September 2015, Vancouver, Canada (co-located with ICFP) Call For Participation: http://www.mlworkshop.org/ml2015/ Early registration deadline: Monday 3 August 2015 Register online: https://regmaster4.com/2015conf/ICFP15/register.php The ML Family Workshop brings together researchers, implementors and users of languages in the extended ML family and provides a forum to present and discuss common issues, both practical (compilation techniques, tooling, embedded programming) and theoretical (fancy types, module systems, type inference). ML 2015 will be held in Vancouver on 3 September, immediately after ICFP and close to a number of other related events, including the OCaml Workshop on the following day. Programme (Talk times and abstracts are available from the workshop website: http://www.mlworkshop.org/ml2015/). * The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture (Invited Talk) David MacQueen * Generating code with polymorphic let Oleg Kiselyov * Polymorphism, subtyping and type inference in MLsub Stephen Dolan and Alan Mycroft * Arduino programming of ML-style in ATS Kiwamu Okabe and Hongwei Xi * Resource monitoring for Poly/ML processes David Matthews, Magnus Stenqvist and Tjark Weber * Full dependency and user-defined effects in F* Nikhil Swamy, C?t?lin Hri?cu, Chantal Keller, Pierre-Yves Strub, Aseem Rastogi, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, and C?dric Fournet * Dependent types for real-time constraints William Blair and Hongwei Xi * Manifest contracts for OCaml Yuki Nishida and Atsushi Igarashi * Lost in extraction, recovered ?ric Tanter and Nicolas Tabareau * GADTs and exhaustiveness: looking for the impossible Jacques Garrigue and Jacques Le Normand 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 marcel at ru.is Fri Jul 24 11:10:12 2015 From: marcel at ru.is (Marcel Kyas) Date: 24 Jul 2015 15:10:12 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Integrated Formal Methods iFM 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland: 3rd Call for Workshops Message-ID: <188e90$1cpa4@mx02-internal.ru.is> ****************************************************************************** 12th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods, iFM 2016 http://ifm2016.ru.is June 1-5, 2016 - Reykjavik, Iceland ****************************************************************************** *** Extended deadline *** CALL FOR AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS ============================= Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be affiliated to iFM 2016, on topics related to the conferences main subjects. Important Dates --------------- Submission of workshop proposals: by September 21, 2015 (extended) Notification: by Oktober 5, 2015 (extended) Workshops: June 4-5, 2016 Submission via e-mail --------------------- Marcel Kyas - Workshop chair About iFM --------- iFM 2016 is concerned with how the application of formal methods may involve modelling different aspects of a system which are best expressed using different formalisms. Correspondingly, different analysis techniques may be used to examine different system views, different kinds of properties, or simply in order to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modelling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding modelling and analysis, and covering all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice. One day workshops will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective workshop organizers are requested to follow the guidelines below and are encouraged to contact the workshop chairs if any questions arise. The following speakers are invited to iFM2016: * Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) * Edmund M. Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Laura Kov?cs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Reiner H?hnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application. The workshops take place on June 4-5, 2016. Proposal and Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------- Workshop proposals must be written in English, not exceed 5 pages with a reasonable font and margins, and be submitted in PDF format via email to Marcel Kyas (marcel at ru.is). Proposals should include: * The name and the preferred date 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 publicity strategy that will be used by the workshop organizers to promote the workshop. * The participant solicitation and selection process. * The target audience and expected number of participants. * Approximate budget proposal (see section Budget below for details). * The equipment and any other resource necessary for the organization of the workshop. * 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/...). Organizers Responsibilities --------------------------- The scientific responsibility of organizing a workshop goes to the workshop organizers. In particular, they are responsible for the following items: * A workshop description (200 words) for inclusion n the iFM site. * Hosting and maintaining web pages to be linked from the iFM site. Workshop organizers can integrate their pages into the main iFM pages. * Workshop proceedings, if any. If there is sufficient interest, the organizer of iFM 2016 may contact the editor-in-chief of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://info.eptcs.org/) for having a common volume dedicated to the workshops of iFM 2016. * Workshop publicity (possibly including call for papers, submission and review process). * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the iFM workshop chair. If you intend to organize a workshop but you need more time to prepare your proposal please let us know. Please note that as the number of tourists travelling to Iceland in summer time is exceeding its population, we need to know the number of participants before March 23 to be able to reserve accommodation. We cannot guarantee accomodation for participants that register after March 23. Budget ------ The iFM organization will provide registration and organizational support for the workshops (including link from the conferences web sites, set-up of meeting space, on-line and on-site registration). Registration fees must be paid for all participants, including organizers and invited guests. To cover lunches, coffee breaks and basic organizational expenses, all workshops will be required to charge a minimum participation fee (the precise amount is still to be determined). Each workshop may increase this fee to cover additional expenses such as publication charges, student scholarships, costs for invited speakers, etc. All fees will be collected by the iFM organizers as part of the registration, then additional funds will be redistributed to the individual workshop organizers. Evaluation Process ------------------ The proposals will be evaluated by the iFM organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of iFM 2016. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages of previous satellite events as examples: * iFM 2014: http://ifm2014.cs.unibo.it/workshops.html * iFM 2013: http://www.it.abo.fi/iFM2013/workshops_and_tutorials.php * iFM 2012: http://ifm-abz.isti.cnr.it/styled-4/speakers.html * iFM 2010: http://ifm2010.loria.fr/satellite.html * iFM 2009: http://www.formal-methods.de/ifm09/workshops.html Venue ----- iFM 2016 will take place at the Campus of Reykjavik University, Iceland. The campus at Reykjavik University is set in one of the most beautiful areas next to Iceland's only geothermal beach. The building has well equipped classrooms. Further Information and Enquiries --------------------------------- Please contact the workshop chair Marcel Kyas From mark.harman at ucl.ac.uk Mon Jul 27 06:39:58 2015 From: mark.harman at ucl.ac.uk (Harman, Mark) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:39:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research Associate in Search-Based Programming Language Analysis (closing date 30th September 2015) Message-ID: <8A238237-50B8-4AD4-83EB-1A69D6ED0D4B@ucl.ac.uk> Applications are invited for a Research Associate post on an EPSRC-funded grant in the CREST center at UCL, working in the general area of Programming Languages, supervised by Professor Mark Harman and Dr. Earl Barr. The specific project is concerned with analysis of regions of code which turn out to be written in a language that is not Turing complete (a Sub-Turing region). Such regions are extremely attractive, because it becomes possible to know, statically, a great deal about their possible executions. We can imagine that it would be profitable to symbolically execute such regions, for example. Testing and verification within these regions may also exploit powerful techniques that would be unavailable in general. Of course, most systems will have relatively trivial Sub-Turing in regions. However, if the input is constrained, then the number and size of Sub Turing regions will tend to increase. There is thus an interesting search problem in finding those constraints on the input that tend to maximise useful Sub Turing regions (while minimising the strength of such constraints). This analysis problem has applications in software reuse, testing and verification, comprehension and genetic improvement. Key Requirements Candidates should have recently graduated with a PhD in a relevant subject such as programming languages, program analysis and/or verification. Experience in software analysis is essential. A familiarity with computational search techniques is also desirable, while an aptitude and interest to develop expertise in this area is essential. Publication in relevant leading peer reviewed conferences and/or journals are essential (quality of research outputs will be favoured over quantity of output). The Research Environment The Software Systems Engineering group (SSE) undertakes world-leading research in Requirements Engineering, Software Testing, and Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE). It also has recognised outstanding strength and high profile research in Context Aware Systems, Quantified Information Theory, Recommender Systems, Security and Program Analysis/Manipulation. SSE is one of more than 10 research groups in the Department of Computer Science at UCL (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk). The other research groups are each also world leading, providing a rich wider academic and scientific environment in which to undertake software engineering research. Both the department and the university itself are very well known for providing an opportunity-led, collegiate, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment. The UCL Computer Science Department was recently assessed by the five-year UK-wide research assessment process known as the "Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014)" (www.ref.ac.uk). This determines future general (rather than project-based) research funding. In the two key rankings of the results (Grade Point Average and research power), UCL Computer Science was ranked in first and second place respectively. UCL, itself, was founded in 1826, on the principle of education provision free to all, regardless of race, creed or religion. Its motto is "Cuncti adsint meritaeque expectent praemia palmae" (Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward). It was the first University in England to be entirely secular, admitting students regardless of their religion, and the first to admit women on equal terms with men. UCL is the 13th most cited University in the world (based on data from 1999 to 2009) and the most cited in Europe. Its current and former staff include 28 Nobel Prize winners and 3 winners of the fields medal. It is consistently ranked in the top twenty Universities in the world (typically between 4th and 20th in recent years, depending on the ranking system used). In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) the University as a whole (overall all subjects) was ranked in 8th place for score (GPA) and first place for research power. UCL is located in the Bloomsbury part of London, surrounded by museums (including the British Museum which is two minutes walk away, and several of its own UCL on-site museums), restaurants, galleries and theatres (all within walking distance). Bloomsbury also has strong literary and artistic associations, dating back several centuries, and is one of the most attractive parts of London in which to work, punctuated by charming squares, green spaces and beautiful architecture. It has excellent transport links, being minutes from several tube (London Underground) stations, and twenty minutes walk from the mainline, national and international railway stations of Euston, King's Cross and St. Pancras International. Funding for this appointment runs until 31 May 2018 in the first instance Further Details For all administrative enquiries please contact Katie Bourke (crest-admin at ucl.ac.uk). If you would like to discussion your application informally please contact Prof. M. Harman (CC: Dr. E. Barr). The closing date is 30th September 2015. Interviews will take place in October 2015. When applying please ensure that you are able to attend to present a talk and be interviewed in October. We shall not be able to re-arrange the interview date should you be unable to attend. TO APPLY FOR THIS POST You should find that this link http://bit.ly/1CZmfwA takes you directly to the application portal for this post. Just in case this should not work you can also apply for the vacancy by going to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/index.php and searching for vacancy ref. 1478224 ----- Mark Harman, Professor of Software Engineering, Head of the Software Systems Engineering Group and Director of the CREST centre, Department of Computer Science, University College London, Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. 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URL: From davide.ancona at unige.it Tue Jul 28 02:06:52 2015 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:06:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OOPS track at SAC 2016: Call for Papers Message-ID: <55B71BFC.9080306@unige.it> OOPS 2016 Call for Papers Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS16 Technical Track at the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2016 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016 April 4-8, 2016 Pisa, Italy - Important Dates Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts September 11, 2015 Notification of regular papers (and posters) and SRC acceptance/rejection November 13, 2015 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers December 11, 2015 Author registration due date December 18, 2015 SAC 2016 April 4 - 8, 2016 - Track Chair Davide Ancona (davide.ancona at unige.it) DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy - SAC 2016 For the past thirty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be hosted by the University of Pisa, and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University, Italy. - Call For Student Research Abstracts: Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit original abstracts of their research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2016 Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researcher and practitioners in their areas of interest. - OOPS Track Object-oriented programming (OOP) has become the mainstream programming paradigm for developing complex software systems in most application domains. However, existing OO languages and platforms need to evolve to meet the continuous demand for new abstractions, features, and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of creating object-oriented software systems, and improving their performance, quality and usability. To this aim, OOPS is seeking for research advances bringing benefits in all those typical aspects of software development, such as modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, concurrency and distribution, code generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation. The specific OO related topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: * Aspects and components * Code generation, and optimization, just-in-time compilation * Context-oriented programming * Databases and persistence * Distribution and concurrency * Dynamic and scripting languages * Evaluation * Feature Oriented Software Development and Programming * Formal verification * Integration with other paradigms * Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation * Language design and implementation * Modular and generic programming * Reflection, meta-programming * Runtime verification * Secure and dependable software * Static analysis * Testing and debugging * Type systems and type inference * Virtual machines OOPS offers a great opportunity to the OOP community to gain visibility, and to exploit the inter-disciplinary nature of SAC. - Submission Instructions Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2016 home page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016). Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Full papers are limited to 6 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages at extra charge (80 USD per page). Posters are limited to 3 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page at extra charge (80 USD). Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by *September 11, 2015*. For more information please visit the SAC 2016 home page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016). - Proceedings Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Please note that full registration is required for papers and posters to be included in the conference proceedings and CD. An author or a proxy attending SAC *must* present the paper. This is a requirement for including the work in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Student registration is only intended to encourage student attendance and does not cover inclusion of papers/posters in the conference proceedings. Finally, following the tradition of the past OOPS editions, depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, after the conference authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue. From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Mon Jul 27 18:49:02 2015 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:49:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLATEAU 2015 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <6F3F0220-80C4-4993-9878-FF1D78F0FD8A@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6th Workshop on the Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) Co-located with SPLASH 2015 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Pittsburgh, PA, USA http://2015.splashcon.org/track/plateau2015 CALL FOR PAPERS Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. PLATEAU gathers the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. TOPICS Some particular areas of interest are: - empirical studies of programming languages - methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation - software design metrics and their relations to the underlying language - user studies of language features and software engineering tools - visual techniques for understanding programming languages - critical comparisons of programming paradigms - tools to support evaluating programming languages - psychology of programming - domain specific language (e.g. database languages, security/privacy languages, architecture description languages) usability and evaluation SUBMISSIONS PLATEAU encourages submissions of three types of papers: Research and Position papers: We encourage papers that describe work-in-progress or recently completed work based on the themes and goals of the workshop or related topics, report on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose speculative new approaches. We will accept two types of papers: research papers up to 8 pages in length; and position papers up to 2 pages in length. Hypotheses papers: Hypotheses papers explicitly identify beliefs of the research community or software industry about how a programming language, programming language feature, or programming language tool affects programming practice. Hypotheses can be collected from mailing lists, blog posts, paper introductions, developer forums, or interviews. Papers should clearly document the source(s) of each hypothesis and discuss the importance, use, and relevance of the hypotheses on research or practice. In addition, we invite language designers to share some of the usability reasoning that influenced their work. These will serve as an important first step in advancing our understanding of how language design supports programmers.Papers may also, but are not required to, review evidence for or against the hypotheses identified. Hypotheses papers can be up to 4 pages in length. Format: Submissions should use the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format, 10 point font. Note that by default the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format produces papers in 9 point font. 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. All types of papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library at the authors? discretion. Paper Format: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plateau2015 KEYNOTE Mary Beth Rosson Professor at Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology Pennsylvania, USA IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: August 7, 2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, USA Jeff Carver, University of Alabama, USA Ronald Garcia, University of British Columbia, Canada Stefan Hanenberg, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Stephen Kell, University of Cambridge, UK Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Chris Parnin, North Carolina State University, USA Romain Robbes, University of Chile, Chile Janet Siegmund, University of Passau, Germany Andreas Stefik, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Emma S?derberg, Google, USA ORGANIZERS Craig Anslow, Middlesex University, UK Thomas LaToza, George Mason University, USA Joshua Sunshine, Carnegie Mellon University, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iliano at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Jul 29 10:52:01 2015 From: iliano at andrew.cmu.edu (Iliano Cervesato) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:52:01 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WoF'15: call for papers Message-ID: <55B8E891.2000908@cmu.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement] ======================================================================= Call for papers First International Workshop on Focusing WoF'15 Suva, Fiji, 23 November 2015 Affiliated with LPAR-20 http://cs.cmu.edu/~wof15/ ======================================================================= SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 4 SEPTEMBER 2015 Focusing is a proof search strategy that alternates two phases: an inversion phase where invertible sequent rules are applied exhaustively and a chaining phase where it selects a formula and decomposes it maximally using non-invertible rules. Focusing is one of the most exciting recent developments in computational logic: it is complete for many logics of interest and provides a foundation for their use as programming languages and rewriting calculi. This workshop has the purposes of bringing together researchers who work on or with focusing, to foster discussion and to report on recent advances. Topics of interest include: - Focusing in forward, backward and hybrid logic programming languages - Focusing in theorem proving - Focusing for substructural logics - Focused term calculi - Implementation techniques - Parallelism and concurrency - Focusing in security - Pearls of focusing Invited Speaker TBA Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Friday September 4th Submission deadline: Friday September 11th Notification to authors: Friday October 9th Final version due: Friday October 30th Workshop date: Monday November 23rd 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 12 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for "Work in Progress" papers. Submission is via EasyChair (link on the WoF'15 web page). Proceedings Accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings of WoF'15, which will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science series (EPTCS). Program Committee * Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University, co-chair) * Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria and LIX/Ecole polytechnique) * Paul Blain Levy (University of Birmingham) * Chuck Liang (Hofstra University) * Elaine Pimentel (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) * Carsten Sch?rmann (ITU Copenhagen and Demtech, co-chair) ======================================================================= -- Iliano Cervesato www.cs.cmu.edu/~iliano/ Professor Carnegie Mellon University From yudi.zheng at usi.ch Wed Jul 29 12:32:06 2015 From: yudi.zheng at usi.ch (Yudi Zheng) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:32:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPPJ 2015: Call For Participation Message-ID: <5E62D8DCD5EBCD4890223597CDB41BF34A48547B@usimbox02.usilu.net> 2015 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform September 8-10, 2015 Crowne Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne, Florida http://pppj2015.cs.fit.edu/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Java platform is multi-faceted, covering a rich diversity of systems, languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques. PPPJ?15 ? the 12th conference in the PPPJ series ? provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of programming on the Java platform including virtual machines, languages, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION http://411.fit.edu/pppj/ (Early registration deadline is August 8, 2015) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE Gary Leavens (University of Central Florida ,USA) JML: Expressive Contracts, Specification Inheritance, and Behavioral Subtyping Niranjan Suri (Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, USA) Java and Distributed Systems - Observations, Experiences, and ... a Wish List -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE PROGRAM http://pppj2015.cs.fit.edu/schedule -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS Organizing Committee: General Chair: Ryan Stansifer, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Program Chair: Andreas Krall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Publicity Chair: Yudi Zheng, University of Lugano, Switzerland Program Committee: Steven Atkin, IBM, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine, USA David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Apala Guha, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India Samuel Z. Guyer, Tufts University, USA Prasad Kulkarni, University of Kansas, USA Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, Johannes Kepler Universit?t, Austria Rei Odaira, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan Jens Palsberg, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Ian Rogers, Google Inc, USA Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow, Scotland Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA Christian Wimmer, Oracle Labs, USA Chenyi Zhang, Oracle Labs, Australia Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Steering Committee: Bruce R. Childers, University of Pittsburg, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Conrad Cunningham, University of Mississippi, USA Martin Pl?micke, Duale Hochschule Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark From Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net Tue Jul 28 10:30:05 2015 From: Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net (Robert Lubarsky) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:30:05 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFCS CFP: submission website open Message-ID: <003c01d0c941$e5a94f80$b0fbee80$@comcast.net> CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (LFCS'16), Deerfield Beach, Florida, January 4 - 7, 2016 LFCS Steering Committee: Anil Nerode, (Ithaca, NY, General Chair); Stephen Cook (Toronto); Dirk van Dalen (Utrecht); Yuri Matiyasevich (St. Petersburg); Alan Robinson (Syracuse, NY); Gerald Sacks (Cambridge, MA); Dana Scott, (Pittsburgh, PA - Berkeley, CA). LFCS topics of interest include, but are not limited to: constructive mathematics and type theory; homotopy type theory; logic, automata, and automatic structures; computability and randomness; logical foundations of programming; logical aspects of computational complexity; parameterized complexity; logic programming and constraints; automated deduction and interactive theorem proving; logical methods in protocol and program verification; logical methods in program specification and extraction; domain theory logics; logical foundations of database theory; equational logic and term rewriting; lambda and combinatory calculi; categorical logic and topological semantics; linear logic; epistemic and temporal logics; intelligent and multiple-agent system logics; logics of proof and justification; non-monotonic reasoning; logic in game theory and social software; logic of hybrid systems; distributed system logics; mathematical fuzzy logic; system design logics; other logics in computer science. LFCS'16 Program Committee: Sergei Artemov (New York, NY) - PC Chair; Eugene Asarin (Paris); Steve Awodey (Pittsburgh, PA); Matthias Baaz (Vienna); Alexandru Baltag (Amsterdam); Lev Beklemishev (Moscow); Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor, MI); Samuel Buss (San Diego, CA); Thierry Coquand (G?teborg); Robert Constable (Ithaca, NY); Ruy de Queiroz (Recife); Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv); Melvin Fitting (New York); Sergey Goncharov (Novosibirsk); Denis Hirschfeldt (Chicago, IL); Martin Hyland (Cambridge); Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht); Hajime Ishihara (JAIST - Kanazawa); Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland); Roman Kuznets (Vienna); Daniel Leivant (Bloomington, IN); Robert Lubarsky (Boca Raton, FL); Victor Marek (Lexington, KY); Lawrence Moss (Bloomington, IN); Anil Nerode (Ithaca, NY) - General LFCS Chair; Hiroakira Ono (JAIST - Kanazawa); Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Chennai); Michael Rathjen (Leeds); Jeffrey Remmel (San Diego); Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich); Philip Scott (Ottawa); Alex Simpson (Ljubljana); Sonja Smets (Amsterdam); Sebastiaan Terwijn (Nijmegen); Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto). Submission details. Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series. There will be a post-conference volume of selected works published, presumably, in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. Submissions should be made electronically via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfcs2016 Submitted papers must be in PDF/12pt format and of no more than 15 pages, present work not previously published, and must not have been submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. LFCS issues the Best Student Paper Award, named after John Barkley Rosser Sr. (1907-1989), a prominent American logician with fundamental contributions in both Mathematics and Computer Science. Important Dates. Submissions deadline: midnight September 6, 2015, any time zone. Notification: October 10, 2015. Symposium dates: January 4 morning - January 7 early afternoon, 2016. Local Arrangements. The venue of LFCS 2016 will be the spectacular Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort, 2096 NE 2nd Street, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441. Website: http://www.wyndhamdeerfieldresort.com. LFCS'16 Local Organizing Committee: Robert Lubarsky (Chair), Emily Cimillo, and Fred Richman - Florida Atlantic University. About LFCS. The LFCS series provides an outlet for the fast-growing body of work in the logical foundations of computer science, e.g., areas of fundamental theoretical logic related to computer science. The LFCS series began with Logic at Botik, Pereslavl-Zalessky, 1989 and was co-organized by Albert R. Meyer (MIT) and Michael Taitslin (Tver), after which organization passed to Anil Nerode in 1992. LFCS has enjoyed support and endorsements from a number of bodies, including the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the City University of New York Research Foundation. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 496 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: From kameyama at acm.org Thu Jul 30 02:34:55 2015 From: kameyama at acm.org (Yukiyoshi Kameyama) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:34:55 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS2016: Second CFP Message-ID: <20150730.153455.313391743.kam@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp> Call for Papers --------------- FLOPS 2016: 13th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming March 3-6, 2016, Kochi, Japan http://www.info.kochi-tech.ac.jp/FLOPS2016/ New: best paper award; in-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN; two invited talks Writing down detailed computational steps is not the only way of programming. The alternative, being used increasingly in practice, is to start by writing down the desired properties of the result. The computational steps are then (semi-)automatically derived from these higher-level specifications. Examples of this declarative style include functional and logic programming, program transformation and re-writing, and extracting programs from proofs of their correctness. FLOPS aims to bring together practitioners, researchers and implementors of the declarative programming, to discuss mutually interesting results and common problems: theoretical advances, their implementations in language systems and tools, and applications of these systems in practice. The scope includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, applications, implementations, and teaching of declarative programming. FLOPS specifically aims to promote cross-fertilization between theory and practice and among different styles of declarative programming. Scope FLOPS solicits original papers in all areas of the declarative programming: * functional, logic, functional-logic programming, re-writing systems, formal methods and model checking, program transformations and program refinements, developing programs with the help of theorem provers or SAT/SMT solvers; * foundations, language design, implementation issues (compilation techniques, memory management, run-time systems), applications and case studies. FLOPS promotes cross-fertilization among different styles of declarative programming. Therefore, submissions must be written to be understandable by the wide audience of declarative programmers and researchers. Submission of system descriptions and declarative pearls are especially encouraged. Submissions should fall into one of the following categories: * Regular research papers: they should describe new results and will be judged on originality, correctness, and significance. * System descriptions: they should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. * Declarative pearls: new and excellent declarative programs or theories with illustrative applications. System descriptions and declarative pearls must be explicitly marked as such in the title. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. See also ACM SIGPLAN Republication Policy. The proceedings will be published by Springer International Publishing in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as a printed volume as well as online in the digital library SpringerLink. Post-proceedings: The authors of 4-7 best papers will be invited to submit the extended version of their FLOPS paper to a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming (SCP). Important dates Monday, September 14, 2015 (any time zone): Submission deadline Monday, November 16, 2015: Author notification March 3-6, 2016: FLOPS Symposium March 7-9, 2016: PPL Workshop Invited Talks - Kazunori UEDA (Waseda University) The exciting time and hard-won lessons of the Fifth Generation Computer Project - Atze Dijkstra (Utrecht University) UHC: Coping with Compiler Complexity Submission Submissions must be written in English and can be up to 15 pages long including references, though pearls are typically shorter. The formatting has to conform to Springer's guidelines. Regular research papers should be supported by proofs and/or experimental results. In case of lack of space, this supporting information should be made accessible otherwise (e.g., a link to a Web page, or an appendix). Papers should be submitted electronically at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flops2016 Program Committee Andreas Abel Gothenburg University, Sweden Lindsay Errington USA Makoto Hamana Gunma University, Japan Michael Hanus CAU Kiel, Germany Jacob Howe City University London, UK Makoto Kanazawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan Andy King University of Kent, UK (PC Co-Chair) Oleg Kiselyov Tohoku University, Japan (PC Co-Chair) Hsiang-Shang Ko National Institute of Informatics, Japan Julia Lawall Inria-Whisper, France Andres Loeh Well-Typed LLP, UK Anil Madhavapeddy Cambridge University, UK Jeff Polakow PivotCloud, USA Marc Pouzet Ecole normale superieure, France Vitor Santos Costa Universidade do Porto, Portugal Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium Zoltan Somogyi Australia Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sam Tobin-Hochstadt Indiana University, USA Hongwei Xi Boston University, USA Neng-Fa Zhou CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, USA Organizers Andy King University of Kent, UK (PC Co-Chair) Oleg Kiselyov Tohoku University, Japan (PC Co-Chair) Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba, Japan (General Chair) Kiminori Matsuzaki Kochi University of Technology, Japan (Local Chair) flops2016 at logic.cs.tsukuba.ac dot jp From spider.vz at gmail.com Wed Jul 29 15:31:40 2015 From: spider.vz at gmail.com (Vadim Zaytsev) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 21:31:40 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GTTSE 2015: registration still open! Message-ID: GTTSE 2015 -- Call for Participation The 5th Summer School on Grand Timely Topics in Software Engineering (GTTSE) Sunday 23 Aug - Saturday 29 Aug, 2015, Braga, Portugal http://gttse.wikidot.com/ Registration is still open for participants! http://gttse.wikidot.com/2015:registration There is a students' workshop to which one may submit. http://gttse.wikidot.com/2015:students-workshop List of speakers ============ - Matthew Dwyer (University of Nebraska, USA): Probabilistic program analysis - Cesar Gonzalez-Perez (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain): How ontologies can help in software engineering - Stefan Hanenberg (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): Empirical Evaluation of Programming and Programming Language Constructs - Fr?d?ric Jouault (ESEO Institute of Science and Technology, France): Model Synchronization - Julia Rubin (MIT, USA): To merge or not to merge: managing software product families - Leif Singer (University of Victoria, Canada): People Analytics in Software Development - Ulrik Pagh Schultz (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark): DSLs in Robotics: A Case Study in Programming Self-reconfigurable Robots - Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens, Greece): Structured Program Generation Techniques - Friedrich Steimann (FernUniversit?t in Hagen, Germany): Refactoring and beyond - Nikolai Tillmann (Microsoft Research, USA): Software Engineering Processes in the Cloud - Guido Wachsmuth (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands): Name Binding: Paradigms, Representation and Specification Scope ===== Historically, in the first four editions of GTTSE, the school series focused on generative and transformational techniques in software engineering, as evident from the original acronym (GTTSE - Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering). With the rise of the Software Language Engineering conference, the school series also covered that field. As of the 5th edition, a broader scope is applied to include additional areas of software engineering, e.g., software analysis, empirical research, modularity, and product lines. Thus, the new expansion of the GTTSE acronym: Grand Timely Topics in Software Engineering. The notion of timely topics is inspired by the ICSE conference which, in its 2015 edition, features technical briefings as "a venue for communicating the current state of a timely topic related to software engineering". Format ===== The school's scientific program of GTTSE 2015 consists of 10 briefings for different timely topics in software engineering. Each briefing is based on a relatively short paper which combines aspects of surveying and tutorial. The surveying aspect is realized specifically by the design constraint for the briefings to dedicate 50% to the analysis of related work. The remaining 50% are typically dedicated to the more specific research of the presenters. Each briefing gets allotted 2-3 sessions with up to 3 hours in total. The speakers for the briefings are established authorities in their respective fields. GTTSE 2015 also features a students' workshop. These presentations may be refined into submissions of short papers (6-8 pages LNCS style) to be peer-reviewed and considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings past the school. All material presented at the school will be collected in informal proceedings to be handed out solely to the participants. Formal and public post-proceedings will be compiled after the summer school where all contributions are subjected to reviewing. The post-proceedings of the school will be published in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer International Publishing. The post-proceedings of the previous four instances of the summer school were published as LNCS 4143 (GTTSE 2005), LNCS 5235 (GTTSE 2007), LNCS 6491 (GTTSE 2009) and LNCS 7680 (GTTSE 2011). Important dates ============ - 14 August: Registration Deadline - 23-29 August: Summer School - 15 October: Submission deadline for post-proceedings - 15 December: Notifications of authors - 1 February: Camera-ready submissions Organization committee ================== - J?come Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) - Organization Chair - Jo?o Paulo Fernandes (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) - Program Chair - Ralf L?mmel (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany) - Briefings Chair - Jo?o Saraiva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) - General Chair - Joost Visser (Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands) - Industry Chair - Vadim Zaytsev (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Publicity Chair Scientific committee =============== - Bram Adams (?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al) - Benoit Baudry (INRIA) - Xavier Blanc (Bordeaux 1 University) - Darius Blasband (RainCode) - Paulo Borba (Federal University of Pernambuco) - Mark van den Brand (Eindhoven University of Technology) - Martin Bravenboer (LogicBlox Inc.) - Jordi Cabot (INRIA-?cole des Mines de Nantes) - Jo?o Cardoso (FEUP/Universidade do Porto) - Michel Chaudron (Chalmers & Gothenborg University) - Anthony Cleve (University of Namur) - Beno?t Combemale (Universit? de Rennes 1) - Alcino Cunha (Universidade de Minho) - J?come Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - Juan De Lara (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) - Andrea De Lucia (University of Salerno) - Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Davide Di Ruscio (Universit? degli Studi dell'Aquila) - Zinovy Diskin (McMaster University / University of Waterloo) - Rudolf Ferenc (University of Szeged) - Jo?o M. Fernandes (Universidade do Minho) - Jo?o Paulo Fernandes (Universidade da Beira Interior) - Jo?o Saraiva (Universidade do Minho) - Mike Godfrey (University of Waterloo) - Martin Gogolla (University of Bremen) - Jeff Gray (University of Alabama) - Mark Grechanik (University of Illinois at Chicago) - Yann-Ga?l Gu?h?neuc (?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al) - Gorel Hedin (Lund University) - Florian Heidenreich (DevBoost GmbH) - Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho) - Felienne Hermans (Delft University of Technology) - Dirk Heuzeroth (Hochschule Heilbronn) - Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institut) - Zhenjiang Hu (NII) - Marianne Huchard (Universit? Montpellier 2 et CNRS) - Jean-Marc J?z?quel (University of Rennes 1) - Foutse Khomh (?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al) - Holger Kienle (Freier Informatiker) - Dimitris Kolovos (University of York) - Nicholas A. Kraft (ABB Corporate Research) - Jens Krinke (University College London) - Christian K?stner (Carnegie Mellon University) - Paul Klint (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) - Ralf L?mmel (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) - Michele Lanza (University of Lugano) - Timothy Lethbridge (University of Ottawa) - David Lo (Singapore Management University) - Tiziana Margaria (Lero) - Erik Meijer (Delft University of Technology) - Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) - Ana Moreira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - Jos? Nuno Oliveira (Universidade do Minho) - Rocco Oliveto (University of Molise) - Richard Paige (University of York) - Alfonso Pierantonio (Universit? degli Studi dell'Aquila) - Juergen Rilling (Concordia University) - Sibylle Schupp (Hamburg University of Technology) - Bran Selic (Malina Software Corp.) - Alexander Serebrenik (Eindhoven University of Technology) - Tony Sloane (Macquarie University) - Sim?o Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior) - Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) - James Terwilliger (Microsoft Corporation) - Laurence Tratt (King's College London) - Antonio Vallecillo (Universidad de M?laga) - Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota) - Jurgen Vinju (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) - Joost Visser (Radboud University Nijmegen) - Markus V?lter (independent) - Tanja E. J. Vos (Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia) - Andreas Winter (Carl von Ossietzky University) - Victor Winter (University of Nebraska at Omaha) - Andy Zaidman (Delft University of Technology) - Vadim Zaytsev (Universiteit van Amsterdam) From cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org Mon Jul 27 08:45:24 2015 From: cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org (Cristina Pereira) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:45:24 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECSS 2015 - Program and Registration Message-ID: <55B627E4.5010204@informatics-europe.org> ********************************************************************* *11th European Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2015 -* *"Informatics in the future ? in the year 2025"* *13?14 October 2015, Vienna, Austria* *Conference Program Online **Pre-Summit Workshops on 12 October 2015 * *Registrations Open * ********************************************************************* *Dear Informatics Europe Members, Dear Colleagues, * We are happy to announce that the full program of the ECSS 2015 is now online and registrations are open. As in previous years the program is very exciting, with some of the world's most distinguished academics on the stage, the Summit will not be short of inspiration and stimulation. The ECSS 2015 will be held in Vienna, Austria, October 12-14, hosted by the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology. The central theme of this year conference is /*"Informatics in the Future - in the Year 2025"*/. Informatics as the science behind IT has two faces: Informatics ?in itself? and Informatics ?for others? as a tool or methodological approach in other sciences and application fields. It is interdisciplinary quasi by nature. How will all these aspects and interconnections evolve? How will computing scientists need to evolve? How will our institutes and departments cater for that evolution? These and other critical aspects related to Informatics in the future will take centre stage at the ECSS 2015 with inspiring speakers propelling us into the future. Below you can find a short extract of the program, for more details please visit *ECSS 2015 Program.* /*Tuesday, October 13*/ Session 1: *Data Science or Formal Science* *Stefano Ceri* - Politecnico di Milano, Italy *Moshe Vardi* - Rice University, USA Session 2: *Future European Research (tbc)* *Jean-Pierre Bourguignon -* President ERC Session 3: *Emperor or Plumber or the Relation of CS with Other Sciences* *Dirk Brockmann* - Humboldt University, Germany *Matti Tedre* - Stockholm University, Sweden /*Wednesday, October 14*/ Session 4: *Research Organisation of the Future* *Dunja Mladenic* - Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia *Maarja Kruusmaa* - Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Session 5: *Ethics and Impact or Our Relation to Society* *Jeroen van den Hoven* - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands *Bertrand Meyer* - ETH Zurich, Switzerland *Reinhard Posch* - TU Graz, Austria Session 6: *Public Lecture "Ada Countess of Lovelace - A One-Person Opera, and The Role of Women in Computing"* *Britta Schinzel* - University of Freiburg, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS * In order to reflect the spectrum of opinions, ECSS 2015 is calling for submission of position papers on the central theme: *The Future of Informatics and Informatics of the Future.* Accepted position papers will be published on the Informatics Europe web site and submitted as CEUR-WS Proceedings. Ten submissions will be invited for a poster presentation during the ECSS 2015. Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2015 Authors notification: September 7, 2015 To contribute: *check out the full call for contributions * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *REGISTRATION* Registration for the conference is now open. To know more about the different events and their registrations fees and to register please visit *ECSS 2015 Registration. * Please mind the deadline for early discounted fees: *September 15, 2015*. *Register soon to profit the discounted prices!* *For more practical information **about the venue, traveling and accommodation, p**lease visit the ECSS 2015 website . * * * The ECSS 2015 is co-chaired by *Carlo Ghezzi *, President of Informatics Europe, and *Gerald Steinhardt *, Dean of Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien. The Program Chairs are *Hannes Werthner ,* Professor at the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien and *Frank van Harmelen *,Professor at the Department of Computer Science & The Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam. The main conference and Pre-Summit Workshops will be held in the main building of TU Wien, which is situated in the vibrant cultural centre of Vienna. */Come and join us in this exciting and remarkable event in the field of Informatics !!/* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rim.abid at inria.fr Thu Jul 30 11:50:13 2015 From: rim.abid at inria.fr (rim.abid at inria.fr) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:50:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Software Verification and Testing Track, ACM SAC 2016 (Pisa, Italy) - Second CFP Message-ID: <201507301550.t6UFoDGd000873@adret.inrialpes.fr> ================================================== 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Software Verification and Testing Track April 3 - 8, 2016, Pisa, Italy More information: http://antares.sip.ucm.es/svt16/ and http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/ =================================================== Important dates --------------- * September 11, 2015: Paper submission * November 13, 2015: Paper notification * December 11, 2015: Camera-Ready Copies ACM Symposium on Applied Computing ---------------------------------- The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has gathered scientists from different areas of computing over the thirty years. The forum represents an opportunity to interact with different communities sharing an interest in applied computing. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be hosted by the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University, Italy Software Verification and Testing Track --------------------------------------- We invite authors to submit new results in formal verification and testing, as well as development of technologies to improve the usability of formal methods in software engineering. Also welcome are detailed descriptions of applications of mechanical verification to large scale software. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - model checking - theorem proving - correct by construction development - model-based testing - verification-based testing - symbolic execution - static and run-time analysis - abstract interpretation - analysis methods for dependable systems - software certification and proof carrying code - fault diagnosis and debugging - verification of large scale software systems - real world applications and case studies applying software verification Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in electronic format, via the START site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/Paper-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. Submitted paper will undergo a blind review process. Authors of accepted papers should submit an editorial revision of their papers that fits within six two-column pages (an extra two pages, to a total of eight pages, may be available at a charge). Please comply to this page limitation already at submission time. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2016 proceedings. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of papers, posters, or SRC abstracts in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the work. This is a requirement for the presented work to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. A special issue of Journal of Systems and Software has been confirmed. Selected papers will be invited for submission, and will be peer-reviewed according to the standard policy of Journal of Systems and Software. Student Research Competition ---------------------------- As before, SAC 2016 organises a Student Research Competition (SRC) Program to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Guidelines and information about the SRC program can be found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. Submission to the SRC program should be in electronic form via the following website http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/SRC-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Program Committee ----------------- Rui Abreu, University of Porto, Portugal Cristiano Braga, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Ana Cavalli, National Institute of Telecommunications, France Byoungju Choi, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea Maximiliano Cristi?, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Khaled El-Fakih, American University of Sharjah, UAE Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Maria del mar Gallardo, University of Malaga, Spain Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tingting Han, University of London, UK Klaus Havelund, Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Ralf Huuck, UNSW, Australia Nikolai Kosmatov, CEA, France Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany Luis Llana, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jasen Markovski, R&D group, GN Resound Benelux, The Netherlands Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Brian Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Peter Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Adenilso Simao, ICMC/USP, Brazil Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Tanja Vos, Valencia University, Spain Carsten Weise, Imbus AG, Germany Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Nina Yevtushenko, Tomsk State University, Russia Cemal Yilmaz, Sabanci University, Turkey Fatiha Zaidi, Univ. Paris-Sud, France Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Committee Chairs ----------------- Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Gwen Sala?n, University of Grenoble Alpes, France From c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk Thu Jul 30 13:48:11 2015 From: c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk (Cristian Cadar) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:48:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in symbolic execution at Imperial College London Message-ID: <55BA635B.3010803@imperial.ac.uk> Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Software Reliability Group (http://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/) in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. The goal of this project is to investigate and design program transformations --- both semantics-preserving and semantics-altering --- that increase the scalability of symbolic execution. The techniques will primarily be implemented on top of the KLEE symbolic execution engine. To apply for this position, you will need to have a strong background in compilers and program analysis, and a good understanding of software engineering and operating systems. You will also need experience in building and working with large software systems and tools. Prior experience with LLVM and KLEE is desirable, but not required. Applicants will have (or shortly expect to receive) a PhD degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field, and will be expected to have a proven track record with strong publications in relevant areas. This position will be based at the South Kensington campus in central London. The application deadline is 4 September 2015, with interviews expected to take place on 18 September. For further information about this position, please visit http://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/vacancies. From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Fri Jul 31 03:46:00 2015 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 08:46:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2015 - Call for Student Volunteers Message-ID: <06B8B671-2FB0-47F5-8C6C-B64FF63098F7@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 /************************************************************************************/ Call for Student Volunteers /************************************************************************************/ 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. ** Student Volunteers ** The SPLASH Student Volunteer program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Applications Due: 7 August, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-sv Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Jonathan Bell (Columbia University) and Daco Harkes (TU Delft) 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 /************************************************************************************/ From j.a.perez at rug.nl Fri Jul 31 03:49:00 2015 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:49:00 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension - DCM 2015 (Cali, Colombia, co-located with ICTAC 2015) Message-ID: ====================================================== FINAL 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 SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (5 pages): AUGUST 17, 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 17 (extended) - 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) -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jorgeaperez.net From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Fri Jul 31 08:43:36 2015 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:43:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PAS 2015 - deadline 15/20 August Message-ID: [Apologies should you receive multiple copies of this call.] PAS 2015 - Fourth International Seminar on Program Verification, Automated Debugging and Symbolic Computation Beijing, China, October 21-23, 2015 http://pas2015.cc4cm.org/ Important Dates - Submission of abstracts August 15, 2015 - Submission of papers/extended abstracts: August 20, 2015 - Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 20, 2015 - Final version due: October 10, 2015 - Seminar taking place: October 21-23, 2015 Overview PAS 2015 will provide a forum for researchers and software developers actively involved or interested in developing, using, and applying methods and software tools of symbolic computation for program verification and automated debugging to exchange ideas and views, to review the state of the art and discuss prospects, to present research results and experiments, and to build up contacts for future cooperation. The scientific program of the seminar will feature invited talks and contributed presentations. Specific topics for PAS 2015 include (but are not limited to): - Theories and methodologies for program verification and testing - Model checking, fault locating and program repairing - Symbolic computation and automated reasoning for program verification - Termination, correctness and complexity analysis of programs - Automated program synthesis and transformation - Logic and semantics for automated and algorithmic debugging - Program debugging paradigms and techniques - Symbolic constraint solving for verification and debugging - Tools, prototypes, empirical and case studies The previous seminars PAS 2012 and PAS 2013 were held in Beijing, China, and PAS 2014 was part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) and the Vienna Summer of Logic. Submission Potential participants of PAS 2015 are invited to submit first half-page abstracts and then full papers or extended abstracts (3-5 pages) describing their work to be presented at the seminar. The submitted full papers and extended abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee for soundness and relevance to the seminar. Submission of original research papers is encouraged, while published material and work in progress will also be considered for presentation at the seminar. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pas20150 Accepted full papers and extended abstracts will be distributed at the seminar. Authors of the full papers and extended abstracts accepted for presentation at the seminar will be invited to submit their full and/or revised papers for publication in the post-proceedings volume as a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation (JSC) after the meeting. The submitted papers will be formally reviewed by external referees according to the standard refereeing procedure of JSC. Honorary Chair Wei Li (Beihang University, China) Steering Committee Hoon Hong (North Carolina State University, USA) Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Jens Knoop (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Alexander Letichevsky (Cybernetics National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) Wei Li (Beihang University, China) Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and CNRS, France) Program Chairs Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and CNRS, France) Program Committee Sandra Alves, University of Porto, Portugal Alessandro Armando, University of Genova, Italy Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Xiaoyu Chen, Beihang University, Beijing, China Stefan Ciobaca, University A. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania Madalina Erascu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Mario Florido, University of Porto, Portugal Martin Giese, University of Oslo, Norway Fairouz Kamareddine, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland Jens Knoop, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Boris Konev, University of Liverpool, England Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Gabor Kusper, Eszterhazy Karoly College, Eger, Hungary Oleksandr Letychevskyi, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine Dorel Lucanu, University A. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania Jie Luo, Beihang University, Beijing, China Alexander Maletzky, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania Marius Minea, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Grant Passmore, University of Cambridge, England Vladimir Peschanenko, Kherson State University, Russia Judit Robu, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania Michael Rusinowitch, LORIA - INRIA Nancy, France Vlad Rusu, INRIA, Lille, France Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University of Koblenz, Germany Kaile Su, Griffith University, Bribane, Australia Wolfgang Windsteiger, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Local Arrangements Xiaoyu Chen (Beihang University, China) Aishan Liu ( Beihang University, China) Dan Song (Beihang University, China) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu Sat Aug 1 16:05:11 2015 From: erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu (Martin Erwig) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 13:05:11 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2016: Call for Papers Message-ID: <2F35B644-0344-43EE-804A-EFED95E57DB3@eecs.oregonstate.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on PARTIAL EVALUATION AND PROGRAM MANIPULATION (PEPM 2016) St. Petersburg, Florida, January 18 - 19, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pepm-2016-main The 2016 PEPM workshop will be based on a broad interpretation of semantics-based program manipulation and continues efforts to expand the scope of PEPM beyond the traditionally covered areas of partial evaluation and specialization. Specifically, PEPM will include practical applications of program transformations such as refactoring tools, and practical implementation techniques such as rule-based transformation systems. In addition, the scope of PEPM covers manipulation and transformations of program and system representations such as structural and semantic models that occur in the context of model-driven development. In order to reach out to practitioners, a separate category of tool demonstration papers will be solicited. Topics of interest for PEPM?16 include, but are not limited to: * Program and model manipulation techniques such as: supercompilation, partial evaluation, fusion, on-the-fly program adaptation, active libraries, program inversion, slicing, symbolic execution, refactoring, decompilation, and obfuscation. * Program analysis techniques that are used to drive program/model manipulation such as: abstract interpretation, termination checking, binding-time analysis, constraint solving, type systems, automated testing and test case generation. * Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects including metaprogramming, generative programming, embedded domain-specific languages, program synthesis by sketching and inductive programming, staged computation, and model-driven program generation and transformation. * Application of the above techniques including case studies of program manipulation in real-world (industrial, open-source) projects and software development processes, descriptions of robust tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications, benchmarking. Examples of application domains include legacy program understanding and transformation, DSL implementations, visual languages and end-user programming, scientific computing, middleware frameworks and infrastructure needed for distributed and web-based applications, resource-limited computation, and security. To maintain the dynamic and interactive nature of PEPM, we will continue the category of `short papers? for tool demonstrations and for presentations of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting academic, industrial and open-source applications that are new or unfamiliar. Student participants with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses and other support. 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. All accepted papers, short papers included, will appear in formal proceedings published by ACM Press. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers from PEPM?16 will be published in a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming. PEPM has also established a Best Paper Award. The winner will be announced at the workshop. Submission Categories and Guidelines Regular Research Papers must not exceed 12 pages in ACM Proceedings style (including appendix). Tool demonstration papers and short papers must not exceed 6 pages in ACM Proceedings style (including appendix). At least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the workshop and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Suggested topics, evaluation criteria, and writing guidelines for both research tool demonstration papers will be made available on the PEPM?16 web site. Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair. easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pepm2016 Authors using LaTeX to prepare their submissions should use the new improved SIGPLAN proceedings style. Specifically, use the sigplanconf.cls 9pt template. Important Dates * Abstract submission: Tue, September 8, 2015 * Paper submission: Sun, September 13, 2015 (FIRM) * Author notification: Tue, October 20, 2015 * Camera ready copies: Fri, November 20, 2015 * Workshop: Monday, January 18 - Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Note: The paper submission deadline is firm. The above schedule is tight: We have absolutely no time to wait for late submissions, and we will have no deadline extension. From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Sat Aug 1 08:09:59 2015 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S Barry Cooper) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 13:09:59 +0100 (BST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] DCM 2015 (Cali, Colombia): Deadline Extension. Message-ID: ====================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- DCM 2015 11th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models A satellite event of ICTAC 2015 - http://www.ictac2015.co October 28, 2015, Cali, Colombia http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/2015/ DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (5 pages): AUGUST 17, 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; - relative and higher type computation. == IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: August 17 (extended) - 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) -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jorgeaperez.net From Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk Mon Aug 3 06:13:26 2015 From: Y.Lin at hw.ac.uk (Lin, Yuhui) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 10:13:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AVoCS 2015: Final Call for Research Idea Papers & Participation Message-ID: <376FCE79-223D-489A-9AD7-26064A2F85B6@hw.ac.uk> ====================================================================== The 15th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems 1-4 September 2015, Edinburgh, UK https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/ avocs2015 at easychair.org -----------------------|*** HIGHLIGHTS ***|---------------------------- + Registration is now open ! + Special research ideas session: short papers due 10th August + Several student grants available: application due 10th August + Invited talks by Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ/Oxford) Don Sannella (Contemplate/Edinburgh) + AI4FM workshop including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) + Proceedings to be published by EASST + Special issues of Science of Computer Programming ======================================================================= REGISTRATION Registration for AVoCS is available from https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/registration Early registration ends 18 August. SPONSORS Altran D-RisQ Software Systems 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 We encourage 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. The subject of the ideas 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. 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 IMPORTANT DATES Submission of research idea papers: 10th August 2015 Submission of student grant application: 10th 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) WORKSHOPS AI4FM 2015: 1 September 2015 -- www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/ including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) 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. SUBMISSION DETAILS Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages using the dedicated AVoCS 2015 EASST template available from the the following link (for LaTeX and Word): http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/public/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. Submissions are handled via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2015 The research ideas will be included in the pre-proceedings, which will be available in the form of a Heriot-Watt University Technical Report and will be available at the workhsop. STUDENT GRANTS Thanks to sponsorships from Altran, 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 is available from AVoCS webpage. 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 Yuhui Lin, Heriot-Watt University, UK 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 peterol at ifi.uio.no Tue Aug 4 06:43:15 2015 From: peterol at ifi.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Peter_Csaba_=C3=96lveczky?=) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 12:43:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: 4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems (FTSCS'15) Message-ID: <25C71594-4E48-46B5-82BE-49031FD0C48C@ifi.uio.no> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers FTSCS 2015 4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems Paris, November 6, 2015 (satellite workshop of ICFEM 2015) http://www.ftscs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Science of Computer Programming special issue *** *** Springer CCIS proceedings *** *** Paper submission deadline: September 5 *** Aims and Scope: There is an increasing demand for using formal methods to validate and verify safety-critical systems in fields such as power generation and distribution, avionics, automotive systems, and medical systems. In particular, newer standards, such as DO-178C (avionics), ISO 26262 (automotive systems), IEC 62304 (medical devices), and CENELEC EN 50128 (railway systems), emphasize the need for formal methods and model-based development, thereby speeding up the adaptation of such methods in industry. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers who are interested in the application of formal and semi-formal methods to improve the quality of safety-critical computer systems. FTSCS strives to promote research and development of formal methods and tools for industrial applications, and is particularly interested in industrial applications of formal methods. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods for analyzing safety-critical systems, including avionics, automotive, medical, railway, and other kinds of safety-critical and QoS-critical systems * methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, etc., of complex safety/QoS-critical systems * analysis methods that address the limitations of formal methods in industry (usability, scalability, etc.) * formal analysis support for modeling languages used in industry, such as AADL, Ptolemy, SysML, SCADE, Modelica, etc. * code generation from validated models. The workshop will provide a platform for discussions and the exchange of innovative ideas, so submissions on work in progress are encouraged. Submission: We solicit submissions reporting on: A- original research contributions (15 pages max, LNCS format); B- applications and experiences (15 pages max, LNCS format); C- surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (15 pages max, LNCS); D- tool papers (5 pages max, LNCS format); E- position papers and work in progress (5 pages max, LNCS format) related to the topics mentioned above. 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=ftscs2015. The final version of the paper must be prepared in LaTeX, adhering to the LNCS format available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Publication: All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FTSCS 2015. Accepted papers in the categories A-D above will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published as a volume in Springer's CCIS series. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming journal. Important dates: Submission deadline: September 5, 2015 Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2015 Workshop: November 6/7, 2015 Venue: Paris, France (city center!) Program chairs: Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Program committee: Musab AlTurki King Fahd U. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Etienne Andre University Paris 13, France Toshiaki Aoki JAIST, Japan Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan Kyungmin Bae Carnegie Mellon University, USA David Broman KTH, Sweden and UC Berkeley, USA Bernd Fischer Stellenbosch University, South Africa Osman Hasan National U. of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan Klaus Havelund NASA JPL, USA Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan Takashi Kitamura AIST, Japan Alexander Knapp Augsburg University, Germany Brian Larson Kansas State University, USA Wenchao Li SRI International, USA Robi Malik University of Waikato, New Zealand Frederic Mallet INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Roberto Nardone University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Thomas Noll RWTH Aachen University, Germany Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Charles Pecheur Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Paul Pettersson Malardalen University, Sweden Camilo Rocha Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria, Colombia Markus Roggenbach Swansea University, UK Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich, Switzerland Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania, USA Sofiene Tahar Concordia University, Canada Jean-Pierre Talpin INRIA Rennes, France Jackie Wang McMaster University, Canada Alan Wassyng McMaster University, Canada Michael Whalen University of Minnesota, USA Huibiao Zhu East China Normal University, China From idramnesc at info.uvt.ro Tue Aug 4 09:57:12 2015 From: idramnesc at info.uvt.ro (Isabela =?utf-8?Q?Dr=C4=83mnesc?=) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 16:57:12 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: PAS 2015 (Program Verification, Automated Debugging and Symbolic Computation) - deadline 15/20 August Message-ID: <71985921.8243.1438696632446.JavaMail.zimbra@info.uvt.ro> PAS 2015 - Fourth International Seminar on Program Verification, Automated Debugging and Symbolic Computation Beijing, China, October 21-23, 2015 http://pas2015.cc4cm.org/ Important Dates - Submission of abstracts August 15, 2015 - Submission of papers/extended abstracts: August 20, 2015 - Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 20, 2015 - Final version due: October 10, 2015 - Seminar taking place: October 21-23, 2015 Overview PAS 2015 will provide a forum for researchers and software developers actively involved or interested in developing, using, and applying methods and software tools of symbolic computation for program verification and automated debugging to exchange ideas and views, to review the state of the art and discuss prospects, to present research results and experiments, and to build up contacts for future cooperation. The scientific program of the seminar will feature invited talks and contributed presentations. Specific topics for PAS 2015 include (but are not limited to): - Theories and methodologies for program verification and testing - Model checking, fault locating and program repairing - Symbolic computation and automated reasoning for program verification - Termination, correctness and complexity analysis of programs - Automated program synthesis and transformation - Logic and semantics for automated and algorithmic debugging - Program debugging paradigms and techniques - Symbolic constraint solving for verification and debugging - Tools, prototypes, empirical and case studies The previous seminars PAS 2012 and PAS 2013 were held in Beijing, China, and PAS 2014 was part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) and the Vienna Summer of Logic. Submission Potential participants of PAS 2015 are invited to submit first half-page abstracts and then full papers or extended abstracts (3-5 pages) describing their work to be presented at the seminar. The submitted full papers and extended abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee for soundness and relevance to the seminar. Submission of original research papers is encouraged, while published material and work in progress will also be considered for presentation at the seminar. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pas20150 Accepted full papers and extended abstracts will be distributed at the seminar. Authors of the full papers and extended abstracts accepted for presentation at the seminar will be invited to submit their full and/or revised papers for publication in the post-proceedings volume as a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation (JSC) after the meeting. The submitted papers will be formally reviewed by external referees according to the standard refereeing procedure of JSC. Honorary Chair Wei Li (Beihang University, China) Steering Committee Hoon Hong (North Carolina State University, USA) Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Jens Knoop (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Alexander Letichevsky (Cybernetics National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) Wei Li (Beihang University, China) Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and CNRS, France) Program Chairs Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and CNRS, France) Program Committee Sandra Alves, University of Porto, Portugal Alessandro Armando, University of Genova, Italy Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Xiaoyu Chen, Beihang University, Beijing, China Stefan Ciobaca, University A. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania Madalina Erascu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Mario Florido, University of Porto, Portugal Martin Giese, University of Oslo, Norway Fairouz Kamareddine, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland Jens Knoop, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Boris Konev, University of Liverpool, England Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Gabor Kusper, Eszterhazy Karoly College, Eger, Hungary Oleksandr Letychevskyi, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine Dorel Lucanu, University A. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania Jie Luo, Beihang University, Beijing, China Alexander Maletzky, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania Marius Minea, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Grant Passmore, University of Cambridge, England Vladimir Peschanenko, Kherson State University, Russia Judit Robu, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania Michael Rusinowitch, LORIA - INRIA Nancy, France Vlad Rusu, INRIA, Lille, France Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University of Koblenz, Germany Kaile Su, Griffith University, Bribane, Australia Wolfgang Windsteiger, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Local Arrangements Xiaoyu Chen (Beihang University, China) Aishan Liu ( Beihang University, China) Dan Song (Beihang University, China) From tobycmurray at googlemail.com Wed Aug 5 00:05:48 2015 From: tobycmurray at googlemail.com (Toby Murray) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 14:05:48 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SSV 2015 - Call for Papers Message-ID: ======================================================================== SSV 2015 Call for Papers http://www.ssv-conference.org/ 9th Conference on Systems Software Verification Gold Coast, Australia, December 7-8, 2015 co-located with ICECCS. ======================================================================== Important Dates Abstract Submission: September 21, 2015 at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv2015 Paper Submission: September 28, 2015 at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv2015 Notification: October 30, 2015 Conference: December 7?8, 2015 Topics Industrial-strength software analysis and verification has advanced in recent years through the introduction of model checking, automated and interactive theorem proving, and static analysis techniques, as well as correctness by design, correctness by contract, and model-driven development. However, many techniques are working under restrictive assumptions that are invalidated by complex embedded systems software such as operating system kernels, low-level device drivers, or microcontroller code. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry who are facing real software and real problems with the goal of finding real, applicable solutions. By ?real? we mean problems such as time-to-market or reliability that the industry is facing. A real solution is one that is applicable to the problem in industry and not one that only applies to an abstract, academic, toy version of it. In this event we will discuss software analysis and development techniques and tools; this forum will serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in dealing with existing and upcoming systems-level code. Topics include, but are not restricted to: * Model checking * Automated and interactive theorem proving * Static analysis and type systems * Automated testing * Model-driven development * Concurrency * Security * Embedded systems development * Programming languages * Verifying compilers * Software certification * Software tools * Experience reports Submissions Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system until September 28th, 2015. Papers should be up to 10 pages in pdf format and formatted in EPTCS style [http://info.eptcs.org]. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All will be subject to peer review under normal conference standards. Experience reports and papers on work in progress are welcome as long as there is a clear contribution. Submissions which are based or discuss a non-trivial piece of software are required to make all those non-standard software parts available, which a referee may need, in order to check the claims of the submission. Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Proceedings Proceedings will be published as an issue in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Program Committee Jade Alglave, University College London Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien Andrew Butterfield, Lero, Trinity College Dublin Franck Cassez, Macquarie University Ana Cavalcanti, University of York Mads Dam, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London Stefania Gnesi, ISTI Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research J?rome Hugues, ISAE Limin Jia, CMU Tiziana Margaria, Lero, University of Limerick Toby Murray, NICTA and UNSW (Co-Chair) John Regehr, University of Utah David San?n, NTU (Co-Chair) Konrad Slind, Rockwell Collins Jun Sun, SUTD Alwen Tiu, NTU Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology Steering Committee Ralf Huuck, NICTA and UNSW Gerwin Klein, NICTA and UNSW Bastian Schlich, ABB Corporate Research From m.huisman at utwente.nl Thu Aug 6 08:38:14 2015 From: m.huisman at utwente.nl (m.huisman at utwente.nl) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:38:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in Monitoring Concurrent Software Message-ID: Please pass this message on to any of your potentially interested Master students. I am looking for a PhD student 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. In addition, I would like to investigate how runtime monitoring techniques can be used to efficiently explore different program behaviors. If you are interested, you can apply before August 24, 2015 via: http://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/312508 The project will be carried out within the Formal Methods and Tools (FMT) research group of Twente University. Within the FMT group, formal techniques and tools are developed and used as a means to support the development of software. This includes the development of formal theories of concurrency, design methodologies for distributed systems, and correctness assessment using verification or validation techniques. The group is also concerned with the development of traditional tools such as compilers and interpreters. In both research and courses much attention is paid to the applicability of formal methods. The FMT group is part of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) at the University of Twente. The 3TU.BSR project Big Software on the Run (http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/research/projects/3TU.BSR/) seeks several PhD and Postdoc positions. 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 analyse software systems in vivo - making it possible to visualize behaviour, create models, check conformance, predict problems and recommend corrective actions. The goal of the project 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. 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. Your profile 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); * good communicative skills in English, both in speaking and in writing; * a demonstrable interest in program semantics and verification; * some knowledge about software technology and multithreaded programming (in Java/C/C++ etc.) * candidates from non-Dutch or non-English speaking countries should be prepared to prove their English language skills; * 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). To apply for the position you should follow the link at the bottom of this vacancy description. Your application should consist of: * a cover letter (maximum 1 page A4), emphasizing your specific interest, qualifications and motivations to apply for this position; * a full Curriculum Vitae, including a list of all courses attended and grades obtained; * a short description (maximum 1 page A4) of your MSc research; * contact details of at least two referees who worked closely with you; Applications should be submitted before August 24, 2015. Our offer We offer you a an interesting research position in a dynamic and international environment. You will also be given the opportunity to extend your knowledge in relevant areas through internal and external courses. You will be appointed for a period of four years. The salary starts at ? 2.125,00 gross per month and grows to ? 2.717,00 gross per month in the fourth year. Additionally, the University of Twente provides a holiday allowance (amounts to 8%), an end-of-year bonus (amounts to 8.3%) and a number of additional benefits. For more information about this position see http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/research/projects/3TU.BSR/ or contact Marieke Huisman (http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/~marieke/). The organization The University of Twente. We stand for life sciences and technology. High tech and human touch. Education and research that matter. New technology which drives change, innovation and progress in society. The University of Twente is the only campus university in the Netherlands; divided over six faculties we provide more than fifty educational programmes. The University of Twente has a strong focus on personal development and talented researchers are given scope for carrying out pioneering research. The faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) comprises three disciplines that shape Information and Communication Technology. ICT is more than communication. In almost every product we use mathematics, electronics and computer technology and ICT now contributes to all of societies' activities. The faculty works together intensively with industrial partners and researchers in the Netherlands and abroad and conducts extensive research for external commissioning parties and funders. The research which enjoys a high profile both at home and internationally, has been accommodated in the multidisciplinary research institutes MESA+, CTIT and MIRA. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From weaversa at gmail.com Thu Aug 6 09:37:01 2015 From: weaversa at gmail.com (Sean Weaver) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:37:01 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAT 2015: Call for participation, 24-27 September, Austin Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, SAT 2015 Austin, Texas, USA, September 24-27, 2015 *** Early Registration until August 23, 2015 *** Conference page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/index.html Accepted papers: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/index.html#papers Registration page: http://www.regonline.com/sat15 INVITED TALKS Dimitris Achlioptas (UC Santa Cruz): Random Formulas are Irrelevant, Right? Anna Slobodova (Centaur Technology): Pragmatic Approach to Formal Verification Aaron Tomb (Galois, Inc.): Applying Satisfiability to the Analysis of Cryptography COMPETITIVE EVENTS SAT Race: http://baldur.iti.kit.edu/sat-race-2015/ Max-SAT Evaluation: http://maxsat.ia.udl.cat/ Pseudo-Boolean Evaluation: http://pbeva.computational-logic.org/ TUTORIALS Isil Dillig, The University of Texas at Austin, United States Priyank Kalla, University of Utah, United States Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology, Austria WORKSHOPS Pragmatics of Satisfiability: http://www.pragmaticsofsat.org/2015/ Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas: http://fmv.jku.at/qbf15/ IMPORTANT EVENT DATES SAT Workshops: September 23, 2015 SAT Regular Program: September 24-26, 2015 SAT Tutorial Day: September 27, 2015 (joint with DIFTS and FMCAD) CO-LOCATED EVENTS MEMOCODE conference: September 21-23, 2015 FMCAD conference: September 27-30, 2015 DIFTS workshop: September 26-27, 2015 ACL2 workshop: October 01-02, 2015 CONFERENCE SCOPE The SAT conference is the premier annual meeting for researchers focusing on the theory and applications of the propositional satisfiability problem, broadly construed. Aside from plain propositional satisfiability, the scope of the meeting includes Boolean optimization (including MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints), Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. Many hard combinatorial problems can be tackled using SAT-based techniques, including problems that arise in Formal Verification, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Computational Biology, Cryptology, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Mathematics, et cetera. Indeed, the theoretical and practical advances in SAT research over the past twenty years have contributed to making SAT technology an indispensable tool in a variety of domains. SAT 2015 ORGANIZATION Chairs: Marijn Heule, The University of Texas at Austin, United States Sean Weaver, Trusted Systems Research Group, United States Workshop Chair: Albert Oliveras, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Tutorial Chairs: Malay Ganai, Atrenta, United States Chao Wang, Virginia Tech, United States From yudi.zheng at usi.ch Wed Aug 5 17:50:52 2015 From: yudi.zheng at usi.ch (Yudi Zheng) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 21:50:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WODA 2015: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <5E62D8DCD5EBCD4890223597CDB41BF34A4887DD@usimbox02.usilu.net> ** DEADLINE EXTENSION ** *Paper submission: Aug. 14, 2015 *Author notification: Sep. 14, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 13th International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA'15) Co-located with SPLASH/OOPSLA 2015 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Pittsburgh, PA, October 26, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/WODA-2015-papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *IMPORTANT DATES *Paper submission: Aug. 14, 2015 *Author notification: Sep. 14, 2015 Conference: Oct. 26, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION SITE: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=woda15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST WODA is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the intersection of compilers, programming languages, architecture, systems, high-performance computing, software engineering, performance engineering, machine learning, and data mining for addressing software and system performance. The workshop focuses on developing and studying analytic technologies (e.g., program analysis, statistical analysis, machine learning, data mining, visualization) applied on various software or system artifacts (e.g., production systems, tests, program traces, system logs) to address issues in software and system reliability, dependability, performance, and scalability. WODA welcomes submissions that propose dynamic analysis techniques for solving all kinds of problems in software and systems; typical areas of interest that WODA covers are: - Development of dynamic analysis tools and frameworks - Efficient instrumentation techniques - Novel applications of dynamic analysis - Program security and penetration testing - Fault detection, debugging, and tolerance - Performance analysis and optimization techniques - Remote analysis and measurement of software systems - Runtime monitoring - Software and systems testing - Statistical reasoning techniques - Visualization and classification of program behavior - Relating user feedback to execution dynamics - Dynamic analysis for efficient memory management - Dynamic analysis on embedded and mobile systems Submissions addressing an emerging problem are especially welcome. The workshop will be structured to encourage discussion and develop research collaborations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must be in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings format, 10-point type, and may not exceed 6 pages. Submissions must be in PDF, printable on US Letter. Submissions to WODA should be in one of the following two categories: - A four to six page position/idea paper describing an issue in the field, and arguing for a specific stance or approach to that issue - A two-page extended abstract describing an ongoing project All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. During the workshop, extended abstracts will receive a shorter presentation and discussion period. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS Organizing Committee: Workshop co-chairs: Harry Xu, University of California, Irvine, USA Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Program Committee: Shigeru Chiba, The University of Tokyo, Japan Brian Demsky, University of California, Irvine, USA Julian Dolby, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Irene Finocchi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rajiv Gupta, University of California Riverside, USA Matthias Hauswirth, University of Lugano, Switzerland Yu David Liu, SUNY Binghamton, USA Yi Lu, Oracle Labs, Australia Hans peter Mo?ssenbo?ck, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University, USA Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China From jhr at cs.uchicago.edu Fri Aug 7 05:26:15 2015 From: jhr at cs.uchicago.edu (John Reppy) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:26:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [PADL 2016] First call for papers Message-ID: Call for Papers =============== 18th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2016) http://conf.researchr.org/home/PADL-2016 St. Petersburg, Florida, United States Mon 18 - Tue 19 January 2016 Co-located with ACM POPL 2016 Conference Description ====================== Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to many different real-world situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative applications of declarative languages * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications * Practical applications of theoretical results * New language developments and their impact on applications * Declarative languages and software engineering * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications * Practical experiences and industrial applications * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom * Practical extensions such as constraint-based, probabilistic, and reactive languages. PADL 2016 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages. PADL 2016 will be co-located with the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2016), in St. Petersburg, Florida (USA). Important Dates and Submission Guidelines ========================================= Abstract Submission: September 10, 2015 Paper Submission: September 18, 2015 Notification: October 21, 2015 Camera-ready: November 10, 2015 Symposium: January 18-19, 2016 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF using the Springer LNCS format. The submission will be done through EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=padl2016 All submissions must be original work written in English. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted but the authors should notify the program chair about the place on which it has previously appeared. PADL 2016 will accept both technical and application papers: * Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. Technical papers must not exceed 15 pages (plus one page of references) in Springer LNCS format. * Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 8 pages in Springer LNCS format but such papers can also point to sites with supplemental information about the application or the system that they describe. The proceedings of PADL 2016 will appear in the LNCS series of Springer Verlag. Contacts ======== For additional information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chairs: Marco Gavanelli and John Reppy University of Ferrara University of Chicago Italy USA http://docente.unife.it/marco.gavanelli http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr email: padl2016 at easychair.org From marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Aug 7 12:55:52 2015 From: marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk (Marta Kwiatkowska) Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 17:55:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research position on Mobile Robotics programme grant (verification/synthesis) at Oxford In-Reply-To: <55C4E252.6010701@cs.ox.ac.uk> References: <55C4E252.6010701@cs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <55C4E318.2000404@cs.ox.ac.uk> [Please forward to anyone interested. Apologies for multiple mailing.] A postdoctoral research positions is 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). The post is in the area of quantitative verification and synthesis under the direction of Prof. Marta Kwiatkowska, and will contribute to the Safety, Trust and Integrity Theme. You will be developing novel quantitative verification, strategy synthesis and software synthesis techniques, with application to autonomous driving, personal transport and space robotics. More information about the Programme Grant and related research activities can be found here: http://mrg.robots.ox.ac.uk/projects/epsrc-program-grant/ http://qav.comlab.ox.ac.uk/projects/marta.kwiatkowska.php http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/marta.kwiatkowska/ http://mrg.robots.ox.ac.uk/ You should have a PhD in Computer Science or a closely-related field, with post-qualification research experience. Excellent knowledge of quantitative/probabilistic modelling, quantitative verification, game theory and controller synthesis, strong track record and national reputation in relevant publications, and ability and willingness to participate in the development of experimental software are essential. This post is fixed-term for up to 3 years (with possibility of extension for 2 additional years, and promotion to Grade 8, depending on performance). The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 2 September 2015. Interviews are expected to be held on 11 September 2015. For further details and to apply please visit: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form -- Professor Marta Kwiatkowska Fellow of Trinity College Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road Oxford, OX1 3QD Tel: +44 (0)1865 283509 Email: Marta.Kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk URL: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/marta.kwiatkowska/ Personal Assistant: Jordan Summers-Young Email: Jordan.Summers at cs.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 610650 From salvaneschi at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Fri Aug 7 16:04:45 2015 From: salvaneschi at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Guido Salvaneschi) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 22:04:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: REBLS @ SPLASH 2015 - Workshop on Reactive and Event-Based Languages & Systems Message-ID: 2nd International Workshop on Reactive and Event-Based Languages & Systems. The submission deadline has been extended. New deadline: August 17th Held at SPLASH Conference http://2015.splashcon.org/ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - October 25/26, 2015 ===== Introduction ===== Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design - so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) - have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work. ===== Contributions ===== Even though reactive programming and event-based programming are receiving ever more attention, the field is far from mature. This workshop will join forces and try to gather researchers working on the foundational models, languages and implementation technologies. We welcome all submissions on reactive programming, aspect- and event-oriented systems, including but not limited to: language design, implementation, runtime systems, program analysis, software metrics, patterns and benchmarks. - Study of the paradigm: interaction of reactive and event-based programming with existing language features such as object-oriented programming, mutable state, concurrency. - Advanced event systems, event quantification, event composition, aspect-oriented programming for reactive applications. - Functional-reactive programming, self-adjusting computation and incremental computing. - Applications, case studies that show the efficacy of reactive programming. - Empirical studies that motivate further research in the field. - Patterns and best-practices. - Related fields, such as complex event processing, reactive data structures, view maintenance, constraint-based languages, and their integration with reactive programming. - IDEs, Tools. - Implementation technology, language runtimes, virtual machine support, compilers. - Modularity and abstraction mechanisms in large systems. - Formal models for reactive and event-based programming. The format of the workshop is that of a mini-conference. Because of the declarative nature of reactive programs, it is often hard to understand their semantics just by looking at the code. We therefore also encourage authors to use their slots for presenting their work based on live demos. Info about the format and the page limits can be found on the REBLS'15 website (http://www.rebls-ws.com). ===== Important dates ===== - Full-paper deadline: August 17, 2015 - Full-paper notification: September 7, 2015 - Workshop: October 25/26, 2015 Info about the submission site can be found on the REBLS'15 page (http://www.rebls-ws.com). ==== Organization and Committees Organizers: Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Patrick Eugster, Purdue University and TU Darmstadt Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo Program Committee: Umut Acar, Carnegie Mellon University Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo Dominique Devriese, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Jonathan Edwards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University ===== REBLS @ SPLASH 2015 -- Guido Salvaneschi Postdoc Researcher TU Darmstadt - Germany From gadducci at di.unipi.it Sat Aug 8 08:44:54 2015 From: gadducci at di.unipi.it (Fabio Gadducci) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 14:44:54 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: HaPoC 2015 Message-ID: <00B894DF-17C2-4D5F-9C48-FE422A49D901@di.unipi.it> First Call for Participation HaPoC 2015: 3rd International CONFERENCE on the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY of COMPUTING October 8-11, 2015, Pisa, Italy http:// hapoc2015.di.unipi.it *** Early Registration until September 6, 2015 ! *** This is an invitation to attend the 3rd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2015). The conference brings together researchers interested in the historical developments of computers and their sciences, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape. The conference is composed of 30 research presentations, with no parallels sessions, and 6 invited talks from renowned experts in the relevant fields. The conference will take place in Pisa, the cradle of Italian computer science: here the first Italian computers were designed in the mid-Fifties and the first Master course in informatics was established in 1969. The Museum of Computing Machinery (Museo degli Strumenti per il Calcolo), part of the University of Pisa, shows some artefacts from the early days of Italian CS, as well a selection of personal computing machines. Besides its artistic attractions, among them the world-famous leaning tower, during the days of the conference Pisa will host the Internet Festival, devoted to all the aspects of the net (http://www.internetfestival.it ) Invited speakers ------------------- Nicola Angius, Universita' di Sassari Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University David Alan Grier, IEEE & George Washington University Furio Honsell, Universita' di Udine Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS & Universite' Paris-Sorbonne Franck Varenne, Universite' de Rouen Visit http://goo.gl/ubgl2E for a list of the abstracts. Accepted Talks --------------- The list of accepted abstracts can be found at http://goo.gl/BTJsTC Venue ------ The conference will take place in Pisa, at the Museum of Computing Machinery. Additional information can be found at http://goo.gl/APJPff Registration information -------------------------- Registration is required to attend. 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URL: From lcaires at fct.unl.pt Mon Aug 10 09:28:11 2015 From: lcaires at fct.unl.pt (Luis Caires) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:28:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POSTDOC position at NOVA LINCS Lisbon (background in Programming Languages and Tools) Message-ID: Dear all, We would like to announce a post doc / research associate position at NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (Lisbon) for candidates with a strong background in topics such as programming languages, programming language design and implementation, software verification, and program analysis. The successful candidate will join a just launched project on new programming models, incremental verification techniques, and programming environments for the interactive / live construction of trustworthy web/cloud applications. Please contact me (lcaires(at)fct.unl.pt) for additional information about the position and project. More information at: http://nova-lincs.di.fct.unl.pt/open-positions/position-4 Best regards, Luis Caires -- Best regards, Luis Caires Head of Department Director of NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics Departamento de Inform?tica FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa http://ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/~lcaires -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ichiro at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Aug 13 03:03:43 2015 From: ichiro at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:03:43 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HSCC 2016: Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] 19th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) April 12-14, 2016, Vienna, Austria URL: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/hscc2016/ Important dates Abstract Submission deadline (required): October 8, 2015. (no extensions possible) Paper Submission deadline: October 23, 2015. (no extensions possible) Rebuttal phase: November 27 to December 4, 2015. Author notification: December 18, 2015. Camera-ready submission: TBA. Demos/posters submission deadline: TBA. Conference dates: April 12-14, 2016. Conference Scope Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) has long been the leading, single-track conference on foundations, techniques, and tools for analysis, verification, control, synthesis, implementation, and applications of dynamical systems that exhibit continuous and discrete (hybrid) dynamics. Applications deal broadly with cyber-physical systems (CPS), and include mixed signal circuits, robotics, large-scale infrastructure networks, as well as natural systems such as biochemical and physiological models. We solicit theoretical as well as applied research papers that present original work combining ideas from computer science and control systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Design, synthesis, planning and control - Analysis, automated verification (Boolean or quantitative) - Certification, validation, and testing - Model building from data (via learning) and model simulation - Mathematical foundations, computability and complexity - Programming languages, specification formalisms - Software tool engineering and experimentation - Real-time and resource-aware control - Network science and control over networks - Applications in cyber-physical systems, and in particular: automotive, avionics, energy and power, mobile and autonomous robotics, medical devices, manufacturing, transportation, systems and synthetic biology, models for the life sciences, and other areas. HSCC 2016 will be held as part of the eighth Cyber Physical Systems Week (CPS Week), alongside the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), the Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), and CPS-related workshops. Special Issue: Authors of distinguished papers may be invited to submit an extended version of their work for possible publication in a special issue of a leading journal in the CPS research area. Best Student Paper Award: As established in the previous years, a best student paper award will be given to a contribution primarily authored by a student. Repeatability Evaluation: HSCC has a history of publishing strong papers emphasising computational contributions; however, subsequent re-creation of these computational elements is often challenging because details of the implementation are unavoidably absent in the paper. Authors of papers accepted to HSCC (in any track) that contain a computational component will be invited to participate in an optional repeatability evaluation process after final submission of the paper in February. Papers that pass will be highlighted at the conference and in the proceedings, and all submissions will receive confidential feedback from independent reviewers on any challenges faced in recreating the computational results. Further details will be posted at the conference web page. Submission Guidelines Submitted papers should present unpublished original research, not under review elsewhere. Regular papers: maximum 10 pages in the 10pt, two-column ACM format. Tool and Case Study papers: maximum 6 pages in the 10pt, two-column ACM format. Tool Papers should describe an implemented tool and its novel features. Case studies should present hybrid systems tools or techniques. Demo/posters: Maximum 2 pages. Demo/poster descriptions serve the sole purpose of selecting contributions for the demo and poster session and will not be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions Submissions of Regular, Tool and Case-Study papers should be made through the HSCC 2016 EasyChair submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hscc2016 Submissions deadline is October 23, 2015 - corresponding abstracts should be submitted by October 8, 2015. ACM templates can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Demo/poster submissions: The submission deadline will be announced sometime in the beginning of 2016. Submission will be through email to hscc2016 at easychair.org with "HSCC demo/poster submission" in the subject line. Questions should be directed to the same address. Committees for HSCC 2016 Program Committee Chairs Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University, USA Publicity Chair Sayan Mitra, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Repeatability Evaluation Chair Ian M. Mitchell, University of British Columbia, Canada Demo/Poster Chair James Kapinski, Toyota Motors, USA Program Committee Shun-ichi Azuma, Kyoto University, Japan Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany Ezio Bartocci, TU Vienna, Austria Calin Belta, Boston University, USA Spring Berman, Arizona State University, USA Mireille Broucke, University of Toronto, Canada Krishnendu Chatterjee, IST Austria, Austria Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Alessandro D'Innocenzo, University of L'Aquila, Italy Thao Dang, VERIMAG, France Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Toyota Motors, USA Xu Chu Ding, United Technology Research Center, USA Alexandre Donz?, UC Berkeley, USA Martin Fr?nzle, University in Oldenburg, Germany Antoine Girard, University of Grenoble, France Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, Japan Jun-ichi Imura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Franjo Ivancic, Google NY, USA Taylor Johnson, UT Arlington, USA Agung Julius, Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, USA Sertac Karaman, MIT, USA Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK Jun Liu, University of Waterloo, Canada Daniele Magazzeni, King's College London, UK Manuel Mazo Jr, TU Delft, The Netherlands Sayan Mitra, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Jens Oehlerking, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Meeko Oishi, University of New Mexico, USA Necmiye Ozay, University of Michigan, USA Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg, Germany Pavithra Prabhakar, Kansas State University, USA Maria Prandini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Akshay Rajhans, The MathWorks, USA S Ramesh, General Motors R&D, India Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Herbert Tanner, University of Delaware, USA Ufuk Topcu, UT Austin, USA Ashuthosh Trivedi, IIT Bombay, India Jana Tumova, KTH, Sweden Verena Wolf, Saarland University, Germany Majid Zamani, Technical University of Munich, Germany Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK Steering Committee Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania, USA Werner Damm, OFFIS, Germany John Lygeros, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Oded Maler, Verimag, France Paulo Tabuada, UCLA, USA Claire Tomlin, University of California Berkeley, USA From frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr Thu Aug 13 05:58:51 2015 From: frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Fr=c3=a9d=c3=a9ric_Loulergue?=) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:58:51 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: ACM SAC'16 PAPP Track - Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming Message-ID: <55CC6A5B.4040608@univ-orleans.fr> ====================== Call for Papers ====================== SAC'16 - ACM 2016 Symposium on Applied Computing Technical Track PAPP - Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming April 3-8, 2016, Pisa, Italy http://frederic.loulergue.eu/PAPP2016 ============================================================= AIMS & SCOPE Nowadays parallel architectures are everywhere. However parallel programming is still reserved to experienced programmers. The trend is towards the increase of cores in processors and the number of processors in multiprocessor machines: The need for scalable computing is everywhere. But parallel and distributed programming is still dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing and POSIX threads. Thus high-level approaches should play a key role in the shift to scalable computing in every computer. Algorithmic skeletons (Google's MapReduce being the most well-known skeletal parallelism approach), parallel extensions of functional languages such as Haskell and ML, parallel logic and constraint programming, parallel execution of declarative programs such as SQL queries, genericity and meta-programming in object-oriented languages, etc. have produced methods and tools that improve the price/performance ratio of parallel software, and broaden the range of target applications. Also, high level languages offer a high degree of abstraction which ease the development of complex systems. Moreover, being based on formal semantics, it is possible to certify the correctness of critical parts of the applications. The aim of all these languages and tools is to improve and ease the development of applications (safety, expressivity, efficiency, etc.). The PAPP track is aimed both at researchers involved in the development of high level approaches for parallel computing and engineers and researchers who are potential users of these languages and tools. TOPICS We welcome submission of original, unpublished papers in English on topics including: - design, implementation and optimisation of high-level programming languages, - algorithms and high-level models (CGM, BSP, LogP, MapReduce,...), - artificial intelligence, software engineering and formal methods applied to high-level parallel programming, - middleware and tools: performance predictors, visualisations of abstract behaviour, automatic hot-spot detectors, high-level resource managers, compilers, automatic generators, etc., - applications of high-level approaches, benchmarks and experiments. The PAPP track focuses on practical aspects of high-level parallel programming but it welcomes topics of mostly theoretical nature, provided there is clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in electronic format, via the link provided at SAC web page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016) Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. Submitted papers will undergo a blind review process. Authors of accepted papers should submit an editorial revision of their papers that fits within six two-column pages (an extra two pages, to a total of eight pages, may be available at a charge). Please comply with this page limitation already at submission time. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. After the conference, selected accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of an international journal (pending). SAC 2016 will also hold a Student Research Competition (SRC). To enter this in the area of PAPP, please submit via the link at SAC web page. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: Sep 11, 2015 SRC Abstract Submission: Sep 25, 2015 Paper/SRC Notifications: Nov 13, 2015 Camera-Ready Copies: Dec 11, 2015 TRACK PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Fr?d?ric Loulergue, Track Chair (LIFO, Universit? d'Orl?ans, France) Marco Aldinucci (University of Torino, Italy) Mohamad Al Hajj Hassan (Lebanese International University, Lebanon) Mathias Bourgoin (INPG, Grenoble, France) H?l?ne Coullon (ENS Lyon, France) Khaled Hamidouche (The Ohio State University, USA) Herbert Kuchen (Westf?lische Wilhems-Universit?t M?nster, Germany) Yolanda Ortega Mall?n (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology, Japan) Susanna Pelagatti (University of Pisa, Italy) Julien Tesson (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, France) Alexander Tiskin (University of Warwick, UK) From aravara at fct.unl.pt Fri Aug 14 14:27:29 2015 From: aravara at fct.unl.pt (Antonio Ravara) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 19:27:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA join Call for Participation In-Reply-To: <55C5251B.9080208@fct.unl.pt> References: <55C5251B.9080208@fct.unl.pt> Message-ID: <55CE3311.9040009@fct.unl.pt> WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA join Call for Participation September 4-5, Madrid Meet (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/madrid2015/) Detailed info at: WS-FM/BEAT (http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/WSFM-BEAT2015/index.php) FOCLASA (http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/) *** WS-FM/BEAT programme on Friday *** 15:00 - 16:30 Session 1 15:00 - 15:15 Opening 15:15 - 16:30 Static Analysis of Unbounded Networks with Behavioural Types. Cosimo Laneve (invited talk). 16:30 - 17:00 Break 17:00 - 19:15 Session 2 17:00 - 17:45 Type Inference for Session Types in the Pi-Calculus. Eva Fajstrup Graversen, Jacob Buchreitz Harbo, Hans H?ttel, Mathias Ormstrup Bjerregaard, Niels Sonnich Poulsen and Sebastian Wahl. 17:45 - 18:30 Type checking purpose-based access control policies in the pi-calculus. Eleni Kokkinofta and Anna Philippou. 18:30 - 19:15 On honest interactions among untrusted services. Massimo Bartoletti and Roberto Zunino. *** WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA join programme on Saturday *** 08:50 - 10:30 Session 1 08:50 - 09:00 Opening 09:00 - 09:45 A Context-Oriented Extension of F#. Andrea Canciani, Pierpaolo Degano, Gianluigi Ferrari and Letterio Galletta. 09:45 - 10:30 Specifying Finite-State Actors. Jonathan Schuster, Stephen Chang and Matthias Felleisen. 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 13:00 Session 2 11:00 - 11:45 On the Automated Synthesis of Enterprise Integration Patterns to Adapt Choreography-based Distributed Systems. Marco Autili, Amleto Di Salle, Alexander Perucci and Massimo Tivoli. 11:45 - 13:00 Towards Dynamic Updates in Service Composition. Mario Bravetti (invited talk). 13:00 - 14:45 Lunch 14:45 - 16:00 Session 3 Title to be announced. Javier Esparza (invited talk) 16:00 - 16:30 Break 16:30 - 18:15 Session 4 16:30 - 17:15 A Constraint-based Approach for Generating Transformation Patterns. Asma Cherif and Abdessamad Imine. 17:15 - 18:00 Service Choreography, SBVR, and Time. Nurulhuda A. Manaf, Sotiris Moschoyiannis and Paul Krause. 18:00 - 18:15 Closing ------------------------------------------------ - Massimo Tivoli, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica (DISIM), Universit? di L'Aquila, email: massimo.tivoli at univaq.it, url: http://www.di.univaq.it/tivoli On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Antonio Ravara wrote: > Dear David, > > Sorry for taking so long... Finally, we have a first version of the program. > We may include one more talk on Saturday afternoon, finishing thus 45m > later. > > Warm regards, > Ant?nio (also on behalf of Jan Martijn, Jos?, and Massimo) > > PS: just noticed that the only CONCUR session on types is schedule in > parallel with the first session of WS-FM/BEAT (being behavioural types one > of the main topics...). Is it still possible to avoid this unfortunate > overlap? > > > *** WS-FM/BEAT programme on Friday *** > > 14:30 - 16:00 Session 1 > 14:30 - 14:45 Opening > 14:45 - 16:00 Static Analysis of Unbounded Networks with Behavioural Types. > Cosimo Laneve (invited talk). > > 16:00 - 16:30 Break > > 16:30 - 18:45 Session 2 > 16:30 - 17:15 Type Inference for Session Types in the Pi-Calculus. > Eva Fajstrup Graversen, Jacob Buchreitz Harbo, Hans H?ttel, Mathias Ormstrup > Bjerregaard, Niels Sonnich Poulsen and Sebastian Wahl. > 17:15 - 18:00 Type checking purpose-based access control policies in the > pi-calculus. Eleni Kokkinofta and Anna Philippou. > 18:00 - 18:45 On honest interactions among untrusted services. > Massimo Bartoletti and Roberto Zunino. > > > *** WS-FM/BEAT and FOCLASA join programme on Saturday *** > > 08:50 - 10:30 Session 1 > 08:50 - 09:00 Opening > 09:00 - 09:45 A Context-Oriented Extension of F#. > Andrea Canciani, Pierpaolo Degano, Gianluigi Ferrari and Letterio Galletta. > 09:45 - 10:30 Specifying Finite-State Actors. > Jonathan Schuster, Stephen Chang and Matthias Felleisen. > > 10:30 - 11:00 Break > > 11:00 - 13:00 Session 2 > 11:00 - 11:45 On the Automated Synthesis of Enterprise Integration Patterns > to Adapt Choreography-based Distributed Systems. > Marco Autili, Amleto Di Salle, Alexander Perucci and Massimo Tivoli. > 11:45 - 13:00 Towards Dynamic Updates in Service Composition. Mario Bravetti > (invited talk). > > 13:00 - 14:45 Lunch > > 14:45 - 16:00 Session 3 > Title to be announced. Javier Esparza (invited talk) > > 16:00 - 16:30 Break > > 16:30 - 17:30 Session 4 > 16:30 - 17:15 A Constraint-based Approach for Generating Transformation > Patterns. Asma Cherif and Abdessamad Imine. > 17:15 - 17:30 Closing > From A.Popescu at mdx.ac.uk Sun Aug 16 15:54:52 2015 From: A.Popescu at mdx.ac.uk (Andrei Popescu) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:54:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The 31st British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science, in London: registration is open Message-ID: <5F22105EAD3CAD4689EC4570AA1802B0BDA8FA40CC@WGFP-EXMAV1.uni.mdx.ac.uk> This year, the colloquium is organized by the Middlesex University and enjoys some remarkable invited speakers. All the best, Andrei British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science Middlesex University, Hendon, London, UK 14th--18th September 2015 http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/foundations/bctcs2015/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 31st British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science will be hosted by the Foundations of Computing Group, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, from 14th to 18th September, 2015. Associated with the meeting, on Thursday 17th September, is the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Algorithms & Cryptography Day. The LMS will celebrate its 150th anniversary as BCTCS celebrates its 30th with its first visit to the capital. The purpose of BCTCS is to provide a forum in which researchers in theoretical computer science can meet, present research findings, and discuss developments in the field. It also aims to provide an environment in which PhD students can gain experience in presenting their work, and benefit from contact with established researchers. The scope of the colloquium includes all aspects of theoretical computer science, including automata theory, algorithms, complexity theory, semantics, formal methods, concurrency, types, languages and logics. Both computer scientists and mathematicians are welcome to attend, as are participants from outside of the UK. The colloquium features both invited and contributed talks. This year the invited speakers currently include the following: Samson Abramsky, Oxford University, UK. Timothy Gowers, Cambridge University, UK. Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research, UK. Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh, USA, (LMS Keynote). Per Martin-Lof, Stockholm University, Sweden. Joseph Sifakis, University of Grenoble, France. The LMS meeting on Thursday also has eminent speakers. Lance Fortnow, Georgia Tech, USA. Shafi Goldwasser, MIT, USA. Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA. Mike Paterson, University of Warwick. Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute, Israel. Nigel Smart, University of Bristol. Registration is now open from the following link: http://www.onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&catid=93&prodid=643 The registration fee is ?140 plus ?40 for the conference dinner (note the receipt will not be itemised). We are grateful for support from the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research which will provide bursaries for 18 students to cover registration fees and accommodation. Please register for free at the same link and send titles and abstracts of talks to g.primiero at mdx.ac.uk. The deadline for registration is 27th August. We have reserved a number of rooms at Hendon Hall Hotel at ?110 per night (please contact barnabymartin at gmail.com). However, there is the possibility to stay at many hotels within a short bus journey and these rooms are cheaper when booked by individuals. Barnaby Martin, Raja Nagarajan and Giuseppe Primiero. 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URL: From iliano at andrew.cmu.edu Sun Aug 16 16:16:14 2015 From: iliano at andrew.cmu.edu (Iliano Cervesato) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:16:14 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two postdoctoral positions Message-ID: <55D0EF8E.7050300@cmu.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement] ======================================================================= Two Postdoctoral Positions on Automated Verification of Properties of Concurrent, Distributed and Parallel Specifications Carnegie Mellon University and IT University of Copenhagen ======================================================================= We are seeking applications for two postdoctoral positions in computational logic. Both position are part of a common project on automated verification of properties of concurrent, distributed and parallel specifications with applications to computer security. One position is based on CMU's Qatar campus and the other in Copenhagen. Applicants should have a strong background and interest in some combination of type theory, proof theory, concurrency, logical frameworks, and linear or substructural logics. Both positions are expected to start in the Fall of 2015. Project page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~iliano/projects/metaCLF/ Application page for the position at CMU: http://csjobs.qatar.cmu.edu Application page for the position at ITU: http://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Vacancies ======================================================================= -- Iliano Cervesato www.cs.cmu.edu/~iliano/ Professor Carnegie Mellon University From hsim at kangwon.ac.kr Mon Aug 17 03:54:29 2015 From: hsim at kangwon.ac.kr (Hyeonseung Im) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:54:29 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2015 Call for Poster Presentations (Korea, Nov 30 - Dec 2) Message-ID: ? ? ? ?Call for Poster? Presentations: APLAS 2015?? 13??th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems ? ? ? ?November 3?0 -? December ?2, 2015?? ? ??Pohang, Korea ? ? http://pl.postech.ac.kr/aplas2015/ ? ?Submission due: ?21? September 201?5? (Monday), 23:59 GMT ? ?Notification: ? ? 5 ?October? 201?5? (Monday) ========== BACKGROUND ========== APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming language community. APLAS is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS), founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. Past APLAS symposiums were successfully held in 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. APLAS 2015 will include a poster session during the conference. The poster session aims to give students, researchers and professionals an opportunity to present technical materials to the research community, and to get responses from other researchers in the field. ===== SCOPE ===== Poster contributions are sought in all areas of programming languages and systems, including the following topics:?? - 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. ========== SUBMISSION ========== Each presenter should e-mail a 1?2 page abstract in PDF to the poster chair (Hyeonseung Im: hsim AT kangwon.ac.kr) by 21 September, 23:59 GMT. The abstract should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s) and summary of the work. We will announce the accepted presentations on 5 October. We hope to accommodate every presentation, but may restrict them (based on relevance and interest to the community) due to space constraints. The format of the poster will be announced later. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission due: 21 September 2015 (Monday), 23:59 GMT Notification: 5 October 2015 (Monday) Conference: 30 November - 2 December 2015 (Monday?Wednesday) ======= CONTACT ======= Poster chair: Hyeonseung Im (hsim AT kangwon.ac.k?r?) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net Mon Aug 17 07:22:21 2015 From: Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net (Robert Lubarsky) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:22:21 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFCS: final call for papers Message-ID: <003701d0d8de$fca0f290$f5e2d7b0$@comcast.net> CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (LFCS'16), Deerfield Beach, Florida, January 4 - 7, 2016 LFCS Steering Committee: Anil Nerode, (Ithaca, NY, General Chair); Stephen Cook (Toronto); Dirk van Dalen (Utrecht); Yuri Matiyasevich (St. Petersburg); Alan Robinson (Syracuse, NY); Gerald Sacks (Cambridge, MA); Dana Scott, (Pittsburgh, PA - Berkeley, CA). LFCS topics of interest include, but are not limited to: constructive mathematics and type theory; homotopy type theory; logic, automata, and automatic structures; computability and randomness; logical foundations of programming; logical aspects of computational complexity; parameterized complexity; logic programming and constraints; automated deduction and interactive theorem proving; logical methods in protocol and program verification; logical methods in program specification and extraction; domain theory logics; logical foundations of database theory; equational logic and term rewriting; lambda and combinatory calculi; categorical logic and topological semantics; linear logic; epistemic and temporal logics; intelligent and multiple-agent system logics; logics of proof and justification; non-monotonic reasoning; logic in game theory and social software; logic of hybrid systems; distributed system logics; mathematical fuzzy logic; system design logics; other logics in computer science. LFCS'16 Program Committee: Sergei Artemov (New York, NY) - PC Chair; Eugene Asarin (Paris); Steve Awodey (Pittsburgh, PA); Matthias Baaz (Vienna); Alexandru Baltag (Amsterdam); Lev Beklemishev (Moscow); Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor, MI); Samuel Buss (San Diego, CA); Thierry Coquand (G?teborg); Robert Constable (Ithaca, NY); Ruy de Queiroz (Recife); Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv); Melvin Fitting (New York); Sergey Goncharov (Novosibirsk); Denis Hirschfeldt (Chicago, IL); Martin Hyland (Cambridge); Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht); Hajime Ishihara (JAIST - Kanazawa); Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland); Roman Kuznets (Vienna); Daniel Leivant (Bloomington, IN); Robert Lubarsky (Boca Raton, FL); Victor Marek (Lexington, KY); Lawrence Moss (Bloomington, IN); Anil Nerode (Ithaca, NY) - General LFCS Chair; Hiroakira Ono (JAIST - Kanazawa); Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Chennai); Michael Rathjen (Leeds); Jeffrey Remmel (San Diego); Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich); Philip Scott (Ottawa); Alex Simpson (Ljubljana); Sonja Smets (Amsterdam); Sebastiaan Terwijn (Nijmegen); Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto). Submission details. Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series. There will be a post-conference volume of selected works published, presumably, in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. Submissions should be made electronically via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfcs2016 Submitted papers must be in PDF/12pt format and of no more than 15 pages, present work not previously published, and must not have been submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. LFCS issues the Best Student Paper Award, named after John Barkley Rosser Sr. (1907-1989), a prominent American logician with fundamental contributions in both Mathematics and Computer Science. Important Dates. Submissions deadline: midnight September 6, 2015, any time zone. Notification: October 15, 2015. Symposium dates: January 4 morning - January 7 early afternoon, 2016. Local Arrangements. The venue of LFCS 2016 will be the spectacular Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort, 2096 NE 2nd Street, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441. Website: http://www.wyndhamdeerfieldresort.com. LFCS'16 Local Organizing Committee: Robert Lubarsky (Chair), Emily Cimillo, and Fred Richman - Florida Atlantic University. About LFCS. The LFCS series provides an outlet for the fast-growing body of work in the logical foundations of computer science, e.g., areas of fundamental theoretical logic related to computer science. The LFCS series began with Logic at Botik, Pereslavl-Zalessky, 1989 and was co-organized by Albert R. Meyer (MIT) and Michael Taitslin (Tver), after which organization passed to Anil Nerode in 1992. LFCS has enjoyed support and endorsements from a number of bodies, including the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the City University of New York Research Foundation. 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ETAPS 2016 is the nineteenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (4-7 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Peter Thiemann, Universit?t Freiburg, Germany) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Bart Jacobs, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Christof L?ding, RWTH Aachen, Germany) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada, and Jean-Fran?ois Raskin (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) TACAS '16 hosts the 5th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Andrew D. Gordon (MSR Cambridge and University of Edinburgh, UK) Rupak Majumdar (MPI Kaiserslautern, Germany) * ESOP invited speaker: Cristina Lopes (University of California at Irvine, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Oscar Nierstrasz (Universit?t Bern, Switzerland) * POST invited speaker: Vitaly Shmatikov (University of Texas at Austin, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * 9 October 2015: Submission deadline for abstracts * 16 October 2015: Submission deadline for full papers * 2-4 December 2015: Author response period (ESOP and FoSSaCS only) * 18 December 2015: Notification of acceptance * 8 January 2016: Camera-ready versions due -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers and tool demonstration papers. Both types will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. ESOP and FoSSaCS accept only research papers. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and be submitted electronically in pdf through the EasyChair author interface of the respective conference. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. FASE will try a light-weight double-blind review process (see http://www.etaps.org/2016/fase). - Research papers FASE, FOSSACS and TACAS have a page limit of 15 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) for research papers, whereas POST allows at most 20 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) and ESOP 25 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example, details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. ETAPS referees are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. In addition to regular research papers, TACAS solicits also case study papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). Both TACAS and FASE solicit also regular tool papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). - Tool demonstration papers Submissions should consist of two parts: * The first part, at most 4 pages, should describe the tool presented. Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool. (This part will be included in the proceedings.) * The second part, at most 6 pages, should explain how the demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including screen dumps and examples. (This part will be not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated. ESOP and FOSSACS do not accept tool demonstration papers. TACAS has a page limit of 6 pages for tool demonstrations. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (2-3 April, 8 April) -- Around 20 satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences. -- HOST CITY -- Eindhoven is located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. It is the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands. The city is well known for modern art, design and technology. The main airport of the Netherlands is the Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. All major airlines fly to Schiphol, and Schiphol has a direct and very frequent train connection to Eindhoven. Eindhoven also has a small international airport, Eindhoven Airport, with direct connections to more than thirty destinations in Europe. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2016 is hosted by Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. -- ORGANIZERS * General chair: Jan Friso Groote * Workshops chair: Erik de Vink and Julien Schmaltz * Publicity chair: Anton Wijs -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at j.f.groote at tue.nl, a.j.wijs at tue.nl. From luca.aceto at gmail.com Wed Aug 19 06:17:17 2015 From: luca.aceto at gmail.com (Luca Aceto) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:17:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second call for contributions: 27th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory, Reykjavik, Iceland Message-ID: NWPT 2015 27th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory October 21-23, 2015 Reykjavik, Iceland http://icetcs.ru.is/nwpt2015/ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS *NOTE. * - *Submission of **2-3 page abstracts: 31 August 2015 at 23:00 GMT* - *Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming * The NWPT series of annual workshops is a forum bringing together programming theorists from the Nordic and Baltic countries (but also elsewhere). The 27th edition of the Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory will be hosted by the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS) and the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. The workshop will take place on the premises of Reykjavik University. *** SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are requested to submit abstracts of 2-3 pages (pdf, printable on A4 paper, using easychair.cls, available at http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip) through EasyChair at the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nwpt2015. Work in progress as well as abstracts of manuscripts submitted for formal publication elsewhere are permitted. *** PUBLICATION: The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available electronically before the workshop. We have arranged a special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP) devoted to the best contributions to the workshop. The contributions will be selected by the PC. They will be invited after the workshop and will undergo a rigorous, journal-strength review process according to the standards of JLAMP. *** IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission of abstracts: 31 August 2015 at 23:00 GMT - Notification: 13 September 2015 - Registration deadline: 2 October 2015 - Workshop: 21-23 October 2015 *** SCOPE: Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) - semantics of programming languages - programming language design and programming methodology - programming logics - formal specification of programs - program verification - program construction - tools for program verification and construction - program transformation and refinement - real-time and hybrid systems - models of concurrency and distributed computing - language-based security. *** INVITED SPEAKERS: - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) - Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, UK) - Jiri Srba (Aalborg University, Denmark) *** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: - Luca Aceto, Reykjav?k Univ., Iceland (co-chair) - Lars Birkedal, Aarhus Univ., Denmark - Johannes Borgstr?m, Uppsala Univ., Sweden - Einar Broch Johnsen, Univ. of Oslo, Norway - Michael R. 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URL: From weaversa at gmail.com Wed Aug 19 17:07:22 2015 From: weaversa at gmail.com (Sean Weaver) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:07:22 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAT 2015: Early Registration Ends Soon! Student Grants Available! Message-ID: The International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, SAT 2015 will take place in Austin, Texas, USA, September 24-27, 2015. REGISTRATION Early registration for both the conference and workshops is available through August 23rd, 2015. Register soon! After August 23rd, prices will go up! The reserved hotel blocks are also filling up fast. Book your room soon to ensure availability! Conference page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/index.html Registration: http://www.regonline.com/sat15 Lodging: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/sat15/#venue STUDENT GRANTS A limited number of student travel support grants of up to 600 Euro per person are available from the SAT Association. Applicants should acquire a letter of support from their advisor and prepare a statement detailing why the travel support is needed. This information should be emailed to the SAT'15 conference chairs at sat2015 at easychair.org by August 31st, 2015. Determinations will be made shortly thereafter. SCHEDULE The conference schedule is now posted online. It can be found here: http://easychair.org/smart-program/SAT2015/ INVITED TALKS Dimitris Achlioptas (UC Santa Cruz): Random Formulas are Irrelevant, Right? Anna Slobodova (Centaur Technology): Pragmatic Approach to Formal Verification Aaron Tomb (Galois, Inc.): Applying Satisfiability to the Analysis of Cryptography COMPETITIVE EVENTS SAT Race: http://baldur.iti.kit.edu/sat-race-2015/ Max-SAT Evaluation: http://maxsat.ia.udl.cat/ Pseudo-Boolean Evaluation: http://pbeva.computational-logic.org/ TUTORIALS Isil Dillig, The University of Texas at Austin, United States Priyank Kalla, University of Utah, United States Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology, Austria WORKSHOPS Pragmatics of Satisfiability: http://www.pragmaticsofsat.org/2015/ Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas: http://fmv.jku.at/qbf15/ IMPORTANT EVENT DATES SAT Workshops: September 23, 2015 SAT Regular Program: September 24-26, 2015 SAT Tutorial Day: September 27, 2015 (joint with DIFTS and FMCAD) CO-LOCATED EVENTS MEMOCODE conference: September 21-23, 2015 FMCAD conference: September 27-30, 2015 DIFTS workshop: September 26-27, 2015 ACL2 workshop: October 01-02, 2015 CONFERENCE SCOPE The SAT conference is the premier annual meeting for researchers focusing on the theory and applications of the propositional satisfiability problem, broadly construed. Aside from plain propositional satisfiability, the scope of the meeting includes Boolean optimization (including MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints), Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. Many hard combinatorial problems can be tackled using SAT-based techniques, including problems that arise in Formal Verification, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Computational Biology, Cryptology, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Mathematics, et cetera. Indeed, the theoretical and practical advances in SAT research over the past twenty years have contributed to making SAT technology an indispensable tool in a variety of domains. SAT 2015 ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs: Marijn Heule, The University of Texas at Austin, United States Sean Weaver, Trusted Systems Research Group, United States Workshop Chair: Albert Oliveras, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Tutorial Chairs: Malay Ganai, Atrenta, United States Chao Wang, Virginia Tech, United States From anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at Fri Aug 21 05:20:47 2015 From: anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at (Ana Sokolova) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:20:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals, CPS Week 2016, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: ?????????????????????????????????? CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS Week) April 11-14, 2016, Vienna, Austria http://www.cpsweek.org/2016/ ?????????????????????????????????? CPS Week is the premier event on Cyber-Physical Systems. It brings together four top conferences, HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN, and RTAS, 10-15 workshops, a localization competition, tutorials and various exhibitions from both industry and academia. Altogether the CPS Week program covers a multitude of complementary aspects of CPS, and reunites the leading researchers in this dynamic field. CPS Week 2016 in Vienna, Austria will host 10-15 workshops (subject to room availability) and 2-3 tutorials on Monday April 11 and is soliciting proposals for new and recurring workshops as well as for tutorials. CPS Week workshops are excellent opportunities to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities to share their experiences in an interactive atmosphere and to foster collaboration for new and innovative projects. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topic related to the broad set of research, education, and application areas in cyber-physical systems. Guidelines for workshop proposals: ??????????????????????????????????? Proposals should be submitted at the latest by *** October 1, 2015 *** A workshop proposal consists of a 2-page maximum PDF file, including the following information: - A concise title of the workshop - Description of the topics and specific issues that the workshop will address, how the workshop complements CPSWeek conferences and why the workshop theme is relevant - Expected format of the workshop (regular paper presentations, poster presentations, invited talks, panel discussions, demo sessions, or other ideas to promote active exchange of ideas) - Organizers with short bio, affiliation, and their expertise in the proposed topic(s) - In case the workshop has been previously held, provide information to show that the previous edition(s) were successful in terms of paper submissions and/or attendance. Links to past workshop editions would be very helpful too. - Length of the workshop (half-day/one-day) and the expected number of participants - Follow-up plans (if any) to disseminate the ideas from the workshop, for example through proceedings or journal special issue Please submit your workshop proposal by email to the workshop and tutorial chairs Christoph Kirsch (ck at cs.uni-salzburg.at ) and Ana Sokolova (anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at ). Please write ?[CPSWeek 2016] Workshop Proposal" in the e-mail subject line. Guidelines for tutorial proposals: ??????????????????????????????????? Proposals should be submitted at the latest by *** October 1, 2015 *** A proposal consists of a 2-page maximum PDF file, including the following information on the tutorial program: - The title and abstract of the tutorial - An outline of tutorial content and objectives - Prerequisite knowledge - Organizers/Speakers with short bio, affiliation, and their expertise in the proposed topic(s) - In case the tutorial has been previously held, include information on the last tutorial of the same topic held within CPS Week or other conferences such as the year it was held and the number of attendees. A link to past tutorial would be very helpful too. - We envision tutorials to last for 3 hours. Please submit your tutorial proposal by email to the workshop and tutorial chairs Christoph Kirsch (ck at cs.uni-salzburg.at ) and Ana Sokolova (anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at ). Please write ?[CPSWeek 2016] Tutorial Proposal" in the e-mail subject line. ???????????????????????????????????? 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URL: From idramnesc at info.uvt.ro Fri Aug 21 14:01:17 2015 From: idramnesc at info.uvt.ro (Isabela =?utf-8?Q?Dr=C4=83mnesc?=) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:01:17 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] PAS 2015 in Beijing - deadline extended to Aug 30 In-Reply-To: <003701d0d8de$fca0f290$f5e2d7b0$@comcast.net> References: <003701d0d8de$fca0f290$f5e2d7b0$@comcast.net> Message-ID: <691633770.240257.1440180077214.JavaMail.zimbra@info.uvt.ro> PAS 2015 - Fourth International Seminar on Program Verification, Automated Debugging and Symbolic Computation Beijing, China, October 21-23, 2015 http://pas2015.cc4cm.org/ Important Dates - Submission of papers/extended abstracts: August 30, 2015 (firm extended) - Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 20, 2015 - Final version due: October 10, 2015 - Seminar taking place: October 21-23, 2015 Overview PAS 2015 will provide a forum for researchers and software developers actively involved or interested in developing, using, and applying methods and software tools of symbolic computation for program verification and automated debugging to exchange ideas and views, to review the state of the art and discuss prospects, to present research results and experiments, and to build up contacts for future cooperation. The scientific program of the seminar will feature invited talks and contributed presentations. Specific topics for PAS 2015 include (but are not limited to): - Theories and methodologies for program verification and testing - Model checking, fault locating and program repairing - Symbolic computation and automated reasoning for program verification - Termination, correctness and complexity analysis of programs - Automated program synthesis and transformation - Logic and semantics for automated and algorithmic debugging - Program debugging paradigms and techniques - Symbolic constraint solving for verification and debugging - Tools, prototypes, empirical and case studies The previous seminars PAS 2012 and PAS 2013 were held in Beijing, China, and PAS 2014 was part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) and the Vienna Summer of Logic. Submission Potential participants of PAS 2015 are invited to submit first half-page abstracts and then full papers or extended abstracts (3-5 pages) describing their work to be presented at the seminar. The submitted full papers and extended abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee for soundness and relevance to the seminar. Submission of original research papers is encouraged, while published material and work in progress will also be considered for presentation at the seminar. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pas20150 Accepted full papers and extended abstracts will be distributed at the seminar. Authors of the full papers and extended abstracts accepted for presentation at the seminar will be invited to submit their full and/or revised papers for publication in the post-proceedings volume as a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation (JSC) after the meeting. The submitted papers will be formally reviewed by external referees according to the standard refereeing procedure of JSC. Honorary Chair Wei Li (Beihang University, China) Steering Committee Hoon Hong (North Carolina State University, USA) Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Jens Knoop (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Alexander Letichevsky (Cybernetics National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) Wei Li (Beihang University, China) Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and CNRS, France) Program Chairs Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and CNRS, France) Program Committee Sandra Alves, University of Porto, Portugal Alessandro Armando, University of Genova, Italy Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Xiaoyu Chen, Beihang University, Beijing, China Stefan Ciobaca, University A. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania Madalina Erascu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Mario Florido, University of Porto, Portugal Martin Giese, University of Oslo, Norway Fairouz Kamareddine, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland Jens Knoop, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Boris Konev, University of Liverpool, England Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Gabor Kusper, Eszterhazy Karoly College, Eger, Hungary Oleksandr Letychevskyi, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine Dorel Lucanu, University A. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania Jie Luo, Beihang University, Beijing, China Alexander Maletzky, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania Marius Minea, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Grant Passmore, University of Cambridge, England Vladimir Peschanenko, Kherson State University, Russia Judit Robu, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania Michael Rusinowitch, LORIA - INRIA Nancy, France Vlad Rusu, INRIA, Lille, France Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University of Koblenz, Germany Kaile Su, Griffith University, Bribane, Australia Wolfgang Windsteiger, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Local Arrangements Xiaoyu Chen (Beihang University, China) Aishan Liu ( Beihang University, China) Dan Song (Beihang University, China) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it Mon Aug 24 12:46:35 2015 From: francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it (Francesco Tiezzi) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:46:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SAC:CM 2016 - 2nd CFP Message-ID: ************************************************************************************** Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Special Track of the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'16) http://sac2016.apice.unibo.it April 4 - 8, 2016 Pisa, Italy ************************************************************************************** Building on the success of the sixteenth previous editions (1998-2015), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2016. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of possibly heterogeneous components (processes, objects, agents, services) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a distributed software system with desired characteristics and functionalities. This is done in terms of coordination abstractions, languages, algorithms, mechanisms, and middleware specifically focused on the management of component interaction. The coordination paradigm crosscuts a number of contemporary software engineering approaches and fields, which we aim to cross-fertilize and bring contribution to, including in particular: multi-agent systems, self-adaptative and self-organising systems, business process management, service-oriented architectures, component-based systems, and all related middleware platforms. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include: - Novel models, languages, formalisms, programming and implementation techniques - Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures - Applications - Middleware platforms - Formal aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification) - Software architectures and software engineering techniques - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Internet, Web, Internet of Things, and pervasive computing systems coordination - Languages for service description and composition - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making - All aspects related to Cooperative Information Systems (e.g. workflow management, CSCW) - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages - Self-organising, self-adaptive and nature-inspired coordination approaches - Relationship with other computational models such as object-oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or their extensions with coordination capabilities - Coordination models and specification in Service-Oriented Architectures, Web Service technologies (orchestration, choreography, etc.), Pervasive Computing, Cloud Computing and Autonomic Computing - Business Process modelling and verification - Policy-based approaches to coordination and self-adaptation We also welcome papers on practical systems or novel applications that are aimed at reaching coordination between components and services, especially if those systems and novel applications challenge existing ideas and models. In previous editions, CM Special Track organisers have been inviting authors of selected papers for Special Issues in high impact journals, such as, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) and Science of Computer Programming (SCP). ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Sep 11, 2015: Submission of papers and SRC research abstracts Nov 13, 2015: Author notification Dec 11, 2015: Camera-Ready Copy Dec 18, 2015: Author registration ------------------------ Program Co-Chairs ------------------------ Mirko Viroli Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy http://mirkoviroli.apice.unibo.it email: mirko.viroli at unibo.it Francesco Tiezzi University of Camerino, Italy http://tiezzi.unicam.it/ email: francesco.tiezzi@ unicam.it ---------------------------------------- Program Committee Members ---------------------------------------- Farhad Arbab, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, Netherlands Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA Olivier Boissier, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Rocco De Nicola, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneve, Switzerland Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Raymond Hu, Imperial College London, UK Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA eva Kuehn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Hung La, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Michele Loreti, University of Firenze, Italy Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Antonio Porto, University of Porto, Portugal Rosario Pugliese, University of Firenze, Italy Antonio Ravara, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Yasuyuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan George Wells, Rhodes University, South Africa Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy --------------------- Proceedings --------------------- Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2016 proceedings and in the Digital Library. ------------------------------------- Paper submission and format ------------------------------------- All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that currently are not under review in any conference or journal. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Submitted papers must be in the ACM two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). The length of the papers is 6 pages (included in the registration) plus up to 2 extra pages (at extra charge), i.e. total 8 pages maximum. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Submission is entirely automated via the STAR Submission System, which is available from the main SAC Web Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. ------------------------- Poster Sessions ------------------------- Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Poster should be not longer than 3 pages (included in the registration) plus 1 extra page (at extra charge), i.e. total 4 pages maximum. The poster session procedures and details will be posted on SAC 2016 website as soon as they become available. ------------------------------------------------ Student research abstracts competition ------------------------------------------------ Graduate students are invited to submit Student Research Competition (SRC) abstracts (maximum of 2 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at SAC 2016 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts (up to 20 students) will have the opportunity to give poster and oral presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. 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SPLASH is now inviting calls for participation. ** REGISTRATION ** 28 September 2015 (Early Deadline) Contact: info at splashcon.org http://2015.splashcon.org/attending/registration ** CONFERENCE PROGRAM ** http://2015.splashcon.org/program/program-splash2015 ** KEYNOTE Speakers ** We are delighted to announce the following keynote speakers at SPLASH 2015: - Nick Feamster (Princeton University): Tomorrow?s Network Operators Will Be Programmers - Lars Bak (Google): How Dart Learned From Past Object-Oriented Systems - Rob DeLine (Microsoft Research): Modern software is all about data. Development environments should be, too. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-keynotes **SPLASH-I Speakers ** SPLASH-I is a series of industrial research talks that address topics relevant to the SPLASH community. Speakers are world-class experts in their field, selected and invited by the organizers. The SPLASH-I talks series is held in parallel with the OOPSLA main track. Talks are open to all attendees. - Avik Chaudhuri (Facebook): Flow: a static type checker for JavaScript - Hassan Chafi (Oracle Labs): Domain Specific Languages @ Oracle Labs: Current Experiences, Future Hopes - Chris Granger: Eve - Shan Shan Huang (LogicBlox): Model, Execute, Deploy: Answering the Hard Questions about End-user Programming - Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs): Prospect: Finding and Exploiting Parallelism in a Productivity Language for Scientific Computing - Simon Marlow (Facebook): Fighting Spam with Haskell - Mark S. Miller (Google): Security as Extreme Modularity: A Standards Shaping Approach - Eliot Miranda (Cadence): Spur: Efficient Support for Live Programming in Dynamic Languages - Markus Voelter (independent): Language-Oriented Business Applications: Helping End Users become Programmers - Josh Watzman (Facebook): Changing Engines in Flight: Facebook's Conversion to Hack - Peng Wu (Huawei America Lab): When CT meets IT: Programming Challenges in the age of ICT Convergence http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-splash-i ** 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). 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. 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. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-essays ** DLS - Dynamic Languages Symposium ** 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. Keynote: Declare Your Language Speaker: Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dls2015 ** Panels ** The Panels track offers exciting discussion about topics related to SPLASH. Panel: Software Professionalism ? Is it ?Good Enough?? With: Dennis Mancl, Nancy Mead, Mary Shaw, Werner Wild http://2015.splashcon.org/event/splash2015-panels-software-professionalism-is-it-good-enough- Panel: The Future of Programming Languages and Programmers With: Lars Bak, Rob DeLine, Nick Feamster, Lindsey Kuper, Crista Lopes, Peng Wu http://2015.splashcon.org/event/splash2015-panels-the-future-of-programming-languages-and-programmers ** SPLASH-E ** The SPLASH-E track brings together researchers and educators to share educational results, ideas, and challenges centered in Software and Programming Languages. Submission formats vary, including papers, tool demos, lightning talks, challenge-topics for discussion, and suggested themes for "unconference" sessions. Help us create an engaging forum for educational issues related to SPLASH! http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash-e ** Artifacts ** The Artifact Evaluation process is a service provided by the community to help authors of accepted papers provide more substantial supplements to their papers so future researchers can more effectively build on and compare with previous work. The Artifact Evaluation Committee has been formed to assess how well paper authors prepare artifacts in support of such future researchers. Roughly, authors of papers who wish to participate are invited to submit an artifact that supports the conclusions of the paper. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-artifacts ** Workshops ** The SPLASH Workshops track will host a variety of high-quality workshops (13 in total), 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. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops ** Tutorials ** The SPLASH Tutorials track will consist of prestigious tutorials on current topics in software, systems, and languages research. The scope of the tutorials is the same as the conference itself: all aspects of software construction and delivery at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. The tutorials in particular focus on the nexus between research and practice, including work that takes inspiration from or builds connections to areas not commonly considered at SPLASH. Tutorials should introduce researchers to current research in an area, or show important new tools that can be used in research. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-tutorials ** Demos ** The SPLASH Demonstrations track is an excellent vehicle for sharing your latest work with an experienced and technically savvy audience. Live demonstrations show the impact of software innovation. Demonstrations are not product sales pitches, but rather an opportunity to highlight, explain, and present interesting technical aspects of running applications in a dynamic and highly interactive setting. Presenters are encouraged to actively solicit feedback from the audience, which should lead to very interesting and entertaining demonstration sessions. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-demos ** Posters ** The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Posters can be independent presentations or associated with one of the other parts of SPLASH. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-posters ** Doctoral Symposium ** The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The Symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-ds ** Student Research Competition ** The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session?s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-src ** PLMW - Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop ** The purpose of Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) is to give promising undergraduate students from around Pittsburgh who consider pursuing a graduate degree in this field an overview of what research in this field looks like and how to get into and succeed in graduate school. In other words, a combination whirlwind tour of this research area, networking opportunity, and how-to-succeed guide. The program of PLMW will include talks by prominent researchers of the field of programming languages and software engineering providing an insight in their research. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-plmw ** RPG Richard's Pretty Good Talks ** RPG is my micro-conference. RPG is sporadically held, suddenly announced, and leaves little but mental limps and frustration / aka instability?take it as step #1 toward getting you decanalized. I choose the speakers and I don?t care what you think; I choose the topics and I always choose first loves. I want people telling me about things they cherish / not about how they make their living. Here?s what I?ve got going this year for the third edition. - Crista Lopes & Annette Vee, Programming as Writing (and vice versa?) - Billy Price & William Pollak, Singing the Blues / What is a Song? http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-rpg /************************************************************** Workshops **************************************************************/ AGERE! - Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control http://2015.splashcon.org/track/agere2015 DSM - Domain-Specific Modeling http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dsm2015 ETX - Eclipse Technology eXchange http://2015.splashcon.org/track/etx2015 FPW - Future Programming Workshop http://2015.splashcon.org/track/fpw2015 MobileDeLi - Mobile Development Lifecycle http://2015.splashcon.org/track/mobiledeli2015 NOOL - New Object-Oriented Languages http://2015.splashcon.org/track/nool2015 PLATEAU - Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools Keynote: Mary Beth Rosson (Pennsylvania State University) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/plateau2015 Parsing - Parsing @ SLE 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/ParsingAtSLE2015 PROMOTO - Programming for Mobile and Touch http://2015.splashcon.org/track/promoto2015 REBLS - Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems http://2015.splashcon.org/track/rebls2015 SMART - Smart Software Strategies http://2015.splashcon.org/track/SmartSoftwareStrategies2015 SEPS - Software Engineering for Parallel Systems http://2015.splashcon.org/track/seps2015 WODA - Workshop on Dynamic Analysis http://2015.splashcon.org/track/woda2015 /************************************************************** Co-Located Events **************************************************************/ ** SLE - 8th International ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Software Language Engineering ** 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). Keynote Speaker: Stephane Ducasse (Inria) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/sle2015 ** GPCE - 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences ** The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. Keynote Speaker: Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/gpce2015 ** DBPL - 15th Symposium on Database Programming Languages ** 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. 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. Keynote: Gremlin: A Stream-Based Functional Language for OLTP and OLAP Graph Computing Speaker: Marko A. Rodriguez (DataStax) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dbpl2015 ** PLoP - 22nd International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming ** The Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference is a premier event for pattern authors and pattern enthusiasts to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns and software development. The conference promotes development of pattern languages on all aspects of software, including design and programming, software architecture, user interface design, domain modeling, software processes, project management, and more. The program offers pattern authors an unique opportunity to have their pattern languages reviewed by fellow authors, which occurs mainly in the form of Writers? Workshops. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/plop2015 /************************************************************** Information and Organization **************************************************************/ Information: SPLASH Early Registration Deadline: 28 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 Jr. (Oracle Labs) DLS Papers Chair: Manuel Serrano (INRIA) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Robby Findler (Northwestern University) and Michael Hind (IBM Research) Demos Co-Chair: Igor Peshansky (Google) and Pietro Ferrara (IBM Research) Doctoral Symposium Chair: Yu David Liu, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton Local Arrangements Chair: Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University) Panels Chair: Steven D. Fraser (Independent Consultatnt) PLMW Workshop Co-Chairs: Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University), Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington), and Crista Lopes (UC Irvine) Posters Co-Chairs: Nick Sumner (Simon Fraser University) and Jeff Huang (Texas A&M University) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Craig Anslow (Middlesex University) 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) 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) Sponsorship Chair: Tony Hosking (Purdue University) Tutorials Co-Chair: Romain Robbes (University of Chile) and Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) Video Chair: Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) Video Previews Czar: Thomas LaToza (George Mason University) Wavefront Co-Chairs: Dennis Mancl (Alcatel-Lucent) and Joe Kiniry (Galois) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) Workshop 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) DBPL General Chair: James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) and Thomas Neumann (TU Munich) -- 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. 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Apologies for any duplicates. ] ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 25th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2016) March 17-18 2016, Barcelona, Spain Co-located with CGO, HPCA, PPoPP, and EuroLLVM ******************************************************************************** Important dates --------------- Abstracts due: 13 November 2015 Papers due: 20 November 2015 Author notification: 27 January 2016 Camera ready versions: 10 February 2016 Conference: 17-18 March 2016 Information ----------- The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest which include, but are not limited to: - Compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; code generation and optimization; - Run-time techniques, including memory management, virtual machines, and dynamic and just-in-time compilation; - Programming tools, including refactoring editors, checkers, verifiers, compilers, debuggers, and profilers; - Techniques for specific domains, such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments; - Design and implementation of novel language constructs and programming models. CC 2016 is the 25th edition of the conference. It will be co-located with CGO, HPCA, PPoPP, and EuroLLVM on March 17-18 2016, in Barcelona, Spain. Submission ---------- Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cc2016. Papers must be written in English and be submitted in pdf in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings format (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/). The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be made available freely for the period around the conference. Both regular papers (up to 11 pages) and tool papers (up to 2 + 3 pages), are invited. In tool papers the first part (2 pages) should describe the tool and the second (3 pages) explain the contents of the demo that will be presented with examples and screenshots. Submissions must adhere strictly to the page limits, including bibliography, figures, or appendices. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version ( listings, data, proofs) may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Organizers ---------- General Chair Ayal Zaks Intel and Technion, Israel Program Committee Chair Manuel Hermenegildo IMDEA SW Institute and Technical U. of Madrid, Spain Program Committee Raj Barik, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA Uday Bondhugula, IIS Bangalore Maria Garzaran, U. of Illinois UC and Intel Laurie Hendren, McGill U. Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA and T.U. Madrid Xavier Leroy, INRIA Ondrej Lhotak, U of Waterloo Francesco Logozzo, Facebook Antoine Min?, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, Paris Jose Morales, IMDEA SW Diego Novillo, Google Dorit Nuzman, Intel Haifa Jens Palsberg, UCLA Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University Walid Taha, Rice U. Zheng Wang, Lancaster U. Steering Committee Koen De Bosschere, Ghent U. Bj?rn Franke, U. of Edinburgh Michael O'Boyle, U. of Edinburgh Albert Cohen, INRIA Web site http://cc2016.eew.technion.ac.il/ -- From c.a.furia at gmail.com Mon Aug 24 03:46:10 2015 From: c.a.furia at gmail.com (Carlo Alberto Furia) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:46:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SCORE 2016 Student Contest: 2nd Call Message-ID: <55DACBC2.1070501@gmail.com> *** SCORE 2016 Student Contest: Second Call for Contributions *** http://score-contest.org The Student Contest on Software Engineering (SCORE) is a worldwide competition for undergraduate and master's level students. It emphasizes the engineering aspects of software development, not limited to programming. The fourth edition of the Student Contest on Software Engineering (SCORE) is part of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016) and is currently underway. We encourage you to advertise SCORE 2016 to your students, and to consider using its project topics in the courses you will teach in the year 2015! Between January and November 2015, teams of students can enter SCORE 2016: they select a project topic among those offered, and register following the instructions at score-contest.org. Their goal is to undertake a full-fledged software engineering project that adheres to the chosen topic description and encompasses all aspects of the engineering process, including planning, requirements, design, implementation, and testing. Following the best software engineering practices, teams document the process and its outcomes using formal and informal notations, configuration management tools, and process-specific techniques. They collect all artifacts and documentation and produce a detailed project report. By the 15 January 2016 deadline, teams submit a 20-page summary report, which gives a self-contained summary of their project development. Based on the summary reports, the SCORE Program Committee selects a number of semi-finalist teams to submit their complete project reports and artifacts by the 4 March 2016 deadline. After evaluating the complete reports and artifacts of semi-finalist teams, the SCORE Program Committee selects a limited number of finalist teams by the 7 April 2016 deadline, and invites them to present their projects at ICSE 2016 in Austin, TX, USA. Finally, after presentations at ICSE 2016, the SCORE Program Committee selects the winning team and presents awards during the conference. * Important dates * 30 November 2015: Deadline for team registration. 15 January 2016: Deadline for the submission of summary reports. 7 April 2016: Notification of finalists who will be invited to ICSE 2016. ICSE 2016 (14--22 May 2016): Final evaluation and presentation of the awards. * Organization * The SCORE 2016 contest is organized by Jonathan Cook (New Mexico State University, USA) and Carlo A. Furia (ETH Zurich, Switzerland). - Nazareno Aguirre, Universidad Nacional de R?o Cuarto, Argentina - Benoit Baudry, INRIA, France - Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile - Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, Inc., Italy - Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA - Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada - Ivica Crnkovic, M?lardalen University, Sweden - John Georgas, Northern Arizona University, USA - Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA - Eunkyoung Jee, KAIST, Korea - Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway - Akash Lal, Microsoft Research, India - Ot?vio Lemos, Universidade Federal de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Timothy Lethbridge, University of Ottawa, Canada - Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA - Timothy Menzies, North Carolina State University, USA - Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Richard Paige, University of York, UK - Liliana Pasquale, Lero ? the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland - Michael Pradel, TU Darmstadt, Germany - Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil - Derek Rayside, University of Waterloo, Canada - Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University, USA - Matteo Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Kevin Schneider, University of Saskatchewan, Canada - Elena Sherman, Boise State University, USA - Paola Spoletini, Kennesaw State University, USA and Universit? dell'Insubria, Italy - Claudia Szabo, University of Adelaide, Australia - Shingo Takada, Keio University, Japan - Zhenchang Xing, Nanyang Technological University, China - Michal Young, University of Oregon, USA From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Tue Aug 25 19:36:23 2015 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:36:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Postdoc Position in formal methods applied to timed systems with faults and delays, including distributed systems Message-ID: <85B2691B-B48E-45EB-BFD7-C29884070CEC@tuwien.ac.at> The Institute of Computer Engineering at Vienna (http://ti.tuwien.ac.at/ ) University of Technology is seeking a candidate for a postdoctoral research position (one year with the posibility to renew for up to other two years), starting as soon as possible. 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/shine-organization-and-subprojects/ ), 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/ . Task Description (Task leader Ezio Bartocci): Modeling and Analysis of Parametric, Probabilistic and Parameterized Timed Systems (Applications). To master the overwhelming complexity of manual correctness proofs of continuous-time distributed systems, computer-aided methods that can deal with symbolic timing parameters (?parametric?) and symbolic system sizes (?parameterized?) are required. Besides the question of how to deal with the overwhelming complexity, answering the question of how to incorporate (probabilistic) faults will be addressed in collaboration with PP12 (Grosu), PP07 (Chatterjee) and PP11 (Kirsch). In order to extend our framework to also cover message-passing distributed systems with parameterized system size, novel abstraction techniques and/or cutoff results will be developed in a collaboration with PP03 (Veith). 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 49000 Euro gross per year. Applications, including any attachments, should be submitted by the 15th of September 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 Contact details For further information and enquiries about this post please contact Ezio Bartocci, e-mail: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sunshine at cs.cmu.edu Thu Aug 27 08:42:23 2015 From: sunshine at cs.cmu.edu (Joshua Sunshine) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:42:23 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in programming languages, software architecture and robotics at Carnegie Mellon Message-ID: The Plaid research group, led by Jonathan Aldrich at Carnegie Mellon University, is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to work on an exciting new project that at the intersection of three usually distinct research areas: programming languages, software architecture, and robotics. Project Goal: We plan to fundamentally raise the level of abstraction at which we build and evolve mobile robotics software. To adapt to a broad set of ecosystem changes, we will explicitly model the software ecosystem as a software architecture, capturing the high-level intent of the system and its components in domain-specific languages tailored specifically for that purpose. Informed by variability-aware analysis that can discover how software properties vary within a multidimensional configuration space, we apply architecture-based self-adaptation to compute optimized adaptations in response to a change, then apply those adaptations using novel program transformation and repair techniques. Applicant qualifications: - Must have, or shortly expect to receive, a PhD degree in computer science or related field. - Must have a strong background in compilers and/or program analysis for high-level languages.- - Must have a strong research track record, including solid publications in relevant areas. - Experience in type theory, domain specific languages, or software architecture is preferred. Term: 2 years, potentially renewable To apply: Email cover letter, CV, and three recommendations to Joshua Sunshine . Subject of email should include ?[Plaid postdoc]? 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The applicant should have a strong background in theoretical computer science, including expertise is at least two of the following domains: - logic, in particular modal logic; - proof theory; - complexity theory. The PhD is funded for three years, with a gross salary of ?1,757 per month, which amounts to about ?1,400 after tax. The position also comes with opportunities to teach after the first year (at ENS Cachan or elsewhere in the Parisian area), which yield extra salary (it then typically reaches about ?1,800 after tax). The LSV is a small but thriving lab with a leading expertise in formal verification. It has a lively atmosphere, with regular seminars and an `open doors' policy, and an international staff. It is very well located, with the Parisian area being one of the international hot spots of logic and theoretical computer science. To apply, send a CV (including passed courses and grades), a motivation letter as well as references, before September 5th, by email to: - David Baelde - Sylvain Schmitz Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any question, prior to a formal application. -- Background The PhD is founded by the ANR project Prodaq, whose scientific objectives are described in broad terms below. The PhD topic will include several of the research axes of the project, depending on the student's inclinations. Semi-structured data, in particular in the form of XML documents, is now an established paradigm for storing and retrieving data over the Internet. XPath is a querying language, which allows to select elements in XML documents. Its use is pervasive in Web-oriented languages like XSLT or XQuery, but also in general-purpose languages like Java or C#. A data-aware, fully automated formal analysis of XPath is however in general impossible due to undecidability results. The research on restrictions and variants of XPath therefore seeks new standards, algorithms, and languages, which should strike a balance between practical usability---can typical queries be expressed in the restricted language?---and amenability to formal analysis---can we check queries written in the language? In this context, the main objective of the project is to investigate the proof theory of data logics like XPath. Proof systems will be used both as theoretical tools (to derive complexity results and to investigate the relationships with other logics), and as practical tools (by implementing proof search procedures). From peterol at ifi.uio.no Fri Aug 28 11:59:56 2015 From: peterol at ifi.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Peter_Csaba_=C3=96lveczky?=) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:59:56 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nf CfP: Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems Message-ID: <9AF92511-6130-4DF5-BF7B-D87D71731758@ifi.uio.no> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers FTSCS 2015 4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems Paris, November 6, 2015 (satellite workshop of ICFEM 2015) http://www.ftscs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Science of Computer Programming special issue *** *** Springer CCIS proceedings *** *** Paper submission deadline: September 5 *** Aims and Scope: There is an increasing demand for using formal methods to validate and verify safety-critical systems in fields such as power generation and distribution, avionics, automotive systems, and medical systems. In particular, newer standards, such as DO-178C (avionics), ISO 26262 (automotive systems), IEC 62304 (medical devices), and CENELEC EN 50128 (railway systems), emphasize the need for formal methods and model-based development, thereby speeding up the adaptation of such methods in industry. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers who are interested in the application of formal and semi-formal methods to improve the quality of safety-critical computer systems. FTSCS strives to promote research and development of formal methods and tools for industrial applications, and is particularly interested in industrial applications of formal methods. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods for analyzing safety-critical systems, including avionics, automotive, medical, railway, and other kinds of safety-critical and QoS-critical systems * methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, etc., of complex safety/QoS-critical systems * analysis methods that address the limitations of formal methods in industry (usability, scalability, etc.) * formal analysis support for modeling languages used in industry, such as AADL, Ptolemy, SysML, SCADE, Modelica, etc. * code generation from validated models. The workshop will provide a platform for discussions and the exchange of innovative ideas, so submissions on work in progress are encouraged. Submission: We solicit submissions reporting on: A- original research contributions (15 pages max, LNCS format); B- applications and experiences (15 pages max, LNCS format); C- surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (15 pages max, LNCS); D- tool papers (5 pages max, LNCS format); E- position papers and work in progress (5 pages max, LNCS format) related to the topics mentioned above. 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=ftscs2015. The final version of the paper must be prepared in LaTeX, adhering to the LNCS format available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Publication: All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FTSCS 2015. Accepted papers in the categories A-D above will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published as a volume in Springer's CCIS series. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming journal. Important dates: Submission deadline: September 5, 2015 Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2015 Workshop: November 6/7, 2015 Venue: Paris, France (city center!) Program chairs: Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Program committee: Musab AlTurki King Fahd U. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Etienne Andre University Paris 13, France Toshiaki Aoki JAIST, Japan Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan Kyungmin Bae SRI International, USA David Broman KTH, Sweden and UC Berkeley, USA Bernd Fischer Stellenbosch University, South Africa Osman Hasan National U. of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan Klaus Havelund NASA JPL, USA Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan Takashi Kitamura AIST, Japan Alexander Knapp Augsburg University, Germany Brian Larson Kansas State University, USA Wenchao Li SRI International, USA Robi Malik University of Waikato, New Zealand Frederic Mallet INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Roberto Nardone University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Thomas Noll RWTH Aachen University, Germany Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Charles Pecheur Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Paul Pettersson Malardalen University, Sweden Camilo Rocha Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria, Colombia Markus Roggenbach Swansea University, UK Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich, Switzerland Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania, USA Sofiene Tahar Concordia University, Canada Jean-Pierre Talpin INRIA Rennes, France Jackie Wang McMaster University, Canada Alan Wassyng McMaster University, Canada Michael Whalen University of Minnesota, USA Huibiao Zhu East China Normal University, China From erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu Sun Aug 30 14:28:07 2015 From: erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu (Martin Erwig) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:28:07 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2016: Call for Papers Message-ID: <049F1499-ED29-47A1-98FE-F3A7044040C5@eecs.oregonstate.edu> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on PARTIAL EVALUATION AND PROGRAM MANIPULATION (PEPM 2016) St. Petersburg, Florida, January 18 - 19, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pepm-2016-main The 2016 PEPM workshop will be based on a broad interpretation of semantics-based program manipulation and continues efforts to expand the scope of PEPM beyond the traditionally covered areas of partial evaluation and specialization. Specifically, PEPM will include practical applications of program transformations such as refactoring tools, and practical implementation techniques such as rule-based transformation systems. In addition, the scope of PEPM covers manipulation and transformations of program and system representations such as structural and semantic models that occur in the context of model-driven development. In order to reach out to practitioners, a separate category of tool demonstration papers will be solicited. Topics of interest for PEPM?16 include, but are not limited to: * Program and model manipulation techniques such as: supercompilation, partial evaluation, fusion, on-the-fly program adaptation, active libraries, program inversion, slicing, symbolic execution, refactoring, decompilation, and obfuscation. * Program analysis techniques that are used to drive program/model manipulation such as: abstract interpretation, termination checking, binding-time analysis, constraint solving, type systems, automated testing and test case generation. * Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects including metaprogramming, generative programming, embedded domain-specific languages, program synthesis by sketching and inductive programming, staged computation, and model-driven program generation and transformation. * Application of the above techniques including case studies of program manipulation in real-world (industrial, open-source) projects and software development processes, descriptions of robust tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications, benchmarking. Examples of application domains include legacy program understanding and transformation, DSL implementations, visual languages and end-user programming, scientific computing, middleware frameworks and infrastructure needed for distributed and web-based applications, resource-limited computation, and security. To maintain the dynamic and interactive nature of PEPM, we will continue the category of `short papers? for tool demonstrations and for presentations of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting academic, industrial and open-source applications that are new or unfamiliar. Student participants with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses and other support. 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. All accepted papers, short papers included, will appear in formal proceedings published by ACM Press. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers from PEPM?16 will be published in a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming. PEPM has also established a Best Paper Award. The winner will be announced at the workshop. Submission Categories and Guidelines Regular Research Papers must not exceed 12 pages in ACM Proceedings style (including appendix). Tool demonstration papers and short papers must not exceed 6 pages in ACM Proceedings style (including appendix). At least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the workshop and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Suggested topics, evaluation criteria, and writing guidelines for both research tool demonstration papers will be made available on the PEPM?16 web site. Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair. easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pepm2016 Authors using LaTeX to prepare their submissions should use the new improved SIGPLAN proceedings style. Specifically, use the sigplanconf.cls 9pt template. Important Dates * Abstract submission: Tue, September 8, 2015 * Paper submission: Sun, September 13, 2015 (FIRM) * Author notification: Tue, October 20, 2015 * Camera ready copies: Fri, November 20, 2015 * Workshop: Monday, January 18 - Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Note: The paper submission deadline is firm. The above schedule is tight: We have absolutely no time to wait for late submissions, and we will have no deadline extension. From amoeller at cs.au.dk Mon Aug 31 05:50:08 2015 From: amoeller at cs.au.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anders_M=F8ller?=) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:50:08 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc positions - Center for Advanced Software Analysis, Aarhus University Message-ID: <6E41214BB1EAD8408392B7FAB84E3EF9B228193E@SRVUNIMBX08.uni.au.dk> Several postdoc positions are available at the Center for Advanced Software Analysis (CASA) at Aarhus University, Denmark, funded by the European Research Council. The CASA center covers research in program analysis, type systems, testing, language design, and programming tools, with a particular focus on static analysis and automated testing for web and mobile apps. The postdoc positions are at the level of Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and are initially for one year, but they can be extended to three years by mutual consent. We welcome researchers with clearly demonstrated experience and skills in one or more of the research areas mentioned above. For more information, see http://casa.au.dk/ or contact Associate Professor Anders M?ller . Interested candidates should send an email containing a brief letter of interest and a CV. Applications will be considered until the positions are filled. From amirah at utu.fi Fri Aug 28 03:41:10 2015 From: amirah at utu.fi (Amirmohammad Rahmanisane) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:41:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP - EXTENDED DEADLINE]: Special Issue on Energy Efficient Multi-Core and Many-Core Systems (The Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: /* Apologies for Multiple Copies */ ************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier) Special issue on Energy Efficient Multi-Core and Many-Core Systems (E2MC2) ************************************* Recent trends in the microprocessor industry have important ramifications for the design of the next generation of high-performance as well as embedded parallel and network-based systems. By increasing number of cores, it is possible to improve the performance while keeping the power consumption at the bay. This trend has reached the deployment stage in parallel and network-based systems ranging from small ultramobile devices to large telecommunication servers. It is expected that the number of cores in these systems increases dramatically in the near future. For such systems, energy efficiency is one of the primary design constraints. The cessation of Dennard scaling and the dark silicon phenomenon have limited recent improvements in transistor speed and energy efficiency, resulting in slowed improvements in multi-core and many-core systems. Consequently, architectural innovation has become crucial to achieve performance and efficiency gains. New technologies that combine different types of cores or similar cores with different computation capabilities can result in a better match between the workload and the execution hardware improving overall system energy efficiency. In addition, multi-core and many-core systems need to be able to reconfigure themselves adaptively by monitoring their own condition and the surrounding environment in order to adapt themselves to different scenarios and performance-power requirements. Runtime monitoring becomes crucial in the near future parallel and distributed multicore systems due to increase in thermal issues as well as due to the need for various adaptive managements. This special issue addresses all aspects of energy-efficient computing in parallel and distributed multi-core and many-core systems. TOPICS (non-exclusive) * Power and thermal estimation, analysis, optimization, and management techniques for hardware and software systems * Energy- and thermal aware application mapping and scheduling * Energy- and thermal-aware dark silicon system design and optimization * Energy-efficient heterogeneous system architecture * Programming models, tools, languages and compilers to support energy-aware computing * Low-power monitor and sensor circuits * Energy Efficient defect/fault tolerance, testing, and reliability * Aging aware design, energy- and thermal-related reliability issues * Energy-efficient off-chip/on-chip communication architectures including networks-on-chip * 3D architectures, integration and synthesis * Energy-proportional systems * Energy-efficient memory architectures and technologies (e.g. coherence protocols) * Formal methods for modeling, design and verification of energy efficient parallel and network-based systems * Application analysis and parallelization for energy-efficient design * Cases studies of parallel and network-based systems demonstrating energy-efficient implementation as well as emerging applications and design frameworks Guest Editors: * Hannu Tenhunen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (hannu at kth.se) * Alexander V. Veidenbaum, University of California, Irvine, USA (alexv at ics.uci.edu) * Jose L. Ayala, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (jayala at ucm.es) * Pasi Liljeberg, University of Turku, Finland (pakrli at utu.fi) * Amir Rahmani, University of Turku, Finland (amirah at utu.fi) Important Dates: Manuscript due: September 22nd, 2015 (Hard deadline) Acceptance/rejection notification: November 15th, 2015 2nd round check: January 15th, 2016 Final manuscript due: March 15th, 2016 Submissions: Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed according to the peer review policy of JPDC as available on-line at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing. Previously published conference papers should be clearly stated by the authors and an explanation should be provided how such papers have been extended to be considered for this special issue. Manuscripts should be formatted and be submitted online according to the instructions for JPDC at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/0743-7315/guide-for-authors. As papers are uploaded, authors should make sure to select the correct special issue (select "SI: E2MC2" when reaching the Article Type step). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Mon Aug 31 10:01:24 2015 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:01:24 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CPS Week 2016: CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Message-ID: <9CE79B10-7D42-42AD-A2E6-6D920E5AE577@tuwien.ac.at> CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS Week) April 11-14, 2016, Vienna, Austria http://www.cpsweek.org/2016/ ?????????????????????????????????? CPS Week is the premier event on Cyber-Physical Systems. It brings together four top conferences, HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN, and RTAS, 10-15 workshops, a localization competition, tutorials and various exhibitions from both industry and academia. Altogether the CPS Week program covers a multitude of complementary aspects of CPS, and reunites the leading researchers in this dynamic field. CPS Week 2016 in Vienna, Austria will host 10-15 workshops (subject to room availability) and 2-3 tutorials on Monday April 11 and is soliciting proposals for new and recurring workshops as well as for tutorials. CPS Week workshops are excellent opportunities to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities to share their experiences in an interactive atmosphere and to foster collaboration for new and innovative projects. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topic related to the broad set of research, education, and application areas in cyber-physical systems. Guidelines for workshop proposals: ??????????????????????????????????? Proposals should be submitted at the latest by *** October 1, 2015 *** A workshop proposal consists of a 2-page maximum PDF file, including the following information: - A concise title of the workshop - Description of the topics and specific issues that the workshop will address, how the workshop complements CPSWeek conferences and why the workshop theme is relevant - Expected format of the workshop (regular paper presentations, poster presentations, invited talks, panel discussions, demo sessions, or other ideas to promote active exchange of ideas) - Organizers with short bio, affiliation, and their expertise in the proposed topic(s) - In case the workshop has been previously held, provide information to show that the previous edition(s) were successful in terms of paper submissions and/or attendance. Links to past workshop editions would be very helpful too. - Length of the workshop (half-day/one-day) and the expected number of participants - Follow-up plans (if any) to disseminate the ideas from the workshop, for example through proceedings or journal special issue Please submit your workshop proposal by email to the workshop and tutorial chairs Christoph Kirsch (ck at cs.uni-salzburg.at ) and Ana Sokolova (anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at ). Please write ?[CPSWeek 2016] Workshop Proposal" in the e-mail subject line. Guidelines for tutorial proposals: ??????????????????????????????????? Proposals should be submitted at the latest by *** October 1, 2015 *** A proposal consists of a 2-page maximum PDF file, including the following information on the tutorial program: - The title and abstract of the tutorial - An outline of tutorial content and objectives - Prerequisite knowledge - Organizers/Speakers with short bio, affiliation, and their expertise in the proposed topic(s) - In case the tutorial has been previously held, include information on the last tutorial of the same topic held within CPS Week or other conferences such as the year it was held and the number of attendees. A link to past tutorial would be very helpful too. - We envision tutorials to last for 3 hours. Please submit your tutorial proposal by email to the workshop and tutorial chairs Christoph Kirsch (ck at cs.uni-salzburg.at ) and Ana Sokolova (anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at ). Please write ?[CPSWeek 2016] Tutorial Proposal" in the e-mail subject line. ???????????????????????????????????? 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URL: From davide.ancona at unige.it Tue Sep 1 02:57:02 2015 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 08:57:02 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OOPS track at SAC 2016: deadline extended to September 21st Message-ID: <55E54C3E.90700@unige.it> =========================================================================== ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: September 21st ***** =========================================================================== OOPS 2016 Call for Papers Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS16 Technical Track at the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2016 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016 April 4-8, 2016 Pisa, Italy - Important Dates Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts *September 21, 2015* (extended strict deadline) Notification of regular papers (and posters) and SRC acceptance/rejection November 13, 2015 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers December 11, 2015 Author registration due date December 18, 2015 SAC 2016 April 4 - 8, 2016 - Track Chair Davide Ancona (davide.ancona at unige.it) DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy - SAC 2016 For the past thirty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be hosted by the University of Pisa, and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University, Italy. - Call For Student Research Abstracts: Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit original abstracts of their research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2016 Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researcher and practitioners in their areas of interest. - OOPS Track Object-oriented programming (OOP) has become the mainstream programming paradigm for developing complex software systems in most application domains. However, existing OO languages and platforms need to evolve to meet the continuous demand for new abstractions, features, and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of creating object-oriented software systems, and improving their performance, quality and usability. To this aim, OOPS is seeking for research advances bringing benefits in all those typical aspects of software development, such as modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, concurrency and distribution, code generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation. The specific OO related topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: * Aspects and components * Code generation, and optimization, just-in-time compilation * Context-oriented programming * Databases and persistence * Distribution and concurrency * Dynamic and scripting languages * Evaluation * Feature Oriented Software Development and Programming * Formal verification * Integration with other paradigms * Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation * Language design and implementation * Modular and generic programming * Reflection, meta-programming * Runtime verification * Secure and dependable software * Static analysis * Testing and debugging * Type systems and type inference * Virtual machines OOPS offers a great opportunity to the OOP community to gain visibility, and to exploit the inter-disciplinary nature of SAC. - Submission Instructions Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2016 home page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016). Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Full papers are limited to 6 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages at extra charge (80 USD per page). Posters are limited to 3 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page at extra charge (80 USD). Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by *September 21, 2015* (extended strict deadline). For more information please visit the SAC 2016 home page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016). - Proceedings Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Please note that full registration is required for papers and posters to be included in the conference proceedings and CD. An author or a proxy attending SAC *must* present the paper. This is a requirement for including the work in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Student registration is only intended to encourage student attendance and does not cover inclusion of papers/posters in the conference proceedings. Finally, following the tradition of the past OOPS editions, depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, after the conference authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue. From rozierky at uc.edu Tue Sep 1 05:31:33 2015 From: rozierky at uc.edu (Rozier, Kristin Yvonne (rozierky)) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:31:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Constraints in Formal Verification (CFV2015) Call for Participation: Austin, TX, USA Message-ID: <44B0F7174C17084CA81EB576905B48561D983622@UCMAILA3.ad.uc.edu> ************************************************************************ The Ninth International Workshop on Constraints in Formal Verification CFV'15 http://iccad.com/event_details?id=196-51- 5 November 2015 / Austin, Texas, USA ************************************************************************ Overview: --------- Formal verification is of crucial significance in the development of hardware and software systems. In the last decade, tremendous progress was made in both the speed and capacity of constraint technology. Most notably, Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers have become orders of magnitude faster and capable of handling problems that are orders of magnitude bigger, thus enabling the formal verification of more complex computer systems. As a result, the formal verification of hardware and software has become a promising area for research and industrial applications. Constraints have applications to all formal verification methods. Particularly, the efficient use of constraints can make or break a formal verification run, and can result in orders of magnitude speedup and orders of magnitude increase in scalability for solving of larger problems. The main goal of the Constraints in Formal Verification workshop is to bring together researchers from the CSP/SAT/SMT and the formal verification communities, to describe new applications of constraint technology to formal verification, to disseminate new challenging problem instances, and to propose new dedicated algorithms for hard formal verification problems. This workshop will be of interest to researchers from both academia and industry, working on constraints or on formal verification and interested in the application of constraints to formal verification. Scope: ------ The scope of the workshop includes topics related to the application of constraint technology to formal verification, namely: * application of constraint solvers to hardware verification; * application of constraint solvers to software verification; * dedicated solvers for formal verification problems; * challenging formal verification problems. Location: --------- The workshop will take place in the Doubletree Hotel in Austin Texas, on November 5, 2015. It will be structured to allow ample time for discussion and demonstration of new tools and new problem instances. Registration: ------------- http://iccad.com/registration-rates Just $175 registration for IEEE or ACM members ($150 for students)! Invited Speakers: ----------------- Santosh Nagarakatte, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A. Talk title: Lightweight Formal Methods for LLVM Verification Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon/NASA Ames Research Center, U.S.A. Talk title: On the Probabilistic Analysis of Software Full Program: ------------- https://iccad.com/sites/2013.iccad.com/files/files/CFV15_program.pdf General Chair: -------------- Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, U.S.A. Email: mvelev at gmail.com Program Chair: -------------- Alex Groce, Oregon State University, U.S.A. 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The Computer Security track reaches its fifteenth edition this year, thus appearing among the most established tracks in the Symposium. The list of issues remains vast, ranging from protocols to work-flows. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - software security (protocols, operating systems, etc.) - hardware security (smartcards, biometric technologies, etc.) - mobile security (properties for/from mobile agents, etc.) - network security (anti-DoS tools, firewalls, real-time monitoring, mobile networks, sensor networks, etc.) - alternatives to cryptography (steganography, etc.) - security-specific software development practices (vulnerability testing, fault-injection resilience, etc.) - privacy and anonymity (trust management, pseudonymity, identity management, electronic voting, etc.) - safety and dependability issues (reliability, survivability, etc.) - cyberlaw and cybercrime (copyrights, trademarks, defamation, intellectual property, etc.) - security management and usability issues (security configuration, policy management, usability trials etc.) - workflow and service security (business processes, web services, etc.) - security in cloud computing and virtualised environments Important dates: 21 September 2015 Extended, firm. Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts 13 November 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection 11 December 2015 Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers and SRC research abstracts 18 December 2015 Author registration due 3-8 April 2016 SAC 2016 takes place Submission Guidelines Original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Only full papers about original and unpublished research are sought. Parallel submission to other conferences or other tracks of SAC 2016 is forbidden. Each paper must be BLIND in the sense that it must only include its title but not mention anything about its authors. Detailed submission guidelines are available at: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~giamp/sac/cfp2016.php Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2016 proceedings. Some papers may only be accepted as poster papers, and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the proceedings. Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts here (minimum of 2-page and maximum of 4-page) following the instructions published at SAC 2016 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. Select papers from past editions have been invited for publication in special journal issues. Program Committee Karthikeyan Bhargavan (INRIA, France) Denis Butin (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Cormac Callanan (Aconite Internet Solutions, Ireland) Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) Nicholas Carlini (University of California, Berkeley, USA) V?ronique Cortier (CNRS, Loria, France) Philippe De Ryck (KU Leuven, Belgium) Lieven Desmet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Adam Doup? (Arizona State University, USA) Dario Fiore (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Flavio Garcia (University of Birmingham, UK) Rosario Giustolisi (University of Luxembourg) Dieter Gollmann (TU Hamburg, Germany) Pekka Jappinen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland) Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany) Sokratis K Katsikas (University of Piraeus, Greece) Matteo Maffei (Saarland University, Germany) Marius Minea (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania) Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) Chris Novakovic (Imperial College London, UK) David Nowak (CNRS & Lille 1 University, France) Kenneth Radke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Tamara Rezk (Inria, France) William Robertson (Northeastern University, USA) Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Hossain Shahriar (Kennesaw State University, USA) Haya Shulman (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Deian Stefan (UC San Diego and GitStar, USA) Ruoyu Wang (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Program Chairs Giampaolo Bella (Universit? di Catania, Italy) Sergio Maffeis (Imperial College London, UK) From barbara.jobstmann at epfl.ch Wed Sep 2 04:11:43 2015 From: barbara.jobstmann at epfl.ch (Barbara Jobstmann) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:11:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VMCAI 2016: Final CFP (Abstract deadline this Friday, Sep 4, Paper deadline next Friday, Sep 11) Message-ID: 17th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2016) January 17-19, 2016, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States (co-located with POPL 2016) http://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2016 VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods that combine these and related areas. Scope ===== The program of VMCAI 2016 will consist of refereed research papers as well as invited lectures and tutorials. Research contributions can report new results as well as experimental evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Program Verification * Model Checking * Abstract Interpretation * Abstract Domains * Program Synthesis * Static Analysis * Type Systems * Deductive Methods * Program Certification * Error Diagnosis * Program Transformation * Hybrid and Cyber-physical Systems Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming. Important Dates =============== Abstract submission Fri 4 Sep 2015 Paper submission Fri 11 Sep 2015 Author notification Sat 10 Oct 2015 VMCAI 2016 conference Sun 17 - Tue 19 Jan 2016 Submissions =========== Submissions are restricted to 17 pages in Springer's LNCS format, not counting references. Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website. Submissions must be uploaded via the paper submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmcai2016 Accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Student Travel Funding ====================== We are in the process of acquiring funds to sponsor travel and other costs of attending VMCAI in St. Petersburg, Florida. Only students who are registered (or will register) for VMCAI are eligible to apply. If you are interested, please send the following information to vmcai2016 at easychair.org : * Are you presenting a paper at VMCAI? If not, then a short paragraph on why you want to attend VMCAI. * An estimate of the cost (travel and accommodation). * Will you be able to attend the conference if we cannot fund you? * Are you studying at a US university? * A copy of your CV. Program chairs ============== Barbara Jobstmann (EPFL and CNRS-Verimag) K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research) Program Committee ================= Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado at Boulder) Hana Chockler (King's College) Eva Darulova (EPFL) Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS) Javier Esparza (TU Munich) Aarti Gupta (Princeton University) Arie Gurfinkel (Carnegie Mellon University) Barbara Jobstmann (EPFL and CNRS-Verimag) K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research) Francesco Logozzo (Facebook) Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute) Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich) David Parker (University of Birmingham) Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg) Nadia Polikarpova (MIT CSAIL) Philipp Ruemmer (Uppsala University) Roopsha Samanta (Institute of Science and Technology) Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Sanjit A. Seshia (UC Berkeley) Sharon Shoham (The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo) Tachio Terauchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Caterina Urban (Ecole Normale Superieure) Thomas Wies (New York University) Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago) Organizing Committee ==================== Outreach Activities Chair: Ruzica Piskac (Yale University) Treasurer & Conference Manager: Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago) Steering Committee ================== Agostino Cortesi (Universita Ca Foscari of Venezia) Patrick Cousot (CNRS & ENS & INRIA, France and NYU) E. 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URL: From peterol at ifi.uio.no Wed Sep 2 12:27:16 2015 From: peterol at ifi.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Peter_Csaba_=C3=96lveczky?=) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 18:27:16 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems Message-ID: <895D65E2-7E89-4002-9C44-12B341DA638D@ifi.uio.no> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers FTSCS 2015 4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems Paris, November 6, 2015 (satellite workshop of ICFEM 2015) http://www.ftscs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Extended deadlines: --- abstract submission: September 11 --- paper submission: September 13 *** Science of Computer Programming special issue *** *** Springer CCIS proceedings *** Aims and Scope: There is an increasing demand for using formal methods to validate and verify safety-critical systems in fields such as power generation and distribution, avionics, automotive systems, and medical systems. In particular, newer standards, such as DO-178C (avionics), ISO 26262 (automotive systems), IEC 62304 (medical devices), and CENELEC EN 50128 (railway systems), emphasize the need for formal methods and model-based development, thereby speeding up the adaptation of such methods in industry. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers who are interested in the application of formal and semi-formal methods to improve the quality of safety-critical computer systems. FTSCS strives to promote research and development of formal methods and tools for industrial applications, and is particularly interested in industrial applications of formal methods. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods for analyzing safety-critical systems, including avionics, automotive, medical, railway, and other kinds of safety-critical and QoS-critical systems * methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, etc., of complex safety/QoS-critical systems * analysis methods that address the limitations of formal methods in industry (usability, scalability, etc.) * formal analysis support for modeling languages used in industry, such as AADL, Ptolemy, SysML, SCADE, Modelica, etc. * code generation from validated models. The workshop will provide a platform for discussions and the exchange of innovative ideas, so submissions on work in progress are encouraged. Submission: We solicit submissions reporting on: A- original research contributions (15 pages max, LNCS format); B- applications and experiences (15 pages max, LNCS format); C- surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (15 pages max, LNCS); D- tool papers (5 pages max, LNCS format); E- position papers and work in progress (5 pages max, LNCS format) related to the topics mentioned above. 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=ftscs2015. The final version of the paper must be prepared in LaTeX, adhering to the LNCS format available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Publication: All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FTSCS 2015. Accepted papers in the categories A-D above will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published as a volume in Springer's CCIS series. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming journal. Important dates: (Extended) abstract submission deadline: September 11, 2015 (AoE) (Extended) paper submission deadline: September 13, 2015 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2015 Workshop: November 6/7, 2015 Venue: Paris, France (city center!) Program chairs: Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Program committee: Musab AlTurki King Fahd U. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Etienne Andre University Paris 13, France Toshiaki Aoki JAIST, Japan Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan Kyungmin Bae SRI International, USA David Broman KTH, Sweden and UC Berkeley, USA Bernd Fischer Stellenbosch University, South Africa Osman Hasan National U. of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan Klaus Havelund NASA JPL, USA Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan Takashi Kitamura AIST, Japan Alexander Knapp Augsburg University, Germany Brian Larson Kansas State University, USA Wenchao Li SRI International, USA Robi Malik University of Waikato, New Zealand Frederic Mallet INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Roberto Nardone University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Thomas Noll RWTH Aachen University, Germany Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Charles Pecheur Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Paul Pettersson Malardalen University, Sweden Camilo Rocha Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria, Colombia Markus Roggenbach Swansea University, UK Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich, Switzerland Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania, USA Sofiene Tahar Concordia University, Canada Jean-Pierre Talpin INRIA Rennes, France Jackie Wang McMaster University, Canada Alan Wassyng McMaster University, Canada Michael Whalen University of Minnesota, USA Huibiao Zhu East China Normal University, China From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Thu Sep 3 02:34:29 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:34:29 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2016 2nd call for papers Message-ID: <20150903093429.0d88b76d@duality> ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: ETAPS 2016 19th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2-8 April 2016 http://www.etaps.org/2016 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2016 is the ninteenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (4-7 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Peter Thiemann, Universit?t Freiburg, Germany) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Bart Jacobs, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Christof L?ding, RWTH Aachen, Germany) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada, and Jean-Fran?ois Raskin (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) TACAS '16 hosts the 5th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Andrew D. Gordon (MSR Cambridge and University of Edinburgh, UK) Rupak Majumdar (MPI Kaiserslautern, Germany) * ESOP invited speaker: Cristina Lopes (University of California at Irvine, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Oscar Nierstrasz (Universit?t Bern, Switzerland) * POST invited speaker: Vitaly Shmatikov (University of Texas at Austin, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * 9 October 2015: Submission deadline for abstracts * 16 October 2015: Submission deadline for full papers * 2-4 December 2015: Author response period (ESOP and FoSSaCS only) * 18 December 2015: Notification of acceptance * 8 January 2016: Camera-ready versions due -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers and tool demonstration papers. Both types will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. ESOP and FoSSaCS accept only research papers. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and be submitted electronically in pdf through the EasyChair author interface of the respective conference. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. FASE will try a light-weight double-blind review process (see http://www.etaps.org/2016/fase). - Research papers FASE, FOSSACS and TACAS have a page limit of 15 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) for research papers, whereas POST allows at most 20 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) and ESOP 25 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example, details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. ETAPS referees are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. In addition to regular research papers, TACAS solicits also case study papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). Both TACAS and FASE solicit also regular tool papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). - Tool demonstration papers Submissions should consist of two parts: * The first part, at most 4 pages, should describe the tool presented. Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool. (This part will be included in the proceedings.) * The second part, at most 6 pages, should explain how the demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including screen dumps and examples. (This part will be not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated. ESOP and FOSSACS do not accept tool demonstration papers. TACAS has a page limit of 6 pages for tool demonstrations. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (2-3 April, 8 April) -- Around 20 satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences. -- HOST CITY -- Eindhoven is located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. It is the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands. The city is well known for modern art, design and technology. The main airport of the Netherlands is the Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. All major airlines fly to Schiphol, and Schiphol has a direct and very frequent train connection to Eindhoven. Eindhoven also has a small international airport, Eindhoven Airport, with direct connections to more than thirty destinations in Europe. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2016 is hosted by Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. -- ORGANIZERS * General chair: Jan Friso Groote * Workshops chair: Erik de Vink and Julien Schmaltz * Publicity chair: Anton Wijs -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at j.f.groote at tue.nl, a.j.wijs at tue.nl. From amirah at utu.fi Thu Sep 3 06:05:22 2015 From: amirah at utu.fi (Amirmohammad Rahmanisane) Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 10:05:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP - EXTENDED DEADLINE]: SPECIAL SESSION on Multi-Core and Many-Core systems for EMbedded Computing (MC)3 in 24th Euromicro PDP Conference Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ============================================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS Multi-Core and Many-Core systems for EMbedded Computing (MC)3 Special session in 24th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2016) http://www.pdp2016.org/SS9.html 17-19 Feb. 2016, Crete, Greece ============================================================================================= This special session addresses all aspects of multi-core and many-core embedded systems design. It presents new ideas in the multi-core field such as theory and modeling, scalable and fault tolerant design approaches and frameworks, algorithms, software, tools and applications, analysis and comparison, design techniques and emerging implementations. The proceedings of the special session will be published together with the proceedings of PDP 2016 by the IEEE Computer Society, which are available worldwide through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. An extended version of the best papers of the MC3 be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the ISI-indexed high-quality journals. Authors are invited to submit high quality papers representing original work from both the academia and industry in (but not limited to) the following topics: * Design space exploration and design methodology for embedded multi-core and many-core systems * Specification and Formal modeling of embedded multi-core and many-core systems * Multi-core/many-core embedded system design challenges * Parallel programming and software for embedded multi-core and many-core systems * Memory management * 3D architectures, integration and synthesis for embedded multi-core and many-core systems * On-chip communication architectures and networks-on-chip for embedded systems * Heterogeneous multi-core and many-core architectures * Hardware/software co-design * Simulation, validation and verification * Test and Fault Tolerance * QoS management and performance analysis * Multi-core and many-core cyber-physical systems * Programming languages and compilers * Thermal-, energy-, and power-aware architectures * Monitoring and reconfiguration * System prototyping * Industrial practices and case studies * IMPORTANT DATES Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: 20th September 2015 Acceptance notification: 19th October 2015 Special session chairs: * Hannu Tenhunen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) * Axel Jantsch (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Pasi Liljeberg (University of Turku, Finland) * Amir-Mohammad Rahmani (University of Turku, Finland) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The forum represents an opportunity to interact with different communities sharing an interest in applied computing. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be hosted by the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University, Italy Software Verification and Testing Track --------------------------------------- We invite authors to submit new results in formal verification and testing, as well as development of technologies to improve the usability of formal methods in software engineering. Also welcome are detailed descriptions of applications of mechanical verification to large scale software. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - model checking - theorem proving - correct by construction development - model-based testing - verification-based testing - symbolic execution - static and run-time analysis - abstract interpretation - analysis methods for dependable systems - software certification and proof carrying code - fault diagnosis and debugging - verification of large scale software systems - real world applications and case studies applying software verification Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in electronic format, via the START site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/Paper-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. Submitted paper will undergo a blind review process. Authors of accepted papers should submit an editorial revision of their papers that fits within six two-column pages (an extra two pages, to a total of eight pages, may be available at a charge). Please comply to this page limitation already at submission time. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2016 proceedings. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of papers, posters, or SRC abstracts in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the work. This is a requirement for the presented work to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. A special issue of Journal of Systems and Software has been confirmed. Selected papers will be invited for submission, and will be peer-reviewed according to the standard policy of Journal of Systems and Software. Student Research Competition ---------------------------- As before, SAC 2016 organises a Student Research Competition (SRC) Program to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Guidelines and information about the SRC program can be found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. Submission to the SRC program should be in electronic form via the following website http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/SRC-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Program Committee ----------------- Rui Abreu, University of Porto, Portugal Cristiano Braga, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Ana Cavalli, National Institute of Telecommunications, France Byoungju Choi, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea Maximiliano Cristi?, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Khaled El-Fakih, American University of Sharjah, UAE Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Maria del mar Gallardo, University of Malaga, Spain Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tingting Han, University of London, UK Klaus Havelund, Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Ralf Huuck, UNSW, Australia Nikolai Kosmatov, CEA, France Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany Luis Llana, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jasen Markovski, R&D group, GN Resound Benelux, The Netherlands Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Brian Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Peter Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Adenilso Simao, ICMC/USP, Brazil Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Tanja Vos, Valencia University, Spain Carsten Weise, Imbus AG, Germany Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Nina Yevtushenko, Tomsk State University, Russia Cemal Yilmaz, Sabanci University, Turkey Fatiha Zaidi, Univ. Paris-Sud, France Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Committee Chairs ----------------- Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Gwen Sala?n, University of Grenoble Alpes, France From lubarsky.robert at comcast.net Sat Sep 5 11:39:08 2015 From: lubarsky.robert at comcast.net (lubarsky.robert at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 15:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [TYPES/announce] extended submission deadline for LFCS In-Reply-To: <1297730776.21256234.1441467146168.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> References: <002801d0d8de$c2f108a0$48d319e0$@comcast.net> <1297730776.21256234.1441467146168.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Message-ID: <851275529.21260281.1441467548828.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Deadline now extended to Sept. 13. All further details, reproduced below, are the same. CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (LFCS'16), Deerfield Beach, Florida, January 4 - 7, 2016 LFCS Steering Committee: Anil Nerode, (Ithaca, NY, General Chair); Stephen Cook (Toronto); Dirk van Dalen (Utrecht); Yuri Matiyasevich (St. Petersburg); Alan Robinson (Syracuse, NY); Gerald Sacks (Cambridge, MA); Dana Scott, (Pittsburgh, PA - Berkeley, CA). LFCS topics of interest include, but are not limited to: constructive mathematics and type theory; homotopy type theory; logic, automata, and automatic structures; computability and randomness; logical foundations of programming; logical aspects of computational complexity; parameterized complexity; logic programming and constraints; automated deduction and interactive theorem proving; logical methods in protocol and program verification; logical methods in program specification and extraction; domain theory logics; logical foundations of database theory; equational logic and term rewriting; lambda and combinatory calculi; categorical logic and topological semantics; linear logic; epistemic and temporal logics; intelligent and multiple-agent system logics; logics of proof and justification; non-monotonic reasoning; logic in game theory and social software; logic of hybrid systems; distributed system logics; mathematical fuzzy logic; system design logics; other logics in computer science. LFCS'16 Program Committee: Sergei Artemov (New York, NY) - PC Chair; Eugene Asarin (Paris); Steve Awodey (Pittsburgh, PA); Matthias Baaz (Vienna); Alexandru Baltag (Amsterdam); Lev Beklemishev (Moscow); Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor, MI); Samuel Buss (San Diego, CA); Thierry Coquand (G?teborg); Robert Constable (Ithaca, NY); Ruy de Queiroz (Recife); Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv); Melvin Fitting (New York); Sergey Goncharov (Novosibirsk); Denis Hirschfeldt (Chicago, IL); Martin Hyland (Cambridge); Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht); Hajime Ishihara (JAIST - Kanazawa); Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland); Roman Kuznets (Vienna); Daniel Leivant (Bloomington, IN); Robert Lubarsky (Boca Raton, FL); Victor Marek (Lexington, KY); Lawrence Moss (Bloomington, IN); Anil Nerode (Ithaca, NY) - General LFCS Chair; Hiroakira Ono (JAIST - Kanazawa); Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Chennai); Michael Rathjen (Leeds); Jeffrey Remmel (San Diego); Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich); Philip Scott (Ottawa); Alex Simpson (Ljubljana); Sonja Smets (Amsterdam); Sebastiaan Terwijn (Nijmegen); Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto). Submission details. Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series. There will be a post-conference volume of selected works published, presumably, in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. Submissions should be made electronically via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfcs2016 Submitted papers must be in PDF/12pt format and of no more than 15 pages, present work not previously published, and must not have been submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. LFCS issues the Best Student Paper Award, named after John Barkley Rosser Sr. (1907-1989), a prominent American logician with fundamental contributions in both Mathematics and Computer Science. Important Dates. Submissions deadline: midnight September 13, 2015, any time zone. Notification: October 1 5 , 2015. Symposium dates: January 4 morning - January 7 early afternoon, 2016. Local Arrangements. The venue of LFCS 2016 will be the spectacular Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort, 2096 NE 2nd Street, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441. Website: http://www.wyndhamdeerfieldresort.com . LFCS'16 Local Organizing Committee: Robert Lubarsky (Chair), Emily Cimillo, and Fred Richman - Florida Atlantic University. About LFCS. The LFCS series provides an outlet for the fast-growing body of work in the logical foundations of computer science, e.g., areas of fundamental theoretical logic related to computer science. The LFCS series began with Logic at Botik, Pereslavl-Zalessky, 1989 and was co-organized by Albert R. Meyer (MIT) and Michael Taitslin (Tver), after which organization passed to Anil Nerode in 1992. LFCS has enjoyed support and endorsements from a number of bodies, including the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the City University of New York Research Foundation. 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URL: From francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it Sat Sep 5 06:11:48 2015 From: francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it (Francesco Tiezzi) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 12:11:48 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SAC:CM 2016 - Submission deadline extended to Sep 21 Message-ID: ************************************************************************************** Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Special Track of the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'16) http://sac2016.apice.unibo.it April 4 - 8, 2016 Pisa, Italy ************************************************************************************** The deadline for paper submission has been extended to September 21st, 2015 ************************************************************************************** Building on the success of the sixteenth previous editions (1998-2015), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2016. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of possibly heterogeneous components (processes, objects, agents, services) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a distributed software system with desired characteristics and functionalities. This is done in terms of coordination abstractions, languages, algorithms, mechanisms, and middleware specifically focused on the management of component interaction. The coordination paradigm crosscuts a number of contemporary software engineering approaches and fields, which we aim to cross-fertilize and bring contribution to, including in particular: multi-agent systems, self-adaptative and self-organising systems, business process management, service-oriented architectures, component-based systems, and all related middleware platforms. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include: - Novel models, languages, formalisms, programming and implementation techniques - Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures - Applications - Middleware platforms - Formal aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification) - Software architectures and software engineering techniques - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Internet, Web, Internet of Things, and pervasive computing systems coordination - Languages for service description and composition - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making - All aspects related to Cooperative Information Systems (e.g. workflow management, CSCW) - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages - Self-organising, self-adaptive and nature-inspired coordination approaches - Relationship with other computational models such as object-oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or their extensions with coordination capabilities - Coordination models and specification in Service-Oriented Architectures, Web Service technologies (orchestration, choreography, etc.), Pervasive Computing, Cloud Computing and Autonomic Computing - Business Process modelling and verification - Policy-based approaches to coordination and self-adaptation We also welcome papers on practical systems or novel applications that are aimed at reaching coordination between components and services, especially if those systems and novel applications challenge existing ideas and models. In previous editions, CM Special Track organisers have been inviting authors of selected papers for Special Issues in high impact journals, such as, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) and Science of Computer Programming (SCP). ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Sep 21, 2015: Submission of papers and SRC research abstracts (Extended) Nov 13, 2015: Author notification Dec 11, 2015: Camera-Ready Copy Dec 18, 2015: Author registration ------------------------ Program Co-Chairs ------------------------ Mirko Viroli Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy http://mirkoviroli.apice.unibo.it email: mirko.viroli at unibo.it Francesco Tiezzi University of Camerino, Italy http://tiezzi.unicam.it/ email: francesco.tiezzi@ unicam.it ---------------------------------------- Program Committee Members ---------------------------------------- Farhad Arbab, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, Netherlands Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA Olivier Boissier, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Rocco De Nicola, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneve, Switzerland Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Raymond Hu, Imperial College London, UK Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA eva Kuehn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Hung La, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Michele Loreti, University of Firenze, Italy Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Antonio Porto, University of Porto, Portugal Rosario Pugliese, University of Firenze, Italy Antonio Ravara, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Yasuyuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan George Wells, Rhodes University, South Africa Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy --------------------- Proceedings --------------------- Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2016 proceedings and in the Digital Library. ------------------------------------- Paper submission and format ------------------------------------- All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that currently are not under review in any conference or journal. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Submitted papers must be in the ACM two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). The length of the papers is 6 pages (included in the registration) plus up to 2 extra pages (at extra charge), i.e. total 8 pages maximum. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Submission is entirely automated via the STAR Submission System, which is available from the main SAC Web Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. ------------------------- Poster Sessions ------------------------- Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Poster should be not longer than 3 pages (included in the registration) plus 1 extra page (at extra charge), i.e. total 4 pages maximum. The poster session procedures and details will be posted on SAC 2016 website as soon as they become available. ------------------------------------------------ Student research abstracts competition ------------------------------------------------ Graduate students are invited to submit Student Research Competition (SRC) abstracts (maximum of 2 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at SAC 2016 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts (up to 20 students) will have the opportunity to give poster and oral presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. 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URL: From iliano at andrew.cmu.edu Sun Sep 6 05:33:31 2015 From: iliano at andrew.cmu.edu (Iliano Cervesato) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:33:31 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WoF'15: extended submission deadline Message-ID: <55EC086B.8070609@cmu.edu> [ Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement ] ======================================================================= Call for papers (deadline extended) First International Workshop on Focusing WoF'15 Suva, Fiji, 23 November 2015 Affiliated with LPAR-20 http://cs.cmu.edu/~wof15/ ======================================================================= SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 13 SEPTEMBER 2015 Focusing is a proof search strategy that alternates two phases: an inversion phase where invertible sequent rules are applied exhaustively and a chaining phase where it selects a formula and decomposes it maximally using non-invertible rules. Focusing is one of the most exciting recent developments in computational logic: it is complete for many logics of interest and provides a foundation for their use as programming languages and rewriting calculi. This workshop has the purposes of bringing together researchers who work on or with focusing, to foster discussion and to report on recent advances. Topics of interest include: - Focusing in forward, backward and hybrid logic programming languages - Focusing in theorem proving - Focusing for substructural logics - Focused term calculi - Implementation techniques - Parallelism and concurrency - Focusing in security - Pearls of focusing Invited Speaker TBA Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Sunday September 13th Submission deadline: Friday September 18th Notification to authors: Friday October 16th Final version due: Sunday November 1st Workshop date: Monday November 23rd 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 12 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for "Work in Progress" papers. Submission is via EasyChair (link on the WoF'15 web page). Proceedings Accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings of WoF'15, which will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science series (EPTCS). Program Committee * Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University, co-chair) * Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria and LIX/Ecole polytechnique) * Paul Blain Levy (University of Birmingham) * Chuck Liang (Hofstra University) * Elaine Pimentel (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) * Carsten Sch?rmann (ITU Copenhagen and Demtech, co-chair) ======================================================================= -- Iliano Cervesato www.cs.cmu.edu/~iliano/ Professor Carnegie Mellon University From koba at kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Sep 7 01:45:43 2015 From: koba at kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (koba) Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:45:43 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Postdoc Position on Higher-Order Model Checking Message-ID: <20150907.144543.648630919185435296.koba@kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> A postdoc position is available for 5-year project on Higher-Order Model Checking (see the project description below), at the University of Tokyo, Japan. The appointment can start as early as April 2016 (the starting date is negotiable). The contract of appointment will be renewed for each academic year, and can be extended up to March 2020, subject to performance. Salary will be about 350,000-450,000 Japanese yen per month. Applicants should have a Ph.D in computer science or related fields, and have a strong background in at least one (preferably two or more) of the following topics: program verification, type systems, game semantics, model checking, formal languages and automata, and automated theorem proving. Interested candidates are invited to send a detailed CV via email to Naoki Kobayashi (koba at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp), no later than October 15th, 2015. Project Description -------------------- Model checking is one of the promising techniques for software verification, but traditional model checking (such as finite-state and pushdown model checking) was not suitable for verification of high-level programs that use higher-order functions and recursion. We have recently studied higher-order model checking (more precisely, model checking of the trees generated by higher-order recursion schemes), which can be considered a generalization of finite-state/pushdown model checking, and shown that (i) many program verification problems can be reduced to higher-order model checking, and that (ii) despite its extremely high worst-case complexity, higher-order model checking can be solved efficiently for many typical inputs. Based on those results, we have constructed a few automated program verification tools, such as MoCHi, a fully-automated software model checker for a subset of OCaml. The aim of this project is to further advance this series of work on higher-order model checking and program verification, and to construct a software model checker for full-scale programming languages. We will also exploit new applications of higher-order model checking, such as data compression. Selected publications on the topic: ---------------------------------- A survey: * Naoki Kobayashi, "Higher-Order Model Checking: From Theory to Practice", Invited paper in Proceedings of LICS 2011. Theory and model checking algorithms: * Naoki Kobayashi, "Model Checking Higher-Order Programs," JACM, 2013. * Naoki Kobayashi, "Pumping by Typing," LICS 2013, pp.398-407, 2013 * Naoki Kobayashi and Luke Ong, "A Type System Equivalent to Modal Mu-Calculus Model Checking of Recursion Schemes," Proceedings of LICS 2009, pp.179-188, 2009 * Christopher H. Broadbent, Naoki Kobayashi, "Saturation-Based Model Checking of Higher-Order Recursion Schemes," CSL 2013, pp.129-148, 2013 Applications to program verification: * Takuya Kuwahara, Ryosuke Sato, Hiroshi Unno, Naoki Kobayashi, "Predicate Abstraction and CEGAR for Disproving Termination of Higher-Order Functional Programs," CAV 2015, pp.287-303, 2015 * Kazuhide Yasukata, Naoki Kobayashi, Kazutaka Matsuda, "Pairwise Reachability Analysis for Higher Order Concurrent Programs by Higher-Order Model Checking," CONCUR 2014, pp.312-32, 2014 * Hiroshi Unno, Tachio Terauchi, Naoki Kobayashi: Automating relatively complete verification of higher-order functional programs, POPL 2013, pp.75-86, 2013 * Naoki Kobayashi, Ryosuke Sato, and Hiroshi Unno, "Predicate Abstraction and CEGAR for Higher-Order Model Checking", Proceedings of PLDI 2011, pp.222-233, 2011. Applications to data compression: * Naoki Kobayashi, Kazutaka Matsuda, Ayumi Shinohara, and Kazuya Yaguchi, "Functional Programs as Compressed Data", Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 2012 From tobycmurray at googlemail.com Tue Sep 8 02:21:19 2015 From: tobycmurray at googlemail.com (Toby Murray) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 16:21:19 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SSV 2015 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: ======================================================================== SSV 2015 2nd Call for Papers http://www.ssv-conference.org/ 9th Conference on Systems Software Verification Gold Coast, Australia, December 7-8, 2015 co-located with ICECCS. ======================================================================== Important Dates Abstract Submission: September 21, 2015 at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv2015 Paper Submission: September 28, 2015 at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv2015 Notification: October 30, 2015 Conference: December 7?8, 2015 Topics Industrial-strength software analysis and verification has advanced in recent years through the introduction of model checking, automated and interactive theorem proving, and static analysis techniques, as well as correctness by design, correctness by contract, and model-driven development. However, many techniques are working under restrictive assumptions that are invalidated by complex embedded systems software such as operating system kernels, low-level device drivers, or microcontroller code. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry who are facing real software and real problems with the goal of finding real, applicable solutions. By ?real? we mean problems such as time-to-market or reliability that the industry is facing. A real solution is one that is applicable to the problem in industry and not one that only applies to an abstract, academic, toy version of it. In this event we will discuss software analysis and development techniques and tools; this forum will serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in dealing with existing and upcoming systems-level code. Topics include, but are not restricted to: * Model checking * Automated and interactive theorem proving * Static analysis and type systems * Automated testing * Model-driven development * Concurrency * Security * Embedded systems development * Programming languages * Verifying compilers * Software certification * Software tools * Experience reports Submissions Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system until September 28th, 2015. Papers should be up to 10 pages in pdf format and formatted in EPTCS style [http://info.eptcs.org]. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All will be subject to peer review under normal conference standards. Experience reports and papers on work in progress are welcome as long as there is a clear contribution. Submissions which are based or discuss a non-trivial piece of software are required to make all those non-standard software parts available, which a referee may need, in order to check the claims of the submission. Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Proceedings Proceedings will be published as an issue in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Program Committee Jade Alglave, University College London Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien Andrew Butterfield, Lero, Trinity College Dublin Franck Cassez, Macquarie University Ana Cavalcanti, University of York Mads Dam, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London Stefania Gnesi, ISTI Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research J?rome Hugues, ISAE Limin Jia, CMU Tiziana Margaria, Lero, University of Limerick Toby Murray, NICTA and UNSW (Co-Chair) John Regehr, University of Utah David San?n, NTU (Co-Chair) Konrad Slind, Rockwell Collins Jun Sun, SUTD Alwen Tiu, NTU Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology Steering Committee Ralf Huuck, NICTA and UNSW Gerwin Klein, NICTA and UNSW Bastian Schlich, ABB Corporate Research ________________________________ The information in this e-mail may be confidential and subject to legal professional privilege and/or copyright. National ICT Australia Limited accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachments. From raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be Thu Sep 10 00:55:27 2015 From: raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be (Raoul Strackx) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:55:27 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ESSoS'16] CfP: Deadlines approaching! Message-ID: <55F10D3F.8060203@cs.kuleuven.be> ======================================================================= == International Symposium on == == Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) == == == == April 6 - 8, 2016, == == Royal Holloway, London, UK == == == == https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2016 == == == == In cooperation with (pending): ACM SIGSAC and SIGSOFT == ======================================================================= == Approaching deadlines == Abstract submission: September 25, 2015 (anywhere on earth) Paper submission: October 2, 2015 (anywhere on earth) == Context and motivation == Trustworthy, secure software is a core ingredient of the modern world. So is the Internet. Hostile, networked environments, like the Internet, can allow vulnerabilities in software to be exploited from anywhere. High-quality security building blocks (e.g., cryptographic components) are necessary but insufficient to address these concerns. 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 eighth 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 including two keynote presentations. 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. == Topics == The Symposium seeks submissions on subjects related to its goals. This includes a diversity of topics including (but not limited to): - Cloud security, virtualization for security - Mobile devices security - Automated techniques for vulnerability discovery and analysis - Model checking for security - Binary code analysis, reverse-engineering - Programming paradigms, models, and domain-specific languages for security - Operating system security - Verification techniques for security properties - Malware: detection, analysis, mitigation - Security in critical infrastructures - Security by design - Static and dynamic code analysis for security - Web applications security - Program rewriting techniques for security - Security measurements - Empirical secure software engineering - Security-oriented software reconfiguration and evolution - Computer forensics - Processes for the development of secure software and systems - Security testing - Embedded software security == Important dates == Abstract submission: September 25, 2015 (anywhere on earth) Paper submission: October 2, 2015 (anywhere on earth) Paper notification: December 7, 2015 Artifact evaluation submission: December, 16, 2015 Artifact evaluation notification: January, 6, 2016 Paper camera-ready: January 8, 2016 == Submission and format == The proceedings of the symposium are published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Submissions should follow the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS. Submitted papers must present original, unpublished work of high quality. Two types of papers will be accepted: = Full papers (max 14 pages without bibliography/appendices) = Such papers may describe original technical research with a solid foundation, such as formal analysis or experimental results, with acceptance determined mostly based on novelty and validation. Or they may describe case studies applying existing techniques or analysis methods in industrial settings, with acceptance determined mostly by the general applicability of techniques and the completeness of the technical presentation details. = Idea papers (max 8 pages with bibliography) = Such papers may crisply describe a novel idea that is both feasible and interesting, where the idea may range from a variant of an existing technique all the way to a vision for the future of security technology. Idea papers allow authors to introduce ideas to the field and get feedback, while allowing for later publication of complete, fully-developed results. Submissions will be judged primarily on novelty, excitement, and exposition, but feasibility is required, and acceptance will be unlikely without some basic, principled validation (e.g., extrapolation from limited experiments or simple formal analysis). In the proceedings, idea papers will clearly identified by means of the "Idea" tag in the title. == Artifact evaluation == For possibly the first time at a security conference, ESSOS?16 will offer a voluntary artifact evaluation. Artifact evaluation is meant to encourage the submission and publication of proven, reusable research artifacts. Authors of accepted papers will be able to apply their artifacts (software, datasets, etc.) to be examined by the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). Artifacts will be submitted after paper notification. If all artifacts perform to the satisfaction of the committee, in particular if they allow for the paper?s results to be reproduced, then the paper will be recognized with the Artifact Evaluation Award and the authors will enjoy the following benefits: - Authors will be able to mention the award on the paper?s front page, in the form of a virtual award plaque. - Awarded artifacts will be recognized on the conference web page. - Authors can use one additional page in the proceedings, which can be used to describe their artifacts. - Authors will be able to briefly present their awarded artifacts in a dedicated artifact session (in addition to their usual paper presentation). Artifact evaluation submissions will be mainly evaluated based on two criteria: (1) Artifact packaging and reproducibility. (2) Artifact implementation and usability. More information is available on the ESSOS web page. More information about previous artifact evaluations can be found at: http://www.artifact-eval.org/ Important dates: Artifact evaluation submission: December 16, 2015 Artifact evaluation notification: January 6, 2016 == Confirmed invited speakers == Apart from technical presentations, the following invited speakers have confirmed their participation in ESSOS: - David Basin, ETH Z?rich - Karsten Nohl, Security Research Labs == Steering committee == Jorge Cuellar (Siemens AG) Wouter Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - chair Fabio Massacci (Universit? di Trento) Gary McGraw (Cigital) Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University) Daniel Wallach (Rice University) == Organizing committee == General chair: Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway University of London) Program co-chairs: Eric Bodden (Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt), Juan Caballero (IMDEA Software Institute) Artifact evaluation co-chairs: Alessandra Gorla (IMDEA Madrid), Jacques Klein (SnT Luxembourg) Publication chair: Elias Athanasopoulos (FORTH) Publicity chair: Raoul Strackx (KU Leuven) Web chair: Ghita Saevels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) == Program committee == Javier Alonso, Universidad de Leon & Duke University Michele Bugliesi, Universit? Ca' Foscari Venezia Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine Flavio Garcia, University of Birmingham Christian Hammer, CISPA, Saarland University Marieke Huisman, University of Twente Martin Johns, SAP Research Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Johannes Kinder, Royal Holloway University of London Andy King, University of Kent Jacques Klein, University of Luxembourg Andrea Lanzi, University of Milan Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology Zhenkai Liang, National University of Singapore Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research Heiko Mantel, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University Martin Ochoa, Singapore University of Technology and Design Mathias Payer, Purdue University Frank Piessens, KU Leuven Alexander Pretschner, Technische Universit?t M?nchen Awais Rashid, Lancaster University Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham Gianluca Stringhini, University College London Pierre-Yves Strub, IMDEA Software Institute Helmut Veith, Vienna University of Technology Santiago Zanella, Microsoft Research - INRIA Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr Fri Sep 11 02:27:30 2015 From: frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Fr=c3=a9d=c3=a9ric_Loulergue?=) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:27:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last CfP: ACM SAC'16 PAPP Track - Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming (extended deadline) Message-ID: <55F27452.6010700@univ-orleans.fr> ====================== Call for Papers ====================== SAC'16 - ACM 2016 Symposium on Applied Computing Technical Track PAPP - Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming April 3-8, 2016, Pisa, Italy http://frederic.loulergue.eu/PAPP2016 ============================================================= AIMS & SCOPE Nowadays parallel architectures are everywhere. However parallel programming is still reserved to experienced programmers. The trend is towards the increase of cores in processors and the number of processors in multiprocessor machines: The need for scalable computing is everywhere. But parallel and distributed programming is still dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing and POSIX threads. Thus high-level approaches should play a key role in the shift to scalable computing in every computer. Algorithmic skeletons (Google's MapReduce being the most well-known skeletal parallelism approach), parallel extensions of functional languages such as Haskell and ML, parallel logic and constraint programming, parallel execution of declarative programs such as SQL queries, genericity and meta-programming in object-oriented languages, etc. have produced methods and tools that improve the price/performance ratio of parallel software, and broaden the range of target applications. Also, high level languages offer a high degree of abstraction which ease the development of complex systems. Moreover, being based on formal semantics, it is possible to certify the correctness of critical parts of the applications. The aim of all these languages and tools is to improve and ease the development of applications (safety, expressivity, efficiency, etc.). The PAPP track is aimed both at researchers involved in the development of high level approaches for parallel computing and engineers and researchers who are potential users of these languages and tools. TOPICS We welcome submission of original, unpublished papers in English on topics including: - design, implementation and optimisation of high-level programming languages, - algorithms and high-level models (CGM, BSP, LogP, MapReduce,...), - artificial intelligence, software engineering and formal methods applied to high-level parallel programming, - middleware and tools: performance predictors, visualisations of abstract behaviour, automatic hot-spot detectors, high-level resource managers, compilers, automatic generators, etc., - applications of high-level approaches, benchmarks and experiments. The PAPP track focuses on practical aspects of high-level parallel programming but it welcomes topics of mostly theoretical nature, provided there is clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in electronic format, via the link provided at SAC web page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016) Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. Submitted papers will undergo a blind review process. Authors of accepted papers should submit an editorial revision of their papers that fits within six two-column pages (an extra two pages, to a total of eight pages, may be available at a charge). Please comply with this page limitation already at submission time. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. After the conference, selected accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of an international journal (pending). SAC 2016 will also hold a Student Research Competition (SRC). To enter this in the area of PAPP, please submit via the link at SAC web page. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: Sep 21, 2015 (extended) SRC Abstract Submission: Sep 25, 2015 Paper/SRC Notifications: Nov 13, 2015 Camera-Ready Copies: Dec 11, 2015 TRACK PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Fr?d?ric Loulergue, Track Chair (LIFO, Universit? d'Orl?ans, France) Marco Aldinucci (University of Torino, Italy) Mohamad Al Hajj Hassan (Lebanese International University, Lebanon) Mathias Bourgoin (INPG, Grenoble, France) H?l?ne Coullon (ENS Lyon, France) Khaled Hamidouche (The Ohio State University, USA) Herbert Kuchen (Westf?lische Wilhems-Universit?t M?nster, Germany) Yolanda Ortega Mall?n (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology, Japan) Susanna Pelagatti (University of Pisa, Italy) Julien Tesson (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, France) Alexander Tiskin (University of Warwick, UK) From arthur.chargueraud at inria.fr Mon Sep 14 04:50:29 2015 From: arthur.chargueraud at inria.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Arthur_Chargu=c3=a9raud?=) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:50:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CoqPL 2016: Call for Presentations for the Workshop on Coq for Programming Languages Message-ID: <55F68A55.5020802@inria.fr> ==================================================================== CoqPL 2016 Coq for Programming Languages -- A Coq users and developers meeting January, 23rd 2016, co-located with POPL St. Petersburg, Florida, United States CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS http://conf.researchr.org/home/CoqPL-2016 ==================================================================== Workshop Overview ----------------- The CoqPL workshop provides an opportunity for programming languages researchers to meet and interact with one another and members from the core Coq development team. At the meeting, we will discuss upcoming new features, see talks and demonstrations of exciting current projects, solicit feedback for potential future changes, and generally work to strengthen the vibrant community around our favorite proof assistant. Topics in scope: * General purpose libraries and tactic language extensions. * Domain-specific libraries aroud programming language formalization and verification; * Tools, in the form of IDEs, profilers, tracers, debuggers, and testing tools; * Experiment reports, general practice and experience with Coq, e.g., in an education or industry context. To foster open discussion of cutting edge research which can later be published in full conference proceedings, we will not publish papers from the workshop. However, presentations will be recorded and the videos made publicly available. Workshop Format --------------- The workshop format will be driven by you, members of the community. We will solicit abstracts for talks and proposals for demonstrations and flesh out format details based on responses. We expect the final program to include experiment reports, panel discussions, and invited talks. Talks will be selected according to relevance to the workshop, based on the submission of an extended abstract. Submission Details ------------------ * Abstract Submission : Friday, October, 23rd, 2015 * Author Notification : Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 * Workshop : Saturday, January 23rd, 2016 Submissions should be extended abstracts of 1--2 pages in portable document format (PDF). Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coqpl2016 Program Committee ----------------- Arthur Chargu?raud, Inria (chair) Adam Chlipala, MIT CSAIL Jacques Garrigue, Nagoya University Randy Pollack, Harvard University Alan Schmitt, Inria Matthieu Sozeau, Inria Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania Contact ----------------- For any queries, please contact : coqpl2016 at easychair.org. From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Fri Sep 11 11:10:37 2015 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:10:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2016 Call for Workshops Message-ID: <2B80398A-BABC-4482-BBEA-4E46CF6F16A5@dcc.fc.up.pt> [apologies for cross posting] -------------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2016 First Call for Workshops (Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction, June 2016, Porto, Portugal) -------------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2016 will be the first edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. The first FSCD will take place in Porto (Portugal), between 22 and 26 of June 2016, and will be followed by IJCAR (Coimbra, Portugal). The FSCD conference was created by the communities behind the two major conferences: * RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) * TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications) The new conference, Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction, will not only combine their scope but further extend it to cover all the inter-related formal areas that researchers in formal structures for computation and deduction engage in. Our community believes that these fields have evolved and developed richer connections with many both practical and theoretical aspects of computer science and logic research since the creation of RTA in 1983 and TLCA in 1993. The FSCD 2016 organising committee invites proposals for satellite events that are related to topics covered by FSCD. FSCD aims to cover all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. We encourage submissions in both the areas traditionally covered by RTA and TLCA as well as any of the new topics in the list available from: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~bpientka/fscd16.html . Workshops are expected to run for up to two days (possibilities of longer workshops should be discussed with the organisers). Attendance to workshops is open to participants of parallel events. We plan to schedule workshops in the last two days of the event, with one day (Sunday, June 26, 2016) reserved for workshops only. However, it will also be possible to run workshops on the other days in parallel with the main conference. Proposals should be submitted as a PDF file, containing the following information: * Workshop title, description of the topic and its relevance to FSCD * Names and affiliations of the organisers * Pointers to information about past editions of the event (if applicable) * Proposed workshop duration (from one day to two days) an proposed format (for example, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) * Plans for invited speakers or special sessions (round-table discussion, tutorials, etc.) * Estimate on the number of participants * Procedures for selecting papers and participants and plans for the publication of proceedings (informal proceedings distributed to participants, electronic journal, proceedings with separate selection process, etc.) * Tentative schedule for paper submission, notification of acceptance and final versions for the (informal pre-)proceedings (the FSCD 2016 organising committee will need the final files by June 1, 2016) * A brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website and other publicity material of FSCD 2016 * Other potential organisational issues, such as special space requirements, etc. The organisers of FSCD 2016 satellite events are expected to: * Create and maintain a website for the event * Deal with all the matters related to the event's programme, such as: form a PC; produce a call for papers for the event (if appropriate); review the submissions received; make acceptance decisions; appoint session chairs, etc * Advertise the event through specialist mailing lists etc. to complement the publicity of FSCD 2016 * Prepare the informal pre-proceedings for the event (if applicable) as well as the event's programme, complying with the scheduling constraints given by the FSCD 2016 organising committee * Prepare and organise the publication of formal (post)proceedings (if desired). The FSCD 2016 organising committee will: * Promote the event on the website and in the publicity material of FSCD 2016 * Deal with the scheduling and integration of the event's program into the overall program of the conference * Deal with the registration for the event as a component of registration for FSCD * Produce and distribute a USB memory stick containing the informal (pre)proceedings of the satellite events * Provide the event with a meeting room of an appropriate size, A/V equipment, coffee breaks and lunch(es). Since the priority of FSCD will be to keep registration fees for the conferences and workshops low, we will not be able to reimburse invited workshop speakers for travel or living expenses, although we anticipate waiving the registration fees for invited speakers. Submission: Proposals to organise a satellite event for FSCD 2016, should be submitted by email to fscd2016 at dcc.fc.up.pt , or directly to the Workshop Chair, Sabine Broda (sbb at dcc.fc.up.pt ). Important Dates: Submission of workshop proposals: October 31, 2015 Notification date: November 15, 2015 Workshop dates: June 22-26, 2016 For any additional information on FSCD please consult the conference webpages: http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt http://fscdconference.org FSCD 2016 Conference Chair Sandra Alves http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~sandra/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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IMPORTANT DATES 30 November 2015: paper submission 28 February 2016: 1st round reviews 30 April 2016: submission of the revised version 30 June 2016: 2nd round reviews 31 August 2016: submission of the final version TOPICS OF INTEREST We solicit original papers or extended/modified versions of conference 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 SUBMISSION We expect original articles (typically 20-30 pages; submission of larger papers will be evaluated depending on editorial constraints) that present high-quality contributions, which have not previously been published and that are also not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least three reviewers. Such articles can be extended/modified versions of conference papers. In that case, in accordance with the editors of JLAMP, we would appreciate it if your submission includes a clear statement of the novelty with respect to the conference version. All contributions must be written in English, must be submitted in PDF format and must comply with JLAMP's author instructions (the manuscripts should be prepared using Elsevier's elsart.cls LaTeX article class) which can be retrieved from the journal's homepage: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-logical-and-algebraic-methods-in-programming/ Submissions are handled using the Elsevier Editorial System and can be uploaded via the aforementioned JLAMP homepage. In the submission process, the authors must select article type ?SI: WWV2015". GUEST EDITORS Maurice H. ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From damiani at di.unito.it Mon Sep 14 05:57:58 2015 From: damiani at di.unito.it (Ferruccio Damiani) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:57:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc positions in Formal Methods, University of Torino Message-ID: <55F69A26.3060807@di.unito.it> Two post-doctoral positions are available at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Torino. 1) Topic: Formal methods for software modeling, verification and reuse Duration: 17 months Starting date: January 1, 2016 2) Topic: Formal methods for the Internet of Things Duration: 12 months Starting date: January 1, 2016 Both the positions will participate in the research group for System Modelling, Verification and Reuse (http://di.unito.it/movere). The ideal candidates would have a background in formal methods and/or software product-line engineering. Contact for inquiries or applications (preferably NO LATER THAN *October 5*): - Prof. Ferruccio Damiani (damiani at di.unito.it) Please forward this email to possible applicants. -- Prof. Dr. Ferruccio Damiani Universit? degli Studi di Torino |Phone: (+39) 011 670 6719 Dipartimento di Informatica |Fax : (+39) 011 75 16 03 C.so Svizzera 185 |Email: damiani at di.unito.it I-10149 Torino, Italy |URL : http://www.di.unito.it/~damiani From jhr at cs.uchicago.edu Mon Sep 14 07:54:56 2015 From: jhr at cs.uchicago.edu (John Reppy) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:54:56 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [PADL 2016] Final call for papers (Deadline extended) Message-ID: <586D13D4-E309-4FE2-A6BF-6382E2850497@cs.uchicago.edu> Call for Papers =============== 18th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2016) http://conf.researchr.org/home/PADL-2016 St. Petersburg, Florida, United States Mon 18 - Tue 19 January 2016 Co-located with ACM POPL 2016 Conference Description ====================== Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to many different real-world situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative applications of declarative languages * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications * Practical applications of theoretical results * New language developments and their impact on applications * Declarative languages and software engineering * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications * Practical experiences and industrial applications * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom * Practical extensions such as constraint-based, probabilistic, and reactive languages. PADL 2016 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages. PADL 2016 will be co-located with the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2016), in St. Petersburg, Florida (USA). Important Dates and Submission Guidelines ========================================= Abstract submission: September 18, 2015 Paper submission: September 27, 2015 Notification: October 21, 2015 Camera-ready: November 10, 2015 Symposium: January 18-19, 2016 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF using the Springer LNCS format. The submission will be done through EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=padl2016 All submissions must be original work written in English. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted but the authors should notify the program chair about the place on which it has previously appeared. PADL 2016 will accept both technical and application papers: * Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. Technical papers must not exceed 15 pages (plus one page of references) in Springer LNCS format. * Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 8 pages in Springer LNCS format but such papers can also point to sites with supplemental information about the application or the system that they describe. The proceedings of PADL 2016 will appear in the LNCS series of Springer Verlag. Up to two best papers accepted for publication at PADL'16 will be invited to submit an extended version to the journal "Theory and Practice of Logic Programming" for rapid publication. The extended version should contain at least 30% new content compared to the published conference paper. In the case of rapid publications the extra material should consist of extensions of the existing material, such as proofs, further experimental results, implementation details and such like. Papers containing substantial revision and new results compared to the conference paper should be submitted as regular articles as normal. Authors invited to submit a rapid publication should confirm that such extra material is available. Program Committee ================= - Mario Alviano, University of Calabria (Italy) - Lars Bergstrom, Mozilla Research (USA) - Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews (UK) - Mats Carlsson, SICS (Sweden) - Manuel Carro, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and IMDEA Software Institute (Spain) - Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) - Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm (Germany) - Marco Gavanelli, University of Ferrara (Italy) - Geoffrey Mainland, Drexel University (USA) - Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University (USA) - John Reppy, University of Chicago (USA) - Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto (Portugal) - Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam (Germany) - Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven (Belgium) - Paul Tarau, University of North Texas (USA) - Niki Vazou, Univesrity of California, San Diego (USA) - Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Microsoft Research - Daniel Winograd-Cort, Yale University (USA) - Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center (USA) - Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo (USA) Contacts ======== For additional information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chairs: Marco Gavanelli and John Reppy University of Ferrara University of Chicago Italy USA http://docente.unife.it/marco.gavanelli http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr email: padl2016 at easychair.org From bernhard at sussex.ac.uk Mon Sep 14 09:33:10 2015 From: bernhard at sussex.ac.uk (Bernhard Reus) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:33:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] (Senior) Lecturer Position at Sussex Message-ID: <2F416001-7F99-4251-9F4E-DB4C5E871391@sussex.ac.uk> The Department of Informatics at Sussex (Foundations of Software Systems Group) is hiring a (permanent) Lecturer or Senior Lecturer/Reader. The group?s members are mainly into theory and/or networking. All details at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/352 Deadline is October 7th. Best, Bernhard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Sep 14 11:51:08 2015 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:51:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2016 Call for Workshops Message-ID: <59DCD39D-B87C-4EA5-8942-A656EEB1C917@dcc.fc.up.pt> [apologies for cross posting] -------------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2016 First Call for Workshops (Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction, June 2016, Porto, Portugal) -------------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2016 will be the first edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. The first FSCD will take place in Porto (Portugal), between 22 and 26 of June 2016, and will be followed by IJCAR (Coimbra, Portugal). The FSCD conference was created by the communities behind the two major conferences: * RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) * TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications) The new conference, Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction, will not only combine their scope but further extend it to cover all the inter-related formal areas that researchers in formal structures for computation and deduction engage in. Our community believes that these fields have evolved and developed richer connections with many both practical and theoretical aspects of computer science and logic research since the creation of RTA in 1983 and TLCA in 1993. The FSCD 2016 organising committee invites proposals for satellite events that are related to topics covered by FSCD. FSCD aims to cover all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. We encourage submissions in both the areas traditionally covered by RTA and TLCA as well as any of the new topics in the list available from: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~bpientka/fscd16.html . Workshops are expected to run for up to two days (possibilities of longer workshops should be discussed with the organisers). Attendance to workshops is open to participants of parallel events. We plan to schedule workshops in the last two days of the event, with one day (Sunday, June 26, 2016) reserved for workshops only. However, it will also be possible to run workshops on the other days in parallel with the main conference. Proposals should be submitted as a PDF file, containing the following information: * Workshop title, description of the topic and its relevance to FSCD * Names and affiliations of the organisers * Pointers to information about past editions of the event (if applicable) * Proposed workshop duration (from one day to two days) an proposed format (for example, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) * Plans for invited speakers or special sessions (round-table discussion, tutorials, etc.) * Estimate on the number of participants * Procedures for selecting papers and participants and plans for the publication of proceedings (informal proceedings distributed to participants, electronic journal, proceedings with separate selection process, etc.) * Tentative schedule for paper submission, notification of acceptance and final versions for the (informal pre-)proceedings (the FSCD 2016 organising committee will need the final files by June 1, 2016) * A brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website and other publicity material of FSCD 2016 * Other potential organisational issues, such as special space requirements, etc. The organisers of FSCD 2016 satellite events are expected to: * Create and maintain a website for the event * Deal with all the matters related to the event's programme, such as: form a PC; produce a call for papers for the event (if appropriate); review the submissions received; make acceptance decisions; appoint session chairs, etc * Advertise the event through specialist mailing lists etc. to complement the publicity of FSCD 2016 * Prepare the informal pre-proceedings for the event (if applicable) as well as the event's programme, complying with the scheduling constraints given by the FSCD 2016 organising committee * Prepare and organise the publication of formal (post)proceedings (if desired). The FSCD 2016 organising committee will: * Promote the event on the website and in the publicity material of FSCD 2016 * Deal with the scheduling and integration of the event's program into the overall program of the conference * Deal with the registration for the event as a component of registration for FSCD * Produce and distribute a USB memory stick containing the informal (pre)proceedings of the satellite events * Provide the event with a meeting room of an appropriate size, A/V equipment, coffee breaks and lunch(es). Since the priority of FSCD will be to keep registration fees for the conferences and workshops low, we will not be able to reimburse invited workshop speakers for travel or living expenses, although we anticipate waiving the registration fees for invited speakers. Submission: Proposals to organise a satellite event for FSCD 2016, should be submitted by email to fscd2016 at dcc.fc.up.pt , or directly to the Workshop Chair, Sabine Broda (sbb at dcc.fc.up.pt ). Important Dates: Submission of workshop proposals: October 31, 2015 Notification date: November 15, 2015 Workshop dates: June 22-26, 2016 For any additional information on FSCD please consult the conference webpages: http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt http://fscdconference.org FSCD 2016 Conference Chair Sandra Alves http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~sandra/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Mon Sep 14 11:58:05 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:58:05 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2015 post-proceedings open call for papers Message-ID: <20150914185805.193dee18@duality> Open call for papers Post-proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2015 Tallinn, Estonia, 18-21 May 2015 BACKGROUND TYPES is a major forum for presenting research on all aspects of type theory and its applications. TYPES 2015 was held 18-21 May 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia. A post-proceedings volume will be published in LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics), an open-access series of conference proceedings. http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics Submission to this post-proceedings volume is open to everyone, so also those who did not participate in the conference or did not talk. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type theory to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on topics from the following list: 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. IMPORTANT DATES Non-binding intents to submit a paper: (by submitting (a placeholder for) an abstract) 2 October 2015 Papers due: 27 November 2015 Final notifications: 27 May 2016 DETAILS * Papers must be formatted with lipics.cls and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs. http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/ * The recommended length of a paper is 15-25 pages. Submissions significantly longer than 25 pages will not be considered. * Papers must be submitted in pdf through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types15postproceedin * Authors have the option to attach to their submission a zip or tgz file containing code (formalized proofs or programs), but reviewers are not obliged to take those attachments into account and they will not be published. EDITOR Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia From marcel at ru.is Mon Sep 14 14:02:54 2015 From: marcel at ru.is (Marcel Kyas) Date: 14 Sep 2015 18:02:54 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reminder, deadline is next week. iFM 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland: Final Call for Workshops Message-ID: <188e90$23rha@mx02-internal.ru.is> ****************************************************************************** 12th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods, iFM 2016 http://ifm2016.ru.is June 1-5, 2016 - Reykjavik, Iceland ****************************************************************************** *** Extended deadline *** CALL FOR AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS ============================= Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be affiliated to iFM 2016, on topics related to the conferences main subjects. Important Dates --------------- Submission of workshop proposals: by September 21, 2015 (extended) Notification: by Oktober 5, 2015 (extended) Workshops: June 4-5, 2016 Submission via e-mail --------------------- Marcel Kyas - Workshop chair Wojciech Mostowski - Workshop chair About iFM --------- iFM 2016 is concerned with how the application of formal methods may involve modelling different aspects of a system which are best expressed using different formalisms. Correspondingly, different analysis techniques may be used to examine different system views, different kinds of properties, or simply in order to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modelling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding modelling and analysis, and covering all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice. One day workshops will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective workshop organizers are requested to follow the guidelines below and are encouraged to contact the workshop chairs if any questions arise. The following speakers are invited to iFM2016: * Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) * Edmund M. Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Laura Kov?cs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Reiner H?hnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application. The workshops take place on June 4-5, 2016. Proposal and Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------- Workshop proposals must be written in English, not exceed 5 pages with a reasonable font and margins, and be submitted in PDF format via email to Marcel Kyas (marcel at ru.is). Proposals should include: * The name and the preferred date 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 publicity strategy that will be used by the workshop organizers to promote the workshop. * The participant solicitation and selection process. * The target audience and expected number of participants. * Approximate budget proposal (see section Budget below for details). * The equipment and any other resource necessary for the organization of the workshop. * 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/...). Organizers Responsibilities --------------------------- The scientific responsibility of organizing a workshop goes to the workshop organizers. In particular, they are responsible for the following items: * A workshop description (200 words) for inclusion n the iFM site. * Hosting and maintaining web pages to be linked from the iFM site. Workshop organizers can integrate their pages into the main iFM pages. * Workshop proceedings, if any. If there is sufficient interest, the organizer of iFM 2016 may contact the editor-in-chief of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://info.eptcs.org/) for having a common volume dedicated to the workshops of iFM 2016. * Workshop publicity (possibly including call for papers, submission and review process). * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the iFM workshop chair. If you intend to organize a workshop but you need more time to prepare your proposal please let us know. Please note that as the number of tourists travelling to Iceland in summer time is exceeding its population, we need to know the number of participants before March 23 to be able to reserve accommodation. We cannot guarantee accomodation for participants that register after March 23. Budget ------ The iFM organization will provide registration and organizational support for the workshops (including link from the conferences web sites, set-up of meeting space, on-line and on-site registration). Registration fees must be paid for all participants, including organizers and invited guests. To cover lunches, coffee breaks and basic organizational expenses, all workshops will be required to charge a minimum participation fee (the precise amount is still to be determined). Each workshop may increase this fee to cover additional expenses such as publication charges, student scholarships, costs for invited speakers, etc. All fees will be collected by the iFM organizers as part of the registration, then additional funds will be redistributed to the individual workshop organizers. Evaluation Process ------------------ The proposals will be evaluated by the iFM organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of iFM 2016. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages of previous satellite events as examples: * iFM 2014: http://ifm2014.cs.unibo.it/workshops.html * iFM 2013: http://www.it.abo.fi/iFM2013/workshops_and_tutorials.php * iFM 2012: http://ifm-abz.isti.cnr.it/styled-4/speakers.html * iFM 2010: http://ifm2010.loria.fr/satellite.html * iFM 2009: http://www.formal-methods.de/ifm09/workshops.html Venue ----- iFM 2016 will take place at the Campus of Reykjavik University, Iceland. The campus at Reykjavik University is set in one of the most beautiful areas next to Iceland's only geothermal beach. The building has well equipped classrooms. Further Information and Enquiries --------------------------------- Please contact the workshop chair Marcel Kyas From gadducci at di.unipi.it Mon Sep 14 19:35:59 2015 From: gadducci at di.unipi.it (Fabio Gadducci) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 01:35:59 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HaPoC 2015: Final Call for Participation Message-ID: <1C46A8E7-2542-4001-8E43-3481DD4FEC77@di.unipi.it> Final Call For Participation HaPoC 2015: 3rd International CONFERENCE on the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY of COMPUTING October 8-11, 2015, Pisa, Italy http://hapoc2015.di.unipi.it *** Early Registration extended until September 20, 2015 ! *** **** Now the program is available at http://goo.gl/QVJFqv **** This is an invitation to attend the 3rd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2015). The conference brings together researchers interested in the historical developments of computers and their sciences, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape. The conference is composed of 30 research presentations, with no parallels sessions, and 6 invited talks from renowned experts in the relevant fields. The conference will take place in Pisa, the cradle of Italian computer science: here the first Italian computers were designed in the mid-Fifties and the first Master course in informatics was established in 1969. The Museum of Computing Machinery (Museo degli Strumenti per il Calcolo), part of the University of Pisa, shows some artefacts from the early days of Italian CS, as well a selection of personal computing machines. Besides its artistic attractions, among them the world-famous leaning tower, during the days of the conference Pisa will host the Internet Festival, devoted to all the aspects of the net (http://www.internetfestival.it ) Invited speakers ------------------- Nicola Angius, Universita' di Sassari Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University David Alan Grier, IEEE & George Washington University Furio Honsell, Universita' di Udine Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS & Universite' Paris-Sorbonne Franck Varenne, Universite' de Rouen Visit http://goo.gl/ubgl2E for the list of abstracts. Accepted Talks --------------- The list of accepted abstracts can be found at http://goo.gl/BTJsTC Venue ------ The conference will take place in Pisa, at the Museum of Computing Machinery. Additional information can be found at http://goo.gl/APJPff Registration information -------------------------- Registration is required to attend. 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This is however an open call for papers and everyone is invited to submit. *** Important Dates *** Submission of papers: November 15, 2015 First round reviews: February 28, 2016 Revision due: April 30, 2016 Acceptance notification: May 31, 2016 Final manuscript due: June 30, 2016 Submission of the final version: August 31, 2016 *** Aims and Scope *** This special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming is devoted to the theory and applications of metamodels, i.e. framework theories which provide general, structural results simplifying and driving the analysis and development of specific models of systems and languages. Metamodels include algebraic effects, algebraic/bialgebraic specifications, bigraphical reactive systems, coalgebras, concurrent logical frameworks, monads, psi-calculus, SOS formats, term and graph transformation systems, tile models, ULTraS and FuTS, etc. We solicit contributions about theoretical results, tool implementations, real-world applications, case studies, new application areas, integration of meta-models with programming languages, etc. *** Submission Guidelines *** We expect original submissions of 20-30 pages, which present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published in another journal and that are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Longer papers will be considered depending on editorial constraints; prospective authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least three reviewers. The authors will have time to incorporate the comments of the reviewers and submit a revised version of their papers, which will be evaluated again by the reviewers to make a final decision. Such articles can be extended/modified versions of conference papers; in that case, in accordance with the editors of JLAMP, including a clear statement of the novelty with respect to the conference version would be appreciated. Submissions will be handled through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) and can be uploaded from the JLAMP webpage (http://ees.elsevier.com/jlamp/). Authors must select "SI: MEMO 2015" when they reach the "Choose Article Type" step in the submission process. Contributions should be typeset in PDF format and comply with the JLAMP author guidelines. Accepted manuscripts can be posted to arXiv. *** Guest Editors *** Thomas Hildebrandt - IT University, Copehagen Marino Miculan - University of Udine, Italy -- Marino Miculan - Dept Math Compu Sci, University of Udine marino.miculan at uniud.it http://www.dimi.uniud.it/miculan/ From cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org Tue Sep 15 08:05:11 2015 From: cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org (Cristina Pereira) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:05:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECSS 2015 - One month to go! Today Deadline Early Registration Message-ID: <55F80977.6040807@informatics-europe.org> *11th European Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2015 -* *"Informatics in the future ? in the year 2025"* *13?14 October 2015, Vienna, Austria* *Final Conference Program * ** ***Pre-Summit Workshops on 12 October 2015 * *Registration - Early Bird Deadline Today! * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleagues, With a little bit less than a month to go, *today is your last chance* to take advantage of the *early bird registration fee for the ECSS 2015* in Vienna, October 12-14. Everything is lined up to make this once more an outstanding event that nobody with a stake in the future of Informatics in Europe can afford to miss. This year?s Summit features eminent speakers from amongst the world?s most distinguished academics and thought leaders in the field - all adding their unique perspective on *"Informatics in the future"*. Topics such as ethics and societal impact, the identity of Informatics as a science in relation to other disciplines, funding and academic management matters etc will be debated during these three days by inspiring and influential speakers. In connection with the artistic and musical traditions of the host city Vienna, the conference will have very special opening and closing events this year. On Monday evening, ECSS participants will be invited to attend two talks at the ARTEMATICA 2015, Wolfgang Pauli Lectures, an interdisciplinary event at the Vienna K?nstlerhaus linking mathematics and computer science with the arts, in particular, with visual arts and music. On Wednesday evening, a special opera/keynote on the history of Ada Lovelace and the future of women in computing will be closing this year`s ECSS, which promises to be one of the most exciting ever. Join us in Vienna to stay on top of what will shape the future of Informatics! We are proud to announce the following ECSS 2015 keynote speakers: * Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC * Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin * Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano * Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology * Maarja Kruusmaa, Tallinn University of Technology * Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich * Dunja Mladeni?, University of Ljubljana * Reinhard Posch, Graz University of Technology * Britta Schinzel, University of Freiburg * Matti Tedre, Stockholm University * Moshe Vardi, Rice University **Visit the ECSS web site for the abstracts of their talks and biographies . *PRE-SUMMIT WORKSHOPS * **On Monday, October 12, 2015, 9:00 - 16:30, two special Pre-Summit Workshops**will take place in conjunction with the ECSS 2015:** ** * Pre-summit Workshop for Deans, Department Chairs and Research Directors - Chair: Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano Visit the workshop's webpage . * Pre-Summit Workshop on Experiences and Practices in MOOCs - Chairs: Uwe Egly and Hilda Tellioglu, TU Wien Visit theworkshop's webpage . ** ***CONFERENCE OPENING * We warmly invite all participants to join two talks at the *ARTEMATICA 2015 - Wolfgang Pauli Lectures* event**that will officially open the ECSS 2015 at the K?nstlerhaus (House of Austrian Artists): * 17:00 - 18:00***Gerhard Widmer* (University of Linz, Austria) - /"Con Espressione! Towards a New Level of Music Understanding in Computers"/ * 18:00 - 19:00***Peter Weibel* (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany) - "/Gotthard G?nther and the Digital Revolution"/ From 19:00 onwards, the ECSS 2015 welcome reception will be held, also at the K?nstlerhaus. *REGISTRATION * Register for the conference and Pre-Summit workshops at ECSS Registration. The deadline for early-bird registration for the conference is _*September 15*_. The deadline for registration prior to arrival is Friday, *October 9, 2015* Registration on-site is possible on Monday morning / afternoon, *October 12*, and Tuesday morning, *October 13*, at the registration desk (cash only). *VENUE/ **TRAVEL**/ACCOMMODATION * * ECSS 2015 will be held at TU Wien Main Building, Karlsplatz 13, 1040, Vienna, Austria. The University Main Building is located close to the historic center of Vienna and a few meters away from the Vienna Opera House, the Karl Church and the subway station Karlsplatz. See more details here . * TU Wien has negotiated a special conference fare with Austrian Airlines that helps you save 15 % on your flights to Vienna during the ECSS 2015. Learn more about this special offer . * Details about accommodation can be found here . The ECSS 2015 is co-chaired by Carlo Ghezzi , President of Informatics Europe, and Gerald Steinhardt , Dean of Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien. The Program Chairs are Hannes Werthner, Professor at the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien and Frank van Harmelen , Professor at the Department of Computer Science & The Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam. Visit the ECSS 2015 web site for all further information. We very much look forward to welcoming you in Vienna and hope to see many of you at the ECSS 2015! -- ------------------------------------------- Dr. Cristina Pereira Secretary General Informatics Europe Sumatrastrasse 25 8006 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 558 8542 Cell: +41 77 455 2370 ------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From manu at sridharan.net Tue Sep 15 18:49:18 2015 From: manu at sridharan.net (Manu Sridharan) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:49:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI 2016: call for papers Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Call for Contributions! ======================= 2016 ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) June 13-17, 2016 in Santa Barbara, CA http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016 PLDI is a premier forum for all areas of programming language research, including the design, implementation, theory, and efficient use of languages. PLDI seeks outstanding research that has broad appeal and spans the breadth of programming languages. *Important Dates* ======================= Research paper submissions due 20 Nov 2015 18:00 EST Author response period 11-13 Jan 2016 Author notification 20 Jan 2016 Camera-ready papers due 15 Apr 2016 18:00 EST Hotel reservation deadline 12 May 2016 18:00 EST Conference workshops/tutorials 13-14 Jun 2016 Conference 15-17 Jun 2016 *Author Instructions* ======================= http://conf.researchr.org/track/pldi-2016/pldi-2016-papers#Instructions-for-Authors Submission site: https://pldi16.hotcrp.com/ *Organizing Committee* ======================= General Chair: Chandra Krintz, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Program Chair: Emery Berger, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst Artifact Evaluation Chair: John Regehr, Univ. of Utah Student Research Competition and Volunteers Chair: Ben Hardekopf, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Publicity Chair: Manu Sridharan, Samsung Research America Sponsorship Chair: Tiark Rompf, Purdue Univ. and Oracle Labs Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue Univ. *Important Links* ======================= PLDI Steering Committee: http://www.sigplan.org/Conferences/PLDI/ PLDI Web Page: http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016 -- --Manu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Thu Sep 17 08:29:57 2015 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:29:57 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty position at Penn in Formal Methods In-Reply-To: <55DCA603.1080803@cis.upenn.edu> References: <55DCA603.1080803@cis.upenn.edu> Message-ID: <9D92FE90-F143-493A-98C7-4B49A0EC85CF@cis.upenn.edu> The Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania (http://www.cis.upenn.edu) is recruiting faculty for Fall 2016, with Formal Methods as a priority area. We are particularly interested in junior researchers whose prior work focuses on either security or embedded systems and who will complement our existing strengths in cyber-physical systems (http://precise.seas.upenn.edu/) and programming languages (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~plclub/). To apply, please visit https://facultysearches.provost.upenn.edu/postings/663 From anupamdotdas at gmail.com Fri Sep 18 08:31:13 2015 From: anupamdotdas at gmail.com (Anupam Das) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:31:13 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP Workshop on Efficient and Natural Proof Systems, Bath, 14-16 December, 2015. Message-ID: <55FC0411.9060702@gmail.com> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PARTICIPATION Workshop on EFFICIENT AND NATURAL PROOF SYSTEMS University of Bath 14-16 December, 2015 The Mathematical Foundations group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, will host a two-day workshop on structural proof theory this December. We are seeking talks on ongoing or completed work on various aspects of structural proof theory, including but not limited to the following topics: - deep inference proof theory - algebraic, combinatorial and geometric representations of proofs - proof compression - normalisation of proofs - proof checking - proof search - complexity of proofs - computational interpretations of proofs There will be no fee or formal registration for the workshop and anyone is welcome to attend. There is some funding for students and postdocs (please ask). Informal enquiries can be made to . CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) Roy Dyckhoff (St Andrews) Alessio Guglielmi (Bath) Tom Gundersen (Red Hat) Dale Miller (INRIA) Georg Moser (Innsbruck) Michel Parigot (PPS, Paris) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Torino) Luca Roversi (Torino) COURSE ON DEEP INFERENCE (14 December from 14:00 to 18:30) Deep inference is a modern proof theory offering a better understanding of proofs and extending the range of applications of traditional Gentzen proof theory. We offer three graduate level lectures for students and researchers who are already acquainted with the basics of Gentzen proof theory. - Principles (Alessio Guglielmi, Bath) - Normalisation (Paola Bruscoli, Bath) - Complexity (Anupam Das, ENS Lyon) DEADLINES AND AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS We ask potential contributors to submit an extended abstract (at most two pages in any style) at the following submission page: . Deadline for submission: 4th October 2015 Notification to authors: 25th October 2015 There will be no proceedings. ORGANISING AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Paola Bruscoli (Bath) Anupam Das (ENS Lyon) Willem Heijltjes (Bath) Lutz Stra?burger (INRIA) VENUE Room 1W 2.103, University of Bath. CHILDCARE The University of Bath is committed to a supportive and inclusive working environment. Childcare will be provided to workshop participants or their children if required. If you need this service, please contact us at . ACCESSIBILITY If you have requests concerning accessibility or dietary requirements, please contact us at and we will do all we can to assist. FUNDING EPSRC Project EP/K018868/1 'Efficient and Natural Proof Systems' . From fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr Fri Sep 18 10:19:55 2015 From: fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr (fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:19:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2016 : First Call for Papers Message-ID: <20150918141955.9263E1EB26C@jabiru.ens-lyon.fr> Call for Papers 13th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'16) 2 - 3 April 2016, Eindhoven, the Netherlands http://www.coalg.org/cmcs16 Objectives and scope ------------------- Established in 1998, the CMCS workshops aim to bring together researchers with a common interest in the theory of coalgebras, their logics, and their applications. As the workshop series strives to maintain breadth in its scope, areas of interest include neighbouring fields as well. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - The theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical approaches) - Coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for programming languages, dynamical systems, term rewriting, etc.) - Coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming - Model checking, theorem proving and deductive verification using coalgebraic techniques - Coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing - Proof principles and (coinductive) definitions for coalgebras (e.g. with bisimulations or invariants) - Coalgebras and algebras - Coalgebraic specification and verification - Coalgebras and (modal) logic - Coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems) - Coalgebra in quantum computing - Coalgebra and game theory - Tools exploiting colgebraic techniques Venue and event --------------- CMCS'16 will be held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, co-located with ETAPS 2016 on 2 - 3 April 2016. Keynote Speaker --------------- Jiri Adamek, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany Invited Speakers --------------- Andreas Abel, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Filippo Bonchi, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France Special Session --------------- There will be a special session on weighted automata, organized by Borja Balle, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Alexandra Silva, University College London, United Kingdom Important dates --------------- Abstract regular papers 4 January 2016 Submission regular papers 13 January 2016 Notification regular papers 12 February 2016 Camera-ready copy 19 February 2016 Submission short contributions 22 February 2016 Notification short contributions 6 March 2016 Programme committee ------------------- Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Ichiro Hasuo (chair), University of Tokyo, Japan Tom Hirschowitz, CNRS and University of Savoie, France Bart Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Shin-ya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, Poland Barbara Koenig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Stefan Milius, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Matteo Mio, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Rasmus Mogelberg, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Larry Moss, Indiana University, United States Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Dirk Pattinson, Australian National University, Australia Daniela Petrisan, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Jean-Eric Pin, CNRS and Paris Diderot University, France John Power, University of Bath, United Kingdom Jurriaan Rot, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Jan Rutten, CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Alexandra Silva, University College London, United Kingdom Joost Winter, University of Warsaw, Poland James Worrell, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Publicity chair --------------- Fabio Zanasi, ENS Lyon, France PC chair -------- Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, Japan Submission guidelines --------------------- We solicit two types of contributions: regular papers and short contributions. Regular papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They should not exceed 20 pages in length in Springer LNCS style. Short contributions may describe work in progress, or summarise work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere. They should be no more than two pages. Regular papers and short contributions should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcs2016. The proceedings of CMCS 2016 will include all accepted regular papers and will be published post-conference as a Springer volume in the IFIP-LNCS series. Accepted short contributions will be bundled in a technical report. From davide.ancona at unige.it Mon Sep 21 21:08:34 2015 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:08:34 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OOPS track at SAC 2016: deadline extended to September 28th Message-ID: <5600AA12.4040005@unige.it> =========================================================================== ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: September 28th ***** =========================================================================== OOPS 2016 Call for Papers Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS16 Technical Track at the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2016 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016 April 4-8, 2016 Pisa, Italy - Important Dates Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts *September 28, 2015* (extended strict deadline) Notification of regular papers (and posters) and SRC acceptance/rejection November 13, 2015 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers December 11, 2015 Author registration due date December 18, 2015 SAC 2016 April 4 - 8, 2016 - Track Chair Davide Ancona (davide.ancona at unige.it) DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy - SAC 2016 For the past thirty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be hosted by the University of Pisa, and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University, Italy. - Call For Student Research Abstracts: Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit original abstracts of their research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2016 Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researcher and practitioners in their areas of interest. - OOPS Track Object-oriented programming (OOP) has become the mainstream programming paradigm for developing complex software systems in most application domains. However, existing OO languages and platforms need to evolve to meet the continuous demand for new abstractions, features, and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of creating object-oriented software systems, and improving their performance, quality and usability. To this aim, OOPS is seeking for research advances bringing benefits in all those typical aspects of software development, such as modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, concurrency and distribution, code generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation. The specific OO related topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: * Aspects and components * Code generation, and optimization, just-in-time compilation * Context-oriented programming * Databases and persistence * Distribution and concurrency * Dynamic and scripting languages * Evaluation * Feature Oriented Software Development and Programming * Formal verification * Integration with other paradigms * Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation * Language design and implementation * Modular and generic programming * Reflection, meta-programming * Runtime verification * Secure and dependable software * Static analysis * Testing and debugging * Type systems and type inference * Virtual machines OOPS offers a great opportunity to the OOP community to gain visibility, and to exploit the inter-disciplinary nature of SAC. - Submission Instructions Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2016 home page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016). Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Full papers are limited to 6 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages at extra charge (80 USD per page). Posters are limited to 3 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page at extra charge (80 USD). Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by *September 28, 2015* (extended strict deadline). For more information please visit the SAC 2016 home page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016). - Proceedings Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Please note that full registration is required for papers and posters to be included in the conference proceedings and CD. An author or a proxy attending SAC *must* present the paper. This is a requirement for including the work in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Student registration is only intended to encourage student attendance and does not cover inclusion of papers/posters in the conference proceedings. Finally, following the tradition of the past OOPS editions, depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, after the conference authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue. From francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it Tue Sep 22 03:26:26 2015 From: francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it (Francesco Tiezzi) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:26:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SAC:CM 2016 - Additional extension of submission deadline to Sep 28 Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] ************************************************************************************** The deadline for paper submission has been extended to September 28th, 2015 ************************************************************************************** Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Special Track of the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'16) http://sac2016.apice.unibo.it April 4 - 8, 2016 Pisa, Italy ************************************************************************************** Building on the success of the sixteenth previous editions (1998-2015), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2016. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of possibly heterogeneous components (processes, objects, agents, services) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a distributed software system with desired characteristics and functionalities. This is done in terms of coordination abstractions, languages, algorithms, mechanisms, and middleware specifically focused on the management of component interaction. The coordination paradigm crosscuts a number of contemporary software engineering approaches and fields, which we aim to cross-fertilize and bring contribution to, including in particular: multi-agent systems, self-adaptative and self-organising systems, business process management, service-oriented architectures, component-based systems, and all related middleware platforms. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include: - Novel models, languages, formalisms, programming and implementation techniques - Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures - Applications - Middleware platforms - Formal aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification) - Software architectures and software engineering techniques - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Internet, Web, Internet of Things, and pervasive computing systems coordination - Languages for service description and composition - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making - All aspects related to Cooperative Information Systems (e.g. workflow management, CSCW) - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages - Self-organising, self-adaptive and nature-inspired coordination approaches - Relationship with other computational models such as object-oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or their extensions with coordination capabilities - Coordination models and specification in Service-Oriented Architectures, Web Service technologies (orchestration, choreography, etc.), Pervasive Computing, Cloud Computing and Autonomic Computing - Business Process modelling and verification - Policy-based approaches to coordination and self-adaptation We also welcome papers on practical systems or novel applications that are aimed at reaching coordination between components and services, especially if those systems and novel applications challenge existing ideas and models. In previous editions, CM Special Track organisers have been inviting authors of selected papers for Special Issues in high impact journals, such as, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) and Science of Computer Programming (SCP). ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Sep 28, 2015: Submission of papers and SRC research abstracts (Extended) Nov 13, 2015: Author notification Dec 11, 2015: Camera-Ready Copy Dec 18, 2015: Author registration ------------------------ Program Co-Chairs ------------------------ Mirko Viroli Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy http://mirkoviroli.apice.unibo.it email: mirko.viroli at unibo.it Francesco Tiezzi University of Camerino, Italy http://tiezzi.unicam.it/ email: francesco.tiezzi@ unicam.it ---------------------------------------- Program Committee Members ---------------------------------------- Farhad Arbab, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, Netherlands Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA Olivier Boissier, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Rocco De Nicola, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneve, Switzerland Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Raymond Hu, Imperial College London, UK Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA eva Kuehn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Hung La, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Michele Loreti, University of Firenze, Italy Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Antonio Porto, University of Porto, Portugal Rosario Pugliese, University of Firenze, Italy Antonio Ravara, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Yasuyuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan George Wells, Rhodes University, South Africa Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy --------------------- Proceedings --------------------- Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2016 proceedings and in the Digital Library. ------------------------------------- Paper submission and format ------------------------------------- All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that currently are not under review in any conference or journal. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Submitted papers must be in the ACM two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). The length of the papers is 6 pages (included in the registration) plus up to 2 extra pages (at extra charge), i.e. total 8 pages maximum. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Submission is entirely automated via the STAR Submission System, which is available from the main SAC Web Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. ------------------------- Poster Sessions ------------------------- Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Poster should be not longer than 3 pages (included in the registration) plus 1 extra page (at extra charge), i.e. total 4 pages maximum. The poster session procedures and details will be posted on SAC 2016 website as soon as they become available. ------------------------------------------------ Student research abstracts competition ------------------------------------------------ Graduate students are invited to submit Student Research Competition (SRC) abstracts (maximum of 2 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at SAC 2016 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts (up to 20 students) will have the opportunity to give poster and oral presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. 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URL: From rim.abid at inria.fr Tue Sep 22 06:06:32 2015 From: rim.abid at inria.fr (rim.abid at inria.fr) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:06:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Software Verification and Testing Track, ACM SAC 2016 (Pisa, Italy) - Final CFP Message-ID: <201509221006.t8MA6W3X008232@adret.inrialpes.fr> ================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM SAC-SVT 2016 ** Submission Extended to Sep. 28 ** 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Software Verification and Testing Track April 3 - 8, 2016, Pisa, Italy More information: http://antares.sip.ucm.es/svt16/ and http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/ =================================================== Important dates --------------- * September 28, 2015: Paper submission (EXTENDED DEADLINE) * November 13, 2015: Paper notification * December 11, 2015: Camera-Ready Copies ACM Symposium on Applied Computing ---------------------------------- The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has gathered scientists from different areas of computing over the thirty years. The forum represents an opportunity to interact with different communities sharing an interest in applied computing. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be hosted by the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University, Italy Software Verification and Testing Track --------------------------------------- We invite authors to submit new results in formal verification and testing, as well as development of technologies to improve the usability of formal methods in software engineering. Also welcome are detailed descriptions of applications of mechanical verification to large scale software. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - model checking - theorem proving - correct by construction development - model-based testing - verification-based testing - symbolic execution - static and run-time analysis - abstract interpretation - analysis methods for dependable systems - software certification and proof carrying code - fault diagnosis and debugging - verification of large scale software systems - real world applications and case studies applying software verification Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in electronic format, via the START site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/Paper-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. Submitted paper will undergo a blind review process. Authors of accepted papers should submit an editorial revision of their papers that fits within six two-column pages (an extra two pages, to a total of eight pages, may be available at a charge). Please comply to this page limitation already at submission time. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2016 proceedings. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of papers, posters, or SRC abstracts in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the work. This is a requirement for the presented work to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. A special issue of Journal of Systems and Software has been confirmed. Selected papers will be invited for submission, and will be peer-reviewed according to the standard policy of Journal of Systems and Software. Student Research Competition ---------------------------- As before, SAC 2016 organises a Student Research Competition (SRC) Program to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Guidelines and information about the SRC program can be found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. Submission to the SRC program should be in electronic form via the following website http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/SRC-SubmissionUploadPage.htm Program Committee ----------------- Rui Abreu, University of Porto, Portugal Cristiano Braga, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Ana Cavalli, National Institute of Telecommunications, France Byoungju Choi, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea Maximiliano Cristi?, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Khaled El-Fakih, American University of Sharjah, UAE Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Maria del mar Gallardo, University of Malaga, Spain Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tingting Han, University of London, UK Klaus Havelund, Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Ralf Huuck, UNSW, Australia Nikolai Kosmatov, CEA, France Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany Luis Llana, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jasen Markovski, R&D group, GN Resound Benelux, The Netherlands Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Brian Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Peter Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Adenilso Simao, ICMC/USP, Brazil Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Tanja Vos, Valencia University, Spain Carsten Weise, Imbus AG, Germany Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Nina Yevtushenko, Tomsk State University, Russia Cemal Yilmaz, Sabanci University, Turkey Fatiha Zaidi, Univ. Paris-Sud, France Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Committee Chairs ----------------- Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Gwen Sala?n, University of Grenoble Alpes, France From adamc at csail.mit.edu Wed Sep 23 09:02:15 2015 From: adamc at csail.mit.edu (Adam Chlipala) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:02:15 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: Certified Programs and Proofs 2016 Message-ID: <5602A2D7.4040508@csail.mit.edu> The 5th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2016) in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA January 18-19, 2016 http://people.csail.mit.edu/adamc/cpp16/ Co-located with POPL 2016 (http://conf.researchr.org/home/POPL-2016) Call for Papers =============== CPP is an international forum on theoretical and practical topics in all areas, including computer science, mathematics, and education, that consider certification as an essential paradigm for their work. Certification here means formal, mechanized verification of some sort, preferably with production of independently checkable certificates. CPP 2016 is the fifth in the CPP conference series and will be co-located with POPL 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Florida from 18-19 January 2016. Important dates --------------- Abstract submission: 7 October 2015, anywhere on Earth (11:59 pm, UTC-12) Full paper submission: 12 October 2015, anywhere on Earth (11:59 pm, UTC-12) Notification: 18 November 2015 Final versions due: 4 December 2015 Conference dates: 18-19 January 2016 Scope ----- Suggested, but not exclusive, specific topics of interest for submissions include: - certified or certifying programming, compilation, linking, OS kernels, runtime systems, and security monitors; - program logics, type systems, and semantics for certified code; - certified decision procedures, mathematical libraries, and mathematical theorems; - proof assistants and proof theory; - new languages and tools for certified programming; - program analysis, program verification, and proof-carrying code; - certified secure protocols and transactions; - certificates for decision procedures, including linear algebra, polynomial systems, SAT, SMT, and unification in algebras of interest; - certificates for semi-decision procedures, including equality, first-order logic, and higher-order unification; - certificates for program termination; - logics for certifying concurrent and distributed programs; - higher-order logics, logical systems, separation logics, and logics for security; - teaching mathematics and computer science with proof assistants. Submission instructions ----------------------- Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. The proceedings of the conference will be published by the ACM. Templates for ACM SIGPLAN format can be found on the ACM SIGPLAN website: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the EasyChair submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpp2016 Abstracts must be submitted by the deadline given above. The deadline for full papers falls one week later, and authors have the option to withdraw their papers during the window between the two. Each submission must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical and formal developments directed to the specialist should follow. If the submission reports on a computer-checked formalization, code, or the results of a computation, a link to the relevant data should be provided. References and comparisons with related work should be included. Papers not conforming to the above requirements concerning format and length may be rejected without further consideration. The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other published conferences or workshops. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance of submission. Original formal proofs of known results in mathematics or computer science are among the targets. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: 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. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) Program Committee ----------------- Jeremy Avigad (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University, US Sandrine Blazy, Universit? de Rennes 1, France Adam Chlipala (co-chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Thierry Coquand, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden John Harrison, Intel, US Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research, Redmond, US C?t?lin Hri?cu, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France Brian Huffman, Galois, Inc., US Laura Kov?cs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Peter Lammich, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Hongjin Liang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Dan Licata, Wesleyan University, US Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, US Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay and LIX, France Dominic Mulligan, Cambridge University, UK Lawrence Paulson, Cambridge University, UK Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Zachary Tatlock, University of Washington, US Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, US From frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr Wed Sep 23 03:59:35 2015 From: frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Fr=c3=a9d=c3=a9ric_Loulergue?=) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:59:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: ACM SAC'16 PAPP Track - Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming Message-ID: <56025BE7.5020905@univ-orleans.fr> ====================== Call for Papers ====================== SAC'16 - ACM 2016 Symposium on Applied Computing Technical Track PAPP - Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming April 3-8, 2016, Pisa, Italy http://frederic.loulergue.eu/PAPP2016 ============================================================= AIMS & SCOPE Nowadays parallel architectures are everywhere. However parallel programming is still reserved to experienced programmers. The trend is towards the increase of cores in processors and the number of processors in multiprocessor machines: The need for scalable computing is everywhere. But parallel and distributed programming is still dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing and POSIX threads. Thus high-level approaches should play a key role in the shift to scalable computing in every computer. Algorithmic skeletons (Google's MapReduce being the most well-known skeletal parallelism approach), parallel extensions of functional languages such as Haskell and ML, parallel logic and constraint programming, parallel execution of declarative programs such as SQL queries, genericity and meta-programming in object-oriented languages, etc. have produced methods and tools that improve the price/performance ratio of parallel software, and broaden the range of target applications. Also, high level languages offer a high degree of abstraction which ease the development of complex systems. Moreover, being based on formal semantics, it is possible to certify the correctness of critical parts of the applications. The aim of all these languages and tools is to improve and ease the development of applications (safety, expressivity, efficiency, etc.). The PAPP track is aimed both at researchers involved in the development of high level approaches for parallel computing and engineers and researchers who are potential users of these languages and tools. TOPICS We welcome submission of original, unpublished papers in English on topics including: - design, implementation and optimisation of high-level programming languages, - algorithms and high-level models (CGM, BSP, LogP, MapReduce,...), - artificial intelligence, software engineering and formal methods applied to high-level parallel programming, - middleware and tools: performance predictors, visualisations of abstract behaviour, automatic hot-spot detectors, high-level resource managers, compilers, automatic generators, etc., - applications of high-level approaches, benchmarks and experiments. The PAPP track focuses on practical aspects of high-level parallel programming but it welcomes topics of mostly theoretical nature, provided there is clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in electronic format, via the link provided at SAC web page (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016) Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. Submitted papers will undergo a blind review process. Authors of accepted papers should submit an editorial revision of their papers that fits within six two-column pages (an extra two pages, to a total of eight pages, may be available at a charge). Please comply with this page limitation already at submission time. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. After the conference, selected accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of an international journal (pending). SAC 2016 will also hold a Student Research Competition (SRC). To enter this in the area of PAPP, please submit via the link at SAC web page. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: Sep 28, 2015 (extended) SRC Abstract Submission: Sep 25, 2015 Paper/SRC Notifications: Nov 13, 2015 Camera-Ready Copies: Dec 11, 2015 TRACK PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Fr?d?ric Loulergue, Track Chair (LIFO, Universit? d'Orl?ans, France) Marco Aldinucci (University of Torino, Italy) Mohamad Al Hajj Hassan (Lebanese International University, Lebanon) Mathias Bourgoin (INPG, Grenoble, France) H?l?ne Coullon (ENS Lyon, France) Khaled Hamidouche (The Ohio State University, USA) Herbert Kuchen (Westf?lische Wilhems-Universit?t M?nster, Germany) Yolanda Ortega Mall?n (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology, Japan) Susanna Pelagatti (University of Pisa, Italy) Julien Tesson (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, France) Alexander Tiskin (University of Warwick, UK) From hassei at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp Thu Sep 24 02:54:21 2015 From: hassei at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (hassei at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:54:21 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD'16 Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: <51100.10.228.86.238.1443077661.risu@tinu.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS First International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'16) 22 June -- 26 June 2016, Porto, Portugal http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: 29 January 2016 Paper Submission : 5 February 2016 Rebuttal : 21 - 23 March 2016 Notification : 6 April 2016 ========================================================================== FSCD (http://fscdconference.org/) covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, proof theory and new emerging models of computation such as quantum computing and homotopy type theory. The name of the new conference comes from an unpublished but important book by Gerard Huet that strongly influenced many researchers in the area. Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1 Calculi * Lambda calculus * Logics (first-order, higher-order, equational, modal, linear, classical, constructive, etc.) * Rewriting systems (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, modulo, infinitary, etc.) * Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculus, proof nets, etc.) * Type theory and logical frameworks * Homotopy type theory 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction * Type systems (polymorphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.) * Induction, coinduction * Matching, unification, completion, orderings * Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.) * Tree automata * Model building and model checking * Proof search (resolution, paramodulation, narrowing, focusing, etc.) * Constraint solving and decision procedures 3. Semantics * Operational semantics and abstract machines * Game Semantics and applications * Domain theory and categorical models * Quantitative models (timing, probabilities, resources, etc.) * Quantum computation and emerging models in computation 4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems * Type Inference and type checking * Abstract Interpretation * Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity * Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties * Symbolic computation 5. Tools and Applications * Programming and proof environments (proof assistants, automated theorem prover, proof checkers, specialized provers, dependently typed languages, etc.) * Verification tools (abstract interpretation, termination, confluence, specialized provers, etc.) * Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers (support for variable bindings, nominal, polynomial, equality, etc.) * Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers (formalizations, mechanizations, certifications) * Certifications (theorems, rewriting techniques, etc.) * Applications of formal systems inside and outside of CS (biology, linguistics, physics, education, etc.) INVITED SPEAKERS To be announced PROGRAM CHAIRS Delia Kesner (Univ. Paris-Diderot) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) fscd16 at easychair.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Gothenburg Univ.) Zena Ariola (Univ. Oregon) Patrick Baillot (CNRS & ENS Lyon) Andrej Bauer (Univ. Ljubljana) Eduardo Bonelli (Univ. Quilmes) Patricia Bouyer (ENS Cachan) Ugo Dal Lago (Univ. Bologna) Nachum Dershowitz (Univ. Tel Aviv) Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (Univ. Torino) Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS) Santiago Figueira (Univ. Buenos Aires) Marcelo Fiore (Univ. Cambridge) Juergen Giesl (Univ. Aachen) Nao Hirokawa (JAIST) Martin Hofmann (LMU Munchen) Delia Kesner (Univ. Paris-Diderot) Naoki Kobayashi (Univ. Tokyo) Dan Licata (Wesleyan Univ.) Chris Lynch (Clarkson Univ.) Narciso Marti-Oliet (Univ. Complutense) Aart Middeldorp (Univ. Innsbruck) Dale Miller (INRIA Saclay) Cesar Munoz (NASA) Vivek Nigam (Univ. Paraiba) Brigitte Pientka (McGill Univ.) Jakob Rehof (Univ. Dortmund) Xavier Rival (ENS Paris) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie Univ.) Paula Severi (Univ. Leicester) Jakob Grue Simonsen (Univ. Copenhagen) Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA Rocquencourt) Sophie Tison (Univ. Lille) Femke van Raamsdonk (VU Univ. Amsterdam) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College) CONFERENCE CHAIR Sandra Alves (University of Porto) FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE: Thorsten Altenkirch (Univ. Nottingham) Gilles Dowek (INRIA) Santiago Escobar (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) Maribel Fernandez (King's College London) Masahito Hasegawa (Univ. Kyoto) Hugo Herbelin (INRIA) Nao Hirokawa (JAIST) Luke Ong (Chair, Univ. Oxford) Jens Palsberg (UCLA) Kristoffer Rose (Two Sigma Investments) Rene Thiemann (Univ. Innsbruck) Pawel Urzyczyn (Univ. Warsaw) Femke van Raamsdonk (VU Univ. Amsterdam) PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions can be made in two categories: regular research papers and system descriptions. Submissions of research papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 15 pages (including figures and bibliography). Submissions of research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and readability. Submission of system descriptions must describe a working system which has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System descriptions will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, and readability. Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit within the page limit, executables of systems, code of case studies, benchmarks used to evaluate a given system, should be made available, via a reference to a website or in an appendix of the paper. Reviewers will be encouraged to consider this additional material, but are not obliged to. Submissions must be self-contained within the respective page limit; considering the additional material should not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission. Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files using the instructions at http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ A condition of submission is that, if accepted, one of the authors must attend the conference to give the presentation. Papers should be submitted via easychair. The submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd16 ORGANISING COMMITTEE Sandra Alves (Univ. Porto) Sabine Broda (Univ. Porto) Jose Espirito-Santo (Univ. do Minho) Mario Florido (Univ. Porto) Nelma Moreira (Univ. Porto) Luis Pinto (Univ. do Minho) Rogerio Reis (Univ. Porto) Ana Paula Tomas (Univ. Porto) Pedro Vasconcelos (Univ. Porto) From tobycmurray at googlemail.com Fri Sep 25 01:12:22 2015 From: tobycmurray at googlemail.com (Toby Murray) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:12:22 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SSV 2015 - Deadline Extended to Oct 5th Message-ID: ======================================================================== SSV 2015 Final Call for Papers -- Deadline Extended http://www.ssv-conference.org/ 9th Conference on Systems Software Verification Gold Coast, Australia, December 7-8, 2015 co-located with ICECCS. ======================================================================== Important Dates Paper Submission: October 5, 2015 at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv2015 Notification: October 30, 2015 Conference: December 7?8, 2015 Topics Industrial-strength software analysis and verification has advanced in recent years through the introduction of model checking, automated and interactive theorem proving, and static analysis techniques, as well as correctness by design, correctness by contract, and model-driven development. However, many techniques are working under restrictive assumptions that are invalidated by complex embedded systems software such as operating system kernels, low-level device drivers, or microcontroller code. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry who are facing real software and real problems with the goal of finding real, applicable solutions. By ?real? we mean problems such as time-to-market or reliability that the industry is facing. A real solution is one that is applicable to the problem in industry and not one that only applies to an abstract, academic, toy version of it. In this event we will discuss software analysis and development techniques and tools; this forum will serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in dealing with existing and upcoming systems-level code. Topics include, but are not restricted to: * Model checking * Automated and interactive theorem proving * Static analysis and type systems * Automated testing * Model-driven development * Concurrency * Security * Embedded systems development * Programming languages * Verifying compilers * Software certification * Software tools * Experience reports Submissions Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system until October 5th, 2015. Papers should be up to 10 pages in pdf format and formatted in EPTCS style [http://info.eptcs.org]. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All will be subject to peer review under normal conference standards. Experience reports and papers on work in progress are welcome as long as there is a clear contribution. Submissions which are based or discuss a non-trivial piece of software are required to make all those non-standard software parts available, which a referee may need, in order to check the claims of the submission. Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Proceedings Proceedings will be published as an issue in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Program Committee Jade Alglave, University College London Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien Andrew Butterfield, Lero, Trinity College Dublin Franck Cassez, Macquarie University Ana Cavalcanti, University of York Mads Dam, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London Stefania Gnesi, ISTI Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research J?rome Hugues, ISAE Limin Jia, CMU Tiziana Margaria, Lero, University of Limerick Toby Murray, NICTA and UNSW (Co-Chair) John Regehr, University of Utah David San?n, NTU (Co-Chair) Konrad Slind, Rockwell Collins Jun Sun, SUTD Alwen Tiu, NTU Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology Steering Committee Ralf Huuck, NICTA and UNSW Gerwin Klein, NICTA and UNSW Bastian Schlich, ABB Corporate Research? From carsten at demtech.dk Fri Sep 25 02:24:52 2015 From: carsten at demtech.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:24:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two postdoctoral positions @ CMU and ITU Message-ID: [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement] ======================================================================= Two Postdoctoral Positions on Automated Verification of Properties of Concurrent, Distributed and Parallel Specifications Carnegie Mellon University and IT University of Copenhagen ======================================================================= We are seeking applications for two postdoctoral positions in computational logic. Both position are part of a common project on automated verification of properties of concurrent, distributed and parallel specifications with applications to computer security. One position is based on CMU's Qatar campus and the other in Copenhagen. Applicants should have a strong background and interest in some combination of type theory, proof theory, concurrency, logical frameworks, and linear or substructural logics. Both positions are expected to start in the Fall of 2015. Project page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~iliano/projects/metaCLF/ Application page for the position at CMU: http://csjobs.qatar.cmu.edu Application page for the position at ITU: http://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Vacancies ======================================================================= Iliano Cervesato Professor Carnegie Mellon University Carsten Schuermann Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kutsia at risc.jku.at Fri Sep 25 13:44:22 2015 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:44:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: SCSS 2016 Message-ID: <560587F6.2080500@risc.jku.at> ===================== Second Call for Papers ===================== SCSS 2016 The 7th International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan March 28 - 31, 2016 http://www.i-eos.org/conferences/SCSS2016 Submissions to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2016 Important Dates --------------- November 13, 2015: Abstract submission November 20, 2015: Paper submission January 5, 2016: Notification March 28-31, 2016: SCSS 2016 in Ochanomizu University, Tokyo Invited Speakers ---------------- - Peter Paule (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) - Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Tutorial -------- There will be tutorial lectures on symbolic computation. - Tetsu Yamaguchi and colleagues (Maple Soft) - Xavier Dahan (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Scope -------- The purpose of SCSS 2016 is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science. The symposium provides a forum for active dialog between researchers from several fields of computer algebra, algebraic geometry, algorithmic combinatorics, computational logic, and software analysis and verification. SCSS 2016 solicits regular papers on all aspects of symbolic computation and their applications in software science. The topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to the following: - automated reasoning - algorithm (program) synthesis and/or verification - formal methods for the analysis of network and system security - termination analysis and complexity analysis of algorithms (programs) - extraction of specifications from algorithms (programs) - related theorem proving methods and techniques - proof carrying code - generation of inductive assertion for algorithm (programs) - algorithm (program) transformations - formalization and computerization of knowledge (maths, medicine, economy, etc.) - component-based programming - computational origami - query languages (in particular for XML documents) - semantic web and cloud computing Program Chair ------------- James Davenport (University of Bath, UK) Honorary Chair --------------- Bruno Buchberger (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) General Chair ------------- Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Program Committee ----------------- Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Adel Bouhoula (Carthage University, Tunisia) Changbo Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Matthew England (Coventry University, UK) Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University, Japan) Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Michael Kohlhase (Jacobs University, Germany) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Assia Mahboubi (Inria, France) Yasuhiko Minamide (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Yoshihiro Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan) Julien Narboux (Strasbourg University, France) Renaud Rioboo (ENSIIE, France) Tateaki Sasaki (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Dongming Wang (Beihang University and CNRS, China and France) Stephen Watt (University of Waterloo, Canada) Kazuhiro Yokoyama (Rikkyo University, Japan) Local Arrangement Committee --------------------------- Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Houssem Chatbri (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Fadoua Ghourabi (Ochanomizu University, Japan) (Chair) Sosuke Moriguchi (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Akira Terui (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Submission ---------- Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2016 Submissions of regular research papers are invited. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages in the EasyChair LaTeX Class format (www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip), with up to 3 additional pages for technical appendices. Publication ---------- The proceedings of SCSS 2016 will be published in the EasyChair Proceedings in Computing (EPiC). After the symposium, we will have a combined special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on SCSS 2014 & 2016. The full version of selected papers at SCSS 2014 & 2016 will be considered for the publication of the special issue subjected to the normal peer review process of the journal. The submission deadline of the special issue will be 2 months after the symposium. From lkuper at cs.indiana.edu Sun Sep 27 02:44:06 2015 From: lkuper at cs.indiana.edu (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 23:44:06 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Talk Proposals: Off the Beaten Track 2016 Message-ID: # Call for Talk Proposals: Off the Beaten Track 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/OBT-2016-talks January 23, 2016 (co-located with POPL 2016, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA) ## Background Programming language researchers have the principles, tools, algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This workshop?s goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often show up in our top conferences, but where programming language research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers and thus increase our community?s impact on the world. While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We are at least as interested in problems as in solutions. ## Scope A good submission is one that outlines a new problem or an interesting, underrepresented problem domain. Good submissions may also remind the PL community of problems that were once in vogue but have not recently been seen in top PL conferences. Good submissions do not need to propose complete or even partial solutions, though there should be some reason to believe that programming languages researchers have the tools necessary to search for solutions in the area at hand. Submissions that seem likely to stimulate discussion about the direction of programming language research are encouraged. Use your imagination. It's hard to imagine how a paper that discusses programming languages could be considered out of scope. If in doubt, ask the program chair. ## Prior OBTs 2016 marks the fifth year of OBT and of co-location with POPL. The previous four workshops were: * OBT 2015, Mumbai, India * OBT 2014, San Diego, USA * OBT 2013, Rome, Italy * OBT 2012, Philadelphia, USA ## Important Dates * Monday, 9 November 2015: Submission deadline * Tuesday, 1 December 2015: Author notification * Saturday, 23 January 2016: Workshop ## Submission Please submit your talk proposal via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obt2016 All submissions should be in PDF format, two pages or less, in at least 10pt font, printable on US Letter paper. Authors are welcome to include links to multimedia content such as YouTube videos or online demos. Reviewers may or may not view linked documents; it is up to authors to convince the reviewers to do so. For each accepted submission, one of the authors will give a talk at the workshop. The length of the talk will depend on the submissions received and how the program committee decides to assemble the program. Reviewing of submissions will be very light. Authors should not expect a detailed analysis of their submission by the program committee. Accepted submissions will be posted as is on this web site. By submitting a document, you agree that if it is accepted, it may be posted and you agree that one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and give a talk there. There will be no revision process and no formal publication. ## Organizers General chair: * Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University Program chair: * Lindsey Kuper, Intel Labs Program committee: * Nada Amin, EPFL * Ken Eguro, Microsoft Research * Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University * Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University * Yu David Liu, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton * Emma Tosch, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Noam Zeilberger, MSR-Inria From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Mon Sep 28 05:59:49 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:59:49 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2016 final call for papers Message-ID: <20150928125949.4e627364@duality> ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: ETAPS 2016 19th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2-8 April 2016 http://www.etaps.org/2016 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2016 is the ninteenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (4-7 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Peter Thiemann, Universit?t Freiburg, Germany) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Bart Jacobs, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Christof L?ding, RWTH Aachen, Germany) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada, and Jean-Fran?ois Raskin (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) TACAS '16 hosts the 5th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Andrew D. Gordon (MSR Cambridge and University of Edinburgh, UK) Rupak Majumdar (MPI Kaiserslautern, Germany) * ESOP invited speaker: Cristina Lopes (University of California at Irvine, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Oscar Nierstrasz (Universit?t Bern, Switzerland) * POST invited speaker: Vitaly Shmatikov (University of Texas at Austin, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * 9 October 2015: Submission deadline for abstracts * 16 October 2015: Submission deadline for full papers * 2-4 December 2015: Author response period (ESOP and FoSSaCS only) * 18 December 2015: Notification of acceptance * 8 January 2016: Camera-ready versions due -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers and tool demonstration papers. Both types will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. ESOP and FoSSaCS accept only research papers. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and be submitted electronically in pdf through the EasyChair author interface of the respective conference. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. FASE will try a light-weight double-blind review process (see http://www.etaps.org/2016/fase). - Research papers FASE, FOSSACS and TACAS have a page limit of 15 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) for research papers, whereas POST allows at most 20 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) and ESOP 25 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example, details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. ETAPS referees are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. In addition to regular research papers, TACAS solicits also case study papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). Both TACAS and FASE solicit also regular tool papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). - Tool demonstration papers Submissions should consist of two parts: * The first part, at most 4 pages, should describe the tool presented. Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool. (This part will be included in the proceedings.) * The second part, at most 6 pages, should explain how the demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including screen dumps and examples. (This part will be not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated. ESOP and FOSSACS do not accept tool demonstration papers. TACAS has a page limit of 6 pages for tool demonstrations. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (2-3 April, 8 April) -- Around 20 satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences. -- HOST CITY -- Eindhoven is located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. It is the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands. The city is well known for modern art, design and technology. The main airport of the Netherlands is the Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. All major airlines fly to Schiphol, and Schiphol has a direct and very frequent train connection to Eindhoven. Eindhoven also has a small international airport, Eindhoven Airport, with direct connections to more than thirty destinations in Europe. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2016 is hosted by Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. -- ORGANIZERS * General chair: Jan Friso Groote * Workshops chairs: Erik de Vink and Julien Schmaltz * Publicity chair: Anton Wijs -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at j.f.groote at tue.nl, a.j.wijs at tue.nl. From rozierky at uc.edu Tue Sep 29 12:31:36 2015 From: rozierky at uc.edu (Rozier, Kristin Yvonne (rozierky)) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:31:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Constraints in Formal Verification (CFV2015) Call for Participation: Austin, TX, USA Message-ID: <44B0F7174C17084CA81EB576905B48561D9AFDD7@UCMAILA3.ad.uc.edu> ************************************************************************ The Ninth International Workshop on Constraints in Formal Verification CFV'15 http://iccad.com/event_details?id=196-51- 5 November 2015 / Austin, Texas, USA ************************************************************************ Overview: --------- Formal verification is of crucial significance in the development of hardware and software systems. In the last decade, tremendous progress was made in both the speed and capacity of constraint technology. Most notably, Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers have become orders of magnitude faster and capable of handling problems that are orders of magnitude bigger, thus enabling the formal verification of more complex computer systems. As a result, the formal verification of hardware and software has become a promising area for research and industrial applications. Constraints have applications to all formal verification methods. Particularly, the efficient use of constraints can make or break a formal verification run, and can result in orders of magnitude speedup and orders of magnitude increase in scalability for solving of larger problems. The main goal of the Constraints in Formal Verification workshop is to bring together researchers from the CSP/SAT/SMT and the formal verification communities, to describe new applications of constraint technology to formal verification, to disseminate new challenging problem instances, and to propose new dedicated algorithms for hard formal verification problems. This workshop will be of interest to researchers from both academia and industry, working on constraints or on formal verification and interested in the application of constraints to formal verification. Scope: ------ The scope of the workshop includes topics related to the application of constraint technology to formal verification, namely: * application of constraint solvers to hardware verification; * application of constraint solvers to software verification; * dedicated solvers for formal verification problems; * challenging formal verification problems. Location: --------- The workshop will take place in the Doubletree Hotel in Austin Texas, on November 5, 2015. It will be structured to allow ample time for discussion and demonstration of new tools and new problem instances. Registration: ------------- http://iccad.com/registration-rates Just $175 registration for IEEE or ACM members ($150 for students)! Invited Speakers: ----------------- Santosh Nagarakatte, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A. Talk title: Lightweight Formal Methods for LLVM Verification Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon/NASA Ames Research Center, U.S.A. Talk title: On the Probabilistic Analysis of Software Full Program: ------------- https://iccad.com/sites/2013.iccad.com/files/files/CFV15_program.pdf General Chair: -------------- Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, U.S.A. Email: mvelev at gmail.com Program Chair: -------------- Alex Groce, Oregon State University, U.S.A. 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The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will bring together world leaders in programming languages research and teaching from academia and industry to provide (a) technical sessions on cutting-edge PL research and (b) mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. The workshop will engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. This workshop 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 should 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 as well. APPLICATION for PLMW scholarship. The scholarship application can be accessed from the workshop web site: http://conf.researchr.org/home/PLMW-2016 The deadline for full consideration of funding is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23. Selected participants will be notified by NOVEMBER 15 or earlier. SPONSORS: NSF ACM SIGPLAN Facebook Jane Street Capital Google Microsoft From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Wed Sep 30 06:05:47 2015 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:05:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VCLA International Student Awards - Call for Nominations 2015 Message-ID: <855B97D4-FB3A-4FF8-A113-8D5DC2CAA3CC@tuwien.ac.at> The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms announces the 2015 edition of the VCLA International Student Awards and calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories: Outstanding Master Thesis Award, to be given to the author of an outstanding thesis for obtaining a Masters degree or equivalent (2nd cycle Bologna process), and Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, to be given to the author of an outstanding thesis or final project for obtaining a Bachelors degree or equivalent (1st cycle Bologna process). In both categories, the work must make an original contribution to a research field that can be classified as part of Logic in Computer Science, understood broadly as the use of logic as a tool that enables computer programs to reason about the world. The main areas of interest are: Databases and Artificial Intelligence Verification Computational Logic The committee will select a winner for each category. The winners will be invited to Vienna to present their project and participate in a festive award ceremony. Additionally, the Outstanding Master Thesis Award category is accompanied by a prize of 1,200 Eur, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award by a prize of 800 Eur. Important dates: Nomination deadline: November 15, 2015 (AoE) Notification of the committee?s decision: early February 2016 Award ceremony: Spring 2016 For more information, please see http://logic-cs.at/award/award-call-2015/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep 30 15:56:24 2015 From: Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Sewell) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:56:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty position in PL/verification/theorem proving at Cambridge Message-ID: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/8134/ [this is roughly analogous to a US tenured associate professor position] The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory is seeking to recruit a new faculty member at the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level who can contribute to research in areas such as (but not limited to) the following: theoretical foundations of programming programming language design and implementation formal specification and verification of computer systems theorem proving and its application to hardware and software The ideal candidate will have interests that range from mathematical theory to practical applications and will demonstrate the potential to collaborate with Computer Laboratory research students, staff and faculty across a range of topics. Notwithstanding the above focus, exceptional candidates from any area of Computer Science are also encouraged to apply. It is likely that successful candidates will already have a strong track record in one or more relevant research areas and already have some postdoctoral experience. Ideally the candidate will also have experience of teaching and generating research grant income. From selinger at mathstat.dal.ca Wed Sep 30 21:19:22 2015 From: selinger at mathstat.dal.ca (Peter Selinger) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:19:22 -0300 (ADT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoc position in dependent types at Dalhousie Message-ID: <20151001011922.185FF8C0175@chase.mathstat.dal.ca> Dear colleagues, I invite applications for one postdoctoral position, starting between now and January 1, at Dalhousie University under my supervision. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Trusted Quantum Software via a Formally Verified Functional Quantum Programming Language". Specifically, the project will involve the design of a type system for a type-safe functional programming language for quantum computing, loosely modelled on the Quipper language (http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/). It will also involve developing the meta-theory (including semantics) of the language, and eventually the formalization of some of this meta-theory in a proof assistant. Familiarity with type theory (especially dependent type theory), programming language design, and/or semantics will be a prerequisite for this postdoc. Familiarity with quantum computing will be helpful, but is neither necessary nor sufficient for this position - the main emphasis is on programming languages and type systems. Although the position will be held at Dalhousie University in Canada, it will be an asset if the candidate is able to travel, because I will be spending one semester in Germany and one semester in the U.S. next year, and ideally I would like the postdoc to be able to accompany me. Funding for the project comes from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the research project will be part of a team effort also involving collaborators from Tulane, Stanford, Oxford, the University of Iowa, and the University of Pennsylvania. The nominal start date for the project is September 30, 2015 (yes, this is today!), so the start date can be immediately, or some time in the near future. The position is initially for 1 year, and can be extended for an additional year. The salary is CAD $60,000 per year. Interested applicants should contact Peter Selinger at selinger at mathstat.dal.ca as soon as possible, and in any case before October 21. I can provide more details about the research project to interested applicants on request. Thanks, -- Peter From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Thu Oct 1 14:48:36 2015 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 21:48:36 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2015 post-proceedings open call for papers (reminder) Message-ID: <20151001214836.2bf91e50@duality> Paper submission deadline 27 Nov 2015. But please let us know of your intent to submit *now*! Open call for papers Post-proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2015 Tallinn, Estonia, 18-21 May 2015 BACKGROUND TYPES is a major forum for presenting research on all aspects of type theory and its applications. TYPES 2015 was held 18-21 May 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia. A post-proceedings volume will be published in LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics), an open-access series of conference proceedings. http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics Submission to this post-proceedings volume is open to everyone, so also those who did not participate in the conference or did not talk. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type theory to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on topics from the following list: 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. IMPORTANT DATES Non-binding intents to submit a paper: (by submitting (a placeholder for) an abstract) 2 October 2015 Papers due: 27 November 2015 Final notifications: 27 May 2016 DETAILS * Papers must be formatted with lipics.cls and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs. http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/ * The recommended length of a paper is 15-25 pages. Submissions significantly longer than 25 pages will not be considered. * Papers must be submitted in pdf through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types15postproceedin * Authors have the option to attach to their submission a zip or tgz file containing code (formalized proofs or programs), but reviewers are not obliged to take those attachments into account and they will not be published. EDITOR Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Fri Oct 2 14:05:10 2015 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 20:05:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CPS-Week 2016: Call for Papers Message-ID: <62D05294-A25C-493C-9FB1-AA2F199856DD@tuwien.ac.at> Technical Sponsors Platinum Sponsor Keynotes Tue April 12: Scientific Keynote Rajeev Alur , Zisman Family Professor, Computer and Information Science, UPenn, USA Wed April 13: Industrial Keynotes Industry 4.0: Sabine Herlitschka , CEO Infineon Austria Internet of Things: Joe Salvo , Dir. of CS and Arch., GE Global Research, USA Smart Grid: Rada Rodriguez , CEO Schneider Electric, Germany Smart Mobility: Ken Butts , Executive Engineer, Powertrain Control, Toyota, USA Thu April 14: Scientific Keynote Tomasso Poggio , Eugene McDermott Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, CSAIL, MIT, USA Important Dates Workshops and Tutorial Proposals: Oct. 1st, 2015 Abstract Registration: Oct. 8th, 2015 (HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN) Submission Deadline: Oct. 15th, 2015 (ICCPS, IPSN, RTAS) Oct. 23rd, 2015 (HSCC) Notification Dates: vary by individual conferences Workshop and Tutorial Day: Apr. 11th, 2016 Main Conference: Apr. 12th - Apr.14th, 2016 Call for Papers Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are complex engineering systems that rely on the integration of physical, computation, and communication processes to function. Theories, algorithms, systems and methodologies developed for CPS are the foundations for applications like Internet of Things, industrial internet and automation, smart transportation, smart grids, smart cities, buildings and homes, data centers, health care and so on. Such systems must be operated safely, dependably, securely, efficiently and in real-time. Advances in this field will have great technical, economic and societal impacts in the near future. Since 2008, CPS Week is the premier forum for academic, industry, and governmental researchers to present latest research results and exchange ideas on all aspects of CPS. CPS Week 2016 will be held in the beautiful Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. The event features four major co-located conferences: HSCC: the 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control ICCPS: the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems IPSN: the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks RTAS: the 22nd IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium In additional to major conferences, CPS Week 2016 will host workshops, tutorials, poster and demo sessions and a competition. CPS Week conferences call for original research contributions. Please refer to Call for Papers from individual conferences for topics of interests and submission formats. Organizers General co-Chairs: Radu Grosu (TU Wien) Thomas A. Henzinger (IST Austria) Finance Chair: Dejan Nickovic (AIT) Industrial Liaison co-Chairs: Peter Palensky (AIT and TU Delft) Stefan Poledna? (TTTech Austria) Local Arrangement Chair: Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien) Publication Chair: Edmund Widl (AIT) Publicity Chair: Hermann Kopetz (TU Wien) Registration co-Chairs: Sergiy Bogomolov (IST Austria) Edmund Widl (AIT) Web and Social Media Chair: Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien) Workshop/Demo co-Chairs: Christoph Kirsch (Uni Salzburg) Ana Sokolova (Uni Salzburg) Steering Committee Chair: George J. Pappas (UPenn) Committee Members: Werner Damm (Univ. of Oldenburg) Insup Lee (UPenn) Raj Rajkumar (CMU) Sanghyuk Son (DGIST and UVa) Jack Stankovic (UVa) Feng Zhao (Microsoft, China) Supported by ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Journal of Functional Programming will devote a special issue to programming with dependent types. The purpose of this special issue is to present the state of the art in dependently typed programming languages and their applications. We would like to invite authors to submit papers on all topics relating to programming languages with dependent types, including theory, applications, and language design and implementation. We encourage the submission of consolidated, condensed and extended work based on prior conference and workshop publications. # Submission Details Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format through the Journal of Functional Programming's website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cup/jfp_submit Further submission and formatting details can be found on the JFP website. Please submit your paper under the 'DTP Special issue' category. 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URL: From enzodeflorio at virgilio.it Mon Oct 5 12:17:18 2015 From: enzodeflorio at virgilio.it (Vincenzo De Florio) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:17:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: ANTIFRAGILE'16 Message-ID: <663080569.600081444061838750.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> Dear Sirs, dear Madams, please consider submitting papers to ANTIFRAGILE 2016! ??????????? 2016 - the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Antifragility and Antifragile Engineering in the framework of the 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2016), May 23-26, 2016, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid in Madrid, Spain https://sites.google.com/site/antifragile2016/ The engineering of antifragile computer-based systems is a challenge that, once met, would allow systems and ambients to self-evolve and self-improve by learning from accidents and mistakes in a way not dissimilar to that of human beings. Learning how to design and craft antifragile systems is an extraordinary challenge whose tackling is likely to reverberate on many a computer engineering field. New methods, programming languages, even custom platforms will have to be designed. The expected returns are extraordinary as well: antifragile computer engineering promises to enable realizing truly autonomic systems and ambients able to meta-adapt to changing circumstances; to self-adjust to dynamically changing environments and ambients; to self-organize so as to track dynamically and proactively optimal strategies to sustain scalability, high-performance, and energy efficiency; to personalize their aspects and behaviors after each and every user. And to learn how to get better while doing it. Building on top of the very positive responses of last two years, enriched by the participation of Professor N. N. Taleb and Dr. Kenny H. Jones from NASA who kindly provided their keynote speeches, this third edition of ANTIFRAGILE aims to further enhance the awareness of the challenges of antifragile engineering and to continue the initiated discussion on how computer and software engineering may address them. As a design aspect cross-cutting through all system and communication layers, antifragile engineering calls for multi-disciplinary visions and approaches able to bridge the gaps between ?distant? research communities so as to -propose novel solutions to design, develop, and evaluate antifragile systems and ambients; -devise computational models and paradigms for antifragile engineering; -provide analytical and simulation models and tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults, adjust to new environments, and enhance their identity and resilience in the process; -foster the exchange of ideas and promote discussions able to steer future research and development efforts in the area of computational antifragility. The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: -Conceptual frameworks for antifragile systems, ambients, and behaviours; -Dependability, resilience, and antifragile requirements and open issues; -Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing antifragile systems and behaviours; -Frameworks and techniques enabling resilient and antifragile applications; -Discussion and analysis if antifragile applications; -Antifragile human-machine interaction; -End-to-end approaches towards antifragile services; -Autonomic antifragile behaviours; -Middleware architectures and mechanisms for resilience and antifragility; -Theoretical foundation of resilient and antifragile behaviours; -Formal methods for resilience and antifragility; -Programming language support for resilience and antifragility; -Machine learning as a foundation of resilient and antifragile architectures; -Antifragility and resiliency against malicious attacks; -Modeling of antifragile systems (e.g., through Petri Nets); -Antifragility and the Cloud; -Service Level Agreements for Antifragility; -Specification and verification of resilient and antifragile systems; -Antifragile and resilient services; -Programming language support for antifragility (e.g., via functional languages); -Object-oriented design for resilience and antifragility; -Aspect-oriented design of resilient and antifragile systems; -Models of concurrent behaviors of "parts" leasing to antifragile behaviors of the "whole"; -Safety and security issues with reference to systems able to self-evolve their identity. All accepted papers of the previous editions of the workshop are freely available (see https://sites.google.com/site/antifragile2016/). A description of two of the papers of the first edition of the workshop, as well as their presentations, are available through the referenced page. For more information about computational antifragility, please consider visiting also the LinkedIn group on Computational Antifragility: http://goo.gl/BBSNvj ANTIFRAGILE is this year co-located with the 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, May 23-26, 2016, the Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. ANTIFRAGILE is likely to take place on May 24 (though this has not been confirmed yet.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be Tue Oct 6 05:07:44 2015 From: raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be (Raoul Strackx) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:07:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ESSoS'16] Call for Workshops/Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: <56138F60.2020704@cs.kuleuven.be> International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) April 6 - 8, 2016, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK In cooperation with: (pending) ACM SIGSAC and SIGSOFT and IEEE CS (TCSP) https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2016/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Call for Workshops/TutorialsESSoS | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Proposals for both tutorials and workshops are welcome and can be sent to essos [at] cs [dot] kuleuven [dot] be by October 23, 2015 (1-2 pages) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Call for Doctoral Symposium ESSoS | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ == Important dates == Paper submission deadline: February 26, 2016 Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2016 Camera ready version: March 25, 2016 == Description == The ESSoS Doctoral Symposium 2016 will be held in Egham, United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, as a satellite event of the ESSoS 2016 Symposium. Following the aim of the past ESSoS-DS editions, the scope of this year's event will be once more focused on providing PhD students an opportunity to discuss their research in Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) in an international forum, and with a panel of well-known experts in the field. Following last year's successful idea the Symposium aims on bringing together a broad range of students: PhD students at the start of their trajectory, students who are about to finish (what are the pitfalls in the final stages?) and students in the middle (aiming for the first top-level publication). Students will have the occasion to discuss, in a welcoming and informal atmosphere, the goals already achieved or planned, the research challenges they are interested in, the projects they are working on, the facilities they are developing, the problems they fight to solve and are solving in their doctoral work. During the Doctoral Symposium students will receive useful feedback from senior researchers, industrial partners and experts. It will also be a good opportunity for meeting and sharing experiences with other PhD students that are addressing similar topics, or are at a similar stage in their doctoral work. This way, the students will obtain guidance both on the academic content of their current work and on potential future research trajectories. == Scope == PhD students carrying out research in Engineering Secure Software and Systems are invited to submit a position paper to the PhD Symposium. Short papers will be peer-reviewed by the Symposium's program committee members. The criteria used for accepting a paper include: - Contribution of the work to the ESSoS field - Originality of the work - Overall quality of the position paper == Topics == PhD proposals fitting into the ESSoS conference topics are especially encouraged. This includes but is not limited to: - Secure software engineering - Security testing - Systematic support for best practices - Security requirements and policies - Designing traditional and cloud-based systems for security and privacy - Threat modeling and analysis of vulnerabilities - Specification and verification of security and privacy - Programming languages for security - Security assurance cases - Assurance, certification, and accreditation - Trust modeling and analysis - Digital forensics - Security economics Accepted position papers will be presented during the ESSoS 2016 Doctoral Symposium and will be published on the ESSoS website (no formal proceedings). Presenters of the Doctoral Symposium will get an opportunity to present their work in poster format during the main program of ESSoS 2016. == Submission Instructions == Position papers should be two to six pages and formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. Position papers should include: - Author names and affiliations (PhD student + contributing team members if applicable) - Abstract (maximum 200 words) - The problem that the research addresses, and the motivation for solving it - Research methodology (to be) used to address the problem - Main (potential) contributions to the state of the art - Description of the work done to date (including results / publications), and a tentative research plan - Late stage students: The synergy and cohesion between the results, and the approach on how to complete the thesis Some PhD students who have delivered a top publication in the midst of their trajectory will be invited to present a testimonial; anybody can volunteer by sending a short email to the DS Chair (referring to their actual top publication). Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essosdc16 == Doctoral Symposium Chair == Johannes Kinder (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Oct 6 11:08:44 2015 From: Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk (Graham Hutton) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:08:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts Message-ID: <44E9181A-6B7E-44F2-995A-821CAF8A433D@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> If you or one of your students recently completed a PhD in the area of functional programming, please submit the dissertation abstract for publication in JFP: simple process, no refereeing, deadline 31st October 2015. Many thanks, Graham Hutton ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 31st October 2015 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, the Journal of Functional Programming publishes the abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do not require any transfer of copyright, merely a license from the author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton by 31st October 2015. o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 1000 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting in the abstract, but do get in touch if this causes significant problems) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. 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Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From manu at sridharan.net Thu Oct 8 14:16:53 2015 From: manu at sridharan.net (Manu Sridharan) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:16:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI 2016 call for workshops and tutorials Message-ID: We invite proposals for workshops or tutorials to be co-located with PLDI 2016, which will be located in Santa Barbara, CA. More information about PLDI 2016 could be found at http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016 The deadline for proposals is November 13th, 2015. The number of accepted proposals will be limited by the available conference rooms. Late submissions will only be evaluated if there is space available, on a first-come-first-served basis. Further details about the format for submissions can be found here: http://conf.researchr.org/track/pldi-2016/Workshops+and+Tutorials We look forward to your submissions! 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We have also have a strong programming languages group, including expertise in type theory, formal methods, software engineering and related backgrounds. The successful candidate is expected to have a PhD in a relevant area, such as Software Engineering or Computer Science. This is an exciting opportunity for an early to mid-career academic to become associated with a top ranked university intent upon growing its engineering programme, increasing student numbers and expanding our internationally significant research. A successful candidate will be encouraged to participate in curriculum development, achieve excellence in research and demonstrate best practice in teaching. The deadline for submissions is November 10th and 16th (respectively) and you can find more information here: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/about/careers/current-vacancies Look for position 788 and 789 and, I'm rather embarrassed to say, you unfortunately need to use IE or Safari to view them. Thanks, David J. Pearce -- Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, School of Engineering and Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand. Office: Cotton 231 Telephone: +64 (0)4 463 5833 URL: http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/~djp From fennell at informatik.uni-freiburg.de Fri Oct 9 12:40:52 2015 From: fennell at informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Luminous Fennell) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 18:40:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [APLS2015] Call for Participation: Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages and Systems Message-ID: <5617EE14.7040100@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> === Call for Participation === Workshop: Advances in Programming Languages and Systems Date: December 15 - 16, 2015 Venue: Frankfurt, Germany Website: http://proglang.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/APLS2015/ Scope: ------ Advances in programming language research increasingly influence the world of software development and big software companies recognize the importance of research areas like functional programming, static program analysis, run-time verification, automated software engineering and debugging as well as automated verification techniques. This workshop is an opportunity to interact with leading international researchers in these areas, to receive crucial impulses, and to cultivate and maintain new and old collaborations and liaisons. The talks will be given by prominent members of the programming languages research community and cover a wide area of topics inside this field. The list of talks can be found below. For further information please visit http://proglang.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/APLS2015/ The workshop is sponsored by the DFG. List of talks: -------------- Andreas Abel: Coinductive programming with copatterns Arthur Chargueraud: Machine-checked verification of amortized complexity analyses Dominique Devriese: Reasoning about Object Capabilities with Logical Relations and Effect Parametricity Sophia Drossopoulou: Reasoning about programs in the presence of code of unknown provenance Joshua Dunfield: Evaluation-order Polymorphism Matthew Fluet: Type- and Control-Flow Analysis Christian Hammer: Declassification in the Browser Atsushi Igarashi: A Sound Type System for Layer Subtyping and Dynamically Activated First-Class Layers Ranjit Jhala: Bounded Refinement Types Ivan Lanese: Reversible Concurrent Systems Anders Moeller: Message Safety in Dart Keiko Nakata: Formal Verification of a Microkernel at FireEye James Noble: On Grace Klaus Ostermann: Automatic Refunctionalization Matthew Parkinson: The Push/Pull Model of Transactions Didier Remy: Ornaments in ML Francesco Ranzato: Abstract Interpretation of Supermodular Games Ilya Sergey: Verification of Fine-Grained Concurrent Programs Jeremy Siek: A Tracing JIT for a Functional Language Wouter Swierstra: Auto in Agda Peter Thiemann: Derivatives in Program Analysis Vasco Vasconcelos: Advances in Session Types Organizers: ----------- Luminous Fennell, University of Freiburg Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg From roopsha.samanta at ist.ac.at Mon Oct 12 10:25:37 2015 From: roopsha.samanta at ist.ac.at (Roopsha Samanta) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:25:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers: CAV 2016, July 17-23, 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Message-ID: Apologies for multiple copies of this CFP. *************************************************************** * 28th International Conference * on * Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2016) * * July 17-23, 2016 * Toronto, Ontario, Canada * * Call for Papers * * http://i-cav.org/2016/ **************************************************************** Important Dates ---------------------- All deadlines are 4pm EST. Abstract submission: January 17, 2016 (Sunday) Paper submission: January 29, 2016 (Friday) Author response period: March 23-25, 2016 (Wednesday-Friday) Author Notification: April 15, 2016 (Friday) Conference: July 17-23, 2016 Scope -------- CAV 2016 is the 28th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification while expanding to new domains such as biological systems and computer security. The conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations * Algorithms and tools for system synthesis * Mathematical and logical foundations of verification and synthesis * Specifications and correctness criteria for programs and systems * Deductive verification using proof assistants * Hardware verification techniques * Program analysis and software verification * Software synthesis * Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification * Compositional and abstraction-based techniques for verification * Probabilistic and statistical approaches to verification * Verification methods for parallel and concurrent systems * Testing and run-time analysis based on verification technology * Decision procedures and solvers for verification and synthesis * Applications and case studies in verification and synthesis * Verification in industrial practice * New application areas for algorithmic verification and synthesis * Formal models and methods for security * Formal models and methods for biological systems Paper Submission ------------------------ *** NEW this year: Double-blind submissions *** Submissions on a wide range of topics are sought, particularly ones that identify new research directions. CAV 2016 is not limited to topics discussed in previous instances of the conference. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate by electronic mail with the conference chairs prior to submission. As explained below, CAV 2016 will follow a lightweight double-blind review process. Submissions that are not "blinded" will be rejected without review. Submissions will be in two categories: Regular Papers and Tool Papers. * Regular Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. These papers should contain original research and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Papers will be evaluated on basis of a combination of correctness, technical depth, significance, novelty, clarity, and elegance. We welcome papers on theory, case studies and comparisons with existing experimental research, as well as combinations of new theory with experimental evaluation. A strong theoretical paper is not required to have an experimental component. On the other hand, strong papers reproducing and comparing existing results experimentally do not require new theoretical insights. * Tool Papers should not exceed 6 pages, not counting references. These papers should describe system and implementation aspects of a tool with a large (potential) user base (experiments not required, rehash of theory strongly discouraged). Papers describing tools that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Unlike last year, there is no separate Short Paper category. Prior to the registration deadline, the authors will register their paper by uploading information on the submission title, abstract (of at most 300 words), authors, topics, and conflicts to the conference web site. Papers that are not registered on time will be rejected. We encourage authors to provide any supplementary material that is required to support the claims made in the paper, such as detailed proofs or experimental data. These materials should be uploaded at submission time, as a single pdf or a tarball, not via a URL. It will be made available to reviewers only after they have submitted their first-draft reviews and hence need not be anonymized. Reviewers are under no obligation to look at the supplementary material but may refer to it if they have questions about the material in the body of the paper. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. The PC chairs may solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submission will be via the HotCRP system. The submission URL will be available on the website of the conference closer to the deadline. Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process ------------------------------------------------------------- CAV 2016 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. This means that committee members will not have access to authors' names or affiliations as they review a paper; however, authors' names will be revealed once reviews have been submitted and online discussion has begun. To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: (1) author names and institutions must be omitted, and (2) references to authors' own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. 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). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. A document answering frequently asked questions about the double-blind review process is available on the conference website. Artifact Evaluation ------------------------ Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their artifacts for evaluation by a special committee. Organizers --------------- Chairs --------- Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University, USA Azadeh Farzan, University of Toronto, Canada CAV Award Committee ------------------------------- Ahmed Bouajjani (Chair), Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7) Tom Ball, Microsoft Research Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Program Committee --------------------------- Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania Christel Baier, Technische Universit?t Dresden Clark Barrett, New York University Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology Pavol Cerny, University of Colorado, Boulder Adam Chlipala, MIT Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Loris D'Antoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison Constantin Enea, Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7) Javier Esparza, Technische Universit?t M?nchen Kousha Etessami, University of Edinburgh Susanne Graf, VERIMAG Orna Grumberg, Technion Franjo Ivancic, Google Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin, Madison Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University Zachary Kincaid, University of Toronto Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology Viktor Kuncak, EPFL Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research Akash Lal, Microsoft Research Pete Manolios, Northeastern University Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research David Monniaux, VERIMAG Marta Kwaitkowska, Oxford Unive Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent David Parker, University of Birmingham Corina Pasareneau, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/NASA Ames Ruzica Piskac, Yale University Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research Andrey Rybalchenko, Microsoft Research Mooly Sagiv, Tel Aviv University Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado, Boulder Sanjit Seshia, University of California, Berkeley Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano Sharon Shoham, Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT Fabio Somenzi, University of Colorado, Boulder Serdar Tesiran, Ko? University Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica Thomas Wies, New York University Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois, Chicago Workshop Chair ---------------------- Zachary Kincaid, University of Toronto, Canada Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------------------- Aws Albarghouthi, University of Wisconsin, USA Publicity Chair ------------------- Roopsha Samanta, IST, Austria Steering Committee --------------------------- Michael Gordon, University of Cambridge, UK Orna Grumberg, Technion, Israel Aarti Gupta, Princeton University, USA Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rlc3 at leicester.ac.uk Mon Oct 12 10:40:52 2015 From: rlc3 at leicester.ac.uk (Roy L. Crole) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:40:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Graduate Teaching Assistant (PhD) Position, University of Leicester, UK In-Reply-To: <561BC585.4070204@le.ac.uk> References: <561BC585.4070204@le.ac.uk> Message-ID: <561BC674.6080400@le.ac.uk> [ Dear Colleagues: Please bring this to the attention of potential PhD students. -- Thanks. Roy Crole. ] *Graduate Teaching Assistant. * Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK /As a Graduate Teaching Assistant you will be *expected to undertake teaching or system development related duties* within the Department, not normally exceeding seven contact hours per week during term, while *undertaking research leading to a PhD.*/ Package worth up to ?14,057 and an additional UK/EU fee waiver. Open ended subject to fixed term funding from 1 January 2016 to December 2019. For further information and to apply see http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/computer-science/postgraduate/research/gta-positions Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Professor Thomas Erlebach on te17 at le.ac.uk or 0116 252 3411. The closing date for this post is 6 November 2015. -- Dr R. L. Crole Department of Computer Science University Road University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom T: +44 (0)116 252 3404 E: rlc3 at le.ac.uk W: www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/rlc3 Times Higher Awards Winner 2007-2015 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daniela.petrisan at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 05:54:24 2015 From: daniela.petrisan at gmail.com (Daniela Petrisan) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:54:24 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships Message-ID: The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley invites applications for Research Fellowships for academic year 2016-17. Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships are an opportunity for outstanding junior scientists (at most 6 years from PhD by Fall 2016) to spend one or both semesters at the Institute in connection with one or more of its programs. The programs for 2016-17 are as follows: * Algorithms and Uncertainty (Fall 2016) * Logical Structures in Computation (Fall 2016) * Foundations of Machine Learning (Spring 2017) * Pseudorandomness (Spring 2017) Applicants who already hold junior faculty or postdoctoral positions are welcome to apply. In particular, applicants who hold, or expect to hold, postdoctoral appointments at other institutions are encouraged to apply to spend one semester as a Simons-Berkeley Fellow subject to the approval of the postdoctoral institution. Further details and application instructions can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2016. Information about the Institute and the above programs can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu. 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The key focus of the conference is the quest for high-level abstractions that can capture interaction patterns and mechanisms occurring at all levels of the software architecture, up to the end-user domain. COORDINATION 2016 seeks high-quality contributions on the usage, study, formal analysis, design, and implementation of languages, models, and techniques for coordination in distributed, concurrent, pervasive, and parallel software-intensive computing systems. COORDINATION 2016 seeks as well to adapt and integrate traditional COORDINATION techniques in the realm of multi-agent systems (MAS), which typically involve more coarse-grained (cognitive, intelligent, goal-oriented) components. Main topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: * Models and paradigms * Programming abstractions and languages * Foundations, types and semantics * Specification and verification * Middlewares and architectures * Distributed, mobile and networked computing * Parallel and high-performance computing * Nature- and bio-inspired approaches * Self-adaptation, self-organisation and autonomic computing * Collective systems, ensembles, federations, and systems-of-systems * Teamwork, distributed problem solving and collective intelligence * Multiagent systems, auction, negotiation, argumentation, and rational agents * Trust, policies, reputation and security * Applications and case studies SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION We solicit papers describing thorough and complete research results and/or experience reports on applications and cases studies of coordination. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's codes of conduct). The submissions must not exceed 16 pages in length, including figures and references, prepared using Springer's LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted as PDF or PS via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2016 POST-PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION Relevant, high-quality papers will be invited to a special issue of a highly reputed journal. Previous special issues are under preparation within the journal on Logical Methods in Computer Science ( http://www.lmcs-online.org/). INVITED SPEAKER Vijay Saraswat (IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA) PC CHAIRS Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Jos? Proen?a (KU Leuven, Belgium and University of Minho, Portugal) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Lu?s Barbosa (University of Minho, Portugal) Jacob Beal (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Frank de Boer (CW and Leiden University, The Netherlands) Olivier Boissier (Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines of Saint-Etienne, France) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Tevfik Bultan (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Carlos Canal (University of M?laga, Spain) Dave Clarke (Uppsala University, Sweden) Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand) Ferruccio Damiani (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Rocco De Nicola (IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) Val?rie Issarny (Inria, France) Rania Khalaf (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Ramtin Khosravi (University of Tehran, Iran) Natallia Kokash (Leiden University, the Netherlands) Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy) Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Sun Meng (Peking University, China) Flemming Nielson (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Mirko Viroli (University of Bologna, Italy) Takuo Watanabe (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Martin Wirsing (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) STEERING COMMITTEE Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands) (Chair) Dave Clarke (Uppsala University, Sweden) Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) Eva K?hn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) Rocco De Nicola (IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Rosario Pugliese (Universit? di Firenze, Italy) Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Vasco T. 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The salary for this position will be substantially higher than the standard membership salary. Vladimir. From ccshan at indiana.edu Wed Oct 14 16:54:43 2015 From: ccshan at indiana.edu (Chung-chieh Shan) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:54:43 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Friday: probabilistic programming semantics workshop Message-ID: <20151014205442.GA10815@kind.bostoncoop.net> Workshop on probabilistic programming semantics (PPS 2016) Colocated with POPL 2016 (St Petersburg, Florida, United States) http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pps-2016 Call for extended abstracts Probabilistic programming is the idea of expressing probabilistic models and inference methods as programs and transformations, to ease use and reuse. The recent rise of practical implementations as well as research activity in probabilistic programming has renewed the need for semantics to help us share insights and innovations. This workshop aims to bring programming-language and machine-learning researchers together to advance the semantic foundations of probabilistic programming. Topics include but are not limited to: * the denotational semantics of probabilistic functions, open universe, loops, and conditioning; * the operational semantics of sampling, exact inference, and MCMC transitions; * axiomatic and equational reasoning; * types and polymorphism; * and last but not least, how semantics informs any aspect of probabilistic programming, be it design, theory, implementation, or applications. We expect this workshop to be informal, and our goal is to foster collaboration and establish common ground. Thus, the proceedings will not be a formal or archival publication, and we expect to spend only a portion of the workshop day on traditional research talks. Nevertheless, as a concrete basis for fruitful discussions, we call for extended abstracts describing specific and ideally ongoing work on probabilistic programming semantics. Extended abstracts are up to 2 pages in PDF format. Please submit them by October 16 using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pps2016 Friday, October 16, 2015: Submissions due Friday, November 6, 2015: Author notification Friday, December 11, 2015: Final papers due Saturday, January 23, 2016: Workshop, colocated with POPL Program committee: * Chung-chieh Shan, Indiana University (chair) * Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University (chair) * Cameron Freer, MIT * Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University * Suresh Jagannathan, DARPA * Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley * Chad Scherrer, Galois, Inc. * Mitchell Wand, Northeastern University * Frank Wood, University of Oxford From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Thu Oct 15 03:41:48 2015 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:41:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Workshops - FSCD 2016 (Deadline: October 31) Message-ID: [apologies for cross posting] -------------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2016 Second Call for Workshops (Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction, June 2016, Porto, Portugal) -------------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2016 will be the first edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. The first FSCD will take place in Porto (Portugal), between 22 and 26 of June 2016, and will be followed by IJCAR (Coimbra, Portugal). The FSCD conference was created by the communities behind the two major conferences: * RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) * TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications) The new conference, Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction, will not only combine their scope but further extend it to cover all the inter-related formal areas that researchers in formal structures for computation and deduction engage in. Our community believes that these fields have evolved and developed richer connections with many both practical and theoretical aspects of computer science and logic research since the creation of RTA in 1983 and TLCA in 1993. The FSCD 2016 organising committee invites proposals for satellite events that are related to topics covered by FSCD. FSCD aims to cover all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. We encourage submissions in both the areas traditionally covered by RTA and TLCA as well as any of the new topics in the list available from: http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt . Workshops are expected to run for up to two days (possibilities of longer workshops should be discussed with the organisers). Attendance to workshops is open to participants of parallel events. We plan to schedule workshops in the last two days of the event, with one day (Sunday, June 26, 2016) reserved for workshops only. However, it will also be possible to run workshops on the other days in parallel with the main conference. Proposals should be submitted as a PDF file, containing the following information: * Workshop title, description of the topic and its relevance to FSCD * Names and affiliations of the organisers * Pointers to information about past editions of the event (if applicable) * Proposed workshop duration (from one day to two days) an proposed format (for example, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) * Plans for invited speakers or special sessions (round-table discussion, tutorials, etc.) * Estimate on the number of participants * Procedures for selecting papers and participants and plans for the publication of proceedings (informal proceedings distributed to participants, electronic journal, proceedings with separate selection process, etc.) * Tentative schedule for paper submission, notification of acceptance and final versions for the (informal pre-)proceedings (the FSCD 2016 organising committee will need the final files by June 1, 2016) * A brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website and other publicity material of FSCD 2016 * Other potential organisational issues, such as special space requirements, etc. The organisers of FSCD 2016 satellite events are expected to: * Create and maintain a website for the event * Deal with all the matters related to the event's programme, such as: form a PC; produce a call for papers for the event (if appropriate); review the submissions received; make acceptance decisions; appoint session chairs, etc * Advertise the event through specialist mailing lists etc. to complement the publicity of FSCD 2016 * Prepare the informal pre-proceedings for the event (if applicable) as well as the event's programme, complying with the scheduling constraints given by the FSCD 2016 organising committee * Prepare and organise the publication of formal (post)proceedings (if desired). The FSCD 2016 organising committee will: * Promote the event on the website and in the publicity material of FSCD 2016 * Deal with the scheduling and integration of the event's program into the overall program of the conference * Deal with the registration for the event as a component of registration for FSCD * Produce and distribute a USB memory stick containing the informal (pre)proceedings of the satellite events * Provide the event with a meeting room of an appropriate size, A/V equipment, coffee breaks and lunch(es). Since the priority of FSCD will be to keep registration fees for the conferences and workshops low, we will not be able to reimburse invited workshop speakers for travel or living expenses, although we anticipate waiving the registration fees for invited speakers. Submission: Proposals to organise a satellite event for FSCD 2016, should be submitted by email to fscd2016 at dcc.fc.up.pt , or directly to the Workshop Chair, Sabine Broda (sbb at dcc.fc.up.pt ). 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At the meeting, we will discuss upcoming new features, see talks and demonstrations of exciting current projects, solicit feedback for potential future changes, and generally work to strengthen the vibrant community around our favorite proof assistant. Topics in scope: * General purpose libraries and tactic language extensions. * Domain-specific libraries aroud programming language formalization and verification; * Tools, in the form of IDEs, profilers, tracers, debuggers, and testing tools; * Experiment reports, general practice and experience with Coq, e.g., in an education or industry context. To foster open discussion of cutting edge research which can later be published in full conference proceedings, we will not publish papers from the workshop. However, presentations will be recorded and the videos made publicly available. Workshop Format --------------- The workshop format will be driven by you, members of the community. We will solicit abstracts for talks and proposals for demonstrations and flesh out format details based on responses. We expect the final program to include experiment reports, panel discussions, and invited talks. Talks will be selected according to relevance to the workshop, based on the submission of an extended abstract. Submission Details ------------------ * Abstract Submission : Friday, October, 23rd, 2015 * Author Notification : Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 * Workshop : Saturday, January 23rd, 2016 Submissions should be extended abstracts of 1--2 pages in portable document format (PDF). Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coqpl2016 Program Committee ----------------- Arthur Chargu?raud, Inria (chair) Adam Chlipala, MIT CSAIL Jacques Garrigue, Nagoya University Randy Pollack, Harvard University Alan Schmitt, Inria Matthieu Sozeau, Inria Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania Contact ----------------- For any queries, please contact : coqpl2016 at easychair.org. From jnfoster at cs.cornell.edu Sat Oct 17 22:03:38 2015 From: jnfoster at cs.cornell.edu (Nate Foster) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:03:38 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SOSR CFP: abstracts 26 Oct, submissions 30 Oct Message-ID: SOSR is a new conference on software-defined networking research, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and co-located with the Open Networking Summit (a large industrial conference) and USENIX NSDI. Work at the intersection of programming languages, formal methods, and networking is very much within scope. If you are doing work in this area, please consider submitting. Regards, Nate The Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) is the premiere venue for research publications on SDN, building on past years' successful SOSR and HotSDN (Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking) workshops. This year, SOSR will be co-located with the Open Networking Summit (ONS) and the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'16), providing greater opportunity for industry and academia to jointly explore and debate recent developments related to all aspects of SDN. SOSR will accept both short (6-page) and long (12 page) papers, covering everything from radical ideas to deployed systems related to Software-Defined Networking. Important Dates ? 5pm PST Monday October 26 (midnight GMT): Abstract registration ? 5pm PST Friday October 30 (midnight GMT): Paper submission ? December 18: Notification ? 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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. The symposium is devoted to foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems: 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 For local arrangements and registration, please see http://pl.postech.ac.kr/aplas2015/. === Organizers General chair Sungwoo Park, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea Program chair Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China Program committee James Brotherston, University College London, UK James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK Huimin Cui, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Mike Dodds, University of York, UK Xinyu Feng (Chair), University of Science and Technology of China, China Nate Foster, Cornell University, USA Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Aquinas Hobor, School of Computing, National University of Singapore / Yale-NUS College, Singapore Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University, Korea Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, USA Annie Liu, Stony Brook University, USA Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Santosh Nagarakatte, Rutgers University, USA David A. Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Michael Norrish, NICTA, Australia Hakjoo Oh, Korea University, Korea Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Indian Institute of Science, India Xavier Rival, CNRS / ENS / INRIA, France Kohei Suenaga, Kyoto University, Japan Gang Tan, Lehigh University, USA Alwen Tiu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK Lijun Zhang, Institute of Software, CAS, China Poster session chair Hyeonseung Im, Kangwon National University, Korea Local organizer Gyesik Lee, Hankyong National University, Korea From g.bargiannis at hud.ac.uk Mon Oct 19 05:11:21 2015 From: g.bargiannis at hud.ac.uk (George Baryannis) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:11:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 11th International Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec 2016): First Call For Papers Message-ID: <5624B3B9.7070907@hud.ac.uk> [We apologize for multiple copies] ***************************************************************** First Call for Papers DisCoTec 2016 11th International Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques http://2016.discotec.org/ Heraklion, Greece, 6-9 June 2016 ***************************************************************** The DisCoTec series of federated conferences is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information processing (IFIP). The main conferences are: * COORDINATION * DAIS * FORTE This year IFIP offers an award for the best paper of DisCoTec. All conferences share the same deadlines: * Important Dates * Abstract submission: February 1, 2016 Paper submission: February 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2016 Camera-ready version: April 4, 2016 Early registration: May 9, 2016 Conference and workshops: June 6-9, 2016 * Invited Speakers * Tim Harris, Oracle Labs, UK Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA, France Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research, USA * General Chair * Kostas Magoutis, University of Ioannina & ICS-FORTH, Greece * Publicity Chair * George Baryannis, University of Huddersfield, UK * Workshops Chair * Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Steering Board * Elie Najm (Chair), Telecom-ParisTech, France Rocco de Nicola, University of Florence, Italy Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Farhad Arbab (Coordination), CWI, Netherlands Rui Oliveira (DAIS), University of Minho, Portugal Jean-Bernard Stefani (FORTE), INRIA, France Alain Girault, INRIA, France Uwe Nestmann, TU Berlin, Germany Michele Loreti, University of Florence, Italy Jim Dowling, KTH, Sweden Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Frank de Boer, CWI, Netherlands Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy * Publication * Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. ***************************************************************** COORDINATION 2016 18th IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages ***************************************************************** * Scope * COORDINATION 2016 is the premier forum for publishing research results and experience reports on software technologies for collaboration and coordination in concurrent, distributed, and complex systems. The key focus of the conference is the quest for high-level abstractions that can capture interaction patterns and mechanisms occurring at all levels of the software architecture, up to the end-user domain. COORDINATION 2016 seeks high-quality contributions on the usage, study, formal analysis, design, and implementation of languages, models, and techniques for coordination in distributed, concurrent, pervasive, and parallel software-intensive computing systems. COORDINATION 2016 seeks as well to adapt and integrate traditional COORDINATION techniques in the realm of multi-agent systems (MAS), which typically involve more coarse-grained (cognitive, intelligent, goal-oriented) components. Main topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: * Models and paradigms * Programming abstractions and languages * Foundations, types and semantics * Specification and verification * Middlewares and architectures * Distributed, mobile and networked computing * Parallel and high-performance computing * Nature- and bio-inspired approaches * Self-adaptation, self-organisation and autonomic computing * Collective systems, ensembles, federations, and systems-of-systems * Teamwork, distributed problem solving and collective intelligence * Multi-agent systems, auction, negotiation, argumentation, and rational agents * Trust, policies, reputation and security * Applications and case studies * Program Committee Chairs * Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Jos? Proen?a, KU Leuven, Belgium and University of Minho, Portugal ***************************************************************** DAIS 2016 16th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems ***************************************************************** * Scope * The DAIS conference series addresses all aspects of distributed applications, including their design, implementation and operation, the supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well as experimental studies and practice reports. This time we welcome particular contributions on architectures, models, technologies and platforms for large scale and complex distributed applications and services that are related to the latest trends towards bridging the physical/virtual worlds based on flexible and versatile service architectures and platforms. * Program Committee Chairs * Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK M?rk Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary ***************************************************************** FORTE 2016 36th IFIP International Conference on FORmal TEchniques for Networked and Distributed Systems ***************************************************************** * Scope * FORTE 2016 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: * Component- and model-based design * Object technology, modularity, software adaptation * Service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems * Software quality, reliability, availability, and safety; * Security, privacy, and trust in distributed systems; * Adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization; * Self-healing/organizing; * Verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of the above. Contributions that combine theory and practice and that exploit formal methods and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to problems arising from the development of distributed systems are encouraged. FORTE covers distributed computing models and formal specification, testing and verification methods. The application domains include all kinds of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. * Program Committee Chairs * Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy University of Huddersfield inspiring tomorrow's professionals. [http://marketing.hud.ac.uk/_HOSTED/EmailSig2014/EmailSigFooter.jpg] This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability. From dimitris at microsoft.com Mon Oct 19 10:28:04 2015 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:28:04 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Scholarship Applications: Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop - a POPL workshop (Deadline: October 23!)~ Message-ID: <92a0ab6eb3c148e29eeb80606cedd7c5@AM3PR30MB033.064d.mgd.msft.net> (apologies for multiple copies) FINAL CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS (Deadline this Friday: October 23!) ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Co-located with POPL 2016 PLMW web page: http://conf.researchr.org/home/PLMW-2016 After the resounding success of the first four Programming Languages Mentoring Workshops at POPL 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, we proudly announce the 5th SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), co-located with POPL 2016 and organised by Isil Dillig, Derek Dreyer, Ross Tate, and Dimitrios Vytiniotis. The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will bring together world leaders in programming languages research and teaching from academia and industry to provide (a) technical sessions on cutting-edge PL research and (b) mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. The workshop will engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. This workshop 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 should 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 as well. APPLICATION for PLMW scholarship. The scholarship application can be accessed from the workshop web site: http://conf.researchr.org/home/PLMW-2016 The deadline for full consideration of funding is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23. Selected participants will be notified by NOVEMBER 15 or earlier. SPONSORS: NSF ACM SIGPLAN Facebook Jane Street Capital Google Microsoft From jmadiot at cs.princeton.edu Mon Oct 19 20:12:37 2015 From: jmadiot at cs.princeton.edu (Jean-Marie Madiot) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:12:37 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [JFLA'16] Second call for papers Message-ID: (This message is intentionally written in French.) * Merci de faire circuler : deuxi?me appel ? communication * JFLA'2016 (http://jfla.inria.fr/2016/) Journ?es Francophones des Langages Applicatifs non loin de Saint-Malo (Bretagne), du 27 au 30 janvier 2016 Dates importantes ----------------- 23 octobre 2015 : date limite de soumission des r?sum?s 30 octobre 2015 : date limite de soumission des papiers 04 d?cembre 2015 : notification aux auteurs 18 d?cembre 2015 : remise des articles d?finitifs 27 au 30 janvier 2016 : journ?es Les JFLA r?unissent concepteurs, utilisateurs et th?oriciens ; elles ont pour ambition de couvrir les domaines des langages applicatifs, de la preuve formelle, de la v?rification de programmes, et des objets math?matiques qui sous-tendent ces outils. Ces domaines doivent ?tre pris au sens large : nous souhaitons promouvoir les ponts entre les diff?rentes th?matiques. . Langages fonctionnels et applicatifs : s?mantique, compilation, optimisation, typage, mesures, extensions par d'autres paradigmes. . Assistants de preuve : impl?mentation, nouvelles tactiques, d?veloppements pr?sentant un int?r?t technique ou m?thodologique. . Logique, correspondance de Curry-Howard, r?alisabilit?, extraction de programmes, mod?les. . Sp?cification, prototypage, d?veloppements formels d'algorithmes. . V?rification de programmes ou de mod?les, m?thode d?ductive, interpr?tation abstraite, raffinement. . Utilisation industrielle des langages fonctionnels et applicatifs, ou des m?thodes issues des preuves formelles, outils pour le web. Les articles soumis aux JFLA sont relus par au moins deux personnes s'ils sont accept?s, trois personnes s'ils sont rejet?s. Les critiques des relecteurs sont toujours bienveillantes et la plupart du temps encourageantes et constructives, m?me en cas de rejet. Il n'y a donc pas de raison de ne pas soumettre aux JFLA ! Cours invit?s ------------- . Pierre-Yves Strub (IMDEA Software Institute) . Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London) Expos?s invit?s --------------- . Patrick Cousot (New York University) . Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research) Comit? de programme ------------------- Jade Alglave Microsoft Research Cambridge et University College London (Pr?sidente) Julien Signoles CEA LIST (Vice-pr?sident) Thibaut Balabonski LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud Thomas Braibant Jane Street Sylvie Boldo Inria, LRI Cyril Cohen Inria Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e Claire David Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e Cezara Dragoi Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Jean-Marie Madiot Princeton University Gustavo Petri LIAFA ? Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7) Boris Yakobowski CEA LIST Soumission ---------- Nous accepterons deux types de soumissions : . Article de recherche de quinze pages au plus, portant sur des travaux originaux. Nous accepterons volontiers des travaux en cours (pour lesquels l'aspect recherche n'est pas enti?rement termin?) ; dans tous les cas, la forme de l'article devra ?tre soign?e. Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la conf?rence, les auteurs seront invit?s ? faire une pr?sentation en vingt-cinq minutes lors des journ?es. . Expos? court (dix minutes) pour d?crire un prototype, faire la d?monstration d'un outil, reparler d'un article d?j? publi?, rechercher de l'aide pour r?soudre un probl?me particulier. Dans ce cas, nous vous demandons seulement de soumettre un r?sum? de deux ? trois pages, qui nous permettra de s?lectionner les orateurs en cas de forte affluence. Date limite de soumission des r?sum?s : 23 octobre 2015 Date limite de soumission des articles : 30 octobre 2015 Les soumissions doivent ?tre d?pos?es sur Easychair, ? l'adresse suivante : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfla16 Elles peuvent ?tre r?dig?es en anglais. Elles sont limit?es ? 15 pages A4 et le style LaTeX est impos? : http://jfla.inria.fr/2016/actes.sty From morrisett at gmail.com Tue Oct 20 12:07:54 2015 From: morrisett at gmail.com (Greg Morrisett) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:07:54 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] post-doc position for CertiCoq project Message-ID: We're looking to hire a post-doc for the CertiCoq project: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/6543 The goal of CertiCoq is to build a compiler for Coq within Coq, as an alternative to the "extraction" mechanism, and to verify the correctness of the compiler. There are many interesting things to explore, from advanced optimizations enabled by the linguistic structure of Gallina, to foundational questions about how to preserve dependent-types through compilation. You can find out more about the project here: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/certicoq/ Please apply or consider pointing your brilliant students our way! Greg Morrisett Cornell University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de Tue Oct 20 15:09:27 2015 From: m.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de (Michael Kohlhase) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:09:27 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD and Postdoc Positions - KWARC, Jacobs University Bremen Message-ID: <56269167.6050302@jacobs-university.de> The KWARC group [1] at Jacobs University Bremen [2] is looking for Ph.D. candidates and PostDocs in multiple projects, e.g. [3,4]. See also http://www.jacobs-university.de/jobs/phd-and-postdoc-positions-kwarc-group Jacobs University Bremen is a private, English-speaking research university in Germany. The KWARC group conducts research on the representation and management of formal and informal knowledge in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Our interests cover the whole range from formal to informal knowledge and include - logics and foundations of mathematics - formalizing/verifying knowledge - informal and semi-formal documents (specifications, papers, web pages, etc.) - domain-specific applications (spreadsheets, CAD, etc.) - knowledge management (search, user interfaces, system integration, etc.) We build systems that cover these diverse areas uniformly and integrate across domains, languagues, and tools, always combinng logical correctness, wide-range applicability, and large-scale inter-operability. Interested candidates can introduce themselves or ask for further information by email to Prof. Michael Kohlhase Applications (including the usual documents) should be directed to the same email address. ------------------------------ We are generally flexible to develop PhD topics together with strong candidates. Some example PhD topics that could be assigned within these positions are given below. 1) A Universal Framework for Computation Our frameworks and infrastructure are already very strong for declarative, logical, and informal/narrative content, but lack deep support for computational content such as programming languages, algorithms, and libraries. Within this PhD thesis, we hope extend our OMDoc/MMT framework toward computational content. This would in particular include case studies in the OpenDreamKit project (e.g., programming languages like Scala or Python, computer algebra systems like SageMath or GAP, and their libraries). 2) Integrating Libraries and Databases of Mathematical Knowledge Recently computational mathematicians have built more and more libraries of mathematical objects and models. Examples are the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS), the FindStat library of combinatorial objects, the Library of L-Functions and Modular Forms (LMFDB), or the Math Geneology Project. In this PhD thesis, we want to extend our OMDoc/MMT framework with primitives for representing such libraries uniformly as theory graphs and extend our knowledge management algorithms to cope with these large data volumes. 3) Knowledge Management for Cognitive Enigineering Designing technical artifacts such as robots, cranes, or pens is a knowledge-based, document-centered process (see DIN 6221). In this PhD thesis, we want to apply formal and informal knowledge management (theory-graph) methods and active document technologies to the engineering process and the background knowledge. We want to build semantic sextensions to CAD systems and Office suites via our semantic alliance framework to allow Engineers to access the knowledge management solutions from their usual working environment. ------------------------------ [1] http://kwarc.info [2] http://www.jacobs-university.de [3] https://kwarc.info/projects/OAF The Open Archive of Formalizations will provide an open infrastructure to translate and share formalized mathematical knowledge such as theories, definitions, and proofs between mutually incompatible foundations (e.g., set theory, higher-order logic, constructive type theory, etc.), library formats, and library structures. The OAF system will be based on a uniform foundation-independent representation format for libraries, which allows formalizing the logical foundations alongside the libraries and thus acts as framework for aligning libraries. [4] http://opendreamkit.org/ The Open Digital Research Environment Toolkit for the Advancement of Mathematics will deliver a flexible toolkit enabling research groups to set up Virtual Research Environments, customised to meet the varied needs of research projects in pure mathematics and applications, and supporting the full research life-cycle from exploration, through proof and publication, to archival and sharing of data and code, including popular tools such as LinBox, MPIR, Sage(sagemath.org), GAP, PariGP, LMFDB, and Singular. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Michael Kohlhase, Office: Research 1, Room 168 Professor of Computer Science Campus Ring 1, Jacobs University Bremen D-28759 Bremen, Germany tel/fax: +49 421 200-3140/-493140 skype: m.kohlhase m.kohlhase at jacobs-university.de http://kwarc.info/kohlhase ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - The theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical approaches) - Coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for programming languages, dynamical systems, term rewriting, etc.) - Coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming - Model checking, theorem proving and deductive verification using coalgebraic techniques - Coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing - Proof principles and (coinductive) definitions for coalgebras (e.g. with bisimulations or invariants) - Coalgebras and algebras - Coalgebraic specification and verification - Coalgebras and (modal) logic - Coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems) - Coalgebra in quantum computing - Coalgebra and game theory - Tools exploiting colgebraic techniques Venue and event --------------- CMCS'16 will be held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, co-located with ETAPS 2016 on 2 - 3 April 2016. Keynote Speaker --------------- Jiri Adamek, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany Invited Speakers --------------- Andreas Abel, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Filippo Bonchi, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France Invited Tutorial Speakers ------------------------- There will be a special session on weighted automata, with invited tutorials by Borja Balle, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Alexandra Silva, University College London, United Kingdom Important dates --------------- Abstract regular papers 4 January 2016 Submission regular papers 13 January 2016 Notification regular papers 12 February 2016 Camera-ready copy 19 February 2016 Submission short contributions 22 February 2016 Notification short contributions 6 March 2016 Programme committee ------------------- Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Ichiro Hasuo (chair), University of Tokyo, Japan Tom Hirschowitz, CNRS and University of Savoie, France Bart Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Shin-ya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, Poland Barbara Koenig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Stefan Milius, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Matteo Mio, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Rasmus Mogelberg, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Larry Moss, Indiana University, United States Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Dirk Pattinson, Australian National University, Australia Daniela Petrisan, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Jean-Eric Pin, CNRS and Paris Diderot University, France John Power, University of Bath, United Kingdom Jurriaan Rot, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Jan Rutten, CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Alexandra Silva, University College London, United Kingdom Joost Winter, University of Warsaw, Poland James Worrell, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Publicity chair --------------- Fabio Zanasi, ENS Lyon, France PC chair -------- Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, Japan Submission guidelines --------------------- We solicit two types of contributions: regular papers and short contributions. Regular papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They should not exceed 20 pages in length in Springer LNCS style. Short contributions may describe work in progress, or summarise work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere. They should be no more than two pages. Regular papers and short contributions should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcs2016. The proceedings of CMCS 2016 will include all accepted regular papers and will be published post-conference as a Springer volume in the IFIP-LNCS series. Accepted short contributions will be bundled in a technical report. From c.a.furia at gmail.com Thu Oct 22 10:29:53 2015 From: c.a.furia at gmail.com (Carlo Alberto Furia) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:29:53 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TAP 2016 (Tests & Proofs): CfP Message-ID: <5628F2E1.5040607@gmail.com> ================================================ TAP 2016 10th International Conference on Tests & Proofs 5-7 July 2016, Vienna, Austria Co-located with STAF 2016 http://tap2016.ist.tugraz.at Call for Papers ================================================ * Abstracts: 29 January 2016 * Papers: 5 February 2016 * Notifications: 15 April 2016 * Camera ready versions: 6 May 2016 The TAP conference promotes research in verification and formal methods that targets the interplay of proofs and testing: the advancement of techniques of each kind and their combination, with the ultimate goal of improving software and system dependability. Dijkstra's famous remark that "testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs" contributed to reinforcing the opinion that program testing and program proving are antithetical techniques. Under the traditional view, proving aims at establishing correctness, whereas testing aims at uncovering errors: a correct program needs no testing, and there's no point in trying to prove a buggy one. As a result, research in verification has historically been divided into separate communities, with only few interested in both testing and proving. This attitude has changed significantly over the last decade. Verification research has seen a convergence of heterogeneous techniques and a synergy between traditionally distinct communities. Testing and proving are increasingly seen as complementary rather than mutually exclusive techniques: formal testing can increase the confidence in the correctness of program parts that are hard to reason about formally, and proving can help make testing more efficient and systematic. The TAP conference aims to promote research in the intersection of testing and proving by bringing together researchers and practitioners from both areas of verification. Scope & Topics -------------- TAP's scope encompasses many aspects of verification technology, including foundational work, tool development, and empirical research. Its topics of interest center around the connection between proofs (and other static techniques) and testing (and other dynamic techniques). Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Verification and analysis techniques combining proofs and tests * Program proving with the aid of testing techniques * Deductive techniques (theorem proving, model checking, symbolic execution, SMT solving, constraint logic programming, etc.) to support testing: generating testing inputs and oracles, supporting coverage criteria, and so on. * Program analysis techniques combining static and dynamic analysis * Specification inference by deductive and dynamic methods * Testing and runtime analysis of formal specifications * Model-based testing and verification * Using model checking to generate test cases * Testing of verification tools and environments * Applications of testing and proving to new domains, such as security, configuration management, and language-based techniques * Bridging the gap between concrete and symbolic reasoning techniques * Innovative approaches to verification such as crowdsourcing and serious games * Case studies, tool and framework descriptions, and experience reports about combining tests and proofs Submissions ----------- TAP 2015 accepts regular-length research papers (16 LNCS pages + references), short papers (6 LNCS pages + references), and tool demonstration papers (8 LNCS pages + references). For details, see the submission instructions: http://tap2016.ist.tugraz.at/submission.shtml Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their TAP 2016 papers for a special issue of the Springer journal Formal Aspects of Computing (http://link.springer.com/journal/165). Organization ------------ PC Chairs: * Bernhard K. Aichernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria * Carlo A. Furia, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Program Committee: * Jasmin C. Blanchette, Inria Nancy and MPI Saarbruecken, France and Germany * Achim D. Brucker, SAP AG, Germany * Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, France * Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK * Juan Pablo Galeotti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina * Angelo Gargantini, Universit? di Bergamo, Italy * Alain Giorgetti, FEMTO-ST Institute and University of Franche-Comte, France * Christoph Gladisch, Bosch GmbH, Germany * Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany * Arnaud Gotlieb, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Ashutosh Gupta, Tata Institute, Mumbai, India * Reiner Haehnle, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, the Netherlands * Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven, Belgium * Nikolai Kosmatov, CEA LIST, France * Laura Kovacs, Chalmers and TU Wien, Sweden and Austria * Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan * Panagiotis (Pete) Manolios, Northeastern University, USA * Karl Meinke, KTH, Sweden * Brian Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark * Nadia Polikarpova, MIT, USA * Andrew J. Reynolds, EPFL, Switzerland * Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil * Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore * Nikolai Tillmann, Microsoft, USA * T. H. Tse, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA * Burkhart Wolff, University of Paris-Sud, France From jmadiot at cs.princeton.edu Fri Oct 23 11:40:00 2015 From: jmadiot at cs.princeton.edu (Jean-Marie Madiot) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:40:00 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [JFLA'16] Deadline Extension Message-ID: (This message is intentionally written in French.) * Merci de faire circuler : dates limites ?tendues * JFLA'2016 (http://jfla.inria.fr/2016/) Journ?es Francophones des Langages Applicatifs non loin de Saint-Malo (Bretagne), du 27 au 30 janvier 2016 Dates importantes ----------------- ** extension ** 28 octobre 2015 : date limite de soumission des r?sum?s ** extension ** 06 novembre 2015 : date limite de soumission des papiers 04 d?cembre 2015 : notification aux auteurs 18 d?cembre 2015 : remise des articles d?finitifs 27 au 30 janvier 2016 : journ?es Les JFLA r?unissent concepteurs, utilisateurs et th?oriciens ; elles ont pour ambition de couvrir les domaines des langages applicatifs, de la preuve formelle, de la v?rification de programmes, et des objets math?matiques qui sous-tendent ces outils. Ces domaines doivent ?tre pris au sens large : nous souhaitons promouvoir les ponts entre les diff?rentes th?matiques. . Langages fonctionnels et applicatifs : s?mantique, compilation, optimisation, typage, mesures, extensions par d'autres paradigmes. . Assistants de preuve : impl?mentation, nouvelles tactiques, d?veloppements pr?sentant un int?r?t technique ou m?thodologique. . Logique, correspondance de Curry-Howard, r?alisabilit?, extraction de programmes, mod?les. . Sp?cification, prototypage, d?veloppements formels d'algorithmes. . V?rification de programmes ou de mod?les, m?thode d?ductive, interpr?tation abstraite, raffinement. . Utilisation industrielle des langages fonctionnels et applicatifs, ou des m?thodes issues des preuves formelles, outils pour le web. Les articles soumis aux JFLA sont relus par au moins deux personnes s'ils sont accept?s, trois personnes s'ils sont rejet?s. Les critiques des relecteurs sont toujours bienveillantes et la plupart du temps encourageantes et constructives, m?me en cas de rejet. Il n'y a donc pas de raison de ne pas soumettre aux JFLA ! Cours invit?s ------------- . Pierre-Yves Strub (IMDEA Software Institute) . Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London) Expos?s invit?s --------------- . Patrick Cousot (New York University) . Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research) Comit? de programme ------------------- Jade Alglave Microsoft Research Cambridge et University College London (Pr?sidente) Julien Signoles CEA LIST (Vice-pr?sident) Thibaut Balabonski LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud Thomas Braibant Jane Street Sylvie Boldo Inria, LRI Cyril Cohen Inria Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e Claire David Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e Cezara Dragoi Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Jean-Marie Madiot Princeton University Gustavo Petri LIAFA ? Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7) Boris Yakobowski CEA LIST Soumission ---------- Nous accepterons deux types de soumissions : . Article de recherche de quinze pages au plus, portant sur des travaux originaux. Nous accepterons volontiers des travaux en cours (pour lesquels l'aspect recherche n'est pas enti?rement termin?) ; dans tous les cas, la forme de l'article devra ?tre soign?e. Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la conf?rence, les auteurs seront invit?s ? faire une pr?sentation en vingt-cinq minutes lors des journ?es. . Expos? court (dix minutes) pour d?crire un prototype, faire la d?monstration d'un outil, reparler d'un article d?j? publi?, rechercher de l'aide pour r?soudre un probl?me particulier. Dans ce cas, nous vous demandons seulement de soumettre un r?sum? de deux ? trois pages, qui nous permettra de s?lectionner les orateurs en cas de forte affluence. Date limite de soumission des r?sum?s : 28 octobre 2015 Date limite de soumission des articles : 6 novembre 2015 Les soumissions doivent ?tre d?pos?es sur Easychair, ? l'adresse suivante : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfla16 Elles peuvent ?tre r?dig?es en anglais. Elles sont limit?es ? 15 pages A4 et le style LaTeX est impos? : http://jfla.inria.fr/2016/actes.sty From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Fri Oct 23 19:51:13 2015 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:51:13 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP 2016 Call for Workshop and Co-located Event Proposals Message-ID: CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS ICFP 2016 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming September 18-24, 2016 Nara, Japan http://icfpconference.org/icfp2016/ The 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held in Nara, Japan on September 18-24, 2016. ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. Proposals are invited for workshops (and other co-located events, such as tutorials) to be affiliated with ICFP 2016 and sponsored by SIGPLAN. These events should be less formal and more focused than ICFP itself, include sessions that enable interaction among the attendees, and foster the exchange of new ideas. The preference is for one-day events, but other schedules can also be considered. The workshops are scheduled to occur on September 18 (the day before ICFP) and September 22-24 (the three days after ICFP). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: November 21, 2015 Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2015 Prospective organizers of workshops or other co-located events are invited to submit a completed workshop proposal form in plain text format to the ICFP 2016 workshop co-chairs (Andres Loeh and Nicolas Wu), via email to icfp2016-workshops at googlegroups.com by November 21, 2015. (For proposals of co-located events other than workshops, please fill in the workshop proposal form and just leave blank any sections that do not apply.) Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their event proposal is accepted by December 20, 2015, and if successful, depending on the event, they will be asked to produce a final report after the event has taken place that is suitable for publication in SIGPLAN Notices. The proposal form is available at: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2016-files/icfp16-workshops-form.txt Further information about SIGPLAN sponsorship is available at: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Proposals/Sponsored/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee The proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the ICFP 2016 organizing committee, together with the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee. Workshop Co-Chair: Andres Loeh (Well-Typed LLP) Workshop Co-Chair: Nicolas Wu (University of Bristol) General Co-Chair : Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University) General Co-Chair : Gabriele Keller (University of New South Wales) Program Chair: Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any queries should be addressed to the workshop co-chairs (Andres Loeh and Nicolas Wu), via email to icfp2016-workshops at googlegroups.com From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Oct 26 08:19:45 2015 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:19:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LICS 2016 - Call for Papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Thirty-First Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS) July 5?8, 2016, New York City, USA http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics16/ SCOPE The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed. We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. IMPORTANT DATES Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper. The exact deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE). Titles and Short Abstracts Due: January 11, 2016 Full Papers Due: January 18, 2016 Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: March 14-18, 2016 Author Notification: April 4, 2016 Final Versions Due for Proceedings: May 2, 2016 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All submissions will be electronic via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2016. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Every full paper must be submitted in the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings 2-column 10pt format and may not be longer than 10 pages, including references. The LaTeX style file is available from the conference website. The extended abstract must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference and to computer science, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical development directed to the specialist should follow. References and comparisons with related work must be included. (If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results may be included in a clearly-labeled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members.) Submissions not conforming to the above requirements will be rejected without further consideration. Paper selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of accepted papers. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are not allowed. Results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. The program chair must be informed, in advance of submission, of any closely related work submitted or about to be submitted to a conference or journal. Authors of accepted papers are expected to sign copyright release forms. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. SHORT PRESENTATIONS A session of short presentations, intended for descriptions of student research, works in progress, and other brief communications, is planned. These abstracts will not be published. Dates and guidelines will be posted on the conference website. KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER An award in honor of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. SPONSORSHIP The symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGLOG and the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, in cooperation with the Association for Symbolic Logic and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Natarajan Shankar, SRI International PROGRAM COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, U. Oxford Jiri Ad?mek, TU Braunschweig Amal Ahmed, Northeastern U. Albert Atserias, U. Polit?cnica de Catalunya Christel Baier, TU Dresden Paul Beame, U. Washington Lars Birkedal, Aarhus U. Udi Boker, IDC Herzliya Maria Paola Bonacina, U. Verona Ahmed Bouajjani, LIAFA, U. Paris Diderot Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Mumbai Yijia Chen, Fudan U. Robert Constable, Cornell U. Amy Felty, U. Ottawa Jane Hillston, U. Edinburgh Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto U. Neil Immerman, U. Massachussetts at Amherst Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul U. Jan Kraj??ek, Charles U. Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg U. Annabelle McIver, Macquarie U. Georg Moser, U. Innsbruck Anca Muscholl, LaBRI, U. Bordeaux Vivek Nigam, Federal U. of Para?ba Michele Pagani, PPS, U. Paris Diderot Christine Paulin-Mohring, U. Paris-Sud Nir Piterman, U. Leicester Jean-Francois Raskin, U. Libre de Bruxelles Alexandra Silva, UCL Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, U. Koblenz Lutz Stra?burger, INRIA Carolyn Talcott, SRI International Cesare Tinelli, U. Iowa Helmut Veith, Vienna U. of Technology Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Labs Ron van der Meyden, U. New South Wales CONFERENCE CHAIR Eric Koskinen, IBM Research WORKSHOP CHAIR Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Cachan PUBLICITY AND PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Sam Staton, U. Oxford GENERAL CHAIR Martin Grohe, RWTH Aachen University LICS STEERING COMMITTEE M. Abadi, R. Alur, P. Bouyer-Decitre, K. Chatterjee, M. Grohe, M. Hasegawa, T. Henzinger, E. Koskinen, S. Kreutzer, O. Kupferman, D. Miller, M. Mislove, L. Ong, C. Palamidessi, N. Shankar, A. Silva, S. Staton, M. Vardi. From A.Popescu at mdx.ac.uk Wed Oct 28 08:46:57 2015 From: A.Popescu at mdx.ac.uk (Andrei Popescu) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:46:57 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Programming Languages Meeting (S-REPLS 2) at Middlesex University London, Nov 20th Message-ID: <5F22105EAD3CAD4689EC4570AA1802B0BE6BFDD0E3@WGFP-EXMAV1.uni.mdx.ac.uk> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND TALK PROPOSALS South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) (Second Meeting) Friday, 20th November 2015 Middlesex University, Hendon, London NW4 4BT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= S-REPLS is a new and informal meeting for those with a professional interest in programming languages-whether it be academic or commercial-in the South of England region. The highly successful inaugural S-REPLS meeting was held on Thursday, 30th April at Wolfson College, Cambridge. It had one invited talk and four contributed talks. For this second edition, we are planning to have a blend of invited and contributed talks. We are delighted to have Phil Wadler (Edinburgh) as confirmed invited speaker and we are in the process of confirming with others. ** Please let us know if you are interested in giving a talk on an exciting programming language topic. You can do this by sending a proposed title and abstract to Andrei Popescu at a.popescu at mdx.ac.uk. There is, of course, a limited number of slots, so please contact us as early as you can. ** The event is hosted by the Foundations of Computing group at Middlesex University. The meeting will start around 12 noon and finish by 6 p.m. Lunch will be provided. There will be no charge for the event, although we would appreciate prior notice of attendance for catering purposes: please email a.popescu at mdx.ac.uk if you plan to attend. For the latest news, more information on the meeting, as well as a full programme of talks in due course, please see http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/foundations/s-repls-2/ We encourage everybody interested in this or future meetings to sign up to the S-REPLS mailing list. To subscribe, visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/srepls Jaap Boender, Raja Nagarajan and Andrei Popescu (organisers) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. 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For making a reservation at the conference hotel, see: http://lfcs.info/lfcs-2016/hotel-information/ or go to the hotel link at the lfcs '16 home page. (If you think the room is expensive, believe me, for Florida in winter on the beach, it's not.) To travel to the conference hotel, the closest airport is Ft. Lauderdale, followed by West Palm Beach and Miami. From any of those airports you can take a shared van ride with the Super Shuttle, or a taxi or similar service. Alternatively, cheaper and environmentally sounder, you can take a free bus shuttle to the Tri-Rail (local train) to the Deerfield Beach Station and a cab or similar service from there. (Keep your cell phone handy. Cabs are typically not waiting at the station. This is not Europe.) Amtrak also stops in Deerfield Beach. For questions about local arrangements, you can write to me at Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net. 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URL: From dlucanu at info.uaic.ro Wed Oct 28 13:26:44 2015 From: dlucanu at info.uaic.ro (Dorel Lucanu) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:26:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WRLA 2016: 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: <56310554.2080402@info.uaic.ro> ======================== Call for Papers ================================= WRLA 2016 11th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications An ETAPS 2016 satellite event Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-3, 2016 ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract deadline: January 6th 2016 * Submission deadline: January 10th 2016 * Author notification: February 14th 2016 * Workshop: Saturday April 2nd and Sunday April 3rd, 2016 AIMS AND SCOPE Rewriting is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication, and interaction. It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in various application domains. It also has good properties as a metalogical framework for representing logics. Several successful languages based on rewriting (ASF+SDF, CafeOBJ, ELAN, Maude) have been designed and implemented. The aim of WRLA is to bring together researchers with a common interest in rewriting and its applications, and to give them the opportunity to present their recent work, discuss future research directions, and exchange ideas. The 2016 edition of WRLA will mark its 20th anniversary since its first edition in Asilomar, California, in 1996. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: A. Foundations * foundations and models of rewriting and rewriting logic, including termination, confluence, coherence and complexity * unification, generalisation, narrowing, and partial evaluation * constrained rewriting and symbolic algebra * graph rewriting * tree automata * rewriting strategies * rewriting-based calculi and explicit substitutions B. Rewriting as a Logical and Semantic Framework * uses of rewriting and rewriting logic as a logical framework, including deduction modulo * uses of rewriting as a semantic framework for programming language semantics * rewriting semantics of concurrency models, distributed systems, and network protocols * rewriting semantics of real-time, hybrid, and probabilistic systems * uses of rewriting for compilation and language transformation C. Rewriting Languages * rewriting-based declarative languages * type systems for rewriting * implementation techniques * tools supporting rewriting languages D. Verification Techniques * verification of confluence, termination, coherence, sufficient completeness, and related properties * temporal, modal and reachability logics for verifying dynamic properties of rewrite theories * explicit-state and symbolic model-checking techniques for verification of rewrite theories * rewriting-based theorem proving, including (co)inductive theorem proving * rewriting-based constraint solving and satisfiability * rewriting-semantics-based verification and analysis of programs E. Applications * applications to logic, mathematics and physics * rewriting models of biology, chemistry, and membrane systems * security specification and verification * applications to distributed, network, mobile, and cloud computing * specification and verification of real-time, probabilistic, and cyber-physical systems * specifications and verification of critical systems * applications to model-based software engineering * applications to engineering and planning INVITED SPEAKERS TBA SUBMISSION We solicit submissions of regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress papers. Regular papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, include appropriate references, and comparison with related work. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Tool papers have to present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, emphasise the design and implementation, and give a clear account of the tool's functionality. The described tools must be publicly available via the web. Work-in-progress papers present early-stage work or other types of innovative or thought-provoking work related to the topics of the workshop. The difference between work-in-progress and regular papers is that work-in-progress submissions represent work that has not reached yet a level of completion that would warrant the full-refereed selection process. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit work-in-progress papers as this provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on ongoing work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. All submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers, and should be submitted electronically using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla2016 Regular and work-in-progress papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Tool papers can have a maximum of 6 pages including references and may have an appendix of up to 4 additional pages with usage details and tool demonstration. PUBLICATION All submissions will be evaluated by the program committee. Regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress papers that are accepted will be presented at the workshop and included in the pre-proceedings, which will be available during the workshop. Following the tradition of the last editions, it is expected the regular papers, tool papers, and invited presentations to be published as a volume in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series to be distributed after the workshop. A special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP) will be devoted to extended versions of selected papers from WRLA 2016. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kyungmin Bae, SRI International, USA Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy Stefan Ciobaca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Manuel Clavel, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Francisco Dur?n, Universidad de M?laga, Spain Joerg Endrullis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Santiago Escobar, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London, UK Kokichi Futatsugi, JAIST, Japan Thomas Genet, ISTIC/Universit? de Rennes 1, France J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA Helene Kirchner, INRIA, France Alexander Knapp, Universitat Augsburg, Germany Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania (chair) Salvador Lucas, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain Narciso Mart?-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jos? Meseguer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, Italy Pierre-Etienne Moreau, Universit? de Lorraine, France Vivek Nigam, Federal University of Para?ba, Brasil Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Miguel Palomino, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA-Lorraine Nancy, France Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Vlad Rusu, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe, France Ralf Sasse, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Traian-Florin Serbanuta, University of Bucharest, Romania Mark-Oliver Stehr, SRI International, USA Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany CONTACT INFORMATION For more information, please contact the organizers dlucanu at info.uaic.ro or visit the workshop web page http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/events/WRLA2016/ From marino.miculan at uniud.it Thu Oct 29 06:12:18 2015 From: marino.miculan at uniud.it (Marino Miculan) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:12:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] JLAMP - Special Issue on MetaModels for Process Languages - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <6FBAA782-9939-485D-9B33-EC82BD9AF235@uniud.it> JOURNAL OF LOGICAL AND ALGEBRAIC METHODS IN PROGRAMMING SPECIAL ISSUE ON METAMODELS FOR PROCESS LANGUAGES 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS *** Aims and Scope *** This special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming is devoted to the theory and applications of metamodels, i.e. framework theories which provide general, structural results simplifying and driving the analysis and development of specific models of systems and languages. Metamodels include algebraic effects, algebraic/bialgebraic specifications, bigraphical reactive systems, coalgebras, concurrent logical frameworks, monads, psi-calculus, SOS formats, term and graph transformation systems, tile models, ULTraS and FuTS, etc. We solicit contributions about theoretical results, tool implementations, real-world applications, case studies, new application areas, integration of meta-models with programming languages, etc. More details at http://discotec2015.inria.fr/jlamp-special-issue-on-memo/ *** Important Dates *** Submission of papers: November 15, 2015 First round reviews: February 28, 2016 Revision due: April 30, 2016 Acceptance notification: May 31, 2016 Final manuscript due: June 30, 2016 Submission of the final version: August 31, 2016 *** Guest Editors *** Thomas Hildebrandt - IT University, Copehagen Marino Miculan - University of Udine, Italy -- Marino Miculan - Dept Math Compu Sci, University of Udine marino.miculan at uniud.it http://www.dimi.uniud.it/miculan/ From tolmach at pdx.edu Thu Oct 29 11:16:57 2015 From: tolmach at pdx.edu (Andrew Tolmach) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 08:16:57 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty Position in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace References: <053334B1-EF33-47F7-A92A-D9D9151FF4E1@pdx.edu> Message-ID: <031F76CC-3267-48C1-9201-4922948E6C1C@pdx.edu> The Computer Science Department at Portland State University (PSU) is seeking to hire faculty to work in the broad area of secure and trustworthy cyberspace?including researchers who are applying formal methods, theorem proving, or programming languages to security problems. We invite applications for multiple tenure-track assistant professor faculty positions to begin Fall 2016. Exceptional applicants at other ranks will also be considered. Other specific areas of computer science under consideration are: artificial intelligence; machine learning; data mining; data-intensive systems; and networks and systems of connected things. Our department currently has 24 tenure-track faculty members and offers BS, MS, and PhD degrees. Portland State is Oregon?s largest university, and is located in downtown Portland, Oregon, offering proximity to world-class restaurants, cultural venues, exceptional outdoor activities, and collaborations with Portland?s burgeoning software industry. For more information and instructions on how to apply, please visit http://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/open-faculty-positions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Proposals must consist of the following two parts: -- Part I: Technical Information -- A short (about 1 page) scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance and relevance to CAV, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the verification community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). -- Part II: Organizational Information -- - contact information of the workshop organizers. - identifying a main contact for the workshop (i.e. a workshop chair). - the desired length of the workshop, (one or two days). - estimate of the audience size. - proposed format and agenda (for example, demo sessions, tutorials, etc.) - potential invited speakers. - procedures for selecting papers and participants. - plans for dissemination, if any (for example, special issues of journals). - special technical, AV, or USB stick needs. - links to a preliminary website of the workshop and call for papers (if possible). - information if workshop has been previously held. Important Dates: Proposals are due by December 1st by email to the Workshop chair. Organizers will be notified by December 8th, 2015. The workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated on the following criteria * Potential to advance state of the art in verification technologies, especially ability to break new ground. * Relevance to CAV. * Overlap of topics with other proposed workshops. * Past-successes of the workshop and association with previous CAV conferences. * Organizers' ability and experience to lead a successful workshop. All accepted workshops will be asked to provide a webpage, call for papers, and list of invited speakers. The workshop participants will be required to register for the workshop through the CAV main registration page. The registration rates for workshops will be set by CAV organizers in consultation with the workshop organizers, following rate structures similar to (but not the same as) those followed in the past. 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URL: From m.huisman at utwente.nl Mon Nov 2 10:39:36 2015 From: m.huisman at utwente.nl (m.huisman at utwente.nl) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:39:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP iFM 2016 (integrated Formal Methods), 1 - 3 June 2016, Reykjavik Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS iFM 2016 12th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods June 1-3, 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland http://en.ru.is/ifm/ ============================================================ === Important dates === Abstract submission: December 21, 2015 Paper submission: January 6, 2016 Paper notification: February 29, 2016 Final version: March 14, 2016 Conference: June 1-3, 2016 === Objectives and scope === Applying formal methods may involve the usage of different formalisms and different analysis techniques to validate a system, either because individual components are most amenable to one formalism or technique, because one is interested in different properties of the system, or simply to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding both modeling and analysis. The conference covers all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Formal and semi-formal modelling notations - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice - Hybrid systems - Program verification - Program synthesis - Model checking - Static analysis - Runtime analysis, monitoring, performance evaluation - Decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving - Software engineering - Component-based systems (compositional, embedded, distributed, etc.) - Testing - Abstraction and refinement === Submission guidelines === iFM 2016 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the overall theme of method integration. We solicit papers in the following categories: - research papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) - regular tool papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) - short tool papers (max. 8 pages including bibliography) - case study papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, a paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. Submissions should be made using the iFM 2016 Easychair site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ifm2016 Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files; we suggest to use the LaTeX2e package (the llncs.cls class file, available in llncs2e.zip and the typeinst.dem available in typeinst.zip as a template for your contribution). The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in ComputerScience series. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the early date, to be indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. === Invited speakers === Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Reiner Haehnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Edmund Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) === Workshops === iFM 2016 will be accompanied by a series of workshops. Further information is available from the conference website http://en.ru.is/ifm/ === Conference location === iFM 2016 is organized by the University of Reykjavik and will take place at the university campus in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. === Committees === General Chair: Marjan Sirjani (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Program Chairs: Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Workshop Chair: Marcel Kyas (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Wojciech Mostowski (Halmstad University, Sweden) Program Committee: Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Bernd Becker (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany) Clara Benac Earle (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (McMaster University, Canada) Ferruccio Damiani (Universita di Torino, Italy) Frank de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) Delphine Demange (University of Rennes 1/IRISA, France) Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Dilian Gurov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Holger Hermanns (Saarland University, Germany) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) Martin Leucker (University of Lubeck, Germany) Dominique Mery (Universite de Lorraine, LORIA, France) Rosemary Monahan (Maynooth University, Ireland) Nadia Polikarpova (MIT, USA) Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado, USA) Ina Schaefer (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany) Gerardo Schneider (Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Emil Sekerinski (McMaster University, Canada) Armando Tacchella (University of Genoa, Italy) Mark Utting (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) Kirsten Winter (University of Queensland, Australia) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Apologies for any duplicates. ] ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 25th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2016) March 17-18 2016, Barcelona, Spain Co-located with CGO, HPCA, PPoPP, and EuroLLVM http://cc2016.eew.technion.ac.il/ ********************************************************************** Important dates --------------- Abstracts due: 23 November 2015 (updated) Papers due: 30 November 2015 (updated) Author notification: 27 January 2016 Camera ready versions: 10 February 2016 Conference: 17-18 March 2016 Information ----------- The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest which include, but are not limited to: - Compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; code generation and optimization; - Run-time techniques, including memory management, virtual machines, and dynamic and just-in-time compilation; - Programming tools, including refactoring editors, checkers, verifiers, compilers, debuggers, and profilers; - Techniques for specific domains, such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments; - Design and implementation of novel language constructs and programming models. CC 2016 is the 25th edition of the conference. It will be co-located with CGO, HPCA, PPoPP, and EuroLLVM on March 17-18 2016, in Barcelona, Spain. Submission ---------- Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cc2016. Papers must be written in English and be submitted in pdf in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings format (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/, using the default 9pt font size). The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be made available freely for the period around the conference. Both regular papers (up to 11 pages) and tool papers (up to 2 + 3 pages), are invited. In tool papers the first part (2 pages) should describe the tool and the second (3 pages) explain the contents of the demo that will be presented with examples and screenshots. Submissions must adhere strictly to the page limits, including bibliography, figures, or appendices. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version ( listings, data, proofs) may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Organizers ---------- General Chair Ayal Zaks Intel and Technion, Israel Program Committee Chair Manuel Hermenegildo IMDEA SW Institute and Technical U. of Madrid, Spain Program Committee Raj Barik, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA Uday Bondhugula, IIS Bangalore Matthew Flatt U. of Utah Maria Garzaran, U. of Illinois UC and Intel Laurie Hendren, McGill U. Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA and T.U. Madrid Xavier Leroy, INRIA Ondrej Lhotak, U of Waterloo Francesco Logozzo, Facebook Antoine Mine, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Jose Morales, IMDEA SW Diego Novillo, Google Jens Palsberg, UCLA Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University Vijay Sundaresan, IBM Walid Taha, Halmstadt U. Zheng Wang, Lancaster U. Steering Committee Koen De Bosschere, Ghent U. Bjoern Franke, U. of Edinburgh Michael O'Boyle, U. of Edinburgh Albert Cohen, INRIA Web site http://cc2016.eew.technion.ac.il/ From eelcovis at gmail.com Wed Nov 4 03:51:17 2015 From: eelcovis at gmail.com (Eelco Visser) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:51:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor in Programming Languages at TU Delft Message-ID: The Software Engineering Research Group at TU Delft, The Netherlands is looking to strengthen its Programming Languages research program under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Eelco Visser. We aim at a broad program connecting logic, programming languages, and software engineering in order to improve the correctness, reliability, and security of software by using high-level, domain-specific formal specifications supported by tools such as certified compilers, model checkers, SMT solvers, and/or proof assistants. To that end, we are looking for an assistant professor to complement our current research strengths in language engineering and domain-specific languages with expertise in one or more of the following topics: software verification, language-based security, semantics engineering, software synthesis, program analysis, type systems, execution engines, performance engineering. See http://recruitment2.tudelft.nl/vacatures/index.php?lang=en&id=564299&type=a for further information and application instructions. Applicants are encouraged to submit materials by December 1, 2015. However, the position will remain open until filled. For additional information contact Prof. Eelco Visser at e.visser at tudelft.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. ======================================================================= Call for Papers 8th Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2016) July 7th-8th, 2016, Bologna, Italy Abstract Submission: Sun, January 31th, 2016 Submission Deadline: Sun, February 7th, 2016 http://www.reversible-computation.org ======================================================================= Reversible computation has a growing number of promising application areas such as low power design, coding/decoding, program debugging, testing, database recovery, discrete event simulation, reversible algorithms, reversible specification formalisms, reversible programming languages, process algebras, and the modeling of biochemical systems. Furthermore, reversible logic provides a basis for quantum computation with its applications, for example, in cryptography and in the development of highly efficient algorithms. First reversible circuits and quantum circuits have been implemented recently and are seen as promising alternatives to conventional CMOS technology. The conference will bring together researchers from computer science, mathematics, and physics to discuss new developments and directions for future research in Reversible Computation. This includes applications of reversibility in quantum computation. Research papers, tutorials, tool demonstrations, and work-in-progress reports are within the scope of the conference. Contributions on the following topics in Reversible Computation are welcome: * Applications * Architectures * Algorithms * Circuit Design * Debugging * Fault Tolerance and Error Correction * Hardware * Information Theory * Physical Realizations * Programming Languages * Quantum Computation * Software * Synthesis * Theoretical Results * Testing * Verification ===== Important Dates ===== - Abstract Submission: Sun, January 31th, 2016 - Submission Deadline: Sun, February 7th, 2016 - Notification to Authors: Sun, March 21st, 2016 - Final Version: Sun, April 10th, 2016 - Conference: Thu-Fri, July 7th and 8th, 2016 ===== Invited speakers ===== * Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) * Austin Fowler (Google) ===== Paper submission ===== Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The submissions must be prepared using Springer?s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the specified constraints may be rejected without review. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the RC 2016 interface of the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rc2016 We solicit the following kinds of submissions: - full research papers (16 pages maximum) - tutorials (16 pages maximum), - work-in-progress or tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum). Additional material intended for 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 are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. 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 (to be confirmed). ===== Program Chairs ===== Ivan Lanese University of Bologna/INRIA Italy Simon Devitt National Institute of Informatics Japan ===== Program Committee (to be completed) ===== * Michael Bremner (University of Technology, Australia) * Andrew Cross (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US) * Gerhard Dueck (University of New Brunswick, Canada) * Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, UK) * Robert Gl?ck (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland) * Rodney Van Meter (Keio University, Japan) * Michael Miller (University of Victoria, Canada) * Alexandru Paler (University of Passau, Germany) * Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US) * Ulrik Schultz (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) * Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, Canada) * Indranil Sengupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India) * Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) * Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, France) * Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) * Beno?t Valiron (CentraleSup?lec, France) * Robert Wille (University of Bremen, Denmark) * Tetsuo Yokoyama (Nanzan University, Japan) ===== Conference Organizer ===== Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Bologna, Italy) ivan.lanese at gmail.com info at reversible-computation.org http://www.reversible-computation.org From streicher at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de Thu Nov 5 08:32:15 2015 From: streicher at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de (Thomas Streicher) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 14:32:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD in Logic 2016 Message-ID: <20151105133214.GA31736@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de> We would like to announce the following event: Call for submissions: PhDs in Logic VIII, Darmstadt, May 9-11, 2016 "PhDs in Logic" is an annual graduate conference organised by local graduate students. This conference has an interdisciplinary character, welcoming contributions to various topics in Mathematical Logic, Philosophical Logic, and Logic in Computer Science. It involves tutorials by established researchers as well as short presentations by PhD students on their research. We are happy to announce that the next edition of "PhDs in Logic" will take place in Darmstadt, Germany, during May 9-11 2016, hosted by the Logic research group of the Department of Mathematics, TU Darmstadt. Confirmed tutorial speakers are : Mirna Dzamonja (University of East Anglia, UK) Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Ulrich Kohlenbach (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Martin Otto (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Registration and abstract submission for interested PhD students are now open. We welcome contributions from any general field of Logic. The deadline for abstract submission is February 7, 2016. For more information please see: http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/fbereiche/logik/phdsinlogic2016/?site=home Local organisers: Julian Bitterlich, Felix Canavoi, Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki, Daniel Koernlein, Florian Steinberg Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Department of Mathematics Logic Group http://www3.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/en/ags/ag-logik/arbeitsgruppe-logik.html Schlo?gartenstr. 7 64289 Darmstadt Germany From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Sun Nov 8 07:59:51 2015 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 13:59:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CCC 2014; postproceedings; call for submission Message-ID: Continuity, Computability, Constructivity: From Logic to Algorithms 2015 Postproceedings Call for Submissions After a further year of successful work in the EU-IRSES project COMPUTAL and an excellent workshop in Kochel (Germany) in September this year, we are planning to publish a collection of papers dedicated to the meeting and the project as a part of LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 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: Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK) Willem Fouch? (UNISA, Pretoria) Arno Pauly (Brussels, Belgium) Dieter Spreen (Siegen, Germany) Martin Ziegler (KAIST, South Korea) DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 1 March 2016 If you intend to submit a paper, please send a corresponding email to spreen at math.uni-siegen.de till 1 February 2016 You will then receive concrete submission instructions and a Special-Issue-Code allowing you to submit your paper for the special issue. 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URL: From S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl Sat Nov 7 17:37:50 2015 From: S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl (Sung-Shik Jongmans) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 23:37:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Winter School on Formal Methods In-Reply-To: <1284697843.584399.1446935458710.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> References: <1668288463.574891.1446932082051.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> <1723735753.576333.1446932411864.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> <1284697843.584399.1446935458710.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> Message-ID: <1204808564.584818.1446935870166.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> **************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The First IPM Advanced School on Computing: Formal Methods for Design and Analysis of Computer Systems Tehran, Iran, 11-15 January 2016 http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016 PRECEDED BY The First IPM Formal Methods Day Tehran, Iran, 10 January, 2016 http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/fmd2016 **************************************************************** ABSTRACT: This advanced school brings together experts from different areas of formal methods to present state of the art in formal methods and logical reasoning techniques in design and analysis of computer systems. The school will cover topics from Model Checking, Process Algebra, Logic, Concurrency Theory and Quantum Computing. Our goal is to demonstrate the importance of foundations and its connection to the design and rigorous analysis of computer systems. The level of lectures will be suitable for graduate students, young researchers and also experts from other fields of computer science who intend to establish interdisciplinary links with formal methods. This event proceeds by the IPM Formal Methods Day (http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/fmd2016). PROGRAM: * Joseph Sifakis: "Model-Based System Design" EPFL & Verimag/CNRS [Turing Award winner of 2007] * Wan Fokkink: "The Spirit of Multicore Computing" VU University Amsterdam * Jan Rutten: "Concrete coalgebra: an introduction by examples" Radboud University Nijmegen/CWI * Farhad Arbab: "Engineering of Highly Concurrent Systems" Leiden University/CWI * Elham Kashefi: "Measurement Calculus" The University of Edinburgh For a detailed program and information about the lecturers, please visit: * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/Programme.aspx * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/InvitedLecturers.aspx ACCOMMODATION: Participants can stay at the IPM guest house for the duration of the school. The IPM guest house is conveniently located in the same building as the lectures. * Single room (including breakfast): 60 EUR/night * Double room (including breakfast): 80 EUR/night All participants who stay at the IPM guest house can be picked up, by someone from IPM who speaks English, from Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) upon their arrival, by taxi. The taxi fee to the IPM guest house is roughly 40 EUR. Similarly, all participants can be dropped off at IKA after the school. FEE: * Regular: 400 EUR * Students: 200 EUR REGISTRATION: * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/Registration.aspx * Registration deadline: 20 December, 2015. * The participation in the school is subject to success in the selection process of the IPM School of Computer Science, based on academic merits of the applicants. All selected applicants will be notified via email by 25 December. ORGANIZERS: * Farhad Arbab, Leiden University/CWI * Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani, IPM CONTACT: * E-mail: asc at ipm.ir * Phone: +98 21 24509404 * Fax: +98 21 22825454 * Address: IPM School of Computer Science Farmanieh Campus, No. 70, Lavasani Av. (next to Kouhe Nour Building) Tehran, Iran -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: poster.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2271084 bytes Desc: not available URL: From frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr Sun Nov 8 05:56:58 2015 From: frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr (Frederic Loulergue) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 11:56:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD proposal, Huawei (Paris) & University of Orleans, France Message-ID: <563F2A7A.3090405@univ-orleans.fr> Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position in the Distributed and Parallel Computing team at Huawei (Paris) and in the Logic Modelling and Verification team at Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orleans, University of Orleans. Project: Static analysis, verification and generation of BSPlib programs Deadline: November 16, 2015 -- Pr. Frederic Loulergue College of Science & Technology Computer Science Department Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orleans (LIFO) Logic Modelling Verification (LMV) team Universite d'Orleans Bat. IIIA, rue Leonard de Vinci, B.P. 6759 F-45067 Orleans Cedex 2, France Tel: +33 (0)2 38 41 72 87 Fax: +33 (0)2 38 41 71 37 http://frederic.loulergue.eu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Although the interaction of databases and programming has a long history (the 15th biennial Database Programming Languages symposium was held in 2015), there has been a recent renewal of and broadening of interest in programming language techniques for dealing with data from several quarters in the last few years, including workshops at Microsoft Research (RADICAL 2010), ICFP (XLDI 2012), POPL (DDFP 2013, DCM 2014) and a Dagstuhl Seminar on Programming Languages for Big Data (December 2014). To recognise and encourage the publication of mature research contributions in this area, a special issue of the Journal of Functional Programming (JFP) will be devoted to the same theme. Full-length, archival-quality submissions are solicited on topics including both theoretical and practical contributions to functionally-inspired or declarative techniques for databases, data analysis, or high-performance computation. Examples include, but are not limited to: Data-Centric Programming Abstractions and Optimisations (Comprehensions, Monads); Emerging and Nontraditional Data Models; Language-Integrated Query Mechanisms; Language Support for Concurrency, Parallelism or Heterogeneous Computation; Probabilistic Programming and Machine Learning; Semantics and Verification of Data-Centric Systems; Type Systems for Data-Centric Programming; Language-Inspired Database System Implementation Techniques; Functionally-Inspired Translation Techniques (Continuations, Fusion) Reports on applications of these techniques to real-world problems are especially encouraged, as are submissions that relate ideas and concepts from several of these topics, or bridge the gap between theory and practice. Contributors to recent events mentioned above are encouraged to submit, but submission is open to everyone. Papers will be reviewed as regular JFP submissions, and acceptance in the special issue will be based on both JFP's quality standards and relevance to the theme. The special issue also welcomes high-quality survey and position papers that would benefit a wide audience. Authors are encouraged to indicate interest in submitting by April 1, 2016, to aid in identifying suitable reviewers. The submission deadline is May 1, 2016. The suggested submission length is 25-35 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices. Shorter submissions are encouraged; prospective authors of longer submissions should discuss their plans with the special issue editors in advance. Submissions that are based on previously-published conference or workshop papers must clearly describe the relationship with the initial publication, and must differ sufficiently that the author can assign copyright to Cambridge University Press. Prospective authors are welcome to discuss such submissions with the editors to ensure compliance with this policy. Submissions should be sent through the JFP Manuscript Central system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cup/jfp_submit For other submission details, please consult an issue of the Journal of Functional Programming or see the Journal's web page at http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_JFP To contact the editors with questions about this special issue, please use the following mail alias: pl-for-big-data-jfp-special-issue at googlegroups.com Guest Editors: James Cheney University of Edinburgh School of Informatics Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science 10 Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9AB Scotland Torsten Grust University of T?bingen Department of Computer Science Lehrstuhl f?r Datenbanksysteme Sand 13 72076 T?bingen Germany Editor in Chief: Jeremy Gibbons University of Oxford Department of Computer Science Wolfson Building Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD United Kingdom Schedule: Apr 1 2016: expressions of interest May 1 2016: submission deadline Oct 1 2016: first round of reviews Dec 1 2016: revision deadline Feb 1 2017: second round of reviews May 1 2017: final accepted versions due -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lkuper at cs.indiana.edu Tue Nov 10 14:37:55 2015 From: lkuper at cs.indiana.edu (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:37:55 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Off the Beaten Track 2016: Deadline extension and speaker funding opportunity Message-ID: ***Deadline extended to November 12 (AOE)*** # Call for Talk Proposals: Off the Beaten Track 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/OBT-2016-talks January 23, 2016 (co-located with POPL 2016, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA) ## Speaker funding opportunity OBT is pleased to be able to provide financial assistance for speaker expenses this year. If you have submitted or plan to submit a talk proposal and you want to request funding for travel, workshop registration, and accommodation while at the workshop, please complete the funding application form linked from the workshop website above. ## Background Programming language researchers have the principles, tools, algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This workshop?s goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often show up in our top conferences, but where programming language research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers and thus increase our community?s impact on the world. While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We are at least as interested in problems as in solutions. ## Scope A good submission is one that outlines a new problem or an interesting, underrepresented problem domain. Good submissions may also remind the PL community of problems that were once in vogue but have not recently been seen in top PL conferences. Good submissions do not need to propose complete or even partial solutions, though there should be some reason to believe that programming languages researchers have the tools necessary to search for solutions in the area at hand. Submissions that seem likely to stimulate discussion about the direction of programming language research are encouraged. Use your imagination. It's hard to imagine how a paper that discusses programming languages could be considered out of scope. If in doubt, ask the program chair. ## Prior OBTs 2016 marks the fifth year of OBT and of co-location with POPL. The previous four workshops were: * OBT 2015, Mumbai, India * OBT 2014, San Diego, USA * OBT 2013, Rome, Italy * OBT 2012, Philadelphia, USA ## Important Dates * Thursday, 12 November 2015: Submission deadline * Tuesday, 1 December 2015: Author notification * Saturday, 23 January 2016: Workshop ## Submission Please submit your talk proposal via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obt2016 All submissions should be in PDF format, two pages or less, in at least 10pt font, printable on US Letter paper. Authors are welcome to include links to multimedia content such as YouTube videos or online demos. Reviewers may or may not view linked documents; it is up to authors to convince the reviewers to do so. For each accepted submission, one of the authors will give a talk at the workshop. The length of the talk will depend on the submissions received and how the program committee decides to assemble the program. Reviewing of submissions will be very light. Authors should not expect a detailed analysis of their submission by the program committee. Accepted submissions will be posted as is on this web site. By submitting a document, you agree that if it is accepted, it may be posted and you agree that one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and give a talk there. There will be no revision process and no formal publication. ## Organizers General chair: * Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University Program chair: * Lindsey Kuper, Intel Labs Program committee: * Nada Amin, EPFL * Ken Eguro, Microsoft Research * Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University * Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University * Yu David Liu, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton * Emma Tosch, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Noam Zeilberger, MSR-Inria From Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net Wed Nov 11 07:13:04 2015 From: Lubarsky.Robert at comcast.net (Robert Lubarsky) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:13:04 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFCS registration deadline DEC 18, hotel deadline DEC 3 Message-ID: <002001d11c7a$5169efa0$f43dcee0$@comcast.net> SYMPOSIUM ON LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (LFCS'16) Boca Raton/Deerfield Beach (Florida Atlantic University), Florida, January 4-7, 2016 http://lfcs.info/lfcs-2016/ Registration is now open: https://fauf.fau.edu/NetCommunity/college-of-science/math/16-math-lfcs-sympo sium or from the registration link at the lfcs '16 home page. NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS DEC. 18. Limited financial support is available for students. To apply for this, write to Sergei Artemov: sartemov at gmail.com. For making a reservation at the conference hotel, see: http://lfcs.info/lfcs-2016/hotel-information/ or go to the hotel link at the lfcs '16 home page. (If you think the room is expensive, believe me, for Florida in winter on the beach, it's not.) NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR A HOTEL RESERVATION AT THE SEPCIAL CONFERENCE PRICE IS DEC. 3. To travel to the conference hotel, the closest airport is Ft. Lauderdale, followed by West Palm Beach and Miami. From any of those airports you can take a shared van ride with the Super Shuttle, or a taxi or similar service. Alternatively, cheaper and environmentally sounder, you can take a free bus shuttle to the Tri-Rail (local train) to the Deerfield Beach Station and a cab or similar service from there. (Keep your cell phone handy. Cabs are typically not waiting at the station. 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URL: From S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl Tue Nov 10 17:13:32 2015 From: S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl (Sung-Shik Jongmans) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:13:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Winter School on Formal Methods In-Reply-To: <1204808564.584818.1446935870166.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> References: <1668288463.574891.1446932082051.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> <1723735753.576333.1446932411864.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> <1284697843.584399.1446935458710.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> <1204808564.584818.1446935870166.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> Message-ID: <881167859.1196197.1447193612503.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> **************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The First IPM Advanced School on Computing: Formal Methods for Design and Analysis of Computer Systems Tehran, Iran, 11-15 January 2016 http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016 PRECEDED BY The First IPM Formal Methods Day Tehran, Iran, 10 January, 2016 http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/fmd2016 **************************************************************** ABSTRACT: This advanced school brings together experts from different areas of formal methods to present state of the art in formal methods and logical reasoning techniques in design and analysis of computer systems. The school will cover topics from Model Checking, Process Algebra, Logic, Concurrency Theory and Quantum Computing. Our goal is to demonstrate the importance of foundations and its connection to the design and rigorous analysis of computer systems. The level of lectures will be suitable for graduate students, young researchers and also experts from other fields of computer science who intend to establish interdisciplinary links with formal methods. This event proceeds by the IPM Formal Methods Day (http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/fmd2016). PROGRAM: * Joseph Sifakis: "Model-Based System Design" EPFL & Verimag/CNRS [Turing Award winner of 2007] * Wan Fokkink: "The Spirit of Multicore Computing" VU University Amsterdam * Jan Rutten: "Concrete coalgebra: an introduction by examples" Radboud University Nijmegen/CWI * Farhad Arbab: "Engineering of Highly Concurrent Systems" Leiden University/CWI * Elham Kashefi: "Measurement Calculus" The University of Edinburgh For a detailed program and information about the lecturers, please visit: * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/Programme.aspx * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/InvitedLecturers.aspx ACCOMMODATION: Participants can stay at the IPM guest house for the duration of the school. The IPM guest house is conveniently located in the same building as the lectures. * Single room (including breakfast): 60 EUR/night * Double room (including breakfast): 80 EUR/night All participants who stay at the IPM guest house can be picked up, by someone from IPM who speaks English, from Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) upon their arrival, by taxi. The taxi fee to the IPM guest house is roughly 40 EUR. Similarly, all participants can be dropped off at IKA after the school. FEE: * Regular: 400 EUR * Students: 200 EUR REGISTRATION: * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/Registration.aspx * Registration deadline: 20 December, 2015. * The participation in the school is subject to success in the selection process of the IPM School of Computer Science, based on academic merits of the applicants. All selected applicants will be notified via email by 25 December. ORGANIZERS: * Farhad Arbab, Leiden University/CWI * Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani, IPM CONTACT: * E-mail: asc at ipm.ir * Phone: +98 21 24509404 * Fax: +98 21 22825454 * Address: IPM School of Computer Science Farmanieh Campus, No. 70, Lavasani Av. (next to Kouhe Nour Building) Tehran, Iran -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: poster.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2271084 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Wed Nov 11 10:21:44 2015 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:21:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LICS 2016 - Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: Call for Workshop Proposals LICS 2016 31st ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics16/ The thirty-first ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science (LICS 2016) will be held in New York City, USA on July 5?8, 2016. It will be followed by IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence). The workshops will take place between the two conferences, on July 9?10, 2016. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics relating logic ? broadly construed ? to computer science or related fields. Typically, LICS workshops feature a number of invited speakers and a number of contributed presentations. LICS workshops do not usually produce formal proceedings. However, in the past there have been special issues of journals based in part on certain LICS workshops. Proposals should include: - A short scientific summary and justification of the proposed topic. This should include a discussion of the particular benefits of the topic to the LICS community. - A discussion of the proposed format and agenda. - The proposed duration, which is typically one day (two-day workshops can be accommodated too). - The preferred date. - Procedures for selecting participants and papers. - Expected number of participants. This is important for the room! - Potential invited speakers. - Plans for dissemination (for example, special issues of journals). Proposals should be submitted on the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=workshopslics2016 Important Dates: Submission deadline: December 4, 2015 Notification: December 18, 2015 Program of the workshops ready: April 29, 2016 Workshops: July 9?10, 2016 LICS conference: July 5?8, 2016. The workshops selection committee consists of the LICS General Chair, LICS Workshops Chair, LICS 2016 PC Chair and LICS 2016 Conference Chair. From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Wed Nov 11 10:55:55 2015 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:55:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VCLA International Student Awards - NOMINATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 22, 2015 Message-ID: <8857A056-878B-4D3D-9CE9-B4F5CF3E7BD9@tuwien.ac.at> ** NOMINATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 22, 2015 ** http://logic-cs.at/award/award-call-2015/ ******************************************************** The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms announces the 2015 edition of the ***** VCLA International Student Awards ***** and calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories: * Outstanding Master Thesis Award * Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (Bachelors or equivalent) In both categories, the work must make an original contribution to a research field that can be classified as part of Logic in Computer Science, understood broadly as the use of logic as a tool that enables computer programs to reason about the world. The main areas of interest are: * Databases and Artificial Intelligence * Verification * Computational Logic The committee will select a winner for each category. The winners will be invited to Vienna to present their project and participate in a festive award ceremony. Additionally, the Outstanding Master Thesis Award category is accompanied by a prize of 1,200 Eur, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award by a prize of 800 Eur. ******************************************************** Important dates: Nomination deadline *extended*: November 22, 2015 (AoE) Notification of the committee?s decision: early February 2016 Award ceremony: Spring 2016 For more information, please see http://logic-cs.at/award/award-call-2015/ ******************************************************** From a.popescu at mdx.ac.uk Wed Nov 11 13:45:08 2015 From: a.popescu at mdx.ac.uk (Andrei Popescu) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:45:08 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last call for participation: Programming Languages Meeting (S-REPLS 2) at Middlesex University London, Nov 20th Message-ID: <5F22105EAD3CAD4689EC4570AA1802B0BE6C611779@WGFP-EXMAV1.uni.mdx.ac.uk> Greetings, This is a gentle reminder that the second edition of S-REPLS will take place next week at the Middlesex University in London, with excellent speakers. Registration is still open (and free). All the best, Andrei =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ? ? ? ? ?? South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (Second Meeting) ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? Friday, 20th November 2015 ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? Middlesex University, Hendon, London NW4 4BT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= S-REPLS is a new and informal meeting for those with a professional interest in programming languages-whether it be academic or commercial-in the South of England region. The highly successful inaugural S-REPLS meeting was held on Thursday, 30th April at Wolfson College, Cambridge.? We are delighted to have Nick Benton (Microsoft Research), Paul Kelly (Imperial College London), Sam Staton (Oxford) and Phil Wadler (Edinburgh) as confirmed invited speakers.?In addition, we will have two contributed talks from excellent speakers. The event is hosted by the Foundations of Computing group at Middlesex University. The meeting will start around 12 noon and finish by 6 p.m. Lunch will be provided. There will be no charge for the event, although we would appreciate prior notice of attendance for catering purposes. Please email a.popescu at mdx.ac.uk if you plan to attend. For the latest news, more information on the meeting, as well as a full programme of talks, please see ??http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/foundations/s-repls-2/ We encourage everybody interested in this or future meetings to sign up to the S-REPLS mailing list. To subscribe, visit: ? ??http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/srepls Jaap Boender, Raja Nagarajan and Andrei Popescu (organisers) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. From bec at cs.colorado.edu Fri Nov 13 13:04:49 2015 From: bec at cs.colorado.edu (Bor-Yuh Evan Chang) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:04:49 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-Track Faculty Openings at the University of Colorado Boulder Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: Please consider applying or encourage your students and postdocs to apply for a tenure-track position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. We have multiple openings with one particular interest area being "secure and reliable software systems" (with an emphasis on software engineering and security). Applications will be evaluated beginning on November 9, 2015 with priority given to applications received by December 7, 2015, although applications will continue to be evaluated until the position is filled. Apply at http://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/109940. More details appear below. Best Regards, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang --- The Department of Computer Science (CS) at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks applications for multiple tenure-track positions. The openings are targeted at the level of Assistant Professor, but experienced candidates may be considered for Associate or Full Professor. Research areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the areas of secure and reliable software systems (with an emphasis in software engineering and/or security), network science, scientific data analysis and visualization, computer systems as applied to autonomous and networked devices, and theoretical computer science. Our department values inclusive excellence and we seek candidates that understand the benefits that diversity brings to scientific innovation and who, through their work, develop technologies that impact a wide range of communities. Our department is also responsive to dual career situations. Our vision of successful candidates are those who demonstrate the potential for excellence in both research and teaching, have a strong interest in interdisciplinary collaboration, and aim to lead a visible, externally funded research program. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in computer science or a related discipline and must show promise in their ability to develop an independent and internationally recognized research program. They must also display an ability, a record of excellence, and/or a commitment to teaching and working with undergraduate and graduate students of diverse backgrounds. Applications will be evaluated beginning on November 9, 2015 with priority given to applications received by December 7, 2015, although applications will continue to be evaluated until the position is filled. Applications must include a cover letter specifying the applicant's areas of specialization and describing their interest in the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder. Applications must also include a curriculum vita, statements of research and teaching interests, and names and contact information for three references. In their statements, candidates should describe and include specific examples of how their experience would contribute to the department's mission and values, including, but not limited to, their research record, pedagogical approaches, teaching content, mentoring and recruiting activities, community engagement, and experiences working with underrepresented communities. The Department's research and education efforts interact broadly with many interdisciplinary programs and collaborators in the Boulder area, including national labs at NIST, NOAA, NREL, and NCAR, and CU Boulder research institutes including the ATLAS Institute, the BioFrontiers Institute, and the Institute for Cognitive Science. The Department has a long-standing partnership with the National Center for Women and IT and has faculty active in increasing the broadening of participation in computer science via their research, teaching, and service. The Department also has extensive ties with the thriving local tech community and inhabits a picturesque location in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Applications are to be submitted on-line at http://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/109940. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdc at uwo.ca Fri Nov 13 13:50:39 2015 From: jdc at uwo.ca (Dan Christensen) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:50:39 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] fully funded graduate positions in Math at UWO Message-ID: <871tbtd98g.fsf@uwo.ca> [Note that we have a growing group working on Homotopy Type Theory and related areas, including Dan Christensen, Chris Kapulkin, Karol Szumilo, and several graduate students.] 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. Early applications are welcome, and we encourage applicants to apply for external scholarships they are eligible for. Please contact math-grad-program at uwo.ca with any questions you may have. From ceskalka at uvm.edu Sat Nov 14 09:26:21 2015 From: ceskalka at uvm.edu (Christian Edward Skalka) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:26:21 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure Track opening at University of Vermont Computer Science Message-ID: <20151114092621.Horde.54fRaJum_QlWR0SNlLRRYjA@webmail.uvm.edu> The College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont (UVM) invites applications for an assistant professor in Computer Science for a Fall 2016 start date. Potential candidates will be drawn from all areas of theoretical, systems oriented, or application driven Computer Science, with strong potential for external funding and high impact research. We give higher priority to the overall originality and promise of the candidate?s work than to the candidate?s subarea of specialization within Computer Science. However, particular emphasis will be given to candidates that complement existing strengths within the CS department (www.cs.uvm.edu), or who have the potential for significant interdisciplinary collaborations relevant to the greater UVM research community, such as environmental studies, health, biology, and neuroscience. In addition to the Computer Science program, resources and activities at UVM include: the Vermont Complex Systems Center (bit.ly/1KIXarI), the Vermont Advanced Computing Core (bit.ly/1KIXd6U), the Bioengineering Graduate Program (bit.ly/1N3dzrk), the Neuroscience Graduate Program (bit.ly/1IKxxAV), the Gund (bit.ly/SuXKAP) and Rubenstein (bit.ly/1NO2bkB) environmental institutes and the Transportation Research Center (bit.ly/1Q9puUu). The successful candidate will be housed with faculty from computer science, engineering, mathematics and the natural sciences in the STEM Complex (bit.ly/1Fk0ofh), a new facility that will combine laboratories, classrooms, and research facilities under one roof. The STEM Complex is a five minute walk from the academic medical center and hospital (bit.ly/1EBRS0fM). Applicants must have completed (or be completing) a Ph.D., have demonstrated the ability to pursue a program of research, and have a strong commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching. A successful candidate will be expected to teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as build, lead, and fund a team of graduate students in Ph.D. research. The applicant must submit a cover letter, CV, detailed research plan, statement of teaching philosophy, and names of at least three people who can provide letters of reference. All application materials must be submitted online at http://www.uvmjobs.com, (position number00023964). A background check will be conducted on the final candidate. Screening of applications will begin on November 15, 2015 and continue until the position is filled. From anya at ii.uib.no Mon Nov 16 10:27:53 2015 From: anya at ii.uib.no (Anya Helene Bagge) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:27:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EAPLS PhD Award 2015: Call for Nominations Message-ID: <5649F5F9.3040804@ii.uib.no> EAPLS PhD Award 2015: 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 January 2015 ? 31 December 2015 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=eaplsphd2015. 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. Questions can be directed to the PhD Award Chair, at anya at ii.uib.no 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. The final decision is made by the EAPLS board, based on the recommendation of the expert committee. 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 2015. 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 January 2016: Deadline for nominations 1 July 2016: Announcement of the award winner Expert committee ---------------- The expert committee includes: * Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen (chair) * Eerke Boiten, University of Kent * Marco Carbone, IT University of Copenhagen * Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, DEIB - Politecnico di Milano * Kei Davis, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Universit? di Torino * Josuka D?az-Labrador, Universidad de Deusto * Maribel Fernandez, KCL * Sabine Glesner, TU Berlin * Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria * Ralf L?mmel, Universit?t Koblenz-Landau * Axel Legay, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes * Ricardo Pe?a, Universidad Complutense de Madrid * Baltasar Tranc?n Y Widemann, TU Ilmenau * Phil Trinder, Glasgow University * Marko Van Eekelen, Radboud University Nijmegen * Peter Van Roy, Universit? catholique de Louvain From A.Popescu at mdx.ac.uk Mon Nov 16 11:51:42 2015 From: A.Popescu at mdx.ac.uk (Andrei Popescu) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:51:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] S-REPLS meeting this Friday in London: truly final (and desperate) call for participation Message-ID: <5F22105EAD3CAD4689EC4570AA1802B0BE6C732323@WGFP-EXMAV1.uni.mdx.ac.uk> Dear all, This is a less gentle reminder that the second edition of S-REPLS is this Friday at the Middlesex University in London. The talk titles and abstracts are now available online at http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/foundations/s-repls-2/ The meeting will take place in the historic Margaret Thatcher room in the Hendon Town Hall, which might be of interest at least to the supporters of John Major equality. Unfortunately, in spite of our excellent speakers and their interesting programming language topics, this high-capacity room will be half empty, hence the desperation. Registration is still open (and free). All the best, Andrei =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ? ? ? ? ?? South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (Second Meeting) ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? Friday, 20th November 2015 ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? Middlesex University, Hendon, London NW4 4BT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= S-REPLS is a new and informal meeting for those with a professional interest in programming languages-whether it be academic or commercial-in the South of England region. The highly successful inaugural S-REPLS meeting was held on Thursday, 30th April at Wolfson College, Cambridge.? We are delighted to have Nick Benton (Microsoft Research), Paul Kelly (Imperial College London), Sam Staton (Oxford) and Phil Wadler (Edinburgh) as confirmed invited speakers.?In addition, we will have two contributed talks from excellent speakers. The event is hosted by the Foundations of Computing group at Middlesex University. The meeting will start around 12 noon and finish by 6 p.m. Lunch will be provided. There will be no charge for the event, although we would appreciate prior notice of attendance for catering purposes. Please email a.popescu at mdx.ac.uk if you plan to attend. For the latest news, more information on the meeting, as well as a full programme of talks, please see ??http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/foundations/s-repls-2/ We encourage everybody interested in this or future meetings to sign up to the S-REPLS mailing list. To subscribe, visit: ? ??http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/srepls Jaap Boender, Raja Nagarajan and Andrei Popescu (organisers) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. From iliano at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Nov 17 10:21:48 2015 From: iliano at andrew.cmu.edu (Iliano Cervesato) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:21:48 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two postdoctoral positions Message-ID: <564B460C.8050103@cmu.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement] ======================================================================= Postdoctoral Position on Automated Verification of Properties of Concurrent, Distributed and Parallel Specifications Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar campus ======================================================================= We are seeking applications for a postdoctoral position in computational logic. The position is part of a common project on automated verification of properties of concurrent, distributed and parallel specifications with applications to computer security. The position is based on CMU's Qatar campus. Applicants should have a strong background and interest in some combination of type theory, proof theory, concurrency, logical frameworks, and linear or substructural logics. The position is expected to start in late 2015 or early 2016. Project page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~iliano/projects/metaCLF/ Application page: http://csjobs.qatar.cmu.edu ======================================================================= -- Iliano Cervesato www.cs.cmu.edu/~iliano/ Professor Carnegie Mellon University From ndanner at wesleyan.edu Tue Nov 17 12:43:34 2015 From: ndanner at wesleyan.edu (Norman Danner) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:43:34 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track position at Wesleyan University Message-ID: <564B6746.70201@wesleyan.edu> Wesleyan University is searching for a tenure-track position to start Fall 2016; please see the ad below. Although the targeted areas do not mention programming languages and types directly, we have a strong group in these areas and are open to qualified applicants in any area, so please do not let this be a constraint! - Norman Danner The official ad: The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University invites applications for a tenure track assistant professorship in Computer Science to begin in fall 2016. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in hand by the time of appointment, and must have a strong research record and experience in teaching. Wesleyan currently has a strong research group in theory, programming languages, and software engineering. Tenure track faculty in Computer Science at Wesleyan have a one-two teaching load (three courses per year). We encourage candidates in all areas of Computer Science to apply but the department is especially interested in databases, machine learning, natural language processing, software engineering and software systems. Prospective candidates should not feel constrained by this list, particularly those who would contribute to the diversity of the faculty. We will begin reviewing applications on Dec. 1, 2015. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, teaching statement and at least four letters of recommendation, one of which discusses teaching. As part of your teaching statement we invite you to describe your cultural competencies and experiences engaging a diverse student body. Applications must be submitted online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5939 Other correspondence regarding this position may be sent to cssearch at wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. We welcome applications from women and historically underrepresented minority groups. Inquiries regarding Title IX, Section 504, or any other non-discrimination policies should be directed to: Antonio Farias, VP for Equity & Inclusion, Title IX and ADA/504 Coordinator, 860-685-3927, afarias at wesleyan.edu. -- Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University From barbara.jobstmann at epfl.ch Tue Nov 17 15:42:24 2015 From: barbara.jobstmann at epfl.ch (Barbara Jobstmann) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:42:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Student Travel Grants for VMCAI 2016 (co-located with POPL 2016) in St. Petersburg, Florida Message-ID: The US National Science Foundation has provided funding to support student attendance at VMCAI 2016. Applicants must be registered students at an accredited US academic institution. Successful applicants will receive a grant to cover travel and other costs of attending VMCAI in St. Petersburg, Florida. Only students who are registered (or will register) for VMCAI, are eligible to apply. If you are interested, please send the following information to vmcai2016 at easychair.org: * Are you presenting a paper at VMCAI? If not, then a short paragraph on why you want to attend VMCAI. * An estimate of the cost (travel, registration, and accommodation). * A copy of your CV. Deadline for application: Dec 6th, 2015 For more details about VMCAI 2016, please visit http://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2016 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This includes research and tools related to grammarware (i.e., grammar-based software), automatic graph and term-rewrite systems as well as model-based transformations and analyses. These techniques have proven to be valuable in particular for the development of high-level translators and language abstractions, typically in terms of domain specific languages (DSLs). However, these kinds of research tools are not widely used for general purpose programming languages, let alone in the design of compiler backends. One reason for this is that high-quality compiler implementations for languages like C, C++ or Java are provided by established hand-written compiler infrastructures like GCC, LLVM or ICC. And because languages and computer architectures have been relatively stable, maintenance costs of these infrastructures was reasonable. However, the emerging many-core architectures require new language abstractions for parallel programming and corresponding backend support, which increases maintenance costs of hand-written compiler infrastructures. Subject of the workshop therefore is the application of language engineering techniques for the implementation of many-core compilers. Examples for such applications are the development of DSLs acting as a source-code preprocessor injecting parallelization means by using grammarware; or transformation rules preparing intermediate representations for many-core execution by using rewriting techniques. This includes software application-specific many-core support by means of software language engineering techniques. The intention of the workshop is to foster communication and beneficial cooperation between language engineers, compiler developers and many-core programmers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Transformation techniques and tools in compilers - Applications of graph and term-rewrite systems in many-core compiler backends - Model-driven approaches to compiler development - Component models for compilers - Efficient high-level approaches for program analyses - Case studies of language engineering for many cores - Language-engineering based applications for many cores - Approaches for parallelism extraction - Positive and negative experience reports SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION Our intension is to foster communication between researchers and practitioners in the topics addressed by ALLIANCE. Hence, research papers, reports on ongoing research, experience reports and tool papers are the favorite types of submissions. It is intended to publish the workshop proceedings as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), an open access journal (ISSN 1613-0073). Papers should follow the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/) and should not exceed a length of 8 pages. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently be submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed thoroughly by members of the ALLIANCE program committee. Submission is made via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alliance-2016 CONTACT The workshop is organized by Sven Karol (TU Dresden, Germany) and Christoff B??rger (Lund University, Sweden). For any questions or concerns about the call for papers, please contact the workshop chairs at alliance2016 at easychair.org. From jeremy.gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk Sun Nov 22 07:01:58 2015 From: jeremy.gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:01:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SIGPLAN John C Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award Message-ID: <85DF2AEB-A2D3-4364-8FA0-54776C122B5A@cs.ox.ac.uk> Dear All, I would like to draw your attention to the SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. If you are (or will be) a 2015 PhD graduate with a great thesis or a supervisor of such a graduate can I suggest you consider applying? Obtaining such an award makes a person stand out when applying for positions. The nomination process is straightforward and nominations are due on the 5th of January. Details of the award can be found at http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Dissertation/ . If you have any questions, please contact Susan Eisenbach (CC'd). Cheers, Jeremy Jeremy.Gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Department of Computer Science, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. +44 1865 283521 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Apologies for any duplicates. ] ********************************************************************** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 25th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2016) March 17-18 2016, Barcelona, Spain Co-located with CGO, HPCA, PPoPP, and EuroLLVM http://cc2016.eew.technion.ac.il/ ********************************************************************** Important dates --------------- Abstracts due: 23 November 2015 Papers due: 30 November 2015 (any time zone) Author notification: 27 January 2016 Camera ready versions: 10 February 2016 Conference: 17-18 March 2016 Information ----------- The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest which include, but are not limited to: - Compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; code generation and optimization; - Run-time techniques, including memory management, virtual machines, and dynamic and just-in-time compilation; - Programming tools, including refactoring editors, checkers, verifiers, compilers, debuggers, and profilers; - Techniques for specific domains, such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments; - Design and implementation of novel language constructs and programming models. CC 2016 is the 25th edition of the conference. It will be co-located with CGO, HPCA, PPoPP, and EuroLLVM on March 17-18 2016, in Barcelona, Spain. Submission ---------- Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cc2016. Papers must be written in English and be submitted in pdf in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings format (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/, using the default 9pt font size). The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be made available freely for the period around the conference. Both regular papers (up to 11 pages) and tool papers (up to 2 + 3 pages), are invited. In tool papers the first part (2 pages) should describe the tool and the second (3 pages) explain the contents of the demo that will be presented with examples and screenshots. Submissions must adhere strictly to the page limits, including bibliography, figures, or appendices. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version ( listings, data, proofs) may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Organizers ---------- General Chair Ayal Zaks Intel and Technion, Israel Program Committee Chair Manuel Hermenegildo IMDEA SW Institute and Technical U. of Madrid, Spain Program Committee Raj Barik, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA Uday Bondhugula, IIS Bangalore Matthew Flatt U. of Utah Maria Garzaran, U. of Illinois UC and Intel Laurie Hendren, McGill U. Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA and T.U. Madrid Xavier Leroy, INRIA Ondrej Lhotak, U of Waterloo Francesco Logozzo, Facebook Antoine Mine, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Jose Morales, IMDEA SW Diego Novillo, Google Jens Palsberg, UCLA Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University Vijay Sundaresan, IBM Walid Taha, Halmstadt U. Zheng Wang, Lancaster U. Steering Committee Koen De Bosschere, Ghent U. Bjoern Franke, U. of Edinburgh Michael O'Boyle, U. of Edinburgh Albert Cohen, INRIA Web site http://cc2016.eew.technion.ac.il/ From barbara.jobstmann at epfl.ch Mon Nov 23 05:46:11 2015 From: barbara.jobstmann at epfl.ch (Barbara Jobstmann) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:46:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: VMCAI 2016 Message-ID: 17th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2016) http://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2016 17-19 January 2016, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States Co-located with POPL 2016 (http://conf.researchr.org/home/POPL-2016) VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods that combine these and related areas. *Invited talks:* - Thomas Reps: Automating Abstract Interpretation - Bryan Parno: Ironclad - Full Verification of Complex Systems - Peter M?ller: Viper - A Verification Infrastructure for Permission-based Reasoning Important dates: - Early registration: 18 December 2015 - Conference: 17-19 January 2016 *Registration (via the POPL 2016 registration site):* https://regmaster4.com/2016conf/POPL16/register.php *Accommodation (via POPL 2016 web site):* http://conf.researchr.org/venue/POPL-2016/key *Student Travel Grants:* The US National Science Foundation has provided funding to support student attendance at VMCAI 2016. Applicants must be registered students at an accredited US academic institution. Successful applicants will receive a grant to cover travel and other costs of attending VMCAI in St. Petersburg, Florida. Only students who are registered (or will register) for VMCAI, are eligible to apply. If you are interested, please send the following information before Dec 6th, 2015 to vmcai2016 at easychair.org: * Are you presenting a paper at VMCAI? If not, then a short paragraph on why you want to attend VMCAI. * An estimate of the cost (travel, registration, and accommodation). * A copy of your CV. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From boris.koepf at imdea.org Mon Nov 23 10:11:58 2015 From: boris.koepf at imdea.org (=?utf-8?Q?Boris_K=C3=B6pf?=) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:11:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSF 2016 Call for Papers Message-ID: <487D56E2-5DF8-4892-BD7E-A63B3C9D2F2D@imdea.org> CSF 2016 Call for Papers 29th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://csf2016.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ June 28-July 1, 2016 Lisbon, Portugal 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 and privacy, authentication, computer-aided cryptography, data and system integrity, database security, decidability and complexity, distributed systems security, electronic voting, formal methods and verification, decision theory, hardware-based security, information flow, intrusion detection, language-based security, network security, data provenance, mobile security, security metrics, security protocols, software security, socio-technical security, trust management, usable security, web security. Special Sessions ---------------- This year, we strongly encourage papers in two foundational areas of research we would like to promote at CSF: PRIVACY (Chair: Daniel Kifer). CSF 2016 will include a special session on privacy foundations and invites submissions on innovations in practice, as well as 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, statistics...) SECURITY ECONOMICS (Chair: Jens Grossklags). There is an interplay between important system properties including privacy, security, efficiency, flexibility, and usability. Diverse systems balance these properties differently, and as such provide varied benefits (for users) for different costs (for builders and attackers). In short, securing systems is ultimately an economic question. CSF 2016 will include a special session on security economics, where we invite submissions on foundational work in this area. Topics include, but are not limited to, risk management and cyber-insurance, investments in information security, security metrics, decision and game theory for security, and cryptocurrencies. 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 12, 2016 Author response period: March 24-25, 2016 Notification: April 8, 2016 Camera ready: May 6, 2016 Symposium: June 28-July 1, 2016 ***************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE June Andronick, NICTA and UNSW Aslan Askarov, Aarhus University Manuel Barbosa, University of Porto Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University Karthikeyan Bhargavan, INRIA Anna Lisa Ferrara, University of Surrey Matt Frederikson, Carnegie Mellon University Jens Grossklags, Penn State (Area Chair on Security Economics) Mike Hicks, University of Maryland (Program Co-Chair) Catalin Hritcu, INRIA Daniel Kifer, Penn State (Area Chair on Privacy) Jong Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute (Program Co-Chair) Steve Kremer, INRIA Peeter Laud, Cybernetica Matteo Maffei, Saarland University Stephen Magill, Galois Sebastian Moedersheim, Technical University of Denmark Greg Morrisett, Cornell University Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology Geoffrey Smith, Florida International University Michael Carl Tschantz, ICSI Berkeley Bogdan Warinschi, University of Bristol Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania ***************************************************** 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 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. Following the recent history of other top-quality conferences and symposia in security, CSF'16 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 intended for one of the special sessions should select the "Privacy" or "Security Economics" option, as appropriate. 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This workshop is an opportunity to interact with leading international researchers in these areas, to receive crucial impulses, and to cultivate and maintain new and old collaborations and liaisons. The talks will be given by prominent members of the programming languages research community and cover a wide area of topics inside this field. The list of talks can be found below. For further information please visit http://proglang.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/APLS2015/ The workshop is sponsored by the DFG. List of talks: -------------- (Please see http://proglang.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/APLS2015/#program for further details and updates) Andreas Abel: Coinductive programming with copatterns Arthur Chargu?raud: Machine-checked verification of amortized complexity analyses Dominique Devriese: Reasoning about Object Capabilities with Logical Relations and Effect Parametricity Sophia Drossopoulou: Reasoning about Programs in the Presence of Code of Unknown Provenance Joshua Dunfield: Evaluation-order Polymorphism Matthew Fluet: Type- and Control-Flow Analysis Christian Hammer: Declassification in the Browser Atsushi Igarashi: A Sound Type System for Layer Subtyping and Dynamically Activated First-Class Layers Ranjit Jhala: Bounded Refinement Types Ivan Lanese: Reversible Concurrent Systems Anders M?ller: Message Safety in Dart Keiko Nakata: Formal Verification of a Microkernel at FireEye James Noble: On Grace Klaus Ostermann: Automatic Refunctionalization Matthew Parkinson: The Push/Pull Model of Transactions Didier R?my: Ornaments in ML Francesco Ranzato: Analysing Completeness in Program Analysis Ilya Sergey: Hoare-style Specifications as Correctness Conditions for Non-linearizable Concurrent Objects Jeremy Siek: A Tracing JIT for a Functional Language Wouter Swierstra: Auto in Agda Peter Thiemann: Derivatives in Program Analysis Vasco Vasconcelos: Advances in Session Types Organizers: ----------- Luminous Fennell, University of Freiburg Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg From n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk Tue Nov 24 13:37:31 2015 From: n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk (Yoshida, Nobuko) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:37:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: PLACES 2016 Message-ID: PLACES 2016 ? Call for papers http://places16.by.di.fc.ul.pt 9th Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency- and Communication-cEntric Software Co-located with ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands *********************************************************** Modern hardware platforms, from the very small to the very large, increasingly provide parallel computing resources which software may use to maximise performance. Many applications therefore need to make effective use of tens, hundreds, and even thousands of compute nodes. Computation in such systems is thus inherently concurrent and communication centric. Effectively programming such applications is challenging; performance, correctness, and scalability are difficult to achieve. Various programming paradigms and methods have emerged to aid this task, including structured imperative concurrent programming, stream-based programming, parallel skeletons, concurrent functions with asynchronous message passing, automatic parallelisation, and the use of types to describe communications and data structures (such as session and linear types), to name but a few. To fully exploit a (possibly heterogeneous) parallel computing environment often requires these approaches to be combined, depending on the shape of the data and control flow. All the while, the underlying runtime environment must ensure seamless execution without relying on differences in available resources such as the number of cores. The development of effective programming methodologies for this increasingly parallel landscape therefore demands exploration and understanding of a wide variety of foundational and practical ideas. This workshop offers a forum where researchers from different fields can exchange new ideas on this key challenge to modern and future programming- where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern. Submissions are invited in the general area of programming language approaches to concurrency, communication and distribution, ranging from foundational issues, through language implementations, to applications (such as scientific computing) and case studies. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * Design and implementation of programming languages with first class support for concurrency and communication * Behavioural types, including session types * Concurrent data types, objects and actors * Verification and program analysis methods for concurrent and distributed software * Runtime systems for scalable management of concurrency and resource allocation * High-level programming abstractions addressing security concerns in concurrent and distributed programming * Multi- and many-core programming models, including methods for harnessing GPUs and other accelerators * Memory models for concurrent programming on relaxed-memory architectures * Integration of sequential and concurrent programming techniques * Use of message passing in systems software * Interface languages for communication and distribution * Novel programming methodologies for sensor networks * Programming language approaches to web services * Concurrency and communication in event processing and business process management Papers are welcome which present novel and valuable ideas as well as experiences. Submissions should be (at most) 6-page extended abstracts in EPTCS format and can also include an appendix of up to 4 pages. An abstract should be registered via the EasyChair submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=places16) by January 8th with the paper submitted by January 15th (anywhere-on-Earth). There will be a post-proceedings special issue in JLAMP (Journal of Logic and Algebraic Methods) after the workshop which will be open to anyone (with a further round of reviewing). Abstract submission: 8 January 2016 Paper submission: 15 January 2016 Notification: 12 February 2016 Camera-ready copy: 24 February 2016 ETAPS early-registration deadline: 1 March 2016 PLACES workshop: 8 April 2016 Submission deadlines are anywhere on Earth. Website: http://places16.by.di.fc.ul.pt Programme chairs: Dominic Orchard, Nobuko Yoshida Programme committee: * Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon * Heather Miller, EPFL * Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark * Dominic Orchard, University of Cambridge / Imperial College London (co-chair) * Josef Svenningsson, Chalmers * Francesco Tiezzi, University of Camerino * Bernardo Toninho, Imperial College London * Steven Wright, University of Warwick * Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London (co-chair) * Lukasz Ziarek, University at Buffalo Organising committee: Simon Gay, Alan Mycroft, Vasco T. Vasconcelos, Nobuko Yoshida -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr Wed Nov 25 04:48:16 2015 From: lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr (lutz at lix.polytechnique.fr) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:48:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop on Efficient and Natural Proof Systems: 14-16 December, Bath. Message-ID: <641198e3423865d302a37ecee39f2ceb.squirrel@webmail.lix.polytechnique.fr> 2nd AND FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on EFFICIENT AND NATURAL PROOF SYSTEMS University of Bath 14-16 December, 2015 The Mathematical Foundations group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, will host a 2.5-day workshop on structural proof theory, starting in the afternoon of 14 December. The workshop will focus on the various aspects of structural proof theory, including but not limited to the following topics: - deep inference proof theory - algebraic, combinatorial and geometric representations of proofs - proof compression - normalisation of proofs - proof checking - proof search - complexity of proofs - computational interpretations of proofs PROGRAMME Both the programme and the current list of participants can be found here: PARTICIPATION There is no fee or formal registration for the workshop and anyone is welcome to attend. However, at this stage, we ask that anyone who intends to attend (and hasn't contacted us already) informs us as soon as possible (deadline was 20 November), so that we may accordingly plan the local organisation. Enquiries can be sent to or to the Bath's organisers. COURSE ON DEEP INFERENCE *Change of time*: 14 December 11:00 to 13:00. (Due to the high quality and number of contributions received by the committee, we have decided to replace the previously advertised course on deep inference by an abridged version preceding the workshop.) Deep inference is a modern proof theory offering a better understanding of proofs and extending the range of applications of traditional Gentzen proof theory. This course will offer a brief introduction to deep inference. CHILDCARE The Department of Computer Science and the University of Bath are committed to a supportive and inclusive working environment. Childcare will be provided to workshop participants and their children if required. If you need this service, please contact us as soon as possible at . ORGANISING AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Paola Bruscoli (Bath) Anupam Das (ENS Lyon) Willem Heijltjes (Bath) Lutz Strassburger (Inria) FUNDING EPSRC Project EP/K018868/1 "Efficient and Natural Proof Systems" . From vladimir at ias.edu Wed Nov 25 08:41:00 2015 From: vladimir at ias.edu (Vladimir Voevodsky) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:41:00 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Coq-Club] 2016-2017 at the IAS In-Reply-To: <35D45755-915E-49CE-A9B0-99B6BBD244D5@ias.edu> References: <35D45755-915E-49CE-A9B0-99B6BBD244D5@ias.edu> Message-ID: <569F0B2A-8479-443F-BAF9-48A7EE1A789D@ias.edu> Hello, let me provide another reminder: the deadline for applications for the 206/17 academic year at the IAS is December 1, 2015. With best regards, Vladimir. > On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:33 PM, Vladimir Voevodsky wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to remind to everybody that just as the last year, this year year the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is looking for applications for memberships from people working in the Univalent Foundations as well as other areas of Type Theory, Constructive Mathematics and formalization of mathematics. > > The applications can be submitted through the MathJobs. > > Vladimir. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and the industry, with the goal of identifying challenges and providing solutions towards achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous on-board software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for spacecraft ranging from small and inexpensive CubeSat systems to manned spacecraft like Orion, as well as for ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle. Topics of interest include but are not limited to ------------------------------------------------- * Model checking * Theorem proving * SAT and SMT solving * Symbolic execution * Static analysis * Model-based development * Runtime verification * Software and system testing * Safety assurance * Fault tolerance * Compositional verification * Security and intrusion detection * Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques * Techniques for scaling formal methods * Applications of formal methods in the development of: * autonomous systems * safety-critical artificial intelligence systems * cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems * fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems * Use of formal methods in: * assurance cases * human-machine interaction analysis * requirements generation, specification, and validation * automated testing and verification Important Dates --------------- - Paper Submission: 2/19/2016 - Paper Notifications: 4/8/2016 - Camera-ready Papers: 4/27/2016 - Symposium: 6/7 - 6/9/2016 Location -------- The symposium will take place at McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota. Registration is required but is free of charge. Submission Details ------------------ There are two categories of submissions: 1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (maximum 15 pages) 2. Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with preliminary results (maximum 6 pages) All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be fully reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Papers will appear in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), and must use LNCS style formatting. Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2016 Authors of selected best papers may be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning (Springer). Organizing Committee -------------------- - Michael Lowry, NASA Ames Research Center, USA (NASA Liaison) - Johann Schumann, SGT, Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA (General Chair) - Oksana Tkachuk, SGT, Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA (PC Chair) - Sanjai Rayadurgam, University of Minnesota, USA (PC Chair) - Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA (Financial Chair) - Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA (Local Arrangements Chair) Program Committee ----------------- - Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center, USA - Clark Barrett, New York University, USA - Saddek Bensalem, Verimag and University Joseph Fourier, France - Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany - Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada - Alessandro Cimatti, FBK, Italy - Darren Cofer, Rockwell Collins, Inc., USA - Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA - Misty Davies, NASA Ames Research Center, USA - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft, USA - Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA - Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE / EPITA, France - Andrew Gacek, Rockwell Collins, Inc., USA - Pierre-Loic Garoche, ONERA, France - Shalini Ghosh, SRI International, USA - Susanne Graf, Universite Joseph Fourier / CNRS / VERIMAG, France - Radu Grosu, Stony Brook University, USA - Arie Gurfinkel,SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA - Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Falk Howar, TU Clausthal / IPSSE, Germany - Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Dejan Jovanovi?, SRI International, USA - Gerwin Klein, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia - Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, UK - Rahul Kumar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - C?lia Martinie, ICS-IRIT, Universit? 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Proposals should consist of two parts: (1) a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the CSF community. If relevant, a list of previous or related workshops may be added; (2) organizational part should include: * contact information of the workshop organizers/chairs; * expected number of attendees; * proposed format and agenda (presentations, demo sessions, tutorials, full-day, half-day, joint sessions, etc.); * potential invited speakers; * procedures for selecting papers and participants; * plans for dissemination, if any (special issues of journals, etc); * special technical or AV needs. Proposals are due by December 18, 2015, and should be submitted electronically to Pedro Ad?o (pedro.adao at tecnico.ulisboa.pt >). Organizers will be notified by January 8, 2016. For further enquiries or information, please contact Pedro Ad?o. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Light-weight verification techniques, such as monitoring and testing, achieve both rigor and efficiency by enabling the evaluation of systems according to the properties of their individual behaviours. The MT CPS workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in the problems of detecting, testing, measuring and extracting qualitative and quantitative properties from CPS behaviors. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Specification languages for monitoring and testing ? Runtime verification and monitoring ? Black-box and white-box testing ? Measuring and statistical information gathering ? Simulation-based verification and parameter synthesis ? Diagnostics, error localization and repair ? Combination of static and dynamic analysis ? Applications and case studies WORKSHOP FORMAT MT CPS workshop is intended to be a forum for exchanging the latest scientific trends between researchers and practitioners interested in the field of light-weight verification and analysis of CPS. As a consequence, the workshop will NOT have formal proceedings. We encourage submission of abstracts that address any of the aforementioned topics of interest and cover recently published results as well as the work in progress. IMPORTANT DATES ? Abstract submission deadline: February 14, 2016 ? Notification: March 5, 2016 ? Early registration: March 10, 2016 ? Workshop: April 11, 2016 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ? Xavier Avon, EASii-IC, France ? Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria ? Sergiy Bogomolov, IST Austria, Austria ? Harald Brandl, AVL List GmbH, Austria ? Thao Dang, VERIMAG, France ? Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Toyota Technical Center, USA ? Alexandre Donz?, UC Berkeley, USA ? Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University, USA ? Thomas Ferr?re, Mentor Graphics, France ? Christoph Grimm, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany ? Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria ? Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, Japan ? Thomas Klotz, Bosch Sensortec GmbH, Germany ? Scott Little, Intel, USA ? Oded Maler, VERIMAG, France ? Thang Nguyen, Infineon Technologies AG, Austria ? Dejan Nickovic, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria ? Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Abstracts are submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtcps2016. Abstracts should be in PDF form, up to 2 pages in length with 1-inch margins and at least 10-point font size, and may contain up to two figures. Abstracts should list the full names, affiliations, and contact information of all authors, and the submission should indicate whether the abstract will be presented as a poster, orally, or both. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. 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It covers all aspects of automated verification, and typical (but not exclusive) topics of interest are: - 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 Submission to this special issue is open. We expect original articles (typically 20-30 pages) that present high-quality contributions, have not been previously published in an archival venue and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions must be written in English and comply with SCP's author guidelines http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505623/authorinstructions Submission is over the SCP website: http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp which you will have to register for if you do not have an account. When submitting your paper please choose the article type "Special issue: AVoCS 2015". Please send any queries you may have to Gudmund Grov (G.Grov at hw.ac.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 P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk Mon Nov 30 12:53:32 2015 From: P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk (Paul B Levy) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:53:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Midlands Graduate School Christmas Seminar Message-ID: <565C8D1C.9000804@cs.bham.ac.uk> Dear all, You are warmly invited to attend: Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science Christmas Seminar University of Birmingham Thursday 17 December 2015 14:00-17:45 http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl/mgsxmas2015.html Schedule: 14:00-15:00 Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, University of London) On pirates, treasures and monads 15:00-15:45 Refreshments 15:45-16:45 Steve Vickers (Birmingham) Topology via Logic 16:45-17:45 Nicolai Kraus (Nottingham) Higher Inductive Types without Recursive Higher Constructors 17:45- Pub and Restaurant Midlands Graduate School is jointly run by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. Best regards, Paul -- Paul Blain Levy School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl From stephane.galland at utbm.fr Mon Nov 30 13:58:31 2015 From: stephane.galland at utbm.fr (stephane.galland at utbm.fr) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:58:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] SARL 0.3.0 is released Message-ID: <20151130185831.111471FC1D3@smtp4.utbm.fr> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This thematic trimester is organised by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science from the Institut de Math?matiques de Toulouse (IMT) & the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT). It will feature 50 course sessions, 3 workshops, and a thematic school**on themes at the interface of Philosophy, Mathematics and Computer Science. You will find all relevant information on the website of the thematic trimester that will be regularly updated: http://www.cimi.univ-toulouse.fr/cippmi/en A mailing list**allows you to receive the different announcements from CIPPMI: https://sympa.math.ups-tlse.fr/wws/info/cippmi You can register at http://www.cimi.univ-toulouse.fr/cippmi/fr/inscriptionregistration Funding for accommodation is available in priority for junior researchers**and for some senior researchers without funding from their laboratory. For further information, please consult the page: http://www.cimi.univ-toulouse.fr/cippmi/fr/boursesgrants. The**deadlinefor applying for funding is 31th January 2016. With apologies for cross-posting, best regards, the CIPPMI scientific organisation committee. --- Ralph Matthes IRIT (CNRS & Univ. Toulouse) http://www.irit.fr/~Ralph.Matthes/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.cheney at gmail.com Tue Dec 1 09:40:50 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:40:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Alan Turing Institute Fellowships Message-ID: [I'm certainly hoping some people working on PL/types/probabilistic programming/static analysis applied to big data will apply. --James] == Alan Turing Fellowships == This is a unique opportunity for early career researchers to join The Alan Turing Institute. The Alan Turing Institute is the UK's new national data science institute, established to bring together world-leading expertise to provide leadership in the emerging field of data science. The Institute has been founded by the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick and EPSRC. Fellowships are available for 3 years with the potential for an additional 2 years of support following interim review. Fellows will pursue research based at the Institute hub in the British Library, London. Fellowships will be awarded to individual candidates and fellows will be employed by a joint venture partner university (Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL or Warwick). Key requirements: Successful candidates are expected to have i) a PhD in a data science (or adjacent) subject (or to have submitted their doctorate before taking up the post), ii) an excellent publication record and/or demonstrated excellent research potential such as via preprints, iii) a novel and challenging research agenda that will advance the strategic objectives of the Institute, and iv) leadership potential. Fellowships are open to all qualified applicants regardless of background. Alan Turing Fellowship applications can be made in all data science research areas. The Institute's research roadmap is available at https:// turing.ac.uk/#the-vision . In addition to this open call, there are two specific fellowship programmes: == Fellowships addressing data-centric engineering == The Lloyd's Register Foundation (LRF) / Alan Turing Institute programme to support data-centric engineering is a 5-year, ?10M global programme, delivered through a partnership between LRF and the Alan Turing Institute. This programme will secure high technical standards (for example the next-generation algorithms and analytics) to enhance the safety of life and property around the major infrastructure upon which modern society relies. For further information on data-centric engineering, see LRF's Foresight Review of Big Data. Applications for Fellowships under this call, which address the aims of the LRF/Turing programme, may also be considered for funding under the data-centric engineering programme. Fellowships awarded under this programme may vary from the conditions given above; for more details contact fellowship at turing.ac.uk. == Fellowships addressing data analytics and high-performance computing == Intel and the Alan Turing Institute will be supporting additional Fellowships in data analytics and high-performance computing. Applications for Fellowships under this call may also be considered for funding under the joint Intel-Alan Turing Institute programme. Fellowships awarded under this joint programme may vary from the conditions given above; for more details contact fellowship at turing.ac.uk. Download full information on the Turing fellowships: https://turing .ac.uk/content/uploads/2015/06/ATI_fellows_advertfinal131115-NTv02.docx Diversity and equality are promoted in all aspects of the recruitment and career management of our researchers. 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Reachability questions, regarding whether a system can run into a certain subset of its state space, stand at the core of verification and synthesis problems for hybrid systems. There are several successful methods for hybrid systems reachability analysis. Some methods explicitly construct flow-pipes that overapproximate the set of reachable states over time, where efficient computation of such overapproximations requires symbolic representations such as support functions. Other methods based on satisfiability checking technologies, symbolically encode reachability properties as logical formulas, while solving such formulas requires numerically-driven decision procedures. Last but not least, also automated deduction and the usage of theorem provers led to efficient analysis approaches. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working with different reachability analysis techniques and to seek for synergies between symbolic and numerical approaches. The SNR workshop solicits papers broadly in the area of verification and synthesis of continuous and hybrid systems. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Reachability analysis approaches for hybrid systems - Flow-pipe construction; symbolic state set representations - Trajectory generation from symbolic paths; counterexample computation - Abstraction techniques for hybrid systems - Reliable integration - Decision procedures for real arithmetic - Automated deduction - Logics to reason about hybrid systems - Reachability analysis for planning and synthesis - Domain-specific approaches in biology, robotics, etc. - Stochastic/probabilistic hybrid systems - Tools, benchmarks, and case studies Submission Information ====================== The workshop solicits long papers (maximal 10 pages) and short papers (maximal 6 pages). Submissions must present original unpublished work which is not submitted elsewhere. They should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE guidelines for conference proceedings (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Papers can be submitted using the EasyChair system: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snr2016 All submissions will undergo a peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published electronically in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp). Workshop Co-Chairs ================== Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Sergiy Bogomolov (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria) Publicity Chair =============== Przemyslaw Daca (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria) Program Committee ================= Matthias Althoff (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Ezio Bartocci (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Parasara Sridhar Duggirala (University of Connecticut, USA) Martin Fraenzle (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Goran Frehse (Verimag, France) Sicun Gao (MIT, USA) Antoine Girard (L2S, CNRS, France) Taylor T. Johnson (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Mircea Lazar (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Maria Prandini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Stefan Ratschan (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Rajarshi Ray (National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India) Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Ashish Tiwari (SRI, USA) Stavros Tripakis (Aalto University, Finland, and UC Berkeley, USA) Martin Wehrle (University of Basel, Switzerland) Edmund Widl (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria) Paolo Zuliani (University of Newcastle, UK) From stefano at di.unito.it Thu Dec 3 04:47:53 2015 From: stefano at di.unito.it (Berardi Stefano) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:47:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers for CL&C'16 (sixth International Workshop on Classical Logic and Computation- satellite workshop of FSCD 2016 (former TLCA + RTA)) Message-ID: <56600FC9.2080602@di.unito.it> To: types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu, coq-club , agda at lists.chalmers.se, hol-info at lists.sourceforge.net, cl-isabelle-users at lists.cam.ac.uk, kgs-list at logic.at, linear at cs.stanford.edu, theory at cl.cam.ac.uk, theory-logic at cs.cmu.edu --------------------------------------------------------- CL&C?16 Sixth International Workshop on Classical Logic and Computation June, 23 2016 Porto, Portugal http://www.di.unito.it/~stefano/CL&C/CL&C16.htm CL&C'14 is a satellite workshop of FSCD 2016. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: February, 12 2016 Paper submission: February, 19 2016 Notification: April, 20 2016 Final version due: May, 20 2016 Workshop date: June 23 2016 INTRODUCTION CL&C'16 is the sixth of a conference series on Classical Logic and Computation. It intends to cover all work aiming to explore computational aspects of classical logic and classical proofs in mathematics. This year CL&C will be held as satellite workshop of FSCD 2016 (former TLCA + RTA) http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt/ CL&C is focused on the interplay between, on one side, the exploration of the computational content of classical mathematical proofs, and on the other side, the languages and the semantical models proposed in computer science for this task: continuations, game models, denotational models, learning models and so forth. The scientific aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both proof theory and computer science and to exchange ideas. SCOPE OF CL&C This workshop aims to support a fruitful exchange of ideas between the various lines of research on Classical Logic and Computation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, - version of lambda calculi adapted to represent classical logic; - design of programming languages inspired by classical logic; - cut-elimination for classical systems; - proof representation for classical logic; - translations of classical to intuitionistic proofs; - constructive interpretation of non-constructive principles; - witness extraction from classical proofs; - constructive semantics for classical logic (e.g. game semantics, classical realization); - case studies (for any of the previous points). SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION. We are negotiating publication of the proceedings with EPTCS. We have room for informal talks, too. Therefore participants are encouraged to present both: work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, and programmatic position papers. All submitted papers will be reviewed to normal standards. The PC recognises two kinds of papers: it will distinguish between accepted (full) papers that contain unpublished results not submitted elsewhere, which we plan to publish on EPTCS or elsewhere, and presentations of (short) papers about work in progress or overview of papers published elsewhere. In order to make a submission: - Format your file using the EPTCS guidelines; there is a 15 page limit. - Use the submission instructions at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clac16 A participants' proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ulrich Kohlenbach (Chair) kohlenbach at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de Fernando Ferreira (PC) ferferr at cii.fc.ul.pt Ugo de? Liguoro (PC) deligu at di.unito.it Alexandre Miquel (PC) amiquel at fing.edu.uy Steffen van Bakel (SC) s.van.bakel at imperial.ac.uk Stefano Berardi (SC) stefano at di.unito.it CONTACT PERSON stefano at di.unito.it From frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr Wed Dec 2 16:45:24 2015 From: frederic.loulergue at univ-orleans.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Fr=c3=a9d=c3=a9ric_Loulergue?=) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 22:45:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP HLPP 2016 Message-ID: <565F6674.40006@univ-orleans.fr> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.singh at acm.org Fri Dec 4 17:41:22 2015 From: s.singh at acm.org (Satnam Singh) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 14:41:22 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SIGPLAN Awards (Deadline 5 January 2016) Message-ID: Please can I kindly ask you to consider and nominate candidates for the ACM SIGPLAN awards http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/ The deadline for these awards is Tuesday 5 January 2016. Please upload submissions to the awards submission site: https://awards.sigplan.org/ Programming Languages Achievement Award http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Achievement/ Robin Milner Young Researcher Award http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Milner/ Software Award http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Software/ John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Dissertation/ Thank you very much, Satnam Singh Facebook - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From coppa at di.uniroma1.it Fri Dec 4 10:01:46 2015 From: coppa at di.uniroma1.it (Emilio Coppa) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 16:01:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2016 - Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: In 2016, the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), will be held in Rome, Italy. ECOOP will host an array of workshops on a variety of topics in computing from July *18th through 22th*. Typically, a workshop either addresses a focused topic in depth or explores connections between object-oriented technologies and other areas. The workshops will run throughout the week of the conference. Conference site: http://2016.ecoop.org/ # Proposals The deadline for workshop proposals will be ***January 22nd, 2016***. A workshop proposal should include the following information: 1) Name of the workshop. 2) Duration of the workshop (half-day, full-day, multi-day). 3) An abstract: 150-200 words describing the workshop, suitable for the ECOOP Web site. 4) A preliminary Call For Workshop Papers describing the workshop's focus and its main topics. 5) A summary of the workshop format: e.g., refereed papers, and/or short papers, and/or invited talks, and/or problem solving, and/or brainstorming sessions. How will papers or other submissions be reviewed? 6) A description of how the workshop papers and results will be published or otherwise disseminated. 7) References to previous editions of the workshop (if any) including information about the number of participants. 8) About each organizer: - Name, affiliation, and contact information. - Primary contact: identify one organizer as the primary contact. 9) A brief biography (up to 200 words), focusing on the organizer?s expertise in the field and experience as a workshop organizer. 10) Any special requirements that the workshop may have. # Proposal Submission Workshop proposals should be submitted by email to the ECOOP 2016 workshop organizers, Francesco Logozzo (logozzo [at] fb.com) and Paley Li (pa.li [at] neu.edu). # Schedule Each workshop will have to pay attention to the following estimated timing constraints: the workshop's web page should be up two weeks after notification of acceptance, the Call for Papers should be public by February 26th, the deadline for submission April 15th, and notification May 13th. # Evaluation - Proposals will be reviewed by the ECOOP 2016 workshop organizers once submission has closed. - Notification will be sent one week after submission has closed. - Each proposal will be evaluated according to the value and relevance of its workshop topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the potential of the proposed workshop to attract participants and generate useful results. - The number of accepted proposals will be limited by the availability of the conference rooms. # Special Points We ask you to set up your PC chair and your web page as soon as possible. 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URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Sat Dec 5 22:42:24 2015 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 19:42:24 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP 2016 Call for Papers Message-ID: ICFP 2016 The 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming http://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2016 Call for Papers Important dates --------------- Submissions due: Wednesday, March 16 2016, 15:00 (UTC) https://icfp2016.hotcrp.com (in preparation as of December 1) Author response: Monday, 2 May, 2016, 15:00 (UTC) - Thursday, 5 May, 2016, 15:00 (UTC) Notification: Friday, 20 May, 2016 Final copy due: TBA Early registration: TBA Conference: Tuesday, 20 September - Thursday, 22 September, 2016 Scope ----- ICFP 2016 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 Wednesday, March 16 2016, 15:00 (UTC), submit a full paper of at most 12 pages (6 pages for an Experience Report), in standard SIGPLAN conference format, including figures but ***excluding bibliography***. The deadlines will be strictly enforced and papers exceeding the page limits will be summarily rejected. ***ICFP 2016 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process.*** To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: 1. ***author names and institutions must be omitted***, and 2. ***references to authors' own related work should be in the third person*** (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. 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). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. We have put together a document answering frequently asked questions that should address many common concerns: http://conf.researchr.org/track/icfp-2016/icfp-2016-papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ - Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. The material should be uploaded at submission time, as a single pdf or a tarball, not via a URL. This supplementary material may or may not be anonymized; if not anonymized, it will only be revealed to reviewers after they have submitted their review of your paper and learned your identity. - 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 given below. 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 at least 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 SIGPLAN 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 at https://icfp2016.hotcrp.com (in preparation as of December 1). 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 15:00 UTC on Monday, 2 May, 2016, 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. Special categories of papers ---------------------------- In addition to research papers, ICFP solicits two kinds of papers that do not require original research contributions: Functional Pearls, which are full papers, and Experience Reports, which are limited to six pages. Authors submitting such papers may wish to consider the following advice. Functional Pearls ================= A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to functional programming. Examples include, but are not limited to: - a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea - an instructive example of program calculation or proof - a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure - an interesting application of functional programming techniques - a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a short program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do so. Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational pearls. Functional Pearls are valued as highly and judged as rigorously as ordinary papers, but using somewhat different criteria. In particular, a pearl is not required to report original research, but, it should be concise, instructive, and entertaining. Your pearl is likely to be rejected if your readers get bored, if the material gets too complicated, if too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing. A submission you wish to have treated as a pearl must be marked as such on the submission web page, and should contain the words ``Functional Pearl'' somewhere in its title or subtitle. These steps will alert reviewers to use the appropriate evaluation criteria. Pearls will be combined with ordinary papers, however, for the purpose of computing the conference's acceptance rate. Experience Reports ================== The purpose of an Experience Report is to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence that functional programming really works -- or to describe what obstacles prevent it from working. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: - insights gained from real-world projects using functional programming - comparison of functional programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum - project-management, business, or legal issues encountered when using functional programming in a real-world project - curricular issues encountered when using functional programming in education - real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a functional language or for functional programming in general An Experience Report is distinguished from a normal ICFP paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to evaluate it. - Both in the proceedings and in any citations, the title of each accepted Experience Report must begin with the words ``Experience Report'' followed by a colon. The acceptance rate for Experience Reports will be computed and reported separately from the rate for ordinary papers. - An Experience Report is at most six pages long. Each accepted Experience Report will be presented at the conference, but depending on the number of Experience Reports and regular papers accepted, authors of Experience reports may be asked to give shorter talks. - Because the purpose of Experience Reports is to enable our community to accumulate a body of evidence about the efficacy of functional programming, an acceptable Experience Report need not add to the body of knowledge of the functional-programming community by presenting novel results or conclusions. It is sufficient if the Report states a clear thesis and provides supporting evidence. The thesis must be relevant to ICFP, but it need not be novel. The program committee will accept or reject Experience Reports based on whether they judge the evidence to be convincing. Anecdotal evidence will be acceptable provided it is well argued and the author explains what efforts were made to gather as much evidence as possible. Typically, more convincing evidence is obtained from papers which show how functional programming was used than from papers which only say that functional programming was used. The most convincing evidence often includes comparisons of situations before and after the introduction or discontinuation of functional programming. Evidence drawn from a single person's experience may be sufficient, but more weight will be given to evidence drawn from the experience of groups of people. An Experience Report should be short and to the point: make a claim about how well functional programming worked on your project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate your claim. If functional programming worked for you in the same ways it has worked for others, you need only to summarize the results?the main part of your paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of your project and its implementation, but please characterize your project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree your experience is relevant to their own projects. Be especially careful to highlight any unusual aspects of your project. Also keep in mind that specifics about your project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that your team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made your team more productive. If your paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if your experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, you may be better off submitting it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. If you are unsure in which category to submit, the program chair will be happy to help you decide. Organizers ---------- General Co-Chairs: Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University) Gabriele Keller (University of New South Wales) Program Chair: Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) Program Committee: Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Technology) Joshua Dunfield (University of British Columbia, Canada) Matthew Fluet (Rochester Institute of Technology) Nate Foster (Cornell University) Dan Grossman (University of Washington, USA) Jurriaan Hage (Utrecht University) Roman Leshchinskiy (Standard Chartered Bank) Keisuke Nakano (The University of Electro-Communications) Aleksandar Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute) Scott Owens (University of Kent) Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Amr Sabry (Indiana University) Tom Schrijvers (KU Leuven) Olin Shivers (Northeastern University) Walid Taha (Halmstad University) Dimitrios Vytiniotis (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) David Walker (Princeton University) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK) External Review Committee to be announced. From hassei at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp Mon Dec 7 02:48:41 2015 From: hassei at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (hassei at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 16:48:41 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD'16 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <65523.133.5.165.50.1449474521.risu@tinu.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS First International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'16) 22 June -- 26 June 2016, Porto, Portugal http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt/ [NEW: INVITED SPEAKERS, CONFERENCE AWARDS, SPECIAL ISSUE, SATELLITE EVENTS] ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: 29 January 2016 Paper Submission : 5 February 2016 Rebuttal : 21 - 23 March 2016 Notification : 6 April 2016 ========================================================================== FSCD (http://fscdconference.org/) covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, proof theory and new emerging models of computation such as quantum computing and homotopy type theory. The name of the new conference comes from an unpublished but important book by Gerard Huet that strongly influenced many researchers in the area. Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1 Calculi * Lambda calculus * Logics (first-order, higher-order, equational, modal, linear, classical, constructive, etc.) * Rewriting systems (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, modulo, infinitary, etc.) * Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculus, proof nets, etc.) * Type theory and logical frameworks * Homotopy type theory 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction * Type systems (polymorphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.) * Induction, coinduction * Matching, unification, completion, orderings * Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.) * Tree automata * Model building and model checking * Proof search (resolution, paramodulation, narrowing, focusing, etc.) * Constraint solving and decision procedures 3. Semantics * Operational semantics and abstract machines * Game Semantics and applications * Domain theory and categorical models * Quantitative models (timing, probabilities, resources, etc.) * Quantum computation and emerging models in computation 4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems * Type Inference and type checking * Abstract Interpretation * Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity * Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties * Symbolic computation 5. Tools and Applications * Programming and proof environments (proof assistants, automated theorem prover, proof checkers, specialized provers, dependently typed languages, etc.) * Verification tools (abstract interpretation, termination, confluence, specialized provers, etc.) * Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers (support for variable bindings, nominal, polynomial, equality, etc.) * Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers (formalizations, mechanizations, certifications) * Certifications (theorems, rewriting techniques, etc.) * Applications of formal systems inside and outside of CS (biology, linguistics, physics, education, etc.) INVITED SPEAKERS Amal Ahmed (USA) Ichiro Hasuo (Japan) Gerard Huet (France) Tobias Nipkow (Germany) PROGRAM CHAIRS Delia Kesner (Univ. Paris-Diderot) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) fscd16 at easychair.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Gothenburg Univ.) Zena Ariola (Univ. Oregon) Patrick Baillot (CNRS & ENS Lyon) Andrej Bauer (Univ. Ljubljana) Eduardo Bonelli (Univ. Quilmes) Patricia Bouyer (ENS Cachan) Ugo Dal Lago (Univ. Bologna) Nachum Dershowitz (Univ. Tel Aviv) Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (Univ. Torino) Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS) Santiago Figueira (Univ. Buenos Aires) Marcelo Fiore (Univ. Cambridge) Juergen Giesl (Univ. Aachen) Nao Hirokawa (JAIST) Martin Hofmann (LMU Munchen) Delia Kesner (Univ. Paris-Diderot) Naoki Kobayashi (Univ. Tokyo) Dan Licata (Wesleyan Univ.) Chris Lynch (Clarkson Univ.) Narciso Marti-Oliet (Univ. Complutense) Aart Middeldorp (Univ. Innsbruck) Dale Miller (INRIA Saclay) Cesar Munoz (NASA) Vivek Nigam (Univ. Paraiba) Brigitte Pientka (McGill Univ.) Jakob Rehof (Univ. Dortmund) Xavier Rival (ENS Paris) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie Univ.) Paula Severi (Univ. Leicester) Jakob Grue Simonsen (Univ. Copenhagen) Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA Rocquencourt) Sophie Tison (Univ. Lille) Femke van Raamsdonk (VU Univ. Amsterdam) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College) CONFERENCE CHAIR Sandra Alves (University of Porto) FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE: Thorsten Altenkirch (Univ. Nottingham) Gilles Dowek (INRIA) Santiago Escobar (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) Maribel Fernandez (King's College London) Masahito Hasegawa (Univ. Kyoto) Hugo Herbelin (INRIA) Nao Hirokawa (JAIST) Luke Ong (Chair, Univ. Oxford) Jens Palsberg (UCLA) Kristoffer Rose (Two Sigma Investments) Rene Thiemann (Univ. Innsbruck) Pawel Urzyczyn (Univ. Warsaw) Femke van Raamsdonk (VU Univ. Amsterdam) PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions can be made in two categories: regular research papers and system descriptions. Submissions of research papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 15 pages (including figures and bibliography). Submissions of research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and readability. Submission of system descriptions must describe a working system which has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System descriptions will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, and readability. Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit within the page limit, executables of systems, code of case studies, benchmarks used to evaluate a given system, should be made available, via a reference to a website or in an appendix of the paper. Reviewers will be encouraged to consider this additional material, but are not obliged to. Submissions must be self-contained within the respective page limit; considering the additional material should not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission. Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files using the instructions at http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ A condition of submission is that, if accepted, one of the authors must attend the conference to give the presentation. Papers should be submitted via easychair. The submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd16 CONFERENCE AWARDS Two awards will be selected: one for the best paper and another one for the best student paper. SPECIAL ISSUE After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue published in the open-access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS). SATELLITE EVENTS The following meetings and workshops are colocated with FSCD 2016: CL&C, DCM, HDRA, HOR, IFIP Working Group 1.6, ITRS, Linearity, LFMTP, LSFA, UNIF, WPTE, WWV. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Sandra Alves (Univ. Porto) Sabine Broda (Univ. Porto) Jose Espirito-Santo (Univ. do Minho) Mario Florido (Univ. Porto) Nelma Moreira (Univ. Porto) Luis Pinto (Univ. do Minho) Rogerio Reis (Univ. Porto) Ana Paula Tomas (Univ. Porto) Pedro Vasconcelos (Univ. Porto) From bob.atkey at gmail.com Tue Dec 8 08:23:09 2015 From: bob.atkey at gmail.com (Bob Atkey) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 13:23:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MSFP 2016: Call for Papers Message-ID: <5666D9BD.4060506@gmail.com> Sixth Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 8 April 2014, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands A satellite workshop of ETAPS 2016 http://msfp2016.bentnib.org/ The sixth workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming without temporal logic? Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control. The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006, affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS 2014. Important Dates: ================ Abstract 10th January 2016 Submission 17th January 2016 Notification 17th February 2016 Final version 24th February 2016 Workshop 8th April 2016 Invited Speakers: ================= To be announced. Program Committee: ================== Zena Ariola, University of Oregon Robert Atkey, University of Strathclyde (co-chair) Chantal Keller, IUT d'Orsay Neelakantan Krishnaswami, University of Birmingham (co-chair) Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology Nicolas Wu, University of Bristol Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow Submission: =========== Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors, and will be published under the auspices of EPTCS under a Creative Commons license. There is no specific page limit, but authors should strive for brevity. From abraham at informatik.rwth-aachen.de Mon Dec 7 12:08:17 2015 From: abraham at informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Erika Abraham) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 18:08:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3rd CFP iFM 2016 (integrated Formal Methods), 1 - 3 June 2016, Reykjavik Message-ID: <5665BD01.5050209@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> =========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS iFM 2016 12th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods June 1-3, 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland http://en.ru.is/ifm/ =========================================================== === Important dates === Abstract submission: December 21, 2015 Paper submission: January 6, 2016 Paper notification: February 29, 2016 Final version: March 14, 2016 Conference: June 1-3, 2016 === Objectives and scope === Applying formal methods may involve the usage of different formalisms and different analysis techniques to validate a system, either because individual components are most amenable to one formalism or technique, because one is interested in different properties of the system, or simply to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding both modeling and analysis. The conference covers all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Formal and semi-formal modelling notations - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice - Hybrid systems - Program verification - Program synthesis - Model checking - Static analysis - Runtime analysis, monitoring, performance evaluation - Decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving - Software engineering - Component-based systems (compositional, embedded, distributed, etc.) - Testing - Abstraction and refinement === Submission guidelines === iFM 2016 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the overall theme of method integration. We solicit papers in the following categories: - research papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) - regular tool papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) - short tool papers (max. 8 pages including bibliography) - case study papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, a paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. Submissions should be made using the iFM 2016 Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2016 Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files; we suggest to use the LaTeX2e package (the llncs.cls class file, available in llncs2e.zip and the typeinst.dem available in typeinst.zip as a template for your contribution). The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the early date, to be indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. === Invited speakers === Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Reiner Haehnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Edmund Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) === Workshops === iFM 2016 will be accompanied by a series of workshops. Further information is available from the conference website http://en.ru.is/ifm/ === Conference location === iFM 2016 is organized by the University of Reykjavik and will take place at the university campus in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. === Committees === General Chair: Marjan Sirjani (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Program Chairs: Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Workshop Chair: Marcel Kyas (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Wojciech Mostowski (Halmstad University, Sweden) Program Committee: Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Bernd Becker (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany) Clara Benac Earle (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (McMaster University, Canada) Ferruccio Damiani (Universita di Torino, Italy) Frank de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) Delphine Demange (University of Rennes 1/IRISA, France) Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Dilian Gurov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Holger Hermanns (Saarland University, Germany) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) Martin Leucker (University of Lubeck, Germany) Dominique Mery (Universite de Lorraine, LORIA, France) Rosemary Monahan (Maynooth University, Ireland) Nadia Polikarpova (MIT, USA) Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado, USA) Ina Schaefer (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany) Gerardo Schneider (Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Emil Sekerinski (McMaster University, Canada) Armando Tacchella (University of Genoa, Italy) Mark Utting (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) Kirsten Winter (University of Queensland, Australia) From Damiano.Mazza at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Dec 7 16:50:46 2015 From: Damiano.Mazza at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Damiano Mazza) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 22:50:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DICE 2016: Call for contributions Message-ID: <5665FF36.1090706@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> _____________________________________________________________________ DICE 2016 Seventh Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational Complexity _____________________________________________________________________ http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/DICE2016 Eindhoven, The Netherlands April 2-3, 2016 (satellite of ETAPS 2016) Invited Speakers ---------------- * Robin Cockett, University of Calgary * David Nowak, University of Lille Important Dates --------------- * Abstract Submission: Jan 31, 2016 * Notification: Feb 21, 2016 * Final Version: Mar 10, 2016 Scope ----- 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 but only in terms of language restrictions or logical/computational principles implying complexity properties. This workshop focuses on ICC methods related to programs. Traditionally, in this approach one relates complexity classes to restrictions on programming paradigms (functional programs, lambda calculi, rewriting systems), such as ramified recurrence, weak polymorphic types, linear logic and linear types and interpretative measures. The workshop will be open to contributions on various aspects of ICC including (but not exclusively): - 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 - application of implicit complexity to security Submission ---------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 5 pages, which must be written in English and be submitted as a single PDF file to the following page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/conference_dir.cgi?a=9946461 Submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop. Abstracts may 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. Submissions of abstracts by PC members are allowed. Program Committee ----------------- * Dan Ghica (University of Birmingham) * Emmanuel Hainry (Universit? de Lorraine) * Damiano Mazza (CNRS - Universit? Paris 13) (Chair) * Ramyaa (New Mexico Tech) * Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (Universit? di Bologna) * Thomas Seiller (University of Copenhagen) * Lorenzo Tortora de Falco (Universit? Roma Tre) Steering Committee ------------------ * Patrick Baillot (CNRS - ENS Lyon) * Ugo Dal Lago (Universit? di Bologna) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) * Jean-Yves Marion (Universit? de Lorraine) * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) From birkedal at cs.au.dk Tue Dec 8 12:35:51 2015 From: birkedal at cs.au.dk (Lars Birkedal) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:35:51 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS 2016 conference Message-ID: <28ACA005-E413-4C7D-B3F8-23B5CB3F2802@cs.au.dk> MFPS 2016 The 32nd Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXII) will take place on the campus of the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, between 23 and 26 May 2016. MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. 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. Conference home page: mfps-2016.au.dk ## INVITED SPEAKERS * Peter Selinger, Dalhousie * Brigitte Pientka, McGill * Steve Brookes, CMU * Nathalie Bertrand, Inria ## TUTORIAL SPEAKERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS * Peter O'Hearn - Concurrency, special session in honour of Steve Brookes' 60th Birthday * Andrew Appel, Princeton - Verification * Stephen Chong, Harvard - Security * Dan Roy, Toronto - Probabilistic Programming ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: * Submission Deadline: March 3 * Notification: April 8 * Proceedings: April 18 * Conference: May 23-26 ### 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=mfps2016). ### 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 Andre Scedrov, UPenn, USA Andrej Bauer, Ljubljana, Slovenia Andrzej Murawski, Warwick, UK, Bart Jacobs, Radboud U, Netherlands Bob Coecke, Oxford, UK Cameron Freer, Cambridge MA, USA Catherine Meadows, NRL , USA Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA, France Christine Tasson, PPS Paris, France Claudio Russo, MSR Cambridge, UK Dusko Pavlovic, Hawaii, US Helle Hvid Hansen, TU Delft, Netherlands Hugo Herbelin, Paris, France Jean Krivine, Paris, France, Joel Ouaknine, Oxford, UK Lars Birkedal (Chair), Aarhus, Denmark Michael Mislove, Tulane, USA Neel Krishnaswami, Birmingham, UK Paul Blain Levy, Birmingham, UK, Peter Dybjer, Chalmers, Sweden Prakash Panangaden, Montreal, Canada Stefan Milius, Erlangen, Germany Steve Brookes, CMU, USA Steve Zdancewic, UPenn, USA ## LOCAL ORGANISERS: * Steve Brookes -- Lars Birkedal Professor, Head of Department of Computer Science Aarhus University Head of Logic and Semantics Group www.cs.au.dk/~birke birkedal at cs.au.dk From dlucanu at info.uaic.ro Wed Dec 9 11:04:15 2015 From: dlucanu at info.uaic.ro (Dorel Lucanu) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 18:04:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WRLA 2016: 2nd Call for Papers (including invited speakers) Message-ID: <566850FF.7090705@info.uaic.ro> ======================== Call for Papers ================================= WRLA 2016 11th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications An ETAPS 2016 satellite event Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-3, 2016 ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract deadline: January 6th 2016 * Submission deadline: January 10th 2016 * Author notification: February 14th 2016 * Workshop: Saturday April 2nd and Sunday April 3rd, 2016 AIMS AND SCOPE Rewriting is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication, and interaction. It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in various application domains. It also has good properties as a metalogical framework for representing logics. Several successful languages based on rewriting (ASF+SDF, CafeOBJ, ELAN, Maude) have been designed and implemented. The aim of WRLA is to bring together researchers with a common interest in rewriting and its applications, and to give them the opportunity to present their recent work, discuss future research directions, and exchange ideas. The 2016 edition of WRLA will mark its 20th anniversary since its first edition in Asilomar, California, in 1996. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: A. Foundations * foundations and models of rewriting and rewriting logic, including termination, confluence, coherence and complexity * unification, generalisation, narrowing, and partial evaluation * constrained rewriting and symbolic algebra * graph rewriting * tree automata * rewriting strategies * rewriting-based calculi and explicit substitutions B. Rewriting as a Logical and Semantic Framework * uses of rewriting and rewriting logic as a logical framework, including deduction modulo * uses of rewriting as a semantic framework for programming language semantics * rewriting semantics of concurrency models, distributed systems, and network protocols * rewriting semantics of real-time, hybrid, and probabilistic systems * uses of rewriting for compilation and language transformation C. Rewriting Languages * rewriting-based declarative languages * type systems for rewriting * implementation techniques * tools supporting rewriting languages D. Verification Techniques * verification of confluence, termination, coherence, sufficient completeness, and related properties * temporal, modal and reachability logics for verifying dynamic properties of rewrite theories * explicit-state and symbolic model-checking techniques for verification of rewrite theories * rewriting-based theorem proving, including (co)inductive theorem proving * rewriting-based constraint solving and satisfiability * rewriting-semantics-based verification and analysis of programs E. Applications * applications to logic, mathematics and physics * rewriting models of biology, chemistry, and membrane systems * security specification and verification * applications to distributed, network, mobile, and cloud computing * specification and verification of real-time, probabilistic, and cyber-physical systems * specifications and verification of critical systems * applications to model-based software engineering * applications to engineering and planning INVITED SPEAKERS Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) Helene Kirchner (INRIA, France) SUBMISSION We solicit submissions of regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress papers. Regular papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, include appropriate references, and comparison with related work. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Tool papers have to present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, emphasise the design and implementation, and give a clear account of the tool's functionality. The described tools must be publicly available via the web. Work-in-progress papers present early-stage work or other types of innovative or thought-provoking work related to the topics of the workshop. The difference between work-in-progress and regular papers is that work-in-progress submissions represent work that has not reached yet a level of completion that would warrant the full-refereed selection process. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit work-in-progress papers as this provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on ongoing work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. All submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers, and should be submitted electronically using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla2016 Regular and work-in-progress papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Tool papers can have a maximum of 6 pages including references and may have an appendix of up to 4 additional pages with usage details and tool demonstration. PUBLICATION All submissions will be evaluated by the program committee. Regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress papers that are accepted will be presented at the workshop and included in the pre-proceedings, which will be available during the workshop. Following the tradition of the last editions, the regular papers, tool papers, and invited presentations will be published as a volume in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series to be distributed after the workshop. A special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP) will be devoted to extended versions of selected papers from WRLA 2016. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kyungmin Bae, SRI International, USA Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy Stefan Ciobaca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Manuel Clavel, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Francisco Dur?n, Universidad de M?laga, Spain Joerg Endrullis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Santiago Escobar, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London, UK Kokichi Futatsugi, JAIST, Japan Thomas Genet, IRISA/Universit? de Rennes 1, France J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA Helene Kirchner, INRIA, France Alexander Knapp, Universitat Augsburg, Germany Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania (chair) Salvador Lucas, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain Narciso Mart?-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jos? Meseguer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa, Italy Pierre-Etienne Moreau, Universit? de Lorraine, France Vivek Nigam, Federal University of Para?ba, Brasil Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Miguel Palomino, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA-Lorraine Nancy, France Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Vlad Rusu, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe, France Ralf Sasse, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Traian-Florin Serbanuta, University of Bucharest, Romania Mark-Oliver Stehr, SRI International, USA Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany CONTACT INFORMATION For more information, please contact the organizers dlucanu at info.uaic.ro or visit the workshop web page http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/events/WRLA2016/ . From vladimir at ias.edu Wed Dec 9 10:16:06 2015 From: vladimir at ias.edu (Vladimir Voevodsky) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:16:06 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2016 Heidelberg Laureates Forum Message-ID: <2649D67C-D2DF-43D8-8434-816D48E763E1@ias.edu> Hello, HLF 2016 (http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/event_2016/) will be Sep. 18-23. As in the previous years each attending laureate has the right to bring with him one young researcher (the first year it was three young researchers) on full support no questions asked as long as the person satisfies the general criteria spelled out on the website. Those interested please write to me. The deadline is Feb. 5, 2016. Vladimir. PS Sorry for multiple postings. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 496 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: From S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl Wed Dec 9 23:54:13 2015 From: S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl (Sung-Shik Jongmans) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 05:54:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Winter School on Formal Methods In-Reply-To: <119372698.3764797.1449583648618.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> References: <207798391.3759872.1449582382293.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> <723123262.3760111.1449582454163.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> <1244351965.3762990.1449583371467.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> <119372698.3764797.1449583648618.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> Message-ID: <774868595.3933605.1449723253426.JavaMail.zimbra@cwi.nl> **************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The First IPM Advanced School on Computing: Formal Methods for Design and Analysis of Computer Systems Tehran, Iran, 11-15 January 2016 http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016 PRECEDED BY The First IPM Formal Methods Day Tehran, Iran, 10 January, 2016 http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/fmd2016 **************************************************************** ABSTRACT: This advanced school brings together experts from different areas of formal methods to present state of the art in formal methods and logical reasoning techniques in design and analysis of computer systems. The school will cover topics from Model Checking, Process Algebra, Logic, Concurrency Theory and Quantum Computing. Our goal is to demonstrate the importance of foundations and its connection to the design and rigorous analysis of computer systems. The level of lectures will be suitable for graduate students, young researchers and also experts from other fields of computer science who intend to establish interdisciplinary links with formal methods. This event proceeds by the IPM Formal Methods Day (http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/fmd2016). PROGRAM: * Joseph Sifakis: "Model-Based System Design" EPFL & Verimag/CNRS [Turing Award winner of 2007] * Wan Fokkink: "The Spirit of Multicore Computing" VU University Amsterdam * Jan Rutten: "Concrete coalgebra: an introduction by examples" Radboud University Nijmegen/CWI * Farhad Arbab: "Engineering of Highly Concurrent Systems" Leiden University/CWI * Elham Kashefi: "Measurement Calculus" The University of Edinburgh For a detailed program and information about the lecturers, please visit: * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/Programme.aspx * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/InvitedLecturers.aspx ACCOMMODATION: Participants can stay at the IPM guest house for the duration of the school. The IPM guest house is conveniently located in the same building as the lectures. * Single room (including breakfast): 60 EUR/night * Double room (including breakfast): 80 EUR/night All participants who stay at the IPM guest house can be picked up, by someone from IPM who speaks English, from Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) upon their arrival, by taxi. The taxi fee to the IPM guest house is roughly 40 EUR. Similarly, all participants can be dropped off at IKA after the school. FEE: * Regular: 400 EUR * Students: 200 EUR REGISTRATION: * http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2016/Registration.aspx * Registration deadline: December 20, 2015. * The participation in the school is subject to success in the selection process of the IPM School of Computer Science, based on academic merits of the applicants. All selected applicants will be notified via email by 25 December. ORGANIZERS: * Farhad Arbab, Leiden University/CWI * Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani, IPM CONTACT: * E-mail: asc at ipm.ir * Phone: +98 21 24509404 * Fax: +98 21 22825454 * Address: IPM School of Computer Science Farmanieh Campus, No. 70, Lavasani Av. (next to Kouhe Nour Building) Tehran, Iran From stefan.hetzl at tuwien.ac.at Thu Dec 10 11:00:14 2015 From: stefan.hetzl at tuwien.ac.at (Stefan Hetzl) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:00:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3rd Workshop on Automated Inductive Theorem Proving Message-ID: 3rd Workshop on Automated Inductive Theorem Proving 23-24 March 2016, Vienna University of Technology, Austria http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/indws/ Inductive theorem proving is a topic of growing interest in the automated reasoning community. This workshop aims to give researchers interested in the topic a chance to meet, exchange ideas and perhaps also try out some of the available theorem provers. We would like to invite talks featuring demos and tutorials of inductive theorem provers, challenging problems, new directions of research or anything else of interest to the inductive theorem proving community. Participation will be free of charge but we ask you to register on our website http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/indws/. The registration deadline is 16 February 2016. From u.berger at swansea.ac.uk Fri Dec 11 08:12:14 2015 From: u.berger at swansea.ac.uk (Berger U.) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:12:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Job Opportunities in Logic and Computer Science at Swansea Message-ID: The Department of Computer Science at Swansea University has available: * Up to 2 permanent Lectureships in Computer Security. While the lectureships aim at Computer Security in general, this might be an opportunity for researchers working on applications of Logic in Computer Security. http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/ Deadline: 22 December 2015 * 10 three-years postdoctoral fellowships across a wide range of science and technology disciplines. The Theoretical Computer Science Group offers projects in Computability, Specification, Proof Theory, Complexity and Verification. See our research portfolio at http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/researchandimpact/researchgroups/theory/ Please contact members of our group directly if you are interest in a particular topic. Deadline for Expression of Interest: 5 January 2016 Full Application: 1 March 2016 Further details about the fellowships, including eligibility criteria, are below. SWANSEA UNIVERSITY EXCITING FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Strengthening International Research Capacity in Wales (SIRCIW) Fellowships hosted by Swansea University Swansea University?s, College of Science, is delighted to announce 10 SIRCIW postdoctoral fellowships across a wide range of science and technology disciplines to the highest calibre candidates. The SIRCIW fellowship scheme, part of the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales? strategy to increase research capacity in Wales, will enable talented ?rising star? researchers, with a minimum 3 to 5 years post-doctoral research experience, to:- * Work with leading international scholars in Swansea?s, College of Science; * Receive excellent research supervision; * Have access to the latest facilities and resources, and involvement in world-leading joint research projects; * Collaborate with commercial partner where appropriate; * Spend time as an academic in Wales, linking up with extensive international networks and collaborations. These prestigious 3 year fellowships are jointly funded by Swansea University, the European Commission - H2020, Marie Sklodowska Curie Action COFUND award and the Welsh Government. Through SIRCIW, Swansea is seeking to attract talented experienced researchers with the potential to be research leaders of the future. It is anticipated fellowships will start in autumn 2016. FELLOW ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA * Researchers may be of Any Nationality * Cannot have been resident in the UK for more than 12 months in the last three years * Submit a Science and/ or Technology relevant joint fellowship application with Swansea University to the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales Office. APPLICATION PROCESS 2 stage process, to be completed in English: 1. Expression of Interest, EoI, submitted to the Deapartment of Computer Science, Swansea University by Tuesday 5th January 2. Full Application (supervisor form, ethics form, and CV) submitted to CSAW office by Tuesday 1st March 2016. Interested applicants are encouraged to make early contact with a potential Department of Computer Science Supervisor. To initiate informal discussions please forward:- * Recent successful research proposal * Current C.V. & Research/ career history * Proposed Research Topic Area * Likely Impact * Referee Details FURTHER INFORMATION: Department of Computer Science, Swansea University http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/ College of Science, Swansea University http://www.swansea.ac.uk/science/ SIRCIW fellowship scheme can be found at http://expertisewales.com/support-and-funding-researchers ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ulrich Berger Department of Computer Science Swansea University Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK Office: Room 306 (Faraday Building) Phone Work +44 1792 513380 Home +44 1792 533979 Fax +44 1792 295708 Email u.berger at swansea.ac.uk Homepage http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csulrich/ ---------------------------------------------------------- From chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk Sat Dec 12 08:09:35 2015 From: chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk (Chris Heunen) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 13:09:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QPL 2016: Call for papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The 13th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) June 6-10, 2016 University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland http://qpl2016.cis.strath.ac.uk The 13th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) will take place at the University of Strathclyde between Tuesday 7 and Friday 10 June, 2016. The workshop brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods, and other computer science techniques applied to the study of physical behaviour in general. Previous QPL events were held in Oxford (2015), 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 Elham Kashefi (University of Edinburgh) Tom Leinster (University of Edinburgh, to be confirmed) Krysta Svore (Microsoft Research) Stephanie Wehner (Technical University Delft) SATELLITES On Monday June 6 there will be tutorial lectures. More details will be announced later. On Saturday June 11 there will be a satellite workshop on "Semantic spaces at the intersection of natural language processing, physics, and cognitive science". More details can be found at: https://www.sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: March 13, 2016 Notification: April 24 Papers ready: May 29 Tutorials: June 6 Workshop: June 7-10 SUBMISSIONS Prospective speakers are invited to submit a contribution to the workshop. - Original contributions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract which 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. Submission of work in progress is encouraged but must be more substantial than a research proposal. - Short contributions will also be considered, and consist of a 3 page description including a link to work that has already been published or submitted elsewhere, provided it is recent and relevant to the workshop. 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=qpl2016 There will be an award for the best paper whose authors are all students, at the discretion of the programme committee. REGISTRATION AND SUPPORT Registration will be opened later, please visit the website for more details. We encourage participation of graduate students and those with caregiving responsibilities. We hope to be able to provide limited financial support for travel and accommodations; details will be announced later. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Barrett (University of Nottingham) Rick Blute (University of Ottawa) Dan Browne (University College London) Giulio Chiribella (University of Hong Kong) Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) Ross Duncan (University of Strathclyde, co-chair) Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo) Chris Heunen (University of Edinburgh, co-chair) Matty Hoban (University of Oxford) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen) Viv Kendon (Durham University) Kohei Kishida (University of Oxford) Aleks Kissinger (Radboud University Nijmegen) Joachim Kock (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Matt Leifer (Chapman University) Paul-Andre Mellies (University Paris Diderot) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht University) Daniel Oi (University of Strathclyde) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Dusko Pavlovic (University of Hawaii) Simon Perdrix (CNRS Nancy) Robert Raussendorf (University of British Columbia) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton) Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) Bas Spitters (Aarhus University) Isar Stubbe (Universite du Littoral-Cote-d'Opale) Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford) Mingsheng Ying (University of Technology Sydney) STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) LOCAL ORGANISATION Ross Duncan Chris Heunen Daniel Oi -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From iliano at andrew.cmu.edu Sun Dec 13 09:19:46 2015 From: iliano at andrew.cmu.edu (Iliano Cervesato) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:19:46 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty position in programming languages and computational logic Message-ID: <566D7E82.7040406@cmu.edu> [I am reposting the ad below to this list since one of our vacancies is specifically for a person with expertise in programming languages and logic.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Two faculty positions Organization: Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar campus) Department: School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar invites applications for two teaching-track positions at any level, one in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence (position CMUQ-CS15-003), and the other in the fields of programming languages and computational logic (position CMUQ-CS15-004). This is a career-oriented renewable appointment that involves teaching high-achieving international undergraduate students. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field, substantial exposure to Western-style education, good leadership skills, an outstanding teaching record, and excellent research accomplishments. As Carnegie Mellon University takes pride in its diverse faculty and student population, the successful applicant shall demonstrate experience and effectiveness in teaching, mentoring and inspiring female undergraduates. Applications by female candidates are especially encouraged. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits including a foreign service premium, excellent international health care coverage, and allowances for housing, transportation, dependent schooling, and travel. Further information can be found at http://csjobs.qatar.cmu.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Iliano Cervesato www.cs.cmu.edu/~iliano/ Professor Carnegie Mellon University From M.F.Berger at sussex.ac.uk Mon Dec 14 08:10:51 2015 From: M.F.Berger at sussex.ac.uk (Martin Berger) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:10:51 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD scholarship on foundations of meta-programming Message-ID: <8A8DF1B8-7E04-42B1-B5FA-A67D641E93A3@sussex.ac.uk> I apologise if you get this message multiple times. ------ Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, starting in October 2016. The topic of the studentship is to develop the foundations of meta-programming, and extending our understanding of how to specify and verify meta-programs, in terms of theoretical understanding, implementation and tooling. For further details, see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AMO053/foundations-of-meta-programming or contact Martin Berger . The Scholarship normally includes a three year stipend at a standard rate (currently ?14057 per annum) and, in addition, fees as follows: (a) for Home/EU applicants, full fees; (b) overseas applicants, a contribution of up to ?12000 towards overseas fees, depending on qualifications. The studentship is available to students of any nationality. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related discipline, and must obtain the support of the supervisor prior to submitting their application. Initial contact with supervisors should be made at least two weeks prior to the closing date for applications. For details about funding and the application procedure contact Luke Scott . Closing date for applications is 4th January 2016. From jose.proenca at cs.kuleuven.be Mon Dec 14 08:10:53 2015 From: jose.proenca at cs.kuleuven.be (jose.proenca at cs.kuleuven.be) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:10:53 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: COORDINATION 2016 Message-ID: <201512141310.tBEDArGH001782@psychopathy.seas.upenn.edu> [We apologize for multiple copies] COORDINATION 2016 18th IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages A DisCoTec Member Conference http://coordination2016.discotec.org/ June 6-8, 2016, Heraklion, Greece IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: February 1, 2016 Paper Submission: February 8, 2016 Author Notification: March 21, 2016 Camera ready copy: April 4, 2016 Early registration: May 9, 2016 Conference: June 6-8, 2016 The time of all deadlines is 24:00 AoE (UTC-12). SCOPE COORDINATION 2016 is the premier forum for publishing research results and experience reports on software technologies for collaboration and coordination in concurrent, distributed, and complex systems. The key focus of the conference is the quest for high-level abstractions that can capture interaction patterns and mechanisms occurring at all levels of the software architecture, up to the end-user domain. COORDINATION 2016 seeks high-quality contributions on the usage, study, formal analysis, design, and implementation of languages, models, and techniques for coordination in distributed, concurrent, pervasive, and parallel software-intensive computing systems. COORDINATION 2016 seeks as well to adapt and integrate traditional COORDINATION techniques in the realm of multi-agent systems (MAS), which typically involve more coarse-grained (cognitive, intelligent, goal-oriented) components. Main topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: * Models and paradigms * Programming abstractions and languages * Foundations, types and semantics * Specification and verification * Middlewares and architectures * Distributed, mobile and networked computing * Parallel and high-performance computing * Nature- and bio-inspired approaches * Self-adaptation, self-organisation and autonomic computing * Collective systems, ensembles, federations, and systems-of-systems * Teamwork, distributed problem solving and collective intelligence * Multiagent systems, auction, negotiation, argumentation, and rational agents * Trust, policies, reputation and security * Applications and case studies SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION We solicit papers describing thorough and complete research results and/or experience reports on applications and cases studies of coordination. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's codes of conduct). The submissions must not exceed 16 pages in length, including figures and references, prepared using Springer's LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted as PDF or PS via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2016 POST-PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION Relevant, high-quality papers will be invited to a special issue of a highly reputed journal. Previous special issues are under preparation within the journal on Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org/). INVITED SPEAKER Vijay Saraswat (IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA) PC CHAIRS Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Jos? Proen?a (KU Leuven, Belgium and University of Minho, Portugal) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Lu?s Barbosa (University of Minho, Portugal) Jacob Beal (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Frank de Boer (CW and Leiden University, The Netherlands) Olivier Boissier (Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines of Saint-Etienne, France) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Tevfik Bultan (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Carlos Canal (University of M?laga, Spain) Dave Clarke (Uppsala University, Sweden) Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand) Ferruccio Damiani (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Rocco De Nicola (IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) Val?rie Issarny (Inria, France) Rania Khalaf (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Ramtin Khosravi (University of Tehran, Iran) Natallia Kokash (Leiden University, the Netherlands) Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy) Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Sun Meng (Peking University, China) Flemming Nielson (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Mirko Viroli (University of Bologna, Italy) Takuo Watanabe (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Martin Wirsing (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) STEERING COMMITTEE Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands) (Chair) Dave Clarke (Uppsala University, Sweden) Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) Eva K?hn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) Rocco De Nicola (IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Rosario Pugliese (Universit? di Firenze, Italy) Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy) Mirko Viroli (University of Bologna, Italy) From serge.autexier at dfki.de Mon Dec 14 09:13:29 2015 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:13:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Workshops - 9th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2016 - Proposals Deadline 22. January 2016 Message-ID: <20151214141329.4297735067AF@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Call for Workshop Proposals 9th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2016 - July 25-29, 2016 University of Bialystok, Poland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, colocating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (U.K. 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (U.K. 2013), Coimbra (Portugal, 2014) and Washington D.C. (USA, 2015). This is the call for proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2016, which will be held at the University of Bialystok (Poland), July 25-29 next year. Some of the workshops that have been held at past CICM meetings are: Automated Reasoning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice Compact Computer Algebra Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning for Mathematics Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians Intelligent Proof Search Mathematical user Interfaces Mathematics Information Retrieval OpenMath Pen-Based Mathematical Computation Programming languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems SCIEnce The Notion of Proof User Interfaces for Theorem Provers Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2016 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged. Please provide the following information: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics. + Proposed workshop duration (half a day up to two days is possible). + If the workshop has met previously, please include the conference affiliation for the previous meeting. If the workshop is new, please indicate so. CICM will take care of copying and distributing informal printed proceedings for workshops that would like this service, as well as permanently archived open access online proceedings with CEUR-WS.org. All proposals should be sent via email to cicm-organizers at jacobs-university.de for consideration by the CICM 2016 organizers: Conference Chair: Adam Naumowicz (U Bialystok, Poland) General Program Chair: Michael Kohlhase (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) Calculemus Track Chair: Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, USA) DML Track Chair: Frank Tompa (U Waterloo, Canada) MKM Track Chair: Bruce Miller (NIST, USA) System & Data Chair: Moa Johansson (Chalmers U, Sweden) Workshop Chair: Serge Autexier (DFKI, Germany) Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: January 22nd, 2016 Acceptance/rejection notification: February 1, 2016 Workshop dates: July 25-29, 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From james.cheney at gmail.com Tue Dec 15 10:53:16 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:53:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral and PhD positions in LFCS on graph databases, provenance, and programming languages Message-ID: Hi, As a result of recent funding awards, I expect to be able to advertise two postdoctoral positions and a PhD position at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh in the near future: * The first postdoc position will be advertised early in January to start as soon as possible (in practice, this likely means February 2016 at the absolute earliest; I'd prefer to have someone by March or April if possible). The position will require a mix of research and development skills, to contribute to the development of a system for processing and analyzing provenance graph data in order to identify and mitigate advanced persistent threat attacks. Preferred programming languages among other project members include Haskell, Scala and Python. Experience with graph databases such as Titan/Cassandra or the Gremlin query language would be a big plus. I would like to hire someone to work on this project whose research dovetails well with the development needed for the project. This could mean a systems-oriented PL researcher interested in gaining experience with graph databases, provenance or security, or a researcher in one of these areas interested in gaining experience with PL. This position is part of the ADAPT project (A Diagnostics Approach for Advanced Persistent Threat Detection) funded by the DARPA Transparent Computing Program. The other partners in ADAPT are Galois, Inc., Xerox PARC, and Oregon State University. The funding is secure until June 2017 and funding after that point is contingent on continuation of the project by DARPA, until the program ends in June 2019. * The second postdoc and PhD studentship position will be advertised later in 2016 for a start date of mid-to-late 2016. Both will be part of the ERC-funded project "Skye: A programming language bridging theory and practice for scientific data curation". Relevant topics/background include heterogeneous metaprogramming, language-integrated query, and scientific data management and provenance. Both positions will have funding for up to 4 years in the period 2016-2021 (pending finalization of the grant agreement). This message does not constitute a formal advertisement of an employment opportunity; formal advertisements will follow when the details are finalized. Please contact me if interested in any of these opportunities or with any questions about the projects, and research environment, and preferably including a CV and summary of your research interests and how they relate to the position(s) you are interested in. --James -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmadiot at cs.princeton.edu Tue Dec 15 11:40:40 2015 From: jmadiot at cs.princeton.edu (Jean-Marie Madiot) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:40:40 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [JFLA'16] Call for participation Message-ID: (This message is intentionally written in French.) *** Appel ? participation, merci de diffuser largement *** JFLA'2016 (http://jfla.inria.fr/2016/) Journ?es Francophones des Langages Applicatifs ? Saint Malo, du 27 au 30 janvier 2016 Les incriptions aux JFLAs 2016 sont d?sormais ouvertes. Vous trouverez ci-dessous la liste des expos?s pr?vus. Nous esp?rons que vous serez nombreux ? participer ? ces journ?es ; inscrivez-vous d?s que possible! Dates importantes ----------------- 17 janvier 2016 : date limite d'inscription aux journ?es 27 au 30 janvier 2016 : journ?es Cours invit?s ------------- * Pierre-Yves Strub (IMDEA Software Institute). Une introduction ? la preuve de s?curit? formelle avec le syst?me EasyCrypt. * Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London). Session types and their applications. Expos?s invit?s --------------- * Patrick Cousot (New York University). Construction of invariance proof methods. * Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research). Articles accept?s ----------------- * S. Archipoff et D. Janin. Pour un raffinement spatio-temporel tuil?. * P.-L. B?gay, P. Manoury et I. Rakotonirina. Une mesure ordinale pour les preuves de terminaison en Coq. * M. Bodin, T. Jensen and A. Schmitt. An Abstract Separation Logic for Interlinked Extensible Records. * B. Canou, ?. Bozman et G. Henry. Sous le capot du MOOC OCaml. * S. Castellan. Weak memory models using event structures. * R. El Siba?e et E. Chailloux. Pendulum : une extension r?active pour la programmation Web en OCaml. * J.-C. Filli?tre et M. Pereira. It?rer avec confiance. * C. Gries, P. Boutry et J. Narboux. Somme des angles d'un triangle et unicit? de la parall?le : une preuve d'?quivalence formalis?e en Coq. * F. Pottier. Reachability and error diagnosis in LR(1) automata. * A.-G. Bosser, P. Courtieu, J. Forest et M.-V. Aponte. Une preuve est une histoire (pr?sentation courte). * J.-C. Lechenet, N. Kosmatov. et P. Le Gall. Coq a dit : fromage tranch? ne peut cacher ses trous (pr?sentation courte). * B. Rognier et G. Duhamel. Pr?sentation de la plateforme edukera (pr?sentation courte). Comit? de programme ------------------- Jade Alglave Microsoft Research Cambridge et University College London (Pr?sidente) Julien Signoles CEA LIST (Vice-pr?sident) Thibaut Balabonski LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud Thomas Braibant Jane Street Sylvie Boldo Inria, LRI Cyril Cohen Inria Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e Claire David Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e Cezara Dragoi Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Jean-Marie Madiot Princeton University Gustavo Petri LIAFA ? Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7) Boris Yakobowski CEA LIST Pour tout renseignement, contacter Julien Signoles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Dec 15 12:05:46 2015 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:05:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LICS 2016 - Last Call for Papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Thirty-First Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS) July 5?8, 2016, New York City, USA http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics16/ SCOPE The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed. We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. IMPORTANT DATES Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper. The exact deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE). Titles and Short Abstracts Due: January 11, 2016 Full Papers Due: January 18, 2016 Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: March 14-18, 2016 Author Notification: April 4, 2016 Final Versions Due for Proceedings: May 2, 2016 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All submissions will be electronic via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2016. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Every full paper must be submitted in the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings 2-column 10pt format and may not be longer than 10 pages, including references. The LaTeX style file is available from the conference website. The extended abstract must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference and to computer science, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical development directed to the specialist should follow. References and comparisons with related work must be included. (If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results may be included in a clearly-labeled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members.) Submissions not conforming to the above requirements will be rejected without further consideration. Paper selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of accepted papers. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are not allowed. Results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. The program chair must be informed, in advance of submission, of any closely related work submitted or about to be submitted to a conference or journal. Authors of accepted papers are expected to sign copyright release forms. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. SHORT PRESENTATIONS A session of short presentations, intended for descriptions of student research, works in progress, and other brief communications, is planned. These abstracts will not be published. Dates and guidelines will be posted on the conference website. KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER An award in honor of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. SPONSORSHIP The symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGLOG and the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, in cooperation with the Association for Symbolic Logic and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Natarajan Shankar, SRI International PROGRAM COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, U. Oxford Jiri Ad?mek, TU Braunschweig Amal Ahmed, Northeastern U. Albert Atserias, U. Polit?cnica de Catalunya Christel Baier, TU Dresden Paul Beame, U. Washington Lars Birkedal, Aarhus U. Udi Boker, IDC Herzliya Maria Paola Bonacina, U. Verona Ahmed Bouajjani, LIAFA, U. Paris Diderot Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Mumbai Yijia Chen, Fudan U. Robert Constable, Cornell U. Amy Felty, U. Ottawa Jane Hillston, U. Edinburgh Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto U. Neil Immerman, U. Massachussetts at Amherst Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul U. Jan Kraj??ek, Charles U. Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg U. Annabelle McIver, Macquarie U. Georg Moser, U. Innsbruck Anca Muscholl, LaBRI, U. Bordeaux Vivek Nigam, Federal U. of Para?ba Michele Pagani, PPS, U. Paris Diderot Christine Paulin-Mohring, U. Paris-Sud Nir Piterman, U. Leicester Jean-Francois Raskin, U. Libre de Bruxelles Alexandra Silva, UCL Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, U. Koblenz Lutz Stra?burger, INRIA Carolyn Talcott, SRI International Cesare Tinelli, U. Iowa Helmut Veith, Vienna U. of Technology Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Labs Ron van der Meyden, U. New South Wales CONFERENCE CHAIR Eric Koskinen, Yale U. WORKSHOP CHAIR Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Cachan PUBLICITY AND PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Sam Staton, U. Oxford GENERAL CHAIR Martin Grohe, RWTH Aachen University LICS STEERING COMMITTEE M. Abadi, R. Alur, P. Bouyer-Decitre, K. Chatterjee, M. Grohe, M. Hasegawa, T. Henzinger, E. Koskinen, S. Kreutzer, O. Kupferman, D. Miller, M. Mislove, L. Ong, C. Palamidessi, N. Shankar, A. Silva, S. Staton, M. Vardi. From G.Bargiannis at hud.ac.uk Wed Dec 16 06:47:11 2015 From: G.Bargiannis at hud.ac.uk (Georgios Bargiannis) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:47:11 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 11th International Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec 2016): Second Call For Papers Message-ID: ***************************************************************** Second Call for Papers DisCoTec 2016 11th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques http://2016.discotec.org/ Heraklion, Greece, 6-9 June 2016 ***************************************************************** The DisCoTec series of federated conferences is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information processing (IFIP). The main conferences are: * COORDINATION * DAIS * FORTE This year IFIP offers an award for the best paper of DisCoTec. All conferences share the same deadlines: * Important Dates * Abstract submission: February 1, 2016 Paper submission: February 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2016 Camera-ready version: April 4, 2016 Early registration: May 9, 2016 Conference and workshops: June 6-9, 2016 * Invited Speakers * Tim Harris, Oracle Labs, UK Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA, France Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research, USA * General Chair * Kostas Magoutis, University of Ioannina & ICS-FORTH, Greece * Publicity Chair * George Baryannis, University of Huddersfield, UK * Workshops Chair * Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Steering Board * Elie Najm (Chair), Telecom-ParisTech, France Rocco De Nicola, IMT Lucca, Italy Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Farhad Arbab (Coordination), CWI, Netherlands Rui Oliveira (DAIS), University of Minho, Portugal Jean-Bernard Stefani (FORTE), INRIA, France Alain Girault, INRIA, France Uwe Nestmann, TU Berlin, Germany Michele Loreti, University of Florence, Italy Jim Dowling, KTH, Sweden Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Frank de Boer, CWI, Netherlands Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy * Publication * Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. ***************************************************************** COORDINATION 2016 18th IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages ***************************************************************** * Scope * COORDINATION 2016 is the premier forum for publishing research results and experience reports on software technologies for collaboration and coordination in concurrent, distributed, and complex systems. The key focus of the conference is the quest for high-level abstractions that can capture interaction patterns and mechanisms occurring at all levels of the software architecture, up to the end-user domain. COORDINATION 2016 seeks high-quality contributions on the usage, study, formal analysis, design, and implementation of languages, models, and techniques for coordination in distributed, concurrent, pervasive, and parallel software-intensive computing systems. COORDINATION 2016 seeks as well to adapt and integrate traditional COORDINATION techniques in the realm of multi-agent systems (MAS), which typically involve more coarse-grained (cognitive, intelligent, goal-oriented) components. Main topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: * Models and paradigms * Programming abstractions and languages * Foundations, types and semantics * Specification and verification * Middlewares and architectures * Distributed, mobile and networked computing * Parallel and high-performance computing * Nature- and bio-inspired approaches * Self-adaptation, self-organisation and autonomic computing * Collective systems, ensembles, federations, and systems-of-systems * Teamwork, distributed problem solving and collective intelligence * Multi-agent systems, auction, negotiation, argumentation, and rational agents * Trust, policies, reputation and security * Applications and case studies * Program Committee Chairs * Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Jos? Proen?a, KU Leuven, Belgium and University of Minho, Portugal ***************************************************************** DAIS 2016 16th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems ***************************************************************** * Scope * The DAIS conference series addresses all aspects of distributed applications, including their design, implementation and operation, the supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well as experimental studies and practice reports. This time we welcome particular contributions on architectures, models, technologies and platforms for large scale and complex distributed applications and services that are related to the latest trends towards bridging the physical/virtual worlds based on flexible and versatile service architectures and platforms. * Program Committee Chairs * Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK M?rk Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary ***************************************************************** FORTE 2016 36th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems ***************************************************************** * Scope * FORTE 2016 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: * Component- and model-based design * Object technology, modularity, software adaptation * Service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems * Software quality, reliability, availability, and safety; * Security, privacy, and trust in distributed systems; * Adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization; * Self-healing/organizing; * Verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of the above. Contributions that combine theory and practice and that exploit formal methods and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to problems arising from the development of distributed systems are encouraged. FORTE covers distributed computing models and formal specification, testing and verification methods. The application domains include all kinds of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. * Program Committee Chairs * Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy University of Huddersfield inspiring tomorrow's professionals. [http://marketing.hud.ac.uk/_HOSTED/EmailSig2014/EmailSigFooter.jpg] This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Thu Dec 17 10:15:06 2015 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:15:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Submissions: CMSB 2016 - the 14th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology Message-ID: <1338211A-B9F3-4131-A2B2-A4FF5A0EDCD3@tuwien.ac.at> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS CMSB 2016 14th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/cmsb2016 21st-23rd September 2016 Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge (UK) Description CMSB 2016 solicits original research articles on the analysis of biological systems, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - formalisms for modelling biological processes - models and their biological applications - frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis and simulation of biological systems - high-performance Computational Systems Biology and parallel implementations - model inference from experimental data - model integration from biological databases - multi-scale modelling and analysis methods - methods for synthetic biology and biomolecular computing Papers should be submitted to one of the following categories: - Regular papers - Tool papers Proceedings of CMSB 2016 will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI). Publication of a selection of the papers in a special issue of a journal is under consideration. Invited Speakers - Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge / University of Oxford (UK) - Joelle Despeyroux, INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France) - Radu Grosu, TU Wien (Austria) - Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh (UK) Call for Papers Format for regular papers: Regular papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 12 pages. Appendices will not not be counted in the page limit. Format and guidelines for tool papers: Tool papers should present new tools, new tool components or novel extensions to existing tools supporting the modelling and analysis of biological systems. Each submission should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form. Papers must be written in English and must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 6 pages. Appendices will not be counted in the page limit. Papers must include information on methods, tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results. Authors should make their tools and benchmarks available at the time of submission for evaluation by the committee. Each submission must be accompanied by a supplementary PDF file illustrating the usage of the tool (e.g. screenshots, step-by-step guide, short tutorial) and, if applicable, how the tool demo will be conducted during the conference presentation. Presenters of accepted tool papers will be encouraged to include a showcase/running demo of the tool in their talk. Important Dates - Abstract submission: April 15, 2016 - Paper submission: April 22, 2016 - Paper Notification: June 10, 2016 - Camera-ready: June 25, 2016 PC co-Chairs - Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien (Austria) - Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge (UK) - Nicola Paoletti, University of Oxford (UK) Tool Track Chair - Claudio Angione, Teesside University (UK) Local Organisation Chair - Max Conway, University of Cambridge (UK) Steering Committee - Finn Drablos, NTNU (Norway) - Fran?ois Fages, INRIA Paris Rocquencourt (France) - David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) - Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus (Germany) - Tommaso Mazza, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Mendel (Italy) - Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo (Japan) - Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh (UK) - Corrado Priami, CoSBi / University of Trento (Italy) - Carolyn Talcott, SRI International (USA) - Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock (Germany) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Thu Dec 17 11:36:33 2015 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:36:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 Ph.D positions on Formal Methods for Concurrent Systems and Security Analysis (at U. of Oslo, Inst. of Informatics) Message-ID: <20151217163633.DC00655CD@nittedal.ifi.uio.no> __________________________________________________ TWO PH.D POSITIONS IN FORMAL METHODS FOR SECURITY ANALYSIS 31st January 2016 University of Oslo (www.uio.no) Institute for Informatics (www.ifi.uio.no) __________________________________________________ 1 Short description =================== There are two Ph.D positions in the area of formal methods for analyzing security properties in concurrent and distributed programs. One Ph.D position is connected to the /ConSeRNS/ initiative, targeting research challenges in security and robustness of ICT infrastructures. This is a 4 year position with a 25% teaching load. The other Ph.D position is connected to the /IoTSec/ project, targeting security in Internet-of-Things (IoT) for Smart Grids, and is for 3 years without teaching. Both positions have application deadline January 31st 2016. - http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/pma/news/news-positions-phd-2015-2.html 1.1 ConSeRNS position ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The goal of the first PhD scholarship is to address the problem of how IT systems during runtime can assess, detect, react and adapt to current security threats, vulnerabilities and attacks in order to achieve a certain level of security threat immunity. Elements to be considered as part of this PhD project is the development of models for dynamic risk, the design of redundant security architectures, and the application of formal methods for security design verification. The PhD scholar will be supervised by a team of the faculty (see contact information below). 1.2 IoTSec position ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The second PhD scholarship is focusing on semantic descriptions for the infrastructure components of IoT Smart Grids and their attack surface, and thus establishing an overall semantic model for IoT Smart Grids systems. The work will include development of case studies and tools. The PhD scholar will be supervised by a team of the faculty (see link below) involved in the /IoTSec/ project. 2 Specific qualifications ========================= The applicant is required to hold a Master's degree or equivalent in /computer science/ and should have good analytical and programming skills. The ideal candidate has background in (some of) the following areas of system security and formal methods and analysis: software verification, validation, monitoring and testing, semantics, including knowledge of tools in that field. Besides technical skills, we are looking for a curious, ambitious candidate who is highly motivated to do research and contribute to the work done at our group. Good communication skills in both oral and written English are expected. We strongly encourage that the application is accompanied by a short cover letter explaining shortly how the applicant's background and education fits to the goals and requirements of this project. 3 Research group ================ Both positions are associated with the research group for Precise Modeling and Analysis (PMA), focusing on formal models, programming and modeling languages, and semantically based tools. See the [PMA homepage]. One position is a part of the ConSeRNS Strategic Research Initiative at the /University of Oslo/. ConSeRNS is run by 12 faculty members from the /Department of Informatics/ and targets essential research challenges in security and robustness of ICT infrastructures. ConSeRNS is part of a national Center for Resilient Networks and Applications (CRNA), which spans Simula Research Laboratory, the University of Bergen as well as the University of Oslo. For more information, see the group's web-page. The other position is a part of the IoTSec project. [PMA homepage] http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/pma/ [group's web-page] http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/conserns [IoTSec project] http://www.iotsec.no/ 4 Further information ===================== For further information concerning - work environment - payment and economocal aspects - social security & other contractual conditions - support of families and social aspects of working for a PhD in Norway please see the mentioned link http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/pma/news/news-positions-phd-2015-2.html resp. the official central application webpage linked in there. For equiries, feel free to contact us. 5 Contact ========= - Olaf Owe (olaf at ifi.uio.no) (ConSeRNS, IoTSec) - Joseph Noll (josef at unik.no) (IoTSec) - Martin Steffen (msteffen at ifi.uio.no) (ConSeRNS) From jeremy.gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Dec 17 16:34:37 2015 From: jeremy.gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:34:37 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Associate or Full Professorship in Programming Languages at Oxford Message-ID: <02FFC777-45F9-41A8-B6D7-3A6C41C2B4A3@cs.ox.ac.uk> The Department of Computer Science at University of Oxford has an opening for an Associate or Full Professorship in Programming Languages, as described below. Please pass this advert on to anyone who may be interested. I would be happy to answer any questions. -jg * Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor (or Professor) of Programming Languages, to be held in the Department of Computer Science, to start as soon as possible. The successful candidate will also be appointed to a Fellowship at Kellogg College. You will join a vibrant and rapidly-growing computer science department, with a long history of fundamental research in the area of programming languages, benefiting from a rich academic environment for computer science research, with many researchers working in closely-related areas. You will be a member of both the University and the College community, which is an intellectually stimulating research environment, performing to the highest international levels in research and publications, and will have access to the excellent research facilities which Oxford offers. You will have a role to play in the running of the College as a member of its Governing Body, together with your departmental research, teaching, and examining duties. Candidates should hold a doctoral degree in computer science (or cognate discipline), with a proven global research record in peer-reviewed journals, including the ability to attract research funding. You should have experience in teaching programming languages and related topics within Computer Science at graduate level, including supervising graduate students. Experience of research collaborations on a national or global level is highly desirable. Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford. The closing date for applications is 12.00 midday on 15 February 2016. For further particulars, and details of how to apply, see: http://tinyurl.com/p3ckkab Contact Person: Michael Wooldridge (mjw at cs.ox.ac.uk) [or JG, at the address below] Vacancy ID : 121645 Grade 36S: Salary on scale from ?45,066 - ?59,914 pa (plus benefits) Closing Date : 15-Feb-2016 Jeremy.Gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Department of Computer Science, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. +44 1865 283521 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/ Jeremy.Gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Department of Computer Science, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. +44 1865 283521 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sokolsky at cis.upenn.edu Fri Dec 18 09:54:50 2015 From: sokolsky at cis.upenn.edu (Oleg Sokolsky) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:54:50 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for tutorial proposals: FM 2016 Message-ID: <56741E3A.3070804@cis.upenn.edu> FM 2016: 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods Limassol, Cyprus, 7-11 November 2016 fm2016.cs.ucy.ac.cy CALL FOR TUTORIALS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadline for tutorial proposals: 6 May 2016 Notification of decision on tutorials: 6 June 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FM 2016 ? the 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods ? will be held in Limassol, Cyprus in November, 2016. It will provide a lively and exciting forum for researchers and practitioners from a diversity of countries and backgrounds to exchange ideas, share experience,and network,via a programme of technical papers, workshops, and tutorials. We invite proposals for half- or full-day tutorials in all aspects of formal methods. Tutors may be industry practitioners, researchers or academics, and may cover new applications of formal methods to challenging problems, as well as updates on established techniques and tools. All tutorials should focus on providing participants the opportunity to learn new techniques, discover new application domains, and gain insights on uses of formal methods. We welcome tutorial proposals addressing any of the following: 1. Novel applications of existing tools and techniques 2. Advanced topics in formal methods research 3. Uses of formal methods in emerging fields 4. Lessons learned from the industry deployment of formal methods, including successful technology transfer 5. Applications to systems linking computational, physical and/or human processes. Tutorials will take place on 7 and 8 November 2016. PROPOSALS A tutorial proposal (max. 3 pages of A4) should include the following details. 1. Tutorial title and brief description of its scope and aims 2. Names and affiliations of the tutors. Specific qualifications for the tutors, including any tutorials given in recent years would be helpful in evaluating the proposal. 3. One paragraph explaining what attendees will learn from the tutorial. 4. Description of the target audience and the background that attendees are expected to have 5. One paragraph "advertising" the tutorial: what makes it exciting and unique, written in a non-technical style that could reasonably be understood by a knowledgeable undergraduate CS student 6. Format of the tutorial (e.g., problem/exercise-based, lecture-based). List any equipment requirements (e.g., will attendees need their laptops and, if so, whether any software is required). 7. If the tutorial has been given previously elsewhere, please provide a link to the past event. Proposals in PDF format should be sent to the Tutorial Chairs: Dimitrios Kouzapas (dimitrios.kouzapas at glasgow.ac.uk) and Oleg Sokolsky (sokolsky at cis.upenn.edu). IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission: May 6, 2016 Notification of acceptance: June 6, 2016 QUESTIONS: Please direct any questions to the Tutorial Chairs. From m.huisman at utwente.nl Fri Dec 18 08:23:42 2015 From: m.huisman at utwente.nl (m.huisman at utwente.nl) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:23:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extended: iFM 2016 (integrated Formal Methods), 1 - 3 June 2016, Reykjavik Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! =============================== The submission deadline for iFM 2016 has been extended: Abstract submission: January 6, 2016 (extended) Paper submission: January 13, 2016 (extended) Paper notification: February 29, 2016 Please find an updated version of CfP below. Best regards, Erika Abraham Marieke Huisman =========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS iFM 2016 12th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods June 1-3, 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland http://en.ru.is/ifm/ =========================================================== === Important dates === Abstract submission: January 6, 2016 (extended) Paper submission: January 13, 2016 (extended) Paper notification: February 29, 2016 Final version: March 14, 2016 Conference: June 1-3, 2016 === Objectives and scope === Applying formal methods may involve the usage of different formalisms and different analysis techniques to validate a system, either because individual components are most amenable to one formalism or technique, because one is interested in different properties of the system, or simply to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding both modeling and analysis. The conference covers all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Formal and semi-formal modelling notations - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice - Hybrid systems - Program verification - Program synthesis - Model checking - Static analysis - Runtime analysis, monitoring, performance evaluation - Decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving - Software engineering - Component-based systems (compositional, embedded, distributed, etc.) - Testing - Abstraction and refinement === Submission guidelines === iFM 2016 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the overall theme of method integration. We solicit papers in the following categories: - research papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) - regular tool papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) - short tool papers (max. 8 pages including bibliography) - case study papers (max. 15 pages including bibliography) All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, a paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. Submissions should be made using the iFM 2016 Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2016 Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files; we suggest to use the LaTeX2e package (the llncs.cls class file, available in llncs2e.zip and the typeinst.dem available in typeinst.zip as a template for your contribution). The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the early date, to be indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. === Invited speakers === Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Reiner Haehnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Edmund Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) === Workshops === iFM 2016 will be accompanied by a series of workshops. Further information is available from the conference website http://en.ru.is/ifm/ === Conference location === iFM 2016 is organized by the University of Reykjavik and will take place at the university campus in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. === Committees === General Chair: Marjan Sirjani (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Program Chairs: Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Workshop Chair: Marcel Kyas (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Wojciech Mostowski (Halmstad University, Sweden) Program Committee: Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Bernd Becker (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany) Clara Benac Earle (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (McMaster University, Canada) Ferruccio Damiani (Universita di Torino, Italy) Frank de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) Delphine Demange (University of Rennes 1/IRISA, France) Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Dilian Gurov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Holger Hermanns (Saarland University, Germany) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) Martin Leucker (University of Lubeck, Germany) Dominique Mery (Universite de Lorraine, LORIA, France) Rosemary Monahan (Maynooth University, Ireland) Nadia Polikarpova (MIT, USA) Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado, USA) Ina Schaefer (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany) Gerardo Schneider (Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Emil Sekerinski (McMaster University, Canada) Armando Tacchella (University of Genoa, Italy) Mark Utting (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) Kirsten Winter (University of Queensland, Australia) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mehrnoosh.sadrzadeh at qmul.ac.uk Fri Dec 18 07:15:27 2015 From: mehrnoosh.sadrzadeh at qmul.ac.uk (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:15:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP for Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science Message-ID: ==================================================================== Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science ----------------------------- 11th June 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (co-located with QPL 2016) Website: https://sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop General enquiries: slpcs2016 at easychair.org ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Since their introduction in the early 1970s, vector space models of meaning have evolved into a well-established area of research in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Their probabilistic nature and ability to exploit the abundance of large-scale resources such as the Web make them one of the most useful tools (arguably the most successful (Turney and Pantel, 2010)) for modeling what we broadly call meaning in language. The geometry provided by the angular distance between the vectors has been widely used as a representative of the degree of similarity of meaning in NLP. Another field in which vector space models play an important role is physics, and especially quantum theory. Though seemingly unrelated to language, intriguing connections have recently been uncovered. Some examples include models of compositionality in distributional semantics (Coecke et al. 2010), treatments of logical words in vector space models (Widdows, 2003), reasoning about the human mental lexicon in cognitive processes (Bruza et al., 2009), using vectors of queries and documents in information retrieval (Van Rijsbergen, 2004), and representing the meaning of words by density operators (Piedeleu et al., 2015). There is also a long-standing history of vector space models in cognitive science. Theories of categorization such as those developed by Nosofsky (1986); Smith, Osherson, Rips, & Keane, (1988), utilise notions of distance between concepts represented as feature vectors. More recently G?rdenfors (2004) has developed a model of concepts in which conceptual spaces provide geometric structures, and information is represented by points, vectors and regions in vector spaces. Exploiting the common ground provided by the concept of a vector space, the workshop aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, cognitive science, and physics, offering to them an appropriate forum for presenting their uniquely motivated work and ideas. The interplay between these three disciplines will foster theoretically motivated approaches to understanding how meanings of words interact with each other in sentences and discourse, how diagrammatic reasoning depicts and simplifies this interaction, how language models are determined by input from the world, and how word and sentence meanings interact logically. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * Reasoning in semantic spaces * Applications of quantum logic in natural language processing * Compositionality in semantic spaces and conceptual spaces * Links between conceptual spaces and natural language processing * Modeling functional words such as prepositions and relative pronouns in compositional distributional models of meaning * Diagrammatic reasoning for natural language processing SUBMISSION ---------- We solicit papers that describe original work. The submitted papers may consist of up to 6 pages of content (including references) in the EPTCS format (http://style.eptcs.org/). Authors are invited to submit their papers via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slpcs2016 A selection of the accepted papers will be presented orally, and the rest of them as posters. Depending on participation and quality of submissions, the proceedings of the workshop will be published as an EPTCS (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science) volume. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- All deadlines are at 23:59 Howland Island time (UTC-12). * Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2016 * Reviewing period: 27 March 2016-17 April 2016 * Author notification: 24 April 2016 * Workshop: 11 June 2016 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- * Hans Briegel, University of Innsbruck * Peter G?rdenfors, University of Lund * Dominic Widdows, Microsoft (To be confirmed) REGISTRATION ------------ Restrigation will open closer to the date of the workshop, please check the website for more details. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- * Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology * Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge * Bob Coecke, University of Oxford * Liane Gabora, University of British Columbia * Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh * Peter Hines, University of York * Aleksandra Kislak-Malinowska, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn * Daniel Marsden, University of Oxford * Glyn Morrill, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya * Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, Inc * Stanley Peters, University of Stanford * Stephen Pulman, University of Oxford * Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London * Sebastian Riedel, University College London * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London * Frank Zenker, University of Konstanz ORGANIZATION ------------ * Dimitrios Kartsaklis, Queen Mary University of London * Martha Lewis, University of Oxford * Laura Rimell, University of Cambridge ADVISORY COMMITTEE ------------------ * Bob Coecke, University of Oxford * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lindsey at composition.al Sat Dec 19 20:49:44 2015 From: lindsey at composition.al (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:49:44 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: Off the Beaten Track 2016 Message-ID: # Call for Participation: Off the Beaten Track 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/OBT-2016-talks January 23, 2016 (co-located with POPL 2016, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA) Please join us for fun talks and lively discussion at Off the Beaten Track 2016. The workshop will feature invited talks by Chris Martens (CMU/UC Santa Cruz) and Bob Atkey (University of Strathclyde), and our list of accepted talks is posted at http://conf.researchr.org/track/OBT-2016/OBT-2016-talks#Accepted-Talks OBT registration is via the POPL registration process: http://conf.researchr.org/attending/POPL-2016/Registration ## Background Programming language researchers have the principles, tools, algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This workshop?s goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often show up in our top conferences, but where programming language research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers and thus increase our community?s impact on the world. While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We are at least as interested in problems as in solutions. ## Prior OBTs 2016 marks the fifth year of OBT and of co-location with POPL. The previous four workshops were: * OBT 2015, Mumbai, India * OBT 2014, San Diego, USA * OBT 2013, Rome, Italy * OBT 2012, Philadelphia, USA ## Organizers General chair: * Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University Program chair: * Lindsey Kuper, Intel Labs Program committee: * Nada Amin, EPFL * Ken Eguro, Microsoft Research * Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University * Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University * Yu David Liu, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton * Emma Tosch, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Noam Zeilberger, MSR-Inria From James.Worrell at cs.ox.ac.uk Sat Dec 19 12:01:15 2015 From: James.Worrell at cs.ox.ac.uk (James Worrell) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:01:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Departmental Lectureship in Theoretical Computer Science, University of Oxford Message-ID: The Department of Computer Science will appoint a full-time Departmental Lecturer in Theoretical Computer Science for up to 5 years from 1 April 2016. The main job responsibilities include: - Engaging in research within the discipline of Theoretical Computer Science - Supervision of doctoral students. - Participating in the teaching and administrative work of the Department. You should hold a doctoral degree in computer science, with post-qualification teaching and research experience. A research track record in theoretical computer science, in the areas of automated verification, computational algebra or number theory, or logic is preferred. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 5 February 2016. For further details see https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=121657 From fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr Sun Dec 20 15:20:24 2015 From: fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr (fabio.zanasi at ens-lyon.fr) Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:20:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2016 : Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <20151220202024.5DA34320E8A@labbe.ens-lyon.fr> Call for Papers 13th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'16) 2 - 3 April 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.coalg.org/cmcs16 Objectives and scope ------------------- Established in 1998, the CMCS workshops aim to bring together researchers with a common interest in the theory of coalgebras, their logics, and their applications. As the workshop series strives to maintain breadth in its scope, areas of interest include neighbouring fields as well. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - The theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical approaches) - Coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for programming languages, dynamical systems, term rewriting, etc.) - Coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming - Model checking, theorem proving and deductive verification using coalgebraic techniques - Coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing - Proof principles and (coinductive) definitions for coalgebras (e.g. with bisimulations or invariants) - Coalgebras and algebras - Coalgebraic specification and verification - Coalgebras and (modal) logic - Coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems) - Coalgebra in quantum computing - Coalgebra and game theory - Tools exploiting colgebraic techniques Venue and event --------------- CMCS'16 will be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, co-located with ETAPS 2016 on 2 - 3 April 2016. Keynote Speaker --------------- Jiri Adamek, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany Invited Speakers --------------- Andreas Abel, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Filippo Bonchi, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France Invited Tutorial Speakers ------------------------- There will be a special session on weighted automata, with invited tutorials by Borja Balle, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Alexandra Silva, University College London, United Kingdom Important dates --------------- Abstract regular papers 4 January 2016 Submission regular papers 13 January 2016 Notification regular papers 12 February 2016 Camera-ready copy 19 February 2016 Submission short contributions 22 February 2016 Notification short contributions 6 March 2016 Programme committee ------------------- Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Ichiro Hasuo (chair), University of Tokyo, Japan Tom Hirschowitz, CNRS and University of Savoie, France Bart Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Shin-ya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, Poland Barbara Koenig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Stefan Milius, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Matteo Mio, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Rasmus Mogelberg, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Larry Moss, Indiana University, United States Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Dirk Pattinson, Australian National University, Australia Daniela Petrisan, Paris Diderot University, France Jean-Eric Pin, CNRS and Paris Diderot University, France John Power, University of Bath, United Kingdom Jurriaan Rot, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Jan Rutten, CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Alexandra Silva, University College London, United Kingdom Joost Winter, University of Warsaw, Poland James Worrell, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Publicity chair --------------- Fabio Zanasi, Radbound University Nijmegen, The Netherlands PC chair -------- Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, Japan Submission guidelines --------------------- We solicit two types of contributions: regular papers and short contributions. Regular papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They should not exceed 20 pages in length in Springer LNCS style. Short contributions may describe work in progress, or summarise work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere. They should be no more than two pages. Regular papers and short contributions should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcs2016. The proceedings of CMCS 2016 will include all accepted regular papers and will be published post-conference as a Springer volume in the IFIP-LNCS series. Accepted short contributions will be bundled in a technical report. From dimitris at microsoft.com Mon Dec 21 04:57:44 2015 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:57:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FW: [TYPES] Postdoc positions and lectureships in Swansea (suitable for type theoretists; deadlines 22/12/15 and 5/1/16) In-Reply-To: <5674B981.4060604@swansea.ac.uk> References: <5674B981.4060604@swansea.ac.uk> Message-ID: <16b3ca4d68f94acbbacd6775a11f0fd3@AM3PR30MB033.064d.mgd.msft.net> Please see post from Anton Setzer below. (I accidentally let this one slip to TYPES instead of TYPES/announce. Apologies!) Dimitrios Vytiniotis TYPES/announce list moderator -----Original Message----- From: Types-list [mailto:types-list-bounces at lists.seas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Anton Setzer Sent: 19 December 2015 01:57 To: types-list at lists.seas.upenn.edu Subject: [TYPES] Postdoc positions and lectureships in Swansea (suitable for type theoretists; deadlines 22/12/15 and 5/1/16) [ The Types Forum, https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2flists.seas.upenn.edu%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ftypes-list&data=01%7c01%7cdimitris%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c5f2e9fb86a164d89287b08d309eb1856%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=MzAdqm0vkCa0dFGngjqnfJ4OEPl%2by8qWL%2flp5vinRJM%3d ] Dear type theoretists, In Swansea we have 2 lectureships (closing date very soon: 22/12/15) and 10 three year postdoc positions available (deadline for expression of interest 5/1/16) I would be very keen on getting people related to my research area which includes type theory. Details are as follows: * Up to 2 permanent Lectureships in Computer Security. While the lectureships aim at Computer Security in general, this might be an opportunity for researchers working on applications of Logic in Computer Security. http://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingID=2756&nPostingTargetID=4869&option=52&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&JOBADLG=UK&Resultsperpage=20&lg=UK&mask=suext http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/ * 10 three-years postdoctoral fellowships across a wide range of science and technology disciplines. The Theoretical Computer Science Group offers projects in Computability, Specification, Proof Theory, Complexity and Verification. See our research portfolio at http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/researchandimpact/researchgroups/theory/ important restrictions on candidates for the postdoc positions (full details are below) * 3 - 5 years post PhD * not been resident in the UK for more than 12 months in last three years * Fellowships will normally be 3 years in length * can involve collaboration with a relevant commercial partner. * http://expertisewales.com/marie-sk%C5%82odowska-curie-actions-cofund-fellowship-scheme Please contact members of our group directly if you are interest in a particular topic. Deadline for Expression of Interest: 5 January 2016 Full Application: 1 March 2016 Further details about the fellowships, including eligibility criteria, are below. SWANSEA UNIVERSITY EXCITING FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Strengthening International Research Capacity in Wales (SIRCIW) Fellowships hosted by Swansea University Swansea University?s, College of Science, is delighted to announce 10 SIRCIW postdoctoral fellowships across a wide range of science and technology disciplines to the highest calibre candidates. The SIRCIW fellowship scheme, part of the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales? strategy to increase research capacity in Wales, will enable talented ?rising star? researchers, with a minimum 3 to 5 years post-doctoral research experience, to:- * Work with leading international scholars in Swansea?s, College of Science; * Receive excellent research supervision; * Have access to the latest facilities and resources, and involvement in world-leading joint research projects; * Collaborate with commercial partner where appropriate; * Spend time as an academic in Wales, linking up with extensive international networks and collaborations. These prestigious 3 year fellowships are jointly funded by Swansea University, the European Commission - H2020, Marie Sklodowska Curie Action COFUND award and the Welsh Government. Through SIRCIW, Swansea is seeking to attract talented experienced researchers with the potential to be research leaders of the future. It is anticipated fellowships will start in autumn 2016. FELLOW ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA * Researchers may be of Any Nationality * Cannot have been resident in the UK for more than 12 months in the last three years * Submit a Science and/ or Technology relevant joint fellowship application with Swansea University to the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales Office. APPLICATION PROCESS 2 stage process, to be completed in English: 1. Expression of Interest, EoI, submitted to the Deapartment of Computer Science, Swansea University by Tuesday 5th January 2. Full Application (supervisor form, ethics form, and CV) submitted to CSAW office by Tuesday 1st March 2016. Interested applicants are encouraged to make early contact with a potential Department of Computer Science Supervisor. To initiate informal discussions please forward:- * Recent successful research proposal * Current C.V. & Research/ career history * Proposed Research Topic Area * Likely Impact * Referee Details FURTHER INFORMATION: Department of Computer Science, Swansea University https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.swansea.ac.uk%2fcompsci%2f&data=01%7c01%7cdimitris%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c5f2e9fb86a164d89287b08d309eb1856%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=H1vOnF1PiLoc3lzsiGgMqxpepweqed1xT7gebPDjzvY%3d College of Science, Swansea University https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.swansea.ac.uk%2fscience%2f&data=01%7c01%7cdimitris%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c5f2e9fb86a164d89287b08d309eb1856%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=mmiABaaFffwK1LQGnTik6pe54ApfZsCagm3UpFQEpyM%3d SIRCIW fellowship scheme can be found at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fexpertisewales.com%2fsupport-and-funding-researchers%0a&data=01%7c01%7cdimitris%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c5f2e9fb86a164d89287b08d309eb1856%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=Gs7u9txIfQkiC0Vxn%2bFEZKb3sIx3QWxc3OcDlJ45wKQ%3d From james.cheney at gmail.com Mon Dec 21 06:12:20 2015 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:12:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentships at LFCS, University of Edinburgh Message-ID: Several funded PhD studentships are available in topics relating to programming languages in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Admission is generally for autumn 2016; earlier admission is possible depending on availability of funding. Expressions of interest from applicants interested in PhD study on any topic relating to theoretical computer science are welcome. Programming languages research topics of particular interest (some with funding already secured) include: * Topic: Proof Engineering Contact: David Aspinall More information: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/da/proofeng.shtml * Topic: Security and verification (including secure concurrent programming, verification of software defined networks, or automatic vulnerability prediction) Contact: David Aspinall More information: http://secpriv.inf.ed.ac.uk/phds/ * Topic: Heterogeneous Metaprogramming for Data-Centric Applications Funding available: 4 years stipend and tuition for student of any nationality Contact: James Cheney More information: http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/graduate%20study/data-centric-programming-and-provenance, http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jcheney/linq/ * Topic: Mechanized metatheory, nominal logic and type theory Contact: James Cheney More information: http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/graduate%20study/nominal-logic-automated-reasoning-and-type-theory * Topic: Categorical semantics for quantum computing Funding available: stipend and UK/EU tuition Contact: Chris Heunen * Topic: C3: Scalable & Verified Shared Memory via Consistency-directed Cache Coherence Funding available: stipend and UK/EU tuition Contact: Vijay Nagarajan More information: http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/M027317/1 * Topic: Complexity Metrics for Testing Concurrent Programs Funding available: stipend and UK/EU tuition Contact: Ajitha Rajan More information: http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/graduate%20study/complexity-metrics-for-testing-concurrent-programs * Topic: GPUs Applied to Software Testing Funding available: stipend and UK/EU tuition Contact: Ajitha Rajan * Topic: A Basis for Concurrency and Distribution Funding available: stipend and UK/EU tuition Contact: Philip Wadler More information: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/abcd-phd-advert.html The LFCS web page lists additional possible supervisors, research interests, and project suggestions: http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/graduate%20study/research-topics http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/people Applicants with interests related to parallel programming, distributed computation, or high-performance computing, databases, machine learning, statistics, or optimization may also apply for funded, 4-year combined Master's and PhD programmes offered by one of Edinburgh's two EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training: Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism http://pervasiveparallelism.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Science http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/apply/ These Centres have separate application processes. Please consult their respective websites for details. In any case it is strongly recommended for applicants to discuss their interests with a prospective supervisor before applying. == Application instructions == Applicants from outside the UK/EU must apply as soon as possible in order be considered for full funding. All applicants should apply by March 18, 2016. However, early application is advisable. Internal funding decisions are typically made based on applications received by early February, so it is advisable to apply for admission and and applicable funding sources by February 1, 2016. To apply, please follow the instructions at: https://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/graduate%20study/apply/ and apply to the LFCS 3-year PhD program. The direct application link is: https://www.star.euclid.ed.ac.uk/public/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=siw_ipp_app&code1=PRPHDINFMT7F&code2=0087 ). Please get in touch early in case of questions about the application process, project ideas or study in the UK or Edinburgh. == Funding == As noted above, some topics are associated with funded projects, including a stipend of approximately ?14,000 per year, and covering UK/EU tuition or (for some projects) full tuition for a student of any nationality. Students interested in topics for which full funding is not available are strongly encouraged to apply for additional University or external funding, and are encouraged to apply to one of the School's two EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training if their research interests match. University deadlines for consideration for funding are typically in early February. However, applicants interested in any research topic and of any nationality are encouraged to contact a prospective supervisor and discuss their research interests before applying. == About the University of Edinburgh and LFCS == The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics brings together world-class research groups in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The School led the UK 2008 RAE rankings in volume of internationally recognised or internationally excellent research. The Informatics Forum, opened in 2008, is located in central Edinburgh, Scotland's capital and one of the best places to live in the UK. We welcome applications from members of groups traditionally underrepresented in the field. In 2013, the School of Informatics received an Athena Swan Silver Award, in recognition of its commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. Overall the University of Edinburgh has achieved a Bronze Award. The Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science was established by Burstall, Milner and Plotkin in 1986, and is recognized worldwide for groundbreaking research on topics in programming languages, semantics, type theory, proof theory, algorithms and complexity, databases, security, and systems biology. Programming Languages and Foundations is one of the largest research activities in LFCS, including 15 academic staff, 8 postdoctoral researchers, and 10 current PhD students. We participate in a thriving PL research community across Scotland, with Scottish Programming Languages Seminars hosted every 3-4 months by PL groups at Glasgow, Strathclyde, Heriot-Watt, St. Andrews, Dundee and Edinburgh. For more information about Edinburgh and studying here, see these pages: * Explore Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/city) * Overview for prospective postgraduates (http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/postgraduate) * Programming Languages and Foundations at LFCS (http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/research/groups-and-projects/pl) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Mon Dec 21 13:15:45 2015 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:15:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WadlerFest, 11--12 April 2016, Edinburgh Message-ID: <567841D1.30700@ed.ac.uk> Our colleague, friend, tormentor and educator, Professor Philip Wadler will turn sixty at the beginning of April, 2016. Phil will be presented with a festschrift entitled "A list of successes that can change the world" at a special event, WadlerFest, on Monday 11th?Tuesday 12th April 2016 in Edinburgh. http://events.inf.ed.ac.uk/wf2016/ Accepted papers: Faris Abou-Saleh, James Cheney, Jeremy Gibbons, James McKinna and Perdita Stevens Reflections on monadic lenses Robert Atkey, Sam Lindley and J. Garrett Morris Conflation confers concurrency Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy, Martin Hofmann and Vivek Nigam Counting successes: effects and transformations for non-deterministic programs Andrew Black, Kim Bruce and James Noble The essence of inheritance John T. O'Donnell and Cordelia Hall Pointlessness is better than listlessness Hugh Leather and Janne Irgens The lambda calculus: practice and principle Simon Gay Subtyping supports safe session substitution Neil Ghani, Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg and Federico Orsanigo Proof relevant parametricity Jeremy Gibbons Comprehending ringads Ralf Hinze and Dan Marsden Dragging proofs out of pictures John Hughes Experiences with QuickCheck: testing the hard stuff and staying sane Graham Hutton and Patrick Bahr Cutting out continuations Conor McBride I got plenty o? nuttin? Martin Odersky, Nada Amin, Tiark Rompf, Sandro Stucki and Samuel Gruetter The essence of dependent object types Jennifer Paykin and Steve Zdancewic Linear lambda-mu is CP (more or less) Simon Peyton Jones, Stephanie Weirich, Richard A. Eisenberg and Dimitrios Vytiniotis A reflection on types Tiark Rompf The essence of multi-stage evaluation in LMS Andreas Rossberg 1ML with special effects Manuel Serrano The computer scientist nightmare Avraham Shinnar and Jerome Simeon A branding strategy for business types Jeremy Siek and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt The recursive union of some gradual types Bernardo Toninho and Nobuko Yoshida Certifying data in multiparty session types Peter Thiemann A delta for hybrid type checking David Turner Recursion equations as a programming language Jeremy Yallop and Hai Liu Causal commutative arrows revisited Phil holds the chair in theoretical computer science (Robin Milner's old chair) at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS). A separate event, LFCS30, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the LFCS will take place on Wednesday 13th April in Edinburgh. http://events.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs30/ Registration costs ?25 and includes both events as well as coffee, lunch, and a banquet on Tuesday evening. http://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=42 Stephen Gilmore Sam Lindley Conor McBride Don Sannella Phil Trinder -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Mon Dec 21 19:40:31 2015 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:40:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two Lectureship posts in the Department of Computing at Imperial Message-ID: <56789BFF.3050709@imperial.ac.uk> Dear all We are hiring for two Lectureships (equivalent to US Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computing. We would be particularly interested in applicants in Programming Languages, Verification, Software Engineering and related areas. Please see details below - follow the link for details of how to apply. I'd be grateful if you could pass this on to folks who you think would be interested. Best wishes Ally Donaldson Two Lectureship Posts Department of Computing, Imperial College London See here for full details: https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=9650819&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=45925&p_spid=1719221&oapc=7&oas=5EK0fRVWGvKQLcOG-WcnpQ Salary ?45,950 - ?51,200 per annum South Kensington Campus Imperial College London is a world leading university whose reputation for excellence in research and teaching attracts students and staff of the highest international quality. The three Faculties ? Engineering, Natural Sciences and Medicine - together with the Business School explore the interface between science, medicine, engineering and management. The Department of Computing is a leading department of Computer Science coming 13th in the world QS ratings. In REF 2014, the most recent assessment of UK research, both the College and the Department did extremely well, with the College being rated overall as the top multi-department university in the UK. The Department was rated as the top Computer Science department in both Research Environment and Research Intensity. The Department?s teaching is always rated in the top three in the newspaper and good university tables. Research in the Department is clustered into the following themes: Distributed Software Engineering, Logic & Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Programming Languages & Systems, Quantitative Analysis and Decision Science, Security, and Visual Information Processing. Applications are invited for two permanent Lectureship positions in the Department of Computing in any of the above areas. Candidates are expected to have a proven international record relevant to the above areas and will be expected to play a full part in the teaching and administrative activities of the Department. For further information on the Department visit http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing. Interviews will be held in early July 2015. For more detail, please refer to the full job description. From herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk Tue Dec 22 15:21:02 2015 From: herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk (Herbert Wiklicky) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:21:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: QAPL16 (New: Speakers, PC, Deadlines) Message-ID: <5679B0AE.7000109@doc.ic.ac.uk> [Apologies for multiple copies] ************************************************************************ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS === NEW: Invited Speakers, PC and Revised Deadlines === 14th Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems QAPL 2016 Affiliated with ETAPS 2016 April 2 - 3, 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://qapl16.doc.ic.ac.uk ************************************************************************ SCOPE: The scope of the QAPL workshop is to discuss new developments on the quantitative evaluation of systems, with an emphasis on quantitative aspects of computation, broadly construed. We solicit papers on theory, engineering methodologies, tools, case studies, and experience reports where quantitative properties such as bandwidth, cost, energy, memory, performance, probability, reliability, security, and time are first-class citizens. TOPICS: Topics of interest include (but are by no means not limited to): * The design of probabilistic, deterministic, hybrid, real-time, and quantum languages, and the definition of their semantical models. * Quantitative analysis techniques such as simulation, numerical solution, symbolic approaches, optimisation methods. * Specification of quantitative properties such as probabilistic model checking and reward structures. * Methodologies and frameworks for the engineering of systems based on quantitative information, such as reliability engineering and software performance engineering. * Software tools to support the quantitative analysis of systems. * Case studies and applications, for instance about coordination models, cyber-physical systems, security, self-adaptive systems, smart grids, systems of systems as well as natural/physical domains such as chemistry and systems biology. INVITED SPEAKERS: * Boudewijn Haverkort - University of Twente, NL * Chung-Chieh Shan - Indiana University, US * Antonio Filieri - Imperial College London, UK SUBMISSIONS: In order to encourage participation, discussion, and early feedback, this workshop solicits two types of submissions - regular papers and presentation reports: 1. Regular paper submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Regular paper submission must not exceed 12 pages (excluding the bibliography), additional technical material, proofs etc. can be provided in a clearly marked appendix which will be read by reviewers at their discretion. 2. Presentation reports concern recent or ongoing work on relevant topics and ideas, for timely discussion and feedback at the workshop. There is no restriction as for previous/future publication of the contents of a presentation. Typically, a presentation is based on a paper which recently appeared (or which is going to appear) in a journal or in the proceedings of another recognised conference, or which has not yet been submitted. The (extended) abstract of presentation submissions should not exceed 4 pages. All submissions must be in PDF format and use the EPTCS latex style, see http://style.eptcs.org/. Submissions can be made on the following website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qapl16 The workshop PC will review all regular paper submissions based on their relevance, merit, originality, and technical content. Presentation reports will receive a lightweight review to establish their relevance for the workshop. The authors of accepted submissions of both types are expected to present and discuss their work at the workshop. Accepted regular papers will be published electronically in the pre-proceedings available during the workshop and after the workshop in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) as post-proceedings. Short papers will not be included in the EPTCS post-proceedings. Following previous issues of QAPL, a special journal issue will be considered. IMPORTANT DATES: For regular papers: * Submission (regular paper): 18 January 2016 * Notification: 18 February 2016 * Final version (ETAPS pre-proceedings): 5 March 2016 For presentation reports: * Submission (short papers): 20 February 2016 * Notification: 25 February 2016 ORGANISATION: PC Chairs: * Mirco Tribastone, IMT Lucca, IT * Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK Program Committee: * Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford * Alessandro Aldini, University of Urbino * Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien * Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste * Peter Buchholz, TU Dortmund * Pedro R. D'Argenio, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba * Alessandra Di Pierro, Universit? di Verona * Michele Loreti, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze * Mieke Massink, NR-ISTI * Dimitrios Milios, University of Edinburgh * Nicola Paoletti, University of Oxford * Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria * Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University * Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca * Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London * Verena Wolf, Saarland University * Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitaet zu Berlin From catalin.hritcu at gmail.com Tue Dec 22 16:53:24 2015 From: catalin.hritcu at gmail.com (Catalin Hritcu) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:53:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Positions for students and young researchers at Inria Paris in Prosecco team Message-ID: The Prosecco research team at Inria Paris is looking for excellent, highly motivated students and young researchers for research internships and PhD, PostDoc, Research Engineer, or Researcher positions. We have external funding for a couple of PhD and PostDoc positions we can fill over several years with significant flexibility and can also support strong candidates for Researcher positions funded and awarded competitively by Inria. Prosecco does formal and practical security research on cryptographic protocols, web security, and hardware security mechanisms. To this end, we design and implement programming languages, formal verification tools, dynamic monitors, testing frameworks, verified compilers, etc. Our current projects include: - F*: From Program Verification System to Proof Assistant (hot topics ; website ; tutorial ; recent paper ; code ) - miTLS*: Attacking and Proving TLS 1.3 Implementations (website ; code ; papers ; sample internship topic ) - Efficient Formally Secure Compilers to a Tagged Architecture (brief project description , draft paper #1 , paper #2 , paper #3 , code ) - A Verified Browser Security Engine (web security models ; defensive JavaScript ; sample internship topic ) - Dependable Property-Based Testing (project description , paper #1 , paper #2 , draft paper #3 , code ) PostDocs (usually on 2 year positions) can also propose and follow their own research agenda and be fairly independent. Researchers (on 3 year or permanent positions via a competitive Inria national contest) are expected to be highly independent. The research internships are for students at any level (BSc, MSc, and PhD) and usually take between 3 and 6 months. The predominant language of communication in Prosecco is English. If you are interested in applying or have any questions please send us an email at karthikeyan.bhargavan at inria.fr and catalin.hritcu at gmail.com. Happy holidays, Karthik and Catalin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gsilvia at uns.ac.rs Wed Dec 23 06:02:24 2015 From: gsilvia at uns.ac.rs (Silvia Ghilezan) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:02:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2016 call for contributions Message-ID: <5CF832A4-BDE8-4821-985A-53E69618EDF5@uns.ac.rs> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement) ================================================================== CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 22nd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2016 23-26 May 2016 Novi Sad, Serbia http://www.types2016.uns.ac.rs 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 TYPES areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; * Homotopy type theory; * Applications of type theory; * Dependently typed programming; * Industrial uses of type theory technology; * Meta-theoretic studies of type systems; * Proof assistants and proof technology; * Automation in computer-assisted reasoning; * Links between type theory and functional programming; * Formalizing mathematics using type theory. We encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. In the spirit of workshops, talks may be based on newly published papers, work submitted for publication, but also work in progress. CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages prepared in LaTeX and formatted with easychair.cls. The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2016. Important Dates: * submission of abstracts: 22 February 2016 * notification of acceptance: 21 March 2016 * camera-ready version of abstracts: 11 April 2016 Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution at the workshop. POST-PROCEEDINGS Similarly to earlier TYPES conferences, we intend to publish a post-proceedings volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPiCS) series. Submission to that volume would be open for everyone. Tentative submission deadline: October 2016. VENUE The conference will be held at the University of Novi Sad, University Central Building. SATELLITE EVENT: The 9th Workshop Computational Logic and Applications - CLA 2016 will be held on May 27-28, 2016. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) Zena Ariola (University of Oregon) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Marc Bezem (University of Bergen) Malgorzata Biernacka (University of Wroclaw) Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg) Jose Espirito Santo (University of Minho) Ken-etsu Fujita (Gunma University) Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) (co-chair) Hugo Herbelin (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) Jelena Ivetic (University of Novi Sad) (co-chair) Marina Lenisa (University of Udine) Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte) Andrew Polonsky (University Paris Diderot) Jakob Rehof (Technical University of Dortmund) Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna) Carsten Sch?rmann (IT University of Copenhagen) Dieter Spreen (University of Siegen) Wouter Swierstra (Utrecht University) Nicolas Tabareau (INRIA) Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology) TYPES STEERING COMMITTEE Marc Bezem, Herman Geuvers (chair), Hugo Herbelin, Zhaohui Luo, Ralph Matthes, Bengt Nordstr?m, Andrew Polonsky, Aleksy Schubert, Tarmo Uustalu. ABOUT TYPES The TYPES 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), Tallinn (2015). CONTACT: types2016 at uns.ac.rs ================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Sun Dec 27 15:53:52 2015 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:53:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LICS 2016 - CFP ***Revised submission format*** Message-ID: [The font size is changed to 9pt, everything else remains the same.] CALL FOR PAPERS Thirty-First Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS) July 5?8, 2016, New York City, USA http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics16/ SCOPE The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed. We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. IMPORTANT DATES Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper. The exact deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE). Titles and Short Abstracts Due: January 11, 2016 Full Papers Due: January 18, 2016 Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: March 14-18, 2016 Author Notification: April 4, 2016 Final Versions Due for Proceedings: May 2, 2016 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All submissions will be electronic via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2016. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Every full paper must be submitted in the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings 2-column 9pt format and may not be longer than 10 pages, including references. The LaTeX style file is available from the conference website. The extended abstract must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference and to computer science, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical development directed to the specialist should follow. References and comparisons with related work must be included. (If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results may be included in a clearly-labeled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members.) Submissions not conforming to the above requirements will be rejected without further consideration. Paper selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of accepted papers. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are not allowed. Results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. The program chair must be informed, in advance of submission, of any closely related work submitted or about to be submitted to a conference or journal. Authors of accepted papers are expected to sign copyright release forms. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. SHORT PRESENTATIONS A session of short presentations, intended for descriptions of student research, works in progress, and other brief communications, is planned. These abstracts will not be published. Dates and guidelines will be posted on the conference website. KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER An award in honor of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. SPONSORSHIP The symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGLOG and the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, in cooperation with the Association for Symbolic Logic and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Natarajan Shankar, SRI International PROGRAM COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, U. Oxford Jiri Ad?mek, TU Braunschweig Amal Ahmed, Northeastern U. Albert Atserias, U. Polit?cnica de Catalunya Christel Baier, TU Dresden Paul Beame, U. Washington Lars Birkedal, Aarhus U. Udi Boker, IDC Herzliya Maria Paola Bonacina, U. Verona Ahmed Bouajjani, LIAFA, U. Paris Diderot Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Mumbai Yijia Chen, Fudan U. Robert Constable, Cornell U. Amy Felty, U. Ottawa Jane Hillston, U. Edinburgh Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto U. Neil Immerman, U. Massachussetts at Amherst Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul U. Jan Kraj??ek, Charles U. Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg U. Annabelle McIver, Macquarie U. Georg Moser, U. Innsbruck Anca Muscholl, LaBRI, U. Bordeaux Vivek Nigam, Federal U. of Para?ba Michele Pagani, PPS, U. Paris Diderot Christine Paulin-Mohring, U. Paris-Sud Nir Piterman, U. Leicester Jean-Francois Raskin, U. Libre de Bruxelles Alexandra Silva, UCL Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, U. Koblenz Lutz Stra?burger, INRIA Carolyn Talcott, SRI International Cesare Tinelli, U. Iowa Helmut Veith, Vienna U. of Technology Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Labs Ron van der Meyden, U. New South Wales CONFERENCE CHAIR Eric Koskinen, Yale U. WORKSHOP CHAIR Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Cachan PUBLICITY AND PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Sam Staton, U. Oxford GENERAL CHAIR Martin Grohe, RWTH Aachen University LICS STEERING COMMITTEE M. Abadi, R. Alur, P. Bouyer-Decitre, K. Chatterjee, M. Grohe, M. Hasegawa, T. Henzinger, E. Koskinen, S. Kreutzer, O. Kupferman, D. Miller, M. Mislove, L. Ong, C. Palamidessi, N. Shankar, A. Silva, S. Staton, M. Vardi. From gdp at inf.ed.ac.uk Mon Dec 28 05:59:43 2015 From: gdp at inf.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Plotkin) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:59:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Nominations: The 2016 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation Message-ID: <7C1F005B-8295-4D3B-AEAC-B337BBDE4B4B@inf.ed.ac.uk> The 2016 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation Call for Nominations Introduction An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt G?del Society (KGS). The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be given to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on the research. For the rules governing this award, see http://siglog.hosting.acm.org/the-alonzo-church-award-for-outstanding-contributions-to-logic-and-computation/ Eligibility and Nominations The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2016 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1991. When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the date of the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the G?del Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other contributions.) While the contribution can consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference. Nominations for the 2016 award are now being solicited. The nominating letter must summarize the contribution and make the case that it is fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a proposed citation (up to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution; and a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) to justify the nomination. Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence of worthiness. Nominations are due by March 1, 2016, and should be submitted to vardi at cs.rice.edu. Presentation of the Award The 2016 award will be presented at LICS, the flagship conference of SIGLOG. The award will be accompanied by an invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award winners. The awardee(s) will receive a certificate and a cash prize of USD 2,000. If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared. Award Committee The 2016 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following four members: Catuscia Palamidessi, Gordon Plotkin, Wolfgang Thomas, and Moshe Vardi (chair). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From detlef.plump at york.ac.uk Tue Dec 29 16:24:05 2015 From: detlef.plump at york.ac.uk (Detlef Plump) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:24:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: [rewriting] Call for Papers: TERMGRAPH 2016 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this message.] ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS TERMGRAPH 2016 9th International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2016 Eindhoven, NL, April 8, 2016 http://www.win.tue.nl/~hzantema/tg.html ------------------------------------------------------------ Background Research in term and graph rewriting ranges from theoretical questions to practical issues. Computing with graphs handles the sharing of common subexpressions in a natural and seamless way, and improves the efficiency of computations in space and time. Sharing is ubiquitous in several research areas, for instance: the modelling of first- and higher-order term rewriting by (acyclic or cyclic) graph rewriting, the modelling of biological or chemical abstract machines, the implementation techniques of programming languages: many implementations of functional, logic, object-oriented, concurrent and mobile calculi are based on term graphs. Term graphs are also used in automated theorem proving and symbolic computation systems working on shared structures. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in different domains on term and graph transformation and to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in term graph rewriting. Previous editions of the workshop took place in Barcelona (2002), Rome (2004), Vienna (2006), Braga (2007), York (2009), Saarbruecken (2011), Rome (2013) and Vienna (2014). The permanent TERMGRAPH site has further information. ------------------------------------------------------------ Topics of Interest Topics of interest include all aspects of term graphs and sharing of common subexpressions in rewriting, programming, automated reasoning and symbolic computation. This includes (but is not limited to): - theory of first-order/higher-order termgraph rewriting - infinitary and rational term/graph rewriting - graph rewriting in lambda calculus (sharing graphs, optimality) - term/graph based models of computation - term/graph rewriting tools: case studies and system descriptions - term/graph rewriting based aspects of: - semantics and implementation of programming languages - compiler construction - interaction nets and proof nets - pattern recognition - bioinformatics ------------------------------------------------------------ Invited Speakers J?rg Endrullis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Barbara K?nig, Duisburg Essen Universit?t, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------ Programme Committee Andrea Corradini, Dip. di Informatica, Pisa, I [co-chair] Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London, UK Ian Mackie, ?cole Polytechnique, France Detlef Plump, University of York, UK Femke van Raamsdonk, Vrije Universtiteit Amsterdam, NL Hans Zantema, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, NL [co-chair] ------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions Extended abstracts of at most 5 pages can be submitted. This may include both original work and tutorials on any of the above mentioned topics; also unfinished work is welcome. The page limit for submissions in both categories is 5 pages in EPTCS style: see Submissions should be submitted electronically in PDF via the EasyChair submission site no later than February 8, 2016. Papers will be judged on relevance, originality, correctness, and usefulness. The informal proceedings of TERMGRAPH 2016 will be included on the Etaps USB flash drive. 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URL: From vivek.nigam at gmail.com Wed Dec 30 02:25:22 2015 From: vivek.nigam at gmail.com (Vivek Nigam) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 08:25:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2016 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement) ============================================================== 11th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 25-26 June 2016, Porto, Portugal Satellite event of FSCD 2016 http://lsfa2016.mat.unb.br/ Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. LSFA 2016 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 2016 will be a satellite event of FSCD 2016 taking place in Porto, Portugal during 25-26 June 2016. Previous editions took place in Natal (2015), 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). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: * Automated deduction * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Formal semantics of languages and systems * Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Logical frameworks * Process calculi * Proof theory * Semantic frameworks * Specification languages and meta-languages * Type theory SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers with a maximum of 16 pages including references or short papers with a maximum of 6 pages including references. Additional technical material can be provided in a clearly marked appendix which will be read by reviewers at their discretion. Contributions must also 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=lsfa2016 The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at workshop registration. After the workshop the authors of both full and short papers 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. * Submission: February 29th 2016 * Notification: April 22nd 2016 * Final pre-proceedings version due: May 8th 2016 * LSFA 2016 25-26 June 2016 According to the quality of proceedings, authors will/would/might be invited to submit an improved version of their paper for a special issue. Previous LSFA special issues have been published in journals such as J. IGPL and TCS (see http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). INVITED SPEAKERS * Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) * Luis Caires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) * Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria/?cole Polytechnique, France) * Jo?o Marques Silva (Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Vivek Nigam (Universidade Federal de Para?ba) - co-chair * M?rio Florido (Universidade do Porto) - co-chair * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (Universidade de Bras?lia) * Mar?a Alpuente (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) * David Baelde (ENS Cachan) * Maribel Fern?ndez (King's College London) * Marcelo Finger (Universidade de S?o Paulo) * Marco Gaboardi (University of Dundee) * Mateu Villaret (Universitat de Girona) * Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t) * Temur Kutsia (RISC- Johannes Kepler University Linz) * Bjoern Lellmann (TU Vienna) * Ian Mackie (Ecole Polytechnique) * Jo?o Marcos (Univ. Federal Rio Grande do Norte) * Cl?udia Nalon (Universidade de Brasilia) * Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University) * Elaine Pimentel (Univ. Federal Rio Grande do Norte) * Jose Nuno Oliveira (Universidade do Minho) * Ruy De Queiroz (Univ. Federal de Pernambuco) * Giselle Reis (Inria-?cole Polytechnique) * Camilo Rocha (Escuela Colombiana de Ingenier?a) * Alexandra Silva (University College London) * Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University) * Ren? Thiemann (University of Innsbruck) ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Daniele Nantes Sobrinho (Universidade de Bras?lia) CONTACT * lsfa2016 at easychair.org * http://lsfa2016.mat.unb.br/ ------------------------------------------------- Vivek Nigam Computer Science Department Federal University of Para?ba http://www.nigam.info/ -------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk Thu Dec 31 12:41:14 2015 From: P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk (Paul Blain Levy) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:41:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: GaLoP 2016 In-Reply-To: <565C8D1C.9000804@cs.bham.ac.uk> References: <565C8D1C.9000804@cs.bham.ac.uk> Message-ID: <7b0511b39b44450c812964109ddd88bd@cs.bham.ac.uk> 11th Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GaLoP 2016) Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2-3 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 Eindhoven, Netherlands, on 2-3 April 2016 as a satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). Areas of interest include: * Games and other interaction-based denotational and operational 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, excluding bibliography) 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=galop2016 // Important Dates // Submission: 25 January 2016 Notification: 10 February 2016 Workshop: 2-3 April 2016 // Invited talks // To be confirmed. // Program Committee // Valentin Blot, Bath Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul Paul Levy, Birmingham (chair) Andrzej Murawski, Warwick Myriam Quatrini, Aix-Marseille Sylvain Salvati, Inria Takeshi Tsukada, Tokyo