From ohad.kammar at cs.ox.ac.uk Sun Jan 1 16:37:43 2017 From: ohad.kammar at cs.ox.ac.uk (Ohad Kammar) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 21:37:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: S-REPLS-5 @ Oxford Message-ID: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Southern-Region English Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) (Fifth Meeting) 11am-5pm, Thursday, 12th January 2017 (Thursday before POPL) University of Oxford Department of Computer Science http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ohad.kammar/s-repls-5/ Doodle registration: http://doodle.com/poll/hz6z3zqpupds2fm4 (free participation) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= S-REPLS is a regular informal meeting for those with a professional interest in programming languages in the South of England region. The past four meetings consisted of 50-90 participants from academia and industry with invited and contributed talks ranging from abstract areas in semantics and type system theory to nuts-and-bolts implementations of mainstream and avant-garde compilers and programming languages. We will hold the next meeting at the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science. Schedule -------- For schedule and abstracts, see: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ohad.kammar/s-repls-5 Sign-up ------- The meeting is free of charge, but for logistical purposes please indicate if you plan to attend: http://doodle.com/poll/hz6z3zqpupds2fm4 Mailing list ------------ All S-REPLS related communications are made via the mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/srepls This mailing list has very low traffic. If you have professional interests in programming language in the region, we encourage you to sign up. Sponsorship ----------- Please let us know of potential sponsorship opportunities at: Ohad Kammar Past events have had academic, industrial, and government sponsorship for invited speaker costs, catering costs (lunch, dinner, or refreshments during the break). Organising future meetings -------------------------- If you would like to organise future meetings at your university or company, please get in touch with the steering committee Dominic Mulligan Jeremy Yallop Ohad Kammar We would be grateful if you could please circulate this announcement in your department/company. We hope to see you there, Jeremy Gibbons, Sam Staton, and Ohad Kammar. From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Sun Jan 1 21:08:45 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 02:08:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD'17 Call for Papers Message-ID: <60E9BFA9-E58C-4BED-8C94-68DFC4F53091@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement) ============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'17) 3 -- 6 September 2017, Oxford, UK (co-located with ICFP 2017) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ 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 or homotopy type theory. ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE) and are firm; late submissions will not be considered. Abstract Deadline: 7 April 2017 Submission Deadline: 14 April 2017 Rebuttal: 29--31 May 2017 Notification: 14 June 2017 Camera-Ready: 7 July 2017 ========================================================================== Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1. Calculi: Lambda calculus * Concurrent calculi * Logics * Rewriting systems * Proof theory * Type theory and logical frameworks 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: Type systems * Induction and coinduction * Matching, unification, completion, and orderings * Strategies * Tree automata * Model checking * Proof search and theorem proving * Constraint solving and decision procedures 3. Semantics: Operational semantics * Abstract machines * Game Semantics * Domain theory and categorical models * Quantitative models 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 * Verification tools * Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers * Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers * Certification PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages and must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 10 pages and must describe a working system which has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files and submitted via EasyChair. Complete instructions on submitting a paper can be found on the conference web site. SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of several accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS The program committee will consider declaring this award to a paper in which all authors are junior researchers: a junior researcher is a person who is either a student or whose PhD award date is less than three years from the first day of the meeting. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Dale Miller, Inria Saclay & LIX PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel, Gothenburg Univ. Elvira Albert, Complutense Madrid Maria Alpuente, TU Valencia Takahito Aoto, Niigata Univ. Zena Ariola, Univ. Oregon Federico Aschieri, TU Wien Stefano Berardi, Univ. Turin Lars Birkedal, Aarhus Univ. Filippo Bonchi, CNRS, ENS Lyon Pierre Clairambault, CNRS, ENS Lyon Ugo Dal Lago, Univ. Bologna Herman Geuvers, Radboud Univ. Silvia Ghilezan, Univ. Novi Sad Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Hugo Herbelin, Inria Paris Jan Hoffmann, Carnegie Mellon Deepak Kapur, Univ. New Mexico Paul Blain Levy, Univ. Birmingham Paulo Oliva, QMUL, London Vincent van Oostrom, Univ. Innsbruck Daniela Petrisan, LIAFA, Paris Femke van Raamsdonk, VU Univ. Amsterdam Grigore Rosu, Univ. Illinois Albert Rubio, UPC-BarcelonaTech Paula Severi, Univ. Leicester Bas Spitters, Aarhus Univ. Aaron Stump, Univ. Iowa Kazushige Terui, Kyoto Univ. Rene Thiemann, Univ. Innsbruck Sophie Tison, Lille Univ. CONFERENCE CHAIR Sam Staton, Univ. of Oxford WORKSHOP CHAIR Jamie Vicary, Univ. of Oxford PUBLICITY CHAIR Sandra Alves, Univ. of Porto FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE T. Altenkirch (Univ. Nottingham), S. Alves (Univ. Porto), G. Dowek, (Inria), S. Escobar (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia), M. Fernandez (King's College London), H. Herbelin (Inria), D. Kesner (Univ. Paris), N. Kobayashi (Univ. Tokyo), L. Ong (Chair, Univ. Oxford), B. Pientka (McGill Univ.), R. Thiemann (Univ. 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Our current Security & Privacy group covers "applied and theoretical cryptography, software security, human factors, protocol analysis, verification and quantum/post-quantum cryptography." For further details of the S&P group see: http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ security-privacy * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Artificial Intelligence https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_ jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=038357 This includes research on AI based on "human-intelligible [symbolic] representations", "logical inference", "explanation and justification of decisions" and "verification of AI systems", and does not mean "machine learning" - we have a separate search going on for that. For further details of the AI group (CISA) see: http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/cisa/ --James -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Apologies for multiple copies.] WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK 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) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK 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-fourth WoLLIC will be held at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK, from July 18th to 21st, 2017. 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; philosophy 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. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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 2017 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2017/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 14, 2017, and the full paper by Mar 21, 2017 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Apr 22, 2017, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 6, 2017 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2017, 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 2017 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universitat) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford), STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 14, 2017: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 21, 2017: Full paper deadline Apr 22, 2017: Author notification May 6, 2017: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozov? (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Gr?del (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger T?rnquist (K?benhavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andr?s Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) 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, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. 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URL: From kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de Fri Jan 6 08:31:56 2017 From: kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 14:31:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Workshops - CONCUR 2017 Message-ID: <2646816d-bbf3-d13c-a8c3-990c31e87e8e@tu-berlin.de> * *CONCUR 2017* * THE 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENCY THEORY 5-8 September 2017, Berlin, Germany (https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/) CALL FOR AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS The 28th Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2017) will be held from September 5th to September 8th 2017, in Berlin, Germany. It will be co-located with the 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2017), the 15th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2017), and the 14th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2017). Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be affiliated to CONCUR 2017, on topics related to concurrency theory and its applications. Example topics include: semantics, logics, verification techniques for concurrent systems, cross-fertilization between industry and academia and opportunities for young and prospective researchers. Past CONCUR conferences have been accompanied by successful workshops on a variety of topics, such as formal and foundational methods, models of systems (biological, timed), security issues, semantical issues, and verification methods. You can have an idea of the past workshops by browsing the pages of the past editions of CONCUR. 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 Monday, September 4th and Saturday, September 9th, 2017. Proposals should include: * The name and the preferred date of the proposed workshop (Sept. 4th or 9th). * A short description of the workshop (500 words max). * 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 CONCUR organization offers: * Link from the CONCUR web site. * Setup of meeting space, and related equipment. * Coffee-breaks. * On-line and on-site registration to the workshop. * One free workshop registration (for an invited speaker). 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CFPs for each of these events are listed below. (apart from Modularity 2017, which is invitation-based) **************************************************************** ELS 2017 - 10th European Lisp Symposium Submissions: Mon 30 Jan 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/els-2017 **************************************************************** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The 10th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Topics include but are not limited to: * Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming * Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches * Language design and implementation * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment * Development methodologies, support and environments * Educational approaches and perspectives * Experience reports and case studies ******************************************************************** ACM Student Research Competition / 2017 Posters Submissions: Mon 16 Jan 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/programming-posters ******************************************************************** The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to up-and-coming young researchers, and offers them an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help sharpen communication and networking skills. ACM?s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to an SRC. Please see our website for requirements and further details. ****************************************************************** LASSY 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems Submissions: Fri 3 Feb 2017 Notifications: Fri 3 Mar 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/LASSY-2017-papers ****************************************************************** When developing current-day software systems, their deployment and usage environments should be considered carefully, in order to understand the adaptations those systems might need to undergo to interact with other systems and with their environment. Moreover, due to the portability, mobility and increasingly evolutionary nature of software systems, such adaptations should be enacted even while the system is running. Developing such software systems can prove challenging, and many seemingly different techniques to address this concern have been proposed over the last couple of years. The intention of the LASSY workshop is to congregate all topics relevant to dynamic adaptation and run-time evolution of software systems, ranging from a computer science perspective covering the domains of programming languages, model-driven software development, software and service composition, context-aware databases, software variability, requirements engineering, UI adaptation and other domains, to a human perspective covering sociological or ethical implications of dynamic software systems. The workshop provides a space for discussion and collaboration between researchers working on the problem of enabling live adaptations to software systems, across the development stack. Topics of Interest: * Design and Implementation of Live Adaptive Software Systems * Context-, aspect-, feature-, role- and agent-oriented programming * Context representation and discovery * Context-aware model-driven software development * Context-aware data management * Software variability and dynamic product lines * Self-adaptive, self-explanatory systems * Inconsistency management, verification, and validation * Middleware and Runtime of Live Adaptive Software Systems * Dynamic software evolution, upgrades and configuration * Dynamic software and service composition mechanisms * Dynamic software architecture and middleware approaches * Dynamic user interface adaptation and multimodal user interfaces * Impact and Assessment of Live Adaptive Software Systems * User acceptance and usability issues * Human, sociological, ethical and legal aspects * Privacy and security aspects of dynamic adaptability * Live adaptation in smart environments (e.g. smart rooms, smart robot cells, smart factories, smart cities) * Self-adaptation and emergence in SoS and CPSoS **************************************************************** MOMO 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling Abstract submissions (optional): Sun Jan 29 2017 Paper submissions: Sun Feb 5 2017 Notifications: Wed Feb 22 2017 http://www.momo2017.ece.mcgill.ca/cfp.htm **************************************************************** Extending the time-honored practice of separation of concerns, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) promotes the use of separate models to address the various concerns in the development of complex software-intensive systems. The main objective is to choose the right level of abstraction to modularize a concern, specify its properties and reason about the system under development depending on stakeholder and development needs. While some of these models can be defined with a single modelling language, a variety of heterogeneous models and languages are typically used in the various phases of software development. Furthermore, Domain-Specific Modelling Languages designed to address particular concerns are also increasingly used. Despite the power of abstraction of modelling, models of real-world problems and systems quickly grow to such an extent that managing the complexity by using proper modularization techniques becomes necessary. As a result, many (standard) modelling notations have been extended with aspect-oriented mechanisms and advanced composition operators to support advanced separation of concerns, to combine (possibly heterogeneous) models modularizing different concerns, to execute an application based on modularized models, and to reason over global properties of modularized models. The Second International Modularity in Modelling Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the theoretical and practical challenges resulting from applying modularity, advanced separation of concerns, and advanced composition at the modelling level. It is intended to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the impact of the use of modularization in the context of MDE at different levels of abstraction. We are interested in submissions on all topics related to modularity and modelling including but not limited to: * Modularization Support in Modelling Languages and Tools * Model Interfaces * Homogeneous Model Composition Operators * Heterogeneous Model Composition Operators * Visualization of Modularized and Composed Models * Effects of Using Modularization and Composition in Modelling * On Verification and Validation * On Reuse * On the Model-Driven Software Development Process (Requirements Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Design, Implementation) * On Maintenance * Experience Reports / Empirical Evaluations of Applying Modularization and Composition in Modelling * Feature-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented and Concern-Oriented Modelling * Modularization support and composition operators for specific modelling notations * Modelling essential characteristics of specific (crosscutting) concerns * Multi-View Modelling: avoiding inconsistencies, avoiding Redundancies * Support for Detecting and/or Resolution of Feature Interactions * Domain-Specific Modelling * Modularization for Domain-Specific Languages * Composition for Domain-Specific Languages * Domain-specific Aspect Models ****************************************************************************** MoreVMs 2017 - 1st Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs Submissions: Wed 15 Feb 2017 Notifications: Wed 1 Mar 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/MoreVMs-2017-papers ****************************************************************************** The main goal of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners and facilitate effective sharing of their respective experiences and ideas on how languages and runtimes are utilized and where they need to improve further. We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts discussing experiences, work-in-progress, as well as future visions from the academic as well as industrial perspective. Relevant topics include, but are definitely not limited to, the following: * Extensible VM design (compiler- or interpreter-based VMs) * Reusable runtime components (e.g. interpreters, garbage collectors, intermediate representations) * Static and dynamic compiler techniques * Techniques for compilation to high-level languages such as JavaScript * Runtimes and mechanisms for interoperability between languages * Tooling support (e.g. debugging, profiling, etc.) * Programming language development environments and virtual machines * Case studies of existing language implementations, virtual machines, and runtime components (e.g. design choices, tradeoffs, etc.) * Language implementation challenges and trade-offs (e.g. performance, completeness, etc.) * Surveys and applications usage reports to understand runtime usage in the wild * Surveys on frameworks and their impact on runtime usage * New research ideas on how we want to build languages in the future ************************************************************************** PASS 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack Submissions: Mon 13 Feb 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/PASS-2017#Call-for-Papers ************************************************************************** The landscape of computation platforms has changed dramatically in recent years. Emerging systems - such as wearable devices, smartphones, unmanned aerial vehicles, Internet of things, cloud computing servers, heterogeneous clusters, and data centers - pose a distinct set of system-oriented challenges ranging from data throughput, energy efficiency, security, real-time guarantees, to high performance. In the meantime, code quality, such as modularity or extensibility, remains a cornerstone in modern software engineering, bringing in crucial benefits such as modular reasoning, program understanding, and collaborative software development. Current methodologies and software development technologies should be revised in order to produce software to meet system-oriented goals, while preserving high internal code quality. The role of the Software Engineer is essential, having to be aware of the implications that each design, architecture and implementation decision has on the application system ecosystem. This workshop is driven by one fundamental question: How does internal code quality interact with system-oriented goals? We welcome both positive and negative responses to this question. An example of the former would be modular reasoning systems specifically designed to promote system-oriented goals, whereas an example of the latter would be anti-patterns against system-oriented goals during software development. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Energy-aware software engineering (e.g. energy efficiency models, energy efficiency as a quality attribute) * Modularity support (e.g., programming language design, development tools or verification) for applications in resource-constrained or real-time systems * Emerging platforms (e.g., Internet of Things and wearable devices) * Security support (e.g., compositional information flow, compositional program analysis) * Software architecture for reusability and adaptability in systems and their interactions with applications * Empirical studies (patterns and anti-patterns) on the relationship between internal code quality and system-oriented goals * Software engineering techniques to balance the trade-off between internal code quality and efficiency * Memory bloats and long-tail performance problems across modular boundaries * Program optimization across modular boundaries * Internal code quality in systems software * Reasoning across applications, compilers, and virtual machines **************************************************************** PX 2017 - 2nd Programming Experience Workshop Submissions: Sat 4 Feb 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 http://programming-experience.org/px17 **************************************************************** Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions?they need exploratory programming. The Programming Experience Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it?s exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly (?liveness?); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming. The technical topics include: * Exploratory programming * Live programming * Authoring * Representation of active content * Visualization * Navigation * Modularity mechanisms * Immediacy * Literacy * Fluency * Learning * Tool building * Language engineering ************************************************************************* ProWeb 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web Submissions: Wed 15 Feb 2017 Notifications: Wed 1 Mar 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2017-papers ************************************************************************* Full-fledged web applications have become ubiquitous on desktop and mobile devices alike. Whereas ?responsive? web applications already offered a more desktop-like experience, there is an increasing demand for ?rich? web applications (RIAs) that offer collaborative and even off-line functionality ?Google docs being the prototypical example. Long gone are the days that web servers merely had to answer incoming HTTP request with a block of static HTML. Today?s servers react to a continuous stream of events coming from JavaScript applications that have been pushed to clients. As a result, application logic and data is increasingly distributed. Traditional dichotomies such as ?client vs. server? and ?offline vs. online? are fading. The 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web, or ProWeb17, is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss new technology for programming these and future evolutions of the web. We welcome submissions introducing programming technology (i.e., frameworks, libraries, programming languages, program analyses and development tools) for implementing web applications and for maintaining their quality over time, as well as experience reports about the use of state-of-the-art programming technology. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Quality on the new web: static and dynamic program analyses; code, design test and process metrics; development and migration tools; automated testing and test generation; contract systems, type systems, and web service API conformance checking; ? * Hosting languages on the web: new runtimes; transpilation or compilation to JavaScript, WebAssembly, asm.js, ? * Designing languages for the web: multi-tier (or tierless) programming; reactive programming; frameworks for multi-tier or reactive programming on the web; ? * Distributed data sharing, replication and consistency: cloud types, CRDTs, eventual consistency, offline storage, peer-to-peer communication, ? * Security on the web: client-side and server-side security policies; policy enforcement; proxies and membranes; vulnerability detection; dynamic patching, ? * Surveys and case studies using state-of-the-art web technology (e.g., WebAssembly, WebSocket, LocalStorage, AppCache, ServiceWorkers, Meteor, deepstream.io, Angular.js, React and React Native, Swarm.js, Caja, TypeScript, Proxies, ClojureScript, Amber Smalltalk, Scala.js, ?) * Ideas on and experience reports about: how to reconcile the need for quality with the need for agility on the web; how to master and combine the myriad of tier-specific technologies required to develop a web application, ? * Position statements on what the future of the web will look like **************************************************************** Salon des Refus?s 2017 Submissions: Wed 1 Feb 2017 Notifications: Fri 17 Feb 2017 https://refuses.github.io **************************************************************** Salon des Refus?s (?exhibition of rejects?) was an 1863 exhibition of artworks rejected from the official Paris Salon. The jury of Paris Salon required near-photographic realism and classified works according to a strict genre hierarchy. Paintings by many, later famous, modernists such as ?douard Manet were rejected and appeared in what became known as the Salon des Refus?s. This workshop aims to be the programming language research equivalent of Salon des Refus?s. We provide a venue for exploring new ideas and new ways of doing computer science. Many interesting ideas about programming might struggle to find space in the modern programming language research community, often because they are difficult to evaluate using established evaluation methods (be it proofs, measurements or controlled user studies). As a result, new ideas are often seen as ?unscientific?. This workshop provides a venue where such interesting and thought-provoking ideas can be exposed to critical evaluation. Submissions that provoke interesting discussion among the program committee members will be published together with an attributed review that presents an alternative position, develops additional context or summarizes discussion from the workshop. This means of engaging with papers not just enables explorations of novel programming ideas, but also encourages new ways of doing computer science. Topics of interest The scope of the workshop is determined more by the format of submissions than by the specific area of programming language or computer science research that we are interested in. We welcome submissions in a format that makes it possible to think about programming in a new way, including, but not limited to: * Thought experiments ? we believe that thought experiments, analogies and illustrative metaphors can provide novel insights and inspire fruitful programming language ideas. * Experimentation ? we find prejudices in favour of theory, as far back as there is institutionalized science, but programming can often be seen more as experimentation than as theorizing. We welcome interesting experiments even if there is yet no overarching theory that explains why they happened. * Paradigms ? all scientific work is rooted in a scientific paradigm that frame what questions can be asked. We encourage submissions that reflect on existing paradigms or explore alternative scientific paradigms. * Metaphors, myths and analogies ? any description of formal, mathematical, quantitative or even poetical nature still represents just an analogy. We believe that fruitful ideas can be learned from less common forms of analogies as well as from the predominant, formal and mathematical ones. * From jokes to science fiction ? a story or an artistic performance may explore ideas and spark conversations that provide crucial inspiration for development of new computer science thinking. From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Sat Jan 7 05:44:48 2017 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 11:44:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QEST 2017 - Call for papers for the 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems Message-ID: QEST2017 International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems Berlin, September 5th-7th 2017 | www.qest.org/qest2017 Co-located with Concur, EPEW Scope and Topics The International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) is the leading forum on quantitative evaluation and verification of computer systems and networks. Areas of interest include quantitative specification methods, stochastic models, and metrics for performance, reliability, safety, correctness, and security. QEST is interested in both theoretical and experimental research. QEST welcomes a diversity of modeling formalisms, programming languages and methodologies that incorporate quantitative aspects such as probabilities, approximations and other quantitative aspects. Papers may advance empirical, simulation and analytic methods. Of particular interest are case studies that highlight the role of quantitative specification, modeling and evaluation in the design of systems. Systems of interest include computer hardware and software architectures, communication systems, cyber-physical systems, infrastructural systems, and biological systems. Papers that describe novel tools to support the practical application of research results in all of the above areas are also welcome. Special sessions To encourage submissions of papers in frontier topics, submissions in selected areas are encouraged. Paper submitted to special sessions will be treated as regular submitted papers, they will be peer reviewed, and subject to the same quality requirements. A special session with accepted papers on the selected topics will be organised during the conference. This year selected topics are: Smart Energy Systems over the Cloud <> We solicit contributions dealing with quantitative analysis, verification, and performance evaluation of models of networks of smart devices interconnected physically and over the cloud, and in particular within the technological context of smart energy, dealing with smart buildings, the smart grid, or with modern power networks. Instances of problems of interest are energy management in smart buildings, demand response over smart grids, or frequency control over power networks. We are interested in configurations related to cyber-physical systems, of systems of systems, and of the Internet of things, and on models encompassing continuous and digital components, and uncertainty (either environmental, adversarial, or probabilistic). Machine Learning and Formal Methods <> We call for contributions on the fusion of formal methods and machine learning techniques. In particular, we are interested in the use of machine learning approaches, such as reinforcement learning, learning automata, decision trees, gradient based methods, etc. in (statistical) model checking, controller synthesis, program analysis and synthesis, timed systems, compositional verification, etc. The main aim is to disseminate learning based techniques that have potential of improving theory and practice of formal methods. Special issue A selection of the best papers presented at QEST 2017 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a Special Issue that will appear in the ACM Transactions of Modelling and Computer Simulation. Important Dates Abstract submission: 24 March 2017 Paper and tool submission: 31 March 2017 (AoE) Author notification: 29 May 2017 Final version due: 23 June 2017 Submissions All accepted papers (including tool demonstrations) must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The QEST 2017 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar. All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three reviewers on the basis of their originality, technical quality, scientific or practical contribution to the state of the art, methodology, clarity, and adequacy of references. QEST considers five types of papers with additional reviewing criteria: Theoretical: advance our understanding, apply to non-trivial problems and be mathematically rigorous. Methodological and technical: describe situations that require the development and proposal of new analysis processes and techniques. Application: describes a novel application, and compares with previous results. Tools: should motivate the development of the new tools and the formalisms they support, with a focus on the software architecture and practical capabilities. Tool demonstration: describe a relevant tool, as well as its features, evaluation, or any other information that may demonstrate the merits of the tool. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX, following Springer's LNCS guidelines . Submitted papers should not exceed 16 pages (4 pages for tool demonstrations). Papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. 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KeyNote: Delivering and generalising domain-specific program optimisations Paul Kelly (Imperial College London) # Polyhedral Modeling and Code Generation * Semi-Automatic Generation of Adaptive Codes Maxime Schmitt, C?sar Sabater, C?dric Bastoul * Splitting Polyhedra to Generate More Efficient Code Harenome Razanajato, Vincent Loechner, and C?dric Bastoul * A general compilation algorithm to parallelize and optimize counted loops with dynamic data-dependent bounds Jie Zhao, Albert Cohen # Compilation Systems and Architecture * APOLLO: Automatic speculative POLyhedral Loop Optimizer Juan Manuel Martinez Caamano, Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam, Artiom Baloian, Manuel Selva and Philippe Clauss * Data Reuse Analysis for Automated Synthesis of Custom Instructions in Sliding Window Applications Georgios Zacharopoulos, Giovanni Ansaloni and Laura Pozzi * More Data Locality for Static Control Programs on NUMA Architectures Adilla Susungi, Albert Cohen and Claude Tadonki # Short-papers and Panel Discussion * Short-Talk: Bounded Task Schedules for Task-based Run-times Yuhan Peng, Martin Kong and Vivek Sarkar (Rice University) * Short-Talk: Memory-Aware Tiling using Conflict Lattices Adrian Tate, David Adjiashvili and Utz-Uwe Haus. (Cray EMEA Research Lab, IFOR, D-MATH, ETH Zurich) Best, Tobias From aleks.nanevski at imdea.org Sun Jan 8 12:59:39 2017 From: aleks.nanevski at imdea.org (Aleksandar Nanevski) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 18:59:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC) Message-ID: <51e488cc-6244-9b4e-acfe-f49e0793f07d@imdea.org> [Talk proposals on formal approaches to consistency in distributed systems are welcome at the following workshop] ------------ Call for Papers ------------ PaPoC 2017 - Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data April 23, 2017. http://software.imdea.org/Conferences/PAPOC17/cfp.shtml ----------------------------------------------- Consistency is one of the fundamental issues of distributed computing. There are many competing consistency models, with subtly different power in principle. In practice, the well-known the Consistency-Availability-Partition Tolerance trade-off translates to difficult choices between fault tolerance, performance, and programmability. The issues and trade-offs are particularly vexing at scale, with a large number of processes or a large shared database, and in the presence of high latency and failure-prone networks. It is clear that there is no one universally best solution. Possible approaches cover the whole spectrum between strong and eventual consistency. Strong consistency (total ordering via, for example, linearizability or serializability) provides familiar and intuitive semantics but requires slow and fragile synchronization and coordination overheads. The unlimited parallelism allowed by weaker models such as eventual consistency promises high performance, but divergence and conflicts make it difficult to ensure useful application invariants, and meta-data is hard to keep in check. The research and development communities are actively exploring intermediate models (replicated data types, monotonic programming, CRDTs, LVars, causal consistency, red-blue consistency, invariant- and proof-based systems, etc.), designed to improve efficiency, programmability, and overall operation without negatively impacting scalability. This workshop aims to investigate the principles and practice of consistency models for large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed shared data systems. It will bring together theoreticians and practitioners from different horizons: system development, distributed algorithms, concurrency, fault tolerance, databases, language and verification, including both academia and industry. *Relevant discussion topics include* - Design principles, correctness conditions, and programming patterns for scalable distributed data systems. - Techniques for weak consistency: session guarantees, causal consistency, operational transformation, conflict-free replicated data types, monotonic programming, state merge, commutativity, etc. - Consistency vs. performance and scalability trade-offs: guiding developers, controlling the system. - Analysis and verification of weakly consistent programs. - Strengthening guarantees of weakly consistent system: transactions, fault tolerance, security, ensuring invariants, bounding metadata size, and controlling divergence. - Platform guarantees vs. application involvement: guiding developers, controlling the system. - Techniques for scaling and improving the performance of strongly consistent systems (e.g., Paxos-based or state machine replication). *Submission Guidelines* We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals of 2 pages, written in English and 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. Authors will have the opportunity to choose if they want their papers published in ACM Digital Library (with papers from other EuroSys workshops). *Important Dates* - Paper submission: February 17, 2017 (any place on Earth) - Authors notification: March 3, 2017 *Committees* Program Chairs Annette Bieniusa (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Program Committee Carlos Bacquero (University of Minho) Sebastian Burckhardt (Microsoft Research) Colin Charles (Percona) Alan Fekete (University of Sydney) Jo?o Leit?o (INESC-ID) Christopher Meiklejohn (Universit? Catholique de Louvain) Achour Mostefaoui (University of Nantes) Roberto Palmieri (Virginia Tech) Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano) Masoud Saeida Ardekani (Samsung Research America) Ken Salem (University of Waterloo) Pierre Sutra (T?l?com SudParis) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eacsl at kahle.ch Mon Jan 9 06:04:32 2017 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 11:04:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ackermann Award 2017 Message-ID: ACKERMANN AWARD 2017 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2017 Ackermann Award. PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2015 and 31.12.2016 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 1 April 2017. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2017 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 2017 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL, 20-24 August 2017, in Stockholm (Sweden). 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, and * travel support to attend the conference. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. Jury The jury consists of: * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), the president of EACSL; * Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique), 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; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund). 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. 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GaLoP XII will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, on 22-23 April 2017 as a satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). Areas of interest include: * Games and other interaction-based denotational and operational models; * Game-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=galop2017 // Important Dates // Submission: 30 January 2017 Notification: 20 February 2017 Workshop: 22-23 April 2017 // Tutorial // Lauri Hella // Invited talks // Andreas Blass Dan Ghica Erich Gr?del Martin Hyland (TBC) // Programme Committee // Dietmar Berwanger Esfandiar Haghverdi Juha Kontinen (Co-Chair) Jim Laird Marina Lenisa (Co-Chair) Pierre Lescanne Luke Ong Jouko V??n?nen __________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nevrenato at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 08:25:41 2017 From: nevrenato at gmail.com (Renato Neves) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:25:41 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First School on Foundations of Programming and Software systems -- Probabilistic programming Message-ID: <20170110132541.GA33437@p187.glmf.di.uminho.pt> It is our greatest pleasure to announce the first edition of the School on Foundations of Programming and Software systems. The school is jointly funded by EATCS, ETAPS, ACM SIGLOG, and ACM SIGPLAN. The topic of the first edition is Probabilistic programming. It will take place in Braga, Portugal, May 29th - June 4th 2017. Probabilistic programming languages are used for modelling and analysis purposes across multiple areas of computer science, including machine learning, security, and quantitative biology. In particular, they provide a rigorous foundation for machine learning where they are used to describe probabilistic models and to perform inference in presence of uncertain information. Probabilistic programs are also used in cryptography and in privacy for modelling and quantifying security. The goal of the school is to introduce attendants to theoretical and practical aspects of programming languages, and will propose courses that cover the following topics: semantics, analysis, verification, applications to machine learning, privacy, and security. The school will have lectures by Andy Gordon, Catuscia Palamidessi, Christel Baier, Dexter Kozen, Frank Wood, Hongseok Yang, Javier Esparza, Michael Carbin, Peter Selinger, Prakash Panangaden, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, and Vitaly Shmatikov. For more information please check the school webpage http://probprogschool2017.di.uminho.pt/ If you have any queries feel free to contact the organisers. Best wishes, Luis Barbosa Gilles Barthe Joost-Pieter Katoen Renato Neves Alexandra Silva From s.singh at acm.org Tue Jan 10 11:30:26 2017 From: s.singh at acm.org (Satnam Singh) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 08:30:26 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SIGPLAN Awards deadline extended to 30 January Message-ID: The deadline for submitting nominations for the following awards has been extended to 30 January: - Programming Languages Software Award (last year's winner V8) - Programming Languages Achievement Award (last year's winner Simon Peyton-Jones) - Robin Milner Young Researcher Award (last year's winner Stephanie Weirich) Descriptions of these awards and the link for submitting nominations can be found at http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/ (note that the deadline for the John C. Reynolds dissertation award is not extended). Please can you consider submitting nominations and also publicizing these awards to other colleagues and appropriate groups. Thank you kindly. 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URL: From eacsl at kahle.ch Wed Jan 11 03:56:29 2017 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:56:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL2017: Call for Papers Message-ID: <16f88fc7-b99c-1f66-9da2-e4a087fc5178@kahle.ch> CALL FOR PAPERS 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL2017 August 20 -- 24, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se AIM AND SCOPE Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science and is intended for computer scientists whose research involves logic, as well as for logicians working on issues essential for computer science. CSL2017 is the 26th EACSL annual conference. It will be co-organised by Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and hosted by Stockholm University. CSL2017 will be co-located with, and immediately preceded by, the Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC2017). There will be a joint session of CSL2017 and LC2017 in the morning of August 20, as well as CSL-affiliated workshops during August 25-26. IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission for contributed papers: March 24, 2017 Paper submission: March 31, 2017 Notification: May 31, 2017 Abstract submission for short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notification on short presentations: June 14, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST for CSL2017 include (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? automata and games, game semantics ? automated deduction and interactive theorem proving ? bounded arithmetic and propositional proof complexity ? categorical logic and topological semantics ? computational proof theory ? constructive mathematics and type theory ? decision procedures ? domain theory ? equational logic and rewriting ? finite model theory ? higher-order logic ? lambda calculus and combinatory logic ? linear logic and other substructural logics ? logic programming and constraints ? logical aspects of computational complexity ? logical aspects of quantum computing ? logic in database theory ? logical foundations of programming paradigms ? logical foundations of cryptography and information hiding ? logics for multi-agent systems ? modal and temporal logic ? model checking and logic-based verification ? nonmonotonic reasoning ? SAT solving and automated induction ? satisfiability modulo theories ? specification, extraction and transformation of programs ? verification and program analysis ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------ LC-CSL joint session highlight speakers: Phokion Kolaitis, University of California, Santa Cruz Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen CSL plenary speakers: Laura Kov?cs, Vienna University of Technology Stephan Kreutzer, Technische Universit?t Berlin Meena Mahajan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Marcus Veanes, Microsoft Research SPECIAL AND AFFILIATED EVENTS -------------------------------------------------- In addition to the plenary and contributed talks CSL2017, the conference will also include the following events: ? Joint session of CSL2017 and LC2017 in the morning of August 20, consisting of four plenary highlight talks, offered by speakers from both conferences. ? Presentation of the Alonzo Church award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, ? Presentation of the EACSL Ackermann award for Outstanding Dissertation on Logic in Computer Science, ? CSL-affiliated workshops, to be held as co-located events on August 25 and (possibly) 26, including: ? Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems LAMAS2017 (August 25) ? Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory (in memory of Zoltan Ezik) (August 25) More workshops may be added later. SUBMISSIONS --------------------- The CSL2017 conference proceedings will be published in Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). Authors are invited to submit contributed papers of no more than 15 pages in LIPIcs style (including references), presenting not previously published work, fitting the scope of the conference. The submission of contributed papers will be in two stages: * abstracts, due by March 24, 2017 (AoE); * full papers, due by March 31, 2017 (AoE). The submissions must be done via the EasyChair page for the conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csl2017. Submitted papers must be in English and must provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the PC. Papers may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or a journal. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the PC are not allowed. In addition, there will be an opportunity for short oral presentations at the conference. Abstracts for such oral presentations must be submitted through the Easychair submission webpage, under the category ``short presentations'', by June 4, 2017. They will not be included in the proceedings. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- ? Parosh Aziz Abdulla (University of Uppsala), ? Lars Birkedal (University of Aarhus), ? Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research), ? Maria Paola Bonacina (Universit? degli Studi di Verona), ? Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV, ENS Cachan), ? Agata Ciabattoni (University of Viena), ? Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg), ? Mads Dam (KTH, Stockholm), PC co-chair ? Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna), ? Anuj Dawar (Cambridge University), ? Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University), PC co-chair ? Maribel Fernandez (King's College London), ? Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen), ? Lauri Hella (University of Tampere), ? Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen), ? Orna Kupferman (University of Jerusalem), ? Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh), ? Angelo Montanari (University of Udine), ? Catuscia Palamidessi (Paris, INRIA), ? Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) ? Ram Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), ? Jean-Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles), ? Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund University), ? Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University of Koblenz-Landau), ? Thomas Streicher (University of Darmstadt), ? Jean-Marc Talbot (University of Aix-Marseille), ? Luca Vigan? (King's College London), ? Ron van der Meyden (UNSW Australia), ? Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing). ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- ? Mads Dam (OC co-chair), Department of Computer Science, KTH ? Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Dilian Gurov (Workshops chair), Department of Computer Science, KTH ? Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES: -------------------- With enquiries on organising matters, send email to: csl2017philosophy.su.se With enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: csl2017pcgmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Kristina.Liefke at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Wed Jan 11 02:44:27 2017 From: Kristina.Liefke at lrz.uni-muenchen.de (Liefke, Kristina) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:44:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP - Logic, Information, Language, Memory, Reasoning 2017 (LogInfoLangMR'17) Message-ID: <010f7d93ffcd655ad85cfd320f4b162f@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Logic, Information, Language, Memory, Reasoning 2017 (LogInfoLangMR?17) http://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/loginfolangmr 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2017 (DCAI'17) Polytechnic of Porto, Porto (Portugal) June 21-23, 2017 * Submission deadline: February 6, 2017 * ========================================================================= DESCRIPTION ===== We are in the reality of systems that model human language, reasoning, and use advanced techniques for saving and accessing information. Prominently, computational processing of human language is an interdisciplinary area of research and development of computerized systems. In nature, relations between information, language, reasoning, and memory have many interdependent facets that can be heterogeneous. Theories, applications, and technologies strive to meet adequate treatment of natural phenomena of information, language, and information exchange. Furthermore, integrated approaches from mathematics and computer science provide support for reliable, advanced, applications. We welcome submissions of papers on the following topics, without limiting to them, across theories, applications, methods, approaches, and technologies: - Logic for applications to language processing - Classic and new theories of formal and natural languages - Computational processing of natural language --- approaches, theories, methods, computerized systems - Computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and syntax-semantics interfaces - Multilingual Processing - Speech Processing - Logic for reasoning systems --- theories and applications - Logic in data science - Information theories - Integration of data and reasoning - Models of computation - Mathematics for linguistics and cognitive science - Interdisciplinary approaches to computation, language, reasoning, memory, data - Computational theories and applications in life sciences - Computational neuroscience of information, language, memory, reasoning - Computational aspects of information, languages, and memory in nature IMPORTANT DATES: ===== Submission dates: 06 February, 2017 Notification date: 13 March, 2017 Paper ready deadline: 27 March, 2017 Conference dates: 21-23 June, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: ===== DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 8 pages, including figures and references. All papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page. http://www.dcai-conference.net/submission PUBLICATION: ===== Accepted papers will be included in DCAI Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series of Springer Verlag. For more details, see: http://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions CO-CHAIRS: ===== Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Program Committee (PC): The PC consists of experts in the topics of the event. CONTACT: ===== Roussanka Loukanova Kristina Liefke From Klaus.Havelund at jpl.nasa.gov Tue Jan 10 18:26:43 2017 From: Klaus.Havelund at jpl.nasa.gov (Havelund, Klaus (348B)) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:26:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] SPIN 2017 in Santa Barbara, CA, USA - 1 month from the paper submission deadline Message-ID: SPIN 2017 24th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software Santa Barbara, CA, USA, July 13-14, 2017 http://conf.researchr.org/home/spin-2017 Collocated with ISSTA ________________________________ The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software, but does not exclude analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, empirical evaluation, and education. History: The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state model checking, specifically as related to the Spin model checker. However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly scoped symposium for software analysis using any automated techniques, including model checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution. An overview of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: http://spinroot.com/spin/symposia. SPIN 2017 will be organized as an ACM SIGSOFT event, collocated with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017): http://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2017. The RERS Verification Challenge In addition there will be a one-day Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems verification challenge Workshop (RERS 2017): http://www.rers-challenge.org/2017. ________________________________ SPIN 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software * Formal analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts * Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract * Model checking * Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT * Verifying compilers * Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques * Static analysis and abstract interpretation * Combination of verification techniques * Modular and compositional verification techniques * Verification of timed and probabilistic systems * Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques * Combination of static and dynamic analyses * Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material via formal analysis * Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results * Engineering and implementation of software verification and analysis tools * Benchmark and comparative studies for formal verification and analysis tools * Formal methods education and training * Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to the symposium ________________________________ Submission Guidelines ________________________________ The contributions to SPIN 2017 will be published as ACM Proceedings, and should be submitted in the ACM Conference Format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions. We are soliciting two categories of papers: * Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete results (10 pages); * Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods education (4 pages). Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair SPIN 2017 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2017. Best Paper awards will be given and announced at the conference. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT). ________________________________ Important Dates ________________________________ * Paper Submission: February 10, 2017 (23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth) * Author Notification: April 15, 2017 * Camera-Ready Paper: May 20, 2017 * Symposium: July 13-14, 2017 ________________________________ Organization ________________________________ * Hakan Erdogmus, Program Co-Chair, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Klaus Havelund, Program Co-Chair, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Corina Pasareanu, Awards Chair, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Yli?s Falcone, Publicity Chair, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, France ________________________________ Program Committee ________________________________ * Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Christel Baier, Technical University of Dresden, Germany * Tom Ball, Microsoft Research, USA * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen (LMU Munich), Germany * Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands * Zmago Brezocnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia * Sagar Chaki, Software Engineering Institute CMU, USA * Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy * Lucas Cordeiro, University of Oxford, UK * Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA * Susanne Graf, VERIMAG Laboratory, France * Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, USA * Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Rajeev Joshi, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA * Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark * Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany * Alice Miller, University of Glasgow, Scotland * Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel * Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services, USA * Theo Ruys, RUwise, Netherlands * Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA * Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, United States * Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore * Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Stavros Tripakis, University of California, Berkeley, USA * Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa * Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA * Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- 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 aart.middeldorp at uibk.ac.at Thu Jan 12 08:14:24 2017 From: aart.middeldorp at uibk.ac.at (Aart Middeldorp) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:14:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoc position (5 years) in Innsbruck Message-ID: 5 year postdoc position in computational logic ============================================== The University of Innsbruck invites applications for a 5 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 automated and interactive theorem proving, SMT solving, term rewriting, type theory) 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-9118) appeared at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=9118 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=9118 no later than 2 February 2017. The starting date for the position is 1 March 2017. 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/ Department of Computer Science: http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/ University of Innsbruck: http://www.uibk.ac.at/ City of Innsbruck: http://www.innsbruck.at/ From aleks0 at gmail.com Thu Jan 12 06:19:21 2017 From: aleks0 at gmail.com (Aleks Kissinger) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:19:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: QPL 2017 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) July 3-7, 2017 Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands http://qpl.cs.ru.nl The 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) will take place at Radboud University between Monday 3 and Friday 7 July, 2017. The conference 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. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome. Previous QPL events were held in Glasgow (2016), 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 Jamie Vicary Miguel Navasques Matthias Christandl Paulo Perinotti INVITED TUTORIALS Bart Jacobs (effectus theory) Dan Marsden (categorical string diagrams) Ronald de Wolf (quantum algorithms) Simon Perdrix (TBC) SATELLITES There will be a satellite workshop on Quantum Structures hosted by the International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA) from Tuesday July 4th to Friday the 7th. Look out for details on the QPL website and via an official announcement later this year! IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 21 April, 2017 Notification: 29 May Papers ready: 23 June Conference: 3-7 July SUBMISSIONS Prospective speakers are invited to submit a contribution to the conference. - Original contributions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract which provides sufficient evidence of results of genuine interest and enough detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submission of substantial albeit partial results of work in progress is encouraged. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give long or short talks, depending on the quality and/or maturity of the submission. - Extended abstracts describing work submitted/published elsewhere will also be considered, provided the work is recent and relevant to the conference. These consist of a 3 page description and should include a link to a separate published paper or preprint. Extended versions of accepted original research contributions will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. 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=qpl2017 There will be an award for the best paper whose authors are all students, at the discretion of the programme committee. REGISTRATION Registration will be opened later, please visit the website for more details. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Aleks Kissinger (Radboud, co-chair) Bob Coecke (Oxford, co-chair) Bart Jacobs (Radboud) Benoit Valiron (Paris-Sud) Benno Van Den Berg (Amsterdam) Chris Heunen (Edinburgh) Dan Browne (University College London) Daniel Oi (Strathclyde) Dominic Horsman (Durham) Dusko Pavlovic (Hawaii) Giulio Chiribella (Hong Kong) Hans Maassen (Radboud) Isar Stubbe (Littoral-Cote-d'Opale) Jamie Vicary (Oxford) Joachim Kock (Barcelona) John Baez (UC Riverside) Kohei Kishida (Oxford) Matt Leifer (Chapman) Matty Hoban (Oxford) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Mingsheng Ying (UT Sydney) Miriam Backens (Bristol) Paolo Perinotti (Pavia) Paul-Andre Mellies (Paris Diderot) Pawel Sobocinski (Southampton) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Rick Blute (Ottowa) Rob Spekkens (Permiter Institute) Robert Raussendorf (British Columbia) Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Simon Gay (Glasgow) Simon Perdrix (CNRS Nancy) STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) LOCAL ORGANISATION Aleks Kissinger Bart Jacobs Sander Uijlen From alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 06:40:46 2017 From: alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Silva) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 06:40:46 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS 33: first call for papers Message-ID: <201701121140.v0CBekFJ009876@telepathy.seas.upenn.edu> The 33rd Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXIII) will take place on the campus of Ljubljana University, Slovenia, between 12 and 15 June 2017. 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: http://coalg.org/mfps-calco2017 ## INVITED SPEAKERS * Rehana Patel, Olin College * Laura Kovacs, TU Wien * Dexter Kozen, Cornell University * Amr Sabry, Indiana University ## TUTORIAL SPEAKERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS * Laure Daviaud, Warsaw - Algebraic automata theory * Nate Foster, Cornell - Foundations of Network Programming, special session in honour of Dexter Kozen???s 65th Birthday * Ben Worrell, Oxford - Metrics and Privacy (Joint MPFS & CALCO) * Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS - Formal Verification ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: * Submission Deadline: March 10 * Notification: April 28 * Proceedings: May 19 * Conference: June 12-15 ### 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=mfps33). ### Proceedings A preliminary version will be distributed at the meeting. Final proceedings will appear in ENTCS after the meeting. ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gilles Barthe, Madrid, Spain Andrej Bauer, Ljubljana, Slovenia Steve Brookes, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Carla Ferreira, Lisbon, Portugal Nate Foster, Ithaca, NY, USA Chris Heunen, Edinburgh, UK Justin Hsu, Philadelphia, PA, USA Achim Jung, Birmingham, UK Elham Kashefi, Edinburgh, UK Clemens Kupke, Glasgow, UK Barbara Koenig, Duisburg, Germany Catherine Meadows, NRL , USA Andrzej Murawski, Warwick, UK, Bart Jacobs, Radboud U, Netherlands Bob Coecke, Oxford, UK Cameron Freer, Cambridge MA, USA Catherine Meadows, Washington, DC, USA Michael Mislove, New Orleans, LA, USA Joel Ouaknine, Saarbrucken, Germany Alessandra Palmigiano, Delft, The Netherlands Prakash Panangaden, Montreal, Canada Daniela Petrisan, Paris, France Brigitte Pientka, Montreal, Canada Jurriaan Rot, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, London, UK Alexandra Silva (Chair), London, UK Ana Sokolova, Salzburg, Austria Valeria Vignudelli, Bologna, Italy ## LOCAL ORGANISERS: * Matja Pretnar * Andrej Bauer From Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 13:28:05 2017 From: Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Sewell) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:28:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in Applied Semantics for Production Architectures In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 15 December 2016 at 23:20, Peter Sewell wrote: > [please circulate this to any likely candidates - thanks, Peter] > > Research Associate/Senior Research Associate in Applied Semantics for > Production Architectures > Updating this: the likellihood of new funding means we may be able to make several appointments, to build a really strong team. Closing date 24 Jan, as before. Peter > University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory > Research Associate ?29,301 - ?38,183 or Senior Research Associate ?39,324 > - 49,772 > Fixed-term: until February 28, 2019, when the grant funding the post > currently ends. > Details: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/12397/ > > > Do you want to help build mathematically rigorous foundations for > real-world computing, to make it more robust and secure? > > We have an ongoing project to establish rigorous semantic models for > production multiprocessors, to provide a clear basis for programming, > software verification, and hardware verification. This involves long-term > close collaborations with ARM and IBM, and we have an agreement with ARM to > take their internal ISA description, build a mathematical model based on > it, integrate it with the concurrency semantics we are developing, and > release the whole in a form usable for verification. This will provide the > first strongly validated public model for a production multiprocessor > architecture. We also have a close collaboration with the CHERI research > project, developing processors with hardware-accelerated in-process memory > protection and sandboxing, together with an open-source operating system > and toolchain based on FreeBSD and Clang/LLVM; formal modelling is at the > heart of the CHERI design process. For more details, see some of our > previous papers: > POPL17 (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/popl17/mixed-size.pdf), POPL16 ( > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/popl16-armv8/top.pdf), MICRO 2015 ( > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/micro-48-2015.pdf), PLDI11 ( > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/ppc-supplemental/pldi105-sarkar.pdf), > CHERI ISA spec (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-891.html), > CHERI (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/), REMS ( > http://rems.io). > > We have a position available to work on: > > - the development of our Sail metalanguage for ISA description: a language > with a lightweight dependent type system, designed to capture ARM, IBM > POWER, and CHERI instruction semantics in an engineer-friendly way; > - translation from Sail to generate efficient emulators and usable > theorem-prover definitions; > - mechanised proof about the architecture definitions, e.g. of security > properties, relationships between concurrency models, and correctness > results for high-level language concurrency compilation; and/or > - development of reasoning, symbolic execution, debugging, and/or > model-checking tools above the architecture definitions - the initial work > should generate many opportunities along these lines. > > The successful candidate must have a PhD (or equivalent experience), a > track-record of publication in relevant areas of Computer Science, good > knowledge of English and communication skills, and the expertise and > commitment to apply rigorous semantics to real systems. We're looking for > people with the skills to make solid models and tools, well-engineered and > widely usable. You should have expertise in one or more of: > > - functional programming (e.g. OCaml) > - programming language semantics and type systems > - theorem provers, especially Isabelle and/or Coq > - symbolic execution > - model-checking > > For senior applicants, e.g. who will be able to contribute substantially > to future grant applications, it may be possible to appoint at the Senior > Research Associate level. > > This is part of the broader REMS (Rigorous Engineering for Mainstream > Systems) programme grant: a lively collaboration between systems and > semantics researchers in Cambridge, Imperial, and Edinburgh to scale up and > apply mathematically rigorous semantics to mainstream systems. > > Informal enquiries should be directed to Peter Sewell ( > Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk). > > To apply online for this vacancy, please click on the 'Apply' button > below. This will route you to the University's Web Recruitment System, > where you will need to register an account (if you have not already) and > log in before completing the online application form. > > Please ensure you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a cover letter > explaining your potential contribution to the project, as pdf documents. > Include the names of 2 or 3 referees at the appropriate point in the online > application. Your referees should be prepared to send references within a > week of the closing date, if asked by the University. If you upload any > additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to > consider these as part of your application. > > Please quote reference NR10978 on your application and in any > correspondence about this vacancy. > > The University values diversity and is committed to equality of > opportunity. > > The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are > eligible to live and work in the UK. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From David.Aspinall at ed.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 12:14:06 2017 From: David.Aspinall at ed.ac.uk (David Aspinall) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:14:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in SDN verification and security at Edinburgh Message-ID: Dear All, We have an opening for a postdoctoral Research Associate to work on formal modelling and verification for network security applications of SDN (Software Defined Networking) at University of Edinburgh. For details please see here: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=038513 The post is available for a year with a possibility of extension subject to funding. It would suit somebody with a background in (ideally) formal methods, networking and security. I welcome people to contact me to discuss informally. - David -- Prof. David Aspinall, Email: David.Aspinall at ed.ac.uk LFCS, School of Informatics, URL: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/da University of Edinburgh, Office: +44 (0)131 650 5177 10 Crichton Street, Mobile: +44 (0)773 809 2693 Edinburgh. EH8 9AB U.K. Office: Room 5.12A, Inf. Forum The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From rxg at cs.ubc.ca Fri Jan 13 19:56:39 2017 From: rxg at cs.ubc.ca (Ronald Garcia) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:56:39 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?_SPLASH=E2=80=9917_Call_for_Contributi?= =?utf-8?q?ons=3A_Workshops?= Message-ID: <510F8D96-282A-4CF2-993F-1B465A98F623@cs.ubc.ca> /************************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'17) Vancouver, Canada October 22-27, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Workshops /************************************************************************************/ ## SPLASH Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2017 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. ## Call for Submissions: We encourage proposals for workshops on any topic relevant to SPLASH. If there is a topic relevant to SPLASH that you feel passionate about, and you want to connect with others who have similar interests, you should consider submitting a proposal to organize a workshop! The exact format of the workshop can be defined by the proposal submitters, and we more than welcome new, and unconventional ideas for workshop formats. The following suggestions may serve as a starting point: - Mini-conferences provide their participants the possibility to present their work to other domain experts. The smaller and more specialized setting of the workshop allows for more extensive Q&A sessions and facilitates ample discussions,which may continue after the workshop. Typically, presentations of work-in-progress as well as of completed projects are welcome. The workshop may or may not produce formal proceedings. - Retreats act as a platform for domain experts to gather with the purpose of tackling the issues of a predetermined research agenda. Retreats are highly interactive and goal-oriented, allowing their participants to address open challenges in their domain, to explore new, uncharted ideas, and to (maybe even) uncover new, promising research domains. - Agenda-setting workshops provide a forum for domain experts to determine a research agenda for a sub-field, and may include collaborations on an agenda document that is published after the workshop is over. Other common activities at workshops include poster sessions, hands-on practical work, and focus groups. Proposal submitters should feel free to direct questions about workshop formats to the workshop chairs. 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URL: From compscience.announcement at gmail.com Sat Jan 14 23:41:27 2017 From: compscience.announcement at gmail.com (Klaus Havelund) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:41:27 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV'17 - First call for papers and tutorials Message-ID: *RV 2017* *Call for Papers and Tutorials* The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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, but are not limited to: - specification languages - monitor construction techniques - program instrumentation - logging, recording, and replay - combination of static and dynamic analysis - specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces - monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems - runtime checking of privacy and security policies - statistical model checking - metrics and statistical information gathering - program/system execution visualization - fault localization, containment, recovery and repair - integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers* as well as *tutorial proposals* will follow the following timeline: - Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 - Paper notification: June 26, 2017 - Conference: September 13-16, 2017 General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. - *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. - *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. - *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University of Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , VERIMAG (University of Grenoble Alpes), France Eric Bodden , Fraunhofer SIT and Technische University Darmstadt, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd. Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA Kim Larsen , Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee , University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay , Inria Rennes, France Martin Leucker , University of L?beck, Germany Ben Livshits , Microsoft Research, USA David Lo , Singapore Management University, Singapore Francesco Logozzo , Facebook Parthasarathy Madhusudan , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonardo Mariani , University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Madanlal Musuvathi , Microsoft Research Ayoub Nouri , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Gordon Pace , University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled , Bar Ilan University, Israel Grigore Rosu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Veselin Raychev , ETH Zurich, Switzerland Cesar Sanchez , IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Rahul Sharma , Microsoft Research, USA Julien Signoles , CEA LIST, France Scott Smolka , Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen , University of Dortmund, Germany Scott Stoller , Stony Brook University, USA Volker Stolz , University of Olso, Norway Frits Vaandrager , Radboud University, Netherlands Neil Walkinshaw , University of Leicester, UK Chao Wang , University of Southern California, USA Eugen Zalinescu , Technische Universitat M?nchen, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk Sat Jan 14 07:52:32 2017 From: marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk (Marta Kwiatkowska) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:52:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Job: Associate Professor/Professor of Automated Verification, with Tutorial Fellowship at St. John's College, University of Oxford In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Please forward to anyone interested. Apologies for multiple mailing.] ----------------- Associate Professorship & Tutorial Fellowship of Automated Verification Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Salary from: ?45,562 p.a. (plus substantial benefits) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1237-full.html Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor (or Professor) of Automated Verification to be held in the Department of Computer Science starting as soon as possible. The successful candidate will also be appointed as Fellow and Tutor in Computer Science at St. John?s College. The Department of Computer Science is a vibrant and growing academic department, which has a research profile across the entire spectrum of contemporary computing. The Department is seeking to recruit an Associate Professor in Computer Science, with a research specialism in automated verification and synthesis, ideally complementing existing expertise. This is an area of fundamental importance in the design, evaluation and construction of software and systems (design flaws in applications such as autonomous vehicles can have devastating consequences, for example). The Associate Professor?s research will focus on developing theories and techniques to ensure system correctness and employing them in novel application domains. The appointee will also contribute to teaching on the Department?s highly successful undergraduate and graduate programmes. The Associate Professor will be a member of both the University and the St John's College community. They will be part of a lively and intellectually stimulating research community which performs to the highest international levels in research and publications and will have access to the excellent research facilities which Oxford offers. They will have a role to play in the running of the College as a member of the Governing Body and a trustee of the College as a charity. The successful candidate will hold a doctorate in Computer Science or a cognate discipline. They will have the ability to teach across a range of computer science subjects, and will also have a proven research record of high quality at international level in the area of Automated Verification and experience of research collaborations at both national and international level. Closing date for applications: *** 12.00 noon on 3 March 2017. *** Interviews will be held on 18 April ? please allow a full day for these. Further details: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1237-full.html -- 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 francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it Mon Jan 16 06:45:45 2017 From: francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it (Francesco Tiezzi) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:45:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] COORDINATION 2017 - 2nd Announcement Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple copies] ====================================================================== COORDINATION 2017 19th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages Neuchatel, Switzerland, June 19-21 2017 http://2017.discotec.org ====================================================================== Publications * Publication of the proceedings in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science of Springer-Verlag * Publication of extended versions of selected work is planned in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of COORDINATION ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstract: February 3, 2017 * Submission of papers: February 10, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2017 * Final version: April 24, 2017 * Conference: June 19-21, 2017 CONFERENCE GOALS Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogenous components. New models, architectures, languages and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference provides a well-established forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination. Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: * Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination, emergent behaviour, types, semantics; * Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance aspects; * Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages: implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity; * Middlewares and coordination; * Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing; * Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination; * Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour; * Coordination and modern distributed computing: Web services, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing; * Programming languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development of coordinated applications; * Programming methodologies and verification of coordinated applications; * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies; * Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination. PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Extended versions of a selection of the best papers is planned to be published in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of COORDINATION. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in PostScript or PDF using a two-phase online submission process. Registration of the paper information and abstract (max. 250 words) must be completed before February 3, 2017. Submission of the full paper is due no later than February 10, 2017. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the conference web site: http://2017.discotec.org . Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP?s Author Code of Conduct, see http://www.ifip.org/ under Publications/Links). The submissions must not exceed the total page number limit (see below), 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. We solicit two kinds of submissions: * Full papers (up to 16 pages + 2 pages references): describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports. * Short papers (up to 8 pages + 1 page references): describing research in progress or opinion papers on the past of Coordination research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects for the years to come. The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions of both kinds above, will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. Extended versions of a selection of the best full papers is planned to be published in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of COORDINATION. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Co-Chairs Jean-Marie Jacquet University of Namur, Belgium Jean-Marie.Jacquet at unamur.be staff.info.unamur.be/jmj Mieke Massink CNR-ISTI, Italy Mieke.Massink at isti.cnr.it www.isti.cnr.it/People/M.Massink Members Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Farhad Arbab CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Jacob Beal Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Simon Bliudze EPFL, Switzerland Frank de Boer CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Antonio Brogi University of Pisa, Italy Roberto Bruni University of Pisa, Italy Vincenzo Ciancia CNR-ISTI, Italy Dave Clarke Uppsala University, Sweden Ferruccio Damiani Universit? di Torino, Italy Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Rocco De Nicola IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy Erik de Vink Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Schahram Dustdar TU Wien, Austria Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom Stephen Gilmore University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Paola Inverardi University of l'Aquila, Italy Ramtin Khosravi University of Tehran, Iran Eva Kuhn Vienna University of Technology, Austria Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Michele Loreti University of Florence, Italy Hernan Melgratti University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Andrea Omicini University of Bologna, Italy Ernesto Pimentel University of Malaga, Spain Gwen Salaun University of Grenoble Alpes, France Marjan Sirjani Reykjavik University, Iceland Vasco T. Vasconcelos University of Lisbon, Portugal Carolyn Talcott SRI International, USA Emilio Tuosto University of Leicester, UK Mirko Viroli University of Bologna, Italy Takuo Watanabe Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Danny Weyns Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Martin Wirsing Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR Francesco Tiezzi University of Camerino, Italy STEERING COMMITTEE Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Farhad Arbab CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands 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 Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Rocco De Nicola IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Jose Proenca University of Minho, Portugal 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 (Chair) Mirko Viroli University of Bologna, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Mon Jan 16 06:04:54 2017 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:04:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TTCS 2017 First CFP: Deadline May 1 Message-ID: ========================================= Topics in Theoretical Computer Science (TTCS 2017) http://www.ttcs.ir/ Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran September 12-14, 2017 *** Abstract Submission Deadline: May 1, 2017 *** ========================================= TTCS is a bi-annual conference series, serving as a forum for novel and high-quality research in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science. The proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS series. The conference is sponsored by EATCS and IEEE (Iran section). ------------------------------ Keynote Speakers ------------------------------ - Mahdi Cheraghchi, Imperial College, UK - Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy ------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------ - Abstract Submission: May 1, 2017 - Full Paper Submission: May 8, 2017 - Author notification: June 26, 2017 - Camera ready paper: July 31, 2017 - Conference: September 12-14, 2017 ------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------ 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. All technical details necessary for a proper evaluation of a submission must be included in the submission or in a clearly-labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. 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 to the appropriate track through our EasyChair submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttcs2017 . The web site is open for submissions. ------------------------------ Scope ------------------------------ TTCS is organized in 2 tracks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Track A: Algorithms and Complexity - algorithms and data structures, - algorithmic coding theory, - algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, - approximation algorithms, - computational complexity, - computational geometry, - computational learning theory, - economics and algorithmic game theory, - fixed parameter algorithms, - machine learning, - optimization, - parallel and distributed algorithms, - quantum computing, - randomness in computing, - theoretical cryptography. Track B: Logic, Semantics, and Programming Theory - algebra and co-algebra in computer science, - concurrency theory, - coordination languages, - formal verification and model-based testing, - logic in computer science, - methods, models of computation and reasoning for embedded, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems, - stochastic and probabilistic specification and reasoning, - theoretical aspects of other CS-related research areas, e.g., computational science, databases, information retrieval, and networking, - theory of programming languages, - type theory and its application in program verification. ------------------------------ Program Committee ------------------------------ Track A: Algorithms and Complexity - Amitabha Bagchi, IIT Delhi, India - Samuel R. Buss, University of California, San Diego, USA - Jaroslaw Byrka, University of Wroclaw, Poland - Amir Daneshgar, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Anna Gal, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland, USA - Amit Kumar, IIT Delhi, India - Mohammad Mahmoody, University of Virginia, USA - Rolf Niedermeier, TU Berlin, Germany - Giuseppe Persiano, University of Salerno, Italy - Jorg-Rudiger Sack, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada - Rahul Santhanam, University of Oxford, United Kingdom - Jiri Sgall, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (Co-Chair) - Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA - Gerhard Woeginger, RWTH Aachen, Germany - Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, Sharif University of Technology, Iran Track B: Logic, Semantics, and Programming Theory - Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands - Ilaria Castellani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France - Fatemeh Ghassemi, University of Tehran, Iran - Hossein Hojjat, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA - Mohammad Izadi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Sung-shik Jongmans, Open University, The Netherlands - Ramtin Khosravi, University of Tehran, Iran - Jan Kretinsky, Munich University of Techology, Germany - Bas Luttik, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Larry Moss, Indiana University, USA - Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden (Co-Chair) - Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London, UK - Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Subodh Sharma, IIT Delhi, India - Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Itay - Kazunori Ueda, Waseda University, Japan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ndanner at wesleyan.edu Tue Jan 17 09:18:18 2017 From: ndanner at wesleyan.edu (Norman Danner) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:18:18 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LCC 2017: Call for papers Message-ID: <3908770.SQZKcm65sY@nellie> ====================================================================== First Call for Papers LCC 2017 18th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity June 19, 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland collocated with LICS 2017 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 14, 2017 * notification May 1, 2017 * workshop June 19, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS: * Arnaud Durand, Universit? Denis Diderot - Paris 7 * Damiano Mazza, Institut Galil?e, Universit? Paris-Nord 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=lcc2017 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Norman Danner (co-chair, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA) Heribert Vollmer (co-chair, Leibniz Universit?t, Hannover) Martin Avanzini (Universit?t Innsbruck) Olaf Beyersdorff (University of Leeds) Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki) Ramyaa (New Mexico Tech) James S. Royer (Syracuse University) Cristina Sirangelo (Paris Diderot University - Paris 7) -- Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University From georg.moser at uibk.ac.at Tue Jan 17 11:21:21 2017 From: georg.moser at uibk.ac.at (Georg Moser) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:21:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DICE-FOPARA 2017: Call for Papers Message-ID: <53a007f8-1df4-d0c8-61ec-c16ea8b9bd6e@uibk.ac.at> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity and 5th Workshop on Foundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis (DICE-FOPARA 2017) Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 April 22 - 23, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/events/dice-fopara ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES The first joint international workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity (DICE) and FOundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis (FOPARA) will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, from April 22-23, 2017 as part of ETAPS. The DICE workshop explores the area of Implicit Computational Complexity (ICC), which grew out from several proposals to use logic and formal methods to provide languages for complexity-bounded computation (e.g. Ptime, Logspace computation). It aims at studying the computational complexity of programs without referring to external measuring conditions or a particular machine model, but only by considering language restrictions or logical/computational principles entailing complexity properties. The FOPARA workshop serves as a forum for presenting original research results that are relevant to the analysis of resource (e.g. time, space, energy) consumption by computer programs. The workshop aims to bring together the researchers that work on foundational issues with the researchers that focus more on practical results. Therefore, both theoretical and practical contributions are encouraged. We also encourage papers that combine theory and practice. Given the complementarity and the synergy between these two communities, and following the successful experience of co-location of DICE-FOPARA 2015 in London at ETAPS 2015, we will hold the 8th Workshop on DICE and the 5th Workshop on FOPARA together at ETAPS 2017. TOPICS The joint international DICE-FOPARA workshop serves as a forum for presenting original and established research results that are relevant to the implicit computational complexity theory and to the analysis of resource (e.g. time, space, energy) consumption by computer programs. The workshop aims to bring together the researchers that work on foundational issues with the researchers that focus more on practical results. Therefore, both theoretical and practical contributions are encouraged, as well as papers that combine theory and practice. Areas of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * type systems for controlling/inferring/checking complexity * logical and machine-independent characterisations of complexity classes * logics closely related to complexity classes * 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 * resource static analysis for embedded or/and critical systems; * semantic methods to analyse resources, including quasi-interpretations; * practical applications of resource analysis; * resource analysis by term and graph rewriting. SUBMISSIONS We ask for submission of *regular papers* describing original work (10--15 pages) or *extended abstracts* (2--6 pages) presenting already published work or work in progress. With respect to regular papers, submissions will be in particular verified for originality and novelty and the manuscript must not have been published, nor is presently submitted, elsewhere. With respect of submissions of extended abstracts already published manuscripts are acceptable, but have to be within the scope of the workshop and potentially give rise to lively discussions during the meeting. After the workshop we plan to edit a special issue of DICE-FOPARA 2017 in a renown journal in conjunction with the 7th Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity (DICE 2016). Regular papers must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (see http://eptcs.org/). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume (application pending). Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dicefopara2017 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission February 19, 2017 Notification March 19, 2017 Final versions due March 26, 2017 Workshop date April 22-23, 2017 CONFERENCE VENUE The workshop will be held as a satellite workshop of European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software 2017 (ETAPS 2017) which takes place in Uppsala, Sweden. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Beniamino Accattoli (Paris) Guillaume Bonfante (Nancy, co-chair) Marko van Eekelen (Nijmegen) Marco Gaboardi (Buffalo) Dan Ghica (Birmingham) Clemens Grelck (Amsterdam) Charles Grellois (Bologna) Nao Hirokawa (JAIST) Jan Hoffmann (CMU) Thomas Jensen (Rennes) Bj?rn Lisper (M?lardalen) Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (Edinburgh) Georg Moser (Innsbruck, co-chair) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) Simon Wegener (Saarbr?cken) Florian Zuleger (Vienna) From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Tue Jan 17 09:31:20 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:31:20 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TABLEAUX 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS TABLEAUX 2017 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods University of Bras?lia, Brazil September 25-28, 2017 Submission Deadline: 25 Apr 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Bras?lia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau 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, tableau 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. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction 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, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau 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, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by: Reiner H?hnle Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany INVITED SPEAKERS: Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina Katalin Bimb? University of Alberta, Canada (joint with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (joint with FroCoS and ITP) Cesary Kaliszyk Universit?t Innsbruck, Austria (joint with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Fl?vio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaL? ? Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications M?rio Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bj?rn Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP = PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists C?sar Mu?oz, Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. 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 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the 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 elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via 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. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 18 Apr 2017 Abstract submission 25 Apr 2017 Paper submission 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universit? degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid Torben Bra?ner Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universit? d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universit?t Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universit? de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universit?t Bern Angelo Montanari Universit? degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universit?t Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Cl?udia Nalon Universidade de Bras?lia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroc?awski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universit? Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban ?esk? vysok? u?en? technick? v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Cl?udia Nalon, Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Jo?o Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK -- 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 kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de Wed Jan 18 06:23:18 2017 From: kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:23:18 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CONCUR 2017 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: <985796a2-1a6a-b03d-8a62-516460e36bfa@tu-berlin.de> ============================================================================ CONCUR 2017 - First Call for Papers 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory September 5-8, 2017, Berlin, Germany https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ ============================================================================ The purpose of the CONCUR conferences is to bring together researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency, and promote its applications. INVITED SPEAKERS - Hongseok Yang (University of Oxford, UK) - Azahdeh Farzan (University of Toronto, Canada) - Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft Research, USA) - Jean-Francois Raskin (Universit? libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) CO-LOCATED EVENTS 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2017) 15th International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2017) 14th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2017) There will be co-located workshops and tutorials, which will take place during the week of September 4-9. ============================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES (AoE in 2017) Paper Submission: April 21 (firm deadline) Paper Notification: June 16 Camera Ready Copy Due: July 7 CONCUR 2017: September 5-8 TOPICS Submissions are solicited in semantics, logics, verification and analysis of concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain-theoretic models, game-theoretic models, process algebras, graph transformation systems, Petri nets, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems, probabilistic systems, real-time systems, biology-inspired systems, and synchronous systems; - Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics, and resource logics; - Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model checking, race detection, pre-order and equivalence checking, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving, type systems, and security analysis; - Distributed algorithms and data structures: design, analysis, complexity, correctness, fault tolerance, reliability, availability, consistency, self-organization, self-stabilization, protocols. - Theoretical foundations of architectures, execution environments, and software development for concurrent systems such as geo-replicated systems, communication networks, multiprocessor and multi-core architectures, shared and transactional memory, resource management and awareness, compilers and tools for concurrent programming, programming models such as component-based, object- and service-oriented. PAPER SUBMISSION CONCUR 2017 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience related to the topics mentioned above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. The CONCUR 2017 proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=concur2017). 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URL: From mikael.mayer at epfl.ch Wed Jan 18 07:37:55 2017 From: mikael.mayer at epfl.ch (mikael.mayer at epfl.ch) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:37:55 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CAV 2017: Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CAV 2017: 29th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification Important Dates: All deadlines are AOE (Anywhere on Earth). Papers: Paper submission: January 24, 2017 (Tuesday) Author response period: March 20-22, 2017 (Monday ? Wednesday) Author notification: April 12, 2017 (Wednesday) Final version: May 5, 2017 (Friday) Conference: Workshops: July 22-23, 2017 Main conference: July 24-28, 2017 Submission URL http://cav2017.mpi-sws.org/ Scope CAV 2017 is the 29th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis and synthesis methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification while expanding to domains such as cyber-physical, social, and biological systems. 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: There is no separate registration deadline. Full papers should be uploaded by the submission deadline. Tool papers require a concurrent artifact submission together with the paper submission. Artifact evaluation occurs concurrently with the review process and the PC gets access to the artifact evaluation during the PC discussions. Submissions on a wide range of topics are sought, particularly ones that identify new research directions. CAV 2017 is not limited to topics discussed in previous instances of the conference. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate with the conference chairs prior to submission. As explained below, CAV 2017 will follow a lightweight double-blind review process. Submissions that are not ?blinded? will be rejected without review. 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 here https://cav2017.mpi-sws.org/ Submissions will be in two categories: Regular Papers and Tool Papers. Regular Papers Regular Papers should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format, not counting references and appendices. Authors can include a clearly marked appendix at the end of their submissions, that is exempt from the page limit restrictions. However, the reviewers are not obliged to read the contents of these appendices. 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. 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. Tool Papers 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. Note that tool papers require the submission of an artifact for evaluation by the submission deadline. Artifacts will be evaluated concurrently with the review process and the program committee will have access to the artifact evaluation while making their decision. In special cases, where an artifact cannot be submitted, the authors should contact the program chairs to find alternate modes of artifact evaluation. Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process CAV 2017 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. 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, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should *not* be omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. 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 Submission and Evaluation Authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to submit (but are not required to submit) the relevant artifact for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee. Authors of all tool papers are required to submit their artifact to the artifact evaluation committee at the paper submission time. Unlike regular papers, the results of the artifact evaluation for tool papers will be available to the program committee during the online discussions. To submit an artifact, please prepare a virtual machine (VM) image of your artifact and keep it accessible through an HTTP link throughout the evaluation process. As the basis of the VM image, please choose commonly used OS versions that have been tested with the virtual machine software and that evaluators are likely to be accustomed to. We encourage you to use https://www.virtualbox.org and save the VM image as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file. Please include the prepared link in the appropriate field of the paper submission form. In addition, please supply at submission time a link to a short plain-text file describing the OS and parameters of the image, as well as the host platform on which you prepared and tested your virtual machine image (OS, RAM, number of cores, CPU frequency). Please describe how to proceed after booting the image, including the instructions for locating the full documentation for evaluating the artifact. If you are not in a position to prepare the artifact as above, please contact PC chairs for an alternative arrangement. It is to the advantage of authors to prepare an artifact that is easy to evaluate by the artifact evaluation committee and that yields expected results. We next provide some guidelines. Document in detail how to reproduce most of the experimental results of the paper using the artifact; keep this process simple through easy-to-use scripts and provide detailed documentation assuming minimum expertise of users. Ensure the artifact is in the state ready to run. It should work without a network connection. It should not require the user to install additional software before running. It should use reasonably modest resources (RAM, number of cores), so that the results can be reproduced on various hardware platforms including laptops. The evaluation should take reasonable amount of time to complete. When possible include source code within your virtual machine image and point to the most relevant and interesting parts of the source code tree. Members of the artifact evaluation committee and the program committee are asked to use submitted artifact for the sole purpose of evaluating the contribution associated with the artifact. Invited speakers * Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research:Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research Fast verification of fast cryptography for secure sockets * Marta Kwiatkowska, OxfordMarta Kwiatkowska, Oxford * Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWSViktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS Formal reasoning under weak memory consistency Organization Conference co-chairs Viktor Kuncak, EPFL, Switzerland Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Workshop Chair Eva Darulov?, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Sponsorship Chair Barbara Jobstmann, EPFL and Cadence CAV Fellowship Chair Thomas Wahl, Northeastern University Publicity Chair Mika?l Mayer, EPFL CAV Award Committee Tom Ball (Chair), Microsoft research Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Pierre Wolper, Liege University Program Committee Aws Albarghouthi Christel Baier Per Bjesse Jasmin Blanchette Sergiy Bogomolov Ahmed Bouajjani Rohit Chadha Bor-Yuh Evan Chang Swarat Chaudhuri Wei-Ngan Chin Hana Chockler Alessandro Cimatti Isil Dilig Dino Distefano Cezara Dragoi Michael Emmi Javier Esparza Georgios Fainekos Azadeh Farzan Aarti Gupta Gerard Holzmann Marieke Huisman Radu Iosif Franjo Ivancic Stefan Kiefer Zachary Kincaid Barbara K?nig Daniel Kr?ning Viktor Kuncak(Co-chair) Rustan Leino Rupak Majumdar (Co-chair) Kenneth McMillan Alexander Nadel Madhusudan Parthasarathy Corina Pasareanu Nadia Polikarpova Pavithra Prabhakar Arjun Radhakrishna Zvonimir Rakamaric Andrey Rybalchenko Roopsha Samanta Rahul Sharma Anna Slobodova Ana Sokolova Fabio Somenzi Zhendong Su Serdar Tasiran Emina Torlak Willem Visser Mahesh Viswanathan Yakir Vizel Tomas Vojnar Thomas Wahl Bow-Yaw Wang Georg Weissenbacher Verena Wolf Lenore Zuck Damien Zufferey Steering Committee Orna Grumberg, Technion, Israel Aarti Gupta, Princeton University, USA Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, UK Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA Artifact Evaluation Committee Ayca Balkan, UCLA Stephanie Balzer, CMU James Bornholt, University of Washington Simon Cruanes, INRIA Nancy Matthias Dangl University of Passau Marko Doko, MPI-SWS Chuchu Fan, UIUC Pietro Ferrara, Julia Johannes Hoelzl, TU Munich Lars Hupel, TU Munich Swen Jacobs, Saarland University Moa Johansson, Chalmers Dejan Jovanovic, SRI Ralf Jung, MPI-SWS Ivan Kuraj, MIT Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich Jose Morales, IMDEA Van Chan Ngo, CMU Zvonimir Pavlinovic, NYU Markus Rabe, UC Berkeley Mukund Raghothaman, UPenn Andrew Reynolds, University of Iowa Nima Roohi, UIUC Christian Schilling, University of Freiburg Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan, MIT Nicolas Voirol, EPFL cavconference.org/2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From viktor at mpi-sws.org Thu Jan 19 06:13:03 2017 From: viktor at mpi-sws.org (Viktor Vafeiadis) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:13:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc opening on weak memory concurrency at MPI-SWS Message-ID: *** Postdoc opening on weak memory concurrency at MPI-SWS *** Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) based at Kaiserslautern, Germany, under the supervision of Viktor Vafeiadis (http://www.mpi-sws.org/~viktor/). The initial postdoc appointment is for two years, starting anytime, with an option to extend to a third year (depending on performance). The position is relatively independent in that it is not tied to a specific project and there is considerable freedom to choose a research topic. Nevertheless, the postdoc is expected to collaborate closely with other researchers in the group. Thus, the main topics of interest are: - weak memory model semantics - manual or automated verification of concurrent programs - efficient compilation and/or optimisation of concurrent programs - verification or testing of compilers for concurrent programs - static and/or dynamic analysis under weak memory consistency. The successful candidate will have a strong background in at least one of the following areas: - weak memory model semantics - concurrent separation logic - interactive theorem proving (e.g., Coq or Isabelle) - static analysis of concurrent programs - compilation (esp. for concurrent programs) Qualified candidates are encouraged to contact me directly by e-mail (viktor AT mpi-sws DOT org) and in addition to submit a formal online application at: https://apply.mpi-sws.org/ The application consists of a CV, a research statement, and a list of referees. Application deadline: Friday, 10 February. From mikael.mayer at epfl.ch Thu Jan 19 08:25:03 2017 From: mikael.mayer at epfl.ch (mikael.mayer at epfl.ch) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:25:03 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CAV 2017 Award In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CAV Award The CAV award is given annually at the CAV conference for fundamental contributions to the field of Computer-Aided Verification. The award comes with a cash prize of US$10,000 shared equally among recipients. Call for Nominations for the 2016 CAV Award Anyone can submit a nomination. The Award Committee can originate a nomination. Anyone, with the exception of members of the Award Committee, is eligible to receive the Award. A nomination must state clearly the contribution(s), explain why the contribution is fundamental or the series of contributions is outstanding, and be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence of worthiness. The deadline for nominations for the 2017 award is 10 February 2017. Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words), a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution(s), and a detailed statement to justify the nomination. The cited contribution(s) must have been made not more recently than five years ago and not over twenty years ago. In addition, the contribution(s) should not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as the ACM Turing or Kanellakis Awards. The nominee may have received such an award for other contributions. Nominations should be submitted by e-mail to a member of the committee. For previous winners of the award, please see the main CAV award page http://i-cav.org/cav-award. Award Committee - Tom Ball (Chair), Microsoft Research - Kim G. Larsen , Aalborg University - Natarajan Shankar , SRI International - Pierre Wolper , Liege University cavconference.org/2017/cav-award/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilian at csc.kth.se Thu Jan 19 10:55:23 2017 From: dilian at csc.kth.se (Dilian Gurov) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:55:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2017: Second Call For Papers In-Reply-To: <974c32cb-5138-00d9-143b-6be1c34259f8@csc.kth.se> References: <974c32cb-5138-00d9-143b-6be1c34259f8@csc.kth.se> Message-ID: <91efab52-d827-0166-8b61-7ac74040c6f7@csc.kth.se> ================================================================= SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2017) August 20-24, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se ================================================================= AIM AND SCOPE Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science and is intended for computer scientists whose research involves logic, as well as for logicians working on issues essential for computer science. CSL 2017 is the 26th EACSL annual conference. It will be co-organised by Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and hosted by Stockholm University. CSL 2017 will be co-located with, and immediately preceded by, the Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC 2017). There will be a joint session of CSL 2017 and LC 2017 in the morning of August 20, as well as CSL-affiliated workshops during August 25-26. IMPORTANT DATES: --------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission for contributed papers: March 24, 2017 Paper submission: March 31, 2017 Notification: May 31, 2017 Abstract submission for short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notification on short presentations: June 14, 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST for CSL 2017 include (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------- ? automata and games, game semantics ? automated deduction and interactive theorem proving ? bounded arithmetic and propositional proof complexity ? categorical logic and topological semantics ? computational proof theory ? constructive mathematics and type theory ? decision procedures ? domain theory ? equational logic and rewriting ? finite model theory ? higher-order logic ? lambda calculus and combinatory logic ? linear logic and other substructural logics ? logic programming and constraints ? logical aspects of computational complexity ? logical aspects of quantum computing ? logic in database theory ? logical foundations of programming paradigms ? logical foundations of cryptography and information hiding ? logics for multi-agent systems ? modal and temporal logic ? model checking and logic-based verification ? nonmonotonic reasoning ? SAT solving and automated induction ? satisfiability modulo theories ? specification, extraction and transformation of programs ? verification and program analysis ----------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- LC-CSL joint session highlight speakers: ? Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden ? Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen CSL plenary speakers: ? Laura Kov?cs, Vienna University of Technology ? Stephan Kreutzer, Technische Universit?t Berlin ? Meena Mahajan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai ? Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research ----------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL AND AFFILIATED EVENTS ----------------------------- In addition to the plenary and contributed talks CSL 2017, the conference will also include the following events: ? Joint session of CSL 2017 and LC 2017 in the morning of August 20, consisting of four plenary highlight talks, offered by speakers from both conferences. ? Presentation of the Alonzo Church award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, ? Presentation of the EACSL Ackermann award for Outstanding Dissertation on Logic in Computer Science, ? CSL-affiliated workshops, to be held as co-located events on August 25 and (possibly) 26, including: ? Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems LAMAS 2017 (August 25) ? Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory (in memory of Zoltan Ezik) (August 25) ? Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics LACompLing 2017 (August 26) SUBMISSIONS ----------- The CSL 2017 conference proceedings will be published in Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). Authors are invited to submit contributed papers of no more than 15 pages in LIPIcs style (including references), presenting not previously published work, fitting the scope of the conference. The submission of contributed papers will be in two stages: * abstracts, due by March 24, 2017 (AoE); * full papers, due by March 31, 2017 (AoE). The submissions must be done via the EasyChair page for the conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSL 2017. Submitted papers must be in English and must provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the PC. Papers may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or a journal. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the PC are not allowed. In addition, there will be an opportunity for short oral presentations at the conference. Abstracts for such oral presentations must be submitted through the Easychair submission webpage, under the category ``short presentations'', by June 4, 2017. They will not be included in the proceedings. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- ? Parosh Aziz Abdulla (University of Uppsala), ? Lars Birkedal (University of Aarhus), ? Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research), ? Maria Paola Bonacina (Universit? degli Studi di Verona), ? Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV, ENS Cachan), ? Agata Ciabattoni (University of Viena), ? Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg), ? Mads Dam (KTH, Stockholm), PC co-chair ? Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna), ? Anuj Dawar (Cambridge University), ? Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University), PC co-chair ? Maribel Fernandez (King's College London), ? Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen), ? Lauri Hella (University of Tampere), ? Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen), ? Orna Kupferman (University of Jerusalem), ? Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh), ? Angelo Montanari (University of Udine), ? Catuscia Palamidessi (Paris, INRIA), ? Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) ? Ram Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), ? Jean-Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles), ? Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund University), ? Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University of Koblenz-Landau), ? Thomas Streicher (University of Darmstadt), ? Jean-Marc Talbot (University of Aix-Marseille), ? Luca Vigan? (King's College London), ? Ron van der Meyden (UNSW Australia), ? Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing). ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- ? Mads Dam (OC co-chair), Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH ? Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Dilian Gurov (Workshops chair), Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH ? Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Henning Strandin, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES ---------------------- With enquiries on organising matters, send email to: CSL 2017philosophy.su.se With enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: CSL 2017pcgmail.com From detlef.plump at york.ac.uk Wed Jan 18 14:53:35 2017 From: detlef.plump at york.ac.uk (Detlef Plump) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:53:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICGT 2017: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: ============================================ Final Call for Papers 10th International Conference on Graph Transformation ICGT 2017 Marburg (Germany), 18-19 July 2017 Part of STAF 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/gratra2017/ ============================================ Aims and Scope --------------------------------- Dynamic structures are a major cause for complexity when it comes to model and reason about systems. They occur in software architectures, models, pointer structures, databases, networks, etc. As collections of 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, refactoring, and evolution of a wide range of artefacts, where change can happen either at design time or at run time. Based on the observation that these structures can be represented as graphs and their modifications 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, either in contributing to the theory of graph transformation or by applying graph transformation to established or novel areas. The 10th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2017) will be held in Marburg, Germany, as part of STAF 2017 (Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations). The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS, EASST, and IFIP WG 1.3. Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and a special issue has been confirmed with the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier). Topics of Interest --------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - General models of graph transformation (e.g., high-level, adhesive, node, edge, and hyperedge replacement systems) - Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems - Graph theoretical properties of graph languages - Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages - Logical aspects of graph transformation - Computational models based on graph transformation - Structuring and modularization of graph transformation - Hierarchical graphs and decompositions of graphs - Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation - Term graph rewriting - Graph transformation and Petri nets - Model-driven development and model transformation - Model checking, program verification, simulation and animation - Syntax, semantics and implementation of programming languages, domain-specific languages, and visual languages - Graph transformation languages and tool support - Efficient algorithms (pattern matching, graph traversal, etc.) - Applications and case studies of graph transformation in software engineering, including software architectures, refactoring, business processes, access control and service-orientation - Application to computing paradigms such as bio-inspired, quantum, ubiquitous, and visual computing Important Dates ---------------------------------- Abstract submission: February 17, 2017 Paper submission: February 24, 2017 Notification: April 7, 2017 Camera-ready version: April 21, 2017 Conference: July 18-19, 2017 Submission Guidelines --------------------------------- Papers can be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/confe rences/?conf=icgt2017 using Springer's LNCS format ( http://www.springer.com/lncs), and should contain original research. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. All submissions will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee and external subreviewers. Papers are solicited in three categories: - Research papers (16 pages max) are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Additional material intended for reviewers may be included in a clearly marked appendix. - Case studies (12 pages max) describe applications of graph transformations in any application domain. - Tool presentation papers (12 pages max) demonstrate the main features and functionality of graph-based tools. These papers may have an appendix with a detailed demo description (up to 5 pages), which will be reviewed but not included in the proceedings. Special Issue --------------------------------- A special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) will be devoted to extended versions of the best ICGT'17 papers. Keynote Speaker --------------------------------- We are pleased to announce Georg Gottlob (University of Oxford) as invited speaker. Organization --------------------------------- Program chairs - Detlef Plump (University of York, UK) - Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain) Program committee - Anthony Anjorin (University of Paderborn, Germany) - Paolo Baldan (University of Padova, Italy) - G?bor Bergmann (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) - Paolo Bottoni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) - Juergen Dingel (Queen's University, Canada) - Rachid Echahed (CNRS, Laboratoire LIG, France) - Maribel Fernandez (King's College London, UK) - Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) - Joel Greenyer (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany) - Annegret Habel (University of Oldenburg, Germany) - Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK) - Berthold Hoffmann (University of Bremen, Germany) - Dirk Janssens (University of Antwerp, Belgium) - Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Leen Lambers (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) - Yngve Lamo (Bergen University College, Norway) - Mark Minas (Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany) - Mohamed Mosbah (LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France) - Fernando Orejas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) - Francesco Parisi-Presicce (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Arend Rensink (University of Twente, The Netherlands) - Leila Ribeiro (University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) - Andy Sch?rr (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) - Uwe Wolter (University of Bergen, Norway) - Albert Z?ndorf (University of Kassel, Germany) Contact --------------------------------- icgt2017 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bart at unica.it Thu Jan 19 04:12:43 2017 From: bart at unica.it (Massimo Bartoletti) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:12:43 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 10th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2017) Message-ID: ICE 2017 10th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 22, 2017, Neuch?tel, Switzerland Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2017 http://ice2017.unica.it === Highlights === - Distinctive selection procedure - ICE welcomes full papers to be included in the proceedings - ICE also welcomes oral communications of already published or preliminary work - Submission deadlines: April 3 (abstract) and April 10 (full) - Invited talks: TBA - Publication in EPTCS (to be confirmed) - Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed) === Important Dates === April 3, 2017.........................Abstract submission April 10, 2017........................Full paper submission April 10-May 19, 2017.................Reviews and PC discussion May 19, 2017..........................Notification to authors June 22, 2017.........................ICE in Neuch?tel July 15, 2017.........................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, friendly, and constructive discussion amongst authors and PC members in an online forum. During the review phase, each submission is published in a dedicated discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of the submission and by all PC members not in conflict with the submission (the forum preserves anonymity). The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions, clarifications, and modifications from the authors, allowing them better to explain and to improve all 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 eight 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. This year we will adopt a light double-blind reviewing process, detailed below. === Submission Guidelines === We invite two types of submissions: - Research papers, original contributions that will be published in the workshop post-proceedings. Research papers must not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The page limit for research papers is 16 pages + 2 pages of references. - Oral communications, that will be presented at the workshop, but will not appear in the post-proceedings. This type of contribution includes e.g. previously published contributions, preliminary work, and position papers. There is no strict page limit for this kind of submission but submissions of at most five pages would be appreciated. A one page summary of previously published work also perfectly fits this category. Authors of research papers must omit their names and institutions from the title page, they should refer to their other work in the third person and omit acknowledgements that could reveal their identity or affiliation. The purpose is to avoid any bias based on authors? identity characteristics, such as gender, seniority, or nationality, in the review process. Our goal is to facilitate an unbiased approach to reviewing by supporting reviewers? access to works that do not carry obvious references to the authors? identities. As mentioned above, this is a lightweight double-blind process. Anonymization should not be a heavy burden for authors, and should not make papers weaker or more difficult to review. Advertising the paper on alternate forums (e.g., on a personal web-page, pre-print archive, email, talks, discussions with colleagues) is permitted, and authors will not be penalized by for such advertisement. Papers in the ?Communications? category need not be anonymized. For any questions concerning the double blind process, feel free to consult the ICEcreamers. We are keen to enhance the balanced, inclusive and diverse nature of the ICE community, and would particularly encourage female colleagues and members of other underrepresented groups to submit their work. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2017). === Publications === Accepted research papers and communications must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. Accepted research papers will be published after the workshop in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). We plan to invite authors of selected papers and brief announcements to submit their work ina 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 published and in preparation special issues of previous ICE editions is reported below. === Invited Speakers === TBA === Program Committee === 1. Lacramioara Astefanoaei (Technical University of Munich, DE) 2. Eduard Baranov (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, CH) 3. Franco Barbanera (University of Catania, IT) 4. Henning Basold (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) 5. Stefano Calzavara (University Ca? Foscari Venezia, IT) 6. Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) 7. Vincenzo Ciancia (ISTI CNR Pisa, IT) 8. Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, USA) 9. Tiziana Cimoli (University of Cagliari, IT) 10. Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, IT) 11. Tobias Heindel (University of Copenhagen, DK) 12. Anastasia Mavridou (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, CH) 13. Christos Kloukinas (City University London, UK) 14. Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) 15. Michael Lienhardt (University of Turin, IT) 16. Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) 17. Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK) 18. Jean Marie Madiot (INRIA Paris, FR) 19. Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) 20. Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, DK) 21. Dominic Orchard (University of Kent, UK) 22. Johannes ?man Pohjola (Chalmers University, SE) 23. Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) 24. Alceste Scalas (Imperial College London, UK) 25. Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT) 26. Anke St?ber (Uppsala University, SE) 27. Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT) 28. Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, IT) === ICEcreamers === Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT; PC co-chair) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, FR) Sophia Knight (Uppsala University, SE; PC co-chair) === Steering Committee === Simon Bliudze (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, CH) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon, FR) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, IT) Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, US) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) === Previous editions === The previous eight editions of ICE have been held on * July 6, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with ICALP'08. The post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol. 229-3). * August 31, 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 10, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-located with DisCoTec'10. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 38) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of SACS (with CAMPUS'10 and CS2BIO'10, Vol. XXI). * June 9, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with DisCoTec'11. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 59) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SACS (Vol. XXII). * June 16, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with DisCoTec'12. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 104) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SCP (vol. 100). * June 6, 2013 in Florence, Italy, co-located with DisCoTec?13. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 131) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SCP (vol. 109). * June 6, 2014 in Berlin, Germany, co-located with DisCoTec?14. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 166) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 85, Number 3). * June 4-5, 2015 in Grenoble, France, co-located with DisCoTec?15. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 189) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 86, Number 1). * June 21-22, in Heraklion, Greece, co-located with DisCoTec?16. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 223) and a special issue of JLAMP is in preparation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Thu Jan 19 17:18:11 2017 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:18:11 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CSF-attendees] DeepSpec Summer School, July 13-28, 2017 -- call for applications Message-ID: <4F28FF1B-BCDC-45B2-BFBD-9C997EB3A885@cis.upenn.edu> The first DeepSpec Summer School on Verified Systems will be held in Philadelphia from July 17 to 28, 2017, preceded by an introductory Coq Intensive from July 13 to 15. Applications are now being accepted ! Overview Can critical systems be built with zero bugs in critical components such as hardware, operating systems, compilers, or crypto? It may seem a pipe dream, but in fact the past decade has seen explosive advances in the technology required to realize it. This summer school aims to give participants a wide-ranging overview of several ambitious projects currently underway in this space. Participants will complete the summer school with a thorough understanding of the conceptual underpinnings of these projects plus considerable hands-on experience with state-of-the-art tools for building verified systems. Dates The summer school will open with a three-day intensive course on Coq fundamentals, for participants who are new to Coq. The main lectures take place during the weeks of July 17 and 24. July 13-15 (Thu-Sat) Coq intensive July 17-21 Week 1 July 24-28 Week 2 Lecturers and Topics Andrew Appel Verified functional algorithms Adam Chlipala Program-specific proof automation Frans Kaashoek & Nickolai Zeldovich Certifying software with crashes Xavier Leroy The structure of a verified compiler Benjamin Pierce Property-based random testing with QuickChick Zhong Shao CertiKOS: Certified kit operating systems Stephanie Weirich Language specification and variable binding Steve Zdancewic Vellvm: Verifying the LLVM Prerequisites The DeepSpec summer school is aimed at a wide range of participants, including graduate students, academics, and industrial engineers and researchers. The Coq proof assistant will serve as a lingua franca for all the lectures. Participants who are not already familiar with Coq at the level of Software Foundations should plan on attending the Coq Intensive before the summer school. Costs and Financial Aid The total cost (for lectures, meals, and dormitory lodging) is expected to be roughly $2000 per participant. Substantial subsidies are available, courtesy of the NSF (thank you!), for students requiring financial assistance to attend. More details will be announced when applications open. Applications Applications are now?open (here) ! Applications received by Feb 15 will be given equal consideration; applications received after Feb 15 will be considered on a space-available basis. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tmoldere at vub.ac.be Fri Jan 20 08:39:29 2017 From: tmoldere at vub.ac.be (Tim Molderez) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:39:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2017: Final call for workshop, symposium, demo & poster submissions Message-ID: <30a1693e-35ab-c450-1f55-73baedbf30ff@vub.ac.be> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2017 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 3-6, 2017, Brussels, Belgium http://2017.programming-conference.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Final call for submissions to all co-located events at the 2017 conference: - ELS 2017 - 10th European Lisp Symposium - Modularity 2017 Invited talks - International Symposium on Modularity - **Updated** ACM Student Research Competition / 2017 Posters - **NEW** 2017 Demos - **NEW** CoCoDo 2017 - Raincode Labs Compiler Coding Dojo - LASSY 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems - **NEW** MiniPLoP 2017 - Mini Pattern Languages of Programs writers' workshop - **Updated** MOMO 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling - MoreVMs 2017 - 1st Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs - PASS 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack - PX 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Programming Experience - ProWeb 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web - Salon des Refus?s 2017 - 1st edition of the Salon des Refus?s workshop All co-located events will take place during April 3-4 2017. CFPs for each of these events are listed below. (apart from Modularity 2017, which is invitation-based) **************************************************************** ELS 2017 - 10th European Lisp Symposium Submissions: Mon 30 Jan 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 Symposium date: Mon Apr 3 - Tue Apr 4 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/els-2017 **************************************************************** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The 10th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Topics include but are not limited to: * Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming * Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches * Language design and implementation * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment * Development methodologies, support and environments * Educational approaches and perspectives * Experience reports and case studies ******************************************************************** ACM Student Research Competition / 2017 Posters Submissions **extended** : Mon 30 Jan 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/programming-posters ******************************************************************** The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to up-and-coming young researchers, and offers them an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help sharpen communication and networking skills. ACM?s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to an SRC. See our website for requirements and further details. Please note that, while the SRC involves a poster session, there also is a regular poster session that isn't part of a competition. Submissions for this regular session are due March 3rd. *********************************************************************** ?Programming? 2017 Demos Submissions: Fri 3 Mar 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/programming-2017-Demos *********************************************************************** Demonstrations will be selected on the basis of technical merit, relevance, and novelty of presentation at . They can include work in progress, commercial or in-house applications, proofs of concept, results of academic or industrial research, or any other innovative programming tools or systems. We encourage authors of accepted papers to co-located workshops and main conferences also submit a demo proposal. We hope that this will give them the opportunity to show their work in action, and increase the visibility of their results. We suggest to cite the paper in the demo abstract. **************************************************************** CoCoDo 2017 - Raincode Labs Compiler Coding Dojo Coding dojo date: Tue 4 Apr 2017 https://cocodo.github.io **************************************************************** CoCoDo is a coding dojo where you can enjoy an entire day of compiler programming under gentle guidance of field experts. Compiler construction comprises, but is not limited to, lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, preprocessing, context handling, code generation, code optimisation, virtual machines, interpreters, smell detection, clone management, portability, migration, refactoring, domain-specific language design, linking and loading, assembling and disassembling, generics and reflection, numerous paradigms and so much more. If you are interested in participating, please contact Vadim Zaytsev: vadim at raincodelabs.com ****************************************************************** LASSY 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems Submissions: Fri 3 Feb 2017 Notifications: Fri 3 Mar 2017 Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/LASSY-2017-papers ****************************************************************** When developing current-day software systems, their deployment and usage environments should be considered carefully, in order to understand the adaptations those systems might need to undergo to interact with other systems and with their environment. Moreover, due to the portability, mobility and increasingly evolutionary nature of software systems, such adaptations should be enacted even while the system is running. Developing such software systems can prove challenging, and many seemingly different techniques to address this concern have been proposed over the last couple of years. The intention of the LASSY workshop is to congregate all topics relevant to dynamic adaptation and run-time evolution of software systems, ranging from a computer science perspective covering the domains of programming languages, model-driven software development, software and service composition, context-aware databases, software variability, requirements engineering, UI adaptation and other domains, to a human perspective covering sociological or ethical implications of dynamic software systems. The workshop provides a space for discussion and collaboration between researchers working on the problem of enabling live adaptations to software systems, across the development stack. Topics of Interest: * Design and Implementation of Live Adaptive Software Systems * Context-, aspect-, feature-, role- and agent-oriented programming * Context representation and discovery * Context-aware model-driven software development * Context-aware data management * Software variability and dynamic product lines * Self-adaptive, self-explanatory systems * Inconsistency management, verification, and validation * Middleware and Runtime of Live Adaptive Software Systems * Dynamic software evolution, upgrades and configuration * Dynamic software and service composition mechanisms * Dynamic software architecture and middleware approaches * Dynamic user interface adaptation and multimodal user interfaces * Impact and Assessment of Live Adaptive Software Systems * User acceptance and usability issues * Human, sociological, ethical and legal aspects * Privacy and security aspects of dynamic adaptability * Live adaptation in smart environments (e.g. smart rooms, smart robot cells, smart factories, smart cities) * Self-adaptation and emergence in SoS and CPSoS ********************************************************************** MiniPLoP 2017 - Mini Pattern Languages of Programs writers' workshop Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/MiniPLoP-2017-papers ********************************************************************** Software developers and those involved with programming have long observed that certain patterns recur and endure across different applications and systems. The growing interest in Design Patterns, Architectural Patterns, Analysis Patterns, Pedagogical Patterns, Agile Patterns, and so on, represents an effort to catalog and better communicate knowledge, providing handbooks of proven solutions to common problems. The MiniPLoP writers' workshop brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners whose interests span a remarkably broad range of topics and who share an interest in exploring the power of the pattern form. MiniPLoP invites you to add your expertise to the growing corpus of patterns. MiniPLoP focuses on improving the expression of patterns. You will have the opportunity to refine and extend your patterns or pattern ideas with the help from knowledgeable and sympathetic fellow pattern enthusiasts. You will also be able to discuss applications of patterns in industry and academia. Techniques for Pattern Mining will also be presented. Highlights include group discussions on patterns, an introduction to pattern writing, an international keynote, and the writers? workshop. This MiniPLoP at 2017 has the goal to help beginners learn more about the pattern community. If you have some patterns or pattern ideas you would like to have brainstormed or workshopped, please contact the organizers at: miniplop2017 at hillside.net **************************************************************** MOMO 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling Abstract submissions (optional) **extended** : Sun Feb 5 2017 Paper submissions **extended** : Sun Feb 12 2017 Notifications: Wed Feb 22 2017 Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://www.momo2017.ece.mcgill.ca/cfp.htm **************************************************************** Extending the time-honored practice of separation of concerns, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) promotes the use of separate models to address the various concerns in the development of complex software-intensive systems. The main objective is to choose the right level of abstraction to modularize a concern, specify its properties and reason about the system under development depending on stakeholder and development needs. While some of these models can be defined with a single modelling language, a variety of heterogeneous models and languages are typically used in the various phases of software development. Furthermore, Domain-Specific Modelling Languages designed to address particular concerns are also increasingly used. Despite the power of abstraction of modelling, models of real-world problems and systems quickly grow to such an extent that managing the complexity by using proper modularization techniques becomes necessary. As a result, many (standard) modelling notations have been extended with aspect-oriented mechanisms and advanced composition operators to support advanced separation of concerns, to combine (possibly heterogeneous) models modularizing different concerns, to execute an application based on modularized models, and to reason over global properties of modularized models. The Second International Modularity in Modelling Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the theoretical and practical challenges resulting from applying modularity, advanced separation of concerns, and advanced composition at the modelling level. It is intended to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the impact of the use of modularization in the context of MDE at different levels of abstraction. We are interested in submissions on all topics related to modularity and modelling including but not limited to: * Modularization Support in Modelling Languages and Tools * Model Interfaces * Homogeneous Model Composition Operators * Heterogeneous Model Composition Operators * Visualization of Modularized and Composed Models * Effects of Using Modularization and Composition in Modelling * On Verification and Validation * On Reuse * On the Model-Driven Software Development Process (Requirements Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Design, Implementation) * On Maintenance * Experience Reports / Empirical Evaluations of Applying Modularization and Composition in Modelling * Feature-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented and Concern-Oriented Modelling * Modularization support and composition operators for specific modelling notations * Modelling essential characteristics of specific (crosscutting) concerns * Multi-View Modelling: avoiding inconsistencies, avoiding Redundancies * Support for Detecting and/or Resolution of Feature Interactions * Domain-Specific Modelling * Modularization for Domain-Specific Languages * Composition for Domain-Specific Languages * Domain-specific Aspect Models ****************************************************************************** MoreVMs 2017 - 1st Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs Submissions: Wed 15 Feb 2017 Notifications: Wed 1 Mar 2017 Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/MoreVMs-2017-papers ****************************************************************************** The main goal of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners and facilitate effective sharing of their respective experiences and ideas on how languages and runtimes are utilized and where they need to improve further. We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts discussing experiences, work-in-progress, as well as future visions from the academic as well as industrial perspective. Relevant topics include, but are definitely not limited to, the following: * Extensible VM design (compiler- or interpreter-based VMs) * Reusable runtime components (e.g. interpreters, garbage collectors, intermediate representations) * Static and dynamic compiler techniques * Techniques for compilation to high-level languages such as JavaScript * Runtimes and mechanisms for interoperability between languages * Tooling support (e.g. debugging, profiling, etc.) * Programming language development environments and virtual machines * Case studies of existing language implementations, virtual machines, and runtime components (e.g. design choices, tradeoffs, etc.) * Language implementation challenges and trade-offs (e.g. performance, completeness, etc.) * Surveys and applications usage reports to understand runtime usage in the wild * Surveys on frameworks and their impact on runtime usage * New research ideas on how we want to build languages in the future ************************************************************************** PASS 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack Submissions: Mon 13 Feb 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 Workshop date: Tue 4 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/PASS-2017#Call-for-Papers ************************************************************************** The landscape of computation platforms has changed dramatically in recent years. Emerging systems - such as wearable devices, smartphones, unmanned aerial vehicles, Internet of things, cloud computing servers, heterogeneous clusters, and data centers - pose a distinct set of system-oriented challenges ranging from data throughput, energy efficiency, security, real-time guarantees, to high performance. In the meantime, code quality, such as modularity or extensibility, remains a cornerstone in modern software engineering, bringing in crucial benefits such as modular reasoning, program understanding, and collaborative software development. Current methodologies and software development technologies should be revised in order to produce software to meet system-oriented goals, while preserving high internal code quality. The role of the Software Engineer is essential, having to be aware of the implications that each design, architecture and implementation decision has on the application system ecosystem. This workshop is driven by one fundamental question: How does internal code quality interact with system-oriented goals? We welcome both positive and negative responses to this question. An example of the former would be modular reasoning systems specifically designed to promote system-oriented goals, whereas an example of the latter would be anti-patterns against system-oriented goals during software development. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Energy-aware software engineering (e.g. energy efficiency models, energy efficiency as a quality attribute) * Modularity support (e.g., programming language design, development tools or verification) for applications in resource-constrained or real-time systems * Emerging platforms (e.g., Internet of Things and wearable devices) * Security support (e.g., compositional information flow, compositional program analysis) * Software architecture for reusability and adaptability in systems and their interactions with applications * Empirical studies (patterns and anti-patterns) on the relationship between internal code quality and system-oriented goals * Software engineering techniques to balance the trade-off between internal code quality and efficiency * Memory bloats and long-tail performance problems across modular boundaries * Program optimization across modular boundaries * Internal code quality in systems software * Reasoning across applications, compilers, and virtual machines **************************************************************** PX 2017 - 2nd Programming Experience Workshop Submissions: Sat 4 Feb 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://programming-experience.org/px17 **************************************************************** Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions?they need exploratory programming. The Programming Experience Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it?s exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly (?liveness?); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming. The technical topics include: * Exploratory programming * Live programming * Authoring * Representation of active content * Visualization * Navigation * Modularity mechanisms * Immediacy * Literacy * Fluency * Learning * Tool building * Language engineering ************************************************************************* ProWeb 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web Submissions: Wed 15 Feb 2017 Notifications: Wed 1 Mar 2017 Workshop date: Tue 4 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2017-papers ************************************************************************* Full-fledged web applications have become ubiquitous on desktop and mobile devices alike. Whereas ?responsive? web applications already offered a more desktop-like experience, there is an increasing demand for ?rich? web applications (RIAs) that offer collaborative and even off-line functionality ?Google docs being the prototypical example. Long gone are the days that web servers merely had to answer incoming HTTP request with a block of static HTML. Today?s servers react to a continuous stream of events coming from JavaScript applications that have been pushed to clients. As a result, application logic and data is increasingly distributed. Traditional dichotomies such as ?client vs. server? and ?offline vs. online? are fading. The 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web, or ProWeb17, is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss new technology for programming these and future evolutions of the web. We welcome submissions introducing programming technology (i.e., frameworks, libraries, programming languages, program analyses and development tools) for implementing web applications and for maintaining their quality over time, as well as experience reports about the use of state-of-the-art programming technology. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Quality on the new web: static and dynamic program analyses; code, design test and process metrics; development and migration tools; automated testing and test generation; contract systems, type systems, and web service API conformance checking; ? * Hosting languages on the web: new runtimes; transpilation or compilation to JavaScript, WebAssembly, asm.js, ? * Designing languages for the web: multi-tier (or tierless) programming; reactive programming; frameworks for multi-tier or reactive programming on the web; ? * Distributed data sharing, replication and consistency: cloud types, CRDTs, eventual consistency, offline storage, peer-to-peer communication, ? * Security on the web: client-side and server-side security policies; policy enforcement; proxies and membranes; vulnerability detection; dynamic patching, ? * Surveys and case studies using state-of-the-art web technology (e.g., WebAssembly, WebSocket, LocalStorage, AppCache, ServiceWorkers, Meteor, deepstream.io, Angular.js, React and React Native, Swarm.js, Caja, TypeScript, Proxies, ClojureScript, Amber Smalltalk, Scala.js, ?) * Ideas on and experience reports about: how to reconcile the need for quality with the need for agility on the web; how to master and combine the myriad of tier-specific technologies required to develop a web application, ? * Position statements on what the future of the web will look like **************************************************************** Salon des Refus?s 2017 Submissions: Wed 1 Feb 2017 Notifications: Fri 17 Feb 2017 Workshop date: Tue 4 Apr 2017 https://refuses.github.io **************************************************************** Salon des Refus?s (?exhibition of rejects?) was an 1863 exhibition of artworks rejected from the official Paris Salon. The jury of Paris Salon required near-photographic realism and classified works according to a strict genre hierarchy. Paintings by many, later famous, modernists such as ?douard Manet were rejected and appeared in what became known as the Salon des Refus?s. This workshop aims to be the programming language research equivalent of Salon des Refus?s. We provide a venue for exploring new ideas and new ways of doing computer science. Many interesting ideas about programming might struggle to find space in the modern programming language research community, often because they are difficult to evaluate using established evaluation methods (be it proofs, measurements or controlled user studies). As a result, new ideas are often seen as ?unscientific?. This workshop provides a venue where such interesting and thought-provoking ideas can be exposed to critical evaluation. Submissions that provoke interesting discussion among the program committee members will be published together with an attributed review that presents an alternative position, develops additional context or summarizes discussion from the workshop. This means of engaging with papers not just enables explorations of novel programming ideas, but also encourages new ways of doing computer science. Topics of interest The scope of the workshop is determined more by the format of submissions than by the specific area of programming language or computer science research that we are interested in. We welcome submissions in a format that makes it possible to think about programming in a new way, including, but not limited to: * Thought experiments ? we believe that thought experiments, analogies and illustrative metaphors can provide novel insights and inspire fruitful programming language ideas. * Experimentation ? we find prejudices in favour of theory, as far back as there is institutionalized science, but programming can often be seen more as experimentation than as theorizing. We welcome interesting experiments even if there is yet no overarching theory that explains why they happened. * Paradigms ? all scientific work is rooted in a scientific paradigm that frame what questions can be asked. We encourage submissions that reflect on existing paradigms or explore alternative scientific paradigms. * Metaphors, myths and analogies ? any description of formal, mathematical, quantitative or even poetical nature still represents just an analogy. We believe that fruitful ideas can be learned from less common forms of analogies as well as from the predominant, formal and mathematical ones. * From jokes to science fiction ? a story or an artistic performance may explore ideas and spark conversations that provide crucial inspiration for development of new computer science thinking. From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Fri Jan 20 10:44:44 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:44:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2017 call for contributions Message-ID: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2017 and EUTYPES Cost Action CA15123 meeting Budapest, Hungary, 29 May - 1 June 2017 http://types2017.elte.hu 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 formalised 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; * 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. The EUTypes Cost Action CA15123 (eutypes.cs.ru.nl) focuses on the same research topics as TYPES and partially sponsors the TYPES Conference: May 31 - June 1 are supported by and organised under the auspices of EUTypes. INVITED SPEAKERS * Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) * Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) * Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund) CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2017. Important dates: * submission of 2 pp abstract: 13 March 2017 * notified of acceptance/rejection: 10 April 2017 * camera-ready version of abstract: 2 May 2017 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 TYPES 2011 and TYPES 2013-2016, 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: September 2017. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Andreas Abel (Chalmers University Gothenburg) * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) * Jose Espirito Santo (University of Minho) * Fredrik Forsberg (University of Strathclyde) * Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) * Hugo Herbelin (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) * Ambrus Kaposi (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) (co-chair) * Tam?s Kozsik (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) (co-chair) * Assia Mahboubi (INRIA Paris) * Alexandre Miquel (University of the Republic, Urugay) * Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) * Keiko Nakata (FireEye, Dresden) * Andrew Polonsky (University Paris Diderot) * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) * Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) * Wouter Swierstra (Utrecht University) * 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. From 2009 to 2015, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. From 2016, TYPES is partially supported by COST Action EUTypes CA15123. 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), Novi Sad (2016). CONTACT Email: info at types2017.elte.hu Organisers: Ambrus Kaposi, Tam?s Kozsik, Andr?s Kov?cs and the Department of Programming Languages and Compilers at the Faculty of Informatics, E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Budapest. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, published articles are made available freely on the conference page; the authors retain the copyright. There are no publication fees. At least one of the authors is required to register for the conference and present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD). TOPICS OF INTEREST FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer- aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures. -- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling, specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction methods. -- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing and power modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, and transaction-level verification. -- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the automation of formal methods. -- Application of formal methods to verifying safety, correctness, connectivity, and security properties of networks and distributed systems. SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad17 Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes. Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors will be required to select the appropriate paper category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix. Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide the reviewers access to their data at submission time, so that results can be independently verified. FMCAD 2017 COMMITTEES PROGRAM CHAIRS: Daryl Stewart, ARM Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien STUDENT FORUM CHAIR: Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR & WEBMASTER: Jens Katelaan, TU Wien PUBLICATION CHAIR: Mitra Tabaei Befrouei, TU Wien PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jade Alglave University College London and Microsoft Research Christel Baier Technical University of Dresden Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology Hana Chockler King's College London Andreas Griesmayer ARM Arie Gurfinkel University of Waterloo Ziyad Hanna Cadence Design Systems Fei He Tsinghua University Alan J. Hu University of British Columbia Warren A. Hunt Jr. University of Texas Alexander Ivrii IBM Barbara Jobstmann EPFL and Cadence Design Systems Dejan Jovanovic SRI International Gerwin Klein Data61 and UNSW Australia Igor Konnov TU Wien Rebekah Leslie-Hurd Intel Ines Lynce INESC-ID/IST, Universidade de Lisboa Ken McMillan Microsoft Research Charles Morisset Newcastle University Lee Pike Galois Inc. Mitra Purandare IBM Ajitha Rajan University of Edinburgh Ahmed Rezine Link?ping University Sean Safarpour Synopsys Roopsha Samanta Purdue University Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Linz Natasha Sharygina USI Lugano Anna Slobodova Centaur Technology Ana Sokolova University of Salzburg Daryl Stewart ARM Murali Talupur FormalSim Michael Tautschnig Queen Mary University of London Thomas Wahl Northeastern University Chao Wang University of Southern California Georg Weissenbacher TU Wien Florian Zuleger TU Wien FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada Warren A. Hunt Jr., University of Texas at Austin, USA Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Sat Jan 21 15:06:25 2017 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:06:25 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2017 call for participation Message-ID: <20170121220625.3267d15b@cs.ioc.ee> ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2017 20th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2017 Uppsala, Sweden, 22-29 April 2017 http://www.etaps.org/2017 ****************************************************************** -- 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 2017 is the twentieth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (24-28 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, UK) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands, and Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Javier Esparza, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany, Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick, UK) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Matteo Maffei, Universit?t des Saarlandes, Germany, Mark D. Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France, and Tiziana Margaria, LERO, Ireland) TACAS '17 hosts the 6th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Michael Ernst (University of Washington, USA) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, DK) * FoSSaCS invited speaker: Joel Ouaknine (University of Oxford, UK) * TACAS invited speaker: Dino Distefano (Facebook and Queen Mary University of London, UK) -- UNIFYING PUBLIC LECTURE Serge Abiteboul (DI, INRIA Paris & ENS Cachan, France) -- INVITED TUTORIALS V?ronique Cortier (LORIA, CRNS, France) Kenneth McMillan (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- See the accepted paper lists at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (22-23 April, 29 April) -- 17 satellite workshops and other events will take place before or after ETAPS 2017. Check their calls for papers and consider contributing! DICE-FOPARA, GaLoP, GaM, SynCop-PV, VerifyThis (22-23 April) FESCA, SNR (22 April) HotSpot, MBT, QAPL, SannellaFest (23 April) BX, CREST, LiVe, MARS, PLACES, VPT (29 April) -- REGISTRATION -- Early registration is until Sunday, 12 March 2017 (23:59 GMT+1). http://www.etaps.org/2017/registration -- ACCOMMODATION -- The organizers have negotiated special rates from several hotels in Uppsala. To benefit from those, follow the instructions on the conference website. The offers expire on different dates. -- HOST CITY -- Uppsala city holds a rich history, having for long periods been the political, religious and academic centre of Sweden. Uppsala University is over 500 years old and ranked among the top 100 in the World and has hosted many great scientists over the years, for instance Carl von Linn?, Anders Celsius and Anders Jonas ?ngstr?m. The proximity to the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, provides additional benefits as a potential site for arranging both pre- and post congress tours, as well as for excursions or tourism. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2017 is hosted by the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. -- ORGANIZERS Parosh Abdulla (General chair), Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Andreina Francisco, Kaj Lampka, Philipp R?mmer, Konstantinos Sagonas, Bj?rn Victor, Wang Yi, Tjark Weber, Yunyun Zhu From bogom.s at gmail.com Sun Jan 22 19:45:55 2017 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:45:55 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: Workshop SNR affiliated with ETAPS 2017 Message-ID: <000001d27512$11102ea0$33308be0$@gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS SNR 2017 ======== 3rd International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis April 22, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 http://snr2017.pages.ist.ac.at/ Important Dates =============== Abstract submission: January 27, 2017 Paper submission: February 3, 2017 Notification: March 10, 2017 Final version: March 24, 2017 Workshop date: April 22, 2017 Scope ===== Hybrid systems are complex dynamical systems that combine discrete and continuous components. 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 over-approximate the set of reachable states over time, where efficient computation of such over-approximations 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 the different approaches. The SNR workshop solicits papers broadly in the area of analysis and synthesis of continuous and hybrid systems. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics with application to continuous and hybrid systems: - Reachability analysis - Flow-pipe construction; symbolic state set representations - Logical frameworks for reasoning - Bounded model checking - Automated deduction - Invariant generation - Symbolic execution - Trajectory generation; counterexample computation - Abstraction techniques - Reliable integration - Simulation - Reachability analysis for planning and synthesis - Domain-specific approaches in biology, robotics, etc. - Stochastic/probabilistic hybrid systems Submission Information ====================== The workshop solicits - long research papers (not exceeding 15 pages excluding references), - short research papers (not exceeding 6 pages excluding references) and - work-in-progress papers (not exceeding 6 pages excluding references). Research papers must present original unpublished work which is not submitted elsewhere. In order to foster the exchange of ideas, we also encourage work-in-progress papers, which present recent or on-going work. The papers should be written in English and formatted according to the EPTCS guidelines (http://style.eptcs.org/). Papers can be submitted using the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snr2017 All submissions will undergo a peer-reviewing process. Accepted research papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS, http://www.eptcs.org/). Accepted work-in-progress papers will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings. 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URL: From bogom.s at gmail.com Sun Jan 22 21:28:55 2017 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:28:55 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 4th International Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems (CPSWeek 2017) Message-ID: <0f4501d27520$759a85b0$60cf9110$@gmail.com> Call for Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th International Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems CMU campus alongside CPSWeek, Pittsburgh, USA, April 17, 2017 http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH The workshop on applied verification for continuous and hybrid systems (ARCH) brings together researchers and practitioners, and establishes a curated set of benchmarks submitted by academia and industry. Verification of continuous and hybrid systems is increasing in importance due to new cyber-physical systems that are safety- or operation-critical. This workshop addresses verification techniques for continuous and hybrid systems with a special focus on the transfer from theory to practice. Topics include, but are not limited to - Proposals for new benchmark problems (not necessarily yet solvable) - Tool presentations - Tool executions and evaluations based on ARCH benchmarks - Experience reports including open issues for industrial success - Reports on results of our friendly competition Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions consist of papers of ideally 3-8 pages (pdf ) and optional files (e.g. models or traces) submitted through the ARCH?17 EasyChair web site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arch17). Authors have to use the EasyChair template (http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors).The extended abstract should be classified in its title as benchmark proposal, tool presentation, benchmark results, or experience report. Submissions receive at least 3 anonymous reviews, including one from industry and one from academia. Details on the evaluation criteria can be found at http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH/CallForSubmissions. Submission deadline: February 15, 2017 Notification: March 7, 2017 Final Version: March 31, 2017 Workshop: April 17, 2017 (different from other CPS Week workshops; this year free of charge!) Website: http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH (includes forums, archive, wiki, etc.) Prize ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The paper with the most promising benchmark results receives a prize of 500 Euros sponsored by Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. The winner is preselected by the program committee and determined by an audience voting. Organizers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Program chairs: Matthias Althoff, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Goran Frehse, UJF-Verimag, France Local chair: Sebastian Scherer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Publicity chair: Sergiy Bogomolov, Australian National University, Australia Evaluation chair: Taylor T. Johnson, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Committee (tentative) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Academia: Pieter Collins (Maastricht Univ.) Alexandre Donze (UC Berkeley) Ian Mitchell (Univ. British Colombia) Sayan Mitra (UI Urbana Champaign) Andre Platzer (CarnegieMellon Univ.) 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The eighth ITP conference, ITP 2017, will be held at Universidade de Brasilia, September 26-29, 2017. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE 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 * concise and elegant worked examples of formalizations (proof pearls) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer's LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, when appropriate, submissions are expected to be accompanied by verifiable evidence of a suitable implementation, such as the source files of a formalization for the proof assistant used. Submissions should be no more than 16 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itp2017 Submissions must conform to the LNCS style in LaTeX. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the conference and will be required to a sign copyright release form. 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. After the conference the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised papers for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2017 Full paper submission deadline: April 10, 2017 Author notification: June 2, 2017 Camera-ready papers: June 30, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials: September 23-25, 2017 Conference: September 26-29, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Cezary Kaliszyk, Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Katalin Bimbo, University of Alberta, Canada (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Jasmin Blanchette, Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP =3D PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, U. Brasilia Cesar Munoz, NASA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente, T.U. Valencia Vander Alves, U. Brasilia June Andronick, Data61, CSIRO, UNSW Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon U. Sylvie Boldo, INRIA LRI Ana Bove, Chalmers & Gothenburg U. Adam Chlipala, MIT Gilles Dowek, INRIA, ENS Cachan Aaron Dutle, NASA Amy Felty, U. Ottawa Marcelo Frias, I.T. Buenos Aires Ruben Gamboa, U. Wyoming Herman Geuvers, Radboud U. Elsa Gunter, U. Illinois U.C. John Harrison, Intel Corporation Nao Hirokawa, JAIST Matt Kaufmann, U. Texas Austin Mark Lawford, McMaster U. Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich Assia Mahboubi, INRIA Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern U. Gopalan Nadathur, U. Minnesota Keiko Nakata, SAP Potsdam Adam Naumowicz, U. Bialystok Tobias Nipkow, T.U. Munich Scott Owens, U. Kent Sam Owre, SRI Lawrence Paulson, U. Cambridge Leila Ribeiro, U.F. Rio Grande do Sul Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, U. Bologna Augusto Sampaio, U.F. Pernambuco Monika Seisenberger, Swansea U. Christian Sternagel, U. Innsbruck Sofiene Tahar, Concordia U. Christian Urban, King's College London Josef Urban, Czech T.U. Prague CONTACT INFORMATION itp2017 at easychair.org http://itp2017.cic.unb.br -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. Senador Salgado Filho, s/n? Lagoa Nova, CEP: 59.078-970 - Natal - RN Phone: +55 84 3215-3820 <(84)%203215-3820> http://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/ Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3298246411086415 -------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dreyer at mpi-sws.org Tue Jan 24 07:34:31 2017 From: dreyer at mpi-sws.org (Derek Dreyer) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:34:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2017: Call for applications Message-ID: The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2017: "Software Systems, Social Systems, Security and Privacy" http://cmmrs.mpi-sws.org August 8-13, 2017 Saarbruecken, Germany Applications are requested from undergraduate students or Master's students in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline to The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School. The first of this new annual series of week-long schools will focus on security and privacy, social systems, distributed systems, machine learning, programming languages, and verification. Leading researchers will engage with attendees in their areas of expertise. The curriculum will include lectures, projects, and interaction with faculty from participating institutions. The small, selected group of attendees will be exposed to state-of-the-art research in computer science, have the opportunity to interact one-on-one with internationally leading scientists from three of the foremost academic institutions in research and higher learning in the US and in Europe, and network with like-minded students. They will get a sense of what it is like to pursue an academic or industrial research career in computer science and have a head start when applying for graduate school. The confirmed speakers include: Lorenzo Alvisi, Hal Daum? III, Derek Dreyer, Krishna Gummadi, Mike Hicks, and Vitaly Shmatikov. For full consideration, applications should be received by February 7, 2017. Travel and accommodation will be covered for accepted students. Further information about the school and how to apply can be found at http://cmmrs.mpi-sws.org. From tobias.grosser at inf.ethz.ch Tue Jan 24 04:33:21 2017 From: tobias.grosser at inf.ethz.ch (Tobias Grosser) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:33:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI workshop and proposal deadline Message-ID: <1485250401.1979527.857599080.60973723@webmail.messagingengine.com> Reminder! The final deadline for PLDI W&T proposals is coming up on January 30. Please see the PLDI website for more information. http://conf.researchr.org/track/pldi-2017/pldi-2017-workshops-and-tutorials. Tobias Grosser PLDI Publicity Chair From wasowski at itu.dk Tue Jan 24 05:07:36 2017 From: wasowski at itu.dk (Andrzej Wasowski) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:07:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor Position in the H2020 ROSIN Project Message-ID: Context: This position is in applied program analysis, and requires prerequisites in building program analysis tools, and programming language semantics (which obviously includes types). In this sense, some audience of the Types mailing list may find it relevant. *** Assistant Professor Position in the H2020 ROSIN Project IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=180826&MediaId=5 *** The IT University of Copenhagen invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in the area of code scanning and program analysis. The proposed starting date is 15 March 2017 or soon thereafter. Job description An up to 46 months Assistant Professor position within code scanning and program analysis is available at the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen. This post-doc takes place within the context of the European H2020 ICT Project ROSIN. The position includes an up to 20% teaching load. Robot technology is foreseen to have profound impact on society in the not too distant future. Today, many robots are programmed using the open-source Robotics Operating System (ROS, http://www.ros.org/) framework. However, at present no automatic analysis or code scanning tools are used for open-source robotic components, and specifically none are yet integrated into ROS?s development process. This post-doc position is aimed at changing this. The idea is to develop code scanning and program analysis techniques and apply existing scanning and analysis technologies to key components of the ROS infrastructure. In the project there is both space for applying and appropriating QA technologies for ROS and for developing own tools. However, it is of key importance that the tools and solutions can be adopted by practitioners. The research activities of the Assistant Professor will focus on the development and/or usage of code scanning techniques and technologies, the application of and evaluation of code scanning to key components of the ROS infrastructure, and on automated unit test generation. Also, the candidate will engage in reaching out to the ROS community to learn about what kind of analyses are needed and would be most effective for robotics developers. Moreover, the candidate will disseminate key insights. The successful candidate is expected to hold a Ph.D. in computer science or similar and the preferred candidate has experience with: - code scanning, bug finding, or program analysis techniques - usage of code scanning or program analysis technology - It is considered an advantage to have experience in: designing and executing controlled experiments software testing robotics programming, mechatronics General information The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) is a teaching and research-based tertiary institution concerned with information technology (IT) and the opportunities it offers. The IT University has more than 70 full-time academics. Research and teaching in information technology span all academic activities which involve computers including computer science, information and media sciences, humanities and social sciences, business impact and the commercialisation of IT. Questions about the positions can be directed to Associate Professor Claus Brabrand, IT University of Copenhagen, brabrand at itu.dk or tel. 7218 5076 and Professor Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen, wasowski at itu.dk or tel. 7218 5086. The Assistant Professorship is a temporary position for up to 4 years with the possibility of extension. The position requires academic qualifications at PhD level. Salary Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance?s agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). Application The application must be in English and must include: - A motivated application, including a cogent argument for how qualified you are for the position and brief statements of research and teaching plans - A full CV, including name, address, phone number, e-mail, previous and present employment and academic background - Documentation of academic degrees (copy of degree certificates etc.) - Copies of 3-5 publications relevant to the position. - A numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications should be marked with an asterisk (*) - Documentation of pedagogical experience and teaching record within one or more of the teaching areas listed for the position The applicant will be assessed according to the Appointment Order from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of 25 April 2008. The IT University may use shortlisting in connection to the recruitment process. In case of shortlisting, the Head of Department selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the hiring committee after the application deadline. All applicants are notified whether their application has been passed for assessment. The shortlisting of candidates for assessment is based on the criteria in the job posting. Application procedure You can only apply for this position through our e-recruitment system. Apply by pushing the button "Apply for position" in the job announcement on our website: http://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Vacancies The IT University uses tests in connection with the recruitment process. Application deadline: 19 February, at 23:59 CET. Applications received after the application deadline will not be taken into consideration. If you submit an application, it is your responsibility to ensure that it arrives before the deadline, so please allow sufficient time for upload of publications and other documents. The IT University invites all qualified researchers regardless of age, gender, religious affiliation or ethnic background to apply for the positions. -- prof. Andrzej W?sowski, PhD, http://www.itu.dk/~wasowski IT University, Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark Room: 4D05, phone: +45 7218 5086, skype: wasowski_andrzej From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Jan 24 05:27:36 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:27:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline 15. March 2017 Message-ID: <20170124102736.E9185E9209C@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Call for Papers 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2016 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2016. CICM 2017 also invites work-in- progress papers. The principal tracks of the conference will be: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England) All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems including: - Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. - Computer algebra and symbolic computation in theorem proving systems. - Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for computer mathematics. - Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and reasoning. - Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories that include non-trivial computations. - Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. - Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke) All topics related to the formation of a Global Digital Mathematics Library (GDML) network, ranging from experiences from existing DMLs, policies and standards facilitating interoperability, to development and integration of new techniques for content creation, preservation, enhancement and retrieval of the corpus, including: - DML creation and maintenance (content aggregation, validation, curation, enhancement). - DML architecture and representations (organization, workflows, policies, standards). - DML access and applications (retrieval, interfaces, interoperability). - DML collections and systems (experiences from various existing DMLs). * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe) - Knowledge representation using, e.g., formal logics, computational systems, narrative document formats, or databases - Solutions to create, store, disseminate, discover, or manipulate mathematical knowledge - Corpora of knowledge inlcuding documents, theories, theorems, proofs, models, algorithms, exercises, or examples - Methods, systems, frameworks, case studies, challenges, benchmarks, or applications for mathematical knowledge - Comparisons, evaluations, or integrations of MKM solutions * Track: Systems & Projects (chair: Osman Hasan) - Systems: Stand-alone; plugins, libraries, or extensions of existing systems; or integrations of existing systems - Data: Formalizations; harvests or new processing of existing data; or case studies, test cases, or benchmark suites for systems - Projects: finished, ongoing or new - Survey papers * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: TBD) The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman Geuvers. The local arrangements will be coordinated by Jacques Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier. We plan to have proceedings of the conference as in previous years with Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). *Important Dates* Conference submissions - Abstract submission deadline: 15. March 2017 - Submission deadline: 22. March 2017 - Reviews sent to authors: 26. April 2017 - Rebuttals due: 30. April 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 12. May 2017 - Camera ready copies due: 26. May 2017 - Conference: 17.-21. July 2017 Workshop Proposals - Submission deadline: 10. February 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 15. February 2017 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From viktor at mpi-sws.org Tue Jan 24 03:51:21 2017 From: viktor at mpi-sws.org (Viktor Vafeiadis) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:51:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open faculty position @ Lisbon, Portugal Message-ID: <3EED8BEB-B5A8-46BB-AA26-289E5C0F964F@mpi-sws.org> The Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Instituto Superior T?cnico of the Universidade de Lisboa is carrying out an open search process for possible candidates to future openings for faculty career positions. This open search is targeted at possible candidates who have an interest in enrolling at the base level of the university professional career, in all scientific areas of the Department, namely: ? Architecture and Operating Systems. ? Computer Graphics and Multimedia. ? Artificial Intelligence. ? Programming Methodology and Technology. ? Information Systems. Possible candidates should send to the email address cse-facultysearch at dei.tecnico.ulisboa.pt a zip file containing the following materials: ? Curriculum Vitae ? Teaching and research statement ? Contact (including email address) of three researchers or professionals from the area who can be contacted to provide reference letters, attesting to the scientific, pedagogical, and professional qualities of the possible candidate. These materials should preferably be sent by February 28, 2017, for being considered for the 2017 open search process. For any additional questions please contact the Department at dei at tecnico.ulisboa.pt. From discotec.publicity.chair at gmail.com Tue Jan 24 17:37:27 2017 From: discotec.publicity.chair at gmail.com (Ivan Lanese) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:37:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DisCoTec 2nd CfP Message-ID: ************************************************************************ Call for Papers DisCoTec 2017 12th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques http://2017.discotec.org Neuch?tel, Switzerland, 19-22 June 2017 ************************************************************************ 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 some travel grants for students and an award for the best paper of DisCoTec. All conferences share the same deadlines: * Important Dates * - February 3, 2017: Submission of abstract - February 10, 2017: Submission of papers - April 10, 2017: Notification of acceptance - April 24, 2017: Final version - June 19-22, 2017: Conference and workshops * General Chair * Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland * Organisation Chair * Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland * Publicity Chair * Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy * Workshops Chair * Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille, France * Steering Board * Farhad Arbab (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, Germany) Michele Loreti (University of Florence, Italy) Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech -- Chair) Rui Oliveira (University do Minho, Portugal) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, France) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) * 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 2017 19th IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages ************************************************************************ * Scope * Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference provides a well-established forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination. Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: - Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination, emergent behaviour, types, semantics; - Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance aspects; - Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages: implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity; - Middlewares and coordination; - Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing; - Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination; - Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour; - Coordination and modern distributed computing: Web services, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing; - Programming languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development of coordinated applications; - Programming methodologies and verification of coordinated applications; - Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies; - Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination. * Program Committee Chairs * - Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium - Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Italy ************************************************************************ DAIS 2017 17th 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. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems, particularly in areas of middleware, data store, cloud computing, edge and fog computing, big data systems, data center and internet-scale systems, social networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile computing, software-defined network (SDN), service-oriented computing, and peer-to-peer systems; - Novel architectures and mechanisms, particularly in areas of pub/sub systems, language-based approaches, overlay protocols, virtualization, resource allocation, blockchains, parallelization, and bio-inspired distributed computing; - System issues and design goals, including self-management, security and practical applications of cryptography, trust and privacy, cooperation incentives and fairness, fault-tolerance and dependability, scalability and elasticity, and tail-performance and energy-efficiency; - Engineering and tools, including model-driven engineering, domain-specific languages, design patterns and methods, profiling and learning, testing and validation, and distributed debugging. * Program Committee Chairs * - Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland - Hans P. Reiser, University of Passau, Germany ************************************************************************ FORTE 2017 37th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems ************************************************************************ * Scope * FORTE 2017 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. 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. * Program Committee Chairs * - Ahmed Bouajjani, University Paris Diderot, France - Alexandra Silva, University College London, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Tue Jan 24 18:53:04 2017 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:53:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] call for papers: quantifiers and determiners (QUAD, ESSLLI 2017 Workshop) Message-ID: <2A1AEB90-4574-46F1-B509-29666F20A412@lirmm.fr> QUAD: QUantifiers And Determiners http://www.lirmm.fr/quad Toulouse, Monday July 17 --- Friday July 21: 17:00-18:30 As part of ESSLLI 2017 Christian Retor?, LIRMM & universit? de Montpellier, Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Schedule: deadline for submissions: 17 Mars 2017 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quad2017 notification to authors: 15 April 2017 final version due: 19 May 2017 conference: 17-21 July 2017 Presentation: The compositional interpretation of determiners relies on quantifiers ? in a general acceptation of this later term which includes generalised quantifiers, generics, definite descriptions i.e. any operation that applies to one or several formulas with a free variable, binds it and yields a formula or possibly a generic term (the operator is then called a subnector, following Curry). There is a long history of quantification in the Ancient and Medieval times at the border between logic and philosophy of language, before the proper formalisation of quantification by Frege. A common solution for natural language semantics is the so-called theory of generalised quantifiers. Quantifiers like ? some, exactly two, at most three, the majority of, most of, few, many, ? ? are all described in terms of functions of two predicates viewed as subsets. Nevertheless, many mathematical and linguistic questions remain open. On the mathematical side, little is known about generalised , generalised and vague quantifiers, in particular about their proof theory. On the other hand, even for standard quantifiers, indefinites and definite descriptions, there exist alternative formulations with choice functions and generics or subnectors (Russell?s iota, Hilbert-Bernays, eta, epsilon, tau). The computational aspects of these logical frameworks are also worth studying, both for computational linguistic software and for the modelling of the cognitive processes involved in understanding or producing sentences involving quantifiers. On the linguistic side, the relation between the syntactic structure and its semantic interpretation, quantifier raising, underspecification, scope issues,? are not fully satisfactory. Furthermore extension of linguistic studies to various languages have shown how complex quantification is in natural language and its relation to phenomena like generics, plurals, and mass nouns. Finally, and this can be seen as a link between formal models of quantification and natural language, there by now exist psycholinguistic experiments that connect formal models and their computational properties to the actual way human do process sentences with quantifiers, and handle their inherent ambiguity, complexity, and difficulty in understanding. All those aspects are connected in the didactics of mathematics and computer science: there are specific difficulties to teach (and to learn) how to understand, manipulate, produce and prove quantified statements, and to determine the proper level of formalisation between bare logical formulas and written or spoken natural language. This workshop aims at gathering mathematicians, logicians, linguists, computer scientists to present their latest advances in the study of quantification. Among the topics that wil be addressed are the following : ? new ideas in quantification in mathematical logic, both model theory and proof theory: ? choice functions, ? subnectors (Russell?s iota, Hilbert?s epsilon and tau), ? higher order quantification, ? quantification in type theory ? studies of the lexical, syntactic and semantic of quantification in various languages ? semantics of noun phrases ? generic noun phrases ? semantics of plurals and mass nouns ? experimental study of quantification and generics ? computational applications of quantification and polarity especially for question-answering. ? quantification in the didactics of mathematics and computer science. Submissions: The program committee is looking for contributions introducing new viewpoints on quantification and determiners, the novelty being either in the mathematical logic framework or in the linguistic description or in the cognitive modelling. Submitting purely original work is not mandatory, but authors should clearly mention that the work is not original, and why they want to present it at this workshop (e.g. new viewpoint on already published results) Submissions should be - 12pt font (at least) - 1inch/2.5cm margins all around (at least) - less than 2 pages (references exluded) - with an abstract of less then 100 words and they should be submitted in PDF by easychair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quad2017 In case the committee thinks it is more appropriate, some papers can be accepted as a poster with a lightning talk. Final versions of accepted papers may be slightly longer. They will be published on line. We also plan to publish postproceedings Programme committee: ? Christian Retor? (Universit? de Montpellier & LIRMM-CNRS) ? Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) ? Vito Michele Abrusci (Universit? di Roma tre) ? Mathias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna) ? Daisukke Bekki (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) ? Oliver Bott (Universit?t T?bingen) ? Francis Corblin (Universit? Paris Sorbonne) ? Martin Hakl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA) ? Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) ? Dan Lassiter (Stanford University) ? Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway College, London) ? Alda Mari (CNRS Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) ? Wilfried Meyer-Viol (King?s college, London) ? Michel Parigot (CNRS IRIF, Paris) ? Anna Szabolcsi (New-York University) ? Jakub Szymanik (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ? Dag Westerstahl (Stockholm University) ? Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (University of Technology, Vienna) ? Richard Zach (University of Calgary) ? Roberto Zamparelli (Universit? di Trento) http://www.lirmm.fr/quad ? Christian Retor? http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore ? Christian Retor? http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore ? Christian Retor? http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore From ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Tue Jan 24 06:34:22 2017 From: ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Ayoub Nouri) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:34:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MT-CPS'17: 2nd International Workshop on Monitoring and Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems Message-ID: MT-CPS'17 2nd International Workshop on Monitoring and Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems Pittsburgh, PA, USA 21st April 2017 Co-located with CPS Week https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/mt-cps-2017 DESCRIPTION Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are integrations of heterogeneous collaborative entities that interact between themselves and with their physical environment. CPS exhibit complex and unpredictable behaviors, thus making their correctness and robustness analysis a challenging task. In order to address their full complexity, there is an emergent need for formal, yet efficient and scalable methods for the verification and analysis of CPS. 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 analyses ? 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 work in progress. IMPORTANT DATES ? *Abstract submission deadline:* February 20, 2017 ? *Notification:* March 6, 2017 ? *Early registration:* March 10, 2017 ? *Workshop:* April 21, 2017 Program Chairs * Houssam Abbas , University of Pennsylvania * Jyotirmoy Deshmukh , Toyota Technical Center * Georgios Fainekos , Arizona State University * BaekGyu Kim , Toyota InfoTechnology Center Program Committee * Houssam Abbas , University of Pennsylvania, USA * Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Mauricio Castillo-Effen , General Electric * Thao Dang , VERIMAG, France * Jyotirmoy Deshmukh , Toyota Technical Center, USA * Georgios Fainekos , Arizona State University, USA * Sebastian Fischmeister , University of Waterloo, Canada * Ichiro Hasuo , University of Tokyo, Japan * BaekGyu Kim , Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA * Oded Maler , VERIMAG, France * Konstantinos Mamouras , University of Pennsylvania, USA * Sajed Miremadi , Volvo Car Corporation * Sergio Mover , University of Colorado, USA * Dejan Nickovic , AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria * Jens Oehlerking , Robert Bosch GmbH * Kristin Yvonne Rozier , Iowa State University, USA * Erik Seligman , Intel, USA * Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA * Vishnu Vithala , Boeing * Qiming Zhao, Denso SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Abstracts are submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtcps2 . 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. Those that are selected for oral and poster presentations will be distributed to workshop participants and posted on the workshop website. PC CHAIRS Houssam Abbas, University of Pennsylvania, USA Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Toyota Technology Center, USA Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University, USA BaekGyu Kim, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA -- Ayoub Nouri Postdoc researcher, Verimag 700, avenue centrale 38401 Saint Martin d?H?res France ----------------------------------- ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Proposals for tutorials, panel or group discussions, reports on early stage research, or any other activities that will create a successful workshop are encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: ? Provenance management system prototypes and commercial solutions ? Provenance analytics, querying, and reasoning about provenance ? Visualizing provenance information ? Performance aspects of provenance capture, storage, and analytics ? Standardization of provenance models and representations ? Security and privacy implications of provenance ? Applications of provenance in real life settings ? Human interaction with provenance ? Retroactive reconstruction of provenance ? Using provenance for evaluating data quality and trust in data ? Novel methods for capturing provenance ? Integrating provenance information ? Interoperability among provenance-aware systems ? Provenance discovery Important Dates: Abstract Registration Due: March 13, 2017 Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2017 Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2017 Camera-ready deadline: TBD (All deadlines are 23:59:59 UTC-11) Submission Instructions: ? Not published or under review elsewhere ? Formatted according to the ACM SIGPLAN two-column format ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ ) ? Typically 4 pages, and no longer than 8 pages. An extra 4 pages of supporting material may be submitted, but the reviewers will not be obliged to read them ? "Short papers" of 4 pages or less need not make an original research contribution and will be evaluated on the basis of originality, relevance, and contribution to the workshop ? Proposals for tutorials, demos, discussions or other activities should be submitted as short papers As in previous years, contributions to TaPP will be published online as open access; authors retain copyright to their submissions and full-length papers based on TaPP contributions may be submitted to other venues. Further instructions, including a link to the submission site, will be available shortly at http://batesa.web.engr.illinois.edu/tapp17/ Best regards, Bill Howe and Adam Bates TaPP 2017 Program Chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dreyer at mpi-sws.org Thu Jan 26 17:48:47 2017 From: dreyer at mpi-sws.org (Derek Dreyer) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 23:48:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc positions available for ERC "RustBelt" project on foundations of Rust Message-ID: I am pleased to announce the availability of 2 postdoc positions for the project "RustBelt: Logical Foundations for the Future of Safe Systems Programming", funded by a 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant. http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt This 5-year project concerns the development of rigorous formal foundations for the Rust programming language. The project summary appears below. Although the main high-level goal of the project is to build logical foundations for the Rust programming language, the project also serves to fund technical work on two other major research efforts that feed into the main goal: 1. The development of *Iris*, a simplifying and unifying framework for higher-order concurrent separation logic in Coq (see the Iris web page at http://iris-project.org/). 2. Our ongoing study of improved semantics and logics for relaxed memory models (see e.g. our work on GPS [OOPSLA'14, PLDI'15] and the "promising" semantics [POPL'17]). I am seeking exceptional candidates who are interested (and who preferably have a proven track record) in one or more of the following topics: - Rust - substructural/ownership type systems - verification of concurrent programs - weak/relaxed memory models - interactive theorem proving in Coq - compiler verification Successful applicants will join the Foundations of Programming group, led by me, at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Saarbruecken, Germany. Previous postdocs in the group have included Andreas Rossberg, Chung-Kil Hur, Neel Krishnaswami, Aaron Turon, and Jacques-Henri Jourdan. *Application deadline*: MARCH 1. If you are interested in joining the RustBelt team and want to learn more about the project, please contact me directly at dreyer at mpi-sws.org. To apply for a postdoc position, please submit a CV, research statement, and list of references to https://apply.mpi-sws.org. For further information, see the project web page at: http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ Best regards, Derek Dreyer ---------------- Summary of the RustBelt project proposal: A longstanding question in the design of programming languages is how to balance safety and control. C-like languages give programmers low-level control over resource management at the expense of safety, whereas Java-like languages give programmers safe high-level abstractions at the expense of control. Rust is a new language developed at Mozilla Research that marries together the low-level flexibility of modern C++ with a strong "ownership-based" type system guaranteeing type safety, memory safety, and data race freedom. As such, Rust has the potential to revolutionize systems programming, making it possible to build software systems that are safe by construction, without having to give up low-level control over performance. Unfortunately, none of Rust's safety claims have been formally investigated, and it is not at all clear that they hold. To rule out data races and other common programming errors, Rust's core type system prohibits the aliasing of mutable state, but this is too restrictive for implementing some low-level data structures. Consequently, Rust's standard libraries make widespread internal use of "unsafe" blocks, which enable them to opt out of the type system when necessary. The hope is that such "unsafe" code is properly encapsulated, so that Rust's language-level safety guarantees are preserved. But due to Rust's reliance on a weak memory model of concurrency, along with its bleeding-edge type system, verifying that Rust and its libraries are actually safe will require fundamental advances to the state of the art. In this project, we aim to equip Rust programmers with the first formal tools for verifying safe encapsulation of "unsafe" code. Any realistic languages targeting this domain in the future will encounter the same problem, so we expect our results to have lasting impact. To achieve this goal, we will build on recent breakthrough developments by the PI and collaborators in concurrent program logics and semantic models of type systems. From maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de Thu Jan 26 08:30:42 2017 From: maffei at cs.uni-saarland.de (Matteo Maffei) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:30:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSF 2017: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <09826E6C-4990-4BB8-AF60-5EACABACDB8A@cs.uni-saarland.de> CSF 2017 Second Call for Papers 30th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://csf2017.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ August 22-25, 2017 Santa Barbara, California, USA Co-located with CRYPTO 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. ***************************************************** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Mart?n Abadi, Google C?dric Fournet, Microsoft Research Elaine Shi, Cornell University ***************************************************** 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 three foundational areas of research we would like to promote at CSF: PRIVACY (Chair: Paul Syverson). CSF 2017 will include a special session on privacy foundations and invites submissions on innovations in privacy theory or practice; definitions, models, and frameworks for both communications privacy and data privacy; principled analysis of deployed or proposed privacy protection mechanisms; and foundational aspects of theoretical or practical privacy technologies. SECURITY ECONOMICS (Chair: Yevgeniy Vorobeychik). 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 2017 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. COMPUTER-AIDED CRYPTOGRAPHY (Chair: Peter Schwabe). Modern cryptography is built on firm theoretical foundations. However, cryptography proofs are often intricate and the gap from model to code is usually large, which opens the door to bugs and vulnerabilities. Computer-aided formal methods can provide assurance of the security of cryptographic protocols, primitives and their implementations in software and hardware. We invite submissions on foundational work in this area. Topics include, but are not limited to, verification of cryptographic protocols and primitives, verification of cryptographic software and hardware, tools to automate formal verification, and formal proofs of side-channel countermeasures. CSF 2017 is co-located with CRYPTO 2017, making this special session of interest to many attendees. 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 17, 2017 Author response period: April 5-8, 2017 Notification: April 21, 2017 Final papers due: June 5, 2017 Symposium: August 22-25, 2017 ***************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nataliia Bielova, Inria Jeremiah Blocki, Purdue University Stefano Calzavara, Universit? Ca' Foscari Venezia Kostas Chatzikokolakis, CNRS & ?cole Polytechnique Adam Chlipala, MIT Stephen Chong, Harvard University (Program Co-Chair) Mads Dam, KTH St?phanie Delaune, CNRS, IRISA Bill Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University Aniket Kate, Purdue University Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute (Program Co-Chair) Markulf Kohlweiss, Microsoft Research Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier Pasquale Malacaria, Queen Mary University of London Catherine Meadows, US Naval Research Laboratory Daniel Le M?tayer, Inria Carroll Morgan, University of New South Wales and Data61 Toby Murray, University of Melbourne and Data61 Peter Schwabe, Radboud University (Session chair, Computer-Aided Cryptography) Zhong Shao, Yale University Ben Smyth, Huawei Alley Stoughton Pierre-Yves Strub, ?cole Polytechnique Paul Syverson, Naval Research Laboratory (Session chair, Privacy) Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Vanderbilt University (Session chair, Security Economics) ***************************************************** 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'17 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", "Security Economics", or "Computer-Aided Cryptography" option, as appropriate. At least one coauthor of each accepted paper is required to attend CSF to present the paper. Please see http://csf2017.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ for a link to the submission website. ***************************************************** PC Chairs Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute Stephen Chong, Harvard University General Chair Pedro Adao, University of Lisbon Publications Chair Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Publicity Chair Matteo Maffei, TU Vienna -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marina.lenisa at uniud.it Wed Jan 25 12:11:48 2017 From: marina.lenisa at uniud.it (Marina Lenisa) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:11:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GaLoP 2017 Message-ID: Final Call for Papers __________________________________________________________ 12th Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GaLoP 2017) Uppsala, Sweden, 22-23 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 XII will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, on 22-23 April 2017 as a satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). Areas of interest include: * Games and other interaction-based denotational and operational models; * Game-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=galop2017 // Important Dates // Submission: 30 January 2017 Notification: 20 February 2017 Workshop: 22-23 April 2017 // Tutorial // Lauri Hella // Invited talks // Andreas Blass Dan Ghica Erich Gr?del Martin Hyland (TBC) // Programme Committee // Dietmar Berwanger Esfandiar Haghverdi Juha Kontinen (Co-Chair) Jim Laird Marina Lenisa (Co-Chair) Pierre Lescanne Luke Ong Jouko V??n?nen __________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk Fri Jan 27 04:54:32 2017 From: n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk (Yoshida, Nobuko) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:54:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] A Postdoc position in Imperial College London Message-ID: Department of Computing, Imperial College London Research Associate (Post-doc, Full Time) ?36,070 to ?43,350 per annum Fixed-term: the starting date: as soon as possible the ending date: 19 May 2020 Professor Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London A post is funded by EPSRC, the UK science funding agency and the titles of the projects are "From Data Types to Session Types: A Basis for Concurrency and Distribution" and "Application Customisation: Enhancing Design Quality and Developer Productivity". The goal is to further develop the theory and practice of session types for structuring concurrent and distributed software. The project has particular emphasis on putting theory into practice, by embedding session types in a range of programming languages and applying them to case studies; or developing the links between session types and other areas of theoretical computer science. The research programme includes collaboration with several companies and organisations: Amazon, Cognizant, Red Hat, ThoughtWorks, as well as November Group LLC and Weaveworks. The focus of Imperial College London Group is theories and applications of (Multiparty) Session Types (JACM,POPL'08), which include: -- Erlang (CC'17), Go (CC'16,POPL'17), Haskell (POPL'16), Scala (ECOOP'16), Java (FASE'16,FASE'17), MPI (OOPSLA'15,CC'15), C (FPL'16) and Python (FOAC,LMCS,FMSD); or -- automata/model checking (POPL'15,CONCUR'15,TACAS'16,FoSSaCs'17), linear logic (CONCUR'15) and bisimulations (CONCUR'15,ESOP'16,LMCS) For more details, see http://mrg.doc.ic.ac.uk Candidates for the post-doc position will need to have expertise in either: 1. programming language design and implementation; or 2. formal semantics, type theory and concurrency theory Different positions will be suitable for different points on the theory/practice spectrum. We will be especially interested in candidates with a combination of theoretical and practical skills. 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The topic of the research, to be determined based on the common interests of the candidate and the supervisor, will be in the areas of software verification, logics for concurrent programs, and language-based security. The research will be funded by Aleks' ERC Consolidator award "MATHADOR: Type and Proof Structures for Concurrent Software Verification", which aims to investigate the type-theoretic foundations for verification of concurrent software. PhD candidates should have an excellent MSc or BSc degree in computer science or a related subject, with an interest in the above areas, and a strong commitment to research. An MSc or a BSc thesis is a plus. PhD positions are for four years. Postdoc candidates should have, or expect shortly to obtain, a PhD in computer science. The ideal candidate will have expertise in program semantics and program logics, concurrent or distributed computing, type theory or interactive theorem proving, as they apply to the above areas. Postdoc positions are initially for one year, with possible extension up to three years. Scientific programmer candidates should hold a BSc or MSc degree in computer science, with experience in and passion for functional programming, and strong interest and willingness to learn interactive theorem proving (eg., Coq). The scientific programmer position is initially for one year, with possible extension up to five years. All positions require good teamwork and communication skills, including excellent spoken and written English. Salaries at IMDEA Software Institute are internationally competitive. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Aleks directly (aleks dot nanevski at imdea dot org). Formal applications should be submitted online at https://careers.imdea.org/software/ and mention this announcement in the submitted materials. (For the scientific programmer position, please select the "Research Engineer" option). Review of applications will begin immediately. From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Fri Jan 27 04:52:47 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:52:47 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FroCoS 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2017 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Brasilia, Brazil September 25-29th, 2017 http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br Submission Deadlines: 24th April 2017 (abstracts) 28th April 2017 (full papers) GENERAL INFORMATION The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between September 25 to September 29, 2017. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote progress in research areas related to the development of techniques for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal systems together with their analysis. FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). The local organization of all events will be organised by Claudia Nalon (USB, Brazil), Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brazil), Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) and Joao Marcos (UFRN, Brazil). SCOPE OF CONFERENCE In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led---in many research areas---to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization, and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics (such as higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics); * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems. INVITED SPEAKERS - Katalin Bimbo (University of Alberta, Canada) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Jasmin Blanchette (Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) - Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2017 For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the symposium and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract five days before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website that can be found at the beginning of this call for papers. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited in a separate call, which can be found at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw. IMPORTANT DATES 24th April 2017: Abstract submission deadline 28th April 2017: Full paper submission deadline 9th June 2017: Author notification 23rd June 2017: Camera-ready version due September 25-29, 2017: FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia Franz Baader, TU Dresden Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia Christoph Benzmueller, Freie Universitaet Berlin Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Marcelo Coniglio, State University of Campinas Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool [co-chair] Francois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo [co-chair] Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Agi Kurucz, Kings College, London Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw Rene Thiemann, University of Innsbruck Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. 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History: The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state model checking, specifically as related to the Spin model checker. However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly scoped symposium for software analysis using any automated techniques, including model checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution. An overview of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: http://spinroot.com/spin/symposia. SPIN 2017 will be organized as an ACM SIGSOFT event, collocated with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017): http://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2017. The RERS Verification Challenge In addition there will be a one-day Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems verification challenge Workshop (RERS 2017): http://www.rers-challenge.org/2017. ________________________________ SPIN 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software * Formal analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts * Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract * Model checking * Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT * Verifying compilers * Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques * Static analysis and abstract interpretation * Combination of verification techniques * Modular and compositional verification techniques * Verification of timed and probabilistic systems * Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques * Combination of static and dynamic analyses * Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material via formal analysis * Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results * Engineering and implementation of software verification and analysis tools * Benchmark and comparative studies for formal verification and analysis tools * Formal methods education and training * Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to the symposium ________________________________ Keynote Speakers ________________________________ * Domagoj Babic, Google, Inc. * Byron Cook, Amazon Web Services * Gerard Holzmann, Nimble Research ________________________________ Submission Guidelines ________________________________ The contributions to SPIN 2017 will be published as ACM Proceedings, and should be submitted in the ACM Conference Format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions. We are soliciting two categories of papers: * Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete results (10 pages); * Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods education (4 pages). Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair SPIN 2017 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2017. Best Paper awards will be given and announced at the conference. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT). ________________________________ Important Dates ________________________________ * Paper Submission: February 10, 2017 (23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth) * Author Notification: April 15, 2017 * Camera-Ready Paper: May 20, 2017 * Symposium: July 13-14, 2017 ________________________________ Organization ________________________________ * Hakan Erdogmus, Program Co-Chair, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Klaus Havelund, Program Co-Chair, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Corina Pasareanu, Awards Chair, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Yli?s Falcone, Publicity Chair, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, France ________________________________ Program Committee ________________________________ * Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Christel Baier, Technical University of Dresden, Germany * Tom Ball, Microsoft Research, USA * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen (LMU Munich), Germany * Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands * Zmago Brezocnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia * Sagar Chaki, Software Engineering Institute CMU, USA * Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy * Lucas Cordeiro, University of Oxford, UK * Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA * Susanne Graf, VERIMAG Laboratory, France * Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, USA * Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Rajeev Joshi, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA * Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark * Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany * Alice Miller, University of Glasgow, Scotland * Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel * Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services, USA * Theo Ruys, RUwise, Netherlands * Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA * Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, United States * Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore * Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Stavros Tripakis, University of California, Berkeley, USA * Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa * Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA * Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- 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 vv at di.fc.ul.pt Sat Jan 28 11:49:52 2017 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco T. Vasconcelos) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:49:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at the University of Lisbon Message-ID: <1333EF59-7252-4979-8ECA-3A523DA01587@di.fc.ul.pt> *** Post-doc opening on Communication Contracts for Distributed Systems Development *** We welcome applications for a fulltime postdoctoral research position at the University of Lisbon. The position is funded by the research project "CONFIDENT - Communication Contracts for Distributed Systems Development", http://gloss.di.fc.ul.pt/content/confident , a three year collaborative project between a team at the Faculty of Sciences (including Vasco T. Vasconcelos and Ant?nia Lopes) and another at T?cnico (Paulo Mateus and Pedro Ad?o). The objective of the project is the development of tools and technology for describing, testing, statically verifying, and inferring communication contracts for the effective construction and evolution of complex distributed systems, notably RESTful applications. Particular attention will be given to the validation of security requirements of APIs. We plan to integrate the theory of behavioural type systems into a notion of communication contracts, effective in driving the software development life cycle of RESTful applications. We seek applicants with strong interest in some of the following topics: programming language design and implementation, programming logics and types, language-based security, verification and testing, concurrency and distribution. The contract is for one year, extensible for a second year. Applicable administrative rules may be found at the FCT site, http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/index.phtml.en . Applications should include a curriculum vitae in pdf format, contact details for three referees, and should be sent to LaSIGE - Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory http://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt Email: Pedro Gon?alves, pgoncalves at di.fc.ul.pt Phone: +351 21 750 05 32 Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Vasco T. Vasconcelos directly. Application deadline: 28th February 2017. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From phaller at kth.se Sat Jan 28 10:18:33 2017 From: phaller at kth.se (Philipp Haller) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:18:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?windows-1252?q?PLACES_2017_=96_Deadline_Extens?= =?windows-1252?q?ion?= Message-ID: <898743c8b96442a7987c3f0f32f3fa6f@exdb01.ug.kth.se> [Please forward to anyone interested. Apologies for multiple mailing.] PLACES 2017 ? Deadline Extension http://places17.by.di.fc.ul.pt/ 10th Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency- and Communication-cEntric Software Co-located with ETAPS 2017, Uppsala, Sweden *********************************************************** 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, 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 may include an appendix of up to 4 pages. An abstract should be registered via the EasyChair submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=places17) by January 29th (anywhere-on-Earth) with the paper submitted by February 5th (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: 12 February 2017 Paper submission: 19 February 2017 Notification: 8 March 2017 ETAPS early-registration deadline: 12 March 2017 PLACES workshop: 29 April 2017 Submission deadlines are "anywhere on Earth". COMMITTEES Programme chairs: Philipp Haller and Vasco T. Vasconcelos Programme committee: * Sebastian Burckhardt, Microsoft Research * Ilaria Castelani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis * Marco Carbone, ITU * Silvia Crafa, University of Padova * Patrick Eugster, TU Darmstadt * Ganesh L Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah * Philipp Haller, KTH * Dimitrios Kouzapas, University of Glasgow * Sam Lindley, University of Edinburgh * Luca Padovani, Univ Torino * Aleksandar Prokopec, Oracle Labs * Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg * Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon Organising committee: Simon Gay, Alan Mycroft, Vasco T. Vasconcelos, and Nobuko Yoshida From feret at ens.fr Sun Jan 29 06:09:37 2017 From: feret at ens.fr (Jerome Feret) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:09:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMSB 2017 - 1st Call for Presentations Message-ID: <2a4b1d85a4b199c903a97197a04606f9.squirrel@www.mail.ens.fr> (Apologies for multiple copies) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Papers, tools, posters, tutorials, presentations) CMSB 2017 15th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology http://www.cmsb2017.tu-darmstadt.de 27th-29th September 2017 Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany) Description CMSB 2017 solicits original research articles, posters, tutorials, and tool papers, 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 In particular, the conference is open to theoretical works with potential applications to modelling and systems biology, as well as applications of existing framework to new models or that may provide new insights to existing models. Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories: A) Regular papers B) Tool papers C) Posters D) Tutorials E) Presentation only The proceedings of CMSB 2017 will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI). After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be extended an submitted to a special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Invited Speakers To be announced later. Call for Submissions: A) CALL 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 15 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Each submission will be refereed rigorously by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Important Dates - Abstract presubmission: April 07, 2017 - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 - Paper notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2017 Replicability and reproducibility: A paper may come with benchmarks, software, models, and so on. In order to encourage the development of reproducible results, the authors of accepted papers will be suggested to submit supplementary materials, so that the committee can evaluate the reproducibility of their work. B) CALL 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 presubmission: April 07, 2017 - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 - Paper notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2017 C) CALL FOR POSTERS: CMSB 2017 solicits original poster abstracts on the computational modeling and analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. We especially encourage poster submission from experimental biologists! Poster abstracts must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 2 pages. Important Dates Poster submission: June 1, 2017 Poster notification: June 10, 2017 D) CALL FOR TUTORIALS: CMSB 2017 will host a number of tutorials. Tutorials provide intensive courses on topics ranging from thoughts on the past, current, or future development of computational methods in systems biology to presentations and/or demonstrations of new tools and technologies. A slot in the tutorial track will normally be either 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. A short abstract (less than 2 pages) conforming the LNCS style shall be sent directly to the PC chairs (cmsb2017 at easychair.org) Important Dates - Tutorial submission: March 01, 2017 - Tutorial notification: May 01, 2017 E) CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: Not all potential speakers are interested in publications in a proceedings. CMSB will host some oral presentations without full paper submission. We welcome submissions of work that was already published in a journal or that is currently under review or will soon be submitted. The submission should contain (i) a one-page abstract (11 point type, single spaced) summarizing the primary results and their relevance and (ii) the actual manuscript that was published or is soon to be published. The program committee will use the manuscript only to assess the merit for an oral presentation at CMSB. Both documents have to be submitted as a single PDF file via EasyChair. Only the one-page abstract will appear in the proceedings at the conference. Submissions unaccompanied by adequate documentation will not be eligible for oral presentation. Important dates - Presentation submission: April 14, 2017 - Presentation notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready (one-page abstract): June 30, 2017 ************************************************* PC co-Chairs - J?r?me Feret (Inria & ?cole normale sup?rieure, France) - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Tool Track Chair - Pierre Boutillier (Harvard Medical School, USA) Local Organisation Chair - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Program Committee - John Albeck (University of California, Davis, USA) - Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, Austria) - Guillaume Beslon (INSA-Lyon & Inria, France) - Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy) - J?r?mie Bourdon (LS2N, Nantes, France) - Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) - Vincent Danos (CNRS & ?cole normale sup?rieure, France & University of Edinburgh, UK) - Jo?lle Despeyroux (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France) - James Faeder (University of Pittsburgh, USA) - Fran?ois Fages (Inria, France) - J?r?me Feret (Inria & Ecole normale sup?rieure, France) - Tomas Gedeon (Montana State University, USA) - Manoj Gopalkrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India) - Calin Guet (IST, Austria) - Monika Heiner (Brandenburg TU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) - Jean Krivine (IRIF, Paris Diderot Univ., France) - Reinhard Laubenbacher (University of Connecticut Health Center & Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, USA) - Axel Legay (IRISA/Inria, France) - Stefan Legewie (IMB Mainz, Germany) - Pietro Li? (University of Cambridge, UK) - Oded Maler (VERIMAG, CNRS and Univ. of Grenoble-Alpes, France) - Nicola Paoletti (Stony Brook University, USA) - Lo?c Paulev? (CNRS/LRI, France) - Tatjana Petrov, (IST, Austria) - Ovidiu Radulescu (University of Montpellier 2, France) - Marc Riedel (University of Minnesota, USA) - Olivier Roux (LS2N & Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France) - David ?afr?nek (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) - Guido Sanguinetti (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) - Fabian J. Theis (Helmholtz Zentrum M?nchen, Germany) - Adelinde Uhrmacher (Universit?t Rostock, Germany) - Verena Wolf (Saarland University, Saarbr?cken, Germany) - Jean Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) - Paolo Zuliani (Newcastle University, UK) Steering Committee - Finn Drablos (NTNU, Norway) - Fran?ois Fages (Inria, 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) From swarat at rice.edu Mon Jan 30 10:57:14 2017 From: swarat at rice.edu (Swarat Chaudhuri) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:57:14 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position on statistical program analysis and synthesis at Rice University Message-ID: Postdoctoral position on statistical program analysis and synthesis at Rice University ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rice University's Department of Computer Science is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher for a project at the interface of formal methods and statistical machine learning. More precisely, our goal is to build methods for program analysis and synthesis that are guided by knowledge automatically learned from large datasets of programs and related artifacts (such as tests and documentation). Ideal applicants will have a background in formal methods and/or programming languages, interest (but not necessarily a background) in machine learning, and experience with building systems of significant size. The postdoc will work with Professors Swarat Chaudhuri and Chris Jermaine. The duration of the position is two years, starting May 2017. Compensation will be highly competitive and commensurate with experience. To apply, send a CV and names of 3 references to Swarat Chaudhuri (swarat at rice.edu). From thao.dang at imag.fr Sun Jan 29 20:18:47 2017 From: thao.dang at imag.fr (THAO DANG) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 02:18:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2017 - Call for Papers - Submission 21 April 2017 Message-ID: <1467524779.2596451.1485739127695.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> [ Apologies for cross posting ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- FORMATS 2017 15th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems First Call for Papers http://formats17.ulb.be FORMATS'17 takes place in Berlin, Germany, where it is part of QONFEST and is colocated with CONCUR'17 and QEST'17. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Objectives ------------------ Control and analysis of the timing of computations is crucial to many domains of system engineering, be it, e.g., for ensuring timely response to stimuli originating in an uncooperative environment, or for synchronising components in VLSI. Reflecting this broad scope, timing aspects of systems from a variety of domains have been treated independently by different communities in computer science and control. Researchers interested in semantics, verification and performance analysis study models such as timed automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses after sampling the environment, as well as of the dynamics of the controlled process during this span. Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are basic problems (of both scientific and engineering level) that are common to all of them. In particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on the temporal distances between occurrences of successive events. Often, these constraints cannot be separated, as the intrinsic dynamics of processes couples them, necessitating models, methods, and tools facilitating their combined analysis. Reflecting this, FORMATS'17 promotes submissions on hybrid discrete-continuous systems, and will promote a special session on this topic. ------------------ Topics ------------------ The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in modelling and analysis of timed systems and, as a generalisation, of hybrid systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): * Foundations and Semantics : Theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; new models and logics or analysis and comparison of existing models (like automata, Petri nets, max-plus models, network calculus, or process algebras involving quantitative time; hybrid automata; probabilistic automata and logics). * Methods and Tools : Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analysing or synthesising timed or hybrid systems and for resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimisation, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.) * Applications : Adaptation and specialisation of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, embedded control, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunications). ------------------ Paper Submission ------------------ FORMATS'17 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS style guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages in length (not including the bibliography which is thus not restricted), but may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission system, to be made available from the conference webpage. As traditional, publication of the proceedings of FORMATS'17 will be hosted by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Abstract Submission: 21 April, 2017 Paper Submission: 28 April, 2017 Notification: 10 June, 2017 Final paper due: 30 June, 2017 Conference: 5-7 September, 2017 ------------------ General Chair of QONFEST ------------------ Katinka Wolter, (FU Berlin) Uwe Nestermann, (TU Berlin) ------------------ Program Committee Chairs ------------------ Alessandro Abate (Oxford, UK) Gilles Geeraerts (ULB, BE) ------------------ Publicity Chair ------------------ Thao Dang, (CNRS/CNRS, France) ------------------ Program Committee ------------------ Erika Abraham Etienne Andr? Bernard Berthomieu Sergiy Bogomolov Patricia Bouyer Thomas Brihaye Uli Fahrenberg Martin Fr?nzle Jane Hillston David Jansen Jan K?et?nsk? Giuseppe Lipari Nicolas Markey Dejan Nickovic Jens Oehlerking Pavithra Prabhakar Karin Quaas Jan Reineke Olivier H. Roux Sibylle Schupp Ana Sokolova Oleg Sokolsky Jir? Srba Nathalie Sznajder Stavros Tripakis Majid Zamani ------------------ Steering Committee ------------------ Rajeev Alur, (U. Pennsylvania, USA) Eugene Asarin, (U. Paris Diderot, France) Martin Fr?nzle (U. Oldenburg, Germany) Thomas A. Henzinger, (IST Austria) Joost-Pieter Katoen, (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Kim G. Larsen, (U. Aalborg, Denmark) Oded Maler, (VERIMAG, CNRS-UGA, France) Lothar Thiele, (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Wang Yi, (U. Uppsala, Sweden) ------------------ Invited speakers ---------------- To be announced on the conference webpage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pierce) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:54:12 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DeepSpec Summer School on Verified Systems -- apply now! Message-ID: <4C503C19-7A57-4F8C-AAC2-B222F95DC870@cis.upenn.edu> The first DeepSpec Summer School on Verified Systems will be held in Philadelphia from July 17 to 28, 2017, preceded by an introductory Coq Intensive from July 13 to 15. Applications are now open: http://deepspec.org/events/ss17detail.html Overview Can critical systems be built with no bugs in hardware, operating systems, compilers, crypto, and other key components? It may seem a pipe dream, but the past decade has seen remarkable advances in the technology required to realize it. This summer school aims to give participants a wide-ranging overview of several ambitious projects currently underway in this space. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of the conceptual underpinnings of these projects plus considerable hands-on experience with the state-of-the-art tools being used to build them. Dates The summer school will open with a three-day intensive course on the fundamentals of the Coq proof assistant, for participants who are new to Coq. The main lectures take place during the weeks of July 17 and 24. Lecturers and Topics Andrew Appel Verified functional algorithms Adam Chlipala Program-specific proof automation Frans Kaashoek & Nickolai Zeldovich Certifying software with crashes Xavier Leroy The structure of a verified compiler Benjamin Pierce Property-based random testing with QuickChick Zhong Shao CertiKOS: Certified kit operating systems Stephanie Weirich Language specification and variable binding Steve Zdancewic Vellvm: Verifying the LLVM More information To apply, or for more information, please visit http://deepspec.org/events/ss17detail.html . 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URL: From f.van.raamsdonk at vu.nl Tue Jan 31 16:28:29 2017 From: f.van.raamsdonk at vu.nl (Raamsdonk, F. van) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:28:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] International School on Rewriting 2017: First Call for Participation Message-ID: <32F3CB55-02A6-4E2E-9DFB-E3B5AFF04ECE@vu.nl> First Call for Participation 9th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON REWRITING (ISR 2017) July 3-7, 2017, Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.win.tue.nl/~hzantema/isr.html Early registration deadline: May 15, 2017 The 9th International School on Rewriting (ISR 2017) is aimed at master and PhD students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the study of rewriting concepts and their applications. The school features lectures by renowned researchers in rewriting, and is organized in two parallel tracks: the Basic Track and the Advanced Track. The BASIC TRACK is intended for students who enter the field. The basic track can, if desired, be round off with an examination of 3EC. The teachers of the Basic Track are Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck) Sarah Winkler (University of Innsbruck) The ADVANCED TRACK consists of eight shorter courses, showing different areas of rewriting research and applications. The teachers and courses of the Advanced Track are: Beniamino Accatoli (INRIA) The Complexity of Beta-Reduction Carsten Fuhs (University of London) Proving Program Termination via Term Rewriting Thomas Genet (IRISA, France) Tree Automata for Reachability in Rewriting Philippe Malbos (University of Lyon), and Samuel Mimram (Ecole Polytechnique) Two-dimensional Rewriting Techniques and Applications Temur Kutsia (University of Linz) Solving Equational Problems: Matching and Unification Julian Nagele (University of Innsbruck), and Vincent van Oostrom (University of Innsbruck) Commutation Christian Sternagel (University of Innsbruck), and Ren? Thiemann (University of Innsbruck) Formalizing Rewriting in Isabelle Johannes Waldmann (RWTH Leipzig) Weighted Automata and Rewriting There will be the opportunity for participants to present their own research. Registration: You can register for ISR 2017 by sending an email to h.zantema at tue.nl. Please mention your full name, institution, and the track you wish to attend. It is appreciated if you mention the subjects you are particularly interested in. Registration fee: The registration fee is 250 euro for early registrations (before May 15, 2017), and 300 euro for late registrations (starting May 16, 2107). Registrations includes access to the lectures, printed copies of or electronic access to material provided by the lecturers, coffee breaks and lunches on Monday-Friday, and the excursion and dinner on Wednesday. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organisers: Hans Zantema, email: h.zantema at tue.nl Femke van Raamsdonk, email: f.van.raamsdonk at vu.nl Margje Mommers-Lenders, email: wsinset at tue.nl ==================================================================== International Schools on Rewriting are promoted by the IFIP Working Group 1.6 Term Rewriting. Rewriting is a branch of computer science whose origins go back to the origins of computer science itself (with Thue, Church, Post, and many other prominent researchers). It has strong links with mathematics, algebra, and logic, and it is the basis of well-known programming paradigms like functional and equational programming. In these programming paradigms and corresponding languages, the notions of reduction, pattern matching, confluence, termination, strategy, etc., are essential. Rewriting provides a solid framework for understanding, using, and teaching all these notions. Rewriting techniques are also used in many other areas of software engineering (scripting, prototyping, automated transformation of legacy systems, refactoring, web services, etc.) Rewriting techniques play a relevant role in computing research, education, and industry. From maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it Tue Jan 31 03:47:37 2017 From: maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:47:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VPT 2017 @ETAPS - Extended Deadlines Message-ID: *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation April 29th, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden http://refal.botik.ru/vpt/vpt2017 Co-located with the 20th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2017) http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2017/workshops *************************************************************** EXTENDED DEADLINES * February 10th, 2017: Abstract submission deadline * February 16th, 2017: Paper submission deadline *************************************************************** Invited Speakers Javier Esparza, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain Alexey Khoroshilov, Linux Verification Center, ISPRAS, Moscow, Russia *************************************************************** The Fifth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation (VPT 2017) aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of Program Verification and Program Transformation. The workshop solicits research, position, application, and system description papers with a special emphasis on case studies, demonstrating viability of the interactions between the research fields of program transformation and program verification in a broad sense. Also papers in related areas, such as program testing and program synthesis are welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Verification by Program Transformation * Verification Techniques in Program Transformation and Synthesis * Verification and Certification of Programs Transformations * Program Analysis and Transformation * Program Testing and Transformation * Verifiable Computing and Program Transformation * Case studies *Important Dates* * February 10th, 2017: Abstract submission deadline * February 16th, 2017: Paper submission deadline * March 8th, 2017: Acceptance notification * March 31st, 2017: Camera ready version (for the pre-proceedings) * April 29th, 2017: Workshop *Submission Guidelines* Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper in PDF, formatted in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science LaTeX Style (http://style.eptcs.org/), via the Easychair submission website for VPT 2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vpt2017 Papers must describe original work that has not been published, or currently submitted, to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Also papers that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted. 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 that 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 should not 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. *Proceedings* Revised versions of all the accepted papers, taking into account the feedback received at the workshop, will be published in a volume of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer (EPTCS) series after the workshop. If the workshop will attract sufficiently many high quality papers, a special issue of a journal on the topic of the workshop will be considered. The special issue will be open to high quality papers accepted for presentation in previous editions of the workshop. *Program Committee* * Emanuele De Angelis, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy * John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark * Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain * Nikos Gorogiannis, Middlesex University, UK * Geoff W. Hamilton, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland * Alexei Lisitsa, The University of Liverpool, UK (co-chair) * David Monniaux, VERIMAG, CNRS - University of Grenoble, France * Jorge A. Navas, SRI International, USA * Andrei P. Nemytykh, Program Systems Institute of RAS, Russia (co-chair) * Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy (co-chair) * Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden * Hirohisa Seki, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan * Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne, Australia * Morten H. Sorensen, Formalit, Denmark *Organisers* Guglielmo De Angelis (IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy) Alexei Lisitsa (The University of Liverpool, UK) Andrei P. Nemytykh (Program Systems Institute of RAS, Russia) Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy) *Contacts* Alexei Lisitsa, a.lisitsa at csc.liv.ac.uk Andrei P. Nemytykh, nemytykh at math.botik.ru Maurizio Proietti, maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it -- Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Roma, Italy Phone: +39 0649937114 Fax: +39 06 4993 7106, +39 06 4993 7137 maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it http://www.iasi.cnr.it/~proietti -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue Jan 31 19:19:38 2017 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:19:38 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers: ICFP 2017 Message-ID: <5891299a8d995_f913fec02463bf072cb@landin.mail> ICFP 2017 The 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming Oxford, United Kingdom http://icfp17.sigplan.org/ Second Call for Papers ### Important dates Submissions due: Monday, February 27, Anywhere on Earth https://icfp17.hotcrp.com Author response: Monday, April 17, 2017, 15:00 (UTC) - Thursday, April 20, 2017, 15:00 (UTC) Notification: Monday, 1 May, 2017 Final copy due: Monday, 5 June 2017 Early registration: TBA Conference: Monday, 4 September - Wednesday, 6 September, 2017 ### Updates for Second Call for Papers This revision, published January 31, 2017, includes the following updates: * A link to the list of frequently asked questions about the double-blind review process. * A new requirement for citations in author-year format. This follows a decision for PACMPL that was made after the original version of this call was distributed. As such, author-year format will be required for final (accepted) versions of papers in ICFP 2017, but not for submissions. * Additional guidance for authors using LaTeX. * A clarification about the expectations for author attendance in the event of visa-related problems. ### New this year Those familiar with previous ICFP conferences should be aware of two significant changes that are being introduced in 2017: 1. Papers selected for ICFP 2017 will be published as the ICFP 2017 issue of a new journal, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), which replaces the previous ICFP conference proceedings. The move to PACMPL will have two noticeable impacts on authors: * A new, two-phase selection and reviewing process that conforms to ACM?s journal reviewing guidelines. * A new, single-column format for submissions. 2. Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the reviewing process will have the option to submit materials for Artifact Evaluation. Further details on each of these changes are included in the following text. ### Scope ICFP 2017 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. Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission 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. ICFP 2017 also welcomes submissions in two separate categories --- Functional Pearls and Experience Reports --- that must be marked as such at the time of submission and that need not report original research results. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given at the end of this call. Please contact the program chair if you have questions or are concerned about the appropriateness of a topic. ### Preparation of submissions ICFP 2017 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process, as described below. **Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 27, 2017, Anywhere on Earth (). This deadline will be strictly enforced. **Formatting**: (NOTE: NEW FORMAT REQUIREMENTS FOR ICFP 2017) Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Large" template that is available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from . For authors using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential files, is available from ; the appropriate template for ICFP 2017 authors is in the file `acmart-pacmpl-template.tex`. As documented in the template, submissions should be prepared using the `acmlarge` and `anonymous` options. The use of the `review` option is also strongly encouraged but not required. (The `review` option will add line numbers, which will make it easier for reviewers to reference specific parts of your paper in their comments, but should have absolutely no other effect on the typesetting.) Details of available technical support for LaTeX-specific questions is available at . There is a limit of 24 pages for a full paper or 12 pages for an Experience Report; in either case, the bibliography will not be counted against these limits. These page limits have been chosen to allow essentially the same amount of content with the new single-column format as was possible with the two-column format used in past ICFP conferences. Submissions that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. **Citations**: As part of PACMPL, ICFP 2017 papers are expected to use author-year citations for references to other work. Author-year citations may be used as either a noun phrase, such as "The lambda calculus was originally conceived by Church (1932)", or a parenthetic phase, such as "The lambda calculus (Church 1932) was intended as a foundation for mathematics". A useful test for correct usage it to make sure that the text still reads correctly when the parenthesized portions of any references are omitted. Take care with prepositions; in the first example above, "by" is more appropriate than "in" because it allows the text to be read correctly as a reference to the author. Sometimes, readability may be improved by putting parenthetic citations at the end of a clause or a sentence, such as "A foundation for mathematics was provided by the lambda calculus (Church 1932)". In LaTeX, use `\citet{Church-1932}` for citations as a noun phrase, "Church (1932)", and `\citep{Church-1932}` for citations as a parenthetic phrase, "(Church 1932)"; for details, see Sections 2.3--2.5 of the natbib documentation (). **Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at (in preparation at the time of writing). Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. **Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 15:00 UTC on Monday, April 17, 2017, to read reviews and respond to them. **Supplementary Materials**: 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 the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). **Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at . **Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at . **Resubmitted Papers**: Authors who submit a revised version of a paper that has previously been rejected by another conference 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. ### Review Process This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for presentation at ICFP 2017. A [list of frequently asked questions and answers](http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ) that address common concerns is available on the conference website and will be updated as necessary to clarify and expand on this process. **ICFP 2017 will employ a two-stage review process.** The first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on initial reviews through the author response period mentioned previously. At the PC meeting, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on May 1, 2017. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews (just as in previous conferences) along with a set of mandatory revisions. After five weeks (June 5, 2017), the authors will provide a second submission. The second and final reviewing phase assesses whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. The intent and expectation is that the mandatory revisions can be addressed within five weeks and hence that conditionally accepted papers will in general be accepted in the second phase. The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be grounds for the paper?s rejection. This process is intended as a refinement of the review process that has been used in previous ICFP conferences. By incorporating a second stage, the process will conform to ACM?s journal reviewing guidelines for PACMPL. **ICFP 2017 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. ### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers * As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must adhere to the new ACM Large format. The page limits for final versions of papers will be increased to ensure that authors have space to respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions. * Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of the three ACM licensing options: copyright transfer to ACM; retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights; or open access on payment of a fee. Further information about ACM author rights is available from . * At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. (ICFP welcomes all authors, regardless of nationality. If any author of an accepted submission has visa-related difficulties in travelling to the conference, we will make arrangements to enable remote participation, and not require them to attend the conference in order to present their talk.) The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. * We intend that the proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library in perpetuity via the OpenTOC mechanism. * 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 to the definitive version of an ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit to learn how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL. * **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 the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.** ### Artifact Evaluation Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be reviewed by a committee, separate from the program committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, for example, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in the ACM guidelines for artifact badging. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance. Further information about the motivations and expectations for Artifact Evaluation can be found at . ### 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 half the length of a full paper. Authors submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines. #### 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. A pearl is likely to be rejected if its 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 that is intended to be 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. * Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long, excluding bibliography. * 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: it should make a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate this claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results --- the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that the team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made the team more productive. If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, it may be better off submitted it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. The program chair will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### Organizers General Chair: Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford, UK) Program Chair: Mark Jones (Portland State University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Chair: Ryan R. Newton (Indiana University, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Ryan Trinkle (Obsidian Systems LLC, USA) Programming Contest Organiser: Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity and Web Chair: Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Video Chair: Jose Calderon (Galois, Inc., USA) Workshops Co-Chair: Andres L?h (Well-Typed LLP) Workshops Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Indiana University, USA) Program Committee: Bob Atkey (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Dominique Devriese (KU Leuven, Belgium) Martin Erwig (Oregon State, USA) Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA) Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia, Canada) Kathryn Gray (University of Cambridge, England) John Hughes (Chalmers University and Quvik, Sweden) Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National University, Korea) Graham Hutton (University of Nottingham, England) Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Ranjit Jhala (University of California, San Diego, USA) Shin-ya Katsumata (Kyoto University, Japan) Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Dan Licata (Wesleyan University, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Digital Asset, Australia) Gabriel Scherer (Northeastern University, USA) Alexandra Silva (University College London, England) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, USA) Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Nicolas Wu (University of Bristol, England) Beta Ziliani (CONICET and FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) From fsen2017 at ipm.ir Tue Jan 31 13:53:59 2017 From: fsen2017 at ipm.ir (Marjan Sirjani) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:53:59 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfPart: FSEN 2017 Message-ID: <89c03f16-ecb4-a63e-f34c-cac49c028f22@ipm.ir> ###################################################################### FSEN 2017 Call for Participation Seventh International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering 2017 Theory and Practice (FSEN'17) http://fsen.ir/2017/ Tehran, Iran 26 - 28 April, 2017 ###################################################################### For information on registration and accepted papers check the conference homepage. Keynote Speakers ---------------- Thomas A. Henzinger, IST, Austria Philippa Gardner, Imperial College London, UK Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg From m.stannett at sheffield.ac.uk Mon Jan 30 13:50:01 2017 From: m.stannett at sheffield.ac.uk (Mike Stannett) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:50:01 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: Call for Papers - Physics and Computation 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Worksop on PHYSICS AND COMPUTATION (P&C 2017) Submission deadline: 5 Mar, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 19 Apr, 2017 Final versions of papers due: 8 May 2017 A co-located workshop of UCNC 2017, June 5-9, 2017, University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA SUBMISSIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pc2017 ============================================================ The 8th International Workshop on Physics and Computation (P&C 2017) will be held as a satellite workshop of UCNC 2017, which takes place this year from 5-9 June 2017 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA (http://ucnc2017.uark.edu/). TOPICS include, but are not restricted to: * Axiomatisation of physics: completeness, decidability, reduction * Dynamical systems: computability, complexity * Molecular computation and reaction-diffusion models * Multiple-substrate computation * Nanoscale algorithms * New approaches to physical computation * Novel models of computation * Philosophy of physics and computation * Physical Church-Turing thesis * Quantum computation, logics and information * Randomness and computation: quantum, dynamical and physical randomness * Relativistic computation: reasoning, complexity, hypercomputation * Theory of measurement: axiomatisation, complexity * Type theories of physical computation INVITED SPEAKERS * To be confirmed SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original papers (12 pages maximum) to the workshop EasyChair site. Extended abstracts (4?5 pages) may also be submitted, although preference will be given to full papers. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online in a pre- proceedings before the workshop begins. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers, subject to additional review, for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Unconventional Computing (IJUC). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Selim Akl (Queen's) * Pablo Arrighi (Aix-Marseille) * Edwin Beggs (Swansea) * Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer) * Cristian Calude (Auckland) * F?lix Costa (Lisboa) * Jerome Durand-Lose (Orl?ans) * Marian Gheorghe (Bradford) * Jerzy G?recki (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences) * Viv Kendon (Durham University) * Judit Madar?sz (Renyi Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) * Mike Stannett (Sheffield) * Karl Svozil (Vienna) * Gergely Sz?kely (Renyi Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact the wokshop organiser: Mike Stannett Email: m.stannett(at)sheffield.ac.uk ============================================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From S.A.Owens at kent.ac.uk Wed Feb 1 05:32:19 2017 From: S.A.Owens at kent.ac.uk (Scott Owens) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:32:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post Doc in weak memory at the University of Kent Message-ID: <8AD8E5DB-FC08-47ED-AFD1-8E6DA6377C15@kent.ac.uk> Hi all, I?m looking to hire a post doc to work in the general area of weak memory models. The post is funded for 18 months at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. To apply, see the formal job advertisement here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWW579/research-associate/. This post is part of the EPSRC-funded project, "Verifying concurrent algorithms on weak memory models." The goal of the project is to advance the understanding of weak memory ? as found in multi-core hardware of POWER, ARM, and x86 architectures ? to support reasoning formally about the implementations of concurrent algorithms. The successful candidate will work closely with the project?s PI, Dr Scott Owens, and will have significant input into the direction of the project. They will also have the opportunity to work with project partners in Prof. John Derrick?s group at the University of Sheffield, and locally with Dr Mark Batty at the University of Kent. Scott Owens From barbara_koenig at uni-due.de Wed Feb 1 08:37:56 2017 From: barbara_koenig at uni-due.de (Barbara Koenig) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:37:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] STAF Doctoral Symposium 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: ********************************************************************** Call for Papers for the STAF Doctoral Symposium July 17, 2017 Affiliated with STAF 2017 in Marburg ********************************************************************** http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/staf2017/index.php/call-doctoral-symposium/ ********************************************************************** The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is to provide a forum in which PhD students can present their work in progress. The symposium supports students by providing independent and constructive feedback about their already completed and, more importantly, planned research work. The symposium will be accompanied by prominent experts who will actively participate in critical discussions. Relevant fields within Software Engineering include (but are not limited to): * Models: reasoning, execution, management, testing and validation * Model transformations: paradigms, algorithms, development, applications, tools * Graph transformation and graph theories * Domain Specific Languages * Proofs and Testing: verification, debugging, experiments, case studies * Model-Driven Engineering Any topic of interest for the conferences that will take place within STAF 2017 is highly welcomed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Process Submissions exclusively authored by the PhD student are invited from students who have settled on a PhD topic. We do accept papers on both initial stage (first or second year) and mature stage (third year, or later) of research. The authors shall clearly indicate their stage of research maturity in a footnote to be added to the paper title. Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 experts based on originality, significance, correctness and clarity. Submissions should describe research-in-progress that is meant to lead to a PhD dissertation, using the following structure: * Problem: The problem the research intends to solve, the target audience of this research, and a motivation of why the problem is important and needs to be solved. * Related work: A review of the relevant related work with an emphasis of how the proposed approach is different and what advantages it has over the existing state of the art. * Proposed solution: A description of the proposed solution and which other work (e.g., in the form of methods or tools) it depends on. * Preliminary work: A description of the work to-date and results achieved so far. * Expected contributions: A list of the expected contributions to both theory and practice. * Plan for evaluation and validation: A description of how it will be shown that the work does indeed solve the targeted problem and is superior to the existing state of the art (e.g., prototyping, industry case studies, user studies, experiments). * Current status: The current status of the work and a planned timeline for completion. Contributions must not exceed 5 pages in Springer LNCS format and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=staf2017workshops, choose "STAF 2017 Doctoral Symposium" as track). All accepted submissions to the Doctoral Symposium at STAF 2017 will be published in a post-conference volume of CEUR and will be submitted for inclusion in DBLP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: May 22, 2017 Paper submission deadline June 2, 2017 Author notification July 17, 2017 STAF 2017 Doctoral Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Chairs Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila, Italy Barbara K?nig Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Thu Feb 2 16:43:15 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:43:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Logic Colloquium 2017: First Announcement and Call for Submissions Message-ID: Logic Colloquium 2017: First Announcement and Call for Submissions August 14-20, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.lc17.conf.kth.se The Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC2017) is the 2017 Annual European summer meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) and will be held during August 14-20, 2017 at the main campus of Stockholm University. The Logic Colloquium 2017 is organised and hosted jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University, and is also supported by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. LC2017 will be co-located with two other logic-related events, all taking place at Stockholm University: - the 3rd Nordic Logic Summer School, NLS2017, August 7-12 - the 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic, CSL2017, August 20-24. There will be a joint session of CSL2017 and LC2017 in the morning of August 20. Further information about all events can be found at: https://www.lis17.conf.kth.se The programme of LC2017 will also include special sessions, which will be announced later. INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------ Plenary speakers: - David Aspero (University of East Anglia) - Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) - Elisabeth Bouscaren (Paris 11) - Christina Brech (Sao Paulo) - Sakae Fuchino (Kobe University) - Denis Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago) - Wilfrid Hodges (British Academy) - Emil Jerabek (Prague) - Per Martin-L?f (Stockholm University) - Dag Prawitz (Stockholm University) - Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) Tutorial speakers: - Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV ENS Cachan) - Mai Gehrke (Paris 7) LC2017 invited highlight speakers for the joint LC-CSL session: - Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires) - Pierre Simon (UC Berkeley) SUBMISSIONS OF CONTRIBUTED TALKS --------------------- Abstracts of contributed talks must be submitted as pdf files via this EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lc2017 (If you do not have an EasyChair-account yet, you can create one at the submission site.) The abstracts must be prepared according to the ASL instructions here: http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html Please enter Title and Abstract as plain text. As the first keyword, put the AMS 2010 classification: 03xxx Abstracts of contributed talks submitted by ASL members, which are accepted and prepared according to the ASL Rules for Abstracts will be published in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be requested to submit the LaTex source files. ASL will provide some student grants for participation at the LC2017. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission for contributed talks: May 5, 2017 Notification: TBA -------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- - Rod Downey (University of Wellington) - Mirna Dzamonja (PC chair, University of East Anglia) - Ali Enayat (University of Gothenburg) - Fernando Ferreira (University of Lisbon) - Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University) - Martin Hils (University of M?nster) - Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) - Assaf Rinot (Bar-Ilan University) - Igor Walukiewicz (University of Bordeaux) ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- - Mads Dam, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH - Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Sven-Ove Hansson, Department of Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Eric Johannesson, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Vera Koponen, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University - Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Peter Pagin, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Dag Westerst?hl, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES -------------------- For enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: Mirna Dzamonja (M.Dzamonja at uea.ac.uk) For enquiries on organising matters, send email to: lc2017 at philosophy.su.se From madeira at ua.pt Thu Feb 2 16:55:24 2017 From: madeira at ua.pt (Alexandre Madeira) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 21:55:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Workshop_DaL=C3=AD?= Message-ID: Workshop DaL? ? Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Bras?lia, 24 September, 2017 (co-located with FROCOS TABLEAUX and ITP 2017) workshop.dali.di.uminho.pt Building on the pioneer intuitions of Floyd-Hoare logic, Dynamic Logic was intro- duced in the 70?s by Pratt as a suitable logic to reason about, and verify, classic imperative programs. Since then, the original intuitions grew to an entire family of logics, which became increasingly popular for assertional reasoning about a wide range of computational systems. Simultaneously, their object (i.e. the very notion of a program) evolved in unexpected ways. This leads to dynamic logics tailored to specific programming paradigms and extended to new computing domains, including probabilistic, continuous and quantum computation. Both its theoretical relevance and practical potential make Dynamic Logic a topic of interest in a number of scientific venues, from wide-scope software engineering conferences to modal logic specific events. However, no specific event is exclusively dedicated to it. This workshop aims at filling fill such a gap, joining an heteroge- neous community of colleagues, from Academia to Industry, from Mathematics to Computer Science. forum for disseminating and sharing new trends and applications of Dynamic Logic. The event is promoted by the project DaL? - Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems: towards contract based design (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016692), a R&D project supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (http: //dali.di.uminho.pt). ***** Topics ***** We invite submissions on the general field of Dynamic Logic, its variants and applications, including, but not restricted to: - Dynamic logic,foundations and applications - Logics with regular modalities - Modal/temporal/epistemic logics - Kleene and action algebras and their variants - Quantum dynamic logic - Coalgebraic modal/dynamic logics - Graded and fuzzy dynamic logics - Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems - Dynamic epistemic logic - Complexity and decidability of variants of dynamic logics and temporal logics - Model checking, model generation and theorem proving for dynamic logics ***** Submissions and publications **** Authors are invited to submit original papers (un-published and not submitted for publication elsewhere) up to 15 pages in lncs style. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer?s Lecture Notes of Computer Science volume. Submissions with work in progress (abstracts with 2-5 pag) are also welcomed for short presentations. They are subject of a light reviewing and will be available at conference in a informal booklet. Both kind of submissions should be done via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dali17. Extended versions of the DaL? contributions will be invited to a special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, Elsevier. ***** Important Dates **** - May 26, 2017: Abstract deadline - June 2, 2017: Full paper deadline - July 14, 2017: Author notification **** Invited Speakers **** - Alexandru Baltag, UVA, NL - Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio, BR **** PC Chairs **** - Alexandre Madeira (UM & UA, PT) - M?rio Benevides (UFRJ, BR) **** Program Committee: **** - Carlos Areces (U. Cordoba, AR) - Phillippe Balbiani (U. Toulouse, FR) - Alexandru Baltag (Uva, NL) - Lu?s S. Barbosa (U.Minho, PT) - Johan van Benthem (U.Stanford & U.Tsinghua) - Patrick Blackburn (U. Roskilde, DK) - St?phane Demri (ENS Cachan, FR) - Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) - Francicleber M. Ferreira (UFC, BR) - Valentin Goranko (U. Stockholm, SE) - Edward H. Hauesler (PUC-Rio, BR) - Rolf Hennicker (LMU, Munchen, DE) - Andreas Herzig (Toulouse, FR) - Dexter Kozen (Cornell, USA) - Clemens Kupke (U.Strathclyde, UK) - Bruno Vieira Lopes (UFF, BR) - Paulo Mateus (IST, PT) - Manuel A. Martins (U.Aveiro, PT) - Carlos Olarte (UFRN, BR) - Jos? N. Oliveira (U. Minho, PT) - Andr? Platzer (CMU, USA) - Eug?nio Rocha (U. Aveiro, PT) - Val?ria de Paiva (NC, USA) - Regivan Santiago (UFRN, BR) - Luis Menasche Schechter (UFRJ, BR) - Alexandra Silva (UCL, UK) - Tinko Tinchev (U. Sofia, BG) - Petrucio Viana (UFF, BR) - Yde Venema (ILLC, NL) - Renata Wassermann (USP, BR) From mogel at itu.dk Fri Feb 3 04:40:33 2017 From: mogel at itu.dk (=?utf-8?B?UmFzbXVzIEVqbGVycyBNw7hnZWxiZXJn?=) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 09:40:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at IT University of Copenhagen Message-ID: <5D1CCCC4-F685-46C3-A089-F806934ED0AF@itu.dk> Dear all, I would like to advertise a 2-year postdoc position available at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The suggested starting date is August 2017, but this is negotiable. The position is part of my research project Type Theories for Reactive Programming funded by Villum Fonden, and running for 5 years involving 2 PhDs and 2 postdoc positions in total. I include a short description of the goals of the project below. Applicants should have experience with category theory and denotational semantics. Knowledge of models of (dependent) type theory or functional reactive programming is an advantage, but is not required. The deadline for application is February 28. Further information on the position and how to apply can be found here: http://bit.ly/2kl7zRy I encourage all interested in applying to contact me in advance. Rasmus M?gelberg ------------------------- Project description Type theories are formal systems that can be viewed both as programming languages and logical systems for formalised mathematics. From a computer science perspective, this is useful because it allows for programs, their specifications, and the proofs that these satisfy the specification to be expressed in the same formalism. The logical interpretation of type theories means that all programs must terminate. For this reason, programming and reasoning about non-terminating reactive programs in type theory remains a challenge. This is unfortunate since these include many of the most critical programs in use today. In this project, we aim to design a new type theory useful for programming with and reasoning about reactive programs. We build on recent progress in guarded recursion and functional reactive programming, using modalities to capture productivity in types. The project also involves the development of Guarded Cubical Type Theory, an extension of Cubical Type Theory with guarded recursive types. These can be used for smooth programming with coinductive types and construction of models of advanced programming languages. This part of the project is a collaboration with professor Lars Birkedal at Aarhus University. Type theories are formal systems that can be viewed both as programming languages and logical systems for formalised mathematics. From a computer science perspective, this is useful because it allows for programs, their specifications, and the proofs that these satisfy the specification to be expressed in the same formalism. The logical interpretation of type theories means that all programs must terminate. For this reason, programming and reasoning about non-terminating reactive programs in type theory remains a challenge. This is unfortunate since these include many of the most critical programs in use today. In this project, we aim to design a new type theory useful for programming with and reasoning about reactive programs. We build on recent progress in guarded recursion and functional reactive programming, using modalities to capture productivity in types. The project also involves the development of Guarded Cubical Type Theory, an extension of Cubical Type Theory with guarded recursive types. These can be used for smooth programming with coinductive types and construction of models of advanced programming languages. This part of the project is a collaboration with professor Lars Birkedal at Aarhus University. - See more at: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=180828&MediaId=5#sthash.uggmBukd.dpu Project description Type theories are formal systems that can be viewed both as programming languages and logical systems for formalised mathematics. From a computer science perspective, this is useful because it allows for programs, their specifications, and the proofs that these satisfy the specification to be expressed in the same formalism. The logical interpretation of type theories means that all programs must terminate. For this reason, programming and reasoning about non-terminating reactive programs in type theory remains a challenge. This is unfortunate since these include many of the most critical programs in use today. In this project, we aim to design a new type theory useful for programming with and reasoning about reactive programs. We build on recent progress in guarded recursion and functional reactive programming, using modalities to capture productivity in types. The project also involves the development of Guarded Cubical Type Theory, an extension of Cubical Type Theory with guarded recursive types. These can be used for smooth programming with coinductive types and construction of models of advanced programming languages. This part of the project is a collaboration with professor Lars Birkedal at Aarhus University. - See more at: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=180828&MediaId=5#sthash.uggmBukd.dpuf Project description Type theories are formal systems that can be viewed both as programming languages and logical systems for formalised mathematics. From a computer science perspective, this is useful because it allows for programs, their specifications, and the proofs that these satisfy the specification to be expressed in the same formalism. The logical interpretation of type theories means that all programs must terminate. For this reason, programming and reasoning about non-terminating reactive programs in type theory remains a challenge. This is unfortunate since these include many of the most critical programs in use today. In this project, we aim to design a new type theory useful for programming with and reasoning about reactive programs. We build on recent progress in guarded recursion and functional reactive programming, using modalities to capture productivity in types. The project also involves the development of Guarded Cubical Type Theory, an extension of Cubical Type Theory with guarded recursive types. These can be used for smooth programming with coinductive types and construction of models of advanced programming languages. This part of the project is a collaboration with professor Lars Birkedal at Aarhus University. - See more at: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=180828&MediaId=5#sthash.uggmBukd.dpu Project description Type theories are formal systems that can be viewed both as programming languages and logical systems for formalised mathematics. From a computer science perspective, this is useful because it allows for programs, their specifications, and the proofs that these satisfy the specification to be expressed in the same formalism. The logical interpretation of type theories means that all programs must terminate. For this reason, programming and reasoning about non-terminating reactive programs in type theory remains a challenge. This is unfortunate since these include many of the most critical programs in use today. In this project, we aim to design a new type theory useful for programming with and reasoning about reactive programs. We build on recent progress in guarded recursion and functional reactive programming, using modalities to capture productivity in types. The project also involves the development of Guarded Cubical Type Theory, an extension of Cubical Type Theory with guarded recursive types. These can be used for smooth programming with coinductive types and construction of models of advanced programming languages. This part of the project is a collaboration with professor Lars Birkedal at Aarhus University. - See more at: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=180828&MediaId=5#sthash.uggmBukd.dpufProject description Type theories are formal systems that can be viewed both as programming languages and logical systems for formalised mathematics. From a computer science perspective, this is useful because it allows for programs, their specifications, and the proofs that these satisfy the specification to be expressed in the same formalism. The logical interpretation of type theories means that all programs must terminate. For this reason, programming and reasoning about non-terminating reactive programs in type theory remains a challenge. This is unfortunate since these include many of the most critical programs in use today. In this project, we aim to design a new type theory useful for programming with and reasoning about reactive programs. We build on recent progress in guarded recursion and functional reactive programming, using modalities to capture productivity in types. The project also involves the development of Guarded Cubical Type Theory, an extension of Cubical Type Theory with guarded recursive types. These can be used for smooth programming with coinductive types and construction of models of advanced programming languages. This part of the project is a collaboration with professor Lars Birkedal at Aarhus University. - See more at: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=180828&MediaId=5#sthash.uggmBukd.dpuf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Wed Feb 1 10:57:23 2017 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 16:57:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for International Conference for Computational Semantics (IWCS) Workshop Proposals Message-ID: CALL FOR IWCS WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) LIRMM & Universite de Montpellier, France 20th-22nd September 2017 (workshops on 19th) http://www.lirmm.fr/iwcs2017/workshops/index.html Proposal deadline: 10th February 2017 The International Conference for Computational Semantics (IWCS) invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops, to be held in conjunction with the 2017 IWCS conference. IWCS 2017 will take place on 20th-22nd September 2017 at LIRMM, Universite de Montpellier, France. Workshops will take place on the day immediately preceding the conference: 19th September 2017. The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest for the workshops include all subdomains of computational semantics relevant to the main conference, including but not limited to: - representation of meaning - syntax-semantics interface - representing and resolving semantic ambiguity - shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning - hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to representing semantics - alternative approaches to compositional semantics - inference methods for computational semantics - recognizing textual entailment - deep learning and semantics - learning by reading - methodologies and practices for semantic annotation - machine learning of semantic structures - statistical semantics - computational aspects of lexical semantics - semantics and ontologies - semantic web and natural language processing - semantic aspects of language generation - semantic relations in discourse and dialogue - semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts - multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning - semantics-pragmatics interface SUBMISSION INFORMATION Proposals for workshops should contain: - A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content. - An estimate of the audience size. - The names, postal addresses, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise. - A list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed. - A description of special requirements for technical needs. Proposals should be submitted by email to iwcs2017 at gmail.com as soon as possible, but no later than 10th February 2017. Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later than 17th February 2017. AFTER ACCEPTANCE Organizers of accepted workshops must provide descriptions of their workshops, for inclusion in the conference registration material, by 1st April 2017. The description must be provided in two formats: an ASCII version that can be included with the email announcement, and an HTML version that can be included on the conference home page. These descriptions should be mailed to: iwcs2017 at gmail.com The final workshop materials must be received by the IWCS organizers by 4th September 2017. This includes the detailed proceedings (camera-ready versions of papers), which will be made available electronically, as well as a short workshop program, which will be printed together with the main conference program. FINANCES Workshops must be financially self-supporting. The IWCS organizers will establish registration rates so as to provide the room, audio-visual equipment, internet access, snacks for breaks, and the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES 10th February 2017 Workshop proposal submissions due 17th February 2017 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance 1st April 2017 Workshop description mailed to IWCS organizers 4 September 2017 Workshop material due to IWCS organizers 19th September 2017 Workshop date -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch Fri Feb 3 04:49:23 2017 From: caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch (Urban Caterina) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 09:49:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2017 - First Call For Papers Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2017 24th Static Analysis Symposium New York City, NY, August 30th-September 1st, 2017 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVE Static Analysis is widely 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 24th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2017, will be held at New York University, New York City, NY, USA. Previous symposia were held in Edinburgh, Saint-Malo, 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 2017 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 - Automated deduction - Data flow analysis - Debugging - Deductive methods - Emerging applications - Model checking - Program optimization and transformation - Program synthesis - Program verification - Security analysis - Tool environments and architectures - Theoretical frameworks - Type checking PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU programming. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Paper submissions should not exceed 18 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 through easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sas2017 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. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission: April 14, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Full paper submission: April 20, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Artifact submission: April 25, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Author notification: June 12, 2017 - Final version due: July 5, 2017 - Conference: August 30 - September 1, 2017 CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held in the Forbes Building of the New York University, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York City. RADHIA COUSOT AWARD Since 2014, the program committee of each SAS conference selects a paper for the Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award, in memory of Radhia Cousot, and her fundamental contributions to static analysis, as well as being one of the main promoters and organizers of the SAS series of conferences. SPECIAL ISSUE Full versions of a selection of accepted papers, to be determined by the program committee, will be invited for submission to Formal Methods in System Design journal. INVITED SPEAKERS Alex Aiken (Stanford University, USA) Francesco Logozzo (Facebook, USA) Peter M?ller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) AFFILIATED EVENTS - NSAD: The 7th Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains - SASB: The 8th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology - TAPAS: The 8th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis PROGRAM CHAIR Francesco Ranzato (University of Padova, IT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, ES) Jade Alglave (University College London, UK) Josh Berdine (Facebook, UK) Aleksandar Chakarov (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Liqian Chen (National University of Defense Technology, CN) Maria Christakis (University of Kent, UK) Pierre Ganty (Imdea, ES) Alberto Griggio (FBK, IT) Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, CA) Thomas Jensen (INRIA, FR) Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, AT) Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Anders Moeller (Aarhus University, DK) Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs Nokia, USA) Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, DE) Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, FR) Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Harald Sondergaard (The University of Melbourne, AU) Fausto Spoto (University of Verona/Julia, IT) Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, CH) David Van Horn (University of Maryland, USA) Arnaud J. Venet (Google, USA) Eran Yahav (Technion, IL) LOCAL CHAIR Patrick Cousot (New York University, USA) PUBLICITY CHAIR Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, CH) From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Fri Feb 3 18:57:39 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 00:57:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP - Logic, Information, Language, Memory, Reasoning 2017 (LogInfoLangMR'17) New Deadline Feb 13, 2017 Message-ID: ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Logic, Information, Language, Memory, Reasoning 2017 (LogInfoLangMR?17) http://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/loginfolangmr 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2017 (DCAI'17) Polytechnic of Porto, Porto (Portugal) June 21-23, 2017 * Submission deadline: February 13, 2017 * ========================================================================= DESCRIPTION ===== We are in the reality of systems that model human language, reasoning, and use advanced techniques for saving and accessing information. Prominently, computational processing of human language is an interdisciplinary area of research and development of computerized systems. In nature, relations between information, language, reasoning, and memory have many, interdependent facets that can be heterogeneous. Theories, applications, and technologies strive to meet adequate treatment of natural phenomena of information, language, and information exchange. Furthermore, integrated approaches from mathematics and computer science provide support for reliable, advanced, applications. We welcome submissions of papers on the following topics, without limiting to them, across theories, applications, methods, approaches, and technologies: - Logic for applications to language processing - Classic and new theories of formal and natural languages - Computational processing of natural language --- approaches, theories, methods, computerized systems - Computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and syntax-semantics interfaces - Multilingual Processing - Speech Processing - Logic for reasoning systems --- theories and applications - Logic in data science - Information theories - Integration of data and reasoning - Models of computation - Mathematics for linguistics and cognitive science - Interdisciplinary approaches to computation, language, reasoning, memory, data - Computational theories and applications in life sciences - Computational neuroscience of information, language, memory, reasoning - Computational aspects of information, languages, and memory in nature IMPORTANT DATES ===== Submission dates: 13th February, 2017 Notification date: 13th March, 2017 Paper ready deadline: 27th March, 2017 Conference dates: 21st-23rd June, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ===== DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 8 pages, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page: http://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions PUBLICATION: ===== Accepted papers will be included in DCAI Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series of Springer Verlag. For more details, see: http://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions CO-CHAIRS: ===== Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany CONTACT: ===== Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Kristina Liefke (Kristina.Liefke at lrz.uni-muenchen.de) From bogom.s at gmail.com Sat Feb 4 04:39:34 2017 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 20:39:34 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: DEADLINE EXTENSION for 3rd International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis (ETAPS 2017) Message-ID: <000201d27eca$9bb771f0$d32655d0$@gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS SNR 2017 -- DEADLINE EXTENSION UNTIL FEBRUARY 17 ======== 3rd International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis April 22, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 http://snr2017.pages.ist.ac.at/ Important Dates =============== Paper submission: February 17, 2017 Notification: March 10, 2017 Final version: March 24, 2017 Workshop date: April 22, 2017 Scope ===== Hybrid systems are complex dynamical systems that combine discrete and continuous components. 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 over-approximate the set of reachable states over time, where efficient computation of such over-approximations 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 the different approaches. The SNR workshop solicits papers broadly in the area of analysis and synthesis of continuous and hybrid systems. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics with application to continuous and hybrid systems: - Reachability analysis - Flow-pipe construction; symbolic state set representations - Logical frameworks for reasoning - Bounded model checking - Automated deduction - Invariant generation - Symbolic execution - Trajectory generation; counterexample computation - Abstraction techniques - Reliable integration - Simulation - Reachability analysis for planning and synthesis - Domain-specific approaches in biology, robotics, etc. - Stochastic/probabilistic hybrid systems Submission Information ====================== The workshop solicits - long research papers (not exceeding 15 pages excluding references), - short research papers (not exceeding 6 pages excluding references) and - work-in-progress papers (not exceeding 6 pages excluding references). Research papers must present original unpublished work which is not submitted elsewhere. In order to foster the exchange of ideas, we also encourage work-in-progress papers, which present recent or on-going work. The papers should be written in English and formatted according to the EPTCS guidelines (http://style.eptcs.org/). Papers can be submitted using the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snr2017 All submissions will undergo a peer-reviewing process. Accepted research papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS, http://www.eptcs.org/). Accepted work-in-progress papers will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings. Invited Speakers ================ TBA Workshop Co-Chairs ================== Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Sergiy Bogomolov (Australian National University, Australia) Publicity Chair =============== Przemyslaw Daca (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria) Program Committee ================= Matthias Althoff (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Stanley Bak (United States Air Force Research Lab, USA) Franck Cassez (Macquarie University, Australia) Xin Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG, France) Martin Fraenzle (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Goran Frehse (Verimag, France) Antoine Girard (L2S, CNRS, France) Thomas Heinz (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany) Hui Kong (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria) Oleksandr Letychevskyi (Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine) Nikolaj Nikitchenko (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine) Maria Prandini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Stefan Ratschan (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Rajarshi Ray (National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India) Stavros Tripakis (Aalto University, Finland, and UC Berkeley, USA) Vladimir Ulyantsev (ITMO University, Russia) Edmund Widl (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria) Paolo Zuliani (University of Newcastle, UK)" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk Sat Feb 4 13:04:36 2017 From: alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Silva) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 13:04:36 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TbILLC 2017: 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: <201702041804.v14I4aJE032507@sympathy.seas.upenn.edu> 1st Call for Papers THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION 18-22 September, 2017 Kakheti, Georgia http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/ *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held on 18-22 September 2017 in Kakheti, Georgia. The Programme Committee invites submissions for contributions on all aspects of language, logic and computation. Work of an interdisciplinary nature is particularly welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics * Linguistic typology and semantic universals * Language evolution and learnability * Historical linguistics, history of logic * Natural logic, inference and entailment in natural language * Logic, games, and formal pragmatics * Logics for artificial intelligence * Constructive, modal and algebraic logic * Algorithmic game theory * Computational social choice * Formal models of multiagent systems * Information retrieval, query answer systems * Distributional and probabilistic models of information and meaning Authors can submit an abstract of three pages (including references) at the EasyChair conference system here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tbillc2017 PROGRAMME The programme will include the following tutorials and a series of invited lecturers. Tutorials: Language: Jakub Szymanik (University of Amsterdam) Logic: Sam van Gool (City College of New York) Computation: TBA Invited speakers: Language: Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Ruth Kempson (King's College, London) Logic: Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland, tbc) Computation: Dexter Kozen (Cornell University) Alex Simpson (University of Ljubljana) Workshops There will also be a workshop on "Language entitled Signs and gestures -- exploring the divide between sign language and speech-accompanying gestures" organised by by Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart). More information will be available on the TbiLLC website: http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/ Programme Committee Samson Abramsky (Oxford University) Kata Balogh (University of Duesseldorf) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University) Nick Bezhanishvili (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa) Valeria De Paiva (University of Birmingham) David Gabelaia (TSU, Razmadze Mathematical Institute) Brunella Gerla (University of Insubria) Nina Gierasimczuk (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology) Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart) George Metcalfe (University of Bern) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University of Technology) Wiebke Petersen (Chair, University of Duesseldorf) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London) Alexandra Silva (Chair, University College London) Sonja Smets (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Rui Soares Barbosa (University of Oxford) Luca Spada (University of Salerno) Carla Umbach (Zentrum f??r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS, Berlin) Galit W. Sassoon (Bar Ilan University) Henk Zeevat (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) PUBLICATION INFORMATION Post-proceedings of the symposium will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 15 March 2017 Notification: 15 May 2017 Final abstracts due: 15 June 2017 Registration deadline: 1 August 2017 Symposium: September 18-22, 2017 Programme and submission details can be found at: http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/ From alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk Sun Feb 5 09:57:38 2017 From: alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Silva) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 09:57:38 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORTE 2017: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <201702051457.v15Evc6j007700@sympathy.seas.upenn.edu> * Highlights * Deadline extension -- abstracts due Feb 17th, full papers Feb 24th. We welcome four kinds of submissions: Full papers (15 pages), Short Papers & Tool demos (7 pages), Posters (3 pages) We are delighted to announce our invited speaker : Rupak Majumdar (MPI-SWS) ********************************************************************************* FORTE 2017 37th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems ********************************************************************************* * Scope * FORTE 2017 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. 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. * Important Dates * - February 17, 2017: Submission of abstract - February 24, 2017: Submission of papers - April 10, 2017: Notification of acceptance - April 24, 2017: Final version - June 19-22, 2017: Conference and workshops * 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. Submissions not adhering to the specified constraints may be rejected without review. Papers must be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE???17 interface of the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte2017). We solicit four kinds of submissions: - Full papers (up to 15 pages): Describing thorough and complete research results, tools or experience reports. - 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): Students can submit descriptions of posters that will be presented at the conference - during a students poster session. Neither the descriptions or the posters will be published in the proceedings. 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. * Publication * Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. * Program Committee Chairs * Ahmed Bouajjani, University Paris Diderot, France Alexandra Silva, University College London, U * Program committee * Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada Franck Cassez, Macquarie University, Australia Hana Chokler, King???s College London, UK Pedro D???Argenio, National University of Cordoba & CONICET, Argentina Frank De Boer, CWI, Netherlands Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, University of Torino, Italy Cezara Dragoi, INRIA, ENS Paris, France Michael Emmi, Bell Labs Nokia, USA Carla Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Bart Jacob, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Sophia Knight, Uppsala University, Sweden Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, Australia Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy, France Stefan Milius, FAU Erlangen, Germany Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA Paris, France Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames, USA Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi, India Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, Netherlands From francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it Mon Feb 6 10:43:34 2017 From: francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it (Francesco Tiezzi) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:43:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] COORDINATION 2017 - Deadline Extension Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple copies] ====================================================================== COORDINATION 2017 19th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages Neuchatel, Switzerland, June 19-21 2017 http://2017.discotec.org ====================================================================== Publications * Publication of the proceedings in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science of Springer-Verlag * Publication of extended versions of selected work is planned in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of COORDINATION ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * (Extended) Submission of abstract: February 17, 2017 * (Extended) Submission of papers: February 24, 2017 * Conference: June 19-21, 2017 CONFERENCE GOALS Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogenous components. New models, architectures, languages and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference provides a well-established forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination. Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: * Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination, emergent behaviour, types, semantics; * Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance aspects; * Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages: implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity; * Middlewares and coordination; * Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing; * Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination; * Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour; * Coordination and modern distributed computing: Web services, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing; * Programming languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development of coordinated applications; * Programming methodologies and verification of coordinated applications; * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies; * Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination. PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Extended versions of a selection of the best papers is planned to be published in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of COORDINATION. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in PostScript or PDF using a two-phase online submission process. Registration of the paper information and abstract (max. 250 words) must be completed before February 3, 2017. Submission of the full paper is due no later than February 10, 2017. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the conference web site: http://2017.discotec.org . Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP?s Author Code of Conduct, see http://www.ifip.org/ under Publications/Links). The submissions must not exceed the total page number limit (see below), 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. We solicit two kinds of submissions: * Full papers (up to 16 pages + 2 pages references): describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports. * Short papers (up to 8 pages + 1 page references): describing research in progress or opinion papers on the past of Coordination research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects for the years to come. The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions of both kinds above, will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. Extended versions of a selection of the best full papers is planned to be published in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of COORDINATION. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Co-Chairs Jean-Marie Jacquet University of Namur, Belgium Jean-Marie.Jacquet at unamur.be staff.info.unamur.be/jmj Mieke Massink CNR-ISTI, Italy Mieke.Massink at isti.cnr.it www.isti.cnr.it/People/M.Massink Members Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Farhad Arbab CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Jacob Beal Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Simon Bliudze EPFL, Switzerland Frank de Boer CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Antonio Brogi University of Pisa, Italy Roberto Bruni University of Pisa, Italy Vincenzo Ciancia CNR-ISTI, Italy Dave Clarke Uppsala University, Sweden Ferruccio Damiani Universit? di Torino, Italy Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Rocco De Nicola IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy Erik de Vink Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Schahram Dustdar TU Wien, Austria Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom Stephen Gilmore University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Paola Inverardi University of l'Aquila, Italy Ramtin Khosravi University of Tehran, Iran Eva Kuhn Vienna University of Technology, Austria Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Michele Loreti University of Florence, Italy Hernan Melgratti University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Andrea Omicini University of Bologna, Italy Ernesto Pimentel University of Malaga, Spain Gwen Salaun University of Grenoble Alpes, France Marjan Sirjani Reykjavik University, Iceland Vasco T. Vasconcelos University of Lisbon, Portugal Carolyn Talcott SRI International, USA Emilio Tuosto University of Leicester, UK Mirko Viroli University of Bologna, Italy Takuo Watanabe Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Danny Weyns Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Martin Wirsing Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR Francesco Tiezzi University of Camerino, Italy STEERING COMMITTEE Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Farhad Arbab CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands 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 Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Rocco De Nicola IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Jose Proenca University of Minho, Portugal Rosario Pugliese Universit? di Firenze, Italy Marjan Sirjani Reykjavik University, Iceland Carolyn Talcott SRI International, California, USA Vasco T. 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URL: From herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk Mon Feb 6 07:11:13 2017 From: herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk (herbert at doc.ic.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:11:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QAPL'17 - Extended Deadline (Regular Papers) & Call for Presentations Message-ID: <91163833-8000-1e57-f3f6-e793a3975f85@imperial.ac.uk> ************************************************************************** 15th Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems QAPL 2017 Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 Uppsala, Sweden, Sunday 23 April 2017 http://qapl17.doc.ic.ac.uk ************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: For regular papers: Submission (extended): 12 February 2017 (AoE) Notification: 10 March 2017 (AoE) Final version (ETAPS proceedings): 25 March 2017 (AoE) Final version (EPTCS proceedings): TBA For presentation reports: Submission: 12 March 2017 (AoE) Notification: 15 March 2016 (AoE) SUBMISSIONS: In order to encourage participation and discussion, this workshop solicits two types of submissions - regular papers and presentations: 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. Regular papers will be reviewed by the PC. 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 the proceedings of another recognized conference, or which has not yet been submitted. The (extended) abstract of presentation submissions should not exceed 4 pages. Presentation reports will be selected by the PC Chairs (based on the availability of presentation time). 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=qapl17 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. From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Feb 6 10:02:05 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 15:02:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA'17: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <21EF34B4-3286-4DAA-AB7C-5C283B604CBD@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement) ============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 23-24 September 2017, Bras?lia, Brazil Satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP 2017 http://lsfa2017.cic.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 2017 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 2017 will be a satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP -- to be held in Bras?lia, Brazil, between 25 and 29 September 2017. Previous editions took place in Porto (2016), 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 (http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html). The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2017 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: 21 June 2017 * Notification: 21 July 2017 * Final pre-proceedings version due: 11 August 2017 * LSFA 2017 23-24 September 2017 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 * TBA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves, University of Porto - co-chair * Renata Wassermann, University of S?o Paulo - co-chair * Fl?vio L. C. de Moura, Universidade de Bras?lia - local organiser * Carlos Areces, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia * Veronica Becher, Universidad de Buenos Aires * Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ * Walter Carnielli, Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science ? CLE * Carlos Castro, UT Federico Santa Maria * Kaustuv Chaudhuri, INRIA * Marcelo Coniglio, UNICAMP * Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham * Santiago Escobar, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa * Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London * Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo * Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Delia Kesner, Universit? Paris-Diderot * Bjoern Lellmann, TU Vienna * Vivek Nigam, Universidade Federal da Para?ba * Jorge A. P?rez, University of Groningen and CWI, Amsterdam * Petrucio Viana, Universidade Federal Fluminense * Elaine Pimentel, UFRN * Giselle Reis, CMU-Qatar * Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, Universita' di Torino * Alvaro Tasistro, Universidad ORT Uruguay * Christian Urban, King's College London ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Fl?vio L. C. de Moura (Universidade de Bras?lia) CONTACT * lsfa2017 at easychair.org * http://lsfa2017.cic.unb.br/ ------------------------------------------------- Sandra Alves Assistant Professor, University of Porto, Portugal sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~sandra Renata Wassermann Associate Professor, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil renata at ime.usp.br http://www.ime.usp.br/~renata/ -------------------------------------------------------- From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Mon Feb 6 05:02:28 2017 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:02:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 7th Halmstad Summer School on Testing (June 12 - June 15): Call for Participation Message-ID: =========================================== The 7th Halmstad Summer School on Testing Halmstad University, Sweden (Organised in cooperation with the TOCSYC Network) June 12 - June 15, 2017 http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/HSST_2017 =========================================== 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 7th 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 ======== Georgios Fainekos (Arizona State University, USA), Specification guided testing and verification for Cyber-Physical Systems. Marie-Claude Gaudel (Universit? de Paris-Sud, France), Testing from Formal Specifications: A Unifying Framework. Alex Groce (Northern Arizona University, USA), TSTL: a Little (Integrated) Language for Testing. Justyna Petke (University College London, UK), Combinatorial Interaction Testing. Franz Wotawa (Graz University of Technology, Austria), Automated debugging ? the past, the now, and the future. Andreas Zeller (Saarland University, Germany), Fuzzing with Inferred Grammars. Registration ========== The registration deadline is April 15, 2017. To apply to the summer school, please fill in the form at: http://bit.ly/HSST_2017 . If you have any dietary requirements, or would like to attend only certain days of the summer school, please indicate in the form . The registration fee is 3100 SEK (approx. 325 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 550 SEK and can be requested upon registration. Ph.D. Symposium =============== The deadline for Ph.D. abstract submission is May 15, 2017. We have 8 time slots for Ph.D. presentations, where each student gets to present her/his research project (and possibly results) and receive feedback from our experts. We solicit abstracts of 2 pages, solely authored by a Ph.D. student, in the EasyChair Style in order to make a selection (see: http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors ). The abstract should contain a clear overview of the problem description, approach, (existing results, if any,) and future milestone. Abstract submissions can already be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hsst2017 . 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 about an hour, 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 Bromma Airport. 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 toHalmstad. More travel information can be found at the school page: http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2017#Venue Organizers ======== Stella Erlandsson (Local Organization, stella.erlandsson at hh.se) Veronica Gaspes (Organization Chair, veronica.gaspes at hh.se) Mohammad Mousavi (Program Co-Chair, m.r.mousavi at hh.se) Richard Torkar (Program Co-Chair, richard.torkar at cse.gu.se) The abstracts of the tutorials can be found at: http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/index.php/HSST_2017 For more information, contact one of the organizers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca Mon Feb 6 13:47:56 2017 From: afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 13:47:56 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WiL 2017: Women in Logic Workshop Second Call for Papers (new dates) Message-ID: <9b0fc02f-1af6-2b50-5204-71c9a9d6b32b@eecs.uottawa.ca> Second Call for Papers WiL 2017: Women in Logic Workshop Reykjavik, Iceland June 19, 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/firstwomeninlogicworkshop/ NEW * Submissions can be either a paper or a talk abstract. * Extended submission deadline: 31 March 2017 OVERVIEW Affiliated with the Thirty-Second Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) 20-23 June 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland. We are holding the first Women in Logic (WiL) workshop as a LICS associated workshop this year. The workshop intends to follow the pattern of meetings such as Women in Machine Learning (WiML, http://wimlworkshop.org/) or Women in Engineering (WIE, (http://www.ieee-ras.org/membership/women-in-engineering) that have been taking place for quite a few years. Women are chronically underrepresented in the LICS community; consequently they sometimes feel both conspicuous and isolated, and hence there is a risk that the under-representation is self-perpetuating. The workshop will provide an opportunity for women in the field to increase awareness of one another and one another's work, to combat the feeling of isolation. It will also provide an environment where women can present to an audience comprised of mostly women, replicating the experience that most men have at most LICS meetings; we hope that this will be particularly attractive to early-career women. Topics of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to the usual Logic in Computer Science (LICS) topics. These are listed as 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. SUBMISSIONS Contributions should be written in English and can be submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 10 pages), short papers (with a maximum of 5 pages), or talk abstracts (1 page). Papers and abstracts should be prepared in latex using the LICS style (IEEE Proceedings 2-column 10pt). LaTeX style files are available at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/. Please use IEEEtran.cls version V1.8b, released on 26/08/2015. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to the WiL 2017 Easychair page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wil2017) before the submission deadline of 31 March 2017, anywhere on Earth. PROCEEDINGS We plan to publish a post conference volume at ENTCS or other equally visible outlet. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 31 March 2017 Author notification: 1 May 2017 Contribution for Informal Proceedings: 22 May 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS * Claudia Nalon (University of Brasilia, Brasil) * Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, France) SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Valeria de Paiva (Chair, Nuance Communications, USA) * Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada) * Anna Ingolfsdottir (Reykjavik University, Iceland) * Ursula Martin (University of Oxford, UK) * Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) * Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) * Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh, UK) From discotec.publicity.chair at gmail.com Mon Feb 6 18:17:50 2017 From: discotec.publicity.chair at gmail.com (Ivan Lanese) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 00:17:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DisCoTec 2017 - 2 weeks deadline extension Message-ID: ************************************************************************ Call for Papers - 2 weeks deadline extension DisCoTec 2017 12th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques http://2017.discotec.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DisCoTecConference/ Neuch?tel, Switzerland, 19-22 June 2017 ************************************************************************ 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 some travel grants for students and an award for the best paper of DisCoTec. All conferences share the same deadlines: * Important Dates * - February 17, 2017 (extended): Submission of abstract - February 24, 2017 (extended): Submission of papers - April 10, 2017: Notification of acceptance - April 24, 2017: Final version - June 19-22, 2017: Conference and workshops * General Chair * Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland * Organisation Chair * Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland * Publicity Chair * Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy * Workshops Chair * Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille, France * Steering Board * Farhad Arbab (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, Germany) Michele Loreti (University of Florence, Italy) Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech -- Chair) Rui Oliveira (University do Minho, Portugal) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, France) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) * 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 2017 19th IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages ************************************************************************ * Scope * Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference provides a well-established forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination. Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: - Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination, emergent behaviour, types, semantics; - Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance aspects; - Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages: implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity; - Middlewares and coordination; - Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing; - Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination; - Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour; - Coordination and modern distributed computing: Web services, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing; - Programming languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development of coordinated applications; - Programming methodologies and verification of coordinated applications; - Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies; - Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination. * Program Committee Chairs * - Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium - Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Italy ************************************************************************ DAIS 2017 17th 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. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems, particularly in areas of middleware, data store, cloud computing, edge and fog computing, big data systems, data center and internet-scale systems, social networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile computing, software-defined network (SDN), service-oriented computing, and peer-to-peer systems; - Novel architectures and mechanisms, particularly in areas of pub/sub systems, language-based approaches, overlay protocols, virtualization, resource allocation, blockchains, parallelization, and bio-inspired distributed computing; - System issues and design goals, including self-management, security and practical applications of cryptography, trust and privacy, cooperation incentives and fairness, fault-tolerance and dependability, scalability and elasticity, and tail-performance and energy-efficiency; - Engineering and tools, including model-driven engineering, domain-specific languages, design patterns and methods, profiling and learning, testing and validation, and distributed debugging. * Program Committee Chairs * - Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland - Hans P. Reiser, University of Passau, Germany ************************************************************************ FORTE 2017 37th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems ************************************************************************ * Scope * FORTE 2017 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. 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. * Program Committee Chairs * - Ahmed Bouajjani, University Paris Diderot, France - Alexandra Silva, University College London, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rocco.denicola at imtlucca.it Tue Feb 7 03:33:25 2017 From: rocco.denicola at imtlucca.it (Rocco De Nicola) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 09:33:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Expression of Interest for Faculty Positions in CS at GSSI - L'Aquila (IT) Message-ID: <0a6bafbd-5ba7-bc11-9837-e6cde07af539@imtlucca.it> Gran Sasso Science Institute ? Computer Science Area Expression of Interest for Faculty Positions Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI ? http://www.gssi.it) is a new, ambitious Centre for Advanced Studies and PhD School established in L?Aquila (Italy). The Computer Science Area of GSSI (http://cs.gssi.infn.it/phd-program/information/) invites expressions of interest for permanent positions at the level of Full or Associate Professor, and for tenure track (Ricercatore TD ? B), and temporary (Ricercatore TD ? A) research assistants. Highly qualified candidates with a strong research background in the following fields: cryptography, network security, algorithms, programming languages and software engineering are encouraged to apply. The Institute is particularly interested in (potential) leaders of multi-disciplinary research groups in the above fields. Candidates must have an excellent record of publications, a clear potential to promote and lead research activities, and a specific interest in teaching at the postgraduate level to skilled students recruited internationally. APPLICATIONS Applicants should submit their expression of interest by sending - a motivation letter in which also the position(s) of interest are specified. - a curriculum vitae - a list of publications, - a brief research statement. Applications (and questions regarding the application process) must be submitted in electronic form, preferably by April 1st 2017, to eoi-cs at gssi.it. DISCLAIMER Please note that this is not a permanent job vacancy advertisement. The expressions of interest received will contribute to the decision of the Gran Sasso Science Institute whether or not to open official calls, their number and the selection procedures. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 1- Duties Teaching post-graduate courses, leading internal seminar and tutoring PhD students. All activities are in English. 2- Salary The salary will be determined on a personal basis, also taking into account past positions covered abroad. Indicative figures of the gross amount for starting (minimum) salary are: - Professor (prima fascia) ? 72.431 - Associate Professor (seconda fascia) ? 50.831 - Assistant Professor, tenure track (ricercatori TD ? B) ? 34.898 - Assistant Professor, no tenure track (ricercatori TD ? A) ? 34.898 Net income may vary depending on income taxes, local taxes, retirement plan, health care deduction and tax exemptions. Professors who have held a tenured position outside Italy for more than three years (at the corresponding level) might be eligible for a partial recognition of past services, depending on specific legal constraints. -- Prof. Rocco De Nicola IMT - School for Advanced Studies Lucca Piazza S. Francesco, 19 - I-55100 Lucca - Italy Tel: +39 0583 4326730 - Mobile +39 329 4309862 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From drl at cs.cmu.edu Wed Feb 8 11:11:48 2017 From: drl at cs.cmu.edu (Dan Licata) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 11:11:48 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Math Research Communities on Homotopy Type Theory, June 4-10, 2017, Snowbird UT Message-ID: <6D1AEA61-BB84-4119-89A6-5576467D8717@cs.cmu.edu> Dear all, This is a reminder that from June 4-10, 2017, there will be a workshop on Homotopy Type Theory, organized as part of the AMS Mathematics Research Communities program and held in the Snowbird Resort in Utah. The goal of the workshop is to bring together advanced graduate students and postdocs having some background in one (or more) areas such as algebraic topology, category theory, mathematical logic, or computer science, with the goal of learning how these areas come together in homotopy type theory, and working together to prove new results. Basic knowledge of just one of these areas will be sufficient to be a successful participant. The organizers are particularly interested in using this workshop as an opportunity to improve the diversity in the HoTT community in all aspects. For more information about the workshop, including the list of sample topics that participants may be working on and the registration information, please see the website: http://www.ams.org/programs/research-communities/2017MRC-1 All accepted into the program will receive financial support (room and board at the Snowbird Resort and up to $650 towards airfare). The application deadline is *March 1st, 2017.* The majority of the positions are allocated to U.S. citizens and people who are affiliated with U.S. institutions, but a smaller number are also open to international participants. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the organizers. Dan Christensen, Chris Kapulkin, Dan Licata, Emily Riehl, Mike Shulman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Homotopy Type Theory" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to HomotopyTypeTheory+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From Klaus.Havelund at jpl.nasa.gov Tue Feb 7 11:36:45 2017 From: Klaus.Havelund at jpl.nasa.gov (Havelund, Klaus (348B)) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:36:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] SPIN 2017 - Paper Submission: Extended to February 17 Message-ID: SPIN 2017 24th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software Santa Barbara, CA, USA, July 13-14, 2017 http://conf.researchr.org/home/spin-2017 Collocated with ISSTA Paper Submission: Extended to February 17, 2017 (23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth) ________________________________ The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software, but does not exclude analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, empirical evaluation, and education. History: The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state model checking, specifically as related to the Spin model checker. However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly scoped symposium for software analysis using any automated techniques, including model checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution. An overview of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: http://spinroot.com/spin/symposia. SPIN 2017 will be organized as an ACM SIGSOFT event, collocated with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017): http://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2017. The RERS Verification Challenge In addition there will be a one-day Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems verification challenge Workshop (RERS 2017): http://www.rers-challenge.org/2017. ________________________________ SPIN 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software * Formal analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts * Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract * Model checking * Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT * Verifying compilers * Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques * Static analysis and abstract interpretation * Combination of verification techniques * Modular and compositional verification techniques * Verification of timed and probabilistic systems * Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques * Combination of static and dynamic analyses * Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material via formal analysis * Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results * Engineering and implementation of software verification and analysis tools * Benchmark and comparative studies for formal verification and analysis tools * Formal methods education and training * Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to the symposium ________________________________ Keynote Speakers ________________________________ * Domagoj Babic, Google, Inc. * Byron Cook, Amazon Web Services * Gerard Holzmann, Nimble Research ________________________________ Submission Guidelines ________________________________ The contributions to SPIN 2017 will be published as ACM Proceedings, and should be submitted in the ACM Conference Format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (please use the sigconf template). Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions. We are soliciting two categories of papers: * Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete results (10 pages); * Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods education (4 pages). Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair SPIN 2017 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2017. Best Paper awards will be given and announced at the conference. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT). ________________________________ Important Dates ________________________________ * Paper Submission: Extended to February 17, 2017 (23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth) * Author Notification: Updated to April 20, 2017 * Camera-Ready Paper: May 20, 2017 * Symposium: July 13-14, 2017 ________________________________ Organization ________________________________ * Hakan Erdogmus, Program Co-Chair, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Klaus Havelund, Program Co-Chair, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Corina Pasareanu, Awards Chair, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Yli?s Falcone, Publicity Chair, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, France ________________________________ Program Committee ________________________________ * Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Christel Baier, Technical University of Dresden, Germany * Tom Ball, Microsoft Research, USA * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen (LMU Munich), Germany * Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands * Zmago Brezocnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia * Sagar Chaki, Software Engineering Institute CMU, USA * Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy * Lucas Cordeiro, University of Oxford, UK * Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA * Susanne Graf, VERIMAG Laboratory, France * Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, USA * Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Rajeev Joshi, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA * Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA * Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark * Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany * Alice Miller, University of Glasgow, Scotland * Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel * Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services, USA * Theo Ruys, RUwise, Netherlands * Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA * Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, United States * Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore * Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames Research Center, USA * Stavros Tripakis, University of California, Berkeley, USA * Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa * Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA * Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and selected papers will appear in the Student Session proceedings by Springer. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience. *ORAL/POSTER PRESENTATIONS:* Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for oral presentations and one for posters. This means that papers are directly submitted either as oral presentations or as poster presentations. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present smaller research projects and research in progress. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:* Authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly authored. Each author may submit at most one single and one jointly authored contribution. Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral presentation or 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples and references). Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying information. More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found on the Student Session website: http://www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/esslli-stus-2017/. *SPONSORSHIP AND PRIZES* As in previous years, Springer has kindly agreed to sponsor the ESSLLI student session. 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URL: From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Tue Feb 7 22:52:02 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 04:52:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Third Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS) 2017: Second announcement and call for papers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------ Third Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS) 2017 Stockholm, August 7 - 11, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ The third Nordic Logic Summer School is arranged under the auspices of the Scandinavian Logic Society (http://scandinavianlogic.org/). The two previous schools were organized in Nordfjordeid, Norway (2013) and Helsinki (2015). The intended audience is advanced master students, PhD-students, postdocs and experienced researchers wishing to learn the state of the art in a particular subject. The school is co-located with Logic Colloquium 2017 (August 14-20) and Computer Science Logic 2017 (August 21-24). The school will consist of 10 five-hour courses, running in two parallel streams. In addition, there will be short student presentations and poster sessions. The lectures start on: ** Monday August 7, 9:00, and end Friday August 11, 16:15 ** LECTURERS AND COURSES ------------------------------ The following lecturers and course topics are confirmed. * Mirna Dzamonja (University of East Anglia) -- Set Theory * Martin Escardo (Birmingham) -- Topological and Constructive Aspects of Higher-Order Computation * Henrik Forssell (Oslo) -- Categorical Logic * Volker Halbach (Oxford) -- Truth & Paradox * Larry Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington) -- Natural Logic * Anca Muscholl (LaBRI, Universit? Bordeaux) -- Logic in Computer Science - Control and Synthesis, from a Distributed Perspective * Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland) -- Logic and Rationality * Peter Pagin and Dag Westerst?hl (Stockholm University) -- Compositionality * Sara L. Uckelman (Durham) -- Medieval Logic * Andreas Weiermann (Ghent) -- Proof Theory --------------------- Certificates for participation will be provided. There will be possibilities to take official credits for some of the courses. --------------------- VENUE --------------------- Department of Mathematics, Kr?ftriket Campus, Stockholm University. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- Registration: -- Registration opens: March 6, 2017 Early registration ends: ** May 15, 2017 ** Late registration ends: ** August 4, 2017 ** -- Submission of abstracts for presentations and posters: -- Opening: March 6, 2017 Closing: May 2, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2017 -- The early registration fee will be 1900 SEK including VAT (approx. 190 Euros) per participant, and includes coffee breaks and conference materials. Late registration fee is 2600 SEK including VAT. Some participation-fee grants may be available. ACCOMMODATION --------------------- The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there will be special offers at hostels and hotels (in the range 700 -1200 SEK/night for single rooms) available when the registration opens. SPECIAL OFFER FOR ACCOMMODATION --------------------- There will be offers of inexpensive accommodation via the Stockholm University Housing Office. The cost will be around 300 SEK per person per night, in studio apartments shared by two people. To be able to take part in this offer, participants need to register at the latest May 15. Enquiries may be directed to: logic2017-accommodation [at] math.su.se FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------- Further information about submissions, registration and accommodation possibilities will (in due time) be available on the NLS webpage: https://www.sls17.conf.kth.se General enquiries: nls2017 [at] philosophy.su.se Accommodation enquiries: logic2017-accommodation [at] math.su.se COMMITTEES ---------------- Program Committee of NLS 2017: Thierry Coquand (G?teborg), Ali Enayat (G?teborg) Mai Gehrke (IRIF, Paris), Nina Gierasimczuk (Copenhagen) Valentin Goranko (Stockholm U), Lauri Hella (Tampere) Lars Kristiansen (Oslo), Juha Kontinen (Helsinki) ?ystein Linnebo (Oslo), Sara Negri (Helsinki) Erik Palmgren (chair, Stockholm U) Local Organizing Committee of NLS 2017: Valentin Goranko (co-chair), Dilian Gurov, Roussanka Loukanova, Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Anders Lundstedt, Erik Palmgren (co-chair) ------------------------------------------------------------ From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Mon Feb 6 17:16:52 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:16:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Message-ID: <905b2f905a1d67e20792ff8c1bba25bf@lcc.uma.es> ================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 ================================================================================ WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit?t Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Universit? degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universit? degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer B?hme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-H?bner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Universit? Ca? Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabh?ngiges Landeszentrum f?r Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf K?sters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Ma?a, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Universit? di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA G?nther Pernul, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina P?pper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Bj?rn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore J?rg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universit?t, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain From i.phillips at imperial.ac.uk Thu Feb 9 14:41:53 2017 From: i.phillips at imperial.ac.uk (Iain Phillips) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 19:41:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RC 2017 Call For Papers :: Deadline Extended Message-ID: <401596dc-fd91-c7d8-a7f1-bf8bc07a4e1b@imperial.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS ================ 9th International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC-2017) July 6-7, 2017, Pride Plaza Hotel, Kolkata, India http://www.reversible-computation.org Research in reversible computation has drawn the attention of researchers over the years. Reversible computation has a growing number of promising application areas such as low power design, testing and verification, database recovery, discrete event simulation, reversible specification formalisms, reversible programming languages, process algebras, quantum computation, etc. Initial implementations of reversible and quantum circuits have been reported recently and are seen as promising alternatives to CMOS technology. The 9th Conference on Reversible Computation will take place during July 6-7, 2017, in Kolkata, India and will be jointly organised by: (a) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, (b) Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), (c) University of Calcutta, (d) Indian Statistical Institute Calcutta, and (e) Jadavpur University. Previous editions of this event took place as workshop in York (2009), Bremen (2010), Gent (2011), Copenhagen (2012) and was upgraded to a conference subsequently and held in Victoria (2013), Kyoto (2014), Grenoble (2015), and Bologna (2016). The conference will bring together researchers, academicians and students from computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and physics to discuss new developments and directions for future research in reversible computation. This particularly includes applications of reversibility in quantum computation. Research papers, tool demonstrations, work-in-progress reports and poster presentations are within the scope of the conference. Invited talks by leading international experts will complete the program. A summer school shall be conducted on July 5, 2017 specifically targeting the beginners in this area. The Conference Banquet dinner shall be organised on July 6th evening, while a Social Event followed by dinner shall be organised on July 7 evening, which are open to all the conference delegates. Contributions, not necessarily restricted to the following topics, in Reversible Computation are invited from prospective authors: a) Architectures b) Algorithms c) Circuit Design d) Debugging e) Fault Tolerance and Error Correction f) Hardware g) Information Theory h) Physical Realisations i) Programming Languages j) Quantum Computation k) Software l) Synthesis m) Theoretical Results n) Testing o) Verification SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION: Interested researchers are invited to submit full research papers and tutorials (16 pages maximum), as well as work-in-progress or tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum) in Springer LNCS format through the Conference website. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to the scope of the conference. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by Springer as an Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. IMPORTANT DATES: * Abstract Submission: February 14, 2017 (EXTENDED) * Full-paper Submission: February 20, 2017 (EXTENDED) * Notification to Authors: March 20, 2017 * Camera-ready Copy: April 10, 2017 * Author Registration: April 7, 2017 Organising Committee: a) General Chairs - Indranil Sen Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India - Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen/DFKI, Germany b) Program Chairs - Iain Phillips, Imperial College, London, UK - Hafizur Rahaman, IIEST Shibpur, India c) Organising Chair - Amlan Chakrabarti, University of Calcutta, India d) Finance Chair - Chandan Giri, IIEST Shibpur, India From andrei at inf.unibe.ch Thu Feb 9 07:34:05 2017 From: andrei at inf.unibe.ch (Andrei Chis) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 13:34:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: SLE 2017 (10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering) Message-ID: ======================================================================== **Call for Papers** 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2017) 23-24 October 2017, Vancouver, Canada (Co-located with SPLASH 2017) General chair: Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France Program co-chairs: Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Artifact evaluation chairs Tanja Mayerhofer, TU Wien, Austria Laurence Tratt, King's College London, UK http://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers http://www.sleconf.org/2017 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ======================================================================== 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). ### Important Dates Fri 2 Jun 2017 - Abstract Submission Fri 9 Jun 2017 - Paper Submission Fri 4 Aug 2017 - Author Notification Thu 10 Aug 2017 - Artifact Submission Fri 1 Sep 2017 - Artifact Notification Fri 8 Sep 2017 - Camera Ready Deadline Sun 22 Oct - SLE workshops Mon 23 Oct - Tue 24 Oct 2017 - SLE Conference ### 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 in the domain of language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. In particular, SLE is interested in principled engineering approaches and techniques in the following areas: * Language Design and Implementation * Approaches and methodologies for language design * Static semantics (e.g., design rules, well-formedness constraints) * Techniques for behavioral / executable semantics * Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) * Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Language Validation * Verification and formal methods for languages * Testing techniques for languages * Simulation techniques for languages * Language Integration and Composition * Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools * Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) * Traceability between languages * Deployment of languages to different platforms * Language Maintenance * Software language reuse * Language evolution * Language families and variability * Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) * Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools * User studies evaluating usability * Performance benchmarks * Industrial applications ### 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 including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/). * **Tool papers**: Because of SLE's 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. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/), and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords ?Tool Demo? or ?Tool Demonstration? in the title. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. The 6-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. * **Industrial papers**: These should describe real-world application scenarios of SLE in industry, explained in their context with an analysis of the challenges that were overcome and the lessons which the audience can learn from this experience. Industry paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/). * **New ideas / vision papers**: New ideas papers should describe new, non-conventional SLE research approaches that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. Vision papers are intended to present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 4 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/). ### Artifact evaluation Authors of accepted papers at SLE 2017 are encouraged to submit their experiment results used for underpinning research statements to an artifact evaluation process. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully receive a seal of approval printed on the first page of the paper in the proceedings. Authors of papers with accepted artifacts are encouraged to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. ### Publications All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers, including tool papers, industrial papers and new ideas / vision papers will be published in ACM Digital Library. Selected accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of the Computer Languages, Systems and Structures (COMLAN) journal. ### Awards * **Distinguished paper**: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the program committee. * **Distinguished reviewer**: Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs using feedback from the authors. * **Distinguished artifact**: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. ### Program Committee Marjan Mernik (co-chair), University of Maribor, Slovenia Bernhard Rumpe (co-chair), RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Jordi Cabot, ICREA, Spain Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Tom Dinkelaker, Ericsson, Germany Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Sebastian Gerard, CEA, France Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA Esther Guerra, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Michael Homer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Tihamer Levendovszky, Microsoft, USA Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada Terence Parr, University of San Francisco, USA Jaroslav Porub?n, University of Ko?ice, Slovakia Jan Ringert, Tel Aviv University, Israel Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada Tony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia Eugene Syriani, University of Montreal, Canada Emma S?derberg, Google, Denmark Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Jurgen Vinju, CWI, Netherlands Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State University, USA Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Tian Zhang, Nanjing University, China ### Contact For any question, please contact the organizers via email: sle2017 at inria.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From georg.moser at uibk.ac.at Thu Feb 9 05:14:03 2017 From: georg.moser at uibk.ac.at (Georg Moser) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:14:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DICE-FOPARA 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <04eeea50-8218-8443-496d-8c9dc044ee90@uibk.ac.at> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity and 5th Workshop on Foundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis (DICE-FOPARA 2017) Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 April 22 - 23, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/events/dice-fopara ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES The first joint international workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity and FOundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis (DICE-FOPARA) will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, from April 22-23, 2017 as part of ETAPS. DICE-FOPARA serves as a forum for presenting results relevant to the implicit computational complexity theory *and* to the analysis of resource consumption by computer programs (e.g. time, space, energy). The workshop aims to bring together the researchers that work on foundational issues with the researchers that focus more on practical results. INVITED SPEAKERS Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) Kerstin I. Eder (University of Bristol) Lars Kristiansen (University of Oslo) Jan Reinecke (Universit?t Saarland) SUBMISSIONS We ask for submission of *regular papers* describing original work (10-15 pages) or *extended abstracts* (2--6 pages) presenting already published work or work in progress. Regular papers must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (see http://eptcs.org/). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dicefopara2017 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission February 19, 2017 Notification March 19, 2017 Final versions due March 26, 2017 Workshop date April 22-23, 2017 CONFERENCE VENUE The workshop will be held as a satellite workshop of European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software 2017 (ETAPS 2017) which takes place in Uppsala, Sweden. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Beniamino Accattoli (Paris) Guillaume Bonfante (Nancy, co-chair) Marko van Eekelen (Nijmegen) Marco Gaboardi (Buffalo) Dan Ghica (Birmingham) Clemens Grelck (Amsterdam) Charles Grellois (Bologna) Nao Hirokawa (JAIST) Jan Hoffmann (CMU) Thomas Jensen (Rennes) Bj?rn Lisper (M?lardalen) Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (Edinburgh) Georg Moser (Innsbruck, co-chair) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) Simon Wegener (Saarbr?cken) Florian Zuleger (Vienna) From raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be Thu Feb 9 05:00:57 2017 From: raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be (Raoul Strackx) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:00:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ESSoS'17] International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (*Deadline approaching: Feb 24th*) Message-ID: <4f2436f4-e1de-a5fb-f57f-88bdc64906cc@cs.kuleuven.be> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Call for papers | | | | | | International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems | | | | ESSoS 2017 | | | | July 3-5, 2017 | | Bonn, Germany | | | | https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2017/calls-papers.html | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | *Paper submission*: Friday, February 24, 2017 (firm) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ In cooperation with: ACM SIGSAC and SIGSOFT (pending) New this year: co-Located with DIMVA. * Context and motivation * IT security is becoming an increasingly interdisciplinary subject. For example, it is insufficient to simply deploy new security measures but one must pay careful attention to correctly integrate the security measures into existing software. Such an approach involves redesigning and engineering of software to ensure that the built-in security policy is effective in practice. Many security venues put little focus on topics related to software engineering, while many software-engineering venues lack appreciation for more complex topics in software security. ESSoS thus strives to be a venue that welcomes exactly such contributions that are at the border of IT security and software engineering. The program committee is particularly chosen to encompass a broad range of expertise, ranging from software security over software engineering to human subjects such as usable security. * Goal and setup * The goal of this symposium, which will be the ninth in the series, is to bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the state 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 secure 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 - Usable security * Important dates * Paper submission: Friday, February 24, 2017 (firm) Paper acceptance notification: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Artifact evaluation submission: Friday, April 21, 2017 Poster submission: Friday, April 21, 2017 Poster acceptance notification: Friday, April 28, 2017 Camera-ready: Friday, May 12, 2017 Symposium: Monday to Wednesday, July 3-5, 2017 (DIMVA is held July 6-7, following ESSoS) * 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/computer/lncs, pending approval). 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. _Posters_ ESSoS will have a poster session to present ideas, discuss prototypes, and feature ongoing work. Authors of accepted papers and authors with evaluated artifacts are invited to submit a poster as well. Poster abstracts are limited to 1 page. _Approved Artifacts_ Due to the secure software engineering focus, we expect the majority of papers to be based on an accompanying software artifact, data set, or similar. We strongly encourage the authors of accepted papers to submit such artifacts for evaluation. Artifact Evaluation will take place after accepted papers have been announced. Further information will be given closer to the paper-submission deadline. Submissions where the artifact evaluation committee can reproduce the software artifacts and evaluation will receive the ?approved artifact? badge. Authors of approved artifacts are further given the opportunity to demo their artifact at the conference. In addition, the committee will select a best artifact to receive the Distinguished Artifact Award. * 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 University) * Organizing committee * General chair: Michael Meier (University of Bonn, DE) Program co-chairs: Mathias Payer (Purdue university, USA),Eric Bodden (Paderborn University, DE) Doctoral Symposium: TBA Publication chair: Elias Athanasopoulos (University of Cyprus, CY) Publicity chair: Raoul Strackx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) Web chair: Ghita Saevels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) * Program committee * David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh Domagoj Babic, Google Inc. Alexandre Bartel, University of Luxembourg Amel Bennaceur, The Open University Stefan Brunthaler, Paderborn University Will Enck, NC State University Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine Christian Hammer, University of Potsdam Michael Hicks, University of Maryland Trent Jaeger, The Pennsylvania State University Vassilis P. Kemerlis, Brown University Johannes Kinder, University of London Byoungyoung Lee, Purdue University Yang Liu, University of Oxford Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research Cl?mentine Maurice, Technical University Graz Andy Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology Mira Mezini, Technical University Darmstadt Alessandro Orso, Georgia Tech Christina P?pper, New York University Abu Dhabi Awais Rashid, Lancaster University Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Tamara Rezk, INRIA Angela Sasse, University College London Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis Melanie Volkamer, Karlstad University Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Wed Feb 8 16:03:56 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 22:03:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: LACompLing2017 - Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 Message-ID: ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017) Stockholm, August 18-19, 2017 http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing17.html * Submission deadline for regular papers: April 14, 2017 * ============================================================ Affiliated with the 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL'2017 Stockholm, 20--26 August 2017 https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se/ Co-located with: Logic in Stockholm 2017 https://www.lis17.conf.kth.se/ ============================================================ DESCRIPTION ===== Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science and logic - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of computer science logic in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. -------------------------------- SCOPE ===== The workshop focuses on logical approaches to the computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. The topics of LACompLing2017 include, but are not limited to: - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES ===== Submission deadline for regular papers: April 14, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017 Deadline for abstracts of short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notifications for short presentations: June 12, 2017 Deadline for final submissions: June 25, 2017 Workshop: August 18-19, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ===== - Regular papers: between 10-15 pages, including figures and references, by using LaTeX, with article.sty, the default font size - Abstracts of short presentations: not more than 1 page, by using LaTeX, with article.sty, the default font size - We invite original papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts of short presentations have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf of the papers and their LaTeX sources The submissions are via the EasyChair management system of LACompLing2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2017 PUBLICATIONS ===== - The proceedings of the workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017) will be published digitally by the DiVA system of Stockholm University: http://su.diva-portal.org - Improved and extended versions of selected papers, which have been presented at the workshop LACompLing2017, will be published by the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, JoLLI, after the workshop. ORGANIZERS ===== Krasimir Angelov, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, USA Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, The Netherlands CONTACT ===== Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Valeria de Paiva (valeria.depaiva at gmail.com) -------------------------------- From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Fri Feb 10 07:33:47 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:33:47 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 2017 -- Call for posters Message-ID: **Call for posters** TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 25-29 SEPTEMBER 2017 BRASILIA BRASIL TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 2017 will have a poster session, which is intended for descriptions of works in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. Submissions should be in English, in the form of at most one page abstract, ENTCS format containing title and authors name with affiliation. The files should be sent directly to Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com). The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. The notification will be sent to authors June 30th. Proceedings of this session will not be published. Formatting instructions for posters will be made available soon. For more information please contact the local organizers: Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com) Daniele Nantes (daniele.nantes at gmail.com) http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br http://itp2017.cic.unb.br -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. Senador Salgado Filho, s/n? 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We welcome both complete and incomplete results, as long as they are substantial enough to stimulate discussion on future research directions. * **Position Paper**. In 2 two-column pages, the paper should advocate a promising research direction. Using this format, we encourage established researchers to set out their vision, and we also encourage beginning researchers to plan their path to a PhD. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Both theory and tools are welcome. Topics include but are not limited to - semantics - types - model checking - program analysis (static or dynamic) - verification (traditional, quantitative, at runtime, ...) - language design (for programs or specifications) - concurrency - security - proof engineering - pearls (proofs or programs) Important dates: - **20 April 2017:** submission deadline - **15 May 2017:** author notification Submissions will be peer reviewed, and will be evaluated based on their *clarity* and based on their *potential to generate interesting discussions*. The format of the workshop encourages interaction. FTfJP is a forum in which a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. 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URL: From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Sat Feb 11 10:17:24 2017 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (dubois) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 16:17:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Computers special issue - Formal Integrated Development Environments - Deadline approaching Message-ID: Journal: Computers Special Issue: Formal Integrated Development Environments Special Issue Editors: Catherine Dubois, Dominique Mery and Paolo Masci Deadline: 1 March, 2017 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/f_ide Guest Editors - Professor Catherine Dubois Samovar / ENSIIE Webpage: http://www.ensiie.fr/~dubois/ E-Mail: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr - Dr. Paolo Masci HASLab/INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal Webpage: http://haslab.uminho.pt/masci/ E-Mail: paolo.masci at inesctec.pt - Professor Dominique Mery LORIA & Universit? de Lorraine, France Webpage: http://www.loria.fr/~mery/ E-Mail: dominique.mery at loria.fr Summary This special issue of Computers is dedicated to Formal Integrated Development Environments (Formal-IDEs) for the rigorous specification, design, analysis, and documentation of high-assurance systems. This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in, nor submitted to, any journal or refereed conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Formal-IDE building: design and integration of languages, development of user-friendly front-ends 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 on developing Formal-IDEs Experience reports on using Formal-IDEs Experience reports on formal methods-based assessments in industrial applications Submission Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. -- Catherine DUBOIS, professor ENSIIE, lab. Samovar (UMR 5157) From gabmeyer at seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Mon Feb 13 05:24:47 2017 From: gabmeyer at seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Sebastian Gabmeyer) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:24:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TAP 2017: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <43e4eb7a-6934-c13e-b9dc-4c340cfc5b49@seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> ===================================================== Final Call for Papers 11th International Conference on Tests And Proofs TAP 2017 Marburg (Germany), 19-20 July 2017 Part of STAF 2017 http://http://www.seceng.de/tap2017 ===================================================== Aim and Scope ------------- 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. Research in verification has recently seen a steady convergence of heterogeneous techniques and a synergy between the traditionally distinct areas of testing (and dynamic analysis) and of proving (and static analysis). Formal techniques, such as model checking, that produce counterexamples when verification fails are a clear example of the duality of testing and proving. The combination of static techniques such as satisfiability modulo theory and predicate abstraction has provided means of proving correctness by complementing exhaustive enumeration testing-like techniques. More practically, testing supports the cost-effective debugging of complex models and formal specifications, and is applicable in conditions that are beyond the reach of formal techniques -- for example, components whose source code is not accessible. Testing and proving are increasingly seen as complementary rather than mutually exclusive techniques. 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. Topics of Interest ------------------ 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 Highlight Topics ---------------- In addition to TAP?s general topics of interests, the 11th edition of TAP will feature two highlight topics on techniques, tools, and experience reports on 1. Testing and proving the correctness of security properties and implementations of cryptographic functions and protocols with a focus on the successful interplay of tests and proofs, and 2. Asserting the correct functioning and testing of verification tools, especially on theorem provers, that form the basis of many verification results for tools and applications our society increasingly depends on. Important Dates --------------- Abstract: 17 February 2017 Paper: 24 February 2017 Notification: 7 April 2017 Camera-Ready Version: 21 April 2017 Conference: 19-20 July 2017 Submission Instructions ----------------------- TAP 2017 accepts papers of three kinds: - Regular research papers: full submissions describing original research, of up to 16 pages (excluding references). - Tool demonstration papers: submissions describing the design and implementation of an analysis/verification tool or framework, of up to 8 pages (excluding references). The tool/framework described in a tool demonstration paper should be available for public use. - Short papers: submissions describing preliminary findings, proofs of concepts, and exploratory studies, of up to 6 pages (excluding references). Organization ------------ Program Chairs - Einar Broch Johnsen - Sebastian Gabmeyer Program Committee - Bernhard K. Aichernig - Elvira Albert - Bruno Blanchet - Jasmin C. Blanchette - Achim D. Brucker - Catherine Dubois - Gordon Fraser - Carlo A. Furia - Sebastian Gabmeyer (chair) - Angelo Gargantini - Alain Giorgetti - Christoph Gladisch - Martin Gogolla - Arnaud Gotlieb - Marieke Huisman - Bart Jacobs - Einar Broch Johnsen (chair) - Nikolai Kosmatov - Laura Kovacs - Martin Leuker - Panagiotis Manolios - Karl Meinke - Andreas Podelski - Andrew J. Reynolds - Martina Seidl - Martin Steffen - Martin Strecker - T. H. Tse - Luca Vigan? - Burkhart Wolff - Stijn de Gouw Contact ------- mailto:tap2017 at easychair.org -- Sebastian Gabmeyer Security Engineering Group Computer Science Department TU Darmstadt & CASED A: Mornewegstrasse 32, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany (4th floor, room 4.3.17) P: +49-6151-16-25621 E: gabmeyer at seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de W: www.seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/people/dr-sebastian-gabmeyer/ -- Sebastian Gabmeyer Security Engineering Group Computer Science Department TU Darmstadt & CASED A: Mornewegstrasse 32, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany (4th floor, room 4.3.17) P: +49-6151-16-25621 E: gabmeyer at seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de W: www.seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/people/dr-sebastian-gabmeyer/ From eacsl at kahle.ch Sun Feb 12 04:19:55 2017 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 09:19:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Metafinite 2017 - Call for Presentations Message-ID: Call for Presentations: Workshop on Metafinite model theory and definability and complexity of numeric graph parameters (Metafinite 2017) Affiliated with LICS 2017 June 19 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland http://cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/metafinte2017 AIM: The workshop will bring together three strands of investigation dealing with the model theory and complexity of numeric graph parameters and their generalization to other first order structures. (A) Gurevich and Graedel in 1998 initiated the study of metafinite model theory to study descriptive complexity of numeric parameters. Metafinite model theory found most of its applications in databases and abstract state machines (ASM), but was not widely studied in connection to numeric combinatorial parameters. (B) Courcelle, Makowsky and Rotics initiated a definability theory for graph polynomials in 2000 and proved metatheorems for graph polynomials and numeric structural parameters. (C) Kotek, Makowsky and Ravve questioned wether the Turing model of computation was the right choice to discuss the complexity of numeric graph parameters and proposed alternatives using the Blum-Shub-Smale model of computation. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers of these three strands in order to further explore and elaborate on the appropriate framework for the study of numeric structural parameters and polynomials and to investigate further metatheorems. For more background see http://cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/metafinte2017 ORGANIZERS and PC: A. Goodall (Charles University, Prague) J.A. Makowsky (Technion, Haifa) E.V. Ravve (ORT-Braude, Karmiel) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Y. Gurevich (Microsoft, Redmond) E. Graedel (RWTH, Aachen) CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: K. Meer (BTU, Cottbus) M. Ziegler (KAIST, Southkorea) T. Kotek (TU, Vienna) N. Labai (TU, Vienna) A. Manuel (CMI, Chennai) T. Colcombet (Paris VII, Paris) SUBMISSION: Proposal for 30 minutes talk are sollicited in the form of an abstract of up to 4 pages in pdf-format. This may include already published material relevant for the workshop, original contributions, as well as work in progress. Submissions are for talks, not for papers. There will be no formal proceedings. Hence submissions should have a single author who is the speaker. The abstract may include a list of coauthors. 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URL: From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Mon Feb 13 16:12:45 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:12:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Message-ID: ================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit?t Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Universit? degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universit? degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer B?hme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-H?bner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Universit? Ca? Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabh?ngiges Landeszentrum f?r Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf K?sters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Ma?a, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Universit? di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA G?nther Pernul, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina P?pper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Bj?rn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore J?rg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universit?t, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain From lindsey at composition.al Mon Feb 13 21:34:36 2017 From: lindsey at composition.al (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:34:36 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MAPL Call for Papers Message-ID: The First Workshop on Machine Learning and Programming Languages (MAPL) (https://sites.google.com/view/mapl2017/home, co-located with PLDI) Call for Papers Due to recent algorithmic and computational advances, machine learning has seen a surge of interest in both research and practice. From natural language processing to self-driving cars, machine learning is creating new possibilities that are changing the way we live and interact with computers. However, the impact of these advances on programming languages remains mostly untapped. Yet, incredible research opportunities exist when combining machine learning and programming languages in novel ways. MAPL seeks to bring together programming language and machine learning communities to encourage collaboration and exploration in cross disciplinary research. The workshop will include a combination of peer-reviewed papers and invited events, such as invited talks, panels and/or town hall discussions. MAPL seeks papers on a diverse range of topics related to programming languages and machine learning including: - Programming languages and compilers for machine learning - Deep learning frameworks - Machine learning for compilation and run-time scheduling - Improving programmer productivity via machine learning - Inductive programming - Formal verification of machine learning systems - Probabilistic programming - Collaborative human / computer programming - Interoperability of machine learning frameworks and existing code bases Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: April 3, 2017 - Author Notification: April 24, 2017 - Camera-ready Deadline: May 10, 2017 - Workshop: June 18, 2017 Submissions: Papers must be submitted in PDF and be no more than 8 pages in standard two-column SIGPLAN conference format including figures and tables but not including references. Shorter submissions are welcome. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. Formal proceedings will be included in the ACM digital archive and available at the workshop. General Chair: Tatiana Shpeisman Program Chair: Justin Gottschlich Program Committee: Raj Barik (Intel Labs) Stefano Ermon (Stanford University) Justin Gottschlich (Program Chair, Intel Labs) Mary Hall (University of Utah) Peter Hawkins (Google) Costin Iancu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Michael O?Boyle (University of Edinburgh) Kunle Olukotun (Stanford University) Tatiana Shpeisman (Intel Labs) Organizing Committee: Raj Barik (Intel Labs) Stefano Ermon (Stanford University) Justin Gottschlich (Intel Labs) Costin Iancu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Kunle Olukotun (Stanford University) Tatiana Shpeisman (Intel Labs) From songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn Wed Feb 15 02:21:52 2017 From: songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:21:52 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers -- SETTA 2017: 3rd Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications Message-ID: <2017021515215257172516@shanghaitech.edu.cn> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers (CFP)] ******************************** Call For Paper ****************************************** SETTA 2017: 3rd Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications October 23-25, 2017, Changsha, China Website: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2017/ ******************************************************************************************** Important Dates . Abstract submission:April 21, 2017 (AoE) . Full paper submission: April 28, 2017 (AoE) . Notification to authors: July 3, 2017 (AoE) . Camera-ready: July 28, 2017 (AoE) . Conference date: October 23-25, 2017 Objectives The aim of the symposium is to bring together international researchers and practitioners in the field of software technology. Its focus is on formal methods and advanced software technologies, especially for engineering complex, large-scale artifacts like cyber-physical systems, networks of things, enterprise systems, or cloud-based services. Contributions relating to formal methods or integrating them with software engineering, as well as papers advancing scalability or widening the scope of rigorous methods to new design goals are especially welcome. SETTA 2017 is planning to organize a special thematic section, namely Dependability of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Requirements specification and analysis . Formalisms for modeling, design and implementation . Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures . Scalable approaches to formal system analysis . Formal approaches to simulation and testing . Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice . Contract-based engineering of components, systems, and systems of systems . Formal and engineering aspects of software evolution and maintenance . Parallel and multi-core programming . Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems . Mixed-critical applications and systems . Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing . Safety, security, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance . Dependability of smart software and systems . Empirical analysis techniques and integration with formal methods . Applications and industrial experience reports . Tool integration Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers on original research, industrial applications, or position papers proposing challenges in fundamental research and technology. The latter two types of submissions are expected to contribute to the development of formal methods either by substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating need for research by demonstrating weaknesses of existing technologies, especially when addressing new application domains. Submissions can take the form of either regular or short papers. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Papers should be written in English. Regular Papers should not exceed 16 pages and Short Papers should not exceed 6 pages in LNCS format. The proceedings is expected to be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series, as that of the past editions. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in special issues of the reputable journals. Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2017 Organizers General chair: . Xiangke Liao, National University of Defense Technology, China Program Chairs: . Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark . Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA . Ji Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China Publicity Chair: . Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University, China Local Organization Chair: . Wei Dong, National University of Defense Technology, China PC Members: . Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany . Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands . Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina, USA . Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK . Yunxin Deng, ECNU, China . Deepak D'Souza, Indian Institute of Science, India . Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China . Martin Fraenzle, University of Oldenburg, Germany . Goran Frehse, University of Grenoble Alpes-Laboratoire Verimag, France . Lindsay Groves, University of Wellington, New Zealand . Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria . Fei He, Tsinghua University, China . Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA . Kim Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark . Axel Legay, IRISA/INRIA, France . Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China . Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan . Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China . Xiaoguang Mao, NUDT, China . Markus Muller-Olm, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany . Raja Natarajan, TIFR, India . Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg . Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK . Stefan Ratschan, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech . Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado, USA . Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA . 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The speakers and topics include: Amal Ahmed -- Correct and Secure Compilation for Multi-Language Software Northeastern University Edwin Brady -- Dependent Types in the Idris Programming Language University of St. Andrews Ron Garcia -- Gradual Typing University of British Columbia Robert Harper -- Programming Languages Background Carnegie Mellon University Neel Krishnaswami -- Dependent Types and Linearity University of Cambridge Dan Licata -- Programming Languages Background Wesleyan University Frank Pfenning -- Substructural Type Systems and Concurrent Programming Carnegie Mellon University Sam Tobin-Hochstadt -- Contracts and Gradual Types Indiana University David Van Horn -- Redex, Abstract Machines, and Abstract Interpretation University of Maryland The school has a long and successful tradition (sponsored by the NSF, ACM SIGPLAN, and industry). It covers current research in the theory and practice of programming languages. Material is presented at a tutorial level that will help graduate students and researchers from academia or industry understand the critical issues and open problems confronting the field. Prerequisites are an elementary knowledge of logic and mathematics, as covered in undergraduate classes on discrete mathematics, and some knowledge of programming languages at the level of an undergraduate survey course. A *new feature* this year is the option for students to attend a Review session from June 23rd to 25th -- the three days before the summer school officially begins. The review will cover operational semantics, type systems, and basic proof techniques, and will help graduate and especially undergraduate students who have not had a previous course in this material prepare for the main part of the school. Please contact the organizers if you have questions about whether the review will be helpful given your background. We hope you can join us for this excellent program! 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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. TFP 2017 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2017 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on 22 June. 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; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015; * and Maryland (USA) in 2016. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/). == 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, but are not limited to: 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 2017 program chairs, Scott Owens and Meng Wang. == 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 == TBD == 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=tfp17 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: 5 May, 2017 Notification: 12 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 TFP Symposium: 19-21 June, 2017 Student papers feedback: 29 June, 2017 Submission for formal review: 2 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 3 November, 2017 Camera ready paper: 2 December, 2017 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == TBD From ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Wed Feb 15 07:10:29 2017 From: ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Ayoub Nouri) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:10:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd call RV2017: Runtime Verification, September 13 - 16 2017, Seattle USA Message-ID: RV 2017 *2nd Call for Papers and Tutorials* The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk rv2017 at easychair.org Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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, but are not limited to: * specification languages * monitor construction techniques * program instrumentation * logging, recording, and replay * combination of static and dynamic analysis * specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces * monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems * runtime checking of privacy and security policies * statistical model checking * metrics and statistical information gathering * program/system execution visualization * fault localization, containment, recovery and repair * integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers*as well as *tutorial proposals*will follow the following timeline: * Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 * Paper notification: June 26, 2017 * Conference: September 13-16, 2017 General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. * *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. * *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University of Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , VERIMAG (University of Grenoble Alpes), France Eric Bodden , Fraunhofer SIT and Technische University Darmstadt, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS& ENSde Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd. 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URL: From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Wed Feb 15 08:44:37 2017 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:44:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QEST 2017 - Call for papers for the 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems Message-ID: QEST2017 International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems Berlin, September 5th-7th 2017 | www.qest.org/qest2017 Co-located with Concur, EPEW Scope and Topics The International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) is the leading forum on quantitative evaluation and verification of computer systems and networks. Areas of interest include quantitative specification methods, stochastic models, and metrics for performance, reliability, safety, correctness, and security. QEST is interested in both theoretical and experimental research. QEST welcomes a diversity of modeling formalisms, programming languages and methodologies that incorporate quantitative aspects such as probabilities, approximations and other quantitative aspects. Papers may advance empirical, simulation and analytic methods. Of particular interest are case studies that highlight the role of quantitative specification, modeling and evaluation in the design of systems. Systems of interest include computer hardware and software architectures, communication systems, cyber-physical systems, infrastructural systems, and biological systems. Papers that describe novel tools to support the practical application of research results in all of the above areas are also welcome. Special sessions To encourage submissions of papers in frontier topics, submissions in selected areas are encouraged. Paper submitted to special sessions will be treated as regular submitted papers, they will be peer reviewed, and subject to the same quality requirements. A special session with accepted papers on the selected topics will be organised during the conference. This year selected topics are: Smart Energy Systems over the Cloud <> We solicit contributions dealing with quantitative analysis, verification, and performance evaluation of models of networks of smart devices interconnected physically and over the cloud, and in particular within the technological context of smart energy, dealing with smart buildings, the smart grid, or with modern power networks. Instances of problems of interest are energy management in smart buildings, demand response over smart grids, or frequency control over power networks. We are interested in configurations related to cyber-physical systems, of systems of systems, and of the Internet of things, and on models encompassing continuous and digital components, and uncertainty (either environmental, adversarial, or probabilistic). Machine Learning and Formal Methods <> We call for contributions on the fusion of formal methods and machine learning techniques. In particular, we are interested in the use of machine learning approaches, such as reinforcement learning, learning automata, decision trees, gradient based methods, etc. in (statistical) model checking, controller synthesis, program analysis and synthesis, timed systems, compositional verification, etc. The main aim is to disseminate learning based techniques that have potential of improving theory and practice of formal methods. Special issue A selection of the best papers presented at QEST 2017 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a Special Issue that will appear in the ACM Transactions of Modelling and Computer Simulation. Important Dates Abstract submission: 24 March 2017 Paper and tool submission: 31 March 2017 (AoE) Author notification: 29 May 2017 Final version due: 23 June 2017 Submissions All accepted papers (including tool demonstrations) must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The QEST 2017 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar. All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three reviewers on the basis of their originality, technical quality, scientific or practical contribution to the state of the art, methodology, clarity, and adequacy of references. QEST considers five types of papers with additional reviewing criteria: Theoretical: advance our understanding, apply to non-trivial problems and be mathematically rigorous. Methodological and technical: describe situations that require the development and proposal of new analysis processes and techniques. Application: describes a novel application, and compares with previous results. Tools: should motivate the development of the new tools and the formalisms they support, with a focus on the software architecture and practical capabilities. Tool demonstration: describe a relevant tool, as well as its features, evaluation, or any other information that may demonstrate the merits of the tool. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX, following Springer's LNCS guidelines . Submitted papers should not exceed 16 pages (4 pages for tool demonstrations). Papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors of tool papers (both regular and demonstration) must make their tools and input data available to reviewers; reproducibility of results will be taken into account during the evaluation process, and the conference will include a demo session. Authors should present use cases, distinctive features, and computational/memory requirements through motivating examples. 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Crole) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:05:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Midlands Graduate School 2017, Leicester, UK - Registration now open In-Reply-To: <30b2d3dd-6f54-86ca-4fe1-345ebfe3bcc7@le.ac.uk> References: <30b2d3dd-6f54-86ca-4fe1-345ebfe3bcc7@le.ac.uk> Message-ID: Registration is now open for the *The Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science 2017* * April 9-13, Leicester, UK* ( http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/mgs2017/ ) The MGS has run very successfully for many years now, and in recent years we have had over 50 participants making for exciting and vibrant schools. We would be delighted to see you in Leicester in 2017. The registration fees include ALL meals; dinners are provided and many members of the lecturing team will be available for discussions during the evenings. Please forward to all those you think will be interested! The organisers: Samuel Balco Roy Crole -- R. L. Crole Associate Professor Department of Informatics 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 matthias at ccs.neu.edu Thu Feb 16 11:29:58 2017 From: matthias at ccs.neu.edu (Matthias Felleisen) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:29:58 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The Racket Summer School of Semantics and Languages In-Reply-To: <864be742-2ec8-bb32-9372-1eb24d4cdfb6@cs.ru.nl> References: <864be742-2ec8-bb32-9372-1eb24d4cdfb6@cs.ru.nl> Message-ID: The Racket Summer School of Semantics and Languages Imagine yourself confronted with a Mystery Programming Language and charged with the task of figuring out its semantics. What would you do? What if you have a formal executable semantics and want to build a production language for it? If these questions intrigue you, attend the Racket Summer School: http://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ This is not your run-off-the-mill summer school. We will do our best to make it exciting, entertaining, and useful to a broad spectrum of attendees, both academic and industrial. P.S. As soon as you get accepted, we will send you your first problem set. Get ready. From matija.pretnar at fmf.uni-lj.si Wed Feb 15 15:00:14 2017 From: matija.pretnar at fmf.uni-lj.si (Matija Pretnar) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:00:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOLA 2017: Call for talk proposals Message-ID: <510BBAA6-6775-4F34-897C-DE2E85EAD735@fmf.uni-lj.si> CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS LOLA 2017: Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages ====================================================== Monday, 19 June 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland A satellite workshop of LICS 2017 http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/lola2017/ Important Dates --------------- - Abstract submission: Wednesday, 19 April 2017 - Author notification: Monday, 1 May 2017 - Workshop: Monday, 19 June 2017 Invited Speakers ---------------- - TBD Context ------- Since the late 1960s it has been known 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 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 2017, will bring together researchers interested in the relationships and connections 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 - Resource analysis and implicit complexity - Closures and explicit substitutions - Linear logic and separation logic - Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis - Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects Submission ---------- 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 research programs, 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. Authors are invited to submit their contribution by April 28, 2017. Abstracts must be written in English and be submitted as a single PDF file at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2017 Submissions will undergo a lightweight review process and 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 different communities at the workshop. The workshop will not have formal proceedings and is not intended to preclude later publication at another venue. Program Committee ----------------- - Beniamino Accattoli, INRIA - Michael Greenberg, Pomona College - Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University - Ohad Kammar, University of Oxford - Matija Pretnar, University of Ljubljana (co-chair) - Nikos Tzevelekos, Queen Mary University of London - Noam Zeilberger, University of Birmingham (co-chair) From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Wed Feb 15 23:43:55 2017 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:43:55 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers: ICFP 2017 Message-ID: <58a52e0b3a751_1ae73fdf45c55be8652be@landin.local.mail> ICFP 2017 The 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming Oxford, United Kingdom http://icfp17.sigplan.org/ Final Call for Papers ### Important dates Submissions due: Monday, February 27, Anywhere on Earth https://icfp17.hotcrp.com Author response: Monday, April 17, 2017, 15:00 (UTC) - Thursday, April 20, 2017, 15:00 (UTC) Notification: Monday, 1 May, 2017 Final copy due: Monday, 5 June 2017 Early registration: TBA Conference: Monday, 4 September - Wednesday, 6 September, 2017 ### New this year Those familiar with previous ICFP conferences should be aware of two significant changes that are being introduced in 2017: 1. Papers selected for ICFP 2017 will be published as the ICFP 2017 issue of a new journal, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), which replaces the previous ICFP conference proceedings. The move to PACMPL will have two noticeable impacts on authors: * A new, two-phase selection and reviewing process that conforms to ACM?s journal reviewing guidelines. * A new, single-column format for submissions. 2. Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the reviewing process will have the option to submit materials for Artifact Evaluation. Further details on each of these changes are included in the following text. ### Scope ICFP 2017 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. Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission 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. ICFP 2017 also welcomes submissions in two separate categories --- Functional Pearls and Experience Reports --- that must be marked as such at the time of submission and that need not report original research results. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given at the end of this call. Please contact the program chair if you have questions or are concerned about the appropriateness of a topic. ### Preparation of submissions ICFP 2017 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process, as described below. **Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 27, 2017, Anywhere on Earth (). This deadline will be strictly enforced. **Formatting**: (NOTE: NEW FORMAT REQUIREMENTS FOR ICFP 2017) Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Large" template that is available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from . For authors using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential files, is available from ; the appropriate template for ICFP 2017 authors is in the file `acmart-pacmpl-template.tex`. As documented in the template, submissions should be prepared using the `acmlarge` and `anonymous` options. The use of the `review` option is also strongly encouraged but not required. (The `review` option will add line numbers, which will make it easier for reviewers to reference specific parts of your paper in their comments, but should have absolutely no other effect on the typesetting.) Details of available technical support for LaTeX-specific questions is available at . There is a limit of 24 pages for a full paper or 12 pages for an Experience Report; in either case, the bibliography will not be counted against these limits. These page limits have been chosen to allow essentially the same amount of content with the new single-column format as was possible with the two-column format used in past ICFP conferences. Submissions that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. **Citations**: As part of PACMPL, ICFP 2017 papers are expected to use author-year citations for references to other work. Author-year citations may be used as either a noun phrase, such as "The lambda calculus was originally conceived by Church (1932)", or a parenthetic phrase, such as "The lambda calculus (Church 1932) was intended as a foundation for mathematics". A useful test for correct usage it to make sure that the text still reads correctly when the parenthesized portions of any references are omitted. Take care with prepositions; in the first example above, "by" is more appropriate than "in" because it allows the text to be read correctly as a reference to the author. Sometimes, readability may be improved by putting parenthetic citations at the end of a clause or a sentence, such as "A foundation for mathematics was provided by the lambda calculus (Church 1932)". In LaTeX, use `\citet{Church-1932}` for citations as a noun phrase, "Church (1932)", and `\citep{Church-1932}` for citations as a parenthetic phrase, "(Church 1932)"; for details, see Sections 2.3--2.5 of the natbib documentation (). **Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at . Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. **Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 15:00 UTC on Monday, April 17, 2017, to read reviews and respond to them. **Supplementary Materials**: 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 the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). **Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at . **Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at . **Resubmitted Papers**: Authors who submit a revised version of a paper that has previously been rejected by another conference 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. ### Review Process This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for presentation at ICFP 2017. A [list of frequently asked questions and answers](http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ) that address common concerns is available on the conference website and will be updated as necessary to clarify and expand on this process. **ICFP 2017 will employ a two-stage review process.** The first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on initial reviews through the author response period mentioned previously. At the PC meeting, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on May 1, 2017. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews (just as in previous conferences) along with a set of mandatory revisions. After five weeks (June 5, 2017), the authors will provide a second submission. The second and final reviewing phase assesses whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. The intent and expectation is that the mandatory revisions can be addressed within five weeks and hence that conditionally accepted papers will in general be accepted in the second phase. The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be grounds for the paper?s rejection. This process is intended as a refinement of the review process that has been used in previous ICFP conferences. By incorporating a second stage, the process will conform to ACM?s journal reviewing guidelines for PACMPL. **ICFP 2017 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. ### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers * As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must adhere to the new ACM Large format. The page limits for final versions of papers will be increased to ensure that authors have space to respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions. * Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of the three ACM licensing options: copyright transfer to ACM; retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights; or open access on payment of a fee. Further information about ACM author rights is available from . * At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. (ICFP welcomes all authors, regardless of nationality. If any author of an accepted submission has visa-related difficulties in travelling to the conference, we will make arrangements to enable remote participation, and not require them to attend the conference in order to present their talk. In such a case contact us (icfp2017 at cs.ox.ac.uk) for further guidance.) The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. * We intend that the proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library in perpetuity via the OpenTOC mechanism. * 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 to the definitive version of an ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit to learn how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL. * **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 the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.** ### Artifact Evaluation Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be reviewed by a committee, separate from the program committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, for example, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in the ACM guidelines for artifact badging. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance. Further information about the motivations and expectations for Artifact Evaluation can be found at . ### 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 half the length of a full paper. Authors submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines. #### 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. A pearl is likely to be rejected if its 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 that is intended to be 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. * Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long, excluding bibliography. * 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: it should make a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate this claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results --- the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that the team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made the team more productive. If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, it may be better off submitted it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. The program chair will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### Organizers General Chair: Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford, UK) Program Chair: Mark Jones (Portland State University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Chair: Ryan R. Newton (Indiana University, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Ryan Trinkle (Obsidian Systems LLC, USA) Programming Contest Organiser: Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity and Web Chair: Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Video Chair: Jose Calderon (Galois, Inc., USA) Workshops Co-Chair: Andres L?h (Well-Typed LLP) Workshops Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Indiana University, USA) Program Committee: Bob Atkey (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Dominique Devriese (KU Leuven, Belgium) Martin Erwig (Oregon State, USA) Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA) Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia, Canada) Kathryn Gray (University of Cambridge, England) John Hughes (Chalmers University and Quvik, Sweden) Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National University, Korea) Graham Hutton (University of Nottingham, England) Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Ranjit Jhala (University of California, San Diego, USA) Shin-ya Katsumata (Kyoto University, Japan) Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Dan Licata (Wesleyan University, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Digital Asset, Australia) Gabriel Scherer (Northeastern University, USA) Alexandra Silva (University College London, England) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, USA) Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Nicolas Wu (University of Bristol, England) Beta Ziliani (CONICET and FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) From bogom.s at gmail.com Wed Feb 15 18:37:28 2017 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:37:28 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DEADLINE EXTENSION for 4th International Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems (CPSWeek 2017) Message-ID: <000001d287e4$7bc6e010$7354a030$@gmail.com> Call for Submissions -- DEADLINE EXTENSION UNTIL FEBRUARY 22 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th International Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems CMU campus alongside CPSWeek, Pittsburgh, USA, April 17, 2017 http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH The workshop on applied verification for continuous and hybrid systems (ARCH) brings together researchers and practitioners, and establishes a curated set of benchmarks submitted by academia and industry. Verification of continuous and hybrid systems is increasing in importance due to new cyber-physical systems that are safety- or operation-critical. This workshop addresses verification techniques for continuous and hybrid systems with a special focus on the transfer from theory to practice. Topics include, but are not limited to - Proposals for new benchmark problems (not necessarily yet solvable) - Tool presentations - Tool executions and evaluations based on ARCH benchmarks - Experience reports including open issues for industrial success - Reports on results of our friendly competition Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions consist of papers of ideally 3-8 pages (pdf ) and optional files (e.g. models or traces) submitted through the ARCH?17 EasyChair web site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arch17). Authors have to use the EasyChair template (http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors).The extended abstract should be classified in its title as benchmark proposal, tool presentation, benchmark results, or experience report. Submissions receive at least 3 anonymous reviews, including one from industry and one from academia. Details on the evaluation criteria can be found at http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH/CallForSubmissions. Submission deadline: February 22, 2017 Notification: March 7, 2017 Final Version: March 31, 2017 Workshop: April 17, 2017 (different from other CPS Week workshops; this year free of charge!) Website: http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH (includes forums, archive, wiki, etc.) Prize ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The paper with the most promising benchmark results receives a prize of 500 Euros sponsored by Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. The winner is preselected by the program committee and determined by an audience voting. 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URL: From asyropoulos at yahoo.com Thu Feb 16 07:47:12 2017 From: asyropoulos at yahoo.com (Apostolos Syropoulos) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: New Worlds of Computation (NWC 2017) References: <1088023264.489602.1487249232473.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1088023264.489602.1487249232473@mail.yahoo.com> Call for Presentations New Worlds of Computation (NWC 2017) 12-14 Apr. 2017 in Orl?ans?(France) https://nwc2017-jcal.sciencesconf.org The 3rd edition of the International Workshop New Worlds of Computation (NWC 2017) will be held in Orl?ans, France, 12th to 14th April 2017. This edition will be co-located with the Journ?es du?GT Calculabilit?s du GdR Informatique Math?matique, the French days on computabilities. What will computers be made out of in 2030? In 2050? What would be the main paradigm(s)? Would electronics be replaced by some other medium for common computers? For Clouds? For large computers? For dedicated treatments? It would be?presumptuous to say when and by what, all or parts of our electronic devices would be replaced. Nevertheless, researchers explore many directions: optical, quantum, bio-computing, chemo-computing, DNA and the nano world? Would it be analog or digital? The workshop aims at gathering people interested and investigating the alternatives, providing fundamental or applied results. The ambition is to allow the presentation of the newest results as well as foster interactions between different perspectives. The third edition of the workshop will be co-localized with the Journ?es (French days) of the working group in Calculabilit?s (computabilities) from the GdR Informatique Math?matique of the CNRS. This working group will provide?insights on what would be possible or not in future computers. This co-location will permit new encounters and? provide cross-fertilization. The topics involved include natural, unconventional and hyper computations: - analog computation and computable analysis - computation on real, rings? (BSS) - recursion theory - continuous and hybrid computation - cellular automata - collision based computation - quantum computation - DNA computation and tile assembly systems - membrane computing - signal machines - computation on infinite structures or in infinite time - non-Euclidean spaces, non-standard approaches - spatial, optical, fuzzy,? computation Invited Speakers - ADAMATZKY Andrew, University of the West of England, Bristol - FOROUGHMAND-ARAABI Mohammad-Hadi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - MAYORDOMO Elvira, Universidad de Zaragoza, Espagna - VALARCHER Pierre, Universit? Paris Est Cr?teil Proceedings Proceedings are composed of a booklet collecting the abstracts of the presentations. After the workshop, a special issue of the International Journal on Unconventional Computing will be devoted to extended articles on the results presented at NWC. Submission In order to make a presentation to one or both event, you have to submit a title and an (short textual) abstract. The refereeing process is not meant to be selective but to check the coherence with the topics. It is open to work in progress or presented elsewhere. Presentation slots will be large enough to present? context, results, methodology, proofs, expected progress? PhD student are particularly welcomed. Submission deadline: 22th March 2017 Notifications: 13th and 27th March 2017 There are multiple notification times since the referee process is targeted at verifying that it matches with the topics. The submission process is common to both event. One has to provide: - Title - Abstract - Whose event it is intended to or if for both (i.e. one presentation common to both) To be able to access the submission page, one must be a logged registered user of sciencesconf.org. Registration is free and fast. When all is ready, go to the submission page. Registration Registration is free but compulsory. It includes lunches and banquet. Registration deadline : 10 April 2017 (otherwise on site, but no meal is garanteed). Contact J?r?me Durand-Lose jerome.durand-lose at univ-orleans.fr LIFO, Universit? d'Orl?ans We hope to see you and listen to you in Orl?ans mid-April. J?r?me Durand-Lose Chair The previous editions of the New Worlds of Computation workshop were held in Orl?ans in ?- 2009 : http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/NMC09 - 2011 : http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/evenements/NWC2011 The previous edition of the Journ?es Calculabilit?s were held in Nice in 2016.? ----------------------Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Thu Feb 16 05:04:22 2017 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:04:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) - CFP Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS - GraMSec 2017 The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber 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 vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop 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. TOPICS 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: ? Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis ? Graphical models for risk analysis and management ? Graphical models for requirements analysis and management ? Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security ? Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems ? Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness ? Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm ? Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models ? Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models ? Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models ? Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models ? Scalable evaluation of graphical security models ? Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models ? Dynamic update of graphical security models ? Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling ? Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants ? Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security ? UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security ? Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis ? Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be decided. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: ? Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. ? Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. As the previous two years, the GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings are planned to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer (confirmation pending). Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission deadline: Sunday, May 21, 2017 ? Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 ? Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR ? Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS ? Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA ? Ketil St?len, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, T?l?com ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Universit? di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Fr?d?ric Cuppens, T?l?com Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, T?l?com Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Herv? Debar, T?l?com SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI, USA Ren? Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Universit? Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per H?kon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Link?ping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA St?phane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Pi?tre-Cambac?d?s, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Sup?lec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Sa?a Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Universit? C?te d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mari?lle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17 at easychair.org From andrei.paskevich at lri.fr Fri Feb 17 11:10:51 2017 From: andrei.paskevich at lri.fr (Andrei Paskevich) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:10:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VSTTE 2017 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170217161050.ohrpah7y7yxuiow7@tikki.lri.fr> 9th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE) https://vstte17.lri.fr July 22-23, 2017, Heidelberg, Germany Co-located with the 29th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, CAV 2017 Important Dates * Abstract submission: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 * Full paper submission: Mon, May 1, 2017 * Notification: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 * VSTTE: Sat-Sun, Jul 22-23, 2017 * Camera-ready: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 Overview The goal of the VSTTE conference series 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. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We also welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. Topics of interest for VSTTE include education, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification/certification 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 Submissions We accept both long (limited to 16 pages) and short (limited to 10 pages) paper submissions. 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. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the conference. Paper submissions must be written in English using the LNCS LaTeX format (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods, results, and comparison to existing work. Papers will be submitted via EasyChair at the VSTTE 2017 conference page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2017). The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2017 will be published in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign the copyright transfer form. A selection of best papers will be invited for publication in the Journal of Automated Reasoning. Program Committee * June Andronick (University of New South Wales, Australia) * Christel Baier (TU Dresden, Germany) * Sandrine Blazy (Universit? de Rennes 1, France) * Arthur Chargu?raud (Inria, France) * Ernie Cohen (Amazon Web Services, USA) * Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS, Germany) * Carlo A. Furia (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Hossein Hojjat (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) * Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands) * Bart Jacobs (KU Leuven, Belgium) * Rajeev Joshi (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) * Zachary Kincaid (Princeton University, USA) * Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India) * Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research, USA) * Francesco Logozzo (Facebook, USA) * Peter M?ller (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) * Jorge A. Navas (SRI International, USA) * Scott Owens (University of Kent, UK) * Andrei Paskevich (Universit? Paris-Sud, France), co-chair * Gerhard Schellhorn (Universit?t Augsburg, Germany) * Peter Schrammel (University of Sussex, UK) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI International, USA) * Mihaela Sighireanu (Universit? Paris-Diderot, France) * Julien Signoles (CEA LIST, France) * Michael Tautschnig (Queen Mary University of London, UK) * Tachio Terauchi (JAIST, Japan) * Oksana Tkachuk (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) * Mattias Ulbrich (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA), co-chair From raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be Sun Feb 19 09:17:49 2017 From: raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be (Raoul Strackx) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 15:17:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ESSoS'17] International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (*Deadline in 5 days*) Message-ID: <00615bcf-a13c-ec35-0389-d3ff55ab3876@cs.kuleuven.be> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Call for papers | | | | | | International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems | | | | * 5 days to deadline * | | | | | | ESSoS 2017 | | | | July 3-5, 2017 | | Bonn, Germany | | | | https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2017/calls-papers.html | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | *Paper submission*: Friday, February 24, 2017 (firm) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ In cooperation with: ACM SIGSAC and SIGSOFT (pending) New this year: co-Located with DIMVA. * Context and motivation * IT security is becoming an increasingly interdisciplinary subject. For example, it is insufficient to simply deploy new security measures but one must pay careful attention to correctly integrate the security measures into existing software. Such an approach involves redesigning and engineering of software to ensure that the built-in security policy is effective in practice. Many security venues put little focus on topics related to software engineering, while many software-engineering venues lack appreciation for more complex topics in software security. ESSoS thus strives to be a venue that welcomes exactly such contributions that are at the border of IT security and software engineering. The program committee is particularly chosen to encompass a broad range of expertise, ranging from software security over software engineering to human subjects such as usable security. * Goal and setup * The goal of this symposium, which will be the ninth in the series, is to bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the state 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 secure 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 - Usable security * Important dates * Paper submission: Friday, February 24, 2017 (firm) Paper acceptance notification: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Artifact evaluation submission: Friday, April 21, 2017 Poster submission: Friday, April 21, 2017 Poster acceptance notification: Friday, April 28, 2017 Camera-ready: Friday, May 12, 2017 Symposium: Monday to Wednesday, July 3-5, 2017 (DIMVA is held July 6-7, following ESSoS) * 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/computer/lncs, pending approval). 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. _Posters_ ESSoS will have a poster session to present ideas, discuss prototypes, and feature ongoing work. Authors of accepted papers and authors with evaluated artifacts are invited to submit a poster as well. Poster abstracts are limited to 1 page. _Approved Artifacts_ Due to the secure software engineering focus, we expect the majority of papers to be based on an accompanying software artifact, data set, or similar. We strongly encourage the authors of accepted papers to submit such artifacts for evaluation. Artifact Evaluation will take place after accepted papers have been announced. Further information will be given closer to the paper-submission deadline. Submissions where the artifact evaluation committee can reproduce the software artifacts and evaluation will receive the ?approved artifact? badge. Authors of approved artifacts are further given the opportunity to demo their artifact at the conference. In addition, the committee will select a best artifact to receive the Distinguished Artifact Award. * Steering committee * Jorge Cuellar (Siemens AG) Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven) - chair Fabio Massacci (Univ. of Trento) Bashar Nuseibeh (Open Univ. and LERO) Juan Caballero (IMDEA Software Institute) Eric Bodden (Univ. Paderborn) Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway Univ.) * Organizing committee * General chair: Michael Meier (University of Bonn, DE) Program co-chairs: Mathias Payer (Purdue university, USA),Eric Bodden (Paderborn University, DE) Doctoral Symposium: TBA Publication chair: Elias Athanasopoulos (University of Cyprus, CY) Publicity chair: Raoul Strackx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) Web chair: Ghita Saevels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) * Program committee * David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh Domagoj Babic, Google Inc. Alexandre Bartel, University of Luxembourg Amel Bennaceur, The Open University Stefan Brunthaler, Paderborn University Will Enck, NC State University Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine Christian Hammer, University of Potsdam Michael Hicks, University of Maryland Trent Jaeger, The Pennsylvania State University Vassilis P. Kemerlis, Brown University Johannes Kinder, University of London Byoungyoung Lee, Purdue University Yang Liu, University of Oxford Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research Cl?mentine Maurice, Technical University Graz Andy Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology Mira Mezini, Technical University Darmstadt Alessandro Orso, Georgia Tech Christina P?pper, New York University Abu Dhabi Awais Rashid, Lancaster University Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Tamara Rezk, INRIA Angela Sasse, University College London Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis Melanie Volkamer, Karlstad University Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University From detlef.plump at york.ac.uk Sat Feb 18 16:44:44 2017 From: detlef.plump at york.ac.uk (Detlef Plump) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 21:44:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICGT 2017: Deadline Extension Message-ID: ============================================ *Call for Papers (Deadline Extension)* 10th International Conference on Graph Transformation ICGT 2017 Marburg (Germany), 18-19 July 2017 Part of STAF 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/gratra2017/ ============================================ Aims and Scope --------------------------------- Dynamic structures are a major cause for complexity when it comes to model and reason about systems. They occur in software architectures, models, pointer structures, databases, networks, etc. As collections of 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, refactoring, and evolution of a wide range of artefacts, where change can happen either at design time or at run time. Based on the observation that these structures can be represented as graphs and their modifications 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, either in contributing to the theory of graph transformation or by applying graph transformation to established or novel areas. The 10th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2017) will be held in Marburg, Germany, as part of STAF 2017 (Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations). The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS, EASST, and IFIP WG 1.3. Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and a special issue has been confirmed with the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier). Topics of Interest --------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - General models of graph transformation (e.g., high-level, adhesive, node, edge, and hyperedge replacement systems) - Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems - Graph theoretical properties of graph languages - Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages - Logical aspects of graph transformation - Computational models based on graph transformation - Structuring and modularization of graph transformation - Hierarchical graphs and decompositions of graphs - Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation - Term graph rewriting - Graph transformation and Petri nets - Model-driven development and model transformation - Model checking, program verification, simulation and animation - Syntax, semantics and implementation of programming languages, domain-specific languages, and visual languages - Graph transformation languages and tool support - Efficient algorithms (pattern matching, graph traversal, etc.) - Applications and case studies of graph transformation in software engineering, including software architectures, refactoring, business processes, access control and service-orientation - Application to computing paradigms such as bio-inspired, quantum, ubiquitous, and visual computing Important Dates ---------------------------------- *Abstract submission: February 27, 2017 (new)* *Paper submission: March 5, 2017 (new)* Notification: April 7, 2017 Camera-ready version: April 21, 2017 Conference: July 18-19, 2017 Submission Guidelines --------------------------------- Papers can be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/confe rences/?conf=icgt2017 using Springer's LNCS format ( http://www.springer.com/lncs), and should contain original research. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. All submissions will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee and external subreviewers. Papers are solicited in three categories: - Research papers (16 pages max) are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Additional material intended for reviewers may be included in a clearly marked appendix. - Case studies (12 pages max) describe applications of graph transformations in any application domain. - Tool presentation papers (12 pages max) demonstrate the main features and functionality of graph-based tools. These papers may have an appendix with a detailed demo description (up to 5 pages), which will be reviewed but not included in the proceedings. Special Issue --------------------------------- A special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) will be devoted to extended versions of the best ICGT'17 papers. Keynote Speaker --------------------------------- We are pleased to announce Georg Gottlob (University of Oxford) as invited speaker. Organization --------------------------------- Program chairs - Detlef Plump (University of York, UK) - Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain) Program committee - Anthony Anjorin (University of Paderborn, Germany) - Paolo Baldan (University of Padova, Italy) - G?bor Bergmann (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) - Paolo Bottoni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) - Juergen Dingel (Queen's University, Canada) - Rachid Echahed (CNRS, Laboratoire LIG, France) - Maribel Fernandez (King's College London, UK) - Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) - Joel Greenyer (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany) - Annegret Habel (University of Oldenburg, Germany) - Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK) - Berthold Hoffmann (University of Bremen, Germany) - Dirk Janssens (University of Antwerp, Belgium) - Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Leen Lambers (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) - Yngve Lamo (Bergen University College, Norway) - Mark Minas (Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany) - Mohamed Mosbah (LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France) - Fernando Orejas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) - Francesco Parisi-Presicce (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Arend Rensink (University of Twente, The Netherlands) - Leila Ribeiro (University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) - Andy Sch?rr (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) - Uwe Wolter (University of Bergen, Norway) - Albert Z?ndorf (University of Kassel, Germany) Contact --------------------------------- icgt2017 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks! ============================================================ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Worksop on PHYSICS AND COMPUTATION (P&C 2017) Submission deadline: 5 Mar, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 19 Apr, 2017 Final versions of papers due: 8 May 2017 A co-located workshop of UCNC 2017, June 5-9, 2017, University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA SUBMISSIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pc2017 WEB PAGE http://ucnc2017.csce.uark.edu/workshops/physicscomputation/ ============================================================ The 8th International Workshop on Physics and Computation (P&C 2017) will be held as a satellite workshop of UCNC 2017, which takes place this year from 5-9 June 2017 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA (http://ucnc2017.uark.edu/). TOPICS include, but are not restricted to: * Axiomatisation of physics: completeness, decidability, reduction * Dynamical systems: computability, complexity * Molecular computation and reaction-diffusion models * Multiple-substrate computation * Nanoscale algorithms * New approaches to physical computation * Novel models of computation * Philosophy of physics and computation * Physical Church-Turing thesis * Quantum computation, logics and information * Randomness and computation: quantum, dynamical and physical randomness * Relativistic computation: reasoning, complexity, hypercomputation * Theory of measurement: axiomatisation, complexity * Type theories of physical computation SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original papers (PDF, 12 pages maximum) to the workshop EasyChair site. Extended abstracts (4?5 pages) may also be submitted, although preference will be given to full papers. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online in a pre- proceedings before the workshop begins. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers, subject to additional review, for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Unconventional Computing (IJUC). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Selim Akl (Queen's) * Pablo Arrighi (Aix-Marseille) * Edwin Beggs (Swansea) * Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer) * Cristian Calude (Auckland) * Felix Costa (Lisboa) * Jerome Durand-Lose (Orl?ans) * Marian Gheorghe (Bradford) * Jerzy Gorecki (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences) * Viv Kendon (Durham University) * Judit Madarasz (Renyi Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) * Mike Stannett (Sheffield) * Karl Svozil (Vienna) * Gergely Szekely (Renyi Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact the wokshop organiser: Mike Stannett Email: m.stannett(at)sheffield.ac.uk ============================================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucker at spamfence.net Sat Feb 18 17:57:12 2017 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 22:57:12 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'17: Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations Message-ID: <20170218225712.wjip654xh7ef54ve@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations ThEdu'17 Theorem proving components for Educational software http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu17 at CADE 26 International Conference on Automated Deduction 6-11 August 2017 Gothenburg, Sweden http://www.cade-26.info/ ThEdu'17 Scope Computer Theorem Proving is becoming a paradigm as well as a technological base for a new generation of educational software in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The workshop brings together experts in automated deduction with experts in education in order to further clarify the shape of the new software generation and to discuss existing systems. Topics of interest include: * methods of automated deduction applied to checking students' input; * methods of automated deduction applied to prove post-conditions for particular problem solutions; * combinations of deduction and computation enabling systems to propose next steps; * automated provers specific for dynamic geometry systems; * proof and proving in mathematics education. Important Dates Extended Abstracts: 18 June 2017 Author Notification: 2 July 2017 Final Version: 16 July 2017 Workshop Day: 6 August 2017 Submission Interested researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts and system descriptions. Both kinds of submissions should be approximately 5 pages in length and present original unpublished work not submitted elsewhere. Submission is in PDF format via easychair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu17 formatted according to http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip The extended abstracts and system descriptions will be made available online. At least one author is expected to presents his/her submission at ThEdu'17. Joint publication in companion with other CADE26 events is under consideration (as a volume in the EPiC Series in Computing). Program Committee Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain Achim D. Brucker, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 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 -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog @adbrucker | @logicalhacking From georg.moser at uibk.ac.at Mon Feb 20 06:13:55 2017 From: georg.moser at uibk.ac.at (Georg Moser) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:13:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DICE-FOPARA 2017: Deadline Extended Message-ID: <45c82401-3ff1-6f45-a008-02d25ea56003@uibk.ac.at> [Apologies for cross-postings.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity and 5th Workshop on Foundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis (DICE-FOPARA 2017) Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 April 22 - 23, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/events/dice-fopara ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES The first joint international workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity and FOundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis (DICE-FOPARA) will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, from April 22-23, 2017 as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software 2017 (ETAPS 2017). DICE-FOPARA serves as a forum for presenting results relevant to the implicit computational complexity theory *and* to the analysis of resource consumption by computer programs (e.g. time, space, energy). The workshop brings together researchers that work on foundational issues with researchers that focus more on practical results. For further information, kindly see the workshop's website. INVITED SPEAKERS Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) Kerstin I. Eder (University of Bristol) Lars Kristiansen (University of Oslo) Jan Reinecke (Universit?t Saarland) SUBMISSIONS We ask for submission of *regular papers* describing original work (10-15 pages) or *extended abstracts* (2-6 pages) presenting already published work or work in progress. Regular papers must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (see http://eptcs.org/). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dicefopara2017 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission *March 5, 2017* (extended) Notification March 19, 2017 Final versions due March 26, 2017 Workshop date April 22-23, 2017 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Beniamino Accattoli (Paris) Guillaume Bonfante (Nancy, co-chair) Marko van Eekelen (Nijmegen) Marco Gaboardi (Buffalo) Dan Ghica (Birmingham) Clemens Grelck (Amsterdam) Charles Grellois (Bologna) Nao Hirokawa (JAIST) Jan Hoffmann (CMU) Thomas Jensen (Rennes) Bj?rn Lisper (M?lardalen) Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (Edinburgh) Georg Moser (Innsbruck, co-chair) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) Simon Wegener (Saarbr?cken) Florian Zuleger (Vienna) From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Tue Feb 21 12:17:16 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:17:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2017 2nd call for contributions Message-ID: Reminder: abstracts (2 pp easychair.cls) due by 13 March 2017. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2017 and EUTYPES Cost Action CA15123 meeting Budapest, Hungary, 29 May - 1 June 2017 http://types2017.elte.hu 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 formalised 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; * 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. The EUTypes Cost Action CA15123 (eutypes.cs.ru.nl) focuses on the same research topics as TYPES and partially sponsors the TYPES Conference: May 31 - June 1 are supported by and organised under the auspices of EUTypes. INVITED SPEAKERS * Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) * Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) * Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund) CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2017. Important dates: * submission of 2 pp abstract: 13 March 2017 * notified of acceptance/rejection: 10 April 2017 * camera-ready version of abstract: 2 May 2017 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 TYPES 2011 and TYPES 2013-2016, 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: September 2017. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Andreas Abel (Chalmers University Gothenburg) * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) * Jos? Espirito Santo (University of Minho) * Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg (University of Strathclyde) * Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) * Hugo Herbelin (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) * Ambrus Kaposi (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) (co-chair) * Tam?s Kozsik (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) (co-chair) * Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) * Alexandre Miquel (University of the Republic, Uruguay) * Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) * Keiko Nakata (SAP, Potsdam) * Andrew Polonsky (University Paris Diderot) * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) * Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) * Wouter Swierstra (Utrecht University) * 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. From 2009 to 2015, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. From 2016, TYPES is partially supported by COST Action EUTypes CA15123. 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), Novi Sad (2016). CONTACT Email: info at types2017.elte.hu Organisers: Ambrus Kaposi, Tam?s Kozsik, Andr?s Kov?cs and the Department of Programming Languages and Compilers at the Faculty of Informatics, E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Budapest. From gabmeyer at seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Tue Feb 21 07:49:48 2017 From: gabmeyer at seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Sebastian Gabmeyer) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:49:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TAP 2017: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <50ad772f-bc1e-da7d-b8a8-f8220628b45a@seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> ===================================================== Final Call for Papers *DEADLINE EXTENSION* 11th International Conference on Tests And Proofs TAP 2017 Marburg (Germany), 19-20 July 2017 Part of STAF 2017 http://http://www.seceng.de/tap2017 ===================================================== Aim and Scope ------------- 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. Research in verification has recently seen a steady convergence of heterogeneous techniques and a synergy between the traditionally distinct areas of testing (and dynamic analysis) and of proving (and static analysis). Formal techniques, such as model checking, that produce counterexamples when verification fails are a clear example of the duality of testing and proving. The combination of static techniques such as satisfiability modulo theory and predicate abstraction has provided means of proving correctness by complementing exhaustive enumeration testing-like techniques. More practically, testing supports the cost-effective debugging of complex models and formal specifications, and is applicable in conditions that are beyond the reach of formal techniques -- for example, components whose source code is not accessible. Testing and proving are increasingly seen as complementary rather than mutually exclusive techniques. 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. Topics of Interest ------------------ 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 Highlight Topics ---------------- In addition to TAP?s general topics of interests, the 11th edition of TAP will feature two highlight topics on techniques, tools, and experience reports on 1. Testing and proving the correctness of security properties and implementations of cryptographic functions and protocols with a focus on the successful interplay of tests and proofs, and 2. Asserting the correct functioning and testing of verification tools, especially on theorem provers, that form the basis of many verification results for tools and applications our society increasingly depends on. Important Dates (*UPDATED*) ------------------------- Abstract: *27 February 2017* Paper: *5 March 2017* Notification: 7 April 2017 Camera-Ready Version: 21 April 2017 Conference: 17-21 July 2017 Submission Instructions ----------------------- TAP 2017 accepts papers of three kinds: - Regular research papers: full submissions describing original research, of up to 16 pages (excluding references). - Tool demonstration papers: submissions describing the design and implementation of an analysis/verification tool or framework, of up to 8 pages (excluding references). The tool/framework described in a tool demonstration paper should be available for public use. - Short papers: submissions describing preliminary findings, proofs of concepts, and exploratory studies, of up to 6 pages (excluding references). Organization ------------ Program Chairs - Einar Broch Johnsen - Sebastian Gabmeyer Program Committee - Bernhard K. Aichernig - Elvira Albert - Bruno Blanchette - Jasmin C. Blanchette - Achim D. Brucker - Catherine Dubois - Gordon Fraser - Carlo A. Furia - Sebastian Gabmeyer (co-chair) - Angelo Gargantini - Alain Giorgetti - Christoph Gladisch - Martin Gogolla - Arnaud Gotlieb - Marieke Huisman - Bart Jacobs - Einar Broch Johnsen (co-chair) - Nikolai Kosmatov - Laura Kovacs - Martin Leuker - Panagiotis Manolios - Karl Meinke - Andreas Podelski - Andrew J. Reynolds - Martina Seidl - Martin Steffen - Martin Strecker - T. H. Tse - Luca Vigan? - Burkhart Wolff - Stijn de Gouw Contact ------- mailto:tap2017 at easychair.org From crafa at math.unipd.it Tue Feb 21 05:13:20 2017 From: crafa at math.unipd.it (Silvia Crafa) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:13:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2017 - Call for Student Participation Message-ID: <1af77195-b75b-0cbc-721d-9d90846cb69a@math.unipd.it> ****************************************************************** ECOOP 2017 - CALL FOR STUDENT PARTICIPATION The 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 18-23 June 2017, Barcelona, Spain co-located with PLDI 2017 and other events ECOOP Summer School - Doctoral Symposium - Student Volunteers http://2017.ecoop.org #ECOOP2017 @ECOOPconf ****************************************************************** Interested in hearing the latest about Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, Rust, Swift, JavaScript, and many many other languages and systems? Curious about new ideas such as gradual types, JIT compilers for dynamic languages, differential privacy or deep learning? Always wanted to talk about computer science face to face with senior researchers and practitioners? Let?s come to share, challenge and complement your views! Join us in Barcelona from Sunday 18 to Friday 23 June 2017 The ECOOP/PLDI conferences offers support to students and professionals interested in attending. STUDENT VOLUNTEERS: Register to be Student Volunteers, help with the organization of the conference, get a free registration and a ticket for one of the banquets. The deadline for early application is April 15 2017. Info to apply: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-Student-Volunteers SUMMER SCHOOL: The ECOOP Summer School provides an easy introduction to the world of research in programming languages. It is targeted to Bachelor, Master and early Doctoral Students. No background is required other than an interest in languages technologies. Info: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-Summer-School DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM: The Doctoral Symposium is designed to provide a forum for PhD students at any stage in their research to present their topic and get detailed feedback and advice. The main objectives of this event are: - to allow PhD students to practise writing clearly and to communicate and present their research effectively - to receive constructive feedback from other researchers and peers - to offer opportunities to form research collaborations - to contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers at the main conference Info: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-Doctoral-Symposium From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Tue Feb 21 07:56:03 2017 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (dubois) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:56:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Computers special issue - Formal Integrated Development Environments - CANCELLED In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <69bf3c86-b6f8-be3f-5cd5-c8118853c40d@ensiie.fr> Hi, The following special issue has been cancelled. We apologize for this. Please do not hesistate to contact us if needed. Catherine Dubois, Paolo Masci and Dominque Mery. ( apologies for duplicates) Le 11/02/2017 ? 16:17, dubois a ?crit : > Journal: Computers > Special Issue: Formal Integrated Development Environments > Special Issue Editors: Catherine Dubois, Dominique Mery and Paolo Masci > http://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/f_ide > > Guest Editors > - Professor Catherine Dubois > Samovar / ENSIIE > Webpage: http://www.ensiie.fr/~dubois/ > E-Mail: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr > - Dr. Paolo Masci > HASLab/INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal > Webpage: http://haslab.uminho.pt/masci/ > E-Mail: paolo.masci at inesctec.pt > - Professor Dominique Mery > LORIA & Universit? de Lorraine, France > Webpage: http://www.loria.fr/~mery/ > E-Mail: dominique.mery at loria.fr > > Summary > This special issue of Computers is dedicated to Formal Integrated > Development Environments (Formal-IDEs) for the rigorous specification, > design, analysis, and documentation of high-assurance systems. > > This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that > have been neither published in, nor submitted to, any journal or > refereed conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited > to, the following: > Formal-IDE building: design and integration of languages, > development of user-friendly front-ends > 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 on developing Formal-IDEs > Experience reports on using Formal-IDEs > Experience reports on formal methods-based assessments in > industrial applications > > > Submission > Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com. Manuscripts > can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published > continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the > special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as > communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short > abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for > announcement on this website. > Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor > be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference > proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a > peer-review process. > -- Catherine DUBOIS, professor ENSIIE, lab. Samovar (UMR 5157) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. *Keynote speakers* * Michael Wagner, Carnegie Mellon University * Ben Haldeman, Planet Labs * Manu Sridharan, Uber Technologies Inc. * Jason Crusan, NASA Advanced Exploration Systems Division * Alexandre Arnold, Airbus *Accepted papers* A total of 31 excellent papers were accepted. The full list can be found here: https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/papers/ *Registration* NFM 2017 will be held at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA on May 16 to 18, 2017. There will not be a registration fee charged to participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees must register via the link below. Foreign Nationals will need to send extra information and allow at least three weeks for processing time after all of the information has been received. Register here: https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/registration/ Co-located event: AFM Workshop 2017 AFM is a one-day workshop centered around the use and integration of highly automated formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, static analysis, runtime verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education. AFM functions both as a user's meeting for SRI's tools such as PVS, SAL and Yices, and as a workshop for those interested in state of the art automation for formal methods generally. Paper deadline: March 27, 2017 Workshop: May 19, 2017 More information: http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM17/ Organization General Chair Misty Davis (NASA Ames) Program Chairs Clark Barrett (Stanford University) Temesghen Kahsai (NASA Ames / CMU Silicon Valley) Local Organization Guy Katz (Stanford University) Rody Kersten (CMU Silicon Valley) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucker at spamfence.net Wed Feb 22 16:47:00 2017 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:47:00 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling (OCL 2017) Message-ID: <20170222214700.w56ujulpbpsk2whe@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling Co-located with STAF 2017 SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES: APPLICATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS July 20, 2017, Marburg, Germany http://oclworkshop.github.io Modeling started out with UML and its precursors as a graphical notation. Such visual representations enable direct intuitive capturing of reality, but they have weaknesses: for example, detailed visual representations bear the risk of becoming overcrowded faster than textual models and some of the visual features lack the level of precision required to create complete and unambiguous specifications. These weaknesses of 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 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 applications and case studies of textual modeling as well as test suites and benchmark collections for evaluating textual modeling tools. ## Venue This workshop will be organized as a part of STAF 2017 Conferenze in Marburg, Germany. It was previously organized as part of the MODELS conference. 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 Two types of papers will be considered: * Short contributions (between 6 and 8 pages) describing new ideas, innovative tools or position papers. * Full papers (between 12 and 16 pages). in LNCS format. Submissions should be uploaded to [EasyChair](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocl17). 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 post-conference edition of [CEUR](http://www.ceur-ws.org). ## Important Dates - Submission of papers: April 28, 2017 - Notification: May 25, 2017 - Workshop date: July 20, 2017 -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog @adbrucker | @logicalhacking From S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 05:38:40 2017 From: S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk (Simon Thompson) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:38:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Trends in Functional Programming in Education ITFPIE) 2017, call for papers Message-ID: <808795D3-0D84-4690-8498-109316D10215@kent.ac.uk> TFPIE 2017 Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 2017 The sixth workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 2017, which is to be held on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent on Thursday, 22 June, following the 2017 TFP meeting on 19?21 June. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), Soesterberg, The Netherlands (2014), and Sophia-Antipolis, France (2015), College Park, USA (2016). 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 2017 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit revised versions of their articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Call for papers TFPIE 2017 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FP and beginning CS students - FP and Computational Thinking - FP and Artificial Intelligence - FP in Robotics - FP and Music - Advanced FP for undergraduates - FP in graduate education - Engaging students in research using FP - FP in Programming Languages - FP in the high school curriculum - FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics - FP and Philosophy - The pedagogy of teaching FP - FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. - Best Lectures ? more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What?s your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. Submission 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. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2017 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. Programme committee Dr Laura Castro, University of A Coru?a Prof Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau Dr Elena Machkasova, University of Minnesota, Morris Prof Michel Mauny, Inria, Paris Dr Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow Prof Simon Thompson, University of Kent (chair) Important dates Submissions of draft papers: 10 May, 2017 Notification: 17 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 Workshop: 22 June 2017 Submission for formal review: 18 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 6 October, 2017 Camera ready paper: 3 November, 2017 Simon Thompson | Professor of Logic and Computation School of Computing | University of Kent | Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK s.j.thompson at kent.ac.uk | M +44 7986 085754 | W www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~sjt From matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 06:53:32 2017 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:53:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Reachability Problems 2017, September 7-9, Royal Holloway, University of London Message-ID: <20170223115332.GH1056@chilon.net> Apologies for multiple postings. The 11th International Workshop on Reachability Problems (RP'17) 7 - 9 September 2017 | Royal Holloway, University of London, UK | http://rp17.cs.rhul.ac.uk The 11th Workshop on Reachability Problems will be hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London. The Reachability Workshop is specifically aimed at gathering together scholars from diverse disciplines interested in reachability problems that appear in algebraic structures, computational models, hybrid systems, logic and verification. Invited Speakers: Hana Chockler, King's College London Laurent Doyen, LSV - ENS Cachan Rapha?l Jungers, Universit? catholique de Louvain Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Submissions: Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12 pages (in LaTeX, formatted according to LNCS guidelines) via Easychair. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Submissions deviating from these guidelines risk rejection. Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rp2017 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): reachability problems in infinite state systems, rewriting systems, dynamical and hybrid systems; reachability problems in logic and verification; reachability analysis in different computational models, counter timed/cellular/communicating automata; Petri nets; computational aspects of algebraic structures (semigroups, groups and rings); frontiers between decidable and undecidable reachability problems; predictability in iterative maps and new computational paradigms. Important Dates Submission deadline: 10 May 2017 (AoE) Notification to authors: 21 June 2017 Final version: 30 June 2017 Workshop: 7 - 9 September 2017 Presentation-Only Track In addition to regular papers that will appear in our LNCS proceedings, we invite researchers to apply to give a presentation at RP'17 without an accompanying paper. Such presentations can be based on work that has appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another conference, or which has not yet been submitted. These contributions will be judged solely on the basis of their attractiveness to the workshop. To apply to give such a presentation please submit a PDF file containing a short abstract (up to two pages) by e-mail [ rp2017 at easychair.org ] by August 2st 2017, with subject "RP2017 Informal Presentations". This abstract will not be published in the conference proceedings. Notification for the presentation-only track will be August 9th 2017. Proceedings The Conference Proceedings will be published as the volume of the Springer Verlag LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series and distributed at the Conference. We plan also to publish selected papers in a special issue of a high quality journal following the regular referee procedure. RP'17 Program Committee: Igor Potapov, University of Liverpool (co-chair) Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway, University of London (co-chair) Paul Bell, Liverpool John Moores University Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan Aiswarya Cyriac, Chennai Mathematical Institute Giorgio Delzanno, Universita Degli Studi Di Genova Piotrek Hofman, University of Warsaw Peter Lammich, Institut fuer Informatik, TU Munich Martin Lange, University of Kassel Salvatore La Torre, Universit? degli Studi di Salerno Ranko Lazic, University of Warwick Ond?ej Leng?l, Brno University of Technology Jerome Leroux, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Ahmed Rezine, Link?ping University Tachio Terauchi, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University Previous Workshops: 2016: RP'16 in Aalborg, Denmark LNCS proceedings, Volume 9899/2016, Springer Verlag 2015: RP'15 in Warsaw, Poland LNCS proceedings, Volume 9328/2015, Springer Verlag 2014: RP'14 in Oxford, UK LNCS proceedings, Volume 8762/2014, Springer Verlag 2013: RP'13 in Uppsala, Sweden LNCS proceedings, Volume 8169/2013, Springer Verlag 2012: RP'12 in Bordeaux, France LNCS proceedings, Volume 7550/2012, Springer Verlag 2011: RP'11 in Genova, Italy LNCS proceedings, Volume 6945/2011, Springer Verlag 2010: RP'10 in Brno, Czech Republic LNCS proceedings, Volume 6227/2010, Springer Verlag 2009: RP'09 in Palaiseau, France LNCS proceedings, Volume 5797/2009, Springer Verlag 2008: RP'08 in Liverpool, UK ENTCS proceedings, Volume 223, Elsevier 2007: RP'07 in Turku, Finland TUCS General Publication Series, Volume 45, Turku Centre for Computer Science From walid.gomaa at gmail.com Thu Feb 23 13:07:52 2017 From: walid.gomaa at gmail.com (Walid Gomaa) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:07:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Halmstad Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems 2017 Message-ID: <6b4f390d-a2f1-4dca-54e8-d15bcaa936d0@gmail.com> Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems - Call for Participation The Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems brings together the theoretical foundations and the industrial practice of the area in Halmstad, a place known both for innovation in embedded systems and popular beaches. This year?s school will take place from July 17th-21st, 2017. The summer school is intended for professionals from industry (engineers, researchers, and managers) and academics (including doctoral students). Participants will learn about key topics from prominent leaders in the field. The schedule is designed to allow significant opportunities for interaction between participants and the speakers. Topics and Speakers * Henric Andersson, SAAB Group, o Modeling & Simulation of large scale Integrated Modular CPS. * Stanley Bak, Air Force Rome Labs, o Formal Verification of CPS using Flow-Pipe Construction of Hybrid Automata. * Manfred Broy, TU M?nchen, o Modeling cyber physical systems: Interaction, modularity, distribution, probability. * Luc Jaulin, ENSTA Bretagne, o Interval analysis for the conception of autonomous and reliable cyber-physical systems. * Ueda Kazunori, Waseda University, o High-level programming languages and systems for cyber-physical systems. * Andre Platzer, CMU, o Logical Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems. * Jeff Shamma, Georgia Tech and KAUST, o Game theory for cyber-physical systems. * Martin T?rngren, KTH, o Cyber-Physical Systems - perspectives, innovation opportunities and key cross-domain challenges. All lectures will be conducted in English. Venue The summer school will take place at Halmstad University in Hav, a meeting room with an overview of the city and the Kattegat sea area. Halmstad is easily reachable by train from Copenhagen and Gothenburg airports, and by air from Stockholm. Application for Registration Registration can be done online at http://bit.ly/cps-reg. The deadline for early registration is May 1st, 2017. For more information: http://ceres.hh.se/mediawiki/CPS_2017 -- Walid Gomaa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To apply: application form # Bachelor, Master, and early Doctoral Students The ECOOP Summer School provides an easy introduction to the world of research in programming languages. No background is required other than an interest in languages technologies. Info: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-Summer-School # Doctoral Students The Doctoral Symposium is designed to provide a forum for PhD students at any stage in their research to present their topic and get detailed feedback and advice. The main objectives of this event are: to allow PhD students to practise writing clearly and to communicate and present their research effectively to receive constructive feedback from other researchers and peers to offer opportunities to form research collaborations to contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers at the main conference Info: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-Doctoral-Symposium # All Students Register to be Student Volunteers, help with the organization of the conference, get a free registration and a ticket for one of the banquets. This year PLDI and ECOOP are co-located. Student Volunteers can attend events from both conferences and might be working for either. Preference can be stated in the application form. Info: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-Student-Volunteers#About From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Mon Feb 27 17:38:12 2017 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:38:12 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2018 call for satellite events Message-ID: <20170228003812.48602164@cs.ioc.ee> 21st European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-21 April 2018 http://www.etaps.org/2018/ 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. It is an annual event held in Europe each spring since 1998. Its twenty-first edition, ETAPS 2018, will take place 14-21 April 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece. ETAPS 2018 main conferences, scheduled for 16-20 April, 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 2018 organizing committee invites proposals for satellite events (workshops) 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 2018 satellite events will be held immediately before and after the main conferences, on 14-15 April and 21 April. -- ARRANGEMENTS FOR SATELLITE EVENTS -- The organizers of an ETAPS 2018 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 2018 organizing committee, * prepare and organize the publication of a formal (post)proceedings (if desired). The ETAPS 2018 organizing committee will: * promote the event on the website and in the publicity material of ETAPS 2018, * 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 2018 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 Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and Nick Bassiliades using the web form at 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: 14 April, 15 April, 14-15 April or 21 April * the expected number of participants * a brief description (120 words approximately) of the event topic for the website and publicity material of ETAPS 2018 * 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 2018 organizing committee will need the final files by the end of Feb. 2018) * 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 2018 organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of ETAPS 2018. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages of previous satellite events as examples: ETAPS 2017: http://www.etaps.org/2017/workshops ETAPS 2016: http://www.etaps.org/2016/workshops 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: 24 March 2017 Notification of acceptance: 7 April 2017 -- HOST CITY -- Thessaloniki, named after Alexander's the Great sister, is the second largest city in Greece. Thessaloniki is an industrial and commercial center hosting an annual international trade fair, as well as a transportation hub with a major modern port and an international airport. Thessaloniki's history spans over 2300 years. Although largely rebuilt in modern style, Thessaloniki still retains its famous white Byzantine walls, the 15th century White Tower, and a Venetian citadel. The city is famous for its many fine Byzantine churches and Roman ruins of the triumphal arch and the palace of Emperor Galerius. Thessaloniki is a vibrant student city hosting more than 80,000 university students and offering countless options when it comes to local/international cuisine, cafes, music and day trips. ETAPS 2018 is organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece. -- FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES -- Please contact the workshop co-chairs, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and Nikos Bassiliades . From valeria.vignudelli at ens-lyon.fr Mon Feb 27 19:31:15 2017 From: valeria.vignudelli at ens-lyon.fr (Valeria Vignudelli) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 01:31:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Scholarship Applications: Logic Mentoring Workshop (LMW) '17 Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS 2nd LOGIC MENTORING WORKSHOP Reykjavik, Iceland Sunday 18 June 2017 http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17/lmw.html Colocated with LICS 2017 The 2nd Logic Mentoring Workshop (LMW) invites applications from students (undergraduate, master's and PhD), in all areas of logic for scholarships to attend the Logic in Computer Science (LICS) conference this year. Attending a conference such as LICS can be a transformative experience. It exposes participants to cutting-edge research and can open up new research avenues and collaboration opportunities. However many students do not get the opportunity to attend a conference such as LICS, and its participation often underrepresents women and minorities. For this reason, women and members of minority groups are especially encouraged to apply. Scholarships will be generously funded by our sponsors (see below) and cover registration to LMW and the main LICS conference, and possibly travel and accommodation. The LMW will focus on the technical and practical aspects of a career in logic research, including talks and panel sessions from leaders in the subject. LMW ?17 builds on the success of the first edition which took place last year, also colocated with LICS. Last year's programme can be found here: . SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS Applications should be made via the online form: http://bit.ly/2lLnRq5 Please note that a letter of recommendation is required and should be sent directly by your referee to Valeria Vignudelli < valeria.vignudelli at ens-lyon.fr>. Further details are on the form. The deadline for applications is *31 March 2017*. Notification will be made shortly thereafter. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Yuri Gurevich (University of Michigan, Microsoft Research) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) (more TBA) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Anupam Das (co-chair) Eric Koskinen Valeria Vignudelli (co-chair) Fabio Zanasi (co-chair) SPONSORS Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS) National Science Foundation (NSF) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (SIGLOG) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From compscience.announcement at gmail.com Sun Feb 26 18:45:43 2017 From: compscience.announcement at gmail.com (Klaus Havelund) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:45:43 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2017 - 2nd Call for papers and tutorials Message-ID: *RV 2017* *Call for Papers and Tutorials* The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk rv2017 at easychair.org Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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, but are not limited to: - specification languages - monitor construction techniques - program instrumentation - logging, recording, and replay - combination of static and dynamic analysis - specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces - monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems - runtime checking of privacy and security policies - statistical model checking - metrics and statistical information gathering - program/system execution visualization - fault localization, containment, recovery and repair - integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers* as well as *tutorial proposals* will follow the following timeline: - Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 - Paper notification: June 26, 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017 - Conference: September 13-16, 2017 Invited Speakers We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017: - Rodrigo Fonseca , Brown University, USA - Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg , Microsoft Research, USA - Andreas Zeller , Saarland University, Germany General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. - *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. - *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. - *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University of Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , VERIMAG (University of Grenoble Alpes), France Eric Bodden , Fraunhofer SIT and Technische University Darmstadt, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd. 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Lecturers and courses: CHRISTEL BAIER: Probabilistic Model Checking GILLES BARTHE: Relational Verification for Differential Privacy and Cryptography NICOLAJ BJ?RNER: Satisfiability Modulo Theories C?DRIC FOURNET: Security Verification in F* ORNA GRUMBERG: Program Repair JOOST-PIETER KATOEN: Foundations of Probabilistic Programming DANIEL KROENING: Static Analysers for Black Hats and White Hats ORNA KUPFERMANN: Automated Synthesis of Temporal-Logic Specifications MAGNUS MYREEN: Verification of an ML Compiler TOBIAS NIPKOW: Verified Analysis of Functional Data Structures LARRY PAULSON: Proof Support for Hybrid System Analysis ANDRE PLATZER: Dynamic Logic for Dynamical Systems We look forward to seeing you in Marktoberdorf in August! Orna Grumberg Tobias Nipkow -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The winner of the 2015 edition of the EAPLS Dissertation Award is Dr. Maria Christakis ETH Z?rich, Switzerland for her dissertation on Narrowing the gap between verification and systematic testing supervised by Peter M?ller. The winner was selected by a committee of international experts. Details on the procedure can be found at http://eapls.org/pages/phd_award/. The candidate theses were judged on originality, impact, relevance, and quality of writing. The jury concluded unanimously that Dr. Christakis' dissertation is an outstanding piece of work; it received the best marks amidst some very strong contenders. A summary of the jury's findings: + The thesis contains an effort in combining verification and testing, fields that seemed to be disjoint to date. + This thesis presents both novel theoretical and practical results on a high level. There are contributions that advance the state of the art both in testing and verification as well as a case study on a real piece of software. + Her contributions are significant and novel, the breadth is also "unusual" or "impressive", and she implemented and evaluated with industrial tools. + The results have been published in a series of internationally well-known conferences: FM, TACAS, ICSE, VMCAI, SEFM, RV, and SPIN. + The dissertation is very well written. We offer Dr. Christakis our heartfelt congratulations with her achievement. We are confident that it will be a sign of a long and distinguished scientific career. European Association for Programming Languages and Systems http://eapls.org From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Tue Feb 28 15:51:44 2017 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:51:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2017 early registration deadline approaching Message-ID: <20170228225144.050a2d88@cs.ioc.ee> Early registration deadline 12 March 2017! ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 20th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2017 Uppsala, Sweden, 22-29 April 2017 http://www.etaps.org/2017 ****************************************************************** -- 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 2017 is the twentieth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (24-28 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, UK) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands, and Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Javier Esparza, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany, Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick, UK) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Matteo Maffei, Universit?t des Saarlandes, Germany, Mark D. Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France, and Tiziana Margaria, LERO, Ireland) TACAS '17 hosts the 6th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Michael Ernst (University of Washington, USA) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, DK) * FoSSaCS invited speaker: Joel Ouaknine (University of Oxford, UK) * TACAS invited speaker: Dino Distefano (Facebook and Queen Mary University of London, UK) -- UNIFYING PUBLIC LECTURE Serge Abiteboul (DI, INRIA Paris & ENS Cachan, France) -- INVITED TUTORIALS V?ronique Cortier (LORIA, CRNS, France) Kenneth McMillan (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS, PROGRAMME -- See the accepted paper lists and conference programme at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (22-23 April, 29 April) -- 16 satellite workshops and other events will take place before or after ETAPS 2017. DICE-FOPARA, GaLoP, GaM, SynCop-PV, VerifyThis (22-23 April) FESCA, SNR (22 April) HotSpot, QAPL, SannellaFest (23 April) BX, CREST, LiVe, MARS, PLACES, VPT (29 April) -- REGISTRATION -- Early registration is until Sunday, 12 March 2017 (23:59 GMT+1). http://www.etaps.org/2017/registration -- ACCOMMODATION -- The organizers have negotiated special rates from several hotels in Uppsala. To benefit from those, follow the instructions on the conference website. The offers expire on different dates. -- HOST CITY -- Uppsala city holds a rich history, having for long periods been the political, religious and academic centre of Sweden. Uppsala University is over 500 years old and ranked among the top 100 in the World and has hosted many great scientists over the years, for instance Carl von Linn?, Anders Celsius and Anders Jonas ?ngstr?m. The proximity to the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, provides additional benefits as a potential site for arranging both pre- and post congress tours, as well as for excursions or tourism. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2017 is hosted by the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. -- ORGANIZERS Parosh Abdulla (General chair), Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Andreina Francisco, Kaj Lampka, Philipp R?mmer, Konstantinos Sagonas, Bj?rn Victor, Wang Yi, Tjark Weber, Yunyun Zhu From sinya at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp Tue Feb 28 23:44:13 2017 From: sinya at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Shinya Katsumata) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 13:44:13 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Shonan school on "Semantics of Effects, Resources, and Applications" (May 2017) Message-ID: Call for Participants ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shonan school on "Semantics of Effects, Resources, and Applications" Shonan Village Center, Japan May 15-19, 2017 (your arrival would be requested the night before: May14th) *Registration Deadline: March 5th, 2017* Applicants will be able to attend the school after they are screened and approved by organizers. We will inform you of the results in early March via email. Thank you very much in advance for your understanding. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The School will be held at Shonan Village Center (SVC) in Japan during May 15-19, 2017. All participants are expected to arrive and check-in the night before the meeting starts (on Ma?14, 2017). The School is organized by two researchers: - Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA (gaboardi atmark buffalo.edu) - Shinya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan (sinya atmark kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp) At the NII Shonan School, the internationally recognized scientists and researchers provide a series of advanced lectures on the state-of-the-art informatics research for students and young researchers. Each lecture also includes a short hand-on session for the participants to try tools and software used in the current research field. In addition to these valuable lectures, the participants of the NII Shonan School have an excellent opportunity to build up, enhance and widen international collaboration network among young researchers through the five-day dense program. NII Shonan Schools are managed by NII. The lectures are provided by six researchers: - Chung-Kil Hur, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea - Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany - Sam Lindley, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Paul-Andr?e Melli`es, University Paris Diderot, France - Ulrich Sch?opp, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universt?at M?unchen, Germany - Niki Vazou, University of California, San Diego, USA We would fully appreciate if you register for participation on the following web page: http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/seminar/registration-for-seminar-103/ Please enter the password: PA13Ca2nF Please be aware that the registration deadline is on *March 5th, 2017*. [Accommodation] About six weeks before the School, the SVC will send ID and Password to participants to the e-mail address you?ll have registered, so you can make a reservation for accommodation on the web page of SVC. The SVC offers a combination of facilities for conferences, training, and lodging in a resort-like setting. Its friendly and open environment promotes a culture of communication and exchange among participants. You?ll be able to see further details about travel and accommodation information on the following web page: http://www.nii.ac.jp/shonan Participants are expected to attend the full program and excursion staying at SVC throughout all school dates. 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URL: From laurie at tratt.net Mon Feb 27 03:58:49 2017 From: laurie at tratt.net (Laurence Tratt) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:58:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Programming Language Implementation Summer School (PLISS) Message-ID: <20170227085849.vx64mo4p6baxpmmy@overdrive.tratt.net> ============================================================================ Programming Language Implementation Summer School (PLISS) May 20-27, 2017, Bertinoro Italy https://pliss2017.github.io/ ============================================================================ Programming languages are our interface to the myriad of computer systems we interact with on a daily basis. They allow us to craft complex sequences of operations at increasing high levels of abstraction. How are these languages designed? How are they implemented? How do we evaluate them? The First Programming Language Implementation Summer School (PLISS) will be held in Bertinoro, Italy from May 20 to 27, 2017. The Summer School's goal is to prepare early graduate students and advanced undergraduates for research in the field. This will be done through a combination of lectures on language implementation techniques and short talks exploring the state of the art in programming language research and practice. Lectures cover current research and future trends in programming language design and implementation, including: * Writing Just-in-time Compilers with LLVM * Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking * Designing a Commercial Actor Language * High-Performance Fully Concurrent Garbage Collection * Compiling Dynamic Languages * Language-support for Distributed Datastores The instructors are accomplished researchers and practitioners with extensive experience designing and engineering successful languages and tools. We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors in allowing us to make travel grants and fellowships available to support students interested in attending PLISS. More details at https://pliss2017.github.io/ From kutsia at risc.jku.at Mon Feb 27 06:19:53 2017 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:19:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Special Issue of the AMAI on the Formalization of Geometry, Automated and Interactive Geometric Reasoning Message-ID: <5324e3ba-f93e-6c96-bcb1-8cdf72f35a1e@risc.jku.at> Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence special issue on Formalization of Geometry, Automated and Interactive Geometric Reasoning Geometry is a privileged field of investigation for various domains of computer science from image processing to geometric modeling via artificial intelligence in education and automated proof in geometry or semantic indexation of multimedia databases and so on. This special issue of AMAI is devoted to formal computational aspects of geometry. Formalizing geometry can be investigated in several different ways. At the beginning of the 1960s, the seminal work of Gelernter in the domain of automated proof was about synthetic geometry as taught in school. Then, in the late 1970s, a kind of revolution occurred with the work of Wu consisting in translating geometry into algebra and in using pseudo-division to perform proofs of a high-level theorem in both Euclidean and hyperbolic geometries. Subsequently, much work has been done continuing that geometry/algebra relation by considering other aspects of geometry, like differential geometry, distance geometry, discovering geometric theorems in figures with dynamic geometry software or from graphical figures, etc. Moreover, several researchers studied the foundations of geometry through various set of axioms; this way, the classical axiomatic approaches of Hilbert and Tarski have been formalized, as well as computational origami or incidence geometry. Outside the domain of automated proof, formalization of geometry is also encountered almost everywhere in geometric modeling --for instance with geometric constraint solving, declarative modeling or topological modeling-- and also in computational geometry or combinatorial geometry. Call-for-Papers For this special issue of AMAI, we are seeking original contributions on various aspects of formalization of geometry having in view computational applications mainly oriented to proof but also to modeling in geometry. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): * Polynomial algebra, invariant and coordinate-free methods, probabilistic, synthetic, and logical approaches, techniques for automated geometric reasoning from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics; * Symbolic and numeric methods for geometric computation, geometric constraint solving, automated generation/reasoning and manipulation with diagrams; * Design and implementation of geometry software, special-purpose tools, automated theorem provers, experimental studies; * Applications of formalization of geometry to mechanics, geometric modeling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics, and education. Important dates: September 1, 2017: paper submission via http://www.editorialmanager.com/amai/ selecting the issue: S688 Formalization of Geometry and Reasoning January 1, 2018: author notification March 1, 2018: revisions and camera-ready paper submission Guest Editors: Pascal Schreck , Tetsuo Ida , Laura Kovacs From Klaus.Havelund at jpl.nasa.gov Sun Feb 26 18:39:05 2017 From: Klaus.Havelund at jpl.nasa.gov (Havelund, Klaus (348B)) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 23:39:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] RV 2017 - 2nd Call for papers and tutorials Message-ID: RV 2017 Call for Papers and Tutorials The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk rv2017 at easychair.org Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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, but are not limited to: * specification languages * monitor construction techniques * program instrumentation * logging, recording, and replay * combination of static and dynamic analysis * specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces * monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems * runtime checking of privacy and security policies * statistical model checking * metrics and statistical information gathering * program/system execution visualization * fault localization, containment, recovery and repair * integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates Papers as well as tutorial proposals will follow the following timeline: * Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 * Paper notification: June 26, 2017 * Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017 * Conference: September 13-16, 2017 Invited Speakers We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017: * Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University, USA Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg, Microsoft Research, USA * Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. * Regular Papers (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. * Short Papers (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. * Tool Demonstration Papers (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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. Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. Organization General Chair Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Program Chairs Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK Finance Chair Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Publicity Chair Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Local Organisation Chairs Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA Program Committee Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer, The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer, KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG (University of Grenoble Alpes), France Eric Bodden, Fraunhofer SIT and Technische University Darmstadt, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo, University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA Lu Feng, University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France Alex Groce, Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall?, University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic, Google Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke, NEC Europe Ltd. Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay, Inria Rennes, France Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, Germany Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research, USA David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore Francesco Logozzo, Facebook Parthasarathy Madhusudan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Veselin Raychev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Rahul Sharma, Microsoft Research, USA Julien Signoles, CEA LIST, France Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen, University of Dortmund, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Volker Stolz, University of Olso, Norway Frits Vaandrager, Radboud University, Netherlands Neil Walkinshaw, University of Leicester, UK Chao Wang, University of Southern California, USA Eugen Zalinescu, Technische Universitat M?nchen, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Tue Feb 28 02:25:36 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:25:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Message-ID: <8c70b214cbc656c44f1f1ed7787414e2@lcc.uma.es> ================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit?t Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Universit? degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universit? degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer B?hme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-H?bner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Universit? Ca? Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabh?ngiges Landeszentrum f?r Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf K?sters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Ma?a, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Universit? di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA G?nther Pernul, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina P?pper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Bj?rn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore J?rg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universit?t, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain From idramnesc at info.uvt.ro Tue Feb 28 04:54:58 2017 From: idramnesc at info.uvt.ro (Isabela Dramnesc) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:54:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First CFP Synasc 2017, Timisoara, Romania Message-ID: First Call for Papers --------------------- SYNASC 2017 19th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 21-24, 2017, Timisoara, Romania http://synasc.ro/2017 In honor of Professor Stefan Maruster?s 80th birthday, of Professor Bruno Buchberger?s 75th birthday and of Professor Tetsuo Ida?s 70th birthday Aim --- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing and to exhibit interesting applications of the areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of the topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary for accelerating the progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important Dates --------------- 15 March 2017 : Proposals for workshops, special sessions, tutorials 15 April 2017 : Abstract submission 15 May 2017 : Paper submission 15 July 2017 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2017 : Registration 01 September 2017 : Revised papers according to the reviews 21-24 September 2017 : Symposium 30 November 2017 : Final papers for post-proceedings Invited Speakers (list to be extended) ---------------- Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Panagiota Fatourou, University of Crete Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * Numerical Computing + iterative approximation of fixed points + solving systems of nonlinear equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization + parallel algorithms for numerical computing + scientific visualization and image processing * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + intelligent systems for scientific computing + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + scientific knowledge management + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + computational intelligence + soft computing + machine learning + data mining, text mining and web mining + natural language processing + computer vision + intelligent hybrid systems * Distributed Computing + parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving + applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments + architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing + modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators + any other topic deemed relevant to the field * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Data Structures and algorithms + Combinatorial Optimization + Formal languages and Combinatorics on Words + Graph-theoretic and Combinatorial methods in Computer Science + Algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms + Computational Complexity Theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing + Logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory + Algorithmic and computational learning theory + Aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory + Proof complexity + Computational social choice and game theory + New computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to Computability + Randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity + Automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification + Applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics + Experimental algorithmics This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Publication -------------- Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be collected as post-proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (included in IEEE Xplore) and will be submitted for indexing in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS. Extended versions of the selected papers published in post-proceedings will be considered to be published as special issues in international journals (e.g. Soft Computing Journal, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience etc.) Honorary Chairs --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General Chairs ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chairs ------------- * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + James Davenport, University of Bath, UK + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada + Manuel Kauers, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria + Alin Bostan, INRIA, France * Numerical Computing + Stephen Takacs, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria + Eva Kaslik, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Logic and Programming + Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA + Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Daniel Pop, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Florin Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania * Monica Tirea, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Mihail Gaianu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Submission ----------- Submissions of research papers are invited. The papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. The submission process consists of two steps. * In the first step the authors are invited to express their intention to participate at the conference by registering the title and a tentative abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) of their paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper. There are four categories of submissions: * Regular papers describing fully completed research results (up to 8 pages in the two-columns paper style). * System descriptions and experimental papers describing implementation results of experimental data, with a link to the reported results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style). * Short papers, describing work in progress and/or preliminary results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style). * Posters, describing ongoing work and research challenges of PhD students (up to 2 pages in the two-columns paper style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2017. Special sessions, workshops and tutorials ---------------------------------------------------- Proposals are also invited for: * special sessions * satellite workshops * tutorials Special sessions ---------------- Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the conference. Special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas and they are fully integrated into the main conference. The research papers and the informal presentations submitted and accepted for the special sessions follow the same rules as the papers submitted to the regular sessions. It is expected that the organizers of the special sessions appoint their own chair and program committee, which will be integrated in the conference program committee and will be supervised by the conference program chair and by the general chair. Workshops --------- Proposals for satellite workshops are also invited. The satellite workshops should have topics related to SYNASC but the scientific program of each satellite workshop is managed by the workshop organizers. Authors contributing to a workshop would be required to register for the symposium. All papers accepted at workshops will be included in the local electronic pre-proceedings and the best presented papers will be included in the post proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services. Tutorials --------- Proposals for tutorials are also invited. Tutorials provide fundamental exposure to topics ranging from introductory through intermediate to advanced. The number and the duration of the tutorials will be decided by the tutorial chair under the supervision of the general chair. Depending on the number and the quality of the proposals for tutorials, they may be organized as a SYNASC Autumn School. ----------- SYNASC 2017 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592195, +(40) 256 592389 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc17 at synasc.ro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From inge.van.halst at informatics-europe.org Tue Feb 28 05:35:27 2017 From: inge.van.halst at informatics-europe.org (Inge van Halst) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:35:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Nominations - 2017 Minerva Informatics Equality Award Message-ID: ********************************************************************* *Minerva Informatics Equality Award ** *2017 Edition* *"Supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions"* *Presented by Informatics Europe* *Sponsored by Google* *Call for Nominations Now Open * *********************************************************************** Informatics Europe proudly announces the second Minerva Informatics Equality Award devoted to initiatives which seek to encourage and support the careers of women in Informatics research and education. The second of this annual award will be presented in October 2017 and is sponsored by Google. The Informatics Europe Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognizes best practices in Departments or Faculties of European universities or research labs that have been demonstrated to have a positive impact for women. On a three-year cycle the award will focus each year on a different stage of the career pipeline: * Developing the careers of female faculty, including retention and promotion; * Supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions; * Encouraging female students to enroll in Computer Science/Informatics programmes and retaining them. **The 2017 Award is devoted to initiatives supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions.** The Award seeks to celebrate successful initiatives that have had a measurable impact on the careers of women within the institution. Such initiatives can serve as exemplars of best practices within the community, with the potential to be widely adopted by other institutions. Nominations will need to demonstrate the impact that has been achieved. *For 2017 examples of impact could include an improved career development and better agreements on career planning for female PhD students and postdocs as recorded in objective surveys of staff experience, and increasing numbers of female faculty.* *The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000* The Award will be given to a Department or Faculty to be used for further work on supporting the transition of female PhD or post-docs to faculty positions. To be eligible, nominated institutions must be located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe, or Israel. Institutions associated with members of the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award panel are not eligible. The Award panel will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals. Moreover, noteworthy runners up may also be included as exemplars of best practice in future Informatics Europe publications. *Proposals should be submitted only at:* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2017 *The proposal should include:* * Contact information for the Head of the nominated Department or Faculty and the nominator (who can be the same); * A brief summary or abstract (100 words or less) which can be made public. * Description of the initiative (max 2 pages); * Evidence of its impact (max 2 pages); * An optional reference list (which may include URLs of supporting material); * Optionally, one or two letters of support. The letters of support may come, for example, from female staff members who have benefited from the scheme. *Deadlines:* * Full nominations: June 1, 2017 * Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2017 The Award will be presented at the 13th European Computer Science Summit , in Lisbon, October 23-25, 2017, where a representative of the winning institution(s) will be invited to give a talk on their achievements. *Award Panel:* * Christine Choppy, Professor of Informatics, University Paris 13 (SPC), France (Chair) * Serge Abiteboul, Senior Researcher, Inria, France (co-chair Comit? Parit?-?galit?) * Tibor Bosse, Associate Professor of Informatics, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands (Gender Equality Officer) * Gy?ngyi Bujdos?, Professor of Informatics, University Debrecen, Hungary * Monica Divitini, Professor in Cooperation Technologies, IDI-NTNU, Norway * Anna Ing?lfsd?ttir, Professor of Informatics, University Reykjavik, Iceland * Mema Roussopoulos, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Athens, Greece * Letizia Tanca, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy *Further inquiries:* minerva-award at informatics-europe.org From splash.publicity at gmail.com Wed Mar 1 20:39:16 2017 From: splash.publicity at gmail.com (SPLASH Publicity) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:39:16 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2017: 1st Combined Call for Contributions Message-ID: ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH 2017 October 22-27, 2017 Vancouver, Canada http://2017.splashcon.org The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. Combined Call for Contributions: * SPLASH Workshops * OOPSLA * Onward! Papers * Onward! Essays * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * SPLASH-E * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition ## SPLASH Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2017 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: Fri March 3, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Workshops ## OOPSLA Papers may target any stage of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the development of new tools (such as language front-ends, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, and code organization approaches), new principles (such as formalisms, proofs, models, and paradigms), and new evaluations (such as experiments, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Abstracts due: Thu April 13, 2017 Submissions due: Mon April 17, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-OOPSLA ## Onward! 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: Fri April 21, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/onward-2017/onward-2017-Onward-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: Fri April 21, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/onward-2017/onward-2017-essays-2017 ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) >From Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, Dynamic Languages have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects on Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Abstracts due: Fri May 26, 2017 Submissions due: Fri June 2, 2017 http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-17/index.html ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to (i) program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, (ii) domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, (iii) feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, (iv) applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Abstracts due: Sun June 25, 2017 Submissions due: Sun July 2, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2017/gpce-2017-GPCE-2017 ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) 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). SLE solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri June 2, 2017 Submissions due: Fri June 9, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers ## SPLASH-E SPLASH-E is a new (started in 2013) forum for software and languages (SE/PL) researchers with activities and interests around computing education. Some build pedagogically-oriented languages or tools; some think about pedagogic challenges around SE/PL courses; some bring computing to non-CS communities; some pursue human studies and educational research. At SPLASH-E, we share our educational ideas and challenges centered in software/languages, as well as our best ideas for advancing such work. Unlike general conferences on computing education, SPLASH-E strives to bring together researchers and those with educational interests that arise from software ideas or concerns. Submissions due: Thu June 29, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-SPLASH-E ## 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. Submissions due: Sat July 15, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-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. Submissions due: Fri June 30, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Doctoral-Symposium ## Student Research Competition The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research at SPLASH before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to not only up-and-coming young researchers, but also exposes them to the field of computer science research and its community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help them sharpen their communication and networking skills. Submissions due: Mon July 17, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Student-Research-Competition ## Information Contact: publicity at splashcon.org Website: http://2017.splashcon.org Location: Hyatt Regency Vancouver Vancouver, Canada ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) OOPSLA Program Chair: * Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) Onward! Papers Chair: * Emina Torlak (University of Washington) Onward! Essays Chair: * Robert Biddle (Carleton University) DLS Program Chair: * Davide Anaconde (University of Genova) GPCE General Chair: * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) GPCE Program Chair: * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) SLE General Chair: * Benoit Combemale (University of Rennes 1) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) * Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University) SPLASH-E Chair: * Joe Gibbs Politz (University of California, San Diego) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Karim Ali (University of Alberta) * Avik Chaudhuri (Facebook) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Craig Anslow (Middlesex University) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) OOPLSA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Michael Bond (Ohio State University) * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University) Posters Co-Chairs: * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop Co-Chairs: * Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) * Barbara Ryder (Virginia Tech) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (LogicBlox) * Jennifer Sartor (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Daco Harkes (TU Delft) * Giovanni Viviani (University of British Columbia) Publications Chair: * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI & University of Groningen) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Tony Hosking (Australian National University, Data61, Purdue University) * Jurgen Vinju (CWI & TU Eindhoven) Video Co-Chairs: * David Darais (University of Maryland) * Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) Web and Publicity Co-Chairs: * Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) From sinya at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp Wed Mar 1 23:13:43 2017 From: sinya at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (sinya at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:13:43 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Shonan school on "Semantics of Effects, Resources, and Applications" (May 2017) Message-ID: <51606.130.54.16.90.1488428023.risu@tinu.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Call for Participants ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shonan school on "Semantics of Effects, Resources, and Applications" Shonan Village Center, Japan May 15-19, 2017 (your arrival would be requested the night before: May14th) Registration Deadline: *March 5th, 2017* Applicants will be able to attend the school after they are screened and approved by organizers. We will inform you of the results in early March via email. Thank you very much in advance for your understanding. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The School will be held at Shonan Village Center (SVC) in Japan during May 15-19, 2017. All participants are expected to arrive and check-in the night before the meeting starts (on Ma?14, 2017). The School is organized by two researchers: - Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA (gaboardi atmark buffalo.edu) - Shinya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan (sinya atmark kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp) At the NII Shonan School, the internationally recognized scientists and researchers provide a series of advanced lectures on the state-of-the-art informatics research for students and young researchers. Each lecture also includes a short hand-on session for the participants to try tools and software used in the current research field. In addition to these valuable lectures, the participants of the NII Shonan School have an excellent opportunity to build up, enhance and widen international collaboration network among young researchers through the five-day dense program. NII Shonan Schools are managed by NII. The lectures are provided by six researchers: - Chung-Kil Hur, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea - Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany - Sam Lindley, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Paul-Andr?e Melli`es, University Paris Diderot, France - Ulrich Sch?opp, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universt?at M?unchen, Germany - Niki Vazou, University of California, San Diego, USA We would fully appreciate if you register for participation on the following web page: http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/seminar/registration-for-seminar-103/ Please enter the password: PA13Ca2nF Please be aware that the registration deadline is on *March 5th, 2017*. [Accommodation] About six weeks before the School, the SVC will send ID and Password to participants to the e-mail address you?ll have registered, so you can make a reservation for accommodation on the web page of SVC. The SVC offers a combination of facilities for conferences, training, and lodging in a resort-like setting. Its friendly and open environment promotes a culture of communication and exchange among participants. You?ll be able to see further details about travel and accommodation information on the following web page: http://www.nii.ac.jp/shonan Participants are expected to attend the full program and excursion staying at SVC throughout all school dates. [Participation fee] The participation fee including full board, meeting fees and applicable taxes is 12,500 JPY per day. *Participants need to share a twin room (two participants per room). *Excursion fee, around 5,000 JPY, is not included in the participation fee. *NII Shonan School will NOT support travel for any participants. We suggest you to bring your own personal computer at the School. [Visa] If you need a Visa to enter Japan, after confirming the necessary documents to the Embassy or the Consulate of Japan in your locating country, please ask us in an appropriate timing to issue the necessary documents prepared by us. "Seminar Details" is available in the following web page. http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/seminar/seminardetails103/ *Please put the password to see "Initial List of Invitees" P115hei7w " Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any question. Best regards, From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Wed Mar 1 09:16:48 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:16:48 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IMLA 2017 Deadline Extension Message-ID: Deadline Extension: 29th March, 2017 [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] --- Call for Papers --- 7th Workshop on Intuitionistic Modal Logic and Applications https://sites.google.com/site/imla2017toulouse/ Affiliated with the 29th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI2017), University of Toulouse (France), 17-28 July, 2017 Constructive modal logics and type theories are of increasing foundational and practical relevance in computer science. Applications of constructive modal logics in type disciplines for programming languages, meta-logics for reasoning about a variety of computational phenomena and explanatory frameworks in philosophical logic are everywhere. The workshop aims at developing and explaining theoretical and methodological issues around the question of how the proof-theoretic strengths of constructive logics can best be combined with the model-theoretic strengths of modal logics. Practical issues center around the question of which modal connectives with associated laws or proof rules capture computational phenomena accurately and at the right level of abstraction. In its seventh edition, the Workshop on Intuitionistic Modal Logic and Applications will take place in Toulouse France, in conjunction with the 29th ESSLLI . Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: * Modal Logics * Logical frameworks * Proof theory * Type theory * Automated deduction * Formal semantics of languages and systems * Applications IMLA 2017 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. *Submissions* Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 12 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 EPTCS style. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to IMLA 2017 page at Easychair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imla2017 until the submission deadline in March 29th, 2017, anywhere on Earth. At least one of the authors should register for the conference. The paper presentation should be in English. *Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: March 29th, 2017 Author notification: April 15th, 2017 Contribution for Proceedings: 15 May 2017 Final program [and Proceedings]: 1 June 2017 *Scientific and Organizing Committee* * Sergei Artemov, (CUNY, USA) co-chair * Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comms, USA) co-chair * Mario Benevides (COPPE-IM, Rio, BR) * Elaine Pimentel (DMAT, UFRN, BR) * Natasha Alechina (Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK) * Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) * Tudor Protopopescu (Higher School of Economics Moscow, RU) * Giuseppe Primiero (Middlesex University London, UK) -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. Senador Salgado Filho, s/n? 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URL: From dilian at csc.kth.se Thu Mar 2 09:37:01 2017 From: dilian at csc.kth.se (Dilian Gurov) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:37:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2017: Final Call For Papers In-Reply-To: <25d1cb16-8773-7f01-7f70-0ac8ba989600@csc.kth.se> References: <25d1cb16-8773-7f01-7f70-0ac8ba989600@csc.kth.se> Message-ID: <26dcef7b-14f9-f6cb-663c-08bff0e823a0@csc.kth.se> ================================================================= FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2017) August 20-24, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se ================================================================= AIM AND SCOPE Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science and is intended for computer scientists whose research involves logic, as well as for logicians working on issues essential for computer science. CSL 2017 is the 26th EACSL annual conference. It will be co-organised by Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and hosted by Stockholm University. CSL 2017 will be co-located with, and immediately preceded by, the Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC 2017). There will be a joint session of CSL 2017 and LC 2017 in the morning of August 20, as well as CSL-affiliated workshops during August 25-26. IMPORTANT DATES: --------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission for contributed papers: March 24, 2017 Paper submission: March 31, 2017 Notification: May 31, 2017 Abstract submission for short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notification on short presentations: June 14, 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST for CSL 2017 include (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------- ? automata and games, game semantics ? automated deduction and interactive theorem proving ? bounded arithmetic and propositional proof complexity ? categorical logic and topological semantics ? computational proof theory ? constructive mathematics and type theory ? decision procedures ? domain theory ? equational logic and rewriting ? finite model theory ? higher-order logic ? lambda calculus and combinatory logic ? linear logic and other substructural logics ? logic programming and constraints ? logical aspects of computational complexity ? logical aspects of quantum computing ? logic in database theory ? logical foundations of programming paradigms ? logical foundations of cryptography and information hiding ? logics for multi-agent systems ? modal and temporal logic ? model checking and logic-based verification ? nonmonotonic reasoning ? SAT solving and automated induction ? satisfiability modulo theories ? specification, extraction and transformation of programs ? verification and program analysis ----------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- CSL invited highlight speakers for the LC-CSL joint session on August 20: ? Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden ? Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen CSL plenary speakers: ? Laura Kov?cs, Vienna University of Technology ? Stephan Kreutzer, Technische Universit?t Berlin ? Meena Mahajan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai ? Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research ----------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL AND AFFILIATED EVENTS ----------------------------- In addition to the plenary and contributed talks CSL 2017, the conference will also include the following events: ? Joint session of CSL 2017 and LC 2017 in the morning of August 20, consisting of four plenary highlight talks, offered by speakers from both conferences. ? Presentation of the Alonzo Church award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, ? Presentation of the EACSL Ackermann award for Outstanding Dissertation on Logic in Computer Science, ? CSL-affiliated workshops, to be held as CSL co-located events: ? Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems LAMAS 2017 (August 25) ? Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory (in memory of Zoltan Ezik) (August 25) ? Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics LACompLing'17 (August 18-19) SUBMISSIONS ----------- The CSL 2017 conference proceedings will be published in Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). Authors are invited to submit contributed papers of no more than 15 pages in LIPIcs style (including references), presenting not previously published work, fitting the scope of the conference. The submission of contributed papers will be in two stages: * abstracts, due by March 24, 2017 (AoE); * full papers, due by March 31, 2017 (AoE). The submissions must be done via the EasyChair page for the conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSL 2017. Submitted papers must be in English and must provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the PC. Papers may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or a journal. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the PC are not allowed. In addition, there will be an opportunity for short oral presentations at the conference. Abstracts for such oral presentations must be submitted through the Easychair submission webpage, under the category ``short presentations'', by June 4, 2017. They will not be included in the proceedings. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- ? Parosh Aziz Abdulla (University of Uppsala), ? Lars Birkedal (University of Aarhus), ? Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research), ? Maria Paola Bonacina (Universit? degli Studi di Verona), ? Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV, ENS Cachan), ? Agata Ciabattoni (University of Viena), ? Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg), ? Mads Dam (KTH, Stockholm), PC co-chair ? Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna), ? Anuj Dawar (Cambridge University), ? Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University), PC co-chair ? Maribel Fernandez (King's College London), ? Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen), ? Lauri Hella (University of Tampere), ? Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen), ? Orna Kupferman (University of Jerusalem), ? Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh), ? Angelo Montanari (University of Udine), ? Catuscia Palamidessi (Paris, INRIA), ? Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) ? Ram Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), ? Jean-Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles), ? Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund University), ? Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University of Koblenz-Landau), ? Thomas Streicher (University of Darmstadt), ? Jean-Marc Talbot (University of Aix-Marseille), ? Luca Vigan? (King's College London), ? Ron van der Meyden (UNSW Australia), ? Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing). ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- ? Mads Dam (OC co-chair), Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH ? Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Dilian Gurov (Workshops chair), Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH ? Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Henning Strandin, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES ---------------------- With enquiries on organising matters, send email to: CSL 2017philosophy.su.se With enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: CSL 2017easychair.org From comar at cs.cmu.edu Thu Mar 2 13:13:37 2017 From: comar at cs.cmu.edu (Cyrus Omar) Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:13:37 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GPCE 2017 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2017) October 23-24, 2017 Vancouver, Canada (co-located with SPLASH 2017) http://www.gpce.org/ http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 25, 2017 * Submission of papers: July 2, 2017 * Paper notification: August 17, 2017 Submission site: https://gpce17.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a programming languages conference focusing on techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: * program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, * domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, * feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, * applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are in scope. PAPER SELECTION The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection citeria: * Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. * Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. * Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. * Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. PAPER SUBMISSION GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format and 10 point font. * Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers 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 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 at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords ?Tool Demo? or ?Tool Demonstration? in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program chair. ORGANIZATION Chairs (chairs at gpce.org) General Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, US) Program Chair: Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft, Netherlands) Publicity Chair: Cyrus Omar (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Program Committee Nada Amin (EPFL, Switzerland) Casper Bach Poulsen (TU Delft, Netherlands) Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes 1, France) Eugene Burmako (Twitter, US) Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Camil Demetrescu (Sapienza University Rome, Italy) Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Matthew Hammer (University of Colorado, Boulder, US) Jaakko J?rvi (University of Bergen, Norway) Lennart Kats (Amazon Web Services) Sarah Nadi (University of Alberta, Canada) Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Cyrus Omar (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Markus P?schel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) M?rcio Ribeiro (Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil) Tiark Rompf (Purdue University, US) Ina Schaefer (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) Sandro Schulze (TU Hamburg, Germany) Tony Sloane (Macquarie University, Australia) Vincent St-Amour (Northwestern University, US) Thomas Th?m (TU Braunschweig, Germany) Markus V?lter (itemis/independent) Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh, UK) Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University, US) Adam Welc (Huawei, US) Tijs van der Storm (CWI, Netherlands) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sat Mar 4 09:21:06 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 11:21:06 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 24th WoLLIC 2017 - DEADLINE APPROACHING Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies] WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK SPECIAL SESSION: Screening of Navajo Math Circles (Directed by George Paul Csicsery, 2016, 58min) 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) IN COOPERATION WITH ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK 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-fourth WoLLIC will be held at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK, from July 18th to 21st, 2017. 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). The workshop is held in cooperation with ACM Special Interest in Computational Logic (SIGLOG). 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; philosophy 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. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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 2017 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2017/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 14, 2017, and the full paper by Mar 21, 2017 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Apr 22, 2017, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 6, 2017 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2017, 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 2017 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universit?t) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 14, 2017: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 21, 2017: Full paper deadline Apr 22, 2017: Author notification May 6, 2017: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozov? (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Gr?del (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger T?rnquist (K?benhavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andr?s Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Alexandra Silva (Univ College London, UK) (Local co-chair) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) (Local co-chair) Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, UK) James Brotherston (Univ College London, UK) 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 http://wollic.org/wollic2017/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Verification of continuous and hybrid systems is increasing in importance due to new cyber-physical systems that are safety- or operation-critical. This workshop addresses verification techniques for continuous and hybrid systems with a special focus on the transfer from theory to practice. Topics include, but are not limited to - Proposals for new benchmark problems (not necessarily yet solvable) - Tool presentations - Tool executions and evaluations based on ARCH benchmarks - Experience reports including open issues for industrial success - Reports on results of our friendly competition Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions consist of papers of ideally 3-8 pages (pdf ) and optional files (e.g. models or traces) submitted through the ARCH?17 EasyChair web site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arch17). Authors have to use the EasyChair template (http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors).The extended abstract should be classified in its title as benchmark proposal, tool presentation, benchmark results, or experience report. Submissions receive at least 3 anonymous reviews, including one from industry and one from academia. Details on the evaluation criteria can be found at http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH/CallForSubmissions. Submission deadline: March 6, 2017 Notification: March 15, 2017 (2 days before early registration of CPSWeek) Final Version: March 31, 2017 Workshop: April 17, 2017 (different from other CPS Week workshops; this year free of charge!) Website: http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH (includes forums, archive, wiki, etc.) Prize ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The paper with the most promising benchmark results receives a prize of 500 Euros sponsored by Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. The winner is preselected by the program committee and determined by an audience voting. Organizers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Program chairs: Matthias Althoff, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Goran Frehse, UJF-Verimag, France Local chair: Sebastian Scherer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Publicity chair: Sergiy Bogomolov, Australian National University, Australia Evaluation chair: Taylor T. Johnson, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Committee (tentative) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Academia: Pieter Collins (Maastricht Univ.) Alexandre Donze (UC Berkeley) Ian Mitchell (Univ. British Colombia) Sayan Mitra (UI Urbana Champaign) Andre Platzer (CarnegieMellon Univ.) 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URL: From alexander.s.alexandrov at gmail.com Sun Mar 5 13:07:26 2017 From: alexander.s.alexandrov at gmail.com (Alexander Alexandrov) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:07:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers DBPL 2017 Message-ID: The 16th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages ============================================================================== The 16th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2017) will be held in conjunction with VLDB 2017 on September 1st, 2017 in Munich, Germany. General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DBPL is a biennial symposium that aims to foster exchange of ideas and discussion about current trends and open problems between the data management and the programming languages research communities. For over 30 years, DBPL has established itself as the principal venue for publishing and discussing new ideas and problems at the intersection of data management and programming languages. Many key contributions relevant to the formal foundations, design, implementation, and evaluation of query languages (e.g., for object-oriented, nested, or semi-structured data) were first announced at DBPL. As an established destination for such new ideas, DBPL aims to solicit submissions from researchers in databases, programming languages or any other community interested in the design, implementation or foundations of languages and systems for data-centric computation. Our main goal is to provide an inter-disciplinary venue where current trends, open problems, as well as insights about research methodology for potential solutions can be shared and discussed between the two communities. Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Abstracts submission deadline: May 5th, 2017 - Papers submission deadline: May 12th, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: June 19th, 2017 - Workshop: September 1st, 2017 Organizers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Chairs - Tiark Rompf, Purdue University, USA - Alexander Alexandrov, TU Berlin, Germany Steering Committee - Torsten Grust, Universit?t T?bingen, Germany - James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK - Thomas Neumann, TU M?nchen, Germany Scope and Topics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DBPL 2017 solicits theoretical and practical papers in all areas of Data-Centric Programming Languages. papers emphasizing new topics or foundations of emerging areas are especially welcome. Topics of interest for submissions include: - Programming Abstractions and Type Systems for Data-Centric Batch or Stream Processing - Data-Centric Language Design - Data-Centric Language Semantics - Data-Centric Language Optimizations and Transformations - Data-Centric Language Compilation to Emerging Hardware or Software Platforms - Data Integration, Exchange, and Interoperability - 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 - Schema Mapping and Metadata Management - Semantics and Verification of Database Systems - 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 Proceedings Format] 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 in the [ACM Proceedings 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, May 12, 2017. 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URL: From pkordjam at tulane.edu Sat Mar 4 12:03:34 2017 From: pkordjam at tulane.edu (Kordjamshidi, Parisa) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 17:03:34 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: IJCAI-2017 Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming Message-ID: <2A516134-EE18-413F-B218-B5B6330D97EA@tulane.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS and PARTICIPANTS ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP 2017) In conjunction withTwenty- sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17), August 19?20, 2017, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://delbp.github.io --------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE ????????????????????? The main goal of Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP) workshop is to investigate the issues that arise when designing and using programming languages that support learning from data and knowledge. DeLBP aims at facilitating and simplifying the design and development of intelligent real world applications that use machine learning and reasoning by addressing the following commonly observed challenges: Interaction with messy, naturally occurring data; Specifying the requirements of the application at a high abstraction level; Dealing with uncertainty in data and knowledge in various layers of the application program; Using representations that support flexible relational feature engineering; Using representations that support flexible reasoning and structure learning; Integrating a range of learning and inference algorithms; and finally addressing the above mentioned issues in one unified programming environment. Conventional programming languages offer no help to application programmers that attempt to design and develop applications that make use of real world data, and reason about it in a way that involves learning interdependent concepts from data, incorporating and composing existing models, and reasoning about existing and trained models and their parametrization. Over the last few years the research community has tried to address these problems from multiple perspectives, most notably various approaches based on Probabilistic programming, Logical Programming and the integrated paradigms. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss the current related research and the way various challenges have been addressed. We aim at motivating the need for further research toward a unified framework in this area based on the key existing paradigms: Probabilistic Programming (PP), Logic Programming (LP), Probabilistic Logical Programming (PLP), First-order query languages and database management systems (DBMS) and deductive databases (DDB), Statistical relational learning and related languages (SRL), and connect these to the ideas of Learning Based Programming. We aim to discuss and investigate the required type of languages and representations that facilitate modeling probabilistic or non-probabilistic complex learning models, deep architectures, and provide the ability to combine, chain and perform flexible inference with existing models and by exploiting domain knowledge. (Website: http://delbp.github.io) ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ????????????????????? ? New abstractions and modularity levels towards a unified framework for learning and reasoning, ? Frameworks/Computational models to combine learning and reasoning paradigms and exploit accomplishments in AI from various perspectives. ? Flexible use of structured and relational data from heterogeneous resources in learning. ? Data modeling (relational/graph-based ) issues in such a new integrated framework for learning based on data and knowledge. ? Exploiting knowledge such as expert knowledge and common sense knowledge expressed via multiple formalisms, in learning. ? The ability of closing the loop to acquire knowledge from data and data from knowledge towards life-long learning, and reasoning. ? Using declarative domain knowledge to guide the design of learning models, ? Including feature extraction, model selection, dependency structure and deep learning architecture. ? Structure Learning and automation of hyper-parameter tuning. ? Design and representation of complex learning and inference models. ? The interface for learning-based programming, ? Either in the form of programming languages, declarations, frameworks, libraries or graphical user interfaces. ? Storage and retrieval of trained learning models in a flexible way to facilitate incremental learning. ? Related applications in Natural language processing, Computer vision, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ? Submission Deadline: May 8th, 2017 ? Notification: June 5th, 2017 ? Workshop Days: August 19th-20th, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS ---------------------------------------------------------------- We encourage contributions with either a technical paper (IJCAI style, 6 pages without references), a position statement (IJCAI style, 2 pages maximum) or an abstract of a published work. IJCAI Style files available here [http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip]. Please make submissions via EasyChair, here [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=delbp2017]. ---------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Van den Broeck, University of California, Los Angeles Sameer Singh, University of California, Irvine Avi Pfeffer, Charles River Analytics Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, SRI International Tias Guns, Vrije University of Brussels Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon Cambridge, UK William Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara Kai-Wei Chang, University of Virginia ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Tulane University, IHMC Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan-Willem Van den Meent, Northeastern University Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University Vibhav Gogate, University of Texas at Dallas Kristian Kersting, TU Dortmund University ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ---------------------------------------------------------------- delbp-2 at googlegroups.com (Organization Committee) pkordjam at tulane.edu Please circulate this CFP among your colleagues and students. ------------------------------------------- Kordjamshidi, Parisa Assistant Professor CS Department at Tulane University Research Scientist at IHMC Homepage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From compscience.announcement at gmail.com Sat Mar 4 17:30:40 2017 From: compscience.announcement at gmail.com (Klaus Havelund) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 14:30:40 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RERS: 7th International Challenge on the Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The *RERS Challenge* *2017*: is the 7th International Challenge on the Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems and is *co-located with ISSTA/SPIN 2017*. The event will be held in *July 2017, in Santa Barbara, USA*. RERS is designed to encourage software developers and researchers to apply and combine their tools and approaches in a free style manner to answer evaluation questions for reachability and LTL formulas on specifically designed benchmarks. The goal of this challenge is to provide a basis for the comparison of verification techniques and available tools. The benchmarks are automatically synthesized to exhibit chosen properties and then enhanced to include dedicated dimensions of difficulty, ranging from conceptual complexity of the properties (e.g. reachability, full safety, liveness), over size of the reactive systems (a few hundred lines to tens of thousands of them), to exploited language features (arrays and index arithmetics). They are therefore especially suited for community-overlapping tool comparisons. What distinguishes RERS from other challenges is that the challenge problems can be approached in a free-style manner: it is highly encouraged to combine and exploit all known (even unusual) approaches to software verification. In particular, participants are not constrained to their own tools. To clearly separate RERS from other challenges, this year the LTL analysis is separated from the reachability of labels. RERS is then the only challenge with a special track for LTL analysis on synthesized benchmarks. The main aims of RERS 2017 are to : * encourage the combination of usually different research fields for better software verification results * provide a comparison foundation based on differently tailored benchmarks that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of specific approaches * initiate a discussion for better benchmark generation reaching out across the usual community barriers to provide benchmarks useful for testing and comparing a wide variety of tools There will be a 1 day workshop where the results will be presented, the generation methodology will be explained, and the modalities for the RERS 2018 challenge, which will be part of ISoLA 2018 will be discussed. There is still a lot of time to get engaged, and collecting RERS achievements is a lot of fun! In addition there will be book prices sponsored by Springer. Schedule: ========= SEQUENTIAL PROBLEMS =================== The sequential challenge just started. Its entire setup in online since a few days. Thus you can start right away. At least if you are a RERS newcomer, we would strongly recommend you to start with the training problems: ( http://www.rers-challenge.org/2017/index.php?page=trainingphase) They are an ideal starting point for the challenge: They are smaller in size than the challenge problems but otherwise structurally equivalent. Moreover, an automatic checker (available on the same page) allows you to evaluate your own solutions. After having tackled the training problems it should be easy to move on to attack the challenge problems. PARALLEL PROBLEMS ================= 01.03.2017: The training problems for the parallel challenge wil be online 01.05.2017: The setup for the parallel challlenge will be online. *DEADLINE for all submission* =========================== *01.07.2017* Please note that we want to specifically encourage also solutions from participants that work with tools developed by others. More detailed information on the challenge can be found in the participants section of www.rers-challenge.org/2017. Looking forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara! Best regards Bernhard, Falk, Jaco, and Markus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christopher.meiklejohn at gmail.com Fri Mar 3 06:07:30 2017 From: christopher.meiklejohn at gmail.com (Christopher Meiklejohn) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 12:07:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PMLDC 2017 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: Second Workshop on Programming Models and Languages for Distributed Computing Co-located with ECOOP 2017, Barcelona, Spain Date: June 20, 2017 Whether you are programming a rich web application in JavaScript that mutates state in the client?s browser, or you are building a massively deployed mobile application that will operate with client state at the device, it?s undeniable that you are building a distributed system! Two major challenges of programming distributed systems are concurrency and partial failure. Concurrency of operations can introduce accidental nondeterminism: computations may result in different outcomes with the same inputs given scheduling differences in the underlying system unless a synchronization mechanism is used to enforce some order. Synchronization is typically expensive, and reduces the efficiency of user applications. Partial failure, or the failure of one or more components in a distributed system at one time, introduces the challenge of knowing, when an operation fails, which components of the operation completed successfully. To solve these problems in practice on an unreliable, asynchronous network, atomic commit protocols and timeouts as failure detection are typically used. Because of these challenges, early approaches to providing programming abstractions for distributed computing that ignored them were inherently misguided: the canonical example being the Remote Procedure Call, still widely deployed in industry. The goal of this workshop is to discuss new approaches to distributed programming that provide efficient execution and the elimination of accidental nondeterminism resulting from concurrency and partial failure. It will bring together both practitioners and theoreticians from many disciplines: database theory, distributed systems, systems programming, programming languages, data-centric programming, web application development, and verification, to discuss the state-of-the-art of distributed programming, advancement of the state-of-the-art and paths forward to better application of theory in practice. The main objectives of this workshop are the following: * To review the state-of-the-art research in languages, models, and systems for distributed programming; * To identify areas of critical need where research can advance the state of the art; * To create a forum for discussion; * To present open problems from practitioners with an aim towards motivating academic research on relevant problems faced by industry. In the spirit of both ECOOP and Curry On, this workshop aims at favoring a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from both academia and industry. Submission Guidelines We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals of 2 pages, in ACM 2 column SIGPLAN style, written in English and in 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. Authors with accepted papers will have the opportunity to have their submission published on the ACM Digital Library. Workshop http://2017.ecoop.org/track/pmldc-2017-papers Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmldc2017 Important Dates Paper submission: 1 May 2017 Workshop date: 20 June 2017 Authors notification: TBA Final version: TBA Organizing Committee Christopher Meiklejohn Universit? catholique de Louvain Heather Miller Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne Program Committee Carlos Baquero Universidade do Minho Annette Bieniusa Technischen Universit?t Kaiserslautern Carla Ferreira Universidade Nova Lisboa Alexey Gotsman IMDEA Software Institute Tyler McMullen Fastly Rodrigo Rodrigues Instituto Superior T?cnico, University of Lisboa & INESC-ID Ali Shoker HASLab/INESC TEC & University of Minho KC Sivaramakrishnan University of Cambridge Zach Tellman Lacuna Peter Van Roy Universit? catholique de Louvain Leif Walsh Two Sigma Investments Jordan West NOVA-LINCS Hongseok Yang University of Oxford From pierre.geneves at cnrs.fr Fri Mar 3 09:22:01 2017 From: pierre.geneves at cnrs.fr (Pierre Geneves) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 15:22:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Positions at Inria Grenoble, France Message-ID: <364d55a4-c056-45e1-2fb3-38a39480b9ae@cnrs.fr> The Tyrex research team at Inria Grenoble (http://tyrex.inria.fr) has open positions for PhD students: http://tyrex.inria.fr/jobs.html In particular, we have an open position on the following topic: Soundy Analysis Techniques for Web Development XQuery [1] is the standard language language dedicated to XML data querying and manipulation. As opposed to other NoSQL languages (and e.g. XSLT in particular), it has been intended to feature strong static typing [5]. As emphasized in [4], ?static program analysis is a key component of many software development tools, including compilers, development environments, and verification tools. Analyses are often expected to be sound in that their result models all possible executions of the program under analysis. Soundness implies that the analysis computes an over-approximation in order to stay tractable [5]; the analysis result will also model behaviors that do not actually occur in any program execution. The precision of an analysis is the degree to which it avoids such spurious results. Users expect analyses to be sound as a matter of course, and desire analyses to be as precise as possible, while being able to scale to large programs.? It was shown in [2] that sound yet precise static analyses are possible for an XQuery fragment [2], even for complex expressions that navigate in XML trees [2,3]. While soundness seems essential for any kind of static program analysis, approximations and omissions are usually required for language features when applied to real programs. This is coined by the recent concept of soundiness [4] which defines ?soundy analyses?: a soundy analysis aims to be as sound as possible without excessively compromising precision or scalability. The goal of this internship is to investigate methods of code analysis which take advantage of sound verification systems developed for XQuery language fragments in the literature (such as [2]) to efficiently compute useful guarantees on real XQuery code used in production. Specifically, the subject will consist of: ? identifying different levels of static analyses corresponding to relevant language fragments; ? supplementing sound analysis techniques with relevant approximations to make the most of them with real-world code; ? investigating the concept of soundiness [4] in the context of XQuery; ? implementing a prototype checker which is capable of running on real production code while indicating meaningful guarantees that can be provided. Real-world XQuery code will be provided by a startup in the domain of XQuery-based web development frameworks. References: [1] XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language, W3C Recommendation 08 April 2014:https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-30/ [2] XQuery and Static Typing: Tackling the Problem of Backward Axes. Pierre Geneves and Nils Gesbert. In International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2015 (https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01082635v2/document) [3] Efficient Static Analysis of XML Paths and Types. Pierre Genev?s, Nabil Laya?da, Alan Schmitt. In ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation (PLDI) 2007 (https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00502789/document) [4] In Defense of Soundiness: A Manifesto. Ben Livshits, Manu Sridharan, Yannis Smaragdakis, Ond?ej Lhot?k, J. Nelson Amaral, Bor-Yuh, Evan Chang, Sam Guyer, Uday Khedker, Anders M?ller and Dimitrios Vardoulakis. In Communications of the ACM, 2015. http://soundiness.org/ [5] Course: Introduction to XQuery and Static Type-Checking. University Grenoble Alpes. Pierre Genev?s. http://tyrex.inria.fr/courses/mosig2015/xquery.pdf Environment: The doctoral work is to be carried out in the Tyrex research team (http://tyrex.inria.fr). Tyrex has a long research experience in the area of the web and particularly in the static analysis of web query languages through logical modeling and reasoning. The team has a tradition of conducting research both at the theoretical and applied (implementation) levels. Tyrex members regularly participate in the most relevant conferences of the domain (including major venues concerning the web, programming languages, and artificial intelligence). As such, it is an excellent and stimulating environment for ambitious PhD candidates. The PhD candidate will also benefit from the national and international collaborations of the team. The position is located at Inria Grenoble Rh?ne-Alpes (http://www.inria.fr/centre/grenoble), Montbonnot (near Grenoble, France) which is a major research laboratory in Computer Science offering a stimulating research environment. Contact: Pierre Genev?s (HDR) (pierre.geneves at cnrs.fr), Nils Gesbert (nils.gesbert at grenoble-inp.fr), Nabil Laya?da (HDR) (nabil.layaida at inria.fr) Keywords: Static typing, structured data, data-centric programming -- Pierre Genev?s, Ph.D., HDR Responsable permanent, ?quipe Tyrex LIG - Inria - UGA - CNRS - Grenoble INP Responsable de sp?cialit? 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Name: not available URL: From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Mar 6 10:12:21 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:12:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <82CE1544-D909-46C5-A8EF-8DA742797826@dcc.fc.up.pt> *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'17) 4 -- 7 September 2017, Oxford, UK (in-cooperation with the ACM SIGLOG and SIGPLAN and co-located with ICFP 2017) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ 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 or homotopy type theory. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE) and are firm; late submissions will not be considered. Abstract Deadline: 7 April 2017 Submission Deadline: 14 April 2017 Rebuttal: 29--31 May 2017 Notification: 14 June 2017 Camera-Ready: 7 July 2017 Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1. Calculi: Lambda calculus * Concurrent calculi * Logics * Rewriting systems * Proof theory * Type theory and logical frameworks 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: Type systems * Induction and coinduction * Matching, unification, completion, and orderings * Strategies * Tree automata * Model checking * Proof search and theorem proving * Constraint solving and decision procedures 3. Semantics: Operational semantics * Abstract machines * Game Semantics * Domain theory and categorical models * Quantitative models 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 * Verification tools * Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers * Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers * Certification PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages and must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 10 pages and must describe a working system which has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files and submitted via EasyChair. Complete instructions on submitting a paper can be found on the conference web site. SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of several accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS The program committee will consider declaring this award to a paper in which all authors are junior researchers: a junior researcher is a person who is either a student or whose PhD award date is less than three years from the first day of the meeting. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Dale Miller, Inria Saclay & LIX PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel, Gothenburg Univ. Elvira Albert, Complutense Madrid Maria Alpuente, TU Valencia Takahito Aoto, Niigata Univ. Zena Ariola, Univ. Oregon Federico Aschieri, TU Wien Stefano Berardi, Univ. Turin Lars Birkedal, Aarhus Univ. Filippo Bonchi, CNRS, ENS Lyon Pierre Clairambault, CNRS, ENS Lyon Ugo Dal Lago, Univ. Bologna Herman Geuvers, Radboud Univ. Silvia Ghilezan, Univ. Novi Sad Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Hugo Herbelin, Inria Paris Jan Hoffmann, Carnegie Mellon Deepak Kapur, Univ. New Mexico Paul Blain Levy, Univ. Birmingham Paulo Oliva, QMUL, London Vincent van Oostrom, Univ. Innsbruck Daniela Petrisan, LIAFA, Paris Femke van Raamsdonk, VU Univ. Amsterdam Grigore Rosu, Univ. Illinois Albert Rubio, UPC-BarcelonaTech Paula Severi, Univ. Leicester Bas Spitters, Aarhus Univ. Aaron Stump, Univ. Iowa Kazushige Terui, Kyoto Univ. Rene Thiemann, Univ. Innsbruck Sophie Tison, Lille Univ. CONFERENCE CHAIR Sam Staton, Univ. of Oxford WORKSHOP CHAIR Jamie Vicary, Univ. of Oxford PUBLICITY CHAIR Sandra Alves, Univ. of Porto FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE T. Altenkirch (Univ. Nottingham), S. Alves (Univ. Porto), G. Dowek, (Inria), S. Escobar (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia), M. Fernandez (King's College London), H. Herbelin (Inria), D. Kesner (Univ. Paris), N. Kobayashi (Univ. Tokyo), L. Ong (Chair, Univ. Oxford), B. Pientka (McGill Univ.), R. Thiemann (Univ. Innsbruck). From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Mon Mar 6 08:44:38 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 10:44:38 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TABLEAUX 2017 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS TABLEAUX 2017 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods University of Brasilia, Brazil September 25-28, 2017 Deadlines: 18 Apr 2017 (abstract), 25 Apr 2017 (paper) http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau 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, tableau 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. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction 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, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau 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, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by: Reiner Haehnle Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany INVITED SPEAKERS: Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Katalin Bimbo University of Alberta, Canada (with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (with FroCoS and ITP) Cezary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP = PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. POSTER SESSION There will be a joint poster session for TABLEAUX 2017, FroCos 2017, and ITP 2017. The session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. More details can be found at http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#postersession. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. 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 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the 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 elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via 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. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference- proceedings-guidelines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 18 Apr 2017 Abstract submission 25 Apr 2017 Paper submission 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Torben Brauener Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universitaet Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universite de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universitaet Bern Angelo Montanari Universita degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universitaet Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Claudia Nalon Universidade de Brasilia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroclawski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. 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The postdoc will be hosted by INRIA and the Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX) at the Ecole Polytechnique, one of the "Grand Ecoles" in the French university system, located in the suburbs of Paris. The successful candidate will be working within the PARSIFAL team. Starting date should be in Fall 2017. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in computer science or mathematics, and should have a strong background in proof theory and related topics. The principal responsibility of the postdoc will be to carry out research in the area of proof theory within the FISP project. There are no teaching duties. For further information, see or contact Lutz Strassburger Applications should be sent via email to Lutz Strassburger and should include a CV, a research statement (1-2 pages), and one or two recommendation letters. The application deadline is *** April 16, 2017 *** From cristi at ifi.uio.no Mon Mar 6 06:08:37 2017 From: cristi at ifi.uio.no (Christian Johansen) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 12:08:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Several positions (PhD/PostDoc) on security and formal modelling and/or programming for IoT and/or CPS in Oslo. Message-ID: <5d8fcce7-088c-00d3-0f03-b99f5c8e492e@ifi.uio.no> __________________________________________________ Several positions (PhD/PostDoc) on security and formal modelling and/or programming for IoT and/or CPS. Dept. of Computer Science, Univeristy of Oslo See details at http://iotsec.no/phd __________________________________________________ The University of Oslo (UiO) increases the focus on security and formal methods applied to Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Several positions are opened on the topics: * Language-based Security and Analysis * Safety modelling and verification for IoT systems * Privacy and Security for Smart Environments * Security of Communication for IoT and Smart infrastructures * Fine-grained Access Control for e-Health Data ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !! Be aware that when you apply it is important to clearly mark which !! position(s) (and preference order) you are interested in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- =================== General information =================== The PhD positions are related to both the IoTSec.no initiative and the Strategic Research Initiative ConSeRNS, which is financed in part by the Norwegian Research Council and the University of Oslo. You will work together in a team with national project participants, and international partners, as well as becoming part of the UiO working and student environment. The work will be conducted at UiO (Oslo) in Norway. You will be part of an exciting arena for research and innovation, and have the opportunity to work in an exciting international environment with close contact to Research Institutes and Industry. The PhD students will follow the traditional PhD education at UiO, while there is also the possibility to take up a PhD in close collaboration with an industry partner (Industrial PhD). All PhDs require the admission to the PhD program of the University of Oslo. Salary is after the rules from the state, based on your experience. =============== The application (Norwegian or English) should contain: =============== * CV including names and contact information of two references * List of publications (if applicable) * Transcript of records for PhD applicants * Summary and status of your master thesis (or of PhD thesis in case of Post-doc application) * A statement letter indicating your ideas and interests in one or more of the above topics, and an indication if any other fields are relevant for you. =================== Further information =================== For further information and application through e-mail, please contact: * Olaf Owe, UiO/IFI, m: +47 22852449, olaf at ifi.uio.no * Christian Johansen, UiO/ITS, m: +47 9753 5582, cristi at ifi.uio.no ================= Candidate profile ================= The applicant is required to hold a Master's degree or equivalent in computer science or mathematics and should have good analytical and/or programming skills. The ideal candidate has background in one or more of the areas covered by the above topic titles (see also link above). 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 the project(s)/group/topic. ============= Related links ============= IoTSec project: http://IoTSec.no, More details at http://iotsec.no/phd Institute for Informatics: http://ifi.uio.no Doctoral education at the University of Oslo (UiO), http://www.mn.uio.no/english/research/doctoral-degree-and-career/ ========================== Admission criteria for UiO ========================== The purpose of the Ph.D. fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree. The fellowship requires admission to the research training program at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Firstly, the applicants must have obtained undergraduate (Cand.mag., i.e. B.Sc. level) with a level corresponding at least "C" and postgraduate (cand.scient. or Siv.ing., i.e. M.Sc. level) qualifications with a level corresponding at least "B". This represents approximately five years of full time studies after completion of European Upper Secondary School/International Baccalaureate. For more information see: http://www.mn.uio.no/english/research/doctoral-degree-and-career/phd- programme/application/index.html Average grade calculator, to be taken without Master Thesis http://www.uio.no/for-ansatte/arbeidsstotte/sta/fs/veiledninger/opptak /kalkulatorer/kalk.php?type=mn [ Please feel free to distribute this announcement further. ] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice day from Christian Johansen (old name Cristian Prisacariu) member of PMA group (Precise Modeling and Analysis) at Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo ----------------------------------------------------------------- From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Sun Mar 5 17:51:28 2017 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 23:51:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] call for papers: quantifiers and determiners (QUAD, ESSLLI 2017 Workshop) Message-ID: QUAD: QUantifiers And Determiners http://www.lirmm.fr/quad Toulouse, Monday July 17 --- Friday July 21: 17:00-18:30 As part of ESSLLI 2017 Christian Retor?, LIRMM & universit? de Montpellier, Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Schedule: deadline for submissions: 17 Mars 2017 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quad2017 notification to authors: 15 April 2017 final version due: 19 May 2017 conference: 17-21 July 2017 Presentation: The compositional interpretation of determiners relies on quantifiers ? in a general acceptation of this later term which includes generalised quantifiers, generics, definite descriptions i.e. any operation that applies to one or several formulas with a free variable, binds it and yields a formula or possibly a generic term (the operator is then called a subnector, following Curry). There is a long history of quantification in the Ancient and Medieval times at the border between logic and philosophy of language, before the proper formalisation of quantification by Frege. A common solution for natural language semantics is the so-called theory of generalised quantifiers. Quantifiers like ? some, exactly two, at most three, the majority of, most of, few, many, ? ? are all described in terms of functions of two predicates viewed as subsets. Nevertheless, many mathematical and linguistic questions remain open. On the mathematical side, little is known about generalised , generalised and vague quantifiers, in particular about their proof theory. On the other hand, even for standard quantifiers, indefinites and definite descriptions, there exist alternative formulations with choice functions and generics or subnectors (Russell?s iota, Hilbert-Bernays, eta, epsilon, tau). The computational aspects of these logical frameworks are also worth studying, both for computational linguistic software and for the modelling of the cognitive processes involved in understanding or producing sentences involving quantifiers. On the linguistic side, the relation between the syntactic structure and its semantic interpretation, quantifier raising, underspecification, scope issues,? are not fully satisfactory. Furthermore extension of linguistic studies to various languages have shown how complex quantification is in natural language and its relation to phenomena like generics, plurals, and mass nouns. Finally, and this can be seen as a link between formal models of quantification and natural language, there by now exist psycholinguistic experiments that connect formal models and their computational properties to the actual way human do process sentences with quantifiers, and handle their inherent ambiguity, complexity, and difficulty in understanding. All those aspects are connected in the didactics of mathematics and computer science: there are specific difficulties to teach (and to learn) how to understand, manipulate, produce and prove quantified statements, and to determine the proper level of formalisation between bare logical formulas and written or spoken natural language. This workshop aims at gathering mathematicians, logicians, linguists, computer scientists to present their latest advances in the study of quantification. Among the topics that wil be addressed are the following : ? new ideas in quantification in mathematical logic, both model theory and proof theory: ? choice functions, ? subnectors (Russell?s iota, Hilbert?s epsilon and tau), ? higher order quantification, ? quantification in type theory ? studies of the lexical, syntactic and semantic of quantification in various languages ? semantics of noun phrases ? generic noun phrases ? semantics of plurals and mass nouns ? experimental study of quantification and generics ? computational applications of quantification and polarity especially for question-answering. ? quantification in the didactics of mathematics and computer science. Submissions: The program committee is looking for contributions introducing new viewpoints on quantification and determiners, the novelty being either in the mathematical logic framework or in the linguistic description or in the cognitive modelling. Submitting purely original work is not mandatory, but authors should clearly mention that the work is not original, and why they want to present it at this workshop (e.g. new viewpoint on already published results) Submissions should be - 12pt font (at least) - 1inch/2.5cm margins all around (at least) - less than 2 pages (references exluded) - with an abstract of less then 100 words and they should be submitted in PDF by easychair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quad2017 In case the committee thinks it is more appropriate, some papers can be accepted as a poster with a lightning talk. Final versions of accepted papers may be slightly longer. They will be published on line. We also plan to publish postproceedings Programme committee: ? Christian Retor? (Universit? de Montpellier & LIRMM-CNRS) ? Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) ? Vito Michele Abrusci (Universit? di Roma tre) ? Mathias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna) ? Daisukke Bekki (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) ? Oliver Bott (Universit?t T?bingen) ? Francis Corblin (Universit? Paris Sorbonne) ? Martin Hakl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA) ? Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) ? Dan Lassiter (Stanford University) ? Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway College, London) ? Alda Mari (CNRS Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) ? Wilfried Meyer-Viol (King?s college, London) ? Michel Parigot (CNRS IRIF, Paris) ? Anna Szabolcsi (New-York University) ? Jakub Szymanik (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ? Dag Westerstahl (Stockholm University) ? Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (University of Technology, Vienna) ? Richard Zach (University of Calgary) ? Roberto Zamparelli (Universit? di Trento) http://www.lirmm.fr/quad ? Christian Retor? http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore ? Christian Retor? http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore ? Christian Retor? http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore From matthias at ccs.neu.edu Tue Mar 7 13:38:42 2017 From: matthias at ccs.neu.edu (Matthias Felleisen) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 13:38:42 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Racket summer school [second and last call] Message-ID: <77896ECB-8FA5-4E8D-BCBB-A6DD99F10F74@ccs.neu.edu> The Racket Summer School of Semantics and Languages Imagine yourself confronted with a Mystery Programming Language and charged with the task of figuring out its semantics. What would you do? What if you have a formal executable semantics and want to build a production language for it? If these questions intrigue you, attend the Racket Summer School: http://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ This is not your run-of-the-mill summer school. We will do our best to make it exciting, entertaining, and useful to a broad spectrum of attendees, both academic and industrial. P.S. As soon as you get accepted, we will send you your first problem set. Get ready. From S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk Tue Mar 7 14:10:40 2017 From: S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk (Simon Thompson) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 19:10:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Professor of Cyber Security at Kent References: <58BE94BD.2010509@kent.ac.uk> Message-ID: We?re looking to appoint a professor of Cyber Security at Kent, to head up our existing group, with its Masters course and research activities. The Cyber Security group also sits alongside our Programming Languages and Systems group, and someone with strengths in PL aspects of security would fit very well. The advert for a Professor of Cyber Security is live at https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/fe/tpl_kent01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=40739,2141233446&key=49639912&c=824734655621&pagestamp=sesmvkldtcboaxhswn and post has been advertised with an associated lectureship in security, so the successful candidate will have a chance to shape that appointment too. If you?re interested, do think about applying, or get in touch with us. 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URL: From fisman at seas.upenn.edu Mon Mar 6 05:21:26 2017 From: fisman at seas.upenn.edu (Dana Fisman) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 12:21:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SyGuS-COMP 2017 Call for Solvers and Benchmarks Submission Message-ID: SyGuS-COMP 2017 Call for Solvers and Benchmarks Submission 4th Syntax Guided Synthesis Competition Satellite event of CAV and SYNT 2017 http://www.sygus.org/SyGuS-COMP2017.html *Important Dates:* 15 May 2017: Benchmark submission deadline 7 June 2017: Deadline for first version of solvers 14 June 2017: Deadline for final version of solvers and for solver description 14 July 2017: Results published 22 July 2017: Solvers presentation (at SYNT'17) *Call for Participation:*This is a call for participation for the 4th Syntax-Guided Synthesis Competition to be organized as a satellite event of SYNT/CAV 2017. 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. There has been a lot of recent interest in both using SyGuS solvers for various synthesis applications and developing different solving algorithms. The SyGuS competition (SyGuS-Comp'17) 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 (Ben-Gurion University), 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:*This year's competition will have 4 tracks: 1) General SyGuS track, 2) Invariant Synthesis track, 3) Conditional Linear Integer Arithmetic track, and 4) Programming By Examples (PBE). More details about the tracks can be found in the extended SyGuS-IF . The results of the 3rd SyGuS competition can be found here . *Benchmarks for the competition:*We will evaluate the solvers on a subset of public benchmarks and some secret benchmarks. The domains of benchmarks include bit-vector manipulation, including bit-vector algorithms, concurrency, robotics, string transformations, and invariant generation. We are still finalizing the set of benchmarks, and would appreciate your contribution to the benchmarks as well. *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 the solvers from last year's competition are available on the SyGuS community at StarExec. Candidate participants are invited to register on StarExec where they can easily compare their solvers to the previous ones against the public benchmarks. 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URL: From cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov Tue Mar 7 14:56:48 2017 From: cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320)) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 19:56:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] ITP 2017 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <44FBC8A0-9F3A-4151-B7A5-861BB7B77484@nasa.gov> *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ITP 2017 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving Brasilia, Brazil September 26-29, 2017 http://itp2017.cic.unb.br SUBMISSION DEADLINES * April 3, 2017 (abstracts) * April 10, 2017 (full papers) GENERAL INFORMATION The ITP conference series is concerned with all topics related to interactive theorem proving, ranging from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in program verification, security, and formalization of mathematics. ITP is the evolution of the TPHOLs conference series to the broad field of interactive theorem proving. TPHOLs meetings took place every year from 1988 until 2009. The eighth ITP conference, ITP 2017, will be held at Universidade de Brasilia, September 26-29, 2017. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE 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 * concise and elegant worked examples of formalizations (proof pearls) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer's LNCS series. ** After the conference the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised papers for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning. ** PAPER SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, when appropriate, submissions are expected to be accompanied by verifiable evidence of a suitable implementation, such as the source files of a formalization for the proof assistant used. Submissions should be no more than 16 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itp2017 Submissions must conform to the LNCS style in LaTeX. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the conference and will be required to a sign copyright release form. 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. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2017 Full paper submission deadline: April 10, 2017 Author notification: June 2, 2017 Camera-ready papers: June 30, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials: September 23-25, 2017 Conference: September 26-29, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Cezary Kaliszyk, Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Katalin Bimbo, University of Alberta, Canada (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Jasmin Blanchette, Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP =3D PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, U. Brasilia Cesar Munoz, NASA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente, T.U. Valencia Vander Alves, U. Brasilia June Andronick, Data61, CSIRO, UNSW Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon U. Sylvie Boldo, INRIA LRI Ana Bove, Chalmers & Gothenburg U. Adam Chlipala, MIT Gilles Dowek, INRIA, ENS Cachan Aaron Dutle, NASA Amy Felty, U. Ottawa Marcelo Frias, I.T. Buenos Aires Ruben Gamboa, U. Wyoming Herman Geuvers, Radboud U. Elsa Gunter, U. Illinois U.C. John Harrison, Intel Corporation Nao Hirokawa, JAIST Matt Kaufmann, U. Texas Austin Mark Lawford, McMaster U. Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich Assia Mahboubi, INRIA Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern U. Gopalan Nadathur, U. Minnesota Keiko Nakata, SAP Potsdam Adam Naumowicz, U. Bialystok Tobias Nipkow, T.U. Munich Scott Owens, U. Kent Sam Owre, SRI Lawrence Paulson, U. Cambridge Leila Ribeiro, U.F. Rio Grande do Sul Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, U. Bologna Augusto Sampaio, U.F. Pernambuco Monika Seisenberger, Swansea U. Christian Sternagel, U. Innsbruck Sofiene Tahar, Concordia U. Christian Urban, King's College London Josef Urban, Czech T.U. Prague CONTACT INFORMATION itp2017 at easychair.org http://itp2017.cic.unb.br --- 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 tmoldere at vub.ac.be Thu Mar 9 08:59:26 2017 From: tmoldere at vub.ac.be (Tim Molderez) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:59:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2017: Call for participation Message-ID: <288d4b5d-c924-b607-5321-22dfeb7c67a0@vub.ac.be> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2017 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 3-6, 2017, Brussels, Belgium http://2017.programming-conference.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We are excited to welcome you to 2017, a new conference focused on everything to do with programming. It takes place at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium on April 3-6. The conference is closely associated with the open-access journal "The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming".? The journal's first two issues form the conference's research track, which means you can freely access all papers presented at the conference before it even starts! Along with the research track, 2017 features a program with two main keynotes, two symposia, eight workshops, a coding dojo, a demo track, and a student research competition. To catch a glimpse of what 2017 has to offer, feel free to have a look at our overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM_hLNW4ioE *********************************************************************** Program highlights *********************************************************************** Main conference: - Keynote: "Live Literate Programming" by Gilad Bracha - Keynote: "How Racket Went Meta" by Matthew Flatt - Research track: 18 full papers - Demonstrations: 10 tool demos - ACM Student Research Competition: 8 entries Co-located events: - 10th European Lisp Symposium: 2 keynotes by Hans H?bner and Bohdan Khomtchouk, ~18 papers (not final yet) - Modularity 2017: 8 invited talks by J?rg Kienzle, Shmuel Katz, Mira Mezini, Bedir Tekinerdogan, St?phane Ducasse, Uwe A?mann, Lodewijk Bergmans and Mario S?dholt - CoCoDo - RainCode Labs Compiler Coding Dojo: code together with experts Adrian Johnstone, Elizabeth Scott, Robby Findler, and more to come! - LASSY - Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems - MiniPLoP - Mini Pattern Languages of Programs writers' workshop - MOMO - Workshop on Modularity in Modeling - MoreVMs - Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs - PASS - Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack - PX - Workshop on Programming Experience - ProWeb - Programming Technology for the Future Web - Salon des Refus?s workshop Social events: - Beer reception at the conference venue (April 3rd) - Reception at the Musical Instruments Museum (April 4th) - Banquet at the Natural Sciences Museum (April 5th) *********************************************************************** Registration, attendance and accommodation *********************************************************************** - You can register for 2017 at: http://2017.programming-conference.org/attending/registration - Early registration ends soon! Please register before March 13th to obtain the early-bird discount. - More information on attending the conference is available at: http://2017.programming-conference.org/attending/reaching-the-conference - More information on accommodation is available at: http://2017.programming-conference.org/attending/accomodation *********************************************************************** About Brussels *********************************************************************** Brussels is the capital of Belgium, and home to the headquarters of the European Union. Despite its European nature and all the different languages spoken on every street corner, Brussels still has a very "village-like"? character. It's well known for its Grand-Place, its Atomium, its Manneken-Pis, its Gueuze and its Kriek, its waffles and its chocolates. Be sure to take some time off to soak up the special atmosphere of its many different districts: Take a stroll to Rue Dansaert, Halles Saint-G?ry, and Place Sainte-Catherine. Head for Saint-Boniface, Ch?telain, or Flagey. In other words, go ahead and relish Brussels, a fine and beautiful city to explore and discover. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information, please visit http://2017.programming-conference.org You can also find us on Twitter (twitter.com/programmingconf) and Facebook (facebook.com/programmingconf) Looking forward to see you in Brussels, Theo D'Hondt (General chair), Wolfgang De Meuter (Organizing chair), Crista Lopes (Program chair), J?rg Kienzle, Ralf L?mmel, Hidehiko Masuhara, Tim Molderez, Tobias Pape, and Jennifer Sartor From P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk Wed Mar 8 13:51:43 2017 From: P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk (Paul B Levy) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 18:51:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Birmingham Fellows: prestige posts available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4b805687-0712-c57c-ad80-7f23e0977764@cs.bham.ac.uk> Permanent appointments with 5 years protected time for high-quality research Closing date: 31 March 2017 ------ Birmingham University has made a call for applications to its "Birmingham Fellowship" posts, 40 in all across the University: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/excellence/fellows/index.aspx Despite the name these are permanent appointments, but with the first 5 years being protected time for high-quality research. I'm sending this message on behalf of the Theory Group in the School of Computer Science, to encourage applicants. The Theory group specializes in bringing together diverse areas of mathematics (such as logic, type theory, category theory, topology), generally for applications to computer science (such as programming languages and their semantics), but also for the intrinsic interest of the mathematical interactions. If you don't already know of our work, you can see more on our group page http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/groupings/theory/index.php and on our individual pages linked from there. You are welcome to make informal approaches to any of us. Dr Noam Zeilberger , who was appointed as a Birmingham Fellow in 2016 after research positions at INRIA in Paris, can give you insights into how the scheme works in practice. From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Thu Mar 9 10:25:18 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:25:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA'17: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <700487C2-AAF7-4025-8516-EB711EF26BB9@dcc.fc.up.pt> *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 23-24 September 2017, Bras?lia, Brazil Satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP 2017 http://lsfa2017.cic.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 2017 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 2017 will be a satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP -- to be held in Bras?lia, Brazil, between 25 and 29 September 2017. Previous editions took place in Porto (2016), 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 (http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html ). The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2017 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: 21 June 2017 * Notification: 21 July 2017 * Final pre-proceedings version due: 11 August 2017 * LSFA 2017 23-24 September 2017 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 * H?l?ne Kirchner * TBA * TBA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves, University of Porto - co-chair * Renata Wassermann, University of S?o Paulo - co-chair * Fl?vio L. C. de Moura, Universidade de Bras?lia - local organiser * Carlos Areces, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia * Veronica Becher, Universidad de Buenos Aires * Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ * Walter Carnielli, Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science ? CLE * Carlos Castro, UT Federico Santa Maria * Kaustuv Chaudhuri, INRIA * Marcelo Coniglio, UNICAMP * Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham * Santiago Escobar, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa * Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London * Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo * Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Delia Kesner, Universit? Paris-Diderot * Bjoern Lellmann, TU Vienna * Vivek Nigam, Universidade Federal da Para?ba * Jorge A. P?rez, University of Groningen and CWI, Amsterdam * Petrucio Viana, Universidade Federal Fluminense * Elaine Pimentel, UFRN * Giselle Reis, CMU-Qatar * Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, Universita' di Torino * Alvaro Tasistro, Universidad ORT Uruguay * Christian Urban, King's College London ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Fl?vio L. 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URL: From shankar at csl.sri.com Sun Mar 12 15:42:51 2017 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 12:42:51 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seventh Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 21 - May 26, 2017, Atherton, California Message-ID: <58C5A4BB.4090709@csl.sri.com> Seventh Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 21 - May 26, 2017 Menlo College Atherton, California http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT17 Lecturers: Stephanie Delaune (IRISA France), Marijn Heule (University of Texas at Austin), K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research, Redmond WA), Sam Blackshear (Facebook), and Ashish Tiwari (SRI) 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 sixth 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: * Stephanie Delaune (IRISA France): Verification of security protocols: from confidentiality to privacy Abstract: Security protocols are widely used today to secure transactions that take place through public channels like the Internet. Typical functionalities are the transfer of a credit card number or the authentication of a user on a system. Because of their increasing ubiquity in many important applications (e.g. electronic commerce, smartphone, government-issued ID . . . ), a very important research challenge consists in developing methods and verification tools to increase our trust on security protocols, and so on the applications that rely on them. Formal methods offer symbolic models to carefully analyse security protocols, together with a set of proof techniques and efficient tools such as ProVerif. These methods build on techniques from model-checking, automated reasoning and concurrency theory. We will explain how security protocols as well as the security properties they are supposed to achieve are formalised in symbolic models. Then, we will describe and discuss techniques to automatically verify different kinds of security properties. The lab sessions will be the opportunity to play with the ProVerif verification tool. * Marjijn Heule (University of Texas at Austin): State-of-the-art SAT Solving Abstract: Satisfiability (SAT) solvers have become powerful search engines to solve a wide range of applications in fields such as formal verification, planning and bio-informatics. Due to the elementary representation of SAT problems, many low-level optimizations can be implemented. At the same time, there exist clause-based techniques that can simulate several high-level reasoning methods. The teaching session focuses on the search procedures in successful conflict-driven clause learning SAT solvers. It shows how to learn from conflicts and provides an overview of effective heuristics for variable and value selection. Additionally, the teaching session covers recent developments, in particular a technique used in today's strongest solvers: the alternation between "classic" depth-first search with learning, and breadth-first search for simplification. * K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research, Redmond WA): Verified programs and proofs in Dafny Abstract: In these lectures, you will learn and practice the foundations of program verification, like pre- and postcondition specifications, loop invariants, termination, proofs, and induction. Dafny is a programming language that includes specifications and proof-authoring features. The lectures and labs will give you hands-on experience in using the Dafny to write and specify programs, both imperative and functional, and to write mechanically checked proofs. * Sam Blackshear (Facebook): Building compositional static analyzers with Infer Abstract: Infer is an open-source static analysis tool used to find bugs in Java, Objective-C, and C++ code at Facebook. Recently, Infer has transitioned from a standalone separation logic-based analyzer into a general framework for quickly developing modular and compositional interprocedural analyses. The framework lifts a simple intraprocedural abstract interpreter that computes the summary for a single procedure to a compositional interprocedural analysis that scales to millions of lines of code. * Ashish Tiwari (SRI International Computer Science Laboratory): Formal Techniques for Analyzing Hybrid Systems Abstract: Hybrid dynamical systems combine discrete state transition systems with continuous dynamical systems. They are used to model complex systems that have interacting discrete and continuous components, or systems that are broadly referred to as cyber-physical systems. This course will cover the basics of hybrid systems, and it will delve deeper into the verification problem and the various approaches for analyzing hybrid systems. The lab sessions will involve using tools for verification of hybrid systems. The main lectures in the summer school will be preceded by a background course on logic taught by Natarajan Shankar (SRI)and Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) on * 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. Note: The school is preceded by the 9th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) 2017 (https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/) and the associated sixth Automated Formal Methods (AFM) 2017 (http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM17/) workshop. On May 20 there will be an AFM tutorial day that students are encouraged to attend. 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 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT16 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$600 for meals and lodging. Applications should be submitted at the website http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT17 Applicants are urged to submit their applications before April 30, 2017, since there are only a limited number of spaces available. Non-US applicants requiring US visas are requested to apply early. We strongly encourage the participation of women and under-represented minorities in the summer school. From rlc3 at leicester.ac.uk Sun Mar 12 15:09:18 2017 From: rlc3 at leicester.ac.uk (Roy L. Crole) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:09:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ** Final Call ** for Midlands Graduate School 2017, Leicester, UK - Registration closes 20 Mar 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is a final call for participation. Registration is open until March 20 2017, but book soon to avoid disappointment. *The Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science 2017* * April 9-13, Leicester, UK* ( http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/mgs2017/ ) The MGS has run very successfully for many years now, and in recent years we have had over 50 participants making for exciting and vibrant schools. We would be delighted to see you in Leicester in 2017. The registration fees include ALL meals; dinners are provided and many members of the lecturing team will be available for discussions during the evenings. Please forward to all those you think will be interested! The organisers: Samuel Balco Roy Crole -- R. L. Crole Associate Professor Department of Informatics 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 herman at cs.ru.nl Sat Mar 11 11:07:34 2017 From: herman at cs.ru.nl (Herman Geuvers) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:07:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline 15. March 2017 Message-ID: <8a59db0e-71a2-957e-6986-b39999f33b4b@cs.ru.nl> Second Call for Papers 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW * Invited Speakers: Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) and Grant Olney Passmore (University of Cambridge) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017. CICM 2017 also invites work-in- progress papers. The principal tracks of the conference will be: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England) All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems including: - Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. - Computer algebra and symbolic computation in theorem proving systems. - Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for computer mathematics. - Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and reasoning. - Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories that include non-trivial computations. - Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. - Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke) All topics related to the formation of a Global Digital Mathematics Library (GDML) network, ranging from experiences from existing DMLs, policies and standards facilitating interoperability, to development and integration of new techniques for content creation, preservation, enhancement and retrieval of the corpus, including: - DML creation and maintenance (content aggregation, validation, curation, enhancement). - DML architecture and representations (organization, workflows, policies, standards). - DML access and applications (retrieval, interfaces, interoperability). - DML collections and systems (experiences from various existing DMLs). * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe) - Knowledge representation using, e.g., formal logics, computational systems, narrative document formats, or databases - Solutions to create, store, disseminate, discover, or manipulate mathematical knowledge - Corpora of knowledge inlcuding documents, theories, theorems, proofs, models, algorithms, exercises, or examples - Methods, systems, frameworks, case studies, challenges, benchmarks, or applications for mathematical knowledge - Comparisons, evaluations, or integrations of MKM solutions * Track: Systems & Projects (chair: Osman Hasan) - Systems: Stand-alone; plugins, libraries, or extensions of existing systems; or integrations of existing systems - Data: Formalizations; harvests or new processing of existing data; or case studies, test cases, or benchmark suites for systems - Projects: finished, ongoing or new - Survey papers * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: TBD) The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman Geuvers. The local arrangements will be coordinated by Jacques Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier. We plan to have proceedings of the conference as in previous years with Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). *Important Dates* Conference submissions - Abstract submission deadline: 15. March 2017 - Submission deadline: 22. March 2017 - Reviews sent to authors: 26. April 2017 - Rebuttals due: 30. April 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 12. May 2017 - Camera ready copies due: 26. May 2017 - Conference: 17.-21. July 2017 Workshop Proposals - Submission deadline: 10. February 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 15. February 2017 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From fisman at seas.upenn.edu Fri Mar 10 12:00:28 2017 From: fisman at seas.upenn.edu (Dana Fisman) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:00:28 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SYNT 2017: Call for Papers Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SYNT 2017 - Call For Papers 6th Workshop on Synthesis a satellite event of CAV'17 Heidelberg, Germany, July 22, 2017 https://www.react.uni-saarland.de/synt2017/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * algorithms and tools for software synthesis and reactive (discrete-time, timed, hybrid, ...) synthesis, * specification languages and optimization in synthesis, * complexity and decidability results for synthesis, * case studies of software or hardware synthesis, * connections between verification and synthesis, * synthesis by model learning, * connections between synthesis and inductive programming, * new approaches or applications for synthesis, * description and analysis of benchmark families for synthesis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome scientific contributions of the following forms: * regular papers (max. 15 pages in EPTCS style, excluding references) * tool papers (max. 7 pages in EPTCS style, excluding references) Submitted regular and tool papers must be original and unpublished. Accepted papers will appear in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science series; hence, submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package. Given sufficient interest, extended versions of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the journal Acta Informatica. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Paper submission: May 1, 2017 Author notification: May 29, 2017 Workshop: July 22, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee: * Roderick Bloem (Graz University of Technology) * Swarat Chaudhuri (Rice University) * Pedro D'Argenio (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) * Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS) * R?diger Ehlers (University of Bremen) * Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University) * Dana Fisman (co-chair, Ben-Gurion University) * Swen Jacobs (co-chair, Saarland University) * St?phane Lafortune (University of Michigan) * Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College, London) * Doron Peled (Bar-Ilan University) * Ruzica Piskac (Yale University) * Nadia Polikarpova (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Arjun Radhakrishna (University of Pennsylvania) * Veselin Raychev (ETH Zurich) * Roopsha Samanta (Purdue University) * Ocan Sankur (Irisa Rennes) * Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool) * Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT) * Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas at Austin) * Frits Vaandrager (University of Washington) * Damien Zufferey (MPI-SWS) Program Chairs: * Dana Fisman (Ben-Gurion University) * Swen Jacobs (Saarland University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote talk by Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems). 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URL: From elias.castegren at it.uu.se Fri Mar 10 10:03:10 2017 From: elias.castegren at it.uu.se (Elias Castegren) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:03:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: IWACO 2017 Message-ID: <430DC7BD-E425-4310-915E-10DFC9344CF3@it.uu.se> 8th IWACO International Workshop on Aliasing, Capabilities and Ownership (IWACO) Co-located with ECOOP Monday June 19th, 2017, Barcelona, Spain http://2017.ecoop.org/track/iwaco-2017-papers ## Important Dates: Paper submission: April 26th, 2017 Notification: May 25th, 2017 Final version: June 8th, 2017 Workshop: June 19th, 2017 (All deadlines AoE) ## Aim and Scope Stable object identity and shared mutable state are two powerful principles in object oriented programming. The ability to create aliases to mutable objects allows a direct modelling of sharing that occurs naturally in a domain, and lies at the heart of efficient programming patterns where aliases provide shortcuts to key places in a data structure. In a concurrent setting however, aliasing is at the root of data-races and low-level bugs as multiple threads can directly access shared objects. Coping with pointers, aliasing and the proliferation of shared mutable state is a problem that crosscuts the software development stack, from compilers and run-times to bug-finding tools and end-user software. They complicate modular reasoning and program analysis, efficient code generation, efficient use of memory, and obfuscate program logic. Several techniques have been introduced to describe and reason about stateful programs, and to restrict, analyze, and prevent aliases. These include various forms of ownership types, capabilities, separation logic, linear logic, uniqueness, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, linear references, effect systems, and access control mechanisms. These tools have found their way into type systems, compilers and interpreters, run-time systems and bug-finding tools. IWACO?17 will focus on these techniques, on how they can be used to reason about stateful (sequential or concurrent) programs, and how they have been applied to programming languages. In particular, we will consider papers on: - models, type systems and other formal systems, programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques, patterns and notations for expressing ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics; - empirical studies of programs or experience reports from programming systems designed with these techniques in mind; - programming logics that deal with aliasing and/or shared state, or use ownership, capabilities or resourcing; - applications of capabilities, ownership and other similar type systems in low-level systems such as programming languages runtimes, virtual machines, or compilers; and - optimization techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics. ## Submissions Contributions may be submitted in two formats: - Short papers (up to 3 pages, excluding references and clearly marked appendices) describing new ideas and open questions for discussion. - Full papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and clearly marked appendices) describing (preliminary) research results. Submissions must be in English and use the LNCS template. Papers must be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwaco2017, by April 26th. There will be a post-proceedings special issue at JOT (http://www.jot.fm) for full papers, which will be subject to a further round of reviews. ## Organizing Committee Elias Castegren (Uppsala University, Sweden) elias.castegren at it.uu.se Juliana Franco (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) j.vicente-franco at imperial.ac.uk ## Workshop Program committee Colin Gordon (Drexel University, United States) Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Tony Hosking (Australian National University, Data61, and Purdue University, United States) Felix Klock (Mozilla Corporation) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Azalea Raad (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Mon Mar 13 17:25:48 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 22:25:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2017 submission deadline extended Message-ID: [Submission deadline extended by a week to 20 March 2017. Consider contributing!] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2017 and EUTYPES Cost Action CA15123 meeting Budapest, Hungary, 29 May - 1 June 2017 http://types2017.elte.hu 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 formalised 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; * 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. FINANCIAL SUPPORT The last two days of TYPES 2017, May 31 - June 1 are supported by and organised under the auspices of EUTypes Cost Action CA15123 (https://eutypes.cs.ru.nl). On one of these days there will be an EUTypes Management Committee (MC) meeting. This means that for members of the EUTypes MC, the cost of travel and stay for these 2 days will be covered. There will likely be some funding for a limited number of other conference participants (speakers). The funding is subject to COST rules, and invitations will be sent out via the e-cost system after the 1st of May. INVITED SPEAKERS * Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) * Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) * Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund) CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2017. Important dates: * submission of 2 pp abstract: 20 March 2017 * notified of acceptance/rejection: 17 April 2017 * camera-ready version of abstract: 8 May 2017 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 TYPES 2011 and TYPES 2013-2016, we intend to publish a post-proceedings volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. Submission to that volume will be open for everyone. Tentative submission deadline: September 2017. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Andreas Abel (Chalmers University Gothenburg) * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) * Jos? Espirito Santo (University of Minho) * Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg (University of Strathclyde) * Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) * Hugo Herbelin (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) * Ambrus Kaposi (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) (co-chair) * Tam?s Kozsik (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) (co-chair) * Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) * Alexandre Miquel (University of the Republic, Uruguay) * Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) * Keiko Nakata (SAP, Potsdam) * Andrew Polonsky (University Paris Diderot) * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) * Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) * Wouter Swierstra (Utrecht University) * 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. From 2009 to 2015, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. From 2016, TYPES is partially supported by COST Action EUTypes CA15123. 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), Novi Sad (2016). CONTACT Email: info at types2017.elte.hu Organisers: Ambrus Kaposi, Tam?s Kozsik, Andr?s Kov?cs and the Department of Programming Languages and Compilers at the Faculty of Informatics, E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Budapest. From eacsl at kahle.ch Mon Mar 13 05:56:39 2017 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:56:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ackermann Award 2017 Message-ID: <66360389-3a83-5025-9523-c5855c7d54b8@kahle.ch> ACKERMANN AWARD 2017 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2017 Ackermann Award. PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2015 and 31.12.2016 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 1 April 2017. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2017 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 2017 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL, 20-24 August 2017, in Stockholm (Sweden). 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, and * travel support to attend the conference. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. Jury The jury consists of: * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), the president of EACSL; * Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique), 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; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund). 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. From dingel at cs.queensu.ca Mon Mar 13 15:28:02 2017 From: dingel at cs.queensu.ca (Juergen Dingel) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:28:02 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty position in 'Foundations of Computer Science' in School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada Message-ID: The School of Computing in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University invites applications for a Tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor with specialization in Foundations of Computer Science including Theory of Computation, Computer Systems, Database and Big Data, and Programming Languages. Exceptional candidates in other areas may be considered. The preferred starting date is July 1, 2017. Candidates must have a PhD or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline completed at the start date of the appointment. The main criteria for selection are academic and teaching excellence. The successful candidate is expected to play a major role in the delivery of undergraduate and graduate programs at the School of Computing. The successful candidate will provide evidence of high quality scholarly output that demonstrates potential for independent research leading to peer-assessed publications in one of the foundational areas of Computer Science. A commitment to secure external research funding, as well as strong potential for outstanding teaching contributions at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and an ongoing dedication to academic and pedagogical excellence in support of the School's programs are requirements for this position. Candidates must provide evidence of an ability to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary and student-centred environment. The successful candidate will be required to make substantive contributions through service to the School, the Faculty, the University, and/or the broader community. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Queen's University is one of Canada's leading research-intensive universities with a global reputation and is a recognized leader in Canadian higher education. The School of Computing has 21 full-time and 18 cross-appointed faculty, over 500 undergraduate students, and over 140 graduate students. The School offers undergraduate programs in Computer Science, Software Design, Biomedical Computing, Computing and Mathematics, Computing and the Creative Arts and Cognitive Science. The School also offers Master's, and Doctoral programs in Computer Science and Ultra Large Scale Systems. Queen's historic campus is located in the heart of the vibrant Kingston community in the Thousand Islands region of South Eastern Ontario. Queen's is positioned centrally with respect to three major metropolitan areas: Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. Additional information about Queen's University, which may be of interest to prospective faculty members, can be found at http://www.queensu.ca/facultyrecruitment. The University invites applications from all qualified individuals. Queen's is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ persons. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. To comply with federal laws, the University is obliged to gather statistical information as to how many applicants for each job vacancy are Canadian citizens / permanent residents of Canada. Applicants need not identify their country of origin or citizenship; however, all applications must include one of the following statements: "I am a Canadian citizen / permanent resident of Canada"; OR, "I am not a Canadian citizen / permanent resident of Canada". Applications that do not include this information will be deemed incomplete. A complete application consists of: - a cover letter (including one of the two statements regarding Canadian citizenship / permanent resident status specified in the previous paragraph); - a current Curriculum Vitae (including a list of publications); - a statement of research interests; - a statement of teaching interests and experience (including teaching outlines and evaluations if available); and, - the names and contact information of three referees. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2017. Applicants are encouraged to send all documents in their application package electronically as a single PDF, Attn: Chair of Faculty Search Committee at CSsearch at cs.queensu.ca, although hard copy applications may be submitted to: Faculty Search Committee Chair The School of Computing 557 Goodwin Hall Queen's University Kingston, Ontario CANADA K7L 3N6 The University will provide support in its recruitment processes to applicants with disabilities, including accommodation that takes into account an applicant?s accessibility needs. If you require accommodation during the interview process, please contact Tom Bradshaw in The School of Computing, at bradshaw at cs.queensu.ca. 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URL: From bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca Mon Mar 13 11:45:46 2017 From: bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca (Brigitte Pientka) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:45:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2017: Call For Papers Message-ID: <2890A396-2149-4310-9B2B-C23A8903ED56@cs.mcgill.ca> ======================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 19th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2017 Namur, Belgium, October 9-11, 2017 (co-located with LOPSTR'17) http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/ppdp2017 ======================================================== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 12 May (abstracts) / 19 MAY (papers) ======================================================== PPDP 2017 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint programming paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency, security, static analysis, and verification. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ** Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability; concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; probabilistic languages; reactive languages; database languages; knowledge representation languages; languages with objects; language extensions for tabulation; metaprogramming. ** Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection; memory management. ** Foundations: type systems; type classes; dependent types; logical frameworks; monads; resource analysis; cost models; continuations; control; state; effects; semantics. ** Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow; termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing. ** Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments; verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application; education. This year the conference will be co-located with the 27th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017). IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission: 12 May 2017 Paper Submission: 19 May 2017 Paper Rebuttal: 10 July 2017 Notification: 20 July 2017 Final Version: 15 Aug 2017 SUBMISSION CATEGORIES: Submissions can be made in three categories: regular Research Papers, System Descriptions, and Experience Reports. Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages ACM style 2-column (including figures and bibliography). Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Submissions of research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability. Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of submission and will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc., is used in practice. They must not exceed 6 pages. Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time of submission and need not report original research results. They will be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: * insights gained from real-world projects using declarative programming * comparison of declarative programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum * curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming in education * real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a declarative language or for declarative programming in general * novel use of declarative programming in the classroom * programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or programming technique. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions must be formatted using ACM style files (latest release December 2016) using the instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template To prepare your submission using LaTex: * Download acmart.zip from https://www.ctan.org/pkg/acmart * Unzip acmart.zip * Run latex acmart.ins to produce an acmart.cls file * Run pdflatex sample-sigconf.tex to check that your installation works correctly * Write your paper using sample-sigconf.tex as a template 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, etc., 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. At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. Papers must be submitted via easychair. The submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2017 PROCEEDING Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. PROGRAM CHAIR Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) Nadia Amin (EPFL) Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon) Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (University of Torino) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) Tom Fr?hwirth (University of Ulm) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) Neel Krishnaswami (University of Cambridge) Michael Leuschel (Universit?t D?sseldorf) Yanhong Annie Liu (Stony Brook University) Andres Loeh (Well-Typed) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Paraiba / fortiss) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) (PC Chair) Ulrich Schoepp (Ludwig Maximilian University) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University) Bernardo Toninho (Imperial College London) LOCAL ORGANIZER (joint with LOPSTR): Wim Vanhoff (University of Namur) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mislove at tulane.edu Tue Mar 14 11:26:17 2017 From: mislove at tulane.edu (Mislove, Michael W) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:26:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in Semantics and Tools for Functional Quantum Programming Languages Message-ID: Dear All, Below is an announcement for a postdoctoral position working on the MURI project on Semantics and Tools for Functional Quantum Programming Languages. I invite applications from interested candidates. Thanks, Mike Mislove =============================================== Michael Mislove Phone: +1 504 865-5803 Professor and Chair FAX: +1 504 865-5063 Department of Computer Science Tulane University URL: http://www.cs.tulane.edu/~mwm New Orleans, LA 70118 USA =============================================== Postdoctoral Researcher in Semantics and Tools for Quantum Programming Languages Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position beginning July 1 and running through November 30, 2018. There is a possibility of an extension beyond November, 2018, depending on funding. The position is in the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University, and will be under the supervision of Professor Michael Mislove. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Semantics, Formal Reasoning, and Tool Support for Quantum Programming?. The project involves designing high-level semantic models and tools to support quantum functional programming languages. A prototype language is Proto-Quipper, which has been under development (http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/ ). This language uses the circuit model for quantum computation, and envisions languages that support quantum computation under classical control. The overall aim is to design type-safe functional programming languages for quantum computing. The project also involves developing the meta-theory (including categorical semantics) of such languages, and eventually to formalize some of the meta-theory in a proof assistant. The focus of the Tulane work is modeling recursion in such languages, which requires developing quantum domain theory, but interactions with other aspects of the project are expected. Familiarity with programming language design, and / or semantics is a prerequisite of the position. The latter includes categorical semantics and domain theory. A good knowledge of category theory is also a prerequisite. Of course, familiarity with quantum computing is helpful. Additional components of the project will address issues around quantum information such as non-locality and contextuality, adapting proof assistants (Coq, Agda, Lean, etc) to develop automated verification for quantum programming languages, and developing quantum routers. Although the position is at Tulane University, candidates may travel to the other sites where work on this project is taking place. These include UPenn, UIowa and Stanford in the US, as well as McGill University and Dalhousie University in Canada and Oxford and Edinburgh in the UK. To apply for this position, direct your browser to the link: https://apply.interfolio.com/41053 Funding for the project comes from the DOD and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tobias.grosser at inf.ethz.ch Tue Mar 14 07:20:46 2017 From: tobias.grosser at inf.ethz.ch (Tobias Grosser) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:20:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Message-ID: <1489490446.3087071.910702352.3DAC6C05@webmail.messagingengine.com> The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research on programming language design, implementation, theory, applications, and performance at PLDI 2017. The goal is to give students a place to discuss their research with experts in their field and to help them sharpen their research and communication skills. Please find more information at http://pldi17.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2017-student-research-competition Deadline for submission of the extended abstracts: Friday April 7th, 2017. ## Rounds Three rounds of competition will take place before and during PLDI 2017. All rounds are held in two categories: Undergraduate Students and Graduate Students (Masters and PhD level). Winners of the third round will be invited to participate in the SRC Grand Finals competition hosted by the ACM. The PLDI rounds are: * Extended abstract round. All students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract outlining their research. * Poster session. Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising authors to participate in the poster session which will take place at PLDI. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the judges, who will select a group of semi-finalists in each category to advance to the next round. * PLDI presentation. The last PLDI round will consist of an oral presentation at the conference to compete for the three top places. ## Prizes Winners of the three top places in each category receive prizes of $500 for the first place winner, $300 for the second place winner and $200 for the third place winner, respectively. The top three undergraduate and graduate winners receive an award medal and a one-year complimentary ACM student membership with a subscription to ACM?s Digital Library. ## ACM SRC Grand Finals First place winners in each category will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competition between first-place SRC winners from different ACM conferences held in 2017. Grand Finals will be judged by a different, ACM-appointed panel of judges. Winners of the three top Grand Finals places in each category will receive additional prizes of $500 for the first place winner, $300 for the second place winner and $200 for the third place winner, respectively. They will be also invited to the annual ACM Award Banquet along with prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award. ## Eligibility criteria Current student status, either graduate or undergraduate, at the time of submission deadline. In order to advance to the poster session round, participants of the SRC must be current ACM (student) members. ## Extended Abstract 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: The extended abstract must not exceed 1000 words and must not be longer than 2 pages. Reference lists do not count towards these limits. ## SRC Panel Xavier Martorell, BSC and UPC (chair). Tobias Grosser, ETH Zurich Sandrine Blazy, IRISA Martin Kong, RICE University Timothy Bourke, INRIA Cole Schlesinger, Barefoot Networks, Inc. From maietti at math.unipd.it Tue Mar 14 11:31:39 2017 From: maietti at math.unipd.it (Maria Emilia Maietti) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:31:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] seeking a lecturer for 8hs on proof-assistants in PD Message-ID: <58C80CDB.70100@math.unipd.it> ?????????????????????????????????????????????? Seeking a non-Italian lecturer to give an 8-hour introduction to proof-assistants in Padova ???????????????????????????????????????????? We are looking for a non-Italian scientist (even a PhD student with high expertise) to give 2 or more seminars for a total of 8 hours maximum and 4 hours minimum (that can be split from 2 up to 4 days) as an ***introduction to the use of a proof-assistant based on a constructive dependent type theory*** like Calculus of Inductive Constructions orMartin-Loef's type theory. Period of seminars: to be chosen in April/May 2018 Location: University of Padova Type of students: master students in Computer Science at the University of Padova. Compensation: 1500 euros DEADLINE for application : 22 March 2017 If you are available please write no later than 22 March to maietti at math.unipd.it sambin at math.unipd.it with a CV included. Many thanks for your attention Best wishes Maria Emilia Maietti Giovanni Sambin From crafa at math.unipd.it Tue Mar 14 06:42:31 2017 From: crafa at math.unipd.it (Silvia Crafa) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:42:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2017 - Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: <21267e09-baa4-e62d-c853-b529ea5d4778@math.unipd.it> ****************************************************************** ECOOP 2017 - DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 19-23 June 2017, Barcelona, Spain co-located with PLDI 2017 and other events http://2017.ecoop.org #ECOOP2017 @ECOOPconf ****************************************************************** The ECOOP Doctoral Symposium provides a forum for PhD students at any stage in their research to get detailed feedback and advice. The objectives of this event are to: - allow students to practise writing clearly and present their research effectively; - receive constructive feedback from experienced researchers and peers; - offer opportunities to form research collaborations; - interact with other researchers at the ECOOP and PLDI. FORMAT The symposium is a full-day of interactive presentations. It starts with lightning talks where each student gives an ?elevator pitch? of their research. Next, each student give a formal presentation followed by questions and discussions. Besides the formal presentations, there will be opportunities for informal interactions during breaks, lunch and dinner. Famous researchers will give talks on topics related to PhD studies and exploring possibilities beyond your doctorate. SUBMISSIONS We have two distinct submission categories: junior and senior submissions. Junior students may not yet have developed a thesis topic, they will present their research ideas and any progress to date. Senior students are expected to give an outline of their thesis topic and will feedback towards the successful completion of their thesis and defence. Submissions are done through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecoop17ds and are due on April 21, AOE. A) Junior PhD Students Submit a 4?8 page research proposal in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs format with: - a problem description - a detailed sketch of a proposed approach - related work It is not necessary to present concrete results. Instead, try to inform the reader that you have a (well-motivated) problem and present a possible solution. Attempt to provide a clear road map detailing future research efforts. The research proposal should include the name and email of your PhD advisor. B) Senior PhD Students The experience for senior Students is meant to mimic a ?mini-defense? interview. Aside from the actual feedback, this helps the student gain familiarity with the style and mechanics of such an interview (advisors of student presenters will not be allowed in). The students should be able to present: - the importance of the problem - a clear research proposal - some preliminary work - an evaluation plan Please submit a 4?8 page abstract in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs format with the following: 1. Problem Description What is the problem? What is the significance of this problem? Why can the current state of the art not solve this problem? 2. Goal Statement What is the goal of your research? What artifacts (tools, theories, methods) will be produced, how do they address the stated problem? 3. Method What experiments, prototypes, or studies need to be produced/executed? What is the validation strategy? How will it show the goal was reached? This isn?t a technical paper, don?t focus on technical details, but rather on the research method. The paper should include the name and email of your PhD advisor. PARTICIPATION Accepted students will give two presentations: 1. A two-minute presentation stating key issues of the research (the ?elevator pitch?). 2. A 15 minute presentation followed by 15? of questions, feedback and discussions. 3. An email from the student?s advisor (to ecoop17ds at easychair.org) to confirm the advisor attended at least one presentation rehearsal. Prior to the symposium, each student will be assigned submissions of two other students. For each submission the student will prepare a short summary, feedback and 2-3 questions for discussion on the submission. The student will also be expected to take active part in all discussions. FUNDING AND OTHER EVENTS The organizers encourage students to apply for funding through the ECOOP student volunteer program, http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-Student-Volunteers. Consider applying to the ECOOP Summer School, great speakers with an emphasis towards teaching useful skills for young researchers, http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-Summer-School From andrea.rosa at usi.ch Mon Mar 13 23:03:30 2017 From: andrea.rosa at usi.ch (Andrea Rosa) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 03:03:30 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM/SPEC ICPE'17 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <240187B6-260A-4FD3-B377-DA5C14BAC1CF@usi.ch> ICPE 2017 8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG L'Aquila, Italy April 22-27, 2017 https://icpe2017.spec.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like Web-based systems, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, have increasingly distributed and dynamic system architectures that provide high flexibility, however, also increase the complexity of managing end-to-end application performance. ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM ICPE'17 takes place from April 22 to 27, 2017. The main conference runs from April 24 to 26, with a welcome reception on April 24 and a banquet on April 25. Tutorials are held on April 22 and 23, while workshops take place on April 22, 23, and 27. The preliminary program is available at https://icpe2017.spec.org/conference-program.html The following eight workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference: - Saturday, April 22: -- ACPROSS: Autonomous Control for Performance and Reliability Trade-offs in Internet of Services -- PABS: Third International Workshop on Performance Analysis of Big Data Systems -- WOSP-C: Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development - Sunday, April 23: -- ENERGY-SIM: Third International Workshop on Energy-aware Simulation -- LTB: Sixth International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems -- MoLS: First International Workshop on Monitoring in Large-Scale Software Systems -- WEPPE: Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering - Thursday, April 27: -- QUDOS: Third International Workshop on Quality-aware DevOps More information on the workshops can be found at https://icpe2017.spec.org/conference-program/conference-workshops.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Registration is open! To register to ICPE'17 or to the co-located workshops and tutorials, please follow the instruction at the following link: https://icpe2017.spec.org/registration.html. Early registration deadline: March 24, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE We are proud to announce our keynote speakers for ICPE'17: -------------------------------------- Arif Merchant (Google) Title: Autonomic storage management at scale Abstract: Cloud data centers use enormous amounts of storage, and it is critical to monitor, manage, and optimize the storage autonomically. Optimally configuring storage is difficult because storage workloads are very diverse and change over time. Data centers measure running workloads, but this measurement data stream is itself quite large. We present some real world case studies in the use of big data techniques, sampling, and optimization to manage storage in data centers. Short bio: Arif Merchant is a Research Scientist at Google and leads the Storage Analytics group, which studies interactions between components of the storage stack. His interests include distributed storage systems, storage management, and stochastic modeling. He holds the B.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. -------------------------------------- Francesco Quaglia (University of Rome "La Sapienza") Title: Performance is Also a Matter of Where You Live Abstract: Nowadays, a plethora of techniques and methods are available to optimize the runtime behavior of complex applications, ranging from modeling/prediction tools to the employment of recognized patterns and/or knowledge-bases on the expected performance under specific workloads. However, in common scenarios, the ultimate applications' behavior may depend on features that are scarcely predictable or difficult to be taken into account when designing the applications and their own runtime optimizers. Among them, we mention the actual structure of the underlying hardware and/or virtualized platforms, as well as specific runtime dynamics such as thread correlation on data and synchronization---not much the average behavior, rather punctual effects. We believe that the environment where applications live, like operating systems and user-space runtime libraries, play a central role in coping with these features. We similarly believe that such environments must be re-staged so as to be actually effective in pursuing the performance optimization goal. In this talk, we discuss specific guidelines to re-stage the environments, based on a real experience, and we point as well to challenges that are still untackled and deserve attention by the research community. Short bio: Francesco Quaglia received the Laurea degree (MS level) in Electronic Engineering in 1995 and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 1999 from the University of Rome ``La Sapienza''. From summer 1999 to summer 2000 he held an appointment as a Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Since January 2005 he works as an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Rome ``La Sapienza", where he has previously worked as an Assistant Professor since September 2000 to December 2004. His main research interests are in the areas of high performance computing, dependable computing, transactional systems, operating systems, automatic code parallelization, performance analysis and optimization. Currently, he is the director of the HPDCS (High Performance and Dependable Computing Systems) Research Lab at the University of Rome ``La Sapienza''. -------------------------------------- Thomas Wuerthinger (Oracle Labs) Title: Micro-Benchmarking Considered Harmful Subtitle: When the Whole is Faster or Slower Than the Sum of its Parts Abstract: Measuring the time spent on small individual fractions of program code is a common technique for analysing performance behavior and detecting performance bottlenecks. The benefits of the approach include a detailed individual attribution of performance and understandable feedback loops when experimenting with different code versions. There are however severe pitfalls when following this approach that can lead to vastly misleading results. Modern optimizing compilers use complex optimization techniques that take a large part of the program into account. There can be therefore unexpected side-effects when combining different code snippets or even when running a presumably unrelated part of the code. This talk will present performance paradoxes with examples from the domain of dynamic compilation of Java programs. Furthermore, it will discuss an alternative approach to modelling code performance characteristics that takes the challenges of complex optimising compilers into account. Short Bio: Thomas Wuerthinger is a Senior Research Director at Oracle Labs leading programming language implementation teams for languages including Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and R. He is the architect of the Graal compiler and the Truffle self-optimizing runtime system. Previously, he worked on the Crankshaft optimizing compiler of V8 at Google, and the Maxine research virtual machine at Sun Microsystems. He received a PhD degree from JKU Linz for his research about dynamic code evolution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Walter Binder, Universit? della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland * Vittorio Cortellessa, Universit? dell'Aquila, Italy Research Program Chairs * Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Industry Program Chairs * Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Tutorials Chair * Valeria Cardellini, Universit? di Roma Torvergata, Italy Workshops Chairs * Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, Johannes Kepler Universit?t Linz, Austria * Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Posters and Demos Chair * Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Awards Chairs * Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic * Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Local Organization Chair * Antinisca Di Marco, Universit? dell'Aquila, Italy Publicity Chairs * Andrea Ros?, Universit? della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland * Diego Perez, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Finance Chair * Andr? van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart Publication and Registration Chair * Davide Arcelli, Universit? dell'Aquila, Italy Web Site Chair * Daniele Di Pompeo, Universit? dell'Aquila, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACTS Do not hesitate to contact the general chairs at > and > for more information about ICPE'17 and the co-located venues. ------------ Andrea Ros? PhD student - Teaching assistant Faculty of Informatics - Office SI-205 Universit? della Svizzera italiana (USI) Via G. Buffi 13 CH-6904 Lugano Switzerland (e) andrea.rosa at usi.ch (p) +41 58 666 4455 ext. 2183 (w) http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/rosaa/ From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Wed Mar 15 06:17:52 2017 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:17:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Continuity, Computability, Constructivity 2017; call for submissions In-Reply-To: <8841cefc-0149-4a4f-d998-8dab51c75d91@jaist.ac.jp> References: <8841cefc-0149-4a4f-d998-8dab51c75d91@jaist.ac.jp> Message-ID: Continuity, Computability, Constructivity ? From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2017) Loria, 26-30 June 2017 Call for papers https://members.loria.fr/MHoyrup/CCC/home.html CCC is a workshop series bringing together researchers from exact real number computation, computable analysis, effective descriptive set theory, constructive analysis, and related areas. 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, Ljubljana 2014, and Kochel 2015. The conference series has always been linked with EU-funded international research projects, with COMPUTAL (Computable Analysis) in the years 2012-2015 and now with CID (Computing with Infinite Data), a research network between Europe, Chile, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, and the USA. This conference is the first CID event, but is open to all researchers in the area. The workshop will take place in Nancy, France. Scope: The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory Scott's domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, And related areas. Invited Speakers: Matthew de Brecht (Kyoto, Japan) Bernhard Reus (Brighton, UK) Matthias Schr?der (Darmstadt, Germany) Alex Simpson (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Submission: Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) of original work are welcome. Deadline: 17 April 2017 Upload your submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccc20170 Programme Committee: Ulrich Berger (Swansea) Pieter Collins (Maastricht) Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy) (co-chair) Erik Palmgren (Stockholm) Victor Selivanov (Novosibirsk) Dieter Spreen (Siegen) (co-chair) Martin Ziegler (Daejeon). Organizing Committee: Anne-Lise Charbonnier (Nancy) Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christian.retore at lirmm.fr Wed Mar 15 18:04:30 2017 From: christian.retore at lirmm.fr (Christian RETORE) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:04:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Quantifiers and Determiners : two days left Message-ID: <9FE19D33-29D5-4721-AC0B-485CBDB165D3@lirmm.fr> There will probably be no deadline extension. If you have questions about submitting an abstract (2 pages), just let me know. QUAD: QUantifiers And Determiners http://www.lirmm.fr/quad Toulouse, Monday July 17 --- Friday July 21: 17:00-18:30 As part of ESSLLI 2017 Christian Retor?, LIRMM & universit? de Montpellier, Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Schedule: deadline for submissions: 17 Mars 2017 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quad2017 notification to authors: 15 April 2017 final version due: 19 May 2017 conference: 17-21 July 2017 Presentation: The compositional interpretation of determiners relies on quantifiers ? in a general acceptation of this later term which includes generalised quantifiers, generics, definite descriptions i.e. any operation that applies to one or several formulas with a free variable, binds it and yields a formula or possibly a generic term (the operator is then called a subnector, following Curry). There is a long history of quantification in the Ancient and Medieval times at the border between logic and philosophy of language, before the proper formalisation of quantification by Frege. A common solution for natural language semantics is the so-called theory of generalised quantifiers. Quantifiers like ? some, exactly two, at most three, the majority of, most of, few, many, ? ? are all described in terms of functions of two predicates viewed as subsets. Nevertheless, many mathematical and linguistic questions remain open. On the mathematical side, little is known about generalised , generalised and vague quantifiers, in particular about their proof theory. On the other hand, even for standard quantifiers, indefinites and definite descriptions, there exist alternative formulations with choice functions and generics or subnectors (Russell?s iota, Hilbert-Bernays, eta, epsilon, tau). The computational aspects of these logical frameworks are also worth studying, both for computational linguistic software and for the modelling of the cognitive processes involved in understanding or producing sentences involving quantifiers. On the linguistic side, the relation between the syntactic structure and its semantic interpretation, quantifier raising, underspecification, scope issues,? are not fully satisfactory. Furthermore extension of linguistic studies to various languages have shown how complex quantification is in natural language and its relation to phenomena like generics, plurals, and mass nouns. Finally, and this can be seen as a link between formal models of quantification and natural language, there by now exist psycholinguistic experiments that connect formal models and their computational properties to the actual way human do process sentences with quantifiers, and handle their inherent ambiguity, complexity, and difficulty in understanding. All those aspects are connected in the didactics of mathematics and computer science: there are specific difficulties to teach (and to learn) how to understand, manipulate, produce and prove quantified statements, and to determine the proper level of formalisation between bare logical formulas and written or spoken natural language. This workshop aims at gathering mathematicians, logicians, linguists, computer scientists to present their latest advances in the study of quantification. Among the topics that wil be addressed are the following : ? new ideas in quantification in mathematical logic, both model theory and proof theory: ? choice functions, ? subnectors (Russell?s iota, Hilbert?s epsilon and tau), ? higher order quantification, ? quantification in type theory ? studies of the lexical, syntactic and semantic of quantification in various languages ? semantics of noun phrases ? generic noun phrases ? semantics of plurals and mass nouns ? experimental study of quantification and generics ? computational applications of quantification and polarity especially for question-answering. ? quantification in the didactics of mathematics and computer science. Submissions: The program committee is looking for contributions introducing new viewpoints on quantification and determiners, the novelty being either in the mathematical logic framework or in the linguistic description or in the cognitive modelling. Submitting purely original work is not mandatory, but authors should clearly mention that the work is not original, and why they want to present it at this workshop (e.g. new viewpoint on already published results) Submissions should be - 12pt font (at least) - 1inch/2.5cm margins all around (at least) - less than 2 pages (references exluded) - with an abstract of less then 100 words and they should be submitted in PDF by easychair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quad2017 In case the committee thinks it is more appropriate, some papers can be accepted as a poster with a lightning talk. Final versions of accepted papers may be slightly longer. They will be published on line. We also plan to publish postproceedings Programme committee: ? Christian Retor? (Universit? de Montpellier & LIRMM-CNRS) ? Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) ? Vito Michele Abrusci (Universit? di Roma tre) ? Mathias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna) ? Daisukke Bekki (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) ? Oliver Bott (Universit?t T?bingen) ? Francis Corblin (Universit? Paris Sorbonne) ? Martin Hakl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA) ? Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) ? Dan Lassiter (Stanford University) ? Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway College, London) ? Alda Mari (CNRS Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) ? Wilfried Meyer-Viol (King?s college, London) ? Michel Parigot (CNRS IRIF, Paris) ? Anna Szabolcsi (New-York University) ? Jakub Szymanik (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ? Dag Westerstahl (Stockholm University) ? Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (University of Technology, Vienna) ? Richard Zach (University of Calgary) ? Roberto Zamparelli (Universit? di Trento) http://www.lirmm.fr/quad ? Christian Retor? http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore ? Christian Retor? http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Wed Mar 15 05:44:17 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:44:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Message-ID: <03fae151fe7797ee22e825d5d276b09f@lcc.uma.es> ================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit?t Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Universit? degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universit? degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer B?hme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-H?bner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Universit? Ca? Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabh?ngiges Landeszentrum f?r Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf K?sters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Ma?a, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Universit? di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA G?nther Pernul, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina P?pper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Bj?rn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore J?rg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universit?t, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain From ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Wed Mar 15 07:46:54 2017 From: ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Ayoub Nouri) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:46:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3rd Call RV2017 (includes invited speakers): Runtime Verification, September 13 - 16 2017, Seattle USA Message-ID: <37e4cf63-ca80-db1f-6418-bc776cabe4d0@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> RV 2017 * Call for Papers and Tutorials* The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk rv2017 at easychair.org Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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, but are not limited to: * specification languages * monitor construction techniques * program instrumentation * logging, recording, and replay * combination of static and dynamic analysis * specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces * monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems * runtime checking of privacy and security policies * statistical model checking * metrics and statistical information gathering * program/system execution visualization * fault localization, containment, recovery and repair * integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers*as well as *tutorial proposals*will follow the following timeline: * Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 * Paper notification: June 26, 2017 * Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017 * Conference: September 13-16, 2017 Invited Speakers We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017: * Rodrigo Fonseca , Brown University, USA * Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg , Microsoft, USA * Andreas Zeller , Saarland University, Germany General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. * *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. * *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University of Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , VERIMAG (University of Grenoble Alpes), France Eric Bodden , Fraunhofer SIT and Technische University Darmstadt, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS& ENSde Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google, USA Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd. 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URL: From gsilvia at uns.ac.rs Thu Mar 16 04:18:44 2017 From: gsilvia at uns.ac.rs (Silvia Ghilezan) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:18:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LAP 2017 - Logic and Applications: CFP Message-ID: <2C1725C4-63B2-4FBF-A975-7B5F83D57061@uns.ac.rs> =========================================================== [ Please broadcast/post/forward. Apologies for duplicates] LAP 2017 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS - LAP 2017 September 18-22, 2017, Dubrovnik, Croatia http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2017 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; - Security. Student sessions will be organized. LAP is a series of conferences held at IUC - Inter University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia. LAP 2017 is the 6th edition. The first conference Proof Systems was held on June 28, 2012, co-located with the conference LICS 2012, followed by LAP 2013, September 16-20, 2013 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2013) LAP 2014, September 22-26, 2014 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2014) LAP 2015, September 21-25, 2015 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2015) LAP 2016, September 19-23, 2016 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2016) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: June 1, 2017 Author Notification: June 26, 2017 Final version: July 6, 2017 SUBMISSION Authors should submit an abstract in LaTeX format, not exceeding three pages, to vlp at mi.sanu.ac.rs (with the subject "LAP 2017"). 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 - Thomas Studer, University of Bern ================================================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Joelle.Despeyroux at inria.fr Thu Mar 16 14:21:52 2017 From: Joelle.Despeyroux at inria.fr (Joelle Despeyroux) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:21:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMSB 2017 - 2nd call for submissions Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Papers, tools, posters, tutorials, presentations) CMSB 2017 15th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology http://www.cmsb2017.tu-darmstadt.de 27th-29th September 2017 Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany) Description CMSB 2017 solicits original research articles, posters, tutorials, and tool papers, 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 In particular, the conference is open to theoretical works with potential applications to modelling and systems biology, as well as applications of existing framework to new models or that may provide new insights to existing models. Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories: A) Regular papers B) Tool papers C) Posters D) Tutorials E) Presentation only The proceedings of CMSB 2017 will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI). After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be extended an submitted to a special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Invited Speakers - Michael Brenner (Harvard University, USA) - Russ Harmer (CNRS & ?cole normale sup?rieure de Lyon, France) - Stefan Grill (Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany) - Philipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, T?bingen, Germany) Call for Submissions: A) CALL 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 15 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Each submission will be refereed rigorously by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Important Dates - Abstract presubmission: April 07, 2017 - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 - Paper notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2017 Replicability and reproducibility: A paper may come with benchmarks, software, models, and so on. In order to encourage the development of reproducible results, the authors of accepted papers will be suggested to submit supplementary materials, so that the committee can evaluate the reproducibility of their work. B) CALL 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 presubmission: April 07, 2017 - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 - Paper notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2017 C) CALL FOR POSTERS: CMSB 2017 solicits original poster abstracts on the computational modeling and analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. We especially encourage poster submission from experimental biologists! Poster abstracts must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 2 pages. Important Dates Poster submission: June 1, 2017 Poster notification: June 10, 2017 D) CALL FOR TUTORIALS: CMSB 2017 will host a number of tutorials. Tutorials provide intensive courses on topics ranging from thoughts on the past, current, or future development of computational methods in systems biology to presentations and/or demonstrations of new tools and technologies. A slot in the tutorial track will normally be either 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. A short abstract (less than 2 pages) conforming the LNCS style shall be sent directly to the PC chairs (cmsb2017 at easychair.org) Important Dates - Tutorial submission: March 01, 2017 - Tutorial notification: May 01, 2017 E) CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: Not all potential speakers are interested in publications in a proceedings. CMSB will host some oral presentations without full paper submission. We welcome submissions of work that was already published in a journal or that is currently under review or will soon be submitted. The submission should contain (i) a one-page abstract (11 point type, single spaced) summarizing the primary results and their relevance and (ii) the actual manuscript that was published or is soon to be published. The program committee will use the manuscript only to assess the merit for an oral presentation at CMSB. Both documents have to be submitted as a single PDF file via EasyChair. Only the one-page abstract will appear in the proceedings at the conference. Submissions unaccompanied by adequate documentation will not be eligible for oral presentation. Important dates - Presentation submission: April 14, 2017 - Presentation notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready (one-page abstract): June 30, 2017 ************************************************* PC co-Chairs - J?r?me Feret (Inria & ?cole normale sup?rieure, France) - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Tool Track Chair - Pierre Boutillier (Harvard Medical School, USA) Local Organisation Chair - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Program Committee - John Albeck (University of California, Davis, USA) - Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, Austria) - Guillaume Beslon (INSA-Lyon & Inria, France) - Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy) - J?r?mie Bourdon (LS2N, Nantes, France) - Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) - Vincent Danos (CNRS & ?cole normale sup?rieure, France & University of Edinburgh, UK) - Jo?lle Despeyroux (Inria, France) - James Faeder (University of Pittsburgh, USA) - Fran?ois Fages (Inria, France) - J?r?me Feret (Inria & Ecole normale sup?rieure, France) - Tomas Gedeon (Montana State University, USA) - Manoj Gopalkrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India) - Calin Guet (IST, Austria) - Monika Heiner (Brandenburg TU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) - Jean Krivine (IRIF, Paris Diderot Univ., France) - Reinhard Laubenbacher (University of Connecticut Health Center & Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, USA) - Axel Legay (IRISA/Inria, France) - Stefan Legewie (IMB Mainz, Germany) - Pietro Li? (University of Cambridge, UK) - Oded Maler (VERIMAG, CNRS and Univ. of Grenoble-Alpes, France) - Nicola Paoletti (Stony Brook University, USA) - Lo?c Paulev? (CNRS/LRI, France) - Tatjana Petrov, (IST, Austria) - Ovidiu Radulescu (University of Montpellier 2, France) - Marc Riedel (University of Minnesota, USA) - Olivier Roux (LS2N & Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France) - David ?afr?nek (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) - Guido Sanguinetti (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) - Fabian J. 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URL: From dario.dellamonica at uniud.it Thu Mar 16 09:55:01 2017 From: dario.dellamonica at uniud.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:55:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CILC 2017: Preliminary Call For Papers Message-ID: <63655020-09a1-e7bd-c775-3a7cd009164f@uniud.it> We are happy to announce the following event. Feel free to forward this message to whom it might interest. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it). Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 25 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. In particular, we invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ Papers accepted for presentation at the conference (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017 at easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/ From radugrigore at gmail.com Fri Mar 17 15:55:16 2017 From: radugrigore at gmail.com (Radu Grigore) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:55:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers: Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs Message-ID: Website: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/FTfJP-2017-papers FTfJP (Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs) is an established workshop, running annually since 1999. It is associated with ECOOP, a flagship European conference on object-oriented programming. For 2017, contributions are sought in two categories: * **Technical Work**. In 6 two-column pages, the paper should present a technical contribution. We welcome both complete and incomplete results, as long as they are substantial enough to stimulate discussion on future research directions. * **Position Paper**. In 2 two-column pages, the paper should advocate a promising research direction. Using this format, we encourage established researchers to set out their vision, and we also encourage beginning researchers to plan their path to a PhD. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Both theory and tools are welcome. Topics include but are not limited to - semantics - types - model checking - program analysis (static or dynamic) - verification (traditional, quantitative, at runtime, ...) - language design (for programs or specifications) - concurrency - security - proof engineering - pearls (proofs or programs) Important dates: - **20 April 2017:** submission deadline - **15 May 2017:** author notification Submissions will be peer reviewed, and will be evaluated based on their *clarity* and based on their *potential to generate interesting discussions*. The format of the workshop encourages interaction. FTfJP is a forum in which a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. Program Committee: - Nada Amin, EPFL - Alexandre Bartel, University of Luxembourg - Sam Blackshear, Facebook - Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven - Radu Grigore, University of Kent (chair) - James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington - Jens Palsberg, UCLA - Aseem Rastogi, Microsoft Research - Bernhard Scholz, University of Sydney - Malte Schwerhoff, ETH Zurich Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, if the authors wish so. The use of [ACM's template][acm] with the SIGPLAN format is required. Submit via [HotCRP][hotcrp]. [acm]: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template [hotcrp]: https://ftfjp17.hotcrp.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk Fri Mar 17 10:49:59 2017 From: s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk (Sven Linker) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:49:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Funded PhD Studentship - Formal Verification of Sensor Networks at the University of Liverpool Message-ID: <09db914d-92e2-73b3-c343-27679bfd0d32@liverpool.ac.uk> [Dear colleague, apologies for cross-posting] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Funded PhD Studentship - Formal Verification of Sensor Networks Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael/S4_PhD_2017.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool offers a PhD position, commencing in October 2017, and associated with the Science of Sensor Systems Software research programme: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/research/S4 This position is available to both UK and EU students, and we are looking for outstanding candidates with either a first class degree or a distinction at masters level in Computer Science or Mathematical Logic, together with the desire to undertake PhD study on the formal verification for wireless sensor networks. For further details, see http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael/S4_PhD_2017.html =============================================================================== HOW TO APPLY: Instructions on how to apply, and the online form to use, can be found at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/computer-science/postgraduate/phdstudy/applications **DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 17th April 2017.** =============================================================================== From serge.autexier at dfki.de Fri Mar 17 10:42:20 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:42:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] *Extended submission deadline* - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 Message-ID: <20170317144220.12955114A266@gigondas-5.local> * Extended Submission Deadlines * Call for Papers 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Extended deadlines: Abstract submission deadline : 22. March 2017 Submission deadline : 29. March 2017 * Invited Speakers * - Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) - Przemys?aw Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences) - Grant Olney Passmore (University of Cambridge) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017. CICM 2017 also invites work-in- progress papers. The principal tracks of the conference will be: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England) All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems including: - Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. - Computer algebra and symbolic computation in theorem proving systems. - Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for computer mathematics. - Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and reasoning. - Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories that include non-trivial computations. - Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. - Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke) All topics related to the formation of a Global Digital Mathematics Library (GDML) network, ranging from experiences from existing DMLs, policies and standards facilitating interoperability, to development and integration of new techniques for content creation, preservation, enhancement and retrieval of the corpus, including: - DML creation and maintenance (content aggregation, validation, curation, enhancement). - DML architecture and representations (organization, workflows, policies, standards). - DML access and applications (retrieval, interfaces, interoperability). - DML collections and systems (experiences from various existing DMLs). * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe) - Knowledge representation using, e.g., formal logics, computational systems, narrative document formats, or databases - Solutions to create, store, disseminate, discover, or manipulate mathematical knowledge - Corpora of knowledge inlcuding documents, theories, theorems, proofs, models, algorithms, exercises, or examples - Methods, systems, frameworks, case studies, challenges, benchmarks, or applications for mathematical knowledge - Comparisons, evaluations, or integrations of MKM solutions * Track: Systems & Projects (chair: Osman Hasan) - Systems: Stand-alone; plugins, libraries, or extensions of existing systems; or integrations of existing systems - Data: Formalizations; harvests or new processing of existing data; or case studies, test cases, or benchmark suites for systems - Projects: finished, ongoing or new - Survey papers * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: TBD) The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman Geuvers. The local arrangements will be coordinated by Jacques Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier. We plan to have proceedings of the conference as in previous years with Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). *Important Dates* Conference submissions - Abstract submission deadline: 22. March 2017 (extended) - Submission deadline: 29. March 2017 (extended) - Reviews sent to authors: 26. April 2017 - Rebuttals due: 30. April 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 12. May 2017 - Camera ready copies due: 26. May 2017 - Conference: 17.-21. July 2017 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de Fri Mar 17 08:44:34 2017 From: c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de (Christoph Seidl) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:44:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [iFM'17] Final CFP for the International Conference on integrated Formal Methods 2017 Message-ID: <58CBDA32.9040905@tu-braunschweig.de> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 13th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods (iFM 2017) ===================================================================== Website: http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/iFMconf, @iFMconf Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2017 Important Dates =============== Abstract submission: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Paper submission: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Notification: Friday, May 26, 2017 Camera-ready copy: Tuesday, June 11, 2017 Conference: September 20-22, 2017 Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above. 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 modeling notations - Combining formal methods - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice - Program verification, model checking, and static analysis - Runtime analysis, monitoring, and testing - Program synthesis - Analysis and synthesis of hybrid, embedded, probabilistic, distributed, or concurrent systems - Model learning - Theorem proving, decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving Submission Guidelines ===================== iFM 2017 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 describe original scientific research results, validated by experimental results where applicable. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. Limit: 15 pages. - Case study papers report on applications of formal methods, preferably in a real world setting. A case study paper need not introduce novel techniques or tools, but it must include a rigorous empirical evaluation and potentially be of interest to practitioners. Limit: 15 pages. - Regular tool papers present a new tool or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations, while focusing on the tool's design and implementation concerns, as well as empirical evaluation of its practical capabilities. Papers that present extensions to existing tools should clearly focus on the improvements or extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available, preferably on the web. Limit: 15 pages. - Tool demonstration papers focus on the usage aspects of tools. Foundations and empirical evaluation are not required, but the paper should explain why the tool is relevant for the community, and, in particular, for practitioners. As with regular tool papers, authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available, preferably on the web. Limit: 8 pages. Page limits include bibliography and any appendices. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions should be made using the iFM 2017 Easychair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2017 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 registration date, to be indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Workshops and PhD Symposium =========================== iFM 2017 will be accompanied by a series of workshops and a PhD Symposium. Further information is available from the conference website: http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/ Conference Location =================== iFM 2017 is organized by the University of Turin and will take place in Turin, Italy. -- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Seidl Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Institut f?r Softwaretechnik und Fahrzeuginformatik Technische Universit?t Braunschweig Tel.:(+49) 531 391-2296 E-Mail:c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de Skype: christoph.seidl.tud Besucheradresse: Raum IZ 417 (TU Braunschweig) Informatikzentrum M?hlenpfordtstr. 23 38106 Braunschweig DeltaEcore - Plug & Play Variability for Modelshttp://www.deltaecore.org From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Thu Mar 16 12:28:50 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:28:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: LACompLing2017 - Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017) Stockholm, August 16-19, 2017 http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing17.html * Submission deadline for regular papers: April 14, 2017 * ================================================= Affiliated with the 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL'2017 Stockholm, 20--26 August 2017 https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se/ Co-located with: Logic in Stockholm 2017 https://www.lis17.conf.kth.se/ ================================================= DESCRIPTION == Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. -------------------------------- SCOPE == The workshop focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches. The topics of LACompLing2017 include, but are not limited to: - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES == Submission deadline for regular papers: April 14, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017 Abstracts of short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notifications for short presentations: June 12, 2017 Deadline for final submissions: June 25, 2017 Workshop: August 16-19, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS == - Regular papers: between 10-15 pages, including figures and references, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - Abstracts of short presentations: not more than 1 page, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - We invite original papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts of short presentations have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf of the papers and their LaTeX sources The submissions are via the EasyChair management system of LACompLing2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2017 PUBLICATIONS == - The proceedings of LACompLing2017 will be published digitally by the DiVA system of Stockholm University: http://su.diva-portal.org - Improved and extended versions of selected papers, which have been presented at the workshop LACompLing2017, will be published by the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, JoLLI, after the workshop. ORGANIZERS == Krasimir Angelov, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, USA Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair) Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, The Netherlands CONTACT == Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Valeria de Paiva (valeria.depaiva at gmail.com) -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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TOPICS We welcome submissions of papers on the following topics, without limiting to them, across approaches, methods, theories, and applications: - Reasoning systems --- theories and applications - Proof systems and model checkers - Theories of computation and information - Interactive computation and reasoning - Computation and reasoning with heterogeneous information - Space and time in information, language, memory, and reasoning - Partiality, underspecification, vagueness, and possibilities - Detection of and reasoning with inconsistency - Logic and language --- approaches, theories, methods - Computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and interfaces between these - Constraint-based and type-theoretic approaches and grammars - Logical approaches to multilingual processing - Logical and computational foundations in machine learning and information retrieval - Mathematics for linguistics and cognitive science - Reasoning, information, and memory in computational neuroscience and life sciences - Interdisciplinary approaches to information, language, memory, and reasoning IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission (strict deadline): May 10, 2017 23:59:59 pm HST Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 Authors notification: June 14, 2017 Final paper submission and registration: June 28, 2017 Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2017 Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION and PUBLICATIONS The publication rules for AIRIM'17 are the same as for AAIA'17: https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/airim - Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file) - The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available at the websites of AIRIM'17 | AAIA'17 - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop - Pre-prints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore? database - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN, and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site - Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, and Google Scholar - Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) CONTACT INFORMATION Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Apologies for multiple copies] WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK *DEADLINE EXTENDED* SPECIAL SESSION: Screening of Navajo Math Circles (Directed by George Paul Csicsery, 2016, 58min) 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) IN COOPERATION WITH ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK 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-fourth WoLLIC will be held at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK, from July 18th to 21st, 2017. 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). The workshop is held in cooperation with ACM Special Interest in Computational Logic (SIGLOG). 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; philosophy 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. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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 2017 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2017/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)* and the full paper by *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)* Notifications are expected by Apr 22, 2017, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 6, 2017 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2017, 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 2017 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universit?t) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)*: Paper title and abstract deadline *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)*: Full paper deadline Apr 22, 2017: Author notification May 6, 2017: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozov? (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Gr?del (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger T?rnquist (K?benhavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andr?s Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Alexandra Silva (Univ College London, UK) (Local co-chair) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) (Local co-chair) Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, UK) James Brotherston (Univ College London, UK) 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 http://wollic.org/wollic2017/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Damien.Pous at ens-lyon.fr Mon Mar 20 05:39:45 2017 From: Damien.Pous at ens-lyon.fr (Damien Pous) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:39:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: RAMiCS, May 15-18, Lyon, France Message-ID: Call for Participation ----------------------------------------------------- 16th International Conference on RELATIONAL AND ALGEBRAIC METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (RAMiCS 2017) May 15-18, 2017 Lyon, France http://ramics-conference.org ----------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION: For more than two decades, the RAMiCS conferences series has been the main venue for research on relation algebras, Kleene algebras and similar algebraic formalisms, and their applications as conceptual and methodological tools in computer science and beyond. INVITED SPEAKERS: * Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University, Sydney) * Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS, IRIF, Paris) * Alexandra Silva (University College London) PROGRAM: http://ramics-conference.org/program.html REGISTRATION: 204 EUR, by April 16th https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR07/inscription/inscription/153 Students having difficulties to fund their trip should contact the organisers as soon as possible, we might be able to provide financial help for one or two of them. SPECIAL SESSION ON MECHANISED REASONING: We will organise a special session during Thursday afternoon, 18 of May, on mechanised reasoning for relational and algebraic methods. If you are willing to give a talk during this session, please send us a title and a short abstract by April 16th. Expected topics include - mathematical components for relation algebraic methods in proof assistants such as Agda, Coq or Isabelle, or tools such more specific tools such as RelView - support for automated reasoning with such methods - experiences in using any of these tools and components COMMITTEES: Conference Chair: Damien Pous, CNRS, France Programme Chairs: Peter H?fner, Data61, CSIRO Australia Georg Struth, U Sheffield, UK, Programme Committee: Luca Aceto, Reykjavik U, Iceland Rudolf Berghammer, U Kiel, Germany Filippo Bonchi, CNRS, France Jules Desharnais, U Laval, Canada Hitoshi Furusawa, Kagoshima U, Japan Tim Griffin, U Cambridge, UK Walter Guttmann, U Canterbury, New Zealand Robin Hirsch, UCL, UK Peter H?fner, Data61, CSIRO, Australia Marcel Jackson, LaTrobe U, Australia Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Samsung, USA Peter Jipsen , Chapman U, USA Christian Johansen, U Oslo, Norway Wolfram Kahl, McMaster U, Canada Dexter Kozen, Cornell U, USA Szabolcs Mikulas, Birkbeck U, UK Bernhard M?ller, U Augsburg, Germany Jos? N. Oliveira, U Minho, Portugal Damien Pous, CNRS, France Georg Struth, U Sheffield, UK, Pascal Weil, CNRS, France Michael Winter, Brock U, Canada Local Organisation: Catherine Desplanches From mascarenhas at acm.org Mon Mar 20 12:08:28 2017 From: mascarenhas at acm.org (Fabio Mascarenhas) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:08:28 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP SBLP 2017: 21st Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages Message-ID: SBLP 2017 is the 21st edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, and will be held at Fortaleza, Cear?, on September 2017, co-located with the other conferences of CBSoft 2017, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. SBLP is the premier technical and scientific event in Brazil in the area of programming languages, and aims to create a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss principles and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, processing and implementation of programming languages. # IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 14th 2017 Paper submission: April 21st 2017 Author notification: June 16th 2017 Camera ready deadline: June 30th 2017 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. # SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of their originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to SBLP. Papers may be written in Portuguese or English. Submission in English is strongly encouraged, since the symposium proceedings are indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Papers should fall into one of two different categories: regular papers, which can be up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column format (available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html), or short papers, with up to 3 pages in the same format. Page limits include all figures, references, and appendixes. 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. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2017. As in previous editions, after the conference, authors of selected regular 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 SBLP edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. # PROGRAM CHAIR Fabio Mascarenhas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro # PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la Rep?blica Alex Garcia, IME Alvaro Moreira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Anamaria Martins Moreira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Andr? Murbach Maidl,PUC-PR Andre Rauber-DuBois, Federal University of Pelotas Carlos Camar?o, Federal University of Minas Gerais Christiano Braga, Fluminense Federal University Fernando Castor, Federal University of Pernambuco Fernando Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais Francisco Heron Carvalho-Junior, Federal University of Ceara Francisco Sant'Anna, UERJ Gustavo Pinto, Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Par? Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University Ismael Figueroa, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Valparaiso Jo?o Ferreira, Teesside University Jo?o Saraiva, University of Minho Jo?o-Paulo Fernandes, University of Beira Interior Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Louis-Noel Pouchet, University of California Luis Barbosa, University of Minho Manuel-A. Martins, University of Aveiro Marcelo D'Amorim, Federal University of Pernambuco Marcelo Maia, Federal University of Uberl?ndia Mariza Bigonha, Federal University of Minas Gerais Martin Musicante, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio Rafael Lins, Federal University of Pernambuco Roberto Bigonha, Federal University of Minas Gerais Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Rodrigo Geraldo, Federal University of Ouro Preto Sandro Rigo, State University of Campinas S?rgio Medeiros, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Simon Thompson, University of Kent Varmo Vene, University of Tartu Wouter Swierstra, Utretch University Yu David Liu, State University of New York at Binghamton Zongyan Qiu, Peking University -- Fabio Mascarenhas DCC/UFRJ From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Mon Mar 20 04:22:05 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:22:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Message-ID: ================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit?t Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Universit? degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universit? degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer B?hme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-H?bner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Universit? Ca? Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabh?ngiges Landeszentrum f?r Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf K?sters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Ma?a, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Universit? di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA G?nther Pernul, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina P?pper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Bj?rn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore J?rg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universit?t, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Tue Mar 21 10:10:13 2017 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:10:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2018 Call for Satellite Events Message-ID: <24D5F83B-AFE9-4614-A9CA-BC5190F831A7@tuwien.ac.at> 21st European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-21 April 2018 http://www.etaps.org/2018/ 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. It is an annual event held in Europe each spring since 1998. Its twenty-first edition, ETAPS 2018, will take place 14-21 April 2017 in Thessaloniki, Greece. ETAPS 2018 main conferences, scheduled for 16-20 April, 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 2018 organizing committee invites proposals for satellite events (workshops) 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 2018 satellite events will be held immediately before and after the main conferences, on 14-15 April and 21 April. -- ARRANGEMENTS FOR SATELLITE EVENTS -- The organizers of an ETAPS 2018 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 2018 organizing committee, * prepare and organize the publication of a formal (post)proceedings (if desired). The ETAPS 2018 organizing committee will: * promote the event on the website and in the publicity material of ETAPS 2018, * 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 2018 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 Alexander Chatzigeorgiou > and Nick Bassiliades > using the web form at 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: 14 April, 15 April, 14-15 April or 21 April * the expected number of participants * a brief description (120 words approximately) of the event topic for the website and publicity material of ETAPS 2018 * 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 2018 organizing committee will need the final files by the end of Feb. 2018) * 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 2018 organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of ETAPS 2018. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages of previous satellite events as examples: ETAPS 2017: http://www.etaps.org/2017/workshops ETAPS 2016: http://www.etaps.org/2016/workshops 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: 24 March 2017 Notification of acceptance: 7 April 2017 -- HOST CITY -- Thessaloniki, named after Alexander's the Great sister, is the second largest city in Greece. Thessaloniki is an industrial and commercial center hosting an annual international trade fair, as well as a transportation hub with a major modern port and an international airport. Thessaloniki's history spans over 2300 years. Although largely rebuilt in modern style, Thessaloniki still retains its famous white Byzantine walls, the 15th century White Tower, and a Venetian citadel. The city is famous for its many fine Byzantine churches and Roman ruins of the triumphal arch and the palace of Emperor Galerius. Thessaloniki is a vibrant student city hosting more than 80,000 university students and offering countless options when it comes to local/international cuisine, cafes, music and day trips. ETAPS 2018 is organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece. -- FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES -- Please contact the workshop co-chairs, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou > and Nikos Bassiliades >. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Tue Mar 21 06:02:33 2017 From: ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Ayoub Nouri) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:02:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [2nd CfP] VECoS 2017 || August 24 - 25, 2017 - Montreal, Canada In-Reply-To: <24715_1489770516_58CC1813_24715_8874_1_74bcec7a-bfb0-f29e-ab48-88965ca164fe@cea.fr> References: <24715_1489770516_58CC1813_24715_8874_1_74bcec7a-bfb0-f29e-ab48-88965ca164fe@cea.fr> Message-ID: <94773b5e-d1e2-f1cc-1c8f-443654f82f20@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] VECoS 2017 Call for Papers 11th International Conference on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems August 24-25, 2017 Montr?al, Canada https://vecos.ensta-paristech.fr/2017/ The VECoS conference series is interested in the analysis of computer and communication systems in which functional and extra-functional properties are inter-related. VECoS encourages the cross-fertilization between the various formal verification and evaluation approaches, methods and techniques, and especially those developed for concurrent and distributed hardware/software systems. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: -Abstraction techniques -Certification standards for real-time systems -Compositional verification -Correct-by-construction design -Dependability assessment techniques -Equivalence checking -Model-checking -Parameterized verification -Performance and robustness evaluation -Probabilistic verification -QoS evaluation, planning and deployment -RAMS (Reliability Availability Maintainability Safety) assessment -Rigorous system design -Security protocols verification -Simulation techniques of discrete-event and hybrid systems -Supervisory control -Verification & validation of IoT -Verification & validation of safety-critical systems -Worst-case execution time analysis Application areas of VECoS include: adaptive systems, communication protocols, computer-supported collaborative work systems, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, high performance computing, internet of things, logistics systems, manufactory of the future, mixed criticality systems, mobile and wireless networking, operations research, programming languages, real-time and embedded operating systems, service oriented systems, telecommunication systems, ubiquitous systems, web services, wireless sensor networks and workflow systems. An overview of previous VECoS conferences can be found at: https://vecos.ensta-paristech.fr/ VECoS 2017 will be held August 24-25 in Montr?al, Canada *Important Dates* -Abstract deadline: April 10, 2017 -Papers deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) -Paper notification: May 29, 2017 -Camera-ready deadline: June 12, 2017 -Conference: August 24-25, 2017 *Invited Speakers* We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for VECoS 2017: -Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada -Michel Dagenais, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada -Mengchu Zhou, NJIT, Newark, NJ, USA *General Information on Submissions* The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format using easychair system and should not exceed 15 pages using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend VECoS 2017 to present. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions in a special issue of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering : A NASA Journal or of International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems *Organization* *General Chairs* Ali Mili, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA Sofiene Tahar, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada *Program Chairs* Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM, Paris, France Hanifa Boucheneb, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada *Organizing Committee Chair* Otmane Ait Mohamed, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada * **Publicity Chairs* Belgacem Ben Hedia, CEA-LIST, Saclay, France Vladimir-Alexandru Paun, ENSTA ParisTech, Palaiseau, France For more information, visit the conference website: https://vecos.ensta-paristech.fr/2017/ ======================================================================== -- Ayoub Nouri Research Associate Verimag/Univ. 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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, but are not limited to: - specification languages - monitor construction techniques - program instrumentation - logging, recording, and replay - combination of static and dynamic analysis - specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces - monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems - runtime checking of privacy and security policies - statistical model checking - metrics and statistical information gathering - program/system execution visualization - fault localization, containment, recovery and repair - integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers* as well as *tutorial proposals* will follow the following timeline: - Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 - Paper notification: June 26, 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017 - Conference: September 13-16, 2017 Invited Speakers We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017: - Rodrigo Fonseca , Brown University, USA - Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg , Microsoft, USA - Andreas Zeller , Saarland University, Germany General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. - *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. - *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. - *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. RV-CuBES: A Workshop Replacement for the Competition The Runtime Verification Competition will not be running in 2017. In its place a Workshop is being organised to discuss the future of the competition and showcase existing Runtime Verification tools. Please see the relevant page on the conference website for details. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , University of Grenoble Alpes/VERIMAG, France Eric Bodden , Fraunhofer SIT/Technische University Darmstadt, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University Grenoble Alpes/Inria, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS/ENS de Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google, USA Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA Kim Larsen , Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee , University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay , Inria Rennes, France Martin Leucker , University of L?beck, Germany Ben Livshits , Imperial College, UK David Lo , Singapore Management University, Singapore Francesco Logozzo , Facebook, USA Parthasarathy Madhusudan , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonardo Mariani , University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Madan Musuvathi , Microsoft Research, USA Ayoub Nouri , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Gordon Pace , University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled , Bar Ilan University, Israel Veselin Raychev , ETH Zurich, Switzerland Grigore Rosu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Cesar Sanchez , IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Rahul Sharma , Microsoft Research, India Julien Signoles , CEA LIST, France Scott Smolka , Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen , University of Dortmund, Germany Scott Stoller , Stony Brook University, USA Volker Stolz , University of Olso, Norway Frits Vaandrager , Radboud University, Netherlands Neil Walkinshaw , University of Leicester, UK Chao Wang , University of Southern California, USA Eugen Zalinescu , Technische Universitat M?nchen, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From splash.publicity at gmail.com Wed Mar 22 20:55:33 2017 From: splash.publicity at gmail.com (SPLASH Publicity) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 17:55:33 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2017: 2nd Combined Call for Contributions Message-ID: ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH 2017 October 22-27, 2017 Vancouver, Canada http://2017.splashcon.org The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. Combined Call for Contributions: * OOPSLA * Onward! Papers * Onward! Essays * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * SPLASH-E * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition ## OOPSLA Papers may target any stage of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the development of new tools (such as language front-ends, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, and code organization approaches), new principles (such as formalisms, proofs, models, and paradigms), and new evaluations (such as experiments, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Abstracts due: Thu April 13, 2017 Submissions due: Mon April 17, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-OOPSLA ## Onward! 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: Fri April 21, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/onward-2017/onward-2017-Onward-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: Fri April 21, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/onward-2017/onward-2017-essays-2017 ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) >From Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, Dynamic Languages have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects on Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Abstracts due: Fri May 26, 2017 Submissions due: Fri June 2, 2017 http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-17/index.html ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to (i) program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, (ii) domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, (iii) feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, (iv) applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Abstracts due: Sun June 25, 2017 Submissions due: Sun July 2, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2017/gpce-2017-GPCE-2017 ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) 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). SLE solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri June 2, 2017 Submissions due: Fri June 9, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers ## SPLASH-E SPLASH-E is a new (started in 2013) forum for software and languages (SE/PL) researchers with activities and interests around computing education. Some build pedagogically-oriented languages or tools; some think about pedagogic challenges around SE/PL courses; some bring computing to non-CS communities; some pursue human studies and educational research. At SPLASH-E, we share our educational ideas and challenges centered in software/languages, as well as our best ideas for advancing such work. Unlike general conferences on computing education, SPLASH-E strives to bring together researchers and those with educational interests that arise from software ideas or concerns. Submissions due: Thu June 29, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-SPLASH-E ## 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. Submissions due: Sat July 15, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-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. Submissions due: Fri June 30, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Doctoral-Symposium ## Student Research Competition The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research at SPLASH before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to not only up-and-coming young researchers, but also exposes them to the field of computer science research and its community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help them sharpen their communication and networking skills. Submissions due: Mon July 17, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Student-Research-Competition ## Information Contact: publicity at splashcon.org Website: http://2017.splashcon.org Location: Hyatt Regency Vancouver Vancouver, Canada ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) OOPSLA Program Chair: * Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) Onward! Papers Chair: * Emina Torlak (University of Washington) Onward! Essays Chair: * Robert Biddle (Carleton University) DLS Program Chair: * Davide Anaconde (University of Genova) GPCE General Chair: * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) GPCE Program Chair: * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) SLE General Chair: * Benoit Combemale (University of Rennes 1) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) * Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University) SPLASH-E Chair: * Joe Gibbs Politz (University of California, San Diego) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Karim Ali (University of Alberta) * Avik Chaudhuri (Facebook) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Craig Anslow (Middlesex University) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) OOPLSA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Michael Bond (Ohio State University) * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University) Posters Co-Chairs: * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop Co-Chairs: * Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) * Barbara Ryder (Virginia Tech) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (LogicBlox) * Jennifer Sartor (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Daco Harkes (TU Delft) * Giovanni Viviani (University of British Columbia) Publications Chair: * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI & University of Groningen) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Tony Hosking (Australian National University, Data61, Purdue University) * Jurgen Vinju (CWI & TU Eindhoven) Video Co-Chairs: * David Darais (University of Maryland) * Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) Web and Publicity Co-Chairs: * Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Thu Mar 23 06:27:49 2017 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:27:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) - CFP Message-ID: GraMSec 2017 - call for papers The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 LNCS proceedings confirmed SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber 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 vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop 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. TOPICS 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: ? Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis ? Graphical models for risk analysis and management ? Graphical models for requirements analysis and management ? Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security ? Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems ? Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness ? Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm ? Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models ? Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models ? Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models ? Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models ? Scalable evaluation of graphical security models ? Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models ? Dynamic update of graphical security models ? Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling ? Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants ? Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security ? UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security ? Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis ? Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be decided. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: ? Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. ? Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. The GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission deadline: Sunday, May 21, 2017 ? Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 ? Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR ? Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS ? Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA ? Ketil St?len, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, T?l?com ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Universit? di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Fr?d?ric Cuppens, T?l?com Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, T?l?com Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Herv? Debar, T?l?com SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI and MITRE, USA Ren? Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Universit? Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per H?kon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Link?ping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA St?phane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Pi?tre-Cambac?d?s, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Sup?lec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Sa?a Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Universit? C?te d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mari?lle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17 at easychair.org From m.roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk Thu Mar 23 14:41:23 2017 From: m.roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk (Markus Roggenbach) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:41:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Positions in Swansea with opportunities in types, semantics, programming languages, verification, logic. Message-ID: <25B20052-D366-4F18-8A69-C8DD3AE56427@swansea.ac.uk> Swansea computer science is currently offering a number posts, including 1 Lecturer (Dependable Systems) ? Research - https://tinyurl.com/swansea-cs-lecturer-dependable which is dedicated to types, semantics, programming languages, verification, logic. There are also 4 Lecturers in Computer Science (Research) - https://tinyurl.com/swansea-cs-lecturer-general which are open to any topic, including types, semantics, programming languages, verification, logic. The whole is part of a larger package: Computer Science at Swansea University has embarked on a ?31M programme of work ? the Computational Foundry ? to make Swansea a beacon for Computer Science, attracting and retaining world class researchers, building up a talented future workforce who will innovate, and providing a purpose-built set of labs and innovation spaces on Swansea University's recently opened ?450M Bay Campus. UK Computer Science is very strong in global terms and is a magnet for outstanding staff and students. The Computer Science Department at Swansea University is highly ranked for both teaching and research: The Times Good University Guide 2017 placed it 12th in the UK and 1st in Wales; the National Student Survey 2016 ranked it as 7th in the UK with 95% overall satisfaction, and 1st in Wales; and in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 it was ranked 18th in the UK and 1st in Wales. Based on these successes, Swansea Computer Science has embarked on the Computational Foundry programme to make Swansea a beacon for Computer Science. The Department will be moving into the Computational Foundry building on Bay Campus in August 2018. This building comprises nearly 7,500 m2 of purpose built Computer Science facilities and includes extensive up to date research and teaching laboratories and spaces. The Department has longstanding major projects in engaging with business, education and civic society. 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Iceland is a very hot holiday destination these days and it becomes fully booked soon, especially during the summer months. * ACCEPTED PAPERS http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17/accepted.html * MENTORING WORKSHOP Sponsorship application deadline: 31 March 2017 (ONE WEEK FROM TODAY) * OTHER WORKSHOPS INFINITY: 19th International Workshop on Verification of Infinite-State Systems. LearnAut: Learning and Automata. LCC: Logic and Computational Complexity. LMW: Logic Mentoring Workshop. LOLA: Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages. Metafinite model theory and definability and complexity of numeric graph parameters. WiL: Women in Logic. http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17/workshops.html From kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de Fri Mar 24 05:00:43 2017 From: kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:00:43 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CfP EXPRESS/SOS'17 In-Reply-To: <6fbfad4c-2b91-f9c7-50fd-5c0d6307169e@tu-berlin.de> References: <6fbfad4c-2b91-f9c7-50fd-5c0d6307169e@tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: <108b53d3-c67b-9c43-412f-299c1ed84dc7@tu-berlin.de> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Combined 24th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 14th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics *EXPRESS/SOS 2017* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 04, 2017, Berlin (Germany) Affiliated with CONCUR 2017 https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/express_sos.html Submission of papers: Friday *June 23*, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2017 EasyChair server (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2017). The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. INVITED SPEAKER: Mohammad Mousavi (Halmstad University, Sweden) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 23, 2017 Notification date: July 31, 2017 Camera ready version: August 14, 2017 Workshop: September 04, 2017 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Kirstin Peters (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Simone Tini (Universit? degli Studi dell?Insubria, Italia) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) Ilaria Castellani (INRIA, France) Silvia Crafa (Universit? di Padova, Italy) Pedro R. D?Argenio (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Erik de Vink (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) ?lvaro Garc?a-P?rez (IMDEA, Spain) Bartek Klin (Warsaw University, Poland) Stephan Mennicke (TU Braunschweig, Germany) Kirstin Peters (TU Berlin, Germany) Johannes ?man Pohjola (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Simone Tini (Universit? degli Studi dell?Insubria, Italia) Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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TUTORIALS - Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) - Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) - Viktor Vafeiadis (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany) INVITED SPEAKERS - Hongseok Yang (University of Oxford, UK) - Azahdeh Farzan (University of Toronto, Canada) - Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft Research, USA) - Jean-Francois Raskin (Universit? libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) CO-LOCATED EVENTS 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2017) 15th International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2017) 14th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2017) WORKSHOPS - EXPRESS/SOS - MeMo - RADICAL - TRENDS - YR-CONCUR ============================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES (AoE in 2017) Paper Submission: April 21 (firm deadline) Paper Notification: June 16 Camera Ready Copy Due: July 7 CONCUR 2017: September 5-8 TOPICS Submissions are solicited in semantics, logics, verification and analysis of concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain-theoretic models, game-theoretic models, process algebras, graph transformation systems, Petri nets, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems, probabilistic systems, real-time systems, biology-inspired systems, and synchronous systems; - Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics, and resource logics; - Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model checking, race detection, pre-order and equivalence checking, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving, type systems, and security analysis; - Distributed algorithms and data structures: design, analysis, complexity, correctness, fault tolerance, reliability, availability, consistency, self-organization, self-stabilization, protocols. - Theoretical foundations of architectures, execution environments, and software development for concurrent systems such as geo-replicated systems, communication networks, multiprocessor and multi-core architectures, shared and transactional memory, resource management and awareness, compilers and tools for concurrent programming, programming models such as component-based, object- and service-oriented. PAPER SUBMISSION CONCUR 2017 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience related to the topics mentioned above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. The CONCUR 2017 proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=concur2017). Papers must not exceed 14 pages (excluding references and clearly marked appendices) using the LIPIcs style. https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ ============================================================================ PROGRAM CHAIRS - Roland Meyer (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) - Uwe Nestmann (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) PROGRAMM COMMITTEE Jade Alglave (University College London, UK) Mohamed Faouzi Atig (Uppala Universitet, Sweden) Paolo Baldan (Universit? degli Studi di Padova, Italy) Johannes Borgstr?m (Uppala Universitet, Sweden) Luis Caires (FCT / Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Pedro R. D'Argenio (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Jos?e Desharnais (Universit? Laval, Canada) Constantin Enea (Universit? Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France) Javier Esparza (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Stefan G?ller (?cole normale sup?rieure de Cachan, France) Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Naoki Kobayashi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Anton?n Ku?era (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) J?r?me Leroux (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France) Roland Meyer (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) K Narayan Kumar (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Uwe Nestmann (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA - l'?cole Polytechnique, France) Alexander Rabinovich (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Davide Sangiorgi (Universit? di Bologna, Italy) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Vasco Thudicum Vasconcelos (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Walter Vogler (Universit?t Augsburg, Germany) Tom?? Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Igor Walukiewicz (Universit? Bordeaux, France) Heike Wehrheim (Universit?t Paderborn, Germany) Josef Widder (Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria) Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Gianluigi Zavattaro (Universit? di Bologna, Italy) Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Rob van Glabbeek (CSIRO, Australia) STEERING COMMITTEE Jos Baeten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands) Pedro R. D'Argenio (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Javier Esparza (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Ugo Montanari (Universit? di Pisa, Italy) Catuscia Palamidessi (?cole Polytechnique, France) ============================================================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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), in York, UK (GCM 2014), in L'Aquila, Italy (GCM 2015), and in Wien, Austria (GCM 2016). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GCM 2017 solicits papers on all aspects of graph computation models. This includes but is not limited to the following topics. * Foundations: Models of graph transformation; Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation; Term graph rewriting; Logics on graphs and graph transformation; Formal graph languages; Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems; Foundations of programming languages * Applications: Software architecture; Software validation; Software evolution; Visual programming; Graph-based security models; Design and implementation of programming languages; Workflow and business processes; Model-driven engineering; Dynamic graph algorithms; Bioinformatics and system biology; Social network analysis; Case studies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions and Proceedings: Authors are invited to submit regular papers of at most 15 pages, position papers, system descriptions or work in progress (5-15 pages) in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style. Submissions should be in PDF Format. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcm2017 All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee. Electronic proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop. 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URL: From valeria.vignudelli at ens-lyon.fr Sun Mar 26 11:02:10 2017 From: valeria.vignudelli at ens-lyon.fr (Valeria Vignudelli) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 17:02:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Scholarship Applications: Logic Mentoring Workshop (LMW) - LICS'17 Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS 2nd LOGIC MENTORING WORKSHOP Reykjavik, Iceland Sunday 18 June 2017 http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17/lmw.html Colocated with LICS 2017 The 2nd Logic Mentoring Workshop (LMW) invites applications from students (undergraduate, master's and PhD), in all areas of logic for scholarships to attend the Logic in Computer Science (LICS) conference this year. Attending a conference such as LICS can be a transformative experience. It exposes participants to cutting-edge research and can open up new research avenues and collaboration opportunities. However many students do not get the opportunity to attend a conference such as LICS, and its participation often underrepresents women and minorities. For this reason, women and members of minority groups are especially encouraged to apply. Scholarships will be generously funded by our sponsors (see below) and cover registration to LMW and the main LICS conference, and possibly travel and accommodation. The LMW will focus on the technical and practical aspects of a career in logic research, including talks and panel sessions from leaders in the subject. LMW ?17 builds on the success of the first edition which took place last year, also colocated with LICS. Last year's programme can be found here: . SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS Applications should be made via the online form: http://bit.ly/2lLnRq5 Please note that a letter of recommendation is required and should be sent directly by your referee to Valeria Vignudelli < valeria.vignudelli at ens-lyon.fr>. Further details are on the form. 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URL: From davide.ancona at unige.it Sat Mar 25 13:25:13 2017 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:25:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: VORTEX 2017 - 2nd ECOOP Workshop on Runtime Verification for Object-Oriented Languages, and Systems Message-ID: <66983e8e-9c18-ab34-8fd6-3366d7df187a@unige.it> *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS VORTEX 2017 - Verification of Objects at RunTime EXecution Co-located with ECOOP 2017, June 20, Barcelona, Spain http://2017.ecoop.org/track/vortex-2017-papers *********************************************************************** VORTEX 2017 is the second edition of the ECOOP workshop devoted to runtime verification for object-oriented languages and systems. Contributions are solicited on Runtime Verification in the context of Object-Oriented Programming addressing open questions covering theoretical and/or practical aspects, presenting new implemented tools, proposing interesting new applications, or describing real case studies. Submissions suggesting speculative new approaches, raising challenging issues, or focusing on problems deemed to be crucial for the research community are also welcome, as well as all contributions covering topics suitable for lively discussion at the workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following ones: - combination of static and dynamic analyses - industrial applications - monitor construction and synthesis techniques - monitoring concurrent/distributed systems - program adaptation - runtime enforcement, fault detection, recovery and repair - RV for safety and security - specification formalisms and formal underpinning of RV - specification mining - tool development Contributions will be formally reviewed by at least three reviewers, and selection will be based on originality, relevance, technical accuracy, and the potential to generate interesting discussions. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission: Thu 20 Apr 2017 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h) Notification: Mon 15 May 2017 VORTEX: Tue 20 Jun 2017 Submission Instructions ----------------------- Submissions must be in English, in PDF format, and are limited to 6 pages in the sigconf ACM Format (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author). Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vortex2017 . PC members, except for the chairs, are allowed to submit papers, and any conflict of interest will be properly managed by excluding the involved PC members from the review and evaluation process. Proceedings and Special Issue ----------------------------- Accepted papers will have the option of being published in the ACM Digital Library. Depending on the quality of submissions, authors of selected papers will be invited after the workshop to submit an extended version for a special issue hosted by a prime journal in the field. Program Committee ----------------- - Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology, Germany - Davide Ancona (co-chair), University of Genova, Italy - Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Frank S. de Boer (co-chair), Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Leiden University - Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta - Klaus Havelund, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany - Gordon J. Pace, University of Malta, Malta - Antonio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain - Gerardo Schneider, University of Gothenburg, Sweden From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Sun Mar 26 16:33:08 2017 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:33:08 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QEST'17: Deadline Extension, Abstract - (3 April 2017), (Paper - 9 April 2017, AOE) Message-ID: International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2017) Berlin, September 5-7 2017 | http://www.qest.org/qest2017/call-for-papers.html Co-located with CONCUR, EPEW and Formats Keynotes Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, UK (joint with Concur) Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, SP Morten Bisgaard, Gomspace, DK (joint with Formats) Scope and Topics The International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) is the leading forum on quantitative evaluation and verification of computer systems and networks. Areas of interest include quantitative specification methods, stochastic models, and metrics for performance, reliability, safety, correctness, and security. QEST is interested in both theoretical and experimental research. QEST welcomes a diversity of modeling formalisms, programming languages and methodologies that incorporate quantitative aspects such as probabilities, approximations and other quantitative aspects. Papers may advance empirical, simulation and analytic methods. Of particular interest are case studies that highlight the role of quantitative specification, modeling and evaluation in the design of systems. Systems of interest include computer hardware and software architectures, communication systems, cyber-physical systems, infrastructural systems, and biological systems. Papers that describe novel tools to support the practical application of research results in all of the above areas are also welcome. Special Sessions To encourage submissions of papers in frontier topics, submissions in selected areas are encouraged. Paper submitted to special sessions will be treated as regular submitted papers, they will be peer reviewed, and subject to the same quality requirements. A special session with accepted papers on the selected topics will be organised during the conference. This year selected topics are: Smart Energy Systems over the Cloud We solicit contributions dealing with quantitative analysis, verification, and performance evaluation of models of networks of smart devices interconnected physically and over the cloud, and in particular within the technological context of smart energy, dealing with smart buildings, the smart grid, or with modern power networks. Instances of problems of interest are energy management in smart buildings, demand response over smart grids, or frequency control over power networks. We are interested in configurations related to cyber-physical systems, of systems of systems, and of the Internet of things, and on models encompassing continuous and digital components, and uncertainty (either environmental, adversarial, or probabilistic). Machine Learning and Formal Methods We call for contributions on the fusion of formal methods and machine learning techniques. In particular, we are interested in the use of machine learning approaches, such as reinforcement learning, learning automata, decision trees, gradient based methods, etc. in (statistical) model checking, controller synthesis, program analysis and synthesis, timed systems, compositional verification, etc. The main aim is to disseminate learning based techniques that have potential of improving theory and practice of formal methods. Awards: A best paper award and a best student paper award will be selected by the PC, and will receive a prize funded by Springer. SPECIAL ISSUE: A selection of the best papers presented at QEST 2017 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a Special Issue that will appear in the ACM Transactions of Modelling and Computer Simulation. Important Dates Abstract submission: 3 April 2017 Paper and tool submission: 9 April 2017 (anywhere on earth) Author notification: 29 May 2017 Final version due: 23 June 2017 Submissions All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three reviewers on the basis of their originality, technical quality, scientific or practical contribution to the state of the art, methodology, clarity, and adequacy of references. QEST considers five types of papers: * Theoretical: advance our understanding, apply to non-trivial problems and be mathematically rigorous. * Methodological and technical: describe situations that require the development and proposal of new analysis processes and techniques. * Application: describes a novel application, and compares with previous results. * Tools: should motivate the development of the new tools and the formalisms they support, with a focus on the software architecture and practical capabilities. * Tool demonstration: describe a relevant tool, as well as its features, evaluation, or any other information that may demonstrate the merits of the tool. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX, following Springer's LNCS guidelines. Submitted papers should not exceed 16 pages (4 pages for tool demonstrations). Papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors of tool papers (both regular and demonstration) must make their tools and input data available to reviewers; reproducibility of results will be taken into account during the evaluation process, and the conference will include a demo session. Authors should present use cases, distinctive features, and computational/memory requirements through motivating examples. Theoretical background need not be presented in demonstration papers; concrete improvements are required for existing tools. Papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair online submission system:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qest2017 All accepted papers (including tool demonstrations) must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The QEST 2017 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar. Read the complete call for papers at http://qest.org/qest2017/call-for-papers.html General Chair Katinka Wolter (FU Berlin, Germany) PC co-chairs Nathalie Bertrand (INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique, France) Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy) Tools Chair Marco Paolieri (University of Southern California, US) Publicity Chairs Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, AT) Antonio Filieri (Imperial College London, UK) Program Committee Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, DE Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA Nail Akar, Bilkent University, TR Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, IN Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien, AT Tom?? Br?zdil, Masaryk University, CZ Ana Bu?ic, INRIA Paris, FR Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Florin Ciucu, University of Warwick, UK Andres Ferragut, Universidad ORT, UR Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, UK Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK Andr?s Horv?th, University of Torino, IT Kausthub Joshi, AT&T Labs, USA William Knottenbelt, Imperial College London, UK Jan K?et?nsk?, TU Munich, DE Boris K?pf, IMDEA Software Institute, ES Fumio Machida, NEC Japan, JP Paulo Maciel, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BRA Andrea Marin, University of Venezia, IT Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, AUS Sasa Misailovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Sayan Mitra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK Pavithra Prabhakar, Kansas State University, USA Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh, UK Mikl?s Telek, Technical University of Budapest, HU Benny Van Houdt, University of Antwerp, BE Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, IT Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, CA Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, PRC Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, PRC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foclasa2017 at gmail.com Sun Mar 26 17:09:43 2017 From: foclasa2017 at gmail.com (Foclasa Workshop) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:09:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOCLASA 2017 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies in case of multiple posting] ------ FOCLASA 2017: First Call for Papers ------ 15th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es September 4-10, 2017 (precise date TBA), Trento (Italy) Colocated with SEFM 2017 - http://sefm17.fbk.eu Follow us on Twitter: @foclasa2017 ------------------------------------------------------ FOCLASA 2017 is a workshop colocated with the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2017). The goal of FOCLASA is to put together researchers and practitioners to share and identify common problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of coordination languages and self-adaptive systems. ------ IMPORTANT DATES ------ June 2, 2017: Deadline for abstract submission June 9, 2017: Deadline for paper submission July 7, 2017: Notifications July, 2017: Final versions (precise date TBA) September 4-10, 2017: Workshop in Trento (precise date TBA) ------ TOPICS OF INTEREST ------ * Theoretical models and frameworks for component and/or service coordination, service composition, 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 (Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Smart cities, Big Data, etc.). * Languages and specification protocols for component and/or service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. * Models and architectures for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud systems; 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. * Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, stochastic modeling and analysis, reasoning under uncertainty, run-time synthesis. * 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, etc.) In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well: * Business process modeling * Component-based systems * Service-oriented computing * Cloud computing * Internet of Things * Large-scale distributed systems * Grid computing * Multi-agent systems * Networked embedded systems * Peer-to-peer systems Survey works analysing and comparing literature on the topics of FOCLASA are also welcome. ------ PAPER SUBMISSION ------ Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their results. Description of work-in-progress with concrete results is also encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS style and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foclasa2017 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 is not allowed. All accepted papers will be included in the LNCS Workshop Proceedings of SEFM 2017, to be published by Springer after the workshop. Additionally, and following the tradition of past editions, a special issue of Science in Computer Programming (SCP, Elsevier) will be devoted to the best papers accepted at FOCLASA 2017. 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. ------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ------ * Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain * Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble Alpes, France ------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------ * Pedro Alvarez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Simon Bliudze, EPFL, Switzerland * Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK * Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano, Italy * Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Nima Kaviani, IBM, USA * Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark * Sun Meng, Peking University, China * Hernan C. Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina * Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden * Marc Oriol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain * Pascal Poizat, Universite Paris Ouest, France * Jose Proenca, INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA * Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Lina Ye, CentraleSupelec, France * Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy ------ PUBLICITY CHAIR ------ * Gianluca Barbon, University of Grenoble Alpes, France ------ WEB CHAIR ------ * Alejandro Perez Vereda, University of Malaga, Spain ------ STEERING COMMITTEE ------ * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain * Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble Alpes, France From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Mon Mar 27 07:43:25 2017 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:43:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Workshop on Type-driven Development (TyDe '17) Message-ID: <04c7299d-e027-6c1a-31ed-2a616283b80a@ed.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Type-Driven Development (TyDe '17) 3 September 2017, Oxford, UK http://tydeworkshop.org/2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Goals of the workshop The workshop on Type-Driven Development aims to show how static type information may be used effectively in the development of computer programs. Co-located with ICFP, this workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners who are using or exploring types as a means of program development. We welcome all contributions, both theoretical and practical, on a range of topics including: - dependently typed programming; - generic programming; - design and implementation of programming languages, exploiting types in novel ways; - exploiting typed data, data dependent data, or type providers; - static and dynamic analyses of typed programs; - tools, IDEs, or testing tools exploiting type information; - pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of types used in the derivation, calculation, or construction of programs. # Program Committee - Nada Amin, EPFL, Switzerland - Ana Bove, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, US - Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Sam Lindley, The University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) - Limin Jia, CMU, US - Assia Mahboubi, INRIA Saclay, France - Liam O?Connor, University of New South Wales, Australia - Nicolas Oury, Jane Street, UK - Jennifer Paykin, University of Pennsylvania, US - Paula Severi, University of Leicester, UK - Tarmo Uustalu, Talinn University of Technology, Estonia - Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK - Brent Yorgey, Hendrix College, US (co-chair) # 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, 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 Submissions should fall into one of two categories: - Regular research papers (12 pages) - Extended abstracts (2 pages) The bibliography will not be counted against the page limits for either category. Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results, and will be included in the formal proceedings. Extended abstracts should report work in progress that the authors would like to present at the workshop. Extended abstracts will be distributed to workshop attendees but will not be published in the formal proceedings. We welcome submissions from PC members (with the exception of the two co-chairs), but these submissions will be held to a higher standard. Submission is handled through HotCRP: https://icfp-tyde17.hotcrp.com/ All submissions should be in portable document format (PDF) and formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ *Note* that the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines have changed from previous years! In particular, submissions should use the new 'acmart' format and 'sigplan' subformat. Extended abstracts must be submitted with the label 'Extended abstract' clearly in the title. # Important Dates - Regular paper deadline: Wednesday, 24th May, 2017 - Extended abstract deadline: Wednesday, 7th June, 2017 - Author notification: Wednesday, 28th June, 2017 - Deadline for camera ready version: Saturday, 15th July, 2017 - Workshop: Sunday, 3rd September, 2017 # 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/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Mon Mar 27 08:22:19 2017 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:22:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: ML Family Workshop 2016 Message-ID: <6a0ccca4-7b6a-f4b0-d0f0-39bc91cc718b@ed.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ML Family Workshop 2017 7 September 2017, Oxford, UK http://www.mlworkshop.org/ml2017/ (co-located with ICFP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ML is a 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, Rust, and Scala. 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 ATS, Eff, F*, Koka, Links, Rust, Scala, Swift, etc.), to exchange experience of further developing ML ideas. Last year's ML Family workshop included talks covering eight different ML dialects and related languages: Eff, F#, F*, Links, Manticore, OCaml, SML, and SML#. The ML family workshop will be held in close coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Invited speaker --------------- Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews, UK) Scope ----- We acknowledge the whole breadth of the ML family and aim to include languages that are closely related, such as Rust and Scala. 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 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 2017 workshop will continue the informal approach followed 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 2017 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. The bibliography will not be counted against the page limit. Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website https://icfp-mlworkshop17.hotcrp.com/ before the submission deadline (Wednesday 31st May). If you have a question concerning the scope of the workshop or the submission process, please contact the programme chair. Important dates --------------- Wednesday 31st May (any time zone) Abstract submission deadline Wednesday 28th June Author notification Thursday 7th September 2017 ML Family Workshop Programme committee ------------------- Nick Benton (Facebook, UK) Ma?gorzata Biernacka (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Stephen Dolan (University of Cambridge, UK) Shin-ya Katsumata (Kyoto University, Japan) Julia Lawall (LIP6 Paris, France) Sam Lindley (The University of Edinburgh, UK) (PC chair) Andreas Rossberg (Google, Germany) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, South Korea) Gabriel Scherer (Northeastern University, US) Alley Stoughton (Boston University, US) Niki Vazou (University of Maryland, US) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Mon Mar 27 13:22:34 2017 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:22:34 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Message-ID: == EPS == Encyclopedia of Proof Systems --- call for contributions --- September 24-25, 2017, Brasilia, Brazil Affiliated to: TABLEAUX, FroCoS and ITP 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/ http://itp2017.cic.unb.br/ Aims and Scope ============== The Encyclopedia of Proof Systems was created in 2014 with the goal of being a quick reference for the various proof systems used by logicians. Since then, it has collected 64 entries on the most various logics and calculi. This was only possible due to the collaboration of many members of the logic community. This event aims to promote the encyclopedia and attract more contributions and collaborators. It consists of: - a poster session in the afternoon of September 24th, 2017, during which submitted entries will be displayed as posters; - an interactive hands-on meeting in the morning of September 25th, 2017, for those who would like to contribute to the continuous improvement of the encyclopedia. The activities planned for this meeting will be announced closer to the event. Submission Instructions ======================= Please visit the task-force's website for instructions: http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia Participation in TABLEAUX, FroCoS or ITP is not required for submission, but is strongly encouraged. Important Dates =============== - Submission Deadline: 1st of August 2017 - Notification: 15th of August 2017 Publication Plans ================= We have an agreement with College Publications to publish the encyclopedia as a book. 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Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome. Previous QPL events were held in Glasgow (2016), 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). REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Find registration details via the QPL 2017 website or register directly at: https://rudigitalsecurity.paydro.com/qpl-2017 SATELLITES There will be a satellite workshop on Quantum Structures hosted by the International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA) from Tuesday July 4th to Friday the 7th. See the QPL website for more information. A separate call for abstracts and participation will be issued shortly. JOINT QPL-IQSA INVITED SPEAKER Miriam Backens (Bristol) QPL INVITED SPEAKERS Matthias Christandl (Copenhagen) Miguel Navasques (Vienna) Paulo Perinotti (Pavia) Jamie Vicary (Oxford) QPL INVITED TUTORIALS Bart Jacobs (Radboud) - Effectus Theory Dan Marsden (Oxford) - Categorical String Diagrams Simon Perdrix (LORIA) - Measurement-based Quantum Computation Ronald de Wolf (CWI) - Quantum Algorithms IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 21 April, 2017 Notification: 29 May Papers ready: 23 June Conference: 3-7 July SUBMISSIONS Prospective speakers are invited to submit a contribution to the conference. - Original contributions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract which provides sufficient evidence of results of genuine interest and enough detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submission of substantial albeit partial results of work in progress is encouraged. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give long or short talks, depending on the quality and/or maturity of the submission. - Extended abstracts describing work submitted/published elsewhere will also be considered, provided the work is recent and relevant to the conference. These consist of a 3 page description and should include a link to a separate published paper or preprint. Extended versions of accepted original research contributions will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. 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=qpl2017 There will be an award for the best paper whose authors are all students, at the discretion of the programme committee. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Aleks Kissinger (Radboud, co-chair) Bob Coecke (Oxford, co-chair) Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Miriam Backens (Bristol) John Baez (UC Riverside) Benno van den Berg (Amsterdam) Rick Blute (Ottawa) Dan Browne (University College London) Giulio Chiribella (Hong Kong) Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) Simon Gay (Glasgow) Chris Heunen (Edinburgh) Matty Hoban (Oxford) Dominic Horsman (Durham) Bart Jacobs (Radboud) Kohei Kishida (Oxford) Joachim Kock (Barcelona) Matt Leifer (Chapman) Hans Maassen (Radboud) Paul-Andre Mellies (Paris Diderot) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Daniel Oi (Strathclyde) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Dusko Pavlovic (Hawaii) Simon Perdrix (CNRS Nancy) Paolo Perinotti (Pavia) Robert Raussendorf (British Columbia) Lidia del Rio (ETH Zurich) Ana Belen Sainz (Perimeter Institute) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Pawel Sobocinski (Southampton) Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) Isar Stubbe (Littoral-Cote-d'Opale) Benoit Valiron (Paris-Sud) Jamie Vicary (Oxford) Mingsheng Ying (UT Sydney) STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke (Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) LOCAL ORGANISATION Bart Jacobs Aleks Kissinger Sander Uijlen From ndanner at wesleyan.edu Mon Mar 27 12:08:45 2017 From: ndanner at wesleyan.edu (Norman Danner) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:08:45 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LCC 2017: 2nd call for papers; 1st call for participation Message-ID: <3404961.MXCvx8NzjQ@nellie> ====================================================================== First Call for Participation Second Call for Papers LCC 2017 18th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity June 19, 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland collocated with LICS 2017 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 14, 2017 * notification May 1, 2017 * workshop June 19, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS: * Arnaud Durand, Universit? Denis Diderot - Paris 7 * Damiano Mazza, Institut Galil?e, Universit? Paris-Nord 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=lcc2017 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Norman Danner (co-chair, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA) Heribert Vollmer (co-chair, Leibniz Universit?t, Hannover) Martin Avanzini (Universit?t Innsbruck) Olaf Beyersdorff (University of Leeds) Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki) Ramyaa (New Mexico Tech) James S. Royer (Syracuse University) Cristina Sirangelo (Paris Diderot University - Paris 7) REGISTRATION: Registration for LiCS 2017 and LCC is now open, and early registration ends on Friday, 07 April 2017. To register, please visit http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17 -- Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University From chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk Tue Mar 28 04:54:13 2017 From: chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk (Chris Heunen) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:54:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Categories Logic and Physics Scotland 5 April 2017 Message-ID: CATEGORIES LOGIC AND PHYSICS SCOTLAND Wednesday 5 April 2017 Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cheunen/clapscotland/ Following our successful meetings last year, we are pleased to announce the third workshop in the CLAP Scotland series, and invite you to participate. Programme: * Kevin Dunne (University of Strathclyde): "Infinite-Dimensional Categorical Quantum Mechanics, Spectra, and Contextuality" * Chris Heunen (University of Edinburgh): "The category of Hilbert modules" * Peter Hines (University of York): "Diagrams and Coherence Theorems in Cryptography and Cryptanalysis" * Aleks Kissinger (Radboud University): "A categorical semantics for causal structure" * Clemens Kupke (University of Strathclyde): "Games for topological fixpoint logics" * Fabio Zanasi (University College London): "A new foundation for string diagram rewriting: adequacy, confluence, commutativity" Registration is free. For catering purposes, please email the local organiser as soon as possible if you plan to attend. Best wishes, Chris Heunen and Ross Duncan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn Tue Mar 28 04:20:51 2017 From: songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:20:51 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers -- SETTA 2017: 3rd Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications References: <2017021515215257172516@shanghaitech.edu.cn> Message-ID: <201703281620513078895@shanghaitech.edu.cn> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers (CFP)] ********************************Second Call For Paper ****************************************** SETTA 2017: 3rd Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications October 23-25, 2017, Changsha, China Website: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2017/ ******************************************************************************************** Important Dates . Abstract submission:April 21, 2017 (AoE) . Full paper submission: April 28, 2017 (AoE) . Notification to authors: July 3, 2017 (AoE) . Camera-ready: July 28, 2017 (AoE) . Conference date: October 23-25, 2017 Objectives The aim of the symposium is to bring together international researchers and practitioners in the field of software technology. Its focus is on formal methods and advanced software technologies, especially for engineering complex, large-scale artifacts like cyber-physical systems, networks of things, enterprise systems, or cloud-based services. Contributions relating to formal methods or integrating them with software engineering, as well as papers advancing scalability or widening the scope of rigorous methods to new design goals are especially welcome. SETTA 2017 is planning to organize a special thematic section, namely Dependability of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems. News: Springer will support Best Paper Award of SETTA 2017. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Requirements specification and analysis . Formalisms for modeling, design and implementation . Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures . Scalable approaches to formal system analysis . Formal approaches to simulation and testing . Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice . Contract-based engineering of components, systems, and systems of systems . Formal and engineering aspects of software evolution and maintenance . Parallel and multi-core programming . Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems . Mixed-critical applications and systems . Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing . Safety, security, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance . Dependability of smart software and systems . Empirical analysis techniques and integration with formal methods . Applications and industrial experience reports . Tool integration Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers on original research, industrial applications, or position papers proposing challenges in fundamental research and technology. The latter two types of submissions are expected to contribute to the development of formal methods either by substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating need for research by demonstrating weaknesses of existing technologies, especially when addressing new application domains. Submissions can take the form of either regular or short papers. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Papers should be written in English. Regular Papers should not exceed 16 pages and Short Papers should not exceed 6 pages in LNCS format. The proceedings is expected to be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series, as that of the past editions. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in special issues of the reputable journals. Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2017 Organizers General chair: . Xiangke Liao, National University of Defense Technology, China Program Chairs: . Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark . Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA . Ji Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China Publicity Chair: . Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University, China Local Organization Chair: . Wei Dong, National University of Defense Technology, China PC Members: . Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany . Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands . Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina, USA . Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK . Yunxin Deng, ECNU, China . Deepak D'Souza, Indian Institute of Science, India . Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China . Martin Fraenzle, University of Oldenburg, Germany . Goran Frehse, University of Grenoble Alpes-Laboratoire Verimag, France . Lindsay Groves, University of Wellington, New Zealand . Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria . Fei He, Tsinghua University, China . Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA . Kim Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark . Axel Legay, IRISA/INRIA, France . Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China . Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan . Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China . Xiaoguang Mao, NUDT, China . Markus Muller-Olm, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany . Raja Natarajan, TIFR, India . Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg . Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK . Stefan Ratschan, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech . Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado, USA . Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA . 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URL: From amal at ccs.neu.edu Tue Mar 28 21:27:03 2017 From: amal at ccs.neu.edu (Amal Ahmed) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:27:03 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Oregon PL Summer School 2017: register by April 1 Message-ID: *** Reminder: The OPLSS registration deadline is April 1st *** We are pleased to announce the program for the 16th annual Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) to be held from June 26th to July 8th, 2017 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The registration deadline is April 1st, 2017. Full information on registration and scholarships can be found here: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/summerschool This year's program is titled: A Spectrum of Types. The speakers and topics include: Amal Ahmed -- Correct and Secure Compilation for Multi-Language Software Northeastern University Edwin Brady -- Dependent Types in the Idris Programming Language University of St. Andrews Ron Garcia -- Gradual Typing University of British Columbia Robert Harper -- Programming Languages Background Carnegie Mellon University Neel Krishnaswami -- Dependent Types and Linearity University of Cambridge Dan Licata -- Programming Languages Background Wesleyan University Frank Pfenning -- Substructural Type Systems and Concurrent Programming Carnegie Mellon University Sam Tobin-Hochstadt -- Contracts and Gradual Types Indiana University David Van Horn -- Redex, Abstract Machines, and Abstract Interpretation University of Maryland The school has a long and successful tradition (sponsored by the NSF, ACM SIGPLAN, and industry). It covers current research in the theory and practice of programming languages. Material is presented at a tutorial level that will help graduate students and researchers from academia or industry understand the critical issues and open problems confronting the field. Prerequisites are an elementary knowledge of logic and mathematics, as covered in undergraduate classes on discrete mathematics, and some knowledge of programming languages at the level of an undergraduate survey course. A *new feature* this year is the option for students to attend a Review session from June 23rd to 25th -- the three days before the summer school officially begins. The review will cover operational semantics, type systems, and basic proof techniques, and will help graduate and especially undergraduate students who have not had a previous course in this material prepare for the main part of the school. Please contact the organizers if you have questions about whether the review will be helpful given your background. We hope you can join us for this excellent program! 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More precisely, our goal is to build methods for program synthesis and analysis that are guided by knowledge automatically learned from large datasets of programs and related artifacts (such as tests and documentation). Ideal applicants will have a background in formal methods and/or programming languages, interest (ideally some background) in machine learning, and experience with building systems of significant size. The postdoc will work with Professors Swarat Chaudhuri and Chris Jermaine. The duration of the position is two years, starting summer 2017. Compensation will be highly competitive and commensurate with experience. To apply, send a CV and names of 2 references to Swarat Chaudhuri (swarat at rice.edu). From westbrook at galois.com Tue Mar 28 12:38:10 2017 From: westbrook at galois.com (Eddy Westbrook) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:38:10 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPAML Summer School: July 24 - August 4 Message-ID: As part of the ?Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning (PPAML) program, Galois is hosting the fourth of four annual summer schools on the topic this July in Arlington, Virginia. The two-week program is designed to teach participants the necessary background on probabilistic programming languages being developed as part of PPAML, and give them an opportunity to work directly with the creators of these languages to solve their own problems using these tools. During the summer school, participants will provide feedback about the functionality, usability and performance of these probabilistic programming systems to help the PPAML program development teams improve their tools. For more information see: http://ppaml.galois.com/wiki/wiki/SummerSchools/2017/Announcement -Eddy From matija.pretnar at fmf.uni-lj.si Tue Mar 28 07:40:29 2017 From: matija.pretnar at fmf.uni-lj.si (Matija Pretnar) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:40:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD positions in Ljubljana starting October 2017 Message-ID: <0ECB1D3C-D41B-4879-A8DE-77BBECC01CA7@fmf.uni-lj.si> We are looking for two PhD students at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. The programme starts in October 2017 and lasts three years. The positions will be fully funded (subject to approval by the funding agency). The candidates should have a Master's degree in mathematics or computer science. No knowledge of Slovene is required. The first PhD student will be advised by dr. Andrej Bauer. The topic of research is foundations of type theory. The candidate should have interest in mathematical aspects of type theory, and familiarity with proof assistants is desirable. The second PhD student will be advised by dr. Matija Pretnar. The topic of research is the theory of programming languages with a focus on computational effects. The candidate should have interest in both the mathematical foundations and practical implementation of programming languages. Candidates should send their applications as soon as possible, but no later than the end of April, to Andrej Bauer or Matija Pretnar , depending on their primary interest. Please include a short CV, academic record, and a statement of interest. Andrej Bauer and Matija Pretnar From francois.pottier at inria.fr Wed Mar 29 10:50:44 2017 From: francois.pottier at inria.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Fran=c3=a7ois_Pottier?=) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:50:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First call for talk proposals: Higher-Order Programming with Effects, HOPE 2017 Message-ID: <969312e9-08b1-5c3a-1cc7-384fbe8f81fa@inria.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS HOPE 2017 The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects September 3, 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom (the day before ICFP 2017) http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/hope-2017-papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The HOPE workshop series are intended to bring together researchers interested in the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. They are informal, consisting of invited talks, contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. They are dedicated to John Reynolds, whose work is an inspiration to us all. The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects will take place on Sunday, September 3, 2017, that is, the day before ICFP 2017, in Oxford, United Kingdom. # 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 code harder to build, maintain, and reason about. 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 made available online. # Call for Talk Proposals HWe 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, Fran?ois Pottier (francois.pottier at inria.fr) and Aleks Nanevski (aleks.nanevski at imdea.org). # Important Dates * Deadline for talk proposals: June 1st, 2017 (Thursday) * Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2017 (Saturday) * Workshop: September 3, 2017 (Sunday) # Submission Link The submission website is https://icfp-hope17.hotcrp.com/ . # Workshop Organization Program Co-Chairs: Fran?ois Pottier (Inria Paris) Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute) Program Committee: Edwin Brady University of St Andrews Pierre-?variste Dagand LIP6/CNRS Atsushi Igarashi Kyoto University Robert Krebbers Delft University of Technology Vivek Nigam Federal University of Para?ba Matija Pretnar University of Ljubljana Azalea Raad Imperial College London Aseem Rastogi Microsoft Research Filip Sieczkowski University of Wroc?aw Niki Vazou University of Maryland From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Wed Mar 29 12:15:56 2017 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:15:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Jobs: Assoc Profs/Profs in Theoretical Computer Science / Programming Languages in Oxford Message-ID: Oxford are recruiting Associate Professors / Professors in several areas at present, including * Programming Languages http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1276-full.html deadline noon on 21 April * Theoretical Computer Science http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1274-full.html deadline noon on 13 April http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/vacancies/vacancy-faculty.html From Tom.Hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr Fri Mar 31 04:27:52 2017 From: Tom.Hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr (Tom Hirschowitz) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:27:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop / summer school on coinduction in type theory, July 2017 Message-ID: <1133200860.4497926.1490948872881.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-smb.fr> Dear all, We're happy to announce a little workshop / summer school on Coinduction in Type Theory in Le Bourget-du-Lac, near Chamb?ry, France, from July 3 to July 6, 2017. Everything you need to know should be at http://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~hirschowitz/CoTT2017 , in particular, registration is here http://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~hirschowitz/CoTT2017/registration.php . Briefly, the workshop will revolve around three mini-courses: - Henning Basold: Type Theory Based on Dependent Inductive and Coinductive Types, - Neil Ghani: Coinduction and infinite games, - Rasmus M?gelberg: Guarded dependent type theory with coinductive types. Contributed talks are solicited on theoretical and more applied topics having to do with coinduction and type theory ? preferably both! ?, particularly those not represented by the invited talks. In the tradition of the R?alisabilit? ? Chamb?ry workshop series, the organisers won't organise much, apart from the talks and coffee breaks. In particular, lunch is not organised and registration is free. Some things generally happen spontaneously, like a social dinner and a barbecue near Lake Bourget. The workshop website includes a few hints for accomodation and the like, but please don't hesitate to contact us in case of further questions. Hoping to see you there, Tom Hirschowitz Clovis Eberhart Pierre Hyvernat Rodolphe Lepigre Christophe Raffalli From crafa at math.unipd.it Fri Mar 31 03:39:30 2017 From: crafa at math.unipd.it (Silvia Crafa) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:39:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2017 workshops (COP / FTfJP / ICOOOLPS / IWACO / JSTools / PMLDC / VORTEX) - Joint CFP Message-ID: <9ea4491a-581e-4bb7-125b-37d61c12e707@math.unipd.it> ****************************************************************** ECOOP 2017 Workshops - Joint Call for Papers COP / FTfJP / ICOOOLPS / IWACO / JSTools / PMLDC / VORTEX 19-20 June 2017, Barcelona, Spain http://2017.ecoop.org #ECOOP2017 @ECOOPconf ****************************************************************** The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the premier forum in Europe for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students to share their ideas and experiences in all topics related to programming languages, software development, object-oriented technologies, systems, and applications. In 2017, ECOOP will host seven workshops, addressing the following topics: COP: 9th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming Its goal is to establish context orientation as a common thread throughout language design, application development, and system support. FTfJP: 19th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs Aimed at describing, analysing, and verifying aspects and properties of Java-like programming languages themselves or of programs written in these languages. ICOOOLPS: 12th Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems Workshop Aimed at fostering the discussion of emerging problems and research directions as well as new solutions to classic performance challenges. IWACO: 8th International Workshop on Aliasing, Capabilities and Ownership Focusing on techniques to describe and reason about stateful programs, and how they have been applied to programming languages. JSTools: 6th Annual Workshop on Tools for JavaScript Analysis Its goal is the analysis of JavaScript and its dialects to share ideas and problems, with a focus on presentations of shareable infrastructure created by the participants. PMLDC: 2nd Workshop on Programming Models and Languages for Distributed Computing Aimed at discussing new approaches to distributed programming that provide efficient execution and the elimination of accidental nondeterminism resulting from concurrency and partial failure. VORTEX: 2nd Workshop on Runtime Verification Addressing open questions covering theoretical and/or practical aspects, presenting new implemented tools, proposing interesting new applications, or describing real case studies for runtime verification in object-oriented programming . We encourage authors whose background is targeted to these areas of expertise to submit papers to the different workshops. Submission deadlines vary by workshop: Earliest submission deadline: April 13th, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2017 More information about the call far papers and a detailed description of each workshop can be found at: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2017-workshops#Accepted-Workshops From matthias at ccs.neu.edu Fri Mar 31 15:30:24 2017 From: matthias at ccs.neu.edu (Matthias Felleisen) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:30:24 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] the Racket summer school of semantics and languages Message-ID: <77A94D06-C646-4119-8E38-D99748847A66@ccs.neu.edu> The Racket Summer School of Semantics and Languages Last Call Imagine yourself confronted with a Mystery Programming Language and charged with the task of figuring out its semantics. What would you do? What if you have a formal executable semantics and want to build a production language for it? If these questions intrigue you, attend the Racket Summer School: http://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ This is not your run-of-the-mill summer school. We will do our best to make it exciting, entertaining, and useful to a broad spectrum of attendees, both academic and industrial. P.S. As soon as you get accepted, we will send you your first problem set. Get ready. From murano at na.infn.it Thu Mar 30 08:15:40 2017 From: murano at na.infn.it (Nello Murano) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:15:40 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SR 2017 - Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: ******************************************************** 5th International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning SR 2017 -- http://sr2017.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Liverpool, UK, July 26-27, 2017 ******************************************************** 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 adversaries, just to cite a few. All these examples share the challenge of developing novel theories and tools for agent-based reasoning that take into account the likely behaviour of adversaries. The international workshop on strategic reasoning aims to bring together researchers working on different aspects of strategic reasoning in computer science, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. SR 2017 will be co-located with TARK 2017, which will be held in Liverpool on July 24-26, 2017. LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the workshop 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 in strategic reasonings. 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 program committee. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sr2017 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. Novel research abstracts will be held to the usual high standards of research publications. In particular, they should contain enough information to enable the program committee to identify the main contribution of the work, explain the significance of the work, its novelty, its relevance to the strategic reasoning audience, 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 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. Important Dates May 8, 2017: Abstract deadline May 15, 2017: Submission deadline June 16, 2017: Acceptance notification June 30, 2017: Camera-ready deadline July 26-27, 2017: Workshop 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 SR workshop will be invited to a special issue. COMMITTEES Workshop co-Chairs Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Bastien Maubert, University of Naples "Federico II" Aniello Murano, University of Naples "Federico II" Sasha Rubin, University of Naples "Federico II" Program Committee (to be completed) Thomas ?gotnes, University of Bergen Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham Benjamin Aminof, Technical University of Vienna Nicholas Asher, CNRS & IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier Dietmar Berwanger, CNRS & LSV, ENS Cachan Catalin Dima, LACL, Universit? Paris Est - Cr?teil Emmanuel Filiot, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Paul Harrenstein, University of Oxford Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University Stephane Le Roux, Universite libre de Bruxelles Nicolas Markey, CNRS & IRISA, Universit? de Rennes 1 Ron van der Meyden, University of New South Wales Marco Montali, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Pavel Naumov, Vassar College Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford Ocan Sankur, CNRS & IRISA, Universit? de Rennes 1 Dominik Wojtczak, University of Liverpool Local Arrangements Committee Davide Grossi, University of Liverpool Wiebe van Der Hoek, University of Liverpool --- Questa e-mail ? stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de Fri Mar 31 08:29:09 2017 From: c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de (Christoph Seidl) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:29:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [iFM'17] Deadline Extension for the International Conference on integrated Formal Methods 2017 Message-ID: <58DE4B95.8050606@tu-braunschweig.de> Due to a number of requests, we have generously extended the deadline for iFM. Here are the new dates: NEW Abstract submission: Tuesday, April 20, 2017 NEW Paper submission: Tuesday, April 27, 2017 NEW Notification: Friday, June 2, 2017 Please find the full updated call for papers below. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINES 13th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods (iFM 2017) ===================================================================== Website: http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/iFMconf, @iFMconf Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2017 Important Dates =============== NEW Abstract submission: Tuesday, April 20, 2017 NEW Paper submission: Tuesday, April 27, 2017 NEW Notification: Friday, June 2, 2017 Camera-ready copy: Tuesday, June 11, 2017 Conference: September 20-22, 2017 Deadlines expire at 23:59 American Samoa Time on the dates displayed above. 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 modeling notations - Combining formal methods - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice - Program verification, model checking, and static analysis - Runtime analysis, monitoring, and testing - Program synthesis - Analysis and synthesis of hybrid, embedded, probabilistic, distributed, or concurrent systems - Model learning - Theorem proving, decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving Submission Guidelines ===================== iFM 2017 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 describe original scientific research results, validated by experimental results where applicable. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. Limit: 15 pages. - Case study papers report on applications of formal methods, preferably in a real world setting. A case study paper need not introduce novel techniques or tools, but it must include a rigorous empirical evaluation and potentially be of interest to practitioners. Limit: 15 pages. - Regular tool papers present a new tool or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations, while focusing on the tool's design and implementation concerns, as well as empirical evaluation of its practical capabilities. Papers that present extensions to existing tools should clearly focus on the improvements or extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available, preferably on the web. Limit: 15 pages. - Tool demonstration papers focus on the usage aspects of tools. Foundations and empirical evaluation are not required, but the paper should explain why the tool is relevant for the community, and, in particular, for practitioners. As with regular tool papers, authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available, preferably on the web. Limit: 8 pages. Page limits include bibliography and any appendices. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions should be made using the iFM 2017 Easychair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2017 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 registration date, to be indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Workshops and PhD Symposium =========================== iFM 2017 will be accompanied by a series of workshops and a PhD Symposium. Further information is available from the conference website: http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/ Conference Location =================== iFM 2017 is organized by the University of Turin and will take place in Turin, Italy. -- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Seidl Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Institut f?r Softwaretechnik und Fahrzeuginformatik Technische Universit?t Braunschweig Tel.:(+49) 531 391-2296 E-Mail:c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de Skype: christoph.seidl.tud Besucheradresse: Raum IZ 417 (TU Braunschweig) Informatikzentrum M?hlenpfordtstr. 23 38106 Braunschweig DeltaEcore - Plug & Play Variability for Modelshttp://www.deltaecore.org From caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch Fri Mar 31 12:09:53 2017 From: caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch (Urban Caterina) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:09:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2017 24th Static Analysis Symposium New York City, NY, August 30th-September 1st, 2017 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVE Static Analysis is widely 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 24th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2017, will be held at New York University, New York City, NY, USA. Previous symposia were held in Edinburgh, Saint-Malo, 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 2017 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 - Automated deduction - Data flow analysis - Debugging - Deductive methods - Emerging applications - Model checking - Program optimization and transformation - Program synthesis - Program verification - Security analysis - Tool environments and architectures - Theoretical frameworks - Type checking PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU programming. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Paper submissions should not exceed 18 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 through easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sas2017 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. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission: April 14, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Full paper submission: April 20, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Artifact submission: April 25, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Author notification: June 12, 2017 - Final version due: July 5, 2017 - Conference: August 30 - September 1, 2017 CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held in the Forbes Building of the New York University, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York City. RADHIA COUSOT AWARD Since 2014, the program committee of each SAS conference selects a paper for the Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award, in memory of Radhia Cousot, and her fundamental contributions to static analysis, as well as being one of the main promoters and organizers of the SAS series of conferences. SPECIAL ISSUE Full versions of a selection of accepted papers, to be determined by the program committee, will be invited for submission to Formal Methods in System Design journal. INVITED SPEAKERS Alex Aiken (Stanford University, USA) Francesco Logozzo (Facebook, USA) Peter M?ller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) AFFILIATED EVENTS - NSAD: The 7th Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains - SASB: The 8th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology - TAPAS: The 8th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis PROGRAM CHAIR Francesco Ranzato (University of Padova, IT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, ES) Jade Alglave (University College London, UK) Josh Berdine (Facebook, UK) Aleksandar Chakarov (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Liqian Chen (National University of Defense Technology, CN) Maria Christakis (University of Kent, UK) Pierre Ganty (Imdea, ES) Alberto Griggio (FBK, IT) Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, CA) Thomas Jensen (INRIA, FR) Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, AT) Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Anders Moeller (Aarhus University, DK) Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs Nokia, USA) Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, DE) Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, FR) Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Harald Sondergaard (The University of Melbourne, AU) Fausto Spoto (University of Verona/Julia, IT) Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, CH) David Van Horn (University of Maryland, USA) Arnaud J. Venet (Facebook, USA) Eran Yahav (Technion, IL) LOCAL CHAIR Patrick Cousot (New York University, USA) PUBLICITY CHAIR Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, CH) From gopalan at cs.umn.edu Sun Apr 2 23:55:48 2017 From: gopalan at cs.umn.edu (Gopalan Nadathur) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 22:55:48 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Special Issue of MSCS---Call for Papers Message-ID: Call for Papers Special Issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science in Celebration of the Sixtieth Birthday of Dale Miller Papers are invited to a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, a journal published by Cambridge University Press. This special issue is being collated in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of Professor Dale Miller. To be appropriate for this collection, papers must be broadly related to one or more of the areas that have been spanned by the work of Professor Miller to-date. These areas include structural proof theory, proof search and computation, foundations of logic programming, higher-order unification, reasoning about relational specifications and certification of proofs. This list is meant to be illustrative and is not exhaustive; if you are interested in submitting a paper and would like to ascertain its relevance to the theme of the special issue, please feel free to contact the editors of the issue. Papers that are submitted for consideration of publication must be prepared in LaTeX and should use the MSCS style file that can be downloaded from ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk. Please also follow the layout and other manuscript format related instructions with the exception of double spacing that you will find at http://z.umn.edu/mscsformat. Manuscripts should also be limited to about 25 pages. While this is not a hard constraint, the reason why a paper exceeds this limit must be apparent to the editors from an inspection of its content, else it may be declined without review. To ensure timeliness of publication, strict deadlines and an expedited reviewing process will be followed in the preparation of this special issue. To be considered for publication, manuscripts must be submitted by May 31, 2017. The first round of reviews will be completed by July 31, 2017. Revised versions of manuscripts that are deemed to be of acceptable quality will be due by August 21, 2017 and final acceptance decisions will be made by September 11, 2017. To submit a manuscript to the special issue, please use the ScholarOne site for MSCS at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mscs. Once you are at this site, you will need to create an account if you do not have one already. Once you are logged in, select the "Author" tab and follow the instructions. 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URL: From axhkrz at gmail.com Mon Apr 3 05:36:13 2017 From: axhkrz at gmail.com (Alexander Kurz) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 10:36:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentships at the University of Leicester Message-ID: <59A9E5C4-2A99-49E6-B540-2D657B6F0F28@gmail.com> Dear All, We have 8 PhD positions at the University of Leicester. 3 (so called GTA positions) involve teaching assistance, are over 4 years and can be in any area of research of our Department of Informatics, including Programming Languages, Type Theory, Logic in Computer Science, Verification, and Category Theory. https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/informatics/postgraduate/research/gta-may17 5 phd positions involve no teaching obligations, are over 3 years and on specific topics: https://www2.le.ac.uk/colleges/scieng/research/pgr/oct-2017/informatics Please pass on to whoever might be interested. I am happy to answer any further questions. Kind regards, Alexander Kurz From abraham at informatik.rwth-aachen.de Mon Apr 3 11:27:31 2017 From: abraham at informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Erika Abraham) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 17:27:31 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP Summer School on Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation Message-ID: <2c1cb134ffcb403385c7c7455d68c94e@rwthex-s1-a.rwth-ad.de> ================================================ FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First International Summer School on Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation July 31 - August 04, 2017 Saarbruecken, Germany Application deadline: June 01, 2017 Notification deadline: June 15, 2017 For detailed information on the school's aim, program and the application procedure see http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/school/ ================================================ The school introduces graduate students and researchers from academia and industry into research and methodology in both Satisfiability Checking (SAT/SMT) and Symbolic Computation with one focus on their interconnections. It combines a thorough introduction into the theory of both fields with lectures on state-of-the-art software systems and their implementation. This is supplemented with presentations by lecturers from industry discussing the practical relevance of the topics of the school. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No H2020-FETOPEN-2015-CSA 712689. Participation is free of charge. There is a limited number of free shared rooms available for distribution by the selection committee. Please express your interest with your application. Travel costs cannot be covered by the school. ==================== Speakers and courses ==================== ---Satisfiability Checking--- Marijn Heule (University of Texas, Austin, USA) State-of-the-art SAT Solving Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA) Foundations of Satisfiability Modulo Theories Keijo Heljanko, Tomi Janhunen, Tommi Junttila (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland) Practical Session on SAT/SMT ---Symbolic Computation--- Hoon Hong (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA) Symbolic Computation (Quantifier Elimination) James Davenport (University of Bath, United Kingdom) Symbolic Computation through Maple and Reduce Christopher W. Brown (United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA) Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition and Real Polynomial Constraints ---Industrial Applications--- Tom Bienmueller (BTC Embedded Systems, Oldenburg, Germany) Industrial Applications and Challenges for Verifying Reactive Embedded Software David Deharbe (ClearSy, Aix-en-Provence, France) Formal Verification in an Industrial Setting Grant Passmore (Aesthetic Integration, London, United Kingdom) Formal Verification of Financial Algorithms ---Beyond Satisfiability Checking--- Christoph Weidenbach (MPI for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany) State-of-the-art FOL Solving Jasmin Blanchette (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Interactive Theorem Proving in Higher-Order Logics =========== Application =========== To apply for participation, please send an email to haniel.barbosa at inria.fr with the following documents: - a one page curriculum vitae, - an application letter explaining your interest in the school and your experience in the area, - a copy of a certificate of you highest academic degree (at least Bachelor or equivalent), - a support letter by a current advisor. Application deadline is June 01, 2017. Notifications on acceptance/rejection will be given by June 15, 2017. ========== Organisers ========== Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Thomas Sturm (CNRS, France and MPI Informatics, Germany) From sabel at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Tue Apr 4 04:05:23 2017 From: sabel at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (David Sabel) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 10:05:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: WPTE 2017 Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Message-ID: ======================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation WPTE 2017 affiliated with FSCD 2017 8 September, 2017, Oxford, UK http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE17 ======================================================================================== 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 were held in Vienna 2014, in Warsaw 2015, and in Porto 2016. 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. Invited Speaker =============== Joachim Breitner(University of Pennsylvania, USA) Paper Submissions ================= For the paper submission deadline an extended abstract of at most 10 pages is required to be submitted. The extended abstract may present original work or also work in progress. However, for the formal post-proceedings (see below) full papers must be submitted to the post-proceedings deadline. Based on the submissions the program committee will select the presentations for the workshop. All selected contributions will be included in the informal proceedings distributed to the workshop participants. One author of each accepted extended abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package (http://style.eptcs.org/). Formal Post-Proceedings ======================= The WPTE post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). The authors of all presented contributions will have the opportunity (but no obligation) to submit a full paper for the formal post-proceedings. These full-papers must represent original work and should not be submitted to another conference at the same time. Full-papers should not exceed 15 pages. The submission deadline for these post-proceedings will be after the workshop in October 2017. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline (extended abstracts): July 14th, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: August 4th, 2017 * Deadline for participant proceedings: August 11th, 2017 * Workshop: September 8th, 2017 * Submission deadline for post proceedings (full-papers): October, 2017 (exact date to be announced) Weblinks ======== * EasyChair Submission Website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2017 * Homepage of WPTE 2017 http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE17/ * FSCD 2017 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ Program Committee ================= Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA) Martin Avanzini (University of Innsbruck) Yuki Chiba (JAIST) Horatiu Cirstea (LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine) -- chair Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) Maribel Fernandez (KCL) Delia Kesner (Universit? Paris-Diderot) Sergue? Lenglet (Universit? de Lorraine) Elena Machkasova (University of Minnesota, Morris) William Mansky (Princeton University) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) -- chair Masahiko Sakai (Graduate School of Infomation Science, Nagoya University) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Janis Voigtl?nder (University of Nijmegen) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig) Fer-Jan de Vries (University of Leicester) From Matthew.Hammer at Colorado.EDU Tue Apr 4 09:31:33 2017 From: Matthew.Hammer at Colorado.EDU (Matthew Hammer) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:31:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IC 2017: 1st Workshop in Incremental Computing (1st call for papers) Message-ID: <2DD7E6EB-A7F4-4E33-9EF0-356B9F506D44@colorado.edu> The First Workshop on Incremental Computing (IC) will provide a space where PL enthusiasts and researchers can come to discuss incremental computing problems and solutions. It is co-located with PLDI 2017, and ECOOP 2017, DEBS 2017, and Curry On, in Barcelona Spain: http://pldi17.sigplan.org/track/ic-2017-papers A computation is incremental if repeating it with a changed input is faster than from-scratch recomputation. Incremental computations can be found across a wide range of computing domains, and thus across many areas of computer science. Consider the following examples: - spreadsheet evaluation, - the database view maintenance problem - incremental compilation management - the rendering pipeline of web browsers - artificial intelligence and planning in games and in robots - motion simulation in computational geometry - interactive features of integrated development environments (including incremental parsing, typing, verification and testing). In each problem domain, practitioners engineer incremental computations to fulfill a practical need: Without these techniques, a system may be too unresponsive or inefficient to be useful, or at the very least, its utility would degrade. In the area of PL, researchers are particularly interested in language-based approaches to incremental computation. In contrast to the algorithms community that often studies each incremental problem in isolation (e.g., incremental convex hull), PL researchers study large classes of incremental programs that are defined by a programming language. The scope of this programming language may vary, and be intended as general-purpose or domain-specific. In either case, the language and associated algorithmic techniques express the behavior of many incremental programs. Call for Papers --------------- IC solicits talk proposals from the community. A good talk at IC probably consists of one or more of the following: - explain an existing language or framework for incremental computing, - outline an incremental computing domain in detail, highlighting challenges, - outline a new incremental computing problem, or problem domain, - propose a new language or framework for incremental computing, This list is not exhaustive, but merely suggestive. Submissions for talks: Authors will submit at most a 2-page PDF document, in at least 10pt font, printable on US Letter paper. Authors are free to include links to multi-media content such as github projects, youtube videos or online demos. Reviewers may or may not view linked documents (it is up to authors to convince them to do so in their 2-page submission). Authors should not assume that reviewers will be experts in the particular area of the submission ? they will most likely not be. All submissions should be accessible to a wide range of programming language researchers. Submission will be handled through HotCRP: https://ic17.hotcrp.com/ 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 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. From s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk Tue Apr 4 10:09:07 2017 From: s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk (Sven Linker) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 15:09:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers -- FVAV 2017 - Workshop on Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles 2017 Message-ID: <660aab37-81d5-56a4-f1a9-99ca4fa913ed@liverpool.ac.uk> ================================================================== Call for Papers ================================================================== Workshop on Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles https://sites.google.com/site/fvav2017/ 19th September 2017 University of Turin, Italy (co-located with iFM 2017, http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/) ================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: - Paper Submission: Monday, 18th June 2017 - Notification: Monday, 10th July 2017 - Workshop: Tuesday, 19th September 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Objectives and Scope: Current technology is at reach to develop road vehicles that can act fully autonomously. One of the recognised major difficulties is to make the systems safe, as autonomy requires not only avoidance of misbehaviour but also assurance of availability and reliability. This fact has been acknowledged both within the academic society, in the form of an increasing interest in this topic, and within industry, by generally agreeing that these vehicles adhere to the highest levels of international standards, e.g., SIL3/SIL4 for IEC 61508, and ASIL D for ISO 26262. These levels imply the consideration of various formal methods in the development, including static code analysis, model checking, and formal specification and verification. However, incorporating formal methods into the design of autonomous vehicles presents significant new challenges, particularly due to the complex integration of discrete and continuous controllers. The main challenges associated with the formal design of autonomous vehicles includes modelling, specification, verification and synthesis. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the formal verification community that are developing formal methods for autonomous vehicles and industrial researchers working, e.g., in the area of control theory or robotics, interested in applying verification techniques for designing and developing of autonomous vehicles. Topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * formal models for autonomous systems * languages and logics for specification and verification * interactive and automated theorem proving * model checking * agent programming languages * real-time and hybrid systems * program synthesis * quantitative and probabilistic verification * requirement analysis * verification for learning approaches * run-time verification * applications, implementations and case studies ------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guideline: Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) and must be prepared according to the EPTCS guidelines for authors (see http://info.eptcs.org/). Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fvav2017 The page limitations mentioned below include all text, figures and references. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend FVAV 2017 to present. There are two categories of papers which can be submitted: regular and short papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Programme Committee. * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, applications of formal methods in industrial practise, system descriptions and case studies within the context of autonomous vehicles. * *Short Papers* (up to 7 pages, including references) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, and problem statements. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Invited Speaker: Werner Damm (OFFIS Oldenburg, Germany) (https://www.offis.de/en/offis/person/werner-damm.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Organisation: Programme Committee: * Matthias Althoff (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) * Mikael Asplund (Link?ping University, Sweden) * Georgios Fainekos (Arizona State University, US) * Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) * Christoph Gladisch (Bosch, Germany) * Cornel Izbasa (Opensynergy, Germany) * Owen McAree (Sheffield University, UK) * Helen Monkhouse (Horiba-Mira, UK) * Ernst-R?diger Olderog (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) * Patrizio Pelliccione (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * S. Ramesh (General Motors, US) * Nick Reed (TRL, UK) * Shinichi Shiraishi (Toyota Info Technology Center, US) Programme Chairs: * Lukas Bulwahn (BMW Car IT GmbH, Germany) * Maryam Kamali (University of Liverpool, UK) * Sven Linker (University of Liverpool, UK) From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Apr 4 05:44:18 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 11:44:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Workshops - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - Deadline: April 17th, 2017 Message-ID: <20170404094418.3E665119CC94@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Call for Workshop Proposals 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is the call for proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2017 Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017. 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 Proof Engineering SCIEnce The Notion of Proof User Interfaces for Theorem Provers Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2017 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 the CICM workshop chair Petros Papapanagiotou (pe.p at ed.ac.uk). Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: 17. April 2017 Workshop dates: 17-21. July 2017 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Wed Apr 5 03:20:32 2017 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:20:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming, 19-21 june 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury Message-ID: ----------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2017 =========== 18th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 19-21 June, 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/tfp17/index.html 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. TFP 2017 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2017 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on 22 June. 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; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015; * and Maryland (USA) in 2016. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/). == 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, but are not limited to: 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 2017 program chairs, Scott Owens and Meng Wang. == 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. == 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=tfp17 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 == INVITED SPEAKERS == Conor McBride University of Strathclyde (UK) C?t?lin Hri?cu INRIA Paris (FR) == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: 5 May, 2017 Notification: 12 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 TFP Symposium: 19-21 June, 2017 Student papers feedback: 29 June, 2017 Submission for formal review: 2 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 3 November, 2017 Camera ready paper: 2 December, 2017 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Co-Chairs Meng Wang University of Kent (UK) Scott Owens University of Kent (UK) PC Jeremy Yallop University of Cambridge (UK) Nicolas Wu University of Bristol (UK) Laura Castro University of A Coru?a (ES) Gabriel Scherer Northeastern University (US) Edwin Brady University of St Andrews (UK) Janis Voigtl?nder Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven (BE) Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology (US) Mauro Jaskelioff CIFASIS/Universidad Nacional de Rosario (AG) Patricia Johann Appalachian State University (US) Bruno Oliveira The University of Hong Kong (HK) Rita Loogen Philipps-Universit?t Marburg (GE) David Van Horn University of Marylan (US) Soichiro Hidaka Hosei University (JP) Micha? Pa?ka Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Sandrine Blazy University of Rennes 1 - IRISA (FR) From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Wed Apr 5 03:48:50 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 08:48:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2017 - Last Call for Papers (ABSTRACT DEADLINE THIS WEEK) Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'17) 4 -- 7 September 2017, Oxford, UK (in-cooperation with the ACM SIGLOG and SIGPLAN and co-located with ICFP 2017) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ 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 or homotopy type theory. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE) and are firm; late submissions will not be considered. Abstract Deadline: 7 April 2017 Submission Deadline: 14 April 2017 Rebuttal: 29--31 May 2017 Notification: 14 June 2017 Camera-Ready: 7 July 2017 Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1. Calculi: Lambda calculus * Concurrent calculi * Logics * Rewriting systems * Proof theory * Type theory and logical frameworks 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: Type systems * Induction and coinduction * Matching, unification, completion, and orderings * Strategies * Tree automata * Model checking * Proof search and theorem proving * Constraint solving and decision procedures 3. Semantics: Operational semantics * Abstract machines * Game Semantics * Domain theory and categorical models * Quantitative models 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 * Verification tools * Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers * Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers * Certification PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages and must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 10 pages and must describe a working system which has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files and submitted via EasyChair. Complete instructions on submitting a paper can be found on the conference web site. SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of several accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS The program committee will consider declaring this award to a paper in which all authors are junior researchers: a junior researcher is a person who is either a student or whose PhD award date is less than three years from the first day of the meeting. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Dale Miller, Inria Saclay & LIX > PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel, Gothenburg Univ. Elvira Albert, Complutense Madrid Maria Alpuente, TU Valencia Takahito Aoto, Niigata Univ. Zena Ariola, Univ. Oregon Federico Aschieri, TU Wien Stefano Berardi, Univ. Turin Lars Birkedal, Aarhus Univ. Filippo Bonchi, CNRS, ENS Lyon Pierre Clairambault, CNRS, ENS Lyon Ugo Dal Lago, Univ. Bologna Herman Geuvers, Radboud Univ. Silvia Ghilezan, Univ. Novi Sad Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Hugo Herbelin, Inria Paris Jan Hoffmann, Carnegie Mellon Deepak Kapur, Univ. New Mexico Paul Blain Levy, Univ. Birmingham Paulo Oliva, QMUL, London Vincent van Oostrom, Univ. Innsbruck Daniela Petrisan, LIAFA, Paris Femke van Raamsdonk, VU Univ. Amsterdam Grigore Rosu, Univ. Illinois Albert Rubio, UPC-BarcelonaTech Paula Severi, Univ. Leicester Bas Spitters, Aarhus Univ. Aaron Stump, Univ. Iowa Kazushige Terui, Kyoto Univ. Rene Thiemann, Univ. Innsbruck Sophie Tison, Lille Univ. CONFERENCE CHAIR Sam Staton, Univ. of Oxford WORKSHOP CHAIR Jamie Vicary, Univ. of Oxford PUBLICITY CHAIR Sandra Alves, Univ. of Porto FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE T. Altenkirch (Univ. Nottingham), S. Alves (Univ. Porto), G. Dowek, (Inria), S. Escobar (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia), M. Fernandez (King's College London), H. Herbelin (Inria), D. Kesner (Univ. Paris), N. Kobayashi (Univ. Tokyo), L. Ong (Chair, Univ. Oxford), B. Pientka (McGill Univ.), R. Thiemann (Univ. Innsbruck). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From A.Murawski at warwick.ac.uk Tue Apr 4 16:44:21 2017 From: A.Murawski at warwick.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 22:44:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The 2018 Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2018) - First Announcement Message-ID: FLoC 2018 --- The 2018 Federated Logic Conference 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, England UK http://www.floc2018.org/ In 1996, as part of its Special Year on Logic and Algorithms, DIMACS hosted the first Federated Logic Conference (FLoC). It was modelled after the successful Federated Computer Research Conference (FCRC), and synergetically brought together conferences that apply logic to computer science. We are pleased to announce the seventh Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'18) to be held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018, at the Mathematical Institute and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. FLoC 2018 brings together nine major international conferences related to mathematical logic and computer science: International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM) International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD) International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) Plus FLoC workshops (7-8 July, 13 July, and 18-19 July) and the School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems (FoPSS, 30 June ? 6 July). We have already begun confirming exciting lineup of speakers, including keynotes by Shafi Goldwasser and Georges Gonthier; plenary lectures by Peter O?Hearn and Byron Cook; and a public lecture by Stuart Russell at the Sheldonian Theatre. We will also hold an Oxford Union-style debate on ethics for autonomous robots. There will be banquets, receptions and other social events in historic venues across the city: see www.floc2018.org/social-events/ for the latest updates. The call for workshop proposals will be issued shortly, and calls for papers will be issued in early 2018. We will keep www.floc2018.org up-to-date so please do check back for further information on talks, workshops, conferences and social events. FLoC'18 Steering Committee General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Conference Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska CAV Representative: Orna Grumberg CSF Representative: Stephen Chong FM Representative: Ana Cavalcanti FSCD Representative: Luke Ong ICLP Representative: Torsten Schaub IJCAR Representative: Franz Baader ITP Representative: Larry Paulson LICS Representative: Martin Grohe SAT Representative: Armin Biere SIGLOG Representative: Prakash Panangaden Programme Committee General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska CAV: Hana Chockler CSF: Stephen Chong FM: Bill Roscoe FSCD: H?l?ne Kirchner ICLP: Paul Tarau IJCAR: Roberto Sebastiani ITP: Assia Mahboubi LICS: Martin Hofmann SAT: Olaf Byersdorff + Local organising committee Organising Committee Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska Website: Michael Tautschnig PR: Andrzej Murawski Fundraising: Hana Chockler Workshops Chair: Gethin Norman Workshops Deputy Chair: Christoph Haase Proceedings: Radu Calinescu Program: Dave Parker Mentoring and Diversity: Alexandra Silva Venue Oversight: Stefan Kiefer Volunteer Coordinator: Julian Gutierrez Oxford Union Debate: May Chan CAV: Georg Weissenbacher CSF: Cas Cremers FM: Erik de Vink FSCD: Paula Severi ICLP: Marco Gavanelli IJCAR: Ian Horrocks ITP: Jeremy Avigad LICS: Sam Staton SAT: Christoph Wintersteiger Workshops Committee General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska Workshops Chair: Gethin Norman Workshops Deputy Chair: Christoph Haase CAV: Hana Chockler CSF: Cas Cremers FM: Helen Treharne FSCD: Paula Severi ICLP: Stefan Woltran IJCAR: Alberto Griggio ITP: Assia Mahboubi LICS: Patricia Bouyer SAT: Martina Seidl FLoC 2018 registration will open in early 2018: we look forward to seeing you! From nevrenato at gmail.com Wed Apr 5 05:17:08 2017 From: nevrenato at gmail.com (Renato Neves) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 10:17:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] (Second Call for Participation) First School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems -- Probabilistic Programming Message-ID: <20170405091708.GA98609@Renatos-MBP.lan> It is our greatest pleasure to announce the first edition of the School on Foundations of Programming and Software systems. The school is jointly funded by EATCS, ETAPS, ACM SIGLOG, and ACM SIGPLAN. The topic of the first edition is Probabilistic programming. It will take place in Braga, Portugal, May 29th - June 4th 2017. Probabilistic programming languages are used for modelling and analysis purposes across multiple areas of computer science, including machine learning, security, and quantitative biology. In particular, they provide a rigorous foundation for machine learning where they are used to describe probabilistic models and to perform inference in presence of uncertain information. Probabilistic programs are also used in cryptography and in privacy for modelling and quantifying security. The goal of the school is to introduce attendants to theoretical and practical aspects of programming languages, and will propose courses that cover the following topics: semantics, analysis, verification, applications to machine learning, privacy, and security. The school will have lectures by Andy Gordon, Catuscia Palamidessi, Christel Baier, Dexter Kozen, Frank Wood, Hongseok Yang, Javier Esparza, Michael Carbin, Peter Selinger, Prakash Panangaden, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, and Vitaly Shmatikov. For more information please check the school webpage http://probprogschool2017.di.uminho.pt/ If you have any queries feel free to contact the organisers. Best wishes, Luis Barbosa Gilles Barthe Joost-Pieter Katoen Renato Neves Alexandra Silva From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Wed Apr 5 23:12:26 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 05:12:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NLS 2017: Third Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS) 2017: Call for Participation and Registration Message-ID: Third Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS) 2017 Stockholm, August 7 - 11, 2017 Call for participation *** Registration is now open *** ------------------------------------------------------------ The third Nordic Logic Summer School is arranged under the auspices of the Scandinavian Logic Society (http://scandinavianlogic.org/). The two previous schools were organized in Nordfjordeid, Norway (2013) and Helsinki (2015). The intended audience is advanced master students, PhD-students, postdocs and experienced researchers wishing to learn the state of the art in a particular subject. The school is co-located with Logic Colloquium 2017 (August 14-20) and Computer Science Logic 2017 (August 21-24). The school will consist of 10 five-hour courses, running in two parallel streams. In addition, there will be short student presentations and poster sessions. The lectures run from ** Monday August 7, 9:00 to Friday August 11, 16:15 ** LECTURERS AND COURSES ------------------------------ The following lecturers and course topics are confirmed. * Mirna Dzamonja (University of East Anglia) -- Set Theory * Martin Escardo (Birmingham) -- Topological and Constructive Aspects of Higher-Order Computation * Henrik Forssell (Oslo) -- Categorical Logic * Volker Halbach (Oxford) -- Truth & Paradox * Larry Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington) -- Natural Logic * Anca Muscholl (LaBRI, Universit? Bordeaux) -- Logic in Computer Science - Control and Synthesis, from a Distributed Perspective * Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland) -- Logic and Rationality * Peter Pagin and Dag Westerst?hl (Stockholm University) -- Compositionality * Sara L. Uckelman (Durham) -- Medieval Logic * Andreas Weiermann (Ghent) -- Proof Theory Programme and course descriptions can be found on the Logic in Stockholm 2017 web site: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 --------------------- Certificates for participation will be provided. There will be possibilities to take official credits for some of the courses. --------------------- VENUE --------------------- Department of Mathematics, Kr?ftriket Campus, Stockholm University. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- Registration: -- Registration opens: April 6, 2017 Early registration ends: ** May 15, 2017 ** Late registration ends: ** August 4, 2017 ** -- Submission of abstracts for presentations and posters: -- Opening: March 6, 2017 Closing: May 2, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2017 -- REGISTRATION -------------- The early registration fee, for students and participants from developing countries, is 2000 SEK including VAT (approx. 200 Euros) per participant, and includes coffee breaks and conference materials. For all others the early registration fee is 2600 SEK including VAT. Late registration is 3200 SEK for all. The registration is done on the Logic in Stockholm 2017 web site: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 PARTICIPATION AND TRAVEL GRANTS ------------------------------- To be considered for a grant, you need to submit an application, with file name: NLS2017-grant-application-Your-Names.pdf via EasyChair on this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nls2017 On the bottom of the submission page of EasyChair, under Topics, you need to check the box "Grant application", before uploading your application. The application must contain the following documents, in one PDF document: (1) Letter of Application for a grant, stating your logic-related interests (2) academic records or transcripts of courses taken so far that demonstrate your background in logic (3) Letter of Recommendation from your current or most recent supervisor ---- Note 1: In case your recommender prefers to send the recommendation directly, she/he should send it as an email attachment of a pdf file named: Letter-of-Recommendation-Your-Names.pdf to the following email address: nls2017-grants at math.su.se Email Subject: Letter-of-Recommendation-Your-Name.pdf Note 2: "Your-Names" should be your actual first and family name, without spaces. Note 3: In case the originals are not in English, the best is to provide scans of official, certified translations. If that would be problematic, you should supplement the scans of the originals with translations that are verified by the name and signature of your supervisor. The applications nominated for grants will be subject to further verifications. ---------------------------------------- Deadline for grant applications: ** April 24, 2017** Notification: May 9, 2017 ---------------------------------------- ACCOMMODATION --------------------- The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there are special offers at hostels and hotels (in the range 700 - 1200 SEK/night for single rooms). https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 SPECIAL OFFER FOR ACCOMMODATION ---------------------------------- There will be offers of inexpensive accommodation via the Stockholm University Housing Office. The cost will be around 350 SEK per person per night, in studio apartments shared by two people. To be able to take part in this offer, participants need to register at the latest May 15. Enquiries may be directed to: logic2017-accommodation [at] math.su.se FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------------- Further information about submissions, registration and accommodation possibilities is available on the Logic in Stockholm 2017 web site https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 General enquiries: nls2017 [at] philosophy.su.se Accommodation enquiries: logic2017-accommodation [at] math.su.se SPONSORS ---------------- Prover Technology http://www.prover.com Stockholm Mathematics Centre https://www.math-stockholm.se COMMITTEES ---------------- Program Committee of NLS 2017: Thierry Coquand (G?teborg), Ali Enayat (G?teborg) Mai Gehrke (IRIF, Paris), Nina Gierasimczuk (Copenhagen) Valentin Goranko (Stockholm U), Lauri Hella (Tampere) Lars Kristiansen (Oslo), Juha Kontinen (Helsinki) ?ystein Linnebo (Oslo), Sara Negri (Helsinki) Erik Palmgren (chair, Stockholm U) Local Organizing Committee of NLS 2017: Valentin Goranko (co-chair), Dilian Gurov, Roussanka Loukanova, Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Anders Lundstedt, Erik Palmgren (co-chair) ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexander.s.alexandrov at gmail.com Wed Apr 5 11:04:30 2017 From: alexander.s.alexandrov at gmail.com (Alexander Alexandrov) Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:04:30 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers DBPL 2017 Message-ID: The 16th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages ============================================================================== The 16th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2017) will be held in conjunction with VLDB 2017 on September 1st, 2017 in Munich, Germany. General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DBPL is a biennial symposium that aims to foster exchange of ideas and discussion about current trends and open problems between the data management and the programming languages research communities. For over 30 years, DBPL has established itself as the principal venue for publishing and discussing new ideas and problems at the intersection of data management and programming languages. Many key contributions relevant to the formal foundations, design, implementation, and evaluation of query languages (e.g., for object-oriented, nested, or semi-structured data) were first announced at DBPL. As an established destination for such new ideas, DBPL aims to solicit submissions from researchers in databases, programming languages or any other community interested in the design, implementation or foundations of languages and systems for data-centric computation. Our main goal is to provide an inter-disciplinary venue where current trends, open problems, as well as insights about research methodology for potential solutions can be shared and discussed between the two communities. Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Abstracts submission deadline: May 5th, 2017 - Papers submission deadline: May 12th, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: June 19th, 2017 - Workshop: September 1st, 2017 Organizers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Chairs - Tiark Rompf, Purdue University, USA - Alexander Alexandrov, TU Berlin, Germany Steering Committee - Torsten Grust, Universit?t T?bingen, Germany - James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK - Thomas Neumann, TU M?nchen, Germany Program Committee - Peter Alvaro, UC Santa Cruz, USA - Nada Amin, EPFL, Switzerland - Sebastian Bre?, TU Berlin, Germany - Hassan Chafi, Oracle, USA - Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Mohammad Sadoghi, Purdue University, USA - Ce Zhang, ETH, Switzerland - Danica Porobic, Oracle, USA - Alvin Cheung, University of Washington, USA Scope and Topics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DBPL 2017 solicits theoretical and practical papers in all areas of Data-Centric Programming Languages. papers emphasizing new topics or foundations of emerging areas are especially welcome. Topics of interest for submissions include: - Programming Abstractions and Type Systems for Data-Centric Batch or Stream Processing - Data-Centric Language Design - Data-Centric Language Semantics - Data-Centric Language Optimizations and Transformations - Data-Centric Language Compilation to Emerging Hardware or Software Platforms - Data Integration, Exchange, and Interoperability - 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 - Schema Mapping and Metadata Management - Semantics and Verification of Database Systems - 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 using the [ACM Standard] proceedings template. 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 in the [ACM Standard] proceedings template 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, May 12, 2017. 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URL: From bart at unica.it Wed Apr 5 13:57:36 2017 From: bart at unica.it (Massimo Bartoletti) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 19:57:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 10th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2017) - Deadline extended Message-ID: <2bb243c1-0a0f-c375-611a-ee44de9651c9@unica.it> ICE 2017 10th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 21-22, 2017, Neuch?tel, Switzerland Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2017 http://2017.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2017 === Highlights === - Distinctive selection procedure - ICE welcomes full papers to be included in the proceedings - ICE also welcomes oral communications of already published or preliminary work - Submission deadlines ** EXTENDED ** : April 18 (abstract) and April 21 (full papers) - Invited talks: Christian Cachin (IBM Research), Marieke Huismann (U. Twente), and Pawel Sobocinski (U. Southampton) - Publication in EPTCS - Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed) === Important Dates === April 18, 2017.........................Abstract submission (EXTENDED) April 21, 2017........................Full paper submission (EXTENDED) April 10-May 19, 2017.................Reviews and PC discussion May 19, 2017..........................Notification to authors June 21-22, 2017......................ICE in Neuch?tel July 15, 2017.........................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, friendly, and constructive discussion amongst authors and PC members in an online forum. During the review phase, each submission is published in a dedicated discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of the submission and by all PC members not in conflict with the submission (the forum preserves anonymity). The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions, clarifications, and modifications from the authors, allowing them better to explain and to improve all 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 nine 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. This year we will adopt a light double-blind reviewing process, detailed below. === Submission Guidelines === We invite two types of submissions: - Research papers, original contributions that will be published in the workshop post-proceedings. Research papers must not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The page limit for research papers is 16 pages + 2 pages of references. - Oral communications, that will be presented at the workshop, but will not appear in the post-proceedings. This type of contribution includes e.g. previously published contributions, preliminary work, and position papers. There is no strict page limit for this kind of submission but submissions of at most five pages would be appreciated. A one page summary of previously published work also perfectly fits this category. Authors of research papers must omit their names and institutions from the title page, they should refer to their other work in the third person and omit acknowledgements that could reveal their identity or affiliation. The purpose is to avoid any bias based on authors? identity characteristics, such as gender, seniority, or nationality, in the review process. Our goal is to facilitate an unbiased approach to reviewing by supporting reviewers? access to works that do not carry obvious references to the authors? identities. As mentioned above, this is a lightweight double-blind process. Anonymization should not be a heavy burden for authors, and should not make papers weaker or more difficult to review. Advertising the paper on alternate forums (e.g., on a personal web-page, pre-print archive, email, talks, discussions with colleagues) is permitted, and authors will not be penalized by for such advertisement. Papers in the ?Communications? category need not be anonymized. For any questions concerning the double blind process, feel free to consult the ICEcreamers. We are keen to enhance the balanced, inclusive and diverse nature of the ICE community, and would particularly encourage female colleagues and members of other underrepresented groups to submit their work. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2017). === Publications === Accepted research papers and communications must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. Accepted research papers will be published after the workshop in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). We plan to invite authors of selected papers and brief announcements to submit their work in 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 published and in preparation special issues of previous ICE editions is reported below. === Invited Speakers === * Christian Cachin - IBM Research - Zurich * Marieke Huismann - University of Twente * Pawel Sobocinski - University of Southampton === Program Committee === 1. Lacramioara Astefanoaei (Technical University of Munich, DE) 2. Eduard Baranov (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, CH) 3. Franco Barbanera (University of Catania, IT) 4. Henning Basold (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) 5. Stefano Calzavara (University Ca? Foscari Venezia, IT) 6. Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) 7. Vincenzo Ciancia (ISTI CNR Pisa, IT) 8. Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, USA) 9. Tiziana Cimoli (University of Cagliari, IT) 10. Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, IT) 11. Tobias Heindel (University of Copenhagen, DK) 12. Anastasia Mavridou (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, CH) 13. Christos Kloukinas (City University London, UK) 14. Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) 15. Michael Lienhardt (University of Turin, IT) 16. Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) 17. Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK) 18. Jean Marie Madiot (INRIA Paris, FR) 19. Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) 20. Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, DK) 21. Dominic Orchard (University of Kent, UK) 22. Johannes ?man Pohjola (Chalmers University, SE) 23. Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) 24. Alceste Scalas (Imperial College London, UK) 25. Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT) 26. Anke St?ber (Uppsala University, SE) 27. Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT) 28. Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, IT) === ICEcreamers === Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT; PC co-chair) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, FR) Sophia Knight (Uppsala University, SE; PC co-chair) === Steering Committee === Simon Bliudze (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, CH) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon, FR) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, IT) Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, US) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) === Previous editions === The previous eight editions of ICE have been held on * July 6, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with ICALP'08. The post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol. 229-3). * August 31, 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 10, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-located with DisCoTec'10. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 38) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of SACS (with CAMPUS'10 and CS2BIO'10, Vol. XXI). * June 9, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with DisCoTec'11. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 59) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SACS (Vol. XXII). * June 16, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with DisCoTec'12. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 104) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SCP (vol. 100). * June 6, 2013 in Florence, Italy, co-located with DisCoTec?13. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 131) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of SCP (vol. 109). * June 6, 2014 in Berlin, Germany, co-located with DisCoTec?14. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 166) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 85, Number 3). * June 4-5, 2015 in Grenoble, France, co-located with DisCoTec?15. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 189) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 86, Number 1). * June 21-22, in Heraklion, Greece, co-located with DisCoTec?16. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 223) and a special issue of JLAMP is in preparation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amal at ccs.neu.edu Wed Apr 5 18:11:53 2017 From: amal at ccs.neu.edu (Amal Ahmed) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 18:11:53 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OPLSS: register by April 15th Message-ID: <91FEF91B-369B-4AE4-A45B-CAA809084874@ccs.neu.edu> *** The OPLSS registration deadline has been extended to April 15th *** We are pleased to announce the program for the 16th annual Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) to be held from June 26th to July 8th, 2017 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The registration deadline is April 1st, 2017. Full information on registration and scholarships can be found here: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/summerschool This year's program is titled: A Spectrum of Types. The speakers and topics include: Amal Ahmed -- Correct and Secure Compilation for Multi-Language Software Northeastern University Edwin Brady -- Dependent Types in the Idris Programming Language University of St. Andrews Ron Garcia -- Gradual Typing University of British Columbia Robert Harper -- Programming Languages Background Carnegie Mellon University Neel Krishnaswami -- Dependent Types and Linearity University of Cambridge Dan Licata -- Programming Languages Background Wesleyan University Frank Pfenning -- Substructural Type Systems and Concurrent Programming Carnegie Mellon University Sam Tobin-Hochstadt -- Contracts and Gradual Types Indiana University David Van Horn -- Redex, Abstract Machines, and Abstract Interpretation University of Maryland The school has a long and successful tradition (sponsored by the NSF, ACM SIGPLAN, and industry). It covers current research in the theory and practice of programming languages. Material is presented at a tutorial level that will help graduate students and researchers from academia or industry understand the critical issues and open problems confronting the field. Prerequisites are an elementary knowledge of logic and mathematics, as covered in undergraduate classes on discrete mathematics, and some knowledge of programming languages at the level of an undergraduate survey course. A *new feature* this year is the option for students to attend a Review session from June 23rd to 25th -- the three days before the summer school officially begins. The review will cover operational semantics, type systems, and basic proof techniques, and will help graduate and especially undergraduate students who have not had a previous course in this material prepare for the main part of the school. Please contact the organizers if you have questions about whether the review will be helpful given your background. We hope you can join us for this excellent program! 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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); * interoperability of reasoning systems; * 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 related to problems, proofs, and models; * comparison, refactoring, transformation, migration, compression and optimization of proofs; * data structures and algorithms for improved proof production in solvers (e.g. efficient proof representations); * (universal) libraries, corpora and benchmarks of proofs and theories; * alignment of diverse logics, concepts and theories across systems and libraries; * engineering aspects of proofs (e.g. granularity, flexiformality, persistence over time); * proof certificates; * proof checking; * mining of (mathematical) information from proofs (e.g. quantifier instantiations, unsat cores, interpolants, ...); * reverse engineering and understanding of formal proofs; * universality of proofs; * origins and kinds of proofs (e.g. (in)formal, automatically generated, interactive, ...) * Hilbert's 24th Problem (i.e. what makes a proof better than another?); * social aspects (e.g. community-wide initiatives related to proofs, cooperation between communities, the future of (formal) proofs); * applications relying on importing proofs from automatic theorem provers, such as certified static analysis, proof-carrying code, or certified compilation; * application-oriented proof theory; * practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies; **## 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'2017 workshop page (https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?a=12750890;welcome=1;conf=pxtp2017). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. **## Important Dates** * Abstract submission: Monday, 12 June 2017 * Paper submission: Monday, 19 June 2017 * Notification: Friday, 7 July 2017 * Camera ready versions due: Friday, 21 July 2017 * Workshop: 23-24 September 2017 **## Invited Speakers** * Gilles Dowek (INRIA) * Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa) **## Program Committee** * Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE-Samovar), co-chair * Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo, co-chair * Christoph Benzm?ller (Freie Universit?t Berlin) * Jasmin Christian Blanchette (INRIA Nancy & LORIA) * Hans De Nivelle (Institute of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw) * Pascal Fontaine (Loria, INRIA, University of Lorraine) * St?phane Graham-Lengrand (CNRS - INRIA - Ecole Polytechnique) * Hugo Herbelin (INRIA) * Olivier Hermant (MINES ParisTech) * Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck) * Guy Katz (Stanford University) * Chantal Keller (LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud) * Tomer Libal (INRIA) * Mariano Moscato (National Institute of Aerospace) * Vivek Nigam (Universidade Federal da Para?ba) * Andrei Paskevich (Universit? Paris-Sud, LRI) * Florian Rabe (Jacobs University Bremen) * Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa) * Stephan Schulz (DHBW Stuttgart) * Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami) * Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague) * Tjark Weber (Uppsala University) * Akihisa Yamada (University of Innsbruck) **## Previous PxTP Editions** * PxTP 2011 (http://pxtp2011.loria.fr/), affiliated to CADE-23 * PxTP 2012 (http://pxtp2012.inria.fr/), affiliated to IJCAR 2012 * PxTP 2013 (http://www.cs.ru.nl/pxtp13/), affiliated to CADE-24 * PxTP 2015 (http://pxtp15.lri.fr/), affiliated to CADE-25 ![](https://link.nylas.com/open/3x691kf2sejzsuk0agjgff6ov/local-fc7f37fd-a325) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rody.kersten at sv.cmu.edu Wed Apr 5 14:13:53 2017 From: rody.kersten at sv.cmu.edu (Rody Kersten) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 11:13:53 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NFM 2017 - 2nd Call For Participation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2a996957-a710-a6de-9efe-7895dbbba4b9@sv.cmu.edu> NFM 2017 - 2nd Call For Participation The 9th NASA Formal Methods Symposium ------------------------------------- https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/ May 16 - 18, 2017 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, USA Program is now available. NFM'17 is free to attend, but note that registration is required. *Theme* The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM?s goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry. 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. *Keynote speakers* * Michael Wagner, Carnegie Mellon University * Ben Haldeman, Planet Labs * Manu Sridharan, Uber Technologies Inc. * Jason Crusan, NASA Advanced Exploration Systems Division * Alexandre Arnold, Airbus *Program* The symposium schedule is now available at https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/schedule/ *Registration* NFM 2017 will be held at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA on May 16 to 18, 2017. There will not be a registration fee charged to participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees must register via the link below. Foreign Nationals will need to send extra information and allow at least three weeks for processing time after all of the information has been received. Register here: https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/registration/ Co-located event: AFM Workshop 2017 AFM is a one-day workshop centered around the use and integration of highly automated formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, static analysis, runtime verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education. AFM functions both as a user's meeting for SRI's tools such as PVS, SAL and Yices, and as a workshop for those interested in state of the art automation for formal methods generally. 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URL: From mael at di.ku.dk Wed Apr 5 19:29:41 2017 From: mael at di.ku.dk (Martin Elsman) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 01:29:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ARRAY'17 Workshop - extended deadline Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming Barcelona, Spain - June 18, 2017 DEADLINE: April 10, 2017 (extended from April 3, 2017) ARRAY 2017 is part of PLDI 2017 38th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation http://pldi17.sigplan.org/track/array-2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- About: Array-oriented programming unites two uncommon properties. As an abstraction, it directly mirrors high-level mathematical abstractions common in the sciences. As a language feature, it exposes regular control flow, exhibits structured data dependencies, and lends itself to many types of program analysis. Further, many modern computer architectures, including GPUs, incorporate features for the efficient execution of array operations. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from many different communities, including language designers, library developers, compiler researchers and practitioners who are working on numeric, array-centric aspects of programming languages, libraries and methodologies from all domains: imperative or declarative, object-oriented or not, interpreted or compiled, strongly typed, weakly typed or untyped. Topics: - Array, graph, and tensor abstractions - Compilers and libraries for array and graph programs on distributed/shared memory parallel computers - Building-blocks for (dense and sparse) matrix/tensor algorithms - Compiler transformations and intermediate languages for array computations - Systematic array notation, including axis- and index-based approaches, - Representation of mathematical structure, including sparsity, rank, and hierarchy Array programming is at home in many communities, including language design, library development, optimization, scientific computing, and across many existing language communities. ARRAY is intended as a forum where these communities can exchange ideas on the construction of computational tools for arrays. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Important Dates: * Paper submissions: Apr 10, 2017 (anywhere on earth), * Notification of authors: May 4, 2017 * Camera-ready copies due: May 10, 2017 (anywhere on earth) * Workshop date: June 18, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Submissions: Manuscripts may fall into one of the following categories: * research papers on any topic related to the focus of the workshop * tool descriptions reporting on a tool relevant to the workshop area Submissions should be 4-8 pages for research papers and 4-6 pages for tool descriptions. In the case of a tool description the workshop presentation should include a demo of the tool, and the submission should include a short appendix summarizing the tool demo. This appendix is for the information of the PC only, and will not be part of the published paper, nor does it count into the six page limit. Clearly mark your submission as either a research paper or a tool description in the paper's subtitle. 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/. Papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=array2017 As in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Organizing Committee: * David A Padua(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (co-chair) * Andreas Kloeckner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (co-chair) * Edgar Solomonik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Clemens Grelck (Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam) * Martin Elsman (University of Copenhagen) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Program Committee: * Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen) * Aydin Buluc (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) * Martin Elsman (Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen) * Franz Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University) * Clemens Grelck (University of Amsterdam) * Tobias Grosser (ETH Zurich) * Amir Kamil (University of Michigan) * Andreas Kloeckner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Hidehiko Masuhara (Tokyo Institute of Technology) * David Padua (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Mary Sheeran (Chalmers University) * Edgar Solomonik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Travel Funding: ARRAY 2017 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN. 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Iceland is a very hot holiday destination these days and it becomes fully booked soon, especially during the summer months. * ACCEPTED PAPERS http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17/accepted.html * WORKSHOPS INFINITY: 19th International Workshop on Verification of Infinite-State Systems. LearnAut: Learning and Automata. LCC: Logic and Computational Complexity. LMW: Logic Mentoring Workshop. LOLA: Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages. Metafinite model theory and definability and complexity of numeric graph parameters. WiL: Women in Logic. http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17/workshops.html From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Thu Apr 6 08:52:58 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 14:52:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: LACompLing2017 - Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 Message-ID: ================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017) Stockholm, August 16-19, 2017 http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing17.html * Submission deadline for regular papers: April 14, 2017 * ================================================= Affiliated with the 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL'2017 Stockholm, 20--26 August 2017 Co-located with: Logic in Stockholm 2017 https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 ================================================= DESCRIPTION == Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. -------------------------------- SCOPE == The workshop focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches. The topics of LACompLing2017 include, but are not limited to: - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES == Submission deadline for regular papers: April 14, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017 Abstracts of short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notifications for short presentations: June 12, 2017 Deadline for final submissions: June 25, 2017 Workshop: August 16-19, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS == - Regular papers: between 10-15 pages, including figures and references, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - Abstracts of short presentations: not more than 1 page, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - We invite original papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts of short presentations have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf of the papers and their LaTeX sources The submissions are via the EasyChair management system of LACompLing2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2017 PUBLICATIONS == - The proceedings of LACompLing2017 will be published digitally by the DiVA system of Stockholm University: http://su.diva-portal.org - Improved and extended versions of selected papers, which have been presented at the workshop LACompLing2017, will be published by the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, JoLLI, after the workshop. ORGANIZERS == Krasimir Angelov, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, USA Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair) Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, The Netherlands CONTACT == Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Valeria de Paiva (valeria.depaiva at gmail.com) -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Sun Apr 9 21:54:59 2017 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:54:59 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Continuity, Computability, Constructivity 2017; second call for submission; extended deadline; please distribute In-Reply-To: <8841cefc-0149-4a4f-d998-8dab51c75d91@jaist.ac.jp> References: <8841cefc-0149-4a4f-d998-8dab51c75d91@jaist.ac.jp> Message-ID: <2B446E56-79B7-41C6-A0EE-A93F1AD9191A@math.uni-siegen.de> Continuity, Computability, Constructivity ? From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2017) Loria, 26-30 June 2017 Second call for papers http://ccc2017.loria.fr/ CCC is a workshop series bringing together researchers from exact real number computation, computable analysis, effective descriptive set theory, constructive analysis, and related areas. 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, Ljubljana 2014, and Kochel 2015. The conference series has always been linked with EU-funded international research projects, with COMPUTAL (Computable Analysis) in the years 2012-2015 and now with CID (Computing with Infinite Data), a research network between Europe, Chile, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, and the USA. This conference is the first CID event, but is open to all researchers in the area. The workshop will take place in Nancy, France. Scope: The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory Scott's domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, And related areas. Invited Speakers: Matthew de Brecht (Kyoto, Japan) Bernhard Reus (Brighton, UK) Matthias Schr?der (Darmstadt, Germany) Alex Simpson (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Submission: Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) of original work are welcome. Extended Deadline: 10 May 2017 Upload your submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccc20170 Programme Committee: Ulrich Berger (Swansea) Pieter Collins (Maastricht) Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy) (co-chair) Erik Palmgren (Stockholm) Victor Selivanov (Novosibirsk) Dieter Spreen (Siegen) (co-chair) Martin Ziegler (Daejeon). 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The Logic Colloquium 2017 is organised and hosted jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University, and is also supported by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. LC2017 will be co-located with several other logic-related events, all taking place at Stockholm University: - the 3rd Nordic Logic Summer School, NLS2017, August 7-11 - the 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic, CSL2017, August 20-24 - Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017, LACompLing2017, August 16-19 - Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems, LAMAS2017, August 25 - Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory in memory of Zoltan Esik, August 25 There will be a joint session of CSL2017 and LC2017 in the morning of August 20. Further information about all events can be found at: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------ Plenary speakers: - David Aspero (University of East Anglia) - Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) - Elisabeth Bouscaren (Paris 11) - Christina Brech (Sao Paolo) - Sakae Fuchino (Kobe University) - Denis Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago) - Wilfrid Hodges (British Academy) - Emil Jerabek (Prague) - Per Martin-L?f (Stockholm University) - Dag Prawitz (Stockholm University) - Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) Tutorial speakers: - Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV ENS Cachan) - Mai Gehrke (Paris 7) LC-CSL joint session highlight speakers: - Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires) - Pierre Simon (UC Berkeley) SPECIAL SESSIONS ----------------------------- Category theory and type theory in honor of Per Martin-L?f on his 75th birthday Dates: August 17-19, 2017 Speakers: - Thierry Coquand (G?teborg University) - Richard Garner (Macquarie University, Sidney) - Andr? Joyal (University of Quebec, Montreal) - Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) Computability Organizers: Ver?nica Becher and Denis Hirschfeldt Speakers: - Emmanuel Jeandel (University of Lorraine, France) - Klaus Meer (Syddansk Universitet Odense M, Denmark) - Arno Pauly (Clare college, Cambridge University) - Theodore Slaman (University of California, Berkeley) - Mariya Soskova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) - Keita Yokoyama (University of California, Berkeley) History of Logic: TBA Model Theory: TBA Philosophical Logic Organizer: Mirna Dzamonja Speakers: - Michele Friend (Gerorge Washington University) - Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University) - Benedikt Loewe (University of Amsterdam and Hamburg) - Sara Negri (Helsinki University) - Davide Rizza (University of East Anglia) - one more speaker TBA Proof Theory Organizers: Jan von Plato and Andreas Weiermann Speakers: TBA Set Theory Organizers: Christina Brech and Assaf Rinot Speakers: - William Chen (Ben Gurion University, Israel) - Brent Cody (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) - Ashutosh Kumar (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) - Giorgio Laguzzi (Freiburg University) - Yann Pequignot (University of California, Los Angeles) - Sandra Uhlenbrock (University of Vienna) SUBMISSIONS OF CONTRIBUTED TALKS --------------------- Abstracts of contributed talks must be submitted as pdf files via this EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lc2017 (If you do not have an EasyChair-account yet, you can create one at the submission site.) The abstracts must be prepared according to the ASL instructions here: http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html Please: - enter Title and Abstract as plain text - as the first keyword, put the AMS 2010 classification: 03xxx - indicate whether you are submitting for presentation at the colloquium, for publication in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, or for both Abstracts of contributed talks submitted by ASL members, which are accepted and prepared according to the ASL Rules for Abstracts, will be published in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be requested to submit the LaTeX source files. REGISTRATION ---------------------- The early registration fee, for students and participants from developing countries, is 1400 SEK including VAT (approx. 140 Euros) per participant, and includes coffee breaks and conference materials. For all others, the early registration fee is 2000 SEK including VAT. Late registration is 2800 SEK for regular fee participants, and 2000 SEK for reduced fee participants. Note: 500 SEK fee deduction when registering for CSL2017 at the same time. The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there will be special offers at hostels and hotels (in the range 700 -1200 SEK per night for single rooms) available. https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2/logic-in-stockholm-2017-august-7-25-1.718739 IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------- Main event: August 14-19, 2017 Joint session with CSL2017: August 20, 2017 Abstract deadlines: Abstract submission for contributed talks: May 5, 2017 Notification: May 19, 2017 Grant application deadline: May 8, 2017 Early registration deadline: June 9, 2017 Late registration deadline: August 1, 2017 -------------------------------------------------------- GRANTS ------------------------------------ There are possibilities for grants from ASL, NSF, and the Bill Craig donation. Information can be found at the website of the Logic Colloquium 2017: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2/logic-colloquium-201 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- - Rod Downey (University of Wellington) - Mirna Dzamonja (PC chair, University of East Anglia) - Ali Enayat (University of Gothenburg) - Fernando Ferreira (University of Lisbon) - Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University) - Martin Hils (University of M?nster) - Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) - Assaf Rinot (Bar-Ilan University) - Igor Walukiewicz (University of Bordeaux) LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- - Stefan Buijsman, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Mads Dam, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH - Jacopo Emmenegger, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Dilian Gurov, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH - Sven-Ove Hansson, Department of Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Eric Johannesson, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Vera Koponen, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University - Johan Lindberg, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Karl Nygren, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Peter Pagin, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Dag Westerst?hl, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES -------------------- For enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: Mirna Dzamonja (M.Dzamonja at uea.ac.uk) For enquiries on organising matters, send email to: lc2017 at philosophy.su.se SPONSORS ----------------- Association for Symbolic Logic Prover Technology Stockholm University Stockholm City Hall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Joelle.Despeyroux at inria.fr Fri Apr 7 16:32:12 2017 From: Joelle.Despeyroux at inria.fr (Joelle Despeyroux) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 22:32:12 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMSB 2017 - Extended deadlines and tutorial sessions Message-ID: <639e9094-27d3-444e-526b-63a68968cc22@inria.fr> Due to some requests, and as it is usually the case, we have extended the deadlines for submissions (two weeks). There will be no other extensions. Extended deadlines: New deadline for abstract submission: 21 avril 2017 New deadline for paper submission 28 avril 2017 New deadline for presentation submission: 28 avril 2017 TUTORIALS: - Mostafa Herajy (Port Said University, Egypt) & Monika Heiner (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) Constructing and Executing Hybrid Biological Models Using Snoopy?s Hybrid Simulator - Fran?ois Fages (Inria France) & Sylvain Soliman (Inria France) Biocham v4: a Tutorial or the Biochemical Abstract Machine Fiveteen Years Later ---------- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Papers, tools, posters, tutorials, presentations) CMSB 2017 15th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology http://www.cmsb2017.tu-darmstadt.de 27th-29th September 2017 Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany) Description CMSB 2017 solicits original research articles, posters, tutorials, and tool papers, 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 In particular, the conference is open to theoretical works with potential applications to modelling and systems biology, as well as applications of existing framework to new models or that may provide new insights to existing models. Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories: A) Regular papers B) Tool papers C) Posters D) Tutorials (closed) E) Presentation only The proceedings of CMSB 2017 will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI). After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be extended an submitted to a special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Invited Speakers - Michael Brenner (Harvard University, USA) - Russ Harmer (CNRS & ?cole normale sup?rieure de Lyon, France) - Stefan Grill (Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany) - Philipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, T?bingen, Germany) Tutorials - Mostafa Herajy (Port Said University, Egypt) & Monika Heiner (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) Constructing and Executing Hybrid Biological Models Using Snoopy?s Hybrid Simulator - Fran?ois Fages (Inria France) & Sylvain Soliman (Inria France) Biocham v4: a Tutorial or the Biochemical Abstract Machine Fiveteen Years Later Call for Submissions: A) CALL 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 15 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Each submission will be refereed rigorously by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Important Dates - Abstract presubmission: April 07, 2017 (old) -> April 21, 2017 (new) - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 (old) -> April 28, 2017 (new) - Paper notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2017 Replicability and reproducibility: A paper may come with benchmarks, software, models, and so on. In order to encourage the development of reproducible results, the authors of accepted papers will be suggested to submit supplementary materials, so that the committee can evaluate the reproducibility of their work. B) CALL 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 presubmission: April 07, 2017 (old) -> April 21, 2017 (new) - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 (old) -> April 28, 2017 (new) - Paper notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2017 C) CALL FOR POSTERS: CMSB 2017 solicits original poster abstracts on the computational modeling and analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. We especially encourage poster submission from experimental biologists! Poster abstracts must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 2 pages. Important Dates Poster submission: June 1, 2017 Poster notification: June 10, 2017 D) CALL FOR TUTORIALS: (closed) CMSB 2017 will host a number of tutorials. Tutorials provide intensive courses on topics ranging from thoughts on the past, current, or future development of computational methods in systems biology to presentations and/or demonstrations of new tools and technologies. A slot in the tutorial track will normally be either 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. A short abstract (less than 2 pages) conforming the LNCS style shall be sent directly to the PC chairs (cmsb2017 at easychair.org) Important Dates - Tutorial submission: March 01, 2017 - Tutorial notification: May 01, 2017 E) CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: Not all potential speakers are interested in publications in a proceedings. CMSB will host some oral presentations without full paper submission. We welcome submissions of work that was already published in a journal or that is currently under review or will soon be submitted. The submission should contain (i) a one-page abstract (11 point type, single spaced) summarizing the primary results and their relevance and (ii) the actual manuscript that was published or is soon to be published. The program committee will use the manuscript only to assess the merit for an oral presentation at CMSB. Both documents have to be submitted as a single PDF file via EasyChair. Only the one-page abstract will appear in the proceedings at the conference. Submissions unaccompanied by adequate documentation will not be eligible for oral presentation. Important dates - Presentation submission: April 14, 2017 (old) -> April 28, 2017 (new) - Presentation notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready (one-page abstract): June 30, 2017 ************************************************* PC co-Chairs - J?r?me Feret (Inria & ?cole normale sup?rieure, France) - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Tool Track Chair - Pierre Boutillier (Harvard Medical School, USA) Local Organisation Chair - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Program Committee - John Albeck (University of California, Davis, USA) - Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, Austria) - Guillaume Beslon (INSA-Lyon & Inria, France) - Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy) - J?r?mie Bourdon (LS2N, Nantes, France) - Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) - Vincent Danos (CNRS & ?cole normale sup?rieure, France & University of Edinburgh, UK) - Jo?lle Despeyroux (Inria, France) - James Faeder (University of Pittsburgh, USA) - Fran?ois Fages (Inria, France) - J?r?me Feret (Inria & Ecole normale sup?rieure, France) - Tomas Gedeon (Montana State University, USA) - Manoj Gopalkrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India) - Calin Guet (IST, Austria) - Monika Heiner (Brandenburg TU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) - Jean Krivine (IRIF, Paris Diderot Univ., France) - Reinhard Laubenbacher (University of Connecticut Health Center & Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, USA) - Axel Legay (IRISA/Inria, France) - Stefan Legewie (IMB Mainz, Germany) - Pietro Li? (University of Cambridge, UK) - Oded Maler (VERIMAG, CNRS and Univ. of Grenoble-Alpes, France) - Nicola Paoletti (Stony Brook University, USA) - Lo?c Paulev? (CNRS/LRI, France) - Tatjana Petrov, (IST, Austria) - Ovidiu Radulescu (University of Montpellier 2, France) - Marc Riedel (University of Minnesota, USA) - Olivier Roux (LS2N & Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France) - David ?afr?nek (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) - Guido Sanguinetti (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) - Fabian J. Theis (Helmholtz Zentrum M?nchen, Germany) - Adelinde Uhrmacher (Universit?t Rostock, Germany) - Verena Wolf (Saarland University, Saarbr?cken, Germany) - Jean Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) - Paolo Zuliani (Newcastle University, UK) Steering Committee - Finn Drablos (NTNU, Norway) - Fran?ois Fages (Inria, 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) -- Jo?lle Despeyroux on behalf of J?r?me Feret & Heinz K?ppl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.huisman at utwente.nl Fri Apr 7 07:10:01 2017 From: m.huisman at utwente.nl (m.huisman at utwente.nl) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 11:10:01 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 PhD positions and 1 Postdoc position on the Mercedes project in Twente (Netherlands): Maximal Reliability of Concurrent and Distributed Software Message-ID: <116E6E2A-8531-434C-A11C-0F06D7BFDD8E@utwente.nl> 2 PhD positions and 1 Postdoc position on the Mercedes project in Twente (Netherlands): Maximal Reliability of Concurrent and Distributed Software University of Twente Group: Formal Methods and Tools Contact: Prof.Dr. Marieke Huisman (m.huisman at utwente.nl) Job Description You will be working on the Mercedes project, a 1,5 million euro personal grant for Marieke Huisman, funded by NWO. Goal of the Mercedes project is to develop techniques to ensures the maximal reliability of concurrent and distributed software. This is achieved by developing a technique to construct an abstract mathematical model from a concurrent or distributed application, such that program logics can be used to prove the formal connection between the software and its abstraction. The framework will be general, capturing many different concurrent and distributed programming paradigms. An important goal of the project is to support automated reasoning, by developing techniques to automatically generate the necessary additional annotations. The project will also investigate the use of the abstraction theory in the opposite direction, to derive a correct program via refinement. Two PhD positions are available to work on the following subprojects: - Abstraction theory: a general compositional abstraction theory for models of concurrent and distributed software - Code-level Verification: algorithms for automated verification of non-trivial program properties One Post Doc position is available to work on the following subproject: - Refinement: a refinement technique to derive concrete program code from an abstract model All results of the Mercedes project will be integrated in the VerCors tool set for verification of concurrent software, which is a result of Marieke Huisman?s earlier ERC project on verification of concurrent software. For more information about the concrete subprojects, please contact Marieke Huisman: m.huisman at utwente.nl. We seek - Two PhD students with an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science - One post doc with a PhD degee in Computer Science (or equivalent) The candidates should be enthousiastic, and have a thorough theoretical background, a demonstrable interest in program verification, and some knowledge about multithreaded programming (in Java/C/C++). We are looking for a researcher with an independent mind who is willing to cooperate in our team. It is understood that he or she works on the topics listed above. Further we ask for good communicative and collaboration skills. Candidates should be prepared to prove their English language skills. As a research outcome we expect publications, (prototype) tools, and for the PhD students a PhD thesis. Starting date of the position: as soon as possible, preferably before June 1, 2017. We offer - Two PhD position for four years (38 hrs/week) - One post doc position for two years (38 hrs/week), with a possibility of extension of upto 3 more years. - A stimulating scientific environment - Full status as an employee at the University of Twente, including pension and health care benefits. - Gross salary PhD student: ranging from ? 2.191,00 (1st year) to ? 2.801,00 (4th year) per month, plus holiday allowance (8%) and end-of-year bonus (8.3%). - Gross salary for a Postdoc is dependent on experience and background, but will minimally be ? 3.068,00 per month (scale 10.4), plus holiday allowance (8%) and end-of-year bonus (8.3%). - Excellent facilities for professional and personal development. - Good secondary conditions, in accordance with the collective labour agreement CAO-NU for Dutch universities - A green Campus with lots of sports facilities The PhD student will be a member of the Twente Graduate School in the research programme 'Dependable and Secure Computing'. The research programme offers advanced courses to deepen your scientific knowledge in preparation to your future career (within or outside academia). We provide our PhD students with excellent opportunities to broaden their personal knowledge and to professionalise their academic skills. Participation in national and/or international summer schools and workshops, and visits to other prestigious research institutes and universities can be part of this programme. Further information - FMT group: http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/ - Prof.Dr. Marieke Huisman (M.Huisman at utwente.nl): http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~marieke/ - Project webpage: http://fmt.ewi.utwente.nl/research/projects/Mercedes/ Application To apply for the PhD position directly: https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/1019842 To apply for the post doc position directly: https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/1019858 Please use the Apply Now button at the bottom of the page. Deadline: May 1, 2017, or until the positions are filled. Earlier applications are welcome and an early start date is an advantage. Your application should consist of: - a cover letter (explaining your specific interest and qualifications); - a full Curriculum Vitae, to apply for the PhD student position, this should include a list of all courses + marks, and a short description of your MSc thesis; to apply for the post doc position, this should include a list of all publications, and a short description of your PhD thesis; - references (contact information) of two scientific staff members. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From owre at csl.sri.com Sat Apr 8 15:02:17 2017 From: owre at csl.sri.com (Sam Owre) Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 12:02:17 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seventh Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 21-26, 2017, Menlo College, Atherton Message-ID: Seventh Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 21 - May 26, 2017, Menlo College Atherton, California http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT17 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 sixth 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: * Stephanie Delaune (IRISA France): Verification of security protocols: from confidentiality to privacy * Marijn Heule (University of Texas at Austin): State-of-the-art SAT Solving * K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research, Redmond WA): Verified programs and proofs in Dafny * Sam Blackshear (Facebook): Building compositional static analyzers with Infer * Ashish Tiwari (SRI International Computer Science Laboratory): Formal Techniques for Analyzing Hybrid Systems The main lectures in the summer school will be preceded by a background course on logic taught by Natarajan Shankar (SRI)and Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) on "Speaking Logic". We will also have special invited talks presented by * Paolo Mancosu, UC Berkeley * Vaughan Pratt, Stanford * Maria Paola Bonacina, Universit? degli Studi di Verona Note: The school is preceded by the 9th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) 2017 (https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/) and the associated sixth Automated Formal Methods (AFM) 2017 (http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM17/) workshop. On May 20 there will be an AFM tutorial day that students are encouraged to attend. Information about previous Summer Schools on Formal Techniques can be found at http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT16 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$600 for meals and lodging. Applications should be submitted at the website http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT17 Applicants are urged to submit their applications before April 30, 2017, since there are only a limited number of spaces available. Non-US applicants requiring US visas are requested to apply early. We strongly encourage the participation of women and under-represented minorities in the summer school. From njansen at utexas.edu Fri Apr 7 14:13:58 2017 From: njansen at utexas.edu (Nils Jansen) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 13:13:58 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FEVER 2017 @ CAV - Call for Presentations Message-ID: The FEVER workshop solicits presentations of ongoing or previously published work to enable discussions on a broad range of topics. These presentations will not be subject to proceedings publication. ==================================================================== Call for informal presentations (abstracts) FEVER 2017 Workshop on Formal approaches to Explainable VERi?cation JULY 23, 2017, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY Co-Located with CAV 2017 http://fever.nilsjansen.org ==================================================================== This workshop will focus on the problem of rendering the results of formal verificaton more understandable to humans, and on the inherent problem of requiring explanations for the results of formal verification. As we are also interested in formal measures to explainability, this is the problem of 'Formal approaches to Explainable VERi?cation? (FEVER). Traditionally, formal verification aims to provide guarantees on the behavior of a system model. We believe, however, that the FEVER problem is not sufficiently addressed by state-of-the-art techniques. We see FEVER as a significant new research opportunity for the Computer-Aided Verification community. The traditional modeling and verification processes suffer from their inherent complexity, which makes it hard for non-specialists to understand and rely on them. Formal measures of explainability will contribute to establishing trust in such methods. The workshop seeks to bring together researchers with diverse expertises, including CAV, AI, VR (Virtual Reality), and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), to lay down the foundations for this new topic and to discuss existing approaches, ideas, and challenges. Topics include, but are not limited to: + understandable modeling languages, such as probabilistic programs + accessible synthesis results and abstraction techniques + explainable counterexamples and controllers As there are no formal proceedings for the workshop, the main focus is on a broad range of topics that trigger lively discussions. ================== INVITED SPEAKERS ================== * Roderick Bloem, TU Graz, Austria * Holger Hermanns, Saarland University, Germany ================== IMPORTANT DATES ================== Abstract submission: May 22, 2017 Notification: May 30, 2017 Workshop: July 23, 2017 ================== SUBMISSIONS ================== We encourage all interested authors to submit an abstract of their presentation through Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fever2017 We particularly invite work recently accepted to top conferences and ongoing work. The submission should be a pdf of at most two pages in the llncs style. 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This is particularly important in the context of > embedded and cyber-physical systems and software, which interact with a > physical environment through sensors and actuators and communicate over > wired > or wireless networks. Such systems are routinely subject to deviations > arising > from sensor or actuation noise, quantization and sampling of data, > uncertainty > in the physical environment, and delays or packet drops over unreliable > network > channels. When deployed in safety critical applications, system robustness > in > the presence of uncertainty is not just desirable, but crucial. > > Our aim is to foster dialogue and exchange of ideas and techniques across > several disciplines with an interest in robustness such as formal > verification, > programming languages, fault tolerance, control theory, and hybrid systems. > > Domains of interest include, but are not limited to: reactive, timed, > hybrid or > probabilistic programs/circuits/systems/networks, approximate computing and > fault tolerance of distributed systems. > > Call for submission: > -------------------------- > We solicit extended abstracts of no more than 3 pages (including > references) that > provide an overview of recently published work of the authors or work in > progress. We expect that the extended abstracts will focus on providing > intuitions (main results and their implications), rather than technical > details > (formal definitions). 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URL: From songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn Thu Apr 6 20:53:27 2017 From: songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 08:53:27 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALL FOR PAPERS - ICTAC 2017 Message-ID: <201704070853268541807@shanghaitech.edu.cn> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers (CFP)] Due to some requests from authors, we have decided to extend the submission deadline by 10 days. The new submission deadline is April 22, 2017. ================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS - ICTAC 2017 14th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing 23-27 October 2017, Hanoi, Vietnam http://fit.uet.vnu.edu.vn/ictac2017/ ===================== ICTAC 2017 will be held in the Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University (VNU-UET), Hanoi, Vietnam, during 23--27 October, 2017. Established in 2004 by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST), the ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research and to exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and in the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote cooperation in research and education between participants and their institutions, from developing and industrial countries. The proceedings of the ICTAC conference series are published by Springer in the LNCS series. THEMES AND TOPICS OF PAPERS ICTAC 2017 will have a technical program for five days including two days for tutorials and three days for a conference. 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 system modeling, 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; * Theory of distributed, grid and cloud computing; * Software architectures and their models, refinement and verification; * Models of concurrency, security, and mobility; * Real-time, embedded, hybrid and cyber-physical systems; * Program static and dynamic analysis and verification; * Software specification, refinement, verification and testing; * Logics and their applications; * Automated and Interactive Theorem Proving; SAT and SMT solving; * Model checking; * Coordination and feature interaction; * Service-oriented architectures: models and development methods; * Domain-specific modeling and technology: examples, frameworks and experience. * Case studies, theories, tools and experiments of verified systems. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION 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, on recent work or proposals of emerging challenges; * Tool papers, on tools that support formal techniques for software Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions 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. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (www.springeronline.com/lncs) by Springer-Verlag. SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2017 IMPORTANT DATES April 22, 2017: Paper submission deadline June 8, 2017: Paper acceptance/rejection notification July 12, 2017: Camera-ready copy deadline October 23-27, 2017: Main conference & Tutorials INVITED SPEAKERS * Joose-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~katoen/ * June Andronick, UNSW, Australia, http://ssrg.nicta.com.au/people/?cn=June+Andronick * Rustan M. Leino, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/leino/ STEERING COMMITTEE Ana Cavalcanti, University of York (UK) John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University (UK) Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck (DE) Zhiming Liu, Birmingham City University (UK) Tobias Nipkow, Technical University Munich (DE) Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco (BR) Natarajan Shankar, SRI International (US) GENERAL CHAIR Viet-Ha Nguyen, Rector of VNU-UET PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Dang Van Hung (VNU-UET) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bernhard K. Aichernig (Austria) Farhad Arbab (Hollands) Ana Cavalcanti (UK) Wei-Ngan Chin (Singapore) Hung Dang-Van (Vietnam, Co-chair) Martin Fr?nzle (Germany) Marcelo Frias (Argentina) Dimitar P Guelev (Bulgaria) Deepak Kapur (US, Co-chair) Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Denmark) Martin Leucker (Germany) Xuandong Li (China) Xiaoshan Li (Macao) Zhiming Liu (UK) Dominique Mery (France) Mohammadreza Mousavi (Sweden) Thanh-Binh Nguyen (Vietnam) Mizuhito Ogawa (Japan) AugJose Oliveira (Portugal) Catuscia Palamidessi (France) Minh-Dung Phan (Thailand) Sanjiva Prasad (India) Thanh-Tho Quan (Vietnam) Ant?nio Ravara (Portugal) Augusto Sampaio (Brazil) Emil Sekerinski (Canada) Hiroyuki Seki (Japan) Deepak D'Souza (India) Hoang Truong-Anh (Vietnam) Kazunori Ueda (Japan) Farn Wang (Taiwan) Jim Woodcock (UK) Hsu-Chun Yen (Taiwan) Naijun Zhan (China) Huibiao Zhu (China) Abdullah Mohd Zin (Malaysia) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pham Bao Son (Co-chair) Ngoc-Hung Pham (Co-chair) Truong Anh Hoang Vo Dinh Hieu To Van Khanh Dang Duc Hanh Vu Dieu Huong Dr. Fu SONG School of Computer Science and Technology,ShanghaiTech University Addr: Room 1A-504C, SIST Building, No.393 Huaxia Middle Road, Pudong Area Shanghai Tel: +86-(0)21-20685397, +86-15921769918 Website:sist.shanghaitech.edu.cn/faculty/songfu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nikos.tzevelekos at qmul.ac.uk Mon Apr 10 08:52:50 2017 From: nikos.tzevelekos at qmul.ac.uk (Nikos Tzevelekos) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:52:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc Position at Queen Mary Message-ID: We are hiring one research fellow with a strong background in programming languages and verification, who can contribute to the design and implementation of a Java heterogeneous compilation tool, informed by semantic models. The deadline for applications is 08 MAY 2017. The position is for 12 months with the possibility of extension to 30 months. It is based in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, under the supervision of Nikos Tzevelekos, and is part of a joint project with Dan Ghica and the University of Birmingham. The project is financed by the EPSRC grant "System-Level Game Semantics: A semantic framework for composing systems?, in collaboration with external partners Aarhus University, Yale University, and Facebook. Informal inquiries can be sent to nikos.tzevelekos at qmul.ac.uk. Job link: http://bit.ly/2ohUkEM Please share. Nikos Tzevelekos Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Queen Mary University of London Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality QMUL is proud to be a London Living Wage Employer From drl at cs.cmu.edu Mon Apr 10 11:36:32 2017 From: drl at cs.cmu.edu (Dan Licata) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:36:32 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoctoral position at Wesleyan University Message-ID: Hi, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, USA) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The postdoc will work with Professors Norman Danner and Dan Licata on the topic of certified cost analysis of functional programs, and have the freedom to pursue their own research agenda as well. Candidates with backgrounds in any of programming languages, logic, algorithms, and proof assistants are especially encouraged to apply. The position is for 1 year, with possibility of renewal for a second year. It is grant-funded, so teaching is not required, but there is a possibility of teaching 1 class per year for applicants who would like to build their teaching portfolio. Please find information on applying for the job here: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/5800 We will review applications as they are received. Thanks, -Dan From Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Apr 10 10:40:41 2017 From: Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk (Graham Hutton) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:40:41 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts Message-ID: <6E936CCD-720F-4A2F-A1AC-C37A819FB6BB@nottingham.ac.uk> Dear all, 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 30th April 2017. Please share! Best wishes, Graham Hutton ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 30th April 2017 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 30th April 2017. 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 heather.miller at epfl.ch Mon Apr 10 11:09:56 2017 From: heather.miller at epfl.ch (Heather Miller) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:09:56 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Curry On 2017 - Call for Presentations Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Curry On Barcelona! (Curry On 2017) Barcelona, Spain, June 19-20, 2017 co-located with PLDI + ECOOP www.curry-on.org/2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Curry On has two central goals. Bringing industry and academia together to have an open conversation. Exploring the intersection of programming or programming languages with emerging challenges in industry, such as security, big data, or machine learning. Talks can cover topics as varied as an academic idea applied to a surprising problem domain in a real-world system, to something racy like ?programming language academia is irrelevant and here?s why?. We give no firm guidelines on topics (go wild!), however we particularly seek talks that can provoke thought and discussion, or even (more idealistically) can elicit or encourage new ideas or change. Areas of particular interest to the conference include: - distributed systems/big data - machine learning - security - concurrency - types - functional or logic programming - databases - compilers and virtual machines - PL approaches to front-end development - probabilistic programming - next generation tooling We're probably the first academic conference ever to have sold out of tickets (last year), so please do consider joining our lineup of excellent speakers! Some of our excellent speakers so far: ====================================== KEYNOTEs - Martin Odersky, EPFL, (creator of Scala language) - Brian Goetz, Oracle, (Java) - Jos? Valim, Platformatec, (creator of Elixir language) - Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, (Lua) INVITED - Jean Yang, CMU (privacy & security + PL) - Niko Matsakis, Mozilla Research (Rust) - Julien Verlaguet, Facebook (Hack) - Dave Thomas, Kx Systems (Array programming) - Helena Edelson, (big data, distributed systems, Scala) - Martin Abadi, Google (security, PL, TensorFlow) - Matt Might, University of Utah (precision medicine, static analysis) - John Hughes, Chalmers University, (property-based testing, FP) Talk Formats ============ Accepted speakers can choose from: - Normal talk slot (40 minutes) = or = - Chesstimer talk slot (20 minutes speaker time, 20 minutes audience time) About Chess-Timer Talks ----------------------- One of Curry On's prime goals is to bring industry and academia together to have an open conversation. But one speaker addressing hundreds of people is hardly a conversation. So, we're changing that. Chess-timer talks aim to make tech conferences a more interactive, more fun, and better place for learning and discussions. Chess-timer talks primarily seek to get more audience members participating in the presentation. Speakers who choose to give a chess-timer talk are allowed 20 minutes of solo speaking time, and 20 minutes of discussion time. A Curry On representative operates a chess-timer during the presentation, switching between solo + discussion time budgets. When an audience member interrupts the talk to ask a question, for example, we switch the timer to deduct from discussion time. This style of giving talks has been demoed in small (20-30 person) academic workshops to great success. In those workshops, it has incentivized speakers to strategically insert fodder for discussion points into their presentations so as to try and elicit audience members to ask questions. Speakers with selected talks will have the opportunity to choose whether or not they would like to give a chess-timer talk. Curry On will feature a limited number of chess-timer sessions, meaning that a majority of talks will still be standard conference talks. Deadlines ========= - Call for presentations closes: -> Friday, April 14th, 2017 <- - Speakers notified/program announced: -> Friday, April 21st, 2017 <- -- Heather Miller EPFL, Scala Center Executive Director, Research Scientist http://people.epfl.ch/heather.miller +41 21 693 64 83 +41 78 625 20 23 From selinger at mathstat.dal.ca Tue Apr 11 10:42:59 2017 From: selinger at mathstat.dal.ca (Peter Selinger) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:42:59 -0300 (ADT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor position at Dalhousie Message-ID: <20170411144259.3E3538C017D@chase.mathstat.dal.ca> Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science Dalhousie University invites applicants for a probationary tenure track position in Mathematics from outstanding candidates with a strong background in the mathematical modelling of programming languages and in quantum computing. The candidates should have demonstrated ability or potential for teaching excellence and establishing a successful research program. The successful candidate will have a PhD in the Mathematical Sciences. Expertise in type theory, category theory, mathematical logic, and/or number theoretic methods in quantum information theory will be an asset. In addition to carrying out their independent research program, the successful candidate will be expected to join an existing research project on the design, semantics, and formal verification of programming languages for quantum computing. The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University is at the forefront of research developments in the semantics of quantum programming languages, categorical quantum mechanics, quantum circuit theory, and unitary approximation. The division of Mathematics also has strong research groups in category theory, commutative algebra, harmonic analysis, cosmology, dynamical systems, graphs and games, and differential geometry. The department has a flourishing graduate program and a strong undergraduate Honours program. The start date for the position is September 1, 2017. Consideration of candidates will begin on April 30, 2017, and will continue until the position is filled. Complete applications will include a curriculum vitae, a research proposal (max 3 pages), a statement of teaching interests and experience, a completed Self-Identification Questionnaire, which is available at www.dal.ca/becounted/selfid, and three confidential letters of reference, forwarded under separate cover by the referees, to: Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Chase Building, Room 219 PO Box 15000, 6316 Coburg Road Halifax, N.S. B3H 4R2 Canada email: chair at mathstat.dal.ca phone: 902-494-2572 fax: 902-494-5130 web: mathstat.dal.ca Dalhousie is Atlantic Canada's leading research university. The main campus in situated in Halifax - a city known for its youthful spirit, rich history, and scenic waterfront. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Dalhousie University is committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness. The university encourages applications from Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community. 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URL: From feret at ens.fr Mon Apr 10 10:45:34 2017 From: feret at ens.fr (Jerome Feret) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:45:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMSB 2017: extended deadlines + list of tutorials Message-ID: <6144494f6d08b8ce27e37233986f8a02.squirrel@www.mail.ens.fr> Extended deadlines: New deadline for abstract submission: 21 avril 2017 New deadline for paper submission 28 avril 2017 New deadline for presentation submission: 28 avril 2017 TUTORIALS: - Mostafa Herajy (Port Said University, Egypt) & Monika Heiner (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) Constructing and Executing Hybrid Biological Models Using Snoopy?s Hybrid Simulator - Fran?ois Fages (Inria France) & Sylvain Soliman (Inria France) Biocham v4: a Tutorial or the Biochemical Abstract Machine Fiveteen Years Later CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Papers, tools, posters, tutorials, presentations) CMSB 2017 15th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology http://www.cmsb2017.tu-darmstadt.de 27th-29th September 2017 Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany) Description CMSB 2017 solicits original research articles, posters, tutorials, and tool papers, 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 In particular, the conference is open to theoretical works with potential applications to modelling and systems biology, as well as applications of existing framework to new models or that may provide new insights to existing models. Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories: A) Regular papers B) Tool papers C) Posters D) Tutorials (closed) E) Presentation only The proceedings of CMSB 2017 will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI). After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be extended an submitted to a special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Invited Speakers - Michael Brenner (Harvard University, USA) - Russ Harmer (CNRS & ?cole normale sup?rieure de Lyon, France) - Stefan Grill (Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany) - Philipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, T?bingen, Germany) Tutorials - Mostafa Herajy (Port Said University, Egypt) & Monika Heiner (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) Constructing and Executing Hybrid Biological Models Using Snoopy?s Hybrid Simulator - Fran?ois Fages (Inria France) & Sylvain Soliman (Inria France) Biocham v4: a Tutorial or the Biochemical Abstract Machine Fiveteen Years Later Call for Submissions: A) CALL 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 15 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Each submission will be refereed rigorously by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Important Dates - Abstract presubmission: April 07, 2017 (old) -> April 21, 2017 (new) - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 (old) -> April 28, 2017 (new) - Paper notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2017 Replicability and reproducibility: A paper may come with benchmarks, software, models, and so on. In order to encourage the development of reproducible results, the authors of accepted papers will be suggested to submit supplementary materials, so that the committee can evaluate the reproducibility of their work. B) CALL 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 presubmission: April 07, 2017 (old) -> April 21, 2017 (new) - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 (old) -> April 28, 2017 (new) - Paper notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2017 C) CALL FOR POSTERS: CMSB 2017 solicits original poster abstracts on the computational modeling and analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. We especially encourage poster submission from experimental biologists! Poster abstracts must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 2 pages. Important Dates Poster submission: June 1, 2017 Poster notification: June 10, 2017 D) CALL FOR TUTORIALS: (closed) CMSB 2017 will host a number of tutorials. Tutorials provide intensive courses on topics ranging from thoughts on the past, current, or future development of computational methods in systems biology to presentations and/or demonstrations of new tools and technologies. A slot in the tutorial track will normally be either 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. A short abstract (less than 2 pages) conforming the LNCS style shall be sent directly to the PC chairs (cmsb2017 at easychair.org) Important Dates - Tutorial submission: March 01, 2017 - Tutorial notification: May 01, 2017 E) CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: Not all potential speakers are interested in publications in a proceedings. CMSB will host some oral presentations without full paper submission. We welcome submissions of work that was already published in a journal or that is currently under review or will soon be submitted. The submission should contain (i) a one-page abstract (11 point type, single spaced) summarizing the primary results and their relevance and (ii) the actual manuscript that was published or is soon to be published. The program committee will use the manuscript only to assess the merit for an oral presentation at CMSB. Both documents have to be submitted as a single PDF file via EasyChair. Only the one-page abstract will appear in the proceedings at the conference. Submissions unaccompanied by adequate documentation will not be eligible for oral presentation. Important dates - Presentation submission: April 14, 2017 (old) -> April 28, 2017 (new) - Presentation notification: June 15, 2017 - Camera-ready (one-page abstract): June 30, 2017 ************************************************* PC co-Chairs - J?r?me Feret (Inria & ?cole normale sup?rieure, France) - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Tool Track Chair - Pierre Boutillier (Harvard Medical School, USA) Local Organisation Chair - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Program Committee - John Albeck (University of California, Davis, USA) - Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, Austria) - Guillaume Beslon (INSA-Lyon & Inria, France) - Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy) - J?r?mie Bourdon (LS2N, Nantes, France) - Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) - Vincent Danos (CNRS & ?cole normale sup?rieure, France & University of Edinburgh, UK) - Jo?lle Despeyroux (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France) - James Faeder (University of Pittsburgh, USA) - Fran?ois Fages (Inria, France) - J?r?me Feret (Inria & Ecole normale sup?rieure, France) - Tomas Gedeon (Montana State University, USA) - Manoj Gopalkrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India) - Calin Guet (IST, Austria) - Monika Heiner (Brandenburg TU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - Heinz K?ppl (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) - Jean Krivine (IRIF, Paris Diderot Univ., France) - Reinhard Laubenbacher (University of Connecticut Health Center & Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, USA) - Axel Legay (IRISA/Inria, France) - Stefan Legewie (IMB Mainz, Germany) - Pietro Li? (University of Cambridge, UK) - Oded Maler (VERIMAG, CNRS and Univ. of Grenoble-Alpes, France) - Nicola Paoletti (Stony Brook University, USA) - Lo?c Paulev? (CNRS/LRI, France) - Tatjana Petrov, (IST, Austria) - Ovidiu Radulescu (University of Montpellier 2, France) - Marc Riedel (University of Minnesota, USA) - Olivier Roux (LS2N & Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France) - David ?afr?nek (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) - Guido Sanguinetti (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) - Fabian J. Theis (Helmholtz Zentrum M?nchen, Germany) - Adelinde Uhrmacher (Universit?t Rostock, Germany) - Verena Wolf (Saarland University, Saarbr?cken, Germany) - Jean Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) - Paolo Zuliani (Newcastle University, UK) Steering Committee - Finn Drablos (NTNU, Norway) - Fran?ois Fages (Inria, 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) From ulrich.fahrenberg at irisa.fr Mon Apr 10 12:30:23 2017 From: ulrich.fahrenberg at irisa.fr (Uli Fahrenberg) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 18:30:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Methods and Tools for Distributed Hybrid Systems (DHS 2017) In-Reply-To: <8c753bb2-f730-5e89-596a-cdec1dbfa3fd@inria.fr> References: <8c753bb2-f730-5e89-596a-cdec1dbfa3fd@inria.fr> Message-ID: <347b3027-924e-4699-ef64-7b1d6d689463@irisa.fr> Hi, please find below a CfP for the DHS workshop associated with MFCS 2017. DHS is concerned with analysis and validation of distributed hybrid systems, thus intersects with the semantics and verification topics of this list. The purpose of DHS is to connect people working in verification, control, distributed systems, and concurrency; I suspect that the types list "hits" many such people and that some of them will already plan to come to MFCS. Best regards, Uli Fahrenberg -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Methods and Tools for Distributed Hybrid Systems (DHS 2017) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 16:36:12 +0100 From: Uli Fahrenberg To: types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu Apologies for multiple copies of this email; please distribute as you see fit. CALL FOR PAPERS DHS 2017 International Workshop on Methods and Tools for Distributed Hybrid Systems Associated with MFCS 2017 Aalborg University, Denmark 25-26 August 2017 http://dhs.gforge.inria.fr/ The purpose of DHS is to connect researchers working in real-time and hybrid systems, control theory, distributed computing, and concurrency, in order to advance the subject of distributed hybrid systems. Distributed hybrid systems, or distributed cyber-physical systems, are abundant. Many of them are safety-critical, but ensuring their correct functioning is very difficult. We believe that new techniques are needed for the analysis and validation of DHS. More precisely, we believe that convergence and interaction of methods and tools from different areas of computer science, engineering, and mathematics is needed in order to advance the subject. This first edition of the DHS workshop aims at gathering researchers which work in the above areas in order to facilitate collaboration and discuss how the subject may advance. INVITED SPEAKERS Martin Fr?nzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark Sergio Rajsbaum, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Martin Raussen, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark Rafael Wisniewski, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 15 June 2017 Notification: 15 July 2017 Final version: 31 July 2017 Workshop: 25 August (afternoon) - 26 August (evening) For more information, see: http://dhs.gforge.inria.fr/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The 24th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2017, will be held at New York University, New York City, NY, USA. Previous symposia were held in Edinburgh, Saint-Malo, 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 2017 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 - Automated deduction - Data flow analysis - Debugging - Deductive methods - Emerging applications - Model checking - Program optimization and transformation - Program synthesis - Program verification - Security analysis - Tool environments and architectures - Theoretical frameworks - Type checking PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU programming. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Paper submissions should not exceed 18 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 through easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sas2017 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. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission (extended): April 21, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Full paper submission (extended): April 27, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Artifact submission (extended): May 2, 2017 (anywhere on earth) - Author notification: June 12, 2017 - Final version due: July 5, 2017 - Conference: August 30 - September 1, 2017 CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held in the Forbes Building of the New York University, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York City. RADHIA COUSOT AWARD Since 2014, the program committee of each SAS conference selects a paper for the Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award, in memory of Radhia Cousot, and her fundamental contributions to static analysis, as well as being one of the main promoters and organizers of the SAS series of conferences. SPECIAL ISSUE Full versions of a selection of accepted papers, to be determined by the program committee, will be invited for submission to Formal Methods in System Design journal. INVITED SPEAKERS Alex Aiken (Stanford University, USA) Francesco Logozzo (Facebook, USA) Peter M?ller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) AFFILIATED EVENTS - NSAD: The 7th Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains - SASB: The 8th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology - TAPAS: The 8th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis PROGRAM CHAIR Francesco Ranzato (University of Padova, IT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, ES) Jade Alglave (University College London, UK) Josh Berdine (Facebook, UK) Aleksandar Chakarov (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Liqian Chen (National University of Defense Technology, CN) Maria Christakis (University of Kent, UK) Pierre Ganty (Imdea, ES) Alberto Griggio (FBK, IT) Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, CA) Thomas Jensen (INRIA, FR) Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, AT) Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Anders Moeller (Aarhus University, DK) Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs Nokia, USA) Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, DE) Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, FR) Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Harald Sondergaard (The University of Melbourne, AU) Fausto Spoto (University of Verona/Julia, IT) Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, CH) David Van Horn (University of Maryland, USA) Arnaud J. 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POPL provides a forum for the discussion of fundamental principles and important innovations in the design, definition, analysis, transformation, implementation and verification of programming languages, programming systems, and programming abstractions. Events focusing on experimental and theoretical topics are welcome. Proposals are invited for workshops and other events to be co-located with POPL 2018. Events can either be sponsored by SIGPLAN (http://acm.org/sigplan/) or supported through in-cooperation status. Workshops should be more informal and focused than POPL itself, include sessions that enable interaction among the workshop attendees, and be fairly low cost. The preference is for one-day workshops, but other schedules can also be considered. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: 15 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2017 A workshop proposal should provide the following information. ? Name of the workshop. ? Duration of the workshop. ? Organizers: names, affiliation, contact information, brief (100 words) biography. ? A short description (150-200 words) of the topic. ? Event format: workshop; type of submissions if any; review process; results dissemination. ? Expected attendance and target audience. ? Potential PC members. ? History of the workshop. Proposal must be submitted in pdf or txt form by email to the workshop chair Marco Gaboardi (gaboardi at buffalo.edu). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsorship vs in-cooperation status Events can either be sponsored by SIGPLAN (http://acm.org/sigplan/) or supported through in-cooperation status. Sponsored workshops are required to produce a final report after the workshop has taken place that is suitable for publication in SIGPLAN Notices. Further information about SIGPLAN sponsorship and in-cooperation status of workshops is available here: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Proposals/Cooperated http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Proposals/Sponsored --------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee All submissions will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the POPL 2018 organizing committee, together with the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee. Marco Gaboardi University at Buffalo, SUNY Workshops chair Ranjit Jhala University of California, San Diego General chair Andrew Myers Cornell University Program chair --------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any query regarding POPL 2018 co-located event proposals should be addressed to the workshops chair, Marco Gaboardi (gaboardi at buffalo.edu). From Gethin.Norman at glasgow.ac.uk Wed Apr 12 02:20:24 2017 From: Gethin.Norman at glasgow.ac.uk (Gethin Norman) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 06:20:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLoC 2018 Call for Workshops Message-ID: <79647AE1-FC26-4CD7-BAC6-8ED4D08B1C3D@glasgow.ac.uk> [apologies for cross posting] FLoC 2018 ? The 2018 Federated Logic Conference 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, England UK http://www.floc2018.org/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS The Seventh Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2018) will host the following nine conferences and affiliated workshops. CAV (30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification) http://i-cav.org/ Workshop chair: Hana Chockler hana.chockler at kcl.ac.uk CSF (31st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium) http://www.ieee-security.org/CSFWweb/ Workshop chair: Cas Cremers cas.cremers at cs.ox.ac.uk FM (23rd International Symposium on Formal Methods) http://www.fmeurope.org/?page_id=221 Workshop chair: Helen Treharne H.Treharne at surrey.ac.uk FSCD (3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction) http://fscdconference.org/ Workshop chair: Paula Severi pgs11 at le.ac.uk ICLP (35th International Conference on Logic Programming) https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/conferences/ Workshop chair: Stefan Woltran woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at IJCAR (International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning) http://www.ijcar.org Workshop chair: Alberto Griggio griggio at fbk.eu ITP (9th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving) http://itp2017.cic.unb.br Workshop chair: Assia Mahboubi Assia.Mahboubi at inria.fr LICS (33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science) http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/ Workshop chair: Patricia Bouyer bouyer at lsv.ens-cachan.fr SAT (21st International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing) http://www.satisfiability.org Workshop chair: Martina Seidl martina.seidl at jku.at SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics in the field of computer science, related to logic in the broad sense. Each workshop proposal must indicate one affiliated conference of FLoC 2018. It is strongly suggested that prospective workshop organizers contact the relevant conference workshop chair before submitting a proposal. Each proposal should consist of the following two parts. 1) A short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). 2) An organisational part including: - contact information for the workshop organizers; - proposed affiliated conference; - estimate of the number of workshop participants; - proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) - potential invited speakers; - procedures for selecting papers and participants; - plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue); - duration (which may vary from one day to two days); - preferred period (pre, mid or post FLoC). The FLoC Organizing Committee will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs of the hosting conferences and availability of space and facilities. Submission instructions will follow shortly from http://www.floc2018.org/workshops/ For further information on FLoC 2018 see http://www.floc2018.org IMPORTANT DATES Submission of workshop proposals deadline: June 19, 2017 Notification: July 31, 2017 Pre-FLoC workshops: Saturday & Sunday, July 7-8, 2018 Mid-FLoC workshops: Friday July 13, 2018 Post-FLoC workshops: Wednesday & Thursday, July 18-19, 2018 Note mid-FLoC workshops are expected be one day in duration, however we can consider two-day workshops under exceptional circumstance (details should be included in the proposal). CONTACT INFORMATION Questions regarding proposals should be sent to the workshop chairs of the proposed affiliated conference. General questions should be sent to: gethin.norman at glasgow.ac.uk FLoC 2018 WORKSHOP CHAIR Gethin Norman University of Glasgow From mascarenhas at acm.org Wed Apr 12 13:14:01 2017 From: mascarenhas at acm.org (Fabio Mascarenhas) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:14:01 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Deadline Extended] CFP SBLP 2017: 21st Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages Message-ID: SBLP 2017 is the 21st edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, and will be held at Fortaleza, Cear?, on September 2017, co-located with the other conferences of CBSoft 2017, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. SBLP is the premier technical and scientific event in Brazil in the area of programming languages, and aims to create a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss principles and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, processing and implementation of programming languages. # IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 28th 2017 (extended) Paper submission: May 5th 2017 (extended) Author notification: June 23th 2017 Camera ready deadline: July 7th 2017 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. # SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of their originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to SBLP. Papers may be written in Portuguese or English. Submission in English is strongly encouraged, since the symposium proceedings are indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Papers should fall into one of two different categories: regular papers, which can be up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column format (available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html), or short papers, with up to 3 pages in the same format. Page limits include all figures, references, and appendixes. 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. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2017. As in previous editions, after the conference, authors of selected regular 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 SBLP edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. # PROGRAM CHAIR Fabio Mascarenhas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro # PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la Rep?blica Alex Garcia, IME Alvaro Moreira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Anamaria Martins Moreira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Andr? Murbach Maidl,PUC-PR Andre Rauber-DuBois, Federal University of Pelotas Carlos Camar?o, Federal University of Minas Gerais Christiano Braga, Fluminense Federal University Fernando Castor, Federal University of Pernambuco Fernando Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais Francisco Heron Carvalho-Junior, Federal University of Ceara Francisco Sant'Anna, UERJ Gustavo Pinto, Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Par? Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University Henrique Rebelo, Federal University of Pernambuco Ismael Figueroa, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Valparaiso Jo?o Ferreira, Teesside University Jo?o Saraiva, University of Minho Jo?o-Paulo Fernandes, University of Beira Interior Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Louis-Noel Pouchet, University of California Luis Barbosa, University of Minho Manuel-A. Martins, University of Aveiro Marcelo D'Amorim, Federal University of Pernambuco Marcelo Maia, Federal University of Uberl?ndia Mariza Bigonha, Federal University of Minas Gerais Martin Musicante, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio Rafael Lins, Federal University of Pernambuco Roberto Bigonha, Federal University of Minas Gerais Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Rodrigo Geraldo, Federal University of Ouro Preto Sandro Rigo, State University of Campinas S?rgio Medeiros, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Simon Thompson, University of Kent Varmo Vene, University of Tartu Wouter Swierstra, Utretch University Yu David Liu, State University of New York at Binghamton Zongyan Qiu, Peking University -- Fabio Mascarenhas DCC/UFRJ From marino.miculan at uniud.it Thu Apr 13 10:13:45 2017 From: marino.miculan at uniud.it (Marino Miculan) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:13:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2017 - Call for papers Message-ID: <00187159-BDF0-41F5-95A6-A6923E43E53E@uniud.it> CALL FOR PAPERS : deadline June 25, 2017 **** LFMTP 2017: Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice **** Affiliated with FSCD 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom, September 8, 2017 Conference website http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2017/home.shtml Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2017 ** Important dates: Abstract registration deadline: June 18, 2017 Submission deadline: June 25, 2017 Notification to authors: July 30, 2017 Final version deadline: August 13, 2017 ** Description Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common substrate for representing, implementing, and reasoning about a wide variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer science. Their design and implementation on the one hand and their use in reasoning tasks ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal computational systems on the other hand have been the focus of considerable research over the last three decades. This workshop brings together designers, implementors, and practitioners to discuss various aspects impinging on the structure and utility of logical frameworks, including the treatment of variable bindings, inductive and co-inductive reasoning techniques, and the expressivity and lucidity of the reasoning process. LFMTP 2017 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 such as canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, or homotopy type theory. - Systematic translation, combination, and integration of logics or theorem prover libraries. - Applications of logical frameworks, e.g. in certification and guarantee of security properties. - 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. LFMTP 2017 will be also the occasion to celebrate the 70th birthday of Randy Pollack, author of the LEGO proof assistant and many other contributions to this field. ** Submission Guidelines The following paper categories are welcome: - Full papers describing original research and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. - 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 ACM SIGCONF format. The page limit is 8 pages for full papers, and 4 pages for work-in-progress reports. Submission link is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2017 ** Program Committee Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham, UK) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (INRIA, France) Gilles Dowek (ENS Cachan, France) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada) Andrzej Filinski (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Marino Miculan (DiMI, University of Udine, Italy), co-chair Florian Rabe (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany), co-chair Wilmer Ricciotti (LFCS, University of Edinburgh, UK) Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna, Italy) Kristina Sojakova (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) ** Organizing committee Florian Rabe (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) Marino Miculan (DiMI, University of Udine, Italy) ** Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to f.rabe at jacobs-university.de From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Thu Apr 13 03:41:50 2017 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:41:50 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CID: information on a new research project Message-ID: <0FDD6653-4AA5-44D2-9AD6-0B526D44BFD8@math.uni-siegen.de> Dear moderator please forward this information about a new collaboration programme. CID ? Computing with Infinite Data cid.uni-trier.de CID is a new international research project with about 20 participating institutions, mainly from Europe, but also from Chile, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, and the USA. It is funded by the European Union as well as several national funding organisations, and is running for four years. The joint research will study important aspects - both theoretical as well as applied - of computing with infinite objects. A central aim is laying the grounds for the generation of efficient and verified software in engineering applications. A prime example for infinite data is provided by the real numbers, most commonly conceived as infinite sequences of digits. Since the reals are fundamental in mathematics, any attempt to compute objects of mathematical interest has to be based on an implementation of real numbers. While most applications in science and engineering substitute the reals with floating point numbers of fixed finite precision and thus have to deal with truncation and rounding errors, the approach in this project is different: exact real numbers are taken as first-class citizens and while any computation can only exploit a finite portion of its input in finite time, increased precision is always available by continuing the computation process. We will refer to this mode of computing with real numbers as exact real arithmetic or ERA. These ideas are greatly generalised in Weihrauch?s type-two theory of effectivity which aims to represent infinite data of any kind as streams of finite data. This project aims to bring together the expertise of specialists in mathematics, logic, and computer science to push the frontiers of our theoretical and practical understanding of computing with infinite objects. Three overarching motivations drive the collaboration: Representation and representability. Elementary cardinality considerations tell us that it is not possible to represent arbitrary mathematical objects in a way that is accessible to computation. We will enlist expertise in topology, logic, and set theory, to address the question of which objects are representable and how they can be represented most efficiently. Constructivity. Working in a constructive mathematical universe can greatly enhance our understanding of the link between computation and mathematical structure. Not only informs us which are the objects of relevance, it also allows us to devise algorithms from proofs. Efficient implementation. The project also aims to make progress on concrete implementations. Theoretical insights from elsewhere will thus be tested in actual computer systems, while obstacles encountered in the latter will inform the direction of mathematical investigation. The specific research objectives of this project are grouped together in three work packages: WP1 ? Foundations This foundational study has two aims: (I) to compare two major models for computations with infinite objects, Markov computability and type-two theory of effectivity, and to obtain a better understanding of the first one in structural terms; and (II) to extend (effective) descriptive theory of sets and functions beyond its classical scope of Polish spaces. A specific goal of (I) is to develop a characterisation of Markov computability in terms of Kolmogorov complexity. Objective II aims at extending Descriptive Set Theory to a Cartesian closed subcategory of Schroeder-Simpson-qcb-spaces, large enough to also contain non-countably based spaces, in particular, at devising specific (descriptive) complexity notions for qcb-spaces so to allow singling out a sufficiently large class of simply enough spaces. Further sub-goals are finding interesting well quasi-ordered substructures of the structure of Weihrauch degrees of multi-valued functions and exploring the interactions between the various notions of effectively presented spaces so as to identify the adequate ones. WP2 ? Exact computation in real analysis In this investigation the connection between computability and important areas of applied mathematics such as dynamical systems, stochastic processes as well as differential equations will be explored. Moreover, the problem of algorithmic efficiency and computer realisations will be considered. Research objectives are (I) to determine which long-term (asymptotic) properties of a dynamical system can be computed, at least in theory, and in a more refined manner, which ones can be computed given reasonable amount of resources such as time or memory; (II) to study in how much the theory of Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic randomness applied to Brownian motion and other stochastic processes may help in understanding the complexity of computational problems over such processes; (III) to measure the computational hardness of problems such as root finding or solving differential equations; and (IV) to improve and extend existing software packages in ERA. WP3 ? Logical representation of data The goal of this interaction is to exploit the correspondence between computation and (constructive) logic to obtain logic-based representations of data as well as an automatic method for extracting correct programs operating on these data; moreover, the correspondence will be studied in further detail. Research objectives are (I) to advance the theory of realisability over abstract structures, investigate concrete applications in computable analysis, and develop a logical approach to control the computational complexity of extracted programs on infinite data; (II) to develop fundamental results of constructive analysis in weak constructive logical systems such as the Minimalist Foundation; (III) to originate a constructive point-free theory of probability and randomness, and to study simplified frameworks for probability theory, based on ?constructive? models such as toposes; and (IV) to refine and extend the connections between constructive logic, computation and topology. A more detailed exposition can be found on the project web page. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The teachers of the Basic Track are Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck) Sarah Winkler (University of Innsbruck) The ADVANCED TRACK consists of eight shorter courses. The (preliminary) program of the Advanced Track is available via the website http://www.win.tue.nl/~hzantema/isr.html The teachers and courses of the Advanced Track are: Beniamino Accatoli (INRIA) The Complexity of Beta-Reduction Carsten Fuhs (University of London) Proving Program Termination via Term Rewriting Thomas Genet (IRISA, France) Tree Automata for Reachability in Rewriting Philippe Malbos (University of Lyon), and Samuel Mimram (Ecole Polytechnique) Two-dimensional Rewriting Techniques and Applications Temur Kutsia (University of Linz) Solving Equational Problems: Matching and Unification Julian Nagele (University of Innsbruck), and Vincent van Oostrom (University of Innsbruck) Commutation Christian Sternagel (University of Innsbruck), and Ren? Thiemann (University of Innsbruck) Formalizing Rewriting in Isabelle Johannes Waldmann (RWTH Leipzig) Weighted Automata and Rewriting Poster Session: Every participant has the opportunity to participate in the Poster Session. The posters will be shown during the school, and can be presented in the Poster Session on Wednesday. Registration: You can register for ISR 2017 by sending an email to h.zantema at tue.nl. Please mention your full name, institution, and the track you wish to attend. It is appreciated if you mention the subjects you are particularly interested in. Registration fee: The registration fee is 250 euro for early registrations (before May 15, 2017), and 300 euro for late registrations (starting May 16, 2107). Registrations includes access to the lectures, printed copies of or electronic access to material provided by the lecturers, coffee breaks and lunches on Monday-Friday, and the excursion and dinner on Wednesday. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organisers: Hans Zantema, email: h.zantema at tue.nl Femke van Raamsdonk, email: f.van.raamsdonk at vu.nl Margje Mommers-Lenders, email: wsinset at tue.nl ==================================================================== International Schools on Rewriting are promoted by the IFIP Working Group 1.6 Term Rewriting. Rewriting is a branch of computer science whose origins go back to the origins of computer science itself (with Thue, Church, Post, and many other prominent researchers). It has strong links with mathematics, algebra, and logic, and it is the basis of well-known programming paradigms like functional and equational programming. In these programming paradigms and corresponding languages, the notions of reduction, pattern matching, confluence, termination, strategy, etc., are essential. Rewriting provides a solid framework for understanding, using, and teaching all these notions. Rewriting techniques are also used in many other areas of software engineering (scripting, prototyping, automated transformation of legacy systems, refactoring, web services, etc.) Rewriting techniques play a relevant role in computing research, education, and industry. From matija.pretnar at fmf.uni-lj.si Thu Apr 13 09:38:19 2017 From: matija.pretnar at fmf.uni-lj.si (Matija Pretnar) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:38:19 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOLA 2017: Final call for talk proposals Message-ID: <44B5427F-1125-4531-83A5-CAA550D3D908@fmf.uni-lj.si> FINAL CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS LOLA 2017: Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages ====================================================== Monday, 19 June 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland A satellite workshop of LICS 2017 http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/lola2017/ Important Dates --------------- - Abstract submission: Wednesday, 19 April 2017 - Author notification: Monday, 1 May 2017 - Workshop: Monday, 19 June 2017 Invited Speakers ---------------- - Ma?gorzata Biernacka (University of Wroclaw) - Damien Pous (CNRS, ENS Lyon) Context ------- Since the late 1960s it has been known 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 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 2017, will bring together researchers interested in the relationships and connections 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 - Resource analysis and implicit complexity - Closures and explicit substitutions - Linear logic and separation logic - Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis - Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects Submission ---------- 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 research programs, 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. Authors are invited to submit their contribution by April 19, 2017. Abstracts must be written in English and be submitted as a single PDF file at [EasyChair](https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2017). Submissions will undergo a lightweight review process and 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 different communities at the workshop. The workshop will not have formal proceedings and is not intended to preclude later publication at another venue. Program Committee ----------------- - Beniamino Accattoli, INRIA - Michael Greenberg, Pomona College - Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University - Ohad Kammar, University of Oxford - Matija Pretnar, University of Ljubljana (co-chair) - Nikos Tzevelekos, Queen Mary University of London - Noam Zeilberger, University of Birmingham (co-chair) From thao.dang at imag.fr Thu Apr 13 10:36:58 2017 From: thao.dang at imag.fr (Thao Dang) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:36:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2017 - Submission 21 April 2017 Message-ID: <1963191763.728999.1492094218169.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> [ Apologies for cross posting ] FORMATS 2017 15th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems First Call for Papers http://formats17.ulb.be FORMATS '17 takes place in Berlin, Germany, where it is part of QONFEST and is colocated with CONCUR'17 and QEST'17. Invited speakers ------ Laurent Fribourg , LSV, Universit? Paris-Saclay Morten Bisgaard , GomSpace (co-sponsored with QEST) Hongseok Yang , Department of computer science, Oxford University (co-sponsored with CONCUR and QEST) Objectives ------ Control and analysis of the timing of computations is crucial to many domains of system engineering, be it, e.g., for ensuring timely response to stimuli originating in an uncooperative environment, or for synchronising components in VLSI. Reflecting this broad scope, timing aspects of systems from a variety of domains have been treated independently by different communities in computer science and control. Researchers interested in semantics, verification and performance analysis study models such as timed automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses after sampling the environment, as well as of the dynamics of the controlled process during this span. Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are basic problems (of both scientific and engineering level) that are common to all of them. In particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on the temporal distances between occurrences of successive events. Often, these constraints cannot be separated, as the intrinsic dynamics of processes couples them, necessitating models, methods, and tools facilitating their combined analysis. Reflecting this, FORMATS '17 promotes submissions on hybrid discrete-continuous systems, and will promote a special session on this topic. Topics ------ The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in modelling and analysis of timed systems and, as a generalisation, of hybrid systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): * Foundations and Semantics : Theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; new models and logics or analysis and comparison of existing models (like automata, Petri nets, max-plus models, network calculus, or process algebras involving quantitative time; hybrid automata; probabilistic automata and logics). * Methods and Tools : Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analysing or synthesising timed or hybrid systems and for resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimisation, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.) * Applications : Adaptation and specialisation of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, embedded control, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunications). Paper Submission ---------------- FORMATS '17 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS style guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages in length (not including the bibliography which is thus not restricted), but may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission system, to be made available from the conference webpage. As traditional, publication of the proceedings of FORMATS '17 will be hosted by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: 21 April, 2017 Paper Submission: 28 April, 2017 Notification: 10 June, 2017 Final paper due: 30 June, 2017 Conference: 5-7 September, 2017 General Chair of QONFEST ------------- Katinka Wolter, (FU Berlin) Uwe Nestermann, (TU Berlin) Program Committee Chairs ---------------- Alessandro Abate (Oxford, UK) Gilles Geeraerts (ULB, BE) Publicity Chair --------------- Thao Dang, (CNRS/University of Grenoble Alps, France) Program Committee ---------------- Erika Abraham Etienne Andr? Bernard Berthomieu Sergiy Bogomolov Patricia Bouyer Thomas Brihaye Uli Fahrenberg Martin Fr?nzle Jane Hillston David Jansen Jan K?et?nsk? Giuseppe Lipari Nicolas Markey Dejan Nickovic Jens Oehlerking Pavithra Prabhakar Karin Quaas Jan Reineke Olivier H. Roux Sibylle Schupp Ana Sokolova Oleg Sokolsky Jir? Srba Nathalie Sznajder Stavros Tripakis Majid Zamani Steering Committee ------------------ Rajeev Alur, (U. Pennsylvania, USA) Eugene Asarin, (U. Paris Diderot, France) Martin Fr?nzle (U. Oldenburg, Germany) Thomas A. Henzinger, (IST Austria) Joost-Pieter Katoen, (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Kim G. Larsen, (U. Aalborg, Denmark) Oded Maler, (VERIMAG, CNRS-UGA, France) Lothar Thiele, (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Wang Yi, (U. Uppsala, Sweden) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Klaus.Havelund at jpl.nasa.gov Wed Apr 12 14:09:28 2017 From: Klaus.Havelund at jpl.nasa.gov (Havelund, Klaus (348B)) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:09:28 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] ISSTA 2017 Demonstrations - Call for Papers Message-ID: ISSTA 2017 Demonstrations http://conf.researchr.org/track/issta-2017/issta-2017-demos Call for Papers The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2017 Demonstrations Track serves as a venue for publishing and presenting advances in software testing and analysis tools that aid either practice, research, or both. Submissions may describe early prototypes of tools, mature tools, and everything inbetween. To help disseminate tools to the community, we encourage submissions describing previously unpublished tools whose underlying techniques may have already been published. Highlighting scientific contributions through concrete artifacts is a critical supplement to the traditional research papers published at software engineering venues, including ISSTA. A demonstration provides the opportunity to communicate how the scientific approach has been implemented or how a specific hypothesis has been assessed, including implementation and usage details, data models and representations, and APIs for tool and data access. Authors of regular research papers at ISSTA or other conferences are thus also encouraged to submit an accompanying demonstration paper. However, the demonstration papers must be original, and the tools must not have been previously demonstrated or be concurrently under review at ISSTA or at another venue. The tool demonstrations must communicate clearly the following information: the tool?s envisioned users, the software testing and analysis challenge(s) the tool addresses, how the tool is used, either results of conducted validation studies or the design of planned studies. Evaluation Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the demonstrations selection committee. The evaluation criteria include: the relevance of the proposed demonstration to the ISSTA audience, the technical soundness of the demonstrated tool, the originality of the underlying ideas, the quality of its presentation, the comparison to related work. How to Submit Submissions must conform to the ACM Conference Format. A demonstration submission may not exceed four pages, including all text, figures, and references. A submission may not have been previously published in a demonstration form. The paper submission must be in PDF. The Demonstrations track will be using the single-blind reviewing model, so the submitted PDFs should identify the authors. Submit your papers via the EasyChair ISSTA Demonstrations 2017 submission website by May 2, 2017, 23:59:59 AoE. Important Dates: (there will be no extensions) Submission deadline: May 2, 2017, 23:59:59 AoE. Notification date: May 20, 2017 Camera-ready version deadline: May 27, 2017 Organization For further information, please email the chairs at isstatools2017 at easychair.org Co-Chairs: Yuriy Brun, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services, Inc. Program Committee: Ivan Beschastnikh, University of British Columbia Milos Gligoric, The University of Texas at Austin Jeff Huang, Texas A&M University Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University Eric Mercer, Brigham Young University Suzette Person, University of Nebraska?Lincoln Justyna Petke, University College London Federica Sarro, University College London Elena Sherman, Boise State University Kathryn T. Stolee, North Carolina State University Oksana Tkachuk, NASA?s Ames Research Center -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- 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 alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Thu Apr 13 05:07:03 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:07:03 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Message-ID: <8f31bc027a73fe8a623def62f5b91019@lcc.uma.es> ================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: June 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit?t Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Universit? degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universit? degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer B?hme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-H?bner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Universit? Ca? Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabh?ngiges Landeszentrum f?r Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf K?sters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Ma?a, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Universit? di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA G?nther Pernul, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina P?pper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Bj?rn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore J?rg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universit?t, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain From agarwal1975 at gmail.com Thu Apr 13 15:38:53 2017 From: agarwal1975 at gmail.com (Ashish Agarwal) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:38:53 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OCaml jobs at genomics company in New York City Message-ID: Solvuu is a startup developing software for the life sciences industry. Our core technology is based on ideas from type theory and functional programming, and our software is implemented almost entirely in OCaml. We develop software across the full stack: cloud infrastructure management, job scheduling, data management and security, clients and servers for many APIs, rich websites, and much more. We are currently hiring 2 full-time OCaml programmers in New York City. We are open to a spectrum of qualifications, but basically the more OCaml you know the better. Ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of experience developing production OCaml software, whether in industry or as an academic active in the open source community. We are offering great compensation packages that include salary, equity, and the usual things like health care and a ping pong table. Most importantly, you will build great technology to advance society in areas as important as cancer treatment, drug discovery, and agriculture. And you get to do all of that in Manhattan, one of the most vibrant and beautiful cities in the world. To apply, please contact me directly (ashish at solvuu.com) with your resume/CV. International applicants are welcome, but the reality is getting a visa will be challenging. We are willing to try and may explore options for exceptional candidates. About Genomics: Our primary focus is on genomics, an industry driven by a dramatic decrease in the cost of DNA sequencing. Fifteen years ago it cost $100,000,000 to sequence a single human genome, today it costs $1000, and in a couple of years it is expected to cost $100. This has spawned multiple new industries that face serious computational challenges due to the size and complexity of the data and associated algorithms. Solvuu addresses the full spectrum of computational needs of this important market. We have great investors and partnerships, and are now building a great engineering team. Please join us. 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The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 22, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: June 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universit?t Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Universit? degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universit? degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer B?hme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-H?bner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Universit? Ca? Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabh?ngiges Landeszentrum f?r Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf K?sters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Ma?a, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Universit? di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA G?nther Pernul, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina P?pper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Bj?rn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore J?rg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universit?t, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Mon Apr 17 10:04:47 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:04:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CRITIS 2017 Call for Papers Message-ID: <00b9502d9e2522af05122c5109ce6bf0@lcc.uma.es> Dear Colleague, we invite you to submit a contribution to CRITIS 2017, the International Conference on Critical (Information) Infrastructures Security. This year the conference will take place in Lucca, a gorgeous Renaissance city in Tuscany, 9-11 October 2017. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair; for poster contributions, submission can be limited to an extended abstract. All accepted contributions will be included in full length in the pre-proceedings that will appear at the time of the conference; accepted papers are planned to be published in the LNCS Springer-Verlag series. Special attention will be devoted to young talents. To this purpose, a price (YCA: Young Critis Award) will be awarded to the best contribution presented by a young author. On 12-13 October, the conference will be followed by two satellite workshops on Energy and Water. For further details, please visit our website www.critis2017.org. We would appreciate you advertise the conference by the attached leaflet. 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We welcome submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e., software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We also welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. Topics of interest for VSTTE include education, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification/certification 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 Submissions We accept both long (limited to 16 pages) and short (limited to 10 pages) paper submissions. 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. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the conference. Paper submissions must be written in English using the LNCS LaTeX format (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods, results, and comparison to existing work. Papers will be submitted via EasyChair at the VSTTE 2017 conference page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2017). The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2017 will be published in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign the copyright transfer form. A selection of best papers will be invited for publication in the Journal of Automated Reasoning. Invited Speakers * Christoph Weidenbach (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany) * Santiago Zanella-Beguelin (Microsoft Research, UK) Program Committee * June Andronick (University of New South Wales, Australia) * Christel Baier (TU Dresden, Germany) * Sandrine Blazy (Universit? de Rennes 1, France) * Arthur Chargu?raud (Inria, France) * Ernie Cohen (Amazon Web Services, USA) * Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS, Germany) * Carlo A. Furia (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Hossein Hojjat (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) * Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands) * Bart Jacobs (KU Leuven, Belgium) * Rajeev Joshi (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) * Zachary Kincaid (Princeton University, USA) * Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India) * Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research, USA) * Francesco Logozzo (Facebook, USA) * Peter M?ller (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) * Jorge A. Navas (SRI International, USA) * Scott Owens (University of Kent, UK) * Andrei Paskevich (Universit? Paris-Sud, France), co-chair * Gerhard Schellhorn (Universit?t Augsburg, Germany) * Peter Schrammel (University of Sussex, UK) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI International, USA) * Mihaela Sighireanu (Universit? Paris-Diderot, France) * Julien Signoles (CEA LIST, France) * Michael Tautschnig (Queen Mary University of London, UK) * Tachio Terauchi (JAIST, Japan) * Oksana Tkachuk (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) * Mattias Ulbrich (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA), co-chair From splash.publicity at gmail.com Thu Apr 13 22:15:35 2017 From: splash.publicity at gmail.com (SPLASH Publicity) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:15:35 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2017: 3rd Combined Call for Contributions Message-ID: ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH 2017 October 22-27, 2017 Vancouver, Canada http://2017.splashcon.org The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. Combined Call for Contributions: * OOPSLA * Onward! Papers * Onward! Essays * SPLASH-I **New to this call!** * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * SPLASH-E * Scala Symposium **New to this call!** * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition ## OOPSLA Papers may target any stage of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the development of new tools (such as language front-ends, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, and code organization approaches), new principles (such as formalisms, proofs, models, and paradigms), and new evaluations (such as experiments, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Abstracts due: Thu April 13, 2017 Submissions due: Mon April 17, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-OOPSLA ## Onward! 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: Fri April 21, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/onward-2017/onward-2017-Onward-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: Fri April 21, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/onward-2017/onward-2017-essays-2017 ## SPLASH-I SPLASH-I is a series of research and industry talks, demos and panels that address topics relevant to the SPLASH community. We invite short proposals for novel and innovative talks, panels, and demonstrations that address all aspects of software construction and delivery relevant to SPLASH attendees. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, data science, big data, probabilistic languages in data science, compilers, virtual machines, augmented/virtual reality, visualization, cloud computing, security, software engineering, and software defined networks. Proposals due: Fri May 5, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-SPLASH-I ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) >From Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, Dynamic Languages have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects on Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Abstracts due: Fri May 26, 2017 Submissions due: Fri June 2, 2017 http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-17/index.html ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) 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). SLE solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri June 2, 2017 Submissions due: Fri June 9, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to (i) program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, (ii) domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, (iii) feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, (iv) applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Abstracts due: Sun June 25, 2017 Submissions due: Sun July 2, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2017/gpce-2017-GPCE-2017 ## SPLASH-E SPLASH-E is a new (started in 2013) forum for software and languages (SE/PL) researchers with activities and interests around computing education. Some build pedagogically-oriented languages or tools; some think about pedagogic challenges around SE/PL courses; some bring computing to non-CS communities; some pursue human studies and educational research. At SPLASH-E, we share our educational ideas and challenges centered in software/languages, as well as our best ideas for advancing such work. Unlike general conferences on computing education, SPLASH-E strives to bring together researchers and those with educational interests that arise from software ideas or concerns. Submissions due: Thu June 29, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-SPLASH-E ## Scala Symposium The Scala Symposium is the leading forum for researchers and practitioners related to the Scala programming language. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics and support many submission formats for industry and academia alike. We seek submissions on all topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to): language design and implementation, library design and implementation patterns for extending Scala, formal techniques for Scala-like programs, concurrent and distributed programming in Scala, big data and machine learning libraries and applications using Scala, safety and reliability of Scala programs, interoperability with other languages and runtimes, tools, case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Abstracts due: Sun July 2, 2017 Submissions due: Sun July 9, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers ## 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. Submissions due: Sat July 15, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-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. Submissions due: Fri June 30, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Doctoral-Symposium ## Student Research Competition The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research at SPLASH before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to not only up-and-coming young researchers, but also exposes them to the field of computer science research and its community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help them sharpen their communication and networking skills. Submissions due: Mon July 17, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Student-Research-Competition ## Information Contact: publicity at splashcon.org Website: http://2017.splashcon.org Location: Hyatt Regency Vancouver Vancouver, Canada ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) OOPSLA Program Chair: * Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) Onward! Papers Chair: * Emina Torlak (University of Washington) Onward! Essays Chair: * Robert Biddle (Carleton University) DLS Program Chair: * Davide Anaconde (University of Genova) GPCE General Chair: * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) GPCE Program Chair: * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) SLE General Chair: * Benoit Combemale (University of Rennes 1) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) * Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University) Scala Symposium General Chair: * Heather Miller (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Scala Symposium Program Co-Chairs: * Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) * Ondrej Lhotak (University of Waterloo) Scala Symposium Organizers: * Paolo G. Giarrusso (University of Tuebingen) * Jonathan Immanuel Brachtaeuser (University of Tuebingen) SPLASH-E Chair: * Joe Gibbs Politz (University of California, San Diego) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Karim Ali (University of Alberta) * Avik Chaudhuri (Facebook) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Craig Anslow (Middlesex University) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) OOPLSA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Michael Bond (Ohio State University) * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University) Posters Co-Chairs: * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop Co-Chairs: * Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) * Barbara Ryder (Virginia Tech) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (LogicBlox) * Jennifer Sartor (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Daco Harkes (TU Delft) * Giovanni Viviani (University of British Columbia) Publications Chair: * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI & University of Groningen) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Tony Hosking (Australian National University, Data61, Purdue University) * Jurgen Vinju (CWI & TU Eindhoven) Video Co-Chairs: * David Darais (University of Maryland) * Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) Web and Publicity Co-Chairs: * Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) From shiloviis at mail.ru Sat Apr 15 07:43:28 2017 From: shiloviis at mail.ru (=?UTF-8?B?U2hpbG92IE5pa29sYXk=?=) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:43:28 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Program_Semantics=2C_Specification_and?= =?utf-8?q?_Verification_PSSV-2017=3A_new_dates_and_venue=2E?= Message-ID: <1492256608.415100660@f105.i.mail.ru> Eighth Workshop Program Semantics, Specification and Verification: Theory and Applications (PSSV 2016, June 26, 2017 - new date! - http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2017 ) Past Workshop pages: http://pssv-conf.ru Call for Papers The workshop will be held at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Lomonosov Moscow State University https://cs.msu.ru/en (new venue!) in Moscow, Russia in affiliation with A.P. Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series, 11th edition, June 27?29, 2017, PSI-2017, http://psi.ispras.ru/ ) *Workshop language: English. - Extended abstract submission: April 24, 2017 (- extended date!) - Notification: May 21, 2017 - Final versions of accepted extended abstracts for pre-workshop publication: June 04, 2017 - Registration on site on June 26, 2017 - Workshop: June 26, 2017 - Revised papers submission to review for post-workshop publication: September 20, 2017 *Scope and Topics Research and work in progress papers are welcome. List of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to): - formalisms for program semantics; - formal models and semantics of programs and systems; - semantics of programming and specification languages; - formal description techniques; - logics for formal specification and verification; - deductive program verification; - automatic theorem proving; - model checking of programs and systems; - static analysis of programs; - formal approach to testing and validation; - program analysis and verification tools. *Invited Speakers: - Alexander V. Kogtenkov (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Eiffel Software, USA), - Victor V. Kuliamin (Institute for System Programming, Moscow, Russia), - Irina A. Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia). *Program Committee: - Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham, UK), - Sergey Baranov (St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia), - Alexander Bolotov (University of Westminster, UK), - Mohamed Elwakil (Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, US), - Nina Evtushenko (Tomsk State University, Russia), - Vladimir Itsykson (St. Petersburg State Polytech. University, Russia), - Igor Konnov (Institute of Information Systems, TU Wien, Austria), - Victor Kuliamin (Institute for System Programming, Moscow, Russia), - Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK), - Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), - Valery Nepomniaschy (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia), - Ruslan Smelyansky (Moscow State University, Russia), - Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia). *Program Co-Chairs - Nikolay Shilov (Innopolis University, Kazan, Russia, n.shilov(at)innopolis.ru) - Vladimir Zakharov (Moscow State University, Russia, zakh(at)cs.msu.su) *Steering Committee - Valery Nepomniaschy (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia, vnep(at)iis.nsk.su) - Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, valery-sokolov(at)yandex.ru) *Submission and Publication Program Committee invites submissions in the form of extended abstracts (up to 8 pages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science style) in English. Additional details may be included in an appendix up to 4 pages for Program Committee. Submissions should be via EasyChair conference system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pssv2017 ). All accepted papers will be published in the preliminary proceedings before the workshop. Selected papers will be published after the workshop in one of Russian peer-review journals. At least one author of every accepted paper should present a talk in the workshop. *Registration and Visa Issues: PSSV and PSI registrations are independent (i.e. they don't assume cross-participation). In case of a need of visa support - please visit registration page of PSI conference at http://psi.ispras.ru/en/registration.html ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tobias.grosser at inf.ethz.ch Mon Apr 17 16:09:41 2017 From: tobias.grosser at inf.ethz.ch (Tobias Grosser) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:09:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: PLDI 2017 and co-located events Message-ID: <1492459781.2579722.947193168.794A8F26@webmail.messagingengine.com> Call for participation: PLDI 2017 and co-located events PLDI is the premier forum in the field of programming languages and programming systems research, covering the areas of design, implementation, theory, applications, and performance. The co-located conferences take place in Barcelona, June 18-23, 2017. This year, PLDI is co-located with ECOOP, LCTES, DEBS, ISMM, Curry On and others. The conferences will take place at the Universitat Polyt?cnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2017 Registration is now open, please visit: https://regmaster4.com/2017conf/BARC17/register.php to register. The early registration rate ends on May 26th. The tentative program is available at: http://pldi17.sigplan.org/program/program-pldi-2017 PLDI will also hold an ACM Student Research Competition: http://pldi17.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2017-student-research-competition Co-located events: + ECOOP: European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming + DEBS: annual conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems + Curry On: conference on programming languages and emerging challenges in industry. + ISMM: International Symposium on Memory Management + LCTES: Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems Co-located workshops include: + ARRAY: Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming + DSW: Deep Specifications in the Wild + FMS: Formal Methods for Security + IC: Workshop on Incremental Computing + MAPL: Machine Learning and Programming Languages + PLMW: Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop + SOAP: International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Java Program Analysis + WCIRE: Workshop for Compiler Infrastructure for Research and Education Additionally, there will be eight co-located tutorials: + Bug detection in JavaScript web apps using the SAFE framework + Building your own modular static analyzer with Facebook Infer + Engineering Static Analyzers with Souffl? + Graal: High Performance Compilation for Managed Languages + P4: Programming the Network Data Plane + Polyhedral Compilation + Refinement Types for Program Verification and Synthesis + Scala, LMS and Delite for High-Performance DSLs and Program Generators + WALA Hack-A-Thon + Writing Verified Programs in CakeML See the web site for a schedule and further details and links. For further updates, follow PLDI on the social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PLDIConf Twitter: https://twitter.com/PLDI Albert Cohen, PLDI 2017 General Chair Tobias Grosser, PLDI 2017 Publicity Chair From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Tue Apr 18 12:05:59 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:05:59 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Logic in Stockholm 2017: Call for Submissions and Participation Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Logic in Stockholm 2017 August 7-25, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Logic in Stockholm 2017 is a series of logic related events organised by the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University, and the Group of Theoretical Computer Science at KTH. The series consists of the following events: ------------ August 7?11, 2017 The Third Nordic Logic Summer School, NLS 2017, under the auspices of the Scandinavian Logic Society (SLS) https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic- in-stockholm-2/nls-summer-school-in Submission of abstracts for presentations and posters: Closing: May 2, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2017 Grant applications: Deadline for applications: April 24, 2017 Notification: May 9, 2017 ------------ August 14?20, 2017 The 2017 ASL European Summer Meeting (Logic Colloquium), LC 2017, under the auspices of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic- in-stockholm-2/logic-colloquium-201 Submissions: Abstracts: May 5, 2017 Notification: May 19, 2017 Grant applications: Deadline for applications: May 8, 2017 ------------ August 20?24 The 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic, CSL 2017, under the auspices of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic- in-stockholm-2/26th-eacsl-annual-co Open Submissions: Abstracts of short presentations: June 4, 2017 Joint LC 2017 and CSL 2017 special session: August 20, 2017 Satellite workshops: August 16?19 & 25, 2017 https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic- in-stockholm-2/26th-eacsl-annual-co/csl-2017-affiliated- workshops-august-16-19-and-25-1.717706 ------------ August 16?19 Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017, LACompLing2017 http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing17.html Submission of regular papers: April 30, 2017 (extended) Notification: May 31, 2017 Abstracts of short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notifications for short presentations: June 12, 2017 Final submissions: June 25, 2017 Workshop: August 16?19, 2017 ------------ August 25 Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems, LAMAS 2017 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psznza/lamas17/ Submission: June 4 2017 Notification: June 15 2017 Workshop: August 25 2017 ------------ August 25 Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory in memory of Zolt?n ?sik ------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration is open for all events: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Tue Apr 18 12:24:20 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:24:20 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP Extended Deadline: LACompLing2017 - Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 Message-ID: ================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017) Stockholm, August 16-19, 2017 http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing17.html * Extended submission deadline for regular papers: April 30, 2017 * ================================================ Affiliated with the 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL'2017 Stockholm, 20--26 August 2017 Co-located with: Logic in Stockholm 2017 https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 ================================================= DESCRIPTION == Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. -------------------------------- SCOPE == The workshop focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches. The topics of LACompLing2017 include, but are not limited to: - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES == Submission deadline for regular papers: April 30, 2017 (new) Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017 Abstracts of short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notifications for short presentations: June 12, 2017 Deadline for final submissions: June 25, 2017 Workshop: August 16-19, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS == - Regular papers: between 10-15 pages, including figures and references, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - Abstracts of short presentations: not more than 1 page, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - We invite original papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts of short presentations have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf of the papers and their LaTeX sources The submissions are via the EasyChair management system of LACompLing2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2017 PUBLICATIONS == - The proceedings of LACompLing2017 will be published digitally by the DiVA system of Stockholm University: http://su.diva-portal.org - Improved and extended versions of selected papers, which have been presented at the workshop LACompLing2017, will be published by the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, JoLLI, after the workshop. ORGANIZERS == Krasimir Angelov, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, USA Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair) Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, The Netherlands CONTACT == Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Valeria de Paiva (valeria.depaiva at gmail.com) -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: dalicfp.txt URL: From ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Sat Apr 15 14:39:09 2017 From: ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Ayoub Nouri) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 20:39:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV and RV-CuBES 2017 - Call for papers and tutorials Message-ID: <9ea076f0-618b-0984-fb95-ad2573f2b9fb@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> RV 2017 *Call for Papers and Tutorials* The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk rv2017 at easychair.org Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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, but are not limited to: * specification languages * monitor construction techniques * program instrumentation * logging, recording, and replay * combination of static and dynamic analysis * specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces * monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems * runtime checking of privacy and security policies * statistical model checking * metrics and statistical information gathering * program/system execution visualization * fault localization, containment, recovery and repair * integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers*as well as *tutorial proposals*will follow the following timeline: * Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 * Paper notification: June 26, 2017 * Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017 * Conference: September 13-16, 2017 Invited Speakers We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017: * Rodrigo Fonseca , Brown University, USA * Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg , Microsoft, USA * Andreas Zeller , Saarland University, Germany General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. * *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. * *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. RV-CuBES: A Workshop Replacement for the Competition The Runtime Verification Competition will not be running in 2017. In its place a Workshop is being organised to discuss the future of the competition and showcase existing Runtime Verification tools. Please see the relevant page on the conference website for details. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , University of Grenoble Alpes/VERIMAG, France Eric Bodden , Paderborn University / Fraunhofer IEM, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University Grenoble Alpes/Inria, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS/ENSde Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google, USA Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA Kim Larsen , Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee , University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay , Inria Rennes, France Martin Leucker , University of L?beck, Germany Ben Livshits , Imperial College, UK David Lo , Singapore Management University, Singapore Francesco Logozzo , Facebook, USA Parthasarathy Madhusudan , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonardo Mariani , University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Madan Musuvathi , Microsoft Research, USA Ayoub Nouri , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Gordon Pace , University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled , Bar Ilan University, Israel Veselin Raychev , ETH Zurich, Switzerland Grigore Rosu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Cesar Sanchez , IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Rahul Sharma , Microsoft Research, India Julien Signoles , CEA LIST, France Scott Smolka , Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen , University of Dortmund, Germany Scott Stoller , Stony Brook University, USA Volker Stolz , University of Olso, Norway Frits Vaandrager , Radboud University, Netherlands Neil Walkinshaw , University of Leicester, UK Chao Wang , University of Southern California, USA Eugen Zalinescu , Technische Universitat M?nchen, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From compscience.announcement at gmail.com Sat Apr 15 15:35:52 2017 From: compscience.announcement at gmail.com (Klaus Havelund) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:35:52 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV and RV-CuBES 2017 - Call for papers and tutorials Message-ID: *RV 2017* *Call for Papers and Tutorials* The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk rv2017 at easychair.org Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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, but are not limited to: - specification languages - monitor construction techniques - program instrumentation - logging, recording, and replay - combination of static and dynamic analysis - specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces - monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems - runtime checking of privacy and security policies - statistical model checking - metrics and statistical information gathering - program/system execution visualization - fault localization, containment, recovery and repair - integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers* as well as *tutorial proposals* will follow the following timeline: - Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 - Paper notification: June 26, 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017 - Conference: September 13-16, 2017 Invited Speakers We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017: - Rodrigo Fonseca , Brown University, USA - Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg , Microsoft, USA - Andreas Zeller , Saarland University, Germany General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. - *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. - *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. - *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. RV-CuBES: A Workshop Replacement for the Competition The Runtime Verification Competition will not be running in 2017. In its place a Workshop is being organised to discuss the future of the competition and showcase existing Runtime Verification tools. Please see the relevant page on the conference website for details. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , University of Grenoble Alpes/VERIMAG, France Eric Bodden , Paderborn University / Fraunhofer IEM, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University Grenoble Alpes/Inria, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS/ENS de Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google, USA Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA Kim Larsen , Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee , University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay , Inria Rennes, France Martin Leucker , University of L?beck, Germany Ben Livshits , Imperial College, UK David Lo , Singapore Management University, Singapore Francesco Logozzo , Facebook, USA Parthasarathy Madhusudan , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonardo Mariani , University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Madan Musuvathi , Microsoft Research, USA Ayoub Nouri , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Gordon Pace , University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled , Bar Ilan University, Israel Veselin Raychev , ETH Zurich, Switzerland Grigore Rosu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Cesar Sanchez , IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Rahul Sharma , Microsoft Research, India Julien Signoles , CEA LIST, France Scott Smolka , Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen , University of Dortmund, Germany Scott Stoller , Stony Brook University, USA Volker Stolz , University of Olso, Norway Frits Vaandrager , Radboud University, Netherlands Neil Walkinshaw , University of Leicester, UK Chao Wang , University of Southern California, USA Eugen Zalinescu , Technische Universitat M?nchen, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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, but are not limited to: * specification languages * monitor construction techniques * program instrumentation * logging, recording, and replay * combination of static and dynamic analysis * specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces * monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems * runtime checking of privacy and security policies * statistical model checking * metrics and statistical information gathering * program/system execution visualization * fault localization, containment, recovery and repair * integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers*as well as *tutorial proposals*will follow the following timeline: * Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) * Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 * Paper notification: June 26, 2017 * Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017 * Conference: September 13-16, 2017 Invited Speakers We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017: * Rodrigo Fonseca , Brown University, USA * Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg , Microsoft, USA * Andreas Zeller , Saarland University, Germany General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. * *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. * *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. 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 brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. RV-CuBES: A Workshop Replacement for the Competition The Runtime Verification Competition will not be running in 2017. In its place a Workshop is being organised to discuss the future of the competition and showcase existing Runtime Verification tools. Please see the relevant page on the conference website for details. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , University of Grenoble Alpes/VERIMAG, France Eric Bodden , Paderborn University / Fraunhofer IEM, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University Grenoble Alpes/Inria, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS/ENSde Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google, USA Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA Kim Larsen , Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee , University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay , Inria Rennes, France Martin Leucker , University of L?beck, Germany Ben Livshits , Imperial College, UK David Lo , Singapore Management University, Singapore Francesco Logozzo , Facebook, USA Parthasarathy Madhusudan , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonardo Mariani , University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Madan Musuvathi , Microsoft Research, USA Ayoub Nouri , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Gordon Pace , University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled , Bar Ilan University, Israel Veselin Raychev , ETH Zurich, Switzerland Grigore Rosu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Cesar Sanchez , IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Rahul Sharma , Microsoft Research, India Julien Signoles , CEA LIST, France Scott Smolka , Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen , University of Dortmund, Germany Scott Stoller , Stony Brook University, USA Volker Stolz , University of Olso, Norway Frits Vaandrager , Radboud University, Netherlands Neil Walkinshaw , University of Leicester, UK Chao Wang , University of Southern California, USA Eugen Zalinescu , Technische Universitat M?nchen, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- ------------------------------------------------------- We love you. We are sorry. Please forgive us. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues at mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues - Through this links above you can "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or change your settings in the list. OR - Easy unsubscribe: http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/options/mycolleagues From bernhard at sussex.ac.uk Mon Apr 17 13:30:48 2017 From: bernhard at sussex.ac.uk (Bernhard Reus) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:30:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] British Logic Colloquium 2017 Message-ID: BRITISH LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2017 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/blc17/ The British Logic Colloquium will take place at the University of Sussex on 8-9 September 2017, with the BLC PhD day on 7 September. This is the annual meeting of the British Logic Colloquium. The scope of the event includes mathematical and philosophical logic as well as logic in computer science and applications of logic. SPONSORS. We are grateful for support from The London Mathematical Society (main sponsor) and diffBlue. INVITED SPEAKERS ? Hazel Brickhill, University of Bristol, UK ? Oliver Kullmann, Swansea University, UK ? James Ladyman, University of Bristol, UK ? Sam Staton, Oxford University, UK ? Tamara von Glehn, Cambridge University, UK ? Katrin Tent, Universit?t M?nster, Germany PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ? Martin Hyland, Cambridge ? Charlotte Kestner, Lancaster ? Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University ? Bernhard Reus, Sussex (chair) ? Monika Seisenberger, Swansea ? Philip Welch, Bristol ACCOMMODATION There will be a reduced conference fee for PhD students. Affordable accommodation on campus will be available through the organisers as early September is still tourist season in Brighton and hotels in the city centre will be expensive. The campus is just a 9min train ride away from the city centre. CONTRIBUTED TALKS There will be a few slots available for contributed talks. If you would like to present your recent work, either already published or work in progress, please submit a single page abstract (A4 pdf) via EasyChair by 20th July. For more details please see or contact . From jonathan.brachthaeuser at uni-tuebingen.de Fri Apr 14 06:58:34 2017 From: jonathan.brachthaeuser at uni-tuebingen.de (=?utf-8?Q?Jonathan_Brachth=C3=A4user?=) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:58:34 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Scala Symposium 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <74B0C25E-A1A8-4F6E-9CC7-4139C7C456FA@uni-tuebingen.de> ====================================================== Scala Symposium 2017 co-located with SPLASH 2017 Vancouver, Canada 23-24 October 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers ====================================================== 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. The Scala Symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics and many formats. Topics of Interest ================== We seek submissions on all 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 ? stand-alone Scala libraries, 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 models, performance evaluation, experimental results. - Big data and machine learning libraries and applications using the Scala programming language. - Safety and reliability ? pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. - Interoperability with other languages and runtimes, such as JavaScript, Java 8 (lambdas), Graal and others. - Tools ? development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. - Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Important dates =============== * Abstract submission: Jul 2nd, 2017 * Paper submission: Jul 9th, 2017 * Paper notification: Aug 20th, 2017 * Student talk submission: Aug 30th, 2017 * Camera ready: Sep 11th, 2017 * Student talk notification: Sep 17th, 2017 All deadlines are ?Anywhere on Earth? (AoE) Submission Format ================= To accommodate the needs of researchers and practitioners, as well as beginners and experts alike, we seek several kinds of submissions, all in **`acmart/sigplan`** style, **10pt** font. - **Full papers** (at most 10 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Short papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Tool papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Student talks** (short abstract only, in plain text) Accepted papers (either full papers, short ones or tool papers, but not student talks) will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Detailed information for each kind of submission is given below. Formatting requirements are detailed in [Instructions for Authors](#Instructions- for-Authors). Please note that at least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the symposium and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Full and Short Papers ===================== Full and short papers should describe novel ideas, experimental results, or projects related to the Scala language. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. Additionally, short papers may present problems and raise research questions interesting for the Scala language community. 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). Tool Papers =========== Tool papers need not necessarily report original research results; they may describe a tool of interest, 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. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a link to the tool's website. For inspiration, you might consider advice in http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pepm-2016-main#Tool-Paper-Advice which we however treat as non-binding. In case of doubts, please contact the program chairs. 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 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 and about topics of relevance to the symposium, for instance (but not only) presenting or announcing an open-source project that would be of interest to the Scala community. Submission Website ================== The submission will be managed through HotCRP: https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ For questions and additional clarifications, please contact the conference organizers. Program Committee (Tentative) ============================= * Aggelos Biboudis, EPFL * Edwin Brady, University of St. Andrews * Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS * Lars Hupel, TU Munich * Pablo Inostroza, CWI * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Martin Odersky, EPFL * Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong * Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt * Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University * Philippe Suter, IBM Research * Frank Tip, Northeastern University * Niki Vazou, University of Maryland Organizers ========== * Heather Miller, EPFL (General Chair) * Philipp Haller, KTH (Program Chair) * Ond?ej Lhot?k, University of Waterloo (Program Chair) * Paolo Giarrusso, University of T?bingen * Jonathan Brachth?user, University of T?bingen Sponsors ======== We thank our sponsor Lightbend for supporting some of the talented student attendees of Scala'17. Links ===== * Scala '17 http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers * Submissions https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ * SPLASH '17 http://2017.splashcon.org/ From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Mon Apr 17 08:51:28 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:51:28 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TABLEAUX 2017 DEADLINE REMINDER Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS TABLEAUX 2017 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods University of Brasilia, Brazil September 25-28, 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ QUICK REMINDER: The deadline for papers is 25 April (8 days from today) and the deadline for abstract is 18 April (tomorrow). GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau 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, tableau 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. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction 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, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau 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, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by Wolfgang Bibel and Reiner Haehnle. INVITED SPEAKERS: Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (anniversary session) Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Katalin Bimbo University of Alberta, Canada (with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (with FroCoS and ITP) Reiner Haehnle Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (anniversary session) Cezary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP = PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 23 September 2017 General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 24 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details are published in separate calls and on the conference website. POSTER SESSION There will be a joint poster session for TABLEAUX 2017, FroCos 2017, and ITP 2017. The session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. More details can be found at http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#postersession. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. 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 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the 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 elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via 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. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference- proceedings-guidelines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 18 Apr 2017 Abstract submission 25 Apr 2017 Paper submission 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Torben Brauener Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universitaet Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universite de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universitaet Bern Angelo Montanari Universita degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universitaet Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Claudia Nalon Universidade de Brasilia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroclawski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. 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In-Reply-To: <25b021ac-9089-1ebd-8f88-7b89588fa52f@tu-berlin.de> References: <25b021ac-9089-1ebd-8f88-7b89588fa52f@tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: ============================================================================ CONCUR 2017 - Last Call for Papers 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory September 5-8, 2017, Berlin, Germany https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ ============================================================================ The purpose of the CONCUR conferences is to bring together researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency, and promote its applications. TUTORIALS - Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) - Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) - Viktor Vafeiadis (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany) INVITED SPEAKERS - Hongseok Yang (University of Oxford, UK) - Azahdeh Farzan (University of Toronto, Canada) - Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft Research, USA) - Jean-Francois Raskin (Universit? libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) CO-LOCATED EVENTS 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2017) 15th International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2017) 14th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2017) WORKSHOPS - EXPRESS/SOS - MeMo - RADICAL - TRENDS - YR-CONCUR ============================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES (AoE in 2017) Paper Submission: *April 21* (firm deadline) Paper Notification: June 16 Camera Ready Copy Due: July 7 CONCUR 2017: September 5-8 TOPICS Submissions are solicited in semantics, logics, verification and analysis of concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain-theoretic models, game-theoretic models, process algebras, graph transformation systems, Petri nets, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems, probabilistic systems, real-time systems, biology-inspired systems, and synchronous systems; - Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics, and resource logics; - Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model checking, race detection, pre-order and equivalence checking, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving, type systems, and security analysis; - Distributed algorithms and data structures: design, analysis, complexity, correctness, fault tolerance, reliability, availability, consistency, self-organization, self-stabilization, protocols. - Theoretical foundations of architectures, execution environments, and software development for concurrent systems such as geo-replicated systems, communication networks, multiprocessor and multi-core architectures, shared and transactional memory, resource management and awareness, compilers and tools for concurrent programming, programming models such as component-based, object- and service-oriented. PAPER SUBMISSION CONCUR 2017 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience related to the topics mentioned above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. The CONCUR 2017 proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=concur2017). Papers must not exceed 14 pages (excluding references and clearly marked appendices) using the LIPIcs style. https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ ============================================================================ PROGRAM CHAIRS - Roland Meyer (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) - Uwe Nestmann (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) PROGRAMM COMMITTEE Jade Alglave (University College London, UK) Mohamed Faouzi Atig (Uppala Universitet, Sweden) Paolo Baldan (Universit? degli Studi di Padova, Italy) Johannes Borgstr?m (Uppala Universitet, Sweden) Luis Caires (FCT / Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Pedro R. D'Argenio (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Jos?e Desharnais (Universit? Laval, Canada) Constantin Enea (Universit? Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France) Javier Esparza (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Stefan G?ller (?cole normale sup?rieure de Cachan, France) Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Naoki Kobayashi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Anton?n Ku?era (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) J?r?me Leroux (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France) Roland Meyer (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) K Narayan Kumar (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Uwe Nestmann (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA - l'?cole Polytechnique, France) Alexander Rabinovich (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Davide Sangiorgi (Universit? di Bologna, Italy) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Vasco Thudicum Vasconcelos (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Walter Vogler (Universit?t Augsburg, Germany) Tom?? Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Igor Walukiewicz (Universit? Bordeaux, France) Heike Wehrheim (Universit?t Paderborn, Germany) Josef Widder (Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria) Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Gianluigi Zavattaro (Universit? di Bologna, Italy) Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Rob van Glabbeek (CSIRO, Australia) STEERING COMMITTEE Jos Baeten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands) Pedro R. D'Argenio (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Javier Esparza (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Ugo Montanari (Universit? di Pisa, Italy) Catuscia Palamidessi (?cole Polytechnique, France) ============================================================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be Wed Apr 19 04:06:28 2017 From: raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be (Raoul Strackx) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:06:28 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ESSoS'17] Call for Posters (deadline: 25th April) Message-ID: +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Call for Poster Abstracts | | | | *deadline: April 25th, 2017* | | | | International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems | | (ESSoS) | | | | July 3-5, 2017 | | Bonn, Germany | | | |https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2017/calls-papers.html | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ In cooperation with: ACM SIGSAC and SIGSOFT (pending) New this year: co-Located with DIMVA. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Context and motivation | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ IT security is becoming an increasingly interdisciplinary subject. For example, it is insufficient to simply deploy new security measures but one must pay careful attention to correctly integrate the security measures into existing software. Such an approach involves redesigning and engineering of software to ensure that the built-in security policy is effective in practice. Many security venues put little focus on topics related to software engineering, while many software-engineering venues lack appreciation for more complex topics in software security. ESSoS thus strives to be a venue that welcomes exactly such contributions that are at the border of IT security and software engineering. The program committee is particularly chosen to encompass a broad range of expertise, ranging from software security over software engineering to human subjects such as usable security. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Goal and setup | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ The goal of this symposium, which will be the ninth in the series, is to bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the state 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 secure 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 - Usable security +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Important dates | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Paper submission: Friday, February 24, 2017 (passed) Paper acceptance notification: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 (passed) Artifact evaluation submission: Friday, April 21, 2017 (passed) * Poster submission: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 * * Poster acceptance notification: Friday, April 28, 2017 * Camera-ready: Friday, May 12, 2017 Symposium: Monday to Wednesday, July 3-5, 2017 (DIMVA is held July 6-7, following ESSoS) +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Posters | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ ESSoS will have a poster session to present ideas, discuss prototypes, and feature ongoing work. Authors of accepted papers and authors with evaluated artifacts are invited to submit a poster as well. Poster abstracts are limited to 1 page. Submission through: https://essos17.cs.purdue.edu/ Concerned about a US travel ban? Submit your work anyway! If none of the (Co-)authors is able to travel to the conference (and back) due to a US travel ban we will find a way to allow you to present your work via tele-presentation. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Steering committee | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Jorge Cuellar (Siemens AG) Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven) - chair Fabio Massacci (Univ. of Trento) Bashar Nuseibeh (Open Univ. and LERO) Juan Caballero (IMDEA Software Institute) Eric Bodden (Univ. Paderborn) Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway Univ.) +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Organizing committee | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ General chair: Michael Meier (University of Bonn, DE) Program co-chairs: Mathias Payer (Purdue university, USA),Eric Bodden (Paderborn University, DE) Doctoral Symposium: TBA Publication chair: Elias Athanasopoulos (University of Cyprus, CY) Publicity chair: Raoul Strackx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) Artifact Evaluation co-chairs: Omer Tripp (Google, USA), Karim Ali (University of Alberta, CA) Web chair: Ghita Saevels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Program committee | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh Domagoj Babic, Google Inc. Alexandre Bartel, University of Luxembourg Amel Bennaceur, The Open University Stefan Brunthaler, Paderborn University Will Enck, NC State University Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine Christian Hammer, University of Potsdam Michael Hicks, University of Maryland Trent Jaeger, The Pennsylvania State University Vassilis P. Kemerlis, Brown University Johannes Kinder, University of London Byoungyoung Lee, Purdue University Yang Liu, University of Oxford Ben Livshits, Imperial College London Cl?mentine Maurice, Technical University Graz Andy Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology Mira Mezini, Technical University Darmstadt Alessandro Orso, Georgia Tech Christina P?pper, New York University Abu Dhabi Awais Rashid, Lancaster University Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Tamara Rezk, INRIA Angela Sasse, University College London Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis Melanie Volkamer, Karlstad University Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University From i.hasuo at acm.org Wed Apr 19 08:08:57 2017 From: i.hasuo at acm.org (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 08:08:57 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Positions in Tokyo: Formal Methods and Cyber-Physical Systems Message-ID: [Thanks a lot for disseminating among potentially interested candidates. Apologies for multiple copies] Dear colleagues, For our new 5-year research project (ERATO MMSD, Metamathematics for Systems Design) we are looking for senior researchers and postdocs (10+ positions in total and several are still open), together with research assistants (PhD students) and internship students. This broad project aims to extend the realm of formal methods from software to cyber-physical systems (CPS), with particular emphases on logical/categorical metatheories and industrial application esp. in automotive industry. The project covers diverse areas that include: formal methods, programming languages, control theory, control engineering, software science, software engineering, machine learning, numerical optimization, user interface, mathematical logic and category theory. For more about the project please visit http://group-mmm.org/eratommsd About the open positions http://group-mmm.org/eratommsd/openpositions.html has more information (esp. how to apply/inquire). Best regards, Ichiro ======= Ichiro Hasuo Nationai Institite of Informatics, Japan http://group-mmm.org/~ichiro/ From Matthew.Hammer at Colorado.EDU Wed Apr 19 15:21:14 2017 From: Matthew.Hammer at Colorado.EDU (Matthew Hammer) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:21:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: Incremental Computing 2017 Message-ID: CfP: 1st Workshop on Incremental Computing (IC) 2017 ==================================================== The First Workshop on Incremental Computing (IC) will provide a space where PL enthusiasts and researchers can come to discuss incremental computing problems and solutions. It is co-located with PLDI 2017, ECOOP 2017, DEBS 2017, and Curry On, in Barcelona Spain: http://pldi17.sigplan.org/track/ic-2017-papers Background ----------- A computation is incremental if repeating it with a changed input is faster than from-scratch recomputation. Incremental computations can be found across a wide range of computing domains, and thus across many areas of computer science. Consider the following examples: - spreadsheet evaluation, - the database view maintenance problem - incremental compilation management - the rendering pipeline of web browsers - artificial intelligence and planning in games and in robots - motion simulation in computational geometry - interactive features of integrated development environments (including incremental parsing, typing, verification and testing). In each problem domain, practitioners engineer incremental computations to fulfill a practical need: Without these techniques, a system may be too unresponsive or inefficient to be useful, or at the very least, its utility would degrade. In the area of PL, researchers are particularly interested in language-based approaches to incremental computation. In contrast to the algorithms community that often studies each incremental problem in isolation (e.g., incremental convex hull), PL researchers study large classes of incremental programs that are defined by a programming language. The scope of this programming language may vary, and be intended as general-purpose or domain-specific. In either case, the language and associated algorithmic techniques express the behavior of many incremental programs. Keynote Speaker: ----------------- Nicholas Matsakis (Mozilla; Rust core team): http://conf.researchr.org/profile/ic-2017/nicholasmatsakis Call for talk proposals: ------------------------ IC solicits talk proposals from the community. A good talk at IC probably consists of one or more of the following: - explain an existing language or framework for incremental computing, - outline an incremental computing domain in detail, highlighting challenges, - outline a new incremental computing problem, or problem domain, - propose a new language or framework for incremental computing, This list is not exhaustive, but merely suggestive. Submissions for talks: Authors will submit at most a 2-page PDF document, in at least 10pt font, printable on US Letter paper. Authors are free to include links to multi-media content such as github projects, youtube videos or online demos. Reviewers may or may not view linked documents (it is up to authors to convince them to do so in their 2-page submission). Authors should not assume that reviewers will be experts in the particular area of the submission ? they will most likely not be. All submissions should be accessible to a wide range of programming language researchers. Submission will be handled through HotCRP: https://ic17.hotcrp.com/ 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 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. From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Wed Apr 19 17:07:54 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:07:54 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TABLEAUX 2017 DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: *** DEADLINE EXTENSION *** TABLEAUX 2017 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods University of Brasilia, Brazil September 25-28, 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ DEADLINE EXTENSION: The deadline for submitting both abstracts and full papers has been extended to 28 April 2017. GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau 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, tableau 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. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction 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, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau 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, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by Wolfgang Bibel and Reiner Haehnle. INVITED SPEAKERS: Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (anniversary session) Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Katalin Bimbo University of Alberta, Canada (with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (with FroCoS and ITP) Reiner Haehnle Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (anniversary session) Cezary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP = PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 23 September 2017 General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 24 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details are published in separate calls and on the conference website. POSTER SESSION There will be a joint poster session for TABLEAUX 2017, FroCos 2017, and ITP 2017. The session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. More details can be found at http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#postersession. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. 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 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the 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 elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via 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. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings- guidelines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 28 Apr 2017 Abstract submission (extended) 28 Apr 2017 Paper submission (extended) 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Torben Brauener Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universitaet Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universite de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universitaet Bern Angelo Montanari Universita degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universitaet Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Claudia Nalon Universidade de Brasilia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroclawski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. Senador Salgado Filho, s/n? Lagoa Nova, CEP: 59.078-970 - Natal - RN Phone: +55 84 3215-3820 http://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/ Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3298246411086415 -------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simone.martini at unibo.it Wed Apr 19 16:06:53 2017 From: simone.martini at unibo.it (Simone Martini) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:06:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP HaPoC-4, Brno, 4-7 Octobre 2017 References: Message-ID: <7F133F24-B0C6-4CBF-B2DA-3D2E05A77D0C@unibo.it> /Second Call for Papers/ 4th International Conference on History and Philosophy of Computing https://hapoc2017.sciencesconf.org/ Masaryk University Brno 4-7 October 2017 held under the auspices of the DHST/DLMPS Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) www.hapoc.org In their societal impact, computers have grown way beyond their roots in mathematics and logic. Their ubiquity since the late 20th century has increased the number and impact of several of the original questions raised by early computer scientists and practitioners: questions about their expected and intended behaviour, as Alan Turing did when asking whether machines can think; questions about their ontology, as John von Neumann did when asking what the computer and the human brain have in common; questions about their role in performing human tasks, as Norbert Wiener did when asking whether automatic translation is possible. With new technologies, the need for rethinking formal and technological issues is crucial. HaPoC conferences aim to bring together researchers exploring the various aspects of the computer from historical or philosophical standpoint. The series aims at an interdisciplinary focus on computing, rooted in historical and philosophical viewpoints. The conference brings 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. For HaPoC 2017 we welcome contributions from logicians, philosophers and historians of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. We also invite contributions on the use of computers in art. As HaPoC conferences aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, contributions stimulating such discussions are preferable. Topics include but are not limited to: - History of computation (computational systems, machines, mechanized reasoning, algorithms and programs, communities of computing and their paradigms,...) - Foundational issues in computer science and computability (models of computability, Church-Turing thesis, formal systems for distributed, cloud and secure computing, semantic theories of programming languages, ...) - Philosophy of computing (computer as brain / mind, epistemological issues, ...), Computation in the sciences (computer experiments and simulations, computer-aided systems for teaching and research, ...) - Computer and the arts (temporality in digital art; narration in interactive art work, speculative software, programming as a deferred action, computing and affect, performativity of code, eristic of HCI, ...) 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) Submit through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2017 Deadline for abstracts and extended abstracts: 15 May 2017 Notifications of acceptance: July 2016 Accepted papers will be presented in 30 minute slots including discussion. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be in .pdf. Submissions without extended abstract will not be considered. The HaPoC commission will also provide some travel grants of up to 400 EUR. Preference will be given to young researchers. The deadline for application is *August 15, 2017*. For more details, see:https://hapoc2017.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12 Conference fee: EUR 150, including welcome reception and conference dinner. The conference will be preceded by a special workshop on the reception of Hilbert's axiomatic method in Eastern Europe on 3 October 2017, organized by Mate Szab? (see the link in the left column for more details). Accompanying cultural programme will include: the remake of the 1968 Brno exhibition Computer Graphic (featuring Frieder Nake and others), the first computer art exhibition in Eastern Europe, preceding Cybernetic Serendipity by several months, Live coding performance (inspired by the Exhibition Computer Graphic), the concert Exposition of New Music (contemporary music), and field recordings of Brno (student project). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From barbara_koenig at uni-due.de Wed Apr 19 03:06:58 2017 From: barbara_koenig at uni-due.de (Barbara Koenig) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:06:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] STAF Doctoral Symposium 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: ********************************************************************** Call for Papers for the STAF Doctoral Symposium July 17, 2017 Affiliated with STAF 2017 in Marburg ********************************************************************** http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/staf2017/index.php/call-doctoral-symposium/ ********************************************************************** The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is to provide a forum in which PhD students can present their work in progress. The symposium supports students by providing independent and constructive feedback about their already completed and, more importantly, planned research work. The symposium will be accompanied by prominent experts who will actively participate in critical discussions. Relevant fields within Software Engineering include (but are not limited to): * Models: reasoning, execution, management, testing and validation * Model transformations: paradigms, algorithms, development, applications, tools * Graph transformation and graph theories * Domain Specific Languages * Proofs and Testing: verification, debugging, experiments, case studies * Model-Driven Engineering Any topic of interest for the conferences that will take place within STAF 2017 is highly welcomed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Process Submissions exclusively authored by the PhD student are invited from students who have settled on a PhD topic. We do accept papers on both initial stage (first or second year) and mature stage (third year, or later) of research. The authors shall clearly indicate their stage of research maturity in a footnote to be added to the paper title. Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 experts based on originality, significance, correctness and clarity. Submissions should describe research-in-progress that is meant to lead to a PhD dissertation, using the following structure: * Problem: The problem the research intends to solve, the target audience of this research, and a motivation of why the problem is important and needs to be solved. * Related work: A review of the relevant related work with an emphasis of how the proposed approach is different and what advantages it has over the existing state of the art. * Proposed solution: A description of the proposed solution and which other work (e.g., in the form of methods or tools) it depends on. * Preliminary work: A description of the work to-date and results achieved so far. * Expected contributions: A list of the expected contributions to both theory and practice. * Plan for evaluation and validation: A description of how it will be shown that the work does indeed solve the targeted problem and is superior to the existing state of the art (e.g., prototyping, industry case studies, user studies, experiments). * Current status: The current status of the work and a planned timeline for completion. Contributions must not exceed 5 pages in Springer LNCS format and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=staf2017workshops, choose "STAF 2017 Doctoral Symposium" as track). All accepted submissions to the Doctoral Symposium at STAF 2017 will be published in a post-conference volume of CEUR and will be submitted for inclusion in DBLP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: May 22, 2017 Paper submission deadline June 2, 2017 Author notification July 17, 2017 STAF 2017 Doctoral Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Chairs Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila, Italy Barbara K?nig Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From aleks0 at gmail.com Thu Apr 20 11:40:21 2017 From: aleks0 at gmail.com (Aleks Kissinger) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:40:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers + Deadline extension: QPL 2017 Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS + EXTENDED DEADLINE The 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) July 3-7, 2017 Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands http://qpl.cs.ru.nl Due to a large number of requests, we have extended the deadline for both original contributions and extended abstracts. We ask that authors wishing to send a paper or extended abstract please submit a title and short abstract via Easychair by the original deadline. - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 21 April, 2017 (tomorrow!) - PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 April, 2017 (extended) * * * The 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) will take place at Radboud University between Monday 3 and Friday 7 July, 2017. The conference 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. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome. Previous QPL events were held in Glasgow (2016), 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). REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Find registration details via the QPL 2017 website or register directly at: https://rudigitalsecurity.paydro.com/qpl-2017 SATELLITES There will be a satellite workshop on Quantum Structures hosted by the International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA) from Tuesday July 4th to Friday the 7th. See the QPL website for more information. JOINT QPL-IQSA INVITED SPEAKER Miriam Backens (Bristol) QPL INVITED SPEAKERS Matthias Christandl (Copenhagen) Miguel Navasques (Vienna) Paulo Perinotti (Pavia) Jamie Vicary (Oxford) IQSA INVITED SPEAKERS Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht) Hans Maassen (Radboud/Amsterdam) QPL INVITED TUTORIALS Bart Jacobs (Radboud) - Effectus Theory Dan Marsden (Oxford) - Categorical String Diagrams Simon Perdrix (LORIA) - Measurement-based Quantum Computation Ronald de Wolf (CWI) - Quantum Algorithms IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: 21 April, 2017 Paper Submission: 28 April, 2017 (extended) Notification: 29 May Papers ready: 23 June Conference: 3-7 July All deadlines are at 23:59, Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). SUBMISSIONS Prospective speakers are invited to submit a contribution to the conference. - Original contributions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract which provides sufficient evidence of results of genuine interest and enough detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submission of substantial albeit partial results of work in progress is encouraged. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give long or short talks, depending on the quality and/or maturity of the submission. - Extended abstracts describing work submitted/published elsewhere will also be considered, provided the work is recent and relevant to the conference. These consist of a 3 page description and should include a link to a separate published paper or preprint. Extended versions of accepted original research contributions will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. 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=qpl2017 There will be an award for the best paper whose authors are all students, at the discretion of the programme committee. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Aleks Kissinger (Radboud, co-chair) Bob Coecke (Oxford, co-chair) Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Miriam Backens (Bristol) John Baez (UC Riverside) Benno van den Berg (Amsterdam) Rick Blute (Ottawa) Dan Browne (University College London) Giulio Chiribella (Hong Kong) Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) Simon Gay (Glasgow) Chris Heunen (Edinburgh) Matty Hoban (Oxford) Dominic Horsman (Durham) Bart Jacobs (Radboud) Kohei Kishida (Oxford) Joachim Kock (Barcelona) Matt Leifer (Chapman) Hans Maassen (Radboud) Paul-Andre Mellies (Paris Diderot) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Daniel Oi (Strathclyde) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Dusko Pavlovic (Hawaii) Simon Perdrix (CNRS Nancy) Paolo Perinotti (Pavia) Robert Raussendorf (British Columbia) Lidia del Rio (ETH Zurich) Ana Belen Sainz (Perimeter Institute) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Pawel Sobocinski (Southampton) Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) Isar Stubbe (Littoral-Cote-d'Opale) Benoit Valiron (Paris-Sud) Jamie Vicary (Oxford) Mingsheng Ying (UT Sydney) STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke (Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) LOCAL ORGANISATION Bart Jacobs Aleks Kissinger Sander Uijlen From radugrigore at gmail.com Thu Apr 20 12:32:44 2017 From: radugrigore at gmail.com (Radu Grigore) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:32:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FTfJP CfP (deadline extended) Message-ID: website: http://2017.ecoop.org/track/FTfJP-2017-papers submissions: https://ftfjp17.hotcrp.com/ FTfJP (Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs) is an established workshop, running annually since 1999. It is associated with ECOOP, a flagship European conference on object-oriented programming. For 2017, contributions are sought in two categories: * **Technical Work**. In 6 two-column pages, the paper should present a technical contribution. We welcome both complete and incomplete results, as long as they are substantial enough to stimulate discussion on future research directions. * **Position Paper**. In 2 two-column pages, the paper should advocate a promising research direction. Using this format, we encourage established researchers to set out their vision, and we also encourage beginning researchers to plan their path to a PhD. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Both theory and tools are welcome. Topics include but are not limited to - semantics - types - model checking - program analysis (static or dynamic) - verification (traditional, quantitative, at runtime, ...) - language design (for programs or specifications) - concurrency - security - proof engineering - pearls (proofs or programs) Important dates: - **1 May 2017:** **extended** submission deadline - **15 May 2017:** author notification Submissions will be peer reviewed, and will be evaluated based on their *clarity* and based on their *potential to generate interesting discussions*. The format of the workshop encourages interaction. FTfJP is a forum in which a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. Program Committee: - Nada Amin, EPFL - Alexandre Bartel, University of Luxembourg - Sam Blackshear, Facebook - Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven - Radu Grigore, University of Kent (chair) - James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington - Jens Palsberg, UCLA - Aseem Rastogi, Microsoft Research - Bernhard Scholz, University of Sydney - Malte Schwerhoff, ETH Zurich Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, if the authors wish so. The use of [ACM's template][acm] with the SIGPLAN format is required. Submit via [HotCRP][hotcrp]. Submissions are by default *not* double blind. If you wish to anonymize your submission, contact the PC chair. [acm]: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template [hotcrp]: https://ftfjp17.hotcrp.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thorsten.berger at chalmers.se Fri Apr 21 09:04:43 2017 From: thorsten.berger at chalmers.se (Thorsten Berger) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:04:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position at Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Message-ID: PhD position: Software Engineering, Highly Configurable Systems, Formal Modelling (Gothenburg, Sweden) http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=411 We invite applications for a PhD researcher position (start as soon as possible, apply by *2017-05-09*) in the area of engineering of highly configurable software systems. Examples of such systems are automotive/avionics/power-electronics control systems, software ecosystems (e.g., Android apps), systems software (e.g., OS kernels), or embedded databases. The PhD candidate is expected to advance the theory and practice of engineering highly configurable systems (a.k.a., software product lines) towards lean and incremental development techniques. A focus is on migrating cloned (forked) system variants towards configurable software platforms. The project comprises theoretical (e.g., creating formal models) as well as very practical work, such as developing program analyses, program transformations, and tool prototypes. The candidate might also conduct some smaller-scale empirical research or tool evaluations with industry. The position also requires a contribution to teaching at the SE division by supervising Bachelor or Master theses, and supporting courses as a teaching assistant. The main supervisor is Thorsten Berger. Applicants should have a background in computer science or software engineering and should have excellent programming skills. Preference will be given to candidates with experiences in at least one of the following fields: * Functional Programming * Formal Modelling * Software Product Line Engineering * Model-Driven Engineering or Compiler Construction Applications should contain: * Cover letter expressing the applicant?s motivation, experiences, and relevant qualifications in relation to the announced position * Detailed CV, including publications and contact details of up to three references * Copies of postgraduate and undergraduate transcripts * Evidence of English proficiency for non-native English speakers Employment: Type of employment: fixed-term, up to five years Extent: 100 % of full time Location: Software Engineering Division First day of employment: As soon as possible The salary is determined on an individual basis. A rough estimate of the initial net salary is around 2050? per month, increasing yearly. About the department: The department of Computer Science and Engineering is jointly hosted by the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. It is a strongly international department with approximately 80 faculty among a total of 260 employees originating from 30 countries. The announced PhD position is located at the division of Software Engineering (SE) with 19 faculty members covering a wide range of software-engineering expertise. Please apply online: http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=411 Closing date: *2017-05-09* (23:59 CET) Contact: Supervisor: Thorsten Berger, Head of Division: Miroslaw Staron, HR-specialist: Anna Skanse Br?se, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davide.ancona at unige.it Thu Apr 20 18:18:21 2017 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:18:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended deadline: VORTEX 2017 - 2nd ECOOP Workshop on Runtime Verification for Object-Oriented Languages, and Systems Message-ID: <15bbc98d-fb16-b065-7f95-6ae6c44ad723@unige.it> *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS VORTEX 2017 - Verification of Objects at RunTime EXecution *Extended submission deadline: Sat 6 May 2017 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h)* Co-located with ECOOP 2017, June 20, Barcelona, Spain http://2017.ecoop.org/track/vortex-2017-papers *********************************************************************** VORTEX 2017 is the second edition of the ECOOP workshop devoted to runtime verification for object-oriented languages and systems. Contributions are solicited on Runtime Verification in the context of Object-Oriented Programming addressing open questions covering theoretical and/or practical aspects, presenting new implemented tools, proposing interesting new applications, or describing real case studies. Submissions suggesting speculative new approaches, raising challenging issues, or focusing on problems deemed to be crucial for the research community are also welcome, as well as all contributions covering topics suitable for lively discussion at the workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following ones: - combination of static and dynamic analyses - industrial applications - monitor construction and synthesis techniques - monitoring concurrent/distributed systems - program adaptation - runtime enforcement, fault detection, recovery and repair - RV for safety and security - specification formalisms and formal underpinning of RV - specification mining - tool development Contributions will be formally reviewed by at least three reviewers, and selection will be based on originality, relevance, technical accuracy, and the potential to generate interesting discussions. Important Dates (*updated*) --------------- Paper submission: *Sat 6 May 2017 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h)* Notification: Tue 30 May 2017 VORTEX: Tue 20 Jun 2017 Submission Instructions ----------------------- Submissions must be in English, in PDF format, and are limited to 6 pages in the sigconf ACM Format (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author). Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vortex2017 . PC members, except for the chairs, are allowed to submit papers, and any conflict of interest will be properly managed by excluding the involved PC members from the review and evaluation process. Proceedings and Special Issue ----------------------------- Accepted papers will have the option of being published in the ACM Digital Library. Depending on the quality of submissions, authors of selected papers will be invited after the workshop to submit an extended version for a special issue hosted by a prime journal in the field. Program Committee ----------------- - Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology, Germany - Davide Ancona (co-chair), University of Genova, Italy - Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Frank S. de Boer (co-chair), Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Leiden University - Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta - Klaus Havelund, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany - Gordon J. Pace, University of Malta, Malta - Antonio Ravara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain - Gerardo Schneider, University of Gothenburg, Sweden From georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at Thu Apr 20 16:11:37 2017 From: georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at (Georg Weissenbacher) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:11:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP FMCAD 2017 - Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) Vienna, Austria, October 2-6, 2017 http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD17 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: May 01, 2017 Paper Submission: May 08, 2017 Author Response Period: June 19-23, 2017 Author Notification: July 14, 2017 Camera-Ready Version: Aug 09, 2017 All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 2, 2017 FMCAD Regular Program: October 3-6, 2017 Part of the FMCAD 2017 program: - Symposium in memoriam of Helmut Veith - Hardware Model Checking Competition 2017 - FMCAD Student Forum (deadline: July 21, 2017) Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for students with accepted contributions at the student forum. Co-located event: MEMOCODE 2017 (http://memocode.irisa.fr/2017/) CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION FMCAD 2017 is the seventeenth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, published articles are made available freely on the conference page; the authors retain the copyright. There are no publication fees. At least one of the authors is required to register for the conference and present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD). TOPICS OF INTEREST FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer- aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures. -- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling, specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction methods. -- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing and power modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, and transaction-level verification. -- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the automation of formal methods. -- Application of formal methods to verifying safety, correctness, connectivity, and security properties of networks and distributed systems. SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad17 Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes. Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors will be required to select the appropriate paper category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix. Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide the reviewers access to their data at submission time, so that results can be independently verified. FMCAD 2017 COMMITTEES PROGRAM CHAIRS: Daryl Stewart, ARM Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien STUDENT FORUM CHAIR: Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR & WEBMASTER: Jens Katelaan, TU Wien PUBLICATION CHAIR: Mitra Tabaei Befrouei, TU Wien PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jade Alglave University College London and Microsoft Research Christel Baier Technical University of Dresden Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology Hana Chockler King's College London Andreas Griesmayer ARM Arie Gurfinkel University of Waterloo Ziyad Hanna Cadence Design Systems Fei He Tsinghua University Alan J. Hu University of British Columbia Warren A. Hunt Jr. University of Texas Alexander Ivrii IBM Barbara Jobstmann EPFL and Cadence Design Systems Dejan Jovanovic SRI International Gerwin Klein Data61 and UNSW Australia Igor Konnov TU Wien Rebekah Leslie-Hurd Intel Ines Lynce INESC-ID/IST, Universidade de Lisboa Ken McMillan Microsoft Research Charles Morisset Newcastle University Lee Pike Galois Inc. Mitra Purandare IBM Ajitha Rajan University of Edinburgh Ahmed Rezine Link?ping University Sean Safarpour Synopsys Roopsha Samanta Purdue University Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Linz Natasha Sharygina USI Lugano Anna Slobodova Centaur Technology Ana Sokolova University of Salzburg Daryl Stewart ARM Murali Talupur FormalSim Michael Tautschnig Queen Mary University of London Thomas Wahl Northeastern University Chao Wang University of Southern California Georg Weissenbacher TU Wien Florian Zuleger TU Wien FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada Warren A. Hunt Jr., University of Texas at Austin, USA Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech From compscience.announcement at gmail.com Fri Apr 21 12:25:42 2017 From: compscience.announcement at gmail.com (Klaus Havelund) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:25:42 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2017 - Deadline Extension: full submissions May 8 Message-ID: *RV 2017* **** DEADLINE EXTENSION: MAY 8 **** *Call for Papers and Tutorials* The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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, but are not limited to: - specification languages - monitor construction techniques - program instrumentation - logging, recording, and replay - combination of static and dynamic analysis - specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces - monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems - runtime checking of privacy and security policies - statistical model checking - metrics and statistical information gathering - program/system execution visualization - fault localization, containment, recovery and repair - integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16). Important Dates *Papers* as well as *tutorial proposals* will follow the following timeline: - Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 May 8, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017 - Paper notification: June 26, 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017 - Conference: September 13-16, 2017 Invited Speakers We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017: - Rodrigo Fonseca , Brown University, USA - Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg , Microsoft, USA - Andreas Zeller , Saarland University, Germany General Information on Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. Paper Submissions There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. - *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. - *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) 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. - *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. 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. The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and 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 . Tutorial Submissions Tutorials are two-to-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, not including references. A proposal for a tutorial must contain the subject of the tutorial, a brief abstract, a proposed format and timelines (of different parts), a note on the relevance to RV, a note on previous similar tutorials (if applicable) and the differences to this incarnation, and a brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. RV-CuBES: A Workshop Replacement for the Competition The Runtime Verification Competition will not be running in 2017. In its place a Workshop is being organised to discuss the future of the competition and showcase existing Runtime Verification tools. Please see the relevant page on the conference website for details. Organization *General Chair* Klaus Havelund , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Chairs* Shuvendu Lahiri , Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger , University of Manchester, UK *Finance Chair* Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA *Publicity Chair* Ayoub Nour i, University Grenoble Alpes, France *Local Organisation Chairs* Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA *Program Committee* Wolfgang Ahrendt , Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer , The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer , KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem , University of Grenoble Alpes/VERIMAG, France Eric Bodden , Paderborn University / Fraunhofer IEM, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour , McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo , University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone , University Grenoble Alpes/Inria, France Grigory Fedyukovich , University of Washington, USA Lu Feng , University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid , Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq , CNRS/ENS de Cachan, France Alex Groce , Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu , Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall? , University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman , University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic , Google, USA Bengt Jonsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke , NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Rahul Kumar , Microsoft Research, USA Kim Larsen , Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee , University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay , Inria Rennes, France Martin Leucker , University of L?beck, Germany Ben Livshits , Imperial College, UK David Lo , Singapore Management University, Singapore Francesco Logozzo , Facebook, USA Parthasarathy Madhusudan , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonardo Mariani , University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Madan Musuvathi , Microsoft Research, USA Ayoub Nouri , University of Grenoble Alpes, France Gordon Pace , University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled , Bar Ilan University, Israel Veselin Raychev , ETH Zurich, Switzerland Grigore Rosu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Cesar Sanchez , IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Rahul Sharma , Microsoft Research, India Julien Signoles , CEA LIST, France Scott Smolka , Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky , University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen , University of Dortmund, Germany Scott Stoller , Stony Brook University, USA Volker Stolz , Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway Frits Vaandrager , Radboud University, Netherlands Neil Walkinshaw , University of Leicester, UK Chao Wang , University of Southern California, USA Eugen Zalinescu , Technische Universitat M?nchen, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From crafa at math.unipd.it Mon Apr 24 03:33:07 2017 From: crafa at math.unipd.it (Silvia Crafa) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:33:07 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECOOP 2017 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <307298f2-2f7f-73e8-ee4f-8003b161c004@math.unipd.it> ****************************************************************** ECOOP 2017 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 19-23 June 2017, Barcelona, Spain http://2017.ecoop.org #ECOOP2017 @ECOOPconf ****************************************************************** ECOOP is a programming languages conference. Its primary focus has been object-orientation, though in recent years, it has accepted quality papers over a much broader range of programming topics. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the theory, design, implementation, optimization, and analysis of programs and programming languages. It solicits both innovative and creative solutions to real problems, and evaluations of existing solutions in ways that shed new insights. It also encourages the submission of reproduction studies. VENUE : Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain REGISTRATION: Registration is now open at http://2017.ecoop.org/attending/registration Early registration available before May 26. RESEARCH PROGRAM: The list of accepted papers is available at http://2017.ecoop.org/info/accepted-papers INVITED SPEAKERS: - Wolfram Schulte - Gilad Bracha (winner of the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize 2017) - Ross Tate (winner of the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize 2017) SUMMER SCHOOL: On Language design: - Kotlin: the ins and outs of designing a commercial language (Andrey Breselav) - Declarative Language Definition (Eelco Visser) On Verification: - Compiler Verification for a Multi-Language World (Amal Ahmed) On Methodology: - What You Need to Know about Performance Evaluation (Jan Vitek) On Runtime systems: - Engineering a Real-World Garbage Collector (Filip Pizlo) DOCTORAL SYMPHOSIUM: A full-day event of interactive presentations. The day will start with a series of lightning talks where each PhD student will give an ?elevator pitch? of their research. This will be followed by formal presentations from each PhD student, with time allocated for both the presentation as well as questions and discussions. CO-LOCATED EVENTS: - PLDI: 38th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. - ISMM: 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management. - DEBS: 11th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems. - LCTES: ACM SIGPLAN conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems. - Curry On: a new and unusual conference on programming languages and emerging challenges in industry. WORKSHOPS: - COP: International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming - FTfJP: Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs - ICOOOLPS: Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of OOLs, Programs and Systems - PMLDC: Workshop on Programming Models and Languages for Distributed Computing - VORTEX: Workshop on Runtime Verification - IWACO: International Workshop on Aliasing, Capabilities and Ownership - JSTools: Workshop on Tools for JavaScript Analysis From davide.ancona at unige.it Fri Apr 21 15:49:13 2017 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:49:13 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: DLS 2017 - 13th Dynamic Languages Symposium, co-located with SPLASH 2017, October 24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Message-ID: ************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS DLS 2017 - 13th Dynamic Languages Symposium Co-located with SPLASH 2017, October 24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-17/index.html ************************************************************************************ From Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, Dynamic Languages have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. The 13th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2017 is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects on Dynamic Languages. DLS 2017 invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Innovative language features * Innovative implementation techniques * Innovative applications * Development environments and tools * Experience reports and case studies * Domain-oriented programming * Very late binding, dynamic composition, and run-time adaptation * Reflection and meta-programming * Software evolution * Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages * Dynamic optimization * JIT compilation * Soft/optional/gradual typing * Hardware support * Educational approaches and perspectives * Semantics of dynamic languages * Frameworks and languages for the Cloud and the IoT Submissions must not have been published previously nor being under review at other events. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from substantive practical applications. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality. Papers are to be submitted electronically at https://dls17.hotcrp.com/ in PDF format. Submissions must be in the ACM SIGPLAN Conference acmart Format, 10 point font, and should not exceed 12 pages. Please see full details in the instructions for authors available at: http://conf.researchr.org/track/dls-2017/dls-2017#Instructions-for-Authors DLS 2017 will run a two-phase reviewing process to help authors make their final papers the best that they can be. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be freely available for one month, starting two weeks before the event. Important dates --------------- * Friday May 26, 2017: abstract submission (strict, 23:59 AoE or UTC-12h) * Friday June 2, 2017: paper submission (strict, 23:59 AoE or UTC-12h) * Friday July 14, 2017: first phase notification * Friday August 11, 2017: final notification * Monday August 28, 2017: camera ready * Tuesday October 24, 2017: DLS 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. Program chair ------------- Davide Ancona, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy davide.ancona at unige.it Program committee ----------------- * Guillaume Baudart, ?cole normale sup?rieure, France * Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile * Lorenzo Bettini, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni ?Giuseppe Parenti? (DISIA), Italy * Carl Friedrich Bolz, Germany * Erik Ernst, Google Inc., Denmark * Marc Feeley, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada * Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, United States * Paola Giannini, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale, Italy * Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, Germany * Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil * Crista Lopes, University of California, USA * Scott Moore, Harvard University, USA * Nick Papoulias, IRD, UPMC, France * Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, Korea, South * Chris Seaton, Oracle Labs, United Kingdom * Manuel Serrano, Inria, France * Zehra Sura, IBM Research, United States * Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, Switzerland From klaus.ostermann at uni-tuebingen.de Mon Apr 24 10:57:10 2017 From: klaus.ostermann at uni-tuebingen.de (Klaus Ostermann) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:57:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Position at U Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <4d346607-de99-d294-6645-79d0c5087b38@uni-tuebingen.de> We have an open position for a PhD student in our group, to be filled immediately. Our group is mainly doing research in the field of programming techniques and programming languages. Being a good programmer and being excited about programming languages is a prerequisite for applicants. We often work with Scala, Haskell, Coq, or Agda. One task associated to this position is to supervise the "T?binger Softwareprojekt", which is an exciting new form of collaboration between industry and academia. Research-wise this position gives a lot of freedom to develop new topics within our research group or contribute to our existing research projects. For this particular position, we are also quite open to applicants who have already worked as software developers but would like to return to academia for a PhD. Of course, applicants who have finished their Msc degree are also welcome. The position will be paid according to salary scale E13 (around 3600-4000 Euros base salary, depending on qualification, plus generous benefits). Please send me a note if you are interested. 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Candidates must have expertise in Computing and Information Sciences, related to our current research groups and teaching programmes. We are looking for outstanding candidates who will invigorate and enrich the scope of expertise of our Department and can enhance its involvement in interdisciplinary research projects within and outside the university. The quality of the candidate is leading, but preferred areas of expertise are Data Science, Programming Languages, Information Science, Computer Graphics and Serious Games. As teaching is an important and satisfying part of our work we are searching for people with a demonstrable motivation to teach. The preferred candidate has teaching experience, and is actively interested in improving her or his teaching, the courses and the teaching programme. Also candidates largely focusing on teaching will be considered. ## Qualifications Ideally your eligibility is exemplified by: ### Research: * PhD in Computer Science, Information Science or another relevant discipline; * track record of international publications in leading conferences and journals; * experience with or good prospects for acquiring external research funds; * vision on future research directions in own area of expertise; * experience with or readiness to supervise PhD projects; * active role in international scientific communities. ### Teaching: * enthusiasm for teaching and student supervision; * ability to teach in departmental BSc and MSc programmes; * vision on teaching and your own contribution to teaching. Please note that we are also interested in candidates with a focus on teaching! ### Leadership: * play an active and cooperative role in the department and the University; * willingness to organize scientific events, such as research seminars or teaching seminars; * willingness to partake in departmental committees. In view of the gender balance we strongly encourage qualified women to apply. ## Offer The candidate is offered a position for 3-5 years, depending on experience (0.8 / 1.0 FTE). Depending on experience and the specific field of expertise a tenure-track position could be offered. Salary depends on qualifications and experience, and ranges between 3,068euro and 5,330euro (scale 10 - 12 Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities) gross per month for a full-time employment. In case of proven outstanding performance an appointment as associate professor could be considered. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year. We offer flexible employment conditions (according to a multiple choice model), working-from-home facilities, partially paid parental leave, a pension scheme, and collective insurance schemes. Facilities for sports and child care are available on our campus, which is only 15 minutes away from the historical city center of Utrecht. ## About the organization A better future for everyone. This ambition motivates our scientists in executing their leading research and inspiring teaching. At Utrecht University, the various disciplines collaborate intensively towards major societal themes. Our focus is on Dynamics of Youth, Institutions for Open Societies, Life Sciences and Sustainability. The city of Utrecht is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands, with a charming old center and an internationally oriented culture that is strongly influenced by its century-old university. Utrecht city has been consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities in the Netherlands. The Faculty of Science consists of six departments: Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Information and Computing Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Mathematics. The Faculty is home to 5,900 students and nearly 1,600 staff and is internationally renowned for the quality of its research. The Faculty's academic programmes reflect developments in today's society. The Department of Information and Computing Sciences is nationally and internationally renowned for its research in Computer Science and Information Science. The research of the Department focuses on fundamental aspects of Computing and Information Sciences. Current research groups are Algorithmic Data Analysis, Algorithms and Complexity, Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Systems, Simulation of Complex Systems, Multimedia, Geometric Computing, Organisation and Information, Software Technology, Software Technology of Learning and Teaching. Relevant areas of interdisciplinary research include Game Research and Technology, Foundations of Complex Systems, Applied Data Science and Integrative Bioinformatics. The Department has, among others, close collaborations with the University Medical Center, the Departments of Physics and Mathematics, and the Faculties of Humanities and Geosciences. The Department offers Bachelor programmes in Computer Science and Information Science, and four English language research Master programmes in Artificial Intelligence, Business Informatics, Computing Science, and Game and Media Technology. The Department is developing Master programmes in Data Science. High enrolment figures and good student ratings make the education very successful. The Department currently comprises 9 full-time chairs and 100 other scientific staff, including postdocs and PhD-students. Due to our successful teaching programmes and our ambitions in research the Department is expanding. We are therefore actively searching for 6 talented Research and Teaching Assistant Professors in Information and Computing Sciences. Please note that positions offered will vary, depending on experience and expertise. We will offer the top candidate a fully financed PhD position. We offer the top female candidate a Westerdijk fellowship which includes a fully financed PhD student and a 50K euro research budget. In case this is the same person the second PhD student will be offered to the second candidate on the list. ## Additional information Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from: Prof M. van Kreveld, (M.J.vanKreveld at uu.nl), Research Director or Ria van Vlimmeren (M.F.J.vanVlimmeren at uu.nl), Secretary to the Board of the Department. As part of the selection procedure, the candidate is expected to give an outline of her/his research plans in a written report and/or an oral presentation. ## Apply Application deadline is 14 May 2017. To apply go to: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs and please attach a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae and (email) addresses of two referees. ## More information: https://www.uu.nl/en https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/faculty-of-science https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/faculty-of-science/about-us/westerdijk-fellowship https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/terms-of-employment https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university From giles.reger at manchester.ac.uk Tue Apr 25 06:05:48 2017 From: giles.reger at manchester.ac.uk (Giles Reger) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:05:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ARCADE Second Call for Papers References: <814BD08B-5B96-4180-A239-1AE6D4313913@manchester.ac.uk> Message-ID: <95E15973-9156-4578-879B-512D6950B82B@manchester.ac.uk> (Apologies for multiple copies. Please redistribute) **************************************************************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ARCADE http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~regerg/arcade/ Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary achievements 6 August 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden (co-located with CADE-26) DESCRIPTION: The main goal of this workshop is to bring together key people from various subcommunities of automated reasoning---such as SAT/SMT, resolution, tableaux, theory-specific calculi (e.g. for description logic, arithmetic, set theory), interactive theorem proving---to discuss the present, past, and future of the field. The intention is to provide an opportunity to discuss broad issues facing the community. The structure of the workshop will be informal. We invite extended abstracts (2-4 pages, using the EasyChair class style http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors) in the form of non-technical position statements aimed at prompting lively discussion. The title of the workshop is indicative of the kind of discussions we would like to encourage: Challenges: What are the next grand challenges for research on automated reasoning? Thereby, we refer to problems, solving which would imply a significant impact (e.g., shift of focus) on the CADE community and beyond. Roughly ten years ago SMT was one such challenge. Applications: Is automated reasoning applicable in real-world (industrial) scenarios? Should reports on such applications be encouraged at a venue like CADE, perhaps by means of a special case study paper category? Directions: Based on the grand challenges and requirements from real-world applications, what are the research directions the community should promote? What bridges between the different subcommunities of automated reasoning need to be strengthened? What new communities should be included (if at all)? For example, following Reiner H?hnle's question in the AAR Newsletter, is there a place at CADE for research on usable automated reasoning (in resemblance to the flourishing topic of usable security)? Exemplary achievements: What are the landmark achievements of automated reasoning whose influence reached far beyond the CADE community itself? What can we learn from those successes when shaping our future research? Contributions will be grouped into similar themes and authors will be invited to make their case within discussion panels. Authors will then be invited to extend their abstracts (e.g., by transcripts of the discussion and a summary of the discussion's outcomes) for inclusion in an EPiC post-proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth): Submission deadline: 12 May 2017 Notification: 23 June 2017 Workshop: 6 August 2017 Post-proceedings deadline: 29 September 2017 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader, TU Dresden Christoph Benzm?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Linz Nikolaj Bj?rner, Microsoft Research Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Inria Nancy & Loria Maria Paola Bonacina, Universite degli Studi di Verona Pascal Fontaine, Loria, Inria, University of Lorraine Silvio Ghilardi, Universite degli Studi di Milano Martin Giese, University of Oslo J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Alberto Griggio, FBK-IRST Reiner H?hnle, TU Darmstadt Marijn Heule, The University of Texas at Austin Laura Kov?cs, Vienna University of Technology Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck Neil Murray, SUNY at Albany David Plaisted, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London Giles Reger, University of Manchester (co-chair) Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz, DHBW Stuttgart Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa Dmitriy Traytel, ETH Z?rich (co-chair) Andrei Voronkov, The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SETTA 2017 The 3rd Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications October 23-25, 2017 Changsha, China Contact email: setta2017 at ios.ac.cn Website: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2017/ The aim of the symposium is to bring together international researchers and practitioners in the field of software technology. Its focus is on formal methods and advanced software technologies, especially for engineering complex, large-scale artifacts like cyber-physical systems, networks of things, enterprise systems, or cloud-based services. Contributions relating to formal methods or integrating them with software engineering, as well as papers advancing scalability or widening the scope of rigorous methods to new design goals are especially welcome. SETTA 2017 is planning to organize a special thematic section, namely Dependability of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Requirements specification and analysis . Formalisms for modeling, design and implementation . Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures . Scalable approaches to formal system analysis . Formal approaches to simulation and testing . Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice . Contract-based engineering of components, systems, and systems of systems . Formal and engineering aspects of software evolution and maintenance . Parallel and multi-core programming . Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems . Mixed-critical applications and systems . Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing . Safety, security, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance . Dependability of smart software and systems . Empirical analysis techniques and integration with formal methods . Applications and industrial experience reports . Tool integration Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers on original research, industrial applications, or position papers proposing challenges in fundamental research and technology. The latter two types of submissions are expected to contribute to the development of formal methods either by substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating need for research by demonstrating weaknesses of existing technologies, especially when addressing new application domains. Submissions can take the form of either regular or short papers. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Papers should be written in English. Regular Papers should not exceed 16 pages and Short Papers should not exceed 6 pages in LNCS format. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series, as that of the past editions. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in Elsevier?s Science of Computer Programming. Springer will support Best Paper Award of SETTA 2017. Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2017 Important Dates . Abstract & Paper Submission (Extended): June 21, 2017 (AoE) . Notification to authors (Extended): July 25, 2017 (AoE) . Camera Ready Version (Extended): August 10, 2017 (AoE) . Conference Date: October 23-25, 2017 Invited Speakers . Cliff Jones (Newcastle University) . Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) . Sanjit Seshia (University of California, Berkeley) Organizers General chair: Xiangke Liao, National University of Defense Technology, China Program Chairs: . Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark . Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA . Ji Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China Publicity Chair: . Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University, China Local Organization Chair: . Wei Dong, National University of Defense Technology, China PC Members: . Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany . Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands . Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina, USA . Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK . Yunxin Deng, ECNU, China . Deepak D'Souza, Indian Institute of Science, India . Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China . Martin Fraenzle, University of Oldenburg, Germany . Goran Frehse, University of Grenoble Alpes-Laboratoire Verimag, France . Lindsay Groves, University of Wellington, New Zealand . Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria . Fei He, Tsinghua University, China . Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA . Kim Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark . Axel Legay, IRISA/INRIA, France . Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China . Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan . Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China . Xiaoguang Mao, NUDT, China . Markus Muller-Olm, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany . Raja Natarajan, TIFR, India . Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg . Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK . Stefan Ratschan, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech . Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado, USA . Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA . Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, Norway . Zhendong Su, UC Davis, USA . Cong Tian, Xidian University, China . Tarmo Uustalu, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia . Chao Wang, University of Southern California, USA . Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, TW, China . Ji Wang, NUDT, China. . Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany . Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA . Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden . Naijun Zhan, ISCAS, China . Lijun Zhang, ISCAS, China . Qirun Zhang, UC Davis, USA . 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Important Dates * Abstract submission (extended): Mon, May 1, 2017 (AoE) * Full paper submission (extended): Mon, May 8, 2017 (AoE) * Notification: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 * VSTTE: Sat-Sun, Jul 22-23, 2017 * Camera-ready: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 Overview The goal of the VSTTE conference series 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. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We also welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. Topics of interest for VSTTE include education, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification/certification 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 Submissions We accept both long (limited to 16 pages, references not included) and short (limited to 10 pages, references not included) paper submissions. 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. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the conference. Paper submissions must be written in English using the LNCS LaTeX format (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods, results, and comparison to existing work. Papers will be submitted via EasyChair at the VSTTE 2017 conference page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2017). The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2017 will be published in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign the copyright transfer form. A selection of best papers will be invited for publication in the Journal of Automated Reasoning. Invited Speakers * Christoph Weidenbach (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany) * Santiago Zanella-Beguelin (Microsoft Research, UK) Program Chairs * Andrei Paskevich (Universit? Paris-Sud, France) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Program Committee * June Andronick (University of New South Wales, Australia) * Christel Baier (TU Dresden, Germany) * Sandrine Blazy (Universit? de Rennes 1, France) * Arthur Chargu?raud (Inria, France) * Ernie Cohen (Amazon Web Services, USA) * Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS, Germany) * Carlo A. Furia (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Hossein Hojjat (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) * Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands) * Bart Jacobs (KU Leuven, Belgium) * Rajeev Joshi (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) * Zachary Kincaid (Princeton University, USA) * Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India) * Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research, USA) * Francesco Logozzo (Facebook, USA) * Peter M?ller (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) * Jorge A. Navas (SRI International, USA) * Scott Owens (University of Kent, UK) * Gerhard Schellhorn (Universit?t Augsburg, Germany) * Peter Schrammel (University of Sussex, UK) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI International, USA) * Mihaela Sighireanu (Universit? Paris-Diderot, France) * Julien Signoles (CEA LIST, France) * Michael Tautschnig (Queen Mary University of London, UK) * Tachio Terauchi (JAIST, Japan) * Oksana Tkachuk (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) * Mattias Ulbrich (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) From dimitris at microsoft.com Wed Apr 26 05:07:45 2017 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:07:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FW: 2 assist.prof, 2 postdoc positions at Open University of the Netherlands In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, please see below call for positions. Hugo informs me that actually there is interest for people working in verification and programming languages (though they will be looking in other areas too). Thanks, Dimitrios From: Jonker, Hugo [mailto:Hugo.Jonker at ou.nl] Sent: 25 April 2017 18:19 To: types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu Subject: 2 assist.prof, 2 postdoc positions at Open University of the Netherlands Dear Colleague(s), As a consequence of the growth in education and research in Computer Science at the Open University we just opened two vacancies for assistant professors and two for postdocs. Vacancy overview: ------------------------------- 1: a four year assistant professor in computer science, in view of the growth the position may turn into a structural one. Please contact Marko van Eekelen (marko.vaneekelen at ou.nl) directly. 2: a two year assistant professor in computer science, which also may turn into a structural one. Kindly contact Marko van Eekelen (marko.vaneekelen at ou.nl) directly. 3: a two year postdoc position in security, in botnet traffic detection supported by SIDN, Quarantainenet, Solcon and XS4All, located at Heerlen/Nijmegen. Please contact Harald Vranken (harald.vranken at ou.nl) directly. 4: a two year postdoc position in intelligent tutor systems for high school mathematics education (rekenen) as part of the Advise-Me Erasmus project located at Utrecht. http://advise-me.ou.nl/. Please contact Bastiaan Heeren (bastiaan.heeren at ou.nl) directly. Qualifications: ------------------------ Education: The educational programs of the Computer Science department are highly appreciated by our students. We are therefore looking for colleagues with a similar passion. This in particular (but not exclusively) to the assistant professor positions. Research: For all positions, a PhD in computer science (finished or almost finished) is required. For the Postdoc positions, a thesis or prior experience (publications) in related fields is requested. For the assistant professorships, quality of the candidate's research is the foremost factor, though alignment with existing expertise is appreciated. If you have any prospective candidates, could you bring these vacancies to their attention? Your help is greatly appreciated! Hugo Jonker. -- dr. ir. Hugo Jonker Open Universiteit Faculteit Management, Science & Technology Valkenburgerweg 177 6419 AT Heerlen tel: +31 45 576 2143 ________________________________ Deze e-mail is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Verstrekking aan en gebruik door anderen is niet toegestaan. Open Universiteit sluit iedere aansprakelijkheid uit die voortvloeit uit elektronische verzending. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail en/of eventueel toegevoegde bijlagen kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. This e-mail is intended exclusively for the addressee(s), and may not be passed on to, or made available for use by any person other than the addressee(s). Open Universiteit rules out any and every liability resulting from any electronic transmission. 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Workshop on Structures and Deduction 2017 Oxford, 8-9 September 2017 --- Affiliated with FSCD 2017 Submission: 16 June Notification: 21 July Workshop page: http://www.anupamdas.com/sd17/ Submission page: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sd17 FSCD 2017 page: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ *** Topics of interest *** * Syntactic representations of proofs (e.g. sequent calculi, deep inference, focussing) * Combinatorial representations of proofs (e.g. proof nets) * Algebraic representations of proofs (e.g. via game semantics or category theory) * Methods for proof manipulation and normal forms of proofs * Formulas-as-types interpretations of proofs * Computation and rewriting in proof search (e.g. deduction modulo or fixed point definitions) * Complexity theoretic aspects of proof representations *** Invited Speakers *** Michel Parigot TBA *** Programme Committee *** Andrea Aler Tubella James Brotherston Kaustuv Chaudhuri Anupam Das Willem Heijltjes Kenji Miyamoto Giselle Reis *** Workshop *** SD17 is the fourth in a series of meetings that brings together researchers in different areas of proof theory. The main interest is in new algebraic and geometric results in proof theory which expand our abilities to manipulate proofs, help to reduce bureaucracy in deductive systems, and ultimately lead to new methods for proof search and new kinds of proof certificates. There have been three previous editions of Structures and Deduction, the last of which occurred in 2014. Since then there has been a tremendous amount of progress in the area, witnessed by multiple recent funded projects. As well as theoretical work in the form of regular papers, we encourage submission of implementations, tools and system descriptions. *** Submission guidelines *** We welcome submission of work that has already been published or currently submitted to a journal or conference. The following submission categories are welcome: * Extended abstracts (8 pages). Finished work, system descriptions, surveys. * Short abstracts (4 pages). Work-in-progress, perspectives on existing work. The page limits above are only recommendations, there is no hard upper or lower bound, within reason. Please prepare your work using the EasyChair style files: http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors *** Publication *** We do not intend to have published proceedings, as we encourage people to present work in progress, or material that is already submitted. If there is a strong demand among the participants we may organise a special issue of an open access journal for full papers. *** Contact *** We can be reached by email directly or via sd17 at easychair.org The organisers. Kaustuv Chaudhuri Anupam Das Willem Heijltjes From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Wed Apr 26 09:01:22 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:01:22 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FroCoS 2017 Deadline Extension Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** *** DEADLINE EXTENSION *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2017 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Brasilia, Brazil September 27-29th, 2017 http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br New Submission Deadlines: 1st May (abstracts), 5th May (full papers) Due to several requests, we are extending the deadline. These dates are final. GENERAL INFORMATION The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between September 27 to September 29, 2017. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote progress in research areas related to the development of techniques for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal systems together with their analysis. FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem?Proving (ITP 2017). The local organization of all events will be organised by Claudia Nalon (USB, Brazil), Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brazil), Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) and Joa?o Marcos (UFRN, Brazil). SCOPE OF CONFERENCE In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led---in many research areas---to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization, and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics (such as higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics); * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems. INVITED SPEAKERS - Katalin Bimb? (University of Alberta, Canada) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Jasmin Blanchette (Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) - Renata Wassermann (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages in total, including references and figures. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2017 For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the symposium and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract five days before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website that can be found at the beginning of this call for papers. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited in a separate call, which can be found at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw. There are co-located events, described at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#colocated . IMPORTANT DATES (*Extended*) 1st May 2017: Abstract submission deadline 5th May 2017: Full paper submission deadline 16th June 2017: Author notification 26th June 2017: Camera-ready version due September 27-29, 2017: FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia Franz Baader, TU Dresden Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia Christoph Benzm?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Marcelo Coniglio, State University of Campinas Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool [co-chair] Fran?ois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo [co-chair] Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Agi Kurucz, Kings College, London Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw Ren? 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Important dates --------------- - Abstract submission deadline: Fri 6 Oct 2017 - Full paper submission deadline: Wed 11 Oct 2017 - Notification: Tue 14 Nov 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: Fri 24 Nov 2017 - Conference dates: Mon 8 - Tue 9 Jan 2018 Topics of interest ------------------ We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal certification of programs and proofs. The following is a suggested list of topics of interests to CPP. This is a non-exhaustive list and should be read as a guideline rather than a requirement. - 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 Guidelines --------------------- Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair submission page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpp2018 Submitted papers must be formatted following the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format using the sigplanconf format (not the acmart format), using 10 point font for the main text (not the default 9pt font). http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. Abstracts must be submitted by October 6, 2017 (AOE). The deadline for full papers is October 11, 2017 (AOE), and authors have the option to withdraw their papers during the window between the two. Submissions must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. They 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. 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. Whenever appropriate, the submission should come along with a formal development, using whatever prover, e.g., Agda, Coq, Dafny, Elf, HOL, HOL-Light, Isabelle, Lean, Matita, Mizar, NQTHM, PVS, Vampire, etc. Such formal developments must be submitted together with the paper as auxiliary material, and will be taken into account during the reviewing process. 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 welcome. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. For any questions about the formatting or submission of papers, please consult the PC chairs. Program Committee ----------------- Reynald Affeldt (AIST, Japan) June Andronick (Data61, CSIRO and UNSW, Australia), co-chair Lennart Beringer (Princeton University, USA) Jasmin Blanchette (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes 1, France) Sylvie Boldo (Inria and Universit? Paris-Saclay, France) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, UK) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada), co-chair Elsa Gunter (University of Illinois, USA) Reiner H?hnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands) Warren A. Hunt, Jr. (University of Texas Austin, USA) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research, USA) Assia Mahboubi (Inria, France) Alberto Momigliano (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Magnus Myreen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Para?ba, Brazil / Fortiss, Germany) Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich, Germany) Gert Smolka (Saarland University, Germany) Bas Spitters (Aarhus University, Denmark) Pierre-Yves Strub (?cole Polytechnique, France) Laurent Th?ry (Inria, France) Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) From elias.castegren at it.uu.se Wed Apr 26 15:45:29 2017 From: elias.castegren at it.uu.se (Elias Castegren) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:45:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended deadline: IWACO 2017 Message-ID: <6F712668-4C06-4C66-9F59-DAC537E5ABE1@it.uu.se> ################################ ## EXTENDED DEADLINE: May 3rd ## ################################ 8th IWACO International Workshop on Aliasing, Capabilities and Ownership (IWACO) Co-located with ECOOP Monday June 19th, 2017, Barcelona, Spain http://2017.ecoop.org/track/iwaco-2017-papers ## Important Dates: Paper submission: May 3rd, 2017 Notification: May 25th, 2017 Final version: June 8th, 2017 Workshop: June 19th, 2017 (All deadlines AoE) ## Aim and Scope Stable object identity and shared mutable state are two powerful principles in object oriented programming. The ability to create aliases to mutable objects allows a direct modelling of sharing that occurs naturally in a domain, and lies at the heart of efficient programming patterns where aliases provide shortcuts to key places in a data structure. In a concurrent setting however, aliasing is at the root of data-races and low-level bugs as multiple threads can directly access shared objects. Coping with pointers, aliasing and the proliferation of shared mutable state is a problem that crosscuts the software development stack, from compilers and run-times to bug-finding tools and end-user software. They complicate modular reasoning and program analysis, efficient code generation, efficient use of memory, and obfuscate program logic. Several techniques have been introduced to describe and reason about stateful programs, and to restrict, analyze, and prevent aliases. These include various forms of ownership types, capabilities, separation logic, linear logic, uniqueness, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, linear references, effect systems, and access control mechanisms. These tools have found their way into type systems, compilers and interpreters, run-time systems and bug-finding tools. IWACO?17 will focus on these techniques, on how they can be used to reason about stateful (sequential or concurrent) programs, and how they have been applied to programming languages. In particular, we will consider papers on: - models, type systems and other formal systems, programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques, patterns and notations for expressing ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics; - empirical studies of programs or experience reports from programming systems designed with these techniques in mind; - programming logics that deal with aliasing and/or shared state, or use ownership, capabilities or resourcing; - applications of capabilities, ownership and other similar type systems in low-level systems such as programming languages runtimes, virtual machines, or compilers; and - optimization techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics. ## Submissions Contributions may be submitted in two formats: - Short papers (up to 3 pages, excluding references and clearly marked appendices) describing new ideas and open questions for discussion. - Full papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and clearly marked appendices) describing (preliminary) research results. Submissions must be in English and use the LNCS template. Papers must be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwaco2017, by May 3rd. There will be a post-proceedings special issue at JOT (http://www.jot.fm) for full papers, which will be subject to a further round of reviews. ## Organizing Committee Elias Castegren (Uppsala University, Sweden) elias.castegren at it.uu.se Juliana Franco (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) j.vicente-franco at imperial.ac.uk ## Workshop Program committee Colin Gordon (Drexel University, United States) Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Tony Hosking (Australian National University, Data61, and Purdue University, United States) Felix Klock (Mozilla Corporation) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Azalea Raad (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mislove at tulane.edu Wed Apr 26 17:44:49 2017 From: mislove at tulane.edu (Mislove, Michael W) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:44:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Position Closing Message-ID: <7A14E61E-FAAD-4794-A3B6-4D25F1E78EE3@tulane.edu> Dear All, This is a reminder that the closing date for the postdoctoral position listed below is April 30. Thanks, Mike Mislove =============================================== Michael Mislove Phone: +1 504 865-5803 Professor and Chair FAX: +1 504 865-5063 Department of Computer Science Tulane University URL: http://www.cs.tulane.edu/~mwm New Orleans, LA 70118 USA =============================================== Postdoctoral Researcher in Semantics and Tools for Quantum Programming Languages Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position beginning July 1 and running through November 30, 2018. There is a possibility of an extension beyond November, 2018, depending on funding. The position is in the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University, and will be under the supervision of Professor Michael Mislove. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Semantics, Formal Reasoning, and Tool Support for Quantum Programming?. The project involves designing high-level semantic models and tools to support quantum functional programming languages. A prototype language is Proto-Quipper, which has been under development (http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/ ). This language uses the circuit model for quantum computation, and envisions languages that support quantum computation under classical control. The overall aim is to design type-safe functional programming languages for quantum computing. The project also involves developing the meta-theory (including categorical semantics) of such languages, and eventually to formalize some of the meta-theory in a proof assistant. The focus of the Tulane work is modeling recursion in such languages, which requires developing quantum domain theory, but interactions with other aspects of the project are expected. Familiarity with programming language design, and / or semantics is a prerequisite of the position. The latter includes categorical semantics and domain theory. A good knowledge of category theory is also a prerequisite. Of course, familiarity with quantum computing is helpful. Additional components of the project will address issues around quantum information such as non-locality and contextuality, adapting proof assistants (Coq, Agda, Lean, etc) to develop automated verification for quantum programming languages, and developing quantum routers. Although the position is at Tulane University, candidates may travel to the other sites where work on this project is taking place. These include UPenn, UIowa and Stanford in the US, as well as McGill University and Dalhousie University in Canada and Oxford and Edinburgh in the UK. To apply for this position, direct your browser to the link: https://apply.interfolio.com/41053 Tulane University is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action/persons with disabilities/veterans employer committed to excellence through diversity. Tulane will not discriminate against individuals with disabilities or veterans. All eligible candidates are encouraged to apply. Funding for the project comes from the DOD and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Co-located with QRS 2017 (the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability & Security). *Registration:* QRS 2017 registration page ;please additionally send us an e-mail to qrs2017cbc at fastar.org to indicate you have registered *Cost:* $100 USD for attendees who also register for the main conference, $250 USD otherwise. *Presenters:* Ina Schaefer (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) and Bruce W. Watson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) *Purpose:* To influence deeply the way participants approach the task of developing algorithms, with a view to improving code quality. *Features:* - A step-by-step explanation of how to derive provably correct algorithms using small and tractable refinements rules. - A detailed illustration of the presented methodology through a set of carefully selected graded examples. - A demonstration of how practical non-trivial algorithms have been derived. The focus is on bridging the gap between two extreme methods for developing software. On the one hand, some approaches are so formal that they scare off all but the most dedicated theoretical computer scientists. On the other, there are some who believe that any measure of formality is a waste of time, resulting in software that is developed by following gut feelings and intuitions. The ?correctness-by-construction? approach to developing software relies on a formal theory of refinement, and requires the theory to be deployed in a systematic but pragmatic way. We provide the key theoretical background (refinement laws) needed to apply the method. We then detail a series of graded examples to show how it can be applied to increasingly complex algorithmic problems. *More information about tutorial and presenters is available at the **tutorial website* *.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fioravanti at unich.it Thu Apr 27 05:24:26 2017 From: fioravanti at unich.it (Fabio Fioravanti) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:24:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2017: 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: <783798f0-2079-0e83-504f-88e3c8810f1b@unich.it> [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ==================================================================== LOPSTR 2017: 1st Call for Papers ==================================================================== 27th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2017 https://www.sci.unich.it/lopstr17/ University of Namur, Namur, Belgium October 10 ? 12, 2017 (co-located with PPDP 2017) ==================================================================== DEADLINES: Abstract submission: June 6, 2017 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 13, 2017 ==================================================================== INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced ==================================================================== 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 27th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017) will be held at the University of Namur, Belgium; previous symposia were held in Edinburgh, Siena, 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 2017 will be co-located with PPDP 2017 (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: Jun 6, 2017 Paper/Extended abstract submission: Jun 13, 2017 Notification: July 25, 2017 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): tba, 2017 Symposium: October 10-12, 2017 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 authors email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers (and, if possible, line 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 2017: [http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2017] (can be accessed also through the LOPSTR 2017 web site). Best Paper Award and Prize A best paper award will be granted, which will include a 500 EUR prize provided by Springer. This award will be given to the best paper submitted to the conference, based on the relevance, originality, and technical quality. The program committee may split the award among two or more papers, also considering authorship (e.g., student paper). Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Program Committee Roberto Bagnara, University of Parma and BUGSENG, Italy Sabine Broda, University of Porto, Portugal Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Emanuele De Angelis, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Daniel De Schreye, KU Leuven, Belgium Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK Laurent Fribourg, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, France Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland Gerda Janssens, KU Leuven, Belgium Bishoksan Kafle, University of Melbourne, Australia Andy King, University of Kent, UK Jacopo Mauro, University of Oslo, Norway Jose F. Morales, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Jorge A. Navas, SRI International, USA Corneliu Popeea, CQSE GmbH, Germany Francesca Scozzari, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Theresa Swift, NOVALINKS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Program Chairs Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Organizing Committee Wim Vanhoof (Universit? de Namur, Namur, Belgium, Local Organizer) In cooperation with: The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems The Association for Logic Programming From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Fri Apr 28 15:38:10 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:38:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Logic Colloquium 2017: Final Call for Submissions ** Deadline for abstract submissions: May 5 ** Message-ID: Logic Colloquium 2017: Final Call for Submissions ** Deadline for abstract submissions: May 5 ** ---------------------------------------------- Logic Colloquium 2017: Third Announcement and Call for Submissions August 14-20, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 ---------------------------------------------- The Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC2017) is the 2017 Annual European summer meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) and will be held during August 14-20, 2017, at the main campus of Stockholm University. The Logic Colloquium 2017 is organised and hosted jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University, and is also supported by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. LC2017 will be co-located with several other logic-related events, all taking place at Stockholm University: - the 3rd Nordic Logic Summer School, NLS2017, August 7-11 - the 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic, CSL2017, August 20-24 - Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017, LACompLing2017, August 16-19 - Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems, LAMAS2017, August 25 - Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory in memory of Zoltan Esik, August 25 There will be a joint session of CSL2017 and LC2017 in the morning of August 20. Further information about all events can be found at: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------ Plenary speakers: - David Aspero (University of East Anglia) - Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) - Elisabeth Bouscaren (Paris 11) - Christina Brech (Sao Paolo) - Sakae Fuchino (Kobe University) - Denis Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago) - Wilfrid Hodges (British Academy, UK) - Emil Jerabek (Prague) - Per Martin-L?f (Stockholm University) - Dag Prawitz (Stockholm University) - Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) Tutorial speakers: - Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV ENS Cachan) - Mai Gehrke (Paris 7) LC-CSL joint session highlight speakers: - Veronica Becher (University of Buenos Aires) - Pierre Simon (UC Berkeley) - Phokion Kolaitis (University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden) - Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) SPECIAL SESSIONS ----------------------------- Category theory and type theory in honour of Per Martin-L?f on his 75th birthday Dates: August 17-19, 2017 Speakers: - Thierry Coquand (G?teborg University) - Richard Garner (Macquarie University, Sidney) - Andr? Joyal (University of Quebec, Montreal) - Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) Computability Organizers: Ver?nica Becher and Denis Hirschfeldt Speakers: - Emmanuel Jeandel (University of Lorraine, France) - Klaus Meer (Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - Arno Pauly (Clare college, Cambridge University) - Theodore Slaman (University of California, Berkeley) - Mariya Soskova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) - Keita Yokoyama (University of California, Berkeley) History of Logic: Organiser: Valentin Goranko Speakers: - Wilfrid Hodges (British Academy, UK) - Peter ?hrstr?m (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Jan von Plato (University of Helsinki, Finland) Model Theory: TBA Philosophical Logic Organizer: Mirna Dzamonja Speakers: - Michele Friend (Gerorge Washington University) - Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University) - Benedikt Loewe (University of Amsterdam and Hamburg) - Sara Negri (Helsinki University) - Davide Rizza (University of East Anglia) - one more speaker TBA Proof Theory Organizers: Jan von Plato and Andreas Weiermann Speakers: - Fernando Ferreira (University of Lisbon, Portugal) - Annika Kanckos (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Anton Setzer (Swansea University, UK) - further speakers TBA Set Theory Organizers: Christina Brech and Assaf Rinot Speakers: - William Chen (Ben Gurion University, Israel) - Brent Cody (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) - Ashutosh Kumar (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) - Giorgio Laguzzi (Freiburg University) - Yann Pequignot (University of California, Los Angeles) - Sandra Uhlenbrock (University of Vienna, Austria) SUBMISSIONS OF CONTRIBUTED TALKS --------------------- Abstracts of contributed talks must be submitted as pdf files via this EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lc2017 (If you do not have an EasyChair-account yet, you can create one at the submission site.) The abstracts must be prepared according to the ASL instructions here: http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html Please: - enter Title and Abstract as plain text - as the first keyword, put the AMS 2010 classification: 03xxx - indicate whether you are submitting for presentation at the colloquium, for publication in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, or for both Abstracts of contributed talks submitted by ASL members, which are accepted and prepared according to the ASL Rules for Abstracts, will be published in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be requested to submit the LaTeX source files. REGISTRATION ---------------------- The early registration fee, for students and participants from developing countries, is 1400 SEK including VAT (approx. 140 Euros) per participant, and includes coffee breaks and conference materials. For all others, the early registration fee is 2000 SEK including VAT. Late registration is 2800 SEK for regular fee participants, and 2000 SEK for reduced fee participants. Note: 500 SEK fee deduction when registering for CSL2017 at the same time. The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there will be special offers at hostels and hotels (in the range 700 -1200 SEK per night for single rooms) available. https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic- in-stockholm-2/logic-in-stockholm-2017-august-7-25-1.718739 IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------- Main event: August 14-19, 2017 Joint session with CSL2017: August 20, 2017 Abstract deadlines: Abstract submission for contributed talks: May 5, 2017 Notification: May 19, 2017 Grant application deadline: May 8, 2017 Early registration deadline: June 9, 2017 Late registration deadline: August 1, 2017 -------------------------------------------------------- GRANTS ------------------------------------ There are possibilities for grants from ASL, NSF, and the Bill Craig donation. Information can be found at the website of the Logic Colloquium 2017: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic- in-stockholm-2/logic-colloquium-201 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- - Rod Downey (University of Wellington) - Mirna Dzamonja (PC chair, University of East Anglia) - Ali Enayat (University of Gothenburg) - Fernando Ferreira (University of Lisbon) - Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University) - Martin Hils (University of M?nster) - Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) - Assaf Rinot (Bar-Ilan University) - Igor Walukiewicz (University of Bordeaux) LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- - Stefan Buijsman, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Mads Dam, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH - Jacopo Emmenegger, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Dilian Gurov, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH - Sven-Ove Hansson, Department of Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Eric Johannesson, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Vera Koponen, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University - Johan Lindberg, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Karl Nygren, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Peter Pagin, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Dag Westerst?hl, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES -------------------- For enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: Mirna Dzamonja (M.Dzamonja at uea.ac.uk) For enquiries on organising matters, send email to: lc2017 at philosophy.su.se SPONSORS ----------------- Association for Symbolic Logic Stockholm University The GS Magnusson Foundation Prover Technology Stockholm City Hall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk Fri Apr 28 04:51:30 2017 From: S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk (Simon Thompson) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:51:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TFPIF 2017 - Trends in Functional Programming in Education - second call for papers Message-ID: TFPIE 2017 Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 2017 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/TFPIE2017/ The sixth workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 2017, which is to be held on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent on Thursday, 22 June, following the 2017 TFP meeting on 19?21 June. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), Soesterberg, The Netherlands (2014), and Sophia-Antipolis, France (2015), College Park, USA (2016). A particular topic of this year's TFPIE will be MOOCs and other online learning, and as well as a session on this, we're looking forward to announcing a keynote speaker in this area very soon. 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 2017 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit revised versions of their articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Second call for papers TFPIE 2017 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FP and beginning CS students - FP and Computational Thinking - FP and Artificial Intelligence - FP in Robotics - FP and Music - Advanced FP for undergraduates - FP in graduate education - Engaging students in research using FP - FP in Programming Languages - FP in the high school curriculum - FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics - FP and Philosophy - The pedagogy of teaching FP - FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. - Best Lectures ? more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What?s your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. Submission 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. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2017 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. Programme committee Dr Laura Castro, University of A Coru?a Prof Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau Dr Elena Machkasova, University of Minnesota, Morris Prof Michel Mauny, Inria, Paris Dr Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow Prof Simon Thompson, University of Kent (chair) Important dates Submissions of draft papers: 10 May, 2017 Notification: 17 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 Workshop: 22 June 2017 Submission for formal review: 18 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 6 October, 2017 Camera ready paper: 3 November, 2017 Simon Thompson | Professor of Logic and Computation School of Computing | University of Kent | Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK s.j.thompson at kent.ac.uk | M +44 7986 085754 | W www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~sjt From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Fri Apr 28 05:05:36 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:05:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: TYPES 2017. Registration is open Message-ID: * registration is open * invited talks: Sara Negri, Edwin Brady, Jakob Rehof * 51 contributed talks CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2017 and EUTYPES Cost Action CA15123 meeting Budapest, Hungary, 29 May - 1 June 2017 http://types2017.elte.hu 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 formalised 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; * 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. FINANCIAL SUPPORT The first two days of TYPES 2017, May 29 - 30 are organised by EUTypes Cost Action CA15123 (https://eutypes.cs.ru.nl). On May 30 there will be an EUTypes Management Committee (MC) meeting, and on both days there will be WG meetings. This means that members of the EUTypes MC will be invited for these 2 days through the e-cost system, and their cost of travel and stay will be covered. There will likely be some funding for a limited number of other invited speakers. The funding is subject to COST rules, and invitations will be sent out via the e-cost system after the 1st of May. INVITED SPEAKERS * Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews): An Architecture for Dependently Typed Applications in Idris * Sara Negri (University of Helsinki): TBA * Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund): Bounding Principles for Decision Problems with Intersection Types CONTRIBUTED TALKS 51 talks were accepted, see http://types2017.elte.hu/#accepted for the list of accepted papers and http://types2017.elte.hu/#programme for the programme. REGISTRATION Registration is open: http://types2017.elte.hu/#registration The early bird fee is 250 EUR + 30 EUR for the excursion (optional). Please register for the excursion because it is a great opportunity for discussion of research ideas in a relaxed environment and for general networking. For students, the early bird registration fee is 200 EUR. VENUE Budapest is the capital of Hungary with around two million inhabitants. The conference will be held at E?tv?s Lor?nd University. Among the graduates of this university were John von Neumann and Paul Erdos. The conference dinner will take place during a boat cruise on the river Danube which separates the Buda and Pest parts of the city. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Andreas Abel (Chalmers University Gothenburg) * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) * Jos? Espirito Santo (University of Minho) * Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg (University of Strathclyde) * Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) * Hugo Herbelin (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) * Ambrus Kaposi (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) (co-chair) * Tam?s Kozsik (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) (co-chair) * Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) * Alexandre Miquel (University of the Republic, Uruguay) * Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) * Keiko Nakata (SAP, Potsdam) * Andrew Polonsky (University Paris Diderot) * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) * Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) * Wouter Swierstra (Utrecht University) * Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology) CONTACT Email: info at types2017.elte.hu Organisers: Ambrus Kaposi, Tam?s Kozsik, Andr?s Kov?cs and the Department of Programming Languages and Compilers at the Faculty of Informatics, E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Budapest. From westbrook at galois.com Mon May 1 14:51:09 2017 From: westbrook at galois.com (Eddy Westbrook) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 11:51:09 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Galois is hiring! Message-ID: Galois is hiring! We're looking for researchers, principal investigators, software engineers, and project leads, including those with expertise in functional programming, formal methods, machine learning, embedded systems, computer security, or networking. We have offices in Arlington VA, Dayton OH, and Portland OR with positions available at all locations. For more info or to submit your resume, please see our website: http://galois.com/careers. From georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at Mon May 1 07:32:22 2017 From: georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at (Georg Weissenbacher) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 13:32:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMCAD 2017 Final Call for Papers - Extended Deadline Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) Vienna, Austria, October 2-6, 2017 http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD17 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: May 08, 2017 Paper Submission: May 15, 2017 Author Response Period: June 19-23, 2017 Author Notification: July 14, 2017 Camera-Ready Version: Aug 09, 2017 All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 2, 2017 FMCAD Regular Program: October 3-6, 2017 Part of the FMCAD 2017 program: - Symposium in memoriam of Helmut Veith - Hardware Model Checking Competition 2017 - FMCAD Student Forum (deadline: July 21, 2017) Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for students with accepted contributions at the student forum. Co-located event: MEMOCODE 2017 (http://memocode.irisa.fr/2017/) CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION FMCAD 2017 is the seventeenth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, published articles are made available freely on the conference page; the authors retain the copyright. There are no publication fees. At least one of the authors is required to register for the conference and present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD). TOPICS OF INTEREST FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer- aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures. -- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling, specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction methods. -- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing and power modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, and transaction-level verification. -- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the automation of formal methods. -- Application of formal methods to verifying safety, correctness, connectivity, and security properties of networks and distributed systems. SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad17 Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes. Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors will be required to select the appropriate paper category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix. Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide the reviewers access to their data at submission time, so that results can be independently verified. FMCAD 2017 COMMITTEES PROGRAM CHAIRS: Daryl Stewart, ARM Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien STUDENT FORUM CHAIR: Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR & WEBMASTER: Jens Katelaan, TU Wien PUBLICATION CHAIR: Mitra Tabaei Befrouei, TU Wien PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jade Alglave University College London and Microsoft Research Christel Baier Technical University of Dresden Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology Hana Chockler King's College London Andreas Griesmayer ARM Arie Gurfinkel University of Waterloo Ziyad Hanna Cadence Design Systems Fei He Tsinghua University Alan J. Hu University of British Columbia Warren A. Hunt Jr. University of Texas Alexander Ivrii IBM Barbara Jobstmann EPFL and Cadence Design Systems Dejan Jovanovic SRI International Gerwin Klein Data61 and UNSW Australia Igor Konnov TU Wien Rebekah Leslie-Hurd Intel Ines Lynce INESC-ID/IST, Universidade de Lisboa Ken McMillan Microsoft Research Charles Morisset Newcastle University Lee Pike Galois Inc. Mitra Purandare IBM Ajitha Rajan University of Edinburgh Ahmed Rezine Link?ping University Sean Safarpour Synopsys Roopsha Samanta Purdue University Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Linz Natasha Sharygina USI Lugano Anna Slobodova Centaur Technology Ana Sokolova University of Salzburg Daryl Stewart ARM Murali Talupur FormalSim Michael Tautschnig Queen Mary University of London Thomas Wahl Northeastern University Chao Wang University of Southern California Georg Weissenbacher TU Wien Florian Zuleger TU Wien FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada Warren A. Hunt Jr., University of Texas at Austin, USA Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Mon May 1 09:59:15 2017 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 15:59:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming, 19-21 june 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury Message-ID: ----------------------------- F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2017 =========== 18th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 19-21 June, 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/tfp17/index.html 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. TFP 2017 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2017 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on 22 June. 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; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015; * and Maryland (USA) in 2016. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/). == 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, but are not limited to: 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 2017 program chairs, Scott Owens and Meng Wang. == 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. == 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=tfp17 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 == INVITED SPEAKERS == Conor McBride University of Strathclyde (UK) C?t?lin Hri?cu INRIA Paris (FR) == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: 5 May, 2017 Notification: 12 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 TFP Symposium: 19-21 June, 2017 Student papers feedback: 29 June, 2017 Submission for formal review: 2 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 3 November, 2017 Camera ready paper: 2 December, 2017 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Co-Chairs Meng Wang University of Kent (UK) Scott Owens University of Kent (UK) PC Jeremy Yallop University of Cambridge (UK) Nicolas Wu University of Bristol (UK) Laura Castro University of A Coru?a (ES) Gabriel Scherer Northeastern University (US) Edwin Brady University of St Andrews (UK) Janis Voigtl?nder Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven (BE) Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology (US) Mauro Jaskelioff CIFASIS/Universidad Nacional de Rosario (AG) Patricia Johann Appalachian State University (US) Bruno Oliveira The University of Hong Kong (HK) Rita Loogen Philipps-Universit?t Marburg (GE) David Van Horn University of Marylan (US) Soichiro Hidaka Hosei University (JP) Micha? Pa?ka Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Sandrine Blazy University of Rennes 1 - IRISA (FR) From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Mon May 1 11:25:33 2017 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 17:25:33 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension: IFIP International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science (TTCS 2017) Message-ID: ========================================= 2nd IFIP International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science (TTCS 2017) http://www.ttcs.ir/ Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran September 12-14, 2017 *** Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 *** ========================================= TTCS is a bi-annual conference in the IFIP conference series, serving as a forum for novel and high-quality research in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science. The post-proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. The conference is sponsored by IFIP and EATCS. ------------------------------ Keynote Speakers ------------------------------ - Mahdi Cheraghchi, Imperial College, UK - Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy ------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------ - Abstract Submission: May 15, 2017 (Extended, Strict, AoE) - Full Paper Submission: May 19, 2017 (Extended, Strict, AoE) - Author notification: June 26, 2017 - Camera ready paper: July 31, 2017 - Conference: September 12-14, 2017 ------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------ 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. All technical details necessary for a proper evaluation of a submission must be included in the submission or in a clearly-labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. 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 to the appropriate track through our EasyChair submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttcs2017 . The post-proceedings will be published as a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer. ------------------------------ Scope ------------------------------ TTCS is organized in 2 tracks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Track A: Algorithms and Complexity - algorithms and data structures, - algorithmic coding theory, - algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, - approximation algorithms, - computational complexity, - computational geometry, - computational learning theory, - economics and algorithmic game theory, - fixed parameter algorithms, - machine learning, - optimization, - parallel and distributed algorithms, - quantum computing, - randomness in computing, - theoretical cryptography. Track B: Logic, Semantics, and Programming Theory - algebra and co-algebra in computer science, - concurrency theory, - coordination languages, - formal verification and model-based testing, - logic in computer science, - methods, models of computation and reasoning for embedded, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems, - stochastic and probabilistic specification and reasoning, - theoretical aspects of other CS-related research areas, e.g., computational science, databases, information retrieval, and networking, - theory of programming languages, - type theory and its application in program verification. ------------------------------ Program Committee ------------------------------ Track A: Algorithms and Complexity - Amitabha Bagchi, IIT Delhi, India - Samuel R. Buss, University of California, San Diego, USA - Jaroslaw Byrka, University of Wroclaw, Poland - Amir Daneshgar, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Anna Gal, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland, USA - Amit Kumar, IIT Delhi, India - Mohammad Mahmoody, University of Virginia, USA - Rolf Niedermeier, TU Berlin, Germany - Giuseppe Persiano, University of Salerno, Italy - Jorg-Rudiger Sack, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada - Rahul Santhanam, University of Oxford, United Kingdom - Jiri Sgall, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (Co-Chair) - Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA - Gerhard Woeginger, RWTH Aachen, Germany - Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, Sharif University of Technology, Iran Track B: Logic, Semantics, and Programming Theory - Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands - Ilaria Castellani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France - Fatemeh Ghassemi, University of Tehran, Iran - Hossein Hojjat, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA - Mohammad Izadi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Sung-shik Jongmans, Open University, The Netherlands - Ramtin Khosravi, University of Tehran, Iran - Jan Kretinsky, Munich University of Techology, Germany - Bas Luttik, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Larry Moss, Indiana University, USA - Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden (Co-Chair) - Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London, UK - Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Subodh Sharma, IIT Delhi, India - Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Itay - Kazunori Ueda, Waseda University, Japan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Michael Hohmuth From bogom.s at gmail.com Tue May 2 02:28:36 2017 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 16:28:36 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SNR'17 @ ETAPS -- Call for participation Message-ID: <131d01d2c30d$f60af4b0$e220de10$@gmail.com> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SNR 2017 ======== 3nd International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis April 22, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 http://snr2017.pages.ist.ac.at/ Topics ===== The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: * Reachability analysis * Flow-pipe construction; symbolic state set representations * Logical frameworks for reasoning * Bounded model checking * Automated deduction * Invariant generation * Symbolic execution * Trajectory generation; counterexample computation * Abstraction techniques * Reliable integration * Simulation * Reachability analysis for planning and synthesis * Domain-specific approaches in biology, robotics, etc. * Stochastic/probabilistic hybrid systems Registration ========== http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2017/registration Invited talks ============ Christoph Grimm (Technische Universit?t Kaiserslautern, Germany) Towards Verification of Uncertain Cyber-Physical Systems Edward A. Lee (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Fundamental Limits of Cyber-Physical and Hybrid System Modeling Program ======== 9:00-10:00 Session 1: Uncertainty (chair: Sergiy Bogomolov) 9:00-10:00 Invited talk Christoph Grimm. Towards Verification of Uncertain Cyber-Physical Systems 10:00-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-12:30 Session 2: Synthesis and Analysis (chair: Walid Taha) 10:30-11:00 Adrien Le Co?nt, Florian De Vuyst, Ludovic Chamoin and Laurent Fribourg. Guaranteed Control Synthesis of Nonlinear Switched Systems using Euler Method 11:00-11:30 Anna Lukina, Josef Widder and Radu Grosu. Synthesis of Optimal Plans for Process Synchronization in the Presence of Faults 11:30-12:00 Beno?t Desrochers and Luc Jaulin. Minkowski Operation of Sets with Application to Robot Localization 12:00-12:30 Ievgen Ivanov. 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URL: From samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr Tue May 2 08:36:01 2017 From: samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr (Samuel Mimram) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:36:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HDRA 2017: Call for Papers Message-ID: <5c4dbd38-6452-c223-a047-8a610b4536a9@lix.polytechnique.fr> ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (HDRA 2017) ============================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third edition of the workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications September 8-9 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr/ Satellite workshop of FSCD 2017, co-located with STRING 2017. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rewriting consists in orienting equalities. This seemingly simple point of view has given rise to a rich theory, which was first developped in computer science for handling strings and terms, and was then extended over the recent years to many other settings (operads, monoidal categories, higher categories, etc.), allowing it to have applications in algebra, homotopy theory and physics. All these generalizations fit into the general scope of higher-dimensional rewriting theory, which has emerged as a unifying algebraic framework. The aim of the workshop is to gather people interested in pushing further rewriting theory, using (higher) categories as a common language. It is open to all topics concerning higher-dimensional generalizations and applications of rewriting theory, including - higher-dimensional rewriting: extensions of rewriting theory to higher-dimensional settings (operads, opetopes, polygraphs/computads, parity complexes, augmented directed complexes, etc.), generalizations of string/term/graph rewriting systems, etc. - higher categorical structures: weakening, combination and comparison of categorical structures (monoids, bialgebras, Frobenius algebras, Lie algebras, etc.), coherence theorems, etc. - applications of rewriting to algebraic topology: construction of resolutions, homotopical and homological invariants, linear rewriting (Gr?bner bases, applications to algebras and operads), Koszul duality theory, etc. - applications and interactions with other fields: calculi for quantum computations, proof nets, algebraic lambda-calculi, 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. HDRA 2017 will be co-located with the first edition of the STRING workshop (http://string2017.cs.ru.nl/) Invited speakers ================ * Paul-Andr? Melli?s (CNRS and Paris Diderot) * TBA Submission ========== Important dates --------------- * Submission: June 18, 2017 * Notification: June 30, 2017 * Final version: July 9, 2017 * Conference: September 8-9, 2017 Submitting ---------- Submissions should consist in an extended abstract, in pdf format, approximatively 6 pages long, in standard article format. The page for uploading those is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hdra2017 Proceedings ----------- The accepted extended abstracts will be made available electronically before the workshop. Program committee ================= * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit? Paris 7) * 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) * Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton) * Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford) Organizers ========== * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit? Paris 7) * Philippe Malbos (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) * Samuel Mimram (?cole Polytechnique) From cristi at ifi.uio.no Sat Apr 29 11:17:50 2017 From: cristi at ifi.uio.no (Christian Johansen) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:17:50 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo), affiliated with CONCUR, Sept. 4th, Berlin, Germany Message-ID: Call for Papers and Posters 3rd International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo) 2017 https://memo.wikit.itu.dk/home affiliated with CONCUR, September 4th, 2017, Berlin, Germany https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ '''Aim and Topics''' Developing appropriate models for systems, programming languages and processes is not easy. Hence, several metamodels have been proposed. Metamodels are framework theories which provide general, structural results simplifying and driving the development of models of specific systems and languages. There are frameworks for operational semantics (such as GSOS, graph rewriting systems, Milner?s bigraphs, coalgebras), for denotational semantics (such as algebraic/bialgebraic specifications, monads, enriched Lawvere theories, mathematical operational semantics), and for logical semantics (such as metalanguages for deductive systems, i.e. Logical Frameworks). The boundaries between these metamodels are blurred, and techniques and ideas from one can be reapplied to the others. Moreover, metamodels can help in the definition of new computation and programming paradigms. The goal of the MeMo workshop is to bring together researchers working on and with metamodels, with the aim to share insights, uncover similarities and differences, possibilities for cross-fertilization and stimulate further research in this exciting area. 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, K-framework, 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, etc. - 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 '''Important Dates''' Submission regular papers and presentation proposals: 23 June 2017 Notification regular papers and presentation proposals: 31 July 2017 Camera-ready copy: 6 August 2017 Submission posters: 6 August 2017 Notification posters: 13 August 2017 '''Submission Instructions''' We invite three types of submissions: Full regular papers; Tool presentation papers; Posters. Submissions of regular and tool papers must be original and should not have been published previously nor to be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. Submissions of poster proposals can be based on work submitted elsewhere and be clearly marked as a poster proposal by prefixing the title with "POSTER:" . The posters will be on display all throughout the workshop in the coffee break area, when the presenters can interact with other participants. Evaluation criteria will be technical quality, readability, novelty, and scope. All papers and posters must be in English and submitted at the EasyChair submission site. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memo2017 Papers should use the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/) and not exceed 15 pages in length for full papers, 10 pages for tool papers, and 6 pages for poster descriptions. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. We plan an EPTCS post-proceedings volume and depending on the quality of the submissions also a special journal issue of selected, extended papers. '''Program Committee Co-Chairs and Organizers''' - Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Christian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway '''Program Committee''' - Patrick Bahr, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Iliano Cervesato, CMU Qatar - Matteo Cimini, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA - S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China - Uli Fahrenberg, Ecole Polytechnique, France - Tobias Heindel, University of Leipzig, Germany - Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-chair) - Hans H?ttel, Aalborg University, Denmark - Christian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair) - Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy - Joachim Parrow, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden - Johannes ?man Pohjola, Chalmers University, Sweden - Jan Rutten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands - Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton, UK - Uwe Egbert Wolter, University of Bergen, Norway - TBA... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice day from Christian Johansen (old name Cristian Prisacariu) member of PMA group (Precise Modeling and Analysis) at Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo ----------------------------------------------------------------- From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Tue May 2 08:29:57 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:29:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: LACompLing2017 Extended Deadline: * May 10 (any time on Earth), 2017 * Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017) Stockholm, August 16-19, 2017 http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing17.html * Extended submission deadline for regular papers * ** May 10 (any time on Earth), 2017 ** ================================================ Affiliated with the 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL'2017 Stockholm, 20--26 August 2017 Co-located with: Logic in Stockholm 2017 https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 ================================================= DESCRIPTION == Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. -------------------------------- SCOPE == The workshop focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches. The topics of LACompLing2017 include, but are not limited to: - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES == Submission deadline for regular papers: ** May 10 (any time on Earth), 2017 ** Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017 Abstracts of short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notifications for short presentations: June 12, 2017 Deadline for final submissions: June 25, 2017 Workshop: August 16-19, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS == - Regular papers: between 10-15 pages, including figures and references, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - Abstracts of short presentations: not more than 1 page, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - We invite original papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts of short presentations have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf of the papers and their LaTeX sources The submissions are via the EasyChair management system of LACompLing2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2017 PUBLICATIONS == - The proceedings of LACompLing2017 will be published digitally by the DiVA system of Stockholm University: http://su.diva-portal.org - Improved and extended versions of selected papers, which have been presented at the workshop LACompLing2017, will be published by the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, JoLLI, after the workshop. FEATURED INVITED SPEAKERS == Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, UK Lars Hellan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Lucas Champollion, New York University, USA Nikola Kompa, University of Osnabr?ck, Germany Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden Mila Vulchanova, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Markus Werning, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and more ... ORGANIZERS == Krasimir Angelov, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, USA Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair) Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, The Netherlands CONTACT == Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Valeria de Paiva (valeria.depaiva at gmail.com) -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.mazzara at innopolis.ru Tue May 2 10:51:03 2017 From: m.mazzara at innopolis.ru (Manuel Mazzara) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:51:03 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MSE@SEFM 2017 - Workshop Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: <11e678f112014ca58bb37c48a64430f0@innopolis.ru> <1e2b7260328f4219ad2f72f6c1a68121@innopolis.ru> <5314bd284e6041ac92afa559b6175ffa@innopolis.ru> <5fd61d4e4226446fb479ffd404587b56@innopolis.ru> <03a83e0941ee4033a6909c558e5089d7@innopolis.ru> <32a6a694cbe2421cbf4d728dcbbf079f@innopolis.ru> Message-ID: <157d8b4bac5c4916aa21c740acb0e9c6@innopolis.ru> *MSE at SEFM 2017 - Call For Papers* Microservices: Science and Engineering Workshop https://mse-sefm17.fbk.eu/ The 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2017) will be held in Trento, Italy, September 4-8, 2017. The *MSE ? ?Microservices: Science and Engineering? Workshop* 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 and the understanding in the microservices area and its applications, in particular in the IoT where the scaling in the small approach is of major importance. SEFM attendees might be interested in attending this workshop because of the relevance of its themes and goals to the SE. Also industry partners and mobile developers are particularly welcome, thanks to their more practical approach, hopefully bringing some real scenario examples. This workshop aims at bringing together contributions by scientists and practitioners to shed light on the development of scientific concepts, technologies, engineering techniques and tools for a service-based society. In particular, the focus is on Microservices, i.e., the use of services beyond the traditional cross-organizational B2B approach and the implementation of the model inside of applications, scaling in the small the concepts previously seen in the large. In Microservices, each component of a software is a service with the related issues of scalability and distribution of responsibility. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and implementation of Service-oriented Architectures and Microservices - Software engineering techniques for Microservices - Security in Microservices - Formal models and analyses of Microservice systems - Verification techniques for Microservices - Coordination models for Microservices - Empirical studies on services and Microservices - Programming languages for Microservices - Static analysis of Microservices - Testing of Microservice systems *Workshop Chairs* - Marcello Maria Bersani - Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Antonio Bucchiarone - FBK, Trento, Italy - Nicola Dragoni - Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark - Luca Ferrucci - ISTI-CNR, Italy - Manuel Mazzara - Innopolis University, Russia - Fabrizio Montesi - University of Southern Denmark *Important Dates* - June 15, 2017: Paper submission deadline - July 6, 2017: Notification of acceptance - September 4, 2017: Workshop co-located with SEFM 2017 *Submissions* We seek for both full and short papers. Full papers will be submitted as PDF files, using the SPRINGER LNCS proceedings format that it is possible to find here, with a page limit of 15 pages. Short paper should be limited to 8 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 technical committee members. Accepted papers will be published by the format for all SEFM Workshop, SPRINGER LNCS Post-Proceedings. You can submit the paper through EasyChair using this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msesefm2017 *Venue* MSE is a workshop at SEFM 2017, the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2017) that will be held in Trento, Italy, September 4-8, 2017 From brucker at spamfence.net Sat Apr 29 11:01:24 2017 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:01:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension: International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling (OCL 2017) Message-ID: <20170429150124.pz5t3cd4xuj5vm4h@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) New Deadline: May 7, 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling Co-located with STAF 2017 SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES: APPLICATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS July 20, 2017, Marburg, Germany http://oclworkshop.github.io Modeling started out with UML and its precursors as a graphical notation. Such visual representations enable direct intuitive capturing of reality, but they have weaknesses: for example, detailed visual representations bear the risk of becoming overcrowded faster than textual models and some of the visual features lack the level of precision required to create complete and unambiguous specifications. These weaknesses of 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 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 applications and case studies of textual modeling as well as test suites and benchmark collections for evaluating textual modeling tools. ## Venue This workshop will be organized as a part of STAF 2017 Conferenze in Marburg, Germany. It was previously organized as part of the MODELS conference. 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 Two types of papers will be considered: * Short contributions (between 6 and 8 pages) describing new ideas, innovative tools or position papers. * Full papers (between 12 and 16 pages). in LNCS format. Submissions should be uploaded to [EasyChair](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocl2017). 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 post-conference edition of [CEUR](http://www.ceur-ws.org). ## Important Dates - Submission of papers: May 7, 2017 (extended) - Notification: May 25, 2017 - Workshop date: July 20, 2017 -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog @adbrucker | @logicalhacking From pkordjam at tulane.edu Mon May 1 19:03:26 2017 From: pkordjam at tulane.edu (Kordjamshidi, Parisa) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 23:03:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: IJCAI-2017 Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming Message-ID: <4775ED60-5264-463E-A506-6B20A61A9AAC@tulane.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS and PARTICIPANTS ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP 2017) In conjunction withTwenty- sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17), August 19?20, 2017, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://delbp.github.io --------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE ????????????????????? The main goal of Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP) workshop is to investigate the issues that arise when designing and using programming languages that support learning from data and knowledge. DeLBP aims at facilitating and simplifying the design and development of intelligent real world applications that use machine learning and reasoning by addressing the following commonly observed challenges: Interaction with messy, naturally occurring data; Specifying the requirements of the application at a high abstraction level; Dealing with uncertainty in data and knowledge in various layers of the application program; Using representations that support flexible relational feature engineering; Using representations that support flexible reasoning and structure learning; Integrating a range of learning and inference algorithms; and finally addressing the above mentioned issues in one unified programming environment. Conventional programming languages offer no help to application programmers that attempt to design and develop applications that make use of real world data, and reason about it in a way that involves learning interdependent concepts from data, incorporating and composing existing models, and reasoning about existing and trained models and their parametrization. Over the last few years the research community has tried to address these problems from multiple perspectives, most notably various approaches based on Probabilistic programming, Logical Programming and the integrated paradigms. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss the current related research and the way various challenges have been addressed. We aim at motivating the need for further research toward a unified framework in this area based on the key existing paradigms: Probabilistic Programming (PP), Logic Programming (LP), Probabilistic Logical Programming (PLP), First-order query languages and database management systems (DBMS) and deductive databases (DDB), Statistical relational learning and related languages (SRL), and connect these to the ideas of Learning Based Programming. We aim to discuss and investigate the required type of languages and representations that facilitate modeling probabilistic or non-probabilistic complex learning models, deep architectures, and provide the ability to combine, chain and perform flexible inference with existing models and by exploiting domain knowledge. (Website: http://delbp.github.io) ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ????????????????????? ? New abstractions and modularity levels towards a unified framework for learning and reasoning, ? Frameworks/Computational models to combine learning and reasoning paradigms and exploit accomplishments in AI from various perspectives. ? Flexible use of structured and relational data from heterogeneous resources in learning. ? Data modeling (relational/graph-based ) issues in such a new integrated framework for learning based on data and knowledge. ? Exploiting knowledge such as expert knowledge and common sense knowledge expressed via multiple formalisms, in learning. ? The ability of closing the loop to acquire knowledge from data and data from knowledge towards life-long learning, and reasoning. ? Using declarative domain knowledge to guide the design of learning models, ? Including feature extraction, model selection, dependency structure and deep learning architecture. ? Structure Learning and automation of hyper-parameter tuning. ? Design and representation of complex learning and inference models. ? The interface for learning-based programming, ? Either in the form of programming languages, declarations, frameworks, libraries or graphical user interfaces. ? Storage and retrieval of trained learning models in a flexible way to facilitate incremental learning. ? Related applications in Natural language processing, Computer vision, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ? Submission Deadline: May 8th, 2017 ? Notification: June 5th, 2017 ? Workshop Days: August 19th-20th, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS ---------------------------------------------------------------- We encourage contributions with either a technical paper (IJCAI style, 6 pages without references), a position statement (IJCAI style, 2 pages maximum) or an abstract of a published work. IJCAI Style files available here [http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip]. Please make submissions via EasyChair, here [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=delbp2017]. ---------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Van den Broeck, University of California, Los Angeles Sameer Singh, University of California, Irvine Avi Pfeffer, Charles River Analytics Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, SRI International Tias Guns, Vrije University of Brussels Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon Cambridge, UK William Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara Kai-Wei Chang, University of Virginia Martin Mladenov, Technical University of Dortmund Sebastian Riedel, University College London ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Tulane University, IHMC Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan-Willem Van den Meent, Northeastern University Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University Vibhav Gogate, University of Texas at Dallas Kristian Kersting, TU Dortmund University ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ---------------------------------------------------------------- delbp-2 at googlegroups.com (Organization Committee) pkordjam at tulane.edu Please circulate this CFP among your colleagues and students. ------------------------------------------- Kordjamshidi, Parisa Assistant Professor CS Department at Tulane University Research Scientist at IHMC Homepage -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DeLBP_2" group. 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Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] I'm currently recruiting a researcher (a postdoc or a graduate with suitable experience), to work on the application of concurrent separation logic for verifying information flow security of seL4-based, security-critical embedded systems. Verified information flow security has seen something of a renaissance over the past 5 years, with success stories such as seL4 or the more recent mCertiKOS; but concurrency remains an open challenge and one that this project aims to address for the first time. This research will: 1. design and mechanise logics for verifying the information flow security of concurrent programs, and 2. apply those logics to verify software running on seL4-based, user-facing critical embedded devices, previously deployed on Defence networks to process and protect classified information. Ideal applicants will have prior experience with an interactive theorem prover like Isabelle or Coq, and either knowledge of verification techniques for shared memory concurrent programs (e.g. rely guarantee, concurrent separation logic, etc.) or information flow security (noninterference, declassification, etc.). The successful applicant will be based at the University of Melbourne and work in collaboration with project partners at Data61's Trustworthy Systems group in Sydney (http://ts.data61.csiro.au/) and the Defence Science and Technology Group in Adelaide. The position is currently funded for one year, beginning around July--September 2017, with possible extension beyond 12 months contingent on additional funding. Applications close on the 28th of May, Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST, GMT +10 hours), and should be made on-line: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/890645/research-assistant-research-fellow-in-program-verification-security Applicants are encouraged to contact me in the first instance. Enquiries about the position should be directed to: Toby Murray toby.murray at unimelb.edu.au http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/tobym/ Thanks heaps Toby From aslan at askarov.net Mon May 1 03:44:04 2017 From: aslan at askarov.net (Aslan Askarov) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 09:44:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS 2017) Message-ID: Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) Co-located with IEEE CSF. Santa Barbara, CA, August 21, 2017. Scope: Formal techniques and theoretical foundations for security and privacy. This includes implementations and systems that focus on applying formal security techniques. Paper deadline: May 21, 2017 Workshop homepage: https://cs.au.dk/~askarov/events/fcs2017/ FCS welcomes both mature work and work in progress. Informal proceedings only (concurrent submissions okay, accepted papers can be published elsewhere later). Both long and short papers are considered. ========================= Long version ========================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS 2017) 21 August 2017, Santa Barbara, CA, USA https://cs.au.dk/~askarov/events/fcs2017/ Affiliated and co-located with IEEE CSF 2017 ========================= IMPORTANT INFORMATION Submission deadline: May 21, 2017 Notification of acceptance: July 07, 2017 Workshop: August 21, 2017 All times are AoE (anywhere on earth). 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 2017 workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of continued research in this area. FCS 2017 welcomes papers on all topics related to the formal underpinnings of security and privacy, and their applications. The scope of FCS 2017 includes, but is not limited to, formal specification, analysis, and design of cryptographic protocols and their applications; formal definitions of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks; modeling of information flow and its application to security policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis; foundations of privacy; applications of formal techniques to practical security and privacy. We are interested in new theoretical results, in exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, and in the development of security/privacy tools using formal techniques. Demonstrations of tools based on formal techniques are welcome, as long as the demonstrations can be carried out on a standard digital projector (i.e., without any specialized equipment). We solicit the submission of both mature work and work in progress. SUBMISSION FCS 2017 welcomes two kinds of submissions: * full papers (at most 12 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices) * abstracts (at most 1 page, excluding references and well-marked appendices) All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee listed below. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. Short papers will receive as rigorous a review as full papers. Short papers may receive shorter talk slots than full papers, depending on the number of accepted submissions. Papers should be formatted 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. The first page should include the paper's title, names of authors, coordinates of the corresponding author(s), an abstract, and a list of keywords. Committee members are not required to read appendices, so papers must be intelligible without them. Papers not adhering to the page limits may be rejected without consideration of their merits. Papers must be in the PDF format. INFORMAL PROCEEDINGS FCS has no published proceedings. Presenting a paper at the workshop should not preclude submission to or publication in other venues (before, after or concurrently with FCS 2017). Papers presented at the workshop will be made available to workshop participants, but this will not constitute an official proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mario Alvim (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Owen Arden (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Aslan Askarov (Aarhus University, Denmark, co-chair) Mounir Assaf (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Musard Balliu (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Nataliia Bielova (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Marco Gaboardi (University of Buffalo, USA) Joshua Guttman (MITRE corporation, USA) Thomas Jensen (INRIA Rennes, France) Limin Jia (Carneggie Melon University, USA) Frank Piessens (KU Leuven, Belgium) William Mansky (Princeton University, USA) Ron Van der Meyden (University of New South Wales, Australia) Toby Murray (University of Melbourne, Australia) Ralf Sasse (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Alwin Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) CONTACT For any questions, please write to the workshop chairs: Aslan Askarov: aslan at cs.au.dk Limin Jia: liminjia at cmu.edu From christopher.meiklejohn at gmail.com Wed May 3 03:33:36 2017 From: christopher.meiklejohn at gmail.com (Christopher Meiklejohn) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 09:33:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline: Programming Models and Languages for Distributed Computing (PMLDC 2017) Message-ID: Second Workshop on Programming Models and Languages for Distributed Computing Co-located with ECOOP 2017, Barcelona, Spain Date: June 20, 2017 Whether you are programming a rich web application in JavaScript that mutates state in the client?s browser, or you are building a massively deployed mobile application that will operate with client state at the device, it?s undeniable that you are building a distributed system! Two major challenges of programming distributed systems are concurrency and partial failure. Concurrency of operations can introduce accidental nondeterminism: computations may result in different outcomes with the same inputs given scheduling differences in the underlying system unless a synchronization mechanism is used to enforce some order. Synchronization is typically expensive, and reduces the efficiency of user applications. Partial failure, or the failure of one or more components in a distributed system at one time, introduces the challenge of knowing, when an operation fails, which components of the operation completed successfully. To solve these problems in practice on an unreliable, asynchronous network, atomic commit protocols and timeouts as failure detection are typically used. Because of these challenges, early approaches to providing programming abstractions for distributed computing that ignored them were inherently misguided: the canonical example being the Remote Procedure Call, still widely deployed in industry. The goal of this workshop is to discuss new approaches to distributed programming that provide efficient execution and the elimination of accidental nondeterminism resulting from concurrency and partial failure. It will bring together both practitioners and theoreticians from many disciplines: database theory, distributed systems, systems programming, programming languages, data-centric programming, web application development, and verification, to discuss the state-of-the-art of distributed programming, advancement of the state-of-the-art and paths forward to better application of theory in practice. The main objectives of this workshop are the following: * To review the state-of-the-art research in languages, models, and systems for distributed programming; * To identify areas of critical need where research can advance the state of the art; * To create a forum for discussion; * To present open problems from practitioners with an aim towards motivating academic research on relevant problems faced by industry. In the spirit of both ECOOP and Curry On, this workshop aims at favoring a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from both academia and industry. Submission Guidelines We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals of 2 pages, in ACM 2 column SIGPLAN style, written in English and in 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. Authors with accepted papers will have the opportunity to have their submission published on the ACM Digital Library. Workshop http://2017.ecoop.org/track/pmldc-2017-papers Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmldc2017 Important Dates [Extended] Paper submission: 8 May 2017 Workshop date: 20 June 2017 Organizing Committee Christopher Meiklejohn Universit? catholique de Louvain Heather Miller Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne Program Committee Carlos Baquero Universidade do Minho Annette Bieniusa Technischen Universit?t Kaiserslautern Carla Ferreira Universidade Nova Lisboa Alexey Gotsman IMDEA Software Institute Caitie McCaffrey Twitter Tyler McMullen Fastly Rodrigo Rodrigues Instituto Superior T?cnico, University of Lisboa & INESC-ID Ali Shoker HASLab/INESC TEC & University of Minho KC Sivaramakrishnan University of Cambridge Zach Tellman Lacuna Peter Van Roy Universit? catholique de Louvain Leif Walsh Two Sigma Investments Jordan West NOVA-LINCS Hongseok Yang University of Oxford From stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr Tue May 2 16:08:32 2017 From: stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr (Stefano Guerrini) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 22:08:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Submissions : Trends in Linear Logic and Applications (Oxford, Sept. 3, 2017) Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** TLLA 17: Trends in Linear Logic and Applications ** ** http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLA17 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** International Workshop affiliated with FSCD 2017 ** http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ ** ** Oxford, September 3, 2017 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** **** First Call for Submissions **** ** http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLA17/cfs1.txt ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Linear Logic is not only a proof theoretical tool to analyse or control the use of ressources in logic and computation. It is also a corpus of tools, approaches, and methodologies (proof nets, exponential decomposition, geometry of interaction, coherent spaces, relational models, etc.) that, even if developed for studying Linear Logic syntax and semantics, have been applied in several other fields (analysis of lambda-calculus computations, game semantics, computational complexity, program verification, etc.). The TLLA international workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on Linear Logic or applying it or its tools. The main goal is to present and discuss trends in the research on Linear Logic and its applications by means of tutorials, invited talks, open discussions, and contributed talks. The purpose is to gather researchers interested in the connections between Linear Logic and various topics such as * theory of programming languages * implicit computational complexity * parallelism and concurrency * games and languages * proof theory * philosophy * categories and algebra * possible connections with combinatorics * linguistics * functional analysis and operator algebras ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Young Researchers Grants ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A limited number of grants for students or young researches are available. Grants can full or partially cover registration fee, accommodation and transport. To apply for a grant send a message to Stefano Guerrini (mailto:stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr) with: * Affiliation and contact details * A short CV * A letter of motivation explaining the interest of the applicant on one or more topics of the workshop * If the applicant has submitted an abstract * (Facultatif) One or two support letters. A letter from the supervisor is mandatory for PhD students. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributions are not restricted to talks presenting an original results, but open to tutorials, open discussions, and position papers. For this reason, we strongly encourage contributions presenting work in progress, open questions, and research projects. Contributions presenting the application of linear logic results, techniques, or tools to other fields, or vice versa, are most welcome. To submit a contributed talk submit a short abstract of at most two pages at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlla17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline: June 16, 2017 * Notification: July 8, 2017 * Final version: July 22, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Publication ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The abstracts of the contributed and invited talks will be published on the site of the conference. A call for a special issue of a journal will be announced after the workshop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Committees ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Richard Blute, University of Ottawa * Thomas Ehrhard, Univ. Paris Diderot * Delia Kesner, Univ. Paris Diderot * Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham * Stefano Guerrini, Univ. Paris 13 (PC Chair) * Ian Mackie, ?cole Polytechnique Univ. Paris-Saclay * Roberto Maieli, Univ. Roma Tre * Giulio Manzonetto, Univ. Paris 13 * Laurent Regnier, Univ. Aix-Marseille * Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, Univ. Bologna * Alexis Saurin, Univ. Paris Diderot * Lorenzo Tortora de Falco, Univ. Roma Tre ** Organizing committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thomas Ehrhard (IRIF, Univ. Paris Diderot) * Stefano Guerrini (LIPN, Univ. Paris 13) * Lorenzo Tortora de Falco (Univ. Roma Tre) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Invited Speakers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * TBA * TBA * TBA * TBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Contact ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to Stefano Guerrini (mailto:stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Supporting Organisations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GDRI Linear Logic (CNRS-INDAM) Universit? Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cit? Universit? Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cit? Universit? Roma Tre ===================================== Stefano Guerrini Institut Galil?e, Universit? Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cit? Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN), CNRS (UMR 7030) stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr From foclasa2017 at gmail.com Wed May 3 09:40:43 2017 From: foclasa2017 at gmail.com (foclasa2017 at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 15:40:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOCLASA 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <201705031340.v43DehGK011406@localhost.localdomain> [Apologies in case of multiple posting] ------ FOCLASA 2017: Second Call for Papers ------ 15th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es September 5, 2017, Trento (Italy) Colocated with SEFM 2017 - http://sefm17.fbk.eu Follow us on Twitter: @foclasa2017 ------------------------------------------------------ FOCLASA 2017 is a workshop colocated with the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2017). The goal of FOCLASA is to put together researchers and practitioners to share and identify common problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of coordination languages and self-adaptive systems. ------ IMPORTANT DATES ------ June 2, 2017: Deadline for abstract submission June 9, 2017: Deadline for paper submission July 7, 2017: Notifications July, 2017: Final versions (precise date TBA) September 5, 2017: Workshop in Trento ------ TOPICS OF INTEREST ------ * Theoretical models and frameworks for component and/or service coordination, service composition, 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 (Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Smart cities, Big Data, etc.). * Languages and specification protocols for component and/or service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. * Models and architectures for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud systems; 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. * Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, stochastic modeling and analysis, reasoning under uncertainty, run-time synthesis. * 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, etc.) In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well: * Business process modeling * Component-based systems * Service-oriented computing * Cloud computing * Internet of Things * Large-scale distributed systems * Grid computing * Multi-agent systems * Networked embedded systems * Peer-to-peer systems Survey works analysing and comparing literature on the topics of FOCLASA are also welcome. ------ PAPER SUBMISSION ------ Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their results. Description of work-in-progress with concrete results is also encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS style and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foclasa2017 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 is not allowed. All accepted papers will be included in the LNCS Workshop Proceedings of SEFM 2017, to be published by Springer after the workshop. Additionally, and following the tradition of past editions, a special issue of Science in Computer Programming (SCP, Elsevier) will be devoted to the best papers accepted at FOCLASA 2017. 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. ------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ------ * Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain * Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble Alpes, France ------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------ * Pedro Alvarez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Simon Bliudze, EPFL, Switzerland * Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK * Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano, Italy * Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Nima Kaviani, IBM, USA * Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark * Sun Meng, Peking University, China * Hernan C. Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina * Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden * Marc Oriol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain * Pascal Poizat, Universite Paris Ouest, France * Jose Proenca, INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA * Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Lina Ye, CentraleSupelec, France * Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy ------ PUBLICITY CHAIR ------ * Gianluca Barbon, University of Grenoble Alpes, France ------ WEB CHAIR ------ * Alejandro Perez Vereda, University of Malaga, Spain ------ STEERING COMMITTEE ------ * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain * Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble Alpes, France From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Wed May 3 13:59:44 2017 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 18:59:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: Workshop on Type-driven Development (TyDe '17) Message-ID: <9ef2fca4-8935-b686-53f6-80d65032c715@ed.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Type-Driven Development (TyDe '17) 3 September 2017, Oxford, UK http://tydeworkshop.org/2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Goals of the workshop The workshop on Type-Driven Development aims to show how static type information may be used effectively in the development of computer programs. Co-located with ICFP, this workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners who are using or exploring types as a means of program development. We welcome all contributions, both theoretical and practical, on a range of topics including: - dependently typed programming; - generic programming; - design and implementation of programming languages, exploiting types in novel ways; - exploiting typed data, data dependent data, or type providers; - static and dynamic analyses of typed programs; - tools, IDEs, or testing tools exploiting type information; - pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of types used in the derivation, calculation, or construction of programs. # Invited speaker Andrew Kennedy, Facebook, UK # Program Committee - Nada Amin, EPFL, Switzerland - Ana Bove, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, US - Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Sam Lindley, The University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) - Limin Jia, CMU, US - Assia Mahboubi, INRIA Saclay, France - Liam O?Connor, University of New South Wales, Australia - Nicolas Oury, Jane Street, UK - Jennifer Paykin, University of Pennsylvania, US - Paula Severi, University of Leicester, UK - Tarmo Uustalu, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK - Brent Yorgey, Hendrix College, US (co-chair) # 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, 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 Submissions should fall into one of two categories: - Regular research papers (12 pages) - Extended abstracts (2 pages) The bibliography will not be counted against the page limits for either category. Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results, and will be included in the formal proceedings. Extended abstracts should report work in progress that the authors would like to present at the workshop. Extended abstracts will be distributed to workshop attendees but will not be published in the formal proceedings. We welcome submissions from PC members (with the exception of the two co-chairs), but these submissions will be held to a higher standard. Submission is handled through HotCRP: https://icfp-tyde17.hotcrp.com/ All submissions should be in portable document format (PDF) and formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ *Note* that the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines have changed from previous years! In particular, submissions should use the new ?acmart? format and the two-column ?sigplan? subformat (not to be confused with the one-column ?acmlarge? subformat!). Extended abstracts must be submitted with the label 'Extended abstract' clearly in the title. # Important Dates - Regular paper deadline: Wednesday, 24th May, 2017 - Extended abstract deadline: Wednesday, 7th June, 2017 - Author notification: Wednesday, 28th June, 2017 - Deadline for camera ready version: Saturday, 15th July, 2017 - Workshop: Sunday, 3rd September, 2017 # 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/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From evan.chang at Colorado.EDU Wed May 3 23:12:02 2017 From: evan.chang at Colorado.EDU (Bor-Yuh Evan Chang) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 21:12:02 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2017: Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, CfP, June 13 deadline Message-ID: ********************************************************************* APLAS 2017 Call for Papers 15th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems Suzhou, China, November 27-29, 2017 https://www-aplas.github.io/ ********************************************************************* # Important Dates - Abstract deadline: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - Paper deadline: Friday, June 16, 2017 - Author response: Wednesday-Friday, July 26-28, 2017 - Author notification: Monday, August 14, 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: Friday, September 1, 2017 - Conference: Monday-Wednesday, November 27-29, 2017 All deadline times are AoE. # 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 languages 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 Hanoi ('16), Pohang ('15), 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 broadly spanning the areas of 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 demonstrations 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: - **Regular research papers** describing original scientific research results, including system development and case studies. Regular research papers *should not exceed 18 pages* in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. This category encompasses both theoretical and implementation (also known as system descriptions) papers. In either case, submissions 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. System descriptions papers should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. - **System and tool demonstrations** describing a demonstration of a tool or a system that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The main purpose of a tool paper is to display a completed, robust and well-documented tool--highlighting the overall functionality of the tool, the interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the tool, an assessment of the tool's strengths and weaknesses, and a summary of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of tool demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the tool at the conference. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They may include an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live demo. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2017 using EasyChair. The acceptable format is 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. # Review Process *New for APLAS 2017* ## Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process APLAS 2017 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following this process means that reviewers will not see the authors' names or affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors' names will then be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted. To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following: - **Author names and institutions must be omitted** and - References to the 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 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, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should *not* be omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. 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. ## Author Response Period During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and respond to them as appropriate. ## Research Integrity The Program Committee reserves the right, up until the time of publication, to reverse a decision of paper acceptance. Reversal is possible if fatal flaws are discovered in the paper, or research integrity is found to have been seriously breached. # Organizers ## General Chair Xinyu Feng (University of Science and Technology of China) ## Program Chair Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder) ## Program Committee Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sam Blackshear (Facebook) Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica) Yuting Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Stephen Chong (Harvard University) Vijay D'Silva (Google) Benjamin Delaware (Purdue University) Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS) Cezara Dragoi (INRIA, ENS, CNRS) William Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology) Guoliang Jin (North Carolina State University) Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India) Vu Le (Microsoft) Akimasa Morihata (University of Tokyo) Sergio Mover (University of Colorado Boulder) Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers University) Hakjoo Oh (Korea University) Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira (The University of Hong Kong) Xiaokang Qiu (Purdue University) Arjun Radhakrishna (University of Pennsylvania) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST) Ilya Sergey (University College London) Makoto Tatsuta (National Institute of Informatics) Tachio Terauchi (JAIST) Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica) Yingfei Xiong (Peking University) Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University) Danfeng Zhang (Pennsylvania State University) Xin Zhang (Georgia institute of Technology) Kenny Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) ## Local Organization Chair Ming Fu (University of Science and Technology of China) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrei at chalmers.se Wed May 3 16:56:10 2017 From: andrei at chalmers.se (Andrei Sabelfeld) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 22:56:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position on Security and Privacy of Location-Based Services at at Chalmers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2bd5714d-9b79-ca68-bd77-afd8ffff71a6@chalmers.se> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhD position on Security and Privacy of Location-Based Services at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Application deadline: May 31, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Job description* The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology invites applications for a PhD position in Security and Privacy of Location-Based Services. The PhD student will join a world-leading team of researchers on software security and privacy. Software is often the root cause of vulnerabilities in modern computing systems. By focusing on securing the software, we target principled security mechanisms that provide robust protection against large classes of attacks. The advertised position is on Security and Privacy of Location-Based Services. The position is a part of Wallenberg Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), Sweden's largest individual engineering research program. Location-based services/systems (LBS) see tremendous growth, with application from smartphones to autonomous vehicles and aircraft. This project is on rigorous techniques for security and privacy in LBS, including: -security and privacy foundations of LBS: formal modeling and reasoning for LBS policies; -application-, service-, and system-level mechanisms: enforcing security and privacy policies for LBS by such software-level techniques as informationflow control (IFC), program analysis, and monitoring, and their integration with such hardware-level mechanisms as Isolated Execution Environments (IEE) and infrastructure for secure localization; -cryptographic techniques for LBS: designing and scaling decentralized approaches, such as those enabled by secure multi-party computation. This position will be supervised by Prof. Andrei Sabelfeld http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~andrei/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Details about employment* PhD student position is limited to five years and normally include 20 per cent departmental work, mostly teaching duties. Salary for the position is as specified in Chalmers' general agreement for PhD student positions. Currently the starting salary is around 30,000SEK a month before tax. The position is intended to start in fall 2017. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Suitable background* Applicants should have a Master's Degree or corresponding degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or in a related discipline. As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills, both oral and written, are needed. You may apply even if you have not completed your degree, but expect to do so before the position starts. Knowledge of Swedish is not a prerequisite for applying since English is our working language for research, and we publish internationally. Both Swedish and English are used in undergraduate courses. Half of our researchers and PhD students at the department come from more than 30 different countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *How to apply* The application should be submitted electronically via the following link: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=5052 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *The department* The department has about 260 employees from more than 30 countries. The research spans the whole spectrum, from theoretical foundations to applied systems development. There is extensive national and international collaboration with academia and industry all around the world. For more information, see http://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/cse/Pages/default.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Gothenburg, Sweden* Gothenburg is often referred to as the "heart of Scandinavia". "This is Gothenburg" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCgd9YfZ34 From cezarykaliszyk at gmail.com Wed May 3 15:10:49 2017 From: cezarykaliszyk at gmail.com (Cezary Kaliszyk) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 21:10:49 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD and Postdoc positions in Innsbruck Message-ID: We invite candidates for multiple PhD student and Postdoc researcher positions to start in 2017 or 2018 in the 5-year project "Strong Modular Proof Assistance: Reasoning across Theories" in the CL group at the University of Innsbruck. The starting date can be negotiated. PhD student positions like Postdoc positions are formal employment in Austria, with a regular salary and benefits. Applications before June 15 will receive a full consideration. A background in proof assistants or machine learning is an advantage. Knowledge of German is not required, the group is international and the language of communication is English. Candidates for a PhD position must hold a MSc in computer science or mathematics and candidates for the postdoctoral position hold a PhD degree in computer science or mathematics. Applications and informal inquiries are welcome, please contact Cezary Kaliszyk (cezary.kaliszyk at uibk.ac.at). Applications should include a CV and names and contact details of two references. For the Postdoc positions please include a brief research statement. The city of Innsbruck, which hosted the Olympic Winter Games in 1964, 1976 and 2012 (YOG), 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. The CL group is one of the leading groups concerned with formalization and certification in the world. More information and links about the project, the group, and the university: http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/cek/smart/ -- Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/cek/ From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu May 4 05:44:31 2017 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 09:44:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Learning and Automata workshop: call for participation, early reg deadline 5 May Message-ID: <4D5BF0DC-C64D-4234-84E7-27CAF13CDB32@cs.ox.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Learning and Automata (LearnAut) ? LICS 2017 Workshop June 19, Reykjavik (Iceland) Early registration: May 5th (VERY SOON) https://learnaut.wordpress.com/ Grammatical Inference studies machine learning algorithms for classical recursive models of computations like automata and grammars. The expressive power of these models and the complexity of associated computational problems are a major research topic within theoretical computer science. This workshop aims at offering a favorable place for dialogue and at generating discussions between researchers from these two communities. The following papers have been accepted for oral presentation: - Enes Avcu, Chihiro Shibata and Jeffrey Heinz: Subregular Complexity and Deep Learning - Alexander Clark: Strong learning of Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars from Strings - Nathana?l Fijalkow: Bisimulation on Distributions for Markov Decision Processes - Oded Maler and Irini-Eleftheria Mens: On Learning Symbolic Automata over Boolean Alphabets - Ariadna Quattoni, Xavier Carreras and Matthias Gall?. Scalable Spectral Learning of Automata through Maximum Matching - Rick Smetsers: Grammatical Inference as a Satisfiability Modulo Theories Problem In addition, the papers accepted for poster presentation are: - Giovanni Bacci, Giorgio Bacci, Kim Guldstrand Larsen and Radu Mardare: On the Metric-based Approximate Minimization of Markov Chains - Simone Barlocco and Clemens Kupke: Automata Learning: A Modal Logic Perspective - Michael Bukatin and Jon Anthony: Dataflow Matrix Machines as a Model of Computations with Linear Streams - Kaizaburo Chubachi, Diptarama, Ryo Yoshinaka and Ayumi Shinohara: Query Learning of Regular Languages over Large Ordered Alphabets - Joshua Moerman: Learning Product Automata - Tianyu Li, Guillaume Rabusseau and Doina Precup: Neural Network Based Nonlinear Weighted Finite Automata - Alexis Linard, Rick Smetsers, Frits Vaandrager, Umar Waqas, Joost van Pinxten and Sicco Verwer: Learning Pairwise Disjoint Simple Languages from Positive Examples - Xiaoran Liu, Qin Lin, Sicco Verwer and Dmitri Jarnikov: Anomaly Detection in a Digital Video Broadcasting System Using Timed Automata - Guillaume Rabusseau and Joelle Pineau: Multitask Spectral Learning of Weighted Automata - Michal Soucha and Kirill Bogdanov: Efficient Active Learning with Extra States The following top researchers will be invited speakers at LearnAut: - Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University) - Mehryar Mohri (New York University & Google Research) - Alexandra Silva (University College London) If you have not registered yet to the workshop, and if you are interested by its program, we strongly recommend you to do it as soon as possible (http://www.icetcs.ru.is/lics2017-registration.html). The early registration deadline is on May 5th. Pressures on accommodation possibilities are high, the sooner you book one the better it is (a lot of hotels are unfortunately already full). Looking forward to seeing you at Reykjavik! Borja Balle (Amazon) Leonor Becerra-Bonache (Jean Monnet) Remi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille) From bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca Thu May 4 04:30:07 2017 From: bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca (Brigitte Pientka) Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 10:30:07 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2017: Call For Papers (Abstract 12 May / Paper 19 May) Message-ID: ======================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 19th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2017 Namur, Belgium, October 9-11, 2017 (co-located with LOPSTR'17) http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/ppdp2017 ======================================================== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 12 May (abstracts) / 19 May (papers) ======================================================== PPDP 2017 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint programming paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency, security, static analysis, and verification. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ** Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability; concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; probabilistic languages; reactive languages; database languages; knowledge representation languages; languages with objects; language extensions for tabulation; metaprogramming. ** Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection; memory management. ** Foundations: type systems; type classes; dependent types; logical frameworks; monads; resource analysis; cost models; continuations; control; state; effects; semantics. ** Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow; termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing. ** Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments; verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application; education. This year the conference will be co-located with the 27th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017). IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission: 12 May 2017 Paper Submission: 19 May 2017 Paper Rebuttal: 10 July 2017 Notification: 20 July 2017 Final Version: 15 Aug 2017 SUBMISSION CATEGORIES: Submissions can be made in three categories: regular Research Papers, System Descriptions, and Experience Reports. Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages ACM style 2-column (including figures and bibliography). Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Submissions of research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability. Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of submission and will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc., is used in practice. They must not exceed 6 pages. Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time of submission and need not report original research results. They will be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: * insights gained from real-world projects using declarative programming * comparison of declarative programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum * curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming in education * real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a declarative language or for declarative programming in general * novel use of declarative programming in the classroom * programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or programming technique. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions must be formatted using ACM style files (latest release December 2016) using the instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template To prepare your submission using LaTex: * Download acmart.zip from https://www.ctan.org/pkg/acmart * Unzip acmart.zip * Run latex acmart.ins to produce an acmart.cls file * Run pdflatex sample-sigconf.tex to check that your installation works correctly * Write your paper using sample-sigconf.tex as a template 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, etc., 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. At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. Papers must be submitted via easychair. The submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2017 PROCEEDING Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. PROGRAM CHAIR Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) Nadia Amin (EPFL) Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon) Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (University of Torino) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) Thom Fr?hwirth (University of Ulm) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) Neel Krishnaswami (University of Cambridge) Micha?l Leuschel (Universit?t D?sseldorf) Yanhong Annie Liu (Stony Brook University) Andres Loeh (Well-Typed) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Paraiba / fortiss) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) (PC Chair) Ulrich Schoepp (Ludwig Maximilian University) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University) Bernardo Toninho (Imperial College London) LOCAL ORGANIZER (joint with LOPSTR): Wim Vanhoof (University of Namur) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jkatelaan at forsyte.at Thu May 4 05:41:07 2017 From: jkatelaan at forsyte.at (Jens Katelaan) Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 11:41:07 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: LogiCS/RiSE Summer School on Logic, AI and Verification [July 3 to 5] Message-ID: [Apologies in advance should you receive multiple copies of this mail.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation LogiCS/RiSE Summer School on Logic, AI and Verification July 3 -- 5, 2017, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria http://forsyte.at/laive-summer-school-2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The doctoral college Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS, http://logic-cs.at/phd/) and the Austrian Society for Rigorous Systems Engineering (RiSE, http://arise.or.at/) will host a summer school on Logic, Artificial Intelligence and Verification at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria from July 3 to July 5. The summer school targets master and doctoral students in Computer Science and Mathematics with a strong interest in Logic, Artificial Intelligence and Automated Verification. The event is open to all interested students. The school will feature the following lectures: * Johannes Fuernkranz (TU Darmstadt): Introduction to Machine Learning * Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck): Machine Learning in Theorem Proving * Dan Olteanu (University of Oxford): From Joins to Aggregates to Optimization Problems * Diego Calvanese and Marco Montali (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen): Verification of Data-Centric Systems * Matteo Maffei (TU Wien): TBA Register until May 31 to profit from the early registration fee of ?70! For more information and registration, see http://forsyte.at/laive-summer-school-2017 From msteffen at ifi.uio.no Thu May 4 10:09:18 2017 From: msteffen at ifi.uio.no (Martin Steffen) Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 16:09:18 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1-2 Ph.D positions on Combining Formal Methods and Machine Learning (U. of Oslo), 9. June 2017 Message-ID: <20170504140918.69D1F697@rijkaard.ifi.uio.no> __________________________________________________ Up to 2 PH.D POSITIONS in Combining Formal Methods and Machine Learning deadline: 9. June 2017 Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oslo https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/137456/phd-research-fellow-combining-formal-methods-and-machine-learning-1-2-positions __________________________________________________ PhD Research Fellow , 1-2 positions * Context A position as PhD Research Fellow in Formal Modeling and Analysis is available at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. The fellowship will be for a period of 3 years with no compulsory work and with possibility to extend to 4 years with 25 % compulsory work (teaching responsibilities at the Department or innovation activities in the SIRIUS Center). Starting date is as soon as possible. * Job description The position is funded by SIRIUS (Center for Scalable Data Access in the Oil and Gas Domain), a new Center for Research-Driven Innovation (SFI) at the University of Oslo. It constitutes a long-term research initiative, funded by the Norwegian Research Council involving both academic research teams (UiO, NTNU and Oxford University) as well as industrial partners including operators (Statoil), service companies (Schlumberger and DNV GL) and IT companies (e.g., Computas, Evry, IBM). The center has as its main goal to develop novel technologies to improve our ability to extract and exploit information from large data stores. The position is hosted at the IFI SIRIUS center, the Execution Modeling and Analysis group, where we research systematic model exploration techniques to predict the behavior of software/system executions based on the analysis of models. The main focus of this PhD project will be to develop and study new model-based engineering techniques for context-dependent adaptive systems, exploiting the interplay between systematic model exploration and machine learning techniques. In context-dependent adaptive systems, system behavior depends on some contextual information (e.g., data coming from sensors) and the systems must adapt based on their interactions with the environment. We are interested in investigating techniques that combine formal executable modeling with reinforcement learning algorithms to calibrate models and simulate system behavior where its performance improves over time. Demands on analysis techniques to understand context-dependent adaptive systems are increasing in many industrial areas, such as manufacturing, healthcare, oil&gass, and automotive industries. Through SIRIUS, the PhD student will have the opportunity to collaborate with industry and to apply the developed techniques on real industrial cases. Applicants should submit a statement of research interests or a project outline for the PhD project, but it is expected that the successful candidate will ultimately define their project jointly with their supervisors during the first two months of the fellowship.The application letter should discuss at least one research topic of interest to the candidate, including a brief reflection about the scientific issues involved and the possible choice of theory and method(s). This statement of research purpose should not exceed one page. * Requirements Applicants must hold a Master's degree or equivalent in a relevant field such as computing/informatics/software engineering/machine learning. A solid background in computing science or software engineering is required. Good knowledge on algorithms, formal methods, machine learning, and software development skills and experiences will be considered an advantage when candidates are ranked. Additional formal requirements (excepted documents, procedural questions, etc.) as well as information concerning the university as workplace is available via the link given above. From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Thu May 4 05:02:29 2017 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 11:02:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) co-located with CSF 2017 Message-ID: GraMSec 2017 - call for papers The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 LNCS proceedings confirmed SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber 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 vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop 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. TOPICS 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: ? Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis ? Graphical models for risk analysis and management ? Graphical models for requirements analysis and management ? Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security ? Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems ? Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness ? Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm ? Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models ? Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models ? Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models ? Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models ? Scalable evaluation of graphical security models ? Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models ? Dynamic update of graphical security models ? Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling ? Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants ? Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security ? UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security ? Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis ? Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be decided. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: ? Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. ? Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. The GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission deadline: Sunday, May 21, 2017 ? Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 ? Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR ? Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS ? Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA ? Ketil St?len, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, T?l?com ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Universit? di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Fr?d?ric Cuppens, T?l?com Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, T?l?com Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Herv? Debar, T?l?com SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI and MITRE, USA Ren? Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Universit? Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per H?kon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Link?ping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA St?phane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Pi?tre-Cambac?d?s, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Sup?lec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Sa?a Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Universit? C?te d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mari?lle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17 at easychair.org From andersmortberg at gmail.com Thu May 4 13:22:03 2017 From: andersmortberg at gmail.com (Anders) Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 19:22:03 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Contributions: Workshop on HoTT/UF (with FSCD 2017) Message-ID: ========================================================== CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF, at FSCD 2017) ========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations September 8-9, 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom https://hott-uf.github.io/2017/ Co-located with FSCD 2017 https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ Abstract submission deadline: June 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homotopy Type Theory is a young area of logic, combining ideas from several established fields: the use of dependent type theory as a foundation for mathematics, inspired by ideas and tools from abstract homotopy theory. Univalent Foundations are foundations of mathematics based on the homotopical interpretation of type theory. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations: from the study of syntax and semantics of type theory to practical formalization in proof assistants based on univalent type theory. As part of the workshop there will be an introductory tutorial intended to make the invited and contributed talks accessible to non-experts. ============================ # Invited talks/tutorials * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) (tutorial) * Ulrik Buchholtz (Technical University of Darmstadt) * Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg) ================ # Submissions * Abstract submission deadline: June 30 * Author notification: mid July Submissions should consist of a title and a 1-2 pages abstract, in pdf format, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottuf17 Considering the broad background of the expected audience, we encourage authors to include information of pedagogical value in their abstract, such as motivation and context of their work. ====================== # Program committee * Paolo Capriotti (University of Nottingham) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) * Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) * Assia Mahboubi (Inria Saclay) * Paige North (University of Cambridge) * Nicolas Tabareau (Inria Nantes) ================ # Organizers * Benedikt Ahrens (Inria Nantes) * Simon Huber (University of Gothenburg) * Anders M?rtberg (Inria Sophia Antipolis) From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Sun May 7 19:04:55 2017 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 00:04:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CFP: ML Family Workshop 2017 Message-ID: <38fb30a5-292e-3810-0d05-dd660d8ed5b7@ed.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ML Family Workshop 2017 7 September 2017, Oxford, UK http://www.mlworkshop.org/ml2017/ (co-located with ICFP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ML is a 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, Rust, and Scala. 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 ATS, Eff, F*, Koka, Links, Rust, Scala, Swift, etc.), to exchange experience of further developing ML ideas. Last year's ML Family workshop included talks covering eight different ML dialects and related languages: Eff, F#, F*, Links, Manticore, OCaml, SML, and SML#. The ML family workshop will be held in close coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Invited speaker --------------- Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews, UK) Scope ----- We acknowledge the whole breadth of the ML family and aim to include languages that are closely related, such as Rust and Scala. 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 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 2017 workshop will continue the informal approach followed 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 2017 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. The bibliography will not be counted against the page limit. Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website https://icfp-mlworkshop17.hotcrp.com/ before the submission deadline (Wednesday 31st May). If you have a question concerning the scope of the workshop or the submission process, please contact the programme chair. Important dates --------------- Wednesday 31st May (any time zone) Abstract submission deadline Wednesday 28th June Author notification Thursday 7th September 2017 ML Family Workshop Programme committee ------------------- Nick Benton (Facebook, UK) Ma?gorzata Biernacka (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Stephen Dolan (University of Cambridge, UK) Shin-ya Katsumata (Kyoto University, Japan) Julia Lawall (LIP6 Paris, France) Sam Lindley (The University of Edinburgh, UK) (PC chair) Andreas Rossberg (Google, Germany) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, South Korea) Gabriel Scherer (Northeastern University, US) Alley Stoughton (Boston University, US) Niki Vazou (University of Maryland, US) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From mikael.mayer at epfl.ch Fri May 5 09:38:37 2017 From: mikael.mayer at epfl.ch (mikael.mayer at epfl.ch) Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 06:38:37 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CAV 2017: Call for participation In-Reply-To: References: <44d77cfade1f445e80c07942c06e044d@REXE.intranet.epfl.ch> Message-ID: ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Computer-Aided Verification, 29th International Conference CAV 2017 Heidelberg, Germany, 22-28 July 2017 http://www.cavconference.org/2017 ****************************************************************** TL;DR Early registration: June 14, 2017; Hotel booking deadlines: early June, 2017 We hope to welcome you at CAV -- we have an exciting program! -- ABOUT CAV -- CAV 2017 is the 29th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. 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. Along with the main conference, CAV will feature eight workshops (including a special workshop in honor of David Dill) and tutorials. Highlights: -- WORKSHOPS (22-23 July) -- VERIFICATION MENTORING WORKSHOP (23 July) -- SPECIAL WORKSHOP Dill at 60 in Honor of David Dill (24 July) -- MAIN CONFERENCE (24-28 July) -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research * Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford * Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS * Winner of the CAV award (to be announced at the conference) -- INVITED TUTORIALS * Loris D?Antoni, University of Wisconsin-Madison: The power of symbolic automata and transducers * Mayur Naik, University of Pennsylvania: Maximum Satisfiability in Software Analysis: Applications and Techniques -- PUBLIC LECTURE ``Logic Lounge'' in memory of Helmut Veith * Fabiana Zollo: Social Dynamics in the Post-Truth Society: How the Confirmation Bias is Changing the Public Discourse -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- See the list of accepted papers at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (22-23 July) -- 7 satellite workshops will take place before CAV 2017. Check their calls for papers and consider contributing! ? SYNT ? Sixth Workshop on Synthesis (July 22) ? DARS ? Design and Analysis of Robust Systems (July 22) ? NSV/Rise4CPS ? Numerical Software Verification and Formal Methods for Rigorous Systems Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems (July 22-23) ? SMT ? Satisfiability Modulo Theories (July 22-23) ? VSTTE ? Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiment (July 22-23) ? VMW ? Verification Mentoring Workshop (July 23) ? FEVER ? Formal Approaches to Explainable VERification (July 23) -- REGISTRATION -- Early registration is until Wednesday, June 14, 2017 (AOE). http://cavconference.org/2017/registration/ -- VENUE -- Workshops will be organized at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Heidelberg City Center. The conference will be organized at the beautiful Heidelberg Stadthalle by the River Neckar. -- ACCOMMODATION -- The organizers have negotiated special rates from several hotels in Heidelberg. To benefit from those, follow the instructions on the conference website. The offers expire on different dates on or before the early registration deadline. Heidelberg is a busy tourist destination in July. It is important to book your hotel as soon as possible! -- HOST CITY -- Heidelberg is a picturesque city one the river Neckar at the heart of the 'Rhine-Neckar Triangle' in western Germany. It is renowned for its medieval castle, its old university (founded in 1386) and "Philosopher's Walk," and its historic old town. It is a cosmopolitan and vibrant college town with a rich academic and cultural tradition (including a 16th century Student Jail for mischievous students :-o). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg July is warm and sunny for the most part. It is also high tourist season. -- ORGANIZERS -- We hope to welcome you to CAV 2017! Viktor Kuncak (EPFL) Rupak Majumdar (MPI-SWS) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From owre at csl.sri.com Sun May 7 20:04:15 2017 From: owre at csl.sri.com (Sam Owre) Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 17:04:15 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AFM 2017 call for registration Message-ID: Registration is open for AFM 2017 (http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM17). AFM has a workshop on May 19 at SRI International, and a day of tutorials on May 20 at Menlo College. The cost of registration is $50 a day (+ 3% for credit card payments). Note that we do not have hotel arrangements. Breakfast, lunch, and breaks are included. Payment will be accepted at the meetings. The sixth Automated Formal Methods (AFM) workshop will be held during May 19-20, 2017, at SRI International and Menlo College in Menlo Park. The earlier workshops were AFM06, AFM07, AFM08, AFM09, and AFM10. The 2017 workshop immediately follows the NASA Formal Methods (NFM) 2017 symposium. It consists of both invited talks and contributed papers on May 19, and tutorials covering recent progress in tools such as PVS, SAL/SALLY/HybridSAL, Yices, SeaHorn, Radler, and Bixie. AFM functions both as a user's meeting for SRI's tools such as PVS, SAL, and Yices, and as a workshop for those interested in state of the art automation for formal methods generally. Workshop Description AFM is a workshop centered around the use and integration of highly automated formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, static analysis, runtime verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education. This workshop was originally initiated as a users' group meeting for the SRI formal verification tools, which now include PVS, SAL, HybridSAL, SALLY, Yices, NL-Yices, Joogie, Bixie, and SeaHorn, together with technologies under development, such as ARSENAL, Radler, Occam, PCE, and ETB. However, topics are not restricted to these tools: we welcome contributions on all aspects of state of the art automation. The proceedings of the workshop will be published through the ACM Digital Library. Workshop Program The program includes contributed papers and invited talks selected by the international program committee on May 19, and a series of tutorials on May 20, 2017. Program Committee Saddek Bensalem (Verimag) Matthew Bolton (Buffalo) Maria Paola Bonacina (Verona) Alessandro Coglio (Kestrel Institute) Bruno Dutertre (SRI, co-Chair) Leonard Gerard (SRI) Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) Arie Gurfinkel (U. of Waterloo) Liana Hadarean (Synopsys) Ben Hocking (Dependable Computing) Susmit Jha (SRI) Dejan Jovanovic (SRI) Temesghen Kahsai (CMU West) Aditya Kanade (IISc, Bangalore) Wenchao Li (Boston University) Paolo Masci (Queen Mary) Mariano Moscato (NIA) Cesar Munoz (NASA Langley) Anitha Murugesan (Honeywell Research) Jorge Navas (SRI) Natasha Neogi (NIA) Sam Owre (SRI) Lee Pike (Galois) Elvinia Riccobene (Milan) Kristin Rozier (Iowa) John Rushby (SRI) Martin Schaef (SRI) Natarajan Shankar (SRI, co-Chair) Wilfried Steiner (TTTech) Ashish Tiwari (SRI) Alan Wassyng (McMaster University) From adrian.francalanza at um.edu.mt Fri May 5 10:47:34 2017 From: adrian.francalanza at um.edu.mt (Adrian Francalanza) Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 16:47:34 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PrePost 2017 CFP Message-ID: First call for papers PrePost (Pre- and Post-Deployment Verification Techniques) Second International Workshop (Affiliated with iFM 2017, Torino, IT) http://staff.um.edu.mt/afra1/prepost17/ Scope The workshop aims to bring together researchers working in the field of computer-aided validation, programming languages and verification to discuss the connections and interplay between pre- and post-deployment verification techniques. Examples of the topics covered by the workshop are the relationships between classic model checking and testing on the one hand and runtime verification and statistical model checking on the other, and between type systems that may be checked either statically or dynamically through techniques such as runtime monitoring, gradual typing and contracts. Relevant topics also include the synthesis of runtime adaptation and enforcement mechanisms from correctness specifications, as well as the combination of deductive verification with runtime verification. Contributions related to tools and applications of pre- and post-deployment verification will also be welcome. Important Dates Abstract submission: June 5, 2017 Paper submission: June 12, 2017 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2017 Camera ready version: July 17, 2017 Conference iFM 2017: Sep 20-22, 2016 Workshop PrePost 2017: Sep 19, 2017 Topics of Interest PrePost welcomes papers of either theoretical or applied interest, including case studies or experience reports dealing with the interplay between any of the pre- and post-verification techniques including: Monitoring, Enforcement and Adaptation Dynamic/Static/Gradual Type Systems Runtime Verification Model Checking Testing Program and Specification Logics Deductive Verification Submission We solicit the submission of original and 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, as well as work-in-progress or exploratory ideas. All papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style. Full papers should not exceed 15 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prepost17 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 workshop proceedings, which will be published as a volume of the EPTCS series. We are looking into publishing selected papers in a special issue of a journal, following the standard reviewing process of the selected journal. Invited Speakers Luca Padovani (Universit? di Torino) Alex Mifsud (Ixaris Ltd.) Program Committee Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Dilian Gurov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Chair) Heiko Mantel (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Leonardo Mariani (University of Milan Bicocca) Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Gordon J. 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URL: From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Mon May 8 04:47:39 2017 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 10:47:39 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension may 15: Trends in Functional Programming, 19-21 june 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury Message-ID: TFP 2017 EXTENSION: Deadline extension until Monday, 15 May (anywhere on earth). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We encourage anyone who wants to present their work at TFP in Canterbury, England this June to submit a 2-10 page abstract if time is too short to put together a full paper. ----------------------------- F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2017 =========== 18th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 19-21 June, 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/tfp17/index.html 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. TFP 2017 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2017 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on 22 June. 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; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015; * and Maryland (USA) in 2016. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/). == 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, but are not limited to: 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 2017 program chairs, Scott Owens and Meng Wang. == 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. == 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=tfp17 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 == INVITED SPEAKERS == Conor McBride University of Strathclyde (UK) C?t?lin Hri?cu INRIA Paris (FR) == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: ***15 May, 2017*** extension Notification: 12 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 TFP Symposium: 19-21 June, 2017 Student papers feedback: 29 June, 2017 Submission for formal review: 2 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 3 November, 2017 Camera ready paper: 2 December, 2017 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Co-Chairs Meng Wang University of Kent (UK) Scott Owens University of Kent (UK) PC Jeremy Yallop University of Cambridge (UK) Nicolas Wu University of Bristol (UK) Laura Castro University of A Coru?a (ES) Gabriel Scherer Northeastern University (US) Edwin Brady University of St Andrews (UK) Janis Voigtl?nder Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven (BE) Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology (US) Mauro Jaskelioff CIFASIS/Universidad Nacional de Rosario (AG) Patricia Johann Appalachian State University (US) Bruno Oliveira The University of Hong Kong (HK) Rita Loogen Philipps-Universit?t Marburg (GE) David Van Horn University of Marylan (US) Soichiro Hidaka Hosei University (JP) Micha? Pa?ka Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Sandrine Blazy University of Rennes 1 - IRISA (FR) From maria at mpi-sws.org Mon May 8 06:18:14 2017 From: maria at mpi-sws.org (Maria Christakis) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 13:18:14 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern, Germany Message-ID: <003e01d2c7e4$6854e230$38fea690$@mpi-sws.org> Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) based at Kaiserslautern, Germany, under the supervision of Maria Christakis (https://mariachris.github.io/). MPI-SWS offers an internationally renowned research community as well as a multicultural and open working environment. Maria has recently won the prestigious EAPLS Best Dissertation Award and is excited to continue her work on Practical Formal Methods with a talented and motivated postdoctoral researcher. The initial postdoc appointment is for two years, starting anytime after October 2017, with an option to extend to a third year (depending on performance). The position is relatively independent in that it is not tied to a specific project and there is considerable freedom to choose a research topic. Nevertheless, the postdoc is expected to collaborate closely with other researchers in the group. Thus, the main topics of interest are: - defect analysis of smart contracts - collaborative verification and testing - systematic testing of large programs - practical concurrency error detection The successful candidate will have a strong background in at least one of the following areas: - automatic test generation - software verification - static and/or dynamic program analysis - security Qualified candidates are encouraged to contact Maria directly by e-mail (maria AT mpi-sws DOT org), and in addition, submit a formal online application at: https://apply.mpi-sws.org/ The application consists of a CV, a research statement, and a list of referees. Application deadline: Friday, 14 July. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dvanhorn at cs.umd.edu Mon May 8 11:21:22 2017 From: dvanhorn at cs.umd.edu (David Van Horn) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 11:21:22 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Basili Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Message-ID: Below is a call for applications to the Basili Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at UMD, which is intended for post-docs working in programming languages and software engineering. We welcome and encourage applicants form the TYPES list. Successful applicants would be able to work with the PLUM lab, lead by Mike Hicks, Jeff Foster, and David Van Horn, as well as the current Basili scholars: Niki Vazou and Thomas Gilray. https://www.cs.umd.edu/basili-postdoc ;; The University of Maryland (UMD) Computer Science Department has a long history of leading research in software engineering and programming languages. To help ensure its continuing success, the UMD Computer Science Department is proud to announce the 2nd call for nominations for the Victor Basili Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship program seeks talented, highly-motivated, post-doctoral computer scientists to conduct research in the area of Applied Software Engineering and Programming Languages, broadly construed. The primary goal of this effort is to build research collaborations and capacity to solve a variety of problems in government and industry by using cutting-edge software engineering and programming languages research. Extending the scope of the software engineering and programming languages programs from their established roots, the new initiative will allow researchers to work with existing faculty sponsors 1/2 time, while also allowing them freedom to being building their own new areas of research. We believe that this fellowship is quite unique in providing a supportive atmosphere, but also according postdocs the freedom to evolve their own research. The program supports multiple two-year postdoctoral appointments each year for several years, allowing new researchers to begin their careers at UMD, perform cutting edge research in applied software engineering and programming languages, and expand our existing CS research community. Professor Emeritus Victor Basili has generously supplied the program?s initial funding. One of last year?s new Basili Fellows, Thomas Gilray (http://thomas.gilray.org) reflecting on this experiences as a Basili Fellow writes: "The Basili fellowship has given me the opportunity to join the fantastic PLUM lab and pursue my interests in a lively and engaging collaborative environment. The fellowship gives me enormous freedom, in an ideal supportive context, to pursue collaborations with students doing exciting work, continuations of my previous efforts, and entirely new lines of research, with autonomy not usually found in a traditional post-doc. The department has accommodated my interests to collaborate on grant writing and to teach a class. It has also been a unique opportunity for me to develop as a programming languages scholar around great people who can help me to broaden myself and reach my potential." If you are interested in applying to the Victor Basili Postdoctoral Fellowship, you can learn more here: https://www.cs.umd.edu/basili-postdoc Review of applications will begin upon receipt and continue until positions are filled. If you have any questions, you are welcome to send an email to basilifellow at cs.umd.edu. From awodey at cmu.edu Mon May 8 15:36:11 2017 From: awodey at cmu.edu (Steve Awodey) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:36:11 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Researcher Positions in HoTT Message-ID: Senior and Post-Doctoral Researchers in Homotopy Type Theory / Category Theory / Type Theory / Homotopy Theory Carnegie Mellon University / Philosophy Department The research group in Homotopy Type Theory at Carnegie Mellon University seeks both Senior and Post-Doctoral Researchers, without teaching duties, for one academic year. The Senior Researcher position would be suitable for a Visiting Professorship as a sabbatical leave from your home institution. The Post-Doctoral Researcher position includes a possibility of renewal. Both positions could begin as early as August 2017, or later. Candidates should have a PhD and research experience in a relevant area and a desire to collaborate with the existing research group, which consists of several faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students. Questions about these positions may be directed to Steve Awodey, awodey at cmu.edu. Candidates should submit a CV and a brief research statement to CMUPhilosophy at andrew.cmu.edu. ****************************************************************************************** More Information: Please visit ?Why Carnegie Mellon? to learn more about becoming part of an institution inspiring innovations that change the world. A listing of employee benefits is available at: http://www.cmu.edu/jobs/benefits-at-a-glance/index.html Department URL: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/ Primary Location: United States-Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh Time Type: Full Time Minimum Education Level: Doctorate or equivalent Salary: According to Experience ****************************************************************************************** Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate in admission, employment, or administration of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap or disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, ancestry, belief, veteran status, or genetic information. Furthermore, Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate and is required not to discriminate in violation of federal, state, or local laws or executive orders. ****************************************************************************************** From S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk Tue May 9 14:54:40 2017 From: S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk (Simon Thompson) Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 19:54:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TFPIE - Trends in Functional Programming in Education 2017 - Deadline extended to 17 May Message-ID: <1D3E4190-0DAD-45FA-8054-A897AAE0CF46@kent.ac.uk> After a number of requests, we have extended the deadline for TFPIE 2017 to 17 May. Please consider submitting if you?re interested in hearing about how to get the functional message shared more widely. A particular topic of this year's TFPIE will be MOOCs and other online learning and, as well as a session on this, we're delighted to announce that Heather Miller of EFPL and Northeastern University will be giving a keynote on this topic. Heather works on and around the Scala programming language and is Executive Director of the Scala Center. We'll also have Yann Regis-Gianas and Benjamin Canou from the OCaml MOOC team, Jeremy Singer (Haskell), and Simon Thompson (Erlang). TFPIE 2017 - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 17 MAY Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 2017 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/TFPIE2017/ The sixth workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 2017, which is to be held on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent on Thursday, 22 June, following the 2017 TFP meeting on 19?21 June. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), Soesterberg, The Netherlands (2014), and Sophia-Antipolis, France (2015), College Park, USA (2016). 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 2017 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit revised versions of their articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Final call for papers TFPIE 2017 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FP and beginning CS students - FP and Computational Thinking - FP and Artificial Intelligence - FP in Robotics - FP and Music - Advanced FP for undergraduates - FP in graduate education - Engaging students in research using FP - FP in Programming Languages - FP in the high school curriculum - FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics - FP and Philosophy - The pedagogy of teaching FP - FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. - Best Lectures ? more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What?s your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. Submission 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. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2017 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. Programme committee Dr Laura Castro, University of A Coru?a Prof Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau Dr Elena Machkasova, University of Minnesota, Morris Prof Michel Mauny, Inria, Paris Dr Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow Prof Simon Thompson, University of Kent (chair) Important dates Submissions of draft papers: 17 May, 2017 Notification: 22 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 Workshop: 22 June 2017 Submission for formal review: 18 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 6 October, 2017 Camera ready paper: 3 November, 2017 Simon Thompson | Professor of Logic and Computation School of Computing | University of Kent | Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK s.j.thompson at kent.ac.uk | M +44 7986 085754 | W www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~sjt From francois.pottier at inria.fr Wed May 10 07:03:32 2017 From: francois.pottier at inria.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Fran=c3=a7ois_Pottier?=) Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 13:03:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second call for talk proposals: Higher-Order Programming with Effects, HOPE 2017 Message-ID: <4fb91882-85c9-3a2e-a0db-e8d722e59964@inria.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS HOPE 2017 The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects September 3, 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom (the day before ICFP 2017) http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/hope-2017-papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The HOPE workshop series are intended to bring together researchers interested in the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. They are informal, consisting of invited talks, contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. They are dedicated to John Reynolds, whose work is an inspiration to us all. The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects will take place on Sunday, September 3, 2017, that is, the day before ICFP 2017, in Oxford, United Kingdom. # 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 code harder to build, maintain, and reason about. 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 made available online. # 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, Fran?ois Pottier (francois.pottier at inria.fr) and Aleks Nanevski (aleks.nanevski at imdea.org). # Important Dates * Deadline for talk proposals: June 1st, 2017 (Thursday) * Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2017 (Saturday) * Workshop: September 3, 2017 (Sunday) # Submission Link The submission website is https://icfp-hope17.hotcrp.com/ . # Workshop Organization Program Co-Chairs: Fran?ois Pottier (Inria Paris) Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute) Program Committee: Edwin Brady University of St Andrews Pierre-?variste Dagand LIP6/CNRS Atsushi Igarashi Kyoto University Robbert Krebbers Delft University of Technology Vivek Nigam Federal University of Para?ba Matija Pretnar University of Ljubljana Azalea Raad Imperial College London Aseem Rastogi Microsoft Research Filip Sieczkowski University of Wroc?aw Niki Vazou University of Maryland From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Wed May 10 07:58:21 2017 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco T. Vasconcelos) Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 12:58:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at the University of Lisbon Message-ID: <8B07E4F8-C9CA-420F-AE86-EAFF120F92BD@di.fc.ul.pt> We welcome applications for a fulltime postdoctoral research position at the University of Lisbon. The position is funded by the research project "CONFIDENT - Communication Contracts for Distributed Systems Development", http://gloss.di.fc.ul.pt/content/confident , a three year collaborative project between a team at the Faculty of Sciences (including Vasco T. Vasconcelos and Ant?nia Lopes) and another at T?cnico (Paulo Mateus and Pedro Ad?o). The objective of the project is the development of tools and technology for describing, testing, statically verifying, and inferring communication contracts for the effective construction and evolution of complex distributed systems, notably RESTful applications. Particular attention will be given to the validation of security requirements of APIs. We plan to integrate the theory of behavioural type systems into a notion of communication contracts, effective in driving the software development life cycle of RESTful applications. We seek applicants with strong interest in some of the following topics: programming language design and implementation, programming logics and types, language-based security, verification and testing, concurrency and distribution. The contract is for one year, extensible for a second year. Applicable administrative rules may be found at the FCT site, http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/index.phtml.en . Applications should include a curriculum vitae in pdf format, contact details for three referees, and should be sent to LaSIGE - Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory http://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt Email: Pedro Gon?alves, pgoncalves at di.fc.ul.pt Phone: +351 21 750 05 32 Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Vasco T. Vasconcelos directly. 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We are looking for bright, highly motivated students broadly interested in working on - concurrency theory - process calculi - semantics of programming languages - validation/verification techniques for concurrent systems (for instance, type systems and behavioral equivalences) - logical foundations of concurrency and communication The PhD position is available in the context of the recently established a PhD Scholarship Program: http://www.rug.nl/education/phd-programmes/phd-scholarship-programme/ Interested candidates are encouraged to carefully consult the application procedure and general conditions described in this link. The PhD student will be working under my supervision within the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (JBI) - see http://www.rug.nl/research/jbi/ The research topic for the available position is to be decided jointly between the candidate and PhD supervisor. There is room for both fundamental and practical research topics within the areas above. There are excellent prospects for international collaboration and exchanges. Prospective candidates should have: - A MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related area - Excellent communication skills in English, both written and oral Prior research experience (for instance, an excellent MSc thesis/internship on one or some of the research areas mentioned above) would be a plus. Interested candidates should contact me asap (j.a.perez[at]rug.nl) to express their interest in applying to the position. I also welcome informal queries and questions about the position. The stating date for the position is as soon as possible (ideally by September 2017) so early expressions of interest are particularly appreciated. Pleasee share this announcement as you see fit and encourage strong candidates to contact me. Best regards, Jorge A. P?rez -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl From nikos.tzevelekos at qmul.ac.uk Wed May 10 12:11:41 2017 From: nikos.tzevelekos at qmul.ac.uk (Nikos Tzevelekos) Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 17:11:41 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HIGHLIGHTS 2017 - Call for Presentations Message-ID: ================================================================ Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata (HIGHLIGHTS 2017) London, 12-15 SEPTEMBER 2017 http://highlights-conference.org 1st CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS 2017 is the fifth conference on Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata that aims at integrating the community working in these fields. Papers from these areas are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to the Highlights conference should offer a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. We encourage you to attend and present your best work, be it already published or not, at the Highlights conference. Representative areas include, but are not restricted to: logic and finite model theory, automata theory, games for logic and verification. The conference itself is three days long (Sep. 13-15) and it is preceded by the Highlights tutorial day (Sep. 12). The participation costs will be modest (with a discount for students and post-docs) and London is very easy to reach. The contributed talks are around ten minutes. Ideally, they let participants learn something new, and enable them to understand the objective/problem/question and the result, and to get an idea of the technique. The program will further offer three invited talks: + Mikolaj Bojanczyk: Recognisability equals MSO definability for graphs of bounded treewidth. + Sanjay Jain: Quasi Polynomial and FPT algorithms for parity games + Hung Ngo: Shannon-type inequalities, submodular width, and disjunctive datalog two invited sessions, organised by: + Patricia Bouyer: Games played on graphs: quantitative games, games with multi-objectives, non-zero sum games + Alexandra Silva: Model learning, automata and its applications and two tutorials: + Veronique Cortier: Verification of security protocols + Damien Pous: Coinduction up to and automata algorithms The submission deadline is *** JUNE 2, 2017*** Notifications will be sent by June 12, 2017. Registration will be possible until August 7, 2017. You submit a proposal for a presentation, not a paper. Hence, submissions should have a single author, who is the speaker. Since we expect you to present your favourite result of the year, there should be at most one submission per speaker. The abstract, of 1-2 pages, may include a list of coauthors. There are no formal proceedings and we encourage submission of work presented elsewhere. Submissions are possible through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=highlights17. The instructions and detailed information about Highlights 2017 are available at http://highlights-conference.org. ================================================================ From josh at inv.alid.pw Wed May 10 09:21:08 2017 From: josh at inv.alid.pw (Josh Holland) Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:21:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: STRING 2017 Message-ID: <1494422468.2100877.972024192.62D860DF@webmail.messagingengine.com> ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Annual Workshop on String Diagrams in Computation, Logic, and Physics (STRING 2017) http://string2017.cs.ru.nl/index.html Satellite workshop of FSCD 2017, co-located with HDRA 2017. Jericho Tavern, Oxford, UK September 8-9, 2017 ============================================= String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about processes and composition. Originally developed as a convenient notation for the arrows of monoidal and higher categories, they are increasingly used in the formal study of digital circuits, control theory, concurrency, quantum and classical computation, natural language processes, logic and more. String diagrams combine the advantages of formal syntax with intuitive aspects: the graphical nature of terms means that they often reflect the topology of systems under consideration. Moreover, diagrammatic reasoning transforms formal arguments into dynamic, moving images, thus building domain specific intuitions, valuable both for practitioners and pedagogy. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds and specialities to collaborate and share their insights, tools, and techniques. It will furthermore provide an informal atmosphere in a unique venue: the upstairs of the Jericho Tavern, a music venue, where famously Radiohead played their first concert. All the usual conference facilities will be provided, and the distinctive location will provide plenty of opportunities to discuss and share ideas. STRING 2017 is a satellite event of FSCD 2017 (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/) and will be co-located with the 3rd Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr). Invited Speakers ---------------- - Paul-Andr? M?llies (CNRS and Paris Diderot) - joint HDRA and STRING invited speaker - Dan Ghica (Birmingham) - Applications of string diagrams in circuit design and verification - Bob Coecke (Oxford) - Applications of string diagrams in quantum computing and quantum information Submitting ---------- We warmly welcome all types of contributions, ranging from work-in-progress to original work and/or overviews of mature work published elsewhere, on topics ranging from theory of string diagrams, to applications and tool demos. Prospective speakers are invited to submit a title and 2 page abstract via the Easychair page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=string2017 We will try to build a programme that is as inclusive and wide-ranging as possible within the fairly limited time available. Hence, speakers will be invited either to give a full-length talk or give a short talk in a "lightning session" style format. The accepted abstracts will be made available electronically before the workshop. Important Dates --------------- Abstract deadline: 30 June 2017 Speaker notification: 14 July 2017 Workshop: 8-9 September 2017 Program Committee ----------------- * Filippo Bonchi (ENS Lyon and Pisa) * Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) * Fabio Gadducci (Pisa) * Aleks Kissinger (Radboud) * Dan Marsden (Oxford) * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary) * Pawel Sobocinski (Southampton) * David Spivak (MIT) * Noam Zeilberger (Birmingham) Organisers ---------- * Aleks Kissinger - Radboud Universiteit * Pawel Sobocinski - University of Southampton Publicity --------- * Joshua Holland - University of Southampton From s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk Wed May 10 09:25:19 2017 From: s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk (Sven Linker) Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:25:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers -- FVAV 2017 - Workshop on Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles 2017 Message-ID: <626aa906-22b8-8beb-4dec-dd940635376b@liverpool.ac.uk> (Apologies for duplicates) ================================================================== 2nd Call for Papers ================================================================== Workshop on Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles https://sites.google.com/site/fvav2017/ 19th September 2017 University of Turin, Italy (co-located with iFM 2017, http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/) ================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: - Paper Submission: Monday, 18th June 2017 - Notification: Monday, 10th July 2017 - Workshop: Tuesday, 19th September 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Objectives and Scope: Current technology is at reach to develop road vehicles that can act fully autonomously. One of the recognised major difficulties is to make the systems safe, as autonomy requires not only avoidance of misbehaviour but also assurance of availability and reliability. This fact has been acknowledged both within the academic society, in the form of an increasing interest in this topic, and within industry, by generally agreeing that these vehicles adhere to the highest levels of international standards, e.g., SIL3/SIL4 for IEC 61508, and ASIL D for ISO 26262. These levels imply the consideration of various formal methods in the development, including static code analysis, model checking, and formal specification and verification. However, incorporating formal methods into the design of autonomous vehicles presents significant new challenges, particularly due to the complex integration of discrete and continuous controllers. The main challenges associated with the formal design of autonomous vehicles includes modelling, specification, verification and synthesis. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the formal verification community that are developing formal methods for autonomous vehicles and industrial researchers working, e.g., in the area of control theory or robotics, interested in applying verification techniques for designing and developing of autonomous vehicles. Topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * formal models for autonomous systems * languages and logics for specification and verification * interactive and automated theorem proving * model checking * agent programming languages * real-time and hybrid systems * program synthesis * quantitative and probabilistic verification * requirement analysis * verification for learning approaches * run-time verification * applications, implementations and case studies ------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guideline: Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) and must be prepared according to the EPTCS guidelines for authors (see http://info.eptcs.org/). Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fvav2017 The page limitations mentioned below include all text, figures and references. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend FVAV 2017 to present. There are two categories of papers which can be submitted: regular and short papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Programme Committee. * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, applications of formal methods in industrial practise, system descriptions and case studies within the context of autonomous vehicles. * *Short Papers* (up to 7 pages, including references) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, and problem statements. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Invited Speaker: Werner Damm (OFFIS Oldenburg, Germany) (https://www.offis.de/en/offis/person/werner-damm.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Organisation: Programme Committee: * Matthias Althoff (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) * Mikael Asplund (Link?ping University, Sweden) * Georgios Fainekos (Arizona State University, US) * Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) * Christoph Gladisch (Bosch, Germany) * Cornel Izbasa (Opensynergy, Germany) * Owen McAree (Sheffield University, UK) * Helen Monkhouse (Horiba-Mira, UK) * Ernst-R?diger Olderog (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) * Patrizio Pelliccione (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * S. Ramesh (General Motors, US) * Nick Reed (TRL, UK) * Shinichi Shiraishi (Toyota Info Technology Center, US) Programme Chairs: * Lukas Bulwahn (BMW Car IT GmbH, Germany) * Maryam Kamali (University of Liverpool, UK) * Sven Linker (University of Liverpool, UK) From abb at cs.stir.ac.uk Thu May 11 07:46:30 2017 From: abb at cs.stir.ac.uk (Andrea Bracciali) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 12:46:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: Fully-funded PhD Studentship on Blockchain Technologies References: Message-ID: [apologies for cross-posting!] Dear All, A fully-funded PhD studentship (competitive) on blockchain technologies, distributed ledgers e decentralised applications/smart contracts is available at the University of Stirling, UK. Focus can be adapted to latest developments/student?s interest and expertise. I?d kindly ask you to disseminate and invite suitable/interested candidates to apply/contact me. We are looking forward to possible collaborations (through the student or independently). ==> Another position in partnership with a SME will be advertised soon !!! Many thanks. With best wishes Andrea Bracciali ?????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????? Fully-funded PhD Studentship on Blockchain Technologies and Applications ?????????????????? A fully funded PhD studentship on Blockchain Technologies and Applications is available at the Computing Science and Mathematics division of the University of Stirling, UK. The studentship will cover tuition fees at Home/EU rate, and a standard stipend at RCUK rates (from about 14,000GBP), for three years, with 1st Oct 2017 as envisaged start date. Applications will be considered from 15th June 2017. The project aims to develop a suitable framework to support the development of reliable and trustable blockchain-based decentralised applications - which currently present interesting and challenging research questions, including aspects of distributed consensus, proof-of-Xs and the "crypto-economics" of incentives, security and privacy. The project can be adapted to the latest developments in the technology, as well as specific interests or expertise of the student. The project will be carried out under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Bracciali, within an international network with expertise including verification, game theory, and cryptography. Partner companies will provide industrial use cases of interest. The project also will benefit from the thriving fintech Scottish sector which has a strong interest in blockchain technologies, and could particularly contribute to the career development of the student. Students with a background in, or across, computer science, economics, mathematics __non-exclusive list!__, and interested in a scientific approach to breakthrough technologies are encouraged to apply. Details on how to apply can be found at http://cs.stir.ac.uk/vacancies/div-phd-studentship.html Interested candidates are invited to contact Dr. Bracciali abb at cs.stir.ac.uk +44 (0)1786 467446 should they wish to further discuss the project or any detail of the fellowship, PhD studies and life in Scotland. --------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stephane.galland at utbm.fr Wed May 10 09:58:03 2017 From: stephane.galland at utbm.fr (=?utf-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= Galland) Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:58:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD student position on agent-based modeling of drones in France Message-ID: <327730421.8517927.1494424683754.JavaMail.zimbra@utbm.fr> Dear all, You could find in attachment a PhD thesis position proposal on the subject: "Agent-based modeling of drones and their environment in smart cities". These PhD works will be co-supervised by Dr. St?phane Galland and Pr. Christophe Nicolle. And they will take place in the LE2I Laboratory (Laboratoire d'?lectronique, Informatique et Image), of the Burgundy Franche-Comt? University (http://www.ubfc.fr), located inside the buildings of the Belfort-Montb?liard University of Technology (http://www.utbm.fr), at Belfort, France. The PhD student position is subject to be funding by the Regional Council of Burgundy Franche-Comt?, under the umbrella of the SPIM Doctoral School. Due date for the application: May, 31th 2017. Date of the PhD work start at Belfort: October, 1st 2017 Keywords Control model of drones, agent-based simulation, semantic model of the environment. Expected Applicant Profile and Background Knowledge The candidate should have a strong knowledge in agent-based modeling or semantic modeling, in software engineering (simulation, performance evaluation) and in computer programming (SARL and Java programing languages). Contact In order to be included in the selection and interview process, please send before May 31th at Midnight the following documents in PDF format to : St?phane Galland - stephane.galland at utbm.fr (http://www.multiagent.fr/People:Galland_stephane) and Christophe Nicolle - cnicolle at u-bourgogne.fr Documents to send: * your CV, * a letter which explain your motivations to be applied to the PhD student position, * recommendation letters, * official documents describing your scholar scores during the 3 past years (including the current one). You could find details on the PhD subject in the attached document. Yours sincerely, St?phane Galland and Christophe Nicolle -- Dr.habil. St?phane GALLAND Associate Professor Ma?tre de conf?rences HDR Scientific co-Manager of LE2I Axis #3 "Smart Environments"/ French Head of ARFITEC "Energy, Transport, Industry, Challenges for tomorrow"/ Member of the Multiagent Group Laboratoire ?lectronique, Informatique, Image Universit? de Bourgogne Franche-Comt? Postal Address: Universit? de Technologie de Belfort-Montb?liard, 13, rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg, 90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE Web: http://www.multiagent.fr/People:Galland_stephane Phone: +33 384 583 418 Cell: +33 662 274 442 Fax: +33 384 583 342 Skype: sgalland LinkedIn: sgalland ResearchGate: Stephane_Galland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Originally developed as a convenient notation for the arrows of monoidal and higher categories, they are increasingly used in the formal study of digital circuits, control theory, concurrency, quantum and classical computation, natural language processes, logic and more. String diagrams combine the advantages of formal syntax with intuitive aspects: the graphical nature of terms means that they often reflect the topology of systems under consideration. Moreover, diagrammatic reasoning transforms formal arguments into dynamic, moving images, thus building domain specific intuitions, valuable both for practitioners and pedagogy. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds and specialities to collaborate and share their insights, tools, and techniques. It will furthermore provide an informal atmosphere in a unique venue: the upstairs of the Jericho Tavern, a music venue, where famously Radiohead played their first concert. All the usual conference facilities will be provided, and the distinctive location will provide plenty of opportunities to discuss and share ideas. STRING 2017 is a satellite event of FSCD 2017 (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/) and will be co-located with the 3rd Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr). Invited Speakers ---------------- - Paul-Andr? M?llies (CNRS and Paris Diderot) - joint HDRA and STRING invited speaker - Dan Ghica (Birmingham) - Applications of string diagrams in circuit design and verification - Bob Coecke (Oxford) - Applications of string diagrams in quantum foundations and quantum computation Submitting ---------- We warmly welcome all types of contributions, ranging from work-in-progress to original work and/or overviews of mature work published elsewhere, on topics ranging from theory of string diagrams, to applications and tool demos. Prospective speakers are invited to submit a title and 2 page abstract via the Easychair page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=string2017 We will try to build a programme that is as inclusive and wide-ranging as possible within the fairly limited time available. Hence, speakers will be invited either to give a full-length talk or give a short talk in a "lightning session" style format. The accepted abstracts will be made available electronically before the workshop. Important Dates --------------- Abstract deadline: 30 June 2017 Speaker notification: 14 July 2017 Workshop: 8-9 September 2017 Program Committee ----------------- * Filippo Bonchi (ENS Lyon) * Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) * Fabio Gadducci (Pisa) * Aleks Kissinger (Radboud) * Dan Marsden (Oxford) * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary) * Pawel Sobocinski (Southampton) * David Spivak (MIT) * Noam Zeilberger (Birmingham) Organisers ---------- * Aleks Kissinger - Radboud Universiteit * Pawel Sobocinski - University of Southampton Publicity --------- * Joshua Holland - University of Southampton From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Thu May 11 13:57:50 2017 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 19:57:50 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TTCS 2017: Last CFP (Abstract Deadline: May 15, Paper Deadline: May 19) Message-ID: ========================================= 2nd IFIP International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science (TTCS 2017) http://www.ttcs.ir/ Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran September 12-14, 2017 *** Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 *** ========================================= TTCS is a bi-annual conference in the IFIP conference series, serving as a forum for novel and high-quality research in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science. The post-proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. The conference is sponsored by IFIP and EATCS. ------------------------------ Keynote Speakers ------------------------------ - Mahdi Cheraghchi, Imperial College, UK - Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy ------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------ - Abstract Submission: May 15, 2017 (Extended, Strict, AoE) - Full Paper Submission: May 19, 2017 (Extended, Strict, AoE) - Author notification: June 26, 2017 - Camera ready paper: July 31, 2017 - Conference: September 12-14, 2017 ------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------ 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. All technical details necessary for a proper evaluation of a submission must be included in the submission or in a clearly-labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. 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 to the appropriate track through our EasyChair submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttcs2017 . The post-proceedings will be published as a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer. ------------------------------ Scope ------------------------------ TTCS is organized in 2 tracks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Track A: Algorithms and Complexity - algorithms and data structures, - algorithmic coding theory, - algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, - approximation algorithms, - computational complexity, - computational geometry, - computational learning theory, - economics and algorithmic game theory, - fixed parameter algorithms, - machine learning, - optimization, - parallel and distributed algorithms, - quantum computing, - randomness in computing, - theoretical cryptography. Track B: Logic, Semantics, and Programming Theory - algebra and co-algebra in computer science, - concurrency theory, - coordination languages, - formal verification and model-based testing, - logic in computer science, - methods, models of computation and reasoning for embedded, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems, - stochastic and probabilistic specification and reasoning, - theoretical aspects of other CS-related research areas, e.g., computational science, databases, information retrieval, and networking, - theory of programming languages, - type theory and its application in program verification. ------------------------------ Program Committee ------------------------------ Track A: Algorithms and Complexity - Amitabha Bagchi, IIT Delhi, India - Samuel R. Buss, University of California, San Diego, USA - Jaroslaw Byrka, University of Wroclaw, Poland - Amir Daneshgar, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Anna Gal, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Mohammad T. 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Invited Speakers: Hana Chockler, King's College London Laurent Doyen, LSV - ENS Cachan Rapha?l Jungers, Universit? catholique de Louvain Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Submissions: Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12 pages (in LaTeX, formatted according to LNCS guidelines) via Easychair. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Submissions deviating from these guidelines risk rejection. Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rp2017 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): reachability problems in infinite state systems, rewriting systems, dynamical and hybrid systems; reachability problems in logic and verification; reachability analysis in different computational models, counter timed/cellular/communicating automata; Petri nets; computational aspects of algebraic structures (semigroups, groups and rings); frontiers between decidable and undecidable reachability problems; predictability in iterative maps and new computational paradigms. Important Dates Submission deadline: 19 June 2017 (AoE) (EXTENDED) Notification to authors: 11 July 2017 (EXTENDED) Final version: 14 July 2017 (EXTENDED) Workshop: 7 - 9 September 2017 Presentation-Only Track In addition to regular papers that will appear in our LNCS proceedings, we invite researchers to apply to give a presentation at RP'17 without an accompanying paper. Such presentations can be based on work that has appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another conference, or which has not yet been submitted. These contributions will be judged solely on the basis of their attractiveness to the workshop. To apply to give such a presentation please submit a PDF file containing a short abstract (up to two pages) by e-mail [ rp2017 at easychair.org ] by August 2st 2017, with subject "RP2017 Informal Presentations". This abstract will not be published in the conference proceedings. Notification for the presentation-only track will be August 9th 2016. Proceedings The Conference Proceedings will be published as the volume of the Springer Verlag LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series and distributed at the Conference. We plan also to publish selected papers in a special issue of a high quality journal following the regular referee procedure. RP'16 Program Committee: Igor Potapov, University of Liverpool (co-chair) Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway, University of London (co-chair) Paul Bell, Liverpool John Moores University Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan Aiswarya Cyriac, Chennai Mathematical Institute Giorgio Delzanno, Universita Degli Studi Di Genova Piotrek Hofman, University of Warsaw Peter Lammich, Institut fuer Informatik, TU Munich Martin Lange, University of Kassel Salvatore La Torre, Universit? degli Studi di Salerno Ranko Lazic, University of Warwick Ond?ej Leng?l, Brno University of Technology Jerome Leroux, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Ahmed Rezine, Link?ping University Tachio Terauchi, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University Previous Workshops: 2016: RP'16 in Aalborg, Denmark LNCS proceedings, Volume 9899/2016, Springer Verlag 2015: RP'15 in Warsaw, Poland LNCS proceedings, Volume 9328/2015, Springer Verlag 2014: RP'14 in Oxford, UK LNCS proceedings, Volume 8762/2014, Springer Verlag 2013: RP'13 in Uppsala, Sweden LNCS proceedings, Volume 8169/2013, Springer Verlag 2012: RP'12 in Bordeaux, France LNCS proceedings, Volume 7550/2012, Springer Verlag 2011: RP'11 in Genova, Italy LNCS proceedings, Volume 6945/2011, Springer Verlag 2010: RP'10 in Brno, Czech Republic LNCS proceedings, Volume 6227/2010, Springer Verlag 2009: RP'09 in Palaiseau, France LNCS proceedings, Volume 5797/2009, Springer Verlag 2008: RP'08 in Liverpool, UK ENTCS proceedings, Volume 223, Elsevier 2007: RP'07 in Turku, Finland TUCS General Publication Series, Volume 45, Turku Centre for Computer Science From jupvfranco at gmail.com Fri May 12 08:20:05 2017 From: jupvfranco at gmail.com (Juliana Franco) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 12:20:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICCSW17 CfP Message-ID: ==================== CALL FOR PAPERS =================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Imperial College Computing Student Workshop 2017 (ICCSW) *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Imperial College London, London, UK - September 26th and 27th * Paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2017 * http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/iccsw2017/ * Organised by the Imperial College London ACM Student Chapter ( http://acm.doc.ic.ac.uk/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outline -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW) aims to provide an international forum for doctoral students in computing, a workshop for students, by students! While most conferences and workshops in academia solely cater for specific research fields, ICCSW encourages doctoral students from all disciplines in computer science to submit a paper. The ICCSW?17 workshop offers: - A traditional track, featuring technical papers focused on current topics in computer science and describing (preliminary) research results; and tool papers describing the design, functionality and applicability of a software tool. - An abstract track, for students who want to present initial unpublished work and results. - A poster session to display the work submitted as paper or abstract. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Areas of interest for the workshop cover all fields of research in computer science, including (but not limited to) the following: - Computer Systems - Databases - Logic and Artificial Intelligence - Networks and Communications - Wireless Sensor networks and IoT - Programming Languages and compiler techniques - Software Engineering - Theory of Computational Systems - Verification and Model Checking - Machine Learning - Computer Graphics - Computational Modelling -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Abstract submission: July 1st, 2017 - Paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2017 - Abstract and paper notification: August 1st, 2017 - Paper camera ready: August 15th, 2017 - Poster submission: August 21th, 2017 - Workshop: September 26th and 27th, 2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION AND TRAVEL BURSARIES: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration is free of charge for all students. Some student bursaries, funded by our sponsors, will be made available to students with submissions accepted in the workshop. We aim to provide financial support for students who otherwise would be unable to attend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More Info -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the past six years, ICCSW has been established as a high quality student-run international academic event in Europe. Both organisers and participants are doctoral students from the United Kingdom and other countries. The workshop is an opportunity to both publish and discuss new research, including work-in-progress, and network with peers from other institutions. 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Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** 2018 accept scholarly papers including essays that advance the knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: August 1 2017 (Research Papers Second Submission Deadline) December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline) We accept submissions covering several areas of expertise. These areas include, but are not limited to: ? General-purpose programming ? Distributed systems programming ? Parallel and multi-core programming ? Graphics and GPU programming ? Security programming ? User interface programming ? Database programming ? Visual and live programming ? Data mining and machine learning programming ? Interpreters, virtual machines and compilers ? Modularity and separation of concerns ? Model-based development ? Metaprogramming and reflection ? Testing and debugging ? Program verification ? Programming education ? Programming environments ? Social coding ******************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************************************** Research paper submissions: August 1 2017 (Research Papers Second Submission Deadline) December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline) Research paper first notification (for second submission deadline): October 1 2017 Research paper final notification (for second submission deadline): November 7 2017 Research paper first notification (for third submission deadline): February 1 2018 Research paper final notification (for third submission deadline): March 7 2018 All important dates can also be found at http://programming-journal.org/timeline/ ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Manuel Serrano, INRIA France Local Organizing Chair: Tamara Rezk, INRIA France Organizing Committee: Stefan Marr (workshops), Johannes Kepler University Linz Tobias Pape (web technology), HPI - University of Potsdam Sylvia Grewe (publicity), Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Germany Program Committee: Guido Salvaneschi (program chair), Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Alberto Bacchelli, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK Patrick Eugster, TU Darmstadt, Germany and Purdue University, United States Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, UK Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, United States Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de M?laga, Spain Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & IBM Research, California Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Yossi Gil, Isreal Institute of Technology Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Phlipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Matthew Hammer, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), Germany Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan J?rg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, University of Cambridge, UK Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Mira Mezini, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, United States Mario S?dholt, IMT Atlantique, Inria, France Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, United States Tijs van der Storm, CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands ******************************************************** 2018 is kindly supported by: INRIA France AOSA ******************************************************** From murano at na.infn.it Sat May 13 09:11:40 2017 From: murano at na.infn.it (aniello murano) Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 15:11:40 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SR 2017 - EXTENDED DEADLINE for expository and novel-research + INVITED SPEAKERS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ************************************************************ EXTENDED DEADLINE for expository and novel-research and INVITED SPEAKERS ************************************************************ ************************************************************ Abstract and paper submission: May 17, 2017 (AoE) 5th International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning SR 2017 --http://sr2017.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Liverpool, UK, July 26-27, 2017 ************************************************************ 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 adversaries, just to cite a few. All these examples share the challenge of developing novel theories and tools for agent-based reasoning that take into account the likely behaviour of adversaries. The international workshop on strategic reasoning aims to bring together researchers working on different aspects of strategic reasoning in computer science, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. SR 2017 will be co-located with TARK 2017, which will be held in Liverpool on July 24-26, 2017. LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the workshop 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 in strategic reasonings. 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 program committee. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sr2017 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. Novel research abstracts will be held to the usual high standards of research publications. In particular, they should contain enough information to enable the program committee to identify the main contribution of the work, explain the significance of the work, its novelty, its relevance to the strategic reasoning audience, 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 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. IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) May 17, 2017: New submission deadline (Abstract and Paper) June 16, 2017: Acceptance notification June 30, 2017: Camera-ready deadline July 26-27, 2017: Workshop INVITED SPEAKERS Joe Halpern, Cornell University Wojciech Penczek, ICS PAS (Warsaw) and UPH (Siedlce) Hans van Ditmarsch, LORIA, France (TARK public lecture) Barteld Kooi, University of Groningen (TARK public lecture) PROCEEDINGS The workshop proceedings will be available as a single PDF file from the workshop website. As in previous editions, extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the SR workshop will be invited to a special issue of Information & Computation (in process). COMMITTEES Workshop co-Chairs Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Bastien Maubert, University of Naples "Federico II" Aniello Murano, University of Naples "Federico II" Sasha Rubin, University of Naples "Federico II" Program Committee Thomas ? gotnes, University of Bergen Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham Benjamin Aminof, Technical University of Vienna Nicholas Asher, CNRS & IRIT, Universit?? Paul Sabatier Dietmar Berwanger, CNRS & LSV, ENS Cachan Catalin Dima, LACL, Universit?? Paris Est - Cr??teil Emmanuel Filiot, Universit?? Libre de Bruxelles Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Paul Harrenstein, University of Oxford Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University Stephane Le Roux, Universite libre de Bruxelles Nicolas Markey, CNRS & IRISA, Universit?? de Rennes 1 Ron van der Meyden, University of New South Wales Marco Montali, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Pavel Naumov, Vassar College Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford R. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Ocan Sankur, CNRS & IRISA, Universit?? de Rennes 1 Dominik Wojtczak, University of Liverpool Local Arrangements Committee Davide Grossi, University of Liverpool Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool From sebastien.bardin at cea.fr Sun May 14 11:31:06 2017 From: sebastien.bardin at cea.fr (sebastien bardin) Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 17:31:06 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP), July 17-21, Gif-sur-Yvette / Paris, France Message-ID: <11cfd37a-ae66-e78c-bef8-177d0da1899e@cea.fr> The International Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP) is organized by CEA LIST on July 17-21, at Ch?teau de Button, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (near Paris). website: https://issisp2017.github.io/ ** Description There is an increasing need for Software Security and Protection due to the growing sensitivity of user data coupled with the ubiquitous nature of computing systems ranging from tiny embedded devices to powerful data centers. The International Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP) highlights this need by bringing internationally renowned speakers from diverse fields in Computer Science such as Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems and Compiler design into Software Security and Protection. ISSISP is historically centered on MATE (Man-At-The-End) attack scenarios, with a strong focus on obfuscation and reverse. The 2017 edition will additionally cover control-flow hijacking issues as well as software protections against hardware attacks. ISSISP's courses will include both lectures and hands-on sessions. The program includes the following speakers: - Christian Collberg :: obfuscation, watermarking, fingerprinting - Jack Davidson :: advanced software protections - Bjorn De Sutter :: anti-deobfuscation, protection evaluation - Arun Lakhotia :: malware analysis - Ronan Lashermes :: protection vs fault injection - Damien Courouss? :: protection vs side-channel attacks - Roberto Giacobazzi :: semantic foundations of code protection - S?bastien Bardin :: binary-level formal methods ** Practical details The School is expected to host around 50 people worldwide, all of them specialized in security, software analysis or related areas. Beside PhD students and young researchers which are our primary target, we also welcome (and expect) the participation of experts from both industry and national agencies. Fees: - student: 350 EUR - academia / startup: 525 EUR - company: 700 EUR Student subscription fees include a certificate of participation from ACM and a complimentay 1-year ACM student membership -- with a subscription to the ACM Digital libray. Registration is available with or without accomodation included. The provided accomodations are located on the site of the Summer School and are limited. -------------- next part -------------- The International Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP) is organized by CEA LIST on July 17-21, at Ch?teau de Button, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (near Paris). website: https://issisp2017.github.io/ ** Description There is an increasing need for Software Security and Protection due to the growing sensitivity of user data coupled with the ubiquitous nature of computing systems ranging from tiny embedded devices to powerful data centers. The International Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP) highlights this need by bringing internationally renowned speakers from diverse fields in Computer Science such as Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems and Compiler design into Software Security and Protection. ISSISP is historically centered on MATE (Man-At-The-End) attack scenarios, with a strong focus on obfuscation and reverse. The 2017 edition will additionally cover control-flow hijacking issues as well as software protections against hardware attacks. ISSISP's courses will include both lectures and hands-on sessions. The program includes the following speakers: - Christian Collberg :: obfuscation, watermarking, fingerprinting - Jack Davidson :: advanced software protections - Bjorn De Sutter :: anti-deobfuscation techniques and protection evaluation - Arun Lakhotia :: malware analysis - Ronan Lashermes :: protection vs fault injection - Damien Courouss? :: protection vs side-channel attacks - Roberto Giacobazzi :: semantic foundations of code protection - S?bastien Bardin :: binary-level formal methods ** Practical details The School is expected to host around 50 people worldwide, all of them specialized in security, software analysis or related areas. Beside PhD students and young researchers which are our primary target, we also welcome (and expect) the participation of experts from both industry and national agencies. Fees: - student: 350 EUR - academia / startup: 525 EUR - company: 700 EUR Student subscription fees include a certificate of participation from ACM and a complimentay 1-year ACM student membership -- with a subscription to the ACM Digital libray. Registration is available with or without accomodation included. The provided accomodations are located on the site of the Summer School and are limited. From phaller at kth.se Mon May 15 16:38:17 2017 From: phaller at kth.se (Philipp Haller) Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 20:38:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SIGPLAN Scala Symposium 2017: Call for Papers Message-ID: <0459AAEC-FDEF-4F24-B272-ED7687961D61@kth.se> (Apologies for multiple postings.) ================================================================ ACM SIGPLAN Scala Symposium 2017 co-located with SPLASH 2017 Vancouver, Canada 22-23 October 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers ================================================================ 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. The Scala Symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics and many formats. Important dates =============== * Abstract submission: Jul 2nd, 2017 * Paper submission: Jul 9th, 2017 * Paper notification: Aug 20th, 2017 * Student talk submission: Aug 30th, 2017 * Camera ready: Sep 11th, 2017 * Student talk notification: Sep 17th, 2017 All deadlines are "Anywhere on Earth" (AoE) Topics of Interest ================== We seek submissions on all 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 ? stand-alone Scala libraries, 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 models, performance evaluation, experimental results. - Big data and machine learning libraries and applications using the Scala programming language. - Safety and reliability ? pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. - Interoperability with other languages and runtimes, such as JavaScript, Java 8 (lambdas), Graal and others. - Tools ? development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. - Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Submission Format ================= To accommodate the needs of researchers and practitioners, as well as beginners and experts alike, we seek several kinds of submissions, all in **`acmart/sigplan`** style, **10pt** font. - **Full papers** (at most 10 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Short papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Tool papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Student talks** (short abstract only, in plain text) Accepted papers (either full papers, short papers, or tool papers, but not student talks) will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Detailed information for each kind of submission is given below. Formatting requirements are detailed on the symposium website at http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers#Instructions-for-Authors Please note that at least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the symposium and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Full and Short Papers ===================== Full and short papers should describe novel ideas, experimental results, or projects related to the Scala language. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. Additionally, short papers may present problems and raise research questions interesting for the Scala language community. 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). Tool Papers =========== Tool papers need not necessarily report original research results; they may describe a tool of interest, 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. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a link to the tool's website. For inspiration, you might consider advice in http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pepm-2016-main#Tool-Paper-Advice which we however treat as non-binding. In case of doubts, please contact the program chairs. 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 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 and about topics of relevance to the symposium, for instance (but not only) presenting or announcing an open-source project that would be of interest to the Scala community. Submission Website ================== The submission will be managed through HotCRP: https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ For questions and additional clarifications, please contact the conference organizers. Program Committee ================= * Aggelos Biboudis, EPFL * Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews * Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS * Lars Hupel, TU Munich * Pablo Inostroza, CWI * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Martin Odersky, EPFL * Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong * Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt * Ilya Sergey, University College London * Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University * Philippe Suter, Two Sigma * Frank Tip, Northeastern University * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University * Niki Vazou, University of Maryland Organizers ========== * Heather Miller, EPFL (General Chair) * Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Program Chair) * Ond?ej Lhot?k, University of Waterloo (Program Chair) * Paolo Giarrusso, University of T?bingen * Jonathan Brachth?user, University of T?bingen Sponsors ======== We thank our sponsor Lightbend for supporting some of the talented student attendees of Scala '17. Links ===== * Scala '17: http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers * Submissions: https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ * SPLASH '17: http://2017.splashcon.org/ From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Mon May 15 04:17:23 2017 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 10:17:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Training School on Reversible Computation Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL ON REVERSIBLE COMPUTATION TORUN, POLAND 28th AUGUST - 31st AUGUST 2017 http://revcomp.eu/school2017.php Organized by COST Action IC1405: Reversible Computation - Extending Horizons of Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reversible computation is an emerging paradigm that extends the standard forwards-only mode of computation with the ability to execute in reverse, so that computation can run backwards as naturally as it can go forwards. It aims to deliver novel computing devices and software, and to enhance traditional systems by equipping them with reversibility. The potential benefits include the design of revolutionary reversible logic gates and circuits - leading to low-power computing and innovative hardware for green ICT, and new conceptual frameworks, language abstractions and software tools for reliable and recovery oriented distributed systems. Further application areas include quantum computing, debugging, simulation, biological modeling, robotics, and others. The training school mainly targets PhD students and early-career researchers interested in reversible computation, but other potential participants (e.g., from industry, or more senior researchers) can register free of charge and attend as well. The training school will be followed by a two-days meeting of the COST Action IC1405. Participants of the training school from countries participating in the action (see the list at http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ict/IC1405?parties) are welcome to attend the meeting as well, but may need to cover the expenses for attending from their own funds. Please contact Irek Ulidowski (iu3 at leicester.ac.uk) if interested. Lecturers and Provisional Topics -------------------------------- Foundations of Reversibility in Finite-State Devices Martin Kutrib (University of Giessen, Germany) Reversibility for Concurrent Interacting Systems Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy) Reversible Cellular Automata Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland) Equivalences and Logics for Reversible Processes Iain Phillips (Imperial College London, UK) Reversible Computing from a Programming Language Perspective Robert Glueck (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Reversible Functional Programming in RFun Michael Kirkedal Thomsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Incremental State Saving for Optimistic Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US) Reversible Debugging in Concurrent Distributed Systems Claudio Antares Mezzina (IMT Lucca, Italy) Introduction to Reversible Logic Synthesis Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Introduction to RevKit Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) Hierarchical Reversible Synthesis Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) Cycle-based Synthesis and Exact Synthesis Pawel Kerntopf (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Reversible Logic Synthesis in RevKit Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) Application of Synthesis Approaches Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Application of Reversible Logic Synthesis to Quantum Computing Nader Khammassi (TU Delft/QuTech, Netherlands) Full and updated information is available at http://revcomp.eu/school2017-courses.php Registration and accommodation ------------------------------ All attendants need to register by August 1st at http://revcomp.eu/school2017.php Participation to the training school is free, and includes lunches. The organisers have arranged possible accommodation starting from 30 Eur/day for a single room and 33 Eur/day for a twin room. Information on travel and accomodation is available at: http://revcomp.eu/school2017.php Trainee Grants -------------- Up to fifty participants from COST countries (list available at http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/cost_countries) can receive from COST Action IC1405 a grant covering in part or in total travel and accommodation expenses. Applications will be evaluated by the organizing committee. In order to apply for a grant, follow the procedure at: http://revcomp.eu/school2017-grant.php Important dates --------------- Trainee grants application deadline: 26th May Trainee grants notification: 12nd June Registration deadline: 1st August Training school: 28th August - 31st August Organizing Committee -------------------- Claudio Antares Mezzina (IMT Lucca, Italy) Lukasz Mikulski (University of Torun, Poland), local organizer Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy), chair Krzysztof Podlaski (University of Lodz, Poland) Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) Michael Kirkedal Thomsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) From Pascal.Fontaine at inria.fr Mon May 15 09:16:35 2017 From: Pascal.Fontaine at inria.fr (Pascal Fontaine) Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 15:16:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Summer School on Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation Message-ID: <1a80c049-7953-41e6-76ca-470910cb6b7b@inria.fr> ================================================ FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First International Summer School on Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation July 31 - August 04, 2017 Saarbruecken, Germany Application deadline: June 01, 2017 Notification deadline: June 15, 2017 For detailed information on the school's aim, program and the application procedure see http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/school/ *** REGISTER SOON FOR FREE ACCOMMODATION *** ================================================ The school introduces graduate students and researchers from academia and industry into research and methodology in both Satisfiability Checking (SAT/SMT) and Symbolic Computation with one focus on their interconnections. It combines a thorough introduction into the theory of both fields with lectures on state-of-the-art software systems and their implementation. This is supplemented with presentations by lecturers from industry discussing the practical relevance of the topics of the school. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No H2020-FETOPEN-2015-CSA 712689. Participation is free of charge. There is a limited number of free shared rooms available for distribution by the selection committee. Please express your interest with your application. Travel costs cannot be covered by the school. ================================================ Keynote Speakers (joint with VTSA Summer School) ================================================ Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania Hoon Hong, North Carolina State University ==================== Speakers and courses ==================== ---Satisfiability Checking--- Marijn Heule (University of Texas, Austin, USA) State-of-the-art SAT Solving Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA) Foundations of Satisfiability Modulo Theories Keijo Heljanko, Tomi Janhunen, Tommi Junttila (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland) Practical Session on SAT/SMT ---Symbolic Computation--- Hoon Hong (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA) Symbolic Computation (Quantifier Elimination) James Davenport (University of Bath, United Kingdom) Symbolic Computation through Maple and Reduce Christopher W. Brown (United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA) Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition and Real Polynomial Constraints ---Industrial Applications--- Tom Bienmueller (BTC Embedded Systems, Oldenburg, Germany) Industrial Applications and Challenges for Verifying Reactive Embedded Software David Deharbe (ClearSy, Aix-en-Provence, France) Formal Verification in an Industrial Setting Grant Passmore (Aesthetic Integration, London, United Kingdom) Formal Verification of Financial Algorithms ---Beyond Satisfiability Checking--- Christoph Weidenbach (MPI for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany) State-of-the-art FOL Solving Jasmin Blanchette (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Interactive Theorem Proving in Higher-Order Logics =========== Application =========== To apply for participation, please send an email to haniel.barbosa at inria.fr with the following documents: - a one page curriculum vitae, - an application letter explaining your interest in the school and your experience in the area, - a copy of a certificate of you highest academic degree (at least Bachelor or equivalent), - a support letter by a current advisor. Application deadline is June 01, 2017. Notifications on acceptance/rejection will be given by June 15, 2017. ========== Organisers ========== Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Thomas Sturm (CNRS, France and MPI Informatics, Germany) From bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca Tue May 16 04:38:57 2017 From: bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca (Brigitte Pientka) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:38:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2017: ** REVISED PAPER DEADLINE 26 May ** Message-ID: <75395368-FD49-47A1-AECD-3F026D0A5D56@cs.mcgill.ca> ======================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 19th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2017 Namur, Belgium, October 9-11, 2017 (co-located with LOPSTR'17) http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/ppdp2017 ======================================================== REVISED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 26 May ======================================================== PPDP 2017 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint programming paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency, security, static analysis, and verification. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ** Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability; concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; probabilistic languages; reactive languages; database languages; knowledge representation languages; languages with objects; language extensions for tabulation; metaprogramming. ** Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection; memory management. ** Foundations: type systems; type classes; dependent types; logical frameworks; monads; resource analysis; cost models; continuations; control; state; effects; semantics. ** Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow; termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing. ** Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments; verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application; education. This year the conference will be co-located with the 27th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017). IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: 26 May 2017 Paper Rebuttal: 10 July 2017 Notification: 20 July 2017 Final Version: 15 Aug 2017 SUBMISSION CATEGORIES: Submissions can be made in three categories: regular Research Papers, System Descriptions, and Experience Reports. Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages ACM style 2-column (including figures and bibliography). Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Submissions of research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability. Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of submission and will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc., is used in practice. They must not exceed 6 pages. Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time of submission and need not report original research results. They will be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: * insights gained from real-world projects using declarative programming * comparison of declarative programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum * curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming in education * real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a declarative language or for declarative programming in general * novel use of declarative programming in the classroom * programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or programming technique. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions must be formatted using ACM style files (latest release December 2016) using the instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template To prepare your submission using LaTex: * Download acmart.zip from https://www.ctan.org/pkg/acmart * Unzip acmart.zip * Run latex acmart.ins to produce an acmart.cls file * Run pdflatex sample-sigconf.tex to check that your installation works correctly * Write your paper using sample-sigconf.tex as a template 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, etc., 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. At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. Papers must be submitted via easychair. The submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2017 PROCEEDING Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. PROGRAM CHAIR Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) Nadia Amin (EPFL) Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon) Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (University of Torino) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) Thom Fr?hwirth (University of Ulm) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) Neel Krishnaswami (University of Cambridge) Micha?l Leuschel (Universit?t D?sseldorf) Yanhong Annie Liu (Stony Brook University) Andres Loeh (Well-Typed) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Paraiba / fortiss) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) (PC Chair) Ulrich Schoepp (Ludwig Maximilian University) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University) Bernardo Toninho (Imperial College London) LOCAL ORGANIZER (joint with LOPSTR): Wim Vanhoof (University of Namur) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Perez) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 12:26:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_submissions=3A_Recent_Advance?= =?utf-8?q?s_in_Concurrency_and_Logic_=28RADICAL_2017=29_-_co-locat?= =?utf-8?q?ed_with_CONCUR=E2=80=9917=2E?= Message-ID: [ Submissions from the TYPES readership, broadly related to concurrency and logic, are warmly welcome! ] =========================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Recent Advances in Concurrency and Logic (RADICAL 2017) https://sites.google.com/site/radicalconcur/ A new workshop co-located with QONFEST (CONCUR, QEST, FORMATS, and EPEW) https://www.qonfest.tu-berlin.de https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ Berlin, Germany September 4, 2017 =========================================== == IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline (3-page talk proposals): Friday, 30 June 2017. - Notification to authors: Friday, 28 July 2017. - Workshop: Monday, 4 September 2017 == MOTIVATION AND SCOPE RADICAL is a new workshop aligned within the intersection between concurrency and logic, broadly construed. Recently, the interplay of concurrency and logic with areas/applications such as: - design, verification, synthesis for concurrent systems, both qualitative and quantitative; - strategic reasoning for distributed and multi-agent systems; - analysis and validation techniques for concurrent and distributed programs and systems (e.g., separation logics, advanced type systems, and runtime verification techniques); has received much attention, as witnessed by recent CONCUR editions. These areas/applications have become increasingly consolidated, and start to have profound impact in neighbouring communities such as: - programming languages - artificial intelligence - computer security - knowledge representation As an unfortunate side effect, however, the important unifying role that concurrency plays in all of them seems hard to find in a single scientific event. Indeed, there do not seem to exist appropriate venues in which different research communities interested in concurrency and logic can meet closely, cross-fertilize, and share their most exciting recent results. RADICAL intends to fill a gap between CONCUR researchers that now also typically publish and interact in other different venues; it also aims at attracting researchers from neighbouring communities whose work naturally intersects with CONCUR. == FORMAT: BACK TO THE BASICS RADICAL will offer an innovative format for a one-day workshop for researchers involved in all aspects of concurrency and logic including, but not limited to, the areas mentioned above. Since we would like to recover the informal character of scientific workshops, rather than regular paper submissions, authors should submit three-page talk proposals (see below). RADICAL will be an informal venue, oriented to interaction, and so it will have no formal proceedings. == INVITED SPEAKERS - Lu?s Caires (NOVA University of Lisbon, PT) - Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) == SUBMISSIONS We invite submissions describing talk proposals on the intersection of logic and concurrency, as motivated above. A submission to RADICAL would typically fall within one of the following categories: - reports of an ongoing work and/or preliminary results; - summaries of an already published paper (or series of papers); - overviews of (recent) PhD theses; - descriptions of research projects and consortia; - manifestos, calls to action, personal views on current and future challenges; - overviews of interesting yet underrepresented problems. This list is by no means exhaustive but merely indicative. For instance, since RADICAL will precede CONCUR (and the other main conferences co-located with QONFEST), authors of papers accepted at a main conference may consider proposing a talk in RADICAL that promotes (or gives context to) a technical talk to be delivered at the conference(s) later on the week. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the organizers in case of questions: radical2017 at easychair.org Submissions based on already published works should include explicit references/links as appropriate. Reviewers may read such prior published work, but are not obliged to so do. Submissions will be judged by the program committee on the basis of significance, relevance, and potential of an engaging, compelling talk at the workshop. Submissions should be in PDF, up to three pages (not including references), produced using the EasyChair format, available at http://easychair.org/publications/for_authors Please submit your talk proposal via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=radical2017 It is understood that for each accepted submission one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and give the talk. == ORGANIZERS - Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford, UK) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, NL) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Emmanuel Beffara (I2M, Universit? d'Aix-Marseille & CNRS, FR) - James Brotherston (University College London, UK) - Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Silvia Crafa (Universit? di Padova, IT) - Ugo Dal Lago (Universit? di Bologna, IT) - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, IT) - Constantin Enea (IRIF, University Paris Diderot, FR) - Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) - Sibylle Fr?schle (University of Oldenburg, DE) - Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, UK) - Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford, UK - co-chair) - Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath, UK) - Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, NL) - Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, DE) - Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, DK) - Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, BR) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, NL - co-chair) - Carsten Sch?rmann (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) - Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) - Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, SG) - Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London, UK) - Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) - Frank Valencia (CNRS & LIX, ?cole Polytechnique, FR) - Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA - CNRS / University of Lorraine, FR) - Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, NL) - Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl From ndanner at wesleyan.edu Wed May 17 09:11:35 2017 From: ndanner at wesleyan.edu (Norman Danner) Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 09:11:35 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position at Wesleyan University Message-ID: <013a6cfe-19a8-c878-a745-ae44f51ee41b@wesleyan.edu> The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, USA) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The postdoc will work with Professors Norman Danner and Dan Licata on the topic of certified cost analysis of functional programs, and will have the freedom to pursue his/her own research agenda as well. Candidates with backgrounds in any of programming languages, logic, algorithms, and proof assistants are especially encouraged to apply. The position is for 1 year starting Fall 2017, with possibility of renewal for a second year. It is grant-funded, so teaching is not required, but there is a possibility of teaching 1 class per year for applicants who would like to build their teaching portfolio. Please find information on applying for the job here: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/5800 We will review applications as they are received. -- Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University From matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Wed May 17 05:48:01 2017 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 10:48:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Highlights 2017 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170517094801.GM2157@chilon.net> The call for papers for Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata 2017 is found below. Apologies for multiple postings. Best, Matthew Hague ================================================================ Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata (HIGHLIGHTS 2017) London, 12-15 SEPTEMBER 2017 http://highlights-conference.org 1st CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS 2017 is the fifth conference on Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata that aims at integrating the community working in these fields. Papers from these areas are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to the Highlights conference should offer a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. We encourage you to attend and present your best work, be it already published or not, at the Highlights conference. Representative areas include, but are not restricted to: logic and finite model theory, automata theory, games for logic and verification. The conference itself is three days long (Sept. 13-15) and it is preceded by the Highlights tutorial day (Sept. 12). The participation costs will be modest (with a discount for students and post-docs) and London is very easy to reach. The contributed talks are around ten minutes. Ideally, they let participants learn something new, and enable them to understand the objective/problem/question and the result, and to get an idea of the technique. The program will further offer three invited talks: + Mikolaj Bojanczyk: Recognisability equals MSO definability for graphs of bounded treewidth. + Sanjay Jain: Quasi Polynomial and FPT algorithms for parity games + Hung Ngo: Shannon-type inequalities, submodular width, and disjunctive datalog two invited sessions, organised by + Patricia Bouyer: Games played on graphs: quantitative games, games with multi-objectives, non-zero sum games + Alexandra Silva: Model learning, automata and its applications and two tutorials: + Veronique Cortier: Verification of security protocols + Damien Pous: Coinduction up to and automata algorithms The submission deadline is *** JUNE 2, 2017*** Notifications will be sent by June 12, 2017. Registration will be possible until August 7, 2017. You submit a proposal for a presentation, not a paper. Hence, submissions should have a single author, who is the speaker. Since we expect you to present your favorite result of the year, there should be at most one submission per speaker. The abstract, of 1-2 pages, may include a list of coauthors. There are no formal proceedings and we encourage submission of work presented elsewhere. Submissions are possible through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=highlights17. The instructions and detailed information about Highlights 2017 are available at http://highlights-conference.org. ================================================================ From dilian at csc.kth.se Thu May 18 11:52:46 2017 From: dilian at csc.kth.se (Dilian Gurov) Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 17:52:46 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2017: Call For Oral Presentations In-Reply-To: <086cfe46-b3d4-1719-0d55-7900f8d63be9@csc.kth.se> References: <086cfe46-b3d4-1719-0d55-7900f8d63be9@csc.kth.se> Message-ID: ================================================================= CALL FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2017) August 20-24, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se/ ================================================================= AIM AND SCOPE Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science and is intended for computer scientists whose research involves logic, as well as for logicians working on issues essential for computer science. CSL 2017 is the 26th EACSL annual conference. It will be co-organised by Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and hosted by Stockholm University. CSL 2017 will be co-located with, and immediately preceded by, the Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC 2017). There will be a joint session of CSL 2017 and LC 2017 in the morning of August 20, as well as CSL-affiliated workshops during August 25-26. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The paper submissions deadline has already passed. We hereafter invite submissions of abstracts for short oral presentations only. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Authors are invited to submit short abstracts in English, up to 4 pages (including references) in LIPIcs style, describing work fitting the scope of the conference. The LIPIcs style files and instructions for authors can be found here: https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors. The submissions must be done via the EasyChair page for the conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csl2017 , under the category "abstract for oral presentation", by June 4, 2017. They will NOT be included in the proceedings. DEADLINES: Submission: June 4, 2017 Notification: June 14, 2017 TOPICS OF INTEREST for CSL 2017 include (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------- ? automata and games, game semantics ? automated deduction and interactive theorem proving ? bounded arithmetic and propositional proof complexity ? categorical logic and topological semantics ? computational proof theory ? constructive mathematics and type theory ? decision procedures ? domain theory ? equational logic and rewriting ? finite model theory ? higher-order logic ? lambda calculus and combinatory logic ? linear logic and other substructural logics ? logic programming and constraints ? logical aspects of computational complexity ? logical aspects of quantum computing ? logic in database theory ? logical foundations of programming paradigms ? logical foundations of cryptography and information hiding ? logics for multi-agent systems ? modal and temporal logic ? model checking and logic-based verification ? nonmonotonic reasoning ? SAT solving and automated induction ? satisfiability modulo theories ? specification, extraction and transformation of programs ? verification and program analysis ----------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- CSL invited highlight speakers for the LC-CSL joint session on August 20: ? Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden ? Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen CSL plenary speakers: ? Laura Kov?cs, Vienna University of Technology ? Stephan Kreutzer, Technische Universit?t Berlin ? Meena Mahajan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai ? Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research ----------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL AND AFFILIATED EVENTS ----------------------------- In addition to the plenary and contributed talks CSL 2017, the conference will also include the following events: ? Joint session of CSL 2017 and LC 2017 in the morning of August 20, consisting of four plenary highlight talks, offered by speakers from both conferences. ? Presentation of the Alonzo Church award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, ? Presentation of the EACSL Ackermann award for Outstanding Dissertation on Logic in Computer Science, ? CSL-affiliated workshops, to be held as CSL co-located events: ? Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems LAMAS 2017 (August 25) ? Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory (in memory of Zoltan Ezik) (August 25) ? Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics LACompLing'17 (August 18-19) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- ? Parosh Aziz Abdulla (University of Uppsala), ? Lars Birkedal (University of Aarhus), ? Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research), ? Maria Paola Bonacina (Universit? degli Studi di Verona), ? Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV, ENS Cachan), ? Agata Ciabattoni (University of Viena), ? Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg), ? Mads Dam (KTH, Stockholm), PC co-chair ? Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna), ? Anuj Dawar (Cambridge University), ? Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University), PC co-chair ? Maribel Fernandez (King's College London), ? Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen), ? Lauri Hella (University of Tampere), ? Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen), ? Orna Kupferman (University of Jerusalem), ? Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh), ? Angelo Montanari (University of Udine), ? Catuscia Palamidessi (Paris, INRIA), ? Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) ? Ram Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), ? Jean-Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles), ? Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund University), ? Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University of Koblenz-Landau), ? Thomas Streicher (University of Darmstadt), ? Jean-Marc Talbot (University of Aix-Marseille), ? Luca Vigan? (King's College London), ? Ron van der Meyden (UNSW Australia), ? Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing). ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- ? Mads Dam (OC co-chair), Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH ? Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Dilian Gurov (Workshops chair), Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH ? Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Henning Strandin, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES ---------------------- With enquiries on organising matters, send email to: CSL 2017philosophy.su.se With enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: CSL 2017easychair.org From jriely at gmail.com Thu May 18 14:46:58 2017 From: jriely at gmail.com (James Riely) Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 18:46:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc Position at DePaul University Message-ID: Postdoc Position at DePaul University We invite applicants for a postdoc position at DePaul University, School of Computing. The appointment is for a one academic year, with full benefits, and is renewable for up to two years. The postdoc will be working on the project NSF funded project: Relaxing Soundness https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1617175 under PIs James Riely and Radha Jagadeesan. It would be desirable for applicants to have expertise in one or more of the following: + Concurrency theory + Relaxed memory models + Distributed databases and data structures + Programming Languages + Automated theorem provers Applications should include CV, statement of teaching interests, a cover letter, and three letters of recommendation that, preferably, address the candidate's teaching qualifications or potential. Contact James Riely or Radha Jagadeesan for additional inquiries at {jriely, rjagadeesan}@cs.depaul.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From njansen at utexas.edu Sun May 21 15:22:36 2017 From: njansen at utexas.edu (Nils Jansen) Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 12:22:36 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FEVER 2017 @ CAV: Deadline Extension In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7C97BC76-EC89-40DD-89B8-536A5ADBDC57@utexas.edu> The submission deadline has been extended to May 28. Please recall that only an abstract is required in order to give a presentation at the FEVER workshop (co-located with CAV 2017). We look forward to your submissions! ================== IMPORTANT DATES ================== Abstract submission: May 28, 2017 (new) Notification: May 30, 2017 Workshop: July 23, 2017 > On Apr 7, 2017, at 11:13 AM, Nils Jansen wrote: > > The FEVER workshop solicits presentations of ongoing or previously published work to enable discussions on a broad range of topics. These presentations will not be subject to proceedings publication. > > ==================================================================== > Call for informal presentations (abstracts) > > FEVER 2017 > > Workshop on Formal approaches to Explainable VERi?cation > JULY 23, 2017, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY > > Co-Located with CAV 2017 > > http://fever.nilsjansen.org > > ==================================================================== > > This workshop will focus on the problem of rendering the results of formal verificaton more understandable to humans, and on the inherent problem of requiring explanations for the results of formal verification. > As we are also interested in formal measures to explainability, this is the problem of 'Formal approaches to Explainable VERi?cation? (FEVER). > > Traditionally, formal verification aims to provide guarantees on the behavior of a system model. We believe, however, that the FEVER problem is not sufficiently addressed by state-of-the-art techniques. > We see FEVER as a significant new research opportunity for the Computer-Aided Verification community. > The traditional modeling and verification processes suffer from their inherent complexity, which makes it hard for non-specialists to understand and rely on them. > Formal measures of explainability will contribute to establishing trust in such methods. > > The workshop seeks to bring together researchers with diverse expertises, including CAV, AI, VR (Virtual Reality), and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), to lay down the foundations for this new topic and to discuss existing approaches, ideas, and challenges. > > Topics include, but are not limited to: > > + understandable modeling languages, such as probabilistic programs > + accessible synthesis results and abstraction techniques > + explainable counterexamples and controllers > > As there are no formal proceedings for the workshop, the main focus is on a broad range of topics that trigger lively discussions. > > > ================== > INVITED SPEAKERS > ================== > * Roderick Bloem, TU Graz, Austria > * Holger Hermanns, Saarland University, Germany > > > ================== > IMPORTANT DATES > ================== > Abstract submission: May 22, 2017 > Notification: May 30, 2017 > Workshop: July 23, 2017 > > > ================== > SUBMISSIONS > ================== > We encourage all interested authors to submit an abstract of their presentation through Easychair > > https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fever2017 > > We particularly invite work recently accepted to top conferences and ongoing work. > The submission should be a pdf of at most two pages in the llncs style. > Accepted presentations will not be subject to proceedings publication. > > > ================== > PC CHAIRS > ================== > * Beno?t Delahaye, University of Nantes, France > * Nils Jansen, The University of Texas at Austin, USA > * Scott A. 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These presentations will not be subject to proceedings publication. ================== IMPORTANT DATES ================== Abstract submission: May 28, 2017 (new) Notification: May 30, 2017 Workshop: July 23, 2017 ==================================================================== Call for informal presentations (abstracts) FEVER 2017 Workshop on Formal approaches to Explainable VERi?cation JULY 23, 2017, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY Co-Located with CAV 2017 http://fever.nilsjansen.org ==================================================================== This workshop will focus on the problem of rendering the results of formal verificaton more understandable to humans, and on the inherent problem of requiring explanations for the results of formal verification. As we are also interested in formal measures to explainability, this is the problem of 'Formal approaches to Explainable VERi?cation? (FEVER). Traditionally, formal verification aims to provide guarantees on the behavior of a system model. We believe, however, that the FEVER problem is not sufficiently addressed by state-of-the-art techniques. We see FEVER as a significant new research opportunity for the Computer-Aided Verification community. The traditional modeling and verification processes suffer from their inherent complexity, which makes it hard for non-specialists to understand and rely on them. Formal measures of explainability will contribute to establishing trust in such methods. The workshop seeks to bring together researchers with diverse expertises, including CAV, AI, VR (Virtual Reality), and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), to lay down the foundations for this new topic and to discuss existing approaches, ideas, and challenges. Topics include, but are not limited to: + understandable modeling languages, such as probabilistic programs + accessible synthesis results and abstraction techniques + explainable counterexamples and controllers As there are no formal proceedings for the workshop, the main focus is on a broad range of topics that trigger lively discussions. ================== INVITED SPEAKERS ================== * Roderick Bloem, TU Graz, Austria * Holger Hermanns, Saarland University, Germany ================== IMPORTANT DATES ================== Abstract submission: May 28, 2017 (new) Notification: May 30, 2017 Workshop: July 23, 2017 ================== SUBMISSIONS ================== We encourage all interested authors to submit an abstract of their presentation through Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fever2017 We particularly invite work recently accepted to top conferences and ongoing work. The submission should be a pdf of at most two pages in the llncs style. 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Strong programming skill is required. Experience in any or all of the following is a plus. * Computer security, especially software, systems, and mobile security, * Program analysis, model checking, and verification, * Symbolic execution, * Type systems, * Programming languages, * Compiler, * Binary code analysis, * Malware analysis, * Reverse engineering, and * Machine learning. Researchers with more experience are encouraged to apply and may be appointed at senior level. The initial appointment will be one-year, but renewable for multiple years. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. Contact Prof. Dinghao Wu for any questions (https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/wu/, email: dwu at ist.psu.edu). To apply, send via email a cover letter, CV, research statement (optional), 1-3 sample publications, and contact information of 2-5 references. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Sun May 21 16:33:47 2017 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 22:33:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GraMSec 2017 - deadline extended until Sunday, May 28 Message-ID: <3faeb4ca-304b-de3a-74d2-aa88b189c4cb@irisa.fr> The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 LNCS proceedings confirmed Following several requests, the submission deadline has been extended until Sunday, May 28. SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber 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 vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop 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. TOPICS 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: ? Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis ? Graphical models for risk analysis and management ? Graphical models for requirements analysis and management ? Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security ? Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems ? Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness ? Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm ? Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models ? Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models ? Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models ? Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models ? Scalable evaluation of graphical security models ? Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models ? Dynamic update of graphical security models ? Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling ? Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants ? Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security ? UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security ? Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis ? Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be confirmed. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: ? Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. ? Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. The GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission deadline: Sunday, May 28, 2017 (firm) ? Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 ? Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR ? Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS ? Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA ? Ketil St?len, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, T?l?com ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Universit? di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Fr?d?ric Cuppens, T?l?com Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, T?l?com Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Herv? Debar, T?l?com SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI and MITRE, USA Ren? Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Universit? Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per H?kon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Link?ping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA St?phane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Pi?tre-Cambac?d?s, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Sup?lec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Sa?a Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Universit? C?te d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mari?lle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Vigan?, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17 at easychair.org From carsten at demtech.dk Mon May 22 11:20:30 2017 From: carsten at demtech.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 17:20:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Faculty Positions at the IT University of Copenhagen Message-ID: <51F523B4-0712-422E-83D9-B5F55E8ACD35@demtech.dk> Dear all, The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) invites applications for several full-time faculty positions at the rank of assistant professor or associate professor. Among others, ITU is growing its faculty in the areas of * Security * Cryptography. We are looking for candidates with an established track record in information security, language based security, network security, or offensive security. If you are interested in contributing to building a strong security group in Copenhagen, please apply. For more information, and to file an application, please visit https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=180848&MediaId=5#sthash.Tc6Owms6.dpuf We look forward to hearing from you. Please circulate. Best regards, - Carsten Schuermann -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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LFCS ?18 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sergei Artemov (New York, NY) - PC Chair; Eugene Asarin (Paris); Steve Awodey (Pittsburgh, PA); Matthias Baaz (Vienna); Lev Beklemishev (Moscow); Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor, MI); Samuel Buss (San Diego, CA); Robert Constable (Ithaca, NY); Thierry Coquand (G?teborg); Michael Fellows (Bergen), 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); Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft); Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Chennai); Michael Rathjen (Leeds); Jeffrey Remmel (San Diego); Andre Scedrov (UPenn); Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich); Philip Scott (Ottawa); Alex Simpson (Ljubljana); Sonja Smets (Amsterdam); Sebastiaan Terwijn(Nijmegen). LFCS ?18 LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Robert Lubarsky. 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; nonmonotonic 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. SUBMISSION DETAILS. Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. There will be a post-conference volume of selected works published. Submissions should be made electronically via http://www.easychair.org/ LFCS18/. Submitted papers must be in pdf/12pt format and of no more than 15 pages, present work not previously published, and must not be 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: September 10, 2017, any time zone. Notification: October 10, 2017. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS. The venue of LFCS ?18 will be the spectacular Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort, 2096 NE 2nd Street, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441. 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URL: From alessandro.aldini at uniurb.it Tue May 23 10:28:00 2017 From: alessandro.aldini at uniurb.it (Aldini, Alessandro) Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 16:28:00 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 17th FOSAD Summer School: Foundations of Security Analysis and Design Message-ID: 17TH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON FOUNDATIONS OF SECURITY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN FOSAD 2017 ==================================================== http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/fosad17 ==================================================== 28 August - 2 September 2017, Bertinoro, Italy In cooperation with the European Network for Cyber-security (NeCS) http://www.necs-project.eu/ *** Application Deadline: June 23, 2017 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. COURSES> The topics covered by the lectures include: - cryptocurrencies and transparency systems - mobile security - privacy engineering - verification of security protocols - information-flow control libraries - machine learning and privacy Lecturers: Joseph Bonneau (Stanford Univ.) Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway Univ. of London) George Danezis (Univ. College London) Stephanie Delaune (CNRS IRISA) Alejandro Russo (Chalmers Univ.) Vitaly Shmatikov (Cornell Univ.) The courses alternate theory and practice sessions. Participants will receive a copy of the book "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies". OPEN PhD FORUM> FOSAD encourages talk proposals from PhD students who are willing to present their novel and ongoing research ideas and contributions. The proposals, to be submitted by 1 August through the FOSAD web page, will be selected by the scientific committee for presentation at the PhD Forum, which will be held on 30 August during the Summerschool. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE> Martin Abadi Javier Lopez Alessandro Aldini Fabio Martinelli (Chair) Gilles Barthe Catherine Meadows Eerke Boiten Bart Preneel Sandro Etalle SCHOOL VENUE> The school is organized at the University Residential Center of Bertinoro (CEUB), Italy: http://www.ceub.it/ The host venue provides a unique architectonical and environmental setting joining the stunning views of the hilltop of Bertinoro with the historical location of the ancient fortress and the facilities of the Center, which offers accommodation, meeting rooms, and modern conference and computing services. SCHOOL DATES> Prospective participants should apply through the FOSAD web page by: June 23, 2017. Notification of accepted applicants will be posted by: June 24, 2017. Registration to the school is due by: July 24, 2017. SCHOOL FEES> The full fee is 900 Euros and covers stay from August 27, in double room, half board (breakfast and lunch), welcome dinner of August 27 and social dinner included. 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Feel free to forward this message to whom it might interest. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it). Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Invited Speakers: ----------------- The invited speakers for this joint CILC/ICTCS event are: Mario Alviano, University of Calabria Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 25 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. In particular, we invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the conference web site including a link to the original publication if already published. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). This is open to full and short papers that have not been published in a journal. General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Program Committee: ------------------ Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy Vittorio Bil?, University of Salento, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Ferdinando Fioretto, University of Michigan, USA Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Raffaella Gentilini, University of Perugia, Italy Laura Giordano, DISIT, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Marco Manna, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Maratea, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy Viviana Mascardi, DIBRIS University of Genova, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy Matteo Mio, CNRS/ENS-Lyon, France Fabio Mogavero, University of Oxford, UK Marco Montali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Laura Nenzi, IMT, Lucca, Italy Eugenio Omodeo, University of Trieste, Italy Fabio Patrizi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford, UK Adriano Peron, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Alberto Pettorossi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy Luca Pulina, POLCOMING, University of Sassari, Italy Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy Gianfranco Rossi, University of Parma, Italy Guido Sciavicco, University of Ferrara, Italy Jeremy Sproston, University of Torino , Italy Tiziano Villa, University of Verona, Italy Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017 at easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/ From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Mon May 22 12:30:55 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 18:30:55 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2017 (AIRIM'17) Message-ID: with apologies for multiple posting ------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for Position Papers: ** May 31, 2017 ** NOTE: good position papers may qualify for upgrade to regular papers ------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2017 (AIRIM'17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3-6 September, 2017 https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/airim ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE There is general realization that computational models of languages and reasoning can be improved by integration of heterogeneous resources of information, e.g., multidimensional diagrams, images, language, syntax, semantics, quantitative data, memory. While the event targets promotion of integrated computational approaches, we invite contributions from any individual areas related to information, language, memory, reasoning. TOPICS We welcome submissions of papers on the following topics, without limiting to them, across approaches, methods, theories, and applications: - Reasoning systems --- theories and applications - Proof systems and model checkers - Theories of computation and information - Interactive computation and reasoning - Computation and reasoning with heterogeneous information - Space and time in information, language, memory, and reasoning - Partiality, underspecification, vagueness, and possibilities - Detection of and reasoning with inconsistency - Logic and language --- approaches, theories, methods - Computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and interfaces between these - Constraint-based and type-theoretic approaches and grammars - Logical approaches to multilingual processing - Logical and computational foundations in machine learning and information retrieval - Mathematics for linguistics and cognitive science - Reasoning, information, and memory in computational neuroscience and life sciences - Interdisciplinary approaches to information, language, memory, and reasoning IMPORTANT (active) DATES Paper submission: expired Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 Authors notification: June 14, 2017 Final paper submission and registration: June 28, 2017 Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2017 Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION and PUBLICATIONS https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/airim The publication rules, status, and the submission page for AIRIM'17 are the same as for AAIA'17 | FedCSIS: https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/instructions - Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file) - The total length of a regular paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available at the websites of AIRIM'17 | AAIA'17 | FedCSIS - Position papers relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages. - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop - Pre-prints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore? database - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN, and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site - Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, and Google Scholar - Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) CONTACT INFORMATION Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francois.pottier at inria.fr Wed May 24 05:22:39 2017 From: francois.pottier at inria.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Fran=c3=a7ois_Pottier?=) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 11:22:39 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last call for talk proposals: Higher-Order Programming with Effects, HOPE 2017 Message-ID: One week to go before the HOPE 2017 deadline! Put this time to good effect: submit a talk proposal and come present your research in Oxford on Sep. 3rd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS HOPE 2017 The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects September 3, 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom (the day before ICFP 2017) http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/hope-2017-papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The HOPE workshop series are intended to bring together researchers interested in the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. They are informal, consisting of invited talks, contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. They are dedicated to John Reynolds, whose work is an inspiration to us all. The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects will take place on Sunday, September 3, 2017, that is, the day before ICFP 2017, in Oxford, United Kingdom. # 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 code harder to build, maintain, and reason about. 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 made available online. # 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, Fran?ois Pottier (francois.pottier at inria.fr) and Aleks Nanevski (aleks.nanevski at imdea.org). # Important Dates * Deadline for talk proposals: June 1st, 2017 (Thursday) * Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2017 (Saturday) * Workshop: September 3, 2017 (Sunday) # Submission Link The submission website is https://icfp-hope17.hotcrp.com/ . # Workshop Organization Program Co-Chairs: Fran?ois Pottier (Inria Paris) Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute) Program Committee: Edwin Brady University of St Andrews Pierre-?variste Dagand LIP6/CNRS Atsushi Igarashi Kyoto University Robbert Krebbers Delft University of Technology Vivek Nigam Federal University of Para?ba Matija Pretnar University of Ljubljana Azalea Raad Imperial College London Aseem Rastogi Microsoft Research Filip Sieczkowski University of Wroc?aw Niki Vazou University of Maryland From Gethin.Norman at glasgow.ac.uk Wed May 24 08:29:37 2017 From: Gethin.Norman at glasgow.ac.uk (Gethin Norman) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:29:37 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLoC 2018 Second Call for Workshops Message-ID: [apologies for cross posting] FLoC 2018 ? The 2018 Federated Logic Conference 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, England UK http://www.floc2018.org/ SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOPS The Seventh Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2018) will host the following nine conferences and affiliated workshops. CAV (30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification) http://i-cav.org/ Workshop chair: Hana Chockler hana.chockler at kcl.ac.uk CSF (31st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium) http://www.ieee-security.org/CSFWweb/ Workshop chair: Cas Cremers cas.cremers at cs.ox.ac.uk FM (23rd International Symposium on Formal Methods) http://www.fmeurope.org/?page_id=221 Workshop chair: Helen Treharne H.Treharne at surrey.ac.uk FSCD (3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction) http://fscdconference.org/ Workshop chair: Paula Severi pgs11 at le.ac.uk ICLP (35th International Conference on Logic Programming) https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/conferences/ Workshop chair: Stefan Woltran woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at IJCAR (International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning) http://www.ijcar.org Workshop chair: Alberto Griggio griggio at fbk.eu ITP (9th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving) http://itp2017.cic.unb.br Workshop chair: Assia Mahboubi Assia.Mahboubi at inria.fr LICS (33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science) http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/ Workshop chair: Patricia Bouyer bouyer at lsv.ens-cachan.fr SAT (21st International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing) http://www.satisfiability.org Workshop chair: Martina Seidl martina.seidl at jku.at SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics in the field of computer science, related to logic in the broad sense. Each workshop proposal must indicate one affiliated conference of FLoC 2018. It is strongly suggested that prospective workshop organizers contact the relevant conference workshop chair before submitting a proposal. Each proposal should consist of the following two parts. 1) A short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). 2) An organisational part including: - contact information for the workshop organizers; - proposed affiliated conference; - estimate of the number of workshop participants; - proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) - potential invited speakers; - procedures for selecting papers and participants; - plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue); - duration (which may vary from one day to two days); - preferred period (pre, mid or post FLoC). The FLoC Organizing Committee will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs of the hosting conferences and availability of space and facilities. Proposals should be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floc2018workshops Please see the Workshop Guidelines page: http://www.floc2018.org/workshop-guidelines/ for further details and FAQ. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of workshop proposals deadline: June 19, 2017 Notification: July 31, 2017 Pre-FLoC workshops: Saturday & Sunday, July 7-8, 2018 Mid-FLoC workshops: Friday July 13, 2018 Post-FLoC workshops: Wednesday & Thursday, July 18-19, 2018 See the FLoC calendar (http://www.floc2018.org/calendar/) for the FLoC conference and workshop dates. Note 1: mid-FLoC workshops are expected be one day in duration, however we can consider two-day workshops under exceptional circumstance (details should be included in the proposal). Note 2: since FM is a three-day conference, FM-affiliated workshops may be held on 17-18 July as opposed to July 18-19. CONTACT INFORMATION Questions regarding proposals should be sent to the workshop chairs of the proposed affiliated conference. General questions should be sent to: gethin.norman at glasgow.ac.uk FLoC 2018 WORKSHOP CHAIR Gethin Norman University of Glasgow From Tom.Hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr Wed May 24 05:01:03 2017 From: Tom.Hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr (Tom.Hirschowitz at univ-savoie.fr) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 11:01:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop on Coinduction in Type Theory in Chambery Message-ID: <949922982.1891321.1495616463976.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-smb.fr> Dear all, This is the second call for participation to our little workshop / summer school on Coinduction in Type Theory in Le Bourget-du-Lac, near Chamb?ry, France, from July 3 to July 6, 2017. Everything you need to know should be at http://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~hirschowitz/CoTT2017 , in particular, registration is open until June 15, here: http://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~hirschowitz/CoTT2017/registration.php . Briefly, the workshop will revolve around three mini-courses: - Henning Basold: Type Theory Based on Dependent Inductive and Coinductive Types, - Neil Ghani: Coinduction and infinite games, - Rasmus M?gelberg: Guarded dependent type theory with coinductive types. Contributed talks are solicited on theoretical and more applied topics having to do with coinduction and type theory ? preferably both! ?, particularly those not represented by the invited talks. In the tradition of the R?alisabilit? ? Chamb?ry workshop series, the organisers won't organise much, apart from the talks and coffee breaks. In particular, lunch is not organised and registration is free. Some things generally happen spontaneously, like a social dinner and a barbecue near Lake Bourget. The workshop website includes a few hints for accomodation and the like, but please don't hesitate to contact us in case of further questions. Hoping to see you there, Tom Hirschowitz Clovis Eberhart Pierre Hyvernat Rodolphe Lepigre Christophe Raffalli From Pavol.Cerny at Colorado.EDU Tue May 23 15:39:54 2017 From: Pavol.Cerny at Colorado.EDU (Pavol Cerny) Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 13:39:54 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Position in Program Analysis at the University of Colorado Boulder 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 position in the area of program analysis. The ideal candidate has a strong background in the area of programming languages and verification, as well as an enthusiasm for mentoring junior researchers. The postdoctoral researcher would collaborate with Profs. Pavol Cerny, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, and Ashutosh Trivedi. The researcher will have an opportunity to lead an ambitious project on program analysis for security. To apply, please send an email to Pavol Cerny with a CV and contact information for two or three references. Our group has active projects in areas such as the following: - program analysis - program synthesis - cyberphysical systems For more information about our projects, please see: http://plv.colorado.edu/ The position is for one year, with a possible extension for additional years. Highly-qualified candidates may be considered for a research assistant professor position. Teaching opportunities will be available. Compensation is highly competitive and commensurate with experience. Boulder, located at the base of the Rocky Mountains, is consistently awarded top rankings for health, education, and quality of life. It is also home to a concentration of high-tech industry and to a vibrant startup community. It is located 30 miles from downtown Denver. From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Tue May 23 20:31:01 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 02:31:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: LACompLing2017 Extended Deadline: * June 9, 2017 * Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS * Extended submission deadline * *** June 9, 2017 *** for papers and abstracts (due to requests) ================================================= Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017) Stockholm, August 16-19, 2017 http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing17.html ================================================ Affiliated with the 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL'2017 Stockholm, 20--26 August 2017 Co-located with: Logic in Stockholm 2017 https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 ================================================= DESCRIPTION == Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. -------------------------------- SCOPE == The workshop focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches. The topics of LACompLing2017 include, but are not limited to: - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES == Submission deadline for regular papers: ** June 9 (any time on Earth), 2017 ** Abstracts of short presentations: ** June 9 (any time on Earth), 2017 ** Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2017 Deadline for final submissions: June 25, 2017 Workshop: August 16-19, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS == - Regular papers: between 10-15 pages, including figures and references, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - Abstracts of short presentations: not more than 1 page, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - We invite original papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts of short presentations have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf of the papers and their LaTeX sources The submissions are via the EasyChair management system of LACompLing2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2017 PUBLICATIONS == - The proceedings of LACompLing2017 will be published digitally by the DiVA system of Stockholm University: http://su.diva-portal.org - Improved and extended versions of selected papers, which have been presented at the workshop LACompLing2017, will be published by the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, JoLLI, after the workshop. FEATURED INVITED SPEAKERS == Lucas Champollion, New York University, USA Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, UK Fredrik Engstr?m, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Gintare Grigonyte, Stockholm University, Sweden Lars Hellan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Henriette de Swart, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS - Language, logic and information, The Netherlands Nikola Kompa, University of Osnabr?ck, Germany Torbj?rn Lager, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Richard Moot, CNRS, France Glyn Morrill, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden Rainer Osswald, Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf, Germany Peter Pagin, Stockholm University, Sweden Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, Canada Sam Sanders, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany Mila Vulchanova, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Markus Werning, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and more ... ORGANIZERS == Krasimir Angelov, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, USA Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair) Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, The Netherlands CONTACT == Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Valeria de Paiva (valeria.depaiva at gmail.com) -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jb.diku at gmail.com Thu May 25 06:00:51 2017 From: jb.diku at gmail.com (Jost Berthold) Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 20:00:51 +1000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FHPC'17: Extended deadline and maximum length Message-ID: <5926AB53.8060408@gmail.com> ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS FHPC 2017 The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing Oxford, UK September 7, 2017 http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/FHPC-2017-papers Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2017) Submission Deadline: 2nd of June 2017 (extended from 26th of May 2017) UPDATE: FHPC'17 papers length extended to up to 12 pages! ====================================================================== 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 (low-level) 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. Experience reports are also welcome. Proceedings: ============ FHPC 2017 seeks to encourage a range of submissions, focusing on work in progress and facilitating early exchange of ideas and open discussion on innovative and/or emerging results. Submission are limited to maximum 12 pages, but short papers (about 6 pages) are equally welcome. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. This year FHPC will introduce an (optional) artifact-evaluation session, with the intent that selected artifacts will receive additional presentation time in a dedicated slot during the workshop. * Paper submissions due: 2nd of June 2017, anywhere on earth (extended from 26th of May, 2017) * Artifact submissions due: 16th of June 2017 (optional) * Author notification: 30st of June, 2017 * Final copy due: 15th of July, 2017 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. Papers should be no longer than 12 pages. Contributions to FHPC 2017 should be submitted via Easychair, at the following URL: * https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fhpc17 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 ------ 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. ------ 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). Program Committee: ================== Phil Trinder (co-chair) Glasgow University, UK Cosmin Oancea (co-chair) University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jost Berthold Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australia Kei Davis Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan Gabriele Keller The University of New South Wales, Australia Rita Loogen Philipps-University Marburg, Germany Patrick Maier Glasgow University, UK Geoffrey Mainland Drexel University, USA Gihan Mudalige University of Warwick, UK Louis-Noel Pouchet Colorado State University, USA Mary Sheeran Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden From barbara_koenig at uni-due.de Wed May 24 11:09:01 2017 From: barbara_koenig at uni-due.de (Barbara Koenig) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 17:09:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extended - STAF Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: [The deadline for the STAF Doctoral Symposium has been extended to 29 May 2017. Please also note that authors can apply for student registration grants for STAF.] ********************************************************************** Call for Papers for the STAF Doctoral Symposium July 17, 2017 Affiliated with STAF 2017 in Marburg ********************************************************************** http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/staf2017/index.php/call-doctoral-symposium/ ********************************************************************** The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is to provide a forum in which PhD students can present their work in progress. The symposium supports students by providing independent and constructive feedback about their already completed and, more importantly, planned research work. The symposium will be accompanied by prominent experts who will actively participate in critical discussions. Relevant fields within Software Engineering include (but are not limited to): * Models: reasoning, execution, management, testing and validation * Model transformations: paradigms, algorithms, development, applications, tools * Graph transformation and graph theories * Domain Specific Languages * Proofs and Testing: verification, debugging, experiments, case studies * Model-Driven Engineering Any topic of interest for the conferences that will take place within STAF 2017 is highly welcomed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Process Submissions exclusively authored by the PhD student are invited from students who have settled on a PhD topic. We do accept papers on both initial stage (first or second year) and mature stage (third year, or later) of research. The authors shall clearly indicate their stage of research maturity in a footnote to be added to the paper title. Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 experts based on originality, significance, correctness and clarity. Submissions should describe research-in-progress that is meant to lead to a PhD dissertation, using the following structure: * Problem: The problem the research intends to solve, the target audience of this research, and a motivation of why the problem is important and needs to be solved. * Related work: A review of the relevant related work with an emphasis of how the proposed approach is different and what advantages it has over the existing state of the art. * Proposed solution: A description of the proposed solution and which other work (e.g., in the form of methods or tools) it depends on. * Preliminary work: A description of the work to-date and results achieved so far. * Expected contributions: A list of the expected contributions to both theory and practice. * Plan for evaluation and validation: A description of how it will be shown that the work does indeed solve the targeted problem and is superior to the existing state of the art (e.g., prototyping, industry case studies, user studies, experiments). * Current status: The current status of the work and a planned timeline for completion. Contributions must not exceed 5 pages in Springer LNCS format and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=staf2017workshops, choose "STAF 2017 Doctoral Symposium" as track). All accepted submissions to the Doctoral Symposium at STAF 2017 will be published in a post-conference volume of CEUR and will be submitted for inclusion in DBLP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: May 29, 2017 Paper submission deadline (extended!) June 6, 2017 Author notification July 17, 2017 STAF 2017 Doctoral Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Chairs Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila, Italy Barbara K?nig Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From dario.dellamonica at uniud.it Fri May 26 03:54:14 2017 From: dario.dellamonica at uniud.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 09:54:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CILC 2017: call for papers---extended deadlines Message-ID: <5e88067b-ac9c-6109-425e-48d3eaa06bb7@uniud.it> We are happy to announce extended deadlines for the following event. Feel free to forward this message to whom it might interest. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it). Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Invited Speakers: ----------------- The invited speakers for this joint CILC/ICTCS event are: Mario Alviano, University of Calabria Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 7 June 2017 Notification of acceptance: 7 July 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. In particular, we invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the conference web site including a link to the original publication if already published. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). This is open to full and short papers that have not been published in a journal. General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Program Committee: ------------------ Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy Vittorio Bil?, University of Salento, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Ferdinando Fioretto, University of Michigan, USA Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Raffaella Gentilini, University of Perugia, Italy Laura Giordano, DISIT, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Marco Manna, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Maratea, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy Viviana Mascardi, DIBRIS University of Genova, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy Matteo Mio, CNRS/ENS-Lyon, France Fabio Mogavero, University of Oxford, UK Marco Montali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Laura Nenzi, IMT, Lucca, Italy Eugenio Omodeo, University of Trieste, Italy Fabio Patrizi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford, UK Adriano Peron, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Alberto Pettorossi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy Luca Pulina, POLCOMING, University of Sassari, Italy Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy Gianfranco Rossi, University of Parma, Italy Guido Sciavicco, University of Ferrara, Italy Jeremy Sproston, University of Torino , Italy Tiziano Villa, University of Verona, Italy Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017 at easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/ From madeira at ua.pt Fri May 26 05:28:41 2017 From: madeira at ua.pt (Alexandre Madeira) Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 09:28:41 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Workshop_DaL=C3=AD_=3D=3D=3D_New_deadl?= =?utf-8?b?aW5lID09PT0=?= Message-ID: <5BF2E64D-06F1-4578-B7BF-86B77288A8E1@ua.pt> ==== DEADLINE EXTENSION===== Workshop DaL? ? Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Bras?lia, 24 September, 2017 (co-located with FROCOS TABLEAUX and ITP 2017) workshop.dali.di.uminho.pt Building on the pioneer intuitions of Floyd-Hoare logic, Dynamic Logic was intro- duced in the 70?s by Pratt as a suitable logic to reason about, and verify, classic imperative programs. Since then, the original intuitions grew to an entire family of logics, which became increasingly popular for assertional reasoning about a wide range of computational systems. Simultaneously, their object (i.e. the very notion of a program) evolved in unexpected ways. This leads to dynamic logics tailored to specific programming paradigms and extended to new computing domains, including probabilistic, continuous and quantum computation. Both its theoretical relevance and practical potential make Dynamic Logic a topic of interest in a number of scientific venues, from wide-scope software engineering conferences to modal logic specific events. However, no specific event is exclusively dedicated to it. This workshop aims at filling fill such a gap, joining an heterogeneous community of colleagues, from Academia to Industry, from Mathematics to Computer Science. forum for disseminating and sharing new trends and applications of Dynamic Logic. The event is promoted by the project DaL? - Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems: towards contract based design (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016692), a R&D project supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (http: //dali.di.uminho.pt). ***** Topics ***** We invite submissions on the general field of Dynamic Logic, its variants and applications, including, but not restricted to: - Dynamic logic,foundations and applications - Logics with regular modalities - Modal/temporal/epistemic logics - Kleene and action algebras and their variants - Quantum dynamic logic - Coalgebraic modal/dynamic logics - Graded and fuzzy dynamic logics - Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems - Dynamic epistemic logic - Complexity and decidability of variants of dynamic logics and temporal logics - Model checking, model generation and theorem proving for dynamic logics ***** Submissions and publications **** Authors are invited to submit original papers (un-published and not submitted for publication elsewhere) up to 15 pages in lncs style. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer?s Lecture Notes of Computer Science volume. Submissions with work in progress (abstracts with 2-5 pag) are also welcomed for short presentations. They are subject of a light reviewing and will be available at conference in a informal booklet. Both kind of submissions should be done via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dali17. Extended versions of the DaL? contributions will be invited to a special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, Elsevier. ***** Important Dates **** - NEW DEADLINE - June 18, 2017: Abstract deadline - NEW DEADLINE - June 18, 2017: Full paper deadline - July 14, 2017: Author notification **** Invited Speakers **** - Alexandru Baltag, UVA, NL - Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio, BR **** PC Chairs **** - Alexandre Madeira (UM & UA, PT) - M?rio Benevides (UFRJ, BR) **** Program Committee: **** - Carlos Areces (U. Cordoba, AR) - Phillippe Balbiani (U. Toulouse, FR) - Alexandru Baltag (Uva, NL) - Lu?s S. Barbosa (U.Minho, PT) - Johan van Benthem (U.Stanford & U.Tsinghua) - Patrick Blackburn (U. Roskilde, DK) - St?phane Demri (CNRS, FR) - Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) - Francicleber M. Ferreira (UFC, BR) - Valentin Goranko (U. Stockholm, SE) - Edward H. Hauesler (PUC-Rio, BR) - Rolf Hennicker (LMU, Munchen, DE) - Andreas Herzig (Toulouse, FR) - Dexter Kozen (Cornell, USA) - Clemens Kupke (U.Strathclyde, UK) - Bruno Lopes Vieira (UFF, BR) - Paulo Mateus (IST, PT) - Manuel A. Martins (U.Aveiro, PT) - Carlos Olarte (UFRN, BR) - Jos? N. Oliveira (U. Minho, PT) - Andr? Platzer (CMU, USA) - Eug?nio Rocha (U. Aveiro, PT) - Val?ria de Paiva (NC, USA) - Regivan Santiago (UFRN, BR) - Luis Menasche Schechter (UFRJ, BR) - Tinko Tinchev (U. Sofia, BG) - Petrucio Viana (UFF, BR) - Yde Venema (ILLC, NL) - Renata Wassermann (USP, BR) From ulrik at cs.aau.dk Fri May 26 04:52:01 2017 From: ulrik at cs.aau.dk (Ulrik Nyman) Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 10:52:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position @ Aalborg University: Compositional Verification of Real-time MULTI-CORE SAFETY Critical Systems (Ulrik Nyman) Message-ID: <74b42e43-81e3-b1f9-121e-57035f098a17@cs.aau.dk> At The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Computer Science a PhD stipend is available within the general study programme Computer Science and Engineering. The stipend is open for appointment at the earliest from 1 August 2017 or soon thereafter. The topics of the PhD stipends are within Computer Science and are described as follows. ? Model-based Schedulability Analysis of Multi-Core Safety Critical Systems. This includes domain modeling in the form of Timed I/O Automata, design of a domain specific language for describing multi-core scheduling systems and utilizing the model checking tool Ecdar (http://people.cs.aau.dk/~adavid/ecdar/) to perform compositional model checking of the models. The PhD stipend is a part of the research project Compositional Verification of Real-time MULTI-CORE SAFETY Critical Systems (http://ulrik.blog.aau.dk/multi-core-safety/). For further information about scientific aspects of the stipends, please contact Associate Professor Ulrik Nyman (ulrik at cs.aau.dk). For more information on the application process see: http://www.stillinger.aau.dk/vis-stilling/?vacancy=910455 From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Fri May 26 10:08:10 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 15:08:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA'17: Third Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <700487C2-AAF7-4025-8516-EB711EF26BB9@dcc.fc.up.pt> References: <700487C2-AAF7-4025-8516-EB711EF26BB9@dcc.fc.up.pt> Message-ID: <865BA931-7AB9-443E-8BF1-7E14E5CE1B82@dcc.fc.up.pt> *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 23-24 September 2017, Bras?lia, Brazil Satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP 2017 http://lsfa2017.cic.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 2017 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 2017 will be a satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP -- to be held in Bras?lia, Brazil, between 25 and 29 September 2017. Previous editions took place in Porto (2016), 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 (http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html ). The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2017 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: 21 June 2017 * Notification: 21 July 2017 * Final pre-proceedings version due: 11 August 2017 * LSFA 2017 23-24 September 2017 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 * Beniamino Accattoli * H?l?ne Kirchner * Renate Schmidt PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves, University of Porto - co-chair * Renata Wassermann, University of S?o Paulo - co-chair * Fl?vio L. C. de Moura, Universidade de Bras?lia - local organiser * Carlos Areces, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia * Veronica Becher, Universidad de Buenos Aires * Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ * Walter Carnielli, Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science ? CLE * Carlos Castro, UT Federico Santa Maria * Kaustuv Chaudhuri, INRIA * Marcelo Coniglio, UNICAMP * Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham * Santiago Escobar, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa * Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London * Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo * Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Delia Kesner, Universit? Paris-Diderot * Bjoern Lellmann, TU Vienna * Vivek Nigam, Universidade Federal da Para?ba * Jorge A. P?rez, University of Groningen and CWI, Amsterdam * Petrucio Viana, Universidade Federal Fluminense * Elaine Pimentel, UFRN * Giselle Reis, CMU-Qatar * Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, Universita' di Torino * Alvaro Tasistro, Universidad ORT Uruguay * Christian Urban, King's College London ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Fl?vio L. 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URL: From herman at cs.ru.nl Mon May 29 05:45:45 2017 From: herman at cs.ru.nl (Herman Geuvers) Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 11:45:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EUTYPES summer school in Ohrid (Macedonia), call for applications Message-ID: COST action CA15123 EUTYPES Summer School on Types for Programming and Verification Ohrid, Macedonia, 10-14 July 2017 https://sites.google.com/view/summerschool2017-eutypes/ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ** Application deadline: 2 June 2017 ** BACKGROUND Types are pervasive in programming and information technology. A type defines a formal interface between software components, allowing the automatic verification of their connections, and greatly enhancing the robustness and reliability of computations and communications. In rich dependent type theories, the full functional specification of a program can be expressed as a type. Type systems have rapidly evolved over the past years, becoming more sophisticated, capturing new aspects of the behaviour of programs and the dynamics of their execution. The aim of this summer school is to provide advanced training, especially to PhD students and early-career researchers, in all aspects of the theory and practice of type theory and applications. LECTURERS AND COURSES Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad, Serbia), Aleksy Schubert (Warsaw University, Poland): Untyped, typed lambda calculus, pure type systems Robbert Krebbers (Tehnical University Delft, The Netherlands): The Coq proof assistant for proving and programming Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde): Dependently typed programming, Agda Andrei Paskevich (LRI, France): Program verification in Why3 Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham, UK): Introduction to homotopy type theory APPLICATION The capacity of the summer school is up to 40 students. 6 nights accommodation costs 228 EUR. A maximum of 30 students (PhD students / early-career researchers) from countries involved in EUTYPES can receive a grant from the COST action to partially cover their costs. To apply for a place in the school and a grant, please fill out the form on the school website; please do so as soon as possible. Application deadline: 2 June 2017. Notification of acceptance and funding: continuously, at the latest by 9 June 2017. VENUE Ohrid is a small town on Lake Ohrid in Macedonia, southwest of Skopje. Ohrid is notable for once having had 365 churches, one for each day of the year, and has been referred to as the Jerusalem of the Balkans. Ohrid and Lake Ohrid are on UNESCO's lists of cultural and natural World Heritage sites. The school will be held in the Congress Centre of Ohrid, which is also the accommodation site. TRAVEL Most participants will have to fly to Skopje and then get to Ohrid by bus. WizzAir operates direct flights to Ohrid from Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg and London Luton. ORGANIZERS Herman Geuvers, Marija Mihova, Tarmo Uustalu From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Sun May 28 14:03:35 2017 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 19:03:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: ML Family Workshop 2017 Message-ID: <91d1106f-f5f6-9394-214f-1fd71e6b121d@ed.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ML Family Workshop 2017 7 September 2017, Oxford, UK http://www.mlworkshop.org/ml2017/ (co-located with ICFP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ML is a 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, Rust, and Scala. 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 ATS, Eff, F*, Koka, Links, Rust, Scala, Swift, etc.), to exchange experience of further developing ML ideas. Last year's ML Family workshop included talks covering eight different ML dialects and related languages: Eff, F#, F*, Links, Manticore, OCaml, SML, and SML#. The ML family workshop will be held in close coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Invited speaker --------------- Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews, UK) State machines all the way down A useful pattern in dependently typed programming is to define a state transition system, for example the states and operations in a network protocol, as an indexed monad. We index each operation by its input and output states, thus guaranteeing that operations satisfy pre- and post-conditions, by typechecking. However, what if we want to write a program using several systems at once? What if we want to define a high level state transition system, such as a network application protocol, in terms of lower level states, such as network sockets and mutable variables? In this talk, I will present an architecture for dependently typed applications based on a hierarchy of state transition systems, implemented in a generic data type ST. This is based on a monad indexed by contexts of resources, allowing us to reason about multiple state transition systems in the type of a function. Using ST, we show: how to implement a state transition system as a dependent type, with type level guarantees on its operations; how to account for operations which could fail; how to combine state transition systems into a larger system; and, how to implement larger systems as a hierarchy of state transition systems. I will illustrate the system with a high level network application protocol, implemented in terms of POSIX network sockets. Scope ----- We acknowledge the whole breadth of the ML family and aim to include languages that are closely related, such as Rust and Scala. 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 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 2017 workshop will continue the informal approach followed 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 2017 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. The bibliography will not be counted against the page limit. Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website https://icfp-mlworkshop17.hotcrp.com/ before the submission deadline (Wednesday 31st May). If you have a question concerning the scope of the workshop or the submission process, please contact the programme chair. Important dates --------------- Wednesday 31st May (any time zone) Abstract submission deadline Wednesday 28th June Author notification Thursday 7th September 2017 ML Family Workshop Programme committee ------------------- Nick Benton (Facebook, UK) Ma?gorzata Biernacka (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Stephen Dolan (University of Cambridge, UK) Shin-ya Katsumata (Kyoto University, Japan) Julia Lawall (LIP6 Paris, France) Sam Lindley (The University of Edinburgh, UK) (PC chair) Andreas Rossberg (Google, Germany) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, South Korea) Gabriel Scherer (Northeastern University, US) Alley Stoughton (Boston University, US) Niki Vazou (University of Maryland, US) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Mon May 29 08:46:21 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 09:46:21 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 2017 -- 2nd. call for posters Message-ID: **Call for posters** TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 25-29 SEPTEMBER 2017 BRASILIA BRASIL TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 2017 will have a poster session, which is intended for descriptions of works in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. Submissions should be in English, in the form of at most one page abstract, ENTCS format containing title and authors name with affiliation. The files should be sent directly to Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com). The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. The notification will be sent to authors June 30th. Proceedings of this session will not be published. Formatting instructions for posters will be made available soon. 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Poster Session: Space is still available for the TaPP?17 poster session. To participate, please submit a 1-page poster proposal to tapp17 at easychair.org, by the June 5th in order to receive notification prior to the registration deadline. Details at http://batesa.web.engr.illinois.edu/tapp17/#submissionsite ************************************************************************************* Preliminary TAPP?17 Schedule June 22 (Thursday) 14.00 - 20.00 Registration begins 18.00 - 20.00 Informal Welcome Reception June 23 (Friday) 08.30 - 09.00 Registration and Coffee Station opens 09.00 - 09.10 Welcome 09.10 - 10.10 Keynote Speaker: Tyson Condie, UCLA 10.10 - 10.45 Coffee Break 10.45 - 12.00 Research Session I 12.00 - 13.30 Lunch & Poster Session 13.30 - 14.15 Invited Talk: David Archer, Galois 14.15 - 15.30 Research Session II 15.45 - 16.00 Coffee Break 16.00 - 17:40 Research Session III 17:40 - 18:00 Town Hall and Concluding Remarks ************************************************************************************* TaPP 2017 will take place on the in the Grand Room of Maple Hall on the University of Washington Campus (1101 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, WA 98105). 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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. We are especially interested in position papers that are radical, forward-looking, and likely to lead to lively and insightful discussions that will influence future research that lies at the intersection of programming languages and security. The scope of PLAS includes, but is not limited to: ? Compiler-based security mechanisms (e.g. security type systems) or runtime-based security mechanisms (e.g. 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 IoT ? Applications, case studies, and implementations of these techniques -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines We invite both full papers and short papers. For short papers we especially encourage the submission of position papers that are likely to generate lively discussion. ? Full papers ?should be at most 11 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references 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 5 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category, as are papers presenting preliminary and exploratory work. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. Short paper presentations will be 15 minutes each. Submissions should be PDF documents formatted according to the CCS 2017 formatting requirements provided at https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2017/#format. Both full and short papers must describe work not published in other refereed venues. Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the workshop participants and be available in the ACM Digital Library. PLAS welcomes submissions by authors of all nationalities and we do not wish to exclude any potential authors who may have difficulty traveling due to recent changes in US immigration practices. 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URL: From foclasa2017 at gmail.com Mon May 29 10:24:31 2017 From: foclasa2017 at gmail.com (foclasa2017 at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 16:24:31 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOCLASA 2017 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <201705291424.v4TEOVgO032219@localhost.localdomain> [Apologies in case of multiple posting] ------ FOCLASA 2017: Final Call for Papers ------ 15th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es September 5, 2017, Trento (Italy) Colocated with SEFM 2017 - http://sefm17.fbk.eu Follow us on Twitter: @foclasa2017 ------------------------------------------------------ FOCLASA 2017 is a workshop colocated with the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2017). The goal of FOCLASA is to put together researchers and practitioners to share and identify common problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of coordination languages and self-adaptive systems. ------ IMPORTANT DATES ------ June 2, 2017: Deadline for abstract submission June 9, 2017: Deadline for paper submission July 7, 2017: Notifications July, 2017: Final versions (precise date TBA) September 5, 2017: Workshop in Trento ------ TOPICS OF INTEREST ------ * Theoretical models and frameworks for component and/or service coordination, service composition, 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 (Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Smart cities, Big Data, etc.). * Languages and specification protocols for component and/or service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. * Models and architectures for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud systems; 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. * Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, stochastic modeling and analysis, reasoning under uncertainty, run-time synthesis. * 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, etc.) In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well: * Business process modeling * Component-based systems * Service-oriented computing * Cloud computing * Internet of Things * Large-scale distributed systems * Grid computing * Multi-agent systems * Networked embedded systems * Peer-to-peer systems Survey works analysing and comparing literature on the topics of FOCLASA are also welcome. ------ PAPER SUBMISSION ------ Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their results. Description of work-in-progress with concrete results is also encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS style and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foclasa2017 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 is not allowed. All accepted papers will be included in the LNCS Workshop Proceedings of SEFM 2017, to be published by Springer after the workshop. Additionally, and following the tradition of past editions, a special issue of Science in Computer Programming (SCP, Elsevier) will be devoted to the best papers accepted at FOCLASA 2017. 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. ------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ------ * Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain * Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble Alpes, France ------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------ * Pedro Alvarez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Simon Bliudze, EPFL, Switzerland * Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK * Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano, Italy * Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Nima Kaviani, IBM, USA * Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark * Sun Meng, Peking University, China * Hernan C. Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina * Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden * Marc Oriol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain * Pascal Poizat, Universite Paris Ouest, France * Jose Proenca, INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA * Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Lina Ye, CentraleSupelec, France * Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy ------ PUBLICITY CHAIR ------ * Gianluca Barbon, University of Grenoble Alpes, France ------ WEB CHAIR ------ * Alejandro Perez Vereda, University of Malaga, Spain ------ STEERING COMMITTEE ------ * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain * Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble Alpes, France From gopalan at cs.umn.edu Sun May 28 12:00:17 2017 From: gopalan at cs.umn.edu (Gopalan Nadathur) Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 11:00:17 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Special Issue of MSCS---Deadline Extension Message-ID: The deadline for submissions to the special issue of MSCS in celebration of the 60th birthday of Professor Dale Miller has been extended by a month. Papers are now due by June 30. The complete timetable: Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2017 Review deadline: Sept 1, 2017 Revision deadline: Sept 22, 2017 Acceptance decision deadline: Oct 13, 2017 We expect to be following this timetable strictly now, to ensure timely publication. The original call-for-papers appears below. Regards, -Gopalan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Special Issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science in Celebration of the Sixtieth Birthday of Dale Miller Papers are invited to a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, a journal published by Cambridge University Press. This special issue is being collated in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of Professor Dale Miller. To be appropriate for this collection, papers must be broadly related to one or more of the areas that have been spanned by the work of Professor Miller to-date. These areas include structural proof theory, proof search and computation, foundations of logic programming, higher-order unification, reasoning about relational specifications and certification of proofs. This list is meant to be illustrative and is not exhaustive; if you are interested in submitting a paper and would like to ascertain its relevance to the theme of the special issue, please feel free to contact the editors of the issue. Papers that are submitted for consideration of publication must be prepared in LaTeX and should use the MSCS style file that can be downloaded from ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk. Please also follow the layout and other manuscript format related instructions with the exception of double spacing that you will find at http://z.umn.edu/mscsformat. Manuscripts should also be limited to about 25 pages. While this is not a hard constraint, the reason why a paper exceeds this limit must be apparent to the editors from an inspection of its content, else it may be declined without review. To ensure timeliness of publication, strict deadlines and an expedited reviewing process will be followed in the preparation of this special issue. To be considered for publication, manuscripts must be submitted by May 31, 2017. The first round of reviews will be completed by July 31, 2017. Revised versions of manuscripts that are deemed to be of acceptable quality will be due by August 21, 2017 and final acceptance decisions will be made by September 11, 2017. To submit a manuscript to the special issue, please use the ScholarOne site for MSCS at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mscs. Once you are at this site, you will need to create an account if you do not have one already. Once you are logged in, select the "Author" tab and follow the instructions. At the end of the page, under the "Special Issue" heading, select "Miller Festschrift" prior to submission. Please note that at this stage we will need only a PDF file prepared as indicated above. The LaTeX source will be required after the manuscript has been accepted. Regards, David Baelde (david.baelde at lsv.ens-cachan.fr) Amy Felty (afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca) Gopalan Nadathur (gopalan at cs.umn.edu) Alexis Saurin (alexis.saurin at irif.fr) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucker at spamfence.net Sat May 27 16:17:13 2017 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 21:17:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'17: 2nd Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations Message-ID: <20170527201713.lqj4o27fo2peojiw@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations ThEdu'17 Theorem proving components for Educational software http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu17 at CADE 26 International Conference on Automated Deduction 6-11 August 2017 Gothenburg, Sweden http://www.cade-26.info/ ThEdu'17 Scope Computer Theorem Proving is becoming a paradigm as well as a technological base for a new generation of educational software in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The workshop brings together experts in automated deduction with experts in education in order to further clarify the shape of the new software generation and to discuss existing systems. Topics of interest include: * methods of automated deduction applied to checking students' input; * methods of automated deduction applied to prove post-conditions for particular problem solutions; * combinations of deduction and computation enabling systems to propose next steps; * automated provers specific for dynamic geometry systems; * proof and proving in mathematics education. Important Dates Extended Abstracts: 18 June 2017 Author Notification: 2 July 2017 Final Version: 16 July 2017 Workshop Day: 6 August 2017 Submission Interested researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts and system descriptions. Both kinds of submissions should be approximately 5 pages in length and present original unpublished work not submitted elsewhere. Submission is in PDF format via easychair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu17 formatted according to http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip The extended abstracts and system descriptions will be made available online. At least one author is expected to presents his/her submission at ThEdu'17. Joint publication in companion with other CADE26 events is under consideration (as a volume in the EPiC Series in Computing). Program Committee Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain Achim D. Brucker, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 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 -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog @adbrucker | @logicalhacking From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Mon May 29 03:23:57 2017 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 09:23:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: Trends in Functional Programming, 19-21 june 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury Message-ID: <6e8a92bb-4111-935d-8dae-8366999fdd56@cs.ru.nl> ----------------------------- C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2017 =========== 18th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 19-21 June, 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/tfp17/index.html 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. TFP 2017 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2017 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on 22 June. 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; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015; * and Maryland (USA) in 2016. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/). == 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, but are not limited to: 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 2017 program chairs, Scott Owens and Meng Wang. == 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. == 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=tfp17 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 == INVITED SPEAKERS == Conor McBride University of Strathclyde (UK) C?t?lin Hri?cu INRIA Paris (FR) == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: 5 May, 2017 Notification: 12 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 TFP Symposium: 19-21 June, 2017 Student papers feedback: 29 June, 2017 Submission for formal review: 2 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 3 November, 2017 Camera ready paper: 2 December, 2017 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Co-Chairs Meng Wang University of Kent (UK) Scott Owens University of Kent (UK) PC Jeremy Yallop University of Cambridge (UK) Nicolas Wu University of Bristol (UK) Laura Castro University of A Coru?a (ES) Gabriel Scherer Northeastern University (US) Edwin Brady University of St Andrews (UK) Janis Voigtl?nder Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven (BE) Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology (US) Mauro Jaskelioff CIFASIS/Universidad Nacional de Rosario (AG) Patricia Johann Appalachian State University (US) Bruno Oliveira The University of Hong Kong (HK) Rita Loogen Philipps-Universit?t Marburg (GE) David Van Horn University of Marylan (US) Soichiro Hidaka Hosei University (JP) Micha? Pa?ka Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Sandrine Blazy University of Rennes 1 - IRISA (FR) From serge.autexier at dfki.de Mon May 29 13:01:41 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 19:01:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions to the Doctoral Programme - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - Deadline: June 5th, 2017 Message-ID: <20170529170141.7B4EC13CA6E4@gigondas-5.fritz.box> Call for Submissions to the Doctoral Programme 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline (Abstract + CV): 5. June 2017 * Notification of acceptance: 8. June 2017 Further information see below NEWS: Invited Speakers at CICM 2017 - Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) - Przemys?aw Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences) - Grant Olney Passmore (University of Cambridge) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017. CICM 2017 also invites work-in- progress papers. The principal tracks of the conference are: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England) * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke) * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe) * Track: Systems & Data (chair: Osman Hasan) * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: Adnan Rashid) The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman Geuvers. The local arrangements are coordinated by Jacques Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier. CICM is also an excellent opportunity for graduate students to meet established researchers from the areas of computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing. The Doctoral Programme provides a dedicated forum for PhD students to present and discuss their ideas, ongoing or planned research, and achieved results in an open atmosphere. It will consist of presentations by the PhD students to get constructive feedback, advice, and suggestions from the research advisory board, researchers, and other PhD students. Each PhD student will be assigned to an experienced researcher from the research advisory board who will act as a mentor and who will provide detailed feedback and advice on their intended and ongoing research. Submission to the doctoral programs are possible until 5. June, details of the submission process are given below. *Important Dates* - Submission deadline (Abstract + CV): 5. June 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 8. June 2017 *Submission* - Submission by e-mail to the DP chair Adnan Rashid Email: adnan.rashid at seecs.edu.pk Web: http://save.seecs.nust.edu.pk/adnanrashid/ More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de Wed May 31 09:44:42 2017 From: kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 15:44:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXPRESS/SOS 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------ Combined 24th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 14th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics EXPRESS/SOS 2017 ------------------------------------------------------ September 04, 2017, Berlin (Germany) Affiliated with CONCUR 2017 https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/express_sos.html Submission of papers: Friday June 23, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------ 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 2017 EasyChair server (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2017). The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. INVITED SPEAKER: Mohammad Mousavi (Halmstad University, Sweden) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 23, 2017 Notification date: July 31, 2017 Camera ready version: August 14, 2017 Workshop: September 04, 2017 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Kirstin Peters (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Simone Tini (Universit? degli Studi dell?Insubria, Italia) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) Ilaria Castellani (INRIA, France) Silvia Crafa (Universit? di Padova, Italy) Pedro R. D?Argenio (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Erik de Vink (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) ?lvaro Garc?a-P?rez (IMDEA, Spain) Bartek Klin (Warsaw University, Poland) Stephan Mennicke (TU Braunschweig, Germany) Kirstin Peters (TU Berlin, Germany) Johannes ?man Pohjola (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Simone Tini (Universit? degli Studi dell?Insubria, Italia) Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.cheney at gmail.com Tue May 30 17:19:37 2017 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 06:19:37 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position on graph data mining and anomaly detection Message-ID: Dear types/announce, I am advertising a postdoctoral position on graph data mining and anomaly detection, with applications to security. I realize this may seem like an off-the-wall topic to advertise here, but thought I would try anyway in case there is anyone out there with a background in probabilistic programming or PL techniques for data science who might like to try out such techniques on a new application area. Further details below. --James I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for a postdoctoral research position in graph data mining and anomaly detection. The position is for 18 months, starting on or around September 1, 2017 and by January 1, 2018 at the latest. Funding is provided by a DARPA grant on the project: "ADAPT: A diagnostics approach to advanced persistent threat detection", part of the $60M Transparent Computing program. The ADAPT project is led by Galois, Inc. in collaboration with Oregon State University and the University of Edinburgh. The overall aim of the project is to manage and analyze large / high-volume streams of provenance data recording low-level operating system activity in order to detect small, "anomalous" subgraphs that may comprise system attacks. This is a challenging problem because available attack data is sparse and unlabeled, and future attackers can be expected to mimic normal system behavior and avoid previous attack patterns. This postdoctoral position will contribute to applying existing anomaly detection techniques to this new domain, identifying the most useful techniques for this data or developing new, better-suited approaches, and integrating them into an analysis and visualization pipeline to aid security investigation. Applications must be received by 5pm GMT, June 27, 2016. Applications must include a current CV and short (1-3 page) statement of research interests and their relevance to the project. To apply, visit the University job posting for this position: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_ jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=039859 then click "apply" and follow the instructions. Please note that applicants must use the University's application system above, which involves some account registration and form-filling, and it is recommended that applicants complete this process well before the deadline, since the system automatically stops accepting applications after the deadline. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adrian.francalanza at um.edu.mt Wed May 31 12:07:29 2017 From: adrian.francalanza at um.edu.mt (Adrian Francalanza) Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 18:07:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PrePost 2017 Second CFP (announcing a journal special issue) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <58EA6874-F06E-4DC3-810B-508D0E0B9D5B@um.edu.mt> Second call for papers PrePost (Pre- and Post-Deployment Verification Techniques) Second International Workshop (Affiliated with iFM 2017, Torino, IT) http://staff.um.edu.mt/afra1/prepost17/ Scope The workshop aims to bring together researchers working in the field of computer-aided validation, programming languages and verification to discuss the connections and interplay between pre- and post-deployment verification techniques. Examples of the topics covered by the workshop are the relationships between classic model checking and testing on the one hand and runtime verification and statistical model checking on the other, and between type systems that may be checked either statically or dynamically through techniques such as runtime monitoring, gradual typing and contracts. Relevant topics also include the synthesis of runtime adaptation and enforcement mechanisms from correctness specifications, as well as the combination of deductive verification with runtime verification. Contributions related to tools and applications of pre- and post-deployment verification will also be welcome. Important Dates Abstract submission: June 5, 2017 Paper submission: June 12, 2017 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2017 Camera ready version: July 17, 2017 Conference iFM 2017: Sep 20-22, 2016 Workshop PrePost 2017: Sep 19, 2017 Topics of Interest PrePost welcomes papers of either theoretical or applied interest, including case studies or experience reports dealing with the interplay between any of the pre- and post-verification techniques including: Monitoring, Enforcement and Adaptation Dynamic/Static/Gradual Type Systems Runtime Verification Model Checking Testing Program and Specification Logics Deductive Verification Submission We solicit the submission of original and 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, as well as work-in-progress or exploratory ideas. All papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style. Full papers should not exceed 15 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prepost17 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 workshop proceedings, which will be published as a volume of the EPTCS series. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier), following the standard reviewing process journal. Invited Speakers Luca Padovani (Universit? di Torino) Alex Mifsud (Ixaris Ltd.) Program Committee Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Dilian Gurov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Chair) Heiko Mantel (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Leonardo Mariani (University of Milan Bicocca) Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Gordon J. Pace (University of Malta, Chair) Giles Reger (University of Manchester, UK) Kostis Sagonas (Uppsala University, Sweden) Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Gerardo Schneider (Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Massachusetts Amherst , US) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aart.middeldorp at uibk.ac.at Thu Jun 1 08:05:22 2017 From: aart.middeldorp at uibk.ac.at (Aart Middeldorp) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 14:05:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3 year postdoc position in Innsbruck (application deadline: 1 August 2017) Message-ID: <0f2d9496-3cf9-0160-a225-eaf1942e8dd5@uibk.ac.at> The Computational Logic research group is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in connection with the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) project "FORTissimo: Automating the First-Order Theory of Rewriting". The project runs for 3 years starting from 1 September 2017. Salary is paid according to the FWF funding scheme for postdocs (40 hours) and amounts to approximately EUR 50K per year (gross). Candidates must hold a PhD degree in computer science or mathematics. Knowledge of automata theory and rewriting is helpful, experience with and a liking of working with proof assistants (preferably Isabelle/HOL) is desirable. Candidates close to obtaining a PhD degree are also invited to apply. Knowledge of German is not required. The main task of a successful applicant will be to collaborate with other project members in order to extend the Isabelle Formalization of Rewriting with the decision procedure for the first-order theory of rewriting for left-linear and right-ground rewrite systems. Applications (including CV and names and contact details of two references) must be send by email to Aart Middeldorp no later than 1 August 2017. Informal inquiries are welcome. The city of Innsbruck, which hosted the Olympic Winter Games in 1964, 1976 and 2012 (YOG), 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. The Computational Logic in Innsbruck is one of the leading research groups in the area of rewriting and formalization in the world. Further information is available from the following links: FORTissimo: http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/research/projects/fortissimo/ Computational Logic: http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/ University of Innsbruck: http://www.uibk.ac.at/ City of Innsbruck: http://www.innsbruck.at/ From matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk Thu Jun 1 07:48:58 2017 From: matthew.hague at rhul.ac.uk (Matthew Hague) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 12:48:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FINAL CALL: Highlights 2017 Call for Presentations Message-ID: <20170601114858.GF718@chilon.net> The final call for presentations for Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata 2017 is found below. Apologies for multiple postings. Best, Matthew Hague ================================================================ Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata (HIGHLIGHTS 2017) London, 12-15 SEPTEMBER 2017 http://highlights-conference.org 1st CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS 2017 is the fifth conference on Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata that aims at integrating the community working in these fields. Papers from these areas are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to the Highlights conference should offer a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. We encourage you to attend and present your best work, be it already published or not, at the Highlights conference. Representative areas include, but are not restricted to: logic and finite model theory, automata theory, games for logic and verification. The conference itself is three days long (Sept. 13-15) and it is preceded by the Highlights tutorial day (Sept. 12). The participation costs will be modest (with a discount for students and post-docs) and London is very easy to reach. The contributed talks are around ten minutes. Ideally, they let participants learn something new, and enable them to understand the objective/problem/question and the result, and to get an idea of the technique. The program will further offer three invited talks: + Mikolaj Bojanczyk: Recognisability equals MSO definability for graphs of bounded treewidth. + Sanjay Jain: Quasi Polynomial and FPT algorithms for parity games + Hung Ngo: Shannon-type inequalities, submodular width, and disjunctive datalog two invited sessions, organised by + Patricia Bouyer: Games played on graphs: quantitative games, games with multi-objectives, non-zero sum games + Alexandra Silva: Model learning, automata and its applications and two tutorials: + Veronique Cortier: Verification of security protocols + Damien Pous: Coinduction up to and automata algorithms The submission deadline is *** JUNE 2, 2017*** Notifications will be sent by June 12, 2017. Registration will be possible until August 7, 2017. You submit a proposal for a presentation, not a paper. Hence, submissions should have a single author, who is the speaker. Since we expect you to present your favorite result of the year, there should be at most one submission per speaker. The abstract, of 1-2 pages, may include a list of coauthors. There are no formal proceedings and we encourage submission of work presented elsewhere. Submissions are possible through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=highlights17. The instructions and detailed information about Highlights 2017 are available at http://highlights-conference.org. ================================================================ From rolando.trujillo at uni.lu Thu Jun 1 07:50:10 2017 From: rolando.trujillo at uni.lu (Rolando TRUJILLO RASUA) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 13:50:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Three PhD positions in Security and Privacy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The University of Luxembourg seeks to hire three outstanding PhD candidates at the Computer Science and Communications Research Unit. The positions are part of the FNR PRIDE doctoral training programme on "Security and Privacy for System Protection". The University offers highly competitive salaries and is an equal opportunity employer. You will work in an exciting international environment and will have the opportunity to participate in the development of a dynamic and growing centre. Successful candidates will participate in the activities of the Security and Trust of Software Systems (SaToSS) research group led by Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw. The group is focused on formalising and applying formal reasoning to real-world security problems and trust issues. We offer three different research projects: - Multi-party Authentication Protocols. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/yqPo6q - Adaptive Cyber-defenses. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/FlMo5E - Security and Privacy in Social Networks. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/TpZ3S7 Applications can be sent to more than one research project. Each application will be considered on receipt, therefore applying before the deadline is encouraged. ================================================== Deadline for applications: August 31st, 2017 ================================================== From wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk Fri Jun 2 18:08:36 2017 From: wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk (Philip Wadler) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 23:08:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI and PACMPL Message-ID: PLDI SC is deciding whether to join PACMPL; this will be discussed at the Town Hall Meeting at PLDI in a fortnight. 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Name: not available URL: From njansen at utexas.edu Fri Jun 2 17:29:54 2017 From: njansen at utexas.edu (Nils Jansen) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 23:29:54 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FEVER 2017 @ CAV - Call for Participation References: <0E73BCBF-D3F4-4D4F-B3CE-739AC3D01992@googlemail.com> Message-ID: FEVER 2017, co-located with CAV 2017, is the first workshop focussing on explainable and understandable verification. We have two excellent invited speakers and an interesting and diverse program. All details can be found below. Please forward this email to interested colleagues. ====================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FEVER 2017 Workshop on Formal approaches to Explainable VERi?cation JULY 23, 2017, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY Co-Located with CAV 2017 http://fever.nilsjansen.org Important: Early registration ends on June 14, 2017 ====================================================== ====================================================== INVITED SPEAKERS * Roderick Bloem, TU Graz, Austria * Holger Hermanns, Saarland University, Germany ====================================================== ====================================================== ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS - Thomas Ferr?re, Oded Maler and Dejan Nickovic: Trace Diagnostics using Temporal Implicants - Viktor Schuppan: A Framework for Comparing the Granularity of Unsatisfiable Cores, Vacuity, and Related Notions - Taylor T Johnson: Reusable and Understandable Formal Verification for Cyber-Physical Systems - Arnd Hartmanns: JANI for Modelling and Tool Interaction - Murat Cubuktepe, Nils Jansen and Ufuk Topcu: Inverse Reinforcement Learning to Capture Human Intent in a Shared Control Setting - Tomas Brazdil, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jan Kretinsky and Viktor Toman: Strategy Representation by Decision Trees - Hillel Kugler: Explainable Verification-Based Approaches in Systems Biology - Rayna Dimitrova, Rupak Majumdar and Vinayak Prabhu: Causality Analysis for Concurrent Reactive Systems - Takamasa Okudono, Yuki Nishida, Kensuke Kojima, Kohei Suenaga, Kengo Kido and Ichiro Hasuo: Sharper and Simpler Nonlinear Interpolants for Program Verification ====================================================== ====================================================== CHAIRS * Beno?t Delahaye, University of Nantes, France * Nils Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands * Scott A. 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URL: From dilian at csc.kth.se Fri Jun 2 05:17:54 2017 From: dilian at csc.kth.se (Dilian Gurov) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 11:17:54 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Logic Colloquium 2017: Call for Registration and Participation In-Reply-To: <3de8de5e-b606-a496-bec3-f69f9342cc2b@csc.kth.se> References: <3de8de5e-b606-a496-bec3-f69f9342cc2b@csc.kth.se> Message-ID: <5584edc5-303c-35f8-e5e4-07315c9ddfd6@csc.kth.se> ================================================== Logic Colloquium 2017: Call for Registration and Participation August 14-20, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 ** Deadline for early registration: June 9, 2017 ** ================================================== The Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC2017) is the 2017 Annual European summer meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) and will be held during August 14-20, 2017, at the main campus of Stockholm University. The Logic Colloquium 2017 is organised and hosted jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University, and is also supported by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. LC2017 will be co-located with several other logic-related events, all taking place at Stockholm University: - the 3rd Nordic Logic Summer School, NLS2017, August 7-11 - the 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic, CSL2017, August 20-24 - Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017, LACompLing2017, August 16-19 - Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems, LAMAS2017, August 25 - Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory in memory of Zoltan Esik, August 25 There will be a joint session of CSL2017 and LC2017 in the morning of August 20. Further information about all events can be found at: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2 INVITED SPEAKERS ============= Plenary speakers: --------- - David Aspero (University of East Anglia) - Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) - Elisabeth Bouscaren (Paris 11) - Christina Brech (Sao Paolo) - Sakae Fuchino (Kobe University) - Denis Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago) - Wilfrid Hodges (British Academy, UK) - Emil Jerabek (Prague) - Per Martin-L?f (Stockholm University) - Dag Prawitz (Stockholm University) - Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) Tutorial speakers: --------- - Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV ENS Cachan) - Mai Gehrke (Paris 7) LC-CSL joint session highlight speakers: -------------------- - Veronica Becher (University of Buenos Aires) - Pierre Simon (UC Berkeley) - Phokion Kolaitis (University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden) - Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) Schoenfield Lecture: speaker TBA Special session invited speakers: listed below. SPECIAL SESSIONS ============= *Category theory and type theory in honour of Per Martin-L?f on his 75th birthday* ----------------------------------------- Dates: August 17-19, 2017 Speakers: ------ - Thierry Coquand (G?teborg University) - Richard Garner (Macquarie University, Sidney) - Andr? Joyal (University of Quebec, Montreal) - Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) *Computability* -------- Organizers: Ver?nica Becher and Denis Hirschfeldt Speakers: ----- - Emmanuel Jeandel (University of Lorraine, France) - Klaus Meer (Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - Arno Pauly (Clare college, Cambridge University) - Theodore Slaman (University of California, Berkeley) - Mariya Soskova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) - Keita Yokoyama (University of California, Berkeley) *History of Logic* -------- Organiser: Valentin Goranko Speakers: ----- - Wilfrid Hodges (British Academy, UK) - Peter ?hrstr?m (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Jan von Plato (University of Helsinki, Finland) *Model Theory* -------- Organizers: Alessandro Berarducci, Elisabeth Bouscaren and Pierre Simon Speakers: ----- - Martin Bays (University of M?nster) - Zaniar Ghadernezhad (University of Freiburg) - Tom?s Ibarluc?a (University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7)) - Franziska Jahnke (University of M?nster) - Vincenzo Mantova (University of Leeds) - Rizos Sklinos (Universit? Claude Bernard, Lyon) *Philosophical Logic* ----------- Organizer: Mirna Dzamonja Speakers: ----- - Michele Friend (Gerorge Washington University) - Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University) - Benedikt Loewe (University of Amsterdam and Hamburg) - Sara Negri (Helsinki University) - Davide Rizza (University of East Anglia) - Giambattista Formica (Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome) *Proof Theory* -------- Organizers: Jan von Plato and Andreas Weiermann Speakers: ----- - Fernando Ferreira (University of Lisbon) - Anton Freund (University of Leeds) - Annika Kanckos (University of Helsinki) - Kentaro Sato (University of Bern) - Anton Setzer (Swansea University) - Silvia Steila (University of Bern) *Set Theory* -------- Organizers: Christina Brech and Assaf Rinot Speakers: ----- - William Chen (Ben Gurion University, Israel) - Brent Cody (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) - Ashutosh Kumar (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) - Giorgio Laguzzi (Freiburg University) - Yann Pequignot (University of California, Los Angeles) - Sandra Uhlenbrock (University of Vienna, Austria) CONTRIBUTED TALKS: ------------ The call for submissions is already closed. There will be about 140 contributed talks, given in 6 parallel sessions. SOCIAL PROGRAMME: ----------- The social programme of LC 2017 will include a reception at Stockholm City Hall on August 14, a boat trip excursion on August 16, and a conference dinner on August 17. REGISTRATION ---------------------- The early registration fee, for students and participants from developing countries, is 1400 SEK including VAT (approx. 140 Euros) per participant, and includes coffee breaks and conference materials. For all others, the early registration fee is 2000 SEK including VAT. Late registration is 2800 SEK for regular fee participants, and 2000 SEK for reduced fee participants. Note: 500 SEK fee deduction when registering for CSL2017 at the same time. The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there will be special offers at hostels and hotels (in the range 700 -1200 SEK per night for single rooms) available. Link for the registration page: https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/logic-in-stockholm-2/logic-in-stockholm-2017-august-7-25-1.718739 IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------- Main event: August 14-19, 2017 Joint session with CSL2017: August 20, 2017 Early registration deadline: June 9, 2017 Late registration deadline: August 1, 2017 -------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- - Rod Downey (University of Wellington) - Mirna Dzamonja (PC chair, University of East Anglia) - Ali Enayat (University of Gothenburg) - Fernando Ferreira (University of Lisbon) - Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University) - Martin Hils (University of M?nster) - Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) - Assaf Rinot (Bar-Ilan University) - Igor Walukiewicz (University of Bordeaux) LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- - Stefan Buijsman, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Mads Dam, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH - Jacopo Emmenegger, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Dilian Gurov, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH - Sven-Ove Hansson, Department of Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Eric Johannesson, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Vera Koponen, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University - Johan Lindberg, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Karl Nygren, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Peter Pagin, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University - Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University - Dag Westerst?hl, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES -------------------- For enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: Mirna Dzamonja (M.Dzamonja at uea.ac.uk) For enquiries on organising matters, send email to: lc2017 at philosophy.su.se SPONSORS ----------------- Association for Symbolic Logic Stockholm University The GS Magnusson Foundation Prover Technology Stockholm City Hall From evan.chang at Colorado.EDU Fri Jun 2 16:46:14 2017 From: evan.chang at Colorado.EDU (Bor-Yuh Evan Chang) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 14:46:14 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2017: June 13 deadline, 2nd CfP, Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems Message-ID: ********************************************************************* APLAS 2017 Second Call for Papers 15th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems Suzhou, China, November 27-29, 2017 https://www-aplas.github.io/ ********************************************************************* # Important Dates - Abstract deadline: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - Paper deadline: Friday, June 16, 2017 - Author response: Wednesday-Friday, July 26-28, 2017 - Author notification: Monday, August 14, 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: Friday, September 1, 2017 - Conference: Monday-Wednesday, November 27-29, 2017 All deadline times are AoE. # 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 languages 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 Hanoi ('16), Pohang ('15), 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 broadly spanning the areas of 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 demonstrations 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: - **Regular research papers** describing original scientific research results, including system development and case studies. Regular research papers *should not exceed 18 pages* in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. This category encompasses both theoretical and implementation (also known as system descriptions) papers. In either case, submissions 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. System descriptions papers should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. - **System and tool demonstrations** describing a demonstration of a tool or a system that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The main purpose of a tool paper is to display a completed, robust and well-documented tool--highlighting the overall functionality of the tool, the interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the tool, an assessment of the tool's strengths and weaknesses, and a summary of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of tool demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the tool at the conference. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They may include an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live demo. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2017 using EasyChair. The acceptable format is 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. # Review Process *New for APLAS 2017* ## Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process APLAS 2017 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following this process means that reviewers will not see the authors' names or affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors' names will then be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted. To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following: - **Author names and institutions must be omitted** and - References to the 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 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, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should *not* be omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. 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. ## Author Response Period During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and respond to them as appropriate. ## Research Integrity The Program Committee reserves the right, up until the time of publication, to reverse a decision of paper acceptance. Reversal is possible if fatal flaws are discovered in the paper, or research integrity is found to have been seriously breached. # Organizers ## General Chair Xinyu Feng (University of Science and Technology of China) ## Program Chair Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder) ## Program Committee Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sam Blackshear (Facebook) Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica) Yuting Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Stephen Chong (Harvard University) Vijay D'Silva (Google) Benjamin Delaware (Purdue University) Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS) Cezara Dragoi (INRIA, ENS, CNRS) William Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology) Guoliang Jin (North Carolina State University) Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India) Vu Le (Microsoft) Akimasa Morihata (University of Tokyo) Sergio Mover (University of Colorado Boulder) Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers University) Hakjoo Oh (Korea University) Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira (The University of Hong Kong) Xiaokang Qiu (Purdue University) Arjun Radhakrishna (University of Pennsylvania) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST) Ilya Sergey (University College London) Makoto Tatsuta (National Institute of Informatics) Tachio Terauchi (JAIST) Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica) Yingfei Xiong (Peking University) Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University) Danfeng Zhang (Pennsylvania State University) Xin Zhang (Georgia institute of Technology) Kenny Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) ## Local Organization Chair Ming Fu (University of Science and Technology of China) From f.rabe at jacobs-university.de Thu Jun 1 15:02:16 2017 From: f.rabe at jacobs-university.de (Florian Rabe) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 21:02:16 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers: Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice Message-ID: **** LFMTP 2017: Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice **** including a special session to celebrate the 70th birthday of Randy Pollack Affiliated with FSCD 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom, September 8, 2017 Conference website http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2017/home.shtml Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2017 ** Important dates: Abstract registration deadline: June 18, 2017 Submission deadline: June 25, 2017 Notification to authors: July 30, 2017 Final version deadline: August 13, 2017 ** Invited Speakers Andrew Appel, https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/ James McKinna, http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jmckinna/ ** Description Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common substrate for representing, implementing, and reasoning about a wide variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer science. Their design and implementation on the one hand and their use in reasoning tasks ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal computational systems on the other hand have been the focus of considerable research over the last three decades. This workshop brings together designers, implementors, and practitioners to discuss various aspects impinging on the structure and utility of logical frameworks, including the treatment of variable bindings, inductive and co-inductive reasoning techniques, and the expressivity and lucidity of the reasoning process. LFMTP 2017 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 such as canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, or homotopy type theory. - Systematic translation, combination, and integration of logics or theorem prover libraries. - Applications of logical frameworks, e.g. in certification and guarantee of security properties. - 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. LFMTP 2017 will be also the occasion to celebrate the 70th birthday of Randy Pollack, author of the LEGO proof assistant and many other contributions to this field. ** Submission Guidelines The following paper categories are welcome: - Full papers describing original research and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. - 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 ACM SIGCONF format. The page limit is 8 pages for full papers, and 4 pages for work-in-progress reports. Submission link is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2017 ** Program Committee Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham, UK) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (INRIA, France) Gilles Dowek (ENS Cachan, France) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada) Andrzej Filinski (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Marino Miculan (DMIF, University of Udine, Italy), co-chair Florian Rabe (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany), co-chair Wilmer Ricciotti (LFCS, University of Edinburgh, UK) Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna, Italy) Kristina Sojakova (Appalachian State University, USA) ** Organizing committee Florian Rabe (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) Marino Miculan (DMIF, University of Udine, Italy) ** Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to lfmtp2017 at easychair.org From fioravanti at unich.it Fri Jun 2 10:46:55 2017 From: fioravanti at unich.it (Fabio Fioravanti) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 16:46:55 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2017: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <63353c70-edc9-afab-628f-25dbab2c623e@unich.it> [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ==================================================================== LOPSTR 2017: 2nd Call for Papers ==================================================================== 27th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2017 https://www.sci.unich.it/lopstr17/ University of Namur, Namur, Belgium October 10 ? 12, 2017 (co-located with PPDP 2017) ==================================================================== DEADLINES: Abstract submission: June 6, 2017 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 13, 2017 ==================================================================== INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced ==================================================================== 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 27th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017) will be held at the University of Namur, Belgium; previous symposia were held in Edinburgh, Siena, 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 2017 will be co-located with PPDP 2017 (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: Jun 6, 2017 Paper/Extended abstract submission: Jun 13, 2017 Notification: July 25, 2017 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): tba, 2017 Symposium: October 10-12, 2017 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 authors email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers (and, if possible, line 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 2017: [http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2017] (can be accessed also through the LOPSTR 2017 web site). Best Paper Award and Prize A best paper award will be granted, which will include a 500 EUR prize provided by Springer. This award will be given to the best paper submitted to the conference, based on the relevance, originality, and technical quality. The program committee may split the award among two or more papers, also considering authorship (e.g., student paper). Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Program Committee Roberto Bagnara, University of Parma and BUGSENG, Italy Sabine Broda, University of Porto, Portugal Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Emanuele De Angelis, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Daniel De Schreye, KU Leuven, Belgium Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK Laurent Fribourg, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, France Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland Gerda Janssens, KU Leuven, Belgium Bishoksan Kafle, University of Melbourne, Australia Andy King, University of Kent, UK Jacopo Mauro, University of Oslo, Norway Jose F. Morales, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Jorge A. Navas, SRI International, USA Corneliu Popeea, CQSE GmbH, Germany Francesca Scozzari, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Theresa Swift, NOVALINKS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Program Chairs Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Organizing Committee Wim Vanhoof (Universit? de Namur, Namur, Belgium, Local Organizer) In cooperation with: The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems The Association for Logic Programming From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri Jun 2 06:22:36 2017 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:22:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: Trends in Functional Programming, 19-21 june 2017 AND Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 22 june 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury Message-ID: <907948c2-1269-1813-66f2-359c51f40d4a@cs.ru.nl> ----------------------------- C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2017 =========== 18th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 19-21 June, 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/tfp17/index.html ========= TFPIE 2017 ======== Co-located with TFP, and included in the registration fee, is Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education 22 June 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/TFPIE2017/ 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. TFP 2017 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2017 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on 22 June. 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; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015; * and Maryland (USA) in 2016. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/). == 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, but are not limited to: 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 2017 program chairs, Scott Owens and Meng Wang. == 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. == 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=tfp17 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 == INVITED SPEAKERS == Conor McBride University of Strathclyde (UK) C?t?lin Hri?cu INRIA Paris (FR) Heather Miller Northeastern University (USA) and EPFL (CH) == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: 5 May, 2017 Notification: 12 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 TFP Symposium: 19-21 June, 2017 Student papers feedback: 29 June, 2017 Submission for formal review: 2 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 3 November, 2017 Camera ready paper: 2 December, 2017 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Co-Chairs Meng Wang University of Kent (UK) Scott Owens University of Kent (UK) PC Jeremy Yallop University of Cambridge (UK) Nicolas Wu University of Bristol (UK) Laura Castro University of A Coru?a (ES) Gabriel Scherer Northeastern University (US) Edwin Brady University of St Andrews (UK) Janis Voigtl?nder Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven (BE) Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology (US) Mauro Jaskelioff CIFASIS/Universidad Nacional de Rosario (AG) Patricia Johann Appalachian State University (US) Bruno Oliveira The University of Hong Kong (HK) Rita Loogen Philipps-Universit?t Marburg (GE) David Van Horn University of Marylan (US) Soichiro Hidaka Hosei University (JP) Micha? Pa?ka Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Sandrine Blazy University of Rennes 1 - IRISA (FR) From adamc at csail.mit.edu Sat Jun 3 13:24:48 2017 From: adamc at csail.mit.edu (Adam Chlipala) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 13:24:48 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second announcement of an online book on program proof in Coq Message-ID: <92bc9365-9a1d-04d2-1743-bd39fb1218b3@csail.mit.edu> I'm writing to announce another "release" of my work-in-progress online book on program proof in Coq: http://adam.chlipala.net/frap/ It's called /Formal Reasoning About Programs//. /I've used it in two graduate classes so far, and I made another announcement about a year ago about an earlier version. The current version is further tested and improved, including with new early tutorial material on Coq and with new chapters on data abstraction and compiler verification. Some subscribers of this mailing list might want to consider running FRAP classes at their own institutions. I think the book and associated materials are now well-enough developed to make that not a crazy idea, and I'm happy to provide personalized support in adapting the class to different settings. Please do let me know if you're considering such an experiment. In terms of educational goals, FRAP is a cousin to /Software Foundations/. FRAP also aims to introduce Coq to a general computer-science audience, and it also aims to introduce classic semantics and program-proof techniques using Coq. A crucial difference, though, is that FRAP assumes familiarity with topics like proof by induction -- which we generally "teach" to all CS undergraduates but, unfortunately, expect few to master. Students need to be comfortable with both rigorous proofs and programming to keep up with FRAP, though they shouldn't need to come in with any experience in formal methods or functional programming. The payoff from the higher starting expectations is getting through more of the PL canon. I can testify that multiple students with no prior formal-methods experience have accomplished the following by the end of the class, taking a sampling of our assignments. (Admittedly, more such students drop the class than hang on to the end, but I'm still working on tweaking the "gentle on-ramp" aspect!) * Write mostly automated correctness proofs that a classic lock algorithm achieves mutual exclusion. * Verify a producer-consumer program by choosing a proper abstraction and then automatically model-checking the resulting system inside Coq. * Prove soundness of a logical relation and use it to demonstrate contextual equivalence of two implementations of a simple abstract data type. * Verify particular C-like programs using separation logic, with the level of proof automation we expect from standalone verification tools. * Prove that, in a shared-memory concurrent language, a global lock order avoids deadlock. * Prove soundness of rely-guarantee for shared-memory concurrent programs, and use it to verify example programs. A nontrivial Coq library is behind the class, including both an alternative suite of basic tactics, to avoid some common beginner hang-ups; and a set of parameterized proof-automation engines, principally for model checking, abstract interpretation, and discharging verification conditions from separation logic. Almost all the proof techniques in the class are cast in terms of the common formalism of state transition systems and their invariants, a commonality that I find isn't emphasized often enough in semantics classes. (For instance, when we get to type soundness and the "progress and preservation" conditions behind the widely used syntactic approach, we see that they are just a special case of the principles of invariant induction and invariant strengthening that we have been using all along!) I'll be very glad to hear from anyone interested in test-driving the material. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimitris at microsoft.com Sun Jun 4 04:39:43 2017 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 08:39:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FW: 2nd CFP, 4th WS on Horn Clauses for Verification & Synthesis HCVS (Deadline: June 11) In-Reply-To: <22834.60830.523612.3636@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <22834.60830.523612.3636@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Message-ID: [Forwarding the message below from Manuel Hermenegildo] ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS) Affiliated with CADE 2017 August 7, 2017 - Gothenburg, Sweden *** Submission dealine: June 11, 2017 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------- Web site: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoftware.imdea.org%2FConferences%2Fhcvs17&data=02%7C01%7Cdimitris%40microsoft.com%7C8b917aebf93c42f4f37808d4aac8ac60%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636321226252693793&sdata=0WZReOphpfXEFzPxwF6x2fiH1Wrm%2FWJAjL234T5zq%2F4%3D&reserved=0 Invited speakers: - Christoph Weidenbach, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik - Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo Deadlines: - Paper submission: June 11, 2017 - Paper notification: July 3, 2017 - Workshop: August 7, 2017 Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be modeled directly using Horn clauses, and many recent advances in the CLP and CAV communities have centered around efficiently solving problems presented as Horn clauses. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in the communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP), Program Verification (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI), and Automated Deduction (e.g., CADE), on the topic of Horn clause based analysis, verification and synthesis. Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by these communities at different times and from different perspectives, and this workshop is organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful exchange and integration of experiences. The workshop follows three previous meetings: HCVS 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (w/ETAPS), HCVS 2015 in San Francisco, CA, USA (w/CAV), and HCVS 2014 in Vienna, Austria (w/VSL). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the use of Horn clauses, constraints, and related formalisms in the following areas: - Analysis and verification of programs and systems of various kinds (e.g., imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, higher-order, concurrent) - Program synthesis - Program testing - Program transformation - Constraint solving - Type systems - Case studies and tools - Challenging problems We solicit regular papers describing theory and implementation of Horn-clause based analysis and tool descriptions. We also solicit extended abstracts describing work-in-progress, as well as presentations covering previously published results that are of interest to the workshop. PC Chairs: - Alberto Griggio (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) - Manuel V. Hermenegildo (IMDEA Software Institute and T.U. Madrid) Program Committee: - Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) - Mats Carlsson (SICS) - Grigory Fedyukovich (University of Washington) - Fabio Fioravanti (University of Chieti-Pescara) - John Gallagher (Roskilde University) - Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute) - Gopal Gupta (U.T. Dallas) - Michael Leuschel (University of Duesseldorf) - Pedro Lopez-Garcia (CSIC) - David Monniaux (University of Grenoble) - Jorge A. Navas (SRI International) - Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR) - Philipp Ruemmer (Uppsala University) - Andrey Rybalchenko (Microsoft Research) - Valerio Senni (ALES - UTRC) Submission has to be done in one of the following formats: - Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography, typeset in EPTCS format), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. - Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages in EPTCS format), which describe work in progress or aim to initiate discussions. - Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a conference or another workshop. Such papers can be submitted in any format, and will not be included in the workshop post-proceedings. All submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee and will be selected for inclusion in accordance with the referee reports. Accepted regular papers and extended abstracts will be published electronically as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, see https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eptcs.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cdimitris%40microsoft.com%7C8b917aebf93c42f4f37808d4aac8ac60%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636321226252693793&sdata=fgwSJx1iPohPwMjIMjTk8YVYgPlifqUrfOM4YG10xtY%3D&reserved=0 Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the workshop. Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dhcvs2017&data=02%7C01%7Cdimitris%40microsoft.com%7C8b917aebf93c42f4f37808d4aac8ac60%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636321226252693793&sdata=P6%2BUL17wTAH7dteNnFq%2BGV7O2eAE9zQwr%2Ba6N57%2FkOc%3D&reserved=0. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuel Hermenegildo manuel.hermenegildo at imdea.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Sun Jun 4 13:47:38 2017 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 18:47:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: Workshop on Type-driven Development (TyDe '17) Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Type-Driven Development (TyDe '17) 3 September 2017, Oxford, UK http://tydeworkshop.org/2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Goals of the workshop The workshop on Type-Driven Development aims to show how static type information may be used effectively in the development of computer programs. Co-located with ICFP, this workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners who are using or exploring types as a means of program development. We welcome all contributions, both theoretical and practical, on a range of topics including: - dependently typed programming; - generic programming; - design and implementation of programming languages, exploiting types in novel ways; - exploiting typed data, data dependent data, or type providers; - static and dynamic analyses of typed programs; - tools, IDEs, or testing tools exploiting type information; - pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of types used in the derivation, calculation, or construction of programs. # Invited speaker Andrew Kennedy, Facebook, UK # Program Committee - Nada Amin, EPFL, Switzerland - Ana Bove, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, US - Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Sam Lindley, The University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) - Limin Jia, CMU, US - Assia Mahboubi, INRIA Saclay, France - Liam O?Connor, University of New South Wales, Australia - Nicolas Oury, Jane Street, UK - Jennifer Paykin, University of Pennsylvania, US - Paula Severi, University of Leicester, UK - Tarmo Uustalu, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK - Brent Yorgey, Hendrix College, US (co-chair) # 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, 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 Submissions should fall into one of two categories: - Regular research papers (12 pages) - Extended abstracts (2 pages) The bibliography will not be counted against the page limits for either category. Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results, and will be included in the formal proceedings. Extended abstracts should report work in progress that the authors would like to present at the workshop. Extended abstracts will be distributed to workshop attendees but will not be published in the formal proceedings. We welcome submissions from PC members (with the exception of the two co-chairs), but these submissions will be held to a higher standard. Submission is handled through HotCRP: https://icfp-tyde17.hotcrp.com/ All submissions should be in portable document format (PDF) and formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ *Note* that the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines have changed from previous years! In particular, submissions should use the new ?acmart? format and the two-column ?sigplan? subformat (not to be confused with the one-column ?acmlarge? subformat!). Extended abstracts must be submitted with the label 'Extended abstract' clearly in the title. # Important Dates - Regular paper deadline: Wednesday, 24th May, 2017 - Extended abstract deadline: Wednesday, 7th June, 2017 - Author notification: Wednesday, 28th June, 2017 - Deadline for camera ready version: Saturday, 15th July, 2017 - Workshop: Sunday, 3rd September, 2017 # 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/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Sun Jun 4 16:36:58 2017 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 22:36:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Training School on Reversible Computation Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL ON REVERSIBLE COMPUTATION for PhDs, post-docs, junior and senior researchers TORUN, POLAND 28th AUGUST - 31st AUGUST 2017 http://revcomp.eu/school2017.php Organized by COST Action IC1405: Reversible Computation - Extending Horizons of Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reversible computation is an emerging paradigm that extends the standard forwards-only mode of computation with the ability to execute in reverse, so that computation can run backwards as naturally as it can go forwards. It aims to deliver novel computing devices and software, and to enhance traditional systems by equipping them with reversibility. The potential benefits include the design of revolutionary reversible logic gates and circuits - leading to low-power computing and innovative hardware for green ICT, and new conceptual frameworks, language abstractions and software tools for reliable and recovery oriented distributed systems. Further application areas include quantum computing, debugging, simulation, biological modeling, robotics, and others. The training school targets all the persons interested in reversible computation, including PhD students, early-career researchers, more senior researchers, and persons from industry. They all can register free of charge and attend. The training school will be followed by a two-days meeting of the COST Action IC1405, on September 1-2. Participants of the training school from countries participating in the action (see the list at http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ict/IC1405?parties) are welcome to attend the meeting as well, but may need to cover the expenses for attending from their own funds. Please contact Irek Ulidowski (iu3 at leicester.ac.uk) if interested. Lecturers and Provisional Topics -------------------------------- Foundations of Reversibility in Finite-State Devices Martin Kutrib (University of Giessen, Germany) Reversibility for Concurrent Interacting Systems Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy) Reversible Cellular Automata Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland) Equivalences and Logics for Reversible Processes Iain Phillips (Imperial College London, UK) Reversible Computing from a Programming Language Perspective Robert Glueck (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Reversible Functional Programming in RFun Michael Kirkedal Thomsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Incremental State Saving for Optimistic Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US) Reversible Debugging in Concurrent Distributed Systems Claudio Antares Mezzina (IMT Lucca, Italy) Introduction to Reversible Logic Synthesis Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Introduction to RevKit Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) Hierarchical Reversible Synthesis Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) Cycle-based Synthesis and Exact Synthesis Pawel Kerntopf (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Reversible Logic Synthesis in RevKit Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) Application of Synthesis Approaches Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Application of Reversible Logic Synthesis to Quantum Computing Nader Khammassi (TU Delft/QuTech, Netherlands) Full and updated information is available at http://revcomp.eu/school2017-courses.php Registration and accommodation ------------------------------ All attendants need to register by August 1st at http://revcomp.eu/school2017.php Participation to the training school is free, and includes lunches. The organisers have arranged possible accommodation starting from 30 Eur/day for a single room and 33 Eur/day for a twin room. Information on travel and accomodation is available at: http://revcomp.eu/school2017.php Trainee Grants -------------- Up to fifty participants from COST countries (list available at http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/cost_countries) can receive from COST Action IC1405 a grant covering in part or in total travel and accommodation expenses. Applications will be evaluated by the organizing committee. In order to apply for a grant, follow the procedure at: http://revcomp.eu/school2017-grant.php Important dates --------------- Trainee grants application deadline: 20th June Trainee grants notification: 23rd June Registration deadline: 1st August Training school: 28th August - 31st August COST Action meeting: 1st September - 2nd September Organizing Committee -------------------- Claudio Antares Mezzina (IMT Lucca, Italy) Lukasz Mikulski (University of Torun, Poland), local organizer Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy), chair Krzysztof Podlaski (University of Lodz, Poland) Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) Michael Kirkedal Thomsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) From jyang2 at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Jun 5 06:18:19 2017 From: jyang2 at andrew.cmu.edu (Jean Yang) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 12:18:19 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SASB 2017 Call for Papers Message-ID: Hi everyone, We are running the Eight International Workshop on Static Analysis in Systems Biology, and wanted to let people know about where and when to submit. Please note that even though "Static Analysis" is in the name of the workshop, the call is *not* limited to static analysis work, and we welcome submissions in all of the topics we have listed. Thanks! John Bachman and Jean Yang SASB 2017 Program Co-Chairs -- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Papers and talks) SASB 2017 The Eighth International Workshop on Static Analysis in Systems Biology Colocated with Static Analysis Workshop (SAS) 2017 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sasb2017/ 29th August 2017, New York, New York Objectives SASB is a one-day workshop aimed at promoting discussions and collaborations at the intersection between programming languages, formal methods, static analysis, and systems and synthetic biology of natural and engineered systems. Scope The program of SASB 2017 will consist of invited talks, presentations of refereed talks, and presentations of refereed papers. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of modeling languages and associated analysis techniques, including static analysis of natural biological systems and the design, specification and verification of engineered biological and chemical systems. This includes, but is not limited to: - static analysis frameworks and tools, - equivalences and equivalence checking techniques, - model reduction and decomposition techniques based on static analysis, - state space compaction based on static analysis, - links between topology and dynamics, - constraint-based and stoichiometric analysis, - languages for compact description of biological models, - formalisms for description of biological networks, - programming languages for molecular devices, - static analysis in verification of molecular devices design, - standards for models and their annotation, - case studies and method applications, - informal methods (that could be candidate to formalization). Submission Full papers should be at most 12 pages, ENTCS format, excluding references. Extended abstracts (for presentation-only submissions) should be at most three pages, excluding references. Please submit on EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sasb2017 Important Dates Paper and presentation submissions due: July 1, 2017 Paper and presentation notifications: August 2, 2017 Invited Speaker: Matt Might (pending White House Approval), Strategist in the Executive Office of the President, Director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute (UAB) Contact sasb2017-chairs at cs@cmu at edu -- Program co-chairs Jean Yang, Carnegie Mellon University John A. Bachman, Harvard Medical School Program Committee - Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research - Eric Deeds, University of Kansas - James Faeder, University of Pittsburgh - J?r?me Feret, INRIA Paris - Ben Hall, University of Cambridge - Jean Krivine, Universit? Paris Diderot - Nicola Paoletti, Stony Brook University - Loic Paulev?, CNRS and LRI - Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria - Amoury Pouly, MPI-SWS - Ovidiu Radulescu, Universit? de Montpellier 2 - Qinsi Wang, Carnegie Mellon University - Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University -- Jean Yang Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University jeanyang.com | @jeanqasaur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bruno.wp at gmail.com Mon Jun 5 06:21:23 2017 From: bruno.wp at gmail.com (Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:21:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: PxTP 2017: 2nd Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ![](https://link.nylas.com/open/3x691kf2sejzsuk0agjgff6ov/local-e8b7c9f8-59a6) (** We apologize for multiple copies of this email **) **Call for Papers, PxTP 2017** The Fifth International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) 23-24 September 2017, Brasilia, Brazil associated with The Tableaux, FroCoS and ITP conferences **## 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); * interoperability of reasoning systems; * 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 related to problems, proofs, and models; * comparison, refactoring, transformation, migration, compression and optimization of proofs; * data structures and algorithms for improved proof production in solvers (e.g. efficient proof representations); * (universal) libraries, corpora and benchmarks of proofs and theories; * alignment of diverse logics, concepts and theories across systems and libraries; * engineering aspects of proofs (e.g. granularity, flexiformality, persistence over time); * proof certificates; * proof checking; * mining of (mathematical) information from proofs (e.g. quantifier instantiations, unsat cores, interpolants, ...); * reverse engineering and understanding of formal proofs; * universality of proofs; * origins and kinds of proofs (e.g. (in)formal, automatically generated, interactive, ...) * Hilbert's 24th Problem (i.e. what makes a proof better than another?); * social aspects (e.g. community-wide initiatives related to proofs, cooperation between communities, the future of (formal) proofs); * applications relying on importing proofs from automatic theorem provers, such as certified static analysis, proof-carrying code, or certified compilation; * application-oriented proof theory; * practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies; **## 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 (). Papers will be submitted via EasyChair, at the PxTP'2017 workshop page ( ). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. **## Important Dates** * Abstract submission: Monday, 12 June 2017 * Paper submission: Monday, 19 June 2017 * Notification: Friday, 7 July 2017 * Camera ready versions due: Friday, 21 July 2017 * Workshop: 23-24 September 2017 **## Invited Speakers** * Gilles Dowek (INRIA) * Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa) **## Program Committee** * Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE-Samovar), co-chair * Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo, co-chair * Christoph Benzm?ller (Freie Universit?t Berlin) * Jasmin Christian Blanchette (INRIA Nancy & LORIA) * Hans De Nivelle (Institute of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw) * Pascal Fontaine (Loria, INRIA, University of Lorraine) * St?phane Graham-Lengrand (CNRS - INRIA - Ecole Polytechnique) * Hugo Herbelin (INRIA) * Olivier Hermant (MINES ParisTech) * Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck) * Guy Katz (Stanford University) * Chantal Keller (LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud) * Tomer Libal (INRIA) * Mariano Moscato (National Institute of Aerospace) * Vivek Nigam (Universidade Federal da Para?ba) * Andrei Paskevich (Universit? Paris-Sud, LRI) * Florian Rabe (Jacobs University Bremen) * Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa) * Stephan Schulz (DHBW Stuttgart) * Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami) * Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague) * Tjark Weber (Uppsala University) * Akihisa Yamada (University of Innsbruck) **## Previous PxTP Editions** * PxTP 2011 (), affiliated to CADE-23 * PxTP 2012 (), affiliated to IJCAR 2012 * PxTP 2013 (), affiliated to CADE-24 * PxTP 2015 (), affiliated to CADE-25 -- Catherine DUBOIS, professor ENSIIE, lab. Samovar (UMR 5157) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal of FOCLASA is to put together researchers and practitioners to share and identify common problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of coordination languages and self-adaptive systems. ------ IMPORTANT DATES ------ June 9, 2017: (extended) Deadline for abstract submission June 16, 2017: (extended) Deadline for paper submission July 7, 2017: Notifications July, 2017: Final versions (precise date TBA) September 5, 2017: Workshop in Trento ------ TOPICS OF INTEREST ------ * Theoretical models and frameworks for component and/or service coordination, service composition, 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 (Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Smart cities, Big Data, etc.). * Languages and specification protocols for component and/or service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. * Models and architectures for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud systems; 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. * Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, stochastic modeling and analysis, reasoning under uncertainty, run-time synthesis. * 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, etc.) In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well: * Business process modeling * Component-based systems * Service-oriented computing * Cloud computing * Internet of Things * Large-scale distributed systems * Grid computing * Multi-agent systems * Networked embedded systems * Peer-to-peer systems Survey works analysing and comparing literature on the topics of FOCLASA are also welcome. ------ PAPER SUBMISSION ------ Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their results. Description of work-in-progress with concrete results is also encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS style and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foclasa2017 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 is not allowed. All accepted papers will be included in the LNCS Workshop Proceedings of SEFM 2017, to be published by Springer after the workshop. Additionally, and following the tradition of past editions, a special issue of Science in Computer Programming (SCP, Elsevier) will be devoted to the best papers accepted at FOCLASA 2017. 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. ------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ------ * Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain * Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble Alpes, France ------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------ * Pedro Alvarez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Simon Bliudze, EPFL, Switzerland * Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK * Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano, Italy * Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Nima Kaviani, IBM, USA * Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark * Sun Meng, Peking University, China * Hernan C. Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina * Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden * Marc Oriol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain * Pascal Poizat, Universite Paris Ouest, France * Jose Proenca, INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA * Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Lina Ye, CentraleSupelec, France * Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy ------ PUBLICITY CHAIR ------ * Gianluca Barbon, University of Grenoble Alpes, France ------ WEB CHAIR ------ * Alejandro Perez Vereda, University of Malaga, Spain ------ STEERING COMMITTEE ------ * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain * Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble Alpes, France From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Tue Jun 6 07:18:50 2017 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 07:18:50 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last call: DeepSpec Summer School, July 13-28, 2017 Message-ID: <0C96D540-79A9-4830-A03A-6A7F5B72C965@cis.upenn.edu> The first DeepSpec Summer School on Verified Systems will be held in Philadelphia from July 17 to 28, 2017, preceded by an introductory Coq Intensive from July 13 to 15. The second week is currently full, but there are a few places left for self-funded participants in the first week (Leroy, Pierce, Weirich, and Zdancewic) and the preceding Coq Intensive. The deadline for registration and hotel booking is next Monday, June 12th. Overview Can critical systems be built with no bugs in hardware, operating systems, compilers, crypto, or other key components? It may seem a pipe dream, but the past decade has seen explosive advances in the technology required to realize it. This summer school aims to give participants a wide-ranging overview of several ambitious projects currently underway in this space. Participants will complete the summer school with a thorough understanding of the conceptual underpinnings of these projects plus considerable hands-on experience with state-of-the-art tools for building verified systems. Dates The summer school will open with a three-day intensive course on Coq fundamentals, for participants who are new to Coq. The main lectures take place during the weeks of July 17 and 24. July 13-15 (Thu-Sat) Coq intensive July 17-21 Week 1 July 24-28 Week 2 Lecturers and Topics Andrew Appel Verified functional algorithms Adam Chlipala Program-specific proof automation Frans Kaashoek & Nickolai Zeldovich Certifying software with crashes Xavier Leroy The structure of a verified compiler Benjamin Pierce Property-based random testing with QuickChick Zhong Shao CertiKOS: Certified kit operating systems Stephanie Weirich Language specification and variable binding Steve Zdancewic Vellvm: Verifying the LLVM Prerequisites The DeepSpec summer school is aimed at a wide range of participants, including graduate students, academics, and industrial engineers and researchers. The Coq proof assistant will serve as a lingua franca for all the lectures. Participants who are not already familiar with Coq at the level of Software Foundations should plan on attending the Coq Intensive before the summer school. 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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 state of the art in unification theory. The workshop will be hosted by the 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD, Oxford, September 2017). ** Submission instructions ** 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=unif2017 Abstracts will be evaluated by the Programme Committee (if necessary with support from external reviewers) regarding their significance for the workshop. We will allow work presented/submitted in/to another conference. 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: June 21st (11pm59 CET) Notification of acceptance: July 21st Workshop: September 3rd ** Program Committee ** Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Iliano Cervesato (CMU) Santiago Escobar (TU Valencia) Maribel Fern?ndez (KCL) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano) Artur Je? (University of Wroc?aw) Konstantin Korovin (Manchester University) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Jordi Levy (IIIA - CSIC) Andrew Marshall (University of Mary Washington) Catherine Meadows (NRL) Barbara Morawska (TU Dresden) Paliath Narendran (University at Albany-SUNY) Jan Otop (University of Wroc?aw) Christophe Ringeissen (LORIA-INRIA) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt) Mateu Villaret (Universitat de Girona) ** Organizers ** Adri? Gasc?n (Warwick University/Alan Turing Institute) agascon at turing.ac.uk Chris Lynch (Clarkson University) clynch at clarkson.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From wies at cs.nyu.edu Tue Jun 6 08:37:30 2017 From: wies at cs.nyu.edu (Thomas Wies) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 08:37:30 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TAPAS 2017: Call for Abstracts Message-ID: <8452e4e1-6ab6-c075-f5cb-8621db97e3ed@cs.nyu.edu> Call for Abstracts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis TAPAS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- August 29, 2017 New York, NY, USA A Satellite Workshop of SAS 2017 http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/tapas2017/ Important Dates --------------- * Submission deadline: June 26, 2017 * Notification: July 24, 2017 * Workshop: August 29, 2017 Objectives ---------- In recent years, a wide range of static analysis tools have emerged, some of which are currently in industrial use or are well beyond the advanced prototype level. Many impressive practical results have been obtained, which allow complex properties to be proven or checked in a fully or semi-automatic way, even in the context of complex software developments. In parallel, the techniques to design and implement static analysis tools have improved significantly, and much effort is being put into engineering the tools. This workshop is intended to promote discussions and exchange experience between specialists in all areas of program analysis design and implementation and static analysis tool users. Scope ----- The technical program of TAPAS 2017 will consist of invited lectures together with presentations based on submitted extended abstracts. Submissions can cover any aspect of program analysis tools including, but not limited to the following: * design and implementation of static analysis tools (including practical techniques used for obtaining precision and performance); * components of static analysis tools (front-ends, abstract domains, etc.); * integration of static analyzers (in proof assistants, test generation tools, IDEs, etc.); * reusable software infrastructure (analysis algorithms and frameworks); * experience reports on the use of static analyzers (both research prototypes and industrial tools). Submission ---------- Please visit the submission website: . All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee. Submitted abstracts should be up to 3 pages in the two-column sub-format of the new ACM proceedings format. Invited Speakers ---------------- Forthcoming. Program Chair ------------- * Thomas Wies (NYU, USA) Program Committee ----------------- * Michael Emmi (Nokia Bell Labs, USA) * Samir Genaim (UCM, Spain) * Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Laura Kovacs (TU Wien, Austria) * Isabella Maestroni (University of Verona, Italy) * Antoine Min? (UPMC University, France) * Damien Zufferey (MPI-SWS, Germany) From serge.autexier at dfki.de Wed Jun 7 00:14:23 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 06:14:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2017, Doctoral Programme, Extended Submission Deadline 9. June 2017 Message-ID: <20170607041423.A8E6E13FDBF1@gigondas-5.fritz.box> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] Extended Deadline for Submissions to the Doctoral Programme 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline (Abstract + CV): 9. June 2017 (extended) * Notification of acceptance: 12. June 2017 (extended) Further information see below Invited Speakers at CICM 2017 - Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) - Przemys?aw Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences) - Grant Olney Passmore (University of Cambridge) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017. CICM 2017 also invites work-in- progress papers. The principal tracks of the conference are: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England) * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke) * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe) * Track: Systems & Data (chair: Osman Hasan) * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: Adnan Rashid) The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman Geuvers. The local arrangements are coordinated by Jacques Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier. CICM is also an excellent opportunity for graduate students to meet established researchers from the areas of computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing. The Doctoral Programme provides a dedicated forum for PhD students to present and discuss their ideas, ongoing or planned research, and achieved results in an open atmosphere. It will consist of presentations by the PhD students to get constructive feedback, advice, and suggestions from the research advisory board, researchers, and other PhD students. Each PhD student will be assigned to an experienced researcher from the research advisory board who will act as a mentor and who will provide detailed feedback and advice on their intended and ongoing research. Submission to the doctoral programs are possible until 9. June, details of the submission process are given below. *Important Dates* - Submission deadline (Abstract + CV): 9. June 2017 (extended) - Notification of acceptance: 12. June 2017 (extended) *Submission* - Submission by e-mail to the DP chair Adnan Rashid Email: adnan.rashid at seecs.edu.pk Web: http://save.seecs.nust.edu.pk/adnanrashid/ More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From beniamino.accattoli at gmail.com Tue Jun 6 13:06:41 2017 From: beniamino.accattoli at gmail.com (Beniamino Accattoli) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:06:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD on Lambda-Calculus, in Paris Message-ID: Dear colleagues, There is a 3-years PhD scholarship to work on the lambda-calculus and its cost models, under my supervision. The scholarship is funded by the COCA HOLA project (https://sites.google.com/site/beniaminoaccattoli/coca-hola) whose other members are - Ugo Dal Lago (Bologna) - Delia Kesner (Paris) - Damiano Mazza (Paris) - Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (Bologna) and with whom the candidate will have the opportunity to interact, and eventually be co-advised. Roughly, the project is about complexity analyses of beta-reduction, ranging all the way from abstract (e.g. understanding higher-order space) and semantical studies (e.g. intersection types for complexity analyses) to more applied (abstract machines) and even implementative tasks (hacking the engines of proof assistants with our new technologies). Essentially, the topic is a blend of lambda-calculus, functional programming, linear logic, rewriting, abstract machines, and complexity analyses. Candidates are expected to have background in at least one of these areas, and will be let free to pick the research direction they like the most (among those in the scope of the project, of course). The scholarship has to start no later than October 2017. There is no deadline, just write to me as soon as possible. The PhD will join the Parsifal INRIA team (https://team.inria.fr/parsifal/), based in the LIX lab of Ecole Polytechnique, one of the most prestigious labs in computer science in France, and located on the outskirts of Paris. From mirco.tribastone at imtlucca.it Tue Jun 6 10:02:26 2017 From: mirco.tribastone at imtlucca.it (Mirco Tribastone) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:02:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fully-funded PhD Studentships in Computer Science at IMT Lucca Message-ID: We look forward to applications from candidates with interests in concurrency theory, verification, and semantics. -- Applications are now being accepted for the 2017/18 PhD program at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (www.imtlucca.it), one of the six Schools of Excellence in Italy and one of the highest rated graduate schools in Europe according to the most recent E-Multirank survey. Highly motivated candidates from all disciplines are invited to apply for one of the 36 fully-funded scholarships within a three-year doctoral program that integrates scientific competences of economics, engineering, computer science, neuroscience and behavioral psychology, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, history and sciences of cultural heritage. One of the four field-specific curricula is the Computer Science and Systems Engineering curriculum. This curriculum provides the doctoral student with a solid interdisciplinary background to analyze cyber-physical systems and provide solutions to a huge variety of complex engineering problems. The program of studies is based on a set of common courses, covering the fundamentals of numerical linear algebra and numerical methods for differential equations, computer programming, dynamical systems and control, numerical optimization, stochastic processes, and machine learning. These basic courses are followed by a number of advanced courses and research seminars related to the different areas of specialization for the PhD work. Research in computer science deals with the development of languages, models, algorithms, and verification methods for modern distributed systems. In particular, we focus on cutting-edge research on adaptive systems, automated verification, cloud computing, cyber security, dynamical systems, mobile systems, and performance evaluation. Research in control systems is oriented towards identification and optimization-based control of dynamical systems, with an emphasis on real-time embedded optimization algorithms for control of stochastic, distributed, and large-scale dynamical systems, and their application in industrial problems arising from the automotive, aerospace, and smart-grid domains. Research in computational mechanics is concerned with the development of innovative computational methods to study advanced problems of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and cutting-edge problems involving multiple fields and length scales of high interest in both the academic and industrial sectors. During their doctoral studies, students are encouraged to carry out their research with the School?s Research Units. Courses are led by world-renowned researchers and provide students with all the theoretical skills and advanced tools required for rigorously tackling a multitude of analysis, design and management problems within the broad framework of systems analysis in economic, social, scientific, technological and cultural domains. Specialized faculty and staff create a network that provides key guidance and support throughout the PhD Program. Working closely with faculty, both in the classroom and in the development of research, students reach the highest levels of scholarly achievement. IMT School PhD graduates will be able to use the skills they acquired during their studies to recognize and resolve complex problems, to choose the most appropriate method or instrument to utilize when approaching these problems, even in disciplines outside of their primary field of research. All students are based in the recently restored San Francesco complex, a fully integrated Campus in the historical center of the beautiful Tuscan city of Lucca. The Campus includes renewed residential facilities, an on-site canteen, study and living rooms, a state-of-the-art library and outdoor recreational spaces, which foster a unique cultural, professional and social environment for our doctoral program. Eligible students, in addition to free room and board, will also receive a research scholarship which amounts to approximately ?13,630/year. Additional funding for further research stages, including scholarships to cover an eventual forth year to complete the PhD thesis, can be assigned on a competitive basis. The PhD program at the IMT School attracts students from around the world, providing a truly international environment. English is the official language of the School. Moreover, all students will have the opportunity to spend periods abroad at research institutes, laboratories or universities, both within the Erasmus+ framework and through ad hoc mobility agreements. Most IMT School PhD Graduates have reached prominent roles in academics, governmental institutions, public and private companies or professions across the globe. To find out more about the School, the admission requirements and how to apply, please see phd.imtlucca.it. ** The deadline for applications is July 18th 2017, 12:00 pm (midday) Italian time. ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk Wed Jun 7 05:57:39 2017 From: S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk (Simon Thompson) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 10:57:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: Trends in Functional Programming in Education 2015 (in association with TFP 2017) Message-ID: Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 2017 Call for participation https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/TFPIE2017/ Programme timings https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/TFPIE2017/TFPIE_2017/Programme.html The sixth workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, 2017, which is to be held on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent on Thursday, 22 June. Registration is included with that for TFP 2017, 19?21 June. Morning: functional programming and online learning A particular topic of this year's TFPIE will be MOOCs and other online learning and we've managed to gather people from most of the current MOOCs in functional programming to come to an informal symposium. Keynote: Heather Miller of EFPL and Northeastern University will begin the symposium by giving a keynote on this topic. Heather works on and around the Scala programming language and is Executive Director of the Scala Center. This will be followed by a presentation from Yann R?gis-Gianas and Benjamin Canou about the MOOC on OCaml, and a round table discussion including Heather, the OCaml MOOC team, Jeremy Singer (Haskell), and Simon Thompson (Erlang). The morning will conclude with two regular presentations: - Stephen Adams. Teaching Erlang through the Internet: An Experience Report - Jeremy Singer and Blair Archibald. Functional Baby Talk: Analysis of Code Fragments from Novice Haskell Programmers Afternoon: TFPIE regular programme The afternoon will begin with a best lecture: Colin Runciman (York) on the topic of Purely Functional Queues The meeting will then have four regular presentations: - Marco T. Morazan. Vector Programming Using Structural Recursion - Curtis d'Alves, Tanya Bouman, Christopher Schankula, Jenell Hogg, Levin Noronha, Emily Horsman, Rumsha Siddiqui and Christopher K. Anand. Using Elm to Introduce Algebraic Thinking to K-8 Students - Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Phil Barker and Sanusi Usman. Enhancing the Learning Experience on Programming-focused Courses via Electronic Assessment Tools (Extended Abstract) - Juan Carlos Saenz-Carrasco and Mike Stannett. Overcoming Non Distributivity: A Case Study in Functional Programming The meeting will conclude with a lightning talks session for attendees and others to give short talks about work in progress or projects that they would like to get started, followed by a plenary discussion on future directions for the community and the workshop. Programme committee Dr Laura Castro, University of A Coru?a Prof Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau Dr Elena Machkasova, University of Minnesota, Morris Prof Michel Mauny, Inria, Paris Dr Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow Prof Simon Thompson, University of Kent (chair) Simon Thompson | Professor of Logic and Computation School of Computing | University of Kent | Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK s.j.thompson at kent.ac.uk | M +44 7986 085754 | W www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~sjt From baiguangdong at gmail.com Mon Jun 5 08:53:00 2017 From: baiguangdong at gmail.com (Guangdong Bai) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 20:53:00 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICECCS 2017: Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 22nd International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2017) || November 5-8, 2017, Fukuoka, Japan || Website: https://iceccs.github.io/2017/ ## Overview Over the past several years, we have seen a rapid rising emphasis on design, implement and manage complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. The complex computer systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and processing large amount data. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environments and scenarios these systems operate in; demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability; as well as the large variation in development methodology, programming languages and implementation details. The key issues in these systems include performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of interest includes long-term research issues; near-term requirements and challenges; established complex systems; emerging promising tools; and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. ## Scope and Topics Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and toolsed research results, case studies and tools. Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: Requirement specification and analysis Verification and validation Security and privacy of complex systems Model-driven development Reverse engineering and refactoring Architecture software Big Data Management Ambient intelligence, pervasive computing Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks Design by contract Agile methods Safety-critical & fault-tolerant architectures Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems Real-time, hybrid and embedded systems Systems of systems Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) Tools and tool integration Industrial case studies Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. ## Full Papers Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. ## Short Papers Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. ## Paper Submissions Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column IEEE format. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages, and short papers should not exceed 4 pages, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately, without review. Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance to the IEEE guidelines: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS'17 portal, hosted on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs2017 ## Conference proceeding The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed). ## Important Dates Abstract submission: 5th June 2017 (Extended to 19th June 2017) Paper submission: 19th June 2017 (Extended to 3rd July 2017) Notification of acceptance: 14th August 2017 Camera ready copy due: 4th September 2017 ## Organizers ### General Chair Jianjun Zhao, Kyushu University, Japan Baowen Xu, Nanjing University, China ### Program Chair Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Guangdong Bai, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore For enquiries, please contact iceccs2017 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.a.perez at rug.nl Wed Jun 7 07:08:25 2017 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 13:08:25 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Recent Advances in Concurrency and Logic (RADICAL 2017) -- 2nd Call for Submissions. Message-ID: [ Submissions from the TYPES readership, broadly related to concurrency and logic, are warmly welcome! ] =========================================== 2nd CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Recent Advances in Concurrency and Logic (RADICAL 2017) https://sites.google.com/site/radicalconcur/ A new workshop, co-located with CONCUR 2017. https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ Berlin, Germany - September 4, 2017 Submission deadline (3-page talk proposals): Friday, 30 June 2017 =========================================== == MOTIVATION AND SCOPE RADICAL is a new workshop aligned within the intersection between concurrency and logic, broadly construed. Recently, the interplay of concurrency and logic with areas/applications such as: - design, verification, synthesis for concurrent systems, both qualitative and quantitative; - strategic reasoning for distributed and multi-agent systems; - analysis and validation techniques for concurrent and distributed programs and systems (e.g., separation logics, advanced type systems, and runtime verification techniques); has received much attention, as witnessed by recent CONCUR editions. These areas/applications have become increasingly consolidated, and start to have profound impact in neighbouring communities such as: - programming languages - artificial intelligence - computer security - knowledge representation As an unfortunate side effect, however, the important unifying role that concurrency plays in all of them seems hard to find in a single scientific event. Indeed, there do not seem to exist appropriate venues in which different research communities interested in concurrency and logic can meet closely, cross-fertilize, and share their most exciting recent results. RADICAL intends to fill a gap between CONCUR researchers that now also typically publish and interact in other different venues; it also aims at attracting researchers from neighbouring communities whose work naturally intersects with CONCUR. == FORMAT: BACK TO THE BASICS RADICAL will offer an innovative format for a one-day workshop for researchers involved in all aspects of concurrency and logic including, but not limited to, the areas mentioned above. Since we would like to recover the informal character of scientific workshops, rather than regular paper submissions, authors should submit three-page talk proposals (see below). RADICAL will be an informal venue, oriented to interaction, and so it will have no formal proceedings. == INVITED SPEAKERS - Lu?s Caires (NOVA University of Lisbon, PT) - Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) == SUBMISSIONS: 3-PAGE TALK PROPOSALS We invite submissions describing talk proposals on the intersection of logic and concurrency, as motivated above. A submission to RADICAL would typically fall within one of the following categories: - reports of an ongoing work and/or preliminary results; - summaries of an already published paper (or series of papers); - overviews of (recent) PhD theses; - descriptions of research projects and consortia; - manifestos, calls to action, personal views on current and future challenges; - overviews of interesting yet underrepresented problems. This list is by no means exhaustive but merely indicative. For instance, since RADICAL will precede CONCUR (and the other main conferences co-located with QONFEST), authors of papers accepted at a main conference may consider proposing a talk in RADICAL that promotes (or gives context to) a technical talk to be delivered at the conference(s) later on the week. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the organizers in case of questions: radical2017 at easychair.org Submissions based on already published works should include explicit references/links as appropriate. Reviewers may read such prior published work, but are not obliged to so do. Submissions will be judged by the program committee on the basis of significance, relevance, and potential of an engaging, compelling talk at the workshop. Submissions should be in PDF, up to three pages (not including references), produced using the EasyChair format, available at http://easychair.org/publications/for_authors Please submit your talk proposal via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=radical2017 It is understood that for each accepted submission one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and give the talk. == IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline (3-page talk proposals): Friday, 30 June 2017. - Notification to authors: Friday, 28 July 2017. - Workshop: Monday, 4 September 2017 == ORGANIZERS - Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford, UK) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, NL) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Emmanuel Beffara (I2M, Universit? d'Aix-Marseille & CNRS, FR) - James Brotherston (University College London, UK) - Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Silvia Crafa (Universit? di Padova, IT) - Ugo Dal Lago (Universit? di Bologna, IT) - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, IT) - Constantin Enea (IRIF, University Paris Diderot, FR) - Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) - Sibylle Fr?schle (University of Oldenburg, DE) - Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, UK) - Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford, UK - co-chair) - Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath, UK) - Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, NL) - Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, DE) - Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, DK) - Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, BR) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, NL - co-chair) - Carsten Sch?rmann (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) - Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) - Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, SG) - Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London, UK) - Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) - Frank Valencia (CNRS & LIX, ?cole Polytechnique, FR) - Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA - CNRS / University of Lorraine, FR) - Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, NL) - Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl From s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk Wed Jun 7 10:44:50 2017 From: s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk (Sven Linker) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:44:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers -- FVAV 2017 - Workshop on Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles 2017 Message-ID: (Apologies for duplicates) ================================================================== Final Call for Papers ================================================================== Workshop on Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles https://sites.google.com/site/fvav2017/ 19th September 2017 University of Turin, Italy (co-located with iFM 2017, http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/) ================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: - Paper Submission: Monday, 18th June 2017 - Notification: Monday, 10th July 2017 - Workshop: Tuesday, 19th September 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Objectives and Scope: Current technology is at reach to develop road vehicles that can act fully autonomously. One of the recognised major difficulties is to make the systems safe, as autonomy requires not only avoidance of misbehaviour but also assurance of availability and reliability. This fact has been acknowledged both within the academic society, in the form of an increasing interest in this topic, and within industry, by generally agreeing that these vehicles adhere to the highest levels of international standards, e.g., SIL3/SIL4 for IEC 61508, and ASIL D for ISO 26262. These levels imply the consideration of various formal methods in the development, including static code analysis, model checking, and formal specification and verification. However, incorporating formal methods into the design of autonomous vehicles presents significant new challenges, particularly due to the complex integration of discrete and continuous controllers. The main challenges associated with the formal design of autonomous vehicles includes modelling, specification, verification and synthesis. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the formal verification community that are developing formal methods for autonomous vehicles and industrial researchers working, e.g., in the area of control theory or robotics, interested in applying verification techniques for designing and developing of autonomous vehicles. Topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * formal models for autonomous systems * languages and logics for specification and verification * interactive and automated theorem proving * model checking * agent programming languages * real-time and hybrid systems * program synthesis * quantitative and probabilistic verification * requirement analysis * verification for learning approaches * run-time verification * applications, implementations and case studies ------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guideline: Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) and must be prepared according to the EPTCS guidelines for authors (see http://info.eptcs.org/). Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fvav2017 The page limitations mentioned below include all text, figures and references. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend FVAV 2017 to present. There are two categories of papers which can be submitted: regular and short papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Programme Committee. * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, applications of formal methods in industrial practise, system descriptions and case studies within the context of autonomous vehicles. * *Short Papers* (up to 7 pages, including references) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, and problem statements. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Invited Speaker: Werner Damm (OFFIS Oldenburg, Germany) (https://www.offis.de/en/offis/person/werner-damm.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Organisation: Programme Committee: * Matthias Althoff (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) * Mikael Asplund (Link?ping University, Sweden) * Georgios Fainekos (Arizona State University, US) * Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) * Christoph Gladisch (Bosch, Germany) * Cornel Izbasa (Opensynergy, Germany) * Owen McAree (Sheffield University, UK) * Helen Monkhouse (Horiba-Mira, UK) * Ernst-R?diger Olderog (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) * Patrizio Pelliccione (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * S. Ramesh (General Motors, US) * Nick Reed (TRL, UK) * Shinichi Shiraishi (Toyota Info Technology Center, US) Programme Chairs: * Lukas Bulwahn (BMW Car IT GmbH, Germany) * Maryam Kamali (University of Liverpool, UK) * Sven Linker (University of Liverpool, UK) From hirokawa at jaist.ac.jp Thu Jun 8 00:08:40 2017 From: hirokawa at jaist.ac.jp (Nao Hirokawa) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 13:08:40 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CoCo 2017: Second Call for Provers Message-ID: ====================================================================== Second Call for Provers CoCo 2017 6th Confluence Competition September 8th 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom http://coco.nue.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/2017/ ====================================================================== Confluence provides a general notion of determinism and has been conceived as one of the central properties of rewriting. Confluence had been investigated in several formalisms of rewriting such as first-order rewriting, lambda-calculi, higher-order rewriting, constrained rewriting and conditional rewriting. In recent years the focus in confluence research has shifted towards the development of automatable techniques for confluence proofs. The confluence competition aims to foster the development of techniques for proving/disproving confluence automatically by setting up a dedicated competition among confluence tools. The 6th Confluence Competition (CoCo 2017) will run ***live*** during the 6th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2017), to be collocated with the 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction in Oxford, United Kingdom. The following categories will be run. GCR and UN are new categories. * 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 * GCR: ground confluence of many-sorted term rewrite systems * UN: unique normal form properties of first-order term rewrite systems Besides these categories, new categories will be considered if there are tools and problems dedicated to those categories. We welcome requests for categories. Demonstration 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 2017 indicated above. IMPORTANT DATES: * request for competition categories February 28, 2017 (closed) * request for demonstration categories June 30, 2017 * tool registration August 13, 2017 * tool submission August 23, 2017 * problem submission August 27, 2017 * competition September 8, 2017 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 (competition category or demonstration category) * 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 2017. REGISTRATION/SUBMISSION: Tool registration is via the easychair. Every tool registration should also contain a one page system description. Tool submission will be via StarExec. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: * Takahito Aoto Niigata University (chair) * Nao Hirokawa JAIST * Julian Nagele University of Innsbruck * Naoki Nishida Nagoya University ADVISORY BOARD: * Beniamino Accattoli INRIA, Paris * Yuki Chiba JAIST CONTACT: coco-sc [AT] jaist.ac.jp From comar at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jun 7 18:05:56 2017 From: comar at cs.cmu.edu (Cyrus Omar) Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:05:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GPCE 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers (16th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2017) October 23-24, 2017 Vancouver, Canada (co-located with SPLASH 2017) http://www.gpce.org/ http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 25, 2017 * Submission of papers: July 2, 2017 * Paper notification: August 17, 2017 Submission site: https://gpce17.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a programming languages conference focusing on techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: * program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, * domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, * feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, * applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are in scope. PAPER SELECTION The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection citeria: * Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. * Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. * Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. * Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. PAPER SUBMISSION GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format ?acmart?, sub-format ?sigplan? and 10 point font. * Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers 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 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 at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords ?Tool Demo? or ?Tool Demonstration? in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program chair. ORGANIZATION Chairs (chairs at gpce.org) General Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, US) Program Chair: Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft, Netherlands) Publicity Chair: Cyrus Omar (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Program Committee Nada Amin (EPFL, Switzerland) Casper Bach Poulsen (TU Delft, Netherlands) Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes 1, France) Eugene Burmako (Twitter, US) Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Camil Demetrescu (Sapienza University Rome, Italy) Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Matthew Hammer (University of Colorado, Boulder, US) Jaakko J?rvi (University of Bergen, Norway) Lennart Kats (Amazon Web Services) Sarah Nadi (University of Alberta, Canada) Bruno C. d. S. 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Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5406 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: From rodolphe.lepigre at univ-smb.fr Fri Jun 9 09:26:41 2017 From: rodolphe.lepigre at univ-smb.fr (Rodolphe Lepigre) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 15:26:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Workshop_on_Termination_and_Circular_P?= =?utf-8?q?roofs_=2819/07/2017_-_Chamb=C3=A9ry=2C_France=29?= Message-ID: <20170609132641.GU25821@HPArchRod.localdomain> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION & CONTRIBUTIONS Workshop on Termination and Circular Proofs 19th of July 2017 - Chamb?ry, France https://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~lepigre/termination/ BACKGROUND Termination is a very active research topic, which is essential for the con- struction of proof assistants. Indeed, a circular proof (i.e., a proof that may use its own goal as a premise) is only valid if it is well-founded, and thus terminating in some sense. This aim of this one day workshop is to bringing together researchers from both the termination and the proof assistant communities around a few talks, in the hope of stimulating interactions and fruitful discussions. INVITED SPEAKER Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University / Chalmers) CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks on topics that should relate (in a broad sense) to termination or/and circular proofs. You should submit a title and a small abstract by email to the organisers (the sooner, the better). REGISTRATION Registration is free of charge, but mandatory on the following web page. It will only take you thirty seconds as we ask very few informations. Note that you will not receive any confirmation email, just check that you appear on the list of participants. https://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~lepigre/termination/ To make our lives easier, please register as early as possible! PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 19th of July 2017: 09:30 - 10:00 Breakfast 10:00 - 11:00 Invited talk (Andreas Abel) 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:00 Contributed talk 1 12:00 - 12:30 Contributed talk 2 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:00 Contributed talk 3 15:00 - 15:30 Contributed talk 4 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30 Contributed talk 5 16:30 - 17:00 Contributed talk 6 ORGANISING COMMITTEE Rodolphe Lepigre (Universit? Savoie Mont Blanc) Christophe Raffalli (Universit? Savoie Mont Blanc) Pierre Hyvernat (Universit? Savoie Mont Blanc) Clovis Eberhart (Universit? Savoie Mont Blanc) Tom Hirschowitz (Universit? Savoie Mont Blanc) CONTACT rodolphe.lepigre at univ-smb.fr From aleks0 at gmail.com Fri Jun 9 17:24:19 2017 From: aleks0 at gmail.com (Aleks Kissinger) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 15:24:19 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: QPL 2017 Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) July 3-7, 2017 Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands DETAILS AND LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS AVAILABLE AT: http://qpl.cs.ru.nl EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 10, 2017 * * * We warmly invite you to take part in the 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL), which will take place at Radboud University between Monday 3 and Friday 7 July, 2017. The conference 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. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome. Previous QPL events were held in Glasgow (2016), 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). REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Find registration details via the QPL 2017 website or register directly at: https://rudigitalsecurity.paydro.com/qpl-2017 SATELLITES There will be a satellite workshop on Quantum Structures hosted by the International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA) from Tuesday July 4th to Thursday the 6th. See the QPL website for more information. JOINT QPL-IQSA INVITED SPEAKER Miriam Backens (Bristol) QPL INVITED SPEAKERS Matthias Christandl (Copenhagen) Miguel Navasques (Vienna) Paulo Perinotti (Pavia) Jamie Vicary (Oxford) IQSA INVITED SPEAKERS Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht) Hans Maassen (Radboud/Amsterdam) QPL INVITED TUTORIALS Bart Jacobs (Radboud) - Effectus Theory Dan Marsden (Oxford) - Categorical String Diagrams Simon Perdrix (LORIA) - Measurement-based Quantum Computation Ronald de Wolf (CWI) - Quantum Algorithms PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Aleks Kissinger (Radboud, co-chair) Bob Coecke (Oxford, co-chair) Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Miriam Backens (Bristol) John Baez (UC Riverside) Benno van den Berg (Amsterdam) Rick Blute (Ottawa) Dan Browne (University College London) Giulio Chiribella (Hong Kong) Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) Simon Gay (Glasgow) Chris Heunen (Edinburgh) Matty Hoban (Oxford) Dominic Horsman (Durham) Bart Jacobs (Radboud) Kohei Kishida (Oxford) Joachim Kock (Barcelona) Matt Leifer (Chapman) Hans Maassen (Radboud) Paul-Andre Mellies (Paris Diderot) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Daniel Oi (Strathclyde) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Dusko Pavlovic (Hawaii) Simon Perdrix (CNRS Nancy) Paolo Perinotti (Pavia) Robert Raussendorf (British Columbia) Lidia del Rio (ETH Zurich) Ana Belen Sainz (Perimeter Institute) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) Pawel Sobocinski (Southampton) Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) Isar Stubbe (Littoral-Cote-d'Opale) Benoit Valiron (Paris-Sud) Jamie Vicary (Oxford) Mingsheng Ying (UT Sydney) STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke (Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) LOCAL ORGANISATION Bart Jacobs Aleks Kissinger Sander Uijlen From phaller at kth.se Sat Jun 10 08:23:06 2017 From: phaller at kth.se (Philipp Haller) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 12:23:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Special Issue on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software in JLAMP Message-ID: <13186B58-01E5-4E36-8F41-1A282FFA192F@kth.se> (Apologies for multiple postings.) CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF LOGICAL AND ALGEBRAIC METHODS IN PROGRAMMING Special Issue on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software Important Dates =============== Submission of papers: July 31, 2017 First review decision: October 31, 2017 Revision due: December 1, 2017 Acceptance notification: January 31, 2018 Final manuscript due: February 28, 2018 Expected publication: Spring 2018 Aims and Scope ============== This special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-logical-and-algebraic-methods-in-programming) is devoted to the topics of the 10th International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES 2017, http://places17.di.fc.ul.pt/), which took place on April 29, 2017, in Uppsala, Sweden, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS). This is however an open call for papers; therefore, both participants of the workshop and other authors are encouraged to submit their contributions. 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 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 Submission ========== We expect original articles (20-30 pages) that present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published in another journal and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Longer papers will be considered if there is a clear justification for additional pages; authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least two reviewers. The authors will have about one month 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. Contributions should be typeset in PDF format and must comply with JLAMP's author guidelines, which can be retrieved from the Elsevier website, https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-logical-and-algebraic-methods-in-programming/2352-2208/guide-for-authors. Submissions are handled by the Elsevier Editorial System and can be uploaded to the JLAMP website. Guest Editors ============= Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE, phaller at kth.se Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, PT, vv at di.fc.ul.pt -- Philipp Haller Assistant Professor Department of Theoretical Computer Science KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden From cristi at ifi.uio.no Sun Jun 11 10:46:40 2017 From: cristi at ifi.uio.no (Christian Johansen) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 16:46:40 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo), affiliated with CONCUR, Sept. 4th, Berlin, Germany (!new: Keynotes added) Message-ID: Call for Papers and Posters (Update: keynote speakers added) !! Deadline soon: 23 June !! 3rd International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo) 2017 https://memo.wikit.itu.dk/home affiliated with CONCUR, September 4th, 2017, Berlin, Germany https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ '''Aim and Topics''' Developing appropriate models for systems, programming languages and processes is not easy. Hence, several metamodels have been proposed. Metamodels are framework theories which provide general, structural results simplifying and driving the development of models of specific systems and languages. There are frameworks for operational semantics (such as GSOS, graph rewriting systems, Milner?s bigraphs, coalgebras), for denotational semantics (such as algebraic/bialgebraic specifications, monads, enriched Lawvere theories, mathematical operational semantics), and for logical semantics (such as metalanguages for deductive systems, i.e. Logical Frameworks). The boundaries between these metamodels are blurred, and techniques and ideas from one can be reapplied to the others. Moreover, metamodels can help in the definition of new computation and programming paradigms. The goal of the MeMo workshop is to bring together researchers working on and with metamodels, with the aim to share insights, uncover similarities and differences, possibilities for cross-fertilization and stimulate further research in this exciting area. 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, K-framework, 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, etc. - 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 '''Important Dates''' Submission regular papers and presentation proposals: 23 June 2017 Notification regular papers and presentation proposals: 31 July 2017 Camera-ready copy: 6 August 2017 Submission posters: 6 August 2017 Notification posters: 13 August 2017 '''Keynote Speakers''' - Jan Friso Groote, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands '''Submission Instructions''' We invite three types of submissions: Full regular papers; Tool presentation papers; Posters. Submissions of regular and tool papers must be original and should not have been published previously nor to be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. Submissions of poster proposals can be based on work submitted elsewhere and be clearly marked as a poster proposal by prefixing the title with "POSTER:" . The posters will be on display all throughout the workshop in the coffee break area, when the presenters can interact with other participants. Evaluation criteria will be technical quality, readability, novelty, and scope. All papers and posters must be in English and submitted at the EasyChair submission site. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memo2017 Papers should use the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/) and not exceed 15 pages in length for full papers, 10 pages for tool papers, and 6 pages for poster descriptions. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. We plan an EPTCS post-proceedings volume and depending on the quality of the submissions also a special journal issue of selected, extended papers. '''Program Committee Co-Chairs and Organizers''' - Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Christian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway '''Program Committee''' - Patrick Bahr, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Iliano Cervesato, CMU Qatar - Matteo Cimini, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA - S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China - Uli Fahrenberg, Ecole Polytechnique, France - Tobias Heindel, University of Leipzig, Germany - Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-chair) - Hans H?ttel, Aalborg University, Denmark - Christian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair) - Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy - Joachim Parrow, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden - Johannes ?man Pohjola, Chalmers University, Sweden - Jan Rutten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands - Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton, UK - Uwe Egbert Wolter, University of Bergen, Norway - TBA... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice day from Christian Johansen (old name Cristian Prisacariu) member of PMA group (Precise Modeling and Analysis) at Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo ----------------------------------------------------------------- From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sun Jun 11 13:47:08 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 14:47:08 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 24th WoLLIC 2017 - Call for Participation Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies] Call for Participation WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK SPECIAL SESSION: Screening of Navajo Math Circles (Directed by George Paul Csicsery, 2016, 58min) 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) IN COOPERATION WITH ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universit?t) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozov? (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Gr?del (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger T?rnquist (K?benhavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andr?s Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Alexandra Silva (Univ College London, UK) (Local co-chair) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) (Local co-chair) Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, UK) James Brotherston (Univ College London, UK) 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 http://wollic.org/wollic2017/ ACCEPTED PAPERS Fausto Barbero, Lauri Hella and Raine R?nnholm. Independence-Friendly logic without Henkin quantification. Fedor Pakhomov. Solovay completeness without fixed points. Paola Bruscoli and Lutz Strassburger. On the length of Medial-Switch-Mix derivations. Almudena Colacito and George Metcalfe. Proof Theory and Ordered Groups. Rohit Parikh. An Epistemic Generalization of Rationalizability. Lev Beklemishev. On the reflection calculus with partial conservativity operators. Arnold Beckmann and Jean Jose Razafindrakoto. Total Search Problems in Bounded Arithmetic and Improved Witnessing. Flavio Ferrarotti, Sen?n Gonz?lez and Jose Turull-Torres. On Fragments of Higher Order Logics that on Finite Structures Collapse to Second Order. Micha? Tomasz Godziszewski and Joel David Hamkins. Computable quotient presentations of models of arithmetic and set theory. Nathanael L. Ackerman and Cameron E. Freer. On the Computability of Graph Turing Machines. Ian Mackie. A Geometry of Interaction Machine for G?del's System T. Zhaohui Luo and Serguei Soloviev. Dependent Event Types. Igor Sedlar. Substructural logics with a reflexive transitive closure modality. Stepan Kuznetsov. The Lambek calculus with iteration: two variants. Willem Conradie, Andrew Craig, Alessandra Palmigiano and Zhiguang Zhao. Constructive canonicity for lattice-based fixed point logics. Karin Cvetko Vah, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Dimitri Kartsaklis and Benjamin Blundell. Non-commutative logic for compositional distributional semantics. Daniyar Shamkanov. Global Neighbourhood Completeness of the G?del-L?b Provability Logic. V?t Pun?och??. Knowledge is a Diamond. Gijs Wijnholds. Coherent Diagrammatic Reasoning in Compositional Distributional Semantics. Zhiguang Zhao. Algorithmic Sahlqvist Preservation for Modal Compact Hausdorff Spaces. Marcin Mostowski and Marek Czarnecki. Concrete mathematics. Finitistic approach to foundations. Denis I. Saveliev and Nikolai L. Poliakov. On two concepts of ultrafilter extensions of first-order models and their generalizations. Yury Savateev and Daniyar Shamkanov. Cut-elimination for the modal Grzegorczyk logic via non-well-founded proofs. S?rgio Marcelino and Carlos Caleiro. Disjoint fibring of non-deterministic matrices. Fei Liang, Giuseppe Greco, Andrew Moshier and Alessandra Palmigiano. Multi-type display caculus for Semi De Morgan Logic. Dan Marsden, Fabrizio Genovese, Bob Coecke and Martha Lewis. Applications of Generalized Relations in Linguistics and Cognition. 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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. 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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. Participants can present their work in slots of 30mins with Q&A included. 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. ===== Submissions ===== REBLS encourages submissions of two types of papers: - Research results: complete works that ill be published in the ACM digital library. - In progress papers: papers that have the potential of triggering an interesting discussion at the workshop or present new ideas that require further systematic investigation. These papers will not be published in the ACM digital library. 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URL: From fioravanti at unich.it Mon Jun 12 05:36:14 2017 From: fioravanti at unich.it (Fabio Fioravanti) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:36:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2017: Final Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ==================================================================== LOPSTR 2017: Final Call for Papers - NOTE DEADLINE EXTENSION ==================================================================== 27th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2017 https://www.sci.unich.it/lopstr17/ University of Namur, Namur, Belgium October 10 ? 12, 2017 (co-located with PPDP 2017) ==================================================================== DEADLINES (extended): Abstract submission: June 18, 2017 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 25, 2017 ==================================================================== INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced ==================================================================== 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 27th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017) will be held at the University of Namur, Belgium; previous symposia were held in Edinburgh, Siena, 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 2017 will be co-located with PPDP 2017 (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 (NOTE: EXTENDED DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSION) Abstract submission: Jun 18, 2017 Paper/Extended abstract submission: Jun 25, 2017 Notification: July 25, 2017 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): tba, 2017 Symposium: October 10-12, 2017 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 authors email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers (and, if possible, line 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 2017: [http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2017] (can be accessed also through the LOPSTR 2017 web site). Best Paper Award and Prize A best paper award will be granted, which will include a 500 EUR prize provided by Springer. This award will be given to the best paper submitted to the conference, based on the relevance, originality, and technical quality. The program committee may split the award among two or more papers, also considering authorship (e.g., student paper). Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Program Committee Roberto Bagnara, University of Parma and BUGSENG, Italy Sabine Broda, University of Porto, Portugal Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Emanuele De Angelis, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Daniel De Schreye, KU Leuven, Belgium Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK Laurent Fribourg, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, France Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland Gerda Janssens, KU Leuven, Belgium Bishoksan Kafle, University of Melbourne, Australia Andy King, University of Kent, UK Jacopo Mauro, University of Oslo, Norway Jose F. Morales, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Jorge A. Navas, SRI International, USA Corneliu Popeea, CQSE GmbH, Germany Francesca Scozzari, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Theresa Swift, NOVALINKS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Program Chairs Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Organizing Committee Wim Vanhoof (Universit? de Namur, Namur, Belgium, Local Organizer) In cooperation with: The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems The Association for Logic Programming From publicityifl at gmail.com Mon Jun 12 08:37:35 2017 From: publicityifl at gmail.com (publicityifl at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:37:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: IFL 2017 (29th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages) Message-ID: <001a114f7d4e6ca66c0551c2952a@google.com>
Hello,

Please, find below the first call for papers for IFL 2017.
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

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IFL 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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29th SYMPOSIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES
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University of Bristol, UK

In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN

Wednesday 30 August - Friday 1 September, 2017

http://iflconference.org/

Scope
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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 2017 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
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Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2017 will use a post-symposium review process
to produce the formal proceedings. All participants of IFL 2017 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 are not subject to 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. The formal proceedings will appear in the
International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library.

Important dates
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Mon 31 July???? 2017 : Submission deadline draft papers
Wed? 2 August?? 2017 : Notification of acceptance for presentation
Fri? 4 August?? 2017 : Early registration deadline
Fri 11 August?? 2017 : Late registration deadline
Mon 21 August?? 2017 : Submission deadline for pre-symposium proceedings
Wed 30 August?? 2017 - Fri 1 September 2017 : IFL Symposium
Mon? 4 December 2017 : Submission deadline for post-symposium proceedings
Wed 31 January? 2018 : Notification of acceptance for post-symposium proceedings
Mon 12 March??? 2018 : Camera-ready version for post-symposium proceedings

Submission details
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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 use the new ACM two
columns conference format, which can be found at:

http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

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.

Authors submit through EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2017

Topics
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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 2017,
please contact the PC chair at nicolas.wu at bristol.ac.uk. 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
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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
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Chair: Nicolas Wu, University of Bristol, UK

- Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan
- Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France
- Carlos Camarao, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Stephen Dolan, University of Cambridge, UK
- Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Benjamin Lerner, Brown University, USA
- Bas Lijnse, Radboud University, Netherlands
- Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA
- Miguel Pagano, Universidad Nacional de C??rdoba, Argentina
- Tomas Petricek, Alan Turing Institute, UK
- Maciej Pir??g, University of Wroc??aw, Poland
- Exequiel Rivas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
- Neil Sculthorpe, Nottingham Trent University, UK
- Melinda T??th, E??tv??s Lor??nd University, Hungary
- Phil Trinder, Glasgow University, UK
- Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
- Meng Wang, University of Kent, UK

Venue
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The IFL 2017 will be held in association with the Department of
Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK. Bristol is located in
South West England, and can be easily reached from Bristol Airport.
See the website for more information on the venue.

 

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Workshop on Structures and Deduction 2017 Oxford, 8-9 September 2017 --- Affiliated with FSCD 2017 Submission: 16 June Notification: 21 July Workshop page: http://www.anupamdas.com/sd17/ Submission page: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sd17 FSCD 2017 page: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ *** Topics of interest *** * Syntactic representations of proofs (e.g. sequent calculi, deep inference, focussing) * Combinatorial representations of proofs (e.g. proof nets) * Algebraic representations of proofs (e.g. via game semantics or category theory) * Methods for proof manipulation and normal forms of proofs * Formulas-as-types interpretations of proofs * Computation and rewriting in proof search (e.g. deduction modulo or fixed point definitions) * Complexity theoretic aspects of proof representations *** Invited Speakers *** Bahareh Afshari David Baelde Stefano Berardi Claudia Nalon Michel Parigot *** Programme Committee *** Andrea Aler Tubella James Brotherston Kaustuv Chaudhuri Anupam Das Willem Heijltjes Kenji Miyamoto Giselle Reis *** Workshop *** SD17 is the fourth in a series of meetings that brings together researchers in different areas of proof theory. The main interest is in new algebraic and geometric results in proof theory which expand our abilities to manipulate proofs, help to reduce bureaucracy in deductive systems, and ultimately lead to new methods for proof search and new kinds of proof certificates. There have been three previous editions of Structures and Deduction, the last of which occurred in 2014. Since then there has been a tremendous amount of progress in the area, witnessed by multiple recent funded projects. As well as theoretical work in the form of regular papers, we encourage submission of implementations, tools and system descriptions. *** Submission guidelines *** We welcome submission of work that has already been published or currently submitted to a journal or conference. The following submission categories are welcome: * Extended abstracts (6-8 pages). Finished work, system descriptions, surveys. * Short abstracts (2-4 pages). Work-in-progress, perspectives on existing work. The page limits above are only recommendations, there is no hard upper or lower bound, within reason. Style files: http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors Submission page: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sd17 *** Publication *** We do not intend to have published proceedings, as we encourage people to present work in progress, or material that is already submitted. If there is a strong demand among the participants we may organise a special issue of an open access journal for full papers. *** Contact *** We can be reached by email directly or via sd17 at easychair.org The organisers. Kaustuv Chaudhuri Anupam Das Willem Heijltjes From evan.chang at Colorado.EDU Tue Jun 13 12:03:48 2017 From: evan.chang at Colorado.EDU (Bor-Yuh Evan Chang) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:03:48 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2017: June 13 deadline, Final CfP, Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems Message-ID: Note that full paper deadline has been extended to Monday, June 19 as long as the paper is registered by the original abstract deadline of Tuesday, June 13 AoE. ********************************************************************* APLAS 2017 Second Call for Papers 15th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems Suzhou, China, November 27-29, 2017 https://www-aplas.github.io/ ********************************************************************* # Important Dates - Abstract deadline: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 (firm) - Paper deadline: Monday, June 19, 2017 (extended from Friday, June 16, 2017) - Author response: Wednesday-Friday, July 26-28, 2017 - Author notification: Monday, August 14, 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: Friday, September 1, 2017 - Conference: Monday-Wednesday, November 27-29, 2017 All deadline times are AoE. # 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 languages 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 Hanoi ('16), Pohang ('15), 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 broadly spanning the areas of 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 demonstrations 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: - **Regular research papers** describing original scientific research results, including system development and case studies. Regular research papers *should not exceed 18 pages* in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. This category encompasses both theoretical and implementation (also known as system descriptions) papers. In either case, submissions 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. System descriptions papers should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. - **System and tool demonstrations** describing a demonstration of a tool or a system that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The main purpose of a tool paper is to display a completed, robust and well-documented tool--highlighting the overall functionality of the tool, the interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the tool, an assessment of the tool's strengths and weaknesses, and a summary of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of tool demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the tool at the conference. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They may include an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live demo. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2017 using EasyChair. The acceptable format is 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. # Review Process *New for APLAS 2017* ## Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process APLAS 2017 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following this process means that reviewers will not see the authors' names or affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors' names will then be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted. To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following: - **Author names and institutions must be omitted** and - References to the 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 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, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should *not* be omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. 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. ## Author Response Period During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and respond to them as appropriate. ## Research Integrity The Program Committee reserves the right, up until the time of publication, to reverse a decision of paper acceptance. Reversal is possible if fatal flaws are discovered in the paper, or research integrity is found to have been seriously breached. # Organizers ## General Chair Xinyu Feng (University of Science and Technology of China) ## Program Chair Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder) ## Program Committee Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sam Blackshear (Facebook) Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica) Yuting Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Stephen Chong (Harvard University) Vijay D'Silva (Google) Benjamin Delaware (Purdue University) Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS) Cezara Dragoi (INRIA, ENS, CNRS) William Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology) Guoliang Jin (North Carolina State University) Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India) Vu Le (Microsoft) Akimasa Morihata (University of Tokyo) Sergio Mover (University of Colorado Boulder) Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers University) Hakjoo Oh (Korea University) Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira (The University of Hong Kong) Xiaokang Qiu (Purdue University) Arjun Radhakrishna (University of Pennsylvania) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST) Ilya Sergey (University College London) Makoto Tatsuta (National Institute of Informatics) Tachio Terauchi (JAIST) Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica) Yingfei Xiong (Peking University) Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University) Danfeng Zhang (Pennsylvania State University) Xin Zhang (Georgia institute of Technology) Kenny Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) ## Local Organization Chair Ming Fu (University of Science and Technology of China) From p.giarrusso at gmail.com Tue Jun 13 17:14:54 2017 From: p.giarrusso at gmail.com (Paolo Giarrusso) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 23:14:54 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SIGPLAN Scala Symposium 2017: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: ================================================================ ACM SIGPLAN Scala Symposium 2017 co-located with SPLASH 2017 Vancouver, Canada 22-23 October 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers ================================================================ 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. The Scala Symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics and many formats. Important dates =============== * Abstract submission: Jul 2nd, 2017 * Paper submission: Jul 9th, 2017 * Paper notification: Aug 20th, 2017 * Student talk submission: Aug 30th, 2017 * Camera ready: Sep 11th, 2017 * Student talk notification: Sep 17th, 2017 All deadlines are "Anywhere on Earth" (AoE). Topics of Interest ================== We seek submissions on all 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 ? stand-alone Scala libraries, 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 models, performance evaluation, experimental results. - Big data and machine learning libraries and applications using the Scala programming language. - Safety and reliability ? pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. - Interoperability with other languages and runtimes, such as JavaScript, Java 8 (lambdas), Graal and others. - Tools ? development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. - Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Submission Format ================= To accommodate the needs of researchers and practitioners, as well as beginners and experts alike, we seek several kinds of submissions, all in **`acmart/sigplan`** style, **10pt** font. - **Full papers** (at most 10 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Short papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Tool papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Student talks** (short abstract only, in plain text) Accepted papers (either full papers, short papers, or tool papers, but not student talks) will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Detailed information for each kind of submission is given below. Formatting requirements are detailed on the symposium website at http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers#Instructions-for-Authors Please note that at least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the symposium and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Full and Short Papers ===================== Full and short papers should describe novel ideas, experimental results, or projects related to the Scala language. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. Additionally, short papers may present problems and raise research questions interesting for the Scala language community. 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). Tool Papers =========== Tool papers need not necessarily report original research results; they may describe a tool of interest, 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. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a link to the tool's website. For inspiration, you might consider advice in http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pepm-2016-main#Tool-Paper-Advice which we however treat as non-binding. In case of doubts, please contact the program chairs. 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 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 and about topics of relevance to the symposium, for instance (but not only) presenting or announcing an open-source project that would be of interest to the Scala community. Submission Website ================== The submission will be managed through HotCRP: https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ For questions and additional clarifications, please contact the conference organizers. Keynote Speakers ================ We are delighted to have two excellent keynote speakers this year: - Reynold Xin, Databricks; - Dwayne Reeves, Facebook. Program Committee ================= * Aggelos Biboudis, EPFL * Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews * Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS * Lars Hupel, TU Munich * Pablo Inostroza, CWI * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Martin Odersky, EPFL * Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong * Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt * Ilya Sergey, University College London * Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University * Philippe Suter, Two Sigma * Frank Tip, Northeastern University * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University * Niki Vazou, University of Maryland Organizers ========== * Heather Miller, EPFL (General Chair) * Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Program Chair) * Ond?ej Lhot?k, University of Waterloo (Program Chair) * Paolo Giarrusso, University of T?bingen * Jonathan Brachth?user, University of T?bingen Sponsors ======== We thank our sponsor Lightbend for supporting some of the talented student attendees of Scala '17. Links ===== * Scala '17: http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers * Submissions: https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ * SPLASH '17: http://2017.splashcon.org/ From ulrich.fahrenberg at irisa.fr Tue Jun 13 06:33:14 2017 From: ulrich.fahrenberg at irisa.fr (Uli Fahrenberg) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:33:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Methods and Tools for Distributed Hybrid Systems (DHS 2017) Message-ID: Please find below a second CfP for the DHS workshop associated with MFCS 2017. DHS is concerned with analysis and validation of distributed hybrid systems, thus intersects with some of the topics of this list. Best regards, Uli Fahrenberg Apologies for multiple copies of this email; please distribute as you see fit. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS DHS 2017 International Workshop on Methods and Tools for Distributed Hybrid Systems Associated with MFCS 2017 Aalborg University, Denmark 25-26 August 2017 http://dhs.gforge.inria.fr/ The deadline for submission has been extended to 20 June. The purpose of DHS is to connect researchers working in real-time and hybrid systems, control theory, distributed computing, and concurrency, in order to advance the subject of distributed hybrid systems. Distributed hybrid systems, or distributed cyber-physical systems, are abundant. Many of them are safety-critical, but ensuring their correct functioning is very difficult. We believe that new techniques are needed for the analysis and validation of DHS. More precisely, we believe that convergence and interaction of methods and tools from different areas of computer science, engineering, and mathematics is needed in order to advance the subject. This first edition of the DHS workshop aims at gathering researchers which work in the above areas in order to facilitate collaboration and discuss how the subject may advance. INVITED SPEAKERS Martin Fr?nzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark Martin Raussen, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark Rafael Wisniewski, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 20 June 2017 Notification: 15 July 2017 Final version: 31 July 2017 Workshop: 25 August (afternoon) - 26 August (evening) For more information, see: http://dhs.gforge.inria.fr/ From adamc at csail.mit.edu Thu Jun 15 05:54:28 2017 From: adamc at csail.mit.edu (Adam Chlipala) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 05:54:28 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Colocated with PLDI: Workshop on Deep Specifications in the Wild Message-ID: <99833094-d5ed-faaa-4e36-9c0dc1031dca@csail.mit.edu> Those of you attending PLDI in Barcelona next week may be interested in also attending a workshop (on Thursday, after PLDI proper ends) run by our DeepSpec Project. The workshop web site: http://pldi17.sigplan.org/track/dsw-2017-papers The more general project web site: https://deepspec.org/ Briefly, our project is about scaling proof-assistant-based formal methods to more significant systems, especially through reuse of well-specified components. A large element of the project is education and community-building, hence this workshop! We have a speaker line-up that combines industry early-adopters of formal methods with some of our project leaders. Full schedule information is on our workshop web site, but here is an overview. Invited Speakers from Industry * *Aleksey Nogin * from /HRL /, on integrating formal-methods tools in the DARPA HACMS program * *Dominic Rizzo* from /Google /, on applying proof assistants to cryptography at Google * *Michael Tautschnig * from /Amazon /, on static analysis of hypervisor code Speakers From the DeepSpec Project * *Andrew W. Appel * from /Princeton /, on verifying concurrent C programs with the Verified Software Toolchain * *Lennart Beringer * from /Princeton /, on verifying cryptographic C code with the Verified Software Toolchain * *Adam Chlipala * from /MIT /, on generating low-level cryptographic code automatically from specifications * *Zhong Shao * from /Yale /, on verifying the CertiKOS hypervisor OS kernel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bruno.wp at gmail.com Wed Jun 14 02:05:56 2017 From: bruno.wp at gmail.com (Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 06:05:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PxTP: Third Call for Papers (New Deadline: 26th of June) Message-ID: Call for Papers, PxTP 2017 The Fifth International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) https://pxtp.github.io/2017/ 23-24 September 2017, Brasilia, Brazil associated with The Tableaux, FroCoS and ITP conferences ## 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); * interoperability of reasoning systems; * 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 related to problems, proofs, and models; * comparison, refactoring, transformation, migration, compression and optimization of proofs; * data structures and algorithms for improved proof production in solvers (e.g. efficient proof representations); * (universal) libraries, corpora and benchmarks of proofs and theories; * alignment of diverse logics, concepts and theories across systems and libraries; * engineering aspects of proofs (e.g. granularity, flexiformality, persistence over time); * proof certificates; * proof checking; * mining of (mathematical) information from proofs (e.g. quantifier instantiations, unsat cores, interpolants, ...); * reverse engineering and understanding of formal proofs; * universality of proofs; * origins and kinds of proofs (e.g. (in)formal, automatically generated, interactive, ...) * Hilbert's 24th Problem (i.e. what makes a proof better than another?); * social aspects (e.g. community-wide initiatives related to proofs, cooperation between communities, the future of (formal) proofs); * applications relying on importing proofs from automatic theorem provers, such as certified static analysis, proof-carrying code, or certified compilation; * application-oriented proof theory; * practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies; ## 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'2017 workshop page (https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?a=12750890;welcome=1;conf=pxtp2017). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. ## Important Dates * Abstract submission: Monday, 26 June 2017 * Paper submission: Monday, 26 June 2017 * Notification: Friday, 7 July 2017 * Camera ready versions due: Friday, 21 July 2017 * Workshop: 23-24 September 2017 ## Invited Speakers * Gilles Dowek (INRIA) * Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa) ## Program Committee * Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE-Samovar), co-chair * Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo, co-chair * Christoph Benzm?ller (Freie Universit?t Berlin) * Jasmin Christian Blanchette (INRIA Nancy & LORIA) * Hans De Nivelle (Institute of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw) * Pascal Fontaine (Loria, INRIA, University of Lorraine) * St?phane Graham-Lengrand (CNRS - INRIA - Ecole Polytechnique) * Hugo Herbelin (INRIA) * Olivier Hermant (MINES ParisTech) * Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck) * Guy Katz (Stanford University) * Chantal Keller (LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud) * Tomer Libal (INRIA) * Mariano Moscato (National Institute of Aerospace) * Vivek Nigam (Universidade Federal da Para?ba) * Andrei Paskevich (Universit? Paris-Sud, LRI) * Florian Rabe (Jacobs University Bremen) * Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa) * Stephan Schulz (DHBW Stuttgart) * Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami) * Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague) * Tjark Weber (Uppsala University) * Akihisa Yamada (University of Innsbruck) ## Previous PxTP Editions * PxTP 2011 (http://pxtp2011.loria.fr/), affiliated to CADE-23 * PxTP 2012 (http://pxtp2012.inria.fr/), affiliated to IJCAR 2012 * PxTP 2013 (http://www.cs.ru.nl/pxtp13/), affiliated to CADE-24 * PxTP 2015 (http://pxtp15.lri.fr/), affiliated to CADE-25 ![](https://link.nylas.com/open/3x691kf2sejzsuk0agjgff6ov/local-27e52018-19ad) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From serge.autexier at dfki.de Thu Jun 15 01:54:43 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:54:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2017 - Call for Participation / Posters / Work in Progress Message-ID: <20170615055443.C47B3142F92B@gigondas-5.fritz.box> [Apologies for multiple copies] Call for Participation 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - 17-21 July 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 *** Accepted Papers *** The programme for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh is now available: http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=&menu=talks *** Work in Progress Submissions *** We invite work-in-progress submissions, with the aim of providing a forum for the presentation of original work that is not yet suitable for submission as a full paper in a research track. This includes emerging trends work. Although length is not limited, we recommend 5 pages. Submit your paper by 23 June 2017 in the "Work in Progress? track via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2017 Please add a keyword for the intended topical track MKM, DML, Calculemus or Systems and Projects. Author notification will be sent by 27 June. *** Posters Submissions *** In addition, we solicit for posters that will not be peer reviewed, but will be screened for relevance to the conference. You can submit an abstract for a poster by 23 June 2017 via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2017. Author notification will be sent by 27 June. *** Invited Speakers *** - Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) - Przemys?aw Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences) - Grant Olney Passmore (Aesthetic Integration) **** Conference Tracks *** * Calculemus (Chair: Matthew England, University of Coventry) * Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (Chair: Olaf Teschke, Humboldt University of Berlin) * Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (Chair: Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen) * Systems & Projects (Chair: Osman Hasan, NUST Pakistan) * Doctoral Programme (Chair: Adnan Rashid, NUST Pakistan) *** Co-located Workshops *** * 12th Workshop on Mathematical User Interface (MathUI 2017) http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=mathui * 28th OpenMath Workshop http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=openmath *** Registration *** Early Registration: Until 30 June 2017 For more details, see: http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=&menu=registration *** Local Information *** Information about the venue, accommodation, travel, visa requirements, etc. can be found at: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/cicm2017 *** CICM 2017 Organisers *** * General Program Chair: Herman Geuvers (Radboud University) * Workshops Chair: Petros Papapanagiotou (University of Edinburgh) * Publicity Chair: Serge Autexier (DFKI Bremen) * Local arrangements: Jacques Fleuriot and Suzanne Perry (University of Edinburgh) From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Thu Jun 15 11:17:17 2017 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 17:17:17 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QEST 2017: Call for Student Papers Message-ID: International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2017) Berlin, September 5-7 2017 | http://www.qest.org/qest2017 Co-located with CONCUR, EPEW and Formats Call for Student Papers: To encourage students to present their work in progress, a special session named ?Student Forum? is arranged along with the main conference. Students who are working towards a degree (Master?s/Doctoral) are invited to submit a short paper, in which the first author must be a student. In evaluating those papers preference will be given to submissions containing new and interesting work. The focus will be on work in progress, not on maturity of projects. Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference, including (but not limited to) ? ?Computer hardware and software architectures ?? Communication systems, e.g., IoT ?? Cyber-physical systems ?? Infrastructural systems ?? Biological systems, e.g., health ?? Applications ?? Smart energy systems over the Cloud ?? Formal methods and machine learning Important Dates Paper submission: 30 June 2017 Notification date: 15 July 2017 Camera ready version: 31 July 2017 All accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the student authors. There will be no formal proceedings, but the papers will be collected and published in a FU technical report. 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Jericho Tavern, Oxford, UK September 8-9, 2017 ============================================= String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about processes and composition. Originally developed as a convenient notation for the arrows of monoidal and higher categories, they are increasingly used in the formal study of digital circuits, control theory, concurrency, quantum and classical computation, natural language processes, logic and more. String diagrams combine the advantages of formal syntax with intuitive aspects: the graphical nature of terms means that they often reflect the topology of systems under consideration. Moreover, diagrammatic reasoning transforms formal arguments into dynamic, moving images, thus building domain specific intuitions, valuable both for practitioners and pedagogy. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds and specialities to collaborate and share their insights, tools, and techniques. It will furthermore provide an informal atmosphere in a unique venue: the upstairs of the Jericho Tavern, a music venue, where famously Radiohead played their first concert. All the usual conference facilities will be provided, and the distinctive location will provide plenty of opportunities to discuss and share ideas. STRING 2017 is a satellite event of FSCD 2017 (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/) and will be co-located with the 3rd Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr). Invited Speakers ---------------- - Paul-Andr? M?llies (CNRS and Paris Diderot) - joint HDRA and STRING invited speaker - Dan Ghica (Birmingham) - Applications of string diagrams in circuit design and verification - Bob Coecke (Oxford) - Applications of string diagrams in quantum foundations and quantum computation Submitting ---------- We warmly welcome all types of contributions, ranging from work-in-progress to original work and/or overviews of mature work published elsewhere, on topics ranging from theory of string diagrams, to applications and tool demos. Prospective speakers are invited to submit a title and 2 page abstract via the Easychair page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=string2017 We will try to build a programme that is as inclusive and wide-ranging as possible within the fairly limited time available. Hence, speakers will be invited either to give a full-length talk or give a short talk in a "lightning session" style format. The accepted abstracts will be made available electronically before the workshop. Important Dates --------------- Abstract deadline: 30 June 2017 Speaker notification: 14 July 2017 Workshop: 8-9 September 2017 Program Committee ----------------- * Filippo Bonchi (ENS Lyon) * Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) * Fabio Gadducci (Pisa) * Aleks Kissinger (Radboud) * Dan Marsden (Oxford) * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary) * Pawel Sobocinski (Southampton) * David Spivak (MIT) * Noam Zeilberger (Birmingham) Organisers ---------- * Aleks Kissinger - Radboud Universiteit * Pawel Sobocinski - University of Southampton Publicity --------- * Joshua Holland - University of Southampton From s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk Thu Jun 15 12:17:06 2017 From: s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk (Sven Linker) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 17:17:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension! -- FVAV 2017 - Workshop on Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles 2017 Message-ID: (Apologies for duplicates) ================================================================== DEADLINE EXTENSION ================================================================== Workshop on Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles https://sites.google.com/site/fvav2017/ 19th September 2017 University of Turin, Italy (co-located with iFM 2017, http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/) ================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: - Paper Submission: *NEW DEADLINE* Monday, 26th June 2017 - Notification: *NEW DATE* Monday, 17th July 2017 - Workshop: Tuesday, 19th September 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Objectives and Scope: Current technology is at reach to develop road vehicles that can act fully autonomously. One of the recognised major difficulties is to make the systems safe, as autonomy requires not only avoidance of misbehaviour but also assurance of availability and reliability. This fact has been acknowledged both within the academic society, in the form of an increasing interest in this topic, and within industry, by generally agreeing that these vehicles adhere to the highest levels of international standards, e.g., SIL3/SIL4 for IEC 61508, and ASIL D for ISO 26262. These levels imply the consideration of various formal methods in the development, including static code analysis, model checking, and formal specification and verification. However, incorporating formal methods into the design of autonomous vehicles presents significant new challenges, particularly due to the complex integration of discrete and continuous controllers. The main challenges associated with the formal design of autonomous vehicles includes modelling, specification, verification and synthesis. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the formal verification community that are developing formal methods for autonomous vehicles and industrial researchers working, e.g., in the area of control theory or robotics, interested in applying verification techniques for designing and developing of autonomous vehicles. Topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * formal models for autonomous systems * languages and logics for specification and verification * interactive and automated theorem proving * model checking * agent programming languages * real-time and hybrid systems * program synthesis * quantitative and probabilistic verification * requirement analysis * verification for learning approaches * run-time verification * applications, implementations and case studies ------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guideline: Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) and must be prepared according to the EPTCS guidelines for authors (see http://info.eptcs.org/). Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fvav2017 The page limitations mentioned below include all text, figures and references. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend FVAV 2017 to present. There are two categories of papers which can be submitted: regular and short papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Programme Committee. * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, applications of formal methods in industrial practise, system descriptions and case studies within the context of autonomous vehicles. * *Short Papers* (up to 7 pages, including references) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, and problem statements. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Invited Speaker: Werner Damm (OFFIS Oldenburg, Germany) (https://www.offis.de/en/offis/person/werner-damm.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Organisation: Programme Committee: * Matthias Althoff (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) * Mikael Asplund (Link?ping University, Sweden) * Georgios Fainekos (Arizona State University, US) * Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) * Christoph Gladisch (Bosch, Germany) * Cornel Izbasa (Opensynergy, Germany) * Owen McAree (Sheffield University, UK) * Helen Monkhouse (Horiba-Mira, UK) * Ernst-R?diger Olderog (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) * Patrizio Pelliccione (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * S. Ramesh (General Motors, US) * Nick Reed (TRL, UK) * Shinichi Shiraishi (Toyota Info Technology Center, US) Programme Chairs: * Lukas Bulwahn (BMW Car IT GmbH, Germany) * Maryam Kamali (University of Liverpool, UK) * Sven Linker (University of Liverpool, UK) From m.mazzara at innopolis.ru Fri Jun 16 11:27:22 2017 From: m.mazzara at innopolis.ru (Manuel Mazzara) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:27:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MSE@SEFM 2017 - Deadline Extended to 22.6.2017 Message-ID: <8c17d9efabae41bdb61430973facba4e@innopolis.ru> *MSE at SEFM 2017 - Call For Papers* Microservices: Science and Engineering Workshop https://mse-sefm17.fbk.eu/ The 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2017) will be held in Trento, Italy, September 4-8, 2017. The *MSE ? ?Microservices: Science and Engineering? Workshop* 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 and the understanding in the microservices area and its applications, in particular in the IoT where the scaling in the small approach is of major importance. SEFM attendees might be interested in attending this workshop because of the relevance of its themes and goals to the SE. Also industry partners and mobile developers are particularly welcome, thanks to their more practical approach, hopefully bringing some real scenario examples. This workshop aims at bringing together contributions by scientists and practitioners to shed light on the development of scientific concepts, technologies, engineering techniques and tools for a service-based society. In particular, the focus is on Microservices, i.e., the use of services beyond the traditional cross-organizational B2B approach and the implementation of the model inside of applications, scaling in the small the concepts previously seen in the large. In Microservices, each component of a software is a service with the related issues of scalability and distribution of responsibility. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and implementation of Service-oriented Architectures and Microservices - Software engineering techniques for Microservices - Security in Microservices - Formal models and analyses of Microservice systems - Verification techniques for Microservices - Coordination models for Microservices - Empirical studies on services and Microservices - Programming languages for Microservices - Static analysis of Microservices - Testing of Microservice systems *Workshop Chairs* - Marcello Maria Bersani - Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Antonio Bucchiarone - FBK, Trento, Italy - Nicola Dragoni - Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark - Luca Ferrucci - ISTI-CNR, Italy - Manuel Mazzara - Innopolis University, Russia - Fabrizio Montesi - University of Southern Denmark *Important Dates* - *June 22, 2017: Paper submission deadline* - July 6, 2017: Notification of acceptance - September 4, 2017: Workshop co-located with SEFM 2017 *Submissions* We seek for both full and short papers. Full papers will be submitted as PDF files, using the SPRINGER LNCS proceedings format that it is possible to find here, with a page limit of 15 pages. Short paper should be limited to 8 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 technical committee members. Accepted papers will be published by the format for all SEFM Workshop, SPRINGER LNCS Post-Proceedings. You can submit the paper through EasyChair using this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msesefm2017 *Venue* MSE is a workshop at SEFM 2017, the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2017) that will be held in Trento, Italy, September 4-8, 2017 From kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de Sat Jun 17 07:24:55 2017 From: kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 13:24:55 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXPRESS/SOS 2017 - last CfP - deadline approaching In-Reply-To: <26ec3caf-9761-9512-40b0-cbf5db6db739@tu-berlin.de> References: <26ec3caf-9761-9512-40b0-cbf5db6db739@tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: <6449b064-0323-c7e2-315e-a0e5041c586a@tu-berlin.de> ------------------------------------------------------ Combined 24th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 14th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics EXPRESS/SOS 2017 ------------------------------------------------------ September 04, 2017, Berlin (Germany) Affiliated with CONCUR 2017 https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/express_sos.html Submission of papers: Friday June 23, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------ NEWS: We are happy two announce an invited tutorial in addition to the already announced invited talk. Accordingly, we will welcome two invited speakers: Mohammad Mousavi and Rob van Glabbeek 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 2017 EasyChair server (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2017). The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. INVITED SPEAKER: Mohammad Mousavi (Halmstad University, Sweden) INVITED TUTORIAL: Rob van Glabbeek (CSIRO, Sydney, Australia) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 23, 2017 Notification date: July 31, 2017 Camera ready version: August 14, 2017 Workshop: September 04, 2017 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Kirstin Peters (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Simone Tini (Universit? degli Studi dell?Insubria, Italia) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) Ilaria Castellani (INRIA, France) Silvia Crafa (Universit? di Padova, Italy) Pedro R. 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URL: From samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr Sun Jun 18 15:31:47 2017 From: samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr (Samuel Mimram) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 21:31:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HDRA 2017: Deadline extension Message-ID: <19a6e408-be01-4376-382b-3d3f31666ae1@lix.polytechnique.fr> ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (HDRA 2017) ============================================= Dear everybody, The deadline for submitting to HDRA has been extended by one week: you still have until *Sunday, June 25* in order to submit or update papers! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third edition of the workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications September 8-9 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr/ Satellite workshop of FSCD 2017, co-located with STRING 2017. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rewriting consists in orienting equalities. This seemingly simple point of view has given rise to a rich theory, which was first developped in computer science for handling strings and terms, and was then extended over the recent years to many other settings (operads, monoidal categories, higher categories, etc.), allowing it to have applications in algebra, homotopy theory and physics. All these generalizations fit into the general scope of higher-dimensional rewriting theory, which has emerged as a unifying algebraic framework. The aim of the workshop is to gather people interested in pushing further rewriting theory, using (higher) categories as a common language. It is open to all topics concerning higher-dimensional generalizations and applications of rewriting theory, including - higher-dimensional rewriting: extensions of rewriting theory to higher-dimensional settings (operads, opetopes, polygraphs/computads, parity complexes, augmented directed complexes, etc.), generalizations of string/term/graph rewriting systems, etc. - higher categorical structures: weakening, combination and comparison of categorical structures (monoids, bialgebras, Frobenius algebras, Lie algebras, etc.), coherence theorems, etc. - applications of rewriting to algebraic topology: construction of resolutions, homotopical and homological invariants, linear rewriting (Gr?bner bases, applications to algebras and operads), Koszul duality theory, etc. - applications and interactions with other fields: calculi for quantum computations, proof nets, algebraic lambda-calculi, 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. HDRA 2017 will be co-located with the first edition of the STRING workshop (http://string2017.cs.ru.nl/) Invited speakers ================ * Dimitri Ara (Aix-Marseille Universit?) * Marcelo Fiore (University of Cambridge) * Paul-Andr? Melli?s (CNRS and Paris Diderot) Submission ========== Important dates --------------- * Submission: June 25, 2017 * Notification: July 2, 2017 * Final version: July 9, 2017 * Conference: September 8-9, 2017 Submitting ---------- Submissions should consist in an extended abstract, in pdf format, approximatively 6 pages long, in standard article format. The page for uploading those is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hdra2017 Proceedings ----------- The accepted extended abstracts will be made available electronically before the workshop. Program committee ================= * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit? Paris 7) * 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) * Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton) * Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford) Organizers ========== * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit? Paris 7) * Philippe Malbos (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) * Samuel Mimram (?cole Polytechnique) From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Sun Jun 18 06:30:31 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 12:30:31 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 2017 -- Call for posters (deadline extended) Message-ID: **Call for posters -- Extended deadline** TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 25-29 SEPTEMBER 2017 BRASILIA BRASIL TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 2017 will have a poster session, which is intended for descriptions of works in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. Submissions should be in English, in the form of at most *two pages* abstract, ENTCS format containing title and authors name with affiliation. The files should be sent directly to Elaine Pimentel ( elaine.pimentel at gmail.com). The deadline for posters submission is June 25 (new -- extended deadline), 2017. The notification will be sent to authors June 30th. Proceedings of this session will not be published. For presentation, posters should have the form A1: 841 x 594 mm (33.1 x 23.4 inches), and should include a reference to a relevant publication or preprint. For more information please contact the local organizers: Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com) Daniele Nantes (daniele.nantes at gmail.com) http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br http://itp2017.cic.unb.br -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. Senador Salgado Filho, s/n? Lagoa Nova, CEP: 59.078-970 - Natal - RN Phone: +55 84 3215-3820 http://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/ Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3298246411086415 -------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rolando.trujillo at uni.lu Mon Jun 19 03:16:41 2017 From: rolando.trujillo at uni.lu (Rolando TRUJILLO RASUA) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:16:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Three PhD positions in Security and Privacy at the University of Luxembourg Message-ID: The University of Luxembourg seeks to hire three outstanding PhD candidates at the Computer Science and Communications Research Unit. The positions are part of the FNR PRIDE doctoral training programme on "Security and Privacy for System Protection". The University offers highly competitive salaries and is an equal opportunity employer. You will work in an exciting international environment and will have the opportunity to participate in the development of a dynamic and growing centre. Successful candidates will participate in the activities of the Security and Trust of Software Systems (SaToSS) research group led by Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw. The group is focused on formalising and applying formal reasoning to real-world security problems and trust issues. We offer three different research projects: - Multi-party Authentication Protocols. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/yqPo6q - Adaptive Cyber-defenses. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/FlMo5E - Security and Privacy in Social Networks. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/TpZ3S7 Applicants can apply to more than one research project. Each application will be considered on receipt, therefore applying before the deadline is encouraged. =================================================== Deadline for applications: August 31st, 2017 =================================================== From lindsey at composition.al Tue Jun 20 14:30:59 2017 From: lindsey at composition.al (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:30:59 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DSLDI 2017: Call for Talk Proposals Message-ID: ********************************************************************* FIRST CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS DSLDI 2017 Fifth Workshop on Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation October 22, 2017 Vancouver, Canada Co-located with SPLASH http://2017.splashcon.org/track/dsldi-2017 https://twitter.com/wsdsldi ********************************************************************* Deadline for talk proposals: 7th of August, 2017 Well-designed and implemented domain-specific languages (DSLs) can achieve both usability and performance benefits over general-purpose programming languages. By raising the level of abstraction and exploiting domain knowledge, DSLs can make programming more accessible, increase programmer productivity, and support domain-specific optimizations. ## Workshop Goal Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI) is a workshop intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in discussing how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic contexts. The focus of the workshop is on all aspects of this process, from soliciting domain knowledge from experts, through the design and implementation of the language, to evaluating whether and how a DSL is successful. More generally, we are interested in continuing to build a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs. ## Workshop Format DSLDI is a single-day workshop and will consist of an invited speaker followed by moderated audience discussions structured around a series of short talks. The role of the talks is to facilitate interesting and substantive discussion. Therefore, we welcome and encourage talks that express strong opinions, describe open problems, propose new research directions, and report on early research in progress. Proposed talks should be on topics within DSLDI?s area of interest, which include but are not limited to: * solicitation and representation of domain knowledge * DSL design principles and processes * DSL implementation techniques and language workbenches * domain-specific optimizations * human factors of DSLs * tool support for DSL users * community and educational support for DSL users * applications of DSLs to existing and emerging domains * studies of usability, performance, or other benefits of DSLs * experience reports of DSLs deployed in practice ## Call for Talk Proposals We solicit talk proposals in the form of short abstracts (max. 2 pages). A good talk proposal describes an interesting position, open problem, 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: August 7th, 2017 * Notification: September 11th, 2017 * Workshop: October 22nd, 2017 * Submission website: https://dsldi17.hotcrp.com/ ## Workshop Organization Co-chairs: * Lindsey Kuper (lindsey at composition.al), Intel Labs * Eric Walkingshaw (eric.walkingshaw at oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/wsdsldi Program committee: * Nada Amin (EPFL/University of Cambridge) * Eric Holk (Google) * Gabriele Keller (Data61, CSIRO (formerly NICTA) and UNSW) * Rebekah Leslie-Hurd (Intel Labs) * Chris Martens (NCSU) * Lee Pike (Galois) * Jonathan Ragan-Kelley (UC Berkeley) * Jes?s S?nchez Cuadrado (Autonomous University of Madrid) * Vincent St-Amour (Northwestern University) * Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh) From alexey.gotsman at imdea.org Tue Jun 20 15:32:53 2017 From: alexey.gotsman at imdea.org (Alexey Gotsman) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:32:53 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc and PhD positions at IMDEA, Madrid Message-ID: Applications are invited for multiple Postdoc and PhD positions at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain. The positions are available for the duration of up to three years (postdocs) or four years (PhD students). The researchers will work with Alexey Gotsman and will be funded by an ERC grant "A Rigorous Approach to Consistency in Cloud Databases". Possible research topics include the design, verification and implementation of protocols for consensus, eventual consistency/CRDTs, distributed transaction processing and blockchains, as well as static analysis of applications using these protocols. Postdoc candidates should have, or expect shortly to obtain, a PhD in Computer Science, with expertise in distributed systems or distributed computing theory. PhD student candidates should have a strong background in computer science or applied mathematics, with an interest in programming languages and verification and/or distributed systems. The IMDEA Software Institute is located in the vibrant area of Madrid, Spain. It offers an ideal working environment, where researchers can focus on developing new ideas and projects. Salaries at the Institute are internationally competitive. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Alexey Gotsman with inquiries (alexey dot gotsman at imdea dot org). Formal applications should be submitted at https://careers.imdea.org/software/. Please mention this announcement in your research statement. From agascon at inf.ed.ac.uk Wed Jun 21 04:04:04 2017 From: agascon at inf.ed.ac.uk (Adria Gascon) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:04:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP] UNIF 2017 -- deadline extension Message-ID: New deadline is June 26th ------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: UNIF 2017 -- FSCD workshop Website: https://unif-workshop.github.io/UNIF2017/ The 31st International Workshop on Unification is the 31st event in a series of international meetings devoted to unification theory and its applications. Unification is concerned with the problem of making two terms equal, 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 state of the art in unification theory. The workshop will be hosted by the 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD, Oxford, September 2017). ** Submission instructions ** 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=unif2017 Abstracts will be evaluated by the Programme Committee (if necessary with support from external reviewers) regarding their significance for the workshop. We will allow work presented/submitted in/to another conference. 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: June 26th (11pm59 CET) Notification of acceptance: July 21st Workshop: September 3rd ** Program Committee ** Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Iliano Cervesato (CMU) Santiago Escobar (TU Valencia) Maribel Fern?ndez (KCL) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano) Artur Je? (University of Wroc?aw) Konstantin Korovin (Manchester University) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Jordi Levy (IIIA - CSIC) Andrew Marshall (University of Mary Washington) Catherine Meadows (NRL) Barbara Morawska (TU Dresden) Paliath Narendran (University at Albany-SUNY) Jan Otop (University of Wroc?aw) Christophe Ringeissen (LORIA-INRIA) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt) Mateu Villaret (Universitat de Girona) ** Organizers ** Adri? Gasc?n (Warwick University/Alan Turing Institute) agascon at turing.ac.uk Chris Lynch (Clarkson University) clynch at clarkson.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From andersmortberg at gmail.com Tue Jun 20 11:07:42 2017 From: andersmortberg at gmail.com (Anders Mortberg) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:07:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Contributions and Participation: Workshop on HoTT/UF (with FSCD 2017) Message-ID: ========================================================== CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND PARTICIPATION Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF, at FSCD 2017) ========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations September 8-9, 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom https://hott-uf.github.io/2017/ Co-located with FSCD 2017 https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ Abstract submission deadline: June 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homotopy Type Theory is a young area of logic, combining ideas from several established fields: the use of dependent type theory as a foundation for mathematics, inspired by ideas and tools from abstract homotopy theory. Univalent Foundations are foundations of mathematics based on the homotopical interpretation of type theory. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations: from the study of syntax and semantics of type theory to practical formalization in proof assistants based on univalent type theory. As part of the workshop there will be an introductory tutorial intended to make the invited and contributed talks accessible to non-experts. ============================ # Invited talks/tutorials * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) (tutorial) * Ulrik Buchholtz (Technical University of Darmstadt) * Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg): Sheaf models for univalent type theory ================ # Submissions * Abstract submission deadline: June 30 * Author notification: mid July Submissions should consist of a title and a 1-2 pages abstract, in pdf format, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottuf17 Considering the broad background of the expected audience, we encourage authors to include information of pedagogical value in their abstract, such as motivation and context of their work. ====================== # Program committee * Benedikt Ahrens (Inria Nantes) * Paolo Capriotti (University of Nottingham) * Simon Huber (University of Gothenburg) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) * Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) * Assia Mahboubi (Inria Saclay) * Anders M?rtberg (Inria Sophia-Antipolis) * Paige North (University of Cambridge) * Nicolas Tabareau (Inria Nantes) ================ # Organizers * Benedikt Ahrens (Inria Nantes) * Simon Huber (University of Gothenburg) * Anders M?rtberg (Inria Sophia Antipolis) From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Wed Jun 21 13:13:07 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:13:07 -0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA'17: LAST CFP and DEADLINE EXTENSION In-Reply-To: <700487C2-AAF7-4025-8516-EB711EF26BB9@dcc.fc.up.pt> References: <700487C2-AAF7-4025-8516-EB711EF26BB9@dcc.fc.up.pt> Message-ID: <865BA931-7AB9-443E-8BF1-7E14E5CE1B82@dcc.fc.up.pt> CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION 12th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 23-24 September 2017, Bras?lia, Brazil Satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP 2017 http://lsfa2017.cic.unb.br/ *** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: 28 JUNE 2017 *** *** PLEASE SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT BY 23 JUNE 2017 *** * Submission: 21 June 2017 28 June 2018 * Notification: 21 July 2017 * Final pre-proceedings version due: 11 August 2017 * LSFA 2017 23-24 September 2017 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 2017 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 2017 will be a satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP -- to be held in Bras?lia, Brazil, between 25 and 29 September 2017. Previous editions took place in Porto (2016), 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 (http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html ). The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2017 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. 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 * Beniamino Accattoli * H?l?ne Kirchner * Renate Schmidt PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves, University of Porto - co-chair * Renata Wassermann, University of S?o Paulo - co-chair * Fl?vio L. C. de Moura, Universidade de Bras?lia - local organiser * Carlos Areces, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia * Veronica Becher, Universidad de Buenos Aires * Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ * Walter Carnielli, Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science ? CLE * Carlos Castro, UT Federico Santa Maria * Kaustuv Chaudhuri, INRIA * Marcelo Coniglio, UNICAMP * Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham * Santiago Escobar, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa * Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London * Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo * Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Delia Kesner, Universit? Paris-Diderot * Bjoern Lellmann, TU Vienna * Vivek Nigam, Universidade Federal da Para?ba * Jorge A. P?rez, University of Groningen and CWI, Amsterdam * Petrucio Viana, Universidade Federal Fluminense * Elaine Pimentel, UFRN * Giselle Reis, CMU-Qatar * Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, Universita' di Torino * Alvaro Tasistro, Universidad ORT Uruguay * Christian Urban, King's College London ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Fl?vio L. 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URL: From j.a.perez at rug.nl Thu Jun 22 09:57:00 2017 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:57:00 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RADICAL@CONCUR'17: Recent Advances in Concurrency and Logic - 3rd Call for Submissions. Message-ID: [ Submissions from the TYPES readership, broadly related to concurrency and logic, are warmly welcome! ] =========================================== 3rd CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Recent Advances in Concurrency and Logic (RADICAL 2017) https://sites.google.com/site/radicalconcur/ A new workshop, co-located with CONCUR 2017. https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ Berlin, Germany - September 4, 2017 Submission deadline (3-page talk proposals): Friday, 30 June 2017. Invited speakers: Lu?s Caires (NOVA University of Lisbon, PT) Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) =========================================== == MOTIVATION AND SCOPE RADICAL is a new workshop aligned within the intersection between concurrency and logic, broadly construed. Recently, the interplay of concurrency and logic with areas/applications such as: - design, verification, synthesis for concurrent systems, both qualitative and quantitative; - strategic reasoning for distributed and multi-agent systems; - analysis and validation techniques for concurrent and distributed programs and systems (e.g., separation logics, advanced type systems, and runtime verification techniques); has received much attention, as witnessed by recent CONCUR editions. These areas/applications have become increasingly consolidated, and start to have profound impact in neighbouring communities such as: - programming languages - artificial intelligence - computer security - knowledge representation As an unfortunate side effect, however, the important unifying role that concurrency plays in all of them seems hard to find in a single scientific event. Indeed, there do not seem to exist appropriate venues in which different research communities interested in concurrency and logic can meet closely, cross-fertilize, and share their most exciting recent results. RADICAL intends to fill a gap between CONCUR researchers that now also typically publish and interact in other different venues; it also aims at attracting researchers from neighbouring communities whose work naturally intersects with CONCUR. == FORMAT: BACK TO THE BASICS RADICAL will offer an innovative format for a one-day workshop for researchers involved in all aspects of concurrency and logic including, but not limited to, the areas mentioned above. Since we would like to recover the informal character of scientific workshops, rather than regular paper submissions, authors should submit three-page talk proposals (see below). RADICAL will be an informal venue, oriented to interaction, and so it will have no formal proceedings. == INVITED SPEAKERS - Lu?s Caires (NOVA University of Lisbon, PT) - Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) == SUBMISSIONS: 3-PAGE TALK PROPOSALS We invite submissions describing talk proposals on the intersection of logic and concurrency, as motivated above. A submission to RADICAL would typically fall within one of the following categories: - reports of an ongoing work and/or preliminary results; - summaries of an already published paper (or series of papers); - overviews of (recent) PhD theses; - descriptions of research projects and consortia; - manifestos, calls to action, personal views on current and future challenges; - overviews of interesting yet underrepresented problems. This list is by no means exhaustive but merely indicative. For instance, since RADICAL will precede CONCUR (and the other main conferences co-located with QONFEST), authors of papers accepted at a main conference may consider proposing a talk in RADICAL that promotes (or gives context to) a technical talk to be delivered at the conference(s) later on the week. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the organizers in case of questions: radical2017 at easychair.org Submissions based on already published works should include explicit references/links as appropriate. Reviewers may read such prior published work, but are not obliged to so do. Submissions will be judged by the program committee on the basis of significance, relevance, and potential of an engaging, compelling talk at the workshop. Submissions should be in PDF, up to three pages (not including references), produced using the EasyChair format, available at http://easychair.org/publications/for_authors Please submit your talk proposal via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=radical2017 It is understood that for each accepted submission one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and give the talk. == IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline (3-page talk proposals): Friday, 30 June 2017. - Notification to authors: Friday, 28 July 2017. - Workshop: Monday, 4 September 2017 == ORGANIZERS - Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford, UK) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, NL) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Emmanuel Beffara (I2M, Universit? d'Aix-Marseille & CNRS, FR) - James Brotherston (University College London, UK) - Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Silvia Crafa (Universit? di Padova, IT) - Ugo Dal Lago (Universit? di Bologna, IT) - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, IT) - Constantin Enea (IRIF, University Paris Diderot, FR) - Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) - Sibylle Fr?schle (University of Oldenburg, DE) - Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, UK) - Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford, UK - co-chair) - Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath, UK) - Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, NL) - Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, DE) - Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, DK) - Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, BR) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, NL - co-chair) - Carsten Sch?rmann (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) - Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) - Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, SG) - Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London, UK) - Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) - Frank Valencia (CNRS & LIX, ?cole Polytechnique, FR) - Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA - CNRS / University of Lorraine, FR) - Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, NL) - Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Thu Jun 22 09:39:42 2017 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (vv@di) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:39:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at the University of Lisbon (2nd call) Message-ID: We welcome applications for a fulltime postdoctoral research position at the University of Lisbon. The position is funded by the research project "CONFIDENT - Communication Contracts for Distributed Systems Development", http://gloss.di.fc.ul.pt/content/confident, a three year collaborative project between a team at the Faculty of Sciences (including Vasco T. Vasconcelos and Ant?nia Lopes) and another at Tecnico (Paulo Mateus and Pedro Adao). The objective of the project is the development of tools and technology for describing, testing, statically verifying, and inferring communication contracts for the effective construction and evolution of complex distributed systems, notably RESTful applications. Particular attention will be given to the validation of security requirements of APIs. We plan to integrate the theory of behavioural type systems into a notion of communication contracts, effective in driving the software development life cycle of RESTful applications. We seek applicants with strong interest in some of the following topics: programming language design and implementation, programming logics and types, language-based security, verification and testing, concurrency and distribution. The contract is for one year, extensible for a second year. Applicable administrative rules may be found at the FCT site, http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/index.phtml.en. Applications should include a curriculum vitae in pdf format, contact details for three referees, and should be sent to LaSIGE - Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory http://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt Email: Pedro Gon?alves, pgoncalves at di.fc.ul.pt Phone: +351 21 750 05 32 Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Vasco T. Vasconcelos directly. Application deadline: 30th June 2017 From musard.balliu at gmail.com Thu Jun 22 09:24:20 2017 From: musard.balliu at gmail.com (Musard Balliu) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:24:20 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2017) Message-ID: Hi all, I'd like to draw your attention to NordSec, a security conference on Secure IT Systems. NordSec addresses a broad range of security topics, including applications of languages, types, semantics and logics for security. Submission deadline: July 21, 2017 Best regards, Musard Balliu NordSec 2017 Call for Papers The 22nd Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems[1] will be held in Tartu, Estonia, November 8-10, 2017. NordSec[2] addresses a broad range of topics within IT security with the aim of bringing together computer security researchers and encouraging interaction between academia and industry. We invite participants to present their ideas in poster sessions during lunches and coffee breaks. ## Scope NordSec 2017 (http://nordsec2017.cs.ut.ee/) welcomes contributions within, but not limited to, the following areas: * Access control and security models * Applied cryptography * Blockchains * Cloud security * Commercial security policies and enforcement * Cryptanalysis * Cryptographic protocols * Cyber crime, warfare, and forensics * Economic, legal, and social aspects of security * Enterprise security * Hardware and smart card security * Mobile and embedded security * Internet of Things and M2M security * Internet, communication, and network security * Intrusion detection * Language-based techniques for security * New ideas and paradigms in security * Operating system security * Privacy and anonymity * Public-key cryptography * Security and machine learning * Security education and training * Security evaluation and measurement * Security management and audit * Security protocols * Security usability * Social engineering and phishing * Software security and malware * Symmetric cryptography * Trust and identity management * Trusted computing * Vulnerability testing * Web application security ## Submitting Contributions should reflect original research, developments, studies and experience. Submitted papers should not exceed 16 pages (including references and appendices) in Springer LNCS format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to make a good- faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Minimally, please take the following steps when preparing your submission: * Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. * Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources. * Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. * Papers must not exceed 16 pages. * Submit the paper at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nordsec2017 ## Important dates * 21.07.2017: paper submission deadline * 04.09.2017: notification * 18.09.2017: camera-ready paper deadline, author registration deadline * 01.10.2017: early registration deadline * 08-10.11.2017: NordSec 2017 ## Organization * General Chair: Helger Lipmaa (University of Tartu, Estonia) * Program Chair: Helger Lipmaa and Katerina Mitrokotsa (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Local Organisation Chair: Raimundas Matulevi?ius (University of Tartu, Estonia) Please send e-mail to nordsec2017 AT easychair DOT org if you have any questions. ### Program Committee * Tuomas Aura, Aalto University, Finland * Musard Balliu, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * C?line Blondeau, Aalto University, Finland * Billy Brumley, Tampere University of Technology, Finland * Sonja Buchegger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Ahto Buldas, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * ?lfar Erlingsson, Google Brain, USA * Simone Fischer-H?bner, Karlstad University, Sweden * Kristian Gjosteen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark * Camilla Hollanti, Aalto University, Finland * Thomas Johansson, Lund University, Sweden * Audun Josang, University of Oslo, Norway * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Martti Lehto, University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland * Ville Lepp?nen, University of Turku, Finland * Bei Liang, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Olaf Maennel, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * Raimundas Matulevi?ius, University of Tartu , Estonia * Christian W. 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URL: From splash.publicity at gmail.com Thu Jun 22 21:07:07 2017 From: splash.publicity at gmail.com (SPLASH Publicity) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:07:07 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2017: 1st Combined Call for Workshop Contributions Message-ID: /***************************************************************************/ ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'17) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sunday 22nd October - Friday 27th October, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /***************************************************************************/ FIRST COMBINED CALL FOR WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS: SPLASH'17 will host the following 19 workshops: AGERE! - Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control CHESE - Coding and Human aspects of Educational Software Engineering CoCoS - Comprehension of Complex Systems DSLDI - Domain-Specific Languages Design and Implementation Escaped - Escaped from the Lab FOSD - Feature Oriented Software Development NJR - National Java Resource LIVE - Live Programming Meta! - Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection NOOL - New Object-Oriented Languages OCAP - Object-Capability Languages, Systems, and Applications PLATEAU - Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools PX/17.2 - Programming Experience PARSING - Parsing @ SLE REBLS - Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems SAVR - Software for Augmented and Virtual Reality SEPS - Software Engineering for Parallel Systems VMIL - Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages WODA - Workshop on Dynamic Analysis /***************************************************************************/ ## AGERE! 2017 - The 7th International Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control 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. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/agere-2017 Submission: August 7, 2017 ## CHESE 2017 - The 3rd International Workshop on Coding and Human aspects of Educational Software Engineering Two of the backbones of software engineering are programming and testing. Both of these require many hours of practice to acquire mastery. To encourage students to put in these hours of practice, educators often employ the element of tools and games. The 3rd International CHESE 2017 (Coding and Human aspects of Educational Software Engineering) focuses on technologies that assist in the education process of software engineering, specifically coding and testing. We look at how the technologies are built, how they are evaluated, and how communities can be built around their use. Some of topics that we are interested in are the relationship between testing and gaming, analysis and visualization of student data, the challenges of sharing and re-using such data, and the influence of different programming languages. The aim of the workshop is not only to act as a forum for the exchange of ideas, but also as a vehicle to stimulate, deepen, and widen partnership between the software engineering and education fields on an international scale. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/chese-2017 Submission: August 1, 2017 ## CoCoS 2017 - Workshop on Comprehension of Complex Systems The sheer complexity and emergent behaviors of large scale systems make it impossible for people to completely understand them without the aid of specific tools. This is especially the case as systems are increasingly developed using advanced composition technologies such as aspect-orientation and dynamic script languages. Those modularity technologies enable the creation and application of powerful abstractions, which yields significant benefits in terms of reuse and separation of concerns. But those same abstractions, in languages, middleware, and models, also hide important system properties. This compounds the problem of comprehending run-time behavior in terms of original design concepts that have been abstracted away (for example debugging AO programs, or diagnosing violations of performance service-level agreements). Wider adoption of advanced modularity technologies depends on tools to assist developers in understanding the run-time behavior of complex composed systems. This workshop aims to create a dialog on the problem of program comprehension and its relation to modularity in this wider context. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/cocos-2017 Submission: August 20, 2017 ## DSLDI 2017 - The 5th International Workshop on Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI) is a workshop intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in discussing how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic contexts. The focus of the workshop is on all aspects of this process, from soliciting domain knowledge from experts, through the design and implementation of the language, to evaluating whether and how a DSL is successful. More generally, we are interested in continuing to build a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/dsldi-2017 Submission: August 7, 2017 ## Escaped 2017 - Escaped from the Lab Workshop What are some of the practices for taking new ideas and converting them into products? Even large organizations have a difficult time sustaining the innovation process. The all-to-common story: One part of the organization over-commits (promises the earth, moon, and stars), and another part of the organization is forced to deliver. The extravagant promise of the Powerpoint presentation is converted into the trail of tears of the Gantt chart. The grandiose project was originally supposed to be feasible. There were some small technology trials that proved out the basic ideas for low-volume transaction rates and simplified user interfaces. The product was supposed to be delivered in record time because of high rates of software reuse. So what went wrong? This workshop will explore the intersection of modern software technology and tools, high reliability and performance requirements, large organizations, and conflicts in the software development process. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/escaped-2017 Submission: September 7, 2017 ## FOSD 2017 - Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development Feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is a paradigm for the construction and customization of software systems. The key idea of FOSD is to decompose a family of software systems into units of functionality called features, with the goal of reusing software artifacts among family members. Features capture the similarities and differences among systems in the family, and a particular software system can be produced by selecting or composing its corresponding features. A feature is a unit of functionality that satisfies a requirement, represents a design decision, or provides a configuration option. A challenge in FOSD is that a feature may not map cleanly to an isolated module of code. Rather, its implementation may crosscut many components and artifacts of the software system. Furthermore, the decomposition of a software system into its features gives rise to a combinatorial explosion of possible feature combinations and interactions. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/fosd-2017 Submission: August 15, 2017 ## LIVE 2017 - Workshop on Live Programming Live programming systems abandon the traditional edit-compile-run cycle in favor of fluid user experiences that encourages powerful new ways of "thinking to code" and enables programmers to see and understand their program executions. Programming today requires much mental effort with broken stuttering feedback loops: programmers carefully plan their abstractions, simulating program execution in their heads; the computer is merely a receptacle for the resulting code with a means of executing that code. Live programming aims to create a tighter more fluid feedback loop between the programmer and computer, allowing the computer to augment more of the programming process by, for example, allowing programmers to progressively mine abstractions from concrete examples and providing continuous feedback about how their code will execute. Meanwhile, under the radar of the PL community at-large, a nascent community has formed around the related idea of "live coding" - live audiovisual performances which use computers and algorithms as instruments and include live audiences in their programming experiences. This workshop focuses on exploring notions and degrees of live programming as they relate to development, creative activities, learning, and performance. We are interested in methodologies, tools, demos, infrastructures, language designs, and questions that stimulate interest and understanding in live programming. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/live-2017 Submission: August 1, 2017 ## META 2017 - Workshop on Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection The Meta'17 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions, or software tools. With the changing hardware and software landscape, and increased heterogeneity of systems, metaprogramming becomes an important research topic to handle the associate complexity once more. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as empirical studies on and typing for such systems and languages. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/meta-2017 Submission: August 7, 2017 ## NJR 2017 - Workshop on Towards a National Java Resource This workshop is the second in a series of workshops with the goal to work towards the establishment of a National Java Resource (NJR). Our vision is a collection of 10,000 Java projects, each of which builds and runs, and for which popular tools succeed and have cached outputs. NJR will lower the barrier to implementation of new tools, speed up research, and ultimately help advance research frontiers. In particular, NJR will enable tools that take advantage of Big Code in such areas as code synthesis, error repair, and program understanding. What do researchers need from NJR to make progress on their tools? A common road block is that existing collections of Java code are either small, without ability to build and run, or both. The main goals of the workshops are to discuss the list of tools that researchers commonly use as building blocks for their own tools, debate what features of the National Java Resource that researchers would like to see, and see how an early prototype of the National Java Resource works. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/njr-2017 Submission: TBC ## NOOL 2017 - The -2th Workshop on New Object-Oriented Languages NOOL-17 brings together users and implementors of new(ish) object-oriented systems. Through presentations, discussions and demos, NOOL-17 will provide a forum for sharing experience and knowledge among experts and novices alike. We invite submissions in the following areas: Theory: Including object oriented programming, semantic models and methodology. Languages: New languages, extensions to conventional languages, and existing languages. Implementation: Including architectural support, compilation and interpretation. Tools and Environments: Including livecoding, user interfaces and utilities. Applications: Commercial, educational, and other applications that exploit OO programming. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/nool-2017 Submission: September 1, 2017 ## OCAP 2017 - Workshop on Object-Capability Languages, Systems, and Applications The OCAP workshop seeks to bring together those interested in object-capability languages, systems, and applications. Object-capabilities offer a distinct approach to building robust, distributed systems that pose many interesting research and practical challenges. The workshop is designed to explore the latest developments in the theory and practice of the object- capability approach, and provide a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration. Researchers working on object-capability and related methods, models, languages, and tools, as well as practitioners developing real-world systems and applications are welcome. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/ocap-2017 Submission: August 15, 2017 ## PLATEAU 2017 - 8th International Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But programmer efficiency depends on the usability of the languages and tools with which they develop software. 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. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/plateau-2017 Submission: August 1, 2017 ## PX/17.2 2017 - The 3rd Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions?they need exploratory programming. The Programming Experience (PX) Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it's exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly ("liveness"); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/px-17-2 Submission: August 8, 2017 ## Parsing at SLE 2017 - The 5th Annual Workshop on Parsing Programming Languages Parsing at SLE 2017 is the fifth annual workshop on parsing programming languages. 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. We expect to attract participants that have been or are developing theory, techniques and tools in the broad area of parsing. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/parsing-2017 Submission: September 1, 2017 ## REBLS 2017 - The 4th Workshop on Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems 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. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/rebls-2017 Submission: August 1, 2017 ## SAVR 2017 - Workshop on Software for Augmented and Virtual Reality Even conservative forecasters predict the imminent wave of Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality applications to extend far beyond gaming. Education, health care, analytics, marketing?immersive environments are poised to provide productivity gains in multiple sectors, eventually replacing conventional interfaces with gestures, gaze and natural language processing. The Software Engineering and Programming Language communities have only just begun to fully engage within this new paradigm. The Software for Augmented and Virtual Reality (SAVR) workshop will be designed to help bridge this gap. Participants will submit a position paper outlining the SE/PL challenges they have either encountered or anticipate in this space. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/savr-2017 Submission: August 8, 2017 ## SEPS 2017 - The 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems This workshop provides a stable forum for researchers and practitioners dealing with compelling challenges of the software development life cycle on modern parallel platforms. 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 re-engineering 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; testing and debugging; profiling and tuning. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/seps-2017 Submission: August 8, 2017 ## VMIL 2017 - Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages The VMIL workshop is a forum for research in virtual machines and intermediate languages. It is dedicated to identifying programming mechanisms and constructs that are currently realized as code transformations or implemented in libraries but should rather be supported at VM level. Candidates for such mechanisms and constructs include modularity mechanisms (aspects, context-dependent layers), concurrency (threads and locking, actors, capsules, processes, software transactional memory), transactions, development tools (profilers, runtime verification), etc. Topics of interest include the investigation of which such mechanisms are worthwhile candidates for integration with the run-time environment, how said mechanisms can be elegantly (and reusably) expressed at the intermediate language level (e.g., in bytecode), how their implementations can be optimized, and how virtual machine architectures might be shaped to facilitate such implementation efforts. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/vmil-2017 Submission: August 14, 2017 ## WODA 2017 - The International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis The International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA) is the place where researchers interested in dynamic analysis and related topics can meet and discuss current research, issues, and trends in the field. WODA exists since 2003 and has been co-located with several different SE/PL conferences in the past, including ICSE, ISSTA, ASPLOS, and SPLASH. 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 program on-the-fly as the system is executing. Though inherently incomplete, dynamic analyses are typically more precise than their static counterparts, and show promise in aiding the understanding, development, and maintenance of robust and reliable large-scale systems. Moreover, dynamic analyses can generate quantitative data that is useful for statistical inferences regarding the program's behavior. Starting from these motivations, the goal of WODA is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in all areas of dynamic analysis to discuss new perspectives and observations, share results and ongoing work, and establish collaborations. WODA serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the intersection of (some or all of) compilers, programming languages, architecture, software engineering, systems, high-performance computing, performance engineering, machine learning and data mining as tools to enable software and system behavior analysis. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/woda-2017 Submission: August 15, 2017 ## Information Conference: Sunday 22nd October - Friday 27th October, 2017 Contact: info at splashcon.org Website: http://2017.splashcon.org Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ## Organization: SPLASH General Chair: * Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) OOPSLA Papers Chair: * Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) Onward! Papers Co-Chairs: * Emina Torlak (University of Washington) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Onward! Essays Chair: * Robert Biddle (Carleton University) DLS PC Chair: * Davide Ancona (University of Genova) SLE General Chair: * Benoit Combemale (University of Rennes) GPCE General Chair: * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) Scala General Chair: * Heather Miller (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) PLoP Program Chair: * Takashi Iba (Keio University) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) SPLASH-E Chair: * Joe Gibbs Politz (University of California, San Diego) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) * Karim Ali (Unviersity of Alberta) * Avik Chaudhuri (Facebook) Artifacts Co-Chairs: * Michael Bond (Ohio State University) * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Craig Anslow (Victoria University of Wellington) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Posters Co-Chairs: * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (Logicblox) * Jennifer Sartor (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: * Daco Harkes (TU Delft) * Giovanni Viviani (University of British Columbia) PLMW Co-Chairs: * Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) * Barbara Ryder (Virginia Tech) Video Co-Chairs: * Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) * David Darais (University of Maryland) Publications Co-Chairs: * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Sponsorship Co-Chairs: * Jurgen Vinju (Purdue University) * Tony Hosking (Australian National University, Data61, and Purdue University) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: * Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) Local Arrangements Chair: * Peter Smith (ACL) /***************************************************************************/ From i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk Fri Jun 23 04:03:22 2017 From: i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk (Sergey, Ilya) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:03:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP 2017 Student Research Competition: Call for Submissions Message-ID: <00B1EE22-7F21-42A8-8FC6-F286A404A00B@ucl.ac.uk> ====================================================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SRC at ICFP 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom 3-9 September 2017 http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-Student-Research-Competition Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2017) ====================================================================== Student Research Competition ---------------------------- This year ICFP will host a Student Research Competition where undergraduate and postgraduate students can present posters. The SRC at the ICFP 2017 consists of three rounds: * Extended abstract round: All students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract outlining their research (up to two pages). * Poster session at ICFP 2017: 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 the ICFP to compete for the final awards in each category and selection of an overall winner who will advance to the ACM SRC Grand Finals. 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 SRC web site. * The first place winners of the SRC will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competitions among the winners of other 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 Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. All 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 program) and graduate students (in a PhD program). Upon submission, entrants must be enrolled as a student at their universities, and are ACM student members. 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 be longer than 2 pages in PDF. The reference list does not count towards these limits. To submit an abstract, please register through the EasyChair system (see the link above), and put all information requested above in the PDF that you submit including, including at least three keywords at the submission page. Abstracts submitted after the deadline may be considered at the committee?s discretion, but only after decisions have been made on all abstracts submitted before the deadline. If you have any problems or would like to clarify some concerns, don?t hesitate to contact the competition chair Ilya Sergey (i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk). Please submit your abstract at the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfp2017src Important Dates --------------- * Deadline for submission: 10 July 2017 * Notification of acceptance: 17 July 2017 Selection Committee ------------------- Chair: Ilya Sergey, University College London William E. Byrd, University of Utah Richard A. Eisenberg, Bryn Mawr College Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University Scott Owens, University of Kent From kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de Fri Jun 23 07:39:01 2017 From: kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:39:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXPRESS/SOS -- Deadline Extension June 27 Message-ID: <08470a40-2fde-b0d3-1692-fabf859f9e9e@tu-berlin.de> ------------------------------------------------------ Combined 24th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 14th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics EXPRESS/SOS 2017 ------------------------------------------------------ September 04, 2017, Berlin (Germany) Affiliated with CONCUR 2017 https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/express_sos.html Submission of papers: Friday June 27, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------ NEWS: We are happy two announce an invited tutorial in addition to the already announced invited talk. Accordingly, we will welcome two invited speakers: Mohammad Mousavi and Rob van Glabbeek 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 2017 EasyChair server (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2017). The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. INVITED SPEAKER: Mohammad Mousavi (Halmstad University, Sweden) INVITED TUTORIAL: Rob van Glabbeek (CSIRO, Sydney, Australia) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 27, 2017 (extended) Notification date: July 31, 2017 Camera ready version: August 14, 2017 Workshop: September 04, 2017 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Kirstin Peters (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Simone Tini (Universit? degli Studi dell?Insubria, Italia) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) Ilaria Castellani (INRIA, France) Silvia Crafa (Universit? di Padova, Italy) Pedro R. 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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. We are especially interested in position papers that are radical, forward-looking, and likely to lead to lively and insightful discussions that will influence future research that lies at the intersection of programming languages and security. The scope of PLAS includes, but is not limited to: ? Compiler-based security mechanisms (e.g. security type systems) or runtime-based security mechanisms (e.g. 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 IoT ? Applications, case studies, and implementations of these techniques ????????????????????????????????????? Submission Guidelines We invite both full papers and short papers. For short papers we especially encourage the submission of position papers that are likely to generate lively discussion. ? Full papers ?should be at most 11 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references 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 5 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category, as are papers presenting preliminary and exploratory work. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. Short paper presentations will be 15 minutes each. Submissions should be PDF documents formatted according to the CCS 2017 formatting requirements provided at https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2017/#format . Both full and short papers must describe work not published in other refereed venues. Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the workshop participants and be available in the ACM Digital Library. PLAS welcomes submissions by authors of all nationalities and we do not wish to exclude any potential authors who may have difficulty traveling due to recent changes in US immigration practices. 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This event aims to promote the encyclopedia and attract more contributions and collaborators. It consists of: \- a poster session in the afternoon of September 24th, during which submitted entries will be displayed as posters; \- an interactive hands-on meeting in the morning of September 25th, for those who would like to contribute to the continuous improvement of the encyclopedia. The activities planned for the meeting will be announced closer to the event. Submission Instructions ======================= Please visit the encyclopaedia's website for instructions: http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia Participation in TABLEAUX, FroCoS or ITP is not required for submission, but is strongly encouraged. Each encyclopedia entry is typically just one page long, following a template given in the encyclopedia's website. Therefore, it is easy and quick to contribute. 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Early registration with reduced rates ends on July 31. See all the details at the QONFEST website (also reachable via the CONCUR website): https://conference.imp.fu-berlin.de/qonfest/registration-Info ============================================================================ All conferences and workshops will take place at Harnack-Haus. More information about the conference venue and hotel suggestions are found at: https://conference.imp.fu-berlin.de/qonfest/venue https://conference.imp.fu-berlin.de/qonfest/accomodation ============================================================================ For further requests, please contact kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de. See you in Berlin! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hilde at itu.dk Sat Jun 24 18:19:38 2017 From: hilde at itu.dk (Thomas Hildebrandt) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:19:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3rd Int. Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo) 2017 (extended deadline) Message-ID: Call for Papers and Posters (Extended Deadline) 3rd International Workshop on Meta Models for Process Languages (MeMo) 2017 https://memo.wikit.itu.dk/home affiliated with CONCUR, September 4th, 2017, Berlin, Germany https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ '''Aim and Topics''' Metamodels are framework theories which provide general, structural results simplifying and driving the development of models of specific systems and languages. There are frameworks for operational semantics (such as GSOS, graph rewriting systems, Milner?s bigraphs, coalgebras), for denotational semantics (such as algebraic/bialgebraic specifications, monads, enriched Lawvere theories, mathematical operational semantics), and for logical semantics (such as metalanguages for deductive systems, i.e. Logical Frameworks). The boundaries between these metamodels are blurred, and techniques and ideas from one can be reapplied to the others. Moreover, metamodels can help in the definition of new computation and programming paradigms. The goal of the MeMo workshop is to bring together researchers working on and with metamodels, with the aim to share insights, uncover similarities and differences, possibilities for cross-fertilization and stimulate further research in this exciting area. 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, K-framework, 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, etc. - 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 '''Important Dates''' (Extended Deadlines) Submission regular papers and presentation proposals: 5th July 2017 Notification regular papers and presentation proposals: 5th August 2017 Camera-ready copy: 14th August 2017 Submission posters: 14th August 2017 Notification posters: 20th August 2017 '''Keynote Speakers''' - Jan Friso Groote, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands '''Submission Instructions''' We invite three types of submissions: Full regular papers; Tool presentation papers; Posters. Submissions of regular and tool papers must be original and should not have been published previously nor to be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. Submissions of poster proposals can be based on work submitted elsewhere and be clearly marked as a poster proposal by prefixing the title with "POSTER:" . The posters will be on display all throughout the workshop in the coffee break area, when the presenters can interact with other participants. Evaluation criteria will be technical quality, readability, novelty, and scope. All papers and posters must be in English and submitted at the EasyChair submission site. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memo2017 Papers should use the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/) and not exceed 15 pages in length for full papers, 10 pages for tool papers, and 6 pages for poster descriptions. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. We plan an EPTCS post-proceedings volume and depending on the quality of the submissions also a special journal issue of selected, extended papers. '''Program Committee Co-Chairs and Organizers''' - Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Christian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway '''Program Committee''' - Patrick Bahr, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Iliano Cervesato, CMU Qatar - Matteo Cimini, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA - S?ren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China - Uli Fahrenberg, Ecole Polytechnique, France - Tobias Heindel, University of Leipzig, Germany - Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-chair) - Hans H?ttel, Aalborg University, Denmark - Christian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair) - Marino Miculan, University of Udine, Italy - Joachim Parrow, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden - Marco Peressotti, University of Southern Denmark - Johannes ?man Pohjola, Chalmers University, Sweden - Jan Rutten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands - Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton, UK - Uwe Egbert Wolter, University of Bergen, Norway Thomas T. 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URL: From c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de Mon Jun 26 07:45:47 2017 From: c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de (Christoph Seidl) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:45:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [iFM'17] Call for Participation for the International Conference on integrated Formal Methods 2017 Message-ID: <5950F3EB.5040708@tu-braunschweig.de> ******************************************************************************** iFM 2017 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 13th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods 18-22 September 2017, Turin, Italy http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/ ******************************************************************************** We warmly invite you to take part in the 13th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods, which will take place at Turin University between Monday 18 and Friday 22 September, 2017. 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. VENUE ===== University of Turin, Italy REGISTRATION ============ * Registration is now open at http: http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/registration.php * Early registration deadline: Monday, July 24, 2017 RESEARCH PROGRAM ================ Preliminary program is available at http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/program.php INVITED SPEAKERS ================ * Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Andr? Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Matrin Vechev (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM ================== The doctoral symposium offers an excellent opportunity to PhD students and young researchers to present their work in an international setting, and to get feedback from senior researchers in the field. CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS ==================== * FMICS-AVoCS: International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS) and Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) * ALP4IoT: Architectures, Languages and Paradigms for IoT * WAO: Actors and Active Objects * FVAV: Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicles * PrePost: Pre- and post-deployment verification techniques * V2CPS: Verification and Validation of Cyber-Physical Systems UPDATES ======= For up-to-date information, please check iFM's website and Twitter: Website: http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/iFMconf, @iFMconf -- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Seidl Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Institut f?r Softwaretechnik und Fahrzeuginformatik Technische Universit?t Braunschweig Tel.:(+49) 531 391-2296 E-Mail: c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de Skype: christoph.seidl.tud Besucheradresse: Raum IZ 417 (TU Braunschweig) Informatikzentrum M?hlenpfordtstr. 23 38106 Braunschweig DeltaEcore - Plug & Play Variability for Models http://www.deltaecore.org From g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk Mon Jun 26 08:38:22 2017 From: g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk (Constantinides, George A) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:38:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Imperial College Research Post in Approximate Computing with Application to Machine Learning Message-ID: <13009BF3-6F6E-430A-B5B3-F8D91433B005@imperial.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, Please see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BCJ136/research-associate-in-approximate-computing-with-application-to-machine-learning/ for an opportunity to join the Imperial College team. I?d be grateful if you could spread the word to your PhD students. I?d also be keen to talk to good Masters students too. Best wishes, George -- Professor George A. Constantinides Royal Academy of Engineering / Imagination Technologies Research Chair Head, Circuits and Systems Group Professor of Digital Computation g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk Administrator: Mrs W. Hsissen (w.hsissen at ic.ac.uk) +44 20 7594 6261 From jyang2 at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Jun 26 14:39:34 2017 From: jyang2 at andrew.cmu.edu (Jean Yang) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:39:34 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SASB 2017 deadline extended! Message-ID: Hi everyone, We wanted to let you know that we've extended the deadline for the Static Analysis deadline. The deadline for submitting paper and presentations used to be July 1, 2017. This is now the abstract deadline, and the deadline for the full submission is July 8, 2017. Also, registration is now open: http://cims.nyu.edu/epayments/sas2017/ Especially if you're already attending SAS, we encourage you to join us to hear more about applying programming languages and formal methods techniques to biology! Best, John Bachman and Jean Yang SASB 2017 Program Co-Chairs -- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Papers and talks) SASB 2017 The Eighth International Workshop on Static Analysis in Systems Biology Colocated with Static Analysis Workshop (SAS) 2017 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sasb2017/ 29th August 2017, New York, New York Objectives SASB is a one-day workshop aimed at promoting discussions and collaborations at the intersection between programming languages, formal methods, static analysis, and systems and synthetic biology of natural and engineered systems. Scope The program of SASB 2017 will consist of invited talks, presentations of refereed talks, and presentations of refereed papers. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of modeling languages and associated analysis techniques, including static analysis of natural biological systems and the design, specification and verification of engineered biological and chemical systems. This includes, but is not limited to: - static analysis frameworks and tools, - equivalences and equivalence checking techniques, - model reduction and decomposition techniques based on static analysis, - state space compaction based on static analysis, - links between topology and dynamics, - constraint-based and stoichiometric analysis, - languages for compact description of biological models, - formalisms for description of biological networks, - programming languages for molecular devices, - static analysis in verification of molecular devices design, - standards for models and their annotation, - case studies and method applications, - informal methods (that could be candidate to formalization). Submission Full papers should be at most 12 pages, ENTCS format, excluding references. Extended abstracts (for presentation-only submissions) should be at most three pages, excluding references. Please submit on EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sasb2017 Important Dates Abstract submissions due: July 1, 2017 Paper and presentation submissions due: July 8, 2017 Paper and presentation notifications: August 2, 2017 Invited Speaker: Matt Might (pending White House Approval), Strategist in the Executive Office of the President, Director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute (UAB) Contact sasb2017-chairs at cs@cmu at edu -- Program co-chairs Jean Yang, Carnegie Mellon University John A. Bachman, Harvard Medical School Program Committee - Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research - Eric Deeds, University of Kansas - James Faeder, University of Pittsburgh - J?r?me Feret, INRIA Paris - Ben Hall, University of Cambridge - Jean Krivine, Universit? Paris Diderot - Nicola Paoletti, Stony Brook University - Loic Paulev?, CNRS and LRI - Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria - Amoury Pouly, MPI-SWS - Ovidiu Radulescu, Universit? de Montpellier 2 - Qinsi Wang, Carnegie Mellon University - Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University -- Jean Yang Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University jeanyang.com | @jeanqasaur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at Wed Jun 28 17:58:52 2017 From: georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at (Georg Weissenbacher) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 23:58:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators - Call for Applications Message-ID: Applications are being invited for outstanding early-career scientists (2-8 years post PhD), interested in establishing their first independent research group in an interdisciplinary field, connecting Logic with Mathematics and Computer Science. In this context, the FORSYTE group at TU Wien (http://www.forsyte.at) is looking for strong candidates applying static analysis to mathematics (e.g., proof theory, mathematical models, or data science code). We are seeking outstanding candidates who are interested in submitting an application to the open call ?Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators? (VRGYI) of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF): https://www.wwtf.at/upload/VRG17_web.pdf. The deadline for the submission of the final proposal to the funding body (WWTF) is July 13, 2017. In the case of a successful application, the research group will be funded for 6-8 years, with up to 1.6 million EUR by the WWTF, supplemented by an additional contribution from the University. After a successful interim evaluation, TU Wien will offer a tenure-track or tenured position to the group leader. Requirements: Applicants should have an excellent track record demonstrating the innovative combination of mathematics and computer science. Application procedure: For a first step, informal inquiries, including a short CV with publication list, list of research projects and potential topics for a WWTF grant application should be sent to as soon as possible. From mirco.tribastone at imtlucca.it Thu Jun 29 04:14:35 2017 From: mirco.tribastone at imtlucca.it (Mirco Tribastone) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:14:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track assistant professorship in Cybersecurity at IMT Lucca - Deadline July 27th, 2017 Message-ID: <16FF7FC9-F103-48AB-9F4F-C3FB8C807259@imtlucca.it> This call may be of particular interest to those with expertise in formal methods for security. ? IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Computer Science (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato Tipo B, RTD-B - INF/01). We particularly welcome candidates with experience or willingness to work in the area of cyber security broadly construed, ideally complementing IMT?s current strengths. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - access control; - cryptocurrencies; - formal verification of security protocols; - security requirements elicitation; - web security; - security of ?Internet of Things?. The successful candidate is expected to publish in first-class journals and in the proceedings of top conferences in computer security. Moreover, she/he is expected to establish links with local companies and institutions that have shown high interest in cybersecurity, and to apply for national and international research funding. According to Italian law, RTD-B assistant professors will be employed for three years, during which they are required to secure a habilitation (ASN) from an independent national evaluation committee in order to obtain tenure at the associate professor level. Applicants to ASN are evaluated based on various indicators of scientific quality and leadership such as bibliometrics, research grants, invited talks, and best-paper awards. IMT is one of Italy?s six schools of excellence for postgraduate education, ranked first in the last national research assessment exercise. IMT researchers are expected to contribute to the teaching and supervision of PhD students, admitted to the School through a selective international competition. The working language is English. The salary will be determined on a personal basis within pay grades defined as per Italian legislation. The indicative starting gross salary for an RTD-B assistant professor is ? 34,898. Net income may vary depending on income taxes, local taxes, retirement plan, health care deduction and tax exemptions. New employees who have worked in research-based positions abroad for the previous two years may be eligible for a substantial tax rebate for the first three fiscal years of employment. The online application form is available at https://www.imtlucca.it/school/job-opportunities/academic/341 !!!!!Deadline July 27th, 2017 - Italian midday!!!!! -- Mirco Tribastone SysMA Research Unit IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca URL: http://www.imtlucca.it/mirco.tribastone Email: mirco.tribastone at imtlucca.it Phone: +39 0583 4326 594 Mobile: +39 373 8989151 Skype: mircotribastone From nikos.tzevelekos at qmul.ac.uk Fri Jun 30 08:44:57 2017 From: nikos.tzevelekos at qmul.ac.uk (Nikos Tzevelekos) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:44:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HIGHLIGHTS 2017 -- Call for Participation Message-ID: [with apologies for multiple postings] HIGHLIGHTS 2017 -- FIFTH CONFERENCE ON HIGHLIGHTS OF LOGIC, GAMES AND AUTOMATA Call for Participation 12-15 SEPTEMBER 2017, London, UK http://highlights-conference.org * HIGHLIGHTS 2017 is the fifth conference on Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata which aims at integrating the community working in these fields. Papers from these areas are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to Highlights conference should offer a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. * The program will offer 59 contributed talks, three keynotes: + Mikolaj Bojanczyk, "Recognisability equals MSO definability for graphs of bounded treewidth" + Sanjay Jain, "Quasi Polynomial and FPT algorithms for parity games" + Hung Ngo, "Shannon-type inequalities, submodular width, and disjunctive datalog" two special sessions organized by: + Patricia Bouyer, "Games played on graphs: quantitative games, games with multi-objectives, non-zero sum games" + Alexandra Silva, "Model learning, automata and its applications" and two tutorials + Veronique Cortier, "Verification of security protocols" + Damien Pous, "Coinduction up to and automata algorithms" Full programme can be found at: http://highlights-conference.org. * Registration open until August 20, 2017 at http://highlights-conference.org/register/ From martin.sulzmann at gmail.com Fri Jun 30 05:52:50 2017 From: martin.sulzmann at gmail.com (Martin Sulzmann) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:52:50 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS2018: First CFP Message-ID: FIRST Call For Papers FLOPS 2018: 14th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming 9-11 May, 2018, Nagoya, Japan http://www.sqlab.jp/FLOPS2018/ 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. Proceedings 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 13 November 2017 (any time zone): Abstract Submission 20 November 2017 (any time zone): Submission deadline 15 January 2018: Author notification 9-11 May 2018: FLOPS Symposium Invited Talks To be announced 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=flops2018 Program Committee Andreas Rossberg Google, Germany Atsushi Ohori Tohoku University, Japan Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira The University of Hong Kong, China Carsten Fuhs Birkbeck, University of London, UK Chung-chieh Shan Indiana University, USA Didier Remy INRIA, France Harald Sondergaard The University of Melbourne, Australia Jacques Garrigue Nagoya University, Japan Jan Midtgaard Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Joachim Breitner University of Pennsylvania, USA John Gallagher Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (co-chair) Jorge A Navas SRI International, USA Kazunori Ueda Waseda University, Japan Kenny Zhuo Ming Lu School of Information Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Mar?a Alpuente Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Mar?a Garcia De La Banda Monash University, Australia Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany (co-chair) Meng Wang University of Kent, UK Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Michael Leuschel University of D?sseldorf, Germany Naoki Kobayashi University of Tokyo, Japan Nikolaj Bj?rner Microsoft Research, USA Robert Gl?ck University of Copenhagen, Denmark Samir Genaim Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Siau Cheng Khoo National University of Singapore, Singapore Organizers Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (co-chair) John Gallagher Roskilde University and IMDEA Software Institute (co-chair) Makoto Tatsuta National Institute of Informatics, Japan (General Chair) Koji Nakazawa Nagoya University, Japan (Local Chair) From luca.padovani at unito.it Fri Jun 30 08:23:18 2017 From: luca.padovani at unito.it (Luca Padovani) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:23:18 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Types and Logic in Torino Message-ID: <196BD824-F9D0-4704-98E8-F57F545633BC@unito.it> Colloquium in honor of Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Simona Ronchi Della Rocca and Mario Coppo Torino, September 22nd, 2017 To celebrate the 70th birthdays of Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Simona Ronchi Della Rocca and Mario Coppo we are organizing an informal colloquium. A preliminary program as well as all the information on the event and on the registration procedure are available here: http://tlt2017.di.unito.it The deadline for early registration is July 24th. Luca Padovani on behalf of the organizers From dilian at csc.kth.se Fri Jun 30 07:35:30 2017 From: dilian at csc.kth.se (Dilian Gurov) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:35:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2017 Call for Participation In-Reply-To: <43316e0b-84db-05b2-5081-2aee206aea02@csc.kth.se> References: <43316e0b-84db-05b2-5081-2aee206aea02@csc.kth.se> Message-ID: <9b4dc68c-9af8-e3c0-78f3-43f4af07b0aa@csc.kth.se> ================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL 2017 August 20 -- 24, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden http://logic.math.su.se/csl-2017 ================================================================== Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science and is intended for computer scientists whose research involves logic, as well as for logicians working on issues essential for computer science. CSL 2017 is the 26th EACSL annual conference. It is co-organised by Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and hosted by Stockholm University. CSL 2017 will be co-located with several other logic-related events, taking place at Stockholm University, including the 3rd Nordic Logic Summer School, NLS 2017, August 7-11, and the Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC 2017), August 14-20. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Invited highlight speakers for the LC-CSL joint session on August 20: Veronica Becher (University of Buenos Aires) Phokion Kolaitis (University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden) Pierre Simon (UC Berkeley) Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) CSL plenary speakers: Laura Kov?cs (Vienna University of Technology) Stephan Kreutzer (Technische Universit?t Berlin) Meena Mahajan (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research) CONTRIBUTED TALKS ----------------- The call for submissions is already closed. There will be 35 full talks on contributed papers and 8 short talks in the program of CSL 2017. PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE -------------------- The detailed program and schedule of CSL 2017 can be found on http://easychair.org/smart-program/CSL2017/ SPECIAL AND AFFILIATED EVENTS ----------------------------- In addition to the plenary and contributed talks CSL 2017, the conference will also include the following events: ? Presentation of the Alonzo Church award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, ? Presentation of the EACSL Ackermann award for Outstanding Dissertation on Logic in Computer Science, ? CSL-affiliated workshops, to be held as CSL co-located events: ? Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics LACompLing'17 (August 16-19) ? Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems LAMAS 2017 (August 25) ? Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory (in memory of Zoltan Ezik) (August 25) Further information about all events can be found on http://logic.math.su.se/logic-in-stockholm-2017 SOCIAL PROGRAMME ---------------- The social programme of CSL 2017 will include a reception at Stockholm City Hall on August 21, a boat trip excursion and a conference dinner on August 23. REGISTRATION ------------ The early registration fee, for students and participants from developing countries, is 1800 SEK per participant, including VAT (approx. 190 EUR), and includes coffee breaks and conference materials. For all others the early registration fee is 2800 SEK, including VAT. Late registration is 3400 SEK for regular participants, and 2400 SEK for reduced fee participants. A discount of 500 SEK applies if registering for both LC 2017 and CSL 2017. The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there are special offers at hostels and hotels (in the range 700-1200 SEK per night for single rooms) available. Link for the registration page: https://www.axacoair.se/go?OCWMn95D Late registration deadline: August 8, 2017. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- ? Parosh Aziz Abdulla (University of Uppsala), ? Lars Birkedal (University of Aarhus), ? Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research), ? Maria Paola Bonacina (Universit? degli Studi di Verona), ? Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV, ENS Cachan), ? Agata Ciabattoni (University of Viena), ? Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg), ? Mads Dam (KTH, Stockholm), PC co-chair ? Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna), ? Anuj Dawar (Cambridge University), ? Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University), PC co-chair ? Maribel Fernandez (King's College London), ? Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen), ? Lauri Hella (University of Tampere), ? Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen), ? Orna Kupferman (University of Jerusalem), ? Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh), ? Angelo Montanari (University of Udine), ? Catuscia Palamidessi (Paris, INRIA), ? Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) ? Ram Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), ? Jean-Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles), ? Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund University), ? Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University of Koblenz-Landau), ? Thomas Streicher (University of Darmstadt), ? Jean-Marc Talbot (University of Aix-Marseille), ? Luca Vigan? (King's College London), ? Ron van der Meyden (UNSW Australia), ? Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing). ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- ? Stefan Buijsman, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Mads Dam (OC co-chair), Department of Computer Science, KTH ? Jacopo Emmenegger, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Dilian Gurov (workshops chair), Department of Computer Science, KTH ? Eric Johannesson, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Vera Koponen, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University ? Johan Lindberg, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University ? Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Karl Nygren, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University ? Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES ---------------------- With enquiries on organising matters, send email to: CSL2017philosophy.su.se With enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: CSL2017easychair.org From Didier.Galmiche at loria.fr Fri Jun 30 12:42:35 2017 From: Didier.Galmiche at loria.fr (Didier Galmiche) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:42:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-Doc position within the ANR-FWF project "TICAMORE" Message-ID: <59567F7B.4020200@loria.fr> ----------------------------------------------------- Post-Doc position within the ANR-FWF project "TICAMORE" ----------------------------------------------------- A post-doc position is available at LORIA (Nancy, France) in logic, proof theory and semantics, supported by the international ANR-FWF Ticamore project (ANR-16-CE91-0002) "Translating and Discovering Calculi for Modal and Related logics" See for more information. The successful candidate will be working within the TYPES team at LORIA. He will have access to the resources of the team through the Ticamore project. It is a 1 year post-doc position that could be extended with 1 more year. RESEARCH AREA The central goal of the Ticamore project is to study the proof-theory of sub-structural or modal logics with a focus on the bridges that can be built between internal calculi (like sequent, hyper-sequent, nested or bunched calculi) and external calculi (like labelled or display calculi). These bridges should be understood as proof (or counter model) transformation procedures, embeddings, encodings, ... POST-DOC RESEARCH TASKS The postdoc will be to carry out research within the project Ticamore by focusing on the following tasks: - to study new internal calculi for Bunched Logics (BI, BBI and some modal extensions) and their connections with existing external calculi, - to use such calculi for studying high level properties like termination, finite model property, cut-elimination, interpolation or complexity. - to implement external and internal calculi for Bunched Logics and to develop tools for automated translations between calculi. REQUIREMENTS Requirements are a PhD degree in Computer Science, Logic or Mathematics and a strong background in some of the following topics: - formal logic (non-classical, sub-structural, modal, ...) - proof theory (sequents, tableaux, natural deduction ...) - logical semantics (translations, embeddings, bisimulations ...) - computability theory (decidability, complexity ...) VENUE/SALARY The position is for 1 year (with possible extension of 1 more year) with a starting date that could be fixed between September and December 2017. The position holder will work in the TYPES team at LORIA and will be paid by the University of Lorraine. The monthly salary will be around 2000 euros free of charge. APPLICATION PROCEDURE The deadline for application is July 25th, 2017, but an email to inform about the intention of application is welcome as soon as possible. Applications should be sent in electronic form, including a CV, publication list, title and summary of the PhD, reports on the PhD, recommendation letters and a motivation letter w.r.t. research topics related to the post-doc position. They should be sent by email to either/both - Didier Galmiche (galmiche at loria.fr) - Dominique Larchey-Wendling (larchey at loria.fr) Informal inquiries by email are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES - Intention of application (short email) as soon as possible - Deadline for application July 25th, 2017 - Starting dates Sep.-Dec. 2017 From j.a.perez at rug.nl Sat Jul 1 01:06:48 2017 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 07:06:48 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RADICAL 2017 -- Deadline Extension (July 7). Message-ID: [Please notice the extended deadline. Submissions from the TYPES readership, broadly related to concurrency and logic, are warmly welcome! ] =========================================== Recent Advances in Concurrency and Logic (RADICAL 2017) A new workshop, co-located with CONCUR 2017. https://sites.google.com/site/radicalconcur/ Berlin, Germany - September 4, 2017 Extended submission deadline (3-page talk proposals): Friday, 7 July 2017 Invited speakers: Lu?s Caires (NOVA University of Lisbon, PT) Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) =========================================== == MOTIVATION AND SCOPE RADICAL is a new workshop aligned within the intersection between concurrency and logic, broadly construed. Recently, the interplay of concurrency and logic with areas/applications such as: - design, verification, synthesis for concurrent systems, both qualitative and quantitative; - strategic reasoning for distributed and multi-agent systems; - analysis and validation techniques for concurrent and distributed programs and systems (e.g., separation logics, advanced type systems, and runtime verification techniques); has received much attention, as witnessed by recent CONCUR editions. These areas/applications have become increasingly consolidated, and start to have profound impact in neighbouring communities such as: - programming languages - artificial intelligence - computer security - knowledge representation As an unfortunate side effect, however, the important unifying role that concurrency plays in all of them seems hard to find in a single scientific event. Indeed, there do not seem to exist appropriate venues in which different research communities interested in concurrency and logic can meet closely, cross-fertilize, and share their most exciting recent results. RADICAL intends to fill a gap between CONCUR researchers that now also typically publish and interact in other different venues; it also aims at attracting researchers from neighbouring communities whose work naturally intersects with CONCUR. == FORMAT: BACK TO THE BASICS RADICAL will offer an innovative format for a one-day workshop for researchers involved in all aspects of concurrency and logic including, but not limited to, the areas mentioned above. Since we would like to recover the informal character of scientific workshops, rather than regular paper submissions, authors should submit three-page talk proposals (see below). RADICAL will be an informal venue, oriented to interaction, and so it will have no formal proceedings. == INVITED SPEAKERS - Lu?s Caires (NOVA University of Lisbon, PT) - Luke Ong (University of Oxford, UK) == SUBMISSIONS: 3-PAGE TALK PROPOSALS We invite submissions describing talk proposals on the intersection of logic and concurrency, as motivated above. A submission to RADICAL would typically fall within one of the following categories: - reports of an ongoing work and/or preliminary results; - summaries of an already published paper (or series of papers); - overviews of (recent) PhD theses; - descriptions of research projects and consortia; - manifestos, calls to action, personal views on current and future challenges; - overviews of interesting yet underrepresented problems. This list is by no means exhaustive but merely indicative. For instance, since RADICAL will precede CONCUR (and the other main conferences co-located with QONFEST), authors of papers accepted at a main conference may consider proposing a talk in RADICAL that promotes (or gives context to) a technical talk to be delivered at the conference(s) later on the week. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the organizers in case of questions: radical2017 at easychair.org Submissions based on already published works should include explicit references/links as appropriate. Reviewers may read such prior published work, but are not obliged to so do. Submissions will be judged by the program committee on the basis of significance, relevance, and potential of an engaging, compelling talk at the workshop. Submissions should be in PDF, up to three pages (not including references), produced using the EasyChair format, available at http://easychair.org/publications/for_authors Please submit your talk proposal via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=radical2017 It is understood that for each accepted submission one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and give the talk. == IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline (3-page talk proposals): Friday, 7 July 2017 (extended) - Notification to authors: Friday, 28 July 2017. - Workshop: Monday, 4 September 2017 == ORGANIZERS - Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford, UK) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, NL) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Emmanuel Beffara (I2M, Universit? d'Aix-Marseille & CNRS, FR) - James Brotherston (University College London, UK) - Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Silvia Crafa (Universit? di Padova, IT) - Ugo Dal Lago (Universit? di Bologna, IT) - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, IT) - Constantin Enea (IRIF, University Paris Diderot, FR) - Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) - Sibylle Fr?schle (University of Oldenburg, DE) - Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, UK) - Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford, UK - co-chair) - Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath, UK) - Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, NL) - Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, DE) - Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, DK) - Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, BR) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, NL - co-chair) - Carsten Sch?rmann (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) - Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) - Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) - Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, SG) - Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London, UK) - Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) - Frank Valencia (CNRS & LIX, ?cole Polytechnique, FR) - Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA - CNRS / University of Lorraine, FR) - Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, NL) - Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl From compscience.announcement at gmail.com Sat Jul 1 01:11:15 2017 From: compscience.announcement at gmail.com (Klaus Havelund) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 22:11:15 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV-CuBES Deadline Extension Message-ID: RV-CuBESAn International Workshop on Competitions, Usability, Benchmarks, Evaluation, and Standardisation for Runtime Verification ToolsHeld in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV 2017) http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk/rv-cubes/ The goal of this workshop is to provide a venue to discuss ongoing efforts to improve how we evaluate and compare tools for runtime verification. This workshop invites submissions that contribute to this discussion (see below). The workshop replaces the Runtime Verification Competition this year, giving an opportunity for reflection and planning for the future. *HIGHLIGHTS* - We invite two kinds of submissions: tool overview papers of *existing* tools and position papers - Attendance at the workshop *is not compulsory* for submission, but encouraged - The workshop will be integrated into RV 2017 to engage with the wider RV community *BACKGROUND* Over the last three years, beginning in 2014, the Competition on Runtime Verification (CRV) has compared 14 different runtime verification tools using over 100 different benchmarks. It has motivated the development of new tools and extensions of existing ones. Thanks to the time and effort of the various organisers and participants it has successfully provided a platform to discuss how we evaluate and compare our tools. However, we are aware that the competition has not served all members of the community and required significant effort from its participants and therefore we have decided not to run the competition in the same form in 2017. This workshop has two aims. - Firstly, to kickstart an online repository of tool descriptions that focus on usability, rather than implementation. Much effort within Runtime Verification is spent developing tools. The planned repository will help advertise these tools within and beyond the community and to document their existence. To this end, this workshop invites tool overview papers (details below) that present an opportunity to demonstrate the diverse range of available RV tools and to advertise their advanced features and capabilities. - Secondly, to provide a forum in which the future of the competition, and wider efforts to improve how we evaluate RV tools, can be discussed in a structured and informed way. There have been various informal discussions at the previous three RV conferences and in other settings. By inviting position papers (details below) this workshop aims to establish the issues and possible directions before holding a structured panel session during RV 2017. *RELATION TO RV 2017* There is no overlap in scope between this workshop and RV 2017. Any papers containing original technical developments should be submitted to RV 2017 rather than this workshop as the workshop focuses on tool reviews (containing existing work) and position statements. If there is any uncertainty please contact the workshop chairs. The workshop will be integrated into RV 2017. The workshop activities will include a poster presentation session and a panel decision, both of which will be scheduled within the main conference program. A consequence of this is that there will be no separate registration for the workshop. To attend the workshop activities it will be necessary to attend RV 2017. Although, attendance is not a requirement for submission. *SUBMISSIONS* We invite two forms of submission: Tool Overview papers and Position papers. All submissions will be subject to a lightweight review by the PC to ensure a reasonable standard and to provide constructive feedback to improve the quality of the submission. *Tool Overview Papers* These should describe an existing tool using a minimum of 5 pages. The paper should at least describe how to obtain the tool, the RV problem the tool is aiming to solve, the key defining features of the tool and relevant references. Additionally, we might expect it to include some of the following: - The history of the tool - High-level overviews of key aspect such as the input language or architecture from a user?s perspective - Usability details undocumented elsewhere - Examples demonstrating key features - Details of case studies or applications to real world problems - Discussion of features particular to the tool - Summaries (rather than detailed tables) of experimental results - Analysis of the kinds of problem the tool is suited for and those it is less-well suited for Ideally, the tool and related material (e.g. benchmarks) will be available online and linked to in the submission. The paper should not cover any significant new contributions (these can be submitted as tool papers to RV 2017) and should rely on previous research and tool papers to provide further details. Note that there is no upper page limit however the number of pages used should reflect the level of detail given. Submissions of 2 pages giving minimal details would be suitable in a situation where the tool is well documented elsewhere but an entry in the repository is still desired. All accepted submissions will be invited for presentation at a special Poster session during RV 2017. *Position papers* Initial submissions should use a minimum of 2 pages to explore a particular position related to the evaluation, comparison or standardisation of Runtime Verification tools (and benchmarks). Topics may include, but are not limited to: - What should a RV benchmark look like? - Can we have a common specification language for RV? If so, what should it look like? - Is execution time the most important performance criteria? What might be more important? - How can we evaluate hardware monitoring tools? - What are we doing wrong in evaluation? Can we fix this? - What can be borrowed form other communities? A selection of position papers will be used to structure a discussion panel to be held at RV 2017. Again, there is no upper page limit however the number of pages used should reflect the level of detail given. There will be an opportunity to update the paper based on discussions before inclusion in post-proceedings (see below). *Publishing and Submission* Contributions will be published as a post-proceedings volume in the Open-Access Scopus-Indexed EasyChair Kalpa Series. To be eligible for inclusion in the post-proceedings, papers should be at least 5 pages. Please see the relevant information for authors when preparing your paper. Please submit contributions to the following EasyChair page. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rvcubes2017 *DATES* - Submission Deadline 1 July 2017 - Abstracts: 8 July 2017 - Final Submission: 15 July 2017 - Notification 1 August 2017 - Workshop at RV 2017 13-16 September 2017 - Post-proceedings deadline 14 October 2017 *ORGANISATION* For local and general organisation please see RV 2017. *Program Committee Chairs* Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA *Program Committee* Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien, Austria Domenico Bianculli, SnT Centre ? University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Cananda Christian Colombo, University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, Laboratoire d?Informatique de Grenoble, France Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta Sylvain Hall?, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Chicoutimi, Canada Felix Klaedtke, NEC Europe Ltd. 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URL: From p.giarrusso at gmail.com Mon Jul 3 13:32:38 2017 From: p.giarrusso at gmail.com (Paolo Giarrusso) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 19:32:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SIGPLAN Scala Symposium 2017: DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings.) ================================================================ ACM SIGPLAN Scala Symposium 2017 co-located with SPLASH 2017 Vancouver, Canada 22-23 October 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers ================================================================ 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. The Scala Symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics and many formats. Important dates =============== * No abstract registration * Paper submission DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: July 20th, 2017 * Paper notification: Aug 20th, 2017 * Student talk submission: Aug 30th, 2017 * Camera ready: Sep 11th, 2017 * Student talk notification: Sep 17th, 2017 All deadlines are "Anywhere on Earth" (AoE). Topics of Interest ================== We seek submissions on all 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 ? stand-alone Scala libraries, 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 models, performance evaluation, experimental results. - Big data and machine learning libraries and applications using the Scala programming language. - Safety and reliability ? pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. - Interoperability with other languages and runtimes, such as JavaScript, Java 8 (lambdas), Graal and others. - Tools ? development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. - Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Submission Format ================= To accommodate the needs of researchers and practitioners, as well as beginners and experts alike, we seek several kinds of submissions, all in **`acmart/sigplan`** style, **10pt** font. - **Full papers** (at most 10 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Short papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Tool papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Student talks** (short abstract only, in plain text) Accepted papers (either full papers, short papers, or tool papers, but not student talks) will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Detailed information for each kind of submission is given below. Formatting requirements are detailed on the symposium website at http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers#Instructions-for-Authors Please note that at least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the symposium and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Full and Short Papers ===================== Full and short papers should describe novel ideas, experimental results, or projects related to the Scala language. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. Additionally, short papers may present problems and raise research questions interesting for the Scala language community. 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). Tool Papers =========== Tool papers need not necessarily report original research results; they may describe a tool of interest, 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. Tool papers should be marked as such in their title. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a link to the tool's website. For inspiration, you might consider advice in http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pepm-2016-main#Tool-Paper-Advice which we however treat as non-binding. In case of doubts, please contact the program chairs. 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 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 and about topics of relevance to the symposium, for instance (but not only) presenting or announcing an open-source project that would be of interest to the Scala community. Submission Website ================== The submission will be managed through HotCRP: https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ For questions and additional clarifications, please contact the conference organizers. Keynote Speakers ================ We are delighted to have two excellent keynote speakers this year: - Reynold Xin, co-founder and Chief Architect, Databricks - Dwayne Reeves, technical lead manager on the Hack Programming Language team, Facebook Program Committee ================= * Aggelos Biboudis, EPFL * Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews * Eugene Burmako, Twitter * Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS * Lars Hupel, TU Munich * Pablo Inostroza, CWI * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Martin Odersky, EPFL * Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong * Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt * Ilya Sergey, University College London * Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University * Philippe Suter, Two Sigma * Frank Tip, Northeastern University * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University * Niki Vazou, University of Maryland Organizers ========== * Heather Miller, EPFL (General Chair) * Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Program Chair) * Ond?ej Lhot?k, University of Waterloo (Program Chair) * Paolo Giarrusso, University of T?bingen * Jonathan Brachth?user, University of T?bingen Sponsors ======== We thank our sponsor Lightbend for supporting some of the talented student attendees of Scala '17. Links ===== * Scala '17: http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers * Submissions: https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ * SPLASH '17: http://2017.splashcon.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ian.Stark at ed.ac.uk Tue Jul 4 11:32:21 2017 From: Ian.Stark at ed.ac.uk (Ian Stark) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 16:32:21 +0100 (BST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Funded PhD positions at Edinburgh verifying embedded ARM security Message-ID: We have two ARM-funded PhD positions at Edinburgh which would suit students interested in types and verification. Details below. Regards, Ian Stark Two Funded PhD Positions at University of Edinburgh Formal Verification of Security Properties for ARM Microcontrollers We invite applications for two fully-funded PhD studentships to study the formal specification and verification of security features for systems built using ARM microcontrollers. Deadline: 31st July 2017 or until posts filled Starting date: Flexible (usual entry Sept 2017/Jan 2018) Studentship: Full tuition fees for UK/EU students, 3.5 years Stipend of approximately ?14,000 per year Additional ?3,500 per year and ARM internship Requirements: Good degree, BSC in Computer Science or similar (2.1 minimum) Aptitude for subject area (logic, semantics, theorem proving) For non UK/EU students, additional fees apply. Scholarships to cover the additional fees are not generally available. The positions are held in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism at the University of Edinburgh and as part of the Security and Privacy group in Informatics. See below for descriptions of the projects. Details of the research are flexible depending on the candidate's interests and background, and ARM's progress and priorities at the time of starting. For more information about the studentships, the CDT and the Security and Privacy group go to: http://pervasiveparallelism.inf.ed.ac.uk/industry-studentships http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/security-privacy If you are interested then please contact the project supervisors to discuss informally before application: * Ian Stark (Ian.Stark at ed.ac.uk) * Brian Campbell (Brian.Campbell at ed.ac.uk) * David Aspinall (David.Aspinall at ed.ac.uk) Formal Specification and Proofs for TrustZone in ARMv8-M -------------------------------------------------------- The increasing complexity and connectivity in microcontroller devices has prompted the development of protection mechanisms to improve reliability and security. ARM's TrustZone for ARMv8-M provides a separate "secure world" execution mode to enable features such as secure firmware updates, safe integration of code from multiple suppliers and controlled access to privileged peripherals. It is designed in a different way to TrustZone on other ARM architectures, with greater hardware support for resource-light microcontrollers. This project will study the low-level instruction set design of TrustZone for ARMv8-M, creating formal specifications to describe the security properties that hold at the instruction level and proofs that these provide the intended protection against low-level attacks. The specifications will also aim to provide a basis for higher-level proofs about the security properties of software that runs in the secure world. Formal Verification of Security Properties of the mbed OS uVisor ---------------------------------------------------------------- The mbed OS uVisor is a core security component for ARM's mbed IoT platform. It creates isolated security domains on Cortex M3, M4 and M7 microcontrollers with a Memory Protection Unit (MPU). The MPU provides a small number of memory regions of limited size. On top of these the uVisor provides a more flexible compartmentalisation using separate security domains ("Secure Boxes"), configured with suitable Access Control Lists. This project will apply machine-assisted theorem-proving to help define and then verify correctness and security properties of the uVisor implementation. This will build on previous work that has constructed instruction set models and decompilation techniques, and extend it with formal modelling of exception handling and memory protection. Example verification goals include correctness aspects, such as ensuring that MPU regions get correctly reallocated on demand (ensuring progress/availability), or higher-level properties such as control-flow integrity (ensuring certain attacks are not possible in client code). About the University of Edinburgh --------------------------------- The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics brings together world-class research groups in computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. It is the largest Informatics or Computer Science department in Europe. It houses a number of specialised centres and subgroups, including the ARM Centre of Excellence working on a number of collaborations. The Security and Privacy group is forms the core of the University's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, which one recognition in 2017. We welcome applications from members of groups traditionally under-represented in the field. In 2013 (renewed 2016), 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. 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 -- Ian Stark Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/stark School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch Wed Jul 5 17:57:10 2017 From: caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch (Urban Caterina) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 21:57:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: SAS 2017 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SAS 2017 24th Static Analysis Symposium New York City, NY, August 30th-September 1st, 2017 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT Static Analysis is widely 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 24th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2017, will take place New York University, New York City, NY, USA. REGISTRATION Registration is now open. Please visit: http://staticanalysis.org/sas2017/registration.html INVITED SPEAKERS - Alex Aiken (Stanford University, USA) - Francesco Logozzo (Facebook, USA) - Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) INVITED TUTORIALS - Josh Berdine (Facebook, UK) - Roberto Giacobazzi (IMDEA, Spain / University of Verona, Italy) ACCEPTED PAPERS The list of accepted papers is available at: http://staticanalysis.org/sas2017/accepted.html AFFILIATED EVENTS - NSAD: The 7th Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains https://www.sci.unich.it/nsad2017/ - SASB: The 8th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sasb2017/ - TAPAS: The 8th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/tapas2017/ Hope to see you in New York! Francesco Ranzato, Program Chair Patrick Cousot, Local Chair Caterina Urban, Publicity Chair From organizers at cyphy.org Wed Jul 5 21:27:31 2017 From: organizers at cyphy.org (CyPhy Organizers) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 06:57:31 +0530 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Cyphy'17 - Last Call for Papers Message-ID: Seventh Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'17) Held in conjunction with ESWEEK 2017 on during October 15-20 2017, Seoul, South Korea. 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'16 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. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: July 9, 2017 Notifications: August 23, 2017 Camera Ready: September 6, 2017 Workshop: October 19th, 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects of cyber-physical systems: 1. 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; 2. Methods: Specifications and evaluation of processes for rigorous modeling, testing, simulation, and verification of new cyber-?physical systems; 3. 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 4. Tools: Evaluation of novel research tools, comparisons of state of the art tools in industrial practice. Submissions types: 1) research papers (max. 15 pages); 2) positions papers (max. 4 pages, not published); and 3) tool demonstrations (max. 10 pages). 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. Submissions of type 1 and 3 will be published after the workshop 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). ORGANIZATION General Chair Walid Taha, Halmstad University and University of Houston Program Chairs William L. Harrison, University of Missouri Pavithra Prabhakar, Kansas State University Program Committee Julien Alexandre dit Sandretto, ENSTA ParisTech Jakob Axelsson, M?lardalen University Christian Berger, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg Manuela Bujorianu, Leicester University Thao Dang, Verimag, France Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University Martin Fr?nzle, University of Oldenburg Laurent Fribourg, CNRS Antoine Girard, CNRS Scott Hissam, Carnegie Mellon University Daisuke Ishii, Tokyo Institute of Technology Mehdi Kargahi, University of Tehran Zhiyun Lin, Zhejiang University Nacim Meslem, Grenoble INP Wojciech Mostowski, Halmstad University Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University Tarek Ra?ssi, CNAM Nacim Ramdani, University of Orleans Andreas Rauh, University of Rostock Michel Reniers, Eindhoven University of Technology Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH University Aachen Christoph Seidl, TU Braunschweig Christoffer Sloth, Aalborg University Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia Martin Steffen, Oslo University Rafael Wisniewski, Aalborg University Publicity Chair Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University Advisory Committee Manfred Broy, Technische Universit?t M?nchen Karl Henrik Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology Karl Iagnemma, MIT Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania Pieter Mosterman, McGill University Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University Walid Taha, Halmstad University and University of Houston -- Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems http://cyphy.org/ From sac.soap2018 at gmail.com Tue Jul 4 10:27:33 2017 From: sac.soap2018 at gmail.com (sac.soap2018 at gmail.com) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 16:27:33 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SOAP@SAC 2017, April 9-13, Pau, France - call for papers Message-ID: <20170704142733.H_BuU3LGk%sac.soap2018@gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS - SOAP track at SAC Service-Oriented Architectures and Programming track of the 33st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing 9-13 April 2018, Pau, France http://sac-soap.sdu.dk/soap2018 IMPORTANT DATES September 15, 2017: Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts November 10, 2017: Notification of paper and SRC abstracts acceptance/rejection November 25, 2017: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC abstracts December 10, 2017: Author registration due date SAC 2018 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 2018 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held in Pau, France. 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 definition 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 continuouslsy 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. Major topics of interest will include: -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 -IoT and Cloud-based Services SUBMISSION 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 2018 website. Prospective papers should be submitted to the track using the provided automated submission system. Please pay attention to ensure anonimity 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. See the SAC site for the page constraints. For each accepted paper, an author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper to be included in the ACM/ IEEE digital library. 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. Please submit your contribution via SAC 2018 submission site. 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 2018 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.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/src.html. Submission of research abstracts to the SRC program should be in electronic form via SAC 2018 SRC papers submission site. 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. PROGRAM COMMITEE -Nazareno Aguirre (Universidad de R?o Cuarto, AR) -Farhad Arbab (Leiden University and CWI, Amsterdam, NL) -Lu?s Barbosa (University of Minho, Braga, PT) -Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, IT) -Antonio Bucchiarone (FBK, Trento, IT) -Romain Demangeon (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, FR) -Shuiguang Deng (Zhejiang University, PRC) -Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, AT) -Gian Luigi Ferrari (Universit? di Pisa, IT) -Jos? Fiadeiro (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) -Saverio Giallorenzo (University of Bologna, IT) -Ross Horne (Nanyang Technological University, SG) -Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin, IR) -Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) -Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) -Alberto N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SP) -Jorge A. Perez (University of Groningen, NL) -Gustavo Petri (Purdue University, USA) -Ant?nio Ravara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT) -Victor Rivera (Innopolis University, RU) -Alceste Scalas (Imperial College London, UK) -Nikolay Shilov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, RU) -Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT) -Farouk Toumani (Universit? Blaise Pascal, FR) -Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) -Yuhong Yan (Concordia University, CA) -Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, IT) -Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, IT) TRACK CHAIRS -Massimo Bartoletti bart @ unica.it Universit? di Cagliari, Italy -Lu?s Cruz-Filipe lcf @ imada.sdu.dk University of Southern Denmark, Denmark -Gwen Sala?n gwen.salaun @ inria.fr Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France PUBLICITY CHAIR -Stefano Lande lande @ unica.it Universit? di Cagliari, Italy STEERING COMMITTEE -Claudio Guidi, italianaSoftware, Italy -Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna, Italy and INRIA, France -Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia -Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark From ulrich.fahrenberg at irisa.fr Tue Jul 4 09:26:30 2017 From: ulrich.fahrenberg at irisa.fr (Uli Fahrenberg) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 15:26:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation and Short Contributions: DHS 2017 Message-ID: <4791aa3c-2506-ce38-dae0-34efbfc4e4e9@irisa.fr> Apologies for multiple copies of this email; please distribute as you see fit. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS DHS 2017 International Workshop on Methods and Tools for Distributed Hybrid Systems Associated with MFCS 2017 Aalborg University, Denmark 26 August 2017 http://dhs.gforge.inria.fr/ The purpose of DHS is to connect researchers working in real-time and hybrid systems, control theory, distributed computing, and concurrency, in order to advance the subject of distributed hybrid systems. Distributed hybrid systems, or distributed cyber-physical systems, are abundant. Many of them are safety-critical, but ensuring their correct functioning is very difficult. We believe that new techniques are needed for the analysis and validation of DHS. More precisely, we believe that convergence and interaction of methods and tools from different areas of computer science, engineering, and mathematics is needed in order to advance the subject. This first edition of the DHS workshop aims at gathering researchers which work in the above areas in order to facilitate collaboration and discuss how the subject may advance. INVITED SPEAKERS Alessandro Abate, Oxford University, United Kingdom Martin Fr?nzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark Martin Raussen, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark Rafael Wisniewski, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Please register your participation before 15 July. We are calling for presentations which can highlight how the research topics of DHS may interact in order to advance the subject of distributed hybrid systems. Note that DHS 2017 will have no formal proceedings. For more information, see: http://dhs.gforge.inria.fr/ From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Thu Jul 6 09:18:51 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:18:51 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2017 post-proceedings open call for papers Message-ID: Paper submission deadline 23 October 2017 Open call for papers Post-proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs TYPES 2017 TYPES is a major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of type theory and its applications. TYPES 2017 was held between 29 May and 1 June in Budapest, Hungary. The 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, also to those who did not participate in the conference. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type systems to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics: * 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; * Type theory in linguistics. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: 16 October 2017 * Paper submission: 23 October 2017 * Author notification: 26 March 2018 DETAILS * Papers have to be formatted with lipics.cls and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs. http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ * The recommended length of a paper is 15-25 pages. Submissions significantly longer than 25 pages will not be considered. * Papers have to be submitted in pdf through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2017postproceed * 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. * More information is available on http://types2017.elte.hu/#postproc * In case of questions, please contact one of the editors. EDITORS Andreas Abel andreas.abel at gu.se Gothenburg University, Sweden Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg fredrik.nordvall-forsberg at strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Ambrus Kaposi akaposi at inf.elte.hu E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary From thao.dang at imag.fr Fri Jul 7 05:25:19 2017 From: thao.dang at imag.fr (Thao Dang) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 11:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS'17 Call for Participation, 5-7 September Message-ID: <358093174.48035770.1499419519527.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> [ Apologies for cross posting ] FORMATS 2017 - Call for Participation 15th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems 5-7 September, 2017 http://formats17.ulb.be FORMATS'17 takes place in Berlin, Germany, where it is part of QONFEST and is colocated with CONCUR'17 and QEST'17. Tentative Conference Programme ------ http://formats17.ulb.be/programme/ As traditional, publication of the proceedings of FORMATS'17 will be hosted by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Invited speakers ------ Laurent Fribourg , LSV, Universit? Paris-Saclay. Morten Bisgaard , GomSpace (co-sponsored with QEST) Hongseok Yang , Department of computer science, Oxford University (co-sponsored with CONCUR and QEST) BQ_BEGIN BQ_END Registration ------ Early registration ends on 31 July, 2017 Registration Page BQ_BEGIN http://formats17.ulb.be/registration/ BQ_END All the registration process (including payment) is carried out by the QONFEST organisation. Combined registrations (with a discount price) to CONCUR, QEST and EPEW are also available. Early registration ends on July, 31st! Objectives ------ Control and analysis of the timing of computations is crucial to many domains of system engineering, be it, e.g., for ensuring timely response to stimuli originating in an uncooperative environment, or for synchronising components in VLSI. Reflecting this broad scope, timing aspects of systems from a variety of domains have been treated independently by different communities in computer science and control. Researchers interested in semantics, verification and performance analysis study models such as timed automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses after sampling the environment, as well as of the dynamics of the controlled process during this span. Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are basic problems (of both scientific and engineering level) that are common to all of them. In particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on the temporal distances between occurrences of successive events. Often, these constraints cannot be separated, as the intrinsic dynamics of processes couples them, necessitating models, methods, and tools facilitating their combined analysis. Reflecting this, FORMATS'17 promotes submissions on hybrid discrete-continuous systems, and will promote a special session on this topic. Topics ------ The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in modelling and analysis of timed systems and, as a generalisation, of hybrid systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): * Foundations and Semantics : Theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; new models and logics or analysis and comparison of existing models (like automata, Petri nets, max-plus models, network calculus, or process algebras involving quantitative time; hybrid automata; probabilistic automata and logics). * Methods and Tools : Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analysing or synthesising timed or hybrid systems and for resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimisation, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.) * Applications : Adaptation and specialisation of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, embedded control, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunications). General Chair of QONFEST ------------- Katinka Wolter, (FU Berlin) Uwe Nestermann, (TU Berlin) Program Committee Chairs ---------------- Alessandro Abate (Oxford, UK) Gilles Geeraerts (ULB, BE) Publicity Chair --------------- Thao Dang, (CNRS/University of Grenoble Alps, France) Program Committee ---------------- Erika Abraham Etienne Andr? Bernard Berthomieu Sergiy Bogomolov Patricia Bouyer Thomas Brihaye Alexandre David Uli Fahrenberg Martin Fr?nzle Jane Hillston David Jansen Jan K?et?nsk? Giuseppe Lipari Nicolas Markey Dejan Nickovic Jens Oehlerking Pavithra Prabhakar Karin Quaas Jan Reineke Olivier H. Roux Sibylle Schupp Ana Sokolova Oleg Sokolsky Jir? Srba Nathalie Sznajder Stavros Tripakis Majid Zamani Steering Committee ------------------ Rajeev Alur, (U. Pennsylvania, USA) Eugene Asarin, (U. Paris Diderot, France) Martin Fr?nzle (U. Oldenburg, Germany) Thomas A. Henzinger, (IST Austria) Joost-Pieter Katoen, (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Kim G. Larsen, (U. Aalborg, Denmark) Oded Maler, (VERIMAG, CNRS-UGA, France) Lothar Thiele, (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Wang Yi, (U. Uppsala, Sweden) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Fri Jul 7 15:42:12 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 21:42:12 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFR]: ESORICS+Workshops 2017 Registration is Open (Early-bird pricing through ***August, 15th 2017***) Message-ID: <978ba2985a46df6aa4014bef9338d07e@lcc.uma.es> Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to join us at the 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2017 in Oslo, Norway! ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Registration for ESORICS+Workshops 2017 is open, but will end soon. Early registration deadline is ***August, 15th 2017*** Registration rates: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/registration If an invitation letter is needed (e.g. VISA) the letter will be provided after the registration. To do this, it is necessary to send an email to the organizing committee: mailto:esorics2017 at ntnu.edu Venu page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/venue Travel and accommodation page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/travel-accomodation We hope to see you in Oslo, Norway! -- Cristina Alcaraz ESORICS 2017 Publicity Chair University of Malaga From wies at cs.nyu.edu Tue Jul 11 06:50:25 2017 From: wies at cs.nyu.edu (Thomas Wies) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:50:25 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TAPAS 2017: Call for Abstracts Message-ID: Call for Abstracts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis TAPAS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- August 29, 2017 New York, NY, USA A Satellite Workshop of SAS 2017 http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/tapas2017/ Important Dates --------------- * Submission deadline: July 14, 2017 (extended) * Notification: July 24, 2017 * Workshop: August 29, 2017 Objectives ---------- In recent years, a wide range of static analysis tools have emerged, some of which are currently in industrial use or are well beyond the advanced prototype level. Many impressive practical results have been obtained, which allow complex properties to be proven or checked in a fully or semi-automatic way, even in the context of complex software developments. In parallel, the techniques to design and implement static analysis tools have improved significantly, and much effort is being put into engineering the tools. This workshop is intended to promote discussions and exchange experience between specialists in all areas of program analysis design and implementation and static analysis tool users. Scope ----- The technical program of TAPAS 2017 will consist of invited lectures together with presentations based on submitted extended abstracts. Submissions can cover any aspect of program analysis tools including, but not limited to the following: * design and implementation of static analysis tools (including practical techniques used for obtaining precision and performance); * components of static analysis tools (front-ends, abstract domains, etc.); * integration of static analyzers (in proof assistants, test generation tools, IDEs, etc.); * reusable software infrastructure (analysis algorithms and frameworks); * experience reports on the use of static analyzers (both research prototypes and industrial tools). Submission ---------- Please visit the submission website: . All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee. Submitted abstracts should be up to 3 pages in the two-column sub-format of the new ACM proceedings format. Invited Speakers ---------------- Forthcoming. Program Chair ------------- * Thomas Wies (NYU, USA) Program Committee ----------------- * Michael Emmi (Nokia Bell Labs, USA) * Samir Genaim (UCM, Spain) * Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Laura Kovacs (TU Wien, Austria) * Isabella Maestroni (University of Verona, Italy) * Antoine Min? (UPMC University, France) * Damien Zufferey (MPI-SWS, Germany) From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Mon Jul 10 17:05:28 2017 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:05:28 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GraMSec 2017 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: <31b4b651-caa3-1126-6fc6-4f657b6d7fe1@irisa.fr> ****************************************************************** GraMSec 2017 The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Co-located with CSF 2017 Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ ****************************************************************** GraMSec REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN To register please follow the instructions given at http://www.gramsec.uni.lu/registration.php If you need a visa support letter, please check http://csf2017.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/visa.html 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 assessment 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 and tools for their practical usage. INVITED TALK Anoop Singhal, NIST Security Metrics and Risk Analysis for Enterprise Systems ACCEPTED REGULAR PAPERS * Karin Bernsmed, Christian Fr?ystad, Per H?kon Meland, Dag Atle Nesheim, and ?rnulf Jan R?dseth Visualizing Cyber Security Risks with Bow-Tie Diagrams * Ang?le Bossuat and Barbara Kordy Evil Twins: Handling Repetitions in Attack?Defense Trees - A Survival Guide * Aitor Couce-Vieira, Siv Hilde Houmb, and David R?os-Insua CSIRA: A Method for Analysing the Risk of Cybersecurity Incidents * Peter Gj?l Jensen, Axel Legay, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Danny B?gsted Poulsen Quantitative Evaluation of Attack Defense Trees using Stochastic Timed Automata * Dan Ionita, Margaret Ford, Alexandr Vasenev, and Roel Wieringa Graphical Modeling of Security Arguments: Current State and Future Directions ACCEPTED SHORT PAPERS * Olga Gadyatskaya and Rolando Trujillo-Rasua New Directions in Attack Tree Research: Catching up with Industrial Needs * Ryan Habibi, Jens Weber, and Morgan Price Circle of Health Based Access Control for Personal Health Information Systems * Letitia Li, Florian Lugou, and Ludovic Apvrille Security Modeling for Embedded System Design * Brian Ruttenberg, Dave Blumstein, Jeff Druce, Michael Howard, Fred Reed, Leslie Wilfong, Crystal Lister, Steve Gaskin, Meaghan Foley, and Dan Scofield Probabilistic Modeling of Insider Threat Detection Systems GENERAL CHAIR Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Ketil St?len, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17 at easychair.org From sabel at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jul 10 04:50:38 2017 From: sabel at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (David Sabel) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:50:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers: WPTE 2017 Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Message-ID: ======================================================================================== Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation WPTE 2017 affiliated with FSCD 2017 8 September, 2017, Oxford, UK http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE17 ======================================================================================== Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline (extended abstracts): July 14th, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: August 4th, 2017 * Deadline for participant proceedings: August 11th, 2017 * Workshop: September 8th, 2017 * Submission deadline for post proceedings (full-papers): October, 2017 (exact date to be announced) 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 were held in Vienna 2014, in Warsaw 2015, and in Porto 2016. 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. Invited Speaker =============== Joachim Breitner(University of Pennsylvania, USA) Paper Submissions ================= For the paper submission deadline an extended abstract of at most 10 pages is required to be submitted. The extended abstract may present original work or also work in progress. However, for the formal post-proceedings (see below) full papers must be submitted to the post-proceedings deadline. Based on the submissions the program committee will select the presentations for the workshop. All selected contributions will be included in the informal proceedings distributed to the workshop participants. One author of each accepted extended abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package (http://style.eptcs.org/). Formal Post-Proceedings ======================= The WPTE post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). The authors of all presented contributions will have the opportunity (but no obligation) to submit a full paper for the formal post-proceedings. These full-papers must represent original work and should not be submitted to another conference at the same time. Full-papers should not exceed 15 pages. The submission deadline for these post-proceedings will be after the workshop in October 2017. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Weblinks ======== * EasyChair Submission Website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2017 * Homepage of WPTE 2017 http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE17/ * FSCD 2017 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ Program Committee ================= Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA) Martin Avanzini (University of Innsbruck) Yuki Chiba (JAIST) Horatiu Cirstea (LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine) -- chair Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) Maribel Fernandez (KCL) Delia Kesner (Universit? Paris-Diderot) Sergue? Lenglet (Universit? de Lorraine) Elena Machkasova (University of Minnesota, Morris) William Mansky (Princeton University) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) -- chair Masahiko Sakai (Graduate School of Infomation Science, Nagoya University) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Janis Voigtl?nder (University of Nijmegen) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig) Fer-Jan de Vries (University of Leicester) From eva at mpi-sws.org Tue Jul 11 07:49:25 2017 From: eva at mpi-sws.org (Eva Darulova) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:49:25 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc (PhD) position @ MPI-SWS in software verification and approximate computing Message-ID: <5964BB45.7080909@mpi-sws.org> Postdoc (PhD) position @ MPI-SWS in software verification and approximate computing Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) based in Saarbr?cken, Germany, under the supervision of Eva Darulova (https://people.mpi-sws.org/~eva/) in the Automated Verification and Approximation group. Outstanding students can also be considered for a PhD position. The postdoctoral researcher is expected to collaborate closely with other researchers in the group, but has the freedom to also pursue his/her interests. The successful candidate should have a strong background in at least one of the following areas: * static analysis * software verification * software optimization * approximate computing * (numerical programs in) embedded systems and scientific computing MPI-SWS offers an internationally renowned research community as well as a multicultural and open working environment. The position is fully funded, including social benefits and funding for travel. The institute language is English; proficiency in spoken and written English are essential requirements but knowledge of the German language is not required. The initial postdoc appointment is for one year, starting anytime, but preferably in fall/winter 2017, with an option to extend it for up to three years (depending on performance). Information for PhD candidates can be found at https://www.mpi-sws.org/graduate-studies/. Application: Submit a formal online application at https://apply.mpi-sws.org/ and then send an email to Eva directly (eva AT mpi-sws DOT org), referencing the application. For postdoc candidates, the application consists of a CV, a research statement, and a list of referees. PhD candidates submit a statement of purpose instead of a research statement. Application deadline: Friday, 15 September or until the position is filled. From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Tue Jul 11 13:28:49 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:28:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2017 - Call for participation Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction FSCD 2017 3?9, September 2017 (colocated with ICFP) Oxford, UK http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ FSCD is a conference covering 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. REGISTRATION The registration page is already open and linked from: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/registration.html The early registration deadline is *** 7 August ***. Students should apply for scholarships by *** 21 July *** (for more details please visit the conference webpage). INVITED SPEAKERS * Marco Gaboardi (Univ. Buffalo, SUNY) * Georg Mose (Univ. Innsbruck) * Alexandra Silva (University College London) * Christine Tasson (PPS and Univ. Paris Diderot) SATELLITE EVENTS - Trends in Linear Logic and Applications (September 3) - 31st International Workshop on Unification (September 3) - Trends in Mechanised Security Proofs, COST Action CA15123 EUTypes Workshop (September 3) - *Third Workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (September 8-9) - Third Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (September 8-9) - *First Workshop on String Diagrams in Computation, Logic, and Physics (September 8-9) - Fourth Meeting on Structures and Deduction (September 8 and 9) - Sixth International Workshop on Confluence (September 8) - International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages - Theory and Practice (September 8) - Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformation and Evaluation (September 8) - IFIP Working Group 1.6: Rewriting (September 9) * These workshops will be co-located. PROGRAM CHAIR Dale Miller (Inria Saclay) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Gothenburg Univ.) Elvira Albert (Complutense Madrid) Mar?a Alpuente (TU Valencia) Takahito Aoto (Niigata Univ. ) Zena Ariola (Univ. Oregon) Federico Aschieri (TU Wien) Stefano Berardi (Univ. Turin) Lars Birkedal (Aarhus Univ.) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS & ENS Lyon) Pierre Clairambault (CNRS & ENS Lyon) Ugo Dal Lago (Univ. Bologna) Herman Geuvers (Radboud Univ.) Silvia Ghilezan (Univ. Novi Sad) J?rgen Giesl (RWTH Aachen) Hugo Herbelin (Inria Paris) Jan Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon) Deepak Kapur (Univ. New Mexico) Paul Blain Levy (Univ. Birmingham) Paulo Oliva (QMUL, London) Vincent van Oostrom (Univ. Innsbruck) Daniela Petrisan (LIAFA, Paris) Femke van Raamsdonk (VU Univ. Amsterdam) Grigore Rosu (Univ. Illinois) Albert Rubio (UPC-BarcelonaTech) Paula Severi (Univ. Leicester) Bas Spitters (Aarhus Univ. ) Aaron Stump (Univ. Iowa) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto Univ.) Ren? Thiemann (Univ. 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The first edition of was a great success (seehttp://twitter.com/programmingconffor testimonies). Paper submissions and publications are handled by the journal. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** 2018 accept scholarly papers including essays that advance the knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: August 1 2017 (Research Papers Second Submission Deadline) December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline) We accept submissions covering several areas of expertise. These areas include, but are not limited to: ? General-purpose programming ? Distributed systems programming ? Parallel and multi-core programming ? Graphics and GPU programming ? Security programming ? User interface programming ? Database programming ? Visual and live programming ? Data mining and machine learning programming ? Interpreters, virtual machines and compilers ? Modularity and separation of concerns ? Model-based development ? Metaprogramming and reflection ? Testing and debugging ? Program verification ? Programming education ? Programming environments ? Social coding ******************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************************************** Research paper submissions: August 1 2017 (Research Papers Second Submission Deadline) December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline) Research paper first notification (for second submission deadline): October 1 2017 Research paper final notification (for second submission deadline): November 7 2017 Research paper first notification (for third submission deadline): February 1 2018 Research paper final notification (for third submission deadline): March 7 2018 Workshop Proposals: October 1 2017 All important dates can also be found athttp://programming-journal.org/timeline/ ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Manuel Serrano, INRIA France Local Organizing Chair: Tamara Rezk, INRIA France Organizing Committee: Stefan Marr (workshops), Johannes Kepler University Linz Jennifer B. Sartor (workshops), Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium Philipp Haller (student research competition), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Tobias Pape (web technology), HPI - University of Potsdam Sylvia Grewe (publicity), Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Germany Program Committee: Guido Salvaneschi (program chair), Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Alberto Bacchelli, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK Patrick Eugster, TU Darmstadt, Germany and Purdue University, United States Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, UK Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, United States Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de M?laga, Spain Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI, California Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Yossi Gil, Israel Institute of Technology Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Phlipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Matthew Hammer, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), Germany Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan J?rg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, University of Cambridge, UK Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Mira Mezini, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, United States Mario S?dholt, IMT Atlantique, Nantes, France Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, United States Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Tijs van der Storm, CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands ******************************************************** 2018 is kindly supported by: ACM In-Cooperation SIGPLAN (In-cooperation) SIGSOFT (In-cooperation) INRIA France AOSA ******************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francois.pottier at inria.fr Wed Jul 12 04:49:45 2017 From: francois.pottier at inria.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Fran=c3=a7ois_Pottier?=) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:49:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: Higher-Order Programming with Effects, HOPE 2017 Message-ID: <30701bce-200c-d490-88ff-56d07f0f56d6@inria.fr> One-liner: the list of accepted talks for HOPE 2017 is now online! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION HOPE 2017 The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects September 3, 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom (the day before ICFP 2017) http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/hope-2017-papers#event-overview ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The HOPE workshop series are intended to bring together researchers interested in the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. They are informal, consisting of invited talks, contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. They are dedicated to John Reynolds, whose work is an inspiration to us all. The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects will take place on Sunday, September 3, 2017, that is, the day before ICFP 2017, in Oxford, United Kingdom. # 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 code harder to build, maintain, and reason about. 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. # Important Dates * Workshop: September 3, 2017 (Sunday) # Accepted Talks http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/hope-2017-papers#event-overview # Workshop Organization Program Co-Chairs: Fran?ois Pottier (Inria Paris) Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute) Program Committee: Edwin Brady University of St Andrews Pierre-?variste Dagand LIP6/CNRS Atsushi Igarashi Kyoto University Robbert Krebbers Delft University of Technology Vivek Nigam Federal University of Para?ba Matija Pretnar University of Ljubljana Azalea Raad Imperial College London Aseem Rastogi Microsoft Research Filip Sieczkowski University of Wroc?aw Niki Vazou University of Maryland From sabel at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Fri Jul 14 03:03:36 2017 From: sabel at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (David Sabel) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:03:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: WPTE 2017 Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Message-ID: <1110db28-aeea-fc10-18d5-2d2382e8cc0c@ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> ======================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation WPTE 2017 affiliated with FSCD 2017 8 September, 2017, Oxford, UK http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE17 ======================================================================================== 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 were held in Vienna 2014, in Warsaw 2015, and in Porto 2016. 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. Invited Speaker =============== Joachim Breitner(University of Pennsylvania, USA) Paper Submissions ================= For the paper submission deadline an extended abstract of at most 10 pages is required to be submitted. The extended abstract may present original work or also work in progress. However, for the formal post-proceedings (see below) full papers must be submitted to the post-proceedings deadline. Based on the submissions the program committee will select the presentations for the workshop. All selected contributions will be included in the informal proceedings distributed to the workshop participants. One author of each accepted extended abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package (http://style.eptcs.org/). Formal Post-Proceedings ======================= The WPTE post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). The authors of all presented contributions will have the opportunity (but no obligation) to submit a full paper for the formal post-proceedings. These full-papers must represent original work and should not be submitted to another conference at the same time. Full-papers should not exceed 15 pages. The submission deadline for these post-proceedings will be after the workshop in October 2017. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline (extended abstracts): July 21th, 2017 (Extended!) * Notification of acceptance: August 4th, 2017 * Deadline for participant proceedings: August 11th, 2017 * Workshop: September 8th, 2017 * Submission deadline for post proceedings (full-papers): October, 2017 (exact date to be announced) Weblinks ======== * EasyChair Submission Website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2017 * Homepage of WPTE 2017 http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE17/ * FSCD 2017 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ Program Committee ================= Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA) Martin Avanzini (University of Innsbruck) Yuki Chiba (JAIST) Horatiu Cirstea (LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine) -- chair Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) Maribel Fernandez (KCL) Delia Kesner (Universit? Paris-Diderot) Sergue? Lenglet (Universit? de Lorraine) Elena Machkasova (University of Minnesota, Morris) William Mansky (Princeton University) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) -- chair Masahiko Sakai (Graduate School of Infomation Science, Nagoya University) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Janis Voigtl?nder (University of Nijmegen) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig) Fer-Jan de Vries (University of Leicester) From thiemann at informatik.uni-freiburg.de Fri Jul 14 11:31:16 2017 From: thiemann at informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Peter Thiemann) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:31:16 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Phd/PostDoc position at University of Freiburg Message-ID: <748DB18E-66B8-4731-B39D-62D10F2C7A35@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Starting in October 2017, the programming languages group at University of Freiburg, Germany, has an opening for a research assistant to work with Prof. Dr. Peter Thiemann. This position can be filled with a graduate working towards a PhD or with a PostDoc and it involves a light amount of teaching. We welcome applications of either kind. RESEARCH The overall research theme of the group is to explore the boundaries of static and dynamic checking of program properties, in particular types. ? Theoretical and practical aspects of typed programming, for example session types, gradual typing, dependent types, type-based program analysis ? Language-based security, in particular hybrid information-flow enforcement ? Runtime verification and contract checking We are working in the context of JavaScript, Haskell, OCaml, Scala, and admit the occasional excursion to Java and Go. We collaborate with leading researchers worldwide. Check our research webpage http://proglang.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/research/ or DBLP publication profile http://dblp.dagstuhl.de/pers/hd/t/Thiemann:Peter for more information. REQUIREMENTS ? University degree in computer science or closely related field ? Motivation to work on abstract theories and put them in practical implementations ? Fluent English (speech and writing) Familiarity with ?Types and Programming Languages? and/or ?Software Foundations? is helpful as we expect the candidate to apply similar techniques and tools. JOB DETAILS AND APPLICATION The salary is according to the TV-L E13 scale of German public service. The university of Freiburg aims at increasing the number of female employees and thus especially welcomes applications of female candidates. Applications of disabled candidates will be given priority, depending on their suitability. Please send your application in PDF format by email to the leader of the programming languages group, Prof. Dr. Peter Thiemann . Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Informal enquiries about the position may also be sent to Prof. Dr. Peter Thiemann thiemann at informatik.uni-freiburg.de http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~thiemann/ From saverio.giallorenzo at gmail.com Fri Jul 14 07:54:58 2017 From: saverio.giallorenzo at gmail.com (Saverio Giallorenzo) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:54:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers Microservices 2017 Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Microservices'17 1st International Conference on Microservices Odense, Denmark, October 23-27 (TBD, in Week 43), 2017 http://conf-micro.services/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Microservices 2017 is a joint forum for scientists and practitioners in the area of microservices. In microservices, software components are services that can be independently deployed and scaled. This brings all the benefits, but also all the issues, of distributed computing to the *internals* of applications. The resulting increase in complexity calls for a proportional improvement of techniques for software construction. This requires contributions from different areas, ranging from formal methods to software engineering and the general art of programming. The event will place particular emphasis on the identification of the challenges that the community of microservices will face in the future, promising directions, and open discussions (panels) with experts from academia and industry. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Design and implementation of microservice architectures. - Empirical studies of microservices. - Software engineering methods for microservices. - Security in microservices. - Formal models for microservices. - Verification (both static and runtime) of microservice systems. - Programming languages and techniques for microservices. - Testing for microservices. See http://conf-micro.services for full details. ## Preparation of submissions We solicit contributions in the form of extended abstracts with a maximum length of two pages. A submission should describe a talk to be given at the event. Talks can be based on work in progress, scientific work published or submitted for publication, or practical experience reports. Practical demonstrations of tools are also welcome. Accepted publications will be collected in an informal book of abstracts, which will be distributed at the event. 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Strong programming skill is required. Experience in any or all of the following is a plus. * Computer security, especially software, systems, and mobile security, * Program analysis and model checking, * Formal methods and verification, * Symbolic execution, * Type systems and logics, * Programming languages, * Compiler, * Binary code analysis, * Malware analysis, * Reverse engineering, and * Machine learning. Researchers with more experience are encouraged to apply and may be appointed at research associate/scientist or senior research associate/scientist level. The initial appointment will be one-year, but renewable for multiple years. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. Contact Prof. Dinghao Wu (dwu at ist.psu.edu) for any questions. 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Grants will be awarded based on the grant committee's assessment of the applicant's genuine financial need, the potential benefit to the applicant's education and research, and the potential benefit to TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP. Among those applicants who genuinely could not attend TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP without a grant, the evaluating committee gives priority to (co-)authors of accepted papers. Although priority is given to students with active role in the conferences/workshops, students in other situations are very much encouraged to apply. Applications should explain briefly (limited to 2000 characters) * the current status of the applicant * the kind of participation of the applicant in TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP * a breakdown of the estimated amount needed Applications should be sent by August 10th 2017 by email to Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com). Students should have their supervisor sent a brief recommendation email (limited to 2000 characters) to the same address and by the same deadline. This letter should describe the student's work, the benefit to that work of attending the conference, and an assessment of the student's financial need. The award notification date is August 15th, 2017. The grants will be presented at the conferences; in case a grantee does not attend, the chairs may transfer the grant to another student or give no award. 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The Reachability Workshop is specifically aimed at gathering together scholars from diverse disciplines interested in reachability problems that appear in algebraic structures, computational models, hybrid systems, logic and verification. Invited Speakers: Hana Chockler, King's College London Laurent Doyen, LSV - ENS Cachan Rapha?l Jungers, Universit? catholique de Louvain Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Presentation-Only Track Submission: In addition to regular papers that will appear in our LNCS proceedings, we invite researchers to apply to give a presentation at RP'17 without an accompanying paper. Such presentations can be based on work that has appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another conference, or which has not yet been submitted. These contributions will be judged solely on the basis of their attractiveness to the workshop. To apply to give such a presentation please submit a PDF file containing a short abstract (up to two pages) by e-mail [ rp2017 at easychair.org ] by August 2st 2017, with subject "RP2017 Informal Presentations". This abstract will not be published in the conference proceedings. Notification for the presentation-only track will be August 9th 2017. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): reachability problems in infinite state systems, rewriting systems, dynamical and hybrid systems; reachability problems in logic and verification; reachability analysis in different computational models, counter timed/cellular/communicating automata; Petri nets; computational aspects of algebraic structures (semigroups, groups and rings); frontiers between decidable and undecidable reachability problems; predictability in iterative maps and new computational paradigms. Accepted Regular Papers: * Jeremy Sproston. Probabilistic Timed Automata with Clock-Dependent Probabilities * Adrien Le Coent, Julien Alexandre Dit Sandretto, Alexandre Chapoutot, Laurent Fribourg, Florian De Vuyst and Ludovic Chamoin. Distributed control synthesis using Euler?s method * Tomoyuki Yamakami. Parameterized Graph Connectivity and Polynomial-Time Sub-Linear-Space Short Reductions * Franck Cassez, Peter Gj?l Jensen and Kim Guldstrand Larsen. Refinement of Trace Abstraction for Real-Time Programs * Norbert Hundeshagen and Martin Lange. Model Checking CTL over Restricted Classes of Automatic Structures * Antti Valmari. Stubborn Sets with Frozen Actions * Florian Bruse, Martin Lange and Etienne Lozes. Space-Efficient Fragments of Higher-Order Fixpoint Logic * Devendra Bhave and Shibashis Guha. Adding Dense-timed Stack to Integer Reset Timed Automata * Reino Niskanen. Reachability problem for polynomial iteration is PSPACE-complete * Emmanuel Filiot and Pierre-Alain Reynier. Copyfull Streaming String Transducers * Milka Hutagalung. Topological Characterisation of Multi-Buffer Simulation * Giorgio Delzanno, Davide Ancona, Luca Franceschini, Maurizio Leotta, Enrico Prampolini, Marina Ribaudo and Filippo Ricca. An Abstract Machine for Asynchronous Programs with Closures and Priority Queues RP'17 Program Committee: Igor Potapov, University of Liverpool (co-chair) Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway, University of London (co-chair) Paul Bell, Liverpool John Moores University Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan Aiswarya Cyriac, Chennai Mathematical Institute Giorgio Delzanno, Universita Degli Studi Di Genova Piotrek Hofman, University of Warsaw Peter Lammich, Institut fuer Informatik, TU Munich Martin Lange, University of Kassel Salvatore La Torre, Universit? degli Studi di Salerno Ranko Lazic, University of Warwick Ond?ej Leng?l, Brno University of Technology Jerome Leroux, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Ahmed Rezine, Link?ping University Tachio Terauchi, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University Previous Workshops: 2016: RP'16 in Aalborg, Denmark LNCS proceedings, Volume 9899/2016, Springer Verlag 2015: RP'15 in Warsaw, Poland LNCS proceedings, Volume 9328/2015, Springer Verlag 2014: RP'14 in Oxford, UK LNCS proceedings, Volume 8762/2014, Springer Verlag 2013: RP'13 in Uppsala, Sweden LNCS proceedings, Volume 8169/2013, Springer Verlag 2012: RP'12 in Bordeaux, France LNCS proceedings, Volume 7550/2012, Springer Verlag 2011: RP'11 in Genova, Italy LNCS proceedings, Volume 6945/2011, Springer Verlag 2010: RP'10 in Brno, Czech Republic LNCS proceedings, Volume 6227/2010, Springer Verlag 2009: RP'09 in Palaiseau, France LNCS proceedings, Volume 5797/2009, Springer Verlag 2008: RP'08 in Liverpool, UK ENTCS proceedings, Volume 223, Elsevier 2007: RP'07 in Turku, Finland TUCS General Publication Series, Volume 45, Turku Centre for Computer Science From kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de Tue Jul 18 13:25:23 2017 From: kirstin.peters at tu-berlin.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:25:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CONCUR 2017 -- 2nd Call for Participation Message-ID: ============================================================================ CONCUR 2017 - Second Call for Participation 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory September 5-8, 2017, Berlin, Germany https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/ ============================================================================ INVITED SPEAKERS - Hongseok Yang (University of Oxford, UK) - Azahdeh Farzan (University of Toronto, Canada) - Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft Research, USA) - Jean-Francois Raskin (Universit? libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) TUTORIALS - Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) - Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) - Viktor Vafeiadis (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany) CO-LOCATED EVENTS 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2017) 15th International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2017) 14th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2017) There will be four workshops co-located with CONCUR: EXPRESS/SOS, RADICAL, YR-CONCUR on September 4, and TRENDS on September 9. ============================================================================ The list of accepted papers of CONCUR is available at: https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/accepted_papers.html The program is available at: https://www.concur2017.tu-berlin.de/program/detailed.html ============================================================================ The registration for CONCUR'17, QEST'17, FORMATS'17 and EPEW'17 (together with their affiliated workshops and tutorials) is now open! 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URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue Jul 18 17:34:22 2017 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:34:22 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: ICFP 2017 Message-ID: <596e7ede41c32_602d3fdee4455be8707b0@landin.local.mail> [ Early registration ends 4 August. ] ===================================================================== Call for Participation ICFP 2017 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming and affiliated events September 3 - September 9, 2017 Oxford, UK http://icfp17.sigplan.org/ ===================================================================== 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: ICFP, 2 co-hosted conferences, 1 co-hosted symposium, workshops, tutorials, programming contest results, student research competition, and mentoring workshop * Overview and affiliated events: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/home * Program: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/program/program-icfp-2017 * Accepted papers: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-papers * Registration is available via: https://regmaster4.com/2017conf/ICFP17/register.php Early registration is due 4 August, 2016. * Programming contest, 4-7 August, 2016: http://2017.icfpcontest.org * Student Research Competition: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-Student-Research-Competition * Follow @icfp_conference on twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/icfp_conference There are several events affiliated with ICFP: Sunday, September 3 Workshop on Higher-order Programming with Effects Workshop on Type-Driven Development Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop ICFP Tutorials Monday, September 4 ? Wednesday, September 6 ICFP FSCD - Days 1-3 Thursday, September 7 Haskell Symposium ? Day 1 ML Family Workshop Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing Commercial Users of Functional Programming ? Day 1 FSCD - Day 4 Friday, September 8 Haskell Symposium ? Day 2 OCaml Workshop Erlang Workshop Commercial Users of Functional Programming ? Day 2 Saturday, September 9 Commercial Users of Functional Programming ? Day 3 Haskell Implementors Workshop Functional Art, Music, Modeling and Design Conference Organizers: General Chair: Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford, UK) Program Chair: Mark Jones (Portland State University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Ryan R. Newton (Indiana University, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Ryan Trinkle (Obsidian Systems LLC, USA) PLMW Co-Chair: Neelakantan R. Krishnawami (University of Cambridge, UK) PLMW Co-Chair: Dan Licata (Wesleyan University, USA) PLMW Co-Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Programming Contest Organiser: Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity and Web Chair: Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Student Volunteer Co-Captain: Yosuke Fukuda (Kyoto University, Japan) Student Volunteer Co-Captain: Yuki Nishida (Kyoto University, Japan) Student Volunteer Co-Captain: Jakub Zalewski (University of Edinburgh, UK) Video Chair: Jose Calderon (Galois, Inc., USA) Workshops Co-Chair: Andres L?h (Well-Typed LLP, UK) Workshops Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Indiana University, USA) Sponsors and industrial partners: Platinum partners Ahrefs Jane Street Capital Gold partners Bloomberg X Silver partners Galois Oracle Bronze partners Obsidian Systems Portland State University Well-Typed From ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Wed Jul 19 11:15:02 2017 From: ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Ayoub Nouri) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:15:02 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2017 - 1st Call for Participation Message-ID: <0318af5f-6505-2a5a-67af-9df02d92aff5@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RV?17 - RUNTIME VERIFICATION 2017 The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification, September 13-16 2017, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk Affiliated Event: RV-CuBES - An International Workshop on Competitions, Usability, Benchmarks, Evaluation, and Standardisation for Runtime Verification Tools === OVERVIEW === Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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 monitor construction techniques program instrumentation logging, recording, and replay combination of static and dynamic analysis specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems runtime checking of privacy and security policies statistical model checking metrics and statistical information gathering program/system execution visualization fault localization, containment, recovery and repair integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, 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 === Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University, USA: ?The Design and Applications for a Tracing Plane for Distributed Systems? Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg, Microsoft, USA: ?Windows Driver Verification Platform? Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany: ?Learning Input Languages for Runtime Verification? === TUTORIALS === Ankush Desai and Shaz Qadeer, UC Berkeley and Microsoft Research, USA: ?P : Modular and Safe Asynchronous Programming? Madhusudan Parthasarathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: ?Machine-learning State Properties? Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta: ?Foundations For Runtime Monitoring? === ACCEPTED PAPERS === === Regular Papers Bernhard K. Aichernig and Martin Tappler. ?Probabilistic Black-Box Reachability Checking? Minjun Seo and Roman Lysecky. ?Hierarchical Non-Intrusive In-Situ Requirements Monitoring for Embedded Systems? David Basin, Sr?an Krsti? and Dmitriy Traytel. ?Almost Event-Rate Independent Monitoring of Metric Dynamic Logic? Kostyantyn Vorobyov, Nikolai Kosmatov, Julien Signoles and Arvid Jakobsson. ?Runtime Detection of Temporal Memory Errors? Katar?na Kejstov?, Petr Ro?kai and Jiri Barnat. ?From Model Checking to Runtime Verification and Back? Zachary Benavides, Rajiv Gupta and Xiangyu Zhang. ?Annotation Guided Collection of Context-Sensitive Parallel Execution Profiles? Oliviero Riganelli, Daniela Micucci, Leonardo Mariani and Yli?s Falcone. ?Verifying Policy Enforcers? Ankush Desai, Tommaso Dreossi and Sanjit A. Seshia. ?Combining Model Checking and Runtime Verification for Safe Robotics? Vidhya Tekken Valapil, Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai, Sandeep Kulkarni, Eric Torng and Murat Demirbas. ?Monitoring Partially Synchronous Distributed Systems using SMT Solvers? Chaoqiang Deng and Kedar Namjoshi. ?Witnessing Network Transformations? Teng Zhang, John Wiegley, Insup Lee and Oleg Sokolsky. ?Monitoring Time Intervals? Bjorn Andersson, Sagar Chaki and Dionisio De Niz. ?Combining Symbolic Runtime Enforcers for Cyber-Physical Systems? Babak Yadegari and Saumya Debray. ?Control Dependencies in Interpretive Systems? Himanshu Chauhan and Vijay Garg. ?Space Efficient Breadth-First and Level Traversals of Consistent Global States of Parallel Programs? Giuseppe Bombara and Calin Belta. ?Signal Clustering using Temporal Logics? Susmit Jha, Ashish Tiwari, Sanjit A. Seshia, Natarajan Shankar and Tuhin Sahai. ?TeLEx: Passive STL Learning Using Only Positive Examples? Florian-Michael Adolf, Peter Faymonville, Bernd Finkbeiner, Sebastian Schirmer and Christoph Torens. ?Stream Runtime Monitoring on UAVs? Bernd Finkbeiner, Christopher Hahn, Marvin Stenger and Leander Tentrup. ?Monitoring Hyperproperties? === Tool Papers Hassan Salehe Matar and Serdar Tasiran. ?EmbedSanitizer: Runtime Race Detection Tool for 32-bit Embedded ARM? Prashanth Nayak, Mike Hibler, David Johnson and Eric Eide. ?A Wingman for Virtual Appliances? Shuo Chen. ?SVAuth ? A Single-Sign-On Integration Solution with Runtime Verification? Raphael Khoury, Sebastien Gaboury and Sylvain Hall?. ?Event Stream Processing with Multiple Threads? Daisuke Ishii and Alexandre Goldsztejn. ?HySIA: Tool for Simulating and Monitoring Hybrid Automata Based on Interval Analysis? === Short Papers Kim V?llinger. ?Verifying the Output of a Distributed Algorithm using Certification? Chafik Meniar, Florence Opalvens and Sylvain Hall?. ?Runtime Verification of User Interface Guidelines in Mobile Devices? Aaron Paulos, Partha Pal, Shane Clark, Kyle Usbeck and Patrick Hurley. ?Trusted Mission Operation ? Concept and Implementation? Jun Inoue and Yoriyuki Yamagata. ?Operational Semantics of Process Monitors? === VENUE === The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification will be held in the Sheraton Seattle Hotelsituated in downtown Seattle. The venue is within walking distance of the famous Pike Place Market, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Aquarium, and the Historic Seattle Waterfront. The weather in September still permits many open-air opportunities to shop, eat, and even sail in the Elliott Bay. Exceptionally well organized, Seattle?s public transport connects the conference venue with the Seattle Center, which is the home of popular attractions like the Space Needle, EMP Museum, and Chihuly Garden and Glass. === REGISTRATION === Registration is now available using the web-based registration form, with online payment on a secure website. Please use one form per attendee. Early registration means on or before August 13, 2017. Late registration means after August 13, 2017. Different possibilities of registration are available: Tutorial Day Only (13th September): 210 USD Conference including tutorial day and RV-CuBES (13-16th September) Full Registration Early: 680 USD, Late (after 13 August): 780 USD Student Registration Early: 480 USD, Late (after 13 August): 580 USD === CHAIRS AND ORGANIZERS === General Chair Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Program Chairs Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK Finance Chair Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Publicity Chair Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Local Organisation Chairs Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA RV-CuBES, PC chairs Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA === SPONSORS === Microsoft Springer --- end -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Knowledge of decision procedures for datatypes, program analysis, SMT-based reasoning and verification, and implementation experience are desirable. The position is for 3 years (depending on start date). The deadline for applications is 17th August. Please contact Andrei Voronkov (voronkov at cs.man.ac.uk) and Giles Reger (giles.reger at manchester.ac.uk) for queries. For further details and to apply see here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=13724 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Thu Jul 20 06:19:22 2017 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco T. Vasconcelos) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:19:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?CFP_=28extension=29=3A_Special_Issue_o?= =?utf-8?q?n_Programming_Language_Approaches_to_Concurrency_and_Communicat?= =?utf-8?b?aW9uLWNF4oCm?= Message-ID: <0F1B5178-F9A3-4E52-8C8E-95B925F47669@di.fc.ul.pt> JLAMP https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-logical-and-algebraic-methods-in-programming/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-programming-language-approaches-to-concurre Important Dates Submission of papers: August 15, 2017 First review decision: October 31, 2017 Revision due: December 1, 2017 Acceptance notification: January 31, 2018 Final manuscript due: February 28, 2018 Expected publication: Spring 2018 Aims and Scope This special issue is devoted to the topics of the 10th International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES 2017, http://places17.di.fc.ul.pt/), which took place on April 29, 2017, in Uppsala, Sweden, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS). This is however an open call for papers; therefore, both participants of the workshop and other authors are encouraged to submit their contributions. 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 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 Submission We expect original articles (20-30 pages) that present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published in another journal and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Longer papers will be considered if there is a clear justification for additional pages; authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least two reviewers. The authors will have about one month 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. Contributions should be typeset in PDF format and must comply with JLAMP?s author guidelines, which can be retrieved from the Elsevier website, https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-logical-and-algebraic-methods-in-programming/2352-2208/guide-for-authors Submissions are handled by the Elsevier Editorial System:https://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/jlamp Please select ?SI: PLACES 2017? when selecting the article type name during submission process. Guest Editors Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE, phaller at kth.se Vasco T. 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Early registration deadline is ***August, 15th 2017*** Registration rates: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/registration If an invitation letter is needed (e.g. VISA) the letter will be provided after the registration. To do this, it is necessary to send an email to the organizing committee: mailto:esorics2017 at ntnu.edu Venu page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/venue Travel and accommodation page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/travel-accomodation We hope to see you in Oslo, Norway! -- Cristina Alcaraz ESORICS 2017 Publicity Chair University of Malaga From nk480 at cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 24 12:26:38 2017 From: nk480 at cl.cam.ac.uk (Neel Krishnaswami) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:26:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLMW@ICFP: CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS and PARTICIPATION (deadline July 31!) Message-ID: [Apologies for the double-post; I had an incorrect URL in the first message.] CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS and PARTICIPATION (deadline July 31!) ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, Oxford, UK Co-located with ICFP'17 PLMW web page: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/PLMW-ICFP-2017 ### 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 provide technical sessions on cutting-edge research in programming languages, and mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. We will bring together leaders in programming language research from academia and industry to give talks on their research areas. The workshop will engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community. So far, we have the following speakers and panelists confirmed for the workshop: - Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University) - Nada Amin (University of Cambridge) - Derek Dreyer (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) - Richard Eisenberg (Bryn Mawr College) - Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) - Chris Martens (North Caroline State University) - Conor McBride (Strathclyde University) - Sam Staton (Oxford) We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. 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 ICFP conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. ## Travel Scholarship Applications (Due 31 July) Please fill out [this form](https://goo.gl/forms/qDYTkvNndApNc91N2) by 31 July to apply for travel funding. These scholarships will provide funds towards airfare, hotel, and registration fees for attendance at both the workshop and ICFP, but are limited. We welcome students with alternative sources of travel funding to attend PLMW as well. Selected participants will be notified by 2 August and will need to pre-register and commit to attending the workshop by August 4. Applicants who apply after July 31 may be eligible to receive funding, if funds remain. The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome. -- Neel Krishnaswami nk480 at cl.cam.ac.uk From pierre.geneves at cnrs.fr Mon Jul 24 10:12:17 2017 From: pierre.geneves at cnrs.fr (Pierre Geneves) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:12:17 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD/PostDoc position at INRIA and UGA Message-ID: Applications are invited for a research assistant to work in the Tyrex group at INRIA/UGA/CNRS in Grenoble, France, with Dr. Pierre Geneves, Dr. Nabil Layaida, and Dr. Nils Gesbert (http://tyrex.inria.fr). This position can be filled with a graduate working towards a PhD or with a PostDoc. We welcome applications of either kind. The overall research topic concerns the exploration of how code can be automatically generated and optimized for execution with distributed frameworks for big data processing. This topic involves advancing knowledge at the crossroads of: - Optimizing compilers - Type systems, Monads - Data-centric programming abstractions - Distributed frameworks (e.g. Apache Spark) Requirements: - University degree in computer science or closely related field - Equal passion for theory and practice - Fluent English (speech and writing) For the PhD position, duration is 3 years, with an expected starting date before the end of 2017. Please send your application in PDF format by email to Pierre Geneves . Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Informal enquiries about the position may also be sent to pierre.geneves at cnrs.fr. -- Pierre Genev?s, Ph.D., HDR Responsable permanent, ?quipe Tyrex LIG - Inria - UGA - CNRS - Grenoble INP Responsable de sp?cialit? Informatique, ED MSTII pierre.geneves at cnrs.fr (33)476615281 http://tyrex.inria.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carsten at itu.dk Tue Jul 25 15:05:18 2017 From: carsten at itu.dk (=?utf-8?B?Q2Fyc3RlbiBTY2jDvHJtYW5u?=) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:05:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: Trends in Mechanized Security Proofs, TMSP'17 Message-ID: <43760ABB-E101-4F05-BC19-D106C1349D4E@itu.dk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TMSP'17 First International Workshop on Trends in Mechanized Secruity Proofs (collocated with FCSD, 2017) Oxford, UK 3 September 2017 Recent cyber attacks against the US election have shown: the more valuable a target the higher the likelihood that it will be attacked. Adversaries, in particular nation states, have nearly unlimited capacity to devise cyberattacks and exploit even the smallest vulnerabilities. In this first international workshop on Trends in Mechanized Security Proofs, we will discuss, how formal methods, logic, type theory, and automated reasoning tools can contribute to solving the security challenges of tomorrow. In particular, we have invited expert speakers to present - the current state of the art in mechanized security proofs, - rich type systems for security - case studies in mechanized security proofs - the formal modeling and adequacy of threat models - security proofs in the symbolic model versus semantic security proofs This workshop is funded by the EUTypes COST project (eutypes.cs.ru.nl) and co-organised by the DemTech project (www.demtech.dk). For workshop details including registration information, please visit FCSD homepage (//www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/index.html) Best regards, -- Herman Geuvers and Carsten Sch?rmann PROGRAMME 0900-0930 REGISTRATION/TEA/COFFEE/CROISSANTS/FRUIT 0930-1015 Formal verification of cryptographic algorithms and implementations Gilles Barthe, IMDEA, Spain 1015-1100 Security Theorems via Model Theory Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA 1100-1130 TEA/COFFEE/BISCUITS 1130-1215 A Formal Approach to Exploiting Multi-Stage Attacks based SQL Injection and File-System Vulnerabilities of Web Applications Luca Vigano, King's College London, Great Britain 1215-1300 TBA Vincent Cheval Loria, Nancy, France 1300-1400 LUNCH 1400-1445 TBA Cas Cremers Oxford University, Great Britain 1445-1530 Verified Models and Reference Implementations for the TLS 1.3 Standard Candidate Bruno Blanchet, INRIA, France 1530-1600 TEA/COFFEE/CAKE 1600-1645 Linear resolution for stateful protocols Eike Ritter, University of Birmingham, Great Britain 1645-1730 PSPSP: Proper Security Proofs for Stateful Protocols Sebastian M?dersheim, Denmark's Technical University, Denmark ABSTRACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Formal verification of cryptographic algorithms and implementations Speaker: Gilles Barthe Abstract: Computer-aided cryptography develops formal methods for the design, analysis, and verification of cryptographic algorithms and implementations. I will outline some of our most recent work along these lines. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Security Theorems via Model Theory Speaker: Joshua Guttmann Abstract: We usually think of theorems as established by syntactic deduction, and many approaches to proving security are based on that core idea. However, theorems can also follow from systematic exploration of models. In this talk, we will explain how executions of security protocols and related systems can be viewed as models of suitable theories. These models have a natural structure determined by their homomorphisms. CPSA, a Cryptographic Protocol Shapes Analyzer, uses this homomorphism structure to control an enumeration of protocol executions. It identifiers a strongest security goal achieved in each scenario it analyzes. We extend this approach via more general model-finding to executions that may involve access control policies and other security mechanisms. Joint work with Dan Dougherty, Moses Liskov, John Ramsdell, and Paul Rowe. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: A Formal Approach to Exploiting Multi-Stage Attacks based on SQL Injection and File-System Vulnerabilities of Web Applications Speaker: Luca Vigano Abstract: We propose a formal approach that allows one to (i) reason about file-system vulnerabilities of web applications and (ii) combine file-system vulnerabilities and SQL-Injection vulnerabilities for complex, multi-stage attacks. We have developed an automatic tool that implements our approach and we show its efficiency by discussing four real-world case studies, which are witness to the fact that our tool can generate, and exploit, attacks that, to the best of our knowledge, no other tool for the security of web applications can find. This is joint work with Federico De Meo and Marco Rocchetto. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Verified Models and Reference Implementations for the TLS 1.3 Standard Candidate Speaker: Bruno Blanchet Abstract: TLS 1.3 is the next version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. Its clean-slate design is a reaction both to the increasing demand for low-latency HTTPS connections, and to a series of recent high-profile attacks on TLS. The hope is that a fresh protocol with modern cryptography will prevent legacy problems; the danger is that it will expose new kinds of attacks, or reintroduce old flaws that were fixed in previous versions of TLS. After 18 drafts, the protocol is nearing completion, and the working group has appealed to researchers to analyze the protocol before publication. We respond by presenting a comprehensive analysis of TLS 1.3 Draft-18: (1) We present symbolic ProVerif models for various intermediate versions of TLS 1.3 and evaluate them against a rich class of attacks to reconstruct both known and previously unpublished vulnerabilities that influenced the current design of the protocol. In particular, we test whether TLS 1.3 prevents well-known attacks on TLS 1.2, such as Logjam or the Triple Handshake, even if it is run in parallel with TLS 1.2. (2) We present a computational CryptoVerif model for TLS 1.3 Draft-18 and mechanically prove its security under standard (strong) assumptions on its cryptographic primitives. (3) We present RefTLS, an interoperable implementation of TLS 1.0-1.3 and automatically analyze its protocol core by extracting a ProVerif model from its typed JavaScript code. The talk will mainly focus on (2) and briefly sketch (1) and (3). Joint work with Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Nadim Kobeissi, published at IEEE S&P 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Linear resolution for stateful protocols Speaker: Eike Ritter Abstract: Global mutable state raises specific problems for automated tools for security protocol verification. In particular, a system can be in exactly one state at a given time, but this property is not modelled correctly by the resolution procedure employed e.g. in ProVerif. In this talk we present a sound and complete resolution system based on linear logic which models this property correctly. We also discuss ways of using the resolution for security protocol verification. Joint work with Alessandro Bruni and Carsten Sch?rmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: PSPSP: Proper Security Proofs for Stateful Protocols Speaker: Sebastian M?dersheim This work combines three aspects of mechanized security proofs. (1) The most popular abstraction techniques for security protocol verification (e.g. in ProVerif) basically throws away most state information by computing an over-approximation of all facts that become true in any reachable state. While efficient for many simple protocols, this does not work on stateful protocols e.g. when we have a webserver who maintains a database. We overcome this limitation by a more refined abstraction that integrates state information into the abstraction but without destroying the spirit and efficiency of the original method. (2) Verification tools may have bugs and accidentally prove correct an insecure protocol. We want to minimize the amount of trust we have to have in tools and thus produce proofs that can be checked by the Isabelle/HOL automatically ? so that we only rely on the correctness of the Isabelle core. (3) This and many other works rely on a typed model, where the intruder cannot send arbitrary ill-typed messages. 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The confluence competition aims to foster the development of techniques for proving/disproving confluence automatically by setting up a dedicated competition among confluence tools. The 6th Confluence Competition (CoCo 2017) will run ***live*** during the 6th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2017), to be collocated with the 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction in Oxford, United Kingdom. The following categories will be run. GCR and UN are new categories. * 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 * GCR: ground confluence of many-sorted term rewrite systems * UN: unique normal form properties of first-order term rewrite systems Submissions of new confluence problems are also welcome. For more information including platforms, competition rules and problems, see the webpage of CoCo 2017 indicated above. IMPORTANT DATES: * request for competition categories February 28, 2017 (closed) * request for demonstration categories June 30, 2017 (closed) * tool registration August 13, 2017 * tool submission August 23, 2017 * problem submission August 27, 2017 * competition September 8, 2017 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 2017. REGISTRATION/SUBMISSION: Tool registration must be made electronically through the EasyChair system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coco2017. Every tool registration should also contain a one page system description. See the webpage of CoCo 2017 for the detailed instruction. Tool submission will be via StarExec. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: * Takahito Aoto Niigata University (chair) * Nao Hirokawa JAIST * Julian Nagele University of Innsbruck * Naoki Nishida Nagoya University ADVISORY BOARD: * Beniamino Accattoli INRIA, Paris * Yuki Chiba JAIST CONTACT: coco-sc [AT] jaist.ac.jp From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Tue Jul 25 12:23:37 2017 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:23:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QEST 2017: Call for Participation Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION QEST 2017 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems http://qest.org/qest2017/index.html 5-7 September 2017, Harnack-Haus, Berlin, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We would like to invite you to participate in the 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2017). QEST is the leading forum on quantitative evaluation and verification of computer systems and networks, through stochastic models and measurements. This year, QEST is part of the QONFEST event, co-located with CONCUR, Formats, EPEW, and several workshops, offering great opportunities for learning, discussions, and collaborations in the vibrant city of Berlin, Germany. ====== INVITED SPEAKERS ====== Morten Bisgaard, Gomspace, DK Romualdo Pastor-Sattoras, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, SP Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, UK ====== PROGRAM ====== The program of QEST?17 is available at: http://qest.org/qest2017/program.html ====== VENUE and ACCOMMODATION ====== The 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems will be held at the Harnack-Haus. 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We are particularly interested in applicants with strong backgrounds in either software systems, or programming languages and verification. Experience working in security and privacy is preferred but not required. The initial appointment of the position is for one year, with high likelihood of renewal for additional years. Directions of exploration for future years include, but are not limited to, statistical privacy and genomic privacy. There may also be entrepreneurship opportunities relevant to these ideas. Please send your CV, a brief description of your interests, and contact information of three references to Jean Yang (jyang2 [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu). Feel free to email Dr. Yang with questions. Those curious about what Pittsburgh is like may be interested in reading this article about Pittsburgh's tech article and this article about culture in Pittsburgh. *Link: *http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jyang2/opportunities/cmlh_postdoc2017.html -- Jean Yang Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University jeanyang.com | @jeanqasaur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mislove at tulane.edu Wed Jul 26 12:56:59 2017 From: mislove at tulane.edu (Mislove, Michael W) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:56:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Position Message-ID: Dear All, Below is an announcement of a postdoctoral research position starting October 1 and running through November 30, 2018. I encourage all interested parties to apply. Thanks, Mike Mislove =============================================== Michael Mislove Phone: +1 504 865-5803 Professor and Chair FAX: +1 504 865-5063 Department of Computer Science Tulane University URL: http://www.cs.tulane.edu/~mwm New Orleans, LA 70118 USA =============================================== Postdoctoral Researcher in Semantics and Tools for Quantum Programming Languages Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position beginning October 1, 2017 and running through November 30, 2018. The position is in the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University, and will be under the supervision of Professor Michael Mislove. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Semantics, Formal Reasoning, and Tool Support for Quantum Programming?. The project involves designing high-level semantic models and tools to support quantum functional programming languages. A prototype language is Proto-Quipper, which has been under development (http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/ ). This language uses the circuit model for quantum computation, and envisions languages that support quantum computation under classical control. The overall aim is to design type-safe functional programming languages for quantum computing. The project also involves developing the meta-theory (including categorical semantics) of such languages, and eventually to formalize some of the meta-theory in a proof assistant. The focus of the Tulane work is modeling recursion in such languages, which requires developing quantum domain theory, but interactions with other aspects of the project are expected. Familiarity with programming language design, and / or semantics is a prerequisite of the position. The latter includes categorical semantics and domain theory. A good knowledge of category theory is also a prerequisite. Of course, familiarity with quantum computing is helpful. Additional components of the project will address issues around quantum information such as non-locality and contextuality, adapting proof assistants (Coq, Agda, Lean, etc) to develop automated verification for quantum programming languages. To apply for one of this position, direct your browser to the link: https://apply.interfolio.com/41053 Funding for the project comes from the DOD and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Important Dates Submissions due (EXTENDED): 04 August 2017 (anywhere on Earth) Author notification: 04 September 2017 Final papers due: 17 September 2017 Workshop date: 30 October 2017 ????????????????????????????????????? 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. We are especially interested in position papers that are radical, forward-looking, and likely to lead to lively and insightful discussions that will influence future research that lies at the intersection of programming languages and security. The scope of PLAS includes, but is not limited to: ? Compiler-based security mechanisms (e.g. security type systems) or runtime-based security mechanisms (e.g. 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 IoT ? Applications, case studies, and implementations of these techniques ????????????????????????????????????? Submission Guidelines We invite both full papers and short papers. For short papers we especially encourage the submission of position papers that are likely to generate lively discussion. ? Full papers ?should be at most 11 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references 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 5 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category, as are papers presenting preliminary and exploratory work. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. Short paper presentations will be 15 minutes each. Submissions should be PDF documents formatted according to the CCS 2017 formatting requirements provided at https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2017/#format . Both full and short papers must describe work not published in other refereed venues. 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By raising the level of abstraction and exploiting domain knowledge, DSLs can make programming more accessible, increase programmer productivity, and support domain-specific optimizations. ## Workshop Goal Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI) is a workshop intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in discussing how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic contexts. The focus of the workshop is on all aspects of this process, from soliciting domain knowledge from experts, through the design and implementation of the language, to evaluating whether and how a DSL is successful. More generally, we are interested in continuing to build a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs. ## Workshop Format DSLDI is a single-day workshop and will consist of an invited speaker followed by moderated audience discussions structured around a series of short talks. The role of the talks is to facilitate interesting and substantive discussion. Therefore, we welcome and encourage talks that express strong opinions, describe open problems, propose new research directions, and report on early research in progress. Proposed talks should be on topics within DSLDI?s area of interest, which include but are not limited to: * solicitation and representation of domain knowledge * DSL design principles and processes * DSL implementation techniques and language workbenches * domain-specific optimizations * human factors of DSLs * tool support for DSL users * community and educational support for DSL users * applications of DSLs to existing and emerging domains * studies of usability, performance, or other benefits of DSLs * experience reports of DSLs deployed in practice ## Call for Talk Proposals We solicit talk proposals in the form of short abstracts (max. 2 pages). 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URL: From andersmortberg at gmail.com Fri Jul 28 09:18:30 2017 From: andersmortberg at gmail.com (Anders Mortberg) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:18:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: Workshop on HoTT/UF (with FSCD 2017) Message-ID: ========================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF, at FSCD 2017) September 8-9, 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom https://hott-uf.github.io/2017/ ========================================================== Contents: 1. Invited talks 2. Contributed talks now on the website 3. Post-proceedings with MSCS 1. Invited talks/tutorials ========================== * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham): Na?ve Type Theory (tutorial) * Ulrik Buchholtz (Technical University of Darmstadt): Formalizing type theory in type theory using nominal techniques * Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg): Sheaf models for univalent type theory 2. Contributed talks ==================== Titles and abstracts for the contributed talks are now available on the website: https://hott-uf.github.io/2017/ 3. Post-proceedings with MSCS ============================= The publication of post-proceedings of the HoTT/UF'17 workshop is being planned, as a special issue of *Mathematical Structures in Computer Science* (CUP). Submission to the post-proceedings will be open to all, with a submission deadline in late spring 2018. More details will be announced in due course. From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Mon Jul 31 12:06:14 2017 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:06:14 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DeepSpec summer school is online! Message-ID: <464C0708-2FE4-47B6-8845-C998623DBB32@cis.upenn.edu> The DeepSpec Summer School on Verified Systems was held in Philadelphia during the last two weeks of July. If you weren?t able to join in person, you may like to know that all the lectures, lecture materials, and exercises are online: https://deepspec.org/event/dsss17/ Enjoy! - Benjamin From corina.s.pasareanu at nasa.gov Thu Jul 27 21:36:26 2017 From: corina.s.pasareanu at nasa.gov (Pasareanu, S Corina (ARC-TI)[SGT, INC]) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 01:36:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc Position in Program Verification at Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley Message-ID: <8E83268DB51492428B640C5F567F1DAC0F799672@NDJSMBX203.ndc.nasa.gov> A post-doctoral researcher position focusing on symbolic verification techniques for cyber-security is available at Carnegie Mellon University at the Silicon Valley Campus (Mountain View, CA). The research project titled "Integrated Symbolic execution for Space-Time Analysis of Code (ISSTAC)" involves symbolic execution of Java Bytecode for automatically identifying (1) denial of service attacks (by determining worst case complexity of a program in terms of both time and space usage) and (2) side channel attacks (by determining if observations about the execution time or memory usage of a program can leak secret information). This is a multi-year collaborative effort with researchers from Vanderbilt University, University of California at Santa Barbara and Queen Mary University, London. There are many research directions within the scope of this project, including constraint solving and model counting techniques, heuristics for scalable symbolic program analysis, automated worst-case behavior analysis, quantitative information flow using symbolic execution, attack and defense synthesis, distributed computations, combinations of symbolic execution and fuzzing, etc. Candidates for the post-doctoral position should have a doctoral degree in computer science (or related field) and should have familiarity with symbolic execution techniques and SMT-solvers. Security knowledge is a plus. Candidates interested in this position should e-mail a CV, brief statement of research interests and a reference (with e-mail address) to Corina Pasareanu (corina.pasareanu at west.cmu.edu). The position is available now and will be open until filled. 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The main interest is in new algebraic and geometric results in proof theory which expand our abilities to manipulate proofs, help to reduce bureaucracy in deductive systems, and ultimately lead to new methods for proof search and new kinds of proof certificates. *** Topics of interest *** * Syntactic representations of proofs (e.g. sequent calculi, deep inference, focussing) * Combinatorial representations of proofs (e.g. proof nets) * Algebraic representations of proofs (e.g. via game semantics or category theory) * Methods for proof manipulation and normal forms of proofs (e.g. cut-elimination, proof compression) * Proofs-as-programs, formulas-as-types interpretations (e.g. Curry-Howard correspondences, witness extraction) * Computation and rewriting in proof search (e.g. deduction modulo or fixed point definitions) * Complexity theoretic aspects of proof representations (e.g. decision procedures, proof complexity) *** Invited speakers *** Bahareh Afshari David Baelde Stefano Berardi Claudia Nalon Michel Parigot *** Contributed talks *** Anupam Das Ken Akiba Bahareh Afshari, Stefan Hetzl and Graham Leigh Dale Miller Aurore Alcolei, Pierre Clairambault, Martin Hyland and Glynn Winskel Susanne Bobzien and Roy Dyckhoff Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni Sonia Marin. Intuitionistic modal logic in indexed nested sequents Marco Solieri and David R. Sherratt *** Programme committee *** Andrea Aler Tubella James Brotherston Kaustuv Chaudhuri (co-chair) Anupam Das (co-chair) Willem Heijltjes (co-chair) Kenji Miyamoto Giselle Reis *** Contact *** We can be reached by email directly or via sd17 at easychair.org The organisers. Kaustuv Chaudhuri Anupam Das Willem Heijltjes From davide.ancona at unige.it Sun Jul 30 10:02:21 2017 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 16:02:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prizes 2018: Call for Nominations, deadline September 30, 2017 Message-ID: <18561bf8-f94c-9710-51e2-8d52f51facaf@unige.it> AITO is looking for nominations for the forthcoming AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prizes 2018. (http://aito.org/Dahl-Nygaard/index.html#call) Nominations can be submitted with the form available at http://goo.gl/forms/QVoB9KGzoSMaQ7MD3 The submission deadline is September 30, 2017. The prizes are named after Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, whose pioneering conceptual and technical work in the sixties shaped that view of programming and modeling which is now known as object-orientation. The prizes will be presented at the ECOOP conference in 2018, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. One prize is awarded to a junior researcher (who has obtained the PhD degree at most 7 years before the award year, excluding any parental leave), and one prize to a senior researcher. The senior researcher should have made a significant long-term contribution to the field in research or engineering. The junior researcher should have made a promising contribution to the field through a paper, a thesis, or a prototype implementation. The Members of the 2018 Dahl-Nygaard Award Committee are: - Camil Demetrescu (chair) - Sophia Drossopoulou - Erik Ernst - Peter M?ller - Frank Tip From Guillaume.Munch-Maccagnoni at Inria.fr Sun Jul 30 11:21:19 2017 From: Guillaume.Munch-Maccagnoni at Inria.fr (Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:21:19 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position on effects and/or type theory at Inria in Nantes Message-ID: Dear all, We are pleased to announce the availability of a postdoctoral position on effects and/or type theory in the Inria team Gallinette, in Nantes. Gallinette is a new Inria team dedicated to the advancement of proof assistants with an emphasis on mathematical foundations. It is led by Nicolas Tabareau and hosted by the new Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N). Nantes is a lively and affordable city in Brittany, not far from the shores of the Atlantic. We are interested in foundations and applications of proof assistants and certified programming, especially type theory, the theory of effects, and their interaction. Relevant topics and experience include, but is not limited to: * Homotopy type theory * Developments in Coq, Agda, Lean, F* or Idris * Development of (part of) a proof assistant or a programming language * Semantics of effects and resources * Rewriting * Proof theory * Logical relations and realizability We are opening a postdoctoral position for 1 year (deadline for applications: September 15th, job starting between October and March 2018). The successful applicant will join the Inria team Gallinette and the ERC project CoqHoTT . The salary and benefits are the standard Inria conditions. We are looking for excellent researchers with a strong expertise in one or several relevant topics. Candidates should hold a PhD in computer science or a closely related field (or be close to complete their PhD). The new collaborator is expected to participate in the life of the lab and interact with members of the team including PhD students and other postdocs. If you are interested in joining the Gallinette team and have informal inquiries, please contact either of us at or as soon as possible. Applications should be sent to either of us by September 15th and must contain a CV, a research statement, and a list of references. Sincerely, Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni Nicolas Tabareau From pepm.workshop at gmail.com Tue Aug 1 08:16:51 2017 From: pepm.workshop at gmail.com (PEPM Workshop) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 21:16:51 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: -- CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on PARTIAL EVALUATION AND PROGRAM MANIPULATION (PEPM) 2018 =============================================================================== * Website : http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/PEPM-2018 * Time : 8th ? 9th January 2018 * Place : Los Angeles, CA, US (co-located with POPL 2018) The ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM), which has a history going back to 1991 and has co-located with POPL every year since 2006, originates in the discoveries of practically useful automated techniques for evaluating programs with only partial input. Over the years, the scope of PEPM has expanded to include a variety of research areas centred around the theme of semantics-based program manipulation ? the systematic exploitation of treating programs not only as subject to black-box execution, but also as data structures that can be generated, analysed, and transformed while establishing or maintaining important semantic properties. Scope ----- In addition to the traditional PEPM topics (see below), PEPM 2018 welcomes submissions in new domains, in particular: * Semantics based and machine-learning based program synthesis and program optimisation. * Modelling, analysis, and transformation techniques for distributed and concurrent protocols and programs, such as session types, linear types, and contract specifications. More generally, topics of interest for PEPM 2018 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. * 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. * 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. * 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, embedded and resource-limited computation, and security. This list of categories is not exhaustive, and we encourage submissions describing new theories and applications related to semantics-based program manipulation in general. If you have a question as to whether a potential submission is within the scope of the workshop, please contact the programme co-chairs, Fritz Henglein (http://www.diku.dk/~henglein/) and Josh Ko (https://josh-hs-ko.github.io). Submission categories and guidelines ------------------------------------ Two kinds of submissions will be accepted: Regular Research Papers and Short Papers. * Regular Research Papers should describe new results, and will be judged on originality, correctness, significance, and clarity. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages (excluding bibliography). * Short Papers may include tool demonstrations and presentations of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting academic, industrial, and open-source applications that are new or unfamiliar. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages (excluding bibliography). Both kinds of submissions should be typeset using the two-column ?sigplan? sub-format of the new ?acmart? format available at: http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ and submitted electronically via HotCRP: https://pepm18.hotcrp.com/ PEPM 2018 will employ lightweight double-blind reviewing according to the rules of POPL 2018. Quoting from POPL 2018?s call for papers: ?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 judgment 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. In particular, 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.? See POPL 2018?s Submission and Reviewing FAQ page for more information: http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2018-papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ Submissions are welcome from PC members (except the two co-chairs) provided that there are non-PC co-authors. Accepted papers will appear in formal proceedings published by ACM, and be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of short papers, however, can ask for their papers to be left out of the formal proceedings. 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 2018 web site. 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 programme, see its web page. Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline : Friday 6th October 2017 (AoE) (firm) * Author notification : Saturday 4th November 2017 * Workshop : Monday 8th ? Tuesday 9th January 2018 The proceedings will be published 2 weeks pre-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.) Best paper award ---------------- PEPM 2018 continues the tradition of a Best Paper award. The winner will be announced at the workshop. Programme committee ------------------- Nada Amin (EPFL) Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo) Ezgi ?i?ek (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) Olivier Danvy (Yale-NUS College) Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) Simon Gay (University of Glasgow) Andy Gill (X, the Moonshot Factory) Fritz Henglein (co-chair) (University of Copenhagen) Anastasia Izmaylova (IMC Financial Markets) Johan Jeuring (Utrecht University) Gabriele Keller (University of New South Wales) Oleg Kiselyov (Tohoku University) Hsiang-Shang Ko (co-chair) (National Institute of Informatics) Ralf L?mmel (University of Koblenz-Landau) Julia Lawall (Inria) Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University) Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research India) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University) Thomas Reps (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sergei Romanenko (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics) Tiark Rompf (Purdue University) Wolfram Schulte (Facebook) Peter Sestoft (IT University of Copenhagen) Harald S?ndergaard (University of Melbourne) Kohei Suenaga (Kyoto University) Martin Vechev (ETH Zurich) Marcos Viera (University of the Republic) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London) From stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr Wed Aug 2 05:43:22 2017 From: stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr (Stefano Guerrini) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 11:43:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] : Call for participation: TLLA 17, September 3, Oxford Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** TLLA 17: Trends in Linear Logic and Applications ** ** http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLA17 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** International Workshop affiliated with FSCD 2017 ** http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ ** ** Oxford, September 3, 2017 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** **** Call for Participation **** ** http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLA17/cfpart.txt ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **** Early registration deadline: **August 6** **** Linear Logic is not only a proof theoretical tool to analyse or control the use of ressources in logic and computation. It is also a corpus of tools, approaches, and methodologies (proof nets, exponential decomposition, geometry of interaction, coherent spaces, relational models, etc.) that, even if developed for studying Linear Logic syntax and semantics, have been applied in several other fields (analysis of lambda-calculus computations, game semantics, computational complexity, program verification, etc.). The TLLA international workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on Linear Logic or applying it or its tools. The main goal is to present and discuss trends in the research on Linear Logic and its applications by means of tutorials, invited talks, open discussions, and contributed talks. The purpose is to gather researchers interested in the connections between Linear Logic and various topics such as * theory of programming languages * implicit computational complexity * parallelism and concurrency * games and languages * proof theory * philosophy * categories and algebra * possible connections with combinatorics * linguistics * functional analysis and operator algebras ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Program ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Invited Speakers - Jean-Yves Girard. TBA - Paolo Pistone. Polymorphism and Dinaturality from a Linear Logic Perspective * Accepted submissions The list of the accepted talks is available at the url http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLA17/accepted.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Registration and accommodation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Detailed instructions can be found on the FSCD registration page http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/registration.html or on the TLLA web page http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLA17#registration To attend the workshop, you must register for the September 3 workshop day. Please select TLLA as your principal workshop. This will also give you the right to attend any other workshop held on this day. The registration fee is ?40, before August 6, and ?60 after. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Organizing committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thomas Ehrhard (IRIF, Univ. Paris Diderot) * Stefano Guerrini (LIPN, Univ. Paris 13) * Lorenzo Tortora de Falco (Univ. Roma Tre) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Supporting Organisations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GDRI Linear Logic (CNRS-INDAM) Universit? Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cit? Universit? Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cit? ===================================== Stefano Guerrini Institut Galil?e, Universit? Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cit? Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN), CNRS (UMR 7030) stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Wed Aug 2 08:10:25 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:10:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2017 - Call for participation (early registration ends soon) Message-ID: <4C61048C-04B6-406E-9443-DBBE84DDF3C8@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction FSCD 2017 3?9, September 2017 (colocated with ICFP) Oxford, UK http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ FSCD is a conference covering 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. REGISTRATION The registration page is already open and linked from: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/registration.html The early registration deadline is *** 6 August *** Students should apply for scholarships by *** 21 July *** (for more details please visit the conference webpage). INVITED SPEAKERS * Marco Gaboardi (Univ. Buffalo, SUNY) * Georg Moser (Univ. Innsbruck) * Alexandra Silva (University College London) * Christine Tasson (PPS and Univ. Paris Diderot) SATELLITE EVENTS - Trends in Linear Logic and Applications (September 3) - 31st International Workshop on Unification (September 3) - Trends in Mechanised Security Proofs, COST Action CA15123 EUTypes Workshop (September 3) - *Third Workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (September 8-9) - Third Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (September 8-9) - *First Workshop on String Diagrams in Computation, Logic, and Physics (September 8-9) - Fourth Meeting on Structures and Deduction (September 8 and 9) - Sixth International Workshop on Confluence (September 8) - International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages - Theory and Practice (September 8) - Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformation and Evaluation (September 8) - IFIP Working Group 1.6: Rewriting (September 9) * These workshops will be co-located. PROGRAM CHAIR Dale Miller (Inria Saclay) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Gothenburg Univ.) Elvira Albert (Complutense Madrid) Mar?a Alpuente (TU Valencia) Takahito Aoto (Niigata Univ. ) Zena Ariola (Univ. Oregon) Federico Aschieri (TU Wien) Stefano Berardi (Univ. Turin) Lars Birkedal (Aarhus Univ.) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS & ENS Lyon) Pierre Clairambault (CNRS & ENS Lyon) Ugo Dal Lago (Univ. Bologna) Herman Geuvers (Radboud Univ.) Silvia Ghilezan (Univ. Novi Sad) J?rgen Giesl (RWTH Aachen) Hugo Herbelin (Inria Paris) Jan Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon) Deepak Kapur (Univ. New Mexico) Paul Blain Levy (Univ. Birmingham) Paulo Oliva (QMUL, London) Vincent van Oostrom (Univ. Innsbruck) Daniela Petrisan (LIAFA, Paris) Femke van Raamsdonk (VU Univ. Amsterdam) Grigore Rosu (Univ. Illinois) Albert Rubio (UPC-BarcelonaTech) Paula Severi (Univ. Leicester) Bas Spitters (Aarhus Univ. ) Aaron Stump (Univ. Iowa) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto Univ.) Ren? Thiemann (Univ. 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LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TMSP'17 First International Workshop on Trends in Mechanized Secruity Proofs (collocated with FCSD, 2017) Oxford, UK 3 September 2017 Recent cyber attacks against the US election have shown: the more valuable a target the higher the likelihood that it will be attacked. Adversaries, in particular nation states, have nearly unlimited capacity to devise cyberattacks and exploit even the smallest vulnerabilities. In this first international workshop on Trends in Mechanized Security Proofs, we will discuss, how formal methods, logic, type theory, and automated reasoning tools can contribute to solving the security challenges of tomorrow. In particular, we have invited expert speakers to present - the current state of the art in mechanized security proofs, - rich type systems for security - case studies in mechanized security proofs - the formal modeling and adequacy of threat models - security proofs in the symbolic model versus semantic security proofs This workshop is funded by the EUTypes COST project (eutypes.cs.ru.nl ) and co-organised by the DemTech project (www.demtech.dk ). For workshop details including registration information, please visit FCSD homepage (//www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/index.html ) Best regards, -- Herman Geuvers and Carsten Sch?rmann PROGRAMME 0900-0930 REGISTRATION/TEA/COFFEE/CROISSANTS/FRUIT 0930-1015 Formal verification of cryptographic algorithms and implementations Gilles Barthe, IMDEA, Spain 1015-1100 Security Theorems via Model Theory Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA 1100-1130 TEA/COFFEE/BISCUITS 1130-1215 A Formal Approach to Exploiting Multi-Stage Attacks based SQL Injection and File-System Vulnerabilities of Web Applications Luca Vigano, King's College London, Great Britain 1215-1300 Deciding behavioral equivalences in the applied pi calculus: complexity, procedures and tool Vincent Cheval Loria, Nancy, France 1300-1400 LUNCH 1400-1445 Reality versus Security Proofs Cas Cremers Oxford University, Great Britain 1445-1530 Verified Models and Reference Implementations for the TLS 1.3 Standard Candidate Bruno Blanchet, INRIA, France 1530-1600 TEA/COFFEE/CAKE 1600-1645 Linear resolution for stateful protocols Eike Ritter, University of Birmingham, Great Britain 1645-1730 PSPSP: Proper Security Proofs for Stateful Protocols Sebastian M?dersheim, Denmark's Technical University, Denmark ABSTRACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Formal verification of cryptographic algorithms and implementations Speaker: Gilles Barthe Abstract: Computer-aided cryptography develops formal methods for the design, analysis, and verification of cryptographic algorithms and implementations. I will outline some of our most recent work along these lines. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Security Theorems via Model Theory Speaker: Joshua Guttmann Abstract: We usually think of theorems as established by syntactic deduction, and many approaches to proving security are based on that core idea. However, theorems can also follow from systematic exploration of models. In this talk, we will explain how executions of security protocols and related systems can be viewed as models of suitable theories. These models have a natural structure determined by their homomorphisms. CPSA, a Cryptographic Protocol Shapes Analyzer, uses this homomorphism structure to control an enumeration of protocol executions. It identifiers a strongest security goal achieved in each scenario it analyzes. We extend this approach via more general model-finding to executions that may involve access control policies and other security mechanisms. Joint work with Dan Dougherty, Moses Liskov, John Ramsdell, and Paul Rowe. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: A Formal Approach to Exploiting Multi-Stage Attacks based on SQL Injection and File-System Vulnerabilities of Web Applications Speaker: Luca Vigano Abstract: We propose a formal approach that allows one to (i) reason about file-system vulnerabilities of web applications and (ii) combine file-system vulnerabilities and SQL-Injection vulnerabilities for complex, multi-stage attacks. We have developed an automatic tool that implements our approach and we show its efficiency by discussing four real-world case studies, which are witness to the fact that our tool can generate, and exploit, attacks that, to the best of our knowledge, no other tool for the security of web applications can find. This is joint work with Federico De Meo and Marco Rocchetto. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Deciding behavioral equivalences in the applied pi calculus: complexity, procedures and tool Speaker: Vincent Cheval Abstract: Many security properties are naturally expressed in terms of indistinguishability. In symbolic protocol models the notion of indistinguishability can be expressed as trace equivalence in a cryptographic process calculus. Current automated verification tools are however limited even for a bounded number of sessions: they are either restricted to support only a particular set of cryptographic primitives, do not allow for protocols with else branches, or can only approximate trace equivalence, allowing for false attacks. Moreover, the complexity of these algorithms has never been studied. I will discuss in this talk about the new complexity results we established for static equivalence, trace equivalence and labelled bisimilarity. Moreover, I will also shortly present our new decision procedure for these equivalences in the case of a bounded number of sessions. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Reality versus Security Proofs Speaker: Cas Cremers Abstract: The field of security proofs, both in the symbolic models and in the more traditional semantic security setting, have made huge advances in the last few decades. Parts of such analysis can now automated, and in some cases proofs and attacks can be found automatically. In this talk I introduce the Tamarin prover, highlight some of these case studies, and focus on some of the many gaps between analysis and reality that still remain. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Verified Models and Reference Implementations for the TLS 1.3 Standard Candidate Speaker: Bruno Blanchet Abstract: TLS 1.3 is the next version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. Its clean-slate design is a reaction both to the increasing demand for low-latency HTTPS connections, and to a series of recent high-profile attacks on TLS. The hope is that a fresh protocol with modern cryptography will prevent legacy problems; the danger is that it will expose new kinds of attacks, or reintroduce old flaws that were fixed in previous versions of TLS. After 18 drafts, the protocol is nearing completion, and the working group has appealed to researchers to analyze the protocol before publication. We respond by presenting a comprehensive analysis of TLS 1.3 Draft-18: (1) We present symbolic ProVerif models for various intermediate versions of TLS 1.3 and evaluate them against a rich class of attacks to reconstruct both known and previously unpublished vulnerabilities that influenced the current design of the protocol. In particular, we test whether TLS 1.3 prevents well-known attacks on TLS 1.2, such as Logjam or the Triple Handshake, even if it is run in parallel with TLS 1.2. (2) We present a computational CryptoVerif model for TLS 1.3 Draft-18 and mechanically prove its security under standard (strong) assumptions on its cryptographic primitives. (3) We present RefTLS, an interoperable implementation of TLS 1.0-1.3 and automatically analyze its protocol core by extracting a ProVerif model from its typed JavaScript code. The talk will mainly focus on (2) and briefly sketch (1) and (3). Joint work with Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Nadim Kobeissi, published at IEEE S&P 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Linear resolution for stateful protocols Speaker: Eike Ritter Abstract: Global mutable state raises specific problems for automated tools for security protocol verification. In particular, a system can be in exactly one state at a given time, but this property is not modelled correctly by the resolution procedure employed e.g. in ProVerif. In this talk we present a sound and complete resolution system based on linear logic which models this property correctly. We also discuss ways of using the resolution for security protocol verification. Joint work with Alessandro Bruni and Carsten Sch?rmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: PSPSP: Proper Security Proofs for Stateful Protocols Speaker: Sebastian M?dersheim This work combines three aspects of mechanized security proofs. (1) The most popular abstraction techniques for security protocol verification (e.g. in ProVerif) basically throws away most state information by computing an over-approximation of all facts that become true in any reachable state. While efficient for many simple protocols, this does not work on stateful protocols e.g. when we have a webserver who maintains a database. We overcome this limitation by a more refined abstraction that integrates state information into the abstraction but without destroying the spirit and efficiency of the original method. (2) Verification tools may have bugs and accidentally prove correct an insecure protocol. We want to minimize the amount of trust we have to have in tools and thus produce proofs that can be checked by the Isabelle/HOL automatically ? so that we only rely on the correctness of the Isabelle core. (3) This and many other works rely on a typed model, where the intruder cannot send arbitrary ill-typed messages. There are several relative-soundness results that show (for a certain class of protocols) that if there is an attack then there is a well-typed attack, i.e., that it is sound to verify the protocol in a typed model. We have also formalized this proof in Isabelle, including a formalization of the ?Lazy Intruder? technique, descovering several flaws in the existing pen-and-paper proofs. Joint work with Achim Brucker, Alessandro Bruni, and Andreas Viktor Hess -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amoeller at cs.au.dk Thu Aug 3 07:21:58 2017 From: amoeller at cs.au.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anders_M=F8ller?=) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:21:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant/associate professor positions in Programming Languages at Aarhus University, Denmark Message-ID: <328debf6d24c40928ff531db73d35c5b@Exch16.uni.au.dk> Assistant/associate professor positions in Programming Languages at Aarhus University, Denmark One or more positions as tenure-track assistant professor or associate professor are available starting January 1st, 2018. The application deadline is September 15th, 2017. The department has a staff of approximately 125 people including 24 full and associate professors, 2 assistant professors, 25 postdocs and 50 PhD students. The number of students is approximately 1,000. The department is expected to expand significantly (18 new academic positions) over the next few years, and Programming Languages is one of the focus areas in the expansion. Additional details and instructions on how to apply are found at: http://www.au.dk/en/about/vacant-positions/scientific-positions/stillinger/Vacancy/show/920308/5283/ From g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk Thu Aug 3 10:12:13 2017 From: g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk (Constantinides, George A) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 14:12:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral or PhD Position in Disciplined Approximate Arithmetic Message-ID: <96CB313D-F68E-4715-A503-0A19B81250F5@imperial.ac.uk> Please see the following link for a Postdoctoral or PhD Position in Disciplined Approximate Arithmetic: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BDG914/research-assistant-associate-in-disciplined-approximate-arithmetic Many thanks, George -- Professor George A. Constantinides Royal Academy of Engineering / Imagination Technologies Research Chair Head, Circuits and Systems Group Professor of Digital Computation g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk Administrator: Mrs W. Hsissen (w.hsissen at ic.ac.uk) +44 20 7594 6261 From ylies.falcone at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Fri Aug 4 04:28:22 2017 From: ylies.falcone at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (=?utf-8?Q?Yli=C3=A8s_Falcone?=) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 10:28:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAC-SVT 2018: Call for Papers Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies for duplicates] 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Software Verification and Testing Track Pau, France April 9 - 13, 2018 More information: http://sac-svt-2018.imag.fr and https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ Important dates Sept 15, 2017: Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts Sept 25, 2017: Submission of Tutorial Proposals Oct 25, 2017: Notification of Tutorials Acceptance Nov 10, 2017: Notification of paper and SRC acceptance/rejection Nov 25, 2017: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC Dec 10, 2017: Author registration due date ACM Symposium on Applied Computing The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has gathered scientists from different areas of computing over the last thirty years. The forum represents an opportunity to interact with different communities sharing an interest in applied computing. SAC 2018 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be hosted by the Universit? de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), Bayonne, France. Software Verification and Testing Track The Software Verification and Testing track aims at contributing to the challenge of improving the usability of formal methods in software engineering. The track covers areas such as formal methods for verification and testing, based on theorem proving, model checking, static analysis, and run-time verification. 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 are welcome 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 ? software testing ? symbolic execution ? static and dynamic analysis ? abstract interpretation ? analysis methods for dependable systems ? software certification and proof carrying code ? fault diagnosis and debugging ? verification and validation of large scale software systems ? real world applications and case studies applying software testing and verification ? benchmarks and data sets for software testing and verification Submissions Guidelines Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. 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 2018 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 previous editions, SAC 2018 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. 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URL: From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Fri Aug 4 08:40:01 2017 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 14:40:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GraMSec 2017 - last call for participation Message-ID: ****************************************************************** GraMSec 2017 The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Co-located with CSF 2017 Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ ****************************************************************** 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 assessment 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 and tools for their practical usage. PROGRAM 8:45 ? 10:00 INVITED TALK Dr. Anoop Singhal, NIST Security Metrics and Risk Analysis for Enterprise Systems 10:00 ? 10:35 BREAK (eclipse + coffee) 10:35 ? 12:35 SESSION 1: Security Modeling 10:35 ? 11:15 (regular paper) Dan Ionita, Margaret Ford, Alexandr Vasenev, and Roel Wieringa Graphical Modeling of Security Arguments: Current State and Future Directions 11:15 ? 11:35 (short paper) Brian Ruttenberg, Dave Blumstein, Jeff Druce, Michael Howard, Fred Reed, Leslie Wilfong, Crystal Lister, Steve Gaskin, Meaghan Foley, and Dan Scofield Probabilistic Modeling of Insider Threat Detection Systems 11:35 ? 12:15 (regular paper) Ang?le Bossuat and Barbara Kordy Evil Twins: Handling Repetitions in Attack?Defense Trees - A Survival Guide 12:15 ? 12:35 (short paper) Letitia Li, Florian Lugou, and Ludovic Apvrille Security Modeling for Embedded System Design 12:40 ? 14:00 LUNCH 14:00 ? 15:40 SESSION 2: Risk Analysis 14:00 ? 14:40 (regular paper) Karin Bernsmed, Christian Fr?ystad, Per H?kon Meland, Dag Atle Nesheim, and ?rnulf Jan R?dseth Visualizing Cyber Security Risks with Bow-Tie Diagrams 14:40 ? 15:20 (regular paper) Aitor Couce-Vieira, Siv Hilde Houmb, and David R?os-Insua CSIRA: A Method for Analysing the Risk of Cybersecurity Incidents 15:20 ? 15:40 (short paper) Ryan Habibi, Jens Weber, and Morgan Price Circle of Health Based Access Control for Personal Health Information Systems 15:40 ? 16:10 BREAK 16:10 ? 17:10 SESSION 3: Attack Trees 16:10 ? 16:50 (regular paper) Peter Gj?l Jensen, Axel Legay, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Danny B?gsted Poulsen Quantitative Evaluation of Attack Defense Trees using Stochastic Timed Automata 16:50 ? 17:10 (short paper) Olga Gadyatskaya and Rolando Trujillo-Rasua New Directions in Attack Tree Research: Catching up with Industrial Needs GraMSec REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN To register please follow the instructions given at http://www.gramsec.uni.lu/registration.php If you need a visa support letter, please check http://csf2017.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/visa.html GENERAL CHAIR Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Ketil St?len, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17 at easychair.org From foclasa2017 at gmail.com Fri Aug 4 09:31:06 2017 From: foclasa2017 at gmail.com (foclasa2017 at gmail.com) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:31:06 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOCLASA 2017 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <201708041331.v74DV6in014249@localhost.localdomain> [Apologies for multiple postings] ------ FOCLASA 2017: Call for Participation ------ FOCLASA 2017: 15th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems Date: September 5, 2017, Trento (Italy) Co-located with SEFM 2017 - http://sefm17.fbk.eu Web: http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/ ------------------------------------------------------ FOCLASA 2017 is a workshop colocated with the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2017). 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. ------ REGISTRATION ------ http://sefm17.fbk.eu/registration ------ INVITED SPEAKER ------ Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy ------ ACCEPTED PAPERS ------ * "An initial user study comparing the readability of a graphical coordination model with Event-B notation." Eva K??hn and Sophie Therese Radschek * "Combining trust and aggregate computing." Roberto Casadei, Alessandro Aldini and Mirko Viroli * "From (incomplete) TOSCA specs to running apps, with Docker." Antonio Brogi, Davide Neri, Luca Rinaldi and Jacopo Soldani * "Lightweight preprocessing for agent-based simulation of smart mobility initiatives." Jacopo de Berardinis, Giorgio Forcina, Carlo Castagnari, Ali Jafari and Marjan Sirjani * "Towards the performance analysis of elastic systems with e-Motions." Patr??cia Ara??jo de Oliveira, Francisco Dur??n and Ernesto Pimentel * "Reasoning about Sensing Uncertainty in Decision-Making for Self-Adaptation." Javier C??mara Moreno, Wenxin Peng, David Garlan and Bradley Schmerl * "Using Coq for Formal Modeling and Verification of Timed Connectors." Weijiang Hong, Saqib Nawaz, Xiyue Zhang, Yi Li and Meng Sun From m.r.mousavi at hh.se Fri Aug 4 09:19:15 2017 From: m.r.mousavi at hh.se (M.R. Mousavi) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:19:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 Lecturer Positions in Model-Driven Systems Engineering Message-ID: ******************************************************************** 2 Lecturer Positions in Model-Driven Systems Engineering University of Leicester College of Science and Engineering Department of Informatics http://bit.ly/2LecturersLeicester Salary Grade 8 - ?38,183 to ?46,924 per annum Closing date: 31 August 2017 ******************************************************************** Together our staff and students are discovering innovative ways to change the world for the better and there has never been a more exciting time for you to join us. We are ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide and have an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. We are led by discovery and innovation, with the synergy between research and learning at the core of our activity. These are exciting times for Informatics at Leicester. As part of a flagship investment aimed at increasing capacity and expertise to participate in interdisciplinary research, we are creating six new posts to support our holistic approach to Data-Driven Application Engineering for a range of domains led by our interdisciplinary research institutes and networks: Space and Earth Observation (LISEO) and the recently announced Space Park Leicester. Precision Medicine (LPMI) and the Bioinformatics Network. Cultural and Media Economies (CAMEo) and the Network for Computational Social Science. The Department of Informatics has long-standing strengths in Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithms, Software Engineering and HCI. Through our new appointments, we are seeking to develop our capacity in Model-driven Systems Engineering, recognising that software works in specific physical, socio-economic, technological and environmental contexts which have to be part of the engineering process. We will consider all candidates whose research focuses on model-driven systems engineering but are especially interested in the two following profiles. 1. Sustainable socio-technical systems engineering addresses socio-economic, technological and environmental factors from a perspective of requirements engineering and high-level design, requiring skills in areas such as - Model-based requirements engineering and analysis; - Social, economic and environmental impact of software-intensive systems; - Scalable and secure software infrastructure, e.g., using distributed ledger technologies, big data or cloud technologies; - Systems reengineering; 2. Cyber-physical systems engineering focuses on technological and physical aspects from a design and quality assurance point of view including - Model-based testing, verification, and validation; - Engineering of self-learning, autonomous and adaptive systems; - Analysis techniques for (re)configurable systems and product lines; For both posts, experience or potential in one or more of the following areas is desirable - Applications of machine learning in software engineering; - Modern software processes, such as agile development and devops; - Engineering of transport and automotive systems or medical applications; - Applications of the above in industrial or interdisciplinary settings; The main emphasis for selection will be on research excellence, but the role also includes the development and delivery of teaching in the respective areas as well as contributions to the administration and management of the Department. University of Leicester is a research-intensive university. Different areas of activity are balanced by a departmental workload model to ensure fair and transparent balance between staff and different areas of activity. Closing date is the midnight of 31 August 2017 (BST). For more information, please see: http://bit.ly/2LecturersLeicester Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Reiko Heckel on rh122 at le.ac.uk or +44 116 252 3406. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gaboardi at buffalo.edu Fri Aug 4 13:03:09 2017 From: gaboardi at buffalo.edu (Gaboardi, Marco) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 17:03:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2018 call for tutorials Message-ID: <720E45DC-8DDA-435D-84EA-66E90064F50E@buffalo.edu> CALL FOR TUTORIALS POPL 2018 45th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages POPL: 8-13 January 2018 Affiliated Events: 8-9, 13 January 2018 Los Angeles, USA http://popl18.sigplan.org The 45th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2018) will be held in Los Angeles, USA. POPL provides a forum for the discussion of fundamental principles and important innovations in the design, definition, analysis, transformation, implementation and verification of programming languages, programming systems, and programming abstractions. Tutorials for POPL 2018 are solicited on any topic relevant to the POPL community. In particular, tutorials describing emerging topics or novel tools have been especially successful in the past. Tutorials will be held on Monday January 8, 2016 (two days before the main conference and the day before PLMW). The expected length of a tutorial is 3 hours and, depending on the schedule, there might be the option to repeat it in the morning and in the afternoon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: 01 September 2017 Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2017 A tutorial proposal should provide 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 if available. ? 1-2 paragraph abstract suitable for tutorial publicity. ? 1 paragraph biography suitable for tutorial publicity. Proposal must be submitted in pdf or txt form by email to the associated events chair Marco Gaboardi (gaboardi at buffalo.edu). The organizers may also solicit tutorials directly, as has been common in the past. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any query regarding POPL 2018 tutorial proposals should be addressed to the associated events chair, Marco Gaboardi (gaboardi at buffalo.edu). From johannp at appstate.edu Fri Aug 4 14:15:19 2017 From: johannp at appstate.edu (Patricia Johann) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 14:15:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in program semantics at Appalachian State University Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I have an opening for a postdoc, as described in the ad below. In addition to accepting applications, I will be 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 position in the Computer Science Department at Appalachian State University. The position is part of an NSF-funded project on the theory and application of indexed programming. The project is concerned with both type-indexed types, such as nested types and GADTs, and term indexed-types, such as inductive families. It aims to develop the theory of both, to transfer theory and practice between the two, and whenever possible, to unify knowledge across them. The ideal applicant will have a strong background in functional programming, type theory, and category theory, although more expertise in one area may, together with a commitment to developing the required competencies, compensate for less in another. The successful applicant will also be excited about working on fundamental research questions on the themes of type-indexed programming, term-indexed programming, and indexed programming in general. An interest in applications is also welcome. The main tool to be employed is the categorical notion of a fibration, which provide uniform and principled models of very general forms of indexing. The successful hire will work on the funded project with Prof Patricia Johann and collaborating researchers. They will also have the opportunity to initiate subprojects appropriate to their own (related) interests. The position is funded for 2.5 years. The duration of the position is initially one year, with the expectation of continuation by mutual agreement. The position will start at a mutually agreeable date, ideally on or around 15 March 2018. Compensation will be highly competitive and commensurate with experience. Interested persons should first contact Patricia Johann at johannp at appstate.edu, briefly outlining their academic background and research interests, and why they are interested in the position. A complete application will consist of a cover letter and CV, including contact information for three academic references. Complete applications should be made online at https://appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/16205 Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Appalachian State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University does not discriminate in access to its educational programs and activities, or with respect to hiring or the terms and conditions of employment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information or sexual orientation. Individuals with disabilities may request accommodations in the application process by contacting Patricia Johann. Any offer of employment to a successful candidate will be conditioned upon the University's receipt of a satisfactory criminal background report. From anya at ii.uib.no Sat Aug 5 05:23:16 2017 From: anya at ii.uib.no (Anya Helene Bagge) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:23:16 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions in Bergen (deadline Aug 10th, 2017) Message-ID: Hi, We have open PhD positions at the University of Bergen, Norway. The positions are open for any topic covered by the Department's research groups, including such things as software engineering, software (co-)evolution, IDEs and development tools, software languages, program transformation and programming theory. For the official announcement and application link, please see: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/139767/research-fellow-phd-candidate-in-informatics-computer-science-up-to-2-positions Highlights: * Fully funded, 4 years incl 25% teaching * Pension rights, healthcare, 5 week vacation and other welfare rights * Starting salary is around USD 4600/month. Feel free to forward to students or other interested parties. If you're interested in doing a PhD with us on software engineering, languages or related topics, I'm happy to answer questions (anya at ii.uib.no) ? for other information, please see the announcement. Applications can only be made through the online submission system. -anya From afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca Sat Aug 5 00:02:18 2017 From: afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 00:02:18 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CPP 2018 2nd call for papers Message-ID: <303f3aec-afdd-a8e3-62da-44d1fe524b54@eecs.uottawa.ca> 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2018) co-located with POPL 2018 in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG http://conf.researchr.org/track/CPP-2018/CPP-2018 8-9 January, 2018, Los Angeles, USA NEW --- - Format for submitted papers has changed. - Invited speakers announced. Certified Programs and Proofs (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. Important dates --------------- - Abstract submission deadline: Fri 6 Oct 2017 - Full paper submission deadline: Wed 11 Oct 2017 - Notification: Tue 14 Nov 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: Sun 26 Nov 2017 - Conference dates: Mon 8 - Tue 9 Jan 2018 Topics of interest ------------------ We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal certification of programs and proofs. The following is a suggested list of topics of interests to CPP. This is a non-exhaustive list and should be read as a guideline rather than a requirement. - 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 Guidelines --------------------- Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair submission page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpp2018 Submitted papers must be formatted following the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format using the acmart format with the sigplan option, using 10 point font for the main text. http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. Abstracts must be submitted by October 6, 2017 (AOE). The deadline for full papers is October 11, 2017 (AOE), and authors have the option to withdraw their papers during the window between the two. Submissions must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. They 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. 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. Whenever appropriate, the submission should come along with a formal development, using whatever prover, e.g., Agda, Coq, Dafny, Elf, HOL, HOL-Light, Isabelle, Lean, Matita, Mizar, NQTHM, PVS, Vampire, etc. Such formal developments must be submitted together with the paper as auxiliary material, and will be taken into account during the reviewing process. 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 welcome. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. For any questions about the formatting or submission of papers, please consult the PC chairs. Invited Speakers ---------------- Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Ren? Thiemann (University of Innsbruck, Austria) CPP?18 invited speakers are generously funded in part by Galois. Program Committee ----------------- Reynald Affeldt (AIST, Japan) June Andronick (Data61, CSIRO and UNSW, Australia), co-chair Lennart Beringer (Princeton University, USA) Jasmin Blanchette (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes 1, France) Sylvie Boldo (Inria and Universit? Paris-Saclay, France) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, UK) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada), co-chair Elsa Gunter (University of Illinois, USA) Reiner H?hnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands) Warren A. Hunt, Jr. (University of Texas Austin, USA) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research, USA) Assia Mahboubi (Inria, France) Alberto Momigliano (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Magnus Myreen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Para?ba, Brazil / Fortiss, Germany) Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich, Germany) Gert Smolka (Saarland University, Germany) Bas Spitters (Aarhus University, Denmark) Pierre-Yves Strub (?cole Polytechnique, France) Laurent Th?ry (Inria, France) Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Mon Aug 7 09:19:48 2017 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 10:19:48 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Last call for student grants -- TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP Message-ID: ** Call for grants ** TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 25-29 SEPTEMBER 2017 BRASILIA BRASIL A limited number of travel grants is available for students who would not otherwise have resources to attend TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP, and whose attendance would benefit both the applicant and the event. We expect to be able to help with local/travel expenses up to 250 EUR per student. Applicants should note that grants are limited, and that costs in excess of the grant will not be reimbursed. Grants will be awarded based on the grant committee's assessment of the applicant's genuine financial need, the potential benefit to the applicant's education and research, and the potential benefit to TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP. Among those applicants who genuinely could not attend TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP without a grant, the evaluating committee gives priority to (co-)authors of accepted papers. Although priority is given to students with active role in the conferences/workshops, students in other situations are very much encouraged to apply. Applications should explain briefly (limited to 2000 characters) * the current status of the applicant * the kind of participation of the applicant in TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP * a breakdown of the estimated amount needed Applications should be sent by August 10th 2017 by email to Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com). Students should have their supervisor sent a brief recommendation email (limited to 2000 characters) to the same address and by the same deadline. This letter should describe the student's work, the benefit to that work of attending the conference, and an assessment of the student's financial need. The award notification date is August 15th, 2017. The grants will be presented at the conferences; in case a grantee does not attend, the chairs may transfer the grant to another student or give no award. 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URL: From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Mon Aug 7 10:28:04 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 16:28:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESORICS 2017: Call for Participation Message-ID: <63cba9e49a5b0c63b0b64fed27271116@lcc.uma.es> ============================================================================== ESORICS 2017: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Oslo, Norway ? September 11-15, 2017 ============================================================================== WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. The 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) will be held in Oslo, Norway. ESORICS 2017 spans a total of 3 days, featuring: * 3 keynote speeches (Cormac Herley, Paul Syverson, Sandro Etalle) * 54 paper presentations in 3 days (Sep 11-13) * NN workshops (Sept 14 - 15) Registration ------------------------------------ Early Registration for ESORICS+Workshops 2017 is open, but will end soon. Early registration deadline is ***August, 15th 2017*** Registration rates: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/registration If an invitation letter is needed (e.g. VISA) the letter will be provided after the registration. To do this, it is necessary to send an email to the organizing committee: mailto:esorics2017 at ntnu.edu Venue page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/venue Travel and accommodation page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/travel-accomodation We hope to see you in Oslo, Norway! Presentations Program ------------------------------------ The 54 papers of ESORICS 2017 are distributed between **18 sessions** in **two parallel tracks**. Following is the list of paper presentations for the main ESORICS conference. For the workshop programs, please consult their corresponding websites: * SECPRE 2017: https://samosweb.aegean.gr/secpre2017/ * SecSE 2017: http://secse.org * CBT 2017: http://www.deic.uab.cat/~jherrera/CBT/ * DPM 2017: http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2017/ * STM 2017: http://stm2017.di.unimi.it * QASA 2017: http://www.iit.cnr.it/qasa2017/ * CyberICPS: http://www.ds.unipi.gr/cybericps2017/ * SIoT 2017: http://siot-workshop.org ### September 11 - Day 1 ########### 09:30 - 10:30 * Keynote: Cormac Herley 11:00 - 12:30 * Session 1: Security of embedded things - Shortfall-based Optimal Placement of Security Resources for Mobile IoT Scenarios Antonino Rullo, Edoardo Serra, Elisa Bertino and Jorge Lobo - Analyzing the Capabilities of the CAN Attacker Sibylle Froeschle and Alexander St?hring - Boot Attestation: Secure Remote Reporting with Off-The-Shelf IoT Sensors Andr? Schaller, Florian Kohnh?user, Steffen Schulz and Stefan Katzenbeisser * Session 2: Cryptographic Application I - Per-Session Security: Password-Based Cryptography Revisited Gregory Demay, Peter Gazi, Ueli Maurer and Bj?rn Tackmann - Non-Interactive Provably Secure Attestations for Arbitrary RSA Prime Generation Algorithm Fabrice Benhamouda, Houda Ferradi, R?mi G?raud and David Naccache - Tightly Secure Ring-LWE Based Key Encapsulation with Short Ciphertexts Martin Albrecht, Emmanuela Orsini, Kenneth Paterson, Guy Peer and Nigel Smart 14:00 - 15:30 * Session 3: Documents and Authorship - Identifying Multiple Authors in a Binary Program Xiaozhu Meng, Barton Miller and Kwang-Sung Jun - Verifiable Document Redacting Herve Chabanne, Rodolphe Hugel and Julien Keuffer - Source Code Authorship Attribution using Long Short-Term Memory Based Networks Bander Alsulami, Edwin Dauber, Richard Harang, Spiros Mancoridis and Rachel Greenstadt * Session 4: Analysis of Security Protocols - Automated analysis of equivalence properties for security protocols using else branches Ivan Gazeau and Steve Kremer and Levente Butty?n - Secure Authentication in the Grid: A formal analysis of DNP3: SAv5 Cas Cremers, Martin Dehnel-Wild and Kevin Milner - Modular Verification of Protocol Equivalence in the Presence of Randomness Matthew Bauer, Rohit Chadha and Mahesh Viswanathan 16:00 - 17:30 * Session 5: Threat Analysis - Preventing Advanced Persistent Threats in Complex Control Networks Juan E. Rubio, Cristina Alcaraz and Javier Lopez - MTD CBITS: Moving Target Defense for Cloud-Based IT Systems Alexandru G. Bardas, Sathya C. Sundaramurthy, Xinming Ou and Scott A. Deloach - Is my attack tree correct? Maxime Audinot, Sophie Pinchinat and Barbara Kordy * Session 6: Side Channels and data leakage - On-Demand Time Blurring to Support Side-Channel Defense Weijie Liu, Debin Gao and Mike Reiter - Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Covert Hard-Drive Noise Mordechai Guri, Yosef Solewicz, Andrey Daidakulov and Yuval Elovici - Practical Keystroke Timing Attacks in Sandboxed JavaScript Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz, David Bidner, Cl?mentine Maurice and Stefan Mangard ### September 12 - Day 2 ########### 09:00 - 10:00 * Keynote: Paul Syverson 10:30 - 12:00 * Session 7: Vulnerabilities and Malware - Mirage: Toward a Stealthier and Modular Malware Analysis Sandbox for Android Lorenzo Bordoni, Mauro Conti and Riccardo Spolaor - VuRLE: Automatic Vulnerability Detection and Repair by Learning from Examples Siqi Ma, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Cong Sun and Robert Deng - Adversarial Examples for Malware Detection Kathrin Grosse, Nicolas Papernot, Praveen Manoharan, Backes Michael and Patrick McDaniel Russo * Session 8: Privacy in Systems - PerfWeb: How to Violate Web Privacy with Hardware Performance Events Berk Gulmezoglu, Andreas Zankl, Thomas Eisenbarth and Berk Sunar - SePCAR: A Secure and Privacy-enhancing Protocol for Car Access Provision Iraklis Symeonidis, Abdelrahaman Aly, Mustafa Asan Mustafa, Bart Mennink, Siemen Dhooghe and Bart Preneel - Privacy Implications of Room Climate Data Philipp Morgner, Christian M?ller, Matthias Ring, Bj?rn Eskofier, Christian Riess, Frederik Armknecht and Zinaida Benenson 13:30 - 15:00 * Session 9: Network security - Link-Layer Device Type Classification on Encrypted Wireless Traffic with COTS Radios Rajib Ranjan Maiti, Sandra Siby, Ragav Sridharan and Nils Ole Tippenhauer - Preventing DNS amplification attacks using the history of DNS queries with SDN Soyoung Kim, Sora Lee, Geumhwan Cho, Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Jaehoon Paul Jeong and Hyoungshick Kim - Zero Round-Trip Time for the Extended Access Control Protocol Jacqueline Brendel and Marc Fischlin * Session 10: Controlling Access - No sugar but all the taste! Memory Encryption without Architectural Support Panagiotis Papadopoulos, George Christou, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Evangelos Markatos and Sotiris Ioannidis - Tree-based Cryptographic Access Control James Alderman, Naomi Farley and Jason Crampton - Securing Data Analytics on SGX With Randomization Swarup Chandra, Vishal Karande, Zhiqiang Lin, Latifur Khan, Murat Kantarcioglu and Bhavani Thuraisingham 15:30 - 17:00 * Session 11: Information Flow - We are Family: Relating Information-Flow Trackers Musard Balliu, Daniel Schoepe and Andrei Sabelfeld - A Better Composition Operator for Quantitative Information Flow Analyses Kai Engelhardt - WebPol: Fine-grained Information Flow Policies for Web Browsers Abhishek Bichhawat, Vineet Rajani, Jinank Jain, Deepak Garg and Christian Hammer * Session 12: Blockchain and social networks - A Traceability Analysis of Monero?s Blockchain Amrit Kumar, Cl?ment Fischer, Shruti Tople and Prateek Saxena -RingCT 2.0: A Compact Linkable Ring Signature Based Protocol for Blockchain Cryptocurrency Monero Shi-Feng Sun, Man Ho Au, Joseph Liu and Tsz Hon Yuen - Secure Computation in Online Social Networks Foteini Baldimtsi, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Stavros Papadopoulos, Alessandra Scafuro and Nikos Triandopoulos ### September 13 - Day 3 ########### 09:00 - 10:00 * Keynote: Sandro Etalle 10:30 - 12:30 * Session 13: Web Security - DeltaPhish: Detecting Phishing Webpages in Compromised Websites Igino Corona, Battista Biggio, Matteo Contini, Luca Piras, Roberto Corda, Mauro Mereu, Guido Mureddu, Davide Ariu and Fabio Roli - DOMPurify: Client-Side Protection against XSS and Markup Injection Mario Heiderich, J?rg Schwenk and Christopher Spaeth - Quantifying Web Adblocker Privacy Arthur Gervais, Alexandros Filios, Vincent Lenders and Srdjan Capkun * Session 14: Cryptographic signatures - Reusing Nonces in Schnorr Signatures Marc Beunardeau, Aisling Connolly, Remi Geraud, David Naccache and Damien Vergnaud - How to Circumvent the Structure-Preserving Signatures Lower Bounds MEssam Ghadafi - Server-Supported RSA Signatures for Mobile Devices Ahto Buldas, Aivo Kalu, Peeter Laud and Mart Oruaas 13:30 - 15:00 * Session 15: Formal techniques - Inference-Proof Updating of a Weakened View under the Modification of Input Parameters Marcel Preu? and Joachim Biskup - Verifying Constant-Time Implementations by Abstract Interpretation Sandrine Blazy, David Pichardie and Alix Trieu - AVR Processors as a Platform for Language-Based Security Florian Dewald, Heiko Mantel and Alexandra Weber * Session 16: Privacy and garbled circuits - Labeled Homomorphic Encryption: Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Processing of Outsourced Data Manuel Barbosa, Dario Catalano and Dario Fiore - New Way for Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Evaluation Raymond K. H. Tai, Jack P. K. Ma, Yongjun Zhao and Sherman S. M. Chow - Enforcing Input Correctness via Certification in Garbled Circuit Evaluation Yihua Zhang, Marina Blanton and Fattaneh Bayatbabolghani 15:30 - 17:00 * Session 17: Intrusion Detection - Secure IDS Offloading with Nested Virtualization and Deep VM Introspection Shohei Miyama and Kenichi Kourai - Network Intrusion Detection based on Semi-Supervised Variational Auto-Encoder Genki Osada, Kazumasa Omote and Takashi Nishide - LeaPS: Learning-Based Proactive Security Auditing for Clouds Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Momen Oqaily, Amir Alimohammadifar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi * Session 18: Cryptographic Applications II - Multiple Rate Threshold FlipThem David Leslie, Chris Sherfield and Nigel Smart - Stringer: Measuring the Importance of Static Data Comparisons to Detect Backdoors and Undocumented Functionality Sam L. Thomas, Tom Chothia and Flavio D. Garcia - Generic Constructions for Fully Secure Revocable Attribute-Based Encryption Kotoko Yamada, Nuttapong Attrapadung, Keita Emura, Goichiro Hanaoka and Keisuke Tanaka From davide.ancona at unige.it Mon Aug 7 12:12:43 2017 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 18:12:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: OOPS @ SAC 2018 - April 9 - 13, Pau, France Message-ID: <4c832ea1-6002-9069-b15e-e2d4d86a4a85@unige.it> ************************************************** OOPS 2018 Call for Papers Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS18 ************************************************** Technical Track at the 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2018 https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/index.html April 9 - 13, 2018 Pau, France - Important Dates Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts September 15, 2017 Paper and SRC notifications November 10, 2017 Paper and SRC camera-ready copies November 25, 2017 Author registration December 10, 2017 SAC 2018 April 9 - 13, 2018 - Track Chair Davide Ancona (davide.ancona at unige.it) DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy - SAC 2018 For the past thirty two 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 2018 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is hosted by hosted by Universit? de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), Pau, France. - 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 2018 Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) Program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. - OOPS Track: Aims and Topics 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, debugging, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation. The specific 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 * Internet of Things technology and programming * Integration with other paradigms * Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation * Language design and implementation * Modular and generic programming * Reflection, meta-programming * Runtime verification and monitoring * Safe, 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 2018 home page. 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. SAC 2018 will use double-blind reviewing; to facilitate this, author name(s) and institution(s) must be omitted, and references to authors' own related work should be in the third person. 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 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages at additional fee of US$80 per page. Papers accepted as posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee of US$80. SRC abstracts are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 15, 2017. For more information please visit the SAC 2018 home page. - 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. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the papers and posters in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers, posters, and student research abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM 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 (http://oops.disi.unige.it/special-issues), depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue (http://oops.disi.unige.it/special-issues), after the conference. From matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at Tue Aug 8 09:09:26 2017 From: matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at (Maffei Matteo) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 13:09:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open position: Professorship of COMPUTER AIDED VERIFICATION at TU Wien (successor of Helmut Veith) Message-ID: <4B212D34-E736-4FFC-9D87-F26473E19B2F@tuwien.ac.at> The TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) invites applications for a full professorship according to ? 98 University Act 2002 at the Faculty of Informatics. The position is affiliated to the Institute of Information Systems. The candidate will become the head of the already existing and valid established research group Formal Methods in Systems Engineering, previously headed by Helmut Veith. The estimated starting date is October 1, 2018. The applicant is required to have an outstanding academic record in the field of Computer Aided Verification (CAV). Correctness, safety, and reliability of electronic systems are paramount in today?s software- controlled world. The focus of the professorship on CAV will be on automated techniques to verify soft- and hardware. Besides a proven ability in CAV core methods (Computational Logic, Theoretical Computer Science), the candidate will also have a strong interdisciplinary background, especially in relation to Embedded Information Systems, Software Verification, Synthesis or Distributed Algorithms. This position will strengthen the area of Logic and Computation as well as form a link to other research foci of the faculty. Duties include teaching informatics curricula courses (in English or German) as well as supervising graduates and PhD students working on their theses. The professor is expected to contribute to usual management and faculty service tasks. The appointment will be made at tenure level, full time and permanent. If this is a candidate?s first appointment as a full professor, the initial appointment is for 5 years and will then be made permanent following a positive evaluation. The TU Wien is among the most successful technical universities in Europe and it is Austria?s largest scientific technical research and educational institution. The Faculty of Informatics, one of the eight faculties at the TU Wien, plays an active role in national and international research and has an excellent reputation. The main areas of research include Logic and Computation, Computer Engineering, Distributed and Parallel Systems, Media Informatics and Visual Computing, as well as Business Informatics. The Faculty of Informatics offers - Excellent working conditions in an attractive research environment. - An attractive salary, including additional contributions to a pension fund. - Additional financial research support during the first few years (equipment etc.). - Support for relocating to Vienna (if required). - A position in a city with an exceptional quality of life. For a more detailed announcement and information on how to apply, see the attached announcement or visit www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/vacancies. Application Deadline: October 16, 2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. PAPP is no longer a workshop but is a track of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, the flagship conference of ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). ACM SAC is ranked A1 in the Qualis ranking. The acceptance rate of recent SAC is around 25%. 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/sac2017). 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. 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. SAC 2018 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 15, 2017 SRC Abstract Submission: Sep 15, 2017 Paper/SRC Notifications: Nov 10, 2017 Camera-Ready Copies: Nov 25, 2017 TRACK PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Marco Aldinucci (University of Torino, Italy) Mohamad Al Hajj Hassan (Huawei, Germany) Mathias Bourgoin (LIFO, Universit? d'Orl?ans, France) In?s de Castro Dutra (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Kento Emoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Alexandros Gerbessiotis (NJIT, USA) Khaled Hamidouche (AMD Research, USA) Geoff Hamilton (Dublin City University, Ireland) Hideya Iwasaki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Herbert Kuchen (Westf?lische Wilhems-Universit?t M?nster, Germany) Arnaud Lallouet (Huawei Technologies France) Fr?d?ric Loulergue, Track Chair (Northern Arizona University, USA) Virginia Niculescu (Babes Bolya University, Romania) Susanna Pelagatti (University of Pisa, Italy) Md. Wasi-ur Rahman (Intel, USA) Jean Charles R?gin (Universit? de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France) Christian Schute (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Julien Tesson (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, France) -- Dr. Frederic Loulergue Professor School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems Northern Arizona University Home: http://nau.edu/SICCS/Faculty/Frederic-Loulergue Phone: +1 928-523-5044 From justhsu at seas.upenn.edu Tue Aug 8 11:26:28 2017 From: justhsu at seas.upenn.edu (Justin Hsu) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:26:28 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP): Deadline Extension Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Deadline) TPDP 2017 Third Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy October 30th 2017, Dallas, TX, USA Affiliated with CCS 2017 Website: http://tpdp.cse.buffalo.edu/2017/ Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high degree of utility. Having already been the subject of a decade of intense scientific study, it has also now been deployed in products at government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and companies like Apple and Google. Researchers in differential privacy span many distinct research communities, including algorithms, computer security, cryptography, databases, data mining, machine learning, statistics, programming languages, social sciences, and law. This workshop will bring researchers from these communities together to discuss recent developments in both the theory and practice of differential privacy. ** Invited Speakers ** Dan Kifer - Pennsylvania State University (Others to be announced) ** Important Dates ** Submission --- August 11th, 2017 *Extended* (Anywhere on Earth) Notification --- September 4th, 2017 Workshop --- October 30, 2017 ** Submissions ** The 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 (2-4 pages maximum) of their work. Submissions will undergo a lightweight review process and will be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. 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Hello,

Please, find below the third call for papers for IFL 2017. Note that some
of the deadlines have been extended. Details are given below.
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

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IFL 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINES EXTENDED
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29th SYMPOSIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES
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University of Bristol, UK

In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN

Wednesday 30 August - Friday 1 September, 2017

http://iflconference.org/

Scope
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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 2017 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
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Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2017 will use a post-symposium review process
to produce the formal proceedings. All participants of IFL 2017 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 are not subject to 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. The formal proceedings will appear in the
International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library.

Important dates
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Note that the original deadlines for submission and registration have
been extended.

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| Wed 31 January? 2018 | Notification of acceptance for post-symposium proceedings |
| Mon 12 March??? 2018 | Camera-ready version for post-symposium proceedings?????? |

Submission details
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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 use the new ACM two
columns conference format, which can be found at:

http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

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.

Authors submit through EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2017

Topics
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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 2017,
please contact the PC chair at nicolas.wu at bristol.ac.uk. 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
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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
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Chair: Nicolas Wu, University of Bristol, UK

- Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan
- Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France
- Carlos Camarao, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Stephen Dolan, University of Cambridge, UK
- Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Benjamin Lerner, Brown University, USA
- Bas Lijnse, Radboud University, Netherlands
- Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA
- Miguel Pagano, Universidad Nacional de C??rdoba, Argentina
- Tomas Petricek, Alan Turing Institute, UK
- Maciej Pir??g, University of Wroclaw, Poland
- Exequiel Rivas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
- Neil Sculthorpe, Nottingham Trent University, UK
- Melinda Toth, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
- Phil Trinder, Glasgow University, UK
- Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
- Meng Wang, University of Kent, UK

Venue
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The IFL 2017 will be held in association with the Department of
Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK. Bristol is located in
South West England, and can be easily reached from Bristol Airport.

See the website for more information on the venue.

 

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Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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 monitor construction techniques program instrumentation logging, recording, and replay combination of static and dynamic analysis specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems runtime checking of privacy and security policies statistical model checking metrics and statistical information gathering program/system execution visualization fault localization, containment, recovery and repair integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, 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 === Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University, USA: ?The Design and Applications for a Tracing Plane for Distributed Systems? Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg, Microsoft, USA: ?Windows Driver Verification Platform? Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany: ?Learning Input Languages for Runtime Verification? === TUTORIALS === Ankush Desai and Shaz Qadeer, UC Berkeley and Microsoft Research, USA: ?P : Modular and Safe Asynchronous Programming? Madhusudan Parthasarathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: ?Machine-learning State Properties? Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta: ?Foundations For Runtime Monitoring? === VENUE === The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification will be held in the Sheraton Seattle Hotel situated in downtown Seattle. The venue is within walking distance of the famous Pike Place Market, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Aquarium, and the Historic Seattle Waterfront. The weather in September still permits many open-air opportunities to shop, eat, and even sail in the Elliott Bay. 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LFMTP 2017 will be also the occasion to celebrate the 70th birthday of Randy Pollack, author of the LEGO proof assistant and many other contributions to this field. *** Workshop Programme *** The program is available at http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2017/program.shtml or http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/programme.html *** Invited speakers *** Andrew Appel Verifiable C, a Higher-order Impredicative Concurrent Separation Logic in Coq James McKinna Names, Places, and Things; fragments of a partial intellectual biography of Randy Pollack *** Contributed talks *** Andreas Abel, Alberto Momigliano and Brigitte Pientka POPLMark Reloaded Jeff Polakow Uniform Atomic Ordered Linear Logic Claude Stolze, Luigi Liquori, Furio Honsell and Ivan Scagnetto Towards a Logical Framework with Intersection and Union Types Yuito Murase Kripke-Style Contextual Modal Type Theory Roberto Blanco, Dale Miller and Alberto Momigliano Property-Based Testing via Proof Reconstruction: Work-in-progress Michael D. 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Contributed talks ==================== Titles and abstracts for the contributed talks are now available on the website: https://hott-uf.github.io/2017/ 3. Special issue with MSCS ============================= The publication of a special issue in association with the HoTT/UF workshop is being planned, in the journal *Mathematical Structures in Computer Science* (CUP). Submission to the special issue will be open to all. Submissions will be reviewed and published on a rolling basis on MSCS 'FirstView'. More details will be given in a separate announcement. From sac.soap2018 at gmail.com Fri Aug 11 16:07:59 2017 From: sac.soap2018 at gmail.com (sac.soap2018 at gmail.com) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 22:07:59 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SOAP@SAC 2017, April 9-13, Pau, France - second call for papers Message-ID: <20170811200759.6rejN%sac.soap2018@gmail.com> (Apologies for duplicates) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - SOAP track at SAC Service-Oriented Architectures and Programming track of the 33st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing 9-13 April 2018, Pau, France http://sac-soap.sdu.dk/soap2018/ IMPORTANT DATES September 15, 2017: Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts November 10, 2017: Notification of paper and SRC abstracts acceptance/rejection November 25, 2017: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC abstracts December 10, 2017: Author registration due date SAC 2018 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 2018 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held in Pau, France. 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 definition 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 continuouslsy 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. Major topics of interest will include: -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 -IoT and Cloud-based Services SUBMISSION 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 2018 website. Prospective papers should be submitted to the track using the provided automated submission system. Please pay attention to ensure anonimity 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. See the SAC site for the page constraints. For each accepted paper, an author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper to be included in the ACM/ IEEE digital library. 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. Please submit your contribution via SAC 2018 submission site. 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 2018 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.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/src.html. Submission of research abstracts to the SRC program should be in electronic form via SAC 2018 SRC papers submission site. 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. PROGRAM COMMITEE -Nazareno Aguirre (Universidad de R?o Cuarto, AR) -Farhad Arbab (Leiden University and CWI, Amsterdam, NL) -Lu?s Barbosa (University of Minho, Braga, PT) -Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, IT) -Antonio Bucchiarone (FBK, Trento, IT) -Romain Demangeon (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, FR) -Shuiguang Deng (Zhejiang University, PRC) -Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, AT) -Gian Luigi Ferrari (Universit? di Pisa, IT) -Jos? Fiadeiro (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) -Saverio Giallorenzo (University of Bologna, IT) -Ross Horne (Nanyang Technological University, SG) -Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin, IR) -Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) -Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) -Alberto N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SP) -Jorge A. Perez (University of Groningen, NL) -Gustavo Petri (Purdue University, USA) -Ant?nio Ravara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT) -Victor Rivera (Innopolis University, RU) -Alceste Scalas (Imperial College London, UK) -Nikolay Shilov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, RU) -Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT) -Farouk Toumani (Universit? Blaise Pascal, FR) -Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) -Yuhong Yan (Concordia University, CA) -Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, IT) -Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, IT) TRACK CHAIRS -Massimo Bartoletti bart @ unica.it Universit? di Cagliari, Italy -Lu?s Cruz-Filipe lcf @ imada.sdu.dk University of Southern Denmark, Denmark -Gwen Sala?n gwen.salaun @ inria.fr Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France PUBLICITY CHAIR -Stefano Lande lande @ unica.it Universit? di Cagliari, Italy STEERING COMMITTEE -Claudio Guidi, italianaSoftware, Italy -Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna, Italy and INRIA, France -Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia -Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark From Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk Mon Aug 14 12:05:21 2017 From: Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:05:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Academic position at University of Glasgow, Scotland (UK) Message-ID: <06be350c-7cc1-8bdd-3f57-5d7a56fd7c65@glasgow.ac.uk> [ For non-UK readers: the position of Lecturer corresponds to Assistant Professor, but note that this is a tenured position. ] University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering School of Computing Science Lecturer Ref: 018557 Grade 7/8 Salary Range ?33,943 - ?38,183 / ?41,709 - ?48,327 per annum The University of Glasgow seeks to appoint a Lecturer to pursue a world-class research programme in Computing Science within the topics of the Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA) section; to teach related topics in Computing Science at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels; and to carry out allocated administrative tasks. The School of Computing Science is one of the UK?s leading research departments and is expanding its academic staff across a range of areas. Its research is known for strong applications with significant impact, underpinned by rigorous foundations and methodologies. It has a record of successful intra-disciplinary collaboration across the School, and inter-disciplinary collaboration across and beyond the University. The research topics covered by the Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms section include: - algorithms and complexity; - formal modelling and model-checking; - programming language theory. The School seeks applications from outstanding candidates to develop and lead research of international standard in these or related topics. Academic staff who establish successful research programmes have excellent prospects for career development and promotion. Further information on the School of Computing Science can be found at: http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/computing/worldchangerswelcome For over 550 years, UofG has carried out world-changing research and boasts annual research grants and contracts income placing us within the top 10 UK universities. In REF2014, more than 80% of our research was assessed as being world-leading or internationally excellent, placing us 12th in the UK for research power. Closing date: 29 September 2017. Interviews will be held on 3 November 2017. Apply online at: www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ It is the University of Glasgow?s mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment. We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity. The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401. From ksaleem at KSU.EDU.SA Tue Aug 15 06:59:29 2017 From: ksaleem at KSU.EDU.SA (Kashif Akhtar Saleem) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:59:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] S&ReHIS 2017 Submission Extended (Firm) - 1 day to go In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7AF09F5C-D5B8-4374-9E50-B786B7BD90B7@ksu.edu.sa> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers (CFP) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ After successful organization of IEEE healthcom-ReHIS workshop in 2014 in Natal, Brazil (http://www.ieee-healthcom.org/2014/), 2015 in Boston USA (http://www.ieee-healthcom.org/2015/), and 2016 in Munich, Germany (http://ieeehealthcom2016.com), we are glad to organize The 4th International Workshop on Security and Reliability of eHealth Information Systems (S&ReHIS 2017) in the fabulous city of Dalian, China, on 12th to 15th of October 2017 This workshop, organized in conjunction with IEEE Healthcom 2017, provides an international forum for research community working on security, testing, verification, performance evaluation, and reliability of eHealth research areas. 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From sibylle.schupp at gmail.com Wed Aug 16 15:07:47 2017 From: sibylle.schupp at gmail.com (Sibylle Schupp) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:07:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Full Professorship in Programming Languages at Hamburg Univ. of Technology Message-ID: The School of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) is currently advertising a full professorship in the area of Programming Languages. Candidates are expected to have an excellent research record and a strong interest in interdisciplinary work across the engineering departments at TUHH. We particularly welcome applications from candidates working in the following areas: - Programming paradigms - Compiler construction - Domain-specific languages - Non-functional program properties (real-time, safety, security, energy) - Program verification and static analysis For more information, please see the official opening (in German) at https://www.academics.de/jobs/professur_w3_mit_leitungsfunktion_im_bereich_programmiersprachen_145737.html Fluency in German is not a formal prerequisite for the appointment. However, applicants should be willing to acquire sufficient knowledge of German within a couple of years, in order to be able to fully contribute to teaching and administrative tasks. The application deadline is August 31, 2017. -- Sibylle Schupp Professor Institute for Software Systems Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) http://www.tuhh.de/sts From eskang at csail.mit.edu Thu Aug 17 20:30:42 2017 From: eskang at csail.mit.edu (Eunsuk Kang) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:30:42 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research position in formal methods for intelligent cars Message-ID: <58C0C623-E4AD-4746-8577-720D99321890@csail.mit.edu> Please apply using the following link if you are interested: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/toyotaitc/jobs/researcher-formal-methods-for-intelligent-connected-cars-ap4ixuCW4r553ydG1ZS6tF Job Description Researcher, Design by Contract and Formal Methods for Intelligent Connected Cars Summary: Connected cars are emerging as a ground for cutting-edge technologies in the automotive industry. Communication between cars, edge, and cloud computing has great potential for sophisticated new technologies, e.g., advanced information sharing, coordinated autonomous systems, highly distributed control systems, etc. With the advent of this new technology trend, a high demand for quality assurance for software-centric connected systems arises. Toyota InfoTechnology Center is conducting research projects including high-assurance connected software architecture, dependable connected software platform, system assurance, and certification. Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Systems and Software Research Team is seeking talented researcher candidates for high-assurance connected software architecture projects. Primary Responsibilities: Research on High-Assurance Connected Software Architecture including: ? Contract-based architecture, contract-based design, formal contract languages; - Automatic formal verification; - Runtime verification and monitoring; - Correctness-by-construction; - Automatic abstraction (bottom-up) and decomposition (top-down) of system specifications. Qualifications: - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field. Requirements: - Research experience in formal verification. - Proficiency in formal verification tools, e.g., theorem prover tools, model checking tools, etc. - Knowledge of computer systems, embedded systems, and systems and software engineering. - Knowledge of programming and scripting languages, e.g., Java, Python, etc. - Research prototype development skills. - Ability to engage in general research activities, e.g., planning, time management, and team building. - Ability to work independently as well as within a highly motivated team environment. - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Application: To apply for this position, please submit your information at the company website: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/toyotaitc/jobs/researcher-formal-methods-for-intelligent-connected-cars-ap4ixuCW4r553ydG1ZS6tF?ref=rss&sid=68 About Toyota ITC: Since 2001, Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA, Inc. has specialized in R&D and business research with a focus on cutting-edge information technologies to advance the driving experience of Toyota automobiles and safety of the automotive industry around the globe. ITC?s current areas of interest include future vehicular network, in-vehicle software and system architecture, vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology and intelligent computing technology. From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Mon Aug 21 14:52:49 2017 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (Cristina Alcaraz) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:52:49 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESORICS 2017: Call for Participation Message-ID: <05fb98838af41a52c47a3411d33b36a3@lcc.uma.es> ============================================================================== ESORICS 2017: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Oslo, Norway ? September 11-15, 2017 ============================================================================== WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. The 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) will be held in Oslo, Norway. ESORICS 2017 spans a total of 3 days, featuring: * 3 keynote speeches (Cormac Herley, Paul Syverson, Sandro Etalle) * 54 paper presentations in 3 days (Sep 11-13) * 8 workshops (Sept 14 - 15) Presentations Program ------------------------------------ The 54 papers of ESORICS 2017 are distributed between **18 sessions** in **two parallel tracks**. Following is the list of paper presentations for the main ESORICS conference. For the workshop programs, please consult their corresponding websites: * SECPRE 2017: https://samosweb.aegean.gr/secpre2017/ * SecSE 2017: http://secse.org * CBT 2017: http://www.deic.uab.cat/~jherrera/CBT/ * DPM 2017: http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2017/ * STM 2017: http://stm2017.di.unimi.it * QASA 2017: http://www.iit.cnr.it/qasa2017/ * CyberICPS: http://www.ds.unipi.gr/cybericps2017/ * SIoT 2017: http://siot-workshop.org ### September 11 - Day 1 ########### 09:30 - 10:30 * Keynote: Cormac Herley - Justifying Security Measures - a Position Paper 11:00 - 12:30 * Session 1: Security of embedded things - Shortfall-based Optimal Placement of Security Resources for Mobile IoT Scenarios Antonino Rullo, Edoardo Serra, Elisa Bertino and Jorge Lobo - Analyzing the Capabilities of the CAN Attacker Sibylle Froeschle and Alexander St?hring - Boot Attestation: Secure Remote Reporting with Off-The-Shelf IoT Sensors Steffen Schulz, Andr? Schaller, Florian Kohnh?user, and Stefan Katzenbeisser * Session 2: Cryptographic Application I - Per-Session Security: Password-Based Cryptography Revisited Gregory Demay, Peter Gazi, Ueli Maurer and Bj?rn Tackmann - Non-Interactive Provably Secure Attestations for Arbitrary RSA Prime Generation Algorithm Fabrice Benhamouda, Houda Ferradi, R?mi G?raud and David Naccache - Tightly Secure Ring-LWE Based Key Encapsulation with Short Ciphertexts Martin Albrecht, Emmanuela Orsini, Kenneth Paterson, Guy Peer and Nigel Smart 14:00 - 15:30 * Session 3: Documents and Authorship - Identifying Multiple Authors in a Binary Program Xiaozhu Meng, Barton Miller and Kwang-Sung Jun - Verifiable Document Redacting Herve Chabanne, Rodolphe Hugel and Julien Keuffer - Source Code Authorship Attribution using Long Short-Term Memory Based Networks Bander Alsulami, Edwin Dauber, Richard Harang, Spiros Mancoridis and Rachel Greenstadt * Session 4: Analysis of Security Protocols - Automated analysis of equivalence properties for security protocols using else branches Ivan Gazeau and Steve Kremer and Levente Butty?n - Secure Authentication in the Grid: A formal analysis of DNP3: SAv5 Cas Cremers, Martin Dehnel-Wild and Kevin Milner - Modular Verification of Protocol Equivalence in the Presence of Randomness Matthew Bauer, Rohit Chadha and Mahesh Viswanathan 16:00 - 17:30 * Session 5: Threat Analysis - Preventing Advanced Persistent Threats in Complex Control Networks Juan E. Rubio, Cristina Alcaraz and Javier Lopez - MTD CBITS: Moving Target Defense for Cloud-Based IT Systems Alexandru G. Bardas, Sathya C. Sundaramurthy, Xinming Ou and Scott A. Deloach - Is my attack tree correct? Maxime Audinot, Sophie Pinchinat and Barbara Kordy * Session 6: Side Channels and data leakage - On-Demand Time Blurring to Support Side-Channel Defense Weijie Liu, Debin Gao and Mike Reiter - Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Covert Hard-Drive Noise Mordechai Guri, Yosef Solewicz, Andrey Daidakulov and Yuval Elovici - Practical Keystroke Timing Attacks in Sandboxed JavaScript Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz, David Bidner, Cl?mentine Maurice and Stefan Mangard ### September 12 - Day 2 ########### 09:00 - 10:00 * Keynote: Paul Syverson - The Once and Future Onion 10:30 - 12:00 * Session 7: Vulnerabilities and Malware - Mirage: Toward a Stealthier and Modular Malware Analysis Sandbox for Android Lorenzo Bordoni, Mauro Conti and Riccardo Spolaor - VuRLE: Automatic Vulnerability Detection and Repair by Learning from Examples Siqi Ma, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Cong Sun and Robert Deng - Adversarial Examples for Malware Detection Kathrin Grosse, Nicolas Papernot, Praveen Manoharan, Backes Michael and Patrick McDaniel Russo * Session 8: Privacy in Systems - PerfWeb: How to Violate Web Privacy with Hardware Performance Events Berk Gulmezoglu, Andreas Zankl, Thomas Eisenbarth and Berk Sunar - SePCAR: A Secure and Privacy-enhancing Protocol for Car Access Provision Iraklis Symeonidis, Abdelrahaman Aly, Mustafa Asan Mustafa, Bart Mennink, Siemen Dhooghe and Bart Preneel - Privacy Implications of Room Climate Data Philipp Morgner, Christian M?ller, Matthias Ring, Bj?rn Eskofier, Christian Riess, Frederik Armknecht and Zinaida Benenson 13:30 - 15:00 * Session 9: Network security - Link-Layer Device Type Classification on Encrypted Wireless Traffic with COTS Radios Rajib Ranjan Maiti, Sandra Siby, Ragav Sridharan and Nils Ole Tippenhauer - Preventing DNS amplification attacks using the history of DNS queries with SDN Soyoung Kim, Sora Lee, Geumhwan Cho, Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Jaehoon Paul Jeong and Hyoungshick Kim - Zero Round-Trip Time for the Extended Access Control Protocol Jacqueline Brendel and Marc Fischlin * Session 10: Controlling Access - No sugar but all the taste! Memory Encryption without Architectural Support Panagiotis Papadopoulos, George Christou, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Evangelos Markatos and Sotiris Ioannidis - Tree-based Cryptographic Access Control James Alderman, Naomi Farley and Jason Crampton - Securing Data Analytics on SGX With Randomization Swarup Chandra, Vishal Karande, Zhiqiang Lin, Latifur Khan, Murat Kantarcioglu and Bhavani Thuraisingham 15:30 - 17:00 * Session 11: Information Flow - We are Family: Relating Information-Flow Trackers Musard Balliu, Daniel Schoepe and Andrei Sabelfeld - A Better Composition Operator for Quantitative Information Flow Analyses Kai Engelhardt - WebPol: Fine-grained Information Flow Policies for Web Browsers Abhishek Bichhawat, Vineet Rajani, Jinank Jain, Deepak Garg and Christian Hammer * Session 12: Blockchain and social networks - A Traceability Analysis of Monero?s Blockchain Amrit Kumar, Cl?ment Fischer, Shruti Tople and Prateek Saxena -RingCT 2.0: A Compact Linkable Ring Signature Based Protocol for Blockchain Cryptocurrency Monero Shi-Feng Sun, Man Ho Au, Joseph Liu and Tsz Hon Yuen - Secure Computation in Online Social Networks Foteini Baldimtsi, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Stavros Papadopoulos, Alessandra Scafuro and Nikos Triandopoulos ### September 13 - Day 3 ########### 09:00 - 10:00 * Keynote: Sandro Etalle - From Intrusion Detection to Software Design 10:30 - 12:30 * Session 13: Web Security - DeltaPhish: Detecting Phishing Webpages in Compromised Websites Igino Corona, Battista Biggio, Matteo Contini, Luca Piras, Roberto Corda, Mauro Mereu, Guido Mureddu, Davide Ariu and Fabio Roli - DOMPurify: Client-Side Protection against XSS and Markup Injection Mario Heiderich, Christopher Sp?th, and J?rg Schwenk - Quantifying Web Adblocker Privacy Arthur Gervais, Alexandros Filios, Vincent Lenders and Srdjan Capkun * Session 14: Cryptographic signatures - Reusing Nonces in Schnorr Signatures Marc Beunardeau, Aisling Connolly, Remi Geraud, David Naccache and Damien Vergnaud - How to Circumvent the Structure-Preserving Signatures Lower Bounds MEssam Ghadafi - Server-Supported RSA Signatures for Mobile Devices Ahto Buldas, Aivo Kalu, Peeter Laud and Mart Oruaas 13:30 - 15:00 * Session 15: Formal techniques - Inference-Proof Updating of a Weakened View under the Modification of Input Parameters Joachim Biskup and Marcel Preu? - Verifying Constant-Time Implementations by Abstract Interpretation Sandrine Blazy, David Pichardie and Alix Trieu - AVR Processors as a Platform for Language-Based Security Florian Dewald, Heiko Mantel and Alexandra Weber * Session 16: Privacy and garbled circuits - Labeled Homomorphic Encryption: Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Processing of Outsourced Data Manuel Barbosa, Dario Catalano and Dario Fiore - New Way for Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Evaluation Raymond K. H. Tai, Jack P. K. Ma, Yongjun Zhao and Sherman S. M. Chow - Enforcing Input Correctness via Certification in Garbled Circuit Evaluation Yihua Zhang, Marina Blanton and Fattaneh Bayatbabolghani 15:30 - 17:00 * Session 17: Intrusion Detection - Secure IDS Offloading with Nested Virtualization and Deep VM Introspection Shohei Miyama and Kenichi Kourai - Network Intrusion Detection based on Semi-Supervised Variational Auto-Encoder Genki Osada, Kazumasa Omote and Takashi Nishide - LeaPS: Learning-Based Proactive Security Auditing for Clouds Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Momen Oqaily, Amir Alimohammadifar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi * Session 18: Cryptographic Applications II - Multiple Rate Threshold FlipThem David Leslie, Chris Sherfield and Nigel Smart - Stringer: Measuring the Importance of Static Data Comparisons to Detect Backdoors and Undocumented Functionality Sam L. Thomas, Tom Chothia and Flavio D. Garcia - Generic Constructions for Fully Secure Revocable Attribute-Based Encryption Kotoko Yamada, Nuttapong Attrapadung, Keita Emura, Goichiro Hanaoka and Keisuke Tanaka From Sara.Kalvala at warwick.ac.uk Tue Aug 22 06:04:08 2017 From: Sara.Kalvala at warwick.ac.uk (Sara Kalvala) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:04:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar, 22/09/17 Message-ID: <9003250d-6cee-5d18-1ef1-9dc1915392e2@warwick.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Call for Participation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What: S-REPLS 7 When: Friday, 22 September 2017 Where: University of Warwick, Coventry Website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/srepls7 Registration: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/srepls7/registration Cost: Registration, lunch, and coffee are free -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) is a regular and informal meeting based in the South of England for those with an interest in the semantics and implementation of programming languages. The seventh meeting, S-REPLS 7, will take place at the University of Warwick on 22 September 2017. It follows successful meetings at UCL, Oxford, Imperial, Kent, Middlesex, and Cambridge. To register or submit a talk proposal, please fill in the form at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/srepls7/registration/ indicating your attendance, whether you would like to give a talk, and whether you would like to join us for a pay your own way dinner after the seminar. Talks (20-30 minutes in length) about any PL-related topic are welcome and at any stage of development (from promising ideas to work submitted for publication), both from academics and industry. The workshop will start at 11am in room WBS006 of the Warwick Business School and last until 6pm. Afterwards, there will be a pay-your-own-way dinner at a restaurant on campus. The University of Warwick is located in Coventry and there are good public transport connections from the railway station. To find out more about getting to the University, please visit the website at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/ If you haven?t done so yet, you may wish to subscribe to the S-REPLS mailing list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/srepls which has very low traffic and will keep you informed about upcoming seminars. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best wishes, Michael B. Gale, Sara Kalvala, Andrzej Murawski, and David Purser (Organisers) -- Dept of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK http://go.warwick.ac.uk/kalvala, tel: +44 24 7652 3179 From pietro.sala at univr.it Wed Aug 23 07:58:58 2017 From: pietro.sala at univr.it (Pietro Sala) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:58:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] call for participation at the School in Formal Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems Message-ID: <1272060566.14935015.1503489538864.JavaMail.zimbra@univr.it> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 1st Summer School on Formal Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems Edition 2017: Automatic Synthesis of Controllers for Hybrid Systems Sponsored by: PhD School in Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Verona Department of Computer Science, University of Verona 12-16 September 2017 Department of Computer Science University of Verona, Italy https://cps-2017.di.univr.it/school-editions/2017 General enquiries: marta.capiluppi at univr.it, pietro.sala at univr.it, tiziano.villa at univr.it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st Summer School on Formal Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems (FM-CPS) is a new summer school to be held at University of Verona from September 12th to 16th. The 2017 edition of FM-CPS 2017 focuses on the foundations, techniques, and tools for analysis, verification, control, synthesis, implementation, and applications of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Applications deal broadly with engineering and natural systems, including signal circuits, robotics, automotive and avionics, large-scale infrastructure networks, as well as biochemical and physiological processes. THEMES The main themes faced during the school include: ? Design, synthesis, planning and control (including real-time and resource-aware control) ? Analysis, automated verification (Boolean or quantitative), certification, validation, and testing ? Model building from data (via learning) and model simulation) ? Network science and control over networks ? Mathematical foundations, computability and complexity ? Programming languages, specification formalisms ? Software tool engineering and experimentation FOCUS OF THE FIRST EDITION This first edition of the school has the goal of presenting the state of the art of the current techniques in controller synthesis for hybrid systems, to enable doctoral students and young researchers to advance the field and apply the developed methodologies to concrete scenarios promoting their application in the industrial practice. The control synthesis problem will be addressed both in the discrete domain and in the timed/hybrid one with techniques ranging from supervisory control, to synthesizing strategies in a two-player game, and to control-theoretic techniques. Contributions of interest discussed in this edition of the school include: ? Introduction to the the Synthesis Problem; ? Practical Reactive Synthesis; ? Automated synthesis for nonlinear control systems; ? Controller Synthesis for Linear Hybrid Systems; ? Automatic Synthesis of Control Software for Discrete-Time Hybrid Systems; ? Control Synthesis of Piecewise-affine Hybrid Systems on Polytopes. The school will include tutorial presentations as well as laboratory sessions that will allow the students to apply the concepts introduced during the lectures in a laboratory set-up. The list of international speakers includes: ? Davide Bresolin, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universit? di Padova, Italy ? Rudiger Ehlers, Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany ? Marco Faella, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Universit? di Napoli, Italy ? Salvatore La Torre, Dipartimento d'Informatica, Universit? di Salerno, Italy ? Leonardo Mangeruca, ALES (UTRC), Roma, Italy ? Federico Mari Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? La Sapienza, Roma, Italy ? Angelo Montanari, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Informatiche e Fisiche, Universit? di Udine, Italy ? Andrea Orlandini, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR, Roma, Italy ? Matthias Rungger, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, TU Munchen, Germany ? Pietro Sala, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? di Verona, Italy ? Enrico Tronci, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? La Sapienza, Roma, Italy ? Jan Van Schuppen, Mathematics Department, TU Delft, The Netherlands ? Tiziano Villa, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? di Verona, Italy ? Nina Yevtushenko Department of Radiophysics, Tomsk State University, Russia Please check the website for updates on the detailed technical program and list of speakers. IMPORTANT DATES Early registration fee: 4 August 2017 Regular registration fee: 4 September 2017 School dates: 12-16 September 2017 REGISTRATION Registration details can be found on the school website: https://cps-2017.di.univr.it/register?school_edition=2017 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Paolo Fiorini, Dipartimento d'Informatica, Universit? di Verona, Italy Angelo Montanari, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Informatiche e Fisiche, Universit? di Udine, Italy Riccardo Muradore, Dipartimento d'Informatica, Universit? di Verona, Italy Tiziano Villa, Dipartimento d'Informatica, Universit? di Verona, Italy ORGANISERS Marta Capiluppi (Universit? degli Studi di Verona) Luca Geretti (Universit? degli Studi di Verona) Pietro Sala (Universit? degli Studi di Verona) Tiziano Villa (Universit? degli Studi di Verona) From jonathan.brachthaeuser at uni-tuebingen.de Wed Aug 23 12:25:37 2017 From: jonathan.brachthaeuser at uni-tuebingen.de (=?utf-8?Q?Jonathan_Brachth=C3=A4user?=) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:25:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM SIGPLAN Scala Symposium 2017: Final Call for Talk Proposals Message-ID: ====================================================== Scala Symposium 2017 co-located with SPLASH 2017 Vancouver, Canada 22-23 October 2017 FINAL CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers ====================================================== Deadline for talk proposals: Aug 30th, 2017 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. The Scala Symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics and many formats. Topics of Interest ================== We seek submissions on all 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 ? stand-alone Scala libraries, 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 models, performance evaluation, experimental results. - Big data and machine learning libraries and applications using the Scala programming language. - Safety and reliability ? pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. - Interoperability with other languages and runtimes, such as JavaScript, Java 8 (lambdas), Graal and others. - Tools ? development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. - Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Important dates =============== * Talk submission: Aug 30th, 2017 * Talk notification: Sep 17th, 2017 All deadlines are ?Anywhere on Earth? (AoE) Submission Format ================= To accommodate the needs of researchers and practitioners, as well as beginners and experts alike, we seek several kinds of submissions. Submission open: - **Student and Open Source talks** (short abstract only, in plain text) Submission closed: - **Full papers** (at most 10 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Short papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) - **Tool papers** (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) Student or open source talks will **not** be published in the ACM Digital Library. Detailed information for each kind of submission is given below. Please note that at least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the symposium and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. 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 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 and about topics of relevance to the symposium, for instance (but not only) presenting or announcing an open-source project that would be of interest to the Scala community. Submission Website ================== The submission will be managed through HotCRP: https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ For questions and additional clarifications, please contact the conference organizers. Program Committee (Tentative) ============================= * Aggelos Biboudis, EPFL * Edwin Brady, University of St. Andrews * Eugene Burmako, Twitter * Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS * Lars Hupel, TU Munich * Pablo Inostroza, CWI * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Martin Odersky, EPFL * Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong * Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt * Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University * Philippe Suter, IBM Research * Frank Tip, Northeastern University * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University * Niki Vazou, University of Maryland Organizers ========== * Heather Miller, EPFL (General Chair) * Philipp Haller, KTH (Program Chair) * Ond?ej Lhot?k, University of Waterloo (Program Chair) * Paolo Giarrusso, University of T?bingen * Jonathan Brachth?user, University of T?bingen Sponsors ======== We thank our sponsor Lightbend and Twitter for supporting some of the talented student attendees of Scala'17. Links ===== * Scala '17 http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers * Submissions https://scala17.hotcrp.com/ * SPLASH '17 http://2017.splashcon.org/ From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Wed Aug 23 16:56:08 2017 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:56:08 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2018 joint call for papers Message-ID: <20170823235608.03e3cf37@cs.ioc.ee> NEW! The proceedings of ETAPS 2018 will appear in *gold open access*. As an exception for this year only, the important dates of POST differ from the other member conferences! ****************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS 21st European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-21 April 2018 http://www.etaps.org/2018 ****************************************************************** -- 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 2018 is the twenty-first event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (16-20 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University, USA) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, UK, and Andy Sch?rr, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Christel Baier, Technische Univ. Dresden, Germany, and Ugo Dal Lago, Universit? di Bologna, Italy) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Ralf K?sters, University of Stuttgart, Germany) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilian-Univ. M?nchen, Germany, and Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands) TACAS '18 hosts the 7th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speaker: Martin Abadi (Google Research & University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Pamela Zave (AT&T Labs, USA) * ESOP invited speaker: Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany) * POST invited speaker: Benjamin C. Pierce (University of Pennsylvania, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES (all member conferences except POST) * Abstracts due: 13 October 2017 * Papers due: 20 October 2017 * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS only): 6-8 December 2017 * Notification: 22 December 2017 * Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 IMPORTANT DATES for POST * Abstracts due: 22 November 2017 * Papers due: 24 November 2017 * Rebuttal: 12-16 January 2018 * Notification: 25 January 2018 * Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 -- 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 (this does not apply to abstracts). In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science 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 and POST will use a double-blind review process. The proceedings of ETAPS 2018 will be published in *gold open access*. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. It is most likely that 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. - 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 6 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. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (14-15 April, 21 April) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences: CMCS, CREST, DICE, FAEPAS, GALOP, HotSpot, LiVe, MARS, MeTRiD, SNR, SynCoP, VerifyThis, VPT, VSSE, WRLA. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2018 is hosted by the School of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece. -- ORGANIZERS Panagiotis Katsaros (general chair), Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angelis, Nick Bassiliades, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, George Rahonis, Ezio Bartocci, Simon Bliudze, Petros Stratis, Emmanouela Stachtiari, Kyriakos Georgiadis -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at katsaros at csd.auth.gr. From kutsia at risc.jku.at Fri Aug 25 17:30:21 2017 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 23:30:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CfP: MACIS 2017 Message-ID: <9f392514-40b1-321e-93a8-44d2c80f1c8e@risc.jku.at> Second Call for Papers ********************************************************** MACIS 2017 7th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences November 15-17, 2017 Vienna, Austria. https://macis2017.sba-research.org/ ********************************************************** MACIS is a series of biennial conferences focusing on research in mathematical and computational aspects of computing and information science. MACIS 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective four-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. ===== Important Dates ===== Submission deadline (REGULAR/SHORT papers): September 3, Sunday (SHORT papers are decided on a rolling basis) Notification deadline for all submissions: October 2, Monday Registration opens: October 2, Monday Camera-ready due: October 15, Sunday Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. ==== MACIS 2017 Organization ==== General Chair: Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria PC Chairs: Johannes Bloemer, Paderborn University, Germany Temur Kutsia, RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Austria MACIS Steering Committee: Ilias Kotsireas (Chair), Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Siegfried Rump, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Thomas Sturm, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Dongming Wang, Beihang University, China Jinzhao Wu, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China Chee Yap, New York University, USA ==== Proceedings ==== All accepted SHORT or REGULAR papers (details, below) are planned to appear in a conference proceedings volume published by Springer LNCS (pending approval). In addition, REGULAR papers have the opportunity to be considered for post-conference special issues of the journal Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS http://link.springer.com/journal/11786) by Birkhauser/Springer. ==== MACIS 2017 Topics ==== MACIS authors are required to choose one of the following tracks: ----------------- Track 1: Foundation of Algorithms in Mathematics, Engineering & Scientific Computation Track Chairs: Matthew England (Coventry University, UK), Jonathan Hauenstein (University of Notre Dame, USA), Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Elias Tsigaridas (INRIA, France) Topics: quantifier elimination and decision procedures; global optimization; differential equations; numeric, symbolic, interval and hybrid solution techniques; satisfiability modulo theories; combinations of logics and deductive engines; applications, especially in systems analysis and formal verification; solving (parametric) polynomial systems ---------------- Track 2: Combinatorics and Codes in Computer Science Track Chairs: Daniel Augot (INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique, France), Alexander May (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany), Alfred Wassermann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Topics: combinatorics, enumerative, combinatorial designs, their analysis and algorithmic constructions of them, complexity problems in combinatorics; codes constructions, decoding methods and their complexity, information theory aspects, Kolmogorov complexity ---------------- Track 3: Data Modeling and Analysis Track Chairs: Xiaoyu Chen (Beihang University, China) Joachim Giesen (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Giorgos Kollias (IBM Research, USA) Topics: knowledge discovery; data mining; differential privacy, pattern recognition; complex knowledge - representation and management; foundations and theories for data analysis - systems; design and analysis of machine learning algorithms, statistical analysis for big data ---------------- Track 4: Mathematical Aspects of Information Security and Cryptography Track Chairs: Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Switzerland), Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw, Poland), Guenael Renault (ANSSI, France) Topics: security models; formal methods for security and privacy; design and analysis of algebraic, elliptic, number theoretical, code-based, lattice-based and hash-based cryptographic primitives; algebraic cryptanalysis, algebraic attacks, number theoretical algorithms, mathematical foundations of post-quantum cryptography; (lattices, codes); algorithms and software for symbolic computation in cryptography ----------------- - For general inquiries regarding MACIS 2017, please send e-mail to Dimitris Simos - For inquiries regarding MACIS topics, please send e-mail to Johannes Bloemer or to Temur Kutsia ==== Submission Guidelines ==== Authors are invited to submit papers, presenting original and unpublished research: - REGULAR papers are up to 15 pages, and SHORT papers are up to 5 pages, including references. - Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or journals is not allowed. - Please use the LNCS format from Springer: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip - Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference, by using the easychair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=macis2017. - For detailed submission guidelines please see the MACIS website: https://macis2017.sba-research.org From wim.vanhoof at unamur.be Mon Aug 28 05:46:04 2017 From: wim.vanhoof at unamur.be (Wim Vanhoof) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:46:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP and LOPSTR 2017 Call for Participation Message-ID: <18FAB0F9-8E3A-4B99-A4E1-53DFC81D47A5@unamur.be> *********************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PPDP 2017 19th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming Namur, Belgium, October 9-11 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/ppdp2017 co-located with LOPSTR 2017 27th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation Namur, Belgium, October 10-12 https://www.sci.unich.it/lopstr17/ *********************************************** Registration is now open: https://events.info.unamur.be/ppdp-lopstr-2017/ ** Early registration deadline: September 15, 2017 ** INVITED TALKS: Marieke Huisman (Universiteit Twente) A Verification Technique for Deterministic Parallel Programs (joint PPDP/LOPSTR speaker) Sumit Gulwani (Microsoft) Programming by Examples: Applications, Algorithms, and Ambiguity Resolution (joint PPDP/LOPSTR speaker) Serge Abiteboul (INRIA) Ethical issues in data management (PPDP) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) K: A Logic-Based Framework for Program Transformation and Analysis (LOPSTR) Please consult the conferences' webpages for a list of accepted papers. Hope to see you in Namur ! From dargenio at famaf.unc.edu.ar Wed Aug 30 13:26:56 2017 From: dargenio at famaf.unc.edu.ar (Pedro R. D'Argenio) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:26:56 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] JLAMP Special Issue on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory Message-ID: Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming Special Issue on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory ** Aims and Scope This special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming is devoted to the themes of the Research Seminar on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory and has its root in the research seminar of the same name held in Vienna on 26-29 of June, 2017 ( http://opct2017.famaf.unc.edu.ar). This is an open call for papers, therefore both participants of the research seminar and other authors are encouraged to submit their contributions. Submissions are invited in the field of concurrency theory; specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Models of concurrency - Process calculi - Behavioral relations and metrics - Expressiveness - Programming languages and types - Quantitative and security aspects - Verification, testing, and synthesis Papers surveying important open problems in concurrency theory are also welcome. ** 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 if there is a clear justification for additional pages; prospective authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least two reviewers. The authors will have some 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. Submissions will be handled through the Elsevier Editorial System (Evise) and can be uploaded to the JLAMP webpage. Authors must select ?VSI: OPCT 2017? when requested for ?Special Issue Type? 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. ** Important Dates Submission of papers: November 20, 2017 First review decision: March 23, 2018 Revision due: May 21, 2018 Acceptance notification: June 20, 2018 Final manuscript due: August 20, 2018 Expected publication: September 30, 2018 ** Guest Editors Ilaria Castellani (INRIA, FR) Pedro R. 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URL: From georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at Wed Aug 30 10:29:15 2017 From: georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at (Georg Weissenbacher) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:29:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMCAD 2017 (Call for participation: early registration ends Sept 2) Message-ID: FMCAD 2017: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, October 2-6, 2017 http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD17 FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 2, 2017 FMCAD Regular Program: October 3-6, 2017 Part of the FMCAD 2017 program: - FMCAD Student Forum - Hardware Model Checking Competition 2017 - Symposium in memoriam of Helmut Veith Co-located event: MEMOCODE 2017 (http://memocode.irisa.fr/2017/) CONFERENCE SCOPE FMCAD 2017 is the seventeenth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing ground-breaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. REGISTRATION Early Registration Deadline: September 02, 2017 Registration Deadline: September 29, 2017 Registration details are available on http://fmcad.org/FMCAD17/registration TECHNICAL PROGRAM The program comprises presentations of 25 regular papers and 4 tool papers, 3 tutorials and 2 keynotes, a student forum, the Hardware Model Checking Competition, and a symposium in memoriam Helmut Veith. Details are available on the web-site: http://fmcad.org/FMCAD17 KEYNOTES - Byron Cook (Amazon, University College London) "Formal Verification, Model Checking, and Constraints for Security of the Cloud" - Wilfried Steiner (TTTech) "Formal Methods in Industrial Dependable Systems Design" TUTORIALS - Shin'ichiro Matsuo (MIT Media Lab/CELLOS Consortium/BSafe.network) "How Formal Methods and Analysis Helps Security of Entire Blockchain-based Systems" - Cas Cremers (Oxford University) "Symbolic Security Analysis using the Tamarin Prover" - Jade Alglave (Microsoft Research, University College London) "Consistency Properties of Parallel/Distributed Programs in cat" STUDENT FORUM AND HELMUT VEITH SYMPOSIUM The FMCAD student forum consists of short presentations and posters of doctoral students presenting their work-in-progress. The Symposium in memoriam Helmut Veith features talks on model checking, synthesis, distributed algorithms, and security, as well as a LogicLounge on Teaching Logic in Computer Science. SPONSORS - Sponsored by FMCAD, Inc. - Technical Co-sponsor: IEEE - In-cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT - Financial support: Amazon, ARM, BMVIT, Centaur Technology, DiffBlue, Galois, Microsoft, NSF, Oski Technology, Real Intent, Synopsys, TTTech, WWTF From rocco.denicola at imtlucca.it Thu Aug 31 13:01:05 2017 From: rocco.denicola at imtlucca.it (Rocco De Nicola) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:01:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at IMT Lucca In-Reply-To: <0cc1a9ef-48c4-ffbd-4017-106218f75ea1@imtlucca.it> References: <000a01d32163$44baad40$ce3007c0$@imtlucca.it> <0cc1a9ef-48c4-ffbd-4017-106218f75ea1@imtlucca.it> Message-ID: SPECIFICATION, ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATION OF CONCURRENT DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca invites applications for one fixed-term Assistant Professor position (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato Tipo A, RTD-A) in Computer Science. The position is initially for three years, with the possibility of a further two-year extension upon successful evaluation. We seek to strengthen or organically complement IMT's current areas of expertise on languages and techniques for the specification, analysis and verification of concurrent and distributed systems. Relevant fields of interest are concurrency theory, programming languages, and software engineering, with applications in a wide range of domains such as adaptive systems, cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, computational biology, fault-tolerant systems, security, and smart cities. IMT is one of Italy?s six schools of excellence for postgraduate education, ranked first in the last national research assessment exercise. The successful candidate is expected to publish in high-profile journals and conferences. Moreover she/he is expected to contribute to the activities of the SysMA research unit (http://sysma.imtlucca.it) with the teaching and supervision of PhD students, admitted to the School through a selective international competition. The working language is English. On-campus Italian courses are offered free of charge. The indicative starting gross salary is ? 35,000; net income may vary depending on income taxes, local taxes, retirement plan, health care deduction and tax exemptions. New employees who have worked in research-based positions abroad for the previous two years may be eligible for a substantial tax rebate for the first three fiscal years of employment. The online application form is available at https://www.imtlucca.it/school/job-opportunities/academic/344 * Deadline for Application 28th September 2017 noon * For details, please contact {rocco.denicola,mirco.tribastone}@imtlucca.it From xinyu.feng at gmail.com Thu Aug 31 12:34:10 2017 From: xinyu.feng at gmail.com (Xinyu Feng) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 00:34:10 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2017 -- Call for Posters Message-ID: ********************************************************************** * APLAS 2017 --- Call for Posters * ********************************************************************** APLAS 2017 will be held in Suzhou, China on 27-29 November. The conference will include a poster session, which 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. Please note that the posters will NOT be part of the conference proceedings. *************** * 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 submit an extended abstract of no longer than two 8.5?11 inch pages in PDF via the submission web page, easychair (https://easychair.org/cfp/aplas2017poster), by 15 September. The submission should include the title and the complete list of author(s) and affiliation(s). Your abstract should contain a brief description of your problem, the key contributions of your work, how your work compares to prior research, and any results from evaluation. You can use ACM template to format your submission. The ACM template link is here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. We will announce the accepted presentations on 22 September. We hope to accommodate every presentation, but may restrict them (based on relevance and interest to the community) due to space constraints. *************** * Dates *************** - Submission due: 15 September 2017 (Sunday), 23:59 AoE - Author Notification: 22 September 2017 (Friday) - Conference: 27-29 November 2017 (Monday - Wednesday) - Poster session: 27 November 2017 (Monday) *************** * Contact *************** Poster chair: Yu Zhang (yuzhang AT ustc.edu.cn) More information available at . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucker at spamfence.net Thu Aug 31 11:08:02 2017 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:08:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'17 Post-Proceedings: Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170831150802.7xnhpgzdhkii6f6o@fujikawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) Call for Papers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Post-Proceedings --- ThEdu'17 - Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science ThEdu'17 --- Theorem proving components for Educational software 6 August 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden, at CADE26 http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Post-Proceedings THedu'17 Scope: Computer Theorem Proving is becoming a paradigm as well as a technological base for a new generation of educational software in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The workshop brought together experts in automated deduction with experts in education in order to further clarify the shape of the new software generation and to discuss existing systems. This call is open for everyone, also those who did not participate in the workshop. Important Dates (EPTCS Post-Proceedings) * Call for papers: 08 Sep 2017 * Submission (full papers): 17 Nov 2017 * Notification of acceptance: 15 Dec 2017 * Revised papers due: 19 Jan 2018 Topics of interest include: - methods of automated deduction applied to checking students' input; - methods of automated deduction applied to prove post-conditions for particular problem solutions; - combinations of deduction and computation enabling systems to propose next steps; - automated provers specific for dynamic geometry systems; - proof and proving in mathematics education. Submission We welcome submission of papers presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. The authors should comply with the "instructions for authors", LaTeX style files and accept the "Non-exclusive license to distribute" of EPTCS: Instructions for authors (http://info.eptcs.org/) LaTeX style file and formatting instructions (http://style.eptcs.org/) Copyright (http://copyright.eptcs.org/) Papers should be submitted via easychair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu17 . Program Committee Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain Achim Brucker, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 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 -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog @adbrucker | @logicalhacking From ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Fri Sep 1 09:25:14 2017 From: ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Ayoub Nouri) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 15:25:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2017 - Last Call for Participation Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RV?17 - RUNTIME VERIFICATION 2017 The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16 2017, Seattle, WA, USA Website: http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk Program: http://easychair.org/smart-program/RV2017/ RV-CuBES Program: http://easychair.org/smart-program/RV-CuBES2017/ Affiliated Event: RV-CuBES - An International Workshop on Competitions, Usability, Benchmarks, Evaluation, and Standardisation for Runtime Verification Tools === OVERVIEW === Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally 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 monitor construction techniques program instrumentation logging, recording, and replay combination of static and dynamic analysis specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems runtime checking of privacy and security policies statistical model checking metrics and statistical information gathering program/system execution visualization fault localization, containment, recovery and repair integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, 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 === Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University, USA: ?The Design and Applications for a Tracing Plane for Distributed Systems? Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg, Microsoft, USA: ?Windows Driver Verification Platform? Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany: ?Learning Input Languages for Runtime Verification? === TUTORIALS === Ankush Desai and Shaz Qadeer, UC Berkeley and Microsoft Research, USA: ?P : Modular and Safe Asynchronous Programming? Madhusudan Parthasarathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: ?Machine-learning State Properties? Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta: ?Foundations For Runtime Monitoring? === VENUE === The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification will be held in the Sheraton Seattle Hotel situated in downtown Seattle. The venue is within walking distance of the famous Pike Place Market, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Aquarium, and the Historic Seattle Waterfront. The weather in September still permits many open-air opportunities to shop, eat, and even sail in the Elliott Bay. Exceptionally well organized, Seattle?s public transport connects the conference venue with the Seattle Center, which is the home of popular attractions like the Space Needle, EMP Museum, and Chihuly Garden and Glass. === REGISTRATION === Registration is available using the web-based registration form, with online payment on a secure website. Please use one form per attendee. Different possibilities of registration are available: Tutorial Day Only (13th September): 210 USD Conference including tutorial day and RV-CuBES (13-16th September) Full Registration: 780 USD Student Registration: 580 USD === Program Committee === Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Howard Barringer,The University of Manchester, UK Ezio Bartocci,Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Bauer,KUKA Systems, Germany Saddek Bensalem,VERIMAG (University of Grenoble Alpes), France Eric Bodden, Paderborn University / Fraunhofer IEM, Germany Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada Christian Colombo,University of Malta, Malta Ylies Falcone,University of Grenoble Alpes, France Grigory Fedyukovich,University of Washington, USA Lu Feng,University of Virginia, USA Patrice Godefroid,Microsoft Research, USA Jean Goubault-Larrecq,CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France Alex Groce,Northern Arizona University, USA Radu Grosu,Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sylvain Hall?,University of Qu?bec at Chicoutimi, Canada Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Franjo Ivancic,Google, USA Bengt Jonsson,Uppsala University, Sweden Felix Klaedtke,NEC Europe Ltd. Rahul Kumar,Microsoft Research, USA Kim Larsen,Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee,University of Pennsylvania, USA Axel Legay,Inria Rennes, France Martin Leucker,University of L?beck, Germany Ben Livshits,Imperial College, UK David Lo,Singapore Management University, Singapore Francesco Logozzo,Facebook, USA Parthasarathy Madhusudan,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Madan Musuvathi,Microsoft Research, USA Ayoub Nouri,University of Grenoble Alpes, France Gordon Pace,University of Malta, Malta Doron Peled,Bar Ilan University, Israel Grigore Rosu,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Veselin Raychev,ETH Zurich, Switzerland Cesar Sanchez,IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Gerardo Schneider,Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden Rahul Sharma,Microsoft Research, India Julien Signoles,CEA LIST, France Scott Smolka,Stony Brook University, USA Oleg Sokolsky,University of Pennsylvania, USA Bernhard Steffen,University of Dortmund, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Volker Stolz,Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway Frits Vaandrager,Radboud University, Netherlands Neil Walkinshaw,University of Leicester, UK Chao Wang,University of Southern California, USA Eugen Zalinescu,Technische Universitat M?nchen, Germany === CHAIRS AND ORGANIZERS === General Chair Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Program Chairs Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK Finance Chair Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Publicity Chair Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Local Organisation Chairs Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA RV-CuBES, PC chairs Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA === SPONSORS === Microsoft Springer --- end -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From benedikt.ahrens at gmx.net Fri Sep 1 15:11:45 2017 From: benedikt.ahrens at gmx.net (Benedikt Ahrens) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 21:11:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] School and workshop on univalent mathematics, 11-15 Dec, Birmingham (UK) Message-ID: <591cfcab-d0f6-4867-4597-fdc8b08205d2@gmx.net> Dear all, We are pleased to announce the School and Workshop on Univalent Mathematics to be held at the University of Birmingham (UK), December 11-15, 2017. Overview ---------- Univalent Type Theory is an emerging field of mathematics that studies a fruitful relationship between homotopy theory and (dependent) type theory. This relation plays a crucial role in Voevodsky's program of Univalent Foundations, a new approach to foundations of mathematics, based on ideas from homotopy theory, such as the Univalence Principle. The UniMath library is a large repository of computer-checked mathematics, developed from the univalent viewpoint. The workshop will give many young researchers an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the UniMath library and become contributors. Format ---------- During the school/workshop, the participants will be working either individually or in small groups, mentored by experienced UniMath developers. The problems will be designed to be of practical importance in the development of the UniMath library as well as of pedagogical value to participants. Application and funding ---------- For information on how to participate, please visit https://unimath.github.io/bham2017/. The deadline to apply is October 15, 2017. Financial support is available to cover participants' travel and lodging expenses. Mentors ---------- Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) Mart?n Escard? (University of Birmingham) Daniel Grayson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Joseph Helfer (Stanford University) Kuen-Bang Hou (Favonia) (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) Peter Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) Ralph Matthes (CNRS, University Toulouse) Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Matthew Weaver (Princeton University) Best regards, Benedikt Ahrens and Chris Kapulkin for the organizers From asampson at cs.cornell.edu Sat Sep 2 16:00:20 2017 From: asampson at cs.cornell.edu (Adrian Sampson) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 16:00:20 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: PLDI 2018 Message-ID: <00CD9D55-DEEF-4A94-95A4-2652F6B62580@cs.cornell.edu> PLDI is a premier forum for programming language research, broadly construed, including design, implementation, theory, applications, and performance. PLDI seeks outstanding research that extends and/or applies programming-language concepts to advance the field of computing. Novel system designs, thorough empirical work, well-motivated theoretical results, and new application areas are all welcome emphases in strong PLDI submissions. ### Evaluation Criteria and Process Reviewers will evaluate each contribution for its accuracy, significance, originality, and clarity. Submissions should be organized to communicate clearly to a broad programming-language audience as well as to experts on the paper?s topics. Papers should identify what has been accomplished and how it relates to previous work. Deadlines and formatting requirements, detailed below, will be strictly enforced, with rare extenuating circumstances considered at the discretion of the Program Chair. In almost all cases, reviews will be performed by a subset of the Program Committee (PC), the External Program Committee (EPC), and the External Review Committee (ERC). Authors will have the opportunity to respond to initial reviews to correct and clarify technical concerns. The PC will make final accept/reject decisions except for papers with PC authors?such papers will have no PC reviewers and the EPC will make final decisions. ### Double-Blind Reviewing PLDI uses double-blind reviewing. This means that author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission. Additionally, if the submission refers to prior work done by the authors, that reference should be made in third person. These are firm submission requirements. Any supplementary material must also be anonymized. If you have questions about making your paper double blind, please contact the Program Chair. ### Submission Site Information The submission site is https://pldi18.hotcrp.com. Authors can submit multiple times prior to the (firm!) deadline. Only the last submission will be reviewed. There is no abstract deadline. The submission site requires entering author names and affiliations, relevant topics, and potential conflicts. Addition or removal of authors after the submission deadline will need to be approved by the Program Chair (as this potentially undermines the goal of eliminating conflicts during paper assignment). The submission deadline is 11:59PM November 16, 2017 anywhere on earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth ### Declaring Conflicts When submitting the paper, you will need to declare potential conflicts. Conflicts should be declared between an adviser and an advisee (e.g., Ph.D., post-doc). Other conflicts include institutional conflicts, financial conflicts of interest, friends or relatives, or any recent co-authors on papers and proposals (last 2 years). Please do not declare spurious conflicts: such incorrect conflicts are especially harmful if the aim is to exclude potential reviewers, so spurious conflicts can be grounds for rejection. If you are unsure about a conflict, please consult the Program Chair. ### Formatting Requirements -- Note New Template / Class Files! Papers should be formatted according to the two-column ACM proceedings format. Each paper should have no more than 12 pages, excluding bibliography, in 10pt font. There is no limit on the page count for references. Each reference must list all authors of the paper (do not use et al). The citations should be in numeric style, e.g., [52]. Submissions should be in PDF format and printable on US Letter and A4 sized paper. These requirements are all the same as in the previous year. Papers that exceed the length requirement or deviate from the expected format will be rejected. Make sure that figures and tables are legible, even after the paper is printed in gray-scale. Appendices should not be part of the paper, but should be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material should also be anonymized, as described below. These requirements are also the same as last year. As explained in more detail at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author, LaTeX users should use the (new) sigplan subformat of the (new) acmart format by downloading **acmart-sigplanproc.zip**. Word users should use the acmart template for Word. *These are new files compared to last year*. If we identify questions that are asked frequently about these new files, then we will create an FAQ. For now, note the following: * ```acmart-sigplanproc-template.tex``` has the correct defaults for PLDI 2018 submissions. In particular, the first line ``` \documentclass[sigplan,10pt,review,anonymous]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false}``` is correct and the default citation style is numeric. * Do not mess with the class file or settings to try to sneak in additional space. (Conversely, you may toggle the ```printccs``` and ```printacmref``` flags if you wish, but this will consume space.) * Do not use the PACMPL files or format; PLDI is not using them. However, the template files were designed to make migrating a paper from one format to the other as simple as possible. ### Supplementary Material Authors are free to provide supplementary material if that material supports the claims in the paper. Such material may include proofs, experimental results, and/or data sets. This material should be uploaded at the same time as the submission. Reviewers are not required to examine the supplementary material but may refer to it if they would like to find further evidence supporting the claims in the paper. ### Plagiarism and Concurrent Work Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by the SIGPLAN Republication Policy: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/. Authors should also be aware of the ACM Policy on Plagiarism: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism-overview. Concurrent submissions to other conferences, workshops, journals, or similar venues of publication are disallowed. Prior work must, as always, be cited and referred to in the third person even if it is the authors? work, so as to preserve author anonymity. If you have further questions, contact the Program Chair. ### Artifact Evaluation for Accepted Papers The authors of accepted PLDI papers will be invited to submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. Artifact Evaluation is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how well the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is voluntary but encouraged and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a badge printed on the papers themselves. 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. ### Accepted Papers Accepted papers will be made available (once the conference starts and for one month following) via 1-click download from the ACM Digital Library. ### Publication Date 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 the conference. The official publication date can affect the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (In the unlikely circumstance that the proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of PLDI. We are grateful to prior organizers for their work, which is reused here. From lars at lars.com Sat Sep 2 11:01:00 2017 From: lars at lars.com (Lars Bergstrom) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 10:01:00 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Mozilla Research Grants 2017H2 Announcement Message-ID: I?m happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Mozilla Research Grants 2017H2. Applications are due September 25. To learn more and submit your application: https://mozilla- research.forms.fm/mozilla-research-grants-2017h2 Mozilla seeks applications for research funding to support its mission : to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. These grants include topics both inside and outside of Mozilla?s core focus on Firefox, as well as topics that fit more broadly with our vision for improving the internet. *Research Domains* Areas we have funded in the past include networking, security, compilers, software verification, software power management, developer tools, automatic translation, add-on privacy, improving internet safety, gender differences in VR, studying hacktivism, research tools for blind users, and teaching programming. We are explicitly interested in supporting research into various technological domains, including virtual, mixed and augmented reality, voice assistants, natural language processing, understanding speech, agents, accessibility, machine learning, home networking and router use, the Internet of Things, Rust, Servo and Firefox. We are also interested in supporting research into solutions that explore problems we don't know how to answer: for example, developing open data resources and allowing for data portability, exploring reasonable ways to balance advertising and privacy, improving web anonymity, developing open identity solutions and open standards for encrypted messaging, characterizing adblocking practices, researching alternatives to advertising to fund internet experiences, finding ways to improve the decentralization of the internet away from closed-source software and closed-source data, exploring issues related to vulnerable populations, and improving diversity in open source. We also wish to find researchers working on internet health . These include initiatives to characterize and improve net neutrality, censorship and internet access around the world, enhance data portability on the web, protect privacy, explore the adoption of blockchain and related technologies, study the environmental impact of the internet, understand the impact of and solutions for misinformation and fake news, investigate human rights issues around the internet, and characterize the cost of ransomware attacks. These research domains are by no means exhaustive: we are open to other research proposals as long as they support our mission . To learn more and to submit your application: https://mozilla-research. forms.fm/mozilla-research-funding-grant Please feel free to forward this, and thank you for your interest. Lars Bergstrom Research Manager, Mozilla -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kutsia at risc.jku.at Mon Sep 4 05:39:25 2017 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 11:39:25 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MACIS 2017: Deadline extension Message-ID: ---- New submission deadline: September 17 ---- ********************************************************** MACIS 2017 7th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences November 15-17, 2017 Vienna, Austria. https://macis2017.sba-research.org/ ********************************************************** MACIS is a series of biennial conferences focusing on research in mathematical and computational aspects of computing and information science. MACIS 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective four-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. ===== Important Dates ===== Submission deadline (REGULAR/SHORT papers): September 17, Sunday (SHORT papers are decided on a rolling basis) Notification deadline for all submissions: October 2, Monday Registration opens: October 2, Monday Camera-ready due: October 15, Sunday ==== MACIS 2017 Organization ==== General Chair: Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria PC Chairs: Johannes Bloemer, Paderborn University, Germany Temur Kutsia, RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Austria MACIS Steering Committee: Ilias Kotsireas (Chair), Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Siegfried Rump, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Thomas Sturm, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Dongming Wang, Beihang University, China Jinzhao Wu, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China Chee Yap, New York University, USA ==== Proceedings ==== All accepted SHORT or REGULAR papers (details, below) are planned to appear in a conference proceedings volume published by Springer LNCS (pending approval). In addition, REGULAR papers have the opportunity to be considered for post-conference special issues of the journal Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS http://link.springer.com/journal/11786) by Birkhauser/Springer. ==== MACIS 2017 Topics ==== MACIS authors are required to choose one of the following tracks: ----------------- Track 1: Foundation of Algorithms in Mathematics, Engineering & Scientific Computation Track Chairs: Matthew England (Coventry University, UK), Jonathan Hauenstein (University of Notre Dame, USA), Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Elias Tsigaridas (INRIA, France) Topics: quantifier elimination and decision procedures; global optimization; differential equations; numeric, symbolic, interval and hybrid solution techniques; satisfiability modulo theories; combinations of logics and deductive engines; applications, especially in systems analysis and formal verification; solving (parametric) polynomial systems ---------------- Track 2: Combinatorics and Codes in Computer Science Track Chairs: Daniel Augot (INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique, France), Alexander May (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany), Alfred Wassermann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Topics: combinatorics, enumerative, combinatorial designs, their analysis and algorithmic constructions of them, complexity problems in combinatorics; codes constructions, decoding methods and their complexity, information theory aspects, Kolmogorov complexity ---------------- Track 3: Data Modeling and Analysis Track Chairs: Xiaoyu Chen (Beihang University, China) Joachim Giesen (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Giorgos Kollias (IBM Research, USA) Topics: knowledge discovery; data mining; differential privacy, pattern recognition; complex knowledge - representation and management; foundations and theories for data analysis - systems; design and analysis of machine learning algorithms, statistical analysis for big data ---------------- Track 4: Mathematical Aspects of Information Security and Cryptography Track Chairs: Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Switzerland), Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw, Poland), Guenael Renault (ANSSI, France) Topics: security models; formal methods for security and privacy; design and analysis of algebraic, elliptic, number theoretical, code-based, lattice-based and hash-based cryptographic primitives; algebraic cryptanalysis, algebraic attacks, number theoretical algorithms, mathematical foundations of post-quantum cryptography; (lattices, codes); algorithms and software for symbolic computation in cryptography ----------------- - For general inquiries regarding MACIS 2017, please send e-mail to Dimitris Simos - For inquiries regarding MACIS topics, please send e-mail to Johannes Bloemer or to Temur Kutsia ==== Submission Guidelines ==== Authors are invited to submit papers, presenting original and unpublished research: - REGULAR papers are up to 15 pages, and SHORT papers are up to 5 pages, including references. - Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or journals is not allowed. - Please use the LNCS format from Springer: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip - Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference, by using the easychair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=macis2017. - For detailed submission guidelines please see the MACIS website: https://macis2017.sba-research.org From i.hasuo at acm.org Wed Sep 6 03:04:05 2017 From: i.hasuo at acm.org (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 09:04:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Positions in Tokyo: Formal Methods and Cyber-Physical Systems Message-ID: [Thanks a lot for disseminating among potentially interested candidates. Apologies for multiple copies] Dear colleagues, For our 5-year research project (ERATO MMSD, Metamathematics for Systems Design) we are looking for senior researchers and postdocs (10+ positions in total and several are still open), together with research assistants (PhD students) and internship students. This broad project aims to extend the realm of formal methods from software to cyber-physical systems (CPS), with particular emphases on logical/categorical metatheories and industrial application esp. in automotive industry. The project covers diverse areas that include: formal methods, programming languages, control theory, control engineering, software science, software engineering, machine learning, numerical optimization, user interface, mathematical logic and category theory. For more about the project please visit http://group-mmm.org/eratommsd About the open positions http://group-mmm.org/eratommsd/openpositions.html has more information (esp. how to apply/inquire). Best regards, Ichiro ====== Ichiro Hasuo Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics i.hasuo at acm.org From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Mon Sep 4 10:04:32 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 16:04:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2017 post-proceedings open call for papers Message-ID: Abstract submission deadline 16 October 2017 Open call for papers Post-proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs TYPES 2017 TYPES is a major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of type theory and its applications. TYPES 2017 was held between 29 May and 1 June in Budapest, Hungary. The 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, also to those who did not participate in the conference. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type systems to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics: * 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; * Type theory in linguistics. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: 16 October 2017 * Paper submission: 23 October 2017 * Author notification: 26 March 2018 DETAILS * Papers have to be formatted with lipics.cls and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs. http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ * The recommended length of a paper is 15-25 pages. Submissions significantly longer than 25 pages will not be considered. * Papers have to be submitted in pdf through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2017postproceed * 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. * More information is available on http://types2017.elte.hu/#postproc * In case of questions, please contact one of the editors. EDITORS Andreas Abel andreas.abel at gu.se Gothenburg University, Sweden Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg fredrik.nordvall-forsberg at strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Ambrus Kaposi akaposi at inf.elte.hu E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary From Joelle.Despeyroux at inria.fr Wed Sep 6 05:05:35 2017 From: Joelle.Despeyroux at inria.fr (Joelle Despeyroux) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 11:05:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMSB 2017 - Call for participation In-Reply-To: <639e9094-27d3-444e-526b-63a68968cc22@inria.fr> References: <639e9094-27d3-444e-526b-63a68968cc22@inria.fr> Message-ID: ========================================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CMSB 2017 15th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology http://www.cmsb2017.tu-darmstadt.de 27th-29th September 2017, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany) ========================================================================= The 15th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology will be hosted by Technische Universit?t Darmstadt. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes. ***REGISTRATION*** http://www.cmsb2017.tu-darmstadt.de/cmsb_2/registration_4/registration.en.jsp ***PROGRAM*** http://www.cmsb2017.tu-darmstadt.de/cmsb_2/program_5/programcmsb2017.en.jsp CMSB 2017 will feature an exciting program of high-quality technical papers, accompanied by four invited talks, one tutorial, a tool session and a poster session. Participants with accepted papers are invited to bring additional posters to the poster session. Lab equipment and automation companies will exhibit their products. ***INVITED SPEAKERS*** - Russ Harmer, CNRS & ?cole normale sup?rieure de Lyon, France Bio-curation for cellular signalling: the KAMI project - Stefan Grill, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Control of mechanochemical self-organization during cell polarization - Lea Popovic, Concordia University Montreal, Canada Calculating rare events in stochastic reaction networks - Phillipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany Probabilistic numerics ? uncertainty in computation ***SOCIAL EVENT*** The conference dinner of CMSB 2017 will be held at Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberghaus. Additional tickets can be purchased for guests, see the registration page athttp://www.cmsb2017.tu-darmstadt.de/cmsb_2/registration_4/registration.en.jsp ***SPONSORING*** CMSB 2017 acknowledges the support by - LOEWE CompuGene Cluster, Internet and Digitization Cluster of TU Darmstadt, IBM Research Zurich, NIKON, AnalytikJena, Dispendix, Roth. We look forward to meeting you in Darmstadt! The CMSB 2017 PC chairs Jerome Feret and Heinz Koeppl ------- Jo?lle Despeyroux From biondif at gmail.com Wed Sep 6 11:29:42 2017 From: biondif at gmail.com (Fabrizio Biondi) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:29:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Inria Postdoc Applications in Formal Methods for Security Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We have opened multiple fully-funded Postdoc position at Inria Rennes (France). I would be very grateful if you could distribute it to potentially interested parties. Proven academic and formal methods skills are more important than security expertise for these positions. I also apologize in advance for the potential cross-posting. Thank you, Fabrizio ------------ The TAMIS team (https://team.inria.fr/tamis/) of Inria Rennes ( https://www.inria.fr/en/centre/rennes) is looking for exceptional candidates to cover multiple Postdoc positions in the application of Formal Methods to Security. This call will be closed when all positions are covered. The positions are awarded for two years with possibility of extension. The net salary is around 2130 ? per month including social security. Inria employees enjoy subsidized meals and transportation. The working language is English. Inria offers free on-campus French lessons. These positions are subject to a Restricted Access Zone (ZRR), hence the candidates will be screened for security clearance by the Ministry of Defence. The subjects include: extensions of SMC and rare event simulation with applications to cybersecurity; improving SMT solving for concolic malware analysis; adapting graph mining and machine learning techniques to automated malware classification; and detection and algebraic simplification of opaque predicates. Interested candidates are welcome to send a detailed CV in English including a detailed track of their work, teaching, and research experience to fabrizio.biondi at inria.fr, together with a motivation letter explaining how their skills will contribute to the team. Up to two additional reference letters by recognized experts will be favorably considered. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raja at tifr.res.in Thu Sep 7 08:02:06 2017 From: raja at tifr.res.in (N. Raja) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 17:32:06 +0530 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 6th UNILOG - WORLD CONGRESS AND SCHOOL ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC Message-ID: Call for Papers: The 6th UNILOG - WORLD CONGRESS AND SCHOOL ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC will take place in Vichy, France, June 16-26, 2018 after previous editions in Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013 and Istanbul 2015: http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 Along these years UNILOG has been a leading international logical event with the participation of many famous logicians such as Wilfrid Hodges, Daniele Mundici, Saul Kripke, Jaakko Hintikka, Dov Gabbay, Arnon Avron, Benedikt L?we, David Makinson, Yde Venema, Newton da Costa, Mike Dunn, Val Goranko, Yuri Gurevich, Janusz Czelakowski, Stephen Read, Sara Negri, Arnold Koslow, Peter Schr?der-Heister, Gila Sher, Hiroakira Ono, John Corcoran, Hartry Field, Gerhard Jaeger, Ernest Lepore, Marcus Kracht, Melvin Fitting, Luciano Floridi, Patrick Blackburn, Jan Wolenski, Krister Segerberg, Dale Jacquette, Sun-Joo Shin, Jouko V??n?nen, John Woods and many more. UNILOG is a logic event in a broad sense. It gathers people from many horizons (philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, computer science, semiotics, cognitive science ...) and the idea is to promote interaction between all these people. The previous edition in Istanbul gathered more than 400 logicians from about 50 different countries. For the 6th edition we will follow a similar format: - A school of logic of 5 days with 30 tutorials - A congress of 6 days with about 30 sessions/workshops - Award of Logic Prizes from about 10 countries - A secret speaker (speaker whose identity is revealed only at the time of her / its / his speech). Vichy is a charming relaxing thermal city at the middle of France, developed by Napoleon III in the second half of the 19th century, who in particular created beautiful parks with species of trees from all over the world. Vichy, in the Duchy of Bourbon, a region full of castles, is a small city, where it is possible to go everywhere just by walking. The event will take place at the university campus nearby the Celestins spring, the banks of the Allier river (where it is possible to swim) and the city center. June is a very nice time to be in Vichy with lots of animations, including on June 21 a very lively musical day celebrating summertime. Deadline to submit an abstract: September 15, 2017 Looking forward to seeing you in Vichy in June 2018 Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, Paris) Christophe Rey (University Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LIMOS) Organizers of UNILOG'2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I LO G Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018 http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 UNILOG 2018 Vichy www.uni-log.org The event will take place at Vichy University Campus - 1 Avenue des C?lestins - 03200 Vichy, France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.ohearn at ucl.ac.uk Fri Sep 8 11:29:52 2017 From: p.ohearn at ucl.ac.uk (O'Hearn, Peter) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:29:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_Participation=3A_Faceb?= =?windows-1252?q?ook=92s_Testing_and_Verification_Symposium_=28FaceTAV_20?= =?windows-1252?q?17=29?= Message-ID: <247DF859-C54E-40B6-9F52-BA2BD825D4E1@ucl.ac.uk> Facebook is hosting a two day Facebook Testing and Verification Symposium (FaceTAV) 2017 at its London office on November 6th and 7th, 2017. FaceTAV is open to all testing and verification practitioners and researchers and it is free to attend. The symposium aims to build meaningful collaboration and exchange between Testing and Verification scientific research and between academia and industry. You will hear from and network with world-leading scientists and engineers from universities, research centres and companies. We want to retain a symposium feel to promote interaction, discussion and networking, so we hope you will understand that space therefore has to be limited to ensure this. To avoid disappointment, please submit your registration request today. Please note that a registration request does not confirm a place at the symposium. Registration requests will be processed within two weeks of submission and we will notify you, via email, to let you know whether we have been able to accept your registration request, given the number limitation (we will let you know either way, of course). Registration for the event will close on September 14th. Please submit your registration request via the website (https://facetavlondon2017.splashthat.com/?preview). Confirmed speakers and their topics: Jade Alglave, UCL/Microsoft, UK: Weak memory models and/or testing for hardware Sam Blackshear: Facebook London, UK: Thread safety or compositional analysis at scale Antonia Bertolino, CNR, Italy: A survey of advances in software testing Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada: Scalable verification Philippa Gardner, Imperial College London UK: Separation logic for scalable verification Tony Hoare, Microsoft Cambridge, UK: Perspectives on testing and verification Daniel Kroening, DiffBlue, Oxford, UK: Verification and Testing at DiffBlue Claire Le Goues, CMU, USA: Advances in automated software repair Ke Mao, Facebook, London, UK: Sapienz automated testing Corina Pasareanu, NASA AMES and CMU, USA: Compositional verification and testing Caitlin Sadowski, Google, USA: Static analysis at Google Federica Sarro, UCL, UK: Fault prediction Michael Tautschnig, Amazon: Formal Verification at Amazon Sincerely, FaceTAV co-chairs, Mark Harman and Peter O'Hearn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Sun Sep 10 18:57:30 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:57:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2018 First Call for Papers Message-ID: <51AF435C-78C6-441E-B45B-3FD38D3474B1@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== Third International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'18) Oxford, UK, July 9 - 12th, 2018. http://fscd-conference.org/editions/fscd-2018 Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6 - 19th, 2018. http://www.floc2018.org TOPICS: FSCD 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 or homotopy type theory. Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1. Calculi: Lambda calculus - Concurrent calculi - Logics - Rewriting systems - Proof theory - Type theory and logical frameworks 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: Type systems - Induction and coinduction - Matching, unification, completion, and orderings - Strategies - Tree automata - Model checking - Proof search and theorem proving - Constraint solving and decision procedures 3. Semantics: Operational semantics - Abstract machines - Game Semantics - Domain theory and categorical models - Quantitative models 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 - Verification tools - Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers - Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers - Certification - Applications to security, planning, data bases,? PUBLICATION : The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/ All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES : Submissions can be made in two categories. - Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages and must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. - System descriptions are limited to 10 pages and must describe a working system which has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files and submitted via EasyChair. IMPORTANT DATES: All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered. Abstract Deadline: January 15th, 2018 Submission Deadline: January 22nd, 2018 Rebuttal: March 22 - 25th, 2018 Notification: April 2nd, 2018 Camera-Ready: May 2nd, 2018 FSCD Conference: July 9 - 12th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6 - 19th, 2018 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR H?l?ne Kirchner, Inria PROGRAM COMMITTEE S. Akshay, IIT Bombay T. Aoto, Niigata U. P. Arrighi, Marseille U. L. Birkedal, Aarhus U. E. Bonelli, Quilmes U. A. Bouhoula, Carthage U. C. Castro, F. Santa Maria Tech. U. U. Dal Lago, Bologna U. S. Escobar, U.P. Valencia M. Fern?ndez, King's College London V. Ganesh, Waterloo U. H. Geuvers, Nijmegen U. M. Hasegawa, Kyoto U. P.B. Levy, U. of Birmingham C. Loeding, Aachen U. A. Miquel, UdelaR, Montevideo G. Moser, Innsbruck U. C. Nalon, Brasilia U. V. Nigam, Paraiba U. & fortiss P.C. ?lveczky, Oslo U. G. Rosu, Illinois U. P. Severi, Leicester U. V. Sofronie-Stokkermans, Koblenz-Landau U. N. Tabareau, Inria R. Thiemann, Innsbruck U. A. Tiu, NTU Singapore F. van Raamsdonk, VU Amsterdam L. Zhi, CAS Beijing CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paula Severi, Leicester U. PUBLICITY CHAIR: Sandra Alves, Porto U. FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE T. Altenkirch (Nottingham U.), S. Alves (Porto U.), M. Fern\'andez (King's College London), C. Fuhs (Birkbeck, London U.), D. Kesner (Paris U.), N. Kobayashi (Tokyo U.), D. Miller (Inria), L. Ong (Chair, Oxford U.), B. Pientka (McGill U.), S. Staton (Oxford U.), R. 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ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2018 is the twenty-first event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (16-20 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University, USA) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, UK, and Andy Sch?rr, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Christel Baier, Technische Univ. Dresden, Germany, and Ugo Dal Lago, Universit? di Bologna, Italy) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Ralf K?sters, University of Stuttgart, Germany) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilian-Univ. M?nchen, Germany, and Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands) TACAS '18 hosts the 7th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speaker: Martin Abadi (Google Research & University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Pamela Zave (AT&T Labs, USA) * ESOP invited speaker: Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany) * POST invited speaker: Benjamin C. Pierce (University of Pennsylvania, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES (all member conferences except POST) * Abstracts due: 13 October 2017 * Papers due: 20 October 2017 * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS only): 6-8 December 2017 * Notification: 22 December 2017 * Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 IMPORTANT DATES for POST * Abstracts due: 22 November 2017 * Papers due: 24 November 2017 * Rebuttal: 12-16 January 2018 * Notification: 25 January 2018 * Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 -- 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 (this does not apply to abstracts). In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science 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 and POST will use a double-blind review process. The proceedings of ETAPS 2018 will be published in *gold open access*. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. It is most likely that 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. - 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 6 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. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (14-15 April, 21 April) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences: CMCS, CREST, DICE, FAEPAS, GALOP, HotSpot, LiVe, MARS, MeTRiD, SNR, SynCoP, VerifyThis, VPT, VSSE, WRLA. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2018 is hosted by the School of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece. -- ORGANIZERS Panagiotis Katsaros (general chair), Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angelis, Nick Bassiliades, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, George Rahonis, Ezio Bartocci, Simon Bliudze, Petros Stratis, Emmanouela Stachtiari, Kyriakos Georgiadis -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at katsaros at csd.auth.gr. From davide.ancona at unige.it Mon Sep 11 04:20:32 2017 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:20:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [OOPS @ SAC 2018] Extended submission deadline: Sept. 25 Message-ID: <778d0497-ff12-57cc-b771-55058c96a6de@unige.it> ************************************************** OOPS 2018 Call for Papers Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS18 ************************************************** Technical Track at the 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2018 https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/index.html April 9 - 13, 2018 Pau, France - Important Dates Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts *September 25, 2017 (extended deadline)* Paper and SRC notifications November 10, 2017 Paper and SRC camera-ready copies November 25, 2017 Author registration December 10, 2017 SAC 2018 April 9 - 13, 2018 - Track Chair Davide Ancona (davide.ancona at unige.it) DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy - SAC 2018 For the past thirty two 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 2018 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is hosted by hosted by Universit? de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), Pau, France. - 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 2018 Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) Program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. - OOPS Track: Aims and Topics 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, debugging, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation. The specific 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 * Internet of Things technology and programming * Integration with other paradigms * Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation * Language design and implementation * Modular and generic programming * Reflection, meta-programming * Runtime verification and monitoring * Safe, 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 2018 home page. 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. SAC 2018 will use double-blind reviewing; to facilitate this, author name(s) and institution(s) must be omitted, and references to authors' own related work should be in the third person. 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 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages at additional fee of US$80 per page. Papers accepted as posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee of US$80. SRC abstracts are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 15, 2017. For more information please visit the SAC 2018 home page. - 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. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the papers and posters in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers, posters, and student research abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM 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 (http://oops.disi.unige.it/special-issues), depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue (http://oops.disi.unige.it/special-issues), after the conference. From xinyu.feng at gmail.com Tue Sep 12 02:02:01 2017 From: xinyu.feng at gmail.com (Xinyu Feng) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:02:01 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2017 Student Research Competition Message-ID: # APLAS 2017 Student Research Competition ## Overview This year APLAS will host a Student Research Competition where students can present posters. The Competition consists of three rounds: 1) Extended abstract round: Participants submit an extended abstract outlining their research results. Please follow the submission requirements of posters (Note the poster submission deadline has been extended to Sept. 20). 2) Poster session at APLAS 2017: Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in the poster session at APLAS. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the judges, who will select three finalists to advance to the next round. 3) APLAS presentation: The last round will consist of a short oral presentation at APLAS to compete for the final award. Note: 1) The student research competition is NOT a part of ACM SRC. 2) The student participant must be the first author or the only author of the submission. ## Prizes The winner of the competition will receive a prize of USD $200. Finalists will receive certificates. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sylvie.boldo at inria.fr Mon Sep 11 08:10:23 2017 From: sylvie.boldo at inria.fr (Sylvie Boldo) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:10:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?JFLA_2018_=3A_premier_appel_=C3=A0_com?= =?utf-8?q?munications?= Message-ID: [ This message is intentionally written in French. ] * Merci de faire circuler : premier appel ? communications * JFLA'2018 (https://www.lri.fr/~sboldo/JFLA18/) Journ?es Francophones des Langages Applicatifs Banyuls-sur-Mer du 24 au 27 janvier 2018 Dates importantes ----------------- 16 octobre 2017 : soumission des r?sum?s 23 octobre 2017 : soumission des articles 27 novembre 2017 : notification aux auteurs 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 ! Soumissions ----------- Nous acceptons deux types de soumissions : . Article de recherche de quinze pages au plus, portant sur des travaux originaux. Nous acceptons des travaux en cours, pour lesquels l'aspect recherche n'est pas enti?rement finalis?. . Article court de six pages au plus, pour d?crire un prototype, faire la d?monstration d'un outil, rechercher de l'aide pour r?soudre un probl?me particulier, ou reparler d'un papier d?j? publi?. Dans tous les cas, la forme de l'article devra soign?e. Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la conf?rence, et les auteurs seront invit?s ? faire une pr?sentation lors des journ?es, de vingt-cinq minutes pour les articles longs et de quinze minutes pour les courts. L'article peut ?tre r?dig? en anglais, auquel cas la pr?sentation devra ?tre effectu?e en fran?ais. N?anmoins, dans le cas o? il s'agit d'une republication au format court d'un article d?j? publi?, la publication doit ?tre en fran?ais et la publication originale en anglais. Le style LaTeX Easychair doit ?tre respect? : https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors Les soumissions se font sur la page Easychair des JFLA : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfla2018 Notez que toute intention de soumission doit ?tre annonc?e au plus tard le 16 octobre par le d?p?t d'un r?sum? sur Easychair. date limite de soumission des r?sum?s : 16 octobre 2017 date limite de soumission des articles : 23 octobre 2017 -- Sylvie Boldo, projet Toccata, Inria Saclay - ?le-de-France PCRI, B?t. 650 - Universit? Paris-Sud - 91405 ORSAY Cedex From songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn Mon Sep 11 21:40:24 2017 From: songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:40:24 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- SETTA 2017 Message-ID: <201709120940240934193@shanghaitech.edu.cn> ********************************************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- SETTA 2017 Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications Changsha, China, Oct. 23-25, 2017 http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2017/ ********************************************************************************************************** Early registration: September 26, 2017 *** ABOUT SETTA *** The purpose of SETTA is to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to share cutting-edge advancements and strengthen collaborations in the field of formal methods and its interoperability with software engineering for building reliable, safe, secure and smart systems. *** INVITED Keynotes *** Cliff Jones (Newcastle University)? General Lessons from a Rely/Guarantee Development Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems): Formal Methods for Building a Multi-Robot Task Server Sanjit Seshia (University of California, Berkeley): Towards Verified Artificial Intelligence Jean-Pierre Talpin (INRIA): Compositional Methods for Cyber-Physical System Design *** CONTRIBUTED PAPERS *** Jianxin Xue, Huan Long and Yuxi Fu: Remark on Some Pi Variants Wanwei Liu, Fu Song and Ge Zhou: Reasoning about Periodicity on Infinite Words Zipeng Zhang and Xinyu Feng: AndroidLeaker: A Hybrid Checker for Collusive Leak in Android Applications Dimitar Guelev, Shuling Wang and Naijun Zhan: Compositional Hoare-style Reasoning about Hybrid CSP in the Duration Calculus Andrzej Mizera, Jun Pang, Hongyang Qu and Qixia Yuan: A Decomposition Method for Attractor Detection in Large Synchronous Boolean Networks Yuwei Wang, Guoqiang Li and Shoji Yuen: Nested Timed Automata with Invariants Yi Li: Termination of Semi-Algebraic Loop Programs Ghassen Helali, Sofiene Tahar, Osman Hasan and Tsvetan Dunchev: Formal Analysis of Information Flow in HOL Chen Fu, Yuxin Deng, David N. Jansen and Lijun Zhang: On Equivalence Checking of Nondeterministic Finite Automata Luca Santinelli and Zhishan Guo: On the Criticality of Probabilistic Worst-Case Execution Time Models Carlos E. Budde, Pedro R. D'Argenio and Arnd Hartmanns: Better Automated Importance Splitting for Transient Rare Events Stefano Schivo, Bugra Mehmet Yildiz, Enno Ruijters, Christopher Gerking, Rajesh Kumar, Stefan Dziwok, Arend Rensink and Marielle Stoelinga: How to Efficiently Build a Front-End Tool for UPPAAL: A Model-Driven Approach Jiawei Wang, Ming Fu, Lei Qiao and Xinyu Feng: Formalizing SPARCv8 Instruction Set Architecture in Coq Calvin Deutschbein, Tom Fleming, Alan Burns and Sanjoy Baruah: Multi-core cyclic executives for safety-critical systems Meenakshi Dsouza and Maithily Diwan: A framework for modeling and verifying IoT communication protocols Idress Husien, Sven Schewe and Nicolas Berthier: PranCS: A Protocol and Discrete Controller Synthesis Tool Daichi Morita, Fuyuki Ishikawa and Shinichi Honiden: Construction of Abstract State Graphs for Understanding Event-B Models Vahid Hashemi, Andrea Turrini, Ernst Moritz Hahn, Holger Hermanns and Khaled Elbassioni: Polynomial-Time Alternating Probabilistic Bisimulation for Interval MDPs Tianhai Liu, Shmuel Tyszberowicz, Bernhard Beckert and Mana Taghdiri: Computing Exact Loop Bounds for Bounded Program Verification *** REGISTRATION *** Early registration is until *September 26, 2017 (AOE)* http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2017/registration.php *** HOST CITY *** Changsha,the capital of Hunan province, is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of over 3,000 years.Nowadays, Changsha is an important commercial, manufacturing and transportation center in China. 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URL: From sac.soap2018 at gmail.com Mon Sep 11 06:48:27 2017 From: sac.soap2018 at gmail.com (sac.soap2018 at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:48:27 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SOAP@SAC 2018, April 9-13, Pau, France - (EXTENDED DEADLINE) final call for papers Message-ID: <20170911104827.Xh6yz%sac.soap2018@gmail.com> (Apologies for duplicates) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - SOAP track at SAC Service-Oriented Architectures and Programming track of the 33st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing 9-13 April 2018, Pau, France http://sac-soap.sdu.dk/soap2018/ IMPORTANT DATES September 25 (EXTENDED), 2017: Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts November 10, 2017: Notification of paper and SRC abstracts acceptance/rejection November 25, 2017: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC abstracts December 10, 2017: Author registration due date SAC 2018 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 2018 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held in Pau, France. 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 definition 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 continuouslsy 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. Major topics of interest will include: -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 -IoT and Cloud-based Services SUBMISSION 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 2018 website. Prospective papers should be submitted to the track using the provided automated submission system. Please pay attention to ensure anonimity 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. See the SAC site for the page constraints. For each accepted paper, an author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper to be included in the ACM/ IEEE digital library. 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. Please submit your contribution via SAC 2018 submission site. 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 2018 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.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/src.html. Submission of research abstracts to the SRC program should be in electronic form via SAC 2018 SRC papers submission site. 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. PROGRAM COMMITEE -Nazareno Aguirre (Universidad de R?o Cuarto, AR) -Farhad Arbab (Leiden University and CWI, Amsterdam, NL) -Lu?s Barbosa (University of Minho, Braga, PT) -Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, IT) -Antonio Bucchiarone (FBK, Trento, IT) -Romain Demangeon (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, FR) -Shuiguang Deng (Zhejiang University, PRC) -Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, AT) -Gian Luigi Ferrari (Universit? di Pisa, IT) -Jos? Fiadeiro (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) -Saverio Giallorenzo (University of Bologna, IT) -Ross Horne (Nanyang Technological University, SG) -Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin, IR) -Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) -Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) -Alberto N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SP) -Jorge A. Perez (University of Groningen, NL) -Gustavo Petri (Purdue University, USA) -Ant?nio Ravara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT) -Victor Rivera (Innopolis University, RU) -Alceste Scalas (Imperial College London, UK) -Nikolay Shilov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, RU) -Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT) -Farouk Toumani (Universit? Blaise Pascal, FR) -Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK) -Yuhong Yan (Concordia University, CA) -Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, IT) -Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, IT) TRACK CHAIRS -Massimo Bartoletti bart @ unica.it Universit? di Cagliari, Italy -Lu?s Cruz-Filipe lcf @ imada.sdu.dk University of Southern Denmark, Denmark -Gwen Sala?n gwen.salaun @ inria.fr Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France PUBLICITY CHAIR -Stefano Lande lande @ unica.it Universit? di Cagliari, Italy STEERING COMMITTEE -Claudio Guidi, italianaSoftware, Italy -Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna, Italy and INRIA, France -Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia -Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark From g.casale at imperial.ac.uk Tue Sep 12 04:04:54 2017 From: g.casale at imperial.ac.uk (Casale, Giuliano) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:04:54 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentships in computing at Imperial College London Message-ID: The Department of Computing at Imperial College London invites applications from outstanding students for up to 30 fully-funded studentships for the 2018/19 PhD programme. The Department of Computing is one of the largest computing departments in the UK and is a world leader in academic research in computer science. Its research has been ranked in the top three in the UK in the British Research Excellence Framework undertaken in 2014. We invite applications from students of the highest calibre for PhD study in all areas of the Department's research. In particular, we seek to recruit outstanding students with an early record of accomplishment in formal methods, concurrency, or reasoning. More information on our Department's research in these areas can be found at http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/research/verification-and-analysis/ Applicants are expected to have a First Class or Distinction Masters level degree, or equivalent, in a relevant scientific or technical discipline, such as computer science or mathematics, and are expected to be within the top 10% of their class. Although applications can be made at any time in the year, to increase your chances in the competition for funding, we recommend that you apply by one of the following three dates: 10 November 2017, 19 January 2018, and 23 March 2018. Our PhD studentships cover tuition fees and a bursary of approximately ?16,500 per year and will be allocated on a competitive basis. The earliest start date for successful applicants is October 2018. For further details on how to apply, please visit: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/prospective-students/courses/phd/ The Department has an equal opportunities policy and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Details on the College's arrangements for people with disabilities are available at: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/disabilityadvisoryservice/prospectivestudents -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jay.mccarthy at gmail.com Wed Sep 13 09:31:32 2017 From: jay.mccarthy at gmail.com (Jay McCarthy) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:31:32 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Four assistant professor faculty positions (tenure track) at UMass Lowell Message-ID: [Note for Types folks: We are very interested in hiring excellent candidates in PL, particularly if they have a security angle to their work. Last year, we were successful in hiring Matteo Cimini, a recent Indiana postdoc in this way.] The Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell invites applications for four tenure-track, assistant professor faculty positions to start in September 2018 (an earlier starting date might be considered). In our hiring pool, preference will be given to outstanding candidates in any of the areas of Computer Vision, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Machine Learning, and/or Robotics. But, outstanding candidates in other major computer science areas will also be considered, and are thus encouraged to apply. Please visit http://explorejobs.uml.edu/lowell/en-us/job/492558/tenuretrack-assistant-professor-computer-science-multiple-positions to apply and view more details. I am very happy to answer any informal queries, Jay McCarthy -- -=[ Jay McCarthy http://jeapostrophe.github.io ]=- -=[ Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell ]=- From asf08r at ecs.soton.ac.uk Wed Sep 13 05:48:57 2017 From: asf08r at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Asieh Salehi) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:48:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ABZ 2018, Call for Contributions References: <3BD841CE-AC22-4CB2-BBF3-9FEA3A87E03C@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Message-ID: ABZ 2018 6th International ABZ (ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z) Conference June 5th-8th, 2018 Southampton, UK www.southampton.ac.uk/abz2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers, Answers to the case study, Workshops, Tutorials ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of six related state-based and machine-based formal methods, Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, that share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. It builds on the success of the first ABZ conference held in London in 2008, where the ASM, B and Z conference series merged into a single event, the second ABZ 2010 conference held in Orford (Canada), where the Alloy community joined the event, the ABZ 2012 held in Pisa (Italy), which saw the inclusion of the VDM community, and ABZ 2014 held in Toulouse (France), which brought the inclusion of the TLA community into the ABZ conference series and the ABZ 2016 held in Linz, Austria. The ABZ 2018 conference will be held in Southampton, UK. ABZ 2018 will have a main conference track, a case study track, tutorials and workshops. ----------------------- Invited Speakers ----------------------- Jean-Raymond Abrial, Marseille, France Janet Barnes and Angela Wallenburg, Altran, UK Daniel Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Software Competence Centre Hagenberg, Austria -------------------------- Case Study Track -------------------------- As successfully practiced at ABZ 2014 and ABZ 2016, the 6th edition of ABZ will again include special sessions dedicated to "Hybrid ERTMS/ETCS Level 3? case study. See here for a detailed description of this case study. ----------------------- Main ABZ Track ----------------------- Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z approaches in software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools and industrial applications. The program spans from theoretical and methodological foundations to practical applications, emphasizing system engineering methods and tools that are distinguished by mathematical rigor and have proved to be industrially viable. The main goal of the conference is to contribute to the integration of accurate state- and machine-based system development methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation, mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems. Although organized to host several formal methods with ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, in a single event, editorial control of the joint conference is vested in one integrated program committee, which will respectively determine its ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z content, to be presented in parallel conference tracks with a schedule to allow the participants to switch between the sessions. ------------------------------------------------- Workshop and Tutorial Proposals ------------------------------------------------- Workshops and tutorials will be associated with the main event ABZ. Proposals are solicited in areas related to the conference topics. A workshop proposal should contain the title of the workshop, a short description of the scientific content, the names and brief CVs of the workshop organizers, the intended PC for the workshop, the duration of the workshop, and the expected number of participants. A tutorial proposal should contain the title of the tutorial, a short description of the scientific content, the names and brief CVs of the tutorial presenters and the duration. ----------------------- Call For Papers ----------------------- Four kinds of contributions are invited: ? Full Research papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format, which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. ? Short presentations of work in progress, and tool demonstrations: This is an excellent opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and validate their work in progress. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed. ? Answers to case study papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format reporting on the experiments conducted with any of the state based techniques in the scope of ABZ 2014. ? Application in industry papers: reporting on work or experiences on the application of state based formal methods in industry. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed. It is also an interesting option for industrial practitioners who sometimes face too many constraints to prepare a full paper. Accepted papers will appear in the Springer LNCS proceedings. See here for submission details. The deadline for abstract submission is January 22, 2018 and for paper submission is January 29, 2018. ----------------------- Important dates ----------------------- Abstract submission deadline: January 22, 2018 Paper submission deadline: January 29, 2018 (including research/short/case study/industry papers) Workshop proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2017 Tutorial proposal submission: February 16, 2018 ABZ 2018 conference: June 5-8, 2018 ------------------- Organization ------------------- Conference Chairs: Michael Butler , University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Alexander Raschke , Universit?t Ulm, Ulm, Germany Case Study Chairs: Klaus Reichl , Thales Ground Transport Division, Vienna, Austria Thai Son Hoang , University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Workshop Chairs: Stefan Hallerstede , Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Tutorial Chairs: Colin Snook , University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Publicity Chair Asieh Salehi , University of Southampton, Southampton, UK For further questions concerning ABZ 2018, please contact us at abz2018 at soton.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ndanner at wesleyan.edu Wed Sep 13 10:30:50 2017 From: ndanner at wesleyan.edu (Norman Danner) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:30:50 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track assistant professorship at Wesleyan University Message-ID: <8885285.vsBib6tX9f@nellie> 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 2018. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or similar discipline in hand by the time of appointment. A successful candidate may be hired as an Instructor if the candidate does not have a Ph.D. in hand at the time of appointment, but will complete the Ph.D. in Computer Science or similar discipline within one year of hire. Candidates must have a strong research record and experience in teaching. Theory, programming languages, algorithms, network science, and networking are well-represented in the department. We encourage candidates in all areas of Computer Science to apply, including those who deepen our existing research strengths, and especially encourage candidates who can contribute to the diversity (broadly conceived) of the department. Duties include conducting an independent program of research, teaching, advising and mentoring students, and participating in faculty governance at the departmental and university level. Tenure track faculty in Computer Science at Wesleyan have a 2/1 teaching load (three courses per year). Wesleyan values both research and teaching highly and has a strong and diverse student body. Applications must be submitted online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9599. We will begin reviewing applications on Dec. 1, 2017. Questions about this position may be e-mailed to ndanner at wesleyan.edu. - Norman Danner -- Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University From splash.publicity at gmail.com Wed Sep 13 17:39:54 2017 From: splash.publicity at gmail.com (SPLASH Publicity) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:39:54 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2017: 1st Call for Participation Message-ID: ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH 2017 October 22-27, 2017 Vancouver, Canada http://2017.splashcon.org https://twitter.com/splashcon https://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon/ The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. # Registration * 22 September 2017 (Early Deadline) * Contact: info at splashcon.org * http://2017.splashcon.org/attending/registration # What's Happening at SPLASH? ## Keynotes * Lera Boroditsky (Onward!) How the languages we speak shape the way we think * Danny Dig (GPCE) The landscape of refactoring research in the last decade * Chris Granger (SPLASH) Eve: tackling a giant with a change in perspective * Crista Lopes (SPLASH) Objects in the age of data * Peter D. Mosses (SLE) Engineering meta-languages for specifying software languages * Filip Pizlo (DLS) The JavaScriptCore Virtual Machine ## Workshop Keynotes * Nada Amin (Meta) * Phil Bernstein (AGERE!) * Luke Church (LIVE) * Ron Garcia (DSLDI) * Sumit Gulwani (PLATEAU) * Norm Hardy (OCAP) * Reid Holmes (CoCos) * Julia Rubin (FOSD) * Karan Singh (SAVR) * Mario Wolczko (VMIL) ## Conference Program * https://2017.splashcon.org/program/program-splash-2017 ## SPLASH-I SPLASH-I is a series of research and industry talks, demos, and panels that address topics relevant to the SPLASH community. The SPLASH-I series is held in parallel with the OOPSLA main track. Talks are open to all attendees. * https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-SPLASH-I#program ## Research Tracks and Co-Located Conferences and Symposia * OOPSLA https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-OOPSLA#program * Onward! Essays https://2017.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2017-essays-2017#program * Onward! Papers https://2017.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2017-Onward-Papers#program * GPCE - Generative Programming: Concepts and Experience https://conf.researchr.org/track/gpce-2017/gpce-2017-GPCE-2017#program * SLE - Software Language Engineering https://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers#event-overview * DLS - Dynamic Languages Symposium https://conf.researchr.org/track/dls-2017/dls-2017#program * Scala Symposium https://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers * SPLASH-E https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-SPLASH-E ## Workshops SPLASH 2017 is hosting a record number of 18 workshops this year. * AGERE! - Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control https://2017.splashcon.org/track/agere-2017 * CoCoS - Comprehension of Complex Systems https://2017.splashcon.org/track/cocos-2017 * DSLDI - Domain-Specific Languages Design and Implementation https://2017.splashcon.org/track/dsldi-2017#event-overview * Escaped - Escaped from the Lab https://2017.splashcon.org/track/escaped-2017 * FOSD - Feature-Oriented Software Development https://2017.splashcon.org/track/fosd-2017 * LIVE - Live Programming https://2017.splashcon.org/track/live-2017#program * Meta - Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection https://2017.splashcon.org/track/meta-2017 * NJR - National Java Resource https://2017.splashcon.org/track/njr-2017 * NOOL - New Object-Oriented Languages https://2017.splashcon.org/track/nool-2017 * OCAP - Object-Capability Languages, Systems, and Applications https://2017.splashcon.org/track/ocap-2017 * PLATEAU - Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools https://2017.splashcon.org/track/plateau-2017#Accepted-Papers * PX/17.2 - Programming Experience https://2017.splashcon.org/track/px-17-2 * Parsing - Parsing at SLE https://2017.splashcon.org/track/parsing-2017 * REBLS - Reactive and Event-Based Languages and Systems https://2017.splashcon.org/track/rebls-2017 * SAVR - Software for Augmented Virtual Reality https://2017.splashcon.org/track/savr-2017 * SEPS - Software Engineering for Parallel Systems https://2017.splashcon.org/track/seps-2017 * VMIL - Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages https://2017.splashcon.org/track/vmil-2017 * WODA - Workshop on Dynamic Analysis https://2017.splashcon.org/track/woda-2017 ## Other Events * Doctoral Symposium https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Doctoral-Symposium#event-overview * PL Mentoring Workshop https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-PLMW#program * Posters https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Posters * Student Research Competition https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Student-Research-Competition#program # Supporters SPLASH is kindly supported by the following organizations: * ACM: http://www.acm.org/ * SIGPLAN: http://www.sigplan.org/ * Facebook (Silver): https://research.facebook.com/ * LLVM Foundation (Silver): https://llvm.org/foundation/index.html * Mozilla (Silver): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ * Raincode Labs (Silver): https://www.raincodelabs.com/ * Microsoft Research (Bronze): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/ Interested in supporting SPLASH 2017? See our support options here: https://2017.splashcon.org/attending/sponsorship From catalin.hritcu at gmail.com Thu Sep 14 08:30:10 2017 From: catalin.hritcu at gmail.com (Catalin Hritcu) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:30:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Presentations on Secure Compilation (PriSC Workshop @ POPL'18) Message-ID: ======================================================================= Call for Presentations on Secure Compilation (PriSC Workshop @ POPL'18) ======================================================================= Secure compilation is an emerging field that puts together advances in programming languages, security, verification, systems, compilers, and hardware architectures in order to devise secure compiler chains that eliminate many of today's low-level vulnerabilities. Secure compilation aims to protect high-level language abstractions in compiled code, even against adversarial low-level contexts, and to allow sound reasoning about security in the source language. The emerging secure compilation community aims to achieve this by: identifying and formalizing properties that secure compilers must possess; devising efficient enforcement mechanisms; and developing effective verification and proof techniques. ====================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2018) ====================================================================== The Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC) is a new informal 1-day workshop without any proceedings. The goal is to identify interesting research directions and open challenges and to bring together researchers interested in secure compilation. The 2nd PriSC edition will be held on Saturday, 13 January 2018, in Los Angeles, together with the ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). More information at http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 ====================================================================== Important Dates ====================================================================== Presentation proposal submission deadline: 18 October 2017, AoE Presentation proposal notification: 8 November 2017 PriSC Workshop takes place: 13 January 2018 ====================================================================== Scope of the Workshop ====================================================================== Anyone interested in presenting at the workshop should submit an extended abstract (up to 2 pages, details below). This can cover past, ongoing, or future work. Any topic that could be of interest to the emerging secure compilation community is in scope. Talks that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are **not** limited to: - attacker models for secure compiler chains - secure compilation properties: full abstraction, memory safety, control-flow integrity, preserving non-interference or (hyper-)properties against adversarial contexts, secure multi-language interoperability - enforcement mechanisms: static checking, program verification, reference monitoring, program rewriting, software fault isolation, system-level protection, secure hardware, crypto, randomization - experimental evaluation and applications of secure compilation - proof methods: (bi)simulation, logical relations, game semantics, multi-language semantics, embedded interpreters - formal verification of secure compilation chain (protection mechanisms, compilers, linkers, loaders), machine-checked proofs, translation validation, property-based testing ====================================================================== Guidelines for Submitting Extended Abstracts ====================================================================== Extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format and not exceed 2 pages. They should be formatted in two-column layout, 10pt font, and be printable on A4 and US Letter sized paper. We recommend using the new `acmart` LaTeX style in `sigplan` mode: http://www.sigplan.org/sites/default/files/acmart/current/acmart-sigplanproc.zip Submissions are not anonymous and should provide sufficient detail to be assessed by the program committee. Presentation at the workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere. Please submit your extended abstracts at https://prisc18.hotcrp.com/ ====================================================================== Short Talks Session ====================================================================== We will also run a short talks session, where participants get five minutes to present intriguing ideas, advertise ongoing work, etc. You can expect a call for short talks closer to the event. ====================================================================== Program Committee ====================================================================== Program Chair Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Members Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Lars Birkedal Aarhus University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven C?dric Fournet Microsoft Research Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Xavier Leroy Inria Paris David Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Frank Piessens KU Leuven Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis Nikhil Swamy Microsoft Research ====================================================================== Organizing Committee ====================================================================== Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis ====================================================================== Contact and More Information ===================================================================== More information about PriSC 2018 can be found on the website: http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 For questions please contact Catalin Hritcu (Program Chair). To make sure you receive such announcements in the future please subscribe to the following low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/prisc-announce From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Thu Sep 14 05:12:28 2017 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:12:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?iso-8859-15?q?13th_Track_on_Dependable=2C_Adap?= =?iso-8859-15?q?tive=2C_and=A0Trustworthy_Distributed_Systems_=28DADS=29_?= =?iso-8859-15?q?of_SAC=2718?= Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------+ | 13th Track on Dependable, Adaptive, and?Trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS) | | of the 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing?(SAC'18) ???????????????????????| +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------+ April 9 - 13, 2018 Pau, France http://www.dedisys.org/sac18/ http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2018/ Accepted papers will be published in the ACM? conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library. Important Dates: Paper submission: September 25, 2017 (extended) Author notification: November 10, 2017 Camera-ready copies: November 25, 2017 Authors are invited to submit original work not? previously published, nor currently submitted? elsewhere. Authors submit full papers in pdf? format using the link to the submission site at? http://www.dedisys.org/sac18/. Authors are? allowed up to 10 pages, but with more than 8? pages in the final camera ready, there will be a? charge of 80USD per extra page. Call details ============ While computing is provided by the cloud and? services increasingly pervade our daily lives,? dependability and security are no longer? restricted to mission or safety critical? applications, but rather become a cornerstone of? the information society. Unfortunately, the most? innovative systems and applications (Internet of? Things, Smart Environments, Mashups, NewSQL) are? the ones that also suffer most from a significant? decrease in dependability and security when? compared to traditional critical systems. In? accordance with Laprie we call this effect the? dependability gap, which is widened in front of? us between demand and supply of dependability,? and we can see this trend further fueled by? volume, velocity and variety, as well as the? demand for resource awareness, green computing, and increasing cost pressure. Among technical factors, software development? methods, tools, and techniques contribute to? dependability and security, as defects in? software products and services may lead to? failure and also provide typical access for? malicious attacks. In addition, there is a wide? variety of fault and intrusion tolerance? techniques available, including persistence? provided by databases, redundancy and? replication, group communication, transaction? monitors, reliable middleware, cloud? infrastructures,? fragmentation-redundancy-scattering, and? trustworthy service-oriented architectures with? explicit control of quality of service properties? and service level agreements. Furthermore,? adaptiveness is envisaged in order to react to? observed, or act upon expected changes of the? system itself, the context/environment (e.g.,? resource variability or failure/threat scenarios)? or users' needs and expectations. Provided? without explicit user intervention, this is also? termed autonomous behavior or self-properties,? and often involves monitoring, diagnosis? (analysis, interpretation), and reconfiguration? (repair). In particular, adaptation is also a? means to achieve dependability and security in a? computing infrastructure with dynamically varying structure and properties. Topics of interest ================== * Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS) * Architectures, architectural styles, and middleware for DADS * Protocols for DADS * Modeling, design, and engineering of DADS * Foundations and formal methods for DADS * Applications of DADS * Evaluations, testing, benchmarking, and case studies of DADS * Holistic aspects of DADS Track program co-chairs =============== Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) (main contact:?dads at dedisys.org) Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London (UK) Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland (New Zealand) Program committee ================= Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra (Portugal) Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan (Italy) Mark Baker, Zepheira LLC (Canada) Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy) Stefan Beyer, S2 Grupo (Spain) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) Mauro Conti, Universita di Padova (Italy) Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK) Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy) Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London (UK) David Eyers, University of Otago (New Zealand) Pascal Felber, Universit? de Neuch?tel (Switzerland) Lorenz Froihofer, A1 Telekom Austria (Austria) Kurt Geihs, Universit?t Kassel (Germany) Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France) Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University (Sweden) Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA) Shanshan Jiang, SINTEF (Norway) Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) Micha?l Lauer, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) Mark Little, JBoss (UK) Istv?n Majzik, Budapest UTE. (Hungary) Matteo Migliavacca, University of Kent (UK) Alberto Montresor, University of Trento (Italy) Gero M?hl, University of Rostock (Germany) Francesc Daniel Mu?oz-Esco?, UP Valencia (Spain) Marta Patino-Martinez, UP Madrid (Spain) Fernando Pedone, Universit? della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Barry Porter, Lancaster University (UK) Lu?s Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST (Portugal) Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France) Matthieu Roy, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) Alirio S?, University of Bahia (Brazil) Elad Schiller, Chalmers University (Sweden) Andr? Schiper, EPFL (Switzerland) Stefan Tai, Information Systems Engineering, TU Berlin (Germany) Elena Troubitsyna, ?bo Akademi University (Finland) Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, CEA - LIST, Saclay (France) Ricardo Vila?a, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway) Nicola Zannone, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) From stephane.galland at utbm.fr Thu Sep 14 13:05:15 2017 From: stephane.galland at utbm.fr (stephane.galland at utbm.fr) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:05:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Release 0.6.0 of the SARL agent-programming language Message-ID: <20170914170515.DFEF11FC21F@smtp4.utbm.fr> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov Thu Sep 14 13:54:32 2017 From: cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320)) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:54:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] NASA Formal Methods Symposium 2018 - CFP Message-ID: <1C7173C4-98AE-4E75-A5A2-7C925DE558D2@nasa.gov> NFM 2018 - Call for Papers The 10th NASA Formal Methods Symposium 30 Years of Formal Methods at NASA ------------------------------------- https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ April 17-19, 2018 Newport News Marriott at City Center Newport News, VA, USA Theme of the Symposium ---------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous 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 both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including 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: ------------------------------------------------- * Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis * Advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving * Use of formal methods in software and system testing * Run-time verification * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods such as abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and/or distributed techniques * Code generation from formally verified models * Safety cases and system safety * Formal approaches to fault tolerance * Theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems * Formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development 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=nfm2018 Authors of selected best papers may be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of a computer science journal. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: November 10, 2017 Paper Submission: November 20, 2017 Paper notification: January 19, 2018 Camera Ready Deadline: February 9, 2018 Symposium: April 17-19, 2018 Location -------- The symposium will take place at Newport News Marriott at City Center, Newport News, VA, USA. Registration is required but is free of charge. Organizing Committee ---------------- Anthony Narkawicz (Conference Chair) Aaron Dutle (Program Co-Chair) Cesar Munoz (Program Co-Chair) Contact -------- Email: nfm2018 [at] easychair [dot] org Web: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ --- 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 christoph.reichenbach at cs.lth.se Thu Sep 14 16:14:06 2017 From: christoph.reichenbach at cs.lth.se (Christoph Reichenbach) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:14:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD and Postdoc positions in Software Technology at Lund University Message-ID: <20170914201406.t5nsp4d44gmi3z65@linna.creichen.net> We are offering one 2-year Postdoc position and two 5-year PhD positions to qualified applicants with background and interest in software technology or related areas. The positions are at Lund University's Department of Computer Science, with funding provided by the Wallenberg Autonomous Systems and Software Programme (WASP). Our focus is on the following areas: - Automatic code cleanup / refactoring - Domain-specific languages for software performance analysis - 'Smart' module systems utilising program and performance analysis For details, formal prerequisites, contact information, and links to the application system, please refer to the official job postings: PhD: https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:167966/ Postdoc: https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:167969/ The application deadline is on 20 October 2017. Please feel free to distribute this message to any parties that may be interested. From afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca Sat Sep 16 10:17:46 2017 From: afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 10:17:46 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FINAL call for papers: CPP 2018 Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2018) co-located with POPL 2018 in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG http://conf.researchr.org/track/CPP-2018/CPP-2018 8-9 January, 2018, Los Angeles, USA NOTE: Deadline approaching! Certified Programs and Proofs (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. Important dates --------------- - Abstract submission deadline: Fri 6 Oct 2017 - Full paper submission deadline: Wed 11 Oct 2017 - Notification: Tue 14 Nov 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: Sun 26 Nov 2017 - Conference dates: Mon 8 - Tue 9 Jan 2018 Topics of interest ------------------ We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal certification of programs and proofs. The following is a suggested list of topics of interests to CPP. This is a non-exhaustive list and should be read as a guideline rather than a requirement. - 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 Guidelines --------------------- Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair submission page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpp2018 Submitted papers must be formatted following the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format using the acmart format with the sigplan option, using 10 point font for the main text. http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. Abstracts must be submitted by October 6, 2017 (AOE). The deadline for full papers is October 11, 2017 (AOE), and authors have the option to withdraw their papers during the window between the two. Submissions must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. They 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. 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. Whenever appropriate, the submission should come along with a formal development, using whatever prover, e.g., Agda, Coq, Dafny, Elf, HOL, HOL-Light, Isabelle, Lean, Matita, Mizar, NQTHM, PVS, Vampire, etc. Such formal developments must be submitted together with the paper as auxiliary material, and will be taken into account during the reviewing process. 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 welcome. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. For any questions about the formatting or submission of papers, please consult the PC chairs. Invited Speakers ---------------- Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Ren? Thiemann (University of Innsbruck, Austria) CPP?18 invited speakers are generously funded in part by Galois. Program Committee ----------------- Reynald Affeldt (AIST, Japan) June Andronick (Data61, CSIRO and UNSW, Australia), co-chair Lennart Beringer (Princeton University, USA) Jasmin Blanchette (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes 1, France) Sylvie Boldo (Inria and Universit? Paris-Saclay, France) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, UK) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada), co-chair Elsa Gunter (University of Illinois, USA) Reiner H?hnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands) Warren A. Hunt, Jr. (University of Texas Austin, USA) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research, USA) Assia Mahboubi (Inria, France) Alberto Momigliano (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Magnus Myreen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Para?ba, Brazil / Fortiss, Germany) Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich, Germany) Gert Smolka (Saarland University, Germany) Bas Spitters (Aarhus University, Denmark) Pierre-Yves Strub (?cole Polytechnique, France) Laurent Th?ry (Inria, France) Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) From pkordjam at tulane.edu Sun Sep 17 10:05:26 2017 From: pkordjam at tulane.edu (Kordjamshidi, Parisa) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:05:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: AAAI-2018 Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS and PARTICIPANTS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Third International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP-2018), in conjunction with thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), February 2?3, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Website: http://delbp.github.io. --------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE --------------------------------------------------------------- The main goal of Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP) workshop is to investigate the issues that arise when designing and using programming languages that support learning from data and knowledge. DeLBP aims at new programming models and abstractions that facilitate the design and development of intelligent real world applications that use machine learning and reasoning. The challenges of such a programming paradigm include: Interaction with messy, naturally occurring data; Specifying the requirements of the application at a high abstraction level; Dealing with uncertainty in data and knowledge in various layers of the application program; Using representations that support flexible relational feature engineering and learning rich data representations; Using representations that support flexible reasoning and structure learning; Supporting model chaining and composition; Integrating a range of learning and inference algorithms; and finally addressing the above mentioned issues in one unified programming environment. Conventional programming languages offer no help to application programmers that attempt to design and develop applications that make use of real world data, and reason about it in a way that involves learning interdependent concepts from data, incorporating and composing existing models, and reasoning about existing and trained models and their parameterization. Over the last few years, the research community has tried to address these problems from multiple perspectives, most notably various approaches based on Probabilistic programming, Logical Programming and the integrated paradigms. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss the current related research and the way various challenges have been addressed. We aim at motivating the need for further research toward a unified framework in this area based on the key existing paradigms: Probabilistic Programming, Logic Programming, Probabilistic Logical Programming, First-order query languages and database management systems and deductive databases, Statistical relational learning, Deep Learning and related languages, and connect these to the ideas of Learning Based Programming. We aim to discuss and investigate the required type of languages and representations that facilitate modeling complex learning models, deep architectures, and provide the ability to combine, chain and perform flexible inference with existing models and by exploiting domain knowledge. Though the theme of this workshop remains generic as in the past versions, we will aim at emphasizing on ideas and opinions regarding conceptual representations of deep learning architectures that connect various computational units to the semantics of declarative data and knowledge representations. ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ????????????????????? ?New abstractions and modularity levels towards a unified framework for (deep/structured) learning and reasoning, ? Frameworks/Computational models to combine learning and reasoning paradigms and exploit accomplishments in AI from various perspectives. ?Flexible use of structured and relational data from heterogeneous resources in learning. ? Data modeling (relational/graph-based databases) issues in such a new integrated framework for learning based on data and knowledge. ?Exploiting knowledge such as expert knowledge and common sense knowledge expressed via multiple formalisms, in learning. ?The ability of closing the loop to acquire knowledge from data and data from knowledge towards life-long learning, and reasoning. ?Using declarative domain knowledge to guide the design of learning models, ? Including feature extraction, model selection, dependency structure and deep learning architecture. ?Automation of hyper-parameter tuning. ?Design and representation of complex learning and inference models. ?The interface and software tools for learning-based programming, ? Either in the form of programming languages, declarations, frameworks, libraries or graphical user interfaces. ?Storage and retrieval of trained learning models in a flexible way to facilitate incremental learning. ?Related applications in Natural language processing, Computer vision, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, multi-agent systems, etc. ?Learning to learn programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ? Submission Deadline: Oct 15th, 2017 ? Notification: Nov 5th, 2017 ? Camera-Ready: Nov 21th, 2017 ? Workshop Days: Feb 2-3, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS ---------------------------------------------------------------- We encourage contributions with either a technical paper (AAAI style, 6 pages without references), a position statement (AAAI style, 2 pages maximum) or an abstract of a published work. AAAI Style files available here [http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit18.zip]. Please make submissions via EasyChair, here [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=delbp2018]. ---------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Van den Broeck, University of California, Los Angeles Sameer Singh, University of California, Irvine Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, SRI International Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon Cambridge, UK William Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara Kai-Wei Chang, University of Virginia Nikolaos Vasiloglou, LogicBlox Martin Mladenov, Technical University of Dortmund Tias Guns, Vrije University of Brussels Umar Manzoor, Tulane University ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Tulane University, IHMC Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ---------------------------------------------------------------- delbp-3 at googlegroups.com (Organization Committee) pkordjam at tulane.edu Please circulate this CFP among your colleagues and students. ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Kordjamshidi, Parisa Assistant Professor CS Department at Tulane University Research Scientist at IHMC Homepage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From barrett at cs.stanford.edu Tue Sep 19 14:03:00 2017 From: barrett at cs.stanford.edu (Clark Barrett) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:03:00 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral positions in automated reasoning at Stanford University Message-ID: Formal Methods and Automated Reasoning Department of Computer Science, Stanford University Two Postdoctoral Positions This is a call for interest for postdoctoral research at Stanford University under Professor Clark Barrett. One position will focus on extending the Reluplex tool for verifying properties of Deep Neural Networks (see http://theory.stanford.edu/~barrett/pubs/KBD+17-abstract.html). The other position is for a new project called HERMES to develop an efficient, explainable, and scalable automated reasoning system that will combine SMT solvers with other domain-specific reasoning systems. Qualifications: The ideal applicant must have: * a PhD in Computer Science or a closely related field * strong programming skills, especially in C++ and Python * a strong publication record in formal methods In addition, in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of SMT solvers is a plus, and for the first project, familiarity with linear programming techniques is highly desirable. Application details Interested applicants should send their CV, including a list of publications, in PDF to barrett at cs.stanford.edu together with a statement outlining their suitability for at least one of the projects and the names of at least two references. We anticipate the start date for these positions to be January 1, 2018 or soon thereafter, depending on how long it takes to fill the positions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Thu Sep 21 09:23:00 2017 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:23:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two year postdoc at Imperial, with Ben Livshits and Alastair Donaldson, on automated browser testing Message-ID: Dear all Ben Livshits and I are hiring for a two year postdoc to work on novel methods for automated testing of web browsers, for reliability and security issues. The closing date for applicants is: ** 13 October 2017 ** and here is a link to the advert: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BEG914/research-associate-in-testing-web-browser-security/ As well as strong computing background, with a PhD or equivalent qualification held or pending, we're looking experience in building and working with large software systems and tools, and proven knowledge in web security or program analysis, including practical aspects of type systems. Please contact me (alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk) or Ben (b.livshits at imperial.ac.uk) if you'd like to discuss this opportunity before the closing date. And please spread the word to potentially interested candidates! Thanks Alastair Donaldson From splash.publicity at gmail.com Thu Sep 21 21:43:25 2017 From: splash.publicity at gmail.com (SPLASH Publicity) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:43:25 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2017: Final Call for Participation Message-ID: ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH 2017 October 22-27, 2017 Vancouver, Canada http://2017.splashcon.org https://twitter.com/splashcon https://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon/ The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. # Registration * 22 September 2017 (Early Deadline) <-- very soon! * Contact: info at splashcon.org * Register: http://2017.splashcon.org/attending/registration * Venue: http://2017.splashcon.org/venue/hyattregency # What's Happening at SPLASH? ## Keynotes * Lera Boroditsky (Onward!) How the languages we speak shape the way we think * Danny Dig (GPCE) The landscape of refactoring research in the last decade * Chris Granger (SPLASH) Eve: tackling a giant with a change in perspective * Crista Lopes (SPLASH) Objects in the age of data * Peter D. Mosses (SLE) Engineering meta-languages for specifying software languages * Filip Pizlo (DLS) The JavaScriptCore Virtual Machine ## Workshop Keynotes * Nada Amin (Meta) * Phil Bernstein (AGERE!) * Luke Church (LIVE) * Ron Garcia (DSLDI) * Sumit Gulwani (PLATEAU) * Norm Hardy (OCAP) * Reid Holmes (CoCos) * Julia Rubin (FOSD) * Karan Singh (SAVR) * Mario Wolczko (VMIL) ## Conference Program * https://2017.splashcon.org/program/program-splash-2017 ## SPLASH-I SPLASH-I is a series of research and industry talks, demos, and panels that address topics relevant to the SPLASH community. The SPLASH-I series is held in parallel with the OOPSLA main track. Talks are open to all attendees. * https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-SPLASH-I#program ## Research Tracks and Co-Located Conferences and Symposia * OOPSLA https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-OOPSLA#program * Onward! Essays https://2017.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2017-essays-2017#program * Onward! Papers https://2017.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2017-Onward-Papers#program * GPCE - Generative Programming: Concepts and Experience https://conf.researchr.org/track/gpce-2017/gpce-2017-GPCE-2017#program * SLE - Software Language Engineering https://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers#event-overview * DLS - Dynamic Languages Symposium https://conf.researchr.org/track/dls-2017/dls-2017#program * Scala Symposium https://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2017/scala-2017-papers * SPLASH-E https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-SPLASH-E ## Workshops SPLASH 2017 is hosting a record number of 18 workshops this year. * AGERE! - Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control https://2017.splashcon.org/track/agere-2017 * CoCoS - Comprehension of Complex Systems https://2017.splashcon.org/track/cocos-2017 * DSLDI - Domain-Specific Languages Design and Implementation https://2017.splashcon.org/track/dsldi-2017#event-overview * Escaped - Escaped from the Lab https://2017.splashcon.org/track/escaped-2017 * FOSD - Feature-Oriented Software Development https://2017.splashcon.org/track/fosd-2017 * LIVE - Live Programming https://2017.splashcon.org/track/live-2017#program * Meta - Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection https://2017.splashcon.org/track/meta-2017 * NJR - National Java Resource https://2017.splashcon.org/track/njr-2017 * NOOL - New Object-Oriented Languages https://2017.splashcon.org/track/nool-2017 * OCAP - Object-Capability Languages, Systems, and Applications https://2017.splashcon.org/track/ocap-2017 * PLATEAU - Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools https://2017.splashcon.org/track/plateau-2017#Accepted-Papers * PX/17.2 - Programming Experience https://2017.splashcon.org/track/px-17-2 * Parsing - Parsing at SLE https://2017.splashcon.org/track/parsing-2017 * REBLS - Reactive and Event-Based Languages and Systems https://2017.splashcon.org/track/rebls-2017 * SAVR - Software for Augmented Virtual Reality https://2017.splashcon.org/track/savr-2017 * SEPS - Software Engineering for Parallel Systems https://2017.splashcon.org/track/seps-2017 * VMIL - Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages https://2017.splashcon.org/track/vmil-2017 * WODA - Workshop on Dynamic Analysis https://2017.splashcon.org/track/woda-2017 ## Other Events * Doctoral Symposium https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Doctoral-Symposium#event-overview * PL Mentoring Workshop https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-PLMW#program * Posters https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Posters * Student Research Competition https://2017.splashcon.org/track/splash-2017-Student-Research-Competition#program # Supporters SPLASH is kindly supported by the following organizations: * ACM: http://www.acm.org/ * SIGPLAN: http://www.sigplan.org/ * Facebook (Silver): https://research.facebook.com/ * LLVM Foundation (Silver): https://llvm.org/foundation/index.html * Mozilla (Silver): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ * Raincode Labs (Silver): https://www.raincodelabs.com/ * Microsoft Research (Bronze): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/ Interested in supporting SPLASH 2017? See our support options here: https://2017.splashcon.org/attending/sponsorship From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Thu Sep 21 12:22:32 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:22:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2018 Message-ID: CfP: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2018 16-18 January, 2018 - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx Within the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions. The session covers theoretical work, advanced applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes. TOPICS: We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without limiting to them: - Type theories for applications to language and information processing - Computational grammar - Computational syntax - Computational semantics of natural languages - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual processing - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Models of computation and algorithms for natural language processing - Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency - Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to language processing - Information about space and time in language models and processing - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: November 7, 2017 Authors Notification: November 21, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: November 29, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, for preliminary work in progress. Regular Papers - Submission: It is recommended that Regular Papers are submitted for review with around 8 to 10 pages - Acceptance: After a double-blind peer review, qualifying Regular Papers may be accepted as either Full Papers or Short Papers - Publication: Regular Papers classified as Full Papers will be assigned a 12-page limit in the Conference Proceedings, while Regular Papers classified as Short Papers have an 8-page limit Position Papers - Submission: Position Papers should be submitted for review with around 6 or 7 pages - Acceptance: After a double-blind peer review, qualifying Position Papers will be accepted as Short Papers - Publication: Position Papers will be assigned a 8-page limit in the Conference Proceedings Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the page with paper Templates: http://www.icaart.org/Templates.aspx Please also check the Guidelines: http://www.icaart.org/Guidelines.aspx Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button Submit Paper on the pages of NLPinAI 2018. 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Topics include but are not limited to: * design of probabilistic programming languages; * inference algorithms for probabilistic programming languages; * semantics (axiomatic, operational, denotational, games, etc) and types for probabilistic programming; * efficient and correct implementation; * and last but not least, applications of probabilistic programming. For a sense of the talks and posters in past years, see: * https://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2017/pps-2017 * https://pps2017.soic.indiana.edu/ and * https://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pps-2016 * https://pps2016.soic.indiana.edu/ In the tradition of the previous meetings, we anticipate that work on semantic foundations of probabilistic programming will be at the core of PPS 2018, but we are explicitly broadening the scope of PPS to embrace all aspects of probabilistic programming languages. 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 languages, semantics, and systems. Extended abstracts are up to 2 pages in PDF format. Please submit them by October 17 using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pps2018 Tuesday, October 17, 2017: Submissions due Friday, November 17, 2017: Author notification Tuesday, December 19, 2017: Final papers due Tuesday, January 9, 2018: Workshop, colocated right before POPL Program committee: * Cameron Freer, Remine and Borelian (chair) * Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh (chair) * Johannes Borgstr?m, Uppsala University * Bob Carpenter, Columbia University * Ohad Kammar, University of Oxford * Radu Mardare, Aalborg University * Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University * Norman Ramsey, Tufts University * Brian Ruttenberg, Charles River Analytics * Jean-Baptiste Tristan, Oracle Labs * Jan-Willem van de Meent, Northeastern University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Despite inherent challenges in the problem such as ambiguity of user intent and a typically enormous search space of programs, the ?eld of program synthesis has developed many di?erent techniques that enable program synthesis in di?erent real-life application domains. It is now used successfully in software engineering, biological discovery, compute-raided education, end-user programming, and data cleaning. In the last decade, several applications of synthesis in the ?eld of programming by examples have been deployed in mass-market industrial products. This monograph is a general overview of the state-of-the-art approaches to program synthesis, its applications, and sub?elds. It discusses the general principles common to all modern synthesis approaches such as syntactic bias, oracle-guided inductive search, and optimization techniques. We then present a literature review covering the four most common state-of-the-art techniques in program synthesis: enumerative search, constraint solving, stochastic search, and deduction-based programming by examples. It concludes with a brief list of future horizons for the ?eld. Contents: 1: Introduction 2: Applications 3: General Principles 4: Enumerative Search 5: Constraint Solving 6: Stochastic Search 7: Programming by Examples 8: Future Work. Acknowledgements. References. View all FnT PGL issues here: www.nowpublishers.com/pgl Tanya Capawana now -- the essence of knowledge P.O. Box 1024 Hanover, MA 02339 USA t: +1-781-871-0245 f: +1-781-871-6172 em: tanya.capawana at nowpublishers.com www.nowpublishers.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please contact me (alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk) or Cristian (c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk) if you'd like to discuss these opportunities before the closing date. And please spread the word to potentially interested candidates! Thanks Alastair Donaldson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Manuel.Serrano at inria.fr Mon Sep 25 03:22:07 2017 From: Manuel.Serrano at inria.fr (Manuel Serrano) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:22:07 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP] Web Programming, Design, Analysis, and Implementation (WPDAI @ WWW) Message-ID: =============================================================================== 1fst Web Programming, Design, Analysis, And Implementation (WPDAI 2018) The Web Conference (aka WWW) alternate track. 23 - 27 April 2018 Lyon, France https://www2018.thewebconf.org/ =============================================================================== Submission deadline: 31 October 2017 =============================================================================== General Information ------------------- Web Programming, Design, Analysis, and Implementation (WPDAI @ WWW) is an alternate track of The Web Conference 2018 (the conference formerly known as WWW). It is devoted to anything about programming on the web. It will take place in Lyon (France) April 22nd to 27th. Scope and Dates --------------- The WPDAI alternate track seeks original papers on the art, science, and engineering of programming on the web. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Language design: concurrency, reactive programming, multitier programming, domain-specific languages, security & privacy, database programming, ... - Implementation: interpretation, compilation, JIT, AOT, server implementations, virtual machines, empirical evaluation, ... - Static, dynamic, and hybrid analyses for languages and programs: semantics, logics, type systems, foundational calculi, program verification, abstract interpretation, security & privacy, ... - Distributed web programming: data consistency, client-server interaction protocols, ... - Programming environments: applications deployment, visual programming, testing, debugging, ... - Applications: multimedia programming, scripting, ... Submissions will be evaluated according to their originality, correctness, significance, clarity, and relevance. Each submission should explain its contributions, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Important dates: paper submission: 31 October 2017 notification to authors: 22 December 2017 final versions: 14 February 2018 URL: https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/web-programming-cfp Preparation of Submissions: --------------------------- The reviewing will be double-blind, and authors are allowed to submit papers that are 9 pages long, plus unlimited pages for references, following the ACM submission format. Submission: Submissions will be accepted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites Program Committee: ------------------ Sam Blackshear, Facebook Satish Chandra, Facebook Adam Chlipala, MIT Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussels Dominique Devriese, KU Leuven Marc Feeley, University of Montreal Alan Jeffrey, Mozilla Limin Jia, CMU Nabil Layaida, INRIA Daan Leijen, Microsoft Sam Lindley, University of Edinburgh Ben Livshits, Imperial College London Jay McCarthy, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Yasuhiko Minmaide, Tokyo Institute of Technology Anders Moller, Aarhus University Frank Piessens, KU Leuven Tamara Rezk, INRIA Xavier Rival, ENS Alejandro Russo, Chalmers University Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST (PC-chair) Alan Schmitt, INRIA Manuel Serrano, INRIA (PC-chair) Peter Thiemann, Univerity of Freiburg Omer Tripp, Google Tom Van Cutsem, Nokia Bell Labs Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology Jan Vitek, Northeastern University From Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr Tue Sep 26 05:50:57 2017 From: Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr (vlad) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:50:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications (WRLA 2018): first CfP Message-ID: <8f516ce3-1aac-4b4b-a255-c46225805967@inria.fr> An ETAPS 2018 satellite event Thessaloniki, Greece April 14-15 2018 Submission deadline: January 5, 2018 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 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, generalization, narrowing, and partial evaluation ??? constrained rewriting and symbolic algebra ??? graph rewriting ??? tree automata ??? rewriting strategies ??? rewriting-based calculi and explicit substitution 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 langages 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 in logic, mathematics, physics, and biology ??? 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, hybrid, probabilistic, and cyber-physical systems ??? specification and verification of critical systems ??? applications to model-based software engineering ??? applications to engineering and planning. INVITED SPEAKERS (to be defined) SUBMISSION The final program of the workshop will include regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress presentations. The program will also contain invited talks, invited papers, and tutorials to be determined by the program committee. 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, emphasize 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. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla2018 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 2018. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ??? Kyungmin Bae, SRI International, USA ??? Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy ??? Stefan Ciobaca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania ??? Francisco Dur?n, Universidad de M?laga, Spain ??? Santiago Escobar, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain ??? Maribel Fern?ndez, King?s College London, UK ??? 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, R0mania ??? Salvador Lucas, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain ??? Narciso Mart?-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain ??? 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 ??? Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA-Lorraine Nancy, France ??? Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA ??? Vlad Rusu, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe, France? (chair) ??? 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 ? Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr or visit the workshop's web page ? https://project.inria.fr/wrla18/ From raja at tifr.res.in Tue Sep 26 09:49:38 2017 From: raja at tifr.res.in (N. Raja) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:19:38 +0530 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: UNIVERSAL LOGIC Vichy, 2018 DEADLINE EXTENSION: OCT 5, 2017 Message-ID: The 6th WORLD CONGRESS ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC will take place in Vichy, France, June 21-26, 2018 after previous editions in Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013 and Istanbul 2015: http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 Extended deadline to submit an abstract is October 5, 2017 You can either submit an abstract to the general organization at unilog2018 at yandex.com or to the organizers of a specific workshop, see details in the website. There will be about 20 workshops within UNILOG'2018: - Proof Theory - Model Theory - The Logic of Social Practices - Around Peirce - Logical Geometry - Logic and Music - Logical Correctness - Reflections on Paraconsistency - Naming Logic(s) II - The Lvov-Warsaw School: Past, Present and Future - Logics and Metalogics - Categories and Logics - Hintikka?s Logical Thought - Homo Logicus III - Practices of Writing and Reading in Logic - Logic, Probability and their Generalizations - Logic for Children - Logic for Dynamic Real-World Information UNILOG is a logic event in a broad sense. It gathers people from many horizons (philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, computer science, semiotics, cognitive science ...) and the idea is to promote interaction between all these people. For this edition there will be the award of Logic Prizes from more than 10 countries: http://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-world Before the congress, June 16-20, 2018, there will be a school with 30 tutorials. Vichy is a charming relaxing thermal city at the middle of France, developed by Napoleon III in the second half of the 19th century, who in particular created beautiful parks with species of trees from all over the world. Vichy, in the Duchy of Bourbon, a region full of castles, is a small city, where it is possible to go everywhere just by walking. The event will take place at the university campus nearby the Celestins spring, the banks of the Allier river (where it is possible to swim) and the city center. 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Verified Root-Balanced Trees - Daisuke Kimura and Makoto Tatsuta. Decision Procedure for Entailment of Symbolic Heaps with Arrays - Ian J. Hayes, Xi Wu and Larissa Meinicke. Capabilities for Java: Secure Access to Resources - Yoonseok Ko, Xavier Rival and Sukyoung Ryu. Weakly Sensitive Analysis for Unbounded Iteration over JavaScript Objects - Qinxiang Cao, Santiago Cuellar and Andrew Appel. Putting order to the separation logic jungle - Oleg Kiselyov and Tatsuya Katsushima. Sound and Efficient Language-Integrated Query: Maintaining the ORDER - Neline van Ginkel, Raoul Strackx and Frank Piessens. Automatically generating secure wrappers for SGX enclaves from separation logic specifications - Bob Reynders and Dominique Devriese. Efficient Functional Reactive Programming through Incremental Behaviors - Adrien Pommellet and Tayssir Touili. Static Analysis of Multithreaded Recursive Programs Communicating via Rendez-vous - Ximeng Li, Heiko Mantel and Markus Tasch. Taming Message-passing Communication in Compositional Reasoning about Confidentiality - Cristina Matache, Victor B. F. Gomes and Dominic Mulligan. Programming and proving with classical types - Jieung Kim, Vilhelm Sj?berg, Zhong Shao and Ronghui Gu. Safety and Liveness of MCS Lock?Layer by Layer - Shaobo He and Zvonimir Rakamaric. Counterexample-Guided Bit-Precision Selection - Niccol? Veltri and Tarmo Uustalu. Partiality and container monads - Alejandro D?az-Caro. A lambda calculus for density matrices wth classical and probabilistic controls - Martin Sulzmann and Peter Thiemann. A Computational Interpretation of Context-Free Expressions - Daan Leijen. Implementing Algebraic Effects in C (or ?Monads for Free in C?) - Yongzhe Zhang, Hsiang-Shang Ko and Zhenjiang Hu. Palgol: A High-Level DSL for Vertex-Centric Graph Processing with Remote Data Access - Takamasa Okudono, Yuki Nishida, Kensuke Kojima, Kohei Suenaga, Kengo Kido and Ichiro Hasuo. Sharper and Simpler Nonlinear Interpolants for Program Verification - Hirofumi Nakamura, Kensuke Kojima, Kohei Suenaga and Atsushi Igarashi. A Nonstandard Functional Programming Language - Beniamino Accattoli and Bruno Barras. The Negligible and Yet Subtle Cost of Pattern Matching - Manjeet Dahiya and Sorav Bansal. Black-box equivalence checking across compiler optimizations - Aziem Chawdhary and Andy King. Compact Difference Bound Matrices - Serdar Erbatur, Martin Hofmann and Eugen Zalinescu. Enforcing Programming Guidelines with Region~Types and Effects ## Other events ### Posters and SRC https://www-aplas.github.io/posters.html ### APLAS NIER workshop https://www-aplas.github.io/workshop.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From pepm.workshop at gmail.com Thu Sep 28 00:18:48 2017 From: pepm.workshop at gmail.com (PEPM Workshop) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:18:48 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2018 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: PEPM 2018 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS =============================== The submission site is now open: https://pepm18.hotcrp.com Only one week until the paper submission deadline (6th October AoE)! Highlights ---------- PEPM 2018 welcomes submissions on * semantics based and machine-learning based program synthesis and program optimisation, and * modelling, analysis, and transformation techniques for distributed and concurrent protocols and programs, such as session types, linear types, and contract specifications, in addition to traditional PEPM topics. Do submit a short paper if you want to get feedback for your work in progress! If requested, short papers can be left out of the proceedings so that the results can be published elsewhere. New in this call ---------------- Invited talks by Alex Aiken, Conal Elliott, and Jan Midtgaard. Short papers should include the words ?short paper? somewhere in their title, and will be evaluated primarily on the basis of their ideas rather than finished execution. -- CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on PARTIAL EVALUATION AND PROGRAM MANIPULATION (PEPM) 2018 =============================================================================== * Website : http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/PEPM-2018 * Time : 8th ? 9th January 2018 * Place : Los Angeles, CA, US (co-located with POPL 2018) The ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM), which has a history going back to 1991 and has co-located with POPL every year since 2006, originates in the discoveries of practically useful automated techniques for evaluating programs with only partial input. Over the years, the scope of PEPM has expanded to include a variety of research areas centred around the theme of semantics-based program manipulation ? the systematic exploitation of treating programs not only as subject to black-box execution, but also as data structures that can be generated, analysed, and transformed while establishing or maintaining important semantic properties. Scope ----- In addition to the traditional PEPM topics (see below), PEPM 2018 welcomes submissions in new domains, in particular: * Semantics based and machine-learning based program synthesis and program optimisation. * Modelling, analysis, and transformation techniques for distributed and concurrent protocols and programs, such as session types, linear types, and contract specifications. More generally, topics of interest for PEPM 2018 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. * 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. * 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. * 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, embedded and resource-limited computation, and security. This list of categories is not exhaustive, and we encourage submissions describing new theories and applications related to semantics-based program manipulation in general. If you have a question as to whether a potential submission is within the scope of the workshop, please contact the programme co-chairs, Fritz Henglein (http://www.diku.dk/~henglein/) and Josh Ko (https://josh-hs-ko.github.io). Submission categories and guidelines ------------------------------------ Two kinds of submissions will be accepted: Regular Research Papers and Short Papers. * Regular Research Papers should describe new results, and will be judged on originality, correctness, significance, and clarity. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages (excluding bibliography). * Short Papers may include tool demonstrations and presentations of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting academic, industrial, and open-source applications that are new or unfamiliar; they will be evaluated primarily on the basis of their ideas rather than finished execution. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages (excluding bibliography), and should include the words ?short paper? somewhere in their title. Both kinds of submissions should be typeset using the two-column ?sigplan? sub-format of the new ?acmart? format available at: http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ and submitted electronically via HotCRP: https://pepm18.hotcrp.com/ PEPM 2018 will employ lightweight double-blind reviewing according to the rules of POPL 2018. Quoting from POPL 2018?s call for papers: ?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 judgment 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. In particular, 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.? See POPL 2018?s Submission and Reviewing FAQ page for more information: http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2018-papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ Submissions are welcome from PC members (except the two co-chairs) provided that there are non-PC co-authors. Accepted papers will appear in formal proceedings published by ACM, and be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of short papers, however, can ask for their papers to be left out of the formal proceedings. 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. 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 programme, see its web page. Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline : Friday 6th October 2017 (AoE) (firm) * Author notification : Saturday 4th November 2017 * Workshop : Monday 8th ? Tuesday 9th January 2018 The proceedings will be published 2 weeks pre-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.) Best paper award ---------------- PEPM 2018 continues the tradition of a Best Paper award. The winner will be announced at the workshop. Invited speakers ---------------- Alex Aiken (Stanford University) Conal Elliott (Target) Jan Midtgaard (University of Southern Denmark) Programme committee ------------------- Nada Amin (EPFL) Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo) Ezgi ?i?ek (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) Olivier Danvy (Yale-NUS College) Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) Simon Gay (University of Glasgow) Andy Gill (X, the Moonshot Factory) Fritz Henglein (co-chair) (University of Copenhagen) Anastasia Izmaylova (IMC Financial Markets) Johan Jeuring (Utrecht University) Gabriele Keller (University of New South Wales) Oleg Kiselyov (Tohoku University) Hsiang-Shang Ko (co-chair) (National Institute of Informatics) Ralf L?mmel (University of Koblenz-Landau) Julia Lawall (Inria) Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University) Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research India) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University) Thomas Reps (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sergei Romanenko (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics) Tiark Rompf (Purdue University) Wolfram Schulte (Facebook) Peter Sestoft (IT University of Copenhagen) Harald S?ndergaard (University of Melbourne) Kohei Suenaga (Kyoto University) Martin Vechev (ETH Zurich) Marcos Viera (University of the Republic) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London) From eva at mpi-sws.org Thu Sep 28 10:01:12 2017 From: eva at mpi-sws.org (Eva Darulova) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:01:12 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track openings at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) Message-ID: <59CD00A8.10300@mpi-sws.org> [Although the below post focuses on systems, strong candidates from the programming languages and verification area will also be considered.] Applications are invited for faculty positions at all career stages in computer science, with a particular emphasis on systems (broadly construed). We expect multiple positions to be filled in systems, but exceptional candidates in other areas of computer science are also strongly encouraged to apply. A doctoral degree in computer science or related areas and an outstanding research record (commensurate for the applicant's career stage) are required. Successful candidates are expected to build a team and pursue a highly visible research agenda, both independently and in collaboration with other groups. MPI-SWS is part of a network of over 80 Max Planck Institutes, Germany's premier basic-research organisations. MPIs have an established record of world-class, foundational research in the sciences, technology, and the humanities. The institute offers a unique environment that combines the best aspects of a university department and a research laboratory: Faculty enjoy full academic freedom, lead a team of doctoral students and post-docs, and have the opportunity to teach university courses; at the same time, they enjoy ongoing institutional funding in addition to third-party funds, a technical infrastructure unrivaled for an academic institution, as well as internationally competitive compensation. The institute is located in the German cities of Saarbruecken and Kaiserslautern, in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg. We maintain an international and diverse work environment and seek applications from outstanding researchers worldwide. The working language is English; knowledge of the German language is not required for a successful career at the institute. Qualified candidates should apply on our application website (apply.mpi-sws.org). To receive full consideration, applications should be received by December 1st, 2017. The institute is committed to increasing the representation of minorities, women, and individuals with physical disabilities. We particularly encourage such individuals to apply. The initial tenure-track appointment is for five years; it can be extended to seven years based on a midterm evaluation in the fourth year. A permanent contract can be awarded upon a successful tenure evaluation in the sixth year. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rk1424 at hunter.cuny.edu Thu Sep 28 16:37:50 2017 From: rk1424 at hunter.cuny.edu (Raffi T Khatchadourian) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:37:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Studentship in Software Engineering/Programming Languages in New York City Message-ID: <1506631070.7497.103.camel@hunter.cuny.edu> Graduate (PhD) Research Assistant Position in Programming Languages and Software Engineering ============================================================================================ Overview -------- I am currently seeking a graduate student interested in programming languages and software engineering research to commence at the Fall 2018 semester. Potential research topics include (static/dynamic) program analysis and/or transformation (e.g., refactoring) with a focus on helping to maintain and/or evolve large and complex existing software systems. Potential topics also include automated bug finding approaches and software security w.r.t. software evolution and/or component composition. The successful candidate will be expected to work on projects that normally yield open source developer tool research prototypes, typically plug-ins to popular IDEs, build systems, or static analyzers. More information can be found [on the main supervisor's web page](http://www.cs.hunter.cu ny.edu/~Raffi.Khatchadourian99). Of particular interest are students interested in applying to the City University of New York - CUNY's Graduate Center Ph.D. program in Computer Science concurrently with the research assistantship. Please see below for additional details on applying.? Topics of Interest ------------------ -???Static code analysis -???Dynamic code analysis -???Program transformation -???Refactoring -???Software evolution and software security Keywords -------- programming languages, software engineering, software evolution, refactoring, static analysis, dynamic analysis, IDEs, developer tools, software evolution, software security, software composition Location -------- The graduate student will have a shared lab space with an available personal computer at the [Computer Science Department](http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/csci), [Hunter College](http://hunter.cuny.edu), [City University of New York](http://cuny.edu), New York, NY, USA. The Ph.D. program mentioned earlier is part of the [Computer Science Department](http://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Computer-Science), [The Graduate Center](http://gc.cuny.edu), [City University of New York](http://cuny.edu). Funding ------- Successful candidates will receive a stipend of $25K US/year, which may include part-time teaching obligations. Funding will be renewable annually based on performance. Funding is available for up to two years with additional funding beyond the initial two years based on future availability. Successful candidates will also be encouraged to apply for additional internal and/or external funding when appropriate. Start Date ---------- For students applying to the City University of New York - CUNY's Graduate Center Ph.D. program in Computer Science concurrently with the research assistantship, the Graduate Center's semester start date is August 2018. The research assistantship may start earlier depending on the successful applicant's circumstances. Successful applicants are encouraged to discuss their particular circumstances with the main supervisor. Contact ------- [Dr. Raffi Khatchadourian](mailto:raffi.khatchadourian at hunter.cuny.edu), main supervisor. More info at [this web page](http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~Raffi.Khatc hadourian99). Expected Skills and Qualifications ---------------------------------- Successful candidates will have earned either a BS or MSc degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field. A successful candidate will have a strong practical and theoretical background in Object-Oriented programming language and (front-end) compilers, data structures, algorithms, software design patterns, software testing, and a variety of software engineering tools, e.g., IDEs, build systems, and version control. A successful candidate will also have a strong foundation in mathematical logic and set theory. Candidates with industrial experience are welcome. Successful candidates will possess a strong set of software engineering skills. Successful candidates will also have high-quality analytical skills. Experience in Eclipse plug-in development, relational databases, software security, software composition techniques, and/or data mining is a plus. Applying -------- Please complete [the application form](http://wp.me/p8fqJa-ix#gf_7). Please note that partial form submissions can be saved for later completion. For students interested in applying to the City University of New York - CUNY's Graduate Center Ph.D. program in Computer Science concurrently with the research assistantship, information and requirements regarding admission are available [here](http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective-Current-Students/Prospective- Students/Admissions). The Computer Science program requirements are listed [here](http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers- Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Computer-Science/Program). Note that the college program requirements include a GRE exam. International students are encouraged to visit [this web page](http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective-Current-Students/Prospective-Students/International-Students-(Prospective)) for more information regarding international requirements. -- Raffi Khatchadourian Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Hunter College Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate School and University Center's PhD Program in Computer Science City University of New York 695 Park Avenue, Room HN 1090H New York, NY 10065 P: (212) 650-3988 F: (212) 772-5219 raffi.khatchadourian at hunter.cuny.edu http://cuny.is/khatchad From gtan at cse.psu.edu Thu Sep 28 16:50:12 2017 From: gtan at cse.psu.edu (Gang Gary Tan) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:50:12 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at the Pennsylvania State University Message-ID: <7cbfe68c-5b0b-c4de-0526-34a06c2e3aed@cse.psu.edu> Postdoc position at Penn State Computer Science and Engineering Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in the Security of Software (SOS) Lab at Penn State (http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gxt29/sos/). The SOS Lab focuses on methodologies that help create secure software systems. We are seeking a highly qualified individual to work in the area of software security, including binary code analysis and hardening as well as compiler-based software security. An applicant should possess a doctoral degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering and have strong background in computer security, programming languages, or formal methods. The candidate must have an excellent track record of original research and the ability to work as part of a team. The postdoc will be provided with competitive salary and employment benefits. The initial appointment will be for one year, with an option to renew for a second year. Inquiries about the position should be directed to Dr. Gang Tan (gtan at cse.psu.edu). Applicants should send a resume with at least two names of references. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. Penn State is a major research university ranked 3rd in U.S. in industry-sponsored research. The CSE department is ranked 8th in U.S. in research expenditures and has strong research programs in security. The U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks Penn State's College of Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs among the top in the nation. -- Gang (Gary) Tan Associate Professor, CSE Department Penn State University W358 Westgate Building http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gxt29/ Tel: 814-8657364, Fax: 814-8653176 From martin.sulzmann at gmail.com Fri Sep 29 07:22:22 2017 From: martin.sulzmann at gmail.com (Martin Sulzmann) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:22:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS2018: Second CFP Message-ID: SECOND Call For Papers FLOPS 2018: 14th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming In-Cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN 9-11 May, 2018, Nagoya, Japan http://www.sqlab.jp/FLOPS2018/ 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. Proceedings 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 13 November 2017 (any time zone): Abstract Submission 20 November 2017 (any time zone): Submission deadline 15 January 2018: Author notification 9-11 May 2018: FLOPS Symposium Invited Talks To be announced 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=flops2018 Program Committee Andreas Rossberg Google, Germany Atsushi Ohori Tohoku University, Japan Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira The University of Hong Kong, China Carsten Fuhs Birkbeck, University of London, UK Chung-chieh Shan Indiana University, USA Didier Remy INRIA, France Harald S?ndergaard The University of Melbourne, Australia Jacques Garrigue Nagoya University, Japan Jan Midtgaard University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Joachim Breitner University of Pennsylvania, USA John Gallagher Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (co-chair) Jorge A Navas SRI International, USA Kazunori Ueda Waseda University, Japan Kenny Zhuo Ming Lu School of Information Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Mar?a Alpuente Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Mar?a Garcia De La Banda Monash University, Australia Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany (co-chair) Meng Wang University of Kent, UK Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Michael Leuschel University of D?sseldorf, Germany Naoki Kobayashi University of Tokyo, Japan Nikolaj Bj?rner Microsoft Research, USA Robert Gl?ck University of Copenhagen, Denmark Samir Genaim Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Siau Cheng Khoo National University of Singapore, Singapore Organizers Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (co-chair) John Gallagher Roskilde University and IMDEA Software Institute (co-chair) Makoto Tatsuta National Institute of Informatics, Japan (General Chair) Koji Nakazawa Nagoya University, Japan (Local Chair) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca Fri Sep 29 10:15:33 2017 From: afelty at eecs.uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:15:33 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] open position in CS at uOttawa In-Reply-To: <16ff19bbfdb64c69b7a6862f80669509@uottawa.ca> References: <16ff19bbfdb64c69b7a6862f80669509@uottawa.ca> Message-ID: This position is for any area of computer science.? Applications from the types and logic community welcome. -------------------------------------------------------- The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. Exceptional candidates may be considered at the rank of Full Professor. We are interested in candidates who conduct research in all areas of Computer Science. *Title of the position:***Assistant or Associate Professor *Duties:***?The functions of a member of the academic staff include, in varying proportions: a) teaching activities; b) scholarly activities revealed by research, or professional work; c) academic service activities, d) supervision of graduate students. Current research strengths in Computer Science at the School of EECS include algorithms, distributed computing and systems, multimedia and interactive virtual environments, information management and mining, as well as text analysis and machine learning. Further information may be viewed on our web site, located athttp://engineering.uottawa.ca/eecs/ *Terms:***Tenure Track position *Wage:***Commensurate to rank and experience.? The salary scale for an Assistant Professor starts at $81,318 and for an Associate Professor at $89,827 *Benefits package:*The University of Ottawa provides a complete compensation package which includes long term disability, basic group life insurance, supplementary health insurance, University of Ottawa Pension Plan and optional life insurance. *Location of work: ***School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 *Contact information:***Dr. Claude D?Amours, EECS Director, Faculty of Engineering, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5. cdamours at uottawa.ca Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 6208, fax: 613-562-5664 ?*Education:***Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent.? Postdoctoral experience in Computer Science is considered an asset. ?*Work experience:***?The successful candidates should possess a strong research background and a strong commitment to excellence both in teaching and research. The candidates will be expected to initiate and maintain an innovative, externally funded research program and to teach Computer Science courses, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Because the University of Ottawa is Canada?s premier bilingual university, preference will be given to candidates who are bilingual (French/English) and who are able to teach in both languages. Passive knowledge of the other official language in Canada is a requirement for tenure. *Appointment date:? As of July 1, 2018* *Application deadline:***Applications received prior to November 30, 2017 will be given first consideration.? Applications received after that date will be considered until the position is filled. Please send your curriculum vitae, a detailed research proposal, a description of teaching interests and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of at least three (3) referees to: Dr. Claude D?Amours, Director School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Ottawa cdamours at uottawa.ca /All qualified candidates are invited to apply; however, preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. The University of Ottawa is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any particular adaptive measures you might require by contacting the Office of the Associate Vice-President, Faculty Affairs at 613-562-5958. Any information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence./ /The University of Ottawa is proud of its 160-year tradition of bilingualism. Through its Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute, the University provides training to staff members and to their spouses in their second official language./ L'?cole de science informatique et de g?nie ?lectrique ? l?Universit? d?Ottawa sollicite des candidatures pour pourvoir un poste de professeur menant ? la permanence au rang d?adjoint ou agr?g?. Les candidats peuvent ?tre consid?r?s au rang de professeur titulaire. Nous sommes particuli?rement int?ress?s par des candidats qui font de la recherche dans tous les domaines informatique. *Titre du poste :*Professeur adjoint ou agr?g? *T?ches?:***Les fonctions d?un membre du personnel enseignant incluent, dans des proportions diverses?: a) des activit?s d?enseignement?; b) des activit?s savantes se manifestant par la recherche et des activit?s professionnelles?; c) des activit?s reli?es au service ? la communaut? universitaire?; d) la supervision d??tudiants gradu?s. Les forces actuelles en recherche informatique ? l??cole de SIGE comprennent l?algorithmique, l?informatique et les syst?mes distribu?s, le multim?dia et les environnements virtuels interactifs, la gestion et le forage de l?information, ainsi que l?analyse de texte et l?apprentissage automatis?. Des informations compl?mentaires peuvent ?tre consult?es sur notre site Web, ?http://genie.uottawa.ca/sige/ *Terme?:***Poste menant vers la permanence *Salaire?:***D?termin?e selon les qualifications et l?exp?rience.? L??chelle salariale pour un professeur adjoint d?bute ? 81,318$ et pour un professeur agr?g? ? 89,827$ *Avantages sociaux?:***L?Universit? d?Ottawa fournit un r?gime complet d?avantages sociaux qui incluent un r?gime d?invalidit??? long terme, une assurance-maladie compl?te, un r?gime optionnel suppl?mentaire, et un plan de retraite avantageux. *Emplacement*?: ?cole de science informatique et de g?nie ?lectrique (?SIGE), Universit? d?Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 *Personne contact?:***Dr. Claude D?Amours, Directeur ? l??SIGE, Facult? de g?nie, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5. cdamours at uottawa.ca .? T?l?phone?: 613-562-5800, ext. 6208, T?l?copieur?: 613-562-5664 ?*Education?:***Ph.D. en informatique ou ?quivalent. L?exp?rience postdoctorale en informatique est consid?r?e comme un atout. ?*Exp?rience de travail?:***Les candidats retenus doivent avoir un solide dossier de recherche et un engagement envers l?excellence en enseignement et en recherche. Les candidats doivent s?attendre ? d?velopper et maintenir un programme de recherche innovateur et financ? ? l?externe, de m?me qu?? enseigner des cours d?informatique de 1er, 2e et 3e cycles. Comme l?Universit? d?Ottawa est l?universit? bilingue la plus importante du Canada, la pr?f?rence sera accord?e aux candidats qui sont bilingues (fran?ais/anglais) et qui sont en mesure d?enseigner dans les deux langues. La permanence est conditionnelle ? la connaissance passive de l?autre langue officielle du Canada. *Entr?e en fonction?:? A compter du 1^er ****juillet 2018* *Date limite de r?ception des applications*: Les candidatures re?ues avant le 30 novembre 2017 seront consid?r?es en priorit?.? Les candidatures re?ues apr?s cette date seront accept?es jusqu?? ce que le poste soit combl?. Veuillez faire parvenir votre curriculum vit?, une proposition de recherche d?taill?e, la description de vos int?r?ts en enseignement et les noms, adresses, num?ros de t?l?phone et courriels d?au moins trois (3) r?pondants ? : Dr. Claude D?Amours, directeur ?cole de science informatique et de g?nie ?lectrique Universit? d?Ottawa cdamours at uOttawa.ca /Toutes les personnes qualifi?es sont invit?es ? postuler; la priorit? sera toutefois accord?e aux citoyens canadiens et aux r?sidents permanents. L?Universit? d?Ottawa souscrit ? l??quit? en mati?re d?emploi. Nous encourageons fortement les femmes, les Autochtones, les personnes handicap?es et les membres des minorit?s visibles ? poser leur candidature. Si vous ?tes invit? ? poursuivre les ?tapes du processus de s?lection, veuillez nous aviser de tout besoin n?cessitant des mesures d?adaptations particuli?res en communiquant avec le Vice-rectorat associ? aux affaires?professorales au 613-562-5958.? Les renseignements communiqu?s seront trait?s avec respect et confidentialit?./ /L?Universit? d?Ottawa est fi?re de sa tradition de bilinguisme vieille de plus de 160 ans. Par l?entremise de son Institut des langues officielles et du bilinguisme, l?Universit? offre aux membres de son personnel, de m?me qu?? leur conjoint ou conjointe, les moyens de devenir bilingue./ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jakub.zalewski at ed.ac.uk Sun Oct 1 15:45:11 2017 From: jakub.zalewski at ed.ac.uk (Jakub Zalewski) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 21:45:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?Q?POPL=E2=80=9918_?=First Call for Student Volunteers Message-ID: <489381a5-744c-4063-b6cf-a00b2da6b676@Spark> # POPL'18 FIRST CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS POPL is a leading forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and programming systems, from theoretical to experimental aspect. In order to smoothly run the conference and associated workshops and tutorials, we need student volunteers to help out on the practical aspect of the organization. All the events associated with POPL'18 will take place from Mon 8 to Sat 13 January 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA. The student volunteer program is a chance for students from around the world to participate in the conferences whilst assisting us in preparing and running the events. In return, volunteers are granted free registration to the conferences, tutorials, workshops, and panel, and a ticket for the banquet. As a POPL 2018 Student Volunteer, you will interact closely with researchers, academics and practitioners from various disciplines and meet other students from around the world. Job assignments for student volunteers include but are not restricted to: assisting with technical sessions, workshops, tutorials and panels, checking badges at doors, operating the information desk, providing information about the conference to attendees, helping with traffic flow, and general assistance to keep the conferences running smoothly. To be considered as a Student Volunteer for POPL, please fill in the [application form](https://goo.gl/forms/O4QnEvxAgHap0jYY2). Further Student information can be found [here](https://popl18.sigplan.org/attending/students). 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URL: From stephane.galland at utbm.fr Mon Oct 2 02:19:21 2017 From: stephane.galland at utbm.fr (stephane.galland at utbm.fr) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 02:19:21 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP Second International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL Message-ID: Second International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-18) http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:SARL18 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#workshop_approved The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2018) http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/ May 08-11, 2018 Porto, Portugal * Important Dates * =================== - Submission deadline: December 15, 2017 - Notification: February 5, 2018 - Final date for camera-ready copy: March 5, 2018 - Workshop: May 8-10, 2018 Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. SARL-18 provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. SARL-18 borns with the SARL agent programming language, but the scientific results presented in SARL-18 are not restricted to SARL; other languages and agent platforms may be concerned by the proposed papers. SARL aims at providing the fundamental abstractions for dealing with concurrency, distribution, interaction, decentralization, reactivity, autonomy and dynamic reconfiguration. These high-level features are now considered as the major requirements for an easy and practical implementation of modern complex software applications. We are convinced that the agent-oriented paradigm holds the keys to effectively meet this challenge. Considering the variety of existing approaches and meta-models in the field of agent-oriented engineering and more generally multi-agent systems, our approach remains as generic as possible and highly extensible to easily integrate new concepts and features. The goal of SARL-18 is to provides a place where the different points of view on the modeling and the simulation with agent platforms and agent programming languages may be discussed. Tutorial sessions for introducing and explaining the modeling and implementation of multiagent systems with SARL will be organized during the workshop. The authors may contribute to the SARL-18 workshop by providing a paper or a tutorial. For submitting a tutorial, the authors must send a summary of the tutorial on 4 to 6 pages. SARL-18 will be held in Porto, Portugal (08-11 May 2018) in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2018). Topics ====== The main topics of the SARL-18 workshop are (but not restricted to): - Methods and Models: - Agent based Modeling and Simulation - Agent programming language - Agent based Simulation - Agent oriented analysis and design methods - Ontologies and theories about large urban systems - Formal models of agent-based simulation - Organizational models - Applications: - Traffic/Transport - Crowds - Smard grids and smart buildings - Land-Use - Energy ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE ====================== St?phane GALLAND , Burgondy Franche-Comte University, France Nicolas GAUD , Burgondy Franche-Comte University, France Sebastian RODRIGUEZ , Universidad Technologica National, Argentina From Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Oct 2 07:57:53 2017 From: Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk (Graham Hutton) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 11:57:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts Message-ID: <2F7334C7-09BD-4288-9650-641A14D13844@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, open access, deadline 31st October 2017. Please share! Best wishes, Graham ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 31st October 2017 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 2017. 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 stephane.galland at utbm.fr Mon Oct 2 02:45:01 2017 From: stephane.galland at utbm.fr (stephane.galland at utbm.fr) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 02:45:01 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP Second Tutorial on the SARL Agent Programming Language Message-ID: Second Tutorial on the SARL Agent Programming Language http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:TutorialSARL18 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#tutorial The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2018) http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/ May 08-11, 2018 Porto, Portugal Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. SARL aims at providing the fundamental abstractions for dealing with concurrency, distribution, interaction, decentralization, reactivity, autonomy and dynamic reconfiguration. These high-level features are now considered as the major requirements for an easy and practical implementation of modern complex software applications. We are convinced that the agent-oriented paradigm holds the keys to effectively meet this challenge. Considering the variety of existing approaches and meta-models in the field of agent-oriented engineering and more generally multi-agent systems, our approach remains as generic as possible and highly extensible to easily integrate new concepts and features. The SARL Tutorial 2018 provides introduction and explanation the modeling and implementation of multiagent systems with the SARL agent programming language. The tutorial session will be held in Porto, Portugal (08-11 May 2018) during the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2018). The exact date will be provided into the ANT-28 program. ==== Tutorial Outline ==== The following points will be treated duing the tutorial. - Genesis of SARL. - Basic Concepts (Agent, Event, Space, Behavior) with simple examples. - Using Agent Communication Language with SARL - Doing simulation with SARL: traffic and drone simulation examples. - Major installation guidelines The duration of the tutorial is 1:30. Online resources: http://www.sarl.io ==== Tutorial Chairs ==== St?phane GALLAND , Burgundy Franche-Comte University, France Nicolas GAUD , Burgundy Franche-Comte University, France Sebastian RODRIGUEZ , Universidad Technologica National, Argentina From andersmortberg at gmail.com Wed Oct 4 09:28:53 2017 From: andersmortberg at gmail.com (Anders Mortberg) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 15:28:53 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open call for papers: Special Issue on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations Message-ID: Open call for papers for a Special Issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science in association with the workshops on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations HoTT/UF 2017-2018 https://hott-uf.github.io/special-issue-17-18/ BACKGROUND Homotopy Type Theory is a young research area combining ideas from several established fields: the use of dependent type theory as a foundation for mathematics, inspired by ideas and tools from abstract homotopy theory and higher category theory. Univalent Foundations are foundations of mathematics based on the homotopical interpretation of type theory. These ideas have led to many interesting developments, from the study of syntax and semantics of type theories to practical formalizations in proof assistants based on univalent type theory. The HoTT/UF workshops, co-located with FSCD since 2016, started out as a forum for formalization of mathematics in a univalent setting. From the 2017 edition and onwards, its scope has been broadened to encompass all aspects of Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations, in particular (but not exclusively): - semantics of (univalent) type theory, - computational content of the univalence axiom, - syntax and semantics of higher inductive types, - synthetic homotopy theory, and - formalization of mathematics and computer science in Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations. SPECIAL ISSUE We are soliciting submissions for a Special Issue of the journal *Mathematical Structures in Computer Science* (Cambridge University Press) edited in association with the 2017 and 2018 editions of the HoTT/UF workshop. Submission is open to everyone and not limited to workshop participants. Submission is open from now and contributions will be reviewed on a *rolling basis*, as soon as they are received. Accepted papers will be published on the MSCS website via 'FirstView' and will be citeable through a DOI shortly after acceptance - before the completion of the whole journal issue (expected end of 2019). Submission will be closed on December 31, 2018. For details and submission instructions see: https://hott-uf.github.io/special-issue-17-18/ GUEST EDITORS * Benedikt Ahrens * Simon Huber * Anders M?rtberg From i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk Wed Oct 4 09:49:59 2017 From: i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk (Sergey, Ilya) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 13:49:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CoqPL 2018: Call for Presentations Message-ID: ==================================================================== CoqPL 2018 Coq for Programming Languages -- A Coq users and developers meeting 13 January 2018, co-located with POPL (as usual) Los Angeles, California, United States CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/CoqPL-2018 ==================================================================== Workshop Overview ----------------- The series of CoqPL workshops provide 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 favourite proof assistant. Topics in scope include but are no limited to: * General purpose libraries and tactic language extensions; * Domain-specific libraries for programming language formalization and verification; * IDEs, profilers, tracers, debuggers, and testing tools; * Reports on ongoing proof efforts conducted via (or in the context of) the Coq proof assistant; * Experience reports from Coq usage in educational or industrial contexts. 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. Workshop Format --------------- The workshop format will be driven by members of the Coq 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 : Monday, October, 16th, 2017 * Author Notification : Tuesday, November 6th, 2017 * Workshop : Saturday, January 13rd, 2018 Submissions should be extended abstracts of 1-2 pages in portable document format (PDF). 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The selected candidates will work with Dr. Hillel Kugler with opportunities to collaborate with several leading experimental groups in Europe that will be studying the development and design of the underlying methods and technology, as part of a 5-year European Project Bio4Comp (http://bio4comp.org) For more details please see http://www.eng.biu.ac.il/hillelk/ and contact Hillel Kugler at hillelk at biu.ac.il with a full CV and names of 2-3 contacts for recommendation letters. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Wed Oct 4 16:11:37 2017 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 23:11:37 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2018 final joint call for papers Message-ID: <20171004231137.7fccf7e2@cs.ioc.ee> NEW! The proceedings of ETAPS 2018 will appear in gold open access in LNCS/ARCoSS (with no added cost for authors specifically). As an exception for this year only, the important dates of POST differ from those of the other member conferences! POST solicits regular research papers, systematization of knowledge papers, position papers and tool demonstration papers. ****************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS 21st European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-21 April 2018 http://www.etaps.org/2018 ****************************************************************** -- 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 2018 is the twenty-first event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (16-20 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University, USA) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, UK, and Andy Sch?rr, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Christel Baier, Technische Univ. Dresden, Germany, and Ugo Dal Lago, Universit? di Bologna, Italy) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Ralf K?sters, University of Stuttgart, Germany) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilian-Univ. M?nchen, Germany, and Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands) TACAS '18 hosts the 7th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speaker: Martin Abadi (Google Research & University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Pamela Zave (AT&T Labs, USA) * ESOP invited speaker: Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany) * POST invited speaker: Benjamin C. Pierce (University of Pennsylvania, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES (all member conferences except POST) * Abstracts due: 13 October 2017 23:59 AoE * Papers due: 20 October 2017 23:59 AoE * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS only): 6-8 December 2017 * Notification: 22 December 2017 * Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 IMPORTANT DATES for POST * Abstracts due: 22 November 2017 23:59 AoE * Papers due: 24 November 2017 23:59 AoE * Rebuttal: 12-16 January 2018 * Notification: 25 January 2018 * Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 -- 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. FASE, POST and TACAS have multiple types of research papers, see below. 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 (this does not apply to abstracts). In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science 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 and POST will use a double-blind review process. The proceedings of ETAPS 2018 will be published in *gold open access*. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. 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. NB! The publisher's charges for gold open access will be paid by the conference (funded with the participation fees of all participants). There will be no added cost for authors specifically. The overall rise in participation fee levels will be small. - 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* (with the same page limit as for regular resarch papers). POST solicits also *systematization of knowledge papers* (with the same page limit as for regular research papers) and *position papers* (max 10 pp, excl 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 6 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. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (14-15 April, 21 April) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences: CMCS, CREST, DICE, FoMLAS, GALOP, HotSpot, LiVe, MARS, MeTRiD, SNR, SynCoP, VerifyThis, VPT, VSSE, WRLA. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2018 is hosted by the School of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece. -- ORGANIZERS Panagiotis Katsaros (general chair), Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angelis, Nick Bassiliades, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, George Rahonis, Ezio Bartocci, Simon Bliudze, Petros Stratis, Emmanouela Stachtiari, Kyriakos Georgiadis -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at katsaros at csd.auth.gr. From Michael.Greenberg at pomona.edu Wed Oct 4 16:57:48 2017 From: Michael.Greenberg at pomona.edu (Michael Greenberg) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 20:57:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track opening in computer science at Pomona College Message-ID: <3E64E5F2-4112-4164-A959-403CE21152FC@pomona.edu> The position is for any area in computer science; applications from the PL community are welcome. Pomona College is a liberal arts institution, a uniquely American kind of college with a low student:faculty ratio and no higher degrees (BA/BS only). ======================================================================== Tenure Track Position in Computer Science Pomona College seeks applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Computer Science, to begin on July 1, 2018. All subfields of computer science will be considered, with preference for candidates whose research complements existing strengths in the department. Candidates should have a broad background in computer science, be excellent teachers, have an active research program, and be excited about directing undergraduate research. The teaching load is the equivalent of four semester-long courses a year. Faculty are expected to teach across all levels of the curriculum. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in computer science in hand by the start date. The position is open to all areas of computer science. Pomona is a highly selective private liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 1550 students, all undergraduates, and a student/faculty ratio of eight to one. Recognized as one of the nation's premier liberal arts colleges, Pomona offers instruction in all major fields of the fine arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and is strongly committed to the value of a residential educational community. Pomona College and its Computer Science Department supports equal access to higher education and values working in a richly diverse environment. The successful candidate will have experience working with students from diverse backgrounds and a demonstrated commitment to improving higher education for underrepresented students. Pomona is the founding member of the Claremont Colleges, a unique constellation of five small undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions located in beautiful southern California near the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. Students of the Claremont Colleges can cross-register for courses at any of the colleges, and have access to a shared library system containing over 2 million volumes. Pomona students thus enjoy the advantages of personalized instruction and close faculty-student interaction in a small liberal arts college setting, combined with the intellectual and extracurricular resources typically found at much larger universities. Pomona collaborates with its counterparts at adjacent Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna Colleges. Pomona's computer science department has 7 tenured or tenure-track faculty and, because of the consortium, we are part of a larger community of almost twenty computer scientist faculty and a greater number of majors than would be found in similar liberal arts colleges. Pomona College offers support for conference travel and summer student research assistants, and it offers the opportunity for entering faculty members to apply for a fully-funded leave in their fourth year at the college. Submit application materials online at . A complete application includes a cover letter; a detailed curriculum vitae; graduate transcripts; three brief statements?one addressing teaching philosophy, one addressing scholarship, and one addressing demonstrated ability to mentor a diverse student body (see Pomona's guidance on the mentoring/diversity statement ); and three or more letters of reference, at least one of which evaluates the candidate's teaching. Complete applications received by December 1, 2017 will receive full consideration. For further information, we can be reached via email at cssearch at pomona.edu. All employees must show proof of eligibility to work in the United States. From huaming.wu at fu-berlin.de Thu Oct 5 04:28:15 2017 From: huaming.wu at fu-berlin.de (wu huaming) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 16:28:15 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM/SPEC ICPE 2018: Final Call for Contributions Message-ID: <7681F84F-C915-453A-8F14-A06AD14C42FC@fu-berlin.de> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICPE 2018 9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG Berlin, Germany April 9-13, 2018 Web: https://icpe2018.spec.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICPEconf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Research and industrial/experience abstracts: Oct 16, 2017 Research and industrial/experience papers: Oct 18, 2017 Research and industrial/experience paper notification: Dec 8, 2017 Artifact registration: Dec 15, 2017 Artifact submission: Dec 22, 2017 Artifact notification: Feb 07, 2018 Work-in-progress/vision papers: Jan 10, 2018 Work-in-progress/vision paper notification: Feb 8, 2018 Poster/demo submission: Jan 03, 2018 Poster/demo notification: Jan 26, 2018 Workshop Proposals submission: Oct 13, 2017 Workshop Proposals Notification: Oct 31, 2017 Tutorial proposals submission: Oct 18, 2017 Tutorial proposals notification: Nov 18, 2017 Dates for doctoral symposium will be announced (see also https://icpe2018.spec.org/important-dates/). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like Web-based systems, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, have increasingly distributed and dynamic system architectures that provide high flexibility, however, also increase the complexity of managing end-to-end application performance. ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security. This year's main theme is ?continuous performance assurance in agile delivery?. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Performance modeling of software * Languages and ontologies * Methods and tools * Relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes * Analytical, simulation and statistical modeling methodologies * Model validation and calibration techniques * Automatic model extraction * Performance modeling and analysis tools Performance and software development processes/paradigms * Software performance patterns and anti-patterns * Software/performance tool interoperability (models and data interchange formats) * Performance-oriented design, implementation and configuration management * Software Performance Engineering and Model-Driven Development * Gathering, interpreting and exploiting software performance annotations and data * System sizing and capacity planning techniques * (Model-driven) Performance requirements engineering * Relationship between performance and architecture * Collaboration of development and operation (DevOps) for performance * Performance and agile methods * Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Performance of microservice architectures and containers Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis * Performance measurement and monitoring techniques * Analysis of measured application performance data * Application tracing and profiling * Workload characterization techniques * Experimental design * Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning Benchmarking * Performance metrics and benchmark suites * Benchmarking methodologies * Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks * Benchmark workloads and scenarios * Use of benchmarks in industry and academia Run-time performance management * Use of models at run-time * Online performance prediction * Autonomic resource management * Utility-based optimization * Capacity management Power and performance, energy efficiency * Power consumption models and management techniques * Tradeoffs between performance and energy efficiency * Performance-driven resource and power management Performance modeling and evaluation in different environments and application domains * Web-based systems, e-business, Web services * Big data systems, deep-learning systems, and other data analytics systems * Internet of Things * Social networks * Cyber-physical systems * Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0) * Virtualization and cloud computing * Autonomous/adaptive systems * Transaction-oriented systems * Communication networks * Parallel and distributed systems * Embedded systems * Multi-core systems * Cluster and grid computing environments * High performance computing * Event-based systems * Real-time and multimedia systems * Low-latency systems * Peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems All other topics related to performance of software and systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers is solicited including: basic and applied research papers for novel scientific insights, industrial and experience papers reporting on applying performance engineering or benchmarks in practice, and work-in-progress/vision papers for ongoing innovative work. Different acceptance criteria apply based on the expected content of the individual contribution types. Authors will be requested to self-classify their papers according to topic and contribution style when submitting their papers. Submissions to all tracks need to be uploaded to ICPE's submission system and conform to the ACM submission format. For detailed submission instructions, please visit: https://icpe2018.spec.org/submissions.html. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2018 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit an artifact to the ACM/SPEC ICPE 2018 Artifact Track. The highest quality papers, judged by multiple relevant factors, will be recognized with an award. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a journal. 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 (RESEARCH PAPERS) J. Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India Alberto Avritzer, independent, USA Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India Cor-Paul Bezemer, Queen?s University, Canada Andre B. Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Lucy Cherkasova, HyTrust, USA Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy Vittoria de Nitto Person?, Universit? di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada Catalina M. Llad?, Universitat Illes Balears, Spain Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich, Switzerland Paulo R. M. Maciel, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA Jos? Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University, USA Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Juan F. Perez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Alma Riska, Network Appliances, USA Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University, UK Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China Feng Yan, University of Nevada-Reno, USA Xiaoyun Zhu, Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (INDUSTRY/EXPERIENCE PAPERS) Klaus-Dieter Lange, HPE, USA Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Tilmann Rabl, TU Berlin, Germany Matthias Scholze, QMethods, USA Rekha Singhal, TCS, India Cloyce Spradling, Oracle, USA Alexander Wert, NovaTec, Germany Boris Zibitsker, BEZNext, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Will Knottenbelt, Imperial College, UK * Katinka Wolter, FU Berlin, Germany Research Program Chairs * Andr? van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India Industry Program Chair * Heiko Koziolek, ABB, Germany Artifact Evaluation Chairs * Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany * Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Tutorials Chairs * Alma Dimnaku (Riska), Network Appliances, USA * Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy Workshops Chairs * Eva Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK * Yao-Min Chen, Oracle, USA Posters and Demos Chair * Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA Awards Chairs * Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland * John Murphy, UC Dublin, Ireland Publicity Chairs * Juan F. Perez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia * Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China Finance Chair * Matt Forshaw, Newcastle University, UK Publication Chair * Vladimir Stankovic, City University London, UK Web Site Chair * Thomas F. D?llmann, University of Stuttgart, Germany From s.singh at acm.org Thu Oct 5 13:14:51 2017 From: s.singh at acm.org (Satnam Singh) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:14:51 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Nominations for ACM SIGPLAN Awards due by 5 January 2018 Message-ID: Every year SIGPLAN seeks nominations for the following awards: * Programming Languages Achievement Award, to recognize an individual or individuals who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of programming languages. Previous winners include Simon Peyton, Luca Cardelli and Neil Jones. * Programming Languages Software Award, to recognize the development a software system that has had a significant impact on programming language research, implementations, and tools. 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The 21st edition, ETAPS 2018, will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. ============================================================================ POST 2018: 7th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust ============================================================================ Principles of Security and Trust is a broad forum related to all foundational aspects of security and trust. We seek submissions on the foundations of information security, privacy, and trust, relevant for computer science and different application disciplines. Case studies that reflect the strengths and limitations of existing foundations, methods, and their supporting tools are also welcome, as are more exploratory presentations on open questions. ------------- New This Year ------------- - The Important Dates differ from those of other ETAPS conferences. - We have a rebuttal phase. - We use a double-blind reviewing process. - We accept position papers (in addition to systematization of knowledge papers, tool papers, and regular research papers). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates (different from those of other ETAPS conferences) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts due: 22 November 2017 (two days after EuroS&P 2018 notification) Papers due: 24 November 2017 Rebuttal: 12-16 January 2018 Notification: 25 January 2018 Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 ETAPS Conference: 14-21 April 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece -------------------------- Areas of interest include: -------------------------- Access control Accountability Anonymity Authentication Availability Cloud security Confidentiality Covert channels Crypto foundations Database security Distributed systems security Security and privacy economics Cyber-physical systems security Hardware security Information flow Integrity Languages for security Malicious code Mobile security and privacy Models and policies Privacy and privacy-preserving systems Provenance Reputation and trust Resource usage Risk assessment Security architectures Security protocols Trust management Usable security and privacy Usage control Web security and privacy ----------------------- Submission instructions ----------------------- POST accepts four types of contributions: regular research papers, systemization of knowledge papers, position papers, and tool papers (see below for details). All four types of papers will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. Titles of systemization of knowledge papers, position papers, and tool papers should start with a keyword that indicates the category (?SoK?, ?Position Paper?, ?Tool Demonstration?). Submitted papers must be in English and present previously unpublished work. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere (this does not apply to abstracts). 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. A condition of acceptance is that one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and be submitted electronically in PDF through Easychair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=post2018 Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length requirements may be rejected immediately. POST will use a double-blind review process. Authors are asked to omit their names, institutions, and other directly identifying information; refer to their prior work in the third person, just as to prior work by others; and not to include acknowledgements that might identify them. ----------------------- Regular Research Papers ----------------------- POST allows for submissions of at most 20 pages (excluding a bibliography of max 2 pages). 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. ETAPS reviewers are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. ----------------------------------------- Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers ----------------------------------------- SoK evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge. Suitable papers are those that provide an important new viewpoint on established research areas, challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence, or present a comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate. Submissions should be distinguished by the prefix ?SoK:? in the title. They will be reviewed by the PC and held to the same standards as traditional research papers, except instead of emphasizing novel research contributions the emphasis will be on value to the community. The regulation for the number of pages is the same as the one for regular research papers. ------------------------- Tool Demonstration Papers ------------------------- Submissions of tool demonstration papers should consist of two parts: - The first part, at most 6 pages, should describe the tool presented and provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool (this part will be included in the proceedings). If available, the URL of the tool should be provided in the appropriate field in Easychair when submitting your paper. This field can only be seen by PC chairs, and, hence, does not have to be anonymized. Of course, authors may also include anonymized URLs directly in their submission. The title of the submission should start with the words ?Tool Demonstration:?. - 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 not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated.) --------------- Position Papers --------------- New this year, POST welcomes position papers that present a well justified stance on a fundamental but possibly controversial question. For example: ?Privacy should trump security in all cases? (or the other way around), ?Cryptocurrencies should be outlawed because... / encouraged because??, ?Why we should/should not research internet-based voting?. A position paper can also propose new directions for foundational research without having worked out all technical details. Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of stimulating insightful discussion at the conference, and technical merit. Position papers may be no longer than 10 pages (excluding a bibliography of up to 2 pages) and their titles must start with the words ?Position Paper:?. ------------------- Programme Committee ------------------- Lujo Bauer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA -- co-chair ) Ralf Kuesters (University of Stuttgart, Germany -- co-chair) Karthikeyan Bhargavan (INRIA Paris, France) Nataliia Bielova (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Stephen Chong (Harvard University, USA) Veronique Cortier (CNRS, LORIA, France) Stephanie Delaune (CNRS, IRISA, France) Cormac Flanagan (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) Riccardo Focardi (Universit? Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy) Michael Hicks (University of Maryland, USA) Anja Lehmann (IBM Research Z?rich, Switzerland) Jay Ligatti (University of South Florida, USA) Sergio Maffeis (Imperial College London, UK) Heiko Mantel (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) Catherine Meadows (NRL, USA) Frank Piessens (KU Leuven, Belgium) Tamara Rezk (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Gregor Snelting (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Cynthia Sturton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Vanessa Teague (University of Melbourne, Australia) Luca Vigano (King's College London, UK) See also http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2018/post -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Verified Root-Balanced Trees - Daisuke Kimura and Makoto Tatsuta. Decision Procedure for Entailment of Symbolic Heaps with Arrays - Ian J. Hayes, Xi Wu and Larissa Meinicke. Capabilities for Java: Secure Access to Resources - Yoonseok Ko, Xavier Rival and Sukyoung Ryu. Weakly Sensitive Analysis for Unbounded Iteration over JavaScript Objects - Qinxiang Cao, Santiago Cuellar and Andrew Appel. Putting order to the separation logic jungle - Oleg Kiselyov and Tatsuya Katsushima. Sound and Efficient Language-Integrated Query: Maintaining the ORDER - Neline van Ginkel, Raoul Strackx and Frank Piessens. Automatically generating secure wrappers for SGX enclaves from separation logic specifications - Bob Reynders and Dominique Devriese. Efficient Functional Reactive Programming through Incremental Behaviors - Adrien Pommellet and Tayssir Touili. Static Analysis of Multithreaded Recursive Programs Communicating via Rendez-vous - Ximeng Li, Heiko Mantel and Markus Tasch. Taming Message-passing Communication in Compositional Reasoning about Confidentiality - Cristina Matache, Victor B. F. Gomes and Dominic Mulligan. Programming and proving with classical types - Jieung Kim, Vilhelm Sj?berg, Zhong Shao and Ronghui Gu. Safety and Liveness of MCS Lock?Layer by Layer - Shaobo He and Zvonimir Rakamaric. Counterexample-Guided Bit-Precision Selection - Niccol? Veltri and Tarmo Uustalu. Partiality and container monads - Alejandro D?az-Caro. A lambda calculus for density matrices wth classical and probabilistic controls - Martin Sulzmann and Peter Thiemann. A Computational Interpretation of Context-Free Expressions - Daan Leijen. Implementing Algebraic Effects in C (or ?Monads for Free in C?) - Yongzhe Zhang, Hsiang-Shang Ko and Zhenjiang Hu. Palgol: A High-Level DSL for Vertex-Centric Graph Processing with Remote Data Access - Takamasa Okudono, Yuki Nishida, Kensuke Kojima, Kohei Suenaga, Kengo Kido and Ichiro Hasuo. Sharper and Simpler Nonlinear Interpolants for Program Verification - Hirofumi Nakamura, Kensuke Kojima, Kohei Suenaga and Atsushi Igarashi. A Nonstandard Functional Programming Language - Beniamino Accattoli and Bruno Barras. The Negligible and Yet Subtle Cost of Pattern Matching - Manjeet Dahiya and Sorav Bansal. Black-box equivalence checking across compiler optimizations - Aziem Chawdhary and Andy King. Compact Difference Bound Matrices - Serdar Erbatur, Martin Hofmann and Eugen Zalinescu. Enforcing Programming Guidelines with Region~Types and Effects ## Other events ### Posters and SRC https://www-aplas.github.io/posters.html ### APLAS NIER workshop https://www-aplas.github.io/workshop.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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, and people with disabilities 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. https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/PLMW-POPL-2018#Scholarship-Applications The deadline for full consideration of funding is SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29. Selected participants will be notified by NOVEMBER 6. 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The successful candidate must have a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching, developing a vibrant research program that involves talented undergraduates, and an equally strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. Candidates are expected to teach one or more courses in *programming language design*, theory of computation, algorithms, or software engineering in addition to participating in the teaching of core courses and developing elective courses. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or be ABD in computer science or a closely related field by August 2018. Bucknell University is a private, highly selective, national university where strong liberal arts and professional programs in engineering, business, education, and music complement each other. The B.S. programs in computer science are ABET accredited. More information about the department can be found at: http://www.bucknell.edu/ComputerScience/ Review of applications will begin on November 1st and continue until the positions are filled. Candidates are asked to submit a cover letter, CV, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests, and three confidential letters of recommendation. Please include in your application contact information, including an email address for each of the three references. Applications will only be accepted online through Bucknell's career center (careers.bucknell.edu). Please direct any questions to Professor Xiannong Meng of the Computer Science Department at xmeng at bucknell.edu. Bucknell University, an Equal Opportunity Employer, believes that students learn best in a diverse, inclusive community and is therefore committed to academic excellence through diversity in its faculty, staff, and students. We seek candidates who are committed to Bucknell's efforts to create a climate that fosters the growth and development of a diverse student body, and we welcome applications from members of groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education. Enter an application at http://careers.bucknell.edu/cw/en-us/job/493821/openrank-tenure-track-in-computer-science-2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From valentin.perrelle at cea.fr Mon Oct 9 08:50:44 2017 From: valentin.perrelle at cea.fr (Valentin PERRELLE) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 14:50:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open postdoc position: "Specification and Verification of Quantum Programming Languages" at CEA and Uni. Paris Sud, France In-Reply-To: <05823614-2b6c-9733-2b73-b826453d2bcc@cea.fr> References: <05823614-2b6c-9733-2b73-b826453d2bcc@cea.fr> Message-ID: <86103ac9-986d-af8d-81bf-ff2bfaebc9e6@cea.fr> The Software Security Lab (LSL, CEA), and the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI, University of Paris-Sud) have an open postdoc position on the specification and verification of (high-level) quantum programs. The general idea is to explore how the specification/verification machinery that has been defined over the years over standard programs can be adapted for quantum programs. If you are interested, please contact Beno?t Valiron (benoit.valiron at lri.fr), S?bastien bardin (sebastien.bardin at cea.fr) and Valentin Perrelle (valentin.perrelle at cea.fr). ------ CEA and University of Paris-Sud Location: Paris-Saclay, France Length: 2 years Keywords: quantum programming, software verification, specification The Software Security Lab (LSL, CEA), and the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI, University of Paris-Sud) have an open postdoc position in an area at the intersection of quantum programming and software verification, to begin as soon as possible at Paris-Saclay, France. Context and summary With the recent interest in the use of quantum algorithms for solving concrete problems, several high-level quantum programming languages (QPL) have been designed, in order to fill the gap between quantum algorithms and (future) quantum hardware -- for example the Quipper language co-developed by Beno?t Valiron at LRI. They currently give the possibility to implement and analyze real use-cases: emulation, resource estimation, etc. Yet, quantum programing is tricky and such quantum programs are difficult to write and get right. There is a clear need for dedicated specification and verification mechanisms, allowing to express what a quantum program is supposed to do, and then to check it more or less automatically. The purpose of this postdoc is precisely to design a set of specification and verification tools and techniques for high-level quantum programming languages. A natural starting point will be to study how classical formal methods, such as contracts, deductive verification or static analysis, can be lifted to QPL. Especially, a first milestone will be to identify a set of desirable generic properties over QPL. From an implementation and experimentation point of view, the candidate can focus on the programming language Quipper and the platform for deductive program verification Why3. By designing a formal model of Quipper?s operational semantics in Why3, the objective could be to recode Quipper (or a suitable subset of it) as embedded language in Why3 and build on the model to assert and prove properties of programs. Tasks 1. Literature review, especially on QPL and classical verification; 2. Specification: understand the kind of desirable properties, how they relate or not to classical properties and propose a specification language for QPL; 3. Verification: explore how classical verification techniques (to be chosen among types, abstract interpretation, deductive verification) could be lifted to QPL; 4. Integrate a proof of concept for Quipper. Host Institutions LRI is the computer science lab of Universite Paris Sud. Founded more than 35 years ago, it has over 240 members, including 110 faculty and staff and 90 Ph.D. students. LRI consists of eight research groups covering a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from fundamental to applied research. The tool Why3 was founded at LRI, and is still actively developed within the team VALS. Quantum computation is one of the topics covered by the teams Parsys and Modhel. Parsys is considering it for its relation to HPC while Modhel works on quantum programming languages and their semantics, including the Quipper language. Within CEA LIST, LSL is a twenty-person team dedicated to software verification, with a strong focus on real-world applicability and industrial transfer. LSL designs methods and tools that leverage innovative approaches to ensure that real-world systems can comply with the highest safety and security standards. Especially, the team develops and maintains the open-source Frama-C platform for C code verification. Both CEA LIST and LRI are located at the heart of Campus Paris Saclay, in the largest European cluster of public and private research. Application Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, or be near completion. We are mainly looking for candidates with a strong background in Software Verification interested in exploring Quantum Programing but we are also interested by candidates from Quantum Computation who wants to explore Formal Verification. Applicants should send an email to Beno?t Valiron (benoit.valiron at lri.fr), S?bastien Bardin (sebastien.bardin at cea.fr) and Valentin Perrelle (valentin.perrelle at cea.fr) including CV, motivation letter and reference. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The position is within the Department of Computer Science at University of Verona, Italy, under the direction of prof. Massimo Merro, and it is part of a joint project with Julia SRL (www.juliasoft.com ), a company specialized on static analysis of Java, Android and .NET programs, where Pietro Ferrara leads the research activity. Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science, or a closely related discipline. Candidates with expertise in following areas are particularly welcomed: - Static Analysis and its Industrial Applications - Abstract Interpretation - Security of IoT - Information security - Embedded system security The position is tenable from January 2018 at a salary commensurate with the successful candidates' qualifications and experience. Appointments will be made for a 24 month period. Further particulars of the posts may be obtained from the address below, and informal enquiries are also welcomed. 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URL: From sylvie.boldo at inria.fr Mon Oct 9 08:25:15 2017 From: sylvie.boldo at inria.fr (Sylvie Boldo) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 14:25:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?JFLA_2018_=3A_second_appel_=C3=A0_comm?= =?utf-8?q?unications?= Message-ID: <6e4585cc-960b-ddfb-da1d-da5f6d9daf3e@inria.fr> [ This message is intentionally written in French. ] * Merci de faire circuler : second appel ? communications * JFLA'2018 (https://www.lri.fr/~sboldo/JFLA18/) Journ?es Francophones des Langages Applicatifs Banyuls-sur-Mer du 24 au 27 janvier 2018 Dates importantes ----------------- 16 octobre 2017 : soumission des r?sum?s 23 octobre 2017 : soumission des articles 27 novembre 2017 : notification aux auteurs 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 ! Soumissions ----------- Nous acceptons deux types de soumissions : . Article de recherche de quinze pages au plus, portant sur des travaux originaux. Nous acceptons des travaux en cours, pour lesquels l'aspect recherche n'est pas enti?rement finalis?. . Article court de six pages au plus, pour d?crire un prototype, faire la d?monstration d'un outil, rechercher de l'aide pour r?soudre un probl?me particulier, ou reparler d'un papier d?j? publi?. 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, et les auteurs seront invit?s ? faire une pr?sentation lors des journ?es, de vingt-cinq minutes pour les articles longs et de quinze minutes pour les courts. L'article peut ?tre r?dig? en anglais, auquel cas la pr?sentation devra ?tre effectu?e en fran?ais. N?anmoins, dans le cas o? il s'agit d'une republication au format court d'un article d?j? publi?, la publication doit ?tre en fran?ais et la publication originale en anglais. Le style LaTeX Easychair doit ?tre respect? : https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors Les soumissions se font sur la page Easychair des JFLA : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfla2018 Notez que toute intention de soumission doit ?tre annonc?e au plus tard le 16 octobre par le d?p?t d'un r?sum? sur Easychair. date limite de soumission des r?sum?s : 16 octobre 2017 date limite de soumission des articles : 23 octobre 2017 Comit? de programme ------------------- Sylvie Boldo Inria Saclay-?le de France (pr?sidente) Nicolas Magaud Universit? de Strasbourg (vice-pr?sident) Clara Bertolissi LIF-Universite Aix-Marseille Timothy Bourke Inria Paris, ENS Benjamin Canou OCamlPro Zaynah Dargaye CEA LIST Alain Frisch LexiFi Fr?d?ric Gava Universit? de Paris-Est Alain Giorgetti FEMTO-ST, Universit? de Franche-Comt? Kim Nguyen Universit? Paris-Sud Fran?oisPottier Inria Paris Yann R?gis-Gianas IRIF Laurence Rideau Inria Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e -- Sylvie Boldo, projet Toccata, Inria Saclay - ?le-de-France PCRI, B?t. 650 - Universit? Paris-Sud - 91405 ORSAY Cedex From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Mon Oct 9 15:47:14 2017 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:47:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2018 joint call for papers Message-ID: <1E4A6805-D555-43C5-A65F-7DEC5F0B124B@tuwien.ac.at> NEW! The proceedings of ETAPS 2018 will appear in gold open access. As an exception for this year only, the important dates of POST differ from the other member conferences! ****************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS 21st European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-21 April 2018 http://www.etaps.org/2018 ****************************************************************** -- 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 2018 is the twenty-first event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (16-20 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University, USA) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, UK, and Andy Sch?rr, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Christel Baier, Technische Univ. Dresden, Germany, and Ugo Dal Lago, Universit? di Bologna, Italy) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Ralf K?sters, University of Stuttgart, Germany) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilian-Univ. M?nchen, Germany, and Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands) TACAS '18 hosts the 7th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speaker: Martin Abadi (Google Research & University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Pamela Zave (AT&T Labs, USA) * ESOP invited speaker: Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany) * POST invited speaker: Benjamin C. Pierce (University of Pennsylvania, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES (all member conferences except POST) * Abstracts due: 13 October 2017 * Papers due: 20 October 2017 * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS only): 6-8 December 2017 * Notification: 22 December 2017 * Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 IMPORTANT DATES for POST * Abstracts due: 22 November 2017 * Papers due: 24 November 2017 * Rebuttal: 12-16 January 2018 * Notification: 25 January 2018 * Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 -- 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 (this does not apply to abstracts). In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science 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 and POST will use a double-blind review process. The proceedings of ETAPS 2018 will be published in *gold open access*. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. It is most likely that 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. - 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 6 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. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (14-15 April, 21 April) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences: CMCS, CREST, DICE, FAEPAS, GALOP, HotSpot, LiVe, MARS, MeTRiD, SNR, SynCoP, VerifyThis, VPT, VSSE, WRLA. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2018 is hosted by the School of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece. -- ORGANIZERS Panagiotis Katsaros (general chair), Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angelis, Nick Bassiliades, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, George Rahonis, Ezio Bartocci, Simon Bliudze, Petros Stratis, Emmanouela Stachtiari, Kyriakos Georgiadis -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at katsaros at csd.auth.gr . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Tue Oct 10 10:58:14 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:58:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2017 post-proceedings call for papers Message-ID: Abstract deadline in 6 days! Open call for papers Post-proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs TYPES 2017 TYPES is a major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of type theory and its applications. TYPES 2017 was held between 29 May and 1 June in Budapest, Hungary. The 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, also to those who did not participate in the conference. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type systems to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics: * 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; * Type theory in linguistics. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: 16 October 2017 * Paper submission: 23 October 2017 * Author notification: 26 March 2018 DETAILS * Papers have to be formatted with lipics.cls and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs. http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ * The recommended length of a paper is 15-25 pages. Submissions significantly longer than 25 pages will not be considered. * Papers have to be submitted in pdf through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2017postproceed * 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. * More information is available on http://types2017.elte.hu/#postproc * In case of questions, please contact one of the editors. EDITORS Andreas Abel andreas.abel at gu.se Gothenburg University, Sweden Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg fredrik.nordvall-forsberg at strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Ambrus Kaposi akaposi at inf.elte.hu E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Mon Oct 9 21:56:23 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 22:56:23 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?25th_WoLLIC_2018_=28Bogot=C3=A1=2C_Col?= =?utf-8?q?ombia=29_-_Call_for_Papers?= Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] WoLLIC 2018 25th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 24th to 27th, 2018 Bogot?, Colombia 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) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL) ORGANISATION Departamento de Matem?ticas, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Departamento de Matem?ticas, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 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-fifth WoLLIC will be held at the Departamento de Matem?ticas of the Universidad de los Andes, Bogot?, Colombia, from July 24th to 27th, 2018. 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), ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC), 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; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic; philosophy of language. 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. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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. (At least one author is required to pay the registration fee before granting that the paper will be published in the proceedings.) Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2018 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2018/ instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 11, 2018, and the full paper by Mar 18, 2018 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Apr 15, 2018, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by Apr 22, 2018 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2018, 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 (after a new round of reviewing) as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2018 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS (TBA) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2018 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2018). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 11, 2018: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 18, 2018: Full paper deadline Apr 15, 2018: Author notification Apr 22, 2018: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Siddharth Bhaskar (Haverford College, USA) Torben Bra?ner (Roskilde University, Denmark) Hazel Brickhill (University of Bristol, UK) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame, USA) Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki, Finland) Sophia Knight (Uppsala University, Sweden) Alex Kruckman (Indiana University, USA) Maricarmen Martinez Baldares (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) Frederike Moltmann (CNRS, France) Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, USA) (CHAIR) Cl?udia Nalon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comms, USA, and University of Birmingham, UK) Sophie Pinchinat (IRISA Rennes, France) David Pym (University College London, UK) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) Revantha Ramanayake (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) Jeremy Seligman (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China) Fan Yang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. (Former Member: Grigori Mints (deceased).) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Jaime A. Boh?rquez (Escuela Colombiana de Ingenier?a, Bogot?, Colombia) Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) (Local co-chair) Nicol?s Cardozo (Universidad de los Andes, Bogot?, Colombia) Maricarmen Mart?nez (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) (Local co-chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) (co-chair) Camilo Rocha (Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2018/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adg at microsoft.com Tue Oct 10 22:54:33 2017 From: adg at microsoft.com (Andy Gordon (RESEARCH)) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 02:54:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPS 2018: Workshop on Probabilistic Programming Languages, Semantics, and Systems 2018 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Reminder: it?s one week to go to the PPS deadline. Submit a 2-pager on your latest results! News: Erik Meijer of Facebook has agreed to speak at PPS 2018 Cameron Freer and Andy Gordon, co-chairs From: Cameron Freer [mailto:cameronfreer at gmail.com] Sent: 22 September 2017 12:12 To: types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu Cc: Andy Gordon (RESEARCH) Subject: PPS 2018: Workshop on Probabilistic Programming Languages, Semantics, and Systems 2018 Workshop on Probabilistic Programming Languages, Semantics, and Systems (PPS 2018) Colocated right before POPL (Los Angeles, CA) on January 9, 2018 https://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2018/pps-2018 Call for Extended Abstracts Probabilistic programming is the idea of expressing probabilistic models and inference methods as programs, 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 all aspects of probabilistic programming languages, semantics, and systems. Topics include but are not limited to: * design of probabilistic programming languages; * inference algorithms for probabilistic programming languages; * semantics (axiomatic, operational, denotational, games, etc) and types for probabilistic programming; * efficient and correct implementation; * and last but not least, applications of probabilistic programming. For a sense of the talks and posters in past years, see: * https://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2017/pps-2017 * https://pps2017.soic.indiana.edu/ and * https://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pps-2016 * https://pps2016.soic.indiana.edu/ In the tradition of the previous meetings, we anticipate that work on semantic foundations of probabilistic programming will be at the core of PPS 2018, but we are explicitly broadening the scope of PPS to embrace all aspects of probabilistic programming languages. 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 languages, semantics, and systems. Extended abstracts are up to 2 pages in PDF format. Please submit them by October 17 using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pps2018 Tuesday, October 17, 2017: Submissions due Friday, November 17, 2017: Author notification Tuesday, December 19, 2017: Final papers due Tuesday, January 9, 2018: Workshop, colocated right before POPL Program committee: * Cameron Freer, Remine and Borelian (chair) * Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh (chair) * Johannes Borgstr?m, Uppsala University * Bob Carpenter, Columbia University * Ohad Kammar, University of Oxford * Radu Mardare, Aalborg University * Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University * Norman Ramsey, Tufts University * Brian Ruttenberg, Charles River Analytics * Jean-Baptiste Tristan, Oracle Labs * Jan-Willem van de Meent, Northeastern University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Oct 10 16:21:28 2017 From: Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:21:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The 2018 Federated Logic Conference - Workshop Announcement Message-ID: FLoC 2018 --- The 2018 Federated Logic Conference 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, UK http://www.floc2018.org/workshops The seventh Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'18) will be held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018, at the Mathematical Institute and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. In addition to nine major international conferences related to mathematical logic and computer science (CAV, CSF, FM, FSCD, ICLP, IJCAR, ITP, LICS and SAT), FLoC 2018 will feature as many as 79 workshops and the School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems (FoPSS, 30 June - 6 July). The selection process for workshops is now over and the complete list can be found below. *** Pre-FLoC workshops (Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 July) 32nd International Workshop on Unification (UNIF 2018), 7 July http://unif2018.cic.unb.br/ 7th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2018), 7 July http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/events/iwc-2018/ 7th International Workshop on Classical Logic and Computation (CL&C 2018), 7 July http://www.di.unito.it/~stefano/CL&C/CL&C18.htm Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Algebra (HDRA 2018), 7 July http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr/ International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP 2018), 7 July http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2018/ 7th International Workshop on the Cross-Fertilization Between CSP and SAT (CSPSAT 2018), 7 July (website coming soon) Pragmatics of SAT (PoS 2018), 7 July http://www.pragmaticsofsat.org/2018/ Twenty Years of Deep Inference (TYDI 2018), 7 July https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lutz/orgs/TYDI2018.html 10th International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs (TERMGRAPH 2018), 7 July https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/maribel.fernandez/TERMGRAPH.html Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages (LOLA 2018), 7 July https://cs.appstate.edu/~johannp/lola18/ 9th Workshop on Higher Order Rewriting (HOR 2018), 7 July https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/HOR18/ 2018 Joint Workshop on Linearity & TLLA (5th International Workshop on Linearity and 2nd Workshop on Trends in Linear Logic and Applications), 7-8 July http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLALinearity18/ Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF 2018), 7-8 July https://hott-uf.github.io/2018/ Game Semantics 25, 7-8 July http://www.gamesemantics.org/game-semantics-25 Workshop on Proof Complexity (PC 2018), 7-8 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/PC2018/ Programming And Reasoning on Infinite Structures (PARIS 2018), 7-8 July https://www.irif.fr/~saurin/RAPIDO/PARIS-2018/ 6th Workshop on Strategic Reasoning (SR 2018), 7-8 July http://projects.lsv.fr/sr18/ Workshop in honour of Dana Scott's 85th birthday and 50 years of domain theory, 7-8 July https://andrejbauer.github.io/domains-floc-2018/ 5th Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science (NLCS 2018), 7-8 July http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html 7th Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming (MSFP 2018), 8 July https://msfp2018.bentnib.org/ 5th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE 2018), 8 July http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/niehren/WPTE-2018/main.html The Coq Workshop 2018, 8 July https://coqworkshop2018.inria.fr/ International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond (QBF 2018), 8 July http://fmv.jku.at/qbf18/ 5th International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2018), 8 July http://gramsec.uni.lu/ Women in Logic 2018, 8 July https://sites.google.com/site/womeninlogic2018/welcome 9th Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS 2018), 8 July https://www.irif.fr/~michele/itrs2018 Coalgebra Now, 8 July http://homepage.tudelft.nl/c9d1n/floc2018coalgebra/index.html 12th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models (DCM 2018), 8 July https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/dcm18 IFIP Working Group 1.6: Rewriting, 8 July http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/ifip-wg1.6/ Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS 2018), 8 July http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/liminjia/events/fcs2018/ LICS Mentor Workshop, 8 July (website coming soon) *** Mid-FLoC workshops (Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 July) IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS 2018), 11-13 July http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/ADHS18/ 16th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT 2018), 12-13 July http://smt-workshop.cs.uiowa.edu/2018/ 7th Workshop on Logic and Systems Biology (LSB), 13 July http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/russell.harmer/lsb7.html Isabelle Workshop, 13 July http://sketis.net/isabelle/isabelle-workshop-2018 25th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 13 July https://sites.google.com/a/aixia.it/rcra/rcra-2018 5th Workshop on Formal Reasoning in Distributed Algorithms (FRIDA 2018), 13 July http://forsyte.at/events/frida2018/ 5th Vampire Workshop (Vampire 2018), 13 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/Vampire18/ 19th Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity (LCC), 13 July http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/index.html 5th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS 2018), 13 July https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs18/ Workshop on Learning and Automata (LearnAut 2018), 13 July https://learnaut2018.wordpress.com/ 1st International Workshop on Multi-objective Reasoning in Verification and Synthesis (MoRe 2018), 13 July http://math.umons.ac.be/more2018/ Workshop on Modular Knowledge (Tetrapod), 13 July http://new.kwarc.info/events/Tetrapod-2018/ First Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL 2018), 13 July http://adsl.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ DMW18: Deduction Mentoring Workshop, 13 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/DMW18/ Runtime Verification for Rigorous Systems Engineering (RV4RISE), 13 July http://rv4rise.conf.tuwien.ac.at/ Logic and Learning, 13 July http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/LoL/ 13th International Workshop on User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (UITP 2018), 13 July http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/uitp/uitp2018/ CAV Mentor Workshop, 13 July (website coming soon) Summit on Machine Learning Meets Formal Methods, sponsored by the Alan Turing Institute (https://www.turing.ac.uk), 13 July (website coming soon) 4th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment (F-IDE 2018), 14 July https://sites.google.com/view/fideworkshop2018 16th International Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems (QAPL 2018), 14 July http://www1.isti.cnr.it/~Massink/EVENTS/QAPL2018/ 16th Overture Workshop: New Capabilities and Applications for Model-based Systems Engineering, 14 July http://overturetool.org/workshops/16th-Overture-Workshop.html FM Doctoral Symposium, 14 July (website coming soon) *** Post-FLoC workshops (Wednesday 18 - Thursday 19 July) 18th Refinement Workshop, 18 July http://www.refinenet.org.uk/ 1st International Workshop on Parallel Logical Reasoning (PLR), 18 July https://antonwijs.wixsite.com/plr2018 7th Workshop on Synthesis (SYNT 2018), 18 July (website coming soon) Theorem Prover Components for Educational Software (ThEdu 2018), 18 July http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu18 TLA+ Community Event 2018, 18 July http://tla2018.loria.fr/ Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2018), 18 July https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2018/ International Conference on Logical Programming - Doctoral Consortium (ICLP - DC 2018), 18 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/ICLP-DC2018/ 16th International Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and Logic Programming Systems (CICLOPS 2018), 18 July https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~tom.schrijvers/CICLOPS2018/ 3rd International Workshop on Automated Reasoning in Quantified Non-Classical Logics (ARQNL 2018), 18 July http://iltp.de/ARQNL-2018/ Workshop on Logic and Practice of Programming (LPoP 2018), 18 July http://lpop.cs.stonybrook.edu/ 13th International Workshop on Constraint Based Methods in Bioinformatics (WCB 2018), 18 July http://clp.dimi.uniud.it/wcb/wcb18/ International Workshop on the Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems (VaVAS), 18-19 July http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael/VaVAS-July2018/ 16th International Workshop on Termination (WST 2018), 18-19 July http://wst2018.webs.upv.es/ MLP18: Machine Learning for Programming, 18-19 July https://prodo.ai/mlp18 Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation: Bridging Two Communities to Solve Real Problems (SC^2 2018), 18-19 July http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/workshop3.html The LaSh 2018 Workshop on Logic and Search, 18-19 July http://www.logicandsearch.org/LaSh2018/ 10th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE 2018), 18-19 July http://vstte18.it.uu.se/ 11th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification (NSV-XI), 18-19 July (website coming soon) 18th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVOCS 2018), 18-19 July http://avocs18.irisa.fr/ Logics for Reasoning about Preferences, Uncertainty, and Vagueness (PRUV 2018), 19 July http://pruv18.inf.unibz.it/ Third Workshop on Fun With Formal Methods (FWFM 2018), 19 July http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/FWFM2018 International Workshop on External and Internal Calculi for Non-Classical Logics, 19 July http://weic2018.loria.fr/ Robots, Morality, and Trust through the Verification Lens, 19 July http://qav.cs.ox.ac.uk/robots_morality_trust/ 6th Workshop on the Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning (PAAR 2018), 19 July http://easychair.org/smart-program/PAAR-2018/ Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs (VEMDP 2018), 19 July http://dna.caltech.edu/vemdp2018/ Workshops Committee General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska Workshops Chair: Gethin Norman Workshops Deputy Chair: Christoph Haase CAV: Hana Chockler CSF: Cas Cremers FM: Helen Treharne FSCD: Paula Severi ICLP: Stefan Woltran IJCAR: Alberto Griggio ITP: Assia Mahboubi LICS: Patricia Bouyer SAT: Martina Seidl From Anna.Kasprzik at tib.eu Wed Oct 11 03:56:18 2017 From: Anna.Kasprzik at tib.eu (Kasprzik, Anna) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:56:18 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions available at TIB Hannover In-Reply-To: <026DB6D68C99ED4BA9511A26DEC6D929BFC9A2@smsx2003.tib.tibub.de> References: <026DB6D68C99ED4BA9511A26DEC6D929BFC9A2@smsx2003.tib.tibub.de> Message-ID: <026DB6D68C99ED4BA9511A26DEC6D929BFC9A7@smsx2003.tib.tibub.de> Dear all, at the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology (TIB) Hannover we are currently looking for PhD students with a degree in computer science, mathematics, information science, linguistics, or similar areas, and with a strong background in software engineering. I am building up a junior research group "Scientific Knowledge Engineering" with a focus on "Smart Factory 4.0" topics on one hand and library-specific, semantic knowledge organization systems on the other. I would like to work with a PhD student with a strong understanding of formal foundations and a keen interest in semantic structures who can support me in publications but also with implementation and testing of software solutions for semantic technologies. The call is attached and although my research group is not mentioned and the deadline is past you can still apply via the communication channels mentioned in the document, preferably with me in CC ( anna.kasprzik at tib.eu). You can also still apply if you are interested in any of the other topics mentioned there. I am happy to answer question via email, phone or Skype. Best Anna Kasprzik --------------------- Dr. Anna Kasprzik Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Abt. 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Name: 2017_36.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 851841 bytes Desc: 2017_36.pdf URL: From cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov Wed Oct 11 09:11:20 2017 From: cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320)) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:11:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] NFM 2018 - 2nd CFP - Extended Deadlines Message-ID: <0CDD3F1E-69B1-4FC8-B5D2-B6BA64E4B270@nasa.gov> NFM 2018 - 2nd Call for Papers *** EXTENDED DEADLINES *** The 10th NASA Formal Methods Symposium 30 Years of Formal Methods at NASA ------------------------------------- https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ April 17-19, 2018 Newport News Marriott at City Center Newport News, VA, USA Theme of the Symposium ---------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous 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 both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including 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: ------------------------------------------------- * Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis * Advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving * Use of formal methods in software and system testing * Run-time verification * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods such as abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and/or distributed techniques * Code generation from formally verified models * Safety cases and system safety * Formal approaches to fault tolerance * Theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems * Formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development 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=nfm2018 Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in Springer's Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/11334). Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: December 1, 2017 ** Extended ** Paper Submission: December 11, 2017 ** Extended ** Paper Notification: January 23, 2018 Camera Ready Deadline: February 6, 2018 Symposium: April 17-19, 2018 Program Committee ---------------- Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Julia Badger, NASA, USA Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft, USA Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sylvie Boldo, Inria, France Kalou Cabrera Castillos, LAAS-CNRS, France Misty Davies, NASA, USA Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, France Stefania Gnesi, ISTI, Italy Alberto Griggio, FBK, Itlaly George Hagen, NASA, USA John Harrison, Intel, USA Klaus Havelund, JPL/NASA, USA Ashlie Hocking, Dependable Computing, USA Susmit Jha, SRI International, USA Rajeev Joshi, JPL/NASA, USA Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Natasha Neogi, NASA, USA Lee Pike, USA Murali Rangarajan, Boeing, USA Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy Camilo Rocha, Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Johann Schumann, SGT, USA Konrad Slind, Rockwell Collins, USA Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA Laura Titolo, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Christoph Torens, DLR, Germany Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Virginie Wiels, ONERA, France Organizing Committee ---------------- Anthony Narkawicz (Conference Chair) Aaron Dutle (Program Committee Co-Chair) Cesar Munoz (Program Committee Co-Chair) Location -------- The symposium will take place at Newport News Marriott at City Center, Newport News, VA, USA. Registration is required but is free of charge. Contact -------- Email: nfm2018 [at] easychair [dot] org Web: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ --- 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 gaboardi at buffalo.edu Fri Oct 13 02:24:35 2017 From: gaboardi at buffalo.edu (Gaboardi, Marco) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 06:24:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLAS 2017 Call for Participation Message-ID: PLAS 2017 Call for Participation ACM SIGSAC 12th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2017) http://plas2017.cse.buffalo.edu/ 30 October 2017 Dallas, TX, USA Co-located with ACM CCS 2017 (https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2017/) Registration through the CCS website. ????????????????????????????????????? *Invited Speakers* Stephen Chong, Harvard University, USA Authorization Contracts Michael Hicks, University of Maryland, USA Languages for Oblivious Computation ????????????????????????????????????? *Accepted papers* CFG Construction Soundness in Control-Flow Integrity Gang Tang, Trent Jaeger (Penn State University) Using Precise Taint Tracking for Auto-sanitization Tejas Saoji, Thomas H. Austin (San Jose State University), Cormac Flanagan (UCSC) Modular Synthesis of Heap Exploits Dusan Repel, Johannes Kinder, Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway, University of London) Annotated multisemantics to prove Non-Interference analyses Gurvan Cabon, Alan Schmitt (Inria) Design-time Quantification of Integrity in Cyber-physical Systems Eric Rothstein Morris, Martin Ochoa, Carlos G. Murguia (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Encoding DCC in Haskell Maximilian Algehed, Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University of Technology) A Sequent Calculus for Counterfactual Reasoning McKenna McCall, Lay Kuan Loh, Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University) Simplicity: A New Language for Blockchains Russell O'Connor (Blockstream) Short Paper: Compiler Optimizations with Retrofitting Transformations: Is there a Semantic Mismatch? Jay Lim (Rutgers), Vinod Ganapathy (Indian Institute of Science), Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers) Short Paper: Towards information flow reasoning about real-world C code Samuel Gruetter (MIT), Toby Murray (University of Melbourne) From catalin.hritcu at gmail.com Sat Oct 14 14:48:58 2017 From: catalin.hritcu at gmail.com (Catalin Hritcu) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 20:48:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final call for Secure Compilation presentations (PriSC Workshop @ POPL'18) Message-ID: Hello everyone, This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting PriSC'18 extended abstracts is very soon: Wednesday, 18 October at 23:59 (AoE). Please contribute and help us spread the word :) Catalin ======================================================================= Call for Presentations on Secure Compilation (PriSC Workshop @ POPL'18) ======================================================================= Secure compilation is an emerging field that puts together advances in programming languages, security, verification, systems, compilers, and hardware architectures in order to devise secure compiler chains that eliminate many of today's low-level vulnerabilities. Secure compilation aims to protect high-level language abstractions in compiled code, even against adversarial low-level contexts, and to allow sound reasoning about security in the source language. The emerging secure compilation community aims to achieve this by: identifying and formalizing properties that secure compilers must possess; devising efficient enforcement mechanisms; and developing effective verification and proof techniques. ====================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2018) ====================================================================== The Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC) is a new informal 1-day workshop without any proceedings. The goal is to identify interesting research directions and open challenges and to bring together researchers interested in secure compilation. The 2nd PriSC edition will be held on Saturday, 13 January 2018, in Los Angeles, together with the ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). More information at http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 ====================================================================== Important Dates ====================================================================== Presentation proposal submission deadline: 18 October 2017, AoE Presentation proposal notification: 8 November 2017 PriSC Workshop takes place: 13 January 2018 ====================================================================== Scope of the Workshop ====================================================================== Anyone interested in presenting at the workshop should submit an extended abstract (up to 2 pages, details below). This can cover past, ongoing, or future work. Any topic that could be of interest to the emerging secure compilation community is in scope. Talks that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are **not** limited to: - attacker models for secure compiler chains - secure compilation properties: full abstraction, memory safety, control-flow integrity, preserving non-interference or (hyper-)properties against adversarial contexts, secure multi-language interoperability - enforcement mechanisms: static checking, program verification, reference monitoring, program rewriting, software fault isolation, system-level protection, secure hardware, crypto, randomization - experimental evaluation and applications of secure compilation - proof methods: (bi)simulation, logical relations, game semantics, multi-language semantics, embedded interpreters - formal verification of secure compilation chain (protection mechanisms, compilers, linkers, loaders), machine-checked proofs, translation validation, property-based testing ====================================================================== Guidelines for Submitting Extended Abstracts ====================================================================== Extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format and not exceed 2 pages. They should be formatted in two-column layout, 10pt font, and be printable on A4 and US Letter sized paper. We recommend using the new `acmart` LaTeX style in `sigplan` mode: http://www.sigplan.org/sites/default/files/acmart/current/acmart-sigplanproc.zip Submissions are not anonymous and should provide sufficient detail to be assessed by the program committee. Presentation at the workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere. Please submit your extended abstracts at https://prisc18.hotcrp.com/ ====================================================================== Short Talks Session ====================================================================== We will also run a short talks session, where participants get five minutes to present intriguing ideas, advertise ongoing work, etc. You can expect a call for short talks closer to the event. ====================================================================== Program Committee ====================================================================== Program Chair Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Members Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Lars Birkedal Aarhus University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven C?dric Fournet Microsoft Research Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Xavier Leroy Inria Paris David Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Frank Piessens KU Leuven Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis Nikhil Swamy Microsoft Research ====================================================================== Organizing Committee ====================================================================== Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis ====================================================================== Contact and More Information ===================================================================== More information about PriSC 2018 can be found on the website: http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 For questions please contact Catalin Hritcu (Program Chair). To make sure you receive such announcements in the future please subscribe to the following low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/prisc-announce From sylvie.boldo at inria.fr Mon Oct 16 06:11:09 2017 From: sylvie.boldo at inria.fr (Sylvie Boldo) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:11:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?JFLA_2018_=3A_dernier_appel_=C3=A0_com?= =?utf-8?q?munications_et_extension_de_deadline?= Message-ID: <60418324-2854-382e-0b28-05291f300b93@inria.fr> [ This message is intentionally written in French. ] * Merci de faire circuler : dernier appel ? communications * Les dates limites ont ?t? ?tendues, d'une semaine pour l'article mais de seulement quelques jours pour le r?sum?. En particulier, le r?sum? est pour *ce mercredi 18 octobre*. JFLA'2018 (https://www.lri.fr/~sboldo/JFLA18/) Journ?es Francophones des Langages Applicatifs Banyuls-sur-Mer du 24 au 27 janvier 2018 Dates importantes ----------------- *18* octobre 2017 : soumission des r?sum?s *30* octobre 2017 : soumission des articles 27 novembre 2017 : notification aux auteurs 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 ! Soumissions ----------- Nous acceptons deux types de soumissions : . Article de recherche de quinze pages au plus, portant sur des travaux originaux. Nous acceptons des travaux en cours, pour lesquels l'aspect recherche n'est pas enti?rement finalis?. . Article court de six pages au plus, pour d?crire un prototype, faire la d?monstration d'un outil, rechercher de l'aide pour r?soudre un probl?me particulier, ou reparler d'un papier d?j? publi?. 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, et les auteurs seront invit?s ? faire une pr?sentation lors des journ?es, de vingt-cinq minutes pour les articles longs et de quinze minutes pour les courts. L'article peut ?tre r?dig? en anglais, auquel cas la pr?sentation devra ?tre effectu?e en fran?ais. N?anmoins, dans le cas o? il s'agit d'une republication au format court d'un article d?j? publi?, la publication doit ?tre en fran?ais et la publication originale en anglais. Le style LaTeX Easychair doit ?tre respect? : https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors Les soumissions se font sur la page Easychair des JFLA : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfla2018 Notez que toute intention de soumission doit ?tre annonc?e au plus tard le 16 octobre par le d?p?t d'un r?sum? sur Easychair. date limite de soumission des r?sum?s : 18 octobre 2017 date limite de soumission des articles : 30 octobre 2017 Comit? de programme ------------------- Sylvie Boldo Inria Saclay-?le de France (pr?sidente) Nicolas Magaud Universit? de Strasbourg (vice-pr?sident) Clara Bertolissi LIF-Universite Aix-Marseille Timothy Bourke Inria Paris, ENS Benjamin Canou OCamlPro Zaynah Dargaye CEA LIST Alain Frisch LexiFi Fr?d?ric Gava Universit? de Paris-Est Alain Giorgetti FEMTO-ST, Universit? de Franche-Comt? Kim Nguyen Universit? Paris-Sud Fran?ois Pottier Inria Paris Yann R?gis-Gianas IRIF Laurence Rideau Inria Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e -- Sylvie Boldo, projet Toccata, Inria Saclay - ?le-de-France PCRI, B?t. 650 - Universit? Paris-Sud - 91405 ORSAY Cedex From i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk Mon Oct 16 10:43:31 2017 From: i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk (Sergey, Ilya) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:43:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CoqPL'18 CFP: Deadline Extended till 20 October Message-ID: ============================================================= CoqPL 2018 Coq for Programming Languages -- A Coq users and developers meeting 13 January 2018, co-located with POPL (as usual) Los Angeles, California, United States CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/CoqPL-2018 ============================================================= Workshop Overview ----------------- The series of CoqPL workshops provide 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 favourite proof assistant. Topics in scope include but are no limited to: * General purpose libraries and tactic language extensions; * Domain-specific libraries for programming language formalization and verification; * IDEs, profilers, tracers, debuggers, and testing tools; * Reports on ongoing proof efforts conducted via (or in the context of) the Coq proof assistant; * Experience reports from Coq usage in educational or industrial contexts. 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. Workshop Format --------------- The workshop format will be driven by members of the Coq 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 : [extended!] October 20th, 2017 * Author Notification : Monday, November 6th, 2017 * Workshop : Saturday, January 13th, 2018 Submissions should be extended abstracts of 1-2 pages in portable document format (PDF). Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coqpl2018 Program Committee ----------------- * Yves Bertot, INRIA (Workshop Co-chair) * Ilya Sergey, University College London (Workshop Co-chair) * Andrew Appel, Princeton University * Benjamin Delaware, Purdue University * Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China * Hugo Herbelin, INRIA * Chantal Keller, Universit? Paris-Sud * Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University * Beta Ziliani, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba Contact ----------------- For any queries, please contact : coqpl2018 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From huaming.wu at fu-berlin.de Tue Oct 17 10:12:59 2017 From: huaming.wu at fu-berlin.de (wu huaming) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:12:59 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACM/SPEC ICPE 2018 Call for Contributions-Extended Deadline Oct. 25th 2017 Message-ID: <4F01F127-07C6-4260-8261-4868F1503503@fu-berlin.de> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICPE 2018 9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG Berlin, Germany April 9-13, 2018 Web: https://icpe2018.spec.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICPEconf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Research and industrial/experience abstracts: [EXTENDED] Oct 25, 2017 Research and industrial/experience papers: [EXTENDED] Oct 25, 2017 Research and industrial/experience paper notification: Dec 8, 2017 Artifact registration: Dec 15, 2017 Artifact submission: Dec 22, 2017 Artifact notification: Feb 07, 2018 Work-in-progress/vision papers: Jan 10, 2018 Work-in-progress/vision paper notification: Feb 8, 2018 Poster/demo submission: Jan 03, 2018 Poster/demo notification: Jan 26, 2018 Workshop Proposals submission: PASSED Workshop Proposals Notification: PASSED Tutorial proposals submission: Oct 18, 2017 Tutorial proposals notification: Nov 18, 2017 Dates for doctoral symposium will be announced (see also https://icpe2018.spec.org/important-dates/). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like Web-based systems, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, have increasingly distributed and dynamic system architectures that provide high flexibility, however, also increase the complexity of managing end-to-end application performance. ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security. This year's main theme is ?continuous performance assurance in agile delivery?. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Performance modeling of software * Languages and ontologies * Methods and tools * Relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes * Analytical, simulation and statistical modeling methodologies * Model validation and calibration techniques * Automatic model extraction * Performance modeling and analysis tools Performance and software development processes/paradigms * Software performance patterns and anti-patterns * Software/performance tool interoperability (models and data interchange formats) * Performance-oriented design, implementation and configuration management * Software Performance Engineering and Model-Driven Development * Gathering, interpreting and exploiting software performance annotations and data * System sizing and capacity planning techniques * (Model-driven) Performance requirements engineering * Relationship between performance and architecture * Collaboration of development and operation (DevOps) for performance * Performance and agile methods * Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Performance of microservice architectures and containers Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis * Performance measurement and monitoring techniques * Analysis of measured application performance data * Application tracing and profiling * Workload characterization techniques * Experimental design * Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning Benchmarking * Performance metrics and benchmark suites * Benchmarking methodologies * Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks * Benchmark workloads and scenarios * Use of benchmarks in industry and academia Run-time performance management * Use of models at run-time * Online performance prediction * Autonomic resource management * Utility-based optimization * Capacity management Power and performance, energy efficiency * Power consumption models and management techniques * Tradeoffs between performance and energy efficiency * Performance-driven resource and power management Performance modeling and evaluation in different environments and application domains * Web-based systems, e-business, Web services * Big data systems, deep-learning systems, and other data analytics systems * Internet of Things * Social networks * Cyber-physical systems * Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0) * Virtualization and cloud computing * Autonomous/adaptive systems * Transaction-oriented systems * Communication networks * Parallel and distributed systems * Embedded systems * Multi-core systems * Cluster and grid computing environments * High performance computing * Event-based systems * Real-time and multimedia systems * Low-latency systems * Peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems All other topics related to performance of software and systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers is solicited including: basic and applied research papers for novel scientific insights, industrial and experience papers reporting on applying performance engineering or benchmarks in practice, and work-in-progress/vision papers for ongoing innovative work. Different acceptance criteria apply based on the expected content of the individual contribution types. Authors will be requested to self-classify their papers according to the provided topic areas when submitting their papers. Submissions to all tracks need to be uploaded to ICPE's submission system and conform to the ACM submission format. For detailed submission instructions, please visit: https://icpe2018.spec.org/submissions.html. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2018 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit an artifact to the ACM/SPEC ICPE 2018 Artifact Track. The highest quality papers, judged by multiple relevant factors, will be recognized with an award. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a journal. 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 (RESEARCH PAPERS) J. Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India Alberto Avritzer, independent, USA Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India Cor-Paul Bezemer, Queen?s University, Canada Andre B. Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Lucy Cherkasova, HyTrust, USA Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy Vittoria de Nitto Person?, Universit? di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada Catalina M. Llad?, Universitat Illes Balears, Spain Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich, Switzerland Paulo R. M. Maciel, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA Jos? Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University, USA Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Juan F. Perez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Alma Riska, Network Appliances, USA Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University, UK Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China Feng Yan, University of Nevada-Reno, USA Xiaoyun Zhu, Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (INDUSTRY/EXPERIENCE PAPERS) Klaus-Dieter Lange, HPE, USA Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Tilmann Rabl, TU Berlin, Germany Matthias Scholze, QMethods, USA Rekha Singhal, TCS, India Cloyce Spradling, Oracle, USA Alexander Wert, NovaTec, Germany Boris Zibitsker, BEZNext, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Will Knottenbelt, Imperial College, UK * Katinka Wolter, FU Berlin, Germany Research Program Chairs * Andr? van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India Industry Program Chair * Heiko Koziolek, ABB, Germany Artifact Evaluation Chairs * Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany * Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Tutorials Chairs * Alma Dimnaku (Riska), Network Appliances, USA * Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy Workshops Chairs * Eva Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK * Yao-Min Chen, Oracle, USA Posters and Demos Chair * Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA Awards Chairs * Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland * John Murphy, UC Dublin, Ireland Publicity Chairs * Juan F. Perez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia * Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China Finance Chair * Matt Forshaw, Newcastle University, UK Proceedings Chair * Vladimir Stankovic, City University London, UK Registration Chair * Zhihao Shang, FU Berlin, Germany Web Site Chair * Thomas F. D?llmann, University of Stuttgart, Germany From dargenio at famaf.unc.edu.ar Tue Oct 17 05:45:52 2017 From: dargenio at famaf.unc.edu.ar (Pedro R. D'Argenio) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:45:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] JLAMP Special Issue on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory Message-ID: Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming Special Issue on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory ** Aims and Scope This special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming is devoted to the themes of the Research Seminar on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory and has its root in the research seminar of the same name held in Vienna on 26-29 of June, 2017 ( http://opct2017.famaf.unc.edu.ar). This is an open call for papers, therefore both participants of the research seminar and other authors are encouraged to submit their contributions. Submissions are invited in the field of concurrency theory; specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Models of concurrency - Process calculi - Behavioral relations and metrics - Expressiveness - Programming languages and types - Quantitative and security aspects - Verification, testing, and synthesis Papers surveying important open problems in concurrency theory are also welcome. ** 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 if there is a clear justification for additional pages; prospective authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least two reviewers. The authors will have some 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. Submissions will be handled through the Elsevier Editorial System (Evise) and can be uploaded to the JLAMP webpage. Authors must select ?VSI: OPCT 2017? when requested for ?Special Issue Type? 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. ** Important Dates Submission of papers: November 20, 2017 First review decision: March 23, 2018 Revision due: May 21, 2018 Acceptance notification: June 20, 2018 Final manuscript due: August 20, 2018 Expected publication: September 30, 2018 ** Guest Editors Ilaria Castellani (INRIA, FR) Pedro R. 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URL: From catalin.hritcu at gmail.com Fri Oct 20 04:55:27 2017 From: catalin.hritcu at gmail.com (Catalin Hritcu) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:55:27 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extended for Secure Compilation workshop (PriSC @ POPL'18) Message-ID: The PriSC'18 deadline has been extended by 1 week to the end of Wednesday, 25 October 2017, AoE. ======================================================================= Call for Presentations on Secure Compilation (PriSC Workshop @ POPL'18) ======================================================================= Secure compilation is an emerging field that puts together advances in programming languages, security, verification, systems, compilers, and hardware architectures in order to devise secure compiler chains that eliminate many of today's low-level vulnerabilities. Secure compilation aims to protect high-level language abstractions in compiled code, even against adversarial low-level contexts, and to allow sound reasoning about security in the source language. The emerging secure compilation community aims to achieve this by: identifying and formalizing properties that secure compilers must possess; devising efficient enforcement mechanisms; and developing effective verification and proof techniques. ====================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2018) ====================================================================== The Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC) is a new informal 1-day workshop without any proceedings. The goal is to identify interesting research directions and open challenges and to bring together researchers interested in secure compilation. The 2nd PriSC edition will be held on Saturday, 13 January 2018, in Los Angeles, together with the ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). More information at http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 ====================================================================== Important Dates ====================================================================== Presentation proposal submission deadline: 25 October 2017, AoE Presentation proposal notification: 15 November 2017 PriSC Workshop takes place: 13 January 2018 ====================================================================== Scope of the Workshop ====================================================================== Anyone interested in presenting at the workshop should submit an extended abstract (up to 2 pages, details below). This can cover past, ongoing, or future work. Any topic that could be of interest to the emerging secure compilation community is in scope. Talks that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are **not** limited to: - attacker models for secure compiler chains - secure compilation properties: full abstraction, memory safety, control-flow integrity, preserving non-interference or (hyper-)properties against adversarial contexts, secure multi-language interoperability - enforcement mechanisms: static checking, program verification, reference monitoring, program rewriting, software fault isolation, system-level protection, secure hardware, crypto, randomization - experimental evaluation and applications of secure compilation - proof methods: (bi)simulation, logical relations, game semantics, multi-language semantics, embedded interpreters - formal verification of secure compilation chain (protection mechanisms, compilers, linkers, loaders), machine-checked proofs, translation validation, property-based testing ====================================================================== Guidelines for Submitting Extended Abstracts ====================================================================== Extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format and not exceed 2 pages. They should be formatted in two-column layout, 10pt font, and be printable on A4 and US Letter sized paper. We recommend using the new `acmart` LaTeX style in `sigplan` mode: http://www.sigplan.org/sites/default/files/acmart/current/acmart-sigplanproc.zip Submissions are not anonymous and should provide sufficient detail to be assessed by the program committee. Presentation at the workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere. Please submit your extended abstracts at https://prisc18.hotcrp.com/ ====================================================================== Short Talks Session ====================================================================== We will also run a short talks session, where participants get five minutes to present intriguing ideas, advertise ongoing work, etc. You can expect a call for short talks closer to the event. ====================================================================== Program Committee ====================================================================== Program Chair Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Members Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Lars Birkedal Aarhus University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven C?dric Fournet Microsoft Research Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Xavier Leroy Inria Paris David Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Frank Piessens KU Leuven Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis Nikhil Swamy Microsoft Research ====================================================================== Organizing Committee ====================================================================== Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis ====================================================================== Contact and More Information ===================================================================== More information about PriSC 2018 can be found on the website: http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 For questions please contact Catalin Hritcu (Program Chair). To make sure you receive such announcements in the future please subscribe to the following low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/prisc-announce From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Fri Oct 20 08:04:01 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:04:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2017 post-proceedings DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: DEADLINES EXTENDED by 2 weeks: * abstract deadline: 30 October * paper deadline: 6 November --------------------------------------- Open call for papers Post-proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs TYPES 2017 TYPES is a major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of type theory and its applications. TYPES 2017 was held between 29 May and 1 June in Budapest, Hungary. The 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, also to those who did not participate in the conference. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type systems to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics: * 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; * Type theory in linguistics. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: 30 October 2017 (was: 16 Oct) * Paper submission: 6 November (was: 23 Oct) * Author notification: 26 March 2018 DETAILS * Papers have to be formatted with lipics.cls and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs. http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ * The recommended length of a paper is 15-25 pages. Submissions significantly longer than 25 pages will not be considered. * Papers have to be submitted in pdf through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2017postproceed * 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. * More information is available on http://types2017.elte.hu/#postproc * In case of questions, please contact one of the editors. EDITORS Andreas Abel andreas.abel at gu.se Gothenburg University, Sweden Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg fredrik.nordvall-forsberg at strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Ambrus Kaposi akaposi at inf.elte.hu E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary From harley.eades at gmail.com Sun Oct 22 14:42:53 2017 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:42:53 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Feedback on new Southeast Regional PL Seminar Message-ID: <057904E9-B83B-4518-8FCA-3DA99489A9BF@gmail.com> Hi, everyone. Cl?ment Aubert and I ? two researchers are Augusta University ? are in the early stages of planning a new southeast regional programming languages (PL) seminar to try and bring together PL researchers within the region (around GA, NC, SC, and northern FL). It is our hope that this turns into an annual event where the location rotates between schools. There are a few versions of this throughout the PL community, for example, there are: - Midwest Verification Day founded at the University of Iowa, http://mvd.cs.uiowa.edu/ - Midwest Programming Languages Summit founded at Indiana University http://wonks.github.io/mwpls/fall2017/2017/10/16/mwpls.html The idea behind these types of meetings is to have a local venue to share new ideas, and foster collaborations. These meetings are especially good for students to try out new ideas, network, and get initial feedback on ongoing work, but of course, these are also good reasons for faculty to come as well. The meeting will also be very broad in subject matter, thus, any work in PL will be welcome whether applied or theoretical, or simply related to PL. The more the better. Regional meetings are also very cheap to attend, because they are usually within driving distance. We are in the process of securing funding to host the first meeting of the Southeast Regional Programming Languages Seminar (SERPL) at Augusta University in Augusta, GA. This email is simply to try and gather interest in such a meeting. We are writing to you to simply ask for you to let us know that you are interested, and would be interested in attending or sending your students to attend. If you know anyone who might be interested we ask that you forward this email to them. We look forward to hearing from you. Very best, Harley Eades, http://metatheorem.org/ Cl?ment Aubert, http://spots.augusta.edu/ From grewe at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Fri Oct 20 12:30:29 2017 From: grewe at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Sylvia Grewe) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:30:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP 2018: Research Papers Third Submission Deadline Message-ID: 2018 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Mon 9 - Thu 12 April 2018 Nice, France http://2018.programming-conference.org/ In 2017, we started a new conference and journal focused on everything to do with programming, including the experience of programming, called for short. The first edition of was a great success (see http://twitter.com/programmingconf for testimonies). Paper submissions and publications are handled by the affiliated journal (http://programming-journal.org/). Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** 2018 accepts papers that advance knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. UPCOMING SUBMISSION DEADLINES: December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline, for journal Vol. 2, Issue 3) We accept submissions covering several areas of expertise. These areas include, but are not limited to: ? General-purpose programming ? Distributed systems programming ? Parallel and multi-core programming ? Graphics and GPU programming ? Security programming ? User interface programming ? Database programming ? Visual and live programming ? Data mining and machine learning programming ? Interpreters, virtual machines and compilers ? Modularity and separation of concerns ? Model-based development ? Metaprogramming and reflection ? Testing and debugging ? Program verification ? Programming education ? Programming environments ? Social coding ******************************************************** IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES ******************************************************** Research paper submissions: December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline, for journal Vol. 2, Issue 3) Research paper first notification (for third submission deadline): February 1 2018 Research paper revised submission (for third submission deadline): March 1 2018 Research paper final notification (for third submission deadline): March 7 2018 Camera-ready copy (for third submission deadline): March 15 2018 Student Research Competition Abstracts Submission: January 22 2018 All important dates of the journal throughout the year can also be found at http://programming-journal.org/timeline/ ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Manuel Serrano, INRIA France Local Organizing Chair: Tamara Rezk, INRIA France Organizing Committee: Stefan Marr (workshops co-chair), University of Kent, United Kingdom Jennifer B. Sartor (workshops co-chair), Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium Philipp Haller (student research competition chair), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Tobias Pape (web technology), HPI - University of Potsdam Sylvia Grewe (publicity), Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Germany Minh Ngo (volunteers chair), INRIA France Etienne Lozes (grants committee chair), Universit? de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France Yves Roudier (poster chair), Universit? de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France Program Committee: Guido Salvaneschi (program chair), Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Alberto Bacchelli, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK Patrick Eugster, TU Darmstadt, Germany & Purdue University, United States Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, UK Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, United States Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de M?laga, Spain Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI, California Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Yossi Gil, Israel Institute of Technology Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Phlipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Matthew Hammer, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), Germany Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan J?rg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, University of Cambridge, UK Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Mira Mezini, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, United States Mario S?dholt, IMT Atlantique, Nantes, France Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, United States Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Tijs van der Storm, CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands ******************************************************** 2018 is kindly supported by: ACM In-Cooperation SIGPLAN (In-cooperation) SIGSOFT (In-cooperation) INRIA France AOSA ******************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Sun Oct 22 14:43:57 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:43:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2018 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2018 16-18 January, 2018 - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx Within the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions. The session covers theoretical work, advanced applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes. TOPICS: We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without limiting to them: - Type theories for applications to language and information processing - Computational grammar - Computational syntax - Computational semantics of natural languages - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual processing - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Models of computation and algorithms for natural language processing - Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency - Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to language processing - Information about space and time in language models and processing - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: November 7, 2017 Authors Notification: November 21, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: November 29, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, for preliminary work in progress. Regular Papers - Submission: It is recommended that Regular Papers are submitted for review with around 8 to 10 pages - Acceptance: After a double-blind peer review, qualifying Regular Papers may be accepted as either Full Papers or Short Papers - Publication: Regular Papers classified as Full Papers will be assigned a 12-page limit in the Conference Proceedings, while Regular Papers classified as Short Papers have an 8-page limit Position Papers - Submission: Position Papers should be submitted for review with around 6 or 7 pages - Acceptance: After a double-blind peer review, qualifying Position Papers will be accepted as Short Papers - Publication: Position Papers will be assigned a 8-page limit in the Conference Proceedings Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the page with paper Templates: http://www.icaart.org/Templates.aspx Please also check the Guidelines: http://www.icaart.org/Guidelines.aspx Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button Submit Paper on the pages of NLPinAI 2018. The Conference Proceedings will be published under an ISBN number by SCITEPRESS and include final versions of all accepted papers, adjusted to satisfy reviewers' recommendations. They will be obtainable on paper and CD-Rom support, and made available for online consultation at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Online publication is exclusive to papers which have been both published and presented at the event. Indexation: The proceedings will be submitted to Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index) and Scopus for indexation. ------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIRS: Roussanka Loukanova Stockholm University, Sweden Aarne Ranta University of Gothenburg Sweden CONTACT: Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From schwicht at mathematik.uni-muenchen.de Mon Oct 23 09:08:59 2017 From: schwicht at mathematik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Schwichtenberg) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:08:59 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Hausdorff Trimester "Types, Sets and Constructions" (Call for participation) Message-ID: Call for participation Types, Sets and Constructions Hausdorff Trimester Program, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM), Universit?t Bonn, Germany May 2 - August 24, 2018 Organizers: Douglas S. Bridges, Michael Rathjen, Peter Schuster, Helmut Schwichtenberg The deadline for applications is October 31, 2017. http://www.him.uni-bonn.de/types-sets-constructions/ Organizers: Douglas S. Bridges, Michael Rathjen, Peter Schuster, Helmut Schwichtenberg Type theory, originally conceived as a bulwark against the paradoxes of naive set theory, has languished for a long time in the shadow of axiomatic set theory which became the mainstream foundation of mathematics. The first renaissance of type theory occurred with the advent of computer science and Bishop's development of a practice-oriented constructive mathematics. It was followed by a second quite recent one that not only champions type theory as a central framework for achieving the goal of fully formalized mathematics amenable to verification by computer-based proof assistants, but also finds deep and unexpected connections between type theory and homotopy theory. Constructive set theory and mathematics distinguishes itself from its traditional counterpart, classical set theory and mathematics based on it, by insisting that proofs of existential theorems must afford means for constructing an instance. Constructive reasoning emerges naturally in core areas of mathematics and in the theory of computation. The aim of the Hausdorff Trimester is to create a forum for research on and dissemination of exciting recent developments, which are of central importance to modern foundations of mathematics. The program will include the following events: Spring School, addressed to PhD students and postdocs (May 3-9, 2018, without Sunday, 6^th ) Three major workshops * Types, Homotopy Type theory, and Verification (June 4 - June 8) * Proofs and Computation (July 2 - July 6) * Constructive Mathematics (August 6 - August 10) Those planning to participate include: Peter Aczel, Toshiyasu Arai, Sergei Artemov, Steve Awodey, Andrej Bauer, Ulrich Berger, Thierry Coquand, Mart?n Escard?, Sy Friedman, Rosalie Iemhoff, Hajime Ishihara, Gerhard J?ger, Peter Koellner, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Robert Lubarsky, Maria Emilia Maietti, Per Martin-L?f, Paul-Andr? Mellies, Sara Negri, Paulo Oliva, Erik Palmgren, Giuseppe Rosolini, Giovanni Sambin, Dana Scott, Monika Seisenberger, Andreas Weiermann, Ihsen Yengui Call for participation: The Hausdorff Research Institute offers visiting positions for the whole period of the trimester program (for senior scientists, postdocs and PhD students). In addition numerous fellowships for shorter periods are available. Please send applications (including CV, a letter of intent and, for postdocs and PhD students, a letter of recommendation) using the online application form . The deadline for applications is October 31, 2017. From wintersmind at gmail.com Thu Oct 26 14:59:00 2017 From: wintersmind at gmail.com (Christian Skalka) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:59:00 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track position at University of Vermont Message-ID: We are looking for new faculty in the area of Computer Security and Privacy interpreted broadly. Applicants from the PL and formal methods community are welcome. Vermont is a beautiful place to live and our University is promoting the growth of cybersecurity research and education-- see link in ad below for info about our Center for Computer Security and Privacy. ============================================= Tenure-Track Position in Computer Security and Privacy Department of Computer Science College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences The University of Vermont The Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont is seeking applicants for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, with duties to start in late August of 2018. Preference will be given to researchers in the areas of computer security and privacy. We interpret these areas broadly, and areas of particular interest include: network security, embedded device security including IoT and medical devices, and critical infrastructure security including health and energy systems. The applicant must have an earned PhD in Computer Science or a closely-related area, a strong research record, the ability to teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate computer science courses, and the potential to supervise masters and doctoral students. Ideal candidates would show potential for contributing to the activities and growth of the recently established Center for Computer Security and Privacy ( http://compsec.w3.uvm.edu) at UVM. The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, veterans, individuals with disabilities and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. To that end candidates must provide a diversity impact statement as part of the application detailing how they will further the diversity of the unit through their research, teaching and/or service at the University. Computer Science is recruiting for a total of 5 faculty positions. Links to the advertisements for these and other open faculty positions in the College of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences are available online ( http://go.uvm.edu/hireme). The University of Vermont, established in 1791, is a comprehensive research university with a current enrollment of 12,000+ undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. The scientific and academic environments in the Department of Computer Science, the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, and throughout the UVM community are dynamic, highly collaborative, and multi-disciplinary. The University is located in Burlington, Vermont, about 90 miles south of Montreal. Burlington is often rated as the best small city in America for quality of living, and features year-round outdoor recreation and cultural events. Greater Burlington has a population of approximately 150,000 and enjoys a panoramic setting on Lake Champlain, bordered by the Adirondack and Green Mountains. The applicant must submit a current curriculum vitae identifying their specific area of expertise, a statement of teaching philosophy, a detailed statement of research interests, a teaching diversity impact statement, and names of at least three people who can provide letters of reference, at least one of which can comment on teaching. All application materials must be submitted online at http://www.uvmjobs.com, posting number [F923PO]. Inquiries may be addressed to Dr. Christian Skalka, Search Committee Chairperson (ceskalka at uvm.edu). 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URL: From abb at cs.stir.ac.uk Mon Oct 23 11:05:11 2017 From: abb at cs.stir.ac.uk (Andrea Bracciali) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:05:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] cfp: 2nd Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts at Financial Cryptograpy In-Reply-To: References: <2E6FF3DB-37D6-4D96-9689-415892DB9A7F@cs.stir.ac.uk> Message-ID: <7E69D2EC-E8B0-4993-9C62-59CF11582E73@cs.stir.ac.uk> [apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC'18 ) March 1-2, 2018 Santa Barbara Beach Resort & Spa Cura?ao In Association with Financial Cryptography 18 (FC 2018 ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS A potentially highly transformational technology currently developing on top of blockchain technologies are smart contracts, i.e. self-enforcing agreements in the form of executable programs that are deployed to and run on top of (specialised) blockchains. Several proposals have developed the idea of algorithmic validation of decentralised trust, along Szabo's intuition. A prominent example is the Ethereum blockchain. It has a Turing-complete programming model, and bears one of the most striking performed attacks, the DAO attack (not to mention the discussed fork adopted as a counter measure). Possible further directions, are drawn by in-progress proposals like Tezos, where algorithmic validation also embraces decentralised consensus: smart contracts can negotiate the rules themselves which enable decentralised trust. These technologies introduce a novel programming framework and execution environment, which are not satisfactory understood at the moment. Multidisciplinary and multifactorial aspects affect correctness, safety, privacy, authentication, efficiency, sustainability, resilience and trust in smart contracts. Existing frameworks, which are competing for their market share, adopt different solutions to issues like the above ones. Merits of proposed solutions are still to be fully evaluated and compared by means of systematic scientific investigation, and further research is needed towards laying the foundations of Trusted Smart Contracts. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest and open problems includes: - validation and definition of the programming abstractions and execution model, - foundations of software engineering for smart contracts, - authentication and anonymity management, - privacy and privacy-preserving contracts, - oblivious transfer, - data provenance, - access rights, - game-theoretic approaches for security and validation, - resilience of the validation/mining/execution model, - verification of the properties expected to be enforced by smart contracts, - fairness and decentralisation of contracts and their management, - effects of consensus mechanisms and proof-of mechanisms on smart contracts, - blockchain data analysis, - rewards, economics and sustainability/stability of the framework, - comparison of the permissioned and non-permissioned scenarios, - use cases and killer applications of smart contracts, - future outlook on smart contract technologies. WTSC focuses primarily on smart contracts as an application layer on top of blockchains, however aspects of the underlying supporting blockchains may clearly become relevant in so much as they affect properties of the smart contracts. The Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC) aims to gather together researchers from both academia and industry interested in the many facets of Trusted Smart Contract engineering, and to provide a multi-disciplinary forum for discussing open problems, proposed solutions and the vision on future developments. Experts in fields including (but not limited to!): - programming languages, - verification, - security, - software engineering, - decision and game theory, - cryptography, - finance and economics, - monetary systems, - finance and economics as well as, practitioners and companies interested in blockchain technologies, are invited to submit their findings, case studies and reports on open problems for presentation at the workshop, take part in this second edition of WTSC and make it a lively forum. INVITED SPEAKER :: :: TBA :: :: IMPORTANT DATES WTSC adopts this year a **novel submission schedule** with double deadline. A first deadline will allow authors to plan their participation well in advance. A second deadline will allow authors who need extra time to develop their contributions, to have a further opportunity to participate. Selected borderline papers from the first deadline will be considered for and also allowed to resubmit to the second deadline. Abstract registration is kindly requested in advance. Abstract Registration: November 26, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: December 1, 2017 Early Author Notification: December 20, 2017 Late Abstract Registration: January 10, 2018 Late Submission Deadline: January 14, 2018 Late Author Notification: January 30, 2018 Early registration deadline: TBA Final Papers: TBA WTSC: March 1-2, 2018 Financial Cryptography: February 26 - March 2, 2018 SUBMISSION WTSC solicits submissions of manuscripts that represent significant and novel research contributions. Submissions must not substantially overlap with works that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format and should be no more than 15 pages including references and appendices. Papers may also be in a short format, no more than 8 pages including references and appendices. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors who seek to submit their works to journals may opt-out by publishing an extended abstract only. All submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and as such, must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. PROGRAM CHAIRS Andrea Bracciali University of Stirling, UK Federico Pintore University of Trento, IT Massimiliano Sala University of Trento, IT PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To Be Completed) Bob Atkey Strathclyde University, UK Marcella Atzori IFIN, IT Massimo Bartoletti University of Cagliari, IT Devraj Basu Strathclyde University, UK Alex Biryukov University of Luxembourg, LU Daniel Broby Strathclyde University, UK Bill Buchanan Napier University, UK Martin Chapman King?s College London, UK Tiziana Cimoli University of Cagliari, IT Nicola Dimitri University of Siena, IT Stuart Fraser Wallet.services, UK Neil Ghani Strathclyde, UK Davide Grossi Utrecht University, NL Yoichi Hirai Ethereum DEV UG, DE Ioannis Kounelis Joint Research Centre, European Commission Loi Luu National University of Singapore, SG Carsten Maple Warwick University, UK Michele Marchesi University of Cagliari, IT Peter McBurney King?s College London, UK Neil McLaren Avaloq, UK Philippe Meyer Avaloq, UK Bud Mishra NYU, USA Ilya Sergey UCL, UK Thomas Sibut-Pinote INRIA, FR Jason Teutsch University of Alabama at Birmingham, US Roberto Tonelli University of Cagliari, IT Luca Vigano? 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URL: From pangjun at gmail.com Tue Oct 24 05:21:38 2017 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:21:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2018 -- 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: TASE 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** The 12th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2018) August 29-31, Guangzhou, China http://tase2018.jnu.edu.cn For more information email: tase2018 at easychair.org ****************************************************************** * Abstract submission: February 23, 2018 * Paper submission: March 2, 2018 -------- OVERVIEW -------- The 12th Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Conference (TASE 2018) will be held in Guangzhou, China in August, 2018. 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 2018 aims to provide a forum for people from academia and industry to communicate their latest results on theoretical advances in software engineering. TASE 2018 is the 12th in the TASE series. The past TASE symposia were successfully held in Shanghai ('07), Nanjing ('08), Tianjin ('09), Taipei ('10), Xi'an ('11), Beijing ('12), Birmingham ('13), Changsha('14), Nanjing('15), Shanghai('16) and Nice('17). The proceedings of the TASE 2018 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 Science of Computer Programs journal. ------ TOPICS ------ The symposium is devoted to theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Abstract interpretation * Algebraic and co-algebraic specifications * Aspect oriented software * Component-based software engineering * Cyber-physical systems * Deductive verification * Distributed and concurrent systems * Embedded and real-time systems * Feature-oriented software * Formal verification and program semantics * Integration of formal methods * Language design * Model checking and theorem proving * Model-driven engineering * Object-oriented systems * Probability in software engineering * Program analysis * Program logics and calculi * Quantum computation * Requirements engineering * Reverse engineering and software maintenance * Run-time verification and monitoring * Semantic web and web services * Service-oriented and cloud computing * Software processes and workflows * Software architectures and design * Software testing and quality assurance * Software safety, security and reliability * Specification and verification * Type systems and behavioural typing * Tools exploiting theoretical results ---------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- (To be announced) ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- Submission should be done through the TASE 2018 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2018 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 : February 23, 2018 Paper submission : March 2, 2018 Notification : May 6, 2018 Camera-ready : June 6, 2018 Conference data: August 29-31, 2018 ------------- GENERAL CHAIR ------------- Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) Jian Weng (Jinan University, China) ----------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Chenyi Zhang (Jinan University, China) ----------------- STEERING COMMITTEE ----------------- 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 COMMITTEE ------------------ Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Toshiaki Aoki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, The Netherlands Qingliang Chen, Jinan University, China Rocco de Nicola, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China Ylies Falcone, INRIA, France Rob van Glabbeek, CSIRO, Australia Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University, UK Pierre Kelsen, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jingyi Long, Jinan University, China Frederic Mallet, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Mohammad Reza Mousavi, University of Leicester, UK Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan Kazuhiro Ogata, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA, France Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK Bernhard Scholz, University of Sydney, Australia Graeme Smith, University of Queensland, Australia Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University, China Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden W. Eric Wong, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Min Zhang, East China Normal University, China Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China ---------------- ORGANIZING CHAIR ---------------- Guowei Luo (Jinan University, China) ---------------- PUBLICITY CHAIR ---------------- Liangda Fang (Jinan University, China) From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Thu Oct 26 21:40:49 2017 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:40:49 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Workshop Proposals: ICFP 2018 Message-ID: <59f28ea1c9039_59753fc3c5457be45351d@landin.local.mail> [ Please disregard previous version sent with the wrong subject line. ] CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS ICFP 2018 23rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming September 23-29, 2018 St. Louis, Missouri, United States http://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2018 The 23rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States on September 23-29, 2018. 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 2018 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 23 (the day before ICFP) and September 27-29 (the three days after ICFP). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: November 20, 2017 Notification of acceptance: December 18, 2017 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 2017 workshop co-chairs (Christophe Scholliers and David Christiansen), via email to icfp-workshops-2018 at googlegroups.com by November 20, 2017. (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 18, 2017, 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/icfp2018-files/icfp18-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 2018 organizing committee, together with the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee. Workshop Co-Chair: Christophe Scholliers (University of Ghent) Workshop Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Indiana University) General Chair: Robby Findler (Northwestern University) Program Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any queries should be addressed to the workshop co-chairs (Christophe Scholliers and David Christiansen), via email to icfp-workshops-2018 at googlegroups.com From miryung at cs.ucla.edu Tue Oct 24 15:02:56 2017 From: miryung at cs.ucla.edu (Miryung Kim) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:02:56 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Research Position at UCLA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The postdoctoral research associate will join a team of researchers investigating (1) how to remove little used functionality, decrease run-time bloat, and specialize libraries to what is actually used and (2) how to address the security and inefficiency of software through a synergistic software customization technique that combines de-bloating, clone refactoring and removal, and delayering. Our project will focus on Java at a late stage, so the program analysis experience with binary Java bytecode is required. Background and experience with building big data systems is also important, as we plan to apply the resulting technique to the big data system domain. This postdoctoral researcher will be funded from the new ONR project on "Synergistic Software Customization: Framework, Algorithms, and Tools" and will collaborate with Professors Jens Palsberg (UCLA) and Harry Xu (UC Irvine). Applicants with a strong publication record at ICSE, FSE, PLDI, and OOPSLA are preferred and encouraged to apply. The project has an emphasis on producing an end-to-end integrated tool that combines different research techniques. The postdoc will also be responsible for conducting research, writing scientific papers, attending project PI meetings, performing tool demonstrations, presenting the work at conferences, etc. The postdoc will also assume some responsibility for supervising the research of PhD and masters students, and will be expected to play a major role in developing project reports and proposals. The start date is flexible, which can be as soon as January 2018. Salary and benefits are competitive. Principal Investigator: Prof. Miryung Kim (http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~miryung) Department URL: http://www.cs.ucla.edu Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Candidates should have, or shortly expect to receive, a doctoral degree in computer science or a related field. They should have a background in static or dynamic program analysis. Candidates interested in this position should email a CV together with a brief description of research interests and a list of at least three references to Miryung Kim (miryung at cs.ucla.edu). Review of applications will begin upon receipt and continue, until all positions are filled. --- Miryung Kim, PhD Associate Professor Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~miryung/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kztk.matsuda at gmail.com Wed Oct 25 04:00:50 2017 From: kztk.matsuda at gmail.com (Kazutaka Matsuda) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:00:50 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [1st CFP] Bx 2018: 7th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== Bx 2018: 7th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations Nice, France (co-located with 2018) https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/bx-2018-papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2018 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 has rotated between venues in different fields. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Paper submission: Jan. 18, 2018 - Author notification: Feb. 17, 2018 - Workshop: To be announced (Apr. 9 or Apr. 10, 2018) AIM & TOPICS ------------ The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, established and new, interested in bx from different perspectives, including but not limited to: - bidirectional programming languages and frameworks - 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 ---------------- The BX 2018 program committee considers five categories of submissions: - Full Research Papers (up to 10 pages) * in-depth presentations of novel concepts and results * applications of bx to new domains * survey papers providing novel comparisons between existing bx technologies and approaches case studies - Tool Papers (up to 6 pages) * guideline papers presenting best practices for employing a specific bx approach (with a specific tool) * presentation of new tools or substantial improvements to existing ones * qualitative and/or quantitative comparisons of applying different bx approaches and tools - Experience Report (up to 4 pages) * sharing experiences and lessons learned with bx tools/frameworks/languages * how bx is used in (research/industrial/educational) projects - Extended Abstracts (up to 3 pages) * work in progress * small focused contributions * position papers and research perspectives * critical questions and challenges for bx - Talk Proposals (up to 2 pages) * proposed lectures about topics of interest for bx * existing work representing relevant contributions for bx * promising contributions that are not mature enough to be proposed as papers of the other categories All papers are expected to be self-contained and well-written. Tool papers are not expected to present novel scientific results, but to document artifacts of interest and share bx experience/best practices with the community. Experience papers are expected to report on lessons learnt from applying bx approaches, languages, tools and theories to practical application case studies. Extended abstracts should primarily provoke interesting discussion at the workshop and will not be held to the same standard of maturity as regular papers. Talk proposals are expected to present works of particular interest for the community and that are worth a talk slot at the workshop. We strongly encourage authors to ensure that any (variants of) examples are present in the bx example repository at the time of submission, and for tool papers, to allow for reproducibility with minimal effort, either via a virtual machine (e.g. via Share - http://share20.eu) or a dedicated website with relevant artifacts and tool access. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. PROCEEDINGS ----------- The workshop proceedings, including all accepted papers (except talk proposals), will be published as International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library before the workshop. SUBMISSION GUIDELINE -------------------- Submission site is to be announced. Submissions should use the ACM Conference acmart Format with the ?sigconf? option (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with a font size of 10 point and the font family Times New Roman. All submissions should be in PDF format. If you use LaTeX or Word, please use the provided ACM acmart templates. Otherwise, please follow the ACM author instructions. 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 for review using the LaTeX command \settopmatter{printfolios=true} (see examples in template). 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. Submissions not complying with the above guidelines may be excluded from the reviewing process without further notice. If a paper is accepted, at least 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. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- - Jens Weber (University of Victoria) - Kazutaka Matsuda (Tohoku University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS ------------------------- To be announced. From henning at basold.eu Mon Oct 23 13:33:11 2017 From: henning at basold.eu (Henning Basold) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:33:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2018 : First Call for Papers Message-ID: Call for Papers The 14th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'18) Thessaloniki, Greece, 14 - 15 April 2018 (co-located with ETAPS 2018) www.coalg.org/cmcs18 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, logic, answer set, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming; - coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing; - coinductive definition and proof principles for coalgebras (including "up-to" techniques); - coalgebras and algebras; - coalgebras and (modal) logic; - coalgebraic specification and verification; - coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems); - coalgebra in quantum computing; - coalgebra and game theory; - tools exploiting coalgebraic techniques. Venue and event --------------- CMCS'18 will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, co-located with ETAPS 2018, on 14 - 15 April 2018. Keynote speaker --------------- TBC Invited speakers ---------------- Clemens Kupke (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) Daniela Petrisan (University Diderot Paris 7, France) Invited tutorial speakers ------------------------- Bob Coecke (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Aleks Kissinger (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Important dates --------------- Abstract regular papers 5 January 2018 Submission regular papers 12 January 2018 Notification regular papers 12 February 2018 Camera-ready copy 19 February 2018 Submission short contributions 23 February 2018 Notification short contributions 9 March 2018 Programme committee ------------------- Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, Italy) Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Fredrik Dahlqvist (University College London, United Kingdom) Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy) Sergey Goncharov (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Paul Levy (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Stefan Milius (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, United States) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Dusko Pavlovic (University of Hawai?i at M?noa, United States) Daniela Petrisan (University Diderot Paris 7, France) Damien Pous (LIP ENS-Lyon, France) Juriaan Rot (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Jan Rutten (CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Lutz Schr?der (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Alexandra Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) Henning Urbat (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Publicity chair --------------- Henning Basold (CNRS/ENS-Lyon, France) PC chair -------- Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Steering committee ------------------ Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, Italy) Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, United Kingdom) Marina Lenisa (University of Udine, Italy) Stefan Milius (chair), FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Larry Moss (Indiana University, United States) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Jan Rutten (CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Lutz Schr?der (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Alexandra Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) 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=cmcs2018. The proceedings of CMCS 2018 will include all accepted regular papers and will be published post-conference as a Springer volume in the IFIP-LNCS series. Accepted short contributions will be bundled in a technical report. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Requirements: ????Postdoc: PhD degree in CS, Computer Engineering or EE from a top University. ????PhD: Master?s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent from a top University Objectives: ????Develop and evaluate hardware-assisted runtime verification models, architectures and tools. ????Develop evaluate machine learning-based specification mining methods and tools. Expected Skills: ????Familiarity with hardware-assisted runtime verification formalism, tools and methods ??? Familiarity with machine-learning algorithms ????Familiarity with specification mining methods and applications. ????Experience with FPGA tools ????Experience with multiprocessor simulators such as GEM5. Planned visits and collaboration: ????TU Munich (Professor Andreas Herkersdorf) ??? TU Branschweig (Professor Rolf Ernst) Timeline: ?? Ideally, candidates would be able to start in Winter or Spring 2018 for a period of 1 year with possibility of extension up to 3 years total. To Inquire: Please send a CV to Fadi Kurdahi (kurdahi at uci.edu) . Relevant publications: Nikil Dutt, Fadi J. Kurdahi, Rolf Ernst, and Andreas Herkersdorf. 2016. Conquering MPSoC complexity with principles of a self-aware information processing factory. In /Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis/?(CODES '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 37, 4 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2968456.2973275]. Ahmed Nassar, Fadi J. Kurdahi, and Wael Elsharkasy. 2015. NUVA: architectural support for runtime verification of parametric specifications over multicores. In /Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems/?(CASES '15). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 137-146. A. Nassar, F. J. Kurdahi and S. R. 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For more information and a full CFP, please see: https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/ I'm including the outline below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming In a society where computers have become ubiquitous, it is necessary to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of computer programs, not just from the technical viewpoint, but from a broader historical and philosophical perspective. A historical awareness of the evolution of programming not only helps to clarify the complex structure of computing, but it also provides an insight in what programming was, is and could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle fundamental questions about the nature of programs, programming languages and programming as a discipline. HaPoP 2018 is the fourth edition of the Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming, organised by HaPoC, Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing. As in the previous editions, we are convinced that an interdisciplinary approach is necessary for understanding programming with its multifaceted nature. As such, we welcome participation by researchers and practitioners coming from a diversity of backgrounds, including historians, philosophers, computer scientists and professional software developers. In addition to submissions in a wide range of areas traditional for HaPoP (outlined below), we especially welcome submissions that explore the nature of scientific progress with respect to computer programming as a discipline. We are interested in investigations concerning the methodology of computer programming, whether it follows a form of scientific method that allows it to increase its problem solving ability, whether its development more is akin to science, engineering or rather art, and what examples from the history of programming can be provided to support either argument. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have any questions regarding suitability of a topic, format of the extended abstract, or anything else, please contact me at tomas at tomasp.net. Thanks, Tomas Petricek From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Fri Oct 27 07:24:49 2017 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:24:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] DisCoTec 2018 1st CfP Message-ID: ************************************************************************ Call for Papers DisCoTec 2018 13th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques http://2018.discotec.org Madrid, Spain, 18-21 June 2018 ************************************************************************ 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 * Important Dates * COORDINATION, DAIS & FORTE (LNCS publication) - February 2, 2018: Submission of abstract - February 9, 2018: Submission of papers - March 30, 2018: Notification of accepted papers - June 18-20, 2018: Conferences in Madrid Collocated workshops: - January 12, 2018: Deadline for workshop proposals - January 26, 2018: Notification of accepted workshops - Mid April, 2018: Submission of papers (workshops) - Mid May, 2018: Notification of accepted papers (workshops) - June 20-21, 2018 Workshops in Madrid * General Chair * Manuel N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Organisation Chairs * Jes?s Correas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Sonia Est?vez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Publicity Chair * Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy * Workshops Chairs * Luis Llana (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland) * Steering Board * Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, Germany) Alain Girault (INRIA Grenoble, France) Kostas Magoutis (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, France ? Chair) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) Rui Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, France) 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 2018 20th IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages ************************************************************************ * Scope * Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference provides a well-established forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination. Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: - Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination, emergent behaviour, types, semantics; - Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance aspects; - Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages: implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity; - Middlewares and coordination; - Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing; - Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination; - Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour; - Coordination and modern distributed computing: Web services, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing; - Programming languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development of coordinated applications; - Programming methodologies and verification of coordinated applications; - Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies; - Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination. * Program Committee Chairs * - Michele Loreti, Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy - Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland ************************************************************************ DAIS 2018 18th 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 particularly 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. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems, particularly in areas of middleware, data store, cloud computing, edge and fog computing, big data systems, data center and internet-scale systems, social networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile computing, software-defined network (SDN), service-oriented computing, and peer-to-peer systems; - Novel architectures and mechanisms, particularly in areas of pub/sub systems, language-based approaches, overlay protocols, virtualization, resource allocation, blockchains, parallelization, and bio-inspired distributed computing; - System issues and design goals, including self-management, security and practical applications of cryptography, trust and privacy, cooperation incentives and fairness, fault-tolerance and dependability, scalability and elasticity, and tail-performance and energy-efficiency; - Engineering and tools, including model-driven engineering, domain-specific languages, design patterns and methods, profiling and learning, testing and validation, and distributed debugging. * Program Committee Chairs * - Silvia Bonomi, Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy - Etienne Riviere, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium ************************************************************************ FORTE 2018 38th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems ************************************************************************ * Scope * FORTE 2018 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. 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. * Program Committee Chairs * - Luis Caires, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Christel Baier, Universit?t Dresden, Germany From henning at basold.eu Sat Oct 28 10:34:48 2017 From: henning at basold.eu (Henning Basold) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:34:48 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2018 : First Call for Papers Message-ID: Call for Papers The 14th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'18) Thessaloniki, Greece, 14 - 15 April 2018 (co-located with ETAPS 2018) www.coalg.org/cmcs18 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, logic, answer set, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming; - coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing; - coinductive definition and proof principles for coalgebras (including "up-to" techniques); - coalgebras and algebras; - coalgebras and (modal) logic; - coalgebraic specification and verification; - coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems); - coalgebra in quantum computing; - coalgebra and game theory; - tools exploiting coalgebraic techniques. Venue and event --------------- CMCS'18 will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, co-located with ETAPS 2018, on 14 - 15 April 2018. Keynote speaker --------------- Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Invited speakers ---------------- Clemens Kupke (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) Daniela Petrisan (University Diderot Paris 7, France) Invited tutorial speakers ------------------------- Bob Coecke (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Aleks Kissinger (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Important dates --------------- Abstract regular papers 5 January 2018 Submission regular papers 12 January 2018 Notification regular papers 12 February 2018 Camera-ready copy 19 February 2018 Submission short contributions 23 February 2018 Notification short contributions 9 March 2018 Programme committee ------------------- Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, Italy) Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Fredrik Dahlqvist (University College London, United Kingdom) Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy) Sergey Goncharov (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Paul Levy (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Stefan Milius (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, United States) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Dusko Pavlovic (University of Hawai?i at M?noa, United States) Daniela Petrisan (University Diderot Paris 7, France) Damien Pous (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France) Juriaan Rot (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Jan Rutten (CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Lutz Schr?der (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Alexandra Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) Henning Urbat (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Publicity chair --------------- Henning Basold (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France) PC chair -------- Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Steering committee ------------------ Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, Italy) Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, United Kingdom) Marina Lenisa (University of Udine, Italy) Stefan Milius (chair), FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Larry Moss (Indiana University, United States) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Jan Rutten (CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Lutz Schr?der (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Alexandra Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) 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=cmcs2018. The proceedings of CMCS 2018 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 laurie at tratt.net Mon Oct 30 06:47:43 2017 From: laurie at tratt.net (Laurence Tratt) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:47:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] S-REPLS 8: Call for talks Message-ID: <20171030104743.6ykbt3eiw2tzjfan@overdrive.tratt.net> ============================================================================ S-REPLS 8 (#srepls8) South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar series Fri Jan 5th 2018 10:00 - 18:00 King's College London, Bush House, BH (S) 4.04 http://soft-dev.org/events/srepls8/ Call for talks ============================================================================ Overview S-REPLS is a regular and informal meeting for those based in the South of England with a professional interest - whether it be academic or commercial - in the semantics, implementation, and use of programming languages. Attendance is free and lunch and refreshments will be provided at S-REPLS 8. Submitting a talk S-REPLS talks are typically 20-30 minutes long on any topic related to programming languages. We are currently requesting talk suggestions for S-REPLS 8 at King's College London. Submissions from industrial professionals and junior researchers (postdocs and students), as well as descriptions of work in progress, are especially welcome. Please email info at soft-dev.org with the title "S-REPLS 8 talk suggestion", a draft title, and an abstract by 17:00 on Nov 6th 2017. Laurie From dimitris at microsoft.com Mon Oct 30 07:02:42 2017 From: dimitris at microsoft.com (Dimitrios Vytiniotis) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:02:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] new moderator: Gabriel Scherer Message-ID: Dear all, It has been my great pleasure to act as the moderator of the TYPES forum and the TYPES/announce mailing list over the past 3.5 years but I feel it is now a good time for a successor. 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At the end of the week, we expect that students will know how to write little programs (for instance number or list manipulations), write specifications about programs (for instance that a sorting algorithm does not loose data), and perform the proof that programs satisfy specifications. If you, one of your students, or one of your colleagues wishes to learn about Coq from scratch, this may be the right event for you. Registration is free but mandatory and every participant is responsible for their own accommodation, but we can provide some help finding affordable solutions. You can register by sending a mail to Nathalie Bellesso and Yves Bertot ( firstname.name at inria.fr ). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rybal at microsoft.com Mon Oct 30 09:21:57 2017 From: rybal at microsoft.com (Andrey Rybalchenko) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:21:57 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Intern and post-doc openings at MSR Cambridge Message-ID: Intern and post-doc openings in Network Verification at MSR Cambridge: developing and deploying verification tools that scale to Azure datacenters. Knowledge of network routing protocols is optional. Apply+cc Andrey Rybalchenko/share/inquire! https://careers.research.microsoft.com/ Dr. Andrey Rybalchenko Principal Researcher Microsoft Research -- http://aka.ms/rybal From pinku.surana at symbiont.io Mon Oct 30 13:49:20 2017 From: pinku.surana at symbiont.io (Pinku Surana) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:49:20 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Job opening at Symbiont in New York City Message-ID: Symbiont is developing a permissioned blockchain platform. Customers can deploy and execute autonomous programs on a secure decentralized network. It is imperative these programs are correct. Recent bugs in Ethereum programs have resulted in millions of dollars in losses. Our customers are eager to explore new technologies to minimize these risks. We are developing a programming language and tool suite that employ advances in type theory and formal verification. We are actively looking for individuals with demonstrated experience designing and implementing advanced type systems and/or formal verification techniques. We are interested in exploring dependent and refinement types, theorem provers like Z3 and Lean, and proof assistants like Coq and Agda. Of course, we are open to exploring any techniques to achieve our goal of helping developers write safer programs. This is an opportunity to apply cutting-edge research ideas to real-world problems. Symbiont (http://www.symbiont.io) is a venture-backed startup in New York City, USA. We prefer candidates in NYC, but have hired exceptional candidates working remotely. 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Our highly international team is located on the UNSW campus, close to the beautiful beaches of sunny Sydney, Australia, one of the world's most liveable cities. We are looking for two motivated proof engineers who want to join our team, move things forward, and have global impact. We are expanding our team, because seL4 is going places. There are active projects around the world in - Automotive - because cars have been hacked enough - Aviation - for more security and safety for autonomous vehicles - Defence - protecting confidential information - Connected consumer devices - with security built in from the start - Spaceflight, autonomous and crewed - because awesome To make these projects successful, we need to scale formal verification. You would - work on industrial-scale formal proofs in Isabelle/HOL and HOL4 - develop formally verified infrastructure for building secure systems on top of seL4 - contribute to improved proof automation and better reasoning techniques - apply formal proof to real-world systems and tools To apply for this position, you should possess a significant subset of the following skills. - functional programming in a language like Haskell, ML, or OCaml - first-order or higher-order formal logic - basic experience in C - ability and desire to quickly learn new techniques - undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar - ability and desire to work in a larger team We are hiring at two levels, so if you are more qualified or experienced than the above would suggest, you can come in as a senior proof engineer. If you additionally have experience - in software verification with an interactive theorem prover such as Isabelle/HOL, HOL4, or Coq, and/or - with operating systems and microkernels, and/or - in verified applications technology such as CakeML you should definitely apply! If you have the right skills and background, we can provide training on the job. Continual learning is a central component of everything we do. You will work with a unique world-leading combination of OS and formal methods experts, students at undergraduate and PhD level, engineers, and researchers from 5 continents, speaking over 15 languages. Trustworthy Systems is a fun, creative, and welcoming workplace with flexible hours & work arrangements. We value diversity in all forms and welcome applications from people of all ages, including people with disabilities, and those who identify as LGBTIQ. See https://ts.data61.csiro.au/diversity/ for more information. Salary ranges for this position (in AUD) (plus superannuation): - Junior: 61-78K, 80-91K - Senior: 95-103K, 109-128K depending on experience and qualifications. Apply online at the following links: - https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Sydney,-NSW-Proof-Engineer/438797400/ - https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Sydney,-NSW-Senior-Proof-Engineer/438798100/ Your application should include a cover letter, CV, undergraduate transcript (if applicable), and contact information for two references. This round of applications closes 21 November 2017. The seL4 code and proof, and the CakeML project, are open source. Check them out at https://seL4.systems and https://cakeml.org More information about Data61's Trustworthy Systems team at https://ts.data61.csiro.au Still studying? We also have internship opportunities! https://ts.data61.csiro.au/students/ From Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Oct 31 06:28:09 2017 From: Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:28:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLoC 2018 - Joint Call for Papers Message-ID: FLoC 2018 ? The 2018 Federated Logic Conference 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, England UK http://www.floc2018.org/ In 1996, as part of its Special Year on Logic and Algorithms, DIMACS hosted the first Federated Logic Conference (FLoC). It was modelled after the successful Federated Computer Research Conference (FCRC), and synergetically brought together conferences that apply logic to computer science. The seventh Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'18) will be held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018, at the Mathematical Institute and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. FLoC 2018 brings together nine major international conferences related to mathematical logic and computer science: International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) http://cavconference.org/2018/ IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/cas.cremers/csf2018/ International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM) http://www.fm2018.org International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD) http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/iclp2018/ International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) http://ijcar2018.org International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) https://itp2018.inria.fr Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) http://lics.siglog.org/lics18/ International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) http://sat2018.azurewebsites.net/ Please refer to the individual websites for conference-specific Calls for Papers, deadlines and information on how to submit. In addition to conferences, FLoC 2018 will also feature 79 workshops (7-8 July, 13 July, and 18-19 July) and the School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems (FoPSS, 30 June ? 6 July). The list of workshops can be found at http://www.floc2018.org/workshops. A separate call for workshop papers will follow in February 2018. IMPORTANT DATES Conference papers due: see individual conference webpages Conference papers notification: 31st March 2018 Workshop papers due: 15th April 2018 Workshop papers notification: 15th May 2018 Camera-ready versions: 31st May 2018 FLoC'18 Steering Committee General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Conference Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska CAV Representative: Orna Grumberg CSF Representative: Stephen Chong FM Representative: Ana Cavalcanti FSCD Representative: Luke Ong ICLP Representative: Torsten Schaub IJCAR Representative: Franz Baader ITP Representative: Larry Paulson LICS Representative: Martin Grohe SAT Representative: Armin Biere SIGLOG Representative: Prakash Panangaden Programme Committee Chairs General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska CAV: Hana Chockler, Georg Weissenbacher CSF: Stephen Chong, St?phanie Delaune FM: Jan Peleska, Bill Roscoe FSCD: H?l?ne Kirchner ICLP: Alessandro dal Pal?, Paul Tarau IJCAR: Didier Galmiche, Stephan Schulz, Roberto Sebastiani ITP: Jeremy Avigad, Assia Mahboubi LICS: Martin Hofmann SAT: Olaf Beyersdorff, Christoph Wintersteiger From manuel.serrano at inria.fr Tue Oct 31 14:26:09 2017 From: manuel.serrano at inria.fr (Manuel Serrano) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:26:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP] Web Programming, Design, Analysis, and Implementation (WPDAI @ WWW) In-Reply-To: <513106597.20475505.1509474350098.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> Message-ID: <1449328897.20475708.1509474369043.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> =============================================================================== 1fst Web Programming, Design, Analysis, And Implementation (WPDAI 2018) The Web Conference (aka WWW) alternate track. 23 - 27 April 2018 Lyon, France https://www2018.thewebconf.org/ =============================================================================== Extended Submission Deadline: 10 November 2017 =============================================================================== General Information ------------------- Web Programming, Design, Analysis, and Implementation (WPDAI @ WWW) is an alternate track of The Web Conference 2018 (the conference formerly known as? WWW). It? is devoted? to anything? about programming? on the web. It will take place in Lyon (France) April 22nd to 27th. Scope and Dates --------------- The WPDAI alternate? track seeks original papers on? the art, science, and engineering of programming on? the web. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Language design: concurrency, reactive programming, multitier programming, domain-specific languages, security & privacy, database programming, ... - Implementation: interpretation, compilation, JIT, AOT, server implementations, virtual machines, empirical evaluation, ... - Static, dynamic, and hybrid analyses for languages and programs: semantics, logics, type systems, foundational calculi, program verification, abstract interpretation, security & privacy, ... - Distributed web programming: data consistency, client-server interaction protocols, ... - Programming environments: applications deployment, visual programming, testing, debugging, ... - Applications: multimedia programming, scripting, ... Submissions? will?? be? evaluated? according? to?? their? originality, correctness,? significance, clarity,? and? relevance. Each? submission should explain? its contributions,? clearly identifying what? has been accomplished, explaining why it is? significant, and comparing it with previous work. Important dates: paper submission:??????? 10 November 2017 notification to authors: 22 December 2017 final versions:????????? 14 February 2018 URL: https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/web-programming-cfp Preparation of Submissions: --------------------------- The reviewing will be double-blind,? and authors are allowed to submit papers that? are 9? pages long, plus? unlimited pages? for references, following the ACM submission format. Submission: Submissions will be accepted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites Program Committee: ------------------ Sam Blackshear, Facebook Satish Chandra, Facebook Adam Chlipala, MIT Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussels Dominique Devriese, KU Leuven Marc Feeley, University of Montreal Alan Jeffrey, Mozilla Limin Jia, CMU Nabil Layaida, INRIA Daan Leijen, Microsoft Sam Lindley, University of Edinburgh Ben Livshits, Imperial College London Jay McCarthy, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Yasuhiko Minmaide, Tokyo Institute of Technology Anders Moller, Aarhus University Frank Piessens, KU Leuven Tamara Rezk, INRIA Xavier Rival, ENS Alejandro Russo, Chalmers University Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST (PC-chair) Alan Schmitt, INRIA Manuel Serrano, INRIA (PC-chair) Peter Thiemann, Univerity of Freiburg Omer Tripp, Google Tom Van Cutsem, Nokia Bell Labs Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology Jan Vitek, Northeastern University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 talk proposal that discusses programming languages could be considered out of scope. If in doubt, ask the program chair. ## Important Dates 2017-11-07 Submission deadline 2017-12-07 Author notification ## Submission information Please submit talk proposals via HotCRP (https://obt18.hotcrp.com/). All submissions should be in PDF format, two pages or less, in at least 10pt font, printable on A4 and 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: Bob Atkey, University of Strathclyde, UK Program Chair: Michael Greenberg, Pomona College, USA Program Committee: William E. Byrd, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Luke Church, Google and University of Cambridge, UK Chantal Keller, LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud, France Zachary Kincaid, Princeton University, USA Heather Miller, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland and Northeastern University, USA Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada From matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at Thu Nov 2 03:40:22 2017 From: matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at (Maffei Matteo) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 07:40:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track Professorship for Female Researchers at TU Wien Message-ID: We encourage applications in Cryptography, Security, and Privacy! Deadline: November 5. Interested applicants in the aforementioned areas can contact Matteo Maffei (matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at) for further information or questions on the application procedure. ================== As part of a special measure towards increasing female employment in scientific positions and promoting young researchers, the Faculty of Informatics at the TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) invites applications for an Assistant Professor position (tenure track) for women expected to begin on May 2, 2018. Candidates can apply in any of the Faculty?s main research areas: Computer Engineering, Distributed and Parallel Systems, Logic & Computation, Media Informatics & Visual Computing, as well as Business Informatics (http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/research). The work contract is initially limited to six years. The candidate and TU Wien can agree upon a tenure evaluation, which when positive, opens the possibility to change the position to Associate Professor with an unlimited contract. Duties include research in one of the Faculty?s main research areas (see above) as well as graduate and undergraduate teaching. The TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) is among the most successful technical universities in Europe and it is Austria?s largest scientific-technical research and educational institution. The Faculty of Informatics, one of the eight faculties at the TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), has an excellent reputation and plays an active role in national and international research. For a more detailed announcement and information on how to apply, visit www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/vacancies. Application deadline: November 5, 2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We particularly encourage applications from historically underrepresented groups, including women and minorities. Computer Science at Harvard benefits from outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, world-leading faculty, an excellent location, significant industrial collaboration, and substantial support from the Harvard Paulson School. Information about Harvard?s current faculty, research, and educational programs in computer science is available at http://www.seas.harvard.edu/computer-science. The associated Institute for Applied Computational Science (http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu) and Data Science Initiative (https://datascience.harvard.edu/) foster connections among computer science, applied math, data science, and various domain sciences at Harvard through its graduate programs and events. A doctorate or terminal degree in Computer Science or a related field is required by the expected start date. Required application documents include a cover letter, CV, a statement of research interests, a teaching statement, and up to three representative papers. Candidates are also required to submit the names and contact information for at least three and up to five references, and the application is complete only when three letters have been submitted. We encourage candidates to apply by December 1, 2017, but will continue to review applications until the position is filled. Applicants should apply on-line at http://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/7928 /Harvard University is?an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law./ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clement.aubert at math.cnrs.fr Sat Nov 4 16:40:06 2017 From: clement.aubert at math.cnrs.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Cl=c3=a9ment_Aubert?=) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 16:40:06 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Augusta University: Tenure Tack Position Message-ID: <8ead982e-cf04-4bba-2e16-73f9ca48d9fe@math.cnrs.fr> Dear colleagues, The School of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Augusta University invites applications for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Computer Science. The job description summary is below, and is very broad. Harley Eades ( http://metatheorem.org/ , harley.eades at gmail.com ) and Cl?ment Aubert ( http://spots.augusta.edu/caubert/ , aubert at math.cnrs.fr ) are both assistant professor in CS there, and will be happy to respond to informal inquiries about any aspects of the position. We would like to encourage people from this list to either apply or send this to someone you might think is interested. Best, Cl?ment Aubert, Harley Eades. ------ Job Title: Assistant Professor in Computer Science Location: Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia Anticipated start is August 2018. Computer Science is a unit within the newly created School of Computer and Cyber Sciences. The school supports bachelor?s degrees in computer science and information technology and a master?s degree in information security management. The University as a whole has begun shifting from a teaching university to a research university, and as such supports and promotes research in Computer Science as well as in connected fields. While research areas investigated in the school are computational logic, cyber security, and software engineering, candidates from other research areas of computer science are welcome to apply. Position Requirements: Applicants must hold (or receive before start of employment) a PhD in computer science or a closely related field. About 40% of workload will be dedicated to research and faculty development. Demonstrated capability or potential in developing discipline relevant peer reviewed intellectual contributions is required. Candidates with teaching experience or capability for teaching excellence in introductory courses and familiarity with the C# programming language are a plus. To apply, submit: a) Letter of interest b) Current curriculum vitae c) Statement of research interests d) Statement of teaching interests e) At least five references with full contact and e-mail information (References will not be contacted without applicant?s consent.) to: AU-ComputerScience at myersmcrae.com Review of applications begins immediately. For best consideration, application materials should be received by January 15, 2018. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Complementary information can be found at http://myersmcrae.com/skins/userfiles/files/AU-CompSc2017.pdf and http://www.augusta.edu/ccs/ -- Cl?ment Aubert, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, spots.augusta.edu/caubert/ From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Sun Nov 5 20:01:27 2017 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 12:01:27 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Continuity, Computability, Constructivity 2017; postproceedings; second call for submissions Message-ID: <56692B46-D839-48E3-82BC-CD6A24F74F19@math.uni-siegen.de> Continuity, Computability, Constructivity: From Logic to Algorithms 2017 Postproceedings Second call for Submissions After the successful start of the new EU-MSCA-RISE project "Computing with Infinite Data" (CID) and the excellent Workshop CCC 2017 in Nancy (France) in June this year, we are planning to publish a collection of papers dedicated to the meeting and to the project as a Special Issue in the open-access journal LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. The issue should reflect progress made in Computable Analysis and related areas, and is not restricted to work in the CID project or presented at the Workshop. Submissions are welcome from all scientists on topics in the entire spectrum from logic to algorithms including, but not limited to: Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory, Constructive topological foundations, Scott's domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, Randomness and computable measure theory, Other related areas. EDITORS: Ulrich Berger (Swansea, UK) Pieter Collins (Maastricht, NL) Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy, FR) Victor Selivanov (Novosibirsk, RUS) Dieter Spreen (Siegen, DE) Martin Ziegler (KAIST, KR) DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 1 February 2018 If you intend to submit a paper for the special issue, please inform us by sending email to: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de by 1 Januar 2018 You will then receive concrete submission instructions and a Special-Issue-Code allowing you to submit your paper. Please prepare your manuscript using the LMCS class file lmcs.cls which can be downloaded from http://www.lmcs-online.org/Information/style.php . Submissions will be reviewed according to the usual high standards of LMCS. Best regards, Ulrich Berger Pieter Collins Mathieu Hoyrup Victor Selivanov Dieter Spreen Martin Ziegler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bendy at purdue.edu Mon Nov 6 15:39:39 2017 From: bendy at purdue.edu (Delaware, Benjamin J) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 20:39:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2018 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Message-ID: ======================================================================= Principles of Programming Languages Student Research Competition -- January 11-12 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2018-Student-Research-Competition ======================================================================= Competition Format -------------------- POPL 2018 will again host an ACM Student Research Competition, where undergraduate and graduate students can present their original research before a panel of judges and conference attendees. This year?s competition will consist of three rounds: * Extended abstract round: All students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract outlining their research (up to two pages). * Poster session at POPL 2018: Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in a poster session which will take place at the conference. Students who make it to this round will be eligible for up to $500 of travel support to attend the conference. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the judges and conference attendees, who will select three finalists in each category (graduate/undergraduate) to advance to the next round. * POPL presentation: The last round will consist of an oral presentation at POPL to compete for the final awards in each category. This round will also select an overall winner who will advance to the ACM SRC Grand Finals. Submission Details ------------------ * Abstract Submission : Friday, November 17th, 2017 * Author Notification : Friday, December 1st, 2017 * Competition : Thursday+Friday, January 11+12th, 2018 Submission is via hotCRP : https://poplsrc18.hotcrp.com/ Each extended abstract should address 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. Abstracts should conform to the ACM article template, be in 10pt font, and be submitted in as a pdf. Submitted pdfs must not be longer than 2 pages. However, the reference list does not count towards this limit. To submit an abstract, please register through the HotCRP system (see the link above). Abstracts submitted after the deadline may be considered at the committee?s discretion, but only after decisions have been made on all abstracts submitted before the deadline. 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 SRC web site. * The first place winners of the SRC will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competitions among the winners of other 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 Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. All 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 program) and graduate students (in a PhD program). Upon submission, entrants must be enrolled as a student at their universities and be current ACM student members. 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 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. Selection Committee ------------------- Benjamin Delaware, Purdue University (Competition Chair) Matthew Hammer, University of Colorado, Boulder Stephen Magill, Galois Nadia Polikarpova, University of California, San Diego Roopsha Samanta, Purdue University From matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at Wed Nov 8 03:40:20 2017 From: matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at (Maffei Matteo) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 08:40:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSF 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: CSF 2018 Call for Papers 31st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium http://csf2018.org/ July 9-12, 2018 Oxford, UK Part of FLOC 2018: http://www.floc2018.org/ The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security. This year CSF is organized as part of the the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC). 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 control, 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: BLOCKCHAIN (Chair: Elaine Shi). Many challenges arise with the rapid development of the blockchain technology, including the need for formal foundations for the security and privacy of blockchains. CSF 2018 will include a special session devoted to this topic and we invite submissions on foundational work in this area. Topics include security and privacy issues, analysis and verification of existing solutions, design of new systems, but also broader foundational issues such as how blockchain mechanisms fit into larger distributed ecosystems and foundational security aspects of applications built on top of blockchain mechanisms. COMPUTER-AIDED CRYPTOGRAPHY (Chair: Bogdan Warinschi). Modern cryptography is built on firm theoretical foundations. However, cryptography proofs are often intricate and the gap from model to code is usually large, which opens the door to bugs and vulnerabilities. Computer-aided formal methods can provide assurance of the security of cryptographic protocols, primitives and their implementations in software and hardware. We invite submissions on foundational work in this area. Topics include, but are not limited to, verification of cryptographic protocols and primitives, verification of cryptographic software and hardware, tools to automate formal verification, and formal proofs of side-channel countermeasures. 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 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the symposium. Some small number of papers will be selected by the PC as "Distinguished Papers". ***************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract due: January 29, 2018 Papers due: January 31, 2018 Author response period: March 14-16, 2018 Notification: March 31, 2018 Final papers due: April 30, 2018 Symposium: July 9-12, 2018 ***************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE M?rio Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Myrto Arapinis, University of Edinburgh Owen Arden, UC Santa Cruz Alessandro Armando, University of Genova Liqun Chen, University of Surrey Stephen Chong, Harvard University (Program Co-Chair) Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University Stefan Deian, University of California, San Diego St?phanie Delaune, CNRS, IRISA (Program Co-Chair) Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Benjamin Gregoire, Inria Flaminia Luccio, Universit? Ca' Foscari Venezia Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg Olivier Pereira, Universit? Catholique de Louvain Tamara Rezk, Inria Alejandro Russo, Chalmers University of Technology Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham Benedikt Schmidt, Google Elaine Shi, Cornell University (Session chair, Blockchain) Christoph Sprenger, ETH Zurich Alwen Tiu, Australian National University Michael Carl Tschantz, International Computer Science Institute Mayank Varia, Boston University Bogdan Warinschi, Bristol University (Session chair, Computer-Aided Cryptography) ***************************************************** 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 (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). 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. CSF'18 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 "Blockchain", or "Computer-Aided Cryptography" option, as appropriate. Authors of accepted papers will receive extra pages for their final version, which will be at most 15 pages long including bibliography and appendices. At least one coauthor of each accepted paper is required to attend CSF to present the paper. Please see http://csf2018.org/ for a link to the submission website. ***************************************************** PC Chairs Stephen Chong, Harvard University Stephanie Delaune, CNRS, IRISA General Chair Cas Cremers, Oxford University Publications Chair Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Publicity Chair Matteo Maffei, TU Vienna From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Thu Nov 9 03:16:50 2017 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:16:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] DisCoTec 2018 1st CfP Message-ID: ************************************************************************ Call for Papers DisCoTec 2018 13th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques http://2018.discotec.org Madrid, Spain, 18-21 June 2018 ************************************************************************ 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 * Important Dates * COORDINATION, DAIS & FORTE (LNCS publication) - February 2, 2018: Submission of abstract - February 9, 2018: Submission of papers - March 30, 2018: Notification of accepted papers - June 18-20, 2018: Conferences in Madrid Collocated workshops: - January 12, 2018: Deadline for workshop proposals - January 26, 2018: Notification of accepted workshops - Mid April, 2018: Submission of papers (workshops) - Mid May, 2018: Notification of accepted papers (workshops) - June 20-21, 2018 Workshops in Madrid * General Chair * Manuel N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Organisation Chairs * Jes?s Correas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Sonia Est?vez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Publicity Chair * Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy * Workshops Chairs * Luis Llana (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland) * Steering Board * Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, Germany) Alain Girault (INRIA Grenoble, France) Kostas Magoutis (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, France ? Chair) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) Rui Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, France) 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 2018 20th IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages ************************************************************************ * Scope * Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference provides a well-established forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination. Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: - Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination, emergent behaviour, types, semantics; - Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance aspects; - Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages: implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity; - Middlewares and coordination; - Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing; - Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination; - Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour; - Coordination and modern distributed computing: Web services, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing; - Programming languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development of coordinated applications; - Programming methodologies and verification of coordinated applications; - Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies; - Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination. * Program Committee Chairs * - Michele Loreti, Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy - Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland ************************************************************************ DAIS 2018 18th 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 particularly 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. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems, particularly in areas of middleware, data store, cloud computing, edge and fog computing, big data systems, data center and internet-scale systems, social networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile computing, software-defined network (SDN), service-oriented computing, and peer-to-peer systems; - Novel architectures and mechanisms, particularly in areas of pub/sub systems, language-based approaches, overlay protocols, virtualization, resource allocation, blockchains, parallelization, and bio-inspired distributed computing; - System issues and design goals, including self-management, security and practical applications of cryptography, trust and privacy, cooperation incentives and fairness, fault-tolerance and dependability, scalability and elasticity, and tail-performance and energy-efficiency; - Engineering and tools, including model-driven engineering, domain-specific languages, design patterns and methods, profiling and learning, testing and validation, and distributed debugging. * Program Committee Chairs * - Silvia Bonomi, Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy - Etienne Riviere, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium ************************************************************************ FORTE 2018 38th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems ************************************************************************ * Scope * FORTE 2018 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. 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. * Program Committee Chairs * - Luis Caires, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Christel Baier, Universit?t Dresden, Germany From dargenio at famaf.unc.edu.ar Fri Nov 10 14:46:23 2017 From: dargenio at famaf.unc.edu.ar (Pedro R. D'Argenio) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:46:23 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: JLAMP Special Issue on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory Message-ID: Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming Special Issue on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory ** Aims and Scope This special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming is devoted to the themes of the Research Seminar on Open Problems in Concurrency Theory and has its root in the research seminar of the same name held in Vienna on 26-29 of June, 2017 ( http://opct2017.famaf.unc.edu.ar). This is an open call for papers, therefore both participants of the research seminar and other authors are encouraged to submit their contributions. Submissions are invited in the field of concurrency theory; specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Models of concurrency - Process calculi - Behavioral relations and metrics - Expressiveness - Programming languages and types - Quantitative and security aspects - Verification, testing, and synthesis Papers surveying important open problems in concurrency theory are also welcome. ** 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 if there is a clear justification for additional pages; prospective authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least two reviewers. The authors will have some 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. Submissions will be handled through the Elsevier Editorial System (Evise) and can be uploaded to the JLAMP webpage. Authors must select ?VSI: OPCT 2017? when requested for ?Special Issue Type? 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. ** Important Dates Submission of papers: *December 11, 2017 * ****NEW**** First review decision: March 23, 2018 Revision due: May 21, 2018 Acceptance notification: June 20, 2018 Final manuscript due: August 20, 2018 Expected publication: September 30, 2018 ** Guest Editors Ilaria Castellani (INRIA, FR) Pedro R. D?Argenio (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, AR) Mohammad Reza Mousavi (University of Leicester, UK / Halmstad University, SE) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT) -- Pedro R. D'Argenio (dargenio at famaf.unc.edu.ar) FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba Medina Allende s/n, Ciudad Universitaria - X5000HUA Cordoba, Argentina Tel: +54 351 535 3701, ext. 41306 http://www.cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~dargenio/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From martin.sulzmann at gmail.com Fri Nov 10 14:51:24 2017 From: martin.sulzmann at gmail.com (Martin Sulzmann) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:51:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS2018: Final CFP + deadline extension Message-ID: FINAL Call For Papers ========================= NOTE: DEADLINE EXTENSION ========================= FLOPS 2018: 14th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming In-Cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN =============================== 9-11 May, 2018, Nagoya, Japan http://www.sqlab.jp/FLOPS2018/ 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. Proceedings The proceedings will be published by Springer International Publishing in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (www.springer.com/lncs), 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 29 November 2017 (any time zone): Abstract Submission (extended) 4 December 2017 (any time zone): Submission deadline (extended) 29 January 2018: Author notification 9-11 May 2018: FLOPS Symposium Invited Speakers William E. Byrd, University of Utah, USA Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, SOKENDAI, Japan + 3rd speaker to be announced 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=flops2018 Springer Guidelines https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines Program Committee Andreas Rossberg Google, Germany Atsushi Ohori Tohoku University, Japan Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira The University of Hong Kong, China Carsten Fuhs Birkbeck, University of London, UK Chung-chieh Shan Indiana University, USA Didier Remy INRIA, France Harald S?ndergaard The University of Melbourne, Australia Jacques Garrigue Nagoya University, Japan Jan Midtgaard University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Joachim Breitner University of Pennsylvania, USA John Gallagher Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (PC co-chair) Jorge A Navas SRI International, USA Kazunori Ueda Waseda University, Japan Kenny Zhuo Ming Lu School of Information Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Mar?a Alpuente Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Mar?a Garcia De La Banda Monash University, Australia Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany (PC co-chair) Meng Wang University of Kent, UK Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Michael Leuschel University of D?sseldorf, Germany Naoki Kobayashi University of Tokyo, Japan Nikolaj Bj?rner Microsoft Research, USA Robert Gl?ck University of Copenhagen, Denmark Samir Genaim Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Siau Cheng Khoo National University of Singapore, Singapore Organizers Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (PC co-chair) John Gallagher Roskilde University and IMDEA Software Institute (PC co-chair) Makoto Tatsuta National Institute of Informatics, Japan (General Chair) Koji Nakazawa Nagoya University, Japan (Local Chair) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lironcohen at cornell.edu Sat Nov 11 12:07:18 2017 From: lironcohen at cornell.edu (Liron Cohen) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 17:07:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] AMS Special Session on Homotopy Type Theory In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the AMS Special Session on Homotopy Type Theory to be held on January 11, 2018 in San Diego, California, as part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings (to be held January 10 - 13). Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT) is a new field of study that relates constructive type theory to abstract homotopy theory. Types are regarded as synthetic spaces of arbitrary dimension and type equality as homotopy equivalence. Experience has shown that HoTT is able to represent many mathematical objects of independent interest in a direct and natural way. Its foundations in constructive type theory permit the statement and proof of theorems about these objects within HoTT itself, enabling formalization in proof assistants and providing a constructive foundation for other branches of mathematics. This Special Session is affiliated with the AMS Mathematics Research Communities (MRC) workshop for early-career researchers in Homotopy Type Theory organized by Dan Christensen, Chris Kapulkin, Dan Licata, Emily Riehl and Mike Shulman, which took place last June. The Special Session will include talks by MRC participants, as well as by senior researchers in the field, on various aspects of higher-dimensional type theory including categorical semantics, computation, and the formalization of mathematical theories. There will also be a panel discussion featuring distinguished experts from the field. Further information about the Special Session, including a schedule and abstracts, can be found at: http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2018/2197_program_ss14.html. Please note that the early registration deadline is December 20, 2017. If you have any questions about about the Special Session, please feel free to contact one of the organizers. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego. Simon Cho (University of Michigan) Liron Cohen (Cornell University) Ed Morehouse (Wesleyan University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From einarj at ifi.uio.no Mon Nov 13 12:10:37 2017 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:10:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: SEFM 2018 Message-ID: <20171113171037.95DA12291D7@vestur.ifi.uio.no> SEFM 2018: The 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods will be part of STAF 2018 in Toulouse, France, 27-29 June 2018. https://www.isf.cs.tu-bs.de/cms/events/sefm2018/ Twitter: @SEFM_conf ************************ CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ SEFM aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools. *** TRACKS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST *** The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods: - Software development methods: requirement analysis, modeling, specification and design; light-weight and scalable formal methods; software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering and reuse. - Design principles: programming languages; domain specific languages; type theory; abstraction and refinement, correctness-by-construction - Software verification and testing: model checking, theorem proving and decision procedures; verification and validation; probabilistic verification and synthesis; testing. - Functional and non-functional system properties, such as safety-critical, fault-tolerant and secure systems; software certification; performance analysis and management, resource-constrained computing, energy-aware computing. - Design principles and analysis techniques for different system paradigms, such as self-adaptive, service-oriented and cloud computing systems; component-based, object-oriented and multi-agent systems; real-time, hybrid and embedded systems; reconfigurable and variant-rich systems, intelligent systems, e.g., based on machine learning algorithms - Application and technology transfer: case studies, best practices and experience reports; tool integration; education; HCI, interactive systems and human error analysis. Authors are invited to submit full research papers (up to 15 pages) describing original research results, case studies and tools; and short new ideas/work-in-progress papers (up to 6 pages) describing new approaches, techniques and/or tools that are not fully validated yet. We are planning to publish the proceedings in the Formal Methods subline of Springer's LNCS series. Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2018 Information about all committees can be found at https://www.isf.cs.tu-bs.de/cms/events/sefm2018/committees/. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Abstract Submission: Friday 23 February 2018 Full Paper Submission: 2 March 2018 Notification: Monday 9 April 2018 Camera ready: Monday 23 April 2018 Conference: 27-29 June 2018 *** CO-CHAIRS *** Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Ina Schaefer (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) Website: https://www.isf.cs.tu-bs.de/cms/events/sefm2018 From koba at kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Nov 13 20:13:54 2017 From: koba at kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (koba at kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:13:54 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Postdoc Position on Higher-Order Model Checking Message-ID: <20171114.101354.1707384061821559150.koba@kb.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> A postdoc position is available for a 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 2018 (the starting date is negotiable). The contract of appointment will be renewed for each academic year, and can be extended up to March 2020. Salary will be about 400,000-450,000 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 (ideally two or more) of the following topics: program verification, lambda-calculus and type systems, 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 5th January, 2018. 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 studied higher-order model checking (more precisely, HORS model checking, where the language for describing systems has been extended to higher-order), 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 [K13a], and that (ii) despite its extremely high worst-case complexity, higher-order model checking can be solved efficiently for many typical inputs [K13a,BK13]. 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 [KSU11,KSUK15,MTKSU16,WSTK16]. Recently, we have also started investigating the other kind of higher-order model checking called HFL model checking, where the logic used for describing properties has been extended to higher-order [KLB17]. 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 [KMSY12,TKYS16]. Selected publications on the topic: ---------------------------------- * A survey: [K11] Naoki Kobayashi, "Higher-Order Model Checking: From Theory to Practice", Invited paper in Proceedings of LICS 2011. * Theory and model checking algorithms: [KLB17] Naoki Kobayashi, Etienne Lozes, Florian Bruse, "On the Relationship Between Higher-Order Recursion Schemes and Higher-Order Fixpoint Logic," POPL 2017 [K13a] Naoki Kobayashi, "Model Checking Higher-Order Programs," JACM, 2013. [K13b] Naoki Kobayashi, "Pumping by Typing," LICS 2013 [BK13] Christopher H. Broadbent, Naoki Kobayashi, "Saturation-Based Model Checking of Higher-Order Recursion Schemes," CSL 2013 * Applications to program verification: [WSTK16] Keiichi Watanabe, Ryosuke Sato, Takeshi Tsukada, Naoki Kobayashi, "Automatically disproving fair termination of higher-order functional programs," ICFP 2016 [MTKSU16] Akihiro Murase, Tachio Terauchi, Naoki Kobayashi, Ryosuke Sato, Hiroshi Unno, "Temporal verification of higher-order functional programs," POPL 2016 [KSUK15] Takuya Kuwahara, Ryosuke Sato, Hiroshi Unno, Naoki Kobayashi, "Predicate Abstraction and CEGAR for Disproving Termination of Higher-Order Functional Programs," CAV 2015 [UTK13] Hiroshi Unno, Tachio Terauchi, Naoki Kobayashi: Automating relatively complete verification of higher-order functional programs, POPL 2013 [KSU11] Naoki Kobayashi, Ryosuke Sato, and Hiroshi Unno, "Predicate Abstraction and CEGAR for Higher-Order Model Checking", PLDI 2011 * Applications to data compression: [TKYS16] Kotaro Takeda, Naoki Kobayashi, Kazuya Yaguchi, Ayumi Shinohara, "Compact bit encoding schemes for simply-typed lambda-terms," ICFP 2016 [KMSY12] Naoki Kobayashi, Kazutaka Matsuda, Ayumi Shinohara, and Kazuya Yaguchi, "Functional Programs as Compressed Data", Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 2012 From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Tue Nov 14 04:42:42 2017 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:42:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP'18 First Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] ======================================================================= Call for papers Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2018 Oxford, UK, 7 July 2018 Affiliated with FSCD 2018 (part of FLoC) http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2018/ ======================================================================= SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 16 APRIL 2018 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, implementation and their use in reasoning tasks, ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal 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 2018 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, logical systems 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, including inductive types of higher dimension in homotopy type theory. * Graphical languages for building proofs, applications in geometry, equational reasoning and category theory. * New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy and cubical type theory. * Applications of logical frameworks: proof-carrying architectures, proof exchange and transformation, program refactoring, etc. * 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 TBA Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Monday April 9th Submission deadline: Monday April 16th Notification to authors: Monday May 14th Final version due: Monday June 4th Workshop date: Saturday July 7th Submission In addition to regular papers, we accept the submission of "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report fully polished research results, but should be of interest 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp18. Proceedings Accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings of LMFTP 2018, whose mode of publication will be determined shortly. Program Committee * Mar?a Alpuente (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain) * Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) * Fr?d?ric Blanqui (Inria, France), co-chair * Ana Bove (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * St?phane Graham-Lengrand (CNRS, France) * Makoto Hamana (Gunma University, Japan) * Chantal Keller (Universit? Paris-Sud, France) * Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Norte, Brazil) * Giselle Reis (CMU Qatar), co-chair * Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) * Yuting Wang (Yale University, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computation models or new features for traditional computation 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. The proceedings are produced after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate the workshop feedback in the published papers. DCM 2018 will take place in Oxford on July 8, as a one-day satellite event of FLoC 2018, associated to LICS?18. This will be the 12th event in the series since 2005 - see the DCM website (http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/) for details of previous events. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their applications to the development of programming languages and systems. This includes (but is not limited to): * Functional calculi: lambda-calculus, pattern-calculi, combinatory logic, term and graph rewriting; * Object calculi; * Interaction-based systems: interaction nets, games, agent and multi-agent systems; * Concurrent models: process calculi, action graphs, distributed systems; * Calculi expressing locality, mobility, and active data; * Quantum computational models; * Biological or chemical models of computation; SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit a short paper (max 8 pages). Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. Papers should be written in English, and submitted in PostScript or PDF format, using the EPTCS style files (http://style.eptcs.org/). Submission is through the Easychair website. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcm2018. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission deadline: 8 April 2018 * Notification: 15 May 2018 * Pre-proceedings version: 27 May 2018 * Workshop: 8 July 2018 * Full version of paper: 1 October 2018 * Notification: 1 December 2018 * Final versions due: 15 December 2018 After the workshop authors are invited to submit a full paper taking into account the feedback given at their presentation. After a second round of refereeing, accepted contributions will appear in an issue of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (www.eptcs.org). INVITED SPEAKERS * Udo Dal Lago * Delia Kesner PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves, University of Porto - PC Chair * Sabine Broda, University of Porto * Adriana Compagnoni, University of Edinburgh * Nachum Dershowitz, University of Tel Aviv * Mariangiola Dezani, University of Torino * Alessandra Di Pierro, University of Verona * Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London * Russ Harmer, ENS Lyon * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Luigi Liquori, INRIA Sophia * Ian Mackie, ?cole Polytechnique * Elvira Mayordomo, University of Zaragoza * Simon Perdrix, LORIA-Nancy * Jamie Vicary, University of Oxford CONTACT For more information contact the organiser of the event: Sandra Alves dcm2018 at easychair.org DCC-FCUP and CRACS University of Porto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevez at cis.upenn.edu Tue Nov 14 11:03:44 2017 From: stevez at cis.upenn.edu (Steve Zdancewic) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:03:44 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc Positions at The University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <30d35bdc-cece-9da8-061a-a6845f3078b8@cis.upenn.edu> PENN?S PL CLUB IS LOOKING FOR POSTDOCS The University of Pennsylvania?s PL group is looking to hire several postdoctoral researchers to work on projects related to verification, software specification, and security. START DATES: Negotiable, beginning as early as January 2018. DURATION: All positions are one year, with the possibility of extension to a second year. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants should have a Ph.D.?in computer science and a strong background in topics related to - formal verification and specification - programming languages, type systems, and semantics - the Coq theorem prover - the specific project topics described below. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: -?? Upload a CV, statement of interest, and the names of three letter ??? writers to: https://goo.gl/forms/SMu8KmtdHjXKnqWF3 -?? Direct your letter writers to submit their letters via: ??? https://goo.gl/forms/ElgimgzvDh4C2scu1 -?? Contact Steve Zdancewic (mailto:stevez at cis.upenn.edu) if you have any ??? questions. DEADLINE: Applications will be considered starting on _1 December 2017_ and will be considered until all the positions are filled. Successful applicants will join the University of Pennsylvania?s PL Club with opportunities to collaborate on the DeepSpec project and other ongoing activities. POTENTIAL RESEARCH PROJECTS DeepWeb - A Formally Verified Web Server Penn is coordinating a large-scale verification effort that combines technologies from across the DeepSpec project with the aim creating a verified web server: the high-level specification is in terms of the HTTP protocol, and the implementation will be high-performance C software (verfied using Princeton?s VST) hosted by Yale?s CertiKOS, which will itself be run on top of MIT?s verified implementation of the Risc V hardware. This project will tie together specification, verification, and testing across multiple levels of abstraction. Vellvm II - Verified LLVM The Vellvm project is building a (verified LLVM), a framework for reasoning about programs expressed in LLVM?s intermediate representation and transformations that operate on it. Vellvm provides a mechanized formal semantics of LLVM?s intermediate representation, its type system, and properties of its SSA form. Specific research topics include: developing modular semantics for low-level control-flow-graph and SSA representations; extending the model to account for concurrency; building a ?decompiler? from SSA to a higher-order functional language; or using the LLVM semantics to verify correctness of compiler analyses, optimization passes, and security-relevant program transformations. QuickChick - Property-Based Testing for Coq The QuickChick project investigates the interplay between formal specification / verification and property-based random testing a la Haskell QuickCheck. The QuickChick tool (a QuickCheck-like testing framework for Coq) is heavily used in the DeepSpec project, for example as the specification framework for an executable formal specification of HTTP and related protocols. We are experimenting with using this specification as a bug-finding tool, both for industrial web servers and for initial prototypes of our own server. This requires addressing both foundational and engineering challenges, in the testing technology and in the creation of specifications that are suitable for both verification and testing. Programming Languages for Differential Privacy Penn boasts a longstanding and energetic collaborative research effort on putting new privacy technologies ? particular statistical techniques such as differential privacy ? into practice, involving faculty, students, and postdocs from programming languages, distributed systems, and algorithms, and machine learning. Topics of interest include privacy-protecting type systems and static analyses, distributed implementations of private algorithms, program logics for privacy, and formal verification of randomized algorithms. THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Penn?s department of Computer and Information Science offers a vibrant research environment with a long tradition of excellence in programming languages and related areas. We are located in Philadelphia, a city that offers a rich array of cultural, historical, and nightlife attractions, parks and outdoor recreation, convenient public transportation, and affordable housing. From rxg at cs.ubc.ca Tue Nov 14 12:40:19 2017 From: rxg at cs.ubc.ca (Ronald Garcia) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:40:19 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-Track Research and Teaching Positions at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Message-ID: <8CD7DB5F-B95E-4FBA-B93E-0AAFB99ABDE9@cs.ubc.ca> The University of British Columbia Computer Science department is looking for three new tenure-track assistant research professors and one new tenure-track teaching professor. Both searches are open to all areas, which includes Programming Languages and Formal Methods. UBC is typically considered one of the top CS departments in Canada, and is situated in Vancouver, which is regularly ranked as one of the top 3 most livable cities in the world. > RESEARCH POSITION: > https://www.cs.ubc.ca/our-department/employment/faculty-positions/tenure-track-faculty-positions > The Department of Computer Science at the University of British > Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for up to three positions to > be filled at the rank of Assistant Professor. Applicants in all areas > of Computer Science are invited to apply. UBC Computer Science > (www.cs.ubc.ca ) ranks among the top departments in North America, with > a strong record of excellence in research and in graduate and > undergraduate teaching. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2018, > and is subject to budgetary approval. > > A PhD in Computer Science or a related area is required. Applicants > must demonstrate evidence of research success and a high potential to > be leaders in their research field. Successful candidates will develop > and maintain an internationally-recognized research program, and are > expected to effectively supervise graduate students, collaborate with > other faculty members, obtain external funding, teach computer science > courses for undergraduate and graduate students, and actively > participate in departmental activities. The potential of an > applicant's research program to complement and extend the existing > research and teaching strengths of the department will be an important > factor in selection. > > Applicants must submit a CV, a research statement, a teaching > statement, and the names of at least three references. The teaching > statement should include a record of teaching interests and > experience. Applications may be submitted online at > https://apps.cs.ubc.ca/fac-recruit/research/apply/form.jsp . Full > consideration will be given to submissions received by December 17, > 2017. Applications past the deadline may continue to be considered as > long as the submission website remains open. > > Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and > diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been > underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from > members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds > enumerated under the BC Human Rights Code including sex, sexual > orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, > political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or > status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit or Indigenous person. All > qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and > permanent residents will be given priority. > > For questions about the application process, contact Michael > Friedlander, Chair of Faculty Recruiting, at fac-rec at cs.ubc.ca > TEACHING POSITION: > https://www.cs.ubc.ca/our-department/employment/faculty-sessional-positions/tenure-track-faculty-position-teaching-stream > The University of British Columbia invites applications for a > *tenure-track faculty teaching position* at the rank of Instructor in > the Department of Computer Science on the Vancouver Campus. Preference > will be given to applicants who have demonstrated excellence in > teaching a wide range of courses in systems and software, such as > networking, operating systems, distributed and cloud systems, > databases, security and software engineering. UBC Computer Science > (https://www.cs.ubc.ca/) ranks among the top departments in North > America, with 57 tenure-track faculty and approximately 200 graduate > and 2000 undergraduate students. > > This position provides the rare opportunity to pursue a career based on > excellence in teaching while participating as a first-class colleague in > the intellectually exciting atmosphere of a top-tier computer science > department. Instructor is the first rank in a UBC's Educational > Leadership Stream career path, which continues with the tenured Senior > Instructor rank, and culminates with the Professor of Teaching > rank. This path is analogous to the research-oriented faculty > progression of tenure-track Assistant Professor, tenured Associate > Professor, and Full Professor. Initial appointment will be at the > Instructor rank. Currently, the typical teaching load is two courses per > term, for a total of four courses each year. Faculty members in the > Educational Leadership stream are eligible to apply for Study Leave > (sabbatical) under similar terms to faculty members in the > research-oriented stream. The anticipated start date for this position > is July 1st, 2018. > > A PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Science Education, or > a related area is expected. The successful candidate must provide > evidence of: demonstrated excellence in and commitment to undergraduate > teaching, ability to work independently and to supervise the work of > others, promise of educational leadership at the national or > international level, and potential for creating innovative instructional > environments in both the undergraduate classroom and > laboratory. Experience in curriculum development, course design, and > other initiatives that advance the University's ability to excel in its > teaching and learning mandate is also an asset. > > Candidates should submit a CV, a teaching statement, evidence of > teaching effectiveness, and the names of at least three references. The > statement should include their teaching philosophy, and a record of > teaching interests and experience. Candidates are particularly > encouraged to highlight qualifications relevant to the areas of special > interest in systems and software and with emerging technologies, > pedagogical approaches, and research in teaching and > learning. Applications are to be submitted online at > [https://apps.cs.ubc.ca/fac-recruit/instr/apply/form.jsp]. > > The website will remain open for submissions through the end of the day > on Jan 5th 2018. The website may remain open past that date at the > discretion of the recruiting committee. 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URL: From catalin.hritcu at gmail.com Thu Nov 16 08:30:59 2017 From: catalin.hritcu at gmail.com (Catalin Hritcu) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:30:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation for Secure Compilation Workshop (PriSC @ POPL'18) Message-ID: ======================================================================= Call for Participation for Secure Compilation Workshop (PriSC @ POPL'18) ======================================================================= Secure compilation is an emerging field that puts together advances in programming languages, security, verification, systems, compilers, and hardware architectures in order to devise secure compiler chains that eliminate many of today's low-level vulnerabilities. Secure compilation aims to protect high-level language abstractions in compiled code, even against adversarial low-level contexts, and to allow sound reasoning about security in the source language. The emerging secure compilation community aims to achieve this by: identifying and formalizing properties that secure compilers must possess; devising efficient enforcement mechanisms; and developing effective verification and proof techniques. ====================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2018) ====================================================================== The Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC) is a new informal 1-day workshop without any proceedings. The goal is to identify interesting research directions and open challenges and to bring together researchers interested in secure compilation. The 2nd PriSC edition will be held on Saturday, 13 January 2018, in Los Angeles, together with the ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). More information at http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 ====================================================================== Important Dates ====================================================================== POPL early registration deadline: 10 December 2017 Short talk submission deadline: 14 December 2017, AoE Short talk notification: 18 December 2017 PriSC Workshop takes place: 13 January 2018 Do not miss the chance to submit short talks on your cutting-edge research. More information below. ====================================================================== Invited Talk ====================================================================== Challenges For Compiler-backed Security: From Sanitizer to Mitigation. Mathias Payer (Purdue University, https://nebelwelt.net/) ====================================================================== Accepted Presentations ====================================================================== Building Secure SGX Enclaves using F*, C/C++ and X64. Anitha Gollamudi, C?dric Fournet. Constant-time WebAssembly. John Renner, Sunjay Cauligi, Deian Stefan. Enforcing Well-bracketed Control Flow and Stack Encapsulation using Linear Capabilities. Lau Skorstengaard, Dominique Devriese, Lars Birkedal Formally Secure Compilation of Unsafe Low-Level Components. Guglielmo Fachini, Catalin Hritcu, Marco Stronati, Ana Nora Evans, Th?o Laurent, Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Benjamin C. Pierce, Andrew Tolmach Linear capabilities for modular fully-abstract compilation of verified code. Thomas Van Strydonck, Dominique Devriese, Frank Piessens. On Compositional Compiler Correctness and Fully Abstract Compilation. Daniel Patterson, Amal Ahmed. Per-Thread Compositional Compilation for Confidentiality-Preserving Concurrent Programs. Robert Sison. Robust Hyperproperty Preservation for Secure Compilation. Deepak Garg, Catalin Hritcu, Marco Patrignani, Marco Stronati, David Swasey. Secure Compilation in a Production Environment. Vijay D'Silva. Type-Theoretic Galois Connections. Pierre-Evariste Dagand, Nicolas Tabareau, ?ric Tanter ====================================================================== Participation and Registration ====================================================================== PriSC will be held on Saturday, 13 Jan 2018 at the POPL'18 venue (Omni Hotel LA). To participate, please register through the POPL registration system: https://popl18.sigplan.org/attending/Registration POPL early registration rate ends on 10 December 2017. ====================================================================== Call for Short Talks ====================================================================== We also have a short talks session, where participants get 5 minutes to present intriguing ideas, advertise ongoing work, etc. Anyone interested in giving a short 5-minute talk should submit an abstract. Any topic that could be of interest to the emerging secure compilation community is in scope. Presentations that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are **not** limited to: - attacker models for secure compiler chains - secure compilation properties: full abstraction, memory safety, control-flow integrity, preserving non-interference or (hyper-)properties against adversarial contexts, secure multi-language interoperability - enforcement mechanisms: static checking, program verification, reference monitoring, program rewriting, software fault isolation, system-level protection, secure hardware, crypto, randomization - experimental evaluation and applications of secure compilation - proof methods: (bi)simulation, logical relations, game semantics, multi-language semantics, embedded interpreters - formal verification of secure compilation chain (protection mechanisms, compilers, linkers, loaders), machine-checked proofs, translation validation, property-based testing ====================================================================== Guidelines for Submitting Short Talk Abstracts ====================================================================== Abstracts should be submitted in text format and are not anonymous Giving a talk at the workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere. Please submit your abstracts at https://prisc18short.hotcrp.com ====================================================================== Program Committee ====================================================================== Program Chair Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Members Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Lars Birkedal Aarhus University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven C?dric Fournet Microsoft Research Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Xavier Leroy Inria Paris David Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Frank Piessens KU Leuven Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis Nikhil Swamy Microsoft Research ====================================================================== Organizing Committee ====================================================================== Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis ====================================================================== Contact and More Information ===================================================================== More information about PriSC 2018 can be found on the website: http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 For questions please contact the Program Chair. To make sure you receive such announcements in the future please subscribe to the following low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/prisc-announce From lbauer at cmu.edu Thu Nov 16 09:46:32 2017 From: lbauer at cmu.edu (Lujo Bauer) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 09:46:32 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POST 2018 -- final call for papers Message-ID: ETAPS 2018: European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 five main annual conferences (ESOP, FASE, FOSSACS, POST and TACAS) accompanied by satellite workshops and other events. The 21st edition, ETAPS 2018, will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. ============================================================================ POST 2018: 7th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust ============================================================================ Principles of Security and Trust is a broad forum related to all foundational aspects of security and trust. We seek submissions on the foundations of information security, privacy, and trust, relevant for computer science and different application disciplines. Case studies that reflect the strengths and limitations of existing foundations, methods, and their supporting tools are also welcome, as are more exploratory presentations on open questions. ------------- New This Year ------------- - The Important Dates differ from those of other ETAPS conferences. - We have a rebuttal phase. - We use a double-blind reviewing process. - We accept position papers (in addition to systematization of knowledge papers, tool papers, and regular research papers). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates (different from those of other ETAPS conferences) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts due: 22 November 2017 (two days after EuroS&P 2018 notification) Papers due: 24 November 2017 Rebuttal: 12-16 January 2018 Notification: 25 January 2018 Camera-ready versions due: 23 February 2018 ETAPS Conference: 14-21 April 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece -------------------------- Areas of interest include: -------------------------- Access control Accountability Anonymity Authentication Availability Cloud security Confidentiality Covert channels Crypto foundations Database security Distributed systems security Security and privacy economics Cyber-physical systems security Hardware security Information flow Integrity Languages for security Malicious code Mobile security and privacy Models and policies Privacy and privacy-preserving systems Provenance Reputation and trust Resource usage Risk assessment Security architectures Security protocols Trust management Usable security and privacy Usage control Web security and privacy ----------------------- Submission instructions ----------------------- POST accepts four types of contributions: regular research papers, systemization of knowledge papers, position papers, and tool papers (see below for details). All four types of papers will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. Titles of systemization of knowledge papers, position papers, and tool papers should start with a keyword that indicates the category (?SoK?, ?Position Paper?, ?Tool Demonstration?). Submitted papers must be in English and present previously unpublished work. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere (this does not apply to abstracts). 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. A condition of acceptance is that one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and be submitted electronically in PDF through Easychair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=post2018 Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length requirements may be rejected immediately. POST will use a double-blind review process. Authors are asked to omit their names, institutions, and other directly identifying information; refer to their prior work in the third person, just as to prior work by others; and not to include acknowledgements that might identify them. ----------------------- Regular Research Papers ----------------------- POST allows for submissions of at most 20 pages (excluding a bibliography of max 2 pages). 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. ETAPS reviewers are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. ----------------------------------------- Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers ----------------------------------------- SoK evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge. Suitable papers are those that provide an important new viewpoint on established research areas, challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence, or present a comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate. Submissions should be distinguished by the prefix ?SoK:? in the title. They will be reviewed by the PC and held to the same standards as traditional research papers, except instead of emphasizing novel research contributions the emphasis will be on value to the community. The regulation for the number of pages is the same as the one for regular research papers. ------------------------- Tool Demonstration Papers ------------------------- Submissions of tool demonstration papers should consist of two parts: - The first part, at most 6 pages, should describe the tool presented and provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool (this part will be included in the proceedings). If available, the URL of the tool should be provided in the appropriate field in Easychair when submitting your paper. This field can only be seen by PC chairs, and, hence, does not have to be anonymized. Of course, authors may also include anonymized URLs directly in their submission. The title of the submission should start with the words ?Tool Demonstration:?. - 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 not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated.) --------------- Position Papers --------------- New this year, POST welcomes position papers that present a well justified stance on a fundamental but possibly controversial question. For example: ?Privacy should trump security in all cases? (or the other way around), ?Cryptocurrencies should be outlawed because... / encouraged because??, ?Why we should/should not research internet-based voting?. A position paper can also propose new directions for foundational research without having worked out all technical details. Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of stimulating insightful discussion at the conference, and technical merit. Position papers may be no longer than 10 pages (excluding a bibliography of up to 2 pages) and their titles must start with the words ?Position Paper:?. ------------------- Programme Committee ------------------- Lujo Bauer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA -- co-chair ) Ralf Kuesters (University of Stuttgart, Germany -- co-chair) Karthikeyan Bhargavan (INRIA Paris, France) Nataliia Bielova (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Stephen Chong (Harvard University, USA) Veronique Cortier (CNRS, LORIA, France) Stephanie Delaune (CNRS, IRISA, France) Cormac Flanagan (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) Riccardo Focardi (Universit? Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy) Michael Hicks (University of Maryland, USA) Anja Lehmann (IBM Research Z?rich, Switzerland) Jay Ligatti (University of South Florida, USA) Sergio Maffeis (Imperial College London, UK) Heiko Mantel (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) Catherine Meadows (NRL, USA) Frank Piessens (KU Leuven, Belgium) Tamara Rezk (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Gregor Snelting (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Cynthia Sturton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Vanessa Teague (University of Melbourne, Australia) Luca Vigano (King's College London, UK) See also http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2018/post -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Topics include but are not limited to: * Theory - algebras such as semigroups, residuated lattices, semirings, Kleene algebras, relation algebras and quantales - their connections with program logics and other logics - their use in the theories of automata, concurrency, formal languages, games, networks and programming languages - the development of algebraic, algorithmic, category-theoretic, coalgebraic and proof-theoretic methods for these theories - their formalisation with theorem provers * Applications - tools and techniques for program correctness, specification and verification - quantitative and qualitative models and semantics of computing systems and processes - algorithm design, automated reasoning, network protocol analysis, social choice, optimisation and control - industrial applications IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission: 6 April 2018 Paper Submission: 13 April 2018 Author Notification: 29 June 2018 Final Version: 27 July 2018 RAMiCS 2018: 29 October - 2 November 2018 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submission is via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramics17 All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees. The proceedings will be published in an LNCS volume by Springer, ready at the conference. Submissions must not be published or under review for publication elsewhere. Submissions must be in English using a PDF not exceeding 16 pages in LNCS style. Submissions must provide sufficient information to judge their merits. Additional material may be provided in a clearly marked appendix or by a reference to a manuscript on a web site. Experimental data, software or mathematical components for theorem provers must be available in sufficient detail for referees. Deviation from these requirements may lead to rejection. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Accepted papers must be produced with LaTeX. Formatting instructions and LNCS style files are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html As for earlier RAMiCS conferences, we intend to publish a journal special issue with revised and extended versions of a selection of the best papers. COMMITTEES: Organising Committee -------------------- Conference Chair: Stef Joosten, Open University of the Netherlands PC Co-Chair: Jules Desharnais, Universit? Laval, Qu?bec, Canada PC Co-Chair: Walter Guttmann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Publicity Chair: Sebastiaan Joosten, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands Programme Committee ------------------- Luca Aceto, Reykjav?k University, Iceland Rudolf Berghammer, CAU Kiel, Germany Jules Desharnais, Universit? Laval, Canada Uli Fahrenberg, ?cole Polytechnique, France Hitoshi Furusawa, Kagoshima University, Japan Walter Guttmann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Robin Hirsch, University College London, UK Peter H?fner, Data61, Australia Marcel Jackson, La Trobe University, Australia Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, University of Michigan, USA Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Stef Joosten, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands Wolfram Kahl, McMaster University, Canada Barbara K?nig, Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, USA Agi Kurucz, King's College London, UK Tadeusz Litak, FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Roger Maddux, Iowa State University, USA Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, Australia Szabolcs Mikul?s, Birkbeck College, UK Ali Mili, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Bernhard M?ller, Universit?t Augsburg, Germany Jos? N. Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Alessandra Palmigiano, TU Delft, The Netherlands Damien Pous, CNRS, France Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London, UK John Stell, University of Leeds, UK Georg Struth, University of Sheffield, UK Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada Jaap van der Woude, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands From awodey at cmu.edu Sun Nov 19 22:13:18 2017 From: awodey at cmu.edu (Steve Awodey) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:13:18 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions at CMU Message-ID: The Homotopy Type Theory research group at CMU Philosophy has positions open in the coming academic year 2018-19 for incoming PhD students interested in doing research in type theory, homotopy theory, (higher) category theory, and related areas. For more information about our very active research group, see the info page here: https://cmuhott.wordpress.com/ The department also has a research group focused on interactive theorem proving, formal verification, and formalization of mathematics, centered on the Lean Theorem Prover: https://leanprover.github.io/ For information about the Pure and Applied Logic PhD program at CMU, see the info page here: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/graduate/phd/pure-and-applied-logic/index.html Admitted students receive full tuition, a generous living stipend, health insurance, and other benefits. Students are typically assigned limited teaching duties as graders or teaching assistants, or, when available, are supported by a research grant. Upon completion of the program, students receive the degree of PhD in Pure and Applied Logic. For further information, please contact Steve Awodey (awodey at cmu.edu) or Jeremy Avigad (avigad at cmu.edu). Deadline: January 2, 2018 From federico.aschieri at tuwien.ac.at Tue Nov 21 09:55:35 2017 From: federico.aschieri at tuwien.ac.at (Federico Aschieri) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:55:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SYSMICS 2 Workshop: Substructural logics and applications, Vienna (Austria), 26-28 Feb 2018 Message-ID: ** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ** Second SYSMICS Workshop "Substructural logics: semantics, proof theory and applications" Vienna, Austria, February 26-28, 2018 http://sysmics.logic.at Substructural logics are non-classical logics lacking some of the structural rules of classical logic, and are motivated by philosophical, linguistic and computational considerations. Traditionally, substructural logics have been investigated using proof theoretic and algebraic methods. In recent years, combined approaches have started to emerge. The program of this SYSMICS workshop will be focused on the interactions between syntactic and semantic methods in substructural and related logics, as well as their applications. If you would like to give a contributed talk, please submit an abstract of 1-3 pages in pdf via the EasyChair submission page: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sysmicsw2 Participation will be free of charge, and everyone is welcome to attend with or without contributing a talk. Notification of attendance via email by 10th February, 2018 would be appreciated. All notifications and informal enquiries should be addressed to sysmics at logic.at Limited travel grants may be available (please enquire). INVITED SPEAKERS Matteo Maffei (Vienna) Francesco Paoli (Cagliari) Elaine Pimentel (Natal) David Pym (London) Alwen Tiu (Canberra) Philip Wadler (Edinburgh) IMPORTANT DATES 15th December 2017: abstract submission deadline 22nd December 2017: author notification 26-28th February 2018: workshop ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Federico Aschieri (TU Wien) Paolo Baldi (TU Wien) Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien) Francesco Genco (TU Wien) Francesca Gulisano (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) Bj?rn Lellmann (TU Wien) Tim Lyon (TU Wien) Matteo Pascucci (TU Wien) Revantha Ramanayake (TU Wien) This is the second workshop in the framework of the MSCA-RISE project SYSMICS (Syntax meets Semantics: Methods, Interactions, and Connections in Substructural logics http://logica.dmi.unisa.it/sysmics/ ). We look forward to your participation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Programme Keynote talk: We Software People are not Worthy - All Hail the Hardware Gods Sylvan Clebsch Who guards the guards? Formal Validation of the ARM v8-M Architecture Specification Alastair Reid Sand Efficient Data Representations for Dynamic Languages with Shared-Memory Parallelism Stefan Marr String-diagram Semantics for Functional Languages with Data-flow Steven Cheung Slicing Extended Finite State Machines Kelly Androutsopoulos Rule-based Graph Programming Detlef Plump Transactions in Relaxed Memory Architectures Brijesh Dongol Fast, Precise Dynamic Checking of Types and Bounds in C Stephen Kell Register Please register by Dec 11th at: http://soft-dev.org/events/srepls8 From cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov Tue Nov 21 10:24:58 2017 From: cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320)) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:24:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] NFM 2018 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <92EC25B3-4617-4C70-980F-D91D64762AF6@nasa.gov> NFM 2018 - Call for Papers *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *** The 10th NASA Formal Methods Symposium 30 Years of Formal Methods at NASA ------------------------------------- https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ April 17-19, 2018 Newport News Marriott at City Center Newport News, VA, USA Theme of the Symposium ---------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous 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 both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including 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: ------------------------------------------------- * Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis * Advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving * Use of formal methods in software and system testing * Run-time verification * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods such as abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and/or distributed techniques * Code generation from formally verified models * Safety cases and system safety * Formal approaches to fault tolerance * Theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems * Formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development * Formalization of mathematics and physics 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 (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2018 Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in Springer's Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/11334). Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: December 1, 2017 ** Extended ** Paper Submission: December 11, 2017 ** Extended ** Paper Notification: January 23, 2018 Camera Ready Deadline: February 6, 2018 Symposium: April 17-19, 2018 Program Committee ---------------- Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Julia Badger, NASA, USA Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft, USA Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sylvie Boldo, Inria, France Kalou Cabrera Castillos, LAAS-CNRS, France Misty Davies, NASA, USA Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, France Stefania Gnesi, ISTI, Italy Alberto Griggio, FBK, Itlaly George Hagen, NASA, USA John Harrison, Intel, USA Klaus Havelund, JPL/NASA, USA Ashlie Hocking, Dependable Computing, USA Susmit Jha, SRI International, USA Rajeev Joshi, JPL/NASA, USA Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Natasha Neogi, NASA, USA Lee Pike, USA Murali Rangarajan, Boeing, USA Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy Camilo Rocha, Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Johann Schumann, SGT, USA Konrad Slind, Rockwell Collins, USA Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA Laura Titolo, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Christoph Torens, DLR, Germany Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Virginie Wiels, ONERA, France Organizing Committee ---------------- Anthony Narkawicz (Conference Chair) Aaron Dutle (Program Committee Co-Chair) Cesar Munoz (Program Committee Co-Chair) Location -------- The symposium will take place at Newport News Marriott at City Center, Newport News, VA, USA. Registration is required but is free of charge. Contact -------- Email: nfm2018 [at] easychair [dot] org Web: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ --- 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 ayala at unb.br Wed Nov 22 12:24:09 2017 From: ayala at unb.br (Mauricio Ayala-Rincon) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:24:09 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] UNIF 2018 - first CFPs Message-ID: <36b195dc-b4e3-9487-b5b9-c5d9be482b56@unb.br> Dear colleagues, Please find below the first call for papers for UNIF 2018, the 32nd International Workshop on Unification, affiliated to FSCD. We would be very grateful if you could help us disseminating it among your interested students and colleagues, and of course much more grateful if you consider submitting a paper. Best regards Philippe Balbiani, Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n UNIF 2018 --//-- First Call for Papers: UNIF 2018 -- FSCD workshop Website:http://unif2018.cic.unb.br The 32nd International Workshop on Unification is the 32nd event in a series of international meetings devoted to unification theory and its applications. Unification is concerned with the problem of making two terms equal, 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. Traditionally, the scope of the UNIF workshops has covered the topic of unification in a broad sense, encompassing also research in constraint solving, admissibility of inference rules, and applications such as type checking, query answering and cryptographic protocol analysis. 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 state of the art in unification theory. The workshop will be hosted by the 3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD, Oxford, 9-12 July 2018). ** Invited speakers ** Adria Gascon (Warwick, UK) Silvio Ghilardi (Milano, Italy). ** Submission instructions ** 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: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unif2018 Abstracts will be evaluated by the Programme Committee (if necessary with support from external reviewers) regarding their significance for the workshop. We will allow work presented/submitted in/to another conference. 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 ** Submission of titles and abstracts: Monday, April 9, 2018 Submission of full paper: Monday, April 16, 2018 Author notification: Friday, May 18, 2018 Camera-ready papers: Friday, June 1, 2018 UNIF 2018: Saturday, July 7, 2018 FSCD 2018: July 9-12, 2018 Main conference (FLoCS): July 6-19, 2018 ** Program Committee ** Maria Alpuente (UP Valencia) Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Eduardo Bonelli (UN Quilmes) Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon U) Wojciech Dzik (U Silesia) Santiago Escobar (UP Valencia) Maribel Fernandez (King's College London) Cigdem Gencer (Istanbul Aydin U) Rosalie Iemhoff (U Utrecht) Emil Jerabek (Czech Academy of Sciences) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler U Linz) Jordi Levy (IIIA-CSIC) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson U) Catherine Meadows (US Naval Research Laboratory) Paliath Narendran (U at Albany - State U of New York) Christophe Ringeissen (Inria Nancy) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Johann Wolfgang Goethe U Frankfurt) ** Organizers ** Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (Universidade de Brasilia) ayala at unb.br Philippe Balbiani (CNRS - Toulouse University) Philippe.Balbiani at irit.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk Thu Nov 23 05:13:21 2017 From: m.roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk (Markus Roggenbach) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:13:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 Studentships in Swansea on Formal Modelling, Analysing and Testing of Real Time Systems Message-ID: <3FFCBC3D-5742-41CF-B0A0-71CC30A44D29@swansea.ac.uk> The Swansea Railway Verification Group (http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/rail/ ) has two studentship available on Formal Modelling, Analysing and Testing of Real Time Systems: 1) For a PhD (4 years) http://www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/scholarships/research/computer-science-epsrc-icase-phd-formal-modelling.php 2) For an MSci (1 year) http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/postgraduate/phdopportunities/formal-modelling-and-analysis-of-real-time-systems/ Closing date for both studentships: 15 December 2017 Start date for both studentships: January 2018 (or later) Informal enquiries about this studentship are welcome and may be directed to Professor Markus Roggenbach by emailing M.Roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk or calling +44 (0)1792 513578. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pepm.workshop at gmail.com Thu Nov 23 07:03:19 2017 From: pepm.workshop at gmail.com (PEPM Workshop) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:03:19 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2018 Call for Poster/Demo Abstracts and Participation Message-ID: -- Call for Poster/Demo Abstracts and Participation -- ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM) 2018 =============================================================================== * Website : http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/PEPM-2018 * Time : 8th ? 9th January 2018 * Place : Los Angeles, CA, US (co-located with POPL 2018) POSTER/DEMO SESSIONS: PEPM 2018 is accepting proposals for poster/demo presentations on a rolling basis, until 8th December (AoE). See below for the submission guidelines. Registration ------------ * Web page : https://popl18.sigplan.org/attending/Registration * Early registration deadline : 10th December 2017 Invited speakers ---------------- Alex Aiken (Stanford University) Conal Elliott (Target) Jan Midtgaard (University of Southern Denmark) Accepted papers --------------- * https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/PEPM-2018#event-overview A Guess-and-Assume Approach to Loop Fusion for Program Verification Akifumi Imanishi, Kohei Suenaga, and Atsushi Igarashi Checking Cryptographic API Usage with Composable Annotations (Short Paper) Duncan Mitchell, L. Thomas van Binsbergen, Blake Loring, and Johannes Kinder Gradually Typed Symbolic Expressions David Broman and Jeremy G. Siek On the Cost of Type-Tag Soundness Ben Greenman and Zeina migeed Partially Static Data as Free Extension of Algebras (Short Paper) Jeremy Yallop, Tamara von Glehn, and Ohad Kammar Program Generation for ML Modules (Short Paper) Takahisa Watanabe and Yukiyoshi Kameyama Recursive Programs in Normal Form (Short Paper) Barry Jay Selective CPS Transformation for Shift and Reset Kenichi Asai and Chihiro Uehara Poster/demo abstract submission guideline ----------------------------------------- * https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/PEPM-2018#Call-for-Poster-Demo-Abstracts To maintain PEPM?s dynamic and interactive nature, PEPM 2018 will continue to have special sessions for poster/demo presentations. In addition to the main interactive poster/demo session, there will also be a scheduled short-talk session where each poster/demo can be advertised to the audience in, say, 5?10 minutes. Poster/demo abstracts should describe work relevant to PEPM (whose scope is detailed below), typeset as a one-page PDF using the two-column ?sigplan? sub-format of the new ?acmart? format available at: http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ and sent by email to the programme co-chairs, Fritz Henglein and Josh Ko, at: henglein at diku.dk, hsiang-shang at nii.ac.jp Please also include in the email: * a short summary of the abstract (in plain text), * the type(s) of proposed presentation (poster and/or demo), and * whether you would like to give a scheduled short talk (in addition to the poster/demo presentation). Abstracts should be sent no later than: Friday, 8th December 2017, anywhere on earth and will be considered for acceptance on a rolling basis. Accepted abstracts, along with their short summary, will be posted on PEPM 2018?s website. At least one author of each accepted abstract must attend the workshop and present the work during the poster/demo session. Student participants with accepted posters/demos 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 programme, see its web page. Scope ----- In addition to the traditional PEPM topics (see below), PEPM 2018 welcomes submissions in new domains, in particular: * Semantics based and machine-learning based program synthesis and program optimisation. * Modelling, analysis, and transformation techniques for distributed and concurrent protocols and programs, such as session types, linear types, and contract specifications. More generally, topics of interest for PEPM 2018 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. * 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. * 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. * 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, embedded and resource-limited computation, and security. This list of categories is not exhaustive, and we encourage submissions describing new theories and applications related to semantics-based program manipulation in general. If you have a question as to whether a potential submission is within the scope of the workshop, please contact the programme co-chairs, Fritz Henglein and Josh Ko (henglein at diku.dk, hsiang-shang at nii.ac.jp). From manuel.hermenegildo at imdea.org Tue Nov 21 18:43:24 2017 From: manuel.hermenegildo at imdea.org (Manuel Hermenegildo) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:43:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track Faculty Positions at the IMDEA Software Institute Message-ID: <23060.47644.959792.134674@gargle.gargle.HOWL> TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITIONS AT THE IMDEA SOFTWARE INSTITUTE -------------------------------------------------------------- The IMDEA Software Institute invites applications for multiple tenure-track (Assistant Professor) faculty positions. We are primarily interested in recruiting excellent candidates in the areas of Data Science, including machine learning; Privacy; and Systems, including parallel and distributed systems, embedded systems, hybrid and heterogeneous architectures, etc. However, we are open to other areas within the general research focus of the Institute. Tenured-level (Associate and Full Professor) applications will also be considered. The primary mission of the IMDEA Software Institute is to perform research of excellence at the highest international level in the area of software development technologies. It is one of the highest ranked institutions worldwide in its main topic areas. Selection Process ***************** The main selection criteria will be the candidate's demonstrated ability and commitment to research, the match of interests with the institute's mission, and how the candidate complements areas of established strengths of the institute. All positions require a doctoral degree in Computer Science or a closely related area, earned by the expected start date. Candidates for tenure-track positions will have shown exceptional promise in research and will have displayed an ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. Candidates for tenured positions must possess an outstanding research record, have recognized international stature, and demonstrated leadership abilities. Experience in graduate student supervision is also valued at this level. Applications should be completed using the application form at https://careers.imdea.org/software/ For full consideration, complete applications must be received by January 15, 2018 although applications will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled. Working at the IMDEA Software Institute *************************************** The institute is located in the vibrant area of Madrid, Spain. It offers an ideal working environment, combining the best aspects of a research center and a university department. Its researchers can focus on developing new ideas and projects, in collaboration with world-leading, international faculty, post-docs, and students. Researchers also have the opportunity (but no obligation) to teach university courses. The institute offers institutional funding and also encourages its members to participate in national and international research projects. The working language at the institute is English. Salaries at the Institute are internationally competitive and established on an individual basis. They include social security provisions in accordance with existing national Spanish legislation, and in particular access to an excellent public health care system. Further information about the Institute's current faculty and research can be found at http://www.software.imdea.org The IMDEA Software Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from a diverse and international community and underrepresented groups. The institute complies with the European Charter for Researchers. -- From g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk Thu Nov 23 11:18:11 2017 From: g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk (Constantinides, George A) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:18:11 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Short term placements at Imperial College Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Do you have PhD students who would be keen to spend some time with us in London during their PhD? Or are you such a student? If so, please see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG00063/short-term-research-assistantship for an unusual opportunity to spend a few months at Imperial as a member of research staff in our group. We are particularly keen to speak to advisors and students who would like to build long-term collaborative relationships with us, and would see this as a mechanism to kick-start such a relationship. Duration and start date are negotiable - the advertisement is only a guide. Please spread the word and contact one of us if interested. George (for Christos Bouganis, Peter Cheung, George Constantinides, and David Thomas) -- Professor George A. Constantinides Royal Academy of Engineering / Imagination Technologies Research Chair Head, Circuits and Systems Group Professor of Digital Computation g.constantinides at imperial.ac.uk Administrator: Mrs W. Hsissen (w.hsissen at ic.ac.uk) +44 20 7594 6261 From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Sat Nov 25 06:33:54 2017 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (dubois) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:33:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TAP 2018 - First CFP Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies for duplicates] ===================================================== First Call for Papers 12th International Conference on Tests And Proofs TAP 2018 Toulouse (France), 27-29 June 2018 https://tap18.lri.fr/ Part of STAF 2018 held in Toulouse ===================================================== Important Dates --------------- Abstract: 23 February 2018 Paper: 2 March 2018 Notification: 9 April 2018 Camera-Ready Version: 23 April 2018 Conference: 27-29 June 2018 Aim and Scope ------------- 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. Research in verification has recently seen a steady convergence of heterogeneous techniques and a synergy between the traditionally distinct areas of testing (and dynamic analysis) and of proving (and static analysis). Formal techniques for counter-example generation based on, for example, symbolic execution, SAT/SMT-solving or model checking, furnish evidence for the potential of a combination of test and proof. The combination of predicate abstraction with testing-like techniques based on exhaustive enumeration opens the perspective for novel techniques of proving correctness. On the practical side, testing offers cost-effective debugging techniques of specifications or crucial parts of program proofs (such as invariants). Last but not least, testing is indispensable when it comes to the validation of the underlying assumptions of complex system models involving hardware and/or system environments. Over the years, there is growing acceptance in research communities that testing and proving are complementary rather than mutually exclusive techniques. 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. Topics of Interest ------------------ 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 supporting the automated generation of test vectors and oracles (theorem proving, model checking, symbolic execution, SAT/SMT solving, constraint logic programming, etc.) - Deductive techniques supporting novel definitions of coverage criteria, - Program analysis techniques combining static and dynamic analysis - Specification inference by deductive and dynamic methods - Testing and runtime analysis of formal specifications - Search-based technics for proving and testing - Verification of verification tools and environments - Applications of test and proof techniques in new domains, such as security, configuration management, learning - Combined approaches of test and proof in the context of formal certifications (Common Criteria, CENELEC, ?) - Case studies, tool and framework descriptions, and experience reports about combining tests and proofs Submission Instructions ------------------- TAP 2018 accepts papers of three kinds: - Regular research papers: full submissions describing original research, of up to 16 pages (excluding references). - Tool demonstration papers: submissions describing the design and implementation of an analysis/verification tool or framework, of up to 8 pages (excluding references). The tool/framework described in a tool demonstration paper should be available for public use. - Short papers: submissions describing preliminary findings, proofs of concepts, and exploratory studies, of up to 6 pages (excluding references). We are planning to publish the proceedings in the Formal Methods subline of Springer's LNCS series. Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2018 Committees ---------- Information about all committees can be found at https://tap18.lri.fr Program Chairs : - Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, Evry, France - Burkhart Wolff, University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France Contact ------- mailto:tap2018 at easychair.org -- Catherine DUBOIS, professor ENSIIE, lab. Samovar (UMR 5157) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A doctoral degree in computer science or related areas and an outstanding research record (commensurate for the applicant's career stage) are required. Successful candidates are expected to build a team and pursue a highly visible research agenda, both independently and in collaboration with other groups. MPI-SWS is part of a network of over 80 Max Planck Institutes, Germany's premier basic-research organisations. MPIs have an established record of world-class, foundational research in the sciences, technology, and the humanities. The institute offers a unique environment that combines the best aspects of a university department and a research laboratory: Faculty enjoy full academic freedom, lead a team of doctoral students and post-docs, and have the opportunity to teach university courses; at the same time, they enjoy ongoing institutional funding in addition to third-party funds, a technical infrastructure unrivaled for an academic institution, as well as internationally competitive compensation. The institute is located in the German cities of Saarbruecken and Kaiserslautern, in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg. We maintain an international and diverse work environment and seek applications from outstanding researchers worldwide. The working language is English; knowledge of the German language is not required for a successful career at the institute. Qualified candidates should apply on our application website (https://apply.mpi-sws.org). To receive full consideration, applications should be received by December 1st, 2017. The institute is committed to increasing the representation of minorities, women, and individuals with physical disabilities. We particularly encourage such individuals to apply. The initial tenure-track appointment is for five years; it can be extended to seven years based on a midterm evaluation in the fourth year. A permanent contract can be awarded upon a successful tenure evaluation in the sixth year. From abb at cs.stir.ac.uk Mon Nov 27 12:12:36 2017 From: abb at cs.stir.ac.uk (Andrea Bracciali) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:12:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fully-funded PhD on blockchain applications Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please find below (and attached) information on a fully funded PhD studentship, which I would like to ask you to disseminate to suitable candidates. This is a research project in collaboration with industry on developing topics on blockchain technologies. Interested students are invited to contact me. Many thanks. With best wishes, Andrea Bracciali ----------------------- SICSA Lecturer in Computing Computer Sciences and Mathematics School of Natural Sciences Stirling University abb at cs.stir.ac.uk 0044 (0) 1786 467446 ????????????????????? Trustable dapps on reliable blockchain technologies Fully-funded PhD Studentship University of Stirling, UK A fully funded PhD studentship on Trustable dapps on reliable blockchain technologies is available at the Computing Science and Mathematics division of the University of Stirling, UK, in collaboration with Wallet.Services. The goal of this project is the design of a suitable framework to support the development of reliable and trustable blockchain-based decentralised applications. Interestingly, the project benefits from the participation of WalletServices (www.wallet.services), an emerging startup in the global fintech sector. WalletServices will provide interesting use cases and their industrial know-how to the project. The student is expected to carry out the research in collaboration with the company. The project will also take into due consideration the latest developments in the technology, as well as specific interests and expertise of the student. This project will be carried out under the joint supervision of Dr. Andrea Bracciali and WalletServices, within an international academic network with expertise in verification, game theory, cryptography, programming languages, modelling and finance, and will enjoy the support of a growing multidisciplinary group of researchers and students interested in blockchain technologies. The project will also benefit from the thriving fintech Scottish sector, which has a strong interest in blockchain technologies, and could particularly contribute to the, academic or industrial, career development of the student. Students with a background in, or across, computer science, economics, mathematics (non-exclusive list!), and interested in a scientific approach to breakthrough technologies are encouraged to apply. The studentship will cover tuition fees, and a standard stipend at RCUK rates (from about 14,000GBP), for three years. We would like to fill the position shortly, but the start date can be negotiated. Interested candidates are invited to contact Dr. Andrea Bracciali abb at cs.stir.ac.uk +44 (0)1786 467446 should they wish to apply for the position, or further discuss the project and any detail of the fellowship, PhD studies and university life in Scotland. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PhD_WS-BLOCKCHAIN_leaflet.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 73587 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From david.baelde at lsv.ens-cachan.fr Tue Nov 28 05:26:13 2017 From: david.baelde at lsv.ens-cachan.fr (David Baelde) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:26:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EPIT 2018 Software Verification Spring School, first CfP Message-ID: <62102ff7-af89-bfce-edb9-d7c4bf5a2381@lsv.fr> EPIT 2018 Software Verification Spring School ============================================== When: May 7-11, 2018 Where: Centre Paul-Langevin in Aussois, France Web: https://projects.lsv.fr/epit18/ ============================================== EPIT (?cole de Printemps en Informatique Th?orique) is a long series of Spring schools in theoretical computer science, initiated by Maurice Nivat in 1973. Since then, it has covered various fields of computer science, and has been a key event where young researchers meet. The theme of the 2018 school is software verification. The need for software verification in our information society has been recognized as early as in the ?70s and it is an ever-more-important concern today. Over the past decades, it has driven exciting research in various fields of theoretical computer science such as logic, automata, type systems, algorithms and complexity. Recently, verification techniques have seen rapid development and industrial adoptions, notably following the SMT revolution. The school will cover several fundamental aspects of software verification: ? SMT solvers, by Pascal Fontaine (LORIA) ? Program verification with F*, by C?t?lin Hri?cu (Inria Paris) ? Bounded model-checking, by Gennaro Parlato (University of Southampton) ? Concurrent program logics, by Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI Kaiserslautern) More information may be found on our website . Details such as registration will be announced later. Spread the word and save the date! ? The organizers, David Baelde (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) Constantin Enea (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot) From chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk Wed Nov 29 05:42:19 2017 From: chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk (Chris Heunen) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:42:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CVQT 19-22 March 2018: Call for participation Message-ID: COMBINING VIEWPOINTS IN QUANTUM THEORY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 19-22 March 2018 Edinburgh, United Kingdom http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cheunen/cvqt/ TOPIC Quantum informatics lies at the interface of mathematics, computer science, and physics. Understanding quantum computing in enough detail to allow its large-scale deployment will clearly transform our society, but there are several obstructions. The most fundamental ones run straight to the heart of the counterintuitiveness of quantum theory: one can only extract data from a quantum system from one classical viewpoint at a time. Learning more requires combining measurements from multiple classical viewpoints. Addressing this issue will advance our theoretical understanding of nature and at the same time has practical benefits to quantum technology. This workshop brings together researchers working on this topic and thematically related areas, such as category theory, operator algebra, and logic. It aims to inspire new collaborations and provide an opportunity for young researchers to expand their horizons. This is an interdisciplinary workshop, and not a specialist conference. The goal is not to preach to the converted but to reach out to others. The programme will leave plenty of opportunities for discussion. INVITED SPEAKERS * Stijn de Baerdemacker (Ghent University) * Rui Soares Barbosa (University of Oxford) * Tobias Fritz (Max Planck Institute Leipzig) * Jan Hamhalter (Czech Technical University of Prague) * John Harding (New Mexico State University) * Martin Idel (Technical University of M?nchen) * Viv Kendon (Durham University), to be confirmed * Mark Lawson (Heriot-Watt University) * Pedro Resende (University of Lisboa) * David Reutter (University of Oxford) * Manuel Reyes (Bowdoin College) * Phil Scott (University of Ottawa), to be confirmed * Benoit Valiron (University of Paris South) * Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford) * Bas Westerbaan (Radboud University) The programme is under construction. There will be long invited talks, room for shorter contributed talks, and long tea and lunch breaks for discussion. There will be a wine reception on the Monday, a social excursion on Wednesday afternoon, and a dinner on Wednesday evening. CONTRIBUTED TALKS There is limited room in the programme for shorter contributed talks. If you are interested in contributing a talk, please email chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk with a proposed title and abstract. SUPPORT Financial support is available for a number of PhD students and early career researchers. Preference will be given to those who match the topic of the workshop, minorities, and those with caring duties. Funding decisions will be made on February 1. Email chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk to apply. REGISTRATION There is no registration fee. Tea, coffee, and lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, for now please email chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk. Official registration, including the dinner and social events, will be opened on the website shortly. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From einarj at ifi.uio.no Wed Nov 29 07:00:08 2017 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:00:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: FM 2018 Message-ID: <20171129120008.14B9B233C0C@nordur.ifi.uio.no> FM 2018: 22nd International Symposium on Formal Methods Oxford, UK, July 15-17, 2018 Conference website http://fm2018.org Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2018 Abstract registration deadline January 8, 2018 Submission deadline January 22, 2018 Notification April 9, 2018 Camera Ready May 9, 2018 Call for Papers - Main Conference FM 2018 is the latest in a series of symposia organized by Formal Methods Europe, an independent association that encourages the use of, and research on, formal methods for the engineering of computer-based systems and software. The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers and industrial users around a programme of original papers on research and industrial experience, workshops, tutorials, reports on tools, projects, and ongoing doctoral work. FM 2018 will take place in Oxford, UK, 15-17 July 2018 as part of FLoC 2018, the Federated Logic Conferences. FM 2018 will highlight the development and application of formal methods in a wide range of domains including software and integrated computer-based systems. In the latter field, cyber-physical systems, systems-of-systems, human-computer interaction, manufacturing, sustainability, power, transport, cities, healthcare, and biology are of particular interest. We also welcome papers on experiences of formal methods in industry, and on the design and validation of formal methods tools. Submission Guidelines FM 2018 encourages submissions on formal methods for developing and evaluating systems that interact with physical processes, and systems that use artificial intelligence technology. Examples include autonomous systems, robots, and cyber-physical systems in general. Applying formal methods to these systems of growing interest and importance is challenging because they exhibit much greater non-determinism than traditional systems, making them challenging to assure. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The broad topics of interest for FM 2018 include, but are not limited to: * Interdisciplinary formal methods: Techniques, tools and experiences demonstrating formal methods in interdisciplinary frameworks. * Formal methods in practice: Industrial applications of formal methods, experience with formal methods in industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge problems. Authors are encouraged to explain how formal methods overcame problems, led to improved designs, or provided new insights. * Tools for formal methods: Advances in automated verification, model-checking, and testing with formal methods, tools integration, environments for formal methods, and experimental validation of tools. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate empirically that the new tool or environment advances the state of the art. * Role of formal methods in software and systems engineering: Development processes with formal methods, usage guidelines for formal methods, and method integration. Authors are encouraged to evaluate process innovations with respect to qualitative or quantitative improvements. Empirical studies and evaluations are also solicited. * Theoretical foundations: All aspects of theory related to specification, verification, refinement, and static and dynamic analysis. Authors are encouraged to explain how their results contribute to the solution of practical problems with methods or tools. Submission Information Papers should be original work, not published or submitted elsewhere, in Springer LNCS format, written in English, submitted through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2018). Each paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of papers reporting experimental work 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 at the time of review. The usual criteria for novelty, reproducibility, correctness and the ability for others to build upon the described work apply. Tool papers should explain enhancements made compared to previously published work. A tool paper need not present the theory behind the tool but should focus on the tool's features, how it is used, its evaluation, and examples and screen shots illustrating the tool's use. Authors of tool papers should make their tool available for use by reviewers. We solicit two categories of papers: * Regular Papers should not exceed 15 pages, not counting references and appendices. * Short papers, including tool papers, should not exceed 6 pages, not counting references and appendices. Besides tool papers, short papers are encouraged for any subject that can be described within the page limit, and in particular for novel ideas without an extensive experimental evaluation. Short papers will be accompanied by short presentations. For regular and tool papers, an appendix can provide additional material such as details on proofs or experiments. The appendix is not part of the page count and not guaranteed to be read or taken into account by the reviewers. It should not contain information necessary to the understanding and the evaluation of the presented work. Papers will be accepted or rejected in the category in which they were submitted ? there will be no "demotions" from a regular to a short paper. Keynote Speakers Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University & UP4ALL, Denmark Best Paper Award During the conference, the Programme Committee Chairs will present an award to the authors of the submission selected as the FM 2018 Best Paper. Publication Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings to appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of one or more journals. Location FM2018, the 22nd International Symposium on Formal Methods, will take place in Oxford, UK, 15-17 July 2018 as part of FLoC 2018, the Federated Logic Conferences. General Chair Erik P. de Vink, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Programme Chairs Bill W. Roscoe, University of Oxford, GB Jan Peleska, University of Bremen, DE Committees Program Committee Bernhard K. Airchernig, TU Graz, AT Joerg Brauer, Verified Systems International GmbH, DE Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, GB Frank De Boer, CWI, NL John S. Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, GB Martin Fraenzle, Universitaet Oldenburg, DE Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo, CA Diego Garbervetsky, Universidad de Buenos Aires, AR Dimitria Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, US Thomas Gibson-Robinson, University of Oxford, GB Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, IT Anne E. Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark, DK Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, AU Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, US Jozef Hooman, TNO-ESI and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Laura Humphrey, Air Force Research Laboratory, US Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, JP Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, NO Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, GB Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, DE Gerwin Klein, NICTA and University of New South Wales, AU Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, DK Yves Ledru, Universit? Grenoble Alpes, FR Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, US Elizabeth Leonard, Naval Research Laboratory, US Martin Leucker, University of L?beck, DE Michael Leuschel, University of D?sseldorf, DE Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, CN Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick and Lero, IE Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, IT Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, AU Dominique Mery, LORIA and Universit? de Lorraine, FR Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, SE Peter M?ller, ETH Z?rich, CH Colin O'Halloran, D-RisQ Software Systems, GB Jose Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, PT Olaf Owe, Universitity of Oslo, NO Sam Owre, SRI International, US Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM, CA Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, CY Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, IT Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, BR Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers University of Gothenburg, SE Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, CH Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, AT Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, SG Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst, IT Farn Wang, National Tainwan University, TW Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, DE Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, US Jim Woodcock, University of York, GB H?sn? Yenig?n, Sabanci University, TR Fatiha Zaidi, Universit? Paris-Sud, FR Gianluigi Zavattaro, Universita di Bologna, IT Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to the programme chairs. From ugo.dallago at unibo.it Wed Nov 29 08:11:53 2017 From: ugo.dallago at unibo.it (Ugo Dal Lago) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:11:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GaLoP 2018 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: <1511961112277.5951@unibo.it> (Apologies for multiple copies) 13th Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GaLoP 2018), Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-15 April, 2018 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 XII will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 14-15 April 2018 as satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). Areas of interest include: * Games and other interaction-based denotational and operational models; * Game-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=galop2018 Important Dates Submission: 22 January 2018 Notification: 12 February 2018 Workshop: 14-15 April 2018 Invited Talks Guy McCusker (Bath) Matteo Mio (Lyon) Ulrich Sch?pp (M?nchen) Programme Committee Federico Aschieri (Vienna) Alexandru Baltag (Amsterdam) Simon Castellan (Imperial) Claudia Faggian (CNRS) Chris Fermuller (Vienna) Erich Graedel (Aachen) Valentin Goranko (Stockholm) Ugo Dal Lago (Bologna, co-chair) Ian Mackie (Sussex) Gabriel Sandu (Helsinki, co-chair) Heribert Vollmer (Hannover) Akira Yoshimizu (Tokyo) Matthijs V?k?r (Oxford) ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maietti at math.unipd.it Fri Dec 1 11:43:57 2017 From: maietti at math.unipd.it (Maria Emilia Maietti) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 17:43:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] one year fellowship in Padova on "Homotopy type theoretic aspects within MF" In-Reply-To: <537A1B77.4060107@cs.bham.ac.uk> References: <537A1B77.4060107@cs.bham.ac.uk> Message-ID: <3e2a55c5-25f4-6f4b-b3cb-d0f2930ba4f1@math.unipd.it> Dear all in http://www.math.unipd.it/it/news/?id=2142 you find the application form for a one year fellowship in Padova to work on "Homotopy type theoretic aspects within the Minimalist Foundation". Deadline of applications: 8th January 2018 For any kind of information please do not hesitate to contact me. Best wishes Maria Emilia Maietti From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Sun Dec 3 18:12:53 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:12:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Agda Implementors' Meeting XXVI - Budapest, 29 Jan -- 3 Feb 2018 Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------- Agda Implementors' Meeting XXVI Call for participation http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=Main.AIMXXVI --------------------------------------------------------------- The twenty-sixth Agda Implementors' Meeting will take place at E?tv?s Lor?nd University in Budapest, Hungary from 2018-01-29 to 2018-02-03 (Mon to Sat). The meeting will be similar to previous ones: * Presentations concerning theory, implementation, and use cases of Agda and other Agda-like languages. * Discussions around issues related to the Agda language. * Plenty of time to work in, on, under or around Agda, in collaboration with other participants. To register for AIM XXVI, please fill out the form below and send it to Ambrus via email. For preliminary information (more appearing later), please visit http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=Main.AIMXXVI Please spread the word about this meeting. Best Regards, Ambrus, Andr?s, Bal?zs and P?ter -------8<-------------------------------------------------- Registration form (send it to Ambrus Kaposi ) Agda Implementors' Meeting XXVI Name: Title and optionally abstract (if you want to give a talk or lead a discussion): Suggestions for code sprints (optional): Additional comments: From Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr Mon Dec 4 08:01:43 2017 From: Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr (vlad) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:01:43 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications (WRLA 2018): second CfP Message-ID: ======================== Call for Papers ============================= WRLA 2018 The 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications An ETAPS 2018 satellite event - Thessaloniki, Greece - April 14-15 2018 ======================================================================= *NEW* Best WRLA 2018 paper award will be granted by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES ??? Submission deadline: January 5th 2018 ??? Workshop: April 14 -15, 2018. 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 meta- logical 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 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, generalization, narrowing, and partial evaluation ??? constrained rewriting and symbolic algebra ??? graph rewriting ??? tree automata ??? rewriting strategies ??? rewriting-based calculi and explicit substitution 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 langages 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 in logic, mathematics, physics, and biology ??? 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, hybrid, probabilistic, and cyber-physical systems ??? specification and verification of critical systems ??? applications to model-based software engineering ??? applications to engineering and planning. INVITED SPEAKERS Santiago Escobar, University of Valencia, Spain Hubert Garavel, Inria, Grenoble, France Thomas Genet, University of Rennes, France SUBMISSION The program of the workshop will include regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress presentations. The program will also contain nvited talks, invited papers, and tutorials to be determined by the program committee. 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, emphasize the design and implementation, and give a clear account of the tool?s functionality. The described tools must be 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. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla2018. Regular and work-in-progress papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Tool papers should not exceed 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, 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 JLAMP:the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming will be devoted to extended versions of selected papers from WRLA 2018. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ??? Kyungmin Bae, POSTECH, Korea ??? Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy ??? Stefan Ciobaca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania ??? Francisco Dur?n, Universidad de M?laga, Spain ??? Santiago Escobar, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain ??? Maribel Fern?ndez, King?s College London, UK ??? 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 ??? Salvador Lucas, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain ??? Narciso Mart?-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain ??? 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 ??? Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA-Lorraine Nancy, France ??? Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA ??? Vlad Rusu, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe, France? (chair) ??? 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 ? Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr or visit the workshop's web page ? https://project.inria.fr/wrla18/ From evw at umn.edu Mon Dec 4 14:49:57 2017 From: evw at umn.edu (Eric Van Wyk) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:49:57 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: Multiple tenure-track positions at University of Minnesota In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Types-announce, The Computer Science & Engineering department at the University of Minnesota has multiple open tenure-track position. We are actively seeking applicants in various areas of programming languages. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. The official announcement can be found below. Cheers, Eric The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is hiring multiple tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level, although higher levels of appointment may be considered when commensurate with experience. Candidates with expertise in any area of computer science and engineering will be considered, those with research interests in software engineering; human-computer interaction; systems research related to cloud/edge computing, big data and Internet-of-Things (IoT) are particularly encouraged to apply. We are also aiming to fill one position in support of a university-wide initiative (MnDRIVE) on robotics, sensors, and advanced manufacturing ( http://cse.umn.edu/mndrive); topics of interest include sensing and networking, machine learning, computer graphics/simulation/visualization, robot design, manipulation, mobility, human-robot interaction, planning, algorithmic foundations, and embedded systems. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is fully committed to a diverse faculty because excellence emerges when individuals with different backgrounds and experiences engage. We therefore welcome applications from individuals who will further expand that diversity; women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related discipline at the time of appointment. Submit materials as described at https://wwws.cs.umn.edu/appflow/faculty17. Consideration of complete applications will begin December 1, 2017, and continue until the positions are filled. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity employer and educator. https://www.cs.umn.edu/news/filter/highlights/faculty- employment-application-form -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Dec 4 20:07:52 2017 From: Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 01:07:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLoC 2018 - Second Joint Call for Papers Message-ID: FLoC 2018 ? The 2018 Federated Logic Conference 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, England UK http://www.floc2018.org/ In 1996, as part of its Special Year on Logic and Algorithms, DIMACS hosted the first Federated Logic Conference (FLoC). It was modelled after the successful Federated Computer Research Conference (FCRC), and synergetically brought together conferences that apply logic to computer science. The seventh Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'18) will be held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018, at the Mathematical Institute and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. FLoC 2018 brings together nine major international conferences related to mathematical logic and computer science: International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) http://cavconference.org/2018/ IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/cas.cremers/csf2018/ International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM) http://www.fm2018.org International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD) http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/iclp2018/ International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) http://ijcar2018.org International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) https://itp2018.inria.fr Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) http://lics.siglog.org/lics18/ International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) http://sat2018.azurewebsites.net/ Please refer to the individual websites for conference-specific Calls for Papers, deadlines and information on how to submit. In addition to conferences, FLoC 2018 will also feature 79 workshops (7-8 July, 13 July, and 18-19 July) and the School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems (FoPSS, 30 June ? 6 July). The list of workshops can be found at http://www.floc2018.org/workshops. A separate call for workshop papers will follow in February 2018. IMPORTANT DATES Conference papers due: see individual conference webpages Conference papers notification: 31st March 2018 Workshop papers due: 15th April 2018 Workshop papers notification: 15th May 2018 Camera-ready versions: 31st May 2018 FLoC'18 Steering Committee General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Conference Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska CAV Representative: Orna Grumberg CSF Representative: Stephen Chong FM Representative: Ana Cavalcanti FSCD Representative: Luke Ong ICLP Representative: Torsten Schaub IJCAR Representative: Franz Baader ITP Representative: Larry Paulson LICS Representative: Martin Grohe SAT Representative: Armin Biere SIGLOG Representative: Prakash Panangaden Programme Committee Chairs General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi Co-chairs: Daniel Kroening, Marta Kwiatkowska CAV: Hana Chockler, Georg Weissenbacher CSF: Stephen Chong, St?phanie Delaune FM: Jan Peleska, Bill Roscoe FSCD: H?l?ne Kirchner ICLP: Alessandro dal Pal?, Paul Tarau IJCAR: Didier Galmiche, Stephan Schulz, Roberto Sebastiani ITP: Jeremy Avigad, Assia Mahboubi LICS: Martin Hofmann SAT: Olaf Beyersdorff, Christoph Wintersteiger From afelty at uottawa.ca Mon Dec 4 21:07:05 2017 From: afelty at uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 02:07:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CPP 2018 Call for participation: early registration deadline December 10 Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 7th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2018) co-located with POPL 2018 in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG http://conf.researchr.org/track/CPP-2018/CPP-2018 8-9 January, 2018, Los Angeles, USA EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10 December 2017 ** less than one week ** REGISTRATION: https://popl18.sigplan.org/attending/Registration ACCOMMODATION: https://popl18.sigplan.org/venue/POPL-2018-venue DESCRIPTION: Certified Programs and Proofs (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. INVITED SPEAKERS - Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) POPLMark Reloaded: Mechanizing Logical Relations Proofs - Ren? Thiemann (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Efficient Certification of Complexity Proofs?Formalizing the Perron-Frobenius Theorem CPP 2018 invited speakers are generously funded in part by Galois. PROGRAM: The list of accepted papers is now available at: https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/CPP-2018#event-overview. A (still tentative) program is also available. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Reynald Affeldt (AIST, Japan) June Andronick (Data61, CSIRO and UNSW, Australia), co-chair Lennart Beringer (Princeton University, USA) Jasmin Blanchette (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes 1, France) Sylvie Boldo (Inria and Universit? Paris-Saclay, France) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, UK) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada), co-chair Elsa Gunter (University of Illinois, USA) Reiner H?hnle (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands) Warren A. Hunt, Jr. (University of Texas Austin, USA) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research, USA) Assia Mahboubi (Inria, France) Alberto Momigliano (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Magnus Myreen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Para?ba, Brazil / Fortiss, Germany) Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich, Germany) Gert Smolka (Saarland University, Germany) Bas Spitters (Aarhus University, Denmark) Pierre-Yves Strub (?cole Polytechnique, France) Laurent Th?ry (Inria, France) Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) From henning at basold.eu Tue Dec 5 03:40:27 2017 From: henning at basold.eu (Henning Basold) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:40:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2018: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <34449e95-0641-b2b6-e1e9-ddf285b15139@basold.eu> Call for Papers The 14th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'18) Thessaloniki, Greece, 14 - 15 April 2018 (co-located with ETAPS 2018) www.coalg.org/cmcs18 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, logic, answer set, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming; - coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing; - coinductive definition and proof principles for coalgebras (including "up-to" techniques); - coalgebras and algebras; - coalgebras and (modal) logic; - coalgebraic specification and verification; - coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems); - coalgebra in quantum computing; - coalgebra and game theory; - tools exploiting coalgebraic techniques. Venue and event --------------- CMCS'18 will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, co-located with ETAPS 2018, on 14 - 15 April 2018. Keynote speaker --------------- Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Invited speakers ---------------- Clemens Kupke (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) Daniela Petrisan (University Diderot Paris 7, France) Invited tutorial speakers ------------------------- Bob Coecke (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Aleks Kissinger (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Important dates --------------- Abstract regular papers 5 January 2018 Submission regular papers 12 January 2018 Notification regular papers 12 February 2018 Camera-ready copy 19 February 2018 Submission short contributions 23 February 2018 Notification short contributions 9 March 2018 Proceedings ----------- The proceedings of CMCS 2018 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. Programme committee ------------------- Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, Italy) Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Fredrik Dahlqvist (University College London, United Kingdom) Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy) Sergey Goncharov (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Paul Levy (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Stefan Milius (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, United States) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Dusko Pavlovic (University of Hawai?i at M?noa, United States) Daniela Petrisan (University Diderot Paris 7, France) Damien Pous (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France) Juriaan Rot (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Jan Rutten (CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Lutz Schr?der (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Alexandra Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) Henning Urbat (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Publicity chair --------------- Henning Basold (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France) PC chair -------- Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Steering committee ------------------ Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, Italy) Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, United Kingdom) Marina Lenisa (University of Udine, Italy) Stefan Milius (chair), FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Larry Moss (Indiana University, United States) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Jan Rutten (CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Lutz Schr?der (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Alexandra Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) 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=cmcs2018. From afelty at uottawa.ca Tue Dec 5 11:16:37 2017 From: afelty at uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:16:37 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WiL 2018: 2nd Women in Logic Workshop Call for Papers Message-ID: Call for Papers WiL 2018: Second Women in Logic Workshop Oxford, UK July 8, 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/womeninlogic2018/welcome/ Affiliated with the Thirty-Third Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 9-12 July 2018 (http://lics.siglog.org/lics18/) and held as part of the Federated Logic Conference 2018 (FLoC), 6-19 July 2018 (http://www.floc2018.org/). We are holding the second Women in Logic Workshop (WiL 2018) as a LICS associated workshop this year. The workshop follows the pattern of meetings such as Women in Machine Learning (WiML, http://wimlworkshop.org/) or Women in Engineering (WIE, (http://www.ieee-ras.org/membership/women-in-engineering) that have been taking place for quite a few years. Women are chronically underrepresented in the LICS community; consequently they sometimes feel both conspicuous and isolated, and hence there is a risk that the under-representation is self-perpetuating. The workshop will provide an opportunity for women in the field to increase awareness of one another and one another's work, to combat the feeling of isolation. It will also provide an environment where women can present to an audience comprised of mostly women, replicating the experience that most men have at most LICS meetings, and lowering the stress of the occasion; we hope that this will be particularly attractive to early-career women. Topics of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to the usual Logic in Computer Science (LICS) topics. These are: 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. INVITED SPEAKERS * Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh, UK) * TBA IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 31 March 2018 Author notification: 8 May 2018 Contribution for Informal Proceedings: 31 May 2018 SUBMISSIONS Contributions should be written in English and can be submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 10 pages), short papers (with a maximum of 5 pages), or talk abstracts (1 page). Provisional formatting instructions: Papers and abstracts should be prepared in latex using the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings 2-column 10pt format. The LaTeX style file is available from http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to the WiL 2018 Easychair page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wil2018) before the submission deadline of 31 March 2018, anywhere on Earth. PROCEEDINGS We plan to publish an informal post conference volume at ENTCS or other equally visible outlet. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Valeria de Paiva (Chair, Nuance Communications, USA) * Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada) * Anna Ingolfsdottir (Reykjavik University, Iceland) * Sara Kalvala (University of Warwick, UK) * Ursula Martin (University of Oxford, UK) * Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) * Valeria Vignudelli (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon, France) From martin.avanzini at uibk.ac.at Tue Dec 5 13:36:24 2017 From: martin.avanzini at uibk.ac.at (Martin Avanzini) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:36:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DICE 18: Call for Papers Message-ID: <27cae5ab-c2ff-2281-91c7-765fa503797b@uibk.ac.at> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DICE 2018 9th Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/users/zini/events/dice18 Thessaloniki, Greece April 14 - 15, 2018 (a satellite event of ETAPS 2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE 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. This workshop focuses on ICC methods related to programs (rather than descriptive methods). 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 two main objectives of this area are: * to find natural implicit characterizations of various complexity classes of functions, thereby illuminating their nature and importance; * to design methods suitable for static verification of program complexity. Therefore ICC connects both to the study of complexity classes and to static program analysis. The workshop is open to contributions on various aspects of ICC and resource analysis, including (but not exclusively): * type systems for controlling/inferring/checking complexity; * logical and machine-independent characterisations of complexity classes; * programming languages for complexity-bounded computation; * logics closely related to complexity classes; * theoretical foundations of program complexity analysis; * static resource analysis and practical applications; * semantics of complexity-bounded computation; * applications of implicit complexity to security; * termination and resource analysis for probabilistic programs; * semantic methods to analyse resources. SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 5 pages by 31 January, 2018. Abstracts must be written in English and must be prepared using the LaTeX LIPIcs style template of 2016 (see http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics). Submissions are handled via the DICE 2018 EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dice2018 . Submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop, and will be made available through the workshop's webpage. It is not intended to preclude later publication at another venue. Abstracts can contain material already published elsewhere. Preference will be given to abstracts containing novel work (including work in progress). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission 31 January, 2018 Notification 25 February, 2018 Final versions due 11 March, 2018 Workshop date April 14-15, 2018 CONFERENCE VENUE The workshop will be held as a satellite workshop of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software 2018 (ETAPS 2018) which takes place in Thessaloniki, Greece. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Martin Avanzini (France, chair) Flavien Breuvart (France) Florian Frohn (Germany) Cynthia Kop (Netherlands) Olivier Laurent (France) Van Chan Ngo (USA) Romain P?choux (France) Luca Roversi (Italy) From selinger at mathstat.dal.ca Tue Dec 5 15:26:23 2017 From: selinger at mathstat.dal.ca (Peter Selinger) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:26:23 -0400 (AST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] subject reduction Message-ID: <20171205202623.C5E298C0175@chase.mathstat.dal.ca> Dear type theorists, what is the origin of the term "subject reduction"? I am of course referring to the property that if M:A and M -> N, then N:A, also known as type preservation. I can sort of see where "reduction" comes into it, but why "subject"? Thanks, -- Peter From pepm.workshop at gmail.com Tue Dec 5 23:53:13 2017 From: pepm.workshop at gmail.com (PEPM Workshop) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:53:13 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2018 Final Call for Poster/Demo Abstracts and Participation Message-ID: PEPM 2018 Final Call for Poster/Demo Abstracts and Participation ================================================================ A tentative programme is available, with two invited talks decided. Poster/demo abstracts are due this Friday (8th December, AoE). See below for the submission guideline. Registration ------------ * Web page : https://popl18.sigplan.org/attending/Registration * Early registration deadline : 10th December 2017 Programme --------- * https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/PEPM-2018#program Monday, 8th January 2018 10:30 - 11:30 Developments in Property-Based Testing (Invited Talk) Jan Midtgaard 11:30 - 12:00 Selective CPS Transformation for Shift and Reset Kenichi Asai, Chihiro Uehara Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 A Guess-and-Assume Approach to Loop Fusion for Program Verification Akifumi Imanishi, Kohei Suenaga, Atsushi Igarashi 14:30 - 15:00 Gradually Typed Symbolic Expressions David Broman, Jeremy G. Siek 15:00 - 15:30 On the Cost of Type-Tag Soundness Ben Greenman, Zeina Migeed Break 16:00 - 17:00 TBA (Invited Talk) Conal Elliott Tuesday, 9th January 2018 10:30 - 11:30 Challenges in the Design and Compilation of Programming Languages for Exascale Machines (Invited Talk) Alex Aiken 11:30 - 12:00 Checking Cryptographic API Usage with Composable Annotations (Short Paper) Duncan Mitchell, L. Thomas van Binsbergen, Blake Loring, Johannes Kinder Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 Partially Static Data as Free Extension of Algebras (Short Paper) Jeremy Yallop, Tamara von Glehn, Ohad Kammar 14:30 - 15:00 Program Generation for ML Modules (Short Paper) Takahisa Watanabe, Yukiyoshi Kameyama 15:00 - 15:30 Recursive Programs in Normal Form (Short Paper) Barry Jay Break 16:00 - 17:30 Posters/demos (TBA) Poster/demo abstract submission guideline ----------------------------------------- * https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/PEPM-2018#Call-for-Poster-Demo-Abstracts To maintain PEPM?s dynamic and interactive nature, PEPM 2018 will continue to have special sessions for poster/demo presentations. In addition to the main interactive poster/demo session, there will also be a scheduled short-talk session where each poster/demo can be advertised to the audience in, say, 5?10 minutes. Poster/demo abstracts should describe work relevant to PEPM (whose scope is detailed below), typeset as a one-page PDF using the two-column ?sigplan? sub-format of the new ?acmart? format available at: http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ and sent by email to the programme co-chairs, Fritz Henglein and Josh Ko, at: henglein at diku.dk, hsiang-shang at nii.ac.jp Please also include in the email: * a short summary of the abstract (in plain text), * the type(s) of proposed presentation (poster and/or demo), and * whether you would like to give a scheduled short talk (in addition to the poster/demo presentation). Abstracts should be sent no later than: Friday, 8th December 2017, anywhere on earth and will be considered for acceptance on a rolling basis. Accepted abstracts, along with their short summary, will be posted on PEPM 2018?s website. At least one author of each accepted abstract must attend the workshop and present the work during the poster/demo session. Student participants with accepted posters/demos 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 programme, see its web page. Scope ----- In addition to the traditional PEPM topics (see below), PEPM 2018 welcomes submissions in new domains, in particular: * Semantics based and machine-learning based program synthesis and program optimisation. * Modelling, analysis, and transformation techniques for distributed and concurrent protocols and programs, such as session types, linear types, and contract specifications. More generally, topics of interest for PEPM 2018 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. * 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. * 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. * 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, embedded and resource-limited computation, and security. This list of categories is not exhaustive, and we encourage submissions describing new theories and applications related to semantics-based program manipulation in general. If you have a question as to whether a potential submission is within the scope of the workshop, please contact the programme co-chairs, Fritz Henglein and Josh Ko (henglein at diku.dk, hsiang-shang at nii.ac.jp). From raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be Wed Dec 6 04:04:28 2017 From: raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be (Raoul Strackx) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 10:04:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ESSoS'18] International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems Message-ID: <7e6eab94-c866-0558-cdb7-90972c871582@cs.kuleuven.be> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | International Symposium on | | Engineering Secure Software and Systems | | (ESSoS) | | | | June 26-27, 2018 | | Campus Paris-Saclay, France | | (Co-Located with DIMVA) | | | | | | https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2018/index.html | | | | In cooperation with: ACM SIGSAC and SIGSOFT (pending) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Next important date: | | *Paper submission*: Friday, March 9, 2018 (firm) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------+ | Context and motivation | +------------------------+ Software-based systems permeate the very fabric of our society -- from enterprise IT systems and mobile devices to smart home and city environments. Consequently, computer security is becoming an increasingly inter-disciplinary subject requiring attention to the various aspects of securing our software-based infrastructure. One must pay careful attention to ensure compatibility with existing software and the wider socio-technical context (e.g., users and organisations) which it inhabits. This, in turn, requires an approach that integrates insights from computer security research with rigorous software engineering methods to ensure the security and resilience of our digital infrastructure. ESSoS therefore welcomes contributions that are at the border of system security and software engineering. +----------------+ | Goal and setup | +----------------+ The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the state 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 software security communities. The symposium features 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 secure 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): - Secure software engineering - Security by design - Empirical secure software engineering - Security-oriented software reconfiguration and evolution - Processes for the development of secure software and systems - Security testing - Security requirements analysis and modelling - Model checking for security Secure programming - Programming paradigms, models, and domain-specific languages for security - Verification techniques for security properties - Static and dynamic code analysis for security - Program rewriting techniques for security - Security measurements Systems Security - Cloud security, virtualization for security - Mobile devices security - Operating system security - Web applications security Malware and vulnerability analysis - Automated techniques for vulnerability discovery and analysis - Binary code analysis, reverse-engineering - Malware: detection, analysis, mitigation - Computer forensics Human factors - Usable security - Studies of developers? behaviours - Organisational practices pertaining to secure development Infrastructure security - Security in critical infrastructures - Embedded software security - Security of cyber-physical systems and IoT +-----------------+ | Important dates | +-----------------+ Paper submission: Friday, March 9, 2018 (firm) Paper acceptance notification: Friday, April 27, 2018 Artifact evaluation submission: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 Poster submission: Friday, May 4, 2018 Poster acceptance notification: Friday, May 18, 2018 Camera-ready: Friday, May 11, 2018 Conference: Tuesday to Wednesday, June 26-27, 2018 (DIMVA is held June 28-29, following ESSoS) +-----------------------+ | 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/computer/lncs, pending approval). 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 excluding 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 including 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. - Posters ESSoS will have a poster session to present ideas, discuss prototypes, and feature ongoing work. Authors of accepted papers and authors with evaluated artifacts are invited to submit a poster as well. Poster abstracts are limited to 1 page. - Approved Artifacts Due to the secure software engineering focus, we expect the majority of papers to be based on an accompanying software artifact, data set, or similar. We strongly encourage the authors of accepted papers to submit such artifacts for evaluation. Artifact Evaluation will take place after accepted papers have been announced. Further information will be given closer to the paper-submission deadline. Submissions where the artifact evaluation committee can reproduce the software artifacts and evaluation will receive the ?approved artifact? badge. Authors of approved artifacts are further given the opportunity to demo their artifact at the conference. In addition, the committee will select a best artifact to receive the Distinguished Artifact Award. From radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Wed Dec 6 02:58:19 2017 From: radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 08:58:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL): Call for Papers Message-ID: <6DC57AC1-ABA3-400D-9296-C053F42AAEAD@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (Apologies for multiple copies) First Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL), Oxford, UK, July 13th 2018 http://adsl.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners focused on improving the state of the art of automated deduction methods for Separation Logics. We will consider technical submissions presenting work on the following topics (the list is not exclusive): ? the integration of Separation Logics with SMT, ? proof search and automata-based decision procedures for Separation Logics and sister logics such as Bunched Implication Logic; ? computational complexity of logical problems such as satisfiability, entailment and abduction; ? alternative semantics and computation models based on the notion of resource; ? application of separation and resource logics to different fields, such as sociology and biology. The workshop is affiliated with the 33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2018) and part of the Federated Logic Conference 2018 (FLOC 2018). The workshop will present the results of the second edition of SL-COMP, the competition of solvers for Separation Logic which is will be organised before the workshop. A separate call for contributions will follow for SL-COMP'18. Invited speakers: David Pym (University College London and The Alan Turing Institute, UK) Viktor Vafeiadis (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Important dates: Papers due: 20th of April 2018 Author notification: 18th of May 2018 Workshop: 13 July 2018 Program committee Josh Berdine (Facebook) James Brotherston (University College London) St?phane Demri (CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) Nikos Gorogiannis (Middlesex University London, Facebook) Christoph Haase (University of Oxford) Radu Iosif (VERIMAG, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Bart Jacobs (University of Leuven) Etienne Lozes (University of Nice) Daniel M?ry (LORIA, Nancy) Peter O?Hearn (University College London, Facebook) Madhusudan Parthasarathy (University of Illinois) Nicolas Peltier (LIG, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Thomas Wies (Courant Institute, New York University) Organisation Radu Iosif (VERIMAG, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Nikos Gorogiannis (Middlesex University London, Facebook) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabriel.scherer at gmail.com Wed Dec 6 04:57:37 2017 From: gabriel.scherer at gmail.com (Gabriel Scherer) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 10:57:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] subject reduction In-Reply-To: <20171205202623.C5E298C0175@chase.mathstat.dal.ca> References: <20171205202623.C5E298C0175@chase.mathstat.dal.ca> Message-ID: Dear types-announce and types-list, As a moderator of both list, I mistakenly accepted this "Subject reductoin" email on the types-announce list, which is only for announces. Apologies for the noise. If you wish to reply to Peter, please use types-list instead. Below is a collection of the excellent responses already received: From: Simone Martini > > Types, for H.B. Curry, are properties, which are asserted on a subject. > Hence: M:T may be read as ?the subject M has the property T?. > > I am sure others on this list may be more philologically precise. From: Tarmo Uustalu > > Hi Peter, > > It's about 'subject' vs 'predicate' where the subject is the term and > the predicate is the type in a typing judgement s : P. > > Best wishes, > > Tarmo U From: Sophia Drossopoulou > > I do not know why ?subject?. But I think that the first use of the technique in CS as > Mitchell & Plotkin: Abstract types has existential type, POPL 1985 > > And they attributed the technique to > Curry & Feys, Combinatory Logic I, North Holland, 1958 Cheers On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Peter Selinger wrote: > [ The Types Forum (announcements only), > http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] > > Dear type theorists, > > what is the origin of the term "subject reduction"? I am of course > referring to the property that if M:A and M -> N, then N:A, also > known as type preservation. > > I can sort of see where "reduction" comes into it, but why "subject"? > > Thanks, -- Peter From Thorsten.Altenkirch at nottingham.ac.uk Wed Dec 6 09:25:56 2017 From: Thorsten.Altenkirch at nottingham.ac.uk (Thorsten Altenkirch) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 14:25:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions at Nottingham Message-ID: Dear all, The School of Computer Science in Nottingham is advertising 10 fully-funded PhD studentships. Applicants in the area of the Functional Programming Lab (https://tinyurl.com/fp-notts) are encouraged! If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor prior to submitting your application: Thorsten Altenkirch - constructive logic, proof assistants, homotopy type theory, category theory, lambda calculus. Venanzio Capretta - type theory, mathematical logic, corecursive structures, proof assistants, dependently-typed programming. Graham Hutton - program calculation and verification, category theory, recursion operators, coinductive types. Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, modelling and simulation, domain-specific languages, probabilistic languages. +---------------------------------------------------------------+ 10 Fully-Funded PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK https://tinyurl.com/10-phds-2018 Applications are invited for up to ten fully-funded PhD studentships in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1 October 2018. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the School?s research groups: Agents Lab; Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning; Computer Vision Lab; Functional Programming; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab; Data Driven Algorithms, Systems and Design and Uncertainty in Data and Decision Making The studentships are for three years and include a stipend of ?14,553 per year and tuition fees, and are available to students of any nationality. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and must obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the School prior to submitting their application. Initial contact with supervisors should be made at least two weeks prior to the closing date for applications. 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URL: From luis at math.uminho.pt Wed Dec 6 11:11:50 2017 From: luis at math.uminho.pt (Luis Pinto) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:11:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Days in Logic 2018 In-Reply-To: <16a74e49-aacf-6b33-5c6f-2bed4311ce2e@math.uminho.pt> References: <16a74e49-aacf-6b33-5c6f-2bed4311ce2e@math.uminho.pt> Message-ID: <190e1d1e-0023-efad-935c-88f149229e3b@math.uminho.pt> ------------------------------------------------------ Call for contributed talks and call for participation DAYS IN LOGIC 2018 University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal 25-27 January 2018 w3.math.uminho.pt/DiL2018 ------------------------------------------------------ OVERVIEW The 8th edition of Days in Logic will take place in University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, 25-27 January 2018. This biennial meeting aims at bringing together mathematicians, computer scientists and other scientists from Portugal, and elsewhere, with interest in Logic. It is specially directed to graduate students. The programme will consist of three courses by invited speakers and contributed talks. COURSES BY INVITED SPEAKERS Patrick Baillot, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France* From linear logic to types for implicit computational complexity* Patrick Blackburn, University of Roskilde, Denmark *Three Lectures on Hybrid Logic* Dirk Hofmann, University of Aveiro, Portugal *Duality Theory* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS Please send a 1-page abstract (LaTeX and pdf, printable on A4 paper) to one of the members of the organizing committee by 29 December. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Please send an email with your name and affiliation to martins at ua.pt as soon as possible. No registration fee is required. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Manuel Martins (University of Aveiro), martins at ua.pt Isabel Oitavem (New University of Lisbon), oitavem at fct.unl.pt Lu?s Pinto (University of Minho), luis at math.uminho.pt MORE INFORMATION Please, consult: w3.math.uminho.pt/DiL2018 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pkordjam at tulane.edu Thu Dec 7 15:23:26 2017 From: pkordjam at tulane.edu (Kordjamshidi, Parisa) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 20:23:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: AAAI-2018 Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming Message-ID: <84446C63-6734-45EB-BA01-EB773507C33A@tulane.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Third International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP-2018), in conjunction with thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), February 3rd, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Website: http://delbp.github.io. REGISTRATION DEADLINES Early: On or before December 8 Late: On or before January 5 Onsite: After January ---------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE --------------------------------------------------------------- The main goal of Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP) workshop is to investigate the issues that arise when designing and using programming languages that support learning from data and knowledge. DeLBP aims at new programming models and abstractions that facilitate the design and development of intelligent real world applications that use machine learning and reasoning. The challenges of such a programming paradigm include: Interaction with messy, naturally occurring data; Specifying the requirements of the application at a high abstraction level; Dealing with uncertainty in data and knowledge in various layers of the application program; Using representations that support flexible relational feature engineering and learning rich data representations; Using representations that support flexible reasoning and structure learning; Supporting model chaining and composition; Integrating a range of learning and inference algorithms; and finally addressing the above mentioned issues in one unified programming environment. Conventional programming languages offer no help to application programmers that attempt to design and develop applications that make use of real world data, and reason about it in a way that involves learning interdependent concepts from data, incorporating and composing existing models, and reasoning about existing and trained models and their parameterization. Over the last few years, the research community has tried to address these problems from multiple perspectives, most notably various approaches based on Probabilistic programming, Logical Programming and the integrated paradigms. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss the current related research and the way various challenges have been addressed. We aim at motivating the need for further research toward a unified framework in this area based on the key existing paradigms: Probabilistic Programming, Logic Programming, Probabilistic Logical Programming, First-order query languages and database management systems and deductive databases, Statistical relational learning, Deep Learning and related languages, and connect these to the ideas of Learning Based Programming. We aim to discuss and investigate the required type of languages and representations that facilitate modeling complex learning models, deep architectures, and provide the ability to combine, chain and perform flexible inference with existing models and by exploiting domain knowledge. Though the theme of this workshop remains generic as in the past versions, we will aim at emphasizing on ideas and opinions regarding conceptual representations of deep learning architectures that connect various computational units to the semantics of declarative data and knowledge representations. ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ????????????????????? ?New abstractions and modularity levels towards a unified framework for (deep/structured) learning and reasoning, ? Frameworks/Computational models to combine learning and reasoning paradigms and exploit accomplishments in AI from various perspectives. ?Flexible use of structured and relational data from heterogeneous resources in learning. ? Data modeling (relational/graph-based databases) issues in such a new integrated framework for learning based on data and knowledge. ?Exploiting knowledge such as expert knowledge and common sense knowledge expressed via multiple formalisms, in learning. ?The ability of closing the loop to acquire knowledge from data and data from knowledge towards life-long learning, and reasoning. ?Using declarative domain knowledge to guide the design of learning models, ? Including feature extraction, model selection, dependency structure and deep learning architecture. ?Automation of hyper-parameter tuning. ?Design and representation of complex learning and inference models. ?The interface and software tools for learning-based programming, ? Either in the form of programming languages, declarations, frameworks, libraries or graphical user interfaces. ?Storage and retrieval of trained learning models in a flexible way to facilitate incremental learning. ?Related applications in Natural language processing, Computer vision, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, multi-agent systems, etc. ?Learning to learn programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ???????????????????????????????? *Sebastian Riedel, University College London *William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University *Avi Pfeffer, Charles River Analytics ---------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Van den Broeck, University of California, Los Angeles Sameer Singh, University of California, Irvine Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, SRI International Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon Cambridge, UK William Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara Kai-Wei Chang, University of Virginia Nikolaos Vasiloglou, Ismion Inc Martin Mladenov, Technical University of Dortmund Tias Guns, Vrije University of Brussels Umar Manzoor, Tulane University Mark Kaminski, University of Oxford Avi Pfeffer, Charles River Analytics ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Tulane University, IHMC Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt Nikolaos Vasiloglou, Ismion Inc ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT: delbp-3 at googlegroups.com (Organization Committee) ------------------------------------------- Kordjamshidi, Parisa Assistant Professor CS Department at Tulane University Research Scientist at IHMC Homepage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Fri Dec 8 08:58:26 2017 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 13:58:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2018 Third Call for Papers Message-ID: <906DB317-07EB-4720-B89F-094D397C8DCA@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== Updated information on: Invited speakers ================================================================== Third International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'18) Oxford, UK, July 9 - 12th, 2018. http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6 - 19th, 2018. http://www.floc2018.org ================================================================== TOPICS: FSCD 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 or homotopy type theory. Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1. Calculi: Lambda calculus - Concurrent calculi - Logics - Rewriting systems - Proof theory - Type theory and logical frameworks 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: Type systems - Induction and coinduction - Matching, unification, completion, and orderings - Strategies - Tree automata - Model checking - Proof search and theorem proving - Constraint solving and decision procedures 3. Semantics: Operational semantics - Abstract machines - Game Semantics - Domain theory and categorical models - Quantitative models 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 - Verification tools - Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers - Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers - Certification - Applications to security, planning, data bases,? INVITED SPEAKERS - Stephanie Delaune (CNRS/IRISA, France) - Grigori Rosu (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) - Peter Selinger (Dalhousie U., Canada) - Valeria Vignudelli (ENS, Lyon, France) Check the profiles of the invited speakers at http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/invited.html. BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS: The program committee will consider declaring this award to a paper in which at least one author is a junior researcher, i.e. either a student or whose PhD award date is less than three years from the first day of the meeting. Other authors should declare to the PC Chair that at least 50% of contribution is made by the junior researcher(s). PUBLICATION : The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/ All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SPECIAL ISSUE: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions can be made in two categories. - Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages and must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. - System descriptions are limited to 6 pages (excluding references) and must present new software tools in which FSCD topics play an important role, or significantly new versions of such tools. Please check http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/cfp.html#guidelines , for more details on what should a system description contain. Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ ) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd18 ). IMPORTANT DATES: All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered. Abstract Deadline: January 15th, 2018 Submission Deadline: January 22nd, 2018 Rebuttal: March 22 - 25th, 2018 Notification: April 2nd, 2018 Camera-Ready: May 2nd, 2018 FSCD Conference: July 9 - 12th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6 - 19th, 2018 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: H?l?ne Kirchner, Inria PROGRAM COMMITTEE S. Akshay, IIT Bombay T. Aoto, Niigata U. P. Arrighi, Marseille U. L. Birkedal, Aarhus U. E. Bonelli, Quilmes U. A. Bouhoula, Carthage U. C. Castro, F. Santa Maria Tech. U. U. Dal Lago, Bologna U. S. Escobar, U.P. Valencia M. Fern?ndez, King's College London V. Ganesh, Waterloo U. H. Geuvers, Nijmegen U. M. Hasegawa, Kyoto U. P.B. Levy, U. of Birmingham C. Loeding, Aachen U. A. Miquel, UdelaR, Montevideo G. Moser, Innsbruck U. C. Nalon, Brasilia U. V. Nigam, Paraiba U. & fortiss P.C. ?lveczky, Oslo U. G. Rosu, Illinois U. P. Severi, Leicester U. V. Sofronie-Stokkermans, Koblenz-Landau U. N. Tabareau, Inria R. Thiemann, Innsbruck U. A. 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URL: From i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk Fri Dec 8 09:17:34 2017 From: i.sergey at ucl.ac.uk (Sergey, Ilya) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 14:17:34 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CoqPL'18: call for participations and final programme Message-ID: <998C3815-58D8-40F0-98AA-6A56D806F47E@ucl.ac.uk> ============================================================= CoqPL 2018 Coq for Programming Languages -- A Coq users and developers meeting 13 January 2018, co-located with POPL (as usual) Los Angeles, California, United States CALL FOR PARTICIPATIONS https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/CoqPL-2018 ============================================================= Workshop Overview ----------------- The series of CoqPL workshops provide 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 favourite proof assistant. The exciting final progamme is now available at: https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/CoqPL-2018#program Workshop Programme ------------------ 9:00-10:00: Keynote * CoqHammer: Strong Automation for Program Verification ?ukasz Czajka and Cezary Kaliszyk 10:30-12:10: Tactics and Proof Engineering * A ?destruct? Tactic for Mtac2 Jan-Oliver Kaiser and Beta Ziliani * Typed Template Coq Simon Boulier, Matthieu Sozeau, Nicolas Tabareau and Abhishek Anand * Elpi: an extension language for Coq Enrico Tassi * Coqatoo: Generating Natural Language Versions of Coq Proofs Andrew Bedford 14:00-14:50: PL Metatheory * Locally Nameless at Scale Stephanie Weirich, Antoine Voizard and Anastasiya Kravchuk-Kirilyuk * A Coq Formalisation of a Core of R Martin Bodin 14:50-15:30: Coq Deveveloprs Talk & Panel 16:00-18:05: Semantics and Synthesis * Revisiting Parametricity: Inductives and Uniformity of Propositions Abhishek Anand and Greg Morrisett * Phantom Types for Quantum Programs Robert Rand, Jennifer Paykin and Steve Zdancewic * Towards Context-Aware Data Refinement Paul Krogmeier, Steven Kidd and Benjamin Delaware * Mechanizing the Construction and Rewriting of Proper Functions in Coq Edwin Westbrook * A calculus for logical refinements in separation logic Dan Frumin and Robbert Krebbers Contact ----------------- For any queries, please contact : coqpl2018 at easychair.org Kind regards, Yves Bertot and Ilya Sergey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aler at irif.fr Fri Dec 8 12:35:32 2017 From: aler at irif.fr (Andrea Aler Tubella) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:35:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Twenty Years of Deep Inference workshop: first CfP Message-ID: <0a4a455cc844743c2aad56d394e7a01c@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> ******************** First Call for Contributions ******************* TWENTY YEARS OF DEEP INFERENCE Oxford, July 7, 2018 Part of FLoC 2018 ********************************************************************* Aim and Scope: -------------- Deep inference is a paradigm for designing deductive proof systems. The inference rules in such systems can perform arbitrary rewriting inside formulas. This is very different from what one would expect from more traditional formalisms, like sequent calculus or natural deduction, where formulas are always decomposed along their main connective. The purpose of this workshop is to - present this vast growing field in a coherent, easy accessible way to other communities in all areas of logic in computer science, and - bring together researchers in the area of deep inference to exchange ideas and to discuss their current work. Invited Speakers: ----------------- Alessio Guglielmi (University of Bath) Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath) Contributions: -------------- Since we will not publish any proceedings, we accept talks about work in progress as well as already published/submitted work. However, we do not allow work that is presented at another FLoC event. Submission Instructions: ------------------------ If you want to give a talk please submit an abstract of 1-3 pages in pdf-format via the EasyChair submission page: Important Dates: ---------------- 15 April 2018: abstract submission deadline 15 May 2018: Author notification 7 July 2018: Workshop Organization: ------------- Andrea Aler Tubella (IRIF, CNRS & Univ. Paris Diderot) Lutz Strassburger (Inria Saclay) From info at tomasp.net Sat Dec 9 20:49:48 2017 From: info at tomasp.net (Tomas Petricek) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 01:49:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CFP: Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming Message-ID: Dear all, Following an earlier announcement, I would like to invite everyone, one more time, to consider submitting a 2-page extended abstract to an upcoming Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming. The symposium aims to bring together computer scientists, historians, philosophers and practitioners to discuss programming from a broader perspective. It will take place on 23 March 2018 in Oxford and the submission deadline is 1 January 2018. For more information and a full CFP, please see: https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/ Below, you will find the brief outline as well as the programme committee, important dates and the submission link. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming In a society where computers have become ubiquitous, it is necessary to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of computer programs, not just from the technical viewpoint, but from a broader historical and philosophical perspective. A historical awareness of the evolution of programming not only helps to clarify the complex structure of computing, but it also provides an insight in what programming was, is and could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle fundamental questions about the nature of programs, programming languages and programming as a discipline. HaPoP 2018 is the fourth edition of the Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming, organised by HaPoC, Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing. As in the previous editions, we are convinced that an interdisciplinary approach is necessary for understanding programming with its multifaceted nature. As such, we welcome participation by researchers and practitioners coming from a diversity of backgrounds, including historians, philosophers, computer scientists and professional software developers. In addition to submissions in a wide range of areas traditional for HaPoP (outlined below), we especially welcome submissions that explore the nature of scientific progress with respect to computer programming as a discipline. We are interested in investigations concerning the methodology of computer programming, whether it follows a form of scientific method that allows it to increase its problem solving ability, whether its development more is akin to science, engineering or rather art, and what examples from the history of programming can be provided to support either argument. Programme committee Nicola Angius, Universit? di Sassari Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge Edgar Daylight, University of Leuven Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford Ursula Martin (co-chair), University of Oxford Liesbeth De Mol, Universit? de Lille Tomas Petricek (co-chair), The Alan Turing Institue Mark Priestley, Independent Researcher Giuseppe Primiero, Middlesex University London Viola Schiaffonati, Politecnico Milano Important dates and links Submission deadline: 1 January 2018 Author notification: 2 February 2018 HaPoP symposium: 23 March 2018 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapop4 HAPOC Grants: http://www.hapoc.org/node/251 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have any questions regarding suitability of a topic, format of the extended abstract, or anything else, please contact me at tomas at tomasp.net. Thanks, Tomas Petricek From eacsl at kahle.ch Sun Dec 10 06:16:55 2017 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 11:16:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?CSL_2018_=E2=80=94_First_Call_for_Pape?= =?utf-8?q?rs?= Message-ID: First Call for Papers ======================================== Computer Science Logic 2018 Birmingham, United Kingdom 4?7 September ======================================== # Important Dates * Abstract Submission: 7 April 2018 (AoE) * Paper Submission: 14 April 2018 (AoE) * Notification: 14 June 2018 # The Conference Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. CSL 2018 will be the 27th edition in the series. It will be organised by the School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham. # Submission Submissions will be through EasyChair. For further details please see https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csl18 Proceedings will be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. After the conference, selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the online open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science. # Invited Speakers * To be Announced * # Programme Committee * Christel Baier, TU Dresden * Martin Berger, University of Sussex * Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University * Veronique Bruyere, University of Mons * Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien * Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna * Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde * Jamie Gabbay, Heriot-Watt University * Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY * Dan R. Ghica, University of Birmingham (Co-chair) * Russ Harmer, CNRS & ENS Lyon * Achim Jung, University of Birmingham (Co-chair) * Juha Kontinen, University of Helsinki * Jean Krivine, Universit? Paris Diderot & IRIF * Slawek Lasota, University of Warsaw * Marina Lenisa, University of Udine * Anca Muscholl, University of Bordeaux * Wied Pakusa, RWTH Aachen University * Daniela Petrisan, Universit? Paris Diderot * Sebastian Siebertz, Univerity of Warsaw * Alexandra Silva, University College London From dario.dellamonica at unina.it Sun Dec 10 12:46:26 2017 From: dario.dellamonica at unina.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:46:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Logic Colloquium 2018 (LC18): 1st call for contributions Message-ID: <47fb28df-f3b9-b6eb-52ca-56ac4f0bbc51@unina.it> We are happy to announce the following event and we would be glad if you could forward this message to whom it might interest. LC 2018 Udine, Italy July 23-28, 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it ________________________________________________________________________ LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it The Logic Colloquium 2018 is the annual European summer meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) (http://www.aslonline.org/index.htm). It will be held during July 23-28, 2018, at the University of Udine, Italy, and is organized by the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics of the University of Udine. The latest meetings took place in Paris (2010), Barcelona (2011), Manchester (2012), Evora (2013), Vienna (2014), Helsinki (2015), Leeds (2016) and Stockholm (2017). The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization supporting research and critical studies in logic. Its primary function is to provide an effective forum for the presentation, publication, and discussion of scholarly work in this area of inquiry. The Association holds two major annual meetings to present current research in all aspects of logic in a way that is accessible to all logicians. IMPORTANT DATES: ============================ Deadline for abstract submission: April 27, 2018 Deadline for travel grant applications: May 4, 2018 Deadline for early registration: May 23, 2018 Main event: July 23 (9am)- July 28 (1pm) TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: ================== K. Tent (WWU M?nster) U. Sattler (University of Manchester) INVITED SPEAKERS: ================= M. Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) A. Atserias (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) V. Brattka (Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen) A. Ciabattoni (TU Wien) P. D?Aquino (Universit? degli Studi della Campania) P. Oliva (Queen Mary University of London) L. Patey (Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon) A. Tserunyan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) S. Unger(Tel Aviv University) M. Viale (Universit? degli studi di Torino) D. Westerstahl (Stockholm University) GOEDEL SPEAKER: ================ R. Downey (Victoria University of Wellington) SPECIAL SESSIONS: ================= 6 special sessions with topics: * Descriptive set theory and dynamical systems: ??? Chairs: ??? B. Miller (Universit?t Wien), ??? ??? ??? ??? A. T?rnquist (K?benhavn Universitet) * Model theory: ??? Chairs: ??? F. Wagner (Universit? Lyon I), ??? ??? ??? ??? E. Casanovas (Universitat de Barcelona) * Proof theory and constructivism: ??? Chairs: ??? S. Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano), ??? ??? ??? ??? G. Sambin (Universit? degli Studi di Padova) * Temporal and multivalued logics: ??? Chairs: ??? M. Lange (Universit?t Kassel), ??? ??? ??? ??? B. Gerla (Universit? dell'Insubria) * Computability theory: ??? Chairs: ??? A. Sorbi (Universit? di Siena 1240), ??? ??? ??? ??? P. Shafer (University of Leeds) * Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: ??? Chairs: ??? J. Kennedy (University of Helsinki), ??? ??? ??? ??? G. Sagi (University of Haifa) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ============= D. Macpherson (Chair) (University of Leeds) S. Demri (CNRS) A. Kechris (California Institute of Technology) C. Laskowski (University of Maryland) A. Marcone (Universit? degli Studi di Udine) A. Montalban (UC Berkeley) P. Pudl?k (Czech Academy of Sciences) G. Sher (UC San Diego) D. Sinapova (University of Illinois at Chicago) LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: ============= Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Italy G. D'Agostino (Co-Chair) A. Montanari (Co-Chair) V. Dimonte G. Gherardi A. Marcone F. Parlamento C. Piazza D. Della Monica M. Fiori Carones N. Gigante A. Molinari M. Valenti For questions please contact lc18 at uniud.it SUBMISSIONS: =================== Abstracts of contributed papers must be submitted as pdf file via EasyChair at the URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lc18. If you do not have an EasyChair account yet, you can create one at https://easychair.org/ Abstract should be prepared according to the ASL instructions http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html using? the ASL abstract style (available at http://aslonline.org/abstractresources.html). For submission instructions see https://lc18.uniud.it starting from January 2018. The deadline for submissions is April 27, 2018. If electronic submission is not possible, abstracts should be mailed to: Prof. H. Dugald Macpherson, PC chair of Logic Colloquium 2018, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be requested to submit the TeX source files. Abstracts are published as part of the meeting report in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic? only if at least one author is a member of the ASL at the time the report is sent for publication. Abstracts of contributed papers submitted by ASL members will be published in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, provided that they satisfy the Rules for Abstracts (see above). APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: ======================= The ASL, the NSF, and the local organizing committee will make available modest travel awards to graduate students in logic and to recent PhDs to attend the meeting. For more details on the grants, see: http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html . Applications for student travel grants and recommendations should be received between January 1 and May 4, 2018. They should be submitted electronically, by email to LC18grant at uniud.it If electronic submission is not possible, applications and recommendations should be mailed to: Prof. H. Dugald Macpherson, PC chair of Logic Colloquium 2018, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. 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URL: From ulrik at cs.aau.dk Mon Dec 11 06:42:23 2017 From: ulrik at cs.aau.dk (Ulrik Nyman) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:42:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position @ Aalborg University: Compositional Verification of Real-time MULTI-CORE SAFETY Critical Systems (Ulrik Nyman) Message-ID: <6bbd7d2c-3548-41b4-8fa5-dec61e32f067@cs.aau.dk> At The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Computer Science a PhD stipend is available within the general study programme Computer Science and Engineering. The stipend is open for appointment at the earliest from 1st of June 2018 or soon thereafter. The topics of the PhD stipends are within Computer Science and are described as follows. ? Model-based Schedulability Analysis of Multi-Core Safety Critical Systems. This includes domain modeling in the form of Timed I/O Automata, design of a domain specific language for describing multi-core scheduling systems and utilizing the model checking tool Ecdar (http://people.cs.aau.dk/~adavid/ecdar/) to perform compositional model checking of the models. The PhD stipend is a part of the research project Compositional Verification of Real-time MULTI-CORE SAFETY Critical Systems (http://ulrik.blog.aau.dk/multi-core-safety/). For further information about scientific aspects of the stipends, please contact Associate Professor Ulrik Nyman (ulrik at cs.aau.dk). For more information on the application process see: http://www.stillinger.aau.dk/vis-stilling/?vacancy=949684 From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Mon Dec 11 12:56:21 2017 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:56:21 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions at Penn in PL and Formal Methods Message-ID: The Programming Languages and Formal Methods group at the University of Pennsylvania invites interested students to apply to our PhD program. We conduct research on a broad range of topics spanning language design, programming systems, logic and verification. The group is led by five faculty with diverse expertise: Rajeev Alur, Mayur Naik, Benjamin Pierce, Stephanie Weirich, and Steve Zdancewic. Our ongoing research projects include The Science of Deep Specification (deepspec.org ), Computer-Augmented Programming (excape.cis.upenn.edu ), Verified LLVM (www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/vellvm ), Dependent Types for Haskell (www.haskell.org ), AI for Programming Systems (petablox.org ), and a range of other topics. Penn is located in Philadelphia, a vibrant and cosmopolitan city with many socializing, dining, athletic, and entertainment options, and easy transportation to most of the eastern seaboard. The Computer and Information Science department (www.cis.upenn.edu ) provides a world-class environment for doing basic as well as inter-disciplinary research. The PL+FM group is regularly ranked as one of the top programs worldwide. Prospective students should apply to the PhD program in Computer and Information Science at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/prospective-students/graduate/applying.php by December 15, 2017. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From catalin.hritcu at gmail.com Mon Dec 11 13:19:20 2017 From: catalin.hritcu at gmail.com (Catalin Hritcu) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:19:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Short Talks on Secure Compilation (PriSC Workshop @ POPL'18) Message-ID: ======================================================================= Call for Short Talks on Secure Compilation (PriSC Workshop @ POPL'18) ======================================================================= Do not miss the chance to submit short talks on your cutting-edge secure compilation research. Submission deadline is 14 December 2017. More information below. ====================================================================== Important Dates ====================================================================== Short talk submission deadline: 14 December 2017, AoE Short talk notification: 18 December 2017 PriSC Workshop takes place: 13 January 2018 ====================================================================== Scope of PriSC Short Talks Session ====================================================================== In the short talks session of PriSC, participants get 5 minutes to present intriguing ideas, advertise ongoing work, etc. Anyone interested in giving a short 5-minute talk should submit an abstract. Any topic that could be of interest to the emerging secure compilation community is in scope. Presentations that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are **not** limited to: - attacker models for secure compiler chains - secure compilation properties: full abstraction, memory safety, control-flow integrity, preserving non-interference or (hyper-)properties against adversarial contexts, secure multi-language interoperability - enforcement mechanisms: static checking, program verification, reference monitoring, program rewriting, software fault isolation, system-level protection, secure hardware, crypto, randomization - experimental evaluation and applications of secure compilation - proof methods: (bi)simulation, logical relations, game semantics, multi-language semantics, embedded interpreters - formal verification of secure compilation chain (protection mechanisms, compilers, linkers, loaders), machine-checked proofs, translation validation, property-based testing ====================================================================== Guidelines for Submitting Short Talk Abstracts ====================================================================== Abstracts should be submitted in text format and are not anonymous Giving a talk at the workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere. Please submit your abstracts at https://prisc18short.hotcrp.com For questions about the short talks please contact the Program Chair. ====================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2018) ====================================================================== The Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC) is a new informal 1-day workshop without any proceedings. The goal is to identify interesting research directions and open challenges and to bring together researchers interested in secure compilation. The 2nd PriSC edition will be held on Saturday, 13 January 2018, in Los Angeles, together with the ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). More information including the workshop program available at http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 ====================================================================== Participation and Registration ====================================================================== PriSC will be held at the POPL'18 venue (Omni Hotel LA). To participate, please register through the POPL registration system: https://popl18.sigplan.org/attending/Registration ====================================================================== Program Committee ====================================================================== Program Chair Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Members Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Lars Birkedal Aarhus University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven C?dric Fournet Microsoft Research Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Xavier Leroy Inria Paris David Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Frank Piessens KU Leuven Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis Nikhil Swamy Microsoft Research ====================================================================== Organizing Committee ====================================================================== Amal Ahmed Inria Paris and Northeastern University Dominique Devriese KU Leuven Deepak Garg MPI-SWS Catalin Hritcu Inria Paris Marco Patrignani MPI-SWS Tamara Rezk Inria Sophia Antipolis ====================================================================== Contact and More Information ===================================================================== More information about PriSC 2018 can be found on the website: http://popl18.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2018 For questions please contact the Program Chair. To make sure you receive such announcements in the future please subscribe to the following low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/prisc-announce From tobycmurray at googlemail.com Tue Dec 12 00:04:41 2017 From: tobycmurray at googlemail.com (Toby Murray) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:04:41 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 15 Faculty Positions at University of Melbourne Message-ID: The University of Melbourne School of Computing and Information Systems is seeking applicants for 15 continuing (tenure-track) Lecturer and Senior Lecturer positions. We seek dynamic academics with expertise in Computer Science or Information Systems who have the potential to build a stellar teaching and research career at Melbourne. The School of Computing and Information Systems is an international research leader in computer science, information systems and software engineering. In this discipline, the School was ranked number 1 in Australia and 13th in the world in the 2016 QS World University Ranking exercise. We are particularly seeking applicants with expertise in the areas of business information systems, health informatics/digital health, software engineering, cybersecurity, or high-performance and distributed systems, but applicants whose work is aligned with any of the research groups in the School are encouraged to apply. Applications close on 15 Jan 2018. The positions are advertised at http://go.unimelb.edu.au/jsp6, where the formal position description and a brochure with more information are available. Contact Karin Verspoor for enquiries and further information. From s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk Tue Dec 12 07:03:43 2017 From: s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk (Sven Linker) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:03:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: SCAV 2018 - 2nd Workshop on Safe Control of Autonomous Vehicles Message-ID: [[ apologies if you receive multiple copies ]] SCAV 2018 2nd International Workshop on Safe Control of Autonomous Vehicles hosted by CPS Week 2018, April 10-13, 2018, Porto, PT # Important Dates (AoE) # Full paper deadline: 26 Jan 2018 Author notification: 28 Feb 2018 Camera-ready due: 20 Mar 2018 Workshop: 10 Apr 2018 Autonomous vehicles (AV) of any kind (e.g. road, maritime, aerial, unmanned) and in any configuration (e.g. individual, connected, cooperative, traffic) will provide novel services having to fulfill strong safety requirements. For controllers of AVs and for control schemes of AV collectives, we must (1) guarantee safety and resilience, (2) deliver verified system designs for (1), and (3) enhance verification approaches for (1) & (2). These objectives will play a decisive role in the adoption of AVs as a consumer, transport, and mobility technology. These objectives demand novel approaches to the analysis and assurance of local, distributed, and supervisory controllers. The goal of this workshop is to discuss and consolidate models, algorithms, and verification approaches for safety and resilience of the whole control loop of autonomous machines and machine collectives. The task of this workshop is to identify open research problems, discuss recent achievements, bring together researchers in, e.g. control theory, adaptive systems, machine self-organization and autonomy, mobile intelligent robotics, transportation, traffic control, machine learning, software verification, and dependability and security engineering. For this interactive single-day workshop we plan a keynote, an optional poster session, and a final discussion. # Paper Categories # * technical research or methodology (max. 8 pages incl. bib.), * case studies (max. 8 pages incl. bib.), and * problem statements or tools (max. 2 pages incl. bib.) # Topics # We kindly request contributions to (but not limited to): ** formal verification and validation (e.g. testing, simulation, experimentation) of * safe high-performance requirements, * safe non-deterministic behaviors (weakest invariants), * safe off-line and on-line machine-learnable behaviors, * resilience against hazardous unintentional or malicious misuse (e.g. non-vigilance, security attacks), ** formal models and design methods for * controllers, * monitors, * platforms (i.e., architecture, SW, HW, network), ** verified efficient algorithms for * incremental and online synthesis of controllers, * optimal adaptive control, * self-adaptation and run-time reconfiguration for AVs and AV collectives in open environments. # Workshop Format # All submissions are expected to be original work not published, or in submission, elsewhere, and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for quality, relevance, and novelty. Accepted papers will be included in the electronic CPSWeek workshop proceedings. Please, check our workshop website for updates! # Workshop Organizers # Mario Gleirscher (U York, UK) Stefan Kugele (TU Munich, DE) Sven Linker (U Liverpool, UK) # Workshop Website # http://scav.in.tum.de # Contact # mario.gleirscher at york.ac.uk From martin.erwig at gmail.com Tue Dec 12 12:03:21 2017 From: martin.erwig at gmail.com (Martin Erwig) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:03:21 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty Position in Programming Languages Message-ID: The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University invites applications for one or more tenure-track faculty positions in Programming Languages to begin in Fall 2018. Appointment is anticipated at the Assistant Professor rank, but candidates with exceptional qualifications may be considered for appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. Applicants must hold a doctorate degree in Computer Science or closely related field by the start of employment. Applicants should demonstrate a strong commitment and capacity to initiate new funded research as well as to expand, complement, and collaborate with existing research programs in the OSU College of Engineering and beyond. Apply online at http://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/50857 (posting #P01672UF) with the following documents: A letter of interest; vita; a two-page statement of research interests; a one-page statement of teaching interests; a one-page statement on efforts towards equity and inclusion; and names and contact information for at least three references. To be assured full consideration, applications must be received by December 31, 2017. Oregon State is located in Corvallis, at the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley. Corvallis has been ranked # 1 on a list of "Best Places for Work-Life Balance". Portland, Eugene, the Cascade mountain range, and the Oregon Coast are all within easy reach. Oregon State University has a strong institutional commitment to diversity and multiculturalism, and provides a welcoming atmosphere with unique professional opportunities for leaders from underrepresented groups. OSU seeks diversity as a source of enrichment for our university community. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who share our vision of an inclusive community. From ohad.kammar at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Dec 12 14:52:13 2017 From: ohad.kammar at cs.ox.ac.uk (Ohad Kammar) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:52:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOLA 2018: First Call-for-Proposals Message-ID: LOLA 2018: Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages ===================================================== Saturday, 7 July 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom A satellite workshop of LICS 2018 at FLoC 2018 https://cs.appstate.edu/~johannp/lola18/ Important dates ------------------------------------------------- LOLA submission deadline 15 April 2018 Notification 13 May 2018 Early Registration Deadline 6 June 2018 Workshop 7 July 2018 ------------------------------------------------- Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2018 Registration: http://www.floc2018.org/register/ Invited Speakers ---------------- Nada Amin, University of Cambridge https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~na482/ Nick Benton, Facebook Research https://research.fb.com/people/benton-nick/ Context ------- Since the late 1960s it has been known 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 low-level ones have traditionally been seen as having little or no essential connection to logic. However, a fundamental discovery of the past two decades 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 at FLoC 2018, will bring together researchers interested in the relationships and connections between logic and low-level languages and programs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Typed assembly languages, * Certified assembly programming, * Certified and certifying compilation, * Proof-carrying code, * Program optimization, * Modal logic and realizability in machine code, * Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code, * Parametricity, modules and existential types, * General references, Kripke models and recursive types, * Continuations and concurrency, * Resource analysis and implicit complexity, * Closures and explicit substitutions, * Linear logic and separation logic, * Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis, * Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects. Submission ---------- LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on work in progress, overviews of larger programmes, position presentations and short tutorials as well as more traditional research talks describing new results. The programme committee will select the workshop presentations from submitted proposals, which may take the form either of a two page abstract or of a longer (published or unpublished) paper describing completed work. Authors are invited to submit their contribution by 15 April 2018. Abstracts must be written in English and be submitted as a single PDF file at EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2018 Submissions will undergo a lightweight review process and will be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. 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URL: From jes at math.uminho.pt Wed Dec 13 15:39:12 2017 From: jes at math.uminho.pt (=?UTF-8?Q?Jos=c3=a9_Carlos_Esp=c3=adrito_Santo?=) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:12 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2018: announcement and first call for contributions Message-ID: <331fb715-5e1c-fc2c-7842-93c23c901364@math.uminho.pt> (Apologies for cross-posting) ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 24th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2018 and EUTYPES Cost Action CA15123 meeting Braga, Portugal, 18 - 21 June 2018 http://w3.math.uminho.pt/types2018 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 formalised 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; * 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. The EUTypes Cost Action CA15123 (eutypes.cs.ru.nl) focuses on the same research topics as TYPES and partially sponsors the TYPES Conference: Part of the programme is organised under the auspices of EUTypes. INVITED SPEAKERS * C?dric Fournet (Microsoft Research, UK) * Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA, France) * Josef Urban (CIIRC, Czech Republic) CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2018 Important dates: * submission of 2 pp abstract: 5 March 2018 * notification of acceptance/rejection: 13 April 2018 * camera-ready version of abstract: 7 May 2018 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 TYPES 2011 and TYPES 2013-2017, 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: September 2018. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Chalmers University Gothenburg) Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University Boston) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Marc Bezem (University of Bergen) Maria Paola Bonacina (University of Verona) Gilles Dowek (INRIA ? ENS Paris-Saclay) Peter Dybjer (Chalmers University Gothenburg) Jos? Esp?rito Santo (University of Minho) (co-chair) Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen) Ambrus Kaposi (E?tv?s Lor?nd University) Ugo de?Liguoro (University of Torino) Ralph Matthes (IRIT ? CNRS and University of Toulouse) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA ? LS2N Nantes) Keiko Nakata (SAP Potsdam) Pierre-Marie P?drot (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Saarbruck?n) Lu?s Pinto (University of Minho) (co-chair) Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge) Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) Carsten Sch?rmann (IT University of Copenhagen) Anton Setzer (University of Swansea) TYPES STEERING COMMITTEE Jos? Esp?rito Santo, Silvia Ghilezan, Hugo Herbelin, Ambrus Kaposi, Ralph Matthes (chair), Aleksy Schubert. ABOUT TYPES The TYPES meetings from 1990 to 2008 were annual workshops of a sequence of five EU funded networking projects. From 2009 to 2015, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. From 2016, TYPES is partially supported by COST Action EUTypes CA15123. 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), Novi Sad (2016), Budapest (2017). CONTACT Email:types2018 at math.uminho.pt Organisers: Jos? Esp?rito Santo (Centre of Mathematics, University of Minho) Maria Jo?o Frade (HASLab, University of Minho and INESC TEC) Cl?udia Mendes Ara?jo (Centre of Mathematics, University of Minho) Lu?s Pinto (Centre of Mathematics, University of Minho) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From birkedal at cs.au.dk Thu Dec 14 04:02:31 2017 From: birkedal at cs.au.dk (Lars Birkedal) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:02:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant and Associate Professor positions at Aarhus University, Denmark Message-ID: Dear All, A number of positions as tenure-track assistant professor or associate professor are available at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University (www.cs.au.dk). Applicants within all areas of computer science are welcome and we would be happy to see applications from readers of the types list! The department has a staff of approximately 125 people including 24 full and associate professors, 2 assistant professors, 25 postdocs and 50 PhD students. The number of students is approximately 1,000. The department is expected to expand significantly over the next 5-6 years, as part of Aarhus University?s strategic effort to increase the number of students graduating in computer science and IT. Deadline: January 5, 2018 (strict) Link to official call text: http://scitech.au.dk/om-science-and-technology/stillinger/videnskabelige-stillinger/?tx_peoplexs_pi1%5Bid%5D=934877&tx_peoplexs_pi1%5BportalId%5D=5285&tx_peoplexs_pi1%5Baction%5D=show&tx_peoplexs_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=Vacancy&cHash=4df9e0c7f01222f969518a96fc9dda68 Please circulate to potential applicants. Thanks, Lars Birkedal ? 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All of the papers from this year?s volume will be presented at 2018 in Nice in April. Are you still looking for a good opportunity to contribute to the event? We are excited to announce that there will be 11 co-located events at the 2018 conference: ?- ACM Student Research Competition / 2018 Posters ?- Bx 2018 - 7th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations ?-?CoCoDo 2018 ? Raincode Labs Compiler Coding Dojo ?- LASSY 2018 - 3rd?Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems ?- MOMO 2018 - 3rd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling ?- MoreVMs 2018 - 2nd Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs ?-?PASS 2018 - 2nd Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack ?- Programming for the Large 2018 Workshop ?- ProWeb 2018 - 2nd International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web ?- PX/18 - 3rd Workshop on Programming Experience ?- Salon des Refus?s 2018 - 2nd edition of the Salon des Refus?s workshop All co-located events will take place during April 9-10 2018. Below, we list short descriptions and important dates for each event. We are looking forward to your contributions! ******************************************************************** ?ACM Student Research Competition / 2018 Posters ???Submissions: Mon 22 Jan 2018 https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/programming-2018-src ******************************************************************** The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to up-and-coming young researchers, and offers them an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help sharpen communication and networking skills. ACM?s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to an SRC. Please see our website for requirements and further details. **************************************************************** ?Bx 2018 - 7th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations ???Paper submissions: Fri 19 Jan 2018 ???Notifications: Sat 17 Feb 2018 https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/bx-2018-papers **************************************************************** 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 2018 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 has rotated between venues in different fields. **************************************************************** ?CoCoDo 2018 ? Raincode Labs Compiler Coding Dojo ??? No submission deadlines! https://cocodo.github.io **************************************************************** If you ever studied any computing discipline, you must have learnt something about compilers as well, and you probably think you forgot everything about it since. Yet, almost every time you develop a non-trivial piece of software, you end up converting data between formats, traversing hierarchical structures, analysing and representing dependences and doing many other things that are at the heart of compiler design and implementation. Whether you are applying a Visitor design pattern or emulating a state machine with a switch/case statement, you are programming a little part of a compiler for your own language. Participating in CoCoDo will give you a chance to immerse in the marvels of compiler technologies for one day ? and if you like it, you are welcome to stay in this field! Our coding dojo will be split into sessions, each dedicated to one aspect of compilation, with brief explanations and supervision by leading field experts. There will be several technologies, mainstream and otherwise, laid out at your disposal. Better yet, you can bring your own workbench and show us how it?s done. **************************************************************** ?LASSY 2018 - 3rd?Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems ???Paper submissions: Fri 12 Jan 2018 ???Notifications: Fri 12 Feb 2018 https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/LASSY-2018-papers **************************************************************** The LASSY workshop provides a space for discussion and collaboration between researchers working on the problem of enabling live adaptations to software systems, across the development stack. The workshop encourages theoretical work on programming models and techniques to adapt software systems at the programming language, database, or user interface levels; application and practice to adaptive systems to a particular domain; and empirical studies on the impact and assessment of adaptive systems from a societal point of view. **************************************************************** ?MOMO 2018 - 3rd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling ?? Abstract submissions (optional): Fri 2 Feb 2018 ?? Paper submissions: Thu 8 Feb 2018 ?? Notifications: Thu 1 Mar 2018 http://www.momo2018.ece.mcgill.ca/index.htm **************************************************************** Despite the power of abstraction of modelling, models of real-world problems and systems quickly grow to such an extent that managing the complexity by using proper modularization techniques becomes necessary. The Third International Modularity in Modelling Workshop (MoMo?18) will bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the theoretical and practical challenges resulting from applying modularity, advanced separation of concerns, and composition at the modelling level. It is intended to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the impact of the use of modularization in the context of (MDE) at different levels of abstraction. MoMo?18 will bring together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring modularization techniques for modelling, such as but not limited to aspect-oriented mechanisms to support advanced separation of concerns, advanced composition operators for possibly heterogeneous models, and techniques for execution and reasoning over global properties of modularized models. ****************************************************************************** ?MoreVMs 2018 - 2nd Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs ?? Submissions: Fri 26 Jan 2018 ?? Notifications: Fri 23 Feb 2018 https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/MoreVMs-2018 ****************************************************************************** The MoreVMs'18 workshop aims to bring together industrial and academic programmers to discuss the design, implementation, and usage of modern languages and runtimes. This includes aspects such as reuse of language runtimes, modular implementation, language design and compilation strategies. The workshop aims to enable a diverse discussion on how languages and runtimes are currently being utilized, and where they need to improve further. We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts discussing experiences, work-in-progress, as well as future visions, from either an academic or industrial perspective. ************************************************************************** ?PASS 2018 - Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack ?? Submissions: Mon 5 Feb 2018 ?? Notifications: Mon 26 Feb 2018 ? ?Poster Submissions: Tue 6 Mar 2018 https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/PASS-2018-papers ************************************************************************** The landscape of computation platforms has changed dramatically in recent years. Emerging systems - such as wearable devices, smartphones, unmanned aerial vehicles, Internet of things, cloud computing servers, heterogeneous clusters, and data centers - pose a distinct set of system-oriented challenges ranging from data throughput, energy efficiency, security, real-time guarantees, to high performance. In the meantime, code quality, such as modularity or extensibility, remains a cornerstone in modern software engineering, bringing in crucial benefits such as modular reasoning, program understanding, and collaborative software development. This workshop is driven by one fundamental question: How does internal code quality interact with system-oriented goals? We welcome both positive and negative responses to this question. An example of the former would be modular reasoning systems specifically designed to promote system-oriented goals, whereas an example of the latter would be anti-patterns against system-oriented goals during software development. ************************************************************************* ?Programming for the Large 2018 Workshop Abstract submissions: Fri 26 Jan 2018 ?? Submissions (full papers): ?Fri 2 Feb 2018 ? ?Position paper and work-in-progress paper submission: Tue 13 Feb 2018 ?? Notifications: ?Fri 23 Feb 2018 https://2018.programmingconference.org/track/PftL-2018-papers ************************************************************************* In the last decade we have witnessed a new kid on the block in the programming (language) community: programming ?large computers?. Such computers include many-core machines, clusters of raspberry-pies, industry-scale cluster machines, cloud infrastructure, CUDA and MPI-based supercomputers etc. This workshop seeks to gather researchers that contribute to the simplification of the software stack that will be used to program such machinery in the near future. The main focus of the workshop is "Programming for the Large". Nonetheless, this workshop aims to bring together researchers from many disciplines: distributed programming, big data processing, distributed database engineering, etc. This workshop welcomes any contribution that advances the state-of-the-art in the design, implementation and engineering of runtime systems for cluster architectures. ************************************************************************* ?ProWeb 2018 - 2nd International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web ?? Submissions: ?Mon 15 Jan 2018 ?? Notifications: Mon 12 Feb 2018 https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2018-papers ************************************************************************* Web applications have become ubiquitous on desktop and mobile devices alike. Whereas ?responsive? web applications already offered a desktop-like experience, there is an increasing demand for ?rich? web applications (RIAs) that offer collaborative and even off-line functionality. ProWeb18, the 2nd International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web, is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss new technology for programming these and future evolutions of the web. We welcome submissions introducing programming technology (i.e., frameworks, libraries, programming languages, program analyses and development tools) for implementing web applications and for maintaining their quality over time, as well as experience reports about the use of state-of-the-art programming technology. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: program analysis and testing for the web; design and implementation of languages for the web; distributed technology for data sharing, replication and consistency; and security technology for the web. **************************************************************** PX/18 - 3rd Workshop on Programming Experience ?? Submissions: Sat 3 Feb 2018 ?? Notifications: Mon 26 Feb 2018 https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/px-2018-papers/ http://programming-experience.org/px18/ **************************************************************** PX is a workshop that explores the act of programming, in particular what programmers and programming teams do to create software. Do they type in source text and compile; do they modify running programs; what kinds of tools are available for error detection, correction, and prevention; what collaboration tools are available; what language features make some things easier (or harder); what constitutes programming; etc? The workshop is run as a writers? workshop. **************************************************************** ?Salon des Refus?s 2018 ?? Submissions: Thu 1 Feb 2018 ?? Notifications: Sat 17 Feb 2018 https://www.shift-society.org/salon/2018/ **************************************************************** Salon des Refus?s ("exhibition of rejects") was an 1863 exhibition of artworks rejected from the official Paris Salon. It displayed works by later famous modernists such as ?douard Manet, whose paintings were rejected by the conservative jury of the Paris Salon. A similar space is needed to explore new ways of doing computer science. Many interesting ideas about programming struggle to find space in the modern programming language research community, often because they are difficult to evaluate. To provide space for unorthodox thought provoking ideas, we take inspiration from literary criticism. Papers that spark an interesting debate among the program committee are presented together with an attributed critique that discusses the merits of the work. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis: 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 - Combining formal methods - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice - Program verification, model checking, and static analysis - Theorem proving, decision procedures, SAT/SMT solving - Runtime analysis, monitoring, and testing - Program synthesis - Analysis and synthesis of hybrid, embedded, probabilistic, distributed, or concurrent systems - Abstraction and refinement - Model learning and inference === Submission guidelines === iFM 2018 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the overall theme of formal method integration. We accept papers in the following categories: - Regular papers (limit 15 pages) on - original scientific research results - tools, their foundation and evaluations - applications of formal methods, including rigorous evaluations - Short papers (limit 8 pages) on - any subject of interest in the area of formal methods that can be described with sufficient detail within the page limit Page limits include bibliography and any appendices. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. Submissions should be made using the iFM 2018 Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2018 Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files. 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 registration date, to be indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. === Organization === = General chair = Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland = PC chairs = Carlo A. Furia, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia = Program committee = Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen, Germany Bernhard Aichernig, University of Graz, Austria Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Eerke Boiten, De Montfort University, UK Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Maria Christakis, MPI-SWS, Germany David Cok, GrammaTech, USA Robert Colvin, University of Queensland, Australia Ferruccio Damiani, University of Turin, Italy Eva Darulova, MPI SWS, Germany Frank de Boer, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK Brijesh Dongol, Brunel University, UK Catherine Dubois, ENSIEE, France Diego Garbervetsky, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Peter Hoefner, Data61, Australia Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Rajeev Joshi, NASA JPL, USA Nikolai Kosmatov, CEA LIST, France Laura Kov?cs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Rustan Leino, Amazon, USA Larissa Meinicke, University of Queensland, Australia Dominique Mery, LORIA Nancy, France Toby Murray, University of Melbourne, Australia Luigia Petre, ?bo Akademi University, Finland Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA Chris Poskitt, SUTD, Singapore Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden Gerhard Schellhorn, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Gerardo Schneider, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, Norway Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK Caterina Urban, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mark Utting, University of Sunshine Coast, Australia Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany Mitsuharu Yamamoto, Chiba University, Japan Chenyi Zhang, Jinan University, China = Publicity chair = Hao Wu, Maynooth University, Ireland === Conference location === iFM 2018 is organized by Maynooth University and will take place in Maynooth, Ireland. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kztk.matsuda at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 05:50:17 2017 From: kztk.matsuda at gmail.com (Kazutaka Matsuda) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:50:17 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [2nd CFP] Bx 2018: 7th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= Bx 2018: 7th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations Nice, France (co-located with 2018) https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/bx-2018-papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2018 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 has rotated between venues in different fields. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Paper submission: Jan. 19, 2018 - Author notification: Feb. 17, 2018 - Workshop: Apr. 10, 2018 AIM & TOPICS ------------ The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, established and new, interested in bx from different perspectives, including but not limited to: - bidirectional programming languages and frameworks - 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 ---------------- The BX 2018 program committee considers five categories of submissions: - Full Research Papers (up to 10 pages) * in-depth presentations of novel concepts and results * applications of bx to new domains * survey papers providing novel comparisons between existing bx technologies and approaches case studies - Tool Papers (up to 6 pages) * guideline papers presenting best practices for employing a specific bx approach (with a specific tool) * presentation of new tools or substantial improvements to existing ones * qualitative and/or quantitative comparisons of applying different bx approaches and tools - Experience Report (up to 4 pages) * sharing experiences and lessons learned with bx tools/frameworks/languages * how bx is used in (research/industrial/educational) projects - Extended Abstracts (up to 3 pages) * work in progress * small focused contributions * position papers and research perspectives * critical questions and challenges for bx - Talk Proposals (up to 2 pages) * proposed lectures about topics of interest for bx * existing work representing relevant contributions for bx * promising contributions that are not mature enough to be proposed as papers of the other categories All papers are expected to be self-contained and well-written. Tool papers are not expected to present novel scientific results, but to document artifacts of interest and share bx experience/best practices with the community. Experience papers are expected to report on lessons learnt from applying bx approaches, languages, tools and theories to practical application case studies. Extended abstracts should primarily provoke interesting discussion at the workshop and will not be held to the same standard of maturity as regular papers. Talk proposals are expected to present works of particular interest for the community and that are worth a talk slot at the workshop. We strongly encourage authors to ensure that any (variants of) examples are present in the bx example repository at the time of submission, and for tool papers, to allow for reproducibility with minimal effort, either via a virtual machine (e.g. via Share - http://share20.eu) or a dedicated website with relevant artifacts and tool access. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. PROCEEDINGS ----------- The workshop proceedings, including all accepted papers (except talk proposals), will be published as International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library before the workshop. SUBMISSION GUIDELINE -------------------- Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bx2018 Submissions should use the ACM Conference acmart Format with the ?sigconf? option (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with a font size of 10 point and the font family Times New Roman. All submissions should be in PDF format. If you use LaTeX or Word, please use the provided ACM acmart templates. Otherwise, please follow the ACM author instructions. 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 for review using the LaTeX command \settopmatter{printfolios=true} (see examples in template). 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. Submissions not complying with the above guidelines may be excluded from the reviewing process without further notice. If a paper is accepted, at least 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS ------------------------- Jens Weber (University of Victoria, co-chair) Kazutaka Matsuda (Tohoku Universiy, co-chair) Anthony Anjorin (University of Paderborn) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Anthony Cleve (University of Namur) Alcino Cunha (University of Minho and INESC TEC) Zinovy Diskin (McMaster University) Romina Eramo (University of L?Aquila) Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford) Holger Giese (Potsdam University) Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology) Martin Gogolla (University of Bremen) Soichiro Hidaka (Hosei University) Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics) Michael Johnson (Macquarie University) Ekkart Kindler (Technical University of Denmark) Erhan Leblebici (TU Darmstadt) Fernando Orejas (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Hugo Pacheco (University of Minho) Richard Paige (University of York) Arend Rensink (University of Twente) Andy Sch?rr (TU Darmstadt) Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh) James Terwilliger Janis Voigtl?nder (University of Duisburg-Essen) Meng Wang (University of Bristol) Bernhard Westfechtel (University of Bayreuth) From awodey at cmu.edu Wed Dec 20 10:48:49 2017 From: awodey at cmu.edu (Steve Awodey) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:48:49 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Logic Postdoc at CMU Message-ID: <0F1DB228-DE2F-4605-9085-24A3F80B7AC6@cmu.edu> The logic group in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University seeks a postdoctoral researcher for a project in formal verification, dynamical systems, and constructive analysis, beginning August 2018. There are no teaching duties, and the position is for one academic year with a possibility of renewal. Candidates should have a PhD and research experience in a related area, and a desire to collaborate with the existing research group, which consists of several faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students. Background in interactive theorem proving or other uses of formal methods is desired. Questions about the position may be directed to Jeremy Avigad, avigad at cmu.edu . Candidates should submit a CV and a brief research statement to CMUPhilosophy at andrew.cmu.edu . ****************************************************************************************** More Information: Please visit ?Why Carnegie Mellon? to learn more about becoming part of an institution inspiring innovations that change the world. A listing of employee benefits is available at: http://www.cmu.edu/jobs/benefits-at-a-glance/index.html Department URL: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/ Primary Location: United States-Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh Time Type: Full Time Minimum Education Level: Doctorate or equivalent Salary: According to Experience ****************************************************************************************** Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate in admission, employment, or administration of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap or disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, ancestry, belief, veteran status, or genetic information. Furthermore, Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate and is required not to discriminate in violation of federal, state, or local laws or executive orders. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk Wed Dec 20 11:46:26 2017 From: c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk (Cristian Cadar) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:46:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] KLEE Workshop on Symbolic Execution: Call for Presentations Message-ID: <6dd302fb-f71e-42d9-73fa-6a3248fd0510@imperial.ac.uk> ***************************************************** 1st International KLEE Workshop on Symbolic Execution 19-20 April, 2018 ? London, United Kingdom https://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/klee18/ ***************************************************** Call for Presentations ====================== Symbolic execution has gained significant attention over the last few years, becoming an essential ingredient of techniques and systems across many computer science fields including software engineering, programming languages, software testing, program verification, cybersecurity, and computer systems. The technique has enabled a wide range of applications, including the automatic detection of bugs and security vulnerabilities, high-coverage test suite generation, patch testing, and automatic debugging, among many others. KLEE is one of the most popular symbolic execution engines, providing a flexible and modular framework on which to build many different symbolic execution based techniques. We solicit proposals for presentations related to the KLEE infrastructure and symbolic execution more generally. In particular, we welcome three types of contributions: 1) Presentations of existing research papers or ongoing research work. If presenting an existing research paper, please provide a link to the paper. If the work builds upon KLEE, please be explicit about the connection. 2) Presentations reporting the experience of using KLEE in a practical setting. Examples include the use of KLEE for testing open-source software, the use of KLEE in an industrial context, and the integration of KLEE within a larger system or tool. 3) Tutorial presentations on various aspects of KLEE. Examples include explaining the memory model of KLEE, showing how to create a new partial solver in KLEE, explaining how to handle new LLVM intrinsics, or demonstrating the use of Kleaver, KLEE?s solver tool. More details about the submission process can be obtained at https://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/klee18/cfpresentations.html A similar call for posters can be found at https://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/klee18/cfposters.html Important dates Submission deadline: Sunday, 21 January 2018 Notification deadline: Thursday, 1 February 2018 Early registration date: Saturday, 10 February 2018 Workshop dates: 19-20 April 2018 From thomas.ferrere at ist.ac.at Wed Dec 20 11:45:52 2017 From: thomas.ferrere at ist.ac.at (Thomas FERRERE) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:45:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: 3rd workshop on Design and Analysis of Robust Systems In-Reply-To: <261cca4a-c34b-51ca-06e4-491e9d998c1d@ist.ac.at> References: <261cca4a-c34b-51ca-06e4-491e9d998c1d@ist.ac.at> Message-ID: <84f0b740-8464-c68c-514b-7edada954330@ist.ac.at> ******************************************************************************* ????????? Third Workshop on Design and Analysis of Robust Systems ??????????????????????????????? (DARS 2018) ????????????????????????????? April 10, 2018 ??????????????? Co-located with CPS Week 2018, Porto, Portugal ?????????????? Webpage: https://darsworkshop.github.io/dars2018/ ******************************************************************************* Important Dates: ---------------- ??? Extended abstract submission: February 5, 2018 ??? Author notification: February 26, 2018 ??? Workshop: April 10, 2018 Scope: ------ Robustness refers to the ability of a system to behave reliably in the presence of perturbation in the system parameters or irregularities in the system's operating environment. This is particularly important in the context of embedded and cyber-physical systems and software, which interact with a physical environment through sensors and actuators and communicate over wired or wireless networks. Such systems are routinely subject to deviations arising from sensor or actuation noise, quantization and sampling of data, uncertainty in the physical environment, and delays or packet drops over unreliable network channels. When deployed in safety critical applications, system robustness in the presence of uncertainty is not just desirable, but crucial. Our aim is to foster dialogue and exchange of ideas and techniques across several disciplines with an interest in robustness such as formal verification, programming languages, fault tolerance, control theory, and hybrid systems. Domains of interest include, but are not limited to: reactive, timed, hybrid or probabilistic systems and programs, approximate computing, fault tolerance of distributed systems, and robustness of neural networks. Call for submission: -------------------- We solicit extended abstracts of no more than 3 pages (including references) that provide an overview of recently published work of the authors or work in progress. We expect that the extended abstracts will focus on providing intuitions (main results and their implications), rather than technical details (formal definitions). The extended abstracts along with a one paragraph abstract (for announcement on the webpage, if accepted) can be uploaded to Easychair using the following link: ??? https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dars2018 Program Committee: ------------------ ??? Houssam Abbas, University of Pennsylvania ??? Stanley Bak, Air Force Research Lab ??? Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology ??? Xin Chen, University of Colorado Boulder ??? Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California ??? Thomas Ferr?re, IST Austria ??? Sicun Gao, University of California, San Diego ??? Miriam Garc?a Soto, IMDEA Software Institute ??? Antoine Girard, Laboratoire des Signaux et Syst?mes, CNRS ??? Ariful Islam, Carnegie Mellon University ??? Soonho Kong, Toyota Research Institute ??? Dejan Nickovic, Austrian Institute of Technology AIT ??? Jan Otop, University of Wroclaw ??? Ivan Papusha, University of Texas at Austin ??? Paulo Tabuada, University of California, Los Angeles ??? Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University Program Chairs: --------------- ??? Thomas Ferr?re, IST Austria ??? Sicun Gao, University of California San Diego Steering Committee: ------------------- ??? Pavithra Prabhakar, Kansas State University ??? Roopsha Samanta, Purdue University From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Thu Dec 21 02:20:13 2017 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:20:13 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 Message-ID: <5a3b60ad11a77_2ce43fdc19055bec83484@landin.local.mail> PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 Call for Papers accepted papers to be invited for presentation at The 23rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming St. Louis, Missouri, USA http://icfp18.sigplan.org/ ### Important dates Submissions due: 16 March 2018 (Friday) Anywhere on Earth https://icfp18.hotcrp.com Author response: 2 May (Wednesday) - 4 May (Friday) 14:00 UTC Notification: 18 May (Friday) Final copy due: 22 June (Friday) Conference: 24 September (Monday) - 26 September (Wednesday) ### About PACMPL Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL ) is a Gold Open Access journal publishing research on all aspects of programming languages, from design to implementation and from mathematical formalisms to empirical studies. Each issue of the journal is devoted to a particular subject area within programming languages and will be announced through publicized Calls for Papers, like this one. ### Scope PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 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. Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission 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. PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 also welcomes submissions in two separate categories — Functional Pearls and Experience Reports — that must be marked as such at the time of submission and that need not report original research results. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given at the end of this call. Please contact the principal editor if you have questions or are concerned about the appropriateness of a topic. ### Preparation of submissions **Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 16, 2018, Anywhere on Earth (). This deadline will be strictly enforced. **Formatting**: Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Small" template that is available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from . For authors using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential files, is available from . There is a limit of 27 pages for a full paper or 14 pages for an Experience Report; in either case, the bibliography will not be counted against these limits. These page limits have been chosen to allow essentially the same amount of content with the new single-column format as was possible with the two-column format used in past ICFP conferences. Submissions that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. See also PACMPL's Information and Guidelines for Authors at . **Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. **Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 14:00 UTC on Wednesday, May 2, 2018, to read reviews and respond to them. **Supplementary Materials**: 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 the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). **Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at . **Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at . **Resubmitted Papers**: Authors who submit a revised version of a paper that has previously been rejected by another conference 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 principal editor 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. ### Review Process This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for PACMPL issue ICFP 2018. We anticipate that there will be a need to clarify and expand on this process, and we will maintain a list of frequently asked questions and answers on the conference website to address common concerns. **PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 will employ a two-stage review process.** The first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on initial reviews through the author response period mentioned previously. At the review meeting, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on May 18, 2018. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews (just as in previous conferences) along with a set of mandatory revisions. After five weeks (June 22, 2018), the authors will provide a second submission. The second and final reviewing phase assesses whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. The intent and expectation is that the mandatory revisions can be addressed within five weeks and hence that conditionally accepted papers will in general be accepted in the second phase. The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be grounds for the paper?s rejection. **PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 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 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. ### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers * As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must adhere to the new ACM Small format. The page limits for final versions of papers will be increased to ensure that authors have space to respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions. * Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of the three ACM licensing options: copyright transfer to ACM; retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights; or open access on payment of a fee. Further information about ACM author rights is available from . * At least one author of each accepted submissions will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. * We intend that the proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library in perpetuity via the OpenTOC mechanism. * 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 to the definitive version of an ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit to learn how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL. * 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 the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. ### Artifact Evaluation Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be reviewed by a committee, separate from the program committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, for example, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in the ACM guidelines for artifact badging. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance. Further information about the motivations and expectations for Artifact Evaluation can be found at . ### Special categories of papers In addition to research papers, PACMPL issue 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 half the length of a full paper. Authors submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines. #### 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. A pearl is likely to be rejected if its 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 that is intended to be 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 PACMPL issue 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. * Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long, excluding bibliography. * 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: it should make a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate this claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results — the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that the team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made the team more productive. If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, it may be better off submitted it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. The principal editor will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Robby Findler (Northwestern University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Simon Marlow (Facebook, UK) Ryan R. Newton (Indiana University, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Programming Contest Organiser: Matthew Fluet (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Publicity and Web Chair: Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Video Co-Chairs: Jose Calderon (Galois, Inc., USA) Nicolas Wu (University of Bristol, UK) Workshops Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Indiana University, USA) Christophe Scholliers (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) ### PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 Principal Editor: Matthew Flatt (Univesity of Utah, USA) Review Committee: Sandrine Blazy (IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France) David Christiansen (Indiana University, USA) Martin Elsman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Marco Gaboardi (University at Buffalo, CUNY, USA) Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) Heather Miller (Northweastern University, USA / EPFL, Switzerland) J. Garrett Morris (University of Kansas, USA) Henrik Nilsson (University of Nottingham, UK) Fran?ois Pottier (Inria, France) Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Michael Sperber (Active Group GmbH, Germany) Wouter Swierstra (Utrecht University, UK) ?ric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile) Katsuhiro Ueno (Tohoku University, Japan) Niki Vazou (University of Maryland, USA) Jeremy Yallop (University of Cambridge, UK) External Review Committee: Michael D. Adams (University of Utah, USA) Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University, USA) Nada Amin (University of Cambridge, USA) Zena Ariola (University of Oregon) Lars Bergstrom (Mozilla Research) Lars Birkedal (Aarhus University, Denmark) Edwin Brady ( University of St. Andrews, UK) William Byrd (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) Giuseppe Castagna (CRNS / University of Paris Diderot, France) Sheng Chen (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) Koen Claessen (Chalmers University ot Technology, Sweden) Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy / Inria, France) David Darais (University of Vermont, USA) Joshua Dunfield (Queen?s University, Canada) Richard Eisenberg (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Matthew Fluet (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Nate Foster (Cornell University, USA) Jurriaan Hage (Utrecht University, Netherlands) David Van Horn (University of Maryland, USA) Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Suresh Jagannathan (Purdue University, USA) Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research, UK) Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Neelakantan Krishnaswami (University of Cambridge, UK) Kazutaka Matsuda (Tohoku University, Japan) Trevor McDonell (University of New South Wales, Australia) Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Akimasa Morihata (University of Tokyo, Japan) Aleksandar Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Kim Nguy?n (University of Paris-Sud, France) Cosmin Oancea (DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (University of Hong Kong, China) Tomas Petricek (University of Cambridge, UK) Benjamin Pierce (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Christine Rizkallah (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Tom Schrijvers (KU Leuven, Belgium) Manuel Serrano (Inria, France) Jeremy Siek (Indiana University, USA) Josef Svenningsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Nicolas Tabareau (Inria, France) Dimitrios Vytiniotis (Microsoft Research, UK) Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh, UK) Meng Wang (University of Kent, UK) From henning at basold.eu Thu Dec 21 09:34:55 2017 From: henning at basold.eu (Henning Basold) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:34:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2018: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <8df91f40-1430-58b4-7f25-6b5a58f5720b@basold.eu> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Call for Papers The 14th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'18) Thessaloniki, Greece, 14 - 15 April 2018 (co-located with ETAPS 2018) www.coalg.org/cmcs18 Flyer - --------- This call for papers is available as a flyer, which can also be printed and used as a poster, at http://www.coalg.org/cmcs18/files/2017/10/cmcs18_flyer.pdf 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, logic, answer set, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming; - - coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing; - - coinductive definition and proof principles for coalgebras (including "up-to" techniques); - - coalgebras and algebras; - - coalgebras and (modal) logic; - - coalgebraic specification and verification; - - coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems); - - coalgebra in quantum computing; - - coalgebra and game theory; - - tools exploiting coalgebraic techniques. Venue and event - --------------- CMCS'18 will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, co-located with ETAPS 2018, on 14 - 15 April 2018. Keynote speaker - --------------- Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Invited speakers - ---------------- Clemens Kupke (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) Daniela Petrisan (University Diderot Paris 7, France) Invited tutorial speakers - ------------------------- There will be a special session on quantum computation, with invited tutorials by Bob Coecke (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Aleks Kissinger (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Important dates - --------------- Abstract regular papers 5 January 2018 Submission regular papers 12 January 2018 Notification regular papers 12 February 2018 Camera-ready copy 19 February 2018 Submission short contributions 23 February 2018 Notification short contributions 9 March 2018 Proceedings - ----------- The proceedings of CMCS 2018 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. Programme committee - ------------------- Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, Italy) Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Fredrik Dahlqvist (University College London, United Kingdom) Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy) Sergey Goncharov (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Paul Levy (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Stefan Milius (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, United States) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Dusko Pavlovic (University of Hawai?i at M?noa, United States) Daniela Petrisan (University Diderot Paris 7, France) Damien Pous (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France) Juriaan Rot (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Jan Rutten (CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Lutz Schr?der (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Alexandra Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) Henning Urbat (Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany) Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Publicity chair - --------------- Henning Basold (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France) PC chair - -------- Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Steering committee - ------------------ Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, Italy) Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, United Kingdom) Marina Lenisa (University of Udine, Italy) Stefan Milius (chair), FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Larry Moss (Indiana University, United States) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Jan Rutten (CWI/Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Lutz Schr?der (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Alexandra Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) 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=cmcs2018. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEMnUmuprSDishxVMiatBsEc2xMm4FAlo7xo8ACgkQatBsEc2x Mm7upA//aLh6N95j9uKrHwWtw6bGMDI7AhFdLm1yI/oUJaEsp6xlg2EdT0MojuPi TJsFWvFbxQoeDK/Eu+W+d9ts0lBxu8UnH7d49huGk19uUWAqvLeGbaQ22Ix2lgCT 0dPD5c05XSHHC4SijNkquiZq97CER6dmwiAh/SbQT1BPN3367MOx9l08/ptkqvE+ xo6PfGfrei8yKqNeRVyMXAt5MV8ICNfcGX5FufzIvrE4x+wfrtpr5TluYDSIj9lB bNnwry4QTDSQ6lk4DoqLIs2c1t0uqkRHpigGdjDYoaX+CvDhcY6rxSl3NItkmLOj aCclXDDqdhqhM8KoMdVnKzAsuGlXrbIcqkbKnM/Kll32rz3W9hAt3IOkc7MJvaSM 2ZDdgNIJYXXW+fHn5KUlo7qS8LnqtUCqVeah3UDheGeWj4h7tXwBUZsXRfGdcSKw QJChjKzRkcm+KzOMEMucJAykqM2Nsc5voTtqiAxDl+hpmOw4Fezx6vJhoduO4Ivc czkssSxMKhzSUEF/huY7Ekr1RTBvgCblvuE1dYga+epdPXRpNWV5eAcsZsAi7BIS wvgo694FSWWp7TmqEuU0OrU01rDnkNjTeyxE5hLOVwoay+PiPd54stjpj8ApjTFm gbJDNjD/qon95CkQdwf7NbGKT59DM55wpeY56k3NGeY5eA0zy1g= =xDcy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From herman at cs.ru.nl Fri Dec 22 12:36:16 2017 From: herman at cs.ru.nl (Herman Geuvers) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:36:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: EUTypes Meeting Nijmegen, January 22-24, 2018 Message-ID: <38bdf586-fcfb-eeee-563d-c6728c0ee929@cs.ru.nl> Dear all, I would like to call for participation in the next EUTypes Meeting which will take place: January 22-24, 2018 Nijmegen (Radboud University) The Netherlands https://eutypes.cs.ru.nl/Meetings/EUTYPES2018 The details of the program are still to be fixed. The afternoon of January 22 will be devoted to the legacy of Vladimir Voevodsky who passed away recently and has had a lasting influence on the field of type theory. Outline of the program: January 22 Morning: general talks Conor McBride, Brigitte Pientka, Gabriel Scherer Afternoon: talks to commemorate the legacy of Vladimir Voevodsky Andrej Bauer, Thierry Coquand, Nicolas Tabareau January 23 Morning: Talks on Theoretical Foundations (Working group 1) Afternoon: Talks on Types for Verification (Working group 4) Evening: Conference diner January 24 Morning: Talks on Types for Programming (Working group 3) Afternoon: Talks on Type-theoretic Tools (Working group 2) EUTypes is an EU-Cost action that wants to encourage research in type theory from various perspectives. The meetings aim at gathering the diverse audience of the European community of researchers in type theory. See the webpage for registration details. Best regards, Herman Geuvers From lindsey at composition.al Fri Dec 22 14:06:57 2017 From: lindsey at composition.al (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:06:57 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for submissions: 5th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '18) Message-ID: PaPoC'18: 5th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data EuroSys 2018 Porto, Portugal, April 23, 2018 Conference website https://papoc-workshop.github.io/2018/index.html Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=papoc18 Submission deadline February 7, 2018 Consistency is one of the fundamental issues of distributed computing. There are many competing consistency models, with subtly different power in principle. In practice, the well-known Consistency-Availability-Partition Tolerance trade-off translates to difficult choices between fault tolerance, performance, and programmability. The issues and trade-offs are particularly vexing at scale, with a large number of processes or a large shared database, and in the presence of high latency and failure-prone networks. It is clear that there is not one universally best solution. Possible approaches cover the whole spectrum between strong and eventual consistency. Strong consistency (linearizability or serializability, achieved via total ordering) provides familiar and intuitive semantics but requires slow and fragile synchronisation and coordination overheads. The unlimited parallelism allowed by weaker models such as eventual consistency promises high performance, but divergence and conflicts make it difficult to ensure useful application invariants, and meta-data is hard to keep in check. The research and development communities are actively exploring intermediate models (replicated data types, monotonic programming, CRDTs, LVars, causal consistency, red-blue consistency, invariant- and proof-based systems, etc.), designed to improve efficiency, programmability, and overall operation without negatively impacting scalability. This workshop aims to investigate the principles and practice of consistency models for large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed shared data systems. It will bring together theoreticians and practitioners from different horizons: system development, distributed algorithms, concurrency, fault tolerance, databases, language and verification, including both academia and industry. Relevant discussion topics include: Design principles, correctness conditions, and programming patterns for scalable distributed data systems. Techniques for weak consistency: session guarantees, causal consistency, operational transformation, conflict-free replicated data types, monotonic programming, state merge, commutativity, etc. Techniques for scaling and improving the performance of strongly consistent systems (e.g., Paxos-based, state machine replication, shared-log consensus, blockchain). How to expose consistency vs. performance and scalability trade-offs in the programming model, and how to help developers choose. How to support composed operations spanning multiple objects (transactions, workflows). Reasoning, analysis and verification of weakly consistent application programs. How to strengthen the guarantees beyond consistency: fault tolerance, security, ensuring invariants, bounding metadata size, and controlling divergence. Venue and History The Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC) is co-located with the EuroSys 2018 conference. It will take place on April 23, 2018, in the amazing city of Porto, in Portugal. This city was elected Best European Destination 2017 and won this prestigious title. PaPoC'18 is the 5th workshop in this series, succeeding PaPeC 2014, PaPoC 2015, PaPoC 2016, and PaPoC 2017 which brought together researchers and practitioners in the areas of distributed systems, programming languages, databases and concurrent programming. Submission Guidelines We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals of 2 pages, written in English and 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. Authors will have the opportunity to choose if they want their papers published in ACM Digital Library (with papers from other EuroSys workshops). All paper submissions will be handled via EasyChair. The submission deadline is February 07, 2018. Committees Program Committee Masoud Ardekani (Samsung Research America, USA) Alysson Bessani (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Natacha Crooks (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Constantin Enea (IRIF, University Paris Diderot, France) Jose Faleiro (Yale University, USA) Rachid Guerraoui (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Roberto Palmieri (Lehigh University, USA) Rodrigo Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa and INESC-ID, Portugal) Ali Shoker (HASLab, INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal) Alejandro Tomsic (INRIA, France) Kapil Vaswani (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) Paolo Viotti (UPMC-LIP6, France) Marek Zawirski (Google Z?rich, Switzerland) Program Chairs Sebastian Burckhardt (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) Marko Vukolic (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland) Steering Committee Marc Shapiro (INRIA & LIP6, France) Peter Bailis (Stanford University, USA) Carlos Baquero (HASLab, INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal) Annette Bieniusa (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Nuno Preguic?a (NOVA-LINCS & NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal) Marco Serafini (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar) Justin Sheehy (VMware Inc., USA) Important Dates Submission deadline: February 07, 2018 Noti?cation date: February 19, 2018 Camera-Ready: March 8, 2018 Workshop: April 23, 2018 Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to Sebastian (sburckha at microsoft.com) and Marko (mvu at zurich.ibm.com). From jnfoster at cs.cornell.edu Sat Dec 23 14:12:33 2017 From: jnfoster at cs.cornell.edu (Nate Foster) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:12:33 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NetPL '18: Call for Participation Message-ID: We are excited to announce the 4th Workshop on Networking and Programming Languages (NetPL), co-located with POPL in Los Angeles. We have assembled an excellent lineup of invited speakers from academia and industry, representing both the PL and networking perspectives. Details about the technical program and registration are provided below. See you in Los Angeles! Regards, Marco Canini, Nate Foster, and Todd Millstein DATE January, 9th 2018 WEBSITE https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/netpl-2018 REGISTRATION https://regmaster4.com/2018conf/POPL18/register.php DESCRIPTION This workshop aims to bring together researchers from two areas that are increasingly mutually relevant: programming languages and networking. The relevance of languages to computer networks has become apparent in recent years by the emergence of software-defined networking (SDN) and programmable data planes, which allow the behavior of the network to be controlled in software. Further, the increasing demands on and complexity of networks in the era of cloud services has exacerbated the need for network reliability and tools for reasoning about network behavior. However, while many aspects of networking can in principle be improved by suitable programming languages for expressing network policy and software verification tools for guaranteeing network properties, traditional programming languages techniques do not work ?out of the box? for networks due to a range of theoretical and practical challenges. The goals of this workshop are to raise awareness in the POPL community of the relevance of languages to computer networks, to showcase recent research highlights in this area, and to identify and discuss current challenges in a way that is accessible to the POPL community. PROGRAM The program is structured around a mixture of invited talks, panels, and breakout groups to discuss specific research directions. Participation in the workshop is open to everyone, and participants will be given an opportunity to briefly describe their current research if interested. Store, Translate and Forward: From Model to Metal in 25 Years Jonathan Smith (DARPA) Common Models for Network Configuration and Behavioral Validation Anees Shaikh (Google) Working Groups Very Large Scale Network Verification Andrey Rybalchenko (MSR) Safety Verification of Stateful Networks Sharon Shoham (Tel Aviv) Understand and verify your network using Header Space Analysis Peyman Kazemian (Forward Networks) P4: A Language for Data Plane Programming Calin Cascaval (Barefoot Networks) A Vision for Network Design Automation George Varghese (UCLA) Panel David Walker (Princeton), Barath Raghavan (USC) Wrap Up Marco Canini (KAUST), Nate Foster (Cornell), Todd Millstein (UCLA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aoto at ie.niigata-u.ac.jp Tue Dec 26 06:06:39 2017 From: aoto at ie.niigata-u.ac.jp (Takahito Aoto) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:06:39 +0900 (JST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CoCo 2018: First Call for Provers Message-ID: <20171226.200639.2247343592444329354.aoto@ie.niigata-u.ac.jp> ====================================================================== First Call for Provers CoCo 2018 7th Confluence Competition the week of July 7-12, 2018 Oxford, United Kingdom http://coco.nue.ie.niigata-u.ac.jp/2018/ ====================================================================== Confluence provides a general notion of determinism and has been conceived as one of the central properties of rewriting. Confluence had been investigated in several formalisms of rewriting such as first-order rewriting, lambda-calculi, higher-order rewriting, constrained rewriting and conditional rewriting. In recent years the focus in confluence research has shifted towards the development of automatable techniques for confluence proofs. The confluence competition aims to foster the development of techniques for proving/disproving confluence automatically by setting up a dedicated competition among confluence tools. The 7th Confluence Competition (CoCo 2018) will run ***live*** during the 3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2018), or the 7th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2018) in Oxford, United Kingdom. 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 * GCR: ground confluence of many-sorted term rewrite systems * UN: unique normal form properties of first-order term rewrite systems Besides these categories, new categories will be considered if there are tools and problems dedicated to those categories. We welcome requests for categories. Demonstration 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 2018 indicated above. IMPORTANT DATES: * request for competition categories January 28, 2018 * request for demonstration categories April 29, 2018 * tool registration June 14, 2018 * tool submission June 24, 2018 * problem submission June 28, 2018 * competition TBA (the week of July 7-12), 2018 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 (competition category or demonstration category) * 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 2018. REGISTRATION/SUBMISSION: Tool registration is via the easychair. Every tool registration should also contain a one page system description. Tool submission will be via StarExec. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: * Takahito Aoto Niigata University (chair) * Nao Hirokawa JAIST * Julian Nagele University of Innsbruck * Naoki Nishida Nagoya University ADVISORY BOARD: * Beniamino Accattoli INRIA, Paris * Yuki Chiba DENSO Corporation CONTACT: coco-sc [AT] jaist.ac.jp From Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr Fri Dec 29 10:02:45 2017 From: Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr (vlad) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 16:02:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications (WRLA 2018): last CfP Message-ID: ======================== Call for Papers ============================= WRLA 2018 The 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications An ETAPS 2018 satellite event - Thessaloniki, Greece - April 14-15 2018 ======================================================================= *NEW* IMPORTANT DATES ??? Abstract submission deadline: January 8, 2018 Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2018 ??? Workshop: April 14 -15, 2018. AWARD Best WRLA 2018 paper award will be granted by Springer. 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 meta- logical 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 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, generalization, narrowing, and partial evaluation ??? constrained rewriting and symbolic algebra ??? graph rewriting ??? tree automata ??? rewriting strategies ??? rewriting-based calculi and explicit substitution 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 langages 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 in logic, mathematics, physics, and biology ??? 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, hybrid, probabilistic, and cyber-physical systems ??? specification and verification of critical systems ??? applications to model-based software engineering ??? applications to engineering and planning. INVITED SPEAKERS Santiago Escobar, University of Valencia, Spain Hubert Garavel, Inria, Grenoble, France Thomas Genet, University of Rennes, France SUBMISSION The program of the workshop will include regular papers, tool papers, and work-in-progress presentations. The program will also contain nvited talks, invited papers, and tutorials to be determined by the program committee. 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, emphasize the design and implementation, and give a clear account of the tool?s functionality. The described tools must be 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. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrla2018. Regular and work-in-progress papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Tool papers should not exceed 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, 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 JLAMP:the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming will be devoted to extended versions of selected papers from WRLA 2018. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ??? Kyungmin Bae, POSTECH, Korea ??? Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy ??? Stefan Ciobaca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania ??? Francisco Dur?n, Universidad de M?laga, Spain ??? Santiago Escobar, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain ??? Maribel Fern?ndez, King?s College London, UK ??? 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 ??? Salvador Lucas, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain ??? Narciso Mart?-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain ??? 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 ??? Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA-Lorraine Nancy, France ??? Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA ??? Vlad Rusu, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe, France? (chair) ??? 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 ? Vlad.Rusu at inria.fr or visit the workshop's web page ? https://project.inria.fr/wrla18/ From kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com Sun Dec 31 11:07:28 2017 From: kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com (Ambrus Kaposi) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:07:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Conference Grant Applications (Inclusiveness Target Countries) Message-ID: Call for Conference Grant Applications The European research network on types for programming and verification (EUTypes COST Action, https://eutypes.cs.ru.nl) supports attendance of young researchers presenting work on type theory at international conferences via travel grants. The rules are described here: https://eutypes.cs.ru.nl/ConfGrants The main points are: * Only researchers from ITCs participating in the action are eligible. As of September 2017, the ITCs involved in EUTypes are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia. * Only PhD students and Early Career Investigators (researchers whose PhD degree is at most 8 years old) are eligible. * The grantee must give a talk or present a poster on the topic of type theory. Applications have to be submitted through the e-COST system: https://e-services.cost.eu/conferencegrant Please inform researchers in your country who might be interested. Many thanks, Ambrus Kaposi EUTypes conference grant coordinator