[TYPES/announce] ICE 2015: CfP

[ivan.lanese]

[- 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 (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure 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 Zürich, Switzerland)
Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France)
Jean-Baptiste Jeannin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK)
Jean-Marie Madiot (École normale supérieure de Lyon, France & University of 
Bologna, Italy)
Hernán Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Andrea Mocci (Università 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 Salaün (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, Université 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.